In defense of Future Paradox Pokemon

As someone who has a soft spot for the future paradox forms, it’s nice to see other people out there giving them the appreciation they deserve.

Great video! Don't get me wrong, I love the past paradox, but it saddens me the way that most people just judge the future paradox without even taking a closer look to them. You made great points about their animations, their design philosophy and their uniformity, contrasting with the past paradox inspirations. Also, people clearly have a double-standard about them, I see a lot of praise for Iron Thorns, when, as you said, they're one of the paradox that change the least, while Iron Treads don't get as much appreciation while being one of the most unique, in my opinion.

I can't say I care for the equivocating here. Sure, past paradoxes share a handful of common design elements like adding spikes, adding fangs, having red and yellow eyes, adding hair / making hair unkempt, etc., but these all serve as minor finishing touches on the (usually) much more substantial changes to the designs they're derived from (especially with the legendary beasts, though aside from Walking Wake you couldn't have known that at the time). In contrast, the common designs elements of the future paradoxes are often the only substantial difference from their base designs, rather than added flair. Things like a Magneton that walks around on a pair of massive, flexible horseshoe magnets and has a tail made of multiple screws, or a Misdreavus whose hair has been replaced with wings, are pretty crazy and inspired choices, and nothing out of the future paradoxes comes close to matching them when they easily could have. For example, the most obvious wasted opportunity to me is Hydreigon. That whole line was originally intended to be partially based on tanks (hence the vestigial tread pattern on Hydreigon's body). This was the perfect chance to revive that concept and give us an actual tank Hydreigon with treads and three tank gun heads, and they completely wasted it. Those are the sorts of major changes we needed, and instead we got Hydreigon but chrome and neon. To some extent it's like that across the board, even with the better future paradoxes. I think there's also something to be said for the choices of Pokemon to apply a cave man / dinosaur aesthetic to. They could have easily chosen only things like Salamence that easily fit the vibe, but instead there's a lot of challenging choices like a cute spherical fairy, a cute ghost, three magnetic robot-like things, a moth, and a mushroom.

Glad to see a vid calling these garbage criticisms out as I absolutely love robots. Left a like btw

Iron leaves had 3 blades bc Iron crown had 2 and Iron Boulder had 1 :vv

Design gripes aside, I hate the Pokedex entries, I could definitely see why it’s easy to think the future forms were made by the same company, but instead they have the dumbest lore I’ve seen from any Pokémon, Iron Moth is an alien ship, Iron Hands is a sumo wrestler who cybernetically enhanced himself after a severe injury, and Iron Jugulis is the child of a robot and a regular Hydreigon

I find it funny that a lot of Future Paradox Pokemon haters trash on them, but then have a Iron Bundle in their team😅

Video ben fatto peccato per l'argomento di nicchia e l'algoritmo che non aiuta