Mini/Pokémon

Minis in the Pokémon continuum appear as mini-Missingnos. A notoriously unpredictable mini species, mini-Missingnos are composed of living data, and are one of the few types of mini capable of spoken communication, though their grasp of language is primarily limited to choppy sentences and mocking, static-filled laughter.

Canon Origin
Missingno (also spelled MissingNO, Missingno., and MissingNo. due to the original's name being in all capital letters with attached punctuation) is an infamous glitch character in the first generation of Pokémon games, prominently Red and Blue Versions. It would appear when the player encountered an identification code for a Pokémon that did not exist in the game, and was one of many glitch characters that could be encountered off of the notoriously buggy coast of Cinnabar Island in Kanto. Since the data for the Pokémon that make up Missingno was incomplete, it has no sprite of its own, and steals sprites from within the game that were not currently assigned to other Pokémon, most notoriously the "ghost" of Lavender Tower, a sprite that existed to cover up the Pokémon Gastly, Haunter, and Cubone before the player had the means to identify them. In addition, all forms except the base form, top left on the image above, will copy the type and movepool of the most recent Pokémon accessed before they were encountered. The base form is composed of a partially-formed mess of pixellation, and all forms will revert to a similar unformed state when traded to Pokémon Yellow, represented by the form on the bottom right.

It is important to note that neither Missingno nor its mini counterpart has any unusual or unnaturally powerful abilities, aside from the canon version's ability to duplicate the sixth item in a player's bag. While it is an unintended part of the game, and a creature capable of corrupting data such as game logs, Missingno is relatively tame as glitch Pokémon go, and as such does not possess any reality-warping "glitch powers" aside from the Pokémon universe basics such as teleportation.

Other Iterations


A mini-Missingno has the ability to disguise other mini-Missingnos, but not themselves, as Pokémon introduced after Generation I, an ability derived from their species's Johto counterpart, which was capable of masking glitches as later-generation Pokémon to allow for either to be traded between generations. This has been used to great effect by the Official Fanfiction University of Kanto, which keeps all of its minis permanently in the form of mini-Deoxys. As some of their mini-Deoxys have been seen alone while still retaining their guise, it is possible that the influence of OFUK staff and/or the legendary Pokémon Arceus has permanently reformatted them.

Agents Soledad Snowbird and Claire Jubilex once discovered several mini-Missingnos that had masked themselves as Rayquaza, possibly to hide from the fic's Gary Stu, who had named himself after a glitch Pokémon even more formidable than Missingno. Mistaking the masked minis for minis of the significantly less unpredictable Dragon-type Pokémon, the two Agents brought all six of them back to their RC. Shortly afterward, the minis revealed their true forms and escaped into the halls. None of the six have been seen since.

Character Minis
Jamed

Jassy

Mtisy

Samul

Species Minis
Lopuny

Pigeott

Plussle

Location Minis
Conalave

Conlave

Sunnyshore