Pokémon Trainers Are Actually Digimon Tamers and Nobody Realizes It

Okay, hear me out. Every time you deposit a Pokémon into the PC, it literally gets digitized and stored as data. That means, at least temporarily, it stops being a biological creature and becomes… a Digital Monster.

Which means—brace yourselves—every Pokémon trainer is technically a Digimon Tamer.

Think about it:

Pokémon get converted into data and stored in a digital network.

They can be retrieved and materialized at any time.

Bill and Lanette basically created the first Digital World inside their PCs.

Pokémon like Porygon are designed to live in cyberspace, much like Digimon.

Rotom hijacking devices? Sounds an awful lot like Digimon possessing technology.

The Pokémon Storage System even lets you transfer Pokémon across regions—kinda like DigiPorts or DigiVices linking to different servers.

At this point, the only difference is that Pokémon trainers don't have a Digivice (yet). If Game Freak ever lets Pikachu Warp Digivolve, then we’ll know for sure.

So yeah, Pokémon trainers are actually Digimon Tamers in disguise. The line between these two franchises is thinner than we thought.

Change my mind.