🐭🐭 The Pokemon Maushold: Picture Perfect Pokemon Parents! - Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Love their evolution concept: instead of being huge, powerful monsters, it's their relationship/marital status that evolves; from being a couple to being an entire family unit.

Love the attention to detail in how they’re animated. The parents put the babies in between them when they sleep in the idle animation. Also when the babies hold the parents’ tails to make sure they don’t get lost. How precious!

Maushold is a really great example of a screen shot not always giving a Pokemon justice. Sure it's simple but it has a lot of charm. Like their bouncing or the jump punch they do for physical attacks or the fact they just have a child at some point.

The fact that this family has one of the smallest Egg Cycles means it is just as easy and infuriatingly hard to hatch a Shiny Tandemaus.

The tooth fairy thing is more closely tied to Dedene, as the French tooth fairy is a mouse, hence why it has the fairy type on top of the electric type.

My first maushold was a family of three. I figured the family of four must have been rarer after seeing it everywhere, and that people must have been flexing them. Imagine my surprise when I'm trading pokemon with my mom to help fill in our dexes and she tells me how wrong I was

I wish the shinies were black colored with red where the grey cloth patterns are, that way we can have the house of mouse

“Population bomb” makes me think of Dragapult’s dex entry. “Apparently the Dreepy inside Dragapult’s horns eagerly look forward to being launched out at Mach speeds.”

The Rabbid screams made me laugh. It works too well for them.

Imagine if Tandemaus had a Gigantimax form, just a giant mouse made of thousands of smaler mice..

I kinda wish Maushold had something akin to Wishiwashi's Schooling Ability. Like, just an absolute tidal wave of mice and rats that take the shape of a larger rat. It could even reference those Rat Swarms you mentioned earlier on in the video.

I'm surprised Lockstin didn't entertain the idea that Maushold could be based on Mitosis. They're never seen alone, they rapidly multiply when you aren't looking, they look identical to each other, they all attack in unison.

For everyone who asks what is written on the tombstone at 7:11 where'' Here lies the rat king'' is written on, it translates to '' What is your favorite pocket monster''.

The Maushold line is absolutely hilarious, I love it.

Additional fun fact about Population Bomb: In Japanese, it's ネズミざん (nezumizan) which comes from ねずみ算 whose literal translation is something like "mouse math problem", but has taken on an idiomatic meaning of "proliferation" because mouse math problems are usually tied to exponential growth. Additionally, "nezumizan" could also be read from ねずみ斬 which means something like "mouse cut", which is why its animation looks like a cut and why it's apparently boosted by the Sharpness ability.

I've seen a couple of people bring up in fanart the idea of Tandemaus being so compelled to make their little families that they adopt wandering baby Tandemaus or other mouselike pokemon like Rattata, or that they'll take in Pokemon like Zorua that disguise themselves as other mice. I know it was meant to just be a silly concept but I think the idea of an adoptive/mixed-species mouse family is an adorable one

Honestly as simple as their designs may be I actually quite like this line a lot. I liked Falinks more as a 'modern' take on the Dugtrio concept, but still. Also its not surprising to see Pokemon based on Japanese pop culture. Kaijuu based Pokemon have been a thing since day 1. And more 'toy' based Pokemon have also been a thing for a while. Diglett's line has whack-a-mole influence, for instance.

I like to believe that the little ones actually do just appear out of the Aether when you aren't looking, but everyone just confidently believes that it's breeding

I have this comic drawn up somewhere called "Population Bomb" (don't go looking, I haven't posted it anywhere yet). The origin of it was this guy who got perfect stats on a Maushold and named it "NUKE", because the perfect stats + some held item made Population Bomb a move where it'll faint basically any Pokémon. So, Population Bomb can hit up to 10 times. Maushold can have up to 4 members. And supposedly the move works because all the "household members" attack the opponent. So, where do the other 6 go? And here we go. "Morgan, where's little Timmy?" "I don't know, Francine." Earlier that day... Morgan throws little Timmy at a Quaxly, dealing fatal damage at the cost of little Timmy

As a Calico Critter/Sylvanian Families collector I saw the connection to them right away. They're most popular in Japan, the UK and France, then the US (out of the markets I know). I was so excited when I saw them the first time. Then they opened their maws... 😱