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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Team Rocket's Giovanni, Team Galactic's Cyrus, Team Plasma's Colress, and the Aether Foundation's Lusamine are fine examples. Lysandre, the boss of Team Flare, has entered this trope in anime and manga adaptations as opposed to the [[Smug Snake]] [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]] status he held in his game(s).
* [[Member Berries]]: One of the biggest recurring criticisms of the sixth generation of ''[[Pokémon]]'' and beyond is them being far too reliant on [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Kanto-era]] nostalgia pandering.
** ''[[Pokémon X and Y]]'' was particularly lousy with this, doing things such as making a Pidgey your mandatory first wild Pokémon encounter instead of one of the Kalos region's original [[Com Mons]], Santalune Forest having the exact same layout and encounter table as Viridian Forest (with a few newer Pokémon thrown in to spice things up), and Professor Sycamore forcing you to pick one of the original three Kanto starters a little after you pick a Kalos starters. Guess which starters get Mega Evolutions? Not the Kalos starters, that's for sure. Most of the legendary Pokémon you encounter are also Kanto legendaries: you chase down one of the legendary birds in the postgame, and Mewtwo is living in a cave in Pokémon Village despite there being no logical reason for it to do so aside from nostalgia pandering. While far from the biggest complaint levied at the game, these references were viewed as awkwardly shoehorned-in and detracted from the Kalos region's unique atmosphere.
** ''[[Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'' ran afoul of Kanto-flavored Member Berries in a different way: the introduction of Alolan forms for older Pokémon. The concept was and still is celebrated for breathing fresh air into old Pokémon by giving them different typings, movepools, and even stat spreads to play around with. But once it became clear that the only Pokémon that would be getting Alolan forms were Kanto Pokémon, they caught a lot more flack for being indicative of Game Freak playing favorites and crippling a mechanic with a ton of potential. Not helping matters is the fact that they're accompanied by the introduction of Professor Oak's similar looking relative Samson Oak, and the protagonist being a Kanto native instead of anywhere else. {{spoiler|Lillie traveling to Kanto so she can start her Pokémon journey}} also caught flack for similar reasons.
** ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]'' would take a few steps back from the Kanto pandering... mainly because Gen 8 dedicated an ''entirely different game'' to it by giving ''Red and Blue'' their second pair of remakes in the form of ''[[Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee]]'' which is basically the same games, but tailored to new players and ''[[Pokémon Go]]'' fans with a few references to ''Yellow'' here and there. But even with the ''Let's Go'' games doing the brunt of the Kanto pandering, Champion Leon in ''Sword and Shield'' having a Charizard as his star Pokémon instead of a powerful Galar Pokémon still caused a lot of players to roll their eyes.
* [[Memetic Molester]]: Online interpretations of Drowzee/Hypno lean towards either pedophilia or murder. ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' doesn't help.
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Several 'Mons, as well as some of the characters.
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