History Fanfic / LegendarilyPopular

** The Taillow Ash catches in Hoenn is unaffected by Electric-type moves.[[note]][[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer This is pulled straight from]] [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash%27s_Swellow the anime.]][[/note]] Then Mew teaches it the move Electrify.

* RuleOfFunny: The fic usually works on this as a whole, but Jirachi's wish-granting powers are specifically stated to go for the easiest and/or funniest path first. For example, when Max wishes to be able to understand Pokémon without help, [[BalefulPolymorph Ash turns into an Absol again]].

*** [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Amber Fuji]] fills the role of [[Videogame/SonicAdventure2 Maria Robotnik]], including formerly being an IllGirl, until she's reborn, and having a BroodingBoyGentleGirl dynamic with Mewtwo, while Mewtwo himself initially inherits Shadow's lone wolf tendencies and BloodKnight habits. Unlike Shadow, [[MoralityPet Ambertwo is alive and well...]]

** Ash's shapeshifting Unown has spelled as far as "G-E-O-M-A-N-" when Gary realises what it's doing and his eyes widen.

* LightningBruiser: Ash successfully teaches Agility to [[spoiler:''Snorlax''. Which weighs several tons, and normally spends most of its time sleeping]]. Force = mass * acceleration. No other offensive moves are needed -- but nonetheless, he later teaches it ExtremeSpeed.

* LightningBruiser: Ash successfully teaches Agility to [[spoiler:''Snorlax''. Which weighs several tons, and normally spends most of its time sleeping]]. Force = mass * acceleration. No other offensive moves are needed -- but nonetheless, [[UpToEleven he later teaches it ExtremeSpeed]].

** The Taillow Ash catches in Hoenn is unaffected by Electric-type moves.[[note]][[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer This is pulled straight from]] [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash%27s_Swellow the anime.]][[/note]] Then Mew teaches it the move [[UpToEleven Electrify]].

** Parodied UpToEleven when Ash introduces all (twenty-seven) of his Dragonite to Croagunk.

** Taken UpToEleven when dealing with a malevolent Spiritomb. He ends up reviving its component souls as twelve Exeggcute, six Dugtrio (three of them Alolan), five Magneton, a Cresselia, a shiny Galarian Moltres and a shiny Yveltal.

* RareRandomDrop: Taken UpToEleven with Ash's Phanpy and her Pickup Ability. Normally, this ability just finds random items like potions and Heart Scales. Phanpy finds ''evolution stones'' and ''Mega Stones''. Even Mega Stones that ''don't exist''.

** Taken UpToEleven [[spoiler:or more precisely, ''twenty-seven'', by the entire Ryuunited Kingdom a.k.a. Ash's entire contingent of the Dragonite line (excluding King Dragonite a.k.a Hugtini and the Dratini traded to May). All of them eagerly wanting to evolve,]] they took part in Ash's gym battle against Tate and Liza, with the twins using Mega Gardevoir and Mega Gallade and Ash using [[spoiler: a Dratini and Dragonair, and with a little help from Mew/Dunsparce, every time one of them evolved during the battle, they'd quickly use an attack to hide themselves from view and be teleported back to Oak Ranch, and an unevolved Dratini/Dragonair would take their place. By the time the last Dratini is teleported out at the wrong time]] and gives the game away, [[spoiler: the other 26 have successfully evolved all the way to Dragonite]]. Ash puts them all in time-out for their antics.

* 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 [[ShapeshifterShowdown no idea where to start]].]]

* PlayfulHacker: Mew can do things like register one Pokémon to multiple Poké-balls (allowing her to be caught in multiple forms), register multiple Pokémon to the same ball ([[spoiler: such as all three Legendary Beasts being registered to the same Safari Ball]]), and teach new moves to a Porygon, all through jailbreaking the Poké-ball network. And as for "playful"... well, she's ''Mew''.

* PowerAtAPrice: Exploited by Ash when he ''deliberately makes an opponent Mega-Evolve'' in order to change it to a type [[ClippedWingAngel more vulnerable to fire]].

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''[[UpToEleven Past 11]]''.

->''"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."''

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

** Serena's path to becoming a witch causes an unintentional one, due to her being a literal [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Teenage Witch]]...

** Trip is dismissive of Ash's homeland of Kanto, calling it "the boonies", and is then completely baffled by Ash's attempts to compare different regions (which involves calling Mirage Mew to check the skyscraper heights there). But he challenges Ash to a battle anyway, and sends out his brand new starter, Snivy -- and Ash, after checking with his Pokémon, decides to send out his Arc Phone.

** Togetic faces the hard necessity of leaving Misty, since the Togepi Kingdom needs a Togetic to keep it safe. It's a heart-wrenching moment for both of them. Then, Ash being Ash, three nearby Togepi evolve, making it a moot point.

* ThrowingTheFight: Zekrom is psyching himself up to beat Zygarde, when he remembers that [[spoiler:he actually wants Ash to catch him]], freezes in place, and collapses after being tapped.
--> '''Zekrom''': ''I've been defeated.''

--> '''Zapdos''': Normally you fly out of the way of a melee attack, but with Zacian that doesn't work because she's got a sword the length of a medium sized building and she can fly herself. Not much left you can do at that point, you are getting a headache whether you want to or not.

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

-> ''I'm Ash Ketchum! And one day I'm going to be a troper!\\
''Ooh. What's a troper?''\\
...um. I… haven't thought that far yet. I guess it means launching lots of trope pages and adding stories to them!\\
''That sounds like great fun!''

** Ash himself technically qualifies after [[spoiler:he defeats the Hoenn Elite Four and Steven after winning the Ever Grande Conference. The only reason he's not officially this is because he turned the title down]].

''That sounds like great fun!

** After discovering that the GS Ball is [[spoiler:the former home of Arceus]], Ash continues to use it the same way as before: as an indestructible training aid.

** Brandon gives Ash a notice that he'll be ready to battle tomorrow. [[spoiler:He sends it ''tomorrow'', after getting ready, with a Celebi delivering it for him to the day before.]]

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Max mutters something about Harley that causes his mother to criticise him for his language.
--> '''Vulpix''': ''Probably my fault. Admittedly, the words were all just Vulpix Vulpix Vulpix when I said them.''