History Fanfic / LatiasJourney

* FaceFault

* PsychicPowers: Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some [[BlessedWithSuck serious costs]] for their power.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Latias's telepathy allows Ash to understand and converse with his Pokémon. After Ash is [[spoiler:is selected as an honorary Chosen]], he is fully capable of understanding Pokéspeak thanks to the [[AWizardDidIt Unown]].

* TheVoiceless: Played with. Latias can PokemonSpeak just fine, and later learns how to put up a psychic [[TranslatorMicrobes translation net]] for her friends, but her human disguise is mute. She has to carry around a notepad to scribble messages in when she has to communicate with humans who aren't in on her translation net.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Bulbasaur]] eventually kills [[spoiler: Sceptile]] via UnfriendlyFire.
* MyNaymeIs: Phanpy spells his name "Phanphy" because he likes it better that way.

* ParentalAbandonment: Subverted. Ash despises his father for ditching his mother before he was born. At the very end of the book, [[spoiler:he finds out his father is freaking ''Zorro''. Turns out someone spiked the punch at a fundraiser, they did a few things they might not have otherwise (Delia specifically [[ReallyGetsAround did several]]), and neither one remembered anything the next morning.]]

* ThePowerOfRock: ''Jigglypuff'' and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's "Blow Me Away."

* BringMyBrownPants: Happens to the Murkrow at Wing Fortress when Latias incinerates them and a good portion of the forest.

* GroinAttack: Not just kicks to the jumblies either; the story contains quite a bit of genital mutilation.
** Oniichan [[spoiler:who is Eusine transformed into a Raikou]] uses his spiked tail to rip out the undead Raikou's genitals in a fight.
** Alpha Ranger kills [[spoiler:Brock]], cuts off his genitals, and shoves them into the corpse's mouth.
** [[spoiler:Sphinx!May rips off Vigoroth's genitals, thinking that it was one of Deoxys's monsters assuming her father's Pokemon's form. It wasn't.]]

** Mariah Susanson, a blatant ParodySue who hits every "Pokemorph" cliche in the book and then some. [[spoiler:She's actually an insane psychic construct created from an experiment GoneHorriblyWrong.]]

* HarmfulToMinors / PrimalScene: When Phanpy walks in on Crawdaunt's massive orgy, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it immediately renders him comatose and erases his memory of the incident.]]

** [[spoiler:Latias gets in on this as well during the final arc -- it gets to the point where when she's blinded, she just ''[[EyeScream rips out her motherfucking eyes]]'' because it's faster to just grow a new pair than to bother clearing her vision.]]
* HeroesPreferSwords: [[DashingHispanic Zorro, El Gato, Lombre]], and [[spoiler:Pikachu]].

* MindRape: A few times, most notably [[spoiler:Lugia, who is tricked into unnecessarily killing his BrainwashedAndCrazy son and wife, then forced to dream [[DreamWithinADream an infinite loop]] of suicides.]]
** This is topped spectacularly by [[spoiler:Latias, in probably the {{Squick}}iest part of the book.]]

* AscendedGlitch: During the final arc [[spoiler:while everyone gets their EleventhHourSuperpower, Phanpy is evolved into a "corrected" version of one of [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]]'s [[EldritchAbomination Poké-Sues]].]]
** And [[spoiler: Missingno, the [[strike: glitch]] Darklord Pokemon]]

** [[spoiler: Lord and Lady Ho-Oh's deaths involve gratuitous vivisection.]]
** [[spoiler: Meowth]] gets eaten and digested by Chimecho.

* DashingHispanic: Zorro and his entire team, and Brock's Lombre.
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler:Giovanni]] is killed no less than ''three times''. He's still alive at the end too.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, He's Like, In A Coma!]]: [[spoiler:''Molly! [[WhatTheHellHero What the hell?!]]'']]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:May. Doesn't quite work. [[TheWoobie She might've been better off if it had.]]]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Several are shown in the series, including the Master Ball. And Dark Karma.
** Poor, poor Latias gets this during the final battle when she is [[spoiler: thrown into a never ending cycle of pain and lust by Dark Latios to perform his NotSafeForWork fantasies on her and turning her into a zombie.]]

* PsychicPowers: Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some [[BlessedWithSuck ''serious'' costs]] for their power.

* BetterThanABareBulb: A very common form of comedy throughout the story.

** And Delia Ketchum's fiancée at one point is [[spoiler: Mr. Mime. She may or may not be even paired up with him at the end. It's actually [[ShrugOfGod left up to you.]]]]
* LampshadeHanging: ''Constantly.''
-->"It's like the laws of reality are being repealed or something, allowing impossible things to happen," the intelligent talking yellow rodent who had the ability to generate thunderbolts speculated.

* PairTheSpares: Ri2 gleefully sticks characters together throughout the book. During the epilogue, an OverlyLongGag recaps all the pairings he's made. It lasts over two pages, has a RunningGag ''within itself'', and leaves the choice of Delia's significant other [[ShrugOfGod to the reader's discretion]].

* PokemonSpeak: Averted. See WordOfGod under AnimalTalk.

* PsychicPowers: Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some ''serious'' [[BlessedWithSuck costs]] for their power.

* ResetButton: The Unown offer this to the good guys if they can stop the upcoming cataclysm, [[spoiler: though they had no intention of actually following through with it, as they expected the universe to end no matter who won. Fortunately, thanks to Mewgle's botched attempt at a universal takeover, the universe is intact at the end. The local deities at this point basically [[ShrugOfGod shrug]] and implement the ResetButton anyway.]]

* SweatDrop

* BloodyHilarious: Eventually you start to get jaded to the {{Gorn}}, and then the less-dramatic cases to characters you don't care about so much start drifting into this. The deluge of BlackComedy throughout [[strike:exacerbates]] helps.

** Also happens to Maxie when the three Regis effortlessly kill all his trainers and their [[{{Mons}} mons]].

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Giovanni]] is killed no less than ''three times''. [[spoiler:He's]] still alive at the end too.

* {{Expy}}: A lot of people, if they don't outright {{Cameo}}. At one point, Ash battles Zorro and Mr. T. [[spoiler:Zorro joins the recurring cast.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[AnyoneCanDie There are countless in this series.]] Some are subtle and some are just diabolical {{Gorn}}. Most notably are:
** About 99% of Earth's population are [[spoiler: turned into undead monsters.]]
** Most members of [[spoiler: Team Rocket]] get grizzly ends.
** The world leaders in all categories are crammed into a giant crusher.
** [[spoiler: Lord and Lady Ho-Oh's deaths involve gratuitous vivisection.]]
** [[spoiler: Meowth]] gets eaten and digested by Chimecho.
** [[spoiler: May and her Pokemon.]]

** Poor, poor Latias gets this during the final battle when she is [[spoiler: thrown into a never ending cycle of pain and lust by Dark Latios to perform his NotSafeForWork fantasies on her, turning her into a zombie.]]

** The first one [[spoiler:results in a relatively small fraction of the cast still alive, the good goddess heavily wounded, all of them setting up a last stand, and the bad guy has just destroyed the entire universe around them. And some three chapters of extremely esoteric [[ContemplateOurNavels navel gazing]].]]

** Alpha Ranger kills [[spoiler:Brock]], cuts off his genitals and shoves them into the corpse's mouth.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: A lot of the villains of the story, but most the noticeable is [[spoiler:Deoxys]]

* PairTheSpares: Ri2 gleefully sticks characters together throughout the book. [[spoiler:During the [[TheStinger epilogue]], an OverlyLongGag recaps all the pairings he's made. It lasts over two pages, has a RunningGag ''within itself'', and leaves the choice of Delia's significant other [[NoFourthWall to the reader's discretion]].]]

** [[spoiler:The Pokerockers' GurrenLagann-style charge against Mewgle draws its power from "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Live and Learn]]."]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Repeatedly, and almost always from the bad guys. [[spoiler:Deoxys]] uses this to psych out his opponents through sheer {{Gorn}}.

** HilariousInHindsight: Now look at Black City in [[PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokemon Black]]...

It's [[DoorStopper absurdly long]], surreal and bizzare to extremes, interspersed with plenty of [[LighterAndSofter lightheartedness]], plenty of fight sequences... oh, and sometimes it's really, ''really'' [[DarkFic dark]], [[{{Squick}} squicky]], [[LudicrousGibs messy]], and all kinds of disturbing.

* AnimalTalk: [[WordOfGod Ri2]] says "For convenience's sake all Pokéspeak will be written in English. Just pretend the humans can't hear them, though."

** Various inhabitants on [[spoiler: Mewgle's fake version of]] Birth Island, including [[spoiler: Raiki, Ash and Pikachu's father [[hottip:*:But not really since Ash's father is really Zorro. Raiki is something of an [[AscendedExtra ascended rumor]] in the sequel though]].

** [[spoiler: And Delia Ketchum's fiancée at one point is Mr. Mime. Just... don't ask.]]
*** [[spoiler: She may or may not be paired up with Mimey at the end. It's actually left to [[NoFourthWall your]] choice.]]
* LampshadeHanging: ''Constantly.'' ""It's like the laws of reality are being repealed or something, allowing impossible things to happen," the intelligent talking yellow rodent who had the ability to generate thunderbolts speculated."

* ThePowerOfRock: ''Jigglypuff'' and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's ''Blow Me Away''.
** Latias bringing down an EldritchAbomination while singing ''[[FinalFantasyX Otherworld]]'' -- not the kind of song you'd expect her to be singing.
** [[spoiler:The Pokerockers' GurrenLagann-style charge against Mewgle draws its power from ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Live and Learn]]''.]]

* RatedMForManly: There's no shortage og action and violence in here. Oddly enough, the main character is female!

* ResetButton: The Unown offer this to the good guys if they can stop the upcoming cataclysm.
** [[spoiler:They actually had ''no intention of following through on it'', as they expected the universe to end no matter who won. The only difference is that it would have rebirthed properly billions of years later if the good guys did, and they wouldn't be stuck in either FireAndBrimstoneHell or TheNothingAfterDeath in the meantime.]]
** [[spoiler:Fortunately it doesn't come to that. [[TheStarscream Mewgle's]] gambit to trounce everyone at the [[GainaxEnding end]] backfires on himself ''and'' Deoxys and the universe is intact at the end. The local deities at this point basically [[ShrugOfGod shrug]] and implement the ResetButton anyway.]]
* RetCon: The fic originally ended on a huge cliffhanger [[spoiler:with the majority of the cast dead and ''the entire universe annihilated'', and the remaining people set up for a last stand on a flying island]]. Two years later, Ri2 wrote a sequel that {{Ret Con}}ned the entire last chunk of the story. A good quarter of the way into the sequel, he added a second epilogue that revealed [[spoiler:the entire ending sequence was just Mewgle screwing with everyone, ''including the two gods duking it out'', in a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] gambit. He gets his ass handed to him by [[CoolShades Squirtle]], who [[DeusExMachina comes out of absolutely nowhere]] and earns everyone's happy ending.]]

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: "Piscene."

* DarkFic: Possibly the darkest of the dark. When it's not being [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror funny]]. Or sometimes [[BlackComedy both at the same time]].

* GoingCosmic: ''And how''.

* GratuitousRape: Not only is there a lot of rapes in this story, but a lot of them can be removed/replaced AND they make the villains [[BondVillainStupidity look pretty stupid]] for doing so. Fearow is a good example. If his ''modus operandi'' is to eat other Pokemon and take their power, [[MotiveDecay why is he stopping to rape Latias]]? Shouldn't he be trying to eat her?

** Oniichan [[spoiler:Eusine transformed into a Raikou]] uses his spiked tail to rip out the undead Raikou's genitals in a fight.
** Alpha Ranger kills [[spoiler:Brock]], cuts off his genitals and shoves them into the corpse's mouth. He gets better.

* KilledOffForReal: The fanfic has a huge cast and most get brutally, if not, horrifically killed. [[spoiler: In fact, it's practically KillEmAll territory, since those who aren't killed at one point can be counted on your fingers.]]
** [[spoiler: It is revealed in the retconned epilogue, that Mewgle trapped most of the cast in virtual reality machines. Squirtle releases them, allowing the Mother to kill Deoxys. She then uses her powers to resurrect pretty much the whole cast.]]

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: [[spoiler: A lot of the villains of the story, but most the noticeable is Deoxys]]

* TheStinger: The fic originally ended on a huge cliffhanger [[spoiler:with the majority of the cast dead and ''the entire universe annihilated'', and the remaining people set up for a last stand on a flying island]]. Two years later, Ri2 wrote a sequel that {{Ret Con}}ned the entire last chunk of the story. A good quarter of the way into the sequel, he threw a ([[OverlyLongGag second]]) epilogue onto ''Latias' Journey'' that revealed [[spoiler:the entire ending sequence was just Mewgle screwing with everyone, ''including the two gods duking it out'', in a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] gambit. He gets his ass handed to him by [[CoolShades Squirtle]], who [[DeusExMachina comes out of absolutely nowhere]] and earns everyone's happy ending.]]

* WorldOfBadass

** [[Fanfic/BraveNewWorld Still not as bad as Treasure Town.]]
** [[RunningGag ...Or Genocide City.]]

There is a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1969593/1/Your_Secret_Admirer prequel]] and a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4319623/1/Brave_New_World sequel]]. Sequel page here: ''[[FanFic/BraveNewWorld Brave New World]]''

* AppealToForce: Tate and Liza wield an array of powerful psychic-based attacks. When Ash threatens to report them, this is the response he gets:
--->'''Tate''': The League fears us. They fear the power we possess. They will not lift a finger to prevent us from doing as we please.

* TheBet: Wobbuffet's Goth phase turns out to be just a bet with Meowth.

* BodyHorror: Let's not get into details about the Dark ones armies...for the love of GOD.

** Ah, hell, Phanpy has this occur to to him several times.

* CostumePorn: Latias the Songstress.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: The region of Silica. Rukario describes it as thus:

* DoomedHometown: Chapter ''One''.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Full force. Keep in mind what the Unown are offering the good guys if they win is basically a ResetButton. The hope of this may at times be [[GrimDark the only reason you can keep bearing to read]].

* GroinAttack: The story contains quite a bit of genital mutilation.

* {{Infodump}}: The most common way background information is explained. A random character, usually one that's just been introduced, will go on a long-winded story about a particular plot point, usually to Latias.

-->'''Ash''': [[spoiler:Zorro...is my dad. All this time I thought he was some deadbeat who abandoned us...or a crime boss...or an alien...or a League Champion...or a legendary Pokemon...[[OverlyLongGag or my time-traveling future self]]...]]

* ReferenceOverdosed

* ShoutOut: Many, but the one that comes to mind is a WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged reference in the REAL final.
** This story has Shout Outs to everything from [[Franchise/PowerRangers PokeRangers]] to [[CthulhuMythos Tentacthulhu]].

** HilariousInHindsight: Now look at Black City in Pokemon Black...

* {{Gorn}}: The torture and "fatal battle" scenes are ''quite'' gory.
** Taken UpToEleven in the final arc.
* GroinAttack: Oniichan [[spoiler:Eusine transformed into a Raikou]] uses his spiked tail to rip out the undead Raikou's genitals in a fight.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Tate and Liza do this to Latias. [[spoiler:It is actually a test to see how strong the bonds between Ash and his Pokémon are]].

* ContemplateOurNavels: [[spoiler:[[GainaxEnding The entire first epilogue.]] The second epilogue, written a good deal after the fact when the author had a good deal more experience, [[AuthorsSavingThrow blames it all on Mewgle trying to be pretentious]].]]
* CostumePorn: Latias the Songstress. Here's a description of what she's wearing:

* {{Cyberpunk}}: Arguably the region of Silica. Rukario describes it as thus:

** HilariousInHindsight: Now look at Black City in Pokemon Black.....

* DarkFic: Possibly the darkest of the dark. When it's not being [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror funny]]. Or sometimes [[BlackComedy both at the same time]].

* DesignatedHero: In-universe example: Red Ranger. A ''totally'' amoral and borderline sociopathic "[[BewareTheSuperman superhero]]" is designated as heroic by [[spoiler:Mr. Ford.]]
--> '''Latias:''' So you even denigrate your comrades who fight alongside you. You attack a pair of Pokémon who had done nothing to hurt you without provocation or warning, intend to beat me to a pulp to capture me, and are also assisting a madman with his evil plans. You are no hero.
--> '''Red Ranger:''' Hey, as long as the people of Ever Grande City think I am, and I get paid for my work with money and power by Ford, I don't care what you call me!
** And the kicker? [[spoiler: He's ''Richie'' of all people.]]

* DoorStopper: 1,186,409 words of text.
** The sequel is 1,624,420 words and will probably get longer.
** For comparison, the ''LordOfTheRings'' trilogy is around 525,000.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Several are shown in the series, including the Master Ball. And Dark Karma. Just, Dark Karma.
** Poor, poor Latias gets this during the final battle when she is [[spoiler: thrown into a neverending cycle of pain and lust by Dark Latios to perform his xxx-rated fantasies on her, turning her into a zombie.]]
* FromBadToWorse: Goes from Latias trying to hide from the Ghost King's forces to [[spoiler: having to fight armies of undead abominations.]]

* XMeetsY: Arguably, the last arc is ''{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''GurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.
** In-universe example. The Battle Palace's rules are amended for the Hoenn League Championships so the roles are reversed. The end result is something like mixed martial arts meets Pokémon battling. No, really.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way ,[[OverlyLongGag way]]'' more than the source material.

* ParentalAbandonment: Played straight and subverted. Ash despises his father for ditching his mother before he was born. At the very end of the book, [[spoiler:he finds out his father is freaking ''Zorro''. Turns out someone spiked the punch at a fundraiser, they did a few things they might not have otherwise (Delia specifically [[ReallyGetsAround did several]]), and neither one remembered anything the next morning.]]

* FanNickname: a few notable ones, though they're all spoilers:
** [[labelnote:You really want to know? Fine...:]]\\
-- Seraphim Forme Latias (Seraphim Latias) - Latias resurrected after she is killed by the psychotic Red Ranger.\\
-- [[GreekMythology Talos]]cario ([[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Colossus]]cario) - Rukario (name used in the story) with his EleventhHourSuperpower: (his entire body becomes [[ChromeChampion metal]])\\
-- Misty The Seadragon ([[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Waterbender]] Misty) - Misty with her EleventhHourSuperpower: [[MakingASplash Aqua]][[KillItWithWater -kinesis]].\\
-- Reverse pokémon battle - The modified rules of the Battle Palace's that require the ''trainers'' to fight each other with their ''Pokémon" giving commands to them.\\
-- Archangel Charizard ([[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Mithos]] Charizard) - Ash's Charizard resurrected after a crazed Blaziken kills him in an [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath extremely brutal fashion]]. Distinction of this form: wings made of [[HardLight light]]\\
-- [[{{Transformers}} Rock]][[ThePowerOfRock timus]] [[AutobotsRockOut Prime]] - the [[HumongousMecha giant mech]] used by the Pokerockers.\\
-- Guardian Forme Groudon - Groudon's EleventhHourSuperpower: a suit of custom made metal armor.\\
-- Guardian Forme Kyogre - Kyogre's EleventhHourSuperpower: a suit of custom made bone armor.\\
-- '''Pants Forme Groudon''' - [[MundaneMadeAwesome What?]] Groudon really likes his new pants.\\
-- Sandstorm May - May with her EleventhHourSuperpower ([[DishingOutDirt control over sand]])\\
-- Electro-Ash - Ash after he becomes Crimson Lightning Ranger]]\\[[/labelnote]]

It's [[DoorStopper absurdly long]], surreal and bizzare to extremes, interspersed with plenty of [[LighterAndSofter lightheartedness]], plenty of fight sequences... oh, and sometimes it's really, ''really'' [[DarkFic dark]], Squicky, [[LudicrousGibs messy]], and all kinds of disturbing.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Weavile, Lucario, and Phanpy are referred to as Manyula, Rukario, and Phanphy. No idea what's up with the last one, but the former two were cameo appearances before Gen 4's English names/romanizations were finalized.
** About Phanphy, in one of the early chapters he said he likes it better this way.

** And [[spoiler: Missingno, the [[strike: glitch]] Darklord Pokemon]]
* {{Badass}}: Quite a few, but Mewtwo and Wes are the most prominent.

* HarmfulToMinors / PrimalScene: The cast enjoys a quiet-before-the-storm party on the night before the final battle. Some of them go for more...[[PreClimaxClimax involved]] celebrations than others. So anyway, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Phanpy]] walks in on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with a Weavile. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[LovableSexManiac Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[HarmfulToMinors probably]] [[BlankWhiteEyes imagine]] [[HeroicBSOD what]] [[TraumaInducedAmnesia happens]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny next]].

** And in a flashback in Chapter 6, when Latias is told to "go to Hell" by a member of a cult that thinks Pokemon are satanic, a stab at the people in the real world that think [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell Pokemon is satanic]].

* AIIsACrapshoot: Mewgle.

* TheBet: Wobbuffet's Goth phase turns out to be just a bet with Meowth.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: ''Do not'' make Latias mad. Destruction will ensue.

* BewareTheSuperman: Red Ranger is ''completely'' amoral and borderline sociopathic. [[spoiler:And the Alpha Ranger and Shining Ranger are even ''worse''.]]

* ContractualImmortality: Jessie and James have a contract with the show's producers guaranteeing their survival, as they are such popular characters. [[spoiler:Deoxys doesn't really care.]]

* TheDitz: Jigglypuff, who spends the first half of the book getting murderously pissy at people for falling asleep during her performance (the infamous FaceDoodling is apparently her attempt to ''stab them to death with the marker'' in a blind rage). Turns out she had no idea the only song she knew was a BrownNote lullaby. Chimecho is an extreme version of this trope.
** To a lesser degree, Latias is somewhat ditzy for the majority of the book.

* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Cerebrus is Raikou, Entei and Suicune combined, Coldstone is Regice and Regirock, and Omega is Shalor and Shining Ranger. Most of them end up being BodyHorror]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Berry Stoo and Mariah Susanson appear as a rather muscular and handsome man and a gorgeous woman respectively. But everyone seems to pick up that something is ''horribly'' wrong with them. Obviously overlaps with ParodySue.

* LoveableSexManiac: Brock and Corphish/Crawdaunt.

* NoodleIncident: Brock's trauma regarding Professor Ivy is finally explained.
-->'''Brock''': (noticing a picture of a bearded man) Oh, is that your ex-boyfriend?
-->'''Ivy''': No, [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfFunny that was me before the operation]].]]

* ThePowerOfRock: The Pokerockers, an all {{Pokemon}} rock band. They have assisted in killing an EldritchAbomination, a walking DiabolusExMachina, and their rock-[[HumongousMecha mecha]] was co-opted by the local ''goddess'' in the climactic fight.

* RealityWarper: [[TouchedByVorlons Post-Unown interaction]] Molly Hale, and [[MarySue Mariah Susanson]].

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Mewgle does this a lot in his RPGMechanicsVerse, just for shits and giggles.

** And in a flashback in Chapter 6, when Latias is told to "Go to Hell" by a member of a cult that thinks Pokemon are Satanic, a stab at the people in the real world that think Pokemon is Satanic.

* TouchedByVorlons: Molly Hale gains ''incredible'' powers after her interactions with the Unown.

* UnfriendlyFire: When Team Rocket realizes Wobbuffet knows Destiny Bond, they have him use it on Pikachu, then ''attack Wobbuffet'' to bring them both down.
** [[spoiler: Also Bulbasaur to Sceptile during the final battle.]]

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to]] [[spoiler:James? He was abducted for some plan of Deoxys or something. When Mewgle winds up taking the whole thing OffTheRails in the [[TheStinger epilogue]], James is left alone on a space station wondering what the hell is going on, and the reader never finds out what Deoxys was planning on using him for.]]
** [[spoiler:In the newest chapter of [[Fanfic/BraveNewWorld the sequel]], it is revealed that he was the container for Dark Latios's seed.]]

* AintNoRule: Ash invokes this ''six times in a row'' against [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]] and his [[EldritchAbomination poké-Sues]]. [[spoiler:Ash curbstomps him 6-1, with his only loss being a OneHitKill Pursuit]].
** [[labelnote:Specifically...:]]\\
1) Phanpy challenges the much larger Oliphan to balance on his rubber ball. Oliphan smashes the ball, Phanpy cries, and Oliphan gets pelted by the audience with garbage until it forfeits.\\
2) Bayleef burns a Stun Spore cloud with Solarbeam to fill the air with sparkles and give her opponent a seizure.\\
3) Charizard has been hypnotically regressed to childhood. His opponent is goaded into doing so as well [[TooDumbToLive for some reason]], and ends up reformatting its own brain because as an eldritch it ''had'' no childhood.\\
4) Corphish sings [[BawdySong an obscene song]] to distract his opponent and punches him a lot [[GroinAttack in the jumblies]].\\
5) Latias sings death metal as a combat distraction, backed up by the Pokerockers and their [[HumongousMecha giant sonic-weapon mecha]].\\
6) Pikachu [[HeroesPreferSwords pulls out his sword]] and forgoes distractions altogether, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and just pounds the crap out of a poké-Sue in a straight fight]].[[/labelnote]]

* BodyHorror: Let's not get into details about the Dark ones armies..for the love of GOD.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:May. Dear Mew, ''May.'' Her adorable little Munchlax is shot in front of her, Drew's head gets exploded while she's standing right next to him, she sees her father killed horribly on national television, she fails to commit suicide, she is rejected by her own brother, she horribly kills her real parents after being tricked into thinking that they were Deoxys's monsters, and is finally given one of the worst deaths in an already horribe story. '''Damn.''']]

* EldritchAbomination: Missingno, Mewgle, [[MarySue Mariah Susanson]], and all of hers and [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]]'s "Pokemon".

** Various inhabitants on [[spoiler: Mewgle's fake version of]] Birth Island, including [[spoiler: Raiki, Ash and Pikachu's father [[hottip:*:But not really since Ash's father is really Zorro. Raiki is something of an [[AscendedExtra ascended rumor]] in the sequel though]].]]

* HarmfulToMinors: When Phanpy walks in on Crawdaunt's massive orgy, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it immediately renders him comatose and erases his memory of the incident.]]

* HoldYourHippogriffs: And how.

* PokemonSpeak: Averted. See WordOfGod under TranslationConvention

* PrimalScene: The cast enjoys a quiet-before-the-storm party on the night before the final battle. Some of them go for more...[[PreClimaxClimax involved]] celebrations than others. So anyway, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Phanpy]] walks in on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with a Weavile. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[LovableSexManiac Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[HarmfulToMinors probably]] [[BlankWhiteEyes imagine]] [[HeroicBSOD what]] [[TraumaInducedAmnesia happens]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny next]].

* TranslationConvention: [[WordOfGod Ri2]] says "For convenience's sake all Pokéspeak will be written in English. Just pretend the humans can't hear them, though".
** And then subverted when [[TheDitz Chimecho's]] dialogue is translated...identically to his PokemonSpeak.
--->'''Chimecho''': CHIIIIIIIIIIII!

* FetishFuel: Latias the Songstress. Here's a description of what she's wearing:
-->She was wearing a blue bodice with white lace around the collar that ran down her chest to a set of light blue silk skirts. Black straps were crisscrossed across her thin upper arms, and blue velvet cloths were wrapped around her lower arms.
** An in-universe example, there are repeated references to a [[BrainBleach female Machoke supermodel]]...

* AIIsACrapshoot - Mewgle.
* AintNoRule - Ash invokes this ''six times in a row'' against [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]] and his [[EldritchAbomination poké-Sues]]. [[spoiler:Ash curbstomps him 6-1, with his only loss being a OneHitKill Pursuit]].

* AppealToForce - Tate and Liza wield an array of powerful psychic-based attacks. When Ash threatens to report them, this is the response he gets:

* AscendedGlitch - During the final arc [[spoiler:while everyone gets their EleventhHourSuperpower, Phanpy is evolved into a "corrected" version of one of [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]]'s [[EldritchAbomination Poké-Sues]].]]

* {{Badass}} - Quite a few, but Mewtwo and Wes are the most prominent.
* TheBet - Wobbuffet's Goth phase turns out to be just a bet with Meowth.
* BewareTheNiceOnes - ''Do not'' make Latias mad. Destruction will ensue.
* {{Brainwashed}} - Tate and Liza do this to Latias. [[spoiler:It is actually a test to see how strong the bonds between Ash and his Pokémon are]].
* BewareTheSuperman - Red Ranger is ''completely'' amoral and borderline sociopathic. [[spoiler:And the Alpha Ranger and Shining Ranger are even ''worse''.]]
* BloodyHilarious - Eventually you start to get jaded to the {{Gorn}}, and then the less-dramatic cases to characters you don't care about so much start drifting into this. The deluge of BlackComedy throughout [[strike:exacerbates]] helps.

* BreakTheCutie - [[spoiler:May. Dear Mew, ''May.'' Her adorable little Munchlax is shot in front of her, Drew's head gets exploded while she's standing right next to him, she sees her father killed horribly on national television, she fails to commit suicide, she is rejected by her own brother, she horribly kills her real parents after being tricked into thinking that they were Deoxys's monsters, and is finally given one of the worst deaths in an already horribe story. '''Damn.''']]
* BringMyBrownPants - Happens to the Murkrow at Wing Fortress when Latias incinerates them and a good portion of the forest.

* ContractualImmortality - Jessie and James have a contract with the show's producers guaranteeing their survival, as they are such popular characters. [[spoiler:Deoxys doesn't really care.]]
* {{Cyberpunk}} - Arguably the region of Silica. Rukario describes it as thus:

* DarkerAndEdgier - ''Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way ,[[OverlyLongGag way]]'' more than the source material.
* DarkFic - Possibly the darkest of the dark. When it's not being [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror funny]]. Or sometimes [[BlackComedy both at the same time]].
* DashingHispanic - Zorro and his entire team, and Brock's Lombre.
* DesignatedHero - In-universe example: Red Ranger. A ''totally'' amoral and borderline sociopathic "[[BewareTheSuperman superhero]]" is designated as heroic by [[spoiler:Mr. Ford.]]

* {{Determinator}} - [[spoiler:Giovanni]] is killed no less than ''three times''. [[spoiler:He's]] still alive at the end too.
* TheDitz - Jigglypuff, who spends the first half of the book getting murderously pissy at people for falling asleep during her performance (the infamous FaceDoodling is apparently her attempt to ''stab them to death with the marker'' in a blind rage). Turns out she had no idea the only song she knew was a BrownNote lullaby. Chimecho is an extreme version of this trope.

* DoomedHometown - Chapter ''One''.
* DoorStopper - 1,186,409 words of text.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, He's Like, In A Coma!]] - [[spoiler:''Molly! [[WhatTheHellHero What the hell?!]]'']]
* DrivenToSuicide - [[spoiler:May. Doesn't quite work. [[TheWoobie She might've been better off if it had.]]]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding - Full force. Keep in mind what the Unown are offering the good guys if they win is basically a ResetButton. The hope of this may at times be [[GrimDark the only reason you can keep bearing to read]].
* EldritchAbomination - Missingno, Mewgle, [[MarySue Mariah Susanson]], and all of hers and [[MartyStu Berry Stoo]]'s "Pokemon".
* {{Expy}} - A lot of people, if they don't outright {{Cameo}}. At one point, Ash battles Zorro and Mr. T. [[spoiler:Zorro joins the recurring cast.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower - [[spoiler:''The entire cast'' at the end of the last battle.]]

* FanNickname - a few notable ones, though they're all spoilers:
** [[hottip:You really want to know? Fine...:\\

-- Misty The Seadragon ([[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Waterbender]] Misty) - Misty with her EleventhHourSuperpower: [[MakingASplash Aqua]][[KillItWithWater -kinesis]]. \\

-- Archangel Charizard ([[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Mithos]] Charizard) - Ash's Charizard resurrected after a crazed Blaziken kills him in an [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath extremely brutal fashion]]. Distinction of this form: wings made of [[HardLight light]] \\

-- Guardian Forme Groudon - Groudon's EleventhHourSuperpower: a suit of custom made metal armor. \\

-- Electro-Ash - Ash after he becomes Crimson Lightning Ranger]] \\

** [[spoiler: Lord and Lady Ho-Oh's deaths are indescribable.]]
*** [[spoiler: It isn't undescribable, the author does describe it, very detailed too...]]

* FetishFuel - Latias the Songstress. Here's a description of what she's wearing:

* FunWithAcronyms - [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Poke Rangers]] '''A'''stro '''S'''quad '''S'''igma. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Bayleef.

* FusionDance - [[spoiler: Cerebrus is Raikou, Entei and Suicune combined, Coldstone is Regice and Regirock, and Omega is Shalor and Shining Ranger. Most of them end up being BodyHorror]]
* GainaxEnding - ''Twice''.
** The first one [[spoiler:results in a relatively small fraction of the cast still alive, the good goddess heavily wounded, all of them setting up a last stand, and the bad guy has just destroyed the entire universe around them. And some three chapters of extremely esoteric NavelGazing.]]

* GambitPileup - On a cosmic level by the end. The sheer amount of contingencies and [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee unspoken plans]] both sides have in play is staggering.
* GoingCosmic - ''And how''.
* {{Gorn}} - The torture and "fatal battle" scenes are ''quite'' gory.

* GroinAttack - Oniichan [[spoiler:Eusine transformed into a Raikou]] uses his spiked tail to rip out the undead Raikou's genitals in a fight.

** [[spoiler:Sphinx!May rips off Vigoroth's genitals, thinking that it was one of Deoxys's monsters assuming her father's pokemon's form. It wasn't.]]
* HandWave - See FridgeLogic.
* HalfHumanHybrid - Many exaples:
** Mariah Susanson, a blantant ParodySue who hits every "Pokemorph" cliche in the book and then some. [[spoiler:She's actually an insane psychic construct created from an experiment GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
** Various inhabitants on [[spoiler: Mewgle's fake version of]] Birth Island, including [[spoiler: Raiki, Ash and Pikachu's father [[hottip:*:But not really since Ash's father is really Zorro. Raiki is something of an [[AscendedExtra Ascended rumor]] in the sequel though]].]]

* HealingFactor - Most of [[spoiler:Deoxys]]'s armies of shambling horrors regenerate endlessly. [[spoiler:Dark Latios gets totally ''vaporized'' and comes back.]]

* HeroesPreferSwords - [[DashingHispanic Zorro, El Gato, Lombre]], and [[spoiler:Pikachu]].

* HumanoidAbomination - Berry Stoo and Mariah Susanson appear as a rather muscular and handsome man and a gorgeous woman respectively. But everyone seems to pick up that something is ''horribly'' wrong with them. Obviously overlaps with ParodySue.
* InterspeciesRomance - What kicks off the plot. It's exactly as awkward a topic for all parties involved as it sounds.

* LampshadeHanging - ''Constantly.'' ""It's like the laws of reality are being repealed or something, allowing impossible things to happen," the intelligent talking yellow rodent who had the ability to generate thunderbolts speculated."
* LemonyNarrator - Progressively more so over the course of the book.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - Trust us on this one.
* LoveableSexManiac - Brock and Corphish/Crawdaunt.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming - [[spoiler: A lot of the villains of the story, but most the noticeable is Deoxys]]
* LudicrousGibs - Wing Fortress massacre for one. The entirety of the final act for another.
* MindRape - A few times, most notably [[spoiler:Lugia, who is tricked into unnecessarily killing his BrainwashedAndCrazy son and wife, then forced to dream [[DreamWithinADream an infinite loop]] of suicides.]]

* MindScrew - There is quite a bit of allegory and symbolism in the story and some of the elements in the story are quite bizarre. Indeed, many reviewers have commented on this.
* MoodWhiplash - From a greater-story standpoint, entire lighthearted and easygoing story arcs can [[FromBadToWorse go very quickly to hell]]. Sometimes they go ''literally'' to Hell.

* MurderTheHypotenuse - [[spoiler: Bulbasaur]] eventually kills [[spoiler: Sceptile]] via UnfriendlyFire.
* NavelGazing - [[spoiler:[[GainaxEnding The entire first epilogue.]] The second epilogue, written a good deal after the fact when the author had a good deal more experience, [[AuthorsSavingThrow blames it all on Mewgle trying to be pretentious]].]]
* NoodleIncident - Brock's trauma regarding Professor Ivy is finally explained.

* OverlyLongGag - One could consider the [[DoorStopper whole book]] one such, but the author is rather fond of these on the whole.
* PairTheSpares - Ri2 gleefully sticks characters together throughout the book. [[spoiler:During the [[TheStinger epilogue]], an OverlyLongGag recaps all the pairings he's made. It lasts over two pages, has a RunningGag ''within itself'', and leaves the choice of Delia's significant other [[NoFourthWall to the reader's discretion]].]]
* ParentalAbandonment - Played straight and subverted. Ash despises his father for ditching his mother before he was born. At the very end of the book, [[spoiler:he finds out his father is freaking ''Zorro''. Turns out someone spiked the punch at a fundraiser, they did a few things they might not have otherwise (Delia specifically [[ReallyGetsAround did several]]), and neither one remembered anything the next morning.]]

* PokemonSpeak - Averted. See WordOfGod under TranslationConvention
* PrimalScene - The cast enjoys a quiet-before-the-storm party on the night before the final battle. Some of them go for more...[[PreClimaxClimax involved]] celebrations than others. So anyway, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Phanpy]] walks in on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with a Weavile. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[LovableSexManiac Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[HarmfulToMinors probably]] [[BlankWhiteEyes imagine]] [[HeroicBSOD what]] [[TraumaInducedAmnesia happens]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny next]].
* PsychicPowers - Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some ''serious'' [[BlessedWithSuck costs]] for their power.

* RealityWarper - [[TouchedByVorlons Post-Unown interaction]] Molly Hale, and [[MarySue Mariah Susanson]].

* ReincarnationRomance - Most notably [[spoiler: Latias and Rayquaza,]] but this is also hinted at for other couples.
* ResetButton - The Unown offer this to the good guys if they can stop the upcoming cataclysm.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem - Mewgle does this a lot in his RPGMechanicsVerse, just for shits and giggles.
* SerialEscalation- Gets pretty epic fairly early on, proceeds to top itself repeatedly. The sequel ''starts off'' somewhere around the level of epic of the first book's penultimate arc, and just keeps running from there.
* ShoutOut - Many, but the one that comes to my mind is a WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged reference in the REAL final.

* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror - Breaks both ends of the scale. Sometimes simultaneously.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS - Weavile, Lucario, and Phanpy are referred to as Manyula, Rukario, and Phanphy. No idea what's up with the last one, but the former two were cameo appearances before Gen 4's English names/romanizations were finalized.

* TheStinger - The book originally ended on a huge cliffhanger [[spoiler:with the majority of the cast dead and ''the entire universe annihilated'', and the remaining people set up for a last stand on a flying island]]. Two years later, Ri2 wrote a sequel that {{Ret Con}}ned the entire last chunk of the story. A good quarter of the way into the sequel, he threw a ([[OverlyLongGag second]]) epilogue onto ''Latias' Journey'' that revealed [[spoiler:the entire ending sequence was just Mewgle screwing with everyone, ''including the two gods duking it out'', in a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] gambit. He gets his ass handed to him by [[CoolShades Squirtle]], who [[DeusExMachina comes out of absolutely nowhere]] and earns everyone's happy ending.]]
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion - [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crawdaunt's 'Assumption]],' which is successfully used as a BrownNote to defeat an EldritchAbomination.

* TakeThat - Ash's encounter with Mariah Susanson is one big ol' "Take That" against [[MarySue Mary Sues]] in general.

* ThePowerOfRock - The Pokerockers, an all {{Pokemon}} rock band. They have assisted in killing an EldritchAbomination, a walking DiabolusExMachina, and their rock-[[HumongousMecha mecha]] was co-opted by the local ''goddess'' in the climactic fight.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Repeatedly, and almost always from the bad guys. [[spoiler:Deoxys]] uses this to psych out his opponents through sheer {{Gorn}}.
* TookALevelInBadass - Anyone in the cast who doesn't die soon after introduction is likely to take ''several''.
* TouchedByVorlons - Molly Hale gains ''incredible'' powers after her interactions with the Unown.
* TrainingFromHell - Lance and Drake force Ash and Latias to journey through an ice cavern with no winter clothing to toughen them up for the Hoenn League Championships. [[spoiler:A bunch of Glalie nearly kill them.]].
* TranslationConvention - [[WordOfGod Ri2]] says "For convenience's sake all Pokéspeak will be written in English. Just pretend the humans can't hear them, though".

* TranslatorMicrobes - Latias's telepathy allows Ash to understand and converse with his Pokémon. After Ash is [[spoiler:is selected as an honorary Chosen]], he is fully capable of understanding Pokéspeak thanks to the [[AWizardDidIt Unown]].

* {{Troperiffic}} - By the time the sequel rolls around, Ri2 is a confirmed [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife troper]].

* UnfriendlyFire - When Team Rocket realizes Wobbuffet knows Destiny Bond, they have him use it on Pikachu, then ''attack Wobbuffet'' to bring them both down.

* VirginSacrifice - Team Aqua brings in a naked woman to sacrifice to Kyogre. For Groudon, Team Magma brings in a fat, nerdy, unattractive man who is [[AManIsNotAVirgin far more embarrassed about his status]] than worried about being chucked into a lava pit.
* TheVoiceless - Played with. Latias can PokemonSpeak just fine, and later learns how to put up a psychic [[TranslatorMicrobes translation net]] for her friends, but her human disguise is mute. She has to carry around a notepad to scribble messages in when she has to communicate with humans who aren't in on her translation net.
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to]] [[spoiler:James]]? - [[spoiler:Abducted for some {{plan}} of Deoxys or other. When Mewgle winds up taking the whole thing OffTheRails in the [[TheStinger epilogue]], James is left alone on a space station wondering what the hell is going on, and the reader never finds out what Deoxys was planning on using him for.]]

* WretchedHive - Lilycove City is portrayed as an ''utterly'' lawless hellhole as a result of Team Magma and Team Aqua fighting each other.

* XMeetsY - Arguably, the last arc is ''{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''GurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs - There are some pretty fucked up moments in the story.
** As mentioned on the ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs page:
---> ''Latias' Journey'' is ''{{Pokemon}}'' tripping balls on every hallucinogen known. On meth. And PCP. And Rare Candies. While huffing nitrous oxide. And off its mood stabilizers.

-- [[GreekMythology Talos]]cario ([[XMen Colossus]]cario) - Rukario (name used in the story) with his EleventhHourSuperpower: (his entire body becomes [[ChromeChampion metal]])\\