History YMMV / PokemonStormClouds

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[spoiler: Nightshade has been beaten to near-death by a bullying Aerodactyl, trying to protect some children and make up for what he percieves as his failure in protecting his trainer. After Artemis defeats the enemy, she comforts him - using his old name, Tuber, she reassures him that they succeeded and saved the children, and that he did well. This breaks down the wall of cynicism he'd built around his heart and he smiles before finally passing out.]].
** At the end of the fic, [[spoiler: everyone's come to visit Missy in hospital except for Dan. Missy calls him in, and he's so embarrassed and ashamed of himself for not knowing who she was and his treatment of her while she was a pokemon - including making her sleep on the floor. Missy just kisses him softly, assures him that she doesn't hate him and it's alright, and falls asleep out of exhaustion - content for the first time in a long while]].

** The other pokemon all working together to break Missy out of her HeroicBSOD.
* HilariousInHindsight: At the start of the fic, Luke is working on a machine that is supposed to play UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance games in 3D. The UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS can theoretically do this, if Nintendo chooses to re-release GBA games.

** Nemo is a Crowning CHARACTER of Awesome whenever he gets to shine. Particularly notable due to his meek personality.
** Missy [[spoiler: breaks free from the Hypno's MindRape through sheer WILLPOWER and takes him down]].

** Ruby [[spoiler: practically INCINERATING the Scyther in retribution for his almost killing Missy - after he defeated her earlier in the story. When you consider how much she disdained Missy for much of the plot, this doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: The Feraligator]]'s backstory might be this, if you're sensitive enough. Blaine [[PosthumousCharacter having died]] definitely qualifies, Dan's crushed response to the news not helping matters.

* IronWoobie: Missy has since [[IncrediblyLamePun evolved]] into one of these, considering she's dealing with not only being different from other people, but also her nine-year-old son's recent kidnapping.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Masque]], a Team Rocket agent who specializes in using hypnotic powers to strip Pokémon of their identities and make them his willing servants, is the true BigBad. While initially presented as an ambiguous figure in the story and somewhat AffablyEvil, he is gradually revealed to be a sick, twisted individual who enjoys the amount of control his mind games give him over others. He takes pleasure in stripping Pokémon of their identities and [[spoiler:secretly manipulates all the higher-ups of Team Rocket for fun]]. He later breaks away from Team Rocket and attacks the hometown of the protagonists. While he does have an ulterior motive, it's still clear that he [[ForTheEvulz takes a disgusting amount of pleasure]] in terrorizing and slaughtering the residents of the small town with his Pokémon. When one of the protagonists call him out on his [[ManipulativeBastard manipulations]] and accuses him of viewing humans as nothing more than tools, he responds that he sees people more as toys, explaining that a tool is used to accomplish something while a toy is just there to be played with and destroyed when it fails to entertain.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Can a character be both the EnsembleDarkHorse and a [[spoiler: CompleteMonster]]? Masque says ''yes!''
** Granted, a lot of people like Masque precisely ''because'' he's what he is. He's [[spoiler: the Pokemon-fanfiction-world analogue for ComicBook/TheJoker, albeit [[HoistByHisOwnPetard considerably less]] [[JokerImmunity immortal]].]]
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Masque, so much that [[spoiler: when the author announced a sequel, some fans were clamouring for him to return despite him being a horrible CompleteMonster who was killed off at the end]]. To be fair, he had developed such a considerable fanbase thanks to being a hugely entertaining FauxAffablyEvil WildCard that it's not really a surprise it managed to withstand [[spoiler: him crossing the MoralEventHorizon.]]
** The incredible amount of entries on this page pertaining to this one character should give you an idea of how popular he is. In fact he actually isn't ''that'' prevalent of a character as you'd think from the sheer amount of tropes dedicated to him. [[spoiler:At least, until the final chapters...]]
* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: One of the major themes of the story is identity, particularly in the form of Missy's attempts to return to normal and come to grips with her new form as a Pokemon. What better BigBad than Masque, a man who not only brainwashes Pokemon (thus taking away their individuality and identities) but also literally hides behind his own mask the entire story?]]

* IronWoobie: Poor, poor Tuber [[spoiler: aka: ''Nightshade''.]]

* TheWoobie: Missy. In ''spades''.

** Granted, a lot of people like Masque precisely ''because'' he's what he is. He's [[spoiler: the Pokemon-fanfiction-world analogue for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, albeit [[HoistByHisOwnPetard considerably less]] [[JokerImmunity immortal]].]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Masque]], a Team Rocket agent who specializes in using hypnotic powers to strip Pokémon of their identities and make them his willing servants, is the true BigBad. While initially presented as an ambiguous figure in the story and somewhat AffablyEvil, he is gradually revealed to be a sick, twisted individual who enjoys the amount of control his mind games give him over others. He takes pleasure in stripping Pokémon of their identities and [[spoiler:secretly manipulates all the higher-ups of Team Rocket for fun]]. He later breaks away from Team Rocket and attacks the hometown of the protagonists. While he does have an ulterior motive, it's still clear that he [[ForTheEvulz takes a disgusting amount of pleasure]] in terrorizing and slaughtering the residents of the small town with his Pokémon. When one of the protagonists call him out on his [[ManipulativeBastard manipulations]] and accuses him of viewing humans as nothing more than tools, he responds thusly:
-->I don't see human beings as tools. That distinction is reserved for Pokémon. No, I see people more as... toys. There's a distinct difference, you see. A tool is used to accomplish something, while a toy is just there to be played with. I wasn't using [[spoiler:Giovanni]] for anything other than my own amusement. And like any toy, he eventually stopped being entertaining--and when a toy bores you, there's only one thing to do: snap it in half and throw it in the garbage. That's it, end of story.

** Granted, a lot of people like Masque precisely ''because'' he's what he is. He's [[spoiler: the Pokemon-fanfiction-world analogue for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, albeit [[HoistByHisOwnPetard considerably]] [[KilledOffForReal less]] [[JokerImmunity immortal]].]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Masque]], a Team Rocket agent who specializes in using hypnotic powers to strip Pokémon of their identities and make them his willing servants, is the true BigBad. While initially presented as an ambiguous figure in the story and somewhat AffablyEvil, he is gradually revealed to be a sick, twisted individual who enjoys the amount of control his mind games give him over others. He takes pleasure in stripping Pokémon of their identities and [[spoiler:secretly manipulates all the higher-ups of Team Rocket for fun]]. He later breaks away from Team Rocket and attacks the hometown of the protagonists. While he does have an ulterior motive, it's still clear that he [[ForTheEvulz takes a disgusting amount of pleasure]] in terrorizing and slaughtering the residents of the small town with his Pokémon. When one of the protagonists call him out on his [[ManipulativeBastard manipulations]] and accuses him of viewing humans as nothing more than tools, he responds that he instead sees them as toys, to amuse him until he eventually throws them away.