As Porygon flees with everyone hanging on to its back, more missiles are fired at the group. Pikachu uses a Thunderbolt attack on the missiles, causing a large explosion.

Jul 20, 2025 · The tragedy in question was the "Pokémon Shock" in 1997, when the episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" featured a series of flashing lights which accidentally triggered …

In the episode, Ash Ketchum and his friends find at the local Pokémon Center that there is something wrong with the Poké Ball transmitting device. To find out what is wrong, they must …

Dec 2, 2025 · The group falls into the Transporter system, but Porygon flies beneath them, grows in size, and catches them. Riding on Porygon's back, Ash and his friends go over to confront …

May 5, 2025 · There, the kids meet the CG Pokémon, Porygon, and the professor explains that using an anti-virus software might harm the humans who are trapped in the program.

May 2, 2025 · The episode “Dennō Senshi Porygon” (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggered a large number of epileptic seizures in young viewers due to a specific sequence featuring rapidly …

Mar 4, 2025 · Electric Soldier Porygon episode of Pokemon sent over 600 kids to the hospital due to flashing lights. Here’s what happened and why it became so infamous.

Jul 23, 2025 · The short answer is this: Porygon wasn’t “banned” in the sense that the Pokémon species itself was outlawed. Rather, an episode of the Pokémon anime, “Electric Soldier …

May 2, 2023 · What Pokémon fans tend to forget about the Porygon Incident is that the Pokémon itself had nothing to do with the problematic scene. In the episode, Team Rocket created a …

The globally banned episode "Dennō Senshi Porygon", which aired only once on Japan's TV Tokyo on December 16, 1997, features a series of rapidly alternating red and blue frames that …