History WebVideo / TwitchPlaysPokemon

''[[http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon Twitch Plays Pokémon]]'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on the requisite Nintendo console are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, a horde of people fighting over a controller (at its peak, over 100,000). Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few joke religions.

-->-- Émile Borel (paraphrased from French)

-->-- Anonymous

** During the ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonInverseWhite Inverse White]]'' and ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonInverseWhite2 Inverse White 2]]'' runs, the [[TheProblemWithPenIsland "!goaIs"]] command responded with the joke objective "Respawn Victini", referencing how players throughout the ''''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite2Redux Volt White 2 Redux]]'' run were constantly suggesting checking if Victini had respawned yet after accidentally failing to catch it.

!Tropes found in ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' as a whole:

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Most incidents that aren't caused by [[{{Troll}} deliberately malicious inputs]] tend to be a consequence of this. Directional inputs are placed without taking stream delay into account? The protagonist just [[ThePrecariousLedge jumped a ledge]] and has to go through an excruciatingly long maze all over again. Someone placed a random input without actually paying attention to what was going on on the screen? They disrupted a precise menuing sequence and [[KilledOffForReal caused a Pokémon to be accidentally released]]. Players are mindlessly spamming A to get through dialogue? [[ThePlan A plan]] that involved obtaining a specific Pokémon just got derailed because the default option was picked instead.

** Some of the lines that show up on the [=DexNav=] upon whiting out include [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "YOUR TEAM A SPLODE"]], [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "IS THIS LOSS?"]], [[WebVideo/StevenHe "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE"]], [[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney "G UILTY"]], [[Anime/YuGiOh BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM]], [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!"]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} "HELLO, NURSE!"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "REMEMBER, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER"]], or [[VideoGame/AmongUs "THAT PLAY WAS SUS"]].

** Some of the lines that show up on the [=DexNav=] upon whiting out include [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "YOUR TEAM A SPLODE"]], [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "IS THIS LOSS?"]], [[WebVideo/StevenHe "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE"]], [[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney "G UILTY"]], [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!"]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} "HELLO, NURSE!"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "REMEMBER, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER"]], or [[VideoGame/AmongUs "THAT PLAY WAS SUS"]].

** Some of the lines that show up on the [=DexNav=] upon whiting out include [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "YOUR TEAM A SPLODE"]], [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "IS THIS LOSS?"]], [[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney "G UILTY"]], [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!"]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} "HELLO, NURSE!"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "REMEMBER, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER"]], or [[VideoGame/AmongUs "THAT PLAY WAS SUS"]].

** Some of the lines that show up on the [=DexNav=] upon whiting out include [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "YOUR TEAM A SPLODE"]], [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "IS THIS LOSS?"]], [[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney "G UILTY"]], [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!"]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} "HELLO, NURSE!"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "REMEMBER, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER"]], or [[VideoGame/AmongUs "THAT PLAY WAS SUS"]].

* AscendedGlitch : Upon blacking out, one of the sentences that can be displayed on the [=DexNav=] section of the overlay is "OH NO!"; this is a reference to a point in the ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyYellow Chatty Yellow]]'' run during which the "chatty" dialogue that replaced the in-game dialogue with combinations of chat messages ceased to work, causing all of it to be replaced with the default line of "oh no!".

* StoryArc : While all lore is [[DependingOnTheWriter up to the community's interpretation to some degree]], there are a few multi-run story arcs that have gotten popular enough that they are widely known and accepted by most fans, making them as close to "canon" as lore can get:

** AntiFrustrationFeatures: Navigating through Ultra-Space in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' initially requires using motion controls, which led to the Stream Host having to step in and do it in place of the chat in the ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonUltraSun Ultra Sun]]'' run. Starting with ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedUltraMoon Randomized Ultra Moon]]'', and for all subsequent ''USUM'' runs, this section of the game was hardcoded to always use the Circle Pad instead.

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!Tropes that apply to all of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'':

* AchievementsInIgnorance: In-Universe; The utter incompetence of the player character ultimately wins them 8 badges and the title of Pokémon League champ. In AJ's case, he also defeats Red.
* AchillesHeel: Button spam in Anarchy mode works well most of the time, but it has two major weaknesses:
** Using a PC, as Pokémon get [[PutOnABus shuffled around]] or even [[KilledOffForReal released]].
** Narrow walkways along a ledge: walking in a straight line is nigh-impossible.
* AcronymConfusion: With the Trans-Pacific Partnership, if you search "[=TPP=]" without any other context. Also, occasionally, with ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain The Phantom Pain]]''. And [[VideoGame/TouhouNingyougeki Touhou Puppet Play]], although they did play through a version of that last one.
* AerithAndBob: You can have Altaria, Marc, or Mightyena, or a nickname like M [=---=]/'/'4, [=CCCDJCCCC5=], or x(araggbaj.
* AllThereInTheManual: While all ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' lore is based on the stream, you wouldn't even get 5% of it if you didn't pay close attention to the fanbase.
* AnarchyIsChaos: The RealLife variation where the anarchists, despite the inherent madness, mostly manage to make progress despite the very present freedom to do evil.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Playing the game in Anarchy can get pretty far, but during times like the Rocket Hideout and when the Mob wants to teach a move to a Pokémon, Democracy mode serves to keep them from being stuck for a long time. It's still frustrating for many how slow Democracy is and that it makes the game "too easy".
* {{Anticlimax}}: Several bosses renowned for their difficulty were defeated very easily, such as Whitney, Cynthia, and Ghetsis.
* AnyoneCanDie: Using the PC is dangerous, and [[ReleasedToElsewhere releasing]] is [[KilledOffForReal permanent]].
* AppleOfDiscord: There's often a Pokémon or item that the Mob don't agree on whether or not to use or catch/meet, like Eevee in ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red'' and "Articuno" in ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=FireRed=]''.
* ArcSymbol: Several:
** ''Red'''s symbol was the Helix Fossil.
** ''Crystal'''s symbol was AJ's Pokegear.
** ''Emerald'''s symbol was either an Urn or a "Special Forces A Team" logo.
** ''[=FireRed=]'''s symbol was the Commewnist Star.
** ''Platinum'''s symbol was a Sun.
** ''[=HeartGold=]'''s symbol was mail, at least for a time.
** ''Black'' symbol was the Entralink as the protagonist would spend hours on it, until it was finally disabled.
** ''Black 2'''s symbol was sunglasses, given how the Pokémon on Cly's team are commonly depicted.
** ''X'''s symbol was d's fedora and stock of Awakenings.
** ''Omega Ruby'''s symbol was the Dowsing Machine antennae.
** ''Red Anniversary'''s symbol was the Town Map, and later the Bicycle.
** ''Touhoumon'' and ''Moemon'''s symbol was the Teachy TV, which was registered on both games in sync as soon as it was obtained.
** ''Alpha Sapphire'''s symbol, at least later on, was the Dusk Key.
** ''Crystal Anniversary'''s was Olden [[note]]Glitches, essentially. [[/note]]. In all of its various incarnations.
** ''Brown'''s was probably Pizza, or something to that effect.
** ''Randomized Platinum'''s was the Water Stone.
** ''Prism'''s is the Mining Pick.
* ArcWords: Several runs have them.
** ''Crystal'': No Gods, No Kings, Only Mon.
** ''Emerald'': Let's turn this region up-start-down.
** ''[=HeartGold=]'': [[CallBack No Mon, No Kings, Only Gods.]]
** ''[=Black2=]'': No Gods, No Mon, Only Kings.[[note]]At this point making this particular arrangement the arc words for most of Season 1.[[/note]]
** ''Crystal Anniversary'': THIS IS OUR TOMB TOGETHER NOW.
* TheArtifact: The stream's bio talks about people controlling a robot playing a game of Pokemon, and the stream's description of the host was a robot wearing Red's clothes and hair. Generally, the lore is more of the mob controlling the host, as a living person, directly, and the cosplaying robot was demoted to a sub emote and the non-image tab on the official subreddit, changing appearance depending on the host currently being played.
* ArtifactOfDeath: The PC - its use nearly always results in the mod accidentally releasing Pokémon, even very strong and important ones. It is feared and hated by the Mob, and is only used when absolutely necessary.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Several objects in the games have become hated by the Mob and tend to cause problems when encountered. The PC is the biggest one, since its use often results in releasing Pokémon. The Dome fossil has been given this treatment, although many players now believe it is just the other side of the coin in an OrderVersusChaos divine battle against the beloved Helix fossil. Ledges and Giovanni's mazes are dreaded, too.
* AscendedMeme: The whole TPP universe is composed of these.
** In a more traditional sense, many of the channel's subscriber-only emotes are based on memes, including [="FogChamp"=] (a play on [="PogChamp"=], used when the foggy arena appears in [[VideoGame/PokemonBattleRevolution PBR]]), the Helix and Dome emotes, and the cursor (a reference to chat's worship of "Lord Cursor" whenever the streamer's mouse cursor is visible). Twitch itself also added the [="praiseIt"=] emote as a tribute to TPP's deity.
** The official Pokémon 20th Anniversary anime marathon stream was titled "Twitch Watches Pokémon".
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The protagonists often get easily distracted - checking the Pokedex over and over again, examining their items multiple times, wandering aimlessly, etc.
** ''Anniversary Crystal'' was especially fraught with this, as a rather large number of fairly challenging quests opened up all at once upon defeating Blue for the first time. Heading back to a quest at a later time after failing at first became commonplace, giving a number of the rematch Gym Leaders high WAHA ratings[[note]]A modified version of Wattson Ratings that takes time into account as well[[/note]] despite not one of them having a raw Wattson Ranking above .261.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Becoming League Champion (and defeating {{Superboss}}es, for some) has never felt so good.
* BigNo: The mob fills the chat with these when things take a turn for the worse.
** The protagonist of ''Platinum'', Napoleon, had his entire character develop around his answering of [[ButThouMust the question if he liked Pokémon]] with a blunt "No".
* BraggingRightsReward: Starting in the pre-''Platinum'' Intermission, winning bets on the Stadium battles using Pokédollars.
* BreadAndCircuses: Runs and the wait in between them became characterized by continuous betting rings for the ''Pokémon Colosseum'' games. See [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena that page]] for more information.
* CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: Many, many different things, from accidentally digging after going on the start menu, to releasing Pokémon when trying to deposit something.
* CerebusSyndrome: Even though the community-created lore got pretty dark during Season 1's Bill Saga, things never got too heavy in-stream. Then Evan reached Mt. Silver, which in this romhack has Unown lettering spelling out things like "YOUR FATE ENDS HERE" and "THIS IS OUR TOMB TOGETHER NOW", and at the end of the level, there was an unexplained occurrence that turned out to be a CallForward to future runs.
* ColorCodedCharacters:
** Since [=FireRed=], The streamer began to have the users' names colored in the command box, depending on which game you first started entering commands on. White (or colorless) for TPP Red, purple for Crystal, green for Emerald, orange for [=FireRed=], grey for Platinum, orange-yellow for [=HeartGold=], and black outlined in white for Black and Black 2.
** After ''Pokémon X'', the streamer found the color-coded usernames cumbersome as more colors are being added, and as a result, the players have a numbered and colored emblem next to their username representing the run they've made their first input. Previous runs have their colors retained while X has dark blue, Omega Ruby has dark red, Red Anniversary has white, Touhoumon & Moemon has pink, Alpha Sapphire has navy blue, Coloseum has red and XD has dark purple.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Deliberately {{invoked|Trope}} by a number of players - spamming commands enough times will ''eventually'' achieve what they want. Usually.
* ConfusionFu: In-universe. The heroes' off-the-wall tactics and lack of strategy have won them battles on many occasions.
* ContinuitySnarl: There's always been debates over the series' continuity. What runs are canon and not canon, if lost hosts[[note]]hosts with deleted saves[[/note]] count, and when or if there are alternate timelines. But after the appearance of Red and AJ, as well as references to the [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Emerald]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal Vietnamese Crystal]] runs during WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystalAnniversary, the continuity has become a snarl with the potential that there are no alternate timelines, and no hosts that do not count.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In lore, the player characters in each generation appear to contrast with each other.
** Red was religious and spread the word of Lord Helix, while AJ was an atheist and sought to wage war against these gods.
** A relished in complete anarchy and militarism, while Alice strived for order and scientific research.
** Napoleon came from a sheltered, proper background and disdained Pokémon at first until he grew to assemble the Court of the Sun, while Ao was wild, sought the Pokémon gods of old, and transformed under the moon.
** AJ's Fanon story involved him becoming bitter and jaded about Red and his team, eventually deciding to ScrewDestiny and take down the god-like team Red had assembled. GMYC (Jimmy), on the other hand, was usually interpreted as an avid HeroWorshipper of Red, and tried to tailor his adventure to be like his.
** AJ wanted to take down God like beings. Aoo wants to bring them back.
** Jimmy had little care for his Pokémon, instead blithely agreeing to release and stop evolving them and becoming Champion as the voices tells him. Cly sought to become Champion to prove herself to others, focusing on her Pokémon by keeping a consistent party and letting them evolve immediately.
** Early in ''Emerald's'' run, A wanted to throw the world into chaos, and was generally a brash, reckless girl who eventually fell for her rival Brendan. ''[=FireRed=]'s'' protagonist ([[OneSteveLimit also named A]]) was portrayed as a more serious, intelligent young girl who wished to fix the distortions in her world, and seemed to either ignore her rival or hate him for his skill.
** The fourth and second to last runs of season 1 (''Black'' and ''X'', respectively) focused on two male Pokémon trainers that [[TheUnfavorite the audience chose by mistake, and didn't like]]. Both also tended to make rash decisions, and were known for sometimes giving away Pokémon at an alarming rate. The key difference here is that while GMYC wanted to take credit for everything he did in some vain attempt to become as legendary a hero as Red, D refused to take credit for anything he did during his run, most notably answering "No" when asked if he defeated Team Flare.
** As per ''Colosseum'''s canon, A7 is a former criminal who reforms and battles the evil organization he used to belong to. Evan, on the other hand, goes from a sweetheart at the start of the run, most commonly compared to Jimmy, to a VillainProtagonist in service of the setting's equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos a Great Old One]].
** One between brothers: Napoleon (the elder) is cold, somewhat snarky, and gambles away regardless of consequences. Pepe (the younger) is more caustic about evolutions, doesn't bet as much, and is usually portrayed as somewhat shy.
** Paul is much older than the usual hosts, is TheAlcoholic and simply a pizza guy. Cyan is younger than the usual host, thinks the voices are her imaginary friends, and her father is ''Lance''.
** It extends to key Pokémon, too.
*** False Prophet (later referred to as Martyr as history seems to look upon her more favorably) was an AppleOfDiscord that threatened to negatively color the Mob's view of the Eevee line in general. Burrito, however, was TheHeart and characterized as an AllLovingHero and remains one of the most beloved figures in stream history, while Solaireon, the next Flareon, ended up being the highest-leveled Pokémon in Napoleon's party and likewise much beloved.
*** A's Azumarill, M4, was characterized as a hardened warrior, but had the Thick Fat ability, a largely defensive ability. Arty's T4, on the other hand, was characterized as being much nicer, but had the Huge Power ability more suited to a warrior like M4. Cyan's Y4 was girlier ''still'', being portrayed in artwork with [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]], and also had the Huge Power ability.
*** Sunshine the Shinx from ''Platinum'' stayed in the party the entire run, but never evolved. Transshinx from ''Randomized Platinum'' was eventually left in the PC, but was then retrieved in the postgame and evolved, only to be unceremoniously released.
* CrutchCharacter: Several, although unintentionally in most cases. The extreme difficulty in switching Pokémon order and the lack of precise control the mob has over movesets and battles means that these tend to emerge when only one or two Pokémon on the team are capable of winning consistently and gaining experience, while the rest of the team eventually CantCatchUp. Examples include Bird Jesus the Pidgeot of Red, Lazorgator the Feraligatr in Crystal, and M4 the Azumarill in Emerald.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Democracy mode is only used when deemed necessary, and things slow down considerably. Luckily, combat is turn based.
** The PC. Every time it's used, there's a substantial chance of Pokémon being released, so by ''[=FireRed=]'', most of the Mob usually go to use a PC via Democracy.
* DarkestHour: Every game except the first one always has a countdown every time the final boss is battled. After the countdown, the game ends, but the Mob has been able to beat all of the games with this countdown intact.
** This was taken seriously in ''Crystal'', as if the Mob wasn't able to beat Red in a set amount of time, the series would've ended there.
** This was phased out late in Season 1, however.
*** It came back with a vengeance in Season 4. After spending a full 24 hours trying to defeat [[spoiler:Azure]] in ''Pyrite'' (almost continuous attempts, since the difficulty hack required that the party be nearly level 100 by the first attempt anyway), with many attempts plagued by {{troll}}s, others by well-meaning inputs going through at the wrong times, and a few where [[RandomNumberGod the Mob's plan was actually executed perfectly only for them to lose to critical hits and 30% chances to cause Paralysis]], an ultimatum was given: Two more attempts, then Democracy will be made available for the battle. Not ''forced'', merely made available. The Mob was desperate enough to actually use it.
* {{Deconstruction}}:
** Of the MindHive, at least in-universe. Instead of the thousands of voices in the player character's mind cooperating, they all tend to input multiple commands at once, causing them to not be able to move, talk, or battle coherently.
** The KidHero trope. A potentially mentally disturbed child (whose parents [[ParentalNeglect don't seem to care at all]] about the whole "mentally disturbed" thing, even ''encouraging'' their kid to go) is allowed to do field research on dangerous animals while travelling an entire region despite having no strategy to defend themselves against said animals and has [[NoSenseOfDirection no sense of direction]]. Because of this, they get into plenty of trouble thanks to the lack of organization and coordination that older, wiser trainers might have.
* DemocracyIsFlawed: Invoked in that, although Democracy allows the mob to perform surgical actions, decisions are still susceptible to mistakes thanks to the lag, progress is much slower paced, and the voting system is able to be abused by large groups of people.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The lore of this series runs on this trope. Although some plot elements are set in stone, the characters' personalities and interactions vary depending on which work one reads. Even the trope pages of their respective runs give brief overviews of different interpretations.
* DespairEventHorizon: Happens quite often, usually when a Pokémon forgets a good move for a bad one, the trainer is stuck in one location for hours, or a Pokémon is accidentally boxed or even released. Particularly in ''Red'', morale dropped severely after the events of Bloody Sunday, and in ''[=FireRed=]'', the number of users plummeted when A was stuck in the Rocket Hideout during 26 hours of Anarchy. ''Black'' had Massacre Monday and Fatal Friday.
** ''Pyrite'' had the final battle ''in democracy''.
* DisasterDemocracy: In a way, how the Mob votes back and forth between Anarchy and Democracy modes depending on the goal at the moment. Democracy tends to kick in whenever desperation hits a high mark.
* DivineIntervention: The Creator says that if no Pokémon evolve during the playthrough of ''Black'', then ''Black 2'' will have a forced evolution code added to the streamer that prevents the use of the B button during evolution sequences.
* TheDreaded: [=PCs=] and ledges. Both can unravel minutes or hours of work.
** At one point in Red version, in the Cinnabar Island laboratory, they accidentally activated one of the many [=PCs=] (which are just there for show), and '''''EVERYONE''''' in the chat [[http://imgur.com/nxxuxg5 spammed the B button]]. It's ''that'' big of a deal.
* DysfunctionJunction: To date, all of our protagonists have had something wrong going for them.
** ''Red'''s protagonist was a schizophrenic-turned OmnicidalManiac by the time of TPP Crystal.
** ''Crystal'''s protagonist was a god-slaying ChildSoldier with an inferiority complex.
** ''Emerald'''s protagonist was a sociopath with a bit of a mean streak who [[invoked]][[EpilepticTrees may or may not]] have killed 7 people prior to the start of the game.
** ''[=FireRed=]'''s protagonist may have ruined the life of their childhood friend to the point of [[DrivenToSuicide potentially suicidal depression]].
** ''Platinum'''s protagonist was a [[TheGamblingAddict compulsive gambler]] who is apathetic to the Pokémon world at best.
** ''[=HeartGold=]'''s protagonist was a glitchy HumanoidAbomination and also a werewolf.
** ''Black'''s protagonist was an affable ditz who obeyed Team Plasma's orders to release his Pokémon, and thinks of the Voices so highly that he thinks they can do no wrong.
** ''Black 2'''s protagonist was an idol singer who was looking for her purpose in life while dealing with mother issues.
** ''X'''s protagonist was a boy unwanted by the Mob who was shy around women and had a penchant for trading his Pokémon online.
** ''Omega Ruby'''s protagonist was a hyperactive soda junkie with an unpronounceable name and also a robot.
** ''Colosseum'''s protagonist was a compulsive kleptomaniac who couldn't exactly manage the infighting in his team.
** ''Crystal Anniversary'''s protagonist battled depression after possibly losing his best friend[=/=]LoveInterest in a shipwreck and may have eventually snapped entirely and fallen into the service of an evil EldritchAbomination.
** ''Brown'''s protagonist likewise had a gambling problem, but also may have been an alcoholic and also gave alcohol to his Pokémon.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Compared to the rest of the runs, ''Red'' and ''Crystal'' had the most basic stream layout, only having the screen, inputs, timer, and whatever input system was implemented at the time.
** Lore-wise, the whole voices residing with the protagonists slowly went to a lighter tone, with the hosts now being able to interact with the voices ([[WithFriendsLikeThese usually friendly Unowns]]) on a "normal" adventure rather than being horribly traumatized throughout the journey. By looking at each of the hosts, Red is typically the only one negatively affected by the voices.

* EvolvingCredits: The banner at the top of the TPP Subreddit updates with sprites of the Protagonists, [=NPC=]s and team members whenever they're introduced. The first one (covering Gens 1-3.5) became too full, and is now located at the bottom as a footer.
* FireForgedFriends: Anyone in the protagonists' parties and, to an extent, the Mob.
* TheFool[=/=]IdiotHero: In every game, the protagonists all show remarkably poor judgement, coordination, and [[NoSenseOfDirection sense of direction]]. They can't resist jumping off of ledges again and again, they delete their Pokémon's powerful moves for useless ones, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted they will waste their money on useless items]], they accidentally release Pokémon when trying to use [[ArtifactOfDeath the PC]], and spend days trying to navigate themselves through a simple maze.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted:
** The player characters are notoriously bad at keeping their prize money and acquired items.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the case of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum'''s Napoleon, said to be a [[TheGamblingAddict compulsive gambler]] who goes way in over his head.
* ForTheEvulz: Some users are simply playing to sabotage serious attempts to play the game.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Mob began its compulsive gambling in ''TPP Arena'' right before the [[WebVideo/TwitchplaysPokemonPlatinum fifth run]] started, in which gambling became a large part of the protagonist's personality.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The lore of each run is very intricate and surprisingly deep. The actual plot of the games, however, is nothing like it.
* GimmickLevel: Spin panels and strength puzzles.
* GrayAndGreyMorality: Ultimately, the anarchists and the democrats. They display roughly the same amount of (intentional) dickishness, they both play the game to win, they both love their Pokémon dearly, both loathe and fear the PC, and so on. The only source of their conflict is [[OrderVersusChaos the means they want to use to play the game]].
* HaveANiceDeath: Modern runs replace the [=DexNav=] in the lower right with humorous text if all of the Pokémon in the party faint.
* HijackedByGanon: Nearly every game so far has had something to do with Bill. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed The False Prophet breaking apart Red's party?]] Bill sent him. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Helix and Dome pitted against one another?]] Bill. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Lanette messes with the new protagonist?]] Bill made her. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed The ecosystem of the world is severely out of whack?]] Bill created a randomizer. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum Team Galactic is plotting something nefarious?]] Bill's supplying them. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold Team Rocket members still running around?]] Bill's controlling them. However, with Bill's death at the end of [=HeartGold=], the mob is fully aware that it might get old and he's not coming back.
** Likewise, the randomizer on Alpha Sapphire was blamed on the same "glitches" that had caused ''actual'' glitches in Anniversary Red and Moemon (and would later appear in Colosseum, though not in the same game-breaking way as in the former two). Furthermore, the logic for blaming them was based not on glitches that appeared in Alpha Sapphire but for ones that appeared in Platinum, way back in Season 1. Retroactively, this means that OLDEN, a villain not properly introduced until Season 3, was present in a Season 1 run.
*** And ever since officially debuting in Season 3, everything that happens in the stream is blamed on OLDEN.
*** After OLDEN's defeat in ''Prism'', it's shifted to a new Glitch, [=OrgamLorple=].

* HopeSpot: Every time the user mob is close to clearing a ledge or achieving something difficult, something is bound to go wrong. At least under Anarchy mode. Sometimes during battles, there's one Pokémon left in the party at low health, and it is close to defeating the opponent, but it misses or the foe gets a critical hit, making the player white out.
* IdiotBall: The Mob's incompetence is what fuels a lot of the conflict. The players are dumb enough to do things like release important Pokémon, jump off of a ledge a million times, use useless attacks over and over again in battle, and so on.
* DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming: {{Invoked}}. For the 2nd Anniversary run, the TPP team put together a special romhack, involving a new "military mode" that allowed quicker inputs in battle (you type your command, such as "run" or "move3" , rather then navigating to the buttons), and better, more tactical AI. It... hasn't exactly worked out. Less then 3 days in, military mode was disabled, the emulator was freezing up about once every 10 minutes for up to a few minutes at a time, and trainer battles tended to throw out [[KillScreen weird gibberish screens filled with garbage data, save for one or two bits of actual text.]] Funnily enough, said kill screens began occuring in the [[HilariousInHindsight bug-type gym.]]
* InformedWrongness: While the entire lore is up for interpretation, some interpretations that the protagonists might be at fault for the more dangerous or reckless parts of their respective runs have been put in the mouths of antagonist characters (Bill, for example) to prove a point of how wrong they are. [[invoked]]
* TheInsomniac: The player, as a result of the game being played in RealTime. This might explain their odd behavior in-universe.
* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: Played with, as cutting a tree usually takes hours.
* InternetJerk: Plenty of the Mob are simply there to impede progress in whatever way possible. Often 'trolls' are blamed for things that are just a result of the exceedingly long and non-obvious 26-second delay between commands being entered and executed, but there are a few repeated commands that clearly make no sense at all.
* ItsEasySoItSucks: {{Invoked}} by the Anarchists. The main complaint is that the Democracy system makes the entire game so easy, it is not as fun as the chaotic mess of the Anarchy system. In fact, this reasoning helped produce [[MemeticMutation start9]] which made the progression in the game ''even worse'' and this specific command is remembered as a sign of a protest against Democracy. However, the rather few times that Democracy helped the game, whose problems were both caused by anarchists) are [[AccentuateTheNegative not really spoken out as often as it should]].
* KidHero: All the protagonists are no older than 11. Even with Unova and Kalos-based games, where protagonists look older, the trope still applies.
* KilledOffForReal: Whenever Pokémon are released.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: {{Parodied}} to the point of {{deconstruction}}. The protagonists are certainly not scared of losing face by running away... even from easily winnable fights, depriving their Pokémon of valuable experience.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness:
** ''Pokémon Black 2'' and later runs have some sort of gimmick to keep the series fresh, such as increased difficulty, extra conditions to finish, or controlling two games at once.
** ''Pokémon X'' and onwards turns the HUD to something similar to the Emerald/[=FireRed=] runs, where only the Pokémon's team and their HP are present.[[note]]Previous games ran in emulators, and the HUD simply read information out of their memory. Since no 3DS emulators existed at the time, later games were played on a real 3DS, making this impossible; the HUD instead captured a screenshot whenever the party menu was open and displayed that.[[/note]]
** ''Pokémon Alpha Sapphire'' was this compared to previous randomizer runs. Fixed Pokémon such as legendaries and gifts from [=NPCs=] (including starters) were no longer randomized, but evolutions were, with the only guarantees being that the evolved form would share a type with its predecessor and would have a base stat total within 20% of the normal evolved form's base stat total. The next randomizer run, Randomized Platinum, returned to randomizing fixed encounters, but also kept the random evolutions and added randomized typings.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: It often takes ''several hours'' to get past obstacles that, for a single player, would be completely trivial. Like ledges, cutting bushes/trees, or the Team Rocket Hideout Maze.
* LeeroyJenkins: The chaotic side of the Mob prefers randomness or to downright sabotage attempts of moving forward. Sometimes they will slide or stay in Anarchy mode despite facing difficult Pokémon battles.
* LetsGetDangerous:
** The Mob during some of the more difficult areas.
** Invoked when a Pokémon that is normally TheLoad manages to display surprising bouts of competence in battle.
* LevelGrinding: Averted for most of ''TPP Red'', but eventually it was necessary since some of Red's Pokémon desperately needed to gain a few levels. From then on, whenever a popular Pokémon is falling behind, the Mob drags the hero to an area to train, like the Pokémon Tower in ''TPP [=FireRed=]'' and Victory Road in all games.
* TheLoad: The hero sometimes catches or withdraws Pokémon that the Mob have no interest in leveling up and thus become tiresome to keep. Occasionally, the Mob wants that particular Pokémon to be a part of the team, so they go LevelGrinding to remove its burdensome status.
* LovableCoward: The Mob runs away from many battles, sometimes by accident, and often tries to flee from trainer battles, always by accident.
* LuckBasedMission: '''''Everything.''''' Any success had in the playthrough is often by complete luck (or accident). During tough trainer battles, usually what determines victory is sheer luck in choosing the correct moves or Pokémon.
* LuddWasRight: It turns out that PC's are evil and using one is likely to cause the Mob to accidentally release their Pokémon. According to the fans, this may or may not be an evil plan by Bill or the Dome Fossil.
* MadnessMantra: In the midst of a battle, and sometimes in the overworld, the Mob will frequently try to use a useless item like the S.S. ticket or some other special-purpose item over and over again, prompting many admonishments, for example:
-->"Red! This isn't the time to use that! Red! This isn't the time to use that! Red! This isn't the time to use that! Red!..."
* MalevolentArchitecture: Any narrow path, [[InsurmountableWaistHighFence trees]], and [[UnwantedAssistance even things supposed to make your life easier]], like the ledges, is a very difficult obstacle to [[MindHive Red]]. True malevolent architectures, like the Team Rocket H.Q, are turned up a notch.
* MindControlDevice: The channel's chat command system could be seen as one, under the interpretation that each protagonist is human and has no power to refuse instructions.
* MindHive: Thousands of people inputting commands into one character.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Mainly due to how difficult things are made by the number of players; it's considered a great accomplishment to cut down a tree in under an hour, or to use the PC without depositing a vital team member.
* NecessarilyEvil: A lot of the pro-Anarchy side of the Mob temporarily defects to Democracy after a particularly difficult area such as the Safari Zone or Rocket Hideout. As soon as it's done, they hop back to Anarchy.
* NoFinalBossForYou: Despite being a fan favorite Pokémon since [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue's]] start in 1996, Mewtwo is unable to be found and battled, due to the fact that the stream always switches to the next game immediately after the final battle's completion. In [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]] Versions, the game immediately stopped after the Mob beat [[TheRival Blue]] at the end of the [[BossBonanza Elite Four]], preventing the Mob from being able to travel to [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Cerulean Cave]].
** Mewtwo was found once as part of Randomized [=FireRed=] version, as the Randomized Zapdos. This, however, was not the true Mewtwo, as it was merely a copy made by Bill's Randomizer Curse.
** In [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold HeartGold]], where the Mewtwo found was randomized into a Beautifly.
** Red Anniversary averts this, since they have to fight and ''capture'' the Mewtwo to complete the Pokédex.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Not everyone giving commands knows where they need to go next, or remembers how to get there. Also, Twitch has a video delay of about 25 seconds, and it increases the more people are there. Often people will give commands which will stop being useful 30 seconds later. This contributes a lot.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Because evolution can be cancelled in ''Pokémon'', needless to say team members tend to evolve much later than they normally would, and it was getting ''worse'' with every passing game because of the increasing number of B spambots and the decreasing number of people to counter them. Things came to a head in ''Black'' where no Pokémon evolved '''at all''', prompting the streamer to avert the trope in the next run by hacking forced evolutions into the game.
* ObviousRulePatch: Democracy went through many changes since its introduction, starting with:
** Having and maintaining a majority vote in ''Red''.
** Accessed every hour and canceled by a majority Anarchy vote in ''Crystal''.
** Anarchy having a full hour with its next five minutes being a tug-of-war voting period between Anarchy and Democracy (while being able to post directional inputs) in ''Emerald''.
** Voting coming at random points in ''[=FireRed=]''
** Democracy coming in ''when it's actually necessary'' and disappearing when said task is done starting with ''[=HeartGold=]''.
** Democracy being restricted to certain in-game locations where it's likely to be needed, and permanently activated for that location after enough time is spent there in ''Anniversary Red''
** For some reason, in ''Touhoumon/Moemon'', it worked in a way more like in earlier runs: every 15 minutes, a tug-of-war voting period begins to decide which mode will be used for the following 15 minutes. This was accessible throughout the entire run independent of any in-game status.
** Starting in ''Alpha Sapphire'', the stream went back to the method that had been used (and worked well) for the second half of Season 1.
** ''Anniversary Crystal'' went back to the tug-of-war format, but required a 90% consensus to activate Democracy and only a simple majority to revert to Anarchy.
** ''Randomized Platinum'' started without any Democracy, but implemented a modified version of the tug-of-war from the previous two runs--only 85% was needed to activate Democracy rather than the 90% of ''AC'', but Anarchy returns as soon as Democracy's majority falls below 70%.
** There were some {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es for issues other than Democracy as well:
*** Limiting the number of inputs that can be chained together to 3 in order to prevent soft resets starting in ''Emerald''.
*** Disabling the C-Gear in ''Black''.
*** Disabling Wi-Fi in the [=3DS =] games.
*** Reengaging the C-Stick in ''Alpha Sapphire'' after initially disabling it because it turned out to be necessary to navigate on Latias.
*** The entire "Underground Saga" in ''Randomized Platinum''. PP got himself stuck in a Leaf Trap, which requires blowing into the DS's microphone to escape, so after manually removing him, a "blow" command was added. Less than an hour later, [[DoubleEntendre the command]] was changed to "mic". A few hours after that, the Explorer Kit, Vs. Recorder, and Pal Pad were outright disabled and the new command was removed entirely.
* OneLetterName: Three protagonists had one-letter names, and two of them were the same letter. Also applies to many Pokémon nicknames.
* OneSteveLimit: Surprisingly averted. It is not uncommon for a character (typically a Pokémon) to be given the same name as another character. The name "[[OneLetterName A]]" comes to mind, having been given to two player characters and at least three Pokémon. In addition in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'', their starter was named "," (a single comma), the same as the starter from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold HeartGold]]''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most hosts, though some of them are at least known by actual first names. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/apy0l3/hosts_of_the_voices_season_5/ A list of all hosts' full names as of Season 5.]]
* OrderVersusChaos: A whole new layer of struggle has been introduced with the implementation of the Anarchy/Democracy slider.
* OverlyLongGag: The admonition when the Mob uses a key item during an inopportune time.
* ParentalNeglect: How else have these kids been even allowed outside?
* PauseScumming: In areas where precise movement is vital, people will sometimes spam 'start' in order to deliberately slow down the input stream, allowing users to catch up with the 26-second delay and ensuring that the flood of commands when the menus are exited will generally reflect Red's position rather than where he was 26 seconds ago. Of course, some people just spam pause all the time to be jerks.
* PeoplePuppets: Every protagonist, as per the medium. This sometimes gets integrated into the various lores of the games.
* ThePlan: Dozens and dozens. Some better than others. Some good on paper but badly executed.
** GambitRoulette: Pretty much every time the Mob expects to achieve anything at the PC.
** GambitPileup: With thousands of users playing simultaneously, plans tend to overlap or have opposing objectives. Chaos reigns.
** BatmanGambit: Half of users act accordingly to what they believe the other half is thinking. Sometimes to screw up others' plans, sometimes to compensate and correct.
* PostEndGameContent: Before the release of PBR 2.0, the stream played the first four runs from where they left off. This allowed the mob to finish anything available after the Elite 4.
** They later revisited ''Black'' during an intermission in Season 4, finally allowing Jimmy C's team to reach their final evolutions.
* ThePrecariousLedge: This is a recurring problem for the player characters, as a single down input will make them jump a ledge, potentially resetting a lot of progress.
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: The "Red" faced at the end of ''Crystal'' used the same team as the Mob used to defeat the Champion in ''Red'', leveled up to match the levels of the original Red battle but with no changes to their movesets. The same thing happened at the end of ''[=HeartGold=]'' with the ''[=FireRed=]'' endgame team, complete with "Red" using Leaf's sprite. Finally, [[TheUnexpected and rather unexpectedly as no such thing happened in the original games]], ''all seven'' previous player characters and their teams awaited [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack2 CL Y.]] at the PWT.
** And then the original "Red" reappeared in ''Anniversary Red'' as "Dream Red", encountered by looking under the bed in Abe's house in Pallet Town after beating the Elite Four. ''Anniversary Crystal'' one-upped this by having ''five'' different protagonists able to be battled in some way or another: Abe (who, as expected, replaced the Red Battle at the end of Mt. Silver), AJ (who appeared at the Trainer House, [[FridgeBrilliance which shouldn't have really been as surprising as it was since the canon function of that building is to battle other GSC players' teams]]), [[spoiler:''BABA'']] (who took over the "Dream" role from Red), [[spoiler:Red ''again'' ([[TheUnexpected who just appeared out of nowhere]] at the ''entrance'' to Mt. Silver)]], and ''[[MirrorMatch Evan himself]]'' (in the form of the League PC, which included a setting to battle a full-level 100 version of the player's Hall of Fame team.)
** With fifty runs under their belt, it reaches a zenith in the Season 8 run Chatty Crystal. The rival(s), every single gym leader, several Team Rocket members, every Elite Four member, the champion, and Eusine were replaced with previous hosts. [[labelnote:Who?]]The rival was split into three - [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal AJ]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystalAnniversary Evan]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal Baba]]. The Johto Gym Leaders included [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby Arty]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlazedGlazed Honey]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed Alice]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold Ao]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRedAnniversary Abe]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSun Nigel]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFusedCrystal Y]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonWhite2 Alek]]. The Kanto Gym Leaders included [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPyrite Eunice]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTheGauntlet Dipper]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonLightningSapphire Urf]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum Napoleon]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXG Stars]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStormSilver Skye]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRisingRuby Ebnert]]. The Rocket members included [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTriHardEmerald Fate]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedColosseum Ace]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBootlegGreen Larry]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonColosseum A7]]. The Elite Four includes [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTheGauntlet Esther]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTheGauntlet Reese]] (who also appeared as the head Sprout Tower sage), [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrown Paul]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Camila A. Slash]]. The Champion is [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism Cyan]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyYellow X-Man]] takes the place of Eusine. Whew![[/labelnote]]
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Used from time to time. Despite the protagonists sometimes doing less-than-stellar things to others in lore (Example: Red nearly [[OmnicidalManiac destroying the world]], Alice sending Green into suicidal depression), the narrative never seems to call them out on it.
* PunctuationShaker: Many Pokémon end up getting nicknames with random symbols in their names. Take ABB-??AAJ the Zubat in TPP Red, !☂!!☀! !:1 the Roserade in TPP Platinum, or M ---/'/'4 the Azumarill from TPP Emerald.
* PutOnABus: Whenever a Pokémon isn't wanted in the party anymore and is put in the PC for the rest of the game.
** BusCrash: Unfortunately, they're sometimes released.
* RealTime: As a result of livestreaming.
* RecurringBoss: Rivals, the boss of the antagonist team, the Elite Four and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers ledges]].
* RecurringLocation: The Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn regions are the most frequently visited, with Kanto having the most runs[[note]]''Red, Crystal, [=FireRed=], [=HeartGold=], Anniversary Red, Touhoumon, Moemon, Vietnamese Crystal, Anniversary Crystal, Chatty Yellow, Pyrite, Dual Red and Blue, Burning Red'' [[/note]], followed by Johto[[note]] ''Crystal, [=HeartGold=], Vietnamese Crystal, Anniversary Crystal, Brown, Prism, Blazed Glazed, Pyrite, Storm Silver, Fused Crystal''[[/note]] and then Hoenn [[note]]''Emerald, ORAS Demo, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Theta Emerald EX, Flora Sky''[[/note]].
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Officially, Pokémon the Mob accidentally release on the PC are just let go, but fanart and fanon frequently interprets these events as deletions instead, or as "release" being a [[NeverSayDie euphemism]] for "[[KilledOffForReal kill]]".
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Being possessed by The Mob seems to grant the host body infinite stamina, to better deal with walking non-stop without sleep and food for days on end. [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]] in particular is often depicted as [[HeroicRROD immediately collapsing]] upon being released.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: A serious problem that arises, especially in Anarchy mode.

** Every fire-type starter gets released. Charmander, Torchic, Chimchar, Tepig... it's become a national sport for Twitch Plays Pokemon. ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack2 Black 2]]'' made history by breaking the trend, by being the first run in which a fire-type starter was not only ''NOT'' released, but was fully evolved thanked to a forced evolution mechanic, though it was invoked again with Omega Ruby's Torchic, Anniversary Red's Charmander (though at least they fully evolved it first), and Anniversary Crystal's Cyndaquil.
** Someone being called [[OneLetterName "A"]].
** An Eeveelution of some sort appearing on the host's team, often a Flareon. When randomizers are involved, this may instead be something that would have been an Eevee in the non-randomized game.
** Every randomizer run, one of the Pokémon received from an NPC will end up randomized to Sandslash. [[note]]The exception being Alpha Sapphire, where Pokémon received from [=NPCs=] weren't randomized.[[/note]]
* SadisticChoice: The Mob can either leave Pokémon in the PC where they're safe or try to put them in the party and thus risk releasing them while trying to retrieve them.
** TakeAThirdOption: The Mob may also wait for Democracy mode, then safely use the PC.
* SaveScumming: {{Defied}}. Unless in dire cases (such as the game resetting), the game is not turned off and the players have to make do with what they get. Should something unfortunate happen, however, the bot periodically has the emulator use save states since any ''actual'' in-game saves are usually by complete accident and have no effect on the game.
* SealedGoodInACan[=/=]SealedEvilInACan: [[GodIsGood Helix]] and [[GodIsEvil Dome]] are [[MemeticMutation considered this by the fandom]], locked on their fossil.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The entire run is starting to become one for those players attempting to complete the game. Not only does the premise of the experiment make the game insanely difficult and long, accidents such as releasing critical Pokémon drive morale down.
* SelfImposedChallenge: The challenge being getting thousands of people to cooperate long enough to finish the game at all.
* SelfInflictedHell: In a way, users share the blame for why navigating through ledges, caves and mazes is so damn difficult. It's a Hell of their own making.
* SequelHook: The creator has confirmed ''Crystal'', ''Emerald'', ''[=FireRed=]'', ''Platinum'', ''[=HeartGold=]'', and ''Black'' before the previous games' runs were finished, giving people something to look forward to (or dread). ''Black 2'' wasn't announced until after ''Black'' had already been beaten, however.
** ''Brown'' took it to another level, as it turned out to be a slightly modified version made especially for the run. Upon beating the final boss, [[spoiler:the Mysterious Bird from the ending of ''Anniversary Crystal'']] reappeared briefly, then left. A message appeared on-screen asking where it went and promising that it would be back in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism'', debuting in September.[[note]]At the time that this message was added, however, ''Prism'' was planned to be the very next run; by the time ''Brown'' actually ended, ''Randomized Platinum'' had been added to the queue, pushing ''Prism'' back to October.[[/note]]
* ShaggyDogStory: Occasionally, the Mob will have a goal in mind and go to great lengths to achieve it, only to quit for some reason or another. It's usually because a bunch of people with something else in mind interrupt it, or something happens that makes the action impossible. For instance, in ''Black'', GMYC shuffled through his backpack to use a Sunstone on Petilil, only to toss the stone and make the whole thing moot.
* SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism: Sort of and all over the place. The Anarchy and Democracy slider is a pendulum. During difficult spots, the mob tends to vote favorably for Democracy and thus shutting off all commands except the most popular one at any given moment. After a while, it will slide back into Anarchy Mode.
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The chat's usual question after doing something monotonous for four hours.
* SpannerInTheWorks / UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Due to lag and how easy it is to get confused what they're supposed to do, there is a good chance that someone's input is out of touch of what is necessary and can easily bring down minutes or hours of work.
* SplitScreen: Runs after the first Season had a habit of playing more than one game as the standard run was going on. It got to the point that in ''Brown'', they were playing another complicated [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon RPG]], a pinball game, ''and'' a Romhack at the same time! And they [[RunningGag still]] find time to bet in between all of this.
* SternTeacher: Whoever does the scolding whenever the Mob tries to use an item when it shouldn't be used.
* StickyFingers: If the protagonists have Pokeballs with them during battle, chances are, they'll use them, even if the opposing Pokemon belong to trainers. The games often admonish, "Don't be a thief!"
* StoryArc:
** Enforced by the community in Season 1 with the "Bill Arc" (officially Emerald through [=HeartGold=], though in practice Platinum wasn't really a part of it).
** Season 3 has one placed within the games themselves, with each of the first two runs of the season [[spoiler:ending with a brief appearance by an unknown bird Pokémon. The second appearance also came with a promise that it would be returning in the fourth run of the season.]]
* SurvivalMantra: "This isn't the time to use that!" and "No! There's no running from a Trainer battle!" can be viewed as these in-universe.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: When everyone does get to cooperating, it's usually drowned out by the sheer amount of frustration going on in the chat. Epic levels of frustration tend to result in periods of Democracy Mode to get through specific goals.
* ThemeNaming: Whether by accident or on purpose, most TPP protagonists have had their name start with the letter A. So far, we have [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal AJ]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald A (Camilla A Slash)]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed A (Alice)]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold Aooo]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby Arty Haze]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRedAnniversary Abe]], [[WebVideo/TwitchplaysTouhoumonAndMoemon Amber and Athena,]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonColosseum AAAAAAA]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXD Alpha]], [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonWhite2 Alek]], and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite Aqua]].
* {{Timeskip}}: Several, as per ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' canon.
** 3 years between [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Crystal]], and also between [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold HeartGold]] respectively.
** 2 years between [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack Black]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack2 Black 2]].
** Also, now that [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonColosseum Colosseum]] has been completed and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXD XD]] has been confirmed, it is all but confirmed that the 5 year timeskip between the two canon games will occur.
* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: Deliberately invoked by having 100,000+ people input commands for a game of Pokémon. The results are hilarious, having the player walk in weird directions to making really silly decisions (like releasing their starter, for instance).
* TookALevelInBadass: Whenever a low-leveled 'mon either defeats a much stronger opponent or raises a few levels.
** Also frequently occurs during {{Previous Player Character Cameo}}s, where previously-underleveled Pokémon have their levels buffed to be an appropriate challenge. Examples include ATV from ''Red'' more or less doubling in level, from high 30s to mid-70s, for the Mt. Silver battle in ''Crystal'', and Baba's all-but-unused Pidgey, Poliwag, and Togepi appearing in Anniversary Crystal as a Pidgeot, Politoed, and Togetic, all at level 100.
* TournamentArc: Happens quite often in the middle of each run through. Almost every version of ''Pokémon Stadium'' has been played during the long breaks. Sometimes, there's some lore for those, too. ''Black 2'' had one at the end of its run as well, with the last string of fights being CLY pitted against [[spoiler: [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed all]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal seven]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald previous]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed TPP]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum protagonists]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold in]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack battle]].]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Chat/video lag makes planning actions difficult, and tragic accidents inevitable.
* {{Troll}}:
** Start abusers, the ugliest side of AnarchyIsChaos, spring up occasionally to impede progress.
** The Select Sect, Start's counterpart, generally do the same thing, although their impediment is more of annoyance than deliberate stalling.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: ''Touhoumon and Moemon'' was a run like this. In general, many games post Season 1 have a game being played alongside it, but ''Touhoumon and Moemon'' had the distinction of being the only runs with this setup until Season 5.
** Season 5 revisited the idea with "Anniversary Red and Blue". Two runs, commands alternating between which game they'd go to (unless "directed" at one game, in which case they'd be skipped if they came up when the other game was supposed to receive a command), and they were actually allowed to use the Cable Club functions, resulting in roughly half of each final team having the other protagonist as their Original Trainer.
* UnbuiltTrope:
** Some lore of the [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed very first run]] showed ''exactly'' what a child being remotely controlled by millions of bickering voices would look like from the perspective of the host in question. Later installments gradually lightened up the premise.
** This is often considered that the Voices were only at first starting to control people for their desires, and had little to no care about their mental psyche. However, as the story progresses across the games, the Voices begin to grow softer and more amicable in character (and there are also significantly less of them, causing less strain to their hosts). They're still [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold assholes]] though.
* TheUnfought: Bill and the PC, even though the Mob would very much like to, [[spoiler:although they were battled in ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystalAnniversary Crystal Anniversary]]'' two years later]]. Any trainer or Pokémon that can be faced post-game (except for the Johto games, ''Pokémon X'', and Anniversary runs) can't be fought either, since the games end when the Mob has defeated the Elite Four and Champion.
* TheUnpronounceable: Thanks to the chaotic input, many of the 'mons end up with gibberish names such as "ABBBBBBK{", "AAAS RJ-I", "A♀NII[=Ic33=]", and "TTABCIJIJD", so the fans think of nicknames for them, like "Abby", "Breakfast Burrito", "Annie", and "Shellock", respectively.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No matter how insanely the protagonist behaves, everyone else in the world still treats them like a completely normal person. It is perhaps only in Koga's gym where this walking around in circles can be seen as normal.
* {{Wallbonking}}: Often.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Occasionally, the Mob will deposit or release a Pokémon that was just caught. The original record was [=C3KO=] the Hitmonlee in ''Red'', who lasted 37 minutes according to the [[https://sites.google.com/site/twitchplayspokemonstatus/red-archive progress doc]]. However, this was eventually beaten by an unnamed Meowth in ''Anniversary Red'', [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/3iexaa/because_i_like_comparing_our_runs_here_are_some/ who lasted 15 minutes]], and later by a Porygon in ''Anniversary Crystal'' who lasted just 9.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: A lot of the protagonists' actions earn them a lecture. And, on a meta level, a lot of the players tend to insult other players who either intentionally impede progress or try not to work together in some way.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Why Did It Have To Be Personal Computers, Ledges, and Mazes?
* WorldOfPun: Mostly evident in the chat and [[http://www.reddit.com/live/sw7bubeycai6hey4ciytwamw3a the live-update thread]], but it has gotten to the point where an official pun ''[[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1z13q2/official_rtwitchplayspokemon_pun_thread/ thread]]'' for the stream was created on Website/{{Reddit}}, solely dedicated to amassing a page full of puns.
* [[invoked]]AscendedFanon: Arguably, all fanon is canon.
* YoYoPlotPoint: Ledges, the PC, the daycare, spin tiles, and strength puzzles.

There are currently over sixty completed main runs[[note]]"Dual" runs featuring two games at once are considered to count as a single run, while "Gauntlet" events composed of multiple games in a row have each run counted independently[[/note]], as well as numerous intermissions, the most prominent being betting matches set up using ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium2'' then later ''VideoGame/PokemonBattleRevolution'', and sidegames which are played alongside said betting matches at the pace of one input between each match.

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[[folder:Season 1]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[RandomEventsPlot 10 Heroes, over 60 Pokemon, 6 Regions, a Religion, at least 10 Gods, 65 million views.]] Season 1 was busy.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/2rbs9p/twitch_plays_pokemon_season_1_poster/ Source.]]]]
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed'': The first run, done with a (minimally hacked) ROM of the Generation I game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red]]''. It began on February 13, 2014, and was completed on March 1, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named Red (the default player name). Because of the difficulty in coordinating even mundane tasks, successes and failures were attributed to being acts of gods with the iconic Pokemon as their angels. This was conflated with a voting system that came to represent political balance between democracy and anarchy. Achieving victory elevated to protagonist to being legendary.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal'': The second run in the season, being a sequel using the Generation II game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]'' (hacked to make all of Generation 2's 251 Pokémon available in single-player). It began on March 2, 2014, and was completed on March 15, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named AJDNNW (shortened to AJ). This run started in the shadow of the previous protagonist. Eventually the need to be unique evolved into the primary theme: a military waging war against the gods of the previous generation.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald'': The third run in the season, using the Generation III game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''. It began on March 22, 2014, [[note]][[MilestoneCelebration Ten years to the day]] after [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum another Generation III game]] was released in North America. Just a coincidence, though.[[/note]] and was completed on April 11, 2014. The protagonist was a girl named A, and the primary theme started off as complete anarchy. After a few releases the theme evolved elite police force trying to stop Bill, the inventor of the PC system.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed'': The fourth run in the season. It is a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', but on a hacked variant which introduces a randomizer, meaning that ANY Pokémon with ANY moves and/or Abilities can be encountered. It began on April 11, 2014 and was completed on April 26, 2014. The protagonist was a girl also named A (commonly referred to as Alice), and had a bit of an Alice In Wonderland theme in the midst of a communist revolution as the use of democracy was optimized.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum'': The fifth run in the season, using the Generation IV game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Platinum]]''. It began May 3, 2014 and was completed on May 20, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named Nqpppnl (usually referred to as Napoleon). The story became character study of the cold protagonist lightening up with SoapOpera elements surrounding the team. The sun played a prominent thematic role.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold'': The sixth run in the season. It is a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', but with a Randomizer similar to the one used by ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed''. According to the streamer, it features "better [[RandomNumberGenerator RNG]]" to avoid {{Spoiler}}s (an issue that afflicted the ''[=FireRed=]'' run). It began on May 23, 2014 and was completed on June 11, 2014. The protagonist was a girl named AOOOO who was seen as a werewolf as glitches in the emulator caused her appearance to change. The theme centered around the return of the gods after their destruction in Crystal, to help stop once and for all Bill as this is the last game where the character is featured.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'': The seventh run in the season, using the Generation V game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokémon Black.]]'' It began on June 14, 2014 and was completed on June 26, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named GMYC (also called Jimmy C). After repeated failures and setbacks, it was decided that if Jimmy could beat the game without evolving any Pokemon the next protagonist would have forced evolutions, creating a theme of sacrifice for the greater good in the final days of this run.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack2'': The eighth run in the season, using the sequel Generation V game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon Black 2]]'', and was believed to be the final run of the main series, until X version was confirmed by the Streamer. It was confirmed by the Streamer to have [[http://i.imgur.com/qORIdUO.png forced evolutions]]. It began on July 6, 2014 and was completed on July 25, 2014. The romhack used for this run is ''Pokémon Blaze Black 2'', made by Drayano. The protagonist was a girl named CL Y., (also known as Cly). Due to Jimmy's sacrifice she became the most powerful of all trainers, and defeated all the previous protagonists in what would've been the series finale.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonX'': The ninth run in the season, [[http://i.imgur.com/KWyuYvV.png held with help from dekuNukem]], using the Generation VI game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Pokémon X]]''. It was the first game to be played on an actual console rather than an emulator. It began on July 27, 2014 and was completed on August 1, 2014, with three days of postgame content afterward. The protagonist was a boy named d who was unwanted by the Mob and shy around women but extremely popular around the world due to be first to connect to other players in real time via the internet. He chose Chespin as his starter, making the first legit Grass starter chosen.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby'': The tenth run in the season, which began on November 21, 2014, after a three month break; the run began on the release date of the game itself. It is a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''. The main protagonist is a boy named !12rtyhaszs (Arty Haze), who is now moving into a version of Hoenn where Mega Evolutions await. The theme changed depending on the day, truly reflecting the randomness of in-game events without adding on a lot of extra interpretation.
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[[folder:Season 2]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AndTheAdventureContinues Season 2]], [[GameBreakingBug Glitches]] and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Shadows]] and [[{{Moe}} Moes]] and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Fish]].]]
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRedAnniversary'': The first run of the new season, which began on February 12, 2015 and ended March 24, 2015, making it the longest playthrough at the time. Returning to the world of ''Pokémon Red'', the goal of this run is to complete the Pokédex, made possible by a hack which includes all 151 Pokémon. Originally planned to be in Anarchy Mode only, it was instead decided to place Democracy Mode on a timer which activates if the player spends enough time in a single area. The story was EvilVersusOblivion, as the protagonist used both an undead monstrosity and Lord Dome but was up against an unknown EldritchAbomination.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysTouhoumonAndMoemon'': The second run following ''Pokémon Red Anniversary'', in which the stream will play both ''Franchise/{{Touhou|Project}}[[VideoGame/TouhouNingyougeki mon]]'' & ''[[VideoGame/{{Moemon}} Moemon]]'', a first for [[GameMod ROM hack]] runs, at the same time. The run began May 10th, 2015 and both runs were completed May 24th, 2015. It was the least lore-focused run, with the Moemon in particular receiving only rudimentary characterization. However, the Touhoumon still received good characterization, and the run dropped some more hints at a greater StoryArc stemming from the previous run.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonAlphaSapphire'': The third run of the second season. Returning to Hoenn for a third time, the run uses a randomizer similar to the likes of ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=HeartGold=]'' before it, expanding the choices of Pokemon up to the sixth generation, with the added challenge of evolutions also being randomized as well (e.g. Lotad evolving into a Squirtle, who then evolved into a Kingler). The protagonist is a girl named !0999 qq, often referred to as "Agent 999" or Nina. The run took on an espionage theme, as Agent 999 and her Pokémon went on a quest to take down Team Aqua, which was also being infiltrated by Team Magma. There was also a subplot about fairies. The run started on July 12th, 2015 and ended on July 26th, 2015, after completing the main game, Delta Episode, defeating the rematch Elite Four, and evolving their starter with a Dusk Stone.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonColosseum'': The fourth run of Season 2, the game was selected through polling of TPP viewers. ''Colosseum'' is the first main run of a game released for a console rather than a handheld. The run started on October 12, 2015 and ended on October 18th. The run more or less stuck to the canon plotline, though the protagonist also seemed very interested in watching the news.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXD'': The surprise fifth and final run of Season 2, announced after the end of Pokemon Colosseum. The run returns to Orre for the sequel to Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. The run began on December 12th, 2015 and ended on December 20th, 2015. It continued where ''Colosseum'' left off, with watching the news being the main divergence from the canon plotline.
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[[folder:Season 3]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystalAnniversary'': The first run of Season 3, marking the two-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It started on February 14, 2016 and ended on March 16, 2016. The run uses a special Crystal 251 hack, not unlike the specially-made TPP Version hack used in ''Red Anniversary''. The theme is a CosmicHorrorStory, as the Glitches that served as a GreaterScopeVillain throughout Season 2 came to the forefront, as well as the protagonist's efforts to push onward in the face of tragedy.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrown'': The second run of Season 3. It began June 16th, 2016 and ended on June 27th, 2016. The run uses ''Pokémon Brown'', a GameMod popular in the community at large. Featuring a new region, new types, and 224 Pokemon to catch. It featured a more mature protagonist and turned out to be somewhat of a {{creepypasta}}, as well as cementing a shift towards a more arc-based narrative for the series as a whole.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedPlatinum'': The third run of Season 3. It began on July 31st (America/Europe) or August 1st (Oceania/Asia), 2016 and ended on August 15th, 2016. Returning to Sinnoh for the first time since Season 1 and another first in which that TPP is playing the same game twice (albeit with a game mod enabling randomization). The theme was that of a conqueror attempting to take control of the Sinnoh region.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism'': The fourth run of Season 3. It began on October 8th, 2016 and ended on October 26th, 2016. This run was the premiere of ''Pokemon Prism'' in its completed form and [[https://imgur.com/Sl7o0IJ it was intended be available for download when the run was finished]], prior to the legal challenges that ensued. It was the story of a young girl attempting to survive after being thrust into a world-altering conflict.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSun'': The fifth run of Season 3. It began on November 18th, 2016 and ended around December 3rd, 2016. This run was played very quickly after the release of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'', which has more than 80 new Pokémon to catch as well as more dangerous PC. A young man is sent as a secret agent to the Alola region in order to deal with a variety of threats, such as a political uprising, rapid party shuffles, and the mysterious Ultra Beasts.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonWaningMoon'': The sixth and final run of Season 3. It began on January 13th, 2017 and ended on January 27th, 2017. This run is on a hack of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokemon Moon]]'' where more Pokemon are available and there's a higher difficulty.
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[[folder:Season 4]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyYellow'': The first run of Season 4, marking the three-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It began on February 12th, 2017 and ended on February 24th, 2017. It is a hack of Pokémon Yellow, with Pikachu replaced by Chatot with text-to-speech capabilities and all non-plot dialogue replaced by Markov-chained segments of chat messages.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlazedGlazed'': The second run of Season 4, beginning on April 8th, 2017 and ending on April 25th, 2017. The game hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonEmerald'' known as ''Pokémon Blazed Glazed'', which features Pokémon and moves up to Generation VI, along with two entirely new regions. The protagonist of this run is a sweet young girl named Honey, thrown in the middle of a world-colliding conflict.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonWhite2'': The third run of Season 4, beginning on June 6th, 2017. This run is the first return to Unova since Season 1. The run's randomization has brought a variety of villainous teams from outside Unova into the region to face AAAALK' as he tries to discover the origin of the W2 mutagen.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPyrite'': The fourth run of Season 4, beginning on August 12th, 2017, and ending on August 27th, 2017. It features a hack of ''Pokémon Crystal'', which has, among other things, a level cap that increases with each badge acquired and [[AntiGrinding prevents Pokémon that reach the level cap from gaining experience until it is increased]]. The protagonist is a girl known only by her VerbalTic on a quest to restore everyone's lost names.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonThetaEmeraldEX'': The fifth run of Season 4, beginning September 30th, 2017 and ending on October 15th, 2017, and featuring a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that incorporates 721 Pokémon, most of Gen VI mechanics (Fairy-type, Physical/Special split, Mega-Evolution), and the ability to grind up to level 250. It also holds the honor of being the first run chosen via a community poll. The story involves a spoiled-rich girl traveling through a region affected by mysterious "Theta Waves", all while having to face the schemes of evil hamsters from another world.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonUltraSun'': The sixth and final run of Season 4, played shortly after the release of ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSun''. It began on November 25th, 2017, and ended on December 9th, 2017. The host for this run is a young boy nicknamed "Roark", who spends most of the run dressed in bright yellow clothes.
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[[folder:Season 5]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualRedAndBlue'': The first run of Season 5, marking the four-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It started on February 13th, 2018 and ended on February 27th, 2018, and is the first dual run since Touhoumon & Moemon in season 2. Like its predecessors, it takes place in Kanto with the original 151 Pokémon. However, the games were modified to interact with each other so that the rival of Blue has Pokémon from the Red team, and vice-versa.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStormSilver'': The second run of Season 5, starting on April 14th, 2018, and ending on May 2nd, 2018. It features a hack of ''Pokémon [=SoulSilver=]'' by the same author as the ''Blaze Black 2'' hack from the first season. The theme of this run revolved heavily around cats and ''Franchise/StarWars'' parodies. For some reason.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBronze'': The third run of Season 5, starting on June 9th, 2018, and ending on June 18th, 2018. The game featured in this run is a hack of ''Pokémon Gold'', created by the same person behind ''Pokémon Dark Greystone'', which was played as a side-game during Season 4. Set in the all-new region of Kohto, it also features a few {{Ascended Meme}}s, such as [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Pumbloom]] and [[GlitchEntity MissingNo]]. The Host for this run is a girl named [=FEEFFr=], whose starter Pichu was affectionately nicknamed "Winnie the Chu".
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedY'': The fourth run of Season 5, starting on August 11th, 2018 and ending on August 26th, 2018, and the sixth randomized run overall. It marks the first return to Kalos since Season 1, and is also notable for being the first time the chat managed to select a female character in a main-series game featuring character customization. Said character is a girl named "♀226", who is heavily speculated to actually be a ghost, and must travel through the Kalos region as most major characters seem to have joined the ranks of Team Flare.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFloraSky'': The fifth run of Season 5, which began on October 13th, 2018 and ended on October 29th, 2018, and featuring ''VideoGame/PokemonFloraSky'', a popular romhack of ''Pokémon Emerald''. Highlights included a Host who kept changing color and climbing to unreachable places, a Kirlia who changed gender upon evolving, and failing the Trick House challenges over and over and over.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFusedCrystal'': The sixth and final run of the fifth season, which started on December 4th, 2018, and ended on December 19th, 2018. The game used for this run, ''[[https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/pokecrystal-randofused/releases Fused Crystal]]'', is based on the popular [[https://github.com/xCrystal/crystal-randofuser/#pokemon-crystal-randofuser Crystal Randofuser tool]], which turns every Pokémon encountered in-game into a random fusion of two existing Pokémon. On top of this, ''Fused Crystal'' features custom-made fusion sprites[[note]]The fusion sprites created by the basic Randofuser merely swap the palette of one Pokémon for another's[[/note]], randomized items, a winter-themed version of Johto, and, as per tradition, [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo a secret opponent on top of Mt. Silver]].
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[[folder:Season 6]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBurningRed'': The first run of Season 6, marking the fifth anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon. It began on February 12th, 2019, and ended on February 22nd, 2019. Like previous anniversary runs, it features a hack created specifically for the occasion, but also a whole new mechanic: during certain screen transitions, the emulator randomly switches between ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' and ''Pokémon Red'', with the two games sharing the same Pokémon, inventory, and global progress. This meant that certain tasks, most notably beating Gym Leaders, had to be accomplished in ''both games''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite'': The second run of Season 6, which began on April 13th and ended on April 25th. The game played during said run is a hack of ''Pokémon White'' by Creator/{{Drayano60}}, the same creator behind the previously-featured ''Blaze Black 2'' and ''Storm Silver''. Despite the chat initially picking a male protagonist, a soft-reset caused the Host to instead be a girl named "AAQ", whose Trainer Card description indicates that she suffers from depression.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedColosseum'': The third run of Season 6, running from June 8th, 2019 to June 15th, 2019, and the seventh randomized run overall. Marking the first return to Orre since Season 2, it featured Host AAC "Ace" and his partner D QZ" 3 "Dairy Queen" trying to once more foil the plans of Team Snagem and Cipher. Highlights included a sun-summoning cat, a day and a half spent trying to catch an early-game Shadow Ho-Oh, a botched attempt at defeating a [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo familiar-looking Trainer]], and the realization that the "Release" button [[AntiFrustrationFeatures had been replaced by a "Hug" button]].
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXG'': The fourth run of Season 6, which began on July 15th, 2019 and ended on July 21st, 2019. The game featured, ''Pokémon XG: [=NeXt=] Gen'', is a hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' that increases the amount of Shadow Pokémon and Shadow Moves available, and adds mechanics from later generations, including the Fairy-type, a Physical/Special split, and a whole set of new moves and abilities. The Host for this run, Stars, shares his name with the creator of the hack, and uses a team comprised of the three starters and two pseudo-legendary of Hoenn.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTriHardEmerald'': The fifth run of Season 6, which began on August 10th, 2019 and ended on August 20th, 2019. The game used for this run, ''Pokémon [=TriHard=] Emerald'', is a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' cretaed for the occasion that incorporates [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nuzlocke_Challenge#Rules Nuzlocke-like]] rules in its gameplay. As a result, fainted Pokémon are immediately transferred to the non-accessible PC, and saving can only be done by healing the team, with whiting out leading the game to revert to the last save point.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedUltraMoon'': The sixth run of Season 6, which ran from October 12th, 2019, to October 23rd, 2019, and the eighth randomized run overall. On top of the usual randomization of wild encounters, movesets, opponents, and evolutions, ''RUM'' also randomizes the quasi-totality of in-game dialogue; as a result, the story is rendered [[MindScrew completely nonsensical]], featuring inconsistent names, out-of-order plot points, dialogue where there shouldn't be any, and players that desperately try to make sense of it all.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSword'': The seventh and final run of Season 6, which began on November 23rd, 2019 and ended on December 1st, 2019, and featured the recently-released ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokémon Sword]]''. As the very first run to take place on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, it came with its own hurdles for the chat to deal with, such as new easily-spammed inputs for joystick rotation and clicking, a keyboard positioned on "1" by default, and [[GameBreakingBug softlock-inducing wifi issues]].
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[[folder:Season 7]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTheGauntlet'': The first through sixth runs of Season 7, marking the sixth anniversary of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon''. It features [[NostalgiaLevel six of the games played during Season 1]] [[MarathonLevel in rapid succession]], with Pokédex completion carrying from one to the next. While the games are striclty identical to their Season 1 counterparts, some quirks have been added through external scripts, such as [[TheBusCameBack released Pokémon appearing in the wild]] and [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the traditional bonus battles against past Hosts]].
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** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Red'': The first run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from February 12, 2020 to February 19th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Red''. It [[HistoryRepeats once more]] features a boy named RED who has a rival named BLUE, picks Charmander as his starter and later evolves it into Charmeleon before ultimately releasing it[[note]]however, it later showed up again in the wild[[/note]], catches an early-game bird that becomes the powerhouse of the team[[note]]however, it was later released, then re-caught but never used again[[/note]], chooses the Helix Fossil in Mt. Moon[[note]]however, it was later deposited and left unrevived until post-game[[/note]], and goes on a [=MissingNo.=] hunt during post-game.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Crystal'': The second run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from February 23rd, 2020 to March 3rd, 2020, using the same [[GameMod 251 hack]] of ''Pokémon Crystal'' as Season 1. The Host is a boy named Dᴾk, referred to as "Dipper", "Dippy K." or "Dr. Pokémon" by the Voices. The run notably featured a large amount of {{Legacy Boss Battle}}s, with no less than five different Hosts encountered in the Trainer House, and ''both'' incarnations of RED on top of Mt. Silver.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Emerald'': The third run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from March 7th, 2020 to March 18th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Emerald''. The Host picked for this run was a girl [[HistoryRepeats (again)]] who chose Torchic as her starter [[HistoryRepeats (again)]]. Her name, n, prompted many jokes and theories regarding her being potentially related to [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite another character named N]].
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Platinum'': The fourth run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from March 28th, 2020 to April 5th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Platinum''. The Host, a girl called .iecbw, chose the name "BFG" for her Turtwig, and was sometimes nicknamed "Izzy" herself, providing an amusing parallel to the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' X ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' meme. A Lumineon later became the breakout character of the run after sweeping the entire Elite 4 by itself.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Black 2'': The fifth run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from April 12th, 2020 to April 27th, 2020, using the same ''[[GameMod Blaze Black 2]]'' hack of ''Pokémon Black 2'' as Season 1. Like the original ''Black 2'' run, it ended with [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo a large reunion of past Hosts]] at Pokémon World Tournament, where ♀♀R had to battle against the four previous Hosts of ''The Gauntlet'', then against the seven Hosts featured in the PWT of the original ''Black 2'' run.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet X'': The sixth and final run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from May 3rd, 2020 to May 10th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon X''. The Host chosen was a dark-skinned girl named Etr, who managed to reach the Hall of Fame in a mere 3 days and 19 hours, the fastest out of any main runs so far. Thanks to the help of online trades, she managed to [[HundredPercentCompletion complete the Pokédex]] that was passed down to her by the previous Hosts of ''The Gauntlet''.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSirius'': The seventh run of the seventh season, that ran from June 13th, 2020 to June 23rd, 2020. It featured ''Pokémon Sirius'', a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' set after a meteor fall that altered the landscape of the Hoenn region and caused [[OriginalCharacter brand new Pokémon species to appear]]. The run also had the Voices in a constant mock panic about [[{{Unwinnable}} softlocking]] the game by getting Mr. Briney's boat stuck in [[TyopOnTheCover "Dewfon"]]. [[invoked]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRisingRuby'': The eighth run of the seventh season, which began on August 8th, 2020 and ended on August 21st, 2020. The game featured, ''Pokémon Rising Ruby'', was once more a hack created by [=Drayano60=], this time of ''Pokémon Omega Ruby''; on top of a heightened difficulty curve, it also alters the typing, stats and moveset of many Pokémon so that most of the 721 available become usable. This became the first run in which not only were all five Master Rank Contests succesfully won, but the subsequent {{Superboss}}es Lisia and Wallace were defeated as well.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVega'': The ninth and final run of the seventh season, which started on December 12th, 2020 and ended on December 25th, 2020. It featured ''Pokémon Vega'', a hack of ''[=FireRed=]'' which acts as a sequel to ''Pokémon Sirius'' and features many of the same [[OriginalCharacter original species]], and was notable for [[SeriesContinuityError completely contradicting]] the events of the ''Sirius'' run, as the Voices picked a female character, but the game itself acted as if it was the same character from ''Sirius'', in which the character picked was male.
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[[folder:Season 8]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyCrystal'': The first run of the eighth season, marking both the seventh anniversary of the stream and its 50th main run. It began on February 14th, 2021, and ended on March 8th, 2021. It featured a hack of ''Pokémon Crystal'' which once more had all of its dialogue replaced with Markhov-chained sentences built from chat messages, and provided the players with an Unown and a Chatot who both used attacks that were influenced directly by the chat. As the fiftiest run, it also featured no less than [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo 36 different characters returning from previous runs]].
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRenegadePlatinum'': The second run of the eighth season, which began on April 10th, 2021 and ended on April 21st, 2021. It featured yet another hack created by [=Drayano60=], this time based on ''Pokémon Platinum'' and, as usual for Drayano hacks, featuring higher difficulty, more Pokémon species available, and updated typings and movesets.
* ''[[WebVideo/TheWarOfTheTwitchPlays Twitch Plays Pokémon Red-Green-Blue Race]]'': A {{crossover}} between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', and ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', which began on May 8th, 2021 and pitted the three streams against each other as they attempted to complete their respective version of ''Pokémon Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. The race concluded on May 10th, 2021, with ''TPP'' beating the Champion first, ''TPPM'' coming in second, and ''TPS'' in third.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedBlack'': The fourth run of Season 8 and ninth randomized run overall, running from July 3rd, 2021 to July 12th, 2021. Some specific randomization settings were decided through a community poll, leading to the randomization of move types, power, and PP, while other quirks were thrown in as a surprise, such as every battle bar a few being a Double Battle.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedBlack2'': The fifth run of Season 8 and tenth randomized run overall, which ran from July 12th, 2021 to July 29th, 2021, and served as a direct sequel to ''Randomized Black'', beginning a mere 12 hours after the latter ended and retaining the same randomized move properties. It was notable for its exceedingly high release rate, with the party getting completely reset once to twice per day.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlazingEmerald'': The sixth run of Season 8, which began on August 21st, 2021 and concluded on September 9th, 2021. It featured an extensive hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' which, on top of several mechanics brought from later games, included several [[OriginalCharacter brand-new original Pokémon]], most of which Hoennian forms and alternate evolutions of existing species, along with a few standalone and [[GuideDangIt well-hidden]] new ones.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSpaceWorldGoldReforged'': The seventh run of Season 8, which ran from October 9th, 2021 to October 15th, 2021. The game used was ''Pokémon Gold 97: Reforged'', an extensive hack of the Generation II games meant to recreate the content of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_Gold_and_Silver_Spaceworld_%2797_demo [=SpaceWorld=] '97 demo]] of ''Pokémon Gold and Silver'' as a complete game. For the occasion, many of the beta designs received brand new names chosen by the TPP community in order to distinguish them from their official counterparts.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrilliantDiamond'': The eighth run of Season 8, featuring the recently-released ''VideoGame/PokemonBrilliantDiamond''. It began the day after the game was released, on November 20th, 2021, and ran until December 1st, 2021. For the first time, the Voices had to deal with the threat of a PC that can be accessed from anywhere with the push of a few buttons, but also got to join the Host through the Internet for some sick Underground parties.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonLegendsArceus'': The ninth and final run of Season 8, featuring the brand new ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''. It began on January 29th, 2022, the day after the game was released, and ended on February 10th, 2022. Due to the more action-oriented nature of the game, players were faced with the brand-new challenges of 3D movement, fall damage, real-time battles, and Pokémon that could actually hurt their unfortunate Trainer.
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[[folder:Season 9]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedChattyCrystal'': The first run of the ninth season, marking the eighth anniversary of the stream, which began on February 14th, 2022 and concluded on February 28th, 2022. It marked the return of ''Pokémon Chatty Crystal'', from the previous anniversary, but this time with all of the Pokémon locations, evolutions and movesets randomized, which included all of the [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo returning characters]] having their respective teams shuffled around, along with a few extra surprises such as replacing the starter Unown with a Shiny Ditto.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCharityDualRedAndBlue'': A run set as part of the "[[https://catchamillion.com/ Catch a Million]]" charity event run by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which ran from April 24th, 2022 to April 30th, 2022, and reused the same game and setup as ''Dual Red & Blue''. During this timeframe, ''TPP'' managed to catch 310 Pokémon and raise a total of $559.90 for the charity.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonGrandColosseum'': The third run of the ninth season, which took place from June 11th, 2022 to June 19th, 2022, and featured a hack of ''Pokémon Colosseum'' inspired by both existing ''Pokémon XD'' hacks and the work of [=Drayano60=]. As such, said hack fatured numerous changes such as revamped typings and movesets, as well as the inclusion of later-generations machanics like the Physical/Special split, the Fairy-type, and reusable [=TMs=].
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXGRemix'': The fourth run of the ninth season, beginning on July 9th, 2022 and concluding on July 17th, 2022, which featured a hack of ''Pokémon XG: [=NeXt=] Gen'', itself a hack of ''Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness''. Said hack reprised most additions and improvements of ''XG'', but mixed things up with a [[https://imgur.com/6PYb0wk brand new type chart]], along with multiple [[OriginalCharacter original species]] consisting of renames and/or [[PaletteSwap recolors]] of existing Pokémon.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedTriHardEmerald'': The fifth run of the ninth season, which ran from August 20th, 2022, to August 26th, 2022. It featured a [[UpdatedRerelease slightly updated version]] of the pseudo-Nuzlocke romhack ''Pokémon [=TriHard=] Emerald'' that debuted back in Season 6, this time being given the randomizer treatment of every Pokémon location, moveset, and abilities being shuffled around.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStar'': The sixth run of the ninth season, which ran from October 15th, 2022 to October 22nd, 2022. It featured a hack of ''Pokémon Ultra Moon'' titled ''Pokémon Star'', which makes use of model swapping and edited dialogue to tell a new story taking place several years after the events of ''Pokémon Moon''. Most notably, however, it was also [[ReferenceOverdosed ripe with memes]], from throwing countless cartoon references around, to using human [=NPCs=] as mounts, to featuring dozens of creepily-obsessed Lillie fans cosplaying as her.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonScarlet'': The seventh run of the ninth season, which featured the recently-released ''VideoGame/PokemonScarlet''. The Voices were once more faced with the many challenges of a Pokémon open world, including but not limited to repeated drowning, loss of orientation, hard to climb stairs, and tricky exam questions.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite2Redux'': The eighth run of the ninth season, featuring the romhack ''Pokémon Volt White 2 Redux'' from [=AphexCubed=], a "remake" of [=Drayano60=]'s own ''Pokémon Volt White 2'' romhack. It featured the usual numerous re-balancing, higher difficulty and later-generation mechanics, as well as multiple extra events and side-stories. Taking advantage of releases being disabled, the Voices took a different approach to their team by using more than six Pokémon, that rotated in and out as needed.
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[[folder:Off-Season: Side-Games]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal'': A special intermission played in-between runs alongside ''Arena'', starting after ''Pokémon Red Anniversary''. It is played one democracy vote at a time in between ''PBR'' matches, and stars a girl named BABA, named after a Magikarp from ''Red Anniversary''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTradingCardGame'': Replacing Vietnamese Crystal as the intermission game for ''Arena'', it used the same "one input at a time" democracy system, before it was changed to a more traditional anarchy mode intermission. Chronicling both TCG games, this playthrough stars [[Manga/YuGiOh Yugi]] and Mint as they attempt to become the King/Queen of the Pokémon TCG.
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* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra'': Replacing TCG 2 as the intermission game for Arena, this all-democracy playthrough features a horribly mapped, terribly balanced, awfully written, extremely crude hack of ''Pokémon [=LeafGreen=]'', and follows the potentially concussed Pee as he adventures through a nonsensical world.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Dark Graystone'': The first side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a joke hack of ''Pokémon Gold''. The main character is named "TPPSIM", after the official Twitch Plays Pokémon chat bot.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Ash Gray'': The second side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' hack based on the events of the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]]. The chat desperately tried and failed to follow the script of the official anime; the side-game was discontinued due to lack of interest and the fact that [[EpicFail Pikachu had evolved]], locking out most of the game's events.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBootlegGreen'': The third side-game featured during Season 4 intermissions, which was continued during Season 5. Due to being a bootleg version of ''Pokémon Green'' and being played in all-democracy, the chat was able to pull off many glitches; most notably, it was first beaten in ''six days''[[note]]For comparison, ''Vietnamese Crystal'' and ''Ultra'' respectively took 24 and 10 ''weeks''[[/note]], with ''zero Pokémon''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSweet'': Following ''Bootleg Green'' after it was beaten a second time, this side-game takes place in Sweet Land, a region in which [=PokéSweets=], such as Squirpie, Meowffin, or Mintanyte, are found instead of Pokémon.
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* ''Twitch Plays Hypno's Lullaby'': A two-weeks long side-game featured during the [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween 2018 intermission]], based on the [[WebVideo/HypnosLullaby eponymous creepypasta]]. It featured a girl named "Doot", her Vulpix named "[[MyHeroZero 0]]", and children getting murdered.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gold [=SpaceWorld=] Demo'': The first side-game of Season 6, featuring the beta version of ''VideoGame/PokemonGold'' shown off at [=SpaceWorld=] 1997, which was previously played as a Season 5 intermission. Due to being intended as a demo, the game is reset each time the player either blacks-out or clears the final rival battle.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonMetronomeSapphire'': Originating as an AprilFools intermission, ''Pokémon Metronome Sapphire'' is a joke hack of ''Pokémon Sapphire'' in which every Pokémon is randomized, set at level 100, and has [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome as its only move]]. After the Elite 4 was beaten, the game returned as the second side-game of Season 6.
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* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=NavyBlue=]'': The third side-game of Season 6, replacing ''Metronome Sapphire'' after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSword''. The game featured, ''Pokémon [=NavyBlue=]'', is a hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRed'' taking place in the Larmog region, which is home to a whole slew of [[UsefulNotes/MSPaint crudely-drawn]] [[OriginalCharacter never-before-seen Pokémon]], along with the Voices' newest Host: a girl named Ai, daughter of Professor Barry Bloo.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonLightningSapphire'': A side-game that debuted in Season 7 and featured an earlier, buggier, gibberish-er version of the infamous ''Pokémon Chinese Emerald'', a mistranslated bootleg in the same vein as ''Vietnamese Crystal'' and ''Bootleg Green''. It was dubbed ''Pokémon Lightning Sapphire'', after the user [=LightningXCE=] who discovered the original cartridge and spent several years trying to properly dump it.
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* ''Twitch Plays Dragon Ball Z: Team Training'': A ''[=FireRed=]'' romhack in which Pokémon are swapped out for ''Franchise/DragonBall'' characters; it debuted during the AprilFoolsDay intermission of Season 8, and was brought back as a side-game by popular demand, chronicling the adventures of Fighter Trainer Pan and her father Gohan.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualSanquiRedAndBlue'': A Season 9 intermission featuring two games of ''Pokémon Red'' at once, randomized using the [[https://sanqui.net/randomizer/#pokered Sanqui Randomizer]] which replaces the original 151 Pokémon with a selection of 251 Pokémon from Generations I through VI. It is notably the first sidegame to be played in Anarchy mode rather than through input voting.
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[[folder:Off-Season: Revisits]]
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=FireRed=] Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' that took place from April 11th, 2016 to April 13th, 2016, which allowed the chat to explore the Sevii Islands and ended after Lugia was caught with a regular Poké Ball inside Cerulean Cave.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that took place from April 13th, 2016 to April 15th, 2016, in which the chat failed to rematch any Gym Leader and to catch any Legendaries, but did defeat [[{{Superboss}} Steven Stone]] and pick up the Root Fossil.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Crystal'' that took place from April 15th, 2016 to April 16th, 2016, during which Raticate came back to the team, Democracy was used to make Unown appear, and Lance and Red were both defeated again.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Red'' that took place from April 16th, 2016 to April 17th, 2016, in which [[GlitchEntity MissingNo.]] was caught, slowly breaking the game to the point of no return.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal'' that took place from June 15th, 2016 to June 16th, 2016, and was played using the traditional Anarchy/Democracy system rather than the full Democracy system of the original sidegame.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Black Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Black'' that took place from June 1st, 2017, to June 3rd, 2017, during which the chat finally managed to evolve the entire team and defeat the Champion; this version of the team was featured alongside the original during [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the PWT]] of the following ''White 2'' run.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game Dual Intermission'': A revisit of the ''Trading Card Game'' intermissions that took place from February 10th, 2018 to February 11th, 2018, as a pre-''Dual Red & Blue'' intermission, showcasing the dual input system. It featured both the original ''[=TCG2=]'' save file and a recreation of the ''TCG'' character in ''[=TCG2=]'', allowing Yugi and Mint to play against each other.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Conquest Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Conquest'' that took place on April 14th,, which was once again played entirely in Democracy an focused on the extensive postgame stories.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Burning Red Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Burning Red'' that took place from March 11th, 2019 to March 13th, 2019, shortly after the end of the run itself, and dropped the game-switching mechanic to focus on ''[=FireRed=]'''s postgame and featured a secret battle against [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism Cyan]].
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Metronome Sapphire Revisit'': A revisit of ''Metronome Sapphire'' that took place from December 14th, 2019 to December 19th, 2019 as a special Christmas intermission, during which the elusive [[LastLousyPoint Meltan]] was finally caught.
* ''Twitch Plays Touhoumon Revisit'': A revisit of ''Touhoumon'' that took place from March 18th, 2020, to March 23rd, 2020, as an intermission between ''Gauntlet Emerald'' and ''Gauntlet Paltinum'', which was played standalone without ''Moemon'' and focused on the Johto postgame.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Isle of Armor'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' that took place from June 27th, 2020 to July 1st, 2020, featuring the Isle of Armor area from the ''Sword & Shield Expansion Pass'' DLC, and during which the chat chose to complete the Tower of Darkness.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' that took place from October 24th, 2020 to October 29th, 2020, featuring the Crown Tundra area from the ''Sword & Shield Expansion Pass'' DLC, and during which the chat chose to catch Regidrago.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: Test Your Luck!'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' comprised of three separate sessions spread between January 7th, 2022 and January 10th, 2022, during which the chat took part in the [[https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/onlinecompetitions/testyourluck.shtml Test Your Luck!]] event, in which the only Pokémon allowed only knew the move [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome]].
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=SpaceWorld=] Gold Reforged Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon [=SpaceWorld=] Gold Reforged'' that took place from February 10th, 2022 to February 12th, 2022, and focused on catching the beta Pokémon that weren't obtained during the initial run.
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[[folder:Off-Season: Other Games]]
[[index]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena'': A months-long intermission of ''Pokémon Stadium 2'' played between ''Pokémon X'' and ''Pokémon Omega Ruby'' and later with ''Pokémon Battle Revolution'' in-between major runs after ''Omega Ruby''. It features a competition aspect where the chat controls the team that they bet on, with larger bets having more control over the selection of a Pokémon's attacks.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonConquest'': A special intermission run between ''Black'' and ''Black 2''. It was played entirely in democracy mode, and its protagonist was a girl named [=ABnp3a=] (aka. Lady A.B. the Third). It returned later as part of the intermission preceding ''Storm Silver'', this time focusing on the post-game content.
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* ''Twitch Plays Telefang'': A special intermission played between ''Crystal Anniversary'' and ''Brown'' featuring the bootleg game ''[[VideoGame/{{Telefang}} Pokémon Diamond]]'', which followed the adventures of Johnny Rogue and Kuribute as they attempted to save Shengdu from Domesday. It was briefly revisited before the start of ''Prism'', and another intermission preceeding ''Dual Red & Blue'' featured both the ''Pokémon Jade'' bootleg and a fan translation of ''Telefang Power''.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team'': Debuting during Crystal Anniversary, it was played simultaneously with the current main game or intermission rather than in between matches, although it was changed to the side-game format to replace Ultra. It follows former human Squirtlee and its partner Pika Cena trying to save a world of only Pokémon.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House'': A yearly [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]] intermission that debuted in October 2019, featuring a specially-made hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that focuses on solving [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent user-submitted]] [[PuzzleGame Trick House puzzles]]. [[invoked]]
* ''Twitch Plays Intermission Games'': Acting as a GaidenGame in between main runs or a few days before a main run starts, the mob plays anything that the streamer puts. So far, they have played ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'', ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Petz}}'', the ''Omega Ruby'' demo, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', and ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'' among others.
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* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonScarlet'': The seventh and final run of the ninth season, which began on November 19th, 2022, and featured the recently-released ''[[VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet Pokemon Scarlet]]''.

* ''Twitch Plays Intermission Games'': Acting as a GaidenGame in between main runs or a few days before a main run starts, the mob plays anything that the streamer puts. So far, they have played ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'', ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Petz}}'', the ''Omega Ruby'' demo, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'' among others.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonScarlet'': The seventh and final run of the ninth season, which began on November 19th, 2022, and featured the recently-released ''VideoGame/PokemonScarlet''.

* [[invoked]]NamesTheSame: It is not uncommon for a character (typically a Pokémon) to be given the same name as another character. The name "[[OneLetterName A]]" comes to mind, having been given to two player characters and at least three Pokémon. In addition in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'', their starter was named "," (a single comma), the same as the starter from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold HeartGold]]''.

There are currently 62 completed main runs[[note]]The stream considers both ''Touhoumon'' and ''Moemon'' as the 12th run, as well as both ''Red'' and ''Blue'' from the fourth anniversary as the 28th run. Each of the six runs of ''The Gauntlet'' is however counted separately, as the 41st to 46th run.[[/note]], as well as numerous intermissions, the most prominent being betting matches set up using ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium2'' then later ''VideoGame/PokemonBattleRevolution'', and sidegames which are played alongside said betting matches at the pace of one input between each match.

** The KidHero trope. A potentially [[AmbiguousDisorder mentally disturbed]] child (whose parents [[ParentalNeglect don't seem to care at all]] about the whole "mentally disturbed" thing, even ''encouraging'' their kid to go) is allowed to do field research on dangerous animals while travelling an entire region despite having no strategy to defend themselves against said animals and has [[NoSenseOfDirection no sense of direction]]. Because of this, they get into plenty of trouble thanks to the lack of organization and coordination that older, wiser trainers might have.

-->-- Émile Borel (paraphrased from French)

''[[http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon Twitch Plays Pokémon]]'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on the requisite Nintendo console are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' via an IRC bot. In short, a horde of people fighting over a controller (at its peak, over 100,000). Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few joke religions.

''TPP'' won the award for "Best Fan Creation" in the first-ever The Game Awards in 2014, and a Guinness World Record for the most participants on a single-player online video game. It has also spawned many, ''many'' snowclones, leading to the creation of a [[TropeMakers "Twitch Plays" category]] on Twitch, one of the most notable being ''Fish Plays Pokemon'', in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a fish plays]] ''Pokémon Red''.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed'': The first run, done with a (minimally hacked) ROM of the Generation I game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red]]''. It began on February 13, 2014, and was completed on March 1, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named Red (the default player name). Because of the difficulty in coordinating even mundane tasks, successes and failures were attributed to being acts of gods with the iconic Pokemon as their angels. This was conflated with a voting system that came to represent political balance between democracy and anarchy. Achieving victory elevated to protagonist to being legendary.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal'': The second run in the season, being a sequel using the Generation II game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]'' (hacked to make all of Generation 2's 251 Pokémon available in single-player). It began on March 2, 2014, and was completed on March 15, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named AJDNNW (shortened to AJ). This run started in the shadow of the previous protagonist. Eventually the need to be unique evolved into the primary theme: a military waging war against the gods of the previous generation.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald'': The third run in the season, using the Generation III game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''. It began on March 22, 2014, [[note]][[MilestoneCelebration Ten years to the day]] after [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum another Generation III game]] was released in North America. Just a coincidence, though.[[/note]] and was completed on April 11, 2014. The protagonist was a girl named A, and the primary theme started off as complete anarchy. After a few releases the theme evolved elite police force trying to stop Bill, the inventor of the PC system.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed'': The fourth run in the season. It is a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', but on a hacked variant which introduces a randomizer, meaning that ANY Pokémon with ANY moves and/or Abilities can be encountered. It began on April 11, 2014 and was completed on April 26, 2014. The protagonist was a girl also named A (commonly referred to as Alice), and had a bit of an Alice In Wonderland theme in the midst of a communist revolution as the use of democracy was optimized.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'': The seventh run in the season, using the Generation V game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokémon Black.]]'' It began on June 14, 2014 and was completed on June 26, 2014. The protagonist was a boy named GMYC (also called Jimmy C). After repeated failures and setbacks, it was decided that if Jimmy could beat the game without evolving any Pokemon the next protagonist would have forced evolutions, creating a theme of sacrifice for the greater good in the final days of this run.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack2'': The eighth run in the season, using the sequel Generation V game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon Black 2]]'', and was believed to be the final run of the main series, until X version was confirmed by the Streamer. It was confirmed by the Streamer to have [[http://i.imgur.com/qORIdUO.png forced evolutions]]. It began on July 6, 2014 and was completed on July 25, 2014. The romhack used for this run is ''Pokémon Blaze Black 2'', made by Drayano. The protagonist was a girl named CL Y., (also known as Cly). Due to Jimmy's sacrifice she became the most powerful of all trainers, and defeated all the previous protagonists in what would've been the series finale.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonX'': The ninth run in the season, [[http://i.imgur.com/KWyuYvV.png held with help from dekuNukem]], using the Generation VI game ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Pokémon X]]''. It was the first game to be played on an actual console rather than an emulator. It began on July 27, 2014 and was completed on August 1, 2014, with three days of postgame content afterward. The protagonist was a boy named d who was unwanted by the Mob and shy around women but extremely popular around the world due to be first to connect to other players in real time via the internet. He chose Chespin as his starter, making the first legit Grass starter chosen.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRedAnniversary'': The first run of the new season, which began on February 12, 2015 and ended March 24, 2015, making it the longest playthrough at the time. Returning to the world of ''Pokémon Red'', the goal of this run is to complete the Pokédex, made possible by a hack which includes all 151 Pokémon. Originally planned to be in Anarchy Mode only, it was instead decided to place Democracy Mode on a timer which activates if the player spends enough time in a single area. The story was EvilVersusOblivion, as the protagonist used both an undead monstrosity and Lord Dome but was up against an unknown EldritchAbomination.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysTouhoumonAndMoemon'': The second run following ''Pokémon Red Anniversary'', in which the stream will play both ''Franchise/{{Touhou|Project}}[[VideoGame/TouhouNingyougeki mon]]'' & ''[[VideoGame/{{Moemon}} Moemon]]'', a first for [[GameMod ROM hack]] runs, at the same time. The run began May 10th, 2015 and both runs were completed May 24th, 2015. It was the least lore-focused run, with the Moemon in particular receiving only rudimentary characterization. However, the Touhoumon still received good characterization, and the run dropped some more hints at a greater StoryArc stemming from the previous run.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonAlphaSapphire'': The third run of the second season. Returning to Hoenn for a third time, the run uses a randomizer similar to the likes of ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=HeartGold=]'' before it, expanding the choices of Pokemon up to the sixth generation, with the added challenge of evolutions also being randomized as well (e.g. Lotad evolving into a Squirtle, who then evolved into a Kingler). The protagonist is a girl named !0999 qq, often referred to as "Agent 999" or Nina. The run took on an espionage theme, as Agent 999 and her Pokémon went on a quest to take down Team Aqua, which was also being infiltrated by Team Magma. There was also a subplot about fairies. The run started on July 12th, 2015 and ended on July 26th, 2015, after completing the main game, Delta Episode, defeating the rematch Elite Four, and evolving their starter with a Dusk Stone.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXD'': The surprise fifth and final run of Season 2, announced after the end of Pokemon Colosseum. The run returns to Orre for the sequel to Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. The run began on December 12th, 2015 and ended on December 20th, 2015. It continued where ''Colosseum'' left off, with watching the news being the main divergence from the canon plotline.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrown'': The second run of Season 3. It began June 16th, 2016 and ended on June 27th, 2016. The run uses ''Pokémon Brown'', a GameMod popular in the community at large. Featuring a new region, new types, and 224 Pokemon to catch. It featured a more mature protagonist and turned out to be somewhat of a {{creepypasta}}, as well as cementing a shift towards a more arc-based narrative for the series as a whole.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSun'': The fifth run of Season 3. It began on November 18th, 2016 and ended around December 3rd, 2016. This run was played very quickly after the release of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'', which has more than 80 new Pokémon to catch as well as more dangerous PC. A young man is sent as a secret agent to the Alola region in order to deal with a variety of threats, such as a political uprising, rapid party shuffles, and the mysterious Ultra Beasts.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyYellow'': The first run of Season 4, marking the three-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It began on February 12th, 2017 and ended on February 24th, 2017. It is a hack of Pokémon Yellow, with Pikachu replaced by Chatot with text-to-speech capabilities and all non-plot dialogue replaced by Markov-chained segments of chat messages.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlazedGlazed'': The second run of Season 4, beginning on April 8th, 2017 and ending on April 25th, 2017. The game hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonEmerald'' known as ''Pokémon Blazed Glazed'', which features Pokémon and moves up to Generation VI, along with two entirely new regions. The protagonist of this run is a sweet young girl named Honey, thrown in the middle of a world-colliding conflict.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPyrite'': The fourth run of Season 4, beginning on August 12th, 2017, and ending on August 27th, 2017. It features a hack of ''Pokémon Crystal'', which has, among other things, a level cap that increases with each badge acquired and [[AntiGrinding prevents Pokémon that reach the level cap from gaining experience until it is increased]]. The protagonist is a girl known only by her VerbalTic on a quest to restore everyone's lost names.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonThetaEmeraldEX'': The fifth run of Season 4, beginning September 30th, 2017 and ending on October 15th, 2017, and featuring a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that incorporates 721 Pokémon, most of Gen VI mechanics (Fairy-type, Physical/Special split, Mega-Evolution), and the ability to grind up to level 250. It also holds the honor of being the first run chosen via a community poll. The story involves a spoiled-rich girl traveling through a region affected by mysterious "Theta Waves", all while having to face the schemes of evil hamsters from another world.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualRedAndBlue'': The first run of Season 5, marking the four-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It started on February 13th, 2018 and ended on February 27th, 2018, and is the first dual run since Touhoumon & Moemon in season 2. Like its predecessors, it takes place in Kanto with the original 151 Pokémon. However, the games were modified to interact with each other so that the rival of Blue has Pokémon from the Red team, and vice-versa.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStormSilver'': The second run of Season 5, starting on April 14th, 2018, and ending on May 2nd, 2018. It features a hack of ''Pokémon [=SoulSilver=]'' by the same author as the ''Blaze Black 2'' hack from the first season. The theme of this run revolved heavily around cats and ''Franchise/StarWars'' parodies. For some reason.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBronze'': The third run of Season 5, starting on June 9th, 2018, and ending on June 18th, 2018. The game featured in this run is a hack of ''Pokémon Gold'', created by the same person behind ''Pokémon Dark Greystone'', which was played as a side-game during Season 4. Set in the all-new region of Kohto, it also features a few {{Ascended Meme}}s, such as [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Pumbloom]] and [[GlitchEntity MissingNo]]. The Host for this run is a girl named [=FEEFFr=], whose starter Pichu was affectionately nicknamed "Winnie the Chu".

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFloraSky'': The fifth run of Season 5, which began on October 13th, 2018 and ended on October 29th, 2018, and featuring ''VideoGame/PokemonFloraSky'', a popular romhack of ''Pokémon Emerald''. Highlights included a Host who kept changing color and climbing to unreachable places, a Kirlia who changed gender upon evolving, and failing the Trick House challenges over and over and over.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFusedCrystal'': The sixth and final run of the fifth season, which started on December 4th, 2018, and ended on December 19th, 2018. The game used for this run, ''[[https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/pokecrystal-randofused/releases Fused Crystal]]'', is based on the popular [[https://github.com/xCrystal/crystal-randofuser/#pokemon-crystal-randofuser Crystal Randofuser tool]], which turns every Pokémon encountered in-game into a random fusion of two existing Pokémon. On top of this, ''Fused Crystal'' features custom-made fusion sprites[[note]]The fusion sprites created by the basic Randofuser merely swap the palette of one Pokémon for another's[[/note]], randomized items, a winter-themed version of Johto, and, as per tradition, [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo a secret opponent on top of Mt. Silver]].

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBurningRed'': The first run of Season 6, marking the fifth anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon. It began on February 12th, 2019, and ended on February 22nd, 2019. Like previous anniversary runs, it features a hack created specifically for the occasion, but also a whole new mechanic: during certain screen transitions, the emulator randomly switches between ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' and ''Pokémon Red'', with the two games sharing the same Pokémon, inventory, and global progress. This meant that certain tasks, most notably beating Gym Leaders, had to be accomplished in ''both games''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite'': The second run of Season 6, which began on April 13th and ended on April 25th. The game played during said run is a hack of ''Pokémon White'' by Creator/{{Drayano60}}, the same creator behind the previously-featured ''Blaze Black 2'' and ''Storm Silver''. Despite the chat initially picking a male protagonist, a soft-reset caused the Host to instead be a girl named "AAQ", whose Trainer Card description indicates that she suffers from depression.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXG'': The fourth run of Season 6, which began on July 15th, 2019 and ended on July 21st, 2019. The game featured, ''Pokémon XG: [=NeXt=] Gen'', is a hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' that increases the amount of Shadow Pokémon and Shadow Moves available, and adds mechanics from later generations, including the Fairy-type, a Physical/Special split, and a whole set of new moves and abilities. The Host for this run, Stars, shares his name with the creator of the hack, and uses a team comprised of the three starters and two pseudo-legendary of Hoenn.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTriHardEmerald'': The fifth run of Season 6, which began on August 10th, 2019 and ended on August 20th, 2019. The game used for this run, ''Pokémon [=TriHard=] Emerald'', is a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' cretaed for the occasion that incorporates [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nuzlocke_Challenge#Rules Nuzlocke-like]] rules in its gameplay. As a result, fainted Pokémon are immediately transferred to the non-accessible PC, and saving can only be done by healing the team, with whiting out leading the game to revert to the last save point.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSword'': The seventh and final run of Season 6, which began on November 23rd, 2019 and ended on December 1st, 2019, and featured the recently-released ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokémon Sword]]''. As the very first run to take place on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, it came with its own hurdles for the chat to deal with, such as new easily-spammed inputs for joystick rotation and clicking, a keyboard positioned on "1" by default, and [[GameBreakingBug softlock-inducing wifi issues]].

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTheGauntlet'': The first through sixth runs of Season 7, marking the sixth anniversary of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon''. It features [[NostalgiaLevel six of the games played during Season 1]] [[MarathonLevel in rapid succession]], with Pokédex completion carrying from one to the next. While the games are striclty identical to their Season 1 counterparts, some quirks have been added through external scripts, such as [[TheBusCameBack released Pokémon appearing in the wild]] and [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the traditional bonus battles against past Hosts]].

** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Red'': The first run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from February 12, 2020 to February 19th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Red''. It [[HistoryRepeats once more]] features a boy named RED who has a rival named BLUE, picks Charmander as his starter and later evolves it into Charmeleon before ultimately releasing it[[note]]however, it later showed up again in the wild[[/note]], catches an early-game bird that becomes the powerhouse of the team[[note]]however, it was later released, then re-caught but never used again[[/note]], chooses the Helix Fossil in Mt. Moon[[note]]however, it was later deposited and left unrevived until post-game[[/note]], and goes on a [=MissingNo.=] hunt during post-game.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Crystal'': The second run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from February 23rd, 2020 to March 3rd, 2020, using the same [[GameMod 251 hack]] of ''Pokémon Crystal'' as Season 1. The Host is a boy named Dᴾk, referred to as "Dipper", "Dippy K." or "Dr. Pokémon" by the Voices. The run notably featured a large amount of {{Legacy Boss Battle}}s, with no less than five different Hosts encountered in the Trainer House, and ''both'' incarnations of RED on top of Mt. Silver.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Emerald'': The third run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from March 7th, 2020 to March 18th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Emerald''. The Host picked for this run was a girl [[HistoryRepeats (again)]] who chose Torchic as her starter [[HistoryRepeats (again)]]. Her name, n, prompted many jokes and theories regarding her being potentially related to [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite another character named N]].
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Platinum'': The fourth run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from March 28th, 2020 to April 5th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon Platinum''. The Host, a girl called .iecbw, chose the name "BFG" for her Turtwig, and was sometimes nicknamed "Izzy" herself, providing an amusing parallel to the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' X ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' meme. A Lumineon later became the breakout character of the run after sweeping the entire Elite 4 by itself.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Black 2'': The fifth run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from April 12th, 2020 to April 27th, 2020, using the same ''[[GameMod Blaze Black 2]]'' hack of ''Pokémon Black 2'' as Season 1. Like the original ''Black 2'' run, it ended with [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo a large reunion of past Hosts]] at Pokémon World Tournament, where ♀♀R had to battle against the four previous Hosts of ''The Gauntlet'', then against the seven Hosts featured in the PWT of the original ''Black 2'' run.
** ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet X'': The sixth and final run of ''The Gauntlet'', which ran from May 3rd, 2020 to May 10th, 2020, using the original ''Pokémon X''. The Host chosen was a dark-skinned girl named Etr, who managed to reach the Hall of Fame in a mere 3 days and 19 hours, the fastest out of any main runs so far. Thanks to the help of online trades, she managed to [[HundredPercentCompletion complete the Pokédex]] that was passed down to her by the previous Hosts of ''The Gauntlet''.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSirius'': The seventh run of the seventh season, that ran from June 13th, 2020 to June 23rd, 2020. It featured ''Pokémon Sirius'', a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' set after a meteor fall that altered the landscape of the Hoenn region and caused [[OriginalCharacter brand new Pokémon species to appear]]. The run also had the Voices in a constant mock panic about [[{{Unwinnable}} softlocking]] the game by getting Mr. Briney's boat stuck in [[TyopOnTheCover "Dewfon"]]. [[invoked]]
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRisingRuby'': The eighth run of the seventh season, which began on August 8th, 2020 and ended on August 21st, 2020. The game featured, ''Pokémon Rising Ruby'', was once more a hack created by [=Drayano60=], this time of ''Pokémon Omega Ruby''; on top of a heightened difficulty curve, it also alters the typing, stats and moveset of many Pokémon so that most of the 721 available become usable. This became the first run in which not only were all five Master Rank Contests succesfully won, but the subsequent {{Superboss}}es Lisia and Wallace were defeated as well.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVega'': The ninth and final run of the seventh season, which started on December 12th, 2020 and ended on December 25th, 2020. It featured ''Pokémon Vega'', a hack of ''[=FireRed=]'' which acts as a sequel to ''Pokémon Sirius'' and features many of the same [[OriginalCharacter original species]], and was notable for [[SeriesContinuityError completely contradicting]] the events of the ''Sirius'' run, as the Voices picked a female character, but the game itself acted as if it was the same character from ''Sirius'', in which the character picked was male.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonChattyCrystal'': The first run of the eighth season, marking both the seventh anniversary of the stream and its 50th main run. It began on February 14th, 2021, and ended on March 8th, 2021. It featured a hack of ''Pokémon Crystal'' which once more had all of its dialogue replaced with Markhov-chained sentences built from chat messages, and provided the players with an Unown and a Chatot who both used attacks that were influenced directly by the chat. As the fiftiest run, it also featured no less than [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo 36 different characters returning from previous runs]].
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRenegadePlatinum'': The second run of the eighth season, which began on April 10th, 2021 and ended on April 21st, 2021. It featured yet another hack created by [=Drayano60=], this time based on ''Pokémon Platinum'' and, as usual for Drayano hacks, featuring higher difficulty, more Pokémon species available, and updated typings and movesets.
* ''[[WebVideo/TheWarOfTheTwitchPlays Twitch Plays Pokémon Red-Green-Blue Race]]'': A {{crossover}} between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', and ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', which began on May 8th, 2021 and pitted the three streams against each other as they attempted to complete their respective version of ''Pokémon Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. The race concluded on May 10th, 2021, with ''TPP'' beating the Champion first, ''TPPM'' coming in second, and ''TPS'' in third.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlazingEmerald'': The sixth run of Season 8, which began on August 21st, 2021 and concluded on September 9th, 2021. It featured an extensive hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' which, on top of several mechanics brought from later games, included several [[OriginalCharacter brand-new original Pokémon]], most of which Hoennian forms and alternate evolutions of existing species, along with a few standalone and [[GuideDangIt well-hidden]] new ones.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSpaceWorldGoldReforged'': The seventh run of Season 8, which ran from October 9th, 2021 to October 15th, 2021. The game used was ''Pokémon Gold 97: Reforged'', an extensive hack of the Generation II games meant to recreate the content of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_Gold_and_Silver_Spaceworld_%2797_demo [=SpaceWorld=] '97 demo]] of ''Pokémon Gold and Silver'' as a complete game. For the occasion, many of the beta designs received brand new names chosen by the TPP community in order to distinguish them from their official counterparts.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonLegendsArceus'': The ninth and final run of Season 8, featuring the brand new ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''. It began on January 29th, 2022, the day after the game was released, and ended on February 10th, 2022. Due to the more action-oriented nature of the game, players were faced with the brand-new challenges of 3D movement, fall damage, real-time battles, and Pokémon that could actually hurt their unfortunate Trainer.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedChattyCrystal'': The first run of the ninth season, marking the eighth anniversary of the stream, which began on February 14th, 2022 and concluded on February 28th, 2022. It marked the return of ''Pokémon Chatty Crystal'', from the previous anniversary, but this time with all of the Pokémon locations, evolutions and movesets randomized, which included all of the [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo returning characters]] having their respective teams shuffled around, along with a few extra surprises such as replacing the starter Unown with a Shiny Ditto.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCharityDualRedAndBlue'': A run set as part of the "[[https://catchamillion.com/ Catch a Million]]" charity event run by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which ran from April 24th, 2022 to April 30th, 2022, and reused the same game and setup as ''Dual Red & Blue''. During this timeframe, ''TPP'' managed to catch 310 Pokémon and raise a total of $559.90 for the charity.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonGrandColosseum'': The third run of the ninth season, which took place from June 11th, 2022 to June 19th, 2022, and featured a hack of ''Pokémon Colosseum'' inspired by both existing ''Pokémon XD'' hacks and the work of [=Drayano60=]. As such, said hack fatured numerous changes such as revamped typings and movesets, as well as the inclusion of later-generations machanics like the Physical/Special split, the Fairy-type, and reusable [=TMs=].
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonXGRemix'': The fourth run of the ninth season, beginning on July 9th, 2022 and concluding on July 17th, 2022, which featured a hack of ''Pokémon XG: [=NeXt=] Gen'', itself a hack of ''Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness''. Said hack reprised most additions and improvements of ''XG'', but mixed things up with a [[https://imgur.com/6PYb0wk brand new type chart]], along with multiple [[OriginalCharacter original species]] consisting of renames and/or [[PaletteSwap recolors]] of existing Pokémon.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRandomizedTriHardEmerald'': The fifth run of the ninth season, which ran from August 20th, 2022, to August 26th, 2022. It featured a [[UpdatedRerelease slightly updated version]] of the pseudo-Nuzlocke romhack ''Pokémon [=TriHard=] Emerald'' that debuted back in Season 6, this time being given the randomizer treatment of every Pokémon location, moveset, and abilities being shuffled around.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonStar'': The sixth run of the ninth season, which ran from October 15th, 2022 to October 22nd, 2022.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVietnameseCrystal'': A special intermission played in-between runs alongside ''Arena'', starting after ''Pokémon Red Anniversary''. It is played one democracy vote at a time in between ''PBR'' matches, and stars a girl named BABA, named after a Magikarp from ''Red Anniversary''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonTradingCardGame'': Replacing Vietnamese Crystal as the intermission game for ''Arena'', it used the same "one input at a time" democracy system, before it was changed to a more traditional anarchy mode intermission. Chronicling both TCG games, this playthrough stars [[Manga/YuGiOh Yugi]] and Mint as they attempt to become the King/Queen of the Pokémon TCG.

* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra'': Replacing TCG 2 as the intermission game for Arena, this all-democracy playthrough features a horribly mapped, terribly balanced, awfully written, extremely crude hack of ''Pokémon [=LeafGreen=]'', and follows the potentially concussed Pee as he adventures through a nonsensical world.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Dark Graystone'': The first side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a joke hack of ''Pokémon Gold''. The main character is named "TPPSIM", after the official Twitch Plays Pokémon chat bot.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Ash Gray'': The second side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' hack based on the events of the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]]. The chat desperately tried and failed to follow the script of the official anime; the side-game was discontinued due to lack of interest and the fact that [[EpicFail Pikachu had evolved]], locking out most of the game's events.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBootlegGreen'': The third side-game featured during Season 4 intermissions, which was continued during Season 5. Due to being a bootleg version of ''Pokémon Green'' and being played in all-democracy, the chat was able to pull off many glitches; most notably, it was first beaten in ''six days''[[note]]For comparison, ''Vietnamese Crystal'' and ''Ultra'' respectively took 24 and 10 ''weeks''[[/note]], with ''zero Pokémon''.
* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSweet'': Following ''Bootleg Green'' after it was beaten a second time, this side-game takes place in Sweet Land, a region in which [=PokéSweets=], such as Squirpie, Meowffin, or Mintanyte, are found instead of Pokémon.

* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Gold [=SpaceWorld=] Demo'': The first side-game of Season 6, featuring the beta version of ''VideoGame/PokemonGold'' shown off at [=SpaceWorld=] 1997, which was previously played as a Season 5 intermission. Due to being intended as a demo, the game is reset each time the player either blacks-out or clears the final rival battle.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonMetronomeSapphire'': Originating as an AprilFools intermission, ''Pokémon Metronome Sapphire'' is a joke hack of ''Pokémon Sapphire'' in which every Pokémon is randomized, set at level 100, and has [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome as its only move]]. After the Elite 4 was beaten, the game returned as the second side-game of Season 6.

* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=NavyBlue=]'': The third side-game of Season 6, replacing ''Metronome Sapphire'' after the end of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSword''. The game featured, ''Pokémon [=NavyBlue=]'', is a hack of ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRed'' taking place in the Larmog region, which is home to a whole slew of [[UsefulNotes/MSPaint crudely-drawn]] [[OriginalCharacter never-before-seen Pokémon]], along with the Voices' newest Host: a girl named Ai, daughter of Professor Barry Bloo.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonLightningSapphire'': A side-game that debuted in Season 7 and featured an earlier, buggier, gibberish-er version of the infamous ''Pokémon Chinese Emerald'', a mistranslated bootleg in the same vein as ''Vietnamese Crystal'' and ''Bootleg Green''. It was dubbed ''Pokémon Lightning Sapphire'', after the user [=LightningXCE=] who discovered the original cartridge and spent several years trying to properly dump it.

* ''Twitch Plays Dragon Ball Z: Team Training'': A ''[=FireRed=]'' romhack in which Pokémon are swapped out for ''Franchise/DragonBall'' characters; it debuted during the AprilFoolsDay intermission of Season 8, and was brought back as a side-game by popular demand, chronicling the adventures of Fighter Trainer Pan and her father Gohan.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonDualSanquiRedAndBlue'': A Season 9 intermission featuring two games of ''Pokémon Red'' at once, randomized using the [[https://sanqui.net/randomizer/#pokered Sanqui Randomizer]] which replaces the original 151 Pokémon with a selection of 251 Pokémon from Generations I through VI. It is notably the first sidegame to be played in Anarchy mode rather than through input voting.

* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=FireRed=] Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon [=FireRed=]'' that took place from April 11th, 2016 to April 13th, 2016, which allowed the chat to explore the Sevii Islands and ended after Lugia was caught with a regular Poké Ball inside Cerulean Cave.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that took place from April 13th, 2016 to April 15th, 2016, in which the chat failed to rematch any Gym Leader and to catch any Legendaries, but did defeat [[{{Superboss}} Steven Stone]] and pick up the Root Fossil.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Crystal'' that took place from April 15th, 2016 to April 16th, 2016, during which Raticate came back to the team, Democracy was used to make Unown appear, and Lance and Red were both defeated again.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Red'' that took place from April 16th, 2016 to April 17th, 2016, in which [[GlitchEntity MissingNo.]] was caught, slowly breaking the game to the point of no return.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal'' that took place from June 15th, 2016 to June 16th, 2016, and was played using the traditional Anarchy/Democracy system rather than the full Democracy system of the original sidegame.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Black Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Black'' that took place from June 1st, 2017, to June 3rd, 2017, during which the chat finally managed to evolve the entire team and defeat the Champion; this version of the team was featured alongside the original during [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the PWT]] of the following ''White 2'' run.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game Dual Intermission'': A revisit of the ''Trading Card Game'' intermissions that took place from February 10th, 2018 to February 11th, 2018, as a pre-''Dual Red & Blue'' intermission, showcasing the dual input system. It featured both the original ''[=TCG2=]'' save file and a recreation of the ''TCG'' character in ''[=TCG2=]'', allowing Yugi and Mint to play against each other.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Conquest Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Conquest'' that took place on April 14th,, which was once again played entirely in Democracy an focused on the extensive postgame stories.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Burning Red Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Burning Red'' that took place from March 11th, 2019 to March 13th, 2019, shortly after the end of the run itself, and dropped the game-switching mechanic to focus on ''[=FireRed=]'''s postgame and featured a secret battle against [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPrism Cyan]].
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Metronome Sapphire Revisit'': A revisit of ''Metronome Sapphire'' that took place from December 14th, 2019 to December 19th, 2019 as a special Christmas intermission, during which the elusive [[LastLousyPoint Meltan]] was finally caught.

* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Isle of Armor'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' that took place from June 27th, 2020 to July 1st, 2020, featuring the Isle of Armor area from the ''Sword & Shield Expansion Pass'' DLC, and during which the chat chose to complete the Tower of Darkness.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' that took place from October 24th, 2020 to October 29th, 2020, featuring the Crown Tundra area from the ''Sword & Shield Expansion Pass'' DLC, and during which the chat chose to catch Regidrago.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: Test Your Luck!'': A revisit of ''Pokémon Sword'' comprised of three separate sessions spread between January 7th, 2022 and January 10th, 2022, during which the chat took part in the [[https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/onlinecompetitions/testyourluck.shtml Test Your Luck!]] event, in which the only Pokémon allowed only knew the move [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome]].
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=SpaceWorld=] Gold Reforged Revisit'': A revisit of ''Pokémon [=SpaceWorld=] Gold Reforged'' that took place from February 10th, 2022 to February 12th, 2022, and focused on catching the beta Pokémon that weren't obtained during the initial run.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena'': A months-long intermission of ''Pokémon Stadium 2'' played between ''Pokémon X'' and ''Pokémon Omega Ruby'' and later with ''Pokémon Battle Revolution'' in-between major runs after ''Omega Ruby''. It features a competition aspect where the chat controls the team that they bet on, with larger bets having more control over the selection of a Pokémon's attacks.

* ''Twitch Plays Telefang'': A special intermission played between ''Crystal Anniversary'' and ''Brown'' featuring the bootleg game ''[[VideoGame/{{Telefang}} Pokémon Diamond]]'', which followed the adventures of Johnny Rogue and Kuribute as they attempted to save Shengdu from Domesday. It was briefly revisited before the start of ''Prism'', and another intermission preceeding ''Dual Red & Blue'' featured both the ''Pokémon Jade'' bootleg and a fan translation of ''Telefang Power''.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team'': Debuting during Crystal Anniversary, it was played simultaneously with the current main game or intermission rather than in between matches, although it was changed to the side-game format to replace Ultra. It follows former human Squirtlee and its partner Pika Cena trying to save a world of only Pokémon.
* ''Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House'': A yearly [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]] intermission that debuted in October 2019, featuring a specially-made hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' that focuses on solving [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent user-submitted]] [[PuzzleGame Trick House puzzles]]. [[invoked]]

!Tropes that apply to all of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'':

* AchievementsInIgnorance: In-Universe; The utter incompetence of the player character ultimately wins them 8 badges and the title of Pokémon League champ. In AJ's case, he also defeats Red.

** Using a PC, as Pokémon get [[PutOnABus shuffled around]] or even [[KilledOffForReal released]].

* AllThereInTheManual: While all ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' lore is based on the stream, you wouldn't even get 5% of it if you didn't pay close attention to the fanbase.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Playing the game in Anarchy can get pretty far, but during times like the Rocket Hideout and when the Mob wants to teach a move to a Pokémon, Democracy mode serves to keep them from being stuck for a long time. It's still frustrating for many how slow Democracy is and that it makes the game "too easy".

* AppleOfDiscord: There's often a Pokémon or item that the Mob don't agree on whether or not to use or catch/meet, like Eevee in ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red'' and "Articuno" in ''Twitch Plays Pokémon [=FireRed=]''.

** ''Black 2'''s symbol was sunglasses, given how the Pokémon on Cly's team are commonly depicted.

* ArtifactOfDeath: The PC - its use nearly always results in the mod accidentally releasing Pokémon, even very strong and important ones. It is feared and hated by the Mob, and is only used when absolutely necessary.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Several objects in the games have become hated by the Mob and tend to cause problems when encountered. The PC is the biggest one, since its use often results in releasing Pokémon. The Dome fossil has been given this treatment, although many players now believe it is just the other side of the coin in an OrderVersusChaos divine battle against the beloved Helix fossil. Ledges and Giovanni's mazes are dreaded, too.

** The official Pokémon 20th Anniversary anime marathon stream was titled "Twitch Watches Pokémon".

** The protagonist of ''Platinum'', Napoleon, had his entire character develop around his answering of [[ButThouMust the question if he liked Pokémon]] with a blunt "No".
* BraggingRightsReward: Starting in the pre-''Platinum'' Intermission, winning bets on the Stadium battles using Pokédollars.
* BreadAndCircuses: Runs and the wait in between them became characterized by continuous betting rings for the ''Pokémon Colosseum'' games. See [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena that page]] for more information.
* CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: Many, many different things, from accidentally digging after going on the start menu, to releasing Pokémon when trying to deposit something.

** After ''Pokémon X'', the streamer found the color-coded usernames cumbersome as more colors are being added, and as a result, the players have a numbered and colored emblem next to their username representing the run they've made their first input. Previous runs have their colors retained while X has dark blue, Omega Ruby has dark red, Red Anniversary has white, Touhoumon & Moemon has pink, Alpha Sapphire has navy blue, Coloseum has red and XD has dark purple.

** Napoleon came from a sheltered, proper background and disdained Pokémon at first until he grew to assemble the Court of the Sun, while Ao was wild, sought the Pokémon gods of old, and transformed under the moon.

** Jimmy had little care for his Pokémon, instead blithely agreeing to release and stop evolving them and becoming Champion as the voices tells him. Cly sought to become Champion to prove herself to others, focusing on her Pokémon by keeping a consistent party and letting them evolve immediately.

** The fourth and second to last runs of season 1 (''Black'' and ''X'', respectively) focused on two male Pokémon trainers that [[TheUnfavorite the audience chose by mistake, and didn't like]]. Both also tended to make rash decisions, and were known for sometimes giving away Pokémon at an alarming rate. The key difference here is that while GMYC wanted to take credit for everything he did in some vain attempt to become as legendary a hero as Red, D refused to take credit for anything he did during his run, most notably answering "No" when asked if he defeated Team Flare.

** It extends to key Pokémon, too.
*** False Prophet (later referred to as Martyr as history seems to look upon her more favorably) was an AppleOfDiscord that threatened to negatively color the Mob's view of the Eevee line in general. Burrito, however, was TheHeart and characterized as an AllLovingHero and remains one of the most beloved figures in stream history, while Solaireon, the next Flareon, ended up being the highest-leveled Pokémon in Napoleon's party and likewise much beloved.

* CrutchCharacter: Several, although unintentionally in most cases. The extreme difficulty in switching Pokémon order and the lack of precise control the mob has over movesets and battles means that these tend to emerge when only one or two Pokémon on the team are capable of winning consistently and gaining experience, while the rest of the team eventually CantCatchUp. Examples include Bird Jesus the Pidgeot of Red, Lazorgator the Feraligatr in Crystal, and M4 the Azumarill in Emerald.

** The PC. Every time it's used, there's a substantial chance of Pokémon being released, so by ''[=FireRed=]'', most of the Mob usually go to use a PC via Democracy.

* DespairEventHorizon: Happens quite often, usually when a Pokémon forgets a good move for a bad one, the trainer is stuck in one location for hours, or a Pokémon is accidentally boxed or even released. Particularly in ''Red'', morale dropped severely after the events of Bloody Sunday, and in ''[=FireRed=]'', the number of users plummeted when A was stuck in the Rocket Hideout during 26 hours of Anarchy. ''Black'' had Massacre Monday and Fatal Friday.

* DivineIntervention: The Creator says that if no Pokémon evolve during the playthrough of ''Black'', then ''Black 2'' will have a forced evolution code added to the streamer that prevents the use of the B button during evolution sequences.

** ''Platinum'''s protagonist was a [[TheGamblingAddict compulsive gambler]] who is apathetic to the Pokémon world at best.

** ''Black'''s protagonist was an affable ditz who obeyed Team Plasma's orders to release his Pokémon, and thinks of the Voices so highly that he thinks they can do no wrong.

** ''X'''s protagonist was a boy unwanted by the Mob who was shy around women and had a penchant for trading his Pokémon online.

** ''Brown'''s protagonist likewise had a gambling problem, but also may have been an alcoholic and also gave alcohol to his Pokémon.

* TheFool[=/=]IdiotHero: In every game, the protagonists all show remarkably poor judgement, coordination, and [[NoSenseOfDirection sense of direction]]. They can't resist jumping off of ledges again and again, they delete their Pokémon's powerful moves for useless ones, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted they will waste their money on useless items]], they accidentally release Pokémon when trying to use [[ArtifactOfDeath the PC]], and spend days trying to navigate themselves through a simple maze.

* GrayAndGreyMorality: Ultimately, the anarchists and the democrats. They display roughly the same amount of (intentional) dickishness, they both play the game to win, they both love their Pokémon dearly, both loathe and fear the PC, and so on. The only source of their conflict is [[OrderVersusChaos the means they want to use to play the game]].
* HaveANiceDeath: Modern runs replace the [=DexNav=] in the lower right with humorous text if all of the Pokémon in the party faint.

* HopeSpot: Every time the user mob is close to clearing a ledge or achieving something difficult, something is bound to go wrong. At least under Anarchy mode. Sometimes during battles, there's one Pokémon left in the party at low health, and it is close to defeating the opponent, but it misses or the foe gets a critical hit, making the player white out.
* IdiotBall: The Mob's incompetence is what fuels a lot of the conflict. The players are dumb enough to do things like release important Pokémon, jump off of a ledge a million times, use useless attacks over and over again in battle, and so on.

* KilledOffForReal: Whenever Pokémon are released.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: {{Parodied}} to the point of {{deconstruction}}. The protagonists are certainly not scared of losing face by running away... even from easily winnable fights, depriving their Pokémon of valuable experience.

** ''Pokémon Black 2'' and later runs have some sort of gimmick to keep the series fresh, such as increased difficulty, extra conditions to finish, or controlling two games at once.
** ''Pokémon X'' and onwards turns the HUD to something similar to the Emerald/[=FireRed=] runs, where only the Pokémon's team and their HP are present.[[note]]Previous games ran in emulators, and the HUD simply read information out of their memory. Since no 3DS emulators existed at the time, later games were played on a real 3DS, making this impossible; the HUD instead captured a screenshot whenever the party menu was open and displayed that.[[/note]]
** ''Pokémon Alpha Sapphire'' was this compared to previous randomizer runs. Fixed Pokémon such as legendaries and gifts from [=NPCs=] (including starters) were no longer randomized, but evolutions were, with the only guarantees being that the evolved form would share a type with its predecessor and would have a base stat total within 20% of the normal evolved form's base stat total. The next randomizer run, Randomized Platinum, returned to randomizing fixed encounters, but also kept the random evolutions and added randomized typings.

* LeeroyJenkins: The chaotic side of the Mob prefers randomness or to downright sabotage attempts of moving forward. Sometimes they will slide or stay in Anarchy mode despite facing difficult Pokémon battles.

** Invoked when a Pokémon that is normally TheLoad manages to display surprising bouts of competence in battle.
* LevelGrinding: Averted for most of ''TPP Red'', but eventually it was necessary since some of Red's Pokémon desperately needed to gain a few levels. From then on, whenever a popular Pokémon is falling behind, the Mob drags the hero to an area to train, like the Pokémon Tower in ''TPP [=FireRed=]'' and Victory Road in all games.
* TheLoad: The hero sometimes catches or withdraws Pokémon that the Mob have no interest in leveling up and thus become tiresome to keep. Occasionally, the Mob wants that particular Pokémon to be a part of the team, so they go LevelGrinding to remove its burdensome status.

* LuckBasedMission: '''''Everything.''''' Any success had in the playthrough is often by complete luck (or accident). During tough trainer battles, usually what determines victory is sheer luck in choosing the correct moves or Pokémon.
* LuddWasRight: It turns out that PC's are evil and using one is likely to cause the Mob to accidentally release their Pokémon. According to the fans, this may or may not be an evil plan by Bill or the Dome Fossil.

* NoFinalBossForYou: Despite being a fan favorite Pokémon since [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue's]] start in 1996, Mewtwo is unable to be found and battled, due to the fact that the stream always switches to the next game immediately after the final battle's completion. In [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]] Versions, the game immediately stopped after the Mob beat [[TheRival Blue]] at the end of the [[BossBonanza Elite Four]], preventing the Mob from being able to travel to [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Cerulean Cave]].

** Red Anniversary averts this, since they have to fight and ''capture'' the Mewtwo to complete the Pokédex.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Because evolution can be cancelled in ''Pokémon'', needless to say team members tend to evolve much later than they normally would, and it was getting ''worse'' with every passing game because of the increasing number of B spambots and the decreasing number of people to counter them. Things came to a head in ''Black'' where no Pokémon evolved '''at all''', prompting the streamer to avert the trope in the next run by hacking forced evolutions into the game.

* OneLetterName: Three protagonists had one-letter names, and two of them were the same letter. Also applies to many Pokémon nicknames.

* PunctuationShaker: Many Pokémon end up getting nicknames with random symbols in their names. Take ABB-??AAJ the Zubat in TPP Red, !☂!!☀! !:1 the Roserade in TPP Platinum, or M ---/'/'4 the Azumarill from TPP Emerald.
* PutOnABus: Whenever a Pokémon isn't wanted in the party anymore and is put in the PC for the rest of the game.

* ReleasedToElsewhere: Officially, Pokémon the Mob accidentally release on the PC are just let go, but fanart and fanon frequently interprets these events as deletions instead, or as "release" being a [[NeverSayDie euphemism]] for "[[KilledOffForReal kill]]".

** Every randomizer run, one of the Pokémon received from an NPC will end up randomized to Sandslash. [[note]]The exception being Alpha Sapphire, where Pokémon received from [=NPCs=] weren't randomized.[[/note]]
* SadisticChoice: The Mob can either leave Pokémon in the PC where they're safe or try to put them in the party and thus risk releasing them while trying to retrieve them.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The entire run is starting to become one for those players attempting to complete the game. Not only does the premise of the experiment make the game insanely difficult and long, accidents such as releasing critical Pokémon drive morale down.

** Season 3 has one placed within the games themselves, with each of the first two runs of the season [[spoiler:ending with a brief appearance by an unknown bird Pokémon. The second appearance also came with a promise that it would be returning in the fourth run of the season.]]

* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: Deliberately invoked by having 100,000+ people input commands for a game of Pokémon. The results are hilarious, having the player walk in weird directions to making really silly decisions (like releasing their starter, for instance).

** Also frequently occurs during {{Previous Player Character Cameo}}s, where previously-underleveled Pokémon have their levels buffed to be an appropriate challenge. Examples include ATV from ''Red'' more or less doubling in level, from high 30s to mid-70s, for the Mt. Silver battle in ''Crystal'', and Baba's all-but-unused Pidgey, Poliwag, and Togepi appearing in Anniversary Crystal as a Pidgeot, Politoed, and Togetic, all at level 100.
* TournamentArc: Happens quite often in the middle of each run through. Almost every version of ''Pokémon Stadium'' has been played during the long breaks. Sometimes, there's some lore for those, too. ''Black 2'' had one at the end of its run as well, with the last string of fights being CLY pitted against [[spoiler: [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed all]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal seven]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald previous]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed TPP]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum protagonists]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold in]] [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack battle]].]]

* TheUnfought: Bill and the PC, even though the Mob would very much like to, [[spoiler:although they were battled in ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystalAnniversary Crystal Anniversary]]'' two years later]]. Any trainer or Pokémon that can be faced post-game (except for the Johto games, ''Pokémon X'', and Anniversary runs) can't be fought either, since the games end when the Mob has defeated the Elite Four and Champion.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Occasionally, the Mob will deposit or release a Pokémon that was just caught. The original record was [=C3KO=] the Hitmonlee in ''Red'', who lasted 37 minutes according to the [[https://sites.google.com/site/twitchplayspokemonstatus/red-archive progress doc]]. However, this was eventually beaten by an unnamed Meowth in ''Anniversary Red'', [[https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/3iexaa/because_i_like_comparing_our_runs_here_are_some/ who lasted 15 minutes]], and later by a Porygon in ''Anniversary Crystal'' who lasted just 9.

* [[invoked]]NamesTheSame: It is not uncommon for a character (typically a Pokémon) to be given the same name as another character. The name "[[OneLetterName A]]" comes to mind, having been given to two player characters and at least three Pokémon. In addition in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'', their starter was named "," (a single comma), the same as the starter from ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonHeartGold HeartGold]]''.

There are currently 58 completed main runs[[note]]The stream considers both ''Touhoumon'' and ''Moemon'' as the 12th run, as well as both ''Red'' and ''Blue'' from the fourth anniversary as the 28th run. Each of the six runs of ''The Gauntlet'' is however counted separately, as the 41st to 46th run.[[/note]], as well as numerous intermissions, the most prominent being betting matches set up using ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium2'' then later ''VideoGame/PokemonBattleRevolution'', and sidegames which are played alongside said betting matches at the pace of one input between each match.

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBronze'': The third run of Season 5, starting on June 9th, 2018, and ending on June 18th, 2018. The game featured in this run is a hack of ''Pokémon Gold'', created by the same person behind ''Pokémon Dark Greystone'', which was played as a side-game during Season 4. Set in the all-new region of Kohto, it also features a few {{Ascended Meme}}s, such as [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Pumbloom]] and [=MissingNo=]. The Host for this run is a girl named [=FEEFFr=], whose starter Pichu was affectionately nicknamed "Winnie the Chu".

* ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonSirius'': The seventh run of the seventh season, that ran from June 13th, 2020 to June 23rd, 2020. It featured ''Pokémon Sirius'', a hack of ''Pokémon Emerald'' set after a meteor fall that altered the landscape of the Hoenn region and caused [[OriginalCharacter brand new Pokémon species to appear]]. The run also had the Voices in a constant mock panic about [[{{Unwinnable}} softlocking]] the game by getting Mr. Briney's boat stuck in [[TyopOnTheCover "Dewfon"]].