Line #36 YMMV/Ancienverse


1	* AbandonShipping: Seamus was looked to be paired up with Merle [[spoiler:until she was revealed to just be a Zoroark]].
2	* AccidentalInnuendo: The description of the sun rising one morning reads "Dawn came earlier than expected"...which wouldn't be that bad...if Dawn wasn't a character in the series (even if not present at the time).
3	* AntiClimaxBoss: The resolution between Seamus and Travis at the end of ''Turbulence'' gave the impression that Travis was this. Was later remedied by his return in ''Tribulations'' and proper resolution there.
4	* AudienceAwarenessAdvantage: The reveal that Kukui, Guzma and Akela were all friends and classmates with one another. It was never told to Ash or the others, but instead revealed in piecemeal with Kukui. When the reveal came, many thought Ash and the others had already been told this and shouldn't have been surprised.
5	* BrokenBase: The timing of announcing [[spoiler:Serena's pregnancy]]. For those who support when it occurred, announcing it any other time would have changed the entire climax and the characters. For it's detractors, they feel announcing it earlier would have provided more of an emotional stake to the climax.
6	* CaptainObviousReveal:
7	** [[spoiler:Necrozma]] is the one helping Lusamine in the Alola Trilogy.
8	** Deirdre is [[spoiler:Travis' mother]].
9	* CrackPairing: Heads were turned at Sawyer and Miette being shipped together.
10	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
11	** Christopher, considering his silent nature as well as being a {{Token Good Teammate}}, along with owning a Tyrantrum.
12	** Nanu. From being a DeadpanSnarker BloodKnight to [[spoiler:single-handedly taking out half of IDEAL]], he qualifies.
13	** Mayor Aston of Ancien City, who is CoolOldGuy in his conversations with the protagonist, owns a [[spoiler:Shiny Tyranitar]] and defends his city when it's invaded, despite his advanced age.
14	** Reeree in ''Tribulations'' quickly became one owing to the WMG surrounding her identity and later revealing [[spoiler:her identity as an alternate Serena who was different.]]
15	** Maka is on her way to this thanks to her positive personality, refreshingly different team and goal along with her quirks in wanting to be a filmmaker.
16	** The fic's interpretation of Lana going from ShyBlueHairedGirl to BewareTheQuietOnes in a flash made many love the Ancienverse's take on her.
17	** Kahili. For an empty character in the games, her BloodKnight and BrutalHonesty, along with becoming a mentor to Ash, made her rather popular.
18	** Alastair. Despite his status as a villain, he quickly showed himself as popular with his no-nonsense attitude, unending devotion to his cause and being a guy that just doesn't stay down. [[spoiler:Helps that he's one of the few members of IDEAL to live.]]
19	* EvenBetterSequel: While ''Teamwork'' is considered to be really great, many consider ''Turbulence'' to be "a near perfect piece of work", while ''Tribulations'' is typically held as most readers' favorite installment. Time will tell for ''The Alola Trilogy''.
20	* FanNickname: Somewhat. The name "Fakey" was used only a couple times early on in ''Tribulations'' to reference [[spoiler:alternate Gary]] but the fandom took to calling him that despite it never really being used on any other occasion.
21	* GrowingTheBeard: ''Turbulence'' is considered this for the series. While ''Teamwork'' came off as this happy adventure with a villain appearing, giving it the feeling of a movie plot or a villain team plot, ''Turbulence'' turns that intensity up to 12 and runs with it, managing to give one surprise after the other with a more serious plot than before.
22	* HilariousInHindsight:
23	** Most of the Alolan trilogy was conceived and written in the early days of the SM anime, but it still manages to guess that would Ash catch the Rockruff living with Professor Kukui.
24	** Dalton is pretty much like a less extreme Lysandre, and the themes associated with him are a stronger version of those in the Flare arc, which aired 2 months after ''Turbulence'' finished.
25	** During Acerola's trial, Team Rocket become involved for the first and last time in one of Ash's trials. Almost a year later, Team Rocket is involved in Ash partaking of Acerola's trial in the anime.
26	** Nanu likes getting under Ash's skin every time they meet in ''Trials'', including and up to his Grand Trial. When the anime aired Nanu's episodes almost a year later, the same exact thing happened (albeit with less punches).
27	* JerkassWoobie:
28	** Seamus, mostly. He looked down on everyone with disdain and hatred, boasted of his skills and was downright nasty to one of his teammates opponents. Then it's revealed in ''Turbulence'' that his father left when he was young and he was [[spoiler:raised by a single mother while being taught by a man who influenced his fighting style. At the same time, he formed a friendship with two people who would one day leave him, one of them outright betraying him. All this only culminates in his teacher losing his path and Seamus being forced to fight against him and later bury both him and his daughter, who it was implied he was in love with.]]
29	** Guzma. His constant antagonizing of Ash and willingness to do heinous things just to get him running certainly fulfills the Jerkass part, but when it's later shown that [[spoiler:he was beaten as a child, and fell behind his best friends before being cast aside by them and society, along with falling prey to Lusamine's manipulations,]] he really starts to own the Woobie status.
30	** Deirdre. To start with, she was [[spoiler:simply a woman that wanted to make the world a better place. Then she was manipulated by Michael, was captured, tortured until she lost the use of her legs, and was forced to live in a wheelchair, barely clinging to life.]] Of course, she still helped kill a bunch of people.
31	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
32	** [[spoiler:Ash (along with Clemont, Astrid and Seamus) appear to be blown off the map when Nova Town explodes.]] Not a single reader believed he was actually dead. Come Chapter 12, they were right.
33	** [[spoiler:Yes, the whole series is going to end with IDEAL winning and the good guys sucked into the void.]] Obviously not as of just a chapter after it happened.
34	* MemeticMutation: "Bruce and Trent were just holding back." [[note]]Bruce and Trent as ThoseTwoGuys surviving everything, being Unovan royalty and implied dimension hoppers, all while having never won a single battle on screen.[[/note]]
35	* MoralEventHorizon:
36	** Travis crosses this when he [[spoiler:betrays everyone to fight alongside the Draconids]]. Further enforced in ''Turbulence'' when he proceeds to smash Rocky's face in for little reason.
37	** Lusamine when she has [[spoiler:Faba ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]].
38	* OneSceneWonder:
39	** The Champions and Elite Four members of other regions all get one scene in ''Turbulence'', but what a scene it was!
40	** [[spoiler:Zinnia returns for a couple paragraphs towards the end of ''Tomorrow''.]]
41	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
42	** Team Brutal sans Travis after they show their good sides and work to change.
43	** Keoni in the oneshot ''Fourths, Films and Forgiveness'' for letting go off his pursuit of Serena, apologizing to her and Ash and his surprising ShipTease with Maka.
44	* TheScrappy: Tolbert, owing to [[spoiler:killing fan favorite Lionel, along with Rocky]] and acting smugly self-righteous the whole time.
45	* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Done three times in the series in relation to the main anime: Sawyer and Miette, Brock and Aria, and Bonnie and Max.
46	* ShockingMoments:
47	** In ''Teamwork'' Chapter 17: the power goes out, the Draconids attack, [[spoiler:various members of the teams are revealed to be part of them]], a dimension seems to be opening and Ash is defeated.
48	** In ''Turbulence'', [[spoiler:Merle is revealed to be a Zoroark.]]
49	** ''Tribulations'' raises the stakes higher with [[spoiler:Ash's father coming back and dying, the villains being alternate versions of the heroes, Reeree's death and the reveal of the man who's been subtly influencing everything in the anime up to this point.]] Also, Alain ''loses'' in a fair fight.
50	** ''Tomorrow'' probably has the highest quantity of this in the series. From the very beginning, [[spoiler:Lionel is killed in an explosion]], Team Rocket makes moves as the villains, Nova Town is attacked ''thrice'', [[spoiler:Rocky dies, Deirdre is revealed to be Travis' mother, Matori of Team Rocket is revealed to have never been loyal to Team Rocket, and Mount Lanakila is blown up.]] The climax takes this even further with brutal fights, numerous [[CharacterDeath character deaths]], [[spoiler:Deirdre revealed to have been an illusion from the beginning and [[TheBadGuysWin IDEAL actually ''winning'']].]]
51	* TakeThatScrappy:
52	** Many a fan rejoiced when [[spoiler:Travis had been killed.]]
53	** [[spoiler:Tolbert's death via his own explosion is considered rather satsifying. His earlier defeat by Astrid and Aidan is another moment.]]
54	* {{Tearjerker}}:
55	** [[spoiler:Reeree's death and echo of Serena's earlier words to her.]]
56	** [[spoiler:Reeree reuniting with Ash and Mimi in the afterlife before going on their eternal journey together.]]
57	** [[spoiler:Jack's death, but more Ash's subsequent reaction left not a dry eye from a reader.]]
58	** [[spoiler:Lillie telling her mother "I love you" and holding her as she dies.]]
59	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Downplayed, but a number of fans believed Bonnie was set up to be the one to take down Tolbert after he [[spoiler:killed Lionel (someone she was close to) and then Rocky (done so right in front of her).]] The fight ultimately went to Astrid and Aidan. While Bonnie herself isn't seen as wasted, it's looked at as a wasted opportunity for her.
60	* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Lionel and Nanu]].
61	* WinBackTheCrowd: In a sense. Epicocity's works hadn't been doing as well as his past fics until these were widely well-received in the Amourshipping and Pokemon anime community.

Context YMMV / Ancienverse