Line #29 VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndBlue


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3	-> ''"For generations, Pokémon have suffered at the hands of their cruel trainers. Help PETA free Pikachu and his Pokémon friends as they struggle for Pokémon liberation!"''
4	-->-- '''Blurb''' on PETA's official website
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6	''Pokémon Black & Blue'' is a DarkParody of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It's a short UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game loosely based on the then-newest title, ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', with elements of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' sprinkled about.
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8	You play as a Pikachu who ran away from his trainer. Along your journey you fight various humans and recruit abused Pokémon to join your party.
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10	Like all of PETA's games, it's an AuthorTract on animal welfare and animal rights using ''Pokémon'' as its backdrop.
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12	In 2013, a sequel titled ''Pokémon Red, White & Blue'' was released, which had Pikachu team up with a Miltank, a Jigglypuff, and Grimace to fight against the evils of UsefulNotes/McDonalds.
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14	Both games are available on the games section of PETA's official website, with ''Black & Blue'' [[http://games.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/ here]] and ''Red, White & Blue'' [[https://games.peta.org/pokemon-red-white-blue-parody-game/ here]].
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17	!!Tropes pertaining to ''Black & Blue'' include:
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19	* AdaptationalUgliness: The LongHairedPrettyBoy Cheren and the sexy Professor Juniper are both ragged and dirty.
20	* AdaptationalVillainy: Every opponent bar Ghetsis[[note]]Who, hilariously enough, is probably the only one in the entire game to not have his character completely derailed[[/note]] is heroic in canon. [[spoiler:Ash]] is the strongest example, going from a sweet AllLovingHero to an abusive JerkAss.
21	* TheAlcoholic: Cheren is portrayed as an abusive drunkard whose shirt is covered in blood. It also counts as underage drinking as WordOfGod states Cheren is 14-15, meaning at the oldest he’s 17 as he’s depicted here (presuming Unova has similar laws to either NYC or Japan).
22	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Essentially all trainers and professors. The game treats Pokémon battling as if it's a socially acceptable version of abuse and that humans only see Pokémon as tools to be used. It even says Pokémon battting caused many kids to start [[TheBully bullying each other]].
23	* BatterUp: Cheren has a bloody bat that he beats Pokémon with.
24	* BeyondRedemption: Curiously, Ghetsis is the only character in the game you can’t redeem, despite even FinalBoss [[spoiler:Ash Ketchum]] seeing the error of his ways at the end. Amusingly, this is actually completely in-character for him.
25	* BlushStickers: Cheren has them to show that he's drunk.
26	* BloodierAndGorier: The actual games reference a lot of violent things but they feature BloodlessCarnage. Here everyone is bloody and injured. It's even more-so this trope to the anime, which has shown blood less than ten times in twenty years of running.
27	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Ghetsis does. It also [[LateArrivalSpoiler spoils the ending]] to ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'':
28	-->''I don't want Pokémon freed--I want to control them. Didn't you finish the last game? There was a whole twist to the ending! It was great! Well, up until I was defeated by a kid.''
29	* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Pikachu you play as turns out to be Ash's Pikachu]].
30	* CoolDownHug: One of the original attacks is "Group Hug", which lowers the opponents attack.
31	* EarNotch: Pikachu is missing a huge chunk of his ear.
32	* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Ash]] is only ten but is a ruthless, abusive trainer who only cares about money.
33	* EveryoneHasStandards: A bizarre meta example — whereas all the other bosses see the error of their ways after fighting you, Ghetsis does not and you have no choice but to make him faint. It seems even PETA saw Ghetsis as a truly loathsome character.
34	* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Ash Ketchum]] is the last opponent faced.
35	* FurAndLoathing: Ghetsis wears a coat made out full body Pokémon hides. It contains a Pikachu, Charmander, Bulbasaur, and a Aerodactyl.
36	* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted. Cheren thinks his Tepig feels this way but she doesn't.
37	* HeelFaceTurn:
38	** After being beaten Professor Juniper starts rethinking her views on Pokémon and gives up her Snivy.
39	** Applies to Cheren and [[spoiler:Ash]] as well, though interestingly, it does ''not'' apply to Ghetsis (one of the few things the game gets right).
40	* MadScientist: Professor Juniper is a crazed scientist covered in blood who experiments on Pokémon.
41	* MessyHair: Professor Juniper's normally neat and straight hair is a messy, puffy mess.
42	* RedundantParody: ''Pokémon Black and White'' was ''already'' a discussion on the ethics of Pokémon battling, and Team Plasma ''in canon'' presents itself as essentially a Pokémon-rights group (and many members unaware of its true purpose are sincere Pokémon-rights activists). Curiously, late-game ''Black and White'' spoilers are casually dropped in ''Black and Blue'', implying that ''someone'' behind the parody is familiar with the source material, so it's not quite clear why they did it like this.
43	* RepulsiveRingmaster: [[spoiler:Ash]] wears ringmaster-styled clothes. He even uses a whip and bullhook (which are used on circus animals).
44	* TheReveal: The Pikachu is not a random Pikachu. He's [[spoiler:Ash's]] Pikachu.
45	* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Ash]] sports a toothy smile.
46	* TakeThat: At ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', though they were almost twenty years late to the party on that.
47	* TalkingAnimal: It's never explained why or how they talk, but all Pokémon can speak in the game.
48	* WingdingEyes: Cheren has spiral eyes to show that he's drunk.
49	* WouldHurtAChild: The Pokémon have no issue beating up [[spoiler:Ash]], though admittedly he is the one with the whip and bullhook.
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51	!!Tropes pertaining to ''Red, White & Blue'' include:
52	* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Ash Ketchum]] makes an appearance where he has redeemed himself and offers to help Pikachu in exposing [=McDonald=]'s cruelty to animals.
53	* FatBastard: One of the opponents faced is an overweight [=McDonald=]'s customer who has mistreated his Jigglypuff.
54	* FinalBoss: The final boss fight is against Ronald [=McDonald=], [[spoiler:who is really the CEO of [=McDonald=]'s in disguise]].
55	* MonsterClown: Ronald [=McDonald=] is portrayed as a fanged monster.
56	* NoNameGiven: Hamburglar is the first enemy faced in the game, but is only called "Mysterious Stranger".
57	* TakeThat:
58	** In addition to once again accusing the ''Pokémon'' franchise of encouraging cruelty to animals, the game is itself an attack towards [=McDonald=]'s, accusing the fast food corporation of teaching children that it's okay to torture and kill animals.
59	** The opening description of the game accuses Nintendo of releasing two versions of the same ''Pokémon'' game and having the audacity to release a slightly different version a year later. Made even more explicit in the ending, where it is facetiously stated that a sequel with minimal differences called ''Pokémon Purple - A PETA Parody'' will come out because it wouldn't be ''Pokémon'' if they didn't (soy)milk this thing for all it's worth.

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