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>>1767037
>how much symbolism is in Alakazam's original sprite.
All I see is a design that looks like a Star of David in his forehead. What other symbols do you see?

>>1767049
The shape of his head was intentionally designed to look like a pentagram. The eyes are completely blank. The ears look a lot like horns in the original version.

Alakazam was designed to invoke the thought of Satan. Due to Japan's low Christian population, it's acceptable to feature such things in media, even things marketed toward children. Pretty interesting stuff.

>>1767037
>Some Kabbalah and Yuri Geller shit
>Occult symbolism

>>1767063
it is acceptable to feature that in the media in most civilized places, only the US (if we can call it civilized) has real problems with it.

>>1767063
>intentionally designed to look like a pentagram
>eyes completely blank
>designed to invoke the thought of satan

Stop believing things you read on the internet.

>>1767563
It does sort of look like the old depiction of satan. I don't think it would be too farfetched to reason that it might have been an influence

>>1767565
>Baphomet
>Satan
Pick one

>>1767565
That's Baphomet, a deity created by Christians to villainize pagans. In terms of what Alakazam is supposed to be, I'm pretty certain its a magical fox with some wizard looks thrown in and made human shaped. This is actually a fairly common trope in Japan, see pic related.

>>1767573
>>1767581
I still think he looks more like Baphomet

>>1767063
>intentionally designed to look like a pentagram.
A pentagram by definition has five points. Penta- means five. If they were "intentionally" trying to make it a pentagram they failed miserably.

Either they were intentionally trying to make a six-point star, or they accidentally made a star while intentionally trying to depict light reflecting off his bald head.

>>1767620
you missed the beginning of that sentence. the SHAPE of it's head

>>1767625
Oh, sorry. I didn't so much miss the beginning of the sentience, I saw the word "on" in place of the word "of". My mistake.

>>1767563
Fucked-up eyes are pretty much the go-to way to display possession in fiction.

>>1767634
His eyes have pupils though. Bottom left of the right eye/bottom right of the left eye

>>1767049
>Star of David on the psychic with the large snout(nose)
gehehehehe

>>1767063

you're fucking retarded my man

Fuck off, /v/.

>>1767650
>Alakazam used to have the Star of David on his head
>Hypno looks like a stereotypical depiction of a Jewish person
>Kadabra's Japanese name is Yungerer, a corruption of Uri Geller, a Jewish psychic
>like Geller, Kadabra could bend spoons
>Alakazam's Japanese name is Foodin, as a reference to Houdini, who was the son of a Rabbi
>in Red and Blue, you could trade for a Mr. Mime, which was nicknamed Marcel, after Marcel Marceau, a French mime from a Jewish family

The rabbit hole goes deeper than that.

>Creepy stuff in stupid romhacks I played

>>1769405

All jews are psychics, you mean?

>>1769405
>>1769693
SHUT IT DOWN

THE POKEMANIACS KNOW

>>1767581
>a deity created by Christians to villainize pagans
kind of, but not quite. once the catholics began to do their thing and the christians started losing control over the templars some templars began to work (rape and pillage) on their own accord. the splinter templars were accused of worshipping a diety called baphomet (they had another name for it, and there are various 'testimonies' of templars saying they worshipped baphomet) but it gave the christians a way to rally templars against their own while grasping onto what little power they had left.
then it was adopted by alchemists and levi drew the most famous interpretation of it.
the more u no m8

>>1769405
And Star Ocean is based on Star Trek which was created by a jew and starred jews! Holy Shit!

Video games are often full of pop culture references and pop culture is full of surprise jews.

>>1769764
Someone played Broken Sword.

The whole Devil's Crash game, I think. They even renamed the game to Dragon's Fury in the US release and changed lots of sprites (pentagrams included).

>>1769769
never heard of it.

>>1769768
Despite his name, Roddenbury wasn't, unless I didn't look hard enough. I guess it's sort of a Mark Wahlberg deal where, despite having a yid sounding name, they aren't.

>>1770235
Ashkenazim have German names. Because they are originally from Germany. Not everyone with those names are Jewish. So while a Goldberg from New York is 95% likely to be Jewish, not everyone with a "berg" on their name is Jewish. In fact, most aren't.

>>1770239
Then again there are a lot of Jews who changed their names to appear less Jewish.

My family for instance changed the spelling when they fled.

>>1769714

>>1769405
>Japanese use with Jewish motiffs better then Jews.

well...

>>1769405
>Japanese use Jewish motiffs better then Jews.

well...