Tropes featured in We Are All Pokémon Trainers include:
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108: The amount of Tears in the IK arc purposely added up to 108 to match Spiritomb, a Pokémon fully built around the concept of 108 in Buddhist mythology.
DS and Mezzo's 20th and 16th birthdays respectively occur during the time they're stuck in the mindscapes.
PEFeDOS during the PMD-R arc is awakened and begins her sadistic testing once again on Tagg's 21st birthday.
It repeats with Tagg ending up in Ransei 600 years in the past due to concentrated April Fools shenanigans on his 22nd birthday. Herbert, also in the same situation, has his 16th birthday the next day.
Straw gets attacked by Shadow!Crewe on his 18th birthday, which was purposely invoked by Aelia For the Evulz.
A Form You Are Comfortable With: Tagg theorizes that the creation trio might do this when interacting with mortals, considering their eldritch natures.
A God Am I: Downplayed. Eon being a Latios is a species that are considered deities IRP, but he appears to have delusions of being on the same tier of power as legends like Groudon and Dialga.
Absurd Altitude: During the Unown meeting, the group gets teleported into space, being saved from dying due to the Unown's power. They end up seeing the planet in its entirety.
Achievements in Ignorance: For a long time, Daisy's Zoroark, Blacky, was able to use the abilities of the Pokémon he transformed into, even though said transformation is really just an illusion. Blacky seems to have caught on to this as his Illusion ability now works the way it's supposed to work.
Adaptation Expansion: The RP is mainly based on the universe of the main series games + spinoffs, but it also takes elements from the anime, manga, and even the TCG in the form of the Holon region, certain moves, and the existence of Delta Pokémon.
Adult Fear: Although Diane is not technically an adult, she is still horrified when Annie, her Head Pet Taillow, is almost killed by a giant Bouffalant.
Aerith and Bob: Both normal and plain unusual names are common. Ex. Mezzopiano Morendo and Jeff Firelight
Elise is heavily implied to have a crush on Straw.
The Alleged Van: Tracer owns an old van that seems to operate mainly on the power of hope and prayer going by how rundown it is.
Almost Kiss: At one point while trying to figure out her feelings for Wolf, DS almost kisses Wolf while he's asleep.
All There in the Manual: Plot points are often discussed in the chat room, Discussion Thread, and Spoiler Text. This includes many cases of Word of God.
Every being hypnotized into "silence", rendering him practically unable to do anything as it would make noise until the mind control wears off.
Palkia's dialogue after being restored from her petrification makes it clear that she was conscious the whole time. She doesn't seem too bothered by it, though, apart from having found being a statue to be really boring.
And Then What?: This trope is more or less what led Jane, Tagg, and Anom to become researchers. All three just didn't feel like doing nothing but battling for the rest of their lives.
Angel Unaware: Some of the legendaries can take the form of normal Pokémon or even humans to observe and deal with mortals. Ho-oh for instance has a tendency to masquerade as a Pidgey.
♨č▒⢫╠␣☣ł₤舸▟, or the Glitch Nidorino, is a representation of the fear of death that merely takes the appearance of the first being it encounters in the material world, in this case being Vinollo the Nidorino. Luckily unlike most other Glitches it's friendly if it's mission isn't to beat the fear of death into you.
The Invisible Shiny Bulbasaur that glitched up Kanto.
What Tagg considers a fair number of legendaries to be.
Palkia, who went from just being another legendary to a main character in later arcs.
Many Pokémon start of as just another member of the trainer's team, but then become more iconic, like Ammy.
Of the human side of things, Hikari qualifies due to initially being just a NPC, but she started appearing often and even participates in some of the stuff the main cast does.
Ascended Fanboy: A lot of J-Team members were originally fans of the group before joining.
Cowboy: This is what happens when 'M posseses Clay.
Hydreigon: This is what Scolipede sics on the Trainers and Napoleon's forces after the attack on N's Castle.
Tortilla: This rampaged around Dewford Island with little explanation.
Espeon: April Fools Day 2013 turned DS into this.
Awesome Backpack/Bag of Holding: Most of the trainers pre-Unova have Hammerspace backpacks as a gift from Palkia. Sometimes, they use them as tents or sleeping bags.
The main group, aka the J-Team, regularly coming up on top versus a number of dangerous opponents and containing some of the most skilled trainers in the RP's universe.
The PEFE Founders, particularly during their takedown of Pokefutures Inc.
The Extras, a group of vigilantes fighting off Cipher with minimal resources.
Badass Family: As found out in the Conquest Arc, several of the J-Team members are related to each other, not counting those who are already siblings.
Badass on Paper: Given how battles can be tackled from various angles besides strength or smarts, some Pokémon can end up becoming this. You wouldn't believe Dintel faced Lelouch and raised La Résistance to stop his invasion of Hoenn until you actually read it through.
Bag of Spilling: Tagg's Xatu takes his Unova badges shortly before the Unova-2 arc, forcing him to refight the Gym Leaders in order to get his badges back.
The Pokemon Trainers all end up turning into Pokemon when they go to the PMD universe.
During the OI, Fool (while possessed by Majora's Mask) turns three Pokémon poachers into shiny Pokémon.
Vyvyan the Magma Grunt starts unknowingly transforming into a Rayquaza due to having to keep Depthcharge and Buggle (clones of Kyogre and Groudon) under control. He is later kidnapped by Team Ozone, who speed up the process of his transformation.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Anom's entire team at the beginning until he branched out following the end of the AU arc..
Ammy also happens to be a Bug type specialist.
Big Damn Heroes: Jane and her horde of Legendaries in the third arc.
Wolf and his Swoobat in the eleventh.
Tagg and a bunch of the other trainers teleporting down to Kanto to help Tracer and his Pokemon fight off a massive murder of Murkrow and their Honchkrow bosses.
Unite and Reshiram when they go first help with the evacuation of Goldenrod City, then stop an army at Rt. 32.
DS, the Lake Trio and Palkia during the final battle of the AU arc.
Big Screwed-Up Family: The Cain-Davis family, of which Herbert and Psyche are probably the two most prominent members. Nearly every member of the extended family that's been shown onscreen is either evil, highly traumatised, just kind of a jerk, or some mixture of the three. The few decent ones almost always seem to end up dead or broken.
Big "WHAT?!": In the 6th arc, thanks to Cresselia revealing that she is Darkrai's daughter.
Cipher serves as one for the entire RP in general, often acting through proxies instead of fighting the J-Team directly, having a hand in the backstories of several characters, and even created 'M which antagonized the J-Team during the Unova arc. For Orre they end up becoming the Big Bad of the arc.
OLD MAN's nemesis, the Magikarp Salesman, a powerful demon who doesn't really concern himself with the J-Team's antics at all.
The Seven Jerk Dragons serve as this for the PMD-R arc. While they don't make a direct appearance, their actions are directly responsible for the state of PMD-B when J-Team members visit it.
Bilingual Dialogue: Human and Pokémon characters talking to one another would count as this most of the time, with the humans speaking either English or other languages and the mons speaking Monese.
The fates of some of the J-Team members that survived the Draconic Uprising in PMD-B match this. The PEFE Founders end up dying of old age unable to change things back, but they do end up laying the seeds to create a timeline fork and manage to raise families of their own.
The Fallout miniarc ends much like the original game, with the Super Mutants being defeated, but the Vault Dweller being cast out.
The Orre arc ends with Cipher crushed (at least in Orre), but most of the Admins manage to escape justice (though not defeat), a lot of the J-Team members are left with issues, and Siren/Taylor ends up getting killed shortly after undergoing a Heel-Face Turn. On the other hand, Psyche does manage to conquer her own psychological issues.
During the AU arc, a bunch of the J-Team's mons board one of Lanius' slave ships and manage to rescue the slaves aboard.
A very well-organized one occurs in AU!Goldenrod when the Pokémon there have to try and counter the initial Draconic offensive, including Ariados-silk cable anchors and feline mons effortlessly climbing them up to the airships above the city.
Brick Joke: When DS first meets Chase the Pidove, he mentions that his wing was injured by a Purrloin. DS eventually catches said Purrloin.
DS has Brain Bleach in her backpack. This is referenced and used many times.
Chase meets the flock of Pidove that left him behind in Nuvema town after joining the group.
Briar Rose learns how to bring objects from the Dream World back with her to the real world, and intends to use this information to bring back some berries she had planted in the Dream World. Next time DS sends Briar Rose out of her ball, she has the berries with her.
Brief Accent Imitation: Jane donned a Southern Accent near the beginning. It went away after a while, though it still slips through on occasion.
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Zig-zagged. Most regular animals don't exist, and sometimes an animal is mentioned and the trainers won't know what that is. Other times, they refer to certain Pokémon as the animal they are based off of.
Carnivore Confusion: Yes, every Pokemon in the setting is perfectly sapient, and yes, the predatory ones will kill for their food. The prevailing view amongst predators when hunting is to mainly aim for jerks and not to revel in the kill.
An overarching one appears to be that people are people, even when they're not human. Humans and Pokémon are shown in many instances to be Not So Different from one another in both positive and negative aspects.
Character Magnetic Team: The main group. It's justified in universe due to people with Attributes tending to attract one another.
Chastity Couple: Most of the human couples in the RP do not partake in any sex or even the hint of sex, either due to asexuality or simply feeling uncomfortable with doing it at the current time.
Umbra x Ammy and Arika x Chrome are two notable (but offscreen) exceptions, and Umbra and Lina were known to have had sex while they were together.
Clip Its Wings: A common strategy for dealing with flying Pokémon in the RP is to freeze their wings, causing the mon in question to crash into the ground.
Cloud Cuckoolander: The group has obtained several Pokémon like this, such as Goggles the Krookodile.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Our heroes regularly end up blasting or beating their way past veritable hordes of Pokemon, but can be given a fair amount of trouble when fighting one on one.
Continuity Lockout: It's really hard to jump in during an arc because of the heavy continuity. This hasn't stopped some people from jumping in anyway and then realizing there's too much stuff going on that they don't know about to actually keep playing. This hasn't stopped a few dedicated players from joining the group.
Convection Schmonvection: Inverted and Subverted at the same time; it is very cold in Snowpoint Temple, and everyone reacts to it.
Played straight when Tagg and Gamer go through the gauntlet of a Pokemon-themed version of Super Mario Bros., due to Palkia having a hangover. Both Tagg and Musashi the Samurott lampshade it.
Definitely averted with Heat Shield, which kills things through sheer heat.
The Alakagross civilization had quite a few, which the dragons and PMD-B base their airships on.
Team Glacier has an airship piloted by Shadow.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: The judgments handed out by the Cubone tribe during Tangent, Tagg, Tracer, and their Pokemon's "Trial by Bonemerang". Examples include having to give all the kids in the tribe a ride (Tagg's Garchomp) and being unable to use Yache Berries for a month. (Gaia, Tagg's Torterra.)
Country Matters: Kyrie is rather fond of this word, especially in regards to Paula.
Creepy Doll: The Shadow plushie, which keeps showing up no matter how Forte and the real Shadow try to get rid of it.
"Civilized" mons in general within PMD-B tend to look down on "ferals", those mons who decided to continue living as their ancestors did, considering them little more than beasts.
Cubone from different regions tend to do this to one another, such as members of the Sinnoh and Kanto tribes considering each other savages due to the presence or lack thereof of Trial by Bonemerang.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Tons, mostly delivered by the heroes. Some examples include:
Nudi's first battle with Sonny, Tracer's Honchkrow.
Rex has hinted that his battles against Clair and Blue were this for him.
49 losing to Winona.
Pallad alone against Lance's entire team, in his favor.
Shadow!Duke against Herbert AND his entire team is a particularly brutal one.
Cute and Psycho: Fool has some violent tendencies as a result of her upbringing in a Simipour troop.
Kyrie is quite cute outwardly, and is childishly enthusiastic about a number of things, especially music. She is also mentally ill and incredibly violent.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: They did in the case of the main opponents Tagg and some of the others faced off against during the PEFExp miniarc, cybernetic Pokémon that had been lobotomized into fighting machines by Pokefutures.
Missingno and 'M end up being destroyed in every verse due to the OU J-Team defeating them.
What happens to Napoleon in the AU after the souls of the Midori Room mons maul his soul, destroying it completely. Though Snowball does use said shreds to create Icelus.
Death Is Cheap: At the end of the first Arc, Gamer's Serperior is killed by David, and comes back to life as a Duskull. Also, Daisy's Charizard is killed by a madman behind the mandess in Canalave City. It then re-appears the next day as a Gastly. Arguably, this trope just occurs with all the thread's Sues and Stus.
Quest Island, which is filled with dangerous Pokémon like Tyranitar and Skarmory, as well as having a easily awakened volcano. The Cubone tribe patrols in other regions are done by Marowak, and infant and child mortality is at a very high rate.
Other examples include post-Distortion Sinnoh in the AU, and both the AU and OT Giant Chasm.
Depending on the Writer: The characterizations between the various legendary Pokémon and other NPCs may vary depending on who is currently writing for them.
Destructive Savior: The J-Team tends to cause mass property damage in its battle against evil.
Die, Chair! Die!: in the fifth arc, Palkia makes a comeback in order to punch the living daylights out of a bunch of pillars.
Disney Death: Happens to Cynthia near the end of the PMD arc, and to Jane, Wolf and Pentigan during the battle against 'M and Team Plasma at the Pokémon League.
DS is seemingly killed by Primal Dialga in a flashback, but unbeknownst to everyone, Dialga was able to resist Cyrus' orders and instead sent DS to the dimension in which the legendaries had been imprisoned.
Die or Fly: Auric and Obscuric abilities tend to be learned very quickly by those stuck in life and death situations.
Umbra had the ability to banish people to the Distortion World back when he was the Ghost Lord of Spectra.
Tagg gets rid of the Sinnoh Family of Blood branch by having Groudon take them...somewhere else.
The Dragonslayer: Inka somehow gets this fame after curbstomping Lance's haxxest Dragonites (you know the ones) in backstory. However, by the time of the Draconic Uprising in the AU timeline, she is forced to live up to the title.
The Dreaded: A number of the Trainers, including Luke, Tracer, and Tagg, gain this status during the AU arc after curb stomping their way past hordes of Scolemis grunts.
Dramedy: The story is mostly humorous, though it can take some dark turns.
Dream Land: The Pokemon Dream World, a collective unconsciousness made from every Pokémon there ever was.
The trainers do this to infiltrate the Altru Tower in Almia.
Tagg and the Vault Dweller end up doing it in PMD-B Angela in order to infiltrate the Cathedral.
Dying Declaration of Love: Mira to Artemis in the AU arc, after the former is fatally injured after receiving a stab wound meant for the latter.
Dysfunction Junction: A lot of the trainers have serious issues of some kind. Some examples include:
Tagg, who has social issues, PTSD as a result of his experiences during the AU arc if not long before, and has admitted to DS that he only really feels comfortable In Harm's Way.
Lyuri and Sakura Riese, whose parents died in a cave-in thanks to an Earthquake caused by Riku the Sandslash and were separated for several years. In the AU Lyuri is the last member of her family since Sakura ended up dying too, leaving her a Broken Bird.
DS, who's a Heroic Bastard with a bit of a savior complex.
Herbert, whose father is a Team Galactic commander who was still a better parent to him than his mother, who acted as if he didn't exist.
Jacob, who was orphaned when his parents were murdered and had his girlfriend killed by a Scizor. He also happens to be a bit unstable.
The Amarin family, consisting of Alli, a girl who seems relatively normal, but hides the trauma of losing her mother when she was just eight years old; Eskay, her older brother who saw the aforementioned death firsthand as well as almost dying the same way himself six years later, along with having accidentally murdered a Cipher Peon in a fit of rage despite having promised to never kill anyone ever, resulting in full-blown PTSD (which is only amplified by his empathic powers); and Ivy/Ellen, the dead mother in question who came back as an amnesiac Delta Golett and only regained her memory by witnessing the aforementioned attempted murder of her son.
Wolf, who was 'M's thrall for nearly ten years prior to the beginning of the RP, though he's managed to get past that.
Psyche, whose father was abusive and disowned her after she got mauled by Scrafty, leading to her Cynicism Catalyst.
Alyssa, another PTSD victim whose parents were killed by a fire, leaving her orphaned and lost in the wilderness with no social skills, along with leaving her with a haunting phobia of fire.
Crewe, who apart from being actually a Sneasel in human form, has a lot of issues regarding so many of her mons leaving her as well as possible PTSD from getting shadowed and nearly killing Straw in Orre.
Early-Installment Weirdness: The earliest arcs (Sinnoh through Unova) are far different from the RP today, due to it being originally a forum game with no real continuity that evolved into an RP. Word of God says that was due to Missingno and 'M's mere existence making the world of WAAPT a far stranger place than it is in future arcs in-universe.
The AU arc. Its plot reaches numerous dark and overwhelming moments before its ultimate (and satisfying) resolution.
Sakura lost her parents and had her sister go missing, she spent a good four years looking for her and feeling very guilty about everything that happened, she eventually finds her, they're in good terms with each other, and she even got a boyfriend soon after, while she does occasionally have more problems, they're either minor ones or don't take as much time to be solved.
Earth Is a Battlefield: Not a single region on the planet manages to escape war during the Draconic Uprising in the AU.
The only members of the J-Team that seem particularly bothered about Umbra's past as an Evil Overlord are Herbert and Sakura.
Likewise, the only members of the J-Team who don't forgive Tagg for slaughtering dozens of Cipher Peons are Herbert and Sarah. And the only member of the team who still holds a grudge against Lyuri for her crimes as Alexia is Herbert. Sensing a trend here?
The Anomaly aka Missingno and 'M, biological supercomputers whose mere presence warps reality.
The imprisoned being found in the deepest recesses of the Blacklight Caverns in the Orre Badlands in Dune's backstory, which he only barely escaped from, at the cost of his mind being scarred and incapable of being touched by any kind of telepathy. Known as the "Criminal", due to the runes in hundreds of languages stating the word around its prison.
"The Duke" and "The Prince", two possessing spirit things, the first in Pi's head, the second in the head of the villain Mortimer.
The dimension where the heroes took on Missingno for the first and last times.
Glitch City, 'M's home dimension.
Elseworld: Many, but the two most often seen are the AU created from Cyrus' time tampering, and the Another!Verse (Based on The World Ends With You's Another Day mode), a Lighter and Softer version of WAAPT.
Enemy Within: The boss of each trainer's mindscape during the Mindscape Miniarc tends to be their inner dark side.
Ensemble Cast: While certain characters can gain more prominence than others depending on the arc, the RP lacks a defined main character.
Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: Some of the J-Team show episodes have a format like this. Examples include "Assault! Storming The Sky Fortress!" and "Splash! Attack of the 50 Foot Vaporeon!"
Expendable Alternate Universe: Averted with the AU arc, the J-Team considers the AU to have just as valid an existence as the original universe, and have Dialga and Palkia fork them.
Tropes F-J
Famous Last Words: "Hey.....there really is a tunnel....with a pinprick of light. They were right after all." PMD-B Gamer/Joshua
Yanmega'sultimate fate and Tagg's at the time newly evolved Hydreigon viciously mauling a Pokemon Pincher.
The entire PEFE flashback where Tagg, Tracer, and Silent had to defend themselves from a bunch of Swablu and Altaria poachers in Hoenn and end up setting their Pokemon on them.
AU!Fool horribly mauling a trainer and his Pokemon by ordering her Pokemon to tear him to shreds.
Maekrite willingly submits to a (relatively public) torture session when Silent gets hurt in the AU.
Aelia and Kyrie end up getting nasty scars and losing an eye respectively fighting the J-Team.
Scolipede's Seismitoad's death by Stunfisk school electrocution.
Napoleon's forces killing off Mezzo's mons during the assault on Black City.
Stitch the Lapras dies from getting his neck blown wide open during the Battle of Castelia.
Biscuits the Crobat gets immolated by a Flygon during the Battle of Castelia.
Clover the Alakazam dies in the AU from Tagg's Hydreigon ripping his throat out during the battle at N's Castle.
Tagg describes watching a Aggron managing to rip a Tyranitar in half on one of his research trips.
The Lieutenant dies from taking an Earthquake to the head from Emperor!Archeops in Tracer's body and ends up starting to liquefy like his counterpart from Fallout before getting telekinetically hurled out the window.
Jacob ends up stabbing a Scizor with a sword after it kills his girlfriend in a flashback. Complete with the sound of the exoskeleton shattering!
Ellen Amarin's death involved getting stabbed by a Toxicroak, and bleeding out along with the deadly poison. Eskay almost receives the same fate, but is quickly saved by Ellen herself, Back from the Dead as Femata the Delta Golurk
Ninetails dies from Tagg disemboweling her after Ammy and Herbert slice off all of her tails.
The Litwick and Elgyem members of the Celestial Tower do not get along.
Delta Pokémon are often seen as freaks by non-mutated mons.
Due to the Seven Jerk Dragons's part in trying to usurp the legendaries and more or less genociding humanity in the PMD-B timeline, Dragon types in general are often treated as second class citizens outside of Hoenn, which is more or less persona non grata due to other mons seeing it as merely a continuation of the Seven Jerk Dragons's rule.
Faithful the Salamence was originally prejudiced against non-dragons.
Cubone line members in general tend to be wary of non-Cubone, referring to them as "fiends" due to the fact that most other species prey on them.
Axew and Deino line members in the wild will kill one another on sight, leading to Tagg's Hydreigon having a prejudice against Vektor the Delta Fraxure, as well as Axew line members in general.
Gyru the Bronzong despises all organic mons and humans, considering them beneath him.
The Ghouls of PMD-B Angela tend to dislike all non-Ghost types.
In the PMD-B timeline and within the Return to AU arc, the draconic forces heavily discriminate(d) against non-dragons in their ranks and in general, with the goal of exalting themselves above humans and other mons in general as the rulers of a mon-only world.
Angela (An analogue of Southern California) once took water from up north in an analogue to the California Water Wars of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Lina has participated in analogues of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and World War I.
Victini was used as a nuke in the WAAPT analogue to World War II, with some shrine Xatu in Ever Grande also hinting towards the conflict.
The purge of the Obscurics in Sinnoh and other regions is an analogue to the Japanese displacement of the Emishi and Ainu peoples.
Fantasy Gun Control: Averted. While rarely seen, firearms do exist in this universe.
The group as a whole would also count as their friendship deepened through their mutual experiences fighting evil.
Cinder and Lake in the AU go this way, as they realize they share having gone through many of the events that marked their lives with their Trainer, they just happen to see it differently. Somewhat lampshaded when they remember their challenges of Whitney.
Tagg and Herbert start being more friendly towards one another as they travel through Ransei with Ammy.
Fisher Kingdom: Type 2. The two PMD universes will turn any human who enters them into a Pokémon of some kind.
Five-Man Band: In the beginning it worked like this, but after the group got a lot more members it became closer to The Team.
Fixed Relative Strength: While as a whole the group is made up of powerful trainers, with even the weaker members often having at least one league under their belt, some are indeed just leagues ahead of others.
A sweeter form of it though with the Breather Arc foreshadowings during the AU.
Four Lines, All Waiting: Aside from the main plot of an arc or arcs, there can also be numerous subplots, including ones taking place far from the region the bulk of the J-Team happens to be in at the time.
"Freaky Friday" Flip: Has happened three times so far, first with Jane and Palkia, the second time with DS and Artemis and the third with Daisy and Pink. A weird variation of this also seemed to happen between Jane and Entei.
Happens yet again with Anom and Wolf, due to a Manaphy. Unlike the other examples, it's played as a more serious major plot point rather than a brief joke, and lasted for pretty much the whole Oblivia arc.
Free-Range Children: Pretty much all of the characters that are or were minors starting out would count as this. Bonus points go to Amber and Remy for not even being in the double digits when they started.
Friend or Idol Decision: During the finale of the Orre arc, Tagg finds himself having to choose between killing Tokarev, or rescuing DS, who is in danger of falling to her death into a pool of lava. He chooses to save DS, in the process realizing how much his desire for revenge against Cipher had consumed him as he actually had to think about whether to save one of his closest friends or not.
Fun with Acronyms: In the 7th Arc, Generic Announcer Guy is shortened to GAG. And in the 11th, Mysterious Old Man is shortened to MOM. And in the newest arc, "The Minigame Idiot" becomes "TMI".
This happened far more often than it needed to inside Twist Mountain. Wolf and Pentigan still suffered from this after leaving the mountain for a few days before eventually being returned to normal.
Pentigan's amulet has this function. At one point during the OI arc, he ended up accidentally losing it and leaving himself, Anom and Fool stuck as the opposite genders.
Gender Is No Object: Males and females are treated exactly the same IRP, save for Lanius' misogynistic forces in the AU arc.
Genre Roulette: Themes can change from arc to arc. Compare the Darker and Edgier AU with the OI arc directly after it for example.
Gentle Giant: Many large and imposing Pokémon are like this.
Gondor Calls for Aid: Tangent and Xatu manage to gather a large amount of peoplemons that the J-Team has helped in order to help prevent Cipher from taking Gateon Port at the climax of the Orre arc.
Gossip Evolution: Happens when the wild Pokémon around the Orange Islands talk about Algira after she becomes a wanted mon for eating some of the bug Pokémon on the islands. Algira goes from just another predator to a monstrous demon hellbent on devouring every Bug Pokemon on the islands.
Happens again when Latias begins searching for Pentigan's lost Gender Bender amulet so he, Anom and Fool can be returned to normal. This eventually leads to the wild Pokémon searching for a non-existant Soul Dew because they think Latias will reward them with a lifetime's supply of Oran Berries if they can help her find it.
Even in the OU, the Sinnoh North is a cold and foreboding place.
Tagg and the others end up traveling even farther north in order to defeat Annoski at the Cathedral.
Nixtorm and Spectra are two of the northernmost countries in Ransei, and the homes of the main antagonists, Wolf's ancestor Yusei and the Ghost Lord respectively.
Anyone who manages to transform into a Pokemon has their DNA slightly changed to become part Pokémon once they turn back. It has not been confirmed but it is likely the same for any Pokémon that transforms into a human.
April Fools 2013 had this happen to Sakura and Lyuri, mirroring the Pokémon RéBURST transformations, they became an Arcanine and a Lucario, respectively.
Gyru, a mechanical Pokémon with a robotic superiority complex, is turned thus becoming an organic, inferior being (to add salt to the wound, it has to eat to be cured).
Hard Light: Moves like Reflect and Barrier can be made to work like this. Sol uses them to redirect light, reroute fluids and attacks, and shelter Trainers during battle. Auric constructs work in a similar manner.
Arceus temporarily resigns from his position after the 'M ordeal. OLD MAN and Weedle Prime are put in charge for the interim.
In the alternate timeline, the Nidoran colony not registering sighting of their god Ho-Oh for a long time is one of the reasons behind Inka convincing Silent to militarize the colony.
Magic Guard renders Selene the Clefable immune to poison darts.
Safeguard can guard against toxic gases and temperature extremes as well as status moves.
The often overlooked move Round was used at Tagg's Vanilluxe's suggestion to disorient a Soulless T-Rex in AU!Sinnoh.
Heroic BSOD: Several characters have gone through this in the past.
Hero Insurance: Averted, the trainers end up getting banned from a number of Hoennese hotels due to their destructive antics, or to be more exact, their Pokemon's antics.
Heroic Sacrifice: During the final battle against 'M, Anom (who had his DNA become unstable after the events at Twist mountain) tricks 'M into absorbing him, which destroys 'M's anti-legendary shield and allows the legendary Pokémon to join the battle and finish of 'M once and for all. Anom ended up Deader than Dead, until the legendary Pokémon figured out how to bring him back after a week.
The legendaries accidentally destroying the Sky Fortress didn't sit well with its wild Pokemon population.
The main group gets this so badly at one point that Pokepan hotels start denying them service, starting with Hoenn.
Humanlike Animal Aging: Zigzagged, while most species of Pokémon can live at least as long as humans, and others live shorter or even longer lives (With ghosts and inorganic mons being immune to death by old age), Pokémon generally physically and mentally mature at an accelerated rate compared to humans.
Identical Stranger: Wolf and N look almost exactly alike. When they briefly met in Almia, Wolf didn't notice the resemblance at first. He was a bit creeped out by it once it was pointed out.
Missingno, also known as The Cinnabar Anomaly, The Anomaly, He Who Must Not Be Numbered, It, The Unnumbered One.
AU!Alduin, the World Eater, Kingsbane, and God of Destruction, much like his namesake.
Lugia, also known as the Great Dragon, the Guardian of the Sea, the Leviathan, Singer in Darkness, He of the Silver Wings, Soulstorm, the Fulcrum, the White Wanderer, the Living Moonlight, the Prince of the Sea, and The Titan of the Abyss.
Dialga, also known as the Archwyrm, the Chronosaur, Father Time, King over the Mountain, Master of the Fates, Doom, and Lord of Time.
Palkia, also known as Epoch, the Spatiosaur, Mother Earth, Queen Regnant of the Eyes, Maîtresse sur les routes* Mistress of the Roads, and Birth.
Arceus, referred to as the Alpha and the Many Armed One, among other names.
Impromptu Tracheotomy: One of the Mincinno in Rommel's invasion force during the AU arc gets stabbed through the neck by Vinollo the Nidorino during the Battle of Goldenrod.
Teresa and Jacob, after the latter was hit by a wild Pokémon's Toxic. He does end up getting cured though.
AU!Tagg has one of these in the PMD-B timeline, which likely influenced his decision to entomb himself in his vault with the Adamant Orb.
Infant Immortality: Averted, kids can get seriously hurt and in some cases have even died IRP. Examples include:
Forte ends up getting his arm broken by an Armortomb and in the AU is killed by a Bisharp.
Fortis dying in the AU and getting reincarnated as a Drifloon.
When Kat and Rising Star visit the Route 9 Tribe's graveyard, the grave of a young Cubone can be seen.
Tagg offhandedly mentions that the mortality rate for young Cubone on Quest Island is extremely high.
Lanius' forces strung up children on crosses as well.
Innocuously Important Episode: The events of Twist Mountain are mostly just a series of mind screws, but it does set up a few plot points. Including one that ends up being the key to taking down 'M's anti-legendary shield.
Interactive Narrator: Several of the RPers seem to have these. This becomes more evident in the more meta arcs.
Interdimensional Travel Device: The Griseous Orb has this power, either by itself, or in tandem with the Cubone's Time Tunnels and/or the other Orbs for more fine tuned travel.
Fortis (11) and Skyla (Likely somewhere in her 20s)
Tagg (22) and Umbra (651), and pretty much all of Umbra's friends for that matter.
Dune (21) and Ren (30)
and for that matter Des (22) and Ren. Really any of Ren's closer friends.
In-Series Nickname: The group of trainers eventually ends up being called "The J-Team" by fans that they've amassed due to Jane seeming like the leader to outsiders, even if it lacks a true leader.
Luke and Reshiram. It doesn't work at first, but they change their minds quickly and end up together anyway. Which is later countered with Jane and Zekrom.
Until they break up once the two Tao Dragons recognize their feelings for one another.
Algira, Silent's Masquerain, having a crush on Tagg, much to his chagrin.
And when she gets over him, she falls for Helios, Tagg's Volcarona, next. Well, they share egg groups...
Implied for Clover and Glaze (Kim's Lopunny and Minun).
Sierra and Vyvyan, after Vyvyan's transformation into a Rayquaza. At least he does get to keep one of the Pokémon-to-human armbands so he can turn back and forth between his Rayquaza and human forms as he wishes.
Umbra with Ammy, a Volcarona who uses an armband to remain in human form most of the time.
Lyuri and Duke, a Lucario, in a similar fashion to Umbra and Ammy above.
Kisune and Ren. With Kitsune, a larger than average Ninetales, being in love with Ren. Ren reciprocates her feelings when she wears the Borked Armband for a couple of days.
Seth, a Scizor, and Regina, a Gardevoir, who are also Friendly Rivals.
It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Just ask Maekrite. Got Volunteered to attach to a Trainer despite his mother raising him for having a full, wild life? Check. Having to leave behind his mate before they had the chance to share a breeding season? Check. Can return home for a visit once every six months if he's lucky? Check. Can barely see her during those visits? Check. Having to take up the same mantle in an alternate timeline despite extensive Screening Of The Call? Check. Sanctioned by Ho-Oh to do the same things Only More So - and essentially for life? Check.
I Will Find You: Wolf and DS make this promise to each other just before Dialga alters the timeline.
Jerkass: Some of the pokemon are total jerks. Examples of which include:
Courtney, Tracer's Unfezant, who tends to be a mostly unpleasant individual.
Fade, Every's former Drifblim, who gets pleasure out of mean-spirited pranks in order to feed.
Gyru, Every's former Bronzong, who happens to be an inorganic supremacist on top of that.
Zack, Lyuri's Floatzel, constantly bullying Riku, even talking about the cave-in he accidentally did out loud when he was asked about it, and just being a Jerkass in general, he does get some payback from his antics sometimes though, he has shown to have a Hidden Heart of Gold or close to it when he helped Riku out of his short BSOD after a car crash, but is still a prick most of the time.
Luana's Marowak, who once called Limna (A Blaziken/Feraligatr chimera) a freak among other actions.
Eon, one of the Seven Jerk Dragons, definitely earns the title by being a arrogant, racist tool.
Journey to the Center of the Mind: The basis of the entire mindscape miniarc, which involved a good portion of the group exploring eachother's mental worlds after Crewe is revealed to be a Sneasel transfigured into a human by a Mew.
Jungle Princess: Fool was raised in Pinwheel Forest by Simipour.
Just a Kid: Often levied at our heroes from both friend and foe, even though a number of them happen to be adults.
At the end of the Unova arc, Anom is entrusted with a Manaphy egg by Cynthia, and has to make sure it safely makes it back to Oblivia. Anom is strictly told not to tell anyone. However, this trope doesn't come into play until the Oblivia arc when Anom ends up being Heart Swapped with Wolf, and the Pokémon Pinchers capture and escape with the Manaphy, leaving Anom and Wolf stuck in each other's bodies
They initially try to keep it a secret and pretend to be each other, but things get complicated fast. Eventually, the tension within the group gets so bad, the secret gets shattered.
Luke, You Are My Father: Cresselia is Darkrai's daughter... or at least she claimed to be. Seeing as a book in a library in the Dream World refers to Darkrai as Cresselia's brother, this may not be true.
Magitek: While not outright stated, the armbands are implied to be from an unknown ancient civilization.
Meaningful Echo: When Chase as a Pidove rescues Artemis from a Scolipede, he comments: "She may be a jerk, but she's still my team mate!" Later on, after both have evolved and Chase Took a Level in Jerkass, Artemis ends up saving him from a Beartic. Afterwards she comments "You may have been a jerk, but you're still my team mate."
The PEFE (the Fanon Pokédex organization) appears to be like this, Type 2 ("smaller, centralized [...] in something... dangerous"). Whether they are benign or not is to debate, considering its superiors hijack fangirls in a container to use them in experiments with Shinx. Then again those being fangirls, make of that what you will. This was due to the fact that they ended up taking over the assets of an actual Mega Corp, Pokefutures, Inc.
The climax of the AU ends up being the Resistance vs Scolemis vs Napoleon's forces.
In Almer it ends up being Teams Taxonomy and Earthbound vs Emperor!Archeops forces vs his assassins. (The issue being complicated because the Emperor had swapped minds with Tracer.)
Conquest deals with Illusio and allies vs Nixtorm vs Spectra.
Mental World: The various mindscapes that the trainers visit inside the mindscape miniarc.
In the AU the Pokepanese military in Kanto more or less held in Vermilion and let Lanius' forces run roughshod over Celadon and Saffron after they attacked, though this changed once Lt. Surge came back and rallied them into fighting back.
They also proved mostly useless in the initial portion of the RtAU arc, though this was because the dragons were using Lost Technology they were ill prepared for, and monification created mass chaos. After that, however, quite a few ended up making the backbone of guerrilla movements.
Mind Rape: In WAAPT it's mainly of the psychic assault variety, with the result of an unrestrained assault being brain death.
Mind Screw: So far, the 5th arc. To elaborate: Jane's and Gamer's pokemon are genderbent, Mewtwo is in a woman's one-piece bathing suit and reading the instruction manual to Pokemon Platinum, Gamer has turned into a Snivy, Jane and Palkia have switched bodies, and the Regis are all wearing hats.
The ending to Goggles' backstory. Did any of it actually happen, or was it just Goggles' daydream? What was up with the Maractus? And who was doing the voiceover at the end?
Don't forget everything that happened in Twist Mountain!
If an armbanded human is caught while in Pokémon form, the Vow takes precedence and the human is forced to stay as a mon unless they're released. (The armband can be taken off, but they won't shift back to their original form.) However, putting on a Pokémon to human armband can work around that restriction.
The mon bombs used by the Seven Jerk Dragons work under similar principles, including the Pokémon to human armband loophole.
Tagg's adventures during the OI arc had elements of this as he was doing a Super Mario Sunshine themed adventure while dealing with the aftermath of his actions during the AU arc.
Umbra's humorous dream where he's a pimp and Ammy and Lina are two of his "workers" turns into a nightmare where Duolis shows up and reams him for first pimping them out, and then for his past as the Ghost Lord of Spectra.
Multiregional Team: There is at least one person from every main series region to date inside the group as of Gen VI, save for Anom, Daisy, and Kim, who were born in Oblivia, Orre, and Almia respectively. Other exceptions include Umbra who was born on Shadedrake Island off Hoenn, and Lina who was born in Dragnor, Ransei.
Team Skyclaw goes to solve the mystery of some disappearing mons in PMD-A, only to find out that the reason is not some monster, but some rogue mons.
Also within PMD-A, DS nearly got killed after discovering a fake rescue team that was going around eating "civilized" mons, basically making them the equivalent of cannibalistic serial killers.
The Adamant Orb in this continuity grants time control powers on top of its canon abilities of powering up and summoning Dialga. What does Tagg tend to most often use it for? Getting a full night's sleep in only a few minutes by exploiting its Year Inside, Hour Outside time dilation effect.
The usage of the Hammerspace backpacks as tents and sleeping bags due to their infinite volume.
Pianis uses Sparkplug the Frost Rotom as a refrigerator.
During a party for the proto J-Team in Unova, Heatran's back is used as a grill.
My Skull Runneth Over: Everyone's reaction to having memories from both timelines in the AU arc.
Discussed by Tagg and Fool when they share their mutual experiences as a field researcher and someone who was Raised By Animals and is often invoked in both of their thoughts about the subject.
When Helios rescues Algira in the alternate timeline, by knocking the Swellow hunting her and her friends into a lake, they chatter happily while the Swellow is suggested to be being eaten in the background. Helios invokes the trope by name.
Kirk learns this firsthand when he ends up in Kalos and gets his meal stolen by a Hydreigon, who mocks him about being a weak "pet" unfit for wild life.
Neglectful Precursors: Tens if not hundreds of millenia before the rise of humanity, the dominant species were the Metagross and Alakazam, who created rival civilizations. Following their activation of the Mt. Pyre supervolcano, which the weather trio sacrificed their lives to prevent from fully erupting, the legendaries wiped both civilizations from the face of the earth for their arrogance. Chrome, Lina's Metagross, happens to be a survivor of the original Metagross civilization.
New Eden: During the course of Team Earthbound, Nova, and other's adventures in PMD-B, they find that many of the old cities have gotten a new coating of green. Azalea for instance was completely swallowed by Ilex Forest.
Tagg nearly does this to two Cipher Peons in Almia before the police pull him off them.
Fool ends up beating a poacher to death this way during the OI arc.
Psyche in her backstory ended up getting mauled by Scrafty so badly that she was rendered mute, deaf in one ear, and was forced to wear a leg brace.
Diane ends up beating Vedfolnir (A cyborg Staraptor) to a virtual pulp with a Close Combat.
In their final confrontation in the Orre arc, Odin beats Chrome so hard with his Powered Armor that his armor plating actually cracks.
Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted, the human and Pokémon characters alike have aged throughout the course of the RP due to it being done in semi-real time, with birthdays being acknowledged.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: DS unknowingly made a few comments that inspired the Impossible Thief Emolga to steal Tagg's cynical side. As a result, Nihilist!Tagg was unleashed, and some of the trainers had to fight for their lives while DS went off to find the Emolga and get Tagg's cynical side back so he could be returned to normal.
Tagg ends up starting the Keystone arc by taking Annoski's Keystone to the spot it needs to be for him to revive.
During PMD-B Tagg's group allowing the last two Super Mutants to get away doomed Necropolis by having the Master send his army to destroy the place in reprisal.
Nightmare Sequence: Fool goes through a rather freaky one during the AU Arc in which she sees herself (The one she identifies as "Sol") using the corpses of Pokemon that she murdered as marionette puppets. A Shout-Out to a very similar scene in Felidae
Happens to Sakura not too long after her debut, she mentions that it happens frequently, but they stopped once she found Lyuri.
No Dead Body Poops: Averted in the case of a hunted Rapidash, and is actually discussed at an earlier point.
Noodle Incident: Several of these have been brought up, and some of the things that are mentioned to happen off-screen also qualify for this trope.
After returning to their human forms after defeating Missingno, the trainers discovered they still had the ability to understand Pokémon speech.
Some of them do it intentionally by using the armbands just because of said ability.
Lyuri still has the ability of using Aura after being turned into a Lucario hybrid, despite being turned back to normal, and before her, Kim and Lily after being turned into a Riolu and Mienfoo respectively.
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The AU arc caused some radical changes in the RP both in-universe and in the meta.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: You'd think that two Go-Rock Squad Admins would be easy for our heroes to defeat. You thought wrong. The two of them gave our heroes quite a run for their money before Casval and Pentigan's actions helped turn the tide by temporarily fixing Gordor's pipe organ Power Styler and breaking their control over their hordes of Tyranitar and Metagross, as well as their secondary instruments getting stolen by Librarian's Hitmonchan.
Off Screen Teleportation: The group fly off to Sandgem town to ask Professor Rowan some questions, but after the others have already left, Daisy remembers that she doesn't have a flying Pokemon with her. When the others arrive at the lab, Daisy suddenly shows up with no explaination of how she got there. No one seems to notice.
Frequently happens when a character is inactive thanks to the player being busy or something along these lines.
Oh Crap! There Are Fanfics of Us...: Happened first around the GC Arc when the J-Team found out about the fanbase. Happens occasionaly when newer members learn about the fanbase.
One-Winged Angel: Pretty much every evil aspect has one or more of these.
Only Known by Their Nickname: About 80% of the cast goes by a nickname of some sort, either due to personal preference or to protect their identities.
Out, Damned Spot!: Fool has a moment like this after she regains her memories and is mentally confronted with the murders of people and Pokemon that she was directly responsible for.
Pals with Jesus: The group is, as a whole, good friends with Palkia and other legendary Pokémon due to inadvertent events in the past.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Lenore (Fool's Hydreigon) and Ammy use these to get their own Trainer's Licenses - they wore fake moustaches and trenchcoats. Lenore's case is more notable, because while Ammy was wearing a Pokemon-to-Human armband, Lenore wore the disguise as a Hydreigon.
Pen Name: "MidnightSun197", a writer of romantic in-universe fanfic, is actually Sunny, Mezzo's Umbreon.
Pensieve Flashback: Psychics can use their powers to allow people and Pokémon within a certain radius to see the memories of themselves and others as observers. Aura can be kneaded into the projection to get around the difficulties most Dark types have with this.
Place of Power: The Aura Nexuses around the world, which give increased powers to those in the Auric Quartet (Aura, Psychic Powers, Ghost Obscura, Dark Obscura).
Also what happens to the poor, poor, MAFIAA-serving mons tasked with taking Dintel to more or less the in-universe version of Hell. It ends up with them kicking him out of there.
AU: Umbra getting sealed in an orb when he was the Ghost Lord, Hoenn getting flooded, Sinnoh suffering the Distortion, and Anom's Scolipede and Artemis taking over Unova.
PMD-B: The dragons succeeding in turning 99% of humanity into Pokémon.
Otherverse: The earliest known important divergence is Grings Kodai using Azalea instead of Crown City for his Celebi plot.
Poor Communication Kills: Caitlin's Sigilyph notices Alder's eyes glowing briefly while he speaks to Caitlin, who is starting to lose control of her psychic powers because of 'M. Realizing that Alder may be controlled by 'M, Sigilyph tries to warn Caitlin's other Pokémon. Unfortunately, said Sigilyph happens to be The Unintelligible.
Portal Network: The Entralink in this verse is capable of facilitating multidimensional travel with its counterparts in other universes, though it can be unreliable in this regard.
The Power of Friendship: DS invokes this in order to use the Lustrous Orb to revive the petrified Palkia during the AU arc.
The Power of Love: It's heavily implied that Wolf's feelings for DS are what allowed him to come back to life.
Pronoun Trouble: Virizion. Usually people just go with whatever gendered pronoun gets used first, but so far Virizion is the only one who everyone has pronoun trouble with.
It eventually sparked a debate between Anom and Jane.
The main point of the Abbyfall quest in PMD-B was to prevent the Bay region of Hoenn from exploding into war once again.
Tagg's group in PMD-B hands over the letter stating the Hoennese royal family's claim to the Pokepanese throne to the Hoennese emperor in order to head off any wars of regional supremacy by powers who would view it as a threat.
The Quisling: In the RtAU arc, Vallok gets some draconic humons to betray their species in return for better treatment, including Benjamin old classmate Reggie, who now goes by Julkriid.
Some later members include two immortals, and a telepath.
Resurrective Immortality: The weather trio will respawn on the off-chance they're killed, though it make take anywhere from merely months to centuries for them to come back.
Ready for Lovemaking: At some point and while their adopted daughter is busy somewhere else, Harriet the female Honchkrow tidies the nest and leaves just the right amount of space besides her for Copahue the male Fearow to fit in.
Real Time: For the most part, a day IRL equals a day IRP, which means that characters age as the RP goes on. For example, Tagg aging from 19 to 22 from 2011 to 2013.
Even though DS was seemingly killed in a flashback during the AU arc, it turns out she was merely imprisoned in the dimension where most of the legendary Pokémon had been imprisoned.
Also somewhat played with when DS and the Lake Trio discover that Palkia was basically petrified all along.
Research Inc: The type of Mega Corp. the PEFE happens to be, focused mainly on the betterment of Pokémon and humans alike.
Retcon: There have been several of these, not always done on purpose.
Ret Gone: Ribbons the Gothitelle, and several other Pokémon that were born because of the trainers vanish when the timeline was altered. However, Helios and Limna managed to avoid this fate thanks to the power of the Adamant Orb making them time paradoxes.
Performed on David by Gamer, Tagg, and Jane. In their defense, he had it coming.
Tagg ends up doing a one man version during the Orre arc.
Room Full of Crazy: The castle where King Jellicent and his family live.
Rules Lawyering: The dragons decide to turn humans into Pokémon because if they tried to simply outright slaughter them the legendaries would eliminate them like they did the Alakagross due to the rules of the Vow dictating conduct between humans and Pokémon.
Tagg's Zweilous and later Hydreigon wanting to eat someone or something.
People forgetting about Slouch.
MGMT (Fool's Eelektross) being referred to as an overpowered jukebox.
AU!Chase telling the Resistance something involving hard work, and a random crowd of Resistance members responding with "Yay".
Any delays in Pentigan responding to posts when there isn't anyone else around is caused by rogue agents of Scolipede.
Even when not in the AU arc.
Forte being described as whiny.
Maggie getting her pants removed in some fashion.
Doopliss trolling Straw and/or Crewe.
Straw dying and coming back to life.
Ever having to do some sort of odd job.
The WAAPT chatroom has some of these as well.
When in doubt, blame Cyrus
DAMN IT, NAPOLEON
DAMMIT,X
Eskay getting disconnected, then saying "Dammit iPod" upon return
Oran Berries fix everything.
[Someone] x [Someone else] OTP!
Anom turning into another person.
Silent['s mon] kicks a random pebble.
Every setting an anonymous login on fire, only for it to turn out to be another player, especially Star.
Chatroom Gamer is OP!
When Crewe gets tired, expect bagels. Lots of bagels.
Sand in My Eyes: Before she began opening up to the rest of the group, DS had at least two instances of this. There has probably been other instances of this trope from some of the other characters as well.
The Savage South: Quest Island of the greater Sevii Islands chain is a sparsely inhabited, unforgiving place filled with dangerous Pokmeon such as Tyranitar and Skarmory.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Jane abandons the group after having to put up with an endless barrage of R-Rated material thanks to 'M.
Earlier on, Unite the Rufflet abandons Luke, thinking that he'll never evolve into a Braviary while on his team. Luke doesn't take this well.
Wolf falls in love with DS, but she doesn't know that and only considers him as a friend at first. Later, Wolf confesses his feelings for DS and kisses her (after turning into a girl). They eventually get together after Wolf changes back.
Rebecca the Serperior so far has two suitors; Goggles the Krookodile and Blacky the Zoroark.
Though her true suitor ends up being Antoine the Scrafty
Apparently, Pentigan was in love with Susan the Lopunny, Jane, and Daisy.
There's also a show based off of the J-Team's adventures, but since it ended up causing a bit of trouble for the J-Team by revealing or in some cases, coming close to revealing certain things about some of the J-Team members that would make them targets. For this reason, DS is currently working on the concept for a reboot of the show, having reimagined her friends and adventures to fit into a fantasy setting.
Sleep Cute: Wolf and DS have done this on several occasions. Other characters and several of the Pokémon also do this sometimes.
Anom seems to have a bad habit of doing this by complete accident, and then having a rather awkward awakening. So far this has happened with Fool(Waking up), Star, and DS.
The Smurfette Principle:At the beginning, the only girl was The Chick, Daisy. Then Janecame along. Later on, Palkia was revealed to be female, and it just snowballed from there. It's gotten to the point where there are slightly more female main characters than male ones (not counting gender-bent ones).
Socially-Awkward Hero: Most of the main cast, to varying degrees. Sakura is notable due to being this is in the past, but when she's introduced in the RP, she's actually very sociable.
Something Only They Would Say: After Wolf and Anom switch bodies, Jane attempts one, asking Anom-in-Wolf's Body a question Anom would know the answer to, but is disappointed when he doesn't give her the answer she was hoping for.
Before that, Pentigan attempted one of these by asking a question Wolf would know the answer to. When Anom nearly fails to answer the question correctly, Pentigan threatens to send out his Victini to attack him. He is called out on it.
Spanner in the Works: A Sandshrew so cute and childish as Dintel can't possibly be a threat to Lelouch's taking over Hoenn, right? RIGHT???
Speaks Fluent Monese: The main cast at the time after the end of the PMD arc keeps the ability to understand Pokémon after being transformed back into humans.
Wolf gains this skill after his her ordeal in the glitchy Twist Mountain, and Crewe picks it up in the Dream World.
Other characters that join later on gain the skill by wearing the human-to-Pokémon armband for a little while or taking a trip to one of the two PMD universes.
Jane and Fool end up fighting a swarm of Ariados while searching for Troll Orbs.
A swarm of Ariados nearly killed Every in his backstory, leading to a lifelong fear of the species.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: One ability of Aura in this continuity is to make Hard Light weapon constructs, similar to how Lucario use Bone Club in the Pokémon anime. Tagg, however, is incapable of creating anything but chains without using his dagger.
Take Over the World: Both Artemis the Liepard and Anom's Scolipede plan to do this.
In the alternate timeline of the alternate timeline arc, they somehow succeeded.
Taken for Granite: Palkia, during the AU arc, until she was restored to normal with the Lustrous Orb.
Take That: 49 named his annoying Chatot, Pauly Shore.
Take That Kiss: Crewe ends up giving one of these to Herbert of all people.
Taking the Bullet: When Napoleon tries to stab Artemis, Mira takes the hit instead and is fatally injured.
The Team: The main group becomes this after it reaches eighteen members.
Tempting Fate: The trainers tend to do this at times.
That Poor Cat: Has happened a few times, with the cat in question each time being Artemis, DS' Purrloin. This continues to happen even after she evolves into Liepard. Not always played for laughs as it sometimes occurs when Artemis is hit by an attack from another Pokémon during a battle.
The Good King: Of all of the Warlords in Ransei, Sabaku is the only one that always puts the safety and livelihood of his people ahead of any kind of desire for power or conquest. He even submits himself to civilian authority, and asks for permission from the leaders of Terrera's guilds before he officially declares war on the Nixtorm-Valora Alliance.
Gogie doesn't particularly want to talk about his time with Jay, what happened with Biton around Christmas time or what happened with Skoll and Morrigan.
Dune tries to keep the topic away from his family whenever possible.
Tagg doesn't like talking about what happened to him in the Under, the Adamant Orb's true power, the battle of Cellafron in the AU, or what happened to AU!DS and Wolf in the PMD-B timeline.
ˇThree Amigos!: Gamer, Tagg, and Jane, during the earlier arcs.
Teala the Druddigon takes one after taking Oslwa training.
Stratus defeating a holographic Mewtwo about as powerful as the real one.
Sakura progressively gets better as the RP goes on, as do some of her mons like Dylan and Seth. Sakura takes a particularly big level in Orre once she steals Verax's gun just before he was able to shoot her dead and held him at gunpoint until his Hydreigon bailed him out. This is only minimally dampened when it's later revealed he still could have easily killed her.
Translation Convention: It's implied in some instances that the player characters aren't always speaking English, not to mention the use of brackets to represent the use of Monese.
Transformation Trinket: Two armbands that allow Pokémon to turn into humans and one that allows humans to turn into Pokémon.
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Toxicroak, Fade, and Gyru build a machine with the intent of gaining control of the Fourth Wall itself. During this, even the chatrooms are affected.
Twin Threesome Fantasy: Mezzo has one between herself, Every, and PEFE!Every, his doppelganger.
Duke, Lyuri and Sakura in Unova-2, thanks to the former being human at the time and the third member of the girl trio, Hikari, being away for most of the arc.
Sam, Herbert and Carol, whenever the three of them are together.
Amanita, Pianis, and Onion make another such trio.
Tagg, Herbert, and Ammy form one in Ransei.
Under The Mistletoe: During the group's stay in Crewe's home for the holidays, Myra gets a piece of mistletoe, and hangs it over Alyssa and Jeff. Eventually, other people end up under it, such as Sakura and Rawst. When Crewe and Straw ended up under it, Crewe ended up kissing Doopliss, in human form.
Similar shenanigans happened when several members attended a Christmas at Ren's family's manor in Johto.
Urban Warfare: Showcased in the battles of Celadon and Goldenrod during the AU arc.
Villainous Legacy: The Seven Jerk Dragons transformation of most of the human population of the PMD-B timeline is directly responsible for the state of that universe when the J-Team visits it. Specifically, Bahahkun's descendant Maleficent had designs on starting a whole new dragon war, which were cut short when she died.
Villainous Valor: Despite being knowingly outnumbered and outmatched Melinda's mons, and her Chandelure in particular, chose to fight against the J-Team anyway after her car got forced off the road after being chased for capturing DS and Mirage.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Crewe and Vierr constantly make sharp jabs at each other (the former quite literally), yet they still seem to consider each other friends.
Voices Are Mental: Played straight when Jane and Palkia, and DS and Artemis switch bodies. Averted when Wolf and Anom switch bodies.
We Are Everywhere: Tagg actually says this almost verbatim to refer to the PEFE's very long reach throughout the regions.
But a solemn morning when her parents read: "Solana Malkewitz, officially dead"
I can't help him like this, and I'm not letting my son die the same way I did!
Thanks for saving my boyfriend.
Sakura...I'm dead."
What Happened to the Mouse?: There were a few of these, including the random disappearances and reappearances by Mewtwo, the fate of Pink the Audino's parents and what happened to the Azure Flute, but these have since been answered in later story arcs.
World Half Full: Tagg points out that while the universe of PMD-B isn't perfect, it certainly isn't a total lost cause.
World of Weirdness: The world of WAAPT is in a word, strange, but most people go about their regular lives.
Written-In Infirmity: Jane's writer getting a period actually factored into the plot, and players have had their characters catch any illness they've gotten in order to excuse any non-involvement in a plot.
Yank the Dog's Chain: The PMD-B timeline can be viewed as this at first, since the AU managed to rid itself of its biggest problems only to have dragons turn most of everyone into Pokémon and mostly rid the Earth of human civilization.
Yin-Yang Bomb: Vierr, who has Auric and Psychic abilities as well as both Dark and Ghost Obscura, although he is not at all experienced with any of the four.
More competently, are Nightmare and Spirit, a pair of Delta Stantler with Psychic/Dark and Fighting/Ghost typings respectively.
It's implied during Portales' backstory that the homeworld of the Elgyem species somehow got destroyed or otherwise rendered uninhabitable, meaning that the Elgyem and Beheeyem that managed to make it to Earth may be the Last Of Their Kind.
Fool, Michelle, and Roderich were permanently banished after the former two ended up killing the Simipour they were supposed to be forcibly mated with due to troop hierarchy.
This also happened to former Scolemis soldiers who defected from Dragonspiral Tower in the AU, including Mira.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Anom, Luke, Fool, and Mezzo all have blue hair. Wolf and Gamer have green. Sakura and Maggie have pink. Anom mentions having brown hair in the story, though. This is either artistic liscense or simply a Retcon.
Played with in Gamer's example, as he actually dyes his hair that color. As does Sakura.
Your Cheating Heart: Ammy ends up cheating on Umbra with Vlad, due to confusion regarding her feelings, resulting in an egg. Umbra and Ammy do end up back together though.
Pokemon is known for its extensive collection of fanmade music. We Are All Pokémon Trainers is no exception; Eskay has begun composing a soundtrack for the RP, although it is far from complete.
, or WAAPT, is a Pokémon Play By Post Game created by gamerex27 where all of the participants are Pokemon Trainers. The plot starts off with a Talking Heads bit about all the people randomly showing up in an airport headed to Sinnoh. Then Missingno shows up, turns Canalave City into a mountain of eggs, and Mewtwo shows up to tell the group that they need the help of Legendary Pokemon to defeat the Anomaly. Things just continue to get more insane from there.In an epic Fanverse which has so far included a pair of Mary Sues, five Pokemon researchers, a former-NPC, a Mystery Man by the name of Pentigan, an ex-Pokemon Ranger, a Dark-Type Gym Leader in training, more ex-champions than you can shake a stick at, basically the whole of the known Pokeverse (and some of the unknown portions), virtually every Legendary Pokemon in existence, and alternate universes, arcs are common and epicness ensues.Due to the RP evolving from a forum game with no real canon, the events happening in the earliest arcs are slightly subject to Broad Strokes Canon and Early-Installment Weirdness, and may not accurately represent the current state of the RP.Has a wiki
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