Shout Out / Boldores and Boomsticks

• The title itself is a reference to Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
• Attending Golden Valley's Fighting-Type tournament is a martial artist in red named Ken.
• Chapter 8 is called 'Raiders of the Lost Temple Thingy'.
• Riley thinks to himself that he loves it when a plan comes together after his assembled group of Pokémon start pushing back the Grimm.
• Chapter 11 is 'I Am Not Left Handed'. Ruby in Lazy Beacon Days points out that Weiss, the one reading this chapter, IS left-handed.
  • This is when the Beowolf Alpha named Grendel makes its first appearance.
  • Ruby's Zubat charges a Deathstalker while pursued by a trio of Nevermores, and thinks to himself, "This is Red Two, starting my attack run..."
    Ruby: Great job, Zubat, that was one in a million!
• Chapter 12 is titled 'Vanquish the Horrible Night'.
• Yang declares "I ain't afraid of no ghost!"
• One of the scary messages the Ghost-Types write in jam is "Redrum". Another is "Welcome to die".
• One of Ruby's ideas for a nickname for Zubat is "Bruce". Another is "Alucard". She admits she isn't sure why she thought the former was a good idea and dismisses the latter as overused. Ruby of Lazy Beacon Days confirms the latter case and states the only name even more overused is Vlad.
• Chapter 15 has several, including the title: Make a 'Mon Out of You.
  • "Wait, that doesn't bend that way, that doesn't- NOW IT DOES!"
  • "My blood! She punched out ALL my blood!"
  • "Oh Arceus, everything’s on fire! ESPECIALLY THE THINGS THAT WON’T BURN!"
  • "MY WORLD IS FIRE AND IT BURNS ME!"
  • Yang, after she sends Team Rocket blasting off again:
    What just happened?!
• Chapter 16 includes a line from Gary's Alakazam, when showing Psycho Cut to Whisper, Weiss' baby Ralts.
  Alakazam: It's a more civilized move, from a more civilized age.
• Blake shows the group a movie about a Raccoon Faunus sent to be the sheriff of a racist town.
• Chapter 17 has a group watching a cartoon featuring a Hitmonchan who always defeats his opponents with one punch.
• Lt. Surge is an adherent of the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.
• While Whisper is catching a ride on Nox's back, she yells "Fly me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!"
• When fighting a Sea Feilong attacking ships around Olivine City, Blake and Yang get help from A fisherman named Quint and a HUGE Sharpedo named Bruce.
• Mr. Stone's book recommendations to Blake include one about a criminal forced into government service.
  • The book Blake is reading in chapter 22 involves a noble lord being executed for crimes he didn’t commit, while a usurper to the throne takes enjoyment in his torment.
• When Shade confides in Nox that he feels over his head, Nox replies "Yer a wizard, Gastly!"
• While spending a night trading embarrassing stories, Yang briefly alludes to a "Bean Incident".
  Ruby: NOBODY PROVED ANYTHING! IT WASN'T MY FAULT! I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW THE CAMEL WAS LOADED!
• When Mr. Stone has his scientists start collecting combat data on the Grimm he tells them to record "the airspeed velocity of an unladen Nevermore."
• Chapter 25:
  • When Jaune sees Pyrrha at the Beacon Dance, he realizes he solved one of the oldest conundrums of philosophy:
    Jaune: What is Beauty? This. This was.
  • After her Disaster Dominoes makes a fool of CRDL and brings Jaune and Pyrrha closer:
    Absol: Darkrai damn, I love being me!
• Chapter 28 has Yang's new Jangmo-o going "I am fire, I am death!"
• Chapter 30:
  • Blake shows Shade and her new Litten a movie where the hero says ""...And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.". Blake decides to name the Litten Mal.
  • Tapu Koko says "Bored now." before ending his rather one-sided match against Yang. Yang later says that next time, she'll give Koko a shock to his system when they clash again.
• In Chapter 32 the Diglett's songs are a pair of references to different depictions of Dwarves. Those of the Johto region sing about working hard and then going back home to their burrows, while the far more militant Diglett of Alola sing "Diggy Diggy Hole".
  • Then in Chapter 40, the Alolan Diglett shout their battle cry when fighting against the Grimm: "Baruk Diglett! Diglett ai-mênu!"
• Chapter 34 is called "The Trilogy", and presents three notable events with their own sub-titles: "A New Hope", "The Team Strikes Back", and "Return of the Fairy".
  • When watching TV with Casey on a rainy day, flipping through channels, we see the Pokémon world versions of Kitchen Nightmares, COPS (1989), Jurassic Park, Wonder Woman (2017) (with Yang's comment that she and Pyrrha would get along being a reference to Hunters of Justice), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Scooby-Doo, and Game of Thrones.
• Chapter 35 has Whisper accidentally smash several rocks she was levitating together, crushing them into pebbles. She muses "I used the stones, to destroy the stones".
• Sabra says, "In a few seconds, all you'll feel is oblivion." Whisper replies, <That or disappointment. Go ahead… flip that coin.>
  • Whisper's reaction when Sabra suddenly starts evolving continues the thread in question.
    Narration: Wait, that wasn’t the purplish-blue of a Dragon move, that was the pure white radiance of OH CRAP!
  • Earlier, as she's processing the fact that Yang challenged Tapu Koko to a fight, Sabra's reaction is similair to Vegeta regarding Broly.
  • During the fight with the totem Kommo-o (aka Sabra's mom), after Sabra gets in a good blow, the Totem Pokemon admits to uncharacteristically feeling pride in someone else... which is unfortunately being swallowed up by UNYIELDING RAGE.
• When Casey accidentally traps herself in ice while training how to use Dust, Yang frees her (or claims to) by making a bad joke to break the ice.
• Before fighting Totem Salazzle, Yang mentions wanting to beat the crap out of someone that looks a lot like it.
• Lillie uses the "What is it?" gag from Airplane!.
• In chapter 36, Salem complains about trying to contact Lusamine through Seers, and only getting a giant flaming eye.
• When starting weapons training for Lillie and Casey, Weiss says that when they're done, "the only thing the Grimm will fear...will be you."
• In Chapter 37.1, Weiss visits the Ruins of Hope at Tapu Fini's request. When she asks what's in there, Hapu merely replies "only what you take with you".
  Hapu: Your weapon. You will not need it.
• Chapter 38.1 is titled "The Eye of the Raikou".
• Marian's grandfather is "The Goodfeather", being the Honchkrow in charge of the biggest Murkrow flock in Alola.
• Nox calls Marian Hedgewig.
  Marian: “Why do you and Shade keep calling me that?”
  Nox: “Long story… literally, like seven books long.”
• While dodging attacks from an Alolan Sandslash, Nox muses he'd expected a cerulean hedgehog to be faster.
• Chapter 39 has some Zubat ask Ruby and Weiss for help. According to Whisper, they said, "Help us, mighty Crobat, you're our only hope."
• Casey thinks that Gladion's monologue makes him sound like Arbok Admiral's understudy.
• Chapter 41 is titled Tactical Espionage Action.
• Hanging at the Shady House are Team Skull members named Blitz, Millie, Moxie, and Vortex (who even has a Midnight Lycanroc).
• Wiess' Piplup, named Rein, assures Lillie and a frightened Pokémon that he would be their shield during the siege of Aether Foundation.
• One of the dead Aether Foundation workers is named Brad Meadows, aka Hookwolf from Worm. For irony points he was killed by a Beowolf, aka a wolf shaped monster colored black, red, and white, much like how Hookwolf was a wolf shaped supervillain who wore Nazi colors.
• Chapter 45 is titled Exaltation.
• In chapter 49, Cardin wakes up during a Curb-Stomp Battle from Ruby and her team and sees the light from Marian's Solar Beam. Ruby tells him to walk towards it.
• In the Chapter 50, the Ultra Wormhole lab is described as resembling the SGC. It's mentioned that Mr. Stone had to put his foot down to keep the technicians from giving it any names that'd get them sued.
• In Chapter 51, a flashback to the aftermath of Blake and her team challenging Totem Mimikyu has the group drink some Forget-Me Shots in order to forget the after effects of his signature Z-Move.
• Darwin confirms that the chapter 51 scene of Coco drawing a strand of hair behind her ear after an Atlas bodyguard called Velvet a pet right before she, her team plus Team SSSN takes down the two racists guards is based on the Dragon Ball Z Abridged scene where Android 18 does the same to Vegeta after he called her a certain slur starting with the letter "C".
  • A non-canon one-shot has Salem's scream of fury over Remnant and Earth's new alliance reach the Dragon Ball Z Abridged timeline, with a post-Cell saga Vegeta (who did the same in episode 18) complaining about the plagiarism.

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