The Tragic Mystery of Pokemon's Ghost Girl (Pokemon) | Game Theory

Any game: exists MatPat: DeAd ChiLDrEn

Matpat: "Pokemon's first ever ghost girl" Ghost girl from the Old Chateau: "Am I a joke to you?"

Actually more evidence, one of the moves darkrai can learn is called dark void which is a move only accessible by darkrai, further more the moves description is "a move which when used puts the opponent in a never ending sleep" now the interesting part is it also gives darkrai more health from the opposing Pokémon so I'm guessing that darkrai used it by mistake on the little girl when it was angry or a better reason someone tried to catch it as trainers can catch it for a good team.

I actually know why Darkrai made the ghost girl have the nightmare. In the more recent Pokémon Journeys and Master Journeys (I can’t remember which one), it is stated in one episode that Darkrai was not able to control its nightmare powers. So Darkrai did not mean to hurt the ghost girl, but due to incontrollable power, it made her fall into an endless nightmare. Something I would like to point out, in the same episode, it is mentioned that Cresselia exists to stop nightmares that Darkrai accidentally does. It balances the two out. Whe Darkrai accidentally harms someone, Cresselia’s there to stop the nightmare. Both Darkrai and Cresselia coexist.

I mean...she's a kid in the pokemon world. There's always one very-likely reason that Darkrai felt like it needed to defend itself: someone tried to catch it.

Nobody: Matpat: LETS TALK ABOUT DEAD KIDS

The ghost girls could very well be a reference to the onryo or how, in Japanese mythology, a lot of ghost stories seemed to be based around female ghosts, since they don't seem to be vengeful.

I think she was trying to convince her father to forget the Lunar Wing, but “Stay here with me” could be her noticing the Player and wishing they would stay with her, viewing them as a possible friend, and not wanting to lose them as she lost her Parents.

game: comes out. MatPat: I diagnose you with dead child

Matpat: There are multiple instances of children dying Scott cawthon: Heh that's cute

I have a theory (It's a long one, but it's worth to give a try)- This girl is actually Lostelle. An NPC appearing in Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green. When we go to the Two Island in Sevii Islands, we figure out, that the daughter of the owner of the Game Corner has been lost and he wants us to find her Lostelle. So, we go to Three Island and enter the Berry Forest and at the end of the forest, we find Lostelle and she says (while crying) "Please help me" and then we find out that she was kidnapped by an Hypno and we fight him, we can either faint it or catch it, and after that battle, we get back to the Two Island and Lostelle returns to her father. Now, there's a very popular creepypasta about Hypno called "Hypno's Lullaby", which is basically based on this incident and Hypno' pokedex entry, which Mat talked about that in this video. So, in this creepypasta, Hypno kidnaps kids and take them into the Berry Forest and keep them away from their family forever and there's even a song made about and you can find it on YouTube, and the worse part about that song is that it has Lavender Town's music in it. So my theory is that Lostelle was the only survivor from all those children that Hypno kidnapped and kept them them in the forest, and because of nightmares that Lostelle still has because of what Hypno did to her, her family shifted to Unova into that Strange House. And maybe those nightmares has something to do with Darkrai tormenting Lostelle. But hey, that's just a theo.... You know what, I can't do this, only Mat can.

Given the nature of Darkrai's powers in the games being uncontrollable, it's very possible that the whole thing was an accident.

Even sadder is that darkrai can’t control its nightmare abilities and gas to seclude it’s self because of that. Darkrai didn’t even mean to

Ah, matpat covering dead video children in a video game Just like the good ole days

So basically, ''Hey! Lets catch pokemon and get kidnapped by an big yellow pokemon that has an pendelum that can bring me to hell!'' Kind of that statement.

This was one of the first videos I've watched on youtube (partially because of Covid) and I thought this was by some random unknown theorist, and this video just changed my entire life in so many ways. I have always loved this theory and when I found it four years later by complete accident, I was so happy. This video gave me an appreciation towards stories in games and I now know why Darkrai is my favorite Pokemon. (other than the amazing design) I love what Mat Pat has done with the theory, and how much it's changed my life.

A game franchise: exists Mat Pat: I diagnose you with dark

So, MatPat, when are you going to start talking about dead children in videogames? MatPat: yes

I have a theory that connects to this theory: if Darkrai killed an innocent girl with nightmares, then that meant she'd pose a threat to the world in the future. Like you said "the nightmares were prophecies" , meaning that he actually saved the world from a future threat

This was one of the first videos I watched from Game Theory and I have finally returned to rewatch it! Its super interesting and rather plausible but I need to play these games-