History FanWorks / NuzlockeComics

Here's a list of some of the known fan comics, written runs, screenshot runs, and misc runs inspired by Webcomic/NuzlockeComics.

'''NOTE:''' Please refrain from using this list for shameless self advertising.

A lot of the other fan runs not on this list can be found [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/forum/30751/ here]].

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'''Works with their own pages:'''
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* Webcomic/APettyNuzlockeChallenge
* Webcomic/KyNimsNuzlockeRuns
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[[folder:Hale's Emerald / Bern's Platinum Hard Mode]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8326594/1/ Hale's Emerald]] / [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8424360/1/ Bern's Platinum]] Hard Mode:
* BookEnds: "[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} War... War never changes.]]"
* BrokenBird: Cynthia, after [[spoiler:Steven's death]].
* CreepyTwins: Tate and Liza. Even their Pokemon are scared of them.
* EasilyForgiven: May. Even though, in the eyes of the reader, she may have received her Karmic Punishment when [[spoiler:she '''gouged out her own eye''']], Hale doesn't know it. So, it's a little odd to see him forgiving her so quickly for [[spoiler:Django's death, when the last time he saw her he told her to go kill herself,]] and even [[spoiler:hooking up with her in the wake]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Steven had [[spoiler:Cynthia]].
* {{Expy}}: Tate and Liza are this to [[Manga/BlackLagoon Hansel and Gretel]], right down to the {{Twincest}} and addressing each other as "soramaya" and "fratelumayu".
* FreudianExcuse: One is provided for May's behavior.
** As well as for [[spoiler: Steven's]]. Hale even [[LampshadeHanging points this out]].
* GraveHumor: The prologue graveyard scene has two. A (ghost type) Gengar's epitaph reads "Lolwut?" A Mudkip's says "[[MemeticMutation No one really liked him!]]"
* HypocriticalHumor: The gate attendant at Amity Park refuses to let Bern take most of her Pokémon in. She proceeds to win a contest with Benzene and throw him/her/it at the attendant.
* MediumAwareness: [[spoiler:Steven. Except he [[DisproportionateRetribution takes it]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation too far]].]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Not only between Pokémon, but between ''trainers'' as well.
* OrphanedSeries: The last anyone had seen of the author was his update for the Platinum 'locke's 11th installment, in mid-2011. A shame, since he had planned out two more runs afterwards.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Hale and his Pokemons generally avoid unnecessary violence during their fights. But they will become far more violent, and often lethal, if one of their friends is killed.
* SequelHook: One of the few multi-run comics that didn't use an obvious hook, with his Platinum run starring a different protagonist.
* ShrinkingViolet: The heroine of Platinum, Bern, starts out as this.
* ShoutOut:
** May's extreme expressions are reminiscent of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''.
** In the prologue, one of the many pokemon graves said 'Desmond' with 'See you in another life, brother.' referencing Fire Red: Hard Mode.
** Towards the end of the first storyline comes a huge homage to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** One of the later chapters is called "Tears In The Rain" which is a reference to Film/BladeRunner.
** Hale's comic also shouts out ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (the classic "Are you my Master?" scene) and even ''Kuso Miso Technique''.
** In the sequel, Bern's name may be a reference to ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', though her personality isn't the same.
** Part 5 of Bern's Platinum run has her catching (FINALLY) a male Shellos. The next scene is a GenderFlipped parody of one from Green Lantern, where Hal Jordan greets their newest recruit (a girl).
** If characters named Mitch and Stella plus an abuser named Stanley aren't enough, then an obvious homage to ''the'' SkywardScream makes it pretty clear Platinum is taking a couple cues from Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Upon seeing Juan for the first time, Hale becomes completely aware of why he has so many fangirls. He seems to do it again when he sees Steven.
* {{Yandere}}: '''May'''. This is also {{Deconstructed}} over the course of the strip as it shows ''why'' she's so psychotically possessive of Hale. [[spoiler:She gets better.]]
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[[folder:[=Robotv7=]'s Nuzlocke Challenge]]
!!!Tropes seen in Robotv7's Nuzlocke Challenges:
* BittersweetEnding: His first run ends with only [[spoiler:three Pokémon]] left alive, and he gets called out on the cost of his quest.
* DownerEnding: His Sapphire run. By the way, since Robot quit Nuzlocke forums, the last chapter was drawn by [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/profile/164093/ This Guy]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Robot himself.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Skeets seems to be channeling the inherent fury of the Red Lanterns whenever one of his allies dies.
* ShoutOut: His comic is ''built'' upon references to ''Music/TheProtomen'' and ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
*** His Wingull, Pchooooo, is a reference to the PCHOOOOO code in Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}
* WhatTheHellHero: During the climax of his first run, leading directly into his Sapphire run.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Freddy's Nuzlocke Adventures]]
!!!Tropes seen in Freddy's Nuzlocke Adventures:
* CallBack: Frequent throughout his Blue Run.
* GamerChick: Erika's all-female gym is depicted as a very snide, prideful group of these. His Pokémon defeat them by going into SincerityMode and paying them compliments, and the ensuing LogicBomb makes their heads explode.
* HeadPet: Nibbles.
* MultipleHeadCase: Pierre.
* SmokingIsCool: Connery.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Used at the end of his first run, with the twist of making the cast out as AnimatedActors. Does not appear to be canon, as seen by [[spoiler: Brotodile's cameo]] in his second run. The Blue run also makes use of this trope as well, and it is every bit as hilarious and probably non-canon as the first.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nyachan's Nuzlocke Challenges]]
!!!Nyachan's Nuzlocke Challenges provide examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: Notably, [[spoiler: the prologue to Sapphire is used to make Pearl's resolution less of a DownerEnding]].
** [[spoiler: It may doesn't count a bittersweet ending,but in her Sapphire run, she became the champion at the cost of the lives of Alice and Palladion.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Cynthia's Garchomp]] defeats [[spoiler:Palkia]]. In one hit. Granted, that ''is'' a Pokémon with a reputation as a PhysicalGod among players, but it was up against a freaking [[spoiler:AnthropomorphicPersonification]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All her Pokémon die against Roxanne in the Sapphire run...only to reveal it was an April Fools Joke.]]
* ShipTease: Between Lily and Gary.
* SpinOffspring: The Sapphire run.
* ShoutOut: As a rule addendum in the Sapphire run, all Pokémon caught were named after [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Personae]].
* ThemeNaming: All of the pokémon caught in the Pearl run are named after spices or other flavourings.
* TimeSkip: Between Pearl and Sapphire.
* {{Tsundere}}: Gary [[CharacterDevelopment develops]] into one.
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[[folder:Apocalypse Johto / Battlefield Kanto]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://www.paragonsigma.com/images/nuzlocke/ Saber's Nuzlocke run]]:
* ActionGirl: Candace the player character, [[ActionFashionista Whitney]], and [[AmazonBrigade Whitney's junior-trainers]].
%%* ActionSurvivor
%%* AfterTheEnd
* AnimalMotif: Team Rocket's ominous warnings about Candace compare her to a Zangoose, and the scarred side of her face roughly corresponds to a Zangoose's FacialMarkings. [[spoiler: Turns out their boss Silver has the code name "Seviper", Zangoose's biological enemy.]] Candace eventually adopts "Zangoose" as a nickname.
%%* AntiHero: Candace.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Silver]], deconstructed when his methods are called out by [[spoiler: Giovanni]].
* ApocalypseHow: Wild Pokémon everywhere suddenly become murderously violent and begin attacking tame Pokémon and humans. Calamity ensues. At least '''Regional''' (Johto and Kanto are definitely affected), possibly '''Continental''' depending on how widespread the change is.
** [[spoiler: "Hoenn's gone."]]
** A section of exposition from the study journals of Doctor Fennel in Unova mentions some effects the change has had in that part of the world. Unova being on a completely different continent means that this is, in fact, a global disaster.
* TheApunkalypse: Some well-known characters are completely unrecognizable for their post-apocalypse makeovers.
* ArtShift: [[spoiler: Every time Candace sees a Kimono Girl, the Girl occupies a single page drawn in a Japanese woodcut-based style. Which only enhances the creepiness.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Riptide as an adult Feraligatr. During the battle at Goldenrod Radio Tower, he's the size of a small building. When Candace [[spoiler: as Champion and backed by the new Elite Four]] sets out to Kanto, he takes up an entire beach. And Candace comments that ''he's still growing''.
* BadassBoast: Whitney would like to give Team Rocket a little reminder...
---> Let me break this down for you. I'm '''''Whitney'''''. I'm a Gym Leader. One of the best. And I don't remember granting ''ANY'' of you permission to set foot in my city.
* BadassBookworm: Professor Elm faces down a swarm of mad Spearow the first day of the change to buy Candace time to escape, and [[HeroicSacrifice lies to her that he'll be okay]].
** Whitney of all people turns out to have done her homework on Team Rocket, to the point of being able to analyze Giovanni's plans to his face, [[spoiler: though even she was caught off-guard by Silver]].
* BadassFamily: [[spoiler: Judging by what little we saw of what happened in Hoenn, Whitney's family went down ''fighting''.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, Candace gets a lot of really horrible-looking scars and keeps them. ([[http://www.paragonsigma.com/images/nuzlocke/candaceink0221.jpg contains spoilers]])
** As of the end of Volume 2, about half of Candace's body is covered in scar tissue. [[FanDisservice She's down to her underwear for a scene to show it off.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Whitney tells Team Rocket that while she has a reputation as a flighty airheaded socialite, she wouldn't have been a Gym Leader in the first place if she weren't still one of the best in the business. Her socialite skills also serve her tremendously after the change, since she's able to make people trust her and cooperate for survival.
* CharacterDevelopment: Several characters are shown having changed drastically after the Pokémon became dangerous. Some unexpected characters have cracked, [[TookALevelInBadass taken levels in badass]], or started playing hopscotch with the MoralEventHorizon.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Chuck is introduced [[DynamicEntry giving a flying kick to a giant Corsola]]. He lost all his Pokémon and his wife in the aftermath of the change [[spoiler: and the creation of Missingno]] and has been defending Cianwood by hand (and foot) ever since.
* ChildProdigy: Whitney's backstory tells that she was an incredibly precocious Trainer who earned Gym Leader status at the age of twelve, replacing [[spoiler: her father Norman when he moved to Hoenn]].
* ColonelBadass: [[FourStarBadass General]] Surge kept Vermillion City safe during the Change, and even took in Cerulean survivors. Due to her talent with water Pokemon, Misty became TheCaptain under his command.
* CowardlyLion: Falkner develops into one. [[spoiler: Champion Candace even promotes him to the Elite Four!]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Manages to be more dark than many of the other runs simply by setting it at the end of the world, then going from there.
* DeadpanSnarker:
---> '''Whitney:''' You know, in all the [[BadassBookworm research I did on Team Rocket and Giovanni]]... I never figured out where exactly he gets ''geniuses'' like you to work for him.
* DeathByAdaptation: About half of Johto if you're using the Gym Leaders and totaled cities as a baseline. Casualty count in Kanto is unknown at present.
** [[spoiler: A single vessel of refugees made it out of Hoenn. Whitney's family weren't on it.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Definitely Candace.
---> I'm going to stop the end of the world. And no one is going to get in my way.
** [[spoiler: Silver turns out to be this as well, albeit [[WellIntentionedExtremist by different means]].]]
* DoomedHometown: The prologue shows the destruction of New Bark Town.
* DueToTheDead: Candace has her first ever loss, [[spoiler: Hellacross the Heracross]], tattooed on her left shoulder.
** In Blackthorn City, we get [[http://www.paragonsigma.com/images/nuzlocke/candaceink0409.jpg a closeup]] (spoilers) revealing that [[CallBack she's similarly honored all her other dead Pokémon]]. (Visible tattoos, counterclockwise from top: [[spoiler: Hellacross, Alastor the Gastly, Watchwing the Noctowl, Clutch the Exeggcute]]; not visible but implied: [[spoiler: Flashpoint the Flaaffy, Crucible the Ninetales]])
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Jasmine evacuated her people to the Lighthouse when Olivine City flooded, but couldn't make it in herself and was swept away and drowned outside. She was the only casualty in Olivine.]]
** In the Prologue, [[spoiler:Elm's Cyndaquil evolved twice before she eventually succumbed to the swarm]].
* {{Egopolis}}: [[spoiler: Azalea Town]] is renamed to [[spoiler:Bugsy Town]], in honor of its 'defender'. It gets changed back once the tyrant falls.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Missingno]] definitely fits the bill, as does [[spoiler:Lugia, which had been dormant in Candace's unconscious, and is now awakening. It also created the illusory Kimono Girls.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Giovanni is more concerned with rebuilding Johto than anything else, and is not pleased with where his son's vendetta towards Candace leads]].
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Saber decided to interpret each region as a fantastic version of a real-world country, [[http://saberinblue.deviantart.com/journal/Portrait-of-Some-Ruined-Countries-560215904 explained on his Deviant Art blog]]. Basically, Johto and Kanto are Japan, Unova is the US, Hoenn is/was the Pacific Islands, Sinnoh is Italy, and Kalos is France.
* FastballSpecial: Before it evolved and became too large for it, Candace was fond of doing this with her Totodile.
** Lampshaded when Candace mentions this to Whitney and Whitney refuses to believe Riptide was ever that small (at the time they're having the discussion, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever he's about the size of a small office building]]).
* FedToPigs: The fate of [[spoiler: dissenters in Bugsy Town]] is to be fed to the Slowpokes.
* FromNobodyToNightmare / NotSoHarmlessVillain: The changed Pokemon have increased power as well as viciousness, causing several low-power breeds to suddenly become very dangerous. [[spoiler: The "Bugsy Town" arc does this for (Lord) Bugsy, Kakuna, Metapod, and [[ImAHumanitarian Slowpoke]].]] At Goldenrod City, we see a wild Abra ''[[{{Telefrag}} Teleport a man's head off]]''. [[{{Gorn}} In tender, loving detail.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Silver/Seviper, who went from a Rival we barely saw, much less took seriously, to the HEAD OF TEAM ROCKET.]]
* GrayAndGrayMorality: Not only are Candace's actions getting more and more violent, but [[spoiler:Silver has stated that [[WellIntentionedExtremist his goal is to save Johto]]. He likely doesn't even realize this is also Candace's goal, since he thinks she's insane.]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: Whitney, once when [[spoiler: she and Candace split]], and again when she learns [[spoiler: her family didn't make it out of Hoenn.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: After Team Rocket is destroyed, [[spoiler: Giovanni]] becomes part of Candace's Elite Four, the people she trusts most in what remains of Johto.
* HeroicBSOD: Falkner has one after his father is killed in the change, and Candace [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him out of it]]. Candace herself has one [[spoiler:after killing Morty]] and is comforted by [[spoiler:Whitney]].
** [[spoiler: And now it looks like Whitney's having one after losing control of Crucible the Ninetales.]]
*** And now Whitney's having another one upon learning that [[spoiler: [[ItsPersonal her family in Hoenn were all killed]].]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Lord Bugsy unleashes his Kakuna despite knowing it's succumbed to the change. Sure enough...]]
** [[spoiler: Pryce ordered a changed Dewgong into battle. Candace finds [[HumanPopsicle his remains]]... and those of everyone else in Mahogany Town.]] [[HorrifyingTheHorror Even Candace is horrified]].
** [[spoiler: Clair evolves her Seadra into Kingdra for more power, only for it to change on the spot and attack her. [[ProperlyParanoid Good thing she had Candace on standby in case something went wrong.]]]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The Kimono Girls]]. Eventually revealed to be a psychic projection by [[spoiler: Lugia, channeled by Candace]], which is now awakening.
** Frostbite the Jynx is a milder example, since she's not so much hostile as just (deliberately) creepy. She looks like a doll with disconnected joints and a creepy perma-grin.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:To what extent is unknown, but seemingly a lot of things]] in Mahogany Town. [[spoiler: Including the Gym Leader.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Chuck tries to run off Candace as a threat... but he ''completely'' fails to do the same for someone who was genuinely insane and dangerous, Eusine. Justified, since Chuck's info on Candace comes from the dishonest radio broadcast, and Eusine seems to have been biding his time until she arrived.]]
** The leader of Team Rocket turns out to be massively hypocritcal, claiming that Candace must be killed because she's become something monsterous, and yet [[spoiler:going out of his way to try and make her ''suffer'']].
* TheImmune: While most Trainers lose control of their Pokemon after the change, Candace never does.
** [[spoiler: The entire Eevee line is immune to the change.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Candycane and Zangoose for Candace, [[spoiler:Seviper for Silver.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Flashbacks show that Whitney went from [[TheDitz bimbo]] to badass in ''minutes'' when the change hit.
* MadeOfIron: Candace, with hints of IronWoobie. Seriously, would you keep going after this?
---> Five cracked ribs, a dislocated shoulder, a sprained wrist, three severe perforations causing nerve damage along my left forearm, countless lacerations, [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank massive blood loss]], and the lingering effects of a near-fatal dose of Pokémon venom.
---> Three months recovery.
** Whitney later remarks on Candace's incredible resilience and recovery. She might be covered in scars, but she has yet to be permanently incapacitated (except when she broke some of her fingers [[spoiler: in battle with Lugia... and even those healed later.]]).
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:Morty, driven insane and filled with evil spirits from the destruction of Ecruteak City. Candace eventually gives him/them a MercyKill, though Silver apparently captured a surviving Gengar.]]
* TheMissingno: Extra emphasis on that "''the''" right there.
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Silver/Seviper is this to Giovanni.]]
* MixAndMatchCritters: [[spoiler: Missingno is this. Amongst the few recognizable parts are a Poliwrath, Machoke, Staryu, and Shuckle. It gains more parts after absorbing other Pokémon.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Chuck stupidly puts Missingno's pokeball in a spot where anyone can just grab it and release it... which crazy!Eusine does. Much destruction ensues.]]
** [[spoiler: Clair evolves her Seadra into Kingdra... and it becomes too powerful for her to control.]]
* NothingIsScarier: We only learn enough of [[spoiler: the destruction of Hoenn]] to make a very loose sequence of events, which leaves very little explained.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler: Whitney's father is [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Petalburg Gym Leader Norman]], and Ruby (Reuben) is her little brother. They don't make it out of Hoenn.]]
* OnlyOneName: Averted. In the latest update, several characters are introduced by first and last names.
* PowerBornOfMadness: The changed Pokémon are not only violently aggressive, but tremendously more dangerous. [[spoiler: Pryce's Dewgong flash-froze all of Mahogany Town when he lost control.]]
** Candace also has some of this... enough to bare-handedly strangle a Weavile.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most of the remaining Gym Leaders seem to be reasonable, with the obvious exception of [[spoiler: Lord Bugsy]]. Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Giovanni]] is also pretty reasonable once he wises up to [[spoiler: Silver's vendetta]].
** The surviving members of the Elite Four also become this once they realize Candace isn't a sleeper agent for their enemy. [[spoiler: Except Will, who was himself one of Sabrina's brainwashed agents.]]
** Candace's first action as League Champion is to give the Elite Four veto rights over her, an action that Whitney specifically states is unprecedented since the League's authority system was established.
* RedBaron: The Zangoose.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Whitney]]'s ShutUpKiss to Candace causes them to become an item. [[spoiler: At the end of Volume 2, they break up.]]
** [[spoiler: As of Candace's disastrous journey to Mount Silver, she and Whitney are together again. They even have a sex scene in one of the latest updates.]]
* ShoutOut: At least two to StarWars, due to the author being a massive StarWars geek (even his nickname, [=SABERinBLUE=], is derived from StarWars). Candace's Forretress has the nickname [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Death Star]], and the title of chapter 4 is ''A WretchedHive Badge''.
** New Bark Town's destruction by Spearow seems oddly reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/TheBirds''.
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Whitney]] [[RelationshipUpgrade delivers one]] to Candace during her HeroicBSOD.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Candace is arguably as wild as the changed-over Pokémon by now, including [[spoiler:killing Seviper's Weavile ''with her bare hands''.]]
** [[spoiler:Silver's hatred of her makes him cold, calculating and uncaring about who else gets hurt in the course of his revenge upon her.]]
%%* StaringDownCthulhu
* StoryAndGameplaySegregation: The storyline of the comic differs tremendously from the actual gameplay of the Soul Silver game. WordOfGod is that cutscenes involving Ethan are awkward to play, since Ethan died with New Bark Town in the comic's storyline.
** WordOfGod also says the author ''lost their notes on what happened in game'' a while back. No one would have noticed had it not been pointed out.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Candace offers Janine a role in the new Elite Four under the condition that Janine be the "cop" if Candace becomes uncontrollable.]]
* TimeSkip: Every time Candace takes an attack that seems like it should kill her, the storyline skips a couple of months while she recovers. As of Blackthorn City, three or four years have passed since the change happened.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Candace (tomboy, action-oriented) and Whitney (feminine, people-oriented).
* UnknownRival: As much of a {{Jerkass}} the rival is, Candace is more concerned with [[spoiler:how his Chikorita fled from New Bark]]. Compared to ''that'' (and the whole Apocalypse thing), he's hardly worth her time. [[spoiler:Until he takes over Team Rocket.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Candace gives several, but the first is to [[spoiler:Elm's Chikorita, who fled instead of trying to defend New Bark]].
** Candace also ''gets'' a few. [[spoiler: Her siccing of Death Star on Jasmine Tower earns her one from Preston, for example.]]
** Giovanni himself gets in on this when he calls out [[spoiler:his own son, whose personal vendetta leads to the deaths of many of their men]].
* YouWillBeAssimilated: This is a major part of [[spoiler: Missingno]]'s schtick, as it turns out. [[spoiler: It gains parts and abilities from eating pokemon whole- as in the case of Candace's Noctowl or Eusine's Electrode- or even just parts of them. Poor Beelzebub.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nessa's Emerald Nuzlocke Challenge]]
!!![[http://shadeofshinon.deviantart.com/gallery/28220100 Nessa's Emerald Nuzlocke Challenge]]:
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Jormundgar's closer to 80 feet, actually, fitting [[Myth/NorseMythology her namesake]], but all of Nessa's Pokémon are ''way'' bigger than the pokedex entries for them. All of them except Thorn (a Lairon) are taller than Nessa, who is herself not particularly short at 5'11". In Jory's case, it's a bit of a problem-- because of her size, she's rarely let out of her pokeball.
** [[spoiler:Thorn eventually becomes an Aggron of Kaiju-esque stature.]]
* BackForTheDead: Right after returning, Vermundr ends up on the wrong end of a Thunder attack.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jormundgar has a Docile nature, but when push comes to shove... well, [[UnstoppableRage she's a Gyarados]].
* TheBusCameBack after the battle with Winona. Turns out he got rejected by the wild Beautifly for having been trained by a human, then had an encounter with [[OneDegreeOfSeparation the Salamence that killed Solveig's mother]].
* CanisMajor: Fenrir, [[Myth/NorseMythology true to his namesake]].
* CheerfulChild / HeartwarmingOrphan: Solveig as a Swablu. She might still count as an Altaria, since she's still quite young chronologically.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Not just the villains, either. [[spoiler: Scott seems to be leading some sort of operation requiring the cooperation of Steven Stone, all the Gym Leaders, May, and Nessa as an UnwittingPawn.]]
* JerkAss: Fenrir was not very friendly at first. He eventually mellows out... [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a little]].
* MagikarpPower: Fenrir was partnered with Jormundgar the Magikarp so he'd get a taste of this and learn not to bully other Pokémon. By the time Jory evolved, he'd bullied her into an UnstoppableRage, and the lesson almost killed him.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Alhildr's death]] seems to be this for Nessa.
* MysteriousPast: Eysafjall, [[spoiler: who is a Team Magma escapee]], but the most mysterious may be Nessa herself.
** Nessa's history as a Trainer is eventually revealed, though we're given several different perspectives on it.
* PantheraAwesome: The Absol is depicted with a lion-like face instead of a a simple human one.
* ThePollyanna: Solveig, so very much.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Consciously defied by Fenrir during the [[FourthWallMailSlot Q&A session]] when asked what the most important thing he's learned on the journey is. Instead, he considers "[[MagikarpPower Don't annoy Magikarps]]" his most important lesson.
* PutOnABus: Vermundr was released into the wild during Beautifly mating season so he could raise a family.
* ShipTease: The FourthWallMailSlot sessions were full of [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend teasing Gismundr about Eysafjall]]. Even Ey herself got in on it. However, WordOfGod indicates that it's only teasing.
** [[spoiler: Solveig demands to know why Fenrir has been brushing her off, and finds out that he's [[CanNotSpitItOut having trouble dealing with his crush on her]].]]
** Brendan gives Nessa a CooldownHug after she freaks out over [[spoiler: Vermundr's death]]. Eysafjall [[ShipperOnDeck winks at Nessa]] and gets flipped off for it.
* ShoutOut: Gismundr's [[StarWars Yoda-like]] speech patterns as a Marshstomp.
** During the FourthWallMailSlot Q&A session, Gismundr admits he thinks it'd be really cool to be a Jedi... or [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim the Dragonborn]]. (complete with an illustration giving a Shout)
** For a training montage, Thorn performs an adaptation on "[[Disney/{{Mulan}} I'll Make A Man Out Of You]]". The writer admits it's not Thorn's usual style, but she couldn't leave it out.
** Solveig joins the party after trying to nest in Fenrir's back fur, like Pussyfoot in ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty''. When she evolves, she's disappointed she can't do that any more.
* SopranoAndGravel: Several fans have said they want Solveig and Thorn to perform a duet. [[http://fav.me/d534c5m And then it happened.]]
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: As a Marshstomp, like [[StarWars Yoda]], Gismundr talked. He grew out of it eventually.
* ThemeNaming: Nordic names. Leads to a lot of AwesomeMcCoolName and the odd fan going "Wait, how do you pronounce ''that''?"
* TheUnintelligible: Gismundr as a Mudkip. He grew out of it.
* UnwittingPawn: Nessa eventually catches on that she's being used, but still doesn't know ''what for''.
--->'''Nessa:''' [[LampshadeHanging I just realized how much invisible information passed in front of my eyes.]]
* VocalDissonance: Thorn as a tiny wild Aron used his thundering voice to frighten others away from sections of the cave that seemed likely to collapse. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic He also sings.]] After evolving, his appearance is more appropriate for his voice.
** The 80-foot Gyarados Jormundgar opens her mouth, full of teeth the size of Nessa's arm... and speaks in [[{{Keigo}} very polite]] AntiquatedLinguistics with a [[PaintingTheFourthWall fancy font]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ken's FireRed Kick@$$ Mode]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://yindragon.deviantart.com/gallery/33730225 Ken's FireRed Kick@$$ Mode]]:

* AdaptationExpansion: Several, but notably Daisy, Gary's sister, who is now a recurring character and rival to Ken.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "''Shii! Stop that star with Stun Spore!''"
* AnimeHair: The whole damn cast. WordOfGod says that the cast uses [[RuleOfCool F-U-Gravity Hairspray.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: At least half of Ken's team.
* MysteriousWatcher: Mew, who seems to follow Ken everywhere, observing him.
* VersusCharacterSplash: Before every major battle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Puss, the Meowth.

!!!Kenneth "Ken" Alexander
* AnimeHair: It's quite impressive, and surprisingly comfortable, according to Pecks.
* AxeCrazy: Can slip into violent mood swings whenever a battle gets intense, at which point he becomes completely merciless.
* BadassLongcoat: Ken wears a trench coat solely because it makes him look "cool".
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ken may be an idiot, but he's quite the competent battler. He's also [[GeniusDitz quite a bit smarter than he lets on]]...
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Anytime Daisy is involved.
* FieryRedhead: Ken is easily excitable.
* GeniusDitz: Despite his... short comings, Ken is a [[HiddenDepths brilliant]] [[UselessUsefulNonCombatAbilities mathematician]].
* GogglesDoNothing: Like his coat, Ken wears goggles just to look more badass. He does actually put them on when [[LetsGetDangerous he's in an important battle]]. like a Gym Battle.
* IdiotHero: Ken's not altogether the smartest guy around, but he's got it where it counts.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ken is kind of a douche at the beginning of the run, giving his pokemon suggestive names and constantly making gay jokes at Gary's expense, but he gradually matures as the run progresses.
* TheKillerInMe: The source of Ken's [[spoiler: AxeCrazy tendencies, of the Amnesiac variation. How he became this way is still unknown, even to Ken.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Ken strangely cannot recall why Daisy and Gary treat him so coldly and has no recollection of the several months before the events of the story.
* LovableSexManiac: Getting into Daisy's pants was his initial motivation for becoming champion.
* MysteriousPast: Ken seems to have had some sort of interaction with [[spoiler: Team Rocket and/or Mew. It seems like even Daisy has this as well.]]
* RedIsHeroic: Ken has red hair and is the hero of the story.
* TheSlacker: His life up until the events of the story.
* SlasherSmile: Wears a very creepy one during his mood swings.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Several characters call out Ken for the actions that ended up killing Buzz, including Pecks and Ken himself.]]
!!!Charlie the Charizard
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: All the other Pokemon can speak just fine, but Charlie really doesn't seem to be any more intelligent than your average dog.
%%* CuteMute
%%* DumbMuscle
* LetsGetDangerous: Most of the time Charlie has the complexity of a rock, but [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass when he's in battle, he's a monster!]]
* RunningGag: Charlie recklessly murdering any Pokemon Ken could potentially capture.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Only Charlie Sheen quotes, to Peck's annoyance.

!!!Pecker "Senor Pecks" the Fearow
* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: After Buzzkill's death in Mt. Moon.]]
* BadassSpaniard: Pecks is easily the strongest member of the team alongside Charlie and he's a Spaniard.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Puff.
* BilingualBonus: In [[http://yindragon.deviantart.com/art/Team-Kick-Q-A-Charlie-Pecks-367812491 one of the extra comics]], responding to a reader question of why he never speaks whole sentences of Spanish, Pecks responds with a rant in Spanish which the author translated as "Because I can", but which is actually Pecks telling the readers to kiss his ass.
--> '''Pecks''' Si tienes algún problema, puedes besar mi marrón, emplumado trasero.
* DeadpanSnarker: Half the stuff that comes out of his beak.
* FantasticRacism: Despises the Pidgey evolution line and later holds a grudge against Clefairys, too.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hails from Pokespain, apparently.
%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* HeadPet: Pecks used to roost in Ken's hair back when he was a spearow. He clearly misses it. A one-off comic has him try it again after evolving, resulting in him nearly crushing Ken.
* TheLancer: He's Ken's right-hand man, being that Charlie is a bit slow upstairs.
* OnlySaneMan: He's far and away the most mature member of the group.
* SarcasticDevotee: Pecks is highly sarcastic but generally follows Ken's lead.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ken.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He refuses to fight girls, so he opts out of fighting at Erika's gym.

!!!Buzzkill "Buzz" the Beedrill
* NiceGirl: She was a very kind pokemon.
* OddCouple: With Pecks. As Buzzkill notes, birds tend to eat bugs.
* TheLostLenore: To Pecks, she [[spoiler: dies just as a relationship between them begins to develop.]]
%%* SacrificialLion
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: She had a somewhat feminine physique.

!!!Puff Daddy "Puff" the Jigglypuff
* TheChick: She's [[TheHeart the kindest of the team]] and provides moral support and CooldownHugs when and as necessary.
* CoolDownHug: Played with. She's used Sing to break up fights before they get too out of hand.
** Played completely straight during the Pokemon Tower story arc, when Ken almost loses control to his SuperpoweredEvilSide again. [[http://yindragon.deviantart.com/art/FireRed-Kick-Mode-Ep-17-4-404380630 And it was adorable.]]
%%* TheCutie
* GenderBlenderName: Puff is named after a male rapper.
* InterspeciesRomance: Puff, the Jigglypuff, seems to have a crush on Bill, the Clefairy. Also, keep in mind that, unbeknownst to Puff, Bill is ''actually human''.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Her starting moves were Sing and Defense Curl. After Ken picks up Rod he registers her as a non-combatant so she can stay with the team even though there Ken has six other pokemon.
%%* PuppyDogEyes
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: She's a Jigglypuff. Cute comes with the territory.

!!!Leviathan "Levi" the Gyarados
* TheDogBitesBack: Once he gains the teeth capable of doing the job. Tough luck for Ken.
* MagikarpPower: Duh! He's a Gyarados!
* JustEatGilligan: At one point, Ken really considered it.
* OutOfFocus: Levi hasn't made an appearance since Episode 14, and even before that his animosity with Ken made him unwilling to cooperate much at all.
* TheUnfavorite: Leviathan the Magikarp is this when Ken finds out he isn't the great monster of doom the salesman told him he was. And then he evolves...

!!!Shiitake "Shii" the Gloom
* CoolSword: She learned Cut by stealing the S.S. Anne Captain's display sword.
* EyesAlwaysShut: As a Gloom.
* GratuitousJapanese: Peppers her speech with random Japanese terms, calls Ken "Ken-sama", etc.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Shii's goal in life is to evolve into a Bellossom. Sadly, Sun Stones are scarce in Fire Red, so she settles for Vileplume.
%%* LadyOfWar
%%* LittleMissBadass
%%* PerpetualSmiler
* TheTease: Attract works this way, and even causes [[NoseBleed nose bleeds]].

!!!Bill the Clefairy
* BalefulPolymorph: The Pokémaniac is accidentally transformed into a Clefairy, as per the standard game plot, but is not transformed back into a human. He ends up pretending to be an ordinary Clefairy and joining Team Kick@$$ rather than admitting to being the man in the embarrassing photos which Ken finds on his computer.
* BlatantLies: Bill describes himself as TheCasanova.
* {{Cosplay}}: His hobby which tragically led to his BalefulPolymorph incident.
* TheDragAlong: He's more or less forced into joining Ken's team until he can figure out a way to reverse his transformation.
* InsufferableGenius: Bill is a genius and doesn't mind reminding the gang of this fact.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Bill has a lot to criticize about Ken, and a lot of it is well-founded.
* TheSmartGuy: He's the smartest member of the team and advises Ken during battle several times.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Equips a pair out of nowhere when he's feeling especially analytical.
* TookALevelInBadass: As of Episode 15, Bill is now a capable battler in his own right.

!!!Gary Oak
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts like a JerkAss but he does for honestly understandable reasons and he's a pretty nice guy if you don't push his buttons.
* MaliciousMisnaming: "Gayrod"
* MySisterIsOffLimits: His hostility towards Ken stems out of concern for his sister.
* TheRival: As usual.
* VeryPunchableMan: At one point it becomes quite literal.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and his sister were once [[ChildhoodFriends close friends of Ken's since childhood]].

!!!Daisy Oak
* AscendedExtra: Daisy Oak goes from the nice neighbor who gives you a map to becoming a more competent trainer than Ken or even her brother Gary.
%%* BareYourMidriff
* GirlNextDoor: In the most literal sense possible.
%%* IdiotHair
* MsFanservice: She's very attractive which Ken rarely fails to observe.
* OddNameOut: Ken names his Pokemon after celebrities and generally cool sounding words. Daisy's Bulbasaur's nickname is "[[AerithAndBob Bulba]]"...
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Is noted to look like a gender-flipped version of Gary. A ''very'' attractive gender-flipped version.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Was once a [[ChildhoodFriends close friend of Ken's since childhood]], until something neither can recall happened.
* WomenAreWiser: Not too difficult when her main competition is [[IdiotHero Ken]].

!!!Shade the Ninja
%%* {{Bishounen}}
* HighlyVisibleNinja: He's dressed like a stereotypical ninja, hangs about in highly visible places
%%* JustFollowingOrders
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manic's Screenshot Runs]]
!!!The first Manic saga
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8636442/1/ Manic's Derpy Emerald]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8651388/1/ Manic's Infernal Red]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8669226/1/ My Little Pokémon: Friendship is Super-Effective!]] (crossover with WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic)
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8697353/1/ Manic's Fatal Platinum]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8716125/1/ Manic's Paint It Black]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8742170/1/ Manic's Spirit Electrum]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8789703/1/ Manic's Final Vega]]
!!!The second Manic saga
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8869557/1/ Manic's Der Gnizalb]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9018339/1/ Manic's Dark Stars]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9135018/1/ Manic's Argent Ante]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9225689/1/ Manic's Sacred Spectre]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9244490/1/ Manic's Full Circle]]
!!!Non-canon runs
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8739114/1/ DONUT'S ATOMIC KITTEN SLEDGE]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8815507/1/ Blinding Light]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9090463/1/ DONUT'S QUIZZICAL GELATIN BISHOP]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9269065/1/ The Process]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9295029/1 [MATURE] Super Stan's Super Awesome Adventure!]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/11039102/1/ Eclipse]]
!!!Tropes seen in Manic's Screenshot Runs:
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Cynthia's death in Fatal Platinum after her defeat. A short one, though.]] Also, [[spoiler:Stan]] in the epilogue of Super Stan's Super Awesome Adventure!, though cryptic and grim.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Manic appears noticeably less emotionally affected by his early deaths in Final Vega than he has been by previous deaths in other runs. Subverted after he is shown the reality of his situation.
* AbusiveParents: In Derpy Emerald, Manic's mother is a prostitute and his father is an absentee; she is later redeemed. In Spirit Electrum, Peace!Manic's mother is an abusive drunk (in stark contrast to War!Manic's mother, who is loving and kind).
** Also, Bianca's father in Paint It Black, though he comes to realize what he's become and promises to seek help when confronted by Elesa, Manic, and Bianca.
* AlternateTimeline: Brought up in Spirit Electrum, where, in one of the universes, there never was a Manic that defeated Gary Oak and Mewtwo in Infernal Red, meaning that there was no power vacuum for Genwyn to occupy and start the war against Johto. The Manics from the "War" world and the "Peace" world swap back and forth between the timelines whenever they enter a new town for the first time, or [[spoiler:when one of their Pokemon dies.]]
** Remember the Slugma that Mike knocked out in Infernal Red on the Sevii Islands? Der Gnizalb happens in a timeline where this never happened, which resulted in the Slugma's power growing exponentially, as it had no natural predators, and eventually Slugma [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI ascended to godhood]].]] This resulted in the events preceding Der Gnizalb.
** The Unova presented in Sacred Spectre diverged from the Paint it Black run [[spoiler: during the battle against N; Paintit!Ghetsis entered the timeline to replace his counterpart, and used his cane to make Zekrom go berserk, leading to Alt!Manic's death and N taking the blame.]]
* AlternateSelf: Manic has one in Spirit Electrum.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Ike in Argent Ante.
* AssKicksYou: There's a scene in Infernal Red in which Gary's Blastoise taunts Creosote (Snorlax) with the classic "Are you going to sit on me?" line. Creosote does just that. And gains a level doing it.
* AudienceParticipation: During The Process, readers were able to submit rules after every gym battle, and Manic would select the one that received the most votes.
* BackFromTheDead: Rex, in Final Vega. [[spoiler:Death returns to reclaim him later.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: The trainers who previously failed to beat the game in Infernal Red turn up as wild Pokemon afterwards.
** In Dark Stars, [[spoiler:Manic himself]] even qualifies.
* BerserkButton: For Manic in Spirit Electrum, trying to harm or forcibly weaponize Grant, or generally separating him from Manic. In Full Circle, Delilah suggests that Manic doesn't care that his pokemon die; this triggers it as well.
* BigBad: Each run in the first saga has its own. Derpy Emerald has Wallace, Infernal Red has Mewtwo, My Little Pokemon: Friendship is Super-Effective has [[spoiler:the spirit of Wallace]], Fatal Platinum has Cynthia, Paint It Black has Ghetsis, and Spirit Electrum has [[spoiler: Red/Genwyn.]] Only after all five runs was the BigBad finally revealed to be [[spoiler:Wallace and Darkrai as a team]].
* BilingualBonus: Gustav from Derpy Emerald, Frieda from Paint It Black, and Pierre from Full Circle all invoke this; if you happen to speak Spanish or French (or are willing to play with a translator), you'll get more out of their dialogue.
** Final Vega is, much of the time, one big version of this.
* BigDamnHeroes: In Dark Stars, Sophie battles Maylene. Against her final Pokemon, Cyrano is about to get killed by Counter, but then [[spoiler:a fully-evolved Manic returns to the party to block the hit. He promptly takes down the Lucario via Close Combat.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Final Vega. In the final gameplay update, Manic's team successfully defeats [[spoiler:Darkrai's team.]] However, the cost is high: [[spoiler:the shade of Alder's Volcarona scores a critical Overheat on Yuki. She dies instantly.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Being an Oracle may grant you near-omniscience, but they are still cursed with an inherently high chance of being killed eventually due to being specifically targeted by the BigBad.
* BodySurf: Manic performs this to get to the worlds of the second saga; specifically a robot in Der Gnizalb, a Chimchar in Dark Stars, a much lazier [[spoiler: two of spades]] Manic in Argent Ante, a boy named Nate in Sacred Spectre, and that world's version of him in Full Circle.
* BreakTheCutie: In Blinding Light, Max starts out as an upbeat, friendly, enthusiastic puppy. Then he is taught to kill, and forced to do so repeatedly despite his misgivings.
* ButNowIMustGo: Happened to every aspect of Manic at the end of their adventures in the first saga, in different ways.
* ChekhovsGun: Found in My Little Pokemon: Friendship is Super-Effective. Rarity's special Pokemon Power[[note]]Charm and Poise: May escape without fail from any non-trainer battle[[/note]] appears, at first glance, to be Run Away as an additional ability. Considering how rarely the actual ability is used in the games, it appears to be useless... until it saves everyone's lives [[spoiler: when Scott ambushes them with Steven's Pokemon right before Victory Road; as Scott isn't a trainer, Rarity is able to help Manic escape him.]]
** Another one that thankfully didn't have to be fired in Fatal Platinum; the last move that Franklin the Lopunny learned before asking to be retired from active duty was [[spoiler:Healing Wish, which basically acts as a Full Restore on another party member in exchange for [=KOing=] the user. In the event that Manic ran out of time, Franklin would have used Healing Wish, sacrificing his life to give Manic [[LivingOnBorrowedTime one last day]] to finish his quest.]]
* TheChosenOne / TheChosenMany: Manic is known as a "scion", specifically "The Candlebearer," which is a title given to him by [[BigGood Cresselia]] and comes with the added role of "shining light into dark places" (metaphorically). It is later revealed in Argent Ante that most, if not all [[PhysicalGod legendary]] [[OlympusMons Pokemon]] have a scion like this. [[spoiler:One of them is even the villain of the run.]]
* CrackFic: His Donut run.
* CreatorBreakdown: Manic - the author - has been saddled with a number of health problems throughout the course of the first and second sagas, including but not limited to near-blindness (leading to the naming of "Slimcr" in Der Gnizalb), numbness over most of his body (including his hands), and multiple instances of the flu. This has caused more than one ScheduleSlip but has yet to actually stop him from writing; it only slows him down.
* CreepyChild: In Spirit Electrum's peace world, Joey is just another kid. In the war world, he's an allied agent and skilled sniper who is revealed to be following Manic around with orders to take him out if his behavior becomes too erratic.
* CurbStompBattle: Near the end of Paint It Black, Arthur enters the battle with N, having stated that it is his dream to defeat N's legendary dragon. Most major plot battles involve switching; not this one. Arthur stands there and defeats N's entire team single-handedly. Immediately afterwards, the same happens to Ghetsis' team; different pokemon, same result. Ashley partially repeats the process in Sacred Spectre, defeating half of Ghetsis's team on her own. Not bad for an Unfezant.
** In DONUT'S ATOMIC KITTEN SLEDGE, Underwear solos the entirety of the Elite Four and then turns to being transport and backup for the remainder of the run.
* DarkWorld: Manic's take on the Gen II remakes in the first saga has him play both versions at once, switching perspectives every time he enters a town. He incorporates this into the story by building two designations for them, though it's never clear which is worse: Soul Silver, with its peaceful world and unpleasant [=NPCs=], or Heart Gold with its war-torn environment but kinder [=NPCs=].
* DeaderThanDead: Reflected upon when [[spoiler:Jonas]] dies in Paint It Black. In a previous run, [[spoiler: Dana]] had been reincarnated by Mew as repayment for services rendered. Here, Manic recalls that the local legendary Pokemon do not have that sort of power, and that any pokemon he loses is permanently gone.
* DeadpanSnarker: Vile in the Marshall fight of the Elite Four. "Yee Haw."
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Invoked: another consistent rule of his runs is that in order for him to win, he needs to have defeated all one-time encounter Pokemon or face failure. [[spoiler:Spirit Electrum exploits LoopholeAbuse by catching Lugia, using it in his team, then having it be a casualty in the last battle of the run.]]
** It's actually all legendary Pokemon, not all one-time encounter Pokemon. This is used to justify not fighting Slugma at the end of Der Gnizalb, which is a one-time encounter but not a legendary Pokemon.
* DistaffCounterpart / SpearCounterpart: Happens in Spirit Electrum with Lana and Link the Typhlosions.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Pierre the Greninja, in Full Circle, was put onto Manic's team by Archie through the Wonder Trade system.]]
* DVDCommentary: ''The Process'' has something like this , where Manic goes into detail about his creative process for a screenshot run.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: At the end of DONUT'S ATOMIC KITTEN SLEDGE, the team goes to "DIDNEYLAN".
** The Manic saga ended with a giant event in which readers were to submit to the author what they thought was the answer to the door's question. Manic already had a bad end ready, and he would have posted it if none of the answers he received were the correct one. [[spoiler:He didn't need it.]]
* ExactWords:
** [[spoiler:Darkrai. Wallace made a deal with him to ensure the defeat of Manic. The deal never specified that Wallace had to stay alive.]]
** Argent Ante's Whitney instates a rule that the two Pokemon Manic uses in the battle must be of different genders, thinking that it meant he'd have to have one male and one female. Cue her throwing a tantrum when Manic brings a [[spoiler: genderless Metang.]]
** In Blinding Light, the prophecy states that Zekrom awaits a hero. [[spoiler:The hero is Max, not Vile - it never said what species the hero had to be.]]
* FantasticRacism: Exemplified by Genwyn, who is revealed in Paint It Black to despise all non-Kanto Pokemon.
* TheFinalTemptation: Near the end of Sacred Spectre, Manic has his final confrontation with Ghetsis, who offers him the opportunity to receive what he wants more than anything else. All he has to do is turn his back on an Unova whose fate will never impact him in any way. Coral even confirms that Ghetsis believes that he is telling the truth. [[spoiler:It almost works.]]
* FlatWhat: Manic's reaction to seeing the starter Pokemon in Final Vega.
** Also his reaction to Proton saying he's the scariest and cruelest ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady guy]]'' in Team Rocket.
* FreakOut: Manic in Derpy Emerald didn't take well the news that he was infected with a condition that can cause his Pokemon to die if it faints.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: At the end of Sacred Spectre, it's revealed that - should Manic fail to open the door home before his chances are exhausted - he will remain, ageless and alone, until Darkrai has regained enough power to free him. This will take aeons, and to quote Cresselia, "After a near-eternity of ageless, deathless isolation, you would be a frothing, gibbering lunatic, without the capacity to appreciate - or even comprehend - your restored freedom."
* GroinAttack: In Blinding Light, Vile has Zerzan "geld" Clay as his punishment.
* GuardianEntity: Manic's Oracles from the first saga, made to guide Manic through his quests and explain how to undo their circumstances.
* HandicappedBadass:
** Manic himself in Fatal Platinum, at the end of which he was literally unable to walk without help, but could still think hard enough about strategy to beat the League.
** [[spoiler: Ike]] in Argent Ante.
** [[spoiler: Calvin]] in Sacred Spectre, albeit mentally rather than physically.
* TheHeart / MoralityPet: Grant the Togepi/Togetic.
* TheHero: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Manic in the Manic saga]], [[spoiler: Max]] in Blinding Light, and Mary in The Process.
* HeroicBSOD: Manic suffers one in Argent Ante, after realizing that [[spoiler: he was willing to let Rocket executive Archer fall to his death off the Goldenrod radio tower]].
* HeroicMime: Mason from Blinding Light.
** Explained by Vile in the Q&A: "He has no mouth, buffoon."
* HeroicSacrifice: In Infernal Red, [[spoiler: Trevor]] shoves Susan away from an exploding Koffing and takes the blast instead in order to prevent her from being killed in front of her daughter, Lacey. The sacrifice saves Susan and helps Randy to come to terms with his situation.
* HesBack: [[spoiler: Manic]] returns to the team in chapter 15 of Dark Stars.
* HisNameIs:
** In Der Gnizalb, the last words of [[spoiler: Matilda]]. "Pay attention to what's...to come...this is what...it is...to..."
** PlayedForLaughs in the Donut run, in the scene where Susan returns from the dead temporarily as a ghost to tell Donut to teach Surf to Underwear. When [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence leaving the mortal plane]], she happily exclaims "Hey, there's my..." No points for guessing what it is.
* IChooseToStay: In Infernal Red, from Aaron the Charizard as he's gotten used to living in Kanto, and from Bela the Murkrow as [[spoiler: he was a convicted murderer on death row back on earth]].
* IllBoy: Anyone infected with the Nuzlocke condition are this, but only those with the more aggressive variants have this trope applied more heavily.
* InsistentTerminology: Roxanne the Bibarel is an HM ''specialist'', thank you very much!
* InterspeciesRomance: Roxanne and Nero in Fatal Platinum, Lana and Jack in Spirit Electrum.
* IronicNurseryTune: Solomon Grundy, at the end of Super Stan's Super Awesome Adventure!. In the rhyme of Solomon Grundy, only on Wednesday is Solomon an active participant in his life; otherwise, the rhyme is composed only of things happening TO him. Shortly after Solomon takes an active role, his health fails and he dies. [[spoiler: The parallels to Stan's story are clear.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Anemoi from Spirit Electrum, Jacob from Paint It Black (Until a short while before [[spoiler: his demise]]), and Iwao from Final Vega. Also Fenrir from Der Gnizalb, although he was eventually outdone by Beat.
** Boris from Paint it Black is enough of one that it gets him removed from the team.
* {{Keet}}: Max from Blinding Light, up until he evolves into a Stoutland.
* KillerRabbit: Franklin the Lopunny in Fatal Platinum, and Wally the Lopunny in Sacred Spectre, pull their own weight repeatedly in battles.
* LanguageBarrier: A great big one in Final Vega. Japanese appears to be the local language. Most of the game text is in Japanese. The {{NPC}}s speak it. The Pokemon speak it. Whether we're talking about the protagonist or the player, Manic... doesn't. Being overcome, little by little. Manic eventually learns some Japanese via total immersion in the language for over a month, giving him enough knowledge to understand his pokemon but not enough to understand {{NPC}}s.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Quite a few spread throughout his runs.
** Ace the Beautifly from Derpy Emerald, the jaded stand-up comedian.
** Bela the Murkrow from Infernal Red, the escaped serial killer.
** Applejack the Flareon from My Little Pokemon: Friendship is Super-Effective, the...Flareon.
** Roxanne from Fatal Platinum, a Bibarel [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry so utterly unstoppable that she]] [[spoiler:literally pulls herself out of the PC box, rips through several doors to reach Flint, Manic, and the rest of the team, and informs the dying hero that she'll end him right then and there if Nero is dead.]]
** Dawn from Paint It Black, a Cincinno who calls out her martial arts attacks.
** Bump from Der Gnizalb, a Swalot who is very "special."
** In the first Donut run, Donut battled Mewtwo ''with a Butterfree and a Wobbuffet,'' and the real crowner of this? ''Mewtwo KO'd itself with Struggle.''
** In general, any pokemon normally considered weak or mediocre has a high chance of becoming this in Manic's hands.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: Each run after the first in the first Manic Saga gets its own distinct Manic, fragmented off of the original one from Derpy Emerald:
** Kanto gets Manic, Self-Aware, to embody his knowledge of self and the fourth wall.
** Hoenn gets Manic, Innocent, to embody his naivete.
** Sinnoh gets Manic, Courageous, to embody his fearlessness.
** Unova gets Manic, Experienced, to embody what he has learned.
** Johto gets Manic, Determined, to embody his refusal to give up.
** The saga ends with [[spoiler:Manic, Ascendant, who is the result of combining six runs' worth of experience into one mind]], who goes through the aptly named Final Vega.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even by Nuzlocke standards, there are a ton. Thirteen canon runs, each with six party Pokemon by the end, plus the eight gym leaders per run, elite four, and champion, and rival, and another sixteen between the two Johto runs' Kantos is 300 when you include the [[spoiler: thirty-odd]] deaths. That's not even including the countless supporting characters, boxed 'mons, and the legendaries- and that's only the canon runs.
* ManipulativeBastard: Sugar, from Dark Stars, is one of TheCharmer variety. [[spoiler: She gets kicked off the roster after the team gives Sophie a SadisticChoice - box Sugar, or box the rest of the team sans Manic.]]
* MindScrew: The plot of the Manic Saga as a whole. Starts with a simple humorous Emerald run, [[SerialEscalation evolves into a mission to restore multiversal balance over a span of multiple decades of fragmented incarnations]]. Or, depending on who you ask, a JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* MusicalEpisode: Update 20 of Friendship is Super Effective, where Manic and the ponies sing to navigate Victory Road without flash, [[spoiler: because otherwise they would be caught by Scott.]]
* NamesTheSame: Yuki in Final Vega is literally named after snow. Yuki in Argent Ante is named such because [[spoiler: she's a [[{{Youkai}} Yuki-Onna.]]]]
* NintendoHard: Packed with overpowered gym battles, difficult puzzles, and even some outright cheating, Manic's run of Vega is this. By the time he finishes the run, far more pokemon have died than in any of his previous runs.
** Deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in Full Circle by Manic himself in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext voltorb flip]] game against[[ChessWithDeath Giratina.]]
* NostalgiaFilter: Genwyn and its followers are a reference to this, since they enforce inherent superiority in Kanto Pokemon over all others, [[spoiler: and to hunt down and kill Manic at the same time]].
* OhNoNotAgain: Manic's reaction to being told [[spoiler: he isn't real]] in Der Gnizalb.
* [[OneSteveLimit One Linoone Limit]]: Utterly subverted in Spirit Electrum, where Manic notes that the rules give him the opportunity to ignore duplicate pokemon, not the obligation. He then expends time and resources gathering as many Linoones as he can to abuse Pickup. His effort is a failure, though; not a single one of the Linoones caught in this way has that ability... except for Trish.
* ThePlague: The Nuzlocke is depicted as a disease with many variants in this setting, with Manic from Fatal Platinum getting a [[YourDaysAreNumbered Degenerative Necrotic]] variant and [[spoiler:Alder]] getting an infectious variant.
* PowerNullifier: The gym leaders[[spoiler:/robot masters]] in Der Gnizalb act as these, where the move types they specialize in can't be used until Manic defeats them.
* PlayingCardMotifs: In Argent Ante, as described under the RoguesGallery trope.
* RecurringBoss: Ghetsis in Sacred Spectre, in more ways than one; the Ghetsis from Paint It Black and the Ghetsis from Sacred Spectre [[spoiler:are actually the same person, with the former having world-hopped to the latter and eliminated his counterpart after escaping Cheren at the end of Paint It Black.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Argent Ante's Dell gets this treatment. Out-of-story, Dell was caught as a replacement for Simon the Ditto, the capture of whom was against the rules which author!Manic was only reminded of after the update with Simon's capture went live. Instead of bothering with a {{Rewrite}} of the previous update, Manic incorporated this into the plot.
* RipVanWinkle: Manic in Paint It Black. He is also [[GenderBender genderbent]] into a girl as well. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that it was just one of Manic's aspects; specifically, his Experience.]]
* RoguesGallery: Every one of the gym leaders [[spoiler: and Manic's mother]] in Argent Ante is under the direction of Lance, who is under the direction of [=AscendantMaster=]. Ranging from 10 through Ace in every suit, each one gets their own power with which to bully the populace and keep them from mounting any serious challenge:
** Falkner: 10 of Diamonds, [[spoiler:Super Speed]]
** Bugsy: Jack of Diamonds, [[spoiler:Wings]]
** Whitney: 10 of Spades, [[spoiler:Mental Degradation]]
** Morty: King of Diamonds, [[spoiler:Pass Through Walls]]
** Chuck: 10 of Clubs, [[spoiler:Stoneskin]]
** Jasmine: Jack of Clubs, [[spoiler:Super-Strength]]
** Pryce: 10 of Hearts, [[spoiler:Inspire Depression]]
** Clair: Jack of Hearts, [[spoiler:Inspire Fear]]
** Lt. Surge: Ace of Diamonds, [[spoiler:Teleportation]]
** Janine: Queen of Spades, [[spoiler:Illusion]]
** Erika: Jack of Spades, [[spoiler:Poisons/Toxins, Immunity To Same]]
** Brock: Queen of Clubs, [[spoiler:Although he surrenders it without using it, Brock's power is later revealed to have been Rollout.]]
** Misty: Queen of Hearts, [[spoiler:Inspire Love]]
** Sabrina: King of Hearts, [[spoiler:Mind Swap]]
** Blaine: King of Clubs, [[spoiler:Seismic Stomp]]
** Blue: [[spoiler: None; his identity had been stolen, along with knowledge of who he was.]]
** Will: Ace of Hearts, [[spoiler:Inspire Bliss]]
** Koga: King of Spades, [[spoiler:Invisibility (himself and his Pokemon)]]
** Bruno: Ace of Clubs, [[spoiler:Thunderclap]]
** Karen: Ace of Spades, [[spoiler:All previously listed powers, sometimes several at a time]]
** [[spoiler: Manic's mother]]: Queen of Diamonds, unknown power
** [=AscendantMaster=][[spoiler: /Red: Dealer]]
* RousingSpeech: Manic gives one of these in Update 17 of Argent Ante, to inspire the masses because together they have more [[spoiler: card]] value than those in charge.
* SadisticChoice: Straight through the fourth wall near the end of Spirit Electrum. After Manic beats Lance in a rematch, a vortex opens that acts as a joining point between the two worlds, just like the first time. The difference is that the first victory allowed Manic to [[spoiler:shift as many pokemon between worlds as he chose]]. This time, Manic is forced to [[spoiler:choose which world is allowed to survive and which one vanishes forever]]. The viewers are first shown the two possibilities where the War world is chosen [[spoiler:and War!Manic commits suicide because he lost Grant,]] and where the Peace world is chosen [[spoiler:and Peace!Manic becomes too preoccupied with the Champion's duties to carry on his quest.]] Eventually both Manics decide to TakeAThirdOption [[spoiler:so that the two worlds are combined into a single world.]]
** Dark Stars has one before the first gym, where [[ManipulativeBastard Sugar the Smoochum]] can only stay on the team in exchange for the retirement of Gavin, Cyrano, Melita and Lewis. [[spoiler: Of course Sugar gets the box in the end.]]
** Subverted in The Process. In the epilogue, Mary and Glen visit Helios/Ho-Oh, who has the power to both cure Mary of vampirism and [[spoiler:resurrect Starlight.]] Helios gives Mary a choice between the two, however Glen points out that as a PhysicalGod Helios has no excuse to not do both.
* SassyBlackWoman: Roxanne from Fatal Platinum fits this stereotype quite well.
* SdrawkcabName: "Der Gnizalb" is "Blazing Red" backwards - a reference to the ROM hack's title, [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8574449/1/ Der Erif]].
* SequelHook: There's one at the epilogue of Final Vega, which leads into the second saga.
* ShoutOut: The first gym battle in Paint It Black is an Epic Rap Battle (though not so much 'Of History').
** One could also consider the entirety of the My Little Pokemon: Friendship is Super-Effective run to be a ShoutOut, as it contains a crossover between the Pokemon universe and the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic universe (as alluded to in the title).
** Final Vega has this:
--> '''[[ThirdPersonPerson Rex]]:''' [[Anime.TengenToppaGurrenLagann Rex will pierce the heavens! Who the hell do you think Rex is?]]
** Similarly, in Blinding Light Clay has an Excadrill named [[Anime.TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]], and he commands it to "pierce" Oda during the gym battle.
** Since Donut's dialogue consists of almost entirely [[NonSequitur Non Sequiturs]], some of the lines he spouts are Shout Outs. Case in point:
--> '''Donut:''' [[JustForFun.PokemonVietnameseCrystal EGGIE BAG FUCK!]]
** Der Gnizalb seems to be based around [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]. For example, his starter is named Cutman, and after defeating each gym leader, a message for obtaining a weapon is displayed on the screenshot. [[spoiler: The champion even turns out to be Dr. Wily!]]
** In Der Gnizalb, Manic doesn't want to forget [[Series.DoctorWho Pond]].
** In Dark Stars, Manic's first usage of Close Combat is accompanied by the phrase, [[Anime.FistOfTheNorthStar omae wa mo shindeiru.]]
** Similarly, his first Ember and Sky Uppercut are accompanied by [[VideoGame/StreetFighter a "Hadouken" and "Shoryuken" respectively]].
** The second saga has included characters named for DC Comics superheroes. Specifically, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] from Der Gnizalb, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce]] from Dark Stars, [[Franchise/GreenLantern Kyle]] from Argent Ante, [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally]] from Sacred Spectre, and [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur]] from Full Circle.
** Sherry the Taillow is possibly a reference to ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', considering she was caught in the Mahogany Rocket Base in place of one of the Electrode powering the machine.
** In Argent Ante, Manic's conversations with "[=AscendantMaster=]" ([[spoiler: Red]]) are communicated through [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Pesterlog]] format.
** In Full Circle, the changes to Granite Cave are justified by someone named [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Steve]] being called in. He's described as a bit blocky, a wizard with a pickaxe, and necrophobic.
** Pierre in Full Circle is French. [[spoiler: He's also [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a spy.]]]]
** Full Circle's May notes that even though she can't save the world, maybe she can [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} save something else.]]
** In Full Circle, when May and Manic receive the message from Cresselia about [[spoiler:Deoxys]], May wants to tell everyone, reasoning that they're smart enough to handle it. Manic's response? [[Film/MenInBlack "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."]]
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler: Sophie]] delivers one to [[spoiler: Barry]] after the latter lets [[spoiler: his]] MotorMouth run for a good while in Part 34 of Dark Stars.
* SpeedRun: Manic (the author) had to complete his Fatal Platinum run within thirty days, or else he would have failed the run. InUniverse, it was because that run's Manic had a [[YourDaysAreNumbered Degenerative Necrotic Nuzlocke]] variation.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Dave from Fatal Platinum.
* StylisticSuck: [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/single/?p=9444461&t=9269924 This beautiful bit of literature.]]
* TalkLikeAPirate: Cassie in Der Gnizalb. She ''is'' a pirate, anyway.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: In Super Stan's Super Awesome Adventure!, Stan gains and loses teammates throughout his journey. Still, counter to Manic's usual habit of including a teamshot in his signature, none ever appeared throughout the duration of the run. The reason did not become clear until the very end: [[spoiler: none of Stan's pokemon are real, but are hallucinations based on his fractured mind.]]
* TrappedInTVLand: The Fire Red run, played ''way'' DarkerAndEdgier. [[spoiler: Although, while this applies to Manic's pokemon, it doesn't apply to Manic himself.]]
* TenMinuteRetirement: Occurs in Paint It Black, when [[spoiler: Jonas]] is killed. Already in a vulnerable state after the recent death of [[spoiler: Jacob]], Manic is informed that it's within her power to stop any more of her friends from dying, that all she has to do is quit and go home. After a HeroicBSOD, she does precisely that. A RousingSpeech delivered by some old friends is required to snap her out of it, and when she does, [[HesBack she hits the ground running.]]
* VillainousLegacy: The entire second Manic saga. Manic is forced to contend with a version of each region that has had its timeline warped by [[spoiler:Darkrai]], despite its defeat. Why? Because until he fixes the timelines, none of his friends can go home without being instantly eradicated.
* VillainousValour: In Blinding Light, during the battle with N, Max remarks that - among Vile, N, Ghetsis, and Alder - none of them have goals that are good for Unova. After Ghetsis [[spoiler:is killed by Zerzan]], N decides that Max is right...and transforms a supposedly innocent handshake into [[TakingYouWithMe a last-ditch effort to help Unova.]]
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: A consistent rule in Manic's runs are that starters cannot leave the party, and if they are killed, he loses the run immediately.
** In Sacred Spectre, the reason for this is revealed: if the starter dies, Manic dies with it.
* WhamEpisode His Derpy Emerald run gets a bit more serious when Flannery freaks out and [[spoiler:has her Torkoal attack Manic directly]].
** Also part thirteen of Dark Stars, "Farewell Tour."
* WhamLine: Found in Infernal Red: [[spoiler:"Professor Oak is dead."]]
** Also found in Dark Stars: [[spoiler:''Manic has left the party.'']]
** And in Sacred Spectre: [[spoiler: '''Cheren:''' Hail Ghetsis.]]
* WhereItAllBegan: The aptly titled ''Manic's Full Circle'' takes Manic back to where his adventures started, in the Hoenn region.
* WordSaladTitle: The Donut runs have these and seem to change with every update.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Wallace, after Darkrai declares that he needs more power... and then proceeds to devour the greatest power source in the area.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aouli's Nuzlocke Run]]
!!![[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8445965/1/ Tropes seen in Aouli's Nuzlocke run:]]
* AccidentalMurder: Cotton hits [[spoiler:Gary's Raticate just a little too hard on the head...]]
* BadassAdorable: Spray. Even as a Blastoise.
* TheCutie: Tumble. Canterbury even calls her this.
** BewareTheNiceOnes: Tumble often pulls this to unsuspecting characters.
* DeadpanSnarker: Canterbury.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Roulette.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Dagger and Canterbury.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nonparael's Nuzlocke Runs]]
!!!Tropes seen in Nonparael's Nuzlocke runs:
* CutenessProximity: Ara's reaction to finding a Joltik]. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Soleil doesn't take it well]].
--> EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
* CuttingTheKnot: Ara's approach to Palkia in Pearl? Use the Master Ball!
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Glitch!Ara]] possesses multiple people over the course of the Black run in order to [[spoiler:kill normal Ara, including N.]]
* EnemyWithout: The BigBad for the Black run, [[spoiler: the "Glitch", is the embodiment of Ara's SurvivorsGuilt over the deaths in his challenges. It usually possesses NPC Trainers (including N) and Pokemon, but it shows up for the final battle in the form of his Pearl run's female self.]]
* GenderBender: Ara, the artist, is a guy. Mouthing off in response to the "are you a boy/girl" question got him turned into a girl at the beginning of his Pearl run. However, when Ara turns "back" into a guy for his Black run, he looks more like a genderbent version of girl!Ara than he does like actual Ara, [[MindScrew which has confused some people into thinking the girl form is correct and the first genderbend was just a joke]].
** AttractiveBentGender: Girl-Ara was constantly getting leered at in the Pearl run, and Cheren was even harassing him in the Black version prologue until he reverted to male.
** MistakenForGay: Cheren, after Ara turns "back" into a guy for the Black run. Ara loves taunting him afterwards.
* InterspeciesRomance: Between Soleil (Scrafty) and Nineveh (Serperior). [[spoiler:Which was rudely interrupted by [[TearJerker/NuzlockeComics Nineveh's death]].]]
** Flynn (Carracosta) hits on every female, regardless of species or even age, except his AbhorrentAdmirer Madotsuki (Musharna).
* LethalJokeCharacter: Alraune the Cherrim is quite capable of [[http://nonparael.deviantart.com/gallery/26511630?offset=24#/d35cfk7 owning Bertha's Pokemon]] despite constantly looking harmless.
** ...and deals the last blow against Cynthia's Garchomp, as well.
** Ara likes Bug-types in the Pearl version run. Clutterbug the Trash Cloak Wormadam was beloved for her sole weakness being the rarest type in Sinnoh, and Chopin the Kricketune went to the Elite Four with the rest [[spoiler: after Clutterbug became a casualty of Cyrus]].
* MindScrew: [[spoiler: There's not much sense to be made of how Ara's female form managed to gain an entity of its own and gain reality-warping powers. Nor is there much sense in how male!Ara managed to do the same near the end.]]
* PillarOfLight: Alraune's Solarbeam usually takes this form.
* RunningGag: [[IronButtMonkey Flynn's Sturdy activating.]]
* ShipTease: Ara doesn't make it a secret that he has a crush on N.
* ShrinkingViolet: Soleil the Scraggy/Scrafty, who spends most of her time hiding in her shed-skin-clothes. Ara says he was tired of the "aloof gangster" archetype. [[spoiler: After Nineveh's death, Soleil grows out of her shyness and becomes a HeartbrokenBadass.]]
* StoryAndGameplaySegregation / RuleOfCool: Ara's notes say that Vinnie the Staraptor participated in the fight with Cynthia's Garchomp, but not what he did. Result?
---> Vinnie. He ''kicks Garchomps in the face.''
* StripPoker: In the Pearl version run, Ara accidentally crashes a game in-progress in the Team Galactic HQ.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Less pronounced in Pearl version, where there were relatively fewer deaths. In Ara's Black version run, [[spoiler: Ara's survivor's guilt creates "[[BigBad The Glitch]]".]]
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Flynn accidentally hits on Nineveh.
** Cheren's reaction when Ara [[GenderBender returned to male]] at the beginning of the Black version run.
* YaoiFangirl: Belle in the Black Nuzlocke, who gets quite...excited when Ara starts messing with Cheren after returning to his original gender.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Landwalker's Nuzlocke Runs]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/gallery/28599039 Landwalker's]] [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/gallery/29972549 Nuzlocke runs]]:
* AffablyEvil: Jessie and James, Team Rocket scientists who also happen to be Blue's {{Doting Parent}}s.
* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: The entire Pokemon world is revealed to be the result of a nuclear holocaust caused by World War III in the Yellow Run.]]
* AGodAmI: In his Sapphire Nuzlocke, Archie intends to use the red orb to [[spoiler: gain the power of Kyogre and essentially become a PhysicalGod.]] Complete with [[FauxSymbolism quoting Bible verses.]] And then Watchmen.
** May sasses back to the Bible verses with a few of her own. "You're not the only one who's ever read the Bible."
* CerebusSyndrome: In the Sapphire run, when May wipes out the entire team except Avenger. Immediately lampshaded by the writer.
** Things go ''very'' far south in Act II of the Yellow run, which the writer also Lampshades. In general the Yellow run is even darker than Sapphire, see AfterTheEnd above.
* CuteMute: Red in his Yellow Nuzlocke. [[spoiler:until Amy dies, at least...]]
* DramaticIrony: The end of his Yellow Nuzlocke has [[spoiler:Blue completely broken by a world without Pokemon, much like our world]].
* EldritchAbomination: What Mewtwo looks like in this world.
* GeniusBruiser: Matt the Charmeleon. It probably comes with him being inspired by [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]].
* HappilyMarried: Jessie and James. They also tentatively qualify as UnholyMatrimony.
* HeroicMime: In his Yellow Nuzlocke, [[{{Hikikomori}} Red]] actually has a [[DarkAndTroubledPast justification]] for not speaking. [[spoiler:He finally speaks after Amy dies because of the actions of Apollo, saying that "It was your fault."]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: Thanks to accidental time travel, [[spoiler:Giovanni becomes Red's father]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Jessie and James are Blue's parents in this story.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: The starter trio in his Yellow Nuzlocke are named [[Series/DoctorWho Amy, Matt, and Rory]].
* WrapItUp: After canceling the comic, the artist decided to do [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/art/Landwalker-s-Yellow-Nuzlocke-plot-summary-1-of-4-426634881 a series]] [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/art/Landwalker-s-Yellow-Nuzlocke-plot-summary-2-of-4-427348959 of written]] [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/art/Landwalker-s-Yellow-Nuzlocke-Plot-summary-3-of-4-444023343 summaries]] [[http://land-walker.deviantart.com/art/Landwalker-s-Yellow-Nuzlocke-Plot-summary-4-of-4-444023671 to explain]] how the plot would have progressed if he finished.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Death's Nuzlocke]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://protocol00.deviantart.com/gallery/29613704 Death's Nuzlocke]]:
* ArtEvolution: Won the "Most Improved Run" award in 2012.
* BadassAdorable: Very rare for a Feraligatr, but Hamma is definitely this.
* {{Cancellation}}: The comic series sadly suffered from this when the artist lost interest in the plot.
* CerebusSyndrome: A trend somewhat criticized by the artist himself, and apparently part of the reason the serious was cancelled.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ampsen the Electrode.
* FakeKillScare: The author pulls one off in video form with [[spoiler:Hamma, his starter.]]
* FourthWallObserver: [[spoiler:Jazz as a Slowbro.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:Appears to be played straight with]] Jazz the Slowpoke, [[spoiler:but subverted when he evolves and it is revealed that he was just supposed to keep watch on James and protect him.]]
* GrumpyBear: Bruce the Growlithe.
* IdentityAmnesia: How Shini became James, apparently. [[spoiler: Chuck hints that something similar happened before, when Ethan became Shini.]]
* IHaveManyNames: The protagonist was originally named "Shini", but this was later changed to "James". Chuck, [[spoiler:his father in this run,]] calls him "Ethan" at one point of the comic.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Jazz as a Slowpoke.
* TheVoiceless: Hamma and Jazz, though the latter grew out of it.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Wondered by Shini himself at the beginning of the comic, again after he becomes James, and yet again every time someone addresses him by it. [[spoiler: Chuck indicates that Shini named himself that.]]
* WrapItUp: After canceling the comic, the artist decided to do a series of written summaries to explain how the plot would have progressed if he finished.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nuzlocke: The Gold Standard]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://man-in-crowd-4.deviantart.com/art/Nuzlocke-The-Gold-Standard-Chapter-1-304899230 Nuzlocke: The Gold Standard]]
* ActionGirl: Amy, Kate and Nikki.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Ch. 8 (Tricks, Towers and Troublemakers).
* {{Adorkable}}: Bill is described with exactly this word.
* AllNaturalSnakeOil: Cianwood Secret Potion is apparently made with all natural ingredients. But, as Mike internally notes, 'Hemlock is natural. So are bears.' The lighthouse Ampharos effectively receives a HideousHangoverCure.
* AmbiguousGender: Gamma the Unown and Solenoid the Magneton. This works out in their favour, because it means Gamma is immune to Miltank's Attract.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mike's four main reasons for wanting to Kate to survive in Chapter 12: she's a good friend of his and he values her company, he wants as few people to die on this journey anyway, [[spoiler: she's the last one left from after Goldenrod City]] and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers if she dies, the next longest-serving member of the team will be]] [[{{Jerkass}} Colin]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Jasmine, especially after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realising she was partly responsible for]] [[spoiler: killing Mike's starter.]]
* AuthorAvatar: When the author drops in to get revenge on [[FourthWallObserver Harry]], he appears as a Butterfree with dark blue eyes.
* AuthorCatchphrase: 'This team was getting more and more diverse/interesting/insert-suitable-alternative by the day'.
* BattleCouple: Alexander and Amy, although since this is the original version of ''Gold'' they never actually get a chance to fight together.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lisa the Jigglypuff, who knows Thunder and Fire Punch.
* BlatantLies:
** Mike protests that he wasn't scared of flying on Kate's back, merely 'startled'.
---> '''Kate:''' ''If by that you mean you clasped your arms around my chest, screamed like a girl all the way back and swore to never fly on anything more unprotected than a passenger plane, then yeah. You were pretty 'startled'.''
** When they set off after the Goldenrod City rescue, Mike comments on how nice it is to be travelling in the countryside again. Kate then dryly brings up that before then they'd had two weeks of no training whatsoever, to which Mike responds 'I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about'.
* BigEater: ImpliedTrope: According to Mike, [[YoungerThanTheyLook Nikki]] and he 'can eat a small country's worth of confection.'
* BigFun: Chuck.
* BigNo: Colin gives a very big one of these when he realises [[spoiler: he missed evolving into Espeon by thirty seconds.]]
* BigShutUp: Given how condescending and unhelpful Lance has been to Mike all story, and then having killed one of the most important members of the team in their battle, when he starts his new-Champion speech Mike tells him to shut up and marches into the Hall Of Fame by himself.
* BilingualBonus:
** When trying to improve his {{Fauxreigner}} disguise Mike gives a parting 'good luck phrase', which approximately translates from Russian as 'What the heck am I saying?'.
** Will of the Elite Four appears quoting [[SmartPeopleKnowLatin a phrase of Latin]], which translates as 'The interpreter is not available right now, please try again later.'
* BluffTheImposter: Mike tries to do this with the fake Radio Tower Director, firstly by calling out his DissonantSerenity and then with INeverToldYouMyName tactics. He manages it eventually [[INeverSaidItWasPoison when the Director reveals he knew Lance was at the Mahogany Hideout, even when he just said he didn't.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Dan the Mankey.
* BondOneLiner: Attempted, having just defeated the Lake of Rage Gyrados:
--> '''Colin:''' ''I guess his problem was being wet behind the ears.''
* BookEnds: The first and final chapters are respectively named 'Begin At The Beginning' and 'End At The Ending'.
* BreakoutCharacter: A tragic example - Kate ascends from being a member of the FiveManBand to main non-human character by dint of [[spoiler: being the only one still alive in the end.]]
* BrutalHonesty: After the Championship battle, Mike goes round each of his teammates and tells them how much he values them and their efforts. When it comes to [[{{Jerkass}} Colin]], he tells him that 'You're a dick and I can't stand you.' Colin replies that he appreciates his honesty.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Professor Elm is [[AffectionateParody good-naturedly depicted]] in such a way. Goodness knows what he was researching at the start of the series when Mike walked in.
* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler: Lisa, and then Harry. On the same route.]]
* CallBack: Just before taking on Elite Four, Mike stops to comb his hair - the way he promised his mother he would do seventeen chapters ago, at the start of the story.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Silver's Quilava Lee spends a long time dancing around the fact that he has [[FoeYay a huge crush on Kate]], getting tongue-tied and embarrassed merely from being around her. It is entirely unrequited on Kate's part.
* CaptainOblivious: During his DayInTheLimelight after rescuing Goldenrod City, Mike's Pokemon team ''once again'' spend all his money for him on all the various entertainments the city has. Mike doesn't realise in the slightest this time.
* CatchPhrase: Gamma's repeated use of the word 'fascinating'. [[spoiler: It even describes its own death in such a way.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: Averted. The author says that he deliberately doesn't focus too much on the hardships of their journey and on recent deaths to keep the story moving [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy and avoid it being bogged down in angst.]]
* CheerfulChild: Sammy and Lisa.
* CompensatingForSomething: Kate's speculation in this line regarding the size of the Rocket Admin's office is mercifully cut shut by the arrival of Silver before she can finish her sentence.
* CurbStompBattle: Gym battles are sped up somewhat, but Falkner, Bugsy and Chuck were reportedly thrashed easily even in the actual playthrough.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite a bit of it, although Kate gets the most fun. Any scene with Mike and Silver tends to involve a lot.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: To save time getting into and through the Radio Tower when Team Rocket takes over, Mike sends Solenoid on ahead to get him a Team Rocket uniform. However, he wasn't specific enough, leading to...
** DisguisedInDrag: ...Because the first outfit [[LiteralMinded Solenoid]] found belonged to a ''female'' Rocket grunt, which Mike only realised when he has to sign in at the desk, leading to...
** CoverIdentityAnomaly: When he doesn't know the name of the grunt whose outfit it is, and has to check on an ID card - which says 'Becky Smith'. He tries to pass it off as being a {{Fauxreigner}}, saying first "It's short for... Beckisander" and then "[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay It's pronounced Beikai.]] [[SesquipedalianSmith Beikaisander... Smith]]." The desk-grunt waves him through on a "[[SureLetsGoWithThat the chances of it being fake aren't worth the hassle if it's genuine]]" policy.
** He then encounters [[ConfrontingYourImposter the real Becky Smith upstairs recovering]], at which point his cover is blown anyway.
** Basically, this whole sequence runs on the RuleOfFunny like cars run on petrol.
* DoubleEntendre:
** Those of you who didn't catch the double implication of the scene where Togepi's egg hatches, treasure your innocence. [[spoiler: Lacking context, their statements make it sound like Mike is the father.]]
** Colin insists on rephrasing the boulder-pushing puzzles of Ice Path in terms of 'playing with your balls'.
* EmbarrassingFirstName:
** Mike is actually named Mick, but hates being called that. He is sort-of named after the author, whose username is '''M'''an-'''i'''n-'''C'''rowd-4.
** See WhoNamesTheirKidDude, below.
* {{Expy}}: Clyde, of Dudley from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', even [[InspirationNod quoting some of Dudley's notable catchphrases]]. See GentlemanAndAScholar.
* FanDisillusionment/ BrokenPedestal: When Mike first meets Lance at the Lake Of Rage, he idolises him as one of the strongest Trainers in all of Johto (even thought he doesn't know about his job as Champion). Then after repeated instances of him acting like a jerk during the Hideout infiltration - particularly when he 'saw how well you were doing (against all the Grunts and the Admins) that I hung back' -, he comes to realise that Lance is actually kind of a dick in reality.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Bill refers to Colin sleeping on his keyboard while he was working "as if it was the eighth cardinal sin".
* FiveManBand: The early Pokemon cast ([[TheHero Sammy]], [[TheBigGuy Alexander]], [[TheChick Amy]], [[TheSmartGuy Gamma]] and [[TheLancer Kate]]) function practically as one of these.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Whitney, when Mike returns to Goldenrod City. He still agrees to help her, but only after casually taunting her (complete with ButForMeItWasTuesday) and making his opinion of her clear. It doesn't help that she gives him the AccidentalMisnaming treatment even when dramatically trying to appeal to him for help.
--> '''Mike:''' ''Sorry... Whitney, isn't it? Or am I thinking of the pretty one?''
* ForYourOwnGood: Before the battle against Bruno, Mike teaches Kate Attract. Kate points out sharply that she hates using it when she is told to, but Mike replies that it's for her own good to stop her being killed by Rock Slide. She still maintains that she doesn't like doing it, but does it anyway.
* FourthWallObserver: Harry the Sudowoodo. He was originally from a different series by the same author and was dragged over to this series as a punishment for breaking the Fourth Wall too much in that work, which should say everything.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Jasmine. And Amphy loves her back for it.
* FromBadToWorse: From getting lost in Dark Cave to getting lost in Mt. Mortar, and then getting lost in the Whirl Islands.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Clyde. Polite and respectful, speaks with class, acts with gentlemanly etiquette, issues full challenges even when grinding against wild Pokemon and frequently comes to conflict with more self-serving loutish types (particularly Team Rocket, and Colin).
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When Lisa dies, the chapter starts with the team grieving, the death having happened offscreen as a form of compensation.]]
* HandWave: Every time the game Hand Waves something, the narration actually says that the character 'waved a hand' as they said it.
* HarmlessVillain: Mike regards Team Rocket as this by the end, not without justification. He at least feigns surprise at TR managed to actually be successful in the Goldenrod City takeover chapters, and Kate says that she's getting bad memories throughout the whole experience - not because of Team Rocket, but because they're in ''[[MyGreatestFailure Goldenrod City]]''.
* HeadPet: Kate acts as one because she actually rejects Mike's offers to perch on his arm, preferring to do it her way.
* HeroicBSOD: Some of the more tragic deaths trigger a flat-out one of these in Mike.
* HollywoodTorches: The Champion's room in the Elite Four has several of these, on which Mike comments that 'We invented perfectly good strip lighting ages ago, y'know'.
* HumiliationConga:
** Pryce's Gym, at least at first and mostly due to Mike's inability to deal with FrictionlessIce. Fortunately the Gym battle went better.
** This continues in the Ice Path, which combined this ice with boulder-pushing puzzles.
* IfIHadANickel: Said in response to Clair asking 'How could I possibly lose?!'
* ILikeThoseOdds:
** Considering the size of each side in the Goldenrod City chapters - him and his six Pokemon versus the entirety of Team Rocket's finest troops - Mike concludes [[BadassBoast 'Team Rocket didn't have a chance'.]]
** Colin also says this in response to Solenoid calculating that it is confident that Clyde will be able to carry Beryl down to New Bark Town without breaking his back 'to within a 15% tolerance'.
* IronicEcho: When Mike heals his team member against Bruno, Bruno scowls and says that it won't change the outcome. After Bruno heals his own team member only for it to be killed in one critical by Drill Peck, Mike turns Bruno's line back on him.
* IronWoobie: After the events of both Goldenrod and Olivine Gyms, Mike still finds the motivation to go on. Mostly, that "I'll be damned if I let their deaths go to waste now".
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: Each chapter starts with a selection of phrases foreshadowing the events of the chapter. [[WordOfGod Apparently]], they're deliberately phrased to sound as odd as possible.
* {{Jerkass}}: Colin, of the 'insufferable' variety. Condescending and aggravating, he only gets away with not being throttled because the team, as much as they hate to admit it, need the advantages he brings.
* [[KilledMidSentence Killed Mid-Attack]]: [[spoiler: Sammy. Just before he launched a huge Razor Leaf volley, Jasmine's Steelix used Iron Tail and killed him instantly.]]
* TheLadette: Kate the Spearow. She even threatens to peck Mike in the face on occasion.
* LadyOfWar: Beryl the Graveler never loses her unflappable calm, even when hurling rocks at Lance's Charizard.
* LampshadeHanging: Lots of it. From much FridgeLogic to weird item handouts to [[YouAllLookFamiliar creepily identical NPCs]] to the behaviour of certain characters to Mike's KleptomaniacHero tendencies.
** The author even lampshades his own writing, such as when Mike comments 'For some reason, I always seem to have at least two of you guys out of your Poke Balls whenever we go anywhere'.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen:
** Clyde, an {{Expy}} of the [[TropeNamers trope's namer]].
** Beryl tells Jasmine's Magnemite that "I will fight you fair and square, and then that will put an end to this".
* LudicrousPrecision: Solenoid can measure how long it takes Mike to catch up to it in Goldenrod City down to the second.
* MadeOfIron: Given how much Mike falls off things in the area of Ecruteak and Olivine City, and then the fiasco with the boulders in Ice Path, this can be presumed about him.
* MartialPacifist: Beryl, who doesn't ''like'' conflict and fighting but still remains very good at it when needs be.
* MeaningfulName:
** Gamma the Unown, after part of the infrared spectrum that the radio waves Unown are known to emit is also on.
** Solenoid the Magnemite. A 'solenoid' is a tight coil of wire that exhibits a magnetic field when an electric current passes through it.
** [[spoiler: Whitney's Miltank is named [[Manga/DeathNote Kira]] for a reason.]]
* MoodWhiplash: About as severe a one as you can get - from Chapter 5.5, a cheerful Lonely Island parody about Mike's Pokemon blowing all his money in Goldenrod City, to Chapter 6 [[spoiler: in which four named characters die.]]
* MotiveDecay: The protagonist gets this, unusually enough - lapping up all the media attention after rescuing Goldenrod City causes him to have to remind himself that he actually is a trainer and that his goal is to become a Pokemon Master, not just roll around on piles of publicity money.
* MultipleHeadCase: After Solenoid evolves into Magneton. Its sentences get passed around its three heads at random intervals, sometimes doing a full lap in one speech.
* MyGreatestFailure: The series' author believes that [[spoiler: his run of Goldenrod City Gym in which four Pokemon died, three of them to the same opponent]], is probably the biggest failure ever recorded in a Nuzlocke run that didn't wipe out the entire party. And then [[spoiler: his starter, a [[StoneWall Meganium]] no less]], dies.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: All notable Fighting types are named after characters from Fighting games, and all Gym leaders' Pokemon after Bugsy are given names to be these as well.
* NiceGirl: Amy, Lisa, Nikki. The mantle gets passed on throughout the story.
** Nikki becomes more of TheDitz sometimes as well.
* NoNameGiven: The Togepi baby, who was Boxed immediately. [[WordOfGod Reportedly, in the actual playthrough the Egg never actually hatched at all.]]
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: When particularly stupid/silly lines are quoted from the game (not to mention the part where, in the game, instead of using Fly Lance literally ''spirals into the sky and disappears''), the author tends to put in a short disclaimer to say that this is a genuine thing from the game.
** This, naturally, goes with all the rest of the LampshadeHanging.
* OfficialCouple: Alexander and Amy.
* OneHitKill: A lot of the Gym Leader's Pokemon are beaten in one attack, even up to the Elite Four. Unfortunately, some of the more important ones, like Whitney's Miltank, are not.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** The disaster in Chapter 6 was so bad that the Author apparently forgot his usual Nuzlocke recommendation in the artist's description.
** When Colin is being quiet and no-one tells Harry to stop breaking the Fourth Wall, you know they're upset about [[spoiler: Lisa's death]].
* OutOfTheFryingPan: Karen's Murkrow uses Whilrwind to get rid of Beryl the Graveller before she thrashes him - and gets Solenoid the Magneton in return.
* OwMyBodyPart: When Mike falls into Ruins of Alph the first time, he tells the researcher 'I think I bruised my appendix'. The second time, it's his coccyx. When he falls through the floor of Olivine Lighthouse, he cries 'Ow, my fovea!'.
* PaintingTheMedium:
** Falling is denoted with increasingly shrinking sub-script.
** When Colin becomes Confused, the narration from his perspective starts wandering all over the page and varying in size mid-word.
** The tutorial woman's insistence is conveyed with caps lock and dashes combined together. She even [[BreakingTheFourthWall lampshades it.]]
** When sarcastically coming up with suggestions on what to title Mike's memoirs of his journeys, Kate can apparently pronounce italic font effortlessly.
* PercussiveMaintenance: On Solenoid's first appearance, its magnetism cause Mike's Poke Gear to malfunction. Mike responds by desperately pressing every button in sight and thumping it hopefully.
* PhraseCatcher: 'Shut up, Harry'.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Mike regards Goldenrod City to be one, after his battle with Whitney.
* PhonyPsychic: Will, who actually just has a good set of identification equipment and research software to give him supposedly psychic knowledge of his challengers.
* ThePrankster: Charlotte the Gastly.
* PunnyName:
** The series' name, for one.
** Beryl the Geodude/Graveler.
** Several of the InWhichATropeIsDescribed lines at the start of chapters, including '[[TheMourningAfter The Cold Light of Mourning]]', 'For Whom the Doorbell Tolls' and 'Overexposure to Gamma Radiation' (Gamma is the name of the Unown that took Bugsy's Gym down so fast it wasn't even worth showing it in the story).
* PuppyDogEyes: Colin tries these on his first appearance, but they aren't very effective. Amy's are ''super'' effective.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Downplayed version: Rather than being angry, Harry makes continual jokes at the author's expense.
** [[AuthorPowers This goes badly for him.]] [[spoiler: The author in fact confirmed later that it was not an accidental death.]]
* RageInducingSlight: Silver blocking Mike in the Goldenrod Underground really frustrates him as he's trying to find the Director and prompts him to shout at his rival, only for Silver to turn it right back round to him again ranting about why [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he believes he has the rights to stop Team Rocket.]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Dumping a Miltank in a river during Ch. 5.5 as part of a cheery song parody comes back to bite Sammy later.
** [[spoiler: Dan has in fact been peer-pressured into fitting the 'rowdy Mankey' image, when actually he's a nice guy.]]
* RunningGag:
** Silver's unnaturally red hair and strange dress sense.
---> ''It was like a dye made from the exoskeleton of Scizors.''
** Mike's Poke Gears getting broken.
** The Radio Tower takeover chapters had a RunningGag of different unfortunate people encountering Mike DisguisedInDrag (the Rocket Executive, the Director, his rival, etc etc.).
* ShoutOut: Many, many {{Shout Out}}s.
* ShrinkingViolet: Amy. Timothy, [[ExaggeratedTrope drastically so]].
* ShuttingUpNow: From the author's comment on the chapter where Lance's [[BrokenPedestal pedestal was broken for Mike]]:
--> ''...Then I played through this section of the game and both Mike and I realised that actually Lance is kind of a dick. No two ways about it. He's a dick. And we've already got Colin for that, so there's only room for one dick in this series, and [[AccidentalInnuendo I should stop before I say something really awkward]].''
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** Morty. Even when he tells Mike 'may the best man find the Legendary first', he still mentally adds 'which will clearly be me'.
** Colin. It's practically his entire schtick, aside from only being helpful when he feels like it.
** Clair also acts, if anything, slightly more like this than she actually does in the game.
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: Will of the Elite Four (see BilingualBonus).
* SophisticatedAsHell:
** The scene in which Charlotte was captured, where a dramatic description leads to a one-sentence anti-climax.
** The full description of Mike coming back down Rt. 44 to New Bark Town and coming back to his origin point again, only to append onto the end that 'Later that day they flew back up to Blackthorn again and took the home road again, this time getting all the items on the opposite side of the river. Waste not want not.'
* SpockSpeak:
** Gamma speaks almost entirely as if it's simply taking notes on the world around it.
** Solenoid as well, although not as much. More LiteralMinded - when asked 'Anything else about yourself you'd like to say?', it answers 'Yes' and then doesn't say any of those things until specifically asked again. This goes [[HilarityEnsues very interestingly]] for Mike when he asks it to fetch him a Team Rocket uniform, 'the first one you find'll do'.
* TheStinger: After the ending, when Mike and his team set out from Indigo Plateau to go back down home to New Bark Town again:
-->''Would you like to save your game?''
-->''There is already a saved file. Would you like to overwrite it?''
-->''Saving... Don't turn off the power...''
-->''Save complete.''
* StrangerBehindTheMask: InUniverse - Mike is disappointed to discover that the last Rocket Executive ''isn't'' someone he knows already.
* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: Kate's reaction to Mike saying that there can't be any ninjas in Mahogany Town because he can't see any.
-->'''Kate:''' ''[[VitriolicBestBuds And that's going up against some strong competition.]]''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Mike's opinion of the sign on the Mahogany Town shop Team Rocket is using. 'No denial can be that specific without ''knowing'' something particular.'
* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: Just when it seems Mike has a huge lead over Lance and hasn't last a single team member all battle, suddenly it all goes horribly wrong.
* TeamMom: Beryl. Calm, collected, gives out guidance and team therapy when needed and is always the one with the wise words and her head on straight.
* TemptingFate: On the way into Ice Path, Mike asks 'How bad exactly can it be?'. The InWhichATropeIsDescribed lines at the top of the chapter describes the Ice Path section as 'Frozen Hell', which answers his question.
* ThemeNaming: Most of the names of Gym Leaders' Pokemon are {{ShoutOut}}s. Karen's are named after the five rivers in the Greek underworld.
* ThisIsADrill: Kate's Drill Peck attack, which after using for the first time she declares to be her new favourite move.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Colin's opinion of the whole 'having a Trainer' thing.
* TitleDrop: Mike says that if he every makes a memoir of his journey, he's going to call it ''Dangerous Things I've Walked Across''. Kate suggests instead ''Around The Region In Sixty Screw-Ups'', or ''The Gold Standard''.
--> '''Mike:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging What's that got to do with my life?]]''
--> '''Kate:''' ''I don't think of everything, sunshine. I'm just a bird.''
* TrashTalk:
** Dan does a lot of this, before he discovers that [[spoiler: he doesn't have to pretend to be rowdy.]]
** Colin, as part of his SmallNameBigEgo character.
* TonightSomeoneDies: Chapter 6 bears this warning.
* UpperClassTwit: The Director of the Radio Tower is portrayed as one of these, oblivious to what's actually going on around him and splashing his [[IAmVeryBritish plummy and overly-elaborate]] speech all over the place. Mike considers gagging him again as soon as he rescues him.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Mike and Kate by the later stages of the run.
* WeHardlyKnewYe:
** [[spoiler: Carlos and Zach, both of which die in the same chapter they are introduced.]]
** Archie the Spinarak, Charlotte the Gastly and the baby Togepi are Boxed in the same chapter as they were caught, and Rachel the Nidoran never got any spoken dialogue.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Apparently, Silver's real name was so horrifically embarrassing that Mike lied to the police to spare him the indignity. Said real name has not been confirmed as of yet.
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: The fake Director gives Mike the card key to get into the Underground because he knew Mike would fail, but he wanted to watch him try. This didn't work out for him.
* YouPutTheXInXY: The incredibly frustrating Blackthorn City Gym is described as 'Putting the Thorn in Blackthorn'.
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: Used to compare Mike and Nikki to the red Gyrados: 'The monster that rose out like an apocalyptic god loomed over the boy on his little swimming pet.'
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kit's Nuzlocke Adventure]]
!!!Tropes found in [[http://kitfox-crimson.deviantart.com/gallery/31712240#/art/Kit-s-Nuzlocke-adventure-1-244903109?_sid=6e196019 Kit's Nuzlocke Adventure]]
* AlphaBitch: Cynthia. [[spoiler: Later revealed to be Angelica from Rugrats all grown up!]]
* ArtShift: In the Platinum run, Lyra is drawn in the style of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', while Fortune the Ponyta is drawn in the style of ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.]]''
* AwesomeAussie: Kit. Played for laughs when Skyla is revealed to actually be a guy named Skyler, but Kit says Skyla due to his [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Australian accent]].
* BabiesEverAfter: Zero and Lithium in the Platinum run.
* BornLucky: Kit. He finds two Shinies in two successive runs - ''and they're both the same species''.
-->'''Kit:''' ''What are the chances of that?!''
-->'''Multipass:''' ''[[ComputersAreFast Approximately 2.5 million to one.]]''
* CallForward: The Soul Silver run has a few of these, what with being the first run chronologically but the fourth one written.
** When [[spoiler: Aero]] is dying, Kit pleads with him that 'If you die now, I swear I'll hate Water types forever!'
** On his FaceHeelTurn, Silver starts using a hair dye apparently endorsed by Peroxide, Kit's goth Litwick from the Black 2 run.
* TheChewtoy: Silver. Everyone thinks he's evil and treats him as such when he's really not. Everything's just a huge misunderstanding.
* ChivalrousPervert: Giggidy the Quagsire. Considerate of other team members and encourages Zero after Lithium implies that their relationship was nothing personal, but still the spotter of all entendres and [[EatingTheEyeCandy eater of all the eye candy]]. When Kit told Zero and Lithium to go in the Day Care and produce a Riolu egg for him, Giggidy snuck in and hid behind the TV to watch.
* CloudCuckoolander: Kit. He thinks his Torchic is a football, initially thought Zigzagoons were pine cones (thus naming the one he caught "Pinecone") and mishears "Rock Types" and "Jock Types" (thought he still realizes they'll be hard on Torchic because "Jocks beat footballs"). All in the first two strips.
** TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: When Torchic evolves he assumes it's become a bowling pin. And somehow puzzles out that Fighting types beat Rock types while still thinking about bowling pins.
* ComedicSociopathy: Racecar the Girafarig, who casually informs people of all the disturbing thoughts her tail-brain has (particularly with regard to purging Poison-types from the Earth), but assures them that ''she'' doesn't think anything bad of them at all. Only later do Shiny and Nimbus point out to Kit that Girafarig tail-brains are primitive and run entirely on instinct, and that everything Racecar says is all her.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Radical the shiny Crobat in the Platinum run.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Zero in his Platinum run
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Played with since Kit thinks in "football types", "jock types", and "frat types" to name a few, though it usually still works out along the same lines as the normal games'.
* EverybodyLives: Kit's goal in Platinum is to collect the Spoink Balls so he can revive everyone who died in Sapphire. [[spoiler: It works, but he has to catch them in the Pal Park to really bring them back, and before he can he's sent into the Unova dimension. Thankfully Rayquaza's nice enough to keep their spirits hanging around until he gets back.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Nimbus the Mareep (since he's such a sheep), until he eventually GrewASpine.
* {{Fratbro}}: Brawley. One of the first thing he asks is if Kit's been to any good keggers.
* GenerationXerox: Averted, Ion the Lucario acts ''nothing'' like either of his parents.
* GreekChorus: Kit's remaining Pokemon from both his previous runs during Black and Black 2. [[spoiler: Including the dead ones, and the ones from the Black glitched run.]]
* IdiotHero: Kit, though he has his smarter moments.
* InterspeciesRomance: Zero and Lithium. Psyche and Felony. But unlike most of these that happen in Nuzlockes, these two pairs ''can'' breed.
* ILied: [[spoiler: Rayquayza, to avert a very heavily bitter bittersweet ending for Black 2. He ''could'' revive the Unova Pokemon in the end.]]
* LargeHam: Kit
* LethalJokeCharacter: Felony the Liepard in Black 2 was such a badass it earned the award for Pokemon of the Year for the 2013 Nuzlocke awards. He even finished off Iris' last mon.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Invoked in Platinum with the Pastoria's Swamp where Zero interpreted the Safari at six different areas, catching six different Pokemon.
** Kit later does this again to justify Lyra not dying on Iron Island - at the end of the battle Riley automatically healed her, so she is therefore not dead. [[spoiler: It's implied [[CriticalFailure her horrible death]] by RandomNumberGod was LaserGuidedKarma for the choice.]]
** Kit can justify out-of-universe knowledge via a few things, usually a PC Pokemon or another Pokemon simply using the internet. One of his Pokemon learned Surf but he'd already done the surfer motif, so it became an expert ''web''-surfer instead. Another Pokemon was from the future, thus having some future knowledge. Leafeon was a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' parody, with all the technical abilities it implied.
** Kit caught Kyogre by making sure it was the first Pokemon he saw in the area by using a lot of Repels and then covering his eyes for good measure. He acquired Keldeo as a gift, and admitted he was unsure what the rules said about that.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Lithium says this almost word-for-word when dealing with Zero, which hurts him at first. However, between her and Giggidy it becomes apparent that she was mostly trying to take him down a peg so he could stop showing off... and that she is starting to have actual romantic feelings for him by that stage.
* {{Malaproper}}: Blip Blip the Deerling, ejected from the weather lab as a failed experiment. Always smiling and happy, but for the majority of the comic gets simple words mixed up without seeming to realise ('Of corpse I don't have a problem! Now, we can get out of this cave by going up to the bottom of these stairs.')
-->'''Sobek:''' ''Personally I think this is your best personality, Blip Blip.''
-->'''Blip Blip:''' ''Well spank you very much!''
* ManipulativeBitch: Baskerville the Houndoom in Platinum, she's even called such. She uses it to help out Lyra early on, but later does it for her own amusement.
* MindScrew: The Black Run, on account of it being caused by [[spoiler: Giratina's powers making a distorted Unova for Kit to traverse]]. Out of universe it's because Kit used a chest code to sequence break and the game went nuts.
* NoFourthWall: It starts wearing thin by the end of the Emerald run, but by Platinum all pretext is abandoned.
--> '''Ultra 6:''' (Having just been Badly Poisoned after trying a cigar) ''Oh well, at least it'll give my voice a more manly tone to it.''
--> '''Kit:''' ''Ultra 6... This is a comic. There are no voices.''
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Invoked by Kit. Since Brawley's Pokemon all act like frat boys, the move Peck by a male Combusken throws them into confusion since they're all trying to defend their heterosexuality to each other, to the point where Brawley forfeits.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Grymloq the Rampardos is a GeniusBruiser, but likes to hide it by speaking in HulkSpeak. And because it's fun.
* OnlySaneMan: Awesome the Croat.
* PaintingTheMedium: Usually whatever Pokemon is dumped in the Day Care is assigned the role of narrator. In the Platinum run this falls to the jock-like Machop, and so the narration will occasionally vary in spelling and grammar quality.
* PedestrianCrushesCar: Casually used to demonstrate in Black 2 how Katherine the Sandshrew is miles ahead of Kit's other options in terms of strength.
* PrecisionFStrike: At first Kat the Sandslash and Kaleidoscope the Keldeo are at odds due to Kat continually laughing at how [[SomethingElseAlsoRises overt and interestingly-shaped Kaleidoscope's blade is in Resolution Forme]] ('Secret Sword!' 'Dude, there is ''nothing'' secret about your sword.'). In a later Gym battle, though, Kat is suddenly killed by Clay's Sandslash which looks up to see...
-->'''Kaleidoscope:''' Oh shit little kid. You just fucked up real bad.
* PungeonMaster: Smugleaf
* RandomNumberGod: Sometimes it becomes very important. Lyra missing twice in a row against a Frosslass [[spoiler: leads to her death. As does his Leafeon missing twice against a Graveler, which then Exploded.]]
* RatedMForManly: Professor Rowan. So, so very much.
* RedBaron: Felony, the One Hit Point Wonder. Also known as [[DamningWithFaintPraise The World's Strongest Liepard]].
* TheRival: Lyra often asks other Pokemon on the team to be her rival, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration due to her ability.]] [[spoiler: None of her rivals tend to live very long.]]
* RunningGag: "Grass Pokemon grow back, right?"
** Kit's seemingly-irrational hatred of Water types.
** "[[MediumAwareness This is a comic. There are no voices.]]"
* SequelHook: All except for Black 2 end this way:
** Sapphire ends with Kit deciding to travel to Sinnoh to collect the Spoink Balls to revive everyone he's lost.
** Platinum ends with him breaking Giratina/Rod Serling's Pokeball, sending him into a distorted Unova.
** Black ends with him now in the real Unova.
* ShoutOut: A lot of them, and they're all over the place, especially in Black 2 and Soul Silver.
** Team Aqua is made up of Popeye characters and the lead from Waterworld.
** INGTBS the Grumpig clearly had a ''Franchise/DragonBall'' on his head as a Spoink. This later becomes a plot point, as the remaining six being collected becomes the plot of the Sinnoh run.
** Zero the Lopunny is named after ''[[VideoGame/MegamanZero Megaman Zero]]'' and has a Digimon theme.
** Grymloq the Rampardos is a ''double'' reference (Or a reference to a reference) as per WordOfGod. He's named after a Carnosaur mount from Warhammer Fantasy, which was in turn named after the Dinobot Grimlock.
** Giratina is Creator/RodSerling
** Both Phoenix from Platinum and Sobek from Black 2 wear TriangleShades, which are explicitly referred to as [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] glasses in the epilogue.
** Shauntal is a blatant [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Velma]] {{Expy}}, and is a fan of [[Disney/TheLionKing The Luxray King]].
** [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] in the Soul Silver run, when Kit's overuse of shout-outs almost kills him at one point.
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: ExaggeratedTrope - Blip Blip's winter form is so smart he ''only'' speaks Latin.
* StraightGay: Peri Peri the Blaziken.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Silver, who decides that if everyone is going to treat him like a villain for doing nice things then he may as well ''be'' as bad as they say.
* {{Troll}}: Rayquaza. [[spoiler: To the point where he outright lies about not being able to revive the fallen Unova Pokemon, just to see if Kit believed him.]]
* TheUnfavourite: Brat the Wooper, due to Kit's irrational hatred of his species.
* UnfortunateNames: Kit intentionally names Kyogre "Murderer" for killing INGTBS before Kit could use the Master Ball.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Common for Nuzlockes, but Kit manage this for [[spoiler: both his Platinum and Black 2 starters. Niether even gets to evolve.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** Sapphire [[http://kitfox-crimson.deviantart.com/art/Kit-s-Nuzlocke-adventure-35-260885687 35]]. [[spoiler: INGBTS dies from one Hydro Pump from Kyogre, whom Kit then catches.]]
** Sapphire [[http://kitfox-crimson.deviantart.com/art/Kit-s-Nuzlocke-adventure-58-272463218 58]]: [[spoiler: Peri Peri dies and Kit freezes up, forcing Awesome to release Kyogre to keep the battle going.]]
** Sapphire [[http://kitfox-crimson.deviantart.com/art/Kit-s-Nuzlocke-adventure-64-275272077 64]]: INGBTS' [[spoiler: ghost reveals that if Kit collects the Spoink Balls, he can revive every he's lost.]]
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The Soul Silver run, apparently Kit's first journey which he forgot for some unspecified reason somehow involving Mewtwo.
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: When Kit realises just how much utility is in Lithium the Lucario's moveset:
-->'''Kit:''' ''Tarnation! This has happened three times! I'd need two Lucarios to use all these great attacks!... [[CoitusEnsues Two... Lucarios…]]''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Nuzlocke Games]]
!!!The Nuzlocke Games
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8732433/1/ The First Nuzlocke Games]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8754508/1/ The Second Nuzlocke Games]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8823551/1/ The Third Nuzlocke Games]]
* [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/9217270/1/ The Fourth Nuzlocke Games]]
!!!Tropes found in The Nuzlocke Games...

* BigBad: Core in the first two games, Project in the third.
* NeverLiveItDown: Ty always loses to the Shroomish family.
** Shup missing Fly.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goddamn Critical Hits]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://epifex.deviantart.com/art/1-Get-In-My-Van-376939524 Goddamn Critical Hits]]
* AffectionateParody: The Mirage Tower becomes one extended ''Indiana Jones'' homage.
* ApologeticAttacker: Potema the Poochyna/Mightyena, after beating up Wally's Ralts
* AprilFoolsDay: Between two perfectly normal chapters is randomly inserted an April Fool's strip, drawn like a high-school anime of the team members trying to find partners for the all-important school dance. The author even comments that he is actually his own doctor and that the author was involved in a horrifying accident.
* ArtEvolution: As the comic goes on the strips become progressively longer, and the use of colouring and lighting effects improve steadily. Notably, Dusty's body had a more bulbous shape in earlier strips before slimming down. Also, other Pokemon started to look more like characters than just little creatures.
* ArtShift:
** For one panel on Brawly's first appearance, the art shifts from the normal toony style to an incredibly realistic, thoroughly-shaded image of the Gym Leader.
** Thomas and Douglas screwing around with [=TMs=] is drawn as if it was a manga scene of two samurai duelling together.
** See AprilFoolsDay above.
** By page 65, the author switches to greyscale, due to not having enough time to do any colouring in anymore due to work.
* BadDreams: Dusty suffers from a very severe FlashbackNightmare that reveals his DarkAndTroubledPast - the moment when his parents were killed by a wild Vigoroth. This, however, is the moment where he finally lets Potema comfort him, and lets himself be open to her.
** The fact that he suffers PowerIncontinence with bolts of psychic energy throughout means that the rest of the team can't exactly ignore what happened, even if they're not as privy to it as Potema is.
* BattleCouple: Sara and Pugnus.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Thomas and his team arrive dramatically to save the Devon worker in a panel that also doubles as a team line-up for all the new members.
** Steven does an even better one in the Slateport Museum, right before Archie was about to personally beat the crap out of Thomas.
* BilingualBonus: When Thomas discovers his newfound ability to understand Pokemon, he asks Douglas if he speaks too. Douglas replies 'Je ne suis pas un pamplemousse!' (French for 'I am not a grapefruit!') before just replying in English and saying that yes, he was just messing with Thomas.
* BizarreAlienSenses: Not as bizarre as most, but in the second Q&A Chomp the blind Trapinch makes an attempt to describe what he thinks his teammates look like based on things like their weight, hardness of skin and weight distribution over their variant number of legs.
* BlessedWithSuck: Hermes says to Dusty that he realised that his uncatchable speed was not as great as he thought as his friends that had been captured came back, stronger, evolved and having seen the world while he had never left Petalburg Woods.
* BloodKnight: Pugnus, as he proudly demonstrates in the second Q&A session.
-->'''Reader:''' ''Pugnus, would you rather fight 50 Zigzagoon-sized Wailord, or one Wailord-sized Zigzagoon?''
-->'''Pugnus:''' [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses (standing on a pile of the fainted Pokémon)]] ''BOTH! At the same time!''
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** On more than one occasion, characters have quite literally shattered the comic panels in order to visualise this trope. At one point, the artist even depicts himself clumsily climbing into the comic from outside, to converse with his own characters.
** Gabby and Ty's news announcement prior to their In Search Of Trainers slot is about how one of the artist's friends has finally started working on her Nuzlocke comic.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Shelly is very frustrated that Thomas doesn't remember who she is, despite her being 'the feared, undefeated admin of Team Aqua'.
-->'''Thomas:''' ''This is kind of weird, I usually remember faces pretty well, unless they're like, really, ''really'' boring.''
* ButtMonkey: The Aqua grunt who first encountered Thomas. Ever since the Beast traumatised him so much in Rusturf Tunnel, any sight of Thomas sends him desperately running away - usually into some sort of AmusingInjuries.
* CasanovaWannabe: Douglas, attempting to hit on Wally's Kirlia. Complete with dramatic poetic advances even as she tells him she can't and an OffModel panel of himself as a super-attractive human-like bodybuilder.
* CatchAndReturn: Dusty does this with telekinesis against Archie's Golbat.
* ChekhovsGag: When Douglas does a blatant about-turn on his opinion of Wally's Ralts (see HypocriticalHumor), he makes his romantic move on her telling Dusty 'Watch closely, you might learn a thing or two'. A few panels of his hilarious dating attempts later, we are treated to a shot of the team's shocked/outright horrified reactions as they look on.
--> '''Dusty:''' ''He was not lying. This is definitely a learning experience.''
* ChewBubblegum: Douglas, on his final evolution.
* TheChosenZero: Apparently as the one chosen by The Beast, the fate of the region and possibly entire world rests on Thomas' shoulders. This does not stop him being an idiot.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: May. For the first battle she just sits there [[PasteEater eating paste]] as her Treecko gets curb-stomped, and in the second battle she falls asleep halfway through (at which point her Grovyle just resigns).
* CombatPragmatist: Dusty wins a fight with Archie's Mightyena by using telekinesis to smash him in the face with a nearby coffee pot.
* CoolBigSis: Potema, to Sparky.
* CreepyGood: Dusty. On his very first battle, he attempts to destroy his opponent's mind in his anger, and will only stop when called off three times. And how does he stop the battle? Snapping the Makuhita's neck. Sometimes he borders on TokenEvilTeammate, and Thomas says in a Q&A that one of the reasons he keeps moving around, besides around the whole 'adventuring' thing, is trying to protect the public. ''From Dusty''.
** Fortunately, he [[CharacterDevelopment experiences less need to act in this way over the series.]]
* CutenessProximity: Thomas' reaction to the Weather Institute's Castform.
-->'''Thomas:''' ''Aww, did the mean nasty Dustox scare you? Did he scare ickle-wickle ol' you? ''(squishes it against his face)'' C'mere ya mushy wushy li'l squishy ball o' puffy-wuffy fluff!''
* CurbStompBattle: Thomas and Archie technically battle in the Slateport Museum, but only Dusty manages to put up a real fight.
* DisproportionateRetribution: After Brawly's Makuhita kills [[spoiler: Hermes]], Dusty evolves and nearly destroy its mind with terrifying, disturbing visions of its own trainer, [[spoiler: along with Hermes]]. And then breaks its neck to end the battle. Even when Brawly tries to return it, Dusty shatters the Poke Ball so it will not be over until he is done 'enacting justice'.
* DissonantSerenity: Mr. Stone, who says that his nephew will be spending the evening in [[MaximumFunChamber the Box]] for having failed to protect the Devon Goods with a big, cheerful smile on his face. When Thomas points out that he owns a phone company [[FridgeLogic but needs him to deliver a letter for him]], Mr. Stone replies "I just gave you a free phone. Unless you want to join my nephew in the Box tonight, you'll deliver the damn letter' with an equally calm expression.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Neither Dusty nor Hermes appreciate being patronised.
* DoubleEntendre: Given the otherwise-lighthearted tone of the rest of the comic, it's surprising how many comments Pugnus and Sara make that sound ''distinctly'' like they're about sex.
* EldritchAbomination: The Beast, a mostly-unseen creature who appears to have marked Thomas and is following him, as well as terrifying and nearly crushing the Aqua Grunt that fled into Rusturf Tunnel.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Archie in the Slateport Museum.
* EnragedByIdiocy: Shelly does not take well the fact that her Grunts can't even hold up a teenager for five minutes at the Weather Institute. And for goodness' sake, they use ''Numel'' on the frontline. This is Team Aqua!
* ExpositionBeam: When Dusty wants to remind Norman's Slaking of when they last met, he projects the memories straight into his mind.
* ExpospeakGag:
-->'''Thomas:''' ''You know, you keep saying 'Kyogre', but I've no idea what that means.''
-->'''Potema:''' ''It's the ichthyomorphic personification of the unbridled fury of the ocean.''
-->'''Thomas:''' ''See, why didn't you just say that?''
* EyeBeams: Dusty's got those, and their strong enough to blast apart rocks.
* FiveManBand: Thomas' team, as of after Petalburg Gym: [[TheHero Thomas]], the human Trainer and de facto leader, [[TheLancer Douglas the Swampert]], Thomas' starter and most active battler, [[TheBigGuy Pungnus the Machoke]], who solves most problems with brute force, [[TheSmartGuy Dusty the Dustox and Bolt the Magnemite]], respectively cold and calculating or a robotic information dispenser, and [[TheChick Sara the Camerupt]], Pugnus' girlfriend and a decent fighter in her own right after evolving.
** Further roles include [[TeamMom Potema the Mightyena]], the WarriorTherapist, and [[TagalongKid Chomp the Trapinch and Sparky the Manectric]], the newest and youngest team members respectively.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Played for laughs. Thomas was not happy about how impossibly unlikely it was for Wally to catch his Ralts, and this is apparently still with him when they meet in Mauville City.
* FourthWallMailSlot: The Q&A sessions, where the readers can post questions to Thomas and his team and get a chance to have them answered.
* FunetikAksent: Mr. Briney's thick Scottish accent is represented accordingly in the dialogue.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Maxie acquires them when he tries to use the scale of Groudon inside the Meteorite to control the Legendary. Literally, his eyes seem to set on fire.
* GenocideBackfire: DownplayedTrope in terms of the 'genocide' - the only people who were killed were Dusty's family, by a rampaging Vigoroth. Not downplayed in the slightest in terms of the 'backfire'.
* GoshDangItToHeck: "Blessed faeces, why won't you stop?!"
* GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: The house that sets trendy catchphrases in Dewford is depicted as a gospel church to the latest trend, complete with "Can I get an AMEN?"
* GratuitousJapanese: Wally's Ralts, Jess, refers to everyone with full honourifics.
-->'''Thomas:''' ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Are you insulting me in Spanish?]]''
* GrewASpine: At first, Sparky was the most timid Pokémon on the team. Over time, though, he become both physically strong and courageous enough to take on serious opponents himself, and even stands up to his own father - and beats him, even though it was through some trick.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: What is technically (and still reads to some degree as) Steven warning Thomas not to be stupid and go putting his life in danger again after he was attacked by Team Aqua while delivering to Stern in Slateport is derailed considerably by well-placed uses of the word 'package'.
-->'''Douglas:''' ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick I feel a disturbance in the force... like a million euphemisms cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.]]''
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** Wattson's Gym triggers almost a page-long one of these. It has to be seen to be believed.
** Roxanne's also triggers the usual "Let's rock" lines.
* HypocriticalHumour: When Douglas sees Wally's Ralts in Mauville, he insults her and calls her an attention-seeker. Then she evolves into Kirlia, and he falls in love with her on the spot and immediately acts like that never happened.
* IdiotHero: Thomas. He may have natural talent for training and battling, but he stills fails to spot Ninja Boys' PaperThinDisguise[=s=] and squeed constantly throughout his first use of Surf. The reason he has so few [=TMs=] is because he and Douglas used them to enact a ridiculous overblown fight scene as if they were conduits to activate super-powerful attacks like duelling ninja. This may have been PlayedForLaughs, though.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Dusty's reason for not wanting to go in his Poke Ball, even if it's so he can be healed.
-->'''Dusty:''' ''I have spent half of my life in a dark, cramped jail. I do not intend to inflict that on myself ever again!''
* ImpliedDeathThreat:
-->'''Archie:''' ''Now, Arcturus here'' (his Mightyena) ''tends to get a little impatient. His claws get a little itchy if he doesn't sharpen them daily. I'd hate to see him sharpen them on you.''
* IncrediblyLamePun: After Douglas' Water Gun blasts the Aqua grunt's Poochyena out of the forest, the Devon worker tries to make light of it with 'WATER way to go, am I right?' Thomas and Douglas [[ReactionShot just look at him in distaste]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Potema (of all people) says that she can probably use [=TM=] Secret Power [[ButIReadABookAboutIt because she read about how it works]], on the grounds that 'I mean, discs are just like books but faster, right?'
* InstantExpert: Potema generally has an aptitude for learning new things very quickly - she apparently learned Protect by picking it up from having seen Dusty do it a lot, after having assurance from the [=PokeDex=] that it was possible for Mightyenas to learn. She's actually fairly surprised when it works.
* InsurrectionistInheritor: Sparky. When his father tells him that he's come to take him home as his only son, Sparky refuses and beats him in battle. He then says that his command to his father as the new Alpha of his pack is to let him stay with Thomas.
* {{Intangibility}}: Nocturne makes use of being able to completely dissipate as Douglas attempts to weaken him, only to find out that he is in fact totally affected by thrown Poke Balls.
* InterspeciesRomance: Pugnus the Machop/Machoke and Sara the Numel/Camerupt. Also looks like Potema the Mightyena and Dusty the Dustox might be headed this way.
* IronicEcho: After returning Hermes to his Poke Ball, Thomas points out that yes he's faster than Roxanne's Geodude, but he's not strong enough to do any real damage to it. When the Aqua Grunt runs off with the Devon Researcher's briefcase in the next strip, Thomas tells Hermes to go after him and Hermes replies:
--> ''Oh, so NOW you want my help? I guess I could catch up with him easily, couldn't I? [[{{Pride}} I am the fastest Taillow in the world, after all]]. But in your own words, I suppose I'm simply not strong enough to make a difference.''
* ItsPersonal:
** Why Dusty cuts Pugnus' spree off in the Gym battle with Norman - the Slaking that Norman sent out is the one that killed Dusty's family when he was young. Given how long it's been, the Slaking finds this a form of BewilderingPunishment - until Dusty [[ExpositionBeam reminds him]].
** When Dusty and Potema intervene in Sparky's conflict with his father who's trying to drag him back to his old pack, Sparky says this is something he to resolve himself.
* JumpedAtTheCall: The third strip shows that Thomas is trying to get his starter as fast as he possibly can.
-->'''Prof Birch:''' ''You saved me! I was out studying in the wild grass when that tiny, harmless little thing jumped-''
-->'''Thomas:''' ''SHUT UP AND GIVE ME A MUDKIP.''
* KleptomaniacHero: Thomas apparently stole the HM Surf from Wally's father, rather than it being a gift. Also his [=TV=].
** Earlier on, he snatched May's goggles.
* LampshadeHanging: A lot, everywhere. The very first thing the series does is lampshade how Professor Birch mysteriously gets in the same van that Thomas is riding in, followed by the author commenting "I get to ride in the back of the moving truck. What a loving mother I must have."
* LastSecondWordSwap: Thomas changes himself from saying that he doesn't want a repeat of Dewford to a repeat of Slateport at the last instant, at the sight of Potema and Dusty's faces.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** As the team sit on Mr. Briney's pier, Thomas remarks 'It's getting late, but at least we're out of those woods. I was getting sick of drawing- I mean, being around trees.'
** Thomas telling the Ninja Boy about how spamming Double Team makes you an ass can definitely be read as a comment on frustrating playstyles of actual players of the game in multiplayer.
* LeeroyJenkins: Hermes launches straight into full-on attack on Roxanne's Geodude, deeming himself unstoppable, and is then frustrated that Thomas returned him to his Poke Ball.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain:
** Dewford Gym, going off Thomas' LastSecondWordSwap to avoid the subject entirely.
** There was also a moment in Lavaridge Town that has yet to be explained, where throwing a rock forwards caused it to open up a minuscule rift in the air that only Dusty had sensed, through which came a great bolt of fire right before it closed.
** When Thomas asks Dusty if he was going to kill Norman's Slaking in revenge, Dusty replies 'Thomas, I am not in the habit of lying, and so I must request that you never ask me that question again'.
* LostAtSea: Where Mr. Briney was when he first met and was saved by The Beast, giving him the opportunity later to explain a little about it and its 'gift' to Thomas.
* {{Malaproper}}: [[DumbMuscle Pugnus]] has a tendency to mix up words, like using "imperial" for "impervious" and "self-defecating" for "self-deprecating".
* MasterOfIllusion: Dusty, with the rest of his telepathy. Mostly used to project images into the mind of Norman's Slaking.
* MeaningfulName: Vulcan the Slugma, from the Roman god of fire.
* MegatonPunch: Douglas punches Wattson's Manectric across the room in his frustration at Wattson continuing his HurricaneOfPuns with a joke about electricity being positive (when electrons are negatively charged), thus revealing himself to be a keen physicist on the side at the same time.
* MindRape: Dusty does not make it secret that he is capable of doing this, but so far he has never done so. Even when he most wanted to.
** He does, however, perform something very close to Norman's Slaking, complete with illusion duplicates, DissonantLaughter and a WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied monologue.
* MomentOfWeakness: While awake, Dusty is cold, aggressive and regards showing emotion as weakness. Only when he's asleep and the torment of his BadDreams get to him does it show that he has things he struggles with too.
* MookHorrorShow: Inside the Weather Institute, the Aqua grunt who has had so many AmusingInjuries on account of Thomas throughout the comic is telling his colleagues how certain he is that Thomas is actually out to get him and won't stop until he's more or less dead. His fellow grunts try in turn to calm him, saying that out of all the possible places in all of Hoenn for Thomas to be, the chance of him coming ''here'' in the next few hours are borderline zero. Guess who then punches a hole in the window?
* MoralityPet: Potema, to Dusty. She's effectively the thread that somehow holds the team as a whole together, at least at first.
* MundaneUtility: Along with the many, many other things Dusty uses his psychic powers for, he also utilises it as a forcefield to keep the rain off because it hurts his wings.
* MustMakeAmends: Given that Potema encouraged Thomas to start the battle in which [[spoiler: Hermes]] dies, she feels this way for a while.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: In the second Q&A Sparky appears to break into a cold sweat trying to resist chasing a thrown ball, before giving in and leaping after it with a crackle.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Part of why Dusty maintained his stoic distance - after the intense pain he experienced from losing his family, he didn't want to ever experience that again and so didn't get too close to the rest of the team. This is only part, though - Dusty is somewhat haughty and abrasive just by his very nature.
* NightmareFuel: The visions that Dusty makes Brawly's Makuhita see on [[http://fav.me/d6sl7p1 this page]].
** And then [[NothingIsScarier whatever it is]] that he does to the nurse on [[http://fav.me/d79shbh this page]].
* NobleDemon: Despite his sociopathic behavior, Dusty seems to have a sense of honor. He reassures Potema that [[spoiler:Hermes' death]] was not her fault, and admonishes Douglas for calling Wally's Ralts a wimp, pointing out that he was also small and weak once.
** The demon part appears to be going away somewhat, post-Petalburg gym.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** When Pugnus first appears and gets aggressive with Thomas and his team, Dusty uses his telekinesis to throw Pugnus into several rocks and then make him punch himself in the face.
** Douglas delivers one of these to Flannery's Torkoal after it [[spoiler:kills Nocturne]], but stops himself right before the final blow.
--->'''Douglas:''' ''I could have just killed you now. But I didn't. I want you to remember that forever. You're lucky to be alive.''
* NotAMorningPerson:
-->'''Thomas:''' ''I CAN'T SEE THE MORNING. YOU CAN'T PROVE IT EXISTS.''
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Doubles as an OhCrap moment as Brawly's Makuhita out-waits Hermes' attack and successfully grabs him, before throwing him straight into the floor.
* OddFriendship:
** Douglas tries to introduce Nocturne to the team and be friendly to him. Even though Nocturne barely speaks.
** Dusty, the dangerous telepath, develops a relationship with Potema, the gentle intellect of the team ('Relationship' here meaning, in Dusty's words, 'the only one I do not feel constant urges to mutilate').
* OffscreenRealityWarp: How Potema's Secret Power works - she can do all kinds of things with it, so long as no-one (including the readers) can see her. It's called ''Secret'' Power, see?
* OnlySaneMan: May's Grovyle appears to release that he is SurroundedByIdiots, and when she gives up on paying attention to the battle halfway through he just folds his arms and says' Ugh! Just take her money and get out of here!'
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Potema is strangely quiet when Douglas evolves, whereas previously she would have been full of useful trivia. This tips the team off that she still feels guilty over Dewford Gym.
* RoboSpeak: Bolt the Magnemite talks like a computer with no emotion whatsoever.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Hermes the Taillow.
-->'''Thomas:''' ''Hey, Taillow, can you get up here for a sec?''
-->'''Hermes:''' ''My name is Hermes, puny human. You will not insult me further, and I will not belittle myself by perching on your shoulder like some tame pet canary.''
* PaintingTheMedium:
** When Douglas gets drunk in Mauville City, his speech bubble slops and wanders across the panel.
** Dusty's telepathy is not in a speech bubble, and has its own font.
*** Nocturne's weird speech is in a similar pattern of smoky purple letters.
*** The Beast's speech is not in a speech bubble either, and is instead in large, vivid red letters on the page.
** Bolt's RoboSpeak also has its own font.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sparky's dad. He would leave him behind and ignore him for long periods to toughen him, but all it did was make Sparky run away.
* PowerGlows: Apparently Dusty's telepathy glows brightly enough to light Thomas' way in Granite Cave.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Pugnus the Machop, right before evolving and battling Norman.
-->'''Pugnus:''' ''Viewers allergic to ass-kicking should look away now.''
* TheQuietOne: Nocturne the Sableye. Only ever speaks one word at a time, and most of those are the same words over and over again.
* RealityEnsues: Thomas attempts to fight Archie, the head of Team Aqua, at the Slateport Museum. Archie's team is more-trained and better-experienced and roundly thrashes Thomas.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Dusty attempts to apologise to Douglas for saying that Nocturne the Sableye was an EmptyShell and emphasising how heart-breaking it was for him to consider that that message would stay with Nocturne forever, Douglas tells him to shut up and chews him out for an insincere, flimsy apology (for Dusty, a sincere apology would be 'Judging by the evidence, I suppose we can come to the conclusion that he might have had emotions after all') and then goes on to tell him just how little Dusty has to try when he can just read everyone's minds and know what they want to hear. Douglas leaves, telling Dusty to learn to act like a real person.
* RestrainedRevenge: Dusty has been preparing himself for a long time to kill the Vigoroth (now a Slaking) who killed his family in front of him. However, after the influence Thomas' team had on him - especially Potema -, he stops after forcing them through a cosmic guilt tour and merely leaves them with a powerful Psychic overload that knocks them out.
-->'''Dusty:''' ''This cannot begin to compare to the pain that you have put me through. But it is the only judgment I can deliver in good conscience. Death is too good for you. But no-one should have to go through what I have. Not even you.''
* RunningGag: After acquired fingers with evolution, Douglas is ''determined'' to get a handshake.
* SilentAntagonist: Archie's Mightyena only ever growls aggressively. Even though Thomas' ability to understand Pokemon-speech normally just makes their words show up as normal dialogue.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Steven's Skarmory vs. Archie's Mightyena. Skarmory wins with just a slash.
* ShapedLikeItself: When Thomas is called on repair the New Mauville generator, Chompy the Trapinch is sent in to install the part. Thomas tells him to put the part in the red slot without realising that Chompy is blind, leading to Chompy calling 'Which is the red one?'. Thomas replies 'What? The one that's coloured red!'.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shrubly the Oddish it seems, if his ThousandYardStare is anything to go by. He talks about seeing terrible things, but won't even explain them in detail because it's ''knowledge that no person should ever inflict on another's ears''.
* ShipTease: Dusty and Potema seem to be getting more as the comic goes on. Including in the extra content, such as a speechless Dusty after seeing Gijinka!Potema in a prom dress.
* ShrinkingViolet: Sparky, as an Electrike. He barely even gets a tap in battle before cowering in surrender, and goes on to cement his role as NonActionGuy with barely a spark to attack May's Wingull.
-->'''Douglas:''' ''Pfft, look at that little squirt (Wally's Ralts), acting all over-the-top cute. Some girls just can't get enough attention, am I right?''
-->'''Sparky:''' ''Uh, are you right?''
-->'''Douglas:''' ''Yeah.''
-->'''Sparky:''' ''Oh. Ok. You're right.''
* ShutUpKirk: When Dusty relents from killing Norman's Slaking, the Slaking tries to tell him about how forgiveness isn't a weakness and how revenge is not always the right answer. Dusty blasts him with his EyeBeams and says he doesn't want a lecture on morals.
* SlapSlapKiss: How Sara and Pugnus flirt.
* TheSmartOne: Potema is generally much more knowledgeable about a variety of things than other characters and especially her trainer, to the point where Thomas just sometimes get her to fill him in on new Pokemon he hasn't seen before.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Thomas acquired his ability to understand Pokemon speech somewhere in the early chapters without realising or any signification of it in the comic. His first realisation is when Potema says 'Tell me about it' after one of his remarks and he says 'Ok, so I know I must have some crazy forest disease, because I swear I just heard you talk.'
** This is in fact {{foreshadowing}}, as the explanation of how this happens does come, only a while later.
* SpockSpeak: Dusty.
* StepfordSnarker: Hermes the Taillow.
* TheStoic: Dusty, at first, regards showing emotion as weakness. It takes fifty-two strips for him to smile.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: Dusty's telepathy, right down to his speech. When he creates a psychic shield in the battle with Norman, every panel's background is purple for the rest of the page.
* SuperWindowJump: When Thomas arrives in the Slateport Museum, the Aqua Grunt that saw the Beast in Rusturf Tunnel would rather do this than face Thomas again. Thomas is oblivious.
* TeamMom: Potema. Especially as the only person who can get through Dusty's harsh exterior and relate to him - and make him relate to her.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Hermes says that he's only staying only to witness Thomas' inevitable crushing defeats and will only help if he decides to do so.
* ThisIsReality:
** Thomas' description of Mauville - 'Ah, the Big Apple. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.' - prompts the reaction 'Isn't that New York?'. He replies with 'What the hell is a New York.'
** When Dusty and Potema go missing briefly, Thomas says he's not worried and that they'll find them again, since between them Dusty and Potema have the navigating senses of a homing pigeon with a GPS.
--->'''Douglas:''' ''What's a homing pigeon?''
--->'''Thomas:''' ''A kind of advanced war boomerang, used by primitive, tribal humans for hunting buffalo and gazelle.''
--->'''Douglas:''' ''What's a buffalo?''
--->'''Thomas:''' ''Hell if I know.''
--->'''Sara:''' ''You are both morons.''
* TitleDrop: If a team member is killed by a crit, the words 'Goddamn Critical Hit' appear across the panel.
* ToThePain: Dusty makes it perfectly clear to both Norman's Slaking and the audience just how he's planning to enact his revenge - namely, a mental, emotional form of ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine.
* TouchedByVorlons: The source of Thomas' ability to understand Pokespeech - it's part of the marking of The Beast.
* TrespassingHero: When May gets home in the second strip, she arrives to find Thomas lying on her bed in a ReadyForLovemaking pose saying 'Draw me like one of your French girls'.
-->'''May:''' ''Mum! Some guy's lying in my bed! Learn to lock the goddamn door!''
-->'''May's mum:''' ''DOORS HAVE LOCKS?!''
* TheUnfavourite: Fido the Poochyena, TheLoad who does nothing but smile vacantly, drool and once almost choked to death on his own foot. He gets boxed as fast as possible.
* UnsoundEffect:
** The sounds made by the sandstorm in the desert apparently include 'Swwiiirllll', 'Sand' and 'Sand noises'.
** "Fwoomph" is used for Fire-type attacks and "Bleughh" for Water-type attacks.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Dusty. He and his sister used to play hide and seek together in the woods as Wurmple, until a Vigoroth killed his family in front of him in the wild.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Only after he makes himself spare the life of the Slaking who killed his family does Dusty realise that doing so would have been 'a grave mistake'.
* VillainTeleportation: Archie's Starmie allows for this.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: When Thomas gets ready to board Douglas in his new Swampert form for their first Surf, his phone rings mid-leap. [[RuleOfFunny For no reason whatsoever]], he hangs in midair for the duration of the call, and then falls straight into the water as soon as it ends.
* TheVoiceless:
** Dusty, before evolution.
** The Castform, which only makes childish squeaks and puffy cloud noises.
** Archie's Mightyena, who only growls.
* WarriorTherapist:
** Potema, later on in the run. She acts as counsellor and helpful friend, but can also give a beating in battle when she needs to.
** When Potema has her own slump early on, Dusty is actually the one who explains to her that the latest team death wasn't actually her fault.
* WalkOnWater: Sparky, who charges himself with electricity and runs so fast that his static causes him to not break the surface of the lake he crosses.
* WaterWakeUp: Douglas' preferred method for whenever Thomas' sleeping in becomes an issue.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Hermes the Taillow doesn't make it past Dewford Gym, and Vulcan the Slugma dies in the very first battle after he appears.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Archie and Maxie. Each firmly claims that after what happened "[[NoodleIncident on that day]]" they were the only one to do what was right.
* WhatIsThisFeeling: Dusty tries to deny that he can feel emotions like fear. He doesn't always take it well when he becomes emotional. He even resists the urge to sleep for a long time before losing consciousness and falling down in the middle of a battle.
* WrongNameOutburst: The first reveal in ages that Douglas might not be as over the loss of one of his friends as he seems - when Chompy keeps trying to interrupt him protesting the idea that Potema can just learn Protect naturally, after a few seconds of ignoring it he suddenly shouts 'CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TALKING HERE, NOC?' at him.
* WouldRatherSuffer: Sparky makes it clear to his father that he knows that if he doesn't come back with him, that makes him a traitor to the clan who has to die. And yet ''he would still rather stay''.
* YeOldeNuclearSilo: New Mauville is one of these. Pugnus is somewhat embarrassed to discover that he can't just punch the door down.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: ParodiedTrope. Shortly after Dusty evolved, while he was still very much a brooding loner who refused to get close to anyone and didn't understand why people went through needless formalities just to express their affection to each other, he was visited by three spirits trying to change his ways. It didn't go to plan - Celebi (Christmas Past) failed because Dusty had never experienced another Christmas before this one, Spiritomb (Christmas Present) failed due to lack of actual ability to time travel and Dialga (Christmas Future) showed Dusty a future where his sudden and unexpected embracing of the Christmas spirit lulled the rest of his team into a false sense of security, allowing him to easily enslave humanity and force them to build monuments only to tear them down again for his amusement.
-->'''Dialga:''' ''Arceus is going to kill me.''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jet's Black Nuzlocke]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://jetsblacknuzlocke.com/ Jet's Black Nuzlocke]]
* {{Adorkable}}:
** Jet--just look at the nicknames she gives her Pokemon!
** N, [[NotGoodWithPeople when he's forced into social situations]] or [[FailedAttemptAtDrama trying to be dramatic]].
* AffablyEvil: Ghetsis, oddly enough.
* AnimalTalk: We get to hear mutual communication between Pokemon in this one, but the only human who can understand them is N. Interestingly, birds apparently can't talk at all either way (or if they can, it's only to each other).
* AxCrazy: Val's Patrat, according to Percy.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Jet wears the male player character's attire, but she's a girl.
* BreakTheCutie: Jet slowly starts going through this over the whole run, but [[spoiler: Lilly's death]] pushes her farther than anything else. Post-Driftveil city, Jet has ''crippling'' guilt about fighting wild Pokemon to level up and resolves to only fight trainers...only to instantly lose her Joltik upon trying to enforce the rule.
* BreakingSpeech: N ends up being very good at these, given they pair with Jet's guilt over her deceased Pokemon to utterly wreck her. Jet would have joined Plasma if Juniper hadn't shown up and interrupted the meeting.
** Juniper starts to give one to N upon realizing how young he is but he flees before she can really get going.
* BrotherSisterTeam: The recurring Team Plasma grunts Percy and Val. They're not very competent though.
* CuteMute: Major the Tranquill and later Tutu the Ducklett. According to Firedog, birds in this world can't talk, not even to other Pokemon.
* DarkestHour: After losing Zoie, the other Pokemon have a sit down (while Jet tries futilely to find the Joltik and make it return) to discuss if they should just stop the challenge. Jet's nearly at the point of a total breakdown and it's clear the "only fight trainers" rule might not be all that viable, which coupled with her tendency to make dumb moves means more mons might die and then she might break even more. Sir Francis isn't sure what the answer is...and then Jet goes missing.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Major evolving in the middle of Jet's gym battle with Skyla results in Skyla's Unfezant immediately getting smitten. Major uses this to his advantage, naturally, though his opponent seems too affected by this trope to care.
* {{Expy}}:
** Bottles the Drilbur, of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
** Tutu the Ducklett is a mute version of Anime/{{Princess Tutu}}'s title character.
** Whether it was intentional or not, Percy and Val could be seen as Team Plasma's answer to Jessie and James from the ''Pokemon'' anime.
** This depiction of Ghetsis has been compared to [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist King Bradley]] by one commenter.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: In the opening to one comic, N spots Jet in the desert and tries to coolly walk away. [[http://jetsblacknuzlocke.com/comic/episodes/ep034.html He proceeds to faceplant into the sand]].
* FeatheredFiend: N's Pidove, "The King's Eyes" is pretty creepy and at one point attacks Jet with alarming force. Justified, as she's [[spoiler:not really a Pidove]].
* GenkiGirl: Jet, as well as Bianca's Snivy.
* HarmlessVillain: Percy and Val, two recurring Team Plasma grunts. Although Val's Patrat did kill [[spoiler:Broccoli]].
* TheHeart: Lilly is this throughout the run. [[spoiler:Understandably, her death wounds the team very deeply]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jet and Bianca.
* HotBlooded: Cheren and his Dewott.
* InterspeciesRomance: Firedog and Lilly (incidentally, they're in the same egg group, so they can breed). [[spoiler:Firedog is understandably the most upset about Lilly's unfortunate death]].
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to most Nuzlockes. WordOfGod has stated that, with all the death going on in the story, it would probably be nice to add some levity here and there. Still, Jet does go through some serious BreakTheCutie to the point of trying to join Team Plasma when she really thinks maybe it's the only way to help Pokemon. Thankfully Juniper sets her straight.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Val and Percy, respectively.
* MasterOfIllusion: [[spoiler:The King's Eyes, N's Zorua, who spends most of her time disguised as a Pidove]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: How [[spoiler:Broccoli the Pansage]] dies, at the claws of Val's Patrat.
* NotGoodWithPeople: N mentally agonizes over what he should say/do when Jet casually talks to him.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Jet and Cheren appear to be this--or used to be, anyway.
* OfficialCouple: Lilly and Firedog seemed to be headed in this direction, before [[spoiler:Lilly's death]].
* PreciousPuppy: Lilly when she was a Lillipup. She graduates to BigFriendlyDog as a Herdier...[[spoiler:and then she dies]].
* PutOnABus: Lil' Dog and Ruby are sent to Jet's mother while Tutu flies off after seeing Clay's Excadrill.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Instead of dying, Tutu the Ducklett just bails upon seeing Clay's Excadrill. To quote the author, she's a dancer, not a fighter. While she's not ''officially'' dead, WordOfGod confirms that she's not coming back.
* TheStoic: Major.
* TakeThat: A subtle one towards the original Nuzlocke's lack of updates--Jet captures a Yamask whom she names "Ruby" (the same name as that of the protagonist in the original Nuzlocke). Yamask!Ruby later obtains a mask that looks just like the original Ruby's face. Anyone who's read Yamask's Pokedex entries will be aware that the mask that Yamask carries around is supposed to be what its face looked like when it was alive...
* VitriolicBestBuds: What Jet and Cheren have become.
* WhamEpisode: With how much more lighthearted this series is compared to most Nuzlockes, the first casualty ([[spoiler:Broccoli the Pansage]]), is actually kind of shocking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nuzrooke]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://dragonwolfrooke.deviantart.com/gallery/34991757/NuzRooke Nuzrooke]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Rooke frequently becomes this. She's not even used to this world, let alone being a trainer. Note the way she often tries to make a dramatic declaration, only to hesitate afterwards (such as demanding Vincent battle her to stop him running away, only to have to stop and check that this does actually mean he can't run).
* AllLovingHero: Rooke to an extent, but Granite much more.
-->'''[[FourthWallMailSlot Audience Question]]:''' ''What do you each think of your teammates?''
-->'''Granite:''' ''Kindle is kind of mean, but still great. Scout is great! Smee is great! Donovan is great, too, and so is Lacy!''
* AlphaBitch: Whitney, and most of her team.
* ArtEvolution: The difference between comics at the start of the run and at the end is quite impressive.
* BattleCouple: Donovan and Lacy, [[ObliviousToLove eventually]]. They make short work of Morty's team together.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Vincent saying that he doesn't know why Jasmine is even looking after the sick Ampharos is apparently too much for Rooke. Even if it was just one punch to the face, [[OOcIsSeriousBusiness this is the first person in Johto Rooke has been seriously angry with]]. The shocked reactions are entirely appropriate.
* CasanovaWannabe: Kito the Vulpix.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Looking after Mystery also prompts to Scout to consider what he can do to look after Rooke, contributing to the family dynamic of the team.
* TheCutie: Granite, which is fairly unusual for the Geodude line.
* CuteBruiser: At first as a Sentret Scout looks like a big adorable ball of fluff - but he also hits so hard he prevents the next two captures from happening. Apparently it's just so hard to control the deadly weapons that are his claws.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Mystery]].
* DefrostingIceKing: Kindle, eventually.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: In this comic, Pokemon evolving also jump up in their mental age or how old they act. It's sometimes very noticeable, such as Mystery the baby Togepi becoming Mystery the cheery (mental) young teen Togetic.
* ExpressiveAccessory:
** Rooke's hat changes with her emotions.
** Kindle's flames operate on a fairly similar basis to this.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[FourthWallMailSlot Q&As]] allow for occasional bits of this, such as Kindle saying that if he could any other species he'd want to be a Charmeleon.
* GrumpyBear: Kindle, especially early on.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Scout has one for quite a while after the death of Mystery.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Smee]], throwing himself in front of a critical hit Vine Whip to protect Mystery.
* HeroicWillpower: Lacy literally ''makes herself'' evolve - just so she doesn't feel that she's too far behind Don for him to still like her. Don still doesn't realise it.
* HiddenDepths: Kito the CasanovaWannabe actually has a lot to tell Donovan about how not to miss someone who genuinely loves him. Turns out he's not as casual with who he'd pull a move on as it appears.
* HopelessWithTech: More like hopeless with ''new'' tech - it takes Rooke a few seconds to work out that the phone she can hear ringing is in her watch (and not, say, in the [=PokeDex=]).
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Miss the Machop is insecure about her looks, and avoids evolution because she doesn't want to look less like a girl than she already does.
* IneffectualLoner: Kindle, at the start. He refuses to spend any time with the rest of his assembling team, and makes his disdain of Rooke immediately obvious, calling her useless for not wanting him to fight Vincent's Totodile. The FreudianExcuse comes later, and CharacterDevelopment after that.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Scout the Furret adopting Mystery the Togepi/Togetic.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Kindle and Sam.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Rooke is quite excited out try out an Ash Ketchum-style 'I got the (Insert) Badge!' pose. And to actually Fly on Kenya's back.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Miss the Machop. She isn't very happy about it.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Lacy for Donovan. Donovan returning it takes a bit longer.
* NervousWreck: Ojo the Magnemite is best described as 'scared of everything'. Fortunately, it's PlayedForLaughs instead of being too traumatic, and in time it begins to [[GrewASpine Grow A Spine]] (mostly by realised how powerful it is).
* NiceHat: Rooke's fuzzy hat and Mystery's little top hat.
* ObliviousToLove: Donovan, big time.
* OptOut: Scout. In-universe, it was due to [[spoiler: the HeroicBSOD of Mystery, his adoptive son, dying]]. In the game, it was because he CantCatchUp compared to other members of the rotating party.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Boss. He's a Butterfree who preys of Tauroses and whose SignatureMove is ''[[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]]''.
* RapidAging: Lacy forces her evolution too early to keep up with [[LoveInterest Donovan]], leaving her a Raticate with Rattata colors.
* RecruitedFromTheGutter: This turns out to be why Sam is so keen to join Rooke's team. And why she is so keen to get through to Kindle - he reminds her on the Houndour who took her under his wing.
* ScratchDamage: Prior to encountering Granite, Scout had been OHKO-ing wild Pokemon effortlessly. Against the Geodude, though, he has to deliver a million tiny scratches getting madder and madder, while Granite keeps talking paying it no thought.
* SkilledButNaive: Mystery really doesn't realise that his psychic powers make him just as strong as everyone else on the team, and at a fraction of their age as well.
* SleepCute: Rooke and Scout, after fighting their way through the storm to get to Cianwood, fall asleep on the Pokémon Centre couch. And it is adorable.
* TakeAThirdOption: Deal with all the nasty spiderwebs, or skip the Azalea Gym battle? Rooke has an alternative idea: Use Kindle to burn her way through.
-->'''Kindle:''' ''I'd mention how offensive this is, but it'd be redundant.''
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The adventure begins with Rooke being sucked from the real world into the Pokemon world. [[spoiler: In the end, she chooses to go back to Johto again.]]
* TheVoiceless: Pan the Quagsire. As a Wooper, he alsp qualifies as a CuteMute.
* WakingNonSequitur: The Ilex Forest Farfetch'd wander over to Rooke while she's asleep. She doesn't know they need rescuing, or that someone is looking for them until he shouts in delight about it.
-->'''Rooke:''' ''AAAH! I swear I didn't eat it, Mr. Cosby!''
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Aubrey the Nidoran (Female), introduced and [[spoiler: unceremoniously killed off by a Rattata in the opening of [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragonwolfrooke/art/NuzRooke-Silver-Chapter-5-Page-28-327121715 Page 28]]. She doesn't have a bio and isn't present with Rooke and the rest of the party - dead ''and'' alive - [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragonwolfrooke/art/Nuzlocke-Nominations-2014-NuzRooke-Best-Team-435138948 in a photo]].]]
-->'''Rooke:''' ''Oh, Aubrey... I'm so, so sorry.''
* WhamEpisode:
** Chapter 4, with the first death of the comic; [[spoiler: Smee]]
** Chapter 8, definitely. [[spoiler: In this chapter, Mystery dies, Scout goes into HeroicBSOD, Sam and Kindle evolve, Kindle reveals his backstory, and Kindle admits his feelings for Sam.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yonkoma Nuzlocke: Fire Red]]
!!!Tropes seen in [[http://yonkomanuzlocke-fr.smackjeeves.com/ Yonkoma Nuzlocke: Fire Red]]
* {{Adaptation Expansion}}: Some readers tend to forget Yonkoma Nuzlocke is based on a playthrough of the games. It has so much original content that expands the plot, the characters and the world that it might as well not be. Your mileage may vary if that's a good thing.
* {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}: The new take on Lt. Surge's in-game "war" backstory is but a tip of the iceberg.
* {{Always Second Best}}: Lott was this to Vang for a long time, which eventually... [[AxCrazy had its]] [[RivalTurnedEvil consequences]].
* {{Ascended Extra}}: So much. Yonkoma Nuzlocke spends so much time on its supportive cast, it has to remind itself who the protagonist is.
* {{Aside Glance}}: Often.
* {{Author Avatar}}
* {{Ax Crazy}}: Brom has some issues to work out. There's also Lilith, a member of Team Rocket, who seems to hide this behind her [[TheStoic calm demeanor]].
* {{Bad Dreams}}: The true reason behind [[spoiler: Cathy's constant sleepiness]]. Giovanni is also revealed to suffer from recurring nightmares, which turns out to be his undoing. Particularly [[LaserGuidedKarma ironic]] considering [[spoiler: the one haunting his nightmares is Calluna, whom he killed to secretly take over the Viridian Gym - and what he loses due to those dreams is his Viridian Gym hideout]].
* {{Backstory}}: Is it a character? Yes? Then you bet they have a backstory. Most likely [[DarkAndTroubledPast a tragic one]].
* {{Canon Foreigner}}: Several characters are not based on anything from the games.
* {{Cerebus Retcon}}: Nearly all [[RunningJoke running jokes]] eventually [[{{Foreshadowing}} turn out to be this]].
* {{Chekhovs Armory}}
* {{Chekhovs Gag}}: Happens a lot, often turning the joke into [[FunnyAneurysmMoment something more on the tragic side]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bill and Daisy are only the most prominent examples.
* {{Cute Mute}}: Steen.
* {{DarkAndTroubledPast}}: It's a comedy comic. Here, [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback have a flashback]].
* {{Death By Adaptation}}: [[spoiler: For a moment it seemed Brock would end like this]].
* {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}: It's a Nuzlocke and it's in a {{yonkoma}} format.
* {{Expressive Hair}}: Happens quite commonly. Most notably Zea's "Pidgeotto Ahoge" acts like this on occassions and so did Doug's own (when he still had one).
* {{Format Specific Joke}}: One of the early pages has Gary [[{{Shoryuken}} uppercut]] Doug so hard it breaks through the space between the panels. Another instant has the joke rely on the readers not seeing a punch that obviously occured between two panels.
* {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}: Expect your favorite [[RunningJoke running joke]] to be ruined in the future.
* {{Good Cop Bad Cop}}: Mayumi's Good Cop is quite a Bad Cop.
* {{Important Haircut}}: Happens to Doug, Daisy and Sabrina for various reasons. We also get glimpses of Daisy and Erika's many different hairstyles throughout their life.
* {{Lampshade Hanging}}: Nearly every page. Yonkoma Nuzlocke loves playing with, deconstructing, commenting on and subverting everything about the games it's based on, popular tropes in general, other popular works, memes and perhaps most commonly [[SelfDeprecatingHumor itself]].
* {{Last Stand}}: When Team Rocket attempts to take over Pewter City, [[spoiler: Mayumi faces their boss in battle. She [[UnderestimatingBadassery turns out not only too much for him, but for his immediate associates]], so Rockets have to gather from the entire City in order to finally, still with difficulty, take her down. They take her captive, but are still forced to retreat after the beating they took.]]
* {{Like an Old Married Couple}}: Gary and Sabrina are heading in that direction.
* {{Limited Wardrobe}}: Usually, but with exceptions.
* {{Heterosexual Life Partners}}: Doug and Gary have known each other from childhood. Daisy and Erika are also an example.
* {{Mook Face Turn}}: Lott in Mt. Moon caves.
* {{Narrator}}: Appears out of nowhere late into the story (which is immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]) and bickers with the characters. Apparently seperate from the author, [[AuthorAvatar who is himself a character in the comic]].
* {{New Powers As The Plot Demands}}: A lot of the time a new Pokémon of Doug's father is revealed right at the point where the skill of that particular mon would be useful to have around. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the author himself, but somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] considering this guy is part of the [[SecretPolice International Police]].
* {{No Fourth Wall}}
* {{Official Couple}}: Bill and Mayumi [[spoiler: as well as Misty]]. Gary and Sabrina get closer and closer to achieving this status, [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple much to their dismay]].
* {{Pun Based Title}}: One of the chapters is called "Good Cop & Dad Cop".
* {{Significant Wardrobe Shift}}: Doug undergoes two changes to his design, each time changing his clothes completely. Same happens later to Sabrina.
* {{Slasher Smile}}: Played for laughs. [[HarsherInHindsight Usually]].
* {{Sticky Fingers}}: Klow the Meowth's Pickup Ability turns out to be this, at least in part.
* {{Talking Animal}}: Like in many other Nuzlocke comics, Pokémon can speak and be understood by humans and vice-versa.
* {{The Cuckoolander Was Right}}: In Chapter X [[spoiler: Daisy keeps telling Gary and Sabrina that her best friend Erika is not evil. They think they know better.]]
* {{The Reveal}}: YN loves its plot twists and surprises and is not missing its fair share of surprising reveals.
* {{The Shadow Knows}}: When Brom refuses to partake in Lt. Surge's test, his shadow reveals his reasons.
* {{Trolling Creator}}: So much. Here's one author who revels in plot-twisting the carpet right from under his readers' feet.
* {{Yonkoma}}
[[/folder]]

!!!Other fancomics include examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Oftentimes, though not always, Nuzlocke Pokémon will be fiercely loyal to their trainers, even by Pokémon standards.
* AgeLift: Due to most comics using an original character as the protagonist, it's very common for the author to raise the ages of the rivals and supporting characters to be around the main's. (i.e. making everyone 18 if the protagonist is, etc)
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some would say this is half the fun.
* AmbiguousGender: A few protagonists are this, but it is widely used in Para's Nuzlocke to the point where one of the most asked questions of the author is "What is Para's gender?"
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: In a Sinnoh run, the common occurrence of losing a team member to [[ThatOneBoss Jupiter's Skuntank]] is immediately followed by Cynthia giving the player a Togepi egg.
* BittersweetEnding: Kai's run ends with all her Pokémon apparently alive. They leave her while she sleeps, noting that it would be too dangerous for her to follow them. It ends as a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Inception}}''.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Anytime a Pokémon coughs up blood, it's not a good sign.
* BreakTheCutie: Many, many runs involve the main character beginning as optimistic children who run headfirst into battle... and realize that AnyoneCanDie.
** ILetGwenStacyDie is also a common reaction.
** Notably [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8724747/1/ Alterity]], where Robin struts out of Littleroot Town, demands Talon use Thunderbolt, and is soon smacked upside the head by reality.
** [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8538857/1/ It's a Hard Life]], with both Robin and Puck.
* CantDropTheHero: Some runs enforce a role where one Pokemon has to be in the party at all times and it fainting means an automatic game over. Comics doing this (mostly [[AnthropomorphicPersonification "gijinka-lockes"]]) usually cast the Pokemon in question as the protagonist.
* {{Crossover}}: Occasionally, the authors will let each other's characters appear in the comics, sometimes going as far as {{shipping}} them with each other.
** Also, Amastroph's and Petty's comics include 'mon cameos from ''VideoGame/PokemonQuartz''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass / LethalJokeCharacter: On a rare occasion, some Nuzlocke comics will show that some mons aren't exactly as pathetic and laughable as most would think.
** Prime example: Butterfree. Who knew that such an early pokémon, such a delicate-looking bug, would end up able to be so awesome?
** This trope is arguably one of the main draws of the very concept of Nuzlocke - using pokemon you wouldn't normally use and realizing just how awesome they can be.
* DeaderThanDead: Ghost-types are very rarely spared from the "fainting equals death" rule, so a Ghost-type getting killed in a Nuzlocke effectively results in this trope.
* DeathByAdaptation: Almost every Nuzlocke comic have Gary's Raticate dead.
* DeconstructionFic: Wasserbienchen's ''In Black And White'' is this for the Pokémon franchise as a whole, [[CrapsaccharineWorld tying in the cheerful Pokémon world with a creepy and realistic portrayal of Pokémon training as animal abuse through the application of]] FridgeLogic.
* DependingOnTheWriter: What ''is'' Nuzlocke? Does the term have any meaning within the world itself? Is it a SelfImposedChallenge, a curse, or simply an unnamed rule of the world?
** Can trainers understand what their Pokémon are saying? If so, how? Can only some of their Pokémon communicate with them, via human speech or telepathy, or can all of them speak freely?
** Naming is variable. Is it just a nickname, or do wild Pokemon have no name at all? Does the new name override their previous one? Are they human-like names, or, well, not? Kindle-flower's run suggested that wild Pokemon do have names, but they don't translate well into human languages so they just let their trainer give them a name they can reasonably use.
** The scale of the region is pretty much variable. To take Johto as an example, in some stories Violet City is a day and half's walk from New Bark Town whereas in others Mr. Pokemon's house is a matter of hours away from Goldenrod City.
* FakeKillScare: Used often enough to be considered another unspoken tradition.
* GreenThumb: It's common for Red[=/=]Blue[=/=]Fire Red[=/=]Leaf Green Nuzlockers to choose Bulbasaur as their starter. In the comic, it may be justified as the character thinking it's cute or favoring grass types in general, but strategically speaking, it is the best to start with when you want to make a run with as few casualties as possible, since it has a type advantage against the first two gyms. And its Poison typing gives it an immunity to poisoning.
** Subverted in Gold[=/=]Silver[=/=]Crystal[=/=]HG[=/=]SS runs. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Nuzlocke that has a player choosing Chikorita. The poor grass type has a [[ElementalRockPaperScissors type disadvantage against]] BOTH the first two gyms. Really, if you counted, Cyndaquil is by-and-large the most popular starter for Johto with Totodile as a close second. Ruby[=/=]Sapphire[=/=]Emerald nuzlockers usually prefer Torchic and Mudkip (the latter for its [[MemeticMutation memetic]] status). However, the aversion to grass types isn't as egregious in Gen 3 as it is in Johto.
* HeroKiller: There's always at least one random trainer in a region who's a common cause of death across Nuzlockes, most commonly trainers who use Pokemon with OHKO moves or Selfdestruct/Explosion. One of the most infamous though is ''Brains and Brawn Frank & Sly'' in X and Y, a pair most Nuzlockers are utterly ''terrified'' of. It's rare to see a Kalos Nuzlocke that doesn't have at least one death to them, in fact getting through them with only ''one'' death is considered ''lucky''. They're technically optional, but avoiding them means they might jump you later on while you're backtracking, when you least expect it...
* HurricaneOfPuns: Any appearance of a Rock-type Gym Leader prompts as many of these as you can think of. In more modern runs it's now often played differently, with the Trainer saying [[LampshadeHanging 'What, aren't you going to say you're about to rock my world or something like that?']]. Failing that, the comment threads should supply plenty.
** In Petty's run, every Gym Leader got one of these.
* LeftHanging: A ''lot'' of Nuzlockes are abandoned for various reasons.
* LonelyAtTheTop: A lot of trainers end up feeling disillusioned, miserable and [[GuiltComplex guilt ridden]] because of all the deaths that they are indirectly responsible for. Sometimes remedied with a YouAreNotAlone moment from their Pokémon.
* LoveHurts: For Arceus's sake, don't ship in a Nuzlocke comic! As it will happen very often. Through there's a few exception. Most notably [[spoiler:Barb and Spuds.]]
** Heck, it hurts for ''humans'' as well. There's one Nuzlocke comic where Cheren is in love with Bianca... [[spoiler:But not only is she a lesbian, but she's dating Elesa. And he didn't know these two things until a bit after he lost to Elesa. Needless to say, it ''hurt'' for both sides]].
* [[OneSteveLimit One Pidgey Limit]]: Some comics will have a "Dupe Clause" in the rules, which will allow them to catch another Pokémon on the route if they already have one from a previous route. For plot and gameplay purposes, it makes sense to not have three or four of the same Pokémon.
* OnlySaneMan: A lot of Nuzlockes that put comedic focus on the FridgeLogic and character interpretation have a habit of making the protagonist come off as this.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghost-types are rarely spared from the "fainting=death" rule. Some players might make an exception of them due to the FridgeLogic of a ''ghost'' dying, but this is very rare.
* PerspectiveFlip: Blue: The Other Guy's Story flips the roles of TheHero and TheRival.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire-types tend to be popular starters outside of the first gen and remakes thereof. Especially in [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Sinnoh]], where decent Fire-types are rare otherwise and quite handy.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One stray crit can make someone's character arc a lot shorter than the author intended it to be.
** Team members that would otherwise have remained distant (or no closer than to any other) may suddenly be brought together as friends if they are the only survivors of an otherwise TotalPartyKill.
** Playstyles in gameplay can be incorporated into the story as well, such as one team member always being used against a certain type or species (because only they have a type counter for it) being played as having a personal hatred of their target, hence always wanting to kill them.
* RocksFallEverybodyDies: Amastroph's Platinum run ends with [[http://fav.me/d497ifj Dlelewhoop the Kricketune murdering everybody]] and becoming [[FanNickname Dennis]] (Genesect), [[AGodAmI destroyer of worlds]].
* RunningGag: Across multiple Nuzlocke's even. For whatever reason, pretty much every Platinum run has the main character explicitly avoiding the plot dialog with Cyrus in Mt. Coronet.
** "[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} PCHOOOOO]]" seems to be a popular onomatopoeia for pokeballs.
* ScheduleSlip: It's been pointed out that the gap between comic updates tends to slow down as the Nuzlocker nears the end. It can probably be chalked up to the final strips being longer, better drawn, and overall fatigue from doing so many comics.
* TakingYouWithMe: Selfdestruct/Explosion, the bane of every Nuzlocker's career. Also sometimes a HeroicSacrifice, like in Petty's Nuzlocke above. There are also times where a Pokémon will die from poison or recoil after killing off a harsh enemy, as in Wasserbienchen's ''In Black And White'' with her Herdier or {{Marriland}}'s first Nuzlocke and Tentacool.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In Colonel Darren's [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8419485/1/ Time and Space Journey]] comes TheReveal that [[spoiler: this version of Darren is a Gengar, created by Giratina to replace his fallen champion after Cyrus found himself in a StableTimeLoop and [[WouldHurtAChild murdered his infant adversary]]]].
* WhamLine: From Kotone's Nuzlocke adventure "[[spoiler: Earlier today... I died, didn't I?]]"
* WhatTheHellHero: Expect this to come up a lot, especially if the concept of the Nuzlocke is a plot point, since in most of them, the hero will get called out for allowing his Pokemon to die, often in preventable situations. ''Especially'' when it's a Black and White run and the person doing the calling out is [[WellIntentionedExtremist N]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Many, ''many'' of the weaker Pokémon will come across as this. This can be PlayedForLaughs or [[PlayedForDrama for drama]], depending upon how dark the Nuzlocke is.
** A lot of Hoenn runs make Norman the WellDoneSonGuy. It's almost predictable.

* [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Opening]]: [[spoiler: When Lisa doesn't get InfantImmortality, the chapter starts with the team grieving, the death having happened offscreen as a form of compensation.]]

* BadassInCharge: Candace and [[spoiler: Giovanni]] admire Whitney's ability to make people cooperate with her in a crisis.
** Invoked by the Pokemon League system, which is based on the idea that [[EvilDetectingDog the most powerful Pokemon would only obey the most capable leadership]]. [[spoiler: Since Candace is the only one left who ''can'' reliably command Pokemon, Lance crowns her Champion on the spot.]]

* RickRoll: When Nikki uses Perish Song against Clair's Kingdra, Mike says he can make out the words of the song that can kill in three turns. It is, of course, Never Gonna Give You Up.

** INGTBS the Grumpig clearly had a ''[[Anime/DragonBall Dragon Ball]]'' on his head as a Spoink. This later becomes a plot point, as the remaining six being collected becomes the plot of the Sinnoh run.

** CoverIdentityAnomaly: When he doesn't know the name of the grunt whose outfit it is, and has to check on an ID card - which says 'Becky Smith'. He tries to pass it off as being a {{Fauxreigner}}, saying first "It's short for... Beckisander" and then "[[ItsPronouncedTroPay It's pronounced Beikai.]] [[SesquipedalianSmith Beikaisander... Smith]]." The desk-grunt waves him through on a "[[SureLetsGoWithThat the chances of it being fake aren't worth the hassle if it's genuine]]" policy.

* IdiotHero: Kit, though he has his smarter (or at least more GenreSavvy) moments.

* GenreSavvy: Parodied. Thomas is surprised that shouting that he's about to walk through long grass without any Pokemon doesn't cause a Professor with starter Pokemon to leap out at him.

* SmartPeopleSpeakLatin: ExaggeratedTrope - Blip Blip's winter form is so smart he ''only'' speaks Latin.