- Professor Rowan not only lectures grunts on manners, he also insults their fashion sense
- the Team Skull grunts who make you pay for using the PokĂŠmon Center inform you of the situation via an impromptu rap
- Giovanni straight up jumps off a waterfall and somehow survives
- Giovanni is allowed to participate in the PokĂŠmon World Tournament
- the Unovan Pokemon League is swallowed up by a giant castle that bursts out of the ground that the main villain had built
- the most powerful trainer in Unova is a bubbly tween in a sparkly princess gown whose team consists almost entirely of dragons
- the Unovan ice gym has a spiral slide made out of ice. There are no walls. If you were to fall off, the drop is so far that the bottom cannot be seen.
- the Unovan flying gym repeatedly fires you out of cannons, one of which always overshoots and sends you slamming into a wall
- the Shadow Triad can apparently teleport, turn invisible, and paralyze people with a look. This is never explained
- a meteor threatens to wipe out the world. Leading scientistsâ Plan A is to teleport it into an alternate dimension. Plan B is to wake up a legendary to smash it, and they only come up with that because someone from said alternate dimension breaks into their lab and threatens to beat everyone up
- thereâs an entire island in Hoenn that just randomly teleports around the region
- The Over the Creek in the Green Forest, Red-and-White-Striped, Wonderfully Crafted, Raikou Safe with No Creaking, Renowned All Over the World for Connecting Yesterday and Tomorrow and Proudly-Built-by-Nick Bridge
- Lysandre may or may not be immortal suffering under the collapsed wreckage of his laboratory for all eternity
- you feed a statue chocolate and it comes to life
- a businessman took on too many projects at once so he offers the management position at a mall to the first person who walks through the door
- a man runs a roadside attraction that you can only enter by playing hide and seek with him
- the Plasma Frigate is a dragon-powered skyship with a massive ice cannon capable of glaciating entire cities that lowers the temperature of the Unova region just by existing
- acquiring a poketch requires you to find a bunch of clowns
- Marlon makes a 30-50 foot vertical jump out of the water onto the deck of a ship, lowers the gangplank, and leaves without doing anything else
- Lillie carries around a sentient, supermassive nebula in her duffel bag
- Lusamine fuses with an extradimensional Pokemon-adjacent being and then sends her PokĂŠmon to fight you
- in a world where itâs not uncommon for people to have psychic powers, Cheren finds it unbelievable that someone claims to understand PokĂŠmon speech
- Castelia Cityâs sewer system was incorporated into a public path
- there is a stall in Goldenrod City where you can get a commemorative photo dressed like a Rocket grunt
- Volkner regularly causes citywide power outages because he constantly remodels his gym
- the slenderman creepypasta exists
- Team Skull attempts to steal a sign by dancing at it
- Team Skull is banned from Mantine surfing for their own safety