History YMMV / PokemonSpecial

* ShipToShipCombat: Despite the shipping fandom being peaceful in general, small breaks happen every now and then. [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Blue/Green]] and [[LikeBrotherAndSister Blue/Silver]] shippers in particular are quite bitter enemies. And the less said about the ongoing [[BodyguardCrush Dia/Platinum]] vs. [[WellExcuseMePrincess Pearl/Platinum]] debate, the better.

** There's also Ruby/Sapphire, Ruby/Courtney, Blue/Silver, Blue/Green, Gold/Crystal, Silver/Crystal, Red/Yellow, Silver/Yellow and Red/Misty.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: For the first half of the Diamond and Pearl chapter, Platinum's name was never mentioned until the confirmation of the game with the same name. By the time Viz published the DP chapter as a separately-numbered series, they had to rename it to ''Pokemon Adventures:Diamond, Pearl, & Platinum'' to keep people from confusing it with their ''other'' [[Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure DP manga]], thus completely spoiling Platinum's name from the beginning. It also doesn't help that ''Pokemon Platinum'' had already been out by then for years, allowing fans to easily connect the dots on their own.

** Whether the AdaptationalVillainy of some of the characters necessary for the plot or off-putting for those who liked their original characterizations.

** To a lesser extent, Red. Fans either love him for being the original hero, or hate him because he's [[DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome bland and uninteresting compared to everyone else]].

** Shauna. Some find her pessimism, a complete 180 degree flip from her canon counterpart, to be off-putting, while others find it refreshing and point out that it makes sense given what happened to X.

** It only took one chapter for Rakutsu to achieve this status due to his job as [[spoiler:a member of the International Police]] and his womanizing habits. Ironic, given how his game counterpart was initially received...

** Viz called the climatic battle of Hoenn "The Beginning and the End with Groudon and Kyogre". Ruby/Sapphire's remakes are called ''Omega''Ruby and ''Alpha''Sapphire.

** Whether the AdaptationalVillainy of some of the characters necessary for the plot or off-putting.

* FailOSuckyname: For some fans Lack-Two and Whi-Two's names might end up being this, regardless of pronounciation and spelling. At least X and Y ''can'' work out as names (as seen with [[PokemonBlackAndWhite N]] and [[DeathNote L]].

* FailOSuckyname: For some people Lack-Two and Whi-Two's names might end up being this, regardless of pronounciation and spelling. At least X and Y ''can'' work out as names (as seen with [[PokemonBlackAndWhite N]] and [[DeathNote L]].

** To a lesser extent, Red. Fans either love him for being the original hero, or hate him because he's a bland and uninteresting KidHero compared to everyone else.

** Kusaka and Yamamoto went to France. A month later, sixth gen announcements came out and it appears from the trailer that the new region is based on France. Whether this was coincidence or a research trip is unknown.

* BrokenBase: Whether [[Creator/VizMeda Viz]]'s or Chuang Yi's translation is better. With Chuang Yi out of business, this is probably only gonna get worse.

* BrokenBase: Whether Viz's or Chuang Yi's translation is better.

** Blue (pre CharacterDevelopment) gets this for being a {{jerkass}} that [[KarmaHoudini gets away from anything bad that she does]]. Being a ManipulativeBastard doesn't help her case too.

* CompleteMonster: Sird. Riley in the D/P chapter even described her aura as pure evil.
** Archie is another contender. As he said himself, he left many people to die, which includes various loyal henchmen and [[spoiler:Maxie]]. Even Sird admired him for his evil.

* Narm: During the climax of the G/S/C arc, when Gold reads Oak's letter detailing the unique skills of the various trainers and sees he not on the list. He takes this to mean he has no special skill and yells "TELL ME!!!". Narmy enough. But then it turns out their was another letter stuck in the envelope detailing his skill.

** Dia and Pearl's pun-based manzai skits are different in every translation, for obvious reasons.
* TheWoobie: All of the kids qualify on at least one point of their stories.
** Special mention to the Kalos kids, [[spoiler: who have their hometown destroyed in the ''first'' round of their chapter]].
** Not to mention Mewtwo. [[spoiler: The revelation that the Sinnoh chapters take place after HGSS (not to mention that this still hasn't been resolved as of the BW chapter) means that he's been chasing after Sird for ''years'', probably under the belief that the Kanto Dex Holders (plus Silver) are still petrified.]]