Why am I making this claim? Well, maybe they didn't. But...

I've been spending some time reading the PokeDex entries for Pokemon in the games, and I've come to two conclusions:

First, the world where the games are set in is an even worse dystopia than the post-apocalyptic future seen in The Hunger Games.

Why do I make that claim? Ever read those PokeDex entries? Pokemon are downright dangerous. Some prey on humans, some do ghastly things like display their frozen victims, some devour the dreams of sleeping victims, and some steal the souls of vicitms.

And yet, parents actually encourage their children to hunt and train these things, unsupervised.

But anyway, the other conclusion I made is that whoever thought some of these entries up is clearly bad at physics, biology, and other sciences. I realize that a common tool in fiction is artistic license, which means that being unrealistic can make something more interesting. (If a spaceship really could travel at light speed across the galaxy, the cost of fuel it would need for one trip would surpass the National Debt.)

But... While I can buy the idea of physical gods like Dialga and alternate dimensions like the Torn World, some things here are beyond impossible.

Take Cubone. Wears the skull of its mother, right? Well, since a Cubone is never seen without a skull, that means that this Pokemon either kills its mother right after being born, or the mother always dies after its young is hatched. Either way, this would have resulted in the species going extinct rather fast.

Magcargo is even worse. Its entry states that its skin is twice as hot as the surface of the sun. Know how hot that is? Let’s just say I wouldn’t want to be near it. Camerupt and Torkoal are just as bad.

Of course, if the entries are being written by the same guy who writes them in the anime version, maybe it makes sense. That guy did seem to be a few corndogs short of a full picnic…

(Oh, in case you didn't notice, this thread was all made in jest. Don't take me seriously. )