History VideoGame / PokemonClover

** Trainers that carry Pokémon with the Inversion ability, which temporarily turns the battle into an [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Inverse Battle]], will often switch in to a Pokémon that it's normally effective against (i.e. a Motherfuck against a Ground-type), only to get hit with a super-effective move.

* SurpriseCreepy: In contrast to the rest of the game (which is quite lighthearted, VulgarHumor and BlackComedy aside), [[BleakLevel Zanyis Town Ruins and the Rotting Pit]] are genuinely unnerving. To elaborate, Zanyis Town Ruins is a town that's been reduced to a moldering husk, with a background theme that wouldn't sound out of place in Franchise/TheTwilightZone. The Rotting Pit, on the other hand, is a labyrinth beneath the town's ruins, with the maze being made of ''bones'', some of which are ''[[FridgeHorror visibly human]]''. The cause of all of this? [[spoiler:[[WalkingWasteland Endranther]], an OlympusMon based on death and decay, which fled to the town and presumably slaughtered everyone living there.]]

* AntiClimax: Played for laughs with Adesign's theme and signature move, An Attack. The former shares an intro with the epic [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Weather Trio theme]], before shorting out into a remix of the ABC song [[StupidStatementDanceMix peppered with Adesign's cry]]. As for An Attack, it charges up immensely, complete with the whole screen shaking... only to unleash a generic hit animation.[[note]]Despite the silly animation, An Attack is no joke, as it's a 120 base power, 100% accurate STAB move for Adesign.[[/note]]

* IBangedYourMom: In Beehive City's Pokémon Center, there's a youngster who claims he knows who the Champion of the Fochun League is: "your mom, and [he] fucked her". [[spoiler:Funnily enough, he's half right: your mother ''is'' the Fochun League Champion]].
** [[spoiler:Interestingly, two-thirds of your mother's team is built around this joke, with two of her Pokémon (Mozzamazel and Wifemin) being stereotypically attractive and feminine, and another two (Semdemen and her SignatureMon, Baddon) being associated with sex.]]

** After clearing one of the more complex Victory Roads around, defeating the other PC rival one last time, you get ready to head for the League [[spoiler:only to get assaulted right at the exit by "[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Fucking L. Jackson]]", who quotes ''Film/PulpFiction'' before throwing at you a team of six Motherfucks with ridiculously high Speed and Explosion as their only move. If you didn't heal after the previous fight, have a Pokémon with Protect on your team, or simply enough HP to survive the onslaught (notably, this fight also disables your items and is even an Inverse Battle from Generation 6, meaning the Normal-type Explosion can hit everything with at least normal effectiveness) you'll have to go through the cave again. He was apparently added there just to screw over Nuzlocke players.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Surprisingly, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler of all people is this. Instead of the infamous German Nazi of World War II, here he's a Weapons Designer for Checkem Island's research facility that got rejected from Art School.

*** ZigZagged with Hyper Training. It's a bit stronger than in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' in that the boosted [=IVs=] can be passed down via breeding, but the Bottle Caps needed to use the service are a finite resource.

* BalanceBuff: In addition to the buffs given to the aforementioned [=HMs=], the previously-worthless Illuminate ability now acts as a clone of Compound Eyes, increasing the accuracy of the wielder's moves.

There's also a spin-off called Pokemon Ultra [=FireRed=] XD that includes several Clovermon.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Surprisingly, Hitler of all people is this. Instead of the infamous German Nazi of World War 2, here he's a Weapons Designer for Checkem Island's research facility that got rejected from Art School.

** There's a lot of quality of life features from later generations: stats affected by the nature are marked, you start with the Running Shoes, the game has G6 Exp. Share as well as catching EXP, the [=TMs=] are reusable infinitely, caves have dust cloud phenomena that give Gems and Pokémon, and a precise IV checker. The only things that aren't from later games are berry trees scattered around the region that respawn over time (which is a G2 feature), and being able to catch things in middle of moves like Dig or Fly (which was made impossible Generation IV onwards).

* DiscOneNuke: If you're particularly lucky, Wonder Trade can grant you powerful Pokemon that can't otherwise be obtained until the late- or even post-game. A few examples include Pokémon with perfect [=IVs=], fully evolved Pokémon, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs fully-evolved Pokémon with perfect IVs]] or ones that just need an item to evolve.

** When you obtain the TM for Thief, the Merchant you obtain it from warns you to not use it against his fellow Merchants. The Pokémon that Merchants carry tend to hold items such as Nuggets, which fetch a high price. [[SchmuckBait Surely using Thief on Merchants is a good idea, right?]] [[spoiler: Nope. If you use Thief on a Merchant's Pokémon, three Merchants will attack you and your battered party right when you reach the league, and they will steal your Pokémon's items by using moves such as Trick and Swindle. And this comes right after the aforementioned L. Jackson KaizoTrap. You can lessen the blow by removing your Pokémon's items before fighting them; even then, they'll still annoy you by giving your Pokémon items such as Iron Balls and Flame Orbs.]]

* NoFairCheating: Cheat in the game, and after beating the champion, you will be arrested, just before you register your team in the Hall of Fame. This effectively soft-locks your game, trapping your character in a jail cell forever. There's a noose in the corner, labeled [[DrivenToSuicide "the easy way out"]], but using it ''deletes your save file''. Note that things like emulator save states are fair game; the game will do this only if you do stupid stuff like hacking items in or getting Legendary Pokemon you have no possible way to obtain before becoming Champion illegitimately.

* RunningGag: Measuring the power of several pokemon using indian elephants.

** You can come across a giant pile of poop at some point in the game, in which you are required to use a Poop Whistle. Using it will summon a battle with Cacademon, which is a Pokemon that’s literally a pile of poop.

* YourMom: In Beehive City's Pokémon Center, there's a youngster who claims he knows who the Champion of the Fochun League is: "your mom, and [he] fucked her". [[spoiler:Funnily enough, he's half right: your mother ''is'' the Fochun League Champion]].
** [[spoiler:Interestingly, two-thirds of your mother's team is built around this joke, with two of her Pokemon (Mozzamazel and Wifemin) being stereotypically attractive and feminine, and another two (Semdemen and her SignatureMon, Baddon) being associated with sex.]]

!Tropes present in-game

** To receive a bike, you have to participate in a contest that involves pissing six feet into the air without getting wet. Thankfully you don’t see the contest itself, but you do get the [[SarcasmMode pleasure]] of seeing the aftermath.

** BonusBoss Masuda has illegal moves such as Overbite on his Militant.

*** The Rotting Pit underneath the town takes this UpToEleven. It starts with a difficult puzzle located inside of a dark room that can be lit up with flash. If the player completes the puzzle, they unlock a hole in the wall and can enter the main part of the pit: a pitch-black maze made of rocks... and bones. This is made even worse by the fact that Flash isn't even usable in the maze room, leaving the player in darkness for the entire time. It culminates in one final room where the player must jump on a line of rocks that ''float in the air over an infinite abyss below'' to finally reach [[spoiler:Endranther, a Legendary Pokémon described in its Pokédex entry as representing "the decaying rot of death" which is implied to have been the reason for the destruction of Zanyis Town in the first place.]]

* NoFairCheating: Cheat in the game, and after beating the champion, you will be arrested, just before you register your team in the Hall of Fame. This effectively soft-locks your game, trapping your character in a jail cell forever. There's a noose in the corner, labeled [[DrivenToSuicide "the easy way out"]], but using it ''deletes your save file''. Note that things like emulator save states are fair game, the game will do this only if you do stupid stuff like hacking items in or getting Legendary Pokemon you have no possible way to obtain before becoming Champion illegitimately.

* ShoutOut: Loads of them. It is a 4chan project after all.
** With the game having a [[Music/SiIvaGunner SiIvaGunner]] contributor, a great number of music in Pokémon Clover are RSE soundfont remixes of songs:
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ-tPgV0ka0 The Gym Leader battle]] is [[Music/{{Darude}} Darude - Sandstorm]].
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArJp1zDfAM The encounter theme]] for Theorist and occult-related Trainers is ''Series/TheXFiles'' theme song.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZsMi3yT76k The bike theme]] is the opening to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
*** Before you fix it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfOGX3McNU4 Spooky Scary Skeletons]] is playing in Parax Town.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVK5jsePHfI Polony City]] has "Shadilay" by Music/{{PEPE}} playing.
** A house in Vitlya City contains [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd a nerd angrily ranting]] on how terrible this game is, he'd rather circumcise a rabid cat than to play this game. Outside there's a guy talking about [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog going fast]] and giving you Quick Claw if you say yes; if you say no he mentions [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 how it's no use]], as well [[Creator/ToddHoward certain somebody]] who wants to make sure you're buying the newest version of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''.
** A girl in Gadech City [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} has been diagnosed with Slugma]]. Speaking of ''Fortnite'', the trainer encounter song for Youngsters is a remix of the infamous Default Dance music.
** A guy by Mt. Moot paraphrases Creator/FriedrichNietzsche's quote about the abyss.
** A lot from the Trainers you fight:
*** The Lass resembles [[Manga/{{Yotsuba}} Yotsuba Koiwai]], Gamers have [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]]'s makeup and all, and Weebs wear [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina's]] famous glasses.
*** Certain Trainers instead incorporate this into their dialogue: a Team Karma Grunt quoting [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Burgerpants]], a Pokémon Ranger quoting ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' characters, a Channeler wanting to talk to you about "their lord and saviour Jesus Christ," a Lass in Rock Tunnel quoting [[Music/CarlyRaeJepsen Call Me Maybe]], a Trainer in Troll Hole talking about jet fuel melting steel beams, a Pokémon Ranger saying how he got bit by a Toxiraptor only for ''the Pokémon'' to die after three hours of excruciating pain, a scientist named [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Abdol who uses bird Pokemon]]...Yeah, there's a good amount of these.
*** Other might have these in their names, such as Sailor named [[Anime/SailorMoon Moon]], or a Hiker called Edmund who has made [[VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy Super Blobbos Boy]] and [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac The Binding of Embortion]].
*** There's a Youngster named [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness]] who has Pokémon based on the other party members in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': a Caroline [[note]]Paula, because Caroline is a Christian Pokémon and because [[spoiler: Paula's Pray mechanic is the only way to beat the FinalBoss]].[[/note]], a Galavire [[note]]Jeff, because Galavire is a robot and Jeff is the party's GadgeteerGenius[[/note]], and a Cacademon [[note]]Poo, because, well, [[ToiletHumor you know...]][[/note]].
** Some NPC helped another one get them a tulpa, only for them to call it a [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Stand]].
** A random NPC on Route 9 mentions how Vegeta isn't just a Manga/DragonBallZ character, but also [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Vegeta.png/150px-Vegeta.png a spice]] used in Slavic countries.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonQuartz'', ''VideoGame/PokemonReborn'', ''Pokémon Sage'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'' are mentioned at various points by random [=NPCs=], with various degrees of niceness.
** There's a Vietnamese person in Animango City that says [[VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal ASS DRUG BAG FUCK]] before giving you a Hyper Potion.
** The merchandise shop in Animango City features a poster of [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]], life-sized dolls of Music/HatsuneMiku and [[VideoGame/GravityRush Kat]], as well as normal dolls of [[Franchise/TouhouProject Reimu Hakurei]], [[Manga/DragonBall Son Goku]], and [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Marx]].
** A guy in Animango's observatory talks how [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight "Pokémon faint when they are killed"]] while another just after Vitlya Woods says "Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right".
*** There's quite a lot of Fate references throughout the game. The Infestation move tutor in Parax Town mentions something about the power of the worms and its side effect of changing the recipient's hair color. The move tutor in Outcast Island offers a variety of jaded advice straight out of a certain Counter Guardian, and even says "I am the bone of my sword" when teaching Swords Dance. Meanwhile the move tutor in Polony City is a certain Mapo Tofu-loving priest.
** A guy in Beehive's restaurant has made a [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas very long and specific order.]]
** You can find [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} the Sanchez Brothers]] in the Game Corner.
** Kommando Military Base and the areas near it are filled with references to VideoGame/AceCombat and its fanbase. There's even a Bird Keeper north of Telekino City named Pixy (who has a Pixila).

* GreedyJew: The Merchant class. They don't give any Pokédollars when you beat them[[note]]though you can use Thief on their Pokémon, which will often yield a [[VendorTrash Nugget]][[/note]], they give you the TM for Thief, and they use Pokémon related to money, including the similarly-designed Chantruth.

* DiscOneNuke: If you're particularly lucky, Wonder Trade can grant you powerful Pokemon that can't otherwise be obtained until the late- or even post-game. A few examples include Pokémon with perfect [=IVs=], fully evolved Pokémon, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs fully-evolved Pokémon with perfect IVs]] or just need an item to evolve.

** Jew Harpagon, who you meet in Victory Road, notes that he was supposed to be a reference to ''Theatre/TheMiser'', but the developers didn't write any dialogue for him to be a proper one. He then scolds the devs for their laziness. After you battle him, he even acknowledges that he's breaking the fourth wall, "because [he] can".

** When you obtain the TM for Thief, the Jew you obtain it from warns you to not use it against his fellow Jews. The Pokémon that Jews carry tend to hold items such as Nuggets, which fetch a high price. [[SchmuckBait Surely using Thief on Jews is a good idea, right?]] [[spoiler: Nope. If you use Thief on a Jew's Pokémon, three Jews will attack you and your battered party right when you reach the league, and they will steal your Pokémon's items by using moves such as Trick and Swindle. And this comes right after the aforementioned L. Jackson KaizoTrap. You can lessen the blow by removing your Pokémon's items before fighting them; even then, they'll still annoy you by giving your Pokémon items such as Iron Balls and Flame Orbs.]]

** The merchandise shop in Animango City features a poster of [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]], life-sized dolls of Music/HatsuneMiku and [[VideoGame/GravityRush Kat]], as well as normal dolls of [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Reimu Hakurei]], [[Manga/DragonBall Son Goku]], and [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Marx]].

* RunningGag: Measuring the power of several pokemon using indian elephants.

* PressurePlate: Victory Road and Rotting Pit have puzzles that requires you to push boulders into switches.

There's also a spin-off called Pokemon Ultra FireRed XD that includes several Clovermon.

** [[Fucking L. Jackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AX7culNhyE theme]] is Monster House from ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon''.]]

** There’s an evolutionary line of a blue hedgehog-like Pokémon that soils itself, as a TakeThat towards the VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog fandom. It has the Sand Stream ability, and its Pokédex entry says its feces is light enough to be carried by the wind. [[FridgeHorror Make that as you will.]]