It's still fricking stupid because they should use this "ability" to dodge attacks, flee/hide, or escape from nets and traps. It just feels like an excuse for Pokemon popping in/out in Legends.
>they should use this "ability"
its not an ability, its an involuntary reflex to damage, meaning that every single time any Pokemon is called into a ball its body is being damaged so greatly that it curls up so tightly that it physically shrinks to near microscopic levels.
This is the world that "shrinking" created
That's never once stated, you simpering frickwit. The ball forces the pokémon to shrink. It doesn't damage them in the slightest, as you can catch full-health pokémon and have them remain full-health, unlike battering a rando shitmon THEN throwing a ball with a open party slot leaves you with a freshly caught, busted-up bastard.
The world shrinking created is the one you've been fricking about in since mummy bought you your first pikachu to shut you the c**t up.
>That's never once stated, you simpering frickwit.
>when Pokemon are PHYSICALLY WEAKENED they can be FORCED INTO A CAPSULE >Mentions an incident were a primeape was overdrugged to the point of TRIGGERING ITS SURVIVAL INSTINCT which made it curl up for it to fit into something small
Would you look at that, its mentioned fricking twice in succession. Pokemon involuntarily shrink as a response to damage, ergo for a Pokemon to be shrunken into fitting into a ball, it has to be damaged into triggering its survival shrinking reflex.
The only way this isn't the case is if the Pokeball is using a completely different mechanism for shrinking, and if that's the case, what frick is the point of Pokemon "having the odd ability to shrink themselves". Just have the Pokeball shrink Pokemon without the Pokemon doing anything.
by the say, this same text that mentions this shrinking thing also says that real animals exist but those have apparently been dexited from the Pokemon verse, but not the "pokemon shrinking themselves" bullshit.
It's a spin off so it doesn't matter what they say
2 years ago
Anonymous
>spinoff
Nope. Officially developed by GameFreak and recognized as a Core Game by the rest of the franchise, refer to https://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ and go ahead and see what happens when you click the checkbox that roughly translates to "Display only "Pokemon" series".
2 years ago
Anonymous
>It's a spin off
PLA is the first truly mainline game since ORAS, or arguably LGPE.
The whole thing is moronic though there's plenty of times in the anime where pokemon willingly get into balls, also even in games how would switching out a pokemon who isn't injured work kek
>In Legends >Has been repeatedly mentioned in official media, including games, since the very beginning >Has been consistently visible in EVERY SINGLE GAME as the fainting animation
I hate morons.
That's a representation of a change in perspective. In battles the perspective is the same and fainted wild Pokemon shrink as a defense mechanism.
Did you really think there were just littered piles of unconscious rats in Route 1? No. Pokemon have always been in-tune with the shrinking mechanism.
If we're taking the battle animations at face value then canonically Pokemon don't move from their spots during battle, and just hop when double kicking
Because only a select few learned to weaponise it to use it to do that anon. And of those select few, scant little have been the focus of the anime for any great length of time (and you know, movesets - just because one can learn Minimise, doesn't mean it currently KNOWS Minimise). But do keep screeching.
The series wouldn't exist without this anon. And seeing as how Pokémon was built off the genesis of this, it's actually the opposite and anyone insisting otherwise is a seething zoomie, unable to handle Daddy Game Freak correcting her.
And picrel.
Sorry you lost, but the depressing thing is you think you were even in the fight.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Anime >Concept art that doesn't even show a Pokemon >Thinks it proves anything
Lmao
2 years ago
Anonymous
>noooo, you can't use the anime to prove your point, *I* use the anime to prove my point111
2 years ago
Anonymous
I only brought up an in-game example but okay, just keep bootlicking
No, you're stupid. Why can't you understand the difference between something that is triggered involuntarily and an actual ability? Not everyone can jizz on command. You have to stimulate the prostate to do that. Not every Pokemon can shrink on command either. They have some aspect of their body stimulated by Poke Balls, which triggers the shrinking. It's really not that hard to understand if you aren't autistic.
>I had to dumb it down for you somehow. Didn't I, homosexual
But you're the one talking about wiener in your ass. Anyway, explain this shrink homosexual.
>bad cost cutting animations for a shit bad game is now being used as ammo that pokemon shrink
lol
lmao even
you already forgot the company that makes your games?
If we're taking the battle animations at face value then canonically Pokemon don't move from their spots during battle, and just hop when double kicking
Now see, kids? This is what delusion looks like. Observe as Anonymous insists upon something that was never stated anywhere being more valid than canon established more than 20 years ago. Notice how he refers to it as "nu", solely because he himself has never heard of it before now.
Rather than accept his ignorance, he clings to his delusions like a fly clings to shit.
In the early days, Poke Balls were clearly depicted as being technological and electronic.
This was the canon. Anyone saying otherwise is a revisionist zoomer refusing to accept Lame Freak retconned an integral part of the world for a spin off.
The series wouldn't exist without this anon. And seeing as how Pokémon was built off the genesis of this, it's actually the opposite and anyone insisting otherwise is a seething zoomie, unable to handle Daddy Game Freak correcting her.
And yet they referenced this concept art in Platinum, had you paid attention to what the game was telling you, then you wouldn't have this all-encompassing arsepain over having your assumptions shattered.
>they referenced this concept art in Platinum
They did not.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I already told you, it's your own fault for not digging deeper into this shit, but back when /vp/ was new and shiny and just-opened, we'd discussed this, never mind the fact the creators get to set the lore and if they wanted Pokémon to cum rivers and shit floods, they would and frick if it works in real life or not.
It' also canon wild pokemon live in tall grass but the grass we encounter pokémon in isn't jungle-like in nature, so how do they hide?
In the early days, Poke Balls were clearly depicted as being technological and electronic.
Nope, the pokemon are dematerilazed and stored in the ball like data. Frick your nu canon
Ashnime isn't canon for Videogames. Just like real animals or monsters having 6 attacks aren't canon on Pokémon World, either.
Sorry, Ashnimecucks. Your loss.
How does pokemon predation work with shrinking? A prey pokemon is beaten by its predator and shrinks, what happens? Does the predator eat the shrunken pokemon? Wait for the shrinking to wear off? If the former, does that impact nutrition?
It's not the Pokemon who shrink, it's the Pokeball that shinks them.
Official sources never cared to explain how a device originally made of two wooden "berries" manages to recall them and contain them in miniature version but hey, suspension of disbelief in this game has took the franchise so far.
We're never told either in GSC or HGSS how Kurt makes the balls, other than he uses apricorns in the process and it takes him 24 hours to make 'em. We KNOW there's some kind of mechanism in a pokéball, know they're produced in dedicated factories meaning they can't just be two hollow hemispheres made of duraplast and frick-all else, meaning Kurt's balls must have that same kinds of fittings or an alternative traditionally-sourced material to substitute for it, which I'm leaning towards believeing, given his whole shtick of "Artisan Poké Ball craftsman". An then Legends introduced a crafting method where you take an apricorn, add iron fittings and a tumblestone which when then used on a pokémon reacts with their innate physiology to catch them, just like Kurt's balls in the moddern day when people forgot how they started crafting balls to catch pokémon in the first place.
It's not hard to understand. Part of what makes a Pokémon a Pokémon is their innate ability to shrink. Some species have control over it but for most It's a natural defense mechanism. You don't have voluntary control over your own bodies defenses, it's the same for most Pokémon. The Pokeball triggers that defence mechanism.
I'm not saying this is really a retcon because it's not and they never put forth any other theory with supporting evidence before. But this answer in particular is something from an obscure piece of literature that they clearly forgot about and found it during Legends development when they needed an answer to how low tech Poke Balls could work the same as high tech modern ones, and now in 2022 they're going hard to make this lore known really feels inorganic and exposes that they really did forget or just not pay attention to the original theory but decided they liked it. Under most circumstances this would be a retcon but it was in official media before, they just for some reason never acknowledged it in 20+ years until now.
They have made it abundantly clear that Pokemon are not stored inside PCs.
>Pokemon are to be considered living things, so they should never be described as data of any sort. In the video game and animation, Pokemon can be stored and traded via a PC. This is a means of holding large numbers of Pokemon but does not reduce Pokemon themselves to simple or literal data.
At the very least, TPC is against the idea of Pokemon being reduced to data and doesn't want that in products.
You understand those guides are for Western people who don't have first-hand experience of the brand, yet who are attempting to start a partnership with the brand? Yes "don't call them monsters" because western monsters are shit like dracula, frankenstein's monster, the mummy, clarence thomas, they're magical fantastical creatures in a utopian setting where humanity has evolved past the petty differences our real world stillcan't get over.
If you're going to pick apart marketing guides, at least understand the audience the guide's aimed at. Can't do that, it's best to keep your mouth shut, as it just makes you look a bigger moron than stanning beam balls does.
>In Legends >Has been repeatedly mentioned in official media, including games, since the very beginning >Has been consistently visible in EVERY SINGLE GAME as the fainting animation
I hate morons.
>Has been consistently visible in EVERY SINGLE GAME as the fainting animation
no. From Gen 1 to 5 defeated mons were falling downwoards out of the screen / their render area. The only shrinking and de-shrinking was visible when using a Pokeball.
Hasn't this always been implied? Large creature going in to tiny thing. Either pokemon are nothing but computer data or they can shrink. Hell even being computer data could qualify as shrinking, since that needs to be stored on a physical chip.
Autists. They spent 24 years believing something only to be told they were wrong, when it's their fault they didn't dig deeper than a puddle over the last 24 years and educate themselves about it.
It's moronic baiters thinking they are too epic
Nobody is serious, they ran out of ideas so now the best they can come up with is "uhhh i will make a shrinking is bullshit thread to bait, yeah the new trolling"
People stopped being imaginative and putting effort into their bait, they are maximum lazy
It breaks fricking everything. There are numerous instances where a shrinking ability would have come in handy for a Pokemon or completely trivialized the conflict, but the Pokemon didn't use it.
Because only a select few learned to weaponise it to use it to do that anon. And of those select few, scant little have been the focus of the anime for any great length of time (and you know, movesets - just because one can learn Minimise, doesn't mean it currently KNOWS Minimise). But do keep screeching.
This a leftover from the kaiju capsule monster concept
Kaiju in tokusatsu always grow in size and shrink when defeated
The reason always changes, in super sentai its always the last resort the villain uses before fuarking off and leaving it to the monster of the week, the source of shrinking and growing in size always has to do with the big bad
In pokemon's case the source seems to be Eternatus
I like this take because its closer to the og idea of pokemon
Gen III, they moved away from adding new real world references by then, even though they reprinted JPN RG's dex entries which operated off the "pokémon in the real world" initial concept.
They didn't add new ones and the anime introduced itself with a big spiel about how the place we were going to was a place where only pokemon populated the planet as the non-human creatures. If that's not moving away from it, I'd like to know what is, given the telly show in the main advertising vehicle to the kiddies.
Why are people Causing world wars worse than the toxic " Is gardevoir furry or not " Debait?
Even If they didn't Shrink into balls.
The move Minimize exist so eather way Pokèmon Shrink
who cares lol
kind of weird the strong reaction people had to this, the only sane reaction was this one
Are americans that in love with magical energy beams?
It's still fricking stupid because they should use this "ability" to dodge attacks, flee/hide, or escape from nets and traps. It just feels like an excuse for Pokemon popping in/out in Legends.
>they should use this "ability"
its not an ability, its an involuntary reflex to damage, meaning that every single time any Pokemon is called into a ball its body is being damaged so greatly that it curls up so tightly that it physically shrinks to near microscopic levels.
This is the world that "shrinking" created
That's never once stated, you simpering frickwit. The ball forces the pokémon to shrink. It doesn't damage them in the slightest, as you can catch full-health pokémon and have them remain full-health, unlike battering a rando shitmon THEN throwing a ball with a open party slot leaves you with a freshly caught, busted-up bastard.
The world shrinking created is the one you've been fricking about in since mummy bought you your first pikachu to shut you the c**t up.
>That's never once stated, you simpering frickwit.
>when Pokemon are PHYSICALLY WEAKENED they can be FORCED INTO A CAPSULE
>Mentions an incident were a primeape was overdrugged to the point of TRIGGERING ITS SURVIVAL INSTINCT which made it curl up for it to fit into something small
Would you look at that, its mentioned fricking twice in succession. Pokemon involuntarily shrink as a response to damage, ergo for a Pokemon to be shrunken into fitting into a ball, it has to be damaged into triggering its survival shrinking reflex.
The only way this isn't the case is if the Pokeball is using a completely different mechanism for shrinking, and if that's the case, what frick is the point of Pokemon "having the odd ability to shrink themselves". Just have the Pokeball shrink Pokemon without the Pokemon doing anything.
by the say, this same text that mentions this shrinking thing also says that real animals exist but those have apparently been dexited from the Pokemon verse, but not the "pokemon shrinking themselves" bullshit.
Why does it matter if real world animals were retconned? PLA still refers to the shrinking phenomenon as the basis for the Poke Ball.
It's a spin off so it doesn't matter what they say
>spinoff
Nope. Officially developed by GameFreak and recognized as a Core Game by the rest of the franchise, refer to https://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ and go ahead and see what happens when you click the checkbox that roughly translates to "Display only "Pokemon" series".
>It's a spin off
PLA is the first truly mainline game since ORAS, or arguably LGPE.
>Source: My bug filled ass
That's even fricking dumber
>ow I got hit in the face
>time to shrink down to a couple atoms
The whole thing is moronic though there's plenty of times in the anime where pokemon willingly get into balls, also even in games how would switching out a pokemon who isn't injured work kek
>Pokeballs cause such immense pain to the pokemon that it forcibly triggers their shrink reflex.
Kino
Humans sweat in response to pain and exertion.
We also sweat in response to hot or spicy food.
This is like that.
Pokemon shrink in response to injury.
They also shrink in response to balls.
Primeape shrinking was AFTER being damaged.
>In Legends
>Has been repeatedly mentioned in official media, including games, since the very beginning
>Has been consistently visible in EVERY SINGLE GAME as the fainting animation
I hate morons.
This shit never showed up in any official media for 20+ years. Not even the anime ever showed a Pokemon shrinking
>RG
>DP
>PLA
>Pokespe
But yeah sure, keep your headcanon
no nno NOOOO IT DOESNT COUNT FRICK YOU
um, acshully, it's canon that trainers can shrink too
Humans are pokemon confirmed
That's a representation of a change in perspective. In battles the perspective is the same and fainted wild Pokemon shrink as a defense mechanism.
Did you really think there were just littered piles of unconscious rats in Route 1? No. Pokemon have always been in-tune with the shrinking mechanism.
DELETE, DELETE, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
See
See
And picrel.
Sorry you lost, but the depressing thing is you think you were even in the fight.
>Anime
>Concept art that doesn't even show a Pokemon
>Thinks it proves anything
Lmao
>noooo, you can't use the anime to prove your point, *I* use the anime to prove my point111
I only brought up an in-game example but okay, just keep bootlicking
They've always shrunk.
No, you're stupid. Why can't you understand the difference between something that is triggered involuntarily and an actual ability? Not everyone can jizz on command. You have to stimulate the prostate to do that. Not every Pokemon can shrink on command either. They have some aspect of their body stimulated by Poke Balls, which triggers the shrinking. It's really not that hard to understand if you aren't autistic.
Well at least you're finally admitting you only understand the world in terms of gay sex
I had to dumb it down for you somehow. Didn't I, homosexual?
>I had to dumb it down for you somehow. Didn't I, homosexual
But you're the one talking about wiener in your ass. Anyway, explain this shrink homosexual.
Also porygon episode haves them shrink to fix a computer
>typing all that
>calling someone else autistic
>bad cost cutting animations for a shit bad game is now being used as ammo that pokemon shrink
lol
lmao even
you already forgot the company that makes your games?
>now
Fake fan spotted. I'll be here when you're ready to grovel for my forgiveness.
>shink
it's pronounced "chink", and yes, they are all small and yellow/orange'ish
he shrink
It's thanks to Eternatus
>now
Did so 26 years ago, they just got the tech to display it in-game properly starting Gen 6 and at battle start from 9..
If we're taking the battle animations at face value then canonically Pokemon don't move from their spots during battle, and just hop when double kicking
Nope, the pokemon are dematerilazed and stored in the ball like data. Frick your nu canon
Why do you need a hollow ball if they're just data lmao
It's hollow so it can shrink
anime is a separate canon
cope
separate canon is still canon
arrest
Now see, kids? This is what delusion looks like. Observe as Anonymous insists upon something that was never stated anywhere being more valid than canon established more than 20 years ago. Notice how he refers to it as "nu", solely because he himself has never heard of it before now.
Rather than accept his ignorance, he clings to his delusions like a fly clings to shit.
This was the canon. Anyone saying otherwise is a revisionist zoomer refusing to accept Lame Freak retconned an integral part of the world for a spin off.
The series wouldn't exist without this anon. And seeing as how Pokémon was built off the genesis of this, it's actually the opposite and anyone insisting otherwise is a seething zoomie, unable to handle Daddy Game Freak correcting her.
That's concept art. There's plenty more that never made it to fruition either.
And yet they referenced this concept art in Platinum, had you paid attention to what the game was telling you, then you wouldn't have this all-encompassing arsepain over having your assumptions shattered.
>they referenced this concept art in Platinum
They did not.
I already told you, it's your own fault for not digging deeper into this shit, but back when /vp/ was new and shiny and just-opened, we'd discussed this, never mind the fact the creators get to set the lore and if they wanted Pokémon to cum rivers and shit floods, they would and frick if it works in real life or not.
It' also canon wild pokemon live in tall grass but the grass we encounter pokémon in isn't jungle-like in nature, so how do they hide?
You aren't fooling anybody.
Fooling who about what zoom-zoom?
Ashnime isn't canon for Videogames. Just like real animals or monsters having 6 attacks aren't canon on Pokémon World, either.
Sorry, Ashnimecucks. Your loss.
If you really think Pokemon can only use four moves, you are fricking moronic.
>ASHnime
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Not canon for videogames. Cope.
You can't have different rules between different parts of the same franchise.
how does fainted pokemon shrink/minimize?
How does pokemon predation work with shrinking? A prey pokemon is beaten by its predator and shrinks, what happens? Does the predator eat the shrunken pokemon? Wait for the shrinking to wear off? If the former, does that impact nutrition?
No pokemon starve based on the new Canon
It makes sense because they are supposed to be like gachapon capsules.
But it doesn't make it any less stupid
It's not the Pokemon who shrink, it's the Pokeball that shinks them.
Official sources never cared to explain how a device originally made of two wooden "berries" manages to recall them and contain them in miniature version but hey, suspension of disbelief in this game has took the franchise so far.
Modern Poke Balls are electronic.
We're never told either in GSC or HGSS how Kurt makes the balls, other than he uses apricorns in the process and it takes him 24 hours to make 'em. We KNOW there's some kind of mechanism in a pokéball, know they're produced in dedicated factories meaning they can't just be two hollow hemispheres made of duraplast and frick-all else, meaning Kurt's balls must have that same kinds of fittings or an alternative traditionally-sourced material to substitute for it, which I'm leaning towards believeing, given his whole shtick of "Artisan Poké Ball craftsman". An then Legends introduced a crafting method where you take an apricorn, add iron fittings and a tumblestone which when then used on a pokémon reacts with their innate physiology to catch them, just like Kurt's balls in the moddern day when people forgot how they started crafting balls to catch pokémon in the first place.
When are we gonna get a game where the main antagonists develop a pokeball that can shrink/capture humans?
gen 10 given their recent decisions to include micro/macro stuff in their games.
It's not hard to understand. Part of what makes a Pokémon a Pokémon is their innate ability to shrink. Some species have control over it but for most It's a natural defense mechanism. You don't have voluntary control over your own bodies defenses, it's the same for most Pokémon. The Pokeball triggers that defence mechanism.
I reject GF's reality and substitute it for my own which is very easy when I only play up to 7th Gen and shrinking is not mentioned AT ALL in English.
It's actually funny because in the sun and moon anime, there's an episode where they use a machine to shrink people kek
I'm not saying this is really a retcon because it's not and they never put forth any other theory with supporting evidence before. But this answer in particular is something from an obscure piece of literature that they clearly forgot about and found it during Legends development when they needed an answer to how low tech Poke Balls could work the same as high tech modern ones, and now in 2022 they're going hard to make this lore known really feels inorganic and exposes that they really did forget or just not pay attention to the original theory but decided they liked it. Under most circumstances this would be a retcon but it was in official media before, they just for some reason never acknowledged it in 20+ years until now.
Also even then the data theory has to be true to some extent because of PCs
They have made it abundantly clear that Pokemon are not stored inside PCs.
>Pokemon are to be considered living things, so they should never be described as data of any sort. In the video game and animation, Pokemon can be stored and traded via a PC. This is a means of holding large numbers of Pokemon but does not reduce Pokemon themselves to simple or literal data.
At the very least, TPC is against the idea of Pokemon being reduced to data and doesn't want that in products.
>Never refer to pokémon as "monsters"
pokemon
pocket monsters
You understand those guides are for Western people who don't have first-hand experience of the brand, yet who are attempting to start a partnership with the brand? Yes "don't call them monsters" because western monsters are shit like dracula, frankenstein's monster, the mummy, clarence thomas, they're magical fantastical creatures in a utopian setting where humanity has evolved past the petty differences our real world stillcan't get over.
If you're going to pick apart marketing guides, at least understand the audience the guide's aimed at. Can't do that, it's best to keep your mouth shut, as it just makes you look a bigger moron than stanning beam balls does.
Explain this shrinkgays
kek. you won't get an answere from bootlickers.
>Has been consistently visible in EVERY SINGLE GAME as the fainting animation
no. From Gen 1 to 5 defeated mons were falling downwoards out of the screen / their render area. The only shrinking and de-shrinking was visible when using a Pokeball.
They were shrunk first and the pokeballs were modified to catch anything
Eh? how did they fit in the Pokeball before?
In the early days, Poke Balls were clearly depicted as being technological and electronic.
Hasn't this always been implied? Large creature going in to tiny thing. Either pokemon are nothing but computer data or they can shrink. Hell even being computer data could qualify as shrinking, since that needs to be stored on a physical chip.
Jesus who gives a frick?
How does this affect anything in the slightest?
I am critically adverse to change.
Autists. They spent 24 years believing something only to be told they were wrong, when it's their fault they didn't dig deeper than a puddle over the last 24 years and educate themselves about it.
It's moronic baiters thinking they are too epic
Nobody is serious, they ran out of ideas so now the best they can come up with is "uhhh i will make a shrinking is bullshit thread to bait, yeah the new trolling"
People stopped being imaginative and putting effort into their bait, they are maximum lazy
It breaks fricking everything. There are numerous instances where a shrinking ability would have come in handy for a Pokemon or completely trivialized the conflict, but the Pokemon didn't use it.
Because only a select few learned to weaponise it to use it to do that anon. And of those select few, scant little have been the focus of the anime for any great length of time (and you know, movesets - just because one can learn Minimise, doesn't mean it currently KNOWS Minimise). But do keep screeching.
This a leftover from the kaiju capsule monster concept
Kaiju in tokusatsu always grow in size and shrink when defeated
The reason always changes, in super sentai its always the last resort the villain uses before fuarking off and leaving it to the monster of the week, the source of shrinking and growing in size always has to do with the big bad
In pokemon's case the source seems to be Eternatus
I like this take because its closer to the og idea of pokemon
So is there a distinction between them and “normal” animals now? How does this even work?
Normal animals were reconnected in Gen 4.
Gen III, they moved away from adding new real world references by then, even though they reprinted JPN RG's dex entries which operated off the "pokémon in the real world" initial concept.
Nothing was contradicted in Gen 3, like you said they kept the real world references in FRLG.
They didn't add new ones and the anime introduced itself with a big spiel about how the place we were going to was a place where only pokemon populated the planet as the non-human creatures. If that's not moving away from it, I'd like to know what is, given the telly show in the main advertising vehicle to the kiddies.
The anime is a separate canon, just like the manga is.
An ad has to accurately represent what it's selling.
The anime sells merchandise. TPC barely makes any money off the games.
No, they were retconned out as early as Gen I.
Why are people Causing world wars worse than the toxic " Is gardevoir furry or not " Debait?
Even If they didn't Shrink into balls.
The move Minimize exist so eather way Pokèmon Shrink
Based. Ashnime is NOT canon for the games.
Shrink denials FOREVER BTFO.
Why does this fact mindbreak /vp/?
Because many /vp/ posters are ashnime-lovong manchild freaks. In their headcanon, pokemon turns into red light when going into pokeballs
Americans think Telly is infallible to the level of God Himself, so when something comes along that disproves its teachings, they lose their minds.
>now
every time you get in a transporter in star trek, you shrink!