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Pokémon Quarantine Crystal draft
The developers of Pokémon Quarantine Crystal highly encourage players to go into the game blind, which is impossible to do after reading the TV Tropes page. As such, all spoilers (with few exceptions) are unmarked. The original game is free to play (with a ROM of Pokémon Crystal), so out of respect for the developers' wishes, we strongly recommend that you download the patch HERE
and play it before continuing further.
Lace up your running shoes and explore the new Johto!
During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders, sprite artist latenight began creating a Pokédex of fake Pokémon based off of prompts from 4chan's /vp/ board. An anon known as QDexAnon took interest in their designs and began creating a ROM Hack of Pokémon Crystal that replaced all 251 Pokémon with latenight's Fakemon. Initially meant as a simple roster swap, the hack, now dubbed Pokémon Quarantine Crystal, soon evolved into a total overhaul hack.
Pokémon Quarantine Crystal is an overhaul hack of Pokémon Crystal headed by latenight and QDexAnon alongside a small team of artists, composers, and programmers. Though the story is mostly the same as the Johto games, the roster is now comprised of totally original Fakemon, and there's a number of new mechanics from previous generations, such as the Running Shoes, reusable TMs, the physical-special split, the Fairy-type, and much more, creating an experience distinct from Gold, Silver, and Crystal and their remakes.
The game currently has a 12-gym demo, the patch for which can be downloaded here. You'll need to apply the patch to a ROM of Pokémon Crystal, which you'll need to find yourself for legal reasons.
A digital trading card game, based on the base set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game and played via Tabletop Simulator or LackeyCCG, was announced in May of 2023. Featuring artwork from various members of the community, the first base set was released in October of 2023, with future sets currently in closed beta testing.
Pokémon Quarantine Crystal provides examples of the following:
- Action Bomb:
- Antpyre and its evolution Generopsis are both ant-like grenades, and the former have been known to throw themselves like actual grenades at their foes.
- Pilfoard learns Explosion by level up, and since it's part Normal-type it gets a STAB boost, making its Explosions exceptionally painful. The infamous "exploding Koffing" Executive at the top of the Radio Tower uses five Pilfoards (and an Icosahed) instead. And all of them hold Pink Bows* .
- Adaptational Badass:
- Several of the gym leaders have been given stronger teams, but special mention goes to Bugsy. He no longer specializes in the Bug-type (though his ace is still a Bug), but rather has a diverse team themed around gardening.
- Team Rocket in general has stronger teams than in vanilla, however the Rocket Executive at the top of the Radio tower takes the cake. He manages to control Goriath, a hulking and powerful legendary, with the radio waves from the tower. It doesn’t last for very long, but he still puts up a damn good fight.
- Adaptation Deviation:
- The Lake of Rage plot has been altered quite a bit from the original games. Rather than a shiny Gyarados rampaging due to evolving earlier via Team Rocket’s radio waves, it instead involves the Lake of Rage becoming extremely polluted, not only causing the surrounding wild Pokémon to become poisoned (even the Poison-types sans the invasive Elephoot), but giving rise to a (non-shiny) Bermudant, whose presence only worsens the pollution.
- On a more minor note, a Ganzerker blocks Route 36 instead of a Sudowoodo, and rather than being a simple roadblock it actively bites those who get too close. In order to get it to move, you need to honk a Bike Horn at it instead of watering it.
- The backstory behind Ecruteak's towers also differs. In the originals, the Brass Tower burned down and took the lives of three nameless Pokémon, who were later revived by Ho-Oh. In Quarantine Crystal, the Brass Tower was built to house the lord of storms, Kamidaiko, who ended up destroying its own tower due to its insolence. The stand-ins for the Legendary Beasts, the Emissariesnote had to seal it away, seemingly sacrificing themselves; however, it's later revealed that Ryunari put itself and the other members of its trio into a protective slumber. Additionally, the Tin Tower was built for the (currently unobtainable) Avatrice, who left the tower to seek more riches for itself.
- Adaptation Expansion: Whereas Lavender Town in the vanilla games was just a pit-stop for most players, with the only thing to do being to get the Expansion Card so they could clear the sleeping Snorlax, there's quite a lot to do in the Noble Purple Town in Quarantine Crystal. The Radio Tower has been expanded into a TV studio and now houses a Kaiju set that doubles as a gym, in addition to an actor that can be battled once a day. There's also a subplot where players need to find the source of some Strange Signals in order to get the Expansion Card.
- Art Evolution: As development progressed, many of the sprites have received full revamps, often with more dynamic poses and generally cleaner art.
- Angelic Abomination: Allseeraph plays into the classical multi-eyed and winged depictions of Seraphim, albeit as a Lighter and Softer example. It's quite benevolent however, having the utmost loyalty to its trainer.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- Features returning from later generations include the physical-special split, the ability to run from the start, and reusable TMs.
- The Guide Gent of Cherrygrove now serves as the Move Relearner, offering his services in exchange for Poké Dolls. Poké Dolls are a renewable resource that can be bought from Azalea’s Poké Mart for a reasonable price.
- Stone evolutions no longer have gimped movepools, and now learn moves via level-up (albeit still more slowly than their pre-evolved forms) rather than requiring the Move Relearner for all of them, though some do have relearnable level 1 moves.
- Players are now able to tell whether an egg will hatch into a shiny Pokémon by its menu sprite. If the egg’s sprite is purple instead of yellow, then a shiny will hatch from it. Similarly, shiny Pokémon have differently-colored menu sprites.
- Beginning in 0.8, the need for HM moves has been cut entirely in favor of field techniques; all the player needs is to complete a quest in order to unlock the technique as well as a Pokémon capable of executing it. The HM moves are still in, but they serve as ordinary TM moves and have all been buffed (with the exception of Surf, which got a Base Power reduction).
- Kurt no longer takes a day to create his Poké Balls, getting them done instantly for the player.
- The player no longer needs to input an obscure button combination nor enter a hard-to-get password to reset the clock, as an option to do so is available on the main menu.
- Author Appeal: The development team are huge fans of the Kaiju genre as well as classic monster movies and comics, and it shows throughout the game:
- A number of Pokémon are either based on a concept made into a Kaiju (i.e. Saigohana) or aspects of the genre (i.e. Casanocte and Smotherene being based on People in Rubber Suits). The secret Mist Stone evolution to Ganzerker, Ganzorah, is an obvious King Ghidorah Expy, right down to its name and golden shiny form.
- Mossarre is partially based on Swamp Thing, while Giguard is a Xenomorph Xerox.
- Lavender Town's gym is a Kaiju movie set, complete with one of the trainers being a man in a Godzilla suit. The Gym Leader is a Toku hero named Giant Hero who uses a number of giant, Kaiju-like Pokémon.
- Body of Bodies: A few G-rated examples:
- Meowntain is a giant cat monster comprised of lots and lots of Shabbycat.
- Brigadoom is a large dragon comprised of several skeletons.
- Murdermis is a scarecrow made up of several crows, which it controls to protect crops.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Illuxury, oh lord Illuxury. Prior to fighting and catching it, it's built up as the protector of Ilex Forest a la Celebi, keeping the Yuggromi at bay during the daytime. After placing the QT ball and following it, disguised as a beautiful girl, through the forest, it says "Got... you..." before fighting you. Its Pokédex entry states that many people believe that it is the true "fiend of the forest" rather than Yuggromi, and the woman who tells you about the Spore Fiend Pokémon coming out at night reveals that they weren't being kept at bay by the so-called protector, but rather were the result of a curse that becomes stronger at night.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Wouldn't be a Johto game without cheating trainers, would it?
- A number of gym leaders have evolved Pokémon that are several levels lower than they can be legally obtained at. The two worst offenders are both of Falkner's Pokémon and Morty's Moodswine.
- Whitney's Maulzer, Snuggles, knows Hackles Up* at level 26, despite Maulzer not being able to learn the move until level 35.
- Disc-One Nuke:
- Subverted with Yuggromi, the fiend of the Ilex Forest. It’s supposed to be a Hopeless Boss Fight found only at night, having a slim chance of being encountered at Level 57 at a point where your mons are in the early-mid 20s at most. The way the player is supposed to beat it is by throwing a Poké Doll at it to make it leave you alone. However, tenacious players can exploit the Random Number God in certain ways, such as lowering accuracy with Flash or Mud-Slap (both widely-distributed moves that are given to the player early on) and/or by inflicting Paralysis and Sleep. By doing this, the player can slowly whittle its health down and possibly even catch it at low health. Helping things is that there is an Ultra Ball in Azalea Meadow, somewhat improving your odds of catching it (though good luck doing that without savestates since it has a catch rate of 1). Once you do? It will never obey, as Yuggromi caught in the Ilex Forest are programmed to disobey their trainers, regardless of how many badges the player has acquired.
- Played straight with Gloomen, who can be found before the second gym as a Loomen in the Cuttlebone Well. It's decently fast and powerful for that point in the game, in addition to being strong against a number of Bugsy's Pokémon. One can also evolve it before the third gym by giving it a Sun Stone, obtained by winning the Bug-Catching contestnote . Upon evolution, it gains the Rock typing (which happens to be good against Whitney), high bulk and Special Attack in exchange for lowered Attack and Speed, and learns the somewhat strong (for that point in the game) Ancient Power as well as Draining Kiss and Morning Sun via move relearner. Not only is it super strong for that point in the game, but it also performs well throughout the rest of the game.
- Also played straight with Tranquiel, the replacement for the Mystery Egg Togepi. While it starts off weak, it learns the sleep-inducing Lovely Kiss early on, and learns the strong-for-that-point Draining Kiss shortly after. Its stats are decent enough to the point where it has a solid matchup into Bugsy. Max out its friendship (which can be done before said Gym Leader if you're tenacious enough) and you'll get the insanely powerful Allseeraph, who can get strong moves via move tutor (whose prices have been reduced) and gets Calm Mind to bolster its already impressive Special stats to insane levels.
- Dog Stereotype: Quarantine Crystal introduces a number of dog-based Pokémon, many of which fit certain breed stereotypes:
- Maulzer, which is based on a British Bulldog, is part Fighting-type and is prized for its strength. It also has a bad reputation due to being abused.
- Tido fits the "sweet and excitable Bull Terrier" stereotype. It's also a literal land shark.
- The Mopedor line is based off of the seldom-seen Komondor, which is said to have a somewhat standoffish temperament, especially towards strangers. Indeed, Mopedor is said to be hard to raise and require maximum friendship in order to evolve.
- Fueghast is based off of the even less common (and extinct) Fuegian dog, which unlike other domesticated canines was not bred from the gray wolf. It's a Ghost- and Fire-type that needs to be revived from a fossil and is just plain weird, both in appearance and mannerisms.
- Double Meaning:
- Drassal's category is the Horde Pokémon. This refers to both the fact that there are several specimens of this Legendary Pokémon in the wild and how it steals items to build up its master Avatrice's hoard.
- The Okunae line's categories are "Minute" for Okunae, "Second" for Koukaika, and "Midnight" for Saigohana. Not only does this refer to their evolutionary stages, but they also reference the Doomsday Clock.
- Dredwood's category is "Feller", referring to both it felling trees and being a fellow.
- Dragon Hoard: Avatrice (who currently can't be obtained as of this writing) left its tower in order to build its hoard. It commands hordes of Drassal to do its bidding and gather more riches for itself.
- The Dreaded: Yuggromi is feared as the Fiend of the Forest due to preying on any unfortunate soul who wanders into the Ilex Forest at night.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles:
- Shiny Pokémon return in this game and are sometimes used by NPCs. Usually, the Breeder trainer class has a couple, but a few boss trainers use them, such as Whitney and her shiny Maulzer.
- If a player encounters a shiny Pokémon in the wild, a special, faster-paced battle theme will play instead of the standard wild encounter music.
- Like in vanilla Crystal, the Odd Egg has a higher-than-average chance to be shiny. Unlike Crystal however, whether the Odd Egg is shiny or not is indicated by the menu sprite; if the egg has a purple sprite, then it’s gonna hatch into a shiny.
- You can find a shiny Mt. Noot in a secret corner of the Ice Path. This was added to make shiny breeding easier, especially since it belongs to two of the more common Egg Groups (Sauria and Mineral).
- Face of a Thug: You'd be forgiven for thinking Nikujira is an evil legendary, since it's an ominous, ghastly Trunko themed around carrion. However, it's just as benevolent as its brothers and helped seal away the rampaging Kamidaiko.
- Fairy Dragons:
- Drassal is a cute little pixie dragon that happens to be a bit of a kleptomaniac. Despite this, it's not part Fairy-type, instead being Bug- and Dragon-type.
- Aefaedra has the Fairy/Dragon typing, but looks more like a bird than a fairy or a dragon.
- Ghost Town: While training on Route 45, you'll likely come across an abandoned, ruined town with a sign that had become too faded to read. Entering the sole house and reading the diary reveals that the town used to have an observatory. As you go through the house's basement, it slowly becomes more and more glitchy and distorted, until you arrive at the same house with the same diary, with the eerie addition of "Won't you join us?". You are then transported to an illusory version of the town during better times, and re-entering the house lets you catch Andromega, the (probable) culprit behind the town's destruction. As you say goodbye to the town, its true name is revealed: Thismia Town, where the stars always shine.
- Flipping the Bird: Hinted at by one of Red/Blue Rudey's special texts before it attacks:
Red/Blue Rudey makes a forbidden gesture!
- Flower Motifs: A subtle one for the Okunae line. The latter halves of their name references the different stages of a flowernote , which serve as a metaphor for their nuclear powers.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: In addition to the usual Pokédex quest, there are a bunch of trading cards scattered around the Johto and Kanto regions. Collecting enough of them will unlock battles against the protagonists of Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!.
- Guide Dang It!: As the game deliberately lacks documentation, certain aspects of the game, such as evolving certain Pokémon or finding them, can be tough to figure out on your own.
- The entirety of the Mist Stone sidequest is this, requiring the player to complete certain events before talking to a certain NPC and then complete another event, which takes them to a puzzle that needs to be completed before the Stone mysteriously appears in your bag. Not to mention figuring out which Pokémon evolve using it.
- However, none of that compares to getting the secret evolution of Buzzling. In addition to completing the above quest, you have to train up a Buzzling to a very high level, evolve a certain Pokémon using the Mist Stone, show it to a certain scientist, then get a special item item and use it on Buzzling.
- The Hedonist: Kamidaiko, a taiko drum-themed legendary, absolutely loves to party with its Blazelle. Unfortunately, its parties also happen to be both loud and destructive, and it actively ignored the villagers' pleas for it to stop, eventually running away when confronted. It took the combined powers of Terratora, Nikujira, and Ryunari to seal it away, and even they had to enter a protective slumber in order to stay alive after the ordeal.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Even with the egg group revamp, a number of odd pairings are still possible. One such pairing that can produce offspring is Nanaturuk (a giant Multi-Armed and Dangerous bear) and Wormeek (a tiny, cowardly worm) due to both being in the Invertebrate egg group.
- Informed Species: Deliberately invoked with Brehonnos prior to 0.8, who was known as Wendigaunt despite bearing no resemblance to a Wendigo. Instead, it is a Celtic deer forest guardian combined with a sun bleached tree motif. According to latenight, they deliberately avoided designing an actual Wendigo when given the prompt to do so in order to avoid offending Indigenous Americans, as mentions of the creature are considered to be highly taboo.
- Instrument of Murder: Fendra is a vicious dragon that resembles a Fender guitar.
- Iwo Jima Pose: If you look closely at Brigadoom's sprite, one can find a skeleton doing this pose with the flag in its body.
- Kabuki Theatre:
- The Kurobi line is based on this combined with a snow leopard.
- The Actor you battle in Lavender Town will dress as a Kabuki warrior on Wednesdays.
- Jerkass: The entire gimmick of the Red Rudey line is that it insults you before it attacks, such as making "forbidden gestures" and implying that you failed school.
- Joke Level: Downplayed as it's just a small room, but Victory Road has a hard-to-reach room that has level 33 Nomsters as its only encounter (for context, you'll be encountering fully-evolved, powerful Pokémon in the late 40s in the rest of the dungeon), as well as a strength puzzle that leads only to a measly Repel and a frowny face made of rocks.
- Magikarp Power:
- Retroglyph is an interesting case. Though it’s the game's stand-in for Unown, it has decent stats and an actual movepool. However, though its stats are higher than Unown’s (which isn’t a very impressive feat), they’re nothing particularly special and Retroglyph’s movepool is somewhat shallow. Stick with it until level 50, and it learns freaking Sketch, letting it have any move it pleases. And since Sketch can be relearned infinitely, this turns Retroglyph from an okayish Unown replacement to an extremely powerful and versatile mon.
- Hoplaque is a straighter example. It can be obtained from the Odd Egg at level 5, and its stats are an absolute joke. Level it up for a bit and you get Phanguard, who is a fair bit stronger and learns a decent STAB move in Shadow Claw upon evolution. Stick with it until the late 40s, and you get Brigadoom, an insanely strong Ghost- and Dragon-type with a wide movepool and excellent stats across the board.
- Mascot with Attitude: Soaro is a three-way cross between Sonic, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro, with its name being a mis-mash of all three characters'. Classified as the Nostalgia Pokémon, it is beloved by the 8-to-10 demographic and can cause obsession if one is exposed to it for too long.
- Mythology Gag:
- Among the buffed moves is Hyper Beam, which no longer requires a charging turn if it knocks out an opponent. This behavior is identical to that of the Generation I games.
- The Artist trainer class uses the same encounter theme as the Artists from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, albeit remixed in an 8-bit format. This is the only track recycled from the main series games (excluding the ones from vanilla Crystal).
- The pinch theme that plays when Lance is on his last Pokémon is a remix of the first English opening theme from Pokémon: The Original Series.
- The TCG, as well as the in-game cards, make reference to attacks found in the main series but not in Quarantine Crystal, including Jaw Lock and Struggle Bug.
- Nuckelavee: Nuckawheez is a Lighter and Softer take on the creature combined with bagpipes. True to its inspiration, it's a Water- and Poison-type oceanic pestilence spirit.
- Partially-Concealed-Label Gag: If the player has a member of the Red Rudey line in their party and reads a sign, the Sponge Pokémon will vandalize the sign, leading to this trope. For example, Cianwood's vandalized sign will read "WOO A Poo".
- Precious Puppy:
- Tido is a cross between a shark and a Bull Terrier, and it’s way cuter than it sounds. It has a very Keet personality and was commonly kept on ships to raise morale.
- Moperdor is an adorable cross between a Komondor puppy and a mop, though it's said to be quite stubborn.
- Recurring Element: Though the designs are largely original, many of the series' recurring archetypes are found within the region:
- Furnit, Hoatot, and Qwail all fulfull the Common Bird archetype, with the former two having three stages and the latter having two. None of them evolve into Normal/Flying-types, however.
- Nomster is the requisite common rodent, though its final evolution Nomsabre is a fair bit stronger than the typical rodent (complete with a strong signature move). Also unlike the other common rodents, it has a secret, ultra-powerful third stage that can only be obtained with the mythical Mist Stone and sheds the Normal-type completely.
- Buzzling and Wormeek both serve as downplayed examples of the (respectively) intimidating and docile early Bug-types, as they evolve later than usual, with the final forms having higher-than-average stats to compensate. Notably, Wormeek outright sheds its Bug-typing in favor of becoming part Fighting.
- Dolmite serves as the early three-stage Rock type a la Geodude or Roggenrola.
- Ambinni serves as the resident Pikaclone, though it notably deviates from most of the others in that it's a three-stage evolutionary linenote .
- Tranquiel is the requisite Togepi replacement, complete with being a Fairy-type with an angelic motif that evolves via friendship.
- Bobbite combines the role of a Poké Ball mimic with being a fast, hard-to-escape-from Ground type a la Diglett.
- Cantalone is the resident multiplying metal object, going from one can to a six-pack upon evolution.
- Sappura and Junobe both serve similar roles to Abra, with Sappura being able to Teleport and Junobe being a pure Psychic Glass Cannon.
- Salaryman: One of the new trainer classes introduced, these trainers are consistently depicted as frustrated and depressed. They usually wield Salarito, a depressed fish designed after salarymen who developed a tough skin after being taken advantage of by higher-ups on the food chain.
- Secret Character:
- There's three hidden forms of Retroglyph that are unlocked if you solve the delinquent's "tile puzzle".
- Not to mention the Mist Stone evolutions, which are well-hidden and very convoluted to obtain.
- Single Specimen Species: Played straight will all of the Legendary Pokémon... except for notable aversion Drassal. There's actually several specimens of this little pixie dragon, with one being used by Champion Lance as one of his aces. They can be found as a regular (albeit very rare) random encounter in the Whirl Islands' deepest chamber, though they have a high propensity to run away.
- Space Whale:
- Mobyus, a Legendary introduced in 0.8, is this combined with Moby Schtick and a mobius strip.
- Stellocean was Mobyus's previous incarnation, being an enormous galactic whale combined with a nebula. It was a regular three-stage line instead of a Legendary, however, and was ultimately cut in 0.8 to make way for Mobyus.
- Stock Money Bag: Pilfoard is a living money bag, albeit with a Pokédollar symbol in place of the usual dollar symbol.
- Shout-Out:
- One of the first Pokémon you'll likely encounter while surfing is the Commando Pokémon Ramboyant, who fire seeds from their beloved machine gun-like sticks.
- There's a line of clown Pokémon named Barnom and Baelee.
- Among the newly introduced moves is Bibbidi-Bop, a Fairy-type multi-hit move.
- If you surf far enough north of Cianwood, you can find and battle the game’s Superboss, who is none other than Yotsuba&!.
- Illuxury, this game’s stand-in for Celebi, is a living Touhou Project reference, complete with being a red-clad Miko a la series protagonist Reimu.
- Examining the Moperdor on Route 39's farm has the player refer to it as "Good dog. Best friend."
- With the exception of Saturdays, the Actor in Lavender Town's TV Tower will dress up as different movie characters, many of which are Captain Ersatzes of iconic movie and TV characters. These include the T-800 Model 101 Version 2.4, a Xenomorph, Sadako Yamamura, and on Sundays, straight-up ALF, complete with a team of cat-like Pokémon.
- Blue Rudey is based on the Blue Meanies.
- Totally Radical:
- Sidficious parodies this, with its over-the-top punk design and Pokédex entry:
"After getting an involuntary piercing, Sidficious now feels really cool. Almost too cool for you, too!"
- The Radical trainer class, who speak like stereotypical 90s teenagers and prefer Electric-types as well as groovy Pokémon like Djamm. Kanto has their pseudo-Distaff Counterpart in the form of the Skater trainer class.
- Sidficious parodies this, with its over-the-top punk design and Pokédex entry:
- Video Game Caring Potential: Buzzling's Pokédex entry mentions that it pleads to stay unevolved. The player can keep it unevolved, and while Buzzling is quite weak it at least prevents the parasites from taking over, turning it into Injectoid. The player can take this to the next-level in the post-game by completing a number of convoluted quests that eventually yields a cure for Buzzling, letting it shed its parasites completely and evolve into Viivii.
- Villain with Good Publicity: As mentioned above, Illuxury is a malicious legendary Pokémon who is implied to be responsible for the outbreak of super-strong Yuggromi in Ilex Forest during the nighttime. However, those in Azalea believe that Illuxury protects those who enter the forest during the daytime via casting a boon that keep the Yuggromi at bay.
- Visual Pun:
- The reason why Nanaturuk is Multi-Armed and Dangerous as well as in the Invertebrate egg group is because it's a Water-type bear. In other words, a water bear, AKA a Tardigrade.
- Maulzer is a giant dog that has the horns and tail of a bull, making it a literal bulldog.
- Tido’s design is an amphibious shark combined with a Bull Terrier. Those dogs, along with other Pit Bull-type breeds, are often (derisively) called “land sharks”. Tido is a literal land shark (albeit much friendlier than expected).
- Walking Ossuary: Brigadoom is a Dracolich comprised of multiple skeletons.
- Xenomorph Xerox: Giguard, one of the evolutions to Clibble, strongly resembles a Xenomorph and is said to be motherly and protective by nature.
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- Distanced from Current Events: Part of the reason Vazzinate was renamed as part of its rework was due to the fact that anti-vaccine attitudes were on the rise as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine around the time 0.6 was released. The developers were accused of harboring such sentiments due to the fact that Vazzinate is a malicious Pokémon that involuntarily injects other Bug-types with its young, leading to the name being scrapped in favor of Injectoid.
- Throw It In!:
- The reason Majesdor can Soar as of 0.8? A user was doing a dog-based Pokémon only run and discovered that they had no way to use Fly outside of catching a designated Fly mon, so the developers decided to add it in primarily because of that (and also for the Rule of Funny).
- Maulzer was the result of latenight misinterpreting a prompt (a Bull Terrier Pokémon, which would later become Tido), as they had gotten the breed mixed up with British Bulldog. Despite this, the Jowl Pokémon was kept in anyway (and eventually resprited due to initially looking more like a rat than a dog).
- Drownsuguy was created as a joke by latenight, making fun of European sea monsters that have strange names like Nelly Longarms. The other members of the development team found it hilarious, and it was kept in ever since.
- Similarly, ALF as a Pokémon trainer was originally an April Fools' Day joke, but was eventually kept in as the costume the Actor wears on Sundays.
- What Could Have Been:
- A number of Pokémon had either drastically different designs (such as Chompion being less organic) or were scrapped entirely (most notably a volcanic Godzilla Expy).
- "Tension", the theme that plays before encountering a Legendary Pokémon, was originally the encounter theme for the new Wizard trainer class before being reworked due to it not sounding fitting for them.
- A few Pokémon had their types changed during development, such as Voltinger being changed from Electric/Ground to Electric/Flying or Wandulus originally being part Normal.
- The infamous glitch Pokémon Missingno was originally going to be a Secret Character, but was scrapped due to a lack of space in the ROM.
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- More Popular Replacement:
- Hornampa was often derisively referred as "shitbird" thanks to a mix of its Unfortunate Character Design and it being a Master of None despite its strong Ground/Flying typing. Its 0.8 replacement, Sirracotta, was welcomed with open arms due to being a badass terracotta dragon slaying owl knight and for having stronger stats.
- Snokage was poorly received by the player base due to being a "fursuit jobmon" and sticking out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the roster. It was replaced by the more feral kabuki-inspired Kurobi in 0.8, and was more warmly received than its predecessor.
- That One Boss:
- Bugsy is a Wake-Up Call Boss that reminds players they aren't playing any old Pokémon game. His Sappura has Hidden Power Fire to deter any Tobaccoons that try to cheese the fight, while his Eelkie is quite bulky and has an exceptionally annoying Parafusion set with Lick and Confuse Ray. Meanwhile, his Orgnome can and will shred through teams with Growth and strong STABs, but his Buzzling of all things takes the cake. It's deceptively bulky thanks to its Eviolite, and can and will abuse the game's RNG with Double Team and Fury Cutter.
- Morty is this for one reason: his Moodswine. Apart from being wicked underleveled, its Normal- and Ghost-typing leaves it vulnerable only to Dark-type moves, and it has excellent offenses and Speed. Shadow Ball hits anything that doesn't resist it like a truck, while Headbutt also hits hard and has a good chance to flinch. Of course, if you happen to have a Pilfoard or a Dismaiden (both of whom resist both of its STABs), all Morty can do is hope for repeated Headbutt flinches.
- Koga has a number of strong, bulky status abusers, making fighting him a slog. His Yuggromi is especially annoying thanks to its typing leaving it only weak to Ground and its access to Spore. He also tends to pull out his Baafomet, a strong physical sweeper, late into the match, letting it pick off your crippled team.
- Karen. Her Mothomen hits hard and loves spamming Double Team, while her Yagagarasu is a strong Mighty Glacier that carries Bright Powder as a middle finger to the player. And then there's her Shamsel, which hits hard and has strong anti-ground coverage in Liquidation.
- The game's Superboss is this in spades. Yotsuba&! will use every aspect of the Random Number God against the player, be it with confusion via Confuse Ray and Dynamic Punch, evasion boosts, or paralysis with Grimneedle. Not to mention how obscenely bulky and annoying her Virues is.
- Unfortunate Character Design:
- The Furnit line was often referred to as "shitbirds", as their muddy armor looked like they were coated in fecal matter. This was part of the reason they were reworked into the Porceling line in 0.8; while Porceling still has a muddy shell, the rest of the line has sun-baked shells that resemble a knight's armor.
- More like Unfortunate Title Screen Design, but the updated title screen for 0.8 has been noted to somewhat resemble the infamous Goatse image by some.
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Web Animation/hololive draft
hololive is a Virtual YouTuber group founded by Cover Corporation. Although marketed as a team of idols, the group is also known for its Let's Play livestreams and hand-animated 3D shorts on its main channel. The group initially only encompassed musical talent from Cover Corp.'s Inonaka Music label — namely, one Tokino Sora — but eventually grew to two dozen idols and counting, not including their international talent.
hololive provides examples of:
- all lowercase letters: The group's name is officially "hololive", although English forum threads often feature alternate capitalization (Hololive/HoloLive).
- Contractual Purity: Perhaps as a side effect of their idol culture marketing, hololive's members are rarely (if ever) shown collaborating with male Virtual YouTubers, whether from holostars or others outside the group.
- Crossover: With Azur Lane. A select few hololive members show up in-game, redesigned as shipgirls, and the hololive event's campaign makes various references to the livestreaming shenanigans said characters were having at the time of the event's release (mainly their antics on their private Minecraft server).
- Digital Avatar: The earlier idols use a 3D one for their videos. Nowadays, newer talent is represented by 2D artwork animated via Live2D, although the more popular idols may eventually get a 3D model.
- Distaff Counterpart: One of hololive's sub-divisions, holostars, is comprised solely of male talent.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: hololive's earlier cast of characters are relatively normal as far as idols go. However, their 3rd generation (explicitly named Hololive Fantasy) and 4th generation of idols runs the gamut from knights and pirates to dark elves, animal girls of various species, and angels.
- Idol Singer: Much of the content that hololive's individual members put out is hours-long Let's Play livestreams, but they're all undeniably talented vocalists. A small sampling of the songs they performed at their first live concert, "Nonstop Story", can be found here.
- Slice of Life: The 3D animated shorts on hololive's main channel often have this kind of plot, although they also usually have some sort of Surreal Humor aspect to them.
Just For Fun/Lemon draft
"The tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world, primarily for its juice, which has both culinary and cleaning uses."
—Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
A Lemon is a fruit with explicit healthy content. This can range from plot-what-plot fruitfests with no justification, to exquisitely planted and crafted seeds that just happen to follow their participants into the soil (and through the subsequent action therein) on a regular basis. Once a common term, they are some of the most popular fruit in the world, and are by no means extinct.
The term "lemon" can't be used as a noun and an adjective interchangeably: "It's a Lemon tree" and "It's a Lemon" are functionally different; the former usually refers to the plant that grows from the ground, and the latter usually refers to the yellow fruits it bears. Those fond of Lemons may refer to their taste as 'Lemony Goodness'. Surprisingly, despite being a fruit, the term is not automatically synonymous with "delicious", or even "sweet". It's also subjective. Many are not fans of the fruit by itself, often considering them bitter, and instead opt for beverages with lemon in it. Somebody venturing into football-shaped fruits for the first time may see a fruit as a lemon, while a more experienced botanist may consider it a Lime.
Lemons are high in nutritional value, being very good sources of Vitamin C, making them a fine addition to your dietary collection. They are often made into lemonade, a sweet drimk made with lemon juice, water, and sugar. Glasses of water may be served with a lemon wedge due to sweetening the flavor and the aforementioned vitamin benefits.
The complementary fruit Lime still has some usage, and these two have been combined in lemon-lime flavored drinks. Some sodas (most notably Sprite, 7-Up, and Sierra Mist) are In-Taste-Only mashups, containing almost none of what makes lemons so good for the body in the first place.
Names
- Alice
- Bob
- Carol
- Dave
- Eve
- Faythe
- Grace
- Heidi
- Isaac
- Judy
- Klein
- Lisa
- Mallory
- Niaj
- Olivia
- Peggy
- Quentin
- Rose
- Sybil
- Trent
- Ulysses
- Victor
- Walter
- Xavier
- Yasmine
- Zachary
Not fair, where's MY name?! -An angry Rachel
It's actually the names used in cryptography, my past self.
Watch Object Shows
Ciao Alberto is a 2021 animated Short Film follow-up to Luca, directed by McKenna Harris. It premiered as part of Disney+ Day 2021 to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the Creator/Disney+ streaming service.
Set after the events of the movie, the short follows the adventures of Alberto as he settles into his new life in Portorosso and attempts to strengthen his bonding with Massismo.
Ciao Alberto contains examples of:
possible tropes...
- Continuity Nod: This short shows what happened with Massimo and Alberto after Luca and Giulia head off to school in Genova.
- Parental Substitute - Massimo, of course. Much of the trailer consists of scenes where he and Alberto are doing things together.
- Stuff Blowing Up - Alberto somehow causes an explosion in the kitchen that covers Massimo and the wall behind him with tomato sauce.
- Tail Slap - The trailer shows Alberto intercepting a soccer ball by jumping into the fountain, changing into his sea monster form and using his tail to slap the ball back.
- Voiceover Letter - The trailer opens with Alberto reading a letter from Luca about his school adventures. Much of the voiceover in the trailer reads as Alberto writing his own letter back.
