Random: This Local Newspaper Seems To Think Pokémon Gun Is Real

This is obviously a fake. We all know that Pokemon Gun is exclusive to the United States.

@ilikeike Hehe. Funny. In a sad and so true way

Pokemon took a dark turn

In an attempt to appeal to the edgy teen market Nintendo has made the next Pokémon a first person battle royale shooter

This is why the newspaper industry is obsolete and failing...

Yeah that's harsh, but how can a print based news service ever keep up with the internet? Especially when everything from phones to refrigerators have internet access these days? Online sources could easily update their information, but Newpapers would have to wait to the next issue, which might be tomorrow, or next week!

Meanwhile the total of 7 grandmas who still subscribe to news papers as an actual news source will be appalled by the themes being put into children's games.

I highly doubt Nintendo would ever make a new entry in the Pokemon series based around guns considering their history. Strange how fans would choose a gun.

After Bowsette, Booette meme now this (Pokemon Gun)
Oh, the humanity.... 🙄

Isn't Pokemon Gun just Digimon? They had that gun dinosaur, what was it's name? Let's see... Oh right, Gundramon.

wait.
wait wait wait.
Pokemon Gun isn't real?!
I want my pre-order deposit back.

Rough when you realize "mainstream media" is unable to type www.nintendo.com on a browser and check factual data.

Gun? Try "Bow" or "Arrow". lol

I like how Sobble is reacting as if the gun logo is gonna shoot at it in that print. Also Pokemon Gun doesn't make sense because it doesn't start with the letter S. The two games were name Sword and Shield because they refer to offense and defense in a turn based RPG. If there is a third one it would be called Pokemon Surrender cause in a turn base battle there's offense, defense, and run and when you run it sometimes means you surrender (or retreat but surrender makes more sense since it starts with an S).

Can't wait for Pokemon Bow & Arrow, Pokemon Hammer, Pokemon Scythe, Pokemon Chainsaw, and Pokemon C4

Pokemon Le Mafia.

"Fools mainstream media"

Cites example from local Mexican newspaper

@ilikeike I hear you also can’t travel with the Pokémon Gun cartridge in your Switch, unless you provide a receipt. Even then, it can’t be booted up and in sleep mode.
If you don’t have a receipt, you have to transport your Pokémon Gun cartridge in it’s case, out of arm’s reach of your Switch.

Please Understand.

@retro_player_22 Since these Pokemon games are more based on medieval things, if a third version happen, it will possibly be called Pokemon Lance or Pokemon Spear. But only Nintendo can convince Game Freak to make a third version again. They haven't done that in a long time (Diamond and Pearl).

@JackEatsSparrows Thankfully your right to purchase, possess, and play the game is guaranteed by the second amendment of the Bill of Bodily Readiness.

@KennyBania LOL, was thinking the same thing. It would be more news worthy if several mainstream papers around the world published it. Now it's just a blunder from a local tabloid.

But... at least NL's headline is accurate this time around. They could've made some true clickbait out of this.

@Dpullam I think that was kinda the point of the meme. That it would never happen. I think Pokemon, Armor version, is more likely.

Other possible future names: Pokemon Axe and Pokemon Chain Ball. Pokemon Kunai and Pokemon Katana. Pokemon Staff and Pokemon Rod.

@Heavyarms55 I can see that happening.

Pokemon Helm would have been better, or Pokemon Gauntlet (though that could cause issues).

bow would have been far more realistic with the arrow head being the wolf head

@MegaSwitch what is your picture icon from?

@bro2dragons my biggest dream

@ilikeike Pokémon shield have also been localised in the states and is now called "Pokemon good guy with a gun"

@bro2dragons

In Soviet Russia, Pokemon train you.

@Liam_Doolan Blastoise. There's your gun-wielding Pokemon.
I'm sure there's more but that's just the first that comes to mind.

Anyone else notice how Grookey is reaching for that gun? I wouldn’t trust him if I were any of you...

Pokemon: Plata o Pomo is next everyone!

I can see it happening lol

"Gun" makes little sense as Sword and Shield refer to obsolete forms of armed combat. Plus, assuming that a hypothetical third version would be called "Gun" is a very American thing. And don't get me started on those idiotic Stars rumours (awful, awful name. Eclipse would have been far more likely).

It will be interesting to see if the story differs based on the version, similarly to how Black/White's stories differed slightly.

@Silly_G .... shields are still used...

LMAO!! I just found out a friend of mine is to blame for this!!! We are bullying him right now that he just became famous for all the wrong reasons!!! LOL!!!

@Delibheel : If you want to be pedantic about it, just because something is obsolete, it doesn't mean that something has fallen completely out of use.

And I'm quite certain that the shield depicted in the logo isn't a ballistic shield or any other kind of shield that would more commonly be used today.

@Silly_G no, if I wanted to be pedantic, I would say that since there’s obsolete kinds of guns, then all guns are obsolete.

HOOOO DONALD'S REALLY MAD XD

If U.S didn't have guns, Hollywood writers would have no idea how to resolve their plotlines.

@ilikeike Pokemon Open Carry and Pokemon Concealed Carry.
Which kinda is a thing in Pokemon, with some of them running behind you and other in pokeballs 🤔

@GrailUK With FISTICUFFS

@SmaggTheSmug Executives wouldn't be happy with the longer run times lol.

@GrailUK Nah, they'd just order the directors to cut down on the "boring parts", like dialogue and plot

Mainstream media..... a local Mexican newspaper is mainstream media? Talk about hyperbole from online media!

@SmaggTheSmug Ha! Splendid.

@Filth_Element I dunno. Newspapers seem pretty mainstream to me. And here in Mexico lots of people read them.

We sure do love our tabloids and red news.

@Heavyarms55 You can even read the comics online these days, although it is somewhat inconvenient to need to go to each comic's web site to read each one.

@BulbasaurusRex For those really interested, I'd just encourage them to make a bookmark folder and throw all the links in there. Easy. It's what I do for webcomics I read.

@bro2dragons Everyone at Fox news is getting their pitchforks ready: POKEMON IS TURNING OUR CHILDREN INTO SOCIALISTS!

Sub heading: You're fired

The font size on GUN is to big and does not match the other font size on sword or shield.

There are to many assumptions, rumours, guesses, hype and lack of research from so called journalists today.

For example,
A new Zelda release this Christmas?
There is no evidence at all that there is a new Zelda on the way, but the headline is used to create an artical that fills a gap and gives the writer something to write about. It also gives the writer something to write about when he confirms, a week later that there is no game after all. The clue is the question mark in the headline.
The headline is misleading and it was written to mislead.

This artical is doing a similar thing.

A third game would most likely would be something like Pokemon Spear it sounds good and follows the same first letter in the names of the weapons of Sword and Shield and is a weapon like a sword and can defend like a shield.

@ritouf

The best part is I’d be the sucker to buy that.

Wasn't it on the US constitution that they need this? Bad jokes aside, if this is true then they will up it UltraSun/Moon style after a year. It's gonna be Pokemon Cannon.

@SheldonRandoms
I mean... I'd buy that.

There is no actual mention of any controversy that has come up because of a supposed mention of pokemon gun.

Wouldn’t Pokémon Gun take place in the US?

@Spidey-Scrub I work with monkeys and can 100% confirm they should not be trusted with a gun. Many caps would be popped into many asses.

@ilikeike
You deserve those 100+ likes for that comment. Funny, but true.

I think that Pokemon shield, and sword has a good ring to it (But Pokemon Gun just sounds so stupid) and I trust Game Freak, that something that stupid, they wouldn't make.

@Delibheel don’t think I would consider my local (key word here) paper not national tabloid but a local paper to be mainstream media. Think you’ve missed my point a little there.

@Filth_Element Just because this example happened in a place where you don't live, it doesn't make it any less mainstream to the people living there.

Not all instances mainstream refer to the one and only collective mind of the world.

In this particular case, a [local] form of mainstream media made an oopsie, which will no doubt misinform the locals who read and trust it.

Nah Pokemon Spear and Pokemon Bow is more realistic!

@frogopus That may be one of the reasons, but their are two episodes that had guns in them I think, and one of them did got released outside of Japan.

@ReaderRagfihs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upluVI81jA

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, i was thinking Armour would be suitable, except now I notice they'd have to spell it differently in UK.

@Jayofmaya Naw, They didn't change the spelling for the Game Boy Color. Which would be "Colour" in the UK, right?

Good to see journalism maintaining its high reputation

@Heavyarms55 @Jayofmaya Pokémon Grimoire?

@Delibheel Oh I hope not. I feel like certain groups who already attack Pokemon on religious grounds would freak out about that. "Black magic" and all that lovely nonsense.

I joke about that, but when I was younger my Mother was concerned about that very thing. Thankfully she's not a moron and when I showed her the game again she realized it was a harmless kid's game.

Wouldn't Pokemon Arrow work a little better? sounds better then gun with a sword and shield.

@Morpheel lol again someone missing the point I see.
It’s a local paper not national end of. Don’t care where it’s country of origin is. Now sit down and stop protecting those you deem weaker.

And referring to their mistake as an oopsie!!! Now who is acting superior towards another country?

i guess those pokemon in this region are some bad mofos, and are tired of nerds trying to catch them all...in turn they have decided to take up arms and now we have POKEMON GUN where the pokemon hunt you!!!

I would rather punch myself in the face than to know it is not real

good one Almighty-Koz