History Headscratchers / NuzlockeComics

** Comics have a variety of art styles whereas screenshot runs are pretty restricted aesthetically. Comics give more freedom to the author in story-telling and people tend to prefer plot to LetsPlay-like runs. Plus, comics can be hosted all over the place and draw attention from sites like Website/DeviantART or Website/SmackJeeves. Some screenshot runs are popular. They get completed faster than comics and written stories though, so it's easy to miss them.

* Speaking of whether certain kinds of runs are Nuzlockes or not... I decided to start a Touhoumon World Link-run where, although I could only catch one of each "Doll" (the explanation for all the Touhou-character copies running around), I didn't have any restrictions regarding catching more than one in the same route, or having to get the first one. While I'm not thinking about sharing this playthrough with people (not good enough at storytelling and drawing), it still annoys me how I don't have a clue what to call it.

** For the same reason why the players themselves undertake a Nuzlocke challenge in RealLife. It tears you apart to lose a teammember, but it makes the journey and the victories that come along the way that much more precious. A lot of those runs also take the above idea of not understanding the full consequences of the challenge at first and include some serious soul-searching [[BellyOfTheWhale midway through the run]] where they question whether or not to continue on after losing party members. Most of it comes down to RuleOfDrama too. If they never chose to take on the challenge, there wouldn't be a story in the first place.

** Comics have a variety of art styles whereas screenshot runs are pretty restricted aesthetically. Comics give more freedom to the author in story-telling and people tend to prefer plot to LetsPlay-like runs. Plus, comics can be hosted all over the place and draw attention from sites like Website/DeviantART or SmackJeeves. Some screenshot runs are popular. They get completed faster than comics and written stories though, so it's easy to miss them.

** Comics have a variety of art styles wheras screenshot runs are pretty restricted aesthetically. Comics give more freedom to the author in story-telling and people tend to prefer plot to let's play-like runs. Plus, comics can be hosted all over the place and draw attention from sites like Deviantart or Smackjeeves. Some screenshot runs are popular. They get completed faster than comics and written stories though, so it's easy to miss them.

* What happened to Hale? He just posted Page 11 of his Platinum Locke 2 years ago and then dropped off the face of the earth. Does anyone know what happened to him?

* The fact that people will do one-species runs, such as zigagoon runs, or anything similar, and people do solo runs, huge example being Karp Omega, and label it as a nuzlocke challenge. A nuzlocke challenge consists of TWO RULES: If a pokemon faints, it is ALWAYS dead. ALWAYS catch the first mon (or new mon in the case of no dupes) in an area. As soon as you remove one of those rules, it shouldn't be considered a nuzlocke run.

* This question is probably gonna be pretty stupid...but in the original Nuzlocke when [[spoiler:Ruby loses to Steven's Metagross]], some things don't quite make sense without a full battle log, video or what not. First off, [[spoiler:how was Metagross slower than Absol but faster than Sceptile and Walrein? It doesn't have Agility, so that possibility is ruled out.]] Secondly, [[spoiler:did Metagross get an attack bonus from Meteor Mash? Because I doubt it would have killed Sceptile in one hit with Hyper Beam otherwise. Or Walrein, at least if it was at full health (though after a drawn out battle it probably wasn't).]] Lastly, [[spoiler:was the run without healing items in battle? Because that would have been rather cumbersome to have to contend with.]]

* A funny thing happened to me on the way to the first town in White... Ahem. Namely, the mon I caught on Route 1 managed to faint before I even reached the town. The thing was, there isn't a PC in the starting town to release it, and when I got to the next town... Well, Professor Juniper basically shoved me into the Pokecenter and had my fainted mon revived. So in my head, I basically started treating said revived mon like a zombie, but had no clue whether it still was meant to be released under Nuzlocke Run rules (since it did die) or keep it (since it was forcibly revived.) It wasn't dead... anymore...

*** Death can be done tastefully, though. There's a difference between tasteful death and a character ''whacking their own Pokemon to death with a shovel and repeatedly knifing another character for fun.''

** Also, the forum mods are notorious purists and hate anything that isn't a comic run that only plays by the original rules. This is the sole reason for the "other adventures" sub-board.

** The entire idea of Nuzlocke's are death, so the Forum itself is technically mature. But I get what you are saying, it's not for the young or the faint of heart.

* How the fuck is "Pitch Black" not marked mature? It's basically torture porn, for crying out loud.

** Also, the forum mods are notorious purists and hate anything that isn't a comic run that only plays by the original rules. This is the sole reason for the "other adventures" sub-board.

** Because they're hard to do compared to written or comic versions, and are really easy to miss something important.

* Why is there no love for the screenshot runs?

** Some people don't bother to try to explain it in their comics, but others do. First that comes to mind is Wasserbienchen's white run, where Pokemon don't die from battling unless it's declared a death battle, in which case they actually are battling to the death. Another is Ky-Nim's, who has a rare chance of Pokemon dying instead of fainting (and it's just bad luck that the main's team always dies). Really, it's just open to interperation.

** Well, it started going into FollowTheLeader territory a long time ago, the only difference being that he actually hosts all the other comics on his own website. When something good and popular pops up in the internet, there will always be people who only want a piece of the glory without actually doing anything, so there's bound to be crap in there. However, there ''are'' some gems that are in no way inferior to the original, namely Hale's, Nyachan's and Robot's comics. Others may count as well, of course [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]].

** I think you've answered you're own question a little bit there. As the above troper says, in most runs, the challengers tend to possess a certain naïveté, either as trainers or with regards to the true meaning of Nuzlocke. This makes sense because, as you say, no ''wise'' trainer would take the challenge knowing what it entails. So they take it, for the glory, the lulz, or w/e, without really considering that it ''could'' happen to them, and by the time one of their team dies they're too emotionally invested in them to just brush it off and/or quit - they have to make it mean something, there's needs to be a reason, for their friend's sake, and so they're doomed to finish the challenge.

** I think you've answered you're own question a little bit there. As the above troper says, in most runs, the challengers tend to possess a certain naïveté, either as trainers or with regards to the true meaning of Nuzlocke. This makes sense because, as you say, no ''wise'' trainer would take the challenge, knowing what it entails. So they take it, for the glory, the lulz, or w/e, without really considering that it ''could'' happen to them, and by the time one of their team dies they're too emotionally invested in them to just brush it off and/or quit - they have to make it mean something, there's needs to be a reason, for their friend's sake, and so they're doomed to finish the challenge.

** I think you've answered you're own question a little bit there. As the above troper says, in most runs, the challengers tend to possess a certain naivete, either as trainers or with regards to the true meaning of Nuzlocke. This makes sense because, as you say, no ''wise'' trainer would take the challenge, knowing what it entails. By the time one of their team dies they're too emotionally invested in them to just brush it off and/or quit - they have to make it mean something, there's needs to be a reason, for their friend's sake, and so they're doomed to finish the challenge.

** I'd just like to point out that whilst you're only allowed to catch the first 'mon of each area, you don't HAVE t to catch it, you're just allowed to try.