early_riserIf creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict.
RhynoplazI’m surprised by the lack of PETA in that universe. You know, the Pokemon Ethical Treatment Association.
EndmakerThe way I see it, the vast majority of people with pokemons treat them as house pets (e.g. Poketoon: The Slugma-Powered Home). Only a small percentage actually use them in battles. A way smaller percentage actively abuse pokemons (i.e. the villains)
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I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?
SalamenceFuryPokemon enjoy battling tho. There’s an important part of consent here. It is their way of playing.
AjinomotoSome could argue that the way a dog is raised might make it entertained by fighting as well.
Not me, though
The lore pretty much says that Pokémon jump at humans cause they want to challenge them and fight whoever they have.
Turns out they’re all little crashouts.
Well sure, we have to narratively excuse it somehow. Otherwise… take a Pokémon game and replace all the Pokémon with pit bulls and rot weilers &etc and then you have dog fighting simulator.
I mean, yes, but it is also a well-established bit of the lore. It even shows it in the first anime when Charizard is so unimpressed by Ash that he usually refuses to fight at all, and the one time he does fight (because the other Pokémon was strong enough to interest him) he just does his own thing and doesn’t listen to anything Ash says.
Because, when you think about it, what are you really going to do against a giant fire-breathing lizard that says ‘no’ when you ask him to fight? Especially if you’re a ten-year-old kid.