What's ironic or surprising in your Pokemon game?

[Darksong]

Another coincidence of mine:

In Gold, I have a Noctowl, named after Neji from Naruto. Guess how many hitpoints he has?

Sixty-four.

If you haven't watched Naruto (or read the manga, for that matter), you won't get it.

 

[Chimchar]

hey

 

[nastypass]

Irony the Bronzong

zing!

 

[Arceus]

In leafgreen, on the cycling road, there was a sign that said: "Toss Pokeballs, not the game." Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Dark Shocktail]

Yeah, I knew about that. There's also a girl in Yellow who, after you beat her, says "I understand now that Pokemon isn't about complicated numbers."

 

[Rossymore]

Surprising: No matter how much I try, my Pikachu's Thunderbolt won't effect my enemy's Golem. It works in the anime! Why not in-game?

 

[Autumn]

Surprising: No matter how much I try, my Pikachu's Thunderbolt won't effect my enemy's Golem. It works in the anime! Why not in-game?

... Ground is immune to Electric in-game?

 

[Rossymore]

It's part rock as well.
I know that Ground type are un-effected by Electric. Stupid Donphans!

 

[Autumn]

It's part rock as well.

I knew that too. Electric moves automatically don't affect all Ground-types, regardless of if they're part Rock, part Water or whatever other type they happen to be.

 

[Dark Shocktail]

But electric does normal damage to rock types o.o

 

[Evolutionary]

^ I used to think that Electric didn't affect Rock until Gold changed that with dear Sudo.

 

[Lili]

I was surprised that I found a shiny Wingull in Pokemon:Diamond. What was more surprising is that the next day, I found another one in the same area. I bred them, but I haven't checked the Day Care yet to see if the baby's shiny or not.

 

[Minka_Glameow]

I was in the Great Marsh in Pearl and i encountered loads of wooper that i tried to catch but fled if they escaped. I encountered a SHINY WOOPER! Luckily it wasn't as annoying as the rest :D I now have a Shiny Quagsire. I tried to breed it with a normal quagsire to get a shiny wooper baby, but it didnt work :(

 

[Evolutionary]

I was surprised that I found a shiny Wingull in Pokemon:Diamond. What was more surprising is that the next day, I found another one in the same area. I bred them, but I haven't checked the Day Care yet to see if the baby's shiny or not.

^ Um breeding with shinies doesn't get you more shinies. The egg will be normal and won't have any more chance of breeding shinies than a normal egg. Sorry to burst your bubble :D If it is shiny you are one of the most lucky people in the world.

 

[geobz]

Not in my game, but my friend got a shiny Lapras from just regularly breeding.
I also found one shiny each on two separate games when I had my friends sleep over for New Year's. Shuppet on Emerald; Spearow on FireRed.

 

[Blazie]

I was redoing the elite four on pearl, and I was battling Lucian's Drifblim, and it used double team five times in a row, literally. The sad thing is, I was using Aerial ace. XD
I haven't seen a shiny in-game, ever. :(

 

[FKOD]

On Diamond, I have a Mawile named Tina.
On Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, I have a Girafarig named Gira.
If you put their names together.... Giratina!
And that was totally unintentional too.

 

[Autumn]

I ran into a shiny Spearow just hours after having posted in the "How many shinies do you have?" topic.

... and in the topic I had posted that I wasn't a shiny fanatic and didn't obsess over them to the point that they could never be deleted by starting over (deleting shiny Rattata, Oddish and Spinarak is proof), but of course if I had one then I didn't want to get rid of the file as much. And then I run into a shiny Spearow. Goldenwing the Fearow (now a mainstay of my FR team because Fearow was going to be part of the final team anyway) will not be deleted~ :D

 

[Felidire]

The fact that I have all 8 badges on D/P and have beaten the league, but the guy blocking the path to the GTS tells me I can't pass because I need the first badge. Wth? xD

 

[TANMAC43]

In Firered and Leafgreen the last Legendary Bird you catch always levels up faster than the other 2.