History Fanfic / LegendarilyPopular

*** Ash's Buizel uses it's tails to propel itself through both water and air, as a shout-out to Tails.

*** Thanks to Hoopa, Ash ends up finding a [[spoiler:Delta Purrloin.]]

** After spending most of the battle racing around while flinging down Power Gems and then taking a Stoked Sparksurfer, [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shaymintwo hits Gary's Alolan Raichu with all seven of them]]. [[note]]As one commenter notes, it's basically Chaos Control.[[/note]]
*** A previous battle had Shaymintwo facing off against a Chansey, with all of Eggman's classic quotes.

** Zorua [[spoiler:is revealed to have evolved into Zoroark in the Battle Tower, and then Ash Mega Evolves him into Mega Zoroark, with a design based on Pokemon Insurgence... then after the battle, it's revealed that Zorua was still Zorua, and it was all just an [[{{Pun}} Illusion.]]

** A Dugtrio from the Spiritmob is revealed to be an expy for TV hosts [[Series/TopGear Hammond, May and Clarkson]] when Ash [[BeyondTheImpossible teaches them how to fly]], for them to decide to go on a [[Series/TheGrandTour grand tour]] once the battle's over.

** Whitney's Galarian Rapidash is, similar to canon, a wholesale ShoutOut to WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.

** Zorua [[spoiler:is revealed to have evolved into Zoroark in the Battle Tower, and then Ash Mega Evolves him into Mega Zoroark, with a design based on Pokemon Insurgence... then after the battle, it's revealed that Zorua was still Zorua, and it was all just an [[JustForPun Illusion.]]]]
** Delta Purrloin. It's assumed to be an [[Videogame/PokemonInsurgence extremely rare regional variant]], by both the readers and Ash, with Mew appearing to confirm NotMeThisTime. [[spoiler:It was actually ''both'' Mew and Zorua taking turns.]]

** Zacian is the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} version of Myth/KingArthur.

--> '''Celebi''': ''How am I the one who can ''time travel'' and I'm the one who doesn't know what's going on?''"

* LiteralMinded: Flint tells his Houndoom to use Nasty Plot, upon which Houndoom explains his idea for a murder mystery written in second person, with the reader in the role of the murderer.
--> '''Latios''': ''That ''is'' a nasty plot. Well done.''\\
'''Houndoom''': ''Thanks. I do my best.''

* ExploitedImmunity: In a double battle, Ursula orders her Jigglypuff to grab its opponent while Gabite uses Dragon Rage on them both; Jigglypuff, as a Fairy, is immune to Dragon-typed attacks. Unfortunately for Jigglypuff, the opponent in question is Nickit, who proceeds to steal the Fairy type with Spectral Thief.

* BerserkButton: When Taillow steal various items from their lunch, Zapdos is merely annoyed at the rudeness -- but then one of them steals a [[TrademarkFavoriteFood dango ball]].
--> '''Zapdos''': ''You did not just do that.''\\
'''Pikachu''': ''[[OhCrap Get down!]]''\\
'''Zapdos''': ''THUNDER!''

*** Erika's gym battle had the requirement that at least one member must not be fully-evolved. When Ash realizes that the unevolved member (Mankey) was actually [[spoiler: Mew]], he rides back on his new Entei to apologize. Erika declines to make him battle again.

* PokemonSpeak: Ash knows how to understand it, and is shown to even be able to talk in the Mew dialect.[[note]]"Which is, admittedly, impressive for [[spoiler:an Absol]]."[[/note]] Professor Elm groans at how he upturned scientific understanding of pokémon talk on a radio show when he points out how pokémon can understand each other, so it's not hundreds of different languages, but one language with different dialects.

* RingOut: Ash's Clefairy reverses gravity for Claydol, then uses Smack Down to make it lose its grip on the ground. It falls so far away that it has to be retrieved by Hoopa.

** Scrafty decides its territory is Planet Earth, and that his moves can be any element within its territory. [[BeyondTheImpossible Even Psychic and Dark Elements.]]

** Barry manages to defeat [[StoneWall Cresselia]] by using a combination of Leech Seed and Toxic -- which in [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue generation 1 games]], due to a bug, caused Leech Seed to drain health faster as the Toxic damage increased.

* CirclingBirdies: Shiny Keldeo has several Pidove who follow him around, and apparently give life advice. When [[spoiler:he's tossed around a subway car by a Kangaskhan]], they take off in concern and fly around his ahead in circles.