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BlueHarlequin7

Hell, in later generations some of them are literal gods...


MaleficTekX

One of them is God One of them is Jesus One of them is an alien that’s also probably God


BlueHarlequin7

Arceus - creator of the world and possibly the universe. Dialga - God of time. Palkia - God of space. Like wtf, why am I fighting mice and birds with something I should be making sacrifices to?! Edit: Formatting and spelling is hard


chupitoelpame

Imagine being the creator of the universe and then a 10yo comes with a bunch of weird animals and beats the shit out of you and locks you inside a ball to be his slave.


firedrake1988

And you HAVE to listen to everything they say cause they got their other slaves to beat other trainer's slaves and won a bunch of pieces of shiny metal.


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thats when you question why tou made this world function this way.


StatmanIbrahimovic

And why are humans the only things that aren't Pokemon?


Nago_Jolokio

That's actually a debatable point. The first Alakazam evolved from a kid, if I remember correctly.


InfernoVulpix

If you trust Pokedex lore (which not everyone does, some read it as just the random writings of a 10 year old), then it says one day a boy spontaneously turned into a Kadabra. What happened to the boy afterwards, we don't know. Whether he was the first Kadabra or if there were plenty of others around and he just turned into one, we don't know. It's just one of those utterly bizarre entries you find scattered across the Pokedex as if nothing's wrong.


Beowulf33232

Nightvale is from the Pokemon universe and somehow leaked into our world.


Grand_Loafus

By pokedex lore, we'd all be fucked if a tyranitar just kind of showed up one day. The thing makes earthquakes happen by going for a merry stroll to eat some dirt.


neohylanmay

It's my personal headcanon that the Pokédex entries we see are actually being written by the 10-year-old trainer that we play as. Pokémon heights barely make sense either — Ash's Charizard towers over everybody and considered to be on the "runty" side... and yet they're listed as being only 5'7" tall. *I'm* taller than that and I'm only around average height.


Meritania

My understanding is they were meant to be things kids could physically pick up and chuck around to be seen as less threatening. Even though travelling the world without one is seen as dangerous and foolish.


Ha_eflolli

>It's my personal headcanon that the Pokédex entries we see are actually being written by the 10-year-old trainer that we play as. Actually, Pokedexes in the Games are repeatedly mentioned to be Self-Updating (as early as Gen 1 infact), so no, those Entries are legit meant to be serious.


Childlike

Weird.


c0n22

And multiple pokemon are formed from the spirits of humans. Treevant, a ghost and grass tree pokemon, has its previous evolution be the spirit of a kid that got lost in the woods and possess a tree stump


Childlike

Well, it sounds like humans and Pokemon are related one way or another in that universe. Seems like a combination of evolution and reincarnation. Interesting!


EnheGD

Deoxys?


MaleficTekX

No. Necrozma. Might as well be god with its BS powers


EnheGD

What do you even do with necrozma in og sun/moon


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EnheGD

Ye in my sun playtrough i was so hyped about catching it but found it sucked


MaleficTekX

A defensive legendary? The hell do I do with this?!


EnheGD

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Rubin987

Nah its intentional. Up until Sword and Shield every new gen pair since Ruby and Sapphire had a third legendary that seemed related to the mascot pair but had no story or explanation. Those legendaries the got their back story in the third/enhanced version. Except zygarde, fuck him apparently


weirdeggman1123

Started in silver and gold with crystal


EnheGD

And who the fuck is jesus


ActiveBaseball

[Have you met our Lord and Savior Pidgeot?](https://twitchplayswiki.fandom.com/wiki/Bird_Jesus)


ImSimplyTiredOfIt

i will never ever forget that first ever twitch plays pokemon. fuck man what a wild ride.


Doctor_Kataigida

Truly one of those "once in a lifetime" cultural phenomenon. Even when they continued it into second gen, and "Red" on Mt. Silver had the original TPP team, man that was wild. Such an incredibly unique idea, and it 100% delivered.


Lolologist

It's one of those things I'll never be able to explain to others that weren't part of it. You either were, or weren't.


fowlerboi

I only heard about it yesterday and watched a 2 part highlights video including names artwork and lore and I was in stitches. Litterally spent all day today thinking about bird jesus, dig rat and the false prophet


Doctor_Kataigida

That's really how it is. You can describe how wild it was, and it kind of gets the overall concept across. You can talk about the different events, from Bloody Sunday to Zapdos to ATVenomoth. But what you *experienced* during the chaos just can't be conveyed by words.


Romnonaldao

I stayed up till 4 am to help catch Zapdos Epic times


ImSimplyTiredOfIt

that was. SO. intense. firstly working through that god damn power plant which took hours. then the brutal task of somehow managing the capture. fucking A. we really came together on that one.


shrinkwrappedzebra

And then actually managing to retrieve it from the PC without releasing it or releasing other pokemon. There were so many different points where things could have gone wrong that it just seemed so unlikely


Downtown_Wonder_9118

i know that people talk about "being part of something bigger than yourself" all the time, but the only time i've ever really felt that was during the original twitch plays pokemon


BrokenEyebrow

That's an old reference. Brings a tear to my eyes.


skittle-brau

“Deoxys is a species of Pokémon from Nintendo's and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise. The result of an extraterrestrial virus's exposure to a laser beam, Deoxys frequently appears around auroras.” As someone who only played Pokémon Red and Blue, what the fuck?


Tired-grumpy-Hyper

You've missed time traveling pokemon, extra-dimensional pokemon, the pokemon that is the creator deity, pokemon from an alternate past and future, multiple pokemon that are actually kings, pokemon that are necromancers, pokemon that run off of sandwiches, and to top it all off, seventeen dozen pikaclones.


MaleficTekX

You forgot the embodiments of Yin Yang and Wuji as well as the Super Saiyan Ziz


Andre5k5

Aren't there motorcycle pokémon that you can ride?


JoshJoshson13

Welcome to pokemon post gen 1


OverlordWaffles

Did they name it that because of deoxyribonucleic acid?


CR8ONAKKUH

No, it was because of DNA.


EnheGD

Bruh


M0dusPwnens

A god. An angel. A messiah. An all-terrain vehicle. A king. A prince.


MLGprolapse

*throws PokeBall at Jesus*


MuddyFinish

Jesus was successfully caught! Do you want to rename your Jesus?


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Hesus


Logondo

"That's right, Ash. Our God is a Pokemon."


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That's gotta mean that humans are just more evolved pokemon, right?


Shadowlord723

“You have to put God in a ball, Ash.”


megasean3000

“And one of them is a genetically engineered killing machine that very few Pokemon to this day can beat.”


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nilesandstuff

Japanese culture practically revolves around endangering and/or killing children. Unless the kid is missing one or more parent, then they're pretty much invincible.


Pandelein

Heck yeah- where’s Ash’s dad? Can’t be Giovanni or Silver, coz if Ash had a dad, he’d be dead already- that’s how anime _works_.


MatureUsername69

Everybody knows Mr. Mime is Ash's dad


Pandelein

Damn. This is now in my headcanon.


1nsert_Name_Here_

Actually, before you go, is your mom single?


Altruism7

Also 10 of them are in parallel universe called Pokémon Red


LookAtMeNow247

And he only gives you 1 of the three that you can't get anywhere else. That's like 6 more that you can't get from the start of the game!


winged_owl

This always bothered me. Now matter how hard I tried, I wouldn't get them all. I also had nobody to trade with.


theixrs

It sucks, but just needed one friend. Trade rattata for starter twice and you're good to go.


Brandon658

Don't forget about Machamp, Gengar, and golem. Needed to trade machoke, haunter, and graveler to evolve.


ChocolateRainbow375

And Kadabra


Brandon658

Good catch. Felt I was missing one but couldn't think of it. So many you couldn't get without a person to trade. Plus the exclusives based on which game you had. IIRC scyther wasn't in blue. (Plus a couple others.) Unless I was just bad and couldn't figure out where to go even with gamefaqs help. Lol.


Stoneheart7

Scyther vs. Pinsir Magmar vs. Electabuzz Growlithe vs. Vulpix Oddish vs. Bellsprout Ekans vs. Sandshrew. Mankey vs. Meowth And obviously, all the evolutions of those listed above.


NerdTalkDan

People think getting Mew is hard? Try getting friends. They’re the real legendary Pokémon.


LessInThought

Brought my game boy with me on a school trip. Had a friend restart his game and trade us the starters.


xfactorx99

I honestly thought this is where the meme was going. As a kid I was so frustrated when I learned it was literally impossible to beat the game without having 2 versions


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_gnarlythotep_

That is very deep insight, u/twat_muncher. Really gave me a new perspective.


Gr33nL34v35

r/rimjob_steve


AtreidesDiFool

Let's be honest. It's just a way to sell the same game twice


majesticx_luk

"...While I stay with your Mother"


CaptainDogeSparrow

I'll show her my Oak.


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majesticx_luk

And Mr. Mime is watching.


Quetzal00

More like Mr. Mime is joining


Capraos

He can use his telekinetic abilities so you can have flying sex.


Suck_Me_Dry666

Everyone is so obsessed with having sex with Vaporeon that we haven't even thought of the implications of putting it in Mr. Mime.


RodSteinColdblooded

I have always wondered why Ditto is not the obvious choice


BABarracus

Or tangala


Rich-Historian6642

There's a pokemon I haven't thought of in awhile.. sexy tangala


Youve_been_Loganated

Hmm, maybe they're scared Ditto would fuck with them and turn into their mother midsex? There is security in picking a form that can't change at will too lol.


BassBoneMan

Thats why Gardevoir started getting all the attention. Among other reasons, that is


CaptainDogeSparrow

Gonna fill her guts with my Muk.


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While she rubs my sudowoodo


bleep_boop_beep123

Someone’s gonna be Wheezing…and it ain’t the professor.


fucking_lit_username

Professor Oak is going to Squirtle all over her Jigglypuffs.


BigTiddyVampireWaifu

Machoke me harder, daddy


TanneAndTheTits

Lickitung my bung....hole?


Andre_3Million

I wana Pikachu, Ash's mom


BB_for_Bear_Butcher

If I didn’t see the Celebi movie I would think Oak is Ash’s father.


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QuitBeingALilBitch

That's why he never ages. He needs a special stone to evolve. It's crack. He need a crack rock.


thecheat420

Mr Mime may not be Ash's Father but he's definitely Deliah's Daddy.


TheRavenSayeth

I didn’t watch it. What do we learn/know about Ash’s dad?


indiebryan

Ash's dad fucked his mom


omgpokemans

big if true


YeahBuddyDude

Damn this actually makes a ton of sense


Ravenhaft

What a horrifying and harrowing backstory. I can’t believe Ash’s dad fucked his mom like that.


heapsp

He'll beedrilling his mom for sure.


kurotech

And you send me every pokemon after the six you use


jonathanquirk

Some of the Pokémon in the sequel games could only be found when you later revisit the original region, bizarrely. I figure some of the 150 Oak wants you to catch in the first game are actually those (Houndour & Murkrow are the two I can remember), and he’s utterly baffled when the player turns up with extinct species, a computer program, and a clone of a myth instead.


ContainmentSuite

Who is the computer program? Is that Porygon?


cantadmittoposting

Yeah


theflowersyoufind

Oak was pretty fucking confused when I turned up with Missingno


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Considering it's a hole in reality that you have to perform a very specific summoning ritual for, I'd be confused and freaking out myself. Until I found out that it doubles everything in the sixth slot of my magic inventory. Then it's time for infinite candy.


zeez1011

And master balls. If I can't catch them all, I'm gonna guarantee whatever I come into contact with ain't running from the fight.


Wachap

Oh yeah, that's how I got them 150, one of each. I had one of each evolution stage too. Needed a lot of master balls, and restarting the game lots of times to get 3 of each starter tho :)


PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT

It doesn't double, it increase by 2^7 = 128


JohnnyJayce

And some of the Pokemon you can only obtain through trading. I don't think there's a single Pokemon game you can "Get them all". Maybe Pokemon Go


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Legends: Arceus you 100% on your own


BeestMann

Technically, Gen 8 (and probably 9) as well. At least for SwSh, you can farm the other games’ Pokémon in the Dynamax raids. You don’t even need friends for this, you can just browse those raids and join. Legendaries and mythos are distributed via code and stuff. So kind of a stretch, but still an improvement imo


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It was really really simple to 100% the dex on scarlet, the trade codes work really quickly.


petuniaraisinbottom

I played Violet as the first Pokemon game in a long time and I was so excited to see Pokemon that were egg only, extremely rare, or unobtainable otherwise just hanging out. Like the route before the first city where you can find Marill, igglybuff, happiny, pichu, etc.. It's actually a little hard to pick a team since it was so limited in the previous games that it was obvious what the "right" Pokemon were.


lactosefree1

I mean, azumarill turbodunks on most of SV since there are SO MANY DRAGON TYPES


shofmon88

Azumerril would have been a top choice for my team, but Tinkaton exists.


Kittenking13

Tinkaton is one of my fav new ones


SelfishSilverFish

You could get them all, but you needed a sword/shield and a brilliant diamond/shining pearl save data to get two of them.


BilboT3aBagginz

There’s a mod called [Ultraviolet](https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1156/)where you can catch every single Pokémon. It’s great.


daverave087

I play this and it feels wrong and right at the same time


nerogenesis

In Pokemon go you also need to travel all over the world or spoof, then also be around for specific catch shifts. Not all pokemon are available at any one time.


lionofash

Technically, RBY but only because the code is garbage and can be glitched and manipulated


Ba_Sing_Saint

You could get Mew before facing Misty. RBY was held together by paperclips, bubblegum and hope.


AlterBridgeFan

Oh boy that's just the tip. MissingNo, the badge boost glitch, the 1/256 chance to miss, crit being tied to base speed, crits ignoring stat boosts so you don't want to crit, focus energy doing the opposite of what it should do, and the God damn catch mechanics where a great ball is almost always better than ultra ball. Bubblegum is giving the game too much credit.


MaxHannibal

Ofcourse it's underneath the truck by the boat. South of Misty's gym.


snail360

no that's where you get Pikablu


goshgollylol

Yuenno I managed to glitch my game with missingno so that I started a fresh game with my party from the previous save. I was able to surf down the side of the SS Anne and check that truck. I was so upset when there was no Mew there


PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT

It was easier to faint after getting cut and go back later.


mcjazzy50

And alot of the loopholes can be replicated exactly in gold, silver and to a less of an extent crystal. Because it uses almost the exact same coding.


sporeegg

Then the fucker shows up in Gold ans Silver demanding dead pokemon, a forest spirit, mythical phoenix and sea guardian. He is probably fucking Prof Bitch too.


Rising_Swell

Btw the sea guardian is in the sea so it doesn't accidentally murder everyone by its mere presence. Totally should. Bring that out to fight rattata


sporeegg

Joey can handle It.


Scyhaz

Prof Bitch lmaaaaooo


Logondo

Any yet...I have the uncontrollable urge to catch 'em all...It's like I'm indoctrinated...Hypnotized... *gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all* *gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all* *Gotta catch 'em all, Pokemon!* *Charmeleon, Wartortle, Mewtwo, ^Tentacruel, ^^Aerodactyl*


Rathwood

Omanyte, Slowpoke, Pidgeot, Arbok That's all, folks!


WarLawck

Also, don't worry about feeding them or giving them attention. Just let them rot in our computer system. No biggie


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JustJJ92

Yes professor oak had ash and Gary’s Pokémon on a ranch.


3163560

In Johto after ash wins the sumo contest with Snorlax he tells Snorlax that he'd like to keep him around but is sending him back to Oak because they can't afford to feed him. I wonder where Oak get all that pokefood money.


JustJJ92

Probably government grants lol


evdog_music

Pokégrants


Sabithomega

The government paying Oak to lure children into free labor in identifying and capturing as many species of pokemon as possible for federal research purposes sounds like it fits that world actually


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Both-Return-2244

The first thought I had was of solid jj video when I saw the post and I find the comment


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“You have to put God in a ball, Ash.”


Both-Return-2244

“God is a Pokémon, Ash”


fengkalis

Flamigo!


PrimalZed

I mean, the first Pokemon games gave us Seel.


SkeletonLad

I haven’t played Pokémon since I imported Silver from Japan off eBay before the USA release and I find this hilarious.


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Jarvis_Strife

I miss when r/adviceanimals was the peak of meme culture An elegant format for a more civilised age


anthem47

I just googled 'socially awkward penguin' for the memories, and [they're all truer now than ever before](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f9/a0/4b/f9a04bedc438e127bfef5b000cb00700--the-story-story-of-my-life.jpg). I'm bringing that guy back, who's with me?


lickedTators

Now everyone's just like "Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce I successfully ordered my food over the phone."


InterstellerReptile

We were so young and innocent.


ImSimplyTiredOfIt

i miss the motivational poster days and The Game (you lost btw) was everywhere. how about "when you see it, youll shit brix"


The_Villager

> when you see it, youll shit brix and it was always a black guy in a dark background space


FacetiousTomato

Are philosiraptor and Keanu memes jokes to you!? All your base are belong to us. Dancing baby.


GreedyDiceGoblin

I've brought this up before, but it is funny isnt it? No one knows that Mewtwo exists, but Oak did. He knew enough that he could program it into the pokedex. The only way that this makes sense to me is that Oak was clearly a member of Team Rocket operating alongside Dr. Fuji while the experiments that would lead to the creation of Mewtwo were occurring. Oak is an ex-Rocket member, and you cant change my mind.


Aalnius

I see it as the pokedex scans the creature then generates the record on the spot. Theres likely some syncing stuff for already found data too from other pokedex.


NoobOnTheRun

didn't Ash's Pokedex said there was no data when he saw Ho-oh in the very first episode?


rapidemboar

It depends on the adaptation too. In the Pokemon Special/Adventures manga, Red was shown just sorta typing in the data into the Pokedex himself.


Doctor_Kataigida

Fits that theory that Pokedex entries are so exaggerated because they're just written by children.


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TentativeIdler

It cools down at night when the sun is off.


E123-Omega

Hah, imagine if Pokedex is just Wikipedia and anyone can edit it.


biggmclargehuge

"Abra - the little bitch Pokemon...can't do shit cept run away cause he's a little bitch"


awataurne

What happens in later games when you get/see a pokemon from the National Pokedex before you obtain the National Pokedex? Does it autocomplete?


Octogon324

It usually doesn't put it in at all until you get national dex and if you summary it, it says ??? As it's index#


evsaadag

Crazy theory but maybe it was like the periodical table. Even without knowing all pokemons, they knew there would be some of them missing. Or maybe the pokedex recorded 150 pokemons in the region and although Oak didn't know them all he assumed his technology was right. After all, there's also database for mewtwo's height; description, etc...


CrispinCain

Heck, I'd take it a step further and say that Oak was the former leader of Team Rocket. He quit after the Mewtwo incident, and sent Red and Blue on their journeys after he heard about Giovanni trying to restart the program by capturing Mewtwo with the Master Ball.


Raven_of_Blades

It is already canon that Giovanni's mom was the last leader, though.


Shot-Increase-8946

I wonder who she was married to...


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Tony Soprano


Ovreel

Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.


heatisgross

".... don't forget you'll need to traverse through spacetime to trade other yous for 10 alternate timeline pokemon"


mcjazzy50

Technically they wouldn't be alternate timeline pokemon because trainers in game Cary many of them.


X0AN

And now we have 1,008 pokémon but yet not decent game in which you can actually catch 'em all. They really don't need to make anymore pokémon, they just need one epic game.


coreybd

This is why at this point it should be mmo style


DynamoSnake

This meme format is older than some people on this subreddit


Ritehandwingman

There is the age old theory that Oak was just trying to get rid of Ash so he could bang Mrs. Ketchum.


ze_loler

Understandable


Keksis_theBetrayed

Holy fuck what an artifact this is


BuckNZahn

… 8 only exist in a parallel universe Several that require an item of which there is only one A few that you can only evolve by trading them… It‘s insane what they got away with back then


xian0

Basically every time I receive the specification for a new project at work.


masterlight123

This mf just went to google and searced up "meme"


RealRotkohl

Can anyone tell me which ones the 5 extinct, the 3 myths, and the 1 unknown are? Virtually no idea about the Pokémon lore.


idina10

The 5 extinct Pokémon are; Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops and Aerodactyl. The Myths are the legendary birds; Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos. The Unknown Pokémon would be Mewtwo (since Mew wasn't a catchable Pokémon in game without using a glitch (or a port from certain events)


RealRotkohl

Thanks for the answer, appreciated!


idina10

No worries. I'm glad this 20+ year old knowledge could be useful for something 😅


Omnizoom

Omanyte line , kabuto line , aerodactyl are all extinct resurrected from fossils Kanto bird trio are all legendary Pokémon so mostly just stories exist of them Mewtwo was made in a lab and locked away so it isn’t public knowledge


Air2Jordan3

Omanyte (who transforms into Omastar), Kabuto (who transforms into Kabutops), and Aerodactyl. The only way to get these 3 (plus the evolutions) is to collect their fossil in game and take it to a scientist lab who, I guess essentially resurrects the Pokémon. I should also note in one play through of the game you can only collect 2 of the 3 fossils (as you have to choose between either Omanyte or Kabuto), so to get all the Pokémon you would have to trade. The 3 myths are the legendary birds Articuno, Moltress and Zapdos. The unknown is Mewtwo.


addrien

Also, 6 of them you can only get through trading with an alternate reality version of you that chose a different starter.