I wish the iceberg included “Tentaquil.” In 2010 a 4chan thread was posted where users would draw their favorite Pokémon from memory. A user posted an ms paint drawing of an unrecognizable Pokémon. When asked about it, the user responded “it’s a tentaquil.” When the Spaceworld demo of Gold and Silver was leaked, a beta politoed was found, and despite the color scheme was near-identical to the “tentaquil,” 8 years prior to the leaks. It’s a very interesting phenomenon and I highly recommend looking into it.
24:26 Fun Fact:This was actually supposed to be Arceus's true form,but Satoshi Tajiri tought that it would have been too much for children who might be playing the game,so he scrapped it
They didn't include my favorite theory: Pokedex entries are written by the main character. It's no big secret that a lot of pokedex entries are nonsensical (magcargo is too hot, wailord is too light, alakazam is too smart, etc). Also, it doesn't make sense that Professor Oak asks you to fill out the pokedex if it already contains entries for every pokemon you capture. Therefore, the player fills out the pages of the 'dex as he discovers and captures pokemon. This doubly makes sense when you consider how childish some of the entries are.
With all the drama around "Seizures weren't Porygon's fault" it's funny that now they have a Community Day in Pokemon Go, and the Official Pokemon Twitter just tweeted "Porygon did nothing wrong."
I feel like this meshes well with me being absolutely certain for YEARS that Phanpy was called "Panphy", clearly indicating that I'm from an alternate universe where these two pokemon had slightly different name spellings /j
MATTEO MARMORATO B basically, in gen 3, wally is known to have asthma. on victory road he doesn’t have a pokemon that can learn surf, so it lead people to believe that he had died from asthma and floated over the water instead, as a ghost. i’m sure there are other factors playing into this theory, but that’s the main point.
Cornnflaek well i never said i agree with it. i personally don’t find it true, that’s just a theory someone made, and it therefore belongs on the iceberg.
I wish people did more iceberg videos, I just find it so interesting, especially when the person bothers to explain what everything is like this video. Amazing job, I hope you could tackle other Icerbergs in the future.
somebody on the original 4chan thread said that ‘Pokémon movie promotes abstinence’ refers to the song Don't Say You Love Me by M2M (song about abstinence) being featured in the first Pokémon movie
For illegal Pokemon I'm pretty sure it's about how some of them in game have moves they can't possibly have, like Dragonite with Barrier back in Gen1, and trainers having Haunter at level 20 in Gen2 when Gastly evolves at level 25
@@francescobilleci also Falkner's pidgeotto in gold and silver could count. In the remakes it was level 13, possible in the wild. However, in the original gold and silver his pidgeotto was level 9. A pretty low level for an evolved pokemon.
my theory is that, for you, with all your loving kindness and all, the pokemon evolve at a different stage for you, but not for the others, lance, being the dragon type trainer, must've loved his dearly, so dragonair evolved early and lance taught it moves no other dragonite can learn
"There are no known Indian elephant in the Pokémon games" Copperajah: *Am I a joke to you?* (Unless it was the absence of Indian elephants at the time)
Yeah lol, I was strictly talking to the past only considering gen 3. I do believe, even just for the name, Copperjah is based on an Indian elephant. Cheers mate.
@@francescobilleci Yeah, the name, the size of the ears, the link between India and the UK, the "helps humans in tasks" thing, the cashmere pattern on its body, all of it screams Indian elephant.
I personally think Copperajah was added specifically so that there would be an elephant a Raichu could hypothetically cause to faint with an electric attack, since the only other elephant (Phanpy/Donphan) is a Ground type. So they made it an Indian elephant Pokemon.
I wasn't expecting the reference to baby is you in the video but it is my FAVORITE piece of pokemon lore For those who don't know, the creator of undertale, toby fox, actually did a lot of music for Homestuck. Megalovania is even in Homestuck. And Toby fox made an awful awful Mpreg opera. I haven't listened to it myself but I've heard tales from my friend who are/used to be homestucks. Toby fox was given an opportunity to make a song for the biggest franchise on earth, and he took a song. From his homestuck Mpreg opera. And put it into it. And they just fucking let him. I will never ever recover from this news.
Mossdeep space center counts the number of weeks you have in your savefile and there is a lot more to Victini being "Little boy", you just needed to do a bit more research on that one.
Yes I’m aware that the launch numbers goes up every week, but nobody really knew it back in the day. It was always rumoured that you needed at least 100-200 launches to get to the moon (approximately a wait of 2 to 4 years).
It wasn't just ANY Ron Paul parody video. It was created by the original singer of the Pokemon theme song in support of Ron Paul's campaign. Reality is wild haha
And the Ultra Desert is a nuclear wasteland with the only living creature that can withstand radiation, so what if every ultra space is an apocalyptic version of the same world?
@@komi___ Ultra Forest completely debunks that theory. Also where did you get that theory of Ultra Desert being a nuclear wasteland? I understand the idea that the only things living in the area are Pheromosa, which are giant cockroaches. As for the other info I don't get it.
@@FrahdChikun Ultra Desert also has sand that turned into glass from extreme heat. But yeah, completely forgot Ultra forest because I have UM. Could be a world in which Japan conquered the world? That's kind apocalyptic too.
@@komi___ nah, the Kartenvoys seem very friendly. It's probably just another dimension with human-like beings, like Ultra Megapolis. The sand turning into glass actually didn't cross my mind though, nice observation! One other thing that interests me about Ultra Desert is why is that dimension the only one where you can summon Ride Pokemon? You're too far away for any ride Pokemon to reach you.
Now that I've hit the end of the video, there's another thing about Kadabra: it's actually impossible to prevent its evolution ingame if it is traded, not even by equipping an Everstone beforehand (as one might expect with the existence of FUCKING MINDY). This is likely because Game Freak/related were sued by Urie Geller at one point, claiming that Kadabra was a malicious parody depiction of aforementioned person, as Urie Geller is heavily associated with spoons in the same way Kadabra and Alakazam are (oddly, he had no problem with Alakazam).
Lemonado Girl you’re right about the Uri Geller-Kadabra connection. Not only the Pokémon held spoons, but its Japanese name is literally a transliteration of Geller’s name (Yungerā). During the controversy they even stopped printing Kadabra cards for the TCG and made special ones so that you could evolve Alakazam from a base Abra.
This is a well done video! The editing is really good, and the script is honest and pretty informative. Only issues is that I couldn't hear/understand you at some points. Nice job!
Genesect may be a parasects 3rd lost evolution, the parasitic mushroom didnt allow it to evolve because it couldve been strong enough to gain controll against the mushroom.
r brimk as I’ve said under other comments, unfortunately this Reddit thread is the only mention of “DONFAN” I was able to find www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9bmjlw/my_friend_has_a_pokemon_card_of_a_donfan_evolving/
some updates on the iceberg facts: Mew under the truck - Someone was able to use an in-game hack via code manipulation in order to make Mew REALLY be under the truck. "no, you're not the one." - in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, interacting with a Hex Girl NPC, she would say "no, you're not the one.", followed by her laughing, as she was making fun of the player. Masuda also said in an interview that he didn't know anything about the easter egg, announcing that he was quite scared at the discovery. Mossdeep Space Center - Clearly the speculation become the Delta Episode of Pokemon ORAS, since you fight Deoxys in space. Illegal Pokemons - oh boy, where do I start... so, not to be that guy, but the fact that shiny locked pokemons are illegal is pretty hypocritical, as Game Freak itself has repeatedly given away legendary shiny pokemon via secret gift. Now, if you REALLY want to talk about illegal pokemon, the reason would be another. You see, in Gen. 8 there was a big controversy regarding the two legendaries of Galar (Zacian and Zamazenta), as they both have deadbrain stats (Zacian the most, since it can oneshot pokemons easily thanks to his signature move) that make them op and hard to beat. Hooked Dragonite - the only thing I can think of is a glitch/code manipulation where you can fish a Dragonite. Pokemon movie promotes abstinence - i only have one thing to say: BLAME 4K!DS!. and now, facts that are worth to be part of the iceberg: Lana's Eevee and the Pikachu valley inspired Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee customization - So, we all know that in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee it is possible to customize our pokemon starter, giving it a new hairstyle among other things. Now, doesn't that sound very familiar to you? Well, in the sun and moon anime, Lana gets an Eevee with a tuft of hair covering the pokemon eyes. Still in the same anime, it is also possible to notice that in the Pikachu valley there are Pikachus with different hairstyles as well. I think this was a coincidence or rather an inspiration from the customization. Pokemons in Explorers of Sky prior to their official release in DPP - In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, there are several pokemons that will officially appear in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum (such as Munchlax, Riolu and Lucario). Iris Excadrill predicted Pokemon affections status - in the Pokemon Black and White anime, Iris's excadrill has the main role of not listening to her, probably because he doesn't sees her worth to be his trainer. Fast forward to X and Y, and there's a new mechanism that allows pokemons to get some bonuses thanks to their affection state you can increase by interacting with them.
I do like to give my two theories dont know if someone else pointed this out. The 4 moves limitation was crearly due to hardware as a result of low memory. Following games were suposedly created with a infinite or 6 moves aparently until they roled it back. Similar on how we use items. Cubone evolution clearly states he wears his mother's skull as a helmet. That implies to evolve one you as a trainer need to kill his mother.
"Bruno does not aknowledge that Ash is his own son, so it can't be true" If you go to an American ghetto you'll probably find plenty of deadbeat daddies who don't aknowledge their own kids when they see them, but they still related
It's possible the Indian elephant theory is a reference to Thomas Edison's infamous demonstration of DC electric current on an elephant, inevitably killing it.
Excellent explanation of each layer. It's always fun seeing which one I know of and didn't. But man, some of the placements is weird. I have _never_ heard of the "James being Ash's dad" one (though I have seen him being a sibling) but the "Mr. Mime being Ash's dad" was a common one back in my day right next to the "Professor Oak being Ash's dad". I have to wonder if this iceberg was made by someone who came into the fandom late because it feels like its missing a some of the old (and popular) theories. Like, where's the "Giovanni is Ash's dad" theory? Or the "Ash is in a coma"? Those were SUPER popular back in the day. Even so, I think there was still loads I didn't know of. Like Pokemon Pink; I could swear I've seen the image 8:28 before but I have no memory of this entire theory/confirmation.
13:44 just a slight correction here, to my knowledge if a gen 1 pokemon with the correct IVs is transferred to gen 2 it will ALWAYS be shiny, but I cannot speak for how it works going to more recent gens
Good video. A nostalgia flashback to all the school yard rumors we kids had back then. From ''Ho-Oh is responsible for ashs constant age, Mew is under the truck to various 10FPS ''unregistered hypercam 2'' hack videos of ''How to catch Lugia in Pokemon Ruby. Good times.
nice video! i’m surprised about the bit about munna being hinted at way back in g1 and the whole deal with hypno not being anywhere on the iceberg, but it was cool to see rumors and whatnot that i knew about! OH! just noticed this but you missed the “n is a zoroark” bit in the second section ^^; NO BIGGIE THO that one’s pretty popular lol
Lily thanks! Unfortunately I noticed the missing N theory only after completing the edit. But hey, if there’s demand I could tackle a second iceberg and fit that in as well.
Donphan was featured in the opening battle sequence of the first pokemon movie before Johto's reveal, similar to Togepi and Marill. Though I think it was during a musical number and all trainers and pokemon were muted, it's possible the trainer at one point said "Donphan I choose you!" or "Good work Donphan." Without a canonical text appearance of name yet, people would have spelled it Donfan.
I tried researching donfan, and i got nothing. WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?! Edit: ohh, its a bad misprint/bootleg card. On the other hand, i need to see what gen 4 meth is
I think my fav BS pokemon theory is Giovanni as Ash's dad b/c it's based almost entirely on a scene from the american-only pokemon stage play/musical/thing, which isn't canon in the slightest BUT I don't think there's anything in the anime contradicting it and come one. The DRAMA.
Idk if this should be in the iceberg or not (or if its even real) but I vaguely remembering people roleplaying and sending NSFW pictures through the pokemon X and Y friend thing
The hooked Dragonite, I should clarify, is actually a soft lock. The procedure used to trigger the effect is messing with the script that leads you to Pewter Museum. The glitch procedure corrupts this process and interrupts this script with the Dragonite encounter before it can properly terminate, resulting in the player's controls being completely disabled in the encounter. The ZZAZZ Glitch's video on the topic is highly informative and I recommend checking it out.
As far as the Ditto is a fail Mew clone theory goes, in Red and Blue (and Green) you could catch Ditto on Route 13, Route 14, Route 15, Route 23 and the Cerulean Cave. Pokemon Yellow was the only game where you could only catch Ditto in the mansion and Cerulean Cave. Though Gamefreak is definitely aware of the theory, because in Let's Go, maybe around a decade after the theory was born, there are a lot more cloning pods in the basement of the mansion where Mewtwo was clearly born, and the basement just so happens to be Ditto's highest spawning point with a 10% chance of finding one. They basically made this theory into a reality.
Funny thing is, the only theory I believe is "Wobbuffet's tail is its true body". My theory is that the tail contains a brain and a nervous system (and maybe a heart), while the rest of the body only contains a digestive system and an excretory system.
Also, I think the alchemy theory in Sun/Moon could be true. As for the "Kadabra are human children" theory, I don't believe it and just think that it is an in-universe urban legend that for some reason you put in the Pokedex and get recorded as a result. I mean, if that's true, does that mean that Abra are human babies that got turned into Pokemon?
I have a “no, your not the one” theory. The girl is actually the Ghost type gym leader in the Galar region, or should I say future one. She said “your not the one” because she knew that there will be a mysterious trainer catching eternatus, and becoming the champion and when people try to talk to her, she can identify if it’s the person. she knew everything about the future and soon got identified. So she went to the Galar region and got a new identity, and became the ghost type gym leader so she can experience more better at the right region, and get a new identity.
It’s definitely an interesting take on the “ghost girl” theory, but I believe the Galarian ghost gym leader was confirmed to be male (not that the girl couldn’t have experienced a transition, hope it’s the correct term).
Joey is alternate-universe Ash after he died in the first movie. He loses his memory because Pikachu and everyone else left before he was revived. He has vague memories of a small rodent pokemon that was his friend, which leads him to Rattata. Instead of wanting to catch all the pokemon he wants to train Rattata to his fullest potential instead.
The “it wasent porygons fault” is because it was pikachu who made the lightning strike, and the flashing lights from caused strikes caused the seizures
I can debunk the Giovanni committing suicide theory with two pieces of evidence Red’s age, and The Pokemon World Tournament, in which Giovanni can be battled. It is confirmed that time passes and the gen 5 games are no different. Black and White 2 occur two years after the events of Black and White, in which Red is considered to be around 15 according to Bulbapedia, which means during Black and White, Red would have been roughly 13, which lines up with the timeline of the Johto games, taking three years after the events of the Kanto games, where Red was 10. This means Giovanni could not have committed suicide as he is still alive during Black and White 2. The splash could very well have just been a pokemon that he didn’t use during the battle with the trainer that he sent out to use Waterfall. Him owning a Whiscash doesn’t seem too farfetched seeing as it’s a ground type.
I caught pokerus in Ultra sun, than found out it could spread and stored them in the PC. Apparently I had the 3 day strand and began spreading it to pokemon I didn't want and gave them away on mystery trade spreading it more lol. I loved the disease due to the XP gain and how useful it was, may as well give.
The Red and Blue MISSINGNO. and M' are the most well known. But while MISSINGNO. in yellow has the same name and properties (albeit a very glitchy mess as it can crash the game multiple times), M' in yellow does exist, however it has a different name. It's name in yellow is 3TRAINERPOKÉ$. Other than a recolour of the sprite, Yellow's M' has the same sprite, which is rare since the other glitchmon don't. It is also apparent that there are multiple versions of M'. For example, there is a version where it appears as a Charizard. I have gotten Pokérus in Black 2 and Ultra Sun. I think I got it in Shield but idk And i'm pretty sure that the "wobbufett is the tail" theory was confirmed by game freak (if not then i am a dummy)
In a world like Pokémon, I could definitely see something like that one Sinnoh book happening, especially when many Pokémon are often portrayed as being about as intelligent as humans.
Something that really bugs me is the fact that some pokedex entries, for example, Pikachu one, asign an animal to the pokemon, I like to imagine, that, the pokedex writters in the pokemon world, this is the rat pokemon, whats a rat? I dunno, but its very fitting
7:33 I'm not gonna argue with the other examples, but isn't that one on the left a taiyaki, a Japanese fish-shaped cake usually filled with bean paste?
The people are pokemon/common ancestor theory is quite plausible considering that many pokemon have pokedex entries that describe humans becoming them in one way or another, i.e: Yamask being a literal human ghost. Or alakazam transforming from a child. Enough is implied to at least infer that human genes/biology is somewhat similar or compatibile with pokemon which is why so many pokemon came from humans.
The venomoth/butterfree swap theory always annoyed because how both the origin of the line and how animals can make themselves look more dangerous than they actually is an actual thing
In pokemon black and white the desert region pokemons reference that they are humans that became pokemon after death, most of then beying killed by them
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what's your favourite pokémon?
Bisharp
furret
Porygon2
Donphan
sceptile
It's funny that in every single layer of the iceberg, there's an " _Someone_ is Ash's dad" theory
Cesar Herrera Random bug catcher in route 2 is ash’s dad!
I thought that was hilarious.
This iceberg was done wrong. All the ashs dad theories shouldve been in one layer, the layers have to be related somehow dangit
Obviously that means that Ash is his own dad
@@SenorVilla it means ash is a pokemon, and his father is that mr.mime his mom keeps around
I wish the iceberg included “Tentaquil.”
In 2010 a 4chan thread was posted where users would draw their favorite Pokémon from memory. A user posted an ms paint drawing of an unrecognizable Pokémon. When asked about it, the user responded “it’s a tentaquil.”
When the Spaceworld demo of Gold and Silver was leaked, a beta politoed was found, and despite the color scheme was near-identical to the “tentaquil,” 8 years prior to the leaks. It’s a very interesting phenomenon and I highly recommend looking into it.
CupaHotNoodles that’s a good one, you’re right.
Just found out Tentaquil is also an easter egg in Scribblenauts, wich is pretty neat
scribblenauts.fandom.com/wiki/Tentaquil
i could have sworn that was a real pokemon i'm shook.
@@garrettcassidy8547 It looks like a mix of Poliwrath and Quagmire.
I just looked it up and really...it's just a biped with a swirl on its stomach. Politoed bears resemblance but that's kinda it
24:26 Fun Fact:This was actually supposed to be Arceus's true form,but Satoshi Tajiri tought that it would have been too much for children who might be playing the game,so he scrapped it
Off topic but nice pfp lol
lmao
They didn't include my favorite theory: Pokedex entries are written by the main character.
It's no big secret that a lot of pokedex entries are nonsensical (magcargo is too hot, wailord is too light, alakazam is too smart, etc). Also, it doesn't make sense that Professor Oak asks you to fill out the pokedex if it already contains entries for every pokemon you capture. Therefore, the player fills out the pages of the 'dex as he discovers and captures pokemon. This doubly makes sense when you consider how childish some of the entries are.
...Are the professors really dumb or extremely underfunded?
Then you have entries like Mimikyu
That's actually a really good theory...
this also explains why dex entries change between generations
This happened enough times IRL with grown explorers wanting to seem cooler, sadly.
With all the drama around "Seizures weren't Porygon's fault" it's funny that now they have a Community Day in Pokemon Go, and the Official Pokemon Twitter just tweeted "Porygon did nothing wrong."
Pretty sad that they got backlash from that single tweet.
I think "Donfan" might refer to a Mandela Effect spelling of Donphan. The only thing I can think of.
Likewise Gyarados's Mandela Effect name Garydos.
I think there's an episode of the show that misspelled it as Donfan.
*googles*
Yep, a 2000 episode called "Roll! Loving Donfan!"
@@JazzyWaffles it could be a pun, being a fan of Donphan
I feel like this meshes well with me being absolutely certain for YEARS that Phanpy was called "Panphy", clearly indicating that I'm from an alternate universe where these two pokemon had slightly different name spellings /j
@@silasbrookhaven8165 I thought it was called that aswell until I heard some one else say it
Whoever made that iceberg forget about the "wally is dead" theory and the classic parallel universes introduced in ORAS
What is Wally is dead?
MATTEO MARMORATO B basically, in gen 3, wally is known to have asthma. on victory road he doesn’t have a pokemon that can learn surf, so it lead people to believe that he had died from asthma and floated over the water instead, as a ghost. i’m sure there are other factors playing into this theory, but that’s the main point.
Ethan Paul That’s...really stupid.
Guys, Marnie isn’t known to have a Rotom Bike she’s dead guys.
Cornnflaek well i never said i agree with it. i personally don’t find it true, that’s just a theory someone made, and it therefore belongs on the iceberg.
Cornnflaek Marnie was brought to shore by the Team Yell grunts, she didn’t need a bike to travers the water
I wish people did more iceberg videos, I just find it so interesting, especially when the person bothers to explain what everything is like this video. Amazing job, I hope you could tackle other Icerbergs in the future.
Yeah they're fun.
Iceberg videos are so cool. I wish more of them existed.
@@SlammedOnGasoline Me too. There should be a BFDI one.
Like object shows
Like object shows
I'm REALLY surprised that Hypno's Lullaby and Hypno taking children away from their homes was NOWHERE on the ice berg
Ikr?? I Was Expecting That Or The Ash Is Dead Theory To Pop Up
Same. I thought it would be on here somewhere.
Not just that but also the gun episode, the James with boobs episode and every pokemon game being a diffrent dimension
Just Goes To Show, Even The Pokemon Iceberg Is Only Surface Deep
Because Hypnos lullaby isn’t a theory, it’s a fact stated in his Pokédex entries.
somebody on the original 4chan thread said that ‘Pokémon movie promotes abstinence’ refers to the song Don't Say You Love Me by M2M (song about abstinence) being featured in the first Pokémon movie
For illegal Pokemon I'm pretty sure it's about how some of them in game have moves they can't possibly have, like Dragonite with Barrier back in Gen1, and trainers having Haunter at level 20 in Gen2 when Gastly evolves at level 25
Neitsuke now that you point it out I do recall Lance having some underleveled Dragonite as well
@@francescobilleci also Falkner's pidgeotto in gold and silver could count.
In the remakes it was level 13, possible in the wild. However, in the original gold and silver his pidgeotto was level 9. A pretty low level for an evolved pokemon.
Bob Builder yeah you’re right! Johto for sure had some weird stuff going when it comes to underlevel evolutions.
Mars' Purugly comes to mind for that as well.
my theory is that, for you, with all your loving kindness and all, the pokemon evolve at a different stage for you, but not for the others, lance, being the dragon type trainer, must've loved his dearly, so dragonair evolved early and lance taught it moves no other dragonite can learn
"There are no known Indian elephant in the Pokémon games"
Copperajah: *Am I a joke to you?*
(Unless it was the absence of Indian elephants at the time)
Yeah lol, I was strictly talking to the past only considering gen 3. I do believe, even just for the name, Copperjah is based on an Indian elephant. Cheers mate.
@@francescobilleci Yeah, the name, the size of the ears, the link between India and the UK, the "helps humans in tasks" thing, the cashmere pattern on its body, all of it screams Indian elephant.
I personally think Copperajah was added specifically so that there would be an elephant a Raichu could hypothetically cause to faint with an electric attack, since the only other elephant (Phanpy/Donphan) is a Ground type. So they made it an Indian elephant Pokemon.
I wasn't expecting the reference to baby is you in the video but it is my FAVORITE piece of pokemon lore
For those who don't know, the creator of undertale, toby fox, actually did a lot of music for Homestuck. Megalovania is even in Homestuck. And Toby fox made an awful awful Mpreg opera. I haven't listened to it myself but I've heard tales from my friend who are/used to be homestucks.
Toby fox was given an opportunity to make a song for the biggest franchise on earth, and he took a song. From his homestuck Mpreg opera. And put it into it. And they just fucking let him. I will never ever recover from this news.
I never saw that clip with Team Rocket... I'm sorry but I was laughing wayy harder then I should've. Meowth is such a smartass I love him.
N1nsen Meowth is mood
Mossdeep space center counts the number of weeks you have in your savefile and there is a lot more to Victini being "Little boy", you just needed to do a bit more research on that one.
Yes I’m aware that the launch numbers goes up every week, but nobody really knew it back in the day. It was always rumoured that you needed at least 100-200 launches to get to the moon (approximately a wait of 2 to 4 years).
For the Victini one, given the nature of the video, I couldn’t cram in every piece of evidence in favour of that theory.
It wasn't just ANY Ron Paul parody video. It was created by the original singer of the Pokemon theme song in support of Ron Paul's campaign. Reality is wild haha
You know, this iceberg should have included USUM's Ultra Ruin being an apocalyptic version of the Pokemon World...
Yeah!
And the Ultra Desert is a nuclear wasteland with the only living creature that can withstand radiation, so what if every ultra space is an apocalyptic version of the same world?
@@komi___ Ultra Forest completely debunks that theory.
Also where did you get that theory of Ultra Desert being a nuclear wasteland? I understand the idea that the only things living in the area are Pheromosa, which are giant cockroaches. As for the other info I don't get it.
@@FrahdChikun Ultra Desert also has sand that turned into glass from extreme heat.
But yeah, completely forgot Ultra forest because I have UM. Could be a world in which Japan conquered the world? That's kind apocalyptic too.
@@komi___ nah, the Kartenvoys seem very friendly. It's probably just another dimension with human-like beings, like Ultra Megapolis. The sand turning into glass actually didn't cross my mind though, nice observation!
One other thing that interests me about Ultra Desert is why is that dimension the only one where you can summon Ride Pokemon? You're too far away for any ride Pokemon to reach you.
I like this video a lot and its always nice seeing a small youtuber try hard and put a lot of effort into videos
thank you so much
You didn’t kill Blue’s Raticate because you can lose the battle
Kujikawa the Meek mage 👨my head ☄️boom you get it up yours
@@cyrusmuller6502 what
Cyrus Muller r/ihadastroke
But if i want to use Cut what i do?
Now that I've hit the end of the video, there's another thing about Kadabra: it's actually impossible to prevent its evolution ingame if it is traded, not even by equipping an Everstone beforehand (as one might expect with the existence of FUCKING MINDY). This is likely because Game Freak/related were sued by Urie Geller at one point, claiming that Kadabra was a malicious parody depiction of aforementioned person, as Urie Geller is heavily associated with spoons in the same way Kadabra and Alakazam are (oddly, he had no problem with Alakazam).
Lemonado Girl you’re right about the Uri Geller-Kadabra connection. Not only the Pokémon held spoons, but its Japanese name is literally a transliteration of Geller’s name (Yungerā). During the controversy they even stopped printing Kadabra cards for the TCG and made special ones so that you could evolve Alakazam from a base Abra.
Also, Abra and Alakazam, in Japanese, are named after a sensitive (Cayce) and a magician (Houdini) respectively.
@@francescobilleci I actually didnt know about these transliterations! That's pretty cool, to be honest.
This is a well done video! The editing is really good, and the script is honest and pretty informative. Only issues is that I couldn't hear/understand you at some points. Nice job!
thank you so much, I’ll work to improve my mixing and clear pronunciation
Genesect may be a parasects 3rd lost evolution, the parasitic mushroom didnt allow it to evolve because it couldve been strong enough to gain controll against the mushroom.
Interesting idea
pls no don't hit me with the emotion theme from bw I'm already depressed as it is
i live under a rock where are these 3d images of pkmn red coming from? did they remaster it or something? thats awesome
if you mean the ones with prof oak, they’re from the Pokémon Let’s Go games fo the switch
fragalanis thanks!
9:54 did that clefairy just do what I think it did? *Oh god no...*
Warden main
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was due to the fact that fsahshshshfhshfsaf
· Yitzchak · accurate subs lol
Well, maybe the Lavender Town music does not make kids suicide, but that music make one of my friends vomit.
it makes me g r o o v e
This better have a mention of the other gen 1 glitch Pokémon, they’re under rated and obscure, perfect for an iceberg image!
Toby fix straight up pulled a gamer move on game freak lmao
People having intercourse with pokemon is more frightening than any pokepasta out there.
There was a Pokémon card that write donphan’s name as donfan.
The "donfan" thing is just the original name of donphan, they just changed it for whatever reason
Btw bel video bro
r brimk as I’ve said under other comments, unfortunately this Reddit thread is the only mention of “DONFAN” I was able to find www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9bmjlw/my_friend_has_a_pokemon_card_of_a_donfan_evolving/
Grazie 😁
Donfan may be a reference to "Roll! Loving Donfan!", an episode from 2000 that misspells Donphan.
hey, man. good video. i just want to ask where you're from? i've never heard that kind of accent before.
Thanks! I’m from Italy.
@@francescobilleci Gimme A Pizza
Ash being Gary’s uncle isn’t that strange considering that Jotaro is Josuke’s Nephew in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
Fr0stko is this a JoJo reference?
Damn Joseph ,damn
@@francescobilleci yes it is indeed. ;)
some updates on the iceberg facts:
Mew under the truck - Someone was able to use an in-game hack via code manipulation in order to make Mew REALLY be under the truck.
"no, you're not the one." - in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, interacting with a Hex Girl NPC, she would say "no, you're not the one.", followed by her laughing, as she was making fun of the player. Masuda also said in an interview that he didn't know anything about the easter egg, announcing that he was quite scared at the discovery.
Mossdeep Space Center - Clearly the speculation become the Delta Episode of Pokemon ORAS, since you fight Deoxys in space.
Illegal Pokemons - oh boy, where do I start... so, not to be that guy, but the fact that shiny locked pokemons are illegal is pretty hypocritical, as Game Freak itself has repeatedly given away legendary shiny pokemon via secret gift. Now, if you REALLY want to talk about illegal pokemon, the reason would be another. You see, in Gen. 8 there was a big controversy regarding the two legendaries of Galar (Zacian and Zamazenta), as they both have deadbrain stats (Zacian the most, since it can oneshot pokemons easily thanks to his signature move) that make them op and hard to beat.
Hooked Dragonite - the only thing I can think of is a glitch/code manipulation where you can fish a Dragonite.
Pokemon movie promotes abstinence - i only have one thing to say: BLAME 4K!DS!.
and now, facts that are worth to be part of the iceberg:
Lana's Eevee and the Pikachu valley inspired Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee customization - So, we all know that in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee it is possible to customize our pokemon starter, giving it a new hairstyle among other things. Now, doesn't that sound very familiar to you? Well, in the sun and moon anime, Lana gets an Eevee with a tuft of hair covering the pokemon eyes. Still in the same anime, it is also possible to notice that in the Pikachu valley there are Pikachus with different hairstyles as well. I think this was a coincidence or rather an inspiration from the customization.
Pokemons in Explorers of Sky prior to their official release in DPP - In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, there are several pokemons that will officially appear in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum (such as Munchlax, Riolu and Lucario).
Iris Excadrill predicted Pokemon affections status - in the Pokemon Black and White anime, Iris's excadrill has the main role of not listening to her, probably because he doesn't sees her worth to be his trainer. Fast forward to X and Y, and there's a new mechanism that allows pokemons to get some bonuses thanks to their affection state you can increase by interacting with them.
I do like to give my two theories dont know if someone else pointed this out.
The 4 moves limitation was crearly due to hardware as a result of low memory.
Following games were suposedly created with a infinite or 6 moves aparently until they roled it back.
Similar on how we use items.
Cubone evolution clearly states he wears his mother's skull as a helmet. That implies to evolve one you as a trainer need to kill his mother.
"Bruno does not aknowledge that Ash is his own son, so it can't be true" If you go to an American ghetto you'll probably find plenty of deadbeat daddies who don't aknowledge their own kids when they see them, but they still related
It's possible the Indian elephant theory is a reference to Thomas Edison's infamous demonstration of DC electric current on an elephant, inevitably killing it.
Excellent explanation of each layer. It's always fun seeing which one I know of and didn't.
But man, some of the placements is weird. I have _never_ heard of the "James being Ash's dad" one (though I have seen him being a sibling) but the "Mr. Mime being Ash's dad" was a common one back in my day right next to the "Professor Oak being Ash's dad". I have to wonder if this iceberg was made by someone who came into the fandom late because it feels like its missing a some of the old (and popular) theories. Like, where's the "Giovanni is Ash's dad" theory? Or the "Ash is in a coma"? Those were SUPER popular back in the day.
Even so, I think there was still loads I didn't know of. Like Pokemon Pink; I could swear I've seen the image 8:28 before but I have no memory of this entire theory/confirmation.
1:53 me looking at part 4 of jojo
i was waiting to see this exact comment lmao
Just finished the JoJo anime and I do now get this reference lol
13:44 just a slight correction here, to my knowledge if a gen 1 pokemon with the correct IVs is transferred to gen 2 it will ALWAYS be shiny, but I cannot speak for how it works going to more recent gens
The "donfan" entry refers to the starting scene in the first pokemon movie. The trainer ash battles has a donfan.
Pretty nice video! your voice is calming~
Good video. A nostalgia flashback to all the school yard rumors we kids had back then. From ''Ho-Oh is responsible for ashs constant age, Mew is under the truck to various 10FPS ''unregistered hypercam 2'' hack videos of ''How to catch Lugia in Pokemon Ruby. Good times.
nice video! i’m surprised about the bit about munna being hinted at way back in g1 and the whole deal with hypno not being anywhere on the iceberg, but it was cool to see rumors and whatnot that i knew about!
OH! just noticed this but you missed the “n is a zoroark” bit in the second section ^^; NO BIGGIE THO that one’s pretty popular lol
Lily thanks! Unfortunately I noticed the missing N theory only after completing the edit. But hey, if there’s demand I could tackle a second iceberg and fit that in as well.
Donphan was featured in the opening battle sequence of the first pokemon movie before Johto's reveal, similar to Togepi and Marill. Though I think it was during a musical number and all trainers and pokemon were muted, it's possible the trainer at one point said "Donphan I choose you!" or "Good work Donphan." Without a canonical text appearance of name yet, people would have spelled it Donfan.
I tried researching donfan, and i got nothing. WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?! Edit: ohh, its a bad misprint/bootleg card. On the other hand, i need to see what gen 4 meth is
unfortunately I haven’t found anything related to “gen 4 meth” :(
a friend of mine suggested it could be a reference to tweaking (the thing you do with the bike to access the void), but I’m not sold on it
@@francescobilleci i guess it's low down on the abyss for a reason
i looked up "donphan misprint card" and couldnt find anything too weird. only thing i saw was the phanpy card in a wasteland. what did you see?
Dealer Man here’s the link to the Reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9bmjlw/my_friend_has_a_pokemon_card_of_a_donfan_evolving/
Goddamn, Meowth insulted Jesse's masculinity and James' femininity at the same time.
I think my fav BS pokemon theory is Giovanni as Ash's dad b/c it's based almost entirely on a scene from the american-only pokemon stage play/musical/thing, which isn't canon in the slightest
BUT I don't think there's anything in the anime contradicting it and come one. The DRAMA.
I have a real copy of Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal. I don’t know if there’s any more copies of it around, but I’d imagine there is at least one other
Idk if this should be in the iceberg or not (or if its even real) but I vaguely remembering people roleplaying and sending NSFW pictures through the pokemon X and Y friend thing
1:41
Well, this kinda happened in JoJo. Professor Oak is Joseph Joestar confirmed.
The hooked Dragonite, I should clarify, is actually a soft lock. The procedure used to trigger the effect is messing with the script that leads you to Pewter Museum. The glitch procedure corrupts this process and interrupts this script with the Dragonite encounter before it can properly terminate, resulting in the player's controls being completely disabled in the encounter. The ZZAZZ Glitch's video on the topic is highly informative and I recommend checking it out.
As far as the Ditto is a fail Mew clone theory goes, in Red and Blue (and Green) you could catch Ditto on Route 13, Route 14, Route 15, Route 23 and the Cerulean Cave. Pokemon Yellow was the only game where you could only catch Ditto in the mansion and Cerulean Cave.
Though Gamefreak is definitely aware of the theory, because in Let's Go, maybe around a decade after the theory was born, there are a lot more cloning pods in the basement of the mansion where Mewtwo was clearly born, and the basement just so happens to be Ditto's highest spawning point with a 10% chance of finding one. They basically made this theory into a reality.
Just realized how much there are names in pokemon similar to part 5 of jojo.
Funny thing is, the only theory I believe is "Wobbuffet's tail is its true body". My theory is that the tail contains a brain and a nervous system (and maybe a heart), while the rest of the body only contains a digestive system and an excretory system.
Also, I think the alchemy theory in Sun/Moon could be true. As for the "Kadabra are human children" theory, I don't believe it and just think that it is an in-universe urban legend that for some reason you put in the Pokedex and get recorded as a result. I mean, if that's true, does that mean that Abra are human babies that got turned into Pokemon?
I have a “no, your not the one” theory. The girl is actually the Ghost type gym leader in the Galar region, or should I say future one. She said “your not the one” because she knew that there will be a mysterious trainer catching eternatus, and becoming the champion and when people try to talk to her, she can identify if it’s the person. she knew everything about the future and soon got identified. So she went to the Galar region and got a new identity, and became the ghost type gym leader so she can experience more better at the right region, and get a new identity.
It’s definitely an interesting take on the “ghost girl” theory, but I believe the Galarian ghost gym leader was confirmed to be male (not that the girl couldn’t have experienced a transition, hope it’s the correct term).
for some reason, Donphan was credited to be a Pokegod, probably under the name “Donfan”
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9Gods
Before clicking I realized this could be affectionately known as the ReggieIceberg
Whole iceberg explained ____is ash’a dad
Wait what the HELL was that abstinence clip lmaoooo
Joey is alternate-universe Ash after he died in the first movie. He loses his memory because Pikachu and everyone else left before he was revived. He has vague memories of a small rodent pokemon that was his friend, which leads him to Rattata. Instead of wanting to catch all the pokemon he wants to train Rattata to his fullest potential instead.
"A shiny version of a shiny lock Pokemon" *shows celebi*
i should not be watching this so late at night, not because its particularily scary but because im a little baby
The “it wasent porygons fault” is because it was pikachu who made the lightning strike, and the flashing lights from caused strikes caused the seizures
I can debunk the Giovanni committing suicide theory with two pieces of evidence Red’s age, and The Pokemon World Tournament, in which Giovanni can be battled. It is confirmed that time passes and the gen 5 games are no different. Black and White 2 occur two years after the events of Black and White, in which Red is considered to be around 15 according to Bulbapedia, which means during Black and White, Red would have been roughly 13, which lines up with the timeline of the Johto games, taking three years after the events of the Kanto games, where Red was 10. This means Giovanni could not have committed suicide as he is still alive during Black and White 2. The splash could very well have just been a pokemon that he didn’t use during the battle with the trainer that he sent out to use Waterfall. Him owning a Whiscash doesn’t seem too farfetched seeing as it’s a ground type.
Wailmore [GD] e
The gs ball also was a dropped plot point on the anime
Yup, you’re right
I caught pokerus in Ultra sun, than found out it could spread and stored them in the PC. Apparently I had the 3 day strand and began spreading it to pokemon I didn't want and gave them away on mystery trade spreading it more lol. I loved the disease due to the XP gain and how useful it was, may as well give.
honestly it sounds more like their encouraging same sex relationships
The Red and Blue MISSINGNO. and M' are the most well known. But while MISSINGNO. in yellow has the same name and properties (albeit a very glitchy mess as it can crash the game multiple times), M' in yellow does exist, however it has a different name. It's name in yellow is 3TRAINERPOKÉ$. Other than a recolour of the sprite, Yellow's M' has the same sprite, which is rare since the other glitchmon don't. It is also apparent that there are multiple versions of M'. For example, there is a version where it appears as a Charizard.
I have gotten Pokérus in Black 2 and Ultra Sun. I think I got it in Shield but idk
And i'm pretty sure that the "wobbufett is the tail" theory was confirmed by game freak (if not then i am a dummy)
2:30 this is nightmare fuel thank you I hope these stay far away from me in my dreams
i actually found an iceberg video without someone getting nostalgic over the topic of the iceberg
In a world like Pokémon, I could definitely see something like that one Sinnoh book happening, especially when many Pokémon are often portrayed as being about as intelligent as humans.
Great video! I love these iceberg videos lol
In oras there is posters and signs showing alola.
Something that really bugs me is the fact that some pokedex entries, for example, Pikachu one, asign an animal to the pokemon, I like to imagine, that, the pokedex writters in the pokemon world, this is the rat pokemon, whats a rat? I dunno, but its very fitting
i finally have pokemon uranium but im terrified that its gonna give me nightmares of nuclear fallout again
15:42 james, what are THOSE
7:33 I'm not gonna argue with the other examples, but isn't that one on the left a taiyaki, a Japanese fish-shaped cake usually filled with bean paste?
Now that you point it out, it makes much more sense than Ash just biting into a deep fried whole Magikarp.
@@francescobilleci My thoughts exactly haha.
imagine playing pokemon and all the sudden you catch a pokerus pokemon and think your pokemon game is gonna get hacked or deleted
The people are pokemon/common ancestor theory is quite plausible considering that many pokemon have pokedex entries that describe humans becoming them in one way or another, i.e: Yamask being a literal human ghost. Or alakazam transforming from a child. Enough is implied to at least infer that human genes/biology is somewhat similar or compatibile with pokemon which is why so many pokemon came from humans.
Also: Why the fuck does Deoxys shifts into a more humanoid figure when it is attempting to interact (not attack) the world around itself?
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[Aslo great video and Treeko is the best pomemon lol]
Spectre Exists thanks!
Nice, instead of the Iceberg, it's a Avalugg😆
great video honestly
Thanks!
I love how the iceberg is just *avalugg*
Fun video! Thanks for uploading!
The venomoth/butterfree swap theory always annoyed because how both the origin of the line and how animals can make themselves look more dangerous than they actually is an actual thing
I keep getting videos about this recommended. I am here.
EDIT: Pokemon war sounds cool.
I think the Donphan part refers to how Donphan appeared in the first Pokémon movie which was before gen 2
"there's no indian elephant pokemon to date", but what about Copperajah? Isn't that kind of exactly what it is-?
What I meant to say was that there were no Indian elephant Pokémon at the time the Dex entries were written.
Thank you for the comment :)
calyrex sure likes skiing
The "Ash has eternal youth" theory makes no sense because nobody around him ages either.
Possibly wished for everyone he ever meets obtains eternal life? Maybe just a thought
In pokemon black and white the desert region pokemons reference that they are humans that became pokemon after death, most of then beying killed by them
1:50 that would be just JoJo part 4
Are you Italian? Because you pronounced "Giovanni" quite perfectly
Andrea Gazzola esatto ahah
*that Avalugg in the thumbnail does not look happy.*
global warming in the pokémon world is a serious issue
1:48 jojo bloodline be like
16:50 Donphan? The elephant pokemon?