on one of these wallets with free worldwide shipping and returns by going to URL_TOKEN forward slash hoops and entering code hoops at checkout the link for that is going to be in the description the people over at ridge have been supporting the channel for a while now and they're honestly amazing so be sure to show them some love and pick up a wallet with that link in the description and thank you again to ridge for supporting the channel dang i just did that completely script free that's how much i love these things first off let's look at one that doesn't really get displayed in the games which is an absolute shame because it makes what we're dealing with here so so much better whitney is the infamous gym leader of the johto region who uses a mill tank but personality wise she's basically a young almost spoiled rotten kind of girl who gets really upset when you beat her in a battle but another thing about her that isn't highlighted at all in the games is that she's actually a baseball fan if you look at her design closely you can start to see it with the baseball jersey she is wearing and her long baseball like socks but this aspect of her character is highlighted no more prominently than in this piece of artwork that appeared on game freak's website where she appears with a full-on baseball mitt and an apom following behind her carrying a baseball now apom isn't on whitney's team in the final games but this art suggests that maybe it was originally and maybe it was even her signature pokemon it is normal type after all which is whitney's type specialty and the baseball theme makes perfect sense with a palm because that would mean that its big tail hand is sort of supposed to be a myth which again just makes its design kind of make a little more sense it certainly fits better with whitney than miltank does as far as her design goes so maybe this was something that they kind of abandoned after wanting to make whitney a little tougher thus replacing apom with miltank this makes both a palm and whitney way cooler in my opinion and it would be very interesting to know if this was actually the original intent with them speaking of gym leaders and johto let's talk about chuck because this guy is most likely named after chuck norris given the name obviously and the martial arts inspiration it's pretty likely so we literally have a chuck norris character in pokemon and like nobody talks about that i feel like if chuck had been introduced in the age of social media this would have immediately become a meme and he would be a god-tier character in the community but since that wasn't the case i feel like this kinda just gets overlooked most of the time which is a real travesty because hello we literally have a chuck norris character in pokemon transitioning from jodo to hoenn hoenn took a big step in its own direction in following up the first two generations when it was first introduced making a clean break from the continuity that kanto and jodo had established and just kinda did its own thing this is definitely evident with the look and feel of hoenn as it has a very fresh vibe to it but gamefreak were really going all in on this perspective even right down to some of the finer details of
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