25 Pokémon SECRETS You May Not Know About! - Kanto 

Was gonna say the same. Honestly would make sense to round it out with the original planned mascot of the series.

Would be fitting

Yep. It was the original mascot. It's a no brainer

I would love that

Plus, the other two starters, Pikachu and Eevee, both have evolutions related to evolutions stones. It would make sense if the third starter, most likely Clefairy, also had that theming.

While your explanation makes sense and is probably the original intention before they retconned it, it's worth noting that painters use "palettes" not "pallets."

@@BrotherGreed I believe that homophones as jokes are pretty popular in Japanese writing so it wouldn't surprise me if the misspelling is purposeful because they thought it was funny XD they also cut everything down as small as possible to fit everything they wanted into the game, that may be a factor too.

I suppose they gave it a sort of "in-universe" explanation. I was aware of that Pallet Town fact while it was being said in the video.

@@XxYamiNoEnzeruxX note that the Japanese name of Pallet town isn't literally Pallet town (it wouldn't be spelled like this anyways, it'd be spelled in Katakana and thus they can't really misspell it as something that sounds the same), it's Masara Town, which comes from Japanese for "brand new" and sounds similar to the word for "pure white". As for the explanation behind the towns name, I'd say this is very clearly an anime-only thing, since a) the towns in Gen 1 are of course all named after colors, but more importantly b) it goes completely against series lore from the games, back then and now, because it claims Pokemon trainers to have already been a thing at the time of Oaks great grandfather, so even before the professor was born, probably more than 100 years before when the Kanto-games are set, when Pokemon trainers still would've been relatively new as a concept and there definitely wouldn't have been a Pokemon League yet, since lore back then stated that Pokemon are a relatively recently discovered thing in the first place, and in recent lore we learn Pokeballs only came to be around that time, and with them the idea of someone "training" Pokemon for a living.

Just noticed that

Isn't it also the manga mascot?

Considering its BST is so similar (even being in between Pikachu and Eevee), it's also considered a mascot of sorts, and is also a 2-stage (at least in gen 1) that evolves via stone, I'd say Clefairy is a great choice. Pikachu BST: 320 Clefairy BST: 323 Eevee BST: 325

White Oak is also the name of a rum.

I've had the fact of that it's called Pallet Town as all the others have names of colours, so the starting point would be of something to apply the colours with. It being named of the colour white though brings an idea of martial arts belts, as white is the beginning colour (I think?)

A pallet is a white board artist dab colors of paint on before putting it on the canvas. It makes sense as a starting point to me.

I have had similar theories about that, since it seems the gimmicks gen 6 onward are of similar powers & parallel origins.

This makes sense but I really doubt that the "ultimate weapon" will ever be referenced again. All the theories line up perfectly apart from the fact that Kalos isn't the region above Paldea. I like to think the ultimate weapon created Area Zero and caused all of this but theres just no solid evidence for it

The problem with that theory is that Necrozma doesn't come from the main series dimension, so it would be unlikely to be affected by the firing of the Ultimate Weapon.

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@@necrozma4029 Explain yourself, WHAT ARE YOU???

dermatologists hate him

I agree with you all the way

Kinda tough to have a basically sedentary Pokémon (until he attacks) in an action/fighting game that relies on fighters moving and dodging, huh?

It's a shame they already come from Pokeballs.

YESSS

That makes me really, really want to play the original Green or Red, to see what they were like in comparison! Update: I found an English rom, and it's pretty neat! I'm not that far in, but so far, it's very similar to the Red/Blue games we know, but with different sprites and a more stripped-down feel. :)

Yeah, when Red and Green released in Japan, players found a bunch of glitches and bugs that prompted GF to release a sort of "Definitive Edition" in Blue. When releasing the games in the West, they decided to keep the concept of having 2 versions like with Red and Green, but based the international release on Blue's improved build. Then, due to Blue being a hit in Japan despite people already having bought Red and Green, and the popularity of the anime and Pikachu as a character, they made Yellow, which became the third version for the West.

Wheres that confirmed? She might just share the ideal. Clair certainly isnt so humble.

@@cobaltlance18 Legends Arceus' character Sanqua has a strong resemblance to Karen, but also via dialogue has an outfit in her closet that matches the description of Clair's. Pokemon Masters hinted at the two having some kind of relationship, but never said for sure the exact type. Tie those together with Karen using the same "Strong Pokemon. Weak Pokemon." line as the elder from the Dragon's Den and you have enough evidence to show where Karen comes from. Of course Clair isn't humble. That's a big part of the plot in her leg of the story in Gen 2. It's why she hasn't received the approval of the Elder.

So not actually confirmed.@@silversonic1

Jynx isn’t blackface, but slap at then common fashion trend; it was unfortunate accident that Jynx looked like blackface.

@@valivali8104 accident or not, both sprites do share that similarity, so it’s still a possibility! I think they’re sufficiently far off from each other that they *aren’t* the same, but just the typing and ‘dex location seem like good indicators

Jynx and electabuzz were both based on kaiju from Ultraman. The Kaiju, named Woo, was a dark faced humanoid with a body totally shrouded by long white hair. Woo was a kami of a snowy mountain.

Oh my gosh, you're a conspiracy theorist!!! And I hate hate hate conspiracy theorists!!!!!🖕😡

@@IsaacBoykin-gj2mp Not as much as when they made us wait an entire generation for what was once basically the same critter! It worked out for Tyranitar, though, He needed that Dark typing! Now if only they'd put Pursuit back in the game!

Your dog is beautiful

I agree so hard, like what the hell was that? So, Snorlax was based on a dude who happened to be nicknamed after an existing Nintendo character, so that Pokémon was based on Kirby? That’s like the Flawed Logic 101, lol. That’s not how any of this works! Sometimes I really wonder why I watch some of these videos when they *start* with such a BS “fact.” I know these content creators have to come up with content on the regular, but maybe branch out a bit and think outside the box if that’s the best you can come up with…

Masshiro Village

Pallet town is a newly built town

Good point

We do NOT need another Kanto game but that detail could be implemented in a Legends Jotho though.

In every game? I haven't played the let's go games, but I'm absolutely sure there's no such thing in the basement in gen 1 or the remakes

No you were right! 💀 I went and checked after seeing this comment and I had messes it up- it’s the test tubes that are new not rooms the rooms have always been there!!! I’m gonna have to edit the post now, thanks so much for pointing out the error!

Also just bonus info: Yokosuka is properly pronounced "Yokoska" ^_^