Pokémon Altered Violet/Tropes/Awesome

==As a whole==
*All of the Team Star Bosses are awesome in their own way. Let's list:
**Giacomo was the one who wrote Team Star's battle theme. Given it's been widely praised as one of the best battle themes, that speaks to his talents as a composer.
**Mela trained the large group of Charcadet that power Team Star's Starmobiles, and is the go-to fixer of the team. She's outright stated to be capable of resolving any problem the Team runs across. She also somehow got all of those Charcadet to evolve just by training them, while yours can only ever evolve with an item.
**Atticus not only designed their highly memorable and unique outfits, he made them to order by modifying the Academy's school uniforms. And sure enough, you can see elements of the standard school uniforms retained in each of the Bosses's outfits if you look closely.
**Ortega built Team Star's Starmobiles. To put this in perspective, this kid is a good enough mechanic and engineer that he constructed not one, but five machines compatible with Revavroom, powerful enough to give them entirely new types, abilities, stats, and even an exclusive move, all by himself!
**Finally, Eri was the one who designed the training regimen that Team Star went through to get stronger. It worked so well, the only trainers who outlevel her are: Geeta (the Top Champion of Paldea), Nemona (an established Champion rank trainer in her own right), Penny (the Big Boss of the team), Arven (who spent seasons 2-5 hunting Titan Pokémon as part of his goals), Clavell (the literal headmaster of Uva Academy), the Gym Leaders during their rematches, and the AI Professor (who literally come packing an entire team of futuristic super-Pokémon)!
*A subtle but still impressive detail with Arven: He's supposedly bad at battling, but he does a pretty decent job of fighting the Titans with his friends... and most of his team consists of Pokémon he just recently caught. This is supposed to be difficult in-universe, but Arven can still hold up.
==Season 1: Beginnings==
*After Kimberly encounters the weakened Miraidon and feeds it a sandwich, said legendary Pokémon helps her through a grotto infested with Houndour. Bonus points to the legend spotting that the heroine is cornered, picking her up and carrying her to the exit.
==Season 2: Path of Legends==
*There's something Crazy Is Cool about Brassius turning his Sudowoodo into an actual Grass-type.
*Ditto to Olivia (aka Percy's Smoliv) when she overcomes her shyness and evolves into Dolliv as part of the result.
==Season 3: The Teal Mask==
*From the backstory, Ogerpon finds that the Loyal Three have stolen three of her and her human friend's masks, on top of her human friend being nowhere to be found. Her subsequent Roaring Rampage of Revenge sees her doing significant damage to if not outright killing the Three (putting them in a state where the human villagers believe they're dead), all three of which she has a type disadvantage against (being pure Grass-type with the Teal Mask against all three of their part-Poison-types). Granted, it's immediately undercut by the villagers misconstruing the situation and chasing her away, but it's a stark reminder to Beware the Nice Ones.
**Ogerpon's human partner was apparently a Badass Normal - a humble human mask-maker who was able to hold off multiple Legendary Pokémon in a fight. He likely died, but he still managed to prevent them from taking the Teal Mask.
*When the Loyal Three get released and the player comes across them picking on Ogerpon near her den, the player immediately steps in to fight them. After beating Munkidori, Carmine and Kieran show up, which makes the Loyal Three run away. This impresses Ogerpon enough that she promptly warms up to the player character. Not to mention Carmine has this to say to the so-called-heroes (bonus points for the fact that her angry declaration actually scares the Loyal Three off):
**Carmine: They were trying to go three against one on you, huh? I guess a fair fight's too much to expect! But now that we're here... We'll make you regret ever coming back to life!
*Perrin's sidequest to capture the Bloodmoon Beast on film. She already has a strong connection to Pokémon Legends: Arceus what with her strong resemblance to Adaman and her partner Hisuian Growlithe, and she straight-up tells you that the beast is an Ursaluna. But then you reach the spot, the Ursaluna is not only enormous but clearly a different form from the ones in Hisui, Perrin accidentally angers it when the flash on her camera goes off... and then the Legends: Arceus music kicks in.
*We don't see it, but Kieran, a shy boy who's implied to be a bit of an outcast in town, manages to explain to all of Mossui Town that the legend they've believed for generations is entirely backwards. By the time the villagers see Ogerpon for the first time, they fully believe Kieran and welcome the ogre openly.
*The season is implied to take place over merely a few days, but within that timeframe, Kieran manages to train up his team enough to give you a decent fight, even if he does lose.
*The fight with Ogerpon is extremely cool. She changes her masks and Terastallizes each one, giving her a new type each time, and the heroes have to fight all of them in succession. Ogerpon finally gets to fight at her full strength again.
==Season 4: Starfall Street==
*A comparatively minor one: Ryme's said to be a skilled rapper, and it shows. She spits sophisticated bars with multiple rhymes per line, casually weaving in disses and references to her specialty, and all of it off the dome to boot.
**It's mentioned in passing that Ryme's rapping apparently brought her pet back from the dead. Either she had some kind of latent power that she channeled through her rap, or her rapping is just that good.
*Ryme's entire battle just screams cool. The gym test consists of the four Gym Challengers warming up the audience for her concert, and the stage lights up more with each battle they do. Also, the audience will actively cheer the heroes and Ryme on, buffing one of the team's stats depending on the actions taken (using a super effective move and such). Finally, Ryme herself will summon some Houndstone late in the fight to add to the mood, and an attentive fan will notice their stones sticking out of the ground in the audience.
*Arven deciding to let his friends handle the Titan Iron Threads without him while he takes Kimberly back to Uva Academy.
==Season 5: Victory Road==
==Season 6: The Way Home==
*Despite The Reveal and the circumstances leading to it coming out of literally nowhere for fans, the battle with the Protocol AI duplicate of Professor Turo. The music that plays throughout only makes it that much better.
**Special note goes to the way the fight opens. After the AI is overridden by the defence protocols, the time machine drops a single Master Ball into his hand... which is still shaking. Once it finally clicks shut, the AI (now addressed as Professor Turo) gives Kimberly one hell of a Psychotic Smirk before dropping the ball down to battle. Let that sink in for a moment. Past final bosses from the games most likely built up their teams through lots of hard work to get as strong as they did. The Professor, the strongest opponent of the main game's adaption, are fighting our heroine with a team they literally caught just now!
*The true final boss fight begins with the Paradise Protection Protocol locking down all Poké Balls except for ones belonging to Professor Turo. This prompts Kimberly to send out Mirako for the first time, who proceeds to push through its fear of its berserk counterpart for her sake. A fight ensues, with Kimberly using Mirako's extremely powerful attacks to chip away at its counterpart, while the cheers of her friends boost its power. Eventually, it withstands a Giga Impact through The Power of Friendship (in the same way that Pokemon the heroes bonded with can in other battles), and Kimberly is prompted to Terastalize it. This allows her and her friends to regain their Tera Power, and the final hit is a powered-up Tera Blast from Mirako using the Dragon type, striking down the berserk Miraidon with a super-effective hit.
**The moment between the Kimberly and Mirako before the latter transforms into its battle form is a mix of epic and heartmelting. The minute it's sent out, Mirako looks back at Kimberly, who gives it an encouraging nod and smile, to which Mirako smiles back and nods before it turns to face its aggressive counterpart and transforms into its ultimate battle form. It's The Power of Friendship at its finest.
**The buildup to bringing out Mirako cannot be ignored here. The battle starts with the heroes attempting to throw out their lead Pokémon to battle, only for the system to lock the balls before they can (which is its own Moment of Awesome; no prior hero or villain had the capability nor the idea to simply lock their enemies out of the Pokémon world's primary means of combat), meaning that the heroes enter the battle with nothing on their side of the field. Kimberly spends the first few "turns" desperately hoping to try to think of something, only to be met each time a voice in her head saying something along the lines of "That won't work right now!" and an angry roar from the enemy Miraidon. And then, just as all seems lost, the necklace that Kimberly had been wearing for almost the entire series begins glowing, and she realizes that she still has one Poké Ball that the system hasn't locked...
***When Percy loiters with his Poké Balls, Mirako, who is still in its ball, starts growling as an added hint that Kimberly must use it, but the fact her legendary actually speaks up and volunteers nicely concludes its arc. It let the original Professor die to save its life, and Kimberly cared for it the whole way. It's not letting its counterpart kill its new friends now too.
***For an extra subtle bit of awesome, a panicking Percy suggests running away without him, but Kimberly says that while it would actually work, she won't do it because it would mean abandoning him, Garry, and their friends. This leaves the implication that Kimberly is fully aware running away will leave them vulnerable to this Miraidon that's already killed before. In other words, Kimberly is such a true companion to the others that she won't abandon them to be killed, even if she dies alongside them. That's the point when her necklace starts glowing...
==Season 7: Ace of Paldea==
==Season 8: The Indigo Disk==
*In the interim between The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk, Kieran Took a Level in Badass and has become the strongest trainer at Blueberry Academy dethroning Drayton as its champion. Too bad it came at the cost of his own mental wellbeing, and has become a horrible bully to everyone around him. Kimberly eventually gets to fight Kieran, who sports a powerful and high-leveled team with competitive strategies, and she and Annabelle defeat him anyway. While the watching students' reaction to his defeat is one of casual disappointment, it must have been incredibly cathartic from their perspective; someone finally manages to put this irritating bully who's been menacing just about everyone who interacts with him in his place.
*At the lowest point of Area Zero, the heroes find Terapagos, but Kieran catches it with a Master Ball when it looks like it's going to try to befriend either Kimberly or Annabelle first. However, when it's sent out to battle, its performance is underwhelming, even in Terastal Form, until Briar tells Kieran to Terastallize it, revealing the true Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, Terapagos Stellar Form. It's so powerful, that it's able to break its Master Ball when Kieran tries to call it back.
**The boss fight proper against Terapagos Stellar Form, starts with the heroes trying to subdue it. However, it's able to put up Tera Raid barriers, and every time they Terastallize their Pokémon to break the shield, Terapagos simply absorbs the Terastal energy to reform its shield. All the Pokémon and their Trainers quickly go down, and Kimberly and Annabelle are spent from having to help their friends fend off Area Zero Pokémon earlier. However, Kieran, with encouragement from the two, manages to snap out of his funk - he transforms for the first time while sending out his Pokémon to help, heals the others, and gives Spencer and Mia enough energy to evolve into Delphox and Pawmot, respectively. Needless to say, the enhanced powers end up exhausting Terapagos to the point where it can't absorb energy any more and allow Kimberly to recapture Terapagos.
**An especially awesome and heartwarming part of that scene: Right as Kieran makes the decision to fight alongside his friends, his eyes, which had been blank and dull up until this point, finally regain their shine.
==Special: Mochi Mayhem==
*Kimberly avoids being possessed by Pecharunt's mochi by simply dodging it as it flies towards her.
**Arven also gets saved by Percy performing a Heroic Sacrifice, much to Kimberly's relief.
*During the fight, Arven reveals and uses his newest two Pokémon, an Emboar which he had caught as a Tepig, and Appletun who had evolved from his Applin.
*Arven and Kieran managing to fend off an entire horde of possessed villagers while Kimberly deals with Nemona and Pecharunt.
*In Nemona's fight, she suddenly has a Kommo-o and Ribombee on her team that are on par with the other four Pokémon she'd been using all through the main series. This means she somehow managed to catch and train two new Pokémon (as these are all native to Kitakami but not Paldea) within the space of a day, at most. Nemona really is a talented trainer.
*When Kimberly sends out Madzie against Pecharunt, she actually responds in outrage against the Subjugation Pokémon. Given that it and the Loyal Three led to Ogerpon losing her partner and being ostracized by Kitakami for many generations, it can be incredibly satisfying for Ogerpon to be the one to take it down.
**Equally satisfying is taking Pecharunt down with a member of the Loyal Three. Like with Ogerpon, the game has a special interaction should one of them be sent out; this time, though, it's Pecharunt who reacts violently. Given that it made them in the first place, it can get incredibly cathartic to see it getting Hoist by His Own Petard.
*Let's hear it for the Pokémon Center Nurse — aside from Kieran, she's the only Kitakami local who avoids being brainwashed and continues to dutifully do her job, even concernedly telling the surviving trio to heal up any time they need to because of how weird things have been getting.
==Season 9: Our Hearts' Greatest Treasure==
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