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-->''"[[WorldOfWeirdness That was weird...]] Anyway..."''
-->-- Bklcbkl
Pokémon Yellow Comics is a webcomic based on the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise. In particular, it started out as an adaptation of [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Yellow Version]] (hence the title). In it, an [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude oddly-named]] kid from Pallet Town named Bklcbkl sets off on a journey in a world that starts strange and becomes ever-stranger.
The comic showcases an ever-evolving artstyle, starting from being a SpriteComic (so quite literally the same style as the game) to a Drawn, often very stylized, style. And despite becoming heavily serialized, still [[InsistentTerminology calls its pages "Comic #:X"]] with individual titles.
It started in 2006 on Drunkduck (now [[Website/TheDuck The Duck]] and has since moved to [[Website/ComicFury ComicFury]] (though updates are still mirrored to DD). It can be found [[http://pyc.webcomic.ws/ here]].
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!!Tropes used in PYC:
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: The world in PYC mimics Gen 1 Pokémon to the degree that glitches canonically exist. Subverted in that they just seem to be an aspect of the world without any of the "trapped" or "wrongness" usually associated with the trope.
* ArtEvolution: Even if just from the sheer gaps in time, the art and how its made makes noticeable changes.
* AdaptationalVillainy: This world's version of Professor Oak seems to be heading into this. While early Comics pay him comedically, later ones do not.
* TheBadGuyWins: Played with in Comic #49. Though Team Rocket runs away once realizing that [=CDwxx=]'s pokémon aren't going down as easily as they suspected, they still get away with stealing the fossils.
* BigNo: Bug Catcher Tony in Comic #29 after Bklcbkl wins.
* CerebusSyndrome: The Comic undergoes a minor version of this, with serious elements coming in as Module 1 progresses. Particularly obvious with the Story Service arc.
* ColorWash: Carried over from the source game, different areas in Kanto literally have different palettes in-universe, as Bklcbkl points out often.
* CurbStompBattle: Bklcbkl and [=CDwxx=] manage to get one of these to each other.
**On their first battle at the lab: Nozo vs Eevee, [=CDwxx=]'s Eevee wins on the first move with an [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Hyper Beam]].
**At Nugget Bridge, Bklcbkl and [=CDwxx=] run into each other when [=CDwxx=]'s party is all worn out from training. Bklcbkl, angry at being tricked into Diglett's Cave earlier on by [=CDwxx=], forces a battle between them, which Bklcbkl's team easily wins.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Story Service arc was all about various degrees of this.
**Miru was disrespected and disregarded among the digletts of Diglett's Cave.
**Nozo lost his sister, the only family he ever had, and was beaten up in the process of trying to stop the trainer who did it.
**Xppo was cooped up in the basement of Professor Oak's laboratory for nearly 20 years and subjected to odd experiments, and then went through hunger and a multitude of trainers before finally finding up with Bklcbkl. Xppo seems to take it in stride, to the degree that Nozo lampshades it by asking "Why are you so excited to share stuff like THIS?".
* DisproportionateRetribution: Nozo is like this a lot.
** So far the most notable example is when he decides to "wake up" a truck to attack Bklcbkl. For getting accidentally punted into the water even after Bklcbkl apologized for it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first 15 Comics are [[SpriteComic Sprite Comics]].
**Professor Oak is played far more comedically early on than he does later.
* FlatWhat: Bklcbkl in Comic #136.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four members of Bklcbkl's Party seem to have this dynamic.
**Nozo is Choleric, displaying lots of rebelliousness and vindictiveness.
**Miru is Phlegmatic, tending to be thoughtful & of the group by far the most willing to be supportive of the others.
**Xppo is Sanguine, with lots of cheeriness & extroversion.
**Surf is Melancholic, with a calculating yet moody way of achieving goals.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Bug Catcher Tony's super-dramatic reaction to losing a battle in Comic #29
* GottaCatchThemAll: Averted for the characters, as no one expresses an interest in catching/having a large amount of pokémon. The classic phrase does show up on a coin in Comic #23, in faux-Latin form as "Gotus Ketchum Allum".
* GrossUpCloseUp: The author treats us to an ever-wonderful shot of Cerulean City's Nurse Joy like this after one of Xppo's stray Solarbeams hits her in the eyes.
* HarmlessFreezing: Befalls Xppo during Bklcbkl's rematch with Misty.
* HiddenDepths: [=CDwxx=] starts showing signs of being more than just an arrogant and selfish rival, even during a flashback.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each page is called a "Comic". Also, "Module" seems to be the Chapter/Book equivilant.
* InterfaceSpoiler: The transcripts and cast page avoid pronouns for certain characters. With the author being a trans woman (mentioned in PYC's About page) & newer Comics hinting at trans discovery as an element later on, you can put two and two together what this gives away.
* KidHero: Ironically, this seems to fit [=CDwxx=] more than Bklcbkl, since the former's the one who so far whose been opposing Team Rocket from the jump.
* LemonyNarrator: The transcripts that accompany each Comic dive into this from time to time.
* TheMole: Surf appears to be this, what with how his capture and placement onto Bklcbkl's team was set up by Stalker Guy.
* MundaneUtility: Bklcbkl's shown to sometimes have wires hooked up to Nozo to power a flashlight.
* MythologyGag: So, so many. Despite supposedly being based on Pokémon Yellow (Generation 1 with some anime elements), there are many references to media across the Pokémon franchise.
**The trainer who catches Nozo's sister during Nozo's flashback is wearing the clothes of one of the playable trainers in [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokémon Black and White]].
* OldShame: According to the Author's Notes on Comics #6 & #8, old elements such as the suicidal PokéMart worker and "The Stalker Guy" are this.
* ParentalIssues: [=CDwxx=] and Professor Oak really, really do not get along.
* PokemonSpeak: At least early on. Later Comics simply fully-translate anything a pokémon says, with the carrot-trim of their speech bubbles being the indicator they are still actually doing this kind of speech.
* PronounTrouble: In the transcripts, the Author seems to avoid pronouns for certain characters (even if other characters do use pronouns for the characters in question in-universe). Knowing that the author is transgender, (and came out sometime during the hiatus, before the transcripts were written) this is very likely an indicator of which characters are set to come out and/or discover their gender identities later on.
* TheReveal: Comic #50 shows that Professor Oak is involved with Team Rocket in some form. Even with heavy shadows, the hair+the Comic's palette are key giveaways. Both the new and old Author's Comment on that page complete driving it home.
* TheRival: [=CDwxx=], as you'd expect.
* ScheduleSlip: Many times. The most egregious being the period between 2011 and 2019, between which only 3 Comics were released (one in 2012 that by the author's admission, had been sketched in 2011, and 2 updates in 2016 for the 10th anniversary).
* TemptingFate: PYC loves this trope, especially during the Vermilion City arc.
**Bklcbkl's attempts to go to the convention on the S.S. Anne get interrupted twice by big commotions.
**Lt. Surge, in his sole appearance, talks about how safe he is right before the runaway truck brusts through the wall to hit him.
* ThereWasADoor: Daisy Oak does this in Comic #12. To her own house. Right next to her front door.
* UnexplainedRecovery: According to the Author's Comment on Comics #88 & 89, she felt Xppo showing up in #88's final panel constituted this and thus, ultimately averted because #89 contains an explanation due to this.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Bklcbkl, true to game mechanics, wakes up back in Viridian City's Pokémon Center after losing to Brock in Pewter City.
* WhamEpisode: The Story Service arc, when it comes to the status quo. It marks the first significant diversion from the original game's storyline, and is when the focus really shifts to character-driven stuff, especially the pokémon on Bklcbkl's team.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [=CDwxx=] lets Xppo and the lab squirtle escape before the story began, as shown in Xppo's flashback. Possibly subverted in that there's no way Professor Oak didn't notice those two missing afterwards, but the scene as-presented still fits the bill with[=CDwxx=] struggling internally with the decision.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bklcbkl. This reaction even happens in the very first Comic.
**[=CDwxx=] also appears to be an example, going by the first Comic, though Professor Oak uses a more "normal" name, "Calvin", suggesting that [=CDwxx=] is a nickname.
* YouAreNumberSix: Miru was Diglett #11811 back in Diglett's Cave. Transcripts reveal that other digletts from there also have similarly-high number designations.
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-->-- Bklcbkl
Pokémon Yellow Comics is a webcomic based on the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise. In particular, it started out as an adaptation of [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Yellow Version]] (hence the title). In it, an [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude oddly-named]] kid from Pallet Town named Bklcbkl sets off on a journey in a world that starts strange and becomes ever-stranger.
The comic showcases an ever-evolving artstyle, starting from being a SpriteComic (so quite literally the same style as the game) to a Drawn, often very stylized, style. And despite becoming heavily serialized, still [[InsistentTerminology calls its pages "Comic #:X"]] with individual titles.
It started in 2006 on Drunkduck (now [[Website/TheDuck The Duck]] and has since moved to [[Website/ComicFury ComicFury]] (though updates are still mirrored to DD). It can be found [[http://pyc.webcomic.ws/ here]].
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!!Tropes used in PYC:
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: The world in PYC mimics Gen 1 Pokémon to the degree that glitches canonically exist. Subverted in that they just seem to be an aspect of the world without any of the "trapped" or "wrongness" usually associated with the trope.
* ArtEvolution: Even if just from the sheer gaps in time, the art and how its made makes noticeable changes.
* AdaptationalVillainy: This world's version of Professor Oak seems to be heading into this. While early Comics pay him comedically, later ones do not.
* TheBadGuyWins: Played with in Comic #49. Though Team Rocket runs away once realizing that [=CDwxx=]'s pokémon aren't going down as easily as they suspected, they still get away with stealing the fossils.
* BigNo: Bug Catcher Tony in Comic #29 after Bklcbkl wins.
* CerebusSyndrome: The Comic undergoes a minor version of this, with serious elements coming in as Module 1 progresses. Particularly obvious with the Story Service arc.
* ColorWash: Carried over from the source game, different areas in Kanto literally have different palettes in-universe, as Bklcbkl points out often.
* CurbStompBattle: Bklcbkl and [=CDwxx=] manage to get one of these to each other.
**On their first battle at the lab: Nozo vs Eevee, [=CDwxx=]'s Eevee wins on the first move with an [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Hyper Beam]].
**At Nugget Bridge, Bklcbkl and [=CDwxx=] run into each other when [=CDwxx=]'s party is all worn out from training. Bklcbkl, angry at being tricked into Diglett's Cave earlier on by [=CDwxx=], forces a battle between them, which Bklcbkl's team easily wins.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Story Service arc was all about various degrees of this.
**Miru was disrespected and disregarded among the digletts of Diglett's Cave.
**Nozo lost his sister, the only family he ever had, and was beaten up in the process of trying to stop the trainer who did it.
**Xppo was cooped up in the basement of Professor Oak's laboratory for nearly 20 years and subjected to odd experiments, and then went through hunger and a multitude of trainers before finally finding up with Bklcbkl. Xppo seems to take it in stride, to the degree that Nozo lampshades it by asking "Why are you so excited to share stuff like THIS?".
* DisproportionateRetribution: Nozo is like this a lot.
** So far the most notable example is when he decides to "wake up" a truck to attack Bklcbkl. For getting accidentally punted into the water even after Bklcbkl apologized for it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first 15 Comics are [[SpriteComic Sprite Comics]].
**Professor Oak is played far more comedically early on than he does later.
* FlatWhat: Bklcbkl in Comic #136.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four members of Bklcbkl's Party seem to have this dynamic.
**Nozo is Choleric, displaying lots of rebelliousness and vindictiveness.
**Miru is Phlegmatic, tending to be thoughtful & of the group by far the most willing to be supportive of the others.
**Xppo is Sanguine, with lots of cheeriness & extroversion.
**Surf is Melancholic, with a calculating yet moody way of achieving goals.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Bug Catcher Tony's super-dramatic reaction to losing a battle in Comic #29
* GottaCatchThemAll: Averted for the characters, as no one expresses an interest in catching/having a large amount of pokémon. The classic phrase does show up on a coin in Comic #23, in faux-Latin form as "Gotus Ketchum Allum".
* GrossUpCloseUp: The author treats us to an ever-wonderful shot of Cerulean City's Nurse Joy like this after one of Xppo's stray Solarbeams hits her in the eyes.
* HarmlessFreezing: Befalls Xppo during Bklcbkl's rematch with Misty.
* HiddenDepths: [=CDwxx=] starts showing signs of being more than just an arrogant and selfish rival, even during a flashback.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each page is called a "Comic". Also, "Module" seems to be the Chapter/Book equivilant.
* InterfaceSpoiler: The transcripts and cast page avoid pronouns for certain characters. With the author being a trans woman (mentioned in PYC's About page) & newer Comics hinting at trans discovery as an element later on, you can put two and two together what this gives away.
* KidHero: Ironically, this seems to fit [=CDwxx=] more than Bklcbkl, since the former's the one who so far whose been opposing Team Rocket from the jump.
* LemonyNarrator: The transcripts that accompany each Comic dive into this from time to time.
* TheMole: Surf appears to be this, what with how his capture and placement onto Bklcbkl's team was set up by Stalker Guy.
* MundaneUtility: Bklcbkl's shown to sometimes have wires hooked up to Nozo to power a flashlight.
* MythologyGag: So, so many. Despite supposedly being based on Pokémon Yellow (Generation 1 with some anime elements), there are many references to media across the Pokémon franchise.
**The trainer who catches Nozo's sister during Nozo's flashback is wearing the clothes of one of the playable trainers in [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokémon Black and White]].
* OldShame: According to the Author's Notes on Comics #6 & #8, old elements such as the suicidal PokéMart worker and "The Stalker Guy" are this.
* ParentalIssues: [=CDwxx=] and Professor Oak really, really do not get along.
* PokemonSpeak: At least early on. Later Comics simply fully-translate anything a pokémon says, with the carrot-trim of their speech bubbles being the indicator they are still actually doing this kind of speech.
* PronounTrouble: In the transcripts, the Author seems to avoid pronouns for certain characters (even if other characters do use pronouns for the characters in question in-universe). Knowing that the author is transgender, (and came out sometime during the hiatus, before the transcripts were written) this is very likely an indicator of which characters are set to come out and/or discover their gender identities later on.
* TheReveal: Comic #50 shows that Professor Oak is involved with Team Rocket in some form. Even with heavy shadows, the hair+the Comic's palette are key giveaways. Both the new and old Author's Comment on that page complete driving it home.
* TheRival: [=CDwxx=], as you'd expect.
* ScheduleSlip: Many times. The most egregious being the period between 2011 and 2019, between which only 3 Comics were released (one in 2012 that by the author's admission, had been sketched in 2011, and 2 updates in 2016 for the 10th anniversary).
* TemptingFate: PYC loves this trope, especially during the Vermilion City arc.
**Bklcbkl's attempts to go to the convention on the S.S. Anne get interrupted twice by big commotions.
**Lt. Surge, in his sole appearance, talks about how safe he is right before the runaway truck brusts through the wall to hit him.
* ThereWasADoor: Daisy Oak does this in Comic #12. To her own house. Right next to her front door.
* UnexplainedRecovery: According to the Author's Comment on Comics #88 & 89, she felt Xppo showing up in #88's final panel constituted this and thus, ultimately averted because #89 contains an explanation due to this.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Bklcbkl, true to game mechanics, wakes up back in Viridian City's Pokémon Center after losing to Brock in Pewter City.
* WhamEpisode: The Story Service arc, when it comes to the status quo. It marks the first significant diversion from the original game's storyline, and is when the focus really shifts to character-driven stuff, especially the pokémon on Bklcbkl's team.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [=CDwxx=] lets Xppo and the lab squirtle escape before the story began, as shown in Xppo's flashback. Possibly subverted in that there's no way Professor Oak didn't notice those two missing afterwards, but the scene as-presented still fits the bill with[=CDwxx=] struggling internally with the decision.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bklcbkl. This reaction even happens in the very first Comic.
**[=CDwxx=] also appears to be an example, going by the first Comic, though Professor Oak uses a more "normal" name, "Calvin", suggesting that [=CDwxx=] is a nickname.
* YouAreNumberSix: Miru was Diglett #11811 back in Diglett's Cave. Transcripts reveal that other digletts from there also have similarly-high number designations.
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