Funny Moments of Pokemon Adventures of Yellow
The Pokémon series has endured for decades and it remains one of the most popular video game series of all time. What's particularly interesting about Pokémon is that the video games, anime, and manga all have different ways of approaching the same subject matter. It's not unusual for comic books to adapt video games, but Pokémon Adventures tells a sprawling story that feels even bigger and more epic than the anime.
Pokémon Adventures employs a more mature tone at times and it's not afraid to get violent or push its characters to places that the video games and anime won't. Pokémon Adventures is still sweet and full of lovable characters and creatures, but it also has its darker side.
10 Giovanni Freezes A Magmar & Then Separates It Into Pieces
As the head of Team Rocket, Giovanni is an intimidating figure in whichever Pokémon property is examined. However, it's almost as if the character feels like he needs to prove how evil he is in Pokémon Adventures. Giovanni performs many sadistic acts that show zero regard for the lives of Pokémon. One of Giovanni's most chilling executions involves the use of his Cloyster to freeze several Magmar in ice, only to then slice them into pieces and shatter them in a thoroughly disrespectful manner. It's as if Giovanni is intentionally harsh here as he performs for no audience.
9 Koga's Arbok Melts The Corpse Of A Psyduck
Koga is a vindictive Pokémon trainer in the manga, and even though he's not the strongest antagonist that Red and company face, he still has some uniquely disturbing tactics. Koga uses his Arbok's poison as well to maintain a distance between him and his opponent, but this venomous acid actually melts Pokémon upon contact. This leads to an especially gruesome display when the Arbok subjects a Psyduck to this. Fortunately, the Psyduck is already dead, but the fact that reanimated Pokémon corpses are present during this encounter is a whole other issue.
8 Red Kills Brock's Onix
Pokémon Adventures contains some violent acts between humans, like abusive parents for instance, but sometimes the harsh acts on Pokémon feel even more severe. Red's Pikachu and its Electric-type moves aren't catered to do well against Brock's Rock/Ground-type Pokémon. Red experiments with a strategy of first getting these Pokémon wet before his attack, which in one case destroys a trainer's Graveler and leaves him devastated.
Red pulls a similar move on Brock's Onix and his electric attack is so intense it explodes the Onix apart into pieces. This apparently doesn't kill the Pokémon, but it leaves both Onix and Brock traumatized.
7 Lance Kills An Entire City With His Dragonair's Hyper Beam
Pokémon's Elite Four is composed of dangerous Pokémon trainers, but the portrayal of Lance, the Dragon-Type master in Pokémon Adventures is truly terrifying. Lance is so disgusted with the many ways in which humanity has mistreated Pokémon that he wants to commit mass genocide and leave only the worthy to start over. Lance doesn't succeed, but he uses his Dragonair's Hyper Beam to incinerate Vermilion City and kill a population of innocent people. He also utilizes a Dragonite to lead an army of Dragonair and Aerodactyl to attack the people of the Kanto region.
6 Lorelei's Ice Voodoo Dolls Leave Permanent Damage In Its Victims
There are some gruesome status effects in the Pokémon universe that don't truly get seen for how disturbing they really are until something like Pokémon Adventures presents it in a more grounded light. Lorelei is an efficient Ice-Type trainer from the Elite Four who puts together ice voodoo dolls that allow her to freeze her enemies. This maneuver is pulled on both Red and Sabrina and while they're both only temporarily frozen, they suffer permanent damage from the harrowing encounter. It's a reminder of how painful something like frostbite or hypothermia can be.
5 Blue's Charmeleon Bisects An Arbok In Half
The Pokémon video games very much sanitize the fact that the franchise revolves around creatures that wage in physical violence with each other. The creatures faint as opposed to any permanent harm, but Pokémon Adventures laughs at that premise. A very jarring act of violence that happens fairly early in the manga involves Blue's Charmeleon retaliating against Koga's Arbok, which it does by slicing it right in half.
Unbeknownst to Blue is that this Arbok has special powers that allow it to regenerate, but its "rebirth" doesn't happen for several more chapters and its bisected body lingers on the battlefield.
4 Koga Uses His Grimer To Strangle & Suffocate Trainers
Pokémon Adventures is full of nefarious personalities, many of which fill the ranks of Team Rocket. Giovanni is the worst of the lot, but Koga is the next in line and just as twisted in many ways. Koga is so focused on winning and domination that he's willing to put the lives of others at risk, even if they happen to be children. There's a needlessly rough encounter where Koga uses his Grimer to strangle Red so that he's unable to call out any other Pokémon. Red looks horrified and like he's in real pain, yet Koga doesn't back down.
3 Multiple Heroes Perish While The Villains Get Away
The Pokémon anime loves a happy ending, so it's rather sobering to see how often Pokémon Adventures offs its protagonists. FireRed and LeafGreen's chapters conclude with Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, and Silver turned to stone and Black and White finishes up with Black locked away in a Light Stone with Reshiram. The ending of the Ruby and Sapphire chapters truly goes for broke though and definitively kills Norman, Courtney, and Steven. Granted, this blow is lightened by a Celebi transporting Ruby and Sapphire to a new timeline that's void of these mass deaths, but it doesn't erase what happens.
2 Team Rocket Splices The Legendary Birds Into An Abomination
In every iteration of Pokémon, Team Rocket is known for doing terrible things. Pokémon Adventures gets to see the organization really flex their muscles as villains. In addition to standard violence and terrorism, Team Rocket orchestrates some disturbing genetic experiments on Pokémon to create the strongest specimen. The most dangerous and upsetting example of this is "Thu-Fi-Zer," a hybrid of the three Legendary Bird Pokémon from Generation I. This beast looks miserable and like this union puts it in sheer pain. It takes a ton of power to finally defeat the thing and successfully separate the Pokémon.
1 The "Black Fog" Removes Sabrina's Soul
Pokémon's Sabrina is a trainer who seems to be one of the few characters who has a strong mastery over Ghost-Type Pokémon. The manga explains that Saffron City has been plagued by an enormous version of a Haunter that's gained the nickname, "The Black Fog." This Haunter uses Dream Eater to consume people's souls, which he does to both Sabrina and her parents. This is from The Electric Tales of Pikachu manga and it's not technically physical violence, but it's a morbid process that's hard to watch and still puts Sabrina through pain.
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