'M

'M

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'M is a glitch Pokémon found in the Pokémon Red and Blue Game Boy games, much like MissingNo.. It is most commonly called "'M", since the apostrophe and capital letter M are the only typographical characters in its name. It is also called "'M Block" because its name is comprised of two glitched box-like graphics with "' M " in the middle. 'M and other glitch Pokémon appear in the games due to a programming oversight.

When a player encounters 'M or MissingNo., the quantity of the sixth item in their bag becomes increased by 128. Also, if the player has Hall of Fame data, encountering 'M. corrupts it. Aside from that, 'M does not have a real ability; in Pokémon Red and Blue abilities did not exist yet.

Game data

Game locations

Base stats

Since 'M does not exist in any game that uses the Special Attack and Special Defense stats, only its Special stat is listed.

Type effectiveness

As the Bird type isn't weak, resistant, or immune to any type, 'M's secondary typing effectively does not affect its type advantages.

How 'M is found

The most common way players encounter 'M in the Red and Blue versions of Pokémon is by doing the following:

• Going to the northern part of Viridian City and watching the Old Man's demonstration of how to catch a Pokémon.
• Flying or Teleporting to Cinnabar Island or Fuchsia City.
• Surfing up and down along the east coast of Cinnabar Island or the Seafoam Islands closest to Fuchsia City until 'M appears. In Pokémon Stadium, the game saves automatically upon encountering 'M.^[1], ^[2]
• Alternatively, a player can also cause 'M to appear by trading Pokémon with a friend via a link cable or with one of the in-game traders, then Flying or Teleporting to Cinnabar or the Seafoam Islands and surfing along the coast as mentioned before.
• 'M (and its Yellow counterpart, 3TrainerPoké) cannot be encountered through the Mew Glitch, since the required Special stat is 0, and that low of any stat is impossible.
• For some reason, 'M will appear through the Old Man Glitch regardless of the player's name.

'M has no Pokédex description, and is not registered in the Pokédex. Encountering an 'M (or another glitch Pokémon, like Missingno.) will add 128 of the sixth item in the player's inventory if the player already has 127 or less of that sixth item. (The item's quantity will then appear as a pixel blob until brought down to 99 or fewer.^[3]) Many players take advantage of this by duplicating rare items like Master Balls and Nuggets. Catching a glitch Pokémon can distort in-battle graphics and the Hall of Fame data; sending a glitch Pokémon to the storage PC may prevent the player from using the storage system unless they start a new game; this has not been proven. Severe glitches may erase saved games or even corrupt the entire cartridge.

Appearance and attributes

There are 256 available memory "slots" for Pokémon data; 'M is found in the first slot, #0. (151 other slots are real Pokémon; 47 are trainers; 38 are Missingno., and the remaining 18 are other glitches like 'M. ^[4])

Although it seems at first glance to be like MissingNo., they are actually different glitches with many differences; for example, 'M can evolve into Kangaskhan while Missingno. cannot. Missingno.'s cry differs between a shortened version of Nidoran♂'s cry, Ditto's cry, and Dragonair's cry, whereas 'M's cry is a slightly different version of Zapdos's cry. If 'M is traded to the Yellow Version, it will become a 3TrainerPoké, but when Missingno. is traded to the Yellow version, it stays as Missingno. (although it will behave differently then the Red/Blue Missingno.).

In the party, 'M will appear as the glitched sprite of a person in the area where the player currently is.

'M, like most forms of Missingno., appears as a mass of pixels in a backwards 'L' shape. Its icon in the Pokémon menu is also glitched, often appearing as a pixelated Surfing icon or a black blob (it changes based on the player's location). When used in Pokémon Stadium, it looks like a Substitute doll.

Also like Missingno., 'M is often of the type Bird/Normal, knows Sky Attack and two Water Guns, has the ID number #000, does not appear in the Pokédex, and is found through the same glitches as Missingno. is. However, it is not the same Pokémon. 'M and the different versions of Missingno are located in different memory slots; also, 'M has a different cry, learns Pound at level 138, and can evolve into a Kangaskhan. (Its evolution is not random: 'M's identifier is 0 and Kangaskhan's is 2.)^[5]

The blocks in 'M's name depend on which sprite is occupying the spot where the player's Pokémon appears. In battle, the block on the left of its name will copy part of the sprite in the bottom-left corner of the screen (the player's Pokémon), while the block on the right will copy part of the sprite in the upper-right corner of the screen (the opponent's Pokémon). Out of battle, the blocks in its name will change depending on the player's location.

When the player captures an 'M, the battle will continue. Capturing "'M" again will result in capturing a Ditto; why this happens is unknown.

Learnset

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By leveling up

Generation I
Level	Move	Type
Start	Water Gun
	Water Gun
	Sky Attack
138	Pound

By TM/HM

Generation I
#	Move	Type
TM01	Mega Punch
TM02	Razor Wind
TM03	Swords Dance
TM05	Mega Kick
TM06	Toxic
TM09	Take Down
TM10	Double-Edge
TM11	BubbleBeam
TM13	Ice Beam
TM14	Blizzard
TM17	Submission
TM19	Seismic Toss
TM20	Rage
TM25	Thunder
TM26	Earthquake
TM27	Fissure
TM29	Psychic
TM30	Teleport
TM43	Sky Attack
TM44	Rest
TM45	Thunder Wave
TM49	Tri Attack
HM01	Cut
HM02	Fly

Advantages and disadvantages of 'M

Encountering 'M, Missingno., and other glitch Pokémon often interferes with the saved game data in various ways. Trainer and Pokémon graphics during battle are corrupted; the Hall of Fame data is extremely glitched (changes in screen color, music, and game speed have been known to occur alongside the obvious unidentifiable pixelations substituting for where Pokémon appeared).

'M's presence also allows what is known as the "Rare Candy Cheat" or "Item Duplication Cheat", the Pokémon games' infamous item duplication bug, which adds 128 of the sixth item in the player's inventory, if the player already has less than 128 of that sixth item. It is commonly used to duplicate valuable and hard-to-obtain items, such as Rare Candies, PP Ups, and Master Balls. However, the duplication bug can affect any item in the game, not just Rare Candies. Using the bug to duplicate Key Items is possible, allowing the player to obtain more fossils for reviving Kabuto, Omanyte, and Aerodactyl; though many do not recommend this, as the player cannot get rid of duplicated key items through "tossing" or selling, and they serve only to take up inventory space.

The coasts where 'M may be found are used for other cheats as well. If the player Surfs along the coasts after leaving an area where certain wild Pokémon appear, those Pokémon will continue to appear by the coast, even if they are not water-dwelling Pokémon. This is because Surfing along the coasts does not overwrite the data for which wild Pokémon are available, and if the player's name has not been stored in that area through one of the procedures above, the previous wild Pokémon will appear. (see reference 4) This glitch can be used to fight Pokémon from the Safari Zone in a normal battle.

Another advantage of the 'M is its ability to evolve into Kangaskhan. TMs and HMs taught to 'M will carry over when it evolves to Kangaskhan, enabling a Kangaskhan to have moves it wouldn't ordinarily be able to learn, like Fly.

Charizard 'M

Main article: Charizard 'M

Other in-game glitches (notably the Mew glitch) can produce the "Charizard 'M", a Pokémon named 'M but with the Charizard graphic. It is not to be confused with Glitchy Charizard, a similar but unrelated glitch caused by the Mew glitch. Charizard 'M is a different from the typical 'M, and causes significantly more damage to the game. Charizard 'M can also change all of a player's party Pokémon into Charizard 'M, but the moves and type do not change, and putting these "transformed" Pokémon into a box makes the other Pokémon Charizard 'M also.

Depending on the circumstances, Charizard 'M can overwrite the player's name with the letter Z, engage a new battle from the battle screen, or transform all party Pokémon into Bulbasaur.^[6]

Charizard 'M can be obtained by doing the following:

• Catch a 44Hy in the Yellow version by doing Method #3 of the Mew glitch using a Pokémon with a special stat of 192, or trade a Lowercase A glitch from Red/Blue
• Evolve the 44Hy into a Q (the Yellow equivalent of Charizard 'M)
• Trade the Q to the Red/Blue and it will become Charizard 'M

Unlike other glitch Pokémon, a Charizard 'M's ID number is always #000 and its Original Trainer will either be blank or a set of letters partially from the player's name. As a result, it is impossible to nickname a Charizard 'M. Its cry is static and sometimes causes the background music to end. Charizard 'M is found in all the slots from 248 to 255, not slot 0 like 'M; they are not the same glitch. Its type, like a normal Charizard's, is Fire/Flying. (See above reference.) There are reports that Charizard 'M can be used to swap moves of Pokémon stored in the PC, depending on the order they are withdrawn. Additionally, Charizard 'M is not recognized by the game as a Pokémon in many circumstances. If a player places it in his or her party, it will render all other Pokémon invisible (see above reference). Furthermore, Charizard 'M cannot be healed at a Pokémon Center.

The Charizard 'M learns different attacks than a normal 'M: it learns Swords Dance at level 9, Slam at 11, TM50 (a glitch attack, not the move Substitute) at level 19, a nameless glitch attack at level 28, TM09 at level 30, Aurora Beam at 32, TM29 (another glitch, not Psychic) at level 33, Karate Chop at level 40, and Jack (apparently a glitch which reads one of the pre-loaded names for the player character or rival) at level 62. (See above reference.)

Although Charizard 'M seems to be the most common form (possibly caused by a blank spot in the party), this glitch can also appear as another Pokémon, such as Gengar, Machop, Ditto, or Butterfree. The glitch will have the same types as the normal Pokémon, but will learn very different level-up moves.

Sometimes, if game link activity goes wrong (typically from faulty link cables or dirty connectors), glitched Pokémon may be produced, in which a Charizard 'M is a possible result.

In Pokémon Stadium

'M and Missingno. can be uploaded to Pokémon Stadium, and (if the game doesn't freeze) will look like Substitute dolls (small Rhydon or Kangaskhan-like figures that appear when a Pokémon uses Substitute). 'M's graphic is blue and Missingno.'s is purple. When viewed in the Pokémon Center, all of 'M's stats will be question marks (including the Pokédex species ID number, even though the Game Boy versions identify 'M and Missingno. as #000). However, 'M will not be allowed to battle, nor will it function correctly in the Gallery (in which players can take pictures of Pokémon). Photos of it will not develop if taken.

If 'M or any other glitch Pokémon is selected in the "see list", the game will freeze, playing the music without the bass track in the background. If a player tries to view 'M's stats, the game will also freeze on occasion. ^[7]

Generation II

'M cannot be traded to Pokémon Gold and Silver because it supposedly does not exist in the second generation. In the trade center, 'M appears as a Slowpoke or Tyrogue. When the players try to trade 'M, a message appears stating "Your friend's ['M's name] appears to be abnormal." and the trade is canceled automatically. Less often, 'M can be traded, in which case it turns into the Pokémon it was displayed as. ^[8]

Similar problems present themselves when attempting to transfer 'M or Missingno. to Pokémon Stadium 2. If successfully transferred, 'M and Missingno. will become a Ditto. ^[9]

Evolution

Trivia

• 'M's sprite, movepool, and stats are identical to Missingno.'s, but with two move differences: Missingno. cannot learn Pound, and 'M is incompatible with TM50 (Substitute). Funnily enough, it is a substitute in Stadium.
• 'M's cry is almost exactly identical to that of Zapdos.
• 'M is twice as large as Missingno., but not nearly as heavy.
• If a level 0 'M is captured and sent to the PC (this also applies to the subsequent Ditto), the game will freeze if the player tries to withdraw either one. This probably started the (fake) rumors of 'M and other Glitch Pokémon being horribly dangerous to the saved game file if captured.
• If a level 0 'M is given 0 exp from a battle with another level 0 Pokémon, it levels up to 100.

References

External Links

• Ghost/Skeleton type MissingNOs, mirrored from Pokémon Paranormal Research Lab/Glitch City
• GameFAQs FAQ, details inner workings of the glitch
• Tales from the Glitch at TR's Rockin!
• Glitch City, a site about such glitches
• Mew's Pokémon Information Zone -- info on Missingno.
• Missingno. and 'M at Professor Glitch's Laboratory
• Over 100 Items at Poké Glitch
• MissingNo Mystery Solved
• http://www.cheatsnetwork.com/cheats/2480.html
• http://www.edgecheats.com/cheats/2480.html
• http://www.gamerevolution.com/cheat/gameboy/pokemon_bluered
• http://www.dmwright.com/cheats/database/nintendo_game_boy/cheats/gb_pokemon_hints.htm
• http://www.console-cheats.com/nintendo64/PokemonStadium.shtml

This glitch Pokémon article is part of Project GlitchDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.