!!!!! [Video/Action in Goldenrod]

[wakalaka4osaka]

[There's not a whole lot of preamble here- Osaka just switches on her 'gear and starts talking, looking VERY SERIOUS as she sits in the Pokecenter.]So I was just wonderin'... Squirtle's a water-type, right? An' it's this tiny turtle that evolves into Wartortle an' Blastoise? I kinda get the 'tortle' part of Wartortle, and the 'blast' part of

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[pluckapetal]

You know, that sounds so totally true!

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[wakalaka4osaka]

Whoa, you think so too?

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[pluckapetal]

Yeah, I so totally do!

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[wakalaka4osaka]

You know any other Pokemon names that really threw you off when you first heard about 'em?

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[sfaccendato]

Somehow I suspect they didn't really put a whole lot of thought into the details of the Pokemon names.

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[wakalaka4osaka]

Nah. It's kinda like they were makin' it up as they went along.

... but it's also like they did it on purpose.

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[sfaccendato]

Maybe they just thought Blastoise sounded better than Blasturtle?

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[wakalaka4osaka]

I dunno... "Squirtle, Wartortle, Blasturtle" kinda has a nice ring to it, too.

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[importanttoher]

I don't think the names are meant to make sense.

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[wakalaka4osaka]

Really? But they're all combos of names that already exist, yeah?

[importanttoher]

They still don't make sense. Why Squirtle and not Turtle?

[wakalaka4osaka]

'Cause he's a turtle that squirts water.

I guess someone up there didn't want us to mistake 'em for regular turtles.