Pokémon/Memes



"What!? Your Meme is evolving!"

Pokémon has been around for a pretty long time by Internet standards, with the first games coming out in 1996, and has since grown to encompass many different types of media. It's also ridiculously popular, especially with nerds.

The spawning of memes was inevitable. Gotta mutate 'em all!

Games

 * SUPER PWNIN' MAGIKARP USED DESTRUCTION RAINS FROM THE HEAVENS!!!
 * I came when I heard you beat the Elite Four.
 * Pant, pant... I finally got through that cave. It was much bigger than I'd expected. I got too tired to explore the whole thing, so I came outside.
 * I came through the tunnel, but I still have plenty of energy left.
 * Wild [x] appeared! [y] sent out [z]! [z] used [action]! It's Super Effective! Critical Hit! Foe [x] fainted!
 * so I herd u liek mudkips
 * u herd rong
 * U mei liek mudkipz...but mudkipz don't liek u.
 * QWILFISH, BITCH!!
 * LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS.
 * [x] wants to learn [y], but [x] can only know four moves.
 * Slowpoke in a top hat.
 * What kind of heresy is this?!?
 * Slowpoke can be slipped into all sorts of crazy scenarios, as long as he's slow (not to be confused with retarded) about it. (One classic Image Board example had Slowpoke making post twenty six million and one, asking, "Am I too late for 25M GET?").
 * Pokémon + The World Ends With You = Zetta Slowpoke.
 * HOLY SHIT! SHINY PIDGEY!
 * IT'S A BLASTOISE. WITH A MONOCLE.
 * I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!
 * Shorts Boy is later deconstructed at the Sinnoh Battle Frontier: he wonders if he'll grow up to be "Shorts Man," causing him some distress.
 * "I hate pants! They're uncomfortable and difficult to wear!"
 * "Why arn't you wearing shorts?"
 * Calm mind suicune has no weak.
 * A series of Image Macros has been going around various boards of 4chan called "the Poképarents" that portray certain Pokémon as parents of various attitudes, including Charizard as a father that's never satisfied, Blastoise as a dad that's always understanding and fun, and Ninetales as a Hot Mom who occasionally goes after her own (and Gardevoir as a Hot Mom who is in turn pursued).
 * BLASTOISE WOULD NEVER HURT MY MOM. HE WOULD NEVER MAKE HER CRY LIKE HER BOYFRIEND JOHNNY DOES, IF BLASTOISE WAS MY DAD THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT AROUND HERE.
 * BLASTOISE WOULDN'T HURT MOMMY LIKE JOHNNY DOES. BLASTOISE WOULD HYDRO PUMP JOHNNY.
 * You know what fixes tears? HAPPY MEALS
 * More can be seen here.
 * A large collection also exists at this blog. This contains some macros from both of the archived threads, plus a whole bunch from later threads and even some original content.
 * You're training on Route 22 for Brock's Gym, your Pokémon are tired, and who do you see? GARY MOTHERFUCKING OAK.
 * WOOOOOOOO!
 * You can't ignore his girth.
 * Everybody hates me 'cause I'm Gary fucking Oak!
 * Photoshopping Gary's head onto any and all images has quickly gained popularity on /vp/.
 * Badges collected: ten of eight.
 * Hot Skitty On Wailord Action! hottip:Explanation:The [[Trope Namer for any bizarre, horrifying, or just plain impossible breeding options. Began after someone noticed that the gargantuan Wailord and the miniscule Skitty were in the same Egg Group, meaning they could breed with each other. Even the unofficial Pokémon wiki is in on this.
 * "We must have that Sweet Honey! We must use it to attract Pokémon in great numbers!"
 * Smogon is something of a Fountain of Memes as far as fansites go.
 * metang@ [[hottip:Explanation:A forum member posts a team for rate before actually putting most of the team in the post, with the exception of the meme. The thread in question.
 * MOJONBO RULES HERE!
 * VILOPLUMES WITH SUBSTITUTES [[hottip:Explanation:See here, and note that Substitute is a common move in competitive play and that Vileplume is badly outclassed at its job.
 * think about bissey
 * wanna? lose
 * Also, Felix Merryweather is Smogon's official lawyer.
 * Pimpoleon, King of the N*gger Cup.
 * Edgar Clause.
 * Energy Ball Jellicent.
 * "Entei says: Everything is ok now". [[hottip:Explanation:A meme from Brazil. See here.
 * "Magikarp! Use Splash Attack!"
 * Use Hyper Beam!... WTF do you mean you don't know Hyper Beam?!?!?
 * I SWEAR TO GOD WHEN I EVOLVE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL the powerful Gyarados.
 * "IT'S LIKE MY RATTATA IS IN THE TOP PERCENTAGE OF RATTATA!" he continues saying this after his Rattata evolves into a Raticate.
 * TOP FUCKING PERCENTAGE.
 * Lance is a cheating bastard!
 * Lance orders his Dragonite to fire Hyper Beam at human.
 * Lance is a prevert.


 * Dicks Oak
 * In HG/SS, the rival forcefully strips the player character of his/her Rocket Grunt disguise. The fanart and fan comics for this scene is honestly staggering.
 * "Whoops. Dropped my balls."
 * Ekans backwards. Arbok backwards. Muk backwards. Well...
 * Ceiling Peon is watching you infiltrate.
 * Is the Crobat EV'd?
 * OFFERING SHINY LEGENDARIES, PM ME WITH REQUESTS!
 * [Picture of an obese person] A wild Snorlax appeared!
 * Use the Heavy Balls!
 * THE ULTRA BALLS. USE THEM.
 * MAN THE HARPOONS!
 * Bidoof, Bidoof, Bidoof is on fire.
 * ... I'm dying Squirtle.
 * Bidoof itself has become a major fandom meme, inspiring the Com Mons entry.
 * The chance of getting this error on Bulbapedia was so common that on April Fool's Day 2010, the forum skin changed to that of the error page.
 * Cynthia's pedophilia and awesomeness. Everyone's her bitch. Even Red. This may be an Ascended Meme if her Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure version means anything..
 * Red. He's the biggest Memetic Badass and Memetic Sex God in the series, though recently Hilda (the female player character from Black And White) has been giving him a run for his money.
 * Red says: "..."
 * A SPY SAPPIN' MAH SENTRET!
 * And now, some Monde Greens.
 * I'm not gonna Raichu a love song...
 * Cause you asked Furret.
 * Cause you Nidoran... Uxie.
 * I turn on my Charmander pants come right off.
 * That Ho-Oh's me money.
 * I Pikachu in the shower.
 * So I thought I was playing Spinda bottle with these girls. I figure I'd get to Smoochum up...
 * I Machoke you while I Beedrillin' you...
 * RIGHT IN THE SATOSHI!!
 * As of the reveal of the Generation V starters, the grass starter, Snivy, has risen to memetic popularity in no time, garnering Fan Nicknames such as Smugleaf and Grinleaf.
 * U mad?
 * My legend began in the Fifth Generation.
 * Its actual English name, Snivy, also started out as a Fan Nickname.
 * Pokémon Battles on Bicycles.
 * Ethan/Lyra's Marill Is Evil. Usually Ethan's though.
 * Flint as Ronald McDonald.
 * Xatu's cry, which sounds like "TWO-TWO" (トゥートゥー) to Japanese ears.
 * Bianca farting.
 * She's gotta fart Superbad!
 * TENTAQUIL
 * An Indian Elephant.
 * It's Just A Fucking Dog.
 * >N
 * ... Nidorino.
 * Fake Pokémon, such as Mewthree. Also, Glitch Pokémon, like Missingno and M Block.
 * MissingNo. is an Eldritch Abomination.
 * will add to this.
 * Unfortunately, this Facebook page involving a Dugtrio came out shortly after the Haiti earthquake...
 * Wargle. A TRUE AMERICAN EAGLE.
 * WARgle
 * METAPOD used HARDEN!
 * DELELELELE WHOOOOOOOOP
 * Genesect Dennis, the Pokémon that some believe wiped out the dinosaurs.
 * "Dennis" is Ghetsis's name, now. It's his battle theme that has the "DEEEENNIS!" chanting.
 * Ghetsis stole the battle theme from Genesect. Ghetsis is dead now.
 * DON'T PUSH THE B-BUTTON!!!
 * Watashi wa N desu
 * Solid Snivy, Tepig Boss, and Revolver Oshawott.
 * Oshawhat
 * On the story of English names, Let me Axew a question.
 * A picture of Slowpoke, often with a caption of "Slowpoke, slowpoke slowwww..."
 * The caption "I see what you did there." with Slowpoke.
 * A musical meme going to the song Fushigi na Kusuri involves making a trainer feed their Pokemon a Carbos, the Pokemon growing into a muscular freak, exploding from a Metapod and then turning into a Magical Girl. It looks like they are trying to do this for EVERY POKEMON YET.
 * O++O
 * There's a Foongus Amoongus.
 * GOLURK MOAR
 * GAZE UPON IT AND DESPAIR majestic, beautiful, amazing in every way, and cool.
 * Maractus and Mr. Krabs.
 * Implying owls are birds.
 * Meloetta and Icing, specifically vanilla icing.
 * Gen V's Pokémon have become rather popular for references to Courage the Cowardly Dog. Cofagrigus has been linked with Ramses, for instance.
 * Golurk's appearance has been compared to Randy, a Humongous Mecha who sucked at enslaving planets.
 * ¡KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! The mon' in gauze! The mon' in gauze!.
 * And "¡¿What's yer offer?!".
 * "I'm a heartbreaker.... My name.... Charles."
 * When N's full name was announced (Natural Harmonia Gropius, the last sounding similar to Tropius), people took to drawing him as a Tropius, or shopping his head on a Tropius.
 * Also writing the full name as sign of negation, shock or disbelief.
 * Excadrill lends itself to a LOT of Gurren Lagann references, ESPECIALLY since it's been declared an Uber. It was too GAR for any other tier! It is the Pokemon that will pierce heaven! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK IT IS?!
 * Professor House
 * In Black & White, Nimbasa City's Big Stadium contains a Shout Out to Inazuma Eleven in which one of the soccer players tells you to "Join the training of our Pokemon Eleven!" On the Japanese art community Pixiv, there is now a "PokeIre" tag for Crossover fanart depicting things like Inazuma Eleven characters training Pokemon.
 * Merge everything with Kyurem!
 * Final Gambit Shedinja.
 * The "Technology is amazing!" guy from EVERY GEN ('cept for Gen II, weirdly).
 * "Technology is amazing like your mum's shit! I can download porn onto my XP and post money/beauty/mom job spambots on the internet, CUNT!"
 * These new Pokemon look like Digimon.
 * The SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anime

 * Garybombing threads
 * "Silly Gary."
 * Gary liking Bara
 * Team Rocket is blasting off agaaaaaaiiiiinnnnn! *twinkle*
 * WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBUFFET!
 * "Prepare for trouble!" "Make it double!"
 * "We'll be the richest rogues of all time" / "Creators of a grand design" / "I'll be the King" / "I'll be the queen!" / "I'll be the joker... of crime."
 * Pikachu! The horn!
 * Gary was here. Ash is a loser.
 * Yo, fuckin' Snorlax owns in this movie! He's saving ALL THE POKEMON! He's more ripped than you, man!
 * DON'T MAKE FUNNA HIM!!!! EXCUSE ME!!!!
 * No, dick, it's Wigglytuff.
 * Bitch be TRIPPING balls!
 * Ash's Charizard defeated Blaine's Magmar IN THE VERY HEART OF THE VOLCANO ITSELF!
 * From the same site, Ash's Treecko/Grovyle/Sceptile has constantly been called CLINT FUCKIN' EASTWOOD whenever he appears.
 * Pyramid King Brandon is "insert character here"'s father.
 * "NOOOO!!!"
 * BALEEEEEEN WHAAAAAALE!.
 * Diglett dig, Diglett dig.... TRIO TRIO TRIO. very catchy.
 * I wanna be the very best / Like no-one ever was / To catch them is my real test / To train them is my cause!
 * "Who's that Pokémon?!"
 * IT'S PIKACHU. GODDAMMIT! AAAAAAAAAAAAA
 * Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Seviper? Okay trainers, if you guessed Arbok, you were right!
 * WRONG!
 * Giovanni achieved status as a Memetic Badass for apparently punching out a Blissey, and because "not even an orgy is enough to satisfy his libido".
 * Anything Giovanni does, such as using a Lotad as a water basin for his teeth, going surfing with Pokémon, or being on a playground ride is accompanied by LIKE A BOSS! in huge letters.
 * These donuts are great! Jelly filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! While he was holding rice balls.
 * SANDWICHES DON'T ROLL!
 * RING RING RING! RING RING RING! PHONE CALL! PHONE CALL!
 * BYRON LOVES THINGS!
 * I LOVE BASTIODON! *background explosion*
 * USE IRON DEFENSE! *background explosion*
 * I LOVE MY WIFE! *background explosion*
 * Remarkable!
 * Ash steals a motto.
 * When someone asks a question, especially one meant to be a trick or incredibly hard, someone responds with "It's a Jigglypuff seen from above!"
 * In the early 2000s or so, the meme amongst Team Rocket fans was "I WANT A DOUGHNUT". It was considered James's catchphrase (even though he only said it once), and led to him being associated with doughnuts in general, especially jelly doughnuts. It even spawned a short webcomic, The Adventures of James and the Slightly Obese Cop with the Doughnuts, in which James used various disguises and tricks to steal doughnuts from a policeman.
 * A link, if one exists, would be worthy of worship.
 * There was also a Running Gag that James' boots were magical, because both times he kicked a Pokémon while wearing them, that Pokémon evolved immediately afterward.
 * PIKACHU RAN THE LASER TO VICTORY
 * Pikachu in a highchair. Pikachu in a high chair.
 * PIKAFIELD!!
 * The Triangle Shades that Ash's Squirtle wears sure look familiar. Yep, they sure do.
 * AND YOUR GALOSHES, TOO!
 * "IT'S TASTING TIME!"
 * Because of Cilan's food gimmick and the fact that his Pokémon look like food (Pansage looks like it has head-broccoli), there are dozens of threads claiming that he plans to eat his Pokémon.
 * The name's PINGAS!
 * Pikachu and ketchup. Seemingly forgotten (or maybe not) by the writers, but not by the fans.
 * How many fanarts have depicted Ash as the Chick Magnet while Brock cries his heart out in the background? TOO MANY.
 * Fruit Salad, yummy yummy! Fruit Salad, yummy yummy!!
 * Best Wishes episode 14 seems to have spawned a minor meme among Japanese artists. Specifically, where Cilan gets possessed by a Yamask mask. There are a hilarious number of "Dentomasu" pictures floating around.
 * A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, and these men are gonna do it with or without a beautiful girl at their side!
 * I'm very glad you asked me that Ash, because I think there's a way you can help me... You can guess where this is going.
 * The nineteenth episode of BW led to many pictures of Cilan looking evil. Pictures of him laughing over a traumatized Cabernet or looking smug have led to many Death Note jokes. Not to mention, jokes about him raping a traumatized, crying Cabernet.
 * Before that, there were many jokes about Cilan being secretly evil (such as him stealing Ash's egg and replacing it with a fake, eating his Pokemon). This episode "confirmed" it.
 * It doesn't help that a common fan theory for the games is that Cilan, Cress, and Chili are the secret identities for the villainous Shadow Triad.
 * For some reason, this image of Paul drinking orange juice (from DP episode 100, Aiding the Enemy!) has become something of a meme in Japan. Search "Shinji" on any Japanese fanart site and you're bound to find tons of pictures of Paul sippin' OJ. reason?
 * Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil.
 * Could also be because of 4Kids' standard operating procedure.
 * According to the Pokédex, Alakazam's IQ is OVER FIVE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!
 * Dento/Cilan isn't gay. He's FABULOUS.
 * Sexy Gabite now shows up way too often in Youtube Poop.
 * Thanks to BW010, fans begin to call Trip's Servine a masochist.
 * Venustoise. Probably the most well known fake Pokémon, due to it actually being in the anime as an illusion.
 * Ash Ketchum... he's an ass man.
 * "You can't do this. I won't let you."
 * YOUR PENIS. Be quiet or Brock will steal it.
 * "I'll use this frying pan... as a drying pan!"hottip:Explanation:A pun where Brock uses a frypan as a makeshift umbrella became something of a [[Mad Libs Catchphrase, substituting frying pan and drying pan for two other similar turns of phrase which rhyme, always accompanied by a gif of Brock using his frying pan as... well, a drying pan.
 * Ash sent in a million postcards to get that hat.