In the pokemon world, you can commit serious crimes and walk away scott free as long as a 10 year old child humbles you in a pokemon battle afterwards.

Giovanni didn't go away scott free
>B-but PWT
He's just there for sake of having a complete set of Gym Leaders

>>58029170
He's still a free man, and disbanded his group of his own accord. No police involvement whatsoever.

>>58029162 (OP)
To be fair Archie and Maxie said they were really sorry and worked to do better

>>58029170
>crimes
i'm sorry, do you see any cops around here? because i don't see no fucking cops around here. this is ancapistan, hire some private guards or get your shit fucked up

>>58029162 (OP)
The Pokemon world is a Semi-Anarcho-Capitalist with elements of Post-Scarcity Society so there's no body of governance powerful enough to actually arrest, and jail them.

>>58029225
what the fuck are you talking about
>>58029243
The league has jurisdiction

>>58029243
We literally have a International Police. Most useless fucking government, btw.

>>58029162 (OP)
Colress is really funny cuz one of the post game plots of BW1 is literally about arresting the sages and Ghetsis had to go into hiding after being defeated(plus he gets the karmic punishment of getting brain damaged from seething too much and becomes a vegetable in BW2)

>>58029251
doesn't appear in any of the canon games

>>58029243
We have seen cops in the games, schizo

>>58029270
and what laws have you seen?

>>58029267

>>58029162 (OP)
Does that mean aldith will get pardoned for killing off Cynthia because she is the new champion now or what

>>58029285
Yes, precisely

>>58029274
>and what laws have you seen?
Murder is bad

>>58029317
that is no law

>>58029263
Funnier that the one of the sages that got arrested was then let go and allowed to walk free in B2W2. Even funnier that one of them still became a terrorist, commit some crimes and still walked free afterwards.

Xerosic got arrested at least.
He's probably free by the time of ZA, but maybe not.

>>58029243
the very first generation has a police officer investigating a burglary
granted he's not doing a particularly good job of it what with the culprit just chilling in the victim's backyard but they do exist
also there's mayors in america in both unova and orre at least, and i think with alola the trial captains run each island? dunno about the other nations
>>58029376
well it is new york city, he probably got some corrupt lawyer to bail him out

>>58029469
>also there's mayors in america in both unova and orre at least
That doesn't help

>>58029214
>the climate genocide was an accident!

>>58029581
well it's orre so yeah gonna be corrupt as ever (actually did they replace him in gale of darkness? i don't remember) but hey at least opelucid's doin well with this guy

>>58029162 (OP)
The power difference between a trainer with one Pokemon and a trainer without that the implicit assumption is anyone with a single Pokemon could at least kill several unarmed people, if not far more. That's why when you lose a Pokemon battle as a criminal you give up. There's no reason for things like prisons. The threat of "I could kill you if you try anything like this again," is enough to keep people in line.

>>58029835
>That's why when you lose a Pokemon battle as a criminal you give up
Maxie and Archie lost in the Seafloor Cavern against (you) and they still went ahead and awakened Groudon/Kyogre anyways. The villains haven't fully figured out that the protagonists won't do shit to them after beating them in a Pokemon battle and they could just keep doing what they've been doing with no issue. Well I guess some grunts have figured out that they can just refuse to battle and block the path forward.

>>58029613
The new mayor of phenac in XD is a good guy who gets held hostage with the rest of the town

>>58029170
He did get away. Just nobody recognizes him in the trenchcoat and hat

>>58029285
The Galar one looks like he touches kids. The Unova one looks the kind who would turn his bodycam off.

>>58029251
This is why Cyrus stayed in the Distortion Realm, there are actually police in Sinnoh.

>>58029597
It was supposed to help People/Pokemon!

>>58030539
What about mustacheman?

>>58029162 (OP)
So where's the free Plasma criminal?

>>58029262
Didn't you humped a teenage looking girl at that motel?
>A-Age Unknown!
Cope

>>58031403
He's making his own universe with Giratina. He's not done.
Stay tuned for Pokemon Legends: Hilbert vs the Soulless Army

>>58031429
>Pokemon Legends: Hilbert vs the Soulless Army
Damn, if ZA is half as good as Raidou I'm now hyped.

>>58030741

>>58029225
Better question: Why is the police unarmed? A battle dildo won't stop criminals from doing anything, when they're commanding powerful pet monsters.

>>58029450
Charon too

>>58029613
Who knows, everyone has a shadow.

>>58029162 (OP)
is that an oc on the right?

>>58032402
The cops have their own pokemon. Literally a type of trainer class.

>>58033551
Somebody hasn't watched the presents. Literal former nazi scientist with a swastika gamer chair in ZA.

>>58029243
>>58029225
>>58029262
The Pokemon world is weird and inconsistent with how it portrays governments. The only police officers in Sinnoh are guarding the mansion by Hearthome City. Kanto had roaming biker gangs taking over entire routes. Kanto/Hoenn/Sinnoh had criminal gangs operating in broad daylight, as if they were normal businesses. Kanto/Johto had gangs taking over entire cities. All of this suggests that Pokemon is a neofeudal society with ancap elements and each city is largely responsible for its own affairs.

But then you have Looker's organization, the notCIA, which seems to imply that there's a global superpower somewhere in the world. The anime has also shown tanks and fighter jets, so there's industrial-scale warfare happening somewhere too.

>>58033667
I know, I know. It's just confusing why they would have melee weapons like batons, if pokemon are sufficient for any confrontation. They're not there for decoration, they're for beating someone or something up.


>>58033799
Perhaps the utopia-claim is just propaganda to cache how dire the situation really is.

>The anime has also shown tanks and fighter jets
and airships and (nuclear?) missile submarines

>so there's industrial-scale warfare happening somewhere too.
All regions covered so far are set in the Western hemisphere. Perhaps PokéNATO isn't at good terms with PokéRussia or PokéChina, so that's why modern weaponry exists.

>>58033909
Well, they are Japanese cops and cops in a children's series. Guns aren't common in Japan.

>>58034141
Unova, Orre and Alola are based on American states though.
>gun laws
New York (Unova) and Hawaii (Alola) have strict laws, Arizona (Orre) is less restrictive. Regardless, American cops could still carry a gun, when they're already carrying batons.

>children's series
I'm just asking for consistency. GF and whoever is responsible for all the media could stick with the "Pokémon is a utopia" theme and just retcon all the weirdness from the past. Yet they continue adding stuff with strange implications, which raises questions on how that fits into the lore.

>>58030733
I MISJUDGED HOW MUCH RAIN THE PRIMORDIAL RAIN GOD WOULD MAKE, YOU CAN'T CANCEL ME FOR THIS IT'S NOT FAIR

>>58034456
>lore
This is a common mistake a lot of people make these days. A 'thing that happened' is different from 'lore'. Lore is intentional expansions to the events and world building of a story. Not everything that happens in a game is lore. Pokemon wasn't designing the police sprites with the intent for it to feed into some kind of cohesive narrative about how the justice system operates in the pokemon world. They just went 'yeah, this looks like a cop'. The post Five Nights at Freddy's lore obsessed society we live in didn't exist when they were making most of these games. They weren't thinking that hard about this kind of stuff and never expected us too either. You've trained yourself to look for clues, but you're struggling because you're looking in a place where there is no mystery to solve. You can't fit the pieces into place because there is no puzzle.

>>58034535
>post Five Nights at Freddy's
Star Wars autism predate pokemon entirely.
And pokemon itself was like that prior to FnF.
People were already obsessed over indian elephants. back then.

>>58033909
What utopia-claim?

>>58034868
Fair. It still has been a larger trend in media these days for there to be larger interconnected worlds and secret hidden lore that has to be pieced together. Star Wars is one of the few series that did that sort of thing back in the day.

The point still stands about the police.

>>58029162 (OP)
So was aldith allowed to be free after feeding Cynthia to her Seviper?

>>58034535
I agree, though it's tricky to determine whether there's something hidden or not. And while we can just say "it's a franchise for children, don't overthink it", it would be too easy, given what topics were covered in the past games.
>world building
I would count that as an example of world building. There's no need for weapons like batons as >>58033667 mentioned, they could have removed it (like the scrapped concept in Gen1 of trainers using whips), but it's there. It might be not worth mentioning until you notice more similiar details, weird dialogue etc. that makes you wonder how the world works. Not to uncover some secret lore, but in favor of immersion.


>>58034868
Maybe indirectly, there are no bad things happening that wouldn't have a happy ending, pokemon don't die but faint, the post-scarcity society stuff etc.
Maybe I'm confusing it with the "Pokéworld =/= real world" topic, where GF claims the Pokéworld is its own thing, there are no animals etc., but then you have real life fruits (despite GF going through the effort of making Pokéworld equivalents) and regions resembling their real life counterparts. Which can be also applied to negative topics.

>>58033799
>The anime has also shown tanks and fighter jets
dont forget Surge's warplane, powered by Electric pokemons