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In Pocket Monsters Blue, MissingNo. was given the placeholder Pokédex entry "コメント さくせいちゅう" (meaning 'comment to be written') and became the ??? species. This was not translated, resulting in a glitched Pokédex entry in the localized Pokémon Red and Blue and the corruption of MissingNo.'s original height and weight (1.0 m (3.3 ft) and 10.0 kg (22.1 lb), respectively), showing instead a height of 10.0 ft (3.1 m) and a weight of 3507.2 lb (1590.8 kg). <!--I also wrote this on Bulbapedia-->
==Placeholder Pokémon theory==
It is a common misconception that MissingNo. is an error handler for invalid Pokémon in general; but this is not the case, all glitch Pokémon with index numbers past the last valid Pokémon Victreebel; hex: BE (counting 0 as 256) have invalid names.
The name "MissingNo." therefore, may be referring to a placeholder Pokémon name, either in case Game Freak wanted to add more Pokémon into the game or replacing a deleted Pokémon.
The [[bp:List of Pokémon by index number (Generation I)|list of Pokémon by index number]] is not in Pokédex order. These numbers rather correlate with the numbers given to Pokémon sprite art during the development of Pokémon Red and Green (as revealed by concept art in the official 2018 "Satoshi Tajiri: The Man Who Created Pokémon" educational manga).
It may be of note that there are 39 MissingNo., and 151+39 comes to 190.
There may have once been an extra MissingNo. occupying Mew's index number, hex:15; because [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125182143/http://nintendodsi.com/iwata-asks-chapter.jsp?interviewId=6&volumeId=1&chapterId=1 according to Iwata Asks: HeartGold/SoulSilver], Mew was a last minute addition to the game once debugging features were removed.
Of the 39 MissingNo., nine of them have unique cries.
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