Not sure if anyone had this happen,but in 4th grade(3 years ago)almost everyone said they were a fan of pokemon.I would ask them which pokemon they knew.And you know what everyone's answer was?Pikachu,the mascot of the whole franchise!They didn't know any of the starters if their lives depended on it!
This. Tons of people I know are guilty of this. Except, uh, they're high schoolers.
Upon Pokemon becoming a topic of our conversation, they'll say either:
1. "Oh yeah, Pokemon! I loved that show/Pikachu!"
....I'm talking about the games, people. Or occasionally the manga, Pokemon Special, but then I'd've said Pokemon Special. In any case, I did not mean the show. I know the show was pretty popular, but do you HAVE to automatically assume I'm talking about the show??
2. "I'm a huge fan of Pokemon!" or other such claims of knowing a lot about it, because uncool is cool now (so are 'randomness' and hating Justin Bieber, but that's a different story)
"Then tell me one non-legendary, non-starter, non-generation-one Pokemon."
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
If you're going to pretend that you like Pokemon, at least know a little about it to make your pretense more believable.
3. Stuff like "Ew, you like Pokemon?" or "Pokemon's for little kids. People your age should be playing Halo/COD/whatever. Ohwaitno, girls don't play video games."
Okay I embellished that last part.
Anyways, I hate that gamers who play FPSs are considered "badass" and gamers who play popular stuff like, say, Super Mario Galaxy or LoZ (not that they're bad; just for example's sake) are considered "cool", but people who play more "kiddish" or unknown games like Pokemon, Ace Attorney, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Fire Emblem, whatever, are considered "lame".
And then there are those people who cling to their uber teams and have no strategy or foresight or anything as to how to use them. I already don't like uber teams; don't make it worse by giving your Groudon Rollout. Or the non-uber version, in which people smash Shaymin/Mew/Togekiss/Umbreon/Glaceon/Espeon/Leafeon/Plusle/Minun on their teams because they're cute, but have no idea how to use them.
Speaking of 'cute', what happened to acknowledging the existence of Pokemon like Dunsparce or Qwilfish or Relicanth or Trapinch? C'mon, coelacanths are cool, righ-- OHMYGODLOOKIT'SAKAWAIIDESUKITTYPOKEMON!
Also, the Red =/= Ash =/= Pokemon Trainer and Green =/= Gary thing ... Red is the game PC, or even the manga character if you want, but he isn't Ash. Ash is a moron with magical powers (*cough* Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea *cough*). Similarly, Green is not Gary. I'll excuse people who call him Blue because it's really not their faults on that one. But Gary? NO. NOOOO.
And just as a side note, I pronounce it "Poe-kuh-mon", and I always say it reallyreallyfast. And for some reason I say "guard-uh-vwarrr", 'die-al-guh', 'arka-nine', 'gibble', and I switch between 'ar-see-us' and 'ar-kee-us'. You all hate me now, I know. Especially because I've essentially recapitulated everything everyone else already said. But more loquacious...ly. I swear, this always happens. I can't type out a short post for the life of me. And then I get really self-conscious about my posts and hope people don't reply by yelling at me. D: