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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (up, down, left, right, A, B, L, R, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.

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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (up, down, left, right, A, B, L, R, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, Platform/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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* UnwinnableByMistake: While ''Snakewood DX'' was intended to fix the existing softlocks that existed in the original ''Snakewood'', this proved a harder task than expected; as such, players ran into a ''lot'' of inextricable situations that required the stream developers to intervene:

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* UnwinnableByMistake: UnintentionallyUnwinnable: While ''Snakewood DX'' was intended to fix the existing softlocks that existed in the original ''Snakewood'', this proved a harder task than expected; as such, players ran into a ''lot'' of inextricable situations that required the stream developers to intervene:
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-> ''"If Madios have a million fans, then I am one of them. If Madios have ten fans, then I am one of them. If Madios have only one fan then that is me. If Madios have no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Madios, then I am against the world."''
-->-- '''Copypasta''' from the ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' chat

''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (up, down, left, right, A, B, L, R, start, and select) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.

''Twitch Plays Pokémon Snakewood DX'' is the ninth run of the stream's tenth season, which began on October 14th, 2023, and ended on October 23rd, 2023. Serving as the first part of that year's ''[[HalloweenEpisode Witch Plays Pokémon]]'' event, it appropriately featured an updated version of ''VideoGame/PokemonSnakewood'', a {{horror}}-themed hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonRuby'' featuring an original DarkerAndEdgier storyline set in a PostApocalyptic version of Hoenn populated by various zombified Pokémon.

Said updated version, titled ''Snakewood DX'', was developed specifically for ''TPP'', and was built on top of the existing updated version ''Snakewood Zeta'', while reverting some of the latter's more questionable changes. On top of [[{{Bowdlerization}} toning down]] the amount of graphic gore to make it more suitable for the stream, ''Snakewood DX'' also gave brand new sprites to several of the species introduced in ''Zeta'', tweaked the balance of the game to make it more fair for players, and attempted to fix numerous [[UnwinnableByMistake softlock]] situations... with varying degrees of success.

See also [[https://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=Snakewood%20DX here]] for the archived status of the run. The ''Snakewood DX'' revision has been released in the form of a UPS patch, both with and without the censored blood, and can be found [[https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/tpp-streamdocs/tree/master/saves/S10/R09%20Snakewood%20DX here]].

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!!''Twitch Plays Pokémon Snakewood DX'' contains examples of:

* ArcSymbol: Eggs were a recurring motif during this run:
** ''Snakewood'' itself features multiple notable Eggs within its story. The protagonist at some point receives a Dragon Egg, which actually happens to be the daughter of Meteor, the Dragon King, and multiple original species look exactly like Pokémon Eggs, one of which being the unobtainable Kijilianth while another is another Egg given to the protagonist early on, which hatches into another Egg ("Mysteryegg"), then evolves into another Egg ("Secretegg"), then into yet another Egg ("Hyperegg"), then finally into a Lgendary (in the case of this run, Celebi).
** The latter Egg was named "Alt", and as such formed a duo of sort with "F4" the Azombarill, who itself is not only was based on a Pokémon resembling an Easter Egg but also has a Pokédex entry clamining that it "[thinks it is] a chicken". Furthermore, "Alt" was not only a mainstay member of the team, but was also at some point infected with the extremely rare "strain zero" of Pokérus[[note]]a variant that mistakenly allows Pokémon who catch it to be infected again after being cured[[/note]].
** Yet another relevant Egg was the Faceleech Egg, which required a whopping 30,976 steps to hatch. As a result, it spent close to 18 hours on the team before hatching (aka the quasi-entirety of Day 8), the last of which was solely devoted to making the player character run back and forth.
** Because Vigoroth received a new evolution based on its personality value, the entire team was deposited on Day 9 to make room for a total of four Slakoth Eggs, in an attempt to get one with the correct value. As the first Slakoth hatched fit the criteria, two of said Eggs were then deposited into the PC without ever hatching.

* BlackBlood: ''Snakewood DX'' censored the gore imagery from the original ''Snakewood'', with the blood either removed entirely or changed from red to pink.

* TheBusCameBack: The starter Koffing was deposited early on the second day due to Magnemite being required on the party to progress, and was ultimately left there in favour of new party members. It was however withdrawn during the last few hours of the run, brought into the Pokémon League, and even had a moment to shine by [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman stalling against Kingmadio]] during the final battle, thus entering the fourteenth and final Hall of Fame of the run.

* ContentWarning: Although ''Snakewood DX'' was {{bowdlerized}} compared to the original ''Snakewood'' to tone done the gore, it was nonetheless the first main run to feature a Twitch content warning for "Violent and Graphic Depictions", due to some of the game's unaltered dialogue.

* GameBreakingBug: While exploring the Island of Calm during the second day of the run, an unavoidable battle against "The Shaderu" turned out to cause the game to [[https://clips.twitch.tv/ClumsyRoundSmoothieMVGame-edXfdnw4K97i0TvC completely freeze]] twice in a row, halting progress until the Streamer swapped out the ROM for a different one.

* HalloweenEpisode: ''Snakewood DX'' was specifically run in October due to being {{horror}}-themed, thus fitting the month's festivities. The overlay even used the "Witch Plays Pokémon" title that's usually reserved for Halloween intermissions rather than the regular "Twitch Plays Pokémon" one.

* HurricaneOfPuns: During a long, grueling hunt for rare "madio" Pokémon (specifically Burstmadio and Kingmadio, which had a 1% chance of being encountered each), bored and exhausted players started posting numerous game, movie or anime titles changed to include the word "Madio" in them, such as "[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Super Madio 64]]", "[[VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise Madio Hunter: Rise]]", "[[VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance Madio's Ultimate Alliance]]", "[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Madio]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Madiocraft]]", "[[Anime/DragonBallZ Madio Ball Z]]", "[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mahou Shoujo Madio Magica]]", "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan One-Punch Madio]]", "[[VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice Sekiro: Madios Die Twice]]", "[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Set Madio]]", "[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo2 Madio Madio Tsu]]", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Shin Madio Tensei]]", "[[WesternAnimation/Madagascar1 Madiogascar]]", "[[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Madiopoly]]", "[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Madiopardy]]", "[[Series/TheMandalorian Madiolorian]]", "[[VideoGame/WarioWare MadioWare]]", "[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmadio Alcheimist]]", "[[Literature/ReZero Re:Madio]]", "[[Anime/PrincessMononoke Princess Madioke]], "[[VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer Crypt of the MadioDancer]]", "[[Film/MarleyAndMe Madio & Me]]", "[[Film/{{Metropolis}} Madiopolis]]", ...and that was just a few of them.
--> '''[=MemeMeow6=]:''' oh no the madio brainrot is taking over

* MadnessMantra: On Day 8, user [=MathyFurret=] used a stack of Bloody Mail items to display the message "[[Literature/TheShining ALL RUNS AND NO PBR MAKES MATHY A DULL BOY]]" on screen. Enough of them for the message to repeat over and over for over 15 whole minutes.

* MythologyGag:
** Azombarill was renamed to "F4", following the tradition of Azumarill being referred to as some combination of a letter with the number 4, as with "M4" ([=M ---/’/’4=] from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Emerald]]''), "T4" ([=!t44444’’’tu=] from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby Omega Ruby]]''), and "Y4" ([=YYYYXOOOOO=] from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism Prism]]'').
** Shaderu was renamed "The Shady", referencing one of several names of a major villain from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonMegaPower Pokémon Mega Power]]'' that had gone memetic during that run.

* ShoutOut:
** The blood being changed from [[BlackBlood red to pink]] was not only a practical choice (being clearly different from red while not risking blending into other colors of the 16-bit sprites), but also doubled as a reference to the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' series.
** The name "F4" was chosen for Azombarill as a reference to the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects Press F to pay respects]]" meme, a phrase originating from a ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' scene in which the player is given said prompt during a funeral scene, due to its status as an undead Pokémon.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Blastmadio, like most other "madio" Pokémon, was [[JokeCharacter pretty much useless in battle]] due to only being Lv.1 and having an extremely limited moveset consisting only of two damaging moves, one of them causing it to faint. However, when facing against Fury Z, one of the game's Legendary Pokémon, its dual Fire/Ghost typing made it [[NoSell completely impervious]] to all of the latter's moves (Will-O-Wisp cannot burn Fire-types, and Sleep Talk and Seismic Toss are both ineffective against Ghost-types), allowing it to stall without issue while players threw Ultra Ball after Ultra Ball.

* UnwinnableByMistake: While ''Snakewood DX'' was intended to fix the existing softlocks that existed in the original ''Snakewood'', this proved a harder task than expected; as such, players ran into a ''lot'' of inextricable situations that required the stream developers to intervene:
** Near the end of the first day, the protagonist jumped inside a pool of water in Slateport City, but rather than end up inside the sunken S.S. Cangrejo as expected, instead found herself [[https://clips.twitch.tv/DependableFurryPancakePogChamp-7CONgXZa0iBpBepW stuck inside a well in Necropolis]], unable to move and with no way of escaping.
** On the second day of the run, the protagonist went through the door of Jim Fats' store in Shakya Monastery... [[https://clips.twitch.tv/VenomousSecretiveRadishRickroll-6Ni9LtQsMDaMnP-b and never actually made it to the inside of the building]], instead treating players to fifteen minutes of black screen before the game was mercifully reset.
** During the fifth day, Famine and Alicia turned out to somehow still be present in Famine's Desert despite the fact that they should have been gone by then. When going to talk to Famine, the game offered no dialogue, but instead the option to use Rock Smash... which immediately broke the game by [[https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticManlyAsparagusKappaWealth-P_oYO0ZviKop8HgS causing inputs to stop responding]].
** On Day 7, While exploring the Solar Caverns (a location based on the Granite Cave of ''Ruby and Sapphire''), the Voices found themselves in a situation where they couldn't progress due to requiring a precise turn with the Mach Bike over cracked ground tiles, which just wasn't feasible with the stream's controls. While walking around waiting for a developer to chime in, they accidentally walked over a cracked ground tile that wasn't actually there in the original Granite Cave, and had a glitched warp that caused the main character to [[https://clips.twitch.tv/ShortQuaintShallotArgieB8-MZ7srQyosm8qb48t remain stuck in place]] for the following 8 minutes, only able to look around but not to actually move.
** During Day 8, the character somehow walked ''through'' a bridge in Meteor Falls and ended up on top of the water below. As they ran around in amusement, the Voices accidentally caused her to fall down a nearby waterfall, with no way of climbing back up and the game not letting her get back on land, [[https://clips.twitch.tv/ConcernedYawningOxDoggo-jgwlbMmWnwUT4QqN thus getting her stuck inside the body of water]] with a team much too strong to white out to wild Pokémon under any reasonable amount of time.
** Right after catching Furi Z on Day 8, a broken script prevented it from disappearing from the overworld, and thus caused the main character to [[https://clips.twitch.tv/HedonisticElegantNikudonM4xHeh-wI0WVQVc1O9_Bn5W remain stuck in place]] for over 30 minutes before the issue was finally fixed.

* YouAreNumberSix: The main character of this run was simply named "1".

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