Top 10 Scariest Pokemon
#6 - The Reaper Pokemon Family
Up next in our countdown of the Top Ten Scariest Pokemon is the Reaper Family. Instead of excluding one, or even two, of the family members, I've decided to group the three together; all of them rightfully deserve to be on the list.
Let's start with Duskull, as it's the first form of the Pokemon. From its design alone, it's obvious that Duskull appears to emulate the Grim Reaper; however, on a much smaller scale. It's like the Grim Reaper to be, probably why it sticks to the children. "There is an oft- told admonishment given to misbehaving children that this POKéMON will spirit away bad children who earn scoldings from their mothers." (Pokemon Sapphire Pokedex Entry). To put it nicely, Duskull takes problem children to their eternal dwelling, and since they were bad, you have a good idea where it's taking them.
Duskull evolves into Dusclops. Instead of keeping with the entire reaper theme. Dusclops, as its name describes, is more of a cyclops than a reaper. However, it's still pretty creepy. Its Pokemon Sapphire Pokedex entry reads, "DUSCLOPS absorbs anything, however large the object may be. This POKéMON hypnotizes its foe by waving its hands in a macabre manner and by bringing its single eye to bear. The hypnotized foe is made to do DUSCLOPS's bidding." Dusclops will hypnotize its prey, whether that be a human or Pokemon. They will do whatever Dusclops commands, including being absorbed within the black-hole like abyss inside of it.
Finally, Dusclops evolves into Dusknoir. Dusknoir is a unique Pokemon. Its Pokedex entry from Pokemon Platinum make it seem like a saint, guiding lost souls home. However, its Pokemon Diamond Pokedex entry paints a little different picture, "The antenna on its head captures radio waves from the world of spirits that command it to take people there." From that entry, it sounds like Dusknoir is a slave to the spirit world, who either kills people and then takes them there or takes people there to be killed. Either way, the reaper of souls image is definitely back in play.This is definitely one family you wouldn't want over for dinner, if you know what I mean. You and your children might be doomed to the spirit world, unless Dusclops eats you first.
Tags: Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, GameBoy, 3DS,
Well, Gengar will still be my favorite pokemon no matter what. ;) Second fav is Gastly, and next fav is Haunter. (And I love how Wikipedia says Gengar is popular with males. I'm female. ^_^)
But Pokedex entries can't describe every individual pokemon's behavior. Gastly in "The Tower of Terror" episode, the Gastly in "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak," and Officer Jenny's Gastly all had different behaviors and personalities. It's like how if pokemon could write a pokedex entry of human beings, they might say something like "Human beings rob, murder, torture, and many other things I would prefer not to say." But clearly not all human beings do that. Just like Ash's friend Haunter didn't have any desire to lick Ash or his friends to death. The "Tower of Terror" episode Gengar was definitely a lot friendlier and more benign than the Gengar in "The Ancient Puzzle of Pokemopolis" too.
But aside from these things, this article was fun to read. ^_^
Hypno can be FRIENDLY!!!!!!!! If he can eat your dreams he can also eat your nightmares. Which is good. And here's a sneak peak of my list. Scariest Pokemon ever:Darkrai
This list totally needs Darkrai...
Yep.
in the original Japaneses version it doesn't say Dusknoir takes people to the "spirit world" it say it takes them to the UNDERWORLD.
No Darkrai? Dude he feeds off people's nightmares and he can do that from 4 miles away, also no giratina but these pokemon are horrifying. And why is spoink in the mentions????
Spoink isn't a Pokemon that didn't make the cut. Splint is downright NOT scary
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i really dont see how those are scary :/ and how come Typlosion wasn't on this?
Until I get my sharpedo and destroy it lol
Hypno does'nt look scary at all.
That's just scary dude!
Good list, but why isn't Cacturne on it?
the only pokemon that creeps me out is yamask the others are cool.....thats all i have to say on the subject
Yamask isn't creepy. It's evolved form, Cofagrigus, is scary. It can turn people to mummies
seriously, not Banette, not Dusknoir, but Yamask?