Talk:Derpy/@comment-75.120.253.74-20130605165313/@comment-9802761-20130605185706

Looking into it, it seems that the similarities with Brock are staggering.

"He (or, rather his translator) revealed that the true reason they replaced Brock is because, once they realized Pokémon was going global, there was a chance that Americans, if not anyone else outside of Japan, would view Brock as a racist stereotype because of his eyes (even though there wasn't an actual complaint yet)."