The Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's like Team Rocket, always ruining things for people who are just trying to have fun.

For today's video, I have one question for you. Are you ready for a ghost story?

Because for a series all about happy go lucky rumps alongside your favorite

sapient ice cream cone,

Pokemon has some really scary themes,

themes that most of us just gloss over in our quest

to be the best like no one ever was.

I mean, sure, by this point we're all familiar

with the hauntings of Lavender Town and creepy

polka decks entries, but those are just scratching the surface of the horrific

tragedies that hide inside these games. The world of Pokemon has a shocking number of ghosts.

And I'm not talking about Gangars and Gaspley's. I'm talking about real children dying.

Throughout the series we see repeated instances of ghost girls. Out of nowhere

moments where you're walking along hunting for your next shiny magic harp when the next thing you know,

the girl you were standing next two fades away or just

straight up pulls a Batman and disappears and it's always a ghost girl for some

reason I don't know why apparently game freak thinks that it's really creepy for a ghost girl to come up and say you're not the one.

Jokes on you, Game Freak, growing up, that kind of rejection happened to me all the time.

And those girls weren't even dead.

While you're playing the game, these are the moments that make you stop and go,

huh, that was weird.

Before immediately seeing a bury and continuing on your merry way,

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