POKEMON FACTS

9 FACTS ABOUT POKEMON

• HITMONCHAN AND HITMONLEE ARE BASED ON JACKIE CHAN AND BRUCE LEE RESPECTIVELY.

Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are thought to have been named for Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee in the American version of the game. In the Japanese version, their names are Ebiwalar and Sawamular, which are thought to refer to the Japanese kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura and Japanese boxing champion Hiroyuki Ebihara.

• THERE'S A COUNTRY WHICH ISSUED CURRENCY WHICH HAD PIKACHU'S PICTURE.

• SLOWBRO IS THE ONLY POKÉMON THAT CAN DE-EVOLVE. ITS POKÉDEX ENTRY SAYS THAT IF THE SHELLDER ON ITS TAIL IS REMOVED, IT WILL REVERT BACK INTO A SLOWPOKE.

• THE LOCATION LAVENDER TOWN IS KNOWN TO CAUSE A SENSE OF UNEASINESS IN SOME PLAYERS.

There are a number of strange phenomena associated with Lavender Town in the original Pokémon games. It’s thought that the music that players hear while in the town contains isochronic tones, which could be the cause of uneasiness that has now come to be called “Lavender Town Syndrome.”

• THE VARIOUS SETTINGS IN THE POKÉMON GAMES BEFORE GENERATION IV ALL SEEM TO RESEMBLE REAL-WORLD LOCATIONS IN JAPAN.

• WOBBUFFET’S VARIOUS POKÉDEX ENTRIES SEEM TO IMPLY THAT WHAT APPEARS TO BE ITS BODY IS ACTUALLY A DECOY, AND THAT THE SMALL BLACK TAIL WITH TWO EYES IS ITS ACTUAL BODY.

• YAMASK IS A DEAD HUMAN!

• CLEFAIRY WAS ASH'S ORIGINAL POKÉMON!

Pokémon first ventured out of the Gameboy videogames as a comic book and not a TV show. In the comic book, Clefairy was chosen as the main Pokémon character, in order to make the series "more engaging" .

• ALL POKEMON PROFESSORS ARE NAMED AFTER TREES.

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