History Fridge / Pokemon

* In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, a book states there used to be no distinction between people and Pokémon. This makes sense, as humans in the series have similar abilities and behaviors to Pokémon - especially Psychic types. Look at the screen when in the middle of any battle - just like Pokémon can only learn 4 moves, the player only knows 4 moves: Fight, Run, Bag, and Pokémon. When a player runs out of Pokémon to fight with, they faint, just as if they ran out of health to continue. There is also evidence of humans performing Psychic type moves (telekinesis), which pairs nicely with the fact that a lot of Psychic type Pokémon are humanoid in shape, considered to be highly intelligent, and tend to be physically weaker than other types.

** Anternatively, when your beloved mons all faint, you go into autopilot and run to the last Pokémon Center you remember going to. No stopping to chat or anything, just mad dashing to save them.

* Master Balls have been, for the most part, becoming easier to obtain as the franchise has continued, with the first games only letting you get one ever. In-universe, this makes sense as the one obtained in Red and Blue was the only one that existed at the time, but as time went on such a useful device would logically continue to be manufactured.
** Every method of obtaining Master Balls in mainline games can also be traced back to a source that could reasonably obtain them despite them not being sold commercially. Most come from highly esteemed Pokemon professors that would be using them for research or lottery companies that attract customers with an extremely rare item, but a few are also given directly from manufacturers of Poké Balls (including the one in ''Red and Blue'') or found in the hands of criminal organizations that managed to steal them. Even the most recent and reliable method of getting them, ''{{VideoGame/Pokemon Scarlet And Violet}}'s'' Item Printer, was created by Academy students likely studying how to become Poké Ball manufacturers themselves.

* Many Pokémon are basically just G-rated {{BloodKnight}}s.

** Every method of obtaining Master Balls in mainline games can also be traced back to a source that could reasonably obtain them despite them not being sold commercially. Most come from highly esteemed Pokemon professors that would be using them for research or lottery companies that attract customers with an extremely rare item, but a few are also given directly from manufacturers of Pokeballs (including the one in Red and Blue) or found in the hands of criminal organizations that managed to steal them. Even the most recent and reliable method of getting them, ''{{VideoGame/Pokemon Scarlet And Violet}}'s'' Item Printer, was created by academy students likely studying how to become Pokeball manufacturers themselves.

* The Pokedex entries sound like a case of ' 'Main/ArtisticLicenseBiology ''. Considering that Professor Oak and several others in the rest of the franchise games send kids to do scientific researches about zoology in their world, is obvious that the data will not be scientifically accurate. Things like "Magcargo is twice as hot as the sun Main/ArtisticLicensePhysics" while sounding crazy, is what should be expected if you send a young person with no scientific knowledge to theorize about the animals in your world.

* The Pokedex entries sound like a case of " /Main/ArtisticLicenseBiology ". Considering that Professor Oak and several others in the rest of the franchise games send kids to make research about zoology, things like "Magcargo is twice as hot as the sun" sound made up, which isn't so crazy taking into account that ten years old kids doesn't know a lot about science

* The Pokedex entries sound like a case of Artistic License - Biology and Physics. Considering that Professor Oak and several others in the rest of the franchise games send kids to make research about zoology, things like "Magcargo is twice as hot as the sun" sound made up, which isn't so crazy taking into account that ten years old kids doesn't know a lot about science

* Pretty much everything about the premise of Pokémon is horrific. The whole story is about enslaving sentient creatures and forcing them to take part in gladiatorial contests for our entertainment. The fact that some of them do get eaten adds to the fridge horror, but honestly there is nothing really nice about that society...
** Note that Pokémon are G-Rated {{Blood Knight}}s.
** The core fridge horror of all Pokémon games, white-washed for the sake of being kid-friendly, is that Pokémon can and do attack people who are not Trainers. With potentially terrible results. They are Pocket MONSTERS, after all. Remember back in Gen I, when Oak comes rushing in when you try to venture into the grass? Does that not come off like an adult trying to stop a kid from sticking a fork in a wall socket?
** Pokémon basically has a version of the Yu-Gi-Oh problem; the franchise generally lacks the worldbuilding to incorporate the idea that these monsters can and do cause effects in the world they live in. Pokémon have incredibly violent powers that are primarily designed to cause damage, so we could argue that (leading back into Brilliance above), the League and Trainers exist to prevent Pokémon from causing too much damage to themselves or the environment around them. Also, the only ''enslavement'' argument really valid is in the use of the Master Ball, which automatically forces a capture (note: we never really learn the nature of the conversation between Giovanni and the Silph Chief; was it a contract dispute that Giovanni was trying to settle with a show of force?), and you could possibly make an argument even for that (if you felt ballsy enough) as a weapon of last-resort.
** One issue is that Pokémon almost always require fighting in order to catch. These things will fight to stay free until they fall unconscious, yet after they are captured they suddenly out of the blue are more than willing to do what the Trainer says 9 times out of 10. True, some Pokémon refuse to obey their Trainers, but they don't attempt to escape again. The whole thing definitely sounds like brainwashing or Stockholm Syndrome or something along those lines.