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** The Unnamed Protagonist from [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8579823/1/ Pitch Black]] is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrifying]], evil, sadistic protagonist. From the beginning it's established that he's NOT a good character, (Considering we see his first activities IMPALING POKEMON ON HIS PICKET FENCE). From then on, any Pokemon he catches he forces to fight and brutally murder his friends and family and sees them nothing more as tools, even going as far as to [[spoiler: KILL his own Pokemon]]. Basically, he's an even worse version of Paul. His Oshawott, Icarus, MAY be just as bad.
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** [[PokemonRedAndBlue Professor Oak, Bill]], and [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Mr. Briney]] are often portrayed as creepy perverts, as well.

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** [[PokemonRedAndBlue [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Professor Oak, Bill]], and [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Mr. Briney]] are often portrayed as creepy perverts, as well.
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** In the same vein, Archie is seldomly portrayed as anything more than [[StupidEvil a moron]]. Maxie has a few moments [[WhatAnIdiot ("How did I not see water is GOOD?!"),]] but he is generally shown as more intelligent and having [[AntiVillain greater thought out motives.]]
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** Or, more recently, with [[EstrogenBrigadeBait N]].

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** Or, more recently, with [[EstrogenBrigadeBait [[MrFanservice N]].
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\n!!!Other comics
* CompleteMonster: VillainProtagonist Melvin from the [[DeadFic dead comic]] ''Chronicles of Rolthar'', whose mission is to kill every last Pokemon trainer in Kanto and [[EyeScream take their eyes as trophies]]. He has a FreudianExcuse, but it's flimsy (his brother lost an eye in some sort of war involving Pokemon training, and Melvin is trying to get revenge for him) and wasn't fully-explained before the comic went dead, and [[WordOfGod Word of Artist]] says he's not supposed to be sympathetic.
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** In ''almost any'' Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald run you read, Norman will be interpreted as a trainer who is so obsessed with Pokemon that he neglects spending time with his family.

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* FridgeBrilliance: Giovanni is startled when [[spoiler: Candace disguised as a Rocket]] greets him with "Hail Giovanni!", because [[spoiler: he's not the leader of Team Rocket any more.]]

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* FridgeBrilliance: Giovanni is startled when [[spoiler: Candace disguised as a Rocket]] greets him with "Hail Giovanni!", because [[spoiler: he's not the leader of Team Rocket any more.]] She blew her cover.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: Giovanni is startled when [[spoiler: Candace disguised as a Rocket]] greets him with "Hail Giovanni!", because [[spoiler: he's not the leader of Team Rocket any more.]]
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** {{Shipping}}: Notable as [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]]



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** * {{Shipping}}: Notable as [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]]


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** [[spoiler:And then he met Sabrina...]]


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** [[PokemonRedAndBlue Professor Oak, Bill]], and [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Mr. Briney]] are often portrayed as creepy perverts, as well.

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* ShipToShipCombat: Of a sort; the fight was between Hale/May and Hale/''nobody''.




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* ShipToShipCombat: So much in her ''Pearl'' run, between Lily/Gary and Lily/Lucas, that she had to threaten to holler at the mods in the opening post of her ''Sapphire'' run. [[spoiler:Gary won]], if you're interested.
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* FakeDifficulty: YMMV, but due to the random nature of the game playing a big part of the game, the Nuzlocke challenge tends to involve more grinding and random deaths.
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!!! Apocalypse Johto
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** {{Wangst}}: Once you apply FridgeLogic to the Nuzlocke comics.
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* CompleteMonster: God,Gary and his Charmelon. See the Moral Event Horizon trope.
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** On the other hand, that's true of almost every protagonist (save the jerkass characters), and there ''is'' the fact that she lost three Pokemon to a single wild Throh.
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* GrowingTheBeard: The Ruby run was good, but rough around the edges. The Fire Red run saw a general improvement in the art, dialogue, characterization and plot, and was an even better series.

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!!!All Comics



* HoYay: Bill and the guy with glasses.
* MarySue: Nina from Kynim's White run shows shades of this. Her power to communicate with pokemon is one thing, but she's liked by pretty much everyone.
* MemeticBadass: Connery from the Hale run, according to his fans.



* MoralEventHorizon: Lyrax's Gold run immediately establishes the rival as a CompleteMonster when he [[spoiler: steals ''both'' of the leftover starters, apparently just so he could tell Lyrax "Don't follow me or I'll ''kill'' one of them." He does]].
** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the Olivine Town lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considered a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.
** In Azza's run, Charmeleon (and his trainer as well) make it clear they're well over the CompleteMonster line when Raticate argues that the murder of innocent Pokemon was completely unnecessary, and demands to be released from the team. They do so, but then Charmeleon claims that since Raticate is now a wild Pokemon, he can do whatever he wants, and very brutally murders Raticate as well.
* {{Shipping}}: In spinoffs, the MainCharacter with Pokemon Gym Leaders/NPC: Most notable in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] where he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]] and [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim's Nuzlocke]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: Lyrax's Gold run immediately establishes the rival as a CompleteMonster when he [[spoiler: steals ''both'' of the leftover starters, apparently just so he could tell Lyrax "Don't follow me or I'll ''kill'' one of them." He does]].
** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the Olivine Town lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considered a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.
** In Azza's run, Charmeleon (and his trainer as well) make it clear they're well over the CompleteMonster line when Raticate argues that the murder of innocent Pokemon was completely unnecessary, and demands to be released from the team. They do so, but then Charmeleon claims that since Raticate is now a wild Pokemon, he can do whatever he wants, and very brutally murders Raticate as well.
* {{Shipping}}: In spinoffs, the MainCharacter with Pokemon Gym Leaders/NPC: Most notable in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] where he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]] and [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim's Nuzlocke]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]



* {{Squick}}/{{Fanservice}}: [[http://www.nuzlocke.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ruby51.jpg Torkoal used Attract!]]



* TearJerker: Whenever a Pokemon dies. [[TearJerker/NuzlockeComics Deserves its own page...]]

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* TearJerker: Whenever a Pokemon dies. [[TearJerker/NuzlockeComics Deserves its own page...]]]]

!!!Original Comic
* HoYay: Bill and the guy with glasses.
* {{Squick}}/{{Fanservice}}: [[http://www.nuzlocke.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ruby51.jpg Torkoal used Attract!]]

!!!Hale's Emerald/Platinum Hard Mode
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: May goes from a FlatCharacter who didn't get as much characterization as Rival!Brandon to a StalkerWithACrush[=/=]{{Yandere}} whose expressions evoke ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''.
** Also in Emerald, Archie is a hippie, and Maxie is highly competant - he just wants to give land-dwellers a place to stay whenever Archie manages to flood the world.
** And then there's [[CreepyTwins Tate]] and [[{{Twincest}} Liza]]... even their Pokemon were freaked out.
** In Platinum, [[strike:Barry]] Stanley is an abusive boyfriend who tries to keep ShrinkingViolet [[strike:Dawn]] Bern cowed.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: His depiction of May earned her an instant fanbase and DracoInLeatherPants status.
* HarsherInHindsight: In Hale's comic, Hale tells May that she should kill herself. [[spoiler: Guess what she tries to do later on.]]
** FunnyAneurysmMoment: May was treated as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain and her threats of murder aren't taken very seriously, even when she kills grandma Winstrait. [[spoiler: But then she finally manages to kill Django...]]
* MemeticBadass: Connery, according to his fans.
* MoralEventHorizon: Candace breaking and entering into the Olivine Town lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considered a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.

!!!Nyachan's Nuzlocke Challenges
* MemeticOutfit: Played with during her Pearl run, as [[spoiler: Lily remains the heroine and Gary the rival, but they wear the familiar outfits of Dawn and Barry]].

!!!Kynim's Nuzlocke Runs
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Kynim wasn't really expecting all the love Mimi got from the instant she joined the team.
* MarySue: Nina shows shades of this. Her power to communicate with pokemon is one thing, but she's liked by pretty much everyone.
* {{Shipping}}: During her platinum run [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]

!!!Lyrax's Gold Run
* MoralEventHorizon: Lyrax's Gold run immediately establishes the rival as a CompleteMonster when he [[spoiler: steals ''both'' of the leftover starters, apparently just so he could tell Lyrax "Don't follow me or I'll ''kill'' one of them." He does]].

!!!In Azza's Run
*MoralEventHorizon: Charmeleon (and his trainer as well) make it clear they're well over the CompleteMonster line when Raticate argues that the murder of innocent Pokemon was completely unnecessary, and demands to be released from the team. They do so, but then Charmeleon claims that since Raticate is now a wild Pokemon, he can do whatever he wants, and very brutally murders Raticate as well.

!!!ShiningAce's Nuzlocke
** {{Shipping}}: Notable as [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]]


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* StrawmanHasAPoint: There's something to be said for N's claims -- that pokemon battles are cruel, selfish, and only result in pokemon being hurt -- on a normal playthrough. On a Nuzlocke run, he's pretty much right.
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* MarySue: Nina from Kynim's White run shows shades of this. Her power to communicate with pokemon is one thing, but she's liked by pretty much everyone.
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** In Azza's run, Charmeleon (and his trainer as well) make it clear they're well over the CompleteMonster line when Raticate argues that the murder of innocent Pokemon was completely unnecessary, and demands to be released from the team. They do so, but then Charmeleon claims that since Raticate is now a wild Pokemon, he can do whatever he wants, and very brutally murders Raticate as well.
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** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considerd a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.

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** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the Olivine Town lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considerd [[spoiler:considered a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.
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** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Foretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considerd a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.

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** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Foretress' Forretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considerd a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.
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** In Saber's Apocalypse Johto, Candace breaking and entering into the lighthouse, [[spoiler:now a shrine to honor Jasmine who sacrificed herself to allow the rest of the town to survive]], by way of Foretress' Mirror Shot to get the badge, [[spoiler:considerd a sacred object by the survivors]], was viewed as this by some people.
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* {{Shipping}} the MainCharacter with Pokemon Gym Leaders/NPC: Most notable in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] where he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]] and [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim's Nuzlocke]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]

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* {{Shipping}} {{Shipping}}: In spinoffs, the MainCharacter with Pokemon Gym Leaders/NPC: Most notable in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] where he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]] and [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim's Nuzlocke]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]
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** Given the large number of variations on the same stories, there's quite a bit of this within the comics themselves. One of the more common interpretations in runs of [[PokemonRedAndBlue the first gen and its remakes]] is the common {{Fanon}} theory of Blue/Gary being Oak's [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite]] while his grandfather favors the MC appears quite often. Other runs paint him as a flat-out {{Jerkass}}, while others split the difference for a JerkassWoobie.

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** Given the large number of variations on the same stories, there's quite a bit of this within the spinoff comics themselves.as well. One of the more common interpretations in runs of [[PokemonRedAndBlue the first gen and its remakes]] is the common {{Fanon}} theory of Blue/Gary being Oak's [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite]] while his grandfather favors the MC appears quite often. Other runs paint him as a flat-out {{Jerkass}}, while others split the difference for a JerkassWoobie.
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** Given the large number of variations on the same stories, there's quite a bit of this within the comics themselves. One of the more common interpretations in runs of [[PokemonRedAndBlue the first gen and its remakes]] is the common {{Fanon}} theory of Blue/Gary being Oak's [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite]] while his grandfather favors the MC appears quite often. Other runs paint him as a flat-out {{Jerkass}}, while others split the difference for a JerkassWoobie.
** Another frequent point of variation: how gym leaders and other trainers respond to death on the battlefield. Any given gym leader could be portrayed as a professional who has accepted death as a natural consequence of battle, a friendly foe who's honestly shocked at seeing their opponent's pokemon die, or an utter {{Jerkass}} who gloats and rubs the loss in their face.


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* MoralEventHorizon: Lyrax's Gold run immediately establishes the rival as a CompleteMonster when he [[spoiler: steals ''both'' of the leftover starters, apparently just so he could tell Lyrax "Don't follow me or I'll ''kill'' one of them." He does]].
* {{Shipping}} the MainCharacter with Pokemon Gym Leaders/NPC: Most notable in [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8415965/1/ ShiningAce's Nuzlocke]] where he is [[spoiler:in an arranged marriage with Erika]] and [[http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/topic/8421769/1 Kynim's Nuzlocke]] dates [[spoiler:Roark]] after [[spoiler:beating him in a [[http://fav.me/d37j1la Gym Battle]]]]
** A LOT of Nuzlockers seem to have waifu-time with their favorite Gym Leaders.
** Or, more recently, with [[EstrogenBrigadeBait N]].
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* HoYay: Bill and the guy with glasses.
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* MemeticBadass: Connery from the Hale run, according to his fans.

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