What is the Darkest Moment in Every Pokémon Game?

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  @marche800 · 1 month ago (edited)

  I'd argue for Kanto, the implications of the Mewtwo experiments are a close second. The Pokemon mansion has a lot of genuine sci-fi horror elements and are generally unsettling especially with the tone and themes of pokemon as a whole. Pokemon genetic experimentation is basically the opposite of what the pokemon journey is meant to be about.

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  @Okeana_Aster · 1 month ago

  Um for X and Y, it&apos;s only told and not shown because Game Freak probably thought it was too dark to show, but Team Flare 100% qualifies for the darkest moment of this game as during the climax, they literally attached Pokémon to the stones of Route 10, slowly draining their Life Energy, causing the Pokémon to scream in agony as they&apos;re slowly dying.<br><br>We know it happens as after they&apos;re stopped, we&apos;re told by Dexio and Sina that they were able to free the Pokémon from the stones, and their agony is hinted at by one of the grunts blocking the path to Route 10 during the climax as he tries to convince himself that he &quot;doesn&apos;t hear the cries&quot;.<br><br>It&apos;s far darker than a random Ghost Girl that shows up only to leave basically immediatly.

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  @beanzman7895 · 1 month ago

  I feel like AZ being cursed to live out the next 3000 years alone and abandoned by the one Pokémon he cared about is a pretty dark and tragic moment in the kalos games

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  @marche800 · 1 month ago

  For X and Y I&apos;d actually argue AZ&apos;s basckstory is the darkest moment. Him creating a superweapon and firing it at an army of Pokemon and people is really messed up and the eternal life he and floette are cursed with after that are also dark.

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• LE

  @leezuregamr · 1 month ago

  For Gen 2 I feel like Cinnabar Island is up there

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• RO

  @Rooby_VTuber · 1 month ago

  Lavender town definitely made me feel how real Pokemon are and that they are living beings.

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  @Okeana_Aster · 1 month ago

  Everything about Zinnia. She&apos;s much deeper and darker than people give her credit for, literally dealing with suicidal ideation, which is quite surprising for Pokémon.

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  @ThePika78 · 1 month ago

  In ZA, for me, apart from Az dying. It&apos;s the old widowed woman sidequests that starts in the base game looking for her ring and then, in Hyper Dimensions, her husband giving you a letter for her. At first it&apos;a odd because this implies it&apos;s an alternative version of his husband trapped, but once you know each dimension is the dream of a collective whole or a specific set of people that meant she still wished for him to be alive or had still some grief but the cart eased her mind gave her true peace.

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  @crystalcove99 · 1 month ago

  I suppose this is more &quot;heartwarming&quot; than dark, but I&apos;m a bit surprised you had nothing to say about the old man in Anistar City in XY. His wife recently died and asks for you to give him a low-level Pokemon to keep him company. Once you reach the postgame and return to his house, you will find that he died as well.

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  @jensrettberg7968 · 1 month ago

  For Johto I would say the Burned Tower that, well, burned down while three beasts were trapped in it. Ho-Oh reviving them turns it from staying super dark, but reviving still means they had fully perished dead first.

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  @felixdeplanques3614 · 1 month ago

  Pokémon is no stranger to dark moments and messed up implications when it comes to its worldbuilding and characters. I honestly think that it adds to the games because, while I don&apos;t believe that they should always lean into this direction, it gives the player an unsettling reality check : that even in the bright world of Pokémons and excited adventures, tragedies, unealthy obsessions, disturbing events and unhappy endings exist. At least that&apos;s how I see it anyway.

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  @tigressluna6433 · 1 month ago

  I&apos;d like to say another dark part of X and Y is the lonely old man in Anistar City. Not only is he lonely with his wife passed away, but if you give him a low level pokemon and return after beating the league, he passes away too. That always hurts.

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