History AshesOfThePast / TropesGToK

* IncrediblyLamePun: After the Fuchsia Free-for-all, Lara congratulates Ash on giving her Rapidash a good run, "In fact, that was positively rapid, Ash!" Ash doesn't quite groan, but he's left asking "Why?"

* IncestIsRelative: Suicune suffers a brief moment of {{Squick}} when she realizes that while she and Entei were created by Ho-Oh to be siblings, the Shiny Suicune and Entei were created by Molly to be her parents, thus making them ''spouses''.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Ash's Lucario helps ambush some Pokemon kidnappers who were using a Skuntank to keep their victim subdued. After protecting his nostrils with Aura, he wields the skunk Pokemon as a club.

** [[spoiler:The Mirage Pokemon (specifically, M-001/Mirage Mew and M-002/Mirage Mewtwo), do this, the latter especially when the system making a Riolu gives M-002 a conscience]].

** [[spoiler: When the Original Team Galactic emerges into the new timeline, Cyrus's first order is for Ash to be destroyed. And one Roar of Time from Primal Dialga later, Ash is nothing but dust]].

** Oh, come on Wobbuffet. How much do we have to suffer. Worse, since we can actually ''understand'' him now, we can't escape...
** Ash's Glalie is just as bad.

* IndyPloy: May likes to employ these through [[RandomEffectSpell Skitty's Assist and Munchlax's Metronome.]] It certainly helps her when she fights a Shifty using Mind Reader to anticipate her movements.

* InsaneTrollLogic: To Barry, if he can't remember what Pokemon a Legendary is, it's automatically a UFO. Later, he encounters Celebi in the bushes, and comes to the conclusion that time Pokemon are attracted to rhododendrons.

-->'''Mawile:''' ...nope. Still my little brother.\}

** Since Ash can understand his Pokemon now, he finally learns that Bayleef has a crush on him. She's disappointed, but not surprised, that he doesn't return it.

* HealingFactor: Ash's Ivysaur and Erika's Gloom are resistant to each other's attacks and can rapidly heal themselves with Leech Seed and Synthesis -- and neither is backing down. After a long period of fruitlessly slugging it out, they end ''consulting a computer together'', looking for a move one of them knows that might end it.

-->'''Mawile:''' ...nope. Still my little brother.
-->'''[[spoiler:Tyranitar]]:''' I'm older than you and nearly twenty times your weight!
-->'''Mawile:''' Little brother means little brother. Size doesn't matter.

* InstantCostumeChange: Seviper lampshades how fast [[spoiler: Cosplaychu]] can change outfits.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Chapter 119 has the trainer-of-the-day Anthony espousing his Pelipper as "the world's most powerful Pokémon". After Max and his Electrike have a go at it, Ash, knowing Anthony's game, brings out [[spoiler: Suicune]], who uses Roar to scare Pelipper back into its Poké-ball and expose all the other Pokémon hidden in its beak.

* InterfaceScrew:
** How Brock defeats Shingo, a trainer the group meets in Johto who battles with his laptop showing a data-based display that amounts to a typical Pokémon game battle. With Shingo fully focused on his laptop, Brock's [[MasterOfIllusion Stantler]] overlays his laptop display with an illusory display of a fictional battle, while keeping up an illusion of said fictional battle over the battlefield, ''while'' letting Shingo's Scizor basically [[StopHittingYourself beat himself up]] under the illusion via Confusion.
** The first trainer that Max faces in the Indigo League tries this by getting his [[VoiceChangeling Chatot]] to imitate Max's voice, but the referee soon puts a stop to that.

** Although May goes out of her way to try to be nice to Harley this time around, he still ends up antagonizing the group when he finds out she's friends with Ash - who had just [[CurbStompBattle roasted his Cacturne]] in the Lilycove Pokémon Contest.

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Or sun, in this case; otherwise invoked pretty much word for word, by Quilava, when taking advantage of a Sunny Day to attack Suicune.

** On occasions, Ash complains or wonders how some Pokémon is using a move they can't learn in games but common sense says should be able to use (like Rock Throw - all you have to do is... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pick up a rock and throw it]]). This is in spite of his Pokémon using moves they can't learn (Earthquake, used by [[spoiler:Pikachu]], or Aeroblast, used by [[spoiler:Pidgeot]]), moves that don't even exist (Volt Crash, at least until Gen VIII), attacks that aren't even moves at all (half the things [[spoiler:Squirtle]] does), and even [[spoiler:being able to use Pokémon moves (for example, Shadow Ball) himself]]. He is sometimes called on this, and admits it is a fair counter-point.

* JustFriends: Since Ash can understand his Pokemon now, he finally learns that Bayleef has a crush on him. She's disappointed, but not surprised, that he doesn't return it.
--> '''Ash''': Bayleef, I don't think... I can't be quite what you want, because I ''don't'' have feelings for you that way. But I can be a friend. Would you like that?