History FanFic / MasterPokemon

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Happens on occasions, with phrases like "on the other paw". Justified since the ones using those phrases are Pok&eacaute;mon.

** Mew-Ash does not understand that everyone else has a limited Move Pool. He teaches a Beedrill Needle Arm, which is normally only learnable by Grass Pokemon with spines.

** Team Rocket realizes a fairly large hole in their plans of "Capturing and exploiting powerful Pokemon:" namely, once they ''steal'' these powerful Pokemon ''from their rightful owners'', said powerful Pokemon will likely just turn on them the instant they get the chance. They offer the example of them capturing a Dragonite, but then as soon as they attempt to use it, it immediately flash-fries the Boss. In [=Mk2=], Giovanni openly states that he doesn't want to be in attack range of just-stolen wild pokemon who have no reason to trust or obey him, showing he's had similar thoughts.

* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Ash's outfit is an illusion he conjures. The exception is [[IconicItem his hat]], which he still wears as a Pokemon.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ash can transform into a variety of Pokemon, although Zoru!Ash can only do so without his Ring Target.

* AsianFoxSpirit: Zorua and Zoroark are shapeshifting fox Pokemon of course, and Ash and Delia are frequently referred to as "kitsune" in the text.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Ash falls out of a boat. Brock has to rescue him because Ash forgot that he could shapeshift into something that can swim. Though to be fair, he's spent most of his life pretending to be a human and wearing a charm that maintains his form for him, so he's a little out of practice with doing Pokemon things or even remembering that he is a Pokemon.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Happens on occasions, with phrases like "on the other paw". Justified since the ones using those phrases are Pokemon.
* HowDoIShootWeb: Ash himself points out that just because he can change into other Pokemon, that doesn't mean he knows how to use their bodies like they do. Case in point, he wasn't able to fly until after his Pidgeotto taught him how to.
** Because he spent most of his life pretending to be a human, he's shown to be a little rusty on normal Pokemon things.

** In ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', during the "Ash gets turned into a Pokemon" incident, Misty says that she's glad that no one else was turned into a Pokemon, as she'd hate to be turned into a Psyduck. In this story, the magic doesn't work on Ash, so it turns her into a Psyduck (and Brock into a Crobat).

** That said, this is only if he has his charm off. When it's on, he's basically a human, and has as many resistances as normal humans do to Psychic powers in the Pokemon world (that is to say, none).

** A third one has been written, with multiple alternate-universe Ashes meeting up and comparing adventures- a Canon one, one from Master, Pokemon?, one where he is a Mew, one where he saved the Lucario from the Tree of Beginning, and one from Fanfic/AshesOfThePast.

** Mew-Ash isn't at the Viridian City Pokemon Centre that Team Rocket attacked during their first canon encounter, so they don't meet (and as yet still haven't). While the Pokemon being cared for there were transported to Pewter City, they were able to easily capture the Pikachu that powered the emergency power (due to them being wild Pokemon) and brought them to Giovanni.

* LampshadeHanging: As in ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', we see the characters comment on Pokemon using moves that they can't use in the games but logic says they should be able to. Case in point, Mew-Ash pointing out that his Beedrill should be able to learn Needle Arm (a grass-type move) since, well, he has needles for arms, despite the fact that the only ones who can learn Needle Arm have cactus-like spines which is shown off in the move's animation.

* MythologyGag: Ash and Gary used to play hide and seek all the time, but Ash could smell where Gary was. This leads to Gary ''almost'' using Blue's infamous CatchPhrase from ''Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue''.

* LampshadeHanging: As in ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', we see the characters comment on Pokemon using moves that they can't use in the games but logic says they should be able to. Case in point, Mew-Ash pointing out that his Beedrill should be able to learn Needle Arm (a grass-type move) since, well, he has needles for arms.
* OnlySaneMan: Misty is this for Ash, thus far, though Pikachu and Spearow will also readily fill in these rolls.

** Same thing with the racist bitch Florges who attacked Goomy's home.

** The author's explanation for Ash's occasional feats of inhuman strength in the anime. Zoru!Ash doesn't know how strong humans are supposed to be, so he semi-arbitrarily decided they're as strong as Machamp after watching some television, and adjusted his human form to match. HilarityEnsues.
** Also the reason for Ash being the only person who can fool Brock's women radar by crossdressing. Because he forgot he can simply change to "Ash, in girl clothes" and instead changed into "girl Ash".
** Mew-Ash does not understand that everyone else has a limited Move Pool. He teaches a Beedrill Needle-Arm.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Ash and Delia are Zorua/Zoroark instead of humans.
* AllianceOfAlternates: There's an omake where Ash meets four of his alternate selves (including the one from canon), who were summoned by Hoopa.
* AsianFoxSpirit: Zorua and Zoroark are shapeshifting fox Pokemon of course, and Ash and Delia are frequently referred to as "kitsune" in the text.

''Master Pokémon?'' is another Pokemon fic by [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/members/saphroneth.28469/ Saphroneth]], author of the fic, ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast''. This story is an Alternate Universe Fic that explores the changes that would be made to the Pokémon anime and movies if Ash were actually a Zorua posing as a human. The fic takes the form of "snippets" detailing the divergence points, not organized in chronological order, mixed in with bits of backstory explaining how Ash and his mother came to live like humans. It draws a great deal of inspiration from [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions the 13th movie.]]

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Ash and Delia are a Zorua and Zoroark, respectively, instead of humans.

* {{Kitsune}}: Zorua and Zoroark are shapeshifting fox Pokemon of course, and Ash and Delia are frequently referred to as "kitsune" in the text.

* WhatAnIdiot: Mewtwo. Most powerful pokemon in the world. Master of genetic engineering. Traveler of the world in secret. Somehow, he doesn't know what Dark-type is, or that it's capable of no-selling his type.

[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/master-pok%C3%A9mon.336873/ Master Pokémon?]] is another Pokemon fic by [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/members/saphroneth.28469/ Saphroneth]], author of the fic, ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast''. This story is an Alternate Universe Fic that explores the changes that would be made to the Pokémon anime and movies if Ash were actually an [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Zorua_%28Pokémon%29 illusionist fox Pokemon]] posing as a human. The fic takes the form of "snippets" detailing the divergence points, not organized in chronological order, mixed in with bits of backstory explaining how Ash and his mother came to live like humans. It draws a great deal of inspiration from [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions the 13th movie.]]

As of Oct 19th, 2015, it also contains snippets of Ash as a Mew, although that is considered a separate, Mark II work when reading them on Fanfiction.net.

* AdultFear:
** There's a reason that Ash's mother chose to [[spoiler: pretend to be a human]] for over a decade, and raised Ash [[spoiler: to live in human form.]] [[NoodleIncident It involves]] [[spoiler: Hunter J.]]
** During their first meeting [[spoiler: Ash's father]] tries to impress him with a story about how he and [[spoiler: Ash's mother]] once helped stop a group of criminals. Upon seeing Ash's rather [[SeenItAll underwhelmed]] expression, he's given the abridged version of [[NoodleIncident some of]] [[WeirdnessMagnet Ash's]] [[TheChosenOne adventures]]. [[SoProudOfYou Pride]] and [[OhCrap Worry]] came in equal measure.

[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/master-pok%C3%A9mon.336873/ Master Pokémon?]] is another Pokemon fic by [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/members/saphroneth.28469/ Saphroneth]], author of the fic, ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast''. This story is an Alternate Universe Fic that explores the changes that would be made to the Pokémon anime and movies if Ash were actually an [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Zorua_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29 illusionist fox Pokemon]] posing as a human. The fic takes the form of "snippets" detailing the divergence points, not organized in chronological order, mixed in with bits of backstory explaining how Ash and his mother came to live like humans. It draws a great deal of inspiration from [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions the 13th movie.]]

--> '''Zekrom:''' "Hero of Ideals, hail!"
--> '''Pikachu:''' "Actually it's rain."

* ContrivedCoincidence: Ash in the main timeline having an extremely similar aura signature to Sir Aaron in canon was somewhat interesting, but a little contrived. It gets blatantly contrived when Sir Aaron's Lucario says that Ash ''still'' has a similar signature, given that ''he's not even human.''

* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Ash's outfit is an illusion he conjures. The exception of [[IconicItem his hat]], which he still wears as a Pokemon.