On the Origin of Species: Dunsparce: Difference between revisions

[[File:206Dunsparce.png|200px|thumb|Dunsparce, the Land Snake Pokémon]]{{p|Dunsparce}} has the odd distinction of being one of the most forgotten and one of the most popular Pokémon in {{bp|Generation II}}. Indeed, the latter honor seems in part to have sprung from the former. Dunsparce was overlooked for many reasons: it's an unremarkable {{t|Normal}} type with stats that are low, but not sufficiently low to grant it any sort of notoriety. It doesn't evolve and appears only rarely in {{bp|Dark Cave|one location}} in its native {{bp|Johto}}. It also doesn't have any obvious ties to a real-world creature, and looks... frankly bizarre. It seemed as if everyone forgot about Dunsparce. Then, later on, they remembered it, and it became notable precisely because it was the Pokémon everyone always seemed to forget. There isn't any apparent logic to Dunsparce, it's just... there, shamelessly sitting in the Pokédex, being weird.

Dunsparce's Japanese name, ''Nokocchi'' (ノコッチ) is an anagram of ''{{wp|Tsuchinoko}}'' (ツチノコ or 槌の子). This translates to 'hammer-spawn', and is the term used in Japan's {{wp|Kansai region}} – the area on which Johto was based – to describe a legendary snake-like creature said to live deep in the mountains of {{wp|Honshu}}, {{wp|Shikoku}} and {{wp|Kyushu}}.