Pokémon Masters of Azeroth

Pokemon Masters of Azeroth is a Crossover between Pokemon and World of Warcraft. According to the reviews, it’s Better Than It Sounds. It starts off as your standard crossover: characters from X end up in world Y. It becomes slightly more complicated than that. Somewhat dark story, with plenty of death and violence. Of course, it does have its moments of comedy and romance as well.

It starts when portals mysteriously start opening in the pokemon world, leading (one-way) to Azeroth. Misty and Ash step through one of these portals, only to run into Gary, who has become a mage after arriving in Azeroth earlier. Later they meet up with Team Rocket, as well as a colorful cast of characters native to the World of Warcraft, and even later, trainers they’ve never met before. Together, they get caught up in the middle of the Scourge invasion, and become heroes of the war against the undead Scourge, all while Gary tries to figure out how to make a portal home.

Pairings: Gary and Misty, Ash and Zaraia.


 * Fantastic Romance: Ash and Zaraia
 * Mood Whiplash:
 * / Fridge Horror:
 * Storming the Castle: Of course.
 * Character Development: Most of it takes the characters closer to Badass levels.
 * Back to Back Badasses: The Rivals Team Up variant – Gary and Ash are able to pull this off pretty well against the Scourge.
 * Battle Cry: Misty has “For the Alliance!”, Ash has “Lok’tar Ogar!”, Gary has a handful of Thalassian phrases.
 * Heroic Second Wind:
 * Now or Never Kiss / Last Kiss:
 * First Kiss: Gary and Misty, Ash and Zaraia.
 * Body Count Competition: Starwisp and Zin’ja have such a contest.
 * Rescue Romance: Ash and Zaraia.
 * First Episode Resurrection: Not technically first chapter, but James gets killed off very near his first appearance. Then the Scourge take him.
 * Trapped in Another World: Obviously.
 * Love Triangle:.
 * The Cavalry:
 * Forging Scene: A more minor example is when James adds new runes to his sword.
 * Shoot Your Mate:
 * Walk Into Mordor: To enter Icecrown, the heroes can’t simply walk in the valley, because it’s swarming with The Undead. Instead, they ride through the mountains.
 * Baleful Polymorph: Gary knows a spell to turn people into sheep. Ash is in the group. You do the math.
 * Interspecies Romance / Mayfly December Romance: Ash and Zaraia
 * Shirtless Scene: Gary gets one due to the need to remove a bandage around a newly-healed wound. Author Appeal? You betcha.
 * Sleep Cute: Gary and Misty
 * Automaton Horses: Granted, the mounts spend a lot of time in other planes of existence, so they have time to rest. Even so, they are your standard RPG mounts.
 * Screw You Elves: The elves are usually too busy fighting with each other to fight with humans, but when they do, this trope is pretty much Ash’s ‘’job’’.
 * Big Bad: The Lich King and his Scourge.
 * Already Done for You: Malygos and the dragon war are important to the main plot, but the heroes never directly deal with him because the red dragons decide to take care of it for them.
 * It Only Works Once: Also, not technically, but in practice,
 * Character Magnetic Team: Lampshaded by James, who suggests calling the protagonist party the “Order of the Snowball”, because like a snowball rolling down a hill, it just keeps getting bigger.
 * Already Done for You: Malygos and the dragon war are important to the main plot, but the heroes never directly deal with him because the red dragons decide to take care of it for them.
 * It Only Works Once: Also, not technically, but in practice,
 * Character Magnetic Team: Lampshaded by James, who suggests calling the protagonist party the “Order of the Snowball”, because like a snowball rolling down a hill, it just keeps getting bigger.