Why are the Protagonists of Pokemon Let Loose on the Region?

Happy Pokemon Day! In celebration of 20 years of the glorious little critters, here's another Pokemon theory for you guys to read.

So, the protagonists in Pokemon are around 10-16 years old. AKA, the exact age that kids should be attending school. But everyone's just happy to let them go off gallivanting around the country, catching wild animals to play with.

Why do they not have school to go to? Why are they just letting the kids wander around?

Seriously, kid, where are your parents?

Well, firstly, its implied in Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald that because of the long grass, people are completely cut off if they don't have Pokemon. This means that each town in Pokemon has to establish their own way of educating their kids. Whilst some places have schools, most don't bother, especially smaller places such as the starting areas, so it's more likely than not that kids in Pokemon are homeschooled, learning from their parents.

But why are the parents of Pokemon protagonists willing to just let their kid wander off with a random animal after being told some man said it was a good idea. Love letters and fun times with the professor aside, the world of Pokemon isn't exactly the safest place to let a kid loose onto, with the bad guys popping up all over the place to steal your Pokemon, try to kill everyone or expand or reduce the land mass (Archie and Maxie never get invited to the cool villain parties...).

Pokemon battling is institutionalised into society. The gym leaders practically lead any city they're in, and Pokemon have become inherent into the way of life for people of this world, whether it is battling them, using them for unpacking, or having them as fire fighters (Yes. Just look closely at the Sun and Moon trailer, and you'll see Fire fighter Blastoise. Yes, this is very awesome. As is the announcement of Sun and Moon.). Also, you practically need Pokemon to live in this world, otherwise you'd be banned from many of the routes for your own safety due to the wild grass where the Pokemon live.

So, wouldn't it make sense to have an environment where kids could make sure they'd have powerful enough Pokemon to help them with the rest of their life, and they'd be encouraged to do so? It's implied that most kids never get to the Elite 4, they just do a gym or two and decide they want to do something else with their life, and leave. And the fact is, the kids that you follow are the exceptions. For every Red, or Kris, or Serena and Calem, or May and Ethan, or any of the other kids you follow, there's probably hundreds more that did one gym and headed home, or even if they defeated the gym leaders, wouldn't have the nerve to go face the Elite 4.

The protagonists are the ones you follow because it's a rare occurrence, that happens at most, every few years. And even when it does happen, even if people aren't so used to the idea that kids battle, they'll just think, well, it sorted itself out. The protagonists are the exceptions when they have an interesting journey, and the others, well, they just become the next cashier at the Poke-Mart.

And if you wonder, why are they seeing the weird things, well, if it was another person seeing it, we'd be following them, wouldn't we?

So have a great Pokemon Day, maybe play a little of your favourite generation.

Now, who's looking forwards to Pokemon Sun and Moon?

Why Minecraft is a Post Apocalyptic Wasteland

So. Minecraft. The happy game where you build things and mine and craft. Lego without the pain (seriously, do not step on Lego). But could it really be something darker? Could it actually be a post apocalyptic wasteland, where your character is the only survivor that hasn't been mutated beyond all recognition?

Well, yeah, because otherwise I'd be talking about something else, like My Little Pony or something (probably not My Little Pony, but who knows?). But what proof do we have for this?

Lets look at Steve?

This Steve? That wasn't a question,
his name just makes it look that way.

Notice something that makes him different from all the other villagers in the world of Minecraft?

His nose. Namely he's like Voldemort and doesn't have one.

Do you know what shares this trait? Zombies.

They also wear the exact same clothes as him, have the same sized eyes and are practically just Steve? with a different paint job. Now, notice the shape he has instead of a nose. He has two points that are darker than the rest of his skin. Do you know who also have that?

Skeletons. That makes it so that both of the mobs with the same sort of face as Steve? are the undead ones, with only villagers being the living ones, with mutated huge noses. Steve?'s the only one like him in the game (unless you go on multiplayer mode but shh. Logic isn't cool here.)

Plus, there are signs that there was once civilisation. There's the dummied out humans, and the mineshafts, jungle temples and desert temples. This implied there used to be a civilisation,but somehow it got destroyed, except for the mutated villagers who hide in their wooden huts, waiting for their old friends, who have been turned into the undead, to destroy them and turn them into one of their own.

But where did this come from?

Well. when you defeat the Ender Dragon, the credits have two people talking about the meaning of life. Among other things, this implies that the End wasn't naturally part of the Minecraft world. The End being around is actively corrupting to the world, as more and more Endermen enter the main world and more and more Ender portals are being let off, ones built by the original civilisation that came before, but got destroyed... by the mysterious voices?

Maybe?

I might be wrong. Comment if you think something else caused it, and if so, what is it?

Where do Elsa's Powers Come From?

From the completely powerless King and Queen, a child is born with the power to control ice, create clothes and even turn snowmen to life. The question is... how?

And I know the answer.

If you listen to the songs taken out, in particular Spring Pageant, it's quite obvious that there's an ancient troll prophecy (and a director who's more than a little full of himself). The basics are that an ice queen will splinter the land, curse it with unending Winter and it'll only end with a sword sacrifice (sound familiar).

Now, you may just say that that doesn't really count, because they were taken out of the film, so we're going to go into the film now for more evidence.

When the trolls talk about Elsa's powers, it's asked how the heck she got them, and the rock trolls are vague as heck, saying that she could be born with them. Or cursed. The emphasis clearly shows that it is a curse, and the only hint of anything that could curse her is the prophecy.

Seriously guys, you just had to have a prophecy didn't you. You weren't
 happy enough being love experts, you now had to curse people.

But then, why did the prophecy occur then? It's never stated that it'd happen in a specific generation, just that it would happen. Sure it could just be chance.

Or it could be that dumb flower from Tangled.

Yes I'm talking to you. You're not getting out of this by glowing.

When the flower grew, the energy got transferred into the Earth by the witch singing the healing song. From there, it could have spread out, and, driven by the prophecy, been absorbed by the one person alive it could apply to.

Elsa.

With the energy absorbed through a different way, being attracted by the prophecy instead of the flower, it would have caused her to develop different gifts. However, the inherent healing would be there, but suppressed by the prophecy's power to make her into an ice queen, explaining how she could make Olaf and Marshmallow. And when the prophecy was weakened, the power of the sun could take more power, making it possible for her to warm Arendelle and bring all of the flowers back to life (because lets be honest here, those flowers were not surviving otherwise). But she still kept her ice powers, due to the chaotic nature of the prophecy attached to them.

I still don't know where the clothes design part came from though.

Why don't the Other Avengers Get Involved in the Films?

One question I constantly see popping up is "Why the heck doesn't <insert Avengers character here> just ring up <insert other Avengers character here> and get them to help them out?" Well, since I love the Avengers movies (and secretly want to befriend Tony Stark to get a suit, but that's another matter), I'm going to try and explain for each movie why they didn't just get the others involved.

For the ones before the Avengers were set, it's quite simple. They just don't know each other yet. Especially for Captain America: the First Avenger, since most of the members aren't even born yet. That just leaves Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (since seriously, how would they even get involved in Guardians of the Galaxy?). The rest of the time, the main reason is that it just happens too fast for them to get message out and get the Avengers Assembled in time.

Black Widow and (maybe) Hawkeye

This isn't a movie, but a reason why neither get involved in some of the movies (admittedly, Black Widow gets involved rather often). They're both Shield Agents outside of the Avengers, and as such have work to do, with isn't necessarily going to clean up the Avengers mess. Plus the army may specifically ask the two of them to stay out of certain situations, for reasons that could include wanting to save them for more important situations, wanting to send in the army or Iron Patriot instead, or simply (especially in Black Widow's sake), not exactly trusting them to put the government interests above their own (especially during the Winter Soldier, when Shield were against Captain America).

Iron Man 3

You might not have noticed, but Tony Stark has a huge frigging ego. Even he admits he doesn't play nicely with others. So why would this guy, who's being personally targeted, ask others for help? It just doesn't fit his characterisation to phone up and call for help. Even if it did, he's also suffering from an extreme case of PTSD from the Battle of New York, and so probably wouldn't want to get involved with anyone from that (since a symptom of PTSD is wanting to avoid events that remind you of the trauma, and so he could be avoiding going into battle with any of the Avengers because of that). This could also be a reason why Iron Man isn't present in any of the other movies: he's simply refusing so that he can get over the Battle of New York and get himself emotionally better so that it's possible for him to appear in Age of Ultron. Even then, he's not going to be able to contact the rest of the Avengers most of the time, since he's asking a huge favour of the kid in the first place, without bringing all the Avengers in to raid his house. Whilst it could be argued that the Shield ones could be brought in when Iron Patriot was, it's possible that they were just doing another job at the time or Hawkeye could be taking leave to spend with his pregnant wife.

Thor: The Dark World

The first part is set in other dimensions, and its considered extremely unusual for a human from Midgard to travel to any other dimension. None of the other Avengers have the ability to travel through dimensions, so they couldn't come to help him even if they wanted to. His friends wouldn't necessarily know the Avengers, and if they did, they probably wouldn't have any way to contact them and by the time Thor himself got back he was too busy to contact them. Plus the fact that he ends up battling Malekith through multiple dimension, and having seen what happened to Jane when she went through the portal, he probably wouldn't want the others entering the portal for the same to happen to them and for him having to deal with a bunch of unconscious bodies whilst dimension hopping. While this is excluded for Iron Man, Thor is a nice enough person to not ring his friend up and say "Hey, I know how the last time you travelled through a portal caused you PTSD, but I want you to come and travel through a bunch of portals and do exactly what happened last time, want to go for falafel after?"

Captain America: the Winter Soldier

He's wanted by Shield. That counts out Hawkeye (Black Widow is actually involved, and might even persuade him not to get involved for his family's sake). Plus it means that Shield are probably tracking him and the people he might contact, including the Avengers, or at least he might believe that they can, so he doesn't want to risk it. In addition, in the movie he finds out that Hydra's using satellite lasers to eliminate anyone that might go against them, so he probably wouldn't call them once he finds out due to being a nice enough guy to not make his friends the target of satellite lasers! Geez, I thought we trusted Captain America to be the nice guy. Nice guys don't attract death lasers to their friends, especially when they might not be able to find him fast enough to actually help without giving enough information that Shield can find him and arrest him for being a fugitive for reasons.

Now you may argue that the hero themselves don't need to call the Avengers up for them to be summoned, but most of the films have the heroes relying on secrecy and so there wouldn't be anyone who knew enough to phone the others, but not be busy enough to get all the Avengers set up.

So yeah. Reasons. Lots of reasons. By the way, Antman and Deadpool have the same reasons that the earlier Avengers movies do, that they probably don't have the Avengers phone numbers to call them up to help.

Now for a bunch of other movies to come out so I have to do this all over again!