>>55658489That's not true, and you know it. In the original games, you are meant to trade with 'others' not yourself from other dimensions. 'Red' within the game serves as an avatar for the player's experience in-game, and limitations in game-play are not the same as defined lore. It wasn't until Gen 4 that Pokemon even began to breach on concepts beyond Space and Time, introducing loose plot points about malleable reality, before later games refined the concept further. And sure, Pokemon has played with the concept since that point, but that's what makes it a retcon.