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** For a 10-year-old trainer (as in, the in-game character), finding himself in Glitch City would be horrifying by itself; however, as the player stares at it more and more, it becomes obvious that the whole place simply [[Alien Geometries|should not be]]. Then comes the shocking surprise: there's no way out from there.
* Missingno's stats imply he's almost as tall as Wailord (the biggest one), and heavier than Groudon (the heaviest one).
** In Crystal (not Gold or Silver, since glitches are different there, like in case of Red/Blue and Yellow), Glitch Egg weighs even more, at 6146.
* Meeting not just Missingno and Pokémon over level 100, but glitched trainers as well (if one used grammatic symbols in the 3rd, 5th, or 7th part of their name) is another freaky experience. Example: a Channeller outside Cinnabar Island whose Pokémon were a mess of glitched names and graphics. The Pokémon also glitched the background music into a never-ending stream of randomly distorted sound effects. Also, the glitched trainers neither said anything nor rewarded money when defeated.
* Missing No's most famous appearance that M' also takes is a bunch of pixels shaped like a backwards L. More people are scared by what a glitch Pokémon does than by what it looks like, but Missingno occasionally takes the shape of a Lavender Town ghost (Gastly and Haunter sans Silph Scope), a hollow shell of a Kabutops that hasn't been revived, or the skeleton of an Aerodactyl that hasn't been revived.
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* In Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, when heading up Route 217 to Snowpoint City, there's an old woman telling trainers about the lack of visitors. After giving trainers the Spell Tag - a Ghost-type enhancing item - she's not there anymore when the house is accessed again. A trainer that's near the cabin actually mentions legends of hauntings in the area.
* Although it's not a straight haunting, at the Ruins of Alph in the HG/SS remakes, if the player talks to his party members, they'll remark the place is freaking them out.
** The same thing happens when you're inside Mt. Silver: the player's Pokémon suddenly freak out and howl, and occasionally "sense something" and nervously call out. Also, most of the mountain, the route leading up to it, and the Pokémon Center at its base are totally devoid of trainers.
* The Old Mansion in the third [[Pokémon Ranger]] game has with plates that float up and launch themselves at the player.
* Giratina's place in Diamond/Pearl. Unlike the equally scary [[Eldritch Location|Distortion World]] from Platinum,D/P things are a little closer to reality: Giratina lies in a hidden cave, called Turnback Cave, where supposedly the reality boundaries are distorted, and "dead pokemon can come back to this world". It's literally the door to afterlife. The cave is hidden in a quiet forest, the "Sendoff Spring"; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwlD5UPqfAw the creepy "Old Chateau" theme] [[Soundtrack Dissonance|starts playing]], giving the feeling that it's not a good idea to stay in the spring; and for good measure, the japanese name for that place is "Funeral Spring Path", further implying that's where people's ashes are thrown.
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** Dustox, Cascoon's three-foot-eleven and Psybeam-firing evolved form, is a moth, and as such, it's only active at night, hunting people down while they sleep. Andboth this and Silcoon/Beautifly come from the same extremely common worm Pokémon, Wurmple.
* Combee are [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|really cute]], but being swarmed by a bunch of them would be frightening, which is what [[God Save Us From the Queen|Vespiquen]] forces them to do. The Combee [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|fly out of the honeycomb at the bottom of Vespiquen's skirt-like abdomen]], which is exactly why it's shown lifting up its abdomen in its [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:416Vespiquen.png official artwork]: [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|"Vespiquen is about to shoot]] [[Bee-Bee Gun|its angry bee babies at you".]] While sporting a [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red-eyed]] [[Death Glare]].
** ''Black''/''White'' has Scolipede, an oversized centipede that dwarfs even the abovementioned Yanmega by being eight feet tall, weighing in at over
* Nidorino's horn is "strong enough to pierce diamonds", and he's a Poison-type.
* [[Japanese Beetle Brothers|Pinsir]] apparently likes to grip its prey in his enormous pincers until it is torn in half. Said pincers are strong enough to shatter thick logs.
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** Larvitar's Pokedex entry describes it as "A Pokémon that eats soil. Once it has eaten a large mountain, it goes to sleep so it can grow."
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ZV8AN-lJ0 Mr. Mime's laugh] in ''Pokémon Stadium''.
* Unown are a [[Hive Mind]] of [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Reality Warper
* Bellsprout's Generation I [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/8/86/Spr_1b_069.png sprite] looks like a skull on a plant.
** Victreebel is implied to be a man-eating plant: one of the Pokédexes mentions that "any and all explorers who have found Victreebel's secret society in the jungle never come back".
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* One thing about Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue: some of the friend habitats (a weird system in itself) show clear signs of former human occupation; in particular, the Power Plant and Weird Laboratory even mention specifically that they were constructed in ancient times by humans, and then abandoned. In addition, the Pokémon of this world know what humans are but have never met one, as though they were a legend or relic out of the past. Implications are up to the players' own imagination.
* For Italians, [[Late to the Punchline|while it may have sounded funny during childhood]], [[Fridge Horror|realizing now that]] [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Goop_Gas_Attack_(Team_Rocket_78) this] is suddenly, unbelievably terrifying due to the name the card was given in the Italian translation: "Gas Stupidifero", that is, "Stupid-ifying Gas". Basically, a [[G-Rated Drug]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|got past the censors.]]
* Gold and Silver has the Lake of Rage before thwarting Team Rocket, as Gyarados - normally - are described as being unable to control their power, and so they go absolutely crazy with it, vaporizing everything around them until there's nothing left to violate.<ref>(Sapphire Dex Entry: rampages have been known to last for up to a month)</ref>
** It's also explicitly mentioned that the Unown communicate using radio signals: Ruins of Alph is the only place to hear them, as that's where they live, only this time the [[Hell Is That Noise|hellish noise]] can be listened to at will. It's not as hellish as much as it relies much more on [[Nothing Is Scarier|scary vagueness.]]
* [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]: When the heroes follow Charon and his goons into the Distortion World, they find not only a creepy landscape, but a creepy landscape littered with bodies. All the Galactic grunts are lying around with no signs of life. A moment before, they were screaming for help.
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** A Plasma Grunt [[Lampshade Hanging|says just that:]] [[Continuity Nod|"that's why Team Rocket and Team Galactic failed"]].
* N's entire backstory has him isolated from any human contact (possibly from birth), housed only with Pokémon that had been abused and abandoned, groomed by Ghetsis to be pure and innocent in order to win over the Pokémon of legend and defeat the Champion so he could order the entire country to release their Pokémon, {{spoiler|and when N had served his purpose, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Ghetsis would have murdered him]] and taken over Unova}}. Going through N's room in the castle really brings it home, as many of the toys were quite recently played with. N was a pure, innocent [[Adult Child]] being massively used by a [[Complete Monster]].
** Ghetsis himself: although the chanting of his name [[Mondegreen|sounding like Dennis]] in his battle theme and his [[Fashion Victim Villain|taste in clothing]] diminished this a bit at first, actual players found out that he was not to be laughed at. He is quite easily the single most horrific character in the Pokémon franchise, and only the heads of [[Pokémon Colosseum|Cipher]], the [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Mystery Dungeon incarnation of Darkrai]], [[Pokémon Ranger|Purple Eyes]] and [[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions|Grings Kodai]] can possibly rival him for that position. The sheer amount of Fridge Horror from the supplementary information in the post-game (what with {{spoiler|being implied to not be N's real father}} and managing to somehow get the Adamant, Lustrous, and Griseous orbs) arguably puts him on a whole new level of [[Complete Monster|Complete Monstrosity]], even among the other [[Complete Monster
* One of the Seven Sages says that {{spoiler|Ghetsis might not be N's real father.}} Then whatever happened to his real parents is never addressed.
** {{spoiler|The sequel states that N was living in the woods with wild Pokemon when Ghetsis ''found'' him and took him in, claiming to be his long-lost father. Two questions then arise: how did N get in the woods in the first place, and where is his mother? If N and Ghetsis are truly related by blood, then did Ghetsis rape some woman, abandon her in the woods before she gave birth to their child, and then had her "removed" after she did?}}
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* Poison-types are weak to Psychics. The probable reason is, the psychic waves overload their senses and excretion of poison, making their bodies damage themselves.
** Also, Psychic types have three weaknesses: Bug, Ghost and Dark, because [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|those are three of the most common phobias]].
** Dark-types. While their tactics seem to be based largely around [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|playing dirty]], their immunity to Psychics has often been described in [[Fanon]] as a Dark-type being a sort of Psychic
** Ever wonder why Fire is super effective on Steel-types? Because metal warms up pretty fast, and sometimes it can even melt.
** Bug type's weaknesses are flying, fire and rock, respectively symbolizing they're being eaten by a bird, burned alive, or being smashed by... well... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a rock.]]<ref>
* In the original Red and Blue, several Trainers carry whips. Among them are Rocket Grunts. They're abusing their Pokémon.
** Not necessarily true; AJ of the anime series had a whip, but he used it to signal his Pokémon rather than to actually hit any of them with. Understandable mistake, though; Ash made the same assumption.
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* Apparently the original planned name for the starting town in Gold and Silver beta was supposed to be "Silent Hill". Given that ''[[Silent Hill]]'' is... well, [[Silent Hill/Nightmare Fuel|Silent Hill]], that would have been a kinda rough way to begin an adventure.
* Boldore and Gigalith "eyes" are actually [[Eye Scream|two holes]], which is turned [[Up to Eleven]] in Pokédex 3D.
* In the anime, the character J is [[Complete Monster|a mercenary bounty hunter who turns Pokémon into stone to sell to her clients for a high price.]] One of the episodes she appeared in, ''Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 2)'' shows that a Riolu she'd [[Taken for Granite|captured]] was still able to reveal its location to Ash using their aura connection. This means that [[Fridge Horror|when J turns Pokémon into stone,]] [[And I Must Scream|they can still think and are fully aware of it.]] One of the targets she petrified wasn't even a Pokémon at all, but Pyramid King Brandon. J also tried to murder Ash. Most villains in the anime would try to push him to the side to continue their plans, but J, on the other hand, tries to kill him. It seems that in every episode she appears in she tries to murder Ash, if he messes in her plans. She's almost like the anime version of [[The Simpsons (animation)|Sideshow Bob]].
* During ''Best Wishes'', there's an arc where Ash and friends are accompanied to Undella Bay by the mythical Pokemon, Meloetta, who at random points sings a beautiful yet rather haunting song while looking out at the sea. That song turns out to actually be the key to Team Rocket's mission to take over the Unova region, since it can unlock the seal to the Reveal Glass in the underwater Abyssal temple ruins. At the climax of this arc, Team Rocket attacks the heroes at their villa trying to take Meloetta. Ash and Pikachu take Meloetta and separate from their friends only to run right into Giovanni himself. Dr. Zager (from his helicopter) traps Ash and Pikachu in a prism that starts shrinking, and Giovanni tells Meloetta that it will crush and kill them if she doesn't agree to be their captive, so she has to surrender. Then once at the temple ruins, Team Rocket forces Meloetta on to a slab in a crucifix position and then plays back Meloetta's song that they'd been secretly recording. The song plays as Giovanni makes his ascent to claim the Reveal Glass, and the effect is absolutely chilling. The next episode proceeds to turn the show into a Lovecraft Gothic Horror story as Giovanni uses the reveal glass to summon the Kami Trio and transform them into their other forms all as a storm cloud rises over the temple, and he intends to have them use their powers to thoroughly decimate Unova so that he can conquer it. But that's not the scariest part - the scariest part is when Meloetta gets freed and Giovanni gets blasted by the Reveal Glass, and without Meloetta to keep the mirror's power in check, he turns into...
* Almia Castle in the second Pokemon Rangers game. An abandoned castle up north that's literally frozen. And it's kinda easy to get lost. Additionally, its kitchen is messy.
** The Chroma Ruins, which are filled with ghost type pokemon. The fields around it are constantly covered in dark mist, which is made by a Murkrow that's been hypnotized and forced into it.
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