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Personality & Development: Ash's Squirtle (view source)
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{{bp|Ash's Squirtle}}: boring, emotionless, Kanto plot device Pokémon... | {{bp|Ash's Squirtle}}: boring, emotionless, Kanto plot device Pokémon... No, that's not how this column works, all Pokémon that have been on the main cast have showed personality and undergone development. Squirtle being caught in only the {{bp|EP012|twelfth episode}} had a great amount of time to establish itself as a character, and has just as complex of a characterization as {{bp|Ash's Pikachu|Pikachu}}. | ||
[[File:Squirtle Squad.png|right|thumb|200px|Squirtle's gang]] | [[File:Squirtle Squad.png|right|thumb|200px|Squirtle's gang]] | ||
The first time we saw Squirtle was looking up from a pitfall trap that {{bp|Ash}} and the gang had fell into. He stood there with his gang wearing sharp and cool sunglasses, indicating he was the leader. {{bp|Officer Jenny}} later explained that the five Squirtle had all been abandoned by their Trainers and had since been causing trouble for everyone they could. As best as I can describe it, the Squirtle, who had all lost their attachment figures (Trainers) were all fixated at the first stage of detachment; protest. Of course my talk of attachment refers to young beings. Although I already pulled this with Pikachu, I'd suggest Squirtle was in fact quite young at the time of its capture and was in desperate need of attention, which was exactly what he and his gang were seeking as they rebelled against humans. When faced with human contact, he flat-out told {{bp|Meowth (Team Rocket)|Meowth}} that he trusts no humans. This is understandable when you consider {{wp|John Bowlby}}'s evolutionary explanations {{wp|theory of attachment}}. The theory states that a child will make its own internal working model of attachment based of its primary attachment, so if Squirtle had a poor relationship with its original Trainer, it will always expect to have a poor relationship with any other Trainer, so it is truly the fault of the Trainers that these Squirtle behaved like such common criminals and resented any human contact or affection. | The first time we saw Squirtle was looking up from a pitfall trap that {{bp|Ash}} and the gang had fell into. He stood there with his gang wearing sharp and cool sunglasses, indicating he was the leader. {{bp|Officer Jenny}} later explained that the five Squirtle had all been abandoned by their Trainers and had since been causing trouble for everyone they could. As best as I can describe it, the Squirtle, who had all lost their attachment figures (Trainers) were all fixated at the first stage of detachment; protest. Of course my talk of attachment refers to young beings. Although I already pulled this with Pikachu, I'd suggest Squirtle was in fact quite young at the time of its capture and was in desperate need of attention, which was exactly what he and his gang were seeking as they rebelled against humans. When faced with human contact, he flat-out told {{bp|Meowth (Team Rocket)|Meowth}} that he trusts no humans. This is understandable when you consider {{wp|John Bowlby}}'s evolutionary explanations {{wp|theory of attachment}}. The theory states that a child will make its own internal working model of attachment based of its primary attachment, so if Squirtle had a poor relationship with its original Trainer, it will always expect to have a poor relationship with any other Trainer, so it is truly the fault of the Trainers that these Squirtle behaved like such common criminals and resented any human contact or affection. | ||