(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

[RocketSurgery]

Everyone always complains about Charizard and Lucario get special treatment, but there are some other Pokemon that seem to be getting special treatment in terms of making it into a lot of games lately that we should start complaining about:

Spoilers for the mega dimension pokedex

What the heck is up with the swords of justice?! First they were included in the Crown Tundra as a sidequest, ending with Keldeo, which is all fine and dandy. And then in SV they get paradox analogues; while Keldeo doesn't get a paradox mon, it is still included in the game along with the rest of the swords of justice, while a lot of other mythicals were left out. Fair enough. But now they are all available in the mega dimension DLC, while Celebi and Victini, who weren't included in SV, are still MIA.

Who at GameFreak loves these dumb deer so much that they are getting shoehorned into all these games? Is some designer coming up with Enamorus the only thing that stopped the swords of justice from being included in Legends Arceus?
Or is this GameFreak's way of compensating for a lack of gen 5 remakes?

 

[R_N]

Everyone always complains about Charizard and Lucario get special treatment, but there are some other Pokemon that seem to be getting special treatment in terms of making it into a lot of games lately that we should start complaining about:

Spoilers for the mega dimension pokedex

What the heck is up with the swords of justice?! First they were included in the Crown Tundra as a sidequest, ending with Keldeo, which is all fine and dandy. And then in SV they get paradox analogues; while Keldeo doesn't get a paradox mon, it is still included in the game along with the rest of the swords of justice, while a lot of other mythicals were left out. Fair enough. But now they are all available in the mega dimension DLC, while Celebi and Victini, who weren't included in SV, are still MIA.

Who at GameFreak loves these dumb deer so much that they are getting shoehorned into all these games? Is some designer coming up with Enamorus the only thing that stopped the swords of justice from being included in Legends Arceus?
Or is this GameFreak's way of compensating for a lack of gen 5 remakes?

Spoiler

Honestly if we're going to have the swords all here (and Meloetta) Victini really should have been here just so you could look at all the mythics in and go "oh okay, they wanted all the gen 5, 6 & 7 mythics together in one game." And you gotta bring in the full quartet.

just really awkward it isn't here!

 

[Esserise]

I think I complained about this elsewhere on here, but the Swords of Justice also just got a big push in GO as well due to the addition of Resolute Keldeo. I don’t dislike them, but I admit I’m kinda tired of looking at them at this point, lol.

 

[Castersvarog]

Everyone always complains about Charizard and Lucario get special treatment, but there are some other Pokemon that seem to be getting special treatment in terms of making it into a lot of games lately that we should start complaining about:

Spoilers for the mega dimension pokedex

What the heck is up with the swords of justice?! First they were included in the Crown Tundra as a sidequest, ending with Keldeo, which is all fine and dandy. And then in SV they get paradox analogues; while Keldeo doesn't get a paradox mon, it is still included in the game along with the rest of the swords of justice, while a lot of other mythicals were left out. Fair enough. But now they are all available in the mega dimension DLC, while Celebi and Victini, who weren't included in SV, are still MIA.

Who at GameFreak loves these dumb deer so much that they are getting shoehorned into all these games? Is some designer coming up with Enamorus the only thing that stopped the swords of justice from being included in Legends Arceus?
Or is this GameFreak's way of compensating for a lack of gen 5 remakes?

A part of me feels like it’s the devs really wanting to call back to Unova, which is fair given Blueberry academies location, and them going ‘well we don’t have alot of options here’.

The Forces of Nature are officially a quartet so they both can’t be separated and don’t balance out with other trios, let alone their alternate forms, and every other legendary in Unova is either the Tao trio or is a mythical.

The Swords of justice have Keldeo sure, but Keldeos always been this fourth ranger type and is also a mythical further separating him from the three musketeer's.

 

[Esserise]

There is also, in the case of Z-A, the cute little thread of “they’re based on a French novel.”

For what it’s worth, I do think the Swords happen to be one of the more splashable sets of Legendary Pokémon, similar to the Kanto birds. Their lore is not especially linked to the history of the Unova region, so they don’t really feel out-of-place outside of Unova like, say, the Johto beasts or the tapu would outside of Johto and Alola.