NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
The Pokémon franchise sometimes makes references to places in the real world, implying that they live in our world, but in a different dimension. Here are some noteworthy references to real-world locations:
- Rapidash's Dex entries saying it can jump over Ayers Rock (Uluru) in one leap, or Tokyo Tower in the Japanese versions.
- Arcanine being worshipped as a legendary Pokémon in China.
- Mew being discovered in Guyana in South America.
- Meowth going to Hollywood in the anime episode "Go West Young Meowth", which was incidentally the episode which explained how he learned to talk.
- Misty fantasizing about going to France in another early anime episode. (This was many years before Kalos was even a thing.)
- The Team Rocket scientist complaining about being sent to the Tiksi branch in "Russian no-man's land".
- In one episode of the Black & White anime, Cilan says that while it was practising its Aqua Jet attack, Oshawott "wanted to go to Japan, but instead reached China". (This was only in the Hindi dub, though.)
- An exhibit in the Pewter Science Museum refers to the real-life moon landing in 1969. ("Real world" doesn't just mean Earth; it can mean our entire solar system and universe too.)