Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee - 10 Terrible Gen 1 Pokémon You Forgot You Hated

1. Hitmonlee

Look, most Pokemon would be scary if they were real. Imagine a hive of 3-foot-tall bee. A cave full of 5-foot-long bats with arm-length fangs. A fire-breathing dog the size of an SUV. All of those would be utterly terrifying if they jumped out of your Game Boy.

Nothing, though, would be purer nightmare fuel than Hitmonlee.

Take the body of pro kickboxer Joe Schilling, then cut off his head. Put two huge eyes where his nipples should be. Cover his limbs in tape. Then turn his toes into knives.

That would be Hitmonlee and that should be all the proof you need that the first generation of Pokemon isn’t quite as bulletproof as you remember.