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Shouldn't the top of the page be structured as "Simisage (Japanese: ヤナッキー Yanakkie) is a Grass-type Elemental Monkey Pokémon"? Since Metagross, for example, is listed as a "dual-type Steel/Psychic pseudo-legendary Pokémon" and "Pseudo-legendary" is also a fan term. [[User:Me, Hurray!|Me, Hurray!]] ([[User talk:Me, Hurray!|talk]]) 23:55, 30 August 2013 (UTC) | Shouldn't the top of the page be structured as "Simisage (Japanese: ヤナッキー Yanakkie) is a Grass-type Elemental Monkey Pokémon"? Since Metagross, for example, is listed as a "dual-type Steel/Psychic pseudo-legendary Pokémon" and "Pseudo-legendary" is also a fan term. [[User:Me, Hurray!|Me, Hurray!]] ([[User talk:Me, Hurray!|talk]]) 23:55, 30 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
:Your argument is probably more persuasive to remove pseudo-legendary from those pages, not to add more fan terms. Noncanon material is not a good thing to put on canon articles. [[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 05:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC) | :Your argument is probably more persuasive to remove pseudo-legendary from those pages, not to add more fan terms. Noncanon material is not a good thing to put on canon articles. [[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 05:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
== Speak No Evil design motif == | |||
I think I've figured out what about Simisage's design is a reference to Speak No Evil: it's giving a thumbs up. | |||
It might seem like a stretch, but I don't think so if you think about it. A thumbs up is obviously a hand gesture, which can act as a substitute for verbal speech. I'm not gonna try and stretch it so far as to say it's referencing sign language, but in essence, that's what a thumbs up is. So I think the thumbs up is the Speak No Evil design motif as you can substitute words such as "good" or "okay," etc. for hand gestures, probably most commonly the thumbs up, at least in the West as I'm not that knowledgeable about Japanese culture. | |||
Additionally, on the note of "good," Pansear holds it's hand up to its ear as though it's trying to listen, which is more fitting with a variation of the Three Wise Monkeys that are "Hear, Speak, and See only good," but if this was evidence, there's not enough to strongly support that theory, so it's more likely just a fun coincidence, additionally since Pansear is not Simisage's prevo. | |||
I'm very timid when it comes to editing, so I wanted to put this here first and gauge opinions first, rather than just assuming I'm right and slapping it in the trivia straight away. | |||