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ThePokémonvideo games , flick , and anime are populated by a surprising number of disturbing creature design , peculiarly when it comes to Ghost - case Pokémon . Several have Pokédex entries that mention expiry , kidnapping , and other subject subject most would assume too shuddery for a children ’s series , and Yamask , the Spirit Pokémon , is one of the creepiest .
Many sour secrets permeate thePokémonuniverse . wight with cute outside hide enervate true intentions , and The Pokémon Company often hints at bits of traditional knowledge that break thePokémonuniverse ’s kid - friendly utopia , like that fact thatpeople clearly eat Pokémon . Unlike many children ’s property , though , Pokémon ’s creepy-crawly backstory often goes beyond fan theory , instead directly confirm by in - plot text via the Pokédex .
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These Pokédex ingress range from mildly spooky do downright violent . Drifloon ’s , for instance , says thePokémon kidnaps and kill children , dragging them away"to the afterlife . “Yamask , a Pokémon introduced in Generation 5’sPokémon Black and White , has a similarly creepy Pokédex entry , which entail it began its life not as a Pokémon at all .
Yamask Origins: A Dead Human That Became A Ghost-Type Pokémon
According to itsPokémon BlackPokédex ledger entry , each Yamask"carries a masquerade that used to be its aspect when it was human . “Since every Yamask ’s masquerade party looks identical and only mistily resembles a human face , it seems it ’s not a histrionics of the Pokémon ’s former human face butliterallyits face turn into a masquerade party . What ’s most perturbing about Yamask is that it still remembers its life as a human . “Each retains remembering of its former aliveness , " White ’s Pokédex note , and it is get laid to sometimes look at its mask and cry - presumably because it hanker to be a man again .
The idea of shaver capture the spirits of dead humans andforcing them to fight other Pokémonis troubling , to say the least , but Yamask is n’t really the only Pokémon said to be a former human . Kadabra’sFireRedPokédex entry says it was"a boy with extrasensory powers"who suddenly come alive as a Pokémon one morning , Moon ’s Pokédex says Gengar"was once human itself"and Froslass is"soul of a woman"that possess an icicle , andSun ’s Pokédex says Phantump are tree"stumps possessed by the spirits of children who snuff it in the woods . "
Notably , the language of thesescary Pokédex entriesvaries from game to game , sometimes declaring the brute ' origins as fact and sometimes characterise them with phrasal idiom like"legends say"or"is read to be . “Some fans consider the Pokédex is a variety of undependable storyteller , so it ’s hard to say if thesePokémonreally were human . But Yamask ’s origins do look more definite , however , as its human face is clearly incorporated in its conceptual and optic figure .
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