The Insanely Dark 'Pokemon' Universe We Could've Gotten

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All The Regular Animals Have Gone Extinct

Pokemon come in all shapes or sizes. Some look like an undead ghost balloon that abducts children, while others just look like a pigeon. Which raises a question: Are there actual pigeons, or any other "normal" animals, for that matter, in the world of Pokemon? Not according to Shudo. And he should know, since he killed all of them.

Takeshi8/Wikimedia CommonsHe caught 'em all ... then wiped 'em off the face of the planet.

Officially, there are no animals in the Pokemon anime-verse, only Pokemon and humans. And before you start on how you totally saw several non-Pokemon animals (and a very convincing cow costume), Shudo would remind you that every bird or cat in the series was drawn against his wishes, and is therefore non-canon.

But since the Pokedex describes Pikachu as a "mouse" Pokemon and Meowth as a "scratch cat," he couldn't pretend they never existed at all. So on his personal blog, Shudo offered a compromise: All the animals did exist once, but then they conveniently went extinct. A message he wanted to reinforce, in perfectly sane fashion, with an episode wherein Pokemon trainers battle the reanimated skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

So how does Shudo explain what happened to the non-monstrous critters? You'd think they were just Darwin-ed out of existence by Pokemon (mouse vs. mouse that shoots 100,000 volts out of its cheeks isn't exactly a fair fight), but that doesn't seem to be the case. Instead, Shudo wrote that some people still have old photographs of animals, meaning they managed to live side by side with their superpowered counterparts from the prehistoric age until sometime after we invented the camera. I

f anything, that makes their mysterious fate even more disturbing. Not only was their extinction a shockingly recent event, but every single animal went the way of the dodo in a matter of decades. Is there an undiscovered Pokemon out there who knows the move "Extinction-Level Event"? If so, it is clearly super effective.

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Pikachu Leads A Slave Revolt Against The Humans

Pokemon aren't mindless animals. Hell, some are even clever enough to become detectives. So according to Shudo, it should have been only a matter of time before these pocket monsters staged their own Poke-worker's revolution.

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Pokemon Was The Dream Of A Dying Ash

Since children don't like change and animators don't like to spend ten months redoing designs, it's common for cartoon characters to simply not age. But that wasn't good enough for Shudo, who felt that the show needed to address that plot hole ... and in the most depressing way possible. So he wrote an ending for the entire series which explained why Ash always stayed the same age: It had all been a dream.