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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The move {{m|Mirror Move}}, named ''Parrot Mimicry'' in Japanese, is based on ability of these birds to repeat human speech.
* The move {{m|Mirror Move}}, named ''Parrot Mimicry'' in Japanese, is based on ability of these birds to repeat human speech.
* In an interview with NintendoLife<ref>[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/interview_junichi_masuda_and_hironobu_yoshida_discuss_pokemon_x_and_y_mega_evolutions_and_the_2ds NintendoLife Interview]<br>Junichi Masuda: ''Well… Now I have to think of something that, you know, won’t be used by competitors! [laughs] But one thing that I wanted to put in that didn’t quite make it was a translating machine for Pokémon cries, to find out what they’re saying. So you have this machine, and when a Pokémon cries out something, text would appear telling you exactly what that Pokémon is saying.''<br>Hironobu Yoshida: ''Really? I never knew!''<br>Junichi Masuda: ''Yes, I really wanted to put that in, but then thinking about the amount of text that we would have to include, with now over 600 Pokémon, it would be a really big task. This could be something that might appear in future games, but it sadly didn’t make X and Y.''</ref>, [[Junichi Masuda]] mentions that a Pokémon cry translation machine was considered for {{g|X & Y}}. However, it was scrapped due to the amount of text that would be needed to support the over 600 species of Pokémon at the time.
* In an interview with NintendoLife<ref>[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/interview_junichi_masuda_and_hironobu_yoshida_discuss_pokemon_x_and_y_mega_evolutions_and_the_2ds NintendoLife Interview]<br>Junichi Masuda: ''Well… Now I have to think of something that, you know, won’t be used by competitors! [laughs] But one thing that I wanted to put in that didn’t quite make it was a translating machine for Pokémon cries, to find out what they’re saying. So you have this machine, and when a Pokémon cries out something, text would appear telling you exactly what that Pokémon is saying.''<br>Hironobu Yoshida: ''Really? I never knew!''<br>Junichi Masuda: ''Yes, I really wanted to put that in, but then thinking about the amount of text that we would have to include, with now over 600 Pokémon, it would be a really big task. This could be something that might appear in future games, but it sadly didn’t make X and Y.''</ref>, [[Junichi Masuda]] mentions that a Pokémon cry translation machine was considered for {{g|X and Y}}. However, it was scrapped due to the amount of text that would be needed to support the over 600 species of Pokémon at the time.


==References==
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