Link per la scienza delle risposte ! <| sep |> Something something . the technology isn ' t there yet . <| sep |> Forrest , named after Nathan Bedford Forrest , as explained in the movie itself . Nathan Bedford Forrest was a civil war general and grand wizard of the kkk <| sep |> I like to imagine the pokemon anime is a cartoon that airs on tv in the video game pokemon world . Then that way Ash is a canon thing in the games in that he is a popular cartoon character . This would also explain why pikachu is very popular in the game universe . The picture on the wall is a screenshot from an episode , or maybe a photo of an ash cosplayer and a pikachu that visited the store back in the day . This headcanon brought to you by insomnia .