History Memes / Pokemon

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 of Mewtwo's attack!]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Mewtwo is an {{Expy}} of Giygas (he looks like Giygas's original form, as it was seen in VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings, is an extremely powerful psychic, and he's widely considered to be Pokémon's UltimateLifeForm). The final battle against Giygas is infamous for being the TropeNamer of YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm. People soon made comparisons of the two, leading to a mutation of Giygas's already-memetic attack quote.[[/labelnote]]

* Some people have noted that Fuecoco seems like an UndergroundMonkey version of Totodile, leading to [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2479048-pokemon this.]]

* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] Originates from a [=TikTok=] video posted by a river tubing company depicting one of their employees trying to put as many inflatable tubes on his body as possible, which people noted looked a lot like one of the Regis. Cue people dubbing the result "Regitube" and claiming it's a real Pokémon, even making videos of supposed in-game fights with it.

* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [=TikTok=] video posted by The Tube Shack on August 29th, 2023, where an employee of the Lake Cowichan playing with the tubes for fun. Later, it got bombarded by lightplatinumds on X who got shared the video, leading to the fans knew it "interesting" and flooded by fanarts including a modded Pokemon in a BDSP video.[[/labelnote]]

** Hilariously enough, over 6 years later a [[JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands JoJo part set in Hawaii]] would be released.

** [x] fucking dies. [[labelnote:explanation]]Come ''Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:we got Ultra Necrozma, a Legendary with total stats ''surpassing'' Arceus, the supposed God of the Pokémon World, has a special Z-Crystal that acts more like a Mega Stone, and will visibly dry the Trainer when performing its exclusive Z-Move ''Light That Burns The Sky'', a Pokémon World [[FantasticNuke equivalent to a thermonuclear bomb]] powered by stolen light across multiple iterations of the same world]]. That over-the-top explosion at the end once again makes people question 'how the hell X Pokémon [[NonLethalKO ONLY fainted]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill after that]]', like the infamous [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/275-hyperbeam/ Hyper Beam comic]] from ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily''.[[/labelnote]]

** BUT KYUREM HAS ARMS MADE OF ICE![[labelnote:Explanation]]Kyurem can't learn Ice Punch, despite having arms encased in ice, while Gastly and Wooper can learn Ice Punch ''despite having no arms at all.''[[/labelnote]]