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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are mainline Pokémon roleplaying games developed by GameFreak for the Nintendo Switch. Kicking of generation 9 in fall 2022, these games featured a full open world, new for the series.

Tropes used in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet include:

• Adults Are Useless: Played with. Some of the adult characters are actively in investigating bulling, though their effectiveness is dubious. Others are actively involved in covering up said bullying, or actively recruit students to do dangerous tasks they can’t or won’t do themselves.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted and played straight, depending on the specific AI. The artificial professor is actually more ethical then the real deal it is modeled after and is unwilling to subject the region to catastrophe to see their dreams become real. The security AI is far less benevolent.
• Back from the Dead: The Loyal Three arise from the grave during the events of the Teal Mask DLC
• Beef Gate: Happens if the player continues on to a late game area without spending time to level up.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Orgerpon is a shy and cutsey Pokémon. She is more then capable of retaliating against thieves who attacked her friend.
• Bittersweet Ending: For Arven’s family. Arven looses at least one of his parents. One of Arven’s parents is dead, and their magnum opus, a Time Machine, ended up being destroyed due to the catastrophic effects on the environment it would cause. Arvin does briefly meet a facsimile of their parent, who is removed from his life shortly after meeting. That said, he did get a chance to meet a close approximation of his parent, and he was able to save Mabosstiff.
• A boy and his mabosstiff: Arven and his mabossfiff
• Bribing Your Way to Victory: For competitive play, A number of powerful Pokémon are only catchable in the DLC. The main story is easily beatable in the base game, though the EXP charm obtained in the Kitikami DLC significantly increases the EXP earned by the party.
• Character Customization: The Player Character can be customized, though is less variety for clothing options then in prior games.
• Delinquents: Team Star is made up of laid back delinquents.
• Disappeared Dad: A few instances.
  • The father of the player character is not seen.
  • Arven’s dad in Violet is not involved in his life. He appears, but rarely acknowledges him as anything other than a convenience. Because he’s been dead for some time, and Arven is speaking with an AI copy.
• Forbidden Zone: Area Zero is normally off limits.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The Professor protecting the box legendary, albeit not without causing the situation in the first place.
• Hollywood Hacking: Cassiopeia hacks the Rotom phone of the player… to call them. Later used to provide the player character with reward money.
• Level Scaling: Averted. While players can challenge gyms in any order, the levels encountered do not scale. So if a player beelines for a late game area, they are outleveld. If a player levels up for such an area then returns to the early game, the battles don’t scale for the players new level, resulting in a series of Curb Stomp Battle if the player does not impose restrictions on themselves.
• Missing Mom: Arven’s mom in Scarlet is not involved in his life. She appears, but rarely acknowledges him as anything other than a convenience. Because she’s been dead for some time, and Arven is speaking with an AI copy.
• Mister Big: The leader of Team Star is actually Penny, a shy, mousy, introverted girl with a lot of self-esteem issues. Not even the other members of Team Star know this.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The ruinous treasures.
• Organic Technology: Each member of Team Star has a special Pokemon called a "Starmobile", which is (according to Ortega, who invented it) a vehicle that uses a Revavroom as the main engine, two Varoom as secondary engines and a Charcadet as a fuel source; the Type is different for each, in accordance to each Trainer's theme. Whether this counts as a true Pokemon at all is debatable, but in any event, the player cannot obtain one.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Director Clavell when disguised as Clive.
• Pop Star Composer: Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, and Johnny McDaid wrote Celestial, which Sheeran preformed. Toby Fox also worked on some of the game’s soundtrack.
• The Rival: The first Rival trainer is Nemona, President of the Academy's school council and the protagonist's mentor and (possibly) girlfriend. Potentially the strongest Rival, she is the only Rival other than Blue to be the League Champion, but unlike Blue, has that title at the start of the game. Being the player's mentor, she in under self-imposed handicap through much of the game, only using Pokemon that match the (approximate) levels of yours, and unlike most primary Rivals, selects the Starter that your Starter has Type Advantage against.
  • Later in the game, Arven and Penny become secondary rivals, while the DLCs include Carmine and Kieran, who both give the feel of actual rivals to the player, being far more competitive than Nemona.
  • Also, when the player delves into the Great Crater of Paldea, it is revealed that the Legendary Pokemon he befriended at the start of the game - Koraidon or Miraidon, depending on which game you are playing - has a Rival of its own, a stronger, slightly higher-level member of its species. The reason it was hurt when the trainer found it was due to a fight between it and this rival, and supposedly, the Professor was killed attempting to stop them from fighting. When it finally gets a chance at a rematch with this Rival, the point is driven home quickly - the first move the stronger one makes is always Taunt, as if it is daring the younger Pokemon to fight it again.
• Salaryman: Larry is a salaryman who works multiple jobs, is overworked, and dresses the part.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The ruinous treasures. The stories don’t stop the history teacher from prodding their student, the player, to break their seals and release them.
• Turtle Power: Terapagos, the mascot Legendary of the The Indigo Disk DLC, and an Adorable Abomination.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The Loyal Three are exalted in Kitikami, when really they were thieves.
• Zombie Apocalypse: The post game set in Kitikami is centered around mochi obsessed “zombies”.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Mochi Zombies are created from consuming mochi from Pecharunt. They do a chicken dance and talk about mochi. While not truly undead they are prone to do more normal zombielike things, such as form hoards, and converting others by feeding them mochi.