Why then did Gary become a professor and not Ash? Yeah, take that Tobias! Oh wait, Ash lost to Tobias? Wait, he got blown out by him? Well, this is awkward. Meowth-Ash's corrupted innocence. Meowth learns to speak so Ash can accept the aspects of Team Rocket as parts of himself.
I can't lie here, this was a remarkable parallel. I'm not denying that the Author did a fantastic job, they simply left too many holes to consider plausible. Giovanni-Represents Ash's Father, whom he has a subtle hatred for, blaming him for his parent's split.
The entire Team Rocket entity apparently represents Ash's inability to escape his Father's machinations. I'm very dubious of this claim. You would think that even in a coma, Ash would still display some kind of respect for a parental figure, a sense of filial obligation.
Tracey-"the breeder. Tracey was a Sketch Artist, not a Breeder. Tracey is supposedly a failsafe for Ash's ultimate idea of a Father, a professor. Well Juniper and Ivy, I'm guessing this feels pretty uncomfortable right about now Pikachu-Ash's humanity. Ash doesn't evolve Pikachu because it challenges who he is, an adolescent boy unwilling to grow.
I added in that last part. This is another example of a fantastic connection. The Narrator-Ash's higher mind. He allots insight on how to awaken Ash with his pre and post episode ramblings. But wait, the Narrator doesn't ever introduce any new information to Ash, does he? If I recall correctly, his main purpose is to introduce the setting and then recap the episode's events in the denouement correct?
Not much insight is given there.. Team Rocket's grandiose plans are then chalked up to be creations within Ash's own mind. He doesn't recognize them so he can better himself. Ok, fair enough, but what does this explain? Let's skip James representing homosexuality, because that is reaching pretty far. Tendencies don't determine sexual orientation. It is then introduced that there are indeed 2 Ash's: one who wants to escape and one who wants to stay.
The one who wishes to escape sabotages the one who wants to stay. Episode , "The Cave of Mirrors", would be the most likely representation of this Ash "that wants to escape. If the Escape-lusting Ash was sabotaging the Complacent, stay-at-home Ash, then why did he do such a poor job of convincing that Ash to escape? Early in the show, there were references to other animals such as fish which disappeared in later series, good catch. What were you expecting, a Lumineon in that fish tank in the Cerulean Gym in ?
Not convinced? Fact: Clemont, Ash's travel companion introduced in the 6th and most recent generation debunks this claim by his obsession with showcasing inventions, albeit typically failing in the process. Ash notes how remarkable science is when Clemont introduces these inventions, which accounts for the "concepts of machinery" he has evidently lost. Bulbasaur-Ash's unwillingness to change. Butterfree-Ash's crushing loneliness, dealt with when he released it to join a flock.
I'll refute this one with science: Butterflies die after mating. If Butterfree is some kind of representation of Ash's loneliness, then it would stand to reason that that sense of loneliness would erode after Butterfree crossed the ocean to mate.
Ritchie's Pupitar-A rationalization. The Coma Theory explains some of the basics from the series. It answers the question as to why Ash never physically ages, and it also explains why there are Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys throughout the region, and it also explains why children are sent off on journeys throughout the Pokemon world without adult supervision.
It also explains that characters like Brock or Misty were actually figments of his coma-induced imagination, and it also states that Brock represented his sexuality, and because Ash never knew what sex was, this was the answer as to why Brock never became involved with any of the women he tried to woo. Misty's only in his dreams because she was based on a girl that Ash knew in real life prior to his accident, and he simply added her there.
Giovanni was supposed to be Ash's father, and he's represented as villainous in his imagination because Giovanni had disowned him for his supposed sexuality, and Jessie and James were supposed to represent his purity since they were at that time the only Team Rocket members who wore white outfits rather than the typical black outfits. Ash's partner, Pikachu, was also supposed to represent Ash's humanity whenever he would get lost from him in an episode.
The theory also notes that if Ash ever did wake up from his coma, he could most likely suffer brain damage from his accident, and that he'll have to live with the fact that none of his accomplishments in life actually happened, and that none of his friends were actually real.
In several versions of the Pokedex that revolves around this Pokemon, it is believed that the feathers of this Legendary bird gives the user eternal happiness. At the beginning of Ash's journey through the Kanto region, Ash catches a glimpse of this Legendary Pokemon, and it is believed that he never ages physically, because this is what he considers to be his eternal happiness.
Misty is the first such aspect we encounter. Because she is the first and is merely an aspect of Ash are explanations as to why Misty plays such a prominent role in the show but is ultimately unattainable since he never really knew her before the coma.
Since Misty is his initial love interest if only subconsciously , he needed her to reach a certain level of womanhood. He wants the normal, pushy, arrogant Misty he knew…thus, not letting her keep Togepi. We can see this arc in the constant berating of his sexuality, but her eventual mellowing until she had faded into the background.
Since Ash was quite attached to her, this was traumatizing. Gary Oak is what Ash wants to be. He is wish fulfillment.
He succeeded and then settled down to a normal life. His mind must have figured out that awareness of the coma would snap him out of it, so it took something the boy already loved and build a way out for him with it. However, Ash is too complacent to make a final stand and fight his way out of it, and cannot escape. To achieve this, Jessie will trick the submissive James into doing her bidding. Meowth especially wants to appease him because he remembers the good times with Giovanni.
This is apparent because Meowth is able to speak. In fact, the whole reason Meowth can speak is so Ash can eventually accept the aspects of Team Rocket as parts of himself. Ash had issues with his father, so he put him atop the evil corporation and demonized him. Ash likely feels the split between his parents was partly his fault, but also partly blames his father.
The split caused his mother to move out of the city down to Pallet Town and is one reason why Ash initially embarks on his journey: to escape the turmoil at home. James is implied homosexuality which does not necessarily make Ash homosexual and gullibility, while Jessie is vanity and manipulation.
Max came with May. He kept reinventing himself and eventually wrote new aspects, but his mind slowly brought the old ones back as a crutch to make the transition easier. Dawn is Ash giving himself a chance to love. Tracey, the breeder, was a possible future for Ash that he discarded.
This explains the episodes where they get separated and Ash desperately wants to find him, even to the point of working with Team Rocket aspects of himself he would never normally associate with , but for some reason cannot. Team Rocket wants to steal Pikachu and hand him over to Giovanni. Jessie and James will always oppose Ash because he is terrified of the thought of his humanity lying in the hands of his father.
However, this is the same reason he will work with those aspects of himself in order to save his humanity. In a sense, the Ash who wants to escape is sabotaging the Ash who wants to stay lost in his mind so that there can be more conflict and, hopefully, an eventual escape. The escape is a consequence of coming to terms with who he is. You may recall that early in the show, there were animals and references to animals.
For example, Charmander represents his sex drive not his sexuality, like Brock. Bulbasaur was his unwillingness to change, reflected in when it declines to evolve and almost decided to stay behind unless he battled it.
Squirtle was his willingness to follow the lead of others, as evidenced by the gang it ran with. Butterfree was his crushing loneliness, which he dealt with when he released it to join a flock. However, he realizes this and usually trades back very quickly. Once his mind was able to overcome that roadblock and allow them to change once, it gave him the chance to truly change.
Other trainers are more direct forms of his issues - ones he must either come to terms with or outright suppress.
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