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== Tropes Found In the Story ==
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] - Mewgle.
* [[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
** [[hottip:Specifically...:<br />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]].]]
* [[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.
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** The sequel is 1,624,420 words and will probably get longer.
** For comparison, the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy is around 525,000.
* [[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.]]}}
* [[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:
** [[hottip:You really want to know? Fine...:<br />-- Seraphim Forme Latias (Seraphim Latias) - Latias resurrected after she is killed by the psychotic Red Ranger.<br />-- [[Greek Mythology|Talos]]cario ([[X Men|Colossus]]cario) - Rukario (name used in the story) with his [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]: (his entire body becomes [[Chrome Champion|metal]])<br />-- Misty The Seadragon ([[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Waterbender]] Misty) - Misty with her [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]: [[Making a Splash|Aqua]][[Kill It With Water|-kinesis]]. <br />-- Reverse pokémon battle - The modified rules of the Battle Palace's that require the ''trainers'' to fight each other with their ''Pokémon" giving commands to them.<br />-- Archangel Charizard ([[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Mithos]] Charizard) - Ash's Charizard resurrected after a crazed Blaziken kills him in an [[Family
* [[Family
** About 99% of Earth's population are {{spoiler|turned into undead monsters.}}
** Most members of {{spoiler|Team Rocket}} get grizzly ends.
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** {{spoiler|Sphinx!May rips off Vigoroth's genitals, thinking that it was one of Deoxys's monsters assuming her father's pokemon's form. It wasn't.}}
* [[Hand Wave]] - See [[Fridge Logic]].
* [[Half
** Mariah Susanson, a blantant [[Parody Sue]] who hits every "Pokemorph" cliche in the book and then some. {{spoiler|She's actually an insane psychic construct created from an experiment [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].}}
** Various inhabitants on {{spoiler|Mewgle's fake version of}} Birth Island, including {{spoiler|Raiki, Ash and Pikachu's father <ref>But not really since Ash's father is really Zorro. Raiki is something of an [[Ascended Extra|Ascended rumor]] in the sequel though</ref>.}}
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** On a smaller scale, comedic and disturbing moments can and will occur in the same paragraph.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] - {{spoiler|Bulbasaur}} eventually kills {{spoiler|Sceptile}} via [[Unfriendly Fire]].
* [[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, [[
* [[Noodle Incident]] - Brock's trauma regarding Professor Ivy is finally explained.
{{quote| '''Brock''': (noticing a picture of a bearded man) Oh, is that your ex-boyfriend?<br />
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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 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:
{{quote| '''Tate''': The League fears us. They fear the power we possess. They will not lift a finger to prevent us from doing as we please.}}
* [[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.
* [[Shout Out]] - Many, but the one that comes to my mind is a [[Sailor Moon Abridged]] reference in the REAL final.
** 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 With an "S"]] - Weavile, Lucario, and Phanpy are referred to as Manyula, Rukario, and Phanphy. No idea what's up with the last one, but the former two were cameo appearances before Gen 4's English names/romanizations were finalized.
** 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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* [[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.
* [[Troperiffic]] - By the time the sequel rolls around, Ri2 is a confirmed [[
** And up until the sequel, just look at the percentage of this page coated in [[Pothole|blue]].
* [[Unfriendly Fire]] - When Team Rocket realizes Wobbuffet knows Destiny Bond, they have him use it on Pikachu, then ''attack Wobbuffet'' to bring them both down.
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* [[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 On Drugs?]] - There are some pretty fucked up moments in the story.
** As mentioned on the [[This Is Your Premise On Drugs]] page:
{{quote| ''Latias' Journey'' is ''[[Pokémon]]'' tripping balls on every hallucinogen known. On meth. And PCP. And Rare Candies. While huffing nitrous oxide. And off its mood stabilizers.}}
* [[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.}}
* [[Wretched Hive]] - Lilycove City is portrayed as an ''utterly'' lawless hellhole as a result of Team Magma and Team Aqua fighting each other.
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