Trainer Tanner investigates Pokerus a little. More to come! See below for the script. SCRIPT: January: a time of beginnings. Resolutions are made, hope that we can do better than before sparks once again, and dreams for a better tomorrow are given birth. It only seems fitting that my first video should be in January and as such, my first video should consequently be over beginnings. While there were some major ways I could take the discussion of "new beginnings" in the Pokemon world, for the anime, manga (which I will temporarily avoid for now due to personal ignorance of the subject), and games each respectively, I decided to go with a more direct opening into the world. Most Pokemon discussions shy away from the immediate discussion of how the Pokemon world came to be, but I think I should set as a precedent what my personal beliefs are about how the Pokemon world came to be. This belief, for all people, will affect the way that their discussions flow, so why hold off on something so important? I believe in the Pokerus theory. For those of you who do not know, the Pokerus theory is a theory that the Pokerus virus changed a world very much like our own, in fact, very well possibly our own, into the world of Pokemon. For those who think Pokerus is a concept the fans made up, I assure you it is a real thing mentioned both in the anime as well as the games. What is stated about it, though, leaves a lot to the imagination. I will discuss the facts about Pokerus in a different video, for now, a lot of the following video is speculative, but greatly affects some other theories I may discuss in the future. As more information on Pokerus is officially released, I may or may not edit and amend my statements made in this video. So, as I was saying, my belief is that Pokerus appeared on Earth and drastically changed it. Whether Pokerus is alien or of earth, that does not necessarily matter; however, as Pokemon exist on other planets, the presumption of a viral cause would mean one of two things had to have happened: a) The same virus (or radiation-type, depending on the specific theory) was able to similarly form and endure long enough in two separate environments to infect life from both locations. Or the more likely scenario... b) A virus formed on a planet, meteor, or other inhabited interplanetary location, infected the life, and regardless of if the life showed signs of mutation, piggy backed on them until it was able to travel to a region where it could fully infect and mutate the life-forms around it. It then travelled, whether with these alien creatures, or in trace amounts on meteors and other hunks of space debris until it reached the Earth. Either way, though, depending on how this virus affects life, the discussed event could have been caused between 100 years ago and 100 million years ago. The virus could begin to spread in this new environment that it was released into so that it could roam freely. It infected the wildlife and plant life allowing each to grow stronger, yielding twice the results for the same amount of work it had to previously do. These results would theoretically create a new food chain: the hunters could very well become the hunted. Over time and natural evolution, Pokemon would then form and begin to take over as a dominant life-group, second to only the humans who eventually would learn to tame and control them and use the power that is inside Pokemon for both destruction and creation. Well, that wraps up this video. This gives you a brief introduction to the Pokerus theory. Am I right? Am I wrong? You can decide for yourself, and as a gift, I will make this be my first mini-series where I explain what the virus may have theoretically done, why there are so few animals, why there STILL are animals, why most plants were seemingly unaffected, why humans were seemingly unaffected, why some creatures of a species, as well as entire species, were affected while others were not, what this could entail for the future of humans and Pokemon alike, why is it that no species of Pokemon appear to be immune including the legendaries, why the legendaries became so rare and powerful, and most importantly why I seem to never shut up. Be sure to give your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below. Also, if you like this video, show your appreciation by Liking this video as well as hitting the Subscribe button. This takes only about 5 seconds if you are already logged into your YouTube/Google account as you probably should already be since that makes giving support to your favorite channels and commenting on funny cat videos all the easier. This is TrainerTanner, signing off!

• published: 05 Jan 2014
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