#obscure pokemon facts

[obscure-pokemon-facts]

#395. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, Kanto Elite Four member Lorelei has a house on Four Island in the Sevii Islands.

Inside the house contains 6 Pokémon Dolls, but every time the Player defeats the Elite Four and enters the Hall of Fame 25 times, an extra Pokémon Doll will appear in the house. This continues until the Player has entered the Hall of Fame 200 times and a total of 14 Pokémon Dolls reside in Lorelei’s house. (X)

Lorelei’s house with all 14 Poké Dolls

#pokemon #pokemon facts #obscure pokemon facts #pokemon frlg #gen iii #photo fact

[oatshow]

A follow-up to my Kenari-Bear comic, some more made-up/headcanon stuff mixed in with an idea I've had for a while that could be boiled down to "Museums and galleries have so much stolen cultural art in them and Luthen's is no exception"

#Cassian Andor #headcanons #andor #Luthen Rael #The canine on the mural's colors are based on Zoroark because of p-paradoxa's pokemon au post #And the bit about the sunhawks is *loosely* inspired by the legend of the eagle eating the snake- #-just as a sort of nod to Diego Luna being from Mexico City. #the obscured text on the plaque is a portrayal of colonizers' misinterpretation of other cultures-- #--in that they assume the bear is/was a 'godlike beast' to the Kenari people when it was not at all. #this probably counts as an AU right #comics #myart #oats.png #Another fun fact that doesnt come across since i've only drawn the female golden bears so far: only the females have tusks #that's why in the first comic Cassian says “they killed *her*” rather than “it”

[constellationcore]

mark vs the cooler mark

the chokehold accessory scarves had on 'cool characters' from like the 90s to the 00s is insane. I wanted to find a way to incorporate sylveon's design into his design, sorta like what I did for Sarah's, which sent me down a rabbit hole of re-remembering how I loved morty from gold/silver because of his cool aesthetic (???) and his fascination with ~pokemon lore~

anyway, I used that motif here as best I could! given that he's technically,, a ghost,, I tried to change as little as possible so it wasn't as big of a logical leap? it's my au and I can give characters fun outfits if i want lmao

#constellationcore #pokedela catalogue #the mandela catalogue #mandela catalogue #tmc #mark heathcliff #sylveon #wooloo #we get it elliot. you were autistic and also love obscure pokemon facts

[you-may-call-me-meme]

STUDENT OC TIME here's Aprium !!!

#gonna play thru scarlet as her!!!! #shes my little history nerd <3 knows all the obscure facts #shes a lil bit snooty but i promise shes nice I PROMISE #pokemon oc #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon #oc: Aprium

[oh-meow-swirls]

should i do a pokemon fact or a digimon fact on @random-ykw-facts today. i think an april fool's post would be the funniest way to revive it-

#puppy rambles #for the record i know enough about both that i could do either #leaning towards digimon cuz that's marginally more obscure. i know there's pokemon facts blogs but i don't think there's any for digimon #i don't know a lot of obscure facts about it tho- #idk how many pokemon facts i know that count as obscure tho #sometimes i forget most pokemon fans don't know that like. oddish and kabutops have scientific names-

[maspers]

THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE POKEMON GAMES

A bunch of old dudes performed a fusion dance to give some rando the power to share friendship over the internet

People regularly get yeeted across spacetime and wiped of their memories with no apparent way of preventing this

A Professor was so obsessed with science that they built a time machine that could destroy the world, but then they DIED, so their robot doppelganger had to camp out in a pit.

You can dance, if you want to.

An adventuring exploring archaeologist told a teenager to bring God to some ruins, aforementioned God then had a baby.

Shapeshifting masses of goo walk among the human populace with most people unaware

The mafia decided it would be a great idea to take over the world, and turned out to actually be capable of doing it if left unopposed

The anime canonically exists somehow and this has never been explained

A girl tried to summon a dragon to blow up a rock, but then a kid beat her up, stole her money AND the dragon then rode the dragon into space and fought an alien

A guy tried to build an underground city with 69 floors, but then partway through the place got infested with robots and living bombs so they had to abandon a place

A mall got infested by an eldritch horror that screams

A bunch of girls in Kimonos randomly decided to summon a god for a kid, for really no discernable reason aside from hey fate said so

PETA has a puppet king with an elite squad of ninjas, but those ninjas are easily detected by a dude that rides ice slides and works in the film industry

Nearly all the tech is now sentient and inclined to mischief

A lady decided it'd be a great idea to host a tournament, but then a genie made it a crossover

ISEKAI, GUEST STARRING GOD AND HIS HORRIBLY DESIGNED CELL PHONE

Apocalypses on a regular basis

Bullying and frame jobs

A woman was so good at fighting that they put her in charge of a full blown competitive facility, and then she decided to make her butler run the place for her. She also might have psychic powers.

Red.

A guy got trapped on an island full of beans, and yet his WIFE was the one who went insane

People froze a city with a giant flying boat.

Time Travel?

The draconic personification of antimatter lives in another world by itself, and will intervene when the world is in danger but only if things are looking particularly spicy

You can get a part time job?

Children are overpowered, okay?

A dude tried to take over the world with the power of sexiness and flowers but failed because other people decided they didn't care about his standards

A rich kid went to an island and helped dude find his horse, said dude might actually be King Arthur? But like, if he was a Pokemon?

Possession. Unnerving amounts of ghosts and possession. Also bridges.

Artifacts being defaced. LOTS of it. It's kind of a problem.

Feel free to add more.

#pokemon #pokemon games #fun facts #idk how to tag this #some of these are obvious #but others more obscure #if you know more obscure ones please share #i seriously love this series

[thatboxylady]

jetstorm knows what vore is?

Jetstorm absolutely knows what vore is. He knows so much.

He is a vessel of forbidden knowledges from beyond the forbidden fourth wall, and Thrust (and just about everyone else) is at his mercy 24/7.

#jetstorm can name all 1000+ pokemon with all their stats #knows every single obscure fact about the Top Gun series #and can relay the entirety of homestuck's story from memory #his himbo brain is designed to be an infinite well of nonsense knowledge but he's still a Can't Do Math Gay #beast machines #jetstorm is a menace but at least he's pretty #rattrap: pretty ANNOYING amirite fellas????? Guys????

[castleclysm]

finding good memes for n is such a struggle. he doesn't want to be soft, or reassuring, or make an action

he wants to stand in silence about a meter away from them, staring 👁️👁️, and waiting for his moment to offer information they didn't ask for and probably don't care about

#step one of Friendship w/ N: he looks at your pokemon; rattles off some wildly obscure fact about them; and then disappears for 2 years #unlike leon and turo; N's not really a good first approacher

[kiwikipedia]

Anabel and Ingo make for two battle facility bosses who have vanished, for the next game I vote we eeby deeby Palmer next

#its for the angst #and also keeping the fact that no MC or MC adjacent can have a dad except for RSE/ORAS #That or norman because i think it would be funny for GF to keep eeby deebying these old/middle aged (looking) guys who are obscure as hell #or if we want to start the insane fucking angst train again: Masked Royal #DPP Palmer #Pokemon #Pokemon DPP #Tower Tycoon Palmer #Pokemon Palmer #pokemon Arceus

[teamgalacticfangirl]

Am I the only one who knows that Cyrus is a father in Pokemon DPA?

#galactic boss cyrus #pokemon dpa #obscure pokemon fact(?)

[obscure-pokemon-facts]

#408. In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, in order to receive a Diploma for completing the National Pokédex, Players must register every Pokémon except for Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, and Deoxys.

However due to a bug, Chikorita is also not required to receive the Diploma. (X)

#pokemon #pokemon facts #obscure pokemon facts #chikorita #pokemon rs #gen iii

[sleepy-crypt1d]

why is trying to find good pokemon merch so hard??? ESPECIALLY plushies like please i just want to hug my team for real and make them bracelets and dress them up and make them watch movies with me

#pokemon #my team isnt really obscure either!! i feel awful for people whose teams ARE tho geezus #for context it's mimikyu - umbreon - charizard - garchomp - midday lycanroc and incineroar #and like i know that's a weird lineup but they are My Everything and the fact i dont have them in my hands is evil #my brother got me the giant 24 inch mimikyu plush for Christmas tho and dude i am so fucking excited to finally have him #just need to hunt down good merch of the rest of my team :((

[saffronique]

Was just struck by the overwhelming urge to rate Stormlight characters on their driving ability. I have no evidence I'm going off of vibes alone. Here they are in no particular order:

Dalinar- I think he's generally a fine driver now, though still prone to bouts of road rage when someone won't let him merge. Very bad driver in his youth. 5/10

Jasnah- I think she would be a shockingly bad driver. She seems like the kind of person that believes the rules of the road apply to everyone other than her. The type to run a red light because the meeting she's going to is important. Never uses her turn signals because if shes in the left lane it should be obvious shes making a left turn. Despite her lack of care she always arrives safely and without a ticket, somehow. Would fit right in in Northern Virginia. Also the worst backseat driver ever. 3/10

Sadeas- Good driver but employs bad practices. When traffic is heavy he uses the shoulder of the road as his own personal lane. Only person capable of surviving New York traffic. 6/10

Kaladin- Fantastic driver but kind of slow. Won't make a left turn unless there is literally no other car on the road. Always follows the speed limit and uses his turn indicators. Also the type to yell at everyone to shut the fuck up and let him drive when he's in heavy traffic. 8/10

Syl- Cannot be allowed to drive under any circumstances. Bridge 4 let her drive once and she backed the car into a mailbox. 0/10

Shallan- Shes a bad driver but better than Jasnah. Her following distance is atrocious and she frequently rear ends people, but she does at least try to follow the rules of the road. 4/10

Veil- Worse than Shallan but says she's better. Will take a turn at 60 to try and make the car drift. 2/10

Radiant- Fantastic driver who follows the ruled perfectly. Not great at responding to unexpected situations though. 8/10

Venli- Drives like a psychopath. Weaves in and out of lanes to get there 30 seconds faster. If traffic is bad she will dead ass make a U turn in the middle of the road over a double yellow to leave. 1/10

Rock- Great driver, but hates driving. Not much more to say. 8/10

Sigzil- Best driver in bridge 4, only slightly held back by the fact that he knows every obscure rule and expects everyone else driving does also. 9/10

Moash- Believes the rules of the road are stupid and there to hold him back. The kind of guy who will not let you merge in front of him like his life depends on it. Would go 100 in a school zone for fun. 2/10

The Lopen- The guy that tells you he's a great driver but starts playing pokemon go while behind the wheel because he can absolutely do both. 4/10

Szeth- Mediocre driver prone to shocking episodes of road rage. The kind of guy who would slam the brakes to make the car behind him rear end him out of spite if they were following too close. 5/10

Navani- Fantastic driver. Always has the newest lane correcting tech and such installed on her vehicle. 10/10

Adolin- Cannot stay focused on the road. Type of guy who will look over his shoulder for like 15 seconds to carry on a conversation until Shallan yells at him to look at the road. Horrible speeder. Usually manages to avoid crashing though. 3/10

Wit- Shockingly competent driver. I mean he had all that experience with Wax, so... 10/10

Gavilar- The kind of douche who lifts his truck and has his mufflers removed so he can rev his obnoxious engine whole going through neighborhoods. 1/10

Renarin- He's a good driver in small towns and on winding, narrow country roads, but cannot handle big city traffic. Luckily he knows and readily admits this. 7/10

BONUS:

Rlain- I feel like he's just a typical good driver. Follows the rules as best he can, goes a few miles over the speed limit on the freeway, but nothing crazy. 8/10

Kelsier- It's a miracle he's survived this long with the way he drives. He would make a left on red without hesitation. Vin screamed the first time she rode with him. 1/10

#stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed #cosmere #the stormlight archive #stormlight #adolin kholin #dalinar kholin #torol sadeas #navani kholin #renarin kholin #shallan davar #kelsier

[bynineb]

What pieces of media are your biggest creature design inspirations?

ooh how fun! let's see...

Pokemon Crystal (Ken Sugimori)

(src: Bulbapedia)

I had a Pokemon Crystal strategy guide with all 251 Pokemon in it that I studied religiously when it came to making monsters of my own. I love Ken Sugimori's illustrations so much - the dappled paint makes it so soft, gives everything the feeling of being struck by light dancing down from foliage above. The subtle implied detailing with line strokes and shadow allows the imagination to run wild. They, truly, feel like creatures to have adventures with. And of course, Pokemon is a juggernaut of an RPG, facilitating those childhood fantasies, and then there's a TV show showing them playing and shouting their name and fighting... No wonder so many people got hooked on it!

Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 (Akira Toriyama)

(src: Dragon's Den)

Since they're designed as enemies foremost, Dragon Quest's monsters can get a lot kookier & scarier than Pokemon can. And Toriyama gives his monster designs so much charm and personality! You feel like he always has fun coming up with them, and it makes every Dragon Quest game more delightful for having them be your foes (and sometimes friends). Also, all the English names are puns and portmanteaus and other fun word things!

After Armageddon Gaiden (artist unknown - dev is PandoraBox)

(src: Bogleech, who also wrote a wonderful article on these critters: https://bogleech.com/halloween/hall18-aagolem)

Uniquely grotesque beasts from a deeply obscure Japanese RPG named After Armageddon Gaiden, the second in a duology about player-controlled demons fighting alien invaders. Some of the designs get quite gory or disturbing, fair warning. But in a cool way!! The sheer strangeness of these designs are something to behold!... And they have the best names ever, like "Barabumblebo"...

YU-GI-OH early card art (Kazuki Takahashi)

(src: Yugioh fandom page)

Yu-Gi-Oh's early monster designs are something I think about a lot. I don't know what that says about me, but I do know they're unbelievably cool, a blend of genuinely scary Egyptian-flavored horror and wacky, tropey, cartoony fantasy. The fact that these ridiculous designs are frequently art for a card that's completely worthless in terms of winning duels, combined with their randomly specific descriptions about how unbelievably powerful they are, gives them a certain mystique. It's as if the creature you see depicted truly exists as a part of some greater fantasy world...

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(src: me, many moons ago)

Seeing properly scary monsters inside a strange virtual world in Ocarina of Time was quite the experience for my young self. For example, I had nightmares about the Stalchildren who used to burst, endlessly, from the ground of the strangely empty Hyrule Field. But that also made it feel like such an adventure! The thrill added to the experience. And even many of the game's races are quite monsterlike; Gorons, Zora, Deku, and so forth. This had me imagine turning a "bad" creature into a friend, a concept I cherish to this day... hence Love-Love here.

Well that's that! Thanks for asking, this was fun to write : )

#strategy guides make for great additions to an art bible btw #after armageddon #ken sugimori #kazuki takahashi #akira toriyama

[shima-draws]

The fact that every single NPC is unique now is actually pretty fucking incredible. That’s always been a weird shortcoming of any Pokemon game? Like it was never a big deal, obviously having a unique design for every obscure NPC would take too much time and dedication. But they DID IT for SV and it’s so so neat it feels way more real and natural now walking around in a world full of individual people and not clones

#Shima speaks #Pokemon #Pokemon SV #Pokemon Scarlet and Violet #Pokemon SV spoilers #JUST THE AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO THIS. #Idk if they just generated unique NPCs or if they modeled each one individually #But it’s SO cool. It’s so so cool

[bogleech]

Ok but I have seen you talk about this so many times, even referencing it in your old cartoons, so I gotta ask - when and how did you fall in love with neopets, like that?

Wait, is it that obscure now? I didn't know a single person from its inception to roughly 2010 who didn't have a neopets account. It was the single biggest gaming-esque name on the internet for years. Celebrities casually mentioned playing it, it got mainstream marketing tie-ins, it had plush toys people waited in line to buy up and a TCG made by the same company as Magic the Gathering. It's not that I especially "fell in love with neopets" like it's a niche thing but that there was a time it was almost outselling Pokemon, so it's just another huge cultural phenomenon that was a big part of everyone's lives during my teens to twenties, and hits my special interest in creature design since it has THOUSANDS (beyond the pets alone) ranging in quality from extremely creative to just plain heinous. I personally only got invested in it when they introduced the mutant pets, though, because it started out having almost like a "rule" against making any pets that were "ugly." They'd joke about it as a prank for instance, and originally only featured the mutants as part of a storyline they never intended players to actually adopt. They even had a fake alternate version of the site with fake "adoptions coming soon" and somehow didn't anticipate the userbase genuinely wanting the slime creatures.

The Chia and Aisha were my favorites but mainly the chia because that kind of "scuzzy" creature was already my own design aesthetic, polar opposite of the site's established style and reminded me of if Jeff Goldblum got fused with a tardigrade instead of a fly:

Is that just me? I feel like the tardigrade similarity jumps right out but I think it was an accident and they were possibly actually thinking of the rotting giant from Nausicaa:

The fact that they intended its design to be unlovably ugly and were surprised anyone wanted it only made it more sympathetic. Eventually they made mutants available and I got fully invested into playing, at the time having to spend hours a day on their little flash games until I could afford a mutant after months of labor. But then a couple of years later they just abruptly decided they really didn't feel like having its design around anymore and "updated" it, which back then was automatic for all pets owned by all players with no going back:

It had unfortunately been fairly common that they'd just completely, totally redo a pet like this with no warning and no user poll to make sure it's what anyone wanted. You just had to pray they never did it to your favorites.

All the other mutants in that earlier image would also get completely changed or never released at all. They still kept some of the other "gross" mutants and would make even grosser, so that wasn't even part of the reasoning. Just the random whims of mad gods I guess. I think what killed the game for a lot of people was actually when they did this to basically everyone at once, standardizing almost all the pet artwork so they could wear clothes in their new dressup system. It wasn't as drastic as replacing a sludge guy with some kind of hairy leaf guy but it did eliminate hundreds of technically unique designs from the site, and I found someone else's examples they put together so I thankfully don't have to do it myself:

If anyone's not familiar enough with neopets or didn't figure that out from the last paragraph, the ones on the right are just recolors of the same exact art as all members of their species with added accessories (now wearable items) Players used to work hard to get pets they wanted based on their unique poses and personality, but you could only keep the original art for a small number of these. The customization feature kind of attracted a different new fandom, from what people say, but it never approached a fraction the site's peak, which is probably how the brand wound up getting sold to some NFT bros who aren't even involved in the site itself and supposedly never even spoken to its remaining staff outside some business emails? This is unrelated to the brief period it was bought by scientologists and the siterunners had to fight back against their propaganda leaking into it. I really didn't expect to turn this response into a mini article, I should really just make a thing on bogleech.com about it sometime. Some of my tumblr mutuals to this day are people I met through the neopets fandom and probably have equally lengthy memories/complaints.

#neopets #pokemon #scientology #nft's