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** In a sharp turn to what we're used to, Ash himself is as much, if not more so. When he's not being the familiar [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|lovable doofus]] out of combat, of course.
* [[Badass Boast]]: {{spoiler|The trolls accidentally think that Briney is someone called Wodin One Eye, a one eyed deity of death and terror to almost all of them. Briney's response? "Oh, I'm not him. ''I'm much worse.''"}}
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Leo once he works off some basement
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Ash uses a disguise that has such awesome facial hair, it fools Team Rocket. Of course, it ''is'' Team Rocket...
** [[Badass Grandpa|Briney]] on the other hand, has a truly awesome mustache that may just double as a blade. Tellingly, his very mustache is a [[Shout-Out]] to Whitebeard...this may give you an idea of how much of a Badass he is.
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** {{spoiler|Don't you mean Briney's ''Golden Dream'', or rather ''Peeko XII''?}}
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The Nihilators' ''modus operandi''. Oblivion's Shadow sometimes uses it as a power source.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: Judgement, the Nihilator [[Expy|expies]] that Team Getem is dealing with. However, [[Eviler Than Thou]] kicks in and Richie admits that Judgement is a club for [[Knight Templar
* [[Crapsack World]]: TREASURE TOWN. It's says something that it makes places like [[BioShock (series)|Rapture]] and [[Borderlands|Pandora]] look liveable.
** [[Running Gag|Not as bad as Genocide City...]]
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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Buzz to Jessie.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Team Aurabolt, full stop.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Even more so than the first book, it seems. {{spoiler|Keep in mind the world has already been annihilated and rebuilt once, so as long as [[Deus Ex Machina|the right deities]] are still intact by the end...}}
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Team Aurabolt has fought a few, like Yamatorochi and one of Tarantulas's creations. Giratina is still an Eldritch, and other beasties like the Gaiavore are sure to show up later. Additionally, it seems lately that {{spoiler|Lily's "imaginary friend" B is not only quite real, but some sort of extradimensional...''something'' that can directly ''see love'', but at least he/she/it appears to be a friendly one.}}
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Invoked by Light of Justice.}} He thinks Team Getem is [[Not So Different]] in their goals but they refused every offer to join forces. {{spoiler|Once the Nihilators are exposed}} he believes he will be successful this time. "it is not unreasonable for enemies to join forces against a common foe, is it?"
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Gardevoir, which is different to [[The Grotesque|how she was in Latias' Journey.]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Pikachu]]: Where all other Pokemon have regular names, Pikachu is actually ''named'' "Pikachu" (family
** Gardevoir as well.
** Pikachu's little brother Pichu freaks out when Delia is pregnant with a third egg, because unless he earns his name rather quickly there'll be two Pichus running around and he doesn't want to be renamed Pichu One or Pichu A.
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** What, no mention of the main cast? Considering how the work is essentially a reskin of [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]], it doesn't take [[Amateur Sleuth|Pennington]] to figure out which member of Team Aurabolt corresponds with which member of Mario's party (or for that matter some of the story's antagonists and the main antagonists from the same game)...
** Captain Briney is also heavily themed by Whitebeard of One Piece fame; it starts with him being a terrifying badass in the second worst city in the world and a VERY familiar mustache, and as the chapters go by, he comes constantly close to matching Whitebeard in raw Badassery.
** Ritchie shows up, and just like the anime he's a shameless carbon copy of Ash. And like everything else, this is [[Rule of Funny|taken to its logical conclusion]] by having Ritchie's ''[[Similar Squad|entire team]]'' [[Expy
*** On another note, Lu, Dawn's counterpart on Team Getem, is a [[In the Hood|hooded]] [[Gratuitous Italian|italian]] [[Professional Killer|assassin]] who used to belong to a noble family that was killed by a 'Rodrigo Borjia'. [[Assassin's Creed II|Sound familiar?]]
** And now we have one of '''[[Dan Green]].''' {{spoiler|He doesn't last long, sadly.}}
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* [[Happily Adopted]]: Ash to an extent, though he was already an adolescent at the time of his soul transplant.
** Junior, Collette, and Sapphire were adopted by Ash and Misty, and are all pretty happy with this arrangement. Matthias is adjusting fairly well to life with the Thunderblades as well.
** Given their species and that of their father, either May or
** In an inversion, that Tiny was adopted by Ash is probably the ''only'' thing in the world he could stand.
** {{spoiler|Dawn}} has clear memories of watching her biological mother murdered immediately after birth, and her adoptive mother coming to her rescue. She's pretty clear about considering the latter to be her mother for all practical purposes.
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* [[Inner Monologue]]: There actually weren't that many until Briney came aboard, but now he has [[Deadpan Snarker|way too much fun]] abusing psychic powers to butt in on these.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Most notably Chobin who ''is'' insane. Viers, formerly Midboss, is also like this but he'll start making sense if you think about it long enough.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Mercifully, the subject is changed before we get any details of Molly/Fat
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Valerie the Kirlia, who not only waltzes out into a pitched battlefield to interview [[Sociopathic Hero|Nuken]] of all people, but when he brushes her off in lieu of mauling a [[Mook]] she frees him up for the interview by [[Your Head Asplode|slaying it herself]]. Her followup is to abduct an enemy soldier right off the frontline for an interview.
* [[It Gets Easier]]: Leo has this after killing a Nihilator, before quickly realising that said person really deserved it. [[Word of God]] says that it was parodying Cody and Yolei's turmoil from killing Digimon from [[Digimon Adventure 02]].
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'''[[Not So Above It All|Sasha]]''': It makes sense to me.<br />
'''[[Seen It All|Yamiri]]''': It seems perfectly plausible. }}
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: {{spoiler|Lily and Dawn}}'s lives take a significant step up when they join the party, getting out of their respective [[Trauma Conga Line
* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]:
** Anyone that joins Dexoy's crew is offered [[Immortality]]. Even after traveling to the far reaches of the omniverse and living for millenium they still enjoy it.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Paul to Ash during the Mt Battle Arc, who, despite his type disadvantage, mangages to remove one of Ash's leg's AND eyes, as well as blowing a hole through his chest, all while being completely unfazed by any attack that Ash threw at him {{spoiler|Due to his immortality}}
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Whatever the hell happened to make him a cyborg, Tarantulas never wants to discuss it again...
{{quote|'''Chobin''': [[
* [[No Social Skills]]: Sasha sees no problem with eating Team Aurabolt's latest kills, and is quite cynical about many "civilized" customs.
{{quote|'''Sasha''': See, [[Zombie Apocalypse|this]] wouldn't be a problem if you would just ''eat your dead!''}}
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Close your eyes, scroll to a random point in any given chapter, and there's about 1/4 chance you'll be in one.
** Oh good lord. Fantina and Bellum's "[[Crazy Prepared|I prepared for this]]" exchange is ludicrous.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Lilly's birth mother is one of the [[Complete Monster
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Trantalus and Chobinn having a spat is better than soap opera for the mooks in the bridge.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|Dawn}} is in total servitude to Pikachu and will do anything he asks. Not only does the very idea of asking her to go along these lines [[Chaste Hero|not sit well on him]], but she's actively suggested it on multiple occasions and is basically doing everything short of pouncing him to [[Oblivious to Love|get it through his head]].
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* [[Serial Escalation]]: Whether your jaw dropped first at the [[Squick]] or the absurdly epic fight sequences, don't bother picking it up from the floor. It just keeps getting [[Moment of Awesome|better]] and worse.
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: Chapter 34 is [[Lampshaded|actually called this]] and contains the team's fight with {{spoiler|Brodie}}.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: In contrast to the first book, Ash and Misty are not a couple early
** Pikachu and the ninja Buneary get this a lot too.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Looks like Briney's trying to push Leo and {{spoiler|Lily}} together, not to mention Pikachu and {{spoiler|Dawn}}. Possibly because he considers it "[[It Amused Me|fun]]." [[Cool Old Guy|Oh that crazy old bastard...]]
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** Similarly, Pikachu and ''[[Everyone Can See It|the entirety of Pokemon Square]]'' were shipping Ash and Misty.
** Briney's probably the only one shipping Leo and {{spoiler|Lily}} though. Everyone else is honestly a little [[Dysfunction Junction|frightened]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|of]] [[Talkative Loon|the]] [[Raised by Wolves|possibilities]].
** [[Olympus Mons|Darkrai]] is apparently shipping all of the above too. {{spoiler|He gives Dawn a healing spell for her voice that will only kick in when she's happy enough to evolve, confirms for Leo that his [[Intimate Healing|idea]] to sever Lily's slavery to Giratina can work, and is very glad to assure Ash that Misty is alive.}} So basically despite the whole nightmares and terror thing, he's kind of a [[WAFF
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many. Many many. Several in particular to [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]].
{{quote|'''Sabrina''': That's right. I can break necks with my mind.}}
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|In chapter 53, Ash and Dawn come inches away from killing Articuno and Paul respectively, only for the ice wave to freeze them and Bellum to take them away before they can do the job. When Lily has Bellum on the ropes, she's tricked into letting Bellum go as well to save them.}}
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Pro Tip: Don't fail Oblivion's Shadow. He won't KILL you if you still have use, but he will make you wish for death.
** Weirdly, inverted for the most
* [[You Never Asked]]: Lily initially forgets to mention several important plot points, including the identity of one of the Big Bads.
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Subverted when Ash and company use Aura to project their spirits into {{spoiler|Dawn's}} heart. Leo assumes this trope is in effect, and Ash's response is along the lines of, "What? No, that's stupid. Why in the world would the Aura Guardians set up their ''own'' advanced technique that way?"
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