Hmm, I have a bit more optimistic view of Pokémon society, but know that many of these questions have no canonical answer (that I know of) so they will be based off a bit of speculation. Also the games and anime contradict each other frequently so I will be answering from the standpoint of the games only. This will be a long post, so be warned, I have a lot of answers and speculations!
1. Po-kay-mawn
2. Many trainers probably do get the money from their parents to start off, but for poorer families, I would guess that the kid starts off as say a bug catcher or berry farmer. These trainers always have very weak pokémon, which makes sense since they can't afford good Poké balls, but if they can start winning battles with them, maybe they can start getting better pokémon.
3. I have never seen nor heard of any kind of Pokémon bank for money, so I would assume that there are no loans and no debts. However, I don't really see any need for financial aid since you can heal your pokémon for free, and they don't require any money to care for (in the games at least since you never need to feed them). It does beg the question though, how do people afford houses or the ridiculously expensive bike? I would guess that since it is relatively easy to make money in the games even without battling, such as selling berries, fish, or whatever else you find on the ground for a pretty good price considering how short of a time it takes to get them, a child can save up money for something after a long time of that. Also, there are evidentally many jobs that people can have in the Pokémon world, maybe they just pay really well? Or maybe houses are super cheap somehow, but pretty much everyone has a home and is living comfortably
4. Food for trainers is an interesting subject. As the player, you NEVER need to eat, but you can eat at various restaurants, and vending machines do exist, so they must be eating, right? Okay, so I know this is ridiculous, but really the only way I can explain this is that the humans in the Pokémon universe can use photosynthesis. This way, they never
have to eat, but they can and they probably enjoy it. Some Pokémon use photosynthesis and are still animals, so why can't humans do the same? After all, if photosynthesis is so commonplace, people won't be talking about it since everyone knows about it, or maybe they don't even know how they get energy themselves, but they just don't care? So I would guess that no, there are no food stamps since food is a luxury, not a requirement for trainers.
5. While this is never seen in the games, I would assume that trainers have killed other trainers. In multiple games, there are mentions of wars, the crime organizations have probably killed people, and in Pokémon ranger: Guardian Signs, I remember that the evil organization did try to kill you, or at least leave you for dead in a sinking submarine. Maybe there have been even more cases of attempted murder by the evil organizations in other side games, but that's the only one I'm aware of, so I would say yes.
6. I would guess that people just don't have a problem with loitering. I mean, you can just walk into anyone's house for any reason, so in their culture, they just are very trusting of others, and don't care about loiterers.
7. While there doesn't seem to be any sort of government, there are law enforcement officers in either the police or pokémon rangers. How are they funded, and who do they work for? Either they are complex volunteer organizations, or each town/region pays some money to keep them operational, or they are given special privileges that eliminate their need for money. After all, you don't use money at all in pokémon ranger, so maybe you just get things like transportation, shelter, and other necessities for free. Somehow, they are upholding the law and keeping society in order.
8. I would say that there is. After Ghetsis introduced the idea of Pokémon liberation (even if for the wrong reasons), there are probably some people who think that Pokémon should not be controlled by trainers, but they are most likely a minority party, and haven't gained any ground against pro-control trainers. After all, even the law enforcement relies on their pokémon, so they are kinda needed for society to function.
9. Well, if they were going to pay me for winning, I would pay them for winning. Just a mutual agreement kind of thing. Basically just like smash bros. My money goes to the winner of the tournament quite often for beating me, so we already do this quite often.
10. Since you don't need to buy food, and public shelter is abundant (pokémon centers), once you run out of money, you don't really need to pay anything anymore. You just need to get and sell some stuff to get money again, so bankruptcy is not a problem for trainers. Perhaps business owners need to go out of business if they go bankrupt, like the game corner in ORAS, but trainers don't.
You got through the first 10. You must actually like my opinions. Thanks! I like sharing them!
11. While playing for things other than money hasn't really been seen in the games, I would assume that you can do it, since you have battled over the fate of the world before, so the stakes
can be raised. When it comes for playing to the death though, maybe the crime organizations might do such a thing, where if you fail to defend yourself they kill you, but this is probably very rare and they need a reason to kill you, and I can't think of any other reason you would play to the death, nor any situation where no matter who loses, they will die.
12. There are certainly wild pokémon that are dangrous to humans. However, trainers are probably confident enough that they can use their pokémon to defend themselves if they sleep in the wild. Why they choose to sleep in the cold? Perhaps they don't have a home, perhaps they really like the wilderness, perhaps they are very territorial over their part of the wild, perhaps it is their job. . . There are many reasons, everyone probably has their own.
13. Yes, there are many hotels in the Kalos region, but disregarding question. . .
14. There are planes, and probably airlines, as we see jet planes, pilots, and a runway in Black and White. People who either don't have a pokémon that can fly them around, are afraid for their safety when flying a Pokémon, or want to go further or faster than a Pokémon can carry them will opt to fly on a plane, so there is a market for it. Since there is no apparent government, the airspace likely has no restrictions, and nobody will enforce any laws when it comes to flying.
15. This is actually a good question, since many pokémon are known to kidnap people, and the evil organization probably does too, so I will come back to this question when I think of something.
16. Honestly, yes, I think that the player is the only one that can't stand losing. He/she still pays the opposing trainer their due, but then blacks out. Nobody else does that.
17. Yes, the evil organization does steal from people, and takes their pokémon, so it is very possible.
18. I would assume that if you don't have any strong pokémon left to get it back yourself, you would tell the local law enforcement, and they would do all they can to return your pokémon, but if they can't, then there honestly is nothing more you can do.
19. If someone challenges you to a battle when you have no Pokémon, they could potentially do many things to you. Most would probably just let you go. After all, almost everyone in the Pokémon universe is super friendly, but some may steal your money. They
could kill you, but I don't see why they would, and they would certainly be in a lot of trouble with the law for stealing or killing.
20. Gyms could be two things, either they are a business, where people try to see how good they are and have to pay when they lose, or get money when they win, but most people lose so the gym stays in business. Or, maybe they are something that the townsmen fund and build themselves so that they can see who is the best trainer out of all of them, then have that trainer represent the town's strength by leading a gym and having foreigners test their might against the town's best.
That's 20 down. You are a real trooper. There is a lot to talk about when it comes to Pokémon.
21. The Pokémon league is like a gym on steroids. Basically, the elite 4 and champion represent the strongest trainers of the region. Whether they battle for profit or to show the might of the region against foreigners from other regions, they represent the strongest trainers from the region and are a beacon of strength to all trainers.
22. I would assume that if you are able to beat one of the trainers, you have the option to replace them until you are beaten, since they appear to be in order of strength, with the first trainer you face being #5 in the region, and the champion being #1. If you are able to beat the first three then lose to the 4th, you can probably become the #3 trainer, and the original #3 and 4 trainers get demoted, and the #5 trainer gets kicked out until he can beat the established trainers.
23. Maybe the Pokémon league employs them, or maybe they are their own businesses, there's not really any way to tell, but either way you must be the strongest trainer in your town to become the gym leader.
24. Gym leaders are just like normal trainers. They often leave their gyms to go do whatever, and they are basically just the strongest trainers of the town. They aren't required to stay in the gym at all times.
25. If there was an age limit, I would assume that it would be 10 (very young, I know), and I would also assume that known criminals would not be allowed to be a league trainer, hence why evil organization leaders aren't league trainers, but maybe they can be gym leaders, as Giovanni was technically a gym leader.
26. This is a good question, and I'm not even sure that mental disabilities exist in the Pokémon world, as I can't seem to think of one example. In terms of physical disabilities, I would assume that the person with the disability would simply have a Pokémon assist them with getting around and doing various tasks, so there would be no need for the league to make special accommodations for handicapped people since a machoke or goodra or something can just carry them around and do everything they can't do for them.
27. I would guess that if you want to be a part of the Pokémon league, and represent the region as one of the strongest trainers in it, being essentially the biggest authority and representative of the region, you should prove that you know the region well, and in order to do that, you must travel to every major city in the region, make connections, and get to know the routes in between them. This way, should you become the champion, you can represent your region much better.
28. Gym badges don't seem to expire. My gym badges that I got in Fire Red are still valid years from the time I earned them.
29. Gyms are open whenever the leader is there, so the times that it is open is up to the gym leader. However, any responsible gym leader will keep it open as much as possible, so I can't imagine that they would take an entire season off. They would probably get replaced if they did.
30. Probably? I mean, there certainly are televisions, radios, and tournaments in the Pokémon world, but I have never seen one televised on any TV in the games. I would still assume that they are, but maybe there's a rule against it or something? Who knows?
30 down. Making good progress! I'm glad that you find these matters as interesting as I do!
31. I would guess that any Pokémon that you can enter into the post-game battle challenge place, such as the battle maison, is legal in tournaments. Here is a list of all the Pokémon that are banned from the battle maison (mostly strong legendaries, but not all legendaries are banned):
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Maison#Banned_Pok.C3.A9mon
Also, I would not include MissingNo, since it is a glitch, and not cannon. The canonical Pokémon universe does not have any such thing, just as it doesn't have any of the other glitches from gen I, such as teleporting, walking through walls, or corrupted areas.
32. If you lose while fighting the champion, you simply have to pay the champion for winning, but otherwise suffer no other penalty. You can just challenge the elite 4 again. You still must go through the rest of the elite 4 again, but you keep your badges and everything else.
33. The champion is simply the strongest trainer in the region. It is a position, since the champion is basically the biggest authority of the region, and has a title to defend.You can hold this position as long as you can defend it. If you are beaten, such as Red getting beaten by the player in gen II, you are no longer the champion. But you can still win it back, you just have to go through the elite 4 again and beat everyone.
34. Trainers do often go to other regions, but via sponsor? I don't recall ever seeing a trainer get sponsored. They just travel by their own money.
35. I don't see why there would be a limit to how many times you can lose. You can lose all your money in battles, and still earn some again and get back in the game. You can stop or start again whenever you want to.
36. I doubt it. The Pokémon league isn't like the NBA or any sports league we know of. They only consist of the elite 4, champion, and probably the gyms and their trainers. If one of these people are somehow killed on the job, I don't know if their families get any reimbursement, I guess it would depend on the league, and what they want to do about it.
37. If you mean insurance for your Pokémon, I'm not sure that exists. After all, nobody can really put a value on a Pokémon, nor give you a perfect replacement should it be stolen or killed. That would be a very tricky business and it is understandable why we haven't seen anything like it made.
38. By beating trainers most likely. I would assume that each gym is a part of the Pokémon league, so every win by a trainer in any gym or in the Pokémon league itself is probably used to fund the league.
39. Team rocket wants to steal people's Pokémon and other stuff so that they can sell them or otherwise put them to work for profit. Those game corner prizes that you can buy with chips? Yeah those are Pokémon that team rocket stole. People want their rare Pokémon, and team rocket is basically the Pokémon black market.
40. I'm actually not sure. I would guess that Giovanni started it, but I have no idea how or why. If someone else knows please tell us.
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41. There are certainly thugs in the Pokémon universe. For example, there are the bikers that often say they want to steal your Pokémon or bike when they "challenge" you to a battle, and they are not affiliated with any evil organization. Also, there are many jerks like the ones in ORAS that will try to take your seat from you at the food court. Not everyone is a saint, but admittedly most people are.
42. Usually they are openly recruiting, and in various instances you hear NPCs talking about how they plan to join the evil organization, such as when team Flare told everyone that they basically had to join or die. You probably just walk into their base or any member and say you want to join, and they sign you up.
43. I can't think of any examples from the games. Nobody that just wanted to mindlessly cause violence, or did things without reason. Yes, some of the evil organizations had very questionable reasoning (looking at you, Magma, Aqua, and Galactic), but their leaders all had reasons.
44. The only instance of selling Pokémon that I remember, is team rocket selling them at the game corner, and a guy that sells you a magikarp on one of the bridges in Black/White. In team rocket's case, they stole those Pokémon, and in the fisherman's case, he was trying to rip you off by selling you something useless. Both of these types of sales are frowned upon for those reasons. I am not sure if the actual act of selling Pokémon is immoral or bad, but the only ones doing it are doing so for immoral or bad reasons. There don't appear to be any trainers that simply breed Pokémon then sell them, or sell wild Pokémon, so perhaps there is a moral reason why not to. Strangers will ask you for trades still, so it is obviously just fine to trade Pokémon with people even if you don't know them. So while it is unknown whether selling Pokémon is immoral, the people who do sell them often do it for the wrong reasons.
45. Actually, I don't see why not! From a competitive standpoint, well-bred Pokémon with good IVs, natures, abilities, and moves would fetch a LOT of money from trainers who simply don't have the time to breed them for themselves, as well as shiny Pokémon. If we assume that selling Pokémon is moral as long as it isn't for a bad reason, this would make sense. Trading Pokémon would still be useful since both parties usually end up happier with the new Pokémon they aquired, but honestly I don't know why nobody has tried to create a shop like this except for team rocket. Perhaps it is immoral. And if it's immoral, it's probably due to the fact that you are placing a price on a semi-sentient being. The only way to pay for a Pokémon is with another Pokémon, since they are priceless, but all Pokémon have the potential for greatness with the right training, so they are all valued equally.
46. Assuming again that selling Pokémon is immoral, it makes more sense to take a Pokémon out of the harsh environment it has to live in and give it good training, make it stronger very quickly, and give it the chance to achieve fame and glory with you. After all most trainers treat their Pokémon very well, and it can be assumed that the wild is a very tough place for them to live. Basically, compare buying a dog to adopting one. It is more moral to adopt one, and while it may not have a good heritage, it was doomed to live a very harsh life or die if you did not adopt it.
47. I would actually really like to see this. It certainly exists, as facts about Pokémon predation are very common in the Pokédex. But linking a web of every Pokémon that eats another Pokémon would take forever, and be up to a lot of subjectivity (for instance, does Serperior eat? Or does it only photosynthesize?). I would find it very interesting though!
48. I would assume that they do this because trainers treat them well, much better than fending for themselves in the wild. Even Giovanni treated his own Pokémon well! I mean, dogs usually do the same thing. Even dogs with bad owners will blindly follow their owners and do what they want, as long as they get food and shelter. So as long as a Pokémon has a Pokéball to live in, it probably prefers that life to the wild, and obeys its trainer as a result. Of course, if a high level Pokémon is traded to a trainer with insufficient badges, it will refuse to obey them, so they don't
completely blindly follow instructions. They know when their lifestyle has been downgraded and when it has been upgraded, and will work towards the better lifestyle.
49. In terms of real life, no. Most animals in our world do not understand that they can have a much easier life if cared for by a human. However, Pokémon do realize this, and are very competitive, and realize that they can become strongest when allied with a human, and they don't have to fight for survival while they are at it! Animals in our world do not comprehend this. They do not seek dominance over other types of animals. They simply want to supply themselves and their families with food, and multiply. When the opportunity for more is presented to a real world animal, they don't understand it, and fight against it. They don't like change.
50. I would assume that Pokémon centers are either publicly funded so that Pokémon battling is much more accessible since eveyone wants to do it, or they are funded by a major company that can only survive while Pokémon battling is popular, such as a Pokéball company, a potion company, a TM company, or even the Pokémon league itself, since all of these organizations would go bankrupt if people had to pay a hefty fee to heal their Pokémon after every battle. I think it is more likely that Pokémon centers are privately funded, perhaps by a bunch of the different companies that I listed, but they need them to make a profit.
Wow, that was a long 10 questions! When you get me talking about morals and Pokémon, I get really into it. I find morality in Pokémon very interesting. Just 29 more to go!
51. Pokémon healthcare is completely free. At least at Pokémon centers, and going off the last question, I would assume that private companies fund it, so that Pokémon battles are easily available to everyone free of any kind of charge.
52. BECAUSE SCIENCE! But seriously though, there are a
lot of scientists in the Pokémon world. One of them must have found a way to instantly cure any injuries and ailments of Pokémon through a complicated machine. That machine would have been in extremely high demand, and with enough funding and manpower, anything is possible! Even the miracle healing machine.
53. No Pokémon nor human has ever broken a bone in the games, so it's hard to tell. I would actually argue that Pokémon science hasn't yet found the power to restore broken bones. Think about the fossil machine: YOU ARE LITERALLY RE-ANIMATING DEAD THINGS! But you still need their bones! So perhaps everything but the bones can be recreated. Although this is not perfect reformation. I bet Kabutops did not look like that when it was originally alive, and every Pokémon re-animated from a fossil is a rock type. Just a side effect from being raised from the dead.
54. I would say that's not a problem! Again, I have never seen anything bleed in the games, but as long as the creature isn't dead yet, it can probably be fixed 100% with the miracle healing machine in a Pokémon center.
55. Some Pokémon can grow back missing limbs, like Staryu and Starmie, but otherwise, I would assume not. Since bones can't be fixed, if you are missing a limb that had a bone, it's gone forever. It can probably be patched up if you live through it, but you will be an amputee. In terms of things missing from birth, that would be a mutation, and taking a darwinian standpoint on this, it cannot be fixed, but if this mutation benefits you, you may become the first of a new species of Pokémon.
56. I have never heard of a depressed Pokémon, but the closest thing we have to depression is a happiness stat of zero. A healing machine will not raise happiness, even if it was higher before the Pokémon fainted (which it almost always is), so no, it does not cure depression.
57. That's a good question. The Pokéball, great ball, ultra ball, and master ball were the first types of Poké balls in game, probably developed in that order, but I have never heard of any Pokéball prototypes, or of the science behind them, so for all I know, some guy just invented the Pokéball that we know today right off the bat. If someone else knows anything about this please do tell!
58. Same as last question. I don't know. Maybe I will look this up after I am done.
59. Needless to say, no human has ever been put inside a Pokéball in the games, but humans have been turned into Pokémon in both Gen 1, and evey Mystery Dungeon game, and so these people that were turned into Pokémon must have been able to be captured if a Pokéball was chucked at them. Perhaps it has been done, but declared VERY immoral since it is 100% slavery. The Pokémon at least prefer the Pokéball to the wild, but no human would prefer it, so it is probably impossible to actually keep them inside the Pokéball since they would just break out, and illegal to do it as well
60. Perhaps it doesn't. After all, you aren't allowed to throw a Pokéball in a double or horde battle. Maybe that's because the Pokéball would try to capture both Pokémon at once, which could have horrible consequences. A Pokéball will only catch creatures that are not fainted, but other than that, it may try to catch anything that moves that it is thrown at.
We're almost there! 19 more questions to go! You really have the eye of the tiger for reading this much! I'm impressed!
61. As stated in the last question, it may try to catch both at the same time, which probably has horrible consequences that could range from death to fusion to a bunch of other bad things. Perhaps this is why the player refuses to throw a Pokéball at a horde, because he knows that it may stuff a bunch of Pokémon into a single ball, which is just plain immoral and wrong. Nobody would even want to do that.
62. There are other ways of propelling the Pokéball forward. I would guess that the Pokéball works similar to a molotov cocktail (but of course way less violent), where you prep it by pressing the button (like lighting the molotov), then it activates upon hitting any surface hard enough (like the glass breaking), and it senses any conscious life forms in the area to capture, so any way to propel the Pokéball close to the target after activating it will do. A mechanical arm, kicking it, or having another Pokémon with an arm-like apendage throw it would work just fine.
63. It doesn't seem to cost any money. You are able to access it right from the start of your game in any region, and there is no subscription fee or limit to using it unless you completely fill the boxes. I would assume that this was funded in a similar manner to the Pokémon centers to encourage Pokémon battling.
64. Perhaps Bill and the other PC storage creators don't get paid at all for inventing such a storage system. After all, it is just a program and it doesn't cost them anything to keep it running, but I still think that the research was at least privately funded, and probably Bill still gets money for his invention to keep him from charging for its use.
65. As strange as it sounds, I think that they are all new Pokémon that didn't exist in previous generations, or were just hidden and were suddenly found. Most of the ones that you find in the wild are probably new species that sprung up since the last generation, but the ones in caves or at the bottom of the ocean, or in fossils were probably there, but just too hidden. Or maybe all of a sudden a certain species finds their old habitat (say deep underground) uninhabitable any longer, so they suddenly appear on the surface. There are a couple of reasons for the Pokémon's sudden appearences, but I don't think that they exist prior to their reveal. Just look at Diancie, a mutation of Carbink that didn't exist for some time in Gen VI, but mutated from a Carbink over time.
66. Can Pokémon go extinct? Yes, the original forms of the fossil Pokémon are lost forever, and only a rough recreation of their former selves can be remade. Can Pokémon currently alive go extinct? Maybe? I think that now that each and every Pokémon has a group of humans that love it, that group of humans will keep breeding it and letting it live even if natural selection chooses against it, so I doubt we will see any Pokémon alive now go extinct, as long as there are humans that want its species to continue living.
67. The Pokémon rangers are the closest thing to a wildlife preservation, and they do make sure that the habitats that Pokémon live in are not tampered with, and that rare or legendary Pokémon are not abused or jeopardized, so yes, the Pokémon rangers do work to preserve Pokémon from extinction.
68. There are Pokémon that are said to be endangered. From off the top of my head, Lapras are endangered, but people are making efforts to stop other people from poaching the lapras, so I doubt they will go extinct. In fact, I think that Lapras are resurging in population. In Gen I, you could only get one the entire game. In Gen II, you could get one every week from Union cave. In gen III, there is a rare chance to find wild Lapras way in the depths of Icefall Cave, but nowhere else in the wild. In Gen IV and V, you had a rare chance to find them on a single route. Now in Gen VI, they are quite common in multiple areas, so they are becoming more common! There may be other endangered Pokémon but I don't know of any others from my memory.
69. They seem to kinda just let them hang around. Many cities have stay Pokémon in them, such as trubbish, pidove, or other city Pokémon. While they may be considered a nuisance by some, they don't cause too many problems, and they might be just as hard to remove as it would be to rid New York of pidgeons! Not gonna happen!
70. The Pokémon world does have it's stars, like Pokémon contest stars and TV stars. However, radio and music stars don't seem to be common. There are singers, musicians, and music, but no one music star is ever really talked about in the Pokémon world. I guess it's just not in their culture, because the Pokémon NPCs are very talkative, and will not be afraid to tell you what's hot.
Only 9 more questions to go! You've practically done it! It's the final countdown!
71. Yes. As I mentioned with Lapras, there are people who poach Pokémon similar to how people in our world poach Rhinos and Elephants. This however is illegal and efforts are being made to prevent it.
72. There is no season for it since it is illegal. The closest thing you can find to it is fishing, but even then the fish aren't necessarily dying, and pretty much anything you can catch by fishing is extremely abundant and is probably breeding like mad. There are so many Magikarp and Luvdisk out there that they will probably never run out.
73. I would assume that they make money off them somehow. So perhaps it is fine to sell fish (or maybe they just catch a bunch of magikarp and use wonder trade lol), or perhaps they are eating the fish? That's a whole new can of worms though, not for this question.
74. And here is the can of worms. Most fish Pokémon are probably edible. Magikarp, Basculin, Feebas, Almomola, and others are probably edible. And the farm animal equivalents of the Pokémon world are probably also edible, like Pignite, Combusken, and Miltank. If they are eaten by humans, it is a very touchy subject for Game Freak, and there is no way to confirm that Pokémon are edible, but I would guess that they are. Otherwise, how would fishers and farmers stay in business?
75. There are probably Pokémon that are considered delicacies, such as Goodra, which may taste incredible, like Jello, who knows? But especially humanoid Pokémon like Goodra would be very ethically complex on whether it is okay to eat them. Maybe Pokémon meat in general is a delicacy, maybe it is ethical to even eat any Pokémon. It is very hard to tell because the culture of the Pokémon world may be
very different from our own, and things that may appall us may not bother them.
76. Things that are edible for Pokémon are sometimes also edible for humans, such as the items from the vending maching, a Rage Candy Bar, or probably Rare Candy. Also, if someone tried hard enough, they could probably find a way to smoke it or sniff it. The effects it would have on a human could range from nothing to steroids, but I personally think it would only give you a sugar high. It is probably very tasty and sugary, so it would give you energy, but unlike a Pokémon it would be temporary. Or maybe it isn't temporary and it is illegal to eat as a result, like steroids, or maybe it has negative effects and nobody eats it for that reason. I'm gonna stick with the regular candy idea though, and it's rare because the company that made it went out of business, similar to Hostess for a while, as you could call a Twinkie a rare candy for a time.
77. Honestly, it's probably just regular candy. If you want to know how it makes Pokémon and maybe people stronger? I think it's a psychological effect only. Think about it, if this candy was so powerful, why would the company that made it go out of business? I think that they went out of business, then the candy became a rare delicacy, and as such rumors spread that it gave you strength, and since you were told that, you actually believed that it gave you strength when you ate it, so you tried harder, and became stronger as a result. Perhaps the same thing happens to Pokémon. The trainer talks about how rare and special a Rare Candy is, so the Pokémon immediately thinks that it's stronger and pushes itself harder, actually becoming stronger as a result.
78. So far, no, I don't think that any of those franchises exist in the same universe as Pokémon. However, other trainers have referenced many other franchises, even Dragon Ball Z's "Over 9000" quote, so either this is just a coincidence, and some level of yours was over 9000, or Dragon Ball Z is an actual TV show in the Pokémon universe as well. If the latter is true, then maybe Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh exist as a TV show and card game in the Pokémon universe too! But certainly Digimon themselves don't exist in the Pokémon world. The idea maybe, the creatures themselves, no.
79. The closest thing we have to Pokémon hell is the Distortion world, and the only way to get there is if Giratina makes a portal and you go through it, so no, you will not.
There! I did it! Wow that took a couple hours to do, but I enjoyed it. I love digging way too deep into Pokémon and making theories, speculations, and explanations that may be completely ludicrous, but help explain the strange ways of the Pokémon universe. If you read through all of this, you are AWESOME! And thank you so much for your time! I would also love to hear if you have any answers that differ from mine, if there are any answers that I did not know that you do, or if you agree with mine. Anyone else can still answer these questions too if you are up to the challenge. I would read them. Thanks for sticking with me through my ramblings!
