Pokemon Politics

Pokemon Politics

April 25, 2008
Game With a Brain asks:
What if politics were more like Pokemon?  Well, one of the political parties would be guided by Meowth and Mew would be the equivalent of a Mount Rushmore type president, right? 

The short article is accompanied by a must-see Pokemon parody animation which employs the three major US presidential candidates instead of standard Pokemon characters.

If you've played the popular handheld game, you'll recognize the parody's visual style as spot-on. 

Comments

Hope is ineffective!
Mud sling is super effective.
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Negetive campaigning - I choose YOU!
Hillary Clinton - Use Selfdestruct!!!
If American politics are like Pokemon, then Canadian politics are more like EarthBound: a core of really enthusiastic followers who go virtually unnoticed in the grand scheme of things, a system that's both decried as too simplistic and appreciated for its hidden complexities, and a bunch of insane cult-separatists who like to wear blue.
@Monkeythumbs

Negative campaigning would be an attack, not a Pokemon.

And it's super effective!
Mew is in the fourth tier, I think. I believe it goes Arceus > Rayquaza/Mewtwo/Ho-oh/Lugia/Palkia/Dialga > Groudon/Kyogre > Mew/Celebi/Deoxys/Jirachi/other Pokemon I'm forgetting.
Find legendary presidents from the past! You used the Master Ball to catch Lincoln!
A wild Cheney appears!
@point09micron

Obama used heart attack!

The wild CHENEY isn't affected!
The wild CHENEY calls for aid!

A wild ROVE has entered the fight!

ROVE uses MUD THROWING!

It's super affective!

CHENEY uses SHOTGUN!

It 'misses' and hits ROVE.

ROVE has been defeated!
little behind there guys, I saw this gif about 2 weeks ago or so, friend of mine linked me to it, tho they mistook it for a final fantasy ripoff instead of pokemon.
I saw this over a month ago.
Sorry Twin-Skies, I suppose that shows how much I know about Pokemons.
@Vake Xeacons

Cheney uses headshot!

It's super-effective!

Lincoln faints!
Clinton uses bizzare index knucle point! Barrack is confused!
Ron Paul, I choose you!
Been all over the internet for about 2 weeks (probably longer). Still deserves an lol.
Ha! Nice.
This animation is pretty old, however, it is funny as hell.

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Posted 11/22/09 at 12:06am
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:57pm
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:56pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:42pm
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:41pm
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:44pm
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:41pm
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:38pm
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:33pm
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:32pm
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:28pm
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:16pm
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:15pm
Flamespeak: working on other things makes me angry. I might have had a jet pack by now. :p
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:14pm
Flamespeak: Just thinking of all the time and manpower wasted to try and make things emit less CO2 emmision that could have been spent
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:07pm
Alyric: @Zip: FYI, the construction of solar panels puts out more pollution than any form of energy production. To say nothing of the toxic components of the panels that cannot be recycled.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:04pm
ZippyDSMlee: I know I know not the point.
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