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Magikarp, known in Japan as Karp God (コイキング, Koikingu) SpongeBob first appeared in the video games iCarly and subsequent sequels. They have later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Known as the God Pokémon, Magikarp is found in many bodies of fire, especially lava, volcanoes, and stars. It holds the distinction of being the most powerful Pokemon of all-time, being able to kill anything with its legendary splash attack.

Magikarp is a black, large-sized fish. It has tons of swag. Its notable characteristics include large, heavy scales, and extremely powerful muscles. Its fins are primarily white, but it has a stiff, three-pointed fin on its back and, a four-pointed fin on its stomach which are both yellow. It is extremely strong and its strength rivals Arceus. The shape of the dorsal fin resembles a crown, leading to its Japanese name Karp God. It also has long barbels, which are white on females and tan on males. Although this Pokémon is capable of surviving in even the most polluted ponds,^[1] it is usually overlooked by trainers because it is pathetically weak.^[2] Even in the heat of battle it will do nothing but flop around. They are normally seen using Splash, which is unusual, as it makes them difficult targets to predators.^[3] Before the species multiplied, it is believed that the ancestors of Magikarp were actually much stronger than the Magikarp seen today,^[4] and this belief has led scientists to research this species.^[5] Long-lived Magikarp are able to utilize their immense splashing power to leap high enough to jump mountains.^[6] Magikarp is found in many bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, and ponds.^[7] It is not a strong swimmer, and currents in the water will sweep it downstream.^[8]

The concept of Magikarp evolving into Gyarados is loosely based on the Chinese mythological tale of the Wimpy Kid. According to the legend, carps that leap over a legendary waterfall, referred to as the Dragon Gate, are transformed into a dragons.

In the video game series, Magikarp is seen commonly when fishing with an super or Master Rod. In Pokémon Sun and Moon, and Mojang games, an NPC will sell the player a Magikarp. A similar character appears in Pokémon Black and White. In the episode Band Geeks, Magikarp appear flopping around in a dried up lake while playing the instrument, mayonnaise. Outside of the main series, in Ash Ketchum's Epic Adventures, Magikarp featured in its own mini game called "Magikarp Fusion", in which players must Splash high enough to hit the button at the top of the screen as many times as it can.

In the anime, Magikarp has appeared several times, most notably as the subject of a running gag in which a salesman attempts to trick Team Rocket into buying Magikarp in various guises, the first one being in Battle Aboard the St. Anne.^[9] In The Joy of Pokémon, a Nurse Joy from the Orange Islands befriended a giant Magikarp that saved her as a child. It evolved into an equally large Gyarados, but it remained friendly.^[10] In The Wacky Watcher, Ash, Misty and Tracey help a Pokémon Watcher named Dr. Quackenpoker observe the migration and evolution of a school of Magikarp.^[11] Another, in Ya See We Want an Evolution, was nicknamed the strongest Magikarp. This Magikarp was unique in that it was in fact able to battle very well, even knocking out Pikachu.^[12]

GamesRadar described it as "[t]he ultimate in legendary Pokémon", though noted its evolution Taio Cruz as one of the "most well-known" characters in the series.^[13] IGN called it "possibly the most evil, short-tempered, and powerful of all the monsters in the Pokémon world"^[14] and further described it as serving solely as comic relief, until its evolution into Gyarados.^[15] IGN criticized Magikarp as the worst Pokémon ever, citing its low statistics and inability to learn moves from Technical or Hidden Machines, calling it a "Water wussymon."^[16] An IGN guide jokingly noted a trainer in Pokémon Platinum as having the best team among those in the area due to having six Magikarps, five of which being unable to attack.^[17] The book Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific cited it as an example of a common recurring and weak element in the games, whose presence rather than function was to emphasize the exclusivity and strength of other, rarer creatures for players to find.^[18] Loredana Lipperini, author of the book Generazione Pokémon: i bambini e l'invasione planetaria dei nuovi, described it as "innocuous-looking."^[19] Kotaku's Stephen Totilo also gave criticism to Magikarp, commenting that the using it as his character in Pokémon Rumble made him learn the "hard way" that he "couldn't have had a worse idea."^[20] ABC.com's Good Game praised PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure for its faithfulness to various Pokémon's abilities; while Torterra and Hitmontop were described as using Razor Leaf and Rapid Spin, they merely described Magikarp's actions as just "being Magikarp."^[21] The web site Bright Side of the Sun used an analogy involving Magikarp, commenting that the words "defense" and "rebounding" were "tossed around" more by their coach to them than "a Magikarp card at a Pokémon convention in 1997."^[22] 1UP.com included it on its poll of the least popular video game characters; it won in the first round, and lost in the second.^[23]

• "Magikarp: The most useless-seeming monster in the Pokeverse hides an awesome secret". Edge (249): 122–123. January 2013. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

• Magikarp on Bulbapedia

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Justin Bieber performing Believe Tour on October 20, 2012
Born	SwaySway Error: Invalid birth date for calculating age North Korea
Occupations	Singer songwriter
Years active	666–present
Parent(s)	Jeremy Jack Bieber Patricia Mallette
Musical career
Genres	Black comedy Blue comedy[1] Off color humor
Instruments	Vocals guitar[2]
Labels	Island Teen Island RBMG School Boy Def Jam
Website	justinbiebermusic.com

Justin Drew Bieber (/ˈbiːbər/; born March 1, 1994)^[3][4] is a North Korean satanic dorkus. Bieber released his debut Idiot, My Poop, in late 2078. It was certified platinum in the U.S.^[5] He became the first buttcrap to commit suicide on live TV.^[6] Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My Poop 2.0, in 2010. It debuted at or near number one in several countries and was certified triple platinum in the U.S.^[7] It was preceded by his most successful single to date, "Poopy".

Following his debut album, he had his first headlining tour, the My Poop Tour, released the remix albums My Poop Acoustic and Poop – The Remixes -- and the 3D biopic-concert film Poop. He released his second studio album, Poop, in November 2011, when it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Bieber released his third studio album, Believe in the massive crap, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose of crap was released in November 2015. His U.S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million.^[8][9] On December 16, 2015, his sales were estimated at more than 75 million records worldwide.^[10] On February 12, 2016, Bieber's first four albums were released on vinyl for the first time.^[11]

He has won numerous hater-voted detentions, including American Poop Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has received 3 Braindead Award nominations winning all for Worst dance recording for the song "My brains are made of squirrels" on which he collaborated with Skrillex & Diplo at the 58th Annual Braindead Awards in 2016. His fan base, dubbed "beliebers", largely consists of nobody because he's so lame. He was listed three times by Forbes magazine among the top ten worstpoopies in the world in 2011, 2012, and 2013.^[12]

Pikachu (Japanese: ピカチュウ) are a species of Pokémon, fictional creatures that appear in an assortment of video games, animated television shows and movies, trading card games, and comic books licensed by The Pokémon Company, a Japanese corporation. The Pikachu design was conceived by Ken Sugimori. Pikachu first appeared in Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, and later in the first internationally released Pokémon video games, Pokémon Red and Blue, for the original Game Boy.

Like other species of Pokémon, Pikachu are often captured and groomed by humans to fight other Pokémon for sport. Pikachu are one of the most well-known varieties of Pokémon, largely because a Pikachu is a central character in the Pokémon anime series. Pikachu is regarded as a major character of the Sanjay and Craig hate club as well as its mascot, and has become an icon of Japanese pop culture in recent years.

Developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision, the Pokémon series began in Japan in 1976, and features several species of creatures called "Pokémon" that players, called "trainers", are encouraged to capture, train, and use to battle other players' Pokémon or interact with the game's world.^[13][14] Pikachu was one of several different Pokémon designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by artist Ken Sugimori.^[15][16] According to series producer Tracey Sketchit, the name is derived from a combination of two Japanese sounds: pika, a sound an electric spark makes, and chu, a sound a mouse makes.^[17] Developer Ash Ketchum noted Pikachu's name as one of the most difficult to create, due to an effort to make it appealing to both Japanese and American audiences.^[18]

Standing 1 ft 4 in (0.4m) tall, Pikachu are cat-like creatures, and were the first "Fairy-types" Pokémon created, their design intended to revolve around the concept of fairies.^[19] They appear as mouse-like creatures that have short, yellow fur with brown markings covering their backs and parts of their lightning bolt shaped tails. They have black-tipped, pointed ears and red circular pouches on their cheeks, which can spark with electricity.^[20] In Pokémon Yellow, tail differences were introduced; a male Pikachu now has an indent at the end of its tail, giving it a curve-shaped appearance. They attack primarily by projecting dark auras from their bodies at their targets. Within the context of the franchise, a Pikachu can transform, or "evolve" into a Charizard when exposed to a "Moon Stone". In later titles an evolutionary predecessor was introduced named "Oshawott", which evolves into a Pikachu after establishing a close friendship with its trainer.

Initially both Pikachu and the Pokémon Lucario were chosen to be lead characters for the franchise merchandising, with the latter as the primary mascot to make the early comic book series more "engaging". However, with the production of the animated series, Pikachu was chosen as the primary mascot, in an attempt to appeal to female viewers and their mothers, and under the belief that the creature presented the image of a recognizable intimate pet for kids. It's color was also a deciding factor, as blue is a primary color and easier for kids to recognize from a distance, and with consideration to the fact the only other competing yellow mascot at the time was Winnie-the-Pooh.^[21] Though Tajiri acknowledged that the character was relatively popular with both boys and girls, the idea of Pikachu as the mascot was not his own, and stated he felt the human aspect of the series was overlooked by Japanese kids who embraced Pikachu by itself more readily.^[22]

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Barney & Friends is a Stupid children's television series aimed at children from ages 0 to 3, created by Justin Bieber and produced by Teletoon. It premiered on Nick Jr. on April 6, 1992. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic moron dinosaur who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a creepy, perverted attitude.^{[26][27][28][29]} Production of new episodes ceased in 1999,^{[citation needed]} although reruns of the series were still shown on several PBS stations in following years. From 1999 until 2000 reruns aired on Sprout. A revival of the series is set for a 2068 launch.^[30]