History VideoGame / PokemonFireRedRocketEdition

* AdaptationalJerkass: After defeating the player, Red seems to make off with ''two'' fossils instead of one like in canon, [[spoiler:but it's actually subverted since the Fossil Maniac was lying to the Rockets about that. You get to find him later in Pewter City Museum, pay him back for it, and take a Fossil yourself.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the games, Ariana is just a loyal admin to Giovanni. In here, [[spoiler:it's implied she's married to him, thus making her Silver's mother]].

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: While down in [[spoiler:Oak's Secret Lab]], you come across a couple of statues whose eyes glow red when you bypass them, but otherwise do nothing. However, upon passing the fifth one, it comes to life, revelaing to be a Guard Robot of sorts, and engages you in a Pokemon battle. [[spoiler:You can even steal from it too after defeating it]].

* CloningBlues: Besides the whole Mewtwo Project, it's also revealed that [[spoiler:Oak made one out of a human boy with unique and unwavering qualities, raised for Pokemon battle, not subject to the same limitations as a normal human Trainer. He would coldly and objectively devise battle strategies, push his Pokemon to their limits like a dispassionate puppetmaster, controlling their actions by afar, as if by the click of a button. This clone turns out to be Red, and his mother (since Oak could not grow him in the lab alone into a grown boy) is a sterile widow from Pallet loyal to Oak since they were young, who would adopt Red as her own child. Red would only be imprinted the following thoughts; Oak is a trusted father figure, and that his word, for his own good, is law]].

** At the end of the main game, during your trial, if your bounty was very high, [[spoiler: you can end up spending upwards of twenty plus years in penitentiary]]. If your bounty was zero, however, [[spoiler:you only spend ''one'' year in prison]].

** Ronnie sics his Ratticate and has him use Hyper Fang on [[spoiler:Daisy]] after you defeated her in a Pokémon battle and she's defenseless. [[spoiler:She's only wounded ultimately, but it's still a mean move.]]

** If you actually do manage to beat Red - legitimately or not - Red will actually talk, [[SoreLoser accusing the player directly of cheating]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall and asking them to just pretend like Red won to keep the plot on track.]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: When you face Red at Mt. Moon, ''his Pokémon are between level 22 and 25 despite him only having one Badge!''

* StupidEvil: Ronnie often goes overboard when trying to be the tough criminal. Due to the series' more realistic tone, it's quickly deconstructed when his unwanton acts of villainy ends up bringing too many unwanted attention of Team Rocket.

* TheBusCameBack: After [[spoiler:getting fired from Team Rocket by Giovanni due to being instrumental in the failore at Silph Co.]], Ronnie makes a return appearance at the Indigo Plateau [[spoiler:as an independent goon, and you later ask for his help in getting through the guard to the Elite Four to stop Red]].

** If for some reason you lost a Pokemon with Surf, an NPC in Cinnnabar's Pokemon Center will sell you a Goldeen for 1000 Pokedollars. However, this turns out to be a subversion and KazioTrap of sorts, because the game glitches out once you try to leave the Pokemon Center. [[AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat So you better be sure you're Arceus-damned ready before you accept the mission to fight the Catastrophe!]]

* FalseTeethTomfoolery: The Safari Zone Warden has a set of [[GoldTooth gold teeth]] like this. To get into the Safari Zone, you need to get the jump on the Warden from behind and shock his teeth out. That way, he can't warn the employee at the gate of your inauthenticity

* {{Jerkass}}: The main character, due to their affiliation with Team Rocket.

* YouAreInCommandNow: After Giovanni's defeat at Viridian Gym just as you were called to him, he retires from Team Rocket and leaves behind a briefcase with money, and a letter to you congratulating your progress, as well as a last will to take on the Elite Four, deliver his revenge on Red, Lance, and Oak, make a mark on history for Team Rocket, before disbanding it for good.
** Deconstructed in that not everyone is receptive of this change.
*** In terms of Gym Leader position, [[spoiler:Ariana takes the reins, and before you can even challenge her, you must defeat all the other Gym Leaders first. Once you defeat her, she follows Giovanni's example and vanishes]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Clearly on the cynical side. Kanto is crime-ridden, police is corrupt, people are often apathetic towards the rampant criminality, the leader Lance plans to make sell some parts of the country to big companies, and when the VillainProtagonist thwarts the BigBad's EvilPlan [[spoiler:he's still arrested even if the player chose to avoid stealing Pokémon]].