"Why's everyone looking at me like I got an upside-down mustache on my head?"

401: Kricketot

And in a shocking twist, this generation's early-game bug type isn't a caterpillar-to-a-butterfly/moth, but rather a little cricket baby! Or is it? It has a cute little music motif going on with it looking like a well-dressed orchestra performer, even having a little music staff down its chest. It's an adorably fat little bug, but it doesn't look much like a cricket, does it?

Is it the mustache? Who knows.

402: Kricketune

And this is why we put the "cricket" aspect of their names into question. Like, MAYBE you can stretch and say Kricketot is a heavily stylized cricket, but Kricketune here doesn't really resemble a cricket at all.

It's a hell of a lot closer to a violin beetle, a species of ground beetle known for its long "neck" giving it a distinctly violin-like shape. Kricketune takes that concept one step further in making it quite literally a violin beetle. It has belly markings that make it resemble a violin! And those forelimbs being a stand-in for the violin's bow is such a neat little add-on. And the mustache may seem like an absurd addition, but those are just its "F-holes"!

So as a violin beetle Pokemon, Kricketune is wonderful. As a "cricket", it leaves much to be desired. Like can you believe localization just LIED to us?!?!?!?! To this day there are still NO orthopteran insects in the Pokedex. No crickets, no grasshoppers, no locusts, not even so much as a katydid or weta. And if Gen 9 continues to not have any, we swear GameFreak itself just has a personal vendetta against these adorable little bugs.