In the past, Game Freak would typically release two mainline Pokémon games and one other entry featuring additional content. Fans saw this happen countless times over the years with titles such as Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, Emerald and Platinum.
For the latest entries on the Nintendo Switch, the developer decided to release expansion content instead via DLC - essentially ruling out the chances of a standalone third game, alongside Pokémon Sword and Shield. That hasn't stopped fans from coming up with their own ideas for a third entry and one that caught on was the meme Pokémon Gun. It only makes sense alongside sword and shield, right?
Comic artist and Pokémon fan Abel Hagen from Wooden Plank Studios has now taken this joke a step further. After a fan on Patreon requested they come up with a legendary design for the fake 'Gun' entry, they created the following concept (and even box art including a logo) of this fake pocket monster, which is known as 'Zagurinu':
@WoodenPlank It started as a joke but I got really into it so I made some fake box art too. #pokemonswordshield #pokemon #fakemon #fakemonday
Although Pokémon Gun started out as nothing more than a meme, things got a little too serious in 2019 when a Mexican news outlet posted a picture of a fan-made Pokémon Gun logo - mistaking it as one of the new entries at the time. While Pokémon wielding revolvers are unlikely to find their way into the video game series any time soon, one upcoming creature collecting game called Palworld actually includes gun combat.
What do you think of the fake Pokémon Gun legendary? On a more serious note, would you have been up for a third entry following on from Sword and Shield, or were the expansions more than enough? Share your own thoughts down below.
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Haha, that's brilliant, and very well designed too.
Nothing wrong with an artist biting the bullet and flexing their guns! I'd certainly give "Pokemon Gun" a shot.
I like it's bump to a T rating. We might hear a nono word.
This fake Pokémon Gun arts doesn't feel fake after recently a lot of rumors says that at 2022 November we will get Sword and Shield sequel/s. By sequel/s I mean like it was in Black 2 and White 2 where story took place some years after Black and White story. So who knows if we really get that in 2022 November.
God bless America
@SViper And let me guess, those rumors are 4Chan posts, or posts made by twitter "leakers", right?
Wow, gun was certianly a jump. I would think the most logical would have been something like Pokemon Armor, Axe, or Spear/
Gun would have never crossed my mind lol
For some reason it reminds me of Dillon from the Dillon's Rolling Western games.
Also Fire Steel is better typing for a gun Pokemon.
Got to shoot em all.
Less ridiculous than half the ones they come up with these days.
@VoidofLight I know what you saying and I understand that, but I'm just saying that amount of them is big and that is all what I'm saying. I'm not saying that they are real or anything.
@SViper Rumors always piggyback off of other rumors. Someone speculated that Gen 8 was going to be the UK because of maps in Let's Go, and smaller hints, so "Leakers" picked up on it, and said that in every single "leak".
Then you have the art side of things, where artists made drawings depicting fake pokemon, but since Gamefreak's internal documents leaked, people believed they could've been real due to looking official.. despite clearly not being.
You have Centro, and Samus Hunter who just piggyback off of other rumors, clearly deleting posts which show their mistakes, and how they're literally just guessing.
If anything, Pokémon Tank or Missile would have been a far more likely third version. Pokémon Pacifist would have been hilariously ironic though.
@SViper : We already got a "sequel" of sorts in the form of the two DLC packs (and with accompanying physical releases, fortunately).
It looks like Dillon from Dillon games on 3DS.
@Silly_G
The opposite of Pokemon Gun / Tank / Missile is Pokemon Hippies (Anti Gun, Anti War) 😁
Pokemon in 60's vibes and Bohemian outfits.
@Silly_G Be careful, he might bring up the DLC pack rumors that kept getting mentioned every few weeks.
@Tourtus I feel like he definitely used the posing as inspiration the “skeleton” of this Pokémon is in almost the exact same pose as that armadillo.
I love wooden plank I got really into following their Animal Crossing web comic.
@VoidofLight why you explaining something that know for ages? I even said that I understand how rumor world works, but not directly said that, so half my bad to make you write that, sorry.
@Silly_G that is what we should get like in enchanted versions not sequel. And I said sequels not enchanted versions and sequels gives new story not enchants current story.
@SViper It's wild how often "rumours" means "a fan said they want a thing, and now other people want it too."
Wooden Plank's smash comics are a hoot, with lots of references in every panel.
@CharlieGirl yeah.
Sugimori would be proud...
@VoidofLight
Plot twist, third version of Pokemon Sword / Shield will be announced from Pokemon Direct 18 August 2021.
"While gun-themed Pokémon are unlikely to find their way into the series any time soon"
Remoraid is based on a revolver, and it evolves into a tank (octillery)
This guy needs to work on his originality. This is just an armored and armed Zoroark.
@Anti-Matter Will it include Dante from the Devil May Cry series, and a New Funky Mode?
But we have "Pokémon Gun" already, it's Eternatus. He is hollow and shoots a huge Dynamax beam, he is the cannon that compliments the sword and the shield.
(Also as said above Remoraid is a pistol and Intelleon has a water gun)
Sword and shield are medieval. So the third entry would be bow.
Only Americans can imagine such stupid thing … 🙄
@Araquanid Somehow I think cannons or tanks are more OK than pistols in children's media because kids are unlikely to get their hands on those. But yeah, there's already a revolver Pokémon.
@TKundNobody Or a spear or lance. Bow would fit the British theme of the games though.
Canonically zacian and zamazenta is derived from descriptions of the cian and magenta blurs that were later learned to be these pokemon what is gurinu supposed to be? Green? Gun? Reno (nevada)?
If it's going to be green at least make it something like jade... Nevermind zarade sounds too much like zarude.... Wait a minute! (Zarude is the trio-master confirmed)
@Araquanid I mean yeah but they had to dial the concept back to the point of being unrecognizable. The leaked concept is cool but now it's just a fish that randomly evolves into an octopus.
@Araquanid Ha, you got me - I've rephrased this part.
Now we need Pokémon Bomb and Pokémon Crossbow.
@Ocaz or gore… o_o
@Dilly-Mick But the compliment to magenta and cyan is yellow, not green.
This is the Merica or USA version. 😂
@Snatcher That should've been Pokémon Snap's tagline.
@Araquanid
meanwhile, intleons entire line is pretty much crybaby → emo → school shooter acing like he's james bond → sniper
then g-max blastoise be shooting out water more deadly then actual bullets out of its smaller cannons at random with the larger cannon being able to turn a mountain into swiss cheese
Ah hey, the Arizona Ranger!
Yo this guy could have released this as a "fake leak" and I think a lot of people would have bought right into it. It looks just like official art! He nailed the style perfectly!
Wouldn't it be Zayero or Zakiero? Since Zacian and Zamazenta are mispronunciations of the Cyan and the Magenta, and those two colours along with Yellow form primary colours in printing? (Which is also why the first DLC Isle of Armour had yellow as it's main colour)
@BulbasaurusRex depends on whether you're using light or pastel colors.
Even if yellow is the complement to cian and magenta, that's all the more reason not to be zagurino
Time to take it to the NEXT next level!
This one would take place in the Spanior Region lol
Or maybe just go all out and release the entire artillery!
Innovation!
Woodenplank Studio is a very talented cartoonist.
Sword dog is a dog holding a sword in it's mouth.
Shield dog is a dog with a shield around it's neck.
They're both quadrupeds and very much dog-like.
Why would gun dog be biped and anthropomorphic, holding the gun in it's hands? It should be on all four with a back/shoulder mounted gun.
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