Kingdra.

0:00What if I told you the word for seahorse, in Japanese, literally translates to the dragon's illegitimate child.

0:03And Kingdra spent its whole existence proving that name wrong.

0:06This is Kingdra, the final form of a little seahorse.

0:09And that name is NOT an accident.

0:12For centuries, people looked at seahorses and saw something shaped like a dragon.

0:15It had the horns.

0:18It had the fins.

0:21It had the whole look of one.

0:24But it was not one.

0:27It was small, and it was weak, and it got written off as a cheap little copy of the real thing.

0:30Dragon-shaped, and never a dragon.

0:33A knock-off.

0:36The reject.

0:39There is even an old myth attached to it.

0:42That if a seahorse somehow survives long enough, if it lasts a full hundred years, it finally stops being the imitation and turns into an actual dragon.

0:45And that is exactly what Kingdra is.

0:48It's the seahorse that made it.

0:51It grew up, it grew strong, and it became a genuine, real, Water and Dragon type dragon.

0:54The exact thing everyone spent centuries saying it was only pretending to be.

0:57It took the insult built into its own name, the dragon's reject, the fake, and it turned that into the truth.

1:00It did not become something else.

1:03It became the thing they all swore it never actually was.

1:06Some of you have been called that too.

1:09The knock-off.

1:12The lesser version of where you came from.

1:15The one who was never going to be the real thing.

1:18So be honest.

1:21Who called you the knock-off, the lesser version of where you came from?

1:24Name them in the comments.

1:27Kingdra proved every one of them wrong, and some of you still will.