History VideoGame / PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity

* CatchPhrase: As per usual for a ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon'' game.
** Virizion, you know?
** Trubbish, trubb-trubb.
** The player and partner will often repeat a difficult concept like so: "A difficult... concept?"
** Quagsire, hmmm?

* HeroicMime: Much like previous titles in the series, the protagonist is largely silent, expressing him/herself through [[Main/InnerMonologue inner monologues]] or gestures. Throughout the main story, however, the protagonist has a number of speaking lines strewn about the dialogue. This is justified in most situations, as the conversations would not make sense if the protagonist had not spoken.

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* SocietyIsToBlame: Once a proud carpenter, Gurdurr [[spoiler:lost all confidence he had in his skills after his injury and one particular request from a malicious client, which ended up with him tricking Pokémon like the player character and his partner, who sincerely requested him to build a house for them. After some fisticuffs were traded Gurdurr exclaims: “[…] you can't get mad at me. It's just the way this rotten world works.”]]

* SpoilerCover: The boxart features all the members of game's exploration team in formation together... along with Hydreigon, who's almost immediately introduced as an antagonistic Pokémon. While Munna, the one who asks to be rescued from him, isn't there. [[spoiler:No guesses as to who ends up actually being a good guy.]]
** Virizion at one point of point of the game talks about Keldeo, a former friend that coldly betrayed her friendship. Because Keldeo is also in the boxart, you can guess that [[spoiler:he had well-intentioned reasons to do what he did, and that he will join the exploration team]].
* SpoilerOpening: At one point of the story, the characters discover that a member of the exploration team will have to be left out from the expedition to the Great Glacier. Can't wait to find out who is it going to be? Watch the intro, and you'll notice that, when the characters are surrounded by ice, [[spoiler:Emolga isn't with the rest of the team]].

* StoppedCaring: Very much not played for laughs, as stated in CrapsaccharineWorld.

* ShoutOut: When you first meet Swanna in Post Town, she tells you that you can call her [[ADogNamedDog "Swanna"]] if you want, but "just don't [[Music/CarlyRaeJepsen call me maybe.]]"

* WhamEpisode: This happens ''a '''lot'''''. Let's just say that the last few chapters consist entirely of these.

* DramaticChaseOpening: starts with the player character having a vision of a Munna being pursued by a Hydreigon. [[spoiler: [[BaitAndSwitch Subverting the normal expectations with this trope]], the Munna turns out to be a villain trying to manipulate the protagonist into helping her and the Hydreigon turns out to be one of the heroes.]]

* SurpriseCreepy: The [[spoiler:SurprisinglySuddenDeath]] mentioned above, along with the following [[spoiler:NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that Kyurem gives the player character. It's... rather unsettling.]]

** Even though you're supposedly [[spoiler:moments away from TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]], you can still spend several in-game days in Companion Mode. TakeYourTime, indeed!

* InTheirOwnImage: The "villains" plan is [[spoiler:to let the Bittercold destroy the world and hopefully put a better one in its place.]]

* YouDidTheRightThing: After Emolga gives up his spot to go to the Great Glacier for Dunsparce, Gurdurr tells him "You did a good thing, kid."

* BreathWeapon: A standard fixture of several species with moves like "Water Gun", "Flamethrower", and "[=DragonBreath=]". Note that Kyurem's version of [=DragonBreath=] cranks it [[UpToEleven up]] to almost WaveMotionGun levels, especially if one of your characters is Axew (Dragon is supereffective against itself).

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven The Bittercold is this more so than any other villain in the entire Pokemon franchise to date.]]]]

* [[LyricalDissonance Title Dissonance]]: There's a very happy, upbeat song that occasionally plays (after Dunsparce gets rejected by Virizion and everyone rejoices, for instance), and it's called "What's Wrong With Everyone?".

* StandardEvilEmpireHierarchy: [[spoiler:The Bittercold and Kyurem's Minions.]]
** TheEmperor: [[spoiler:The Bittercold]]
** The Right Hand: [[spoiler:Kyurem]]
** The General/The Oddball: [[spoiler:Munna]]
** The Guard: [[spoiler:Golurk]]
** The {{Evil Counterpart}}: [[spoiler:Salamence to Hydreigon]]

* VendorTrash: Gold Ribbons exist solely to be sold for high prices at shops.

* PutOnABus: ''Gates to Infinity'' was the first game in the ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' series to not have every Pokémon in existence as it cut the roster down to 144.

* AmazonianBeauty: Virizon is [[StatuesqueStunner taller than anyone]] in Post Town and a strong fighter with many admirers.

* RealityEnsues:
** The bad guys are all chasing after our heroes, who just took out the light source and ran off in different directions. For the first few minutes, all that happens is the bad guys running into each other.
** Unlike the previous games, the game actually address that the main protagonist had family and friends that would suffer if one day they disappeared out of the blue and never returned, never knowing if they are alive or they did something wrong that caused them to disappear on them. The partner had come to that realization and thus was willing to give up ever being with the protagonist again if only to prevent them and their love ones from suffering if the main protagonist stays in the Pokemon World.

* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: Humans are so rare in the game world that the Pokémon living there believe that humans are only found in fairy tales. That is, until the human protagonist arrives in a form of a Pokémon like in past mystery dungeon games.