There’s a lot of unanswered questions in the Pokemon franchise.
While the games are pretty straight forward and excessively enjoyable, there’s always
been a few moments in their narratives that have left fans pondering how this world filled
with these pocket monsters came to be.
So of course, this led to plenty fan theories, many of which based in reason and logic within
the world, and some being pretty damn plausible.
So today, we’re counting down our pick for the top 10 pokemon fan theories.
And heads up - some of these are pretty dark.
10 Professor Oak sent you away to get with your mom
In what is one of the more common theories out there - and one with not a whole lot of
evidence aside from the fact that Professor Oak is super eager to get you to out into
the world of Pokemon - is that the whole reason you’re sent off to become is a trainer is
due to Oak’s manipulation.
So that he can get with your mom.
He’s convinced your single, impressionable mother that the best way to give you the life
you deserve is to let you become a pokemon trainer.
Yes, by sending you out into a dangerous world filled with wild Pokemon with only one barely
trained Pokemon at your side.
9 Ditto Is a Failed Clone Moving on to a slightly more depressing theory,
let’s take a look at Mewtwo.
Mewtwo is the product of a scientific experiment with Mew, an attempt to recreate Mew with
genetic material.
As many fans have speculated, Mewtwo can’t be the first attempt.
Which has led to speculation that Ditto was the product of that experiment prior to Mewtwo.
Or, as some see it, another kind of experiment with Mew, using it’s DNA to create a much
more powerful pokemon capable of transforming into whichever Pokemon it desires.
The arguments behind this are that Ditto shares the same colour as Mew, and that it can be
found on Cinnabar Island.
8 Koffing & Wheezing Speaking of scientific experiments, let’s
move onto another theory based on that, this time to do with Koffing and Wheezing.
There’s speculation that the duo are the results of an experiment gone wrong by Team
Rocket when they were trying to create their own kind of ghost pokemon.
The logic behind this?
They’re found in the Pokemon Mansion, which is an abandoned library, and no other regions
in the Blue Red and Green games.
In addition to this, Koffing has a symbol on it’s body, the symbol for poison, which
is a human symbol.
So how would a human symbol end up on a pokemon created naturally?
They must have been branded, especially considering their toxic gas.
7 Blue’s Raticate There’s a theory that in the Red, Blue and
Green Pokemon games, Blue’s Raticate dies.
While in Lavender Town, you find Blue in a graveyard.
In the Japanese version, he asks Red if Red knows what it’s like for Pokemon to die.
Then you battle him.
But what’s he doing there to begin with?
Well in the battle, it’s the first time he doesn’t use Raticate in the game.
And when you last battled him, it was on the SS Anne, which you leave before it leaves
the dock.
So there’s a rumour that Blue didn’t get off, and Raticate died from wounds before
getting to a Pokemon centre, which is why Blue is at the graveyard, mourning.
6 Your Dad is Gym Guy We’ll be discussing more on the absence
of adults, specifically adult males, a little later on in this list, but for this number,
let’s specifically take a look at the fact that in the games, the only parent present
in your mother.
Almost every pokemon trainer in the series is missing a father, and you’re no exception.
But this theory speculates that your father is there all along - he’s actually the Gym
Guy who appears in all of the gyms in Kanto.
He guides you, calling you champ in the making, and is really adamant about your success.
So the theory states that this guy abandoned your mom when she was pregnant with you, Red,
and because of the guilt he carries for not being there for you, he devotes himself to
becoming your guide at the gyms, despite not telling you what his true identity is.
5 Unova inspired by 9/11 Some fans have compared the map of Unova from
Black and White with one of New York’s Manhattan, noting the geographical similarities.
Except for the fact that Unova’s centre has a massive desolate wasteland, called the
Midtown Desert.
So fans have compared it to post 9/11 NYC, with parallels to the Brooklyn Bridbe, Central
Park, and a massive financial district at it’s very bottom.
Leading to speculation that the Midtown Desert is ground zero, especially since there’s
a bunch of construction workers in the area when you travel through it.
This particular theory has upset many fans, for very valid reasons, but there are some
undeniable similarities.
4 N is a Zoroark Zoroark is a pokemon that is capable of casting
illusions.
Fans have connected the antagonist, N, who appears in Pokemon Black and White and black
and white 2 as the puppet leader of Team Plasma, to Zoroark, with the suspicion that he may
be a Zoroark using his human identity to forward his own, and Plasma’s agenda, of a separate
world for Pokemon and humans.
The logic behind this?
N was raised amongst Pokemon.
His speech patterns are strange, almost as if he were trying to copy the way humans speak.
In Black and While 2, you follow a Zoroark into some ruins, where you find N. And this
hair is kind of similar to a Zoroark’s.
On top of that, it’s not unheard of that Zoroarks appear as humans.
3 Ghost Girl The Ghost Girl appears a few times in the
series, and is placed in with intention, so it’s definitely not just someone at GameFreak
slipping it in.
In Pokemon X and Y, a ghostly girl appears in Lumoise City, and this happens (SHOW GIF).
In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, a similar moment occurs, with the ghost girl making
the same statement at a cemetery (WHICH), and possibly making an appearance during the
Elite Four fight with Phoebe, where there’s a glimpse of a ghostly shape on a chair behind
her as the image fades out, and then the camera reverses and moves as if it’s from the POV
of someone getting out of the chair and walking closer.
Then, there’s this.
(IMAGE).
So what does all this mean?
You’re not the one perhaps pertains to a specific trainer ID, since all players have
different IDs.
Additionally, another theory speculates that she has something to do with the note you
find at the train station in X and Y that says ‘meet me in the usual place’, and
that she was a murder victim of a scorned lover.
And that the Skiddo waiting outside of Lumoise Station hers or her lovers and are waiting
for her to return.
The last bit seems unlikely because of her appearance in both games that are set at very
different times in the pokemon timeline.
2 Pokemon Were Created by a Nuclear War This theory suggests that Pokemon are the
result of deformities created by nuclear exposure.
All other animals are killed, except for the ones who infected and evolve, and scientists
then go on to clone them.
They’re eventually accepted by humans.
But some see this theory as a byproduct of our next number - that this nuclear explosion
led to large population of Pokemon, and the smaller amount of humans you encounter in
the game.
1 Pokemon War theory In one of the most popular Pokemon theories,
the War Theory is based on the fact that there’s barely any adult males in the world, and the
ones who are there are either very old, or have a job related to the military or crime.
You also don’t have a father, with no explanation as to where he is.
There’s a whole lot of children preoccupying this world, all coming-of-age.
LT Surge tells you that electric Pokemon saved him during the war.
So, that confirms there was a war in Kanto.
Leading fans to speculate you and Blue are part of the first generation of people to
live in peace, post-war.
You lost your father to it, and your rival lost both parents.
There we have it friends!
Which of these theories do you believe?
Are there any theories we didn’t mention that we should include in a part 2 of this
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