The definition of "woke up and chose violence."

056: Mankey

More often than not, these first instances of a Pokemon's type have inadvertently become the “mascots” of that type. I feel like this isn't so for Mankey. I've seen Machop and the Hitmons get quite a lot more recognition for being The Fighting Type. Mankey's just odd, and not in ways that has seen it get much of a fanbase. I don't feel strongly about it either, other than it's an interesting way to stylize a monkey.

I feel like there's a DBZ joke here.

057: Primeape

Primeape doesn't really improve Mankey visually any. It's Mankey, but a little more pissed off, and has weird metal bands around its limbs. I get it's meant to have a broken shackle kind of look to emphasize how uncontrollably angry it is, but it just ends up looking odd since they're on every one of the species. Do they just appear on them?

These two just seem like non-sequitur Pokemon, if that makes sense? Like they found a random word generator and it came out with “mad pig monkey.” And in that respect that sure is what it is, but it doesn't vibe with me any.