History Fridge / Pokemon

* In the trading card game, Great Tusk and Iron Treads were the first Paradox Pokémon to get cards because thy're the first ones you encounter during ''Path Of Legends'', before you encounter the rest towards the end. Adding to this, the cards aren't labeled as Paradox Pokémon.

* With a name like Project Voltage, one might think that the first type to get its design revealed would be Electric. However, Psychic-type is first because Meloetta ''is'' the closest thing to a Vocaloid Pokémon. They had to get the obvious out of the way first.

** Electric-type Miku wears a protective suit to prevent her from getting shocked by her Pokémon and it's also fittingly stylized for stage performances including a snazzy hat.

* Hatsune Miku's Pokémon in the Project Voltage Collab are ones based off of music from the obvious ones like Rillaboom for Grass (Drumset) to AllThereInTheManual ones (Ground is Flygon because when it flaps its wings, it sounds like singing).

* Why do so all butterfly and moth Pokémon, like Beautifly, Volcarona, Mothrim... learn Psychic either through TM or their natural movset? "Psique" is greek for "soul" (But more similarly to "mind", think psychology or psychaedelic), but it also means "butterfly" or "moth".

* How the [=TMs=] work. The animation from Gen III just shows a CD being placed onto the Pokémon's head. But the [=CDs=] aren't being placed into the Pokémon; they're being loaded onto the PokéBalls ''containing'' them.

** Against wild Pokémon, especially in desolate areas far away from other humans (such as the Kanto Power Plant or the Seafoam Island caverns), now that you're without any Pokémon to defend you against the wild Pokémon swarming about...let's just say it's a ''miracle'' that you somehow ended up back at the nearest Pokémon Center and not a fatal lesson for other daring trainers.

* In the earlier games, when all of your Pokémon faint, you literally black or white out, implying that you didn't rush to the nearest Pokémon Center like it's stated in alter games, you straight up ''collapsed''. which can lead to all sorts of imagined horrors:

** Alternatively, they just ''naturally secrete poison''. For example, the first Mega-Evolution special has Chespin use Toxic through the spikes on it's head.

* Why using an evolutionary stone on the majority of Pokémon caused it to get a huge stat boost, but then made it unable to learn any new moves. These stones "radiate a mysterious energy". The stones radioactivity force the Pokémon to move beyond its normal final stage, into a powerful creature (think about the three-eyed fish from the simpsons), but stunt its growth permanently, which is why they stop learning other than from the [=TMs=]! Some Pokémon are better conditioned for this (Isn't Eevee's genetic code already unstable?), which is why they still learn moves, or that the method had been lost to time, or they're unique, which could also be why "area methods" work. How rare is it to find another mossy stone radiating an energy Eevees can use?

** Of course, this is removed in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' where the Iincenses are removed from Pokémon breeding, so for instance, breeding a Marill or Azumarill will always result in an Azurill egg.

* Up to ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', there are only three butterfly Pokémon (Butterfree, Beautifly, Vivillon), while there are five moths (Venomoth, Dustox, Mothim, Volcarona and Frosmoth). In real life, there are ''many'' more moth species than butterfly species.

* InAWorld where even stepping into the tall grass is dangerous (and therefore highly discouraged without being accompanied by at least one Pokemon), EMS doesn't seem to exist. Even in a major city like Viridian. To put it in perspective: imagine that you get to the Pokemon gym of a major city, and as you walk in, you find seven people sprawled out on the floor. You don't know why they are there, or what caused it, or if whoever or whatever caused it is still there to potentially harm ''you''. You can't tell just by looking if any of these people are breathing or have a pulse. (And you're not skilled or trained in first aid (beyond, say, applying a bandage), so you have no idea how to check for a pulse, for example, much less perform CPR.) Despite the fact that you have the ability to video-chat with your mom, turn living creatures into light energy to be stored in a tiny ball, and send said balls to the professor or a Pokemon Center remotely, you don't have a cell phone to call for help even if it ''does'' exist, and Arceus knows where the nearest payphone is. And that's just in a major city; imagine how much worse this already terrible situation would be if you happen to be out in the wilderness, many kilometers away from the nearest town or city? How many people have ''died'' because they couldn't get emergency help for themselves or their Pokemon?
** Alternatively, remember how if you faint for any reason, you wake up in the last Pok´mon Center you visited? Either someone brings you there to rest, or you're outright teleported there (since we know that teleportation technology ''does'' exist in-universe). ...But either way, that means that your location is being monitored at all times. It could be because you're a new trainer and/or so young, or maybe it's just that ''everyone'' is monitored like that. This would explain the lack of EMS, since people can just be teleported to the nearest hospital if they're seriously injured. But it does introduce two other questions... ''how'' are people being monitored? And can it be interfered with remotely?

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' and ''Platinum'', there are no wild Riolu, but in Black and White, there's a cave filled with the little buggers. This can mean only one thing: Riolu is actually native to Unova instead of Sinnoh! By extension, this may also mean that Riley (who gives the Riolu egg) is from Unova! Alternately Riolu are native to Kalos, Alola or Galar where they are similarly found wild.

* Fridge/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies (#810-#890) (including regional formes and Dynamax/Gigantamax formes)
* Fridge/PokemonGenerationIXFamilies (including regional formes and Paradox formes)

* Vacuum Wave is a Fighting type move, so its not very effective against Flying types. But a move that sucks the air away from you should screw you over if you're airborne.
** Vacuum Wave does not suck air, it send "pure vacuum" at the opponent. It is a reference to ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', specifically the sinku hadoken (though given that is a slow strong charge up move and this is a quick weak priority one...)
*** Which in turn leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance: Vacuum Wave is so weak because the user ''doesn't'' take the time to charge it up.

** Vacuum wave does not suck air, it send "pure vacuum" at the opponent. It is a reference to ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', specifically the sinku hadoken (though given that is a slow strong charge up move and this is a quick weak priority one...)