It was on August 3 that Pokémon fans were able to get a lot of information on the next highly anticipated title, which is Pokémon Scarlet and Purple. On the program for this new game, the 9G with some pretty cool new mechanics, we have to admit.
If we are going to have the right to Pokémon that can turn into real speedsters to read the news Paldea areawe will have during our adventure the opportunity to make meeting certain characters, including arena champions that we will have to face. Among them there will be Grusha, specializing in Ice-type Pokemon. If his style leaves some fans dreaming, others have not hesitated to criticize the latter… Tolerance, when you hold us!
The character of Grusha at the heart of a controversy?
While society tends men to be more tolerant of their own, there are sadly some backsliders that still linger, even in 2022. the reveal of the character of Grusha from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the latter stood out with his androgynous style. If some players thought it was a woman, some of them cried foul when they learned it was a man.
Eh yes, Grusha is indeed a man, and just because he has an androgynous style with makeup on his eyes and long hair does not make him a woman.. However, to read some comments, it would seem that tolerance is still not appropriate, unfortunately, and it is quite difficult to still see this kind of reaction in our time. Moreover, this is not the first time that the Pokémon license has offered male characters with this style.
For example, in Pokémon Sword and Shield, we had the character of Alistair, specialized in the Ghost type, or even more recently Camille in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, with her long blue hair. A question then arises: why so much hatred and contempt, why create this controversy which has no reason to be fair for a video game character and moreover in our time? While we should all be supportive and tolerant of each other, there has been a feeling of “backtracking” for the past few months.
This event echoes another controversy that took place a few days ago. If it is quite different, it still remains in the same line, we are obviously talking about the anger that the latest rumor of GTA 6 has aroused with the female playable character. We are not going to get into the debate, but it is high time for mentalities to change, really.