Are you secretly a herbivore?
I think we can pretty safely rule out THAT possibility.
And Paul was looking his pokedex is possible that he was searching and looking data about Mawile
Learning that Mawile can learn Thunder Fang and decided to try it
Paul likely would have come up with that sort of plan before executing the electricity training, but it's certainly possible what he was looking at had to do with general information relating to Mawile... or perhaps it was something else entirely.
also she doesn't look like a sphere after eating.
We call that "Shaggy and Scooby Syndrome".
At an extreme, I could make a crackpot theory that the maw may as well be its own creature. Like how angler fish have vestigial males grafted to their flesh. I wonder if you could get some 'alien hand syndrome' bullshit going on. But that is grade-a John Carpenter bodyhorror there.
Soon, the maw shall force its way to the ground to walk on its own, while I'm left dangling from its end like a flag in the wind... I feel like I should repost that Mawile-Filia gif from a few pages back. ^^;
In the first season of the anime, Ash came across that unofficial gym, where the guy had trained his Sandshrew to shrug off water moves with relative ease by training. Hence, I wouldn't be surprised if Mawile!you does actually become mostly if not outright immune to electric moves.
Oh, I know. Don't take Mawile!me's view of things to always be exactly correct; I write myself in fics based on the knowledge I have/remember going into it, and may not always be right as a result - as previously noted, Paul is fond of multitasking.
Oh, it's WORSE than that, in the Anime, Pikachu beats a pokemon with LIGHTNING ROD(ability that redirects electric type attacks to itself and then negates all damage while buffing the users stats, I think the stat buff was to special attack?) by thunderbolting the horn. Oh, it was also a Ground Type so it also just had type immunity. I think it was a Rhydon...
You're correct. Though, Lightning Rod when it was first introduced didn't automatically confer immunity to electric-type moves, nor did it provide a Sp. Atk boost when hit by one (the latter of which didn't even work on ground-type Pokemon until Gen 7, due to them being naturally immune rather than immune from the ability itself). Still didn't make any sense in the anime, as Ground types have always been immune to electricity... hence why "AIM FOR THE HORN" remains a meme to this day.
The Pokemon anime gives fewer fucks about consistent rules than the Yu-Gi-Oh! one, at least that ones fuckery is basically "if we had holograms and WAAAAY more space we might actually be able to do similar things", not outright "Rules? What're those? Are they tasty?"
In fairness, Yugioh's anime existed before the actual card game did, so they hadn't really ironed out most of the actual rules yet, and were pretty much just making things up as they went along with no regard to how that would actually function in a non-anime setting. Which is true of Pokemon to an extent as well, really. Better consistency arises naturally over time for any series/franchise that goes on long enough, which is why the first season of a show also tends to be its weirdest in retrospect.
Eat them quickly enough and you might at least find out where your brain is.
Brain freeze probably wouldn't work quite the same way if the brain isn't kept in the head, but that's an interesting thought all the same. Who knows? Perhaps for Mawile, their brain is in the torso, while their stomach is in the head? Or perhaps the brain simply
doubles as a stomach? There would have to be
something going on there to make it biologically feasible - Pokemon biologists must have a real hell of a time in their profession.
*Clears Throat*
Zygarde the Order Pokemon. [Note, all poked entries are taken from the 50% form as neither th 100% nor the 10% forms appeared in Gen 6]
(Gen 6 [X,Y])
When the Kalos Region's ecosystem falls into disarray, it appears and reveals its secret power. It's hypothesized to be monitoring those who destroy the ecosystem from deep in the cave where it lives.
(Gen 7 [S,M,US,UM])
This is Zygarde's form when it has gathered 50% of its cells. It wipes out all those who oppose it, showing not a shred of mercy. It's thought to be monitoring the ecosystem. There are rumors that even greater power lies hidden within it. This is Zygarde's form when about half of its pieces have been assembled. It plays the role of monitoring the ecosystem. Some say it can change to an even more powerful form when battling those who threaten the ecosystem.
...huh. Fair enough, that's a pretty open-and-shut case right there. I admit I don't really remember that much about X and Y; the relatively minuscule number of new Pokemon in Kalos and how incredibly
easy the game was sort of killed it for me, even though I liked a fair number of its individual features (Fairy type, mega evolutions, 3D, removal of a strict grid based layout, etc). Pretty sure I never did the whole "collect the cells" mission in Alola either, so my knowledge of Zygarde on the whole is pretty lacking. ^^;
...gotta say though, if its goal is and always has been to monitor the ecosystem, it's doing a pretty crap job of it. I can't say exactly how eco-conscious most people in the Pokemon world are, but it doesn't seem like humans are the ones that cause the worst problems with it - way more often, that's other legendaries' fault. You'd think that at least the whole thing with Groudon and Kyogre (who screw with the ecosystem just by being
in it) duking it out with each other in primal form, something that should have caused natural disasters the world over even after the fact, would perhaps have attracted Zygarde's attention before someone else had to step in. I suppose that Zygarde only really has enough cells to spread itself over one region though, so maybe expecting it to be omnipresent isn't all that fair, but still.
