History Fanfic / OperationGEAR

** Nekou's ringtone is ''Call Me'' by Music/{{Blondie}}, and her tone for text messages is ''Voices Carry'' by 'Til Tuesday.

** [=RChannel=] is a clear shout-out to 4chan, and also incorporates elements of the [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} Dollars]] website.
*** On the aforementioned site, a user shows up with the username [[Manga/FutureDiary "The Second Diary Holder"]] and begins posting creepy {{Yandere}} messages about Matt. Given the {{LightNovel/Durarara}} influence, this might also be a reference to Saika as well.

** LightNovel/TheMysticArchivesOfDantalian

* BareYourMidriff: Nekou's earlier outfit has this feature.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Pierce is on the receiving end of one from, of all people, the Tenganist prophet in Chapter 10.

* AmbiguousDisorder: While it has not been specified, Mitsumi displays a range of traits indicative of some sort of disorder. It's not so unusual that someone would wear noise-canceling headphones on a flight, but her fixation on twirling a pen in her hand as she works, her reaction to dropping said pen, the way she responds to being touched, and the violent change in her demeanor when confronted with something or someone she hates all put that in a different context. The last one in particular is because of her past being subjected to cruel, torturous experiments at the hands of Cyrus, Charon and Team Galactic, and she characterizes Cyrus as having seen something "he identified with" in her, further hinting at a potential disorder.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Most of the names are (generally) normal, but then there's Nekou Langley, whose name is the least unusual thing about her.

* NiceHat: Matt has two: a wide-brimmed blue hat with a yellow crest, and a white fedora.
** The blue hat is dead as of ''Goldenrod City Under Siege (Part 2)''.

** Taken UpToEleven in ''The Angel of Reckoning'', where Team Rocket, a radical political organization/secretive cult, and a terrorist group made of the last survivors of a dying race butt heads. And that's just the start.

* HealingFactor: Nekou recovers after only about a week from a gunshot wound through the shoulder. [[spoiler:It gets kicked UpToEleven when she falls into her animalistic state - she recovers from what should have been a fatal blow, being crushed by an Onix, in mere minutes. She then ''punches'' said Onix with enough force to hurt it, breaks her arm in the process, and heals almost instantly.]]

* KnifeNut: Nekou, full stop. She won't kill you, but she ''will'' hurt you.
-->'''Matt:''' "Did you kill this guy?"
-->'''Nekou:''' "No, I stabbed him where he’ll lose just enough blood to pass out for a while. If there’s one thing I know it’s where to hit to get the results I want.”

* {{Meganekko}}: Nekou. Stacia as well.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This series has a ''gigantic'' cast.

* RapunzelHair: Nekou. [[spoiler:It seems to get even longer in some situations.]]

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7518533/1/Operation_GEAR_The_Victory_Star_of_Fate The Victory Star of Fate]]'', which takes place immediately after The Firestorm Rebellion, sees the dysfunctional foursome head for Whitegold City in southeast Kanto. There, Matt is to give a speech about an alternative energy source he developed at the headquarters of the oil magnate Liam Everton. Little does he know that there are sinister motives afoot in the city, surrounding the city's festival, its folklore and even Matt's speech itself; this grand plan is orchestrated by Liam Everton himself, and is part of his decades-long quest to capture the Pokémon Victini and make its powers of victory his own. Matt, Nekou, Olivia and Bunny quickly become embroiled in a race to stop Everton's plot before it comes to fruition and destroys Whitegold City and all inside.

The final installment of the trilogy, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8086860/1/Operation_GEAR_The_Angel_of_Reckoning The Angel of Reckoning]]'', started May 5th, 2012. The story involves Olivia's quest finally starting, Matt, Olivia and Nekou seeking their own truths, and the rebellion of the oppressed people of the Tenganist religion framed by the moves of the mysterious cult, Polaris, who plan to create a revolution in Johto and Kanto as part of a larger plot to fulfill their beliefs.

* ActionGirlfriend: Though they'd probably both deny it, there's mounting evidence Nekou has ''some'' interest in Matt. It's starting to seem like he returns it, too.

* CelibateHero: Matt deliberately ignores or plays down Nekou's (insincere?) attempts to flirt with him. [[spoiler:These are later revealed to be sincere, but with ulterior motives.]]

%%* BadassBeard: General Bjorn Zerossen and Liam Everton both have one.

* NotQuiteFlight: The move Magnet Rise is depicted as this, with Noel and Leon's Electivire in ''The Gardener of Gratitude'' being one such user of it.

* EvilVersusEvil: ''The Angel of Reckoning'' pits a dying mafia syndicate, a revolutionary cult and a band of religious terrorists against each other.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Finansielle is secretly the puppeteer behind Father and the rest of Polaris,]]

* KnightOfCerebus: Colonel Nixon in The Firestorm Rebellion and Liam Everton in The Victory Star of Fate, befitting of their positions as the central antagonists.
** Polaris has been present since the start, but when they begin appearing in person, things get '''way''' darker.

* LaResistance: The surviving Tenganists are the main example, though Team Rocket also fit.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Mr. Pokémon.]]

* BatmanGambit: Liam Everton is a master of this, [[spoiler:tricking the citizens of Whitegold City into a death trap so he could find and capture Victini, and they would have been none the wiser if it wasn't for the Triad of Revenge's efforts. Using Darkrai to bait out Cresselia and then Victini is another part of it, as is taking over the world's energy supply as a stepping stone to seizing control of the entire world.]]
** Team Rocket's plan to have the Tenganists bomb the Magnet Train shipping the Meteonite so they could steal it. [[spoiler:Except Polaris saw it coming and sent a decoy.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Zinzolin has a goatee.

** Renzo arrives from Blackthorn City just in time to turn the tide against Mercury's forces in "S.O.S."

* ContinuityNod: Rowena returns from ''The Victory Star of Fate'' to cover Polaris's speeches, and specifically seeks out Matt due to his interactions with them in Whitegold City and Violet City.

* SigilSpam: Team Rocket has their script-font 'R' on just about everything, including programmed all over their computer systems.

** In ''Sweet Little Lies'' [[spoiler:Matt's former classmate and Frontier Brain Thorton is revealed to be the Chromosome known as Getriebe.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: The Sinjoh Ruins were destroyed by Saeko's actions in the past, which destroyed the area's ability to sustain life and turned it into a wasteland trapped in perpetual winter. As a result, the Tenganists cannot live in their holy land anymore, at least for long. The only bit of hope left lies in the tiny bit of Gaia energy still present in the spring beneath the temple, and the temple's purpose as a mechanism to create the Jewel of Life, which forms the cornerstone of the Prophet's plan to restore the area to life and create a new country for her people to live in.

* AncientConspiracy: The Day of Reckoning and whatever Polaris has planned for it shows definite signs of this. Ghetsis appears to have a head start on the others, having secured information on the myths surrounding it that he needs Concordia and Anthea to decode in secret from the rest of the Sacred Helix.
** Explicitly confirmed in ''Father'', and then some: [[spoiler:Polaris's crusade against the Pokémon League is a ruse. Their true objective is to sow chaos and despair so they can fully summon Dark Matter, a supernatural world-ending force, thus completing a prophecy that has existed for at least five thousand years.]]

** [[spoiler:Giovanni]] also bites it in the same chapter.

* BigBad: Polaris as a whole, Father specifically.

* ChessMotifs: The appearances of the Bisharp Clan come in chapters with titles referencing chess language.

** ''Father'' was absolutely full of it for Matt and Nekou.

** ''Anime/StarDriver''
** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''

** Theatre/MammaMia

** Film/{{Virus}}

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Matt and Nekou in '''spades.''' "Father" brings it to an entirely new level.

* AncientEvil: [[spoiler:Dark Matter]].

* ChekhovsGun: That "bursting with energy" comment Nikolai made offhandedly to Olivia about Oshawott in "Hard Reset?" [[spoiler:Oshawott was ready to evolve, a fact that saved her challenge with Bugsy.]]

* HarmfulToChildren: Even though Olivia has, by her own admission, "seen some shit," the incidents caused by Polaris are clearly traumatizing her.