168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Diamond & Pearl are set in the Sinnoh region - that’s obvious to anyone who knows their Ferrothorn from Feraligatr. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the most recently reve🦩aled upcoming spin-off in the series, is also set in Sinnoh, except hundreds of years before and apparently it’s feudal now. It would be ludicrous to assume that certain narrative threads won’t tie the two together ⛦- in the most recent trailer, we can see how the bustling Jubilife City has been dated back to the quaint but busy Jubilife Village.
The thing is, the trailer also had quite a few other nods to the world of Diamond & Pearl, the most intriguing of which has to do with the spacesuit, bowlcut weirdos of the nefarious Team Galactic. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:15 years later, I’m still curious aboꦛut who their barber is♏.
It’s all still a bit up in the air at the moment - in some ways quite literally given that boring old Braviary has apparently been reappropriated into a brilliant aerial mount - but there are some things from the latest L🐎egends: Arceus trailer that are worth dissecting. Being the Pokemon weirdo that I am, I scanned the footage with the aptitude and alertness of a particularly on-the-ball Patrat. Finally! After 11 long, painful years, Patrat is useful for something. Good job, team.
Speaking of teams, Legends: Arceus appears to put you on one. As you venture across the storied plains of historical Sinnoh, you act on behalf of Galaxy Team, a benevolent organisation that seems to revolve around the newly revealed - and extremely confusing - concept of Noble Pokemon. Are they Legendaries? Mythicals? Ultra Beasts? PokeLosers? Given 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:how rubbish Kleavor looks, I’d probably argue the latter.
Anyway, back to Galaxy Team. If you study those words closely, you’ll notice that reversing them gives you Team Galaxy, which in turn sounds a bit like Team Galactic. I’m not saying this alone is sufficiently evident to suggest the villainous team’s genesis will be referenced in Legends: Arceus - I’m Irish, so I know words tha🎐t sound similar can have radicallyꦫ different meanings. There is, in fact, more evidence to support my theory, all of which is provided by my aforementioned Pokemon weirdoishness.
Do yo🐽u know what my first thought was after watching the new Legends: Arceus trailer? It wasn’t “Watch out for that bridge, Braviary!” It had nothing to do with Kleavor, whose only real point of interest comes from the fact it ruins Scyther. I did quite like the shot of the player🐽 character lobbing a PokeBall off the back of a Basculegion in mid-air, but I stopped thinking about it fairly sharpish given that my mind was firmly fixed on something else: Arezu’s hairstyle.
There are, obviously, quite a lot of hairstyles in the world. I have personally had a skinned head, shaved back on sides with long on top, shaved back on sides with short on top, hair down to my chest, hair tied up, a line dyed through the middle, a messy mullet, the V… you getཧ the picture. It might seem weird to look at a random Pokemon character’s hair and shout “Eureka!”, but this hairstyle is very specific. Arezu, without a shadow of a doubt, looks exactly like🌌 Team Galactic lieutenant Mars. Making two characters in the same region this precisely identical hundreds of years apart surely isn’t an accident. It has to be by design.
It has pretty great story potential, too. By the time Cyrus rolls around in Diamond & Pearl, Team Galactic is an organisation attempting to💛 reshape the entire Pokemon universe. Most of the grunts you meet can’t even explain what it is that Team Galactic actually does. They’re just sort of along for the ride. An institution like this being a repurposed version of an ancient organisation devoted to protecting Pokemon is an uncharacteristically compelling villain origin story for the series. Now it’s in my head, I can&rs🅺quo;t get it out.
What’s especially interesting is that although modern day Team Galactic&r𓂃squo;s timeline is murky at best, Cyrus is explicitly interested in Sinnoh’s past - Sinnoh&ওrsquo;s legends. When you meet him in Celestic Town in Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, he says the following:
"There appears to have been an insignificant struggle here. Everyone should step back and view things from a bigger perspective. Yes, a bigger perspective, one that is on a universal scale. My name is Cyrus. I seek the power to create a new world, a world without strife. However that power seems to be unavailable here... We've met before, yes? It was at Mt. Coronet. If you discover any power derived from the legends of Sinnoh, inform me. For that power is what I need to create my new world."
We learn later on that Cyrus’ plan is to assume control of Dialga and Palkia, although this is in and of itself fascinating when you consider Legends: Arceus as a game that will inevitably focus on its titular Legendary. In Pokemon Platinum, Cyrus instructs his grunts to steal ancient plaques of Dialga and Palkia for research purposes. Clearly, ancient Sinnoh was well aware of its deific duo - but, as is the case with most history that is slowly but surely 🧸melded with historiography, it’s possible that somewhere along the way, Arceus’ actions were blended in with those of Dialga and Palkia. I am, admittedly, wearing my tinfoil hat here because a) it’s interesting, and b) it’s fun, although I don’t think I’m miles off the mark either. I’m not being ridiculous. I only do that most of the time.
Galaxy Team is clearly an idealistic org with the best interests of Pokemon at heart. In a way, it’s creating a better world by maintaining harmony between people and Pokemon. Team Galactic, an institution that crops up hundreds of years later, could purport to be doing the same by restructuring the universe as we know it - in Cyrus&rsq𒐪uo; eyes, he’s not a villain. He’s a saviour. A messiah. A god. The ideals are not necessarily dissimilar from those of Galaxy Team, who he likely encountered during his years of research. They’ve just been contorted into something much more malicious.
You might think I’m off my rocker. That’s fine. Personally, though, I think highlighting Team Galactic’s origins as the modern day equivalent of an ancient, paradoxically benevolent team would be extremely cool. And hey - at least the hai🅠rstyle they have in co💜mmon isn’t a bowl cut.