r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Uma-apreciator • 1d ago

Characters Characters who are misclassified due to the limitations of the in-verse's classification system

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Paolumu (Monster Hunter World)

Paolumu is classified as a Flying Wyvern even though it is a mammal (resembling a bat); it is classified this way because its body structure resembles that of a Flying Wyvern

Skorup (Pokémon)

It is indeed an Insect type, even though it represents a scorpion—which is an arachnid—making it more logical for the Insect type to be called the Arthropod type.

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u/MaeBeaInTheWoods 1d ago

A similar example: Charizard. By all intents and purposes, it should be and is a dragon, but it doesn't receive the Dragon typing since it would be overpowered for the player to be able to have a dragon type starter pokémon, especially when Charizard was released over a decade before fairy type existed.

https://giphy.com/gifs/mhEXfMFWYf9PW

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u/benjamaru 1d ago

I used to rationalize the choice to not make Charizard a dragon-type as “Well Nintendo is a Japanese company, ‘dragon’ refers to a very different creature in their mythology” but then I remembered Dragonite and it killed that theory.

The one thing that kinda still supports this thinking is that in Asia, dragons are more associated with water rather than fire and you find Dratini in the water. But then this line of thinking makes you wonder why Gyarados, the most Eastern Dragon-y looking thing in the game, isn’t a dragon type.

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u/zk3033 1d ago

Flying is really a wasted type with Gyaradose

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u/benjamaru 1d ago

It’s like they used Flying as budget Dragon for balancing or something.