Nintendo has drawn inspiration from the real world for several Pokémon regions: the first four regions are inspired by real places in Japan, Unova is inspired by New York, Kalos is inspired by France, Alola is inspired by Hawaii, and the upcoming Galar region from Pokémon Sword and Shield looks an awful lot like the United Kingdom.
One Twitter user considered all of that, and thought: what if Pokémon, but Australian?
And the results are beautiful.
when they finally make Pokemon Australia pic.twitter.com/rJVasiR6D2
— VivinkArt (@VivinkArt) March 6, 2019
They even followed it up with a couple of logos for the sequels…
Sequels were leaked pic.twitter.com/eRYbPkcJuZ
— VivinkArt (@VivinkArt) March 7, 2019
The pièce de résistance is definitely this drawing of Steve Irwin as a Pokémon trainer flanked by Totodile and Krokorok, two crocodile Pokémon.
It wouldn't be the perfect Pokemon Champion for the Australian region if it wasn't Steve Irwin! ? pic.twitter.com/eN0FVsIqQa
— VivinkArt (@VivinkArt) March 8, 2019
Some people were reminded of the range of Australian Pokémon that Paul Robertson created a few years back, and if you haven’t seen it before, it’s a thing of beauty:
Would these have all the @probzz Pokémon from a couple of years back? pic.twitter.com/INmqvyYcQS
— Shawn Sommerville (@EoEFAN) March 7, 2019
I’m partial to the Sprinkels/Lamintonne/Pavlover evolutionary line, myself.
If Nintendo are out of ideas on their next set of games, they need to hit @VivinkArt up ASAP to make these Aussie games a reality.