[[WMG:This version of Crystal takes place after an instance of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' in which [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the player performed]] [[EldritchAbomination Missingno.]] [[GoodBadBugs glitch.]]]]
Everyone [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went completely batshit]] in the intervening two years as [=MissingNo=] [[WalkingTheEarth wandered across the PokèPlanet]]. This explains all the screwy dialogue, nobody is sane enough to properly understand each other anymore.

[[WMG:This version casts a foreigner to Johto and Kanto as the lead who just got there, not a native.]]
What does this explain? Well, Pokemon trainers would [[RequiredSecondaryPowers greatly benefit on their travels from understanding more than one language to travel the world and battle foreign opponents,]] but to someone trying to understand a language for the first time, especially the kind of young lead you play in a Pokemon game, nobody would be any the wiser and would come across like they're reading from a foreign language dictionary with pages ripped out. And since our hero/heroine doesn't bother with asking for corrections, your understanding is obviously less than perfect...
* Even better: they're actually from the Pokémon World's version of Vietnam.

[[WMG: Giovanni is the trashy man.]]
Hey, he ''is'' ranting about Team Rocket in the original.
* So Silver is [[spoiler:CallingTheOldManOut]]?
** No, because [[spoiler: the old man has to be there for the CallingTheOldManOut trope to be in effect; or, Giovanni is [[DisappearedDad completely absent from the game]].]] Giovanni being The Trashy Man can still work, though.

[[WMG: The protagonist has Auditory Processing Disorder.]]
Perhaps that's the reason they can't hear very well.
* I have that disorder, and it isn't that disruptive.
* So do I. I think this is more likely that the protagonist is using poor translation of the local language, and maybe he's mishearing some of the words too. But mostly it's that [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels his hovercraft is full of eels]]

[[WMG: The Trashy Man is [[Literature/TheStand Donald Merwin Elbert]]. ]]

[[WMG: The Trashy Man is [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]]. ]]

[[WMG: The Trashy Man is [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]]. ]]

[[WMG: The Trashy Man is [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 Dust Man]] or [[VideoGame/MegaMan7 Junk Man]]. ]]

[[WMG: One of the Trashy Man's Pokémon is a Trubbish or Garbodor.]]

[[WMG: The [[TranslationTrainWreck absurd language]] everyone is speaking is a result of [[VideoGame/{{Iji}} the Scrambler]] being activated.]]
You can get a pony. But not with missiles.

[[WMG: This game saying the Kanto power plant runs on "jade stones" is its way of saying it's a nuclear fission plant.]]
They didn't specify how the power plant worked in the original games, but we've seen examples of power plants whose workings are immediately obvious in later games: [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Valley Windworks]] is a wind plant, the [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Kalos Power Plant]] is a microwave solar plant, [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Blush Mountain]] is a geothermal plant, and [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Hammerlocke's Energy Plant]] is an entirely fictitious type of power plant that uses Wishing Pieces and perhaps later the energy emitted by Eternatus after it was summoned and captured (making coal or nuclear fission its closest real-world equivalent, as both involve the use of minerals). This translation was categorized under Magitek on the main page, but I think there's evidence to suggest this is just a weird way of saying it's a fission plant. First, the text itself: "jade" in this case may not mean that the "stones" they're running the plant with are actually composed of jade, but ''appear'' jade (i.e. they're green). Now, actual radioactive material doesn't typically glow (and when it does, it isn't typically green), but having something glow green is a useful visual shorthand for "it's radioactive," and who's to say that Game Freak, let alone the bootleggers, knows that actual radioactive material doesn't typically glow green? They're game developers, not scientists! Or maybe, for all we know, nuclear plants in the Pokéverse run on something even better than uranium, thorium, or plutonium, and whatever that is actually DOES glow green. Secondly, its location in the Pokéverse's Kanto as compared to the actual Kantō (with a little Chūbu) region of Japan: According to an article on Bulbapedia on how locations in the Pokémon series match up to IRL locations, the Kanto Power Plant's real world equivalent is (or was, I don't know) a nuclear plant.