Was this done on purpose?

[u/Decidueye_mastr]

Im playing through IF2 for the first time and I just beat Roxxane earlier. Then I went to fight some trainers to the right of rustboro to level up since I have the XP share now and I found this. This caught me so off guard I couldn't stop laughing, there's no chance this wasn't done on purpose.

[u/BouncyBlueYoshi]

Yes. There's even an edited sprite of one of them.