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* BenevolentGenie: Despite not being exactly in Silver's wish to revive the Pokemon he killed, Ho-Oh went out of the way to restore the arms of Gold's Quagsire.

** Gold's fights with [[spoiler:Ariana and Archer after he and his friends managed to neutralize all of Team Rocket's Legendary Pokemon]] are pretty much a PostClimaxConfrontation. He makes short work of each [[spoiler:admin]]'s team with one Pokemon.

** TheDogBitesBack: After Eusine destroys Kris's Pokedex, Kris's Shellder [[spoiler: performs a FusionDance with Slowpoke, causing him to evolve into Slowking. Afterwards, Kris and Slowking put Eusine on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle. [[CurbStompCushion Eusine's Gengar did put somewhat of a fight, but Suicune, having seen enough, sides with Kris]].]]

* ThatOneBoss: InUniverse, the narration presents ''Whitney and her Miltank'''s''''' as a dreaded BeefGate - no matter how many badges her challenger has. When Gold and Kris arrive in Goldenrod, they see scores of trainers going to the Pokémon Center to have the overworked nurses heal their battered Pokémon, and when Silver tries his hand at the Gym he first sees trainers who had lost so badly even their ''Pokeballs'' were damaged, and he himself is curbstomped by the Miltank she kept specifically for trainers at their first Gym [[ScissorsCutsRock in spite of leading with a Gastly]]. Gold puts up a better fight than Silver, but he still loses to Whitney, who beats him ''six times in a single episode''. Even when fought for an eighth badge, she's a force to be reckoned with, as she uses a team of [[MightyGlacier highly defensive Pokémon who know both healing moves and powerful attacks]]. A poor challenger finds this out the hard way when his team gets curbstomped twice in the same episode.

* DifficultySpike: The Blackthorn City Gym gives Gold a lot more trouble than previous Gyms. The Dragon-type Trainers put up so much of a fight that he's forced to leave the Gym to heal his Pokémon at the Pokémon Center before he's even reached Clair, something he's never had to do before. Clair herself manages to take down most of Gold's team before she even brings out her [[SignatureMon Kingdra]].

** In Episode 12, Gold buys some medicinal herb to ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'''s Merchant.

* DragonAscendant: After Giovanni retired and went missing eight years ago, Archer became the new head of Team Rocket. Though the trope is a little played with in the sense that one of his goals is to find back Giovanni and to convince him to lead the organization again.

* AscendedExtra: Youngster Joey (memes aside) is a one-note weak trainer of the early game. In the series, he has a small character arc centered around his relationship with Gold. After the latter defeats him a second time during their rematch, Joey starts regarding him as a role model to improve himself as a trainer. The two then keep in touch from time to time. After Gold loses against Morty, and is doubting himself given how he previously had a hard time against Whitney, a talk with Joey manages to lift his spirit, and to motivate him to train to overcome the new challenge. He even manages to evolve his Rattata. [[spoiler:Joey is also part of the group who gathers to fight off against Team Rocket on top of the Radio Tower.]] Pedro Araujo also said in a comment that in this series Joey will become the equivalent of ''Heart Gold/Soul Silver'''s main character alongside Lyra.

* AscendedExtra: Youngster Joey (memes aside) is a one-note weak trainer of the early game. In the series, he has a small character arc centered around his relationship with Gold. After the latter defeats him a second time during their rematch, Joey starts regarding him as a role model to improve himself as a trainer. The two then keep in touch from time to time. After Gold loses against Morty, and is doubting himself given how he previously had a hard time against Whitney, a talk with Joey manages to lift his spirit, and to motivate him to train to overcome the new challenge. He even manages to evolve his Rattata. [[spoiler:Joey is also part of the group who gathers to fight off against Team Rocket on top of the Radio Tower.]]

** Kris in a FarmGirl outfit slightly resembles Lyra.

* AdaptationalBadass: Kurt is able to help stop Team Rocket in Slowpoke Well, despite his back injury. Something he couldn't do in the original games.

* AscendedExtra: Youngster Joey (memes aside) is a one-note weak trainer of the early game. In the series, he has a small character arc centered around his relationship with Gold. After the latter defeats him a second time during their rematch, Joey starts regarding him as a role model to improve himself as a trainer. After Gold loses against Morty, and is doubting himself given how he previously had a hard time against Whitney, a talk with Joey manages to lift his spirit, and to motivate him to train to overcome the new challenge.

* WilfullyWeak: Like its prequel, this series shows that Gym Leaders use different teams of Pokémon to challenge Trainers of differing skill level. Falkner uses his Pidgey and Pidgeotto from the games when facing Gold, who has no badges, but brings out a Skarmory against a more experienced Trainer with four badges. Bugsy brings with him his Scizor [[spoiler:to fight Team Rocket in the Slowpoke Well]]. And Whitney deals with a challenger's skill with ''eight different Miltanks'' (the strongest being [[MusclesAreMeaningful ripped]] and shiny) and accompanying Pokemon (the one for first challengers goes alone, the one for the third Badge is accompanied by a Clefairy, and the one for the final Badge is part of a stall team with Blissey, Clefable, and Snorlax).
* WistfulSmile: Professor Oak sports one of these after giving Gold and Kris their Pokédexes, seeing in them the same wonder and excitement that Red and Blue had when they were first starting out on their journey.

* BeamOWar: In episode 28, Lance's Dragonite gets into a beam lock with Lugia. The latter's Aeroblast quickly overpowers the former’s Hyper Beam, and Dragonite barely manages to dodge.

* DeusExMachina: So, Team Rocket has the heroes' Pokémon weakened by their radio waves, and Meganium ran out of PP to use Synthesis... and then [[spoiler: Rayquaza]] appears and destroys the tadio wave emmiter.

* DeusExMachina: So, Team Rocket has the heroes' Pokémon weakened by their radio waves, and Meganium ran out of PP to use Synthesis... and then [[spoiler: Rayquaza]] appears.