Bulbasaur (Pokémon)/Trivia


 * In the Japanese, international , and Japanese , Professor Oak classifies Bulbasaur as the "plant Pokémon" (Japanese: しょくぶつポケモン) when the player is about to choose it as their , using the term while referring to its type. In the English versions of , he calls it the "grass Pokémon".
 * This also occurs in the first episode of Pokémon Origins.
 * released a one-dollar coin featuring Bulbasaur as part of a commemorative promotion for the Pokémon franchise, with Bulbasaur on one side and the nation's coat of arms on the other.
 * Bulbasaur's evolution family is the only starter Pokémon evolution family to have each member appear at least once in the Super Smash Bros. series.
 * Bulbasaur and its evolutions share their with . They are all known as the Seed Pokémon.
 * Bulbasaur's number in the National Pokédex and the Fiore Browser are the same: 001.
 * Due to the censor that prevents Pokémon with offensive nicknames being traded on the GTS, a Bulbasaur with an English name couldn't be traded on the GTS without a nickname in.
 * In, Bulbasaur is programmed to be able to learn through , but no other Pokémon in the  or s can legitimately learn it to pass down as an Egg Move in those games. In Generation III and , Bulbasaur can inherit the move from  by chain breeding; in Generation V on, Bulbasaur can inherit the move directly from.
 * Bulbasaur may be part of the inspiration for the naming of , a genus of dicynodonts.
 * One Bulbasaur TFG figure has been released.

Origin
The Bulbasaur line was confirmed to be based on by Ken Sugimori in a Japanese interview, where he described the line to be "a creature that is something like a frog."

Bulbasaur's large, rounded snout; wide mouth; wide-set eyes; blotch-patterned skin; and quadruped-like movements are vaguely similar to those of certain amphibians, such as the. Since Bulbasaur's "ears" do not in fact have hollows, they may actually be similar to the glands present behind the eyes of many species of frogs and toads.

The bulb on its back may resemble that of a or.

Name origin
Bulbasaur is a combination of ' (a rounded underground storage organ present in some plants, notably those of the lily family) and σαῦρος saur (Ancient Greek for ').

Fushigidane literally means "isn't it strange?" and is also a pun on 不思議種 fushigidane (mysterious bulb).