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- Hey Pokemon Masters!
Bird Keeper Toby here
and welcome back to another fact Friday.
I decided you all liked
the first fact Friday,
talking 20 facts about Ash Ketchum so much
that I'd continue on
the series a little bit,
see how you feel about it.
Different setup, I'm just trying things.
And of course, as you
can see by the thumbnail,
today's Fact Friday, we've
got 20 facts that hopefully
you didn't already know about Misty.
So let's just jump straight into it.
Number one, I am just
gonna get it outta the way,
is censored stuff.
Misty has been censored in
so many different medias.
In the first episode of the show,
when it got moved over to the West,
she was censored from
slapping Ash across the face
despite the fact that you can
plainly see he's been slapped.
You can even hear the
slapping sound effects,
in the trading card game
there's the censorship of the
Misty's Tears card, which
got a whole artwork rework
for very obvious reasons
and don't even get me
started on the manga.
There's just some stuff
that had to be changed.
Fact Number 2: Across the
first two seasons of the show,
Misty actually came in
first place in more Pokemon
competitions than Ash did.
Good job, Misty.
Fact Number Three: Misty's the
only member of the main cast
to have two members of an
evolution line on her team at the
same time, giving more sort
of feeling to the fact that
she was trying to be a
gym leader-in-training.
Fact Number Four: Misty was
voiced by the same person
who voiced Jessie from Team Rocket
and not just in the
original version either,
also in the 4Kids dub.
You know, I really wouldn't have guess it.
Number five, well once upon
a time PokeShipping was a big
deal, the pairing of Ash
and Misty romantically.
A more popular ship for
Misty nowadays is with Tracy,
another companion of Ash's
who journeyed with them on
the Orange Islands.
It's due to comments like this:
- He's not my boyfriend!
He's a boy and he's a friend
but he's not a boyfriend.
- You talking about me?
- This as well as whenever Ash's
home he asks where Tracy is
because he should be in Pallet Town
working with the Professor.
The Professor Oak normally
explains that Tracy is over
with Misty, helping her out with the gym.
And because after the loss of her Togepi
her new baby Pokemon is Azurill
and Tracy has a Marill, a
gift for his beloved friend.
Number six, this isn't to say
that PokeShipping never had
it's splitting, in fact there
was originally a different
ending to the first movie that
was a whole different script
and in a trailer for this
adaptation, we see an older Misty
reminiscing about a boy
that she once loved.
Obviously talking about Ash.
Number seven, Misty began a
trend of female companions
having their bikes electrocuted
and having to be repaid by Ash.
This trend included May and Dawn
but she also shared some
parallels with Serena as well.
This being that both her and
Serena met Ash just outside
of Pallet Town in a forest.
Number eight, Misty
had her own theme deck,
included loads of performing
Pokemon including Poliwag,
Staryu, and of course
her infamous Psyduck.
Number nine, despite Misty being
a water Pokemon enthusiast,
she has a massive fear of Gyarados.
She does, however, in the
Pokemon chronicle series
overcome this fear and
obtain a Gyarados herself.
But to add more to this
emotional journey of hers,
in one episode she is seen
chasing what she believes to be
a legendary water Pokemon.
This is some fantasy she
has and this legendary water
Pokemon seems to resemble a mega Gyarados.
It's like she always wanted
to conquer those fears
and then she finally did.
Number 10, despite her being
the only water master that
Ash has traveled with, her and
Ash now have the same amount
of water type Pokemon, that being nine.
Not if you count her Staryu
and Starmie separately
and don't count all their
evolutionary lines, like Froakie
all the way to Greninja
three, it's just one.
Number 11, in the competition
of who should have the most
water Pokemon, Ash or Misty,
because they're both
eager Pokemon trainers,
Misty nearly caught Ash's Totodile.
She was certainly interested in it
and in competition with it,
similar to how Ash was very
interested in her Togepi egg
but because it hatched in her hands,
Togepi just assumed Misty was her mum.
Number 12, we all know
Misty loves water types
but she hates bug types.
So I wonder what she'd think about Wimpod.
Personally I think it's adorable.
Number 13, in the advanced generation,
Ash receives a lure from Misty
of herself to help him while
he's fishing.
Number 14, fun fact Misty
also hates carrots and peppers
which is interesting given
her carrot orange hair
and her fire peppery attitude.
Number 14 the Pokemon saving
series is the only canon
where you really see Misty
use Pokemon that aren't
water types, those being
Pokemon like Ampharos, Samurott,
Dugtrio and Exeggcute.
Number 16, Misty appeared in
the first episode of Pokemon.
She was Ash's first proper
traveling companion, aside from
Pikachu, although she
was hesitant to reveal
that she was the Cerulean City gym leader.
Number 17, in the manga,
Misty had a Swecon,
but more impressively a Helix.
Praise be to he.
Number 18, Misty is the only female
water type Pokemon master in the games.
Number 19, however out of all
the other water gym leaders
and Elite Four members, at
least one of the Pokemons on
each of their teams is
shared with Misty's team.
And number 20, back to PokeShipping.
PokeShippers will often point
to a certain line in the movie
"Jirachi Wish Maker."
This is in the advanced
generation and well normally Ash
doesn't reminisce about old
times or generations previous,
in this he talks about a
special friend he once had.
He is of course referring
to Misty and so PokeShippers
point to this like "awe see he
still has feelings for her."
Problem is, this was apparently never in
the original Japanese dub.
Good going 4Kids, teasing us all.
So I'm gonna leave a list of characters,
in the description let me know
who'd you want to know 20 facts about
and of course, if you want
to know 20 facts about
Ash Ketchum, there's a link there.
Thank you to all of my patrons,
including all the people
who are going to be
onscreen right now.
Sokhi Pokemon Masters.
- [Ash] This is Ash Ketchum,
you just watched a video
by Bird Keeper Toby.
That makes you a Pokemon Master.
