History ShoutOut / Pokemon

* In ''Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'', one of the shelves on the abandoned Ship has a game device with two screens, [[BreakingTheFourthWall but it's different than the one you're holding]]. It's either referring to an earlier model UsefulNotes/NintendoDS or (more likely) one of the UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch systems, some of which also had two screens.

** Annihilape is the result of an extremely violent BloodKnight purging itself of all emotion to become a being of pure fighting will and killing intent. [[Characters/StreetFighterAkuma Sounds like someone else we know.]]

* Snorlax is stated to being docile enough to allow children and small Pokemon to bounce on its large stomach, and its general design is rather similar to [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]].

** Similarly, compare Red and Ness. Both are preteen HeroicMime protagonists of modern/urban based [=JRPGs=] (rather than medieval times/fantasy). Both are [[PrimaryColorChampion Primary Color Champions]] with caps, backpacks, and bicycles. Both have to collect 8 PlotCoupons over the course of the game. Both have a friend/jerk next door neighbor who, after showing up in random places throughout the adventure, ends up being part of the FinalBoss battle. Both look very similar, though Red's redesign lessened the resemblance. In what may be a subtle nod to this, in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', after Ness courageously sacrifices himself to save Lucas, Lucas immediately teams up with the similarly confident and heroic Pokemon Trainer.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' hits ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' in particular: the Waitress trainer class bears a strong resemblance to Tazmily villager Tessie, Drilbur (who strongly resembles the Mischievous Mole enemy) evolves into Excadrill (a mole with drill hands like Reconstructed Mole), there is a Dark/Dragon line, and the song [[spoiler:"N's Farewell"]] contains ''note for note'' a portion of the ''Mother 3'' Love Theme, as well as fragments of "Letter to You, My Sweet."

* At the Village Bridge in ''Pokémon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2'', you can find an Artist named [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Gough]], whose only Pokémon is a Sunflora. The reference is made more blatant in Japanese, where his name is Vincent.

* Xerosic bears a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]].

* [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Scrappy]] is an ability that lets Normal and Fighting moves hit Ghost types.

* In Alola, there's a Pokémon Breeder named [[Creator/IkueOtani Ikue]] who owns a single Pikachu and mentions that she knows how to speak its language.

** Palafin's Hero form resembles ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', and it evolves from Finizen at level 38, referencing how the first Superman comic came out in 1938.

* The fifth movie, ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'', takes place in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Venice, Italy. Fittingly, one of the major supporting characters, Lorenzo, dresses in the same [[IconicOutfit red-and-blue overalls]] as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]].[[note]]Coincidentally, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine,'' which also features a Venice knockoff, was released less than week after ''Pokemon Heroes'' in Japan.[[/note]]

* The episode "Hocus Pokemon" features a Witch as a character of the day. In the dub, her name is [[Literature/HarryPotter Lilly]]. And she has a cockney accent as well

* [=SM079=] features a {{Leitmotif}} associated with the Minior which sounds a ''lot'' like the opening bars to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Star Light Zone]].

* Once when Ash [[PunnyName names]] his Pokémon in the Viz translation of ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu''. [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Jean Luc Pikachu"]], [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat "Felix The Cat-erpie"]], and "Walter Pidgeotto" (there's a Canadian actor named "Creator/WalterPidgeon").

* Beauty Nevah in ''XD'' has a Cacnea and a Chimecho on her team, and her introduction speech says that there's someone else out there with those two Pokémon. That statement isn't true anymore, but since this was a Generation III game, she was talking about [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} James]].

* Pokémon ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'': In the player character's house if they are female, a movie is playing on the TV. It features [[Film/TheWizardOfOz a girl with pigtails walking on a brick road]]. For the male character, as well as in the original, it features [[Film/StandByMe four boys on railroad tracks.]]