First Gen 5 silhouette revealed!
 

This is the first silhouette of any Pokémon from Generation 5:

http://pokebeach.com/news/0210/pokemon-z.jpg
Based on its codename, "Z", this Pokémon may be the star of the the next movie. It will be revealed on the episode to be aired on February 21, 2010.



Sources: PokéBeach, Bulbagarden Forums, Pokémon Sunday

The bottom looks like Lucario, but the top looks like a wolf or something. Very interesting.

Sandslash evolution?

LOL. You quoted that from youtube. Anyways, note to magmaster12 I'm sorry I did not know that you posted it already.

Its Lucario growing his hair out~! =w=

Almost looks like a weavile.

Who's that pokemon!?
No, seriously. Who is that pokemon??

But it looks like Nintendo doesn't want cute pokemon any more.

*points to video above*
Translation please?

And also, it looks like there is a poster of "Movie Z" in the background of what looks like a conference room.

*rewrites entire post, appends Aura's video*

Anyway, it's exciting to see a new Pokémon from the next generation. Can't wait!

To be fair, his was originally posted on the Gen V discussion thread, I just moved his one post here under News since it would be better off here.

Reminds me of Lucario and Latios. Looks pretty beasty though.

How many legends are "cute"?
*remembers mew, celebi, and shaymin*

Uh, never mind.
:roll:

im thinking its a normal type eevee evolution maybe? or even a primeape evolution .

IT IS TORA! :V http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/3029/torahv0.png

Thanks for using my video, I appreciate it :D

@ Sunny:Lucario growing it`s hair out, nice.

@ Quadcentruo:I added some basic translations to it via annotations. I finished up the movie details, and I got the beginning of the game details, I`ll probably finish it tomorrow. As far as I know, I don`t think I made any mistakes, but I suppose I`ll find out when I edit it tomorrow.

To be honest, while I was watching Jun`ichi Masuda while Pokémon Sunday was on T.V., the moment I saw the silhouette, it reminded me of Weavile, then when I realized the "spikes" were most likely a length of hair, it looked to me more like Lucario mixed with Ninetails. I ended up getting the impression it looked like a werewolf, from it`s legs, and claws, as well as snout, but I suppose we`ll have to wait and see. Good to see there will be a 5th Generation.

I also found it pretty humorous how Jun`ichi ended it with "Ciao".

It`s also important to note that it is never directly stated that it`s codename is Z, or that it is Z, (unless I just missed that part :lol:), therefore, it`s possible that "Z" refers to a human, perhaps an antagonist, and this Pokémon may be merely subservient to said person. Based on it`s somewhat feral appearance, I personally assume that to be the case.

I'll be it's just an alternate forme. Nintendo's just screwing with us. "Wolf-Forme" Lucario or something. :o

It is weird that they're not leading off with a baby pokemon, though.

Looks like- Lucario+Weavile+Mightyena, could be an evolution of mightyena?

Or maybe a new pokemon species all togheter

But hey, it won't be just a silhoute in two weeks, so...

Thats what i first thought

On the other site I go on they're talking about how it might be releated to mightyena because it's confirmed to be in Movie 12 like a werewolf pokemon either that it's a legendary and it's also not confirmed to be the master of illusion Z.

It is an alternate forme of Lucario. I am sure!

Yay! I love Lucario.

Here's my personal opinion:

From what it looks it is a werewolf-sorta Pokémon. I'm guessing it's typing could be Dark, Fight or a dual of Dark/Fight. I am also thinking it is a legendary, since most of the Pokémon movies, if not all, featured a legendary Pokémon. If this is true, then that means we're finally seeing a Fight-type legendary, hopefully.
Some people have been speculating that it might be an evolution/alternate form of Lucario, but I am highly doubtful of that for some odd reason.

.....new....pokemon.....can't.....wait......

Look at this fan-art made by someone whom I don't know:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2urqbub.png

If the new Pokémon turns out to be something as amazingly awesome as this, I'll definitely go crazy.

Looks like shadow the hedgehog.

I'll take that as a praise :D

But seriously, a lot of discussions came up just for a silhouette; Pokébeach theorized it might be Mightyena's evolution, and backed that up with some facts on their website. They might have a point.
Others are saying this Pokémon is related to Lucario/Sandslash/Ninetales/etc, though I believe all of these assumptions are wrong.

I agree.
My opinion is it is either related to Mightyena or it is a totally new pokemon either way THIS IS SOO EXCITNG.

Here's something from pokebeach.
CoroCoro’s Website Shows New Pokemon’s Silhouette As Well - New Theories!

Anyone opposing this isn't Gen V will probably have there brains bashed out, good thing no one has thought agianst this.

If the actual pokemon is similar to the fan-art, I can safely say that it is a dark type.

Seems Magmaster beat me to it, but anyway, given that the Pokémon is shown alongside all the previous games, and is a Pokémon which seems to particularly correspond to the new game(s), it makes me think it won`t be some random evolution, perhaps a non-evolving, no pre-evolution non-Legendary, or a Version mascot.

@ Shadow:I really need to speed up, I was planning on doing some fan-art as well, though, that looks more or less the same as what I would`ve drawn, except that instead of there being a "ponytail", it would have long hair, it would have a tail (which is what the end of the "ponytail" is in that picture". The stance it`s in is one of the two I thought it may be in, the other one having it`s other arm behind the mass of "hair", but it`ll definitely be one of my favourites if it ends up looking like that. Hopefully it will :D

It's Shaymin Revenge Forme, avenging its tasty comrades.

It reminds me of a mutated Sonic

It looks anorexic.

Well, this looks like a pretty cool Pokemon. I just hope that the names don't turn into crap, it seems like they'd run out after using 500 already.

Shadow posted this thread on PokeZam and said something about it looking like it being a wolf and being a dark or fighting type, and I agree. Which is why...

Silhouette, I dub thee... DARKWOLF! :shock: :shock: :shock:

But the name will probably be much more complex since this is Pokemon, hehe.

It's a little late to reply to this and a little off-topic, but SpaceMan would be dissapoint that you didn't include Jirachi. :)

It looks like this Pokémon could be amazingly awesome, but it could also be amazingly not awesome. If it turns out like the fanart Shadow posted, it'll be more toward the former.

...XD.

I bet you the color scheme will look close to that or maybe just the opposite :P

I actually saw another colour scheme of the same picture: instead of red and black, it was white and black.

Now, from other forums, people seem to be relating it to a couple of existing Pokémon, and everyone is coming up with theories of their own. Since I plan to analyze different ones individually, I'll discuss one right now:

Of the many that I read, some people mentioned it being probably a Ninetales evolution. This doesn't make sense to me at all; HG/SS, which represent the Johto/Kanto Pokémon, have already come out, so there will be absolutely no point in making an evolution/alternate form to Ninetales after them. Plus, that would leave its counterpart, Arcanine, a lot weaker and even more forgetten. It's like giving Electabuzz an evolution while leaving Magmar with no evolution.
So, in conclusion, I think this theory doesn't make logical sense, and so is probably not true.

Why are you trying to disprove a theory that hasn't been brought up?

The first Pokémon probably wouldn't be an evolution, but they still could reveal an Arcanine evolution. Weren't Mime Jr. and Bonsly among the first revealed?

It does look a lot like a Ninetales evolution, but a very ugly one at that.

The fan art looks amazing, but I'd probably like the white and black one better.

CoroCoro leaks, according to a "reliable" Serebii.net Forums member slowkingsley, a person who posted episode titles which are eventually confirmed to be real.

The person has been right before so this may be true only time will tell.

Also no one should create a news article about this because it's not official even though serebii has already posted it.

http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

I can't make up my mind: Does it look good or not? Is it fake or not?
But only time will tell, so I'll hold my horses.

Serebii just confirmed it to be real.

Would you mind giving me a link?
I can't find it anywhere.

http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

In my opinion the desighn of Zorua is pretty uncreative.

It still says "RUMOUR" for me...

It says the new pokemon is called Zoroark or Zoroaarku.

I find the pre-evolution better than the evolution itself. According to Serebii, much details about these two Pokemon and other Pokemon are going to be revealed. I will give my judgment on that day. :)

Oh, now I can view the news.
Both of them look good; not particularly great, but not horrible as well. Really decent, I'd say - I already like them both.

"Evil Fox Pokemon" Oh my god. That made me afraid to sleep. I think the shadow was "Monster fox pokemon" which made me even more unable to sleep, and prevo would be evil fox.... EVOLUTIONS!?!?!? NOT A LEGENDARY :O

The name isn't very impressive... Sorta crappy if you ask me. But I do like that it starts with a Z. :P

EVOLUTION OF MAGIKARP.

That would by Gyarados.

I kind of prefer the fan art to it, its a bit.. bland, but it does look fast and strong, a bit like....... weavile.

I don't get why they're revealing it so late though.

It was two years after Munchlax got revealed before we got our first footage of Diamond and Pearl.

It also was a full year after Kecleon, Wailmer, and Azurill got revealed until we got footage of Ruby and Saphire.

If we weren't informed of Zorua and Zoroark, I would've guessed it as either a ninetales or a Mightyena evolution.

my first thought was that its a dark evo of riolu