Torkoal

Torkoal
The Coal Pokémon
Type: Fire
Official Registration #: 324
Entry: This large, tortoise-like pokémon primarily lives in abandoned coal mines in warmer regions such as Hoenn. It constantly lumbers through shafts on the hunt for its primary food source, coal. When it finds a deposit, it immediately digs up the ore and stuffs it in the orifices in its shell, which then burns the coal for energy. If it builds up excess energy, senses danger, or is otherwise excited, torkoal will exhale clouds of sooty smoke and gas, which is one of two reasons why the mine shafts it lives in are typically much hotter than the surrounding mountain. (The other, of course, is the presence of volcanic vents and other fire-types.) Of course, seeing as coal is not remotely a clean energy source, this self-defense mechanism has rendered this pokémon as “problematic” to most environmentally conscious groups in existence today. It may also at least partly explain why, in torkoal’s native region of Hoenn, at least one extreme environmentalist group thought it would be a wondrous idea if we drowned the planet, while at least one other took into consideration how many pokémon in the region eat rocks and thought it would be an even better idea to turn it into a sunlit wasteland.