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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Downplayed with Betty Snyder and Jamie Oliver. While Betty isn't exactly the world's biggest tomboy, nor is Jamie tremendously effeminate, the fact remains that she's a competitive girl who wants to take on the league, whereas Jamie is an aspiring cook who travels around simply to learn from chefs. It's also implied that Betty wears the pants in the relationship, so to speak.

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* GreenAroundTheGills: Luana goes green and nearly vomits after One Eye eats his own damaged eye.

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** Ash's face also goes green when Dexter tells him that Crabrawler's arms fall off and are edible.

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* HormoneAddledTeenager: Apparently, a lot of Erika's challengers were this, much to her chagrin.

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Apparently, a lot of Erika's challengers were this, much to her chagrin.chagrin.
** Ash believes Delia would say this about him finding Misty in a swimsuit attractive.


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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Red tries to convince Ash to "stop holding back" during the Tag Tournament, but the latter refuses to use his bloodliner powers for competitive battling since he considers it cheating. Red for his part considers that Ash is disrespectful to his opponents in doing so.


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* ItsProbablyNothing: Said by Nanu when he notices on TV [[spoiler: Ash's similarity to a criminal named Balaur he arrested about twenty years ago.]]
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** In Chapter 27, Sabrina's internal monologue reveals that [[spoiler:she killed Seymour the Scientist and Melvin the Magician]].
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* GolfClubbing: Guzma's abusive father used to hit him with his golf clubs. It traumatized the future Team Skull leader so badly that he retains a severe dislike of the game well into adulthood.

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* GolfClubbing: Guzma's [[AbusiveParents abusive father father]] used to hit him with his golf clubs. It traumatized the future Team Skull leader so badly that he retains a severe dislike of the game well into adulthood.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Nascour gets punched by Dakim hard enough to crack a couple of his ribs. His reaction? To ''congratulate'' the gigantic redhead and hit him back hard enough to send him straight in the middle of their battling Pokémon.

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** The local priest at Mars' hometown kindly took in Kibou when she was left in front of his door. [[spoiler: Sadly, said man was William Stronger, who'd grow to become the infamous Bloodliner Hunter.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: If Chapter 25 is any indication, Norman and Caroline have a very fulfilling sex life.

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** The local priest at Mars' hometown kindly took in Kibou when she was left in front of his door. [[spoiler: Sadly, said man was William Stronger, who'd grow to become the infamous Bloodliner Hunter.Hunter, though Kibou died before this could become an issue.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex:
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If Chapter 25 is any indication, Norman and Caroline have a very fulfilling sex life.life.
** Explored by Anna in Chapter 27: The father of Arnold/[[spoiler: Ash and many more]] was, by her own admittance, her most physically pleasing lover. However there had been something missing, and two other lovers she had later had that even if they were not the most physically pleasing and thus she preferred them to him.
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** In Chapter 27, [[spoiler:Paul [[KickTheDog releases his Raichu]] for "failing" him. This makes Ash and Red angry enough at him to put aside their differences and make sure he doesn't win. As a result, he and Gary end up losing in the final round of the tag tournament to Ash and Red's renewed teamwork]].
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* KingBobTheNth: In Chapter 27, Dexter mentions a Queen Acerola VII who ruled Alola.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mars' uncle. He's clearly not happy about [[spoiler:accidentally killing Kibou]], but only because he'd be voted out of office if the townsfolk found out what he did.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted in Mars Gaiden. Mars' uncle is noticeably regretful of [[spoiler:killing Kibou]]... but only because [[ItsAllAboutMe his political career would be over if anyone found out]].
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** The local priest at Mars' hometown kindly took in Kibou when she was left in front of his door. [[spoiler: Sadly, said man was William Stronger, who'd grow to become the infamous Bloodliner Hunter.]]


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** Mars' uncle and aunt, full stop. Is it any wonder that [[spoiler: after killing her friend Kibou and planning to frame her, she snapped and had her Bronzor crush them to death?]]
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* LiteralAssKicking: Misty does this to a couple of Dario's hired goons in order to make them reveal that Dario paid them to sabotage his competitors.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Mars' uncle is devastated at [[spoiler:accidentally killing Kibou]]... because it would torpedo his reelection if his constituents found out about it.
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* InfantImmortality: Notably averted in two instances:
** In the Georgia Gaiden, it's mentioned that one of the Reaper's victims was a seven-year old.
** In the climax of the Mars Gaiden, [[spoiler: Kibou, also seven years old, is killed by Mars' uncle when he smacks her on the head with a club.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Execu Tivem Edlin suggests the author in the April Fool's chapter to do this to attract readers, to which he promptly refuses because he's unwilling to go to the [[{{Lemon}} extremes Execu Tivem Edlin is advocating]]. There are still some mild examples, such as the swimsuit calendar Lorelei gives Erika to convince her to battle Ash, and a pool scene with Brock and Lucy in their gaiden. Betty spent a significant part of the Wicke & Nephew oneshot in a yellow bikini.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Execu Tivem Edlin suggests the author in the April Fool's chapter to do this to attract readers, to which he promptly refuses because he's unwilling to go to the [[{{Lemon}} extremes Execu Tivem Edlin is advocating]]. There are still some mild examples, such as the swimsuit calendar Lorelei gives Erika to convince her to battle Ash, and a pool scene with Brock and Lucy in their gaiden. Betty spent a significant part of the Wicke & Nephew oneshot in a yellow bikini.bikini, and there's also Misty going on a swimsuit-shopping spree with Ash aboard the S.S. Anne.
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** [[spoiler:Ash]] is hinted to have a growing number half siblings across almost all regions, be it a Trainer, Ranger or Neutral region; [[spoiler: the ones revealed so far being: Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, Arnold, Vermell, Hareta, Frax, Velvet, Ashley, Satoshi, Cleff, Travis, Iolani, Betty Snyder, Fitzdane, Jane Jackrum, Zilant, Makanui and Ritchie]], let alone the kid who got thrown off that bridge who may or may not the same. The Hau and Hala oneshot suggests that there are enough of them popping up that its an observable phenomenon. Sabrina even implies that there's ''several hundred'' of them, suggesting the number is somewhere between 4 and 6 ''hundred''.

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** [[spoiler:Ash]] is hinted to have a growing number of half siblings across almost all regions, be it a Trainer, Ranger or Neutral region; [[spoiler: the ones revealed so far being: Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, Arnold, Vermell, Hareta, Frax, Velvet, Ashley, Satoshi, Cleff, Travis, Iolani, Betty Snyder, Fitzdane, Jane Jackrum, Zilant, Makanui and Ritchie]], let alone the kid who got thrown off that bridge who may or may not the same. The Hau and Hala oneshot suggests that there are enough of them popping up that its an observable phenomenon. Sabrina even implies that there's ''several hundred'' of them, suggesting the number is somewhere between 4 and 6 ''hundred''.

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* KameHameHadoken: Some attacks, like Aura Sphere and Focus Blast, are done this way.



* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: A Rocket Grunt named Al decides to keep abusing Alish's Flareon despite having already beaten it. This makes its trainer angry enough to use Overheat on him.

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** Defied by Maylene while she fights Kiya.



* [[LeaveHimToMe Leave Her to Me]]: Misty almost steps up to challenge Giselle, but Ash stops her to do it himself. It's implied the reason for this is mix of his recent dream of [=MissingNo=] and recalling how Giselle defeated her in the original timeline.

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** Maylene stops Tanimoto-sensei and Reggie from interfering in her fight with Kiya [[spoiler: after he sucker-punches her in the nose]] to deal with him herself.
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** [=MissingNo=] mentions that all the people and Pokemon Ash met in the previous timeline are still tied to him. Hence why Ash, and to a lesser extent other trainers, end up finding the exact same Pokemon they had in the previous timeline, and how Ash ends up meeting the same people, even if it's under different circumstances.
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** PlayedForLaughs in the Frax & Velvet Interlude. At the beginning, Velvet tells Frax that uttering "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" [[GenreSavvy is a tantamount to have]] ''[[GenreSavvy everything]]'' [[GenreSavvy go wrong]]. At the end, ''she'' says it when they get a vase for their mother, and almost ends up dropping it into the sea while they fly on Kiawe's Charizard.

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** PlayedForLaughs in the Frax & Velvet Interlude. At the beginning, Velvet tells Frax that uttering "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" [[GenreSavvy is a tantamount to have]] ''[[GenreSavvy everything]]'' [[GenreSavvy have ''everything'' go wrong]].wrong. At the end, ''she'' says it when they get a vase for their mother, and almost ends up dropping it into the sea while they fly on Kiawe's Charizard.
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* {{Intangibility}}: As per canon, Ghost-type Pokémon have the inherent ability to phase through solid matter. The vigilante Decid-Arrow also displays this by vanishing into the ground.

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** The Wicke & Nephew oneshot shows a timeline briefly where Wicke did not ignore her sister's taunts and stayed at a party: it is similar to the main story timeline bar the existence of Pannonicia, a half sister of the Ash/Zilant/Belladonna/et infinite quagmire.

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** The Wicke & Nephew oneshot shows a timeline briefly where Wicke did not ignore her sister's taunts and stayed at a party: it is similar to the main story timeline bar the existence of Pannonicia, a half sister of the [[spoiler: Ash/Zilant/Belladonna/et infinite quagmire. quagmire.]]



* HappilyMarried: Norman and Caroline, definitely.

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** Garmon and Pia apparently were this at one point, according to Wicke, but she changed.
** Silver and Regina, despite some minor issues, are very happy together.



** Joshua from the Summer Camp Oneshot. A cheater and unrepentant {{Jerkass}}, who is clearly not meant to be liked at all.

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** Joshua from the Summer Camp Oneshot. A cheater and unrepentant {{Jerkass}}, who is clearly not meant to be liked at all. He only gets worse during the Ritchie oneshot.



** In the Whitney One-Shot, one of her challengers managed to defeat her Miltank, and cheers in joy thinking that the worst is over, feeling he can defeat Whitney's remaining Pokemon, regardless of what they are. Whitney then sent in ''another Miltank''. The challenger broke down in tears.
** In the Frax & Velvet Interlude, the title characters go to Poni Island to gather some flowers from the meadow. Velvet remains wary all the time, but when Frax manages to pick up the flowers without a hitch, [[TemptingFate she sighs in relief, thinking they can go home.]] Then a group of wild Pokémon in the ''hundreds'', led by a ''very'' angry Leavanny shows up...

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** In PlayedForLaughs in the Whitney One-Shot, One-Shot: one of her challengers managed to defeat her Miltank, and cheers in joy thinking that the worst is over, feeling he can defeat Whitney's remaining Pokemon, regardless of what they are. Whitney then sent in ''another Miltank''. The challenger broke down in tears.
** In the Frax & Velvet Interlude, the title characters go to Poni Island to gather some flowers from the meadow. Velvet remains wary all the time, but when Frax manages to pick up the flowers without a hitch, [[TemptingFate she sighs in relief, thinking they can go home.]] Then a group of wild Pokémon in the ''hundreds'', led by a ''very'' angry Totem Leavanny shows up...



** For literal examples, in Kanto there's the Ponyta/Rapidash line, and in Alola the Mudbray/Mudsdale line.

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** For literal examples, in Kanto there's the Ponyta/Rapidash line, and in Alola the Mudbray/Mudsdale line. To an extent, the Blitzle/Zebstrika line in Unova also qualifies.



* ImplausibleDeniability: [[spoiler:Joshua]] in the Summer Camp oneshot tries to convince Professor Oak that he wasn't cheating... despite his cell phone's web browser showing that he was clearly looking up the answers online.

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* ImplausibleDeniability: [[spoiler:Joshua]] Joshua in the Summer Camp oneshot tries to convince Professor Oak that he wasn't cheating... despite his cell phone's web browser showing that he was clearly looking up the answers online.



** [[spoiler:Ash]] is hinted to have a growing number half siblings across almost all regions, be it a Trainer, Ranger or Neutral region; [[spoiler: the ones revealed so far being: Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, Arnold, Vermell, Hareta, Frax, Velvet, Ashley, Satoshi, Cleff, Travis, Iolani, Betty Snyder, Fitzdane, Jane Jackrum, Zilant, and Makanui]], let alone the kid who got thrown off that bridge who may or may not the same. The Hau and Hala oneshot suggests that there are enough of them popping up that its an observable phenomenon. Sabrina even implies that there's ''several hundred'' of them, suggesting the number is somewhere between 4 and 6 ''hundred''.

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** [[spoiler:Ash]] is hinted to have a growing number half siblings across almost all regions, be it a Trainer, Ranger or Neutral region; [[spoiler: the ones revealed so far being: Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, Arnold, Vermell, Hareta, Frax, Velvet, Ashley, Satoshi, Cleff, Travis, Iolani, Betty Snyder, Fitzdane, Jane Jackrum, Zilant, Makanui and Makanui]], Ritchie]], let alone the kid who got thrown off that bridge who may or may not the same. The Hau and Hala oneshot suggests that there are enough of them popping up that its an observable phenomenon. Sabrina even implies that there's ''several hundred'' of them, suggesting the number is somewhere between 4 and 6 ''hundred''.



** [[spoiler: Assuming Belladonna was correct, Chapter 23 hints that Ash, Red, Arnold, and Belladonna were born to a Kanto mother and a father from Orre, while John Archer has a Hoenn born mother and the same father from Orre. Chapter 24 shows a look-alike waitress named Ashley, also in Kanto, whose likely half Orrean as well, as well as mentioning two kids, Frax and Velvet, who are said by Hala to resemble Ash and are thus probably half Alolan half Orrean, with a later oneshot introducing a third Alolan Ash-alike named Iolani and the Wicke & Nephew a fourth named Makanui, while the same chapter that mentioned the twins as well as the Astrid oneshot show a boy named Vermell who appears to originate from the Pokemon equivalent of Catalonia on his mother's side. Chapter 26 mentions a Ash-alike from Johto named Cleff who fought Dan the silver league before he fought Sabrina while Skyla Gaiden introduces a Unovan half sister named Betty Snyder. Luana Gaiden introduces us to Travis who has an Orange Islands mother while Sanpei Interlude and Ultima Interlude introduced the Kalosians Satoshi and Fitzdane respectively. Sho is also hinted to have met one whose name he doesn't remember in the Sinnoh League. And then, there's Jane Jackrum, introduced in Laramie Gaiden, who's Almian, and Zilant the titular nephew from the Wicke & Nephew oneshot, who's from Fiore, showing that even the Ranger nations got tangled up in that large family tree.]]

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** [[spoiler: Assuming Belladonna was correct, Chapter 23 hints that Ash, Red, Arnold, Arnold and Belladonna were born to a Kanto mother and a father from Orre, while John Archer has a Hoenn born mother and the same father from Orre. Chapter 24 shows a look-alike waitress named Ashley, also in Kanto, whose likely half Orrean as well, as well as mentioning two kids, Frax and Velvet, who are said by Hala to resemble Ash and are thus probably half Alolan half Orrean, with a later oneshot introducing a third Alolan Ash-alike named Iolani and the Wicke & Nephew a fourth named Makanui, while the same chapter that mentioned the twins as well as the Astrid oneshot show a boy named Vermell who appears to originate from the Pokemon equivalent of Catalonia on his mother's side. Chapter 26 mentions a Ash-alike from Johto named Cleff who fought Dan the silver league before he fought Sabrina while Skyla Gaiden introduces a Unovan half sister named Betty Snyder. Luana Gaiden introduces us to Travis who has an Orange Islands mother while Sanpei Interlude and Ultima Interlude introduced the Kalosians Satoshi and Fitzdane respectively. Sho is also hinted to have met one whose name he doesn't remember in the Sinnoh League.League, and the Ritchie oneshot adds him as well to the mix. And then, there's Jane Jackrum, introduced in Laramie Gaiden, who's Almian, and Zilant the titular nephew from the Wicke & Nephew oneshot, who's from Fiore, showing that even the Ranger nations got tangled up in that large family tree.]]
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** Regina and Silver, Ritchie's mother and step-father, are very loving and supporting to him.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ritchie's mother is absolutely dwarfed by Silver, her husband.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Erika, and the Celadon Gym girls by extension, are suffering this due to turning them into a lesbian community. On the other hand, original anime Erika [[TheScrappy wasn't a very popular character]], and there wasn't much material to work with her to begin with.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Erika, and the Celadon Gym girls by extension, are suffering suffer this a bit due to turning them being depicted into a lesbian community. On the other hand, original anime Erika [[TheScrappy wasn't a very popular character]], and there wasn't much material to work with her to begin with.with, and there are elements to her character outside of her sexuality.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Erika, and the Celadon Gym girls by extension, are suffering this due to turning them into a lesbian community. On the other hand, original anime Erika [[TheScrappy wasn't a very popular character]], and there wasn't much material to work with her to begin with.
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** Most of the O.C Ranger characters introduced in the Wicke & Nephew oneshot, such as Pia, Garmon, Zilant, and Pannonicia, have names that originate from Eastern European countries that were communist.
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** Borderline example with Casey Snagem's daughters, five in total.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the Twenty Gyarados Bill oneshot [[spoiler: the soldiers facing against Bill realize they're going to die, but decide to go down fighting.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Execu Tivem Edlin suggests the author in the April Fool's chapter to do this to attract readers, to which he promptly refuses because he's unwilling to go to the [[{{Lemon}} extremes Execu Tivem Edlin is advocating]]. There are still some mild examples, such as the swimsuit calendar Lorelei gives Erika to convince her to battle Ash, and a pool scene with Brock and Lucy in their gaiden. Betty spent a significant part of the Wicke & Nephew oneshot in a yellow bikini.
* FamedInStory: As always, Champions are given high praise and booking. Eagun is also mentioned in a similar light.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: [[spoiler:Most of Ash's implied half-siblings have [[TechnicolorEyes red eyes]]]].
* FamousAncestor:
** WordOfGod in chapter 24 says this world's King Kamehameha I is Acerola's ancestor.
** The Fisher clan has one in their founder Utsubotto, who was a Victreebel bloodliner.
** If Lady Ilene is to be believed, [[spoiler: Sir Aaron could be one to Ash.]]
* FantasticRacism:
** Considerable animosity exists between ordinary humans and bloodliners, though it's not all that prominent in the story (yet). It goes both ways, with many Humans fearing Bloodliners for their abilities, and their inexplicably raising numbers in recent times; and some bloodliners viewing themselves as superior to both humans and Pokémon, which means they deserve to rule over both.
** Draconids vs Sootopolitans is a more mundane counterpart.
* FantasticScience: Studying Pokémon is considered a legitimate and important field of research.
* FeatheredFiend: The Spearow and Fearow flock on the road between Pallet Town and Viridian City is notorious for being [[HairTriggerTemper easily angered]]. According to one Officer Jenny, they're among the last of the hyper-aggressive Pokémon of the pre-Oak Era.
* Fiction500: Don Ash from the Ketchumverse Omakes, leader of a reformed Team Rocket.
* FinalSolution: Some people have a downright ''genocidal'' hatred of Bloodliners.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Tapu Koko threatens Zilant with this, after summoning a thunderstorm and channeling all its energy into one finger, pointed at his neck, for refusing a Z-Ring.
* FireForgedFriends:
** Gardenia and Sho have this dynamic in the Gardenia Interlude, as they team up to find Cheryl in the [[HauntedHouse Old Chateau]].
** The Laramie Gaiden has this as its main premise. Leeroy Laramie, a Trainer, and Jenkins Jackrum, a Ranger, have to set aside their differences and accept each others' philosophies in order to survive and return home after getting stranded on a deserted Island.
* FireIceLightning: Brock owns a trio of Rhyhorn, known as the Rhyhorn Fang Brothers. They got that name due to being specifically bred with particular fang attacks in order to counter Pokémon Ground/Rock types would be weak against; more specifically, one knows Fire Fang, another knows Ice Fang, and the third knows Thunder Fang.
* FixFic: It is inspired by Ashes of the Past after all.
* FloralThemeNaming:
** In addition to the canon examples of Pokémon professors generally being named after trees, Frax and Velvet Lono both have names related to ash trees. Frax is short for "Fraxinus", the scientific name for the ash genus, and Velvet refers to a variety of ash tree introduced to Hawaii. [[spoiler:Of course, both these names also reference the strong hints that they're Ash Ketchum's half-siblings]].
** Also the Cerulean Sisters, who are named after flowers, [[OddNameOut except for Misty.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Apparently Pokemon do not like being named this way. According to Scott, trainers had died for naming aggressive or prideful species names like Fred.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Times two. In chapter 16, Oak hopes that Ash never captures a Grimer or a Muk, since they smell bad and can be very clingy. Not only does Ash (re)capture his Muk upon going to Gringy City, but he also accidentally captures ''thirty-two'' Grimer, [[TheGlomp all of them just as clingy and hug-happy as Muk.]]
** [[spoiler: Given that Bloodliners are all {{Big Eater}}s, Lara's and Hex's stomachs rumbling alongside Ash's, Misty's, Iris' and Anabel's was an early hint to their status as Bloodliners]].
* ForWantOfANail: There are many changes from the original timeline. The bigger and more notable changes include:
** The biggest one is the appearance of Bloodliners, [[AdaptationSpeciesChange which many canon characters became]].
** There is a culture clash between Trainer regions and Ranger regions, resulting in wars between the two ways of life, where it seemed both sides were at peace with each other in the original timeline.
** Since the S.S. Anne does ''not'' sink and safely arrives to its destination, Ash's travelling route changes, and so does the order he challenges the Gyms after Vermillion: instead of going to Saffron City, he goes first to Celadon City and is currently in Fuchsia City waiting for the next one. In the latter case, he will fight against Janine instead of Koga.
** Ash makes a point of legitimately earning his Kanto Gym Badges, recalling how more or less half of them were more reward than actual victories in the original timeline. So far, he has done this with the Boulder, Cascade and Rainbow Badges.
** Ash and Misty have caught several of their Pokémon at different locations and points in time (in Ash's case, even from regions outside Kanto), in addition to new ones they didn't have in the original timeline.
** The Wicke & Nephew oneshot shows a timeline briefly where Wicke did not ignore her sister's taunts and stayed at a party: it is similar to the main story timeline bar the existence of Pannonicia, a half sister of the Ash/Zilant/Belladonna/et infinite quagmire.
* FoulFlower: Downplayed with Vileplume. While they generally aren't malevolent, they have a defense mechanism whereby they release toxic pollen that kills horribly. Woe betide the unaware hiker who unintentionally stumbles into one.
* FourStarBadass: General Javelin is shown to be a skilled Pokémon Trainer in the Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden.
* FreakyIsCool:
** In the Jeanette Interlude, A.J. is actually excited to find out that Jeanette is a Bloodliner, because he's always wanted to meet one. It's also part of the reason he's attracted to her.
** Joe in the Giselle Interlude is also interested in Bloodliners and their abilities, as he believes they could know firsthand what it feels to be like a Pokémon.
* FreeFallRomance: According to Iris, Dragonite do this for courting.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Melanie's facility is protected by Bulbasaur statues that can fire lasers from the tips of their bulbs.
* FriendlyRivalry:
** Ash and A.J. have one of these.
** Also Kiawe with Frax and Velvet, especially the former.
** PlayedForDrama in the Cipher Interlude, with two trainers named Shawn and Jeff, who promised to each other to have a battle on the Pledge Grove to see which of the two was the better trainer. Jeff ran into Shawn in that place, and chose that very moment to challenge him, unaware that Shawn was in the middle of operation as a Cipher Peon [[spoiler: and ended up [[HeKnowsTooMuch getting killed for being in the wrong place at the worst time]].]]
* FromBadToWorse:
** Misty never had the best relationship with her family, but her discovery of being a bloodliner caused them to go from mostly neglectful to downright abusive. It gets to a point she admits to herself to ''not'' missing her parents when they die.
** Snivy also has this opinion when she's Wonder Traded to the Samurai.
* FromDressToDressing: Chapter 2 sees Misty bandage Ash's chest injury with shreds from an old undershirt.
* FrontlineGeneral: General Javelin fought alongside his men and Pokemon to face Twenty Gyarados Bill.
* FullNameUltimatum: Grace gives one to Serena to get her to stop protesting about staying in Oak's Summer Camp. Apparently, whenever Grace calls her "Serena Yvonne Gabena", it's never good news.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** In Chapter 18, while Iris discusses with Ash how to train Goomy for offensive moves and evolving, Charmeleon gets into a Metal Claw fight with Excadrill, breaking a bunch of trees in the process. Their trainers just ignore them.
** During Cynthia's oneshot while she is seeing visions of the past and possible future, she sees her birth. Her father is eating a muffin the entire length of it.
** At least twice in Chapter 24, Team Rocket was heard being sent blasting off.
* FunWithAcronyms: Professor Oak invented a device for easier Pokémon rotation, which he named the Handheld Omnipowered Pokémon Expediter (H.O.P.E.) glove. Lampshaded when Gary asks him how long it took him to come up with the acronym.
* GadgeteerGenius: Doctor Boxer, considered to be one of the best inventors in the world, [[BunnyEarsLawyer albeit rather kooky]].
* GameBreakingInjury: As in canon, Dario causes Lara to break her arm in the Big P Pokémon Race Interlude. She's still better off than her friend Hex, who spends two days out cold after getting shot with a tranquilizer dart.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Several changes throughout the games and anime (New moves, new types, the segregation of physical and special moves) are a result of Cyrus messing with reality.
* GamerChick: The Holiday Special implies that Krista's girlfriend is one, considering she asked for a [[VideoGame/TemboTheBadassElephant Tembo]] game for Christmas.
* GeneHunting: After her first encounter with Ash [[spoiler:who she's convinced is her half brother]], Belladonna starts looking for information about her father.
* GenerationXerox: Defied by Koga, who wants to be a better father to his daughter than his own father was to him.
* GenericGraffiti: Team Skull is notorious for "leaving their mark" on Alola. One member, known as Sketch, doesn't even need a can of spray paint to tag, since she's a Bloodliner who can generate paint with her fingers.
* GeniusBruiser: Gonzap is a very strong and muscular man, but also smart enough to be the only member of Team Snagem to beat all their simulations [[spoiler:until Wes arrives]]. He's further implied to be very good with technology.
* GenkiGirl: The Black Rose Tournament Interlude introduces Rhythm, a talkative, spunky ball of energy who gushes over getting to battle Ninja Riot, one of her idols. Not even losing her battle manages to slow her down.
* GetOut: Poor Laila's father told her to do this after finding out she was a Bloodliner.
* GhostButler: One haunts the Old Chateau. Unfortunately, he's not at all benevolent.
* GhostlyChill: The Old Chateau is implied to have one, since Gardenia is described as feeling a chill several times.
* GhostTown: Sabrina's old hometown, Turquoise Town, ends up becoming one. After she leaves, the townsfolk leave the place and the bad memories associated with it behind. Within a year, it's completely abandoned.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Kingler, as in canon. Ash's Krabby really wants to become one again.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: In the Laramie Gaiden, several lifeboats get engulfed in one after some angry Gyarados whip up a storm.
* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Defied by Guzma in the Holiday Special, who expressly forbids his subordinates from selling their possessions to buy gifts in order to avoid this kind of scenario.
* GilliganCut: When Frax and Velvet realise they need a Ride Pokemon which only Kiawe has access to, Kiawe tries to deny their request saying he needs the Ride Charizard for making deliveries. Cue the next scene where Kiawe can't believe the twins managed to convince him to help them.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Lots of male trainers lost to Erika because they were [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by the affections between the girls in her gym.
* GirlsBehindBars: Of the "nasty" variety rather than the "sexy" variety. Belladonna's mother is currently locked in a women's prison, and was beaten by her fellow inmates on at least five separate occasions because of what she did to her daughter.
* TheGlomp:
** Like in canon, Ash's Muk really likes doing this to people. And so do the thirty-two Grimer Ash caught along with him.
** Luana is apparently quite fond of doing this to her son Travis.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:one of the Seven Brothers was this to Ash, Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, and numerous others, possibly in the ''[[ReallyGetsAround hundreds]]'']].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Some Bloodliners get these while using their powers.
* GluttonyMontage: In Chapter 9/Giselle Interlude, Ash and Misty manage to defeat the students of Pokémon Tech, and choose an all-you-can-eat buffet of the school's excellent food as their reward. Thanks to them [[BigEater having heightened metabolisms]] due to being Bloodliners, this trope quickly ensues.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Despite James being a member of Team Rocket who once tried to steal his Pokemon and is currently stalking him, he and Ash were able to have a proper and fair battle in the Battle Dome Tournament. James never even ''tries'' to cheat, and the two of them really do enjoy their fight. James isn't even particularly bothered about losing.
* GolfClubbing: Guzma's abusive father used to hit him with his golf clubs. It traumatized the future Team Skull leader so badly that he retains a severe dislike of the game well into adulthood.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Defied. One of the many reasons for Ash to never ask Delia about his father is that she may tell him something about his father that he was better off not knowing.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion:
** Played with. The only reason Misty's parents didn't abort her was because they feared the negative publicity that might have resulted from it.
** Wicke inverts this trope. Because she is a carrier for a unpleasant disease on one of her X-Chromosomes and as a Ranger Union citizen would get into severe trouble for screening gender in any child she has, she considers abortion necessary if she gets pregnant as, in her own words, she doesn't want to gamble with her child's wellbeing. The brief glimpse into the alternate universe where she had a child bewilders her for that reason as she struggles to imagine why she would take said gamble.
* TheGoodKing: The Ancient King Kahele was one by all accounts.
* GoodParents:
** For the main characters, Delia, Grace and Meyer definitely qualify, as they're shown to be very loving to their respective children.
** Flint and Lola were this to Brock and his siblings, at least until their untimely deaths.
** Koga to Janine, in contrast to how his own father was implied to be.
** Kyle Narec to Evanna, raising her well and ''not'' turning against her when he learned she is a Bloodliner unlike [[spoiler: Tokiomi to Aurora]]. Belladonna even calls him the one good parent she and her girlfriends had and said if she had to have a last name, it'd be Narec.
** Anna to Arnold, and also to Laila when she takes her in after learning her own parents kicked her out.
** Cynthia's parents, [[TheGhost though they haven't appeared in her one-shot]] except in a brief {{Flashback}}, did their best to put food on the table so Cynthia could eat regularly. Apparently, that's leagues better than many of the other parents in Cynthia's hometown, with the point further driven home when Cynthia encountered one gang of older kids that didn't manage to eat in several days.
** Jeanette's parents, Kaoruko and Kazuto, not only did not reject their daughter for being a bloodliner, they ''celebrated'' it.
** Miles Jr. and Huuro are very good parents to their daughter Skyla, given how patient and supportive they are towards her.
** Luana makes it clear that she ADORES her son Travis.
** While Sabrina's father tells her that her powers endow her with certain responsibilities, he doesn't like people taking advantage of her.
** Lara's and Hex's respective parents, [[spoiler: since they already know they're bloodliners and didn't reject them.]] Hex's mother even died to protect her from a Beedrill swarm.
** Fitzdane's mother didn't reject him for being a bloodliner. Unfortunately, [[FantasticRacism the townsfolk]] [[TorchesAndPitchforks had other ideas.]]
** From what is seen in his interlude, Sho has a fairly good relationship with his parents.
** Zilant gets along very well with his step-father. His mother not so much.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: If Chapter 25 is any indication, Norman and Caroline have a very fulfilling sex life.
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: The Guzma Interlude has the Bad (Team Skull) vs the Evil (Team Cipher). The Good (the Kahunas) are present but did not participate in the initial clash.
* GoofySuit: In TheStinger of the Hala and Hau Interlude, Frax and Velvet have to dress up as Bug-type Pokémon (the former as a Ledian, the latter as an Ariados) as part of their volunteering to work the registers at the Aether Bug Catching Contest.
* GoToYourRoom: After arguing with his daughter about her essay on Twenty Gyarados Bill, Sabrina's father sends her to her room.
* GottaCatchThemAll: Some trainers have this as their specific goal to become Pokémon Masters, most of the time focusing on a specific type.
* GottaKillThemAll: [[spoiler:After finding out that one of his brothers broke the "have no children" pact and left lots of kids all over the world, Capriccio starts making plans to kill every last one of his nieces and nephews]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: Belmondo reveals to Clemont that he's working for a faction within the T.A.T.O. government [[WellIntentionedExtremist whose supporters are very paranoid about a possible attack from the Ranger Union nations, and they're kidnapping him so he can help them in developing weaponry to deploy against the Rangers.]]
* GracefulLoser: Most Gym Leaders. Notably, Lt. Surge outright states he'd be happy to have Ash watching his back in a real war.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything:
** The Rotan Royal Library has over 700 million books, and some of the most comprehensive information on bloodliners in the world.
** Alola apparently had one of these during the era of King Kahele.
* GreatOffscreenWar:
** The Trainer-Ranger wars, conflicts between the regions of the Main series and the Ranger spinoffs. It is suggested there are still serious tensions between the two, and the exact outcome of these wars hasn't been stated yet.
** Ninja wars were also mentioned in the Koga and Janine short. The Sanpei oneshot adds another reference.
** In John Archer's Gardevoir's {{Flashback}}s, it's revealed that there were some pretty bloody conflicts between Hoenn and the Draconids.
** [[spoiler: According to the characters in the BadFuture, there was a ''Bloodline War'' that even involved Legendaries, Ultra Beasts and Shadow Pokémon.]]
* GreenAroundTheGills: Luana goes green and nearly vomits after One Eye eats his own damaged eye.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: During the battle within the Gringy City Power Plant, while fighting a swarm of Weedle, Charmeleon uses an Ekans as a whip (whacking it in the head whenever it tries to bite him) and when he gets tired, [[ThrowTheMookAtThem he decides to "use Fling" with it.]]
* GroinAttack:
** Georgia manages to defend herself from The Reaper this way.
** Laila does this to Butch's Drowzee, causing it to lose its telekinetic grip on Arnold.
* GrowlingGut: When [[BigEater Ash and Misty]] get hungry, their stomachs start rumbling like thunderheads. This is presumably true for other Bloodliners as well, considering that very active metabolisms appear to be a universal trait among them.
* GrumpyOldMan: Kaiser, like in canon. Of course, since he's no longer bound by the standards of a family-friendly franchise, he can express his displeasure by swearing this time around.
* GuardianEntity: Gardevoir and Gallade, as in canon. The different approaches they take are a major plot point in the Wally Interlude.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: During their infiltration of the Gringy City power plant, Ash and company manage to sneak past some mind-controlled Koffing on the back of Misty's Gyarados. Justified, because Koffing have terrible hearing and being mind-controlled is implied to impair a Pokémon's mental abilities.
* GunNut: Lilo explicitly describes Kaiser in such terms.
* GunsAreWorthless:
** Belladonna certainly thinks so, believing them nothing more than items the powerless use to help them feel powerful. Since she can block bullets using Sludge Wave, it's not an entirely unjustified opinion.
** During the escape from Team Rocket's lab, Krysta uses a Blizzard attack to hold off the armed guards while Lance opens the hatches for them to flee. When the guards try to shoot at them, their weapons get stuck due to being frozen.
* GutPunch: While things are DarkerAndEdgier to begin with in the new timeline, including elements such as more aggressive wild Pokémon and battle injuries having the potential for more serious consequences, there wasn't really any sign that things were necessarily worse. Then Ash found the graves of Brock's parents in Chapter 5, showing that, yes, some things ''were'' irretrievably lost in the transition. While the story still isn't hopeless, Ash's discovery established once and for all that despite Arceus's efforts to save the universe, there are things, even people, that are never coming back. From that point on, there are undertones of melancholy in the story, since Ash is well aware that some aspects of the original timeline are gone forever.
* HadToBeSharp: Dexter mentions that Beedril did, due to concentrated efforts by humans to wipe them out.
* HairTriggerTemper: There's a large Spearow and Fearow flock on Route 1 whose members are some of the last of the "hyper-aggressive Pokémon of old", and being seriously inbred hasn't helped calm them down. As a result, just about ''anything'' can send them into a killing frenzy.
* AHandfulForAnEye: As shown in the Erika Interlude, this can happen with powder moves. If the powder gets in a Pokémon's eyes, they can get severely irritated. This even affects Grass-types, who are normally otherwise immune to such attacks. True, the debris may not be physically thrown, but the same basic principle applies.
* HappilyMarried: Norman and Caroline, definitely.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: Sung to Ash in "Happy Birthday, Ash!"
* HarmfulToMinors: When she was just twelve years old, poor Georgia had to see her parents' charred corpses after they were murdered by [[SerialKiller the Reaper]]. [[FromBadToWorse Even worse]], he then decided [[WouldHurtAChild to kill her too]].
* HateSink: Several characters:
** Joshua from the Summer Camp Oneshot. A cheater and unrepentant {{Jerkass}}, who is clearly not meant to be liked at all.
** Ash's father. Despite not making (yet) an appearance in the story, ''or not even knowing his identity'' for that matter , it's clear he's somebody also never meant to be liked. Gary has well prepared TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in case he ever meets him and Delia outright refuses to call him "Ash's Father" (referring him as merely "that man"). The fact that [[spoiler:he's confirmed to be a criminal who also sired literally]] ''[[spoiler:hundreds]]'' [[spoiler:of bastard children whom he obviously never cared to support in any way only adds to this]]. And all this without factoring in the hints that [[spoiler:he may have used his Bloodline powers to mind control women into sleeping with him, which (if true) would probably make him a sex offender on top of everything else]]. This was foreshadowed early on by [=MissingNo=], who outright told Ash that he wouldn't have a good relationship with his father, hinting that he wasn't a very likeable man.
** Dario. Not so much in the main story where he falls under OffscreenVillainy, but definitely qualifies in the Big P Pokemon Race Interlude and Lara Gaiden oneshots, where besides being an unrepetant cheater, he's not above causing serious injuries to other people just to get potential competition out of the way. To top it all off, he has the ''gall'' [[MoralMyopia to accuse Lara and Ash of cheating when he was far worse by any objective measure]]. The authors had this trope in mind when writing the oneshots, so when his [[spoiler: inevitable death at Sabrina's hands came]] it felt more like KickTheSonOfABitch and less of an AlasPoorVillain.
** Damian. He was pretty much an asshole in canon, but the Charmander Gaiden shows in full how he treats his Pokémon. The worst part, [[SelectiveObliviousness he refuses to acknowledge that it's]] ''[[NeverMyFault his own fault]]'' that they're growing weaker, even when called out on it.
* HauntedHouse: The Old Chateau is featured in the Gardenia Interlude.
* HaveWeMet: Due to getting a feeling of familiarity after touching Ash, Misty asks him this when he wakes up in the Pokémon Center. Of course, he can't tell her the truth without sounding either dishonest or insane, but Team Rocket's attack thankfully cuts their conversation short.
* HeadPet:
** Inverted with Twenty Gyarados Bill, who was known for riding on First's head.
** Played straight with Betty Snyder's Joltik.
* HealingFactor: Pokémon heal a good deal more quickly than humans. It's implied that bloodliners are also fast healers.
* HeroicDog: Anna and Arnold own an Arcanine and a Growlithe, respectively. Both are loyal to their respective humans and fiercely protective of their owners/trainers and others.
* HeroicLineage:
** Many of the Froakie in Sanpei's village are descended from the Hero Greninja.
** If Lady Ilene is to be believed, [[spoiler: Ash himself]] might be a descendant of [[spoiler: Sir Aaron]].
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler: Elite Four Member Denki Tekina manages to fatally wound Twenty Gyarados Bill at the cost of his own life, ending his final rampage. Due to the fact that he only used six Pokémon during his entire career, the T.A.T.O. representatives set the six-Pokémon limit for all trainers, and named it the "Denki Tekina Protocol" in his memory.]]
** Hex's mother died shielding her daughter from a Beedril swarm.
* HesBack: In the Brock & Lucy Gaiden, after finishing his training with Lucy, Brock tells a challenger [[UnderestimatingBadassery who expected an easy victory]] and ended up [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] to tell everyone else out there that if they want a Boulder Badge, they'll have to work for it. Sure enough, in less than a month his winning rate has improved up to 93%.
* HeyYouHaymaker: Blaine gives one to a Rocket Grunt in his interlude.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Several. As of yet, there's no clear indication as to what Giovanni, the Bloodline King, or [=MissingNo=] are up to or why they are interested in Ash. Though it appears that the Bloodline King is interested in Ash because he's a Dual Bloodliner while Giovanni is interested in Ash because he think Ash is crucial for dealing with the Bloodline King.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: The third rule of the Ninja covers this: stating that a Ninja can be stealthy when you are better served to not be stealthy.
* HighVoltageDeath:
** How [[spoiler:several of Bill's Gyarados]] meet their end in the Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden.
** An unfortunate lifeguard suffers one in the Luana Gaiden when he gets fatally electrocuted by a vengeful Electabuzz. Said Electabuzz goes on to kill several more humans in the same way.
** William Stronger attempts this on Fitzdane with his Manectric's Thunder attack. Subverted because Fitz survives it and [[HeroicSecondWind this triggers his Torrent ability]], though Ultima does note that a normal human being would have most likely been killed.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: Professor Oak's research in making wild Pokémon less aggressive was very important to society. In fact, it was so important that when he succeeded in his endeavor, it was dubbed the start of the Oak Era.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happens to Damian in the Misty Gaiden. When he starts to lose to Misty, he gets angry and tries to send another Pokémon to restrict her Wingull. He chose a Tentacruel, accidentally helping Misty realize she could MindControl Water-types, which she quickly takes advantage of to give him a lesson.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: A number of Pokémon adaptations of aphorisms are mentioned, such as "the Torkoal beats the Bunnelby", "he's acting like somebody kicked his Growlithe", and, of course, "hold your Ponytas".
* HollywoodSatanism: Referenced when Pikachu mentions being afraid of running into a cult of [=MissingNo=] worshippers.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Joseph Stone, who legitimately wants to help the less fortunate, and approached Lysandre with an offer for the two of them to establish a foundation for that purpose during a holiday charity event.
* HopelessWithTech: Forge Smith asks Ash for his phone number, since he doesn't have the first clue about the Internet.
* HopeSpot:
** [[spoiler:After having his operation taken down by Ash, Felgrand thinks he at least has a chance to start again. But then he runs into Jessie, James, and Meowth, who capture him for operating in Team Rocket territory without permission]].
** Poor, poor Butterfree. He finds the spot where his species finds mates, [[spoiler: and even manages to find his mate from the previous timeline. Thing is, she doesn't remember him, and is with another Butterfree in a perfectly happy relationship. In the end, he makes the choice to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let her go]], one of the most difficult decisions in either one of his lifetimes]].
** In the Whitney One-Shot, one of her challengers managed to defeat her Miltank, and cheers in joy thinking that the worst is over, feeling he can defeat Whitney's remaining Pokemon, regardless of what they are. Whitney then sent in ''another Miltank''. The challenger broke down in tears.
** In the Frax & Velvet Interlude, the title characters go to Poni Island to gather some flowers from the meadow. Velvet remains wary all the time, but when Frax manages to pick up the flowers without a hitch, [[TemptingFate she sighs in relief, thinking they can go home.]] Then a group of wild Pokémon in the ''hundreds'', led by a ''very'' angry Leavanny shows up...
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Apparently, a lot of Erika's challengers were this, much to her chagrin.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: It's pretty common for people to use Pokémon as steeds. This is specially prevalent in Alola, with Ride Pokémon being used frequently for transportation.
** For literal examples, in Kanto there's the Ponyta/Rapidash line, and in Alola the Mudbray/Mudsdale line.
* HospitalityForHeroes: Forge Smith gives Ash a holder to repay him for saving him from a robbery.
* HostileWeather: When she was very young, Evanna's birth parents were killed in Typhoon Urobuchi.
* HouseFey: Mimey, a part Fairy-type who does housework for Delia and also helps out in her restaurant, Pallet House.
* HouseFire:
** Alish's parents died in one.
** Red is implied to have escaped one in his childhood, if his dreams are anything to go by.
** The Bloodliner Hunter attempts to kill one of his victims in one, but fails thanks to Frey's intervention.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad:
** It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Ash, Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, and a lot of other Bloodliners]] are the result of this kind of relationship, having human mothers and [[ReallyGetsAround the same Bloodliner father]].
** The Jeanette Interlude reveals that the Fisher Clan's founder was a Victreebel Bloodliner, who apparently married a human woman.
* HumansAreFlawed: A major theme of the story is that humanity is capable of both great good and great evil. It's noted by multiple characters that the human race as a whole is making a sincere effort to improve, even if there are some who are willing to cause great harm.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: There are a number of Pokémon who hold this view. As Iris's grandfather points out, many of them think of humans as being "violent, unruly and destructive".
* HumblePie: The Golden Generation are served big slices of it after getting [[CurbStompBattle easily defeated]] by Ash and Misty.
* HypotheticalCasting: Cross and the readers have voiced their opinions on "casting" multiple times, through author's notes and polling, respectively. This includes Creator/ToddHaberkorn as Ash, Creator/MichelleRuff as Misty, Creator/CrispinFreeman as Red, Creator/TaraStrong as Yellow, Creator/YuriLowenthal as Gary, Creator/StephanieSheh as the Nurse Joys, and Creator/JulieAnnTaylor as Belladonna.
* ICantDoThisByMyself: Indirectly stated by Ash to his team, when he says they all have to get stronger to protect the family and friends they still have.
* IdenticalGrandson:
** While it is currently unknown if the entire thing is true or not, [[spoiler: Belladonna is noted to resemble Felgrand's mother immensely. Given that it is hinted she is his niece, this trope would be in effect, and to a lesser extent having Ash, Red, and John Archer resemble their grandmother, though not enough that Felgrand was able to pick up on it]].
** Jeanette Fisher looks like a younger version of her mother Kaoruko.
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: When Grace drops Serena off at Oak's summer camp while she takes part in the Kanto Rhyhorn Race Cup, the girl is sure that she'll hate it there. While she does have a rough start, she eventually grows to like it, partly due to the influence of Ash.
* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: Tristan comes to give Joey the Pokémon egg from the Cherrygrove tournament because he feels he didn't earn it fair, when Joey burst into tears for everyone still making fun of him. Joey turns it down, because he never entered the tournament for the egg anyway.
* IHaveAFamily: A guard in the Gringy City power plant says this while begging Belladonna to spare his life. Because of the memories this brings up for her, she lets him live.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Belladonna's mother kicked her out when she turned out to be a lesbian.
** Aurora's father disowned her after discovering she was a bloodliner.
** Laila's parents also chased her out of their home when they learned she was a bloodliner.
* ILetYouWin: During Ash's battle with Paul, Charmeleon defeats Paul's Grotle with relative ease. Misty gets the feeling that Paul had almost thrown that match, and she turns out to be right; before being defeated, Paul had signaled Grotle to set up a Stealth Rock by snapping his fingers.
* ImagineSpot: In Chapter 21, Ash has one about the demands other gym leaders might make of him before they let him battle them.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: At the end of the Frax & Velvet Interlude, Velvet makes it clear that's she's ''not'' coming again with Frax to gather flowers on the meadows.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Dario isn't a very good shot with a sniper rifle, especially not when he's panicking. Justified, because he's implied to have only recently gotten his, and so probably didn't have much (if any) time to practice with it.
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[spoiler:Joshua]] in the Summer Camp oneshot tries to convince Professor Oak that he wasn't cheating... despite his cell phone's web browser showing that he was clearly looking up the answers online.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In Chapter 21, Ash has an ImagineSpot of Elesa making him fill in for one of her models... which involves wearing an ensemble that, according to the narration, would make both May and Dawn froth with rage.
* ImprovisedLightningRod: Ash developed a method of dispersing Electric attacks by striking the ground with a physical Steel-type attack. He demonstrates this during his battle against Lt. Surge, by having his Charmander hit the ground with Metal Claw, so it doesn't get hurt by a Shock Wave fired by his opponent's Joltik. Later on, Misty borrows this technique by teaching her Gyarados Iron Tail so that it can be less vulnerable when fighting Electric-types.
* ImprovisedParachute: After being knocked off the Vermillion City gym's ceiling by Ash's Charmander, Lt. Surge's Joltik uses Spider Web to make itself a parachute so that it can fall more safely.
* IncestIsRelative: The Spearow and Fearow flock on the road between Pallet Town and Viridian City have apparently been inbreeding for generations. This is why they're still extremely aggressive, even after Professor Oak's efforts to make wild Pokémon less bloodthirsty and territorial.
* IndustrialGhetto: In a change of pace Gringy City ''isn't'' this anymore.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Used as a RunningGag, especially among villains.
** Professor Oak says he doesn't have the time or the alcohol to recount the story of how he found out Ash was a bloodliner.
** Scouse had to fill in as a waiter at a political dinner, and got himself very drunk to cope with the "exposure to so much concentrated hypocrisy", as one of his coworkers puts it.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When Hala asks Hau if he thinks trials are obsolete, Hau says no, despite how appealing a Pokémon League might seem. Then Hala points out he never said anything about a League.
* InfoDump: Hala has a lengthy reflection on the ancient history of Alola.
* InItsHourOfNeed: The Hero Greninja and his followers promised to return to the Ninja Village if it was ever in trouble again.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even considering all the changes between timelines, as well as Ash and his Pokémon having awareness of what happened the first time around, some events happen more or less as they did in canon. Examples include:
** Despite arriving in time to Oak's lab, Ash finds out that the three starter Pokémon have already been claimed.
** Ash and Pikachu are still attacked by a Spearow flock on the road to Viridian City, this time even without provocation.
** Misty has the same Pysduck she involuntarily caught in the anime. Only this time she appears to actually have caught it on her own volition, plus she already had it by the time she met Ash.
** Despite her completely different upbringing, Iris has the exact same Axew, Excadrill, and Emolga she had in the anime, in addition to having been raised alongside her Dragonite.
** Ash once again finds himself banned from entering Erika's gym, albeit this time for a reason out of his control.
** Lara still gets her arm broken, forcing her out of the Big P Pokémon Race. Fortunately, like in canon, Ash is able to fill in for her.
* InspirationalInsult: The catalyst for Twenty Gyarados Bill becoming the man who destroyed coastal Johto was when he was given a Magikarp as a mocking gift and was told that he was just like it, that is, useless and pathetic. [[AnalogyBackfire Bill however remembered that they have a huge amount of potential]], and drew inspiration from the insulting prank.
* InstantExpert:
** On the whole, either averted or played with in the story. Bloodliners avert this by needing time to develop their abilities regardless of what type of bloodline they have, while Ash's skills as a Trainers ''look'' like this to an outsider but they don't know he has skills from the original timeline.
** Zigzagged with the use of [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]]. Inexperienced trainers and Pokémon can have problems to control the power, causing the Pokémon to go berserk, but it's possible to get through [[ThePowerOfFriendship if they share a strong bond of trust and friendship.]] On the other hand, more experienced trainers are capable of pulling off a perfect Mega Evolution on the first try.
* InstantMessengerPigeon:
** Falkner's family used to train the Flying-types they bred as messengers and couriers, until technological advances made them obsolete.
** Pallet Town's post office still employs Pidgey for "snail mail", as shown in the Oak's Summer Camp Gaiden.
* InstantSedation: Hex passes out almost immediately after Dario accidentally shoots her with one of his tranquilizer darts. Justified, because said tranquilizer was designed for use on "livestock" Pokémon like Ponyta. The story also makes it clear that such a powerful tranquilizer could ''kill'' her if she doesn't get prompt medical attention.
* InsultOfEndearment: Snivy fondly refers to Ash as "[my] idiot" in Chapter 16.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: A Ketchumverse omake has the Ash from Reset briefly enter the world of a oneshot by the author known as ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12104441/1/Too-Many-Ashes Too Many Ashes]]''.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Iris was adopted by a family of Dragon-type Pokémon as an infant after her biological parents left her to die in the forest. Her upbringing left a big impact on her self-image. While she is aware of the fact that she's human, she prefers to think of herself as a Pokémon, and considers her Axew to be her little brother.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: In the Ketchumverse series of omakes, taxes are one of the few things Don Ash is afraid of.
* InVinoVeritas: Aurora ended up revealing the truth about her past to Belladonna after the shy girl accidentally got drunk while they were burglarizing a cabin.
* IronicEcho:
** "Those who underestimate the power of the bird Pokemon are in for a rude awakening." The first time it was said, Falkner was thinking about how challengers underestimate his and his dad's Flying-types. The next time it was said, Falkner was thinking about how ''he himself'' underestimated a Flying-type legendary.
** PlayedForLaughs in the Frax & Velvet Interlude. At the beginning, Velvet tells Frax that uttering "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" [[GenreSavvy is a tantamount to have]] ''[[GenreSavvy everything]]'' [[GenreSavvy go wrong]]. At the end, ''she'' says it when they get a vase for their mother, and almost ends up dropping it into the sea while they fly on Kiawe's Charizard.
* {{Irony}}: King Kahele and his family were overthrown in a plot orchestrated by one of the people who benefited immensely from his merit-based system.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Snivy let the Samurai believe for a moment that she was going to stay put and let him catch her again, and then she delivered a Leaf Blade and left a nasty cut in his arm before escaping.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Misty's sisters sometimes think of her as an "it," showing how little they think of her.
* ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals: Justified. [[spoiler:Johanna]] muses that her parents are being buried on an unusually dry day. As it turns out, the funeral service included Pokémon that could use Sunny Day (which she didn't know about at the time, otherwise she would've refused to save money).
* ItsPersonal: In the Lara Gaiden, Dario makes it personal for Lara when he refuses to stop to help after a landslide injures many racers, this being the last straw after several nasty incidents.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Ash's Butterfree briefly considers killing his mate's new beau and saying a Fearow did it, but he can't bring himself to do it, partly because she's so obviously happy with him. So in the end, he decides not to try and interfere with their relationship]].
* JackTheRipoff: Defied. The authorities refuse to describe or show a picture of the marks [[SerialKiller the Reaper]] leaves on his victims' corpses because they don't want to deal with copycat killers.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the Crimson City park, Ash captures a Shuckle that manages to make Pikachu very angry without saying much at all. What exactly it says is unknown, but it's clearly a very obnoxious Pokémon.
* JetPack: There's an entire school of ninjitsu based around the use of them. [[BerserkButton Koga doesn't like it]].
* JumpingFish:
** In the Crimson City park, Ash finds a babbling brook, and sees a Magikarp leaping out of the water.
** In her gaiden, Cynthia sees several Magikarp jumping out of the water. This helps her in solving the riddle to get into the ruins she's exploring.
* {{Kaiju}}: Numerous kinds of Pokémon qualify, but Gyarados stand out in this story as the archetypical "city destroyer" variety. Dexter mentions that Gyarados have destroyed entire civilizations in only a single day. We get to see them in action in the Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden, where they obliterate multiple cities in Johto.
* KeepTheReward: Even after winning the Big P Pokémon Race, Ash turns down becoming an honorary member of the Laramie Clan, saying that he never entered to win any prize.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: A Rocket Grunt named Al decides to keep abusing Alish's Flareon despite having already beaten it. This makes its trainer angry enough to use Overheat on him.
* KilledOffForReal: In addition to the examples under KilledOffscreen, [[spoiler: Dario was killed by Sabrina in Chapter 26.]]
* KilledOffscreen:
** [[spoiler:The audience doesn't see Tokiomi's death, only hearing Belladonna report that he died.]]
** [[spoiler: Borderline example with Jeff, as the scene of his death is cut short and we don't get to see ''how'' he was killed.]]
** [[spoiler: Several Rangers in the Wicke & Nephew Interlude ended up being murdered by Cipher agents, as told by Spenser via videoconference.]]
* KillEmAll:
** King Kahele's entire family was murdered in a single night by an usurper.
** [[spoiler: Capriccio of the Seven Brothers has taken up this mindset for any potential nephew or niece of his.]]
** William Stronger, AKA "The Bloodliner Hunter", [[TheFundamentalist is convinced that he has a divine mission to kill every single bloodliner]].
* KillerRabbit: It's repeatedly demonstrated that even small and/or cute Pokémon should be taken seriously.
* KillItWithFire: Rather than simply killing them with Hyper Beam, Twenty Gyarados Bill decides to give his crewmates and boss an especially cruel death by setting their boat on fire using Second, Eight, and Fifteenth's Flamethrower attacks.
* KimonoIsTraditional: Skyla's mother Huuro is mentioned to be wearing one on their flight to see Miles Sr. From what we see of her personality, she's patient and subdued, so she seems to fit the personality of the trope.
* KissingTheGround: Pikachu does this when he, Ash, Pidgeotto and Butterfree land safely after escaping Hunter J's ship.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Giving up for the wellbeing of one's Pokémon is considered a sign of a good trainer. This is established early on, when one of Ash's opponents in a Battle Club is chewed out for wanting to make his Rattata continue battling despite it sustaining a concussion.
* LamePunReaction: Pikachu and Yellow have one of these after Scott calls Ash's Snivy "[[AccidentalPun a little green]]".
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** The Sensational Sisters kicked Misty out of their home through LoopholeAbuse to avoid getting into legal trouble. In doing so, they were left without a competent battler to keep their Gym afloat for their shows, and it eventually caught up with them when they tried to pull a similar stunt on Ash when he came to challenge them, ultimately losing the Gym and getting themselves arrested.
** Dario gets his just desserts for attempting to cheat during the Big P Pokémon Race in two consecutive years. [[CheatersNeverProsper In both races, he gets his victory snatched when he just had it in his grasp]], he gets a lot of hate from the townspeople for his attitude in the first year, and in the second he gets exposed as a cheater and [[TorchesAndPitchforks everyone quickly chases after him to punish him]], forcing him to flee. [[spoiler: And then, for good measure, Sabrina kidnaps him and gives him a good TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before snapping his neck and killing him.]]
* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: Iris's Dragonite grandfather apparently used to do this at times, in an effort to get others to laugh with him so that emotional moments and conversations could be diffused somewhat with humor.
* LavaAddsAwesome: An opinion held by Blaine, which is why he used to keep his gym hidden inside an active Volcano. The Pokémon League was less concerned with the coolness factor, however, and forced him to relocate.
* LavaPit: Blaine's gym used to be inside Cinnabar Island's volcano. He got a lot of complaints due to the risk of falling into a pool of molten rock, and was eventually forced to move.
* LaymansTerms: In the Big P Pokémon Race Interlude, Dexter finds itself forced to use these while explaining how the move Foresight works to Ash.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** During its first encounter with Ash, [=MissingNo=] notes that in the previous timeline, Ash and his friends lived in a near-eternal state of happiness and joy, "like they were in a children's cartoon".
** [[spoiler: Anabel]] later thinks to herself that Ash radiates a cheerfulness and determination that she finds charming, "like someone out of those long running animated shows".
** Dude comments in his Gaiden that even though someone is a "nobody", it doesn't mean that they can't have adventures or their own story to tell, which is a comment on how the Resetverse led to many Characters-of-the-Day becoming {{Ascended Extra}}s and having their own stories.
* [[LeaveHimToMe Leave Her to Me]]: Misty almost steps up to challenge Giselle, but Ash stops her to do it himself. It's implied the reason for this is mix of his recent dream of [=MissingNo=] and recalling how Giselle defeated her in the original timeline.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Cipher encourages this on their Peons during their operations. [[spoiler: A trainer named Jeff had the misfortune of meeting with his old friend Shawn, who had been forced to work as a Cipher Peon to survive in Orre, and when the others and his commanding officer showed up. Shawn had to choose between trying to save his friend or himself, and ultimately chose himself.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: In the Blaine Interlude, Alish's Flareon goes against its trainer's orders and jumps out of its hiding place to attack a Team Rocket Grunt, despite being underleveled.
* {{Lemon}}: Execu Tivem Edlin says he wants the author to write one during the AprilFools chapter, but for multiple reasons, he refuses. The closest he gets is writing a mostly-censored sex scene between Norman and Caroline. The author himself did note he would not be against Lemons in the Resetverse, just that he won't be writing them.
* LemonyNarrator: The narration certainly has its moments.
* LensmanArmsRace: The Clemont Gaiden establishes that the respective nations of T.A.T.O. and the Fall City Pact are in a race to develop better weaponry. In fact, Belmondo went to Meyer's house in an attempt to recruit Clemont for a think tank based out of Lumiose University.
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: Sabrina's father teaches her that nobody can improve unless they push themselves. Not a bad lesson, and she takes it to heart. Unfortunately, after an argument with her dad, she decides to make the people of Turquoise Town improve themselves by giving them motivation. Her chosen motivation? Fear. So she starts terrorizing the townsfolk, hoping that somebody would be motivated to stand up to her.
* LetMeAtHim:
** In the Oak's Summer Camp Gaiden, Elwood has to restrain Aideen from attacking Gary and Joshua after their Munchlax eats more than half of the berries the twins were supposed to gather for a camp activity.
** Someone in the crowd of the Big P Pokémon Race whose brother ended up in the hospital yells the trope verbatim when Dario's cheating gets exposed.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Ash says this during his conversation with Belladonna in the Gringy City power plant, shortly before summing up the situation and Belladonna's plan. He does this partly as a lead-in to his attempts to convince her not to go through with it, and partly to stall for time.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: The first rule of Pokémon battling is that trainers should fight one another fairly.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Gardenia attempts to defy this during her interlude by making sure not to let Sho out of her sight, [[GenreSavvy knowing from watching horror movies that separating is not a good idea]]. Unfortunately, [[EnforcedTrope the ghosts have other ideas]].
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In the Guzma Interlude, Team Skull has a definite moral edge over Cipher.
* LightningGlare: Done by two girls [[LoverTugOfWar fighting over who dances with Ash]] [[BirthdayEpisode during his 15th birthday party]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Red and Yellow have this kind of relationship [[spoiler:which is very fitting, since they might actually be half-siblings]].
* LimitBreak: Z-Moves of course. The Kiawe Interlude actually explains that the reason why they can only be used once per battle it's because they can potentially ''[[DangerousForbiddenTechnique kill]]'' [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the trainer if used even within hours]]. [[spoiler: Although it seems that bloodliners are capable of using them within the span of minutes with different Pokémon, as shown by Frax in his battle against Kiawe.]]
* LimitedMoveArsenal: Like in canon, Pokémon are generally limited to only being capable of using four moves at a time. However, sufficiently experienced, skilled, or powerful individuals can learn more.
* LipstickLesbian: A lot of the women in Erika's gym seem to be this, if Paul's description of them during his InnerMonologue in Chapter 18 is any indication.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: One thing this story is known for is its large and diverse cast (including canon and original characters). Just take a look at the character page.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Double subverted. When Belmondo kidnaps Clemont, he makes the mistake of leaving a robot to guard the boy. So when he manages to get his Shinx (which Belmondo didn't know he had) out of its Pokeball, he manages to release it and have it fry the robot. But before he can reprogram it, its backup power supply activates, and it starts attacking. Clemont still manages to use it to escape, by tricking it into breaking the van's rear doors open.
* LongingLook: Misty is prone to giving these to Ash. It's hinted that Psyduck may have figured out she had a crush on him by noticing them.
* LongLostRelative: The fic is possibly building up ''a lot'' of these for [[spoiler: Ash]].
* LoopholeAbuse:
** In the Johanna tie-in story, her parents' medical insurance is canceled because her father used to be a smoker and her mother had asthma as a child.
** The Sensational Sisters, [[BrainlessBeauty despite not being otherwise very bright]], were quite good at this with things that annoyed them, as shown when they kicked Misty out of their home by giving her a special permit so she could have an early start as a trainer and avoiding getting into legal troubles. Of course, when they tried to pull a similar stunt on Ash, [[LaserGuidedKarma it backfired horribly on them.]]
* TheLostWoods: Viridian Forest is a more dangerous example than the one in canon.
* LotusEaterMachine: The ghosts of the Old Chateau trap Cheryl in a dream-like state while they feed on her life force. When she wakes up later, she reveals to Gardenia and Sho that she dreamed that she was running across a flower field.
* LovelyAngels: Iris and Misty seem to be developing something of this dynamic, since they're often teamed up in double battles.
* LoverTugOfWar: Ash finds himself in the middle of one during his 15th birthday party, with two girls who want to dance with him.
* LoveTriangle: Misty and Iris both have feelings for Ash, and it's implied that he's developing similar feelings towards them. Although with [[spoiler: Anabel]] joining them, [[LoveDodecahedron it won't stay a triangle much longer.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Chapter 23 has Belladonna call Ash her brother. While Ash himself, though he admits there are similarities, does not fully believe this]], Felgrand and Giovanni have a similar viewpoint hinting this to be true.
* MachineMonotone: It's implied from Dexter's comments that Paul's PokéDex used to talk like this before it got its ValleyGirl personality setting.
* MadDoctor: The Black Rose Tournament Interlude introduces Doctor Killgood, who clearly has some screws loose and may or may not be a murderer.
* MadeASlave: The fate of multiple people abducted by the Bloodline King.
* MadeOfIron:
** Pokémon are mentioned to be tougher than animals or humans, though not quite to the degree they were in the anime.
** It's implied that bloodliners are more durable than normal humans.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Both the Pokedexes and the H.O.P.E. gloves can withstand being stepped on by a Snorlax.
* MadScientist: Downplayed with Dr. Boxer, an eccentric inventor who has an unfortunate tendency to accidentally hurt people.
* TheMagicComesBack: Downplayed. Turns out the Fisher Clan was founded by a Victreebel Bloodliner, but none of his descendants were Bloodliners themselves. That is, until Jeanette Fisher was born. There's a reason her parents were absolutely ecstatic when she revealed her powers to them.
* MagikarpPower: [[PlayedForDrama Horrifically]] [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in the Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden, showing what happens when the wrong person gets a hold of such power and bides their time.
* MagnetismManipulation: Like in canon, some Electric-types can use moves that allow them to do this. A vengeful wild Electabuzz uses Magnet Rise while fighting Luana's Marowak in her one-shot.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Jeanette Fisher's father changed his last name to "Fisher" when he married her mother.
* MajorlyAwesome: A variant. Lt. Surge calls his highest-level Raichu "Sergeant Major".
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: In the Arnold Interlude, Butch and Cassidy try to do this to Arnold after he refuses to hand over his Pokémon. But Laila manages to save him, and their resistance inspires the people of Hop-Hop-Hop Town to fight back.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ever the pragmatist, Giovanni prefers not to have people whacked unless he can do this.
* MakingASplash: Water Heart Bloodliners can learn any Water-type move.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Cynthia has to deal with this a lot during her explorations. Thankfully, she's well-equipped to handle it.
* MalfunctionMalady: The Jeanette Interlude heavily implies that an ill Bloodliner can suffer from PowerIncontinence, since Jeanette accidentally used Sweet Scent when she sneezed.
* MamaBear:
** At one point, Team Rocket runs afoul of a mother Rhydon.
** For a more literal example, Ursaring mothers are mentioned to be very protective of their kin as well.
* ManBitesMan: Some Bloodliners know biting moves. For example, Belladonna can use Poison Fang.
* ManOnFire: The Burn [[StandardStatusEffects status effect]] is depicted as causing this. Fortunately, since Pokémon are MadeOfIron and have a HealingFactor, damage is rarely critical or permanent.
* MarkOfTheBeast: William Stronger refers to the dark, Z-shaped marks some bloodliners have on their cheeks as the "marks of the beast", because he thinks those who have them will be the leaders in the Bloodliner War, and thus the greatest threat. Therefore, he sees killing them as his top priority.
* MarryThemAll: Iris suggests this as the solution to the love triangle between herself, Misty, and Ash. WordOfGod confirms that such a relationship will happen eventually, and not just with them.
* MassHypnosis: Heart bloodliners are able to enthrall huge numbers of Pokémon.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings:
** The Seven Brothers, of course. It's right there in the name.
** [[spoiler:Ash]] is hinted to have a growing number half siblings across almost all regions, be it a Trainer, Ranger or Neutral region; [[spoiler: the ones revealed so far being: Red, Yellow, John Archer, Belladonna, Arnold, Vermell, Hareta, Frax, Velvet, Ashley, Satoshi, Cleff, Travis, Iolani, Betty Snyder, Fitzdane, Jane Jackrum, Zilant, and Makanui]], let alone the kid who got thrown off that bridge who may or may not the same. The Hau and Hala oneshot suggests that there are enough of them popping up that its an observable phenomenon. Sabrina even implies that there's ''several hundred'' of them, suggesting the number is somewhere between 4 and 6 ''hundred''.
** [[spoiler: And it's strongly implied, but yet to be fully confirmed, that the latter examples were all sired by one of the former examples]].
** Like in the anime, Brock has plenty of brothers and sisters.
** Some Pokémon [[ExplosiveBreeder breed like rabbits]], leading to this trope. For example, Misty's Poliwrath sired over a thousand offspring by the time he was captured.
* MassOhCrap:
** Serious example in the Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden. A large crowd in the Cianwood City harbor is horrified when First rises out of the water, because they realize what happened to Bill's crewmates, and that they're next. Then ''another'' Gyarados rises out of the water and kills ''twenty-four'' humans with one bite, terrifying the unfortunate townspeople even more. As more and more Gyarados, all of them obviously belonging to Bill, reveal themselves to the increasingly scared populace while Bill continues to rant, many of them start [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running in panic]]... not that it does them much good, since the entire harbor is quickly destroyed by a barrage of Hyper Beam attacks.
** A similar one occurs in the Laramie Gaiden. Both the Ranger and Trainer battleships realize their battle injured a school of Gyarados, who are ''not'' happy about this, so they quickly set aside their differences to get the hell out of there. Like in the above example, it barely does them any good.
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Felgrand tells Giovanni that he and five of his brothers killed their own mother]].
* MeaningfulEcho: "In the event of a draw, the gym leader gets to decide whether or not the challenger gets the badge." This line is said twice in the Skyla Gaiden. The first time, it's said by Miles Sr., explaining the rules of being a Gym Leader to his granddaughter Skyla. The second time, Skyla herself says this to Betty after their battle, to show that she's ready to become the Mistralton Gym Leader.
* MeaningfulLook: After Betty Snyder explained why she chose to specialize in electric types, Skyla and Miles Sr. exchange one of these. Skyla uses it to tell her grandfather that she finally understands what her reasons for replacing him as gym leader should be, and Miles responds with a smile to tell her that he understands what she's conveying to him.
* MeaningfulName:
** Forty years ago, Elite Four member Denki Tekina was an Electric-type specialist. "Denki" means "Electricity" in Japanese.
** Lif was mentioned as writing a book of doomsday prophecies during the time of Kahele. Lif is one of the two humans to set about the world after the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse event Ragnarok]] akin to the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] Eve.
* MeanwhileScene: Chapter 10 briefly cuts away from Ash riding a Gyarados to Cerulean City to save Misty in order to show the Team Rocket trio robbing a store.
* MediaScrum: Misty is subject to one of these during one of her DreamSue sequences.
* MediationBackfire: Implicitly defied by Ash in Chapter 16. When he overhears Misty and Iris having an argument about clothes, he decides not to try and get between them, presumably for fear of this happening.
* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: In Chapter 25, Otoshi and his Marowak do this for 48 hours straight, after asking a wandering monk about how to access the power of the Mega Stone they got for their participation in the Fuchsia City Battle Dome tournament.
* MegatonPunch: As per canon, Pokémon can learn "punch" moves with the potential to do this.
* MeltingPotNomenclature: This story gives the "Japanese" regions populations with diverse names, usually Western, Japanese, or [[MultiEthnicName both]].
* MemeticMutation: [[invoked]] Deconstructed. The Joey oneshot (also known as the "Top percentage Rattata" kid) shows how much it can suck being a walking meme.
* MentalTimeTravel: Played with. Ash's mind is sent back in time to the day he started his journey, but things get garbled in the transition.
* MetaOrigin: It's implied that there's one of these for bloodliners, or at least the ones born during the recent boom.
* {{Microts}}: Ash, as he has no idea how long his original adventures lasted, eventually resorts to measuring it in gym battles instead of years.
* MilitarySchool: Buster Boot Camp seems to operate like one.
* MindHive: Spiritomb are like this. At least one was made up of the souls of OneHundredAndEight ancient criminals.
* MightyRoar: Some Pokémon, such as Gyarados, are prone to sounding off with these.
* MindOverMatter: A lot of Psychic bloodliners have telekinetic abilities along with canon Psychic Pokemon.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot:
** Poison-type Pokémon in Crimson City park behaving strangely → a full-on assault of Gringy City.
** Shadow Pokemon are first encountered by league authorities after Clay helps some police officers deal with a ship whose paperwork is out of line.
* AMinorKidroduction: Several of the tie in one-shots begin with their protagonists as children. Examples include the Cynthia, Skyla and Misty Gaidens.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Many Bloodliners are this, though for various reasons. See the character page for specifics.
* MischiefMakingMonkey: Wild Aipom have been known to steal food from humans. This is because an Aipom separated from its troop doesn't have much chance for survival, and out of desperation, they frequently decide to take their chances with humans rather than Mother Nature. Of course, since NatureIsNotNice in this setting, this may be a calculated risk.
* MisfortuneCookie: Meowth apparently got one at some point, which made him afraid of Machop for a while.
* MisplacedRetribution:
** In Chapter 18, after Paul is prevented from having a Gym battle with Erika, it's implied that he takes his frustrations out on some helpless wild Pokémon, and later on Ash.
** Twenty Gyarados Bill didn't exactly restrict his vengeance to those who actually mocked him.
* MisplacedWildlife: From an in-universe perspective. Professor Oak is constantly astounded by Ash catching wild Pokémon (such as Goomy and Scatterbug) that shouldn't be anywhere near Kanto. Of course, there are good explanations for all these examples.
* MissedTheCall: Arceus originally wanted to task Cynthia or Lance with stopping Cyrus, but he couldn't save them in time, so he chose Ash.
* MissingMom:
** Paul's mother died some time before his first appearance.
** It's implied that Red also lost his mother.
** Aurora's mom died when she was young.
** Sabrina lost her mom who had sucumbed to an illness at age two.
** Fizdane's mother was killed by an angry mob after he was revealed to be a bloodliner.
** Hex lost her mother to a Beedrill swarm. Adding to this was the fact that [[HeroicSacrifice she died to protect her]].
* MissionFromGod:
** Ash has been tasked with saving reality from another collapse by none other than Arceus.
** For an evil example, [[TheFundamentalist William Stronger]] is convinced that his killing spree of bloodliners is this.
* MistakenForAliens: Apparently, it's a common misconception that Clefairy are from outer space.
* MistakenForRomance: Satsuki's sisters briefly think Falkner is her boyfriend.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Played with. [[spoiler:Aurora's father disowned her and cut her out of his life after finding out she was a bloodliner. She later revealed this fact to Belladonna, and collaborated with her in a plan to kill him. However, she doesn't want to kill him, only revealed the truth about him after accidentally getting drunk, and is only going along with the plan because she fears she'll be rejected by Belladonna if she doesn't go through with it]].
* MixedAncestry:
** [[spoiler: Assuming Belladonna was correct, Chapter 23 hints that Ash, Red, Arnold, and Belladonna were born to a Kanto mother and a father from Orre, while John Archer has a Hoenn born mother and the same father from Orre. Chapter 24 shows a look-alike waitress named Ashley, also in Kanto, whose likely half Orrean as well, as well as mentioning two kids, Frax and Velvet, who are said by Hala to resemble Ash and are thus probably half Alolan half Orrean, with a later oneshot introducing a third Alolan Ash-alike named Iolani and the Wicke & Nephew a fourth named Makanui, while the same chapter that mentioned the twins as well as the Astrid oneshot show a boy named Vermell who appears to originate from the Pokemon equivalent of Catalonia on his mother's side. Chapter 26 mentions a Ash-alike from Johto named Cleff who fought Dan the silver league before he fought Sabrina while Skyla Gaiden introduces a Unovan half sister named Betty Snyder. Luana Gaiden introduces us to Travis who has an Orange Islands mother while Sanpei Interlude and Ultima Interlude introduced the Kalosians Satoshi and Fitzdane respectively. Sho is also hinted to have met one whose name he doesn't remember in the Sinnoh League. And then, there's Jane Jackrum, introduced in Laramie Gaiden, who's Almian, and Zilant the titular nephew from the Wicke & Nephew oneshot, who's from Fiore, showing that even the Ranger nations got tangled up in that large family tree.]]
** Skyla, who isn't a part of that tangled family tree, is suggested to be this too with her mother hailing from Johto and her father being Unovan.
** Wicke even notes that mixed ancestry has become a lot more common over the years.
* MomentOfWeakness: Still upset about the trials and Kukui's proposal for a League in Alola, Hala angrily lashes out at Hau, even telling him to leave just like his father did. This scares Hau so much that he ''almost'' follows through with it, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone much to Hala's horror.]]
* MonsterAdventurers:
** John Archer's Pokémon decide to [[spoiler:go searching for people who look like their trainer]] in Chapter 24, if only to put their minds at ease. As his Gardevoir says, it's better to investigate the matter before it becomes an issue.
** One Eye the Rhydon and his Crash are a villainous example.
* MonsterCompendium: Pokedexes, of course. Dexter also manages to make itself useful in other ways.
* MonsterFunFacts: Pokémon will sometimes volunteer information about their biology and society to those who can understand them. For example, in Chapter 6, Pikachu says he's lucky his electric sacs make him lethal for human consumption, in the event that a hungry Ash and Misty decide to EatTheDog.
* MonumentalDamageResistance: In Chapter 26, it's implied that Aether Paradise survived the BadFuture in reasonable condition. This is rather impressive, considering [=MissingNo=] hints that the Ultra Beasts caused massive havoc throughout Alola.
* MoodWhiplash: In chapter 18, Misty's Psyduck forces her to confront her feelings regarding Ash and Iris. What ensues is some rather serious introspection regarding Misty's fears that Iris might take away one of the few people to genuinely care about her without even realizing what she's doing or the effect she's having. Then Psyduck says that doing so would deprive his trainer of a mate, which ends the scene on a more comedic note.
* MookHorrorShow:
** Ash and his Pokémon manage to give some of Hunter J's minions a good scare during their escape from her ship.
** Shadow Delcatty does this to the Police Force during the Clay oneshot.
* MoonwalkDance: In Chapter 24, Ash mentions a musician with a troubled childhood who did this. He's almost certainly talking about the Pokémon equivalent of Music/MichaelJackson.
* MoralGuardians: The Johto Values Alliance seems to be of the conservative/right-wing variety. Considering Johto was already established as being rather backwards, their presence and apparent influence makes sense.
* MortonsFork: Brock quickly winds up facing one in the Brock & Lucy Gaiden. If he keeps the gym closed for too long, even to mourn the deaths of his parents, he'll lose it. But when he reopens it, he runs into another problem: because of his grief, he's not battling at his best. And if he has a losing streak that lasts too long, the Pokémon League will take his gym away. Unless he moves on from his sorrow, he'll lose it either way.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: It's not clear whether Dr. Killgood is actually a murderer, but if he was invited to a tournament of underworld figures, he's certainly not a good guy.
* MotorMouth: [[GenkiGirl Rhythm]] gets out a lot very quickly, especially when she's excited.
* TheMourningAfter: Aurora's father never remarried after his wife died, so she grew up without a mother.
* MuggingTheMonster: High off news that they just got raises, the TR trio decides to steal Evanna's three Tyrogue. She punches them all into the sky.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Flashlights are more convenient for lighting up dark areas than Flash is.
* MuggleMageRomance:
** According to WordOfGod, King Kahele was a Bloodliner, and his wives included non-Bloodliners.
** In the present, there is a budding romance between A.J., a non-Bloodliner, and Jeanette, a Bloodliner. Both are interested in the other [[TwiceShy without realising the other reciprocates]].
** Betty Snyder, a Thunderbolt Bloodliner, is dating Jamie Oliver, a non-Bloodliner.
* MugglePower: The story gives strong indicators that anti-Bloodliner sentiment sometimes leans in this direction (Option 2, of course).
* MultiEthnicName: It seems fairly common for characters in the "Japanese" regions to have a combination of Japanese and Western names.
** Johanna's mother had the maiden name Ayoko Platinum, a Japanese first name combined with a surname derived from Spanish.
** Tokiomi Borealis has a Japanese first name and a Latin last name. His daughter [[spoiler:Aurora]] shares the language scheme.
** Jeanette Fisher's parents are named Kazuto and Kaoruko. It should be noted, however, that Kazuto [[TheMaidenNameDebate took his wife's name when he married her]], so he may have had a Japanese surname beforehand.
* MultinationalTeam: Ash and his girls will represent five different regions: Kanto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos.
* MultiPlatform: In-universe, Erika is confused as to why Tembo comes in three different cases.
* TheMultiverse: One known as the Ketchumverse appears in a series of Omakes.
* MundaneUtility:
** Before technological advances made doing so obsolete, Falkner's family trained flying types to carry messages.
** Some Bloodliners find uses for their powers other than fighting.
** Umbreon's glowing segments are useful for late night reading when a fire ban is in effect.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in the Sabrina Gaiden. When she was young, she would often use her powers to help the people in her hometown. Unfortunately, they came to rely too much on her, even for things they could have done themselves, and this lazy attitude was one of the major causes that sparked her StartOfDarkness.
* MurderByInaction: In the Misty Gaiden, a seven-year old Misty ends up in apparent danger of drowning. She fears that even if her mother hears her struggling and calling for help, she'll deliberately ignore it and call her death a "terrible accident".
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Defied in the Butterfree Interlude. Ash's Butterfree notes that he has a perfect opportunity to kill the Pink Butterfree's new mate without anyone knowing, but flat-out refuses to do so]].
* MuscleAngst: Used in a Johto Values Alliance ad Whitney sees in her one-shot. The billboard shows a muscular and lonely woman contrasted with a more conventionally attractive woman surrounded by male admirers.
* MushroomSamba: It's mentioned in the Gladion Interlude that Frax had one of these when he ate an experimental mushroom dish made by Mallow.
* {{Mutants}}: Bloodliners seem to be the ''Franchise/XMen'' "born with their powers" variety.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Denki Tekina and his Mega Ampharos succeeded in killing Twenty Gyarados Bill and his Mega Gyarados at the cost of their own lives.]]
* MutualMasquerade: Because Bloodliners tend to keep their powers a secret so as to avoid prejudice, it's possible for one Bloodliner to meet another and neither will realise the other is also a Bloodliner. Case in point, [[spoiler: throughout Big P Pokemon Race Interlude, Ash and Co made sure that no one realises they're Bloodliners whenever they use their powers, but it would later be revealed that Lara and Hex are also Bloodliners which only their respective families know about]].
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When [[spoiler: Future]] Hapu mentions the Aether Foundation, she calls them good men and women, and Faba.
* MyLittlePhony: A franchise known as "My Little Ponyta" gets a few mentions.
* MySisterIsOffLimits:
** When Ash was younger, he developed a crush on Gary's big sister Daisy Oak. Naturally, Gary made it clear that he wasn't going to have any of that. Eventually Ash outgrew that crush, and started to see her as his own big sister as well, something Gary wasn't happy with either.
** Gladion had a bit of this when he realized that a boy was around his sister in a bathing suit.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: It's noted that there are numerous examples of Pokémon that differ from the norms of their species in some way. Ash notes this during a conversation with Red, explaining why he prefers to focus on his Pokémon as individuals, rather than as representatives of their species.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Apparently [[spoiler: Pidgeot]] couldn't shake off the feeling that Ash and the others were in danger while she was away, during the events of Gringy City's Power Plant.
* MysteriousParent: Ash's father has yet to make an appearance or be identified, but it's heavily implied that he will have an important part to play. [[spoiler:It's also implied that he may have fathered Red, Belladonna, John Archer, Vermell, and Arnold, among ''many'' others]].
* MythologyGag: So many that it needs its own page. [[MythologyGag/PokemonResetBloodlines See here.]]
* MythologyPorn: Cross and his fellow Reset-verse authors clearly love putting in references to different Pokémon continuities.
* {{Mythopoeia}}: The audience is given some tantalizing hints about myths and legends of this new world, which will probably be elaborated on later, either by Cross himself or a side author. Several have, such as Twenty Gyarados Bill.
* MyWayOrTheHighway: [[spoiler:Aurora ''thinks'' Belladonna is giving her this "option" in regards to killing her father, due to her emotional scars and self-esteem issues. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that Belladonna would have stopped if she said she didn't want her dad to die at any point.]]

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