#{ Gonna dive into glitch trainers and glitch items in the next write up. }

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While most people are aware of of MISSINGNO. and the other assorted glitch Pokemon that exist in generation one's title games, there are also a variety of glitch moves. Glitch moves are known by these glitch monsters, and have various effects-- though, most of them either do minimal amounts of damage to opponents, softlock the game, or even crash the game entirely.

The "Super Glitch" attack, also known as TM TRAINER or the Exclamation Point effect, is a particularly destructive glitch move, because using it corrupts the game's RAM, resulting in major corruptions to the overworld, menu options and battle system.

You can cause all sorts of effects in different videos on YouTube, but, the one I tend to reference is from MissingNoXpert's 'Let's Glitch Pokémon Yellow' series, found here, which focuses on the battle effects. TheZZAZZGlitch goes in more depth and shows the technical side of how this RAM corruption works, which is found here.

Credit: MissingnoXpert

Now, when it comes to applying this to roleplay worldbuilding, I'm going to explain it as a sort of "broad corruption" move used by certain glitch anomalies. It's likely that this is the attack that was used against Proton and his squad when they were attacked during The Out-Of-Bounds Incident. "Super Glitch" is inconsistent in how it effects the overworld, your Pokémon, your items and your menu options-- but, it DOES consistently insta-kill any Pokémon that it targets, by "freezing it solid" and inflicting it with the the burn effect, knocking it out immediately.

This means that "Super Glitch" is collapsing the nervous system from the inside out, killing the target. It's like a potent blast of radiation toxicity.

Credit: TheZZAZZGlitch

Some of my other favorite "Super Glitch" corruptions include:

Reverting the first Pokémon in your party to level 1, changing all of their moves, and giving them infinite HP.

Loading your party up with hundreds of unseen Pokémon. Attempting to open your party menu, or healing your Pokémon at the Pokémon Center, results in softlocking the game due to the sheer amount of team entries that it's trying to load.

Random Pokémon in your team evolving into OTHER random Pokémon after a battle.

A constant poison status condition on one of your party members.

The overworld NPCs becoming glitchy monstrosities???

Eating the ENTIRE RAM by trying to load the ENTIRE GAME ALL AT ONCE onto your screen, and just collapsing the whole game entirely.

Fragmentation Syndrome explores the "duplication glitch" that occurs when battling MissingNo. in RBY, but it also explains the endless duplication effect and "system eating" nature of Super Glitch's corruptions. Random, unpredictable bullshit, and the person suffering from it never knows what sort of symptoms they're going to experience on a day to day basis, unless Fragmentation Syndrome is stabilized.

As you see though, "Super Glitch" cannot be stabilized, it eats the game's RAM. This is why saving the game while using this glitch is NOT RECOMMENDED. While it doesn't always have game breaking effects, abusing it two, three, four times in a row certainly does.

That being said, people afflicted with Fragmentation Syndrome should avoid interacting with glitch anomalies entirely, or else their condition is only going to get worse, and eat away at their system.

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