Porygon

Porygon (ポリゴン Porygon) is a -type Pokémon. It is able to evolve into Porygon2, though only through Trade while holding the Up-Grade item and then into Porygon-Z while holding the Dubious Disc while being traded. It has the National Pokédex number of 137. In Pokemon Platinum, you can get one in Veilstone City by talking to a man in one of the houses.

Appearance
Porygon is a Virtual Pokémon. Its body shape looks like a polygon. In various parts of its body, it is colored red, white, or blue.

Special Abilities
Porygon can have the ability Trace or the ability Download. Trace copies the opponent's ability. Download increases Porygon's Attack or Special Attack depending on the opponent's defenses. It is the first artificial Pokémon, created by scientists at the Silph Co. company.

Anime
Porygon appeared in one of the most well known banned Pokémon episodes, Electric Soldier Porygon, which has hospitalized over 700 Japanese children due to flashing strobes causing them to have seizures. Due to the happened hiatus, the show skipped 4 months after the episode and it was never aired. However, it is available at YouTube (Warning Watch at your own risk). It is based of an Electronic system operator, and teleports with Ash, Misty, and Brock.

Trivia

 * Due to the episode, Electric Soldier Porygon, which caused 685 Japanese children to have epileptic seizures, Porygon has never had another appearance in the anime or in any film adaptation of the series, except for one brief cameo appearance at the beginning of the 2005 movie, Pokémon Heroes, and neither have its evolutions, Porygon 2 and Porygon Z, in an effort to block the traumatizing event from the minds of viewers.
 * Porygon is a pun of "polygon"
 * Porygon can possibly be able to go into computers.
 * According to the pokedex porygon can travel freely in cyberspace thus able to go into the internet.