History YMMV / PokemonMysteryDungeon

** Any Pokemon that learns Ominous Wind. On top of the inflicting damage to everyone in your team, the move also has a chance of raising all of the enemy's stats, including speed, which means they have the chance of spamming the move on you until you're good as dead. The worst offender of this is Drifblim, whose speed can be increased even further if it has the ability Unburden.

* {{Fanon}}: The protagonists' speculated ages in human years:
** ''Rescue Team': Late teens. (15-20)

* EightPointEight: The fans were not happy about some review scores, particularly the 3/10 Game Informer gave ''Blue Rescue Team''.

* MostWonderfulSound: The jingle that plays when you recruit a new team member. Especially if it's a legendary Pokemon.

** Human civilization suffered an extinctionary catastrophe thousands of years ago and the story of ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'' takes place in an "After Humanity" era where Pokemon have become capable of intelligent speech.

** Since Mewtwo was created by humans, he might be the only Pokemon in the series who has some knowledge and history about them. But it remains an unexplored plot hole since no one bothers to ask and he never says anything about it.

* PopularWithFurries: While the ''Pokemon'' already has a good following in the furry fandom, this series receives heavy attention from it due to the Pokemon being the viewpoint characters rather than the humans.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff: Somewhat played with: In homeland Japan, the ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' games are received well both by the local critics and fans for being unique, but the fanbases are quite sizable (if not to the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon anime]] heights). But in the West, when the games received bad-to-moderate reviews from critics, the PMD fanbase there (who appreciated the games) are ''much'' larger than they're in Japan.

* CriticalDissonance: Of the critic-hated, player-loved kind. The story is generally agreed to be better than the supporting gameplay.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''VideoGame/ShirenTheWanderer'' with bits of ''Franchise/MetalGear'' elements.

** Regarding this trope in general, some fans feel that ''Mystery Dungeon'' tried too hard to be DarkerAndEdgier without adding aspects of [[{{Gorn}} explicit violence]], [[ObligatorySwearing swear words]] and other adult things in order to appeal to young players.

* EightPointEight: The fans were not happy about some review scores, particularly the 3/10 Game Informer gave Blue Rescue Team.

* DemonicSpiders: Pokémon with multi-hit moves in general. Octillery is probably the best individual example of the trope--it packs Bullet Seed, which hits multiple times ''from a distance'', among other things.

* EpilepticTrees: The [[http://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_advance/pmd/sheet/5355/ Decrepit Lab]] is solid evidence that there used to be humans in the world where ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'' takes place. The unanswered question is... what happened to them?

* GoddamnedBats: Pretty much anything that can inflict Poison status, attack from a distance (most Water-type attacks have ranged capability), or from within walls (the Ghost types).

* PopularWithFurries: While the Pokemon already has a good following in the furry fandom, this series receives heavy attention from it due to the Pokemon being the viewpoint characters rather than the humans.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The very existence of [[NightmareFuel/PokemonMysteryDungeon this page]].

** Regarding this trope in general, some fans feel that ''Mystery Dungeon'' tried too hard to be DarkerAndEdgier without adding aspects of [[[[Gorn}} explicit violence]], [[ObligatorySwearing swear words]] and other adult things in order to appeal to young players.

%%* MemeticMutation: YOOM-TAH!

** ''Magnagate'' has also been hit with this since the Japanese demo was first released. For details, see its entry below.

* StopHelpingMe: AI teammates often embrace this trope with both hands, especially with low IQ stats. Reviving an entire room of petrified enemies with an ill-timed Growl attack, for example.

* MagnumOpus: The Explorers games for their story, which is considered one of the best in Nintendo history.