Pokémon Masters of Azeroth

Pokemon Masters of Azeroth is a Crossover between Pokemon and World of Warcraft. According to the reviews, it’s Better Than It Sounds. It starts off as your standard crossover: characters from X end up in world Y. It becomes slightly more complicated than that. Somewhat dark story, with plenty of death and violence. Of course, it does have its moments of comedy and romance as well.

It starts when portals mysteriously start opening in the pokemon world, leading (one-way) to Azeroth. Misty and Ash step through one of these portals, only to run into Gary, who has become a mage after arriving in Azeroth earlier. Later they meet up with Team Rocket, as well as a colorful cast of characters native to the World of Warcraft, and even later, trainers they’ve never met before. Together, they get caught up in the middle of the Scourge invasion, and become heroes of the war against the undead Scourge, all while Gary tries to figure out how to make a portal home.

Pairings: Gary and Misty, Ash and Zar aia.

Tropes used in Pokémon Masters of Azeroth include:

Fantastic Romance: Ash and Zaraia
Mood Whiplash: The transition between rescuing the green dragon from Icecrown and being forced into a retreat by Sindragosa is jarringly short.
Downer Ending / Fridge Horror: All those trainers who died during the battle, or the ones who became Scourge? They, obviously, never get to return home to their families, who will never know what happened to them.
Storming the Castle: Of course.
Character Development: Most of it takes the characters closer to Badass levels.
Back-to-Back Badasses: The Rivals Team Up variant – Gary and Ash are able to pull this off pretty well against the Scourge.
Battle Cry: Misty has “For the Alliance!”, Ash has “Lok’tar Ogar!”, Gary has a handful of Thalassian phrases.
Heroic Second Wind: Misty does this against Sindragosa.
Now or Never Kiss / Last Kiss: Zaraia and Ash, at literally the last minute.
First Kiss: Gary and Misty, Ash and Zaraia.
Body Count Competition: Starwisp and Zin’ja have such a contest.
Rescue Romance: Ash and Zaraia.
First-Episode Resurrection: Not technically first chapter, but James gets killed off very near his first appearance. Then the Scourge take him.
Infinity+1 Sword: Quel’Delar
Trapped in Another World: Obviously. The heroes aren’t the only ones from the pokemon world who came to Azeroth. And not all of the others are on their side.
Undeath Always Ends: For James, only. Calling on Pokemon lore, he’s cured of undeath. The rest of the undead protagonists are left that way.
Love Triangle: Ash, Zaraia, and Vaku.
The Cavalry: The black dragons show up in the middle of the battle for Icecrown.
Forging Scene: Quel’Delar gets a chapter dedicated to the heroes forging it. A more minor example is when James adds new runes to his sword.
Shoot Your Mate: Misty has to stab Gary with a sword while undercover as one of the Scourge. He barely survives.
Walk Into Mordor: To enter Icecrown, the heroes can’t simply walk in the valley, because it’s swarming with The Undead. Instead, they ride through the mountains.
Baleful Polymorph: Gary knows a spell to turn people into sheep. Ash is in the group. You do the math. Gary also gets shapeshifted at one point – into a dragon whelp.
Interspecies Romance / Mayfly-December Romance: Ash and Zaraia
Shirtless Scene: Gary gets one due to the need to remove a bandage around a newly-healed wound. Author Appeal? You betcha.
Sleep Cute: Gary and Misty
Star-Crossed Lovers: Ash and Zaraia. Not only are they from different worlds, but they age at incredibly different rates.
Automaton Horses: Granted, the mounts spend a lot of time in other planes of existence, so they have time to rest. Even so, they are your standard RPG mounts.
Screw You, Elves: The elves are usually too busy fighting with each other to fight with humans, but when they do, this trope is pretty much Ash’s ‘’job’’.
Big Bad: The Lich King and his Scourge.
Already Done for You: Malygos and the dragon war are important to the main plot, because it’s Malygos screwing with the Ley Lines that opened the portals to Kanto in the first place, but the heroes never directly deal with him because the red dragons decide to take care of it for them.
It Only Works Once: The Eye of the Earthmother, which Misty accidentally uses to free Sir Zeliek. Also, not technically, but in practice, using pokemon tears to revive the undead, because it’s hard to get them to cry.
Character-Magnetic Team: Lampshaded by James, who suggests calling the protagonist party the “Order of the Snowball”, because like a snowball rolling down a hill, it just keeps getting bigger.