History WMG / PokemonColosseum

* Getting rid of all normal Pokémon would allow Shadow Pokémon to dominate the people even more.
[[HarsherInHindsight His Hydreigon also has perfect IVs and EVs,]] [[OhCrap like most Shadow Pokémon before purification,]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild and he doesn't strike this troper as the sort to train his pokemon lovingly. ]] [[NightmareFuel He probably knows them even more thoroughly then we think.]] [[BigBad Possible sequel to XD?]]

While Cipher can easily thrive in a place like [[CrapsackWorld Orre]], an economic power like Unova could prove a pretty big hassle for them. Enter [[MagnifcentBastard Ghetsis]]. The reason why he decided to conquer Unova by getting people to relinquish their Pokemon isn't just that it's going to be easy method of power, but that it'll make Cipher's invasion all the more easier. The reason why there's no Shadow Pokemon is due to PragmaticVillainy: Ghetsis has done all he can to keep a VillainWithGoodPublicity angle. If he shows up with [[MindRape a Shadow]] [[AxCrazy Pokemon]], it's going to turn some heads. Many of the technological villainy Team Plasma has done (hacking into the PC, creating [[OlympusMons Genesect]]) is an attempt to find alternative methods to the raw power of Shadow Pokemon. As for [[OlympusMons Reshiram/Zekrom]], it may be a sign that Ghetsis is an ally to Cipher instead of a member. Ghetsis [[ItsAllAboutMe is the kind of guy who'd want to be in charge of things]], so he might've kept these Pokemon to fight off Cipher and/or [[TheStarscream conquer them]].

Ardos and Eldes are equally close to the Grand Master, yet Eldes has one more Shadow Pokemon than Ardos does. Eldes has a Salamence, and the only other Shadow pseudo-legendary in the game is Dragonite. And going by previous patterns, legendaries and pseudo-legendaries are only given to the highest-ranked members of Cipher. Had Miror B. not stolen the Dragonite, it would have gone to Ardos to match Eldes's Salamence.

** It could be that Eagun and Beluh had a daughter, who married a man that had a brother. The daughter and her husband conceived, of course, Rui, while the husband's brother married Lily, and they had Michael, and later Jovi. Thus, while Eagun and Beluh are Rui's grandparents, they would have no genetic relation to Michael. (Sorry for the word jumble, I'm horrible at explaining things. Feel free to reword this.)

Let's see... Eagun's very first Pokemon was Pikachu, he's seen a Ho-oh, and was once one of the best trainers in Orre, if not the world. Yep, sounds like Ash.
* {{Jossed}} for a couple of reasons: The games and anime are separate continuity and in Colosseum Eagun says that he's never "seen a Ho-oh that close before."

[[WMG: Ho-oh's reason for showing up at the end of the first game.]]

Somewhat related to the idea above: Greevil already had the original legendary bird trio. Lugia is the leader of the bird trio, and thus, Cipher captured it and turned it into a Shadow Pokémon to keep it from attacking them like Ho-oh had done before.

Professor Krane will give out a Starter Pokémon, but it won't be one of the regular starter lines. Furthermore, the player will immediately be shown how to capture wild Pokémon, and the wild pokemon caught will actually be the player's second Pokémon immediately. Agate Village will have a Moss Rock near it, while an Ice Rock will be found in an icy cave hidden a short way up Mt Battle. Mt Battle itself will hold, at its peak, either Michael or Wes (likely the latter), who will give out their game's Johto Bird Legendary (Ho-oh or Lugia, respectively) if you can defeat them. A number of starter Pokémon from other titles will be found in the wild, too, likely including the Johto starters (after all, they've shown up in both games - shadow Pokémon of the middle stage evolution in Colosseum, regular first stage forms in XD).

To be precise, [[TheCorruption the very Celebi from Agate Village.]] Cipher will have had enough of purification, and so try to stomp it out at its source. [[CardCarryingVillain They do despise goodness, after all.]] Plus there's the fact that it would allow people to finally get Celebi without event, much like Ho-oh and Lugia in the Colosseum and XD games.

Both of them have experimented with Pokemon on a deep level, take the philosophy that Pokemon are tools, and aspire world conquest as their end-goal. Before Team Rocket fell, Giovanni decided to experiment their criminal empire by hiring one-time(albeit highly skilled) rouges, who were happy to be part of something larger. Greevil and his sons were high-class Rocket agents that served as the de-facto leaders-however, unknown to Giovanni, [[GoneHorriblyRight they were even better than Team Rocket]] and took advantage of both distance and Team Rocket's collapse to become fully independent. The reason why no Unova Pokemon appeared, despite Orre being in the same country, is because they were importing from the many Pokemon Team Rocket either sole, captured fairly or a Pokepan-based charity helping to rebuild the ruined Orre. Ein may have started as a Team Plasma agent working with Ghetsis on means to control Pokemon, but realized the whole N thing would fail in the end [[EvilCannotComprehendGood because Ghetsis didn't think N would change.]]([[DangerouslyGenreSavvy That's right, Ein gets how good works despite his sociopathy.]] Be afraid-''be very afraid''.)

[[WMG: At the end of ''Colosseum'', Cipher was attempting to establish their own Pokemon League.]]
Pokemon Leagues seem to be the preferred system of government for nations in the Pokemon universe. Cipher had enough power and influence that they could set up their own League and claim dominance over Orre. The Admins act as Gym Leaders, (you have to beat them to get PlotCoupons that let you progress) the lower portions of Realgam Tower act as Victory Road, (lesser trainers that fight you for the chance to fight the Elite Four) and Nascour and the four trainers before him act as the Champion and Elite Four respectively (five powerful trainers that fight you back to back at the end of the game).
** It's possible that after their plan succeeded, the Admins would have made up the Elite Four, and EliteMooks like Skrub would have become Gym Leaders. Also, there are elements of this plan in ''XD'', with the appearance of Wild Pokemon and Professors.

[[WMG: Rui was meant to have her own team of Pokemon]]
Early in development, Rui was supposed to have her own Pokemon in addition to Wes' Pokemon, which is why there's only Double Battles in the game and why she follows Wes around all the time. They probably couldn't make it work and scrapped the idea later in development, but kept her in as a means of identifying Shadow Pokemon.

A: This is the part I have the least evidence for, only their appearances are involved so far. Venus and Caitlin look extremely similar and Unova (New York and New Jersey)is on the same continent as Orre (Arizona).

The game will provide Darkrai's StartOfDarkness, explaining how he went from a fairly decent, even heroic Pokemon with an unfortunate power he can't control to ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon: Explorers''' villain. After a long time of [[GoMadFromTheIsolation secluding himself alone on a little island]] to avoid his powers accidentally hurting innocents, he was [[MindRape Mind Raped]] into a Shadow Pokemon and never truly recovered until his memory wipe at the end of ''Explorers''.
* Or, [[HijackedByGanon the original Darkrai]] was behind this all along, and the [[DarkIsNotEvil good]] Darkrai in the ANime and games are just wayward escapees from the Dream World, where he was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]]. Naturally, being a living nightmare, Darkrai's power'd end up creating clones of himself. Hey, if Legendaries like Dialga, Palkia and Giratina can come from the Dream World (Explaining their Hidden Abilities), so can Darkrai.

[[WMG: In the sequel, Garchomp and Hydreigon will be Shadow Pokemon.]]
The previous games had all the pseudo legendaries as Shadow Pokemon.

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7127515/1/Pokemon_Darkness Fanfiction has been made.]] It remains to be seen whether Cyrus will get involved, but Ghetsis, Ardos, and the Shadow Triad (as well as other Cipher and Rocket admins) have already appeared. Related to a WMG further down, Ghetsis is in fact spreading Cipher's influence to other regions.

* First off, Cipher is the kind of group to run its operations behind the scenes. It's kind of a stretch for most people to think of Es Cade as being BigBad Evice without [A] being uncomfortably paranoid or [B] having read about it elsewhere, and the same could be applied to Mr. Verich and his "bodyguards". They have experience in the field, and their personnel training methods border on ParanoiaFuel, which means law enforcement would be hard pressed to go after them without a lot of evidence (think of Sherles and Johnson as "practice" if you would, though fooling a total moron like Johnson doesn't take much). Hiring out a legitimate group as a proxy or, perhaps, RunningBothSides of a "government vs criminals" conflict would serve as an added cover to keep their hands proverbially clean.

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7127515/1/Pokemon_Darkness Fanfiction has been made.]] It remains to be seen whether Cyrus will get involved, but Ghetsis, Ardos, and the Shadow Triad (as well as other Cipher and Rocket admins) have already appeared. Related to a WMG farther down, he is in fact spreading Cipher's influence to other regions.

* In [[PokemonSpecial another manga]], a bomb, planted by Galactic, unleashes a HatePlague upon the Pokemon near Lake Valor. Pearl was there and caught one of these, and he usually has to put his opponent between himself and that Pokemon in order to get it to attack the proper target. Attacking humans directly. Sound familiar?

[[WMG: Cipher has used the Shadow Pokemon process on humans.]]

* It doesn't really make much sense. A human is far less effective in battle than a Pokémon, so a Shadow Human would be far less effective than a Shadow Pokémon. If they did try it [[PragmaticVillainy they would probably abandon the project immediately realizing it was a waste of time and resources]]
** Why would you assume that shadow humans would be fighting? Regular humans don't fight; They command and use tools. Part of the reason the process is even done is to make the affected vicious. A shadow human would be utterly ruthless. The only issue would be keeping them loyal and under control while still allowing them to act as individuals...

In Pokemon Colosseum, the entire area, with the exception of Agate Village, is inhospitable to Pokémon - well beyond the sort of conditions found in regular deserts. However, by Pokémon XD, the area has grown somewhat less inhospitable, resulting in the appearance of Pokespots, and the rudimentary components of a fill Pokemon League are in place - there is a "Pre-Gym" in Phenac City, and there is a location with an ersatz Elite Four. There is even a Pokémon Professor who has apparently moved to the region, in part to study Shadow Pokémon purification, but, I assert, also in part to study the region's changing Pokeclimate and the development of Pokémon ecosystems.

Seriously I can't be the only one who thought this. They both have red hair and have something to do with Shadow Pokemon. Also it would kinda make sense. After the events of Colosseum, Rui is so distraught, and so determined to ensure that Cipher to never makes Shadow Pokemon again, that she goes to her mother/aunt (Michael's mother) and asks her to help people prevent this from ever happening again. It would be very easy to develop the Aura Reader if they had a biological example right in front of them.

The partnership between Snagem and Cipher worked like this: Snagem steals and captures Pokemon, and delivers them to Cipher to convert them into Shadow Pokemon. Wes is obviously a BadAss, seems to be the most competent of Snagem, and Rui calls him a snagging expert. It's quite possible that Wes helped capture a lot of the Pokemon in the first place, including the legendaries. The realization of how Shadow Pokemon work and the fact that he was mostly responsible set off his HeelFaceTurn.

[[WMG: Wes spent the time period in between Colosseum and XD working to renew Orre for wild Pokemon.]]

Gonzap likely captured it at some point after Wes blows up the headquarters, and had it turned into a Shadow Pokemon.

[[WMG: The Pokemon Center nurses are actually robots.]]
When Wes is in Pyrite Building, he can heal his Pokemon like at a Pokemon Center, except he must do it himself due to the lack of nurses. The machine says what all the nurses always say. Nothing ever says the nurses are the ones speaking...

[[WMG: The Pokemon Center nurses are silent.]]

* Actually the Nurses say "Welcome to the Pokémon Center" and "We hope to see you again" while the machines just say "Would you like to heal your Pokémon?"

The only way Shadow Pokémon can be purified seems to be with the main character, despite non-Cipher trainers having them. They would've been handed a Poké Ball with the Pokemon in it, by Cipher who were handing them out. So the balls were tampered with to make it so the Shadow Pokémon couldn't be purified. When you snag one, it gets put in a new Pokéball that wasn't messed with and thus is purifiable.

Wes and Rui married and retired as trainers, but noticed suspicious activity and feared that Team Snagem was not really finished. With the conception of their first child, they made an agreement. They are confident that this child will want to oppose Team Snagem and be a great Pokemon Trainer. They also plan to leave the region to live in peace somewhere and wish to know that Orre will be safe in the future. The child was born and named Michael. When the boy was a number of months old, Wes and Rui went back in time. First of all, certain Pokemon have been known to transcend time. Also, with the technology displayed in the game, time travel doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch. Anyway, they gave the boy to Lily and her husband to raise, along with an Eevee egg, the parent of which is ether Wes's Espeon or Umbreon (Or possibly both, should they be of the opposite gender). Whats more, they ask the surrogate parents to not let anyone know that Michael is their child, as to protect him from Team Snagem until he is ready. Also, the machine that Michael has doesn’t really work, he has inherited his mother's ability to sense Shadow Pokemon. The machine is just another step to keep him or anyone else from discovering that he is Wes and Rui's son, by hiding this ability.

You know the infinite Poké Ball glitch in Colosseum? I say it's not a glitch. Our hero just knows how to make Poke Balls himself, as long as he has at least a couple of templates.

[[WMG: Dakim does a Heel Face Turn and becomes Alder.]]
Seriously, look at them. They're both huge. They both have crazy red hair in almost the exact same style. They both wear mostly white and have necklaces of Poke Balls. Also, Dakim is able to leap off Mount Battle and survive, and in Black and White, Alder leaps off a freakin' cliff when the stairs are right there and isn't even hurt. Geography-wise, Unova shouldn't be far away, so who's to say after Cipher collapsed the first time Dakim didn't hop across to Unova and turn over a new leaf? It's not like Orre's flimsy authorities would be able to stop him. His full name could be Dakim Alder, or Alder Dakim, or maybe Alder's just a name he made up so no one could track him. A name like Alder wouldn't be out of place in Orre.

Because it's pissed off at Cipher for turning its friends/servants (the legendary beast trio) into Shadow Pokemon.

Hence the Pokespots.

Professor Krane will give out a Starter Pokémon, but it won't be one of the regular starter lines. Furthermore, the player will immediately be shown how to capture wild Pokémon, and the wild pokemon caught will actually be the player's second Pokémon immediately. Agate Village will have a Moss Rock near it, while an Ice Rock will be found in an icy cave hidden a short way up Mt Battle. Mt Battle itself will hold, at its peak, either Michael or Wes (likely the latter), who will give out their game's Johto Bird Legendary (Ho-Oh or Lugia, respectively) if you can defeat them. A number of starter Pokémon from other titles will be found in the wild, too, likely including the Johto starters (after all, they've shown up in both games - shadow Pokémon of the middle stage evolution in Colosseum, regular first stage forms in XD).

[[WMG: They performed the MindRape process on their Shadow Pokemon multiple times.]]
As you know, when you use a Shadow Pokemon in battle often, it will start affecting the gauge. To relieve this, Cipher preforms the process ''multiple times'' just to assure its heart stays closed and keep it at maximum strength. Granted, it only is purified when a ritual is done, but they aren't taking chances.

[[WMG:Evice from is a parallel universe counterpart to Dr Eggman from Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog.]]
They look a lot like one another. Evice even has the glowing red eyes of the SATAM Robotnik. The only real difference in terms of looks is different clothes, being older and choosing to have his BadassMoustache apply to his scalp. Plus both of them like to tinker with animals(super-powered animals in Evice's case).

Ardos, Ghetsis and his Shadow Triad, and Cyrus will team up. A match made in... I'd say hell, but it's often interpreted as exactly what Cyrus wants. As for why Cyrus (destroy the world and remake it without emotion) will team up with the other two/five, to quote Bulbapedia, "Shadow Pokémon are created through an undisclosed process that '''removes the Pokémon's emotions''', turning it into a soulless fighting machine", and Ein refers to the process as "shutting the door to their hearts"; perhaps he would like to use the process on '''humans'''. All 3 are easily sick enough to do it. Bonus sicko points if he does it (and Ardos goes along with it) on Eldes, who tries to stop him. Given we have a Wii game coming out, rumored to be an XD-like game, it may not need to wait till next gen.

[[WMG: Colo is the chronologically earliest game in the series.]]

[[WMG: Shadow Pokemon handed out by Cipher had their Poke Balls tampered with.]]
The only way Shadow Pokemon can be purified seems to be with the main character, despite non-Cipher trainers having them. They would've been handed a Poke Ball with the Pokemon in it, by Cipher who were handing them out. So the balls were tampered with to make it so the Shadow Pokemon couldn't be purified. When you snag one, it gets put in a new Pokéball that wasn't messed with and thus is purifiable.
* This seems unlikely. Orre Trainers, including Cipher, have access to their Pokemon's non-Shadow moves. This means they'd have to be at least close to being able to "undo the final lock". It's simply that regular people wouldn't know to, and Cipher members wouldn't, go to the Relic Forest to purify them.
* Though this does raise up the point about why Wes / Michael would waste their time stealing Shadow Pokemon from people who are treating their Pokemon well, bond with it themselves, and purify it, as opposed to simply being like "Hey, come with me!" and taking the trainers to the Relic Forest.

[[WMG:Wes knows how to make Poke Balls.]]
You know the infinite Poke Ball glitch in Colosseum? I say it's not a glitch. Our hero just knows how to make Poke Balls himself, as long as he has at least a couple of templates.

* Nope.

** Nope,they and the sequels didn't buck the trend.

*** Yeah, except the latest wave of spinoffs (Pokepark, Rumble, Nobunaga's Ambition) are completely isolated from the main series, so your argument doesn't hold water. Even the ''Ranger'' subseries has continuity within the anime and mangas. ''Colosseum'' and ''XD'' '''''NEVER''''' had that luxury.

Centuries ago, the region of Orre was little more than a desert. A group of immigrants, originating from Pokepan, settled on the land. They tried their very best to survive the harsh terrain, but it was all for nothing. However, [[OlympusMons a friendly Celebi]] took pity upon them. It decided to allow the region to flourish. For most of its history, Orre was a happy place. But the citizens began to covet the great Celebi's power. They thought that [[WellIntentionedExtremist to ensure their society became a total utopia, Celebi must be captured.]]

While most citizens were happy to earn their freedom, a few were infuriated. They claimed that Orre should not be punished for trying to capture Celebi, since it was misguided instead of evil. That group was determined [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans to harness Pokemon's innate power, and restore the region.]] But the darkness in their hearts had shown. Over time, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they would lose sight of their goal,]] [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans and begin to work only for themselves.]] They were known as Team Cipher. Their leader, Greevil, failed to realise this. Only when a trainer defeated him, did he realise he was working for no-one but himself.

[[WMG: Ghetsis is an agent, or at the very least in league with Team Cipher.]]

* Getting rid of all normal Pokémon would allow shadow Pokémon to dominate the people even more.
[[HarsherInHindsight His Hydreigon also has perfect IVs and EVs,]] [[OhCrap like most shadow pokemon before purification,]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild and he doesn't strike this troper as the sort to train his pokemon lovingly. ]] [[NightmareFuel He probably knows them even more thoroughly then we think.]] [[BigBad Possible sequel to XD?]]

[[WMG: Adding to the previous WildMassGuessing, Ghetsis is helping Team Cipher spread its influence to other regions.]]
While Team Cipher can easily thrive in a place like [[CrapsackWorld Orre]], an economic power like Unova could prove a pretty big hassle for them. Enter [[MagnifcentBastard Ghetsis]]. The reason why he decided to conquer Unova by getting people to relinquish their Pokemon isn't just that it's going to be easy method of power, but that it'll make Cipher's invasion all the more easier. The reason why there's no Shadow Pokemon is due to PragmaticVillainy: Ghetsis has done all he can to keep a VillainWithGoodPublicity angle. If he shows up with [[MindRape a Shadow]] [[AxCrazy Pokemon]], it's going to turn some heads. Many of the technological villainy Team Plasma has done(hacking into the PC, creating [[OlympusMons Genesect]]) is an attempt to find alternative methods to the raw power of Shadow Pokemon. As for [[OlympusMons Reshiram/Zekrom]], it may be a sign that Ghetsis is an ally to Cipher instead of a member. Ghetsis [[ItsAllAboutMe is the kind of guy who'd want to be in charge of things]], so he might've kept these Pokemon to fight off Cipher and/or [[TheStarscream conquer them]].

And he will have Bouffalant because that species was made for him. Hopefully they'll have pokeball afros too.

[[WMG: Team Cipher has used the Shadow Pokemon process on humans.]]

[[WMG: To up the ante, Team Cipher will obtain [[OhCrap a Shadow Celebi.]] ]]

[[WMG: Miror B left Team Cipher because of [[EvenEvilHasStandards work ethics.]] ]]

As you know, when you use a Shadow Pokemon in battle often, it will start affecting the gauge. To relieve this, Team Cipher preforms the process ''multiple times'' just to assure its heart stays closed and keep it at maximum strength. Granted, it only is purified when a ritual is done, but they aren't taking chances.

[[WMG: They preformed the MindRape process on their Shadow Pokemon multiple times.]]