#and its compounded by the fact that pokemon is my current special interest/hyperfixation

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so yea obviously the lame anwer is "pokemon is for kids" and they cant show like death and stuff but that didnt stop them from showing lysandre getting absolutely DESTROYED by zygarde's core enforcer and either dying or maiming him. So like they done it before!!! and i get that more bad stuff happens to bad guys than good guys in fiction but there's clearly precedent for legendary pokemon killing/ maiming people.

Also side tangent i know the manga is different but in the manga his death is even more brutal, being impaled from the back by landing on sharp rocks and either bleeding to death (like literally blood is shown in the picture) or having his spinal cord shattered and making him paraplegic.

So there's TOTALLY precedent for severe injury/ death in pokemon, ESPECIALLY at the hands of legendarys. and infact another thing about the lysandre example is that he has am excuse for just not outright dying, leon doesn't. In X version when the ultimate weapon fires, lysandre is still trapped in the flare hideout and basically hit directly by the ultimate weapon. Because in X the weapon is powered Xerneas, instead of outright killing him you could argue it would make him immortal instead (much like it did with floette & az) so thats a reason he wouldnt outright die.

leon has no excuse like that. hes just a guy. and like yea i love him dont get me wrong but no amount of muscles shouldve made him practically unscathed. Unless he is quite literally built different and made out of like fucking titanium theres its weird that was fine.

I feel like theres a few ways they couldve handled it, and i dont personally think this was even the worst one, but they couldve had a better one for sure. To me at least the game's approach is a little better, where he at least has to take a *little* time to recover (but still not long enough considering the magnitude of the blast) and also i think it's sort of implied (at least if you read into it a little), that he may have been hospitalized for those 3 days and it was just offscreen.

I feel like that method couldve been improved if they maybe extended how long the time skip was, maybe to 3 weeks at least, and if they wanted to be more dramatic like 3 months, because even 3 days seems like far too little time to recover from something like that. 3 months might be a little long and i get why they might not wanted to push it back THAT far, but i definitely feel like 3 weeks is at least a nice middle ground between being a reasonable recovery time and not being TOO long of a time skip.

also i think another theory ive seen especially in fanworks like fics ive read is that the blast acts/should act more like radiation where it doesnt exactly cause a ton of visible injury immediately but can still be really destructive. I think this wouldve been a good thing too, seeing as eternatus' energy seems similar to some kind of radiation (like how power can be generated from it and how things can 'mutate'/ change size from it). It could be a good balance of not showing too much gore/violence on screen but still making it that he's not just completely fine. One way ive even seen this implemented in a fic is that when he's struck with the beam he becomes like possessed/afflicted by eternatus as almost a parasite/alien type thing where it becomes a psysichal (i just struggled for like 2 minutes to spell psyical sorry lol my dsylexic ass cant spell that word for the life of me) part of him.

If im being honest i dont really like the idea of killing him off entirely, but i think the best way to do it if they were to is to do that cliche anime fiction thing where when someone dies they get revived by something shortly after and while i do think its sort of cheesy, it couldve worked with the dogs like having the power to revive him or something like that? And they've done that before too with ash, so theyre not completely opposed to it it seems.

I dont like the idea of him dying (or, dying and staying dead) not only because i like him as a character and that would make me very sad but also because i feel like he's too important to overall story to just kill him off completely. Unless the story events were shuffled around or changed in some way him dying in that moment would be really anticlimatic for the championship battle and the other things around him. Also it raises questions about what would happen, do you just get handed the championship because you're the favorite to win? Does someone like raihan get the championship because he's the closest in power to him? does a previous champion come back? What about the rose/battle tower? What happens to that?

so yes, i agree that he definitely got off way too easy for the sheer force he endured, i personally think killing him off completely is a worse way of solving the problem. I think they shouldve either increased his recovery time/ longterm impact a lot more (like ive seen many fanfics do) or have him temporarily die/ go into a dead-like state but not stay dead, either through eventually recovering or possibly through pokemon magic.

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Champion Frolic Fleece's Pokémon Theories Season1 Episode1: Waiter, There's A Dead Leon In My Soup!!!

Have a Pokémon Theory by yours truly, Champion Frolic. This episode: I ask the hard and real question on "How the heck is Leon not dead."

I seriously have no idea how Leon survived the events with Eternatus in either the anime or the game! HOW DID LEON SURVIVE?! EXPLAIN POKEMON COMPANY AND NINTENDO, EXPLAIN!

Please reblog this, so it gains traction! I am a struggling disabled autistic who is trying to make my way in life, and being able to do Youtube for a living would be a dream come true!

Also, I call Leon a himbo in this video affectionally, not in a bad way. I think he's smart in some areas but dumb in others. You can be smart in some ways but dumb in other ways. I'm not trying to insult him, it's just a term of endearment to me. I know Leon is very intelligent in many ways, but sometimes he does reckless and dumb things, like taking on Eternatus by himself, or jumping onto the back of a Corviknight in the anime, or driving like a maniac, etc.