Pokemons, gotta catch em all

Trapinch is based on:


Manaphy and Phione are based on:


Wynaut and Wobbufet are based on japanese sayings and have emoticon faces (which for some reason I did not notice)

I actually love finding out what certain pokemon are based on. Their cultural and biological origins are fascinating, and Game Freak goes to a lot of effort to design pokemon.

Ya know, except for the ice cream cone one.