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* [[BountyHunter Bounty]]...um, [[BountyHunter RewardHunter]]: Annie, [[spoiler:also the Corna League Champion]].
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: No matter how hellishly difficult the gym leaders are, no matter how weak his blind psychic mouse is, Ramon will always defeat them before the player, until the player reaches the Victory Road at least.
* [[BountyHunter Bounty]]...um, [[BountyHunter RewardHunter]]: Annie, [[spoiler:also the Corna League Champion]].
* LeetLingo: Some of the NPCs, especially the Ambars.
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** Let's not forget the X-treme snowboarders who can ski on flat ground and can turn perfect 90 degrees.
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* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Upside-Down Mice]]: Rats]]: Baro doesn't take Severs' presence well, he's chased by one and at another point they ransacked his [[DrSlump Arale]] manga collection.collection.
* TotallyRadical: Kacho & Vin, being owners of the "sk8" shop and all.
* TotallyRadical: Kacho & Vin, being owners of the "sk8" shop and all.
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* ArtificialStupidity: One of the Ambar admins used Max Revive on his Spig while ''none of his Pokemon fainted yet.''
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* ArtificialStupidity: One of the Ambar admins used Max Revive on his Spig while ''none of his Pokemon fainted yet.''''
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Oh so much. Band Ambar's plan to power up Electric Pokemon by inflating the sun, one of the methods includes using a ''broken ghost scope''. This is even more ridiculous than Team Magma trying to increase landmass by stuffing a volcano with rocket fuel at the ''center'' of a region.
** Plug-Oinks cannot generate energy by jacking their plug tails into their nostrils. They need external energy for that.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Oh so much. Band Ambar's plan to power up Electric Pokemon by inflating the sun, one of the methods includes using a ''broken ghost scope''. This is even more ridiculous than Team Magma trying to increase landmass by stuffing a volcano with rocket fuel at the ''center'' of a region.
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* AdultsAreUseless: They pretty much handed all the responsibility of calming the chaos gods to the teenage protagonists. Foxy doesn't take this well.
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** A NPC in Seablue wonders how evil is the person who created Pokémon Contests. "Attack to... the air? Show... cuteness? What about PKMN battles?"
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* CloudCuckooLander: The Imakuni Trainer Class (yes, there were a lot of them), who stand out a lot in contrast to the [[{{Jerkass}} rest of the population]].
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* EmoTeen: All trainers in the Quartztower Gym, including the gym leader herself.
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* GenderBlenderName: Danny, the seventh Gym Leader of Corna is actually a girl.
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** '''Foxy''': BAAAAAROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
* BasementDweller: Or as Yuoaman put it, children in Corna are banished to the basement.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Foxy catches an Energiz in the Let's Play, she names it Duracel. Cut ahead to her entering a contest[[hottip:*:the only place in the games, outside of in-game trades or [=NPCs=] whose purpose is to teach the player about nicknamed Pokémon, where [=NPC=] Pokémon have nicknames]], and one of the opponents is an Energiz named Duracell. [[hottip:*:[[{{Irony}} Yes,]] ''[[{{Irony}} Foxy's]]'' [[{{Irony}} is the one with the misspelled name.]]]]
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Foxy catches an Energiz in the Let's Play, she names it Duracel. Cut ahead to her entering a contest[[hottip:*:the contest[[note]]the only place in the games, outside of in-game trades or [=NPCs=] whose purpose is to teach the player about nicknamed Pokémon, where [=NPC=] Pokémon have nicknames]], nicknames[[/note]], and one of the opponents is an Energiz named Duracell. [[hottip:*:[[{{Irony}} [[note]][[{{Irony}} Yes,]] ''[[{{Irony}} Foxy's]]'' [[{{Irony}} is the one with the misspelled name.]]]]]][[/note]]
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* ContinuityNod: HM01 is obtained in this game from the same character that gave it to you in [[PokemonRedAndBlue the first generation]].
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Move Tutor's name is [[Creator/AndyWarhol Dany Warhole]], and instead of Heart Scales you give him Campbell Cans.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Death! Chaos!
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* FetishFuelStationAttendant: [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2011/160-pkquartzfull_177.png Check out the new sprite for the "Beauty" trainer type.]]
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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: A male NPC, while giving the AuthorAvatar a little ''too'' much CharacterShilling, adds "(I am still loving women)" after calling him "beautiful".
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* YankTheDogsChain: Foxy daydreams that she's stuck in ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' instead of Corna. In the Tiny Woods, she runs across a room where the grass spells "[[ArcWords BARO]]" and she's snapped back into cold reality.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Foxy daydreams that she's stuck in ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' instead of Corna. In the Tiny Woods, she runs across a room where the grass spells "[[ArcWords BARO]]" and she's snapped back into cold reality.
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** Actually, in the area Baro is from, the word was commonly misused to mean something like "elaborate, amusing, yet useless thought", personal hobbies or fixations, pet theories, artist ramblings, or generally amusing things. It was a weird wildcard, used almost only by teenagers at the time Baro made this, even when they were aware of the real meaning of the word.
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This hack was brought out of obscurity mainly by the hilarious LetsPlay by Zorak, done in a style similar to (and assisted by) LetsPlay/Chorocojo, the other famous Pokemon [=LPer=]. The archived version can (and should) be read [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Pokemon%20Quartz/ here]]. Quartz is now rather infamous and has a cult following because it may be considered ''Film/TheRoom'' of [=ROM=] hacks. Just when you think it can't get any stranger... it does.
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This hack was brought out of obscurity mainly by the hilarious LetsPlay by Zorak, done in a style similar to (and assisted by) LetsPlay/Chorocojo, {{LetsPlay/Chorocojo}}, the other famous Pokemon [=LPer=]. The archived version can (and should) be read [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Pokemon%20Quartz/ here]]. Quartz is now rather infamous and has a cult following because it may be considered ''Film/TheRoom'' of [=ROM=] hacks. Just when you think it can't get any stranger... it does.
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Another [[GameMod hack]] of ''{{VideoGame/Pokemon Ruby|And Sapphire}}'', released by the author as a patch file intended to be played by [[{{Emulation}} VisualBoyAdvance]] users who already owned the Ruby cartridge and dumped its ROM image.
The game has a great number of spelling and grammatical errors, which mostly result from the hack being translated from Spanish, although the grammar improves throughout the game. The game also contains profanity and adult themes, which are absent from all official Pokemon games. Pokemon Quartz replaced all names and graphics of traditional Pokemon with new characters and creatures, although some of the changes were only cosmetic and did not change learnsets or types. The game takes place in a region known as "Corna", a heavily edited version of Hoenn, and requires the player to navigate a very different series of paths during gameplay.
While the best-known bootleg cartridge as played on the actual GBA contains serious glitches and errors, the current patch file release works well with VBA when the patch is applied to a clean image of an authentic Ruby cartridge.
This hack was brought out of obscurity mainly by the hilarious LetsPlay by Zorak, done in a style similar to (and assisted by) LetsPlay/Chorocojo, the other famous Pokemon [=LPer=]. The archived version can (and should) be read [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Pokemon%20Quartz/ here]]. Quartz is now rather infamous and has a cult following because it may be considered ''Film/TheRoom'' of [=ROM=] hacks. Just when you think it can't get any stranger... it does.
A {{sequel}} was in development called Pokemon Marble, but it hasn't been updated [[DevelopmentHell since 2008]]. [[http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=5449743#post5449743 In 2010 he released the most recent build of the hack before he quit in the thread for an LP of Quartz.]]
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: And it's bizarre even by the standards of this Trope.
* AerithAndBob: All of the "Exorcist"-class trainers have names of Chinese or Korean origin, like Sung or Lao. Then you enter the desert and come across "Exorcist Don Jose".
** It's the other way around among Baro's friends. They all have Spanish names, except for "Kyoufu Kawa", the Lord of Corna Castle.
* {{Badass}}: Foxy from Zorak's LP, and therefore to some extent Zorak himself, taking the Elite Four down wile being ''twenty'' levels lower.
* BearsAreBadNews:
** Babos and Osoe, who will try to seduce their opponent, despite being [[GrotesqueGallery ugly as hell]]. At least Ursaring would only deliver beat-downs.
** Thing is, Ursaring is not butt-ugly and could pull off Attract if it learned it.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Spanglish.
* BlondesAreEvil: Amber, the head of Team Ambar. [[TheProtagonist The female protagonist]] could count FromACertainPointOfView if you play as the male.
* BigNo
* BilingualBonus: For ANYTHING [[AuthorAvatar Baro]] says about the sever, really.
* BonusBoss: Arturo, [[spoiler:leader of the (unofficial) ninth gym.]]
* CharacterFilibuster: Several characters in Pinkranite go out of their way to rant about how bad the school system is and about the dangers of drugs. FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
** MisaimedFandom: One girl says she wants to be a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Drug Trafficant, Prostitute, Sexy Assasin..."]] That last one sounds awesome.
* ClusterFBomb
* CoolShades: Joseph Akira. [[MemeticMolester Too bad he doesn't have the personality to match.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: A Band Ambar Admin says that "I will beat you, I'll punish you, and them I will kill you, asshole kid!" all just because the player insists in thwarting Ambar's moronic schemes.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs / InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Averted. The game does feature enough Dragon-types, but they're just as weird and/or ugly as most other {{mons}}. Tyradino may or may not be a borderline case, though. While it is pretty screwed up and (as Zorak noted) an abomination of biology, it still seems to be pretty useful and is also still a bloodthirsty T-Rex, how the hell do you screw that up? In any case, it did become an integral part of Foxy [[TrueCompanions Team Foxy]] [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2045/106-teamfoxycs.jpg eventually.]]
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2011/160-pkquartzfull_177.png Check out the new sprite for the "Beauty" trainer type.]]
* {{Gonk}}: The new Pokemon designs could be described as this...except maybe Plug-oink, which is friggin' adorable.
-->'''Zorak''': OH MY GOD THAT IS THE [[UglyCute CUTEST UGLY]] THING I'VE EVER SEEN
* HaveAGayOldTime: Some of Quartz's [=NPCs=] use phrases that are... technically correct, but outdated, like one defeated villain's reference to their plans being sent to the WC ("water closet", in other words the toilet).
* HeroicMime: Averted. Sometimes "(Player Name):" appears in the text box to show that the PlayerCharacter is the one doing the talking.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Team Ambar. [[DontExplainTheJoke It's a combination of "Amber", the leader's name, and "Baro".]]
** Ambar [[BilingualBonus is also Spanish]] for Amber.
* KavorkaMan: Babos and Osoe are based on the concept of an ugly guy that women find irresistible.
* KubrickStare: [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%208/72-IDontLikeTheWayThatArchitectureIsLo.jpg Jonic]]
* LetsMockTheMonsters: The whole game is one big invitation.
* MindRape- The Let's Play of this game reveals that [[spoiler:it was Foxy's mental breakdown, thanks to being the guinea pig in Misty's attempt to teach her Ludicolo Dream Eater]].
* NightmareValley: Most of the monsters are terribly drawn, which doesn't help the freakish designs. There's a few that aren't too bad, though, like [[EnsembleDarkhorse Plug-oink]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Move Tutor's name is [[Creator/AndyWarhol Dany Warhole]], and instead of Heart Scales you give him Campbell Cans.
* NoFourthWall
* ObligatorySwearing: "[[PardonMyKlingon !PUTAS DE SEVER!]]"
** "You won't have a chance against our BOSS, you cocksucker kid!"
** "Fucking kid! You send my plans down to the WC!"
* OldShame: Thankfully the creator seems to agree on how bad the game is, and he's improved since then. The game even gets better towards the end...relatively.
* ShoutOut: One of the trainers you battle is named [[{{Blink182}} Travis]], and says "[[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2016/45-pkquartzfull_44.png Take Off Your Pants and Jacket]]" and "[[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2016/49-pkquartzfull_49.png All the Small Things]]".
** There's also a Rocker named Anthony, who only quotes Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics.
** There's also a ShoutOut to MajorasMask in the graveyard area. One of the ninjas there says "Master, you called! ... ... What are you?!" when he challenges you; his name is Garo; and after you defeat him and talk again, he says "To die without leaving a corpse... That is the way of us Garo." He doesn't actually disappear, though.
** In the area that [[SarcasmMode clearly isn't a hacked version of the route near Meteor Falls]], there is a hiker, completely dressed in green, who claims to be an ogre. His name is {{Shrek}}. But wait- aren't trolls supposed to be the ones extracting tolls from bridges?
** There's also a rather clever one referring to the [[UrbanLegendofZelda Mew truck rumor]].
** A swimmer refers to a "nice [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast turtle rock dungeon]]".
* StalkerWithACrush: The rival.
* [[SpaceJews Subterranean Jews]]: The molemen appear to display all the negative stereotypes of Jews.
* TakeThat: Baro, the creator, is an atheist. Not just any atheist, either, but a textbook HollywoodAtheist full of sense of superiority with deep hatred for any kind of religion. His constant AHAHAHAHA STUPID RELIGIOUS PEOPLE YOU BELIEVE IN SHIT remarks even made it into the readme.
** A NPC in Seablue wonders how evil is the person who created Pokémon Contests. "Attack to... the air? Show... cuteness? What about PKMN battles?"
** And of course, there's Baro's casual racism toward the Jewish encapsulated in the form of the molemen.
* TooDumbToLive: Band Ambar's plot has a few holes in it.
-->'''Ambar''': YOU MEAN INFLATING THE SUN MAKES IT HOT OUTSIDE!? AND PEOPLE CAN'T LIVE SO WELL WHEN ITS REALLY HOT OUT AND THERE'S A DROUGHT?!?!
-->'''Foxy''': ... yes. That's... about right.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Frequently.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Death! Chaos!
* YankTheDogsChain: Foxy daydreams that she's stuck in ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' instead of Corna. In the Tiny Woods, she runs across a room where the grass spells "[[ArcWords BARO]]" and she's snapped back into cold reality.
** It was probably just as well, since Chikorita!Foxy's partner was an AxCrazy [[ContinuityNod Totodile named Gatorface]] ( from LetsPlay/{{Chorocojo}}'s Crystal game) who would've probably eaten ''her''.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Kacho and Vin keep using "paranoia" to apparently mean "circumstance" or "coincidence" or something.
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Another [[GameMod hack]] of ''{{VideoGame/Pokemon Ruby|And Sapphire}}'', released by the author as a patch file intended to be played by [[{{Emulation}} VisualBoyAdvance]] users who already owned the Ruby cartridge and dumped its ROM image.
The game has a great number of spelling and grammatical errors, which mostly result from the hack being translated from Spanish, although the grammar improves throughout the game. The game also contains profanity and adult themes, which are absent from all official Pokemon games. Pokemon Quartz replaced all names and graphics of traditional Pokemon with new characters and creatures, although some of the changes were only cosmetic and did not change learnsets or types. The game takes place in a region known as "Corna", a heavily edited version of Hoenn, and requires the player to navigate a very different series of paths during gameplay.
While the best-known bootleg cartridge as played on the actual GBA contains serious glitches and errors, the current patch file release works well with VBA when the patch is applied to a clean image of an authentic Ruby cartridge.
This hack was brought out of obscurity mainly by the hilarious LetsPlay by Zorak, done in a style similar to (and assisted by) LetsPlay/Chorocojo, the other famous Pokemon [=LPer=]. The archived version can (and should) be read [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Pokemon%20Quartz/ here]]. Quartz is now rather infamous and has a cult following because it may be considered ''Film/TheRoom'' of [=ROM=] hacks. Just when you think it can't get any stranger... it does.
A {{sequel}} was in development called Pokemon Marble, but it hasn't been updated [[DevelopmentHell since 2008]]. [[http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=5449743#post5449743 In 2010 he released the most recent build of the hack before he quit in the thread for an LP of Quartz.]]
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: And it's bizarre even by the standards of this Trope.
* AerithAndBob: All of the "Exorcist"-class trainers have names of Chinese or Korean origin, like Sung or Lao. Then you enter the desert and come across "Exorcist Don Jose".
** It's the other way around among Baro's friends. They all have Spanish names, except for "Kyoufu Kawa", the Lord of Corna Castle.
* {{Badass}}: Foxy from Zorak's LP, and therefore to some extent Zorak himself, taking the Elite Four down wile being ''twenty'' levels lower.
* BearsAreBadNews:
** Babos and Osoe, who will try to seduce their opponent, despite being [[GrotesqueGallery ugly as hell]]. At least Ursaring would only deliver beat-downs.
** Thing is, Ursaring is not butt-ugly and could pull off Attract if it learned it.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Spanglish.
* BlondesAreEvil: Amber, the head of Team Ambar. [[TheProtagonist The female protagonist]] could count FromACertainPointOfView if you play as the male.
* BigNo
* BilingualBonus: For ANYTHING [[AuthorAvatar Baro]] says about the sever, really.
* BonusBoss: Arturo, [[spoiler:leader of the (unofficial) ninth gym.]]
* CharacterFilibuster: Several characters in Pinkranite go out of their way to rant about how bad the school system is and about the dangers of drugs. FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
** MisaimedFandom: One girl says she wants to be a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Drug Trafficant, Prostitute, Sexy Assasin..."]] That last one sounds awesome.
* ClusterFBomb
* CoolShades: Joseph Akira. [[MemeticMolester Too bad he doesn't have the personality to match.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: A Band Ambar Admin says that "I will beat you, I'll punish you, and them I will kill you, asshole kid!" all just because the player insists in thwarting Ambar's moronic schemes.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs / InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Averted. The game does feature enough Dragon-types, but they're just as weird and/or ugly as most other {{mons}}. Tyradino may or may not be a borderline case, though. While it is pretty screwed up and (as Zorak noted) an abomination of biology, it still seems to be pretty useful and is also still a bloodthirsty T-Rex, how the hell do you screw that up? In any case, it did become an integral part of Foxy [[TrueCompanions Team Foxy]] [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2045/106-teamfoxycs.jpg eventually.]]
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2011/160-pkquartzfull_177.png Check out the new sprite for the "Beauty" trainer type.]]
* {{Gonk}}: The new Pokemon designs could be described as this...except maybe Plug-oink, which is friggin' adorable.
-->'''Zorak''': OH MY GOD THAT IS THE [[UglyCute CUTEST UGLY]] THING I'VE EVER SEEN
* HaveAGayOldTime: Some of Quartz's [=NPCs=] use phrases that are... technically correct, but outdated, like one defeated villain's reference to their plans being sent to the WC ("water closet", in other words the toilet).
* HeroicMime: Averted. Sometimes "(Player Name):" appears in the text box to show that the PlayerCharacter is the one doing the talking.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Team Ambar. [[DontExplainTheJoke It's a combination of "Amber", the leader's name, and "Baro".]]
** Ambar [[BilingualBonus is also Spanish]] for Amber.
* KavorkaMan: Babos and Osoe are based on the concept of an ugly guy that women find irresistible.
* KubrickStare: [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%208/72-IDontLikeTheWayThatArchitectureIsLo.jpg Jonic]]
* LetsMockTheMonsters: The whole game is one big invitation.
* MindRape- The Let's Play of this game reveals that [[spoiler:it was Foxy's mental breakdown, thanks to being the guinea pig in Misty's attempt to teach her Ludicolo Dream Eater]].
* NightmareValley: Most of the monsters are terribly drawn, which doesn't help the freakish designs. There's a few that aren't too bad, though, like [[EnsembleDarkhorse Plug-oink]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Move Tutor's name is [[Creator/AndyWarhol Dany Warhole]], and instead of Heart Scales you give him Campbell Cans.
* NoFourthWall
* ObligatorySwearing: "[[PardonMyKlingon !PUTAS DE SEVER!]]"
** "You won't have a chance against our BOSS, you cocksucker kid!"
** "Fucking kid! You send my plans down to the WC!"
* OldShame: Thankfully the creator seems to agree on how bad the game is, and he's improved since then. The game even gets better towards the end...relatively.
* ShoutOut: One of the trainers you battle is named [[{{Blink182}} Travis]], and says "[[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2016/45-pkquartzfull_44.png Take Off Your Pants and Jacket]]" and "[[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/Update%2016/49-pkquartzfull_49.png All the Small Things]]".
** There's also a Rocker named Anthony, who only quotes Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics.
** There's also a ShoutOut to MajorasMask in the graveyard area. One of the ninjas there says "Master, you called! ... ... What are you?!" when he challenges you; his name is Garo; and after you defeat him and talk again, he says "To die without leaving a corpse... That is the way of us Garo." He doesn't actually disappear, though.
** In the area that [[SarcasmMode clearly isn't a hacked version of the route near Meteor Falls]], there is a hiker, completely dressed in green, who claims to be an ogre. His name is {{Shrek}}. But wait- aren't trolls supposed to be the ones extracting tolls from bridges?
** There's also a rather clever one referring to the [[UrbanLegendofZelda Mew truck rumor]].
** A swimmer refers to a "nice [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast turtle rock dungeon]]".
* StalkerWithACrush: The rival.
* [[SpaceJews Subterranean Jews]]: The molemen appear to display all the negative stereotypes of Jews.
* TakeThat: Baro, the creator, is an atheist. Not just any atheist, either, but a textbook HollywoodAtheist full of sense of superiority with deep hatred for any kind of religion. His constant AHAHAHAHA STUPID RELIGIOUS PEOPLE YOU BELIEVE IN SHIT remarks even made it into the readme.
** A NPC in Seablue wonders how evil is the person who created Pokémon Contests. "Attack to... the air? Show... cuteness? What about PKMN battles?"
** And of course, there's Baro's casual racism toward the Jewish encapsulated in the form of the molemen.
* TooDumbToLive: Band Ambar's plot has a few holes in it.
-->'''Ambar''': YOU MEAN INFLATING THE SUN MAKES IT HOT OUTSIDE!? AND PEOPLE CAN'T LIVE SO WELL WHEN ITS REALLY HOT OUT AND THERE'S A DROUGHT?!?!
-->'''Foxy''': ... yes. That's... about right.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Frequently.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Death! Chaos!
* YankTheDogsChain: Foxy daydreams that she's stuck in ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' instead of Corna. In the Tiny Woods, she runs across a room where the grass spells "[[ArcWords BARO]]" and she's snapped back into cold reality.
** It was probably just as well, since Chikorita!Foxy's partner was an AxCrazy [[ContinuityNod Totodile named Gatorface]] ( from LetsPlay/{{Chorocojo}}'s Crystal game) who would've probably eaten ''her''.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Kacho and Vin keep using "paranoia" to apparently mean "circumstance" or "coincidence" or something.
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