Talk:Anime physics

Specific examples?

Should we include these on the page, like how Ash's Pikachu consistently uses Template:Type2 moves on Template:Type2 Pokémon to great effect, despite the Ground-type's total resistance to these moves? TTEchidna 22:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it's good idea. --File:Ani154MS.gifNetto-kunFile:Ani394MS.gif 22:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

How many times has it actually happened, though? From the top of my head, it worked on wet Onix in episode 5, Rhydon in movie 1 and didn't work on Quagsire in movie 3. --FabuVinny ^T-C-S 17:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

It was a Golem in the first movie, not a Rhydon, but I think there was one episode where Pikachu affected a Rhydon with Electric attacks by attacking its horn. Diachronos 17:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

As Brock has noted in an early AG episode, Pokémon with Electric resistances (or Ground types) get their resistance from having a source to ground the electricity. Thus, it can be said that Electric attacks could potentially be effective on a Ground Pokémon if it was previously sent airborne somehow (where it would lose the resistance and may become even susceptible to electric attacks). Most of the time Pikachu has found a way to do exactly that. Furthermore, as was the case with Brock's Onix, Pokémon would perhaps be more susceptible to their resistances (or immunities) if they had been previously been reeling from super-effective attacks, or (as with Roxanne's Geodude) they were forced to take a powerful attack from close range. KelvSYC 10:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Whats in a name

the term anime physics does not seem to correspond to the material it covers......C is for Cookie 18:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I think a more sutable name would be mistakes in the anime. But there are other things we would have to add so, maybe Anime Battle Mistakes? I like that one personnely. User:Rucario64 14:19, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Not mistakes in the anime, becoz that would also cover accidents such as Jessie not having lipstick for a second, the star not forming when Team R has blasted off etc...--Wowy 07:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

The MST3K mantra

Should this be mentioned in the article? because it seems that it all sums up to that :\ PDL 22:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Humor as a cause of "anime physics"

I really believe that humor is one of the prime motivations behind many instances of blatant disregard of physics in the show; can it really be true that Team Rocket getting hurtled hundreds of feet into the air or Brock getting hit over the head and then showing up looking perfectly healthy in the next episode (or even the next scene) is merely a writing oversight or a way to "move the show along"? It's the same principle behind most of the humor in Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, and most other gag cartoons (not to say that Pokémon is merely a gag cartoon, but it really can be at times). Lucentas 22:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, thats true. Some is for comedic effectDCM_{((曲奇饼妖怪Spy on My Edits))}

I tried to add that earlier, but someone removed it, and I don't want to get into an edit war. Lucentas 22:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

This whole page has no comic moments in it. It's just talking about the battle differences with the anime and games. Jmath 23:17, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Objection; quoting from the article (emphasis is my own): "...used to describe all the unusual, impossible, and sometimes absurd moments in the anime..." Team Rocket blasting off is not a battle difference between the show and the games. Brock pulling ridiculously impossible items out of his bag isn't, either. And although it's not on the list, shouldn't Ash be dead or at least have severe burn scarring from all the times Pikachu's shocked him? Actually, looking closely at the list, the items that are discrepancies between battling in the show and in the games are mostly due to poor fact-checking on the part of the writers, not a disregard of the laws of physics themselves. The subject of this page purports to be an explanation of general physical impossibilities as cartoons are wont to have, not inaccuracies in regards to information from the game. We need a separate page for that. Lucentas 23:42, 10 December 2008 (UTC)