Tobias Is Arrested, Yo is a fanfic written by alexwarlorn that is a Deconstruction Fic of the typical fanfic about Tobias getting disqualified from the Lily of the Valley Conference in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl due to using Legendary Pokemon in his battle against Ash. You can read it here.![]()
Tropes include:
- A God Am I: When Tobias calls himself a god, the cops assume he's going for this trope and assume he's being arrogant. However, it turns out Tobias wasn't actually lying.
- Adaptation Species Change: In the anime, Tobias is human. However, it turns out that he was actually six legendary Pokemon posing as a human.
- Composite Character: Tobias consists of several Legendary Pokemon that Ash met along his journey: The Darkrai from Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai, Latias and Latios from Pokémon Heroes, Shaymin from Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior, and Cresselia and Phione from Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.
- Dirty Cop: The two police officers who try to arrest Tobias are this, as they make false claims about him and his Pokemon that Tobias easily refutes. Tobias asks for Officer Jenny, but the two police officers claim that she doesn't need to know about this.
- Deconstruction Fic: This fic deconstructs the fanfic where Tobias is disqualified from the League for using Legendary Pokemon. Tobias points out if that was the case, then someone should have stopped him long ago when he used the Pokemon in Gym Battles and the League, and when those Pokemon got registered.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Tobias points out that the reason why Ash keeps losing so many leagues is because he limits himself to Pokemon within a region and because he doesn't evolve his Pikachu.
- Graceful Loser: Tobias commends Ash for this, and points that out to the cops trying to arrest him.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Tobias notes how the two officers trying to arrest him look the same, just like the various Nurse Joys and Officer Jennies.
- Loony Fan: The two police officers are this for Ash Ketchum, as they constantly hype him up and are arresting Tobias for making him lose in the league.
- Retcon: In Pokémon Heroes, Latios died. However, in this fanfic, he is part of the Legendary Pokemon that is used to construct "Tobias".
- Straight Man: Tobias is this to the two police officers, as he points out the flaws in their logic while the two police officers speak in a Verbal Tic and dance in an odd way.
- Suddenly Shouting: When the police officers suggest that Tobias is part of Team Rocket, Tobias angrily shouts that he is not associated with those filth.
- Super Smoke: When Tobias reveals his true identity, smoke forms around him.
- Take That!: Towards the the
Fandom-Specific Plot where Tobias is stripped of his Sinnoh League win. As Tobias points out to the two cops who are trying to arrest him, if it was really illegal to use a Legendary-only team to do the League challenge, he would have been informed and/or stopped way before his win. When they call him out for denying Ash Ketchum a victory, Tobias admits that he admires Ash, even if he has a tendency to handicap himself when it comes to major competitions. And then it's revealed that "Tobias" never existed in the first place; the identity was created by a group of Legendary Pokémon that wanted to try out the League challenge for themselves. Darkrai in particular is peeved at the officers for trying to claim their win wasn't legitimate. - Verbal Tic: The two police officers have a habit of saying "Yo" all the time at the end of their sentences.
