History YMMV / AshesOfThePast

%% * {{Narm}}: There's really no way to take "Heracross! [[spoiler:Your arms are machine guns!]]" seriously.

** A Number of fans, among them the writer of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' and it's extended set of oneshots, dislike how Whitney was made into a butt monkey. Others really liked it, see the below TakeThatScrappy entry.
** While most people liked the way [[CosmicRetcon the Fairy-type was introduced]], there are a few dissenters.

* {{Narm}}: There's really no way to take "Heracross! [[spoiler:Your arms are machine guns!]]" seriously.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Quite a lot. As the Pokemon usually do not talk, and a number of them never really established a gender, interpretation can run pretty wild here. Usually PlayedForLaughs though.

*** Even better, the possibility of a Rotom possessing a Pokédex was brought up in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7262793/151 Chapter 151]], about six months before the reveal trailer.
*** Even ''better'', ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' gives us a form of Porygon-based Pokedex in the Poryphone, an analogous of sorts to the Rotomphone introduced as a replacement for the Pokedex in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield''.

* FriendlyFandoms: With kinrah's ''Fanfic/ChosenOnesAdventuresWithLegendaries'', in part due to Saphroneth being one of the fic's fans.

*** Even ''better'', ''VideoGames/PokemonMastersEX'' gives us a form of Porygon-based Pokedex in the Poryphone, an analogous of sorts to the Rotomphone introduced as a replacement for the Pokedex in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield''.

*** Even ''better'', ''VideoGames/PokemonMasters'' gives us a form of Porygon-based Pokedex in the Poryphone, an analogous of sorts to the Rotomphone introduced as a replacement for the Pokedex in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield''.

** The brief gag of Super Sentai Squirtle in the Orange Islands became true as of the ''Anime/ToBeAPokemonMaster'' episode Recap/PokemonS25E47ASquadsWorthOfPassion, where Team Rocket has the Squirtle Squad as a Sentai Team.

* GrowingTheBeard: Many agree the series quality went up following the hiatus period before Movie 2.

** Ash [[TookALevelInBadass getting strong enough]] to seriously fight the Elite Four and Champion on equal footing. At the time the story started, this seemed an impossibility in canon, thanks to his portrayal in Unova. Then Kalos and Alola came along, and this fic's portrayal of Ash's competence suddenly wasn't that far off.

** Since the fic was started before Generation VI, it originally lacked Fairy-types and Mega Evolution, and the author {{Retcon}}ned those elements into the story with [[spoiler:a TimeCrash, making it so that they always existed]]. Afterwards, [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Game Theorists]] made a video, "The Pokémon Multiverse Explains Everything", which postulates that the games with Mega Evolution are actually in a different universe than the ones without it. That then became its own example when ''Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire'' had Zinna imply this to be the case, and then for ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Sun & Moon]]'' to outright confirm it with Anabel and her team.

** Since the fic was started before Generation VI, it originally lacked Fairy-types and Mega Evolution, and the author {{Retcon}}ned those elements into the story with [[spoiler:a TimeCrash, making it so that they always existed]]. Afterwards, [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Game Theorists]] made a video, "The Pokémon Multiverse Explains Everything", which postulates that the games with Mega Evolution are actually in a different universe than the ones without it.