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Pokemon
The “Ash is Really in a Coma” Theory
written by some guy in /a/
 
Did one ever know the reason why thepacing and story development change afterAsh was hit by lightning in the beginningepisodes? How Ash and his world were rela-tively normal until after the incident? I havea theory. The accident with the bike put Ashin a coma. Days later he was found and washurried to the hospital and treated with heavymedications. This is why Team Rocket becameless menacing. The medication took effect andstabilized his coma dreams, instead of beingterrifying, they became idyllic, and he’s able tolive out his Pokémon master fantasies.If one had noticed, the early episodes of Poké-mon were of amazing quality. The rest of theseries is just the results of his subconsciousmind ful
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lling his desires, as well as attempt-ing to escape them. Should Ash realize he’sin a coma, he would wake up, but suffer braindamage. So he has to take down all his mentalbarriers one by one until he can come to gripswith what he is and escape his coma.This explains why he doesn’t change muchphysically. Also, the worldwide socialism canbe explained if you once again realize that thisis a dream world; he thought up a safe systemof government that would run smoothly andkeeps the world going allowing his adventuresto work like they do. It also explains a fewother things, such as how a child can go off onhis own in a world full of dangerous untamedanimals, and why every Pokémon center hasthe same exact nurse. Joy and Jenny he knewfrom his hometown, and they act as a safetynet or anchor, allowing him to feel safe nomatter where he goes. The professors, likethe Joy’s and Jenny’s represent stability, andash’s ideals. This is why Gary became a pro-fessor. It’s also the reason that every timehe enters a new region, virtually no one hasheard of him, despite his conquests, and whyGiovanni leads Team Rocket. How couldPaul, the rival of the Sinnoh area, not knowof someone who has placed in at least the top16 of all three leagues and has destroyed theOrange league and Battle Frontier?Ash’s travelling partners are actually aspectsof himself he can enjoy, but doesn’t like toassociate with himself. Team Rocket are hisqualities that he deems “negative”, but iscoming to terms with. Jesse and James wantto appease Giovanni, Ash’s Father. Meowthespecially wants to appease him because heremembers the good times with Giovanni. ThisPlaces meowth in a category known as ash’s(corrupted) innocence, and another fragmentof ash’s humanity. If you note that meowth canspeak this quickly becomes apparrent. In factthe whole reason for meowth’s speech is sohe can help Ash accept Team rocket as part of himself eventually.Brock is Ash’s repressed sexuality. He fellinto the coma a virgin and needed an outlet forhis growing sexual frustrations. Since he cannever experience sex, Brock must never suc-ceed. Brock is a projection of his sexuality,and is constantly shot down because Ash couldnever “know” sex. Brock isn’t just Ash’slatent sexuality, he’s also his fatherly instincts,neither of which Ash can come to terms with.Brock leaves his siblings to “journey” withAsh. because Ash can’t cope with having thatmuch responsibility, much as his foray witha real relationship ends on mysterious terms.Ash just cannot handle commitment at hismental level. Brock’s Stay with professor Ivywas an.attempt to outright suppress his sexual-ity. You’ll notice that James got much moredialogue in this part of the series, as well asgetting more touchy feel-y with his pokemonand getting most of his backstory. Ash didn’tenjoy this much, hence the reasons Brock 
 
comes back all horri
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ed, and refuses to speak about it. (ash’s subconscious was repressinghim at the time, so other than a general feel-ing of dread he has no idea of what went onthen.) This is also why brock keeps comingback to the series....Usually AFTER Ash meetsa new girl aspect of himself.Misty is an imagethat Ash had of a girl. This is why she playsso prevalently in the series but is ultimatelyunattainable because he never really knew herbefore the coma. Likely the one that helped gethim to a hospital. I have a theory in line withthis: Since Misty was his initial love inter-est (if only subconsciously), he needed herto reach a level of womanhood. He felt thatpeople could only have relationships whenthey’ve matured. But in practice, it turned outhe couldn’t cope with it and just wanted thenormal, pushy, arrogant Misty he knew, andwouldn’t let her keep Togepi anymore.Misty is Ash’s
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rst attempt at a girl hecould love, however, being a girl from thereal world, all he really he knew of her washer anger, as a result she ended up quite hotheaded in his mind. Constantly berating hissexuality, but eventually mellowing out untilshe had faded into the background. This wasalso traumatizing to him, being attached to it.Since then, the thought of anyone around himmaturing to adulthood has been blocked, andanyone who shows signs of it will quickly endup leaving for another, more naive
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ll-in.Max came with May, she played the Id withgreat aspirations, and he played the sensibleEgo that “Session”. They worked for a littlewhile but Ash, being a teenager, eventuallyhad his sexuality had to come back into play.He kept reinventing himself and eventu-ally wrote new aspects, but his mind slowlybrought back the old ones as a crutch to makethe transition easier.Dawn is Ash giving himself a chance to love.since he already established Misty as someonehe’s not likely to go anywhere with, he createda new super female, one that was more likehim, and less violent all the time. (One willnote that both May and Misty had no tolerancefor Brock whatsoever whereas dawn seems totry and shrug it off.) .Tracey, The Breeder was a possible future forAsh that he discarded. It was one that he sentoff to work with the Professor (the professorsbeing Ash’s ultimate ideal of a father
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gure)when he disrupted the dynamic Ash had withhis other possibilities. Ash’s mind is
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ghtingthe coma and since Ash viewed this one asa companion he was quickly replaced with amore threatening Rival.Pikachu obviously represents Ash’s Humanity,hence the episodes where they get separated,and ash wants desperately to
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nd him, even tothe point of working with the rockets ( aspectsof himself he woould never normally associatewith) but for some reason cannot. They wantto steal Pikachu (Ash’s humanity) and hand itover to his father, Giovanni. Jesse and Jameswill always oppose ash because ash is terri-
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ed of the thought of his humanity lying in thehands of his father. However this is the samereason that he will work with those aspects of himself in order to save his humanity from justbecoming
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at out LOST. He couldn’t evolvehis Pikachu without challenging his concept of who he was, something he wasn’t comfortablewith while he was still working through hisoriginal issues.Another thing is the narrator. The narrator isAsh’s higher mind, recapping and explainingthe progress he’s made and the tribulations hewill face allowing itself insight into how best
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Radek Piskorski

(continuing from my previous comment) ... a model of human subjectivity as organized around the main character. It is rather naïve of you to assume this would only be true if it were LITERAL and Ash were in a coma. You have great insights, perhaps you should take up some Lit Crit studies?

reply2 days ago
Radek Piskorski

You do realize that all this can be true and not really in Ash's mind? All that you mentioned is just basic storytelling, psychoanalytic, Bildungsroman elements. This is part of textuality and narrative as our culture understands it. It could be said that ALL stories ever since the 19th century are strucuted like this - all the elements are supposed to represent a model of human subjectivity.

reply2 days ago
Seen Ocle

"I WILL be the very best!" at the end ... tears

reply6 days ago
Belen Medina

12 yrs old...Childhood ruined. Can never be repaired. i'm positive this wasn't the intention, but pages 8 and 9 made me nearly shed tears, and now, all the wonderful pokemon dreams i had as a younger child have been shattered. Twisted into a cruel mockery of this very theory. Overall, i do not regret reading this, as it has been written extremely well. Congratulations.

reply05 / 19 / 2012
StarwatcherII

And Ash is himself the dream of an autistic boy in a hospital.

reply04 / 26 / 2012
Tanzim Hossain

i have something to add on. Since you said that Pikachu is his humanity, it could explain why Pikachu is so fond of Misty and of course not to forget the ketchup

reply04 / 11 / 2012
Sarah Garner

I love pokeman....my favorite.

reply01 / 25 / 2012
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