#PokéGoDs

[pokegodsandmissingno]

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[marcosvargas97]

Me había fascinado el tema de los pokégods, así que me dio por dibujar algunos.

[norue67]

New charm design up for preorders! One of them met Arceus. One of them met Giratina.

✨ https://www.etsy.com/shop/Norue67 ✨

[goldensunset]

Bestie I've seen Volo around Idk who this man expect that hes got a god complex and time travels maybe? Like I think he's a time traveler that wants to take over the world? Idk I saw that he was in a poll once against Kevin from wtnv that was about false prophets

i’ll have you know i was the one who submitted him to that poll

[goldieclaws]

Just finished rewatching the sinnoh movie trilogy with my boyfriend and you can really tell Giratina is such a beloved favourite of mine bc I was getting teary-eyed when Shaymin did all it could to save Giratina’s life ;;

[cookiezcleard]

May just do a post or series of posts on old Pokegod rumors if anyone would be interested? It’s a topic I’ve found quite a few Angelfire sites discussing, and while it might be one of my more research-intensive posts (I want to do it justice!) I can’t shake this fascination with them.

Will probably post no matter the interest levels, just wanting to let y’all know where my mind is at in terms of posts.

[realpokemon]

Mewsian faith at least has some level of reasonable believability to it. Don't get me started on The Church of Bulbasaur. Just because it was the first pokemon logged in the dex doesn't make it PokéGod. It's just a little guy.

its honestly nonsensical as fuck. i even prefer Rhydonologists

[antialiasis]

Speaking of R/B/Y-era rumours, @johtotimes just published a very fun issue going over some of the wild stuff that was getting spread around back then!

I'm particularly tickled by the Pikablu rumour screenshotted in the article:

It's similar to but not quite the same as the one that was on Mew's Hangout that I genuinely believed for a time (in that one, stated to be confirmed by Nintendo, you needed seventeen Pokémon at level 100, and I just never got there). It's very illustrative of the sort of thing that was going around, and the commonalities with the actual genuine Mew trick are uncanny:

There's a high barrier to entry: you probably can't just go try this right now. Maybe you've used a GameShark ever and then too bad, it's not going to work for you. Or you haven't completed your Pokédex. Or, while your team of six may be high-leveled, probably you don't have seventeen Pokémon that you've trained up. Similarly, for the Mew trick, you need to have not fought these two random trainers that you had no reason to avoid on your playthrough, and if you have - oops, too bad, you can't try it. So you can't prove it doesn't work, right?

You need to perform a secret arbitrary sequence of steps involving interacting with these particular random NPCs in very particular ways, ones that have no sensible connection to "Pikablu". They're just the key that unlocks it, for some reason. Similarly, the Mew trick, again, involves an encounter with Mew being unlocked by interacting in very particular ways with these two particular random trainers, for some reason.

You need to stand in this one very specific spot and then immediately use Fly to go to a specific place. In the Mew trick you also need to stand in a very specific spot, then move down and very quickly press Start to Fly to a specific place.

It describes some funky vaguely glitch-sounding behaviour, where you get this mystery item where trying to use it just acts like you selected Cancel, and when you talk to Oak it gives you recycled dialogue about a different item - juuust enough to sound kind of weird and spooky, but not like any kind of full-on memory corruption is happening. Similarly, the Mew trick involves little mildly weird spooky bits like that: an exclamation mark appearing above a trainer's head while you're flying away, your Start button not working for a bit, the Start menu popping up by itself. But there's no obvious apparent full-on corruption going on. All the visibly glitchy behaviour is subtle and temporary.

It was truly such a perfect coincidental storm of circumstances that happened to make it fall so neatly in line with all the rumours. In hindsight, there are of course also some noteworthy differences we can identify: most prominently, in the Pikablu rumour there's an NPC with supposed dialogue specific to this sequence, which would mean this would have to be an intentionally programmed easter egg with the prior random interactions as a very obtuse but presumably intentional trigger, whereas the Mew trick features no new NPC dialogue because it's simply a legitimate glitch that these NPC interactions happen to trigger. But not every rumour involved new dialogue, and legitimate glitches in games can also sometimes trigger unused dialogue; even with hindsight, nothing about the instructions themselves should have been a giveaway that the Mew trick was the genuine article in a sea of urban legends.

[moonlight-seraph]

Hey @ whatever pokégod governs dreams where the fuck are mine. I've been having dreams since I fell up to like three days ago, people don't just STOP dreaming, so where the fuck are they, huh??? Put them back.

[hisuianhellion]

hi

-@dialgasblog

Oh neat another Pokégod.

Sup.

[blastedoffagain]

What is your favorite pokemon variant to work with?

This is probably a super edgy answer, but I really enjoy working with Shadow Pokémon. The Shadow disease itself interacts with a condition known in the Scape as Corruption, the combination of which ends up as a vicious cycle. Thankfully, the treatments for both are fairly similar. Corruption is best served by establishing and maintaining long-term security--both practical and emotional--and that's pretty much all we can do for Shadow 'mons without making a deal with a Pokégod or getting our hands on the fancy machinery that this dimension simply doesn't have. Corruption is something I've studied long before Pokémon ever made landfall here, so this intersectionality is fascinating to me. I want to understand it all better so that I can provide the care they deserve.

Anyway, enjoy this pic of Lucy getting some good ol' scritch-scratches! She's doing much better than when she first got here.

[pokegodsandmissingno]

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[pokemoncryptids]

Yo, what do you know about the missing one (AKA MissingNo, the missing number, Pokégod)??? i need a new eldrich horror to study.

- totally not j0ht0-gh0sthunt3r

Ah.

I know there is more than one of them, and there is little known of them. Also all missingNo come from kanto or johto.

My theory is they are like the ultra beasts, pulled here from another world, yet them being here corrupted them into something unregnoisable, something that could tear our world apart given the chance

[autumn-sweet-fae]

It’d be funny if Piplup has been naughty and got into Askari’s bag while she was in Hisui and learned some TMs. Like, the smol bird yeets himself off Sneasler’s shoulders and starts using Brick Break on Pokégod. Then, when Arceus turns into Flying type to reduce the damage, Pippin swaps to Ice Beam/Blizzard and gets a critical hit and just knocks god out instantly. He gets like 8,000 exp

Fun fact, the Piplup I got in my first play through of Brilliant Diamond did have a Naughty nature lol

I could see Piplup going through Akari’s bag and learning some TMs, but I don’t think Akari would allow him to fight god. That not to say he won’t want to try to, but Akari will be holding him back lol

[sage-nebula]

Thinking about the gamut of antagonists Pokémon has gone through and it's just so funny to me how they range from "holy shit what the fuck" to "please just sit down and try to hold on to a brain cell for 2 seconds."

We've had:

Gen 1: The Mafia

Gen 2: The Mafia 2 — Executive Boogaloo

Gen 3: Ecoterrorists trying to induce climate change for dumbass reasons

Gen 4: A nihilist with a god complex who wants to create an emotionless world

Gen 5: PETA

Gen 5.5: PETA 2 — No Longer Pretending to Care About Animals Edition

Gen 6: An ecofascist who wants to commit genocide bc he thinks poor people are uggos

Gen 7: An abusive mom who wants to live on an alien planet/infest the world with aliens

Gen 8: A capitalist billionaire who wants to prevent climate crisis but goes about it in THE most dumbass way possible

Gen 8.5: A man who is so desperate to meet & force PokéGod to create a new world that he summons PokéSatan and does a whole bunch of other fucked up shit

Gen 9: A mad scientist who almost dooms the world by fucking with time travel

This isn't getting into side games either, but man. Pokémon villains are wild sometimes, lmao.

[priortoallthoughts]

I really want to know who Phee is and what her role is gonna be this season

Trrreeeaaaaassssuuuurrrreeeeeee

Pirate, that checks out

Oop, looks like Omega is getting a mom

What if we get Hondo this episode too I would cry

🎵Secret Tunnel ~ ~ ~ Secret Tunnel🎵

Shooting the ceiling really wasn’t their best idea

“We have almost died three times already”…….. as opposed to….???? This is par for the course Hunter

I do like the music this episode

You know that one Spiderverse meme with Peter and Miles crouching next to each other? That’s Phee and Omega

Is that fucking Arceus?

That’s a Pokémon, Omega

Awwww, not the little droid

And that’s why you don’t mess with the pokégod