Tomas Elliot

Both those ideas ended up becoming something entirely different as a matter of fact

No you can't. He has a lot of work to do for this project, and is already lazy enough without you distracting him

Well to be honest Zim kinda is a loose cannon...

It happens, don't worry I will admit your logic has improved a lot since you last attempt. I was kinda expecting "OMG HE WEARS A HELMET, HELMETS ARE MADE OF STEEL, STEEL-TYPE CONFIRMED!", I gotta say I am a bit disappointed

Also, everyone assuming Steel lol

Except the fact that the introduction specifically mentions a badge lol

More like october/november probably, will depend on many factors... And yes ideally there will be one new gym battle per episode, however do keep in mind that we are following the traditional pattern of 8 gym leaders per region, and Graterras is quite big, with a (relatively) complex plot that will include multiple events for every location, including minor towns... So yeah, gym-less episodes will also be a possibility, although we will do our best to keep those at a minimum... Torch machine? Also lol, praise Nova for those

Shade.

We interrupt the current broadcast for a special report! Ladies and gentlemen please give it up for Gale, the first Graterras gym leader to be officially revealed! Gale: Woah woah woah now, what do you think you are doing here? I am Lead Technician Gale, and I am in charge of the mantainance of Kupolis Power Plant: access to this area is strictly reserved to technical personnel, so if you don't have business here I must ask you to leave! Well he surely seems to be the serious type, but he looks young for a guy who is in charge of such an important facility... Gale: W-well, I guess you could say that. After all, I was offered a job at the plant as soon as I finished my studies at university, and it didn't take long to me to climb up the ranks all the way to the top... And you know why? Because I am committed! In life, you need to be committed to your career if you want to achieve a good position: remember, having a safe job that can support your lifestyle for many years is much better than striking gold out of a sudden, only to lose everything again... I put all my efforts into achieving this position, and even now I am as committed as ever, you cannot allow yourself to relax and slack off if you want to make it to the top AND to stay at the top: and that goes double for my role as gym leader, so yeah, even if I respect the commitment all the challengers put in their careers as Pokemon trainers, don't expect me to go easy on them! After all, if you really are committed, you gotta be able to overcome adversities of all kind... That was surely an inspirational speech for all the youngsters out there who are procrastinating their studies to spend time on this forum: anything else our gym leader wishes to add? Gale: Let's see... Well, as per production policy I cannot reveal which type I use, but I can tell you this much: my commitment to my role as gym leader is absolute, I am determined as any other trainer you will ever face, so don't you think that beating me will be easy feat! But if you can do it, I will reward you with the Turbine Badge. Are we done yet? I need to go back to my men, we were in the middle of repairing one of the wind turbines... Thanks to Lead Technician Gale for dedicating some of his precious time to us! This is all for now folks, you are free to share your first impressions of this introduction, and you can also try and guess what kind of role Gale will play in the story and/or which type he will use. More to come in the next few days! And as usual, #FOLD

A quick communication to all of our followers: as the planning of everything involving the gym leaders is now complete, we will soon start revealing them. However, we would like you to keep in mind a coupld of facts before we do: 1) We are not going to reveal which type is used by each gym leader. You can try to guess from the leader's theme, but don't expect any explicit comment on this regard from us. There shall be no exceptions to this. 2) The order in which the gym leaders will be announced isn't necessarily the same as the order in which they will be fought in the game. With this being said, you can expect the first post revealing a gym leader to be made in the next 24 hours. I's all for now. #FOLD

Lol, that is just because, in cartoons where a guy chases another guy, the guy doing the chasing is the one who gets character development (in the form of his plans evolving), why the guy being chased comes off as flat and kinda obnozious in his taunting of the chaser. Also see: Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.

Link is in the OP. As you download the various episodes, you will see that some of them don't have the usual italian cover, but a cover with words from a foreign language. I suppose that's either Finnish or Swedish or Danish according to what you are saying... You should. Theis thing is gold, I can promise you you will love it I am positive I told you it was lol. And well, just check it out and share your thoughts, the program you need to read the episodes is super easy to use: you download it, you install it, then you download an episode, you double-click on the .CBR file of the episode, and the program is automatically launched and allows you to read the thing. Enjoy!

It's true! I actually remember some of the episodes for the fandub being translated from a language I didn't know, but that definitely wasn't Italian: so it was Finnish!

I... refuse to believe you have read all that stuff in such a short time. Also yes, Darkwing Duck was wicked cool, but this is a different thing

So, I have been thinking about making this topic for a while, but I never found the time. I posted it in the Wasteland just in case, although, since I am basically spinning a passion of mine, it could have been ok in the Trainer Journal section as well. Yes, here be download links, and yes, Ame herself said it was ok when I asked her. Which admittedly was a while back, but I highly doubt forum rules have changed dramatically in the meantime. So, how to describe PKNA (short fot Paperinik New Adventures)? I could start by saying that it is my favorite comic book of all times, then I could provide some insight on the plot, briefly introduce some of the characters, and try to convey via words the emotions that this comic gave me when I first read it as a kid, and then once again when I recently picked it up again. But as they say, an image is worth 1000 words, so I strongly believe that the best way to introduce PKNA is this: Yes, that's Donald Duck. A bit of history: back in the sixties, the italian comic industry developed a major interest in dark, edgy anti-heroes, that would dominate the independent italian comic scene for over 3 decades. And the most famous of these dark, edgy anti-heroes was Diabolik, a masked criminal who would steal from the rich to give to himself and his massively hot sidekick Eva Kant. What does Donald Duck have to do with this? Well, everything in fact. Because you see, we italians are traditionally a bunch of losers. We are the ones who will jump side twice throughout the course of a war and still wind up on the losing side. We are the ones who are conquered and ruled by foreign powers, and have to rebuild everything from scratch every time. Therefore, you cannot possibly expect people like us to root for natural born winner Mickey Mouse: no, in Italy Mickey was never popular, the guy we truly loved and rooted for, the guy we wanted to see triumph against all odds, was perpetual loser Donald Duck. We saw our misfortunes in his own, and in his struggles to achieve some sort of success we saw our own redemption... Or maybe we just think ducks are funny and mice are gross. Either way, Donald Duck in Italy has always been and will always be massively popular. Which is why, in late seventies, a badass alter-ego was created for him, whose adventures would be published in italian mainstream Disney comics: the name that was given to this badass alter-ego was Paperinik (or PK for short), which would be a portmanteau of "Paperino" (which is Donald's italian name) and "Diabolik", the aforementioned edgy anti-hero. Because you see, originally Paperinik was a criminal. The idea was that Donald would don the cape not to fight crime, but to pay evil unto evil, exacting revenge on those who routinely humiliated him during the day. We found it awesome, and we loved it. But unfortunately, Disney writers didn't really know how to handle such a character, so his stories stagnated, being published only sporadically in the italian Disney flagship comic book, Topolino (which would be the italian name of Mickey Mouse). It is important to notice that this character was created in Italy, for the italian audience, so it never made it to the States, and in the rare instances in which it did, it was under a plethora of names (because of course, the play of words behind the name "Paperinik" is lost in English), like Duck Avenger, Superduck and the likes. At some point, throughout these sporadic stories, Paperinik bacema a full-fledged superhero, simply because most of the guys whose rear ends he was routinely kicking were criminals to begin with, so to exact his revenge he was effectively doing a favor to the community. But even after turning him into a hero, the writers didn't know what to do with him, so he kept periodically appearing and resurfacing... ... Untill the year 1997 came around. 1997 was a big year for italian comic books. A bunch of up and coming new artists (who have since gone on to become internationally acclaimed professionals, may I add) were taking the scene by storm, and the overall product was once again returning to the dark, edgy roots established in the sixties... And in thisscenario, there was some executive of Disney Italy who thought it would be a good idea to call the most talented artists of the new crop, give them a new monthly publication only for them, and tell them "grab Paperinik and put him in a scene where, as he is patroling Duckburg, he runs into some enemies his usual weapons cannot defeat. From there, you can do WHATEVER YOU WANT". The result was beyond awesome. The result was beyond epic. The result was PKNA. In the words of the creators themselves, they specifically wanted the comic book to be in the same format as Marvel's comics, because they wanted to make it clear that theirs wasn't your standard Disney product, but rather something that could challenge Marvel on their own ground (which is hilarious in hindsight because Disney actually went on to purchase Marvel years later). The very first image of the very first page of the pilot episode (the legendary "PKNA #0") depicts a genocide. There are various instances of explicit content, including a case of family-unfriendly death, 3 (or 4, depending on how you interpret that one scene with Geena) cases of suicide, and mutliple cases in which the verb "to die" is used openly. Did I mention it is a Disney comic starring Donald Duck? A Donald Duck who has become badass enough to fend off alien invaders, time-traveling pirates, international terrorists and a jerkass news anchor. After a succesful run of almost 3 years, the series was rather abruptly ended with a nonsensical last episode that openly contraddicted many events previously established as facts. After the outraged fans predictably manifested their discontent in calm, polite ways, such as burning the car of Disney Italy CEO, PK2 saw the light and, despite a much more psychological plot and much executive meddling throughout its run, it actually managed to give the series a satisfying, definitive conclusion. Aterwards, Disney attempted to capitalize on such a massive success by releasing a reboot akin to Ultimate Spiderman, by the name of Pikappa, but frankly, that thing sucked big time. So, if this little gem never became a thing outside Italy, why am I wasting your time by telling you about it? Because recently Disney has decided to launch a new take on the series worldwide. And a bunch of die-hard fans didn't like the idea one bit, or rather, they weren't happy about the fact that the States would get a new thing but not the original series, so they made a fandub of PKNA, PK2 and Pikappa (but seriously, that thing sucks, don't bother with it), and released it online, completely for free. Here is the link. From the linked page you can download the .CBR files of all the episodes of PKNA, PK2 and Pikappa (but seriously, just get PKNA and PK2, Pikappa really really sucks), as well as the program needed to read them. Again, it is absolutely for free, with no bad links/viruses and no surveys or other such crap. If you don't know how to kill your time and want to read a really, really good comic, I strongly recommend you take some time to download this stuff, you won't regret it. It is really a little gem, one could even say it is to Disney what Reborn is to Pokemon. It is really worth a shot: do you really want to miss out on being able to say "I read a Donald Duck comic book and it was friggin' awesome"? If I failed to persuade you, you can also check out the TvTropes page. And if I did persuade you, feel freee to share your impressions in this topic. Peace.

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Well, we are going to publicly reveal the gym leaders soon-ish, so just wait and see... Although, we are quite sadistic, so we won't officially reveal the types in hich they specialize, but you can always try and guess Some of these things will be in, some won't, some will but with elements from other animals/plants/mythological creatures. Our Pokedex is going to be EXTREMELY diverse, with the desert area I mentioned earlier, a jungle area with things like the Tasmanian devil, and even a location akin to Seafoam Island from RBY, where multiple Ice-type Pokemon will reside! So if it is diversity that you want, you can look forward to this game

May I give you a tip, Jan? I am facing the exact same problem with the final Pokemon of a gym of mine, which is just too strong. Basically, I have calculated that anything obtainable up to that point cannot beat the guy, like, no chance in hell, absolutely no way, it is not gonna happen. My solution? Give it a non-sweeping set. Coincidentally, the Pokemon I am talking about is also a Ghost-type, so the comparison is fitting. Give it a support/general annoyance set, with the likes of Substitute, WoW (which I understand has perfect accuracy in your special field), Pain Split, possibly Perish Song. This way, thanks to its natural speed it will still be able to cripple the player's Pokemon, making the battle difficult, but still it won't be able to just sit there and spam Ghostly Wail to OHKO anything in sight, and thus the battle will still be winnable. Just my two cents, I hope you can find this idea useful.