Pokémon Ranger: Difference between revisions

* [[It's Personal]]: In ''Guardian Signs'', you can tell that Ukulele Pichu seems to have this attitude towards the Pokemon Pinchers after they kidnap its friends. It joins up with the player character in order to get its friends back.

* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: Early in Guardian Signs, when Booker is about to take you to Renbow Island:

* [[Kick the Dog]]: The villains in all three games just ''love'' to do this, to a ridiculous extent. In particular, {{spoiler|the Societea blowing Dolce Islands to smithereens in the third game}} [[Moral Event Horizon|''has'' to win some sort of trophy for sheer pooch-punting panache.]]

* [[Kid Hero]]

* [[Locked Door]] - Averted by Barlow in the second game. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|TARGET CLEAR!]]

* [[Look Behind You!]]: The third game has a really odd one.

'''Burkhart:''' I hope it does. I like onions. Hey, get back here! Like pizzas could fly! You tricked me! }}

* [[Lost Forever]] - While certain Pokémon can be re-fought later on in the game, there are some that can only be fought once (usually for plot purposes). The games also feature entire sidequests that are only accessible ''if you downloaded them from Ranger Net when they were available for download''.

* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: The islands in the third game; '''Do'''lce, '''Re'''nbow, '''Mi'''tonga, '''Fa'''ldera, '''So'''phian, '''La'''yuda, '''Ti'''likule.

** Lampshaded early in the post-game with Ben/Summer (whoever you didn't pick) trying to decide on a dime what island to patrol:

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Rhythmi is annoyed by the fact that professor Hastings seems to think that her name is "Misery".

* [[My New Gift Is Lame]]: In the first game, Cameron is said to have a habit of giving people lame gifts. At one point, he gives the player a broken little submarine. Subverted when said submarine is later fixed and used to travel to another area through an underwater cave.

* [[Nominal Importance]]: Given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by two Team Dim Sun admins, who comment on how their names are just "Admin" and not, for example, "Admin A" and "Admin B".

** Also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by a student in the Ranger School at the beginning of ''Shadows of Almia''.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Gordor from the first game can't stop laughing maniacally when he's posing as a perfectly good person, and Blake Hall in Shadows of Almia is pretty much ''instantly'' recognizable as a villain as soon as you set eyes on him (evil shiny sunglasses, all black suit, evil mustache, and a businessman). To a lesser extent, {{spoiler|Dr. Edward will probably set off alarm bells for any [[Genre Savvy]] player as soon as you meet him for having a unique sprite and name but no early plot importance, as well as a hairstyle that can only be described as "Mad scientist hair", plus a creepy facial expression.}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Ranger Keith of Fall City and Ranger Keith (Your idiot rival from the second game), who was transferred to Fiore.

* [[Out-Gambitted]]: One quest in Guardian Signs involves a rock climber being ambushed by a pair of Pokemon Pinchers who claim to have his "special somebody". The climber exclaims that it's his brother. The Pinchers confirm this, only for the climber to reveal that he doesn't have a brother.

* [[Overly Long Name]]: Played with as a joke in a Quest in ''Guardian Signs''; a simple bridge with a name so long that it took ''[[Up to Eleven|three signposts]]'' to completely name!

'''Signpost 2:''' "...Wonderfully Crafted, [[It Makes Sense in Context|Raikou-Safe]] with No Creaking..."<br />

'''[[Rule of Three|Signpost 3:]]''' ""Renowed All Over the World for [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Connecting Yesterday and Tomorrow]] and [[And Zoidberg|Proudly-Built-by-Nick Bridge"]] }}