History VideoGame / PokemonInsurgence

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Like in any Pokemon Essentials game by default, one of the responses from talking to the partner Pokemon is "...loves this tune so much that it's singing it", referring to the game's current background music.

One day [[HeroOfAnotherStory the]] [[TheMessiah Augur]] disappears without a trace. In his place, a charismatic and kind man by the name of Jaern assumes the title of the Second Augur. While he is widely trusted by the people, five cults remain wreaking havoc and bloodshed.

** [spoiler:Upon proving to the Timeless how strong you have become by defeating them, the player would then follow in Adam's footsteps and be named the Third Augur.]]

* TheStoner: Xavier, the leader of the Vipik Gym. There is always mist wherever he is, and several NPCs point it out. [[spoiler:No, really, he uses a ''Mega Bong'' to Mega Evolve his Beedrill!]]

* TheStoner: Xavier, the leader of the Vipik Gym. [[spoiler:No, really, he uses a ''Mega Bong'' to Mega Evolve his Beedrill!]]

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:For all his big talk and control over the region, Jaern ultimately boils down to this; once people see [[GreaterScopeVillain Nyx]] defeat him and reveal he's a cult leader, his popularity implodes upon itself and he is presumably lynched.]] In fact, he's so unimportant that [[Nyx]] didn't even consider him in her plans ([[XanatosSpeedChess not that it mattered much]])!

* AppliedPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:The First Augur's crystal, and after it gets smashed, the crystal shards. Jaern even describes it as a limitless power source, with more energy than 100 suns.]]

* AuthorAppeal: It's pretty obvious the creator is a big fan of [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons Flygon]], seeing as Flygon gets two custom [[SignatureMove Signature Attacks]] (Drakon Voice and Ancient Roar), a new Mega Evolution, and an [[PoweredArmor Armored Form]]. Flygon is also the strongest (non-legendary) Pokémon used by [[TheRival Nora]]. [[spoiler: Reukra even uses a Mega Flygon during his champion fight.]]

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:For all his big talk and control over the region, Jaern ultimately boils down to this; once people see [[GreaterScopeVillain Nyx]] defeat him and reveal he's a cult leader, his popularity implodes upon itself and he is presumably lynched. In fact, he's so unimportant that Nyx didn't even consider him in her plans ([[XanatosSpeedChess not that it mattered much]])!]]

** Played with and subverted again when [[spoiler:the player and Damian ''think'' they are saving The Second Augur, Jaern, from the Sky Cultists, only to discover Jaern is the leader of said cult]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: The Second Augur, Jaern, who has manipulated the region of Torren to believe he's a beloved savior when he's actually the leader of the Sky Cult planning to use the power of Rayquaza to take over the world.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: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]]. Later, Malde infects [[TheRival Damian]] with the same half-hybrid affliction, with plans to do the same to the rest of the world.]]
* 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.]] Even after this though, he doesn't get that much in the way of respect ...

** [[spoiler:Jaern, The Second Augur. While he's the leader of the Sky Cult, he also acts like the savior of Torren, and forces the citizens (even children) to pay him tributes in the form of gifts and build statues in their towns in his honor. That, and he truly ''believes'' he's saving the world despite planning on using Rayquaza to kill anyone who breaks the law (at his discretion).]]
** [[spoiler:The Oracle claims TheChosenOne of prophecy is basically this. Everyone assumes that he is destined to save Torren, but in a case of a ProphecyTwist he's only destined to abolish the cults of Torren, as in plural. In the end he will join the last remaining cult and turn on Torren. Subverted in that the player ends up taking out all the cults and that the prophecy by the Oracle was all just a stage act.]]
* 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. In fact, the creators actually included a LighterAndSofter mode at the request of fans, basically keeping the plot the same but toning down the violence and [[NeverSayDie removing any in-game deaths]].

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Jaern. He's the leader of the Sky Cult and the 1.0 patch final boss. He orchestrated much of the game's current events.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Audrey is killed by the very same Kyogre that she was trying to use to TakeOverTheWorld, having lost control of it after her shard of the Augur's crystal was taken from her.]]

* HumanSacrifice: The Cult of Darkrai does this at the beginning of the game to summon Darkrai himself. [[spoiler:And the Sky Cult does this later on to summon Rayquaza]], it's insinuated the other cults may be involved in sort of summoning as well.

* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler:Nora, Damian, and the player know of a prophecy that says a trainer who has been chosen by a Legendary "Pixie Pokémon" (Like Mew, Celebi, Shaymin, or Victini) will abolish all the cults on Torren ... the twist comes when they learn that after the trainer does this [[FaceHeelTurn he will turn on the others]] and join the Infernal Cult. Inverted as the Oracle that told them the prophecy was lying to get Zenith's guard down.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Jaern is the big bad]], although some people saw it coming.

* PurposelyOverpowered: [[spoiler: Primal Giratina]] is this. [[spoiler: Its ability, Omnitype, makes it factor in the resistances and weaknesses of every type. In essence, it multiplies every type's weaknesses, resistances and immunities by every other type; in practice this means it's weak only to Rock, and has ''eight immunities''. In-story it's incredibly dangerous, being instrumental to the BigBad's plan, so it only makes sense.

** 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 chance to be loved and go on an adventure.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Nyx, the leader of a group of cultists from the Distortion World that helped create the Infernal Cult, which in turn sparked many other cults.]]

* IKnowYourTrueName: [[spoiler:In order to [[FusionDance fuse Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem]] back into the Original Dragon you need to know its True Name. Taen was not aware of this fact, and while reading from the summoning scroll actually made the mistake of thinking the dragon's name was, in fact, "Namehere" (as in [Name Here])]]

** It's implied that whoever was chosen by a Pixie Pokémon but doesn't end up being TheChosenOne will end up as this.

** 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.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One of the options you have when choosing your character's appearance is purple hair. You can also buy blue hair dye in the clothes shop in the Pokémon Center basement.

* ArcWelding: While not crucial to the plot, Torren was apparently the region that was at war with the [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Kalos region]] 3,000 years ago that King AZ used the [[WaveMotionGun Ultimate Weapon]] on. As a more recent arc weld, Torren was also the region fighting [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] in the war Lt. Surge off-handedly mentioned before his gym battle.

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:For all his big talk and control over the region, Jaern ultimately boils down to this; once people see [[GreaterScopeVIllain Nyx]] defeat him and reveal he's a cult leader, his popularity implodes upon itself and he is presumably lynched. In fact, he's so unimportant that Nyx didn't even consider him in her plans ([[XanatosSpeedChess not that it mattered much]])!]]

* CallBack: Several books you read in people's houses and the Utira Library speak of a King [[PokemonZetaOmicron Vesryn]] of ages past.

** You can get a Delta Munchlax via Mystery Gift right at the start of the game after you get your starter. Delta Munchlax/Snorlax isn't incredibly powerful on its own, but the one you get from the Mystery Gift has all six IVs maxed out, meaning its stats will grow that much faster.

* {{Fauxshadow}}: During the cutscene that plays after defeating [[spoiler:Jaern]] for the first time, one of the people seen picking up a third of the Augur's crystal is [[spoiler: Reuka, leader of the Perfection Cult]], which will probably make the player assume there will be a confrontation with [[spoiler: Perfection]] over the crystal shard. [[spoiler:Nope. A Perfection Scientist defects to the Infernal Cult and steals the crystal shard, resulting in you fighting Zenith to retrieve it; in fact, Reuka even cooperates with you to help get to the Infernal Base!]]
* GangOfHats: Each of the five cults has a distinct focus. Abyssal uses water and poison typed mons, Infernal uses fire and rock, Darkrai uses dark and ghost, and Sky uses dragon and flying. [[{{MechanicallyUnusualClass}} Perfection]] makes use of mega evolution, armor, and legendaries.

* MamaBear: Mega Marowak gains the Ghost sub-type and the Ability: Parental Bond due to the fact it joins with the vengeful spirit of its deceased mother.

* ShoutOut: You can meet a Rich Boy [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Hans]] in Cyan Cavern. He says he'd like to own a mansion filled with every Pokémon [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg except Ice]].

** Delta Pokemon are a reference to the Delta species era of the TCG in which various species of Pokemon were given different typing from what they would normally have.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Zenith]] gets one when you defeat [[spoiler: him the second time at the Infernal Base.]]

* WeatherControlMachine: [[spoiler: Audrey uses Lugia to create a perfect storm and flood the world so that she can use Kyogre to have free reign over it.]]

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** Secret Bases house a variety of features and can be acquired before you reach the second Gym. While you have to purchase all the various functions, there are a number of useful ones such as a level trainer who can scale with the number of Gym badges you possess (and uses self-defeating Audino for easy EXP, albeit one must pay a fee to fight him,) an EV trainer, an EV resetter in case you make a mistake distributing effort values, and a NPC who can (with the use of an IV Stone) max out Initial Values of a Pokemon.

* SmugSnake: ''All'' of the cult leaders are this.

* AuthorAppeal: It's pretty obvious the creator is a big fan of [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons Flygon]], seeing as Flygon gets two custom [[SignatureMove Signature Attacks]] (Drakon Voice and Ancient Roar), a new Mega Evolution, and an [[PoweredArmor Armored Form]]. Flygon is also the strongest (non-legendary) Pokémon used by [[TheRival Nora]].

** The final gym leader, [[spoiler: Adam, who uses a team of Dark-types and is the First Augur.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Audrey is killed by the very same Kyogre that she was trying to use to TakeOverTheWorld, having lost control of it after her shard of the Augur's crystal was taken from her.]]

''Insurgence'' is an RPGMaker game by [[http://www.reddit.com/user/thesuzerain thesuzerain]], creator of ''VideoGame/PokemonZetaAndOmicron''. The game introduces Delta Pokémon, special Pokémon with completely different typings you find in-game.

* Expy: The Abyssal and Infernal cults are pretty much Team Aqua and Magma with a different name. In fact, Audrey, the leader of the Abyssal cult, is Archie's granddaughter.

** The Delta Budew line have the ability Heliophobia,[[note]]Fear of the sun.[[/note]] which will cause it to lose one eighth of its HP each turn during harsh sunlight, while restoring one eighth of its HP during New Moon.

* MissingMom: In stark contrast to other Pokémon games, there is no hint or mention of the player's mother whatsoever.

** You can get a Delta Munchlax via Mystery Gift right at the start of the game after you get your starter. Delta Munchlax/Snorlax isn't _incredibly_ powerful on its own, but the one you get from the Mystery Gift has all six IVs maxed out, meaning its stats will grow that much faster.