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Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:25:02 2018 No.5113762 [Reply] [Original]

Why is the hero of gen 1 pokemon "Red" and the rival "Blue"? When playing through blue your (the players) name suggestions include "Blue", yet people now refer to Blue as the rival of gen1.

Is there something that sets them apart - perhaps that gary motherfucker from the anime resembles blue?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:33:04 2018 No.5113774 >>5113762 Red is canon. Blue is the alternate universe version.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:35:12 2018 No.5113779 You know what's fucked, in the Japanese version Blue is called Green.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:38:30 2018 No.5113783 >>5113774 So in Blue (game) you arent playing as the rival, you're just in a non-canon universe?

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:42:47 2018 No.5113792
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Yeah Gary is actually Green. Blue is the girl, I believe.
I don't think it matters much though, you just get the default name according to the version of the game you get. Who names their sons after colors?

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 16:56:29 2018 No.5113819

>>5113792
>you just get the default name according to the version of the game you get. Who names their sons after colors?
This
>tfw pokeautists take these color names seriously
You're clearly supposed to name these characters something else. Stop being so hopeless.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:04:03 2018 No.5113836 >>5113762 because charizard is on the cover of red and charizard is the best, therefore red is canon also, the (((red))) you fight on mt. silver is the MC from Yellow anyway

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:12:47 2018 No.5113854 >>5113819 >You're clearly supposed to name these characters something else. Those are their canon names.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:22:39 2018 No.5113871 File: 4 KB, 639x480, canon_warning.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5113854

>>	Dillweed Sat Oct 20 17:23:01 2018 No.5113873 File: 6 KB, 250x250, 1529111040363s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>>/vp/ Just go here. Please.

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:27:42 2018 No.5113882
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>>5113836
Thats a good point actually, the creators of gen2 sanctioned/reaffirmed that 'red' is his canon name. This actually makes it more confusing, since its no longer just a PokeAutist theory.

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:29:02 2018 No.5113883

Pokémon Green Version (JP Only)
>Player: Red
>Rival: Green
>Starter: Bulbasaur

Pokémon Red Version
>Player: Red
>Rival: Blue
>Starter: Charmander

Pokémon Blue Version
>Player: Red
>Rival: Blue
>Starter: Squirtle

Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
>Player: Red
>Rival: Blue
>Starter: Pikachu

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:30:20 2018 No.5113886 File: 123 KB, 483x355, Pokemon Blue Name Select.png_original.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5113762 >nobody remembers Jack or John

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:30:40 2018 No.5113887 >>5113883 Pokémon FireRed Version >Player: Red >Rival: Blue >Starter: Charmander Pokémon LeafGreen Version >Player: Red / Leaf >Rival: Blue >Starter: Bulbasaur

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:31:22 2018 No.5113890 File: 4 KB, 160x145, Name_Selection_(Pokémon_Red).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5113886

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:33:57 2018 No.5113898 >>5113886 >>5113890 Jack and John are just suggested names. Nothing more. The third options should be Satoshi for Red and Shigeru for Blue.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:37:47 2018 No.5113905 >>5113898 I know that's all they are, it's just they're the least talked about. Red and Blue became the "canon names" for the games, while Ash and Gary are used in the anime. Nothing uses Jack and John though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:43:05 2018 No.5113910 File: 483 KB, 424x599, Pokémon_Zensho_JP.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5113898 I always liked how they used Satoshi and Shigeru as options in the Japanese version. The Pokemon Zensho manga uses those names.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:11:12 2018 No.5113950 >>5113779 Aoi is not and has never been green except for some dbshit neurolinguists trying to fit data to their theorum

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:11:49 2018 No.5113952 >>5113886 Shit, i'd forgotten blue version also suggests "GARY".

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:01:42 2018 No.5114202

>>5113883
Japanese Red version is different from the international Red version.

In Japan Pokemon Red and Green were released at the same time, Pokemon Blue came later as a special enhanced version with new "improved" sprites. Blue was the localized and made into the international Red and Blue versions

>>	Sage Sat Oct 20 21:33:20 2018 No.5114245 This is currently the most autistic thread on the board.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 22:13:02 2018 No.5114306 >>5113854 Yeah but the point is you're not supposed to give a fuck about these non characters. But you do. And it's sad.

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:07:45 2018 No.5114434

>>5113819
>>5114306
I think the problem stems from Pokemon Trainer Red appearing at the end of the Gen 2 games. You're totally right that you're just supposed to rename the characters and not care, but at the same time Red is actually a canon character who appears to fight you at the end of Gold and Silver.

What I always thought they should have done was have you hook up a link cable at the start of Gold/Silver to transfer your save data from Red/Blue. The game would tell you that it's transferring all your pokemon so they'll be available for you after a certain point in the game from the Pokemon Center computers, but then it would SECRETLY also transfer your character's name and the team you most recently beat the Elite Four with. Then at the end of Gold/Silver you wouldn't face Pokemon Trainer Red with some prefab """canon""" team, you would fight Pokemon Trainer [Your Name] with YOUR TEAM from the first game. It would have been fucking mindblowing and it wouldn't have ever brought up these issues of "canon names" and "canon teams" and all that bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:56:40 2018 No.5114527 File: 6 KB, 262x192, images.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] we were doing so good, /vr/

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:59:12 2018 No.5114529 >>5114434 Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 actually used that idea, if you linked to the first game, any mention of the first game's protag used your name from Black & White 1

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 00:19:31 2018 No.5114552 >>5113762 Red is the MC, Green is the rival, and Blue is the girl version of Red.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 00:56:12 2018 No.5114598 >>5113910 A lot of marketing during that era called the characters Satoshi and Shigeru. It wasn't until Gold and Silver were released that "Red" and "Green" became their canon names.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 16:25:05 2018 No.5115603 >>5113873 sorry OP bumped another precious CRT thread off the catalogue.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 21:53:12 2018 No.5116213 >>5114598 Yeah, even Ash Ketchum is Satoshi in Japan.

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