I would KILL for a paradox form of Golurk. Either a “past” form that leaned into the clay golem inspiration of the mon, or a “future” form that goes 100% on the big strong guardian robot aesthetic.

There's a fun theory that Paradox Pokemon aren't from the past or future, that the "time machine" is actually a "creation machine". Because every Parodox Pokemon dex entry has some mention to magazines or conspiracy theories, with the fantastical powers of terra crystals the machine can create Pokemon out of thing air.

I would love to see a future paradox merge of Nidoking and Nidoqueen that would be so intense

It's worth noting that Iron Valiant and Roaring Moon aren't based on the regular pokemon, they're based on *Mega* pokemon! Mega Gardevoir/Mega Gallade for Iron Valiant, and Mega Salamance for Roaring Moon! Something else that I thought you'd like to know, I've seen a few fan names for the paradoxmons running around that sound a little less... clinical? But by far my favorite is for Brute Bonnet: UngaBoongus!

Iron Valiant is based on both of their Megas. The faulds on the "coat" are from Mega Gardevoir's ball gown (though they don't go around the waist entirely as an allusion to Mega Gallade's cape), as are the pointed elbows reminescent of of Mega Gardevoir's "evening gloves", as well as the majority of the general head shape, being closer to Gardevoir's head shape than Gallade's. Mega Gallade is represented in the crest, the torso (doesn't have the split chest spike like Mega Gardevoir) the legs, and the red blades on the forearms. There might even be a slight bit of Kirlia with the inclusion of "pigtails" on the sides of the head, which help to add some visual interest to a space that's already dominated by the crest. This is one reason why they and Roaring Moon are considered counterparts even amongst the rest of the Paradoxes; Roaring Moon is based on another Mega Pokémon, being Mega Salamence.

If you end up reconsidering adding your paradox designs into Mazah, I do have an idea on how the Past Paradox Pokemon could exist in Mazah (without Time Travel). I heard you mention a while back how a meteor struck Mazah in the past. What if an underground cavern area got sealed off as a result if that & the Pokemon weren't able to develop or "evolve" during the centuries that passed as a result. Just a suggestion.

Definitely agree with your take on the future paradox forms. I think Game Freak could have done a lot more. Iron Bundle not being based on the Ghost of Christmas Future or delivery drones felt like a huge missed opportunity to me.

As a fellow preferer of the past paradoxes, Iron Gazer is rad as _hell._ Easily a better executed concept than the future paradoxes we actually got.

When you stated that real world science played a very small role in Pokémon’s designs and lore, I couldn’t help but think of the fossil Pokémon. Unlike Scarlet’s Paradoxes, all of the fossil Pokémon are designed in a very similar way to modern Pokémon, and draw heavily from real world lore. Hell, the evolution of birds went almost identically in the Pokémon universe as it did irl. The fact that 25 years of prehistoric Pokémon did in fact follow the customs you mentioned the paradoxes as having ignored really puts their validity into question, don’t you think?

Iron Gazer is my absolute favorite design, even if I have gripes about the centerpiece not being a gemstone. You really pushed the boundaries on that one and it really worked out as a concept!

That granbull is possibly my favorite thing you've drawn I wanna thank your sister

If you climb up the edges of the crater from the outside, you can find Garchomps flying around. Looking at how they're posed for this flying animation you could really see how it could evolve from something like this.

Could you imagine if we saw a paradox version of the starter we chose? I half-expected to see that, but don’t hate that we didn’t get it. Past paradox Meowscarada, for example, could have been a saber tooth-like creature.

I like how Scalding Jaws's shiny resembles the Tyrantrum line, like it could've been a common ancestor between Garchomp and Tyrantrum.

I LOVE Grumble Brute! The eye liner and black bands almost give it a glam rock vibe. I think GF missed out on an amazing direction for the design of the future paradoxes though: speculative evolution. Imagine paradox pokemon based on how a Pokemon would evolve in an alternate future where an evil team's plan succeeds. For example, a Water/Fire Paradox Torkoal based on hydrothermal vents from a future where Kyogre floods the world, or a Paradox Beartic from a future where Kyurem freezes the Unova region and brings about another ice age.

Honestly, your ideas for future paradox Pokémon make me really want to see what your reinterpretations of pre-existing future paradox Pokémon would be

Scalding Jaws is how I imagine ancient Garchomp to look, Amazing work !!

My most wanted Paradox Pokémon: 3) Giant Buzzer: inspired by the fact that higher oxygen levels in the past allowed for insects to grow to larger sizes, Giant Buzzer appears like a fuzzier Cutiefly, except from proboscis to end it is about 4'6" long. Nothing else feels more abnormal than seeing the normally adorable Cutiefly being so unnervingly large. 2) Iron Container: partially inspired by Owen Woodfin's Cosmet line, a recent Mazah region fan contest winner. With Reuniclus being the last organism with living cells, scientists placed the nucleus of Reuniclus in a cryo-freezing chamber to preserve it's body. However, this Pokémon's psychic abilities allow it to float, as well as manipulate detached, metallic arms in order to escape the scientists that froze it and roam the earth. 1) Coalesced Time: A legendary Pokémon (probably Hoopa, Celebi, Or Dialga/Palkia) tampering with the power of time, this creature's cells are incredibly unstable. It's body appears to be divided precisely in half, with one half looking feral and powerful, and the other half comprised of cybernetic enhancements to improve its physical prowess. This Pokémon lives in both the past AND future

A few things that I wanna talked about when it comes to paradox Pokémon : 1- The theory that the time machine that brought in paradox Pokémon isn’t actually a time machine, but a creation machine that took the desires of Sada and/or Turo and made them into reality which is supported by the main thing that you focused on when discussing your area of expertise : design conventions. It’s obvious that not all Pokémon ancestors are dinosaurs and it’s absolutely impossible for all of Pokémon’s descendants to become machines, but they instead follow a very cartoonish interpretation of the past and future, just as you stated. In other words they are likely merely the creations of the professor’s desire to see the Pokémon within the scarlet or violet book, never meant to exist in the first place, hence the “paradox” in paradox Pokémon. Now I’m not saying that your garchomp design could not qualify as a paradox Pokémon since Sada might as well have thought “hmm this land shark like Pokémon probably descended from an actual shark”, but another route is to keep the basic body plan of garchomp and instead of adding spikes and fangs you take those away, creating a sleeker aquatic garchomp that looks like an ancient and viscous sea monster, maybe even using beta garchomp as reference. 2- I found it incredibly interesting that we only have Pokémon from the current Paldea Pokédex as the basis for paradox Pokémon and that there were no paradoxes based on Pokémon who can’t be found in the game despite the fact that Pokémon obviously would’ve migrated away from Paldea in the past and to it in the future as living beings tend to do in order to adapt. This is likely another point to the “creation machine” theory since the professor would only be thinking about native Pokémon since that’s what they’re exposed to the most, but I’m actually glad you took in outside Pokémon like granbull. 3- it’s curious that the Pokémon introduced in gen 9 also have no paradox forms with the sole exception of Cyclizar. It’s very likely that this was done to not detract from the popularity of new Pokémon and that Cyclizar was most likely made with Koraidon and Miraidon already in mind, but this lends itself to the possibility that most powerful gen 9 mons like Baxcaliber or Gholdingo might as well also have some freaky legendary paradox form potential hidden like a dinosaur made from possessed liquid gold that’s fire/ghost type or a true dragon type mecha godzilla that’s dragon/steel. 4- About your criticism concerning future paradox Pokémon. For as absolutely true as your issues with their designs may be I believe this was done on purpose to tell a story. Now paradox Pokémon don’t have conventional Pokémon names, but code names of sort that can almost be seen as scientific names created by the scholars of the expedition team that Heath, the writer of the scarlet and violet books, was a part of. So why do all of the future paradox Pokémon start with “iron” despite the original Pokémon all being mostly unrelated ? It’s simple, the future paradox mons are all closely related, they’re all recreations meant to replicate what that Pokémon once was and were all theoretically assembled on the same supply line. For whatever reasons the people of the future wanted to remake these mons be it because of the modern species going extinct in the future or the result of a disaster like a dystopian future or some natural phenomena that changed Pokémon ecology worldwide. To simplify it : Future paradox Pokémon aren’t meant to be a bunch of robotic descendants of modern Pokémon, but recreations of them. 5- LEGENDARY. FUSION. PARADOXES. This is just my personal desire, but seeing the legendary beast and swords of justice paradoxes which will probably come as DLC give me an idea. I would love to see a paradox form of Kyurem that’s really busy and is just pure and unadulterated fan service, now hear me out : A paradox Kyurem, but Kyurem itself does not change at all. Instead it is fused with paradox forms of both Reshiram and Zekrom. Reshiram, which represents truth is a past paradox that shows that fake “truth” of what once was created by the time machine to satisfy Sada’s desires and Zekrom, which represents ideals is a future paradox that shows a fake “ideal” of what will be to satisfy Turo’s desires. So you take the actual Kyurem, the past Reshiram and the future Zekrom and create a chaotic and busy design like the draconian final boss of a T-rated jrpg. Call it “False Dragon” and make it pure dragon type, or dragon/fairy since fairy’s one of the few other types that could represent the concept of intangible energy in a way other than dragon, fire and electric.

I actually love the future paradox mons. Their designs may not make big changes, but the way they MOVE is just so interesting! Iron Moth, for example, with its floating wings that move independently of one another and fold in unique ways. I think the future mons really shine when you see them in action.

The lore behind iron valiant is so good, a mad scientist was trying to make the strongest psychic type pokemon combining genetics of both Gardevoir and Gallade, Mewtwo style, but it went wrong, and instead of fusing the primary psychic type powers of the pokemon, it took their secondary typing and then iron valiant was created, a fairy fighting pokemon I love it.

I think a past rotom themed around a wisp or a fairy/wood nymph would be really good! It could be themed around the idea of a cryptid or rare creatures creating folklore or mythological concepts, and it’s different forms can be based on those folklores and beliefs, each one different for each environment/town/regional area. It’s base form can be fire ghost, and then 3 other forms based around elemental environment and regional folklore or beliefs, such as a grass fire form themed around the burning bush of Moses, a fire ice type form themed around the concept of the norse creation story, with niflheim and muspelheim meeting, and a fire ground type themed around gold “inchor” or blood of the gods, etc. just some examples

That future paradox Starmie is so unnerving and intimidating I love it! Maybe it's that fear of cameras watching our every move from somewhere we can't hide from, or maybe it's the design of Starmie itself but cranked up 100 notches. Either way I love it and wish it was actually in Violet!

I am personally really attached to the idea that garchomp and sharpedo have a common ancestor because they are both sharks, have the ability rough skin, are jet propelled, have a matching head crest, and they have the same sexual dimorphism (dorsal fin notch). So I wouldn't have been able to resist drawing that "ancestor" in an exercise like this. But I'll show up for any celebration of garchomp. NVM YOU DID IT

Whether it's Pokemon, Dragons, or whatever else you draw, it all looks amazing! I always look forward to seeing what you put up here. Too bad your nearest "theme" month is in May. But, I'd like to remedy that. Have you ever thought of making a "FAEbruary"? All February, artists get to draw one picture a day of a fairy.

AHHHHH your future designs made me realize how much we missed out :0 All the designs were fantastic! I hope that, if they do more paradox Pokemon in the future, that they'll press the designs more on the future ones :]

I love both paradox Volcarona and the the fact that they separated the "moth" and the "sun" part into different forms, specially with iron moth looking like one of those sci-fi mega engines that take energy from the sun is great

I love that you gave the Paradox Garchomp's shiny the colors of the beta Garchomp. 😍❤️

I love your take on the future paradox pokemon. One thing I liked about Iron Tread’s design is that he doesn’t just look like the Pokémon but robot, he looks like the was based on Donphan, but was mainly used to fulfill a function, so I like it looks more like a wheel rather than Donphan. I do prefer the past paradox Pokémon, but the ones you drew were amazing

I’d love to see some more Paradox videos. I’ve seen many amazing concepts for Paradoxes like an Ancient Magikarp with Gyarados’ face or a Kangaskahn Baby piloting a Kangaskahn Mech that breathes fire. So much potential for Paradoxes and I always love seeing concepts like this

I like to think that the Paradox Forms are just pokémon that Sada and Turo sent to the past or future for a unspecified amount of time and while they were there, they started to adapt to the new change in landscape, while Roaring Moon and Slither Wing are actual ancestors to the modern pokémon they are based off, this also explains why the Future Forms are all robots because they were all altered in the future.

I feel like Game freak missed out on that opportunity to explore how the fossil Pokémon looked like in the past or how interpretations from the movies evolved them into something new in the future. Hope the DLC could do something like that

Iron Torch is definitely my favorite. I'd love to see you create Paradox forms of Lickilicky, Crabominable or Komala.

Love how pokemon dips their toes into an idea and the fandom just, does it more and better.

I love the future paradox's more than the past paradox's, they all look really cool, I like how they share a design scheme much more obviously than the past ones, which in my opinion are not as good looking as violet's ones Iron valiant and iron moth being my favourites because they change the most from the originals, iron valiant is a mix of both gallade and gardevoir, and iron moth's wings being separated from its body makes it look more futuristic, I love how the lights on all of them break up the silver and grey of the rest of the body, and the lights can turn off when they sleep, which is an awesome detail

I absolutely love seeing your creative process and hearing you talk about what you're changing and why from an art theory perspective. As someone who can't even draw a straight line I appreciate seeing someone who's not only talented but thoughtful of their work and medium. Also, really love paradox Granbull, 10/10 would train.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Violet's Paradox Pokemon and while I understand why they may not be appealing to some, I'm glad you still decided to design some of your own (they turned out great by the way, I love Iron Gazer)

One more thing about Paradox Pokemon: with the exception of the cover legends, every past Paradox Pokemon's base stat value is an odd number, while for future Paradox Pokemon, they're even instead. For example, Great Tusk's stat spread is 115/131/131/53/53/87, while Iron Tread's stat spread is 90/112/120/72/70/106

15:06 I like the idea that scalding jaws is an anscestor of Garchomp and Sharpedo as they are pretty similar

A Mazah Honedge sounds like a super interesting regional variant ! It could evolve into a lance. Exploring meso-american weapons would be a really cool way to incorporate more "traditional" looking designs.

I am in LOVE with Iron Gazer. It is undeniably the coolest thing I've ever seen you make Holy fucking shit I love it so much omg

As much as I love Violet, I do wish the Future paradoxes were more unique like the past ones. Most of the future paradoxes( except Miraidon) felt too Artificial and Hollow. It's weird to describe. Awesome video!! :D

I absolutely adore these designs, and appreciate the thought you gave to the previously undercooked concept of future Pokemon. Scalding Jaws is my favourite past mon, and Iron Gazer is my favourite future mon. Each of these designs looks so full of character and charm, so it'd be a shame if they were 'entirely' absent from your fan project, though your personal vision is what's important at the end of the day. Great work!

A past paradox Pokemon I made is the Fire Fairy type Blazing Star, an ancient Clefable. It doesn't have the spikes, but it has feathers on its back and it's wings are fiery and feathered and much bigger, and it's belly has a large flame sac, so it's belly glows like fire when it uses any fire attacks. It has inspirations from the Phoenix.

As a huge Granbull fan I LOVE what you did with the second design attempt. Has way more personality and attitude!

These are amazing! What are your thoughts on the notion that Paradox Pokémon aren't actually from the Past nor future, but are instead manifestations of what Professor Sada/Turo see as what the Past and Future is like based on a Dubious Sci-Fi Magazine?

Fantastic designs all around. So glad to see some really unique future paradox Pokemon! I think Starmie was my favorite

You did a great job summarizing my issues with the future paradox forms and implementing constructive changes in the designs, well done.

To be perfectly honest, I'm in love with your future paradox pokemon and want to see more of your ideas. Heck to go a step further, I want to see redesigns of the current ones with your imagination spiced onto them.

I personally really love Iron Valiant, but I agree with you about the future forms. They don’t do much for me. I do like Iron Hands too but more because I used it so much in raids. It would be cool if you redesigned them. Not as trying to make them better, but use your design conventions for future forms and apply it to the current ones.

What you said about gender and Iron Valiant is really interesting, but personally, I see the design as incorporating themes of both sides of binary gender so that anyone can see it as, in some ways, similar to themselves. Maybe it's just me, but I can see it looking both primarily masculine and primarily feminine depending on the way I look at it. Oh, and Iron Valiant is my favorite future paradox, too.

I’ve got about 3 ideas for past paradox Pokemon. The first one, which I’m gonna call “Astral Stones”, would be a Rock/Psychic Onix based on an Asteroid belt. The second, which I’ll just call “Hooded Toxin”, would be a Poison/Dark type resembling Arbok, which would sort of be an amalgamation of various snakes, but would very clearly be based on Titanoboa. And the third is probably the most absurd, a Water/Fighting paradox Kommo-o based on Mosasaurus, but it’s honestly my favorite.

I adore iron torch! I love how it almost looks like a little spaceman and it go so well with the starmie paradox you designed

I share the same thought that the future designs are just lacking something. They are just robots to me. But your work is great as always here! Grumble brute is my favourite from these designs!

8:53 I love the fact that you put some helpful advice so that anyone can improve their own art😊 I just think it’s an amazing addition❤

These are some of my favorite paradox designs I have seen. I need these in the Mazah game eventually kinda like a sun and moon thing where mega evolution was just kinda added at the end

I loved the "Subjectively Advice" pop ups that showed up every once in a while, the tips themselves help out a lot, and they really make you stick your eyes to the video to see if one pops up, they kinda feel like loading screen tips from a video game (but like, actually helpful tips, unlike the "your chances to harm the enemy increase when you shoot" kinda tips, i could not figure some of these things out by myself). Keep it up!

I, personally, really love the concept of Paradox Pokemon and really like most of the designs we have had so far. I wonder what else might get Paradox forms in the potential DLC.

I absolutely adore the direction you took granbull!! I was initially worried it'd become another wolf derivative, so I very much appreciate the caveman/tusked dog route you took instead. I hope Bella is as satisfied with Grumble brute as I would be.

I really love the "Subjective Advice" popouts with the highlights of your design wisdom!

It's finally here, been looking forward to this video since the first community post!!

22:42 This is cool af. Definitely outdid the official future paradox Pokemon.

Fun fact : great tusk is based in when film directors glued fake tusks and fur in asiatic elephants to make mammoths in movies

really loved what you did with the future paradoxes great work

I thought (since I didn’t okay their debut game) that Sharpedo evolved into Garchomp for the longest time. They look so similar.

These are epic! I always love your dedication to the thematic design of pokemon, rather than anything biological

future stuff looks so good love the nice look

I love all of these. I think you did a great job designing them.

In today's episode of Subjectively, Jack draws Skynet as a Pokemon 🤣

Now imagine a pokemon game that takes place in the paradox universe, with both styles being separated by the version and then united in late game

The future pokemon in game were...underwhelming and im so glad I got scarlet instead BUT your iron gazer would've had me rethinking that decision!! I LOVE that design!!! It's so dang cool!! I want one on my team! I can only imagine what noise it makes too! (A garbled techy 'hiyah!') It's definitely my favorite of your redesigns. The little toy being my second. Reminds me of a poochie and I'd definitely have one in my house

I was absolutely kicking my feet excitedly watching you make your future paradox pokemon I love both of them

As someone that willingly chose Violet version… I really do wish the future Paradoxes were more different than the mons they were based on 😩 like, I do enjoy some of them for sure! But… gosh, man, Scarlet really did good with their paradoxes AND shinies

I love how everyone gives garchomp a lot of love with paradox pokémon

Such cool concepts bro, really love the paradox pokemon concept and your re imagination of these Pokémon

The future forms and honedge were definitely my big faves there, you did such an awesome job on all of the designs. The starmie one, going off of a satellite was such a unique idea

Your past honedge and future starmie are my favorites in this one, and even though I like the future paradoxes more personally I agree that they could've done more to make them a bit more uniqe from the inspirations

I really want a future paradox pokemon that isn't metal at all and is a pokemon that changed to survive in a mechanized world

Absolutely loved the Iron Gazer!

the really enjoyed the "Subjective Advice" boxes that popped up during the video!!! keep up the awesome work!

Jack: "These designs should not be interpreted as biological predecessors to future Pokémon." Me: "BUT THE LOOORREE...."

I would’ve loved it if more of the future paradoxes were combos of Pokémon in branched evolutions. A good option that follows the points you made on gender about Gallade and Gardevoir would be Huntail and Gorebyss. Also I started imagining a merged Hitmon pokemon with Hitmonchan’s fist, Hitmonlee’s legs and a rotating mid section with Hitmontop’s legs attached

THANK U!!! i have been completely unable to articulate why i dont like the violet paradoxes as much as the scarlet ones but u stated it so simply, AND made COOLER ONES!!!!

Iron Gazer is just so damn cool. I'm a huge robot guy, and while I love the future paradoxes quite a bit, I do wish that they did more with both the original design contents as well as the fact that they are machines, likely built to serve some sort of purpose, whether that be to help a job or just for murder. While Iron Torch does that very well, I just like the Starmie line more and I think the red center eye lends really well to a future design. It's like HAL in 2001 or AUTO in Wall-E, with that ominous glowing red eye. Just a very solid and interesting design.

You put my thoughts about the future Pokemon into perfect words. I *love* the future Starmie you did, it's amazing and more of what I would have liked to see. Though I am also bummed out that *every* future Pokemon was a robot. I feel like there could be so many more creative designs if they weren't all robots!

I really like the current "sprite" but they always improve every time you redraw them :) Looking forward to the new ones! I also saw a post yesterday that fits this change well: "The more hair I lose, the more head I get." ;)

Man I finally found this channel again, I remember the fanmade region you made, I loved the grass octopus starter

Something I don’t think most take into account with the future paradox pokemon is how they change their appearances when attacking, sleeping, or moving. Iron treads becomes a wheel. Iron Bundle’s “bundle” is a water canon attached to it. Iron Moth has its wings freely move around it while attacking, Iron hands has its hands connect to it’s body while it’s resting. Yes past Pokémon have cooler designs up front, but I feel like it’s under appreciated with how much effort and attention to detail went into the past paradox designs. This isn’t meant to be a dig towards you or other Pokémon fans by any means who prefer one of the other, I just feel that most people are looking at these designs at face value instead of fully appreciating them for all the animations and small details.

I think you hit the nail on the head when talking about future paradox Pokémon. I was dead set on buying Pokémon Violet until I saw the boring metal versions that really lacked the creativity and awe that was poured into the past forms. Had they been as creative as you were, especially that staryu form, I probably would have bought Violet instead of Scarlet. Incredible work

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hell yeah! I love the idea of paradox pokemon!

If my memory serves me Granbull was the first Pokemon I ever got to level 100, so seeing an awesome Past Paradox version with an amazing stat spread AND a killer type combination is just too cool for words! Plus Granbull is my favorite Fairy Type. :P

That honedge was definitely my favorite of your past forms, I love the obsidian aesthetic, and my favorite of the future forms has to be the starmie. Great work!

I wish the future Paradoxes didn't all go the simple route of "just make it a -toy- robot!" Would be much more interesting if we got living beings that adapted to a much more technological environment. Electric types that developed a plug-like tail and learned to hack systems, a random Pokémon that gained the Flying Type from a set of holographic/hardlight wings added to its regular bodyplan, sleeker and more "finished" versions of "manmade" looking Pokémon... Porygon is right there! Perfect opportunity to give it a form that finally resembles an actual bird - somewhere on the scale of the Route1 Flying Types, but based on its original colors.

I loved your concept of Iron Gazer the most. Took the Starmie disign on a whole new level :)

Your prehistoric Honedge, LOVE the bird head guard!

I 100% agree with you when it comes to the future paradox Pokémon; they're just robotic versions of the regular Pokémon and don't really add anything. I love your concept for Iron Gazer, and would have preferred that the future paradox Pokémon followed similar design conventions, however, I personally don't think that Iron Torch was enough of a "fusion" of both Volbeat and Illumise (I do love the design; it looks like Catbug from The Bravest Warriors). The two are nearly identical, but I think, at the very least, adding a bit of red would make it more clear that it's a fusion, kind of how Iron Valiant was clearly a Gardevoir/Gallade fusion. I'm not an artist, but that's my thought.

Grumble Brute's design reminded me of Muggshot from the Sly Cooper series. Love it!

These are all incredible designs!

I adore your future paradox pokemon, such great concepts