Thread by @CeciliaFae

I went through the entire 111 list of Pals in Palworld to see what seems like a Pokémon rip off compared to not, because I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it but no full comprehensive list. Here’s what I found (it’s a lot) 🧵

I’ll start with the obvious ones and the further down I go the less obvious they’ll be, but things like concepts or colours might be derived. This one has ears and theme of leafeon and everything else of cinderace. The small hands, the fluff at the pants, all of it.

2. This one, also posted a lot on Twitter. Exact same face, same teeth placement, white and yellow eyes, identical

3. The next few are ones from a thread by @Barbie_E4 so thanks to them for highlighting these, this has the same or an extremely similar model to Serperior

@Barbie_E4 4. Mega aggron’s body inspired, the helmet and teeth and eyes tucked away especially highlight this

@Barbie_E4 5. Giratina’s face

@Barbie_E4 6. Garchomp’s model but reminds me of Toxtricity as well

@Barbie_E4 7. Silvally’s model

@Barbie_E4 8. Sobble’s fun

@Barbie_E4 9. Shaymin’s body

@Barbie_E4 10. Braixen’s design

@Barbie_E4 11. Going beyond that thread into just what I saw when I was looking at the list, this is woolo’s design

@Barbie_E4 12. Luxray. I heard this one was removed from the game, though as someone who will not be buying it I can’t confirm that nor if it’s similarity to luxray was why

@Barbie_E4 13. Gigantamax Eevee, I’ve seen others say this one too

@Barbie_E4 14. Lycanroc

@Barbie_E4 15. Natu’s theme and animal, less so the model

@Barbie_E4 16. Tinkaton, specifically the hair things

@Barbie_E4 17. Electabuzz but also Totoro lol

@Barbie_E4 18. Flaaffy

@Barbie_E4 19. Meganium x Lilligant x Goodra

@Barbie_E4 20. Popular one, Decidueye. This one is super blatant imo

@Barbie_E4 21. Very similar model and stance to Furret

@Barbie_E4 22. Lilligant and Gardevoir

@Barbie_E4 23. Latios

@Barbie_E4 24. Espurr

@Barbie_E4 25. Meowstic

@Barbie_E4 26. Suicune

@Barbie_E4 27. Lucario, especially snout and ears

@Barbie_E4 28. Lucario again

@Barbie_E4 29. Xerneas

@Barbie_E4 30. Cobalion, one of the most blatant ones

@Barbie_E4 31. Frosmoth

@Barbie_E4 32. Ampharos

@Barbie_E4 33. Quagsire

@Barbie_E4 34. Tangrowth

@Barbie_E4 35. Darkrai

@Barbie_E4 36. Gyarados, especially in colouring (cream belly, blue body, red eyes)

@Barbie_E4 37. Alcremie

@Barbie_E4 38. Pansage

@Barbie_E4 39. Espurr’s eyes

@Barbie_E4 40. Corviknight’s theme (plated bird), and feet (almost identical aside from colour)

@Barbie_E4 41. Mega aggron again, or potentially normal aggron

@Barbie_E4 42. Serperior (neck pattern) and meganium

@Barbie_E4 43. Salazzle

@Barbie_E4 44. Chingling (as I believe the artist of the fakemon that was similar confirmed it was a coincidence and they made theirs after the pal)

@Barbie_E4 45. Vulpix mostly in theme

@Barbie_E4 46. Emolga

@Barbie_E4 47. Braviary, especially feet and colours

@Barbie_E4 48. Zoroark and Houndoom but I feel like there’s something else I can’t quite pin

@Barbie_E4 49. Zoroark more obviously than the previous, especially claws and colours (blue eyes even)

@Barbie_E4 50. Zebstrika in its “electric horse covered in lightning bolts” theme

@Barbie_E4 51. Drednaw’s plated “ready to fight” design

@Barbie_E4 52. Mismagius but also this Mega Delphox fakemon I remembered from being younger

@Barbie_E4 53. Drilbur’s model

@Barbie_E4 54. Thundurus’s design themes

@Barbie_E4 55. Vespiquen’s design theme

@Barbie_E4 56. (now over half of the pals) a combo of Phipne/Manaphy, Mantyke, and palafin

@Barbie_E4 57. Snorlax’s face with the teeth flipped

@Barbie_E4 58. Empoleon’s design theme

@Barbie_E4 59. Leafeon and pachirisu

@Barbie_E4 60. Pikachu’s design theme

@Barbie_E4 61. Glaceon, especially reminded me of the Pokémon go Christmas version lol

@Barbie_E4 62. Potentially munna’s body

@Barbie_E4 63. The final one I could find, the colours of Hisuian Growlithe. This one is a stretch but I couldn’t shake it lmao. Let me know if there are any I missed or designs taken from other games outside of Pokémon! (I believe the boar is Zelda inspired?)

I just wanted to mention, I don’t think everything in this thread is plagiarised. Especially the lower down ones. But I wanted to fully compile a list of everything with a similarity so that those who weren’t sure what exactly what was going on would have a comprehensive list

@Barbie_E4 I’ll put this one here too because I didn’t pick up on it but it’s accurate!

https://twitter.com/serpentking7891/status/1749198978783027306

I made this thread to just show people the extent of the plagiarism, I don’t want to say much of my own opinions on the matter since I want people to be able to talk this info however they want, but to sum up my thoughts this tweet does it nicely.

https://twitter.com/quilowisp/status/1748907500148007023

I thought I’d say because I never made it clear, the reason a lot are stretches is because I wanted to point out that if they stole huge elements, like galarian meowth’s face for example, then who’s to say they didn’t still the little stuff too, just the idea of a fire fox?

If they were okay being super blatant stealing big ideas, I thought I’d compile a list of EVERY little detail I thought was familiar from a different Pokémon because I believe it’s possible that even the tiniest of details they used Pokémon for too, just like the big shit.

It’s fully up to the individual which ones they believe and how they use that information, it’s your money and your thoughts, but I thought if I made a massive list of my thoughts as someone who knows pokemon well it’d be cool for people to see and form their own opinions!

Ty for responding and letting me hear everyone’s opinions on the matter, it’s an interesting conversation no matter what side of the coin and I’m enjoying reading what everyone thinks and the other Pokémon that you think were similar!