This is a Pokemon. Now for those of you who aren't familiar that's a picture of Nurse Joy, one of the most famous, most beloved characters to come out of the Pokemon anime.

I mean, this is a character who dates back to like episode 2 of a series, so she's been kicking around for a long time and sure she looks like a human talks like a human behaves like a human but by the end of this video you're going to be convinced that Nurse Joy is in fact a fully catchable Pokemon.

Roll that intro! Thank you. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory. While we were all busy worrying about how old Ash really is or whether Ditto is related to Mew 2,

Nurse Joy has been the anime's secret hiding in plain sight for the last two and a half

decades. As a brief recap for those of you who are unaware,

Nurse Joy is the character responsible for running all the

polka centers of the anime universe. And over in the game world, she appears in

both Pokemon Yellow as well as Let's Go Pikachu and Evie. If you speak to any

Pokemon fan and ask them to describe Nurse Joy, I have no doubt that you'll get an immediate and detailed response.

Much like Ash, Misty, and Brock, Nurse Joy is just one of those iconic characters with an iconic look.

Pink and White Nurse's outfit, Blue eyes, and striking pink hair that curls in the front and forms two large hoops in the back. Like I said, simply iconic. There isn't a single other character that looks anything like Nurse Joy, except for, well, you know, all the other

Nurse Joy's. You see, Nurse Joy isn't just one character, but in fact hundreds, thousands,

all identical and all running various Pokemon centers throughout the Pokemon world.

In the meta sense, this is obviously meant to be a joke about how games often put an identical

healer character in all the towns that you visit.

But the in-universe lore explanation is that they're all related to each other.

It's something that we hear as early as episode 2.

While Team Rocket is busy destroying the Pokemon center, Nurse Joy is transferring all the

Pokemon there over to pewter city.

We see another Nurse Joy on the other end of the video call explaining that all the

Pokemon arrived safely to which Veridian's Nurse Joy replies,

Thanks, sis.

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