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* Gastly's evolution line is the only Ghost-type family that requires the [[Silph Scope]] to be seen. Therefore, they must be the only ones that are invisible normally while in the wild; and only in their native region of [[Kanto]]. | * Gastly's evolution line is the only Ghost-type family that requires the [[Silph Scope]] to be seen. Therefore, they must be the only ones that are invisible normally while in the wild; and only in their native region of [[Kanto]]. | ||
* The Gastly family is the only one of the original four trade-evolution families (its own, {{p|Geodude}}'s, {{p|Abra}}'s, and {{p|Machop}}'s) which does not appear in all regional Pokédexes, being absent from [[Hoenn]]'s. | * The Gastly family is the only one of the original four trade-evolution families (its own, {{p|Geodude}}'s, {{p|Abra}}'s, and {{p|Machop}}'s) which does not appear in all regional Pokédexes, being absent from [[Hoenn]]'s. | ||
* Generation II is the first generation to show Gastly as a ball of gas, rather than just gas. | |||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
It seems to be simply based on general cartoonish ghosts, or maybe a will o' the wisp. It may also have basis in the Japanese yōkai sōgen bi, the decapitated head of a monk whose head is doomed to wander the Earth, consumed by fire. | It seems to be simply based on general cartoonish ghosts, or maybe a will o' the wisp. It may also have basis in the Japanese yōkai sōgen bi, the decapitated head of a monk whose head is doomed to wander the Earth, consumed by fire. | ||