Pokemon Actually Makes No Sense

pokemon is the ONLY thing that makes sense

don’t take this from me

you guys also forgot, like
in the first Pokemon movie, Ash said that vikings were only in Minnesota
so Minnesota is now in the Pokemon world?
also, what meat do people in the Pokemon world eat? like, you said, there’s no existence of other animals, so… and because of this, if the Pokedex says “the ‘elephant’ Pokemon” or whatever, how would you know what an elephant is if they don’t exist….

LOL

“how is that even possible? you still play with pokemon cards” “what’s the suicide rate in kanto?” lololol well done 

I remember being in 7th grade and wondering about that Alakazam IQ thing. My guess is that past a certain level of intelligence, you’re able to fully comprehend how insignificant you and everything you can perceive is compared to the enormity of the universe. I’m sure this is what those Japanese game-makers had in mind :/

I almost want to cry and I don’t know why. I’m seventeen and Pokemon rocked my world for the best part of a decade.
Also I never understood why other people in the game didn’t name their Pokemon, I thought they were most inhumane!

You raise all the questions I’ve always wondered about and make some hilarious comments. Chapeau good sir!

The majority of video games make no sense

Guess that’s why it’s called Pokemon and not Humans. 

There’s a whole backstory to Pokemon- the worlds were locked in intense war, with pokemons as the weaponry. All men were killed in battle- this is why you never see anyone but young kids, old men, and women of various ages. After the war it was decided that youths needed to train how to use Pokemons from their young age, practicing, training their skills and evolving their Pokemons, so that if war ever broke out again, their nation would be prepared.

Did I just blow your mind? 

We don’t play games for their logic, we play them because of their entertainment value. You don’t have to question the background to every game to enjoy it.. and if we did wouldn’t that make fighting games pretty short? Say you were shot in the game and your character dies.. if instead of dying and being able to respawn (unrealistic) you just died (logical) and couldn’t play anymore because you were dead, that game would not sell any copies. Moral of the story: game are where we can escape reality and logic, not stick rigidly to their rules :)

This franchise designed to milk money from pre-teens makes no sense guys!

Is that a jab at Japan? HUH? Suicide rate in Kanto? Jesus Christ? Stop fucking PRESSING A dammit. 

I was always under the impression that not every single kid went on a pokemon quest but just you because you had a knack for it. At the beginning of Silver, you’re wandering about and find Professor Elm being attacked and he tells you to use one of the pokemon in his bag (which he mysteriously didn’t use?), then comments on what a bond you’ve formed with it. Your mom even makes the comment that you’re too young to be venturing out into the world, but lets you go anyways… In Silver you have a phone, too, though that wasn’t featured in any other generation.

And also, the different generations take place in different lands. Kanto was for Red and Blue, Johto for Silver and Gold, Hoenn for Ruby and Sapphire. So that the “species” are different is expected. Also in Silver when you can finally travel to Kanto (after defeating the Elite Four), the pokemon you find there are mostly original 150 but with some new ones as well. A version of invasive species which makes sense, because you’ve connected the two regions.

Pokemon is still highly ridiculous (I’m talking to you HM 8) (and HM 2–you can jump down walls and have no qualms about just entering random people’s houses but can’t get around a small tree? That also manages to regrow every time you move out of sight or go inside said stranger’s house?) but not for these reasons.

Yes I realise I’m breaking so many internet rules by posting such a long comment… but I’m a Pokemon nut and you can’t take that away from me!!

Some of the Pokemon are obviously sentient, and some of them are human-like (I’m thinking specifically Mr. Mime, Fighters, and the Ghosts) so does the slavery issue come into play?

Which Pokemon are okay to eat?

Do Pokemon prey on each other in the wild?

also, people who didn’t have the misfortune to be born in pallet town have significantly level-advanced pokemon. so… if everyone in cerulean city can beat gym leader brock, why the hell is he a gym leader?

It taught me how to pit fight animals i  caught in wild !

I always wondered why I was known as the champion of good, but I always worked my pokemon until they fainted just the same as team rocket. I can’t remember the name of the team in black/white, but they all stood for freedom of pokemon, so I mean, I think THEY’RE the good ones, and yet you are on the side of poke slavery but YOU are the good one. 

And also..what the hell do those pokemon DO all the time while they’re enslaved in those tiny balls? whatt.

this was actually quite good. I haven’t touched pokemon in 10 years, but you have brought up some really good points that led me to quitting pokemon. If it doesn’t make sense, I stop playing.

Plus they messed up the theme song.

hi i’m a girl

It’s a freakin’ game. The fact that you felt the need to seriously overanalyze every single detail shows that you lack any sense of an imagination. I’m not sure why people think that games geared toward 10-year-olds automatically ingrain life lessons into their young, maturing brains. Kids are sent to school for a reason; they are taught to draw lines between games and real life. I played Pokemon as a child and can confidently say that I am a competent adult. Give children more credit. It’s a fun way to pass the time.

Dear why do you consider anything after the first set of Pokemon to be Pokemon?

“There’s a theory floating around that paints a dark, horrific history of the Pokémon world, or at least Red/Blue’s Kanto region. Many players have noted that in Pokémon Red/Blue, there is a large absence of middle aged men in the game world. Think about the last time you played Pokémon. An abnormally large amount of Pokémon trainers chillin’ in the wild were little kids. Think about it. Why were there so many damn toddlers roaming the wilds unattended? There were plenty of elderly men and women in the world (Professor Oak), and many middle aged women (the player’s mom, the nurses), but a lack of middle aged men. What about the player’s father, or your rival’s father? While most people wouldn’t worry about the absence of middle aged dudes, some Pokémon fans have rationalized this through the creation of yet another insane theory.

The electric-type gym leader, Lt. Surge mentions being a survivor of some sort of brutal war that almost took his life (he claims that his Pokémon saved his life). Other trainers in the gym were once soldiers in some sort of army, which presumably fought in a war. A war where Pokémon were used as weapons. Let that sink in for a moment, as you try to imagine the horror of hundreds of terrified soldiers storming beaches being held by goddamn Charizards. Some fans believe this war was the cause of the lack of adult men, claiming that all of them had been killed in the war. Essentially, some people are speculating that this war caused a ‘generation kill’, and that the young children of the Kanto region are the first generation to find peace. This also explains why the player’s father is absent (hint, he died), and why the rival character has no parents (hint, they died). While a lot of this theory involves speculation and imagination, the horrifying idea of a human-Pokémon war that wiped out an entire generation is pretty damn sweet.”

suspension of disbelief