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The story was developed and community-reviewed on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/legendarily-popular-pok%C3%A9mon.957993/ Spacebattles]], then assembled into completed chapters and published to Website/FanFictionDotNet.

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The story was developed and community-reviewed on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/legendarily-popular-pok%C3%A9mon.957993/ Spacebattles]], then assembled into completed chapters and published to Website/FanFictionDotNet. \n We're troping the latest version, so beware of spoilers!
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Ash sounds crazy to those who don't know him (as Reshiram can attest), but the things he says about legendary Pokemon are all reasonable from his perspective.
--> '''Ash''': Hey, uh… Have you seen a Ghost Pokémon around here called Marshadow? Ho-Oh can't remember where he left him, and Suicune says Marshadow can take care of himself, but Ho-Oh wants to do this whole thing with a feather and… it's important?
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* ParalysisByAnalysis: A Ditto copies Ash's Lapras, and doesn't know what to do with its new moveset. [[spoiler:Lapras was actually Mew; Ditto suddenly found itself with access to several ''hundred'' moves and no idea where to start.]]
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*** Mew actually only teaches Brock's Vulpix one move -- but that move is [[spoiler:[[PowerCopying Sketch]]. And Vulpix can use it separately for each tail]].
*** Nobody blinks an eye at [[spoiler:Lapras using Sheer Cold. It's actually a clue that Lapras is really Mew]].
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* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Subverted and sometimes inverted [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. Pikachu is capable of defeating ground types that are supposed to be completely immune to electricity, Chikorita defeats a ghost-type by basically throwing herself at it, and all of Ash's Pokemon know an absurd variety of moves anyway.
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* HopeSpot: Monty is relieved to see Ash's Noctowl use Foresight, ie a move that Noctowl is actually expected to know, and that is a reasonable and normal way of fighting Haunter. Then Noctowl uses Freezing Glare (the signature move of Galarian Articuno), which Monty has never even ''heard'' of before. Then Aeroblast (the signature move of Lugia)...
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* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Darkrai takes on this role when a gathering of Legendary Pokemon come together for what is recognisably an episode of Wacky Races using ice sleds. The course gets filled with Darkrai cardboard cutouts, pit traps, and false tunnels that are actually solid walls. Reshiram and Zekrom follow a false arrow, and in the process, interrupt what could have been a Darkrai victory.
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* LightningBruiser: Ash successfully teaches Agility to ''[[spoiler:Snorlax]]''. No other offensive moves are needed.

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* LightningBruiser: Ash successfully teaches Agility to ''[[spoiler:Snorlax]]''.[[spoiler:''Snorlax''. Which weighs several tons, and normally spends most of its time sleeping]]. Force = mass * acceleration. No other offensive moves are needed.
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---> '''Ash''': Oh, actually, are you sure it's a Pidgey? Because in my experience what looks like a Pidgey usually turns out to be a Mew.

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---> '''Ash''': Oh, actually, are you sure it's a Pidgey? Because in my experience what looks like a Pidgey usually turns out to be a Mew.Mew.
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* MythologyGag: Whitney's Miltank has a reputation as ThatOneBoss in-game, with its Rollout ability putting an end to many inexperienced teams. Here, she tells Miltank to "roll it out" -- and Miltank rolls a trolley out of the next room, bearing [[MightyGlacier Regigigas]].
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* BrickJoke: Whitney attempts to start off her battle against Ash by having Regigigas use Mega Punch, but its Slow Start ability means it doesn't react, so she decides to just use her regular team. After Ash beats her three Pokemon in an epic dance battle, Regigigas suddenly punches Ash's current Pokemon ''through the ceiling''.

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* BrickJoke: Whitney attempts to start off her battle against Ash by having Regigigas use Mega Punch, but its Slow Start ability means it doesn't react, so she decides to just use her regular team. After Ash beats her three Pokemon in an epic dance battle, Regigigas suddenly punches Ash's current Pokemon ''through ''[[ImpactSilhouette through the ceiling''.ceiling]]''.
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* BrickJoke: Whitney attempts to start off her battle against Ash by having Regigigas use Mega Punch, but its Slow Start ability means it doesn't react, so she decides to just use her regular team. After Ash beats her three Pokemon in an epic dance battle, Regigigas suddenly punches Ash's current Pokemon ''through the ceiling''.
--> '''Whitney''': Oh, what do you know. Twelve and a half minutes. Good to know!
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* LightningBruiser: Ash successfully teaches Agility to ''[[spoiler:Snorlax]]''. No other offensive moves are needed.

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* AmbiguousGender: Mew freely accepts male, female, or neuter pronouns, and the narrative swaps between them more or less at random.


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* NoBiologicalSex: Mew freely accepts male, female, or neuter pronouns, and the narrative swaps between them more or less at random.
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* AmbiguousGender: Mew freely accepts male, female, or neuter pronouns, and the narrative swaps between them more or less at random.
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* CurseCutShort: Before Casey can actually battle Ash, they're interrupted by the arrival of [[spoiler:a Galarian Articuno]].
--> "Whoa!" Ash yelped. "Come on out, Charizard! Let's see if we can help that Pokémon out!"\\
"''...I think I'm glad I didn't get a battle''," Pidgey decided. "''Also, what the everloving''-"

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** Ash believes that [[ComMon Pidgey and Rattata]] are rare pokemon, since he's never seen them in the wild, and rarely from trainers. (He did frequently have a Pidgey hanging around throughout his childhood, but it was actually Mew.)

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** Ash believes that [[ComMon Pidgey and Rattata]] are rare pokemon, since he's never seen them in the wild, and rarely from trainers. (He did frequently have a Pidgey hanging around throughout his childhood, but it was actually Mew.)) Listening to him talk about the rarity of different pokemon gives Reshiram (embodiment of truth) a headache, and Ash is amazed when he meets Casey, who appears to have a real Pidgey.
---> '''Ash''': Oh, actually, are you sure it's a Pidgey? Because in my experience what looks like a Pidgey usually turns out to be a Mew.
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*** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:Lawrence captures the three Legendary Birds of Shamouti, and comes back to find ''three Zapdos''. It turns out that he actually captured ''Ash's'' Zapdos, Mew pretending to be Moltres, and then Mew again pretending to be Articuno, having ''broken out and retrieved Zorua to take over being Moltres'']].

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*** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:Lawrence captures the three Legendary Birds of Shamouti, and comes back to find ''three Zapdos''. It turns out that he actually captured ''Ash's'' Zapdos, Mew pretending to be Moltres, and then Mew again pretending to be Articuno, having ''broken out and retrieved Zorua to take over being Moltres'']].Moltres'']].
** Ash believes that [[ComMon Pidgey and Rattata]] are rare pokemon, since he's never seen them in the wild, and rarely from trainers. (He did frequently have a Pidgey hanging around throughout his childhood, but it was actually Mew.)

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* ItAmusedMe:
** Hoopa is bored. This is probably a bad thing for the world. Hoopa disagrees! Hoopa will save the day, or at least will have fun watching what happens when Pokemon get voluntarily, or involuntarily, or ''unknowingly'' transported across the world.
** Mew completely jailbreaks the Pokeball network, gets caught over and over again in different forms, and generally messes with everyone's heads, just because it's fun. Fortunately Mew doesn't seem to be malicious.



"I don't see why any Pokémon should let that stop them," she sniffed.

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"I don't see why any Pokémon should let that stop them," she sniffed.[[note]]Butterfree is actually Mew, and later goes on to teach Flamethrower and Hydro Pump to an entire swarm of real Butterfree, thus keeping them safe from poachers.[[/note]]
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Ash manages to meet a good portion of the Legendaries he would have met over the course of his travels before he even sets off on his journey.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Ash manages to meet a good portion of the Legendaries he would have met over the course of his travels before he even sets off on his journey.journey.
* RunningGag: Lots, as is typical of Saphroneth.
** Mew teaching Pokemon moves that they wouldn't usually learn, or can't normally learn, or should be physically incapable of learning.
---> "That was neat!" Ash said. "Uh… what type was that move?"\\
"Steel!" Butterfree said. "It was Iron Tail!"\\
"But you don't even have a tail!"\\
"I don't see why any Pokémon should let that stop them," she sniffed.
** Ash catching Pokemon that turn out to be Mew in disguise. Particularly when those Pokemon seem to have a ''mysteriously large'' movepool. Subverted when [[spoiler:it turns out that his Metronome-using Clefairy really was a Clefairy, most of the time; Mew talked it into participating for giggles. ''Lapras'' was actually Mew]].
** Ash's other pokemon being disguised as each other.
*** Zorua is a particularly notable offender; when [[spoiler:facing the Ecruteak Gym, where he's not allowed to use Dark types]], Ash actually has to have Pikachu (weakly) attack his own pokemon to work out which one is Zorua.
*** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:Lawrence captures the three Legendary Birds of Shamouti, and comes back to find ''three Zapdos''. It turns out that he actually captured ''Ash's'' Zapdos, Mew pretending to be Moltres, and then Mew again pretending to be Articuno, having ''broken out and retrieved Zorua to take over being Moltres'']].

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability rather than a move, citing this as the teaching method.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability rather than a move, citing this as the teaching method.move. Heracross is puzzled, but Mew quickly silences him.
--> ''Sssh'', he sent, still telepathically. ''I've not told Goldeen it's not a move and I don't think she knows.''
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Ash Ketchum's legendary Legendary luck is extended back in time to his childhood, and turned up.
A bit.

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Ash Ketchum's legendary Legendary luck is extended back in time to his childhood, and turned up.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability not a Move, citing this as the teaching method.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability not rather than a Move, move, citing this as the teaching method.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13931794/1/Legendarily-Popular Legendarily Popular]]'' (also posted at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2446036 Archive Of Our Own]]) is a ''Franchise/Pokemon'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2996114/Saphroneth Saphroneth]], the author of ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', ''Fanfic/{{Vulpine}}'', ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', and ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices''.

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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13931794/1/Legendarily-Popular Legendarily Popular]]'' (also posted at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2446036 Archive Of Our Own]]) is a ''Franchise/Pokemon'' ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2996114/Saphroneth Saphroneth]], the author of ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', ''Fanfic/{{Vulpine}}'', ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', and ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices''.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13931794/1/Legendarily-Popular Legendarily Popular]]'' (also posted at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2446036 Archive Of Our Own]]) i a ''Franchise/Pokemon'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2996114/Saphroneth Saphroneth]], the author of ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', ''Fanfic/{{Vulpine}}'', ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', and ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices''.

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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13931794/1/Legendarily-Popular Legendarily Popular]]'' (also posted at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2446036 Archive Of Our Own]]) i is a ''Franchise/Pokemon'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2996114/Saphroneth Saphroneth]], the author of ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', ''Fanfic/{{Vulpine}}'', ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', and ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices''.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability not a Move, citing this as the teaching method.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mew attempts to teach Goldeen Levitate, which is an ability not a Move, citing this as the teaching method.method.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Ash manages to meet a good portion of the Legendaries he would have met over the course of his travels before he even sets off on his journey.
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->''"I know I say this every so often, but… Ash, this is a new tier of ridiculous," Misty said. "It is literally raining Legendary Pokémon."''

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13931794/1/Legendarily-Popular Legendarily Popular]]'' (also posted at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2446036 Archive Of Our Own]]) i a ''Franchise/Pokemon'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2996114/Saphroneth Saphroneth]], the author of ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', ''Fanfic/{{Vulpine}}'', ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', and ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices''.

The fic can be summarized as;
Ash Ketchum's legendary Legendary luck is extended back in time to his childhood, and turned up.
A bit.
Past 11.

The story was developed and community-reviewed on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/legendarily-popular-pok%C3%A9mon.957993/ Spacebattles]], then assembled into completed chapters and published to Website/FanFictionDotNet.

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