Talk:Pikachu: Difference between revisions
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:::I feel like with Pikachu we should refer to him as male, since clearly his anatomy in the Pokemon games of a male Pikachu match his appearance in Smash Bros[[User:Gpev96|Gpev96 (SHAZAM!)]] ([[User talk:Gpev96|talk]]) 21:21, 26 October 2014 (EDT) | :::I feel like with Pikachu we should refer to him as male, since clearly his anatomy in the Pokemon games of a male Pikachu match his appearance in Smash Bros[[User:Gpev96|Gpev96 (SHAZAM!)]] ([[User talk:Gpev96|talk]]) 21:21, 26 October 2014 (EDT) | ||
::::Pikachu's gender was ambiguous when ''Super Smash Bros.'' was released, and that carried over into later games, even after gender differences were introduced. SmashWiki uses gender-neutral pronouns because the games themselves refer to Pikachu with said pronouns. This applies to other characters, too; even though R.O.B. technically doesn't have a gender since he's not organic, he's widely known as male (and referred to in-game as one). Basically, he was assigned a gender. Pikachu hasn't been assigned one yet and probably won't get one, so the gender-neutral pronouns stay. <font face="X-Files">[[User:Blue Ninjakoopa|<span style="color:#0000a5">Blue</span>]] [[User talk:Blue Ninjakoopa|<span style="color:#0000a5">Ninjakoopa</span>]]</font> 22:46, 26 October 2014 (EDT) | ::::Pikachu's gender was ambiguous when ''Super Smash Bros.'' was released, and that carried over into later games, even after gender differences were introduced. SmashWiki uses gender-neutral pronouns because the games themselves refer to Pikachu with said pronouns. This applies to other characters, too; even though R.O.B. technically doesn't have a gender since he's not organic, he's widely known as male (and referred to in-game as one). Basically, he was assigned a gender. Pikachu hasn't been assigned one yet and probably won't get one, so the gender-neutral pronouns stay. <font face="X-Files">[[User:Blue Ninjakoopa|<span style="color:#0000a5">Blue</span>]] [[User talk:Blue Ninjakoopa|<span style="color:#0000a5">Ninjakoopa</span>]]</font> 22:46, 26 October 2014 (EDT) | ||
::::It's also for consistency. Pikachu's tail being a gender indicator doesn't apply to the first two Smash games, since they predate Gen IV. This would lead to weird situations of using "it" for two games and "he" for two, which looks messy and inconsistent. It's neater to keep a standard of all Pokemon being gender-neutral, and as BNK said it also matches how they're referred to in official media (barring errors like Lucario once or twice). [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 23:17, 26 October 2014 (EDT) | |||
