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* TheButlerDidIt: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In the game's first case, everyone assumes the culprit to be the butler, Barnes. After the investigation, it's revealed that he's innocent, and the real culprit is [[spoiler:Larry]].
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** The Aurora Drop was said to have come down on a meteorite. Fans of the series will realize there's a few Pokemon that are associated with meteors. [[spoiler:The Aurora Drop turns out to be the core of a Deoxys.]]
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Once Charles Merloch plants his mind in the body of Deoxys, the power very quickly goes to his head. While he only ever refers to himself as Pokémon as opposed to a god, the mentality is still the same.]]

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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Once Charles Merloch plants his mind in the body of Deoxys, the power very quickly goes to his head. While he only ever refers to himself as a Pokémon as opposed to a god, the mentality is still the same.]]
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* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:Well, "Pokémon-hood Seeker" would be more accurate in this case, but Charles Merloch is one of these, seeking to [[FusionDance place his mind]] the body of [[OlympusMons Deoxys]].]]

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* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:Well, "Pokémon-hood Seeker" would be more accurate in this case, but Charles Merloch is one of these, seeking to [[FusionDance place his mind]] mind in]] the body of [[OlympusMons Deoxys]].]]
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: [[spoiler:In the final chapter, Pikachu goes to ask Growlithe, Darmanitan, Luxray, and Pangoro to help in infiltrating the Pokémon Unity Lab,]] complete with a slow TeamPowerWalk for good measure.

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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: [[spoiler:In In the final chapter, Pikachu [[spoiler:Pikachu goes to ask Growlithe, Darmanitan, Luxray, and Pangoro to help in infiltrating the Pokémon Unity Lab,]] complete with a slow TeamPowerWalk for good measure.

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* TheCameo: Lucy Stevens' Psyduck from [[Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu the movie]] appears as an NPC in Bamboo Borough.


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** Lucy Stevens' Psyduck from [[Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu the movie]] appears as an NPC in Bamboo Borough
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* FrameUp: Detective Pikachu and multiple other Pokémon like Inteleon were framed for crimes they did not commit because [[a Ditto was being brainwashed by a Control Cube, and used Transform to frame all of them.]]

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* FrameUp: Detective Pikachu and multiple other Pokémon like Inteleon were framed for crimes they did not commit because [[a [[spoiler:a Ditto was being brainwashed by a Control Cube, and used Transform to frame all of them.]]



* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:Well, "Pokémon-hood Seeker" would be more accurate in this case, but Charles Merloch is one of these, seeking to [[FusionDance place his mind]] in the body of [[OlympusMons Deoxys]].]]

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* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:Well, "Pokémon-hood Seeker" would be more accurate in this case, but Charles Merloch is one of these, seeking to [[FusionDance place his mind]] in mind]] the body of [[OlympusMons Deoxys]].]]
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* FrameUp: Detective Pikachu and multiple other Pokémon like Inteleon were framed for crimes they did not commit through [[spoiler:brainwashing from devices on their backs.]]

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* FrameUp: Detective Pikachu and multiple other Pokémon like Inteleon were framed for crimes they did not commit through [[spoiler:brainwashing from devices on their backs.because [[a Ditto was being brainwashed by a Control Cube, and used Transform to frame all of them.]]
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** Pika Prompts are now completely optional, and have no bearing on HundredPercentCompletion. To compensate, there's no longer a menu to replay specific ones after seeing them for the first time.
** Chapters are now divided into multiple sections. This makes replaying a chapter for your favorite parts much less of a chore.
** The game differentiates [=NPCs=] you have or haven't talked to. [=NPCs=] who have dialogue you haven't seen will have an orange exclamation mark above thier heads, and it will reappear if they have something new to say. This streamlines the gameplay loop significantly, as you're no longer running around aimlessly trying to find the person or Pokémon you missed to continue on.
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Firstly, it's implied that she writes for the daily crossword, not from it. Secondly, even if that were the case, that wouldn't make any sense, since the newspaper comes out afterwards.


* ChekhovsNews: Inverted. Tim subscribes to the Ryme City paper, and upon starting a new chapter, he'll see articles related to all the sidequests he and Pikachu completed the day before. Notably, the daily crossword is where the Quiz Professor gets all of her hints.

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* ChekhovsNews: Inverted. Tim subscribes to the Ryme City paper, and upon starting a new chapter, he'll see articles related to all the sidequests he and Pikachu completed the day before. Notably, the daily crossword is where the Quiz Professor gets uses all of her hints.hints for the daily crossword.
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Slowpoke tails being a delicacy has been established as far back as Gen II.


* TastesLikeFriendship: This is the case of one Darmanitan who was just hangry, but thanks to Tim and Pikachu, they feed it a Slowpoke tail, which are said to be edible, thus causing the hungry Darmanitan to calm down.

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* TastesLikeFriendship: This is the case of one Darmanitan who was just hangry, but thanks to Tim and Pikachu, they feed it a Slowpoke tail, which are said to be edible, thus causing the hungry Darmanitan to calm down.
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** Tim completely fails at telling apart an Alolan Exeggutor from a normal tree. Though, in his defense, he had never seen an Alolan Exeggutor before.

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** Tim completely fails at telling apart an Alolan Exeggutor from a normal tree. [[JustifiedTrope Though, in his defense, defense]], he had never seen an Alolan Exeggutor before.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Near the end, Detective Pikachu uses up all his strength to stop Deoxys and forces Tim to leave him behind in the exploding lab. Thankfully, the pod manages to let him escape and Harry’s consciousness is returned to his original return.]]

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Near the end, Detective Pikachu uses up all his strength to stop Deoxys and forces Tim to leave him behind in the exploding lab. Thankfully, the pod manages to let him escape and Harry’s consciousness is returned to his original return.body.]]
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* UnexplainedRecovery: At the very end of the game, [[spoiler:Mewtwo defeats Merloch-in-Deoxys, and the last that's seen of him is his Deoxys body plunging into the pit beneath his lab while his human body remains mindless and strapped to the fusion machine's chair. After an enormous explosion which Harry and Pikachu only just survive, that seems to be the end of it; only during the credits montage Merloch is seen back in his human body in a police cell with no explanation given. While it's easy to assume that Mewtwo had something to do with it, that's never actually spelled out.]]

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* UnexplainedRecovery: At the very end of the game, [[spoiler:Mewtwo defeats Merloch-in-Deoxys, and the last that's seen of him is his Deoxys body plunging into the pit beneath his lab while his human body remains mindless and strapped to the fusion machine's chair. After an enormous explosion which Harry and Pikachu only just survive, that seems to be the end of it; only during the credits montage Merloch is seen back in his human body in a police cell with no explanation given. While it's easy to assume that Mewtwo had something to do with it, that's never actually spelled out. His body ''is'' seen in the pod when Harry and Pikachu escape, though this is easy to miss, and it's unclear how his mind was separated from Deoxys.]]
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* UnexplainedRecovery: At the very end of the game, [[spoiler:Mewtwo defeats Merloch-in-Deoxys, and the last that's seen of him is his Deoxys body plunging into the pit beneath his lab while his human body remains mindless and strapped to the fusion machine's chair. After an enormous explosion which Harry and Pikachu only just survive, that seems to be the end of it; only during the credits montage Merloch is seen back in his human body in a police cell with no explanation given. While it's easy to assume that Mewtwo had something to do with it, that's never actually spelled out.]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Only on one rare fact the franchise barely brings up: [[spoiler:during the R Incident, Rachel's mother Emma was ''killed'' by a rampaging Pokémon. This was the CynicismCatalyst for Mayor Myers that sets the plot in motion for ''Returns.'']]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Only on one One rare fact the franchise prequel barely brings brought up: [[spoiler:during the R Incident, Rachel's mother Emma was ''killed'' by a rampaging Pokémon. This was the CynicismCatalyst for Mayor Myers that sets the plot in motion for ''Returns.'']]'']] While it was certainly treated as dangerous, [[spoiler:it was ambiguous if anyone actually died in the previous game]].


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** A character in the park mistakes a Sudowoodo for a real tree. Once Tim gets it to move, she wonders how the "tree" got replanted somewhere else so quickly.

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