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* TheSlacker - Obviously.

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* TheSlacker - Obviously.
[[CaptainObvious Obviously]].


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* BigEater - Swellow sure does talk about food a lot...

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* DarkIsNotEvil - Dark-types exclusively ''against'' "evil" outlaws, in fact!




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* {{Dismotivation}}
* TheSlacker - Obviously.

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This is a character sheet for ''Videogame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''. Due to a PlotTwist approximately halfway through the game that isn't possible to completely hide with spoiler tags, there are [[SelfFulfillingSpoiler self-fulfilling spoilers]] here. You have been warned.

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This is a character sheet for ''Videogame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''. Time/Darkness/Sky''.

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* [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning - Highlighted in two of the cutscenes.]]

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* [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning - Highlighted Twisted a bit; in his normal state, Dialga just happens to have red eyes, but Primal Dialga's angry red peepers get highlighted in two of the cutscenes.cutcenes.]]

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* CatchPhrase / VerbalTic - Subverted, he's one of the few apprentices to ''not'' have one.
* TheGenericGuy - Like Corphish, Diglett is one of the most "normal" of the guild members.
** OnlySaneMan - Especially when compared with, say, [[LargeHam his dad]] or [[NoIndoorVoice Loudred]].
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This is a character sheet for ''Videogame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''. Due to a ShockingSwerve PlotTwist approximately halfway through the game that isn't possible to completely hide with spoiler tags, there are [[SelfFulfillingSpoiler self-fulfilling spoilers]] here. You have been warned.

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This is a character sheet for ''Videogame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''. Due to a ShockingSwerve approximately halfway through the game that isn't possible to completely hide with spoiler tags, there are [[SelfFulfillingSpoiler self-fulfilling spoilers]] here. You have been warned.



'''TheHero''' -- A human who wakes up on the shore to find he/she has been [[InvoluntaryTransformation mysteriously transformed]] into [[CursedWithAwesome a Pokemon]], with no memory of how or why... or [[LaserGuidedAmnesia much of anything]] beyond [[HelloInsertNameHere their own name]]. As if that wasn't strange enough, he/she quickly learns that he/she ''also'' possesses a strange power that gives them brief visions of various events... It's revealed at the end of the game that [[spoiler: Darkrai]] was responsible for the hero's transformation and memory loss.

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'''TheHero''' -- A human who wakes up on the shore to find he/she has been [[InvoluntaryTransformation [[BalefulPolymorph mysteriously transformed]] into [[CursedWithAwesome a Pokemon]], with no memory of how or why... or [[LaserGuidedAmnesia much of anything]] beyond [[HelloInsertNameHere their own name]]. As if that wasn't strange enough, he/she quickly learns that he/she ''also'' possesses a strange power that gives them brief visions of various events... It's revealed at the end of the game that [[spoiler: Darkrai]] was the one responsible for the hero's transformation and memory loss.loss was [[spoiler: Darkrai]].



* BalefulPolymorph: The reason for the player's transformation into a Pokemon is only revealed late in the postgame, when [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan reveals how he attacked (and nearly killed) them during the TimeTravel.]]

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* BalefulPolymorph: The reason for the player's transformation into a Pokemon is only revealed late in the postgame, when [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan Darkrai reveals how he attacked (and nearly killed) them during the TimeTravel.]]



* ADayInTheLimelight: "Igglybuff The Prodigy" in ''Explorers of Sky''

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* ADayInTheLimelight: "Igglybuff The Prodigy" in ''Explorers of Sky''Sky'' has you play as him. He is also a major character in "Here Comes Team Charm!", and has a [[BigDamnHeroes rather memorable scene]] in "Bidoof's Wish" as well.



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadassCrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The only one to figure out [[spoiler: Ditto]]'s deception in "Here Comes Team Charm!"
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* FanficMagnet - Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} most of this.

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* FanficMagnet - FanficMagnet: Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} most of this.



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight. [[spoiler: Initially.]]

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight. [[spoiler: Initially.Subverted, he's the good guy.]]



* [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning - Highlighted in one of the {{Nightmare Fuel}}ing cutscenes.]]

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* [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning - Highlighted in one two of the {{Nightmare Fuel}}ing cutscenes.]]

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* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: He doesn't participate in the Grand Master of All Things Bad battle, unlike the rest of the guild.]]



* CatchPhrase / VerbalTic - "Eek! Oh my gosh!"

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* CatchPhrase / VerbalTic - "Eek! Oh "Eek!" and especially "Oh my gosh!"gosh!" Her special episode is named after the latter, and for a very good reason. [[hottip:*:She says "Oh my gosh!" 29 times in said episode, excluding two seen in flashbacks and one single use of "gosh".]]



* LeeroyJenkins: In ''Bidoof's Wish'', his AI isn't programmed to take into account Bidoof's IQ skills or Treasure Bag. Due to this, he can accidentally one-hit-KO Bidoof with Earthquake. [[spoiler: This also happens in the Grand Master of All Things Bad battle, with the exact same allies as the special episode, minus Bidoof. Apparently, he hasn't learned.]]



* [[strike:[[RoyalWe Royal]]]] [[RoyalWe We]] - His VerbalTic.
** Justified, as there are three of him.

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* [[strike:[[RoyalWe Royal]]]] [[RoyalWe We]] RoyalWe - His VerbalTic.
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VerbalTic. Justified, as there are three of him.



* [[PoisonousPerson Poisonous Pokemon]]: All three of them have Poison as one of their types.

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* [[PoisonousPerson Poisonous Pokemon]]: Pokémon]]: All three of them have Poison as one of their types.



* [[spoiler: TheUnfought - While Zubat and Koffing act as the [[DualBoss the first bosses]], Skuntank prefers dirty tricks and running away, and the heroes never get to fight the full team. Except when they take a solid one upside the chin due to a combination of TheWorfEffect and the fact their fighting the BonusBoss]]

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* [[spoiler: TheUnfought - While Zubat and Koffing act as the [[DualBoss the first bosses]], Skuntank prefers dirty tricks and running away, and the heroes never get to fight the full team. Skuntank. Except when they take a solid one upside the chin due to a combination of TheWorfEffect and the fact their they're fighting the BonusBoss]]



* [[BeautyBrainsAndBrawn Brawn Brains And Beauty]]: Medicham, Gardevoir, Lopunny -- and their special episode introduces them in ''precisely'' that order.

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* [[BeautyBrainsAndBrawn Brawn Brains And Beauty]]: Medicham, BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Lopunny, Gardevoir, Lopunny -- and their special episode introduces them in ''precisely'' that order.Medicham respectively.



* {{Guest Star Party Member}}s - In one mission, you team up with/compete against them while exploring a new area.

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* {{Guest Star Party Member}}s - In one mission, you team up with/compete against them while exploring a new area.Aegis Cave.



* DarkIsNotEvil
** [[spoiler: Double subverted in ''Sky'', where you're told that they're a team of ruffians that will hurt others in their attempts to get treasure... and then find out that the incident you were told of was a lie by the guardian of the area to get you two to fight each other and take enough damage that neither of you would find the cave's [[McGuffin treasure]].]]

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* DarkIsNotEvil
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DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: Double subverted in ''Sky'', where you're told that they're a team of ruffians that will hurt others in their attempts to get treasure... and then find out that the incident you were told of was a lie by the guardian of the area to get you two to fight each other and take enough damage that neither of you would find the cave's [[McGuffin treasure]].]]



'''Team Flame''' -- As the name implies, a Fire-focused team with Ponyta and Camerupt -- however, their leader is Bellsprout, who has problems with fire. Despite this, he tries to be a good commander, and his teammates care deeply about him.

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'''Team Flame''' -- As the name implies, a Fire-focused team with team; two of the three members, Ponyta and Camerupt -- however, their leader is Camerupt, are Fire-types. The leader, Bellsprout, who has problems with fire.is a Grass-type, which means he's on the wrong side of ElementalRockPaperScissors. Despite this, he tries to be a good commander, and his teammates care deeply about him.



* [[spoiler: OhCrap - Their reaction when TheCavalry shows up is ''priceless''.]]

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* [[spoiler: OhCrap - Their reaction when TheCavalry the rest of the guild shows up is ''priceless''.]]




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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Quite obviously, if you consider them a couple.



* [[EatTheDog Eat The Wurmple]] - Wumple's greatest fear.

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* [[EatTheDog Eat The Wurmple]] EatTheDog - Wumple's greatest fear.

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* BalefulPolymorph: The reason for the player's transformation into a Pokemon is only revealed late in the postgame, when [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan reveals how he attacked (and nearly killed) them during the TimeTravel.]]



* InvoluntaryTransformation: The reason for the player's transformation into a Pokemon is only revealed late in the postgame, when [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan reveals how he attacked (and nearly killed) them during the TimeTravel.]]



* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: They and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing. Dusknoir was sent back to prevent this.]]

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* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: They He/she and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing. Dusknoir was sent back to prevent this.]]



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted if s[=/=]he is a reptilian species .


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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted if s[=/=]he he/she is a reptilian species .




'''Chimecho''' -- This apprentice runs the Guild's Assembly, managing any recruits brought in by other apprentices and helping with team-building. Appears to have a crush on Wigglytuff in the game.

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'''Chimecho''' -- This apprentice runs the Guild's Assembly, managing any recruits brought in by other apprentices and helping with team-building. Appears to have a crush on Wigglytuff in the game.Wigglytuff.



* [[spoiler: OnlyOneName - Becomes a minor issue after Teddiursa 'grows up'.]]

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* [[spoiler: OnlyOneName - Becomes a minor issue after Teddiursa 'grows up'.evolves.]]



* FanficMagnet - Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} this all. (Or did it?)

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* FanficMagnet - Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} this all. (Or did it?)most of this.



* [[spoiler: KirkSummation: Uses one on Dusknoir when he fell for his trap in ''Sky''.]]

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* [[spoiler: KirkSummation: Uses one on Dusknoir when he fell after falling for his trap in ''Sky''.]]



* HeyItsThatVoice: In the third Pokemon Mystery Dungeon special, ''Beyond Time and Darkness,'' Dusknoir was voiced by David Brimmer/Michael Alston Baley, [[YuGiOh Odion from Yu-Gi-Oh!]] In a way, that special is pretty much [[spoiler:Yami duelling--er, battling--against Odion.]]

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* HeyItsThatVoice: In the third Pokemon Pokémon Mystery Dungeon anime special, ''Beyond Time and Darkness,'' Dusknoir was voiced by David Brimmer/Michael Alston Baley, [[YuGiOh Odion from Yu-Gi-Oh!]] In a way, that special is pretty much [[spoiler:Yami duelling--er, battling--against Odion.]]



'''Sableye''' - A pack of six jailers who assist Dusknoir in the capture of Grovyle. [[spoiler: Really, they're his minions.]]

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'''Sableye''' - A pack of six jailers who assist Dusknoir in the capture of Grovyle. [[spoiler: Really, they're Better known as his minions.]]



* [[spoiler: {{Nakama}} - They're Dusknoir's minions, through and through.]]




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* [[spoiler: TrueCompanions - They're Dusknoir's minions, through and through.]]
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* [[spoiler: MessiahCreep: He starts off as a villian willing to kill the Lake Guardians and the player Team even when it won't make a difference, then is gradually revealed as more heroic. In his episode, he's regarded as an idealist and manages to talk his opposite number into reforming.]]

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The twosome is more a two-on-onesome in this instance. Read the trope.


* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: They and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing.]]

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* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: They and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing. Dusknoir was sent back to prevent this.]]



* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: With the hero.]]

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* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: With He and the hero.hero form a two-on-one variant, with Dusknoir opposing them.]]


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* [[spoiler:TerminatorTwosome: He's the Terminator to the hero and Grovyle's Kyle Reese.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheMole]]
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* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: He and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing.]]

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* [[spoiler: TerminatorTwosome: He They and Grovyle were both sent back in time to prevent the BadFuture from developing.]]
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* [[spoiler: EvilOverlooker - [[http://shadowarrancar.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Mystery-Dungeon-Slide-123251821 A certain piece of fanart]] has him watching the heroes' battle with Primal Dialga in the background.]]

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* [[spoiler: EvilOverlooker - [[http://shadowarrancar.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Mystery-Dungeon-Slide-123251821 [[http://www.pokesho.com/ira/jigennotou.html A certain piece of fanart]] has him watching the heroes' battle with Primal Dialga in the background.]]
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** [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan]]
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* [[spoiler:InspectorJavert]]
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* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: In the English dub of the anime special, Chimecho was voiced by [[AhMyGoddess Kether Donahue, Skuld from Ah! My Goddess!]]

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* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub of the anime special, Chimecho was voiced by [[AhMyGoddess Kether Donahue, Skuld from Ah! My Goddess!]]



* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: In the third Pokemon Mystery Dungeon special, ''Beyond Time and Darkness,'' Dusknoir was voiced by David Brimmer/Michael Alston Baley, [[YuGiOh Odion from Yu-Gi-Oh!]] In a way, that special is pretty much [[spoiler:Yami duelling--er, battling--against Odion.]]

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* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: HeyItsThatVoice: In the third Pokemon Mystery Dungeon special, ''Beyond Time and Darkness,'' Dusknoir was voiced by David Brimmer/Michael Alston Baley, [[YuGiOh Odion from Yu-Gi-Oh!]] In a way, that special is pretty much [[spoiler:Yami duelling--er, battling--against Odion.]]
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* [[spoiler: PaperThinDisguise - The "Grand Master of All Things Bad".]]

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* [[spoiler: PaperThinDisguise - [[spoiler: The "Grand Master of All Things Bad".]]

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Palkia isn\'t a storyline Dragon. He doesn\'t even know Darkrai\'s around until Cresselia reveals him. Dialga\'s less a straight Dragon, fits more the Demoted To Dragon subtrope.


* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Primal Dialga]]

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* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To Primal Dialga]]Dialga.]]



* [[spoiler: BigBad - Of the main storyline.]]

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* [[spoiler: BigBad - Of Or so it seems at first...]]
** [[spoiler: DemotedToDragon - Revealed to not actually be
the main storyline.BigBad by the end of the post-credits story.]]



* [[spoiler: TheDragon - A ''literal'' case for Darkrai.]]



* [[spoiler: TheDragon: Another literal example, since he's the game's ''real'' second-to-last boss.]]
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* [[spoiler: DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans]]
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* [[spoiler: TrueFinalBoss]]
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'''TheHero''' -- A human who wakes up on the shore to find they've been [[InvoluntaryTransformation mysteriously transformed]] into [[CursedWithAwesome a Pokemon]], with no memory of how or why... or [[LaserGuidedAmnesia much of anything]] beyond [[HelloInsertNameHere their own name]]. As if that wasn't strange enough, they quickly learn that they ''also'' possess a strange power that gives them brief visions of various events... It's revealed at the end of the game that [[spoiler: Darkrai]] was responsible for the hero's transformation and memory loss.

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'''TheHero''' -- A human who wakes up on the shore to find they've he/she has been [[InvoluntaryTransformation mysteriously transformed]] into [[CursedWithAwesome a Pokemon]], with no memory of how or why... or [[LaserGuidedAmnesia much of anything]] beyond [[HelloInsertNameHere their own name]]. As if that wasn't strange enough, they he/she quickly learn learns that they he/she ''also'' possess possesses a strange power that gives them brief visions of various events... It's revealed at the end of the game that [[spoiler: Darkrai]] was responsible for the hero's transformation and memory loss.



* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]



* [[spoiler: DisneyDeath]]

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* HoYay - Same as Red/Blue Rescue Team.
** Though it's possible for the partner to be the opposite gender of the hero. (The same may be true of Red/Blue Rescue Team, though the previous games lacked gender identification.)

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* HoYay [[HoYay Ho Yay, Les Yay, Het Yay]] - Same With the player character, same as Red/Blue Rescue Team.
** Though it's possible for the partner to be the opposite gender of the hero. (The same may be true of Red/Blue Rescue Team, though the previous games lacked gender identification.)
Team. The difference is, in this game, both characters have a defined gender.
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* TheDumbledore

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** The player does, however, get to speak some actual dialogue during the game's ending, [[spoiler: when they say good-bye to the partner right before disappearing from time.]]
** After completing the game, if the player is present on the active team but not the designated leader, talking to them in a dungeon yields only VisibleSilence instead of the randomly-chosen responses associated with other Mons.



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted if he/she is of a reptilian species.
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* HeroicMime - Same as Red/Blue Rescue Team.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting

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* HeroicMime - Same as Red/Blue HeroicMime: Similar to ''Red and Blue Rescue Team.
Team'', the player is privy to their own InnerMonologue, but aside from responses to dialogue trees, has no scripted dialogue of their own; whenever the player says something, it's a nearby NPC who responds and parrots it to the audience.
* InvoluntaryShapeshiftingInvoluntaryTransformation: The reason for the player's transformation into a Pokemon is only revealed late in the postgame, when [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan reveals how he attacked (and nearly killed) them during the TimeTravel.]]



* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling

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Kill Or Is It potholes with fire, please.


* FanficMagnet - Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} this all. [[OrIsIt Or did it?]]

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* FanficMagnet - Between guessing at his {{Backstory}} or what the heck HAPPENED to him after [[spoiler:he disappears with Dusknoir back into the future, or wanting to [[FixFic write him back into the story]]]], fanfic authors have been all over him. Naturally, the bonus content in ''Sky'' {{Jossed}} this all. [[OrIsIt Or (Or did it?]]it?)
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted if hes a reptilian species .


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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted if hes s[=/=]he is a reptilian species .

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