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*** he could have just stolen it

*** Nah, I'm pretty sure in Platinum at least he's shown to have a Golbat. He could've discarded that and nicked a new Crobat, but...

*** Just think of his Golbat like a hammer (that's, at best, how [[~~Complete~~ ~~Monster~~|Cyrus]] would consider it). Do you deliberately leave your hammer sitting in a can of salt water? No, you keep it in good condition. Since Cyrus is ''a''moral instead of ''im''moral, he doesn't mistreat it, so basically it figures things could be a lot worse and evolved.

*** Just think of his Golbat like a hammer (that's, at best, how [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Cyrus]] would consider it). Do you deliberately leave your hammer sitting in a can of salt water? No, you keep it in good condition. Since Cyrus is ''a''moral instead of ''im''moral, he doesn't mistreat it, so basically it figures things could be a lot worse and evolved.

** Pokémon seems to be a pretty [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|idealistic]] bunch of games, maybe they were trying to show that even "gray" villains like Silver weren't entirely evil people, just wrong about a lot of things. Maybe Silver only caught Pokémon who had a similar obsession with being the strongest, anyway, and as long as they were strong enough to win battles he didn't berate them too much.

** What bugs me about this is that Silver is never really depicted as 'evil', just he had a strong desire to be strong and he didn't care for weak Pokemon. He still could've cared for his Pokemon. Near the end he realizes it's probably better to train rather than catch strong Pokemon right off the bat. At least that's what I think.