I’m back with a brand new Pokémon act and this time the shackles are coming off. I hope you enjoyed my article on Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow comics, because this piece is going all out. I’m tackling all of the issues out there from the origins of Pokémon to the very newest iteration of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon. Don’t be fooled either. If you think I’m going to repeat jokes, think again. There’s so much more to say. Unsurprising since this series 🌠is already ༒over twenty years old. There’s bound to be some skeletons in anyone’s closest after that much time. Plenty to make fun of.

That’s why so many of these comics exist out there. Most of the panels you’re going to read today come from Nerd Rage and VG Cats. Nerd Rage has a pretty diverse roster of covering games, but they always feel so at home when they go after issues in Pokémon. VG Cats, on the other hand, started Super Effective to be an exclusive comic dedicated to the original Pokémon games. It sort of follows a story with Red, Blue, and Green, but it’s also just one issue after another. They’re both fantastic and I hope you like my picks as much as I do. They’re not the only comics in here, but again, the two kings of Pokémon comedy dominate most of this list. And me? Well heck, I’m just along💜 for the ride. They’re good topics to jump off of so let’s get to it!

25 Gender Confusion

Professor Oak is supposed to be the most respected Pokémon scientist in the known universe. That said the mechanics of the game make him out to be a bit, shall we say, naïve. Pokémon began with your trainer always being a guy. You could name him anything you wanted, but it wasn’t until the third generation of Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire that you could actually select your gender and it’s been the standard ever since. Retroactively this also meant all the remakes past this also featured this feature including Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen, which were the remakes of the originals. Thus it made Oak sound like quite the fool for asking this question. I know it’s a game mechanic, but it’s still hilarious to point💜 out and done beaut✅ifully in this comic.

24 Sleeping On A Theory

Yes, this comic is hilarious, but it’s also a great out for the anime company to fall back on. Why is Ash still ten after the anime has existed for twenty years? Simple. He’s been in a coma♊ this whole time. It all makes sense now. When did this happen? What about the very first episode when Pikachu shocks Ash? Think about it. The anime is too crazy to exist even in a world filled with monsters. It’d explain so much like♕ how Jesse and James can keep coming back episode after episode like some cartoon. Then, of course, there’s the damage everyone suffers from Pokémon attacks and yet they’re fine minutes later. Call it censoring a cartoon so that kids won’t get traumatized, but I’m sticking with my theory.

23 Creepy Tickles

Pokémon Amie was first introduced in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. Essentially it allowed you to interact with your Pokémon at any time. You could play games with them, feed them, or pet them in order to raise their affection. It became pretty tedious considering how certain Pokémon evolve based on affection, but that’s only if you really cared about collecting every Pokémon. Kind of the point of the game, but whatever. As cute as Pokémon Amie could be there are𒀰 certain Pokémon I felt uncomfortable touching. Mr. Mime is great example as illustrated above since it is a humanoid-type Pokémon. That’s like giving free jollies to the homeless. Jinx would be another weird one as long as we’re talking about humanoids. Talk about unsettling.

22 Money Money Money

Ok, so I sort of lied. This one is kind of similar in concept to a comic I laughed at before from my previous article. That one was poking holes at the logic of fighting a preschooler along with taking their money. Gaining monetary rewards after a battle is just the thing you do after a battle, or so it would seem. What if, in actuality, your character jabs the winded trainer before running off with their cash? Of course, that may seem silly as you never see that 🤡in the games, or anime, but there’s a lot of questions Nintendo and Game Freak censor. Like what people eat as I mentioned before, or the fact that children wander the world endlessly trying to be this chosen one at age ten.

21 Made For Each Other

This next comic fits in perfectly well with the other. It features Alakazam, the evolved form of Kadabra. Now I know it doesn’t make sense when Pokémon evolve into another form with human instruments. Abra goes into Kadabra with one spoon and Kadabra into Alakazam with two. Why do they need spoons anyway? Well here’s your answer. It was all a large ploy to finally have Alakazam duke it out with the awfully designed Vanilluxe. It’s literally just a pile of unsettling, unappealing ice cream with two heads, or more like two mounds that form heads. Hey Nintendo, Game Freak. I know you’ve been doing this for a while,💜 but seriously. Come up with better Pokémon!

20 Trim That Bush

Pokémon can be encountered in the wild a variety of ways, but the most common method is through tall grass. Even though Pokémon still clings to random encounters twenty years later when the rest of the RPG genre has abandoned it, they soften the blow with tall g🅘rass. That is to say, you will not encounter monsters on a normal road. I guess I’m still okay 🎶with that especially since repel potions exist, but it is still strange. I mean why not just trim the trails? I’m sure the world of Pokémon has some equivalent to a cleaning department in order to upkeep nature, right? Isn’t it kind of dangerous to keep tall grass around for non-Pokémon trainers? Do you want kids attacked? For the safety of all of mankind trim that bush!

19 Early Adoption Blues

The Game Boy Advance boasted SNES plus powered graphics, which was amazing at the time. The only problem was that you literally could not see the screen even with the brightest lights above you. I had to play that thing like it was attached to my face like a pair of glasses. That’s barely an exaggeration too. Third party companies made a mint off of light peripherals for the thing and even though they all sucked we𝐆 bought into them because the games were just that good. We suffered for Nintendo’s gems. Eventually, Nintendo fixed the issue by releasing the superior Game Boy Advance SP with a led backlit screen. You think that was the end of supporting non-lit screens? Nope. The origi✅nal DS also had no lights until the remodeled DS Lite edition. WTF Nintendo.

18 Needless Gestures

Have you ever done a random gesture hoping it’d somehow make you better at a game? I did it all the time as a kid like when I would flip my controller while trying to make a hard jump as if that would work. In that same vein of useless motions there are also some urban legends when it comes to button prompts in games. As the comic suggests, holding down the A and or B button on your Game Boy hoping it would lock a Pokémon in the Pokéball. Sorry, that didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now. So why do I still do it? I was playing Pokémon Ultra Sun recently and I caught myself doing it, but I still held on. Some things are just ▨built into our lizard brains and will never leave.

17 Pokémon In Real Life

Here’s something I think about on a regular basis. Do normal animals exist in the Pokémon universe? If they don’t then what do people eat? Pokémon? I know some like Farfetch’d are known as delicacies, but that seems so wrong. I know for sure they aren’t vegetarians the way Ash and his gang eat on the anime. I’ve seen meat on that show! So does hamburger come from Tauros and Miltank? It oddly keeps me up at night. On a similar note what if Pokémon were real? Could I just capture my cat in a Pokéball and call it a day? I never did this growing up since my🍌 family didn’t keep pets, but I bet other kids tried throwing Pokéballs at animals in the hopes it’d somehow work.

16 So Cute, Bye Bye

The Day Care Center first appeared in Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver. If you leave Pokémon with them they’ll gain experience💝 depending on the number of footsteps you take. If you leave two Pokémon behind of the opposite gender, sometimes they’ll make an egg. In order to create something more powerful, you need a good strategy. For example, if you want to create the ultimate Squirtle with amazing stats and a great move set then pairing a female Blastoise with a male Blastoise may be a great idea. This is what those obsessive trainers do with EVs as I mentioned earlier. What if that Squirtle isn’t as powerful as you want? What happens to the baby then? Well, here’s your answer. They just drown it out back for you.