Funny / Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

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Main Game Intro

• The opening scene is mostly Visual Effects of Awesome, but there's one particular Good Bad Bug if you know where to look: at the very end of the cutscene, as the narrator says that the faculty "can't wait to welcome you with open arms", there's a single frame during the fade-out (hard to spot unless you're looking for it) where the entire group is T-posing. "Welcome you with open arms" indeed!
• After you bring the starters to Nemona's house, the starters do their own thing. Fuecoco, in particular, is about to eat a fallen orange... only for it to sneeze and accidentally burn the orange to charred coal. It takes a bite out of it later on anyway. Later on, when it's time to choose your starter, Fuecoco is shown to be holding the inedible orange. Quaxly politely declines it when offered a bite, causing Fuecoco to drop the orange without a grudge. Sprigatito watches the orange roll away as it happens.
• After the customary starter rival battle, Nemona asks to battle again and has to be talked down by Clavell.
• Falling from the cliff upon seeing the legendary Pokémon getting bullied by a bunch of Houndour isn't funny. What's funny is the fact that the player's Rotom phone is forced to act as a parachute.
  • This is also a game feature later on and you can still use your Rotom Phone as a makeshift parachute to prevent a catastrophic crash-landing right after this scene, and it appears that this is a standard feature in every Rotom Phone.
  • Shortly prior to this, the scene where Miraidon crash-lands looks suspiciously like its battery was dying. The idea that a legendary Pokémon of the future runs out of power and then crashes on a beach because it can't find a proper airfield (or a sufficiently straight automotive highway) seems a bit silly in hindsight.
• Koraidon/Miraidon's obsession with sandwiches is as hilarious as it is adorable. It first starts with the sniffing of the sandwich that the player's mother made. You think about it.
  • The legendary you have in either game is both adorable and hilarious in many scenes. A good example is when Penny shows up throughout your trek to give you some rewards during Operation Starfall; she shows up for your reward, then Koraidon/Miraidon immediately appears from their ball and proceed to give her the licking of a lifetime. She's left all slobbered while the legendary naps calmly in the corner afterwards.
• When the player meets Arven for the first time, Arven freaks out upon seeing the legendary Pokémon out of its Poké Ball. He then challenges the player for custody of said legendary, using only a Skwovet he just caught. By now, the player's starter should have quite the level advantage, to say nothing about any other Pokémon that have been caught up to this point...
• Just before entering Mesagoza, Nemona challenges the player to another battle where she shows off Terastallization by using it on her Pawmi. Unfortunately, said Pawmi's only move is Thunder Shock, with no method of attacking Ground types. If you happen to face this Pawmi with, say, a Paldean Wooper you can find right beforehand, your first impression of Terastallizing will be a lengthy, epic animation of Pawmi powering up, followed by its attack failing to even execute.
• Halfway through your first encounter with Team Star after beating the first of two grunts, Nemona shows up and begins to scold the player for picking a fight (enthusiastically noting that if they want to battle someone, then she can give them all the battles they could ever need) until she learns it was the grunts who issued the challenge.
  Nemona: You don't have to go find randos to battle! You'll have all the battles you'll ever need... with me!
  • So, what does Nemona do about the situation? She gives you the tutorial on using the Tera Orb, with the remaining Team Star grunt serving as the training dummy. The guy in question protests this decision until Nemona offers to battle him in your place, at which point he decides to take his chances with you.
• Arven isn't shy at all on his feelings if you agree right away to him asking for your help.
  Arven: What kind of little maniac says yes to something without even knowing what they're agreeing to?!

Academy interactions

• In the fourth Home Ec class, Mr. Saguaro themes his lecture around a question about sandwich-making that one of the students, who wishes to remain anonymous, asked him in private. He then asks you if you know the answer to Ar- er, the anonymous male student's question. Rather than answering, you can instead ask him "Ar... ven?", causing Arven to visibly react from the front of the class. After Saguaro explains the answer himself, he ends up accidentally referring to Arven by name anyway (to which Arven reacts again), only realizing his slip-up after it's too late.
  Saguaro: Ahem... The identity of the male student is a matter of privacy, so I would ask that you do not pry too deeply.
  • An extra funny detail about that slip-up? You can briefly see Saguaro pull an Oh, Crap! facial expression before quickly returning to normal as if nothing happened.
• During every single Battle Prep class, Ms. Dendra gets so caught-up in explaining the current topic that she runs out of time before she can begin the hands-on portion of the class. She points this out every single time, but never makes any attempts to fix it for the next class.
• Hassel, the Academy's Art teacher, and Dragon-type specialist in Paldea's Elite Four, has a habit of breaking down into exaggerated sobbing fits whenever he feels proud of someone, whether it be Brassius reminiscing about his early days as an artist, or the player defeating the Elite Four and becoming a Champion.
  • The first time you attend one of Hassel's art classes, he admits that he knows the average student will completely forget what he has taught after graduation.
  • In one of his later classes, he brings in a Gible to demonstrate Terastallization. The funny part is that he refers to it as an assistant lecturer and calls it Professor Gible. The sheer absurdity of such a small Pokémon being a teacher at a school is nothing short of hilariously outlandish.
  • At the beginning of the fifth art class, Hassel reveals that Tyme actually scolded him (off-screen) for having cried at Brassius talking about his backstory. Either his sobbing was so loud that Tyme was able to hear him, or some of the students gossiped about it.
• Ms. Tyme is normally a very sweet and kind teacher, but she can be utterly terrifying when she's mad. Not even Clavell, the director of the academy, is spared from her wrath, as shown near the end of Starfall Street where she chews him out for instigating a Pokémon battle with a student (the player) outside of authorized school grounds, and effectively orders her boss to write out an apology.
  • When Tyme says she's going to inform the League about this, Clavell basically runs after her and yells Anything but That!.
• Mr. Saguaro, in spite of his impressive physique and Manly Facial Hair, cannot handle spicy foods. Yeah, you heard that right. The "manliest man" in the entire faculty cannot handle spicy stuff. Rather, he has an enormous Sweet Tooth. Most of your interactions with him outside of class involve helping him hide this shameful secret from the rest of the student body so as to not tarnish the manly image they all have of him. Given that he's in charge of the class that deals with cooking, it's possible that he has overly sensitive taste buds.
  • The idea of anyone possibly being surprised by Saguaro's Sweet Tooth is hilarious on its own, considering he walks around the academy in a pink shirt and cutesy apron.
• Clavell asks you about the younger generation so he can understand them better, with his first question being what the slang term "cheugy" means. It refers to the opposite of trendy, which gets funnier considering his "Clive" disguise. Even better, this caused a huge amount of people in real-life to look up what this meant considering how out-of-the-blue this was.
  • Even better - in the German version, Clavell instead asks you what "Cringe" means. And in French, he asks the definition of "Cheh", a word of Arabic origin widely used online for mocking or taunting someone after a supposedly well-deserved failure.
• A later question of his has him ask what hairstyle is trendy with boys nowadays, with pompadour (which he wore as "Clive") being an option. Select that and he'll react happily that he guessed right but note how he hasn't seen it much on campus. Select anything else and he'll lament that the pompadour has run its course.
  • Even funnier - There is a pompadour style in the game you can pick from the get-go that is popular…but it's smaller and more fashionable than... whatever Clavell was wearing.
• The friendship story the Player Character develops with Ms. Dendra involves helping her to make a delicious sandwich. Just the fact that Dendra repeatedly fails at making something as simple as sandwiches. There's Lethal Chef, and then there's Dendra.
  • All of this begins with the Player Character meeting Dendra at the schoolyard for some training, which involves running three laps with her. Afterwards, she gives you a sandwich she made, but the resulting text makes it clear her culinary skills are... not as good as her battle skills.
    Ms. Dendra's sandwich was dry and had an odd smell. The taste left much to be desired...
  • The follow-up scenario has the Player Character find her in the Home Economics classroom and she's forced to admit that she's trying to learn how to cook, before she gives one to the Player Character for taste-testing. Unfortunately, the bread is soggy, and the taste itself leaves something to be desired. Worse still, Mr. Saguaro, the Home Economics teacher, claims that he didn't tell her the tip on sandwich-making until after the fact partly because he had thought she was trying to destroy the Home Economics classroom rather than cook (that, and because she had already placed her homemade sandwich in the oven by the time he saw her at it).
  • Finally, Dendra is found talking to Nurse Miriam at the Nurse's Office and pleading for another chance at her homemade sandwich. While Dendra is genuine in her attempt to repay Miriam's kindness towards her, the latter is wary of Dendra's cooking due to her prior experience, and the Player Character has to vouch for Dendra before Miriam finally caves and agrees to give Dendra one more chance. Thankfully, it turns out well this time, though the dialogue makes it clear Miriam has good reason to be hesitant at first.
    Miriam: No way. No way! NO WAY!
    Dendra: C'mon, Miriam! Just try it! [...] Oh! Great timing, new kid! Nurse Miriam here won't try the sandwich I made!
    Miriam: Well, DUH! I don't want to get a stomachache!
    Dendra: You won't! Probably!
    Miriam: Uh, I still remember that "sandwich" you made me with meat filling and meat for bread. That one really messed me up bad.
    Dendra: I hadn't trained in the art of sandwich making yet back then! I was young and thoughtless and —
    Miriam: "Young and thoughtless"? It was LAST MONTH!
• Miss Dendra's first class has her asking what type of moves there are. One of the options is "moves you love and moves you hate". Dendra's response is just a little over the top:
  "That's not only wrong—it's kinda sad! Are you OK, new kid?! Or are you just at that age where you're really into bittersweet stuff?"
• When Nurse Miriam announces she passed her Health Teacher Certification exam, there is suddenly audible applause interrupting the usual background music. Nothing quite like this happens at any other point in the game.
• One of Tyme's Math lessons involves her asking how many Poké Balls you can buy with 2,000 Pokédollars, which cost 200 each. Going by basic math suggests you'd receive 10, but since you get a free Premier Ball for every 10 you buy, the real answer is 11. Many players actually got tricked by this question. She even admits it was a bit of a trick question if you answer 10.
  • Bonus points: That math question is on the midterm test, and the answer is the same.
• In Jacq's final side story, when he gives you the Shiny Charm, he comments that it's something he picked up secondhand and apologizes that he doesn't have anything better to give you. Despite making it sound like some kind of random useless trinket, it still gives you an increased shiny rate as intended! Either Jacq is bad at figuring out items like this, or the Shiny Charm is just so great that it still works even after being a hand-me-down.

Victory Road

• The Gym Tests can really push you on how localized they are to each gym leader.
  • Katy's test is rolling a giant olive around an obstacle course with gym trainers ready to fight you if you want a shortcut. An empty version of the olive game is also available outside of the Gym Test, so you can play this hilarious game with friends.
    • Also, nowhere in the rules of the test does it say you're not allowed to summon Koraidon/Miraidon to assist in rolling the olive around. The Paradox Pokémon move with enough force to send the olive careening over the fences allowing you to complete the test in less than a minute.
  • Brassius's gym test is playing hide and seek with 10 Sunflora. This activity takes place in a town full of Sunflora sculptures. Deal with it.
  • Iono's test involves making her stream worth watching. Between each round, you fight her fans.
    • Even better: Clavell winds up playing the designated search target for a "Where's Wally?" challenge three times! The fact that Iono keeps referring to him as "Mr. Walksabout" just adds to the madness.
    • To cap it off, Iono reveals in The Indigo Disk that she actually didn't realize at the time that Mr. Walksabout is the director of the academy, though luckily for her, Clavell doesn't mind the hijinks.
  • When preparing to go inside the building to register for Kofu's challenge, the man himself suddenly runs out in a panic because he's missing an auction, only for a supervisor to ask you to give him his forgotten wallet back, citing this as a makeshift challenge, and it's never revealed what the actual one is. When you manage to get to him, Kofu asks you to get him some very rare seaweed from an auction. This, after you had to chase Kofu across the freaking desert and then battle his apprentice just to deliver Kofu's wallet back to him.
    • Even funnier is that there's a Titan in the desert you have to run through to get to Kofu. So if you choose, you can interrupt your gym challenge for a Titan match. Take Your Time, it'll be fine! Oh, and the Titan in question? It’s Great Tusk/Iron Treads. So, you not only can you get sidetracked by a giant rampaging Pokémon, but a giant rampaging Pokémon from the dawn of time or far future! Imagine if you had to explain what took you so long and you told the whole story.
  • Larry's challenge is figuring out the "secret dish" of the biggest restaurant in town. You are given a single hint, namely that some garnish for this dish is preferred by regular customers at the place. Said regular customer, an unassuming businessman, likes putting a squeeze of lemon on his dish. Oh, and you have to get the other hints from other gym challengers. Those trainers have no idea what do make of the clues they've been given. One clue is something that's odd on a menu for an ice cream stand, another clue involves listening to a blue Squawkabilly, and yet another clue talks about "a dark spot surrounded by stairs" (the amphitheater). Put the clues together, and you'll get the passphrase required to turn the restaurant's main floor into a battle arena. Then the Gym Leader stands up... and it's the same businessman you asked for the answer to your own clue.
    • By the way, the odd option in the ice cream stand's menu? It's grilled rice balls, something certainly NOT ice cream! And yet some players, like TyranitarTube, will totally miss it somehow.
    • Similarly, the NPC who gives you the "dark spot surrounded by stairs" clue apparently Failed a Spot Check; they lament they can't figure the clue out when the amphitheater (a huge round set of stairs leading to a dark door at the bottom) is literally right next to them.
  • Ryme's challenge is warming up the crowd as the opening act for an upcoming concert. Three battles in a row. And they're all double battles, so please remember to put two strong Pokémon resistant to ghosts in your first two team slots. Otherwise, you'll be miserable!
  • Grusha's test involves riding a Pokémon down the snowboarding slopes, complete with flags denoting your designated pathway. It's somewhat funny to watch your legendary mount awkwardly sliding downhill.
  • Tulip's challenge is basically playing "Simon Says" with Ms. Dendra. This situation arose because Ms. Dendra lost a battle to Tulip on a bet. Note that Tulip is a Psychic-type specialist while Dendra is a Fighting-type specialist, meaning that it was incredibly stupid of Dendra to take that bet since she had basically zero chance of winning it. Even Tulip's sole non-Psychic-type, Florges, is a Fairy-type, which also has the type advantage against Fighting (though she Terastallizes it into a Psychic-type anyway).
• When you're about to challenge Grusha after clearing the gym test, the player walks to the battle court... to see a Cetoddle greeting you in the middle of it. The Player Character's flabbergasted look almost reads like "You're the gym leader?" until the actual Grusha shows up. The addition of the music abruptly stopping makes it twice as funny.
  • After beating Grusha, he'll tell the player character that they're being corny for wanting to take a picture with him... before letting them take a photo with him anyway. And the picture itself shows the player character eagerly grabbing the Poké Ball at the end of Grusha's scarf, suggesting they have a Cuteness Proximity for it.
• Nemona's Blatant Lies regarding her uncannily keeping track of your Gym progress.
  Nemona: It's so wild that we ended up randomly visiting the same Gym at the same time - again! What a weird coincidence... ... I swear I'm not just sneaking ahead so I can go "Oh wow, weird, might as well battle now that you're here!"
• Nemona treating postponing a match she offers the player character as basically a terrible offense, complete with her running off crying.
  Nemona: Forgive me! Forgive meee!
• After getting your fifth badge, the fourth battle with Nemona has a couple of amusing moments:
  • Right before the fight, Nemona states that she wants to make sure she picks a team appropriate to your progress on your journey. Due to the lack of level scaling, if you've been picking off Titan Pokémon and Team Star leaders, this line can come off as her hilariously misappraising you right before getting smacked into the dirt.
  • This time, Geeta wants to watch. Afterwards, Geeta compliments the player character for beating Nemona. This prompts Nemona to joke that Geeta better not steal your attention away from her, making her sound like a Clingy Jealous Girl.
• Pretty much everything involving Larry. In a setting full of outlandish characters with exaggerated personalities, this Gym Leader is... some random office worker who's working three jobs — in addition to his normal office job, he's also the Normal-type Gym Leader, and a member of the Elite Four. And through all of it, he speaks and acts as though he would really rather be anywhere else at all — his boss^note while it is confirmed that Geeta is his boss for both his Gym Leader and Elite Four positions, his office work's boss is currently unknown, but it is not impossible to also be Geeta will dock his pay for talking too much, the Gym Leader and Elite Four duties take him away from his office work (which his boss also nags him about), and about the only thing he shows enthusiasm for is lunch.
  • If you talk to Larry to get the clue about the lemon garnish, he's simply labeled as "Office Worker," making him seem like even more of a generic NPC at first. He also just says that, yeah, he's a regular there, completely failing to mention that he's the gym leader.
  • The mere fact that Larry's battle arena is in the Treasure Eatery. Either he constantly gets challenged on his lunch break from his other job, or he just spends that much time at that specific restaurant.
  • The only change in Larry's attire between his Gym Leader job and his Elite Four job is... a pair of gloves.
  • Larry spits out this line which can hit a little too close, but regardless is hilarious:
    Larry: I think it’s time to show you that real life isn’t all just being true to yourself...
    The opposing Staraptor used Facade!
  • The joke about Facade is even more blatant in Japanese, as Larry says he'll show you the skill of a working adult... which is Kara Genki^note The Japanese translation for Facade meaning "Bravado", which can also be translated as "Fake Enthusiasm".
  • Another slightly-dark joke (yet all the more hilarious because of it) happens after Larry gives you the TM for Facade and says that he hopes a kid like you has no need to ever use it.
• During Ryme's Gym Battle, she'll summon several Houndstone with the power of rap… along with a Greavard, which proceeds to adorably dance on top of her sound system.
  • The Greavard's nickname is DJ G-Rave.
  • Prior to the gym battle, a store clerk tries to beat Ryme in a rap battle and epically fails. He washes out and returns to his store, dropping the beat in the process. Made better by Ryme's annoyance at the guy's terrible rap.
  • You have the option of saying you're there for a rap battle as well once the other guy runs off. Ryme knows you're actually there for a battle, but will still be amused by your response if you pick that.
  • Also, the picture you get after beating Ryme? Your character snapping a selfie at Ryme's concert, of course!
• Near the end of battling all the Gym Leaders, Rika congratulates you on your recent victory and has a little girl beside her named Poppy, whom Rika casually introduces as a member of the Elite Four.
• The mere fact that you have to pass an interview before you can challenge the Elite Four. In a sterile white office room, no less!
• Iono's entire gym segment is a rather charming Affectionate Parody of streamer culture. In the beginning, the way Iono is positioned in the frame coupled with her design makes her look like a Virtual YouTuber. Her Gym Trainers admire her very much and try their best to please her — you know, like the infamous "simp" stereotype for fans. She'll also be asking audiences to subscribe. And just as the battle is about to begin, someone by the username of Electro King donates 5,000 Pokédollars to her, earning them a shout-out.
  • Even funnier, you get 4,320 Pokédollars for beating her (assuming you didn't use the amulet coin), so Electro King basically provided your prize money.
  • She also calls you "friendo". She probably foresees her viewers trying to hit on her, so she shuts them down immediately.
  • When defeated, her Magnemite hair clips panic and fly around a dazed Iono like a pair of Circling Birdies.
• Right before facing Tulip, she's right in the middle of a business conversation on her phone.
• Once you give the correct Secret Menu Item order for the Medali Gym test, the large occupied seating area suddenly rumbles and morphs into the town's battle arena. If you look carefully, the piled-up furniture in the back has increased, giving the mental image of everyone realizing that Larry's up, so they stop eating and begin setting up the arena with the speed of a racing pit crew.
• Once you've beaten all eight Gym leaders, you'll find a young student named Jaxon outside the Pokemon League. You'll probably assume he's there to make sure you're at the right level for the League... But you'll soon discover that this student is actually among the weakest trainers in the game with a single level 14 Meowth.
  • Conversely, nothing's stopping you from visiting the area as soon as your Treasure Hunt starts. Jaxon seems reasonably leveled for the early game, so one would assume that the only other trainer outside the League would be easy pickings too, right? Yeah... no. Cabbie Paco has a Krookodile, Bronzong, and Ceruledge; all at level 56. Just a gentle reminder from the game that you're not quite ready to walk into that building just yet.
• It is possible to fail the interview portion of Champion Assessment, and Rika does not take it lightly given her high expectations of you. Not only does she angrily remark "how'd that happen?" to herself after stopping the interview, but once you do pass it, she'll note she still doesn't understand how you "bungled it" earlier.
• Now who would be the ace of the cool and confident Rika? Clodsire, a goofy looking Pokémon. The sheer contrast between them appearance-wise will bring out a chuckle.
• After you beat Poppy, she'll run to Rika, the Elite who fought before her, crying that she "wanted to take revenge on [her]". As sweet as that is, Rika's contrasting coolness is hilarious when she points out to her that she probably means "take revenge for", as she doesn't remember doing anything to upset Poppy.
• When it is time for you to face Hassel, Larry tries to call for him through the door. The problem is that Larry cannot shout, given that his office habits require him to keep his voice at a very low volume. So, Rika has to call Hassel.
  • Larry has to try and call in Hassel multiple times, even! Once he comes in, Hassel proceeds to comment on how Larry had to have Rika do the shouting for him.
• When Hassel gets over his sobbing fit over the player's victory, he does so extremely abruptly, complete with the camera dramatically zooming in on his face. Rika lampshades how sudden his mood shift is.
• After defeating Geeta, Nemona will show up to ask if you've become a Champion. If you choose to answer "no", she's got a whole series of dialogs she goes through if you dare to keep saying "no". She also looks increasingly bothered if you keep saying no.
  Nemona: You became a Champion?
  Nemona: Ha, you've got jokes! But seriously - you did become a Champion, right?
  Nemona: C'mon, it's me! You don't have to lie! Just tell me - you became a Champion, right?
  Nemona: OK, wait! You DID become a Champion, though, didn't you?
  Nemona: You! Champion! Yes?!
• When you finally answer yes, she'll ask to be "best rivals for life", with similar results for repeatedly saying "no".
  Nemona: Oops! Couldn't hear you! I'll say it again: let's you and me be best rivals for life!
  Nemona: Sorry, not going to stop until I hear a yes-let's you and me be best rivals for life!
  Nemona: OK, wait! You WILL be my rival, won't you?!
  Nemona: You! Me! Rivals! Yes?!
• You at last face Nemona at her full strength in a match that is suitably epic and dramatic. Once you win, Nemona declares that you are her greatest treasure and the scene seems set to end on this emotional high note of an "ultimate match", only for Nemona to suddenly declare that once you both take a short rest, you need to have round two and she immediately begins debating to herself which Pokémon she should have on this team. The player character is flabbergasted that Nemona has it in her to do all this again so soon, and Director Clavell and Geeta both sigh as if to say, "some things never change".
  • Even funnier, Clavell actually Facepalms as Nemona excitedly talks about which Pokémon to use next time.
• When the crowd is gathering for the fight between you and Nemona, you can see Clavell, Geeta, and the Elite Four members in the background. When the camera is panning over Larry and Hassel, Hassel actually looks like he's watching the fight, while Larry's just walking by and quickly looks over. When the fight's over? Larry's gone, while the other five are still there. His excess work probably kept him from watching the whole thing.

Starfall Street

• Director Clavell helps you out by disguising himself as a student named "Clive". Badly, with the tackiest pompadour wig imaginable which he keeps stroking. ("How do you do, fellow kids?"). How well this disguise fools your player character is entirely up to your dialogue choices, though somehow, Cassiopeia/Penny is completely taken in.
  • If you have the player character call him out on it, Clavell will be annoyed and "correct" you. You can even do this right before the battle at the academy, where as usual "Clive" will deny being Clavell, just for him to immediately do his dramatic reveal as if you didn't say anything. You can also pretend to be shocked about this, even if you've greeted him as Clavell every single time you've met.
  • Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize there really are students that old at the academy due to encountering several on your journey, meaning he has the surprisingly solid cover of being a weird, quirky middle-aged student. But this does not make it any less hilarious considering that even the adult students are dressed appropriately, and the implication that disguising himself as an adult student never once crossed Clavell's mind.
  • During one of the talks with him at the academy, he'll ask you what kind of hairstyles are popular with the youth of today. Pompadours like Clive's are an option: tell him that, and he gets humorously perked up at having gotten it right... before realizing that he's oddly never seen anyone else with the supposed trendy hairdo.
  • Whenever you rematch the Star Barrages, Director Clavell will come in to support you, still in his Clive disguise. This includes during the post-game where the Team Star bosses already know who "Clive" is, creating the hilarious mental image of the director dropping everything and getting into character just for kicks.
  • Giacomo outright asks if Clive got his hair styled by a Quaxwell. Even funnier considering Giacomo himself has a pretty big hairstyle.
    • And funnier still if the player chose Fuecoco at the beginning of the game, since this means "Clive" actually has a Quaxly/Quaxwell.
  • When Clavell finally "reveals" himself, he specifically refers to "Clive" as a boy to both the player character and Penny. Not man or guy, boy. This implies that Clavell really thought that anyone could mistake him for a teenager around the player and Penny's age.
• When fighting the base's Starmobile, you can use a trapping move like Sand Tomb on them, which will make them spin around really fast every turn.
  • Even funnier when you remember that the Team Star bosses are standing on the Starmobiles, so they're getting spun around in this situation, too.
• Once you defeat your second Team Star base, your Legendary will pop out of its Poké Ball to greet Penny by relentlessly licking her like a giant puppy until it gets tired and falls asleep, with Penny screaming for help all the while and then complaining that it drooled all over her. It continues to do this for the next two bases, albeit with Penny no longer commenting on it afterward and talking as if that didn't just happen, clearly having accepted that this is going to be a thing now.
  • Another thing that makes this hilarious is how the player character apparently doesn't do anything to stop Koraidon/Miraidon, and just watches it lick the heck out of Penny.
• Before preparing to face Giacomo's squad, Cassiopeia tells you that he's the team's music composer who's responsible for their theme music, revealing that they really are blasting heavy-metal music during their battles. In-Universe.
• The two grunts guarding Giacomo's base entrance are made up of a veteran male Grunt and a newbie female Grunt, the latter who embarrasses her superior because of how Hot-Blooded she is. When she leaves after being defeated, he sighs when he considers giving her a chat to solve her horrible attitude.
• While approaching the Team Star Fire Squad base, the player and Clive will be approached by a Charcadet, which Clive will recognize as a Pokémon that lives at the Academy and greet by the name "Charlos". Charlos. It's such a goofy, simple Punny Name that it's easy for it to provoke a smile or sputter of laughter when it first pops up.
• Mela, the boss of Team Star's Fire Squad, wears a pair of comically large leather boots that extend up past her knees. Naturally, her walking animation shows that she has to resort to goose-stepping to walk around in them.
• When you defeat Mela, you get a picture as when you manage every important battle. In this case, Mela is shaking the player's hand, though, from their pained expression, it's obvious she's squeezing rather hard. Seems she's a bit of a Sore Loser, huh?
• Raiding the Navi Squad's base is a bit odd. There is literally a waist-high fence interrupted by a single nearly insurmountable gate. If your legendary mount already can jump higher than it could at the start (this requires you to defeat Titan Orthworm), or you notice the two large boulders they haven't fenced off, then logically you should be capable of jumping over the fence or even the gate itself (or just simply stepping across the property line). But doing so causes a Team Star Grunt to call you out using the PA system.
  Grunt: *beeeeeep* *krrrzt* Back up, kid! You can't just casually waltz in here like you're one of us stars that run the joint! If you want in, ring the bell over by the entrance and storm the base like a decent person!
  • Even funnier, this happens every time you accidentally find yourself falling into a Team Star base from a location close to it.
• As for the actual pre-raid sequence before taking on Navi Squad, there is only one Team Star Grunt and a much younger student, Youssef, at the gate. Youssef wants to talk to Atticus because of a debt of honor but the grunt refuses to let him in. When the player shows up to fight the grunt, the grunt up and laments that all the other members of Navi Squad are sleeping off last night's video game binge. So, Youssef fights the player on the grunt's behalf, so that the grunt can wake up his friends. Thanks a lot, Youssef.
  • The fact that they pulled an all-nighter on video games alone is funny. Especially if the player themselves stayed up all night playing Scarlet/Violet; it comes off as Leaning on the Fourth Wall in that case.
• When preparing to challenge Ortega's group, you learn that the pompous rich kid dressed like Willy Wonka is actually the team's mechanic who designed and built the Starmobiles himself. In the past after running into trouble getting the Starmobiles to move, he griped that hadn't they pledged to not rely on external funding, he would've just asked his mother to buy cars for everyone.
  • You also see a man named Harrington outside of his base requesting to pick Ortega up for his piano lessons akin to a parent picking up their kid from school except that said kid is a gang boss, and you end up battling him for fun. At the end after Ortega's defeat, Harrington escorts Ortega to said piano lessons.
• As Eri guards the gate of her own base, it is natural that one would think she'd go down in a straight up fight. The problem is that Clive got to the base first and battled Eri to a point where both their teams are exhausted. Therefore, the player has to battle Carmen first while Eri has her team take a rest within the base. Thanks for nothing, Clive!!
• At the end after defeating all the bosses, Cassiopeia reveals themselves to be the leader of Team Star and challenges the player to a final battle at the school. Clavell confronts you outside since he realized the leader's identity and tries to prevent a confrontation between students, even claiming himself to be Cassiopeia. You can state "That's impossible", which has him react in shock and states he faked his identity using a high-tech gadget of some sort, as if aghast that the player directly said he was Hopeless with Tech, rather than the fact that you've seen Cassiopeia talk to Clive several times and didn't even know who he was at first. It gets even more hilarious when you complete your Paldea Dex, where he casually reprograms part of your phone app to display the completion certificate on demand and Jacq (the main developer of the Pokedex app) immediately attests to Clavell's skill with programming in general.
  • During said battle (which takes place literally in front of the academy), there's something funny about fighting him and students in the background either casually walking past the battle or just minding their own business. You'd think a heated battle with the academy's director (claiming he's the big boss of Team Star) with slightly serious sounding music in the background would be far more dramatic or interesting to watch.
  • The end of the battle with Director Clavell has Ms. Tyme show up to investigate a "illict battle on school grounds". When she finds out that Director Clavell was the one who instigated the fight, he tried to explain what happened but Ms. Tyme has no excuse for it ("worse than a Stunky's behind;" Clavell seems especially taken aback by that), dragging him off to write an apology letter to the student body and the school chairwoman.
    Clavell: "Good gracious, no! A-anything but that, I implore you..."
• Director Clavell shows up a bit late to Penny revealing herself to the player character. He starts to explain that it took a while to get through Tyme's apology letter, but then realizes that he hasn't actually revealed himself to Penny yet. He proceeds to backpedal a bit and awkwardly changes the subject.
• The battle against Cassiopeia/Penny qualifies just because of her team lineup. You'd think the soft-spoken but driven and dangerous hacker and leader of Team Star would have a lineup of technologically-themed or artificial Pokémon on her team, similar to Colress, but instead her team consists of nothing but Eeveelutions with sub-optimal move-sets, and every single one of them knows Baby Doll Eyes. Even after defeating her and completing her post-game storyline, going into her room shows that, aside from having a large collection of in-box figures and crates of instant noodles, she keeps her "team" out and has a lot of Pokémon food. It becomes pretty clear that she doesn't actually have a formal team and you just ended up fighting her pets.
  • Penny's theme will also catch players by surprise because it's an intense blaring dub-step track. It's unusually intense for Penny's personality, even taking into account her identity as Cassiopeia. Given how she's very much into anime, in her head she's the protagonist about to engage in an epic battle complimented with epic music.
  • More fridge humor with the knowledge that Giacomo is the team composer, meaning he might've composed the theme in-universe for the cool and mysterious big boss Cassiopeia... who, in person, is a shy, dorky pipsqueak completely at odds with the image he probably had in mind.
  • Penny's pets, by the way, are all level 62, and her Sylveon is level 63. Excluding the player, this technically makes the socially awkward shut-in without a formal battling team the second most powerful trainer in Paldea.
• "Clive" reveals himself as Director Clavell, and Penny reveals she was completely taken in by the disguise. She also has some pretty strong opinions about the reveal overall.
  Penny: Wasn't the outfit a bit much? Plus, I have some big feelings about that wig...
• By the end of the storyline, everyone is friends again and Team Star as a whole has been let off with an Unishment, making it seem like all's well that ends well… until Penny says she might need a bigger punishment than the rest of the team. Why? Because, as it turns out, she actually hacked the Pokémon League for the League Points she's been giving you as rewards. Clavell's subtle Oh, Crap! on hearing this gets even better when you realize LP has a one-to-one conversion rate with normal money, meaning Penny effectively committed grand larceny and you were thus paid thousands in stolen currency. Not that you're ever asked for any of the points back, of course. Geeta, however, had a much more fitting punishment for Penny: "volunteer computer engineering" as community service.

Path of Legends

• The photos for Arven's Titan badges all involve sandwiches made with the rare herbs. The player looks a little reluctant to munch on said sandwiches in some photos because of the flavor of Herba Mystica they’re made from. Especially the sandwich made with the herb obtained from defeating the Titan Bombirdier: the Bitter Herba Mystica.
  • The Spicy Herba, meanwhile, is so strong that Arven somehow manages to set the sandwich on fire.
  • The Salty Herba has Arven doing something close to the "Salt Bae" meme.
• The mere concept of this being your method of gaining new world-traversing abilities, feeding sandwiches filled with magical herbs to your pet bike, which gets funnier considering that you're giving HM's (Herba Mystica) to them.
• Just the whole Running Gag of Koraidon/Miraidon popping out of its Poké Ball to eat the player character's sandwich. Arven starts off annoyed by this before eventually just rolling with it.
  • The legendary Pokémon also tends to eat its sandwiches in a single bite. Again, Arven starts out annoyed by its eating habits.
• After beating your second Titan, Koraidon/Miraidon once again wants your sandwich. Fortunately, Arven made an extra one just to account for this... Which he says in the most Tsundere method possible, claiming that he absolutely, definitely didn't make a sandwich just for Koraidon/Miraidon.
• When near the location of the False Dragon Titan, Arven says nobody has ever seen this mysterious Titan, so he has no idea what it looks like, making it difficult to search for. He snarks that it sure would be handy if it just went around screaming "I'm the Titan!", but like that's ever gonna happen, right? When you get to the rumored location, you find a large amount of Tatsugiri lounging around and talking to others, until you find a slightly bigger one who says: "Ai! Taitaaaaaaan!" Then it gets "eaten" by a gigantic Dondozo, leading to a battle after which leads to the Tatsugiri returning to challenge you to a second battle, resulting in the realization that the tiny Pokémon is in fact the False Dragon Titan and the colossal Dondozo was more of its minion. It's twice the size of a regular Tatsugiri, but it's still nowhere near titanic.
  • The non-Titan Tatsugiris all will say some variant of "sushi", which makes you wonder how these wild Pokémon somehow knows what kind of food they resemble (not to mention that sushi is NOT native to Spain).
  • Arven will be shocked when he and the player character witness the Tatsugiri be "eaten," only to get shocked again once the Dondozo spits it out and you have to do another fight.
  • But it doesn't stop there! You have the option to re-challenge these ex-Titan Pokémon after several in-game days after beating them by talking to them (they will remain motionless somewhere near where you fight them the first time). Whereas the other four ex-Titans merely roars like usual before engaging you, the Tatsugiri once again yells "Ai! Taitaaaaaaan" before battling you.
• Path of Legends is an emotionally heavy story, revolving around Arven, his home life, and healing Mabosstiff. Despite that, whenever Arven describes what the Herba Mystica does, the background music is the same goofy tune that plays when the player makes sandwiches while picnicking. Arven also lets out a kiai ("Hwatchaaaaa!!!") while making the Herba Mystica sandwiches.

The Way Home

• To start The Way Home, Arven tasks you with finding a Champion battler and an expert hacker to get past Area Zero's dangerous wild Pokémon and advanced security systems, respectively. Nemona and Penny are the ones respectively brought in to help with the issues, and while Nemona certainly makes use of her expertise, the Professor ends up taking care of any security issues you might've run into. All Penny ends up doing in her role as hacker is turning on the lights at the Zero Gate.
• The cutscene showing the party's descent to Area Zero from the Zero Gate is worth a few laughs, with Arven, Nemona, and Penny getting on the back of Koraidon/Miraidon first, to which it is about to take off... without the player on it. The player runs and reaches out, only for Arven to grab them by the arm just as Koraidon/Miraidon takes flight, treating us to see the player dangling in midair for a few moments before Arven is finally able to pull them in and seat them properly on the Legendary Pokémon's back.
• Despite being nigh insatiable in battle, Nemona proves to actually have less endurance than Arven when it comes to traveling, much to his surprise. Nemona says she's full of surprises, which has Arven taken aback. He certainly didn't mean it as a compliment.
• Nemona's initial reaction to entering the first research station is to excitedly ask if the stations are "ancient ruins." Penny notes they are obviously too recent for that (the professor clarifies they are 87 years old).
• Penny's snark is in full display for most of the trip through Area Zero, and she isn't afraid to call out cliches.
  Arven: I... I almost never saw my mom in my whole life.
  Penny: Oh? Is it time for the backstory reveal?
  Nemona: Penny! Shhh!
• Penny and Nemona tell each other how they became friends with the player character. Arven, apparently feeling left out, jumps in and explains how the player helped him fight the titans. Nemona straight-up tells him to "quit flexing" and accept that the player is friends with everyone.
• After exiting the second lab, Penny notices what looks like a Jigglypuff/Delibird waddling in view, except it's clearly prehistoric/robotic and they're powerful versions of notorious Joke Characters.
• As you're walking up to the third lab, Penny gets a bad feeling that "Something's gonna jump out at us again... One hundred percent guaranteed." When Nemona laughs that she's worrying too much, they immediately turn around to see the version's Paradox Donphan rearing up to attack them.
  Penny: See? SEE?!
• Once your group reaches the underground part of Area Zero, Penny has a… rather blunt observation about the extremely dangerous layout of the place.
  Penny: One slip and we can kiss our short lives goodbye...
  • Doubly funny when you consider that the player had survived falling off a cliff thanks to their Rotom Phone's safety feature, which everyone in the group is established to have. In fact, deliberately falling into the depths of the cavern, even if you miss the area where the research station and lab are completely, is a great way to get to said station without having to wander around for a long time on foot. Your phone just brings you there.
• Penny's reaction to Nemona thinking that the Professor's disturbing breakdown in speech was just dramatic flair and it left her feeling "jazzed" or maybe even "big-time jazzed."
  Penny: You need to go see a doctor! That's just not right.
• After leaving the second research station, Arven recounts the story of how Mabosstiff got injured. The tale then ends with Penny asking just how Arven managed to get out of the hole with the many dangerous Pokémon residing in it. The answer was by calling the Flying Taxi. Apparently if you give a good enough sob story, they will pick you up anywhere, even if it means entering an expressly forbidden area. True to his word, you can call the Flying Taxi at any time you want while exploring the area.
• Remarking on Koraidon/Miraidon's true form, Penny has another sardonic gem to offer.
  Penny: If it tries to nudge at me for a belly rub while it's huge like this… I seriously think I'm gonna die.
• Director Clavell congratulates everyone for their actions in Area Zero. This would count as heartwarming... except that he abruptly reminds Arven that he's behind on credits, ruining the mood.
• Penny revealing a… rather interesting hobby to Geeta. What really makes it funny is that she's using it to attempt an excuse not to do the community service she was assigned at the end of Starfall Street (there's also Geeta's reaction of a close-eyed smile as she thanks Penny for her "willing" cooperation).
  Penny: Um. But...there's a bunch of anime I've missed that I was just...gonna...binge...
• After Penny goes off with Geeta, Clavell talks about how impressive it is that Penny's helping with technical issues, Nemona's getting the tournament organized, and the player's going to test the Gym Leaders so Geeta can get some work done. However, he doesn't say anything about Arven. Arven notices this and insists that his role is just so obvious that it doesn't need to be said. The way he says it, it seems like he's just trying to make himself feel better about getting left out. (Though it could be interpreted as Clavell implying that what Arven should be doing is studying, re the above mentioned lack of credits.)

Post-game

• During the first Academy Ace Tournament, Jacq compliments the player's skill and confidence and says they might make an even better teacher than him. Clavell hears this, prompting Jacq to sheepishly say he's gonna go get yelled at now.
• Hassel will again burst into tears if the player beats him in later Academy Ace Tournaments. It almost turns his Inelegant Blubbering into a Running Gag.
• A casual meeting with Nemona and the player character in the schoolyard leads to battling with her for two hours straight.
• A series of scenes occur where the player character and Penny spy on the leaders of Team Star to make sure they are adjusting to being back in school. Each one consists of the duo observing a scene that looks like it will end in disaster, only for it to somehow turn out okay without their intervention. Only Eri notices them.
  • Penny is downright shocked (and distracted) when she sees how attractive Atticus is under his mask.
  • How does Eri make her attention known? By just casually walking up to Penny and the player character, giving Penny a jump scare. Apparently, Eri didn't even realize Penny was trying to hide in the first place!
  • Giacomo is tired of being given the cold shoulder by his fellow peers. His solution? Yell in the library like someone would at a concert to hype up the crowd. Ortega's bewilderment at his friend's idea adds to the hilarity.
    • The best part? It works. The students figure that if Team Star can act so goofy, then they aren't the scary delinquents everyone thinks they are.
• Iono's summary of the result of her rematch with the player character should earn a chuckle:
  Iono: Havin' someone as popular as you on my stream was a great idea! I'm trendin' like the internet's mad at me!
• When you're about to test Ryme, you once again have the option of saying you're there for a rap battle. Ryme will again be amused by your response, but still insist on having an actual battle anyway.
• After doing several 5* raids, Jacq calls the player to tell them about black crystal raid dens, which holds 6* raids. He repeatedly notes that these raids are incredibly dangerous and that you should not do them, then tells you not to read into it like there's some hidden meaning in his warnings and that he's counting on you to make the right choice.
  • If you tell Jacq you won't do the 6* raids, he'll immediately get suspicious and note that you agreed a little too quickly. And even if you say this, absolutely nothing is stopping you from doing the 6* raids anyway.
  • After beating your first 6* raid, Jacq will be shocked that you actually did it, but then admit that you'll probably keep doing them even if he tells you not to. However, he does tell you not to let Clavell know, since he'll be "madder than a rampaging Primape" if he finds out.
• If one heads back down into Area Zero, they can capture the second Koraidon/Miraidon. Immediately upon doing so you're treated to a short cutscene where the camera zooms in on your backpack and you're treated to your Koraidon/Miraidon growling at each other from within their Poké Balls, creating the hilarious mental image of the two Paradox Pokémon having another kerfuffle inside their balls, inside your backpack.

Gameplay

• Finally, after 20 years and eight generations, the much-ignored Dunsparce has finally evolved! And its evolution is... Dudunsparce, which looks almost exactly the same except bigger and with an extra pair of wings and extra body segment (or two extras in a rare form) and an extra chin spike. It seems almost like an intentional Troll move from Game Freak's part as if to say, "You want Dunsparce to evolve so badly? Fine, have this!" and did the absolute bare minimum. But hey, it's actually usable now!
  • Even better, as if to troll Pokédex completionists, there's a 1 in 100 chance of Dunsparce evolving into a rarer variant of Dudunsparce... which is merely an additional segment longer. And yes, we do mean evolve; you will never find this extra-long Dudunsparce in the wild. And, yes, this form does have its own Pokédex entry. No, it isn't called Dundundunsparce either, sadly.
    • A fitting joke evolution for the joke Pokémon based on the joke cryptid (the Tsuchinoko).
• After the unsettling Pokédex entry for Primeape in Sun mentioning that individuals sometimes get so angry they die (and attain peace), Annihilape comes barreling in a few generations later. Since it gains the Ghost type once leveling up after using Rage Fist 20 times, it just goes to show that that some Primeape are, to quote a certain meme, literally too angry to die. Or, at least, die permanently.
• During windy or stormy weather, lighter Pokémon like Hoppip and Jigglypuff may suddenly fly off into the distance.
• While using the Rotom Camera to take a picture, the Player Character is technically invulnerable from getting aggro'd by Pokémon in the wild… or even the boulders that the Titan Bombirdier is dropping on you. This also applies to when the player accesses a menu, leading to situations where you're minding your own business sorting your team or looking at the map, while in the background your character gets noticed by wild Pokémon who are both eager to rush over and fight you but also polite enough to wait until you're done using your phone. Funnily enough, however, if these aggressive wild Pokémon see you talking to an NPC, they will barge in, wait for you to finish the conversation and then instantly engage you before you can do anything.
• If you played Legends: Arceus, you'd remember that the protagonist can't swim. Here, the player character also can't swim, but instead of drowning, the screen goes dark, and the narration declares: "You managed to scramble back out of the water!" This also happens if you foolishly decide to ride your cover legendary into waist-deep water without said Pokémon relearning how to swim. So, imagine for yourself the sight of a school kid and a legendary Pokémon flailing about in a small pond before scrambling to shore.
• Slowking, both its default and Galarian form, get a new signature Status move via Move Reminder; Chilly Reception. It allows the Slowking to summon a five-turn snowstorm and automatically swap out for the next available Pokémon. The way Slowking does this is by telling a really bad joke, waits for a response only to get sandbagged with a cold wind of apathy, then leaving awkwardly. We can only assume that being smarter than a Slowbro doesn't mean being wittier than one. The fact that this move is Reminder-only implies that all of the intelligence-boosting toxins going into its brain deliberately made it forget how to tell bad jokes.
• Toedscool already looks a little goofy, as it's a Tentacool-looking mushroom that walks around on its tentacle-like mycelium. Specifically, its walking involves it flailing the tentacles around like a madman as it runs around. Its evolution Toedscruel is even better, and it uses all six mycelia to bounce around.
• Tandemaus will evolve after Level 25 if it gains a level during a battle (Exp/Rare Candies won't work). Said evolution of Tandemaus is Maushold, a pair of mice with a child or two. So, while you aren't looking, these two might just randomly breed and produce a child. Even funnier when they have 2 kids all of a sudden. This presumes, of course, that the smaller individuals actually are children. As for the moment it evolves, the typical animation for evolution happens, if, of course, you're lucky enough to get that to happen... except there's nothing there, which looks like the game was preparing the camera to show the Tandemaus in question evolving, only to realize that they completely missed it and awkwardly just snaps it back.
  • Even funnier when you realize that the Pokédex is completely ambiguous on if the new mice are related to the original two: nobody knows for sure if they're actually a family, just that the smaller mice randomly appeared one day. Your mice might have just randomly adopted a child while you weren't looking. Yes, even the one tool you have in handy for your entire adventure doesn't know if it even is a child at all!
• Just like in Sword and Shield, spinning the control stick will have your character start spinning in place. UNLIKE Sword and Shield, where you did a pose after stopping, you instead briefly stumble from getting dizzy. You can even do this on Koraidon and Miraidon, resulting in them rearing back from it as if to say, “Stop it!”; Miraidon’s eyes even start flashing as if it were malfunctioning.
• Instead of using its legs to walk around, Komala will instead roll around on its side like it does in the anime. Somehow, Komala keeps up with most other Pokémon doing this.
• Sleeping Komala.
• Flavor Text for the Marill-themed Ball sold at Picnic-Knacks in Cascarrafa:
  Make sure you haven't mistaken a real Marill for this ball before throwing.
• Making a sandwich in Creative Mode allows you to put together whatever ingredients you want. This means you can potentially create the most god-awful sandwiches that would make Arceus raise its metaphorical eyebrows in disgust. Even funnier is that your Pokémon might actually find it delicious!
  • If you make a disgusting tasting sandwich, both you and your Pokémon all collapse.
  • Even with a set recipe, you have to put together the sandwich yourself, which means manually dragging the ingredients and placing them on top of the bun. The ingredients can and will move around as you continue stacking up more, and if you're dealing with particularly large and thick fillings, it's not uncommon to completely mess up the whole thing and cause the fillings to fall all over the place, creating an utterly chaotic mess that would make HowToBasic weep with pride.
  • Players trying to optimize sandwich powers have come up with recipes that have six massive scoops of rice or noodles or potato salad or use two servings of tofu that in reality are six whole, uncut tofu blocks; incidentally, that would make eighteen entire blocks if you filled every slot with tofu. Even better, it turns out that leaving out the top bread slice doesn't have a significant impact on quality, and it's even encouraged to drop it far away from the plate so that it doesn't knock over your precariously stacked rice pyramid, which is so high that your pick may be completely buried in it when you drop it in.
• The Black Comedy Cannibalism from Sword and Shield comes back full force here. For instance, you can feed Lechonk, a porcine Pokémon based on a roasted pig, a sandwich made with ham and/or bacon.
  • You can also feed Tauros, which is based off a bull, hamburgers.
• In Artazon, you can see a separated couple who arranged to meet each other at the "weird sculpture", which not only refers to about every non-Sunflora sculpture in the town, but the ones they picked happen to be Palette Swaps of each other and they're on opposite sides of the town's battlefield so they can't see each other.
• During trainer battles, it's not unusual to end up with a few wild Pokémon happily watching the match from the sidelines.
• The Ruinous Pokémon:
  • The Ruinous Pokémon are generally very intimidating. Unlocking each requires the buildup of finding eight stakes hidden in each ordinal direction of Paldea, opening an ominous hidden shrine somewhere that, when visited, will turn out to have released a spooky Pokémon with looks befitting of a malevolent spirit that chants a word relevant to the artifact it's tied to as its cry (e.x. "Cut! Cuuuttt!" or "Pooourrr!"). Then you open the northeastern shrine, located in one of the most dangerous regions of Paldea in its own concealed mountain waterfall cave to have you all the more nervously wondering what could possibly be in it, and find that Chi-Yu, a Pokémon created from the envy tied to beads that have caused many a conflict, is… a cute, dinky little magical goldfish that opens its fight with "Splashyyy!"
  • You can battle a student who happens to be looking for the "Ruin Us" Shrines but has no idea where to find them. Icerend Shrine is located right below the cliff she's looking over.
• Unlike the previous games, where you are able to visit people's houses willy nilly, you don't get the same luxury in this game as you are incapable of entering any random houses you will find just to talk to people (to hopefully get some useful item) or rifle through their things like their trash cans. After many years of the Players being able to enter any random house that has a door, the devs had decided that you are no longer allowed to enter people's houses and implying that everyone in Paldea just locks their front doors. Well, modeling the insides of every single house would also have been a nightmare, so let's cut the developers some slack.
  • The one house that you can enter in is Nemona's Big Fancy House... but it's only accessible up to the entrance hall and living room. The other parts of the house are blockaded by Maids and butlers of the house or Pokémon.
• In the game, some of the female NPCs are pretty tall and muscular, most of them totally fit Amazonian Beauty. What's funny here is the fact that when your character is in front of them, their eyes are at the same level of their (pretty big) chests, literally the perfect height for a Marshmallow Hell. Sometimes, if you stand still, it looks like your character is staring at them... It's up to you to think if it was intentional or not.
• Violet has the futuristic Paradox Pokémon, most of whom often look akin to intimidating futuristic war machines or cyborgs. On the other end you have Iron Bundle, which is basically a robotic Delibird with a laser cannon for a bag whose head pops off when hurt like a broken toy, making it look a lot less intimidating and more like a cartoony Badnik. However do not underestimate Iron Bundle, it's in the Uber tier for a reason.
  • Just the fact that Iron Bundle is powerful enough to be ranked in Ubers despite being based off of Delibird is funny.
• One of the Paradox Pokémon in Scarlet is Scream Tail, which are pretty much primal, bloodthirsty Jigglypuff.
• One of the new features of the menu is "ask for advice" when it comes to a individual Pokémon's move set. What makes this funny is that it is framed as the trainer asking the Pokémon itself what move it thinks it should learn or not learn. Leading to dialog such as "X Pokémon wouldn't mind skipping over learning X move for now!" The potential amusing interactions one can imagine from this are endless.
• There are several animated billboards around Levincia displaying advertisements. Some are typical such as Iono plugging her "Iono Zone" channel and Tulip's authentic-looking cosmetic ad, then the Paldean starters ones have an extremely happy Sprigatito with a soft drink brand, Quaxwell promoting what appears to be a credit card, and Crocalor with a Froot-Loops cereal knockoff.
  • One of the scrolling ads on the Pokémon Center screens depicts an Eiscue running towards a frozen confection shaped like its foot. One of the rays emanating from the treat passes behind its head at just the right angle to look like a motion line, making it look like Eiscue is really keen on getting to the treat.
  • And another uses Qwilfish to promote a... car tire? On the face of it, since Qwilfish inflates itself (or is said to), that makes sense. But on the other hand, Qwilfish is covered with barbs. Also, consider how many vehicles you've seen in Paldea - is advertising a tire really justified?
• Wild Sudowoodo in the overworld will be doing their usual thing of standing completely still, pretending to be trees, which makes it a bit unexpected when the second they spot you approaching, they drop the act and just bolt in the other direction, faster than you'd think they could even move. They also have an extremely goofy running animation, adding to the hilarity.
  • The same thing happens if it starts raining where the Sudowoodo are, causing them to make a break for it to avoid getting wet.
• Slaking insist on laying on their sides in a specific position, to the point that one following you in Let's Go mode will flop on its side every time it stops running. Even better, if it's following you while you're on-foot, it moves slowly enough that it repeatedly switches between running and paused, which makes it look like it's doing one-handed, sideways pushups instead of walking. You can also find wild Zoroark in Socarrat Trail disguised as Slaking, who don't even try to behave like the real thing, so you'll sometimes spot what looks like a big, tough-looking gorilla flopping around like a fish.
• After defeating a Tera Raid Pokémon and the player does an epic Poké Ball throw to catch them, the standard short "Caught!" jingle abruptly stops the music after it clicks shut.
• If you Terastallize a Sudowoodo, the band of the Tera Crown will be covering its eyes.
• Varoom has a relatively normal ability in Overcoat. Its Hidden Ability? Slow Start. Yes, Varoom can have the same useless ability as Regigigas just for a silly car joke. That being said, Slow Start is replaced by the far more useful Filter Ability upon evolution.
• The Rotom Camera can play music so you can change a Pokémon's mood for different shots. This also works on human subjects too, with mostly everyone giving goofy expressions.

Pokédex

• Rookidee's Violet entry can bring out a chuckle at the hilarity ensuing from the described scenario in it.
  The females are fussier than the males. If another creature dirties a female Rookidee's wings, it'll peck the offender relentlessly in a burning rage.
• Iron Jugulis' Scarlet entry brings us likely the most absurd Dex entry thus far, mainly due to the imagery it implies:
  It resembles a certain Pokémon introduced in a paranormal magazine, described as the offspring of a Hydreigon that fell in love with a robot.
  • Bonus points for Iron Jugulis' Japanese name being Iron Head.
  • Further bonus points in that Iron Jugulis could be considered a Mythology Gag to the Hydreigon line originally being designed with a tank motif. Iron Jugulis is essentially Hydreigon redesigned as a tank robot dragon.
• In Galar, Corviknight is considered an apex predator that no Pokémon would challenge lightly and is the main face of the flying taxi. Paldea is a different story, however. A Pokémon attacks Corviknight so frequently that, not only has it become the metal bird’s natural predator, but it has made flying taxi by Corviknight too dangerous to use, putting the avian out of a job. One can only wonder what Pokémon is monstrously large enough and ferociously bold enough to attack such an imposing creature… and then you read Tinkaton’s Pokédex entry, giving you the hilarious image of two-foot-tall pink gremlins launching boulders with their comically large, 220-pound hammers with pinpoint accuracy at poor Corviknights minding their own business.
  Corviknight's Scarlet entry: Corviknight can’t serve as a taxi service in Paldea because the Pokémon’s natural predators will attack it while it flies, endangering the customer.
  Tinkaton’s Scarlet entry: This intelligent Pokémon has a very daring disposition. It knocks rocks into the sky with its hammer, aiming for flying Corviknight.
  • Tinkatuff's Scarlet entry is no slouch either, mentioning that it makes its hammer stronger using the fragments of Pawniard and Bisharp that it goes out of its way to fight. Entire gangs of villainous ronin are being brutalized into lumps of tin foil by a younger version of those same pink gremlins. No wonder Kingambit started showing up.
  • Tinkaton's Violet entry mentions that they just steal whatever they please.
  • The Tinkaton line joins Komala as one of the only Pokémon to technically not have a Shiny coloration. Instead, the hammer gets the palette switch… and it oxymoronically looks rusted over as if the Tinkaton has been using it for so long without even bothering to take care of it. She's gonna give someone tetanus with that thing. Metallic bits on Tinkaton's body also are this color, but it's unclear if these are part of its body or something it is wearing.
• Due to Corviknight being considered too dangerous to be a flying taxi driver due to being a target of Tinkaton's, Paldea's answer to the flying taxi is… a flock of Squawkabillys. This wouldn't be a problem if it were not for the dex entries of both versions talking about how dysfunctional and noisy they are, both as a flock and individually. Granted, the flying taxi Squawkabilly flocks may have been trained to be united, but one can imagine having to hear the flock making noises every time they take the flying taxi…
• Annihilape's Violet Pokédex entry mentions that this form is how it's finally unleashed the repressed rage in its heart. The implication of course being that Primeape, the Pokémon that gets so angry that it won't stop until it beats someone to a bloody pulp and dies if it gets too angry, was actually showing restraint this entire time.
• Iron Valiant's Scarlet dex entry, and the paranormal magazine that elaborates upon it, states that it was created by a Mad Scientist to be the most powerful Psychic Type. Somehow, despite being based off of Gardevoir and Gallade, both being part Psychic, the resulting machine not only failed to get the type from either of them, it ended up being weak to Psychic, by virtue of ending up a Fairy/Fighting type. At least it can learn Psychic-type moves.
  • Even funnier when the Future Paradox Forms of the Swords of Justice Trio are part Psychic-Type without even trying.
• Bisharp gains a big mane of hair upon its evolution to Kingambit, big enough that it uses the knot at the end as a seat... a seat it is very insistent about sitting on to the point where it awkwardly hops around with it to move around instead of getting up. A lot of the regal warlord imagery disappears when the Big Blade Pokémon is reduced to awkwardly scooting around the place like a child that doesn't want to get up from their chair, which moves hilariously fast. (It certainly helps to explain why its Speed stat is lower than Pawniard's.) It also gains what amounts to a BFS strapped to its head, as well as a long mustache… also made of swords. It also uses said head-mounted sword for its Secret Art Kowtow Cleave, where it pretends to surrender only to slice the target. Due to how goofy the move looks, it appears that Kingambit hit the target by accident.
  • Fans have pointed out Kingambit’s striking physical similarities to Whitebeard. It was leaked around the time that the “One Piece is Real” meme was thriving, so the fan edits depicting it as the mustachioed pirate were inevitable.
  • There's such a delicious irony in its Pokédex entry. It turns out that the Pokémon named after the king in Chess (in the English localization at least) — and based on a shogun, no less — has no apparent talent for strategic thinking. It just brute forces its way through battles. Think about that. The Pokémon named after the star piece of an all-strategy based board game and based on high-ranking military leaders of ancient Japan prefers sheer brute force over planning.
• Garganacl's Violet Dex entry describes how its salt is so tasty and rich in minerals that Pokémon are willing to follow and gather all over it just to get a taste of it. Even funnier, its photo in the Dex shows Garganacl being followed by a Lechonk, Bonsly, and Dedenne.
  Many Pokémon gather around Garganacl, hoping to lick at its mineral-rich salt.
• This generation marks the debut of the 1000th Pokémon in the entire franchise, who isn't a Legendary or a Mythical, but Gholdengo; the evolution of Ghimmighoul which is a being made entirely out of money and surfs on a surfboard made out of golden coins, which seems to be a huge lampshade of this being a Cash-Cow Franchise!
  • There's a fridge hilarity with its Secret Art, Make It Rain. By itself, that phrase is a slang meaning to throw money at someone, usually contemptuously. The move itself loses power every time you use it, fitting with the idea if you throw money, you will end up with less money. But that's not all! Because Make It Rain is a special move, it's boosted by Nasty Plot, conjuring a mental image of Gholdengo cooking up unscrupulous scams to get more money for it to throw again!
• The album art for Snorlax's entry depicts it sleeping and blocking passage through a bridge, with a Pikachu, an annoyed Lucario, and a Poliwhirl wanting to pass.
• Possibly unintentionally, Oinkologne's Pokédex art has a male standing side-on to the camera with a Lechonk behind him that has its ears raised, causing it to look surprised, due to the fact it appears to be getting an eyeful of his... intimate area.
• In Skwovet's Kitakami album art, it's happily staring at the player from a corner. Change it to Greedent, and it's in the exact same spot, which may look a bit creepy.

The Teal Mask

• The beginning of the DLC has Jacq call you to tell you that you have been chosen for the Kitakami trip, which can be funny if you happen to be in his physical presence upon activating the DLC.
• Traveling to or from Kitakami is accompanied by a little image of a large passenger plane, which in turn is accompanied by a Dragonite matching the plane's speed and then zipping past it, referencing dex entries that speak of its globe-circling flight prowess.
• After reading the first sign at Loyalty Plaza, Kieran offers a sandwich break before heading to the next signboard. Just at the mere mention of "sandwich", your cover legendary comes out of their Poké Ball, eager to have lunch. The sandwich break doesn't happen though, the cover legendary tilting its head as if to say "No sandwiches, then?" before being returned back into its Poké Ball.
  • Kieran wonders if Koraidon/Miraidon is a kaiju, and both of the dialogue options sound like the player character got confused over what the heck a kaiju is.
  • Going back to the sandwich joke, it's implied the player character mentioned the 'raidon's love of sandwiches, since Kieran's response has him mention that it routinely pops out of its ball any time sandwiches are mentioned.
• Attempting to use League Points to buy stuff at the town shop yields nothing as the shopkeeper has never heard of them, asking if it's one of those "cryptic currencies".
  • Eventually, the old shopkeeper will install a console so she can process League Points, but it will take a few more interactions on the player's part.
• Two NPCs you can interact with/battle are a pair of rich people on vacation. It becomes immediately apparent how Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense they are when you first talk to them; the female of the duo has no idea how to interact with a "commoner," wondering if it's bad manners to shake your hand and outright asking if she should ask you for an autograph. Mind you, she's apparently the president of a realty business!
  • One of their best moments is when you follow them to Glaseado Mountain, and Billy brags about how warm their clothing is... and he's going barefoot and has his chest exposed, while O'Nare is wearing a sleeveless shirt. Then they wonder if the player character is freezing, even if you dressed them in something that covers most of their body, like the spring or winter uniforms.
  • After you complete their sidequest, they ask if you were only following them to teach them a lesson about how they're not as different from the "commoners" as they thought. Given how big a payout they give you each time you talk to them, it's safe to say this likely wasn't the player's intention, which makes saying "yes" a Sure, Let's Go with That moment.
• As opposed to the professionalism of every other nurse in the games,^note Not counting the Team Skull members that run the Pokémon Center in Po Town. the nurse at the Mossui Community Center is constantly flicking through her phone looking like she'd rather be anywhere else.
  • Her dialogue is also way more casual than most Pokémon Center nurses, and she has a bored/annoyed look on her face when she heals up your team. If she recharges your Tera Orb, she apparently barely knows what it even is despite having the facilities to recharge it.
  • Unlike all other Pokémon Centers, the Mossui one is just a table under a gazebo. If you walk around the table and interact with the nurse, she tells you in an annoyed fashion to stop standing so close to her and go back to the other side of the counter.
• There's a trainer with a (Johtonian) Wooper who gushes over how much he loves Wooper because it's so blue. After you beat him, he expresses surprise that Paldean Wooper are brown... but then says that they're still cute anyway.
• The ice cream stand at the festival sells two things: flower ice cream in a cup, and flower ice cream in a cone. The description for the ice cream cone states that the choice of serving vessel somehow makes the ice cream taste different despite it otherwise being the same, which is reflected by the cup and cone granting the player a completely different set of Meal Powers.
• The description for the candied Rawst Berries state that despite how bitter it tastes to humans, scores of children keep buying them because they look good. Eating the berries will cause the player and their entire team of Pokémon to collapse dramatically.
• A trainer on Kitakami Hill will comment on how good the player is at climbing hills and wonders if they've been training on "a big stairway or something". Keep in mind that the player character attends a school famous for its giant entry staircase.
• When you're about to go into Ogerpon's den, Kieran asks if you had trouble walking up the path to get there. This becomes unintentionally hilarious if you just used your 'raidon to climb up the cliff near the waterfall and bypass the intended route there.
• If you use a super-effective move on Carmine's Pokémon during the second battle with her, she'll wonder if you're using them because you're mad about her family not having a spare festival mask.
• There is a minigame at Kitakami Hall, Ogre Oustin'. Before your first outing, Carmine brags about her high score. If you manage to beat Carmine's score on the very first try, she'll freak out and ask Kieran to beat your score. If you fail to beat Carmine's score, she'll start gloating about how her position as top scorer is secure, then she'll shove Kieran into playing the game anyway.
• Should you play dumb about what the "thing" is that Carmine wants to talk about, she'll start disguising the word "ogre" as "yogurt." At another point, she'll shout that she would have made us swallow a Koffing if we had told Kieran the secret.
• Carmine tells you to show her grandpa the "thing" in your bag (Ogerpon's mask), but nothing stops you from showing him anything else in your bag, to Carmine's annoyance.
• It's a very tense moment, thanks to the Dramatic Irony of Kieran having overheard the conversation you and Carmine had about seeing seeing Ogerpon, but the ensuing photo that's taking at the third shrine utterly reeks of awkwardness. The player character is smiling but clearly very uncomfortable, while Kieran is giving you the mother of all side-eyes.
• It happens at an intense moment, but Kieran's response to you defeating him at the Loyalty Plaza is to punch the memorial in frustration... then let out an adorable little "Owww..." while shaking his now clearly very hurt hand. Apparently, he'd never hit something hard in anger before.
• The first thing the Loyal Three do after their revival (before spotting you and Carmine, that is) is look around their surroundings in the dust of their now-ruined memorial...with Okidogi even smelling the air.
• Carmine's increasingly intense response to the villagers having fed the Loyal Trio sure is serious, but the manner in which she freaks out is what sells the scene. First, the Loyal Trio asked for the masks (cue the freak out take). Then they asked for food and got special Mochi (cue yet another freak out). Then the trio went to clobber Ogerpon (cue the third freak out).
• After saving Ogerpon from the Loyal Three, she wants to follow you down to the village. However, she then gets nervous about actually going in there. When Carmine tries to tell her to stay put, her phrasing makes it sound like she's talking to a misbehaving pet or very young child. The player then asks her to wait in a way that's much nicer, to which Ogerpon happily agrees. Carmine has no idea why Ogerpon was so confused when she did it.
  Carmine: What was wrong with what I said?!
• Carmine and Keiran fail to pick up any clues about the Loyal Trio's whereabouts once they all scatter in different directions. Carmine's menacing behavior immediately makes people not want to talk to her, and Keiran is just too shy to ask.
• Carmine has some rather interesting dialogues when confronting the members of the Loyal Trio.
  • Upon seeing Okidogi, Carmine will state that its "scarf" is too good for the Pokémon.
  • When retrieving the mask from Fezandipiti, Carmine takes a moment to concede that, even though it's her enemy right now, it's still pretty... And then she adds that its beauty reminds her of herself.
• The nerdy Naranja/Uva Academy student who is paired up with Carmine for the project very clearly has a crush on her, and ends up accusing you of hogging all her attention when she asks him to relay messages to you.
• After introducing herself Perrin asks if she can take the player's photo. If they answer yes, then she'll ask if they usually are so trusting of people they've just met and remarks that she's a bit worried about them. Not that that stops her from taking the photo anyway of course.
• Perrin gets very... enthusiastic while photographing a Poliwhirl in the Timeless Woods. You can repeatedly opt to listen in as she gets more and more excited, to the point that she says she needs more memory space for her camera, and a napkin, presumably because she was drooling. When she finally notices the player character, she asks how much they overheard before quickly deciding she doesn't want to know.
• Perrin's handy Pokémon Searcher is a rather miraculous piece of tech that can outright track down specific Pokémon over a wide area, but Perrin is not particularly machine-literate as she admits she just parrots what the manual says, that she got the machine at a thrift store and she has no idea how it really works. She's amused by the sounds it makes too.
  Perrin: But... that jingle... I'm pretty sure that's the same one my dryer plays when it's done with a load...
• When taking photos for Perrin's "Survey Report", you can goof off and take photos of her Growlithe which she comments with cutesy reactions, or of herself, where she hopes you got her good side.
• Regarding Perrin, it's strongly implied that she's a descendant of Adaman, the Diamond Clan leader from Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Her blue jeans even feature the same diamond shape of the Clan's emblem, in the form of a pocket... on her butt.
• Perrin's Growlithe ends up cowering when facing the Bloodmoon Ursaluna, leading to Perrin remarking afterward that they need to work on his nerves. He reacts by cutely falling over.
• Perrin gets so excited about the chance of seeing the Bloodmoon Beast that she forgets to ask the player's name, which she sheepishly admits once the sidequest is over. This explains why she was just calling you "partner" the whole time...
• Since the Loyalty Plaza was wrecked by the "Loyal" Three's resurrection, the caretaker started a fundraiser called the "We Love Loyalty Plaza" drive to rebuild the shrine for the sake of touri... historical significance. Naturally, since the trio was revealed to be Evil All Along, no one has donated with the player even having the option to outright say they don't care about it.
  • When it is eventually rebuilt, the shrine looks exactly the same as it did before it was destroyed, with the excuse given that the builders intentionally reproduced the weathered details to make it look old.
  • Also, the construction workers go into Visible Silence when the caretaker starts rambling about how much tourism this will bring to Kitakami, perfectly echoing what the player is likely thinking.
• Deep within the system of caves in Oni Mountain you'll find a trainer with the rather random words "my goo..." being said if you approach her. This is in reference to her Goomy, and after you defeat her she has an equally funny reaction:
  Trainer: No Goomy! Don't go into the light!

The Indigo Disk

• Cyrano calls Director Clavell "Velly". Clavell is not pleased in the slightest.
  • Clavell's annoyance at Cyrano being too casual around a student comes off as Hypocritical Humor when you remember how ridiculous "Clive" was during Starfall Street.
• Should you say "no" to Cyrano's invitation to Blueberry Academy he'll idly note that you'll be able to return to Paldea pretty much whenever you want, basically an in-universe observation for how simple it is in-game to take a plane ride to the different DLC regions.
• As in the Teal Mask, you have the opportunity to be a sassy little shit to Carmine.
  • When she asks if you missed her, you can answer "No", to which she will angrily ask if all the "wonderful memories" with her "just withered away" while you were apart.
  • When Drayton suggests you speak with him during a "cafeteria date", Carmine is immediately furious. When she rhetorically asks what he meant by that, your second response option is "Well, you see, a date is...", much to Carmine's consternation.
    Carmine: No, I KNOW what a date is! Were you seriously about to explain it to me?
• If you use a super effective move against Carmine in her battle here, she'll complain about it again, this time directly saying that you should've used "one of those not very effective moves" for once.
• Carmine's beef with Drayton is pretty funny, especially when she refers to him as a "toothpaste-haired bozo".
  • How Carmine introduces Drayton:
    Carmine: This is Drayton, he's the worst.
• As Drayton helps to get you acquainted and adjusted with the Club room equipment, he also offers the snacks in the room to you, but Carmine advices you against taking him up on the offer.^note  For the rest of the DLC story, you can have the Player Character inspect the snacks and elicit a reaction about them but will never be given an option of taking or eating any of them.
  Drayton: For a limited time, you can have as many of these snacks as you want!
  Carmine: Those are all your snacks, Drayton — snacks you leave around opened and half-finished. I wouldn't go near any of 'em. Who knows how long they've been sitting around.
• While meeting Drayton at the cafeteria for the "date", he tells you about the [Blueberry] Academy Special, claiming that "it's so soft, you can just gulp it down" with barely the need to chew, at which point you can pick one of the two choices as reaction. If you pick the first one ("Wow, that sounds tasty!"), he'll say the two of you will get along just fine. Should you select the second one ("...Chew your food, Drayton.")?
  Drayton: Heh heh! You and my ma would get along.
• When Drayton brings up he has brought Kieran's "old pal" to the cafeteria, the player character responds by showing Kieran a smile that is both bright and obviously nervous.
• You can pay the Art Club to redecorate your League Club. While the results are genuinely impressive, several of the new decorations are actually just painted cardboard since they're art students, not experienced designers with a wealth of high-quality resources. You can also see part of the Futuristic style's monitors with some of the brown surface under the paint, the large golden sigil is explicitly mentioned to be well-decorated cardboard and the helmets are just 2D drawings.
• After an unpleasant encounter with Kieran, Carmine angrily yells at Drayton for dragging you into this drama and Drayton acts like it was your idea to sign up for the BB League. Should you say "no", he will twist your words to make it sound like you said "no doubt about it."
• Amarys asks you to bring out a Pokemon you can fly on. After bringing out your Koraidon/Miraidon, it cries out "Agias!" Amarys takes Pokémon Speak to its logical conclusion and assumes your legendary is named "Agias", which she persists on using. What makes it even funnier is the fact that you apparently don't correct her on this, despite there being a lot of dialog choices in the game in which your player character proudly declares their correct name.
• The picture when you beat Amarys has both of you making a heart shape with your hands. Amarys with the same completely serious expression she always has while your characer looks completely flabbergasted about it.
  • Even funnier, after you rematch Amarys for the first time, she teaches you the pose for photos. She then claims Carmine taught it to her and said that it would instantly ensure victory if she used it. This hilariously ties into Carmine's Proud Beauty status and makes Amarys look even more like The Comically Serious.
• The trainer in the Coastal Biome that uses Luvdisc and Pikachu which stands out amongst the other really hard fights present.
• Lacey's way of pointing at the Pokémon during her Trivia trial.
• Crispin's trial consists of making a super spicy sandwich for him to eat. Once you succeed, the animation shows almost all of Crispin's face turning red, and he fans himself as he starts sweating. The eating animation features him surrounded by Magmortar.
  • It also appears that Game Freak has learned about how players will often toss the top sandwich bread off to the side for the sake of efficiency, because if you do so for Crispin's sandwich he will ask if it is a Paldean tradition to make sandwiches without the top bread.
• Drayton's Elite Trial brings a nostalgic feeling of Kabu's Gym Challenge but the difference is, you're only allowed to use Pokémon caught in the Terrarium. His reason? So that the player doesn't simply soundly defeat the other challengers with their High-leveled, likely fully EV trained Team.
• After beating your fourth Elite Four member, Drayton and Kieran both snark at each other for being so fixated on the player character.
• Cyrano's repeated lighthearted observations of just how incredibly expensive the Terarium has been to both build and maintain, making one wonder just how rich this man may be.
• There's a couple in the Canyon biome who bonded over their shared interest in Corviknight. The boy says he heard about Corviknight having a predator in another region and wonders how scary a Pokémon that willingly attacks a giant metal bird could be. By this point, the player is guaranteed to have seen said predator: Tinkaton, a cute pink Fairy-type gremlin that wields a hammer larger than it is tall.
  • Even better, the Flying Taxi in Blueberry Academy uses fellow Steel/Flying type Skarmory. One can only wonder what would happen if some Tinkatons managed to establish a population in the Terarium.
• Defeating Kieran has him enter a state of total shock and disbelief right as Briar calls you over to her classroom. It's a tense moment to be sure, but there's nothing stopping you from standing near the defeated Kieran and taking a selfie with him, as if to rub tons of salt in the wound. Even funnier, since the Elite Four are nearby, they'll smile happily when you're near them like most NPCs do, giving the impression that they approve of your gloating (ESPECIALLY Drayton).
• When the Player Character, Drayton, Carmine, and Kieran enter the classroom where Briar awaits them, she suggests for everyone to take a seat while she fills them in on the situation before the guests who left the classroom mere minutes ago return. Drayton complies at once, though Carmine is critical about his wording.
  Drayton: Don't mind if I do. These knees are creakin'.
  Carmine: Oh, please. You're not old enough for that yet!
• After Geeta enters the classroom and reveals more details about the upcoming official expedition into Area Zero, Briar requests for the students to join her in said expedition. Unlike the other students, Drayton decides to Opt Out, claiming that he needs to help sort out the current state of the Blueberry League Club, but Carmine counters by calling him out on his Brilliant, but Lazy attitudes, to which Drayton concedes.
  Drayton: Sorry, but I'll pass on this one. The League Club's a whole mess right now. We need my steady hand on the wheel here.
  Carmine: Suuure. You just can't be bothered to travel all the way to Paldea, can you?
  Drayton: Heh heh. Guilty.
• When approaching Geeta, she mentions that she's proud of the player character for still giving their all even while abroad, with one of the responses you can give being "That's what champions do!" Then Rika comes out and angrily starts scolding the player character since she found out about them going to Area Zero without permission of the League. One of your possible responses is "That's... what champions do...?"
  • Keep in mind Rika was only referring to the first time the player goes to Area Zero. It appears she hasn't heard about the other hundred times the average player has gone down there.
• When the non-Paldean personnel leaves the classroom in preparation for the official Area Zero expedition, Geeta gives an item to the Player Character with the aim of getting the latter to research into any possible role said item might have inside Area Zero. Rika, however, is not convinced that it's a good idea and snarks in turn, reacting with Facepalm for good measure.
  Rika: While he/she's there, huh? Did you want him/her to pick up some potato salad on the way back, too?
• Upon witnessing the landscape of Area Zero, everyone except the Player Character reacts in awe. This includes Kieran, who mutters "wowzers", which gets Carmine's attention and causes Kieran to look away from her. It takes place more than once, too. Later, Kieran specifically says "it's like a spy movie" when you're trying to get into the Zero Lab.
• Koraidon/Miraidon unexpectedly pops out of its Poké Ball while Kieran is talking to the Player Character about his/her previous sojourn into Area Zero, which gives Carmine a Jump Scare, and she's not pleased.
  Carmine: Honestly! You're too big to come popping out like that, er... Whatchama-don!
  • Carmine calls the 'Raidon "Watchama-don" a couple of times before finally using its actual name.
• Carmine gets so excited in the Zero Lab that she runs off and bangs her head on something, proceeding to loudly complain that it is too dark in there, leading to Kieran chastising her like his old self.
• Briar is so distracted by the research papers in the Zero Lab that getting her to go to the elevator involves Carmine speaking to her as if she were a hyper child with attention span issues. Briar reacts as if going further "down" was the only thing she heard Carmine say:
  Briar: "Down" you say?
• Briar makes a comment about the elevator everyone is riding within, causing Carmine to remark due to Briar sounding like a Captain Obvious in her words.
  Briar: Oh, wonderful! This elevator just keeps going further and further down!
  Carmine: That's... what elevators do.
• Remember how Arven tells you that you can call The Flying Taxi even if you're currently inside the forbidden Area Zero? You can still call them to pick you up even if you're in the Underdepths. It's one thing picking up a client standing on the outdoors of a forbidden area, it's completely another to pick up a client currently underground when the only way to access that place is to first go down an extremely long elevator.
• It happens at an intense moment, but Briar's singleminded obsession with Terapagos leads to her obliviously reading a guidebook about it while Kieran is throwing a heartwrenching Motive Rant at his sister and the player, and then when she finally stops reading, she gleefully calls out "Yep, that's Terapagos alright!" and starts encouraging Kieran to keep pulling it out of the crystal. Makes you wonder if she even heard anything that was being said during this whole scene.
• If you get a critical hit against Kieran after he catches Terapagos, he complains about it and says it's like you're the hero of the story. Well, he's not wrong...
• Once Terapagos starts terastalizing, Briar really starts hamming it up with her body language. She's that excited.
  • Even before this, Briar's primary animation whenever she's excited or astonished has her flail her arms around in a way that looks rather silly.
• After the DLC's main story wraps up, Amarys will give you the substance she fed your Legendary during her trial so you can feed it yourself whenever you need to fly. Koiraidon/Miradon promptly pops out of its Poke Ball and eats all of it at once, despite Amarys' protests over the danger of consuming so much of it, giving it the ability to fly whenever it wants. In a club room conversation Amarys will confide how extraordinary your "Agias" must be to not have been harmed.
• Similarly to Area Zero, the Blueberry Academy also has an example of ridiculous flying... You're free to fly directly out of the Terrarium to anywhere else you please, even though the Terrarium is underwater. How exactly do the planes get down there?
• A side quest available after completing the DLC's story will have the player helping the Team Star Admins with studying. However, since they're all actually in uniform for once, the player can hardly recognize them, especially in their dialogue and it's possible to completely miss them while looking for them.
  • Eri is by far the least recognizable of the Star bosses, but she thinks it was obvious all along and the player must've recognized her. In her defense, she is still pretty distinct in a different way.
  • When Eri re-introduces you to Atticus and Ortega, the former is quick to give a Shakespearean description of how absolutely beautiful Eri looks in her uniform. Eri points out that, while she appreciates it, all this tells her is that she's distracting him from his studies.
  • Upon the Player Character appearing in front of the other Team Star Admins, Atticus is chill with his/her presence, whereas Ortega reacts with indignation at once, more so upon Giacomo revealing that the Player Character will serve as their tutor, and it takes a very angry Eri intimidating him into subservience before he backs down and apologizes.
    Ortega: YOU?! What the—? Noooooo no no no, why is this happening?! [...] He's/She's gonna be WHAT?! Since when?! You can't just go stomping around deciding stuff like this without asking anyone, Giacomo! [turns towards the Player Character] And YOU! We don't need a tutor! Do us a favor and toddle on home, would you?
    Eri: Ortie... <player> came all the way here to help us. To talk to him/her in that way... I S U N A C C E P T A B L E . . . R I G H T ? [...] W H A T W A S T H A T ? I D I D N ' T H E A R Y O U !
  • Even after being strong-armed into accepting the Player Character as tutor, Ortega remains unhappy about the prospect and will say so should you talk to him after being tasked with finding Mela.
    Ortega: If you signed yourself up to tutor us, you must be pretty confident in your book smarts, huh? Tch. Why does a jerk like you get all the talent? You. Are. The. WORST.
  • It should be noted Mela still does her odd walk despite not wearing her usual boots (though slightly less exaggerated than before). Force of habit?
  • Eri puts her hair back to its natural color, and Mela straightens hers... but Giacomo still has his huge, ridiculous hairstyle, making him one of the more recognizable Star bosses.
  • One of the books Ortega is reading in the Team Star epilogue is a story about a Maushold family getting divorced.
  • Penny joining the scene is mostly heartwarming... until she suggests hacking the school's computers to fix everyone's grades. She quickly tries to pass this off as a joke.
• In the Savannah biome of the Terarium, one might find a very familiar-looking rock formation with a Pyroar standing on its ledge.
• Special coach conversations:
  • Iono asks Larry why his face isn't shown in his league pic, and he bluntly states as an adult, he has made the right connections to pull it off without getting scolded for it. As for why he did that in the first place, it was because if his face was recognizable, he'd get crowded and not be allowed to enter restaurants.
    Iono: Daaang. You're adulting like a pro, Larry.
  • Grusha tells Iono that he liked her older content better, taking more risks as opposed to doing stuff purely for upping her view count. As you might expect, she's furious to hear this.
    Iono: Ooof, you're one of THOSE fans! This is why I quit reading the comments!
  • If you invite Grusha to the club room, he'll complain about how the AC is up too high and he's freezing. It makes you wonder how he deals with having his gym up on Glaseado Mountain... or if the club room is somehow even colder than that.
  • The fact that you can invite Poppy to be a special coach to students older than her by about a year to almost twice her age. Unfortunately for her people keep mistaking her for a lost child, which she rants about to Rika if the two are in the club room together. Her angry animation when she first complains to Rika isn't exactly helping her case either.
  • Lacey also thinks that Poppy is simply a small kid wandering around Blueberry Academy until Poppy happily tells her that she's one of Paldea's Elite Four and she's here as a coach. Lacey promptly goes into Cuteness Proximity and offers Poppy some juice and cookies, to Poppy's delight.
  • If you invite Brassius to the club room, he expresses the desire to climb up the Terarium's dome to see Briar's Terastal sphere. He must really enjoy high places. In a later conversation he relates that he took the opportunity of being in Unova to travel to the "art gallery" (read: Gym) of fellow artist Burgh, wherein he marvelled at the silk elevators, and even somehow became tangled up in them. He loved the experience, feeling like he became "part of the art". He then notes that he didn't see anyone else doing this, so perhaps what happened to him wasn't intended, and come to think of it, he didn't see any paintings on display either, so maybe that place wasn't actually an art gallery at all...
  • Raifort asking Jacq if he can help her with an ancient ritual... one that apparently requires an adult male as a sacri— err, "assistant". Jacq agrees to it without hesitation.
  • What do you get from Hassel during his first visit? A moved to tears reaction for photos, of course!
  • In a conversation with Drayton, Hassel reveals that he knows Drayden and thus has met Drayton before. He scolds Drayton for having to repeat a year several times, prompting Drayton to grumble in embarrassment about his grandpa telling everyone about his bad grades.
  • A conversation between Hassel and Geeta reveals that the reason why the Elite Four shout to each other when it's time to battle the next member is because the bell that's supposed to alert them has been broken for months, and the repair crew has been too busy to fix it. Hassel insists that it's not a high priority, and explains the shouting workaround to Geeta, but Geeta immediately figures out why Hassel wants it fixed.
    Geeta: The problem is Larry, yes?
    • The fact that Hassel just silently nods in response makes it even funnier.
    • Larry separately also comments on this, lamenting that it's Hassel who comes after him and not Rika or Poppy who should be able to hear his soft voice just fine.
  • Rika tells Larry he needs to enunciate more and tries to make him do a tongue twister. When she complains that it's like he's not even trying, Larry bluntly admits that he wasn't trying very hard. This causes Rika to yell in frustration and beg for Hassel to come deal with Larry instead, leading to....
  • Hassel noticing Larry's silence in the midst of lecturing the latter, causing him to start yelling. Larry hesitantly remarks that Hassel is going to scold him some more if he responds with anything, to which Hassel urges Larry to just be honest as that may actually calm Hassel down. So Larry says that he doesn't immediately respond because he has just literally fallen asleep standing up, causing Hassel to scream.
  • After you defeat Clavell the first time as a coach, he gives you... his Clive wig. And he still tries to maintain the Paper-Thin Disguise by claiming "a friend" told him to give it to you, despite the fact that he's long since revealed his true identity to you.
  • Speaking of, a conversation between Clavell and Tyme reveals that at some point, Tyme walked in on Clavell trying on his Clive disguise. It's as funny as it sounds.
  • Raifort can mention that Clavell not being available to "snoop around in [her] business" is a perk of being invited to Blueberry Academy, even if Clavell is standing right next to her.
  • Jacq will mention how he forgot to change out of his sandals, and worries that Clavell will get mad at him if he finds out that Jacq went to another school looking like he was on vacation. He also gives the player a copy of his hexagon glasses, saying that now they can be "glasses twins." And if Clavell is in the same room as Jacq, he will indeed roast Jacq for the latter's sloppy dress code. Especially the sandals.
  • When you invite Miriam for the second time, she says that her class went well in the sense that her teaching was good... But then she complains that she accidentally went to the wrong classroom, so the students must've thought she was some crazy lady who just randomly marched in to teach them about health.
  • Miriam tells Jacq that the only teacher who ends up in the nurse's office more than him is Dendra. He jokingly replies that if he's in second place, he needs to beat Dendra's record, much to Miriam's annoyance.
  • Katy badly attempts to rap in her conversation with Ryme. In response, Ryme describes it as scary... which says something, coming from her. Also, Katy takes her statement to "hit the dictionary" literally.
  • Poppy asks Larry if she's his best friend, causing Larry to change the subject by talking about Komala. Poppy instantly sees through his diversion and says that indecisive adults are just the worst. Naturally, Larry groans about how he can't even catch a break from her.
• BB Elite Four have some comedic moments among themselves:
  • Amarys asks Lacey to clarify what she means by calling things "cute" using a few specific examples, and it seems to be going well... until Lacey says that big and small things can be cute, causing Amarys to get confused and give up. The fact that Amarys takes this seriously at first makes it even funnier.
  • Crispin asks Amarys for some of the flight-enhancing substance, his reason being that he fancies the possibility of flying on his Magmortar. Too bad for him Amarys flatly refuses (since the Pokémon needs to have some inherent flight capability for the herbal supplement to work), for which Crispin calls her a "wet blanket".
  • Crispin's dialogue with Drayton has him accusing the latter of scheming behind the scene regarding the League Club through the Indigo Disk story, for which Drayton admits is true. Drayton then prods Crispin to further list the things the former did in the scheme, which Crispin obliges... until he runs out of ideas and gives up right when there's only one more thing to mention to complete the full list, after which he scolds Drayton for scheming and follows up by asking the latter to let him in on the scheme in the future.
  • The conversation between Amarys and Drayton involves Amarys expressing her displeasure with Drayton for turning in his report late, at which point Drayton uses her remark as proof that he did turn it in. Since Amarys is Bothering by the Book while Drayton is a Brilliant, but Lazy Delinquent, the dialogue ends without either of them agreeing with the other.
  • Lacey demands that Drayton pull his weight and help out the duties the Elite Four members are tasked with, but Drayton keeps looking for ways to skirt his responsibilities, first by claiming that he'd just mess up and end up getting the other fellow members more stuff to clean up after (which Lacey agrees with, if grudgingly), and then by saying he's too sluggish and tired to do anything. The dialogue ends with Lacey being unable to even get Drayton off the seat.
    Lacey: [crossing her arms in the X shape] NO! That's just NOT right!
    Drayton: It feels pretty right to me!
  • Lacey and Crispin's conversation starts with Lacey noticing Crispin acting energetic and Crispin responding in turn that he just had a big meal before telling her that many a boy still growing would tend to be a Big Eater. Then Crispin shifts the subject by asking Lacey something, only to clam up before finishing the question, which Lacey notes is not the first time this has happened.
• There's something funny in hindsight when you compare Terapagos with previous third legendaries, particularly the ones who are responsible for the regional mechanics in their respective games. First, we have Necrozma, whose Ultra form is a tall, majestic golden dragon dwarfing the player. Next, we have Eternatus, the aptly-named Gigantic Pokémon, whose ginormous Eternamax makes Wailord look like an ant. Now, we first see a picture of Terapagos in Heath's book, which paints it as an absolute behemoth the size of at least an island...... only to find out later that Terapagos, especially in normal form, is a tiny itty bitty little baby barely the size of a housecat.
  • While it happens in a tense moment, there's something a bit funny about its first moments on screen. Briar is deep in her obsession with finding it, Kieran is ranting while trying to pull out the crystal... and then Terapagos pops out, yawns adorably, and looks up at the player character with its big literally-starry eyes. The Mood Whiplash is real.
  • The look on the protagonist's face when they see Terapagos immediately start walking towards them with interest. You can practically hear them thinking "Oh no, I'm going to give Kieran an existential crisis again!"
  • The Stellar Tera crown is a majestic crown surrounded by hexagons of the 18 types surrounding it like a Holy Halo... and on top of that crown lies a simplified replica of normal form Terapagos. And yes, the figurine is part of the entire crown, regardless of which Stellar-Tera Pokémon you terastalize.

Epilogue: Mochi Mayhem

• The way Arven nervously asks if he can come hang out at your house at the beginning makes it sound like he's trying to ask you out on a date. He proceeds to try to police Penny and Nemona during the visit, in particular criticizing Penny for what he sees as a lack of manners, leading to them sniping at each other. Nemona on the other hand is a fount of constant positivity, rushing about, offering to help at every turn and shouting enough to make Arven wonder if she has never heard of an indoor voice.
• Penny seems to be crushing on your mom.
  Penny: And she's so pretty my brain literally glitched when I saw her!
• When the player tells everyone about Kieran, Nemona excitedly says she has to meet this guy if he's the former champion of a prestigious battling school. Penny snarks that by "meet," she means "battle," and Nemona promptly admits she was right.
• It’s highly implied that Penny's dad is PEONY of all people since he calls her trip to Kitakami an "Adven-Tour", and Penny proceeds to emulate his frequent use of "ultra-mega" in speech.
• Penny binging "internet goodness" on her way to Kitakami for fear of losing service once there, and then her reaction to finding out Kieran is not so blessed with technology.
  Penny: EXCUSE me? He doesn't have a smartphone?! How is this kid even alive?!
  Nemona: He must not want any distractions from training!
  • What's funny is that judging from Mossui Town's Pokécenter nurse, Penny's worry about getting no signal is likely unfounded, meaning that she got herself carsick in vain.
• When everyone meets Kieran, Arven just has to butt in and say that he's the player's best friend, making him come off as a Crazy Jealous Guy and irritating Penny. Meanwhile, Nemona introduces herself by running right up to Kieran's face, freaking the kid out. She soon challenges him to a battle and runs off, leaving Kieran unsure what just happened and what he is supposed to do.
• Penny remarking that introverts like her and Kieran know how to recognize one another.
• The sight of Carmine suddenly breaking into a chicken dance, accompanied by ridiculous music, all while able to say nothing but variations on "mochi" is as hilarious as it is disconcerting.
  • Notably (unlike the aggressive mochi victims encountered later), when the player character calls out to her, Carmine turns and in a chipper manner "talks" to them while continuing her dance as if it were a normal greeting.
  • Nemona, meanwhile, Comically Misses The Point and doesn't see anything unusual with Carmine's behavior, instead happily thinking she must just be excited and wants to battle her.
  • Despite their concern about Carmine's state, the gang nevertheless bob their heads to the rhythm of her chicken dance.
  • While we don't see it, it's stated the group had to carry the struggling and dancing Carmine back to her room.
• Penny's reaction to Nemona bringing soda to the welcome party:
  Penny: Sugar and carbonation — my two love languages!
• Arven lampshading that the television in the Community Center shows nothing but a repeating tourism ad, and asking if they can watch something else. Kieran reveals he feels the same but that the Caretaker hid the remote. While the remote is eventually found, Nemona going missing means we never get to see them try to get something else on the screen.
• Pecharunt's attack:
  • Kieran:
    • Poor Kieran can't catch a break. By the climax of the epilogue, he and the player (and a local nurse) manage to avoid being possessed by Pecharunt. How? Well, the player manages to dodge the poisoning mochi launched by Pecharunt, but Keiran? Well, Keiran avoids eating the mochi...because it misses his mouth and hits him smack dab in the forehead. Also, just the fact that Kieran isn't possessed given how just about every person playing the game thought that he would be under the control of the then unnamed Pecharunt during the events of The Indigo Disk.
    • Kieran is shown with a dazed expression before rubbing his forehead after Pecharunt attacks the party with mochi, indicating that the mochi hitting his head was somehow just that painful. Just what is in those things!? Alternately, just how hard is Pecharunt throwing them?
  • Meanwhile, Arven and Penny have the mochi shot right into their mouths so they are compelled to eat it, while the player character nonchalantly dodges the mochi by tilting their head to the side. The player's dodge is even given a dramatic slightly-slow motion effect for extra comedy.
• While there are unsettling implications behind it, Kieran observes that Arven looks "embarrassed" at the dance he's being forced to do when Pecharunt possesses him. Indeed, if you pay attention to Arven's dance, he looks like he's trying his hardest not to swing his arms.
• Penny is noted to be dancing more excitedly than the other possessed people, and indeed does various things to indicate she is subconsciously really enjoying experiencing such a classic "trope" as possession, even donning her hood at one point for extra effect.
  • Additionally, if Peony is indeed her father, being unwillingly possessed by a Pokémon now runs in the family (although Peony is lucky that Calyrex is friendlier).
• The only local aside from Kieran who avoided being possessed by Pecharunt is the nurse at the Mossui Community Center, who still stays on her phone and does her job despite noticing the weirdness that transpires in the town.
• After defeating Penny and Arven, Pecharunt tries to sneak away while you and Kieran are checking on your friends. Kieran notices it trying to leave and demands it to stop. Pecharunt panics and runs away with Kieran chasing after it.
• Nemona battle:
  • Despite being possessed, Nemona is still able to talk enough to show how much she is enjoying the battle. Kieran even comments how even the possession isn't enough to overcome her love for battling.
  • Her team during this battle now includes a Kommo-o and a Milotic/Dusknoir/Ribombee (depending on starter), all of whom are found in Kitakami but not Paldea. Meaning she somehow caught two new Pokémon and trained them up to be on par with the rest of her team (who are all in the high 80s) in less than a day since you arrived. Given that she isn't shown to have separated from the group until she goes off to buy snacks, this means she had to have done this either during said snack run (which is implied to have not taken very long)... or while she was possessed. Nemona confirms herself in a League Club conversation with Hassel that she caught the Kommo-o when she went to Kitakami, though she doesn't specify further.
  • Even funnier, she's last seen running towards Kitakami Hall, and you don't see her again while you head back to Mossui Town and later go to Loyalty Plaza where you finally battle her. Kitakami Hall and Loyalty Plaza are situated at the opposite directions from Mossui Town^note Kitakami Hall is to the east, Loyalty Plaza to the west, opening up the possibility that Nemona somehow runs all the way around Oni Mountain from Kitakami Hall to Loyalty Plaza.
• You can send Pecharunt's former minions, the Loyal Three, out against it and it will react with appropriate surprise.
• After catching Pecharunt and freeing Mossui Town from its curse, the gang checks on Nemona, who exclaims "Mochi MATCH!!!" Everyone worries about Nemona still being under Pecharunt's curse... then she asks if they found the TV remote.
  Arven: THAT'S what you want to know?!
  • Talking to Nemona in her dorm room after completing the epilogue has her continue to say "Mochi-mochi MATCH!" despite being free of Pecharunt's curse, noting that while she doesn't remember much of that night, she still finds it fun to say.
• Nemona battles Carmine and Kieren each at least a dozen times offscreen during her short stay in Kitakami... and still wishes she could have battled them more as everyone else, including the player, reacts in shades of disbelief and resignation.
  Penny: Welcome to the Nemona Survivors Club...
• Arven apologizes to Kieran for his Crazy Jealous Guy behavior at the beginning of the epilogue. Not only did Kieran not even notice, Carmine proceeds to give Arven permission to flex on Kieran as much as he likes.
• League Club conversations after the epilogue:
  • Arven and Penny's League Club conversation has Arven pestering Penny to eat her vegetables, while Penny thinks she doesn't need them. Arven claims that her body could get all mushy, causing Penny to freak out and demand a source.
    Arven: My... sauce? So if I put some sauce on your veggies, you'll eat them?!
    Penny: No, that's not... Ugh, never mind. Just tell me if that mushy-body thing is actually real! Here, I'll even eat a carrot or something right now — just hurry up and tell me the truth!!!
  • In Arven's League Club conversation with Crispin, we learn that Crispin apparently sleeps with his frying pan the way one would sleep with a teddy bear. Arven is justifiably weirded out by this.
  • Arven and Nemona's conversation reveals that Arven started challenging Gyms, but was trying to keep it secret from Nemona. She finds out anyway, and reacts exactly as you'd expect.
    Arven: See?! This is why I didn't want you to find out! I knew you'd be like this, you battle maniac!
  • Geeta asks Penny if she's looking into the school's BP system, likely referencing how Penny stole a bunch of LP during Starfall Street. Penny quickly insists she's just there because the player character asked her to come. Geeta pauses before saying that's fine, causing Penny to freak out at the dramatic silence and ask Geeta not to do that again.
  • Nemona and Lacey appear to know each other and the latter mentions an incident at a party from a quite long time before where Nemona cannot help herself by challenging Lacey's father Clay, in a Pokémon battle, while wearing a fancy dress. Even better, Clay himself found it absolutely hilarious and an offer for a proper battle between them is currently on the table.
  • Carmine will happily praise the player character for coming to say hello to her, then tell them that they need to do this every time they see her, within two seconds flat!
  • Carmine will ask if the player character recorded any footage of her dancing while under Pecharunt's influence. If they answer yes she will angrily demand they delete all of it, then note that it would be a problem to have that embarrassing footage around when (when, not "if") she becomes famous.
  • Arven and Carmine's conversation has Carmine ask if Arven has any "Special Feelings" for anyone in the Paldea Gang. Arven states that jumping down into Area Zero on the back of the box legendary was a notable special feeling for him, leading Carmine to marvel at his innocence. Some fans have interperted it as Carmine wanting to make sure that nobody else has feelings for the MC.
  • Penny giving a backhanded compliment to Carmine, noting that if nothing else she is really pretty on the outside, and Carmine ignoring the critical aspect to just get Penny to repeat that she is pretty (to Penny's annoyance).
    Penny: Uggghhh! Why are you like this?!
  • Penny and Kieran have an excessively awkward, forced-sounding conversation. It ends with them admitting that they want to talk more, they're both just horrid at making small talk because of their mutual shyness.
  • Nemona will (of course) be immediately excited about getting invited to a school that hyper-focuses on battling, and assumes this means she can go all out to her heart's content. One of the player's dialogue options is to awkwardly say, "Uh, within reason..."
  • Despite making amends, Drayton still calls Kieran "Ex-Champion" to his discomfort.
  • Drayton begging Carmine to let him copy her homework. Carmine objects on the basis that whenever Drayton returns her notes, they're always wrinkled... to which Drayton offers to iron them before giving them back. She still refuses.

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