Pokémon Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually TRUE! #2

[@HoopsandHipHop]

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[@GladDestronger]

Well Star Wars USED to be great... and make tons of money. Until Disney turned it into huge steaming cowpie.

[@NeverMeltIce]

4:55 you missed an opportunity to say “and there’s Narrrrway that…”

[@Fluorite-Fox]

Narwade is unoriginal af

[@calciferblack2409]

​@@Fluorite-FoxI don't think it's supposed to be. Also, Geodude is a rock with arms.

[@Oceane1803]

Pokémon Scarlet is probably Pokémon Orange, considering Naranja Academy and the ties it has to the color Orange.

[@pokebreederrichard1200]

Pokémon orange was to be based on the orange islands

[@Oceane1803]

@@pokebreederrichard1200 No sh*t. But as Hoops said here, Now we have Pokémon Violet and Indigo in a way. But I'm pretty sure that the original ideas for these games weren't the Uva Academy, or Arven, nor the Indigo Academy, or Kieran...

[@liatrisblossomheart4013]

@@pokebreederrichard1200 and you think they had the entire paldeo region and blueberry academy planned back in the gameboy color days?

[@shelbybayer200]

​@@Oceane1803*Blueberry Academy Not Indigo Academy

[@Oceane1803]

@@shelbybayer200 Whoops right. Sorry that's how it's called in french.

[@AlmightyArceus]

Ultra Necrozma: “I can destroy galaxies with a thought, why won’t you DIE?!” Zorua: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Hero_of_Comedy]

Pokemon Orange? I guess we now know what inspired the Orange Island saga in the anime.

[@oreomilky8398]

We technically do have the "Orange Academy" in Pokemon Scarlet, so maybe that's their nod to finish off the rainbow games!

[@HoopsandHipHop]

@@oreomilky8398 very good point!

[@CrymsonNite]

Best roadblock? "Powers out" *lights on in the buildings past the officer*

[@patrickstar7270]

That used to piss me off so much especially when the npcs would walk straight passed the guy

[@melsbacksfriend]

Japanese doesn't have a native word for orange. They use オレンジ (Orenji, borrowed from English orange). That's why the first one surprised me.

[@Wandergirl108]

…How, exactly? They have native words for other colors, and orange is a color, that's literally a universal thing, so like…how did they ever not have a word for "the color you get when you mix red and yellow"? That doesn't make any sense!

[@onijester56]

@@Wandergirl108 The Japanese word for "Green", is Midori. This did not exist in Japanese until at the earliest like the 800's or very very late 700's AD. Of which the word originally referred to "fresh" things such as grass and trees. "木々は緑です", literally "The trees are green" INITIALLY meant the trees are ALIVE. Now, Japanese does have a phrase that could translate to "Orange" before the inclusion of Orange/Orenji as a loanword. That phrase is "炎色", "Flame-Color" with the kanji specifically for fire and the kanji specifically for color right next to each other.

[@Wandergirl108]

@@onijester56 Ah, I see…so they described colors using other words associated with them, before the West introduced the concept of identifying colors in a vacuum. That's kinda cool, actually…

[@onijester56]

​@@Wandergirl108 The cool thing is that the West did the same thing, for most of its history. If my etymology is correct, the word "White" is ultimately the modification of a root meaning "Bright" or "Shine". Likewise, "Red" in the western world historically has been applied to everything from purple things to pink things... which makes sense given that while its etymological root technically means "Red" it is the root from which we get the word "Rust". For most of the West's history "Red" and "Rust-Colored" were the same word. At some point, we decided to separate the two. Probably those ancient philosophers' fault. I blame Socrates, lol.

[@Mari-Schimmer]

​@@onijester56I'm guessing that's the same reason why pink is ピンク (pinku), no? I'm assuming it used to be "sakura色" before

[@GloomyFish]

going to have to remember that pyukumuku tip if i ever decide to replay usum also the poison zorua tip

[@PikaDrewski]

I wanna point out, when you showed the back of the TOPPs card for PikaBlu/Marril. Something that I just noticed that Snubble was using Buru, the Japanese Name was used in it's place as well.

[@ieyke]

We didn't know the name for Snubble back then either. Ho-oh, Togepi, Marill, and Snubble have always been the most special and most important of the Gen 2 Pokemon, because they were introduced so far ahead of Gen 2 with virtually ZERO explanation, and that made them TRULY absolutely legendary, like Mew. ACTUAL mythical Pokemon with REAL WORLD myths and legends. I think I still have that card somewhere.

[@DJCosmicLatte]

I had the whole set, including the cards with name errors both before and after corrections. They also wrote "Donfan" on the Donphan battle scene.

[@innerrhymes7454]

I felt so old when i heard "26 years later". Damn.

[@pi_xi]

1:50 The code of Pokémon Yellow shows that there was also a special Clefairy edition planned. Clefairy was even supposed to be the main mascot of the franchise and was Red's partner Pokémon in the original Pocket Monsters manga.

[@bimbaA]

Well you certainly knew it, with that pfp

[@rainbowdragon168]

Imagine if Pokemon Orange was an actual game. It would be interesting to see how it would’ve turned out

[@brandibastian4193]

I am so mad we never got an orange

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@brandibastian4193 Maybe one day we could get it. Who knows?

[@elizabethazzinaro8457]

Yeah it would be. Love your KZbin name by the way! Rainbow Dragon is my absolute favorite Yu-Gi-Oh monster and Crystal Beasts are my absolute favorite deck!

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@elizabethazzinaro8457 Thank you

[@Tyler-q3k]

That is pretty crazy to think about, at least our favorite franchise is rich lol.

[@herowither12354]

There was also plans for a Pink version, alongside Yellow, with the starter being Clefairy.

[@ModernVintageTV0]

$99 Bil. This means Gamefreak can easily buy Nintendo's share of the franchise.

[@ieyke]

LOL No.

[@M_Alexander]

Yeah and then what? They'd have no oversight or publisher

[@herowither12354]

Except it's not just Gamefreak that made that money.

[@DJCosmicLatte]

Buddy, that number includes Nintendo's part of the revenue. Game Freak itself is probably actually the *least* profitable branch of TPC, cuz most of the revenue is in merch.

[@narutotntfgaming5872]

My Movie Pokémon Card says Marill but I have a different one that says Buru instead of Snubble

[@joshmakeitrite]

that old drunk dude is literally a game-breaker

[@chanextra]

I mean, pokemon scarlets main logo is in orange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@onijester56]

In replying to someone else, Japanese lacks a distinct name for Orange other than the loanword "Orenji". Instead, the color if it must be written in pure kanji is "Hono-Iro", literally "Flame Color". Which is also the phrase used to describe the color recognized as Scarlet. (Like how Lemon and Banana and Sunflower are all types of Yellow... Orange and Scarlet are both types of Fire-Color.)

[@DefectiveLotus]

In the original Kanto games, there's a biker you can fight in the Ocean above Cinnabar and he says "I look like what? A studded inner tub?! Get lost!" So, Red not only speaks, he insults people.

[@Wandergirl108]

That bit about the Nidos being rabbits and that's why they evolve with a Moon Stone blew my mind. O.O

[@Hero_of_Comedy]

I came up with a Poison/Flying fakemon based on the cockatrice.

[@j.rileyindependentproductions]

First fact... Actually, orange HAS made an actual depiction if you count Scarlet. The Academy is Naranja Academy, which translates to ORANGE Academy. So, as you're counting the Japanese exclusive Green, then you must count this as well.

[@M_Alexander]

It's worth noting that when translating "orange," naranja is the fruit and the color is anaranjado

[@yost112ty]

The first roadblock would technically be oak stopping you from going into the tall grass.

[@skarmtsk]

“Red talks in the Pokemon games” oh, the damage retcons can do. Thanks, SuMo!

[@RadzKiram]

Technically pokemon scarlet is Orange. Even the name of the school in scarlet means Orange.

[@M_Alexander]

Still, it's orange (fruit) not orange (color) which is anaranjado

[@Fonz128]

Pokemon Violet with Mewtwo on the cover. That would be tight.

[@GeniusTrainer720]

2:45 tbh I consider Scarlet more orange than a red

[@kyujee5360]

Yeah and the academy is literally orange

[@Aajer]

Scarlet is a hue of orange

[@Morgil27]

I forget the exact moment, but there's a point in FRLG where Blue/Rival calls Red/Player a chatterbox.

[@Dad_Shoes]

In Cerulean City, the rival gives you the Fame Checker item and jokingly calls you a chatterbox when he knows you don't talk.

[@ArchAvian]

Pikablu is cute, but Kids WB’s closed captioning always said “Meryl” in the show & I will always follow suit.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Me too I remember that as well 😂

[@fiendnewsnetwork9639]

Poison/Flying being unique to Zubat family is absolutely wild. TBH I've been playing since Red/Blue and never used them until a recent ORAS playthrough (played alongside my 10 year old, was really fun), and used Zubat family and goodness it is it great. Def a new favorite!

[@danielstokes2127]

I thought of the Nidoran family also having some rat inspiration since they are poison type but the moon rabbit connection is really cool!

[@CaydinWolf]

7 original planned games with all the colors of the rainbow is what surprised me. Seeing and actual game called “Pokémon Orange Version” would have been interesting. Also 26 years later? Dang….

[@Adragos17]

Such a cool video! Thanks for doing this Hoops!

[@corndoggate]

lol the power of the cutest and cuddliest sea cucumber that didn’t make it to gen 9 🥺💚 we got pinkurchin instead and I’m still salty lmao! Pyukumuku the alien destroyer next to Bewear 💚

[@KageTenshiiRyuu]

Red, Link, and Frisk... all considered to be silent/mute, all have proven they can/do talk.

[@BBMacsWorld]

I never noticed Zubat was the only poison flying type. That's actually really cool. Also hi! Been a long time! :)

[@NeverMeltIce]

3:56 Rumour has it that ‘the drunk guy’ blocking your path in Gen 1 was an inside joke for Masuda getting drunk and partying like crazy once they completed the game development (pre-launch). Prior to this, it was just a truck 🛻 blocking the way, and they moved the truck graphic to Vermillion City port. The same truck that fans thought Mew was hiding underneath via misleading rumour.

[@jpcsdutra]

The colors thing gets even worse. People have found out that there were inner listings for a "Pokémon Pink" to be released alongside Yellow (possibly Clefairy or Jigglypuff as the only starter, tho speculative) And that the working titles for Ruby and Sapphire were Crimson and Indigo. If you want even more, though spectulative too: Pokémon SwSh is rather obvious too. "SwSh" makes us think of Switch, but as the boxart legendaries are usually related to the game title "Cyan and Magenta" were right there. Add to Gen 9 with "Past and Future" and schools named "Orange and Grape", I think it's fairly safe to assume working titles internally would have been "Orange and Purple" before it turned into Scarlet and Violet. The thing with Nidoking and Queen is kiiiinda... well. It's right but it's also wrong. Wigglytuff and Azumarill share the exact same inspiration. It's clear by stage 1 that Nidoran do have some rodent inspirations, but I wouldn't say rabbit.

[@ChaoticKangaskhan]

Can we get a part 2 I'd listen to this for hours

[@shayne537]

When ever we all had Pokémon Sword & Shield, I was saying, “they should make a Pokémon Rose & Violet” but sure enough we got Scarlet & Violet. That sounded better tho. Close enough.

[@jawllypop1750]

I actually knew the Nidos being rabbits for a long time. There is an artist called Bluebunny who used a Nidorina ss her pokesona that made me realize they were all rabbits.

[@guntherhemmrich9876]

Pokemon Orange Edition makes totally sense - remember in the Anime Ash travelling accross the Orange Islands (or how the were named in English), competing in Orange League. Back in the days this was somehow the sequel to his Kanto-journey, even before travelling to Jotho. And at least in regard to the German releases before we had Pokemon Gold and Silver released

[@Frost-zj1pb]

Me waiting to hear a fact I haven’t before : “oh ya there’s the X accuracy for OHKO moves” Me: “holy crap I didn’t know about the level up difference helping the OHKO moves” This is officially the first video with these kinds of facts that I finally learned a new one

[@HoopsandHipHop]

@@Frost-zj1pb nice haha glad to hear it!! 😁

[@keturahwilson3366]

I actually did know about Red speaking in FireRed and LeafGreen. I thought that was cool and amusing that that was the only time he spoke that I knew of, until just now 😂

[@Vanessomatic]

>says you can beat necrozma without doing anything >still has to select multiple moves

[@DarkBandicoot]

Kinda wild there hasn't been a Pkmn Orange still! You'd think they would want to capitalize of that, but... maybe not.

[@ManofGold24]

Hoops, hip hop and Pokémon are literally my 3 favorite things. 🥳

[@lynternet]

i actually knew the thing about the nido line bc in PoGo there’s an easter event every year where they feature all the bunny pokemon and they’re included. fun fact!

[@flareinc7413]

Such a good series. More please ^^

[@ciavalen.rie.143]

Maybe Ultra Necrozma is so insanely broken that it even broke its own AI

[@zingbadxx]

In west australia we got the game in 1995 to test if it would sell. I was even asked questions about why i liked the game. I still have the cart!

[@RoyArkon]

Now it makes perfect sense how Nidoking and Nidoqueen evolve via Moon Stone LOL. Also the 7 games fact is super crazy! I wonder how GF and Nintendo thought that they would spread all the Pokemon in all 7 games, that sounds like they planned to have way more than just 151, and I mean A LOT more.

[@BeantheSnom]

7:28 I actually used a Pyukumuku against Ultra Necrozma, although mostly because of a lack of planning and a Lv. 100 Thundurus I got from a Mystery Gift card couldn't do enough when it would actually listen to me

[@snoopy1alpha]

1HKO-Moves in Gen one with X-Acc is actually the strategy that is used in Red's speedrun.

[@rubirawrs]

i have to wait till next month but I am hype for Narwade to come join the plush army

[@dainbramage9508]

The Orange Islands in the anime might be a call back to the scrapped orange version

[@jaybeeme]

The first fact is the most believable... everyone knows this

[@DJCosmicLatte]

Eternatus taking itself out against a bunch of Pyukumuku made me snort

[@CarlosSRD]

Pokémon Orange for November 2026. Also funnily enough there's Naranja (spanish for Orange) Academy in Scarlet which we all know is paired with Violet & the Indigo DLC.

[@AnkanBob]

I am dancing for no reason Someday, I will disapear for no reason

[@SmartAlec86]

Pokemon Scarlet does have Naranja Academy, "Naranja" meaning "Orange" in Spanish. It may not be a full game or DLC Expansion. But could that count as realizing the color "orange" in the games? (Probably not, but it's a start.)

[@HoopsandHipHop]

@@SmartAlec86 it’s definitely a very good observation at the very least!!

[@Jibb3rs]

Anyone else just like.. one shot Necrozma because you're team was maxed and your Ace hadn't fainted since level 10? None of these metas matter 😅

[@SmartAlec86]

Oddly enough, the craziest fact I've heard in this is that Nidoking and Nidoqueen are based on rabbits.

[@tylerbush7047]

In the English version the guy who didn't have his coffee could possibly be drunk seeing as how coffee sometimes does help with hangovers. I just think they put it in the game because kids wouldn't know

[@jonahflores1147]

The ultra necrozma one reminded me of the shedinja you can use against Steven's Metagross in gen 3 and he can't hit it with any moves 😂

[@ArtByKarenEHaley]

Passed out drunk guy is the obstacle? Sounds an awful lot like the downtown area in the city I thankfully don’t live in anymore

[@diretrip]

But what would orange have been?

[@TheImmolation]

Bros living the dream. I made a card game when I was younger. I had hundreds of cards made. Then someone stole them

[@lucasthompson6983]

Fire reds cartridge was basically orange :p

[@everydayeverything8190]

I didn’t go to school for 20 years. I just need some gym leaders. No schools…

[@BeIlG]

I literally was underleveled and didn't heal up or know the ultra necrozma was coming but ended it with more health despite not using items. LITERALLY used my first mon sylveon that was under leveled. It was super easy.

[@Lupinemancer87]

You could argue that Pokemon Scarlet, even though it's red, is Pokemon Orange as the school is called Naranja Academy, which means Orange, the uniforms are all orange and it overall has an orange theme to it. Again, I know the name doesn't match, but that is why it can be argued.

[@fordmustangkillerko]

Orange was paid homage through the orange islands in Kanto and Johto!!

[@MoonMegs]

I did know that the Nidos were rabbit Pokemon, but not the other part about it being a moon rabbit and why it evolves with a moonstone.

[@D-Lo23]

When you realize that indigo and violet are basically the exact same color it kind of helps explain why they probably didn't release those two along with the first generation lol

[@calciferblack2409]

Narwade looks sooo cute! 😭

[@GeminiSolrock]

I will argue that if Pokemon Violet is the 2022 title, and Pokemon Indigo is the Indigo Disk, then, Pokemon Orange is Scarlet!

[@dylanjwicklund92]

No orange would have been exactly like either Gen. One or Gen. 2. Or may have been completely different and been the orange Islands.

[@GeminiSolrock]

@@dylanjwicklund92 I said it because Scarlet has the theme of oranges :)

[@darkside9020]

In gen one you also have to out speed as we'll as use an x accuracy, the strategy in the speed run is to give your nidoking an x speed and an x accuracy

[@JohnMartin-ll9cw]

This is something you may have missed, but the Japanese version of X & Y implies that one of the NPC trainers had a s*x change operation.

[@Double-X2-Points]

Dude pronounces literally CORRECTLY WITH ALL 4 SYLLABLES!? mindblown

[@Double-X2-Points]

You could add that as another fact that nobody seems to believe nowadays. Rip

[@Satoriga]

iirc, for 1 hit KO in Gen 1 x acc works if u are faster. If you are slower u need to boost speed as well.

[@Aajer]

Scarlet is a shade of red with a hue of orange so technically we got a Pokemon orange version

[@onceorbit92]

that zubat named “luis suarez” 💀

[@ClaireZhasa]

I mean, you could argue that scarlet is Pokemon orange because of Naranja academy

[@rubenmoreno407]

Fun fact, Naranja Academy in Scarlet is Orange in Spanish.

[@bdora48445]

Is that ashes mom on the cover of orange with Oak? My boy dogging ashes mom

[@shakeyoulikehaiti]

I genuinely hope we get a Pokémon orange set in the orange islands. I just really want a crystal Onix lmao.

[@ThePawsitiveMind]

Wasn't the Orange Islands in a mainline game? Was the Sevii Islands supposed to be the orange islands? There for if either are true, than it has been represented

[@bryanpeterson5646]

My favourite silly fact that sounds stupid is that Nidoking and Nidoqueen can NOT breed, however Skitty and Wailord CAN breed.

[@Maxwell-237]

He's not even blocking the road!

[@v3xx3r]

I think pokemon scarlet with the orange academy is pretty much the closest we will get to an orange version.

[@genkaiba15]

Orange and Pink? No, no...neither is blue...Orange and Gray....🤔

[@MazterP28]

Tyranitar with fissure?

[@RazielVictus]

Surely the orange reference/additions were the Orange Islands?

[@saphari22]

Wait, how are Nidoking and Nidoqueen RABBIT5!?

[@miwer1000]

Pokemon did not begin with red blue and yellow. It began with red and green. The red and blue we got where an updated version of those red and green

[@Grimlock2012]

Genuinely, how could you not know the Nidorans were based on rabbits? Just look at them lol

[@CrystalLaser]

I consider Pokemon Sun and Ultra Sun to be their Orange Version lol, close enough

[@misaamane6087]

Wow you guys are being oddly nice today, most comments here are extremely rude and non supportive. Nice to see a change for once.

[@Oceane1803]

Still no mention of the dark lore around Pokémon Life Force.

[@notorioustim10]

Luis Suarez on a pokemon that bites 💀