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{{quote| ''I believe this is all happening for a reason.''}}

 

 

* 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.

** {{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.

{{quote| '''Giovanni:''' Wait, ''what'' rules?!}}

** : [http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=53 Well then, you picked the ''wrong Pokemon''.]

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Many of the runs will poke fun at exaggerated character traits of trainers and general [[Fridge Logic]], then hit you with a [[Tear Jerker|tragic death scene]] ''immediately'' after.

* [[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.}}

* [[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]]''.

** Part 5 of Bern's Platinum run has her catching (FINALLY) a male Shellos. The next scene is a [[Gender Flipped]] parody of one from Green Lantern, where Hal Jordan greets their newest recruit (a girl).

** 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]].

* [[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.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

{{quote| '''Whitney:''' You know, in all the [[Badass Bookworm|research I did on Team Rocket and Giovanni]]... I never figured out where exactly he gets geniuses like you to work for him.}}

* [[Determinator]]: Definitely Candace.

{{quote| I'm going to stop the end of the world. And no one is going to get in my way.}}

** {{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.

** 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]].

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

{{quote| '''Cyrus:''' Behold... [[Physical God|Dial]][[Nightmare Fuel|gaga]]!}}

** 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:

{{quote| Roses are red,<br />

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.

* [[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?

* [[Gender Bender]]: Ara, the artist, is a guy. Mouthing off in response to the "are you a boy/girl" question [http://nonparael.deviantart.com/gallery/26511630#/d2y2w28 got him turned into a girl] at the beginning of his Pearl run. However, when [http://nonparael.deviantart.com/gallery/27953108#/d366drk Ara turns "back" into a guy for his Black run], he looks more like a genderbent version of girl!Ara than he does like actual Ara, [[Mind Screw|which has confused some people into thinking the girl form is correct and the first genderbend was just a joke]].

* [[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?}}