>Vikavolt
>m-m-muh rail gun!
faggots you think low
here, let me show you what those mandibles look like
wrong
>>26915657
thats a railgun
>>26915657
Nigga, that's a rail gun
>>26915657
That's a picture of a railgun, silly.
>>26915693
It's a railgun/taser/space ship.
Just like Charjabug is a battery/taser/bus and grubbing is a plug/taser/train.
why is it called a Tallgeese
>>26915657
>>26915693
>>26915700
Your'are all so very wrong, this is what it is based on.
It's shiny wil be red
>>26915657
The fuck? It's pincers. It doesn't look like a railgun at all.
>>26917371
Yeah, starter cables are known for firing projectiles.
>>26917371
Seeing it attack I thought Railgun, but these actually make a lot of sense. They are much more practical in terms of designing a pokemon around.
>>26917495
Not OP, it's clearly got electric motifs to the point where I guarantee you it will learn Zap Cannon, which is basically the "railgun" attack. Look up what a railgun is and come back.
>>26917495
It's pincers and a railgun. Are you new to pokémon?
>>26917525
>They are much more practical in terms of designing a pokemon around.
What's this even supposed to mean?
>>26917371
>going from a battery
>to alligator claps
Wow, what a fucking upgrade. Surely it doesn't make sense for a 9-volt battery with a voltage difference across its terminals to evolve into a rail gun with a much larger voltage difference across its rails.
>>26915657
Open your eyes and see
>>26917543
It used Zap Cannon in the trailer, it's definitely a railgun. Doesn't mean it can't be multiple things though, don't know why retards like the guy you replied to even exist.
>>26917584
>>26917371
>there are plebs in /vp/ who are uninitiated with anime
these are the fags who never knew about Bug O I bet
>>26917564
Seeing as pokemon is still presented as a franchise centered around the "kid" audience, I would figure if you are going to take inspiration from physical objects, they would need to be something that the kids might be able to recognize or perhaps relate to
A kid isn't going to put two-and-two together and think "Railgun" and likely neither is the good ol' american mom. Jumper cables are a much friendlier and more grounded place to claim inspiration from.
I'm not denying that Railgun is a possibility, I'm just acknowledging that Jumper Cables actually make a lot of sense
>>26917584
Wire cutters aren't electrical, though. That makes sense for Grubbin, but not a final evo.
Wire cutters make sense thematically, but not practically. Practically, the railgun makes sense, as its something a final evo could actually use to attack with Electric-type moves.
>>26917371
yeah red like gurren lagann
>>26917632
Except mecha anime is incredibly popular among Japanese kids and rail guns like >>26915657 would be recognizable.
>>26917648
those arent wire cutters, electricians use them to strip insulation off of wires to splice them together or what have you.
>>26916525
>>26916553
>>26916562
Since not everyone can be a gundam nerd,
That's actually a GN bazooka, a beam weapon that fires super dense GN particles.
I can see people confusing it with a railgun, though.
Virtue is my mechabando
>>26917703
>>26917648
This. Those are wire strippers, literally the most used and most important electrician tool there is
>Pokemon can only be based on one thing at a time.
I hate all of you.
>>26917622
>didn't use the carlos image
You can't fool me carlos
>>26917632
>implying the themes of a pokémon must be super obvious at first glance
That's clearly and demonstrably wrong, though.
>>26917775
This thread in a nutshell, pretty much.
>>26917730
so why is it called a Tallgeese
>>26917730
>It's not this kind of scifi weapon, its this other equally cool kind of scifi weapon
Nigga its a space ship beetle that shoots lasers, who cares what the technicalities of it are.
>>26917730
>particle beam technology
>not using positrons as ammo
Weaksauce, get on my level.
>>26917912
yeah well at least their mecha don't turn into some weird ass monster
>>26917845
>Gradius VI never ever
;-;
>>26917930
at the same time, at least no eva was ever literally a fighting model kit.
>>26917950
I dunno last I checked they sold EVA model kits
>>26917569
What are jumper cables usually connected to? That's right batteries
What is Vikavolt connected to? To Charjabug by evolution
Checkmate.
>>26917961
no you misunderstand, theres a gundam series where the gundams a just model toy kits that fight.
>>26917703
>>26917755
Yeah, I fucked up. I am familiar with wire strippers, but that doesn't change my point at all. Wire strippers don't generate electricity. They work thematically as a design point, but not practically: an electrically-powered bug is more likely to use an electric-powered rail gun as a weapon than oversized scissors (again, I recognize they're strippers).
>>26918003
oh BF? but that's the best series
>>26917983
So are you trying to say that Vikavolt uses Charjabug as an energy source, or are you trying to say that Vikavolt is some how subservient to Charjabug? Cuz either theory is pretty dumb.
Or you could be joking. I'll go with that.
>>26918003
we try to forget that build fighters was a thing.
at least it didn't last too long and mostly stayed out of the spotlight unless you lived in japan or are a fanboy.
either way, before this thread gets turned into a mecha warnot that I couldnt talk shit all day about it,
>>>/m/
>>26918078
>we try to forget
nigga Build Fighters is good, only bad was the follow-up Tri and even then it had solid stuff like pic related
>>26918114
Build fighters was better than most things in its genre, but that whole genre of larger-than-life games/competition is populated with total cancer so it's really hard to come to a conclusion.
Judging it alongside other gundamu anime/manga is guaranteed to get conflicting opinions and lots of hate from both sides.
>>26918185
well that's the problem, idiots trying to put something inapplicable to it
I want /m/ tostay_
>>26918215
half the problem, the other half is the fact that it's an anime that straddles the wall between tryhard scifi mecha nerds and careless game adventure aficionados. It kind of forces them to try and share a spot on said wall and it's not always pretty because within the overconvoluted anime subgenre structure those two camps are always naturally opposed.
>>26918291
then the faggots who don't watch the show and not like it should just avoid it then
>>26918309
it won't stop people from having an opinion, anon
>>26918378
yes and? apparently people need to know that the opinions are also open for discussion and dissection
