THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY - 100 RECORDS FROM THE WAYNE FOUNDATION ARCHIVES tells the entire history of Bruce Wayne and the Batman character as part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The Batman Blueprint incorporates references, storylines, characters and interpretations from all previous versions of the Batman franchise to tell the most absolute complete version of this story possible. The goal is to create a gold standard bible for both diehard fans and casual audiences.
For this entry, Tony Mango presents a dramatic reading and pitch synopsis of the fifth chapter in this tale, called Bat Out of Hell. Picking up from Chapter 1 (Why Do We Fall?) and Chapter 2 (The Big Chill), and Chapter 3 (Guilt Trip) and Chapter 4 (Head of the Demon), a heartbroken Bruce Wayne has rejected The League of Shadows and decided to return to Gotham City to start his vigilante career as The Batman. But how can he forge this identity and in what state of chaos is the Gotham he's returning to after all these years?
Join us for Volume 1: Gotham Guardian - Chapter 5: Bat Out of Hell
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCOfficial and @Batman as well as @JamesGunn, along with other creators, people who have worked on Batman projects and films and television shows in the past, comic artists, and especially your friends and family! The more you share this, the better chances the right eyes will get on it and this can be a true adaptation, eventually.
Stay tuned for more from THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY - 100 RECORDS FROM THE WAYNE FOUNDATION ARCHIVES tells the entire history of Bruce Wayne and the Batman character as part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The Batman Blueprint incorporates references, storylines, characters and interpretations from all previous versions of the Batman franchise to tell the most absolute complete version of this story possible. The goal is to create a gold standard bible for both diehard fans and casual audiences.
For this entry, Tony Mango presents a dramatic reading and pitch synopsis of the fourth chapter in this tale, called Head of the Demon. Picking up from Chapter 1 (Why Do We Fall?), Chapter 2 (The Big Chill), and Chapter 3 (Guilt Trip), Bruce Wayne has traveled the globe learning from various people and caught the attention of The League of Shadows. With an offer to join the society of assassins, Bruce learns the backstory of the organization, its leader Ra's al Ghul, and falls in love as he takes his final steps toward becoming The Batman—but must watch his footing along the way to ensure he doesn't fall into darkness.
Join us for Volume 1: Gotham Guardian - Chapter 4: Head of the Demon
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCOfficial and @Batman as well as @JamesGunn, along with other creators, people who have worked on Batman projects and films and television shows in the past, comic artists, and especially your friends and family! The more you share this, the better chances the right eyes will get on it and this can be a true adaptation, eventually.
Stay tuned for more from THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
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- Saturday, April 29, 2023
THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY - 100 RECORDS FROM THE WAYNE FOUNDATION ARCHIVES tells the entire history of Bruce Wayne and the Batman character as part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The Batman Blueprint incorporates references, storylines, characters and interpretations from all previous versions of the Batman franchise to tell the most absolute complete version of this story possible. The goal is to create a gold standard bible for both diehard fans and casual audiences.
For this entry, Tony Mango presents a dramatic reading and pitch synopsis of the third chapter in this tale, called Guilt Trip. Picking up from Chapter 1 (Why Do We Fall?) and Chapter 2 (The Big Chill), Bruce Wayne has deserted Gotham City and is stowing away on a container ship, heading off to an unknown location. Wrestling with the shame of having almost shot Joe Chill to get revenge for the death of his parents, Bruce is on a journey of self-discovery to travel the world and train his mind, body and soul while forging the future identity of The Batman.
Join us for Volume 1: Gotham Guardian - Chapter 3: Guilt Trip
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCOfficial and @Batman as well as @JamesGunn, along with other creators, people who have worked on Batman projects and films and television shows in the past, comic artists, and especially your friends and family! The more you share this, the better chances the right eyes will get on it and this can be a true adaptation, eventually.
Stay tuned for more from THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
As part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT—where Anthony Mango seeks to take the entire history of every adaptation of a series and condense it into the gold standard bible version of the story with as many references as possible—one of the biggest adaptations is focused on THE MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS.
This Power Rangers Blueprint is dubbed ABSOLUTE POWER RANGERS: A MIGHTY MORPHIN' EPIC and is a 14 part series (12 feature films and 2 short films) telling the full story of the dawn of time and the backstory of Zordon, Rita and Lord Zedd as well as the fight against evil starring our core team of Tommy the Green Ranger/White Ranger, Jason the Red Ranger, Kimberly the Pink Ranger, Billy the Blue Ranger, Trini the Yellow Ranger and Zack the Black Ranger.
Check out this pitch video detailing some of the project in the hopes that Hasbro will be interested in producing this adaptation, and if you are fond of this concept, please help get more eyes on it by sharing this on social media, message boards, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and more!
The Power Rangers Blueprint and all stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #PowerRangersBlueprint and #MMPRBlueprint, tag @Hasbro and @PowerRangers as well as other artists, creators, friends, family and more.
THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY - 100 RECORDS FROM THE WAYNE FOUNDATION ARCHIVES tells the entire history of Bruce Wayne and the Batman character as part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The Batman Blueprint incorporates references, storylines, characters and interpretations from all previous versions of the Batman franchise to tell the most absolute complete version of this story possible. The goal is to create a gold standard bible for both diehard fans and casual audiences.
For this entry, Tony Mango presents a dramatic reading and pitch synopsis of the second chapter in this tale, called Big Chill. Picking up from Chapter 1 (Why Do We Fall?), Thomas and Martha Wayne have been killed by Joe Chill and Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth must deal with the fallout of the funeral and their new relationship as adopted son and father. Bruce's inability to cope with his new life causes concerns after his poor coping mechanisms and depression affect his schooling, causing him to get into fights. While he picks up some friends along the way like Harvey Dent, he is proving himself incapable of developing a romantic relationship and after becoming even more disillusioned about the state of crime in Gotham City, Bruce starts to go down a dark, vengeful path and almost makes the biggest mistake of his life.
Join us for Volume 1: Gotham Guardian - Chapter 2: The Big Chill
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCOfficial and @Batman as well as other artists, creators, friends, family and more.
Stay tuned for more from THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY - 100 RECORDS FROM THE WAYNE FOUNDATION ARCHIVES tells the entire history of Bruce Wayne and the Batman character as part of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The Batman Blueprint incorporates references, storylines, characters and interpretations from all previous versions of the Batman franchise to tell the most absolute complete version of this story possible. The goal is to create a gold standard bible for both diehard fans and casual audiences. IE, this is The Batman Bible to learn everything there is about The Caped Crusader.
For this entry, Tony Mango presents a dramatic reading and pitch synopsis of the first chapter in this tale, breaking down the night Bruce Wayne's life changed forever with the murder of his parents, Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, and the infamous events with Joe Chill in Park Row that would set our protagonist on a journey to becoming the mythological Batman vigilante.
Join us for Volume 1: Gotham Guardian - Chapter 1: Why Do We Fall:
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCOfficial and @Batman as well as other artists, creators, friends, family and more.
Stay tuned for more from THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
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- Monday, February 13, 2023
Batman is a franchise that has been around for nearly 100 years. It is almost impossible to watch all the films and every episode of the television series, as well as read all the comics at this point.
But what if someone were to condense all that—combine as many big and little details as possible and form the most cohesive outline of the Bruce Wayne character ever created—all in just 100 stories?
That is the goal of THE BATMAN BLUEPRINT—one of many parts of THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT created by Anthony Mango.
The official name of this Batman series is THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY which will consist of 10 volumes of story arcs that tell the most comprehensive version of Batman by mixing elements from everything that has come before.
Big stories like A Death in the Family and The Long Halloween are adapted with original stories and new twists. The entire Bat Family is represented, as well as every villain and supporting character imaginable, whether they're crucial to the overall series like Alfred Pennyworth or extremely minor like Nick and Eddie from the beginning of Tim Burton's Batman 89.
This concept is huge, so here is a pitch video to explain what this is all about:
The Batman Blueprint and all these superhero stories from The Blueprint Project are outlines in progress with the intent to become full-fledged works with the backing of DC Comics and the other production companies associated with these intellectual properties.
At the moment, they are not in any direct association with those entities. But with your support, these pitches could become a reality. So help spread the word by sharing this with the hashtags #BatmanBlueprint and #HireMangoDCComics, tag @DCComics and @Batman as well as other artists, creators, friends, family and more.
Stay tuned for more information and the initial breakdowns of the first few chapters of THE BATMAN: A KNIGHT-TIME STORY.
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- Sunday, November 10, 2019
Welcome to part 3 of my Fanboys Fix It of Pokemon Generation I.
As mentioned before, this was sponsored by Guest Five's donation on Patreon via the Pick Your Poison tier (donate today if you want to request a special feature of your own)
Part 1 was the general setup and information about items, HMs, how Pokemon can evolve and more. Part 2 was the new Pokedex. To wrap things up here in part 3, I'll be talking about all the story elements including how I would reformat the trainers you battle throughout the game.
Some Notes
Unlike the original 8-gym structure, this version requires a badge for all 18 types before you can enter the Indigo Plateau. Some come from Gym Leaders and others from Ace Trainers.
Specialist teams scale with your progress and can be rematched at full strength after you become champion.
The trainer breakdown below is organized alphabetically by type rather than encounter order. When more than six Pokemon are listed, treat them as an option pool rather than one fixed final team.
The Elite 3 use themes instead of types, your stronger rival becomes champion, and Professor Oak is the post-game final boss after completing the Pokedex.
Move Changes
I didn't really have another spot to put this, but for battling purposes, some moves that I didn't mention in part 1 are changed, as they don't make a lot of sense in the context of this rewrite.
There aren't any Dark or Steel moves in Gen 1, nor any real Ghost or Dragon moves, so we need to add more. Just take some from later games and insert them.
We don't need Absorb, Mega Drain and Leech Life (especially not with Giga Drain coming later).
Splash is renamed Flop. It's Hop in Japanese and that's why Pokemon without the Water type can learn it. Splash makes no sense. Nor does Hop, cause fish don't do that, but they do flop, and non-fish can flop.
Confuse Ray is Psychic now because logic.
Dragon Rage shouldn't do 40 all the time. Obviously, as mentioned, there should be more Dragon moves, but even still, that doesn't make sense to me. Dragon Rage should be something like Drill Peck, Wing Attack, Egg Bomb...just something that's strong when it hits. Maybe, it can have a secondary effect, but I'm not sure what.
Why do we have both Self-Destruct and Explosion? They're exactly the same. Explosion should be a Fire move that has a chance to burn the opponent along with the damage and instead of fully fainting the user, it takes out half their HP.
Fury Attack and Fury Swipes are way too similar. Get rid of Fury Swipes.
Glare is Dark, maybe.
Why is Mirror Move a Flying attack? It should be Normal.
Why is Razor Wind a Normal attack? It should be Flying.
Night Shade shouldn't be based on the level.
Rest should be Normal instead of Psychic.
We don't need Spore and Sleep Powder, especially with both being Grass.
Basic Story Progression Changes
You have 2 rivals. One of them (hereby called Blue) picks the starter that is better than you and the other (hereby called Green) picks the worse one because they arrive later than the other two and are perpetually running behind. What a loser. The characters are a girl and a boy by default no matter what you pick for your own gender.
There aren't 8 gyms. Instead, you need a badge for EVERY TYPE in order to get into the Indigo Plateau to challenge for the champion's spot.
These badges are obtained through Gym Leaders as well as Ace Trainers found throughout the region that all specialize in a type.
The Elite 3 (not Elite 4) specialize in "themes" of Pokemon, but not specific types. The champion is random.
Each Ace Trainer or Gym Leader uses a team based on your level as a trainer. The higher you are, the tougher they are. You can revisit them once you've become champion and they'll have their strongest teams, which I'll break down below.
You have to beat your weaker rival before facing the Elite 3, and your stronger rival is the champion. However, they aren't the last fight in the game.
Once you become the champion, you get access to the area where Mewtwo is. Maybe it's Cerulean Cave, or maybe I've created a new spot. I don't know. But now, you can catch the strongest Pokemon in the game.
Once you catch all 200 Pokemon and completed the Pokedex, your final battle is Professor Oak, who uses all level 100 Pokemon. If you beat him, you prove to him that you're worthy of having Mew, which he had all along, as he had saved Mew from the cloning experiments.
Smaller Miscellaneous Story Changes
Bill doesn't give you the S.S. Anne ticket. Instead, he gives you an Eevee. I'm not sure how I'd change it so you get to the S.S. Anne, but...
Why isn't the S.S. Anne where you learn the ability to surf, rather than the cut one? It seems like that's a better spot to come across someone who knows how to navigate water.
Voodoll is in the Lavender Town story in the tower, rather than Cubone. You have to free it from its curse.
Pokemon Mansion isn't a mansion. Why is it a mansion? That makes no sense. Instead, it's a laboratory that is inside a volcano on Cinnabar, which is why they were able to get away with these experiments, much like the lair in a James Bond movie (You Only Live Twice, for the record).
Marsh and Soul are swapped. Marsh is what you get from beating the Grass leader and Soul is from the Psychic leader.
Switch up those repetitive trainers. How many people do you need to fight that just have a Caterpie or something? Instead, let's have more themes or variety. Someone should have a double battle of a Miltank and a Taurox, for instance. Someone has all the Eevee variations. So on and so forth.
Event Pokemon
Aerodactyl - one of the fossils you can pick from
Articuno - Seafoam Island
Eevee - given to you by Bill
Hitmontyke - gifted to you in the Fighting Dojo
Mew - gifted to you by Professor Oak when you beat him
Mewtwo - Unknown Dungeon (not sure where I'd place that in the game)
Moltres - Cinnabar Volcano
Scorpsean - one of the fossils you can pick from
Snorlax - blocking your way to one of the towns; it doesn't matter which
Tangulb - a blockade growth that you have to cut down, like Sudowoodo, maybe
Zapdos - Power Plant
I'd love to make some exclusive to regions like Safari Zone, Viridian Forest and S.S. Anne, but I'm not sure what.
I'd also like to make Porygon, Emimime, Yukiona, Jynx, Voodoll and Ditto events, but they don't have to be. Ditto could just be found in the lab, Voodoll could be found in Lavender and so forth. Porygon, above all, I would like to see as an event, but I don't know where.
The Gym Leader / Ace Trainer Team Breakdown
I haven't fully figured out this concept, but the idea would be that you need a badge for every type, so you need to come across some sort of specialist (or Ace Trainer) that can certify you as being able to beat them.
This changes the structure of the gyms, and I wouldn't want to get rid of those entirely, but I do think it's a little strange for there to just be multiple gyms in every town. Instead, some of these would be random encounters to pass to another location and such.
I don't have all of the ideas set in stone, and you can definitely tell that I don't have all the Pokemon picked for what their original teams would be, or what their final teams would be. However, the concept is that the game isn't as linear as it originally was, and that you can battle them once with a weaker team (depending on the # of badges you have) and then another time with their strongest team, which you can rebattle over and over like the Indigo Plateau.
Battled at Fighting Dojo. I loved that in the original game as some defunct gym that Sabrina had booted out. That's kind of how I wanted to expand on this in my reboot.
Bigglybuff (Normal / Fighting)
Kongbatt → Guorilla → Primeape (Fighting / Normal or Fighting / Dark) * possibly both variants
This guy is either free-roam with no set location that you come across randomly as he's flying around, or, more likely, he's the person you have to battle to get access to the Power Plant, which would have a windmill on it.
He's the one who tells you about the legendary birds.
Butterfree (Bug / Flying)
Pidgey → Pidgeotto → Pidgeot (Flying)
Spearow → Drearow → Fearkrow (Flying / Dark)
Zubat → Golbat → Crobat (Poison / Dark)
Pegasteed (Fairy / Flying)
Fowlott (Flying / Grass)
Dodumbo (Normal / Flying) if that item is a thing
Koffing → Weezing → Choaking (Poison / Flying)
Searpent → Skullkraken (Water / Flying) if that item is a thing
Aerodactyl (Rock / Flying)
Dragonite (Dragon / Flying)
Mr. Fuji Ghost
Parazombi (Bug / Ghost)
Gastly → Haunter → Gengar (Ghost / Dark)
Phantorb or whatever I'm calling the Pokeball thing (Ghost / Steel)
Voodoll (Ghost / Psychic)
Baansheep line (Ghost)
Porygon (Ghost) = reference to "ghost in the machine"
Yukiona (Ice / Ghost) = if that typing, it replaces Parazombi most likely
Erika Grass
Oddish → Gloom → Vileplume (Grass / Dark)
Oddish → Bellsprout → Bellossum (Grass / Fairy)
Parasect (Bug / Grass) -- she tosses it when it stops being Grass and replaces it with Leafeon for her final team
Fowlott (Flying / Grass)
Exeggutor line (Grass / Psychic)
Tangulb → Tangulbush → Tangulweed (Grass)
Leafeon (Grass)
Ace Ground Trainer Ground
Battled at Rock Tunnel.
Armadig → Pangarmy → Armordrillo (Ground / Steel)
Blindig → Shrewlunk → ??? (Ground or Ground / Dark)
Dodumbo (Normal / Ground)
Mukrud (Poison / Ground)
Onix line (Ground / *)
Cubone → Marowak → Kangaskhan (Fighting / Ground)
Tangulweed (Grass / Ground)
Scorpsean (Water / Ground)
Ace Sherpa Ice
This is someone you have to battle to get access to Seafoam Island.
Armordrillo (Ground / Ice)
Narwhale (Water / Ice)
Onix line (Ice / Ground)
Yukiona (Ice / *)
Nessio → Lokness → Loknessaur (Ice / Dragon)
Other options:
Rabbutcher (Dark / Ice)
Aerodactyl (Ice / Flying) if that's in the game
Bill Normal
He's another professor, of sorts, who has worked with Oak. He specializes in Normal type because it's the most foundational category to judge everything off from.
You get Eevee from him, or maybe his assistant and that person has all the variations.
I considered giving him the Voltorb remake, as he's the one who created the storage system and you'd think he'd be into the Pokeball Pokemon, but Ghost / Steel is already covered in other trainers.
Rhynorn → Rhyhorn → Rhydon (Rock / Dragon or Rock / Steel)
Aerodactyl (Rock / Flying or Rock / Dragon)
Silph Co Engineer Steel
Someone you save from Team Rocket that you can battle afterward in Silph Co.
I considered making this person a steelworker and putting them at the Power Plant, but I changed that thing's direction. Plus, it's good to give Silph Co a purpose in the post-game.
I wanted to make this tech-based, but there aren't that many technological Pokemon and even less that fit that bill and are Steel type.
Again, it's the Elite 3, not Elite 4, because I want to have these trainers be representational of the other "types" of Pokemon in that some people view them as cute, some are freaky and some are warriors.
The Elite 3 have no set type they use, just themes based on appearance.
I love the idea of Red, Green and Blue from Let's Go having their own set teams. Originally, I wanted to set up a team layout like that, but I couldn't wrap my mind around it.
Instead, for now, I'll just say that in general, your rivals have this basic kind of layout:
Grass = Venusaur or alternative
Fire = Charizard or alternative
Water = Blastoise or alternative
Psychic / Fighting / Dark / Ghost / Fairy
Electric / Ground / Flying
Normal
For instance, Blue always has either Blastoise or Gyarados, Venusaur or Exeggutor, and so on. In Let's Go, they took this a step further by having Red have Machamp, Blue has Alakazam and Green has Gengar so they form another trio. So on and so forth. I don't know exactly what these picks should be, though. But maybe something like the following....
Blue Male Rival
Venusaur (Grass / Poison) or Exeggution (Grass / Psychic)
Charizard (Fire / Dragon or Flying) or Charriot (Fire / Steel) or Volcanine (Fire) or Magmortar (Fire)
Blastoise (Water / Steel) or Skullkraken (Water / Dragon) or Cloyster (Water / Rock)
Onix third evo (Ground / *)
Electiger (Electric / Fighting)
Lickitung (Normal)
Green Female Rival
Venusaur (Grass / Poison) or Tangulweed (Grass / Ground)
Charizard (Fire / Dragon) or Ninetales (Fire / Fairy)
Blastoise (Water / Steel) or Psyquack (Water / Psychic)
Jynx (Fairy / Dark)
Rushawk (Flying)
Purrsian (Normal)
Final Boss Professor Oak
Reminder, once you've become the champion and you've caught all Pokemon, you can challenge the final boss, which is Professor Oak. If you beat him, he gives you Mew.
Professor Oak Final Team
I kind of wanted to give him Pokemon that were either things I could see old people using, or science themed.
I also figured he could be a good "well-rounded" trainer.
I considered that he could be more on the "legendary" side of things.
Options include:
Mew = After he gives it to you, he replaces it with Alakazam (or maybe Hypno or Emimime)
Raichu or Magneton
Clefable or Dragonite
Bigglybuff
Primeape or Machamp or Heraclash
Volcanine
Poliwave
Phantorb or Porygon
Kangaskhan or Rhydon (reference to how Rhydon was the first Pokemon)
Taurox or Snorlax
My philosophy is that Mew is his big secret all along. He didn't want to give it to anyone he couldn't trust to fulfill all the aspects of being a Pokemon trainer, from being the champion to completing the Pokedex and treating everything with compassion and whatnot. Since you've proven that by also beating him, he gives it to you and replaces it with Alakazam, which is one of Blue's trademarks.
Raichu is a reference to how he's your mentor and he has the mascot's final form. On a similar note, Rhydon would make sense for a reference to being the first Pokemon, but since my Rhydon is a third form and not the true Rhydon, I think Poliwave is better for that spot, as Poliwag was Red's starter in some media. Plus, that gives him Water type coverage.
Tauros has been a go-to for Blue and Red in the past, as well as one that Oak used on his original Gen 1 team. It's a generic Pokemon that is bulky and well-rounded.
Phantorb and Porygon are references to how he's a scientist. Since he's more of a Pokemon expert, Phantorb makes the most sense as the Pokeball gimmick.
Finally, Dragonite is mostly just a power play to show Oak's been around long enough to have come across, caught and trained powerful dragons. If you wanted to, you could replace that with Clefable for being somewhat mythical and it isn't used as much. That way, Dragonite is more of Lance's ace.
That's it! That's the insanity of notes that I have down for how I would be approaching a full-on reboot of the first generation of Pokemon games, if I had the benefit of hindsight and no other people working on this game to keep me from flying off the handle and going into too crazy directions.
This is an insight into how detailed my notes for such random topics can be. Just imagine what I have for my "superhero blueprint" concepts for The Complete Batman Story and so on!
If you'd like to see more of this, be it the rejected ideas of other Pokemon that I had (like a water buffalo named Buffloat), let me know and consider donating to the Patreon to specifically request something like that!
What do you think of these ideas? How would you remake Pokemon Generation I? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!
Welcome to part 2 of my Fanboys Fix It of Pokemon Generation I.
As mentioned before, this was sponsored by Guest Five's donation on Patreon via the Pick Your Poison tier (donate today if you want to request a special feature of your own)
For the general setup and information on items, difficulty levels, HM/TMs and more generic stuff, go to part 1. Part 3 will be the story elements.
But this is part 2, which is the most complicated section and the biggest undertaking: the Pokedex.
Some Notes
As I mentioned in part 1, this is all with the benefit of hindsight.
That means in instances where a future evolution happened and they couldn't put it in the logical slot in the Pokedex, we can undo some of that. If you're dead set on "Dragonite must be #149"...well, too bad. That's not happening.
I'm allowing myself the leeway of having 201 Pokemon. Gold, Silver and Crystal were on the same console and they had 251, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch for us to carry that over and just cut it down a bit.
Genders are a thing. That allows more variation in design and slimming down on things like Nidoking/Nidoqueen taking up extra spots.
Different forms are also a thing. You'll see.
Breeding is a thing, like in Generation 2 and onward.
Believe it or not, particularly when you get to how crazy I changed some things, I actually went into this with the goal in mind to change as little as possible. I could have done so much more!!
I did an article in the past about Pokemon with wrong types that some of this is based on, although some of it is different from that.
I'll be breaking down each Pokemon in clusters with all their new information.
Cut Pokemon
Yes, despite how I gave myself an extra 50-100 slots to work with, I ran out of space. I wanted to have a TON more ideas of original things, which I'll probably put in a separate article or something down the line, if you want to hear those ideas.
But even still, the new ideas combined with taking some Pokemon from future generations (for example, it's stupid to have just Magnemite and Magneton without Magnezone on this list) maxed out my numbers and I had to cut a bunch.
Some of these will be explained down below, like why I have no more Eeveelutions. Others, I'll address here:
Venonat + Venomoth = I subscribe to the theory that these two and Butterfree had a crossover, and I just don't see the point. They can be repurposed for the next generation and not look like Butterfree variants.
The Victreebel Trio = There's enough variation in the grass lines as it is, down below, and I wanted to expand on something like Tangela instead. Ultimately, knowing that there will be other games, I'd rather take this line of pitcher plant inspired Pokemon and make this trio part of the next generation's early catch ones, along with Hoppip, Jumpluff and Skiploom, for instance. I REALLY wanted to put those little cotton balls in here, too, by the way.
Slowpoke + Slowbro + Slowking = You're going to hate me for this, but I thought it was necessary. The gimmick of a dumb Water-type Pokemon getting smarter and being part Psychic is already covered with Psyduck. Nobody knows what the hell Slowpoke really is. Is it half salamander, half hermit crab? It's at least partially inspired by sazae, which is a shellfish snail type thing, but it's got way too much going on. I'd rather revisit it another generation when we can play into the Shellder gimmick for an evolution. I even thought about having it be Water/Normal just for something different, and then I realized I would rather free up those 3 spots for more Pokemon.
Dodrio = You'll see.
Electrode = You'll see.
Kabuto or Kabutops, or Omanyte or Omastar = You'll see.
Strap yourselves in. This is going to be a bumpy ride.
You think you only have 200 available to catch in the game, but you can get the 201st through some kind of special event (not under a truck). When you do that, your Pokedex changes to show it as 000 instead of 201, because it's the ancestor.
Mew can either be pure Psychic or it can be Psychic/Fairy, as it's definitely fairy-like. I lean more toward just Psychic, though.
All starters will get a new typing for the third evolution, so my big change is that Bulbasaur and Ivysaur are pure Grass.
I would definitely want to see an Electric form of this in some future game where it's a light bulb and the ivy is a set of electrical wiring.
#004. Charmander Fire➜ #005. Charmeleon Fire➜ #006. Charizard FireFlying OR Fire + Dragon
Charizard would be Fire / Flying by default, but you could make it replace Flying with Dragon if you gave it the evolutionary item that turns things into the Dragon type. I don't have a clear idea of what that would be, so for the purposes of this list, I'll just call it Dragon Scale.
Waspod is basically Kakuna, but with a name change. That's why we got rid of Metapod. It's the honeycomb larva that wraps itself into a comb pod for metamorphosis.
Beedrill was renamed because I like the name Thornet better and I use "drill" for another Pokemon.
I get that Pidgeotto is "pidgey at level 18" and Pidgeot is supposed to be "pidgey jet" but those names are confusing. So many people, myself included, feel like Pidgeotto sounds like it's the step after Pidgeot. So let's just bypass that entirely. Quiccoo is "quick coo" and Rushawk is "rush hawk" to showcase the speed getting better and becoming a bird that is super fast, which I would have reflected in its speed stat (and maybe attack).
There's no need to be Normal with Flying. If you REALLY want it, though, I'm open to changing that.
Let's flesh out the rats to have a full three-tier evolution.
Dark type because rats are gross and all.
I considered giving this a Poison evolution and making it Ratiation.
I also considered the name Rodentures, which is just ridiculous.
#025. Rabbid Normal OR Dark➜ #026. Rabbeast Normal OR Dark➜ #027. Rabbutcher (Normal OR Dark) + ❓
This is actually taking the place of both male and female Nidoran lines. I've condensed 6 into 3.
Why the name change? Well, what is Nidoran and all that? They're a "porcupine needle rabbit gorilla rhino". I thought the more obvious was a rabbit, but that it takes on this monstrous, feral hunter vibe.
As such, I wanted to name it something that lets you know it's an exterminator that will wreck your shit, so we're going with Rabbid for rabbit that is rabid, Rabbeast and Rabbutcher are pretty obvious.
With regards to the typing, this thing is an apex predator. You can give it a bunch of items to change its typing so that it can learn how to hunt better. It can be Dragon, Fighting, Ice, Poison, Rock or Steel along with Normal or Dark. I couldn't decide if it's better as pure Normal or pure Dark at first, but I'd lean more toward pure Dark.
Snake. Kobra/cobra. There are damn near no good snake names that can be spelled backwards without being awkward.
Boa. Adnocana. Relttar. Ksilisab. Nohtyp. Repiv. (They're all terrible).
But there's a cobra called Rinkhals, so that works as Slahknir.
Extra typing can make it either Poison / Dark or Poison / Dragon.
#031. Pichu Electric➜ #032. Pikachu Electric➜ #033. Raichu Electric
You can't mess with the mascot.
Sorry Gorochu fans, that's the type of evolution that I hate, where it's just the prior Pokemon but with some fancy extra unnecessary feathers/wings/whatever.
The idea of a "baby Pikachu" and a "more tough Pikachu" is the perfect balance.
I think I'd rename these, but I don't know what names. Some kind of vampbite thing or something.
No need for Poison / Flying. It'll be redundant with the Koffing line. These are more evil, so they get Dark. Plus, they're in caves, so all that more reason to be Dark.
Very similar to what we have now with Paras, but more fleshed out and with a name change for Parasitic and then eventually, parasitic zombie when it's a husk of its former self.
Instead of staying Bug and Grass, it gets poisoned by the mushroom and then becomes a ghost when it's fully mind-controlled.
Instead of a mole that turns into 3 moles, this is more like another version of the Sandshrew line.
I'm blanking on the names. I like Shrewlunk, which is a spin off a shrew and spelunking. I don't like Blindig, but I like incorporating "blind" in there. The third form should be a mole with the red star on it, but holy shit can we not name this Molestar...
If you don't want it to be Dark type because you think that needs to stay Evil like how the type is in Japan, just make it pure Ground. It's found in caves, so I think it should be Dark.
#060. Luckitty Normal➜ #061. Meowth Normal➜ #062. Purrsian Normal
I could work more on the names to go more with the fortune luck cat thing.
At the very least, Persian should be Purrsian.
If I had more room for another 3 Pokemon, I'd make a counterpart to this that is a black cat named Feraluck or something that is Ghost type and cursed instead of lucky.
I gave strong consideration to making this a Psychic or Fairy type.
This is Growlithe and Arcanine with name changes and a third evo.
The names are puppy with pyre, growl with volcano or lava, and volcano with canine.
I do like the names Growlithe and Arcanine, but I like these better and they're more specific to a fire dog trio.
I desperately wanted to put Houndour, Houndoom and a third evo with three heads that were all Fire / Dark to counterbalance this, but didn't have the room for it. Generation 2!
#072. Poliwag Water➜ #073. Poliwhirl Water➜ #074. Poliwave Water
No Poliwrath. It's too similar to Poliwhirl. Instead, let's have an actual frog.
Alternate names are Poliwade, Poliswirl, Poliswamp, Poliwash, Poliwell...
I don't think Machoke is a good name. Why is it choking something? I'd rather it go from a chump of a weakling to something working its way through the chopping block until it becomes a champion.
I could put more work into the names, but at least I changed Golem.
I was very tempted to make this line able to do the Icy Coat and Metal Coat gimmicks, or to make them pure Rock type that you can add the boxing gloves to. I think the ice blocks and the metal blocks could be variants in future stories/games in cold climates and such.
One, then two, then three. The logical progression. Not one and then three.
You evolve this by having another Magnemite in your party for each evolutionary step and both are holding a magnetizer item or something like that. You have to "release" one of them, in a sense, as they fuse together. Basically, you have to pick one of them to get erased from your file.
#096. Fowlott FlyingGrass 壘
This is Farfetch'd with a name change to play off fowl shallot.
I considered making this Fighting, but there are enough of those. Maybe, if you give it 壘 Boxing Gloves, it gets that type.
#097. Dodumbo Normal + (Ground OR Flying 襁)
Counterpart game exclusive variant to Fowlott.
This is Doduo, but instead of it being 2 heads, it's just one. There's no Dodrio.
It's a dodo that is a dumbo.
Since it's so dumb, it can't fly, which makes it Normal and Ground. Stupid idiot.
Maybe there's an item that can make it Normal / Flying, but I don't know. An item like 襁 Feather Wing or something.
Seel should never be just Seel. At least Spheal is a spherical seal, and Sealeo is a sea lion and all. The same goes for Dewgong being a dumb name. But I don't know what I would rename those two.
The point is that they're taking up that spot with an evolution into a narwhal horned whale thing.
I considered making Narwhale part Fairy, but I figured that could be revisited another time with more of a Popplio type performer sea lion thing rather than a narwhal that has to be Water and Ice.
Maybe some names to think about are to do with tusks, mannatees, maybe Narwail instead of Narwhale, I don't know.
This new form of Muk doesn't have to be part Ground, but since they're always on the ground and picking up dirt and grunge and all, it makes sense to me that by the time they get to the third evo, they're part Ground type.
They never should have been Poison. They should be pure Ghost or, better yet, Ghost and Dark, since they're pretty damn evil.
I always liked Haunter the best out of this crew, but it doesn't make any sense for it to not go from no hands to hands to hands and feet. Gengar's one of the most iconic Pokemon. I'd only want to mess with the typing.
#110. (baby Onix)Ground➜ #111. Onix GroundRock➜ #112. (Onix evo)Ground + (Rock OR Steel OR Ice ❄ OR Dragon )
I can't settle on names. Wyrm would be in there, as that's perfect for an earthworm dragon thing. Pebblix for the baby? Dragrond for ground dragon?
The Sleepir name is based on sleep and tapir and "sleepier". I couldn't think of something for baku. Mesmerem was an idea for mesmerize and REM sleep as a third step after Hypno, though, if you want to pick my brain and get rid of Sleepir and switch things around.
Yeah, I'm stealing Krabrawler from Sun and Moon, giving it a completely different design (as it wouldn't make sense as an evolution of Kingler) and turning this line into an eventual Fighting type. Big deal. Wanna fight about it?
This is Voltorb. Instead of it being an Electric type that looks like a Pokeball, it's a ghost that possesses different Pokeballs.
I can't pick a name. You pick.
Its gimmick is that it can look like ANY of the Pokeballs and it changes its appearance based on the type that you catch it with. It also changes its attributes, so that if you catch it with a Master Ball, it has some crazy good stats, and if you catch it with a Quick Ball, it has higher speed and so forth.
I'm phoning it in with Exeggution, but what other name could we go with? Exeggutive and give it a suit? Exeggcrate for the first form, then Exeggcute and then Exeggutor? I'm scrambled. I mean, I'm not about to suggest the baby form is a bunch of sleepy eggs that haven't fully woken up and hatched yet and could be Eggshausted. We're kind of limited.
The concept would be similar to what we have, but with either the current Exeggutor being a third evo (and there being a middle step between the eggs and the tree) or a third evo gives Exeggutor hands and maybe even pineapple or coconut biceps.
Split evolution with the same attributes and mechanics, basically, although I never quite understood why Lee has higher attack and Chan has higher defense. If anything, I would think it should be that Lee has higher attack and Chan has higher special attack.
Tyrogue is Hitmontyke to keep the Hitmon prefix. If you don't like that name, replace it with anything else like Hitmonkid.
There is a Hitmontop in the next generation, but it's not related to these. Instead, it's named Topoeira and it's its own thing.
#129. Lickitung Normal
In Gen 2, we'll introduce a baby version of this named Liltung.
Lickilicky is a monstrosity, though, in design and in name. A third evo for it would not be that.
C'mon. This is obvious with the names. I did think about Hakking for hacking as a pre-evo form, too.
Since I wanted to give the Zubat line Dark instead of Flying, it's perfect that this can be our Poison / Flying combo. They're poisonous flying gas clouds. Duh.
#133. Rhynorn Rock➜ #134. Rhyhorn Rock➜ #135. Rhydon Rock + (Dragon OR Steel )
Rhyno with no horn is the first thing.
Since this is a dinosaur kind of monster, Dragon Scale can turn it into Rock / Dragon.
Big change, but it makes sense to me. Togepi is the egg, Togetic is a chicken, and Chansey is an egg-shaped chicken with an egg. It's the circle of life.
That means they're part of a pair with the Kangaskhan line, by the way. Both are "motherly" in a sense with an offspring in a pouch.
This plays off the "chicken and the egg" concept.
The names would have to be altered to fit that, but I couldn't think of any yet. You can't just go with Chickegg and say that that's not horrendous.
Baby Tangela is a bulb. It then is a tangled bush (current Tangela), and then it's a tumbleweed, basically, which looks nothing like Tangrowth as that's hideous.
It picks up the Ground type because, well, tumbleweeds roll on the ground.
I thought about Tanguldreads (tangled dreadlocks). I also thought about Tangulwig for twig, and tangled wig of hair.
Kingdra is ugly looking. Seadra is so much cooler, so that design would be the final. There would be a middle evolution between Horsea and Seadra that looks more like it has a saddle to play up the sea horse gimmick. Then, the saddle would turn into the spikes that Seadra has.
I tried to give it another type instead of Psychic to avoid the ducks, but this is all the more reason why we needed to get rid of Slowpoke, cause the Staryu line is too good to mess with, other than its design.
Staryu and Starmie would look the same. Starwei would take the 2 starfish from Starmie and go in the next direction where it would have a second gem in the middle, positioned to where it looks like eyes, instead of a cyclops.
#151. Emimime NormalPsychic
This is Mr. Mime, but since genders make more sense, we're not calling it Mr. The name is like Girafarig in that it's a palindrome for mime backwards.
Normal, not Fairy, because mimes aren't actually doing anything, so everything is normal.
It's counterpart is...
#152. Yukiona Ice + ❓
So this is Jynx, essentially, which is based on the yuki onna, which is a snow woman ghost fairy thing that preys on people.
I don't know what secondary type to give this. It has to be either Ice / Fairy, Ice / Dark, or Ice / Ghost. I don't think Ice / Psychic works as well. My gut tells me Ice / Dark or Ice / Fairy, but it's up for debate.
#153. Jynx FairyDark
Wait, what? I thought you just said you did Jynx. Yeah, well, I did, as #152 is the Nordic opera singer ghost thingy that people think is racist. This is different.
This is a voodoo priest / priestess (depending on the gender variant, obviously). I thought about naming it something based on Baron Samedi but I couldn't think of anything.
It's Fairy and Dark because it's using evil magic.
#154. Voodoll GhostPsychic
A counterpart to Jynx. This is a voodoo doll. Not quite like Banette, as that's a possessed marionette puppet. That concept can still come into a future generation. This is more like the scrapped idea they actually did have with the pin through its heart.
Instead of the Cubone storyline in Lavendar Tower, you'd be dealing with this little guy.
Seax is a term for a knife. I wanted to get this as close to the other names as possible. Originally, I was trying to work with Prune and Praying Mantis for something awful like Pruyntis. Snippor was another, for snipping something instead of cutting. Shearther was another for shearing something.
I think scissors are less intimidating than a scythe, so let's swap those around and make it have bigger stabby things for the final evo.
This is a baby scarab, then Pinsir, then Heracross.
That Weedle name makes me think weed for grass type, but in this case, it's repurposed as "wee beetle" as in "small beetle", similar to the Machump thing.
I don't love the middle evo's name, but it's the best I could do with scarab, battle, beetle, beat like how it's a scarab that beats down its opponents in a battle type of beetle. Is it the best name? Nope. But it's better than Seel.
Heraclash is Heracles for the Hercules beetle, just like Heracross, but instead of a cross, clash is more dominating sounding and works better with Heracles.
#164. Magby Fire➜ #165. Magmar Fire➜ #166. Magmortar Fire
No differences, although Magby should have the spiky head design it originally had.
I like the idea of this being in a bit of a pseudo squad with the Electabuzz and Jynx line, but I've made some changes to that, so it isn't a smooth setup, but it's worth ditching that to make sure this Magmar line is more balanced from the start.
#167. Yakkid Normal➜ #168. Halfncalf Normal➜ #169. Miltank Normal #167. Yakkid Normal➜ #170. Bullvine Normal➜ #171. Taurox Normal
Split evolution.
Yakkid is a baby cow. Alternative name, if you think there are too many "kid" names, would be something based on "veal" because I'm twisted.
Halfncalf is the female version, based on Half-and-Half. Miltank is the same.
Bullvine is bull/bovine. Male version becomes Tauros, as expected, but with a slight name change so it's Taurus Ox and Toro.
The Gyarados name can stick if you're worried about the Skullkraken thing being too harsh, as that's what originally happened, but man, Skullkraken is bad ass sounding.
Of course this is Water / Dragon, the way it should be!
However, if there's that item that makes Dodumbo a Flying type, then maybe I'll allow Water / Flying as a variant.
You can find this in this game's version of Pokemon Mansion in Cinnabar (which isn't a mansion) as that's the location where they tested on cloning Mew.
We're leaning into this that Laampeep was one of the experiments, along with Ditto, Gastly, whatever else you might want to lump in there. But these three sheep are a direct variation of the Electric and Fairy ones, similar to how Gengar and Clefable are shadows.
Immutton is immitate mutton. Clonewe, Dupewe, Forgewe and Shadewe are all clone, dupe, forge and shade ewe, which sounds like "clone you" and such, as well as the latter being "shadow" in a way. Better names than my original ideas of Dollamb, Shammary, but I'm not sure which I like better.
Duolly is Dolly and duo because the sheep now has 2 heads.
This is Lapras, but that name is stupid. Why is it named after Laplace?
Nessio is Nessie and plesiosaur.
Lokness is Loch Ness.
Loknessaur is Loch Ness plesiosaur.
This line is kind of a counterpart to Dragonite.
#184. Ditto Normal
No changes. Love this guy.
I also subscribe to the theory that Ditto is some kind of offshoot of Mew, so we'd even keep them having the same colors and weight and all.
#185. Eevee Normal➜ #186. Vaporeon Water #185. Eevee Normal➜ #187. Jolteon Electric #185. Eevee Normal➜ #188. Flareon Fire #185. Eevee Normal➜ #189. Leafeon Grass
I really think there needs to be an Eeveelution of every type, including normal (named Eeveeon), but I didn't have enough room to have every type here, so I figured we'd stay with the core elements that are represented in the starters.
It bugs me that I can't have room for a Flying type and a Steel type to round out the whole Air and Metal thing, as Grass is standing in for Wood/Earth (otherwise, I'd also need Ground and Rock cause which one is Earth, right?)
But there should be groupings. The next generation should have Psychic, Fairy, Ghost, Dark and Fighting together. Then, one of them should have Rock, Ground, Steel Ice and Poison, maybe. Last would be I guess knocking out Dragon, Bug, Flying and Normal, but I don't see much of a connection point between those other than "the leftovers" unless you played into dragon fly bugs and left Normal out of the mix for another game.
#190. Porygon Normal OR ANY TYPE 里
Porygon is a digital thing. It should have the ability to turn into ANY type, with or without Normal, depending on your preference. I'd go for pure in that it replaces the Normal type, but I can be swayed for the dual-type scenario.
In the next generation, there would be an evolutionary item called Upgrade that would evolve it to Porygon2.0 and then eventually, Porygon3 (stylzed Porygon3)
Consider this a variation of the Ditto concept in a way, as well as having a connection to our new form of Voltorb.
#191. Scorpsean WaterGround
This is the best name I could think of for Kabuto/Kabutops. It's only one Pokemon. Kabuto is lame and Kabutops can be cool, but it looks too much like Scyther. This sea scorpion horseshoe crab eurypterid thing would be from the Kabuto Fossil.
There's only one form of this No Omanyte or Omastar. Save them for another game (and name that Nautylus and make it part Dark, while calling its fossil the Omanyte Fossil).
Ground and Water instead of Rock and Water because I want some variety and they are from the water's surface.
#192. Aerodactyl Rock + (Flying OR Dragon )
This is the new counterpart with the whole "pick a fossil" thing. You don't just get Aerodactyl in both games. You either pick the Ground or Flying fossil, essentially, not two identical Water and Rock ones.
Dragon Scale allows it to be Rock / Dragon as it was originally Dragon / Flying, but it can't get rid of how its still a fossil.
Metal Coat maybe for Steel / Flying? Probably not, but it's a thought. The same for ❄ Icy Coat and Ice / Flying, but I doubt it.
#193. Snorlax Normal
No changes to this guy.
Munchlax would come in a future generation, but look different and have a different name. Then, there would be another evo between the baby and Snorlax. Snorlax itself is the end of the line.
I really wanted to put Skarmory in here or a Psychic / Flying controller, or a Water / Flying legendary, but there's no room.
By the way, Moltres would need to be VERY clearly not a phoenix. Ho-Oh and Moltres seem too similar. Spoiler for Generation 2, but I don't have Ho-Oh as Fire/Flying. I have it as Fire/Psychic to differentiate it. But I think this needs to really hit home that these three are more weather-based with Moltres being warm weather, Articuno being cold weather, and Zapdos being thunderstorms. Maybe their designs should even incorporate clouds and we can get rid of the genies like Landorus.
I would consider renaming Dragonair to something and giving Dragonite the Dragonair name, though. Maybe something like Dracoslyth cause it slithers like a snake? That sounds too complicated and Dragonite is a cool name, so screw it, let's keep it.
#200. Mewtwo Psychic OR PsychicDark
Mewtwo has the potential to be super evil, but it's not an inherently evil creature. In fact, that's kind of part of the point. So there would be an optional item that you could give it to revert it to the Psychic / Dark combo, but it would be pure Psychic otherwise.
I could write another whole 250 into the mix just to get the BASIC ones in the mix. Another article for another time, maybe.
That's it for the Pokedex, but we're not done yet!!! Stay tuned for part 3!
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