Latias' Journey/YMMV


 * Author's Saving Throw - See Navel Gazing.
 * Complete Monster:
 * To a lesser extent, Mewgle can be argued as one. And . And I suppose the Regis. Two at least.
 * Not to mention . Sealed when he killed.
 * The Alpha Ranger harms most of his friends, kills numerous characters, and does some rather cruel things to Brock.
 * Dark Latios. See his High Octane Nightmare Fuel page above.
 * Infernatrice beats the heck out of Charizard and RIPS HIS WINGS OFF! This forces Latias to
 * Mariah nearly destroys May's psyche during their battle with her insults.
 * Team Cipher with their Shadow Pokemon-creating ways.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - Many.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny - Also many.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - Not quite as many, but no short supply nonetheless.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome - Jigglypuff and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's Blow Me Away.
 * Latias bringing down an Eldritch Abomination while singing Otherworld -- not the kind of song you'd expect her to be singing.
 * Mary Sue - Three, explicitly by name. One early on Another one is an Eldritch Abomination that creates more via The Corruption.
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * Dark Latios
 * Suicune's rape and torture.
 * getting his head eaten by a living mask for another.
 * Pretty much the entire last quarter of the book or so.l act for another.
 * One True Threesome - A particularly weird Improbable Species Compatibility example: . You may now scrub your brain with peroxide.
 * If one recalls properly, it becomes fairly obvious that is really a case of
 * Shipping Bed Death - Refreshingly averted. Ash and Misty hook up quite early on, and their ongoing relationship is handled as a an integral part of everything happening around them.
 * Squick - The descriptions of the undead/mutilated Legendary Beasts. Ugh.
 * It gets to the point during the final arc where one of the ghastly settings is actually discarded as "kind of so-so as far as generic hellscapes go".
 * The final arc has no short supply of this.
 * Values Dissonance - A frequent point of discussion. Pokemon, being essentially animals, tend to be pretty direct about certain things, and it often weirds out their human trainers and those Pokemon that have spent more time among humans.
 * Latias forgives the Ghost King for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, because 2 out of the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead said they forgive him.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids? - Yes, Latias' Journey is based on the kid-friendly Pokémon anime. But it also contains Nightmare Fuel, intense violence, intense gore, horror, sexual situations, profanity and deep philosophical/religious overtones.
 * The Woobie - May. Gets Overshadowed by Awesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him is unrequited Gets curbstomped and speeched by a godmoding Mary Sue. Holy shit.
 * Mercifully, she's a good deal better off in the sequel. So far.
 * Isn't one of the reasons May is better off in the sequel because she's only appeared in a relatively minor arc where her only main problem was her father's disappearance caused her mother to break down and she and Max were planning on figuring out what had happened to him and just so happened to manage to enlist Ash's team...I just jinxed both her and her brother didn't I?
 * To a lesser degree, Wobbuffet.
 * Isn't one of the reasons May is better off in the sequel because she's only appeared in a relatively minor arc where her only main problem was her father's disappearance caused her mother to break down and she and Max were planning on figuring out what had happened to him and just so happened to manage to enlist Ash's team...I just jinxed both her and her brother didn't I?
 * To a lesser degree, Wobbuffet.