History YMMV / LatiasJourney

** Not to mention [[spoiler: Ritchie]]. [[MoralEventHorizon Sealed]] when he killed [[spoiler: Latias]].

** Mariah nearly destroys May's psyche during their battle with her insults.

* ParodySue: ''Three'', explicitly by name. One early on [[spoiler:captures Latias and a bunch of Legendaries with a ton of Master Balls. They break out thanks to Mewtwo's gambit.]] Another one is an EldritchAbomination that ''creates more'' via TheCorruption.

* ShockingSwerve: In the final chapter it's revealed that [[spoiler:Mewgle had trapped everyone - and we do mean EVERYONE - in virtual reality so he could take over the multiverse. It winds up {{Retcon}}ing generally a lot of things.]] Some readers found that it [[AuthorsSavingThrow gave more closure to the story]], while others thought that [[AssPull it made everything worse]], and that the author should have left it alone.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Yes, ''Latias' Journey'' is based on the kid-friendly Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime. But it also contains NightmareFuel, intense violence, intense gore, horror, sexual situations, profanity and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking deep philosophical/religious overtones]].

** Mercifully, she's a good deal better off in the sequel. [[TemptingFate So far]].
*** Isn't one of the reasons May is better off in the sequel because she's only appeared in a relatively minor arc where her only main problem was her father's disappearance caused her mother to break down and she and Max were planning on figuring out what had happened to him and just so happened to manage to enlist Ash's team...[[TemptingFate I just jinxed both her and her brother didn't I?]]

** To a lesser extent, Mewgle. And [[spoiler: Latias' Mother]]. And I suppose the Regis. Two at least.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The epilogue, though it may be an AssPull depending on the reader.

** To a lesser extent, Mewgle can be argued as one. And [[spoiler: Latias' Mother]]. And I suppose the Regis. Two at least.

** Dark Latios. See his Nightmare Fuel below.
** Infernatrice beats the heck out of Charizard and RIPS HIS WINGS OFF! This forces Latias to [[spoiler: turn the almost dead Charizard into a Charmander again to keep him alive.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: See ContemplateOurNavels.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: '''''Many.'''''
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Also many.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Not quite as many, but no short supply nonetheless.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Jigglypuff'' and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's ''Blow Me Away''.
** Latias bringing down an EldritchAbomination while singing ''[[FinalFantasyX Otherworld]]'' -- not the kind of song you'd expect her to be singing.
** [[spoiler:The Pokerockers' GurrenLagann-style charge against Mewgle draws its power from ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Live and Learn]]''.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Pokemon, being essentially animals, tend to be pretty [[NoSocialSkills direct]] about [[CarnivoreConfusion certain]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex things]], and it often weirds out their human trainers and those Pokemon that have spent more time among humans.

* FetishFuel: An in-universe example, there are repeated references to a [[BrainBleach female Machoke supermodel]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: See NavelGazing.

* ValuesDissonance: Latias forgives the Ghost King for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, because 2 out of the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead said they forgive him. [[spoiler: And then Latias marries the damn guy!]] Many readers do not find the story's explanation good enough, and consider this a Wall Banger.

* ValuesDissonance: Latias forgives the Ghost King for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, because 2 out of the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead said they forgive him. [[spoiler: And then Latias marries the damn guy!]] This is considered a Wallbanger to many readers.

* AuthorsSavingThrow - See NavelGazing.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - '''''Many.'''''
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - Also many.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Not quite as many, but no short supply nonetheless.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - ''Jigglypuff'' and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's ''Blow Me Away''.

* MarySue - ''Three'', explicitly by name. One early on [[spoiler:captures Latias and a bunch of Legendaries with a ton of Master Balls. They break out thanks to Mewtwo's gambit.]] Another one is an EldritchAbomination that ''creates more'' via TheCorruption.

* OT3 - A particularly weird HotSkittyOnWailordAction example: [[spoiler:Wobbuffet, Milotic, and Cacturne]]. You may now scrub your brain with peroxide.

* ShippingBedDeath - Refreshingly averted. Ash and Misty hook up quite early on, and their [[HappilyMarried ongoing relationship]] is handled as a an integral part of everything happening around them.
* {{Squick}} - The descriptions of the undead/mutilated Legendary Beasts. ''Ugh''.

* ValuesDissonance - A frequent point of discussion. Pokemon, being essentially animals, tend to be pretty [[NoSocialSkills direct]] about [[CarnivoreConfusion certain]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex things]], and it often weirds out their human trainers and those Pokemon that have spent more time among humans.
** Latias forgives the Ghost King for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, because 2 out of the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead said they forgive him. [[spoiler: And then Latias marries the damn guy!]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - Yes, ''Latias' Journey'' is based on the kid-friendly Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime. But it also contains NightmareFuel, intense violence, intense gore, horror, sexual situations, profanity and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking deep philosophical/religious overtones]].
* TheWoobie - May. Gets OvershadowedByAwesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him is [[UnrequitedLove unrequited]] [[hottip:*:(we later find her first crush was too -- he ditched her for a gay zombie.)]] Gets [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and [[BreakingSpeech speeched]] by a godmoding MarySue. [[spoiler:And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes in her face]] right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and copies of her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an EleventhHourSuperpower with the rest of the cast, [[KansasCityShuffle she's tricked into killing her ''real'' parents thinking ''they're'' copies]], is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Latias]] in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book.]] ''Holy shit.''

** [[spoiler:Deoxys. An OmnicidalManiac who subjects his minions to a FateWorseThanDeath, a master of TheCorruption, and so unbelieveably [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING SADISTIC]] he wants to subject ''EXISTENCE'' to one of the worst examples of AndIMustScream.]]

** ([[spoiler:Deoxys. An OmnicidalManiac who subjects his minions to a FateWorseThanDeath, a master of TheCorruption, and so unbelieveably [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING SADISTIC]] he wants to subject ''EXISTENCE'' to one of the worst examples of AndIMustScream.]]

** Team Cipher with their Shadow Pokemon-creating ways.

** Suicune's rape and torture.

** Pretty much the entire last quarter of the book or so.l act for another.

** ([[spoiler:Deoxys. An OmnicidalManiac who subjects his minions to a FateWorseThanDeath, a master of TheCorruption, and so unbelieveably [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING SADISTIC]] he wants to subject ''EXISTENCE'' to one of the worst examples of AndIMustScream? He hasn't just passed the MoralEventHorizon, or even the Moral Event Singularity. Deoxys has ''transcended'' being a CompleteMonster in it's entirety.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Ford has his partner Blaziken brutally torture Charizard, turns Ash into Alpha Ranger. He becomes a CompleteMonster when he becomes the Shining Ranger and kills Harrison.]]
* NightmareFuel:

** Dark Latios. See his High Octane Nightmare Fuel below.

** Dark Latios. See his High Octane Nightmare Fuel page above.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - Yes, ''Latias' Journey'' is based on the kid-friendly Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime. But it also contains HighOctaneNightmareFuel, intense violence, intense gore, horror, sexual situations, profanity and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking deep philosophical/religious overtones]].

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:

* MarySue - ''Three'', explicitly by name. One early on [[spoiler:captures Latias and a bunch of Legendaries with a ton of Master Balls. They break out thanks to Mewtwo's gambit.]] Another one is an EldritchAbomination that ''creates more'' via TheCorruption.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Ford has his partner Blaziken brutally torture Charizard, turns Ash into Alpha Ranger. He becomes a CompleteMonster when he becomes the Shining Ranger and kills Harrison.]]

** To a lesser degree, Wobbuffet.

* TheWoobie - May. Gets OvershadowedByAwesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him is [[UnrequitedLove unrequited]] [[hottip:*:(we later find her first crush was too -- he ditched her for a gay zombie.)]] Gets [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and [[HannibalLecture lectured]] by a godmoding MarySue. [[spoiler:And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes in her face]] right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and [[XanatosGambit copies of]] her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an EleventhHourSuperpower with the rest of the cast, she's tricked into killing her ''real'' parents thinking ''they're'' copies, is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Latias]] in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book.]] ''Holy shit.''

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