Random Reasons the Pokemon Universe Is Actually Really Disturbing (13 items)

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  (#1) The Huge Murder Bees

  You know how bees and wasps are terrible, despite their small size? Meet Beedrill, a 60 lb hornet! According to the Pokédex they travel in swarms. Imagine, if you will, a cloud of dog-sized bees. What a world to live in.
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  (#2) The Ghosts

  Ghosts are real in the Pokéverse and they are out to get wandering trainers. Whether it's Misdreavous (who wants to eat a trainer's emotions) or Gourgeist (who wants to eat a trainer's flesh), it's imperative to keep an eye on the shadows in the wild world of Pokemon because the moment you don’t, that’s when they get you.
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  (#3) The Cosmic Horrors

  "Cosmic horror" is a general term to describe the kind of fright you get when you realize that the universe doesn’t care about you even one bit.

  There are Pokemon out there with truly terrifying implications. Whether it’s the ghost types that raise questions about what becomes of us after death, or something like Yveltal with a Pokedex entry that suggests he’s the load-bearing beam of all life, in the Pokeverse, you are just a small, insignificant piece in a cosmic game.
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  (#4) The Mad Scientists

  Pokemon is full of enough awful experiments to give any ethical scientist a heart attack. Whether it’s cloning sentient, hyper-intelligent Pokemon like Mewtwo or creating life in computers like Porygon, the Pokeverse is full of scientists who are too busy asking if they can, without even considering whether or not they should.
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  (#5) The Sea Monsters

  A lot of the creepiness of the Pokeverse comes from the fact that the setting is full of carnivorous hellbeasts the size of school buses, lurking around every corner and below the surface of every body of water. The ocean in our own world is already dangerous, but if surfing is to be believed in the Pokemon games, it’s impossible to make it a few meters in the water before being attacked by a giant jellyfish.
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  (#6) The Arsonist Animals

  There are lots of Pokemon that either breathe fire or are literally on fire. A bunch of them, like Fletchinder, actually live in places that seem to be full of flammable things, like residential homes. This raises the question: How busy are the fire departments in the different regions? If a fire can be started by a lizard with a flame tail just walking through town, how can firefighters even begin to keep up with the blaze?
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  (#7) The Living Pollution

  Pokemon like Grimer, Muk, and Trubbish are living creatures formed from humanity’s refuse. Really let that wash over you: every time you throw away a piece of trash, there's a chance it could get up and walk right off to live a life of its own as a pocket monster. Here's hoping you didn’t throw out anything incriminating.
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  (#8) The Homeless Kids with Superpowered Pets

  Imagine you are a kid, just out in the world. You have no father and your mother has abandoned you. You also have a pet that can kill things with its mind. Would you use these powers responsibly? Or would the world would only be made worse by letting people have pets of mass destruction?
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  (#9) The 40 Pound Rats

  Fun fact: rats are terrifyingly intelligent omnivores. In New York City, which has a bit of a rat problem, swarms of rats are attacking cats and small dogs when they get the chance. But that's nothing compared to the 40 lb rats the Pokeverse has to deal with. Pokemon like Raticate represent a truly nightmarish reality — a vicious, angry rat the size of a small child.
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  (#10) The Insanely Powerful Legendary Pokémon

  Pokémon, like most animals in real life, are generally pretty mild-mannered unless they're bothered by an outside source. The problem is, in the Pokémon universe there are villains that seek to use and abuse the most powerful Pokémon in existence. These legendary Pokémon have control of the land, the seas, and the air, as well as time and space. They could throw a fit and bring about unbelievable amounts of devastation, and as the world of Pokémon grows and develops, so does the number of these all-powerful pocket monsters. 
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  (#11) The Organized Crime

  Every Pokemon game features a criminal organization bent on all manner of nefarious activity, ranging from stealing Pokemon to straight-up destroying the world. Some of them have even come frighteningly close to the latter. The frequency with which these teams show up suggests that the Pokeverse has a bit of an organized crime problem - it might even need its own equivalent of Gangland.
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  (#12) The Feudal System

  Who’s in charge of the different towns? Anyone who's played through each of the Pokemon games can tell you, when things get tough, people turn to their Gym Leader. It seems the Pokeverse operates on of some sort of neo-feudal system where the people with the mightiest Pokemon make the rules.
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  (#13) The Civil Engineering Nightmare

  Have you ever thought about what an adventure it is walking between towns in Pokemon? Some of the towns are separated by mountains, tundra, oceans, and other impassible terrain. This raises one big question: How do the people in these towns even begin to keep in touch with each other? How could the region possibly sustain itself economically?

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