Pokémon
Pokemon is a highly successful Japanese franchise that was introduced in the 1990s. Owned by Nintendo, it has risen to become the 2nd most successful video game franchise, behind Nintendo's own Mario. It spread to several other countries in a short time.
Pokemon began it's fame with the release of the dual part video game series Pokemon: Red and Pokemon: Blue for the original Game Boy system in 1995. There have since been various Pokemon releases across all Nintendo platforms.
The video game was the basis for the popular children's television show, Pokemon, and helped to spawn a large amount of merchandise, various movies (both theatrical and straight-to-DVD) and a successful trading card game.
There has been some controversy involving pokemon over the years. Some in our conservative community have suggested that pokemon may be linked to demons as they must be called upon to perform tasks similar to demons mentioned in the Bible. Sarah Palin has a known connection to mudkips, an Alaskan water-based pokemon, and some in the liberal axis of evil have suggested she may be evoking these mudkips in order to sabotage President Barack Obama's reign of communist terror. This has been proven completely false however, because Karl Rove said so.