Let's just take the time to appreciate that in a world where you can lug around interdimensional beasts and literally god like it ain't a thing, This Guy from Pokemon: Pocket Monsters the Manga was the one creature capable of living life on its own terms
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the format of making a comment that says hey can we all just take a moment to appreciate the big red devil with a prominent red ass being shown on children's television nationally across the United States of yee haw and not like adult swim at 1am.
I would have loved if beating the Mechamewtwo was just someone using explosion and then it explodes like a moron for no reason instead of the usual power of friendship type nonsense.
PMD has a few interesting “cryptids” including: -Purple Kecleon: The Brother of the Pokémon Morshu (you could call him Mortwo) -Primal Dialga, the ORIGINAL primal form that can never be recruited. -Kangashan Statue, for some reason be hacked in and used. - BitterCold: The first of the PMD Eldridge horrors. - Dark Matter: Wait aren’t you from Kirby? How did you get here? -Void Shadows: Oh nice, man made horrors that are roided up Dittoes, my beloved.
@@HumanReverend tragic i missed the world where i got to hear reverend talk about the bit in pokemon super mystery dungeon where everyone in the universe went to super hell for like 10 minutes
Gen3 had some fun off-model mons as well, like baggy banette and the infamous s m o o t h nosepass. And then there's cradily, which was literally never on-model until the switch to the 3D era. Gens 3 and 4 both made its tentacles shorter than they were supposed to be, and orange instead of pink. Gen5 fixed the colour/size problems, but made an even bigger fuckup by making cradily have 7 tentacles when viewed from the front, and 9 when viewed from the back. It's supposed to have 8.
and the funnier thing is that it didn't work. it retroactively made it gay because the butterfree gender difference wasn't added until BW, and it's totally different
Fun fact: the color palette used for Venomoth in Ruby and Sapphire actually has some yellow shades assigned to it, even though they don't appear on the sprite, suggesting that Three Dot Venomoth was considered at some point
I remember when was a kid in the late 1990’s, Costco had three Pokémon books. The first was basically the gen 1 Pokédex with information about everything from Bulbasaur to Mewtwo. It was later replaced just prior to the announcement of the gen 2 games with the second book that included Mew and Togepi. The cover of the third book featured a girl riding on the back of a Pokémon I’ve never seen anywhere else. It was brown, bipedal, and had ears shaped like Shrek’s.
I have that third book! It's an unofficial guide/Pokedex/collection of various Pokemon related things, including: - Pictures of various Pokemon toys, including bootlegs - An episode-by-episode anime summary, including the Porygon episode and why it was unaired. The book speculated it would be edited and then shown again, but it never was. It also mentioned the holiday Jynx episode, which was still unaired at the time because of the Porygon incident immediately before. - Gen 1 walkthrough - Red/Green sprites in the Pokedex section - Basic guides to TCG and Pokemon Snap And yes, the cryptid on the cover. It kinda looks like a T-rex with stubby arms and Charizard's head shape. The book is the Pokemon Trainer's Guide from Sandwich Islands Publishing. It's a fun little product of its time.
@@PikminWarrior454 there is a second book with an almost identical title that has another similar cryptid. Like the only image of charizard they knew was the original sprite so they just drew what they thought it should look like.
@@PikminWarrior454 thank you so much for sharing the title, google images turned it up immediately. I'm so glad I got to see pikachu's uncle, who is apparently an underweight charizard revived from a fossil
I just wanna call out the offical pokemon book by the anime director Takeshi Shudo where he adds in several long tangents about Professor Oak seems to also have questions about its weird we keep "finding" new pokemon and not really finding normal animals, and its weird how like... the greeks didn't write down "Oh yeah I saw a Mankey the other day" The implication is he found out... something he didn't like and retired to pallet town and its fucking insane non canon now but its wild they would even... bring up the topic at all
Its just lampshading. Back then, Pokemon was Urban Fantasy, taking place in a world parallel to our own. "Pokemon" was just the classification for any scifi/fantasy creature, basically. So they're basically going "Gee, sure is funny that the Greeks never had any Random Battles." Except Takeshi Shudo made everything intense AF on paper, bless him for it
Takeshi Shudo often drank and did drugs on the job until his brain exploded on the subway. Lugia and Team Rocket's strangely facist motto "Unite all people under one nation" are how he's remembered by today. Pour one out for the king.
Raichu's pokedex entry referenced a a real incident in which Thomas Edison's company literally executed an elephant by electrocution. Has it's own wikipeida page. 1903.
The fact that there are several famous elephant executions, even more than just these two, says something. I don't know what it says. Just that it's something.
@@agisuru Some time an elephant execution, though not intended to be one, was carried out by providing the Elephant several hundreds of times the lethal dise of a hallucinanegen. I think it was LSD. I think.
7:08 The funniest part about Bye Bye Butterfree is they created a flamboyant hot pink bug so we wouldn't believe Butterfree was gay but then they retroactively MADE it gay by making the female form be decided by a completely different factor.
Some of the back sprites in gen 1 reveal even more weird design inconsistencies. Marowak has a line of spikes that never appears again. Arbok also has some wavy pattern on its back in gen 1. Nidoqueen, Flareon, and especially Rhyhorn are near-unrecognizeable lumps of whatever. Moltres' barber kinda just gave up. Also, on the topic of back sprites, did you know that most of the older Pokemon use an updated version of their gen 2 backsprite in Ruby and Sapphire? For FireRed and LeafGreen they did redo the poses for some of them, like Alakazam. Anyway, if you look at the back sprites for Gen 3 Gengar, you can find pointy Gengar.
@@HumanReverend yeah it's kind of wild, it's one of the more iconic pokemon so I guess it makes sense that it'd go through a similar amount of micro-redesigns like Pikachu. I do wish they'd kept it a lighter purple line in gen 3, where you can actually kinda tell the difference between the normal and shiny version.
in gen 1 a lot of pokemon had weird shapes on their back to make them recognizable w/o color. For example Charmeleon had a spike on its back to make its backsprite distinct from Charmander (which makes Sugimoris decision to give Charmander a spike on its back in the updated red/blue artwork even weirder)
There is also the Robo-Groudon from Gale of Darkness and Virus Groudon from Jirachi Wishmaker if you want to count either of those two man made creations as pokemon, I personally count the ladder considering Deoxys and Porygon count as a Pokémon.
Not sure about Virus Groudon, but I’m not inclined to count either Mecha-Groudon or Mecha-Kyogre. They’re both purely mechs, not just inorganic, but requiring someone in the pilot seat. They’re not even Pokémon, let alone cryptids, they’re just vehicles.
I think shadow lugia counts as a cryptid given that, outside of the plush released for him when XD was still on store shelves, he has basically ceased to exist. Even the return of shadow Pokémon in Go did not come with any reference to Shadow Lugia or really anything about Colosseum/XD.
So here’s the story with Meowth talking, and this is canonical - He had a girl Meowth he was fond of, and he tried to impress her by learning English. She rejected him anyway, and he was feeling dejected, and that’s when he encountered Jessie and James and they invited him to join Team Rocket
I think about the interview where they said an important aspect to designing Pokemon is that each one should look like it could be your friend. And wow they did not have that mandate for the manga.
The spaceworld leak was one of the most incredible discoveries of my entire life. It was like finding out that Pokegods were real. It was honestly more impactful to me than a picture of Pluto. I remember seeing in a magazine once at the card shop during Pokemania the Spaceworld demo starters, and tI always wondered what they were, I eventually came to the conclusion that they were just drawn for the magazine. I didn't have the magazine because I never bought it, it was just on the shelf so I could never verify or look at it again.
Before reading the video description, i thought you were joking about being a spider farmer, I didn't realize you actually have a tarantula. I want a tarantula.
i've always wanted to know what the hell the crazy groudon in jirachi wishmaker was. shit was like merging with the earth and had tentacles, and i somehow doubt all groudons can do that
So, from what I gather, Virus Groudon is the same species as the Tree of Life's defense system, but given a Groudon-like shell using Jirachi's magic and Butler's (not sure that's actually his name) wish.
It's called Meta Groudon and it's literally just Jirachi's attempt to draw this Team Magma idiot's idea of Groudon without any reference images so it came out as Fecto Forgo.
might have been commented before, but the "cryptid" in pokemon that's personally always bothered us the most is just... the move infestation. like, the description has never been more specific than "the target is infested and attacked for 4-5 turns." but like... infested with what? the animation just shows a ton of black pixels, so like, ants? are these like, some sort of lesser micro-pokemon that other bug types can manipulate? it's not even a weird localization thing either, if anything its JP name is more confusing, cuz "follow about" implies yeah, these are like, smaller bug types that are listening to orders. don't think they even wanna answer this one cuz this move has never shown up in the anime, they don't know what these things are, either.
Maybe those "real animals" were really just pokemon. Like new games have size varians, and lets go and legends arceus showed us they can get comically small! That frog, sure it was drawn to be a frog, but we can retcon it and say it was just an itty bitty politoed! Those worms might have been tiny wiglets or baby wurmples, those fish might have been just been just like you said, the npc fish pokemon, with some creative licenses taken of course haha
i feel like ive been tricked into watching an iceberg video, the one popular trend i successfully managed to avoid watching a single video of until now. damnit. why do you do this to me, self described altaria (or garchomp) king.
is crazy how each tier could be expended, like text only pokemon like the other ultraworm hole starters, real life pokemons in the anime, niche games recolors like magikarp jump with 31 colorations or the pokemon stadium
There is a very high chance that this is just first gen pokemon having been more formative to my clay-like child brain than any other serotonin squirter but I actually love the rougher and rawer sprites, pokemon design and world implications. Pokemon living alongside regular ass animals and preying on them is makes more sense to my brain than not talking about what they eat at all outside of questionable pokedex entries. I wish they had kept the more grounded and unsanitized philosophy of gen 1 and 2 but here we are. Also, as the one person who likes Raichu, I will never not be mad about Gamefreak keeping Gorochu from me. Also also, slim Pikachu sucks.
From what I read from Bulbapedia, Pokemon were originally supposed to be mythical creatures and it was only really decided a bit after the first games came out that they were the Pokemon world's equivalent of animals. That's why the real animals stopped showing up Gen 2 upwards.
@@hoodedman6579 "Mythical" isn't quite right, but real animals were directly referenced in Gen1. In later generations, their existence is hinted at, but is rarely if ever outright stated. Personally, if I try to imagine it as a world that "exists" in my head, I think it makes sense to imagine that some normal animals do still exist in the world, and that the games and most media just typically don't bother showing them.
Dude, the Ratchet and Clank music, the outspoken love for Missingno, Friends by Ween, the fascination with the weird Pokemon made up for the manga, Marin, Rich Evans?? Seriously based takes and based taste.
Fun fact, the thing the Floette did of significance was die. ...ok, specifically, AZ revived them, got pissed, and turned the revival canon into a world nuke by having it draw power from the god of life to the god of death. Fun fact 2 is a bit of a spoiler for SV. Ready? One of the new Pokemon is literally just a robot. Not a robot given sentience, not a robotic suit possessed, a pure robot. So MechaMew2 is technically a Pokemon. I mean, Porygon proves you can make Pokemon.
I hate how Mecha Mewtwo was snubbed from being a future paradox in SV Also I just noticed an insane detail in Legends: Arceus that I have to bring up in this conversation: So the Arceus Plates each have an engraving that you can read. Most of them are pretty simple, basically just slowly describing the lore of Arceus and the Creation Trio. But then the Flame Plate says "The power of defeated giants infuses this plate", casually raising a million questions and refusing to answer any of them. I think that this has to go on a level of its own, it's not some off-model design from the Gen 1 era, it's literally multiple primordial beings from the beginning of time itself, their existence only confirmed by one line of in-game writing.
I love you you just glossed over that Pikachu's "friend" is from probably the first or second most obscure pokemon Manga ever published. And has *so* much other weird shit in it.
I'll always have a soft spot for the sheer stupid amount of Glitch Pokemon in Gen 1, especially with how Yellow just decided to duplicate the count by being different enough that all the garbage data used to make them was changed, but the code still had the consistency of water soup. Future gens had some, but its not the same. Gen 1 is still fun just because of how much weird garbage like that you can find by being sneaky and evil.
Dude, I just discovered you not that long ago and I have shown this video to almost everyone in my social circle who plays Pokemon and three of my Tinder dates. I don’t want to see the channel get big. I wanna see it DYNAMAX
As someone who was always confounded by the random Indian Elephant references in FireRed's pokedexes (it also shows up in Gastly's entry), just the delivery of "hey do you ever wonder how strong Raichu is?" makes me laugh every time I rewatch this video.
For what it's worth, Pokemon has apparently retconned these into being about Copperajah, but I'll have you know that a 252 SpAtk modest choice specs Raichu's thunderbolt only does 70% to a 0 SpDef 0 HP Copperajah (90% if it also has 0 IVs in those stats), so clearly the Pokedex may have exaggerated a fact once again
"there's a new pokemon everytime I walk out the god damn door." Damn I felt that when two new mons were revealed and updated into gen 9 while I was at work yesterday
8:54 it's a dogu! A clay doll created by the Jomon people who lived in Japan from around 16,000-2,000 years ago. Most of the Jomon artifacts we have are forms of pottery, including statues like this with unusually large eyes. No one really knows what they were for but they show up in a lot of japanese media, including Pokemon. Thats what Baltoy and Claydol are based on, though I don't think this dogu is supposed to be claydol. I think they just wanted to fill the space with something easily recognizable as an artifact.
It's said in some old sources that Pokemon are basically this one type of creature with a similar genetic makeup with the consistent ability to like, turn into energy. They just have different appearances and stuff. I think it's the Pokedex book published by Game Freak? There's a manga called Franken Fran that references it in some chapters.
One of my favorite cryptids is the evil creature from the story intro of Pokémon Heroes, the fifth film and the one starring Latias and Latios. Too bad the dub cut out this part, because this cloud of darkness thing is rad.
I also remember an episode of the anime in season 1 where they meet some ghost type pokemon and there's a mongoose. Just a straight-up mongoose. In the same episode they show Venustoise, a combination of Venusaur and Blastoise.
This entire time I thought butterfree was traded on the SS anne, and then presumably drowned with his new trainer when the ship sunk. man catching the pokemon anime in single episodes not in order on tv messed with me man
@@HumanReverend He's just doing his due diligence. You buy a car, you run the vin to make sure it isn't stolen, you trade a pokemon you use the machine. If they're being sketch about it they're probably trying to pass off one of those aftermarket pink butterfrees as legit
Spiders usually scare me (they’re cool and I appreciate them though), but that tarantula seems very friendly. I’d like to pet him and perhaps give him a high-five if he’d let me.
can't believe you didn't talk about all the cut pokemon from the Pokemon Gold 1997 Spaceworld Demo like Nyorotono the best frog boy that's some free content right there liked and subscribed
The cryptid I still wonder about is the unseen Ultra Beast that Ash helps off screen in the last episode of the Sun Moon anime. Just gets visited in the middle of the night by Solgaleo, commercial break, then shows up the next morning to say "Hey, I helped a new Ultra Beast last night! Anyway, I'm gonna go back to Kanto now!"
Interesting I didn't know that I just thought I was one of the times the games reference the real world randomly. Do you know that the Indian elephant has actually been retconned to be copperajah in the legends Arceus Pokedex.
Hi! I know this isn’t related to the video, but I just wanted to say that the explosion regeleki you showed off is potential the most fun I’ve had building with in ou. Ty for all the great content!
The dialogue in the original anime is so funny. “I’ll always remember you! Thank for everything! Goodbye butterfree!” Could’ve easily been condensed but it’s like the animators we’re doing a parody of American English
10:55 This is also ret-conned later on because the characters routinely eat things made with beef, chicken and pork. Milk products can at least be explained away because of Milktank in Gen II
9:02 pretty sure that's one of those real world statues that claydol and baltoy are based off of. Same as how if you saw a depiction of a moai in pokemon, it wouldn't have to be related to nosepass.
That mention of including Missingno making internet posts seem plausible took me way back. I remember believing the girl you give the drinks to would give you a legendary if you had multiple Moltres and then bugged the heck out of her. And then there was Bolteon. I miss when it was easier to see those old rumors about Bolteon.
Okay but can we just talk about how adorable your spider is? I assume he's your spider anyway. Look at him. He can be a Pokemon Cryptid if he wants to be.
You reminded me that in the Pokémon manga for some reason there are Nidokings the size of Groudon, in the games they are no bigger than Red but those in the manga could crush him with one punch
i think it would be cool if you did a video about the voice actors of pokemon. I dont mean like the human characters but like the actual pokemon themselves. i often forget theyre voice acted and it would be funny to know which ones share voice actors
You know, I always knew and liked that off model/weird variants of Pokemon existed, but I didn't know there were this many and it's fascinating. I wish Pokemon did this more tbh. Great video
There is one in this pokemon card i have, it's a Jigglypuff that i think is a CoroCoro promo or something, it has the Jigglypuff and some unown-like musical notes with eyes. I always thought of them as some rare musical unown variant. You could easily do a part 2 to this video just by looking at the TCG i swear! If "Imakuni" is not a cryptid i don't know what is haha also you could talk about the "pokegods" and playground rumours surrounding them, that's a deep rabbit hole.... great video man, I could watch hours of this. subbed!
Yeah there are a lot of rabbit holes I had to ignore to get this done before Halloween; it still ended up longer than I thought it would so I was sweatin'
@@HumanReverend 😂 my guy. Back in the day I actually thought “Pokémon Green version” was a fake rumour, the thought of an unreleased Pokémon game exclusive to Japan seemed unreasonable, all the while there’s me on some crazy goose chase doing some fake method made up by the kid who’s dad or uncle works at Nintendo, meeting ridiculous nonsensical requirements in some vague attempt to catch a “mewthtree” or whatever lol
7:08 there's actually an island in the anime full of pink Pokemon. Honestly kind of surprised Ash didn't find his Butterfree there chillin with his honey and a cuddle puddle of caterpie younguns. 8:36 oh nevermind looks like you already knew.
3rd gen nosepass has always been one of my favorite examples of spritework changes. It goes from a brown bumpy rock in those games, to a smooth fatter and pointier blue rock every game since.
This video just lives in my head all the time, I go back to watch it periodically. I will never, ever be able to see a Seaking without immediately thinking "not as special as Seeeeeeaaaaaaakiiing"
I have to applaud you for that clip of Butterfree being hit by a plane. I don't know if it's the exact same TH-cam video, but I vividly remember watching that exact same scenario happening years ago when I was into YTPs
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Let's just take the time to appreciate that in a world where you can lug around interdimensional beasts and literally god like it ain't a thing, This Guy from Pokemon: Pocket Monsters the Manga was the one creature capable of living life on its own terms
Fucking offbrand diglett can escape pokeballs but god itself cant
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the format of making a comment that says hey can we all just take a moment to appreciate the big red devil with a prominent red ass being shown on children's television nationally across the United States of yee haw and not like adult swim at 1am.
@@MichaelSotoCE what
@doplop cow and chicken dude
He later went on to found the successful toilet cleaner company Scrubbing Bubbles.
Mechamewtwo learned what love is and then instantly decided to kill itself.
Same.
@ken kaneki
It learned that gamers dont die, they only respawn...
Based
Relatable
What did they mean by this
the shape section never fails to make me laugh, because it classifies magnemite as a pokemon with a head and two arms.
The elusive Magnedude/Geomite
Yeah, it's got the magnets! Lol
Regional variant coming up
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v Spoilers:
we got the variant but it ended up getting legs instead 😭
@@guy-sl3kr Bruh, WTF, LMAO.
"Do you know how many pokémon there are? There's like a hundred"
Shit man, he's not wrong
“All of the Pokemon in the forest wait anxiously for when a Reverend speaks. Even an Indian Elephant is enthralled by it.”
-Some Pokedex
I think it's been confirmed that elephant is Copperajah.
@@gluttonousgoddess Cant be since its a ground type and the Raichu entry talks about shocking it to death
@@finalsorrowss Copperajah is pure Steel type lol
I would have loved if beating the Mechamewtwo was just someone using explosion and then it explodes like a moron for no reason instead of the usual power of friendship type nonsense.
PMD has a few interesting “cryptids” including:
-Purple Kecleon: The Brother of the Pokémon Morshu (you could call him Mortwo)
-Primal Dialga, the ORIGINAL primal form that can never be recruited.
-Kangashan Statue, for some reason be hacked in and used.
- BitterCold: The first of the PMD Eldridge horrors.
- Dark Matter: Wait aren’t you from Kirby? How did you get here?
-Void Shadows: Oh nice, man made horrors that are roided up Dittoes, my beloved.
BitterCold 100% would have been in this video if I had like one more week to make it, along with some other guys
@@HumanReverend tragic i missed the world where i got to hear reverend talk about the bit in pokemon super mystery dungeon where everyone in the universe went to super hell for like 10 minutes
you also forgot about *_the wind_*
@@mariosonicfan2010
It's right nearby, it's gusting hard? That one?
fun fact, the giant dragonite in the lighthouse episode was supposed to be a teaser for lugia but they werent given the correct info to animators.
That explains a lot. That would have blown my mind to have seen Lugia a decent amount of time before its in-game reveal.
Source? I heard it was a book reference like how Kadabra’s dex entry is a reference to the book Metamorphosis
@@taputrainer8463 source: he made it the fuck up
"Just make a big Dragon, aight?"
Lugia was invented for the second movie and doesn't show up in most of the gen 2 leaks.
Gen3 had some fun off-model mons as well, like baggy banette and the infamous s m o o t h nosepass. And then there's cradily, which was literally never on-model until the switch to the 3D era. Gens 3 and 4 both made its tentacles shorter than they were supposed to be, and orange instead of pink. Gen5 fixed the colour/size problems, but made an even bigger fuckup by making cradily have 7 tentacles when viewed from the front, and 9 when viewed from the back. It's supposed to have 8.
Wtf this is forbidden knowledge
Really goes to show how much the shift to 3d impacted design consistency
Cradily is one of my all time favorite pokemon and I didn't even know that
Gen 3 Rattata sprites always fuck me up
Not to mention Gen 3 and 4 Salamence having the wrong colour scheme
huge fan of hitmontop's growth from nightmarish flesh totem to goofy little spinny man
I don't know why "they made this one pink so you know this butterfree was a heterosexual" killed me but it did
and the funnier thing is that it didn't work. it retroactively made it gay because the butterfree gender difference wasn't added until BW, and it's totally different
@notund-a just butterfree and his effeminate boywife leaving to be happily married together. You love to see it
Fun fact: the color palette used for Venomoth in Ruby and Sapphire actually has some yellow shades assigned to it, even though they don't appear on the sprite, suggesting that Three Dot Venomoth was considered at some point
I can't stop thinking about "when you walk outside and smell the dada"
It's such a goofy one-off joke but it's so goddamn funny
I remember when was a kid in the late 1990’s, Costco had three Pokémon books. The first was basically the gen 1 Pokédex with information about everything from Bulbasaur to Mewtwo. It was later replaced just prior to the announcement of the gen 2 games with the second book that included Mew and Togepi. The cover of the third book featured a girl riding on the back of a Pokémon I’ve never seen anywhere else. It was brown, bipedal, and had ears shaped like Shrek’s.
Oh yeah that was Pikachu's uncle
Oh that was probably an ad for an early unofficial Pokemon Strategy guide. Try looking up gamesbook and Mark Macdonald.
I have that third book! It's an unofficial guide/Pokedex/collection of various Pokemon related things, including:
- Pictures of various Pokemon toys, including bootlegs
- An episode-by-episode anime summary, including the Porygon episode and why it was unaired. The book speculated it would be edited and then shown again, but it never was. It also mentioned the holiday Jynx episode, which was still unaired at the time because of the Porygon incident immediately before.
- Gen 1 walkthrough
- Red/Green sprites in the Pokedex section
- Basic guides to TCG and Pokemon Snap
And yes, the cryptid on the cover. It kinda looks like a T-rex with stubby arms and Charizard's head shape.
The book is the Pokemon Trainer's Guide from Sandwich Islands Publishing. It's a fun little product of its time.
@@PikminWarrior454 there is a second book with an almost identical title that has another similar cryptid. Like the only image of charizard they knew was the original sprite so they just drew what they thought it should look like.
@@PikminWarrior454 thank you so much for sharing the title, google images turned it up immediately. I'm so glad I got to see pikachu's uncle, who is apparently an underweight charizard revived from a fossil
I’m a simple man. I see a Reverend upload, I immediately like and play on loop on all screens for algorithm promotion.
I have the Bell On for this guy so I can help the Algorithm
That’s something a complicated man might do
Shoot, why didn't I think of that?
I just wanna call out the offical pokemon book by the anime director Takeshi Shudo where he adds in several long tangents about Professor Oak seems to also have questions about its weird we keep "finding" new pokemon and not really finding normal animals, and its weird how like... the greeks didn't write down "Oh yeah I saw a Mankey the other day"
The implication is he found out... something he didn't like and retired to pallet town and its fucking insane
non canon now but its wild they would even... bring up the topic at all
Oh that's cool as hell I'm gonna have to check that out
Its just lampshading.
Back then, Pokemon was Urban Fantasy, taking place in a world parallel to our own. "Pokemon" was just the classification for any scifi/fantasy creature, basically.
So they're basically going "Gee, sure is funny that the Greeks never had any Random Battles."
Except Takeshi Shudo made everything intense AF on paper, bless him for it
Takeshi Shudo often drank and did drugs on the job until his brain exploded on the subway. Lugia and Team Rocket's strangely facist motto "Unite all people under one nation" are how he's remembered by today.
Pour one out for the king.
@@handoverthestromboli6715 You know I always did think that part of the motto was pretty strange.
Shout out to my man Shudo, a real one!
I love Pikachu’s Friend he’s just a little guy that went to middle school with pikachu and then moved away but the bond they forged is unbreakable
Raichu's pokedex entry referenced a a real incident in which Thomas Edison's company literally executed an elephant by electrocution. Has it's own wikipeida page. 1903.
I live in Tennessee and we are responsible for the second most famous elephant execution, in which we fucking hanged it with a crane
The fact that there are several famous elephant executions, even more than just these two, says something. I don't know what it says. Just that it's something.
@@agisuru Some time an elephant execution, though not intended to be one, was carried out by providing the Elephant several hundreds of times the lethal dise of a hallucinanegen. I think it was LSD. I think.
@@agisuruWe know exactly what they did. "I was just following orders" is never an excuse
@@dataexpunged4784 I know you're talking about the humans involved, yet I can't help but think you're saying 'Those elephants had it coming.'
I love the tarantula, he's just a nice little guy, don't take him out I want to see segments devoted to him.
7:08 The funniest part about Bye Bye Butterfree is they created a flamboyant hot pink bug so we wouldn't believe Butterfree was gay but then they retroactively MADE it gay by making the female form be decided by a completely different factor.
That’s amazing
Some of the back sprites in gen 1 reveal even more weird design inconsistencies.
Marowak has a line of spikes that never appears again.
Arbok also has some wavy pattern on its back in gen 1.
Nidoqueen, Flareon, and especially Rhyhorn are near-unrecognizeable lumps of whatever.
Moltres' barber kinda just gave up.
Also, on the topic of back sprites, did you know that most of the older Pokemon use an updated version of their gen 2 backsprite in Ruby and Sapphire? For FireRed and LeafGreen they did redo the poses for some of them, like Alakazam. Anyway, if you look at the back sprites for Gen 3 Gengar, you can find pointy Gengar.
Gengar is actually slightly different in like every game, from the spikes to just being a barely but noticeably different shade of blue / purple
@@HumanReverend yeah it's kind of wild, it's one of the more iconic pokemon so I guess it makes sense that it'd go through a similar amount of micro-redesigns like Pikachu. I do wish they'd kept it a lighter purple line in gen 3, where you can actually kinda tell the difference between the normal and shiny version.
in gen 1 a lot of pokemon had weird shapes on their back to make them recognizable w/o color. For example Charmeleon had a spike on its back to make its backsprite distinct from Charmander (which makes Sugimoris decision to give Charmander a spike on its back in the updated red/blue artwork even weirder)
@@HumanReverend Gligar is also guilty of changing color 9n numerous occasions
Yo is this the Wario guy??!?!??
11:32 Every Pokémon you showed from that artist looks like they’ve done time in solitary confinement.
There is also the Robo-Groudon from Gale of Darkness and Virus Groudon from Jirachi Wishmaker if you want to count either of those two man made creations as pokemon, I personally count the ladder considering Deoxys and Porygon count as a Pokémon.
XD also had a Robo-Kyogre but they ended up scrapping him and turning him into a ship. I don't know if that counts
latter*
@@dragon-id5uj shut up
Not sure about Virus Groudon, but I’m not inclined to count either Mecha-Groudon or Mecha-Kyogre. They’re both purely mechs, not just inorganic, but requiring someone in the pilot seat. They’re not even Pokémon, let alone cryptids, they’re just vehicles.
I think shadow lugia counts as a cryptid given that, outside of the plush released for him when XD was still on store shelves, he has basically ceased to exist. Even the return of shadow Pokémon in Go did not come with any reference to Shadow Lugia or really anything about Colosseum/XD.
So here’s the story with Meowth talking, and this is canonical - He had a girl Meowth he was fond of, and he tried to impress her by learning English. She rejected him anyway, and he was feeling dejected, and that’s when he encountered Jessie and James and they invited him to join Team Rocket
;-; that’s the saddest ;-; story ;-; I ever ;-; hea;-;ea;-;eard;-; ;-;
"Holy shit a talking cat. I'm gonna make it commit crimes"
So Meowth learned what love is and then decided to become an international terrorist.
how the hell is your humor so on point my god
I think about the interview where they said an important aspect to designing Pokemon is that each one should look like it could be your friend. And wow they did not have that mandate for the manga.
Gardevoir was drawn to be our friend alright
They should draw me. They should make me a pokemon. I'd be a great friend.
@@aekaralagonisiWith benefits
How old is that interview? I'm not fully convinced that Mewtwo, Steelix, Aggron or Darkrai could ever be drawn to "look like it could be our friend".
My beloved friend klingklang
The... thing at 12:00 is clearly a Scrubbing Bubbles mascot who had to escape before Nintendo got sued.
The spaceworld leak was one of the most incredible discoveries of my entire life. It was like finding out that Pokegods were real. It was honestly more impactful to me than a picture of Pluto. I remember seeing in a magazine once at the card shop during Pokemania the Spaceworld demo starters, and tI always wondered what they were, I eventually came to the conclusion that they were just drawn for the magazine. I didn't have the magazine because I never bought it, it was just on the shelf so I could never verify or look at it again.
God that transition to Monica's bulbapedia page was so fucking smooth
The transition at 15:23 was so good, well done.
That Jigglypuff who is asleep but their reflection isn't is.... A jump scare
Mysteey dungeon?
Some say the Bulbapedia summary of Pokemon Live is still going to this very day.
Before reading the video description, i thought you were joking about being a spider farmer, I didn't realize you actually have a tarantula.
I want a tarantula.
Best pet ever. It's a like a plant you don't even have to put near a window
Does it have a name?
Legs Benedict
does he enjoy eggs
@@HumanReverend That's a good fuckin' name for a spider.
I long for the days before Bulbapedia, back when things like Mewthree and Pikablu could exist if you believed hard enough
So, like Gen 1 specifically? Cause while Bulbapedia itself is a bit newer, Serebii predates Gold and Silver.
i've always wanted to know what the hell the crazy groudon in jirachi wishmaker was. shit was like merging with the earth and had tentacles, and i somehow doubt all groudons can do that
It will be the new gimmick in gen 10 and then will be canon
Vírus groudon. Tha was vírus groudon
So, from what I gather, Virus Groudon is the same species as the Tree of Life's defense system, but given a Groudon-like shell using Jirachi's magic and Butler's (not sure that's actually his name) wish.
Yeah, in the words of The Great Butler, “That’s not Groudon!”
It's called Meta Groudon and it's literally just Jirachi's attempt to draw this Team Magma idiot's idea of Groudon without any reference images so it came out as Fecto Forgo.
might have been commented before, but the "cryptid" in pokemon that's personally always bothered us the most is just... the move infestation. like, the description has never been more specific than "the target is infested and attacked for 4-5 turns." but like... infested with what? the animation just shows a ton of black pixels, so like, ants? are these like, some sort of lesser micro-pokemon that other bug types can manipulate? it's not even a weird localization thing either, if anything its JP name is more confusing, cuz "follow about" implies yeah, these are like, smaller bug types that are listening to orders. don't think they even wanna answer this one cuz this move has never shown up in the anime, they don't know what these things are, either.
Maybe those "real animals" were really just pokemon. Like new games have size varians, and lets go and legends arceus showed us they can get comically small! That frog, sure it was drawn to be a frog, but we can retcon it and say it was just an itty bitty politoed! Those worms might have been tiny wiglets or baby wurmples, those fish might have been just been just like you said, the npc fish pokemon, with some creative licenses taken of course haha
This video was entertaining as heck AND even included some super deep cuts that were new to me. Well played.
i feel like ive been tricked into watching an iceberg video, the one popular trend i successfully managed to avoid watching a single video of until now.
damnit. why do you do this to me, self described altaria (or garchomp) king.
The surreptitious clickbait
is crazy how each tier could be expended, like text only pokemon like the other ultraworm hole starters, real life pokemons in the anime, niche games recolors like magikarp jump with 31 colorations or the pokemon stadium
There is a very high chance that this is just first gen pokemon having been more formative to my clay-like child brain than any other serotonin squirter but I actually love the rougher and rawer sprites, pokemon design and world implications. Pokemon living alongside regular ass animals and preying on them is makes more sense to my brain than not talking about what they eat at all outside of questionable pokedex entries. I wish they had kept the more grounded and unsanitized philosophy of gen 1 and 2 but here we are.
Also, as the one person who likes Raichu, I will never not be mad about Gamefreak keeping Gorochu from me. Also also, slim Pikachu sucks.
From what I read from Bulbapedia, Pokemon were originally supposed to be mythical creatures and it was only really decided a bit after the first games came out that they were the Pokemon world's equivalent of animals. That's why the real animals stopped showing up Gen 2 upwards.
If that's true, the decision had to be made before Gen 1 came out, they're absurdly common in-game and many of them are straight up just real animals.
@@hoodedman6579 "Mythical" isn't quite right, but real animals were directly referenced in Gen1. In later generations, their existence is hinted at, but is rarely if ever outright stated. Personally, if I try to imagine it as a world that "exists" in my head, I think it makes sense to imagine that some normal animals do still exist in the world, and that the games and most media just typically don't bother showing them.
Dude, the Ratchet and Clank music, the outspoken love for Missingno, Friends by Ween, the fascination with the weird Pokemon made up for the manga, Marin, Rich Evans?? Seriously based takes and based taste.
Fun fact, the thing the Floette did of significance was die.
...ok, specifically, AZ revived them, got pissed, and turned the revival canon into a world nuke by having it draw power from the god of life to the god of death.
Fun fact 2 is a bit of a spoiler for SV.
Ready?
One of the new Pokemon is literally just a robot. Not a robot given sentience, not a robotic suit possessed, a pure robot. So MechaMew2 is technically a Pokemon. I mean, Porygon proves you can make Pokemon.
and now the Floette might appear in a new game.
Pokemon Legends: AZ
Didn't it die in a war? And like, that's what made big guy so mad at everyone?
the karen who trades you the haunter with the everstone never wanted you to see pointy gengar
Mindy AKA: That time game freak made people want to commit violence.
I hate how Mecha Mewtwo was snubbed from being a future paradox in SV
Also I just noticed an insane detail in Legends: Arceus that I have to bring up in this conversation:
So the Arceus Plates each have an engraving that you can read. Most of them are pretty simple, basically just slowly describing the lore of Arceus and the Creation Trio. But then the Flame Plate says "The power of defeated giants infuses this plate", casually raising a million questions and refusing to answer any of them. I think that this has to go on a level of its own, it's not some off-model design from the Gen 1 era, it's literally multiple primordial beings from the beginning of time itself, their existence only confirmed by one line of in-game writing.
I love you you just glossed over that Pikachu's "friend" is from probably the first or second most obscure pokemon Manga ever published.
And has *so* much other weird shit in it.
Worth of note is in Gen1, The birdkeeper's bird, which I'm pretty sure is neither a Pidgey or a Spearow
I'll always have a soft spot for the sheer stupid amount of Glitch Pokemon in Gen 1, especially with how Yellow just decided to duplicate the count by being different enough that all the garbage data used to make them was changed, but the code still had the consistency of water soup. Future gens had some, but its not the same. Gen 1 is still fun just because of how much weird garbage like that you can find by being sneaky and evil.
Dude, I just discovered you not that long ago and I have shown this video to almost everyone in my social circle who plays Pokemon and three of my Tinder dates. I don’t want to see the channel get big.
I wanna see it DYNAMAX
10:49 orthworm sighting pre gen 9
I love these kind of longer informative videos you do (like the useless moves or Ubers videos too) - your editing is so good
That was a beautiful tarantula. God bless it's soul.
Agreed. I love their dopey buck teeth chelicerae.
Monochrome aesthetic too, quality tula
Excellent video.
The little guy from the manga will haunt me forever.
Taking copious amounts of psychedelics and watching my dog turn into Gen 1 Growlithe
As someone who was always confounded by the random Indian Elephant references in FireRed's pokedexes (it also shows up in Gastly's entry), just the delivery of "hey do you ever wonder how strong Raichu is?" makes me laugh every time I rewatch this video.
For what it's worth, Pokemon has apparently retconned these into being about Copperajah, but I'll have you know that a 252 SpAtk modest choice specs Raichu's thunderbolt only does 70% to a 0 SpDef 0 HP Copperajah (90% if it also has 0 IVs in those stats), so clearly the Pokedex may have exaggerated a fact once again
I think its a reference to Edison killing an elephant
Somehow the Clefairy in the Pokemon Pocket Monsters manga just, instantly activates my fight or flight response.
How does a man so monotone enthrall me so well
"there's a new pokemon everytime I walk out the god damn door."
Damn I felt that when two new mons were revealed and updated into gen 9 while I was at work yesterday
8:54 it's a dogu! A clay doll created by the Jomon people who lived in Japan from around 16,000-2,000 years ago. Most of the Jomon artifacts we have are forms of pottery, including statues like this with unusually large eyes. No one really knows what they were for but they show up in a lot of japanese media, including Pokemon. Thats what Baltoy and Claydol are based on, though I don't think this dogu is supposed to be claydol. I think they just wanted to fill the space with something easily recognizable as an artifact.
Oh yeah, I think there's a digimon based on the same thing and a yugioh card. It's a pretty cool little guy, Claydol is actually one of my faves.
It's said in some old sources that Pokemon are basically this one type of creature with a similar genetic makeup with the consistent ability to like, turn into energy. They just have different appearances and stuff. I think it's the Pokedex book published by Game Freak? There's a manga called Franken Fran that references it in some chapters.
That's interesting. I guess the other consistent trait is really really liking to get bossed around by children
One of my favorite cryptids is the evil creature from the story intro of Pokémon Heroes, the fifth film and the one starring Latias and Latios. Too bad the dub cut out this part, because this cloud of darkness thing is rad.
Oh
Is that why the pacing of that movie was nonexistent.
My JFK conspiracy theory is that graveller and golem originally had four arms, no legs and floated like geodude.
I've always thought that Kakuna still has the two arms, just has them on its chest instead of outward.
in my head they're just crossed
he’s grumpy
- What is your favourite Pokémon type?
- The Bird type
- It's called the Flying type, actually
Oh, you sweet summer child
Please do keep including your tarantula I love him. Also thank you for talking about that fever dream of a musical.
It would be so cool if there was a missingno in every pokemon game
I mean. There is, technically. It's an error handler put in on purpose. It usually just appears as a circle with a question mark.
"Do you know how many Pokémon there are? There's, like, a hundred-" I love this line since Scarlet and Violet made it now 1000
If I was spider sized, I'd give your tarantula a hug
I also remember an episode of the anime in season 1 where they meet some ghost type pokemon and there's a mongoose. Just a straight-up mongoose.
In the same episode they show Venustoise, a combination of Venusaur and Blastoise.
This entire time I thought butterfree was traded on the SS anne, and then presumably drowned with his new trainer when the ship sunk. man catching the pokemon anime in single episodes not in order on tv messed with me man
Ash almost died so he and the other guy could trade again, using the horribly cumbersome machine instead of just handing the balls back to each other
@@HumanReverend He's just doing his due diligence. You buy a car, you run the vin to make sure it isn't stolen, you trade a pokemon you use the machine. If they're being sketch about it they're probably trying to pass off one of those aftermarket pink butterfrees as legit
This is the best Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando video I've ever seen!
Spiders usually scare me (they’re cool and I appreciate them though), but that tarantula seems very friendly. I’d like to pet him and perhaps give him a high-five if he’d let me.
can't believe you didn't talk about all the cut pokemon from the Pokemon Gold 1997 Spaceworld Demo like Nyorotono the best frog boy that's some free content right there liked and subscribed
Saving it for later tbh
The cryptid I still wonder about is the unseen Ultra Beast that Ash helps off screen in the last episode of the Sun Moon anime. Just gets visited in the middle of the night by Solgaleo, commercial break, then shows up the next morning to say "Hey, I helped a new Ultra Beast last night! Anyway, I'm gonna go back to Kanto now!"
Idk how to describe it but I dig this videos whole vibe
the indian elephant thing with raichu is a reference to an elephant named stompy that was electrocuted to death as punishment for his crimes.
Interesting I didn't know that I just thought I was one of the times the games reference the real world randomly. Do you know that the Indian elephant has actually been retconned to be copperajah in the legends Arceus Pokedex.
Hi! I know this isn’t related to the video, but I just wanted to say that the explosion regeleki you showed off is potential the most fun I’ve had building with in ou. Ty for all the great content!
The dialogue in the original anime is so funny. “I’ll always remember you! Thank for everything! Goodbye butterfree!” Could’ve easily been condensed but it’s like the animators we’re doing a parody of American English
That hardly seems excessive
@@Mike_Dubayou he basically says goodbye 3 times in a row lol
@@shnoogums1 So you tell your loved ones you're never going to see ever again "K bye"
@@NecromancyForKids prob hug and I love you. Certainly not what ash did here haha
@@shnoogums1 wrong
10:55 This is also ret-conned later on because the characters routinely eat things made with beef, chicken and pork. Milk products can at least be explained away because of Milktank in Gen II
I'm just going to say that this channel will inevitably blow up.
AZ's floette should have been released solely because Light of Ruin is a really cool sounding move name
There are multiple times I had to look up wtf that move was because it kept showing up in chaos cup on Showdown
9:02 pretty sure that's one of those real world statues that claydol and baltoy are based off of. Same as how if you saw a depiction of a moai in pokemon, it wouldn't have to be related to nosepass.
That mention of including Missingno making internet posts seem plausible took me way back. I remember believing the girl you give the drinks to would give you a legendary if you had multiple Moltres and then bugged the heck out of her. And then there was Bolteon. I miss when it was easier to see those old rumors about Bolteon.
Okay but can we just talk about how adorable your spider is? I assume he's your spider anyway. Look at him. He can be a Pokemon Cryptid if he wants to be.
You reminded me that in the Pokémon manga for some reason there are Nidokings the size of Groudon, in the games they are no bigger than Red but those in the manga could crush him with one punch
i think it would be cool if you did a video about the voice actors of pokemon. I dont mean like the human characters but like the actual pokemon themselves. i often forget theyre voice acted and it would be funny to know which ones share voice actors
You know, I always knew and liked that off model/weird variants of Pokemon existed, but I didn't know there were this many and it's fascinating. I wish Pokemon did this more tbh. Great video
Yes. Reverend upload. Been rewatching the Emmy nominated RBY Ubers video constantly.
Dude I love your sense of humor. Subbed.
There is one in this pokemon card i have, it's a Jigglypuff that i think is a CoroCoro promo or something, it has the Jigglypuff and some unown-like musical notes with eyes. I always thought of them as some rare musical unown variant. You could easily do a part 2 to this video just by looking at the TCG i swear! If "Imakuni" is not a cryptid i don't know what is haha also you could talk about the "pokegods" and playground rumours surrounding them, that's a deep rabbit hole.... great video man, I could watch hours of this. subbed!
Yeah there are a lot of rabbit holes I had to ignore to get this done before Halloween; it still ended up longer than I thought it would so I was sweatin'
@@HumanReverend 😂 my guy. Back in the day I actually thought “Pokémon Green version” was a fake rumour, the thought of an unreleased Pokémon game exclusive to Japan seemed unreasonable, all the while there’s me on some crazy goose chase doing some fake method made up by the kid who’s dad or uncle works at Nintendo, meeting ridiculous nonsensical requirements in some vague attempt to catch a “mewthtree” or whatever lol
7:08 there's actually an island in the anime full of pink Pokemon. Honestly kind of surprised Ash didn't find his Butterfree there chillin with his honey and a cuddle puddle of caterpie younguns.
8:36 oh nevermind looks like you already knew.
3rd gen nosepass has always been one of my favorite examples of spritework changes. It goes from a brown bumpy rock in those games, to a smooth fatter and pointier blue rock every game since.
This video just lives in my head all the time, I go back to watch it periodically.
I will never, ever be able to see a Seaking without immediately thinking "not as special as Seeeeeeaaaaaaakiiing"
What ever happened to the remoraid that was always underneath mantine's wing in most sprites/tgc art? Where did he go? I miss him so much.
I love Pokémon cryptids. I love unexplained unanswered questions. I love when things are just different for no reason.
For mons that changed appearance after gen 1, there is also vaporeon, which used to have a white underside, and more fins on its limbs and back.
"Jynx used to look like this.........and it does NOT.....look like that.....anymore"
That fucking sends me bro lol
At 11:48, aint that just the little dude from the commercial about some cleaning product that had a bunch of the little dudes scrubbing stuff
I have to applaud you for that clip of Butterfree being hit by a plane. I don't know if it's the exact same TH-cam video, but I vividly remember watching that exact same scenario happening years ago when I was into YTPs