Typhlosion is innocent Ditto is the culprit

[mutiestwinbrother]

But if ditto was disguised as human the baby would be fully human.

[Krowseph]

Those were stories of yokai that Gamefreak based pokemon off of

[akumatsubasa]

"Oh no, one typhlosion might have done something in a myth, let's cancel every typhlosion"

Nah give me my derpy honey badger he did nothing wrong

[umr]

Someone needs to do an ace attorney animation about this debate

[Pensive_Scarlet]

Imagine if humans were treated this way. Like, now that we know what we know about Diddy, the entire human race must be condemned by the overseers keeping tabs on us and all the other planets with life on them out there. Imagine the psychic arguments they're having about us *right now* with the ones who think we're oddly charming doing what they can to defend us, but of course it's all in good fun because, to them, we're basically just a form of fiction that's writing itself.

[DocDuko]

As a fan of ditto, this checks out. Definitely the behavior of a lifelong shapeshifter.

[That_Borkin_Ninetales]

Can I just state, why everyone is so crazy about this, I mean Frosslass was the first official poke waifu, through canon, this is a tossed storyboard meaning it means about as much as the Vaporeon joke. There's no need to save typhoosion as the only one putting him in danger is you guys.

[dragon-cbhc]

Many forms of mythology, including Japanese mythology, has animals transforming into humans or vice versa in order to exhibit some form of trickery. Zeus did this a lot, for example. Specifically, Typhlosion is supposed to be based of the Mujina, the Japanese Badger, where in folklore it is often depicted to be a shape-shifting Yokai (demon/trickster/monster) so this is not entirely pulled out of thin air.

[nexusbone]

Dittos are on that time 24/7 makes sense to me

[Roseylovesgaming]

I’m kinda scared to look at the lore of my baby. My innocence shan’t be corrupted this time

[Casey.]

So even if the ditto theory was true, that doesn't mean it couldn't have been another pokemon that learns transform by level up. (Mew in case anyone didn't know)

[goldeneggof]

Animal bride stories are found around the world, game freak is just giving the motif some gender equality.

[The_Nms]

Ain't no party like a ditto party

[michaelrate]

A persian works for the boss of team rocket. Does that make all persian's villains? No. One evil individual does not make the whole species evil.

[maceospades]

I feel like it makes sense that it was a ditto because a human-pokemon hybrid would be impossible when looking at genetics unless a ditto could make them compatible to actually make a hyprid.

[greyrifterrellik]

I'd like to remind everyone that we're not talking about fictional characters, but fictional *SPECIES* here.

Typhlosion or not, it was ONE.

That'd be like deeming every cat in the world an viscious demon all because you met a single especially hostile one.

And that's not even getting into the part where it's literally just real world yokai stories with a pokemon paintjob.



C'mon, people.

[MR.R-k]

T typhlosion is becoming less and less probable

[GMBY]

Lock up P ditto. Thyplosion is innocent

[felipestaudt]

Mew is the culprit Mew exist in this time

[Nazo-kage]

Typlosion that we know of, do not have the ability to transform into people.

This is because the original story that they based this Pokémon folklore off of is based off of Yokai folklore.

Another words no Pokémon need to beat any kind of allegations.

The original story was based off of a badger demon.