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Suicune and the short end of the Legend stick

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Innocent_Shine, Feb 7, 2012.

  1. Innocent_Shine Front Page Contributor

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.
  2. baby_mario baby_mod

    Looks like Suicune's legs are just really really hard to draw

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    ^ Another weird bend in the front leg

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    ^ Previously rubber legs now all stiff and unbendy

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    ^ Now one of them is missing (sort of)

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    ^ He did get the best card out of all the Legendary dogs though. Coincidentally, it seems like they kind of gave up trying to draw the legs properly at all on this one.
  3. Innocent_Shine Front Page Contributor

    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.)
  4. baby_mario baby_mod

    It's just funny how Suicune come off so badly, especially compared to Ninetales, which is pretty similar when you think about it. I'm sure the furries on deviantart love it just as much too.

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    ^ Probably my favourite art of all time
  5. cabd Yanmega/Mod

    Hey, at least they're not Ralts, Kirlia, or Lucario. Those are the "Pokemon google searches to run far far away from"
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  6. baby_mario baby_mod

    Gardy and Lopunny also.

    Ralts? Really?

    There are some sick puppies on deviantart. They probably dress up as puppies too.
  7. Adam Dude.

    This thread is awesome.
  8. Teridax Active Member

  9. Innocent_Shine Front Page Contributor

    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".

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  10. Vysekun Tropical Beach for 7

    Always wanted to play the Tsukihime VN. Only ever watched the anime (i have the 3 disc boxset).




    MERUTI BURADO
  11. baby_mario baby_mod

    Dammit Teridax, this is awesome

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    There's not much you can do with a Pokemon like Electrode, but he's got a ton of character here with his lopsided grin and massive eyebrows. Plus it refers to some bit in R/S I think (long time since I played R/S).
  12. RisingDawn #1 Oshawott fanboy!

    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 :(((
  13. Teridax Active Member

    @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.
  14. cabd Yanmega/Mod

    Tsukihime | mirror moon
    Just go find the japanese disk, then use that. Problem solved. The English translation patch is even SFW.
  15. Innocent_Shine Front Page Contributor

    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.
  16. RisingDawn #1 Oshawott fanboy!

    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.
  17. JGames Front Page Contributor

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    That just looks like his wrist on the left side of the card is broken.
  18. Teridax Active Member

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

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    Raikou looks cross-eyed here.

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    This looks like baby Entei or something.
  19. baby_mario baby_mod

    Entei's eyes seem to be as big a problem as Suicune's legs.

    We have the LEGEND already posted by the Attack Cat

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    Should've gone to Specsavers, Entei!
  20. cabd Yanmega/Mod

    I guess Raikou wins... They're making up for shafting him/her/it out of practically every animated movie, ever.

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