Brave New World (fanfic)/YMMV

The novel:

 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: At the end of John and Mond's debate, John decides that he wants the freedom and the unhappiness with the defiant words: "I claim them all."
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The worship of Henry Ford looks even sillier given the direction of his namesake company and the U.S. car industry as a whole.
 * Moral Event Horizon: The painful conditioning of Delta babies against books and flowers.
 * Nightmare Fuel: For John, the hundreds of human clones who he describes as "long rows of identical midgets" and "human maggots squirming over beds of death."
 * Squick: In the casually promiscuous society in which the book takes place, it is considered healthy - even endearing - for young children to sexually experiment with each other. There is also a memorable passage pointing out the more Freudian aspects of breastfeeding, and the descriptions of John's mother.
 * Values Resonance: One of the newer printings says this on the back cover.

The fanfic:
"Leo: Awww, I was hoping I could be a Treecko!
 * Big Lipped Feraligatr Moment: You know something had to be particularly bizarre for even Tarantulas to refuse to mention it again.
 * What was it again? Oh yes; Chobin temporarily becomes crazier than usual,
 * The author will occasionally insert long tracts of backstory for bit characters, then announce that it doesn't matter because it has little bearing on the story and you may never see them again anyway.
 * Complete Monster: We stopped counting. "Highlights":
 * Bellum, a Frosslass who finds great joy in not only freezing, killing and torturing her opponents with much enthusiasm, but also in torturing her youngest daughter, sometimes for the thrill of it.
 * Let's face it, she makes  look like a loving father.
 * Prof. Tarantulas, a cyborg Ariados who experiments on his patients, not only taking pleasure in harming them, but also occasionally killing some of them, driving them insane, or closing their hearts to become his unwilling servants. He's the Pokemon version of Josef Mengele, who'd be a Complete Monster himself if it wasn't for Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement.
 * Interestingly, he is a bit of subversion due to the fact that he cares for his assistant...however he is also partly responsible for his unimaginably disgusting behavior.
 * Chobin, Prof. Tarantulas' assistant who is arguably the most disgusting Pokemon in existence. Completely and totally psychotic, he has in the past sexually violated, tortured, and eaten the patients Tarantulas is done with.  This does not help.
 * Paul. Yes, it's not much of a stretch from the anime version of Paul, but he got worse.
 * J, who is even worse than in the anime - especially since, as a Pokemon Hunter, she's technically a serial kidnapper in this world.
 * Now there's Gal, the Monkey King of Mount Blaze. When Team ACT is sent after him, he not only murders Alakazam, but he also brutally beats Charizard and rips his wings off. (Ironically, this is partly what leads to his downfall.)
 * , the Admiral, begins as The Woobie, claiming that he missed his  and went after the end of the world to look for  . You stop feeling sorry for   when you discover that, by neglecting his duties, he allowed a village of people   to be killed, allowed Lugia and his family to be turned into Shadow Pokemon, has made Kyogre   his own personal slave (who thankfully ultimately gets his revenge on him), and regrets none of it. The kicker? He blames Ash for EVERYTHING.
 * We have YET ANOTHER ONE.  is responsible for
 * also makes a habit of devouring  own minions.
 * Mewgle. Some things never change.
 * It gets worse when it's revealed that
 * The Nihlators, period. They're basically Team Cipher reincarnated, only even more nightmarish, actively sadistic and omnicidal followers of evil. The sole exception to this is their, Oblivion's Shadow. He's quite polite,
 * God help us. Especially given the chance he'll be far worse.
 * Crazy Awesome: Half the cast, Leo in particular.
 * Special mention to the rebelling slaves inside the Nihilator base. The Nihilators use brain implants to monitor their very thoughts. The slaves' solution? Allow their psychic ringleader to afflict them with multiple personality disorder to decoy the chips while they continue to plot in secret.
 * Crosses The Line At Least Ten Times A Sentence On A Slow Day: Chobin.
 * HSQ: It starts with Ash and Pikachu curbstomping an entire army by themselves. Goes up from there and doesn't stop.
 * I Knew It:
 * The thing behind the door
 * Iron Woobie: The ninja Buneary not only keeps her horrible traumatic past to herself, but also
 * Now realize that
 * Jerkass Woobie:  After  died in the destruction of the world, he freaked out and spent an eternity trying to find her reincarnation. He failed and sank into bitterness and anger, choosing to abandon his duty  he flipped out again. A Moral Event Horizon or two later, it's easy to pity him for never finding his mother figure or her spirit after she was supposed to be reborn, but he's a big jerk about it.
 * Not in anyway.
 * Memetic Badass: The Treecko evo line is renowned for their general badassitude. While disguising themselves...
 * Memetic Badass: The Treecko evo line is renowned for their general badassitude. While disguising themselves...

Sasha: Why?

Leo: Because Treecko are hardcore!

Ash: He's right, they are."

"Grovyle: No way...I'm too...cool to go out like this..."
 * Later, Leo brings down a Grovyle with herbicide.

"Briney: Oblivion's Shadow will be the bigger threat. If you show any signs of losing it and becoming evil, I'll kill you before it progresses any further.
 * Even later, a Rescue refuses to fight a Grovyle named Crono (as in Chrono Trigger) because he has a sword, skyrocketing his Badass-powers and making him nigh-invincible.
 * Memetic Sex God: Gallades, apparently. Borders on The Pornomancer.
 * Bruce. You know him as Crawdaunt from the previous book. He is The Pornomancer.
 * Moral Event Horizon: It becomes impossible to feel sorry for
 * Leo says.
 * He's the only Nihlator not brainwashed that we can say crossed the line during the story.The rest crossed it long ago or never were outside it.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Chobin and Prof. Tarantulas ARE this trope.
 * Almost the ENTIRETY of the Tree of Life saga, and any scene in the Nihilators base, especially in Tarantulas' lab.
 * What the Nihilators do to torture . The heroes don't even see any of it when she has to relive the experience in her mind.
 * Made worse because
 * How Bellum's group decorates the tracks of Dusty Ditch.
 * Squick: Try to read through Chobin's dialogue without dropping your jaw with disgust.
 * Done.
 * Tear Jerker: The entire end of the Tree of Life Saga.
 * Michael's encounters with his Grandmother and sister.
 * And
 * Villain Sue: Oblivion's Shadow has shades of this. His conversation with Mespirit and  shows that he is not as all-knowing as he seems and is suffering doubt about his plans.
 * As of Chapter 53, his Villain Sue status is looking shakier when
 * Wangst: Approached by Ash in a moment of flagging self-confidence, until...
 * Wangst: Approached by Ash in a moment of flagging self-confidence, until...

Ash: I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or gratified by that...or annoyed that you keep poking into our heads! I was having a monologue there!

Briney: Yes, but you were starting to get angsty, and when that happens, no good can come of it. I thought I should cut you off before you started whining and bemoaning your fate, thinking you're a monster, and wearing black eyeliner and nail polish and maybe cutting your wrists."


 * When Sam's aggressive interrogation techniques fail against Brodie, he tries a Noir monologue. Everyone in the room is subsequently depressed to tears.
 * The Woobie: Lily, especially when you see what her mother's done to her in her entire life.
 * Also, Tiny.
 * To a lesser but still considerable extent, Gardenia from Team Rocket.
 * Ash, from how badly his life was FUBAR in the past, and having to bear the knowledge that the CosmicKeystones they are collecting could drive him Axe Crazy with another traumatic flashback.
 * Misty after she endures a ton of horrific torture and experimentation, gets dispersed throughout the multiverse, reformed on Deoxys's ship, and faced with her greatest fear. That's before we find out why she is afraid of bugs.....
 * He was tragic enough on his own, but when the Nihilators capture him