How could a Pokémon use a TM/HM IRL ??

[icycatelf]

I don't know for sure about this myself, but I do know that TMs are boxes in the TCG.
Darkness Cube 01 (TM)

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

I think its some type of chip and the Pokemon eat it

:t354:~*!*~Queen Boo~*!*~

 

[Virtual Headache]

I have no idea, but in the anime Ash teaches his Pikachu how to use Iron Tail.
Since Pikachu doesn't learn the attack at leveling up, I guess that would be a TM, right?
So maybe if the trainer wants his Pokemon to learn a TM, he needs to do everything to make the pokemon prepaired for the attack.

Yeah, it was a TM.
So I think they'd learn TMs the same way they learn it in the animé, by focusing on training to learn the TM move, not by a disc without any traning which would look quite illogical to me.
I think the CDs in the games are just there, since there is a pic of every item when you look into your bag in newer games, so TMs needed one too.

 

[Shiny Umbreon]

I once saw a comic where a robot-like thing came out of the TM and did the attack so the Pokémon would learn.

I think it somehow sends signals to the Pokémon's brains, and then...they break? Maybe, but then how would HMs work? Are they more resistant CDs?

 

[Frostweaver]

Pretty sure that TM is only a gaming mechanics, and not something to be treated seriously if it's in real life situations. Since you can't "train" a Pokemon except by battling like a real trainer ideally will, the game resorts to using items to teach a move. In reality, it's probably like what's mentioned with Ash and Pikachu's Iron Tail. You'll have to train for the move through practice until it's mastered. If a move is not in a movepool, then no matter how you try to teach it, the Pokemon will fail to learn it.

This is also supported by Misty's (failed) attempt at teaching Togepi Headbutt (old GSC TM), by doing a demo of smashing her head to a little wooden block in hopes that Togepi will mimic her and practice that motion enough to call it a headbutt.

 

[Auron]

What a strange Trading Card...That TM looks like a weird TV...

 

[Chibi Pika]

TMs come in a case. You push a button and the TM spins in the case. Hold it near the desired Pokémon, and it gives off an energy signal, causing a reaction in the Pokémon that allows it to use the new move.

~Chibi~