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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, L, R, Start; with Select being re-enabled later on during the event) are entered into a chat on {{Website/Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of Pokémon via an IRC bot. In short, thousands of people are fighting over a controller. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, L, R, Start; with Select being re-enabled later on during the event) are entered into a chat on {{Website/Twitch}}, {{Platform/Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of Pokémon via an IRC bot. In short, thousands of people are fighting over a controller. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, L, R, Start; with Select being re-enabled later on during the event) are entered into a chat on {{Website/Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of Pokémon via an IRC bot. In short, thousands of people are fighting over a controller. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
With the [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal second experiments]] successfully finished, a third run started on March 22, 2014[[note]][[MilestoneCelebration Ten years to the day]] after [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum another Generation III game]] was released in North America. Just a coincidence, though.[[/note]], in the next generation of the series, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''.
This time around, the mob followed the adventures of a young girl named A ([[FanNickname also known as Camila A. Slash and colloquially known as]] [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics A-chan]]). But from the moment A chose a Torchic (named "Zexy") instead of the mob's preferred choice of a Treecko, A has shown a surprising... ''disregard'' for her legion-esque masters. Does this have something to do with the [[TimeyWimeyBall strange temporal distortions]] that heralded the start of her journey?[[note]]actually a number of accidental soft-resets that managed to erase at least seven protagonists from history before the Select button was disabled[[/note]] Will it be the mob leading A, or will ''she'' be the one leading ''them''?
After 20 days, 21 hours, 56 minutes and '''103''' attempts, mere 3 hours before running out of time[[note]]and this is ''after'' a three-day extension beyond the original deadline[[/note]], A finally managed to defeat Wallace and became a Hoenn Champion. ''Emerald'' was promptly followed by ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed''.
Come April 2016, in the lead up PBR 2.0's debut, several older run saves were played. Emerald was the second, following [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]], around 2 years after it's end. It's brief presence was soon followed by [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Crystal]].
See also [[http://twitchplayspokemon.org/emerald/ here]] for the archived progress of the game, [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=Emerald here]] for the archived status of the run, or [[http://www.reddit.com/live/nawsz3vn7ui6hdsgciytwcxadi/ here]] for live updates, which have been archived [[https://archive.tppleague.me/s01-03-emerald.html here]]. There is also a recap page, found [[Recap/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald here]].
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!!''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald'' contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''rendan '''B'''irch.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: A, Brendan, and from the ''Dogz Fashion'' intermission, A's supposed daughter Z.
* AntiClimax: After hours of struggling with the Lavaridge Gym maze, M4 proceeded to literally steamroll Flannery's team into submission with a single Rollout combo.
** Reaching the 8th and final gym took a full two days of work, thanks to lots of required plot events and some tricky puzzles that required long segments of democracy. Just making it through the cracked floor puzzle in the gym to fight the leader took several hours. When they finally got to Juan, Tentacruel and Wingull went down... and then M4 pulverized his entire team with Rollout. [[http://i.imgur.com/UqVwcAF.png She lost less than 15% of her health.]]
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The layout of the stream has changed slightly, and it now features the Pokémon in the active party, their level(s) and [=HP=] at the bottom of the screen. This saves you the effort of either waiting for the Mob to (accidentally) enter the party screen or looking for a site that documents the game's progress.
* ApocalypticLog: The [[Recap/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Recap page]] [[RaceAgainstTheClock quickly turned]] [[DarkestHour into one]].
* ArcWords: "Let's turn this region UP-START-DOWN."
* ArchEnemy: [[ThatOneBoss Wattson]] may be defeated, but it still took more than twenty attempts to defeat him and he's still always there to mock A and the voices. Calls have been made to return to him after beating the Elite Four and get revenge.
* [[ATeamFiring A-Team]] [[{{Pun}} Firing]]: A heroic example- during double battles, none of A's Pokémon's attacks land a solid hit. In some cases, the attacks wrap around to hitting one another.
* BadassAdorable: All of the team members. The rule of thumb is, if a Pokemon's evolution is less adorable then his current form, he's probably not going to evolve. That is why Virgin Marill evolved, while Zexxy and Gandhi did not.
** The rule was ultimately discarded at the playthrough's climax. M4 Moe is still {{moe}} and Vileplume is also quite cute, but the rest of her Pokémon are.... Mightyena, [[RockMonster Graveler]], [[CombatTentacles Tentacruel]], and Hariyama.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Good news, everyone, the PC is now docile and barely lethal, just like you wanted! Oh, as a side effect, it can take up to ten hours to change your team. Hope you enjoyed claw cranes as a child, because you're gonna seeing them a lot.
** Hey people who wished for Zexy to be released and/or unevolved! Both happened!
* BelligerentSexualTension: There is [[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/084/8/b/8b6fd3ede48ec801852c60f28d6265e2-d7bkyju.png a lot of]] this between [[http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/091/5/1/510392a76432a20c05a031aaaf5b11ec-d7cj8uv.png A and Brendan]]. Given that May and Brendan are [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]], unlike Red and Blue, this was pretty much a given.
* BittersweetEnding: A finally defeated Wallace, the mob got their urn, and everyone was reminded of the Pokemon long released.
* BookEnds: A's journey ends as it began - [[RaceAgainstTheClock fighting against a clock]].
** On more meta level, the playthrough both started and ended with the stream freezing and massive rioting.
* BossInMookClothing: Every double battle. Mainly due to A's Pokémon usually doing their best to kill each other while completely ignoring their enemies.
* ButThouMust: A was given 3 days to defeat the Elite Four, as per the Admin's CosmicDeadline. When she failed, the Admin granted her 3 more days to try again.
* ButtonMashing: Most of the times, the Pokemon is going to use the first attack on the list, because of the A-spam. This can be either a blessing (in case of Virgin Marill and Rollout as her first attack) or not, as in case of everyone else.
** Creating [=PokeBlocks=], using all of A's berries and having a absurd number of misses (over 850).
* CannonFodder: Poochyenas are here to waste PP of A's opponents and tackle them a bit, then die and let the more leveled team members handle everything.
* CallBack: During [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first run,]] Red ignored the Mob's wishes of either getting a Thunder Stone or a Water Stone for Eevee, instead choosing a Fire Stone. In this run, while the Mob argued over getting Treecko or Mudkip, A chose Torchic, leading some people to declare it "the second false prophet".
** Zexy seems to be a fountain of this. He calls back Lazorgator due to his inability to evolve, Flareon due to being picked over other two starters, thus leading to hate, and now like Abby, has been released.
* CerebusRollerCoaster: Perception of lore and mood of the game has changed radically during the game (a big, fat thanks to YMMV for that one) and nearly came the full circle. A is off, but the interpretation ''how much'' off, and whether or not it's PlayedForLaughs is what matters the most.
** DarkerAndEdgier: While Red and AJ were portrayed as two ordinary kids being controlled by the Mob, initial lore decided to make A a killer and anarchist trainer who not even the Mob can control. [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/58b06befc60b017d3a1aa2a7e1097d6b/tumblr_n2tdjkNImZ1r2cnpko1_1280.png Cold blooded killer A]]
** DenserAndWackier: However, after a while the Mob decided to distance the lore from the epic journey of ''Twitch Plays Pokemon Red'' and the grim quest of ''Twitch Plays Pokemon Crystal'', so a new interpretation of A was born - one that can be only described as ''[[HeroicComedicSociopath every flavour of nuts]]'' - still insane. [[http://imgur.com/FlFq6JY Here you can behold the insane sociopath A.]]
** LighterAndSofter: Things changed after the anniversary of Bloody Sunday - during which A, defying everyone's fears, did not release any pokemon, and instead spent a day capturing poochyenas and enjoying sights of Mauville. This event became known as [[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/4/3/lovely_sunday_by_eugeneration-d7bdtaq.jpg Lovely Sunday]] and gave birth to a [[FunPersonified wacky and fun]] version of A. However, fun and games did not last long because of the appearance of...
** KnightOfCerebus: Or, rather, two. The first took a form of [[ThatOneBoss Gym Leader Wattson]]. More then twenty clashes with him brought despair to the Mob and resulted in release of Zexy, which nearly killed morale of the Voices for three days. After the long-awaited victory over Wattson, [[AppleOfDiscord Trapinch]] was caught, which resulted in a split between those who wanted to get him in the party and those who did not want to go near the PC after recent events. The fight resulted in [[EnsembleDarkhorse Birdcop]] being released, which finally resulted in...
** CerebusSyndrome: The police theme, which started appearing right after Birdcop's release, was dark - the very first artworks of A-team as police force depicted a funeral and a violent interrogation of Trapinch, but not nearly as dark as initial serial killer lore. [[DarkestHour But then]] the [[RaceAgainstTheClock endgame]] suddenly [[DespairEventHorizon filled the Mob with panic]] and despair even greater then after Mauvile. The countdown to ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]]'' began as A was struggling against the Elite Four and failing to beat it. The artwork is taking it to its [[TheBadGuyWins the logical conclusion]].
* ChekhovsGun: The clock from the beginning of the game, apparently. According to some, the DoomsdayClock counting down to A's failure was replaced with the one at her house to buy her more time.
* CosmicDeadline: Once again, the Admin placed a RaceAgainstTheClock on the protagonist's adventure. When the initial deadline failed, it was extended.
* DarkestHour: The timer to ''[=FireRed=]'' almost ran out twice. The first time, the streamer extended the time limit. The second time, A finished off Wallace with only three hours remaining on the timer.
* DespairEventHorizon: When Zexy was released the whole Mob crossed this point. It didn't help that the Mob had to rely on a Water type to defeat the Electric type gym that they spent days on at that point.
* TheDeterminator: You may defeat A as many times as you want, but she will be back. She will be back every time, each time throwing everything she has on you, until you are defeated.
** The Mob became TheDeterminator during the final 3 days of the run. They endured a horribly underleveled party, a countdown to ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]]'', and frequent attacks by bot networks. Yet they kept coming up with plans to beat the Elite 4.
* EarlyGameHell: Yet again. Not made any better by the sudden jump in viewers.
** The stream spent hours with only a Torchic and no other Pokemon. This was even worse when they ran away from the battle with the Pokemon that everybody really wanted: a Ralts.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: The A Team. It's based on the name of their trainer, but primarily it's a pun on the [[Series/TheATeam television series of the same name.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Democracy finally came back to help with a puzzle that would have been borderline impossible without it.
* EleventhHourRanger: [=A♀NIIIc33=] ("[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Annie]]") the Hariyama. During the fights with the Elite Four, it was determined that [[TheLoad XX the Wingull]] would be borderline useless, so during a bout of democracy, XX was deposited into the PC and the mob set back off towards Victory Road (after losing to Phoebe and Glacia several more times and eventually managing to buy two ultra balls) to catch a replacement mon, with many voices hoping for a Lairon and others suggesting Sableye or Golbat. The replacement they got was Annie.
* EndOfTheWorldSpecial: A theory about the ending to segue into Fire Red is that A, the avatar of Anarchy in a world post-Helix, remade the world to run on InsaneTrollLogic. (Or that [[TheBadGuyWins Bill]] did.)
* EpicFail: Got its [[EpicFail/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald own page]] about 30 minutes into the run. HereWeGoAgain.
** There was a thread on Reddit which tried to predict what will happen to the Master Ball. The opinion was split between "it will be used to catch a Zubat/doge/Oddish" and "it will be wasted in the trainer battle". It ended up being wasted on a trainer's Zubat a mere nine minutes later.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Since it was only the third run, there wasn't enough precedent to realize it at the time, but A's failure to obtain her first badge by the end of Day 1 would set the tone for the entire run. Wattson, the third Gym Leader, was such a huge roadblock that the number of attempts needed to defeat him has been dubbed "1 Wattson" and used as a measure of difficulty; no solitary trainer has yet to achieve a rating of 1 Wattson, though four Elite Four members have done so...three of them coming from ''this run'', which required 103 attempts to defeat the Elite Four once and for all.
* {{Expy}}: Some players suspect that Lass Haley was [[ShipTease this playthrough's equivalent]] of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Youngster Joey.]]
* FissionMailed: Twitch didn't make the 3 days limit to ''Fire Red'', and the stream was paused. Then the streamer announced that he would extend the limit by a few more days.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: The money earned by battling was usually spent on Pokeballs. Said Pokeballs will be most likely spent on attempts to steal a Pokemon in a trainer battle - wasting both money and precious turns.
** The Safari Zone, all money was lost by entering and exiting the area multiple times while flooding the [=PC=] with Oddishes and other Pokemon, which has been interpreted as A spending all her money on weed, or just really, really loving Oddishes for some reason.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: For the first eight hours anyway. Zexy has a lonely nature, and the mob spent nearly eight hours with the game until they finally caught a second Pokémon. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation ...And then a third. And a fourth. All three new friends for Zexy were caught in the span of five minutes.]]
** When A gets more Pokemon, we get to find out ''why'' Zexy is lonely nature. They get into a double battle where we find out he has a habit of [[HangingSeparately attacking his own side in the middle of combat]]. Hard to make a good impression that way.
** "GOOD BIKE" turned out to be Dewford's default trendy phrase. As soon as the mob learned that, they made it into a meme of their own.
** When the run turned blind, the mob blamed Wattson.
*** [[http://mazzy-elf.deviantart.com/art/TPP-Emerald-Guide-doges-442767052?ga_submit_new=10%253A1395778461&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1 Another interpretation]] of the sudden blackout.
* GodwinsLaw: As usual, references to [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler you-know-who]] are made quite often. Not for the sake of comparing him to anything or anyone, [[ItAmusedMe but just because people can.]] For the same exact reason, sometimes certain members of the mob will spam text art of a swastika. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/217i3o/lore_the_another_a_inspired_by_a_neglected_part/ Somebody even wrote lore about him]].
** Bill is confirmed for [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/225cbh/i_was_playing_firered_when/cgjhqnd literally]] [[http://i.imgur.com/eb5JDOF.jpg Hitler]].
* GonnaNeedMoreX: A has caught multitudes of the same Pokémon, such as seven Poochyena, five Natu, and twenty-nine different Oddish.
* GreenThumb: Most of the mob also decided they wanted a Treecko before the stream began, to stick with the pattern of getting starter reptiles who are the same color as the cartridge of the game they're playing.
** Subverted, as mashing of the A button got us Zexy the [[PlayingWithFire Torchic]].
** A's sudden interest with Oddishes, having caught twenty-nine of them in the Safari Zone.
** A's love of Grass-type Pokémon (by virtue of having the part-Grass-type Pokémon Vileplume in her Pokémon party) netted her [=TM19=], Giga Drain, as a gift from a woman on Route 123.
* HeroKiller: Zigzagged with the new PC. It was treated as such at first, but then the mob discovered that it's a lot harder to release Pokémon in Generation 3 and dismissed it as nonthreatening. Little did they know, it was all a trap. [[TearJerker R.I.P. Zexy.]]
* HeroesGoneFishing: The world is [[ApocalypseHow being flooded?]] The legendary pokemon fight over dominance, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt threatening to take the Earth with them?]] A is ready and willing to save the world! But first, she must relax and [[SkewedPriorities fish for a few hours.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: A caught seven Poochyenas, plus a Mightyena. She usually had one in the party too, but not always. One's even spending time in the daycare right now. A is often considered to be an older version of the little girl in the [=DogZ=] game played during the intermission, and it is thought her interest in Poochyena stems from her losing two dogs to the hivemind's lack of coordination before the game started.
* HopeSpot: The Admin extended the timer to Fire Red by 4 more days.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Well into the fifth day, after seven or so hours unsuccessfully trying to navigate the Lavaridge Town gym, A took a relaxing break in the hot springs with two old women.
* HurricaneOfPuns: After the fifth Poochyena was caught, the fandom exploded with doge puns - and it's not like they were not made before.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit: There's been a number of times when A accidentally deposited most of her Pokemon, leaving her with only one.
* {{Irony}}:
** A's team has been dubbed [[Series/TheATeam "the A-Team"]] (what else?). The guy called Mr. T isn't part of it.
** The mob loves its anarchy. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/3cc27ba7e871023fda5367cb63e72e4e/tumblr_n2tfzmob6F1r2cnpko1_1280.png A goes ahead and ignores the mob's commands]], [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/080/4/e/psycho_m_a_y_by_tddog-d7b4ffa.png like a true anarchist]].
** Zexy Chicken, womanizer extraordinaire, had a Lonely Nature.
** After catching a septet of Poochyena, one of A's 28 Oddish is named AARF.
** Within ''ten minutes'' of acquiring the Master Ball, after it was nearly used on an Electrode, [[http://i.imgur.com/532KaFC.png A wastes the item on a Team Aqua Grunt's Zubat]]. Now consider the game's message (used to chide A) when the player attempts to use Poké Balls on Trainer-owned Pokémon, juxtaposed with the actions of Team Aqua:
-->--'''[[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/21zbgu/master_ball_fail/cghvetz TorchicBlaziken]]''': "Don't be a thief!" After their organization stole a submarine...
** A was originally seen as the embodiment of Anarchy, but by the end she came into the command of an elite police force theme.
* JustInTime: With three hours remaining on the countdown, the mob ''finally'' took down Wallace, defeating the Elite Four and ending the game.
* LegendFadesToMyth: Due to a Statue of (what seems to be) a Pidgeot, a Poké Ball, and a Tablet appearing to show random button presses in the Lilycove Museum, much of the mob theorized that ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald'' is set in [[TheFuture The Far Future]] when the events of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red'' have become myth, with the Pidgeot being a statue of Bird Jesus and the Poké Ball being the Master Ball that AA-j the Zapdos was captured in.
** That could also explain the presence of ''another'' Youngster named Joey. His parents intentionally named him after the mythical [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal consort of AJ, legendary slayer of gods]]...
* MindHive: The Mob's theory this time around was that the voices are supplied by the seven RetGone characters from before the game started.
* NearVillainVictory: If you consider the bots and spammers to be villains, then the extension of the three-day time limit to seven days is the second-chance window for the Mob to turn things around.
* NoodleIncident: So, did A apologize to Abra? Or did Abra apologize to A? And most importantly, what was the reason for apology?
* OneLetterName: The protagonist is named A.
* OnceAnEpisode: The game is reset, getting rid of potential protagonists.
** One Pokémon (in this case Torchic) is not liked by the Mob, who clamor for its removal from the team.
** A much loved member of the team (also Torchic) is released.
* PerpetualPoverty: While in Petalburg constant white-outs meant that A's funds were quite low, and considering that Zexy was her only Pokémon and she threw all her Poké Balls at other Trainer's Pokémon, she could certainly use more funds. The mob tried to escape her poverty and have her heal before going to Petalburg Woods, but she went in anyway and whited out again.
** A was down to literally 1 Pokebuck before defeating Roxanne, due to the mob's strategy of "wade in, train Marill on two Geodude, get whited out by Nosepass". And then Roxanne's prize money lasted about half an hour before A spent it on 7 Poké Balls (which, to be fair, are far more useful than keeping the money and losing it in an inevitable white-out).
** She accrued a decent amount of cash after defeating Winona, having around 10,000 Pokémon Dollars. They then went to the Safari Zone and used it all, 500 Pokémon Dollars at a time, to capture 28 Oddish and a variety of other seemingly useless Pokémon.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Due to the possibility of using the R button, it makes [[http://i.imgur.com/Cf5OGG5.jpg SELECTBRA]] possible.
* PunctuationShaker: M4 Moe's given name.
* PuzzleBoss: The Elite Four were this for the mob. They are fairly resistant against the mob's [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome standard die-and-grind tactics]], requiring them to actually consider things like elemental weaknesses and the effectiveness of different techniques.
* RedshirtArmy: There are 28 Oddish stored in the PC. None of them have any individuality or canon names, except the one that A [[MauveShirt brought with herself]] and [[AscendedExtra evolved into Vileplume]].
* RecurringElement: While this run did a lot to distance itself from [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first experiment]], there are still some similarities, for example:
** Again, there is one Mon that ends up eating up most of the party's ExperiencePoints and causes some VERY divisive bickering among the Mob in the process - in this case Zexy the Torchic (not unlike [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Bird Jesus]] or [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal LazorGator]]) and, to some extent, M4 the Azumarill.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The 72-hour time limit for defeating the Elite Four.
* RecycledPremise: The players of ''Crystal Version'' attempted to create a military theme early on, but it didn't stick. Come mid-''Emerald'', however, military-themed works are suddenly quite popular, in no small part because the current team leader actually has the name of an assault rifle. Efforts were soon made to differentiate ''Emerald's'' theme by focusing more on a police motif, however.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Taken up to eleven. After releasing her Oddish by accident, A went to Safari Zone the very next day and caught '''''TWENTY-NINE''''' Oddishes and one Gloom.
** Also serves as a common complaint about [[SoulJar Shedinja]].
* RetGone: Seven different protagonists have been wiped out due to the multiple game crashes and resets. Among the lost are Milton, Slasha, !!, Camilla, Hazel, Reid, and T. [[http://i.imgur.com/Ea3iyXp.png They will be missed.]] What's happened to them is anything from being runaways of the mob, victims of homicide by the mob or by the current player character, or them living on as {{Composite Character}}s with the current female hero and male rival.
** On a meta-level, Treecko can be considered this, considering [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/search?q=treecko&restrict_sr=on how much the mob wanted one]]. There was even [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/210y56/the_new_lore_started_and_we_didnt_see_anything/ lore being developed]] before the run of ''Emerald'' STARTED.
** Psycho serial killer A can also be considered this, as a large portion of the Mob rejected this idea in light of later events. Whether she was completely retgonned or simply exists as a repressed part of A's mind is up for debate.
* SaveScumming: Of a sort. When Mr. T was selected as the player, the Mob began spamming L, R, and SELECT in an attempt to reset the game and choose the female player.
* RunningGag: A won't stop catching Poochyena until she fills the entire PC.
** Abra tried to use Teleport! But it failed!
** Now Oddish has Poochyena outnumbered by more than 4 to 1. At least one of them is named "AARF."
** A having the urge to go fishing or biking in the strangest of places.
* SequelEscalation: Let's see:
** [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed The first experiment]] was known for Red spending hours stuck within single buildings. Here, EVERY Pokémon Center harbors this danger.
** Red was a plagued hero, AJ was a dark yet troubled anti-hero. A-Chan is sometimes interpreted to be [[SerialKiller insane and kill-crazy]].
*** Not to mention Red's story was about Religion and reviving the gods, AJ's was about Humanism (or 'Monism) and dethroning the gods, now A's is (thus far at least) about nothing more than spreading anarchy.
** A has more Pokemon in the PC than Red and AJ ''combined''.
** Red managed to throw his Masterball at Zapdos. But then AJ wasted his on a run-of-the-mill Goldeen, As for A-chan? She threw hers at... [[EpicFail An Aqua Grunt's Zubat just MINUTES after finding it]].
* ShoutOut: A's first three Poochyena are occasionally called [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed]].
** Some suggest that RetGone character !!'s name is taken from the alert sound in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid''.
** The 3-day countdown ran out, leading into a "[[GameOver We'll be back shortly]]" message... only for [[FissionMailed the countdown to start back up again,]] [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask giving us another shot at defeating the Elite 4.]]
* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: Before the game's even started, some of the mob already wants to partake in making Pokeblocks, competing in Pokémon Contests, and other side content.
** Can also apply to all the side games being streamed before ''Emerald'' began. With attempts made to postpone ''Emerald'' in favor of finishing games like ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''Catz'', ''Dogz'', and ''VideoGame/{{Telefang}}''.
* StealthPrequel: Some have placed ''Videogame/{{Petz}}'' (specifically the Gameboy Advance version of ''Dogz'') in this category as Camila A. Slash is portrayed as a grown version of the little girl from that game and paints the stressful time she had with the two dogs in a very different situation. And after A decided to catched five Poochyena, this became a lot more likely.
** And then when the playthrough ended, the streamer went to run that version of Dogz yet again during the intermission. It's been all but confirmed now.
* TakeAThirdOption: The mob argued over whether to get Treecko or Mudkip for weeks. Instead, they received Torchic, who was immediately the object of hatred for a large portion of the mob. Hmm... doesn't that remind you of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed another Fire-type in the series]]? The comparison only strengthens when you consider [[PermanentlyMissableContent their ultimate fates]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[http://imgur.com/a/nC1bl#0 This]] comic has Brendan deliver a small one to A after she pushed one too many of his buttons.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Wattson's defeat with Zexinja. The very purpose he was brought into team was defeating [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Wattson]], but he kept losing due to accidentally being sent out against [[WeaksauceWeakness Voltorb and Magnemite]], thus failing to fulfill this purpose. After some level grinding, Virgin Marill ended up defeating every member of Wattson's team save for Manectric. Shedinja was [[NoSell completely immune]] to Wattson's Manectric, thus he beat him and fulfilled his destiny. Afterwards, Zexinja ended up accidently [[PutOnABus deposited into PC]], from where he was never withdrawn out of fear to [[PermanentlyMissableContent release him]].
* TimedMission: Subverted. The timer for [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]] was rapidly ticking down, eventually leaving the Mob without enough time to defeat the Champion. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in rioting in the chat. With three seconds left, however, the stream was paused, and the streamer said he didn't intend for the timer to be a hard limit, adding three days to it. While the extra three days ''could'' still have been a hard limit, it seemed unlikely.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Shows up in one of their better runs against the Elite Four when Glacia froze Annie and defeated her after she swept Sydney flawlessly.
** During one run where [[MirrorMatch A's Tentacruel was sent up against Wallace's Tentacruel]], Wallace immediately withdrew his Pokemon and replaced it with his Whishcash. Whishcash is part Ground type, meaning that it is the only Pokemon that Tentacruel's Electric type Hidden Power [[NoSell cannot do anything against]]. There is no way that Wallace should have been able to forsee that, and yet he apparently did. A's Tentacruel, predictably, [[TooDumbToLive responded by using Hidden Power twice against the Whishcash before being swept away with a Surf]].
* UnfriendlyFire: Fittingly, due to [[ATeamFiring their terrible aim]], The A-team simply can't win the 2vs2 battles without beating each other half to death first. The most famous example of that happened when Virgin Marill defeated her entire team with Rollout, one by one.
* TheUnpronounceable: The Virgin Marill's name is M ---/'/'4. Trying to pronounce that will result in severe tongue injuries, so the Mob settled down on calling her M4 Moe or Virgin Marill.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A completely ignored Archie stealing a submarine in favor of going to the Trick House.
** Archie was defeated, but summoned Kyogre to flood the world. Steven told A to meet him at Sootopolis... but she went fishing instead.
* VillainDecay: Somewhat. The Gen I and Gen II PC struck swiftly and took lives of Pokemon in a bat of the eye. The Gen III PC takes a long time to navigate and has been mostly "safe" due to the difficulty of doing ''anything'' with it, but complacency frequently leads to tragedy, as Zexy's release proved.
* VillainProtagonist: Initial lore shaped A as this, but...
** ZigZagged: [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215g7y/this_lore_is_ruining_tpp_for_me/ A]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/2127z4/whats_up_with_everyone_wanting_to_make_the/ lot]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/214j66/making_the_main_character_a_psychopath_will_get/ of]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215n95/the_lore_crisis_what_does_it_reveals_and_what/ people]] disagree with the straight psycho approach to A. The more commonly accepted depiction of A (regardless of your preferred origin story) portrays her as complete anarchy, able to [[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/c/8/c8e87b420e43bbfcc234a87cae2e3459-d7bde9x.png disobey]] and [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215579/a_loves_the_pc/ subvert]] the mobs expectations seemingly at whim. On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when all of her Pokemon were in the PC, not a single pokemon was released. In fact, because of the especially chaotic nature of depositing and withdrawing Pokemon this generation, "[[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/4/3/lovely_sunday_by_eugeneration-d7bdtaq.jpg Lovely Sunday]]" is often interpreted as A wanting to spend time with all her Pokemon and [[http://i.imgur.com/vFgt2yR.png not being able to decide which ones to take]].
*** And then the Zig Zag got subverted. As others see Lovely Sunday as A intentionally doing the opposite of what the Mob wants just to further spread chaos and show who's really in charge this gen.
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-> '''[[ArchEnemy Wattson:]]''' The F-Team, more like! [[EvilLaugh WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Let's turn this region [[http://i.imgur.com/7cVZaFM.png Up-Start-Down]].]]
->''"[[http://i.imgur.com/c2VrQnv.png We will not]] let this [[http://imgur.com/8mOriZ8 region burn.]]. "''
''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP'') is a series of social experiments that started in February 2014 in which commands representing buttons on an original Game Boy Advance (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, L, R, Start; with Select being re-enabled later on during the event) are entered into a chat on {{Website/Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of Pokémon via an IRC bot. In short, thousands of people are fighting over a controller. Throughout its life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' has spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
With the [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first]] and [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal second experiments]] successfully finished, a third run started on March 22, 2014[[note]][[MilestoneCelebration Ten years to the day]] after [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum another Generation III game]] was released in North America. Just a coincidence, though.[[/note]], in the next generation of the series, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]''.
This time around, the mob followed the adventures of a young girl named A ([[FanNickname also known as Camila A. Slash and colloquially known as]] [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics A-chan]]). But from the moment A chose a Torchic (named "Zexy") instead of the mob's preferred choice of a Treecko, A has shown a surprising... ''disregard'' for her legion-esque masters. Does this have something to do with the [[TimeyWimeyBall strange temporal distortions]] that heralded the start of her journey?[[note]]actually a number of accidental soft-resets that managed to erase at least seven protagonists from history before the Select button was disabled[[/note]] Will it be the mob leading A, or will ''she'' be the one leading ''them''?
After 20 days, 21 hours, 56 minutes and '''103''' attempts, mere 3 hours before running out of time[[note]]and this is ''after'' a three-day extension beyond the original deadline[[/note]], A finally managed to defeat Wallace and became a Hoenn Champion. ''Emerald'' was promptly followed by ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed''.
Come April 2016, in the lead up PBR 2.0's debut, several older run saves were played. Emerald was the second, following [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]], around 2 years after it's end. It's brief presence was soon followed by [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Crystal]].
See also [[http://twitchplayspokemon.org/emerald/ here]] for the archived progress of the game, [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=Emerald here]] for the archived status of the run, or [[http://www.reddit.com/live/nawsz3vn7ui6hdsgciytwcxadi/ here]] for live updates, which have been archived [[https://archive.tppleague.me/s01-03-emerald.html here]]. There is also a recap page, found [[Recap/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald here]].
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!!''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald'' contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''rendan '''B'''irch.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: A, Brendan, and from the ''Dogz Fashion'' intermission, A's supposed daughter Z.
* AntiClimax: After hours of struggling with the Lavaridge Gym maze, M4 proceeded to literally steamroll Flannery's team into submission with a single Rollout combo.
** Reaching the 8th and final gym took a full two days of work, thanks to lots of required plot events and some tricky puzzles that required long segments of democracy. Just making it through the cracked floor puzzle in the gym to fight the leader took several hours. When they finally got to Juan, Tentacruel and Wingull went down... and then M4 pulverized his entire team with Rollout. [[http://i.imgur.com/UqVwcAF.png She lost less than 15% of her health.]]
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The layout of the stream has changed slightly, and it now features the Pokémon in the active party, their level(s) and [=HP=] at the bottom of the screen. This saves you the effort of either waiting for the Mob to (accidentally) enter the party screen or looking for a site that documents the game's progress.
* ApocalypticLog: The [[Recap/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald Recap page]] [[RaceAgainstTheClock quickly turned]] [[DarkestHour into one]].
* ArcWords: "Let's turn this region UP-START-DOWN."
* ArchEnemy: [[ThatOneBoss Wattson]] may be defeated, but it still took more than twenty attempts to defeat him and he's still always there to mock A and the voices. Calls have been made to return to him after beating the Elite Four and get revenge.
* [[ATeamFiring A-Team]] [[{{Pun}} Firing]]: A heroic example- during double battles, none of A's Pokémon's attacks land a solid hit. In some cases, the attacks wrap around to hitting one another.
* BadassAdorable: All of the team members. The rule of thumb is, if a Pokemon's evolution is less adorable then his current form, he's probably not going to evolve. That is why Virgin Marill evolved, while Zexxy and Gandhi did not.
** The rule was ultimately discarded at the playthrough's climax. M4 Moe is still {{moe}} and Vileplume is also quite cute, but the rest of her Pokémon are.... Mightyena, [[RockMonster Graveler]], [[CombatTentacles Tentacruel]], and Hariyama.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Good news, everyone, the PC is now docile and barely lethal, just like you wanted! Oh, as a side effect, it can take up to ten hours to change your team. Hope you enjoyed claw cranes as a child, because you're gonna seeing them a lot.
** Hey people who wished for Zexy to be released and/or unevolved! Both happened!
* BelligerentSexualTension: There is [[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/084/8/b/8b6fd3ede48ec801852c60f28d6265e2-d7bkyju.png a lot of]] this between [[http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/091/5/1/510392a76432a20c05a031aaaf5b11ec-d7cj8uv.png A and Brendan]]. Given that May and Brendan are [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]], unlike Red and Blue, this was pretty much a given.
* BittersweetEnding: A finally defeated Wallace, the mob got their urn, and everyone was reminded of the Pokemon long released.
* BookEnds: A's journey ends as it began - [[RaceAgainstTheClock fighting against a clock]].
** On more meta level, the playthrough both started and ended with the stream freezing and massive rioting.
* BossInMookClothing: Every double battle. Mainly due to A's Pokémon usually doing their best to kill each other while completely ignoring their enemies.
* ButThouMust: A was given 3 days to defeat the Elite Four, as per the Admin's CosmicDeadline. When she failed, the Admin granted her 3 more days to try again.
* ButtonMashing: Most of the times, the Pokemon is going to use the first attack on the list, because of the A-spam. This can be either a blessing (in case of Virgin Marill and Rollout as her first attack) or not, as in case of everyone else.
** Creating [=PokeBlocks=], using all of A's berries and having a absurd number of misses (over 850).
* CannonFodder: Poochyenas are here to waste PP of A's opponents and tackle them a bit, then die and let the more leveled team members handle everything.
* CallBack: During [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first run,]] Red ignored the Mob's wishes of either getting a Thunder Stone or a Water Stone for Eevee, instead choosing a Fire Stone. In this run, while the Mob argued over getting Treecko or Mudkip, A chose Torchic, leading some people to declare it "the second false prophet".
** Zexy seems to be a fountain of this. He calls back Lazorgator due to his inability to evolve, Flareon due to being picked over other two starters, thus leading to hate, and now like Abby, has been released.
* CerebusRollerCoaster: Perception of lore and mood of the game has changed radically during the game (a big, fat thanks to YMMV for that one) and nearly came the full circle. A is off, but the interpretation ''how much'' off, and whether or not it's PlayedForLaughs is what matters the most.
** DarkerAndEdgier: While Red and AJ were portrayed as two ordinary kids being controlled by the Mob, initial lore decided to make A a killer and anarchist trainer who not even the Mob can control. [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/58b06befc60b017d3a1aa2a7e1097d6b/tumblr_n2tdjkNImZ1r2cnpko1_1280.png Cold blooded killer A]]
** DenserAndWackier: However, after a while the Mob decided to distance the lore from the epic journey of ''Twitch Plays Pokemon Red'' and the grim quest of ''Twitch Plays Pokemon Crystal'', so a new interpretation of A was born - one that can be only described as ''[[HeroicComedicSociopath every flavour of nuts]]'' - still insane. [[http://imgur.com/FlFq6JY Here you can behold the insane sociopath A.]]
** LighterAndSofter: Things changed after the anniversary of Bloody Sunday - during which A, defying everyone's fears, did not release any pokemon, and instead spent a day capturing poochyenas and enjoying sights of Mauville. This event became known as [[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/4/3/lovely_sunday_by_eugeneration-d7bdtaq.jpg Lovely Sunday]] and gave birth to a [[FunPersonified wacky and fun]] version of A. However, fun and games did not last long because of the appearance of...
** KnightOfCerebus: Or, rather, two. The first took a form of [[ThatOneBoss Gym Leader Wattson]]. More then twenty clashes with him brought despair to the Mob and resulted in release of Zexy, which nearly killed morale of the Voices for three days. After the long-awaited victory over Wattson, [[AppleOfDiscord Trapinch]] was caught, which resulted in a split between those who wanted to get him in the party and those who did not want to go near the PC after recent events. The fight resulted in [[EnsembleDarkhorse Birdcop]] being released, which finally resulted in...
** CerebusSyndrome: The police theme, which started appearing right after Birdcop's release, was dark - the very first artworks of A-team as police force depicted a funeral and a violent interrogation of Trapinch, but not nearly as dark as initial serial killer lore. [[DarkestHour But then]] the [[RaceAgainstTheClock endgame]] suddenly [[DespairEventHorizon filled the Mob with panic]] and despair even greater then after Mauvile. The countdown to ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]]'' began as A was struggling against the Elite Four and failing to beat it. The artwork is taking it to its [[TheBadGuyWins the logical conclusion]].
* ChekhovsGun: The clock from the beginning of the game, apparently. According to some, the DoomsdayClock counting down to A's failure was replaced with the one at her house to buy her more time.
* CosmicDeadline: Once again, the Admin placed a RaceAgainstTheClock on the protagonist's adventure. When the initial deadline failed, it was extended.
* DarkestHour: The timer to ''[=FireRed=]'' almost ran out twice. The first time, the streamer extended the time limit. The second time, A finished off Wallace with only three hours remaining on the timer.
* DespairEventHorizon: When Zexy was released the whole Mob crossed this point. It didn't help that the Mob had to rely on a Water type to defeat the Electric type gym that they spent days on at that point.
* TheDeterminator: You may defeat A as many times as you want, but she will be back. She will be back every time, each time throwing everything she has on you, until you are defeated.
** The Mob became TheDeterminator during the final 3 days of the run. They endured a horribly underleveled party, a countdown to ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]]'', and frequent attacks by bot networks. Yet they kept coming up with plans to beat the Elite 4.
* EarlyGameHell: Yet again. Not made any better by the sudden jump in viewers.
** The stream spent hours with only a Torchic and no other Pokemon. This was even worse when they ran away from the battle with the Pokemon that everybody really wanted: a Ralts.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: The A Team. It's based on the name of their trainer, but primarily it's a pun on the [[Series/TheATeam television series of the same name.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Democracy finally came back to help with a puzzle that would have been borderline impossible without it.
* EleventhHourRanger: [=A♀NIIIc33=] ("[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Annie]]") the Hariyama. During the fights with the Elite Four, it was determined that [[TheLoad XX the Wingull]] would be borderline useless, so during a bout of democracy, XX was deposited into the PC and the mob set back off towards Victory Road (after losing to Phoebe and Glacia several more times and eventually managing to buy two ultra balls) to catch a replacement mon, with many voices hoping for a Lairon and others suggesting Sableye or Golbat. The replacement they got was Annie.
* EndOfTheWorldSpecial: A theory about the ending to segue into Fire Red is that A, the avatar of Anarchy in a world post-Helix, remade the world to run on InsaneTrollLogic. (Or that [[TheBadGuyWins Bill]] did.)
* EpicFail: Got its [[EpicFail/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald own page]] about 30 minutes into the run. HereWeGoAgain.
** There was a thread on Reddit which tried to predict what will happen to the Master Ball. The opinion was split between "it will be used to catch a Zubat/doge/Oddish" and "it will be wasted in the trainer battle". It ended up being wasted on a trainer's Zubat a mere nine minutes later.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Since it was only the third run, there wasn't enough precedent to realize it at the time, but A's failure to obtain her first badge by the end of Day 1 would set the tone for the entire run. Wattson, the third Gym Leader, was such a huge roadblock that the number of attempts needed to defeat him has been dubbed "1 Wattson" and used as a measure of difficulty; no solitary trainer has yet to achieve a rating of 1 Wattson, though four Elite Four members have done so...three of them coming from ''this run'', which required 103 attempts to defeat the Elite Four once and for all.
* {{Expy}}: Some players suspect that Lass Haley was [[ShipTease this playthrough's equivalent]] of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal Youngster Joey.]]
* FissionMailed: Twitch didn't make the 3 days limit to ''Fire Red'', and the stream was paused. Then the streamer announced that he would extend the limit by a few more days.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: The money earned by battling was usually spent on Pokeballs. Said Pokeballs will be most likely spent on attempts to steal a Pokemon in a trainer battle - wasting both money and precious turns.
** The Safari Zone, all money was lost by entering and exiting the area multiple times while flooding the [=PC=] with Oddishes and other Pokemon, which has been interpreted as A spending all her money on weed, or just really, really loving Oddishes for some reason.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: For the first eight hours anyway. Zexy has a lonely nature, and the mob spent nearly eight hours with the game until they finally caught a second Pokémon. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation ...And then a third. And a fourth. All three new friends for Zexy were caught in the span of five minutes.]]
** When A gets more Pokemon, we get to find out ''why'' Zexy is lonely nature. They get into a double battle where we find out he has a habit of [[HangingSeparately attacking his own side in the middle of combat]]. Hard to make a good impression that way.
** "GOOD BIKE" turned out to be Dewford's default trendy phrase. As soon as the mob learned that, they made it into a meme of their own.
** When the run turned blind, the mob blamed Wattson.
*** [[http://mazzy-elf.deviantart.com/art/TPP-Emerald-Guide-doges-442767052?ga_submit_new=10%253A1395778461&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1 Another interpretation]] of the sudden blackout.
* GodwinsLaw: As usual, references to [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler you-know-who]] are made quite often. Not for the sake of comparing him to anything or anyone, [[ItAmusedMe but just because people can.]] For the same exact reason, sometimes certain members of the mob will spam text art of a swastika. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/217i3o/lore_the_another_a_inspired_by_a_neglected_part/ Somebody even wrote lore about him]].
** Bill is confirmed for [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/225cbh/i_was_playing_firered_when/cgjhqnd literally]] [[http://i.imgur.com/eb5JDOF.jpg Hitler]].
* GonnaNeedMoreX: A has caught multitudes of the same Pokémon, such as seven Poochyena, five Natu, and twenty-nine different Oddish.
* GreenThumb: Most of the mob also decided they wanted a Treecko before the stream began, to stick with the pattern of getting starter reptiles who are the same color as the cartridge of the game they're playing.
** Subverted, as mashing of the A button got us Zexy the [[PlayingWithFire Torchic]].
** A's sudden interest with Oddishes, having caught twenty-nine of them in the Safari Zone.
** A's love of Grass-type Pokémon (by virtue of having the part-Grass-type Pokémon Vileplume in her Pokémon party) netted her [=TM19=], Giga Drain, as a gift from a woman on Route 123.
* HeroKiller: Zigzagged with the new PC. It was treated as such at first, but then the mob discovered that it's a lot harder to release Pokémon in Generation 3 and dismissed it as nonthreatening. Little did they know, it was all a trap. [[TearJerker R.I.P. Zexy.]]
* HeroesGoneFishing: The world is [[ApocalypseHow being flooded?]] The legendary pokemon fight over dominance, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt threatening to take the Earth with them?]] A is ready and willing to save the world! But first, she must relax and [[SkewedPriorities fish for a few hours.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: A caught seven Poochyenas, plus a Mightyena. She usually had one in the party too, but not always. One's even spending time in the daycare right now. A is often considered to be an older version of the little girl in the [=DogZ=] game played during the intermission, and it is thought her interest in Poochyena stems from her losing two dogs to the hivemind's lack of coordination before the game started.
* HopeSpot: The Admin extended the timer to Fire Red by 4 more days.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Well into the fifth day, after seven or so hours unsuccessfully trying to navigate the Lavaridge Town gym, A took a relaxing break in the hot springs with two old women.
* HurricaneOfPuns: After the fifth Poochyena was caught, the fandom exploded with doge puns - and it's not like they were not made before.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit: There's been a number of times when A accidentally deposited most of her Pokemon, leaving her with only one.
* {{Irony}}:
** A's team has been dubbed [[Series/TheATeam "the A-Team"]] (what else?). The guy called Mr. T isn't part of it.
** The mob loves its anarchy. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/3cc27ba7e871023fda5367cb63e72e4e/tumblr_n2tfzmob6F1r2cnpko1_1280.png A goes ahead and ignores the mob's commands]], [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/080/4/e/psycho_m_a_y_by_tddog-d7b4ffa.png like a true anarchist]].
** Zexy Chicken, womanizer extraordinaire, had a Lonely Nature.
** After catching a septet of Poochyena, one of A's 28 Oddish is named AARF.
** Within ''ten minutes'' of acquiring the Master Ball, after it was nearly used on an Electrode, [[http://i.imgur.com/532KaFC.png A wastes the item on a Team Aqua Grunt's Zubat]]. Now consider the game's message (used to chide A) when the player attempts to use Poké Balls on Trainer-owned Pokémon, juxtaposed with the actions of Team Aqua:
-->--'''[[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/21zbgu/master_ball_fail/cghvetz TorchicBlaziken]]''': "Don't be a thief!" After their organization stole a submarine...
** A was originally seen as the embodiment of Anarchy, but by the end she came into the command of an elite police force theme.
* JustInTime: With three hours remaining on the countdown, the mob ''finally'' took down Wallace, defeating the Elite Four and ending the game.
* LegendFadesToMyth: Due to a Statue of (what seems to be) a Pidgeot, a Poké Ball, and a Tablet appearing to show random button presses in the Lilycove Museum, much of the mob theorized that ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald'' is set in [[TheFuture The Far Future]] when the events of ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red'' have become myth, with the Pidgeot being a statue of Bird Jesus and the Poké Ball being the Master Ball that AA-j the Zapdos was captured in.
** That could also explain the presence of ''another'' Youngster named Joey. His parents intentionally named him after the mythical [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal consort of AJ, legendary slayer of gods]]...
* MindHive: The Mob's theory this time around was that the voices are supplied by the seven RetGone characters from before the game started.
* NearVillainVictory: If you consider the bots and spammers to be villains, then the extension of the three-day time limit to seven days is the second-chance window for the Mob to turn things around.
* NoodleIncident: So, did A apologize to Abra? Or did Abra apologize to A? And most importantly, what was the reason for apology?
* OneLetterName: The protagonist is named A.
* OnceAnEpisode: The game is reset, getting rid of potential protagonists.
** One Pokémon (in this case Torchic) is not liked by the Mob, who clamor for its removal from the team.
** A much loved member of the team (also Torchic) is released.
* PerpetualPoverty: While in Petalburg constant white-outs meant that A's funds were quite low, and considering that Zexy was her only Pokémon and she threw all her Poké Balls at other Trainer's Pokémon, she could certainly use more funds. The mob tried to escape her poverty and have her heal before going to Petalburg Woods, but she went in anyway and whited out again.
** A was down to literally 1 Pokebuck before defeating Roxanne, due to the mob's strategy of "wade in, train Marill on two Geodude, get whited out by Nosepass". And then Roxanne's prize money lasted about half an hour before A spent it on 7 Poké Balls (which, to be fair, are far more useful than keeping the money and losing it in an inevitable white-out).
** She accrued a decent amount of cash after defeating Winona, having around 10,000 Pokémon Dollars. They then went to the Safari Zone and used it all, 500 Pokémon Dollars at a time, to capture 28 Oddish and a variety of other seemingly useless Pokémon.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Due to the possibility of using the R button, it makes [[http://i.imgur.com/Cf5OGG5.jpg SELECTBRA]] possible.
* PunctuationShaker: M4 Moe's given name.
* PuzzleBoss: The Elite Four were this for the mob. They are fairly resistant against the mob's [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome standard die-and-grind tactics]], requiring them to actually consider things like elemental weaknesses and the effectiveness of different techniques.
* RedshirtArmy: There are 28 Oddish stored in the PC. None of them have any individuality or canon names, except the one that A [[MauveShirt brought with herself]] and [[AscendedExtra evolved into Vileplume]].
* RecurringElement: While this run did a lot to distance itself from [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed the first experiment]], there are still some similarities, for example:
** Again, there is one Mon that ends up eating up most of the party's ExperiencePoints and causes some VERY divisive bickering among the Mob in the process - in this case Zexy the Torchic (not unlike [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Bird Jesus]] or [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal LazorGator]]) and, to some extent, M4 the Azumarill.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The 72-hour time limit for defeating the Elite Four.
* RecycledPremise: The players of ''Crystal Version'' attempted to create a military theme early on, but it didn't stick. Come mid-''Emerald'', however, military-themed works are suddenly quite popular, in no small part because the current team leader actually has the name of an assault rifle. Efforts were soon made to differentiate ''Emerald's'' theme by focusing more on a police motif, however.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Taken up to eleven. After releasing her Oddish by accident, A went to Safari Zone the very next day and caught '''''TWENTY-NINE''''' Oddishes and one Gloom.
** Also serves as a common complaint about [[SoulJar Shedinja]].
* RetGone: Seven different protagonists have been wiped out due to the multiple game crashes and resets. Among the lost are Milton, Slasha, !!, Camilla, Hazel, Reid, and T. [[http://i.imgur.com/Ea3iyXp.png They will be missed.]] What's happened to them is anything from being runaways of the mob, victims of homicide by the mob or by the current player character, or them living on as {{Composite Character}}s with the current female hero and male rival.
** On a meta-level, Treecko can be considered this, considering [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/search?q=treecko&restrict_sr=on how much the mob wanted one]]. There was even [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/210y56/the_new_lore_started_and_we_didnt_see_anything/ lore being developed]] before the run of ''Emerald'' STARTED.
** Psycho serial killer A can also be considered this, as a large portion of the Mob rejected this idea in light of later events. Whether she was completely retgonned or simply exists as a repressed part of A's mind is up for debate.
* SaveScumming: Of a sort. When Mr. T was selected as the player, the Mob began spamming L, R, and SELECT in an attempt to reset the game and choose the female player.
* RunningGag: A won't stop catching Poochyena until she fills the entire PC.
** Abra tried to use Teleport! But it failed!
** Now Oddish has Poochyena outnumbered by more than 4 to 1. At least one of them is named "AARF."
** A having the urge to go fishing or biking in the strangest of places.
* SequelEscalation: Let's see:
** [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed The first experiment]] was known for Red spending hours stuck within single buildings. Here, EVERY Pokémon Center harbors this danger.
** Red was a plagued hero, AJ was a dark yet troubled anti-hero. A-Chan is sometimes interpreted to be [[SerialKiller insane and kill-crazy]].
*** Not to mention Red's story was about Religion and reviving the gods, AJ's was about Humanism (or 'Monism) and dethroning the gods, now A's is (thus far at least) about nothing more than spreading anarchy.
** A has more Pokemon in the PC than Red and AJ ''combined''.
** Red managed to throw his Masterball at Zapdos. But then AJ wasted his on a run-of-the-mill Goldeen, As for A-chan? She threw hers at... [[EpicFail An Aqua Grunt's Zubat just MINUTES after finding it]].
* ShoutOut: A's first three Poochyena are occasionally called [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed]].
** Some suggest that RetGone character !!'s name is taken from the alert sound in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid''.
** The 3-day countdown ran out, leading into a "[[GameOver We'll be back shortly]]" message... only for [[FissionMailed the countdown to start back up again,]] [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask giving us another shot at defeating the Elite 4.]]
* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: Before the game's even started, some of the mob already wants to partake in making Pokeblocks, competing in Pokémon Contests, and other side content.
** Can also apply to all the side games being streamed before ''Emerald'' began. With attempts made to postpone ''Emerald'' in favor of finishing games like ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''Catz'', ''Dogz'', and ''VideoGame/{{Telefang}}''.
* StealthPrequel: Some have placed ''Videogame/{{Petz}}'' (specifically the Gameboy Advance version of ''Dogz'') in this category as Camila A. Slash is portrayed as a grown version of the little girl from that game and paints the stressful time she had with the two dogs in a very different situation. And after A decided to catched five Poochyena, this became a lot more likely.
** And then when the playthrough ended, the streamer went to run that version of Dogz yet again during the intermission. It's been all but confirmed now.
* TakeAThirdOption: The mob argued over whether to get Treecko or Mudkip for weeks. Instead, they received Torchic, who was immediately the object of hatred for a large portion of the mob. Hmm... doesn't that remind you of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed another Fire-type in the series]]? The comparison only strengthens when you consider [[PermanentlyMissableContent their ultimate fates]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[http://imgur.com/a/nC1bl#0 This]] comic has Brendan deliver a small one to A after she pushed one too many of his buttons.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Wattson's defeat with Zexinja. The very purpose he was brought into team was defeating [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Wattson]], but he kept losing due to accidentally being sent out against [[WeaksauceWeakness Voltorb and Magnemite]], thus failing to fulfill this purpose. After some level grinding, Virgin Marill ended up defeating every member of Wattson's team save for Manectric. Shedinja was [[NoSell completely immune]] to Wattson's Manectric, thus he beat him and fulfilled his destiny. Afterwards, Zexinja ended up accidently [[PutOnABus deposited into PC]], from where he was never withdrawn out of fear to [[PermanentlyMissableContent release him]].
* TimedMission: Subverted. The timer for [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonFireRed FireRed]] was rapidly ticking down, eventually leaving the Mob without enough time to defeat the Champion. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in rioting in the chat. With three seconds left, however, the stream was paused, and the streamer said he didn't intend for the timer to be a hard limit, adding three days to it. While the extra three days ''could'' still have been a hard limit, it seemed unlikely.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Shows up in one of their better runs against the Elite Four when Glacia froze Annie and defeated her after she swept Sydney flawlessly.
** During one run where [[MirrorMatch A's Tentacruel was sent up against Wallace's Tentacruel]], Wallace immediately withdrew his Pokemon and replaced it with his Whishcash. Whishcash is part Ground type, meaning that it is the only Pokemon that Tentacruel's Electric type Hidden Power [[NoSell cannot do anything against]]. There is no way that Wallace should have been able to forsee that, and yet he apparently did. A's Tentacruel, predictably, [[TooDumbToLive responded by using Hidden Power twice against the Whishcash before being swept away with a Surf]].
* UnfriendlyFire: Fittingly, due to [[ATeamFiring their terrible aim]], The A-team simply can't win the 2vs2 battles without beating each other half to death first. The most famous example of that happened when Virgin Marill defeated her entire team with Rollout, one by one.
* TheUnpronounceable: The Virgin Marill's name is M ---/'/'4. Trying to pronounce that will result in severe tongue injuries, so the Mob settled down on calling her M4 Moe or Virgin Marill.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A completely ignored Archie stealing a submarine in favor of going to the Trick House.
** Archie was defeated, but summoned Kyogre to flood the world. Steven told A to meet him at Sootopolis... but she went fishing instead.
* VillainDecay: Somewhat. The Gen I and Gen II PC struck swiftly and took lives of Pokemon in a bat of the eye. The Gen III PC takes a long time to navigate and has been mostly "safe" due to the difficulty of doing ''anything'' with it, but complacency frequently leads to tragedy, as Zexy's release proved.
* VillainProtagonist: Initial lore shaped A as this, but...
** ZigZagged: [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215g7y/this_lore_is_ruining_tpp_for_me/ A]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/2127z4/whats_up_with_everyone_wanting_to_make_the/ lot]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/214j66/making_the_main_character_a_psychopath_will_get/ of]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215n95/the_lore_crisis_what_does_it_reveals_and_what/ people]] disagree with the straight psycho approach to A. The more commonly accepted depiction of A (regardless of your preferred origin story) portrays her as complete anarchy, able to [[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/c/8/c8e87b420e43bbfcc234a87cae2e3459-d7bde9x.png disobey]] and [[http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/215579/a_loves_the_pc/ subvert]] the mobs expectations seemingly at whim. On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when all of her Pokemon were in the PC, not a single pokemon was released. In fact, because of the especially chaotic nature of depositing and withdrawing Pokemon this generation, "[[http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/082/4/3/lovely_sunday_by_eugeneration-d7bdtaq.jpg Lovely Sunday]]" is often interpreted as A wanting to spend time with all her Pokemon and [[http://i.imgur.com/vFgt2yR.png not being able to decide which ones to take]].
*** And then the Zig Zag got subverted. As others see Lovely Sunday as A intentionally doing the opposite of what the Mob wants just to further spread chaos and show who's really in charge this gen.
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