There isn't all that much to becoming a Pokémon master. You just need to understand the secrets and have some fun, and listen to some incredibly embarrassing mid-nineties white dude rap about fictional monsters that are trained to fight for sport. Despite the cuddly, childish exterior, however, there's a lot more going on beneath the surface. There's a lot going on in the world of Pokémon. If you believe the fan theories, anyway. Born from one game developer's dream to take his frankly somewhat sociopathic childhood hobby of catching bugs and forcing them to do battle and turn it into a video game, Pokémon became a worldwide phenomenon. A phenomenon everyone figured was just a fad that would die out, taking all of its constituent cartoons, games, trading cards and epilepsy-causing imagery with them. But what do you know? The plucky Pocket Monsters have remained if not quite the cultural juggernauts they began as, then still a mighty big deal in the gaming world. And as with any big deal in the gaming world, the internet likes to pick over it obssessively; and as with anything popular with nerdy kids, there are loads of outrageous rumours about them. Rumours which stretch from the secret origins of their favourite expressive aphasia-ridden beasts, to the whereabouts of the absent father whose shadow hangs over every game, to the blood that you yes, you the player may have on your hands. These are the ten craziest fan theories about Pokémon.