SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

Whoever titled the video that way is a raging fucking moron. You can eat with other characters too; the only reason that one's being viewed differently is because of how she looks. The toy thing is super weird, but who gives a shit?

Yeah, the title is total bullshit, but I was more of referring to the sexist comment "maybe it's about time I find someone to cook for myself". I think it's ridiculous that in this day and age gamefreak somehow lets a sexism slip into the game. It's an obvious allusion to the fact that when women get married, they only do typical household chores such as cooking for the husband and such. Did this not strike anyone else as completely uncalled for? Everything in the event is fine for the most part, except for that. It's unacceptable.
 
Hey, let's cool the vitriol.

Anyway, yes the Olivia event is real. It randomly happens once a day if you go to a restaurant (other than the battle buffet) and order the most expensive thing on the menu. An NPC will show up and ask to eat with you and you'll get a larger than normal yield of heart scales along with not having to pay for the meal.

First time I've seen Olivia show up, but she's not the only candidate. Other people can show up too.

For a new mystery, how do you think Alola was made?

Most know that the Hawaiian islands are formed from a volcanic hotspot that's slowly drifting. A new island pops up where the hotspot is but the old ones erode away. For Hawaii this is pretty clear as the islands branch to the west in order of increasing size.

Alola is really weird though. The hotspot is on Akala island which is dead center of the region, while the largest island Ula'ula doesn't have any volcanic activity (but it does have two mountains, which could be dormant volcanoes). So either this hotspot has a very weird geological drift or this is what I get for applying real world geology to Pokemon.

We probably should take into account groudon when talking about land mass formation in the pokemon world. Maybe part of alola was created by the continent pokemon and the other half was formed via other volcanic activity. Or maybe groudon just made the whole thing and put a volcano in the middle cause he can. I think those are decently safe assumptions to be made in the world of pokemon.
 
For a new mystery, how do you think Alola was made?

Most know that the Hawaiian islands are formed from a volcanic hotspot that's slowly drifting. A new island pops up where the hotspot is but the old ones erode away. For Hawaii this is pretty clear as the islands branch to the west in order of increasing size.

Alola is really weird though. The hotspot is on Akala island which is dead center of the region, while the largest island Ula'ula doesn't have any volcanic activity (but it does have two mountains, which could be dormant volcanoes).

Groudon

the pokemon world was literaly shaped by it's god-like legendaries



As for the Olivia thing... well it's an otaku thing

otaku culture has this whole thing about sexualizing women (and pubesent girls) and doing so in particular ways, very very old fashion ways; like in actual flesh-and-blood japan women are getting married less and less 'cause they wanna pursue a career and the goverment actually likes the idea of more women joining the workforce
but the otaku don't like that

now I know that many here self-identify as otaku and might take offense to that but I'm not actually talking abut you guys I'm not even taliking about all japanese otaku, I'm talking about the vocal group that anime and manga keep pandering more and more ever since japan's economic collapse, the demographic that has made the chronically unemployed and unemployable dateless anime protagonist who's probaly deranged (NEET hikki chu-however-you-spell it protagonist) a standard of the genre

fact is japanese otaku culture is seriously twisted (that was the who message of Welcome to the NHK even) and views women over 20(!) especially those with succesful careers who are not in a relationship as either hateful shrews or miserable about not having a man; Olivia fits in this second category, no matter how beautiful and powerfull (in fact because she's powerful) she can't get a man and she resents this deeply which is why she can't help herself about mentioning it at every opportunity

is suppoused to be "funny"

yes is creepy, yes the average japanese person thinks is creepy, but at this point is a convention of the genre


so in short ever since anime fell to the influence of lonely sad men, women with succesfull careers can't possibly be in a relationship and thus are pathetic and ridiculos and since Pokemon is hella anime it decided to portray the adult female kahuna this way in spite of actually treating is female characters much better before and hopefully after
 
For a new mystery, how do you think Alola was made?

Most know that the Hawaiian islands are formed from a volcanic hotspot that's slowly drifting. A new island pops up where the hotspot is but the old ones erode away. For Hawaii this is pretty clear as the islands branch to the west in order of increasing size.

Alola is really weird though. The hotspot is on Akala island which is dead center of the region, while the largest island Ula'ula doesn't have any volcanic activity (but it does have two mountains, which could be dormant volcanoes). So either this hotspot has a very weird geological drift or this is what I get for applying real world geology to Pokemon.

The latter, I don't think GF was thinking about real world volcanic island formation when planning the Alola region. Let's just say the Pokemon world's oceans drift shifts every so often thus the islands drifted in different directions.

Yeah, the title is total bullshit, but I was more of referring to the sexist comment "maybe it's about time I find someone to cook for myself". I think it's ridiculous that in this day and age gamefreak somehow lets a sexism slip into the game. It's an obvious allusion to the fact that when women get married, they only do typical household chores such as cooking for the husband and such. Did this not strike anyone else as completely uncalled for? Everything in the event is fine for the most part, except for that. It's unacceptable.

But she's not saying she should get married to cook for someone, she's saying she should get married so someone could cook for her. It's odd wording, yes, and had she not added the "myself" at the end what you thought would be what she was saying. But the "myself" at the end does change the context so that she means she wants someone to cook for her and not her making the food.

Besides, I don't think if she got married she'd suddenly shift into a house wife personality. She's a Kahuna and an Elite Four member, she has responsibilities to the entirety of Akala Island (which is one of the most populated islands) and to the new Alolan Pokemon League. If anything who she marries might end up doing the house chores as she will mostly be out and about doing her island duties and, as she says in the conversation, would like to come home with a home cooked meal ready to eat.
 
The latter, I don't think GF was thinking about real world volcanic island formation when planning the Alola region. Let's just say the Pokemon world's oceans drift shifts every so often thus the islands drifted in different directions.



But she's not saying she should get married to cook for someone, she's saying she should get married so someone could cook for her. It's odd wording, yes, and had she not added the "myself" at the end what you thought would be what she was saying. But the "myself" at the end does change the context so that she means she wants someone to cook for her and not her making the food.

Besides, I don't think if she got married she'd suddenly shift into a house wife personality. She's a Kahuna and an Elite Four member, she has responsibilities to the entirety of Akala Island (which is one of the most populated islands) and to the new Alolan Pokemon League. If anything who she marries might end up doing the house chores as she will mostly be out and about doing her island duties and, as she says in the conversation, would like to come home with a home cooked meal ready to eat.

Hmm, I'm not entirely convinced that what you're saying she's saying is correct, but either way gamefreak should know better and should just have avoided it altogether.

And as for the "how alola was formed" question, I suppose it could be tectonic plate shifts or something, but I feel like groudon is the answer. No need for science when you have pokemon with magical powers that can disobey the law of conservation of mass among other things.
 
Groudon? Come on, guys, be more creative than that.

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This thing pulls contintents together when it's in the mood. Shifting Alola to this neat pattern was probably just an afternoon workout.
 
Groudon? Come on, guys, be more creative than that.

250px-486Regigigas.png


This thing pulls contintents together when it's in the mood. Shifting Alola to this neat pattern was probably just an afternoon workout.

I can see it now: regigigas is towing around the continents, he's making a pretty sick stockpile in kanto and jhoto, he's starting to haul alola over there too to make a super awesome region trifecta, but then he stops, leaving alola in the middle of the ocean, and promptly goes to be sealed up in a snowy temple. Because, you know, regigigas.
 
And now, the moment of truth, will Gamefreak finally show us all a mystery that's been plaguing the franchise for over 20 years.

WHAT DOES DIGLET'S BODY LOOK LIKE?

I now have obtained evidence that will shock and amaze and probably make you very very irritated. You have been warned, for what I am about to show you is not for the easily offended. Or the type to get their hopes up. Or really anybody at all.

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Yeah, just like how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop, the world was not meant to know.
 
I'll be damned if this hasn't been brough up yet but anyways...
I'm currently about to complete the UB subplot and this whole "Faller" thing just blew me away because now I think I know what actually happened to Looker in ORAS: he came from an Ultra Wormhole just like Anabel did in SM! Think about it, they both washed up on shore with little to no memory at all. The parallels are just too good not to be true.

However, it does raise the question: if this theory is true, then which timeline did he come from? We know ORAS takes place in the same universe as SM due to Mega Evolution, but there's no mention of Looker having disappeared in SM, or having amnesia for that matter, and he was in Alola at least 10 years prior to the events that took place in SM, so does that mean ORAS actually happens after SM? Looker did have a megastone on him so he couldn't have come from the original timeline where Mega Evolution doesn't exist, and that leaves us with XY, ORAS and SM, but none of them quite fit.

Man, this multiverse thing is boggling my mind.
 
I'll be damned if this hasn't been brough up yet but anyways...
I'm currently about to complete the UB subplot and this whole "Faller" thing just blew me away because now I think I know what actually happened to Looker in ORAS: he came from an Ultra Wormhole just like Anabel did in SM! Think about it, they both washed up on shore with little to no memory at all. The parallels are just too good not to be true.

However, it does raise the question: if this theory is true, then which timeline did he come from? We know ORAS takes place in the same universe as SM due to Mega Evolution, but there's no mention of Looker having disappeared in SM, or having amnesia for that matter, and he was in Alola at least 10 years prior to the events that took place in SM, so does that mean ORAS actually happens after SM? Looker did have a megastone on him so he couldn't have come from the original timeline where Mega Evolution doesn't exist, and that leaves us with XY, ORAS and SM, but none of them quite fit.

Man, this multiverse thing is boggling my mind.

First off, before we begin, I still believe that ORAS takes place in the same position in the Mega Timeline as RSE did in the Original Timeline: same time as the events in Kanto (thus, going by main games, is one of the first things to happen). This would mean Looker would have been in the Mega Timeline as long as the events in Kanto & ORAS to the events of Sun & Moon. Using the loose timeline length of time we know:

Kanto/ORAS >3 years> Johto/Sinnoh >? years> BW >2 years> BW2/XY >? years> SM

That's 5 years from what we know and taking into account the aging of certain character (Caitlin between Gen IV to V and Red, Blue, & Anabel (who were children in Gen I/III) now being young adults in Sun & Moon (not to mention the sudden aging Grimsley went through)) would indicate more than 10 years have passed so its perfectly possible for Looker to have been placed on that UB mission 10 years ago.

They didn't mention the amnesia because that was long ago so why would that be brought up? Also him having the Mega Stone makes a bit more sense now. He would have been drenched in Ultra energy coming through the Ultra Wormhole so its possible that something on him turned into the Audinite, much like how when the Ultimate Weapon was fired or Groudon/Kyogre releasing the Infinity Energy causes stones all around their region to suddenly turn to Mega Stones.
 
First off, before we begin, I still believe that ORAS takes place in the same position in the Mega Timeline as RSE did in the Original Timeline: same time as the events in Kanto (thus, going by main games, is one of the first things to happen). This would mean Looker would have been in the Mega Timeline as long as the events in Kanto & ORAS to the events of Sun & Moon. Using the loose timeline length of time we know:

Kanto/ORAS >3 years> Johto/Sinnoh >? years> BW >2 years> BW2/XY >? years> SM

That's 5 years from what we know and taking into account the aging of certain character (Caitlin between Gen IV to V and Red, Blue, & Anabel (who were children in Gen I/III) now being young adults in Sun & Moon (not to mention the sudden aging Grimsley went through)) would indicate more than 10 years have passed so its perfectly possible for Looker to have been placed on that UB mission 10 years ago.

They didn't mention the amnesia because that was long ago so why would that be brought up? Also him having the Mega Stone makes a bit more sense now. He would have been drenched in Ultra energy coming through the Ultra Wormhole so its possible that something on him turned into the Audinite, much like how when the Ultimate Weapon was fired or Groudon/Kyogre releasing the Infinity Energy causes stones all around their region to suddenly turn to Mega Stones.
Between gen1 and gen5 exactly 6 years have passed since Red is 16 in BW2 and we know for a fact that 5 years have gone by between XY & SM, so yeah, maybe.

However, here is the thing: like I've said before, he was in a mission 10 years prior to the events of SM and if we follow your timeline that would've been about the same time as when he washed up in Hoenn. So how could he be serving under the International Police in Alola at the time when he didn't even know who he was and even rank up to the point of being Anabel's senior, no less? Accomplishing all this in only a year? It doesn't really add up.

IMO, it isn't too farfetched to think there are actually two Lookers in the megaverse ( that's how all call the mega timeline for simplicity's sake ) since there are two Anabels: the Faller from the original timeline and the Anabel from the Megaverse who is never brought up because the one thing that made her relevant doesn't exist yet in this Universe: the Battle Frontier (tfw the Frontier not existing has transcended from a meme to an integral part of the canon). Besides, if the Looker from the original timeline was sent to ORAS of the Megaverse, then how could he be present in the events of Diamond & Pearl which takes place years after the events of RBY/ORAS?

And about the Ultra Energy turning some ordinary rock into a megastone... that's really, really, REALLY unlikely, I think. Alola has no natural megastones--they all have to be bought for a very high price (which hints at them actually being imported), and not even all of them are available--despite the fact that the region is bathed in Ultra Energy, the Totem Pokemon being proof of this, and yet no megastones are to be found naturally in the region ( as in, you cannot find them in the wild like you did in XY/ORAS ), which implies that Ultra Energy and Infinite Energy are two entirely different things and act differently as well.
 
Between gen1 and gen5 exactly 6 years have passed since Red is 16 in BW2 and we know for a fact that 5 years have gone by between XY & SM, so yeah, maybe.

However, here is the thing: like I've said before, he was in a mission 10 years prior to the events of SM and if we follow your timeline that would've been about the same time as when he washed up in Hoenn. So how could he be serving under the International Police in Alola at the time when he didn't even know who he was and even rank up to the point of being Anabel's senior, no less? Accomplishing all this in only a year? It doesn't really add up.

IMO, it isn't too farfetched to think there are actually two Lookers in the megaverse ( that's how all call the mega timeline for simplicity's sake ) since there are two Anabels: the Faller from the original timeline and the Anabel from the Megaverse who is never brought up because the one thing that made her relevant doesn't exist yet in this Universe: the Battle Frontier (tfw the Frontier not existing has transcended from a meme to an integral part of the canon). Besides, if the Looker from the original timeline was sent to ORAS of the Megaverse, then how could he be present in the events of Diamond & Pearl which takes place years after the events of RBY/ORAS?

And about the Ultra Energy turning some ordinary rock into a megastone... that's really, really, REALLY unlikely, I think. Alola has no natural megastones--they all have to be bought for a very high price (which hints at them actually being imported), and not even all of them are available--despite the fact that the region is bathed in Ultra Energy, the Totem Pokemon being proof of this, and yet no megastones are to be found naturally in the region ( as in, you cannot find them in the wild like you did in XY/ORAS ), which implies that Ultra Energy and Infinite Energy are two entirely different things and act differently as well.

I think you are correct, and we need to be looking at the original timeline (gen 1-5) and the mega timeline (gen 6-7) in two completely different lenses. We may have a solid idea of where things take place in the original timeline, but I think it's time we accepted that the new timeline is not at all alike. Too many events transpire in different ways between the two timelines. I think it's plausible that the games are no longer in the same order (and ORAS is after SM) in relativity to everything else anymore, so we should begin trying to assemble the new timeline. I'm fairly certain that the looker in SM and ORAS are one and the same, and that there is no connection between the original timeline and the mega timeline (so original looker is still in DPP, he didn't fall through a wormhole there).
 
Between gen1 and gen5 exactly 6 years have passed since Red is 16 in BW2 and we know for a fact that 5 years have gone by between XY & SM, so yeah, maybe.

However, here is the thing: like I've said before, he was in a mission 10 years prior to the events of SM and if we follow your timeline that would've been about the same time as when he washed up in Hoenn. So how could he be serving under the International Police in Alola at the time when he didn't even know who he was and even rank up to the point of being Anabel's senior, no less? Accomplishing all this in only a year? It doesn't really add up.

IMO, it isn't too farfetched to think there are actually two Lookers in the megaverse ( that's how all call the mega timeline for simplicity's sake ) since there are two Anabels: the Faller from the original timeline and the Anabel from the Megaverse who is never brought up because the one thing that made her relevant doesn't exist yet in this Universe: the Battle Frontier (tfw the Frontier not existing has transcended from a meme to an integral part of the canon). Besides, if the Looker from the original timeline was sent to ORAS of the Megaverse, then how could he be present in the events of Diamond & Pearl which takes place years after the events of RBY/ORAS?

And about the Ultra Energy turning some ordinary rock into a megastone... that's really, really, REALLY unlikely, I think. Alola has no natural megastones--they all have to be bought for a very high price (which hints at them actually being imported), and not even all of them are available--despite the fact that the region is bathed in Ultra Energy, the Totem Pokemon being proof of this, and yet no megastones are to be found naturally in the region ( as in, you cannot find them in the wild like you did in XY/ORAS ), which implies that Ultra Energy and Infinite Energy are two entirely different things and act differently as well.

Where is this stated that 6 years have passed? I mean I guess it makes sense, that's 2 years between Johto/Sinnoh and Unova, though as you said that'll not give much time for Looker to have washed up on Hoenn and then go on his mission to Alola. Hm, well they never said Looker was a Faller, that's why they needed Anabel. Maybe we're on the wrong track here and Looker was just in a boat accident that resulted him being shipwrecked.

"But he still wouldn't have time to have gone on the Alola mission". That is unless the reason Looker washed up Hoenn was because his mission to Alola. Let me try something:

Kanto/Hoenn
(3 years)
Johto/Sinnoh
(2 years)
BW Unova
(2 years)
BW2 Unova/Kalos
(2/3 years)
Alola

That would be 9 to 10 years between the events in Kanto/Hoenn and the events in Alola. So it actually would make sense if Looker's past Alola mission took place before getting washed up.

That or there's now 2 Lookers in the Mega Timeline. Of course I have a feeling that might be complicating things, then again I feel GF had opened a can of worm(holes) and aren't sure what to do with it. Are there two Lookers now? Are there two Anabels? Are there any other Fallers from other timelines walking around? All questions I have no doubt... GF will sweep under the wrong coming next gen.

I think you are correct, and we need to be looking at the original timeline (gen 1-5) and the mega timeline (gen 6-7) in two completely different lenses. We may have a solid idea of where things take place in the original timeline, but I think it's time we accepted that the new timeline is not at all alike. Too many events transpire in different ways between the two timelines. I think it's plausible that the games are no longer in the same order (and ORAS is after SM) in relativity to everything else anymore, so we should begin trying to assemble the new timeline. I'm fairly certain that the looker in SM and ORAS are one and the same, and that there is no connection between the original timeline and the mega timeline (so original looker is still in DPP, he didn't fall through a wormhole there).

Sun & Moon can't talk place after ORAS, Wally didn't become an accomplished trainer until ORAS yet there he is in the Battle Tree.

We had this timeline discussion before and it ended in a non-conclusion since we simply don't know. I think unless GF or the Pokemon Company releases an official timeline we should drop this subject. We simply don't know and GF is doing a wonderful job tangling up even more.
 
The thing about multiverses is that there's always another one, so the ORAS Looker could have "fallen" from any number of parallel universes. Assuming he "fell" at all, and isn't just some random bloke with soap opera amnesia (WHEN WILL THEY FIND A CURE?!).

Another factor is if the wormhole distorts time AND space, then Looker could have fallen from a parallel future game like X&Y back in time to ORAS. Or even from Sun & Moon back to ORAS. Or from B2/W2 back to ORAS.

Come to think of it, Looker didn't make an appearance in B2/W2 despite being in almost every game since Platinum (the only other exception is HG/SS. And since Audinite is the only megastone from the Unova section of the national dex...)

And since I'm not done compounding already complicated issues, falling from a parallel universe means there should be a counterpart existing in this current mega timeline. Since due to Red and Blue's presence amongst all the other cameos, most of the events of the previous games still happened in the Sun & Moon timeline. Just with megas and fairies.

If so, then are there two Annabelle's and two Lookers mucking about? Or is this a "slide falling" where the counterparts in this timeline fell into the next? And those counterparts fell into the next-next, and so-on.

And if there isn't a counterpart, then what happened to them? (*X-files theme starts playing*)
 
Where is this stated that 6 years have passed? I mean I guess it makes sense, that's 2 years between Johto/Sinnoh and Unova, though as you said that'll not give much time for Looker to have washed up on Hoenn and then go on his mission to Alola. Hm, well they never said Looker was a Faller, that's why they needed Anabel. Maybe we're on the wrong track here and Looker was just in a boat accident that resulted him being shipwrecked.

"But he still wouldn't have time to have gone on the Alola mission". That is unless the reason Looker washed up Hoenn was because his mission to Alola. Let me try something:

Kanto/Hoenn
(3 years)
Johto/Sinnoh
(2 years)
BW Unova
(2 years)
BW2 Unova/Kalos
(2/3 years)
Alola

That would be 9 to 10 years between the events in Kanto/Hoenn and the events in Alola. So it actually would make sense if Looker's past Alola mission took place before getting washed up.

That or there's now 2 Lookers in the Mega Timeline. Of course I have a feeling that might be complicating things, then again I feel GF had opened a can of worm(holes) and aren't sure what to do with it. Are there two Lookers now? Are there two Anabels? Are there any other Fallers from other timelines walking around? All questions I have no doubt... GF will sweep under the wrong coming next gen.



Sun & Moon can't talk place after ORAS, Wally didn't become an accomplished trainer until ORAS yet there he is in the Battle Tree.

We had this timeline discussion before and it ended in a non-conclusion since we simply don't know. I think unless GF or the Pokemon Company releases an official timeline we should drop this subject. We simply don't know and GF is doing a wonderful job tangling up even more.

You're right, I did not look at it closesly enough (haha, I should probably complete the game before I start making claims). Since looker first appeared in DPP, maybe we'll get some more information on the enigma that is the new timeline in their remakes. Until then.
 
Where is this stated that 6 years have passed? I mean I guess it makes sense, that's 2 years between Johto/Sinnoh and Unova, though as you said that'll not give much time for Looker to have washed up on Hoenn and then go on his mission to Alola. Hm, well they never said Looker was a Faller, that's why they needed Anabel. Maybe we're on the wrong track here and Looker was just in a boat accident that resulted him being shipwrecked.

"But he still wouldn't have time to have gone on the Alola mission". That is unless the reason Looker washed up Hoenn was because his mission to Alola. Let me try something:

Kanto/Hoenn
(3 years)
Johto/Sinnoh
(2 years)
BW Unova
(2 years)
BW2 Unova/Kalos
(2/3 years)
Alola

That would be 9 to 10 years between the events in Kanto/Hoenn and the events in Alola. So it actually would make sense if Looker's past Alola mission took place before getting washed up.

That or there's now 2 Lookers in the Mega Timeline. Of course I have a feeling that might be complicating things, then again I feel GF had opened a can of worm(holes) and aren't sure what to do with it. Are there two Lookers now? Are there two Anabels? Are there any other Fallers from other timelines walking around? All questions I have no doubt... GF will sweep under the wrong coming next gen.
Generations 1 and 3 happen at the same time, and gens 2 and 4 happen at the same time, 3 years after generations 1 and 3. BW happen "a few years after" generations 2 and 4, with B2W2 happening 2 years after BW.

Red starts his journey at age 11. That makes him 14 on Mt. Silver, which makes him at least 16 in B2W2. "A few years" I would most likely interpret to be 2-4. So realistically there's no way less than 6 years have passed since RBY up to BW2.

That said, I actually don't think that Looker and Anabel ending up in extremely similar situations is a coincidence at all. If anything, SM has taught me that Game Freak doesn't do coincidences. Remember a few months ago when people thought Colress would make an apparence in SM because his book had a pattern that similar to a Z-Crystal and most people, myself included, dismissed that as a mere coincidence only to be proven wrong, and that it was indeed foreshadowing? The parallels are there for a reason.
That is unless the reason Looker washed up Hoenn was because his mission to Alola
That doesn't work. He lost his memories once he got to Hoenn, and given how the UB don't actually hunt him down he's not a Faller so there's no way the Looker from SM is the same as the one in ORAS. Again, assuming the ORAS!Looker did come from an Ultra Wormhole, which is the most likely scenario IMO as nothing else would make as much sense.

Some time-travel shenanigans have definitely had to happen for this to even work out, which makes me think this will be somehow tied up in the inevitable Sinnoh remakes--whenever they come out--because it is simply way too fitting with the Time and Space Legendaries both being there. Heck, didn't Burnet say that some pokemon could potentially be undiscovered UB? If, and that is a big IF, the Sinnoh remakes do come out this generation I could totally see them retconning the creation trio as UBs, or at the very least making them somehow related.

Anyways, you're right when you say that GF made more confusing then it needed to be, but I'm a firm beliver that they'll get somewhere with it. Just dunno when.
 
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For a mystery we don't have to put in hide tabs,

The last two trainers you fight before you reach the battle tree are Veterans Nobuko and Tsunekazu. They have a pretty strategic doubles team, and are a pretty hard fight, even for the Veteran trainer class.

What suprises me are the names, since other trainers in the English version have English names like Tracy, Marie, Troy, and Sheri (the trainers leading up to these two).

While real life Hawaii does have a large Asian population (heck, my uncle Nobuo lives there for one, and I'm German! Try figuring out that family tree!) the fact that these names weren't redubbed in English and their significant battle site (they are unskippable, you have to fight them to get to the Battle Tree) makes me think this is a Gamefreak cameo, like the movie cameos in the Gen 4 games.

So, anybody know who they might be? Maybe someone with the game in another language can cross reference this, see if the names are the same in Japanese.
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Edit*: speaking of easter eggs, Gamefreak snuck one in with the Ultra Beasts and Legendaries.

Did you know? All the pokemon associated with Ultra Space have base stats as prime numbers.

Taking it a step further, if it isn't a level 1-heart scale or evolution move, all of them learn new moves at levels that are prime numbers.

As if it weren't obvious enough already that the programming staff are big nerds, someone on the coding team is a gigantic math nerd. And I love it!
 
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For a mystery we don't have to put in hide tabs,

The last two trainers you fight before you reach the battle tree are Veterans Nobuko and Tsunekazu. They have a pretty strategic doubles team, and are a pretty hard fight, even for the Veteran trainer class.

What suprises me are the names, since other trainers in the English version have English names like Tracy, Marie, Troy, and Sheri (the trainers leading up to these two).

While real life Hawaii does have a large Asian population (heck, my uncle Nobuo lives there for one, and I'm German! Try figuring out that family tree!) the fact that these names weren't redubbed in English and their significant battle site (they are unskippable, you have to fight them to get to the Battle Tree) makes me think this is a Gamefreak cameo, like the movie cameos in the Gen 4 games.

So, anybody know who they might be? Maybe someone with the game in another language can cross reference this, see if the names are the same in Japanese.
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Edit*: speaking of easter eggs, Gamefreak snuck one in with the Ultra Beasts and Legendaries.

Did you know? All the pokemon associated with Ultra Space have base stats as prime numbers.

Taking it a step further, if it isn't a level 1-heart scale or evolution move, all of them learn new moves at levels that are prime numbers.

As if it weren't obvious enough already that the programming staff are big nerds, someone on the coding team is a gigantic math nerd. And I love it!

Tsunekazu could be based on Tsunekazu Ishihara, the current president and CEO of the Pokemon Company, and Nobuko is the name of his wife. Here's a picture of the two of them together:
tsunekazu-ishihara-right-chairman-and-chief-executive-officer-the-picture-id94827636

Also it's not only the Ultra Beasts who use prime numbers for stats and level-up moves, so does Cosmog, Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma. However not Marshadow so that effectively removes any relation it had with them.
 
Tsunekazu could be based on Tsunekazu Ishihara, the current president and CEO of the Pokemon Company, and Nobuko is the name of his wife. Here's a picture of the two of them together:
tsunekazu-ishihara-right-chairman-and-chief-executive-officer-the-picture-id94827636

Also it's not only the Ultra Beasts who use prime numbers for stats and level-up moves, so does Cosmog, Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma. However not Marshadow so that effectively removes any relation it had with them.

Ha! I knew it! Thanks for clarifying that, what a neat little cameo.

And yeah, I said "associated with Ultra Space" to try to blanket in the Cosmog line along with Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts.
 
New mystery: Here's one brought up by JWittz in his Dex analysis videos: could it be that the one writing the Dex entries is maybe RotomDex? The Dex entries do seem to be giving more insight than usually, especially for the Ghost-types, and who would know Pokemon (and Ghost-types) better than a Pokemon (who's part Ghost-type)?

Another example: many of the Mega Evolution descriptions mention how a few of the Pokemon either become more mentally vicious or the process is possibly painful. This darker side of Mega Evolution wasn't here in Gen VI so why is it showing up now (aside GF trying to justify not making more Mega Evos)? Well in XY we only got it from the human perspective which is just seeing the Pokemon getting stronger, a Pokemon would more notice the mental change or even the sign the Pokemon is in pain.

Another mystery: Hey, Professor Kukui, by using the PokeRadar attached to Rotom's QR scanner I discovered Pokemon not native to Alola! Isn't this a huge discovery? It pretty much changes the Pokedex or at least adds onto it. Professor? Why are you ignoring this discovery? Why does every major discovery about the RotomDex like making a Pokemon speak, able to download physical camera upgrades, or finding Pokemon originally not thought native to Alola not stir any interest?
 
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New mystery: Here's one brought up by JWittz in his Dex analysis videos: could it be that the one writing the Dex entries is maybe RotomDex? The Dex entries do seem to be giving more insight than usually, especially for the Ghost-types, and who would know Pokemon (and Ghost-types) better than a Pokemon (who's part Ghost-type)?

Another example: many of the Mega Evolution descriptions mention how a few of the Pokemon either become more mentally vicious or the process is possibly painful. This darker side of Mega Evolution wasn't here in Gen VI so why is it showing up now (aside GF trying to justify not making more Mega Evos)? Well in XY we only got it from the human perspective which is just seeing the Pokemon getting stronger, a Pokemon would more notice the mental change or even the sign the Pokemon is in pain.

Another mystery: Hey, Professor Kukui, by using the PokeRadar attached to Rotom's QR scanner I discovered Pokemon not native to Alola! Isn't this a huge discovery? It pretty much changes the Pokedex or at least adds onto it. Professor? Why are you ignoring this discovery? Why does every major discovery about the RotomDex like making a Pokemon speak, able to download physical camera upgrades, or finding Pokemon originally not thought native to Alola not stir any interest?
Can't be. Wicke's dex doesn't have a Rotom in it and it has the exact same entry for Mareanie that ours does. The Mega Evolution thing is more accurate to how it's portrayed in the anime/SPMD than in gen 6.
 
Another mystery: Hey, Professor Kukui, by using the PokeRadar attached to Rotom's QR scanner I discovered Pokemon not native to Alola! Isn't this a huge discovery? It pretty much changes the Pokedex or at least adds onto it. Professor? Why are you ignoring this discovery? Why does every major discovery about the RotomDex like making a Pokemon speak, able to download physical camera upgrades, or finding Pokemon originally not thought native to Alola not stir any interest?

I don't like doing this but the reason it's metafictional

the rotomdex it's just a reaction to whisper from Yokai Watch
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it's a last minute addition like the whole zygarde quest and thus not really taken into account in the story aside from token mentions
 
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