Trivia / Pokemon Quarantine Crystal

• Creator's Pest: A big reason why Hornampa was scrapped in favor of Sirracotta was due to a good portion of the development team disliking the mon and its design.
• Distanced from Current Events: Part of the reason Vazzinate was renamed as part of its rework was due to the fact that anti-vaccine attitudes were on the rise as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine around the time 0.6 was released. The developers were accused of harboring such sentiments due to the fact that Vazzinate is a malicious Pokémon that involuntarily injects other Bug-types with its young, leading to the name being scrapped in favor of Injectoid^note Funnily enough, this in turn would be indirectly responsible for Grubboid being renamed into Grubbeast, as the developers didn't want two unrelated Pokémon with similar suffixes.
• Throw It In!:
  • The reason Majesdor can Soar as of 0.8? A user was doing a dog-based Pokémon only run and discovered that they had no way to use Fly outside of catching a designated Fly mon, so the developers decided to add it in primarily because of that (and also for the Rule of Funny).
  • Maulzer was the result of latenight misinterpreting a prompt (a Bull Terrier Pokémon, which would later become Tido), as they had gotten the breed mixed up with British Bulldog. Despite this, the Jowl Pokémon was kept in anyway (and eventually resprited due to initially looking more like a rat than a dog).
  • Drownsuguy was created as a joke by latenight, making fun of European lake/pond monsters that have strange names like Nelly Longarms. The other members of the development team found it hilarious, and it was kept in ever since.
  • Similarly, ALF as a Pokémon trainer was originally an April Fools' Day joke, but was eventually kept in as the costume the Actor wears on Sundays.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A number of Pokémon had either drastically different designs (such as Chompion being less organic) or were scrapped entirely (most notably a volcanic Godzilla Expy).
  • "Tension", the theme that plays before encountering a Legendary Pokémon, was originally the encounter theme for the new Wizard trainer class before being reworked due to it not sounding fitting for them.
  • A few Pokémon had their types changed during development, such as Voltinger having its type changed twice^note Started as Electric/Ground, changed to Electric/Flying, then changed back to Electric/Ground in a hotfix, Fueghast being part Ground instead of part Fire, or Wandulus originally being part Normal.
  • The infamous glitch Pokémon Missingno was originally going to be a Secret Character, found off of Cinnabar coast and holding the Teru-Sama item, which would've provided a Defense boost to the holder. It was scrapped due to a lack of space in the ROM. Interestingly, the footprints for radioactive Pokémon like Elephoot are tiles taken from Missingno.