Pokémon Cryptids 

Fucking offbrand diglett can escape pokeballs but god itself cant

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the format of making a comment that says hey can we all just take a moment to appreciate the big red devil with a prominent red ass being shown on children's television nationally across the United States of yee haw and not like adult swim at 1am.

@@MichaelSotoCE what

@doplop cow and chicken dude

He later went on to found the successful toilet cleaner company Scrubbing Bubbles.

Same.

He was truly a gamer.

@@kenkaneki6969_ It learned that gamers dont die, they only respawn...

Based

Relatable

The elusive Magnedude/Geomite

Yeah, it's got the magnets! Lol

Regional variant coming up

@@user-fe8gx3ie5v Spoilers: we got the variant but it ended up getting legs instead 😭

@@guy-sl3kr Bruh, WTF, LMAO.

That explains a lot. That would have blown my mind to have seen Lugia a decent amount of time before its in-game reveal.

Source? I heard it was a book reference like how Kadabra’s dex entry is a reference to the book Metamorphosis

​@@taputrainer8463 source: he made it the fuck up

"Just make a big Dragon, aight?"

Lugia was invented for the second movie and doesn't show up in most of the gen 2 leaks.

That’s amazing

Wtf this is forbidden knowledge

Really goes to show how much the shift to 3d impacted design consistency

Cradily is one of my all time favorite pokemon and I didn't even know that

Gen 3 Rattata sprites always fuck me up

Not to mention Gen 3 and 4 Salamence having the wrong colour scheme

I think it's been confirmed that elephant is Copperajah.

@@gluttonousgoddess Cant be since its a ground type and the Raichu entry talks about shocking it to death

@@finalsorrowss Copperajah is pure Steel type lol

BitterCold 100% would have been in this video if I had like one more week to make it, along with some other guys

@@HumanReverend tragic i missed the world where i got to hear reverend talk about the bit in pokemon super mystery dungeon where everyone in the universe went to super hell for like 10 minutes

you also forgot about *_the wind_*

Oh yeah that was Pikachu's uncle

Oh that was probably an ad for an early unofficial Pokemon Strategy guide. Try looking up gamesbook and Mark Macdonald.

I have that third book! It's an unofficial guide/Pokedex/collection of various Pokemon related things, including: - Pictures of various Pokemon toys, including bootlegs - An episode-by-episode anime summary, including the Porygon episode and why it was unaired. The book speculated it would be edited and then shown again, but it never was. It also mentioned the holiday Jynx episode, which was still unaired at the time because of the Porygon incident immediately before. - Gen 1 walkthrough - Red/Green sprites in the Pokedex section - Basic guides to TCG and Pokemon Snap And yes, the cryptid on the cover. It kinda looks like a T-rex with stubby arms and Charizard's head shape. The book is the Pokemon Trainer's Guide from Sandwich Islands Publishing. It's a fun little product of its time.

@@PikminWarrior454 there is a second book with an almost identical title that has another similar cryptid. Like the only image of charizard they knew was the original sprite so they just drew what they thought it should look like.

@@PikminWarrior454 thank you so much for sharing the title, google images turned it up immediately. I'm so glad I got to see pikachu's uncle, who is apparently an underweight charizard revived from a fossil

Oh that's cool as hell I'm gonna have to check that out

Its just lampshading. Back then, Pokemon was Urban Fantasy, taking place in a world parallel to our own. "Pokemon" was just the classification for any scifi/fantasy creature, basically. So they're basically going "Gee, sure is funny that the Greeks never had any Random Battles." Except Takeshi Shudo made everything intense AF on paper, bless him for it

Takeshi Shudo often drank and did drugs on the job until his brain exploded on the subway. Lugia and Team Rocket's strangely facist motto "Unite all people under one nation" are how he's remembered by today. Pour one out for the king.

@@handoverthestromboli6715 You know I always did think that part of the motto was pretty strange. Shout out to my man Shudo, a real one!

I have the Bell On for this guy so I can help the Algorithm

That’s something a complicated man might do

Shoot, why didn't I think of that?

I live in Tennessee and we are responsible for the second most famous elephant execution, in which we fucking hanged it with a crane

The fact that there are several famous elephant executions, even more than just these two, says something. I don't know what it says. Just that it's something.

​@@agisuru Some time an elephant execution, though not intended to be one, was carried out by providing the Elephant several hundreds of times the lethal dise of a hallucinanegen. I think it was LSD. I think.

​@@agisuruWe know exactly what they did. "I was just following orders" is never an excuse

@@dataexpunged4784 I know you're talking about the humans involved, yet I can't help but think you're saying 'Those elephants had it coming.'

Gardevoir was drawn to be our friend alright

They should draw me. They should make me a pokemon. I'd be a great friend.

​@@aekaralagonisiWith benefits

How old is that interview? I'm not fully convinced that Mewtwo, Steelix, Aggron or Darkrai could ever be drawn to "look like it could be our friend".

My beloved friend klingklang

;-; that’s the saddest ;-; story ;-; I ever ;-; hea;-;ea;-;eard;-; ;-;

"Holy shit a talking cat. I'm gonna make it commit crimes"

So Meowth learned what love is and then decided to become an international terrorist.

Mysteey dungeon?

Gengar is actually slightly different in like every game, from the spikes to just being a barely but noticeably different shade of blue / purple

@@HumanReverend yeah it's kind of wild, it's one of the more iconic pokemon so I guess it makes sense that it'd go through a similar amount of micro-redesigns like Pikachu. I do wish they'd kept it a lighter purple line in gen 3, where you can actually kinda tell the difference between the normal and shiny version.

in gen 1 a lot of pokemon had weird shapes on their back to make them recognizable w/o color. For example Charmeleon had a spike on its back to make its backsprite distinct from Charmander (which makes Sugimoris decision to give Charmander a spike on its back in the updated red/blue artwork even weirder)

@@HumanReverend Gligar is also guilty of changing color 9n numerous occasions

Yo is this the Wario guy??!?!??

XD also had a Robo-Kyogre but they ended up scrapping him and turning him into a ship. I don't know if that counts

latter*

@@dragon-id5uj shut up

Not sure about Virus Groudon, but I’m not inclined to count either Mecha-Groudon or Mecha-Kyogre. They’re both purely mechs, not just inorganic, but requiring someone in the pilot seat. They’re not even Pokémon, let alone cryptids, they’re just vehicles.

I think shadow lugia counts as a cryptid given that, outside of the plush released for him when XD was still on store shelves, he has basically ceased to exist. Even the return of shadow Pokémon in Go did not come with any reference to Shadow Lugia or really anything about Colosseum/XD.

It will be the new gimmick in gen 10 and then will be canon

Vírus groudon. Tha was vírus groudon

So, from what I gather, Virus Groudon is the same species as the Tree of Life's defense system, but given a Groudon-like shell using Jirachi's magic and Butler's (not sure that's actually his name) wish.

Yeah, in the words of The Great Butler, “That’s not Groudon!”

It's called Meta Groudon and it's literally just Jirachi's attempt to draw this Team Magma idiot's idea of Groudon without any reference images so it came out as Fecto Forgo.

So, like Gen 1 specifically? Cause while Bulbapedia itself is a bit newer, Serebii predates Gold and Silver.

Mindy AKA: That time game freak made people want to commit violence.

If that's true, the decision had to be made before Gen 1 came out, they're absurdly common in-game and many of them are straight up just real animals.

@@hoodedman6579 "Mythical" isn't quite right, but real animals were directly referenced in Gen1. In later generations, their existence is hinted at, but is rarely if ever outright stated. Personally, if I try to imagine it as a world that "exists" in my head, I think it makes sense to imagine that some normal animals do still exist in the world, and that the games and most media just typically don't bother showing them.

Best pet ever. It's a like a plant you don't even have to put near a window

Does it have a name?

Legs Benedict

does he enjoy eggs

@@HumanReverend That's a good fuckin' name for a spider.

The surreptitious clickbait

For what it's worth, Pokemon has apparently retconned these into being about Copperajah, but I'll have you know that a 252 SpAtk modest choice specs Raichu's thunderbolt only does 70% to a 0 SpDef 0 HP Copperajah (90% if it also has 0 IVs in those stats), so clearly the Pokedex may have exaggerated a fact once again

I think its a reference to Edison killing an elephant

Agreed. I love their dopey buck teeth chelicerae. Monochrome aesthetic too, quality tula

and now the Floette might appear in a new game. Pokemon Legends: AZ

in my head they're just crossed

he’s grumpy

I mean. There is, technically. It's an error handler put in on purpose. It usually just appears as a circle with a question mark.

That hardly seems excessive

@@Mike_Dubayou he basically says goodbye 3 times in a row lol

@@shnoogums1 So you tell your loved ones you're never going to see ever again "K bye"

@@NecromancyForKids prob hug and I love you. Certainly not what ash did here haha

@@shnoogums1 wrong

Oh Is that why the pacing of that movie was nonexistent.

That's interesting. I guess the other consistent trait is really really liking to get bossed around by children

Ash almost died so he and the other guy could trade again, using the horribly cumbersome machine instead of just handing the balls back to each other

@@HumanReverend He's just doing his due diligence. You buy a car, you run the vin to make sure it isn't stolen, you trade a pokemon you use the machine. If they're being sketch about it they're probably trying to pass off one of those aftermarket pink butterfrees as legit

Interesting I didn't know that I just thought I was one of the times the games reference the real world randomly. Do you know that the Indian elephant has actually been retconned to be copperajah in the legends Arceus Pokedex.

Oh yeah, I think there's a digimon based on the same thing and a yugioh card. It's a pretty cool little guy, Claydol is actually one of my faves.

There are multiple times I had to look up wtf that move was because it kept showing up in chaos cup on Showdown

Saving it for later tbh

The Gastly Oak tested must of been some kind of mutant then if it managed to poison a Steel type.

Yeah there are a lot of rabbit holes I had to ignore to get this done before Halloween; it still ended up longer than I thought it would so I was sweatin'

@@HumanReverend 😂 my guy. Back in the day I actually thought “Pokémon Green version” was a fake rumour, the thought of an unreleased Pokémon game exclusive to Japan seemed unreasonable, all the while there’s me on some crazy goose chase doing some fake method made up by the kid who’s dad or uncle works at Nintendo, meeting ridiculous nonsensical requirements in some vague attempt to catch a “mewthtree” or whatever lol