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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Obviously]], the star is [[Olympus Mons|Latias]]. When the Ghost King destroys her home city of Alto Mare and kills all of her friends after she spurns his advances, she is forced to embark on a long journey that takes her across the [[Pokémon]] world. There, she meets up with Ash and the other Chosen. Together, the Chosen are forced to embark on many adventures across the land.

 

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* [[Aint No Rule]] - Ash invokes this ''six times in a row'' against [[Marty Stu|Berry Stoo]] and his [[Eldritch Abomination|poké-Sues]]. {{spoiler|Ash curbstomps him 6-1, with his only loss being a [[One-Hit Kill]] Pursuit}}.

** <ref>1) Phanpy challenges the much larger Oliphan to balance on his rubber ball. Oliphan smashes the ball, Phanpy cries, and Oliphan gets pelted by the audience with garbage until it forfeits.<br />2) Bayleef burns a Stun Spore cloud with Solarbeam to fill the air with sparkles and give her opponent a seizure.<br />3) Charizard has been hypnotically regressed to childhood. His opponent is goaded into doing so as well [[Too Dumb to Live|for some reason]], and ends up reformatting its own brain because as an eldritch it ''had'' no childhood.<br />4) Corphish sings [[Bawdy Song|an obscene song]] to distract his opponent and punches him a lot [[Groin Attack|in the jumblies]].<br />5) Latias sings death metal as a combat distraction, backed up by the Pokerockers and their [[Humongous Mecha|giant sonic-weapon mecha]].<br />6) Pikachu [[Heroes Prefer Swords|pulls out his sword]] and forgoes distractions altogether, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and just pounds the crap out of a poké-Sue in a straight fight]].</ref>

* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Judging by the city it is based on, Altomare has over 800,000 people living in it. The Ghost King destroys the whole city. Not even Latias, the sole survivor, holds this against him for more than a few months.

* [[Ascended Glitch]] - During the final arc {{spoiler|while everyone gets their [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]], Phanpy is evolved into a "corrected" version of one of [[Marty Stu|Berry Stoo]]'s [[Eldritch Abomination|Poké-Sues]].}}

* [[Badass]] - Quite a few, but Mewtwo and Wes are the most prominent.

* [[Badass Spaniard]] - Zorro and his entire team, and Brock's Lombre.

* [[The Bet]] - Wobbuffet's Goth phase turns out to be just a bet with Meowth.

* [[Brainwashed]] - Tate and Liza do this to Latias. {{spoiler|It is actually a test to see how strong the bonds between Ash and his Pokémon are}}.

* [[Biological Mashup]] - {{spoiler|Cerebrus is Raikou, Entei and Suicune combined, Coldstone is Regice and Regirock, and Omega is Shalor and Shining Ranger. Most of them end up being [[Body Horror]]}}

* [[Bloody Hilarious]] - Eventually you start to get jaded to the [[Gorn]], and then the less-dramatic cases to characters you don't care about so much start drifting into this. The deluge of [[Black Comedy]] throughout <s>exacerbates</s> helps.

** Also happens to Maxie when the three Regis effortlessly kill all his trainers and their [[mons]].

** Ah, hell, Phanpy has this occur to to him several times.

* [[Cyberpunk]] - Arguably the region of Silica. Rukario describes it as thus:

{{quote|'''Rukario''': A desolate wasteland devoid of Pokemon or plant life, a hollow kingdom of neon and twisted metal populated by people who hungered more for short-lived pleasures and comforts than the simple pleasures of living. }}

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - ''Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way ,[[Overly Long Gag|way]]'' more than the source material.

* [[Dark Fic]] - Possibly the darkest of the dark. When it's not being [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror|funny]]. Or sometimes [[Black Comedy|both at the same time]].

{{quote|'''Latias:''' So you even denigrate your comrades who fight alongside you. You attack a pair of Pokémon who had done nothing to hurt you without provocation or warning, intend to beat me to a pulp to capture me, and are also assisting a madman with his evil plans. You are no hero.

'''Red Ranger:''' Hey, as long as the people of Ever Grande City think I am, and I get paid for my work with money and power by Ford, I don't care what you call me! }}

* [[Doorstopper]] - 1,186,409 words of text.

** The sequel is 1,624,420 words and will probably get longer.

* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|Dude, He's Like, In A Coma!]] - {{spoiler|''Molly! [[What the Hell, Hero?|What the hell?!]]''}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]] - {{spoiler|May. Doesn't quite work. [[The Woobie|She might've been better off if it had.]]}}

{{quote|She was wearing a blue bodice with white lace around the collar that ran down her chest to a set of light blue silk skirts. Black straps were crisscrossed across her thin upper arms, and blue velvet cloths were wrapped around her lower arms.}}

** An in-universe example, there are repeated references to a [[Brain Bleach|female Machoke supermodel]]...

{{quote|'''Bayleef:''' "What is it with people and stupid acronyms these days!"}}

* [[Gainax Ending]] - ''Twice''.

* [[Psychic Powers]] - Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some ''serious'' [[Blessed with Suck|costs]] for their power.

** And of course Psychic Pokémon.

* [[Reference Overdosed]]

* [[Reincarnation Romance]] - Most notably {{spoiler|Latias and Rayquaza,}} but this is also hinted at for other couples.

* [[The Power of Rock]] - The Pokerockers, an all [[Pokémon]] rock band. They have assisted in killing an [[Eldritch Abomination]], a walking [[Diabolus Ex Machina]], and their rock-[[Humongous Mecha|mecha]] was co-opted by the local ''goddess'' in the climactic fight.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - Repeatedly, and almost always from the bad guys. {{spoiler|Deoxys}} uses this to psych out his opponents through sheer [[Gorn]].

* [[Touched by Vorlons]] - Molly Hale gains ''incredible'' powers after her interactions with the Unown.

* [[Translation Convention]] - [[Word of God|Ri2]] says "For convenience's sake all Pokéspeak will be written in English. Just pretend the humans can't hear them, though".

** And then subverted when [[The Ditz|Chimecho's]] dialogue is translated...identically to his [[Pokémon-Speak]].

** {{spoiler|Also Bulbasaur to Sceptile during the final battle.}}

* [[Virgin Sacrifice]] - Team Aqua brings in a naked woman to sacrifice to Kyogre. For Groudon, Team Magma brings in a fat, nerdy, unattractive man who is [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|far more embarrassed about his status]] than worried about being chucked into a lava pit.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]] - There are some pretty fucked up moments in the story.

** As mentioned on the [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs]] page:

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