The Porygon Z + MissingNo. Connection |🖥| Gnoggin - Pokemon Theory - ...Pokemon Fanfic

The mystery of Missingno. might explain the 'glitchy behavior' of Porygon Z. But how? what are those connections? What even is Missingno.? And why is this glitch-mon so iconic?

Thumbnail Missingno's by Crantime:

Chapters:
00:00 Recap
00:51 Sponsored by Omaze
01:58 Porygon Z's Odd Behavior
02:45 Pokemon Glitches and Bugs
03:30 What is Missingno.
05:37 The Old Man Glitch
06:19 It All Comes Together
10:02 Life uh, Finds a way.
11:50 Game Freaks Stance on Missingno....

#pokemon #porygonz #missingno

Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out!

[Gnoggin]

Can't believe I'm reminiscing about a multi-day stay at a children's hospital. I had a large fissure in my intestines. But everything was a-okay as I found myself immersed in Mario 64. <3

[evergreenivyy]

I couldn’t help but notice that the fossil and ghost forms of missingno use the letters w, x, and y to trigger their appearance, so next in line would be z... referring to porygon-z, and it also being the “final” version of the glitch

[kwisowofer]

Is no one going to talk about the fact that Lockstin has 2 Hoppip plushies

[WlFy]

Love how in english missing no. is 10 feet tall but in japanese it's only 1 meter

[mrpavopeacock]

I like it that Lockstin is using messed-up code and dev mistakes as canon lore material. So funny! :)

[Dragon_Racer_]

Random fun fact: porygon Z and gallade are right next to each other in the national dex and their shinys are the same colors

[hiddenflare]

Oh glad you’re covering all the bird type Pokémon now. Was wondering when you would get to that.

[EinsamPibroch]

The plot thickens with Lockstin's backstory.
His formative introduction to the N64 occurred during a hospital stay in his youth, presumably something major enough as to have an extended stay that would necessitate some form of entertainment to preoccupy a child.

He's shared so much like in his weight loss video!

[eizzah]

I always headcannoned MissingNo. as being the bug that occured when the Mew cloning experiment glitched and instead of producing Dittos produced Mewtwo through Blaine putting his cells in the mix

[hellothisismufin]

Imagine they do add MissingNO in the future, and to get it you need to get a BadEgg from a Porygon. Cute way to poke fun at the history of bugs in Pokemon

[Icalasari]

My theories are the Deoxys one along with Porygon Z being attempt two to canonize Missingno.

And then they gave up and never thought of canonizing it via ultra beasts in Gen 7

[dusklunistheumbreon]

One small correction - Fossil and ghost forms of missingno *can* be encountered with the mew glitch.

[AutisticPhantomOtaku]

I knew it! I knew you were going to do a Missingno video!

Also, I actually have a MissingNo shirt that I got from teepublic, and I'm actually trying to get a MissingNo plushie from Etsy.

[giboit.]

Ghost type pokemon are known for being able to posses objects. Maybe a ghost type found the rest of the failed attempt to create porygon, posses it and then became a sentient glitch (a pokemon fused with an failed artificial pokemon). That would explain why all most versions of MissingNo. look like dead pokemon or a ghost.

[RazeAndSew]

Theory: Lockstin is actually Missingno, trying to get us to "use our gnoggins" to try and give it a new physical form

[TeamIGFTW]

As a Porygon-Z Stan and a massive MissingNo simp, this is my new official head cannon. Legit have listened to this 6 times

[einekartoffel]

Honestly thought you'd say "Find out in this episode of ... Porygon-Z!"

Also, I also like the idea of MissingNo being some kind of conceptual legendary with the purpose of keeping the identities of pokemon seperate from each other or something, like a pokemon that inhabits the database of the universe.

[criticalhittcg]

This actually seems really plausible. I know the actual coding reason for missingno but devs have a habit of intentionally leaving bugs in as a sort of Easter egg instead of outright fixing the problem at the source as a kind of fun reminder of the process of the game's development, just make it more difficult to run into as long as they deem it a non-priority during the development phase of a game's release, a sort of attachment to the design they created or a fun quirk run into during testing. Using Porygon z to explain the process since it's literally a devs designed ai gone rogue would be fun Easter egg devs would have placed with the missingno "glitch". It's to easy to replicate for beta testers to have not run into it during the alpha or beta phase of the game's development to not catch it before release.

[absolutezero]

In Pokémon Yellow (cartridge or VC) you can get any of the 3 stable MissingNo. (X, Y, Z) by performing a double Trainer Fly Glitch (or Mew Glitch), as well as the unstable one that causes your screen to go black.

Currently playing through Yellow for the VC and have done it a few times already.

[johanncantellops]

I really hope they came out with a “fixed” porygon evolution, maybe something like porygon-a as in alpha? I just think it would be cool