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** The author will occasionally insert [[Overly Long Gag|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":

* [[Crosses the Line Twice|Crosses The Line At Least Ten Times A Sentence On A Slow Day]]: Chobin.

* [[HSQ]]: It starts with Ash and Pikachu [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomping]] an entire army by themselves. Goes up from there and doesn't stop.

** The thing behind the door {{spoiler|is Giratina!}}

** {{spoiler|T-Bone IS The Masked Marauder!}}

** [[Fridge Horror|Now realize]] that {{spoiler|she's ''Dawn''. Either say goodbye to your childhood, or gain a ''lot'' of newfound respect for a familiar character.}}

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: {{spoiler|Manaphy.}} After {{spoiler|his [[Happily Adopted]] mother May}} 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 {{spoiler|as a Legendary. Eventually, he left a village that worshipped him to die, and when the gods stripped him of his title,}} 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 {{spoiler|his current life,}} anyway.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: The Treecko evo line is renowned for their general badassitude. While disguising themselves...

'''Ash''': He's right, they are. }}

** Later, Leo brings down a Grovyle with herbicide.

* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Gallades, apparently. Borders on [[The Pornomancer]].

** Bruce. You know him as Crawdaunt from the previous book. He ''is'' [[The Pornomancer]].

** What the Nihilators do to torture {{spoiler|Dawn}}. The heroes don't even see any of it when she has to relive the experience in her mind.

** {{spoiler|James's death at the hands of Leviathan.}} Made worse because {{spoiler|being immortal let him live through being gibbed by the final attack.}}

* [[Squick]]: Try to read through Chobin's dialogue without dropping your jaw with disgust.

** [[Crosses the Line Twice|Done.]]

** As of Chapter 53, his [[Villain Sue]] status is looking shakier when {{spoiler|Darkrai humiliates him via [[Loophole Abuse]].}}

* [[Wangst]]: Approached by Ash in a moment of flagging self-confidence, until...

'''Briney''': Yes, but you were starting to get angsty, and when that happens, no good can come of it. [[Defied Trope|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 and Max Freelance Police|Sam's]] aggressive interrogation techniques fail against Brodie, he tries a [[Film Noir|Noir]] monologue. Everyone in the room is subsequently depressed to tears.

** {{spoiler|Regigigas.}} He was tragic enough on his own, but when the Nihilators capture him {{spoiler|by binding him with chains made of the other Regi's....}}