(upbeat instrumental music)
- Hey Pokemon masters,
Bird Keeper Toby here,
welcome to what I hope is
going to be potentially
be a new segment but I wanna
know what you think about it
in the comments.
Fact Fridays.
Can it be every Friday
or every other Friday,
I cover 20 facts about a
popular Pokemon character.
And of course today it's the
number one most popular, Ash.
Also massive thank you to
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For now though, Ash Ketchum
and 20 facts about him.
Number one, now it's
a well known fact that
Ash Ketchum doesn't seem to age in the
black and white anime
which occurs like many
years after he started his journey.
He's still apparently 10.
That said something though
a lot of younger viewers
might not realize that
Ash has had a birthday
or at least celebrated
increments of a year,
in the third movie he celebrated a year
since meeting his buddy Pikachu
and apparently his
birthday is on April 1st.
Which leads me to the
only realistic conclusion.
Ash Ketchum is a time lord.
Number two,
out of his original gym badges,
Ash only legitimately won three of them.
That's because he won
Brock's badge through some
massive mechanic flaw because electric
does not affect ground types.
Misty awarded him for
defeating Team Rocket,
Erica for helping the
Pokemon out in a fire.
He won Sabrina's because
he made her laugh.
Not because he defeated her,
because he made her laugh.
And of course the final gym badge,
he battled Team Rocket, not
the legitimate gym leader.
So it's kinda no surprise
that his Charizard
didn't obey him and he
lost the Indigo League.
Number three, despite
pledging to catch them all
he's done everything but that really.
If you included every single
Pokeball throw and capture
and evolution, he would have 110 Pokemon
and that 30 of those are Tauros.
And many of those are
Pokemon that he owned
only for a single episode or traded away
or gave away or of course pre-evolutions
to his current team.
He's also never officially
caught a ghost, steel,
psychic or fairy Pokemon
at all in the entirety of his journey so,
he's still got a long way to go yet.
Number four, if Ash had got
to the Pokemon lab on time
he would've received a Squirtle,
this same Squirtle was taken
by Gary Oak, his rival,
who was on time.
Can you imagine that?
Ash and Squirtle on his shoulder traveling
the Pokemon world.
Number five, Ash has
also had an appearance
in the card game in the
diamond and pearl era
where he had lots of his
Pokemon appear on cards
including his Aipom, Torkcoal, Staraptor
and of course Pikachu.
Number six, he also appeared
in his own manga series
called the Adventures of Ash and Pikachu
in which he had a massive
crush on Gary's sister.
So you can kinda see why
there's a rivalry there.
That said, number seven
is a fact Pokeshipping
that might surprise you.
Shipping for those of you who don't know
is a preparing of two fictional
characters romantically
and despite his young age,
Ash has been shipped with
a lot of other characters.
Pokeshipping is the
pairing of Ash and Misty,
AdvanceShipping is him and May.
PearlShipping is him and Dawn.
More recently the big one is AmourShipping
which I've done a couple of videos about,
that's Ash and Serena.
But one of the most popular
ships is called PalletShipping
which is of Ash and his rival Gary Oak.
Which if you go look it up,
there's a surprising
amount of content that
actually kind of backs up this idea.
And even more so in the
original Japanese dub so,
that's a thing.
Number eight, the furthest
Ash has ever gotten
in a Pokemon league is fourth place
when he lost to a character called Tobias
in the Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh league.
While Ash was just using his normal team,
Tobias started off with a Darkrai
that took all six of
Ash's Pokemon to take out
and then he followed up with a Latios
meaning Ash really stood no chance.
I mean Tobias is really like that kid who
uses Action Replay to get
the strongest Pokemon.
That one really wasn't Ash's fault.
Number nine, Ash was originally
gonna be called Casey
and that was given to another character
who was recurring in the Pokemon series.
Number 10, half way there,
Ash Ketchum was originally
voiced by Veronica Taylor,
a person I have met who
was absolutely lovely
and voices the outro's to all of my videos
as well as voicing Delia
Ketchum, Ash's mother,
May, April and Neil from
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
and Ancient Fairy Dragon
from Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's.
Which I only know because I
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Number 11, despite meeting
every legendary Pokemon
prior to generation seven,
Ash has not caught a single one.
I mean you knew he didn't
have any legendary Pokemon
but the point is, is that
he has met all of them,
some of them multiple times.
Ash, if you're trying
to be a Pokemon master,
get the message.
Number 12, Ash despite being
the face of the franchise
has never appeared in the games,
well apart from one.
That being in Pokemon Puzzle League
so Ash really hasn't
appeared in the games at all.
Instead he's normally replaced
by his game counterpart, Red.
Number 13, between Ash and
his traveling companions,
they have each collectively owned all
of these starter Pokemon and
their evolutionary lines.
Ash has owned all of
the starter Pokemon from
Janto, Johto and Unova.
The start of Pokemon of
home were owned by Brock
who have Mudkip, May who had Torchic
and Ash who had Treecko.
In Sinnoh, Ash had two of them having
both Turtwig and Chimchar
while dawn had Piplup.
And in Kalos Ash has
earned the Froakie line,
Serena the Fennekin line and
Clemont the Chespin line.
Number 14, Ash's original Pokemon
was suppose to be Clefairy
but that was changed
very late in development.
Apparently the Pokemon
company just decided
that Pikachu was more
appealing to a wide audience.
Number 15, Ash lost to
a Magikarp in Sinnoh
with his Pikachu.
Yes, the electric type Pikachu lost
to the water type Magikarp.
It's really no wonder that
apart of the Orange Islands
in the battle frontier, he
hasn't won a proper league yet.
Number 16, Ash has lost at least once to
every normal type gym leader.
Don't worry Ash, we kinda
understand this one.
Damn you Whitney.
Number 17 is also a fact
about Ash another someone
who mimics Ash in Cartoon
Network's Codename Kid Next Door,
there's a kid who dresses
up like Ash Ketchum.
Number 18, in the first
episode of the show,
Ash sees a Ho-Oh and
while lots of newer videos
won't understand why that's important,
back in the day that was
the announcement of Ho-Oh,
that's how they did.
In fact, that was how they
revealed generation two to us
to begin with.
Ho-Oh just appears in
episode one of the show
and we all experienced it.
It would be like if rather
then getting an announcement
for the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Moon,
a Pokemon from Sun and Moon
just showed up in the anime.
But before the announcement of the games.
Number 19, Ash has been
accompanied by at least
11 different companions,
most of whom if this does
become a series that you like
and you're gonna have to
let me know in the comments,
I will try and do a video
of and almost all of them
he has been shipped with.
Also despite the fact
that most people believe
that he travels with a
female companion primarily,
actually it's pretty much an even split.
There's just one more girl than boy
and that's evened out
if you consider Pikachu.
And number 20.
Speaking of the whole romancing Pokemon,
did you know that Ash has only been kissed
three times in the show?
Once by Chikorita who did
it in a cute nosily way.
Once by Melody in the Pokemon movie 2000.
And then once in the Pokemon
movie, Pokemon Heroes.
And the character in
question was either a Latios
or a human girl but
we're not sure if it was
the Latios in disguise or the human girl
which basically means
it's a flip of a coin
as to whether Ash has been
kissed more times by Pokemon
or people in the show.
That's it for today's Fact Friday,
thank you again to my
sponsors Crunchyroll.
Let me know if you want this Fact Friday
to be a regular thing covering
all the main companions
in the show and some other characters.
It's all up to you and
also just a quick thank you
for like 75,000 subscribers
but also just for the
general sticking with the channel,
the likes, the comments, the shares.
I mean subscribing
milestones are cool but just,
you know thank you
for like just watching this
video, I appreciate it.
Yeah that's it today.
Ash, why don't you take us out?
- [Voiceover] This is Ash Ketchum,
you just watched a video
by Bird Keeper Toby.
That makes you a Pokemon master!
