Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween 2025: Heads and Tails

And then, there's the big spooky day itself - Halloween. Also as detailed last year, Pokémon has really been getting into its spirit through its "Pokéween" branding for all things spooky with all things Pokémon. Certainly, that would be from head to tail, as is true of many Pokémon that are like real creatures that have heads and likely tails. With that, the subject seems to make for a good discussion for this year's Halloween festivities and how that centers all around Pokémon and some spookiness.

Recently, the revealed Mega Dragonite has been shown to have a really funky head (with wings) and an equally funky tail (with an orb just like Dragonair). It made many fans do a double take, perhaps in a way even "spooking" them out. With the way some Pokémon are - like the eyeless headed Zubat, or the forked tail Espeon - they might just be able to bring spooks to anyone, particularly those uninitiated with Pokémon. If they're if any indication, the oddest heads and strangest tails are definitely helpful in this regard.

Meanwhile, looking at the current plethora of costumed Pokémon in Pokémon Go, specifically those related to today's occasion of concern, quite a few involve putting things on Pokémon heads (or somewhere close to that). Even if bodily tails aren't too involved, the things being put on might have "tails" themselves of some kind, and that makes for a unique tails-on-heads situation that could be considered spooky in quite a few ways. That would still be rather unique, even for Halloween.

Of course, there is another sense to "heads" and "tails". That would be the two sides of a coin, something that TCG players often use in their battles. These may be considered to have their aura of "spookiness" about them, being strangely "helpful" when not needed and less so otherwise. That will then cause "spooks" for either or both of the attacking and defending players. And even if they're only figuratively related to actual "heads" and real "tails", either player will still need to deal with the possibly "spooky" results.

Me: Maybe we can think of any other strange heads-and-tails things today?

Ash: Don't you have that "something important" for me coming up?

Me: Oh, yes! So, um... I guess you might as well go out for me.

Goh: Hey, another actual outing on Halloween!

Me: Sure! No parties (that I know of), but a few friends always deal with things on this day of the week.

Ash: They're your card game friends - and they're helping me get set up. I paid for you just as you told me to do.

Me: Great! 

Ash: And then... I hung around with them and even talked about you for a good bit of time with one of their buddies.

Goh: You didn't play?

Me: Oh, I wish I could set up myself and Ash for that. But I really can't.

Goh: I'm sorry. Well, it does seem like a good time.

Ash: But it's right on Halloween... so I also got you a little something.

Me: Oh, nice! A few "treats".

Ash: It wasn't exactly "trick-or-treating" but it was as close as I could get.

Goh: Maybe you can do it for real at some point.

Me: I'd love to arrange that. 

Goh: By the way, what's this in your fridge? It looks a little like... Torchic heads. 

Ash: Oh, that's an odd one.

Me: Well, you don't need to know too much more about that...

It's amazing that even something as trivial like "heads" and "tails" can be thought-provoking for Pokémon matters or spooky matters - or both as a matter of fact. It's the way they combine as in the case of Pokémon species, the two sides of a coin, and their other manifestations that make them what they are, and even "scary" good. 

So, at the tail end of this discussion, I'd like to head cap things off by saying Happy Halloween 🎃 to all those getting into all of its festivities - hopefully all the way from the head to the tail.

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