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 Hey guys, I found the back sprite for male Scizor in XYORAS, but it’s not letting me put the file in. Can I get a little help with that? Thanks! --{{unsigned|Yoshibomb}}
 : You'll need to do that via the archives, it depends on how you got them though if they were taken from another website we can't use them. --[[User:Spriteit|Spriteit]] ([[User talk:Spriteit|talk]]) 13:48, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
+== resemblance to crustaceans ==
+pincers are very much a characteristic feature of crustaceans, so much so that they are nostly associated with it (even though not all of them have it)
+mantises, to my knowledge, have no pincer-like appendages
+crabs have pincers, imo when most poeple think of pincees they think of crabs, it is like the trunk of an elephant, feathers of a bird, shell of a turtle, pignose of a pig (all associated to these animals but not necessarily unique to them)
+the only other group of animals i can think of now to have pincers are scorpions, thoigh they would be much better represented by their ''tails'' in any design
+crustaceans are also often associated to red colour (even though most of them are not), you ask people to draw a crab and most of them are likely to colour it red, it may be no coinsidence krabby and crawdaunt are also red instead of the more common grey colour
+to my knowledge there are no red mantises (i may be wrong though)
+hard body (mentioned several times on the page, emphasised by the steel typing) is also not a characteristic of mantises, but is very common in crustaceans
+mantis shrimp: just like scizor's pincers containing steel, they also have mineralized clubs, that they beat their prey to unconciousness (and pieces) with (lets just say they use it like a weapon similar to scizor)
+i know it does not look like it but that's the beauty (and freedom) of art
+hybrid designs have always been common
+other hybrid designs in gen 2: sentret, gligar, piloswine (and there are many more in other generations)
+a change of inspiration is not uncommon as well
+change of inspiration during evolution: dragonite dragonair, clamperl huntail, remoraid octillery
+yeah if this is not enough to believe that the artist put a nice pair of crab pincers on a steel hard mantis and accidentally coloured it red (a colour mantises are not associated with at all) then.... i dont know what is
+then let's just keep pretending it was accidentally given crab-pincers and crab colour without the artist taking the slightest inspiration from crabs or crustaceans
+imo it's a perfect fusion between mantidfly and a crab/crustacean
+and one more time: the whole design may as well be a pun on mantis shrimp [[User:Lphits|Lphits]] ([[User talk:Lphits|talk]]) 02:54, 15 December 2022 (UTC)