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Another theory, courtesy of Ombrare.

So, you guys know the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, of course. The world with no humans and all that. However, in Red and Blue Rescue Team, the Friend Areas based off of laboratories seem to have been used, and are still partially functional. The descriptions even state that they were abandoned a long time ago.

So, humans did exist in the PMD world. So, from that, I've made a theory that the PMD universe is actually the same one as the main games, only set in the future, where some cataclysmic event wiped out humanity, and left Pokemon as the dominant species.


What that event was is where the imagination comes in. I, for one, believe that it was a war between the two. But I'll let you guys think of other stuff. Might be fanfic worthy...
 
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Hm, seems interesting. Here's my addition to your theory:

Humans tried to control Palkia and capture it, and for punishment Palkia used its power and sent them to the parallel dimension, one where Pokémon don't exist. Cuz, you know - Dialga controls time and Palkia rules over space. :p

EDIT: That would also explain the fact how people know that they're Pokémon in the games and the portal which transforms them into Pokémon via the real world - Pokemon world cross path.
 
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Perhaps humans left the planet because they thought it was screwed, pro'ly by E.V.E. Level Asteroid Strike, but it missed and the humans never bothered to return, settling elsewhere in the universe. Pokémon adapted and along came the Mystery Dungeon series.
 
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Intresting theory. I think it would make sense if the humans tried to control Palkia (Team Galactic maybe?) and while they were traveling through space, their memories were wiped and they were transformed into pokemon. Over time, the event was forgotten and the world was left without humans. In PMD2, I suspect that the hero was transformed from a pokemon to a human in the paralyzed world of the future, and was turned back into a pokemon when the dimensional hole in the beginning shattered.
 
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Pokemon can talk, why is it outside the realm of reason that they made those laboratories and abandoned them?
 
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Kodizzle! said:
Or the pokémon could simply be humans that were turned into pokémon.
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So where did our protagonist come from? He obviously must come from the world of humans. :/
 
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Tsutarja said:
So where did our protagonist come from? He obviously must come from the world of humans. :/
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True. I didn't think about other parts of the story-line either. Like how you, the player, once owned Grovyle. (I think that's what it said in darkness/time.)
 
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Kodizzle! said:
True. I didn't think about other parts of the story-line either. Like how you, the player, once owned Grovyle. (I think that's what it said in darkness/time.)
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Huh?

But then the theory doesn't make sense. I just looked it up on Bulbapedia, and it says that Grovyle and his partner (human) went back from future to past in order to solve the paralysis of Earth. But on their trip towards past, the human lost memory as he transformed into Pokémon. The question is, what triggered the transformation? And how come there are no humans in the past, but there are in future (the world our hero came from)? Gah, I'm confused... :/
 
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How about Humans once colonized the island, but moved away and it eventually became a 'Bermuda Triangle' of sorts, where airliners and ships refuse to go through. Pokémon then learnt how to use the strange things and grew into the civilization you see in the MD Games. It also allows the storylines to remain undisturbed as you float in from the ocean, a section of ocean humans refuse to enter. Arceus has probably cut this place off and any humans that do enter are subjected to the rule of no humans.

...Either that or the protagonist just flat out dies and what you see is their last urklings of life as their brain shuts down and they see themselves as their favorite Pokémon, just for that last bit of joy because, lets face it, who wouldn't love to be *insert Pokémon here*, it the whole premise of the games.
 
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Outrage said:
Pokemon can talk, why is it outside the realm of reason that they made those laboratories and abandoned them?
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This, just this. Why does a lab always have to be created by humans? You have seen what Mewtwo can make in the first movie, right? Then why can't other Pokémon build things like laboratories? :'l
 
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Okay, lets say that Pokémon did create those labs. Where are the humans? :O If he really came from the same dimensions from the Grovyle from the future, that can only mean that something happened later which would cause more humans to appear.
 
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Outrage said:
Pokemon can talk, why is it outside the realm of reason that they made those laboratories and abandoned them?
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Because of the Descripit Lab's description.
 
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That, and the Pokemon actually knew what a human was. If it were in a parallel universe where humans didn't exist, then why have the Pokemon never questioned the protagonist what a human was?
 
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The Apocalypse happened. Arceus used Judgement on the human race. The four formes of Deoxys were the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Heatran erupted. Kyogre raised the seas. Groudon made more land. Regigigas moved the land into starnge positions. Few humans survived it all.
 
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Tsutarja said:
Huh?

But then the theory doesn't make sense. I just looked it up on Bulbapedia, and it says that Grovyle and his partner (human) went back from future to past in order to solve the paralysis of Earth. But on their trip towards past, the human lost memory as he transformed into Pokémon. The question is, what triggered the transformation? And how come there are no humans in the past, but there are in future (the world our hero came from)? Gah, I'm confused... :/
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well mabey its like "horten hears a who" and the whole pokemon world is on a speck of dust and we later in the future we travel in a port hole (and get smaller) and go to the pokemon world. then we decide to leave and abandon the labes and such, then figure out a shink ray that works better and only a chossen 1 person get to go there(grovils partner) and because of the earlier shrink and enlargeing grovils partner-human that went there transformed into A POKEMON!!!! (THE END) you see, there are no humans in the pokemon world, but when thay decide to make movies and shows thay shrink them into the speck and tape it. then they get out so thus the world of pokemon is left without humans again. the end! (again)
 
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Instrutilus said:
How about Humans once colonized the island, but moved away and it eventually became a 'Bermuda Triangle' of sorts, where airliners and ships refuse to go through. Pokémon then learnt how to use the strange things and grew into the civilization you see in the MD Games. It also allows the storylines to remain undisturbed as you float in from the ocean, a section of ocean humans refuse to enter. Arceus has probably cut this place off and any humans that do enter are subjected to the rule of no humans.

...Either that or the protagonist just flat out dies and what you see is their last urklings of life as their brain shuts down and they see themselves as their favorite Pokémon, just for that last bit of joy because, lets face it, who wouldn't love to be *insert Pokémon here*, it the whole premise of the games.
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Actually, I think that this theory would make more sense than Ombrare's.
 
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The dying thing or the section of ocean one?
 
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Here's mah theory:

What if human scientists copied down the genomes of every 'mon, and then stored dormant embryos from every species that could be reactivated in the case of a disaster that wipes out a certain species. That vault would be far underground, safe even from fallout.

Then, an accident in another lab, which studied the Pokerus, caused a Pokerus sample to mutate extremely quickly, before the scientists could get it under control. It now, instead of being beneficial, it completely stops the nervous system (thus stopping all body functions) and causes death within five minutes of infection, with no cure, from asphyxiation or heart failure. It infects humans and 'mons, and multiplies rapidly. The sample breaks out and spreads through the population and wipes out the world populous in about three days. Then, with nothing left to destroy, it begins attacking itself and eventually burns out after about three weeks.

Back in the embryo lab, after weeks the computers in the lab sense no interaction from humans and flip into emergency mode. They administer food and water to the embryos inside thier antimated suspense tanks, whom grow rapidly.

After six months, the 'mons are fully developed and the computers should be letting them out of the tanks. However, all power systems have failed, but food and water flow has not stopped. Thus, the 'mons continue to grow and develop steadily, developing advanced minds and cognitive abilities.

Then, finally, 18 months after thee computers first reawakened the embryos, they break out. Using their advanced brains (at par or higher than humans) they burrow out of the lab and slowly repopulate the earth.

Whaddaya think?
 
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