Pokémon: Storm Clouds: Difference between revisions

** The best example in this entire fic, however, would have to be {{spoiler|Nightshade}}. When we finally learn {{spoiler|the full extent of his backstory, and how much he's been beating himself up for [[Failure Knight|failing to save his trainer from Team Rocket after the trust that was placed in him]] ... it may well be the biggest Tear Jerker in the entire story}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Masque is slaughtered by his own loyal Scyther while it's in a worked-up frenzy courtesy of Missy, and when he meets Death himself, he is terrified to see himself for the monster he always was}}.

* [[Jerkass]]: ''Ruby.'' What a bitch... Well, at least until [[Break the Haughty]] kicks in, and she mellows out.

** Team Rocket agent Rico takes the cake, as he seems to simply ''exist'' to be an asshole. {{spoiler|Turns out it's all a [[Jerkass Facade]] to hide his Pokémon League affiliation.}}

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Artemis, even when she's ''exhausted''. {{spoiler|She's grown out of this by the time of the sequel.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]: Armor has a bit of a temper, but when he's calm he's the most level-headed member of Dan's team and one of the best friends you can have. ''Beautifully'' ironic, considering he's a Muk and one of the least-liked Pokémon species. Dan, Missy and Artemis also count.

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Back to Normal]]: Missy. This is treated as a good thing because becoming completely human would have required her to die.}}

* [[Official Couple]]: Missy and Dan.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The collective response of the protagonists and the readers at the end of Chapter 20, when {{spoiler|Masque and his Scyther follow Missy and Dan back to their homes.}}

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Masque's Scyther is a Pokémon variant.

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Dan's Pokémon team give off this vibe. A human-girl-turned-Eevee (Missy/Storm), a somewhat comical but loyal Muk (Armor), a high-and-mighty Ponyta (Ruby), a timid but courageous Seadra (Nemo), a cynical Oddish (Nightshade), and a hyper Electabuzz (Artemis). Yeah ... and you thought ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Ash]]'' sometimes caught the weirdest Pokémon.

** And then there's {{spoiler|Ivan and his [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]...}}

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The author's notes have provided something of a detailed summary for what has happened in the interim without revealing anything major about the plot.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: In-universe, {{spoiler|Rico}}'s role compared to the last story. {{spoiler|He's even attained a higher rank in the ([[Insistent Terminology|New]])Pokémon League.}}

* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: This is the backstory for {{spoiler|the Feraligatr}}, with a side helping of [[Playing With Syringes]].

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: The Mayor of Fox Creek tries to be this, but Missy and the other Council members [[Badass Bureaucrat|aren't having any of it.]]

* [[Older and Wiser]]: Everyone's getting this to some degree, but Artemis in ''particular'' has really calmed down over the years. Nemo is this of the more self-confident variety, and Ruby looks to be considerably calmer.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Dan's father (in the "Real World"), Blaine in the Pokémon world, and of course the characters that died in the first fic.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: When they've had Luke rebuild his special machine to return to the Pokémon world, Missy is afraid of touching it because she'd rather not become an Eevee again. Dan offers to do so, but Missy tells him that he himself might become a Pokémon {{spoiler|just as she saw while [[Mind Raped]] by the Hypno}}. This is promptly [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] - see [[Take a Third Option]], below.