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Accidental Innuendos in Pokémon.

  • Basically, anyone who talks about Poké Balls. In fact, in HeartGold and SoulSilver, when the player first meets Kurt, he says, "(Player), eh? You want me to make some balls for you?" In fact, most of the types Kurt makes you qualify, with names like Heavy Balls, Friend Balls, and Love Balls.
  • Anyone who talks about breeding Pokémon. Especially Brock, in the anime, whose oft-stated ambition is to be "the best breeder ever". It also doesn't help that he's incredibly flirtatious with women he meets.
  • Magmar and especially Magby's Japanese names: Boober and Booby, respectively! Of course, it was MEANT to reference birds like the Blue-Footed Booby, but... well... And Magmortar is Booburn. Ouch.
  • Quite a few Pokémon have a suggestive tuft of fur between their legs, like Blaziken, Reshiram and Beartic. White Kyurem gets a few of Reshiram's characteristics... but not that suspicious placing of fur.
  • The move Harden could make a few people with dirty minds giggle. Especially since the same Pokémon likely will know String Shot, and especially with the questionably-shaped Metapod. Hydro Pump causes the same dirty thoughts sometimes, as do a variety of other moves out-of-context, like Bounce, Pound, Gunk Shot, Howl, Explosion, Endure, Poison Jab. Particularly with Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action jokes.
  • There’s an item throughout the series called a PP Up. While it increases the PP (Power Points) of a Pokémon’s moves (Meaning that they can use their moves more), there are other ways that people have interpreted how the item is used, with PP being a children’s term for penis.
  • Pokémon Red and Blue:
    • Have you ever taken a good look at the fountain at Silph Company first floor in FireRed and LeafGreen? No? They look like breasts leaking milk.
    • Professor Oak came when he heard you became champion. The remakes don't even change this line.
    • The remakes of Pokémon Red and Blue turn Professor Oak telling the player they have “come of age” into this simply by allowing you to play as a girl, and thus the line takes on an entirely different meaning.
    • A Juggler in the Fuschia Gym (named Shawn in FireRed and LeafGreen) says "Dropped my balls!" after he's defeated. It caused endless snickers throughout the fandom. The line was changed to "You're more skilled than I thought!" in FireRed and LeafGreen, and he doesn't appear at all in Let's Go.
  • Pokémon Gold and Silver:
    • Juggler Irwin says "Behold my graceful BALL dexterity!" before he's battled. In the remakes, this line was replaced with "Behold my dexterity and grace!"
    • In GSC, there's a trainer in the Burned Tower named Firebreather Dick note . Nintendo removed this in the remakes by instead using the name Dick is short for, Richard.
    • HeartGold and SoulSilver's first NPC in the first town apparently likes your bag. A lot.
    • If you go to the Pokéathlon Dome, Whitney offers to buy you an outfit for the sport. In the Japanese script, she wonders out loud if you were an S or an M, then decides that you're an M and forces you into an outfit of her choosing.
    • Dewgong's Pokédex entry in Gold and HeartGold states: "The colder the temperature, the friskier it gets".
    • The "Vietnamese Crystal" bootleg consistently mistranslates "[player] put the [item] in the bag" as "[player]![item] BAG FUCK".
  • Pokémon Stadium 2:
    • One of the Team Rocket members in Stadium 2 has a Wobbuffet nicknamed... Wobbufap. It's even worse considering what Wobbuffet looks like.
    • A Swimmer named Cora in Little Cup Round 1 has a Cleffa named Cleffaps. Remember that it's a baby Pokémon.
    • The animation of Golem using Mud-Slap consists of it rolling on its back and appearing to spray mud from between its legs, infamously looking like it's crapping on its opponent. Later games would give Golem a different special attack animation, so this trope no longer applies.
  • Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire:
    • In Sapphire, Dodrio's pokédex entry says: "Apparently, the heads aren't the only parts of the body that Dodrio has three of". It's talking about its three hearts and three sets of lungs.
    • A fisherman trainer in Emerald brags about his fishing before the battle, and then afterwards says: "Don't tell me yours is bigger!".
    • Zinnia from the post-credits content in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire greets you on the bottom floor of the Sky Pillar in a way that sounds exactly like she's hitting on you. The fact that she blushes right before you battle her at the top makes it worse.
  • Pokémon Colosseum: A construction worker in the Pyrite Hotel says: "Apparently some rich fellow ordered the colosseum built. I'm amazingly stiff".
  • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl:
    • In Platinum, you get a villa. You can buy furniture for it. When you mix records, sometimes your friends will find a TV program that is examining furniture you have. Sometimes they say that you have a "nice rack".
    • Get enough furniture and eventually certain NPCs will invite themselves to your villa. It's funny the way a few of them seem to be waiting right next to your bed.
    • "REGIGIGAS can't get it going because of its Slow Start!" (Regigigas's signature ability lowers its Attack and Speed for the first 5 turns; whenever you send it out, this questionably-worded message appears.)
    • Palkia's unfortunate design from the shoulders up.
  • Pokémon Black and White:
    • Mew's backsprite looks like it's... um... enjoying itself with the tail...
    • In the first gym, which is based upon a restaurant, a trainer that's a waitress tells an analogy about serving food and battles and then begins the battle, but not before saying "I'm your next course!".
    • Mandibuzz, being an all-female species of vulture Pokémon, has a Japanese name deriving from the terms "vulture" and "regina" (Latin and Italian for "queen"). Unfortunately, the resulting name was "Vulgina", which really sounds more like it's referencing a certain part of the female anatomy.
  • In Pokémon X and Y, you can sometimes meet a man in a purple suit named Mr. Bonding, usually alone in a hotel room and always facing a wall. If you talk to him, he'll turn around and exclaim "It's bonding time!," and the screen goes dark. After a second, the game fades back in, as if the player character has no memory of what just happened, and Mr. Bonding talks about how he's just given you a new skill. Said skills are called O-Powers.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon:
    • The very title runs into this with its abbreviation: Pokémon S&M.
    • Exeggutor's "Alola" redesign gives it an enormously long neck, with round objects and a literal bush at one end.
    • The end section of Mallow's trial (involving preparing ingredients to make a stew) ended up being quite suggestive due to the way the dialogue is phrased along with some unfortunate camera anglesnote . In particular, the instruction "Press A to pound" became quite infamous among the fandom. The fact that one of the ingredients is identified as a Rare Bone and Lana comments on the taste of the stew that "the flavor of the Rare Bone is filling my mouth" didn't help either.
    • Incineroar's special attack animation is intended to have it shoot the attack out of its "belt", but the animation ends up looking like a pelvic-thrust instead, so it looks more like it's shooting the attack out of its...uh, yeah. (It also doesn't help that Incineroar's design has its torso be the only part of its body that is a completely different color (gray) than the rest of its body, thus given it a pantsless look)
    • As a side bonus, Incineroar has access to Leech Life and U-Turn via TM, both Bug-type moves, meaning it can use the Z-Move Savage Spin-Out, which involves the user shooting a white, sticky ball of silk at the opponent. Guess which animation Incineroar uses for this move.
    • In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Rotomdex can ask the player questions. One of these questions is "If you could go into either a Pokéball or the Rotomdex, which would you prefer?" His response if your answer is the Rotomdex? "For realzzz? It'd be a bit of a squeezzze, but want to give it a try?" He's probably talking about you possessing the Rotomdex like he's doing, but some of the fandom has had a field day with this line.
  • In Pokemon Sword, the Dex entry for Gigantamax Alcremie reads: "Cream pours endlessly from this Pokémon's body. The cream stiffens when compressed by an impact. A harder impact results in harder cream."
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
    • Tatsugiri is a Pokémon with three different forms. They’re called the curly form, the droopy form, and the stretchy form. Make that of what you will.
    • The way Nemona's obession with Pokémon battling and finding someone who can satisfy her is written is extremely easy to read as a euphemism for someone that's sexually and romantically frustrated, to the point that sometimes it can be hard to believe it was accidental. She takes a liking to the player the second she finds out they're good at battling that quickly turns into obsession and her straight up stalking you through the region's Gyms, she's so hungry for battle that she usually ends her battles by asking to do it again immediately, she's so hard to satisfy that other students her age are intimidated by her, she gets passive-aggressively jealous when she finds you battling other trainers, in the ending of her storyline, she browbeats you into accepting her as your "best rival for life" via But Thou Must! and seems distraught if you try to refuse, and when you accept and battle her, she ends it by saying you're the only one that satisfies her and can't wait to battle you over and over. On top of everything, there's a scene in the postgame where she tells you you can come over to her room whenever you want with some very questionable phrasing.
      Nemona: Feel free to burst on into Zona Nemona whenever you want!
  • There's a Primeape in the first PokéPark Wii that can teach you Iron Tail... without a tail. The jokes about this basically write themselves.
    Primeape: I mastered Iron Tail without a tail! And do you know what that means?

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