History Fanfic / PokeWars

* AndIMustScream - [[spoiler: Mewtwo's fate at the hands of Ho-oh, who turned him into a conscious puppet that can't take '''any''' action, even self-defense, without some sort of command.]]

* AnyoneCanDie - Said [[WordOfGod by Cornova]] in ''The Coalescence''.

* ArmorIsUseless - Averted. Samurai is the only armored character in the fic and his armor has saved him from the Beedrill attacks.

* AuthorAppeal - The authors seem to like gore and intricate battle scenes.
* AscendedExtra - Lt. Surge, Samurai, Kaiza, Sabrina, AJ, Whitney and her uncle, and several legendaries that only showed up once or twice in the show.

* AttackAttackAttack - Some wild Pokémon are guilty of this. The most {{egregious}} example is a Persian inhabiting Celadon with his pack of Meowth. He chucks his whole group at the Kanto survivors, and even after all of his underlings are slaughtered, he still tries using Thunderbolt. [[CaptainObvious He doesn't live long enough to pull it off]].

* AwesomePersonnelCarrier - The Grotle "cargo trucks" in ''Downfall of a Champion'' are these in all but name.
* AxCrazy - Lt. Surge seems to show signs of this.

* {{Badass}} - Pretty much everyone.
** BadassNormal - Tracy, who uses a lead pipe to fend off Pokémon attacks and ''ripped off a Beedrill's head with his bare hands''. Also Ash, whom [[JackOfAllStats doesn't have any skills in particular, but can pull off in any field of attack]]. And Lt. Surge, who held off a group of Electivire and Scyther with his knife. In short, pretty much anyone who gets hold of a weapon quickly becomes this or dies.
* BadassBoast - Alpha invokes this just before he delivers a PreAssKickingOneLiner:

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor - Arceus warns Lugia of this when he entrusts him with the orbs of creation. He doesn't listen and creates a brother when he started to feel lonely. At the start it's happy but he still feels that something is amiss, then he learns that what he really wants is a mate. After [[GirlOfMyDreams dreaming with a perfect mate]], he makes a wish with one of his orbs and he gets her. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone His brother leaves them]] after Lugia decided to use his last orb to give his mate the ability to procreate instead of giving him a mate too, damning him a life of solitude. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap He would join Ho-Oh's cause in the future.]]]]
* BearsAreBadNews - Ursaring can get [[UnstoppableRage angry]] if you kill many of their group.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows - The survivors in ''Hell In Sinnoh'' take refuge in a cathedral and one of them curses [[CrystalDragonJesus Arceus]] for allowing this war to happen. The last "shot" is that of the broken stained glass windows.

* BreakTheCutie - Ash and Tracy in ''The Subsistence''. Oh boy, do they ever get broken!

* BringMyBrownPants - Happens to Brock in ''The Subsistence'' when he is confronted by an [[GiantSpider Ariados]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer - Dr. Kaminko from ''The Pokémon They Carried'' has a habit of naming his military hardware after Pokémon. Command lets him keep doing this because ''he's just that damn good'' at designing weapons.
* CantHoldHerLiquor - In a party at the end of ''The Coalescence'', Dawn gets completely shitfaced on a very weak alcoholic drink. Justified by her young age.
* TheCaptain - Alpha clearly serves this role for the Houndoom pack.
* ChainsawGood - [[spoiler: Duplica's Mini-Dit]] can transform into a ''chainsaw katana''.
* CharacterDevelopment - Harley is a good example. At first he's a {{Jerkass}} who tells the police that May killed all the people in the contest hall on purpose for no reason other than to cause her problems. [[BreakTheHaughty Until his own Pokémon start dying, that is]]. He mellows out even more afterwards, and even prays for May and Drew to die quickly and/or without pain when their situation looks particularly hopeless.

* CelebCrush - Angela feels this kind of crush on Arthur, after seeing him participating and winning the second place of the Evergrande Conference.
* {{Chestburster}} - Weedle reproduce by stinging their host and impregnating them with their offspring, which then proceed to eat their host alive. Wurmple use a variation of this with the same disturbing effects or even more.
* ChildSoldiers - If ''Dawn of a New Era'' is any indication, a decent portion of the soldiers are teenagers or possibly even younger.

* ClusterFBomb - The Golem in chapter eight and nine of ''The Exigence'' swear far more than any other characters.
* ColdSniper - Dawn in the ExpandedUniverse.
* CombatBreakdown - Present in practically every fight so far. The only exception was Pikachu vs. Sandslash, since (despite everything) it was just a spar.
* ConvectionSchmonvection - Averted by Magmar in ''The Truculence''. When he first emerges from the pokéball, he gives off so much radiant heat that Honchcrow bursts into flame. In fact, he produces so much heat that he ''melts a stop sign just by walking past it''.
* CrapsackWorld - Pretty much everywhere, but Johto got the short end of the stick so far, as it was the epicenter of the war and the place Ho-Oh's crew bore down on humans the hardest. It becomes the BigBad's base of operations later on.
* CrazySurvivalist - Kaiza definitely counts. Lt. Surge has some shades of this.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath - ''Tons'' but the ones below are standout examples.

* DarkIsNotEvil - Darkrai is allied with Lugia. The Houndoom near Goldenrod are the only wild Pokémon sympathetic to humans, and even betrayed their pact with Entei to protect May and her friends.

* DarkerAndEdgier - The Pokèmon world has become a world at war.
* DarkestHour - Humanity's seen better days, as it only took 10 days for over 6 billion people to die. The only hope is Lugia releasing humanity's [[PowerLimiters dampeners]].

* DeathWorld - No place is truly safe anymore for either Pokémon or humans.
* DeconstructionFic - This series completely tears apart the sub-genre of Pokémon revolution fanfictions. It also highlights how lethal the [[{{mons}} Pokémon]] can be.
* DeusAxMachina - In ''Dawn of a New Era'', Ash finds a fire ax inside the Celedon City gym and uses to break down a locked door.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing - The effects of the war are depicted realistically and there is a fairly obvious WarIsHell message. Unfortunately, few of the reviewers notice this, instead choosing to focus on the elaborate fight scenes.
* DoesntLikeGuns - Ash and Samurai refuse to use firearms.
* {{Doorstopper}} - The shortest one of the completed books is 55,073 words long. If all the completed books are added up together, they total 340,186 words.
* DisproportionateRetribution - Ho-Oh's genocide could be seen as this.
* DropShip - The ''Pelipper'' class dropships featured in ''The Pokémon They Carried''. It should be noted that these drop ships are designed for atmospheric use.

* BlackComedy - Banette's favorite coping mechanism. This exchange from when he [[spoiler: died and came back to life]] pretty much says it all:

* BlatantLies - Banette saying that the the [[ShockAndAwe Thunder]] attack he used on the Golem was ForScience.
* BlessedWithSuck - Dampener removal greatly augments a Pokémon's abilities. Unfortunately it is extremely painful and results in PowerIncontinence until they learn to control it. Even then, their attacks are always lethal and ''extremely'' destructive. It is especially magnified for Pokémon like Heatran or Magmar whose body temperature rises to such an extent that being near them is lethal.
* BloodKnight - Pikachu becomes one for a short time in ''The Coalescence''.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick - Chapter one of ''The Exigence'' is called "Lights! Camera! '''Apocalypse!'''"

*** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8284869/1/Poke_Wars_El_Escuadron_Zero El Escuadrón Zero]] (''Poké Wars: The Zero Squad'') which is set on the millitary future of the series and introduces MiniMecha inspired on [[FrontMission wanzers]] called the Overlords.

** BadassNormal - Tracy, who uses a lead pipe to fend off Pokémon attacks and ''ripped off a Beedrill's head with his bare hands''. Also Ash, whom [[JackOfAllStats doesn't have any skills in particular, but can pull off in any field of attack]]. And Lt. Surge, who held off a group of Electivire and Scyther with his knife.

* DarkerAndEdgier

* HumansAreSpecial - Some of the Legendaries believe humans will earn their place in the post dampener removal DeathWorld. ExpandedUniverse stories confirm this.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Uxie to Ho-oh; Ho-oh even admits that the sprite is the only real reason that his plans haven't completely fallen apart.

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Fear of Uxie turning into this is another reason Ho-oh goes along with his plan to drive the Grimer and Muk into extinction]].

* {{Squick}} - Well, considering the nature of the story....but a non-violent example is Ash's feelings for Dawn. He's fourteen, but she's ten (taken from the fact that you start your journey at ten and she just started hers)

* KillerRabbit: [[MagnificentBastard Uxie]] should be on the top of everyone's "Do Not Fuck With" List if you value your life. Even [[BigBad Ho-oh]] fears him.

* ResurrectiveImmortality: Ho-oh has been thrown into a mountain and had his limbs and head torn apart, and come back none the worse for wear. According to Uxie, only a legendary is able to have this ability - if a normal Pokémon had it, they'd fall under BornAgainImmortality.

*** DragonInChief - Uxie is a far more competent antagonist than Ho-oh lacking Ho-oh's SmugSnake ego. He's the one who constantly upgrades and expands Ho-oh's forces, keeps all of the megalomaniacs that Ho-oh's recruited in line, and basically makes all the plans. Ho-oh has recently realized this and is fearing that he might soon be DemotedToDragon.

** it later expands to [[spoiler: all poison-types using Gengiga.]]

* {{Expy}}: Uxie seems to be one of Mordin Solus from ''MassEffect2''.

** Also happens to Weavile in ''The Truculence'' after he sees the giant Gengar wipe out an entire group of Muk.

* DarkestHour - Humanity's seen better days, as it only took 10 days for over 6 million people to die. The only hope is Lugia releasing humanity's [[PowerLimiters dampeners]].

** BadassAbnormal - Anyone whose [[spoiler:dampener removal affected their combat abilities]]. A good example is Samurai, [[RazorWind who can generate blades of wind by swinging his katana]], and Dawn, [[ImprobableAimingSkills who seems to have a built-in accuracy check system installed in her brain]]. Or the people capable of using [[KiAttacks aura]].

** This conversation in ''The Convalescence'' during Ash's haircut has something a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic brony]] would chuckle at:
--> '''Misty:''' Is the length okay?
--> '''Ash:''' The length's fine.
--> '''Misty:''' How about the style?
--> '''Ash:''' The style's fine, just make it a little cooler.
--> '''Misty:''' Just telling me 'cooler' isn't helpful. Give me something to work with. How much is a little?
--> '''Ash:''' It needs to be like fifteen or [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess twenty percent cooler]]?
--> '''Misty:''' You're impossible sometimes.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears - Ursaring can get [[UnstoppableRage angry]] if you kill many of their group.

** Averted with Azelf, who feels the fight isn't his to get involved, the Shaymin, who don't think they can make a difference, and the Heatran, since they see it as SomeoneElsesProblem.

** BadassAbnormal - Anyone whose [[spoiler:dampener removal affected their combat abilities]]. A good example is Samurai, [[RazorWind who can generate blades of wind by swinging his katana]], and Dawn, [[ImprobableAimingSkills who seems to have a built-in accuracy check system installed in her brain]]. Or the people capable of using [[KiAttacks aura]]

* HostageSituation: The caravan has to confront a gang from Rustboro City who have taken some people as hostages, wanting to exchange them for all the supplies and weaponry available to the caravan.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction - Andrew mention this, even using the example of the Skitty and Wailord to point of how weird were egg groups sometimes. Everyone is shocked from the revelation, but he quickly rectifies that it only have happened on in vitro fertilization experiments because in nature, [[UnfortunateImplications it would be physically impossible to make them breed...]] Later, Jennifer comments [[TakeThat how Arceus have created the world in such a strange way.]] Andrew responds to her telling that a popular theory is that Wailord and Wailmer where, a long time ago, Pokémon who lived on land.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows - The survivors in ''Hell In Sinnoh'' take refuge in a cathedral and one of them curses [[CrystalDragonJesus Arceus]] for allowing this war to happen. The last "shot" is that of the broken stained glass windows.

** The punches of Slankings produces small craters to show how strong they are.

** The author as well due to the anime's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters he tends to treat almost all of his characters as expendable.