Pokémon Master
Pokémon Master is a Pokémon Dark Fic by Ace Sanchez.
It follows the story of an older Ash (Ashura in-story) and Misty (Mistaria) as they fight with the Resistance against the League in its attempt to bring about the end of the world. Along the way, they deal with elemental powers and their own budding relationship. Any similarities with the show Heroes is coincidental since it was finished in 2002.
Tropes used in Pokémon Master include:
- Adaptational Badass: Everyone. Yes, even Team Rocket. It seems odd that every last trainer in existence would become some sort of warrior, no?
- After the End: Every city is in near ruins except for one
- Almighty Janitor: Laselle's evolved Caterpie named Flint 'Ditrion', who also happens to be Brock's 'father' Flat What doesn't even begin to describe this Mind Screw...
- Ascended Extra: A lot of anime and game characters ahoy!
- An Ice Person: Lorelei
- Cloning Blues: Gary is a clone of Ash, created by Professor Oak.
- Darker and Edgier
- Dark Fic: The first 'prototype' dark Pokemon fanfic. Now Bloodier and Gorier than the actual series. Sweet dreams.
- Recursive Fanfiction: This series was so popular it caused a lot of other 'fics written about the characters...
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Every Master move-set in the fanfic is like this.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Ash
- Dark Fantasy: Has elements of this.
- Destructive Saviour: Places tend to end up burning, crumbling down or exploding in the wake of Ash and his friends. One character lampshades this in episode 10:
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Lily: "You know, places that go to hell seem to be quite common when you're around." |
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- The Dragon: Lance
- Elemental Powers: The standard first-generation Pokemon elemental powers, plus a few more... Light and Shadow
- Evil Evolves: These Forbidden Pokemon get stronger every chapter, and some of the main characters have trouble fending them off, eventually there is a worldwide epidermic of those Pokemon. Does this remind you of a Zombie apocalypse?
- Expy: A few of the characters are this to 'trainer classes' from the games.
- Evil Twin: Valdera, to Misty. Gary has become this to Ash in a fairly contrived way, but it suits the story.
- Five-Bad Band
- Big Bad: Gary Garick
- The Dragon: Lance from the Elite Four
- The Brute: Brock
- The Evil Genius: Agatha
- The Dark Chick: Valdera
- Fusion Dance: Three of them: Valdera/Misty, Triverion (Vaporeon/Jolteon/Flareon) and Mikey's Eevee/Missingno- yes THAT one.
- Bonus points for this fic trope being in existence long before the manga Pokemon Réburst...
- Heel Face Turn: Brock
- He's All Grown Up: Everyone.
- Heroes Want Redheads: Ash NEVER got over Misty, not matter what he said himself and everyone. He finallt understands this at the second-to-last episode.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Brock uses Self-Destruct to kill himself and Lance.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Ash can hit Gyarados in the eye with a longbow from over 500 yards.
- La Résistance: includes Bill, Misty, Erika, Bruno, and many others
- Brock, I am your Father: That overpowered Caterpie Laselle had all along? Turned out to be Flint in disguise as a Forbidden Butterfree... Yes, I'm being serious
- Light Is Not Good: Valdera
- Love Triangle: between Ash, Misty, and Valdera
- The Missingno: shows up in Mt. Moon
- Mind Rape: Used on Ashura by Agatha/Chaneller
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ash releasing everyone except for 'Shadow' Pikachu had consequences for every-one, including Ash's own Pokemon...
- Original Character: Valdera, Channeller and Flint-Butterfree
- : The Pokemon world after the Dark Wars.
- Puberty Superpower: Linked to 'the Incident' which is a Noodle Incident.
- Remember the New Guy?: Valdera's past is...something we probably would have heard mentioned in the actual series.
- Rival Turned Evil: Several.
- Simple Staff: Erica's weapon of choice.
- Super Mode: Ashura, after that run for your life!
- X Meets Y: Heroes or Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Pokémon
- Alternatively, Ninja Scroll meets Pokémon (Word of God told he had been heavily influenced by that movie when he started the fic, and it notices in some subplots).
- Threshold Guardian: The seven 'Master' Forbidden Pokemon- Laselle's Caterpie is one of them.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Misteria (Misty/Valdera fusion) drops one on Gary.