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* CanonWelding: Various bits of Pokemon canon are utilized within the story and some character's backstory are welded together such as:
** Giovanni's son being abducted from PokemonSpecial
** Melanie and Erika are cousins
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod says that [[AssholeVictim Damion]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Paul]] are related]]
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* HardWorkHardlyWorksHardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted, Ash trains his pokemon and has them learn new technique and his hard work shows
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** Daisy, Violet and Lily nearly lose their youngest sister, Misty, when she is viciously attacked by a flock of spearow in a usually safe area. It was only to due Ash's intervention that she survived.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Downplayed from canon Brock, Erika implies it was his way of acting out against his father

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* AMinorKidroductionAMinorKidroduction: Ash is introduced to as a young terrified toddler holding on to his father's Mareep



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* AdultFearAdultFear: Professor Oak loses his student, Delia, and her family due to an unknown criminal organization attacking them in the night, a night in which Oak was too exhausted to hear the resulting explosion. All because he didn't put any security measures because Pallet Town seem ''so safe.''
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* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The Officer Jennies and Nurse Joys distress Ash by being this trope.


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-->Ash: My species are so weird.
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[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7917071/1/Symbiosis Symbiosis]] is an AU Anime/Pokemon fic, where Ash's parents were killed in a fire caused a mysterious criminal organization. His father's badly-injured Mareep barely escaped with a toddler-aged Ash on his back, being chased by Houndhooms. They escape into Viridan Forest, where a Weedle named Poison Lance grants the [[LastRequest dying Mareep's wish]] to protect Ash.

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[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7917071/1/Symbiosis Symbiosis]] is an AU Anime/Pokemon fic, where Ash's parents were killed in a fire caused a mysterious criminal organization. His father's badly-injured Mareep barely escaped with a toddler-aged Ash on his back, being chased by Houndhooms. They escape into Viridan Forest, where a Weedle weedle named Poison Lance grants the [[LastRequest dying Mareep's wish]] to protect Ash.



-->[[SarcasmBlind Ash]]: [[ComedicallyMissingThePoint You can tell all that about a person from their hair]?!]

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-->[[SarcasmBlind Ash]]: [[ComedicallyMissingThePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You can tell all that about a person from their hair]?!]



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* LessEmbarassingTermLessEmbarrassingTerm
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* BigBrotherInstinct



* BigGood: The Elite

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* BigGood: The Elite Four
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* PragmaticVillainy: Why Team Rocket steal pokemon from trainers


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* AMinorKidtroduction



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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor



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-->[[SarcasmBlind Ash]]: [[SarcasmFailure You can tell all that about a person from their hair]]

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-->[[SarcasmBlind Ash]]: [[SarcasmFailure [[ComedicallyMissingThePoint You can tell all that about a person from their hair]]hair]?!]
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* GreatEscape
* HardWorkHardlyWorks
* HehHehYouSaidX



* InstantExpert



* KnowYourVines



* MovieBuff: Caterpie, later Butterfree loves monster movies

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* MovieBuff: LessEmbrassingTerm
* TheMovieBuff:
Caterpie, later Butterfree loves monster movies



* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* NiceJobFixingItVillain



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars



* TheShrink: Despite being in training, Erika is a type 3. She helped Brock realize that he still have problems with his father, that Misty has problems with death, and figured out right away that Ash is an orphan.
* ShockAndAwe: Pikachu, especially after Ash teaches him how to harness lightning from storms



* ShootTheDog



* TheShrink: Despite being in training, Erika is a type 3. She helped Brock realize that he still have problems with his father, that Misty has problems with death, and figured out right away that Ash is an orphan.

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* TheShrink: Despite being in training, Erika is a type 3. She helped Brock realize that he still have problems SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness: '''Medium'''. While the heroes do win, the villains are effective and can get away with his father, that Misty has problems with death, and figured out right away that Ash is an orphan.their crimes.
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* AdultFear
* AngstWhatAngst
* AnxietyDreams



* ArmorPiercingQuestion
* AscendedFridgeHorror
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* AssholeVictimAuthorityEqualsAsskicking
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* BadassGrandma: Agatha.

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* BadassGrandma: Agatha.Agatha
* BadassFamily
* BatmanGambit
* BeachEpisode



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* BigGood: The Elite Four

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* BigDamnHeroes
* BigGood: The Elite FourElite
* BoringButPractical



* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood
* BreatherEpisode
* TheBusCameBack: Gary



* CharacterWitness:
* ChekhovsGag
* ChekhovsGun
* TheChick: Ash is this with elements of TheHeart
* ChildSoldiers



* ChivalrousPervert: Downplayed from canon Brock, Erika implies it was his way of acting out against his father.

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* ChivalrousPervert: Downplayed from canon Brock, Erika implies it was his way of acting out against his father.father
* ComingOfAgeStory



* CultureClash
* CurbStompBattle



* DeconReconSwitch: Deconstucts many aspects of Pokemon: pokemon are shown being dangerous and intelligent, but still lovable creatures. Trainers are dangers to each other as well to their pokemon, but they are a few good people. The world is considered a dangerous but wonderful place.

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* DarkerAndEdgier
* DeconReconSwitch: Deconstucts many aspects of Pokemon: pokemon are shown being dangerous and intelligent, but still lovable creatures. Trainers are dangers to each other as well to their pokemon, but they are a few good people. The world is considered a dangerous but wonderful place. ]]
* {{Determinator}}:
* ElementalAbsorption
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* ExposedToTheElements
* EyeScream
* FantasticRacism
* FieryRedhead: Lampshaded by Pikachu when he and Ash were taking the unconscious Misty to a pokemon center and Ash wonders what she is like.

-->Pikachu: Well, she's a red head, so probably mild mannered, with a sweet disposition , and no temper to speak of
-->[[SarcasmBlind Ash]]: [[SarcasmFailure You can tell all that about a person from their hair]]
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* AmbiguousInnocence[=/=]ObliviouslyEvil: Jessie and James play both ends of the scale as they are innocents who have a skewed sense of mortality who perform or assist horrible acts.



* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The core of Jessie and James's moral compass, to point of getting offended at called a good guy and are in Team Rocket in a fight against the "Good Guys



* BewareTheSillyOnes: Jessie and James are still very goofy and sympathetic but are extremely dangerous. Their competence and danger level is so high they can openly get away with failing to catch Pokemon and their flaunting of the Team Rocket's anti-attachment clause because they are so skilled. Noted by Misty when Jessie came into the perfect position to snap her neck and instead to graffiti Misty's face with marker.



* DarkActionGirl: Jessie



* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ash
* FriendlyEnemy: James and Jessie to Ash, as they try to recruit Ash to Team Rocket by trying to give him pamphlets and showing him their powerpoint presentations.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ash
* FriendlyEnemy: James and Jessie to Ash, as they try to recruit Ash to Team Rocket by trying to give him pamphlets and showing him their powerpoint presentations.



* GadgeteerGenius: James often steals and creates Team Rocket technology.
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* HiddenDepths: Gary can be calm, observant and intelligent when the situation calls for it.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Misty and Brock often swear by Arceus


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* LargeHam: Gary, who takes his own squad of cheerleaders with him and declares Ash his rival because anyone important had a rival that had been a childhood friend.


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* TheAtoner: Professor Oak tries to have more pokemon trainers to support the league to make up his failure to protect the Ketchum family.
* AssholeVictim


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* LastRequest
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* ChildhoodFriends: Ash and Gary


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* FriendlyRival: Gary


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* TookALevelInKindness: Gary is a lot more nicer to Ash
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream she could helplessly watched herself]]

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream all she could do is helplessly watched watch herself]]

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream she could helplessly watched herself]]

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members BiTheWay: Lucas and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream she could helplessly watched herself]]Torch


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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream she could helplessly watched herself]]


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* HumansAreBastards: Bulbasaur is of the opinion that humans come in two flavors: scum and martyrs.
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* InnocentInaccurate: Ash misinterpret various situations, like why men and women have separate bathrooms. He thinks it's women want to keep their hygiene secrets, which is why the smell cleaner than men.
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* AmbiguousInnocence[=/=]ObliviouslyEvil: Jessie and James play both ends of the scale as they are innocents who have a skewed sense of mortality who perform or assist horrible acts.
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* ScarAreForever: Melanie

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* ScarAreForever: ScarsAreForever: Melanie
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* BadassGrandma: Agatha.



* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A tragic example, Sabrina was [[MindRape mindraped]] by Team Rocket to kill all her gym members and her loved ones while [[AndIMustScream she could helplessly watched herself]]



* FriendlyEnemy: James and Jessie to Ash, as they try to recruit Ash to Team Rocket by trying to give him pamphlets and showing him their powerpoint presentations.



* InvokedTrope: TheRival by Gary who declared on the day he and Ash became trainers that they were rivals. Ash goes along with it because he doesn't know any better



* WildChild: Deliberately averted by Poison Lance as he made sure that Ash still had human contact to understand social mores, still be able to understand and speak human language and be literate. He sent him

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* WildChild: Deliberately averted by Poison Lance as he made sure that Ash still had human contact to understand social mores, still be able to understand and speak human language and be literate. He sent himhim
* WorldHalfFull
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* BadassBureaucrat: Meowth, can take on stronger pokemon and is the one who files the reports and knows how to game the system.


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* TheCaretaker: [[spoiler: Meowth, Arbok and Wheezy are this to Jessie and James]]


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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ash himself [[spoiler: but James and Jessie as well. Mentioned within fic to had been tortured to the point of catatonia in the past.]]
* DeconReconSwitch: Deconstucts many aspects of Pokemon: pokemon are shown being dangerous and intelligent, but still lovable creatures. Trainers are dangers to each other as well to their pokemon, but they are a few good people. The world is considered a dangerous but wonderful place.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ash
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* CoolBigSis: Sabrina was this to Misty in the past when she used to babysit Misty in league meetings and was one to Brittany.


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* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Brittany]]
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* ChivarlousPervertChivalrousPervert: Downplayed from canon Brock, Erika implies it was his way of acting out against his father.

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When Ash finally came of age, he leaves the forest to become a Pokemon master travelling under the name Aaron Autumns. While the world is still familiar, [[DarkerAndEdgier]] the world is also a much more dangerous place with dangerous people.

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When Ash finally came of age, he leaves the forest to become a Pokemon master travelling under the name Aaron Autumns. While the world is still familiar, [[DarkerAndEdgier]] [[DarkerAndEdgier the world is also a much more dangerous place with dangerous people.]]


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* ArmorIsUseless: Brock and Misty survive the siege on the Hidden Pokemon due to having armor. In fact Misty nearly died due to wearing lighter body armor. Ash wasn't even allowed in the fight.


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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted by Melanie, who was a major burn scars all over her. Brock doesn't care.


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* ChivarlousPervert


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* ScarAreForever: Melanie
* ShooTheDog: Brock and Misty try to have Ash to flee to nearest Pokemon Center instead of fighting in raid against the Hidden Pokemon Village


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* TheShrink: Despite being in training, Erika is a type 3. She helped Brock realize that he still have problems with his father, that Misty has problems with death, and figured out right away that Ash is an orphan.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted as Pocket Watch, a Hypno, has Ash enrolled in speech therapy in elementary school for Ash's developmental problems due being raised by Pokemon. Erika is the unofficial therapist of the league.

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When Ash finally came of age, he leaves the forest to become a Pokemon master. While the world is still familiar, [[DarkerAndEdgier]] the world is also a much more dangerous place with dangerous people.

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* DaddyIssues: Brock has this with his dad, Flint for abandoning him and his siblings after their mother died.


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* RunningGag: Ash constantly forgets to register his Pokedex.
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* ActionGirl: Misty and Melanie
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The core of Jessie and James's moral compass, to point of getting offended at called a good guy and are in Team Rocket in a fight against the "Good Guys
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Jessie and James are still very goofy and sympathetic but are extremely dangerous. Their competence and danger level is so high they can openly get away with failing to catch Pokemon and their flaunting of the Team Rocket's anti-attachment clause because they are so skilled. Noted by Misty when Jessie came into the perfect position to snap her neck and instead to graffiti Misty's face with marker.



* DarkActionGirl: Jessie
* GadgeteerGenius: James often steals and creates Team Rocket technology.
* MoralMyopia: James and Jessie believe in fairness and equality and are offended at the thought of killing Pokemon. They will also kill humans without remorse on a whim and act as accomplices to various heinous crimes.



* NamesToReallyRunAwayFrom: Jessie, James and Meowth are known within Team Rocket as "The Crazies," known for causing massive carnage and leaving a massive body count.

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* NamesToReallyRunAwayFrom: NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Jessie, James and Meowth are known within Team Rocket as "The Crazies," known for causing massive carnage and leaving a massive body count.count.
* NoSocialSkills: Despite Poison Lance's best efforts, Ash has very stunted social skills and never experienced many human activities.
* RetiredBadass: Poison Lance was Lucas's former pokemon released into the wild, still capable pokemon stronger than him and nearly put out a forest fire by himself. His greatest ability is his ability to organize pokemon into action. He is the reason why the community in Viridan Forest formed.
* WildChild: Deliberately averted by Poison Lance as he made sure that Ash still had human contact to understand social mores, still be able to understand and speak human language and be literate. He sent him
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[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7917071/1/Symbiosis Symbiosis]] is an AU Anime/Pokemon fic, where Ash's parents were killed in a fire caused a mysterious criminal organization. His father's badly-injured Mareep barely escaped with a toddler-aged Ash on his back, being chased by Houndhooms. They escape into Viridan Forest, where a Weedle named Poison Lance grants the [[LastRequest dying Mareep's wish]] to protect Ash.

Poison Lance grants Mareep's wish and the pokemon community of Viridan Forest raise and protect Ash in memory of the Ketchums. They try to protect Ash as much as possible while balancing Ash's need as a human. This gives Ash the unique ability of being able to speak to Pokemon.

When Ash finally came of age, he leaves the forest to become a Pokemon master. While the world is still familiar, [[DarkerAndEdgier]] the world is also a much more dangerous place with dangerous people.
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* BigBad: Team Rocket
* BigGood: The Elite Four
* MyGreatestFailure: The murder of the Ketchum family is this to Professor Oak as he mostly relied on his reputation as the former Kanto champion and the safety of Pallet Town instead of having emergency security measures.
* NamesToReallyRunAwayFrom: Jessie, James and Meowth are known within Team Rocket as "The Crazies," known for causing massive carnage and leaving a massive body count.

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