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''[[Knight PokemonPokémon University]]'' was a Role Playing Game on the Bulbagarden Forums that was active from December of 2009 to February 2012.
 
Where trainers and scholarly pursuits meet, there is the Knight Pokemon University. Trainers and Pokemon come to hone their skills under the tutelage of professionals and expand their horizons in an atmosphere of culture and understanding.
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… is probably what was intended. [[Mysterious Past|Maybe]]. But in actuality [[Wacky College|KPU is filled to brim with students that come from disturbed, depressing, and downright weird backgrounds]]. And the professors are hardly any better. Clones, robots, aliens, secret order leaders, inventors, former thieves, heartbroken maids, singers, and the occasional normal person all call [[Dysfunction Junction|this place a kind of home]]. Somehow, they manage to find some sort of common understanding amongst their fellow traumatized students as they all try to work out their various flaws and psychosis in everyday life. [[Rule of Drama|Or dramatically clash in a soup of drama and angst]]. (It’s like, you know, 50/50.)
 
And learning of some sort happens occasionally. [[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?|We presume]].
 
But it appears that the University is more than simply a place for learning and unofficial therapy. Dark forces are at work behind the scenes and will (probably) draw the mentally unsuited students into their machinations. ([[Adventure -Friendly World|Because, I mean… come on.]])
 
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''Knight Pokémon University'' was abruptly removed from the Bulbagarden Forums (allegedly for some manner of maintenance or reformatting) in late 2009, but it never returned. In 2012 the forum administration decided not to restore the game archives or start a new game.
 
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=== This game provided examples of: ===
 
* [[Academy of Adventure]]
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: The teachers generally didn't do much apart from teaching and refereeing friendly battles, despite generally being leagues ahead of the students in skill. While the teachers sat around and deliberated, it was left to the students to deal with most crises that arose.
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** As well as an NPC teacher from another Pokemon Roleplay.
** Colin's stepfather was set to appear in another Bulbagarden RPG, Evolution to Destiny. Said RPG died before it even got started.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: With the students having severe anger problems, [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|typical android problems]], coming from [[Crapsack World|Orre]], being an orphan and [[The Cynic|losing all faith in being good]], parent and self esteem problems, KPU should probably have invested in a psychiatrist.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Speaking of which (though they never completely fell apart).
* [[Fainting]]:
** Ciel, type Emotional
** Colin, type Anemic
* [[The Film of the Book]]: See [[Recycled: the Series]] below.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: There have been hints that the University wasn't all it seemed to be.
** Given the results of three students attempting to rescue a teacher that may or may not actually have been there, the University seemed to have a rather abnormal ghost infestation in the basements. Where this was going is anyone's guess.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Over 100 characters were registered. By the time the game was closed, less than 25 were active.
* [[Mary Sue Hunter]]: Characters were [[Incredibly Lame Pun|virtually]] killed for treading into Mary Sue terrirory, a majority of them by not-quite NPC Pit Beaker.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Roleplayers who break the rules excessively were usually punished by having their characters disappear without much explanation.
* [[Recycled: the Series]]: An animated [[YouTube]] adaptation is underway.
* [[Ridiculously -Human Robots]]: Two of them. The better example was one of the teachers, while the other was a student who was getting used to the "human" part.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Joanie's [[Little Shop of Horrors|talking, singing Bellsprout, Audrey II]].
** This being an internet game, that was merely the most present one. In game shoutouts ranged from [[CSI: Miami]] to [[Castlevania]].
* [[Spared Byby the Adaptation]]: Alexia Ravenwood, originally banned from the game due to a combined negative response to her strange powers and her creator's lip, is set to become a regular in the [[YouTube]] adaptation.
* [[Summon Backup Dancers]]: Collie, Annie and Bella often showed up out of thin air for musical numbers.
* [[Webcomic Time]]: Went for a few years and some change, and about five and a half days went by. Given that it was a forum-based RP, this is standard fare.
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