Majorly a momma's boy

So should we tag this as incest or no? I'm kinda surprised that the second pokemon Kangaskhan carries has never been named as far as I am aware.

Queen_Tyr'ahnee said:
I'm kinda surprised that the second pokemon Kangaskhan carries has never been named as far as I am aware.

Kangaskhan was originally supposed to evolve into Cubone. But they dropped that idea during the development of the first gen, for various reasons.

Still, it's a bit of lore that they've never forgotten. Young kangaskhan has the exact same back spikes as Cubone.

Genjar said:
Kangaskhan was originally supposed to evolve into Cubone. But they dropped that idea during the development of the first gen, for various reasons.

Still, it's a bit of lore that they've never forgotten. Young kangaskhan has the exact same back spikes as Cubone.

I've seen all these claims about the Kangaskhan joey being related to Cubone, but I have yet to see any official sources confirming this.

Sigmund Freud!

IcyDragonVisy said:
I've seen all these claims about the Kangaskhan joey being related to Cubone, but I have yet to see any official sources confirming this.

Tajiri mentioned it a couple of times in the early gaming magazine interviews. I can't remember exactly why they decided against adding that evolution chain, but I do remember him saying that they put Kangaskhan and Cubone in the same egg group because of it.

Queen_Tyr'ahnee said:
So should we tag this as incest or no? I'm kinda surprised that the second pokemon Kangaskhan carries has never been named as far as I am aware.

Currently we actually tag it as baby_kangaskhan. We just need to be more vigilant in tagging them.

genjar said:
Tajiri mentioned it a couple of times in the early gaming magazine interviews. I can't remember exactly why they decided against adding that evolution chain, but I do remember him saying that they put Kangaskhan and Cubone in the same egg group because of it.

Tajiri said no such thing, if he did, that proof would have been posted and cited by the experts on Bulbapedia ages ago, specifically on both Cubone's and Kangaskhan's pages respectively, not to mention the fact that Kangaskhan was the second Pokemon to be designed and completed (With Baby Kangaskhan already in her pouch) as proven by it's index number, which is #2, Cubone wasn't even designed until much later and his index number is further away/higher than Kangaskhan; https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_index_number_(Generation_I)#List_of_Pok.C3.A9mon_by_index_number