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* [[And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating]]: See [[An Interior Designer Is You]]. Most of the available room decorations are random or semi‐random gifts (obtained either from your in‐game mom or through interaction with other players), but you can also place trophies earned from [[Pokémon Stadium]].
* [[Audible Gleam]]: “Shiny” Pokémon have this (in order to distinguish them for the monochrome Game Boy system).
* [[Bowdlerise]]:
** Some trainers had religious associations that were censored when the games were released overseas: in the Japanese version, Sages’ hands were clasped in prayer, and Mediums held beads.
** On the sexual side, female Swimmers’ suggestive winks were edited out, and Beauties’ [[Digital Bikini|miniskirts were made longer]].
** Fishermen smoked in Japan.
** Finally, the [[Blackface|racist caricature]] design of Jynx was changed to have purple skin instead.
* [[Broken Bridge]]:
** There is a man in Mahogany that will stop you from heading to Blackthorn until you’re done with the Team Rocket Radio Tower Takeover at Goldenrod. If you happen to try and go past Mahogany at any point before this he’ll drop hints on what you have to do, mentioning Olivine, Cianwood, and the Pharmacy, referring to the sick Ampharos.
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** Before you leave on your big journey, Elm says in passing that you should tell your mom you’re going. If you don’t do this, she’ll call you two routes later to say how hurt she is that you didn’t say goodbye.
** If you run from the battle with Sudowoodo (instead of capturing it), you can see it hopping away on the overworld.
** What became of the Murkrow who had the password to the radio transmitter doors? It shows up in the team of the female Rocket Admin.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]:
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Due to the games’ lack of kanji (which makes it easier to keep track of the Japanese language’s nightmarish amount of homophones), the Bell Tower was mistranslated as Tin Tower. The association with the Clear ''Bell'' and the fact that the remakes call the path to it Bellchime Trail and have bells on the top of the tower ended up with it being retranslated in the remakes.
** Mr. Mime’s Japanese name doesn’t have any gender association in the original Japanese. When the translators gave it that name in Red and Blue, [[Tempting Fate|they joked that if Game Freak ever gave Pokémon genders they would be screwed]]. One generation later…
* [[Dummied Out]]: There’s a ''ton'' of unused text, maps, and other content lurking in Gold and Silver’s code. From plain old leftovers from Red, Blue, and Yellow (Cinnabar Lab buildings, the Poké Flute, the Town Map), to concepts that got reworked in the final game (“Silph Scope 2” which became the SquirtBottle), to stuff that got reworked in ''later'' games (Sweet Honey), to things that never wound up appearing in any Pokémon game before or since (a complete working memory game for the Game Corner, the ability to name your mom, literally ''dozens'' of variant route and city maps).
* [[Experience Meter]]: Debuts in this installment.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Johto is a combination of the Kansai and western Chubu regions of Japan.
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* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: The Goldenrod Underground is a [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]], with a different selection of shops each day of the week, providing goods and services you won’t find anywhere else.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Firebreather Dick. Unsurprisingly, his name was changed (to Richard) in the remakes.
* [[What Might Have Been]]: The Japanese version of Crystal had the ability to connect to your real‐life cell phone and play against others online. The feature never saw the light of day in other regions.
* [[Wutai]]: Although all the regions in the main series are based on Japan (except for Unova), only a few towns are actually obviously Japanese‐influenced, and they’re all in Johto. Of special note is Ecruteak City, whose music was remixed in HGSS to sound more Japanese. Interestingly, Cianwood City, which it originally shared music with, has a separate remix that does not use the Japanese‐sounding instruments of Ecruteak’s version.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The protagonists. Ethan (Hibiki), Lyra (Kotone) and the rival, whose default name is Soul in HeartGold, and Heart in SoulSilver. He doesn’t have an official stated name, but the defaults definitely make him stand out. His in‐game data has him as “Silver,” the accepted [[Fan Nickname]], which isn’t any more conventional.
** And then there’s the other [[Fan Nickname]], [[My Name Is ???|???]], due to the placeholder for his name before it his name is chosen, though the remakes changed his placeholder name to “Passerby Boy.”
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* [[Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer]]: Voltorb Flip, which [[Regional Bonus|the Japanese can’t play on their copies]]. Even in‐universe, as the character that usually advises you about the local gym leader is too busy playing the game to show up at the Celadon City gym.
* [[Spear Counterpart]]: The Bird Keepers in the remakes seem to be this to Bird Keepers of ''Diamond'', ''Pearl'', and ''Platinum'', which had female Bird Keepers instead of male ones like the rest of the series (including these games), as they have the same clothing and hair color. However, since the Vs. Recorder upload data is shared with Platinum, the female Bird Keepers still appear in the Battle Frontier.
* [[Stealth Mook]]: Features an unusual variant: The Fuchsia Gym Trainers all disguise themselves as their leader Janine, who has taken over now that her father has become an Elite Four member. In order to unmask the real Janine, you're expected to talk your way through the gym, which means fighting her Gym Trainers - however, Janine always waits in the same spot, making it trivial to skip them if you're so inclined.
* [[Stop Poking Me]]: Talking to your Pokémon too much leads to it getting angry and defiant, even if it’s at maximum happiness.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In the remakes, the shop that’s a front for Team Rocket features a sign on the door that reads “Just a Souvenir Shop. Nothing Suspicious about It. No Need to Be Alarmed.”
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Done with the Walking Pokémon feature. You can’t help but feel warm and fuzzy when you check on your Pokémon’s status and they ''spontaneously hug you''.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: If you enter the department store while dressed as a Team Rocket member, one of the people remarks, “I never thought about it, but Team Rocket does go shopping…” Not a literal example of the trope, but close enough to count.
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