Pokémon Black and White/Nightmare Fuel

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Pokémon has been getting darker and darker with each release... Then Pokémon Black and White came along and the horrors were 100% intentional... And yet, the game got away with an E rating.

  • As is typical for the series, the Pokedex provides this... and not just to the little kids either.
  • "The fate of the ships and crew that wander into Jellicent's habitat: all sunken, all lost, all vanished." ~ Jellicent's PokéDex entry.
    • You would think something that looks so frilly and harmless would have much more cheerful Pokédex entries...
    • The White Pokédex entry states that "Their favorite food is life energy." Cross that with the scary Black Pokédex entry.
  • Litwick, Lampent, and Chandelure. Their Pokedex entries generally mention sucking the life force out of a person, in Chandelure's case it leaves the person's body behind, and generally mentioning luring victims with their fire, which is a shame because Litwick is the cutest out of the three and knowing that it can steal your soul makes this sad and scary.
  • Ghetsis. What a Complete Monster.
    • Imagine the thought of his plans coming into fruition: after N had done his part and gotten all trainers in all regions to release their Pokemon, only Ghetsis and his followers in "his" Team Plasma would be allowed to have and use Pokemon, meaning they'd change the entire system of Pokemon training so that anyone else having Pokemon would be against the law. Therefore, the masses of the world would be left defenseless against Team Plasma's oppression of them. Through threat of force via their Pokemon's powers, Ghetsis and his cronies get to enslave the entire world. Oh, and he also had the Adamant, Lustrous, and Griseous Orbs for some reason, hinting at goals on a higher scale...
    • This man is the undoubted god-king of Fridge Horror in the Pokémon world. Let's list some of the things that are wrong with him:
      • One of the Seven Sages mentions that N and Ghetsis might not be related after all. For all we know, N could've been a perfectly normal kid living happily with his parents (or possibly wandering on a journey) until Ghetsis kidnapped him. Worse yet, where's N's mother?
        • Supposedly Ghetsis "found" N as a toddler living alone with Pokemon in the woods and took him in to raise him as his own specifically for his plan, since he could sense N's abilities to communicate with the hearts of Pokemon. But this doesn't answer how Ghetsis knew where to find him, and we still have no clue what became of N's mother!
      • It's revealed at the end that the Pokémon Team Plasma stole were enslaved into building N's castle, possibly among other things. This likely happened before N was born, no less when he was crowned as King. So how many of these enslaved Pokémon did Ghetsis double as the abused Pokémon to send N to play with in order to poison N's mind against humans?
      • If Ghetsis did take over Unova (and he was dangerously close to doing so) the whole Unovan economy would be a complete wreck. Remember that in the games, pretty much everything revolves around Pokémon. And then consider that he was planning on doing this same thing to the rest of the world once he had an army of nearly a region's worth of Pokemon, headed by Reshirem or Zekrom, at his disposal.
        • And Ghetsis' reign won't last long, either. With so many trainers void of Pokémon, all of which are now in one place, and a PC system that can loot boxes to boot, Ghetsis is literally asking for Cipher to come in and take over. And you thought a ruined economy was bad enough...
        • Worse still, Ghetsis seems like the type of person who could very easily win Cipher over and get himself elected their new grand master. He has no qualms with having Pokemon OR people physically harmed (demonstrated further in the sequels) and even seems to get off on torture of all forms, be they physical, emotional, or mental. Added to that, his ultimate goal is nothing short of unlimited power, privilege, domination and total control over everyone and everything thing that lives.
      • There's also the depiction of Ghetsis and Team Plasma in general. Ghetsis is the chief sage of the Team Plasma sages, who are styled like priests. Since N is the king and the Plasma grunts are knights, the sages would represent the Church, who were allied with the king and knights in holy crusades during the middle ages. To Team Plasma, freeing Pokemon is their holy crusade. Thus Ghetsis and his true intentions represents lies, hypocrisy, and corruption of a person who knowingly and maliciously takes advantage of beliefs held sacred by people and twists them into something to suit his dark, selfish ends. He even holds public sermons and preaches on the matters, when in reality he's full of crap. But it gets worse from there: he's outed as an Evil Sorcerer type person who's scheming to take power as a tyrannical, despotic dictator. Hiding this under the ruse of priesthood makes him the lowest scum possible for the series, so thus he gets a makeover once everyone knows what he truly is. He keeps his pointed, horn-like hairstyle, but now wears a black and red visor on his right eye (his left eye is already red.), wraps himself in a Black Cloak with creepy eyeball symbols decorating it, and carries around a staff with the Plasma insignia that is almost pitchfork-esque at a certain glance. So not only has Ghetsis gone from dark priest to all out Evil Overlord, but he's essentially styled as The Devil himself. His original name, G'Cis Harmonia, can even be translated as "the Devil in music." His battle theme sounds like a Dark Reprise to that of Arceus, the God Pokemon, and the opening for the "Episode N" arc of the anime even has him set against a red, fiery, flaming backdrop as he throws back his cape in a very Devil-like fashion. Based on the man's actions and behavior, it's hard not to see this depiction as fitting, but then it really hits you...Satan was running the Church! Is there perhaps some disturbing commentary on religious groups of Knight Templar zealots here?
        • It gets worse - some Biblical Scholars believe that the concept of The Antichrist would have a misshapen or scarred right side, including his right eye and right hand. Not only does Ghetsis match that description, but he also has the deceptive charisma to sway people into following him and his alleged cause as well as the desire for world domination that are also primary Antichrist qualities. So Ghetsis is the Pokemon Worlds' Satan and The Antichrist, with N being the false idol he's made for everyone to worship in service to his devilish agenda.
  • Relic Castle. See the Fridge Logic page above. Now it becomes horrifying to think about... Basically, Unova is modeled after New York. The Relic Castle consists of two, broken towers. The Ghost type Yamask and Cofagrigus can be found inside. Yamask is said to be a human soul that remembers when it was alive, carries a mask that used to be its face, and cries over being dead. And now, it haunts The Relic Castle, which, as stated earlier, consists of two broken, burned down towers, in a fictional region based off of New York. Let that sink in for a second.
    • Its evolution Cofagrigus is no better- it eats humans and turns them into mummies like Yamask. Now you know how these guys reproduce!
      • And you can breed them!
    • To make things a little clearer, Route 4 and Resort Desert are said to be Ground Zero.
  • N's Room. Oh man, N's room. Picture this: you walk through two huge, grandiose doors, and suddenly you hear an extremely creepy music box. Cut to inside the room, you find that it's the kind of room a baby would have. The room is brightly decorated with cloud designs, there's a basketball court, a skating ramp, a train set, a bed, etc. All of them are practically rainbow-colored, and the room belongs to someone clearly no older than at least his late teens.
    • Maybe, some of those things are something a kid N's age would play with but the mixture of things still implies N's life was very isolated
    • To make it even more creepy, some of the toys move on its own. The game tells you that they've recently been played with, but if you look closely, most of them are defect in one way or another. The train tracks aren't complete and up in the basketball basket, there's a train hanging. And then if you examine the half pipe, you can read about scratches from Pokémon on its sides. Now imagine how these scratches could have come about...
  • Kyurem. It holds a town in fear, is said to periodically "steal" people and Pokémon, and when you actually go to catch it, you can't walk up to it immediately, but have to wait for it to cause a blizzard so you can walk over on the snow.
    • The area it's in. The Giant Chasm right next to the town, a pier to see the very chasm from the top, isolated in a creepy mist. The bottom has high leveled Pokémon and random things scattered all over the forest area clearly left by previous trainers and humans that had wandered into it, then when you reach the center where the apparent Pokémon crash landed from space(According to the townsfolk at least). You hear a loud bellow and suddenly the forest is caught in a flash freeze and the previously blocked off cave has a clear path, with the dragon waiting for you.
    • Add to that its weird, Eldritch Abomination-esque (by dragon standards) design - its mouth is frozen shut, and the fact that it eats the nearby humans.
  • Beheeyem. Look at its Pokedex entries. To sum it up, it can easily rewrite or erase its opponent's memories with little to no effort!
      • It gets worse, Beheeyem can use its psychic power to squeeze your brain.
  • Gothitelle's cry. That's right, you have a Pokémon whose cry sounds like the one used in the shower murder scene to Psycho!
  • Burgh's gym is a bee hive full of clowns.
    • Now add the drop of pearls into the BGM, and it's Batman's worst nightmare.
  • Possibly Krookodile, especially with these entries - "They never allow prey to escape. Their jaws are so powerful, they can crush the body of an automobile". and "It can expand the focus of its eyes, enabling it to see objects in the far distance as if it were using binoculars". What we have is a predator that is dead-set on eating you, and you'll never see it coming.
  • Hydreigon. First there's the fact that it lost one of its brains upon evolving, and the fact that the "heads" on their arms aren't true hands but aren't quite heads either (they have no brains and are rather primitive compared to the main head)... Now imagine one of those things going and eating and killing everything in sight with its three mouths, as its Pokedex entries hint.
    • And considering the one person in the main story who actually owns a Hydreigon, and the fact that he probably wouldn't lift a finger to stop it if that happened...
    • The Pokedex entry in Black says that anything that moves is considered an enemy to it, triggering it to attack. It's no push-over.
    • Consider the fact that only one of Hydreigon's heads has a brain. Now consider that its pre-evolution, Zweilous, has two heads with brains. What happened to the second head?
      • Either it lost, or the brains just fused
    • Also bear in mind that Ghetsis has a Hydreigon that is higher level (and much tougher) than both legendaries you and N can get. If he'd got around to battling N after defeating you, he'd probably kill his own son.
  • How about Eelektross? They can suck in prey with their mouth, and then shock it with electric fangs. And they can come out of the ocean and just drag in its prey, so it won't flee. Uh-oh.
    • Bear in mind that if your muscles are receiving that much electrical stimulation, they're going to be paralyzed a la what Jellicent does with poison.
    • Oh yes, and Eelektross is also about the size of an adult man. It's never specified exactly what it eats, but it could in all likelihood be people.
    • Eelektross is pure Electric-type. Think you're fine if you have a Ground type Pokémon with you? Think again. Eelektross' ability is Levitate, which renders Ground-type moves useless. In other words, if you encounter one of these things, you're pretty much done for.
  • The ghost girl in the bridge. When you talk to her, she'll disappear (even creeping an NPC that was next to her!). At the end of the bridge, an old lady tell us if we saw her, and she will tell that the girl had an Abra. Later, we hear that the girl used to play with her Abra in the bridge, but that she suddenly disappeared, and she was never seen again.
      • Maybe she used her Abra to teleport to make her disappear?
  • Scolipede, an eight-foot long giant centipede that is highly aggressive and attacks its prey with its large horns and poisonous spines on its neck. Its signature move is rolling over you with its 442 pound body, is very fast, and it roars!
  • Unless you have a Fire-Type Pokémon, Durant can qualify as this. How so? First off, this is an ant made of steel. Second, they are exactly one foot in size and have huge mandibles. Thirdly, they are common.
  • The ride on the Ferris Wheel with N is pretty unsettling.

    N: [Team Plasma's] not here. Let's ride the Ferris wheel and see if we can spot them. I love Ferris wheels... The circular motion... The mechanics... They're like collections of elegant formulas.

    Yeah, okay. That's not creepy at all. And like an idiot, you have to follow him into the car. Then, as it climbs higher and higher, the camera zooms in on the two of you in the car, and N starts calmly explaining who he really is.

    N: First, I must tell you... I am the king of Team Plasma. Ghetsis asked me to work with him to save Pokémon.

    And you just recently saw this group was willing to brutally abuse a Pokémon with absolute zero empathy. Not to mention that N had been pretty creepy even before the whole 'Team Plasma' reveal, babbling about perfect equations and needing power and how the two of you are going to be friends.
  • Granted, it gets less creepy and more sad than anything later on when you realize that N probably saw nothing wrong with trapping someone in a confined space, where they can't use their usual means of defense to protect themselves, and telling them that he's basically the leader of a disturbing Most Definitely Not Villainous Animal Wrongs Group. I mean, he just wanted to talk! And that way you couldn't attack him before he could explain things to you! And he totally wants to be your friend! At which point it crosses over into full-on Nightmare Fuel when you learn why he's that way.
    • The Above becomes more horrifying in Pokémon Special, where Hilda get's shoved out of the Ferris wheel by her own Pokémon after it was convinced by N to join his side.

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