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	:Well... you're right that there's a physical resemblance between the adult antlion and the dragonfly, but Japanese doesn't seem to make the connection between dragonflies and dragons: none of the Japanese terms for dragonfly are related to dragons. In addition, we have an actual dragonfly Pokemon (Yanma) who doesn't have Dragon typing, so I don't think Vibrava and Flygon's Dragon typing is related to their dragonfly resemblance. That said, it's not something I can state for certain. I felt that the Dragon typing was more likely due to their status as mythical beasts, since the Dragon type has a tendency to be slapped onto Pokemon for slightly nebulous reasons (Dialga, Palkia and Garchomp seem to have little in common with traditional dragons of either Japanese or Western origin). I concur that my reasoning within the article could be stronger, and I usually avoid stating things I'm not totally convinced of, but I wanted to at least give ''some'' sort of acknowledgement to the dragon issue because it's something that people would be wondering about. [[User:George Hutcheon\|George Hutcheon]] 13:23, 27 July 2010 (UTC)		:Well... you're right that there's a physical resemblance between the adult antlion and the dragonfly, but Japanese doesn't seem to make the connection between dragonflies and dragons: none of the Japanese terms for dragonfly are related to dragons. In addition, we have an actual dragonfly Pokemon (Yanma) who doesn't have Dragon typing, so I don't think Vibrava and Flygon's Dragon typing is related to their dragonfly resemblance. That said, it's not something I can state for certain. I felt that the Dragon typing was more likely due to their status as mythical beasts, since the Dragon type has a tendency to be slapped onto Pokemon for slightly nebulous reasons (Dialga, Palkia and Garchomp seem to have little in common with traditional dragons of either Japanese or Western origin). I concur that my reasoning within the article could be stronger, and I usually avoid stating things I'm not totally convinced of, but I wanted to at least give ''some'' sort of acknowledgement to the dragon issue because it's something that people would be wondering about. [[User:George Hutcheon\|George Hutcheon]] 13:23, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

			"Disgaea incorporates more of the mythical elements and features a monster class called the Myrmecoleo, which has the face of a lion and the tail of a scorpion" - Isn't this actually a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manticore Manticore] rather than any mythical antlions? Great articles, by the way. I absolutely love them. :D ~ [[User:C.Olimar788\|C.Olimar788]] 04:17, 28 July 2010 (UTC)