8 Crazy Video Game Fan Theories That Actually Improve Games

8. Pokemon: You're The Bad Guy

Pokemon Asj Ketchum
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The internet is awash with Pokemon theories, as you might imagine from a game with so many fans and so rich a universe, and probably the most intriguing is that Ash isn't actually as squeaky clean as he might first seem.

When you first meet your rival in Lavender Town in the original Pokemon Red/Blue, he asks if you know what it's like to have one of your Pokemon die, and one theory has it that you killed his Raticate in a prior battle, setting him on a quest for vengeance.

You destroyed his life, and gave him a morbid reason d'etre, compelling him to become a champion, which he does, only for you to defeat him to become Indigo League Champion and force his grandfather to chastise him for his failure. Way to go.

 
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