#022 - Fearow

FEAROW

IN SHOW

When we learned that the Spearow from the very first episode had evolved into a Fearow, we were terrified and for good reason. Fearow is shown working for a poacher, he’s one of Gary’s pokemon, hell even Mewtwo has one. Nothing about Fearow is clean cut, he’s ragged and edgy and he oozes evil. So the moment we realized that Fearow had been holding a grudge against Ash for as long as he had, we wanted to skip town. And Fearow was literally starving and terrorizing a flock of Pidgey! Pidgey are like 2 year olds and Fearow was beating them up and commanding others to beat them up just out of spite or boredom.

WHY YOU WANT A FEAROW

Fearow reeks of intimidation and the moment your opponent realizes you’re going to use a Fearow, they know that you’re serious. You don’t want them to just lose, you want them to suffer and you do this with Drill Peck. Drill Peck is a 100% accurate powerful peck to the face that will have opponents begging for mercy. It sounds painful and it probably is. Coupled with Fury Attack Fearow is one tough dude.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A FEAROW

The main reason you do not want a Fearow is because you are a nice guy or because you looked at the pokedex picture and realized that Fearow in the game doesn’t look like an intimidating badass but a bush or a guy with rocker hair. Fearow’s picture was supposed to strike fear in our hearts but instead it just made us sad. Yellow had the better picture, and Fearow gained some of his intimidation back but I don’t think he will ever be able to fully recover from what Red and Blue did to him.

IN SUMMARY

Fearow is scary, and Fearow is evil. There are only a few pokemon that are evil just in general, and not because of their trainer or the situations they were born into. Fearow is evil because Fearow finds it fun to be evil and isn’t that what true evil is? He does things for only his pleasure, and won’t even give a second thought to who he’s hurting. I doubt that even Spearow are safe from a Fearow’s wrath and that is probably why they always do whatever Fearow wants. Because they might not survive if they don’t. And have you ever seen two Fearow together? You won’t because Fearow probably can’t even stand one another because the only pokemon who can get the upper edge on a Fearow is another Fearow.