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A hacked ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' Rom, which centers on the [[HelloInsertNameHere protagonist, Fire or Leaf,]] as they prepare to leave Pallet Town and start a journey to become the [[ToBeAMaster League champion]].

The other characters, however, soon note the hero's remarkable resemblance to Red, the previous eleven-year-old Pokemon champion who went missing in his tragic quest to become the most powerful.

The entire region is in a state of mourning, and the player is constantly stigmatized for "stealing" Red's story, solving the conflict of the plot despite the fact Red saved the day first. Your rival, Green, vows to train and stop you from taking this "story" from the missing Red.

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!!This work provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: It's implied that Fire/Leaf killed Green's Raticate during the battle at S.S.Anne.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Fire/Leaf becomes a sadder character due the fact mostly everyone in Kanto hates them or constantly compares them to Red.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Green is even bigger jerk than he usually is.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Many trainers rip on the hero for looking like Red, and their accomplishments are belittled because Red did them all first. The amount of people genuinely kind to Fire/Leaf can be counted on one hand.
* AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:In the Elite Four stretch, there are several comments suggesting that you're playing in a different world than Red's, and that the story has changed somehow.]]
* AntagonistInMourning: '''Green.'''
--> Green: I want my rival...no, I want my friend back.
* AntiPoopSocking: "Quit."
* ArcWords:
** The pride of Kanto is never coming home.
** Come home.
** "This is not your story."
* BaitAndSwitchComment: People constantly compliment Fire only to make a backhanded insult or outright threaten him.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: ''Bill.'' At first, he seems to be a sad character when he mentions that Red humored him about his pokemon collection. Throughout the journey, he seems to be the only person to treat Fire/Leaf with any decency. Until Fire/Leaf helps Bill and his Sevii Islands counterpart, Celio. Then he drops this little gem:
-->'''Bill''': I bet you're happy that you got to experience something that he never got a chance to. [[KickTheDog You've only taken everything else from him.]]
** Blaine acts nice around Fire/Leaf, but who programmed the personality quiz that asked mean questions?
* {{Brainwashed}}: The trainers on Victory Road all parrot the same "You're not him."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Lavender Town, there is a sign near the Pokémon Tower that says: "This is not a game." Green and Oak also do this before and after the champion battle.
* CopyCatSue: Invoked and deconstructed; everyone knows Fire's a copycat and they all hate him for it.
* DeconstructionGame: Deconstructs the UpdatedRerelease concept in videogames. Fire repeating Red's journey (collecting 8 Gym Badges, completing the Pokedex, etc.) is mocked by the characters of the game, because they see it as [[ItsBeenDone Fire having no unique accomplishments]].
* DefeatMeansRespect: Lt. Surge is the only one that seems to respect Fire while acknowledging that he's different from Red.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Nobody seems to care about your stopping Team Rocket. After all, Red did it first. In fact, the President of Silph Co., after being rescued, gives you the Master Ball -- [[spoiler:to deliver to Red, because it's not meant for you.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: You play as someone who looks like Red, but is not Red. Hence ''False Red''.
* FamedInStory: Red, although this works to Fire's detriment as he is despised for replacing their adored hero.
* FanBoy: Red has many of these, including one in Team Rocket, they're all pissed at you imitating their hero.
* FlatCharacter: Arguably the main character ''is'' just a dead ringer of Red. (A ''Red'' ringer, if you will.)
* GracefulLoser: Giovanni, though it helps that he doesn't even bother to put up a fight. He knows that he's destined to lose.
* HesJustHiding: InUniverse, Green is convinced that Red is still alive and wants Fire out so Red would resume his place. It's implied that Green is repeating his journey to investigate Red's disappearance.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: For the crime of looking like Red, the entire region of Kanto depises Fire.
* HeroWorshipper: Red has a ton of them, who all hate Fire.
* HistoryRepeats: According to Green and Giovanni, this sequence of events has happened before with the same results.
* IdealHero: Everyone, save the residents of the Sevii Islands, knows and idolizes Red.
* IdenticalStranger: Fire, although Green says that once he looks up close Red and Fire don't look anything alike.
* InadequateInheritor: Everyone sees Fire as an inferior pathetic copy of Red and Green wonders why he has Red's place.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Copycat.
--> '''Copycat''': Are you a copycat, too?
* InUniverseNickname: Fire is referred as "the little copy."
* ItsBeenDone: When an NPC finds out that Fire/Leaf is completing the Pokedex, he asks if someone else hadn't done that already.
** Then Erika says this of Fire/Leaf's cataloging.
-->You are cataloging Pokemon? I must say I'm impressed. It seems like a lost cause when it's already been done.
* IWillWaitForYou: A fangirl in Mt. Moon says that she will wait for Red.
* LoonyFan: Fire has to deal with a lot of them.
* MissingChild: Poor Red's mom has to deal with her son disappearing and not knowing whether he's dead or alive.
* NoNameGiven: With the exception of Green and Giovanni, no one refers to Red or Fire by name.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: All the Nurse Joys ask this of Fire/Leaf after healing your pokemon:
--> '''Please don't come back'''
* PetTheDog: If Fire/Leaf loses a pokemon battle the Nurse Joy will encourage them and ask them to come again at anytime.
* PlayerPersonalityQuiz: The quiz machines in Blaine's gym are changed to ask you disparaging questions like "Are you RED?" and "Should you keep playing?"
* PretenderDiss: Everyone insults Fire:
--> You're not him.
* ReplacementScrappy: Fire is one InUniverse, he massively hated for replacing Red in his own story.
* ScrewDestiny: Green is constantly fighting you in hopes of stopping you from taking over Red's story, although he's always surprised if he actually beats you.
* ShaggyDogStory: After you beat the champion, [[spoiler:Green and Oak break the fourth wall, telling the player they don't want to play anymore. Then the game deletes your save file.]]
** ...or at least, [[spoiler:it's SUPPOSED to delete your save file. Apparently, it's simply the hack creator taking advantage of VBA's default setting disabling in-game save for most Generation III Pokemon games]].
* SillinessSwitch: The option to play as Leaf -- the female avatar -- was not removed, but the dialogue is ''completely unchanged''. [=NPCs=] will still say that you look exactly like Red, who is a boy, and complain about you not being him.
* SnowMeansDeath: One of the major changes with the hack is the ubiquity of falling snow whenever the player is outside (though it could also be volcanic ash, similar to Mt. Chimney's in the third gen games). This is likely meant to invoke Mt. Silver, Red's ultimate destination, and the theory that he died training or traveling there.
* StepfordSmiler: Professor Oak is seemingly one of few people not bothered by Red's disappearance and treats Fire like any other kid. Unless you check his PC, where you see an email stating, "I'm sorry, we couldn't find him." [[spoiler: And that's not getting into when he breaks the fourth wall.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: When in the Pokémon Tower, Green asks if the player has any dead Pokémon. Then he shouts: "LUCKY FOR YOU!"
* ThisLoserIsYou
* TokenGoodTeammate: Red's mom seems to be the only one in all of Kanto who ''doesn't'' hate Fire on sight and want him to die. She even gives him Red's running shoes and states that Red would have ''wanted'' him to have them.
** Also the inhabitants of Sevii Islands along with Celio. They are the also the only ones to treat Fire/Leaf who don't hate him/her on sight since they haven't heard anything about Red.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Red to all of Kanto.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** Green is a lot more vicious and angry towards Fire/Leaf than he ever was in the original game, saying outright cruel things to them.
** The entire region of Kanto has evolved into massive jerks.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"This is not a game."]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Invoked if you play as Leaf. Seems Red had some interesting hobbies.
* TheWorldMocksYourLoss: Inverted, the whole Kanto seems to be mourning Red's death/disappearance and hate Fire for seemingly mocking ''their'' loss.
* WorthyOpponent: Red was this to Giovanni.
* YouCantFightFate: Giovanni doesn't bother to put up a fight, he knows that he's a puppet of a script.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: A lot of people loathe Fire's existence and Green wonders why Fire is there when Red is gone.
-->"Why are you here when he's gone?"
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