History VideoGame / PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon

* BullyTurnedBuddy: Pancham and Shelmet become this after the Ancient Barrow mission, and are even recruited afterwards, Pancham and Shelmet [[spoiler:are willing to see you of when you and your partner leave for Lively Town]] and Pancham says he'll rooting for the two and even [[spoiler:shows his condolences for your partner disappearing]]

*** Gardevoir with Lopunny, Medicham, Ekans and Gengar[[note]]Team Charm and Team Meanies; Gardevoir also was the Pokémon used by Gengar as a human.[[/note]]

*** Gengar with Ekans and Gardevoir[[note]]Former two are members of Team Meanies; latter was the Pokémon used by Gengar as a human.[[/note]]

* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler:While the player and partner were stuck in the Voidlands, Ampharos, Jirachi and Espurr contacted every Pokemon they could find for help. When Dark Matter tries to launch the Tree of Life into the sun, Deoxys and Rayquaza use their beam moves to force it back, Mega Mewtwo Y uses its psychic powers to hold the Tree down, a whole fleet of Flying Pokemon (including the Legendary Birds, but also Pokemon like Staraptor, Altaria and Dragonite) fly in to help from the skies, and Arceus is coordinating all of them.]]

* HelloNurse: Shelmet is easily smitten by any cute female, even the school nurse.

* EasilyForgiven: Pancham. He treats the partner like crap, but nobody ''ever'' calls him out on it. Not even the partner. ''Especially'' not the partner.

** The mission "Get Popular Ribbon from Liepard!" is deceptively misleading for its (supposed) 1-Star difficulty. You have to find and [=KO=] Liepard to get the Popular Ribbon. The big problem is that you're competing against a rival team that, for some reason, is too strong to beat at your current level. And even if you manage to get rid of most of them, you'll still lose and have to start over again if their last surviving team member get the Popular Ribbon.

** ''Then'' when they [[spoiler:confront Dark Matter and the latter manages to drain their EleventhHourSuperpower, the protagonist begins to lose all hope since they're stuck in their weak base forms while nearly ''all'' the Pokemon in the world had been turned to stone, feeling like they have nothing left to fight for. The partner then gives a RousingSpeech about why they shouldn't give up no matter the odds. The protagonist's response? [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments That they had something worth fighting for standing beside them the whole time.]]]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Just before entering the Ancient Barrow, if the player runs through the field and temporarily leaves the partner behind, the partner will be frozen to the spot and crying with fear, and won't move again until the player shows up.

** Either because of the story going so fast or your leveling up going so slowly, you'll have to take on the final chapter at around Level 25-27 which is shockingly low and doesn't give you a lot of room for error. Even a mission that is only 1-star difficulty can go south pretty quickly because your level and stats are still too low.

** Either because of the story going so fast or your leveling up going so slowly, you'll have to take on the final chapter at around Level 25-27 which is shockingly low and doesn't give you a lot of room for error. Even a mission that is only 1-star difficulty can go south pretty quickly because your level and stats are still too low.

* NintendoHard: Occurs much, much earlier on compared to the previous games, primarily due to the game having much, much more of an emphasis on the [[{{Roguelike}} Mystery Dungeon]] side of the crossover, especially when compared to the rest of the series, which usually included a balance between the Pokémon and Mystery Dungeon elements. Whether this is a good change or a bad change is [[BrokenBase hotly debated]], especially with how the RNG of the Roguelike gameplay can clash with the linear story missions.

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The fifth installment in the {{roguelike}} ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' spinoff series, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]''. First announced on 21 May 2015, the game was released in September 2015 for Japan, November for the US, and February 2016 for Europe and Australia.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Under certain extreme circumstances including the entire final dungeon, the Harmony Scarves grant you and the partner temporary evolution and doubled stats. [[spoiler: Subverted in the second half of the final battle, as the Tree of Life runs out of energy and you both revert to your base forms.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The Harmony Scarves evolution method.]] This is nastily subverted on [[spoiler:the second half of the FinalBoss battle, though]].

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* HundredPercentCompletion: You can [[GottaCatchThemAll connect with all 720 Pokémon]] and [[CartographySidequest complete every dungeon available]]; doing so will net you a silver and gold badge on the save record screen. Completing every dungeon, in addition, allows you to travel to any dungeon directly from the Nexus.

* ContractualBossImmunity: You can still use status effects on most boss Pokémon, but they will recover from those effects quickly, sometimes even on the same turn. They are also immune to specific move and wand effects (e.g., OHKO moves, Endeavor, Quarter Wand, HP-Swap Wand, etc.).

* BlobMonster: Void Shadows are apparently indigenous black ...things... that reside in the Voidlands. They also have the ability to impersonate other Pokemon.

* HappilyAdopted: Your partner, by Carracosta, who found them were just a baby and adopted them.

* ChekovsGunman: [[spoiler:Espurr. Though she initially seems to be forgotten about by the plot upon your move to Lively Town, she becomes involved in defeating the Dark Matter acts as a {{Double Reverse Quadruple Agent}}. After Nuzleaf turns all the Pokemon on top of Revelation Mountain to stone, Espurr seemingly betrays you to save herself by working for him as a mole in the Expedition Society. However, she is later revealed to to have only joined Nuzleaf so she could communicate Nuzleaf's movements to Ampharos and Jirachi while making Nuzleaf think that she's giving him information on Ampharos.]]

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler:Espurr. See Chekov's Gunman above.]]