History VideoGame / PokemonBlack2AndWhite2

* ShipLevel: Once again the Royal Unova. This time it can be sailed on immediately when the player first reaches Castleia City. There is also the Team Palsma Frigate, which takes the form of an industrialized flying ship.

''Pokémon Black 2'' and ''Pokémon White 2'' are Generation V ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS; they're the last games Creator/{{Nintendo}} ever released for the system. They are sequels to the earlier Generation V games, ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. The games were released on June 23 2012 in Japan, the October 7th, 2012 in North America, and October 12th in Europe.

* CatchPhrase: Hugh's "I'm about to unleash my rage!" when confronted with Team Plasma.

%%* AllJustADream: The conclusion to [[spoiler:Brycen-Man Strikes Back Harder]], as well as [[spoiler:the strange ending to Love and Battles 3...[[MindScrew perhaps]].]]

* OldTimeyCinemaCountdown: The films from Pokéstar Studios all have the countdown circle before playing. All of the films are homages of different genres, so the circle fits the aesthetic while still being recognizable as a cinema thing.

** In addition to the two mentions of the namesake Trainers above, there's also [[{{Franchise/Rocky}} Black Belts Rocky and Drago]].
** Directors at Pokéstar Studios called [[Creator/JohnCarpenter John Pokénter]], [[Creator/DavidLynch David Pokénch]], and [[Creator/TakashiMiike Takashi Pokemi]].

* MultipleEndings: Depending on your dialogue choices, the movies you act in for Pokéstar will have heartwarming {{Happy Ending}}s, [[TearJerker tragic]] {{Downer Ending}}s, or just plain weird {{Gainax Ending}}s.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The main plot of the Everlasting Memories Series where you, playing as an InsufferableGenius, create a robot with a human heart for companionship. [[spoiler: Even when said robot gets hacked and all its memories erased, it still somehow manages to hold on to its memories of the player and eventually [[TragicMonster holds on to those memories long enough to get the player to destroy it before it goes berserk.]] Lampshaded by your assistant, who says that the whole thing is scientifically impossible.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Implied to happen to the protagonist in the strange endings to the first two movies in the Red Fog of Terror series. The second one makes it clearer by the protagonist attaching a woman.]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* BookEnds: One of your earliest matches has you talk to a trainer, but before the match begins, you and the trainer stand at opposing ends of a battlefield, then you both step forward and the battle begins. The battle with the Champion starts that way as well, she challenges you, and you talk to her, and you both move to opposite ends of the battlefield, step forward, and the battle begins.

[[folder:Tropes Exhibited In [=PokéStar=] Studios]]

* BookEnds: Your first movie is of the Brycen Man series. After getting a good ending on every other movie series, you are given the finale to the Brycen Man series as your last film to take part of.

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''The Giant Woman!''
* {{Expy}}: Arkham and the Majin in the Ghost Eraser movies are reminiscent of [[Manga/DragonBallZ Babidi and Majin Buu.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:If you achieve the strange ending to "Brycen Man Strikes Back Harder", Brycen Man makes this claim, and he has proof to back it up, as he knows your real name. (However, the battle is still AllJustADream, just as it is in the happy ending.)]]

** The Strange Ending of the first Brycen Man movie, gotten by failing to OneHitKill both of Brycen-Man's Pokémon, results in him getting so annoyed by the protagonist being a FailureHero that he loses the will to fight and retreats.

* ScoobyDooHoax: If you achieve the Strange ending in each of the "Ghost Eraser" scenarios except the fourth, what appears to be a haunting is actually a scam being run by someone trying to make money. Naturally, the hero character (ie, your character) is ''not'' pleased at being called to investigate a false alarm.

* ForcedTutorial: As per series tradition. Bianca shows you the ropes this time around. However, for a lot of basic stuff, you'll be asked "Do you know how to...?" and can say "Yes" or "no", and they'll just move on.

The ''Iwata Asks'' interview for the games can be read [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/ds/pokemon-black2-white2/0/0 here]].

* AscendedMeme: Back in ''Red and Blue'', there was a spot behind Bill's house that appeared to lead somewhere. [[UrbanLegendOfZelda People began to speculate that it led to a mysterious garden filled with rare, normally uncatchable Pokémon, and that you could only get there by doing labor-intensive tasks such as completing the Pokédex]]. In Black and White 2, see all the non-event species in the New Unova Pokédex and you gain access to a mysterious garden... you see where this is going. (It doesn't help the ridiculous-sounding nature of it that there's a shiny Haxorus standing out in the open waiting to be captured.)

** If you paid close attention to both games, you will notice NPC dialogue is ''rife'' with this. Things said by [=NPCs=] concerning a project or anything in Black and White will show up in this game with interesting results. Most of the time it concerns chatting with the previous protagonist, but there are things like vending machine research, achieving something, or failing to earn the Trio Badge from the Striaton Gym before it closed. A particularly notable case is Ghetsis's first appearance, in which he ''reverses'' the FreudianSlip he had in Castelia City in the prequel.

* DownerEnding: An in-universe example. When Roxie's dad makes a movie as the Riolu-Man, he acts terribly and fails to defeat the movie's BigBad, Brycen-Man. You can also pull this on yourself when making a movie by failing the mission objective or your Pokémon fainting. (Unless you have to lose on purpose to achieve the desired ending, which is sometimes the case.) Several of the Strange endings (particularly in the Invaders series) are this.

* EndOfAnAge: Metawise, these were the last main series games to use 2D sprites. The series would make the leap to full 3D beginning with [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the next games.]]

* FashionShow: The Nimbasa gym battles take place on a cat walk where your opponents [[ModelingPoses pose]] before activating their pokeballs.

* GainaxEnding: Similar to the DownerEnding example above, you can cause these in the Pokéstar Studio movies by meeting the mission objective but not following the script ''in a particular way''. This is also the best possible result, as the audience will regard it as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and even give the Pokémon who were in it a special "star" status, with its own animation. To quote one of the directors after such an ending:
--> "Cut! I guess? Not even I know what's going on anymore."
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In Black 2 at [[spoiler:Giant Chasm N's Zekrom saves you with Fusion Bolt from a distance]]. In the actual Pokémon battle, this move falls under the physical category, and its animation shows the user hitting the opponent[[note]]It's one of the few physical moves that do not make contact, though.[[/note]]

* LivingLegend: Sabrina. She seems to have gotten a ''lot'' of fans in Unova now that she's started her acting career. Quite a few people at [=PokeStar=] Studios admire her, and a guy at the PWT calls her "Queen Sabrina". In fact, if the player takes advantage of [=PokeStar=] Studios and avoid the Bad Endings, he or she can pretty much become the same. The more movies you make, the more fans you get, and you can actually get valuable and hard-to-find items from these fans, eventually gaining access to your own private dressing room if you complete all the Good Endings (which has no tangible benefit in regards to gameplay, but is still interesting).

* ManualMisprint: Intentional in-game example. Reversal Mountain is a dormant volcano in Black 2 but, true to its name, has the Town Map description of an active one and vice-versa in White 2. [[invoked]]

* MuggingTheMonster: In Black Tower, a school boy [=NPC=] wants to build a cheat guide for the tower when he beats it. When the player beats him, he will say the first rule is avoid the person with the bag.
* MultipleEndings: Depending on your dialogue choices, the movies you act in for Pokéstar will have heartwarming {{Happy Ending}}s, [[TearJerker tragic]] {{Downer Ending}}s, or just plain weird {{Gainax Ending}}s.

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] the first time you take part in the Driftveil Tournament. Your opponents have all their Pokémon's levels reduced to 25, while yours ''aren't''. This does not happen in subsequent visits.

** In ''Gold and Silver'', the previous Champion became the eighth Gym Leader in Kanto. [[spoiler: In these games, it's the other way around, as the eighth Gym Leader from ''White'' became the Champion. Doubles as a call back to Wallace being the Champion in ''Emerald''.]]

** The new Kyurem forms can't be traded on the GTS normally. But if you attempt to get one into your game using computer software and then unfuse it, you'll be left with two bad eggs because there's no existing data for the unfused Kyurem and Tao legendary on your save. Pokecheck has even blocked downloads of the new forms for just that reason.
** The problem from Black and White with being locked out of the dream world if you use [[VideoGame/GameShark Action Replay]] codes to complete your Pokedex is still present.

* OldTimeyCinemaCountdown: The films from Pokestar Studios all have the countdown circle before playing. All of the films are homages of different genres, so the circle fits the aesthetic while still being recognizable as a cinema thing.

* OneGameForThePriceOfTwo: Largely averted, as with the original Black and White, though many of the differences (aside from version exclusive Pokémon) between the two versions are now available in either.
** The Pokémon Dream Radar, however, is currently the only way to get access to the new forms of the Kami Trio.
** Additionally, there are some other differences between the games other than Pokémon. Like with previous games, some places are different (like Reversal Mountain or Opelucid City) between versions. Sometimes the items itself found in the area are different! You get a free Flame Orb in White 2 or a Toxic Orb if playing Black 2 (both in the same place). To get the other one you need to buy them with Battle Points. One interesting example of this is Route 4, which looked identical in the previous versions but now looks very different depending on whether you're playing Black 2 or White 2.
** Reversal Mountain in Black 2 is a dormant volcano full of water, but in White 2 it is an active volcano full of lava.
** Black 2 still contains Black City but it now has Black Tower. White 2 still has White Forest, as well as White Treehollow.

** The last part of the Unova Pokedex[[note]]275-297[[/note]] contains Pokémon only found in post-game areas. Prior to beating the Elite 4, the only Pokémon in this section who can be logged as seen without trading are the Unova Dragons [[Main/MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Toxicroak]].
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: [[spoiler: Red reappears in the World Tournament. Hilbert/Hilda, on the other hand, are nowhere to be found despite being mentioned often (even by name if you Memory Link'd with Black 1/White 1); however, there is [[DummiedOut unused coding]] for a battle with their team from a Memory Link'd [=BW1=].]]

** The person in the house that shows you pictures of the Kamis (to complete your Pokedex) shoves the pictures at you with a declaration of [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} "Feast yer eyes!"]]

%%* DownerEnding: All of the bad endings, and most of the strange ones.

* HappilyMarried: It is implied that this the current state of your character's relationship with his/her opponent in "Love and Battles 3", if you achieve the strange ending.

* OffModel: While the trailer is gorgeously animated, there is one shot where a Seviper is missing the tip of its tail.
%%* Take a close look at Skyla's legs when starting a battle with her. Notice something odd?

%%* FaceHeelTurn: You can do this if you get the strange ending to the first Invader movie.

*** Regirock, Regice, Registeel, and Regigigas can be found in a cave in the Underground Ruins connected to Clay Tunnel. You initially find Regirock, then receive a special key that summons Registeel (''Black 2'') or Regice (''White 2'') in its place. Using the Unova Link lets players send keys to the opposite version so all three can be captured, and they can then be taken to Regigigas's chamber in Twist Mountain to wake and battle it.

*** Regirock, Regice, Registeel, and Regigigas can be found in the Underground Ruins connected to Clay Tunnel.

* ThematicSequelLogoChange: The "2" is backed by either blue or red crystal, depending on the version, to represent Black and White Kyurem, who absorb the blue-lightning generating Zekrom and part Fire-type Reshiram respectively.

* AffablyEvil: Majin from Ghost Erasers 4 is a massive fog monster leaves nothing but ruin in his wake and is a
almost invulnerable… and is also extremely friendly, loves to nap, sing and dance, and can even become your friend in the Strange ending. Lampshaded by Arkham, who remarks that he's very friendly and polite.

[[caption-width-right:300:Get ready to enter the 2D world of Pokemon, one final time.]]

* ArtificialStupidity: Nate/Rosa, the default partner on the Battle Subway Multi Train, is this trope on legs. They don't seem to understand the Speed stat nor the type chart. For example, if you had a Fire-type and he had a Pokemon with a Fighting move, and you were up against a [[NonElemental Watchog]] and [[BigCreepyCrawlies Galvantula]], who would they use said Fighting move on? The Galvantula, of course!

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:At first, it seem like Ghetsis is content to use Kyurem's power to freeze Unova and force the population into submission. However, at the climax, when his son N (revealed to be the leader of Team Plasma's repentant splinter group that is opposing him) flies in to rescue the player on his Legendary Pokemon (either Zekrom or Reshiram, depending on the version) it is clear that not only did Ghetsis expect this, he ''wanted'' it. He is then able to combine Kyurem and N's Pokemon into an even stronger version of Kyurem. Unfortunately, this plan is utterly ruined when Kyurem is defeated by the hero, causing Ghetsis to battle you directly with his team.]]

* DrJerk: On one of the later floors of the White Treehollow, there's a nurse who outright says she doesn't want to lift a finger to help your Pokemon, and so she'll beat you there and then. Please note you haven't done ''anything'' to offend this girl, especially if she spots you, and she merely comes in swinging. Considering her role there is to heal trainers who need it ''once'', it is very jerkish.

* GainaxEnding: Similar to the DownerEnding example above, you can cause these in the Pokéstar Studio movies by meeting the mission objective but not following the script ''in a particular way''. This is also the best possible result, as the audience will regard it as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and even give the Pokemon who were in it a special "star" status, with its own animation. To quote one of the directors after such an ending:

* GameBreakingBug: In the Japanese version, Choosing not to follow a certain Zoroark in Victory Road all the way down to [[spoiler:N's Castle]] after seeing it for the first time in [[PostEndGameContent post-game events]] triggers a [[http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/f650/zoroark-frozen-bug-135681/ severe]] [[http://pokemonfigure.blogspot.jp/2012/07/zoroark-frozen-bug-in-pokemon-bw2.html game-breaking]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPfeBxQa4g bug]]. Fortunately, it appears to have been fixed with the international release.

* GoldfishPoopGang: Despite being the main threat of the story, Team Plasma's fighting abilities have declined significantly since BW. While most of the grunts are more than willing to fight you, many of them aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. Most of the time when you defeat them, they're astounded to find out how the pokemon they stole were utterly useless to them, and whine about how they lost.

** If both your Pokemon faint in the same turn in a double battle, you're supposed to select a new Pokemon, then select which fainted Pokemon you want it to replace. There is ''nothing'' in the game to suggest this course of action--people who attempt to simply select two Pokemon will be told that the second one can't switch out, which has led many players to believe they're experiencing a glitch.

** Finally averted for evolutions. You can call the professor on the Xtransceiver, and she'll tell you how to evolve any Pokémon in your party. Likewise, if you call Bianca, she can tell you how high your Pokemon's happiness is, which helps for the likes of those that evolve by that method.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: In addition to the aforementioned female Ace Trainer in the Sports Complex from the first games[[note]] the trainer roster is the same in B2/W2, but at slightly lower levels in normal mode[[/note]], one female Ace Trainer in Chargestone Cave says that she, despite being known as an Ace Trainer, doesn't feel like one, because she "just loves Pokemon and just wants to be strong".

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] the first time you take part in the Driftveil Tournament. Your opponents have all their pokemon's levels reduced to 25, while yours ''aren't''. This does not happen in subsequent visits.

** When [[spoiler:the Plasma Frigate freezes Opelucid City]], the animation looks very similar to the firing of Lawrence's airship cannon, from ''Pokemon: The Movie 2000''. On that note, {{LetsPlay/Marriland}} commented in [[https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=IxPo-nyBkZ0 one of his White 2 videos]] that Colress' design bears a striking resemblance to that of Lawrence himself.

* NintendoHard: The Pokemon World Tournament. You face off against three out of seven gym leaders from this and previous generations in a series of three rounds. Rules-wise it's simple. Gameplay-wise? ''not so much''. Despite any combination of Pokemon you may bring (barring most legendaries), the game's AI will always match you up against opponents with Pokemon who have almost ''perfect'' type coverage and will absolutely stomp you if you are not prepared. Even worse is that you cannot use healing items while almost every opponent comes holding a berry that either heals them or weakens super-effective moves against them. Expect to have fun, especially when attempting the (arguably hardest) Johto leaders tournament.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: [[spoiler:Ghetsis has learned a lot from the last game and doesn't bother entertaining your character with a gloating speech or a Pokemon battle. He opts to kill you right on the spot by ordering Kyurem to take you out with Glaciate.]] If it weren't for N [[BigDamnHeroes coming to the rescue]], the game is basically over at that point.

** Like previous Pokemon games on the DS, once you have access to the Poke Transfer you can import Pokemon from your Generation IV game files.

** With the Gen V iteration of the Dream World being shut down in January 2014, a few of the medals associated with obtaining Dream World Pokemon have become permanently unobtainable. In order to get all of these medals, you needed to have brought over ''100'' Pokemon.

** The last part of the Unova Pokedex[[note]]275-297[[/note]] contains Pokemon only found in post-game areas. Prior to beating the Elite 4, the only Pokemon in this section who can be logged as seen without trading are the Unova Dragons [[Main/MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Toxicroak]].

* PuzzleReset: Pokemon Breeders. Even after you've beat them, when you leave the location they're in, they'll challenge you again if you pass by their line of sight.

** Hugh, the player's rival in ''Pokémon Black 2 and White 2'', [[http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/pokemon-black-and-white-2/assets/en-us/characters/V1_EN_P03_03.jpg declares "Come at me!"]] prior to a battle, which is probably the closest that the series will come to referencing the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/come-at-me-bro meme]] spawned/popularized by ''Series/JerseyShore''. Colress says the same thing in the Plasma Frigate.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: The Pokémon Breeders who battle you every time you see them. Later on, the fights are [[CurbStompBattle Lv. 16 Drilbur and Lv. 16 Marill versus Level 65 Lucario or worse]]. While this is generally standard for every Pokemon game, it's particularly notable with the breeders, who challenge you ''every time'' you pass by; they have to remember you by some point.

* WorldSundering: Due to earthquakes, erosion, and human development, Unova has greatly expanded over the two years. Some areas are new and connect to other places, like Clay Tunnel which connects to Twist Mountain, and Ruin Passage which connects to Relic Castle. On the other hand, some areas are gone, like Route 10, which is closed off, and Challenger's Cave, whose cave entrance has collapsed. The old Victory Road has also collapsed, but in its place is a new Victory Road that connects to the Pokemon League from the east, only briefly passing by the old Victory Road's top section.

** On a more general note, a mis-timed critical hit accidentally knocking out the opponent's/your Pokemon can ruin the whole progress too.
** Some of the movies, such as episode four of "Big Monster" require a complicated strategy to defeat the enemy with rental Pokemon due to your moveset and/or their typing and ability. The "Big Monster" example requires changing the weather and your opponent's ability in order to defeat it because the only super effective move you have is a fire move and it's ability is [[FeedItWithFire Flash Fire]]. With your own Pokemon, you can just use a ground attack that will do quadruple damage because it's Electic/Steel.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The second and third Full Metal Cop episodes have this happen to Sneasel Ninja: In both, the enemies survive his/her attacks by one hit point, then use moves that get stronger the lower the user's health is to destroy him/her. The fourth has Sneasel Ninja using swagger, which raises the opponent's attack but confuses them. Mecha cop's Escavalier has a berry, however, that cures confusion, leaving it free to sweep Sneasel Ninja's entire team. Hell, the only way for this to happen in the third episode is [[NiceJobFixingItVillain is for him/her to use Sunny Day, allowing the opponent to go first, and a move that is completely useless for Sneasel Ninja's pokemon]].

** Implied and Parodied in the strange ending of "The giant woman! Part 2": when River is told by the male PC the cursed Pokeball contains his girlfriend, he misunderstands it as "I'm in love with the Pokemon I have inside this ball." Surprisingly, River was a lot more chill about that than the player.

* RunningGag: In the Full Metal Cop series, Mecha Cop keeps accidentally getting worked up and using weapons on Sneasel Ninja. Even when he's not there in the Third Episode, his sister attacks Sneasel Ninja with Judo. Sneasel Ninja, the criminal mind you, has to keep reminding them that they're supposed to be battling with Pokemon, much to the heroes' embarrassment.

** The movie series ''Timegate Traveler'' is probably a shout-out to ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', it's a BadFuture where Pokémon control humans, with a time-traveler ending up there and having to try and escape. And if you get the bad ending in the third film, the protagonist ends up taking an artifact back that results in the eventual Bug-type Pokemon uprising-not unlike Zira and Cornelius's son being born in the past and leading the ape uprising in the fourth film.

** In "Brycen-Man Strikes Back 2", if you use your own Pokemon with the move Thief, Brycen-Man will say, [[DevelopersForesight "You use that move... and call yourself a hero of justice?"]]
* YouAreWorthHell: The Tearjerker / Heartwarming strange ending of "The Giant Woman! Part 2" has the PC stay with their beloved inside the cursed Pokeball, out of love and regret.

%%* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Arkham from Ghost Eraser. Lampshaded in the strange ending, in which the Majin kills him for being cliche.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Implied to happen to the protagonist in the strange endings to the first two movies in the Red Fog of Terror series.]]

*** Reshiram (''White 2'') or Zekrom (''Black 2'') can be caught at Dragonspiral Tower after beating them while they are under N's command. You fight him at the ruins of his Castle after taking a short walk with him around the place, and he gives you their Stone to use for the summoning after beating him.
*** Kyurem can be fought (and actually caught this time around) in his chamber at the Giant Chasm after the Reshiram[=/=]Zekrom encounter is completed.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: There are three new Gym Leaders, though only two are new characters. The old ones are still around, but Lenora and the Striaton triplets have moved on to exclusively focusing on their day jobs, with Lenora converting the Gym into a library and the triplets having resigned as Gym Leaders [[spoiler:after their defeat at the hands of the Shadow Triad one year ago]] and working mostly as waiters who battle customers, while Brycen has restarted his acting career at Pokéstar Studios. Brycen can still be fought (With completely different Pokémon) in Pokéstar Studios and the triplets can still be fought as [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] and all five make appearances in the Pokémon World Tournament.

* BonusBoss: With a few exceptions, most of these are post-game, with lots of Legendaries and powerful trainers to fight.
** Pokémon:
*** Cobalion, Virizion, and Terrakion are encountered out in the open instead of in their caves during the story, and are optional encounters that can be caught late in the game.
*** Regirock, Regice, Registeel, and Regigigas can be found in the Underground Ruins connected to Clay Tunnel.
*** Latias (''White 2'') and Latios (''Black 2'') are found in the Dream Yard in the upstairs part of the first area.
*** Uxie, Mespirit, and Azelf can be found specific locations in the overworld after visiting the Cave of Being.
*** Heatran is found in the central chamber of Reversal Mountain after getting the Magma Stone.
*** Cresselia can be encountered in the middle of Marvelous Bridge after getting the Lunar Wing from the Strange House.
*** Reshiram (''White 2'') or Zekrom (''Black 2'') can be caught at Dragonspiral Tower after beating them while they are under N's command. You fight him at the ruins of his Castle after taking a short walk with him around the place, and he gives you their Stone to use for the summoning after beating him.
*** Kyurem can be fought (and actually caught this time around) in his chamber at the Giant Chasm after the Reshiram[=/=]Zekrom encounter is completed.
** Trainers:
*** The Pokémon World Tournament features literally ''every'' Gym Leader (except [[KickedUpstairs Koga and Iris]]) and every previous Champion (including [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Red]] but excluding Iris) from the previous games. Giovanni returns in the Gym Leader tournaments while Blue is fought in the Champion one.
*** Cynthia also returns in Undella Town like in the previous games, albeit with another team.
*** [[CreatorCameo Shigeki Morimoto]] can be fought in Castelia City just like in the previous games. Along with him is another developer that can be fought: Koji Nishino. They both have two different teams depending on whether you've entered the Hall of Fame or not.
*** Alder can be fought once in his house in Floccesy Town using a team separate from his World Tournament one.
*** Benga, who is Alder's grandson, can be fought at the top of [[BonusDungeon Black Tower[=/=]White Treehollow]], with a different team and reward depending on the version.
*** The Striaton Gym leaders have retired from being Gym Leaders, but can still be fought as a DualBoss with you teaming up with one of the brothers to take on the other two.
*** The Shadow Triad can be fought once per season in the eastern part of Icirrus City in a BossRush. You have to one in a Single Battle, the next in a Triple Battle, and a last in a Rotation Battle.
*** Colress can be fought once per day in the Plasma Frigate once it parks near the P2 Laboratory.
*** Cheren and Bianca can be fought if you activate the OldSaveBonus by connecting your copy of ''Black'' or ''White''. They use their teams from said old save.
*** N can be fought in the ruins of his castle in Victory Road after you obtain or defeat Kyurem in the Giant Chasm during the post-game, and after meeting with him at the Ferris Wheel in Nimbasa City. He uses one of four weather-themed teams depending on the season, namely a Rain team in the Spring, a Sun team in the Summer, a Sand team in the Fall, and a Hail team in the Winter.

** Use the "Memory Link" feature to sync a copy of ''Black'' or ''White'' to ''Black 2'' or ''White 2'' and this will unlock a variety of minor features, such as cutscenes revealing more characters' backstory, and some of the events that occured between the games; certain characters (like N) will also start referring to your previous player character ''by name''. You can also receive a gift of all the Musical Props you had in your first game, encounter and catch the very same Pokémon N released back into the wild (they shine when encountered), and battle Cheren and Bianca's original Black and White rival teams (though unlike the other [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] in the PWT, they cannot be rebattled).

%%* OminousMusicBoxTune: You'll encounter it [[spoiler:in N's Room in the collapsed Castle of Team Plasma, and it's ''even more'' ominous-sounding than before.]]

* LuckBasedMission:
** The Gym Leaders section of the Pokémon World Tournament. You can only have three Pokémon on your person when battling, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to prepare for every possible type you'd face. You simply have to hope you encounter Gym Leaders favorable to the types you have on your team.
** The Rental Tournament. In all the others you at least get to pick Pokemon you raised yourself and whose moves you already know. The Rental Tournament gives you a choice of 6 random Pokemon whose movesets and hold items are set and may not be very good (one possible Pokemon is a Simisage with no STAB attacks).
** And the World Leaders tournament is worse than the region leaders tournament. At least with the region leaders, you have a better idea of who might be showing up and can prepare ''slightly'' better.
** Getting all the way to the end of the Battle Subway and the Battle Institute also depends a lot on luck, because the opponents and the teams they have (except for those of the two Subway Bosses) are chosen at random.
** If you're unfortunate to suffer from the RandomNumberGod's wrath during a Pokéstar filming, enjoy refilming if you want a decent ending. Confusion, {{Critical Hit}}s, and misses, oh my. ''Ghost Eraser 4'' is one of the worst at this is that getting a good ending (slaying the Majin) requires you to not screw up ''at all'' and pray you choose the right lines.