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* First, he is only allowed to capture the first Pokémon he encounters on a route or location. If he fails to do so, tough beans.

 

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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: As in the games, Ruby finds one about the creation of Mewtwo, narrated by {{spoiler|Gym Leader Blaine.}} Except he falls asleep during it.

* [[Arc Words]]: "It's all happening for a reason."

** {{spoiler|Desmond as well, seeing as he knew he did enough damage on Misty's Starmie for Ruby to take it out with his next Pokemon.}}

* [[Grimmification]]: For Pokémon.

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Especially when you add ''even more'' rules, such as never using items or ''[[Up to Eleven|never using Pokemon Centers]]''.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Gary's Blastoise}} seems to be pulling one off.

* [[Hulk Speak]]: Bruno.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Erika only collects beautiful pokemon.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: [http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=34 "... That would be breaking the rules."]

* [[My Own Grandpa]]: Sort of. The reason Norman prefers pokemon to family is {{spoiler|because Bruce flew past his window as a child while HIS father was attempting to say that family was more important.}} Because of this, Ruby turned out the way he did, and would eventually end up taking the Nuzlocke challange, resulting in the events of the Ruby and Fire Red comic, which caused him {{spoiler|to attempt to attack Mewtwo with Bruce, causing the rift in the space-time continuum that made Bruce go into the past.}}

** Repeated AGAIN with the same pokemon in the last part of the epilouge: {{spoiler|Bruce flys around more, and his faaaar past self sees him... and comments on how that will be him.}} [[Dramatic Irony|If only he knew...]]

** Finale also counts, {{spoiler|He thwarted Mewtwo's plan to escape from the cave}} But {{spoiler|He and Bruce get separated by the explosion while Sawyer dies in the fight.}}

* [[The Lancer]]: Sceptile in season 1, Sawyer in season 2.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Nuzleaf.

** {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]: Mewtwo, who seems to have created the spirit of Nuzleaf as a psychic projection.}}

** In the background of one of the [[Fire Red]] epilogue comics, The Creation Of Adam is done with [http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=52 Arceus].

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: After Surge {{spoiler|kills his Kadabra}} and launches into a speech about how fighting makes [[Not So Different|them both feel more alive]], Ruby cuts him off.

** [[Attack Pattern Alpha|"Destiny Red"]] consists of a pokemon with a type advantage spamming an attack they get STAB from.

* [[The Stoner]]: Erika.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: "Okay, Buddy... suck 'em dry."

* [[The Power of Friendship]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: "GODDAMMIT RALPH!"

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 31... Oooh, boy. {{spoiler|Okay, some people guessed Nuzlocke was evil/pulling the strings for Mewtwo, but the [[Room Full of Crazy|names crossed out]] was a special touch.}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: One of Ruby's biggest reasons for taking the challenge is to impress his father, Norman, who always valued "Good-Ruby" the Slakoth/Vigoroth over him.

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Every one of Ruby's Pokemon that dies from Poison.

** The Medicham he caught before the Elite Four.

** Hugo the Snorlax, Keith the Hitmonlee, and the Unnamed Eevee and Ryhorn in a more humous exsample as Ruby leaves them in the box and gave the Eevee away and Hugo was only used once to move some boulders.

* [[You Should Have Died Instead]]: Appears rather often.

 

* [[Book Ends]]: "[[Fallout|War... War never changes.]]"

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: One is provided for May's behavior.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: One of the few multi-run comics that didn't use an obvious hook, with his Platinum run starring a different protagonist.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: The heroine of Platinum, Bern, starts out as this.

** Towards the end of the first storyline comes a huge homage to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

** If characters named Mitch and Stella plus an abuser named Stanley aren't enough, then an obvious homage to ''the'' [[Skyward Scream]] makes it pretty clear Platinum is taking a couple cues from [[A Streetcar Named Desire]].

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Upon seeing Juan for the first time, Hale becomes completely aware of why he has so many fangirls.

==== Tropes seen in Robotv7's Nuzlocke Challenges: ====

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: His first run ends with only {{spoiler|three pokemon}} left alive, and he gets called out on the cost of his quest.

* [[Jerkass]]: Robot himself.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Skeets seems to be channeling the inherent fury of the Red Lanterns whenever one of his allies dies.

*** His Wingull, Pchooooo, is a reference to the PCHOOOOO code in [[Homestuck]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: During the climax of his first run, leading directly into his Sapphire run.

** {{spoiler|It may doesn't count a bittersweet ending,but in her Sapphire run,she became the champion at the cost of the life of Alice and Palladion.}}

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Cynthia's Garchomp}} defeats {{spoiler|Palkia}}. In one hit. Granted, that ''is'' a Pokemon with a reputation as a [[Physical God]] among players, but it was up against a freaking {{spoiler|[[Anthropomorphic Personification]]}}.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Between Lily and Gary.

* {{spoiler|[[Spin Offspring]]: The Sapphire run.}}

* [[Tsundere]]: Gary [[Character Development|develops]] into one.

 

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Gary.

* [[Art Shift]]: Petty puts animated videos on [[YouTube]] for the more touching moments of the run, including the epilogue.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Locke dresses and looks like the male player character, with flippy hair.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The in-universe explanation for the death of Broseph the Graveler. In real life this happened due to a tragic misclick.

* [[Time Skip]]: Officially stated to happen between LeafGreen and HeartGold, with three years between the two. {{spoiler|In the meantime, Locke's [[Bag of Spilling|trainer's license expired]].}}

* [[Trolling Creator]]: On April 1st of 2012, Petty claims to be ending the comic because she just doesn't have time anymore. (This after her updates have been getting less and less frequent for months.) Oh Petty, you sure are a stinker.

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Simon the Dewgong, who appeared and died in the Sevii Islands update. He had a grand total of ''one panel.''

** {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]: Candace}}

** [[Badass Boast]]: {{spoiler|Whitney}} would like to give Team Rocket a little reminder...

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Professor Elm faces down a swarm of mad Spearow the first day of the change to buy Candace time to escape, and [[Heroic Sacrifice|lies to her that he'll be okay]].

*** Whitney of all people turns out to have done her homework on Team Rocket, to the point of being able to analyze Giovanni's plans to his face, {{spoiler|though even she was caught off-guard by Silver}}.

** Candace deserves special mention.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted, Candace gets a lot of really horrible-looking scars and keeps them. ([http://www.paragonsigma.com/images/nuzlocke/candaceink0221.jpg contains spoilers])

* [[Biological Mashup]]: {{spoiler|Missingno is this. Amongst the few recognizable parts are a Poliwrath, Machoke, Staryu, and Shuckle. It gains more parts after absorbing other Pokemon.}}

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Gym Leader]]: {{spoiler|Whitney is introduced in a flashback chatting with her junior trainers about [[Pokémon Black and White|Elesa]]'s outfit in a fashion show. Then the change hits and the mad pokemon attack... [[Let's Get Dangerous]]! In the present day, she's still overseeing the defense of Goldenrod City, and is apparently beating the hell out of Team Rocket.}}

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Chuck is introduced [[Dynamic Entry|giving a flying kick to a giant Corsola]]. He lost all his Pokémon and his wife in the aftermath of the change {{spoiler|and the creation of Missingno}} and has been defending Cianwood by hand (and foot) ever since.

* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Falkner develops into one.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Manages to be more dark than many of the other runs simply by setting it at the end of the world, then going from there.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

* [[Determinator]]: Definitely Candace.

** {{spoiler|Silver turns out to be this as well, albeit [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|by different means]].}}

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The prologue shows the destruction of New Bark Town.

** In Blackthorn City, we get [http://www.paragonsigma.com/images/nuzlocke/candaceink0409.jpg a closeup] (spoilers) revealing that [[Call Back|she's similarly honored all her other dead Pokemon]]. (Visible tattoos, counterclockwise from top: {{spoiler|Hellacross, Alastor the Gastly, Watchwing the Noctowl, Clutch the Exeggcute}}; not visible but implied: {{spoiler|Flashpoint the Flaaffy, Crucible the Ninetales}})

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Jasmine evacuated her people to the Lighthouse when Olivine City flooded, but couldn't make it in herself and was swept away and drowned outside. She was the only casualty in Olivine.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|Giovanni is more concerned with rebuilding Johto than anything else, and is not pleased with where his son's vendetta towards Candace leads}}.

* [[Fastball Special]]: Before it evolved and became too large for it, Candace was fond of doing this with her Totodile.

** [[Fan Nickname]]: Riptide Missile!

** And now {{spoiler|it's been switched around and ''Riptide threw Candace!''}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Falkner has one after his father is killed in the change, and Candace [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps him out of it]]. Candace herself has one {{spoiler|after killing Morty}} and is comforted by {{spoiler|Whitney}}.

** {{spoiler|And now it looks like Whitney's having one after losing control of Crucible the Ninetales.}}

** This turns out to be [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|tame Pokemon that grow too powerful succumb to the change and attack their own trainers.}}

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: {{spoiler|The Kimono Girls}}. Eventually revealed to be a psychic projection by {{spoiler|Lugia, channeled by Candace}}, which is now awakening.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Candycane and Zangoose for Candace, {{spoiler|Seviper for Silver.}}

* [[Made of Iron]]: Candace, with hints of [[Iron Woobie]]. Seriously, would you keep going after this?

Three months recovery. }}

* [[Many Spirits Inside of One]] / [[Powers Via Possession]]: {{spoiler|Morty, driven insane and filled with evil spirits from the destruction of Ecruteak City. Candace eventually gives him/them a [[Mercy Kill]], though Silver apparently captured a surviving Gengar.}}

** White Run: {{spoiler|Walter, Peter, and Freddy help Nina escape a Throh in Pinwheel forest, at the expense of their lives}}.

* [[Keet]]: Zach, especially as an Oshawott.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Amongst Nina's Pokemon, Laila the Petilil is totally [[Tsundere|dere]] for Zack the Dewott, Jojo the Darumakka and Rex/Rey the Sandile are pretty flirty [[Childhood Friends]], and Jordan the Zebstrika has a soft spot for sweet Mimi, a Swoobat.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: In all of the runs thus far, there has always been at least one team member who acts like a father/mother figure

* [[Ship Tease]]: Most notable in the White Run, where everything is shipped.

** Laila is a [[Tsundere]] for Zach.

** And in the Diamond run, Gohan and Shakti were [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally not an item]], according to the artist's notes on the omake comic featuring them. Tyrus's affections for Annie, however, were eventually reciprocated, as were Kynim's for Roark.

** The White run's [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Q&A session]] included asking Nina whether she was more interested in Cheren or N. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: Too many to list.

** Team [[Lady Gaga|Gaga]] in the Diamond run still stands out.

** In the White Run, the role is given to N. Lampshaded in the credits, where he's billed as "Creepy Stalker", and in the Valentine's Day omake:

What do you do? }}

** {{spoiler|Latest update seems to confirm that N fosters a crush on Nina, which [[Cannot Spit It Out|he doesn't know how to express]].}}

** Byron's misogyny is played for laughs in the Diamond run, especially once Kynim gives him a taste of his own medicine and orders him to make her a sandwich after the fight.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Bianca speaks and behaves like she's from the Deep South, especially in the beginning. She's a [[Southern Belle|Southern]] [[Dub Name Change|Bel]].

 

==== [http://shadeofshinon.deviantart.com/gallery/28220100 Nessa's Emerald Nuzlocke Challenge]: ====

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Jormundgar has a Docile nature, but when push comes to shove... well, [[Unstoppable Rage|she's a Gyarados]].

* [[Cheerful Child]]: Solveig as a Swablu. Might still be, since she's still quite young chronologically.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: Fenrir was partnered with Jormundgar the Magikarp so he'd get a taste of this and learn not to bully other Pokemon. By the time Jory evolved, he'd bullied her into an [[Unstoppable Rage]], and the lesson almost killed him.

* {{spoiler|[[My Greatest Failure]]: Alhildr's death seems to be this for Nessa.}}

* [[The Pollyanna]]: Solveig, so very much.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Lampshaded and ''defied'' by Fenrir during the [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Q&A session]] when asked what the most important thing he's learned on the journey is. Instead, he considers "[[Magikarp Power|Don't annoy Magikarps]]" his most important lesson.

** {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]] after the battle with Winona. Turns out he got rejected by the wild Beautifly for having been trained by a human, then had an encounter with [[One Degree of Separation|the Salamence that killed Solveig's mother]].}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: For a training montage, Thorn performs an adaptation on "[[Mulan|I'll Make A Man Out Of You]]". The writer admits it's not Thorn's usual style, but she couldn't leave it out.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Nordic names. Leads to a lot of [[Awesome McCoolname]] and the odd fan going "Wait, how do you pronounce ''that''?"

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Nessa eventually catches on that she's being used, but still doesn't know ''what for''.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Thorn as a tiny wild Aron used his thundering voice to frighten others away from sections of the cave that seemed likely to collapse. [[Crowning Music of Awesome|He also sings]] ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|metal, of course]]).

 

==== Other fancomics include examples of: ====

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: A few protagonists are this, but it is widely used in Para's Nuzlocke to the point where one of the most asked questions of the author is "What is Para's gender?"

* [[A God Am I]]: In Landwalker's Nuzlocke Comic, Archie intends to use the red orb to {{spoiler|gain the power of Kyogre and essentially become a [[Physical God]].}} Complete with [[Faux Symbolism|quoting Bible verses.]]

* [[Crossover]] - Occasionally, the authors will let each other's characters appear in the comics, sometimes going as far as [[Shipping]] them with each other.

** Also, Amastroph's and Petty's comics include 'mon cameos from [[Pokémon Quartz]].

** Can trainers understand what their pokemon are saying? If so, how? Can only some of their pokemon communicate with them, via human speech or telepathy, or can all of them speak freely?

* [[Green Thumb]]: It's common for Red/Blue/Fire Red/Leaf Green Nuzlockers to choose Bulbasaur as their starter. In the comic, it may be justified as the character thinking it's cute or favoring grass types in general, but strategically speaking, it is the best to start with when you want to make a run with as few casualties as possible, since it has a type advantage against the first two gyms. And its Poison typing gives it an immunity to poisoning.

** Subverted HARD in Gold/Silver/Crystal/HG/SS runs. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Nuzlocke that has a player choosing Chikorita. The poor grass type has a [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|type disadvantage against]] BOTH the first two gyms. Really, if you counted, Cyndaquil is by-and-large the most popular starter for Johto with Totodile as a close second. Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald nuzlockers usually prefer Torchic and Mudkip (the latter for its [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] status). However, the aversion to grass types isn't as egregious in Gen 3 as it is in Johto.

* [[One Steve Limit|One Pidgey Limit]]: Some comics will have a "Dupe Clause" in the rules, which will allow them to catch another Pokemon on the route if they already have one from a previous route. For plot and gameplay purposes, it makes sense to not have three or four of the same Pokemon.

* [[Perspective Flip]]: Blue: The Other Guy's Story flips the roles of [[The Hero]] and [[The Rival]].

* [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies]]: Amastroph's Platinum run ends with [http://fav.me/d497ifj Dlelewhoop the Kricketune murdering everybody] and becoming [[Fan Nickname|Dennis]] (Genesect), [[A God Am I|destroyer of worlds]].

* [[Wham! Line]]: From Kotone's Nuzlocke adventure {{spoiler|Earlier today... I died, didn't I?}}

 

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