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The primary difference between it and [[Pokémon (anime)|the anime]] is that instead of [[The Protagonist|the main character]] going to a new region with different companions, [[The Protagonist]] (who usually travels without any other human accompanying them) changes every time [[The Protagonist|the previous protagonist's]] story is through. It's also somewhat violent, as it is one of the few adaptations where you actually see [[Mons|Pokémon]] and people get badly wounded and even killed.
The [[Manga]] series is authored by Hidenori Kusaka. It was illustrated by Mato for the first 9 volumes, and since volume 10, has been illustrated by Satoshi Yamamoto. It is published by Shōgakukan under the Ladybird Comics Special imprint. In the United States, [[Viz Media]] released only the first two chapters (corresponding to the Generation I games) originally, though they have started publishing the series again (starting with reprints of Gen I) and in order to catch up has launched Gen IV as a second series, ''Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum''. The Generation V chapter, ''Pokémon Black and White'' (marked as a "Pokémon Adventures special edition"), is currently being published with its chapters taken directly from the magazines and released in mini-volumes. For the chapters Viz hasn't gotten to yet, the go-to official English translation is the [[
While there are multiple other ''Pokémon'' manga, this is the most well known (at least in English-speaking circles). If you see a ''Pokémon'' fan talk about "the manga", this is probably what they are referring to. (Some of the other manga are listed on the main ''[[Pokémon]]'' page.)
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** Though Ruby, Sapphire, Crystal and Pearl are not unusual as names, well, for girls anyway. Poor Ruby and Pearl. Red is also a relatively common nickname for males, so that works too.
* [[Action Girl]]: All the main female 'Dex Holders are quite capable of battling and defending themselves. In fact, after Red, the next Dex holders that actually battled and won gym badges were Sapphire and Platinum.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Lt. Surge, Koga, Sabrina, {{spoiler|Bruno, Agatha, Lorelei, Lance, and Pryce}}, although some of these characters are more sympathetic than others and {{spoiler|most of the named Gym Leaders reform, as do all of the Elite Four members sans Agatha.}}
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
* [[Adult Child]]: Crystal's hyper mother, who jumps around, has [[Girlish Pigtails]], wears clothing someone her age normally wouldn't wear, and has a [[Verbal Tic]], though she can be serious when the time comes for it. She is also the one who forced Crys into her HGSS outfit.
** In a sense, the mangaka. Reading the author notes in the volumes will tell you what an [[Adorkable]] fanboy of the games he is.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There is a surprisingly large amount of information on the background of the Pokémon world in the back section of the books. Information includes the main characters' teams' levels, amount of Pokémon seen and caught, Pokédex functions, maps detailing where everything took place, etc. There was even one detailing the exact duties of the Kanto/Johto Gym Leaders.
** The Pokedex pages on the netkun site provide details of various Pokémon that had been shown in the series, such as the Gym Leaders' Pokémon's genders.
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* [[Anticlimax]]: Near the end of the Ruby and Sapphire arc, {{spoiler|Wallace finally accepts his role as Hoenn's champion and prepares to battle Archie and Maxie for the fate of the region. He gets to kick ass for all of two pages before they reveal [[Always Save the Girl|they have Winona as a hostage, forcing Wallace to stand down and allow himself to get beaten to a pulp.]]}}
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Justified and explained in the GSC chapter, when the storage system goes down and Crystal can't drop off her captures. The Professors discuss that there's nothing stopping Crystal from carrying seven or eight or more Pokémon, but it's harder to devote enough care and attention to that many; most trainers disparage those who carry so many for that reason.
* [[Arc Welding]]: This series does an impressive job of welding all the arcs together. Volumes 29 and 38 have broken people's brains with all the different plots and characters that have come together.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Quite noticeable. Compare the Kanto group to the Hoenn or Sinnoh at the same age, the Kanto trio to them in the Sevii arc, or even Gold at the beginning to himself by the end of the GSC arc.
** Both examples are justified by the fact that they are different artists. The first one's art deteriorated with time alongside her health, as you can see between the RGB and Yellow arcs and the beginning of GSC. Mid-GSC, the artist was changed by someone who imitated her style for the rest of the arc, before he was allowed to use his style in RS and onwards.
** Satoshi Yamamoto seems to be recently experimenting with new types of bodies and faces to diversify the cast. He is also getting better at drawing more detailed clothing.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Many one-off characters from the games get their roles greatly expanded here.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Apparently the creators have a soft spot for human!Latias, as she's seen in every author note since her debut until volume 37. Here she is as a [http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d94/ybur_angel/301.jpg cheerleader] and here she is as an [http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d94/ybur_angel/311.jpg idol].
** More like Creator of the Franchise Appeal and Paying Him Your Respects, Poliwhirl is apparently Satoshi Tajiri's favorite Pokémon, which is probably why Red's first Pokémon is Poli.
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** The Unova film director bears an uncanny resemblance to Kusaka himself.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Seriously, who ''wouldn't'' love to be named Gold, Silver or Platinum? Black and Diamond are also pretty cool names.
* [[Back
** {{spoiler|As well as Guile Hideout/Archie, though he was just missing and presumed dead.}}
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Played straight in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113013729/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_32/Pokemon-Adventures-v32-c358---034 page in volume 32.]
* [[Badass]]: Norman.
** Son runs away from home? Have a gorilla swing A STAIRCASE at him.
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** If any of the main characters isn't this by the end of their respective game's story arc - there is definitely something wrong with them.
** For the most part, the dominate race in the Pokémon Special world is not humans or Pokémon. [[World of Badass|It's badasses]].
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Most notably [http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/Senefen/surskitmontage.jpg Guile's Surskit] from the Emerald arc.
** [[Beware the Nice Ones|Yellow]] [[Superweapon Surprise|has a few tricks up her sleeve]].
** No, Gold's Togepi takes the cake. It took down Lance's (admittedly wounded) Dragonite before launching itself right through its Hyper Beam!
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** A much lesser version is pretty much everybody; while trainers still generally just hang back and give orders like in the games and anime, here, some actually provide physical support. A common variation is riding your Pokémon while it's fighting. Giovanni actually says a truly 'great' trainer has to hone his own body instead of just relying on your Pokémon. This is the same advice Chuck goes by and passed down to Green.
** The majority of the characters are brilliant battle strategists who make use of Pokémon and their abilities in ways most people would never even consider.
* [[Bag of Holding]]: Props and accessories appear to be kept in tiny capsules, which are then kept inside a prop case. No idea how or where the Sinnoh Trio had their bikes stashed away, though.
** Well, they are marked as ''folding'' bikes. This presumably signifies that they'd be able to fit in the Sinnoh trio's bags when not in use, or something similar.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Gold goes absolutely ballistic when the Masked Man tells him that Pokémon are just weapons to him. {{spoiler|It was a lie.}}
** Lay a hand on Blue and Silver will ''snap you in half''.
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*** The feeling may be mutual. After {{spoiler|Will and Karen are shown to have fought Silver and knocked him out, Blue is so enraged she overcomes her ornithophobia, stands up to the bird that kidnapped her and fights back using the legendary bird trio}}.
** Speaking of Blue, ruin her reunion with her parents? Watch out, Red ''and'' Green will go after you. {{spoiler|The "berserk" part was mostly Red, Green being more concerned about his grandpa, but still}}.
** Most Dex Holders have their own personal Berserk Buttons, but ''all'' of them will kick your ass if you harm or upset their friend or mistreat Pokemon.
** As Black demonstrates in Nimbasa City. He ''flips'' when he thinks White is in danger and doesn't hesitate to bring out his ''whole team'' for an ass-kicking.
* [[BFS]]: Mewtwo's [[Improbable Weapon User|Big Friggin']] '''[[Improbable Weapon User|Spoon]]'''.
* [[Big Bad]]: Giovanni will pretty much throw you into a bottomless cavern and experiment with your blood if given the chance. {{spoiler|Unless you're his son, Silver. But he will probably do the above to you if you touch the kid.}}
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*** Illiteracy is considered to be the inability to read at or above an eight grade level in the United States, so there is no lost in translation at all.
*** She could just have dyslexia. It makes sense with her frustration at trying to read the letters.
* [[Book Safe]]: Roxanne uses a book to hide her Pokeballs.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: At the end of the RGB Mt. Moon arc (in the original Viz release), Red carries an unconscious Misty out of the caves. She comes to, finds herself covered in dirt, and punches Red because she thinks he's groping her. The reprint instead extends the "dirty" complaint as the reason for the punch.
** They also cleaned up the Blue vs Sabrina fight; the re-release has Blue insult Sabrina's fashion sense instead of her "[[A-Cup Angst|health]]", and with the [[Clothing Damage]] edited out it looked like she pulled Jigglypuff and Clefairy [[Ass Pull|out of her rear, so to speak]] instead of from her [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]].
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** White gets hit ''hard''. Right after the highest moment of her life (working on the Pokemon Musical to the point of exhaustion to make sure it would be a hit), {{spoiler|N reveals to her that her star actress has always wanted to battle. Then her star actress abandons her, allowing White to fall off the Ferris Wheel. White is then left barely conscious on the ground below, her eyes full of tears.}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: In the beginning of the RS arc, Ruby makes an offhand remark how Mudkip is better than Treecko (appearance-wise, anyways). In the middle of the Emerald arc, which is two arcs later (which in-story is about a year), Ruby discovers that Emerald's Sceptile is in fact the same Treecko, which had since gone missing. He cheerfully asks the Sceptile if it remembers him, and sure enough, it turns out that it had been carrying a grudge for that remark. Ruby promptly gets punched in the face.
** The Fire Red and Leaf Green saga has Old Master Kimberly looking for the Old Sea Map, the item needed to find Faraway Island which is home to the "ancestor" of all Pokémon, Mew; she passes this information on to Captain Briney, only for her to learn that he's already found the island, making all her efforts moot. Seems like a one-note joke, but... Later in the Emerald saga, soil from Faraway Island, being connected to Mew's DNA, was what helped calm down all the berserk Pokémon in the Battle Frontier.
** During the GSC Arc, while the President of the Pokémon Fan Club is communicating with all his members, we catch a glimpse of a girl in a bathtub with her Tentacool, a reference to the case of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] below.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Bill and Eusine.
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** The majority of the protagonists in their introduction arcs. Red for example becomes a butt monkey to his own Pikachu.
* [[Canon Foreigner|Canon Foreigners]]: Yellow and Emerald do not have game counterparts.
** Blue was based [https://web.archive.org/web/20130306164205/http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/f/f3/Kensugiart4.png on] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130306164204/http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/6f/Sugimori_Starter_artwork.png artwork] from when the First Gen was to have a gender option. When FR/LG were released, her artwork was retooled to make her the equivalent of the female character there.
* [[Call Back]]/[[Continuity Nod]]: Quite frequently are past events brought up in the present, even if said events were hundreds of chapters ago.
** Way, way back in the RBG arc, Red was led around the Safari Zone by a mechanical Pidgey. Hundreds of chapters later, there are mechanical Starly guides in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier. It also turns out that there are mechanical Hoothoot in the Johto Safari Zone.
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* {{spoiler|Celebi}} [[Deus Ex Machina|Ex Machina]]
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Given the limited amount of personality present in the game characters, the mangaka really went out of their way to create unique and often radically different characterizations for the trainers.
* [[Chekhov's Armoury]]:
** [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Way too many to count. Just about every minor object introduced early in the story becomes significant later on. A noteworthy one is the book Green reads in the GSC arc...which is revealed in the FRLG arc to have been {{spoiler|written by ''Giovanni.''}}
*** This book is mentioned to tell how to evolve Rhydon in the HGSS arc, something that wasn't revealed in the games until ''two generations'' after GSC.
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* [[Combined Energy Attack]]: In most arc finales, Dex Holders [[Combination Attack|combine their attacks]] to take down the [[Big Bad]]. What's interesting is that whenever older Dex Holders show up to support the newer generation, it's always an [[Shock and Awe|electric attack]] that is the finishing blow. (Megavolt, Super Rising Thunder, Volt Tackle.)
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Part of Diamond and Pearl's act:
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* [[Contractual Purity]]: White freaks at the idea of Tep evolving and having Gigi pair up with a different, presumably larger, not-as-adorable Pokémon.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The final battle of the Yellow Chapter briefly moves to the crater of a volcano.
* [[Conveniently Empty Building|Conveniently Empty City]]: Vermillion City was conveniently empty when Lance decimates it with a Hyper Beam due to a major event at the docks. However, Lance does acknowledge that there were probably a few people still inside.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Believe it or not, it's Ruby!
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Notable example are Platinum's real bodyguards: who's going to think much of two guys whose names are based on the word 'idiot' (Yuji and Paka)? Hell, you might think her dad was one for hiring them in the first place. After a few comical mishaps, the two get into a battle with Team Galactic, and you can see that they really are skilled battlers, displaying clever strategies and outwitting Saturn himself.
** Ruby, who normally avoids battles in public, is a very competent battler.
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: In the games and anime, the first thing the characters attack with their Pokémon is their opponent's Pokémon. Here, if you're an evil character, it's usually the trainer you're getting your Pokémon to sic.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The tone overall remains similarly lighthearted, but it is a good deal grittier than the anime and most of the original games.
* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|The final battle/climax of the RS arc. Norman, Marge, Steven are all dead. Wallace gets the crap beaten out of him by Maxie and Archie who's both gone insane for destruction at this point. Winona is held hostage.}}
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Blue and Silver's childhood.
** Ruby and Sapphire count too.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Platinum starts out to be quite bossy and snobbish to Diamond and Pearl (to be fair, she at first thought that they were her bodyguards) but warms up to them later.
* [[Determinator]]
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'''Gold''': (Panting) Open your ears and listen well then!!! Remember this, I am...(Gives Focus Bands to his Pokémon) '''GOLD'''! From New Bark Town!! }}
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The end of the Fire Red and Leaf Green arc: Team Rocket has been stopped, Deoxys has been calmed, Mewtwo has found peace, Silver has accepted his father, and no one other than Orm has died despite the intense battles and the falling airship rigged with explosives. All seems well until Sird [[Made of Iron|somehow]] shows up and makes a last-ditch attempt to recapture Deoxys, which fails but causes the five dex holders present to be [[Taken for Granite|turned to stone]].}}
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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]/[[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Gold mistakes Bugsy for a girl in the beginning of the G/S/C arc and actually asks "her" out.
** ''[[Memetic Mutation|He wears]]'' '''''[[Memetic Mutation|SHORT SHORTS]]!!!'''''
** In HGSS, Bugsy looks even ''more'' feminine.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The rival is Green. The girl is Blue. But in the published English version, this is reversed because of the way the Blue and Green version were released as one, making the default name for the first gen's rival Blue.
** [[Dub
** There's some trouble with the manga-exclusive characters who of course have no English name. Some go with Coronis's translations while others go with Chuang Yi's. Though Chuang Yi is technically the "official" version, they have given new names to characters that ''did'' actually have official English names. Many stick to Coronis's as his translations are much more faithful.
** Viz getting back in the game as a third (and second "official") translation could complicate matters.
* [[Dub
** The Sinnoh Trio started their journey on September 28th, the day the ''Diamond and Pearl'' games were released in Japan. The Viz translators caught on to the reference and changed it to April 22nd, the day the games were released in America. However, this shows that Viz doesn't read ahead, as of this point of the story winter is rapidly approaching Sinnoh, necessitating the change into the ''Platinum'' outfits. Apparently in Sinnoh, it starts snowing in May.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: ''Tons.''
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* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Crys mainly using her legs to throw PokéBalls.
* [[Fallen Angel]]: {{spoiler|Cyrus; there's even a shot of him with his Honchkrow behind him with its wings outstretched at the end of the arc.}}
* [[Fanime]]: There's a group of fans making a serious attempt at animating the series '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100330194727/http://pokespeanime.forumotion.com/forum.htm here]'''. They apparently need more animators and illustrators so support them if you can.
* [[Fan Service]]: Red's shirtlessness at the latter part of FRLG.
** What, no mentioning Blue and her fight against Sabrina?
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*** Pearl: Rash, likes to shout, but is the de-facto leader of the trio (Id)
*** Platinum: Stoic at first, but likes to experience new things and is the one who holds the trio together (Superego)
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The word "Rocket" in Team Rocket stands for '''R'''aid '''O'''n the '''C'''ity, '''K'''nock out '''E'''vil '''T'''usks. Seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112213119/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_14/14-016 here.]
* [[Funny Afro]]: The Hoenn director.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The end of the Yellow Chapter started with [[Evil Plan]], continued into some ''heroic'' [[Gambit Roulettes]], and in the end {{spoiler|Giovanni's apparent [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment}} actually turned out to be part of Lance's plan and Yellow somehow managing to outwit him. It gets crazier later on. Suffice it to say ''everyone'' gets to play [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] at some point - even <s>Guile Hideout</s>
* [[Gambit Roulette]] which Blue uses one Lorelei.
** Also {{spoiler|we're all pretty sure Sird/Storc has one. She's just so good that we ''still'' don't have much of a clue what it is.}}
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* [[Harmful to Minors]]: The flashback in the RS arc pretty much confirms everyone's fears that the world of Pokémon would be an incredibly dangerous place to live for little kids...{{spoiler|Little Ruby gets his head ''slashed open'' by a Salamance!}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|The Team Rocket executive trio (Sabrina, Koga, Lt. Surge), Blaine and Mewtwo, the Kanto Elite Four (save for [[Karma Houdini|Agatha]]), Will and Karen, Pryce, Courtney, Tabitha, Amber, Deoxys, Cyrus and all the Team Galactic commanders (except for Charon.)}}
* [[Helping Would Be Killstealing]]: Averted, as all (good) Gym Leaders and Elite Four members actively take part in the battle against whatever evil is plaguing their region, though the Dex Holders will still eventually be the ones who will have to take down the current [[Big Bad]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Gold gets one when he thought {{spoiler|Professor Oak was telling him to stop pursuing the Masked Man despite everything that he has done.}}
** Red has two. One is in the first chapter of RGB where he was defeated by Mew and later in FRLG when he was {{spoiler|defeated by Deoxys.}}
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** Sapphire once had flames bursting out of the background [[Mundane Made Awesome|when she was about to take Roxanne's test.]] She has since then mellowed out, however.
** Pearl also counts as he has tons of willpower and shouts more than needed.
** ''Black''.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Somewhat. In the GSC arc, Both Red and Sabrina bathe in Mt. Silver's therapeutic hot springs to aid the healing of their injuries.
** Sapphire and Flannery ''fought their official gym battle'' while bathing in the Lavaridge hot springs.
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* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: Quite frequently are Pokeballs modified or launched in an unusual manner for various effects in battle.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Lt. Surge, officially an [[Anti-Hero]] after a gradual [[Heel Face Turn]], pulls this with some of his previous henchmen that were being controlled by the Masked Man during the penultimate battle of the second arc.
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Some of the supporting cast like the Pokémon Fanclub President and the Swimmers.
** The Galactic grunts. Dia notes that they have a [[Hive Mind]] and cannot think on their own.
* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Emerald has his hair shaped like a croissant, apparently to make himself look taller. Doesn't really help.
** The Sinnoh chairman has his in a large swirl.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Mewtwo's giant psychic spoon of awesomeness.
* [[Improvised Zipline]]: Ruby uses his Pokeblock case to slide down a line that has one end tied to his Marshtomp's arm and the other to ''Courtney's''.
** Janine uses her Ariados to go across buildings.
* [[Inconsistent Dub]]
** The original Viz printing of Chapter 12 literally translates Razor Leaf as "Leaf Cutter".
** Chapter 26 translates it as "Pokémon House", not Pokémon Mansion.
** Viz couldn't make up their minds with the Pokémon's nicknames until they finally got consistent in the GS arc.
** In volume 6, Green's sister was referred to as May. In volume 14, she was correctly identified as Daisy.
** Viz isn't sure whether or not one member of the Team Rocket Elite Trio is named Ryo or Al.
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* [[Indy Ploy]]: How some of the protagonists foil the villain's plans. Especially Gold.
** After doing said [[Indy Ploy]] Gold will claim that it was all part of the plan, despite that it obviously wasn't.
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Ruby/Sapphire/Crystal: [[Phrase Catcher|Liar.]] }}
** Later, calling him a liar becomes a [[Running Gag]]: {{spoiler|The Elite Four all think it while he brags during the Pokéathlon.}}
** The "Liar." [[Running Gag]] has been around since the GSC Chapter.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Platinum gets different ones depending on the translation: "[[The Ojou|Ojou-sama]]" in Japanese, "Missy" in Chuang Yi's English version, and "Lady" in Viz's English Version.
** Diamond is called "Dia" as well. Crystal's name is usually shortened to just "Crys" and Latios and Latias call Emerald "Rald".
* [[Irony]]: Bianca's Oshawott gets beat up by a rather vicious-looking, wild Audino. Audino mainly exist in the games to be [[Pinata Enemy|beaten up for experience points]].
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* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: Yellow surfs on lava. Potentially [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that the surfboard was made from [[Green Lantern|hard light]], but they stay in the lava a smidgen too long to have realisticly handled the heat.
* [[The Leader]]: Considering its [[Geodesic Cast]], there are several. Notably Trainers Red, Gold, and Platinum of their respective branches of the Dex holders. Also Erika is the leader of the Kanto Gym Leaders.
* [[Level Grinding]]: Directly referenced by Byron [
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Dragonite in all of its appearances. A cute, gentle-looking, cream-colored dragon who always poses a threat to the protagonists.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Most of the characters pretty much stay in the same outfits all the time with minor allterations between arcs until future games give them new threads.
** Justified in that they usually spend their time roaming around.
** Taken to extremes when in the RS arc we're given a peek inside in Ruby's closet...and all his spare clothing is ''completely identical'' to his normal outfit - so much so that he didn't really miss out on anything when he made a more civil outfit for Sapphire!
* [[Load-Bearing Hero]]: the GSC heroes' starters vs. Lugia in the Whirl Islands. {{spoiler|The effort allowed the starters to evolve to their final forms.}}
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The FR/LG arc opens on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfai1op9xS8 a fight between a Gengar and a Nidorino].
** Blue is also a [[Mythology Gag]] to a then unreleased female protagonist. Considering the timing of the manga, she was put into it way after she was canceled.
** Blue's bubble microphone and Pika's babysitting of Yellow's Caterpie are homages to the ''[[Hey You, Pikachu!]]'' game.
** At the Goldenrod Game Corner, someone is playing Pokemon Pinball.
** Todd is given a job to take pictures at ''[[Pokémon Snap]]'''s Pokémon Island.
** Guile's plans in the Emerald chapter are pretty much identical to [[Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker|Butler's]], but with Kyogre instead of Groudon.
** Heck, there are a few shout outs to the Anime such as Mewtwo's limiting armor from the Fire Red Chapter, hell Mewtwo himself has a personality similar to the Mewtwo from ''[[Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns]]''.
*** The "eyelash of Mew" fossil from the first movie was retconned into Mewtwo's backstory in Special, as well.
** Sird is based on a design from the Pokémon trading card game.
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** Viz released the fourth gen chapter and the fifth with no plans on the third gen ones.
* [[Pacing Problems]]: Both the Platinum and HGSS chapters ran into this, even with being serialized in multiple magazines.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Literally shown [https://web.archive.org/web/20150223122046/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_35/Pokemon_Special_v35_c390/Pokemon_Special_v35_c390_117-neuquant here], where the Poketch clowns are painting the panels black for the flashback in the page.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: For some reason all the 'Dex Holders, except for Ruby and Blue, either has only one parent or none at all (and the latter two don't exactly have perfect family histories).
** Platinum also turns out to have both a mother and father.
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** The formerly evil gym leaders get some in the GSC arc. Koga shows up with Bruno to save Red and Green, Lt. Surge helps free the brainwashed Team Rocket soldiers from the Masked Man's control, and Sabrina helps out Red, at the same time asking if Eevee is well, showing regret on how helping to torture it years ago.
* [[Playing Tennis With the Boss]]: Guile can reflect Pokémon attacks back with his sword.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: As per with the rest of the franchise. Except for Falkner, but that's only because he's a Gym Leader as well. On the plus side, it's actually expected of the Gym Leaders to handle criminal organizations.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Varies with the translator, but Captain [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Eldritch]] has one when he forgets to steer the ship and it heads towards the rock.
* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: In the Chuang Yi version, Yellow is referred to as "he" by her uncle and Professor Oak when they speak to Crystal. In the Japanese a genderless pronoun was used. It's much harder to hide her gender when talking about her in English.
** Somewhat averted in the Viz version, as Oak and Wilton avoid using pronouns when they talk to Crystal about Yellow. Surprisingly, they do it in a way that doesn't sound too awkward.
* [[Punctuated!
** Also in the RS arc...
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* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: {{spoiler|Wallace and Gold}} gets thrown one of these in the R/S and GSC arcs respectively.
** Dia also got thrown with one of these in the DP arc, but he manages to retaliate quickly.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Between {{spoiler|Red and Yellow at the end of the Yellow arc. Also somewhat in FRLG with Yellow's fishing line.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Besides Red and Green, Archie and Maxie.
** Sapphire and Ruby too.
* [[The Rival]]: Red and Green (Blue in the US version), Gold and Silver, Crystal and Eusine, Ruby and Sapphire.
* [[Scissors Cuts Rock]]: Red's Pikachu is able to take out Brock's Onix with a well-placed Thundershock.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Bill, mainly because of [[Accent Adaptation]] and his Southern accent is a substitute for [[Kansai-ben]] - Which is similar to this trope and is intended as a subversion of [[The Idiot From Osaka]]. Or maybe not. While [[The Idiot From Osaka]] trope is that for some reason has caught up in the West, the larger Japanese Osaka stereotypes, are that they came from a merchant city and are totally sharp, witty, and moneygrubbing. Which is the actual raeson for the idiot trope. - The inhabitants of the [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|more samurai-dominated Edo]], who valued reserve and dignity, considers the Osakans as brash, loud, rude, and uncouth, therefore below themselves.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: "Team Rocket's Battleship has transformed into a mid-air battle stadium!"
* [[Rummage Fail]]: Neatly averted as the top half of the Pokéballs are transluscent so you can see the Pokémon inside. Handy!
* [[Running Gag]]: In the early parts of the DP arc, Platinum would try to imitate some actions that seem new and interesting to her. But quickly stops when Pearl notices. And when confronted by Pearl about said action:
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'''Platinum''': (Nonchalant) I did not.
'''Pearl''': You definitely did!
'''Platinum''': I definitely did not. Stop being a pest. }}
** There's also:
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'''Dia''': EEHH?!
'''Pearl''': Put the food down already!
'''Dia''': EEHH?!! }}
*** (Viz's English version changes the wording but otherwise keeps both gags intact.)
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** It could be that he was quoting an estimate since not even Prof. Oak knows all the Pokémon thus why he gives out pokedexs. 150 could be a rough estimate of native Kanto Pokémon.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Maybe not in that degree at that point of the story.
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'''Sapphire''': F-Friend?! (Blushes and waves arms frantically) I don't have such a strange friend! }}
** Also, Black and White. (Not that they actually are, as of yet)
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'''White''': He's not my boyfriend, he's my employee! }}
* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: Tate is mistakenly referred to as a girl in the Chuang Yi version.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: Everything that Pokémon do is based on some bit of flavor text from the games (generally accompanied by Pokédex citation), and any inconsistency with the game mechanics is explicitly [[Handwaved]] as a special case.
** Some rather noticeable inconsistencies aren't [[Handwaved]] though.
** The rental Pokémon Emerald uses at the Battle Factory? Yes, those are actual rental Pokémon straight out of the games. Also, Emerald himself is quite the meta-gamer, using and acknowledging many game mechanics and strategies used in competitive battling.
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]: {{spoiler|Giovanni; the only reason we know he has anything is a comment of his that "this body is wasting away".}}
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|N has Gigi abducted along with her handler, then has her dropped into a Servine's waiting coils to be strangled. This makes Gigi realize her battling potential, so she willingly decides to side with him.}}
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* [[Three Amigos]]: Each set of regional Dex Holders, except for Kanto with the eventual inclusion of Yellow.
* [[Title Drop]]: in the FRLG saga, Mewtwo when he saw Red and Green trade their starter Pokémon.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Blue's parents. Maybe. {{spoiler|We don't know how visible Deoxys's black holes are. Blue saw one of them clearly even without her Silph Scope, though...why didn't they see ''that?'' Or their daughter in a weird and unnatural pose? ''What were they thinking?!''}}
** Potentially justified, {{spoiler|their daughter was missing for 11 years, maybe presumed dead, to find out that she's ''right there'', the entire world may've just disappeared to them}}.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Train Station Goodbye]]: How {{spoiler|Black and White part ways at Nimbasa}}.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Red's Pikachu during the Yellow arc.
** Also Emerald's Sceptile and (possibly) Silver's Sneasel.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Wanda, who is conventionally pretty, has a [[Gonk]] husband.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Happens many times with varying [[Justified Trope|justifications]]. Exceptions include...
** {{spoiler|Pryce, who was lost in the timestream after his fight with Gold.}}
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** {{spoiler|Gigi leaves White for N.}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Ruby took two separate tongue-lashings from Sapphire and Wallace, in that order, though not back-to-back. Read the entry for more details.
** Cheren calls Black out for selfishly going off on his own when they had already promised each other (with Bianca) that they'd start off together.
* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]] / [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In Round 28 of the R/B/Y arc, [[Anti-Hero|Blue]] reminds [[The Hero|Red]] and [[The Rival|Green]], "This isn't a [[Game Boy]], you know!"
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Birds for Blue, until the GSC finale.
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* [[World of Badass]]: Oh yeah. Even [[Butt Monkey|Bill]] gets a moment or two, like shielding [[Ship Tease|Daisy]] from debris and then ignoring the fact that he was hurt so that he could help the Dex Holders.
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Gold at the climax of GSC.
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'''Gold''': ''Don't be stupid! Who's fighting for you? ...I've been thinking...the reason why I chose to battle... I can't say whom I'm fighting for...it's too mushy for me! But in my battles, I fight for myself! And I don't care if by fighting my own battles, I end up helping people. If you've benefited from my selfish acts, then so be it. Silver, Crys, after meeting you guys...I've been able to travel to different places, meet different people. We've had our share of battles, and it's been really fun...I've enjoyed myself!'' }}
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Bruno
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Out of all the 'Dex Holders, only Crystal and Platinum have unnaturally dark blue hair. Aside from the rest of the cast, there's Wallace, Claire, Brawly, Riley and other characters that also have unnaturally colored hair.
* [[You're Insane!]]: Yellow <s>says</s> screams this to Lance at the end of her saga.
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'''Yellow:''' {{spoiler|Turn that Pokémon against the world...?! No! You can't! '''''LANCE, IT'S INSANE!!'''''}} }}
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