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** In the main story the candidates for Big Bad were Cyrus (for being the one who started the story's events), Giovanni (for being the most present), and the Bloodline King (who has been lingering around in the shadows but impacting the story heavily). As the main story moved on and Giovanni's goals became clearer his level of direct antagonism towards Ash decreased and the big bad position is mostly shown to be the Bloodline King/[[spoiler: Ash's father]], with Cyrus as a GreaterScopeVillain and problem to deal with later.

* AloneAmongTheCouples: Yancy feels this way at the beginning of the interlude, since there are many couples at the Nimbasa amusement during Valentine's Day. Fortunately, that soon changes with Nate's arrival.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: [[spoiler: It turns out the infamous seven brothers of Orre all have initials in alphabetical order, A, B, C, D, E, F & G. It also represents their birth order. The F brother is Felgrand, the C brother is Capriccio and chapter 27 reveals that the B brother is named Balaur]].
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe example. In chapter 26 [[spoiler: Future]] Clemont, Latoya/Gligirl, Hapu, and Wes encounter Lusamine's collection and find out that all of the Pokemon frozen in it are critical condition and if they are taken out of their [[HumanPopsicle Pokemon Popsicle]] state they'd immediately die. Clemont and Hapu aren't sure if this was done because Lusamine did this out of practicality for it being the only way to sneak her hobby past the Aether staff, or because it was the only way that Lusamine could rationalize it in her madness. Or in other words, was this PragmaticVillainy or EvenEvilHasStandards?

* AstralProjection: Red experiences something akin to this during the Seven Island Interlude, [[spoiler: when he enters the Dream World and eventually makes it into the realm of the Unown.]] Unlike traditional examples, he's still able to touch and interact with his environment, including his own physical body when he's sleeping.

* BeingWatched: [[spoiler: Anabel]] feels this way when the group arrives to Mewtwo's lair.

** Pikachu's Iron Tail, which he learns/relearns early in the story, [[spoiler: helps him counter Lilo's Mudsdale and its ability Stamina.]]

** Getting stung repeadedly by Beedrill is another. The victim gets swollen up like a balloon, the skin turns purple, and not even an antidote can save them. It makes the last moments so agonizing the victim actually would ''beg'' [[MercyKill for their pain to end. ]]

** [[spoiler:Dario]] gets killed by a telekinetic NeckSnap, courtesy of Sabrina. [[spoiler: Melvin the Magician and Seymour the Scientist soon follow, as well as other characters of the day]].

** In the Charmander Gaiden, [[spoiler: Kaia, Charmander's original trainer was presumed to have been killed by the Route 1 Spearow flock. She made it out alive, but lost her eyesight from the attack.]]
** [[spoiler: The Squirtle Squad members managed to make it out of the cave in that separated them. Joker was found by the Vermillion Officer Jenny, Thinker was taken in by Kaia, while Heavy and Scout managed to stick together for a while until they were attacked by an Ekans that tried to eat them and were separated from each other. By the Holiday Special 2018, Scout has an injured leg but is otherwise fine, and Heavy is implied to still go around looking for strong opponents to fight.]]

** When Iris breaks down for not being able to save her family from Hunter J, Misty feels at unease as she realizes that, had she been in Iris' position, she'd be ''cheering'' instead of crying, [[ParentalFavoritism given the way her family]] [[TheUnfavorite always treated her]]. [[spoiler: She's still unaware that her sisters were kidnapped by the Bloodline King to breed more Bloodliner children.]]

** After [[spoiler: Lara and Hex]] are revealed to be Bloodliners, the former wishes they had more Bloodliner friends, not realising they already do in [[spoiler: Ash and Co]].

** The Red One Island Oneshot, via a dream, has a few on Ash's end. Namely Snorlax and Heracross, who at the point the story was set and released are not present. The story also had a cameo of a future evolution, [[spoiler: Serperior]], as well as a Pokemon Red could not identify beyond being bipedal.

** [[spoiler: Servine's evolution to Serperior]] was teased at the start of Red One Island interlude via Red's dream.

** When he spots Red's Clefairy trying to approach [[spoiler: Iris' Fraxure]], Pikachu assumes the worst and tries to do a preemptive attack. They're left dumbfounded when it turns out Clefairy just wanted to apologize for his previous behavior.
** Ash assumes that as no one died during Movie 1's event, that nothing bad happened and he shouldn't be worried about it. Anyone whose seen the film is well aware that someone did die during it: himself.

** Iris has one about Ash in Chapter 41, which gets interrupted by [[spoiler: Anabel's]] unexpectedly [[DreamWalker entering it]].

** [[spoiler: A Rhydon gets a worse one in the Luana oneshot, when he gets a Bonemerang directly into the eye, ripping it out of the socket when he pulls the bone out.]]
** Kaia [[spoiler: who was the original owner of Ash's Charmander]] got her eyes pecked out by the Spearow flock.

** [[spoiler: Iris's adoptive father did this to Ash in a dream/vision Iris had in chapter 40, basically tearing out one of his eyes when Ash declared his intentions to take Iris with him after her family were rescued.]].

* BiTheWay:
** [[spoiler:The Pink Butterfree's new mate]] is mentioned to have hit on both females and males of his species.
** Historians believe that King Kahele was bisexual, and that at least some of his wives might have been as well.
** Zilant finds men and women attractive, with no noticeable preference.

* {{Doorstopper}}: The main story alone has over 620,000 words. And judging by the author's comments, it's barely even begun. Once you start factoring in the spinoff and the tie-in one-shots, it gets even longer.

** During the Indigo League, while the 'Rookie Crusher' may be better defined as a jerk rather than evil, he assumes that Ash enjoyed defeating his first opponent in the League so easily that he made the girl cry, when Ash did his best to offer emotional support to his opponent.

* DickDastarlyStopsToCheat: Discussed in Chapter 47 by Elwood [[spoiler:in the aftermath of Ash defeating Joshua.]] He thinks that people who cheat don't have faith in their own abilities

* AccidentallyCorrect: The Rookie Crusher accusses Ash of being an experienced trainer disguised as a rookie, and everyone in the stadium thinks he's just being a SoreLoser. Pikachu even lampshades that he's not actually too far off.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A comparatively minor example; in his first direct battle with Ash, Paul dismisses Misty and Iris as nothing more than Ash's cheerleaders/groupies, but Ash counters that Paul could never understand why he might want to travel with friends.

** In Chapter 31, Iris sees [[EvilAlbino Joshua]] and thinks that he's a ''shiny'' human.

* DrinkOrder:
** The Clay Interlude has Pan order a glass of milk while at the Dicey Café. In this case, it's to help underscore his status as a serious badass, since he's on a hunt for the Bloodline King. That's not to say he doesn't genuinely like milk, though, and it's established that he picked up a fondness for the drink while in Johto.
** Clair orders an Ampelos at the local bar in Blackthorn during her interlude.

* BathtubBonding: The scene between Iris and [[spoiler: Anabel]] in Chapter 36 has this undertone, [[WaterfallShower though they're instead bathing under a waterfall.]]

** Chapters 39 through 40 serve as this, as they're set before Ash's final Gym battle against Giovanni, [[spoiler: and the Mewtwo Strikes Back events.]]

* CorruptPolitician: After a government official's twin children fail to pass the trainer test to the standards required by Professor Oak to obtain the Kanto Starters, he gives the prof a simple choice: give the twins starter Pokémon anyway, or he'll cut his funding. Thankfully the kids of said government officer are [[SpoiledSweet quite different]].
** Frederick Sweitenia, full stop. [[spoiler: He makes a deal with the Bloodliner Hunter to hunt down Bloodliner teenagers who are going to compete in the Johto League, and hired Hunter J and the Pride Sniper as part of a plot to get rid of his main opponent in the upcoming Senator elections.]]

** The Gray Poochyena gets gravely wounded by the Bloodliner Hunter, but before she's killed off she collapses her cave's entrance to cut him off. She manages to survive long enough

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The reason why Z-Moves can only be used once per battle: they drain a lot of strength from the trainer, and apparently people had ''killed'' themselves trying to pull them off within ''hours''. [[spoiler: Bloodliners seem to be capable of using them after resting for a few minutes, although not without passing out shortly after. Ash however manages to pull off two Gigavolt Havocs in the span of minutes without passing out, even though he does evidence exhaustion.]]

* EmptyPilesOfClothing: In the Chapter 44 omake, an alternate Ash and his companions end up leaving their clothes behind [[spoiler:after Mewtwo's Dark Balls]].

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The reason why Z-Moves can only be used once per battle: they drain a lot of strength from the trainer, and apparently people had ''killed'' themselves trying to pull them off within ''hours''. [[spoiler: Bloodliners seem to be capable of using them after resting for a few minutes, although not without passing out shortly after.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When Sanpei is being held at knifepoint by Capriccio, he simply tells him that his plans won't succeed. Subverted in a way, since he survives being stabbed [[PocketProtector thanks to a scroll he was carrying]].]]

** When Corey tries to argue that a Pokémon cannot be a Pokémon Master, Mewtwo did ''not'' take it kindly.

* {{Doorstopper}}: The main story alone has over 550,000 words. And judging by the author's comments, it's barely even begun. Once you start factoring in the spinoff and the tie-in one-shots, it gets even longer.