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The {{player}} will '''black out''' when all the Pokémon on the player's team faint; it is effectively the {{wp|game over}} screen of the Pokémon games. This generally occurs in battle, but can possibly happen out of battle due to {{status|poison}}ing in the first three [[generation]]s. It was known as a '''white out''' in [[Generation II|Generations II]] and {{gen|III}} for unknown reasons, but returned to the original name in [[Generation IV]]. There is no known reason as to why the player blacks out and is not mentioned in the {{pkmn|anime}} or {{pkmn|manga}}.

The player will lose a sum of [[Pokémon Dollar|money]]. In {{pkmn|Trainer}} battles, the money will be paid to the winner, but in battles with [[wild Pokémon]], the money will be dropped in panic. Before [[Generation IV]], half of the money on hand was lost and this loss was not explicitly stated to the player. In {{2v2|FireRed|LeafGreen}} and the Generation IV games, however, the money lost depends on the level of the player's Pokémon and the number of [[Badge|Badges]] he/she has earned. In these games, the player receives a message about how much was lost.

Furthermore, the player will rush back to the last visited [[Pokémon Center]] to restore their Pokémon's health. This will not occur in special occasions such as the player's initial battle as a Trainer in [[Pokémon Red and Blue Versions|Red, Blue]], {{v2|Yellow}}, [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions|FireRed, LeafGreen]], {{v2|Platinum}}, [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], or in facilities of the [[Battle Frontier]]. In FireRed, LeafGreen and Generation IV, a cutscene plays featuring a description of the player's rush back to the Pokémon Center and protecting the [[party]] from harm.

If a Pokémon Center has not been used at all before the party has fainted, the player's [[mom|mother]] will revive the party and remark about stocking up on [[Potion]]s.

* When using a [[GameShark]] to enter a battle with no Pokémon, the {{?|10}} that is sent out is incapable of attack and blacks the player out once the fight button is clicked.

* [[List_of_glitches_in_Generation_I#Deposit_glitch|A glitch]] in [[Generation I]] causes a black out to occur out of battle and without poisoned Pokémon by using a [[PC]] to store all Pokémon except ones that have [[fainting|fainted]].

* In link battles, a loss does not cause the player to black out or have to pay the winner trainer(s).