History DeconstructionFic / Pokemon

* ''Fanfic/PokeWars'' is this for the Pokémon revolution genre with it pulling absolutely no punches with showing how divisive and destructive such an act would be. It also highlights how lethal the [[{{mons}} Pokémon]] can be.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7657817/1/Lamentations-of-a-Pidgeot Lamentations of a Pidgeot]]'' deconstructs the common joke among the fandom about Ash never visiting Pidgeot like he promised when he released her into the wild, when in reality, this promise is a line exclusive to the English dub of the anime, and Pidgeot was simply released normally. First, Pidgeot goes into denial, telling herself that Ash will come back and later worrying that he may be hurt. Then she hears Delia and Professor Oak talking about Ash's latest adventure in Johto. She keeps waiting until she eventually [[DespairEventHorizon gives up]]. And finally, she reaches the anger stage and never quite leaves it, attacking trainers who try to catch Pokemon in that area because she doesn't want them to go through what she went through.[[index]]

* ''Fanfic/AtTheFoodCourt'' was written solely as a TakeThat against Cori Falls's infamous fanfiction, particularly ''The Prodigal Parents'', in which [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash]] becomes a FutureLoser with severe delusions and who [[PsychopathicManchild can no longer live unassisted because he has the mental age of a kindergartener]]. (In case it isn't clear, ''The Prodigal Parents'' was a [[RevengeFic bashfic]].) ''At the Food Court'' reinterprets everything, taking canon and basic human decency into account, showing that Ash was once a normal kid whose life was ruined by criminals who beat him up so severely, he had to be hospitalized, and permanently regressed to the cognitive level of a kindergartener due to massive brain damage. It doesn't shy away from showing [[FateWorseThanDeath how horrible a fate Ash suffers]] and that [[DesignatedHero no one could possibly inflict that on someone and remain sympathetic]]. Without the ProtagonistCenteredMorality in ''The Prodigal Parents'', Jessie and James are not heroes, but villains.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7657817/1/Lamentations-of-a-Pidgeot Lamentations of a Pidgeot]]'' deconstructs the common joke among the fandom about Ash never visiting Pidgeot like he promised when he released her into the wild. First, Pidgeot goes into denial, telling herself that Ash will come back and later worrying that he may be hurt. Then she hears Delia and Professor Oak talking about Ash's latest adventure in Johto. She keeps waiting until she eventually [[DespairEventHorizon gives up]]. And finally, she reaches the anger stage and never quite leaves it, attacking trainers who try to catch Pokemon in that area because she doesn't want them to go through what she went through.[[index]]

** In this fic, there's a deconstruction of a deconstruction. As noted above at ''Reset'', while the status quo sucks, it prevented things from becoming too bleak. However, ''Wars of the Dark'' shows that the idea that Ash and his friends would have to pay horrible prices for breaking the status quo is so over the top that it cannot happen without the intervention of a supernatural being (read: the author). To wit, in a similar manner to ''The (Edit) War For Ash's Freedom To Not Be Betrayed'', Glitchy Red tried to make some changes to the world to make Ash and his friends suffer (notably, the changes are the same ones that occur in ''Reset''), only for [=MissingNo=] to alter those changes in an effort to minimize the damage.

** In this fic, there's a deconstruction of a deconstruction. As noted above at ''Reset'', while the status quo sucks, it prevented things from becoming too bleak. However, ''Wars of the Dark'' shows that the idea that Ash and his friends would have to pay horrible prices for breaking the status quo is so over the top that it cannot happen without the intervention of a supernatural being (read: the author). To wit, in a similar manner to ''The (Edit) War For Ash's Freedom To Not Be Betrayed", Glitchy Red tried to make some changes to the world to make Ash and his friends suffer (notably, the changes are the same ones that occur in ''Reset''), only for [=MissingNo=] to alter those changes in an effort to minimize the damage.

** In this fic, there's a deconstruction of a deconstruction. As noted above at ''Reset'', while the status quo sucks, it prevented things from becoming too bleak. However, ''Wars of the Dark'' shows that the idea that Ash and his friends would have to pay horrible prices for breaking the status quo is so over the top that it cannot happen without the intervention of a supernatural being (read: the author).

** The FandomSpecificPlot of "The reason Ash is 10 is because Ho-Oh keeps him that way" is deconstructed. Ho-Oh's actions caused Ash to lose a piece of his heart and a massive amount of space-time distortions that would have lead to Cyrus winning if they went unchecked. When Arceus finds out, the fragment is put through a TomatoInTheMirror reveal, enters the denial and anger stages and never seems to leave them, becoming an OmnicidalManiac going as Glitchy Red as a result.

* In this fic, there's a deconstruction of a deconstruction. As noted above at ''Reset'', while the status quo sucks, it prevented things from becoming too bleak. However, ''Wars of the Dark'' shows that the idea that Ash and his friends would have to pay horrible prices for breaking the status quo is so over the top that it cannot happen without the intervention of a supernatural being (read: the author).

** Red's memetic status as a [[HeroicMime silent badass]] is also deconstructed. Red legitimately has socialization issues that make it hard for him to bond with people and Pokemon alike, as seen in his interactions with Ash and co. in chapter 26 and his own Pokémon in his One Island Oneshot. While he is still skilled and is not a bad person in the inside, these issues do make his goals harder to reach. In particular Mega Evolution is something he is told by Siebold he will struggle with because of his social issues with his Pokémon, even though the author does make it clear that Red does not mistreat them. This trend continues during the Two Island Interlude, as shown by the fact that, despite having a closer bond with his Charizard than with most of his other Pokémon, it's not strong enough for him to learn Blast Burn from Ultima ([[ThePowerOfFriendship as it's powered by the friendship]] between trainer and Pokémon), and also has led him to not to pay enough attention to his Clefairy's AxCrazy tendencies or how to deal with them.

* ''Fanfic/TheTrainerFromAFarAwayLand'' deconstructs Team Plasma's agenda on the part of the Pokemon. Snivy doesn't hate all trainers, she just wants a better one. While N's Zorua doesn't want N to fulfill his goal of Pokemon-Human separation as it means N will abandon him.[[/index]]

* ''Fanfic/AtTheFoodCourt'' was written solely as a TakeThat against Cori Falls's infamous fanfiction, particularly ''The Prodigal Parents'', in which [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash]] becomes a FutureLoser with severe delusions and who [[PsychopathicManchild can no longer live unassisted because he has the mental age of a kindergartener]]. (In case it isn't clear, ''The Prodigal Parents'' was a [[RonTheDeathEater bashfic]].) ''At the Food Court'' reinterprets everything, taking canon and basic human decency into account, showing that Ash was once a normal kid whose life was ruined by criminals who beat him up so severely, he had to be hospitalized, and permanently regressed to the cognitive level of a kindergartener due to massive brain damage. It doesn't shy away from showing [[FateWorseThanDeath how horrible a fate Ash suffers]] and that [[DesignatedHero no one could possibly inflict that on someone and remain sympathetic]]. Without the ProtagonistCenteredMorality in ''The Prodigal Parents'', Jessie and James are not heroes, but villains.

** By the same author, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12803123/1/Shudo-cross-Modern-Ash-The-Trainer-who-Questions-Humanity Shudo cross Modern Ash: The Trainer who Questions Humanity]]'' takes the original ideas of head writer Shudo and applies them full on to not only later developments to the series (such as Ash's later higher performances and companions, and Ash's rivalry with Paul), and a few fanon ideas for improving the series such as Ash catching more Pokémon and trainers starting at an older, more sex appropriate age. The result: An Ash who has steadily become more jaded with most of humanity outside of the higher leveled broad trainer-coordinator circuit, a vast majority of children being born without fathers to a point that marriage is rare and teen pregnancies are not at all uncommon, and Ash getting to a point the main difference between himself and N is that N would separate all humans from all Pokémon, while Ash would prefer to simply remove Pokémon from people that he thinks shouldn't have them. A number that ranges from thousands to ''millions''.[[index]]
* ''Fanfic/TheSunSoul'' shows how dangerous the Pokéverse would be in reality.

Many fanfiction writers have made DeconstructionFic that deconstructed both the original show and its characters.

** Chapter 41 of the main story takes a shot at the idea of a 'Chosen One' and the rarity of humans with 'pure hearts': Raikou claims that there are many humans with pure hearts even in a single village and that the majority of humans other than them aren't evil. Ho-Oh is well aware of this fact and just avoids humanity in general because it has grown to prefer isolation. Deconstruction does not need to be dark and edgy.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10552246/1/Kindred-Spirits Kindred Spirits]]'', an [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', deconstructs CommonMarySueTraits. The heroine is an OCStandIn rather than an actual OC, massive changes must be made to the setting for her to even exist[[note]]as the canon character she is based on is dead by the time the anime takes place[[/note]], the fact that she shares her name with the fic's author is pure coincidence as a result, and, even though she befriends the canon characters instantly and scenes from the movie proceed all but unchanged except for her giving a line of dialogue here or there, her presence has actually made the situation ''[[ButterflyOfDoom worse]]''.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7657817/1/Lamentations-of-a-Pidgeot Lamentations of a Pidgeot]]'' deconstructs the common joke among the fandom about Ash never visiting Pidgeot like he promised when he released her into the wild. First, Pidgeot goes into denial, telling herself that Ash will come back and later worrying that he may be hurt. Then she hears Delia and Professor Oak talking about Ash's latest adventure in Johto. She keeps waiting until she eventually [[DespairEventHorizon gives up]]. And finally, she reaches the anger stage and never quite leaves it, attacking trainers who try to catch Pokemon in that area because she doesn't want them to go through what she went through.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' deconstructs a few tropes in its main story and the side stories that apply to both the series in general and fanfiction in general.

** By the same author, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12803123/1/Shudo-cross-Modern-Ash-The-Trainer-who-Questions-Humanity Shudo cross Modern Ash: The Trainer who Questions Humanity]]'' takes the original ideas of head writer Shudo and applies them full on to not only later developments to the series (such as Ash's later higher performances and companions, and Ash's rivalry with Paul), and a few fanon ideas for improving the series such as Ash catching more Pokémon and trainers starting at an older, more sex appropriate age. The result: An Ash who has steadily become more jaded with most of humanity outside of the higher leveled broad trainer-coordinator circuit, a vast majority of children being born without fathers to a point that marriage is rare and teen pregnancies are not at all uncommon, and Ash getting to a point the main difference between himself and N is that N would separate all humans from all Pokémon, while Ash would prefer to simply remove Pokémon from people that he thinks shouldn't have them. A number that ranges from thousands to ''millions''.

* ''Fanfic/{{Symbiosis}}'' deconstructs aspects of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' by showing that the criminal elements of various region outright conflicting with each other and compete with each other. Brock's ParentalAbandonment by his father has left emotional scars on him due to his PromotionToParent and having to give up his dreams to run the gym. When his father came back, Brock's [[CallingTheOldManOut lack of anger towards him]] is seen as running away from his emotional problems. Being able to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak to Pokémon]] is made a bigger deal than the anime, as since their society revolves around Pokémon people with that ability are very valuable... to the point that criminal organizations will outright try to ''enslave'' them if they're caught. Jessie and James deconstruct the TokenGoodTeammate, as they are far from [[NotSoHarmlessVillain ineffective.]] Due to their inherent [[PureIsNotGood innocence]], there is nothing they wouldn't do in order to stop the "good guys."
* The one-shot ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/alexwarlorn/art/Tobias-Is-Arrested-Yo-569496061 Tobias Is Arrested, Yo]]'' deconstructs the FandomSpecificPlot "Tobias' Sinnoh League win is invalidated because using Legendary Pokémon is banned". As Tobias points out to the police officers that come in to arrest him, if using Legendaries was really illegal, he'd have been informed of this long before he made it to the tournament, and a number of people (including the Gym Leaders and the League staff) would be in major trouble for letting him continue regardless. The author also gives an interesting take on the character -- not only was he inspired by Ash to enter the League in the first place, but [[spoiler:"Tobias" turns out to be a collective false identity being used by a number of Legendary Pokémon Ash met on his travels. His infamous Darkrai in particular is the same one from ''Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai'', who is rather miffed that a couple of idiotic humans are trying to take the trophy they earned away before he can even show it to Alice.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheTrainerFromAFarAwayLand'' deconstructs Team Plasma's agenda on the part of the Pokemon. Snivy doesn't hate all trainers, she just wants a better one. While N's Zorua doesn't want N to fulfill his goal of Pokemon-Human separation as it means N will abandon him.

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** Chapter 41 of the main story takes a shot at the idea of a 'Chosen One' and the rarity of humans with 'pure hearts': Raikou claims that there are many humans with pure hearts even in a single village and that the majority of humans other than them aren't evil. Ho-Oh is well aware of this fact and just avoids humanity in general because it has grown to prefer isolation. Like some of the above Naruto examples, deconstruction does not need to be dark and edgy.

* ''Fanfic/NoAntidote'' shreds ThePowerOfFriendship... and you may never look at your starters the same way again. Or any of your other Pokémon.

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** SexGod is also given a beating in Chapter 27. Anna notes that the lover she had who sired Arnold is by far the most sexually pleasing lover she ever had, but she notes that the physical pleasure involved was missing something. [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex She notes that two later lovers, who were nowhere near as good as he was, had it]]. Basically the point there is just being an excellent lover physically can't match lower quality lovemaking where genuine affection and care are in play. Notably, ''Reset'' is a Harem Fic, where characters capable of immense physical love to every XX chromosomed being the writer likes is commonplace and often exists in place of non-sexual romantic connections.
** Not that GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex is completely spared either: the fanfic in the same point draws a slight but noticeable difference between physical and emotional fulfillment in sex. You can enjoy one on its own, but having one does not mean you have the other. The first character in story noted to having both is a villain, and the fic's KnightOfCerebus at that: as you don't need to be a good person overall to qualify, but be a good person to the one(s) you are having sex with to qualify for the trope. Just being morally lower than others doesn't decrease your ability to provide physical or emotional pleasure in the act.

* Pokémon fanfics playing with the franchise's "trainer and {{Mons}} power of friendship" motif are common. It helps that there are canon examples, with ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' for example showing what both Pokémon and humans suffer and what can happen in the world of Pokémon.

* [=CoriFalls=]'s work ''tries'' to be a deconstruction of Ash's dealings with Team Rocket only to fail by swinging the [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality perceived unfair treatment]] the other way around: instead, Ash becomes the highly abused villain who's just trying to live his life while Jessie, James and Meowth become the self-centered "heroes" who believe everything they do is good and right because they're them and they're Such Good People.

* [=CoriFalls=]'s work ''tries'' to be a deconstruction of Ash's dealings with Team Rocket only to fail by swinging the[[ProtagonistCenteredMorality perceived unfair treatment]] the other way around: instead, Ash becomes the highly abused villain who's just trying to live his life while Jessie, James and Meowth become the self-centered "heroes" who believe everything they do is good and right because they're them and they're Such Good People.