TheLoadingCrew is a husband and wife team made up of 2 independent artists. The husband, Stuart, is in charge of the YouTube channel and producing video content, while the wife, Alaina, produces the webcomics Momma CQ and Jelly Realms Adventures.
On the channel, they play Pokémon Tabletop Adventures, Pathfinder, and a few other games with some of their friends: Xthedarkone, Lady_nanaki, megami33, hbi2k, and Masako X of Team Four Star. They also have been creating crossover content with creators such as Linkara, Suede Blade, The Dom, and Calluna from Channel Awesome.Com, Jelloapocalypse, and the team from The Third Wheel.
This particular adventure follows Team Fresh Floof, a team of Pokémon Trainers journeying through the Utopus region, a custom region that focuses on team battles.
The team:
- Lavi - martial artist, aura guardian, black belt, massage therapist
- Jade - capture specialist, engineer, snagger, collector
- Luna - ranger, coach, commander, signer
- Scarlet - mystic, god speaker, spirit healer, touched
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[Pokemon Tabletop Utopus Region] contains examples of:
- Aborted Arc: Prism, and his daddy issues, in Republic City.
- Advertising by Association: The series, before the opening animation, usually advertises the Loading Crew's plush jellyfish, as well as the Patreon for the series.
- After Action Patchup: Lavi. No one else gets injured as badly as Lavi, and he consistently needs medical attention, to the point of needing therapy and medication to recover.
- Alternate Timeline: the Dream and Nightmare Timelines
- An Ass-Kicking Christmas: The Republic City arc took place over Christmas.
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Archive Panic: With over four hundred episodes (not counting Patreon exclusive content and streams) you're looking at days of content. - Asleepfor Days: Scarlet
- Bottom of the Barrel Joke: In Rod We Trust.
- Badass Normal: Jade has no special powers to speak of, but is arguably the most effective trainer in the group.
- Badass Adorable: Jade.
- Big Damn Heroes: At Empire City, they arrive just in time to save a family from the villains. Bonus points because the GM intended for them to only see the aftereffects of the event, not to actually show up when it happened.
- Bolivian Army Ending: Wild Colony. There are still issues in the area, and it will not be cleaned for quite some time.
- Boxing Battler: Lavi.
- Captured Super-Entity: Chibitina.
- Character Shill: Luna, during the Port Oligarch arc, was advertising for a berry planter place.
- Clones Are People, Too: Crystal
- Clueless Chick Magnet: Lavi
- Combat Medic: Scarlet, and Lucario.
- Crossover Episode: More like Crossover arc. A whole 27 episodes with Team Peasant Poppers.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Phoenica.
- Cute Is Evil: Chibitina.
- Dashing Hispanic: Jesus
- Early Installment Weirdness: Sound balance issues, and rules discussions, slowing down the first few episodes may mess with more rule focused viewers.
- Enhanced Punch: most of Lavi's move-set, enhanced by his aura.
- Everything's Better with Samurai: The people of Ransei.
- Fanservice Episode: Just... the whole Port Oligarch Arc.
- Futile Hand Reach: Lavi and Lucario, back when he was a Riolu. Riolu during the empire city arc saw his master supposedly back from the grave and reached out his hand. The same happened with Lavi in Wild Colony.+
- Gag Censor: The "Pika" and ["Pokémon!" Bootstrapped Theme] used to Censor Sware words on the YouTube videos.
- Gratuitous Ninja: Akimoto
- Groin Attack: Samson to the Ultra Beast in Episode 3 of the Peasant Poppers side story
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!!: Scarlet to Looker at the end of the Wild Colony arc.
- Great Detective: Looker.
- Grimy Water: The water in Empire city, and in the areas affected by it, are so polluted that trash Pokémon are considered an issue.
- Herr Doktor: The Beheeyem, Dr. Altear.
- Heroic BSoD: Lavi, Scarlet, and Riolu. Lavi, whenever Luna mentioned his father, broke down. Scarlet, near the Wild Colony, broke down she thought Jade and Lavi were dead, following the nuclear explosion and after witnessing Pokémon dying in nuclear fire. Riolu shut down when he saw his master back from the grave.
- Ladykiller in Love: Jesus in the Port Oligarch arc is this.
- Latin Lover: Jesus
- Leitmotif: Cena. As would be expected, his theme is that of John Cena. Later receives an upgrade via LittleVmills's Djent Cover.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Rudy, at least for 2 episodes or so.
- McNinja: There is a whole village of Ninja despite this not be their home Region.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Jade.
- No FEMA Response: Averted; Looker after the Wild Colony arc. Looker does manage to get international organizations to provide aid to Wild Colony and help with the cleanup.
- No Indoor Voice: Valdus, to put it kindly.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!!: Wild Colony.
- Ninja Brat: Watashi.
- No One Should Survive That: Jade and Lavi. Turns out, they survived a nuclear meltdown by digging underground via Garchomp family.
- Only Knownby Their Nickname: Everyone calls Lavi, Lavi. Despite Lavender Drake being his given name.
- Otaku: Watashi
- Out-of-Character Alert: Lavi, at the power plant near Wild Colony, just outright states the password.
- Palswith Jesus: they've met and absurd amount of legandaries and befriended most of them.
- Perky Goth: Nera.
- Puppeteer Parasite: The Puppeteer Parasite that controled Prism.
- Retcon: a few times
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Party, Team Peasant Poppers,and Team Prism, just to name a few.
- Reference Overdosed: Everything, from the Pokémon RéBURST Manga to Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Regional Riff: Jesus's entrance Guitar riff.
- Reset Button: The Time Gear
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Jade
- Rich Bitch: Amber, at least when Luna is involved. Averted with Phoenica.
- Running Gag: So many. Examples include:
- "You find a fork in the road; near the fork is multiple paths."
- West changed forever; now there are True West and False West, the latter of which changes throughout the day.
- Series Mascot: Chibitina.
- Signature Move: Lavi's Focus Punch.
- Standard Evil Organization Squad: Team Vision
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Team Vision's apparent motive
- Talking Is a Free Action: Combat is interrupted by talking many times.
- Team Mom: Luna
- The Artifact: GS Balls.
- The Cutie: Scarlet, she is the source of a lot of the more adorable sounds and actions.
- The Hero: Cena the giant Pinsir.
- The Leader: Luna, who often takes control of the odder situations the group gets into.
- The One Guy: Lavi.
- The Quiet One: Scarlet
- The Smart Girl: Jade, she can hack and was the more tech savvy member of her family back home.
- The Rival: Team Prism, or, more specifically, Amber (to Luna).
- The Players are Goldfish: Lampshaded by Jade in episode 318. The viewers do a great job of remembering; the players tend to forget details. Sometimes Justified in the case of Scarlet, whose player (especially early on) would fall asleep.
"I go to sleep and the cool *Pika* happens!"
— Scarlet, Several Episodes
- Theme Song: Dialga's fight to the finish.
- With the new Season comes a new opening; "Road to Victory!" by Megami33.
- Time Bomb: Wild Colony. They need to stop a nuclear meltdown within a certain time period.
- Timey-Wimey Ball: The plot
- Took Alevel In Badass: Really all of them. This is a Table Top RPG, what did you expect?
- Utility Party Member: Jade.
- Viewers Like You: This series is funded in part by the Patreon.
- Wrong Sideofthe Tracks: Anarcity.
