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15	* The idea of Wild Pokémon in these games. Here, Pokémon are equivalent to humans, so you're basically fighting against [[WildMan Wild Men]] in those dungeons.
16	* In the ''Explorers'' games, the player can receive Eggs as rewards for missions or randomly in Spinda's Juice Café. These Eggs can be hatched in Chansey's Day Care, and you can then have them join your team. But these Eggs are unborn Pokémon, often of a species unrelated to the clients giving them out. Where did they get these Eggs? And why are they accepted as payment in exchange for rescue/bounty hunting services?! And why did that strange Pokémon at the bar just give you one based on watching you drink?!
17	** The species that hatches is selected at random from the species that can appear on the floor where the mission ended, and its gender depends on whether the floor number was odd or even: ever notice that all Pokémon on odd floors are male, and all on even floors are female? What this essentially means, then, is that your client, while awaiting rescue, discovered a wild Pokémon egg, and that the player is too dumb/hasty to find one on their own. Fridge Horror in that the client has no idea how to reward you for the mission when it first wrote the SOS mail; what if it wasn't lucky enough to find that egg?
18	* As a member of Wigglytuff's guild, the player must give 90% of what they make to the Guildmaster, and while the game doesn't make it clear whether this money is mostly for the guild itself instead of simply to line the Guildmaster's pockets, one of the ten "rules" for the guild is basically "Don't run away, ever, or we will hunt you down." Extortion much?
19	** The original Japanese dialogue, when directly translated, gives us, "Deserters will be punished!" Chances are, it is mostly to promote an attitude of not balking down from a challenge, since the bit about the Guild taking a cut is in rule 10.
20	** What would [[CloudCuckoolander Wigglytuff]] spend that money on, anyway? He doesn't even pay for Perfect Apples! Upkeep for the guild building? Feeding other guild members?
21	* The hero used to be a human. Assuming this, he or she would have friends and family... in the end, he or she stays as a Pokémon, so what can the friends and family assume? Their child would be a missing person... or worse, dead.
22	** Since the human chose to have their memories erased, it may be implying that the human had a shitty life and didn't want to remember it.
23	** This is not true of ''Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky''. After Darkrai pushes you through the time vortex, you unwillingly lose all of your memories and transform into a Pokémon. Even worse, you, along with Grovyle, traveled (will travel) back in time to investigate the planet's paralysis. Any friends and family you left behind would have to accept that you might never return. And for all they know, you never did, and never will.
24	*** Though, when Grovyle is forewarning you about having to disappear, he says "We had nothing to lose, and nothing to go back to.", implying that, prior to losing their memory, the Player had no friends or family to speak of apart from Grovyle, diminishing that Horror a little.
25	** Or thanks to the fact that you fix time and prevent the bad future from happening, and Dialga and possibly Arceus let you and Grovyle continue to exist, both you and Grovyle are now paradoxes who exist in two places at once, two with the friends and family since without the bad future you never go there as there was no paralyzed planet to explore. And two with the members of the Pokémon world.
26	** This is brought up by your partner in ''Gates of Infinity'' while who wants you to stay with them realized that you have friends and family who you love and love you back and would rather have you stay with them then being forever separated from them.
27	* ''Gates to Infinity'' mentions that there were humans other than yourself brought to the Pokémon World, except they're long gone now. Let's think for a moment... Weren't there two other humans we know of that were turned into Pokémon destined to save the world?
28	** Except Hydreigon was talking about the other humans he brought to try and fight the Bittercold. Never mind the games almost certainly take place in different worlds (Rescue team is implied to take place in HumanitysWake due to laboratory ruins, while Explorers' human, as far as we know, was native and not from a different world at all, both of which are impossible in the Gates to Infinity world), but Hydreigon specifically mentions having brought the humans to the Pokémon world, when he had no presence in the previous games.
29	** There's nothing saying that the three worlds aren't one. Remember, one of them had to deal with Time Travel, what with distant futures and whatnot. Not to mention that it's also very likely that all of the games happen on different continents of the planet. So, for all we know, Hydreigon might've actually brought some humans that ''didn't'' get sent home.
30	* The idea that the Pokémon are more bitter than they are in the previous games might seem somewhat arbitrary, but think about it -- Post Town doesn't have anything resembling a system of Rescue Teams or an Explorer's Guild, and there was no place for Pokémon to submit requests before your partner started building Paradise. If you got lost, misplaced an item in a dangerous area, or otherwise got in over your head, you couldn't count on veterans to bail you out. No wonder most Pokémon felt their efforts didn't matter in the end.
31	* Since the main games take place in the same timeline, what exactly happened to Hydreigon in ''Explorers: Darkness/Time/Sky'' during the bad future? Being the Voice of Life, he must have frozen (or worse) considering if the world ends, he dies, so if the world freezes, he freezes too.
32	* More sad than horrifying, but you know in Gates To Infinity where the lights were actually humans being sent back? It was bad itself, but considering Hydreigon mentions to you that people will lose their memories of you when you vanish (doesn't happen), think of all the friendships the other humans made that are now forgotten in time. Or worse, what about the possibility of their companions getting slain or brutalized by Munna's gang? Imagine waking up somewhere and wondering why some mons beat you senseless.
33	* The biggest one is, where are all the humans? While it could be argued that they don't exist here, not only are they mentioned, but both artificial Pokémon and what looks like remains of human architecture can be found. [[AfterTheEnd Was human civilization destroyed?]]
34	** It is interesting how the idea of you being a former human in ''Explorers'' is a big deal, and yet there are literally ''no other humans'' anywhere in the game. OhCrap, are you the last of your kind in that game? Are humans now extinct once you transform?
35	* An example from ''Super'', it's said that Dark Matter is made up of negative emotions, specifically "hate, sadness, and rage", according to Ampharos. Now, think about how you feel about your friends being turned into stone, or mind controlled. You'll feel sad for your friends ending up like this, while beginning to hate the entity that caused it, and feel angry. In other words, Dark Matter is a self-feeding force. The fact that it's gone for good is even more satisfying when this is considered.
36	* In summoning a long series of humans to their world in the hopes that one of them can defeat the Bittercold, Hydreigon is basically throwing lives at the problem until it's solved.
37	* ''Super Mystery Dungeon'' reveals that all the main games take place in the same universe, which means that the Mystery Dungeon world has suffered at least four near-apocalypses in the span of a few years and is undergoing a fifth.
38	* With Gen VI and VII canonizing that the ''Pokémon'' franchise has many alternate timelines, this raises questions about where Temporal Tower sits in all this. Would the tower falling have caused ''every'' timeline to crash?
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42	* Team Skull got their name because they're all Poison types, and a skull and crossbones is a common symbol for something being poisonous. Also, that same marking is on Koffing's body, so it could have been named in honor of him as well.
43	* Chapter 3 of the Explorer games is called "The Scream." Playing the game through the first time, the player assumes this refers to Azurill's scream, which you hear in your first vision. However, you learn later that your visions are called Dimensional ''Screams''.
44	* There's a good reason why the heroes had to fight Primal Dialga in the second game first: if they showed who the game's real villain is early on, then the game would be shorter.
45	** And speaking of Primal Dialga, look at his name in the wake of ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''... where Groudon and Kyogre gained "Primal Reversion" forms. It may be a coincidence, but Primal Dialga seems stronger than usual, and Primal Reversion made the two aforementioned Legendaries considerably more powerful than their standard selves.
46	* Why does [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Chatot]] assume that Team Skull is friends with the player character and partner simply because they know each other, or at least assume they're on good terms? Because he's gotten used to [[AllLovingHero Wigglytuff]], who considers everyone he meets to be a friend.
47	* One of the [=NPCs=] in Post Town is a Trubbish who is somewhat self-conscious about his stench, and mentions that the main character doesn't seem to mind the smell compared to most other Pokémon. Considering garbage as a whole seems non-existent in the Pokémon world, a human would be far more used to the smell of garbage than any of the other Pokémon.
48	* When Azurill is trapped in a nightmare, it's mentioned that they can't feed him anything in that state. It's only fitting that the stage that takes place in his nightmare doesn't have any food and your hunger bar drops more quickly - you're suffering the same hunger Azurill is.
49	* Grovyle learning Dig is unusual, as it is a move that Grovyle could only learn by TM and not part of the line's level-up moveset. However, the move makes perfect sense story-wise, as he would have purposely learned a Ground type move like Dig in preparation for fighting Dialga, since none of his naturally-learned moves would be effective against Dialga, but a move like Dig would be (Dialga resists Grovyle's Grass type but is weak to Fighting and Ground).
50	** It could also be due to the fact that he would need a quick escape after "stealing" the Time Gears. Tunneling though the ground sounds like a pretty good escape route. It might even be a reference to Dig's overworld function in the main series.
51	** As well as the fact that Grovyle refers to the once-human player as his friend and partner, implying that the player was once a trainer, and Grovyle was their Pokemon. It's entirely possible that the player used said TM on Grovyle, if not for the mission than to give him a more diverse move pool for battles.
52	* Why is Darkrai such an irredeemable, cold-hearted, cowardly villain in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Time/Darkness/Sky]]''? In this universe, the Pokémon all have human-level intelligence. Darkrai didn't start out evil, as shown when he joins your team after the memory wipe. His ability, "Bad Dreams", no doubt kept away people. He felt lonely and, eventually, angry at all of the Pokémon whom were able to be surrounded by friends and loved ones. The solitude and seclusion would drive anyone insane, especially over the many years he's implied to have lived. He wanted everyone to share in his despair, hence his plans to corrupt the Gods and plunge the world into eternal darkness. Losing his memories was likely the only way to free himself of all that hatred. A new life that eventually gets friends for him thanks to you.
53	** And now Darkai has gone from a maniacal and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans utterly]] [[ForTheEvulz sadistic]] entity to a [[JerkassWoobie sad]] and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds destructive]] being.
54	* In the special Episode "Here Comes Team Charm", you can get a few hints on the true guardian of the Time Gear. How? Look at it's face. Doesn't it remind you of, say, a Ditto?
55	* IQ in this game is the equivalent to friendship in the main games (in that it affects Return and Frustration's power and enables Pokémon that evolves by friendship to do so) because having more IQ skills that's unlocked from IQ points makes you more trustworthy, and trust was often another term used for friendship.
56	* Considering in Explorers you end out being a time paradox being saved from nonexistence, the game arguably has the happiest ending. You never went to the Pokéworld due to a bad future and thus you and Grovyle never got separated or transformed into a Pokémon, thus you are still there with all your friends and family back home on your world, while the Pokémon world you can continue to train and go on adventures, eventually meeting back up with Grovyle.
57	* The graduation exam prepared by Wigglytuff - the last adventure an apprentice will have as a member of the guild - ends with the apprentice taking the exam falling through a pitfall trap into a darkened monster house and having to fight multiple enemies surrounding them at once. As shown in "Igglybuff the Prodigy", the last adventure Wigglytuff had with his mentor ended in pretty much the same way.
58	* The player characters in these games tend to come off as comically overpowered, able to defeat fully-evolved Pokémon and even legendaries. How is it that they can consistently do this before having evolved even once themselves? Simple: they used to be human. We know from the main series Pokémon games that trainers are almost inherently better at battle strategy than Pokémon themselves, to the point where having a trainer is the ultimate way for a Pokémon to unlock its own potential. As a human-turned-Pokémon, the player can effectively serve as its own trainer and wipe the floor with all the "wild" Pokémon they encounter.
59	** This leads to a bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration. Even if you boost their IQ stat, your partner and other Pokémon often do things during battle that... [[ArtificialStupidity aren't the smartest]]. It's the player, the one being controlled by a human, who almost always has the strongest understanding of combat technique in the room.
60	* In ''Rescue Team'', there is an odd pair of version exclusives: Porygon in Red Rescue Team and Porygon 2 in Blue Rescue Team. The reason this is the case is because Red Rescue Team is on the Gameboy Advance and Blue Rescue Team is on the DS, meaning the older Pokemon is on the older console and vice versa.
61	* Of course Diglett can't recognize Dusknoir's footprint--he doesn't have one!
62	* During the scene in the original ''Rescue Team'' games where Blastoise, Octillery, and Golem volunteer to go rescue Team ACT, a crowd of other Pokémon adventurers is present, including a Raichu. Later, in the scene where the three adventurers return in defeat from Magma Cavern, the same crowd is there — but the Raichu is absent. Considering that Magma Cavern is full of [[DishingOutDirt Ground-type]] Pokémon, it makes [[ElementalRockPaperScissors perfect sense]] that the [[ShockAndAwe Electric-type]] Raichu wouldn't want to volunteer, especially considering how dangerous the dungeon has been revealed to be at this point.
63	* Why, judging by what Farfetch'd reads out, are the kids at Serene Village school studying basic children's books? Because in their world, survival skills are probably far more important to learn than literacy. Worry about teaching them to read once you know they can survive the perils of the surrounding world.
64	* Team Skull, as you'd expect from the name, is composed entirely of Poison-types. But it's not just any Poison-types — Zubat and Koffing are both some of the only Poison-types immune to Ground, which is the only AchillesHeel of a Poison/Dark-type like Skuntank, suggesting that he chose his teammates specifically to counter this weakness. However, Poison/Dark doesn't cover the weaknesses of pure Poison or Poison/Flying in return, which implies that he's a BadBoss even before we see him do anything.
65	* At the bottom of Poliwrath River, you find Ampharos wandering around showing his trademark NoSenseOfDirection, not really aware that he isn't still in the village. However, that's how good Ampharos is at dungeon exploring - he didn't even consider Poliwrath River enough of a dangerous environment to make him wonder if he'd left the town.
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