Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Pokemon world - real world crossover in flavor text?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Dendrobatida

Dendrobatida

New Member
Was checking out some scannage of the LA cards, reading a bit of the flavor text. Poliwrath's reads as follows:

"With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting."

I've been playing this game since 2000, and I can't remember a card ever referencing anything from our world, nor anything in the movies, games, etc. suggesting that Ash & company's world is our world. That's not to say it hasn't happened - I haven't played all the games, and I haven't seen all the movies. I know there's a Pacifidlog town, but that's about as close as it gets in anything I've encountered.

Is there precedent for this? Is it a one-time only thing? Is it a precursor to a plot development that has pokemon spilling over into our world, or vice versa? Or was this just a flavor-text-writing gaffe?
 
There was a magician, I think his name was Melvin, in the first or second season of the show that said he wanted to perform in Las Vegas. Other than that I haven't seen to many real life references eaither.
 
I don't think a 4-Kids dub should count for this--they did a lot of "non-canon" things when they were doing the anime. Jelly donuts, anyone??

I need to check and see if the Japan poli says "Pacific Ocean". That would be a neat crossover.
 
Actually, several Pokemon's pokedex text have mentioned real world locations, and it's been going on for a while.
I know Rapidash says it can clear Ayers Rock in one leap...
I think bulbapedia or somewhere had a full list of mentions.
 
I'm not too surprised... I think there a lot of subtle crossovers from the games as well... The regions in the game are all Japanese districts (I know Kanto is), aren't they?
 
dogma said:
I'm not too surprised... I think there a lot of subtle crossovers from the games as well... The regions in the game are all Japanese districts (I know Kanto is), aren't they?
Click to expand...

They're all loosely based off of Japanese regions, yeah.
Kanto's the only one that takes on the name of the real region, though.
 
Further proof that Pokémon is real. Tsunekazu Ishihara is just hiding them from us!

Btw is Tsunekazu spelt with or without a "u"? Cause on the bulbapedia its with a u, but on the worlds site its without the u.
 
PokemonSteve said:
Further proof that Pokémon is real. Tsunekazu Ishihara is just hiding them from us!

Btw is Tsunekazu spelt with or without a "u"? Cause on the bulbapedia its with a u, but on the worlds site its without the u.
Click to expand...

There is a 'u' in the correct spelling, but it's probably barely pronounced as is the case with the 'u' at the end of the word 'desu' (roughly translates to 'is' - used when there's no other verb in a sentence). PUI/whoever it is has always dropped the u at worlds at whatnot.
 
Anyone recall Lt. Surge being called "The Lightning American"? There are plenty of real world references in Pokemon. Someone here already mentioned Rapidash's pokedex entry.
 
Someone here already mentioned Rapidash's pokedex entry.
Click to expand...
Actually, it's the ponyta entry.:tongue:

Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:

And what about mew? In the first movie and FR/LG it says that is was found in Guiyana, South America.
 
Last edited:
^^Yep, missed that. But I don't have LG, so I wouldn't know. But I could have guessed, I guess.

Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:

Leaf Green: Often seen swimming elegantly by lakeshores. It is often mistaken for the Japanese monster Kappa. Pokedex entry in LG mentions a Japanese monster. Though all pokemon are Japanese monsters.:lol:
 
Last edited:
This is only the first subtle step in softening us up for a full blown invasion.

Keep watching the skies. Keep watching the skies.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top