Fan theories have been circulating around the internet and they really make you question
your childhood or some of your favourite tv shows.
Pokemon is a huge franchise so it was actually shocking to hear some of these disturbing
theories.
Warning, these theories are very dark so brace yourselves.
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Alright, let’s jump into this list of the top 10 scary pokemon theories.
The massive war explodes onto this list in at number 10.
Do you guys remember playing Pokemon Red and Blue?
If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that there aren’t a lot of middle aged characters
in the game.
Fans have been wondering why there are only young children and elderly characters in these
games.
Well we might have one explanation for this.
Obviously, we have a few adults that appear in the game but what about everyone else?
Fans are theorizing that the reason why there aren’t a lot of adults in the game is because
of a war that happened in the Kanto region.
Lt. Surge, the Vermilion City gym leader said how an electric type pokemon saved him during
the war.
So since these games take place in their own universe, he wasn’t referring to any historical
wars.
The war caused massive casualties which caused a gap in generations.
This might explain why Professor Oak gives every new trainer a Pokedex.
He wants to collect information about those people who were lost in the war and to see
what Pokemon survived.
Starter Pokemon break into this list in at number 9.
Have you ever wondered why starter Pokemon can’t be caught in the wild?
Well the answer is actually pretty dark and logical if you really think about it.
So when humans first learned how to catch Pokemon, the starters were probably the first
ones to be caught because they can easily be controlled/tamed and they have power evolutions.
But humans caught them in high amounts so now they are considered as endangered species
and they don’t have a natural habitat anymore.
They are considered protected pokemon which explains why only scientists have them.
Oh and in Pokemon Snap, it is believed that the starter pokemon are sent here to breed
and freely roam around.
That is why you can only take pictures of them and not catch anything.
Cubone uses its dead mother’s bones as armour and this takes us to number 8.
Well isn’t that sweet… note to self...don’t catch any wild cubones.
If you consider cubone cute, you might want to rethink that.
These little guys have apparently had a rough upbringing.
It’s argued that Cubone are baby Kangaskhan that lost their mothers.
So when the Kangaskhan dies, the baby in the pouch will take her skull and wear it to become
cubone.
Eventually, the skull fuses to its head and he will evolve into Marowak.
This theory even goes as far to say that once he is a Marowak, he will evolve into a Kangaskhan
to start the whole dark and depressing cycle over and over again.
Brock is cursed and this brings us to number 7.
One Pokemon theory suggests that the reason why Brock doesn’t open his eyes is because
he is cursed.
The curse is known as the Mystic Eyes of the Gorgon and it is the same exact curse that
affected the Greek Monster, Medusa.
So basically, anyone who looks at her face and into her eyes would turn into stone.
So Brock doesn’t open his eyes because he is scared of cursing others.
This is also why he became a rock type Pokemon trainer because all of his Pokemon are already
made of stone.
Did you guys know that Brock has stirred up a lot of controversy in the Pokemon franchise.
He was temporarily removed from the anime because people believed that he was a racist
stereotype against Japanese people.
Pokemon Go Candy sweetens things up in at number 6.
Just kidding, this theory is the opposite of sweet.
In Pokemon Go, the candy is fed to your pokemon so that they can level up and progress in
the game.
Seems innocent enough right?
Wrong.
One fan suggested that Professor Willow gives you these treats after you give him the same
Pokemon as the main ingredient.
Yep that’s right...Pokemon can only eat their specific candy so basically you are
literally hunting, cooking and feeding your Pokemon dead corpses of their breed.
So yeah, your beloved pokemon are gonna grow up as cannibals.
Items are left over from dead trainers and this comes in at number 5.
Wait a minute...what?
This kind of makes sense.
I’ve always wondered where those random items came from.
I mean, it’s hard to believe that someone in the Pokemon universe would hide these useful
items around for trainers to find.
User Kuiper from Reddit believes that all of these random items are from trainers who
have had unfortunate circumstances.
Maybe there are some really violent and aggressive pokemon that killed them.
Maybe Team rocket is more sinister than we thought.
If you think about it, there are a ton of pokemon that are capable of murdering people.
Some of them breathe fire and literally poison the air.
I guess this theory makes sense.
Haunting us in at number 4 we have your stalker dad.
Yep that’s right, your dad in Pokemon red or blue might actually be a creepy stalker.
In Pokemon Red and Blue, we don’t really know what happened to your dad.
But what we do know is that there is a strange man who can be found lurking in all of the
gyms.
If you talk to him, he will offer you advice and encouragement before you challenge the
gym leader.
But did you ever stop to think that this guy might be just a little bit too friendly?
One theory says that this creepy gym guy is actually your dad.
Apparently your mom left him when she was pregnant and she raised you on your own.
But your dad wanted to make up for lost time so he secretly follows you around.
He uses the gyms as an excuse to talk to you without revealing who he is.
Someone call the police, I want a restraining order right away.
Ash is in a coma and this theory brings us to number 3.
In some of the earlier episodes of Pokemon, Ash was hit by lightning while he was riding
his bike.
So although we see him going on adventures, defeating gym leaders and catching Pokemon...he
is actually in a comatose state.
Apparently, the whole series is just a dreamland that ash created while he is sleeping in his
coma.
It’s believed that although he stays the same age throughout the entire series, he
is actually aging somewhere in a hospital bed, unaware of what actually happened to
him.
Things just got really dark.
Team rocket are in purgatory and this brings us to number 2.
For those of you who don’t know, Catholics believe that purgatory is a state where dead
souls are purified from their sins.
Basically, it's a place between Heaven and Hell where the person isn’t bad enough to
be sent to hell but they aren’t good enough to be sent to Heaven.
So instead, they are temporarily sent to purgatory where the person suffers and is purified so
that they can be sent to Heaven.
So this explains why Team Rocket are constantly failing at everything they do and why time
in the Pokemon universe never really passes.
According to this dark theory, Team Rocket is in purgatory because they separated a boy
from his Pikachu in real life.
They accidentally killed the Pikachu which caused the boy to commit suicide.
So they are forced to relive the incident in a million ways to mess up their own attempts
in order to make things right.
This is why Ash never grows up and why Pikachu doesn’t evolve.
Lavender town suicides top this list in at number 1.
There was a sudden spike of sick children who committed suicide shortly after Pokemon
Red and Green was released in Japan.
This strange occurrence was linked to the original Lavender Town theme song.
The Japanese variation of this tune is more high pitched and it has frequencies that only
children and young teenagers can hear.
There have been at least 200 suicides that have been linked to this song.
People started calling it the lavender town syndrome or the Lavender town suicides.
The game developers rushed to fix the issue so that is why the theme song is slightly
different in the international releases.