Someone check the Pokedex. Join Ashley as we look over the times where the Pokemon anime skipped over Poke-logic
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 mistakes left
00:12in the Pokemon anime.
00:15Both of Ash's Pokemon are water types and they're totally weak against fire types.
00:19Number 10, Zubat's Carry Squirtle.
00:23For many of us, the original Pokemon opening theme is something that'll be ingrained into
00:27our brains forever.
00:29there's one very strange oversight that's left us scratching our heads.
00:39Towards the end of the song, there's a moment where Pikachu rides on top of Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur
00:44has his vines wrapped around Butterfree, and Zubat is just, well, carrying Squirtle somehow
00:51despite having no arms.
00:54We'd say that Zubat is pretty strong for carrying a Pokémon twice their size, but
01:00how exactly is he holding onto Squirtle?
01:03Perhaps the two found some incredibly adhesive double-tape.
01:11Number 9 – Team Rocket's Terrible Pokémon Knowledge
01:14Pokémon's epic debut on the big screen had quite a few errors here and there, but
01:24this was probably one of the most glaring ones.
01:27After Team Rocket somehow find themselves in Mewtwo's cloning room, the computer screens
01:32start showing silhouettes of all the Pokémon going through the process.
01:37When Scyther pops up, the two proudly proclaim it's Alakazam, despite the Pokémon looking
01:43nothing alike.
01:48Now, Team Rocket aren't exactly the brightest out there, so you could argue that they're
01:53likely to make this sort of mistake.
01:55So we guess this is one mistake that kinda worked out in the end.
02:04Number 8 – Baby Nidoqueen
02:06First appearing in Mewtwo Strikes Back, the cloned Nidoqueen makes a reappearance in the
02:12sequel movie, Mewtwo Returns.
02:14What's absolutely bizarre about this scene is that Nidoqueen has offspring – tiny little
02:20baby Nidoqueen.
02:28Why is this such a big error, you might ask?
02:30Well, first of all, Nidoqueen is part of a group of Pokémon that do not have the ability
02:36to breed.
02:38Secondly, even if Nidoqueen did have this ability, its offspring would be Nidoran, not
02:46the last member of the evolutionary line.
02:48Perhaps something went strangely wrong during Mewtwo's cloning process.
02:56Number 7 – Venonat is not a Bug-Type, according to Misty
03:01Misty's phobia of Bug-Type Pokémon was well-established all the way back in the third episode, when
03:07Ash caught a Pokémon for the first time, Caterpie.
03:11Her fear is on display in full force once again in the episode, Tracy Gets Bugged, after
03:17a wild Pinsir suddenly pops out of the bushes.
03:24Immediately following this scene, the gang discusses what a good team Tracy's Marill
03:29and Venonat are, only for Misty to make this weird proclamation.
03:33We're not exactly sure how on Earth she made this mistake, considering Venonat has
03:41all the key features any sort of bug would have, including its big compound eyes and
03:47long antennae.
03:48But if this is a coping mechanism against her phobia, then we guess we'll just let
03:53her get away with it.
03:56Number 6 – Ash Forgets Coughing Ash's adventure lasted well over a thousand
04:02episodes, so we can't blame the 10-year-old for forgetting some of the many Pokémon he
04:07encountered.
04:08But honestly, this one kind of stings.
04:11In the episode, Rocking the Furbang Gym, Ash meets Roxy, who has a coughing by her side.
04:22Ash immediately takes out his Pokédex as though he's encountered this Pokémon for
04:27the first time, forgetting that he encountered James' countless times in the original series.
04:35We can forgive the show for explaining recurring Pokémon over the years, and a good chunk
04:39of the audience is often too young to have seen everything.
04:43But in this particular case, it made Ash look like he had the memory of a Goldeen.
04:49Number 5 – PokéRap Blunder Back in the original season of Pokémon, the
04:55early episodes would close with the iconic and ever-catchy PokéRap.
05:00It was actually a great lesson for all of us Poké beginners who were still learning
05:04all the names to all of these creatures.
05:07Unfortunately, there were two glaring mistakes within the song.
05:11When Poliwag shows up, the singer brazenly mentions Poliwrath.
05:20You could just overlook this as a minor mistake, but they make yet another mistake by calling
05:25Geodude Graveler.
05:31There were only 151 Pokémon back then, so we can only imagine how many mistakes they
05:36would make if the PokéRap was sung today.
05:46Number 4 – Tokidamaruchu We know it's hard to keep up with all the
05:51Pika clones that keep popping up in every new iteration of the Pokémon game series.
05:57But this mishap certainly takes the cake.
06:03In the fifth episode of the Sun and Moon series titled Yo-Ho-Ho!
06:07Go Popplio!, the titular Pokémon displays its balloon skills to everyone.
06:12As Ash gets caught in it, at the very bottom of the screen, you can see that Tokidamaru
06:17has been miscoloured as Pikachu.
06:24This is despite the fact that Pikachu is already in the same scene.
06:28This error would later be corrected in the English dubbed version, but for a short time,
06:33you could have claimed that this was some rare regional Tokidamaru variant that just
06:38so happened to swim into this very shot.
06:47Number 3 – Bulbasaur Uses Whirlwind In the episode, A Ninja Poké Showdown, Ash
06:53battles it out against Aya and her Venonat, sending out his Bulbasaur.
07:05During the showdown, the Ninja Girl tells her Pokémon to use Stun Spore.
07:09Ash counters by telling his Bulbasaur to use Whirlwind, a move that he cannot legally learn.
07:19Apparently, this was also a dubbing error, as in the original version, Ash told Bulbasaur
07:25to just blow it away.
07:28While not exclusive, Whirlwind is often a move associated with Pokémon with wings,
07:33so seeing Bulbasaur pull this off was bizarre to say the least.
07:39Number 2 – Double Pikachu In the Diamond and Pearl episode, Regaining
07:44the Home Advantage, Dawn sends out Mamoswine to battle against a rampaging Metagross.
07:55This scene is notorious due to the fact that Ash mistakenly has not just one, but two Pikachu
08:01with him – one on his shoulder and one standing on the ground.
08:07To make matters even worse, there's an animation issue where it appears as though the gang's
08:12feet are merging into the sidewalk.
08:14Now, we can't explain that error, but perhaps the second Pikachu is the clone from the Mewtwo
08:20movie.
08:21Or maybe there's always been a second Pikachu, and we just didn't notice.
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08:45Number 1 – Arbok evolves into Sir Viper
08:48Apparently, as the Pokémon series went on, the show tried to spice up the original Who's
08:55That Pokémon?
08:56with a Trainer's Choice segment.
08:58Here, we'd be treated to a sort of trivia game with multiple choices.
09:02The segment in A Fan with a Plan, however, left a lot of Pokémasters scratching their
09:07heads when it asked what evolves into Sir Viper.
09:17This was already a huge mistake as Sir Viper doesn't evolve from anything.
09:22To make this segment even worse, the answer was presented as Arbok, who has absolutely
09:27no ties to Sir Viper, and instead evolves from Ekans.
09:37We hope nobody took this segment seriously, otherwise they'd be wasting a lot of time
09:42trying to evolve their Arbok.
09:45Are there any mistakes that only you noticed in the Pokémon anime?
09:52Let us know in those comments below.
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