deviantART user Eat Toast made these hideous Pokémon out of sculpey polymer clay. Each is about 4-5 inches tall. Link via technabob...

Cartoonist Matthew K. Garner reimagined Pokémon as a 1920s-era cartoon, like Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie. It'd be neat to see a full-length Pokémon cartoon made in this style. Link via technabob...

deviantART user Safir-Hime made a hat that resembles Chikorita -- a type of Pokémon. It's a very good approximation. Link...

Flickr user gameboyone is a graffiti artist who specializes in pixelated presentations of video game and anime characters. Pictured above is the Pokémon Bulbasaur. Flickr Photostream via Albotas | Previously: Zo...

(YouTube Link) YouTube user daniscool99 made this a cappella version of the Pokémon theme song. I was a bit skeptical that it was truly without accompaniment, but he insists: *ALL SOUNDS ON THIS RECORDING WERE MADE...

Etsy user Undead made this simply adorable zombie Snorlax. Makes you just want to hug him to pieces, right? Well, maybe that's just me. Anyway: notice that someone has been shooting him in the belly. Bad, bad,...

deviantART user bethanyagogo made this Snorlax dress for a friend who was having a Pokémon-themed party: I made the dress out of fabric from two XXXL t-shirts [one in dark teal and one in tan]. I screenprinted ey...

This explanation in the webcomic Johnny Wander by Ananth Panagariya and Yuko Ota makes as much sense as anything else I've heard. Link via Awesomesauce...