there are few childhood memories as sweet and carefree as those spent playing video games but while Nostalgia often stops US feeling anything but joy for these memories as we get older Gamers occasionally start to notice things about games we grew up with that either don't make sense or raise some very uneasy questions indeed from truly awful Pokemon lore to Minecraft monstrosities here are some creepy video game theories to ruin your childhood oh and I promise there's none about an entire game just being a comatose dream what am I an amateur foreign despite all my rage
Sonic the Hedgehog has been running spin dashing and inspiring horrifically unsafe for work fan art since 1991. but what if I told you the Blue Blur may not be as free as he appears let's consider Sonic's home for a minute while the world of every platformer is a little contrived Sonics takes it to a whole new level pun intended there are loop-de-loops and corkscrews that would never form naturally existing solely to be dashed through at Breakneck speeds additionally Sonic's world is full of things designed to help him Springs Dash pads moving platforms and power-ups and
considering Sonic's world is depicted as natural and green with the villainous Eggman acting as the only industrial Force present it makes sense that Eggman was responsible for placing all those non-natural devices and structures in Sonic's world but why would he create tools to help his Nemesis well what is Sonic he's a hedgehog not technically a rodent but a species that's lumped in with rodents like rats and guinea pigs and you'll notice these animals are often kept as pets that's right this Theory posits that the grand hero Sonic the Hedgehog is little more than a pet
in a cage while all these Springs Loops Dash pads and moving platforms don't make sense as natural occurrences they do make sense as exercise machines like elaborate hamster wheels for Sonic to run around on sure there are enemies and traps in the level to avoid but Eggman also gave Sonic a way of gaining more lives not really the actions of someone who wants Sonic out of the picture huh with that said I dread to think how High eggman's pet insurance premiums must be Atomic Terror Pokemon is a more realistic franchise than we give it credit
for and no I don't just mean because my mom threw me out of the house when I was 12 years old too I mean the setting each Pokemon games region is broadly based on a different area of the real world sword and shield where a look at the UK through a poke lens whereas Tropical Sun and Moon were based on Hawaii now the black and white games are set in the Unova region which is based on the American state of New York in these games players can catch the legendary Pokemon Victini which fans theorize May
symbolize something pretty dark victini's pokedex entry refers to it as the Victory Pokemon and states that its body contains a huge amount of power that could erupt at any moment to reinforce this idea Victini learns a lot of explosion themed moves like incinerate Inferno and final Gambit this has led many to theorize that Victini represents an atomic bomb in the United States VJ Day marks the day Japan surrendered after the USA dropped two atomic bombs on the country effectively ending their conflict in the second world war the v in Vijay day of course stands for
victory Victini is also a psychic fire type which if you had to assign elements to an atomic bomb seems pretty accurate on top of that in-game you catch Victini in a place called Liberty Garden which Mount side of catching it in a McDonald's is just about the most American thing I can think of but that's not all remember how I mentioned each Pokemon game was based on a different area of the world well Ruby and Sapphire's Owen's setting is based on Japan's Kyushu region which is where Nagasaki is located if you had to wear Nagasaki
might be roughly on the map you find an enormous underground bunker built to protect people from a cataclysmic event and what's outside that bunker Baron Wasteland like the aftermath of an atomic explosion don't worry though because Victini is safe and secure in the rational mature lands of your 12 year old protagonist oh geez please think twice about throwing that Pokeball creepy pigs during my time immersed in the rich creative world of Minecraft I've been unfortunate enough to interact with the nasty creepers from time to time and no I don't mean my weird uncle Danny who
always invites me to join a game with him at 2AM I mean these guys the tall green frightening weirdos with an awful propensity to explode and destroy all my hard work did you know though that many in the Minecraft Community reckon these terrifying bombers actually have a rather quaint origin this is the Humble Pig and many speculate that these sweet and lovable creatures evolved into the Monstrous creepers that the community fears today but it's not as far-fetched as it sounds for starters the game already has pigment in it so we know at some point in
time the Humble Pig arrived at a branching evolutionary path and despite being dangerous creepers also tend to live in herds much like pigs they're also frequently found in caves which contain mushrooms and in the real world pigs are regularly used to sniff out truffles the other location they're often found forests hints at why they evolved to be tall and green to eat fruit from trees and blend into their surroundings there's even a metal level to this Theory as creepers initially came about when the game's Creator no Notch was messing around with a pig model and
ended up elongating and changing the color loving the new Freaky design he decided to implement the Abomination into the game but uh why do they explode well like many farm animals pigs produce a lot of methane if you know what I mean so much so that some Farms have even started harnessing that methane as a fuel source so when a creeper runs towards you and explodes you may not be going up in a ball of flames so much as a ball of farts man as if getting smoked by these things wasn't bad enough already what
do you think does this Theory hold water or am I full of hot air let me know down in the comments below and be sure to like And subscribe for even more scarring speculations speaking of which what have we got next hungry hungry hauntings across all cultures Humanity has been haunted by the notion that there may be something dark horrific and unknowable Beyond mortality and according to Pokemon it's cuddly pets Ghost type Pokemon have been a series staple since the first game was released in 1996. their spooky deadly apparitions that can't be hit by normal
type attacks which has led many fans to ask if Ghost Pokemon are so ghostly how is it possible to catch them at all why don't they just disappear or phase through the Pokeball well what if I told you that ghost Pokemon much like the villains in every 2010s Blockbuster all plan on getting caught that's right these innocent looking creatures are actually devious Puppet Masters and their ultimate goal is to capture human souls for example the description of the balloon Ghost Pokemon drifloon states that it tries to lure children into grabbing onto it only then to
float away with them never to be seen again next consider the wonderfully named palisand how could this ghost ground type guy be evil he's a pile of sand that's your pal well this morbid pokedex entry informs us that just under his friendly surface there's a mass of Bones left over from the people whose life he's drained if you need even more damning evidence take a look at Lampent whose pokedex entry outright States it hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on so it can use their souls as fuel for its fire whoa these lovable
Ghost Pokemon aren't our Pals there are predators this is why they allow themselves to get caught because a young energetic Pokemon trainer is an irresistible meal to them so they stick around slowly draining their loving owner's soul and considering they're already dead they can afford to take their time and Savor the buffet well as we established in the last part of this series people do eat Pokemon so it only seems fair that they eat us too foreign in my opinion there's no hero greater than Mario he's rescued damsels in distressed toppled evil Kings traveled all
over the world and has even gone to space twice not bad for someone who still lists their occupation as plumber of course with all that publicity the Big M is bound to attract some fans and that's what this next theory is built on this is Wario The Brute who somehow has landed himself the starring role in two Nintendo franchises he first appeared in the Game Boy Advance title Mario Land 2 way back in 1992 acting as that game's primary antagonist since then he's popped up in countless spin-offs assuming the role of Mario's enemy however when
you look at things a little more closely it doesn't really look like Wario hates Mario it looks like he's obsessed with him now let's examine the evidence for a start Wario is the exact same name as Mario just with the m flipped around now when it comes to the clothes Mario and Luigi are both plumbers and brothers explaining their similar outfits well they do say the greatest form of flattery is imitation and remember Mario is a celebrity in the Mushroom Kingdom he even gets his own parade in The Odyssey game it's a safe bet Wario
new Mario long before the two actually met and uh speaking of this is Wario's house in his first appearance notice the giant creepy Mario statue in the back Wario isn't an arch nemesis rival or a member of the gang he's an obsessed fan who dresses up like Mario and stalks him considering one of the defining characteristics Wario's famous for is Unstoppable greed there's a chance his Mario emulation is more an attempt to cash in on the big M's popularity than an authentic Obsession I'm not sure if that makes him more or less of a villain
foreign give Freddy a hand Five Nights at Freddy's is a survival horror game series and that while rated as suitable for those 12 and up is incredibly popular with kids as young as six you play as a protagonist that's being hunted down by what are basically less creepy versions of the old animatronics from Chuck E cheese horror wise the games forego blood and gore opting for more innocent albeit scary shocks and jump scares spanning eight main games numerous spin-offs and even several books the series contains more twists and turns than a bowl of spaghetti but
with that said there's something that's been bothering the community since its first entry who left this handprint on Freddy if you look closely at Freddy's character model you can clearly see the imprint of a palm on his face this has led the community to speculate on who left it there and why some fans claim this is evidence that Freddie is behind the infamous bite of 1987 an important incident in the Canon where an animatronic critically injured a child after biting them which animatronic however has been a topic of speculation for years someone trying to get
away from Freddy may have hit his face hard enough to leave the mark But the handprint looks too large to have been left by a child however another interesting Theory suggests that the print was left by none other than Freddie himself you see animatronics are mixed and matched all the time resulting in freaky Creations like mangle an amalgamation of different animatronics it's also understood that the animatronics are Hollow on the inside like empty suits with minds of their own massage and positioning of the handprint makes most sense not as someone trying to push Freddy away
but trying to get the head off this Theory follows that at some point an unfortunate victim was inside a suit featuring a Freddy head that terrifyingly turned against them the panicked occupant then frantically tried to pry the head off but soon met with a grim fate so much for no Gore while we don't know who Freddie's victim was considering the scale of this franchise it's only a matter of time before they get their own spin-off book trilogy bad tangles if you've ever played a Legend of Zelda game you've likely come across this guy tingle first
introduced in Majora's Mask tingle has popped up all across the series convoluted timeline the recurring character is recognizable by his skin-tight green leotard short stature and intense desire to become a fairy however this goal becomes altogether less wholesome when you learn he's 35 years old this next Theory deals with the wind waker's tingle specifically but don't let the game's colorful art fool you this tangle is actually the worst when protagonists the link first meets him he's been imprisoned in Windfall Island's jail which isn't a great start after freeing him he can be found on his
very own Island which features a mysterious Tower at the top you meet three men dressed like him two of which are turning an enormous wheel here tingle helps you map out the ocean and even AIDS in your quest to assemble the all-powerful Triforce despite his helpful nature however there's definitely something sinister going on for starters tingle claims he was locked up just for looking weird but considering there's someone who looks like this on windfall I'm not buying it secondly the men turning the wheel are definitely there against their will right they seem hesitant whenever you
talk to them and without a boat they have no way of escaping but just what is it they're doing well throughout the Wind Waker you can find various islands that house great fairies these powerful fairies can upgrade Link's capabilities but are hard to get to this is because great fairies are found beneath their Islands link must use a bomb or strength bracelets to remove boulders to access them now looking at tingles Island it looks like a fairy Island right this has led some to speculate that tingles captors are turning a giant drill that's boring into
a fairy's domain it makes sense after all tingle's ultimate goal is to become a fairy additionally tingle spends most of his time mapping the ocean could it be he's looking for more fairy Islands either way I don't want to think about what Tango will do with that Great Fairy once he gets to it enslave it eat it who knows oh and for some reason Nintendo also gave this creep his own game please Nintendo stop rewarding your creepiest characters rotten Peach Peach and Mario really are the Ross and Rachel of the Video Game World one game
they appear to be an item in the next they're just friends but if this next theory is true their relationship is way more complicated than we ever thought in the much loved Super Mario Galaxy Mario embarks on a planet hopping Adventure Across the Universe during his journey he's aided by the mysterious Rosalina she runs a space station where she raises Lumas these cute little star babies who eventually grow up to become planets and meteors this kind of places are between a nanny and God I guess now over the course of the game Mario can learn
about Rosalina's history through a sweet and colorful storybook the story informs us that when Rosalina was a little girl she got whisked off into space eventually building the space station with the Lumas the story takes a sad turn however when Rosalina cries and tells the Lumas her mom is asleep under the big tree back home tragic as it is does something about this picture look familiar what about this one yeah it's pretty hard to deny Rosalina's mom looks just like Peach and now that thoughts in your brain don't the two look kind of similar they're
both blonde their facial features match and they have the same little hair flicks and both can even float of course this would all mean that peach is dead but how can that be if they're both alive and well in the same game well hold on to your butts because at the end of Mario Galaxy uh spoiler alert the universe ends when a super black hole destroys everything Rosalina appears and tells Mario that the universe is about to reboot some things will remain the same While others will be different if this isn't the first time this
has happened then it makes sense Rosalina might be from a version of the universe where Peach has passed away friendly reminder that this is a Mario game our Bowser and Mario not constantly talking about the time the universe ended and Rebooted is tennis seriously more interesting foreign take it all pack though Pac-Man is well past its Heyday now the popularity of the game can't be understated it was America's highest grossing arcade game back in 1981 and by 1982 it had some 30 million active players thing is though despite its popularity no one has ever really
been sure what Pac-Man is you play as a little yellow thing eating smaller yellow things in an endless maze type Place occasionally also eating cherries strawberries Bells keys and Starships all while being pursued by ghosts over the decades fans have tried to piece together exactly what's going on in the game and no explanation is pretty for starters the entire goal of the game is to eat as many pellets as possible which could represent pills potentially anti-anxiety or antidepressants which Pac-Man is addicted to cherries are also symbols commonly employed in slot machines which if you're running
with the substance addiction theme makes a lot of sense the strange environment Pac-Man navigates represents his own site confusing and maze-like due to his addictions finally the metaphorical implications of being pursued by ghosts are pretty hard to ignore these ghosts could represent any number of things unrealized dreams past relationships guilt and it's only when Pac-Man eats enough pills he becomes invincible and is able to silence them albeit briefly ugh dark a number of other theories use this one as a basic framework one piece of art from Travis Pitts interprets Pac-Man as a 1976 Cosmonaut named
Nikolai peckman who witnessed his four comrades perish during a mission suffering from survivor's guilt he finds a box of emergency sedatives and is soon haunted and hunted by hallucinations of his Fallen comrades of course more literal readings of the game are no less disturbing one Theory posits that the maze Pac-Man is navigating is actually some kind of nest and that the pellet sees devouring are eggs rather than cruel Spirits this Paints the ghosts as horrified creatures desperately trying to save their unborn babies so wait that makes Pac-Man the villain either way I think the lesson
here is if you see a cute round single color creature heading your way grab your baby and run splatocalypse now in Splatoon players take control of inklings humans squid hybrid delinquents who splatter the streets with their High Velocity ink guns the winning team is the one that coached the greatest area of the map in their color the game was a unique spin on the genre which many viewed as a less violent alternative to other Shooters like Call of Duty but they were dead wrong in the first Splatoon you discover the fossilized remains of a human
skeleton reaching out for a disc and some familiar looking consoles this seemingly confirms that the fun Colorful World of Splatoon actually takes place on Earth long after an apocalyptic event has wiped out all the humans but what exactly happened to us well the answer may be found in the game's environment you see in Splatoon the characters are limited to small islands with high elevation additionally A peculiar aspect of the inklings is that they die when they come into contact with seawater pretty odd considering their part squid right and both of these anomalies Point towards one
conclusion climate change as greenhouse gases prevented heat from escaping the Earth's atmosphere the ice caps began to melt and sea levels started to rise this Lanes the islands and vast oceans but also the water death this is because as sea levels rise in real life they also become warmer and more acidic thus less hospitable to ocean life this means the inklings were forced to evolve to escape their former home something that's even depicted in this piece of in-game artwork with a truly anamorphs level mid-stage in the center there so next time you're having a blast
painting the town red remember that just under the water there's a mountain of human bones good thing complete environmental Devastation rendering the planet inhospitable for human life is just a plot point in a video game right Pokey love and Pokey marriage sincere apologies to the Pokemon Community this video has been pretty rough on you so far but with all the nuclear explosions and evil ghosts ruining everything well um tune out now if you don't want it to get way worse because I'm about to ask the big question why do some Pokemon wear clothes I mean
they're wild creatures right yet certain Pokemon like Jinx Machoke Hitmonchan and many others just turn up in the wild fully clothed and once you noticed that it becomes disturbingly hard not to imagine what they'd look like without them uh honestly I think I preferred Jinx in full drag uh well as unsettling as this question may be the potential answer is even worse in the original Japanese translation for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl the player can find a history book called sinal folk stories 3. it informs the reader that there was a period in history where people
used to marry Pokemon no I'm not making this up according to the book this was normal as people didn't really see the difference between humans and Pokemon yeah apparently there's no difference between a dude and a sentient two-headed floating ice cream that's forced to be a battle slave it's a match made in heaven the English translation of the game wisely changed this line to indicate that humans and Pokemon used to eat together at the same table so how does this relate to clothing well you notice most of the Pokemon that wear clothes tend to be
more on The Human Side bipedal two arms you get the drill well what if these Pokemon look and act more like people because well they're part people if those Pokemon human marriages resulted in children it makes sense the Poke kids would be somewhere between a person and a more cartoony wild Pokemon a lot of these more human looking Pokemon tend to have baby and child themed first evolutionary stages too Smoochum is the baby stage of jinx a lekkid of Electabuzz Magby of magma and Tyrogue of the hitmon family look I gave you fair warning about
this one don't be mad at me if you never look at a Cloister the same way again how are your fun childhood gaming memories doing after all those creepy theories do you know any more scarring ones I missed out let me know down in the comments below and hey who knows maybe they'll make it into the next part of this series until next time thanks for watching
