>A crustacean

>Genosect
>An INSECT

>Pokemon fans
>"These are the same"

>>57959283 (OP)
crustaceans and insects are closely related

>>57959283 (OP)
>Doesn't know what an arthropod is
American education, everyone

Genesect loses the arm weapons from Kabutops. Also half the entries say the cannon was just upgraded instead of created. It is far more likely that Genesect's original body was an otherwise unidentified species.

>>57959283 (OP)
Kabuto and Kabutops are based off of Horseshoe Crabs (and their ancient ancestors), anon

>>57959283 (OP)
Legends Unova giving us a completely new species

>>57959283 (OP)
Aside from the pose and the head shape being describable as “wide and vaguely flat”, they have little in common that is unique to each other. The torsos are completely different, and you’re also coping super hard by saying the legs are almost shaped the same when there’s really only a couple ways you can represent a leg that has a thigh, calf and foot. Its legs look more similar to Lokix than Kabutops, honestly. Kabutops is shaped like a horseshoe crab while Genesect most closely resembles some kind of Hymenoptera. The similarities you see are just surface level.
>blade hands
Do you know just how many Pokémon have stabby bits for limbs? Why even use this as a point?

>>57959283 (OP)
They're out of ideas. It's obvious.

>>57959283 (OP)
it's future scyther

>>57959283 (OP)
Genesect feels more like a Kleavor to me

>>57959283 (OP)
first of all kabutops isn't a crustacean, it's a chelicerate. horseshoe crabs are chelicerates. secondly, insects ARE crustaceans. it's honestly commendable that you've managed to be so wrong you've looped around to somehow still being right.

>>57959681
>insects ARE crustaceans
That's not true retard, both Insects and Crustaceans belong to Arthropods

>>57959691
hexapoda is a subphylum that nests firmly within pancrustacea, insects literally are crustaceans

>>57959586
They never had any. Kabutops and Scyther came out in the same game.

>>57959305
Yeah as closely related as you are to fish

Crustle exists

>>57959705
to this end, humans are reptiles

>>57959283 (OP)
behold, a bunch of identical animals

>>57959925
Synapsids evolved before reptiles

>>57959950
crabs have independently evolved 8 times

Genesect is just a fully evolved Kabutops, its dex even says its evolving to adapt to land, that's why they're so rare, Kabutops went extinct, but one of them managed to actually evolve, then went extinct itself because there is one of them

>>57959283 (OP)
We're talking about a franchise where fish and octopus are parts of single animal's life cycle

>>57959979
I like this theory

>>57959925
No, humans are amniotes

>they both have legs
MIND = BLOWN

Is there any franchise with more retarded theories than Pokémon?

>>57959389
Yeah, its mistranslated, the attached thing is the battery in the original japanese. The cannon was always there.

>>57959283 (OP)

>>57961032
wow thats fucking hideous

>>57959950
>Placentals and Monotremes
You're missing the marsupial form of C5. The programmer really went crazy in that region

>>57959283 (OP)
In its Jet form, it reminds me of a Surinam cockroach, and its home and social organization remind me of a termite.

Since both cockroaches and termites descend from the same proto-insect, that could be the key.

genuinely why the fuck did they not do a paradox genosect?

>>57959893
More like as closely related lancelets are to human beings.

>>57961117
Their home in the movie was a giant termite mound, which was the reason they confused it with Poke-New York because the silhouette of the skyscrapers resembled their termite mound.

>>57959972
And the rhino model, how many times has it been patented?

>>57961125
Found the speedreader

>>57961150
Something very curious happened with the beetle model: on the left is Dim, a character from Bug's Life from 1998, and on the right is Megaceras briansaltini, discovered in 2007.

Since then, the discovery of a species that resembles a previously created fictional species, such as Scratt from Ice Age, has become known as the Dim effect.

>>57961167

>>57961125
Its already a future one itself.