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Fridge Brilliance
- Dawn and Lucas' Platinum art has them holding Repeat Balls, because they are repeating their adventure!
- In Platinum, you can find Absol on Mt. Coronet. The reason? Impending disaster of an inter-dimensional variety.
- You may understand Gastro Acid being classified as a Beauty move in terms of Contest Types if you buy into the notion of Japanese being into weird stuffnote . Borders on Self-Deprecation, considering who the developers of the game and owners of both the franchise and the devices these games run on are.
- Alternatively, it's a reference to people who develop eating disorders out of a fear that they aren't beautiful enough.
- Gardenia's fear of the Old Chateau is quite understandable, considering that the Pokemon who live there, the Gastly family, are Poison types. These are strong against Grass-types, which are Gardenia's specialty. And even her Grass/Poison mix Pokémon, such as Roserade, would be weak to the various Psychic-type moves the Gastly line can use.
- A boy in Snowpoint City notes that his girlfriend likes to play pranks. Said girlfriend asks for a Medicham and in exchange she will trade an Haunter… with an Everstone.note
- Why does Caitlin fight you in the Unova Elite Four, but not in the Battle Castle? She probably trains a majority of partners from Unova, which would be unknown to the region of Sinnoh/Johto at the time. It's not hatred of losing: it's the hatred of fighting without her partners.
- As of Pokémon Black and White, she mentioned that in the past she hated losing — but also that in the past, her latent psychic powers would cause damage. By the time she is in the Unova Elite Four, she's a much more Graceful Loser — because she trained with her psychic powers to control them when she loses.
- In a meta-sense, why does the music in Sinnoh sound much calmer than Hoenn? It's because the regions are based on actual real-life locations that are in opposite ends of Japan. In a sense, Sinnoh could be the quiet, Blue Oni to Hoenn's loud, Red Oni.
- Cyrus's main Pokémon is a Weavile, a relatively odd choice. Until you realize that, as both a Dark and an Ice Pokémon, it fits as an ice queen — much like Cyrus himself.
- At first, it seems like a terribly done Broken Bridge that you can't go to Sunyshore due to a power outage. However, consider that Volkner's Gym was so full of electrical stuff that he singlehandedly caused the blackout.
- Alternatively, it was a fault with the solar panels, which double as roads there. So they needed to try to keep people off them until they were fixed.
- Additionally, it may seem weird that a town that gets most of its energy from solar panels couldn't get enough electricity to make up for all the power that Volkner supposedly used up. But if one assumes that there was some kind of actual damage to the panels, not only they wouldn't be able to gather enough power to fix the outage, but it would also be unsafe for people to be walking over the bridges.
- Also, Sinnoh isn't exactly the sunniest region. Maybe getting the majority of the city's power from solar (assuming it isn't just adding to the power coming from the wind plant) isn't as smart an idea as it might be in, say, Orre, Hoenn, or Alola.
- The Glameow and Stunky lines being uncatchable in Platinum and being commonly used by Team Galactic seems to parallel Ekans and Koffing in Yellow, as the two are strongly associated with Team Rocket thanks to the anime.
- Why is only the south of Battle Zone accessible? It's based on Sakhalin Island, which from 1905 to 1945 was divided in half, with the north being part of Russia and the south being part of Japan. As such, in order to access the northern half of the island, the protagonist would need to cross a border, and as they're a child, they probably don't have any of the documentation they'd need to do so.
- Flint only has 2 Fire-type Pokémonnote on his team in Diamond and Pearl since they're the ONLY Fire-types in the Regional Dex. The rest of his Mons are Drifblim, Steelix, and Lopunny. They may seem like pretty random choices for "filler" slots, but all 3 do have something to do with the Fire-typing to some extent. Drifblim is a hot air balloon, some of Steelix's Dex entries state that it can dig towards the earth's corenote , and Lopunny has pretty fluffy fur around it, which would obviously store a lot of heat.note
- Steelix is also weak to Ground and Water-type attacks like Fire-Types.
- Like with Candice's example below, Drifblim, Lopunny, and Steelix can be seen as curveballs. Drifblim is part Flying-type, so it is immune to Ground type attacks, which Fire-Types are weak to, and the only weakness it shares with Fire-types is Rock-type attacks. Lopunny is a Normal-type and doesn't share any weaknesses with Fire-types. Steelix is a Steel-and-Ground-type and can counter Rock-type Pokémon, which Fire-types are weak to.
- Why does the Ice-type gym leader Candice have a Fighting-type Medicham in Diamond and Pearl? It could have been a gift from her best friend, Maylene, a martial artist and the local Fighting-type gym leader.
- Additionally, in Diamond and Pearl, Meditite and Medicham are also an encounter at the Acuity Lakefront and Route 217, both of which are near Snowpoint City. Candice doesn't need to go too far from home to add a curveball to her team.
- As a curveball, Medicham helps counter Rock, Steel, and Fighting-type Pokémon, weaknesses the rest of her team has.
- Also, Candice always speaks of being concentrated and Medicham is the Meditate Pokémon.
- Why does the Electric-type Gym Leader Volkner have a Water-type Octillery and a Normal-type Ambipom in his DP/BDSP team? Both of them know Electric moves, and, since Volkner's a tech genius and both primates and cephalopods are known for being intelligent (some even using tools), they're a good fit for him.
- Octillery actually has a few more reasons behind it:
- Electric's only weakness is Ground, and his Octillery's other three moves cover all three of Ground's weaknesses: Water, Ice, and Grass.
- Sunyshore City is next to the ocean, so it'd be easy for him to fish up a Remoraid.
- There's a type of power strip called an "octopus outlet."
- Octillery actually has a few more reasons behind it:
- Why doesn't Pichu have a gender difference like its evolutions, Pikachu and Raichu? It's a baby, of course it would be hard to tell the gender.
- Why is Wake a Water-type Gym Leader? Wouldn't a more combat oriented type (like Fighting for example) be more fit for a wrestler like him? Not really. His city is close to a very rainy and swampy Route. Even said city has a very big swamp. Of course Wake would need a type of Pokémon capable of moving well in such conditions.
- This is even more reflected on the fact that Wake also has a Quagsire. A Water and Ground-type. The perfect Pokémon for the above mentioned ambiental conditions.
- Also, in Gen 3, we had a Fighting-type Gym Leader who was a surfer, so now we have an inversion in the form of a Water-type Gym Leader who's a wrestler.
- One of Cyrus's most distinctive physical features is his lack of eyebrows. Eyebrows are a big part of how humans convey emotion nonverbally, and he despises emotion, so him lacking something that make his emotions easy to understand makes sense.
- Why does Cynthia have Garchomp as her ace, aside from the fact that each previous region's Elite Four had at least one personnote that had a pseudo-legendary? To counter the game's main legendary! Odds are that for many players who got introduced to Pokémon in Gen II or III, taking the main legendary to challenge the Elite Four was a relatively easy choicenote — Garchomp's moveset includes Dragon Rush (to counter Palkia and Giratina) as well as Earthquake and Brick Break (to counter Dialga), meaning that unless you had a second Pokémon capable of countering Garchomp (i.e., an Ice-type) or your legendary was able to outspeed Garchomp, she'd beat you.
- Why is it that, when facing a gym leader, only they appear on the banner, but when facing the Elite Four, two banners appear, one for the Elite Four members and one for you? The difference is you. Before, you were just a standard gym challenger, but now you've proven yourself to be on the same level as any of the gym leaders, and the Elite Four members are challenging you as equals.
- The first three letters of "Platinum" are "Pla". What's the abbreviation for Pokémon Legends: Arceus? PLA.
- Why does Cynthia, the Champion of the Sinnoh League and one of the most powerful trainers in all of Sinnoh, refuse to help you when dealing with Giratina in Platinum? Either Helping Would Be Killstealing, so she leaves you to do what must be done, or she's been secretly training you to challenge her and the Elite Four all along, so it's possible she had you fight Cyrus so your Pokémon could get the experience for beating him, and if you lost, she could have just stepped in and ground him to dust in your stead, but by winning, you take another step on the path to the League. And she left you Giratina because she's nice like that.
- Mars has red hair because her namesake is red, and while Saturn is mostly yellow, it DOES have blue aurorae, which makes sense for Saturn's hair color... so why does Jupiter, named after a planet that's mainly beige, orange, and brown, have purple hair? Four reasons:
- In Roman mythology, Jupiter was the king of the gods, and royalty (especially in ancient Greece and Rome) is often associated with purple.
- Jupiter is between Mars and Saturn, and purple is between red and blue.
- Jupiter's signature Pokémon, Skuntank, is also purple.
- Jupiter was the god of lightning, and in the real world, lightning often appears purplish-white.
- Why does Cyrus have a Crobat on his team—a Pokémon whose pre-evolution evolves via a high friendship stat—during his final battle against the player, when he's a nihilistic god-seeker aiming to replace the current universe with one devoid of emotion? Consider that he believes emotion to be the source of all suffering in the world, and it makes sense that, while he wouldn't love his Pokémon, he wouldn't mistreat them either, believing both to be pointless.
- Why are there only a few Fire-types in the game? Because Sinnoh is a cold region, there isn't much space for growth for Fire types there.
- More like Fridge Humor, but Jupiter's named after a gas giant planet, and her signature Pokémon is Skuntank.
- Also, it's ironic that, despite Mars's namesake being the Roman god of war, her signature Pokémon, Purugly, is weak to Fighting moves.
- When going up against the Galactic Grunts with Lucas/Dawn in Jubilife, the grunts are harassing Rowan because the team has taken interest in the energy released during evolution. This doesn't make much sense at first, as it has no clear link to the team's goal to reshape the world using Dialga and/or Palkia's power. However, take into consideration that, when Cyrus is unleashing the powers of the legendary Pokémon on Spear Pillar, waves of red, blue and green hexagons with thick black borders flood forth from the legendary. And what can you see very briefly near the end of the evolution animations in these games? Three hexagons (one red, one green, and one blue) with dark borders being released.
- It makes sense that Team Galactic would want to steal Honey from the Honey Man at the Floaroma Meadow: the Wurmple line are some of the most commonly used Pokémon by Galactic Grunts, so they need Honey to summon loads of Wurmple, Silcoon and Cascoon on Honey Trees. While those Pokémon are also available in the Eterna Forest, it's likely that Gardenia is keeping them away from there (similarly to how they're concerned Candice might get in the way of their affairs at Lake Acuity).
Fridge Horror
- You can find an Antidote in the already creepy Old Chateau. This Antidote is found in the dining room, which happens to be haunted by the ghost of a butler.
- After you defeat Team Galactic in the Valley Windworks, the little girl tells you, "I think the balloon Pokémon will come visiting again!" The only Pokémon she could mean is Drifloon, who can be found there on Fridays. Drifloon are also said to abduct children.
- Mr Backlot likes to lie about the Pokémon you can see in his garden. His butler then goes to get the Pokémon, and suddenly, you can catch them there. Where did the butler get them from, Team Rocket? And what if they can't survive there? Is that why you can only catch two of the rare Pokémon at a time? Also, consider that these are mostly baby Pokémon.
- So you just captured Cresselia. Congratulations! You have your very own sweet dreams fuel. No more nightmares, no more waking up in fear, and no more sleepless nights! Everything seems just perfect, right? Except for one little thing… Darkrai. You know, that living shadow, who is essentially a god of nightmares. Yeah, this one that has no control over his power and always wants to be close to Cresselia, since she is the only one capable of healing those who are struck by his spells. And since Cresselia is with you, he will now stalk you relentlessly, day and night, trying to rescue the only being he feels safe with… And remember, he can put you into a coma, in which you'll have to live through your worst memories, greatest, fears and biggest problems. And only Cresselia, who is trapped in a Poké Ball, can save you. Yeah, better make sure sending her out won't take too much time, or…
- The player character could just keep Cresselia out with them at night; considering that she's Sweet Dreams Fuel, there's no reason why they wouldn't. Alternately, if Darkrai does start to stalk them, they could always catch it and just leave it inside a Pokéball instead.
- The Distortion World is full of this. Cynthia pretty unsubtly implies this, considering Turnback Cave has been described as a gateway to the afterlife. All those allusions to Satan Giratina has suddenly became a lot more frightening, especially since considering Pokémon's usual Never Say "Die" fare at the time, Arceus probably did a lot more than just banish poor Giratina, considering its Ghost-typing...
- To further this, Giratina was banished for being violent, is known as the RENEGADE Pokémon, and it appears at old cemeteries. Rather clear why it appears at cemeteries with the above in mind… Hell, it makes why Giratina took Cyrus and his final fate better left unspoken…
- Or the silent Shout-Out in regards to the fact that the male protagonist's default name is Lucas, the Distortion World has some familiar opening notes and rhythm, and Giratina is yet another Red and Black and Evil All Over Eldritch Abomination from a Nintendo game whose name starts with G… It seems Giratina might be alluding to something far worse than Satan.
- And then there's Mira, a little girl you find lost in a very dark cave. Imagine what that must be like for her. Even worse, imagine what it would still be like for her without you coming to her rescue.
- Caitlin has Darach battle for her because she hates losing. However, we learn in Pokémon Black and White that she had psychic powers that she would lose control of if she lost or otherwise got angry. She wasn't making Darach fight you out of a sense of arrogance — she was having Darach fight you so you wouldn't get hurt.
- In the Lost Tower, you fight Roughneck Kirby, who is visiting the grave of his deceased Clefairy, which was killed by Team Galactic. This puts Team Galactic's strange obsession with Clefairy in perspective. At the Team Galactic Eterna Building, you rescue Rad Rickshaw (the cycle shop owner) who was being held hostage by Jupiter, and he explains that they demanded his Clefairy under the excuse that it "comes from space"... but did they really plan on just stealing it? Despite a few grunts mentioning they've been promised Clefairy by their superiors as a reward if they succeed in their tasks, you never see a single member of the organization using Clefairy or its evolutionary relatives in battle. Given their treatment of the Roughneck's Clefairy, one can only wonder what would've happened to Rickshaw's Clefairy had you not managed to save it.
- Some of the people you battle in the Seven Star Restaurant have Pokémon which know Frustration, the move that's more powerful the more your mon hates you, and which, like Return, it's always at full power when the AI uses it.
