Quote Originally Posted by Anemone_Valesti View Post
a friggin Adamantoise flying which doesn't even make sense within it's own franchise. Have not been shown to fly at any point in the franchise, and if it did and Im just not aware of it, Im pretty damn sure it's not by rocket propulsion. The ONLY reason that thing flies because its a joke. Is that a freaking better reason as to a mount flying ?
It was added in as a Japanese pop culture reference to Gamera, a turtle similar to Godzilla. It would be like a US video game making a reference to Bugs Bunny. And yes, the turtle uses rocket propolsion to both fly like with jetpacks and to spin around like a flying saucer.







In the Shōwa era series, Gamera was a titanic, fire-breathing, prehistoric species of turtle who fed on petroleum-based material, presumably giving him the ability to breathe fire and fly by "jets" ignited when the monster retracts its legs – it can propel itself by spinning through the air with all four legs in and (shown in later films) can fly straight with just the rear legs drawn inside its shell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera

So, yeah, it's not a joke, it's a pop culture reference.