Talk:Skeledirge (Pokémon)
Regarding Skeledirge's inspirations
Because this keeps going back and forth i want to mention why i think some of the origin ideas user Toucannon733 put on the page don't fit Skeledirge at all (and why i think some of their removals are really weird):
- Cocollona: So from what i've gathered, the Cocollona is a crocodile with butterfly wings (which Skeledirge doesn't have) who was once the ghost of a nun. I see why it's tempting to compare Skeledirge to Cocollona because "ghost crocodile", but idk. There doesn't seem to be any more connection between the two for reasons i've mentioned (no butterfly wings, also Skeledirge is a singer, not a nun).
- Lizard of Magdalena: From my research this is a story about: a giant people-eating lizard who terrorized a small town but was eventually killed by being tricked into eating gunpowder and exploded. Again, like, why was this mentioned? Was it because gunpowder and that Skeledirge is a Fire type? Like... no? The connection just isn't there, Skeledirge doesn't eat people nor does it learn explosion moves.
- Regarding mariachi/rock music: How many rockers do you see wear suits regularly? Plus I don't see how mariachi can't be an inspiration, given Crocalor's appearance and JP name, and Skeledirge's suited look resembling the attire. The Dia de Muertos inspiration helps too.
To close, I just want to say i appreciate user Toucannon733's edits to Bulbapedia (the one they made for Crocalor connecting it to Mona de Pascua is actually really good), but personally i think they need to rein back a little bit on trying to connect every Gen 9 mon to every single possible Spanish idea. I know it's weird coming from Gen 8 where almost every mon is British in origin, but not every Gen 9 mon has to have an explicitly Spanish origin, and that's okay. Sometimes they're based on Iberia in general; sometimes they're based on the greater Mediterranean area like Greece and Egypt; sometimes they're just based on Latin America which speak Spanish and Portuguese; and sometimes they're just based on silly jokes the staff thought of that day (like how Toedscool and Toedscruel were based on Japanese puns). Plus it's not like there's no precedent for this kind of design philosophy either (kangaroos in Japan, pandas in France, koalas and orangutans in Hawaii, etc).
