History WebAnimation / Poketoon

** This is not the first time a human was turned to a Gengar. [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam Pokemon Mystery Dungeons Rescue Team]] introduced us to Team Meanies' leader Gengar..

* ForcedTransformation: A girl named Shoko turns into a Gengar in "I've Become a Gengar".

* FriendlyGhost: The worst thing the Ghost Pokémon inhabiting the school do is play pranks on kids wandering about after hours; their ranks include species with lore that paints them as being malevolent towards humans, like Drifloon and Jellicent, but they're content with the pranks. They also happily welcome Shoko in as one of their own and praise her whenever she (accidentally) scares the kids. It's also implied [[spoiler:Gengar orchestrated the events of the episode after the staircase so Shoko could become more confident]].

** During one of Shoko's unintended scares, the moonlight through a window causes her to resemble the sprite for unidentified ghosts in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue original games]].

* ShrinkingViolet: Shoko is very shy and timid, though the adventures she has with Gengar and its friends help her come out of her shell and become more confident.

* TranslationConvention: While Shoko is a Gengar, all the Pokémon she meets speak the same language she does. A brief cut to her friends' perspective shows that Shoko is engaging in PokemonSpeak.

* BalefulPolymorph: A girl named Shoko turns into a Gengar in "I've Become a Gengar".

In 2022, it was announced that the shorts would finally be released in the West starting on June 17 on the Pokémon TV app and website and all 8 episodes would be released on the service weekly throughout Summer.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Momo's Jigglypuff in "Jigglypuff's Song" has a bassier voice than others of its species.

* FaceOfAThug: Pancham wants to be a hero, and is worried that if it evolves into Pangoro, people will be scared of it. It wears an Everstone on a necklace to prevent this. [[spoiler: It throws away the Everstone to evolve and gain enough strength to save Impidimp and the trapped miners, but they all recognize Pangoro as a hero anyway.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Blossom's father's Charizard is shown to have been defeated by a Dragapult during the Galar League. Later on, Blossom's mother is seen clutching a pillow with a Dragapult print. [[spoiler: She's the Trainer who defeated Blossom's father, and she still owns the Dragapult.]]

* FaceOfAThug: Pancham wants to be a hero, and is worried that if it evolves into Pangoro, people will be scared of it. It wears an Everstone on a necklace to prevent this. ||It throws away the Everstone to evolve and gain enough strength to save Impidimp and the trapped miners, but they all recognize Pangoro as a hero anyway.||

* DaddysGirl: Tsubomi is shown to have a stronger relationship with her dad than her mom, with the former being her main inspiration in regards to wanting to become a Trainer just like him.
* FailureMontage: After Tsubomi attempts catching a Pikachu, there's a sequence of her failing to catch various other Pokémon. It ends with her throwing a Poké Ball at a lounging Slowpoke and missing completely.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Downplayed. While not to the level of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Bianca's dad]], Tsubomi's mother doesn't let her daughter become a Trainer, and her reason for doing so is more reasonable: Tsubomi has a bad habit of being so wrapped up in her own world that she often ignores her surroundings, which is proven right when Tsubomi hastily finishes washing the dishes but one falls off the rack and breaks due to not being placed more carefully.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tsubomi's father's Charizard is shown to have been defeated by a Dragapult during the Galar League. Later on, Tsubomi's mother is seen clutching a pillow with a Dragapult print. [[spoiler: She's the Trainer who defeated Tsubomi's father, and she still owns the Dragapult.]]

* GoodParents: While Tsubomi does butt heads with her parents in regards to not letting her become a Trainer, they do genuinely love and care about their daughter.

* IdiotHair: Tsubomi has a curly hair that sticks up from the top of her head and is shown to be very naive about catching and training Pokémon. She decides to go out on her own to find a Pokémon and subsequently wastes all the Poké Balls she bought save one blindly throwing them at wild Pokémon.

* UnrevealAngle: The first time footage of Tsubomi's father battling in the Galar League is shown, the camera cuts away before the pan up to the trainer who defeated him gets past their neck.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. While not to the level of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Bianca's dad]], Tsubomi's mother doesn't let her daughter become a Trainer, and her reason for doing so is more reasonable: Tsubomi has a bad habit of being so wrapped up in her own world that she often ignores her surroundings, which is proven right when Tsubomi hastily finishes washing the dishes but one falls off the rack and breaks due to not being placed more carefully.

* NamesTheSame: Momo's the name of one of the side characters in "I've Become a Gengar," and that of the main character in "Jigglypuff's Song."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tsubomi's father's Charizard is shown to have been defeated by a Dragapult during the Galar League. Later on, Tsubomi's mother is seen clutching a pillow with a Dragapult print. [[spoiler: She's the trainer who defeated Tsubomi's father, and she still owns the Dragapult.]]

* AnimalTalk: While to humans it still sounds like [[PokemonSpeak they're saying their own names]], the various species of ghost Pokemon in "I've Become a Gengar" all speak the same language.

* CirclingBirdies: Tiny Poke Beans circle Scraggy's head after it rolls head-first into a tree.

* DaddysGirl: Tsubomi is shown to have a stronger relationship with her dad than her mom, with the former being her main inspiration in regards to wanting to become a trainer just like him.
* FailureMontage: After Tsubomi attempts catching a Pikachu, there's a sequence of her failing to catch various other Pokemon. It ends with her throwing a Poke Ball at a lounging Slowpoke and missing completely.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. While not to the level of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Bianca's dad]], Tsubomi's mother doesn't let her daughter become a trainer, and her reason for doing so is more reasonable: Tsubomi has a bad habit of being so wrapped up in her own world that she often ignores her surroundings, which is proven right when Tsubomi hastily finishes washing the dishes but one falls off the rack and breaks due to not being placed more carefully.

* FriendlyGhost: The worst thing the Ghost Pokemon inhabiting the school do is play pranks on kids wandering about after hours; their ranks include species with lore that paints them as being malevolent towards humans, like Drifloon and Jellicent, but they're content with the pranks. They also happily welcome Shoko in as one of their own and praise her whenever she (accidentally) scares the kids. It's also implied [[spoiler:Gengar orchestrated the events of the episode after the staircase so Shoko could become more confident]].
* GoodParents: While Tsubomi does butt heads with her parents in regards to not letting her become a trainer, they do genuinely love and care about their daughter.

* IdiotHair: Tsubomi has a curly hair that sticks up from the top of her head and is shown to be very naive about catching and training Pokemon. She decides to go out on her own to find a Pokemon and subsequently wastes all the Poke Balls she bought save one blindly throwing them at wild Pokemon.

* MundaneUtility: The Pokemon Anna's grandparents own are seen helping out with various tasks around the house:

** The speech of the Pokemon in "A Budding Dream" follows similar logic to [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the anime]]; most of them say their own names, but Charizard, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen have growls that sound vaguely like their names.

* TheSevenMysteries: "I've Become a Gengar" has a band of students investigating their school's Seven Mysteries after dark. Six of them are caused by Ghost-type Pokemon that love playing pranks; the seventh is [[spoiler:an unexplained phenomena that traps anyone who's still on school grounds by sunrise]].

* TranslationConvention: While Shoko is a Gengar, all the Pokemon she meets speak the same language she does. A brief cut to her friends' perspective shows that Shoko is engaging in PokemonSpeak.

* VacuumMouth: Scraggy sucks in a trail of Poke Beans that fell off a truck carrying luggage.

** Scraggy's eyes turn into hearts whenever it sees a trail of Poke Beans. They also briefly become hearts when it spots the bag of Poke Beans near the end, only for them to quickly go back to normal when it turns out to be Mimikyu again. When it slams into a tree, the eye closer to the tree turns into a star.

** Momo, one of the kids from "I've Become a Gengar," has permanent starry eyes as part of her overall design.

''Poketoon'' is an animated web series of shorts based on the ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' games. Unlike ''Pokemon'''s other animated series such as ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' and ''WebAnimation/PokemonTwilightWings'', ''Poketoon'' is not an adaptation of any of the games; instead, it opts to tell original stories that focus more on the average resident of the Pokemon world.

!!''Poketoon'' provides examples of:

* BrownNoteBeing: The Scraggy in the page image took on the curse of seeing Mimikyu's true form.