EVERY Gen 9 Pokemon Name EXPLAINED! 🌟 Pokémon Scarlet and Violet 

As for the pseudo legendaries... maybe the bax is also referring to a "box", like an ice box or a cooler. It also kinda fits well in the first two stages (their names end with ibax or i-bax).

That makes an awful lot of sense actually. Gholdengo to me also references a mesopotamian legend about a guy who wanted to become immortal to amass infinite riches (I forget his name, he was represented in F/SN Unlimited Bladworks). Would go well with that. "Tengo todas las riquezas del mundo"

I figure out it might just be Ghost + Golden + Pokémon Go, where the species first appeared and where it has a special gimmick

@@majomaheriose Are you referring to Gilgamesh? He's the earliest recorded heroic myth. He also didn't want to amass infinite riches, after his friends death he began to wonder about his own mortality and tried to find a way to become immortal. He ended up finding a plant that would rejuvenate his youth in the underworld however it ended up getting eaten by a snake but he ends up accepting his own mortality and becomes a better king because of it.

@@freshlymemed5680 uh Yes Though the version of Gilgamesh I have found is the one where he wants immortality to amass riches (?) May also be confusing that with "Touch and turn to gold" king, though

That is why the term "gambit" is used in other contexts with a similar meaning.

Also, a Karambit is a kind of knife, which may be a connection

Yeah but it’s really like “wow someone on the localization team really got into the RU-vid chess scene two years ago and made a Queen’s Gambit Pokémon with a name that does not flow well”. I get they wanted a Pokémon that used the chess concept more explicitly but come on.

@@MicoDossun I mean, you have to follow up “pawniard” and “bisharp” with a Pokémon with king or queen in its name, so they were working with scraps here

@@billnye8760 the king part is fine. You could’ve picked a better way to follow it up. It just doesn’t flow well saying it. Pronouncing it like gingham is the only way it flows

It goes Rev and Vroom. 😂 I didn't think it was even possible for me to love these things even more now.

Nova automobiles didn't sell very well in Spanish speaking places because to them the name literally means "It doesn't go"

Oh NOT THE NINJAGO ANTAGONIST NAMED GARMADON

Yes, it’s also the latin suffix for “tooth” ex; Iguanodon means “Iguana tooth”

Don also means tooth, so, miraidon means future tooth, while koraidon means past tooth

Koridan moridian and cyclizar seem to be based on hadrosaurs

And it also sounds like ride on too

he's the goodest of good bois

If I knew about Mabosstiff when starting the path of legends, I would have gotten those herba mystica in like 10 seconds

It seems to only be dark type for its methods being focused on intimidation. Learning stuff like Jaw Lock and Outrage by level up seems to imply they have an extreme temper when they see a threat to the things they’re protecting. But still, that’s just reasonable guard dog behavior?

First Pokémon game that had a story to make a grown man jerk a tear out. but ... but just one.

K-king dice? I’m sorry for what I did. I burnt your soul contract! Will you forgive me?

Time for slang. To paw someone is to put your hands on. Since the marmot is a difibulator with its hands to revive you it has to put its hands on you.

Oh yeah cause of the hair

The pawmi line should become the new mascot of Pokémon! It’s so much cuter ❤️

@@catd5307 they’re my favorite pikachu clone so far.

Ah yes my favorite evolution line: 1. Pikachu with 4 legs 2. Stands up 3. Gets a winter coat

Neat. Also thank you for the trivia. I can now finish that Pokémon name entomology quiz.

Wow, again I didn't think this thing could get any cooler. Then again it has a freakin Wakizashi goatee/fou man chu. (I have no idea how to spell any of that.)😅

Thanks for this. I didn't know there was another way of writing them outside of pinyin

Yeah, he already said all of that

You can't be a Chinese speaker. They don't speak Chinese. It's either Cantonese or Mandarin

@whatever oliver!

Wait, so they are pronounced Jian, Ding and Jin?

I was just about to put this comment down!! Thanks for saying it!

FINALLY! Some reasoning as to why this big Godzilla reference is in the region based on the Iberian Peninsula! Thanks!

It should be mentioned that (last I heard) the "quill knobs" found on the arm bones is controversial. Some scientists think they're actually muscle attachment scars.

@@tscream80 true, but with the people I have talked with in the field they are pretty certain they are quill knobs. Either way its such a specific detail on the pokemon that is a consistent feature that it cannot be a coincidence.

@@tscream80 I’ve also seen it as a reference to the two sets of hands the old kaiju costumes would have (those of the actor inside and those on the suit)

I agree as a Portuguese person myself. I am so happy to see my country inspiring a pokemon game yet most people only talk about Spain ;-; thanks Lockstin

A casual pokemon player I know thought this region was based on Mexico, so I think the references flew over alot of peoples heads lmao

Agreed, this is why im always excited when I see them come up

they really are on another level with the research!

Chi Yu can see you!

“Totes Cool” and “Totes Cruel”. I really doubt that’s the case but I absolutely love it and it is now canon in my head.

Totes cool and Totes cruel. 🤣 It is official, Pokémon has reached peak meme worthyness with it's names. As if Noice Face Form, Low Key form, Wooloo, and Snom weren't already perfect from the last generation. Then they just said, no, we can go FURTHER!

As a Brazilian I thought the same. I can even hear my mom saying "he is making a 'dengo' " She would say this when I was a child and pretend to be sick to get some affection/candy hahaha

Ele falando que Dengue é causado por um espirito maligno hahahahahhahaha

You get the gold, den go spend it

@@riyadazzam9049 ele falou que pensavam isso...antigamente...

@@carolpepe1 did they finally translate these games to Portuguese this time Back in 3ds era there were no Portuguese translation

The name also sounds like "Fandango", a type of dance. Though it might possibly be a reference to the video game Grim Fandango, which features an undead Hispanic population.

pizza

Omg, I was wondering if he'd touch on that the whole time...

Also he wears a bag made of leather. It has his tools He likes to bind He likes to BE bound

@@exzyyd392 *coughs* oh... my...

I learned that onomatopoeia from the word “kabedon”! 😂

Dondozo is the hardest in this generation for me to really understand its etymology in a convincing way. Usually Pokémon names have a couple of straightforward meanings and people will squeeze a bunch of other meanings that make less sense, are often far-fetched and are probably non-intentional or just coincidental. Dondozo seems to be made up of just that. I don't speak Japanese.

@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle lol me too

Yeah... Well in medieval spanish Don imposes authority, in common latinoamerica is just something you call someone respectfully, the spanish just dropped all honorifics at some point for... Reasons.

As a Latin Spanish speaker, we use the honorific "Don" as it was intended, not really as an insult

Latin american speaker here. Don is like saying "Sir" or "Mr." It's meant to show respect. I've never heard it used as an insult

It was given to him by the lady in the lake iirc

@@saratoga6663 ladies in lakes giving magic swords is no basis for a system of government

Yeah, Excalibur can't both be a sword stuck in a rock and sharp enough to cut anything. Except its immortality scabbard I suppose, but that's probably the arthurian answer to unstoppable force vs immovable object.

@@starlight0313 it’s a perfect system for government, especially when its chosen ones are destined to return at the countries darkest hour and that doesn’t include over 50% dying to an incurable (at the time) disease that spread unknowingly across the land

sonic and the black knight was paying attention then LUL I thought caliburn was just a name they came up with

Ok...... Pleeeeeeaaasee.... DELETE MY MEMORY! "Bolivia" Well my memory played it. I ACTUALLY HATE IT

The iodine comes from potassium iodide-another salt.

It also might take inspiration from a leaf sheep, a type of sea slug and/or Spanish moss.

it is a bamboo scroll in the shape of a snail with more leaves and other plants

Yeah I always find that interesting about the treasure of ruin Pokemon. The Pokemon ARE the treasures, but they use elements to form a body. So they are made of dead leaves and plant life, snow, fire and magma, and I guess clay.

@@jacobfoxfires9647 The "Ting" (which is a kind of ancient Chinese cauldron) can be made of clay, especially before human utilized metal objects it's a common thing in ancient Chinese culture. Likely that's why Ting-Lu is a ground type.

@@jacobfoxfires9647 I personally don't think they have something to do with the four perils at this point, because you can't match them 4 to 4 with them. Also the in game lore suggested they are evil pokemon born on the antique objects from people's negative emotions, which sounds too small of a scale for the 4 perils. The 4 perils are more like incarnated forms of natural disasters in the prehistoric mythology era (like over 5000 years ago), which I even doubt these antiques are from that time to begin with. Their scales should be very large and can cause large scale disasters, not just a tiny object that collapsed a castle and easily git sealed away from pokemon weilders. Not to say they can't expand this lore in future games or dlc though, would be interesting if they are a piece of the 4 perils or something. Bit at this point I pretty much doubt that connection.

A deep dive as to how they got in Paldea is nice and a possible hint to a Chinese-inspired Pokemon region.

@@kuyagab4444 the History Teacher tells you a traveler brought them to the Paldean ruler as gifts but became cursed, something like that

Chien is dog in French as well, but I'd be forcing to see things if I meant to imply it has something to do with the name of this pokemon

Can't wait to see a Chinese inspired region in Pokemon!

@@starboss807 And Paradox Pokémon are Ultrabeasts but Paldea

Fun fact, gargoyle shares an etymological root with the word gargle, and gargoyles are specifically monstrous statues that doubled as water drains with the water coming out of the mouth. Statues that don't have a drain built into them are called grotesques.

Purple is morado in spanish

@@inva88 y que fruta es morada? I think anyone would understand the expression “color de mora”, so I’m just pointing out a potential inspiration for the name. Alternatively, it could also draw inspiration from a morula, or a thing that resembles a clump, such as its use in embryology to denote a clump of cells that forms shortly after a zygote is fertilized, which relates to glimmora in the sense that it sort of resembles a clump of scales or petals

don is frequently used in japan to represent a top dog - for instance charizard is called lizardon. Or Don Momotaros the center character in Avataro Sentai Donbrothers. Or Don Armage the lead villain in Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.

“don” in scientific names refers to tooth

Don usually refers to tooth though. And while quite some dinosaurs have "don" in their name, it's more frequently associated with mammal names, like the Mastodon you mentioned, which is related to elephants.

don means tooth. don in pokemon referes to boss/dragon

Same here! At first I didn't really like Meowscarada but it's grown on me and has become one of my favorite new pokemon!

Meowscarda’s animation is what makes it likable, 100%

I pray for the pawmi line to become the new mascot of Pokémon, I just love it 🥰 it’s so cute!

Same, basically every single pokemon I was like "that looks weird" but then it really grew on me

Hope, Chris Pratt’s Mario voice acting is growing on you too. I mean I got us to it.

It's a common suffix in dinosaur names eg iguanodon

It means tooth in Greek and is often used in the scientific names of dinosaurs and other ancient species that had prominent teeth (Iguanodon, Pteranodon, Mastodon). Dragons have sharp teeth, and are similar to dinosaurs, so that may be why.

That is indeed what Lockstin will talk about when he gets deeper into the representations of the past and future.

Or it’s because sun is red and electricity is often depicted purple… but let’s hope they came up with those abilities your way

Thats so cool, thanks!

also dont forget about the names of their abilities: orichalcum pulse and hadron engine orichalcum is a metal composed of copper and zinc with small traces of lead. Its mentioned in several ancient writings and it was usually used to make coins. so basically ancient metal hadron is a subatomic particle made of 2 or more quarks (for nerds out there who wanna know more, this video explains it in detail: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XltiIJYRWFQ.html) so yea, basically futuristic science stuff

Fuego 🔥 Fuel ⛽️

it's a giraffe!

It was a crocodile, but now it’s my friend

Another Ra connection: a scarab god, Khepri, is basically Ra’s incarnation as the rising sun in the morning. Ra dies each night and passes through the underworld, and Khepri is him reborn in the morning.

On the point of Orthworm, "orthometric" literally means "upright measurement", so it ties directly into Lockstin using the orth- prefix.

And Rabsca would be called baracs... witch would sound like a fighting type mon

I read this series of six books which was a giant mythology mash-up. It had four famous swords representing the elements: Excalibur(ice), Clarent(fire), Durendal(air), and Joyeuse(earth). I don't know much abut any of them except Excalibur and connonically Clarent was used to kill King Arthur. Any ideas? The series was called "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel", for reference.

@@aidenwallin3523 Apparently Joyeuse was Charlemagne's Sword and Durendal was used by a Paladin of his court >.>

If it is a basilisk, then it freezes you solid versus petrifying you solid!

the feathers could be cause its also based on concavenator, a spanish dinosaur with a strange spinal display and evidence of feathers

So basically Baxcalibur is basilisk+concavenator+Godzilla+Excalibur (ice) pretty deep

Plausible, especially since Tandemaus and Maushold are in the Fairy egg group.

Hahaha, its similar to the Mexican Raton Perez

I remember there was a leak very early on detailing that there would be a mouse pokemon based on this exact thing, I don't remember if it was disproven or confirmed, but I think that Maushold is based more on Cartoony dipections of mice and the fact that mice breed like crazy.

Wow! That reference to the Tandemuis is too blatant and explains the name of the Pokémon just as well!

The Pawmot one might not actually be a concidence; as it seems to be partially inspired by Defiblirators, and is one of only two pokemon to learn the move Revival Blessing.

@@theukon-dos7271 yeah I was just about to say that pawmot have died in the name makes sense because it brings Pokémon back from the “dead”

I mean I was truly shocked when I learned they've had finally given an evolution to Dunsparce, and it was just another segment 😔

The "mot" in Pawmot sounds to me like "Behemoth", it's a powerful Pawmo. The ultimate Pawmo!

And also Chien-Pao. The Pao sounds like "Paw" which in the context of the quartet it might symbolize the kind of animals that have paws like cats. The quartet is like the famous 4 elements. Symbol of the ocean waves and water - one of the four elements. It's one of the four ...things I hope this makes sense. Either way, it's sound like a paw and cats have paws. That's it.

That is from the Anime One Piece

I kind of do too, but I wish they had actual pokemon-sounding names. In many ways the paradoxes are similar to UB's, but the ultra beasts in addition to having their weird names like UB-absorption or UB-beauty, also have regular pokemon names like buzzwole and pheromosa. I wish they did something similar here, I like the "observational" names for lore but I wish we got less weird ones too.

I've heard it going around that the past Paradox Pokemon are named the way they are because ancient people wouldn't have the same naming conventions that we do today and different understandings of how words and names work and such. Like for example the past Jigglypuff is Scream Tail, so for those ancient people they would see it as the thing that has a tail that screams, so it's a Scream Tail. the future Paradox Pokemon are also kinda that way, it's a theory that in the future everything will be all samey and similar and nothing will really have its own identity, for lack of a better description, it's shown a lot in Sci-Fi stuff with how they name robots and such (think C-3PO or R2-D2 for example) they don't usually give robots actual names, they just call them by their designation. All that to say that that's the reason why all the future ones are "Iron" followed by some kind of descriptive word. I too think they will eventually get actual Pokemon names, but I also appreciate and think it's clever how they did these names, and really the names of the entirety of Gen 9, which I'd argue is probably many of the best names Pokemon have had in a while. I don't think their current names will be made into their categories, but will be mentioned in their dex entries, like how Koraidon and Miraidon have in their dex entries, with Koraidon being "Winged King" in its dex entry and Miraidon being "Iron Serpent" in its dex entry, yet both are still categorized as "Paradox Pokemon".

I'd be curious as to what the Paradox Pokemon's 'actual' names would be. For example, Great Tusk and Iron Treads are either variants or evolutions of Donphan. As a variant it would probably be something like 'Prehistoric Donphan' or 'Futuristic Donphan' so that's pretty boring. But as a Donphan evolution (or even a branched evolution from Phanphy) Great Tusk could perhaps be Donvory, a portmanteau of Don meaning Boss, and Ivory in reference to its tusks. Iron Treads could be Demophan, reversing the split of Don-phan keeping the Phan from Elephant, and adding Demo which is short for Demolition or Demolish.

@@IronDino I'd argue it's neither a variant or evolution, rather it's just what Donphan was in Prehistoric times. I know that sounds similar to a variant, but it's not, at least not in the same way that Alolan Raticate is a variant of Kantonian Raticate for example, which is more akin to comparing regular Finches to the Finches Darwin saw on the Galapagos. Great Tusk is more like what Homo Erectus or Neanderthals are to us, they're still humans, just what humans were back in the day, or like what Mammoths were to Elephants, or Sabertooths to Wildcats, or Dinosaurs to Chickens and Birds (and other Reptiles as well). In other words Great Tusk is basically the original, and then due to adaptation and evolution (real world evolution, not Pokemon evolution) and stuff like that it became what we know as Donphan. I guess you could say Great Tusk is a long deceased ancestor to Donphan as opposed to a form/variant or evolution. In much the same way as I mentioned above, the modern day Donphan is essentially the ancestor to what eventually becomes known as Iron Treads. Basically, it doesn't seem like they'll go with "Prehistoric Donphan" or "Future Donphan", otherwise they would have likely named Koraidon "Prehistoric Cyclizar" and Miraidon "Future Cyclizar" or something like that, and they wouldn't have bothered giving them names like "Scream Tail" or "Iron Valiant" and stuff like that either if they were just going to use the "Prehistoric" and "Future" designations. It's basically that time portals opened and a group of dinosaurs stepped through one to get to modern day and a group of far future robots stepped through another one to get to the modern day. I guess you could say they are similar to Ultra Beasts, except that Ultra Beasts come from another space (or Dimension or Universe or whatever you want to call it), while the Paradoxes do the same, they just come from another time instead.

@@JacobPDeIiNoNi eh, how could you name a Pokémon that is literally just another Pokémon but made of metal?

Indeed they do ichigo got his powers by being experimented on by the evil organization shocker

Being that it was (spoiler alert) warped from the future, a possible future opens up that the Gallade and Gardevoir species did a Darwinian evolution through chimerism (when two or more zygotes fuse into one before implantation). If people want to write fanfics on this topic, you're welcome.

@@JamesDavy2009 yes its weird to imagine the future as its explain by the professor that watherever environment the future made those pokemon more powerful, iron valiant makes me think other pokemon who have diferent evolution could aslso have fuse.

@@Rprot_traveler Well, with things like Crispr to do gene editing and cyborg technology, these things could very well happen. That makes Mewtwo's creation look prehistoric by comparison.

In the future, there is no need for gender

I actually have a large theory I've come up with as to why Gardevoir and Gallade fuse in the future that I'm pretty convinced is the intended meaning behind Iron Valiant's design.

Also, revavroom could refer to "revolución" or revolution which refers to a complete circular movement like the wheels in a car or gears in an engine. And vroom is a word commonly used to refer to the sound of a motor

It also makes sense with the name of Gimmighoul, Give me Gold -> I have gold. Haha

Why do you name arbolovia? His name is arboliva that is simpler

Oh yeah and it even starts with the Arabic article Al-

Could also just be a Spanish or Portuguese place since we do have Arabic words and languages because of history. Algarve for example using the Al

A lot of Spain, especially in the south, has arabic architecture, by virtue of having been occupied by the arabs for about 800 years. The word patio is a Spanish word that in Spanish refers to a classic indoor yard, a piece of architecture popularized here by the Arab invasion.

the "Kin" could also refer to its ability, it gains strength from its fallen kin/party members

their face looks like a those samurai masks(? correct me if im wrong) with the mustaches

Kinsho is also the Golden General piece on a shogi board. Could be a tie in to the others' chess-like names.

Maybe the pokémon is trying to act all nice and friendly just to get coins

@@matheusmorais8069 Or perhaps it becomes affectionate because you went out of your way to get it all those coins. Yours does sound plausible, though; it is a ghost type, after all.

Actually, Quaxwell stands in 1st position, but since he's looking off to the side, it makes it look like 3rd. You can really get a good look at this in the pokedex. And in his battle animations, you can clearly see him move through 3rd and 5th! I love this pokemon so much!

@@asterlyons8564 Sorry about that! I haven't been in Ballet in 18 years so I might've forgotten about that. Thank you for the correction!

@@Wolfbane382 No need to apologize, just sharing what I learned from checking out its animations in the pokedex! I totally thought it was in 3rd as well until I took a closer look.

What about inner gay?

@@Thinkaton10 what a comedian

Would make sense, given the name and animation if its signature move, Order Up.

I am think of Rotation Belt sushi too

Dodonzo is absolutely based on a sushi chef. The frill on its head even imitates the stereotypical twisted headband they wear.

he will never get this name right ever for years to come (it's also very on-brand for lockstin to 'correct' himself by going from the right spelling to the wrong one lmao)

Don't think so since the cat is a iberian Lynx and his maks is a reference to mask used in festivals.

No. The mask looks nothing like Zorro's. I feel like people only say that because Zorro is Spanish. But nothing about Meowscarada ties to Zorro, especially since Zorro is seen as a hero where as Meowscarada has the dark type

Same Chinese Boy here

I believe it would make the most sense if chi-Yu was supposed to be 赤魚 or 熾魚

Hi and thanks for the interesting read. As you said, the French and German names seem to be transliterations of the chinese names. The deer is Dinglu, the leopard is Baojian and the fish is actually called Yuyu. However, Wo-Chien got a more significant change and is called Chongjian in both French and German. Does that change the meaning of the name in any way? And do you see a reason as to why it wasn't just named Wojian?

@@txyuan1314 It could also be 赤玉 or even 奇玉. The Romanize Chinese names are pretty much a mess I must say.

@@paulr.1962 Interestingly enough, "Chongjian" is also the Japanese name of Wo-Chien. In fact, the French and German names for them are exactly the same in Japanese. I happened to have studied Japanese for a couple years so I am aware of why this is the case. In Japanese, The sound "Wo" basically is not used in names, it only appears in some very specific grammatic situations. Therefore they cannot use Wojian or Wo-Chien as a name. They literally cannot spell it in the language. Chong (蟲or虫) can mean worm or bug in general in Chinese. I guess they went with this path since they cannot use Wo for snails.

And it’s shiny is based on kamen Rider 01 one of the more modern riders

Also his name also has a part of the main final attack of a kamen Rider a rider kick

Seeing how no one caught on about this it shows how unknown kamen Rider is to the west

I don't think that was a coincidence.

Yea portugese tends to be overshadow by Spanish do the similarity and been so close to other Spanish countries.

Even more strange that Koraidon and Miraidon have codenames (Winged King and Iron Serpent)

Iron Valiant = Gardelade

Sada and Turo really were not good scientists.

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@@rhinastocroc-boulet5189 GOD I love Iron Serpent that is just badass

He also got Farigiraf's name wrong

Yea glad someone mentioned this its fire kinda look like paper which is usually added when making one

This one might not be important but It kinda has the word "bird" in there(cuz there is a little bird on it's snout).

Skeledirge sounds like what?? Alebrije only shares like on syllable being the “kele” and “A. Also dirge is Spanish for "to lead" or "to direct" or just "the lead" so it could me it directs the bird or be a stage director or it's the lead of a show

It does not sound like Alebrije

@@alvaroherrmo instead of skeled(urge) u can say skele(deer-hey) sometimes the g in spanish is used like an h like the name jorge