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  • Alternate Aesop Interpretation: The comparisons to Icarus that Goh takes from his poem might seem like they are talking about him coming back to Earth or the dangers he put himself in that worried Chloe, or instead, that Goh succeeding where Icarus failed. After all, Goh didn't fall off Lugia, didn't actually die from drowning, and while the latter basically is a non-factor to him until it came back up when he was in a bad state, the former more or less began a new, much more successful stage of his life. He met Ash, who was by all accounts a far better friend to him than Chloe ever was, got a job, left his room more or less permanently after taking the first step by staking out Lugia on his own, and started to see the world and make more friends, both Pokemon and those he met abroad. So Goh isn't Icarus; he who survived his flight and grew as a person. If anything, the real message is Chloe comparing herself to monsters envious of his freedom and her Tall Poppy Syndrome at him for not crashing and burning and going somewhere she refused to go.

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