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Web Comic: Super Effective

A Pok�mon-based webcomic by Scott Ramsoomair. It is ongoing, but updates slowly and irregularly. The comic is a humorous take on the plot of the (remakes of the) first generation of Pok�mon games (specifically, being based on the creator's run through his own Pok�mon Fire Red game). It can be seen here

There is a nascent character sheet; please place tropes pertaining to characters shown in this work there.

Tropes used in this work:

Anguished Declaration of Love: The infamous Shorts Boy appears like this, trying to tell Green she's cute. He instead spouts his infamous line, causing his own Face Palm.
Blatant Lies: Viridian City's Gym Leader is not trying to conquer the world, he's just getting his milk.
Breaking News: As delivered by Slowpoke whenever a famous person dies, utilizing Delayed Reaction.
Big Damn Heroes: Charmander versus the Zubat swarm.
Brick Joke: On page 14 the old man that shows you how to catch Pok�mon falls asleep. Five pages later he wakes up and finishes what he was saying.
Delayed Reaction: Slowpoke of the "This Just In" segments.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: "If we came from Mankeys... THEN WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MANKEYS?!"
Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Brock thinks it's funny that some Trainers chose a Fire-type starter before coming to his Gym first (Both of Brock's Pok�mon are dual-type Rock/Ground, both of which have type advantage over the Fire-type, which in short would make for a humiliating defeat to Red's Charmander).
Emoticon: Nurse Joy's facial expression exhibits traces of the "Awesome Smiley" on this page.
Enfant Terrible: Green, who taunts older men with innuendo and mows the tall grass wild Pok�mon hide in..
- Also, rather than training her Bulbasaur she just forces a couple dozen Rare Candies down its throat.
Eye Take: Brock after Red's Charmander defeats his Onix.
Face Palm: Red hurt himself in the confusion.
- Shorts Boy does this after messing up an Anguished Declaration of Love to Green.
Fearful Symmetry: ZUBAT USED SUPERSONIC!
Freud Was Right: Invoked in the second "Who's that Pokemon?" strip.
Hello, Insert Name Here: Parodied with Blue, or as Red named him, DOUCHE.
Innocent Innuendo: Brock wants to go with Red on his journey and breed.
The Last Horse Crosses The Finish Line: The Slowpoke News will report on subjects that happened over anywhere between half a year and 3 DECADES earlier. Somehow, it's 2nd installment also managed to combine this trope with Too Soon...
Level Grinding: Lampshaded and discussed. After watching him shuffle around the same patch of grass for hours on end, two NPC trainers wonder if Red has gone insane.
Mirror Match: Red's Zubat vs. Rocket Grunt's Zubat.
The Missingno.: Provides the page imag-GUFY3W4578GTWUFBIOEUDOFJOE45#%219^&$nnnnnnnnnnn
Mythology Gag: *ahem* "Prepare for trouble."
- The Clefairy Red finds in Mt. Moon appears to be wearing a small Moon Stone, like the one Ash meets in The Electric Tale of Pikachu.
"No. Just... No" Reaction: Red's response to Brock's request to tag along on his journey so that they can breed.
- Also— "It's my PEE..." a revelation of how Repels are made.
Oblivious Mockery: Brock, while standing next to Red, who just happens to have chosen fire:
Brock: You know, some people actually come here choosing FIRE as their starter Pok�mon. Crazy, huh?
Only Sane Man: To some extent, Red is the human character who seems to make the most sense. Prof. Oak is forgetful, his assistant is a pedophile, Green is an Enfant Terrible, the Old Man is a geezer who complains about the term "evolution", Brock is creepy, the Team Rocket grunt tries to enforce his decrees by Pok�mon battles, the pok�maniac is all too willing to battle someone who just untied him, and Red's Pok�dex can't get over its juvenile sense of humor. About the only characters that have more sanity than Red are those two kids on Page 32 (see Level Grinding above).
The Power of Friendship: Red tries to forcefully capture Clefairy, but it escapes and looks sternly back at him. Can't blame a guy for trying... Clefairy shrugs it off and willingly captures itself afterward.
Rare Candy: Green dumps an ENTIRE case into her Bulbasaur.
- G-Rated Drug: She calls the Rare Candies drugs.
Senior Sleep Cycle: The Old Man in Viridian City.
Shout Out: This one to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and the health-care debate and the Awesome Smiley.
- It belongs in a museum!
- Here's one alluding to Jurassic Park, Specifically the second movie. Raptor in the grass? Clever girl.
- This one references the ongoing Pok�mon versus Digimon "debate"/Fandom Rivalry, coupled with a Take That to the latter series.
The Silent Bob: Subverted. Red may play this trope straight, but Word Of God says that the addition of the Pok�dex allows the main character to have a voice (even if it is one he very rarely agrees with).
Silent Protagonist: Red, who never says a word.
The Smurfette Principle: Green, to a minor extent. She is the only female main character.
So Much For Stealth
Take That: To Digimon. Who's That Pok�mon?
Title Drop: Page 34 when Charmander gets a Critical Hit on Geodude.
Ungrateful Bastard: A mild example with the Super Nerd Red rescued from Team Rocket. He offered Red a fossil...only if Red battles him first. Naturally, Red tied him back up and made on his way. It helps that Red is very much an Audience Surrogate at this moment, as anyone who has played the games wanted to clock the guy in the jaw.
Unsound Effect: This comic loves using them. It's Pok�mon, after all.
- *Wiggle* *Wiggle*
- *Laughter* *Applause*
- *Shake* *Shake*
- SOCK!
- *Shuffle* *Shuffle* *Shuffle*
- *RAPED*
- *Rock Blocked*. Now that's just pushing it.
- BIDOOF!
- Dee Doot Doo!
  - Although this one is most likely supposed to represent music that plays when a Pok�mon evolves.
- POOCH!
Urban Legend of Zelda: A famous one is referenced here.
Scott: Down+A, Down+B, Up+b, etc... Personally I only pressed Down+B. In all it did nothing... But it felt like it did... To me. :(
Videogame Cruelty Potential & Videogame Perversity Potential: Running themes with naming. Red names his rival "Douche," and his Pok�dex tends to suggest perverse or simply childish names for the Pok�mon Red captures. So far, his Pidgey is named Butts ("Butts used Gust!"), but he's decided against naming Metapod Penis ("Penis used Harden!").