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[[File:PokeSpe_characters.jpg|frame|<small>Center: [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Emerald]]. Clockwise from top: [[The Medic|Yellow]], [[The Hero|Red]], [[Idiot Hero|Gold]], [[Camp Straight|Ruby]], [[The Rival|Green]] (Blue US), [[Anti
''Pokémon Special'' [[Market
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.
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''<small>Note: In general, we're using characters' English names where they're known, even if they haven't appeared in English versions yet. Blue and Green, however, had their names switched in translation so the boys matched the English games [[Pokémon Red and Blue]]; we're using the original Japanese designations (so Green's the boy and Blue's the girl).</small>''
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: In a world full of Japanese/Anglo names, nobody seems to comment that the Dex Holders' names are colors, jewels, and metals.
** 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.
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* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Steven, Courtney and Norman from the climax of the RS arc.}}
** {{spoiler|As well as Guile Hideout/Archie, though he was just missing and presumed dead.}}
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: Norman.
** Son runs away from home? Have a gorilla swing A STAIRCASE at him.
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** Crystal's mom no longer gives her a [[Dope Slap]] hard enough to knock her to the ground, but instead a [[Death Glare]] that makes her physically recoil.
** Much like the anime, Lenora's apron was edited out. A bit pointless as she only wore it in a few shots, having taken it off right before battling Black.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Blue was kidnapped at age five by a giant bird {{spoiler|Ho-Oh}}, [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|giving her a crippling fear of birds]], so that she could be forced to become the underling of a [[Big Bad]]. After eleven long years of fighting for her freedom, overcoming her phobias, and generally breaking free of her past, she {{spoiler|locates her parents and goes off for a joyous and tearful reunion, only to have them disappear in front of her eyes.}} Is it any wonder she went into a near coma afterward?
** 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.
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* [[Covert Pervert]]: Believe it or not, it's Ruby!
{{quote| '''Ruby:''' "Ahhh...it always feels good after a kind deed!!"}}
* [[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.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Blue seems to be able to deal with many problems, including a few she doesn't anticipate.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Koga for Janine, and (presumably) Hayate for Falkner.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Sinnoh Trio make a lot of noise in Mt. Coronet's caves. Cyrus's response is to bury them alive in a rock slide.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Ruby running away from home because his dad won't accept he wants to be a Pokémon coordinator. Ruby is very, very camp. It honestly gets a bit awkward when {{spoiler|Norman eventually tracks him down and beats him senseless.}}
** To be fair, Norman would have accepted this if Ruby hadn't run away.
* [[Double Take]]: When Yellow's "Uncle" sees the Mask's Rocket grunts.
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** And later they team up with one of the Elite Four against three new Team Rocket admins...
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Ruby has a Skitty which later evolves to a Delcatty.
* [[
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Lance does this ''a lot'' in the Yellow arc.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Subverted. Silver isn't evil, just a jerk ([[Character Development|at first]]) due to [[Freudian Excuse|a bad childhood]].
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* [[Fastball Special]]
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]: Red and Ruby's gloves.
* [[Four Is Death|Four]] [[Five
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Bill and a Rattata early in the RGB saga. Cue speeding Fearow hunting for food.
* [[Freudian Trio]]: The first four generations form this.
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* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Ruby and Pearl.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Red's Gyarados.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Crystal's mother to Crystal {{spoiler|after she loses the will to continue on her mission after failing to catch Suicune.}}
** Green tries this on Red during the FRLG chapter {{spoiler|after he loses to Deoxys the first time.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Red sees the Pokémon Fan Club newsletter with the headline "'''Shocking Case Of Poké-Love''': ''[[Naughty Tentacles|'That's the last bath I'll take with my Tentacool.']]''" This even stayed in Viz's rerelease when other stuff was edited out.
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** Steven, Platinum, {{spoiler|and her mother}} all even sign their names in English.
** Quite a bit of English is randomly splattered around. Whether or not it is grammatically accurate/correctly spelled is another matter entirely.
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: In the English translation of the Yellow chapter (aka "Yellow Caballero"). Early on, Yellow uses a fake name of "Amarillo del Bosque Verde". Unfortunately, the [[Paper
** Dahlia's catchphrase is, "Que sera sera."
* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: Blue's Ditto, Agatha's Arbok and its ability to change patterns.
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** Red in the beginning, but he grew out of it by the end of the first arc.
** Diamond too, {{spoiler|until we find out he was [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].}}
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Platinum, thanks to her not divulging her name for a while and translations not agreeing on an [[In
* [[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
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Inconveniently
* [[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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** 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
** 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]].
** Meta shipping example. The [[Ferris Wheel Date Moment|Ferris Wheel scene]]. Dear ''lord'' the [[Ship Sinking|Ferris]] [[Trauma Conga Line|Wheel]] [[Break the Cutie|scene]].
* [[
* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Dia and Pearl officially feel this way for Platinum after the mishaps in Veilstone City.
* [[Jerkass]]: Quite possibly Volkner, who uses up so much electricity running his gym just because he's bored...resulting the rest of Sunyshore to go into a total blackout.
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** 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
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Platinum would probably count.
* [[Long Runner]]: Despite the many different Pokémon manga made over the years (and many are still being made), only Pokémon Special (and a gag manga that never reached American shores) started when the franchise did and will likely continue for as long as it has to.
* [[Love Triangle]]: [[Triang Relations|Type 3]]- A notable one is Red, Yellow, and Misty.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Silver is Giovanni's long-lost son.}}
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Pretty much every character who has a skirt.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Elesa is first formally introduced with her on her knees and her rear facing the audience.
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** Bianca appears to be incapable of standing up straight as her rear is almost always thrust out. It's all the more pronounced whenever she falls down [[Dojikko|(which is often)]].
** Skyla's hot pants are indeed short enough that part of her rear is visible.
* [[Market
* [[Married At Sea]]: Wally's cousin and her fiance during the Emerald Saga.
* [[Meido]]: Latias's initial human disguise. Later on she's a journalist, then a nurse. All of them are rather modest, but really cute.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Ruby {{spoiler|when he realized that he had been mistreating Mimi and caused her to run away.}}
* [[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.
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* [[Nice Hat]]: Except for the 'Rival' Dex Holders (except Bianca), Emerald, and Blue (in the first 3 arcs), all of the main characters have a hat. Yellow's is the most ornate, though. {{spoiler|It also has the most plot significance, not only because it hides her real gender but also because the feathers in it are actually the Rainbow Wing and Silver Wing.}}
** {{spoiler|Ruby's hat also covers a scar that he got from rescuing Sapphire from a Salamence when they were younger.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Buck tries to protect the Magma Stone from Team Galactic. By doing so, he awakens their true target, Heatran, and leads them right to it.
** Everything that the Johto trio did to get Arceus away from Team Rocket in fact allowed the bad guys to capture and control it.
** The Dark Stone is protected in Lenora's impenetrable underground office/gym and the only key is destroyed. {{spoiler|Black, however, remembers how to get in from his Gym challenge and a Plasma grunt disguised as Brycen tricks him into opening it.}}
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* [[No Name Given]]: Lady Platinum Berlitz's first name was unknown for the first part of the D/P section of the series, likely because Kusaka was waiting for confirmation on the third game's title before naming her.
** A few reoccurring characters don't get formally named, such as Crystal's mother.
* [[Non
** Red's Pika to Red and Yellow, later Chuchu to Yellow(and to a lesser extent Ratty/Ratchan), being the series mascot probably helps.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: As if she wasn't a screamin' [[Badass Normal]] ''already'', Sapphire caught a tree limb - a full-sized ''tree limb'' - ''with a human and a Zigzagoon on it - '''after dropping FROM HIGHER UP'''!'' [[No One Should Survive That|And she's perfectly fine afterwards]].
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** Diamond {{spoiler|apparently knew that he and Pearl weren't supposed to be following Platinum around the whole time.}}
* [[The Ojou]]: ''Lady'' Platinum Berlitz, Misty, and Erika.
* [[Off
** In Jupiter's debut...well...erm...''legs do not connect to the body that way.''
** Quite a few instances depict Platinum with her diamond ring on her right hand and her pearl ring on her left (when it should have been vice versa).
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* [[Out of Focus]]: [[Justified Trope|Red in the Yellow Chapter]], and Gold and Silver during a good deal of the ''GSC'' arc, which switches to Crystal unexpectedly after a cliffhanger.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Gold goes so far as to deliberately give the police an incorrect description of Silver in order to be this.
* [[Open
* [[Orwellian Retcon]]: Sometimes minor to major details (art and dialogue) from the magazines get changed around in the official volumes. For example, Platinum's scarf, Pokédex, Pokétch, and bike were originally pink, but they were changed to red later.
* [[Out of Order]]: It's pretty hard to piece together a timeline from the magazine releases alone due to the confusing way they're released. Fans have to wait until the volumes come out to figure out when what happens.
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* [[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
* [[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.
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** 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.
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** Also at the GSC Finale: "GOLD!!" and "Argh, RED!!"
* [[Selective Localization]]: A bit of an inversion, as Viz chose ''not'' to alter Unown's messages in the Ruins of Alph. Instead they just added notes of what it translates to ("''Ananuke'' = Escape", for instance). It's not clear why they didn't bother, considering how they often alter art for [[Bowdlerization]] purposes.
* [[Sempai
** By the end of the FRLG arc, Silver refers to Green as sempai as well.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: At one point early on in the series, Blue asks Red how many Pokémon he thinks there are. He responds that it's common knowledge that there are 150, but she informs him that there's actually a 151st Pokémon--Mew. However, the 150th Pokémon is Mewtwo, and at this point in the story he's still being created. Of course, casual fans probably would've been confused if they switched the two's numbers, so it's forgiveable.
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* [[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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* [[Villainous Rescue]]: {{spoiler|For a [[Big Bad]], Giovanni certainly saves the heroes a lot, particularly during the Yellow Arc, freeing Red from his frozen prison and saving Yellow when she was battling Lance.}}
* [[Wax On Wax Off]]: It helped Gold's Cyndaquil evolve into Quilava, but the Day Care Granny really just wanted some stuff lying around the house to be done.
* [[Well
** And, of course, Maxie and Archie, but this is a bit questionable, since they're batshit insane.
* [[Wham Episode]]: Where there were certainly hints towards this, {{spoiler|seeing Sird in a Team Galactic uniform certainly counts, as well as the revelations that she was [[The Mole|a mole]] sent to investigate Team Rocket}}.
** {{spoiler|Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and Silver getting turned to stone at the end of the FRLG Arc.}}
** {{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
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Birds for Blue, until the GSC finale.
** Sapphire easily loses to Tucker, implying that she's still terrified of Salamance.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: ''Every single one'' of the Pokedex Holders.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Bruno
** Red as well as Giovanni.
* [[Year Outside, Hour Inside]]: According to Juan, [[Zig Zagging Trope|zigzagged]] with Mirage Island, but played straight while Ruby and Sapphire are unconscious on it. Three days pass by on the island and three weeks in the real world.
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Lance:''' {{spoiler|This was my object from the beginning--to take control of this Pokémon! To ride the one that no one has ever been able to tame!}}<br />
'''Yellow:''' {{spoiler|Turn that Pokémon against the world...?! No! You can't! '''''LANCE, IT'S INSANE!!'''''}} }}
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