Line #5 FanFic/TheRetellingOfPokemonColosseum


1	''[[https://forums.serebii.net/threads/the-retelling-of-pok%C3%A9mon-colosseum.246389/ The Retelling of Pokémon Colosseum]]'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3911159/1/The_Retelling_of_Pokemon_Colosseum (alternate link)]] is a comedy fan-fiction by bobandbill which explains some of the events of ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' in a fun way, and expands on character's backgrounds.
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3	!!Tropes present in this work:
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5	* AerithAndBob: Well, this story is based on ''Pokémon Colosseum''. This has been lampshaded.
6	-->'''Announcer at Pyrite Colosseum''': Next up is... Hoks? What kind of a name is that?
7	* AntiVillain: Miror B. and Dakim to an extent, due to being {{Punch Clock Villain}}s. [[spoiler: Miror B. also betrayed Nascour and informed the police of the Mt. Battle attack.]]
8	* ArsonMurderAndJayWalking:
9	-->'''Gonzap''': Very smart, Wes. You've destroyed our main snag machine, and stolen the other one. You took our zoomer. And to boot, you used those explosives we had been planning to use as well to utterly destroy our base. AND half of my moustache has burnt off, and I don't have any eyebrows anymore. You'll pay for this.
10	* AscendedExtra: "Tom" is based off a nameless NPC in the Pyrite Colosseum registration area.
11	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny:
12	** Bluno is very easily distracted.
13	** Umbreon has a few moments like this.
14	** Wes is so distracted by the battle with Miror B, he forgets why he came there in the first place. (To save Plusle.)
15	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Umbreon did this in a chapter. A reporter did this as well. Also, several references are made to a Pokémon Colosseum Strategy Guide.
16	* CloudCuckooLander: Many of the characters, both human and Pokémon qualify.
17	** Prominent examples include Rui, Umbreon, and Tom.
18	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
19	-->'''Wes''': He [Entei] avoided the ground completely when he fell off of that platform Â– if that Poke Ball didn't hit though he'd have gone...
20	-->'''Espeon''': Esp. (SPLAT.)\
21	'''Umbreon''': Umbreon! Umbre... (And he has a handlebar moustache! I wish I had one...)
22	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Ein certainly has some unique ways to turn a Pokémon shadow.
23	** Also, what happens to someone who breaks Orre's "double battles only" law.
24	* DanceBattler: Miror B., just like in the source material. However, here he has a special hypnotic music player that forces ''everyone else'' to dance as well.
25	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Or the failed attempt to get the Time Flute. Which failed."
26	* TheDitz: Jimmy. Sometimes Johnson as well.
27	* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Duncan gets angry at Entei for standing on [[CargoShip his lawn]], and pokes it with a rake. It burns the rake and his lawn in retaliation.
28	* DumbMuscle: Dakim. He doesn't even remember the names of his Pokémon. It's deconstructed when it turns out that he's not a good trainer, because everyone was scared of him.
29	* EpicFail: At one point while trying to capture Entei, Entei just burns the snag ball thrown and when the ashes hit the ground they actually spell out "FAIL".
30	* {{Flanderization}}: A positive example; Johnson's idiocy is exaggerated, and because of one scene in the game where Dakim punches Vander, Dakim has been transformed into a [[VideoGame/FZero Captain]] [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Fal]][[MemeticBadass con]] {{Expy}}
31	** ''DAKIM PAWNCH!!!''
32	* FunnyAfro: Miror B, duh. There's an amusing moment in one chapter when Miror B tries to throw an item away, only for it to collide with and sink into his afro.
33	** Happens again with a crumpled piece of paper Nascour throws at him.
34	** And he can even produce an umbrella and maracas out of it!
35	* GenkiGirl: Rui.
36	* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: Es Cade puts out an arrest order on Wes after the Mt. Battle incident. Thankfully, Johnson is sent to arrest him and manages to spill to him everything. After that, it's a simple matter of "correcting" Johnson about his orders and escaping to The Under.]]
37	* IdiotSavant: For a [[TooDumbToLive complete moron]] whose best Pokémon is a Magikarp, Johnson sure does know a lot about battle mechanics and EV Training. Not that it's of much use to him...
38	* ImpactSilhouette: Dakim creates one in Nascour's office when he obliviously leaves by walking through the wall.
39	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dakim uses a ''cactus''.
40	* InvincibleIncompetent: Johnson. Averted when he walks through a fence apparently made completely of lasers, only for it to be shown to only look like it is. Played straight when his Magikarp dodges almost every attack thrown at it.
41	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Espeon.
42	* LoudOfWar: Miror B. does this several times, to varying effect...
43	* MustHaveCaffeine: Yanma. [[spoiler: Apparently, this is because of a coffee-like formula Ein used on Yanma when making him into a Shadow Pokémon.]]
44	* NonSequiturThud: Tom has a tendency to utter these, Rui also delivers one after Wes releases her from the bag:
45	-->'''Rui''': MY NAME IS ROMARIO AND I LIKE CHOCOLATE PIE!
46	* OnlySaneMan: Wes and Espeon, Sherles probably counts as well.
47	* ParentalAbandonment: Wes is an orphan.
48	* PunchClockVillain: Miror B, and, to a lesser extent, Dakim.
49	* PunnyName: Phillar Caractor and Enpea Sea.
50	* RedOniBlueOni: Makuhita is the red oni to Croconaw's blue oni.
51	* RunningGag: Random references to various pastries. Also, [[NoIndoorVoice DISHWASHERS]]!
52	* ShoutOut: In Chapter 17, a reporter [[VideoGame/PokemonSnap throws an apple at Quagsire before taking its photo]], claiming that's how they were taught to take pictures of Pokémon.
53	** Dakim's Golem goes through the [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Black Knight]] routine, and his Metang makes several competitive battling references, as well as one quick Portal reference before it faints.
54	** One chapter referenced YouTubePoop, with the Relic Stone being claimed to double as a football.
55	** Johnson at one point mistakenly refers to Trudly and Folly as [[Franchise/HarryPotter George and Fred]].
56	** Makuhita [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros fights for his friends]].
57	** The truth serum mentioned in chapter six has the same side-effect as eating a Glowstem from ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': uncontrollable episodes of impromptu break dancing.
58	** One unfortunate Magnemite shouts out "[[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink I am error!]]" as it gets KO'd.
59	** Dakim, while lecturing several Cipher office workers, makes a reference to VideoGame/TeamFortress2. Specifically, to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42d0WHRSck the Meet the Soldier video]].
60	** "Umb! Eon!" ([[Webcomic/AwkwardZombie Argrarjghh! Darghraugh!]])
61	* SidekickExMachina: Espeon becomes this for a while after gaining a way to [[MindScrew really mess with people's heads]]. He loses permission to do this after the Miror B. battle, however.
62	* SixthRangerTraitor: As revealed in Chapter 17, [[spoiler: Miror B. is working against Cipher from within, and has recruited Skrub to his cause.]]
63	* SurrogateSoliloquy: Many times, but mainly for the comedic effect of a character assuming an inanimate object can talk. Johnson has tried questioning a statue and a pebble, and several reporters tried to interview a sandstorm.
64	* TokenEvilTeamMate: Makuhita. DEFINITELY Makuhita.
65	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Plusle really likes potatoes. Also, Umbreon seems to have a fondness for bacon.
66	** Not quite a ''food'', but Yanma loves coffeecoffeecoffee!
67	* {{Understatement}}: Wes, upon seeing Mirakle B.'s room-filling collection of Miror B. merchandise, gives us this gem:
68	-->'''Wes''': [[DeadpanSnarker I have a feeling he likes Miror B.]]
69	* WelcomeToCorneria: The [=NPCs=] in the Phenac Pokémon Center, very much so.
70	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Miror B. reveals that his parents wanted to name him "Mirror", with his last name being "Ball", however, a spelling error rendered it as "Miror" and shortened the last name to "B" and it never got corrected. When Wes and Rui ask why his parents would name him that in the first place, he replies that he is not sure.
71	* WorthyOpponent: How Dakim thinks of Wes.

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