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• Author's Saving Throw - See Navel Gazing.
• Complete Monster:
  • (Deoxys. An Omnicidal Maniac who subjects his minions to a Fate Worse Than Death, a master of The Corruption, and so unbelieveably FUCKING SADISTIC he wants to subject EXISTENCE to one of the worst examples of And I Must Scream? He hasn't just passed the Moral Event Horizon, or even the Moral Event Singularity. Deoxys has transcended being a Complete Monster in it's entirety.
  • To a lesser extent, Mewgle can be argued as one. And Latias' Mother. And I suppose the Regis. Two at least.
  • Not to mention Ritchie. Sealed when he killed Latias.
  • The Alpha Ranger harms most of his friends, kills numerous characters, and does some rather cruel things to Brock.
  • Dark Latios. See his High Octane Nightmare Fuel page above.
  • Infernatrice beats the heck out of Charizard and RIPS HIS WINGS OFF! This forces Latias to turn the almost dead Charizard into a Charmander again to keep him alive.
  • Mariah nearly destroys May's psyche during their battle with her insults.
  • Team Cipher with their Shadow Pokemon-creating ways.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome - Many.
• Crowning Moment of Funny - Also many.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - Not quite as many, but no short supply nonetheless.
• Crowning Music of Awesome - Jigglypuff and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's Blow Me Away.
  • Latias bringing down an Eldritch Abomination while singing Otherworld -- not the kind of song you'd expect her to be singing.
  • The Pokerockers' Gurren Lagann-style charge against Mewgle draws its power from Live and Learn.
• Mary Sue - Three, explicitly by name. One early on captures Latias and a bunch of Legendaries with a ton of Master Balls. They break out thanks to Mewtwo's gambit. Another one is an Eldritch Abomination that creates more via The Corruption.
• Moral Event Horizon: Ford has his partner Blaziken brutally torture Charizard, turns Ash into Alpha Ranger. He becomes a Complete Monster when he becomes the Shining Ranger and kills Harrison.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Dark Latios torments his sister, kills their father Ho-oh, kills Lady Ho-oh by ripping out her spine and eating her body, force-feeds Latias her father's genitals(!), and then repeatedly rapes her both physically and mentally until she becomes an emotionless killing machine.
  • Suicune's rape and torture.
  • Iron Masked Marauder getting his head eaten by a living mask for another.
  • Pretty much the entire last quarter of the book or so.l act for another.
• One True Threesome - A particularly weird Improbable Species Compatibility example: Wobbuffet, Milotic, and Cacturne. You may now scrub your brain with peroxide.
  • If one recalls properly, it becomes fairly obvious that Groudon / Kyogre is really a case of Groudon / Kyogre / Groudon's awesome pants.
• Shipping Bed Death - Refreshingly averted. Ash and Misty hook up quite early on, and their ongoing relationship is handled as a an integral part of everything happening around them.
• Squick - The descriptions of the undead/mutilated Legendary Beasts. Ugh.
  • It gets to the point during the final arc where one of the ghastly settings is actually discarded as "kind of so-so as far as generic hellscapes go".
  • The final arc has no short supply of this.
• Values Dissonance - A frequent point of discussion. Pokemon, being essentially animals, tend to be pretty direct about certain things, and it often weirds out their human trainers and those Pokemon that have spent more time among humans.
  • Latias forgives the Ghost King for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, because 2 out of the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead said they forgive him. And then Latias marries the damn guy!
• What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids? - Yes, Latias' Journey is based on the kid-friendly Pokémon anime. But it also contains Nightmare Fuel, intense violence, intense gore, horror, sexual situations, profanity and deep philosophical/religious overtones.
• The Woobie - May. Gets Overshadowed by Awesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him is unrequited Gets curbstomped and speeched by a godmoding Mary Sue. And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's head explodes in her face right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and copies of her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an Eleventh-Hour Superpower with the rest of the cast, she's tricked into killing her real parents thinking they're copies, is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by Latias in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book. Holy shit.
  • Mercifully, she's a good deal better off in the sequel. So far.
    • Isn't one of the reasons May is better off in the sequel because she's only appeared in a relatively minor arc where her only main problem was her father's disappearance caused her mother to break down and she and Max were planning on figuring out what had happened to him and just so happened to manage to enlist Ash's team...I just jinxed both her and her brother didn't I?
  • To a lesser degree, Wobbuffet.

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