History Memes / Pokemon

** Alomomola not being a Luvdisc evolution, but Octillery evolving from Remoraid.

** Using Fly with a Pidgey, even though it's too small to carry the trainer.

* IT'S A BLASTOISE. [[http://chromagic.blogspot.com/2011/02/blastoise-with-monocle-what-you-need-to.html WITH A MONOCLE.]]

Gym Leader/Elite Four Memes:

** Flying Type Specialist Lance[[labelnote:Explanation]]Lance is famed in-game as a master Dragon trainer, but since his team--Gyarados (Water/Flying), Aerodactyl (Rock/Flying), 2 Dragonairs (Dragon/Flying), and Dragonite (Dragon)--uses "symbolic/thematic" Dragons to fill out the roster, this means the majority typing is ''Flying''.[[/labelnote]]

** ''"After 23 years they start getting too self-aware?"''[[labelnote:Explanation]]The ''Journeys'' anime has Goh and Ash wondering why Dratini and Dragonair are blue and serpentine, but Dragonite is orange and bipedal and looks nothing like its pre-evolutions, with Gou even suggesting that ''Milotic'' would have made a more logical-looking final evolution. Given that fans have been pondering this question for a very long time, it was instantly joked how they were LeaningOnTheFourthWall addressing Pokémon logic in-universe.[[/labelnote]]

* Solid Snivy, Tepig Boss, and Revolver Oshawott. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Ever since the Unova starters' English names were revealed, the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' jokes came.[[/labelnote]]

* Sarcastically referring to the series as ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', ''Franchise/YuGiOh''. ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'', etc.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Other series in the {{Mons}} genre, often confused with ''Pokemon'' by non-fans (like confused parents).[[/labelnpte]]

* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [=TikTok=] video posted by The Tube Shack on August 39th, 2023, where an employee of the Lake Cowichan playing with the tubes for fun. Later, it got bombarded by lightplatinumds on X who got shared the video, leading to the fans knew it "interesting" and flooded by fanarts including a modded Pokemon in a BDSP video.[[/labelnote]]

* Obamasnow [[labelnote:Explanation]]A {{pun}} crossing over UsefulNotes/BarackObama with Abomasnow due to the similarities in names, and is typically accompanied by an image of Abomasnow with Obama's faced edited onto it.
* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [=TikTok=] video posted by The Tube Shack on August 39th, 2023, where an employee of the Lake Cowichan playing with the tubes for fun. Later, it got bombarded by lightplatinumds on X who got shared the video, leading to the fans knew it "interesting" and flooded by fanarts including a modded Pokemon in a BDSP video.[[/labelnote]]
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* Obamasnow [[labelnote:Explanation]]A {{pun}} crossing over UsefulNotes/BarackObama with Abomasnow due to the similarities in names, and is typically accompanied by an image of Abomasnow with Obama's faced edited onto it.[[/labelnote]]

** Flying Type Specialist Lance[[labelenote:Explanation]]Lance is famed in-game as a master Dragon trainer, but since his team--Gyarados (Water/Flying), Aerodactyl (Rock/Flying), 2 Dragonairs (Dragon/Flying), and Dragonite (Dragon)--uses "symbolic/thematic" Dragons to fill out the roster, this means the majority typing is ''Flying''.[[/labelnote]]

* Flint is Ronald [=McDonald=]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Flint, a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four, has a huge red afro, and his outfit incorporates large amounts of yellow, much like the mascot of UsefulNotes/McDonalds.[[/labelnote]]

* [[http://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371561723225702400/667615461575360522/Wooper_This.jpg This]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]An image of Wooper from Professor Oak's speech in ''Crystal'' that was paused at a point so that only the word "This" was visible in the text box. Good to use when something you like happens. Even Pokémon's official Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1288524409825898496 acknowledged the meme.]][[/labelnote]]

** Bidoof itself has become a major fandom meme over how weak it is (inspiring the ComMons entry), with people ironically calling it a MemeticBadass. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGEo1vpvpM This became]] an AscendedMeme in 2021 with the official Pokémon [=YouTube=] channel posting a Bidoof-themed parody of the infamous [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} "Never Gonna GIve You Up"]] song.

** Slowpoke in a top hat.

* An Indian Elephant.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Raichu's and Gastly's ''Fire Red'' Pokédex entries both, for absolutely no reason, mention that they are capable of defeating "an Indian elephant," one of the few mentions of real-world animals anywhere in the game. Given a nod with Raichu's default form's Pokédex entry in ''Sun'' saying that it can knock out an Indian elephant when agitated. [[AscendedMeme We got an actual Indian Elephant line]] in ''Sword'' and ''Shield,'' named Cufant and Copperajah. And hilariously enough, they're Steel-type, meaning that Gastly can't do anything Poison-related to it, and it holds a type disadvantage to Raichu.[[/labelnote]]

** [[MoodWhiplash …I'm dying Squirtle.]]

** Serena is secretly a Legendary Pokémon, and Xerneas is her Nobody[[labelnote:Explanation]]Xerneas is an anagram of Serena with an X added at the beginning. For the aforementioned persons who were making ''Kingdom Hearts'' jokes towards Klefki, having your name be an anagram of someone else's name with an X thrown in it means you're a member of [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Organization XIII]]. It helps that Xerneas both alliterates and rhymes with Xemnas, the name of Organization XIII's leader.[[/labelnote]]

** Xerneas is Serena's Nobody/ Serena is secretly a Legendary Pokemon[[labelnote:Explanation]]Xerneas is an anagram of Serena with an X added at the beginning. For the aforementioned persons who were making ''Kingdom Hearts'' jokes towards Klefki, having your name be an anagram of someone else's name with an X thrown in it means you're a member of [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Organization XIII]]. It helps that Xerneas both alliterates and rhymes with Xemnas, the name of Organization XIII's leader.[[/labelnote]]

* "We have [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses God-Shattering Star]] at home."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugyONbAGE8E theme]] that plays when you battle Chairman Rose in the climax of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' has drawn comparisons to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfvZmhqW0A "God-Shattering Star"]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' partly because of nearly coinciding releases, but also because both songs are similar enough on the surface of being suitably climactic battle themes for a given part of the story. However, general reception to Rose's theme is that, while it is decent, it doesn't come close to measuring up to the lofty bar set by "God-Shattering Star".[[/labelnote]]

* ''Octopath'' Hunters are Pokemon Trainers[[labelnote:Explanation]]H'aanit from ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' and Ochette from [[VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII its sequel]], who both have the Hunter class equipped by default, have the Talent of capturing enemies and use them in battle. Fans quickly pointed out how similar this skill is with the general combat in Pokemon and came with the joke that the two are Pokemon Trainers. Ochette even has to choose a starter![[/labelnote]]

* Pokemon Infinite Fusion[[labelnote:Explanation]] A Pokemon fan game which allows you to fuse any Pokemon with any other Pokemon, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unique Pokemon complete with original sprites. The sheer customizability of your party led to the game recently becoming popular to stream on social media. However, the masses quickly noticed that of the many, many artists who lent their work to the project, some decided to have fun with the designs and forgo originality in favor of pop culture references. Among the more notable ones were "Lopunny + Snorlax = [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Big Chungus]]", "Gardevoir + Deoxys = Music/HatsuneMiku", and "Any member Chimchar line + any member of the Breloom line = [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy]]"[[/labelnote]]

* Pokemon Infinite Fusion[[labelnote:Explanation]] A Pokemon fan game which allows you to fuse any Pokemon with any other Pokemon, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unique Pokemon complete with original sprites. The sheer customizability of your party led to the game recently becoming popular to stream on social media. However, the masses quickly noticed that of the many, many artists who lent their work to the project, some decided to have fun with the designs and forgo originality in favor of pop culture references. Among the more notable ones were "Lopunny + Snorlax = [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Big Chungus]]", "Gardevoir + Deoxys = Music/HatsuneMiku'', and ''Any member Chimchar line + any member of the Breloom line = [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy]]"[[/labelnote]]