In "Who is the first Pokemon" Rhyhorn/Rhydon and Bulbasaur were probably worth mentioning considering that was the original "who was the first" debate before Arceus was introduced in to Pokemon.
I personally think that the Abyssal Ruins was for Meloetta. Considering Relic Song is it’s signature move, Harmonious makes sense for the name of a Pokémon known for singing-and who’s design match not just singing but music- however a problem with it is that unlike almost every other mythical, we know basically nothing about it aside from being able to change emotions-a few examples of others who have barely any info are newer ones-starting from after Magearna, Shaymin, Victini and partially Hoopa cause aside from being a Genie, we don’t know a lot other than someone sealed part of it a long time ago
An important note: When you defeat Arceus in Legends: Arceus, he basically gives you an.. Avatar(?) of himself. Like he literally gives you a new special plate and then an Arceus joins your party/storage. You don't capture THE Arceus, you acquire an avatar/extension of him.
i was gonna say this, his research says “obtain a part of arceus” he basically lends you 0.00001% of his power to use, if you had the full power of a god in your party you’d think he’d have a million hp and stats that are incomprehensible to a normal human
@@deeskman1549 I find it really cool that that’s probably what happens in every game where you can catch Arceus. No honor for you, that’s just a tiny bit of god. Still interesting that a child got that far
The idea that Giovanni wouldn't be able to take the 'shame' of being beaten in a pokemon battle by a kid is kind of ridiculous when you remember he's a former gym leader, being battled and beaten by kids was kind of his job...
One could argue that being a gym leader is a scripted job though. We see this in Gold/Silver (and probably other places) when the player goes back to Kanto and the gym leaders have stronger teams. It's possible gym leaders are supposed to lose to trainers of a certain caliber. But a battle outside of the gym and for personal pride? That could be different I suppose
Something I picked up on that I think is cool is fairy type being weak to steel type. In British folklore people believed that certain metals, mainly iron but I have seen steel mentioned too, were anti magic and would be used to deter or harm fairies that at the time were legitimately feared.
"Fun"(?) Fact, in relation to the Koffing in Pokémon GO being caught in a questionable location, the game actually zones "sensitive locations" as unplayable. I've played in Hiroshima and near the museum, A Dome and Peace Park there are no Pokéstops or spawns. I obviously didn't play 'in' that location but it was interesting to see on the in-game map from afar this green map space with no interactable items.
I know it was completely not on purpose (because why would they know or care) but the day after our local bbq shop burned down, I got 2 charmaders next to where the shop was. I named them after the owners 😂
@@fanofthings6720 it's more because of how the legendary dogs' types align with the og eeveelutions (Suicune/Vaporeon, Raikou/Jolteon, Entei/Flareon), and also because the dog thing, with eevee being the only dog-like pokemon that completely changes type/form after evolving (not to mention there weren't that many dog pokemon back in gen 2 besides arcanine and houndoom)
@@fanofthings6720 It's canon that three Pokémon died in a fire in the Brass Tower in Ecruteak, and Ho-oh revived them and transformed them into the Legendary Beasts.
People always talk ab the decapitated arbok, but nobody talks ab the arguably scarier scene where Giovanni traps some pokemon in ice and shatters them into pieces. Then talks ab Red needing to learm how to "finish the job." Also, Red is almost eaten alive by Victribell. The manga genuinely scared child me.
@@mudkipqueen920 random thing but when i heard sun and moon i actually watched the entire sun and moon series and didnt realize i was finishing the anime up until i saw that ash was moving from alola and i was mad because he got alot of good pokemon
Psych major here! The part about the study finding that there is a preferential response in the occipital temporal sulcus is just due to the pattern recognition based information storage habits of the brain! It’s nothing really due to the nature of Pokémon itself rather a sort of “hey I’ve seen that before” on our brains part. However it is really cool that they used Pokémon for their study as that’s a really broad focus group and has more generalizability and therefore validity in the study!
On a somewhat unrelated (albeit interesting note) I am reminded of that state of mental awareness labelled as "precognitive dreams", or something similar (cannot seem to recall the exact verbiage/terminology here). But I digress, moving onto the story. In the past, I've personally had slight premonitions in my dream, where I would be performing a very specific action. (e.g.,) Watching myself eating breakfast on the sofa, but I normally 99.99% of the time would always opt to eat on the dining table itself. Thinking this to be very odd, I shrug it off and think to myself the next morning I would never catch myself doing this. Yet, to the contrary, (and interestingly enough) a couple of days later, I found myself performing the very same action I had witnessed in my dream, and at that very same moment, I was immensely reminded of the dream I had a couple of days/weeks prior. Having said all of that, I think our brains are just fantastic mechanisms, and there is a whole lot of it unknown to science and humanity. Learning more about this important muscle of ours is surely a task of great scientific importance, that I hope to see more advances of in the near future.
Yeah, thank you for saying this in a more informed way than I ever could lol. How the press chooses to interpret scientific studies is such a weird grift. As if anything that makes us recognize or like an image is "altering our children's brains" lmao.
@@SlendysWatchingMe I agree so much. It’s a huge problem in the scientific community as a whole. Writing a buzz article that completely misrepresents what a study is about and it’s data is so dangerous. People aren’t going to look at the study, and are just going to trust what they read. This misrepresentation and those like it are reliant on and are perpetuated by the fact that scientific literacy is so low that a majority of people don’t want to/ know how to decipher a scientific study. Just another reason why education should be equal and accessible.
But def no hate to Izzy, it’s still a really cool point in this video, and I’m sure it already took enough research and time to actually find all this info.
@@katt.astrophic Oh, for sure, and Izzy included a lot of stuff in this video that's interesting but which she ultimately doesn't seem to think is "correct" and she didn't perpetuate any of the fearmongering many sources must have. All love to her and it's a great video! The need to include that study as a "dark" subject is just indicative of, exactly as you said, a complete lack of scientific literacy or competent scientific interpretation in the mainstream.
20:20 The ???-type did exist in those games. In Generation 4 and prior, the move Curse was a ???-type move. I imagine it was created as a "just in case" thing so that there is an Arceus for all types in the game.
Not only has ???-type existed, but the icons used for it are that teal color, and in Fire Red/Leaf Green, the icon is split teal and a pinkish color, just like the accents on ???-type Arceus.
I wish they did more on the ??? type on moves or even pokemon in the future. I used to get spooked by it as a child but now I'm really curious of its origins in the game.
@@kariyokay The origin is not particularly mysterious I think, it simply means it's an indeterminate type. Curse is a Ghost-type move when used by a Ghost-type Pokemon, and a Normal-type move when used by any other Pokemon. Similarly, Eggs used to be ???-type because the type was unknown until it hatched.
As someone who watches Pokemon fact videos frequently, its extremely refreshing to watch one that has so much lore, history and fan fiction I've never heard about before.
do other videos mainly concern themselves with, like, what's scientifically possible? and theories? because honestly a lot is lost when we dont look at history, and i always find it so interesting to learn about it
I don't get why people argue over whether Mew or Arceus came first, the statement that Mew holds the DNA of all Pokemon was written before gen 4. It's clear that Mew was created as the first mortal Pokemon, sort of like the first humans in every world mythology.
Honestly I think I prefer the idea of both of them kind of existing at the same time with a connection to each other. There’s still mysteries like why the unknowns are connected to Arceus, so having mew exist when Arceus existed, before time and space was invented means that they could both be the “first” without contradicting either game’s lore
You kinda screwed up with how you worded that. Notice how you said "mortal". "Mortal" beings are seen as the product of a God-like being. Mew being mortal implies it's a product, and not the actual creator. Arceus, on the other hand, is seen as the god-like being. The "creator" of mew. It also doesn't matter what generation anything is said. Things can be ret-conned and changed, or better explained in the future. I understand your thinking process but it's ultimately flawed because it doesn't fully follow logic and the pokemon lore. Hope that clears things up for ya. It isn't really confusing, you just have to use critical thinking skills. Your early human in mythology idea is flawed because something had to come before them and create them or a process had to exist before them in order to create them in the first place. There's multiple references in real world mythology talking about how beings came BEFORE those early humans, and that early humans were actually not the first beings in creation, but the products of the beings before them. That's an important detail you left out. I dont know whether you forgot that detail/factor or if you left it out on purpose to fit your personal theory but I'll play devils advocate and assume you just made an innocent mistake and didn't fully think things through.
You just have to think about it for a bit and piece the pieces together. It is pokemon after all, not Dark Souls lore, so it's not really that hard to understand. I know a lot of Dark Souls lore but the flow of space and time is convoluted in that universe so its understandable if that was confusing. Multiple timelines, events implied to happen and not happen at the same times across multiple timelines and dimensions, people and beings existing on one timeline, but being able to cross over to other timelines, bizarre and harder to understand stuff like that. A good example is Dark Souls 3. At that point in time, the fabric of space and time has been screwed with by "gods" and mortals for so long, that it becomes extremely convoluted. All the timelines start smashing and merging with each other because the "gods" and humans defied the laws of their own existence. In the dark souls universe, even the gods are weak and susceptible to the laws of the existence and world they exist within. Sorta like how grecko-roman gods tend to have human flaws and weaknesses. In the dark souls universe there's supposed to be repeated and periodical times of Dark ages(basically human/dark soul dominated times) and Light ages(ages dominated by "gods" and the "flame"). Well the gods got power hungry and greedy and defied that law and instead of letting the flame die out, great souls and beings were sacrificed to the flame to keep it burning, extending the Light Ages out of greed for control and power. If you want the most Law of Nature friendly ending, you let the flame die out in Dark Souls 1 and in Dark Souls 3. If you want the power hungry, just a puppet or pawn of the gods ending, you throw yourself into the flame and rekindle it, letting it burn longer and defying the Natural Order of existence. By Dark Souls 3 its implied that during and after Dark Souls 1, no matter what choice you make, the flames were continued to be kindled and the laws defied. Dark Souls 3 is the "true ending" of the universe. You can either keep the flame burning temporarily until the next "puppet" comes along and kindles it again and then possibly no one steps up, or no one is successful in time and the flame burns out, or you can choose to simply let it burn out yourself and let the world run and operate as it was Intended, ending the Light Age and beginning a new Dark Age, leading to a new Light Age, leading to a new Dark Age, and so on and so fourth repeatedly until the end of time and existence. The Dark Age ISN'T the end of existence, just a DIFFERENT existence. Neither Age is necessarily evil or good, but rather the beings within them and their actions are what are truly good and evil. The "gods" like to portray the Dark Age as evil, because it naturally ends their reign of power, and Dark Souls/Humans take over for a while. The gods cursed humans with the Dark Sign and Hollowing. This allows humans to potentially live forever and collect lots of power to feed the flame and keep it lit, keeping the gods in power, but each time a human with the Dark Sign dies, they're resurrected with less and less of their humanity until they go insane and become Hollow. A walking, hollow husk of what they used to be, fueled by "animalistic" instinct to kill on sight and keep dying over and over until the end of time. I know I rambled on and on but the Dark Souls universe is vast and amazing and I love it. Believed to be some of the best games ever created and for good reasons.
I used quotations a lot in my other comment because like I said, the fabric of time and space, and the events and beings within it are all VERY convoluted. I personally like to let the flames die out and start the Dark Age, and later let the Flames re-spark themselves, because that's how the world was Intended to flow and work. I prefer to do the right thing and serve The Balance, instead of being a power hungry puppet for the gods and rekindling the Flame. The Flame was never meant to be rekindled. It's supposed to die out and rekindle itself later on, repeatedly until the end of time. The "gods" actually were not the first beings to exist in the Dark Souls universe. Before the "gods" came along the world was an endless, timeless world full of darkness(the light type not evil type), giant Archtrees, and was dominated by dragons. The Flame appeared out of the chaos of nothingness and granted the "gods" their light souls, and one being, The Fertive Pygmy(implied to be the one true ancestor of humans), the Dark Soul. After the "gods" were formed, they waged war with the dragons and nearly killed all dragons in existence. Seathe the Scaless is a scale-less Dragon that sided with the gods and helped destroy his own kind. I think its implied that there are an extremely low number of dragons that are still alive, but most of them were killed by the "gods". However there are descendants of dragons that do exist called "Drakes". They aren't exactly the same as dragons and I believe they don't possess the same amount of power as dragons, but they are very similar, still very powerful, and are wide spread throughout the Dark Souls world. Matter of fact, in Dark Souls 1, you face multiple Drakes. At least one fully grown fire Drake overlooking a bridge, and a bunch of juvenile lightning Drakes that hang out on another bridge. There is a zombie torso near the lightning Drakes, but I don't remember if it's the zombified, torso remains of full fledged Dragon, or a Drake. I do know that it's easy to kill and hardly possesses any power like it used to. It attacks with strong physical attacks and can attack with a poison attack that can poison you and cause poison damage over time. It makes sense because it's a rotten, zombie torso.
Something cool about the X and Y legendaries is that I am pretty sure they are actually based off of mythological creatures from Norse Mythology. Xerneas is based off of the World Tree, the place that holds all of the different worlds. Yveltal is based on the hawk at the top of the world tree and Zygarde is based off the snake/dragon at the bottom of the world tree. Just thought I would share something that I found interesting while looking into more Pokémon stuff.
Xerneas isn't based on the tree itself, but on the four stags around the tree that eat from its branches. That's why Xerneas has four pairs of antlers.
@@Clockehwork I think is more likely that Xerneas takes inspiration from both as opposed to just one because Xerneas resembles a tree when it's hibernating
Zygarde's got a fair Jormungar in him and not just Nidhogg. Why? Because the alternate Zygarde forms are a canine, like, say, a wolf. And the other one is a humanoid with two colours to its.... We'll go with face. So Zygarde's also pulling double-duty as Fenris, Jormungandr, and Hel
When you defeat Arceus, it said it'll travel with you. However it's mentioned that you'll receive a part of him. Therefore, you don't even own Arceus, but rather you own a 'copy' of him. The nerve of Arceus
i think the lore explanation is that you receive like 0.0001% of arceus’s power in the form of an avatar or copy of him because having a literal god in your team would result in stats and moves so powerful it’s incomprehensible to humans
An additional piece to the "first Pokémon" debate is that people will often pitch Bulbasaur (Pokémon #001) and Rhydon (The first Pokémon ever designed)!
when i first heard about the "first pokemon" debate i immediately said rhydon/rhyhorn but i never realized it was from the canon timeline and not in real life
Wasn't there mentions of unowns existing before arceus too? I remember it being pretty solid on the community that unown is the only pokemon that doesn't come from arceus, rather, it has existed before everything
Hey there! My father helped in design of packaging and promo of the pokeballs. He did tons of graphic design for the Burger King kids club as well. He as a graphic designer and artist was amazing but as a father he was abusive beyond belief. Last year he took his own life and my brother and I inherited all of his art including the big bag of BK pokeballs I always wanted to open as a kid. We split them 50-50 and I opened all of mine and I can see how a child could suffocate on them due to them not having the usual hole that most toys will have to reduce the chance of suffocation. I don't have any special insight to add to the incident I just wanted to quickly share this story.
@@capuchinosofia4771 problem being is they didn't have a safety hole drilled into them so one half of the pokeball covered the baby's face and it suffocated.
I know it's not supposed to be read this way, but Porygon being brought from the future into the past and introducing technology to the world provides a valid explanation for why the Pokemon remakes incorporate technology that wasn't there in the originals, outside of the real life explanation of evolving technology and new gimmicks. The Vs. Seeker/tutorial tv in Firered/Leafgreen, Mega Evolution in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, etc. ORAS even implies other timelines exist (the original games), so it's fair to assume the remakes are their own isolated things, and Legends Arceus is the point in which the timeline changed to accommodate them. Lotta holes in this theory, but it's fun to think about.
Another thing: Giovani actually shows up again as the leader of Team Rainbow Rocket in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, having traveled the multiverse and found the versions of past Team leaders who actually won in their universes to make up his new world dominating team. This is terrifying in and of itself when you consider what foes like Cyrus and Lysandre actually wanted: their canonically exists alternate universes in which Cyrus undid creation and Lysandre annihilated the population of the entire world.
I think I can explain the New Bark Town one! The first few Pokémon games are based off of real life Japanese locations and prefectures. Kanto was based off of the real Kanto area in Japan, specifically Kanagawa, Tokyo, and Chiba prefectures. Gold and Silver starts you off to the prefecture directly west of Kanagawa, which is called Shizuoka. There are a few ways to interpret Shizuoka into English, but it does literally mean Silent Hill. Most likely, earlier in development New Bark Town just had a placeholder name for the prefecture it’s based off of!
I thought the alchemy theory was a bit of a stretch at first but then reading about it on Wikipedia, I found out that alchemy has something called the Three Primes. They consist of sulfur, mercury, and salt! Finding that out definitely made the theory much more believable for me.
43:26 I actually live in Tippecanoe county in Indiana and one thing this doesn't really take into account is that Purdue University is located in this county and when the game first came out it was a massive hit with students on campus who make up like half the population of the county itself. Obviously this would inflate the accident statistics as a busy college campus filled with college students catching pokemon on their phones is probably going to experience more pokemon-related accidents than your otherwise average town would.
@E Not only that but there is also a pretty significant jaywalking problem. I've literally seen whole groups of people walking down the road seemingly unaware of all the cars they're blocking by doing so. In general campus is hell to navigate in a car even without people walking around trying to find pokemon on their phones.
Shedinja isn’t a corpse it’s the shell the nincada left behind when it evolved into a ninjask. It’s a reference to how real cicadas leave their shells around and they still look like their nymph form.
@@deeskman1549 Expect that unlike corpses, the shell is an exoskeleton, and the cicada is still alive. It would be like comparing a snake sheded skin to a dog corpse.
My favorite spooky Pokémon thing is the Glitch City Ghost. Going out of bounds in Pokemon Crystal will take you to what fans call “Glitch City”: basically an endless mess of jumbled tiles. If you follow certain steps, you’ll eventually find a monochrome girl looking around. If she sees you, she’ll approach like a trainer with the Burned Tower theme playing, except her text box is full of question marks. Sometimes she repeats the player character’s name over and over again. Then the game crashes. Though it’s certainly a coincidence, what I find makes it extra spooky is this cut text from the game: “Oh, no. Oh, no… My daughter is missing. No… She couldn’t have gone to the BURNED TOWER. I told her not to go near it… People seem to disappear there… Oh, what should I do…?” There’s more to it than I explained here. If you want to see the glitch in action, I recommend Cello2WC’s video demonstration of the glitch. It’s some neat stuff!
I wonder if rather than a coincidence, it might be that she was also cut from the game and is still sort of there ala dummied out glitches you get in a lot of old games. Could be that finding her was meant to be a short little sidequest for an item or something. Definitely a fun, creepy glitch either way.
Actually, it doesn't make a lot of sense for sigilyph to spawn in and around Egypt in pokemon go. The pokemon is based on the hummingbird geoglyph, which is found in Peru, South America, as well as a type of doll from the area. It doesn't really have anything to do with the Mediterranean at all.
Sigilyph is said to watch over ruins left by ancient civilizations. Both Greece and Egypt are known for their ancient ruins. That’s the logic behind it.
Just a heads to anyone reading this, the dolls that sigilyph are inspired by are called Kachina dolls and were used by the native Pueblo of the southwestern United States.
Three days ago, I met a loose family relation who was taking about how his uncle kept getting called away from family events for marketing meetings, and I noticed the dates were weirdly similar to major Switch launches in the US. A bit of prodding and it turns out he really is that kid whose uncle works for Nintendo, and I immediately ask him if he can ask his uncle how to move the truck above the SS Anne to get Mew. I have never seen someone look more like their soul had just departed their body. Worth it.
The reason behind Mercury being associated with water in alchemy is due to its role as part of the "Three Essentials", which comprise it, salt and sulfur. The Three Essentials supposedly make up the necessary components to form a philosopher's stone.
Yesss exacatly! And also in Japan, the planet Mercury is linked to water! For example, Wednesday which is Mercury's day, is literally called "水曜日" ("Suiyoubi", with the kanji "水" meaning "Water"). Pretty cool stuff :D
I live in Poland and Koffing and Gastle were found to spawn in Auschwitz concentration camp. It made national news. As far as I remember correctly it was a reason for the company making the game to disable certain places (such as various memorials) from spawning Pokemon at all, to prevent people from playing the game there.
one of the things i didnt see mentioned is also the reason i HATE the pokemon spoink its one of those darker pokedex entries which there are just tons of but it still fucks me up: "Spoink bounces around on its tail. The shock of its bouncing makes its heart pump. As a result, this Pokémon cannot afford to stop bouncing - if it stops, its heart will stop."
Tbf the pokedex is a very inaccurate source, using measurements and data that are blatantly impossible. Mountains wouldn't exist bc of the larvitar line alone, the ralts line would have destroyed the planet with their "mini black holes", magcargo's temperature couldnt be hotter than the sun without destroying the planet as well.
was scrolling through the comments and didnt see anyone mention this, but as a science nerd myself, and having seen other Poketubers mention it... I think Giratina represents GRAVITY rather than antimatter. This especially concerns the Distortion world. Gravity is wonky there, which is why we have that weird sideways waterfall, and if Giratina represented Antimatter... than Giratina himself couldnt exist in the Distortion world since any matter that comes into contact with antimatter is destroyed, and as far as I know, Giratina is made of matter, and so are Cyrus, Cynthia, Dawn/Lucas, and all the Pokemon in the aforementioned Trainers' parties. This makes Giratina as the Gravity Controller make sense, and when you think about its Abilities, Pressure and Levitate... Pressure makes sense as the standard Legendary Ability, and Levitate because it flies in Origin Form, and if Giratina represented gravity, then he would be manipulating what he has control over in order to achieve levitation for himself.
When I was little I loved cicadas for some odd reason so I love the nincada line however I’d never heard of shedinja. So I had an open space when mine evolved and was horrified to see a random Pokémon in my party. I looked it up and only found the creepy dex entry and creepypastas about it. I don’t play for 5 months after that!
just wanted to let you know, izzy, i enjoy your channel so much! i always love watching this entertaining content while eating lunch, before bed, or even with my friends. you definitely do an amazing job at researching specific topics and doing a deep dive on them, i admire that so much. and a few things you've covered up have been pretty disturbing or creepy, which must be difficult to read from or gain information. keep up with these!! they're fantastic, hats off to you!!
One interesting fact about Pokemon was the time someone mathematically calculated that based on its Pokedex entries, the energy emitted by Lanturn would be able to destroy the universe
"So not only people in the pokemon universe have to deal with murderous mind reading kidnaping ghosts and monster on a daily basis, they have to cope with the constant fear that the world could end at any second because a big Y shaped piece of bacon died."
Question Mark Arceus is probably just an after-effect of having a version of Arceus for every move type in Gen IV. The move "Curse" is listed as a question mark type move in Gen IV, with a pale green logo for its typing, so it's probably just applying the palette data for that type onto the sprite's elemental "halo" on its torso.
i feel like both mew and arceus are the first pokémon, just in different ways. while acreus is like, god, mew is the common ancestor for all the other pokémon, like a single celled organism. this does technically make arceus the actual “first” but these are like different categories of first-ness to me. as for bulbasaur and rhydon, bc i know someone is probably gonna comment about that, i think bulbasaur was just the first to be documented in the pokedex (hence it being 001). and rhydon is the first from a meta standpoint, being the first one to be designed, but not in universe at all
Yeah, Arceus is basically God/Azathoth the Dreaming One from Lovecraft. Mew is the LUCA-the Last Universal Common Ancestor of everything that came after it.
That console glitch looks a LOT like one I was told was my ds lite "basically needing to be defragged but not having the software to do so" back in the day. Essentially there's a bunch of storage in the system that the system THINKS isn't being used but it's being used by fragmented files or past game memory fragments. So games that need more space to run think they can but they only get partially through the texture loading process. I thought that was fixed in newer systems but this looks so similar I think it may not have been?
I doubt fragmentation has anything to do with it, since all data is stored in the gamecard (except savedata for the 3ds) and ram is volatile, there would be no memory to get fragmented in the first place. My guess would be that the visual glitches result from some error during graphics processing.
With regards to ??? Arceus, the colours seem to match the move Curse with in Gen 4 was a move with no type that had 3 question marks and a murky green colour to represent it. Maybe since Arceus can represent all types, this was to explain that it too created the ??? Type as well.
42:55 Actually have a bit of a story kind of related to this particular subject on the iceburg. I was an individual who was robbed playing Pokemon Go when it first came out. My partner and I were walking around a college campus park near our apartment at the time, it was pretty late at night since we both worked night jobs (both of us were pizza delivery drivers at the time). Since we slept during the day, we decided to go to the park at night since it had a ton of stops and there were plenty of people who also wandered the area for the same purpose. We were approached by two guys, my gf slipped her phone in her pocket to look at them while I was too busy catching Squirtle or something to bother looking up. They initiated a conversation with us, trying to get us to go off with them but neither of us were biting. Then they asked for the time. I ended up looking down at my phone to give them time, then one of them proceeded to try and grab my phone from my hand. There was a bit of struggle before he managed to pry it from my hands and the two of them took off running. We called the police and the college campus cops ended up immediately on scene, but as soon as they realized we weren't students on the campus/aka paying customers they did NOTHING to help and those two losers were never caught. However the joke is more on them than anything else...you see I'm very cheap when it comes to phones, I don't buy phones worth more than like $150...that particular phone they stole was a year-old Walmart phone with a pay as you go plan and its value sat maybe about 100 or so dollars at the time. My GF on the other hand had a brand new Samsung Note 8 at the time, but thankfully she was smart enough to put it away when approached. Honestly would have loved to been a fly on the wall when those two morons got to safety only to realize my phone was basically worthless. 🤣 Protips to those that wander at night. Exercise caution and vigilance when someone approaches you for conversation if you do not know them, stay out of arms reach, and maybe get a watch instead of looking at your phone at the time. Memorize the details of someone's face, hair, and entire outfit as well- you never know. Thankfully the two guys who robbed me were unarmed as far as we could tell, but if someone is armed it is just better to hand your stuff over- no object is worth your life. This was a great set of videos by the way, really loved this iceburg you made Izzzyzz! Really a big fan of your content direction, it makes me happy you're revisiting a lot of these forgotten corners of the internet! I was finally reminded to feed my Neopets because of your videos. 😂
one of my favorite pokemon theories is that eternatus is an ultra beast. i doubt it would ever be addressed, but its cry in its normal form has the same buzzing noise that all the ultra beasts from sun and moon/ultra sun and ultra moon shared. given that eternatus is described as an alien, its a neat detail that i think was intentional
I agree!! Glad to see someone talk about it. I skipped pokemon sw/sh when it came out and never really ended up getting it afterwards so I only saw eternatus a few times online tho I didn’t know anything about it. Based on its design (and the size of it) I always assumed it was an ultra beast as well. Just recently found out that it wasn’t haha
In regards to the Zodiac theory, if you google "term for male crocodile" you get this result: "The male crocodile is called a bull, while the female crocodile is called a cow."
Yeah that really seems like a stretch. The word "bull" also denotes the males of other bovines including elephants, rhinos, seals and walruses, hippos, camels, giraffes, elk, moose, whales, and antelopes.
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I'm convinced Arceus is 100% meant to be a god of creation. In one of its entries there's stated that it created the universe with its thousand arms (which is speculated to mean tons of Unowns). Overall, the whole DPPt lore has a lot to do with creation myths.
Awesome stuff! Regarding Relicanth having maplike markings - this could be a reference to the ancient Coelacanth fish that Relicanth is based on, and specifically the surprising observation/theory that Coelacanth populations were found in disparate parts of the world due to the changing tectonic plates of the earth - i.e. the reordering of the world atlas. That's what I think about when associating maps and Relicanth :)
Okay this is my first time hearing about the Unown King creepypasta, but I've had an eerily similar dream to it? There was a secret cave in Pokemon Black/White that you could only open by waiting for a week in real time, and inside you'd encounter a massive Pokemon called Ty-bumbas whose body was made of swirling clouds of Unown and whose head was a curled sheet with six Unown eyes. Don't remember much beyond that tho
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i love izzzyzzz because her videos are so nice to watch in many cases, background noise, while eating, on roadtrips, and she has a really nice voice, and shes the perfect youtuber to do icebergs
10:35 maybe the “mercury” Pokémon is a water type because mercury is the only metal to be a liquid at room temperature. Idk just throwing that out there
this girl looks like a different person in every video and i live for it. she’s got such creative makeup looks (my favorite of what i’ve seen so far was.. the mlp iceberg one? with the two glowing hearts under the eyes)
It's unfortunate that those poor children suffocated but the bk toy recall was a testament of how many parents didn't pay attention to there children playing with toys. I had 2 of them. This was a user issue not a manufacture issue. Its harsh to say but the balls were not intended to be used as toy but as storage. It came in a bag and had its warning of choking and small parts. BK did everything right and to standard. News outlets scare mongering didn't help at all. In Canada when the story was reported the take away was "Supervise you child and teach them how to use the toys and always read the warnings." And for people wondering how it got stuck to the face. The red half the ball could fit over your nose and if you sucked in (like kids do with cups and anything else that can fit over your mouth) The red half can stick to your mouth and lips. Kids are dumb, kids will play with anything that is why you teach them how to use things and handle things.
I partially agree but I think it's worth mentioning that BK did allow a critical design flaw where there were no small holes in the balls like there are with most toys that can run a risk of suctioning like that. One very simple little change could've saved the lives of two children
To be fair, the FIRST incident wasn't entirely the parents' fault. She had given the toy to her older child. When she stepped out of the room for a minute, the older child wandered into the baby's room, left the toy on the floor, and the baby got it. You could argue you shouldn't leave your kid alone, but the fact is, no parent is perfect and everyone steps away for just a minute at least once. This isn't to say BK was at fault either though. It was just a tragic accident.
I hope that other child is alright. I can't imagine the guilt they could carry over potentially being responsible for their own sibling's demise. @@MokohiChan
Love the video Izzy. Just mention about the arcues part is that it has shown that the one given to you in Legends is said to be 'fragment of itself' It could mean that the other one's caught in pokeballs are too an extension of the original self.
Just to add some mitigating information: 1. Many people have more than one child. So it's quite possible the toy belonged to an older sibling. 2. It's also much more difficult to keep all these toys away from younger kids when older siblings have these toys and may hand them over, or leave them within reach when a parent is briefly distracted. Or a friend of the older child may do so. 3. This shouldn't happen. Parents should be watching at all times when unsafe toys are around small children. But reality is, with millions of families around, it will happen. So companies should try to do their utter best to make these toys as safe as they can. 4. Half-dome shaped toys are a known safety hazard. There have been incidences before with similarly-shaped toys, and the solution has always been to add holes into these designs so they can't block out all the air. So it either was very unwise of BK to not do that this time. Or they did, which would explain why they didn't belief their toy caused the tragedy.
Wouldn't it be funnier to suppose Giovanni _fell_ off the mountain? (Granted, I haven't played the relevant game, but that's be my first assumption if I thought I heard a splash and grunts asking where their boss went.)
Cool thing about the Ultra Ruins in US/UM: They're actually the ruins of the first city you visit in the game (the music is the city's theme in reverse and there's nods to it in the architecture), but completely destroyed after a major power plant accident. Some even speculate that Guzzlord is actually a mutated Alolan Muk.
so can you, like, not go back to the original city? i haven't played us/um but that's crazy if the first city is completely replaced by the ruins... i wonder what happened to all the people rip
my theory about the ruins is that ghetsis is actually a distant descendant of a whatever king ruled the kingdom that the ruins are from. that makes N the successor since ghetsis chose him to become the puppet king of team plasma but after the team splits into two factions,N is fallowed by the most loyal of the grunts and actually leads them with his ideals for people and pokemon.
18:50 I think Marshadow's name is actually a combination of "march" and "shadow", and that it's based on the Hawaiian night marchers, ghostly soldiers who walk around the islands at night
about catching Arceus, in legends they claim the arceus the protagonist catches is simply a PIECE of him, explaining why it can’t talk after capture in any of the games including legends arceus.
Maybe it was just because the team rocket trio seems to have a fandom of their own within the fandom, but there are a lot of weird or disturbing team rocket centered things that I remember as being prominently featured in TR centric (especially rocketshipping) fic. Things like Miyamoto's (Jessie's mother) disappearance, the theory that Giovanni was Jessie's father, the weirdly common "darkening pokemon" standard of writing edgy fanfic but specifically the fics that made team rocket some cutthroat, murderous, genuinely terrifying gang. It's been a while since I was actively involved with the team rocket fandom-within-a-fandom but there was so much widespread dark stuff across (especially early to mid 2000s) fic. I would love to talk with anyone who was also a hardcore rocketshipper that read the fics by authors like Anna Sartin or Dangermouse, if anyone else here has experiences in that crowd.
I got the pokemon mangas when I was like eight years old, they were sold at a library nearby and I bought them, the issue with lavender town was pretty creepy for eight year old me. I literally had nightmares of zombie psyduck hunting me down. Looking back at it, it's not that creepy anymore to be honest, actually a bit more goofy.
I mean, it's pretty creepy, especially to a kid. We're not, and really not supposed, to be used to seeing dead pokemon, especially animant, rotting corpses
I don't get why you don't have more subs. Your videos are so good and well written, they always puts a smile on my face. I hope you get more attention and subs!
I remember that pokeball recall, I hid all of my pokeballs from my mom because she was either totally convinced I was going to suffocate on them (I was eight) or she wanted to return them one at a time for a bunch of free fries. I think I managed to keep them all, might even still be in storage.
it would make sense that sun and moon are based heavily on alchemy-like themes! type-null/silvally is a chimera (and has been speculated to contain elements from the three starter pokemon), solgaleo resembles that lion that eats the sun, and rockruff has been speculated to represent rock/lead (the starting points of alchemy)
Marshadow’s blank stare also reminds me of the “thousand-yard stare” that is a symptom of PTSD from war, or what was called “shellshock” during WWI. There are many famous photos of WWI soldiers that display the same blank look as Marshadow, and that’s what my mind immediately went to when I heard that theory
Honestly I think it would be cool if the Applin line got a more explicitly Snow White-inspired regional variant if there's ever a Pokémon game set in Germany, as that's where the fairytale originates from.
One of the first creepy pastas I ever read was about "Pokemon Black Version" (this was, pretty obviously, written well prior to the announcement and release of the real Pokemon Black and White versions). It was about a "found" modded cartridge of pokemon red version where you can take one of the ghosts from the pokemon tower as your starter (you could take another starter and the game would play normally). Whenever you beat a trainer with the ghost, the trainer would disappear from the overworld after the battle. I don't remember too much more than that but it's a fun read, I recommend it if you're ever bored. ^_^
The best part about the dark stuff in the manga like the Zombies they always come out of freaking nowhere and it's always shocking and confusing when it happens
One small criticism that relates to a few entries - I think a lot of Pokémon have multiple origins. Saying that a Pokémon is based on only one thing (such as Victini being the method of cutting apples) is disregarding that they may have had a lot of inspirations blended into one Pokémon.
Part 2 Timestamps babeee ͙⁺˚*･༓☾Timestamps☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ ☾Tier 3 cont.: Upper Body of the Iceberg☾ 2:40- Silent Hills 3:06- Time Travel Implications 4:10- Alolan Exeggutor is a Dragon 4:39- Kadabra Lawsuit 5:31- “I’m Going to go for Help” 6:02- Shedinja ✦Tier 4: Lower Iceberg✦ 7:03- Pokémon Manga Zombies 7:37- Malamar has Affected History 8:18- Zodiac Theory 9:22- Alchemy Theory 10:59- Arceus is God Debate 12:00- The Pokédex is Haunted by Rotom 13:16- Machamp/Golem DNA Scramble 13:51- Junji Ito Pokémon 14:20- Relicanth is a Map 15:04- Giovanni Jumper off the Falls Theory 16:05- Shudo’s Original Anime Ending 17:28- Victini is a Nuclear Bomb 18:10- Marshadow is a War Victim 18:52- Who is the REAL First Pokémon 20:09- ??? Arceus 𓉸Tier 5: Murky Depths𓉸 21:05- Yveltal will cause the End of the World 21:37- X and Y is about Life and Death 22:04- Porygon is an Abomination 23:52- Burger King Pokéball Recall 25:49- Abyssal Ruins Mystery 27:40- Unown King 28:42- Unown are Human Victims 29:52- Misty is Dead 30:19- u/GamingPryme’s ‘Special Edition’ 31:19- Deoxys is Pokérus 32:20- Porygon3 32:44- Imakuni 33:04- Imposter Oak 33:20- Pokémon Lost Silver 34:43- Darkrai Kills ꙮTier 6: Hellꙮ 35:25- MissingNo. in X and Y 36:01- Roaming Darkrai 36:29- Koffing in a Holocaust Museum 37:20- 9/11 Catch Rates 37:58- Arceus is a Hand 38:46- Erernatus is a Corrupted Hand 39:26- Relicanth is Native to New Zealand 40:40- Original Dragon Creation Trio Theory 42:19- Pokémon Alters the Brain 42:51- Pokémon Go Tragedies 43:59- Flapple Snow White Theory
The thing I don't understand about these theories that involve the ider of nuclear weapons or Hiroshima and Nagasaki is do people really think this is something the Japanese would make light of in a game? Even with dark themes and such, that's a whole different bridge and one that I would think would be to far.
i agree, especially for victini! i think the unown ruins in early plans for gen 2 is plausible for a scrapped idea- i don't think they would have made light of it, but they probably realized it was way too dark to actually pull off well in the franchise.
@@wilderulz if you want to get creative it could be a criticism of USA acting like they won the war (as they were "victorious") even though all they did was bombing Japan and WW2 was coming to an end anyways But of course they wouldn't put political/historical criticism in a kids game
there was actually a ??? type in some of the generations and eggs were this type in some games and there was a ??? type move as well (curse) - i think the ??? type arceus was a failsafe in case someone tried to hack their arceus
The Pokémon creepy pastas will always give me massive nostalgia. I remember reading about them back in the summer of 2012 😂 I was about to be a freshman in high school and that stuff freaked me out. But amazing video as always Izzy!
I appreciate how your "who's the first pokemon" question didn't include bulbasaur or rhydon. Bulba is 1st on the pokedex because Oak loves him some nepotism and numbered everything based on it's distance from his office rhydon because it has the lowest hex value in red/blue/green which everyone's extrapolated to mean that it was the first one ever made. Which literally only makes sense if every pokemon is drawn, approved, and coded into the game one at a time
I love theorizing on pokemon lore, but i never understood the "What pokemon came first?" debate. It's now canon, thaks to pokemon legends arceus, that the arceus we see and use in combat is just an infinitesimally small part of the all powerfull unnamed god that created everything and that "breathed alone before the universe came" , as said on its plates.
I grew up around most of the things your channel talks about, but I barely got to enjoy them as a kid. You are my happiness place, reminding me about good moments of my childhood haha
Fun fact about shedninja, on top of a open spot, you also need a pokeball, and it use to randomly choose one of your balls so if you got unlucky, you could lose your master ball from the evolution with no way to get it back
This was such a huge nostalgia ride for me. Pokemon was super important to me as a kid since my sister and I bonded over them a lot. I remember hearing a lot of those creepy pastas from abrandontothepast when I was younger and they were some the first horror-type things I was ever exposed to. Makes me want to dig out my my old 3ds XL and play through all them again! Hope Nintendo ports all of the old games to the Switch sometime. It would probably get them a lot of money to lol. Great vid Izzy!
4:22 Alolan Exeggutor being dragon type is also in reference to the mo'o, which were shapeshifters/the Hawaiian version of dragons, there's a video on Lockstin & Gnoggin's channel going into the lore in case anyone is interested!!
Honestly Sun/moon was kinda screwed the second it introduced Bed Sniffing. Like wtf? I will never get over this That is FAR creepier than any pokedex entries
I thought "???" Arceus was because there was one weird move (Curse) that was just a "???" type, and Arceus had plates for every type in the game, even if it was that one weird non-type.
Something not really scary but something I feel like would've been an interesting topic on the iceberg is the shuttle in the Pewter City Museum of Science. From Bulbapedia: "In the Generation I games, the plaque accompanying the space shuttle model reads "Space Shuttle Columbia"; however, in the remakes, the plaque simply reads "Space Shuttle". This is probably due to the fact that on February 1, 2003, the real Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry during its 28th mission, killing all seven crew members. The reference to Space Shuttle Columbia was kept in the Japanese version of the Generation III games, but was removed in Generation VII."
22:05 to add onto the X&Y legendaries theory, there's a theory that the three legendaries are based on norse mythology, xerneas being based on yggdrasil and the stags under it. Yveltal is based on the eagle that sit on the very top of the giant world tree. And Zygarde is based on nidhoggr, a serpent (or dragon) that nibbles the roots of the great tree, or maybe zygarde is based on Jormungandr, the giant serpent circling midgard.
this series was so unbelievably fascinating! i've been playing pokemon since the early 2000s but there's sooo much of this i didn't know... i could honestly listen to you talk about creepy pokemon lore for hours. great work!! 💖
From how I heard it, "The first pokemon" is more a joke than a thought experiment. Mew and Arceus could be the first pokemon as stated, but Bulbasaur is the first pokemon in the dex, and Rhydon was the first pokemon ever designed, in a meta sense.
Yes!!! Love the videos! All your essays are great but I love Pokémon related stuff, so I'd always be happy to see you explore more wacky Pokémon things. As a diehard Gen 5 fan, I've always found the abyssal ruins so mysterious and fascinating! I found it so interesting decoding everything in the ruins, and I interpreted the theoretical inclusion of the name Harmonia throughout the stories to be confirmation that Harmonia was the family name of the kings that ruled Unova back in the days of old when it was still a monarchy, and could be proof that Ghetsis is a direct descendant of them... Which makes his fixation on the legendary Pokémon, as well as his anger in his apparent inability to be recognized as a 'hero' to them all the more upsetting with the knowledge that his ancestors were the original heroes. Then again, those were the connections I made! I also subscribe to the belief that N and Ghetsis are in fact related in some way too; either uncle and nephew or perhaps even biological father and son because I would never put it past Ghetsis to have a kid and then yeet him into the wilderness to create the perfect canvas for the 'hero' he needs to seize control of the legendaries, hahah. Anyways, love ya Izzy!!
There are mythical dragon like creatures that turn themselves into palm trees to hide. So alolan exeggutor makes a lot more sense than most people think.
Omg I’ve been binging your videos, you have a great voice for reporting on some daily nerdy information. The deep dives are everything I’ve needed! ❤ thanks you for making my hours alone better! 😂
It's been so cool to see your channel grow so much over the past year since I started watching! Always love seeing what crazy or obscure new topics you put out videos on, as they either hit me right in the nostalgia or expose me to something I've never even heard of
I've been at home w/ covid the past 5 days and have been obsessively checking to see if this was up. Thanks so much Izzy, love the pace you go through these in - informative enough we can pick up info but quick enough my brain doesn't get distracted!
When Pokemon Go came out, my group of friends from highschool and I all went out over the summer for multiple night catching pokemon long into the night. I remember we were catching pokemon in the parking lot of a shopping center when we saw a car pull into a side road and park. We were just happening to finish up and walk past when we walked past the car and someone from inside opened the window and asked "Did you guys catch that Vulpix?" One of my friends had and said so and all four people from inside the car started arguing amongst each other. It was a wild time, that summer led to more "and everyone clapped" stories that actually happened than any other!
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One thing that i found disturbing especially with the recent release of pokemon ledgends areceus is the fact that hisuian zorua basically according to the pokemon website "migrated to the Hisui region after being driven from other lands by humans, who shunned the Pokémon for manifesting uncanny illusions. But the Zorua perished, unable to survive the harsh Hisuian environment and strife with other Pokémon. Their lingering souls were reborn in this Ghost-type form through the power of their malice toward humans and Pokémon." Zoroark 's is just malice driven too and ever since i heard that i started catching zoruas like crazy to protect them lol.
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In "Who is the first Pokemon" Rhyhorn/Rhydon and Bulbasaur were probably worth mentioning considering that was the original "who was the first" debate before Arceus was introduced in to Pokemon.
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I personally think that the Abyssal Ruins was for Meloetta. Considering Relic Song is it’s signature move, Harmonious makes sense for the name of a Pokémon known for singing-and who’s design match not just singing but music- however a problem with it is that unlike almost every other mythical, we know basically nothing about it aside from being able to change emotions-a few examples of others who have barely any info are newer ones-starting from after Magearna, Shaymin, Victini and partially Hoopa cause aside from being a Genie, we don’t know a lot other than someone sealed part of it a long time ago
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An important note: When you defeat Arceus in Legends: Arceus, he basically gives you an.. Avatar(?) of himself. Like he literally gives you a new special plate and then an Arceus joins your party/storage. You don't capture THE Arceus, you acquire an avatar/extension of him.
Did you make this up
i was gonna say this, his research says “obtain a part of arceus” he basically lends you 0.00001% of his power to use, if you had the full power of a god in your party you’d think he’d have a million hp and stats that are incomprehensible to a normal human
@@deeskman1549 I find it really cool that that’s probably what happens in every game where you can catch Arceus. No honor for you, that’s just a tiny bit of god. Still interesting that a child got that far
@@AS-ri1mb nope, this is literally in the game
It's like god giving out his eyelash
The idea that Giovanni wouldn't be able to take the 'shame' of being beaten in a pokemon battle by a kid is kind of ridiculous when you remember he's a former gym leader, being battled and beaten by kids was kind of his job...
Yeah his job that he never did? He was literally never at the gym, obviously for a reason.
One could argue that being a gym leader is a scripted job though. We see this in Gold/Silver (and probably other places) when the player goes back to Kanto and the gym leaders have stronger teams. It's possible gym leaders are supposed to lose to trainers of a certain caliber.
But a battle outside of the gym and for personal pride? That could be different I suppose
@@MasterMemo we’ve also seen in Pokémon Origins that gym leaders swap in Pokémon that match up to the calibre of the challenger
@@AS-ri1mb yeah exactly!
Chances are that not many people passed his gym while he was active until red and blue came along.
Something I picked up on that I think is cool is fairy type being weak to steel type. In British folklore people believed that certain metals, mainly iron but I have seen steel mentioned too, were anti magic and would be used to deter or harm fairies that at the time were legitimately feared.
Omg I never thought of that!
That's right! Horse show over doorways to keep fairies away - I never made that connection in pokemon tho! So cool! :)
yeah it lines up with celtic folklore
I love the idea of even a fairy being vulnerable to getting shanked
It's logical that steel would also be included, because it's made with iron!
"Fun"(?) Fact, in relation to the Koffing in Pokémon GO being caught in a questionable location, the game actually zones "sensitive locations" as unplayable. I've played in Hiroshima and near the museum, A Dome and Peace Park there are no Pokéstops or spawns. I obviously didn't play 'in' that location but it was interesting to see on the in-game map from afar this green map space with no interactable items.
@Kuba poke bronze Zoë is real, hahaha. I enjoyed her WBE series run a few years ago.
That screenshot actually looks more like an AR photo you take of your own pokemon
I know it was completely not on purpose (because why would they know or care) but the day after our local bbq shop burned down, I got 2 charmaders next to where the shop was. I named them after the owners 😂
@@maniczzz did the owners die?
@@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehYes but they recovered by now.
I'm surprised Izzy didn't include the "The legendary dogs were eeveelutions revived by Ho-oh" which is one of my favorite theories of all time
Can you explain this one a bit more ?
@@fanofthings6720 it's more because of how the legendary dogs' types align with the og eeveelutions (Suicune/Vaporeon, Raikou/Jolteon, Entei/Flareon), and also because the dog thing, with eevee being the only dog-like pokemon that completely changes type/form after evolving (not to mention there weren't that many dog pokemon back in gen 2 besides arcanine and houndoom)
@@heresyuwu Also, prior to Generation 7, the Legendary Beasts' Hidden Abilities were the same as the OG Eeveelution's normal abilities.
@@fanofthings6720 It's canon that three Pokémon died in a fire in the Brass Tower in Ecruteak, and Ho-oh revived them and transformed them into the Legendary Beasts.
I'm bummed out that they didn't add the "snorlax's caused famines"
People always talk ab the decapitated arbok, but nobody talks ab the arguably scarier scene where Giovanni traps some pokemon in ice and shatters them into pieces. Then talks ab Red needing to learm how to "finish the job." Also, Red is almost eaten alive by Victribell. The manga genuinely scared child me.
no one mentions that arbok lived
The manga's wack. I own all of it up to sun/moon and it doesn't stop being weird, just a different kind of weird
@@mudkipqueen920 random thing but when i heard sun and moon i actually watched the entire sun and moon series and didnt realize i was finishing the anime up until i saw that ash was moving from alola and i was mad because he got alot of good pokemon
This isn't related to the comment but how does a burger king PokeBall get stuck in someone's nose?
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 maybe it can shrink and enter the nose
Psych major here! The part about the study finding that there is a preferential response in the occipital temporal sulcus is just due to the pattern recognition based information storage habits of the brain! It’s nothing really due to the nature of Pokémon itself rather a sort of “hey I’ve seen that before” on our brains part. However it is really cool that they used Pokémon for their study as that’s a really broad focus group and has more generalizability and therefore validity in the study!
On a somewhat unrelated (albeit interesting note) I am reminded of that state of mental awareness labelled as "precognitive dreams", or something similar (cannot seem to recall the exact verbiage/terminology here). But I digress, moving onto the story.
In the past, I've personally had slight premonitions in my dream, where I would be performing a very specific action. (e.g.,) Watching myself eating breakfast on the sofa, but I normally 99.99% of the time would always opt to eat on the dining table itself. Thinking this to be very odd, I shrug it off and think to myself the next morning I would never catch myself doing this.
Yet, to the contrary, (and interestingly enough) a couple of days later, I found myself performing the very same action I had witnessed in my dream, and at that very same moment, I was immensely reminded of the dream I had a couple of days/weeks prior.
Having said all of that, I think our brains are just fantastic mechanisms, and there is a whole lot of it unknown to science and humanity. Learning more about this important muscle of ours is surely a task of great scientific importance, that I hope to see more advances of in the near future.
Yeah, thank you for saying this in a more informed way than I ever could lol. How the press chooses to interpret scientific studies is such a weird grift. As if anything that makes us recognize or like an image is "altering our children's brains" lmao.
@@SlendysWatchingMe I agree so much. It’s a huge problem in the scientific community as a whole. Writing a buzz article that completely misrepresents what a study is about and it’s data is so dangerous. People aren’t going to look at the study, and are just going to trust what they read. This misrepresentation and those like it are reliant on and are perpetuated by the fact that scientific literacy is so low that a majority of people don’t want to/ know how to decipher a scientific study. Just another reason why education should be equal and accessible.
But def no hate to Izzy, it’s still a really cool point in this video, and I’m sure it already took enough research and time to actually find all this info.
@@katt.astrophic Oh, for sure, and Izzy included a lot of stuff in this video that's interesting but which she ultimately doesn't seem to think is "correct" and she didn't perpetuate any of the fearmongering many sources must have. All love to her and it's a great video! The need to include that study as a "dark" subject is just indicative of, exactly as you said, a complete lack of scientific literacy or competent scientific interpretation in the mainstream.
20:20 The ???-type did exist in those games. In Generation 4 and prior, the move Curse was a ???-type move. I imagine it was created as a "just in case" thing so that there is an Arceus for all types in the game.
Not only has ???-type existed, but the icons used for it are that teal color, and in Fire Red/Leaf Green, the icon is split teal and a pinkish color, just like the accents on ???-type Arceus.
I wish they did more on the ??? type on moves or even pokemon in the future. I used to get spooked by it as a child but now I'm really curious of its origins in the game.
Yeah, it's most likely that it was created so the game wouldn't crash if it was hacked in.
@@kariyokay The origin is not particularly mysterious I think, it simply means it's an indeterminate type. Curse is a Ghost-type move when used by a Ghost-type Pokemon, and a Normal-type move when used by any other Pokemon.
Similarly, Eggs used to be ???-type because the type was unknown until it hatched.
i thought it was the sprite for the scrapped bird type
As someone who watches Pokemon fact videos frequently, its extremely refreshing to watch one that has so much lore, history and fan fiction I've never heard about before.
do other videos mainly concern themselves with, like, what's scientifically possible? and theories?
because honestly a lot is lost when we dont look at history, and i always find it so interesting to learn about it
I don't get why people argue over whether Mew or Arceus came first, the statement that Mew holds the DNA of all Pokemon was written before gen 4. It's clear that Mew was created as the first mortal Pokemon, sort of like the first humans in every world mythology.
I think it would make the most sense if arceus made mew (and the space time trio) with its dna, and mew went on to make every other pokemon
Honestly I think I prefer the idea of both of them kind of existing at the same time with a connection to each other. There’s still mysteries like why the unknowns are connected to Arceus, so having mew exist when Arceus existed, before time and space was invented means that they could both be the “first” without contradicting either game’s lore
You kinda screwed up with how you worded that. Notice how you said "mortal". "Mortal" beings are seen as the product of a God-like being. Mew being mortal implies it's a product, and not the actual creator. Arceus, on the other hand, is seen as the god-like being. The "creator" of mew. It also doesn't matter what generation anything is said. Things can be ret-conned and changed, or better explained in the future. I understand your thinking process but it's ultimately flawed because it doesn't fully follow logic and the pokemon lore. Hope that clears things up for ya. It isn't really confusing, you just have to use critical thinking skills. Your early human in mythology idea is flawed because something had to come before them and create them or a process had to exist before them in order to create them in the first place. There's multiple references in real world mythology talking about how beings came BEFORE those early humans, and that early humans were actually not the first beings in creation, but the products of the beings before them. That's an important detail you left out. I dont know whether you forgot that detail/factor or if you left it out on purpose to fit your personal theory but I'll play devils advocate and assume you just made an innocent mistake and didn't fully think things through.
You just have to think about it for a bit and piece the pieces together. It is pokemon after all, not Dark Souls lore, so it's not really that hard to understand. I know a lot of Dark Souls lore but the flow of space and time is convoluted in that universe so its understandable if that was confusing. Multiple timelines, events implied to happen and not happen at the same times across multiple timelines and dimensions, people and beings existing on one timeline, but being able to cross over to other timelines, bizarre and harder to understand stuff like that. A good example is Dark Souls 3. At that point in time, the fabric of space and time has been screwed with by "gods" and mortals for so long, that it becomes extremely convoluted. All the timelines start smashing and merging with each other because the "gods" and humans defied the laws of their own existence. In the dark souls universe, even the gods are weak and susceptible to the laws of the existence and world they exist within. Sorta like how grecko-roman gods tend to have human flaws and weaknesses. In the dark souls universe there's supposed to be repeated and periodical times of Dark ages(basically human/dark soul dominated times) and Light ages(ages dominated by "gods" and the "flame"). Well the gods got power hungry and greedy and defied that law and instead of letting the flame die out, great souls and beings were sacrificed to the flame to keep it burning, extending the Light Ages out of greed for control and power. If you want the most Law of Nature friendly ending, you let the flame die out in Dark Souls 1 and in Dark Souls 3. If you want the power hungry, just a puppet or pawn of the gods ending, you throw yourself into the flame and rekindle it, letting it burn longer and defying the Natural Order of existence. By Dark Souls 3 its implied that during and after Dark Souls 1, no matter what choice you make, the flames were continued to be kindled and the laws defied. Dark Souls 3 is the "true ending" of the universe. You can either keep the flame burning temporarily until the next "puppet" comes along and kindles it again and then possibly no one steps up, or no one is successful in time and the flame burns out, or you can choose to simply let it burn out yourself and let the world run and operate as it was Intended, ending the Light Age and beginning a new Dark Age, leading to a new Light Age, leading to a new Dark Age, and so on and so fourth repeatedly until the end of time and existence. The Dark Age ISN'T the end of existence, just a DIFFERENT existence. Neither Age is necessarily evil or good, but rather the beings within them and their actions are what are truly good and evil. The "gods" like to portray the Dark Age as evil, because it naturally ends their reign of power, and Dark Souls/Humans take over for a while. The gods cursed humans with the Dark Sign and Hollowing. This allows humans to potentially live forever and collect lots of power to feed the flame and keep it lit, keeping the gods in power, but each time a human with the Dark Sign dies, they're resurrected with less and less of their humanity until they go insane and become Hollow. A walking, hollow husk of what they used to be, fueled by "animalistic" instinct to kill on sight and keep dying over and over until the end of time. I know I rambled on and on but the Dark Souls universe is vast and amazing and I love it. Believed to be some of the best games ever created and for good reasons.
I used quotations a lot in my other comment because like I said, the fabric of time and space, and the events and beings within it are all VERY convoluted. I personally like to let the flames die out and start the Dark Age, and later let the Flames re-spark themselves, because that's how the world was Intended to flow and work. I prefer to do the right thing and serve The Balance, instead of being a power hungry puppet for the gods and rekindling the Flame. The Flame was never meant to be rekindled. It's supposed to die out and rekindle itself later on, repeatedly until the end of time. The "gods" actually were not the first beings to exist in the Dark Souls universe. Before the "gods" came along the world was an endless, timeless world full of darkness(the light type not evil type), giant Archtrees, and was dominated by dragons. The Flame appeared out of the chaos of nothingness and granted the "gods" their light souls, and one being, The Fertive Pygmy(implied to be the one true ancestor of humans), the Dark Soul. After the "gods" were formed, they waged war with the dragons and nearly killed all dragons in existence. Seathe the Scaless is a scale-less Dragon that sided with the gods and helped destroy his own kind. I think its implied that there are an extremely low number of dragons that are still alive, but most of them were killed by the "gods". However there are descendants of dragons that do exist called "Drakes". They aren't exactly the same as dragons and I believe they don't possess the same amount of power as dragons, but they are very similar, still very powerful, and are wide spread throughout the Dark Souls world. Matter of fact, in Dark Souls 1, you face multiple Drakes. At least one fully grown fire Drake overlooking a bridge, and a bunch of juvenile lightning Drakes that hang out on another bridge. There is a zombie torso near the lightning Drakes, but I don't remember if it's the zombified, torso remains of full fledged Dragon, or a Drake. I do know that it's easy to kill and hardly possesses any power like it used to. It attacks with strong physical attacks and can attack with a poison attack that can poison you and cause poison damage over time. It makes sense because it's a rotten, zombie torso.
Something cool about the X and Y legendaries is that I am pretty sure they are actually based off of mythological creatures from Norse Mythology. Xerneas is based off of the World Tree, the place that holds all of the different worlds. Yveltal is based on the hawk at the top of the world tree and Zygarde is based off the snake/dragon at the bottom of the world tree. Just thought I would share something that I found interesting while looking into more Pokémon stuff.
Xerneas isn't based on the tree itself, but on the four stags around the tree that eat from its branches. That's why Xerneas has four pairs of antlers.
@@Clockehwork I think is more likely that Xerneas takes inspiration from both as opposed to just one because Xerneas resembles a tree when it's hibernating
Ooo that’s actually really neat! Xerneas’ antlers always reminded me of branches so I guess that’s how I got that mixed up, haha.
Zygarde's got a fair Jormungar in him and not just Nidhogg. Why? Because the alternate Zygarde forms are a canine, like, say, a wolf. And the other one is a humanoid with two colours to its.... We'll go with face.
So Zygarde's also pulling double-duty as Fenris, Jormungandr, and Hel
I always thought Xerneas was based off the Kirin. A friendly yokai of nature and good fortune.
When you defeat Arceus, it said it'll travel with you. However it's mentioned that you'll receive a part of him. Therefore, you don't even own Arceus, but rather you own a 'copy' of him.
The nerve of Arceus
i think the lore explanation is that you receive like 0.0001% of arceus’s power in the form of an avatar or copy of him because having a literal god in your team would result in stats and moves so powerful it’s incomprehensible to humans
Arceus really nft'd himself huh
He gave us his autograph and left lmao
@@cottonballbats Pokémon god is a cryptobro confirmed?
Not a copy. More like a flesh puppet Arceus possesses.
An additional piece to the "first Pokémon" debate is that people will often pitch Bulbasaur (Pokémon #001) and Rhydon (The first Pokémon ever designed)!
when i first heard about the "first pokemon" debate i immediately said rhydon/rhyhorn but i never realized it was from the canon timeline and not in real life
Wasn't there mentions of unowns existing before arceus too? I remember it being pretty solid on the community that unown is the only pokemon that doesn't come from arceus, rather, it has existed before everything
And now we have a brand new one, Rowlet is the first pokemon in the very first Pokedex.
@@monkeykingw as it deserves
@@monkeykingw why? I'm not complaining but why do ppl say Rowlet was 1st?
I personally like the 'unknown are actually arceus' hands' -theory, in that they symbolize game code and can rewrite reality
yoooo 👀
Sounds super cool but, highly unlikely.
Hey there! My father helped in design of packaging and promo of the pokeballs. He did tons of graphic design for the Burger King kids club as well. He as a graphic designer and artist was amazing but as a father he was abusive beyond belief. Last year he took his own life and my brother and I inherited all of his art including the big bag of BK pokeballs I always wanted to open as a kid. We split them 50-50 and I opened all of mine and I can see how a child could suffocate on them due to them not having the usual hole that most toys will have to reduce the chance of suffocation. I don't have any special insight to add to the incident I just wanted to quickly share this story.
I just dont get it. Those pokeballs seem big enough to not enter a kids mouth??? Or are they smaller than they look?
@@capuchinosofia4771 problem being is they didn't have a safety hole drilled into them so one half of the pokeball covered the baby's face and it suffocated.
@@faydrapatora8416 oh I see now. Thanks for explaining!
Im sry to hear that, on a bright side you got a lot of pokeballs and pokemons right???
I know it's not supposed to be read this way, but Porygon being brought from the future into the past and introducing technology to the world provides a valid explanation for why the Pokemon remakes incorporate technology that wasn't there in the originals, outside of the real life explanation of evolving technology and new gimmicks. The Vs. Seeker/tutorial tv in Firered/Leafgreen, Mega Evolution in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, etc. ORAS even implies other timelines exist (the original games), so it's fair to assume the remakes are their own isolated things, and Legends Arceus is the point in which the timeline changed to accommodate them.
Lotta holes in this theory, but it's fun to think about.
That could actually support the "Timelines with and without Mega Evolution" theories, like why there's a split at all--
“You canonically have no soul”
I thought icebergs were meant to show obscure information that I wouldn’t know
Lol
Right, we've seen the 3d characters facial animations there's nothing there XD
Pffffffffffft
Another thing: Giovani actually shows up again as the leader of Team Rainbow Rocket in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, having traveled the multiverse and found the versions of past Team leaders who actually won in their universes to make up his new world dominating team. This is terrifying in and of itself when you consider what foes like Cyrus and Lysandre actually wanted: their canonically exists alternate universes in which Cyrus undid creation and Lysandre annihilated the population of the entire world.
I think I can explain the New Bark Town one! The first few Pokémon games are based off of real life Japanese locations and prefectures. Kanto was based off of the real Kanto area in Japan, specifically Kanagawa, Tokyo, and Chiba prefectures. Gold and Silver starts you off to the prefecture directly west of Kanagawa, which is called Shizuoka. There are a few ways to interpret Shizuoka into English, but it does literally mean Silent Hill. Most likely, earlier in development New Bark Town just had a placeholder name for the prefecture it’s based off of!
I thought the alchemy theory was a bit of a stretch at first but then reading about it on Wikipedia, I found out that alchemy has something called the Three Primes. They consist of sulfur, mercury, and salt! Finding that out definitely made the theory much more believable for me.
43:26 I actually live in Tippecanoe county in Indiana and one thing this doesn't really take into account is that Purdue University is located in this county and when the game first came out it was a massive hit with students on campus who make up like half the population of the county itself. Obviously this would inflate the accident statistics as a busy college campus filled with college students catching pokemon on their phones is probably going to experience more pokemon-related accidents than your otherwise average town would.
@E Not only that but there is also a pretty significant jaywalking problem. I've literally seen whole groups of people walking down the road seemingly unaware of all the cars they're blocking by doing so. In general campus is hell to navigate in a car even without people walking around trying to find pokemon on their phones.
Shedinja isn’t a corpse it’s the shell the nincada left behind when it evolved into a ninjask. It’s a reference to how real cicadas leave their shells around and they still look like their nymph form.
it’s a reanimated husk of an animal, zombies are reanimated husks of humans, so she’s not entirely wrong
Yeah. Iirc its called and exuvia
@@deeskman1549 Expect that unlike corpses, the shell is an exoskeleton, and the cicada is still alive. It would be like comparing a snake sheded skin to a dog corpse.
I wouldn't call cut hair, nails and shed dead skin flakes exactly alive. Because that's basically what Shedinja is.
it's an animated skeleton, that's just a fleshless zombie
My favorite spooky Pokémon thing is the Glitch City Ghost. Going out of bounds in Pokemon Crystal will take you to what fans call “Glitch City”: basically an endless mess of jumbled tiles. If you follow certain steps, you’ll eventually find a monochrome girl looking around. If she sees you, she’ll approach like a trainer with the Burned Tower theme playing, except her text box is full of question marks. Sometimes she repeats the player character’s name over and over again. Then the game crashes. Though it’s certainly a coincidence, what I find makes it extra spooky is this cut text from the game:
“Oh, no. Oh, no…
My daughter is
missing.
No… She couldn’t
have gone to the
BURNED TOWER.
I told her not to
go near it…
People seem to
disappear there…
Oh, what should I
do…?”
There’s more to it than I explained here. If you want to see the glitch in action, I recommend Cello2WC’s video demonstration of the glitch. It’s some neat stuff!
is it a real glitch or a creepypasta?
@@alolisa113 It’s a real glitch, though it apparently only works on an emulator.
@@ArchenOpteryx oh wow, that one is actually really fascinating. Do you know if that text appears in other places in the game?
@@citrusune Nope, I'm pretty sure the text is completely unused.
I wonder if rather than a coincidence, it might be that she was also cut from the game and is still sort of there ala dummied out glitches you get in a lot of old games. Could be that finding her was meant to be a short little sidequest for an item or something. Definitely a fun, creepy glitch either way.
Actually, it doesn't make a lot of sense for sigilyph to spawn in and around Egypt in pokemon go. The pokemon is based on the hummingbird geoglyph, which is found in Peru, South America, as well as a type of doll from the area. It doesn't really have anything to do with the Mediterranean at all.
Sigilyph is said to watch over ruins left by ancient civilizations. Both Greece and Egypt are known for their ancient ruins. That’s the logic behind it.
Just a heads to anyone reading this, the dolls that sigilyph are inspired by are called Kachina dolls and were used by the native Pueblo of the southwestern United States.
@@rainpooper7088Yeah but, they are far from the only ones
Three days ago, I met a loose family relation who was taking about how his uncle kept getting called away from family events for marketing meetings, and I noticed the dates were weirdly similar to major Switch launches in the US. A bit of prodding and it turns out he really is that kid whose uncle works for Nintendo, and I immediately ask him if he can ask his uncle how to move the truck above the SS Anne to get Mew. I have never seen someone look more like their soul had just departed their body.
Worth it.
The reason behind Mercury being associated with water in alchemy is due to its role as part of the "Three Essentials", which comprise it, salt and sulfur. The Three Essentials supposedly make up the necessary components to form a philosopher's stone.
Yesss exacatly! And also in Japan, the planet Mercury is linked to water! For example, Wednesday which is Mercury's day, is literally called "水曜日" ("Suiyoubi", with the kanji "水" meaning "Water"). Pretty cool stuff :D
Also mercury is the only metal liquid at room temperature
@@Jacob-Sophia gallium too
Nvm it’s only liquid only if it’s above room temp
@@maz7222 Yeah it’s a slight increase. Enough to melt at normal body temperature but still technically above room temperature.
I live in Poland and Koffing and Gastle were found to spawn in Auschwitz concentration camp. It made national news. As far as I remember correctly it was a reason for the company making the game to disable certain places (such as various memorials) from spawning Pokemon at all, to prevent people from playing the game there.
It's just insane that anyone would go go Auschwitz etc and think "hm yeah I'm going to play pokemon go" isn't it! 🤢
Oooooooooooogh that’s foul, absolutely foul 🤢 I’m glad they took certain memorials off of there.
one of the things i didnt see mentioned is also the reason i HATE the pokemon spoink
its one of those darker pokedex entries which there are just tons of but it still fucks me up:
"Spoink bounces around on its tail. The shock of its bouncing makes its heart pump. As a result, this Pokémon cannot afford to stop bouncing - if it stops, its heart will stop."
That always freaked me out too, because if you froze or paralyzed it during a battle you killed it :(
Spoink lives in constant pain and fear
if you subscribe to the theory that the Pokédex works like Wikipedia and is edited by edgy trainers, everything becomes a lot nicer
Tbf the pokedex is a very inaccurate source, using measurements and data that are blatantly impossible. Mountains wouldn't exist bc of the larvitar line alone, the ralts line would have destroyed the planet with their "mini black holes", magcargo's temperature couldnt be hotter than the sun without destroying the planet as well.
@@thatlycantomboy that's actually hilarious sounding
was scrolling through the comments and didnt see anyone mention this, but as a science nerd myself, and having seen other Poketubers mention it... I think Giratina represents GRAVITY rather than antimatter. This especially concerns the Distortion world. Gravity is wonky there, which is why we have that weird sideways waterfall, and if Giratina represented Antimatter... than Giratina himself couldnt exist in the Distortion world since any matter that comes into contact with antimatter is destroyed, and as far as I know, Giratina is made of matter, and so are Cyrus, Cynthia, Dawn/Lucas, and all the Pokemon in the aforementioned Trainers' parties. This makes Giratina as the Gravity Controller make sense, and when you think about its Abilities, Pressure and Levitate... Pressure makes sense as the standard Legendary Ability, and Levitate because it flies in Origin Form, and if Giratina represented gravity, then he would be manipulating what he has control over in order to achieve levitation for himself.
When I was little I loved cicadas for some odd reason so I love the nincada line however I’d never heard of shedinja. So I had an open space when mine evolved and was horrified to see a random Pokémon in my party. I looked it up and only found the creepy dex entry and creepypastas about it. I don’t play for 5 months after that!
not sure about rowlett or popplio, but the symbol on litten's head is DEFINITELY intended to be the symbol for sulfur.
Wowwwww so insightful!1!1!1!1!1
@@humanbeeing4780 cmon man why you gotta be mean
just wanted to let you know, izzy, i enjoy your channel so much! i always love watching this entertaining content while eating lunch, before bed, or even with my friends. you definitely do an amazing job at researching specific topics and doing a deep dive on them, i admire that so much. and a few things you've covered up have been pretty disturbing or creepy, which must be difficult to read from or gain information. keep up with these!! they're fantastic, hats off to you!!
Izzzyzzzs channel def deserves the highest RUclips honor of being watched while I eat/work
@@lioedevon4275 nah she never responded to the accusations about her not feeding her garfield fleet
i have the same feeling! All of the videos are quite interesting to watch
She looks like a creepy Pokémon if you ask me
@LTrain45 45 and we love her for it
One interesting fact about Pokemon was the time someone mathematically calculated that based on its Pokedex entries, the energy emitted by Lanturn would be able to destroy the universe
…..waht
"So not only people in the pokemon universe have to deal with murderous mind reading kidnaping ghosts and monster on a daily basis, they have to cope with the constant fear that the world could end at any second because a big Y shaped piece of bacon died."
Question Mark Arceus is probably just an after-effect of having a version of Arceus for every move type in Gen IV. The move "Curse" is listed as a question mark type move in Gen IV, with a pale green logo for its typing, so it's probably just applying the palette data for that type onto the sprite's elemental "halo" on its torso.
i feel like both mew and arceus are the first pokémon, just in different ways. while acreus is like, god, mew is the common ancestor for all the other pokémon, like a single celled organism. this does technically make arceus the actual “first” but these are like different categories of first-ness to me.
as for bulbasaur and rhydon, bc i know someone is probably gonna comment about that, i think bulbasaur was just the first to be documented in the pokedex (hence it being 001). and rhydon is the first from a meta standpoint, being the first one to be designed, but not in universe at all
Yeah, Arceus is basically God/Azathoth the Dreaming One from Lovecraft. Mew is the LUCA-the Last Universal Common Ancestor of everything that came after it.
That console glitch looks a LOT like one I was told was my ds lite "basically needing to be defragged but not having the software to do so" back in the day. Essentially there's a bunch of storage in the system that the system THINKS isn't being used but it's being used by fragmented files or past game memory fragments. So games that need more space to run think they can but they only get partially through the texture loading process. I thought that was fixed in newer systems but this looks so similar I think it may not have been?
I doubt fragmentation has anything to do with it, since all data is stored in the gamecard (except savedata for the 3ds) and ram is volatile, there would be no memory to get fragmented in the first place. My guess would be that the visual glitches result from some error during graphics processing.
@@thecryingsoul I'd buy that! I know nothing about consoles, I'm just functioning on what I've been told
With regards to ??? Arceus, the colours seem to match the move Curse with in Gen 4 was a move with no type that had 3 question marks and a murky green colour to represent it. Maybe since Arceus can represent all types, this was to explain that it too created the ??? Type as well.
42:55
Actually have a bit of a story kind of related to this particular subject on the iceburg.
I was an individual who was robbed playing Pokemon Go when it first came out. My partner and I were walking around a college campus park near our apartment at the time, it was pretty late at night since we both worked night jobs (both of us were pizza delivery drivers at the time). Since we slept during the day, we decided to go to the park at night since it had a ton of stops and there were plenty of people who also wandered the area for the same purpose. We were approached by two guys, my gf slipped her phone in her pocket to look at them while I was too busy catching Squirtle or something to bother looking up. They initiated a conversation with us, trying to get us to go off with them but neither of us were biting. Then they asked for the time. I ended up looking down at my phone to give them time, then one of them proceeded to try and grab my phone from my hand. There was a bit of struggle before he managed to pry it from my hands and the two of them took off running. We called the police and the college campus cops ended up immediately on scene, but as soon as they realized we weren't students on the campus/aka paying customers they did NOTHING to help and those two losers were never caught. However the joke is more on them than anything else...you see I'm very cheap when it comes to phones, I don't buy phones worth more than like $150...that particular phone they stole was a year-old Walmart phone with a pay as you go plan and its value sat maybe about 100 or so dollars at the time. My GF on the other hand had a brand new Samsung Note 8 at the time, but thankfully she was smart enough to put it away when approached. Honestly would have loved to been a fly on the wall when those two morons got to safety only to realize my phone was basically worthless. 🤣
Protips to those that wander at night. Exercise caution and vigilance when someone approaches you for conversation if you do not know them, stay out of arms reach, and maybe get a watch instead of looking at your phone at the time. Memorize the details of someone's face, hair, and entire outfit as well- you never know. Thankfully the two guys who robbed me were unarmed as far as we could tell, but if someone is armed it is just better to hand your stuff over- no object is worth your life.
This was a great set of videos by the way, really loved this iceburg you made Izzzyzz! Really a big fan of your content direction, it makes me happy you're revisiting a lot of these forgotten corners of the internet! I was finally reminded to feed my Neopets because of your videos. 😂
one of my favorite pokemon theories is that eternatus is an ultra beast. i doubt it would ever be addressed, but its cry in its normal form has the same buzzing noise that all the ultra beasts from sun and moon/ultra sun and ultra moon shared. given that eternatus is described as an alien, its a neat detail that i think was intentional
I agree!! Glad to see someone talk about it. I skipped pokemon sw/sh when it came out and never really ended up getting it afterwards so I only saw eternatus a few times online tho I didn’t know anything about it. Based on its design (and the size of it) I always assumed it was an ultra beast as well. Just recently found out that it wasn’t haha
In regards to the Zodiac theory, if you google "term for male crocodile" you get this result: "The male crocodile is called a bull, while the female crocodile is called a cow."
Definitely stretching hard there, but it's a neat addition to be sure
The thing is that a lot of other male animals can also be called Bull, it's not exclusive to crocodiles.
The Zodiac theory was fun but it's clearly dead now
Yeah that really seems like a stretch. The word "bull" also denotes the males of other bovines including elephants, rhinos, seals and walruses, hippos, camels, giraffes, elk, moose, whales, and antelopes.
I wonder how far people will continue to stretch themselves to justify the Zodiac theory
I never thought I'd see a Genshin Impact sponsor, but as someone who is waiting for the Sumeru region and loves good music, I'm so glad to see you get a sponsor with them
Same??? I was so surprised
i got fucking whiplash bro
Same ! I started playing a month ago and I love it. The game has flaws but is way more than a simple gatcha, with some powerful moments.
@@rapasdecoeur7017 i’m so upset I didn’t get Itto ngl, thats why I even started. But aye, at least Kaeya exists
@@ItWuzPyroz A fellow Kaeya player :D
I'm convinced Arceus is 100% meant to be a god of creation. In one of its entries there's stated that it created the universe with its thousand arms (which is speculated to mean tons of Unowns). Overall, the whole DPPt lore has a lot to do with creation myths.
Awesome stuff! Regarding Relicanth having maplike markings - this could be a reference to the ancient Coelacanth fish that Relicanth is based on, and specifically the surprising observation/theory that Coelacanth populations were found in disparate parts of the world due to the changing tectonic plates of the earth - i.e. the reordering of the world atlas. That's what I think about when associating maps and Relicanth :)
Okay this is my first time hearing about the Unown King creepypasta, but I've had an eerily similar dream to it? There was a secret cave in Pokemon Black/White that you could only open by waiting for a week in real time, and inside you'd encounter a massive Pokemon called Ty-bumbas whose body was made of swirling clouds of Unown and whose head was a curled sheet with six Unown eyes. Don't remember much beyond that tho
i'm sorry not the name ty-bumbas is really funny to me.... like that sounds freaky but also hilarious
Ty-bumbas 😭
omw to make fanart!
Ty bumbass 💀
SO excited to watch this! I'm pretty sure I've binged all your videos up to this point. 😅 Thanks for the awesome content! ✌️💛
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear dav
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@@L0rdOfThePies agreed.
@Key of unity cringe
@@L0rdOfThePies And I'd be willing to wager half of them are bot accounts, too. :/
i love izzzyzzz because her videos are so nice to watch in many cases, background noise, while eating, on roadtrips, and she has a really nice voice, and shes the perfect youtuber to do icebergs
10:35 maybe the “mercury” Pokémon is a water type because mercury is the only metal to be a liquid at room temperature. Idk just throwing that out there
Yeah that makes the most sense
this girl looks like a different person in every video and i live for it. she’s got such creative makeup looks (my favorite of what i’ve seen so far was.. the mlp iceberg one? with the two glowing hearts under the eyes)
It's unfortunate that those poor children suffocated but the bk toy recall was a testament of how many parents didn't pay attention to there children playing with toys.
I had 2 of them. This was a user issue not a manufacture issue. Its harsh to say but the balls were not intended to be used as toy but as storage. It came in a bag and had its warning of choking and small parts. BK did everything right and to standard. News outlets scare mongering didn't help at all. In Canada when the story was reported the take away was "Supervise you child and teach them how to use the toys and always read the warnings." And for people wondering how it got stuck to the face. The red half the ball could fit over your nose and if you sucked in (like kids do with cups and anything else that can fit over your mouth) The red half can stick to your mouth and lips. Kids are dumb, kids will play with anything that is why you teach them how to use things and handle things.
I partially agree but I think it's worth mentioning that BK did allow a critical design flaw where there were no small holes in the balls like there are with most toys that can run a risk of suctioning like that. One very simple little change could've saved the lives of two children
To be fair, the FIRST incident wasn't entirely the parents' fault. She had given the toy to her older child. When she stepped out of the room for a minute, the older child wandered into the baby's room, left the toy on the floor, and the baby got it. You could argue you shouldn't leave your kid alone, but the fact is, no parent is perfect and everyone steps away for just a minute at least once. This isn't to say BK was at fault either though. It was just a tragic accident.
I hope that other child is alright. I can't imagine the guilt they could carry over potentially being responsible for their own sibling's demise. @@MokohiChan
it was a baby that died and you cant really teach a baby the way to properly play
Love the video Izzy. Just mention about the arcues part is that it has shown that the one given to you in Legends is said to be 'fragment of itself'
It could mean that the other one's caught in pokeballs are too an extension of the original self.
Considering that Arceus seems to resemble a hand and theoretically has 1,000 arms... yeah, I'd say that definitely makes sense!
The pokeball "tragedy" wasn't even BKs fault... Why would you give a toy like that to a child under a year old to begin with????
especially unattended, right?? just seems like a bad idea generally
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Yea!! Like??? My mother in law won't even leave her three year old alone with something like that, wtf was wrong with people
my thoughts exactly, i mean they're lucky the kid didn't try to eat the pokemon figurine or shove it in their nose
Ikr. what did they expect? They gave a plastic ball to a one y/o. its their job as the parent to not do that
Just to add some mitigating information:
1. Many people have more than one child. So it's quite possible the toy belonged to an older sibling.
2. It's also much more difficult to keep all these toys away from younger kids when older siblings have these toys and may hand them over, or leave them within reach when a parent is briefly distracted. Or a friend of the older child may do so.
3. This shouldn't happen. Parents should be watching at all times when unsafe toys are around small children. But reality is, with millions of families around, it will happen. So companies should try to do their utter best to make these toys as safe as they can.
4. Half-dome shaped toys are a known safety hazard. There have been incidences before with similarly-shaped toys, and the solution has always been to add holes into these designs so they can't block out all the air. So it either was very unwise of BK to not do that this time. Or they did, which would explain why they didn't belief their toy caused the tragedy.
Wouldn't it be funnier to suppose Giovanni _fell_ off the mountain?
(Granted, I haven't played the relevant game, but that's be my first assumption if I thought I heard a splash and grunts asking where their boss went.)
"I'll become better-" [Then Giovanni slips and falls down the mountain, eating several mouthfuls of gravel along the way]
GOD that's hysterical. it seems very in line with the sense of humor in Pokemon so I can absolutely see it
@@Kyman102 😂😂😂
the ghosts in the sinnoh old chateau always creeped me out, and I've never seen anyone talk about them it's wild!
Cool thing about the Ultra Ruins in US/UM: They're actually the ruins of the first city you visit in the game (the music is the city's theme in reverse and there's nods to it in the architecture), but completely destroyed after a major power plant accident. Some even speculate that Guzzlord is actually a mutated Alolan Muk.
so can you, like, not go back to the original city? i haven't played us/um but that's crazy if the first city is completely replaced by the ruins... i wonder what happened to all the people rip
my theory about the ruins is that ghetsis is actually a distant descendant of a whatever king ruled the kingdom that the ruins are from. that makes N the successor since ghetsis chose him to become the puppet king of team plasma but after the team splits into two factions,N is fallowed by the most loyal of the grunts and actually leads them with his ideals for people and pokemon.
18:50 I think Marshadow's name is actually a combination of "march" and "shadow", and that it's based on the Hawaiian night marchers, ghostly soldiers who walk around the islands at night
I thought it was
Marshmellow or Marshmello? Idk and Shadow
@@Polina_Lozenko Why would it be marshmallow?
@@thegayghost872 LMFAO idk
@@thegayghost872 bc its fluffy and cute
about catching Arceus, in legends they claim the arceus the protagonist catches is simply a PIECE of him, explaining why it can’t talk after capture in any of the games including legends arceus.
Maybe it was just because the team rocket trio seems to have a fandom of their own within the fandom, but there are a lot of weird or disturbing team rocket centered things that I remember as being prominently featured in TR centric (especially rocketshipping) fic. Things like Miyamoto's (Jessie's mother) disappearance, the theory that Giovanni was Jessie's father, the weirdly common "darkening pokemon" standard of writing edgy fanfic but specifically the fics that made team rocket some cutthroat, murderous, genuinely terrifying gang. It's been a while since I was actively involved with the team rocket fandom-within-a-fandom but there was so much widespread dark stuff across (especially early to mid 2000s) fic. I would love to talk with anyone who was also a hardcore rocketshipper that read the fics by authors like Anna Sartin or Dangermouse, if anyone else here has experiences in that crowd.
The alchemy theory also shows up with Solgaleo. It is assumed to be a reference to a motif called "the lion devouring the sun"
I got the pokemon mangas when I was like eight years old, they were sold at a library nearby and I bought them, the issue with lavender town was pretty creepy for eight year old me. I literally had nightmares of zombie psyduck hunting me down. Looking back at it, it's not that creepy anymore to be honest, actually a bit more goofy.
I mean, it's pretty creepy, especially to a kid. We're not, and really not supposed, to be used to seeing dead pokemon, especially animant, rotting corpses
I don't get why you don't have more subs. Your videos are so good and well written, they always puts a smile on my face. I hope you get more attention and subs!
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I remember that pokeball recall, I hid all of my pokeballs from my mom because she was either totally convinced I was going to suffocate on them (I was eight) or she wanted to return them one at a time for a bunch of free fries. I think I managed to keep them all, might even still be in storage.
it would make sense that sun and moon are based heavily on alchemy-like themes! type-null/silvally is a chimera (and has been speculated to contain elements from the three starter pokemon), solgaleo resembles that lion that eats the sun, and rockruff has been speculated to represent rock/lead (the starting points of alchemy)
Marshadow’s blank stare also reminds me of the “thousand-yard stare” that is a symptom of PTSD from war, or what was called “shellshock” during WWI. There are many famous photos of WWI soldiers that display the same blank look as Marshadow, and that’s what my mind immediately went to when I heard that theory
Honestly I think it would be cool if the Applin line got a more explicitly Snow White-inspired regional variant if there's ever a Pokémon game set in Germany, as that's where the fairytale originates from.
One of the first creepy pastas I ever read was about "Pokemon Black Version" (this was, pretty obviously, written well prior to the announcement and release of the real Pokemon Black and White versions). It was about a "found" modded cartridge of pokemon red version where you can take one of the ghosts from the pokemon tower as your starter (you could take another starter and the game would play normally). Whenever you beat a trainer with the ghost, the trainer would disappear from the overworld after the battle. I don't remember too much more than that but it's a fun read, I recommend it if you're ever bored. ^_^
The best part about the dark stuff in the manga like the Zombies they always come out of freaking nowhere and it's always shocking and confusing when it happens
One small criticism that relates to a few entries - I think a lot of Pokémon have multiple origins. Saying that a Pokémon is based on only one thing (such as Victini being the method of cutting apples) is disregarding that they may have had a lot of inspirations blended into one Pokémon.
Part 2 Timestamps babeee
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☾Tier 3 cont.: Upper Body of the Iceberg☾
2:40- Silent Hills
3:06- Time Travel Implications
4:10- Alolan Exeggutor is a Dragon
4:39- Kadabra Lawsuit
5:31- “I’m Going to go for Help”
6:02- Shedinja
✦Tier 4: Lower Iceberg✦
7:03- Pokémon Manga Zombies
7:37- Malamar has Affected History
8:18- Zodiac Theory
9:22- Alchemy Theory
10:59- Arceus is God Debate
12:00- The Pokédex is Haunted by Rotom
13:16- Machamp/Golem DNA Scramble
13:51- Junji Ito Pokémon
14:20- Relicanth is a Map
15:04- Giovanni Jumper off the Falls Theory
16:05- Shudo’s Original Anime Ending
17:28- Victini is a Nuclear Bomb
18:10- Marshadow is a War Victim
18:52- Who is the REAL First Pokémon
20:09- ??? Arceus
𓉸Tier 5: Murky Depths𓉸
21:05- Yveltal will cause the End of the World
21:37- X and Y is about Life and Death
22:04- Porygon is an Abomination
23:52- Burger King Pokéball Recall
25:49- Abyssal Ruins Mystery
27:40- Unown King
28:42- Unown are Human Victims
29:52- Misty is Dead
30:19- u/GamingPryme’s ‘Special Edition’
31:19- Deoxys is Pokérus
32:20- Porygon3
32:44- Imakuni
33:04- Imposter Oak
33:20- Pokémon Lost Silver
34:43- Darkrai Kills
ꙮTier 6: Hellꙮ
35:25- MissingNo. in X and Y
36:01- Roaming Darkrai
36:29- Koffing in a Holocaust Museum
37:20- 9/11 Catch Rates
37:58- Arceus is a Hand
38:46- Erernatus is a Corrupted Hand
39:26- Relicanth is Native to New Zealand
40:40- Original Dragon Creation Trio Theory
42:19- Pokémon Alters the Brain
42:51- Pokémon Go Tragedies
43:59- Flapple Snow White Theory
The thing I don't understand about these theories that involve the ider of nuclear weapons or Hiroshima and Nagasaki is do people really think this is something the Japanese would make light of in a game? Even with dark themes and such, that's a whole different bridge and one that I would think would be to far.
i agree, especially for victini! i think the unown ruins in early plans for gen 2 is plausible for a scrapped idea- i don't think they would have made light of it, but they probably realized it was way too dark to actually pull off well in the franchise.
exactly, why the hell would they design a pokemon literally meaning "victory" to be about nuclear weapons???
@@wilderulz if you want to get creative it could be a criticism of USA acting like they won the war (as they were "victorious") even though all they did was bombing Japan and WW2 was coming to an end anyways
But of course they wouldn't put political/historical criticism in a kids game
there was actually a ??? type in some of the generations and eggs were this type in some games and there was a ??? type move as well (curse) - i think the ??? type arceus was a failsafe in case someone tried to hack their arceus
"Darkrai was meant to be a roaming Pokemon"
Tracking down yet another roamer... that IS scary.
The Pokémon creepy pastas will always give me massive nostalgia. I remember reading about them back in the summer of 2012 😂 I was about to be a freshman in high school and that stuff freaked me out. But amazing video as always Izzy!
I appreciate how your "who's the first pokemon" question didn't include bulbasaur or rhydon. Bulba is 1st on the pokedex because Oak loves him some nepotism and numbered everything based on it's distance from his office
rhydon because it has the lowest hex value in red/blue/green which everyone's extrapolated to mean that it was the first one ever made. Which literally only makes sense if every pokemon is drawn, approved, and coded into the game one at a time
I cannot express how hard I snorted when I heard "Genshin sponsor" as I opened the game while playing your video in my other screen lmao
I love theorizing on pokemon lore, but i never understood the "What pokemon came first?" debate. It's now canon, thaks to pokemon legends arceus, that the arceus we see and use in combat is just an infinitesimally small part of the all powerfull unnamed god that created everything and that "breathed alone before the universe came" , as said on its plates.
I grew up around most of the things your channel talks about, but I barely got to enjoy them as a kid. You are my happiness place, reminding me about good moments of my childhood haha
Bro I got so excited when you said that Xinyan is one of your favourites, I love her sm she's been my sub dps basically since I started playing
Fun fact about shedninja, on top of a open spot, you also need a pokeball, and it use to randomly choose one of your balls so if you got unlucky, you could lose your master ball from the evolution with no way to get it back
This was such a huge nostalgia ride for me. Pokemon was super important to me as a kid since my sister and I bonded over them a lot. I remember hearing a lot of those creepy pastas from abrandontothepast when I was younger and they were some the first horror-type things I was ever exposed to. Makes me want to dig out my my old 3ds XL and play through all them again! Hope Nintendo ports all of the old games to the Switch sometime. It would probably get them a lot of money to lol. Great vid Izzy!
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Alolan Exeggutor being dragon type is also in reference to the mo'o, which were shapeshifters/the Hawaiian version of dragons, there's a video on Lockstin & Gnoggin's channel going into the lore in case anyone is interested!!
Honestly Sun/moon was kinda screwed the second it introduced Bed Sniffing. Like wtf? I will never get over this
That is FAR creepier than any pokedex entries
the WHAT????
I thought "???" Arceus was because there was one weird move (Curse) that was just a "???" type, and Arceus had plates for every type in the game, even if it was that one weird non-type.
Something not really scary but something I feel like would've been an interesting topic on the iceberg is the shuttle in the Pewter City Museum of Science. From Bulbapedia: "In the Generation I games, the plaque accompanying the space shuttle model reads "Space Shuttle Columbia"; however, in the remakes, the plaque simply reads "Space Shuttle". This is probably due to the fact that on February 1, 2003, the real Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry during its 28th mission, killing all seven crew members. The reference to Space Shuttle Columbia was kept in the Japanese version of the Generation III games, but was removed in Generation VII."
22:05 to add onto the X&Y legendaries theory, there's a theory that the three legendaries are based on norse mythology, xerneas being based on yggdrasil and the stags under it. Yveltal is based on the eagle that sit on the very top of the giant world tree. And Zygarde is based on nidhoggr, a serpent (or dragon) that nibbles the roots of the great tree, or maybe zygarde is based on Jormungandr, the giant serpent circling midgard.
Porygon line's Pokedex entries in Legends are my favorite because they boil down to 'what the heck is this thing'
Ahhh I love your content! Your videos really make me and help me fall asleep and it’s relaxing when I watch your documentaries!
this series was so unbelievably fascinating! i've been playing pokemon since the early 2000s but there's sooo much of this i didn't know... i could honestly listen to you talk about creepy pokemon lore for hours. great work!! 💖
From how I heard it, "The first pokemon" is more a joke than a thought experiment. Mew and Arceus could be the first pokemon as stated, but Bulbasaur is the first pokemon in the dex, and Rhydon was the first pokemon ever designed, in a meta sense.
Yes!!! Love the videos! All your essays are great but I love Pokémon related stuff, so I'd always be happy to see you explore more wacky Pokémon things.
As a diehard Gen 5 fan, I've always found the abyssal ruins so mysterious and fascinating! I found it so interesting decoding everything in the ruins, and I interpreted the theoretical inclusion of the name Harmonia throughout the stories to be confirmation that Harmonia was the family name of the kings that ruled Unova back in the days of old when it was still a monarchy, and could be proof that Ghetsis is a direct descendant of them... Which makes his fixation on the legendary Pokémon, as well as his anger in his apparent inability to be recognized as a 'hero' to them all the more upsetting with the knowledge that his ancestors were the original heroes. Then again, those were the connections I made! I also subscribe to the belief that N and Ghetsis are in fact related in some way too; either uncle and nephew or perhaps even biological father and son because I would never put it past Ghetsis to have a kid and then yeet him into the wilderness to create the perfect canvas for the 'hero' he needs to seize control of the legendaries, hahah.
Anyways, love ya Izzy!!
Izzzyzzz is one of the few youtubers who could make a video on literally anything and I'd watch it because its so well made
There are mythical dragon like creatures that turn themselves into palm trees to hide. So alolan exeggutor makes a lot more sense than most people think.
Omg I’ve been binging your videos, you have a great voice for reporting on some daily nerdy information. The deep dives are everything I’ve needed! ❤ thanks you for making my hours alone better! 😂
It's been so cool to see your channel grow so much over the past year since I started watching! Always love seeing what crazy or obscure new topics you put out videos on, as they either hit me right in the nostalgia or expose me to something I've never even heard of
I've been at home w/ covid the past 5 days and have been obsessively checking to see if this was up. Thanks so much Izzy, love the pace you go through these in - informative enough we can pick up info but quick enough my brain doesn't get distracted!
When Pokemon Go came out, my group of friends from highschool and I all went out over the summer for multiple night catching pokemon long into the night. I remember we were catching pokemon in the parking lot of a shopping center when we saw a car pull into a side road and park. We were just happening to finish up and walk past when we walked past the car and someone from inside opened the window and asked "Did you guys catch that Vulpix?" One of my friends had and said so and all four people from inside the car started arguing amongst each other. It was a wild time, that summer led to more "and everyone clapped" stories that actually happened than any other!
i did not expect a genshin sponsor here but its a nice surprise, primogems are always welcomed
Hell yeah, it was a neat surprise
lmao i was also surprised, also is the code working for u guys? it says invalid code for me
@@cheriifaerii8008 ah you're right its invalid,i think genshin only has one code for sponsors like this so i probably used it before from another youtuber lmao sad
@@ginokami475 ohhhh okay tyy :D
One thing that i found disturbing especially with the recent release of pokemon ledgends areceus is the fact that hisuian zorua basically according to the pokemon website "migrated to the Hisui region after being driven from other lands by humans, who shunned the Pokémon for manifesting uncanny illusions. But the Zorua perished, unable to survive the harsh Hisuian environment and strife with other Pokémon. Their lingering souls were reborn in this Ghost-type form through the power of their malice toward humans and Pokémon." Zoroark 's is just malice driven too and ever since i heard that i started catching zoruas like crazy to protect them lol.