Due to this animation's short length (clocking in at just a minute and a half), all spoilers are unmarked! You have been warned.
I can't keep up with all these new Pokémon. I wonder where it will be in ten years?
"Pokemon Gun." (formerly "Pokemon The Next NEXT Generation") is a Parody web animation by Rubber Ross of Game Grumps.
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This Web Animation contains examples of:
- Abnormal Ammo: Apparently, Officer Jenny keeps a live Pikachu inside her taser gun.
- "Begone" Bribe: The gym leader simply tosses his badge at the trainer and tells him to "Just go!" after reacting in horror to his Weeniepuss getting shot in the face by said trainer's Bangbang.
- Black Comedy: A solid minute and a half of it, but special mention goes to the ending with a Pikachu being used as a taser on a child.
- Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Both instances of Pokemon being "defeated" (read: shot dead by Bangbang) are Played for Laughs... for a given value of laughs, in the gym battle's case.
- Boom, Headshot!: Done twice by the trainer's Bangbang, first to a wild Bidoof and then to the gym leader's Weeniepuss.
- Bottomless Magazines: Bangbang never seems to run out of ammo, no matter how many bullets it shoots.
- Crossdressing Voices: All the voices in the short are done by the male Egoraptor and Ricepirate, even Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.
- Eye Scream: When the trainer gets hit by the Pikachu shot from Officer Jenny's taser, one of its ears jabs him in the eye for a split second.
- Harmless Electrocution: The ending has the trainer get zapped by Officer Jenny's taser Pikachu, without any ill effects - not even X-Ray Sparks.Trainer: "I'M H-A-AVING SO MUCH FU-U-U-U-U-UN!"
- Living Weapon: Bangbang is literally a gun with eyes and a mouth, and is treated as a real firearm. One has to wonder why a pistol would be freely given to children, but given that this is a parody short...
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Downplayed in that the trainer isn't a world-ending menace per se, but even without the context of a series where every defeat is a Non-Lethal K.O., it should go without saying that giving a ten-year-old something to potentially kill people (and Pokémon) with is never a good idea.
- Obliviously Evil: The trainer acts as if he's going through a fun, standard Pokémon journey. Never mind that his starter is literally a (sentient) pistol, let alone that its only "attack" consists of shooting real bullets.
- Oh, Crap!: The gym leader panics when the trainer brings out his Bangbang and shoots the wall behind him with it. Later, everyone at the Pokémon Center flees in terror when the trainer enters with his Bangbang still in his hand.
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Post-Release Retitle: Upon its initial release in 2013, the short was titled "Pokemon The Next NEXT Generation". Following the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield six years later, and especially jokes of a potential third version titled "Pokémon Gun", the short was retitled accordingly.RubberNinja: I predicted Pokemon Gun, you're welcome. - Take That!: The opening of the short shows Klefki and Honedge as examples of new Pokémon that Ross "can't keep up with", obviously a dig at the controversial subject of inanimate objects as Pokémon. As demonstrated in the short itself, not all inanimate objects are suitable for translating to Pokémon designs...
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Professor Tree basically gives a live firearm with Bottomless Magazines to a ten-year-old boy. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Visual Innuendo: Not even innuendo, even - the first gym is apparently a Dick-type gym, and the one Pokémon its gym leader is seen using, Weeniepuss, has a long nose and hairy jowls (and lop ears) suggesting... well, yeah.
- Wingding Eyes: The gym leader's Weeniepuss has X's for eyes after the trainer's Bangbang shoots it in the face, presumably killing it.
