Do Pokémon Sun and Moon finally prove a weird fan theory?
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- Pokémon Sun and Moon might finally prove one of the very first video game conspiracy theories to appear on the Internet - the relationship between two seemingly unconnected Pokémon, Cubone and Kangaskhan. Check out the video to find out how!
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I like the Kangaskhan-Cubone theory and I think this could be used as evidence. However, my hyperactive mind can't stop and I accidentally came up with a little theory that could explain why Kangaskhan appears when Cubone calls for help.
Here I go: We all know that Cubones are orphans and they suffer emotionally due to that fact. It's likely that, if a way too young Pokémon is wandering around all on its own it'll call the attention of Pokémon mothers. Kangaskhan, as The mother Pokémon, probably guards the lonely Cubone from afar making sure the young wanderer doesn't get in any danger, but it doesn't get involved because the child isn't hers. Then, the young orphan happens to get in a Pokémon battle and it's getting hurt. Desperate, Cubone calls for its mom, but its mom never comes. In an act of motherly instinct, Kangaskhan jumps into action, unable to stand the injustice the poor creature has to face, thinking, if it were her child who calls... There's no turning back now.
Doblestorm
Dude you just below my mind right now. 👍🏻
It happens in anime with different types of Pokemon most of time the evolved form protects the preevolved ones and others in its care like the alpha of the land or group
What if they had the same ancestors
Could also be possible that khanghaskhan feels a need to help purely because it is a mother and has a chiled of her own, feels sympathy or pity for the orphaned cubone, but that's just a theory.
light yagami, don't you mean a... GAME THEORY?!
Draco CORRECT!!! You are so smart!
Maybe it's part of the system.
It seems that Kangaskhan society is very focused on protecting offspring and valuing guardians and parents.
So maybe when a mother Kangaskhan dies before a baby fully matures, they ritually pick up their mother's bones and in a stone age type way use it to defend themselves.
Adults folloe these babied and continue to try and care for them.
It would've been believable, but then Kangaskhan would respond to any child/orphaned pokemon. But it's odd it only comes to Cubones.
I think it's just a reference to the theory. Either that, or Kangaskhan could occasionally adopt Cubone if their baby dies.
Yeah
WhiteRaven696 Or the maternal instincts make it want to protect the cubone
Cross species adoption is possible. You can get a broody hen to raise duck or quail eggs.
There is one last thing you can do to test this theory. Can Kangaskhan be called by any other Pokemon besides Cubone? Also, does Cubone also bring Marowak to help it.
If no other Pokemon can SOS for a Kangaskhan other than Cubone, and Marowak doesn't show up for Cubone, that would be even crazier as Marowak would be a Cubone that has learned to hold it's own and deal with the death of it's mother whereas Cubone is still traumatized and Kangaskhan showing up to save it would be it's motherly instinct kicking in.
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ForsakenMemories45
The only other Pokémon that can call Kangaskhan is Kangaskhan. And Cubones cannot call Marowak.
Source: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wela_Volcano_Park#Pok.C3.A9mon
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no one noticed how similar marowaks skull and alakazam are?
@@aahhhhhhhhhhhhh nah nostril placement is too different
I think gamefreak is just mocking us lol
This. They're just teasing us. The more people addicted to pokemon and its theories, the more money they make
JezzeBoy or it could be fun to make a connection people have been talking g about for ages. this isn't going to mk game freak any more money lol
In this case, I don't think its about making more money...
Rather it is an inside joke...
They acknowledged the "7.8/10 too much water" meme. And then there's the Alola Pokedex entries.
Gamefreak have become masters of the internet. They know whats up and are not afraid to show us their sass.
well i would believe it, and wouldn't it be fun that a baby khangaskan has a different evolution when its mum dies.
According to Bulbapedia, Kangaskhan are 100% female, while both Cubone and Marrowak can be either male or female.
So then what do Kangaskhan mate with to make more? I think there's a missing pokemon somewhere. A male version of Kangaskhan. Maybe what Marrowak finally evolves into?
Miguel Cuervo That's gotta be ditto he's the missing link everywhere
Maybe Kangaskhans live in safari because they are going to extinct and people breed them
Well, how do salandits and salazzles work?
+Nowolf ... I dunno, just a Salandit and a Salazzle breeding? It's said in the Pokédex!
Still thinks it's an easter egg of the theory.
Yeah....
Has to be. If Cubone "calls" it's mother it wouldn't work since she would be dead.
Well just the fact that it calls for help and ANOTHER Kangaskhan comes it still shows there is a connection. Like the video said it was probably scrapped in gen 1 as being not suited for kids to have a baby wear it's dead mother's skull. Imo they are doing everything to confirm this other than literally making Marowak evolve into a Kangaskhan.
Daniel Hogan there is no connection
probably a ghooossstttt
I feel like the call for help tidbit is a troll, because they also made alolan marowak a fire ghost type. FIRE. This is significant because the other credible theory regarding cubones origins is that charmanders tails are lit by their mother, when the charizard dies it doesn't get to light the tail and the baby charmander becomes a cubone. I feel like gamefresk were like hey... there's two pretty good theories on the internet about cubone... lets lend credibility to both of them and watch the fans go nuts, tee hee! Gamefreak be trollin.
I was thinking that too, they are throwing all sorts of crap to confuse this theory
I've *NEVER* heard of the Charmander-Cubone theory. I don't think that's a thing.
It is a thing its just not as said much because people think the kangaskhan one is more crediblw
Honestly the skull looks more like a charizards, yea?
Forest Grump definitely, kangaskhan has ears not horns
This is such an awesome move on the developers part! It really shows that they do listen to their fans. Even in the smallest of details. This buyer/seller relationship is what makes such great titles. I wish the other typical developers releasing unfinished games, DLC to patch them up, or overly typical FPS games would take a hint from Nintendo. I'll always be a huge Nintendo fan for this very reason!
It does hold some water, but without proper input by the developers we can't exactly pin the theory as fact yet.
If this was ever the original devs intent they will never admit to it.
Cubone and Marowak are also found in the same areas in Sun & Moon and they put Kangaskhan right next to them in the Pokedex. In the original RBGY games, they're all also found the the Safari Zone. Also, Giovanni has a Kangaskhan even though he's a ground type trainer, implying Kangaskhan was originally going to be a ground Pokemon, like Cubone and Marowak.
I prefer the theory kanghaskhan helps cubone because its a poor, poor soul that REALLY needs a hug...
In Kalos and Alola Kangaskhan is next to Cubone and Marowak in Pokedex list.
Bananaforscale WOAH! Venusaur is charmander's baby!!!!
THEORY: Cubone, being the notorious Orphan Pokemon, call in for help, and Kangashkan aid in as a way of following their motherly instinct for an orphan pokemon
But no others can call kangaskhan except for other kangaskhan and Cubones.
ive had a pichu call a happiny so the pokemon can be of a different evolutionary line but they have to be in the area and the description for this mechanic is that "Alolan pokemon are more inclined to help each other out" which means they don't have to be from the same evolutionary line but in the region
if it's true, then cubone should just have called a headless skeleton to the rescue……heart broken, I know.
The skull fits perfectly on Kangskhan!
Then proceed to show how it doesn't fit at all...
If I remember correctly, ProtoMario did a theory on this and he came up with a baby charmander and frankly. I believe him.
Then why does Chansey occasionally answer the call from a Riolu?
Burraku Dusk because Rilou needs a healer
Maybe Chansey does this for all pre evolutions/babies...
Chansey only responds to help from a few baby Pokemon like Elekid and Riolu. Clearly intentional by gamefreak
1:44 We're laughing now. Pokemon is hella dark these days.
ikr
So many dark Pokédex entries...
Cortster the Helldex
so true Zark. People just didn't pay close attention. In the original red/blue your rival loses a Pokémon during the game and buries it... Apparently it was killed by YOU and your Pokémon. After one of the fights your rival runs off in a panic due to the beating you give his team... one of the Pokémon he'd used in that fight is NOT on his team the next time you fight him.
So the evolution is supposed to be Cubone - Marowak - Kangaskhan
I originally thought Cubone was a baby Charmander who's mother Charizard died. Maybe there's something there about tail flames going out too. I dunno.
How about if a Charmander's flame goes out, it dies, and comes back to life as a Cubone, with the skull of it's dead mother, and another of her bones for a weapon?
on a rare occasion, pokemon will call for someone of a diffrent species
the skull looks more like a charisard skull
Yep, that'll do it for me, case closed in my book. Now to wait for the eventual baby Pokémon that can evolve I to either cubone or kangaskhan.
Noli Canoli but why would that Pokémon exist by itself? It'd either be in it's mother's pouch or become a Cubone.
Well, I know Pokemon gets pretty weird, but you gotta admit the concept of Kangaskhan being hatched from an egg as an adult with a baby already in it's pouch is pretty up there on the strangeness scale. I've always thought it would be cool to see baby Kangaskhan as a stand-alone Pokemon.
It would be cool, but then it'd also make more sense for it to evolve into a cubone.
Here's a fun idea, baby kangaskhan is hatched from an egg, and if it's pared with Kangaskhan (idk how you would do that, maybe with a new mechanic in a new game) it evolves into a Kangaskhan. But if it's alone, it evolves into a cubone.
to dark for a pokemon game? HAVE YOU READ THE POKEDEX ENTRIES?
I love how you overlapped the skull onto Kangaskhan and it's a completely different shape from her head
Actually, the first games where not designed for kids, according to an official statement of masuda.
While looking for a Kangaskhan, I literally cried when I knocked every Cubone during SOS.
I feel like a Team Rocket grunt for hurting a lot of Cubones.
But in the end, I got my Kangaskhan.
"too dark"
"TOO DARK"
*"TOO DARK"*
OMFG DID THEY JUST TOO DARK POKEMON
Mareanie uses you to eat Corsola XD
And Sableye eats Carbink ;-;
Yep
Anyone that pays attention to pokemon knows that the pokemon Kengaskan is the baby and the "adult" body is just a doll.
Mahtan Amandil lol
u wot m8
Since when
Actually I might see your point. Though it's a really small single thing that contributes to this theory. I haven't heard it before, but, there's this. When "Kangaskhan" undergoes Mega Evolution, the "adult" body remains completely unchanged, while the child grows to two or three times its size and becomes capable of combat. That is to say, "Kangaskhan" doesn't Mega Evolve. Its kid does.
I don't think this strips away the possibility of a relationship between Kangaskhan and Cubone - perhaps the Mega Kangaskid is what it could have been, had it not lost its mother.
dude, no that wobuffet
No, Game Freak probably made it a nod to the theory but not confirming it. They like to mess around with us.
It doesn't confirm it, but it hints at it. Which gives it solid evidence for it.
I wouldn't say it was solid evidence but I could see why other people could. I personally believe GF are just a bunch of trolls.
BlackDot sarcasm dude
In the alolan pokedex Kangaskhans entry follows Marowaks.
I still preffer the theory about Cubone being a flame-less Charmander.
Kangaskan pkm sun: " Kangaskan's maternal love is so deep that it will brave death to protect its offspring."
Alola Marowak pkm sun: " The bones it possesses were once its mother's. Its mother's regrets have become like a vengeful spirit protecting this Pokémon." looks like its confirmed.
Boi you think it's dark?! Read some of the newest pokedex entries
Mimikyu 😱
When I was younger, I thought that when the baby kangaskhan placed the skull on its head, it would limit its growth a similar way plants don´t grow as much when they´re planted in a small pot. After a while, the inability to grow turned it into a completely different pokemon, meaning it would never be able to evolve back into Kangaskhan. This make sense because imagine evolving a ground type into a normal type. This just happens if the mother dies, since a baby kangaskhan might develop normally into a grown one.
If cubones didn´t come from another pokemon, does that mean that when EVERY single cubone is born its mother will then immediately die. Cubones could never be able to have sibilings. Also implying they wouldn´t be able to reproduce in a sustainable matter since females will literally always die.
You forget the part where baby Kangaskhan is purple and cubone is brown.. the ears of the mother also don't add up to the skull cubone wears.
Or... hear me out... Kangakhan, a maternal nurturing Pokemon, hears the cries of Cubone, an orphan Pokemon, and comes to its aid.
Major problem with this: Ears don't have bones.
Asdertman cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4e/115Kangaskhan.png You can not look at this and tell me those are horns. *Those are clearly ears*!
If kangaskhan has ears, surely the exterior of the ear would be different to the interior, right?
Burst Flare yeah actually they have 3 bones
Burst Flare and they have a hole
Atticus Albert Okay, now that I think of it, normal Raichu's ears are debatable, *but I still don't see any on Alola Raichu's ears*!
not to mention in XY cubone were found in an area where Kangskhan are at.
Mega Kangaskhan definitely ruins this theory. The pokedex lore for Mega Kangaskhan states that Mege-evolution ages the baby to the point it's able to battle. That means it's reached a point where it no longer needs to remain in the pouch (which would also be the case for cubone, if it was a young kangaskhan whose mum had died).
The two don't look alike at all, and as the games have gone on the colour difference between the baby kangaskhan and cubone have visibly changed by a significant amount.
There's also the fact Kangaskhan are born knowing how to use comet punch, which is a move that Cubone can't learn. If Cubone learned Comet Punch at level 1, or it was one of those moves a move reminder could teach it, even if it wasn't born with the move, then I'd absolutely agree with this theory.
As it is I can see why people make the connection (a motherly pokemon that protects its young and a pokemon that's mother died protecting it) but beyond that single tenuous lore connection, there's nothing else in the games that links them. The fact female cubone and Marowak don't have a pouch on their stomachs also destroys this theory.
Or it's a split evolution path. If it has the hold item "Mother's Skull" it becomes Cubone, otherwise it evolves into the missing link between baby and adult Kangaskans. Beautifly and Dustox look different enough despite sharing common roots.
You could also say Cubone just doesn't have to learn Comet Punch, since it's holding a bone it wants to learn moves using this bone.
WolforNuva The problem with your split evolution theory is that you're just making shit up. You've randomly decided that Kangaskhan is already a 3 evolution pokemon, that then becomes a split evolution tree depending whether or not the first stage is holding an item that you made up. That's so much speculation and assuming it doesn't mean anything.
It would be like me claiming that Mew is actually the evolved form of Ditto, but you have to level up ditto by a specific stone that's never been in the games before, while holding a special item that's also never been in the games before for it to evolve. I could make that claim, but it doesn't mean anything, since everything in that theory is made up information.
Your theory also fails to explain why it can't learn Comet Punch, a move Kangaskhan learns at level 1, or why cubone is a ground type. Currently the only pokemon in the entire game that shares no type with its previous evolution is Alolan Marowak. So you to also explain why this type change occurs in all reasons, and why this change doesn't occur in Alola, where cubone evolves into a fire ghost in order to deal with its predators. You'd think if Cubone was also an evolution, that over time that form also would have changed to counter grass types.
New items are invented for new evolutions all the time. I'm inventing 1 theoretical item, and it's just a proposed idea. If a baby Kangaskan were to have the possibility of evolving into either a Kangaskan or a Cubone, there would have to be some factor that causes the split evolution. A skull for it to wear seems like it would be that factor.
I find it no less believable than Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee suddenly gaining a shared baby form in Gen2, if you don't, that's cool, believe what you want. I wasn't even saying that Kangaskan *has* to be a 3rd stage pokemon, just that the way the baby looks from Mega evolution is it's more natural state of growing up to become a normal Kangaskan.
Also no, you're exaggerating your example, which makes it lose all relevance. I'm talking about a Pokemon that already would evolve (the baby kangaskan, if it were given it's own individual Pokemon status), I am only introducing 1 theoretical new item, not something as convoluted as requiring a new stone and a new held item at once, and not including mythical or legendary pokemon at all.
Normal type has been replaced for other types before (For example, before X/Y Azuril was normal type and became pure water upon evolving). It gains Ground, because it's now wielding a bone club and wears a skull on it's head (Note that the moves Bone Club and Bonemarang are ground types, which means in pokemon logic, bones = ground). As for Comet Punch, it's just gone down a different path of evolution and no longer learns it by level up. The only other pokemon that can learn Comet Punch in Cubone's egg group is Kangaskan, which can't pass down egg moves due to being female.
I don't think that the connection was ever intended by the developers. Or if it was, it was ultimately decided against (leaving only the scraps of it in Gen 1) and not a factor in Gen 2, which is when breeding became a thing. It's just fun to believe that there is some connection there.
Wait. So we can accept that a pokemon evolves and the skull it's wearing becomes it's head, or any other example of pokemon changing size, color, shape and type upon changes in environment or evolution, but the little blue pokemon, the little blue pokemon that we know for a fact canonically grows up into a big brown pokemon, the idea that that little blue pokemon might turn cubone-brown at some point is supposed to destroy this theory?
Cubone cries out for the mother it has lost...
Kangaskhan is classified as a 'Parent Pokemon'.
It's not unusual for real animals who have been orphaned to be taken in by a mother of a different species.
The Cubone/Kangaskhan theory is one of my favourite theoires but I think Nintendo/Game Freak have actually nodded more toward what I've mentioned above than the fan theory.
I did not know that about mareanie. I knew it could only be called by another pokemon. That's a really cool detail.
cubones cry sounds like it's crying "mom"
Zeba F no, stop spreading misinformation
Bruh. Have you heard? It sounds like it's saying "mooooom!"
Zeba F no it doesn't
Yes it does
Zeba F even if it did, that doesn't prove this theory. It's also confirmed that Cubone's mother is a Marrowak. Cubone's cry sounds nothing like "mom", there isn't an "m" sound
An additional thing to consider is that the Alola Pokédex entries go Cubone (# 163) -> Marowak (#164) -> Kangaskhan (#165).
They are not like that in the National Dex (#104 / #105 and #115).
So I guess than Oranguru is somehow a close relative of Trumbeak by this logic?
I thought a cubon was a charmander that's flame was put out and took a skull of its dead mother
Igglybuff calls happiny, they are similar types.
KaustNothane just like a Vulpix calling a Vanillite. I do think that the type have influence with the SOS
M is an *error handler*! Because of how the Pokemon table worked, they needed stuff to fill in the slots past 151, despite the fact that those slots couldn't be accessed normally.
When I fought the totem, Kommo-o, it called for help and a Scizor appeared. Now THERE is a completely off species coming to help.
There is no Scientific evidence that it is a Kangaskhan skull on cubone (because of Kangaskhans plate in its head). However there is some evidence of it being a Charizard skull. As for why Kangaskhan helps it in the game, it wouldn't make sense to include a wild Charizard and not include Blastoise and Venusaur in the game.
Not to mention the connection with if it was wearing a dead Charizard skull and it evolves in Alola near the volcano it becomes an Alolan Marowak [Fire] (From Charizard) and [Ghost] from the deceased piece of Charizard)
it would make sense if Kangaskhan was his orphaned mother because no Charizards would take in a Charmander with an unlit tail
K1NG K 2 O only problem with that theory is that Charmander die if their tail flame goes out and Cubone aren't zombies. Alolan Marowak are part fire type in order to combat the high amount of grass types (their enemies) in the Alola region
Ace of Games But I was talking about newborn charmanders. if their tail was never lit they would adapt or die trying therefore they become cubone. It still makes way more sense than kangaskhan because of the skull (ears don't have bone structure and kangaskhan has a plate in its head.
Well like alola and specific islands in anime and even Pikachu is a good example of evolutional appearance. To survive their evolution line changes to adapt to live. How does Ninetails a fire Pokemon able to adapt to snow and not die? Most of Pokemon entries are exaggerated because of unknown knowledge by professors. If Charmander flame was weak it will try to find a way to fend for itself and survive
A Kangaskhan might confuse the cry of a Cubone for a lone baby Kangaskhan, and so she arrives...
I find it hard to believe that there's a bunch of dead Kangaskhan some where...
When Carbink calls for help Sableye appears and attacks Carbink too
The Calls for help can sometimes be logical. But most of the times they require a huge leap of WTF-ery.
Why would Totem Lurantis call either a Trumbeak or a Castform to help it?
Or why would BOTH Oranguru and Passimian call for Trumbeak?
MaJuV, castform for lurantis was for one-turn Solar Blade.
Well, think of it like the Cosmog-Comoem-Lunala/Solgaleo line. Cosmog and Cosmoem are on their own separate line, and are not on the same page as Lunala or Solgaleo, you can't breed legendaries, but if you could, Lunala would hatch another lunala. Likely, Cubone and Marowak cannot go back to being Kangaskhan. Whatever tramautic event happened, it was enough to create a new species that can no longer reconnect.
On the one hand: Yes, I can see all the valid points regarding the old fan theory. This could have indeed been a plan at some point in development that ended up being nixed. Sometimes, the development of a story's world causes some aspects to need reworking. Sometimes characters planned cease to fit into this ever-changing world idea. Scenes planned early suddenly cease to work as the overall plot develops.
On the other hand: I can also see Kangashkhan being a very motherly pokemon who would be willing to help raise an orphaned Cubone and help protect it from attackers the way other social creatures often would. It is natural even in humans to take pity upon orphans and want to help them out. So we can't entirely rule out that aspect either.
A Chansey came to aid a wild Elekid while I was trying to catch an Electabuzz using this method, so I wouldn't rush into conclussions here.
while trying to catch a max 4iv Cubone, i encountered a Kangaskhan...
I think its just Gamefreak just showing that they know of the theory but no confirmation. Besides, here is still one thing that kinda disproves it, Mega Kangaskhan, you see the baby kang grows but has no relation on any kind to Cubone/Marowak, you could also argue that Kangaskhan's bones would be too big for Cubone as well
I agree with this but on a reverse note. In my thought, it's not that a Cubone can call Kangaskhan, but that Kangaskhan can call for help afterwards. serebii states that an sos pokemon can only call for help if it is from the same evolutionary chain as the original pokemon. so if that's true, Kangaskhan shouldn't be able to call for help after coming to the aid of a Cubone, but it does.
The one thing that I'm on the fence about, is that the skull that cubone wears has 2 nub things on it, & even with the 2 beige ear looking things on kangaskhan's head, I'm not so sure if those 2 beige ear looking things on kangaskhan's head are actually ears, or some sort of weird looking horn.
I'm sorry but I cringed so hard at how you pronounced Corsola. But thanks for the info about Cubone!
Uh oh! How do you pronounce it? - Ian
Eurogamer you put accent on 'so'
it should on 'la'
so Cor-seh-LA
You can also look up Misty Catching Corsola on youtube. It's ok to be wrong though because you'd have to have watched the show to really know the pronunciations
Is it not pronounced like that? oops, I've been pronouncing it like that all along. Maybe it's a British thing to over pronounce the middle syllable rather than the end syllable? I guess it's a case of "Levi-OH-sah not Levio-SAH" hahaha
Yeah the way he says it is the way I've always said it, and everyone I've ever heard saying it. "core-SOLE-uh".
Pichu calls Happiny without any special conditions. In all situations where a Pokemon calls for help and an ally other than one from its evolutionary family shows up, the ally cannot call for help. Kangaskhan cannot call for help after being summoned by Cubone.
"And so this relationship was quickly removed by the developers at the 11th hour"
And then put back in for Pokemon Yellow, the very next year.
Pichu is really a Happiny, confirmed.
Happiny probably is a baby sitter/eggsitter
Josh Fox Maybe friends?
Or! Or! Or! GameFreak saw the theory and made Kangaskhan Cubones S.O.S to fuck with us.
Hi Ian from Eurogamer, I love your beard and I love your voice, even if you do pronounce Corsola wrong.
Another interesting note though - I had a Carbink call for help and get attacked by a Sabeleye, same predator prey situation as Mareanie and Corsola.
So does that mean that Pichu can evolve into Happiny?
another thing that adds to thee theory is; that in almost every game you can catchs a kangaskhan, you find either a Cubone or Marowak as well
RBY: Cubone@rock tunnel, Kangaskhan@safari park
GSC: Rock tunnel; Cubone and Kangaskhan
RSE: Cant catch either
DPPt: Cubone 203 Swarm, Kangaskhan Safari zone
BW: Route 15; Marowak and kangaskhan
XY: Glitering Cave; Cubone and kangaskhan
SM: Wela vulcano park; Cubone and kangaskhan
so except DPPt and RBY, they are always in each others vicinity
so if the theory is true, it's kind of disturbing that cubone has a way higher encounter rate then kangaskhan. The fact Cubone ahs a higher encounter rate reinforces the statement that kangaskhan fight till death ro pretect their little ones
I think this is a cheeky nod from GameFreak to us fans. Personally, I feel ProtoMario's theory on Cubones is better. Long theory short: Cubones were Charmanders whose Charizard mother died before lighting their tail flames. As with any theory, there things that could discount ProtoMario's theory as a newly hatched Charmander's tail is already lit upon hatching. That said, sometimes I feel the games can't account for reality: like in Ruby and Sapphire when you were underwater. How did you breathe? ORAS fixed that by adding scuba gear (I think). Or another example of how chocolate food items don't negatively affect canine Pokémon.
Saying they are related because of that they appear on calls is like saying that Vanillites are related to Vulpixes because they answer to their calls too.
Of course, this also would prove that Elekid can evolve into Chansey right?
Eh, doesn't quite work out. For one, Chansey shows up to help Elekid, and they're not related at all. Also there's the problem that Cubone's skull very clearly has horns, and Kangaskhan has ears. External ears don't have bone, so there's that.
It's just Game Freak messing with fans. Same way they said nobody picks Blue in game as well
I'm going with cheeky nod
Not that it necessarily means anything, but in the Akala pokedex, pokemon 163 is Cubone, followed closely by Marowak, and then: Kangaskhan. Given that there's quite a few pokemon that appear in the area, they could have easily chosen something to stick in the middle of this theorized line, and yet they didn't.
in the Pokédex, it says cubone wears the skull of its deceased mother
1) that skull is smaller than kangaskhan's head. 2) Cubone looks more like a charmander without a flame. Theory: Cubone is charmander without a flame cause' his mother died so it wears its skull to stay warm. And without its flame it can't protect itself so it uses a bone. Again, without the flame it body must evolve to survive causing it to becoming a ground type and mutating into a Marwak to survive since its body doesn't know what to do without an engery force or chemical reaction to tell it what to do. So its forced to change over time
I kind of assumed that the reason Cubone called for Kangaskhan is because Kangaskhan is a motherly pokemon, and it'd make more sense for it to appear in the volcano park rather than Chansey, who appears for most other baby pokemon. (While Cubone isn't a baby pokemon the same way elekid and magby etc is, it's still a first evolution pokemon)
Fun fact, the pokedex entry for Pokemon moon basically explains why mareanie attack Corsola instead of helping them
Actually, I think it's for both
I think the theory surounding that Cubone is a charmander who lost it's mother makes more sence than the Kangaskhan theory.
You see, Charizards are known to be very agressive, so it is a big chance that a female Charizard took on something that is a bit too powerfull for it's own taste.
Then we got the concept that the mother Charizard is the one who lits the Charmanders tail on fire to then give it a nice orange skin.
Cubone lost it's mother so it never got it's tail lit in the first place and then never got the nice orange skin but rather this brown-ish skin.
Not only that, but Cubones skull does look more like a Charizard skull.
Jwitz postd a good video about it, I wont post a link because then my comment gets removed so just search up "Jwitz Cubone Charmander theory".
And ofc, just because it calls for a Kangaskhan does not mean it is it's mother. Many Pokemons calls after tons of different Pokemons thats not even related.
For those of you questioning baby Kangaskhan's color compared to cubone's. it's color only recently changed. As did quite a few other pokemon over time. Go back to the original games and pokemon were quite different in color and shape compared to their newer designs. So it's quite possible this was a scrapped concept. So they chose a different route. Is it any darker than some of the ghost type entries....I think not. But hey, stuff like this happens.
I've always thought this theory was fact. this definitely solidifies it for me! so happy they finally made it canon.
The only fly in that theory is in Pokemon Go. Kangaskhan is the region exclusive for Australia, yet, cubone and marowack are common as dirt all over the world.
I just think of it as Kangaskhan help Cubone because it's a Mother and doesn't want to see it get hurt. Plus, Cubone takes the bones of its Mother, so how exactly does it gets Kangaskhan's bones. Does it wait till its flesh rots or does it just rips it out of its body? Taking the bones off of Marowak just makes a little more sense to me.
Too me I take it that it just means that there's some sort of relationship between the two pokemon. Not that kangaskhan is cubone's parent either that or kangaskhan is just that protective of smaller pokemon.
"Wears the skull of its deceased mother. Its cries echo inside the skull and come out as a sad melody."
Pokemon Yellow's pokedex entry for cubone.
Did you even do your research?
TheVarkol what does this have to do with anything? He mentioned he wears his dead mother's skull in the beginning, it's in literally just about every entry for Cubone. Did you even watch the video?
His argument for it not being supposedly cannon is that it was too dark to show a cubone wearing the skull of it's deceased mother. 1:34
Here's another thing. In an SOS Battle, if a Pokemon calls for help and a Pokemon from a different evolutionary line appears, and you then knock out the original Pokemon, the Pokemon from the different evolutionary line WON'T call for help. However, Kangaskhan DOES call for help under these circumstances.
I have never agreed with the Kangaskhan/Cubone theory. Cubone is the wrong colour for a baby Kangaskhan (Baby Kangaskhan are blue/grey guys) and I insist that the pokedex only refers to the CREATION of that pokemon. Cubone was originally the orphan daughter (daughter specifically because pokemon are always the same species as the mother) of a now extinct pokemon. In order to defend herself, she took her mother's bones. Hence becoming Cubone. Then she evolved, mated and because the bones had become such a part of her as a pokemon, her offspring hatched with bones. This is why you can breed Marowak without harm to her. All references to Cubone's mother refer to their ANCESTRAL mother. (Yes, this also means Cubone mourn without having lost their mother. You might well come across a nest of Cubone with their mother Marowak and the will still cry and mourn)
that makes no sense, you're telling me there's thousands of cubones running around who were born from a creature that's not only extinct but also there's one skull for every single one of them?
Yes. Pokemon doesn't follow the same rules as real life (as evidenced by Kangaskhan being born with a baby in it's pouch, Chansey being born with an egg if you didn't use a Luck Incense for a Happiny). So, yes, it works.
jenna bartley In pokemon origins, Cubone's mother is a Marowak, and they say it uses the skull of its mother.
so a Cubone's mother would be a Marowak
Qbert Elitist That Cubone is a special case, given that it's mother was murdered. She didn't die as a result of giving birth to it. There is also the fact that Origins only covers the first game. when breeding wasn't possible.
I am saying that the pokedex refers to the origin of the SPECIES, before Marowak existed because no Cubone existed. Because you can't have Marowak if there are no Cubone. The mother nameless pokemon died after birthing her young (a female offspring) and that offspring BECAME the first EVER Cubone to protect herself. Then she evolved into the first Marowak and her offspring were born with bones, her descendants forever bearing the marks of her story.
It works, but if you're allowed to not follow the rules of real life, why would you make such a complicated and strange explanation where all cubone constantly cry for a distant ancestor they never knew, but not allow a simple explanation like...maybe a baby kangaskhan changes color in adolescence? I mean, it has to, since adult kangaskhan are brown.
I’ve heard one theory that the mom part of Kangaskhan is actually a puppet and the baby is in control of the whole thing based in the kangaskhan mega evolution. And the fact that the parent body is there when it hatches. So perhaps the kangaskhan is mistaking the Cubone for a kangaskhan that was ripped apart.
Then again maybe the kangaskhan myth was always false, if cubine puts on marowaks skull it would still be the same
Considering an unmasked Cubone has finally been revealed, this theory is officially debunked.
The pic where there is a caterpie too is a hoax m8
ribbaribbahey I actually have yet to see the Caterpie pic, what was it about?
***** Figures, thanks for letting me know!
The wannabe photo from karakoro(?) you know, the magazine that leaks eveery pokemon news
The glitch pokemon that he speaks of that evolves into kangaskhan, back when i had red and blue mine always evolved into a marowak instead
Fun fact, cubones seem to die at a 1 to 1 ratio, each mother having one child. So why aren't they exstinct?
Well to be fair.. Tauros can call for help and a Milktank will show up but they are related as Milktank and Tauros both live on that farm...
The pokedex entry for a Cubones mother is well over outdated ever since they introduced breeding in gen 2.
There is actually a connection between Cuebone and Kangaskhan as early as the original games. Think about it, aside from the Pokemon tower in lavendar town where else can you catch a Cuebone, the Lonely Pokemon. The Safari Zone, also home to Kangaskhan. Kangaskhan gets killed, baby survives, baby is sad, baby wears mothers skull and uses a bone club to protect itself. Baby grows bigger and gets head stuck in skull becomes a Marrowack, as for the alolan form version its actually much darker when you think about it. Its a Cuebone that grew up and got its head stuck in the skull and died as a result explaining the ghost typing, as for the fire, supernatural beings can manipulated fire sometimes so a fire typing can make sense here. The weird question is how a Kangaskhan child goes from a normal typing to a ground typing, and that is because the bones are found in the ground and are a part of its attacks. Cuebone has a dark history that gamefreak refuses to own up to despite all the obvious signs, and anyone thinking a dark thing like this existing in pokemon isn't possible, I'd like to remind people that the Original Manga volume for Pokemon had an Arbok sliced in half, dead, it died, Pokemon was not originally meant to be as light hearted as it is today and there are still many dark under tones of the series, such as Mimikyu or the fact that Cuebone can't be a charmander with no flame because its stated that a Charmander dies if its flame goes out by the Pokedex and in the anime. The KangasKhan theroy fits the most because everything points toward it.
idk about this if anything the skull resembles more to a charzard's skull than anything else
well there is a pokemon origins episode where a cubone lost its Mother. And the mother is a marowak not a kangaskan