Yeh I love the descriptions and the goofy little videos you unlock for each character in X. You can tell that the character designers enjoyed thinking up these outlandish (otherworldly) backstories that play out like wrestling drama but with actual in-game-world intrigue and consequence. My hands are itchy lol I wanna play gimme the sticks
Edit: i got my versions wrong, I meant gx. I didn't play much of x until it was on the virtual console
Omg its true
brb trying this out
Lmao I was just on the FZERO wiki after reading your comment and having learnt a bit of Japanese since last playing all that time ago, I noticed that Gomar & Shio ( ごま + 塩 sesame and salt) are both Furikake (rice topping) aliens.
It's not super deep, but the theory that the Gen 1 Pokemon evo lines were reworked for Butterfree/Venomoth to better conform with children's understanding of metamorphosis in bug species. Based on visual design, some fans speculate that the original evo lines were:
Venonat > Metapod > Butterfree
Caterpie > Venomoth
But then changed to Cat > Met > Butt and Ven/Ven
Idk i read up on it that sugimori did intend it as it ended up but there's enough doubt and prima facie convincing stuff to make it fun, enduring lore
ITT: a lot of very good games that I'll never play because now I think they're all terribly, irredeemably flawed
I say this with utmost sincerity, GOOD fn post
Yeah I know.... still 
Oh in SOTC killing the collosi made me way too sad
The player base is trash. Self included 
Mostly superficial similarities between the body colour, teeth, antennae and eyes
There is no textual evidence of a switch afaik. The fan justification of the switch is that children learn caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly as the basis for metamorphosis, not caterpillar, chrysalis, moth.
I messed up my original post with the line too, it was speculated that the original line was cat > met > moth and ven > butt