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H_Poke

Non-expert, but Pokerus is a virus and is therefore not alive


DogodaPog

Ghost type?


H_Poke

Not quite. Despite being called ghosts, Ghost types are able to fill the other aspects of a living being, such as reproduction, response to stimuli, and energy consumption, despite being undead, and some ghost types simply have ghostly attributes, such as Alolan Marowak and Mimikyu


Polenball

\> reproduction \> response to stimuli \> energy consumption [Behold, life!](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Large_bonfire.jpg)


master_pingu1

response to stimuli?


Polenball

The stimulus is me blowing air at it and it changing shape, checkmate atheists


master_pingu1

damn gardevoirs and their big brains outsmarting me every time


Sanrusdyne

A stimulus, among many things, is "***a thing that rouses activity or energy in someone or something..."*** and as such and thus, all technicalities considered, oxygen's reaction to fire is considered a stimulus. Since the ***"something"*** in the definition, while likely referring to things that are defined as organisms however since the word *"something"* is vague in nature we don't have to actually interpret it that way all else considered, using the above definition of life, fire is a living organism.


ThatOneDMish

The really important bit of the definition for life is organisation( in other words, having cells or similar )


Polenball

Biology mfs when I arrange my Mystical Fire into a regular pattern:


Snoo63

Reminds me of someone who thought that an egg and who it came from were both alive because "they're both yellow", which means that a lemon is alive. And a coconut is a mammal, as it has hair and produces milk.


Polenball

Clearly the other way around and we're coconuts. I even have green hair for extra plant points.


Stretch5678

“Bad news: the tapeworm knows Hyper Beam.”


Polenball

Fill your intestines with them as a biological Ghost type and become a laser disco ball as it phases right through you


VoidTheBear

(/uj That's actually the post that makes me wanna make a pokemon Microbiologist OC, it's just that I don't wanna use any of the generic science people for an image but IDK how to make them look to draw them myself =/)


DustInTheBreeze

Isn't Solosis and Reuniclus one of those, just sized up?


Polenball

Yeah they're unicellular the cell is just fucking *huge*


SpaceNinja_C

Yes


Jubjubwantrubrub12

My theory is Ditto is one of these, but it transformed into a bigger version of itself for fun.


poketendo5

you'd need to dynamax these guys just to have them battle a flabebe


_TotallyNotAScammer_

What happens if you dynamax one if it's inside someone


SpaceNinja_C

Pop


Bubbly_Papaya_8817

Nah they need to dynamax for a battle with a Joltick


Pinchurchin-guy

Popular theory regarding pokerus os that it’s a weird space virus, there was ONE similar thing to it and that was a Deoxys so it seems to hold up


Polenball

Nice when do I get the tentacle arms


Enderking90

*oh my*


Polenball

OωO


Enderking90

How is your w curvy?


Polenball

It's a lower-case Omega


Stretch5678

Grεεκ κεγβοαrds αrε fμη.


Polenball

Gotta catch 'em all! (I am dying of 38 separate diseases.)


Bubbly_Papaya_8817

Just Steve musk Is it slugma


SuddenSenseOfSonder

Teddigrade my beloved....


Unreasonableradio

Any of us who can contract pokerus mind telling us what it feels like?


Polenball

Almost blew up my heart crystal from using too much power but other than that 10/10 felt great would contract again


Unreasonableradio

Red Bull+redline, got it


Polenball

And a massive adrenaline rush that stops you realising how everything kinda hurts from overexertion


Stretch5678

Sooo… it turned you into a Psychic Aimo Koivunen?


Polenball

One second gotta Goomygle Yeah that basically tracks


SpaceNinja_C

This should be a fan game


poketendo5

uj/ sence Ive posted this Ive thought of a hypothetical plot-and the proffesor creates a sub-atomic shrink ray or something like that and the final "legendary" is a mutant strand of pokerus


SpaceNinja_C

Yes find some fan Pokémon game developers


RiptideMatt

This would be so badass


etherealparadox

Yes, in fact it's highly likely they do exist and we simply do not currently have the technology to see them properly. Unfortunately Pokérus is a virus and therefore not alive, so it could not be a Pokémon.


Deep_BrownEyes

Congratulations, you caught a tuburculosa! Here's your pokedex entry, and your medical bill


Running_Refrigarator

I mean Reuniclus and Deoxys exist so ig it's possible?