# Pokemon - morally ambiguous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407 "2008-01-21T20:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407/21 "2008-01-22T14:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto] Vick taught his dogs how to send fireballs and lightning bolts at each other? :eek: [/QUOTE] Damn. I never wanted a pit bull until now. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407/22 "2008-01-22T15:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=AtomicDog] Damn. I never wanted a pit bull until now. [/QUOTE] That beats the heck out of sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407/23 "2008-01-22T15:29:36Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Is Pokemon still that big? I remember it beginning when I was nine or so with Red and Blue, but I had no idea that it hadn’t completely fizzled out by now. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s a fourth-grader at my church whose Pokemon obsession was so bad that his parents finally pulled the plug on the whole thing, “no more cards”, and then he discovered last month that he could sneak out during Wednesday night kids’ church on pretense of going to the bathroom, and he could meet up with this fifth-grader, also similarly constrained by parental dictums, and they could trade pokemon cards in the boys’ room. See, it’s a Satanic entry-level drug. First it’s the videos, then it’s the cards, then the next thing you know, you’re _cutting church_… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407/24 "2008-01-22T16:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] See, it’s a Satanic entry-level drug. First it’s the videos, then it’s the cards, then the next thing you know, you’re _cutting church_… 😃 [/QUOTE] Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang? ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407/25 "2008-01-22T17:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Is Pokemon still that big? I remember it beginning when I was nine or so with Red and Blue, but I had no idea that it hadn’t completely fizzled out by now. [/QUOTE] Pokemon is still _huge_. The Diamond and Pearl games for the DS (released last April) have sold an _absurd_ number of copies over the past year, and that’s before you get into stuff like the cards, magazines, toys, etc. I’m a big Poke-fan who has been watching the cartoon since it first started airing (back in, like, '98? God, I’m old), and I agree with everything Tengu said. The show has a really strong moral core, and anyone who deviates from it is punished in some way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-morally-ambiguous/434407.md?page=1)