25 INSANE Pokémon SECRETS You May Not Know About! - Johto 

The team rocket executive in the final gen 2 game we know disguises himself as the director in the radio tower, so maybe the original plan was to disguise himself as Professor Oak instead in order to get access into the radio tower building since Professor Oak has his radio show there!

The Imposter Oak thing is especially interesting because there were also trading cards of that same character. I’d love to see that idea fully brought back somehow

Uwawara isnt based off a voodoo doll. Its based off a straw effigy used in the ritual necessary to perform a traditional Japanese curse known as Ushi No Toki Mairi or in English: Shrine Visit At The Hour Of The Ox. The ritual requires one to make a straw effigy of the person they wish to inflict with some of that persons hair or a scrap of clothing belonging to them. From there the person must "visit" the local Shinto shrine between 1-3 AM and nail the effigy to the tree in the place they wish the curse to affect the person. They must make a new doll and perform this same act each night for a week. Btw the shrines arent open at this time of night and such you arent allowed there so youll be breaking in. The curse starts with a feeling of mild discomfort in the affected area. Each night the action is performed successfully the feeling grows stronger becoming immense and unbearable pain. Upon the 7th night the inflicted person dies. If you get caught by the monks keeping watch or miss your mark with the nail, the curse turns upon you and kills you before the night is out. Hence, why Curse takes 6 turns, becoming worse and worse each time. And why your own hp is cut as well.

Johto towns are mosty named after flowers/plants rather than just colors. Azalea, Violet, Goldenrod, Mahogany, (Cherry)grove, and Blackthorn are all plants. Olivine is a green mineral though.

Correction, Igglybuff doesn't evolve via Moon Stone, nor does Cleffa. They are friendship evolutions. It's their evolutions that evolves to their next forms via Moon Stone.

I love Cyndaquil and Totodile and am glad they exist, but I really wish Game Freak will one day decide to make Honōguma and Kurusu official Pokémon one day. They look so cute and I wonder what they would have evolved into... 🥺

Rumor has it that the Cut Wind Dog from the final pre-Lugia beta was intended to be Silvers Box Art Legendary,as Lugia wan't made by Nintendo or Game Freak,but as an Anime Movie exclusive Mon made by Anime Head Writer,Takeshi Shudo. But thanks to the delay,Lugia was added to the games.

A neat bit for that Agatha trivia you mentioned, Agatha, Bertha, and Charm are probably related in another way, being the way that each of their names start, with the letters A, B, & C, the first three letters of the alphabet. Also, that Burned Tower cut quest sounds very similar to the plot of the 3rd Pokemon Movie.

Pallet town has that name because it’s based on the artist’s palette, and the other cities are blotches of paint on the palette. In other words, the player’s adventure is an art form, and every player gets to choose the colors on their palette (Pokémon in their party) to paint an image of their success and victory.

That Schuckle evolution’s stats and typing looked worse than Shuckle’s, but there would have been one upside… Eviolite Shuckle was almost a thing

I'll say one here that I believe not many people knows. The beta name for New Bark Town in the space world demo was called "Silent Hill" This was because the real-life counterpart of New Bark Town is Shizuoka in Japan. Shizuoka, written as 静岡 in Japanese, and the two Kanji literally means "Silence" and "Hill" Most beta town names in the Space World demo are also directly taken from their real-world counterpart as a beta names. The "Blue Forest" mentioned in this video is literally a real-life location in Japan 青森 (Aomori, literally means Blue Forest) in the Tohoku region.

I loved this 😁 Kanto and Johto together are my all time favorites. Nice job I’m happy the material wasn’t boring.

Learning about cut content from Johto will never not be fascinating

Man hearing those Kanto and Johto bike teams really took me back ❤️🥺

That 1st fact made me also realize that Black and White were also the last games named after colors, so almost like they just absorbed all the color like you explained.

1:54 ACTUALLY : White is the mix of all the colors and black is the basence of colors

I have heard they were going to add different Starter Pokémon instead of Totodile & Cyndaquil. But I am glad they added these 2 because I love the Totodile evolution line & even to this day, Gen 2 is the only generation where I love all of the starters in the game! I love Totodiles line the most, but I love all of the starters!

The next could be both Hoenn and Orre region. Would love to learn more about the Orre region

For day and night, Ho-oh is day (title screen is day), Lugia is night (title screen is night), and with Celebi being time travel can be seen as the time trio.

I'm glad we finally got the Girafarig evolution that we've been waiting for for so long! And it's super cool that Shuckle was supposed to evolve as well! I wonder if we will get that evolution in a future regions or not? Hopefully yes, but we'll have to wait and see! The facts In this video were very cool! Keep up the great work!

Battling Kurt would make sense because he could then show off the new Pokeballs and mechanics.

Here's a good one: Canalave city is modelled after Newtype City from the G/S '97 betas, and there seems to be a possible nod to this in the form of Canalave's theme being a remix of the "THE END" screen theme I love the relationship between Gens 2 and 4

All of these were super interesting. In my several playthroughs of Gold when I was a kid I did eventually figure out that the games were about the sun and moon and time of day. Something about the time settings gave it away as well as the pokemon. I remember messing with the time settings, iirc you have to talk to your mom to do that. Then you can even set daylight savings time. Made me wonder why its so important they would include that? Then noticing that Ho-oh and Lugia look like the sun and moon respectively. At some point it all clicked together. Kinda wish they did more with that, but I guess they got to revisit those concepts with S&M.

Fantastic video dude. As for the black and white thing, it actually goes both ways. Black is the sum of all colors when a blackish stain is obtained from the mixture of various pigments and black is also the absence of color when all light radiation is removed.

The color theme blew my freaking mind. Beautiful symbolism from Pallet Town(white) to Blackthorne City 🙌

I think the concept of white to black for town names more so come from Karate and the belts system, beginners start off with white belts, and eventually make their way up to black belts. Tho I think it’s based on the older way of karate where martial artists only got one belt and the blood sweat, tears, dirt, and whatever eventually dye the belt black. To symbolize the experience the martial artist have gone through. Other martial arts have similar belt systems like tae kwon do. You’re not wrong by any means, just that martial arts was probably the inspiration for the town names.

To think Shuckle almost had an evolution. Maybe the Shuckle in the Dorkly animations isn’t so crazy after all.

Isn't the thing with black and white the other way around? White absorbs all light and black is the absence of light Good video though! Love Johto.

Coincidently, Lt. Surge given the ranking of Major makes a lot more sense. The badge you receive from him actually resembles the insignia for the US Army rank of Major.

Can you imagine Withney being the second gym leader! That would be devastating

How about the fact that pallet town can also refer to a wide range of colors. Such as a pallete of colors, encompassing what will play out as we go on in the game and see the cities named after colors.

When talking about the theme of time on Gold and Silver, Ho-oh what suppose to represent the sun and Lugia was suppose to represent the moon! Obviously we ended up getting more obvious sun and moon Pokemon but I still thought it was neat!

Awesome video! It's crazy that after so many years you can still learn new things about the old Pokemon games. I really wish that someday we'd get to play the demo version.

Always a delight to learn more about my favourite games. This is brilliant 🎉

We need a Legends Celebi game with all the cut pokemon in it and the impostor Oak in the story because we know from Kanto that his ancestor was important.

I always thought that Pallet was a play off of a painters pallet. A blank slate ready to hold color.

oOoOO, this series is honestly great. I can't wait for the Hoenn video 🤩

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

I love this! I want to see these for all of the regions!

Keep these coming, awesome content. I don't deep dive into the demos and other secrets etc, so all of this is new to me. Appreciate the research

Seeing this made my day! Thanks for the content!

We need the Steel type's effectiveness to have more. Weak to Electric and Water as intended. that NEEDS to be an update for the steel type.

While this symbolism of Blackthorn City isn't as overt in the English version due to Pallet Town's English name having nothing to do with "white," it does fit in the Japanese version as the Japanese name of Blackthorn City is named after fusube-iro, a smoky black color, thus it still basically keeps "black" in its name. Though, a "pallet" is still, as everyone knows, where a painter would have bits of all of the paint colors that they're going to be using on their project, but they can still mix bits of paint on their own section should their project call for that mixed color, which, of course, can create black. Thus, while it is slightly different between localizations, I think the symbolism had to have been intended; at least from the time of creating Gold/Silver.

I don’t necessarily think the new Pokémon design have gotten worst since Gen 2, but I think the freaking art was just straight up better. The guide books especially look so good as everything looks like it’s watercolored. Everything now looks so over saturated and flat in drawing from Gamefreak. The Pokémon cards though I can still see that amazing art though so at least we still got that going for us.

im sorry i have to say something, from like 8:00 you just looped the most annoying part of that battle track for a solid minute and a half and it started to drive me absolutely insane

❤ music break in the middle for goldenrod and bike theme is pure class 👏

5:44 That straw doll Pokémon maybe based on voodoo but instead based on "wara ningyō" meaning Straw Doll / Effigy a Japanese katashiro ("substitute") doll made of straw like in the Ushi-no-toki-mairi a ritual that can curse people by hammering a nail in it during the hour of the Ox (1 to 3 a.m.)

The way you said "meaning" and "fascinating" always tickles me. Awesome video hoops. Please continue this series.

I enjoyed this video immensely. I look forward to more in this series.

I’m pretty sure that the group HiResPokemon is who recovered the Gen 2 artwork of the Johto Gym Leaders and Elite Four. The artwork was previously unavailable until they did the hard work of compiling resources and restoring it back in 2019, far before Lewtwo’s archive was created. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I would be sad to see their efforts go unnoticed.

I found a ROM hack, so to speak, that is essentially a finalized version (using a Crystal ROM) of the Spaceworld '97 demo, and it even features a post-game map, as well as the Crystal Battle Tower, and all the cut Pokémon, like Kurstraw (the voodoo doll with the Curse move, mentionned at the beginning of the video). In my opinion, it's what should have been the final gen II games, but oh well, what we got is still pretty amazing. But the finalized demo is really fucking dope.

Black is actually the absence of colour, while white is the entire colour wheel into one.

I didn't know a lot of things that came up on this video. Good job! 😊.

The fact that the evolutions for Shuckle and Girafarig makes me wonder where their concept art is. It must exist somewhere, since their evolution data existed in the 1998 version of the games up until the last minute. I remember the twin-headed version of Girafarig, and I wonder if that was going to be used for the evolution, before there was a second guess. My guess is that their sprites were not completed in time, or their designs were not considered adequate.

Love these! I'd love to see more if you're up for making them.

The whole bike theme remix thing comes as a surprise that I should have noticed

Love this!

This was an impressive level of info I wasn’t aware of 🙌🙌

Love these videos

The move Curse being associated with a nail is partly to do with the cut Pokemon's design origin. In Japan, there is a folk belief in a form of curse that involves driving a nail through a straw doll in effigy of someone you dislike. This is believed to cause pain and misfortune. Which is also why it's Nobura's signature curse power in Jujutsu Kaizen. This practice is seemingly older than Japan's contact with Houdon/voodoo, so it's not actually a voodoo doll. The use of a "sleigh bell" is more to do with that style of bell being much more common in Japan than tongue bells. They're the type normally seen on cat collars regardless of where you come from anyway. Not only is the Johto Bike theme a sped up remix of Goldenrod City's music, but the bike theme in Red and Blue is a sped up version of Celadon City's.

24:05 so there's a timeline where Shuckle got an evolution, which means later on Shuckle would have been able to use Eviolite.

Agreed please keep making these good videos

i wonder if the old chateau would’ve been where you catch misdreavous / murkrow / houndour but because it was cut is the reason we only see them in kanto

When you spoke about the journey from white (Pallet) to black (Blackthorn), I realized that the pinnacle of the entire journey is basically gray (Mt. Silver), a combination of both!

This was very awesome. Pls make one for the other regions too

Man, I so badly wish we’d have gotten that Curse mon. That thing just looks and sounds super cool.

It's great to finally get some history on the odd parts of early Pokemon.

Welp, you get a subscriber. I don’t hand those out too often, but very well made video. Keep up the good work

Ok but that infinitely repeating section of the Kanto music in the background gave me anxiety

more vids pls! they r really good 😊

The color thing is a stretch. The towns in Johto are all named after _plants,_ not colors. Blackthorn just happens to be the name of a type of plant.

I’m always here for Johto content

Also, Johto towns can relate to colors but are actually trees, hence New Bark Town, and the professors all have tree based names in early gens. In fact, Pallet town can also relate to plants in this fashion as most plants are started in a pallet as well.

18:55 of course we do have the impostor professor oak card in the TCG as well around that time... In the base set. So yea that seems like something they could of had in mind for a while

Thank god there wasn’t a Shuckle evolution, imagine the defense of an eviolite Shuckle

9:00 bruh this music loop is painful

Random side note/thought about Bertha: She wears a scarf in her official art. Could that possibly be a nod to the days when she was Agatha and was in Snowpoint City?

Looking forward to your iceberg video. It’s inevitable 👀

Steel being weak to Water and Electric makes 1000x more sense than fighting and ground but that's just me

I honestly believe that Kurt having a battle sprite has something to do with him battling team rocket in slowpoke well.. maybe a double battle ? The player and Kurt? If you remember he fell in the well and hurt his back. Maybe a double battle was planned and then scrapped.

The demo wouldn’t of been the final version with four months until release. They lock in a demo/build months/years beforehand and won’t modify them. They were more than likely working on newer builds months before that demo saw the light of day, which is why the finally versions of the game wouldn’t of been made in four months or however long there after. It’s common practice in the games industry :)

Imachop Imachoke Imachamp! I also like the reference to Jackie Chan and jet lee

Okey i need that Voodoo Doll Pokemon to make it into an actual game now it looks adorable. I kind of want Dorkly to make a video of Shuckle watching this video and learning he was meant to get an evolution but it got cut. I wanna see Dorkly Shuckle's spirit break once and for all. 😂😂😂

Gen 2 towns are named after plants..

You have the science of black and white backwards my friend. Black is the absence of color and white is the full spectrum of colors combined. If you shine a white light through the proper type of stone, the colors will separate and you’ll be able to see spectrum through the stone.

I always took New Bark Town slogan "where winds to a new beginning grow" was a hint of the route leading to Kanto.

Anyone else notice that the music starts to loop at the end of the haunted house section and continues to do so into the Agatha and Bertha section?

wasn't professor Oak from Sinnoh too? Rowan did study with him. That could be where Agatha and his rivalry began.

Imposter Oak would be interesting for the radio tower part as oak has his own radio show right? perhaps it wasnt the radio tower guy who gets kidnapped, it was oak

To stem off of the 1st fact of the video, while booting up any of the Kanto games you are initially met with a white screen before the intro plays. Meanwhile if you boot up a Johto game the screen is black before the intro. So I can definitely see some correlation with those ideas.

I just want a game where you start in Kanto and Johto is the post game.

Johto is the best region 🫶🏼 thanks for making this and I hope we can get😊 the support needed for a Hoenn version

Ig this vid does well what's in store for us when you cover Hoenn?

Headcanon for Kurt's original role in the story is that he was the "boss" of a quest involving King's Rock post-E4 and his Pokemon were a couple of Slowpoke and a Slowking. Once you beat him he gives you a King's Rock and sends you on a short quest to obtain the GS Ball and unlocks the Celebi quest once you give him the item.

The cut Imposter Oak was acually made into a Pokemon card, funny call back i guess.

Definitely reaching with that first one, a palette is not white paint it’s where you put your paint, and newbark is not a colour, nor are most of the towns in Johto, some have a colour in their name, but their not all colours.

Gen 5 is my favorite, but I sure would like to get another Gen 2 remake and/or a Legends game.

I watch a lot of hoops and hip hop but I didn’t come up on your channel til I searched Pokémon

A VOODOO DOLL POKÉMON? I need it...

Wish they would bring the evolution of shuckle back