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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:

** [[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]].

'''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.}}

* [[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.]]}}

** 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:

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

* [[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]].}}

* [[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.

'''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.}}

* [[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 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.

** {{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 a Nuke]] - Tate and Liza wield an array of powerful psychic-based attacks. When Ash threatens to report them, this is the response he gets:

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** {{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:

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to]] {{spoiler|James}}? - {{spoiler|Abducted for some [[Plan]] of Deoxys or other. When Mewgle winds up taking the whole thing [[Off the Rails]] in the [[The Stinger|epilogue]], James is left alone on a space station wondering what the hell is going on, and the reader never finds out what Deoxys was planning on using him for.}}

** {{spoiler|In the newest chapter of [[Brave New World (fanfic)|the sequel]], it is revealed that he was the container for Dark Latios's seed.}}

* [[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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