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| Arcran | Sep 30 2016, 06:00 AM Post #111 |
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I've been reading through this and, I've got to say, I love it. I also have the desire to play Channeler now, strangely enough... If I could, can I request you do Sneasel, an old favorite of mine? |
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| Metal Lance | Sep 30 2016, 09:48 AM Post #112 |
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Bouffalant - Not sure. One of the decoys, maybe? Budew - Romeo & Juliet. Manectric - alludes to the character Sherlock Holmes. Xerneas - The Gorgon's Head, maybe. Kangaskhan - a decoy, maybe. Sableye - not sure. Luxray - not sure. Slugma - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, maybe. Castform - Swiss Family Robinson, maybe. |
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| carnackiArdent | Sep 30 2016, 03:32 PM Post #113 |
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I'm concurring with Metal Lance on Budew, Manectric, and Slugma. I have to disagree on Castform, though - the name Ariel and the fact that it's sent by a mystical former enemy make it a clear reference to The Tempest (I only read The Swiss Family Robinson once but I'm pretty sure there was no magic in it). The second hook for Sableye might be a Time Machine reference - the workers kept under ground metamorphosing into Morlocks that resent the elite surface-dwellers. I can't make anything else quite fit, though Xerneas's third hook feels like a reference, even if I'm not sure I'd agree it's to Medusa. (And Xerneas's first hook sounds a lot like the premise of Etrian Odyssey but that's not quite a literary reference.) Since that's four Pokémon I can't fit - Bouffalant, Xerneas, Kangaskhan, and Luxray - and there are only three decoys I'm obviously missing a reference. On the subject of mons not on the list, the Dunsparce Club sounds like a reference to the Diogenes Club. |
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| Metal Lance | Sep 30 2016, 08:07 PM Post #114 |
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Yeah, there's no magic in Robinson. I was just too focused on the whole "shipwrecked and washed up on an island" part of it. I forgot all about The Tempest. And I forgot about Time Machine, too. How could I have forgotten about the Morlocks? I definitely feel like there are some elements of Perseus' story in the Xerneas entry. |
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| Professor Scamander | Oct 1 2016, 02:08 PM Post #115 |
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Channeler is by far one of my favorite classes, so it tends to feature prominently on this blog.
You're correct on many of these. Budew is indeed integrated into the story of Romeo & Juliet Manetric is a homage to Sherlock Holmes Slugma is the lovely Hunchback, although it's the only one on the list I've not read yet. With Wailord, this makes 4/7!
So now we can add Castform to the list with our second Shakespeare play in the form of The Tempest. You correctly identify the Sableye hook, although the reference is wrong. This is by far the hardest and least well known work on the list. As a hint, its a homage to one of the formative fantasy novels that paved the way for the likes of Tolkien, Lewis, and LeGuinn. It was published the same year that Around the World in Eighty Days finished its serialization. Out of your four options left, the reference is to a famous play written by the world's most famous Norwegian playwright. |
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| Metal Lance | Oct 1 2016, 04:29 PM Post #116 |
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I did some research, and I feel like this one may be The Princess and the Goblin.
Yes, I'm thinking this means Henrik Ibsen, though I can't find any plays of his that really match up with any of the entries for Bouffalant, Kangaskhan, or Luxray. |
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| Shirokiba | Oct 1 2016, 06:14 PM Post #117 |
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The one for Xerneas is totally from Princess Mononoke. If it's from something older, then I do not know what but Princess Mononoke had the same thing in it. Heck, Xerneas even looks like the Forest Lord/God from Princess Mononoke.
Edited by Shirokiba, Oct 1 2016, 06:16 PM.
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| Professor Scamander | Oct 1 2016, 06:25 PM Post #118 |
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Sablye = Princess and the Goblin. It's a wonderful book, and I quite highly reccommend it. It's the bridge between fairy tales and modern fantasy. Also one of the first bona fide children's novels.
Xerneas does have a princess mononoke hook, although that's not part of the literary project. I'll probably do a howle's moving castle hook for rotom to be quite honest. |
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| Sathzur | Oct 13 2016, 12:32 AM Post #119 |
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Liepard is a homage to the Jungle Book. |
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| Elemental Knight | Oct 22 2016, 07:48 PM Post #120 |
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I just wanted to pop in and give compliments on the Dwebble article. I really enjoyed the idea of a Dwebble bookworm, and I thought the anti-rock venom was an interesting take on why and how they live in rocky shells. |
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