It's a nod to this game, besides, it's not like every character will have an american flag splattered all over:

I just made 16 jump to 20. Now I'm wondering what to do with this newfound power...

Unfortunately the trade off to a some awesome new designs on familiar characters is the laughably over-the-top boob armor of Shia.

Le sigh. This is what happens. Some shit is produced.

Shit sucks.

Everyone talks about how bad that shit sucks.

People talk specifically, about different things in that shit, that suck.

People continue to talk about that shit sucking until it becomes campy and ironic (see also: "Friday" / "Miley Cyrus Finger Gate")

The…

Guess I should probably tell you they were just using Gen 1 Pokemon, since nobody said that already and nobody else said it again then again then again.