Near Pokédex F012 – Butterfree

I decided to go with Butterfree for the next Near Pokédex entry, and decided to take something from the anime. Now, this color scheme is not Butterfree’s official colors, nor their shiny colors. It’s also not part of Butterfree’s sexual dimorphism (although female Butterfree do have slightly different wing patterns). Rather, this version of Butterfree comes from some early adaptational weirdness in the Pokémon anime. You see, in an early episode Ash’s Butterfree meets a girl and leaves him to go presumably have tons of butterfly sex. Since Pokémon was still new and didn’t have as much established rules, the creators just made the Butterfree pink so the audience would know Ash’s Butterfree wasn’t gay. This weird miscolored Butterfree has returned a few times since then, but as far as I know she’s the only one in the whole world with this coloring. Like with female Charizard’s bow, though, I wanted to take something from the anime for my entry, so here she is.