Line #1 Trivia/PokemonSunAndMoon


1	* ActorAllusion: One of the trainers in the Hau'oli cemetery is Pokémon Breeder [[Creator/IkueOtani Ikue, who has a Pikachu.]] Her defeat message? "Pika!"
2	* AscendedFanon: For a while, there's been a common fanon idea around fan-art circles that showed off Pokémon variations, taking many older Pokémon and giving them different designs and typings inspired by either different environments or different breeding (based on the diversity of real life animal species). Come ''Sun and Moon'' and now there are canon variants of Generation I Pokémon with different colorations and typing based on Alolan micro-climates.
3	* BeamMeUpScotty: Lillie never says "Get in the bag, Nebby." She says lines that are close, such as "Back into the bag, please, Nebby", and "Come on. Into the bag, Nebby", but never that exact line.
4	* {{Blooper}}: The Totem Raticate in ''Moon'' will use Gumshoos' cry in the cutscene prior to the battle with it, suggesting the version exclusive Totem was last-minute. Although it's also possible this may have been done to make it seem more intimidating, as Gumshoo's cry is a lot longer and more rumbly than Raticate's. This was not changed in ''Ultra Moon''.
5	* ContentLeak: The entire Pokédex was leaked prior to the games' launch due to the free demo being datamined.
6	* {{Defictionalization}}:
7	** The Z-Ring worn by the protagonists released alongside the games, and can be worn. Use of Z-Moves ingame makes the real life Z-Ring light up, vibrate, and play sounds in sync with the attack animation.
8	** A replica of Lillie's bag is available from the official Pokémon Center store. (Sadly, it doesn't come with a Nebby inside.)
9	* DevelopmentGag: The FinalBoss of the game is [[spoiler:Professor Kukui, with one of his Pokémon being the fully evolved form of the starter that the player and Hau didn't pick]]. This is a nod to the DummiedOut fight against [[spoiler:Professor Oak]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''.
10	* DummiedOut:
11	** Datamining of the games has uncovered walking and running animations for nearly every Pokémon. Apparently Game Freak planned to include following Pokémon like there was in ''[=HeartGold and SoulSilver=]'', but left it out, the likely culprit being that the 3DS couldn't handle it in certain situations.
12	** Several locations were fully rendered but never actually used in-game, like various locations in the player's house (the [[https://www.models-resource.com/3ds/pokemonsunmoon/model/21705/ garage]], [[https://www.models-resource.com/3ds/pokemonsunmoon/model/21747/ bathroom]], and [[https://www.models-resource.com/3ds/pokemonsunmoon/model/21706/ laundry/shower room]]) and [[https://www.models-resource.com/3ds/pokemonsunmoon/model/21700/ what appears to be a room for a Gym]].
13	** Like the past few generations, ''Sun and Moon'' has its fair-share of Pokémon who are shiny-locked:
14	*** The Tapus all have Shiny palettes, but are hard-coded to always appear in their normal colors in the games themselves. Their shiny forms are available through other means though (TCG promos and International Challenges) and in subsequent generations. They all get Telepathy as Hidden Abilities, but there was no way to get a Tapu with them until Generation VIII introduced the Ability Patch.
15	*** The Cosmog line has Shiny forms in the data, but both the mascot you catch and the Cosmog you can obtain in the postgame will be locked into their regular palettes, making them unobtainable within the game itself. The Shiny forms of Solgaleo and Lunala were finally distributed as an event in October 2019.
16	*** The Ultra Beasts have shiny palettes as with every Pokémon, but they can never show up in said palettes in ''Sun and Moon''. ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' removes this restriction, but you'll only get a shiny Xurkitree, Buzzwole etc. in the original ''Sun and Moon'' through trading.
17	*** Necrozma's Shiny skin can't be legitimately caught, as it is coded to always appear in its usual skin. The shiny form however, was made available through two events for the Generation VII games, and can be legitimately caught in ''Sword'' and ''Shield'''s Dynamax Adventures in the ''Crown Tundra'' Expansion.
18	*** Magearna's original colors, first seen in ''Anime/PokemonVolcanionAndTheMechanicalMarvel'', are present in ''Sun and Moon'' with a unique Pokédex entry, but only became available with ''Pokémon HOME'' as part of the following generation of Pokémon.
19	* FandomNod: The Sun dex entry for Magikarp and the Moon dex entry for Geodude's non-Alolan form references the fandom's general frustration with [[GoddamnedBats the annoying frequency in which they show up throughout the series.]]
20	-->'''Magikarp Pokédex entry (Sun Version)''': Although weak and helpless, this Pokémon is incredibly fertile. They exist in such multitudes, you’ll soon grow tired of seeing them.
21	-->'''Geodude Pokédex entry (Moon Version)''': There are plenty of them to be found along any road. A scholar with too much free time once counted a hundred of them along a single route.
22	* MemeAcknowledgment:
23	** The 9/1/16 Japanese trailer that debuted the Snorlium Z-holding Munchlax event references the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220423000447/https://geekologie.com/2013/10/16/snorlax-stands-up.jpg meme where Snorlax took 6 generations to stand up]] by showing Snorlax's [[https://youtu.be/Rt-4Hef90VA?t=1m5s summary screens across the games]] and then showing off its exclusive Z-move Pulverizing Pancake, suddenly having the energy to run toward the opponent and ''squash'' them.
24	** The beginning of Pikachu's Z-move (where the trainer tosses Pikachu into the air), 'Catastropika', looks very similar to a popular [[http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/752/527/35e.jpg gif]] of a scene where Ash catches Pikachu being reversed to make it appear as if he's tossing him into the sky.
25	** One screenshot on the website about the Pokémon Global Link depicts a team that has Cresselia, Heatran, Amoonguss, Landorus-Therian, and Kangaskhan. These five Pokémon were an extremely common team during the 2015 World Championships. It even references the nickname [[FunWithAcronyms CHALK]] with the caption, "Try to chalk up victories with powerful teams that include Legendary Pokémon!"
26	** Early on in the game, Professor Kukui tells his Rockruff "My body is ready," a reference to a quote said by Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime during E3 2007.
27	** One possible comment for a Poké-Finder photo is "7.8/10 Too much water.", referencing IGN's [[CriticalDissonance infamous review]] of ''Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''.
28	* MilestoneCelebration: ''Pokémon Sun and Moon'' are part of the 20th Anniversary celebration for the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise, with their announcement timed to correspond to the anniversary date itself in Japan.
29	* NewbieBoom: [[https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/02/01/how-many-pokemon-sun-and-moon-players-completely-new At least 17% of the game's players were completely new to the core series Pokémon games]], likely due to the influence of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''.
30	* RecursiveAdaptation: Sun and Moon are the 20th Anniversary of the franchise as a whole, not just the games. This would explain why [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash's Pikachu and Greninja]] ended up in the game.
31	* TheRedStapler: Google searches and interest for malasadas shot up since the game's release.
32	* SpoiledByTheMerchandise:
33	** If you're a player of [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} the trading card game]], ''don't'' look at Solgaleo or Lunala cards. They ruin the plot twist of [[spoiler:evolving from Cosmoem, an evolution of Cosmog -- and being the first legendaries to be evolutions of another Pokémon]].
34	** The TCG also leaked a few Pokémon before ther official reveal; namely Mareanie, the final starter evolutions, and [[spoiler:Cosmoem, as mentioned above]] (though for the latter, the Amazon Japan listing was reuploaded with a new image to hide it).
35	* TroubledProduction: Interviews revealed that the game had quite a few problems. Ohmori mentioned that they didn't have the artists and time to design the Trials, and had to rush and do all that himself. This is why most of the Trials are rather simple and straight-forward.
36	* UrbanLegendOfZelda: During the game's development, some leaks (primarily those from [=CoroCoro=]) supposedly hinted that Rockruff and the starters shared something in common, which many took to mean as Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio having branching time-based evolutions like Rockruff/Lycanroc, which would have been a series first. This turned out to be a mistranslation, and it simply said they both have secrets, though it is unknown what "secret" the magazine was referring to in the case of the starters; it's likely that it was the starters having their own Z-Moves.
37	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dataminers have managed to a goldmine of unused features and areas from the games.
38	** Having all the Pokémon in low-polygon models uncovered as well as each and every of them having walking and running animation suggests that they may be intended to appear in the overworld, particularly for a feature allowing the player's Pokémon to walk behind you like in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver [=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]]]''. This is somewhat implied by how some characters will mention the first member of your team.
39	** There are a number of places that are mapped out, fully or partially, such as parts of the player's house like the garage, the bathroom and a toilet; another coastal area, and the golf course at the Hano Grand Resort. Places like that golf course can be seen from various parts of the overworld, like a cave in the tall rock pools at Brooklet Hill (said rock pools have also been removed from the in-game map despite being in the official artwork for Alola), a cave in the lake at Poni Meadow and a lot of land blocked off by debris at the Lake of the Sunne/Moone. Additionally, the external part of Ten Carat Hill from the demo is not in the full game.
40	** Digging around the list of areas where a Pokémon can be recorded as having originated from through a program such as [=PKHeX=] reveals that at one point Akala was going to have its own meadow. As a result of this removal, Oricorio is found on Route 6, the Cutiefly line which is normally found in meadows cannot be found in Akala, and Pink Nectar is obtained from the floral arrangements in Royal Avenue.
41	** Every in-game area except for [[spoiler:Ultra Space]] has a map description, but the way the map is designed prevents most of them from being seen. For example, Po Town and the Shady House fall under Route 17 and as a result use its description instead of their own ones.
42	** At one point, the game was supposed to have Gyms or something resembling them. There's an unused battle background that resembles a blue-tinted futuristic background similar to the one in Aether Paradise with two statues near the entrance and a gym logo on a wall.
43	** Zygarde has an overworld model that differs from the one used in ''X and Y'', suggesting that it may have been planned to have it exist as an overworld encounter rather than have the player build their own from collected cores and cells, akin to how ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' handled Zygarde and used this model.
44	** The rather controversial idea of limiting what Pokémon you could transfer up to those in the regional dex was originally going to be introduced in this generation, rather than [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield the next]]. Remnants of the design choice can be seen in how only a few in-game CPU trainers [[note]]The Nugget Bridge homage trainers, as well as [[spoiler:Red and Blue]] before the Battle Tree[[/note]] use non-Alola Dex Pokémon, even in the postgame.
45	** Beta protagonist looked suspiciously similar to Red.

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