We just need to start off this article with a warning: these are some of the best comics based on Pokémon we’ve ever seen. They’re simply hilarious, crafted over years of gamers’ love affair with Ash Ketchum and friends. We all must recognize that it’s the greatness of the game series itself that allows us such enjoyment. Though they are used to make billions of dollars in-game, Pokémon are still our sweet sidekicks. We must always try to remember that, even if we constantly push the little creatures to the brink.
But isn’t that simply the nature of being a pet? It’s practically their duty to protect their master, to get them loads of money by battling other people’s pets and to spend the rest of their time inside a little ball, as cute, encoded digital information. It’s kind of sad to think that you take these creatures from the wild, put them in balls and then only let them out to battle or breed.
You can’t help but think that the little fellas would feel much better if they were never captured in the first place. But that’s not for us to decide, we’re only bystanders in this glorious cartoon world. We just like to talk about video games, comics, memes, and cartoons. You know, the stuff that actually matters! It’s actually quite a comfort to know that so many people share the same humor across the internet, and that so many people enjoy Pokémon comics.
27 Magikarp Assemble
The best thing about this comic is that we now have legitimate proof that all Magikarp are involved in organized crime. We’re not talking about the soft organized crime like the Italian Mafia or the US government.
We’re talking about an ocean-dominating force that will one day turn into giant blue sea monsters that can sort of fly, but not really.
It’s pretty weird to think about the time we all have spent levelling up Magikarp to turn into Gyarados. We’re talking about a secret not all of us even knew about in the games. Gyarados is one of the better Pokémon you can get in the early game and keep throughout. It’s got power, only two weaknesses, and a set of sharp teeth you just need to have on your side. That’s all thanks to Magikarp, using tackle 400 times per level.
Comic by RockPaperCynic.
26 This World Deserves A Real Villain
Why are there no games where we truly get to play as the bad guy or a boss? We’re not talking about a game where you’re just some character who can decide to be bad or good, we’re talking about a game where we play as Bowser, or Ganon, or in this case Team Rocket.
We should be able to dominate the world and reshape it in our image on the backs of gullible Pokémon.
Most of us who play the games realize about 10% of the way through that we no longer want to catch them all, but to remove all that stands in our way, and that means attacking opponents in every scenario and taking their money. It’s pretty much our money anyway since they only exist in-game to serve us or the story. We should be able to reign over them with a fat R on our chests.
Comic by Dorkly.
25 Bro, Do You Even Level Up?
We all now understand where the rare candies in Pokémon Go come from! It sort of makes perfect sense that this is how they are made, considering the abilities they possess. If you notice, there’s a Mew tail sticking out. Does that mean that you need legendaries to create such exotic pieces? That would be awesome.
But how many Pokémon go into a batch of 99 Rare Candies?
Is it one Pokémon per candy? Or is it something much more practical? Either way, this is a great way to maintain the power structures of Pokémon exactly the way that we want them. Otherwise, we’re going to end up with a situation like Earth where the future will be filled with only Burmese Pythons and Jellyfish.
Comic by MJWills.
24 Future Sight Truth
This piece by Immer is the inevitable end of all conflict. Eventually, someone is going to drop something huge on someone else and then everyone is going to want to get in on the action. We know we want to. But we all are so self-centered that we’d probably be cool with all the world getting caught up in themselves if they left America alone.
But then, there’d be no more Pokémon!
Not that Future Sight can be changed or anything, since it’s merely allowing you to prepare for what is going to happen. It might get a bit too real, but at least you know when your life is going to change. That’s why we should all have backpacks for the impending changes! A few weapons, a few jars of peanut butter and some beef jerky. You’ll make it a week or so until someone finds you and takes all your loot, like in Fortnite.
23 Fifty Shades Of Oddish
What is so odd about the Pokémon Oddish? We need to understand the names given to these creatures so that when we all get caught into a black hole and return as reincarnated Pokémon, we’ll be ready for it. Speaking of black holes, do they even exist? Have any of you ever been invited to a black hole?
I’d really like Pokémon to explore the limits of the universe more, as well as the limits of relationships, as this brave Oddish is doing.
Also, the characters in this comic clearly are not human beings. Their heads have this weird bump on the top the might represent something similar to hair but we aren’t certain. So these things must be aliens? This means that aliens also play Pokémon wherever they live. We wonder if they too are also sick of the same recycled gameplay with new creatures?
Comic by SafelyEndangered.
22 The Tall Grass Awaits
Travelling through the tall grass has never been so easy and filled with surprising one-sided battles. Strike that, all of the battles you come across in the tall grass should be one-sided! Anyone who gets defeated by Gary the Bug catcher or some random dude on a bike should be forced to turn in their Game Boy.
You don’t even belong in our arena!
The key-inspired Pokémon should totally keep evolving into other things that need keys., like helicopters and jet fighters. That way, when Pokémon gets to bigger themes, we can be watching real wars with Pokémon go down, like Modern Warfare-style. We can also just sit back and enjoy how hilarious the results would actually be.
Comic by RockPaperCynic and Big Simple Comics.
21 Splash!
The trials and tribulations of raising a Magikarp are trying indeed. They don’t ever tell you that they are heavy enough to swing as a bat. We are certain that what is shown in the comic is now the fastest and best strategy for getting a Gyarados. It has the benefits of getting the Magikarp used to the damage it’s going to spend its life causing, and making expectations of it totally clear.
A guy like this going around and smashing things to a pulp with the head of a Magikarp is probably dedicated to his mission. So, just look at all the damage he can probably cause with a monster of the ocean under his control. We all love Gyarados and are sort of charmed at the tribulations that we need to go through to get them.
Comic by ThePunchlineIsMachisimo.
20 What Is In A Name?
Everyone has had the fun experience of naming your rival any sort of weird thing you wanted. It’s fun to be playing the game rolling, around the world having a good time, and then all of a sudden, your rival shows up. You haven’t seen him in a while, so you get a great laugh when you get the reminder of whatever you decided to call him.
Sometimes you even feel a bit embarrassed that you named him something so bad during a time when you started the game as a less woke individual. Now you have to either restart the game or make sure none of your friends see you playing when the rival with the weird name comes around.
But you shouldn’t be playing Pokémon around your friends anyway. It’s for the bathroom and work.
Comic by Gabasonian.
19 How Long Have You Been Standing There?
What’s hilarious about this comic is that this dude is just trying to survive a hot day. No harm being done there, and we never really understood where some Water Pokémon get their water attacks from. Could it be possible that it’s magic, or maybe that it is an overactive gland or something that secretes liquid? Who knows if it is actually fresh water?
This comic by Darkkenjie calls into question the nature of the attack methods of actual Pokémon battles. Where do Grass Pokémon get their leaves from? Is it, like, their skin or something? How can we even compare plants to animals and animals to plants, when there are actual plant and animal types out there that break the laws of both? And don’t even get us started on Normal-types. What even is a Snorlax? A bear? Totoro?
18 A Pokédex Of Lies
The descriptions in the Pokédex are one of the things in the game that are often overlooked by us potential masters. Whether or not we don’t know it’s there, or whether we actually already know all of the information, it’s still mostly weird.
The stats that they give these creatures are not only impossible, but they’re barely reflected in their abilities.
How can Alakazam have an IQ that 150 times greater than that of the smartest humans and still not have taken over the planet? It doesn’t even speak English! Why have the Alakazams not replaced the humans on the planet and begun expanding into the Cosmos with us as their servants? Unless that’s already happened, and the lives we live are simply hallucinations caused by the Cosmic Alakazam psychic powers.
Comic by NerdRageComic.
17 The Curse Of CatDog
We all know how this guy who eats #2, or experiences it all day feels. Because the reality of life is that you spend a lot of your time dealing with other people’s digested and nutrient-poor substances. You can do your very best to avoid this at every turn of existence, but you will never go through the entirety of your life without having to brush your teeth extra hard.
Just so we’re clear, none of this is metaphorical.
As Darkkenjie once again shows us, it could be. We could be explaining how life throws garbage at you and dealing with said garbage can make you feel disgusting and unclean. But the life we live is simply just filled with this stuff. It’s just everywhere. We might think that when we leave the bathroom, we’ve left it all behind, but who knows?
16 A Betrayal, Of Sorts
There’s a decent possibility that this isn’t what really happens in the world of Pokémon. There is a multitude of examples to oppose this idea. First of all, the relationships with our loving pets aren’t something that could be recreated digitally.
Wait a second… how come Pokémon can even fit into those balls, like they’re just digital information?
Is there some explanation for them being turned into a weird red mist when they disappear? Perhaps they are simple computer programs that manifest in the material world, through our own controlled minds? Maybe they can be programmed any number of different ways to act however they want to, and we would never know! Ahh! Pokémon is a dark world.
Comic by AwkwardZombie.
15 Your Average Flightless Bird
We always wondered how Doduo and Dodrio were able to fly with no real wings to speak of. They’re also certainly based on ostriches, and those birds cannot fly. Unless you count the ostrich in Donkey Kong Country who could sort of glide. But it wasn’t so much of a glide, because the thing was flapping its wings.
I feel like a glide infers some sort of fixed wing scenario, but who knows?
The necks on those birds have to be incredibly strong to putter through the air like that. Would this mean they’re very dense with muscle, or with magical powers? It makes sense to stop and think about things like this, because we still don’t understand much of the Pokémon universe. The more you know!
14 In Our Hearts, In Our Stomachs
This is one of the questions brought up by the concept of digitizing living creatures. What happens if they glitch through a person, or something like that? That’s totally what’s happening above.
Imagine if this wasn’t an Ekans, and instead was an Onix, or something huge like that. It would glitch and completely consume the person it spawned next to. What would happen in either scenario?
This is one of those comics we wish kept going so we could know how weird the situation became. It’d still be funny but as a way to avoid tons of problematic issues, we’ll take what we get. There is no scenario here where Ekans doesn’t flip out and start biting furiously in defense.
Comic by JHallComics.
13 Capture The Grandmas
The real question is: who do you think would win this fight? Old people have been through a lot of stuff and there is a reason that they are still alive. They’re formidable. Maybe they haven’t been super active in the recent years, but once they dust the cobwebs from their joints, we’re sure they’re a force to be reckoned with.
Grandma uses wheelchair, it’s super effective.
Either way, we sort of now want to watch old ladies fight Pikachu. We’re not entirely sure how well the Grandmas will hold up against a few thunderbolts to the face. What would the attacks of an old person even be? Do they only get to choose between four? Should they be allowed to use weapons?
12 How Times Change
Why were we afraid to do things that we liked when we were young? Was it simply out of fear of not being accepted by our peers? If so, then why did we outgrow that stuff as soon as we became adults? We follow the status quo as children and teens, constantly wishing we were adults. And then when we become adults we start to dislike everybody and find solace in different dairy products.
To be sure, there is nothing wrong with gorging yourself on dairy products.
Cheese aside, we would never suggest that playing older games as we grow up is in any way wrong. Pokémon remains so strong in our every day life, and that is clearly the result of brilliant story-telling and fun graphics. Don’t let anyone tell you what not to play!
11 A Trip Down Memory Lane
It’s always interesting to look back on old pictures of yourself and feel the weight of all the bad aesthetic decisions you’ve made over the years. We all have class photos, driver’s licenses and tagged online photos we’d love to erase.
Don’t worry, Charmander! It’s not like 8bit is ever going to come back…. oh wait.
It’s very cool to mark the evolution of such a cool gaming franchise over time, and it really becomes clear how solidly the games have maintained their place in our hearts. Much as we have to own our terrible haircuts and weird clothing choices, so too must we remember to love all iterations of Pokémon, no matter how weird they all looked.
10 Confusion
This has got to be the reason why most Pokémon don’t truly trust their owners. They know that, no matter what’s going on in their lives, their trainers are going to make them attack full force anyway. They might be poisoned, blind and asleep, and a trainer might still make them battle through that.
But with confusion, there’s actually a chance to cause real damage to yourself.
As a Pokémon, you need to protect yourself! So when you’re feeling a little confused and unsure about who you are supposed to attack, maybe use something less powerful in case you hit yourself. No one expects you to use Hyper Beam every single chance. But we applaud you for trying, and we hope that it doesn’t damage you too much.
Comic by BrawlInTheFamily.
9 We Didn’t Mean To
It really hurts our feelings to see a person still using a Nokia type cell phone. They remind us of a time where the only video game of any worth on a cellphone was the Snake game. It reminds us that we used to be happy with the simplicity, and that, with the increase in graphics and technology, games have changed exponentially.
As we can see, the changes were obviously for the better.
This is back when cell phones were used for emergencies only, and not for absolutely everything. We miss the time when life was much easier going and people weren’t constantly jacked into the smartphone world. But if we went back to that time we wouldn’t be able to download emulators and Roms of Pokémon to play while at work.
Comic by ShikiStupidComics.
8 Those Left Behind
Lapras is looking pretty salty and scared in this comic, and rightfully so! He’s been left behind by the one person who is supposed to be his greatest friend and ally. But the truth is that all of our users in real life and within the video game realms. We use the fish to get across the water and we use the birds to fly away when we get bored of walking.
There’s no mutual respect for friendship in the Pokémon world.
Not from the humans, we got more important stuff to do like look at our cell phones and eat too much. There probably are way more people who don’t eat meat now than in the past, but we think that would change if the world was filled with Pokémon, since they’re so cute.
