History VideoGame / PokemonInsurgence

* HonorBeforeReason: As most of the cults actually worship their respective Legendary Pokémon like a deity, they refuse to just try and capture them and instead beseech them to join their causes, normally with disastrous results. Taen with the "Perfect" Cult actually calls the other cults out on this.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Audrey is killed by the very same Kyogre that she was trying to use to TakeOverTheWorld, having lost control of it after she split her focus between it and Lugia.]]

* BodyHorror: After Malde is injected with the Pokérus, the faint Deoxys DNA in his body reacts to it, turning him into a grotesque [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human/Deoxys Hybrid]]. [[spoiler:Later, Malde infects [[TheRival Damian]] with the same half-hybrid affliction.]]

* BodyHorror: After Malde is injected with the Pokérus, the faint Deoxys DNA in his body reacts to it, turning him into a grotesque [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human/Deoxys Hybrid]].

** [[spoiler:Jaern]] acts like this, he's a cult leader but he honestly wants to use the power of a legendary Pokémon to punish and kill those who break the law, as opposed to The First Augur who would spare anyone who begged for his forgiveness just for them to turn around and join a new cult. He even refers to himself as such:

** [[spoiler:Jaern]] acts like this, he's a cult leader but he honestly wants to use the power of a legendary Pokémon to punish and kill those who break the law, as opposed to The First Augur who would spare anyone who begged for his forgiveness just for them to turn around and join a new cult.

* WitchDoctor: There's a character named Witchdoctor in the BlackMarket, who uses a 'special powder' to allow Pokémon who normally need to be traded to revolve to reach the next stage of their evolution. Its left ambiguous if she's ''really'' a witch doctor or if [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep its just her name]].

** Reukra also qualifies, he explains that he doesn't consider "Perfection" to be a cult since they don't worship any legendary Pokémon nor do they want to take over the world, they just want to create or discover the "Perfect Pokémon". He even expresses regret over the failures of the [[AnimalisticAbomination Delta Pokémon]] he helped create, wanting them to find trainers to take care of them since he believes all Pokémon deserve the ability to be loved and go on an adventure.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Being a fan game, many of these features have been added, including an auto-run feature, quicksaving, and in general time consuming aspects of the original game (like healing at a center) have been reduced.
** One of the biggest features to be added were making [=HMs=] much easier to use, without the need of turning a party member into an "HM Slave". These include items that perform the functions of an HM (Flashlight that acts like Flash, Instant-Lapras that works like Surf), making it so multiple moves can be used in place of an HM (any fighting move can be used as Rock Break, while several moves like Bulldoze and Steamroll can be used as Strength), and the addition of the Pika-Taxi Service, which takes the place of Fly (although the game does still give the player Fly, in case they would prefer using that, instead).

* VillainWithGoodPublicity [[Spoiler:Jaern, the leader of the Sky Cult. As The Second Augur (afer getting rid of The First Augur) he runs a propaganda train that has pretty much all of Torren treating him like TheSavior.]]

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The Cultists of Darkrai at the beginning of the game don't bat an eye to the fact you're walking around with a [[OlympusMons Mew]] behind you.

** Reukra also qualifies, he explains that he doesn't consider "Perfection" to be a cult since they don't worship any legendary Pokémon nor do they want to take over the world, they just want to create or discover the "Perfect Pokémon". He even expresses regret over the failures of the Delta Pokémon he helped create, wanting them to find trainers to take care of them since he believes all Pokémon deserve the ability to be loved and go on an adventure.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Jaern]] acts like this, he's a cult leader but he honestly wants to use the power of a legendary Pokémon to punish and kill those who break the law, as opposed to The First Augur who would spare anyone who begged for his forgiveness just for them to turn around and join a new cult.

* ButtMonkey: Rival Damian starts as this, being put down harshly by his stepmother and rudely ignored and dismissed by the Trainer School teacher. Becomes a ZigZaggedTrope a little later when [[spoiler:the Abyssal Cult kidnaps him in Vipik City... and [[OlympusMons Shaymin]] shows up to save him, causing the cultists to have a major OhCrap moment and flee.]]

* AnimalisticAbomination: Delta Pokemon. Marvels of modern science, they have different typings than ordinary members of their species. Naturally, they sport heavily modified appearaces as well.

* DifficultySpike: While the game starts out pretty standard fair, its obvious the pacing of the story and gym battles have been slowed down (likely to provide a real challenge even at high levels) and the difficulty has been ramped up. Compare the first gym battle which, although in the mid 20's instead of low 10's, is still pretty straightforward to the second gym battle, [[spoiler:in which the leader uses a Mega Beedrill!]] By the third gym battle the difficulty feels more like what would be appropriate to the late storm 7th gym battle point in a normal Pokémon game.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This game makes no hesitation showing just how ruthless the cults are. For example, before you can even get to the first town, you get to watch Persephone, leader of the Cult of Darkrai, sacrifice one of her members to make Darkrai appear. She then kills two more people for daring to suggest to try it again when Darkrai leaves.

* EvolvingCredits: The Pokémon featured in the title screen changes based on what point in the story the current saved game is in. It starts with Mew, but later changes to feature [[spoiler:Celebi, Shaymin, Lugia]] ... basically whatever Legendary is currently important to the immediate plot.

** One of the biggest features to be added were making [=HMs=] much easier to use, without the need of turning a party member into an "HM Slave". These include items that perform the functions of an HM (Flashlight that acts like Flash, Instant-Lapras that works like Surf), making it so multiple moves can be used in place of an HM (any fighting move can be used as Rock Break, while several moves like Bulldoze and Steamroll can be used as Strength), and the addition of the Pika-Taxi Service, which takes the place of Fly (although the game does still give the player Fly, in case they would still prefer using that, instead).

** One of the biggest features to be added were making [=HMs=] much easier to use, without the need of turning a party member into an "HM Slave". These include items that perform the functions of an HM (Flashlight that actsl ikef lash, Instant-Lapras that works like Surf), making it so multiple moves can be used in place of an HM (any fighting move can be used as Rock Break, while several moves like Bulldoze and Steamroll can be used as Strength), and the addition of the Pika-Taxi Service, which takes the place of Fly (although the game does still give the player Fly, in case they would still prefer using that, instead).