Over the past fifteen years, the Pokémon franchise has expanded its selection of colorful war-beasts through five "generations" of 100 to more than 150 digital critters at a time, acquainting us with such ingenious horrors as volcanic mollusks, telepathic coconuts, flying scorpions and giant, magnetic noses. It's a wonderfully wacky world uniting geeks of all ages, genders and nationalities to argue about cartoon animals and exchange raunchy fan-art, but with each new generation, you always get those sourpusses casting doubt on the beloved series' creative future.







"There's too many of them" they say. "Look at this one that doesn't pander to my personal tastes!" they whine, "surely this proves they're running out of ideas!" HOGWASH. Even when they recycle some of the same animals again and again, I see as much imagination rolling out of Gamefreak as ever, and they're in no possible danger of an inspirational drought. Without even getting into mythological beings, inanimate objects and purely original weirdos like Exploud or Haxorus, nature has enough ready-made 'mons to pad out the Pokédex for decades to come.







"Tardigrada! Tardi! Taaard!"

Just off the top of my head, in around ten minutes, I was able to compile a list of over 100 real life forms that not only have yet to appear in the Pokéverse, but are cool and outlandish enough to make unique and original creatures with even minimal modification. Over the following days, I'll be elaborating on these creatures ten at a time, in alphabetic order. Just for fun, I'll also be including my own suggestions on how they might make the Pocket Monster transition...





