Pokémon Adventures: I Choose You! (franchise)/Tropes

This franchise applies the following tropes:
*/Awesome/
*/Tear-Jerker/
==I Choose You!==
*Anti-Villain: Cross is a Jerkass trainer and the closest thing the movie has to a villain that wishes to see Ho-oh. Once he accidentally causes Marshadow to attack everyone for him having an impure heart to summon Ho-oh with Kimberly's Rainbow Feather, Cross undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
*The Artifact: The Team Rocket Trio is completely irrelevant to the plot and never interact with Ash, but they're still around and pop up on occasion.
*Back from the Dead: After being turned into fireflies trying to shield Flora, Kimberly is revived by Ho-Oh.
*Bloodless Carnage:
**The group is harassed by a group of wild angry Primeape. Ryan then notes that they're highly aggressive while angry, but all the Primeape do is...harmlessly toss the group up and down in the air.
**Though Kimberly receives grave life-ending injuries that kill her, she doesn't suffer loss of blood.
**There is a distinct lack of blood when Lyncis bites into Cross's arm.
*Brainwashed and Crazy: After Marshadow is driven mad by the feather's corruption, he possesses wild Pokémon (and Cross's Lycanroc) to instruct them all to eliminate the children and their Pokémon.
*Breath Weapon: 9 out of the 20 Pokémon that Marshadow controls during the movie's climax have at least one Breath Weapon.
*Call-Back:
**The Charmander Ash gets comes from a Jerkass trainer (this time being Cross) who thought it had no real battle potential.
**Ash's Butterfree is let go to mate with a pink Butterfree.
*The Corruption: Marshadow tags along with Kimberly to purify the Rainbow Feather by having Kimberly summon Ho-oh. Unfortunately, the corruption takes a hold of the feather once the impure of heart Cross uses it instead, which drives Marshadow mad.
*Curb Stomp Cushion: Played for Drama. When Kaz fights Incineroar, he does quite well at first, but only because Incineroar is deliberately taking the attacks so as to activate Blaze, at which point the gloves come off, and Kaz is subjected to one of the most brutal beatdowns, which is also one of the only battles in which a Pokémon looks to be in genuine physical pain.
*Darker and Edgier: Well... sort of. There are some themes that make the film cater to adults as well as kids: Josie's father dying due to a Rocket attack, Kimberly taking the brunt of attacks while transformed, and shielding Flora and dying (in the form of fireflies). Bloodless Carnage still applies, though.
*Deus ex Machina: How did Kimberly come back after being killed and "fading away" at the climax of the movie? The best guess is probably that Ho-Oh did it.
*Flat Character:
**Roarr solely exists to fight battles.
**Lyncis. Cross comments while trying to snap him out of Marshadow's brainwashing that he met him before when he bit his arm ferociously, which doesn't get any elaboration.
*Heroic Sacrifice: After the battle between Flora and Marshadow, the Grass Cat ends up severely injured. Kimberly picks up Flora and tries to escape, but the brainwashed Pokémon fire ruthless attacks on the duo. Kimberly shields her beloved first partner to protect her from the blasts and is also severely hurt in the process. As the Pokémon prepare a final explosion, Kimberly recalls Flora and grabs the Poké Ball tightly, taking the full force of the attacks herself. Flora is saved, but at the cost of Kimberly's own life.
*Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Ash tends to doubt himself and his abilities, especially after losing against Cross in their battle, but later manages to pick himself back up from it. Cross is an extremely arrogant trainer who values strength above everything else and is frustrated that he never obtained the Rainbow Wing from Ho-Oh like Ash did, causing said wing to become corrupted when he steals it from him, but eventually learns the error of his ways after everything that happens in the movie.
*Irony: If Cross abandoned Twinkle as an Eevee, then why did she evolve from Chivee offscreen?
*I Wished You Were Dead: A variation. After their first battle against Cross ends up in failure, Kimberly contemplates that she should have used only Flora to win instead of letting Eric join his buddies and storms off for a while.
*Kick the Dog: Upon first meeting Cross, he kicks Charmander, Maschiff, Pichu and Eevee.
*Laser-Guided Karma: Cross's complaints about Kaz being weak come back to bite him real hard when he evolves into Charizard and ends up taking down his Incineroar.
*Might Makes Right: Cross even says it outright.
*Never Say "Die":
**Invoked with when the heroes find Charmander, where Garry says something to the effect of "If the flame on its tail goes out, then..."
**Played straight with Josie's father, who dies protecting his daughter from Team Rocket, and Kimberly's death from being blasted by the corrupted Pokémon - whilst any words in relation to death aren't used, they make no attempt at trying to soften it up.
*Noodle Incident: Cross and his Midnight Lycanroc, the latter who bit his arm.
*The Power of Friendship: In spades:
**The bond between Kimberly and Flora, which at the climax proves to be a valuable ticket for Ho-oh to revive Ash from the dead.
**Kimberly's entire reason to meet Ho-oh is so that she can become friends with it (with a battle, but that's besides the point).
**After Cross trounces Kimberly in their first battle, the latter questions why The Power of Friendship with her team didn't let her win (which implied she hadn't lost a match since she started), giving him the Jerkass Ball. The others do point out that while Cross vehemently denies friends, his conviction was stronger. Of course The Power of Friendship wins against Cross on the second battle.
**Ash's and Serena's respective Butterfree being released to mate, though it is to a lesser extent.
*"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cross gives a rather nasty one to the Trainers' Guardians once he beats his former Pokémon using Roarr, even calling them "the worst Trainers he's ever seen."
*Rump Roast: Entei manages to briefly set Kimberly's backside on fire when it appears.
*Show, Don't Tell: Strangely invoked. During their first fight, Cross purposely lets Roarr get damaged enough so that his ability Blaze activated for a power boost, which Ryan points out for side commentary. However, not even Sorrel points out that Kaz also had that ability and could have triggered after getting smacked enough, so it's safe to assume someone needed to tell Charmeleon's Blaze triggered to show. Later on their second fight, the subject of abilities isn't brought up anymore, leaving it up to the audience to decide.
*Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: When Cross steals the Rainbow Wing, his heart had so much evil that Marshadow can't purify it all, and ends up corrupted by it. Despite this, the character responsible still winds up redeemed in the end.
*Tragic Monster: Marshadow ends up being the main villain of the movie as a result of an impure heart being like Cross summoning Ho-oh with the Rainbow Feather, which results in Marshadow going berserk and deeming humans unworthy. Marshadow would have avoided all this had Kimberly been the one summoning Ho-oh instead. In the end, Marshadow comes to its senses.
*The Dog Bites Back: Kaz completely crushes Roarr after evolving as payback for being called weak by his former trainer.
*The Unreveal:
**After Ash loudly comments he wants to become a Pokémon Master, Emily wonders if that means being the best trainer of all, which Ash cheerfully replies it's better than that. He doesn't explain what, and Emily completely drops further questioning.
**Kimberly and Flora finally battle Ho-oh at the end of the film, but the outcome is not shown. The next scene shows Flora beat up but in good spirits at the Pokémon Center, so it could have gone either way. Since a major theme of the movie is that The Power of Friendship is more important than winning or losing, this is likely deliberate.
*You Bastard!: A moral the film presents is that Pokémon are friends and companions and that you're a terrible trainer if you only care about how strong they are. This trope comes into play because ultimately, people who play the games in real life typically DO care only about strength.
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