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Pokémon-esque en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English Pokémon Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Vulgar Latin -iscus Italian -escobor. French -esquebor. English -esque English Pokémon-esque From Pokémon + -esque.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of the Pokémon franchise or the creatures featured in it.
   • Their take on the way Techodes work reminds of a Pokémon'''-esque feel to a mecha-centered story. 2018, Chris Stuckmann, Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation, Mango Publishing, →ISBN:
   • Did you know that the world is absolutely teeming with tiny monsters that are invisible to the naked eye? Oh, it’s totally true. Fortunately, a Sony scientist recently discovered that the PSP camera can detect these Pokémon-esque creatures just fine. 2009 September, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, page 48:
   • Haddock’s online project, titled “Screenshots”(whitelead.com/jrh/screenshots), uses the poppy, Pokémon-esque style of kiddie computer games to re-create some of the most incendiary scenes in recent memory (the Columbine killers in the cafeteria, the Rodney King beating, Elián and the feds). 2001 April, Spin, page 70:
   • Fantastical beasties from authentic Celtic lore serve as Pokémon'''-esque companions on the duo’s intertwining quest, so the monster-wrangling is both addicting and educational here. 2007 December, A. Fitch, “Folklore”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 222, page 110:
   • In Japan, it had to settle for the silver medal, with the top spot occupied by a Yu-Gi-Oh! game, one that used Pokémon'''-esque tactics to propel its record breaking to boot. 2022, Daniel Dockery, Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All, Running Press, →ISBN:
   • Cards, collected around the map, are used to send Pokémon-esque monsters into battle. 2007 June, “Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales”, in Edge, page 92:
   • Ari played a Pokémon-esque character in our musical performance. 2016, Aaron Feinstein, “We Don’t Want to Fit in: A Reflection on the Revolutionary Inclusive Theater Practices of The Miracle Project and Actionplay for Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum”, in Peter Smagorinsky, editor, Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance (Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 140:
   • If you put a million hungry ants in a glass cube with one human, who’s more likely to walk out alive? —Eric Bowman / Everyone always assumes that if you put two animals together like this, they’ll battle to the death, which is a very Pokémon-esque view of biology. 2022, Randall Munroe, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, pages 135–136:
   • It was a business success the likes of which Nintendo had never dreamed—not at first, anyway—but it was also something more: a truly Pokémon'''-esque moment, in which Japan the nation evolved into Japan the fantasy superpower. 2020, Matt Alt, Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World, New York, N.Y.: Crown, published 2021, →ISBN, page 226:
   • While old-school fans might believe that the whole Armada setting manages to desecrate our fond childhood memories of the original series by changing virtually everything (‘Megatron, a tank? That’s rubbish!’), Transformers turns this negative into a pretty convincing positive thanks to those damn Minicons – the small and almost Pokémon[-]esque robots that seem to be so important to today’s transforming machine. 2004, “Transformers”, in GamesTM, →ISSN, page 084:

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