Why did they turn Charizard into Ash's "starter"?


People say they gave Ash a Pikachu because it would earn them more money if
Ash had all three starters than just one starter. But then why did they make
Charizard their starter representative later? Charizard was the only one that
evolved from Ash's Kanto starters, the writers gave Gary a Blastoise to fight
Ash's Charizard, in _Mewtwo Strikes Back_ Ash is the one who represents
Charizard while other trainers represent Venusaur and Blastoise, and in the
_Pokémon Zencho_ mangá and in the _I Choose You!_ film, Ash has Charmander as
his only starter.




I think Charizard's popularity started when people got the tcg cards of a
holographic shadowless card adn people making fun of how charizard is a
fire/flying type who can't learn fly in the gen 1 games and people though
CHarizard was a dragon type.

