The Pokemon Iceberg

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I like the idea that Ho-oh saw some random kid get merked by his own Pikachu and thought "Man, I guess I could resurrect him" and now there's a zombie 10 year old running around.

The fact that Mirage Island is full of Wynaut is a hilarious answer to the question the player will inevitably ask once they realize nothing special is there: "Why have this incredibly difficult to find island in the game if there's nothing special there in the first place?!?" "Wynaut?"

Mew under the truck was the first rumor I remember hearing about as a kid. I tried using strength on every single tile to move it. And then to find out later I had access to Mew through a glitch. Mind-blowing.

I'm glad wolfe brought up the manga. To this day I still believe the ruby sapphire, diamond and pearl, and black and white manga are top tier stories. Love, death hardships, plot twists, actually evil villans, the stories are amazing!

On my first playthru of Platinum I got pokerus. I remember being so confused seeing nurse Joy having more dialogue boxes than usual.

Not even gonna freaking lie. I NEVER once questioned why the most incompetent (and lovable) Rocket grunts were sent to Ash, but now the Giovanni theory is my headcannon

Way back in the day my brother was playing Pokémon soul silver, and he showed me something real strange. He was grinding outside of the sprout tower and he encountered a lv 100 bellsprout. He showed me the encounter and we both witnessed his team get sweeped by it since it was quite early in the game. Sadly we couldn’t take a picture or video because we didn’t have a camera or phone back then since we were just kids. To this day we haven’t seen or heard anyone else encounter something like that, but I swear to you it was real

The idea that Cubone is an abandoned Kangaskhan baby doesn’t make as much sense as the theory that Cubone/Marowak are abandoned Charmanders. The mother Charizard would die and leave the baby Charmander to take the mother’s skull. this theory makes sense because because the body color and tail of Cubone are the same as Charmander. Also, the skull that Cubone has looks like a Charizard head further roving the theory.

A really nice change of pace from the usual competitive pokemon content. Actually, on that note, an iceberg for competitive pokemon also sounds really fun. A list of scandals, successful gimmicks or meta calls that took everyone by surprise, quirks in the competitive format that weren't resolved until much later, etc

Adding Kanto into gen2 was worth everything. It blew my mind as a child having a whole new region

I love Pokémon more now as an adult than I possibly could have as a kid. Even tho the franchise is 25 years, learning about its lore makes it feel brand new again!!

A note on the pokemon war: There are very few middle aged men in kanto in the original games. There are old men, and boys, The young men are seen as part of team rocket and any men Surge's age are all in biker gangs which roam from celedon to fuschia (possibly a lot of them are veterans). Lance seems quite young to be the strongest trainer in all of kanto, and why is Prof. Oak in charge of the pokemon league? (the dude's like 75) Additionally, the architecture and culture in Kanto is that of the postwar economic boom the united states had in the 1950s. The mainland of kanto is dominated by the saffron metropolitan area and its suburbs. Much like Earthbound, this game was influenced by post WW2 westernization and chose to make that its setting. Thirdly, why was mewtwo being created? what was the purpose of expending exorbitant amounts of funding and time into crafting a genetically modified mentally unstable killing machine? To end the war. The last group of men you meet in gen 1 is the scientists which work at silph co. or worked at the pokemon mansion. Just some interesting details.

I'm surprised you didn't mention that it wasn't Porygon who caused the lights, but Pikachu, so Porygon, 2, and Z are unjustly banned from the show

I love Iceberg videos so much, there's always something hidden in there that I didn't know about, even for a series i've followed for 80% of my life

The idea that Giovanni is Ash's father is pretty wholesome. I remember some other character being the fan favorite for potentially being Ash's father though.

My favorite glitch from Gen 1 was encountering Pokemon above Level 100! After talking to the old man that shows how to catch Pokemon in Virdian City, fly down to Cinnabar Island, immediate move right to the edge of the island, surf up and down along the edges. Thanks Wolfey for bringing back the awesome nostalgia and mysteries :D

22:30 we actually know from interviews that the reason Jigglypuff got into Smash is because they were short on characters soon to release so they introduced Jigglypuff since it was a popular pokemon thar conveniently could reuse a lot of already existing moves, namely Kirby's.

Pretty sure Ash DID age, and he was CANONICALLY getting a bit too close to adulthood for the company's comfort, so they just said "He's 10 again" and he's been there ever since.

Crazy to think Ho-oh was already thought of at episode 1 and not revealed till late season 2