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====Name origin==== | ====Name origin==== | ||
As revealed in a Penny Arcade Staff Podcast by Jeff Kalles, who assisted in the naming of many [[Generation II]] Pokémon, the word Natu is short for nature. At the time, Nintendo's English translators were looking to have a Pokémon for every letter of the alphabet, so they could create a letters book for the younger audience. Kalles read that the word Xatu is a kind of totem pole, and assigned that name to the evolved form of this Pokémon, while assigning this pre-evolved form the abbreviated form of the word Nature. | As revealed in a Penny Arcade Staff Podcast by Jeff Kalles, who assisted in the naming of many [[Generation II]] Pokémon, the word Natu is short for nature. At the time, Nintendo's English translators were looking to have a Pokémon for every letter of the alphabet, so they could create a letters book for the younger audience. They did not have a creature for the letter X, as there had been no English-language Pokémon with X as the first letter of their name. Kalles read that the word Xatu is a kind of totem pole, and assigned that name to the evolved form of this Pokémon, while assigning this pre-evolved form the abbreviated form of the word Nature. | ||
==In other languages== | ==In other languages== | ||