Raging Bolt (Pokémon)

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Raging Bolt (Japanese: タケルライコ Takeruraiko) is a dual-type Paradox Pokémon introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
It is said to be either an ancient relative of or a counterpart of it from a parallel timeline.
==Biology==
Raging Bolt is a massive quadrupedal, yellow, -like Pokémon with feline features. It has black stripes and a white underside with red lines surrounding it. Raging Bolt's head is connected to a long neck with black stripes and a white bottom with red lines. It has a thin, light blue tail with sharp angles and a spark-shaped spiky ball at the end. It has three blue triangle spikes on the back. Most of its face consists of thick, white fur and shorter red fur around its blue eyes. The top of its head has seven tufts of hair shaped like a crown. Raging Bolt's muzzle is a light blue "X", the top part is shaped like lightning bolts. Its head has a black faceplate with two black spikes that cover its forehead, nose, and ears. The mouth has muzzle has two long fangs similar to s. Its large claws converge to form a single point and never retract. The front feet have three red feathers connected to the red lines. The back feet have a red line surrounding the claws and feet. Raging Bolt's face is covered by a circle mane across its back that resembles dull purple rain clouds. The mane can extend to form a normal-looking mane.
It's said to incinerate everything around it with lightning launched from its fur, and it is rumored that Raging Bolt does this by covering the skies with dark clouds before using its neck to strike down targets with crashing lighting, yet very little is known about this creature.Perrin: "Rumor has it that this fellow can cover the whole sky with dark clouds and bring lightning crashing down, just by swinging that long neck around!" (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet)https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/pokemon/raging_bolt/ Found in Area Zero, it bears resemblance to a Pokémon that became a hot topic for a short while after a paranormal magazine touted it as 's ancestor.
According to AI Sada, Raging Bolt is an ancient Pokémon related to Raikou. However, according to a Sada brought to the Crystal Pool by , Raging Bolt is a counterpart of Raikou from another timeline. Its true origin is unknown. Raging Bolt was brought to the depths of Area Zero by a time machine built by Professor Sada ten years ago.
Raging Bolt is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move . In Generation IX, is also one of its signature moves.
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==Trivia==
* Before the official reveal of Raging Bolt, a sketch of an imaginary Pokémon similar to it appeared in the Scarlet Book in as an amalgam of the Legendary beasts (, , and ).
* Raging Bolt is the tallest and heaviest Pokémon.
* Raging Bolt is the tallest Paradox Pokémon overall.
* Raging Bolt can be considered the counterpart of as both were revealed to the public on August 8, 2023, via Pokémon Presents.
===Origin===
Raging Bolt is based on . It also resembles s such as the (whose name literally means "thunder lizard"), giraffes, and s. Its bodily proportions (with longer forelimbs and shorter hind limbs) may be based on the , another sauropod.
It may also be based on mythical creatures such as the , who shares the Japanese-to-English translation with s, further explaining its long neck; the , a mythical animal resembling a leopard with a long, serpent-like neck. In particular, Raging Bolt resembles the , a cryptid usually depicted as an aggressive modern-day sauropod, which corresponds to the treatment of Paradox Pokémon as similar to real-world cryptids. Raging Bolt may also take its inspiration from an archaic word for giraffe, camelopard, which is derived from "camel" and "leopard". Its Dragon typing comes from its saurian and/or Qilin design basis, as dinosaurs as well as the Qilin are equated to dragons in various media.
It also may be a literal interpretation of the expression "(to have your) head in the clouds", perhaps referencing the fantastical nature of Paradox Pokémon.
Raging Bolt's ability to incinerate everything in its surroundings with lightning may allude to how several rock and coal samples imply that wildfires were very frequent in the Jurassic era, in which most sauropods like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus lived. Soil studies also implied that the Jurassic period had abundant rainfall and storms.
====Name origin====
Raging Bolt is literally raging bolt.
Takeruraiko can be taken as 猛る雷鼓 takeru raiko (furious thunderclap). It may also come from .
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Paradox Pokémon
* Scarlet Book
* Legendary beasts
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Category:Paradox Pokémon
Category:Ancient Pokémon
Category:Pokémon introduced in The Indigo Disk
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