Talk:Ash's Coma/@comment-26443507-20150610191145/@comment-25219182-20160427054438

I don't think the author was implying Ash imagined all Pokemon, just that anything succeeding the events of that storm were the things he saw as a result of lying in a coma for X amount of years. Pokemon do exist in the universe in which Ash lapsed into this coma, so in his mind he's drawing from real life experience, just making up his own adventures to go along with these creatures. Which begs the question, Are there actually animals in the world he lives in? I know they've been referenced and shown in the anime many times, but if we were to accept this theory as canon (not that I do, but just for the sake of argument), we could certainly see that he does start to forget animals right around the time the creators finally got it into their heads that animals kinda shouldn't exist in a world full of Pokemon. Also, I know the show is geared towards seven year olds, but there's a lot of stuff in there that makes no sense, such as the reactions of the construction worker in Dig Those Diglett. He was just irrationally angry, and anyone behaving like that on the job in the real world would hopefully be fired, but maybe it makes sense to a ten year old, who doesn't really care about that stuff, that he would get this outrageously worked up over it. Same with Officer Jenny and the guy from the Dratini episode and I'm sure the people from the Squirtle Squad episode and probably even the people from the Dark City episode just pulling guns on children and having absolutely no qualms about it. There's a certain level of restraint most adults have when it comes to children that most children don't tend to recognize, especially if they're living in a comatose fantasy land, where getting the shit kicked out of you when everyone can clearly see you're blameless is just the height of cool. Especially if you keep getting up after he telekinetically pantses you, makes you dance like an idiot, and throws you to the ground repeatedly. Just keep getting up. You're so cool that way inside your own head.