Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-39305300-20191213235929/@comment-72.71.196.125-20191215175208

Super10ZX wrote: G̩̤͛̒͋͜lit͔͍̊͌c̛̥h͕̰̗͛́̆̊͟ẏ̦̗̠̳̲̅̎́͡f̣̈́ọ̖͚̀̒̈x͎̟͖̍̒͋4̭̎6͚̰̯́̌̇8̞͎̏͋ wrote: I'm actually kinda starting to sympathize with Missingno but at the same time a majority of me is just going https://youtu.be/4PA0CtcbqZ0?t=55s. Also what gender is Missingno, does it even have a gender? I can't pin down a voice to read their dialouge in. MissingNo has no gender. He was created at a time when most Pokémon didn’t have their own genders. I just imagine him with a male voice that’s kinda distorted. True, and Chiaki's headcanon is also technically correct, as while it is correct MissingNo. itself has no gender like most Pokémon, it's soundbite is a different matter as coincidentially it's Pokémon cry is actually that of one of the only two Pokémon to actually have genders at the time, Nidoran♂ since that was the Gen I games placeholder cry, but with a pitch and tone of 0.

So while MissingNo. itself is genderless, imagining it having a male voice is actually entirely correct just not in a traditional sense. Myself, I merely imagine it "speaking" using the Gen I textboxes, but changing to an emotionless monotone version of whomever it's impersonating while disguised.

The disgusing trick it does in King for a Day actually canonically makes sense as well, as since the early games had a mechanic where you could move your pokémon between games, trading it to Pokémon Stadium 2 displays it (and all other Gen I glitch pokémon) as a Ditto with Transform, and actually saving it there permanently turns it into one.