5. Koffing And Weezing Were Created By Team Rocket
Oh, that wiley Team Rocket. The naïve/idiotic trio of Jessie, James and Meowth in the cartoon seemed generally oblivious to what their organisation actually got up to, single-minded as they were in their pursuit of Ash's Pikachu for...why did they want Pikachu again? Never mind. Anyway, either they toned it down for the cartoons or the Team Rocket usually shown were just not aware of the dodgy dealings the Pokémon terrorist organisation were spending most of their time doing. Stealing the Pokémon of trainers, yes, but also other things. Darker things. Meddling with forces they could not possibly imagine. Playing god. That's the thinking behind this particular theory, anyway, which suggests that a couple of the less...traditional-looking monsters in the original games were not the product of the Pokémon's natural evolutionary cycle. Apparently Koffing and Weezing could be the product of Team Rocket scientists trying to recreate ghost-type Pokémon, but the closest they got was these gas-spewing monstrosities. They're only ever seen in an abandoned laboratory in Red and Blue, and that skull and cross bones emblazoned on them is a human-made symbol, soooooo.
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