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RickRaptor105 — MissingNo.

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Description W00t, Legendary Computer Virus appeared! And it looks so messed up it will screw your mind no matter whether in ´M´ or true form X_X

I jumped another bandwagon (I´m good at that, really ) and came up with a "natural appearance" for everyones favourite glitch, the infamous MissingNo. (when will they finally turn it into a legal Pokémon? It doesn´t even have to end up like this thing).
I tried to incorporate as many features known of MissingNo. as possible and the result teaches me that you should never try to incorporate as many features as possible.
MissingNo. is a Bird / Normal type (Bird is like a glitchy prototype of the Flying type) so it obviously had to be a bird. To be honest, there are some really cool MissingNo. birdies here on DA which put mine really to shame.
It can learn Water Gun (twice) and Sky Attack, so it seems to be a seabird capable of flying.
MissingNo. sometimes appears in the form of an Aerodactyl or Kabutops skeleton, so it seems to be a prehistoric Pokémon. That´s the reason I gave it clawed wings and a totally senseless raptor sickle-claw on its foot.
So we apparently get a flying prehistoric seabird Pokémon. What is the first fitting animal which comes to mind? Right, the pseudotooth birds or Pelagornithids [link] Wait, you never heard of these? Oh, well now you do.

Now that were done with the anatomy, let´s move on to the "signs".
The black head with the white question-mark around the eye is based on its appearance in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. Yes, it´s just a giant floating question mark in those games!
The bone-markings on its neck, wings and legs refer to it always appearing as the skeletons of the prehistoric Pokémon, not the prehistoric Pokémon themselves. And since it looks a little bit a living dead, its Ghost form is also incorporated into this (somehow...).
The blocks on its chest and back are supposed to look like it in its ´M´ form (I just simplified the pattern...).
In fact, if you haven´t noticed yet, this Pokémon only has the colours it had in its ´M´ form in Red/Blue edition - black, white, purple and orange.

Sadly I haven´t covered the most important part, MissingNo.´s glitchy computer virus-like attributes. Well, imagine this is the "normal" Pokémon, happily paddling on the surface of the sea near Cinnabar Island not wanting to harm anyone till some ten year old boy arrives and thinks it would be nice to have infinitive Rare Candies.
Then this usually harmless Pokémon unleashes its prehistoric power onto the youngster´s Pokédex, PC and whatever device may be around.

Oh, and check out this link for what would be the most beastly MissingNo. encounter music ever: [link]
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Comments: 5

Cryptid1399 [2012-10-05 10:03:06 +0000 UTC]

I saw this and immediately saw an alternate form:

Say that the above is the "passive form", then when threatened enough, it would grow multiple tentacles from it's back and would always be glowing. No based off of anything particularly, but... hey, whatever.

P.S. If they did incorporate it, there would be no infinite candies or glitched appearances... sadly. XD

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RickRaptor105 In reply to Cryptid1399 [2012-10-05 17:29:12 +0000 UTC]

But that alternate form would totally ruin my whole "prehistoric aquatic bird" design.

Besides, MissingNo. already has enough "alternate forms" in the shapes of ghosts, fossils, question marks and pixels.

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Cryptid1399 In reply to RickRaptor105 [2012-10-05 23:31:27 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's just what came to my head.

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JurassicMan [2012-09-19 11:34:01 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!

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Painted1994 [2010-11-26 05:14:57 +0000 UTC]

wow an idea for a Missingno.? pretty good I may say.


resembles a prehistoric bird (in which scientist thought to be related to the dinosaurs)
But the way it's described also says ultimate porygon. like what porygon was meant to be but never became and so was lost.
I agree that this is pretty amazing and very unique although it seems to be in the wrong category...
glitchy...not quite

missing No. or Missing Bird. would fit better for this.

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