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Pokémon
Cameo information
Birth name Varies (group cameo)
Physical description
Hair Varies (group cameo)
Eyes Varies (group cameo)
Based on
Appearance information
Appeared in Ash Ketchum vs Charles Darwin
During Ash Ketchum's verses
Location(s) Fire wipe (Charizard)
The Pokémon Go grass field (Butterfree, Alolan Exeggutor, and Pikachu)
The sea (Lapras and Magikarp)

Multiple Pokémon made appearances in Ash Ketchum vs Charles Darwin. They were hand-drawn animations.

Information on the cameo[]

A Pokémon (Japanese: ポケモン Pokemon), shortened from Pocket Monster (Japanese: ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutaa), is any of the 1,010 documented species of the eponymous collectible organisms that have evolved and inhabited the fictional Pokémon World with an innate connection to element-based supernatural powers. In that world, Pokémon are commonly captured and trained by humans, primarily for companionship and/or to be used in popular fighting competitions. Nearly all Pokémon are able to manipulate energy or matter through paranormal means, with the specifics of these abilities determined for each Pokémon largely by their elemental "type".

Most Pokémon physically resemble animals, though some resemble mythical monsters, machines, ghosts, fungi, or plants with animal-like facial and other features. It is not clear whether most Pokémon constitute natural living things, though they are often treated as living organisms; however, some are clearly artificial creations (such as Porygon) or even mystical spirits (such as Arceus), with much apparent overlap and uncertainty between these categories (such as the ambiguous Magnemite). In the Pokémon World, ordinary real-world animals are fairly rare.

Cameos in the group[]

Trivia[]

  • As a group, they are the sixth video game characters to appear, after Master Chief, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Edward Kenway.
    • They are the third video game characters to be a cameo, after Princess Peach and Edward Kenway.
      • They are the first video game characters to be a group cameo.
  • They are the fifth animated character(s) to appear in the Epic Rap Battles of History series, after the sarlacc, the Lego Minifigures in Zeus vs Thor, the ED-209s and the Eye of Sauron.
    • If the unofficial SpongeBob Movie Rap Battle, where all the characters are animated, is counted, it is the sixth.
    • They are the second hand-drawn animated characters to appear in a rap battle after all the characters in the unofficial SpongeBob Movie Rap Battle.
  • Almost all the Pokémon that appeared throughout the battle first debuted in the first generation of Pokémon, with the exception of Alolan Exeggutor, which debuted in the seventh generation. However, it is an alternate form of Exeggutor, which debuted in the first generation as well.
    • If Alolan Exeggutor is counted as a separate character from its Gen I counterpart, it is the most recent cameo to appear (having its game yet to be released at the time of the battle's release), and is one of four characters who originated from the 2010s, preceded by Edward Kenway and succeeded by Snoke and John Wick.
  • While not physically appearing, other Pokémon were mentioned or referenced throughout the battle.
    • During the line, "In this ecosystem, I'm the dominant species!", Ketchum raises his arms in a way that could mirror the standard stance of a Mankey.
    • Jigglypuff was directly mentioned during the line, "You're soft like a Jigglypuff!"
    • MissingNo., a glitch Pokémon noncanonical to the series, was also indirectly referenced during the line, "You're a glitchy old man best left out at sea!"
    • Squirtle was referenced in the scrapped line, "I've been catching critters before you were a Squirtle in your daddy's Poké Balls."
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