History YMMV / PokemonQuartz

** The female protagonist/Foxy/Ran has an uncanny resemblance to Serena of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', with a giant ribbon instead of a NiceHat.

** You can fight a nurse that will heal your Pokemon [[spoiler:she's actually kidding]], years before the Doctor and Nurse Trainer Class actually existed in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.

** The Marble[[note]]heavily edited Kanto[[/note]] starters have another evolution stage following their final forms. [[PokemonXAndY Mega Evolutions]] everyone?

** In the deeper area of Mana Nests, there is a strange parallel-with-the-surface water current that requires you to use Waterfall on it. In ''Platinum'' one section in the Distortion World has this in reverse, a waterfall-like structure that doesn't require the HM with the same name.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Plug-Oink, due to being the least hideous thing in the game. Also Col. Crazy from Zorak's playthrough for being so adorable.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Plug-Oink, due to being the least hideous thing in the game. Also Col. Crazy from Zorak's playthrough.

* NightmareFuel: While most of the fake Pokemon designs are ugly, but some of them are borderline frightening. The Weedalgu line for example.

** The female protagonist/Foxy/Ran has an uncanny resemblance to Serena of ''PokemonXAndY'', with a giant ribbon instead of a NiceHat.

** Ramon's hairstyle and bandana are suspiciously similar to the hair and visor the BW 2's male protagonist.

* You can fight a nurse that will heal your Pokemon [[spoiler:she's actually kidding]], years before the Doctor and Nurse Trainer Class actually existed in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.

* [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Mushrooms]]: Stulo and its evolution Fungio are very fast (making them hard to escape from), use Mean Look to prevent switching or escape, spam bad status moves, and have Effect Spore, which can cause a physical attacker to get either [[StandardStatusEffects Sleep, Poison or Paralysis]]. In fact, the hack shows that they are replacements of Zubat and Golbat, even having the exact same cry.

** The Pickup ability will give you Full Restores, Ultra Balls, and Rare Candies, among other things, at the lowest level. You can get a ComMon with this ability very early in the game.

** Hormig is a Fire-type anteater Pokémon, just like [[PokemonBlackAndWhite Heatmor]].

* ThatOneBoss: Max. Why? Because all his Pokémon have earthquake in the third gym! I repeat! IN THE THIRD GYM! He also had a Pokémon learn fissure. Also, his Pokémon's levels are all much higher than the trainers on routes that you don't even reach until after beating him.

* ThatOneBoss: Max. Why? Because all his Pokémon have earthquake in the third gym! I repeat! IN THE THIRD GYM! He also had a Pokémon learn fissure.

** Not to forget DA KING, defender of royal supremacy who regularly beats up impostors and won the Coolness contest...it helps that it has one of the better-looking designs.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: The main character's relationship with the rival was clearly ''intended'' to be romantic. He instead comes off as a MemeticMolester.

** Maroon Gym is arguably worse. Nieves is also pretty hard, but her gym is Wallace/Juan's gym combined with cracked floors that lead to a trainer-less basement/upper floor [[hottip:(Huh?): If you take ladders that go up or jump down holes, you get to the same place.]] with ladders that have no correlation to where they ''should'' lead to. That alone would make this on par with Greystone, but then there's also INVISIBLE TRAINERS THAT ATTACK YOU WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WATERFALLS.

* FreudWasRight: Some of the Pokémon invoke this in players.

* FridgeLogic: The evil team plans to make Electric Pokémon stronger by inflating the sun. Wait, what?
** With a broken ghost detector at that.
** Doubly funny if you consider the move Sunny Day actually makes the move Thunder ''less accurate''.

**** In Quartz there is a gym leader who uses Dragon-type Pokémon and gives you a "Legend Badge" when you defeat him... Now, in Generation V, [[IronicEcho there is a gym leader who uses Dragon-type Pokémon and gives you a "Legend Badge" when you defeat him]] (or her, depending on your [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo game version]]).
***** Now the gym leader who gives the Legend Badge is the seventh gym leader like Danny as of Black 2 and White 2, and Danny would battle in double battles, while not the gym leader there are two trainers who will battle in rotation and triple battles, and is the only gym to do that in Black 2 and White 2.

** Not to forget DA KING, defender of royal surpremacy who regularly beats up impostors and won the Coolness contest...it helps that it has one of the better-looking designs.

* FridgeLogic: The evil team plans to make Electric Pokemon stronger by inflating the sun. Wait, what?

** The stealing-bones plot is similar to something that happens in the PokemonBlackAndWhite games.

**** In Quartz there is a gym leader who uses Dragon-type Pokemon and gives you a "Legend Badge" when you defeat him... Now, in Generation V, [[IronicEcho there is a gym leader who uses Dragon-type Pokemon and gives you a "Legend Badge" when you defeat him]] (or her, depending on your [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo game version]]).

* IdiotPlot: The villains are trying to ''inflate the sun'' with a ''broken ghost detector''. To power up the ''Electric'' Pokemon. Yeah, not the Fire Pokemon or anything.

* IronWoobie: During the LetsPlay, Foxy contends with a land filled with rapists, idiots who mangle the English language, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an over-abundance of flying-types]], a villainous [[strike:team]] band with the stupidest goal in the history of the Pokemon world, catching a ''Babos'' (''seriously, Arceus must have been on some major drugs when he created that thing''), a creepy molesting stalker, Groudon and Kyogre's deformed cousins, a Pokemon professor who's a huge creep and a MartyStu, and gym leaders who have an infinite supply of full restores. She also makes ghosts and pirates cry.

* ThatOneBoss: Max. Why? Because all his pokemon have earthquake in the third gym! I repeat! IN THE THIRD GYM! He also had a pokemon learn fissure.

** Danny also counts. [[GenderBlenderName She]] uses dragon type pokemon. Worse? IT'S A DOUBLE BATTLE! Worst of all? See below.
** NIEVES. Again, painfully hard Gym, but she has two stupidly strong Pokemon; Freech and Bobeguin. Freech is Dragon-type when all her other Pokemon are Ice, and it has, of all things, Speed Boost, as its ability. And it knows Dragon Claw, which is stronger thanks to STAB. Bobeguin knows Blizzard, which can potentially one-shot anything under Level 30 (which, depending on how much you grind, could be ''your whole party'') thanks to STAB, and it also has Surf to counter your Fire-types.

* UglyCute: The new Pokemon designs could be described as this.