Subject: Misspelled Monkeys...
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Posted on: 2014-03-12 13:45:00 UTC

... are, I believe, zombies. Pretty sure the undead qualify as 'shouldn't exist'.

And, to expand a little on your point - we're not talking about things that shouldn't exist in canon. Obviously, a miniature version of a canonical monster will be based on something that's in canon. But within the canon, there are things that the good guys - and the readers - agree shouldn't exist. Demons of flame and shadow. Giant spiders (particularly in Scotland). Wooden boxes with dozens of little legs. Hell-monkeys.

Dragon-snake demigods who are commemorated in local myth? Robots from space? Or animate skeletons who turn into broken code? I know which I'd choose.

And yes, 'broken code' does still allow them to exist in the physical world. See: Porygon. I argued back in January that Porygon is the reason for the lack of internet and general computer skills in Pokeworld - because if one person can code a Porygon, so can everyone else. While it doesn't exist in canon, there's a definite space for Missingno here - it's what happened when someone tried to code a Pokemon... and messed up big time.

Which is also the explanation for minis - you tried to write a story, but you put the bits together wrong.

So... Missingno is pretty much a canonical mini: it shows up when the program gets the name of the next Pokemon wrong.

hS

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