I'll never forget this fact I read in a Pokémon magazine when I was younger. Ken Sugimori, or at least one of the artists of the original team, used to doodle diglet in his school books. Therefore, Diglet is the first Pokémon 👀
When making a video about the first type combo debuts, I very quickly decided to base it on the National Pokedex order, because as you have clearly shown, getting pedantic about these facts and what TRULY came first can very quickly become absolutely mind boggling! Great job!
My headcanon has always been that Arceus came first, created the Creation Trio, and the Egg that birthed the Lake Guardians also birthed Mew, with Mew specifically being granted some of Arceus' genetic code, which would also be shared amongst the Creation Trio and the Lake Guardians, thus making Arceus the first, but Mew the ancestor of all modern Pokémon while also containing the DNA of ALL Pokémon.
On one hand, Arceus was the first Pokemon because it's egg hatching is essentially the Big Bang of the Pokemon Multiverse and the god of that world, but on the other hand, the first Pokemon was the first creature captured in a Pokeball as the term Pokemon means pocket monster. If the creature is unable to be carried in one's pocket in a capsule system, it cannot be a pocket monster, so therefore the era of having partner monsters like seen by the Diamond and Pearl Clans in PLA cannot be considered "Pokemon" as they are pets/partners but not pocket monsters.
Arceus first, created the God trio, then mew then after that the mews adapted and changed depending on their surroundings, giving birth to modern Pokemon. (haven't watched video)
@@kenneth0334 no pretty sure ditto is the result of the early attempts of cloning Mew, since they share the same shiny color, they weigh the same, and are the only Pokémon who can learn transform. Being the result of failed cloning also explains why they are just a mass of purple bio-goo.
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Lore wise, I'd say Arceus was the first pokémon to exist, Mew was the first to naturally occur and Bulbasaur was the beginning of the first widespread and easy to access pokémon encyclopedia.
I have the feeling Arceus was the first... but was not the first Pokemon, this was Mew... since he also brought into life humans and humans gave the creatures the name Pokemon... as such... Mew is the first.
If human don't discover mt. Everest is the tallest mountain, what mountain is the tallest? It is still Everest, human don't discover it, did not mean it not exist. If human don't name pokemon, that pokemon still exist, just unknown to human.
@@recentmap7268 but is a god even a Pokemon to begin with? Is pure infinity energy a pocket monster? Can you catch it? Can you battle it? Can you fit it into your pocket? The answer, is no. Therefore it's likely that Arceus didn't become a "Pokémon" until he created his more familiar avatar in the events of Legends Arceus. PS, also just fyi Everest isn't the tallest mountain it's the highest mountain.
@@ParadiseDB7 yeah you can say english is not my first language. but if god is not pokemon, there this mean dialga, palkia, giratina is not god, i mean you can catch them.
The first pokemon could also be Nidorino because when the pocket monsters games were finished they would be released to Japan and a customer would first put the game in a Gameboy to begin playing, that person would watch the opening with a Nidorino fighting a Gengar which could tie them but I go a little further to the moment in game when Prof. Oak (or Okido) greets the player and introduces them to the world of Pokemon. This is before we know about the character we will be playing as, Red, or his/your rival Green. The first character we meet, we ourselves the player and by this idea that first customer or possibly child who put the game in and turned it on as thousands of others followed suit would be greeted by the pokemon professor who then introduced them and in time us into the world of Pokemon and the pokemon he introduced us to was a Nidorino. So that's another possible interpretation.
The Pokémon egg was first since gamefreak created it in an old Yoshi game from 1992. That egg entered the Pokémon universe, changed, and Arceus was born of it.
Arceus- Pokémon God. Created existence. Rhydon- First Pokémon designed. Mew- Ancient Pokémon in Kanto. Bulbasaur- First in the National Dex. That’s cool and all, but Rowlet is 001 in Legends Arceus, where you make the first full Pokédex, so does that mean Rowlet is the first?
"Pokemon" were originally called magical creatures, only getting renamed once the pokeball was created. So technically the first pokemon was the first magical creature to be stored in a pokeball...
IMO it should be Arceus as he is known as the "Alpha Pokemon". I get why ppl think Mew could be the first pokemon since scientist speculated Mew could possibly be the ancestor of all pokemon. The issue here is....there no solid evidence Mew existed before the universe. Since after Arceus came to be, he created the creation trio and they started pokemon time and space. Mew could just have a unique genetic code where his DNA has all the genetic makeup of every pokemon past, present and future....but it's species might not been created until very long into the future (let's say prehistoric time). Also note, according to scientist, Mew is only known as the ancestor due to its ability to learn all the moves....and there no 100% confirmation either.
In lore, Arceus comes first, creates Mew and a few other legendaries as the building blocks of the universe, and then comes everything else. Oak has that original dex, so that makes Bulbasaur the first pokemon in official national registration. And finally, Rhydon is *our* first pokemon because of its conception
Theory: Mew was Arceus' egg given life. Which means Arceus would be the first Pokemon lorewise, Rhydon out-of-universe. Bulbasaur was never in the running.
Gen 1/2 is it’s own universe without arceus Gen 3-9 is a universe with arceus which encompasses fire red, heart gold, ruby, bdsp is just a remaster so it’s the same as the d/p section Let’s go is also it’s own universe
i would say mew as i dont count arceus as a whole a pokemon, the snall part that human the player owns is a pokemon but i think he took that form after he created mew but idk if mew was older than dialgia and palkia
It's interesting to know that Mew was the first copyrighted pokémon. If I remember correctly, Mew wasn't even supposed to be in Red & Green but one of the developers secretly created Mew (including its sprite art and cry) and put it in the code as a last-minute addition post-debugging without adding any legitimate way of obtaining it (outside of glitches). Back when Red & Green were the only Pokémon games, there was a period of time when even people from Nintendo didn't know that there was a 151st pokémon. Could you even consider Mew a pokémon at that moment? Or was Mew supposed to be just a fun programming easter egg not meant to be seen through normal gameplay? And despite how Mew seemed like it wasn't even meant to exist in the game, it still managed to be the very first pokémon to be copyrighted.
What if there is a sixth herba mystica type in paldea. The sandwich your mom gives you probably had some HM in it. Also, the cave that koraidon/miraidon escorts us through in the tutorial is covered in glowing herbs like all the other titan caves. It should also be noted that this cave is also right next to your house so its not too farfetched for the mom to get some.
If guzlord is truely an alternate verzion of zyguard, and teropagos is potentially zyguards "brother" that implies an alternative version to our favorite new disc turtle. Theories are fun
May not be that theorizable, but one thing that came to mind while watching this video was "What is the difference between humans and pokémon?" Humans can touch pokéballs that are "emtpy/unnasigned" (no pokémon it belongs to) just fine without being caugth in it. But pokémon will. Humans can become pokémon (like bill that turned himself into a clefairy I guess), but also Phantump, yamask, froslass, (spiritomb?), drifloon, drifblim, gengar) and those will be caugth in balls. Or a doll or object can become a person. so are human souls whatever those are, pokémon and is our body not pokémon?
They are all first, but in different contexts. Bulbasaur is the first Pokémon in the Pokédex, Mew is the ancestor of almost all Pokémon, Arceus create the world of Pokémon (at least according to myth), and Rhydon is the actual first Pokémon Game Freak made official.
Well, that depends on how you ask the question... the question normally is asked "which is the First Pokemon", in that case, the answer is definitely Bulbasaur, cuz it is the first Pokemon in the Pokedex, sure, you mentioned that Bulbasaur is the first in the Kanto Pokedex while Chikorita is the first in Johto Pokedex and Rowlet is the first in the Hisuian Pokedex (which is assumed to be the first Pokedex), however, you missed a small but crucial detail, the National Pokedex, in that Pokedex, Bulbasaur is the first, no Chikorita, no Rowlet, Bulbasaur is the first in two different Pokedexs (although Rowlet would be too) but also the most complete Pokedex, not bound to a single region and the only one that is constantly updated with every Pokemon released. Although, if the you ask the question as "which was the First Pokemon" then Bulbasaur is out of the question, then you can ask which part to go with (Biological, Lore or IRL).
this is interesting, there are several perspectives on "who is the first Pokémon", and I’m agree with you that recorded Pokémon like the Pokédex entry should not be counted since, as you said, even fossils like Aronith are predated long before Bulbasaur was even registered Rhydon was actually not the first Pokémon, as Rhydon was literally existed during the development of Capumon (Capsule Monsters), the prototype of Pokémon that existed today so yeah, interesting, I was about to say Arceus, but your opinion about Unown and the development perspective was on point too
I mean in Pokemon Arceus and the Jewel of Life. Pokemon weren't called Pokemon but Mythical Creatures. So what was the first Pokemon could be the idea of what was referred to as the first Pokemon . The idea that the "egg" that started it all is interesting because usually in games you hear the daycare people saying "we don't know how it got there" it being the egg so maybe the unknown thing of not knowing how it got there relates to never truly understanding the egg in Pokemon that started it all
What do you mean a different universe is a repeat when it's a parallel dimension and of one that is still happing, what would make sense is a different universe can be a duplicate.
You also have to ask yourself the philosophical question... what IS a Pokémon. Is Arceus in his pure divine god form even a **Pokemon** to begin with or is it something else entirely? Is pure infinity energy a pocket monster? Can you catch it? Can you battle it? Can you fit it into your pocket? The answer, is no. Therefore it's likely that Arceus didn't become a "Pokémon" until he created his more familiar avatar in the events of Legends Arceus and therefore can NOT be the first Pokémon. It's likely the same for Dialga, Palkia and Giratina, so then what is the first creature in existence that we could reasonably call a Pokémon? I think the answer is likely Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie. We have no hints at them having any sort of other divine form, so it's likely they have always been "Pokémon". However, it's also just as possible because of the resemblance you mentioned maybe THEY came from Mew and not the other way around. Mew could have been the first Pokémon and then Arceus created the Lake trio from Mew's DNA to give the world knowledge. If Mew is the Pokémon Adam, then the Lake trio are the Pokémon Eve.
Arceus: the first pokemon, the god that created the universe(and possibly the Multiverse), nothing could have existed without him Bulbasaur: the first in the pokedex Rhydon: the first pokemon to be designed by the creators Mew:.....The first pokemon on Earth? Still questionable if he could exist before the weather trio. The biggest question are the Unown.
Interesting how the Easter egg pokemon mew was listed first in the copyright. No one should've even been able to find mew in gen1 had it not been for the spaghetti code
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You're a little off on the Futurama episode. Fry didn't wanna get in the time machine and was upset that he would be the minute late that the machine would've made him. He was already gonna be on time.
My theory has been that celebi's time travels continually add more species into the pokemon world's past and that the egg Arceus came from only exists because Arceus created the egg in the future and celebi took the egg to before time so it could hatch into arceus
Well Time is relative and is most likely a Human construct here in the Real World. Therefore in the Poke-Universes that is likely still the same. So when referring to "Before Time" that just means before recorded information/time. So rather the beings that are mentioned as "Ruling/Creating Time" simply can manipulate or influence or travel through Time.
I think glimmora has a connection with the 3rd legendary like cyclizar is for the box legendaries. And maybe carbink and the mythical with jewerly. Just something you could explore.
So it all boils down to what you define as ''first'' The problem and joy of the debate is that the parameters for ''first'' is not fully defined, whether it is within the lore of the game or the real world, thus answers such as Bulbasaur, Rhydon, Mew, and Arceus, are legitimate correct answers.
Your point on snakes is backed up by many faiths, the Druids and the Vikings for example, saw them as something to be both feared and revered as a symbol of nature as a force (a point most significant by the Druids of Ireland, who, despite snakes not being present on the island at all, still had them as a symbol of their faith). Representatives of the church being depicted as snake banishers and dragon slayers is more about the stripping of that faith (which might also be why we today, do not respect the environment as much as we once did, all those centuries ago).
Its a matter of perspective Bulbasaur is the first in the national Dex, Arceus is (probably) the first sentient thing, mew is the first "normal" creature, and rhydon is the earliest pokemon we've seen in any media
Arceus is the one Pokemon that can't be considered for the title of "first Pokemon", as that only appears in legends and myths, which as we know in our world, we don't know if it's actually true. So something could have came before Arceus, we never know
What happens if Arceus created the universe and then separated itself into three or four pieces if you wanna count Giratina like how Kyurem with Reshiram and Zekrom
Have you thought of celebi it can travel through time said to come from the future by people but that's a theory so it could have existed before all other pokemon (plot line for pokemon legends celebi)
If you’re defining a pokemon as a “pocket monster”, which in the games I believe they define as anything that can be caught in a pokeball since in order to be caught it needs to be able to shrink which is an inherent trait of all pokemon, then I actually don’t think it’s arceus. Arceus likely didn’t create a pokemon form for itself until it needed one to appear before humans. So in that case, the first would be whichever pokemon arceus created first: dialga, palkia, giratina. Alternatively, I think the unown are an interesting candidate. Do they exist in the universe simply as code without being created or destroyed, or did arceus create them as a way to code things itself? I think any of dialga, palkia, giratina, or unown are all possibilities
My take: 1. we do not have access to complete knowledge about the Pokémon world 2. in-fact, the Pokémon world is an ever changing and expanding world curated by Gamefreak Therefore, trying to figure out "in-universe" "firsts" is a futile effort that may never have any kind of satisfactory or final answer. I argue that Pokémon only exist as concepts in the real world starting with the time when Pokémon games officially became available to the public. So the "first" Pokémon are Nidorino and Gengar together, because they're the first Pokémon that you see after booting up the original games.
My headcanon is that Arceus is the god of all Pokemon(God's Pokemon lol), and as the god, his first creation was Mew, since Mew is the progenitor of all Pokemon via DNA records. From there, the primary Legendary beings like the Creation Trio, then the Lake Trio, then the Weather Trio, and from there everything else was made.
there might be some argument for charizard AND venusaur for being the first pokemon to DEBUT. theyre the first two mon that are in the gameboy box art. aka the first pokemon people would see ever AS pokemon. no clue what the first pokemon in a advertisement could be. or if there was advertisements that predate pokemon games launching
the theory you bring up is the "Big Crunch" theory, like how as opposed to the Big Bang being the beginning of a universe, which is widely accepted, the Big Crunch would be the end of it, basically because gravity would eventually bring everything together into a single point, and then eventually Big Banging again.. i don't know too much about the details, but i do know that for whatever reason, there's not much faith in this theory in the world of astrophysicists :'D
Personally, I don't think Arceus was the first pokémon. It was the first in Sinnoh's mythology, but that's it; it's only the creator god in one mythology in the Pokémon world, that doesn't necessarily mean it extends to other mythologies or if the stories are even true; we only know that it's a big spooky powerful intelligent pokémon with many mysteries surrounding it that was revered and worshiped by ancient people.
I'll never forget this fact I read in a Pokémon magazine when I was younger. Ken Sugimori, or at least one of the artists of the original team, used to doodle diglet in his school books. Therefore, Diglet is the first Pokémon 👀
True but that was actually Shigeki Morimoto. He says it in SM and USUM.
When making a video about the first type combo debuts, I very quickly decided to base it on the National Pokedex order, because as you have clearly shown, getting pedantic about these facts and what TRULY came first can very quickly become absolutely mind boggling! Great job!
My headcanon has always been that Arceus came first, created the Creation Trio, and the Egg that birthed the Lake Guardians also birthed Mew, with Mew specifically being granted some of Arceus' genetic code, which would also be shared amongst the Creation Trio and the Lake Guardians, thus making Arceus the first, but Mew the ancestor of all modern Pokémon while also containing the DNA of ALL Pokémon.
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Is Arceus also the first in relating it to ultra beasts? Maybe there's an ultra beast that's even older?
@@KdinIsHere ultra beasts are just Pokémon that only exist in other universes aka they weren’t born in the normal universe
@@Nagatem okay so what if there's a universe older than the one that Arceus is currently in?
my head canon is that they just didnt bother to exclude the legendaries from mew's dna
The end of this was such a great surprise I love the who the first Pokemon copyrighted was.
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On one hand, Arceus was the first Pokemon because it's egg hatching is essentially the Big Bang of the Pokemon Multiverse and the god of that world, but on the other hand, the first Pokemon was the first creature captured in a Pokeball as the term Pokemon means pocket monster. If the creature is unable to be carried in one's pocket in a capsule system, it cannot be a pocket monster, so therefore the era of having partner monsters like seen by the Diamond and Pearl Clans in PLA cannot be considered "Pokemon" as they are pets/partners but not pocket monsters.
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Arceus first, created the God trio, then mew then after that the mews adapted and changed depending on their surroundings, giving birth to modern Pokemon. (haven't watched video)
I feel like ditto would have evolved from mew, then maybe ditto into eevee and so on?
@@kenneth0334 no pretty sure ditto is the result of the early attempts of cloning Mew, since they share the same shiny color, they weigh the same, and are the only Pokémon who can learn transform. Being the result of failed cloning also explains why they are just a mass of purple bio-goo.
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In the Gen 7 games the Satoshi Tajiri NPC in the Game Freak office mentiones that Diglett was the first Pokemon designed.
Lore wise, I'd say Arceus was the first pokémon to exist, Mew was the first to naturally occur and Bulbasaur was the beginning of the first widespread and easy to access pokémon encyclopedia.
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I have the feeling Arceus was the first... but was not the first Pokemon, this was Mew... since he also brought into life humans and humans gave the creatures the name Pokemon... as such... Mew is the first.
If human don't discover mt. Everest is the tallest mountain, what mountain is the tallest? It is still Everest, human don't discover it, did not mean it not exist. If human don't name pokemon, that pokemon still exist, just unknown to human.
arceus = brahman
@@recentmap7268 but is a god even a Pokemon to begin with? Is pure infinity energy a pocket monster? Can you catch it? Can you battle it? Can you fit it into your pocket?
The answer, is no. Therefore it's likely that Arceus didn't become a "Pokémon" until he created his more familiar avatar in the events of Legends Arceus.
PS, also just fyi Everest isn't the tallest mountain it's the highest mountain.
@@ParadiseDB7 yeah you can say english is not my first language. but if god is not pokemon, there this mean dialga, palkia, giratina is not god, i mean you can catch them.
“First, there was light” maybe necrozma was first
The first pokemon could also be Nidorino because when the pocket monsters games were finished they would be released to Japan and a customer would first put the game in a Gameboy to begin playing, that person would watch the opening with a Nidorino fighting a Gengar which could tie them but I go a little further to the moment in game when Prof. Oak (or Okido) greets the player and introduces them to the world of Pokemon. This is before we know about the character we will be playing as, Red, or his/your rival Green. The first character we meet, we ourselves the player and by this idea that first customer or possibly child who put the game in and turned it on as thousands of others followed suit would be greeted by the pokemon professor who then introduced them and in time us into the world of Pokemon and the pokemon he introduced us to was a Nidorino.
So that's another possible interpretation.
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The Pokémon egg was first since gamefreak created it in an old Yoshi game from 1992. That egg entered the Pokémon universe, changed, and Arceus was born of it.
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I can’t lie, I’m technically not first Lillie.
But I have evolved to become something more and doing something that’s a maybe first?
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Arceus- Pokémon God. Created existence.
Rhydon- First Pokémon designed.
Mew- Ancient Pokémon in Kanto.
Bulbasaur- First in the National Dex.
That’s cool and all, but Rowlet is 001 in Legends Arceus, where you make the first full Pokédex, so does that mean Rowlet is the first?
"Pokemon" were originally called magical creatures, only getting renamed once the pokeball was created.
So technically the first pokemon was the first magical creature to be stored in a pokeball...
Love the Vsauce Music behind "can you even start time?" Lowkey expected Michael to pop up!
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Omg, I love Crecganford. I didn't expect to see him referenced here.
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IMO it should be Arceus as he is known as the "Alpha Pokemon".
I get why ppl think Mew could be the first pokemon since scientist speculated Mew could possibly be the ancestor of all pokemon. The issue here is....there no solid evidence Mew existed before the universe. Since after Arceus came to be, he created the creation trio and they started pokemon time and space. Mew could just have a unique genetic code where his DNA has all the genetic makeup of every pokemon past, present and future....but it's species might not been created until very long into the future (let's say prehistoric time). Also note, according to scientist, Mew is only known as the ancestor due to its ability to learn all the moves....and there no 100% confirmation either.
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In lore, Arceus comes first, creates Mew and a few other legendaries as the building blocks of the universe, and then comes everything else. Oak has that original dex, so that makes Bulbasaur the first pokemon in official national registration. And finally, Rhydon is *our* first pokemon because of its conception
Was the Litwick line really the first Ghost & Fire typed Pokémon line?
Theory: Mew was Arceus' egg given life. Which means Arceus would be the first Pokemon lorewise, Rhydon out-of-universe. Bulbasaur was never in the running.
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did you realise that palkia and dialgas origin forms look like horses, maybe thts a reference to the four horsemen
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13:08 but that's just a theory, A GAME THEORY!!!!
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Gen 1/2 is it’s own universe without arceus
Gen 3-9 is a universe with arceus which encompasses fire red, heart gold, ruby, bdsp is just a remaster so it’s the same as the d/p section
Let’s go is also it’s own universe
“What was the first Pokémon” perhaps
i would say mew as i dont count arceus as a whole a pokemon, the snall part that human the player owns is a pokemon but i think he took that form after he created mew but idk if mew was older than dialgia and palkia
It's interesting to know that Mew was the first copyrighted pokémon. If I remember correctly, Mew wasn't even supposed to be in Red & Green but one of the developers secretly created Mew (including its sprite art and cry) and put it in the code as a last-minute addition post-debugging without adding any legitimate way of obtaining it (outside of glitches). Back when Red & Green were the only Pokémon games, there was a period of time when even people from Nintendo didn't know that there was a 151st pokémon. Could you even consider Mew a pokémon at that moment? Or was Mew supposed to be just a fun programming easter egg not meant to be seen through normal gameplay?
And despite how Mew seemed like it wasn't even meant to exist in the game, it still managed to be the very first pokémon to be copyrighted.
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who woul've thought a video about pokemon would turn to a philosophical debate
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Pokémon and Futurama-two of my favorite things-talked about together in one video!
What if there is a sixth herba mystica type in paldea. The sandwich your mom gives you probably had some HM in it. Also, the cave that koraidon/miraidon escorts us through in the tutorial is covered in glowing herbs like all the other titan caves. It should also be noted that this cave is also right next to your house so its not too farfetched for the mom to get some.
If guzlord is truely an alternate verzion of zyguard, and teropagos is potentially zyguards "brother" that implies an alternative version to our favorite new disc turtle. Theories are fun
The rabbit hole this video went too was incredible
11:28 there’s also this massive debate online some people think that the story Dante’s inferno is technically fanfiction
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Fanfiction of what
The Bible?
I always thought Gengar was the first Pokemon ever created because of the “Capsule Monsters” teaser
Poppin up from the bottom of the screen was a ballin intro lol
it all comes down to what you take as "first" "first made", "first in pokedex" "first in lore"
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I liked the "if it is to be believed" part : )
What came 1st the cell or the egg?
I think that mew is the younger sibling of Arceus
I think the First pokemon we all caught was Rattata, maybe Pidgy if you were lucky.
May not be that theorizable, but one thing that came to mind while watching this video was "What is the difference between humans and pokémon?" Humans can touch pokéballs that are "emtpy/unnasigned" (no pokémon it belongs to) just fine without being caugth in it. But pokémon will. Humans can become pokémon (like bill that turned himself into a clefairy I guess), but also Phantump, yamask, froslass, (spiritomb?), drifloon, drifblim, gengar) and those will be caugth in balls. Or a doll or object can become a person. so are human souls whatever those are, pokémon and is our body not pokémon?
They are all first, but in different contexts.
Bulbasaur is the first Pokémon in the Pokédex, Mew is the ancestor of almost all Pokémon, Arceus create the world of Pokémon (at least according to myth), and Rhydon is the actual first Pokémon Game Freak made official.
Well, that depends on how you ask the question... the question normally is asked "which is the First Pokemon", in that case, the answer is definitely Bulbasaur, cuz it is the first Pokemon in the Pokedex, sure, you mentioned that Bulbasaur is the first in the Kanto Pokedex while Chikorita is the first in Johto Pokedex and Rowlet is the first in the Hisuian Pokedex (which is assumed to be the first Pokedex), however, you missed a small but crucial detail, the National Pokedex, in that Pokedex, Bulbasaur is the first, no Chikorita, no Rowlet, Bulbasaur is the first in two different Pokedexs (although Rowlet would be too) but also the most complete Pokedex, not bound to a single region and the only one that is constantly updated with every Pokemon released.
Although, if the you ask the question as "which was the First Pokemon" then Bulbasaur is out of the question, then you can ask which part to go with (Biological, Lore or IRL).
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this is interesting, there are several perspectives on "who is the first Pokémon", and I’m agree with you that recorded Pokémon like the Pokédex entry should not be counted since, as you said, even fossils like Aronith are predated long before Bulbasaur was even registered
Rhydon was actually not the first Pokémon, as Rhydon was literally existed during the development of Capumon (Capsule Monsters), the prototype of Pokémon that existed today
so yeah, interesting, I was about to say Arceus, but your opinion about Unown and the development perspective was on point too
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alternate title: "Pokémon philosophy 101 with bird keeper toby"
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6:27 What cave do guzzlord and zygarde live in?
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I mean in Pokemon Arceus and the Jewel of Life. Pokemon weren't called Pokemon but Mythical Creatures. So what was the first Pokemon could be the idea of what was referred to as the first Pokemon . The idea that the "egg" that started it all is interesting because usually in games you hear the daycare people saying "we don't know how it got there" it being the egg so maybe the unknown thing of not knowing how it got there relates to never truly understanding the egg in Pokemon that started it all
The egg before the universe could have represented the singularly itself and the egg hatching the big bang?
What do you mean a different universe is a repeat when it's a parallel dimension and of one that is still happing, what would make sense is a different universe can be a duplicate.
You also have to ask yourself the philosophical question... what IS a Pokémon.
Is Arceus in his pure divine god form even a **Pokemon** to begin with or is it something else entirely? Is pure infinity energy a pocket monster? Can you catch it? Can you battle it? Can you fit it into your pocket?
The answer, is no. Therefore it's likely that Arceus didn't become a "Pokémon" until he created his more familiar avatar in the events of Legends Arceus and therefore can NOT be the first Pokémon. It's likely the same for Dialga, Palkia and Giratina, so then what is the first creature in existence that we could reasonably call a Pokémon?
I think the answer is likely Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie. We have no hints at them having any sort of other divine form, so it's likely they have always been "Pokémon". However, it's also just as possible because of the resemblance you mentioned maybe THEY came from Mew and not the other way around. Mew could have been the first Pokémon and then Arceus created the Lake trio from Mew's DNA to give the world knowledge. If Mew is the Pokémon Adam, then the Lake trio are the Pokémon Eve.
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My first fakemon which I call combanimals which I created like nearly 10 years ago is called triceraleaf
Maybe the real first pokemon was the friends we made along the way.
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Arceus: the first pokemon, the god that created the universe(and possibly the Multiverse), nothing could have existed without him
Bulbasaur: the first in the pokedex
Rhydon: the first pokemon to be designed by the creators
Mew:.....The first pokemon on Earth? Still questionable if he could exist before the weather trio.
The biggest question are the Unown.
Interesting how the Easter egg pokemon mew was listed first in the copyright. No one should've even been able to find mew in gen1 had it not been for the spaghetti code
What make alternate universe different is the history.
This whole started giving me some Simon Whistler vibes about half way in haha
I really enjoyed this topic! Thank you ❤️
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oh i love that you went into Epic of Gilgamesh and the history of imagined creatures
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The thumbnail for this is a work of art
aw thank you :D
@@BirdKeeperToby LOVED the video Toby, just as much as I love the thumbnail 😊 your love for Pokémon lore and history is so fun to watch and your vids are always so engaging. Thanks for all you do :D
You're a little off on the Futurama episode. Fry didn't wanna get in the time machine and was upset that he would be the minute late that the machine would've made him. He was already gonna be on time.
My bad! I shoulda double checked I totally misbremmebered
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It happens.
What was the first pokemon? Yes
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Toby becoming Vsauce for a second XD I love it
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Wait, wasn’t the Unoun around before Arceus’ egg?
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It was Mew, the ancestor of every pokémon,mew teleported through time to get to the present and created all the pokémon,so it's Mew.
Please don't quit doing your videos! Love watching your theories!
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My theory has been that celebi's time travels continually add more species into the pokemon world's past and that the egg Arceus came from only exists because Arceus created the egg in the future and celebi took the egg to before time so it could hatch into arceus
I don't see guzzlord as a god, but as a bringer of devastation.
Well Time is relative and is most likely a Human construct here in the Real World. Therefore in the Poke-Universes that is likely still the same. So when referring to "Before Time" that just means before recorded information/time. So rather the beings that are mentioned as "Ruling/Creating Time" simply can manipulate or influence or travel through Time.
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I think glimmora has a connection with the 3rd legendary like cyclizar is for the box legendaries. And maybe carbink and the mythical with jewerly. Just something you could explore.
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So it all boils down to what you define as ''first''
The problem and joy of the debate is that the parameters for ''first'' is not fully defined, whether it is within the lore of the game or the real world, thus answers such as Bulbasaur, Rhydon, Mew, and Arceus, are legitimate correct answers.
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Never thought I'd hear professor Toby say Epic of Gilgamesh
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ.
ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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Your point on snakes is backed up by many faiths, the Druids and the Vikings for example, saw them as something to be both feared and revered as a symbol of nature as a force (a point most significant by the Druids of Ireland, who, despite snakes not being present on the island at all, still had them as a symbol of their faith). Representatives of the church being depicted as snake banishers and dragon slayers is more about the stripping of that faith (which might also be why we today, do not respect the environment as much as we once did, all those centuries ago).
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🥰
Its a matter of perspective
Bulbasaur is the first in the national Dex, Arceus is (probably) the first sentient thing, mew is the first "normal" creature, and rhydon is the earliest pokemon we've seen in any media
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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I love this new Vsauce video. For real though keep up the great work!
Arceus is the one Pokemon that can't be considered for the title of "first Pokemon", as that only appears in legends and myths, which as we know in our world, we don't know if it's actually true. So something could have came before Arceus, we never know
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ.
ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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What happens if Arceus created the universe and then separated itself into three or four pieces if you wanna count Giratina like how Kyurem with Reshiram and Zekrom
And that is why in Pokémon Arceus Dialga and Palkia have the same ring around them in there Origin form
I see what you did there Mr. VSauce😉 4:35
So it was Agumon then?
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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Have you thought of celebi it can travel through time said to come from the future by people but that's a theory so it could have existed before all other pokemon (plot line for pokemon legends celebi)
Dialga might have created celebi
Start of video: What Pokémon was first?
By end of video: What even is a Pokémon?
If you’re defining a pokemon as a “pocket monster”, which in the games I believe they define as anything that can be caught in a pokeball since in order to be caught it needs to be able to shrink which is an inherent trait of all pokemon, then I actually don’t think it’s arceus. Arceus likely didn’t create a pokemon form for itself until it needed one to appear before humans. So in that case, the first would be whichever pokemon arceus created first: dialga, palkia, giratina.
Alternatively, I think the unown are an interesting candidate. Do they exist in the universe simply as code without being created or destroyed, or did arceus create them as a way to code things itself? I think any of dialga, palkia, giratina, or unown are all possibilities
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ.
ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🎉
That Futurama episode is sooo good!
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ.
ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🥰
My take:
1. we do not have access to complete knowledge about the Pokémon world
2. in-fact, the Pokémon world is an ever changing and expanding world curated by Gamefreak
Therefore, trying to figure out "in-universe" "firsts" is a futile effort that may never have any kind of satisfactory or final answer.
I argue that Pokémon only exist as concepts in the real world starting with the time when Pokémon games officially became available to the public.
So the "first" Pokémon are Nidorino and Gengar together, because they're the first Pokémon that you see after booting up the original games.
My headcanon is that Arceus is the god of all Pokemon(God's Pokemon lol), and as the god, his first creation was Mew, since Mew is the progenitor of all Pokemon via DNA records. From there, the primary Legendary beings like the Creation Trio, then the Lake Trio, then the Weather Trio, and from there everything else was made.
Without even watching the video, the answer can be 2 things. Real world wise it is Rhydon, and in game lore wise it's Arceus
there might be some argument for charizard AND venusaur for being the first pokemon to DEBUT. theyre the first two mon that are in the gameboy box art. aka the first pokemon people would see ever AS pokemon. no clue what the first pokemon in a advertisement could be. or if there was advertisements that predate pokemon games launching
This video give me an existential crisis. Thank you. I love it.
since the video ended about sankes... the first Pokémon was Rayquaza? XD
the theory you bring up is the "Big Crunch" theory, like how as opposed to the Big Bang being the beginning of a universe, which is widely accepted, the Big Crunch would be the end of it, basically because gravity would eventually bring everything together into a single point, and then eventually Big Banging again..
i don't know too much about the details, but i do know that for whatever reason, there's not much faith in this theory in the world of astrophysicists :'D
If we ask who the first pokemon that was designed then it was diglett
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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Personally, I don't think Arceus was the first pokémon. It was the first in Sinnoh's mythology, but that's it; it's only the creator god in one mythology in the Pokémon world, that doesn't necessarily mean it extends to other mythologies or if the stories are even true; we only know that it's a big spooky powerful intelligent pokémon with many mysteries surrounding it that was revered and worshiped by ancient people.
It's Arceus
According to Mystery Dungeon, Arceus can manipulate time as well.
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🎉
Remember he was number 1… We don’t know who’s the 1…
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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Rhydon wasn't a Pokémon at the time.. it was a CapuMon :p
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ.
ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
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I like how the Arceus movie approaches its power. It created its own dimension, and may have created ours.
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ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴘ.
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🥰
Obviously it’s the legendary rhydon.……………… this was posted during an add before the video……
Actually, victini is the first since its 000 in the unova dex, and as we all know. 0 is less than 1