Comment what you think should be added to the iceberg. I'd love to hear what you all have to share!

Say it with me folks: "Main character is in a coma/is dead/nothing in the story is real" is NOT a real theory or conspiracy

the weird gap between parts at 29:03 was the creepiest part of this video

imagine being the guy that invented the mew truck rumour, he touched the brains of like on billion people

26:36 Eric Stuart, voice of Brock and James, has explained why he said the “4Kids are the devil” line. When the 4Kids dub of the anime was occurring, anime dubbing was considered “non-union work”, which meant actors got paid much less than the union hourly minimum and it didn’t count towards them receiving benefits/insurance through the SAG union. The way most actors on the show made their salary and got their benefits was through commercial ties with Pokémon (i.e A Burger King Commercial featuring a few Ash lines and Pokémon cries). However, as the show continued, 4Kids gave the advertising companies those voice lines for free, meaning the actors would not get paid for them anymore. Eric Stuart got really upset and decided to record the line, and the sound engineer flipped it and put it in show. He said he had to pay around 1000 dollars to re-record the master copy of the episode

the "corrupted hand of god" sounds way too badass to be in pokemon canon

You forgot about the little ghost girl of Hammerlocke. She asks you to deliver a letter to her crush, Frank, in Ballonlea. Only when you get there, you find out Frank is actually an old man. When you deliver the letter to him, he reveals that she was a childhood friend of his that disappeared after they had a fight. He later found out she was sick after her disappearance and asks if she's okay (you can choose to be silent or say that she's fine, much to his relief). When you go back to where the girl was, she's gone.

The "Diamond and Pearl remakes confirmed" joke aged very well

7:37 FINALLY SOMEBODY AGREES WITH ME. Porygon had no reason to be removed

I love how Lavender Town's back in the days was like the scariest shit ever and now it's just a meme. I remember when I was a kid and my friends were like "dude no don't put lavender town or we'll feel sick and die" great times.

Flareon, a fire dog which has fire abilities : *is trapped in a burning building* Also Flareon : fricking dies Vaporeon, a water dog which can infinitely shoot water, is strong to fire, can put out fire out with its water : *is trapped in a burning building* Also vaporeon : fricking dies

I thought I heard every single theory but Victini being an A-bomb blew my mind. I've never heard this one and now I can't unsee it. It makes so much sense now.

Ohh spill that tea!

You forgot one: On 4chan there was a thread where someone asked people to draw their favorite Pokémon from memory. One person drew a Pokémon called “tentaquill” it quickly became a meme and everyone started making fun of it because it was dumb. Years later, the Pokémon gold beta was leaked. Guess what Pokémon was in it? That right. Tentaquill. It wasn’t called that but the art was almost identical. Either this guy was one of the few people that played the beat in Japan, or he posted from an alternate universe where tentaquill got put in the game.

If Mewtwo is so good... why isnt there a Mewtwo 2

"pokémon can just leave their pokéballs" *laughs in master ball*

I actually have a theory for how the animal names such as “The Land Shark Pokémon” were created. Since there are multiple dog/cat Pokémon, the creators of the Pokédexes decided to create names for each of these similar Pokémon to group them together.

29:05 why is that pause soooooo long i thought there will be a jumpscare

who sees a marill and thinks “yeah, that’s the god of pokemon”

I think ash’s dad is the narrator watching him from above.

"Missingno could delete your save by not being able to process level 0 pokemon" Me, frothing at the mouth in all of my hyperspecific computer science knowledge who knows exactly what missingno is and what it actually does to your save.

When I was a kid, I obtained Mew through the real glitch you can use to get it, then lied to my friends that I got it from under the truck.

Gen 2 explicitly confirms that people eat Pokemon-- Slowpoke tails are a delicacy.

Ngl the concept of an 'Unkown King' actually seems really cool. Also, if Gamefreak did something like that, Unkown would actually contribute something outside of lore!

Misty says she hates bugs, even Pokèmon. Animals are in the Pokèmon world.

Fun fact: According to Pokemon Masters, Blue is Agatha’s grandson, implying that Agatha and Oak got married.

Idk if yall ever heard about this one ,but in when 5th grade , their was this rumor where if you released a jiggly puff in lavender town , the crying jiggly puff would appear and erase all of your saved data. Pretty scary for an 11 year old

I actually have three to add. In Pokemon Master's it is implied that Iris and Leon are cousins. Also in Masters, Red actually speaks. The reasoning for him never speaking is because of how strong of a bond he and his Pokemon have, so they can use moves without Red having to say anything. Finally, in Snowbelle City it snows differently in town one day (Can't remember) to remember Iwata.

"In Diamond and Pearl, There was a book that told us, It was normal to have [18:28] relationships with Pokemon" Every Vaporeon On Poké Earth : "Why do I hear boss music ?"

wait can we talk about how ghastly is 5’ fucking 11”

I don’t remember many details, but in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, there is this couple that you do a double battle with. One of them uses cloyster. The other uses onix. They are husband and wife. This was a meme about the, probably, naughty developers

Jiggly puff at the bottom of my screen: 🔴 ○ 🔴 Me: 👁👄👁

23:01 I used an action replay all the time on my gen 4 games, so I would walk through walls and just travel through the mystery zones as I played the game. Grew up with that, it really has a nostalgic feel for me now.

Two inaccuracies with the Racist Gengar: -The James cosplayer spoke up to confirm he did not distribute the Gengar. The eyewitness descriptions mentioned the culprit was dressed as a Team Rocket Grunt, but not specifically James. -The posters were put up for a DIFFERENT fake event in which someone was distributing a non-racist Eevee.

Hex Maniac: tries to creep out the player in the easter egg Everyone: y'know, she's kinda hot

“Kids in the 90s believed almost anything” Yeah, cause kids believing in Momo these days is so much more rational. 🙄

Something to add is that in one of the gen 2 games the anti piracy thing was your pokemon saying they won’t listen to a criminal even though the rival literally could have stole the Pokémon you chose and it would listen to them anyway

The fact I knew almost every single one of these is testament to how many pointless Pokémon theory’s I have watched on KZfaq

My brain has a spot dedicated to pokemon? Perfect

Rogue: "Birds" *Shows a picture of a giraffe"

Sir. I could have lived my entire life not knowing the artist of Electric Tail of Pikachu was a hentai artist.

“No one knows what’s underneath diglett” That on scene with Brock holding a diglett: Am I a joke to you

My explanation for npcs using underleveled pokemon is this: maybe the levels arent set in stone. Maybe YOUR dragonite evolved at 60 but not all evlove exactly at 60 but rather 60ish. For the sake of simplicity, the devs made it so every pokemon you catch will evolve at the same level, but if you were a person actually living in the pokemon world there's more of a gray area. And a skilled trainer can get their pokemon to evolve sooner.

I love how when Gen 1 hit America, Tentaquil from Gen 2 was already in Beta phase, though got rejected on the end game for Gold/Silver where we got Politoed instead.

Not gonna lie, as much I enjoyed this, I feel like you need to slow down, friend. I had to rewind a countless number of times to listen again to catch what you said. :(

I spent 35 minutes of my life watching a video about pokemon theories and lore

The deepest mystery is WHY YOU CUT YOUR SENTENCES SO SOON IT SOUNDS SO UNNATURAL AAAAAA

solid video, I like that even the lowest tier stuff had a basis in reality, a lot of these videos stop having anything real in them towards the end.

The part about rewiring the brain was fantastic! Thank you for adding that.

As someone who trained with VGC regulars, a lot of “perfect” Pokémon are definitely hacked. “As long as the moves and stats are legal, [the judges] dont care,” I’d always hear.

Finally, some proper credit from the Pokemon side of youtube to "The Baby Is You"

I really, really, really appreciated your use of music from Pokemon Colosseum in this! One of my FAVORITE Pokemon games!

"DIAMOND AND PEARL REMAKES CONFIRMED!?!??" *laughs in 2021*

“Some people suspect Professor Oak, others say it’s Mr. Mime.” EXCUSE ME WHAT

*Plays some random song* Small child: well guess ill die

People debate over what anime character went through the most pain. It’s easily ash. Ash hasn’t seen his mom in 20 years, his dad was never shown so he must’ve left when ash was young. And whenever he goes to another region, he loses all his friends and Pokémon he had made. So he has lost so many friends and family, making him the anime character who went through the most

This was a really interesting video! I really enjoyed it.

10:27 -there's a bit more to this theory. In an endgame area you meet a Zorark, one you've actually been hinted at meeting multiple times disguised as a man an he talks to you in perfect english, chatting with you about your journey up to that point. Ns room is filled completely to the brim with toys meant for a small child and we've seen both in games as well as in the anime that pokemon, even very intelligent ones like Mewtwo have an affinity for childish toys. It'd be strange that N, up into his later teens early 20s would be so obsessed with such childish things. N is also shown at multiple points to directly communicate with Pokemon, something only other Pokemon have ever been seen to do, at least to a legitimately meaningful degree. I'd argue it's heavily implied N definitely is a Pokemon.

"kids claimed they had evolved charizard into charcoal" lmao

him: GEN 4 REMAKES CONFIR nintendo: HAVE 2 GEN FOUR REMAKES

I really love this video, nice job

The "new brain area dedicated to pokemon" thing was so cool and weird at the same time that it actually kinda shock me

Here are a few that hasn't been stated in this video. 1. Giovanni's Suicide Rumor: In HG/SS's Celebi Event, after you defeat Giovanni, he commits suicide when he exits the cave, which is behind a waterfall and above the ground. Of course its' debunk. 2. Silver is Giovanni's Son. Don't really know if this is a secret tho. Probably the tip of the Iceburg. 3. The dumb, Ash is in a coma theory. 4. The anime purposely change the female companions for Ash every show because they do not want the boys who watch the show to get bored with the girls on screen. 5. The move "Thrash" in Pokemon B/W sounds just like the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. theme. 6. Giratina and Arceus are suppose to be parallels to God and Satan. 7. You can skip the ghost fight in Red/Blue by giving the ghost a poke doll. The Battle ends as if you defeated it. 8. The Pokemon Lost Silver creepypasta 9. Wailord and Skitty are in the same egg group and can mate with each other. 10. Pikablue was a thing 11. Trading a pokemon from R/S/E to Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire will give the player a special message. 12. Pokemon Gen 1 has such broken mechanics compared to the Gen's today. There's a list of it somewhere on the internet. 13. The cut opening to Pokemon Mewtwo Strikes Back

This is an amazingly covered video, perfect to listen to! Great job.

"It was discovered this pokegod was just... Marill" Yo, don't diss my child.

Every copy of pokemon is personalized features the Giovanni apparition

Why didn't you say the rest of the war theory? The theory is because there are so few able-bodied fighting age men around Kanto. The ones that are there are in the mob (Team Rocket) and could thus dodge the draft. The majority of people in Kanto are children running around unsupervised, sailors, and women. There are even references to pokemon being used for terrorism and other implications of harm against people.

That “diamond and Pearl remakes confirmed” statement has aged EXCEPTIONALLY well…

I could watch these all day, super interesting!

Is the Pokémon section of my brain the reason why I knew so much of this, even quite far down the iceberg? Still, I definitely learnt some new stuff from this and it was thoroughly enjoyable!

"So the Orre region is mostly a wasteland, it's based on Arizona so that may be why" Me, an Arizonan: Hold up.

awesome video bro, subscribed

This video has been in my recommend for Sooo long Finally decided to watch it

don't forget about how Lugia's voice in the Pokemon 2000 movie was supposed to be a women's voice, like a mother. and how the Pokemon 2000 movie was meant to be the end of Pokemon story. Dr Lava has a really cool article translating and explaining Takeshi Shudo's blog he made before his death, if you haven't seen it.

Since you mentioned to comment something that could be added to the iceberg, how about multi-universal Lanturn? Basically, someone mathematically calculated that based on one of the Pokedex entries, Lanturn's light is essentially strong enough to destroy the universe

16:27 there is also a mistys determination artwork from an xy set and it is numbered 104/122. It is adult misty and it looks like she is a lifeguard

I like this video because unlike other iceberg videos it is not clickbait nor made up things, but actual stories that circulated in the pokémon underground.

“LOOK AT MISTY’S BREASTS” “this video took a lot longer to make than I thought” 🤔

9:29 T H A T ' S J U S T B I L L ' S M A R I H U A N A F A R M

In a game informer issue from years ago they interviewed one the people from game freak/ the Pokémon company they asked him "so when people eat meat in pokemon are they eating tauros?" The guy replied something like "nah, the world of Pokémon is way more technologically advanced than ours it is safe to assume they are eating synthetic meat".

27:23 me and my homies LAUGHED LIKE CRAZY IN THE VC LMAOOOO

Don't forget about our favorite crime boss Giovanni game ending himself

the void background image: *exists* Me: "Oh god, oh f*ck..."

This was the 1st iceberg I've seen (thanks to a suggestion) and it's awesome how well it has aged. Sure spooked me the 1st time

He said and I quote “Pokémon diamond and pearl remake confirmed” LMAO nice

I'm not into pokemon at all, and I have no clue why the algorithm sent me here. However, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't entertained. Great video!

I love videos like this

One thing that always stood out to me is how would Jolt Vap and Flare go down in the burning tower. Flareon would be fine and Vaporeon could put the fire out. Jolt could just be fast and run out.

Something I think would have been interesting on this list is how the Pokémon Rangers in the mainline games are completely different from the Pokémon Rangers from the Ranger games, and if the regions in Pokémon Ranger exist in the main line games

Man, I miss when burger king had their pokemon toys. I remember I got a gold plated mewtwo card. Sadly, my moms ex husband took it in the divorce. I recently offered to buy it. But he apparently sold it a couple years ago to buy a pack of smokes.

Wait.. so now there's a section of me brain dedicated to Pokemon. And it's PERMANENT?

“Everyone knows that the world of Pokémon has Pokémon” “To live you must breathe clean air”

I always imagined jinx's black coloration as her long hair casting a shadow across her face

That blood eyed Jigglypuff is me trying to beat Century Smash with it.

What's still the most impressive to me is how the creators of Pokemon made something with so much mystery and wonder that it has fueled all of these rumors for so long. When you build such big, creative worlds full of so many secrets, it really starts to seem like anything is possible and almost any plausible theory is going to become fan legend overnight.

"But nah, it's just Bill's weed patch"

At the start of the video when that spectrogram appeared suddenly my heart skipped a beat like oh my gosh what the heck

Middle of the iceberg: yeah secret boss that eats you alive Abyss: one scrubby boi

The person who gave away the racist Gengar was dressed as a team rocket grunt, not James

Honestly if you ever make another Pokémon iceberg you need to include how Wobuffet was based on a Japanese comedian, Team rocket taking over Japan’s Saga Prefecture, Magnamite dominating Japanese Pokémon popularity polls for a time thanks to 2Chan, Mystery Of the Mirage Pokemon releasing in the US first, Pokemon Puzzle League being only released in the US and using the Anime Dub as a base, Twitch Plays Pokémon, the RSE Glitch found by a fish, Pokemon Learning League and The Big Breasted Tiger suggestion