User:MathyFurret/Pokémon Showdown April Fools' Day sprites
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This is a list of pop culture references and other jokes found in the Pokémon sprites designed for April Fools' Day on Pokémon Showdown.
Pokémon | Artist | Description |
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Gigantamax Charizard | Platty | A spoof of the cover of The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. The word "Dot" is replaced with "Zard." |
Squirtle | Drawn with the same sunglasses as Ash's Squirtle. | |
Gigantamax Blastoise | A spoof of the box-office bomb Battleship. | |
Butterfree | A spoof of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! vegetable spread. The container reads, "I can't believe it's Butter-free!" | |
Weedle | A line of ASCII art resembling Weedle is typed into a word processor. A spell checker suggests that the author meant to write "weedle". | |
Beedrill | The entire Bee Movie sped up and compressed into an animated sprite. | |
Rattata | The text "TOP %" appears next to an extremely muscular Rattata, referencing the infamous Youngster Joey line. | |
Raichu | Drawn as Homer and Marge Simpson. | |
Alolan Sandshrew | A literal igloo. | |
Sandslash | Sandslash's sprite from Pokémon Red and Green Versions is colored with its modern palette. | |
Alolan Sandslash | A palette swap of Sanic Hedgehog. | |
Nidoqueen | Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury in Nidoqueen-colored clothes. | |
Alolan Ninetales | Nine sprites of Tails arranged in a 3x3 grid colored light blue. | |
Jigglypuff | Kirby is given Jigglypuff's ears and hair. |