Suicune and the short end of the Legend stick

This is some really miscellaneous musing, not sure why I had the thought, but I haven't been able to unsee it and it's perfect to share with anybody who pays any attention at all to the card art. So, SEL and RSL. Both have Suicune.



So Raikou's tail sticks out at kind of a funny angle when you think about it, but it's still pretty cool. No complaints.



My only problem with Entei is that I'm not sure where that chest-spike comes from. Just random downward-pointing bone plate that comes from his torso? I don't get it. But that's not card exclusive, no complaints.



Suicune what happened to your leg? Why is it sticking out at that painful angle? It looks broken =(



The green circle is the correct leg. The shoulder joint is where it should be. The red circle, find the shoulder join. It goes up to his neck. Suicune why is your arm growing out of your neck? Arms don't grow like that. Is this like when the little girl got hit by a bus and they grew a second hand on her foot? Pokemon is creepy enough already.

What did we learn from this? The artists hate Suicune and Raikou is superior.

Oh man I don't want to make fun of Pokemon because a lot of the art is beautiful and it's nothing that should be made fun of.

But that's just painful. Isn't Suicune the most popular of the three? It's the most wolf-like, so it's got like 80% of deviantart kissing its deformed feet. (Oh man that Blackstar promo with Pure Body it's missing half its front-right leg. HGSS21 I'd noticed before, but this was about the Legend cards so I didn't think about it.)

At least Suicune wasn't drawn with crayons or (probably) hastily scrawled out by a kid.

Seriously, though, I agree that Suicune has gotten "the short end of the LEGEND stick" after seeing those cards lol.

BTW cabd, random question: Who is your avatar? I can't figure it out...

Ralts is shota, less common, but still avoid. Clefairy, and sometimes Victini, are in there with Kirlia. And the Eeveelutions. And Skitty, sometimes Delcatty. Suicune and Lugia are pretty bad, usually together if it's NSFW. Machoke and Machamp have some specific thing, I forget the name of it. Any female companion of Ash. Cynthia, and Garchomp by extension. Pikachu is common to find shock-art of. And yes Ninetales is pretty hard to Google too.

Looking for art references sucks, bad. This is just what I've run into the most, but there are others.

You'd think with the high amount of My Little Pony stuff, you'd see Ponyta, Rapidash, Blitzle....there's a zebra pony now, yeah? Dunno, but Blitzle already looks MLP-ish. I'd expect to find My Little Ponyta before Doctor Who or Doctor Horrible or Marvel/DC.

It's Shiki from Tsukihime/Melty Blood. That's another "Oh man why did I just Google that!?"

I didn't throw this together with MS Paint and deviantART in 15 seconds. See? The filename is "realcard.jpg".

Kinda funny that the Voltorb in the "Evolves from" circle actually manages to look better
What character? All he does is blow up my Oshawott when I think im getting a random item ((

@baby_mario: Yeah, the expression is pretty good I guess. However, I bet 90% of people who can hold a pencil could perfectly replicate Electrode in under 10 seconds. He just looks so... plain.

I think that's in the Aqua Hideout where the Master Ball is. There's...some item (I think a Nugget?), two Electrode, and a Master Ball. Recently Nuzlocked that cart.

His grin's a little lopsided, kinda throws me off a bit perfectly since it's so off-center. Looks a little copy-pasted onto the nice background, so that's a little off too. But he's still got a clear expression and looks enough like Electrode.

If you can handle some flowery flashback prose, weird onomatopoeia, and creepy subtext (it's in like everything we get from Japan though), you won't be disappointed. That anime was terrible, nothing more to say about it.

The card background does seem to refrence R/S. i haven't played my copy of emerald in so long. Mainly because as soon as i get halfway through it Nintendo will announce the remakes. But really electrodes face says one thing to me
"You best start running if you don't want me to blow up"
Remember G/S where you and Lance work to destroy those Electrode. It kinda enrages people when you wittle down its health to the red and Then it blows up. I hate you electrode.

That just looks like his wrist on the left side of the card is broken.

To be fair, the other two Legendary Whatchamacallits have had a subpar picture or two in the past.



Raikou looks cross-eyed here.



This looks like baby Entei or something.