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A neat detail about Norman: in pokemon adventures, the gym leaders divide themselves between supporting team magma and aqua, but not Norman, adamantly standing on the fence, you know, *balanced* between the others
7:42 Fun fact: in the Italian translation, their names are Tell and Patt, which is a good pun for their type gym, because it's literally a combination of their names becomes Tel-e-Path, like their mastery in telepathic art!
I love that their pun names carry over!! It's not the same as the levitate pun in English of course but it's fun knowing that they still have something similar in other languages :))
In Japanese most of the gym leaders manage to not only have puns on their types, but also all be named after plants (fitting in with the professors being named after trees). I'm glad to hear any localization team keeping theme puns of some sort.
@@RoninCatholic The fact is, this is the less part of localization... lot is taken directly by the english version. Like every new Pokémon, we take the English names and also some characters or cities.
Something that may or may not be accurate for the mind badge: In Japanese, the word 心 (kokoro) can be, and often is, translated as "heart," but can also mean "spirit" or "mind," and kokoro in totality really just boils down to meaning one's core or essence of self.
Hold up, does Norman have a dumbbell-like design because he's the Normal-type trainer, and therefore he has a "normal"/regular gym? Like, an actual gym?
Well no. Brawly's the one with a gym themed after actual gyms, Norman's is typically depicted with a Japanese House interior. Sliding doors, tatami mats etc.
@@MagillanicaLouM Norman's gym is actually a dojo, which is a traditional Japanese martial arts gym, so the badge's resemblance to a dumbell is still appropriate.
11:23 the rain badge is a reference to scales. Which fits both dragons and Milotic because of its fancy scales. (And I’m pretty sure it evolves with a scale now and it’s ability is scale related.)
As of Gen 5 Milotic can evolve via trading with prism scale. As of Gen 9 you can use the scale as you would an evolution stone.. I believe. ORAS was the only post gen 3 game that allowed for the beauty stat method and that's only because pokemon contests existed again.
I kind of wonder if the stone badge is inspired by a cornerstone. You know, the piece used to support a building. Plus, it is the cornerstone in a metaphorical sense as the start of your journey.
I always thought it was a chisel going through a rock. Like someone looking for gemstones and minerals. But I like the cornerstone concept better, It makes a whole lot more sense.
Love how the badges like the region is very elemental in nature. Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Electricity. Also Body(Fighting) , Mind (Psychic) and Balance.
The rain badge looks a lot like fish scales too, though not introduced until gen 5, Milotic, Wallace's ace. evolves using a similarly colored "prism scale"
Lance is more of a Dragon Egg-Group Breeder than a Dragon Type battle trainer, on that note. A lot of Pokemon _very clearly are dragons_ just looking at them. And a dinosaur (which many _many_ more Pokeomon are based on) is just an extrapolated non-magical creature humans made up from looking at the fossilized bones of historical dragons.
I find it funny how Lockstin mentions Norman being such a kind father and a nice person in the anime and the games, when Norman in the Pokemon Adventures manga is the complete opposite XD It's almost scary and if i recall correctly the protagonist Ruby does *not* want to deal with him
Not just in the Middle Ages. People in Ancient Egypt thought that as well and even today, the universal sign for your name or yourself is a hand over your heart.
I always understood Norman's badge as scales being the symbol of balance. All his trainers have Pokemons specialized in one or two stats to the detriment of others, so their Pokemons are unbalanced, and Norman would have balanced stats instead, being strong in more or less everything.
0:54 I remember an episode of the anime where Misty had to go to a badge craftsman to get more badges... I don't remember if they went into the details of who made up the design tho
Oh thank goodness this is perfect timing I needed something to keep my brain busy while I fold laundry. I always watch Lockstin videos on Sundays when I do laundry!
I would say the connection between the Rain Badge and the Hojo clan makes sense even with Wallace, since Milotic has scales as one of its recurring themes (its gen 3 ability, the evolution method it gained in later gens), as well as being in the dragon egg group
Same. Like, looking at a old set of scales from above or directly below. The circles are the pans and the connecting line being the bar that the pans hang from.
Psychic as a type is so busy. Its everything from cosmic type, light type, intellect, mythicalness, magic, emotional, supernatural, spiritual, etc. It overlaps immensely with Fairy on terms of how its used, and strangely enough fairy's primary key distinction from psychic is food, and the fact that dark is not effective against it. Its the duality of light and dark, in that dark can snuff light, but light can vanquish dark. In that sense, fairy feels like a subtype, or extension, to psychic. Kinda like how rock and ground are extensions of each other, or ice and water. I kinda want subtyping to be a thing, it'd make things complicated though.
Fairy is also super effective against dragon and immune to it, while psychic does and takes normal damage. Also a lot of fairy types are based on fairies or have that typical fairy frilliness going on. Ironically psychic doesn't do much to steel despite the spoon bending thing, and fairy does even less. However there are a lot of dual psychic/fairy types, two of the most popular being Gardevoir and Hatterene, both associated with emotions
So for the Balance Badge. It honestly looks like a symbol for Opposition. In Astrology, the aspect called Opposition is when a person needs to balance two planets as they are perfect Opposition of each other. Which the symbol for that reminds me of that badge. Maybe there is an influence 🤔. Which makes sense for Slaking. Slaking is balancing all that power but also being lazy about it. Just my thoughts though. Always love this channel❤
It's a really interesting coincidence that I have the same name as one of the Psychic gym leaders! Emerald was, like, THE game I played growing up. And Hoenn is still probably my favorite Pokemon region. But this is like... The only instance I've seen of the name Tate... Anywhere. Pretty uncommon name as far as I can tell, so for it to be on a gym leader, and not even some random route trainer... That's pretty cool!
I just realized that Juan is literally wearing a diving outfit with an ascot under his long coat. If you remove the long coat, it's just a diving suit with board shorts. I really thought he was wearing a suit all these years. No. He's wearing a swimming outfit. It's the same outfit as Nate in Gen 5 but with a long coat instead of a zip up.
The Stone Badge also look like a magnet(or compass) with 2 arrows on the opposite sides which is related to Roxanne's sig pkm Nosepass. And the Heat Badge (minus it color in the OG game ver) look like a hot sauna steam rock, which related to this gym hot spring location. Honestly, first time saw it in the OG ver, it's event harder to imagine..
Rossane's stone badge also looks a bit like hammering on an anvil from the top pov (as most crafted weapons tend to take that rectangle shape in media) given her theme of helping run the school it could reference her "forging" young minds. The remake also has the gym themed a bit to a museum so it could also indicate breaking open rocks to find artifacts.
I always appreciated how the remade gen 3 badges mostly all have a gem (I kinda interpreted the inner brick and disks of the stone and balance badges to be the same, just less shiny). I love how gens 5 and 6 both had cohesive designs to their badges like that so it was cool to bring that energy for the 3 remakes.
And then Gen 8 gives you fragments to fill in a coin (honestly pretty cool tbh, once you defeat the Pokemon League you get the largest and fanciest coin to do coin flips with XD)
@@cjlite0210I am always happy when the newer games do little things to change one of these gen 1 conventions. I would’ve loved an entirely new thing but if we’re keeping gym badges I definitely agree that making it one full badge was a cool way to make it feel fresh
@@kuyagab4444 Gens 8 and 9 were literally the types you had to beat and the Santalune Gym in Kalos literally gave you the Bug Badge. Really? If I designed a Bug-type gym badge, I'd have called it the Ocellus Badge with a design to match. To non-entomologists, an ocellus is an eye spot that is used to scare away predators like a Masquerain's wings.
The dynamo badge might be based on the "Mexican on a bicycle" riddle (you basicly draw a big circle with a smaller one in it and two lines coming out of it from opposite sides, just like the badge. Then you ask someone what you draw. It's a Mexican with a sombrero riding a bike, seen from above). Bikes have dynamos.
I think the stone badge's design may be alluding to the way different sediment layers are deposited or (later in the rock cycle) moved around and deformed by heat pressure and erosion
ahhh Norman the most caring dad in the games and anime... except the manga where he's the protagonist Ruby's biggest obstacle to living his dream of being a contest star and not being a gym leader so he then pushes his son's responsibilities on Wally! seriously though the Ruby and Sapphire manga are great go read it!
Not to nitpick, but I love to nitpick, so I'm nitpicking: The illustration you used for Nayru in the Rain Badge/Triforce bit is an identically named, but unrelated character from Oracle of Ages. Not the goddess. Just named the same as the goddess, and in the same property. For no apparent reason. The removal of the third game in the set really messed with the combined storyline, probably.
that was interesting. in german, the badges have the same meanings. stein = stone, knöchel = knuckle, dynamo = dynamo, heat = hitze, balance = balance, feather = feder, mind = mental ... and last badge is similar in meaning, but not the same. english has rain. german has schauer, which translates to shower. the first 2 gens were quite different, but this gen was quite similar. gen 3 is my favourite indeed!
I thought that the badges reflect on the HMs you use after reciving them. For example, the Stone badge could be used to cut trees because of the blades, the knuckle badge looks kinda like a flashlight, the balance badge could work like a surfboard, and the feather badge for obvious reasons.
I was so excited to see that posted a new gym badge video! ive looked forward to them since your kanto badges one. It made my day a lot better to see you post another one and i cant wait to see your future ones too!
Funny how the Rain badge fits more with Juan when he was the original Gym Leader, and Wallace was his student when he took over and later became champion. Sad Juan was only mentioned briefly in ORAS.
Honestly the Gen 3 badges (and honestly the only ones) had the best glow up. Some are still pretty simple but it’s nice to see them actually have updated visuals. It’s nice
Down and to the left, like Mayday Parade’s Jamie All Over, which talks about going to Las Vegas, which on a map of the US is down and to the left, and they mention waves in the ocean, so there’s the water connection. I’ve cracked it, this badge AND Sootopolis city is just a reference to Aonuma’s favorite band: Mayday Parade!
Actually, there's an episode from Pokémon Chronicles that has the canon of a guy producing a bunch of badges and gives them to their respective gym leaders.
The balance badge i saw more as a scale and it being called that as being a trainer is trying to find a good balance in a pokmon stats. when training them.
I never heard that rumor about Deoxys. Then again I'm a bit older, so I got the playground rumors for Red/Blue of trading and using surf early and using a level 100 Snorlax against the truck in vermilion harbor 100 times using strength was the only way to get Mew :')
@@JamesDavy2009 Ah yes, good ol pikablu. I remember that. There was also another playground rumor of beating the elite 4 in red / blue like 25 - 50 times without a single pokemon fainting and not using any healing items as a method for something I forget too.
@@gundamwarrior Haven't heard that one, but this was at a time when the Web wasn't exactly known for being factual in its information. Yahoo was the dominant search engine and websites took forever to load.
@@JamesDavy2009 At the time when I was a kid we really had no major access to the net that readily. Even at school we had no internet, kids at home really had no internet. Internet and household computers were a luxury thing than a common household item since they cost so much and people had not much reason to own any yet since emails weren't really done much at the time either. 1998 was still a vastly different time. Hell in my house we only had a windows 95 pc still and wans't until 2000 did we get a windows 98 computer lol.
I always thought the Stone Badge was a stone pulled by 2 tectonic plates. Probably more appropriate for the ground type, but does fit with Roxanne's teacher theme.
Milotic may not be a dragon but it is a serpent and they are commonly associated with dragons as well as milotic being the calm counterpart of gyarados.
Ironically enough Norman in the manga is a jerk to his son Brandon all because Brandon wants to do contests instead of training to become his successor know his kid is strong but doesn't like fighting. Flannery best Hoenn Girl
Always disappointed that the Mossdeep Space Center never did anything in RSE I never thought you’d actually go to space, but I always figured it would be part of _some_ kind of event, even if just an e-reader one
Had a couple of thoughts on these badges that could be utter nonsense: The Dynamo Badge slightly reminds me of electrical symbols drawn for circuits, especially in its shape. Every badge having a gem added into it is interesting - the champion (at least in R/S and ORAS) is a collector of rare stones and uses a type associated with minerals; Groudon and Kyogre are linked to gems (Red and Blue orbs); the region is known for it’s meteorites which can contain precious stones and metals!
Milotic may not have the dragon type, but it is part of the dragon breeding group, making it fit the 3 dragon scales as well. Also, does the Volcano Badge's top right part look like the silhouette of an eeveelution to anyone else? Or maybe a girl with a ponytail?
the stone badge of this region seems pretty obvious to me? it evokes two tectonic plates shifting, with one going up, the other going down, much like how tectonic plates in real life do that to make mountains.
Milotic does work for that dragon theming as it’s an equivalent to gyarados due to both their pre evolutions being a reference to the weak fish who climbed a waterfall and became a dragon…. It’s just more Mild mannered that it’s gen 1 counterpart
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A neat detail about Norman: in pokemon adventures, the gym leaders divide themselves between supporting team magma and aqua, but not Norman, adamantly standing on the fence, you know, *balanced* between the others
7:42 Fun fact: in the Italian translation, their names are Tell and Patt, which is a good pun for their type gym, because it's literally a combination of their names becomes Tel-e-Path, like their mastery in telepathic art!
I love that their pun names carry over!! It's not the same as the levitate pun in English of course but it's fun knowing that they still have something similar in other languages :))
In Japanese most of the gym leaders manage to not only have puns on their types, but also all be named after plants (fitting in with the professors being named after trees). I'm glad to hear any localization team keeping theme puns of some sort.
@@RoninCatholic
The fact is, this is the less part of localization... lot is taken directly by the english version. Like every new Pokémon, we take the English names and also some characters or cities.
Something that may or may not be accurate for the mind badge:
In Japanese, the word 心 (kokoro) can be, and often is, translated as "heart," but can also mean "spirit" or "mind," and kokoro in totality really just boils down to meaning one's core or essence of self.
Oh my god. With that information, Kingdom Hearts suddenly makes a lot more sense.
@@EightViolettwell...
@@EightViolett If you don't understand KH, that's not going to do much for you really.
@@Teal_Blastoise I didn't.
@@Teal_Blastoise No problem. It happens. :P
Hold up, does Norman have a dumbbell-like design because he's the Normal-type trainer, and therefore he has a "normal"/regular gym? Like, an actual gym?
Well no. Brawly's the one with a gym themed after actual gyms, Norman's is typically depicted with a Japanese House interior. Sliding doors, tatami mats etc.
@@MagillanicaLouM so, a plain house with basic furniture
The gym leader
It's a symmetrical design, aka at balance between both sides.
@@MagillanicaLouM Norman's gym is actually a dojo, which is a traditional Japanese martial arts gym, so the badge's resemblance to a dumbell is still appropriate.
11:23 the rain badge is a reference to scales. Which fits both dragons and Milotic because of its fancy scales. (And I’m pretty sure it evolves with a scale now and it’s ability is scale related.)
As of Gen 5 Milotic can evolve via trading with prism scale. As of Gen 9 you can use the scale as you would an evolution stone.. I believe. ORAS was the only post gen 3 game that allowed for the beauty stat method and that's only because pokemon contests existed again.
I think it’s interesting so many gyms badges have orbs when the red and blue orbs are so important to the main story.
3/8. Less than half
I kind of wonder if the stone badge is inspired by a cornerstone. You know, the piece used to support a building. Plus, it is the cornerstone in a metaphorical sense as the start of your journey.
I always thought it was a chisel going through a rock. Like someone looking for gemstones and minerals. But I like the cornerstone concept better, It makes a whole lot more sense.
Love how the badges like the region is very elemental in nature. Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Electricity. Also Body(Fighting) , Mind (Psychic) and Balance.
The rain badge looks a lot like fish scales too, though not introduced until gen 5, Milotic, Wallace's ace. evolves using a similarly colored "prism scale"
And also has the signature ability of Marvel Scale
He also trains a luvdisc, which famously is known to be the pokémon you get heart scales from.
Thank god you can also evolve feebas with PokéBlock.
@@NintendoSegaGuys Such a convoluted method that required you to be lucky to catch one that had the right nature.
@@JamesDavy2009 Was that a thing in Gen 3 cause in ORAS I just fed my feebas a bunch of blue PokéBlock.
11:00 Milotic isn't Dragon-type, but it's in Dragon-Egg group, so...
Milotic is, however, in the Dragon Egg-Group. So while not a dragon type, it is biologically a dragon. Like Charizard, Gyarados and Sceptile
This further proves what lance says that not all dragons are dragon type
Scraftys, magikarps, feebasses and sevipers are dragons apparently.
@@mattwo7they got the spirit of a dragon.
Lance is more of a Dragon Egg-Group Breeder than a Dragon Type battle trainer, on that note. A lot of Pokemon _very clearly are dragons_ just looking at them.
And a dinosaur (which many _many_ more Pokeomon are based on) is just an extrapolated non-magical creature humans made up from looking at the fossilized bones of historical dragons.
I call those Dragon-like and not dragon type
I find it funny how Lockstin mentions Norman being such a kind father and a nice person in the anime and the games, when Norman in the Pokemon Adventures manga is the complete opposite XD
It's almost scary and if i recall correctly the protagonist Ruby does *not* want to deal with him
Also for the psychic badge, through most of the medieval ages, the soul and mind was thought to be in your heart, not your brain.
Not just in the Middle Ages. People in Ancient Egypt thought that as well and even today, the universal sign for your name or yourself is a hand over your heart.
I always understood Norman's badge as scales being the symbol of balance. All his trainers have Pokemons specialized in one or two stats to the detriment of others, so their Pokemons are unbalanced, and Norman would have balanced stats instead, being strong in more or less everything.
Well, milotic is in dragon egg group, so I guess it counts?
Can't wait for Alola's badge ranking!
I see the joke. But he could do the stamps on the passport instead.
0:54 I remember an episode of the anime where Misty had to go to a badge craftsman to get more badges... I don't remember if they went into the details of who made up the design tho
Flannery's badge could also resemble slugma's eyebrow
Oh thank goodness this is perfect timing I needed something to keep my brain busy while I fold laundry. I always watch Lockstin videos on Sundays when I do laundry!
'Norman is often portrayed as a kind and loving father' should have been a hilarious smash cut to him beating his kid in the manga.
I would say the connection between the Rain Badge and the Hojo clan makes sense even with Wallace, since Milotic has scales as one of its recurring themes (its gen 3 ability, the evolution method it gained in later gens), as well as being in the dragon egg group
I always thought the Balance badge was a reference to a scale, like the scale of justice
Same. Like, looking at a old set of scales from above or directly below. The circles are the pans and the connecting line being the bar that the pans hang from.
The stone badge is a geode. It has two parts breaking and a hollow middle.
6:40 "Norman Is often portrayed as a loving and caring father"
*Flashbacks to Pokémon Adventures*
I know it's called the Feather Badge, but no matter how many times I look at it, I always see a bird beak first. Not that that's much better.
It does resemble a raptor's beak in shape. The Zephyr Badge looks better by comparison.
Psychic as a type is so busy. Its everything from cosmic type, light type, intellect, mythicalness, magic, emotional, supernatural, spiritual, etc. It overlaps immensely with Fairy on terms of how its used, and strangely enough fairy's primary key distinction from psychic is food, and the fact that dark is not effective against it. Its the duality of light and dark, in that dark can snuff light, but light can vanquish dark. In that sense, fairy feels like a subtype, or extension, to psychic. Kinda like how rock and ground are extensions of each other, or ice and water. I kinda want subtyping to be a thing, it'd make things complicated though.
Fairy is also super effective against dragon and immune to it, while psychic does and takes normal damage. Also a lot of fairy types are based on fairies or have that typical fairy frilliness going on. Ironically psychic doesn't do much to steel despite the spoon bending thing, and fairy does even less. However there are a lot of dual psychic/fairy types, two of the most popular being Gardevoir and Hatterene, both associated with emotions
There's also the fact that fairy is weak to poison and fire resists them, while psychic is strong against poison and is neutral to fire.
Love these. Also that was the 2nd best sponsor transition I've seen today
Very fascinating! The Hoenn badges did get a redwing for the remakes, so I was curious to see which versions you would use.
"Norman is often depicted as a kind loving father"
Only when his son isn't competing in beauty competitions
Poor ruby...
So for the Balance Badge. It honestly looks like a symbol for Opposition. In Astrology, the aspect called Opposition is when a person needs to balance two planets as they are perfect Opposition of each other.
Which the symbol for that reminds me of that badge. Maybe there is an influence 🤔.
Which makes sense for Slaking. Slaking is balancing all that power but also being lazy about it.
Just my thoughts though. Always love this channel❤
Or maybe balanced between the father and son?
It's a really interesting coincidence that I have the same name as one of the Psychic gym leaders! Emerald was, like, THE game I played growing up. And Hoenn is still probably my favorite Pokemon region. But this is like... The only instance I've seen of the name Tate... Anywhere. Pretty uncommon name as far as I can tell, so for it to be on a gym leader, and not even some random route trainer... That's pretty cool!
I just realized that Juan is literally wearing a diving outfit with an ascot under his long coat. If you remove the long coat, it's just a diving suit with board shorts. I really thought he was wearing a suit all these years. No. He's wearing a swimming outfit. It's the same outfit as Nate in Gen 5 but with a long coat instead of a zip up.
10:57 Milotic is also in the draconic egg group so maybe it helps
The Stone Badge also look like a magnet(or compass) with 2 arrows on the opposite sides which is related to Roxanne's sig pkm Nosepass.
And the Heat Badge (minus it color in the OG game ver) look like a hot sauna steam rock, which related to this gym hot spring location. Honestly, first time saw it in the OG ver, it's event harder to imagine..
Rossane's stone badge also looks a bit like hammering on an anvil from the top pov (as most crafted weapons tend to take that rectangle shape in media) given her theme of helping run the school it could reference her "forging" young minds.
The remake also has the gym themed a bit to a museum so it could also indicate breaking open rocks to find artifacts.
I always appreciated how the remade gen 3 badges mostly all have a gem (I kinda interpreted the inner brick and disks of the stone and balance badges to be the same, just less shiny). I love how gens 5 and 6 both had cohesive designs to their badges like that so it was cool to bring that energy for the 3 remakes.
And then Gen 8 gives you fragments to fill in a coin (honestly pretty cool tbh, once you defeat the Pokemon League you get the largest and fanciest coin to do coin flips with XD)
@@cjlite0210I am always happy when the newer games do little things to change one of these gen 1 conventions. I would’ve loved an entirely new thing but if we’re keeping gym badges I definitely agree that making it one full badge was a cool way to make it feel fresh
@@MicoDossunthis. If only the names of the badges weren't too simple.
@@kuyagab4444 Gens 8 and 9 were literally the types you had to beat and the Santalune Gym in Kalos literally gave you the Bug Badge. Really? If I designed a Bug-type gym badge, I'd have called it the Ocellus Badge with a design to match. To non-entomologists, an ocellus is an eye spot that is used to scare away predators like a Masquerain's wings.
@@JamesDavy2009 Valerie's badge is also named Fairy Badge, IIRC. And then they went ahead and did the same thing to Opal's
The dynamo badge might be based on the "Mexican on a bicycle" riddle (you basicly draw a big circle with a smaller one in it and two lines coming out of it from opposite sides, just like the badge. Then you ask someone what you draw. It's a Mexican with a sombrero riding a bike, seen from above). Bikes have dynamos.
Nah. I doubt that. Sounds like reaching for it.
That joke is far too niche for it to be the case
I think the stone badge's design may be alluding to the way different sediment layers are deposited or (later in the rock cycle) moved around and deformed by heat pressure and erosion
The "Down and to the left" bit at the end lol
I always thought the Heat Badge also resembled a stylized Slugma's eye.
ahhh Norman the most caring dad in the games and anime... except the manga where he's the protagonist Ruby's biggest obstacle to living his dream of being a contest star and not being a gym leader so he then pushes his son's responsibilities on Wally! seriously though the Ruby and Sapphire manga are great go read it!
I think the stone badge is like a rock being cracked open to reveal a gem
Not to nitpick, but I love to nitpick, so I'm nitpicking: The illustration you used for Nayru in the Rain Badge/Triforce bit is an identically named, but unrelated character from Oracle of Ages. Not the goddess. Just named the same as the goddess, and in the same property. For no apparent reason. The removal of the third game in the set really messed with the combined storyline, probably.
"Norman is portrayed as a kind, loving father"
Meanwhile PokeSpe Norman at first glance:
I paused my 10 season Ben ten rewatch and 10 season blind watch because lockstin uploaded 👍
"Norman walked so Larry could run"
Never before have i agreed with such a controversial statement
that was interesting. in german, the badges have the same meanings. stein = stone, knöchel = knuckle, dynamo = dynamo, heat = hitze, balance = balance, feather = feder, mind = mental ... and last badge is similar in meaning, but not the same. english has rain. german has schauer, which translates to shower.
the first 2 gens were quite different, but this gen was quite similar. gen 3 is my favourite indeed!
I thought that the badges reflect on the HMs you use after reciving them. For example, the Stone badge could be used to cut trees because of the blades, the knuckle badge looks kinda like a flashlight, the balance badge could work like a surfboard, and the feather badge for obvious reasons.
stone badge and feather badge, I see it
knuckle badge, I guess
how does the balance badge look like a surf board
@@fobby6933 A stylized surfboard, at least.
I have to say this at this point; your sponsorship ad-breaks are wonderful. good job on making them fun to watch
Finally Hoenn!, My favourite region!
Nah. Too much water
@@Ramsay__Don't worry, Maxie, I took care of Archie and his goons from summoning Kyogre
Alright, I'll admit; I'm disappointed that the gym badges in 8, and 9 weren't unique.
I was so excited to see that posted a new gym badge video! ive looked forward to them since your kanto badges one. It made my day a lot better to see you post another one and i cant wait to see your future ones too!
Funny how the Rain badge fits more with Juan when he was the original Gym Leader, and Wallace was his student when he took over and later became champion. Sad Juan was only mentioned briefly in ORAS.
Honestly the Gen 3 badges (and honestly the only ones) had the best glow up. Some are still pretty simple but it’s nice to see them actually have updated visuals. It’s nice
I feel that badges are designed by the gym leaders, but must be approved by and are made by the League.
I saw that copypasta! My half blind hawklike vision hasn't failed me yet today!
Great, now I can't unsee Norman and Larry being drinking buddies
I just thought the rain badge just looks like fish scales and fish live in the water so it checks out
Down and to the left, like Mayday Parade’s Jamie All Over, which talks about going to Las Vegas, which on a map of the US is down and to the left, and they mention waves in the ocean, so there’s the water connection. I’ve cracked it, this badge AND Sootopolis city is just a reference to Aonuma’s favorite band: Mayday Parade!
Flannery uses Slugma. Her badge can be a flame according to some but it looks like a slugma on top of an orb
Actually, there's an episode from Pokémon Chronicles that has the canon of a guy producing a bunch of badges and gives them to their respective gym leaders.
The balance badge i saw more as a scale and it being called that as being a trainer is trying to find a good balance in a pokmon stats. when training them.
I never heard that rumor about Deoxys. Then again I'm a bit older, so I got the playground rumors for Red/Blue of trading and using surf early and using a level 100 Snorlax against the truck in vermilion harbor 100 times using strength was the only way to get Mew :')
Not to mention the infamous Pikablu glitch with designs of this species resembling what we now know as Marill.
@@JamesDavy2009 Ah yes, good ol pikablu. I remember that. There was also another playground rumor of beating the elite 4 in red / blue like 25 - 50 times without a single pokemon fainting and not using any healing items as a method for something I forget too.
@@gundamwarrior Haven't heard that one, but this was at a time when the Web wasn't exactly known for being factual in its information. Yahoo was the dominant search engine and websites took forever to load.
@@JamesDavy2009 At the time when I was a kid we really had no major access to the net that readily. Even at school we had no internet, kids at home really had no internet. Internet and household computers were a luxury thing than a common household item since they cost so much and people had not much reason to own any yet since emails weren't really done much at the time either. 1998 was still a vastly different time. Hell in my house we only had a windows 95 pc still and wans't until 2000 did we get a windows 98 computer lol.
"norman walked so larry could run" so true
I always thought the Stone Badge was a stone pulled by 2 tectonic plates. Probably more appropriate for the ground type, but does fit with Roxanne's teacher theme.
Norman a good and balanced father?
I mean did you read the Pokemon Adventures manga? That guy was scary
I agree
I always thought the feather badge looked like the top of a birds beak based on the shape and type
Roxane's badge looks like a stone broken open to reveal a fossil inside, which is consistent with her gym's aesthetic and Devon's fossil collection
the balance badge looks like the crest of knowledge
The ones of Galar and Paldea are definitely mass produced
The feather badge reminds me of Lugia's wing.
Dang, lockstin will not hesitate to dunk on Idaho whenever he can
Good God, that was a smooth transition into the sponsor
Hello lockstin love your videos
Flannery's badge also resembles the flames coming off of Slugma's head.
that was a good ad integration.
Fun fact: Milotic's egg group is dragon :D. So it does work
Milotic may not be a dragon but it is a serpent and they are commonly associated with dragons as well as milotic being the calm counterpart of gyarados.
Stone badge could be like a magnetic stone, because nosepass is her main pokemon so it could be trying to look like a compass
Ironically enough Norman in the manga is a jerk to his son Brandon all because Brandon wants to do contests instead of training to become his successor know his kid is strong but doesn't like fighting.
Flannery best Hoenn Girl
Always disappointed that the Mossdeep Space Center never did anything in RSE
I never thought you’d actually go to space, but I always figured it would be part of _some_ kind of event, even if just an e-reader one
>"Norman is often portraid as a kind and loving"
He almost killed his son in manga
Had a couple of thoughts on these badges that could be utter nonsense:
The Dynamo Badge slightly reminds me of electrical symbols drawn for circuits, especially in its shape.
Every badge having a gem added into it is interesting - the champion (at least in R/S and ORAS) is a collector of rare stones and uses a type associated with minerals; Groudon and Kyogre are linked to gems (Red and Blue orbs); the region is known for it’s meteorites which can contain precious stones and metals!
It does resemble a light bulb drawn on a circuit schematic.
3:35 Is it just me or the heat badge kinda looks like a slugma?
I always figured the stone badge was kinda like a fault-line
Milotic may not be a Dragon-type Pokemon, but it *is* a Dragon.
Milotic may not have the dragon type, but it is part of the dragon breeding group, making it fit the 3 dragon scales as well.
Also, does the Volcano Badge's top right part look like the silhouette of an eeveelution to anyone else? Or maybe a girl with a ponytail?
Flannery is my fave Gen 3 gym leader
Norman, a kind and loving father ?
... yeah, right 🤣
I'd always thought the feather badge is a bird beak.
Milotic I'd based on oarfish, which do have some associations with Japanese dragons.
Cool, I love this series
A yes wallace and the HAREM gym!
Hes the ONLY guy in there besides the Pokémon league official.
6:43 so, you didn’t read the manga where he was SO far beyond abusive to Ruby, then?
the stone badge of this region seems pretty obvious to me? it evokes two tectonic plates shifting, with one going up, the other going down, much like how tectonic plates in real life do that to make mountains.
Milotic does work for that dragon theming as it’s an equivalent to gyarados due to both their pre evolutions being a reference to the weak fish who climbed a waterfall and became a dragon…. It’s just more Mild mannered that it’s gen 1 counterpart
Milotics tail ....kind of resembles the water droplet badge ?
Other than that I think it was obviously meant for the other one more
I can't wait for the next badge theory videos.
Norman kind and loving?! Read the manga! XD