History VideoGame / PokemonBlackandWhite

** Before Alder hands the player the Light or Dark Stone in Nacrene City, [[spoiler: he mentions to the player that they will have to battle N if Alder gets defeated. After the player defeats the Elite Four, the player finds out that N defeated Alder, leaving the player to battle N after they capture Reshiram or Zekrom.]]

** Before Alder hands the player the Light Stone in Nacrene City, [[spoiler: he mentions to the player that they will have to battle N if Alder gets defeated. After the player defeats the Elite Four, the player finds out that N defeated Alder, leaving the player to battle N after they capture Reshiram or Zekrom.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Members of the Elite Four make various offhand remarks to the effect of another challenger coming through just before you. [[spoiler: That was N, of course.]]

%%** Think about it: Oshawott(er).

* DiscOneNuke: See the [[{{DiscOneNuke/Pokemon}} series' page here]].

** There's a guy in Black version's Opelucid City with PeekABangs. To top it off, he plays a keytar.

* GameGourmet: A maid on Route 5, known as the Gourmet Maniac, will buy any manner of food or ingredients from you for higher than they'd normally sell for, including stuff your Pokémon don't normally eat such as Sticks (scallions for Farfetch'd), mushrooms, honey, Leftovers, Lucky Eggs, and Shoal Salt.

* SurpriseCreepy: As usual, some of the weirder Pokédex entries. More unusually for the series, the more involved plot with some fairly dark themes at that caught a lot of players off guard.

* GratuitousGerman:There is a room where some trainers speak foreign languages (including Spanish, Italian, and German). The German was [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish surprisingly good]] (the man says he bought a car, which would help his business due to being able to easily visit the next city over, but he can't pass his driving test).

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Virtually all usages of English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish appearing in both versions of the games are grammatically correct and fluent.

* ExcusePlot: Actually averted this time. ''Platinum'' averted ''some'' of it before (by giving the subplot more of an emphasis than it had in ''Diamond'' and ''Pearl''), but in ''Black'' and ''White'', the plot is literally ''everywhere'', up to [[spoiler: the ending at the Pokémon League.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: While it's nothing new, several young trainers wear very revealing outfits...

* FantasyCounterpartMap: Unova's map looks like parts of New York and some of New Jersey.

* BittersweetEnding: N is defeated, so is Ghetsis and Team Plasma, but N's ideals leaves him very disillusioned, and finds out Ghetsis founded Team Plasma for the specific intention to rule the world by disarming Pokémon Trainers so he can rule unopposed. Team Plasma's actions has serious repercussions in the sequel, and the protagonist decides to leave Unova to look for N.

* RoswellThatEndsWell: Elgyem and Beheeyem are highly imied to be the survivors of the Roswell Incident.

* RoswellThatEndsWell: Elgyem and Beheeyem are highly implied to be the survivors of the Roswell Incident.

* NotGoodWithPeople: N fits both subtypes.

*** The "Round" move is reminiscent of the first ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}''. (Which makes sense, since Creatures, Inc. worked on it.)

*** Zekrom also looks like it stole its legs and shoulder pads from fellow black-colored character [[StarWars Darth Vader]]. Not helped by the fact that the lightning it uses glows ''neon blue'' rather than yellow or white, just like Palpatine, Starkiller or any other given Sith Lord (but not Vader himself).

* BrokenAesop: The game is not subtle about its message of contrasting perspectives and working with those of differing views, and yet in many ways drops the ball when it counts when it comes to N and Team Plasma. Team Plasma are repeatedly shown to be [[StrawHypocrite Straw Hypocrites]] who don't believe a word of what they preach and N is shown to be incredibly naive with an inaccurate perspective on the world thanks to being raised by Ghetsis through both the story and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the game itself]], and yet is billed as the player's equal and opposite in both skill and goals. While the player's stance and moral judgement are never once questioned, the main antagonists of the game, [[StrawmanHasAPoint who raise a point that the broader franchise has been historically criticised for]] are shown to be explicitly, objectively wrong and made up of gullible idiots and self-serving liars.

* HotScientist: Professor Juniper is... [[MsFanservice Wow.]] Her friend, Fennel, is no slouch, either.

* GenderBender: A boy in Icirrus City is spontaneously transformed into a Waitress when you enter the Entralink. She responds with panic.

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* VideoGameDelegationPenalty: You may choose to leave one (later two) of your Mons at the Pokémon Day Care. Pokémon in Day Care gain one experience point per every step the player takes. While its nice to have a Pokémon leveling-up while you simply walk around, there are several drawbacks to this method. For one, Pokémon in Day Care will not evolve. Two, if a Pokémon reaches a level where it can learn a new move, it will always learn that move; if the Pokémon already knows four moves, its first move will be forgotten and the new move will be placed last. This can lead to your Mons forgetting moves you wanted while learning moves you do not. Third, the Mon will not gain Effort Points as it would have if you leveled it up yourself through battle. This will leave it with somewhat lesser stats at higher levels than it would have had if you leveled it up yourself.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Certain things about Bianca make you wonder if she has some sort of mental disorder, as her father is unusually protective of her and doesn't want her going out into the world alone. You can only wonder if it's because he's worried that she won't be able to function in the outside world without an adult.
%%**N has been interpreted as a high-functioning autistic, though his upbringing goes a long way toward explaining his quirks. Still, the whole "thinks more like a Pokémon than a human" thing calls ''Film/TempleGrandin'' to mind, and ''boy'' has he got the social awkwardness down.

** What makes it this trope as opposed to a regular DifficultySpike is that in order to compensate for the level difference, the majority of the trainers you encounter in the beginning endgame areas use unevolved Pokémon. More than one person had a double take at the trainer with a lv. 63 Weedle.
** It mostly depends on which way you go to reach the new area; do you go east of Opelucid City or east of Nimbasa City? If the latter, it's a DifficultySpike, as some of the early trainers include a tough triple/rotational battle and one has a high leveled Altaria that loves to bulk up on the broken Cotton Guard.

* GottaCatchEmAll: In addition to [[TropeNamer the obvious]], after the main quest ends, you get to go find the remaining Plasma Sages with the help of Looker.

* MoeStare: Bianca's default expression.