For a franchise that's been around for more than 20 years, the Pokémon series has had its fair share of highs, lows, and everything in-between. It's wowed us with its addictive gameplay, disappointed us in its terrible decisions (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:read more about that here), and overall cemented itself as one of the mo๊st🤪 prolific and beloved franchises in video game history. That doesn't mean that history hasn't been more than a little muddled at times, though.

Despite being a "family-friendly" video game series that children everywhere beg and plead their parents for, and an anime that is doing quite well in its 20th season (no small feat!), it has taken things way too far time after time in the past. From taking a joke much farther than it should have been to horrifying us in ways we didn't think possible to even causing actual pain and suffꦕering across the world, it is no doubt that Pokémon has made us go "Woah, slow down there!ﷺ" many times in its long and rich history.

I, personally, adore the series and its nigh-endless repetitive cycle of catch, battle, catch, battle some more, breed, and so on. Even so, I have been shocked many, many times by the sometimes astonishing methods that the series' creators have attempted to convey a specific mess💖age or theme. Whether you like it or not, Pokémon has taken it too far too many times. Maybe you didn't even know about some these, or you yourself are a victim of the shock and terror, but regardless, here are 15 times that Pokémon took things way too far.

15 ꩲ Registeel Controversy ꦫ

All hail, Re😼gigigas! Registeel and his compatriots Regice and Regirock ar𝓡e known for their interesting background. They are each inspired by the golem, a somewhat sentient clay creature that is brought to life, originating from a Jewish legend.

This alone is intriguing in and of itself, but Nintendo took it one step further. In fact, it took it a step way too far with the introduction of Registeel in the third generation of games, Ruby and Sapphire. In these games, Registeel’s spri💯te is seen clearly raising his left hand in salute, very sim🎃ilar to the same Nazi salute that is infamous across the world.

Because of this, it had to be e𝔉dited for the European version of the game, as any sort of Nazi imagery and symbolism is banned in Germany. In fact, N🌊intendo would later realize its misstep and change all further sprites for Registeel to a non-fascist stance. Whether intentional or not, Nintendo made a tasteless statement with its ironic usage of a facist-like salute from a Jewish-inspired Pokémon

14 Pokémon Go's String Of Corpse Discoveries 🌄

Released nearly a year ago (I know, hard to believe!), Pokémon Go set the world on fire like no other mobile game has before. Everyone from you, your friends, ꧒your family, and maybe even your dog set out on real world adventures to find, catch, and battle Pokémon.

The unfortunate and unique requirement of having to physically get off the couch and g🧔o outside and explore led to countless interesting stories sweeping the web from totally not sketchy 3am strolls through the park to teaching a police officer about the mobile phenomenon.

But, none were as interesting as the pꦇeople that discovered actual dead bodies. Take for instance, the Wyoming girl who was just minding her own business, attempting to catch a water Pokémon by the river, only to find a cওorpse floating in the water. This is but one of the many such stories. While some were found to be fake, it is still a surprise that what was meant to be a fun and addictive way to get everyone to exercise became a quick lesson in forensics.

13 ✱ Jynx Blackface

Oh, Nintendo. Pokémon can be the oh so cute and cuddly type, but they can also be an absolute abomination. Almost all of the humanoid Pokémon are creepy and distur♍bing, Jynx most of all. This Generation 1 Ice and Psychic-type came at a time long before the Internet was so prevalent and, of course, before anyone would start the social justice movement.

However, this Pokémon still made news across🍃 the world, even in the 90s, and outraged many people over its controversial design. The puffed up lips and pitch black sin tone led many to believe this was a racist depiction against black people. Many believed that The Pokémon Company had indeed created a "b🔯lackface Pokémon."

Blackface dates back to long before slavery had been abolished in the United States and remained pꦉrominent even into the 20th 🅺century. It is a form of makeup style that was used in performances primarily for turning a non-black person into a black role. Obviously, this is highly offensive and Jynx's appearance created much controversy. Nintendo would later change her skin color to purple, but not before the damage had already been done.

12 ꦓ 🥃 The Cross-dressing Episode

Family friendly channels like Disney and Nickelodeon are known for injecting more mature subjects and humor into their shows (we're looking at you, SpongeBob), but Pokémon did it in a less subtle and even far more inappropri🌸ate way.  Take, for example, the delightfully named episode "Beauty and the Beach."

In this Season 1 episode of the show, a beauty contest is held and many of the core cast members join, including Team Rocket's ow🌄n James. James is seen dressing up as a female, which is not necessarily new to the series (a common humor device), but they took it way t🐟oo far in this specific scenario.

James' beach aꦰttire is a skimpy bikini complete with fake, inflatable breasts. In one scene in particular, he is shown inflating his humongous chest to unnatural proportions and then proceeding to taunt Misty about her own size.

11 ဣ Yamask's Pitiful Existence 𝓀

Now, time for some Pokédex entries that are unnecessarily controv♊ersial, starting with po൩or Yamask. Not only is Yamask a pretty unremarkable Pokémon to begin with, his Pokédex entry only makes things more depressing.

Coming directly from Pokémon Black's entry: "Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry." Wow, that's dark. While it was already known long before Yamask's introduction in Generation V that humans can and do turn into Pokémon, this is 🎀too ꦇmuch.

Not only did Yamask somehow die when it was human and possess a mask (already pretty twisted), but the mask resembles its f✱ormer human fac𝓡e and it is now forced to carry on that sorrow and pain for the rest of its existence. Brutal.

10 💜 The Vengeful Dolls

Jumping to the other side of the Pokémon spectrum, we have the Ghost-type Banette. Banette is completely terrifying just 𝓰to look at with its creepy eyes and that horrific zipper smile. This is all before we begin to dig into its backstory. Some Pokédex entries tell us that Banette will stick pins ꦗinto itself to send curses on its enemies.

That alone is too far, but, once aga꧋in, it's taken a step even further. Other entries give us Banette's origins as a doll that was once abandoned by i𒉰ts child owner and now focuses solely on seeking out them for revenge. That'll make you regret all those beanie babies you got rid of.

9 All Life Is Bound To Yveltal ꧃

We all ♊know that life is precious and we should always be nice, considerate, and loving to each other, but what does it matter if all of existence could be snuffed in an instant? Pull your loved ones close because that could happen any second now in the Pokémon world.

Pokémon Y's legendary Yveltal is an impressive-looking bird, but it holds a sinister secret. Its Pokédex entry tells us that it is essentially a God of destructio👍n and all life as we know it is bound to it.

That might not seem like a big deal at first glance, but if Yveltal were ꦫto somehow die, it would absorb all life force in the universe. Everything would come to an end. Good to know that the fate of every living thing can be commanded by a 10 year old trainer.

8 𒐪 ဣThat's A Weird Way To Stay Warm...

While the Pokémon world does feature cars, telephones, televisions🦩, video game systems, and all sorts of modern technology that is reminiscent of our own, it is apparently very hard to keep warm. This is shown in the insane methods that citizens of the world utilize to keep thesmelves from freezing to death during the dark days of winter.

Th💟e fire-type Pokémon Darumaka is known to release droppings (aka poop) that are quite hot. The people are so desperate to keep warm that they will literally take that poop and put it inside their clothes. We're not joking about t𝕴hat. There are no more words needed for this one.

7 🍬 🧸 All Of Lavender Town

I'm not sure what the developers were thinking when they made Lavender Town in the first Pokémon games. It's true ൲that this small town exhibits a tranquil and quiet peace, but it is also one of the most disturbing places in video game history.

From the purple hue to the ghost-filled cemetery tower to the haunting theme, the town has a lingering atmosphere of death all over it. There a♛re countless theories and legends about this crazy place, but none more disturbing than about its music.

Legend says that the music is actually hypnotic and that only small children can hear it. It's said to have a level of mind control to it that led many childr🍬en in Japan to suicide. This has long since been debunked, but with the creepiness that is Lavender Town, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a little bit of truth to it.

6 ♍ L🎐etting Children Do Whatever They Want

I get it; it's a vi𓂃deo game. And not only that, but one that is catered to young children and adults alike. However, it is quite the stretch to build a world in which adults allow a 1🧜0 year olds to go off on a journey with creatures they just met to battle other trainers.

Let alone, the fact that ma🌼ny of the same creatures have the ability to kill a person in an instant without having to really try. What's worse is that the game has hinted in the past to a slight excuse f♐or why this is alright.

It is widely known that before the original games there was an infamous war that occurred between countries. Countless ca𓆉sualties were recorded, leaving many children possibly without a parent or two and the world with way less adults.