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'''''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey/ Latias' Journey]''''' by [[
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It's [[Doorstopper|absurdly long]], surprisingly deep from plot and character standpoints, [[Mind Screw|Mind Screwy]] with little way to tell just how much was planned ahead of time and how much was [[Ass Pull|Ass Pulled]] by the author, surreal and bizarre to hilarious extremes, interspersed with plenty of [[Lighter and Softer|lightheartedness]], epic fight sequences and acts of [[HSQ|unbelievable badassitude]]...oh, and sometimes it's really, ''really'' [[Dark Fic|dark]], [[Squick|Squicky]], [[Ludicrous Gibs|messy]], and all kinds of [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]].
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Oh sorry, we should've mentioned this is rated M. Pack your security blanket and [[Brain Bleach]]. Don't expect to stop laughing [[Black Comedy|even as you're traumatized]].
There is a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1969593/1/Your_Secret_Admirer prequel] and a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4319623/1/Brave_New_World sequel]. Sequel page here: ''[[Brave New World (
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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}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Many major characters fail to survive the final arc.
* [[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]].}}
** And {{spoiler|Missingno, the <s> glitch</s> Darklord Pokemon}}
* [[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.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - ''Do not'' make Latias mad. Destruction will ensue.
* [[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}}.
* [[Beware the Superman]] - Red Ranger is ''completely'' amoral and borderline sociopathic. {{spoiler|And the Alpha Ranger and Shining Ranger are even ''worse''.}}
* [[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.
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* [[Break the Cutie]] - {{spoiler|May. Dear Mew, ''May.'' Her adorable little Munchlax is shot in front of her, Drew's head gets exploded while she's standing right next to him, she sees her father killed horribly on national television, she fails to commit suicide, she is rejected by her own brother, she horribly kills her real parents after being tricked into thinking that they were Deoxys's monsters, and is finally given one of the worst deaths in an already horribly [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] story. '''Damn.'''}}
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]] - Happens to the Murkrow at Wing Fortress when Latias incinerates them and a good portion of the forest.
** Also happens to Maxie when the three Regis effortlessly kill all his trainers and their [[
** Ah, hell, Phanpy has this occur to to him several times.
* [[Contractual Immortality]] - Jessie and James have a contract with the show's producers guaranteeing their survival, as they are such popular characters. {{spoiler|Deoxys doesn't really care.}}
* [[Cyberpunk]] - Arguably the region of Silica. Rukario describes it as thus:
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** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Now look at Black City in Pokemon Black.....
* [[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]].
* [[Designated Hero]] - In-universe example: Red Ranger. A ''totally'' amoral and borderline sociopathic "[[Beware the Superman|superhero]]" is designated as heroic by {{spoiler|Mr. Ford.}}
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'''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! }}
** And the kicker? {{spoiler|He's ''Richie'' of all people.}}
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* [[Doorstopper]] - 1,186,409 words of text.
** The sequel is 1,624,420 words and will probably get longer.
** For comparison, the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy is around 525,000.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Driven to Suicide]] - {{spoiler|May. Doesn't quite work. [[The Woobie|She might've been better off if it had.]]}}
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] - Full force. Keep in mind what the Unown are offering the good guys if they win is basically a [[Reset Button]]. The hope of this may at times be [[Grimdark|the only reason you can keep bearing to read]].
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* [[Face Fault]]
* [[Fan Nickname]] - a few notable ones, though they're all spoilers:
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: [[Anyone Can Die|There are countless in this series.]] Some are subtle and some are just diabolical [[Gorn]]. Most notably are:
** About 99% of Earth's population are {{spoiler|turned into undead monsters.}}
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** Poor, poor Latias gets this during the final battle when she is {{spoiler|thrown into a neverending cycle of pain and lust by Dark Latios to perform his xxx-rated fantasies on her, turning her into a zombie.}}
* [[Fetish Fuel]] - Latias the Songstress. Here's a description of what she's wearing:
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** An in-universe example, there are repeated references to a [[Brain Bleach|female Machoke supermodel]]...
* [[Fun
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* [[Gainax Ending]] - ''Twice''.
** The first one {{spoiler|results in a relatively small fraction of the cast still alive, the good goddess heavily wounded, all of them setting up a last stand, and the bad guy has just destroyed the entire universe around them. And some three chapters of extremely esoteric [[Navel Gazing]].}}
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* [[Navel Gazing]] - {{spoiler|[[Gainax Ending|The entire first epilogue.]] The second epilogue, written a good deal after the fact when the author had a good deal more experience, [[Author's Saving Throw|blames it all on Mewgle trying to be pretentious]].}}
* [[Noodle Incident]] - Brock's trauma regarding Professor Ivy is finally explained.
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'''Ivy''': No, {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Funny|that was me before the operation]].}} }}
* [[Overly Long Gag]] - One could consider the [[Doorstopper|whole book]] one such, but the author is rather fond of these on the whole.
* [[Pair the Spares]] - Ri2 gleefully sticks characters together throughout the book. {{spoiler|During the [[The Stinger|epilogue]], an [[Overly Long Gag]] recaps all the pairings he's made. It lasts over two pages, has a [[Running Gag]] ''within itself'', and leaves the choice of Delia's significant other [[No Fourth Wall|to the reader's discretion]].}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Played straight and subverted. Ash despises his father for ditching his mother before he was born. At the very end of the book, {{spoiler|he finds out his father is freaking ''Zorro''. Turns out someone spiked the punch at a fundraiser, they did a few things they might not have otherwise (Delia specifically [[Really Gets Around|did several]]), and neither one remembered anything the next morning.}}
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* [[Pokémon-Speak]] - Averted. See [[Word of God]] under [[Translation Convention]]
* [[Primal Scene]] - The cast enjoys a quiet-before-the-storm party on the night before the final battle. Some of them go for more...[[Pre-Climax Climax|involved]] celebrations than others. So anyway, [[Children Are Innocent|Phanpy]] walks in on [[It Makes Sense in Context|Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with a Weavile. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[Harmful to Minors|probably]] [[Blank White Eyes|imagine]] [[Heroic BSOD|what]] [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|happens]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|next]].
* [[Psychic Powers]] - Psychic type humans are mentioned in this verse but they pay some ''serious'' [[Blessed
** And of course Psychic Pokémon.
* [[Reality Warper]] - [[Touched
* [[Reference Overdosed]]
* [[Reincarnation Romance]] - Most notably {{spoiler|Latias and Rayquaza,}} but this is also hinted at for other couples.
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** {{spoiler|They actually had ''no intention of following through on it'', as they expected the universe to end no matter who won. The only difference is that it would have rebirthed properly billions of years later if the good guys did, and they wouldn't be stuck in either [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] or [[The Nothing After Death]] in the meantime.}}
** {{spoiler|Fortunately it doesn't come to that. [[The Starscream|Mewgle's]] gambit to trounce everyone at the [[Gainax Ending|end]] backfires on himself ''and'' Deoxys and the universe is intact at the end. The local deities at this point basically [[Shrug of God|shrug]] and implement the [[Reset Button]] anyway.}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]] - Mewgle does this a lot in his [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], just for shits and giggles.
* [[Serial Escalation]]- Gets pretty epic fairly early on, proceeds to top itself repeatedly. The sequel ''starts off'' somewhere around the level of epic of the first book's penultimate arc, and just keeps running from there.
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** This story has Shout Outs to everything from [[Power Rangers|PokeRangers]] to [[Cthulhu Mythos|Tentacthulhu]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]] - Breaks both ends of the scale. Sometimes simultaneously.
* [[Spell My Name
** About Phanphy, in one of the early chapters he said he likes it better this way.
* [[The Stinger]] - The book originally ended on a huge cliffhanger {{spoiler|with the majority of the cast dead and ''the entire universe annihilated'', and the remaining people set up for a last stand on a flying island}}. Two years later, Ri2 wrote a sequel that [[Retcon|Ret Conned]] the entire last chunk of the story. A good quarter of the way into the sequel, he threw a ([[Overly Long Gag|second]]) epilogue onto ''Latias' Journey'' that revealed {{spoiler|the entire ending sequence was just Mewgle screwing with everyone, ''including the two gods duking it out'', in a [[The Starscream|Starscream]] gambit. He gets his ass handed to him by [[Cool Shades|Squirtle]], who [[Deus Ex Machina|comes out of absolutely nowhere]] and earns everyone's happy ending.}}
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* [[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]].
* [[Took a Level
* [[Touched
* [[Training
* [[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]].
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* [[Translator Microbes]] - Latias's telepathy allows Ash to understand and converse with his Pokémon. After Ash is {{spoiler|is selected as an honorary Chosen}}, he is fully capable of understanding Pokéspeak thanks to the [[A Wizard Did It|Unown]].
** Latias's translation extends to anyone who considers her a friend, thereby subconsciously giving her freer psychic access to their perception. She still has to [[The Voiceless|write things out]] for everyone else {{spoiler|prior to her [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]}}, and had to convince Misty that she wasn't a [[Interspecies Romance|rival for Ash's affections]] anymore before she could be let in on it.
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** {{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.
* [[The Voiceless]] - Played with. Latias can [[Pokémon-Speak]] just fine, and later learns how to put up a psychic [[Translator Microbes|translation net]] for her friends, but her human disguise is mute. She has to carry around a notepad to scribble messages in when she has to communicate with humans who aren't in on her translation net.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** As mentioned on the [[This Is Your Premise
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* [[What Happened to
** {{spoiler|In the newest chapter of [[Brave New World (
* [[Wretched Hive]] - Lilycove City is portrayed as an ''utterly'' lawless hellhole as a result of Team Magma and Team Aqua fighting each other.
** [[Brave New World (
** [[Running Gag|...Or Genocide City.]]
* [[X Meets Y]] - Arguably, the last arc is ''[[Pokémon]]'' meets ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' meets ''[[Event Horizon]]''.
** In-universe example. The Battle Palace's rules are amended for the Hoenn League Championships so the roles are reversed. The end result is something like mixed martial arts meets Pokémon battling. No, really.
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