
Some of them know the truth, but they do it anyway.
Animal Wrongs Group: Team Plasma steal Pokémon to "liberate" them from other Trainers.
Amusement Park: Nimbasa City's Amusement Park. The Ground Gym Leader, Clay, is actually a subversion, as he was designed as a Japanese immigrant who got rich when he struck oil and dresses like one because he can. Americans Are Cowboys: The male Pokémon Ranger trainer class have the looks of cowboys.
Sawk and Throh originate in this region, and are based on karate and judo practitioners respectively. The Oshawott Line being based around samurai. The Sky Arrow Bridge and Entralink taking influences from the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Imperial Palace respectively. The Clerk class being based on Japanese salarymen and office ladies, and the latter being outright called that in the Japanese versions. The Preschooler class (called Kindergartner in Japanese) wears Japanese Kindergarten uniforms. The Abundant Shrine dedicated to Landorus, who is based heavily on the Shinto god of rice and fertility Inari. Americasia: Despite the Unova region being mainly based on New York City and northern New Jersey in the United States, it has quite a few Japanese influences including but not limited to:. You can only wonder if it's because he's worried that she won't be able to function in the outside world without an adult. Ambiguous Disorder: Certain things about Bianca make you wonder if she has some sort of mental disorder, as her father is unusually protective of her and doesn't want her going out into the world alone. Ambidextrous Sprite: Averted, you can't see either player character's bag when they are facing the right side. Not only is Opelucid City drastically different between Black and White, and the space across from Marvelous Bridge either contains Black City or White Forest, but there is also a small sidequest where you can show an electric Pokémon from the other version of the game to an NPC to receive an item and actually allow them to contact his alternate counterpart between the two universes, even if for a brief moment. Alternate Universe: It's implied that the different versions of each pair of games are parallel universes of each other. (Really a subversion: He's actually the head of the Battle Company, who likes to disguise himself as a janitor to find good trainers.) He's actually the strongest trainer in the building. Almighty Janitor: When you enter the Battle Company building in Castelia, you're greeted by the building's janitor. To rub salt in that, one of the Plasma agents mentions that N might not actually be Ghetsis's son, and might have been kidnapped from another family to be raised in a psychologically-abusive, socially-maladjusted environment as a disposable figurehead for Team Plasma. Implications are strong that Ghetsis planned to dispose of N when he played his part. Adult Fear: N's upbringing by Ghetsis, locked in a room with meaningless toys, socially isolated, and emotionally abused, so that he will become a Tykebomb for Ghetsis to take over Unova and then the world. To do this he kept N in isolation since childhood from other humans, with only Pokémon for interaction (and only those that had been abused by humans, at that), so that N would grow up to hate humans. Abusive Parents: Ghetsis manipulated his son, N, to help with his goal of conquering the region. There's a guy in Black version's Opelucid City with Peek-a-Bangs. Grimsley of the Elite Four has the iconic hairstyle of the lead singer of A Flock Of Seagulls. Professor Juniper has something of a beehive do going on. The player characters - one huge ponytail, and one mullet. The updated battle screens, however, have 2D sprites set on a 3D landscape. 2❝: The overworld is similar to Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, having set paths in a 3D-style setting. Unlike the previous Nintendo DS installments, Black and White support the more-secure-than-WEP WPA encryption, as well as the revised WPA2 encryption, when playing online this requires a DSi, DSi XL, or 3DS, however, as the original DS and DS Lite do not have hardware support for WPA. In this installment, Game Freak shakes up a number of series traditions: the player characters are older, the resident Professor (Juniper) is a woman, Pokémon Centers and Pokémon Marts have been merged into one building, there are no Generation I-IV Pokémon in the regional Pokédex, TMs can be used an infinite amount of times, there's no Game Corner or Safari Zone present, and the new Unova region isn't based on a region of Japan but on New York City (and a little New Jersey as well, with the sequels adding more New Jersey). The games were released on Septemin Japan Main Europe Main the U.S. Pokémon Black and White are the first half of the fifth generation of Pokémon, made for the Nintendo DS.