Wheel of gaming, spin around, give a franchise that is profound.
Hah, uh, sorry, no. We've done more than enough Pokemon episodes, thank you very much.
Let's try this again.
Wheel of gaming, spin, span, spun, land on a series that's super fun.
Very funny, wheel of gaming!
Wheel of gaming, I'm getting weary, give me a game to do a theory.
*GROAN OF FRUSTRATION*
*THEME MUSIC*
*MatPat* Wheel of gaming, please come on, give me something other than Pokemon!
Oh-- Done! Episode over! I quit! *AWAY FROM MIC* Outta here!
*'TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES' PROLONGED BEEP*
*SILENCE*
*PEPPY, CAREFREE MUSIC THROUGHOUT*
*SKYPE OUTGOING-CALL NOISE*
*CALL CONNECTS*
*MatPat* I just can't do it, Josh!
I mean, I've done theories upon theories on Pokemon. Like, at least SIX.
There are so many other games that I wanna talk about!
But, for some reason, Pokemon, Pokemon, it just keep *ANGRIER* pulling me back in!
*JWittz* Six?
*MatPat* I know...
*JWittz* SIX!?
*SHOUTING* Try three hundred and seventy five!
Video after video, week after week--
Creepy Pokemon, cool Pokemon, sexy Pokemon, weak Pokemon,
Pokemon games, Pokemon manga, Pokemon cards,
Blue, Red, White, Black, X and Y--
*SHOUTING* Purple!?
I can't talk without saying Pokemon puns anymore!
*DEFEATED* I can't do it!
*MatPat* Phew... Okay, so...
Repressed rage, great...
But what do we DO about it?
*JWittz* We do one...
together.
*MatPat* That doesn't seem to solve the problem we're talking about here.
*JWittz* Ah-ah...!
A Pokemon theory...
so mind-blowing...
that they never ask us for another Pokemon theory or video again!
*MatPat* Hey.. if--if you even mention the words 'lavender' and 'town' anywhere close to eachother--
*JWittz* --Humans are Pokemon.
*SILENCE*
*MatPat* Now you're speaking my language...
*LAUGHS* Title-card UP!
*THEME MUSIC AGAIN*
*MatPat* Hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory
the show that requires a minute-long skit just to justify doing another video on Pokemon.
Today, we're joined by fellow gamer and Poke-expert,
Juh-Wits!
*JWittz* It's actually pronounced THE jay-wits.
*MatPat* Sorry, THE juh-wits.
Now, I don't think it's a surprise to anyone to hear that there are some
extreme Pokemon theories out there.
The Great Pokemon War, Lavender Town Syndrome,
the whole business with your rivals Raticate.
And in general, these theories paint the Pokemon world to be a bleak, depressing place.
But the problem with thse theories is that there's either not much evidence for them
or there's not much else to say about them.
This show may sometimes be accused of reading like bad fanfiction
but at least it's well-substantiated bad fanfction.
*JWittz* Regardless, there's one facet of Pokemon lore that has gone largley ignored by the fan community.
*MatPat* Probably because it's buried in text that no-one bothers to read.
*JWittz* Well... except for us...
*MatPat* And that's the bizarre connection between humans and Pokemon...
If you thought the Pokemon franchise was strange before
you ain't seen nothin' yet.
*JWittz* It all starts in Canalave Library.
Among the shelves of the library,
you'll find many myths of the Pokemon world
but there are a few that stand out.
In particular, a piece of Sinnoh folklore that reads as follows:
*MatPat* What this seems to suggest is that Pokemon and humans were
once one in the same.
But it doesn't stop there...
The next myth actually spells it out:
*JWittz* And if we wanna get really technical with it
the original, literal translation of this passage reads:
What they're saying is that at one point in the history of the Pokemon world,
human-animal marriages were acceptable.
*MatPat* *CHUCKLES* Oh, man...
And here I was all these years feeling awkward for having a crush on Hitmonchan.
Phew! That's a relief! I feel like a weight has been lifted!
She was my first holographic card after all...
*JWittz* I hope you're joking...
*MatPat* You're right. Caught me.
Blastoise was my first holographic card.
But, JWittz--
Sorry, THE JWittz--
These are just myths, right?
Can we really believe them?
*JWittz* Well, first; it's important to point out that while, yes, this
is all in-game folklore, many other stories present throughout the library are true.
For instance, it's in here that we learn the Pokemon world's creation story.
In which Arceus-- basically the game's version of God-- creates multiple lesser
gods meant to control things like time and space.
Which we find out later IS CANON.
*MatPat* But there's more to connect humans and Pokemon than just convoluted origin stories.
It's from more text that'll make you scratch your head and go--really?
The PokeDex is full of great little tid-bits Game Freak never thought anyone
would bother to read.
Take, for instance, Yamask's entry.
This generation-five darling goes a little something like this, quote:
Now that's pretty weird.
But remember, this is coming from THE definitive source
of information from the Pokemon world.
The 'Dex ain't no Wikipedia, my friends.
*JWittz* And Yamask isn't the only one.
Clearly, there is some link between the human and soul
of Pokemon creatures through-out the series.
Here's the entry for generation-six's Phantump:
So, take one dead child, add one tree stump, and you get a Pokemon!
Rated E for Everyone has never been this dark.
*MatPat* But it goes all the way back to generation-one Pokemon
BEFORE the game developers started to get desperate for ideas.
Just look at FireRed's Kadabra:
Who WROTE this thing, Franz Koff-ka?
I love how matter-of-fact this is.
*MOCKING TONE*
*NORMAL VOICE* Like, 'it ain't no big thing'.
*DISBELIEVING* What!?
*JOKING* Your son is evolving!
Congratulations! You son evolved into a creepy yellow monster
with six fingers, six toes, and a SPOON!
*JWittz* Time and time again we see humans--
--both alive and dead-- becoming Pokemon.
When you really stop to think about it, it's almost like human death
is just another event that prompts Poke-evolution,
transforming us human-shaped Pokemon, into a Ghost-type.
*MatPat* So there's lore that points to humans being Pokemon,
a very clear human-Pokemon connection in
various 'Dex entries,
and then there's also a biological connection.
Last time I talked about Pokemon with The Dex crew
we examined the role Darwinian evolution
plays in the Pokemon worlds.
relate to real-life
Specifically looking at how bird Pokemon designs
relate to their respective regions.
But if humans did indeed evolve from Pokemon
the same way humans evolved from apes in the real world,
clearly there must be a biological progression.
Descent with modification.
That chart that you see all the time on the walls of science classrooms,
and hipster t-shirts.
And believe it or not... there is.
Just like single-celled organisms adapted to
live in the harsh, primordial ooze, there's Solosis.
The cell Pokemon.
Surrounded by a cytoplasmic liquid that
protects it from most environments.
From there, over time, you see Pokemon body-types
becoming more and more complex until you get to the bipedal, tail-less Pokemon.
The ones that would be our evolutionary predecessors.
The JWittz, what would YOU say are the smarted Pokemon?
*JWittz* Clearly, it's the Psychic-type.
Alakazam has an IQ of five thousand!
*MatPat* So is it any coincidence, then, that the bipedal,
tail-less Pokemon have the most Psychic-Types
of ANY of the possible body-shapes?
Is is any coincidence that so many
of these are in the "human-like" egg-group?
That there even IS a "human-like" egg-group?
*JWittz* Which makes Pokemon like:
what we would know in real like as the "missing link", connecting apes to humans in the evolutionary line.
Or, in this case, Pokemon to humans!
And we just talked about how a human just SUDDENLY turned into a Kadabra,
thereby proving, from Pokemon mythology, Pokedex entries,
and even Pokemon biology,
that humans ARE Pokemon.
*MatPat* 'So animals are to humans on Earth
what Pokemon are to humans in the games' I hear you typing in the comments.
And if you are, I say, 'excellent use of analogy! You'll do well on the SAT!'
But then you continue:
Why don't humans in the Pokemon world have special abilities?
But there's one thing we've overlooked until now;
*IN UNISON*
*JWittz* Think back to the anime.
Gym leader Sabrina had Psychic abilities.
Able to move telekineticly, teleport Ash and his friends,
and even shrink them down to the size of dolls.
Then, in the Diamond and Pearl series,
we're introduced to the aura-guardians;
humans able to sense and control aura, or spiritual energy,
the same energy that grants Pokemon like Riolu and Lucario their power.
It's revealed that a boy named Riley, and even Ash Ketchum--
everyone's favourite husky-voiced ten-year-old--
both have aura powers.
How does Team Rocket possibly survive
getting electrocuted by Pikachu time after time after time?
*WITH FEELING* They're Pokemon!
All it's doing is knocking their health down a little bit.
*MatPat* But as loyal theorists know, we try
to stay away from non-game sources.
The thing is, there's plenty of evidence in the games.
Think about it:
Every generation has had some version of Psychic trainers,
And every time, their sprites show balls
telekinetically floating around them.
That right there ladies and gentlemen,
is a special ability.
And what about aura-powered Riley?
Well, he makes an appearance in the games, too.
And his sprite animation in Platinum
seems to indicate that he has those same aura powers
he demonstrated in the anime.
As his hand flashes with a mysterious blue energy.
Really stops to make you think, doesn't it?
All those black-belt trainers? Not just martial-artists, but Fighting-types.
Everyone else? Normal-type.
*JWitzz* But why would humans evolve and survive in the first place?
In a world with creatures that can melt your face off,
injure you with bubbles,
and drain away your life energy, humans seem pretty delicate.
Sure, there's some psychic humans.
But the general populous isn't launching fire-blasts at eachother. (i am)
*DRAMATIC TONE* MatPat used Desk Job!
It was soul-crushing...:(
Definitely not something that's gonna save you from a good vine-whipping.
*AWAY FROM MIC, TIMID* ...a good vine-whipping sounds pretty good...
*GEORGE TAKEI "OH MY" AUDIO CLIP*
If you're....into that....
*NORMAL VOICE* In a world dominated by survival of the fittest,
how WOULD humans survive?
*MatPat* Our MINDS. That's the power that sets humans apart.
No, we may not have giant water canons strapped to our backs,
or the ability to surround our enemies in a tornado of fire (i do),
but we're able to lead, stratagize, and build.
That lightning affect had no affect on the ground Pokemon?
Well, let me thing about this, and use a Water-type instead.
Or I suppose if you're Ash you just tell Pikatchu
to do it ONCE AGAIN with MORE FEELING!!
Humans were able to build hospitals to instantly re-vitalize a team
and discs that instantly teach them new skills!
If we really are looking at this from the evolutionary perspective,
what Pokemon WOULDN'T want to team up with us?
The better the trainer the more likely
the Pokemon is going to be able to win,
FLOURISH,
reproduce!! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In the end, Darwinian evolution fuels
EVERYTHING in the Pokemon universe!
And it proves that we are the KING of Pokemon!
Quite literally God-like in our powers!
*JWitzz* You're right!
Remember Arceus? The aforementioned
Pokemon who created the universe?
Human mental power has grown so much
that the talented trainer can go so far as to capture him!
Wrap your head around that;
you are able to capture the creature that gave you life!
In the end, Pokemon proves
that our greatest asset, is our MIND.
*MatPat* So you, young trainer, are a Pokemon.
So is every bug-catcher, hoopster, and aroma lady (??)
you run in to.
And that, truly gives, new
meaning to the phrase,
Gotta Catch 'Em All.
But hey, that's JUST a theory...
A *IN UNISON* GAME THEORY!
*CREEPY UNISON STILL* Thanks for watching!
*MatPat* So, there you have it,
humans are Pokemon.
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*JWitzz* And also, if you enjoyed this video, you can click HERE
to see the video on my channel,
where we worked together to discover that the Pokemon world...
might be our very own. (duh duh duhhhh)
*MatPat* TWO Pokemon theories,
ONE day,
one AWESOME, like, 20 minutes cycle
of watching stuff that we're doing, so...
(you never finished that sentence, matpat)
So, to play us out, Mr Witzz here,
is going to lay down a...a SICK BEAT as it were.
*Mr Witzz* I am?
*MatPat* Yes. Yes you are.
OK-- *STARTS BREATBOXING*
*SOMETHING ABOUT "GAME THEORY"*
*MORE BEATBOXING*
*SOMETHING ABOUT "SMART IT UP"*
*FADES HIMSELF OUT* ~smartest show in gaming~
*BOTH MAKE NERDY A CAPELLA SICK BEAT SOUNDS*
*JWitzz* With our powers combined we are--
*MatPat* *QUIETLY* PokePals...
*JWitzz* *UNSURE NOISES*
*MatPat* That's lame-- *JUMPCUT BEEP*
*MatPat* *STRAINED* When our powers combine we are...
video-game-theorist-guys....
*JWitzz*That doesn't make-- *JUMPCUT BEEP*
*MatPat* *WITH GUSTO* Edju-tainment!! *JUMPCUT BEEP*
*JWitzz laughing* *MatPat* We have no good sign-off....!