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== Footnotes ==

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<ref name="L">It should be better known that [https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Ultraman_Leo_(series) Ultraman Leo] is a reference to Leon Trotsky &mdash; no joke &mdash; {{em|but}} Pokémon decided for no good reason to create a [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pyroar fire lion] that appears to be similarly shaped. (Leo's signature move is a [https://teddit.net/r/pokemon/comments/7izfff/why_have_we_had_so_many_firefighting_starters/ flaming kick].) This has led me to joke that Pokémon accidentally created a Communist/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism Trotskyist] Pokémon<br />
It's fully possible to create a lion pokémon without that being a possible accusation; [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Solgaleo Solgaleo] is notable for this. But the particular laziness of Pyroar's concept uniquely gives it these qualities.</ref>

<ref name="x">Surprisingly, "[https://wikimon.net/Leomon_(X-Antibody) Leomon X-Antibody]" actually does exist, though I had never thought to look it up until now</ref>

<ref name="re"><ins>[New footnote 25/11:]</ins> So, what Leomon is supposed to be is a simple fighting game hero. Your Ryū Streetfighter or your Goku, or maybe a reference to more exotic characters like the [https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Kuma bear] in {{game|Tekken}} or, what could be the actual reference, [https://capcom.fandom.com/wiki/Leo Leo from {{game|Red Earth}}]. At the time I could not piece that together from the show and it was driving me up the wall. I had just no idea why it was so intuitive for [https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Ryu an evil force to possess] Leomon and turn him into a hostile variant of himself and so I just started making up [[E:1930s Trotskyite conspiracy|really dumb theories]] that I knew were [[:Category:Intuitively-false_fan_theories_ontology|most likely not the answer]] because it was funny. And then it turned into this.</ref>

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