History AshesOfThePast / TropesDToF

** Several Double-battle teams in the Ever Grande conference have this tactic, including a Machamp with a [[ShamuFu Magikarp]] (it evolves mid-battle, but is taken out before its partner can try to do the same with the new Gyarados), an Ariados with a [[EpicFlail Roggenrola]], and a Pelipper with a water-boosted [[ActionBomb Pineco]].

* DangerSense: All Absol have a "disaster sense" that tells them about disasters that are likely to occur. Unfortunately, that sense goes haywire once they get a look at [[WalkingDisasterArea Ash]], which causes them to FreakOut and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere try to run away]]. Ash's own Absol from Forina is an exception, as she specializes in "chance-dancing", and is eventually able to see the nuances of the disasters surrounding her trainer. [[spoiler: Even she lost control, though, when mega-evolution took her senses UpToEleven.]]

** No one expected the [[spoiler:Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon]] event to occur, and it has been confirmed that Ash and Co. never had to deal with that in the original timeline.

** The Legendary Beasts can run ''fast''. So fast, in fact, that Raikou's challenge against Ash passes through a reserve, where catching Pokemon is illegal, and right under the noses of some alert Rangers. Oops.
** Team Aqua and Team Magma didn't think about what would happen with [[spoiler: Kyogre and Groudon both undergoing Primal Reversion.]]
** When a spar with Norman's newly Mega Lopunny sends both him and Blaziken up into the sky, after May uses Altaria to catch him, Blaziken points out that 1, she could have just returned him, and 2, he knows two moves that send him up that high all the time, so he could have just come back down himself, causing her to {{Facepalm}} (though Norman was the one who suggested it in order to get May and Altaria to bond).

** Mavis's Pokemon have trouble keeping their attacks ''not'' excessively strong. The number of times her team has wrecked her own gym can attest to that.

** When a Skuntank tries to spray Lucario, not only is he able to shield his nostrils with Aura, he then proceeds to use the skunk Pokemon as a very nasty flail against its allies.

** Several Double-battle teams in the Ever Grande conference have this tactic, including a Machamp with a [[ShamuFu Magikarp]] (though it evolves mid-battle, it's taken out before its partner can try to do the same with the new Gyarados), an Ariados with a [[EpicFlail Roggenrola]] and a Pelipper with a water-boosted [[ActionBomb Pineco]].
** Ash's new Honedge counts, [[spoiler: since he's used to wielding her when she was once an ordinary ornamental sword]]. When used in multi-battles, her teammates also often wield her as such.

* EvilVersusOblivion: The purpose of Rocket executives, or at least the department the promoted Jessie, James, and Meowth are in. You can't rule or make a profit in a destroyed world, so ''somebody'' needs to point [[IdiotHero Idiot Heroes]] in the right direction to protect all those potential victims. This doesn't mean that Team Rocket as a whole is a group of good guys now, they still run shady operations like not-entirely-legal gambling, it more means that they want to prevent people from rocking the boat too much.
** [[spoiler:Case in point, they show up to assist whenever something like Primal Kyogre and Groudon shows up, and assist Ash in holding them at bay.]]

** A distracted Roxanne asks how many ''Hoenn'' Gym Badges Ash has. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Ash]] answers none. HilarityEnsues. Roxanne later decides to word her questions more carefully in the future. (In fairness, Ash did double-check that she was serious about her challenge level.)

** Iris has to do a report on the history of Gyms in Unova, and she's not liking it. Upon a closer look at the assignment, she decides to just do it on the history of ''one'' Gym, one she likes, because that isn't disallowed.

** Byron wants his gym destroyed during Ash's challenge (since he wants to rebuild it anyway) without any collateral damage to the surrounding area. [[spoiler:Giratina packs the entire building off to the Reverse World.]]

*** Similarly, ''Voice of the Forest'' is also amped up because the Iron Masked Marauder steals the Pokemon of the Team Rocket agents dispatched by Giovanni on the [=TRio=]'s tip-off.

** A mass revival of Fossil Pokemon occured in Sinnoh 6 despite not happening the first time around.

* ForScience: Steve's Metagross is quite excited after Pikachu hits it with a boosted Volt Crash. Steve's other Pokemon all hide behind Entei for protection.

** And then Ash and Co. encounter a second Fossil Rampage in Oreburgh City.

* FreakyFridayFlip: As in canon, Manaphy using Heart Swap on any two people or Pokémon. When the two are from different species, it's actually a crippling move, as the targets don't have any practice using their new limbs (especially if they're wings).
* FridgeLogic: In-universe, the characters sometimes [[LampshadeHanging question some piece of logic]], usually from the games, Pokédex lore or anime.
** Ash being able to carry small Pokemon that should actually be too heavy for him to carry, such as Larvitar and Hippopotas. In this timeline he can use Aura as an explanation; in the old timeline he had no such excuse.

** Similarly, James' Koffing/Weezing used Counter in the anime, but cannot learn it on the games. Blaine can't understand how Weezing uses it in his gym.

** After the gang is introduced to Z-Moves, Brock asks why a Pokemon can apparently only carry a Mega Stone ''or'' a Z-Crystal, and not both.

** One prominent example occurs during the events of Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys. May, Brock and Drew have intercepted the haywire robots, have found the core robot, have gotten a pass up to it to give the main control room a chance to reset them... only to realize that they never ''told'' anyone in the control room to ''do'' anything.

** Paul lampshades this when he learns of his previous self's choices when fighting Cynthia.
** Lugia finds a few problems with his housesitting of Altomare while the Eon twins are out: he's a bit too big for the garden, a lot too big for the canals, and he can't turn invisible or shapeshift.

** The Legendary Beasts can run ''fast''. So fast, in fact, that Raikou's challenge against Ash passes through a reserve, where catching Pokemon is illegal, and right under the noses of some alert Rangers. Oops.

* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Ash and Donphan win a skateboard race, and thus win Mawile's egg, even though Squirtle and Pikachu finished first, because Squirtle's Horn Drill Breaker, while propelling himself and Pikachu to the finish line in record time, also disintegrated their skateboard in midair.

** In Chapter 280, Infernape and Gliscore experiment with using Gible as a Draco Meteor "artillery shell", though this strat seems to be up in the air [[spoiler:after his evolution]].

** People and Pokémon that Ash can remind of the old timeline always look brighter in Aura Sight. When Ash activated Aura Sight for the first time in the story, he could see Misty, who was an hour or so away from him, [[spoiler: but he didn't see Gary, even though he had left just a short while before Ash did. When Ash meets Zoey, who can't be reminded, he takes her to the Lake Guardians to find out the matter, and it turns out that she was at Spear Pillar trying to stop Cyrus in the old timeline, just like Gary, and that proximity to the time collapse inhibited the memory restoration.]]

* EvilVersusOblivion: The purpose of Rocket executives, or at least the department the promoted Jessie, James, and Meowth are in. You can't rule or make a profit in a destroyed world, so ''somebody'' needs to point [[IdiotHero Idiot Heroes]] in the right direction to protect all those potential victims. This doesn't mean that Team Rocket as a whole is a group of good guys now, it more means that they want to prevent people from rocking the boat too much.

* TheDreaded: Ash, after winning the Indigo League Champion. He became even more feared after ''Spell of the Unown'', where Charizard[[spoiler:, after some bizarre Mega Evolution activation and transitioning,]] started beating back [[spoiler: the Unown-created Raikou, Suicune and]] Entei on live television.

* DynamicEntry: When running to save an injured Houndoor, Ash jumps off a cliff and lands on a Golem, hitting it with Force Palm in the process.

** A distracted Roxanne asked how many ''Hoenn'' Gym Badges Ash had. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Ash]] answered none. HilarityEnsues. Roxanne later decides to word her questions more carefully in the future.
** As a pre-gym challenge, Wattson tells Max he and his team have to stay on Raikou for 30 seconds. He ''means'' his robo-Raikou bucking bronco, but Max knows where to find another, calmer, ''real-life'' Raikou instead, and just sits on his back, and since his team were all in his Poké-balls on his belt, they stayed on too. Wattson takes this in good humor, though Max says that, if he hadn't, he would have just shocked the robot until it stopped working and sat on it then.

--->[[spoiler:'''Giratina''': I believe I have met the requirement for the battle. Where your gym once stood is now only a hole.]]

** When Eusine meets Morty (at the moment in the middle of a Gym Battle with Ash) he excitedly talks about his new findings about various legendary Pokémon trios in Johto and Unova... not noticing that a good number of the Pokémon he mentioned were seated in the stands watching Ash's battle with Morty at that moment (as well as their copies). Ash lampshades it by his increasingly louder not-laughter.
** Distracted by homework marking, asking him [[ExactWords how many Hoenn badges he has]] and him not wearing his (in-universe) iconic blue outfit, Roxanne fails to recognize Ash as a multi-League winner and gives him a beginner's gym challenge. HilarityEnsues.
** One not PlayedForLaughs: [[spoiler: With it having been several centuries since the last time they fought using that power, coupled with a thick layer of ash from a volcanic eruption, Rayquaza doesn't notice that Groudon and Kyogre have underwent Primal Reversion until [[DynamicEntry he's charging right at them with Dragon Ascent]]. Groudon gets his claws on him, and a CurbStompBattle [[EnemyMine from the both of them]] ensues.]]

* {{Fainting}}: Crogunk faints when he hears about [[spoiler:Brock having a girlfriend]].

* ForScience: Steve's Metagross is quite excited after Pikachu hits it with a boosted Volt Crash.

-->'''Ash''': [[DeadpanSnarker Octillery]].
-->'''Brock''': Probably.[[note]]Since, [[DontExplainTheJoke you know]], Remoraid DOES evolve into Octillery at Level 25.[[/note]]

* DiscardAndDraw:
** Paul gives away Chimchar to Ash because he couldn't work with his training style, but asks Ash to get another Pokémon that will. Ash obliges with a ChallengeSeeker of a Cranidos.
** Roland, after evolving into a Gallade, mentions that he'd ''just'' gotten used to being able to NoSell Dragon types when facing one (Gallade loses his Fairy subtyping in exchange for a Fighting subtype).

* FastballSpecial: Lucario, who knows Fling, seems to be especially guilty of this. Pikachu tends to be his favored projectile.

* FastballSpecial: Lucario, who knows Fling, seems to be especially guilty of this.

** Ash's new Honedge counts, [[spoiler: since he's used to wielding her when she was once an ordinary ornamental sword]].

* FlatWhat: Ash gives a very well deserved one upon hearing that [[spoiler: Team Rocket somehow caught a Moltres.]]
** [[spoiler: Baron Alberto's reaction to the idea of him becoming a Lickilicky]].
* {{Flynning}}: What happens when Keldeo goes up against Norman's Ditto.

** Grings Kodai briefly appears when Silver takes a wrong turn when trying to find the Temple of the Sea. Saphroneth [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that Silver got so lost he ended up in the wrong movie.

* FreakyFridayFlip: As in canon, Manaphy using Heart Swap on any two people or Pokémon.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: If Jessie and James catching a Relicanth for his mother in any indication, Giovanni seems close to said mother, despite his criminal activities.

** One unavoidable problem is that the original anime was self-contained with just one hundred and fifty Pokémon in the Kanto region. So certain plot points - like Sabrina's father saying that you "Need a Ghost-type to fight Psychic-types" - don't make nearly as much sense in a world where Dark-types (which can NoSell psychic attacks) are known to exist, but didn't exist at the time the episodes were made (or Psychic getting {{Nerf}}ed by later generations).

* DramaticIrony: After the events in [[Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior Gracidea Vale]], Cyrus finds it amusing that [[spoiler: Ash would be trying Remind Giratina but can't because of the PerceptionFilter and the fact that the Lake Trio have been captured. Joke's on him; Azelf managed to transfer Giratina's Reminded memories to Ash before they got captured, meaning Giratina ''can'' be Reminded and rendered immune to Galactic's anti-meme effect.]]

* {{Doorstopper}}: As of the 181st update, the fic now exceeds a ''1.7 million words''. It also has 275 chapters.

* DiscardAndDraw: Paul gives away Chimchar to Ash because he couldn't work with his training style, but asks Ash to get another Pokémon that will. Ash obliges with a ChallengeSeeker of a Cranidos.

** When Norman's Lopunny Mega Evolves, he, angry at Casper mocking him about how his Mega Evolution makes him look even more feminine, and kicks him. Casper, unaware that Mega Lopunny has the Scrappy ability that allows Normal-type attacks to hit Ghosts, goes flying.