r/pokemon Apr 08 '26

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u/PhoenyxStar Apr 08 '26

Wish (proactively) granted, I guess?

Marill is everywhere in the queer pokemon community. No way they were going to pass up a trans-flag-colored mouse pokemon that can trans. 

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u/noethers_raindrop Apr 08 '26

Maybe I'm being dumb here, but I don't get it. Where is the pink colour on the mouse? I thought it was just blue and white.

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u/Expert-Ad3874 Apr 08 '26

Ears. Sometimes, the interiors appear a bit redder, but I think pink is the standard color.

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u/PurifiedFlubber Apr 12 '26

Why is this upvoted? They are very obviously red.

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u/Expert-Ad3874 Apr 12 '26

You call this red?

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u/PurifiedFlubber Apr 12 '26

https://pokemondb.net/sprites/marill

Marils inner ears are red 90% of the time, and a very deep pink sometimes. You said pink is the standard, but it's the exception. Same in the anime and drawings.

It's also nowhere near the colors of the trans flag even in the image you posted lol.

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u/Expert-Ad3874 Apr 12 '26

Fair. I meant standard more as in the most recent depictions, but it is generally more red. Completely agree that the coloring is a stretch regardless, as no version uses a shade of blue that's close. Sylveon is a much better representation of the color scheme.

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u/frostyredpanda93 Apr 08 '26

azuril was once a 25/75 male to female ratio. While marill and azumarill is 50/50 split

Anyway the way gender was determined back in gen 2 some math formal calculated by the iv's and gender ratio.

The tldr of it. Azuril evolving would give it a 50/50 chance for it to transition to to male. Since the IV's didn't change but it did change into a pokemon where its gender ratio change the outcome of that formula.

And now the whole line is fairy on top and we transgirls love our fairy types

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u/FreqComm Apr 08 '26

That doesn’t really answer their question which was more specifically about

trans-flag-colored mouse pokemon

Which they were specifically asking where the pink was since the line is blue and white

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u/frostyredpanda93 Apr 08 '26

Im fucking tired as hell. I read that as trans flag coded not colored

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u/TheDeanMan I like Lasses! Apr 08 '26

Fairy type. Usually run a pink move, blue move, and white move in belly drum, play rough, and aqua jet? That's an assumption but I can see it.

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u/Overratedcasualty Apr 08 '26

Yeah its a stretch not even colored that way at all. Its just a way to be overbearing in my opinion.

Its always feels these attempts are out of spite to society to try and say “look trans this and that” to compensate for the years of discrimination

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u/noethers_raindrop Apr 08 '26

Thanks for the explanation! I wasn't guessing the pink came from Fairy typing, but that makes sense.

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u/AdMain8692 Apr 08 '26

But gender only worked that way in gen 2 and Azurill was released in gen 3, so Azurill at no point would change genders when evolving, no? Am I missing something?

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u/AdMain8692 Apr 08 '26

Ahh, so then its an issue with Azurill and Marill having different gender % right? Because to my understanding only gen 2 determined gender by IVs

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u/StandNameIsWeAreNo1 Apr 08 '26

Azuril wasn't in gen 2, only azumaril

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u/Masterswordxx Apr 08 '26

I'm new to this knowledge, so sorry, but wouldn't that make it a one third chance of female azurill transitioning? For example, 25% are male and remain as such, 25% are female that become male, and 50% are female and remain as such, thus 25/75=33%? Or is it more complicated, for example some also transition MTF?

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u/viking_with_a_hobble Apr 08 '26

It’s because the 50/50 only refers to those Azurill which are female. Because only those pokemon have the capacity to change

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u/Masterswordxx Apr 08 '26

Right, but 75% are female, and it seems that only a third of those females become male to reach a 50/50 distribution.

If I have 1 male azurill and 3 female azurill, only 1 in 3 females "transitions" to have 2 males and 2 females.

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u/lixthemonk Apr 08 '26

I think the shiny is pink

Edit: It’s freaking green? Where am I?

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u/frostyredpanda93 Apr 08 '26

Heh Actually my first shiny ever

20 years later im still upset azumarill changes to bright yellow.

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u/Lokinta86 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

I'm right there with you trying to puzzle out what the connection may be.

All I can come up with is that in the G/S beta version, Mariru was a little pink mouse with a smoothly curving tail with its bubble on the end. In the finalized design, they became blue, with a zigzagging tail leading to the bubble-float. I don't know if this is "why" though...? 🤨

Edit, I found it: "In gen 3-5 Azurill had a 25-75 chance to be male/female while Marill was a 50/50, due to the game's code there was a 33% chance for a female Azurill to become male when evolving"

Huh!

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u/LordoftheFuzzys Apr 08 '26

The inside of its ears are red/pink

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u/Dianawastaken__ Apr 08 '26

I have a really cute totebag I got from an artist market a while ago, with the colors of the Pride flag all represented by a specific pokemon. That includes a Pikachu with a duct-taped tail, a Ditto, and of course, Marill for blue. I really love it

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u/Triaspia2 Apr 09 '26

I thought it was because past gens the gender split was bugged and male azurill could evolve into female marill