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Reverse Tropes of Common Pokemon mystery Dungeon tropes!

Coffeegrigus

Yapping Coffin
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Tomb in the middle of the desert
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I made this while brainstorming and getting recollection from other past PMD fics I tried to write! I thought I might put what I've tried to write on the list. You can add to the list of reverse tropes from PMD fanfictions or from the games. I don't remember much, but these came from the top of my head hehehe!

Relationships, Characters, and Teams (not in any specific order)

Kid Isekais as a Pokémon being a hero < A kid who thinks it's a video game is the antagonist!
I thought of this while watching a review of an isekai anime, the MC was not gonna tell the kid he's in the real world and not in a video game. She just sends him to prison!

The first Pokémon you see:
Partner, who won't leave your side < Enemy/Rival, who won't leave your sight
Bonus: You can still date your enemy for manipulative gain... yay! [Mine got divorced three times and married twice]

Teamates & groups:
Teammates being different Pokémon < Everyone's from the same Pokémon line
Or
Everyone's a shiny
Bonuses if they're all different evolution stages, along with a gimmick or token variant

Rescue teams < kidnapper teams
Specifications for funsies: Some rescue teams are more like treasure hunters anyway, like the bunnary machop and gardivour; it's not like they're rescuing people all the time. So, technically, they don't kidnap all the time… they could also protect the dungeon, which is the opposite, for sure! :)

Guild school/academy/going back to school < Evilll schoooool :mewlulz:
If some Pokémon are evil because they adopt the known traits of their species, and profit from it. Why not make a school for it?

Other/ OTher means too lazy to organize
Guided by a spirit < guided by the antagonist for you to help kill themselves/ another spirit

Antagonist being spirits or climate change < The humans' effect on climate change is still affecting Pokémon

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Amnesia < HAVE EVERY HUMAN'S MEMORIES! [Your own is not guaranteed]
Bonus: That you're a ghost rock Pokémon

It was all a dream < Being human was all a dream/Going back home was all a dream
Bonus: a dead human or a spirit comes to your house to give you false memories or psychological changes to change your instincts to think you're human. For funsies yknow :D The 'it was all a dream' is from the end of the PMD manga! also fun angst for the end of the fic or near the end lol


TW Religion/demon


You knew you were a human < You forgot you were a demon
Bonus: A knife twist or comedic lore would be if they're religious, or a parent/priest who thinks Pokémon are made by the devil.

"This is so me," I say, sitting with ghost-type merchandise in school

Humans are known as extinct/Lost civilization < Humans have never existed and are fictional. (Arcues control group universe)
I originally thought of it with feral Pokémon in mind, with the protagonist going insane in confusion, and going into dead end with artifacts. Until they get into a cult that belived in humans that were never their in the first place.

Tropes of items and inventories

Quiz?< to-do list
[Is it yours, is it arcues? Whose to-do list is this?!]

Have nothing < Your house is with you, you just got the wizard of Oz'd!

Morally worried about cannibalism, < Enthusiastic about keeping your own personal superstition of bunny foot as a lucky charm

CHOSEN ONE < EVIL ONE Yippie!

idk, this seems funny in my head. There's probably some fics about it, but which god would specifically have you be destined as evil! like necessary evil of the sort hahaha! unless it's a misinterpretation from the prophecy that they're good guys, and they're the devil lol! [Oh no, rambling off topic to what the hell I'm trope reversing, time to press reverse and get back on track, at least I should]

The prophecy < A prophecy that lies or Gossip that became true [No cultist needed]

like the two doors were one, is telling the truth, the other is lying...

Now here's the big one! Might be more on the AU side
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Dungeon keeps you sane, and anyone outside of it goes feral!

Monster House might probably be called Pokémon House, a house that houses a diverse amount of Pokémon, or a free sleeping and nesting area!


Hehe, that's all! thinking about dungeons, and those that stay outside start developing human behaviors. like professions or stillness! imagining the guild in mind, having them act more human makes sense. They're trying to find something, like coming back to the dungeon to destroy it! Almost like those ant parasites that make them into zombies.
Unlike how dungeon ferals are more animistic, outside ferals are more violent, more in a mercenary type of way.
 
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K_S

Unrepentent Giovanni and Rocket fan
Hmm

The chosen one < not chosen, may jump at the call, but will make minimal sweeping impact.

Dark types are villians < dark types are bastion/guardians to settings big good

Mew( or legend of choice) sponsered your (human protags) adventures < your characters fell through a hole in existance that mew(legend of choice) forgot to tidy up aka its all an accident.

Humans are a mythological antlantas feeling race thats adored/worshiped < humans are nither myhtological or adored, quite the opposite.
 

Coffeegrigus

Yapping Coffin
Location
Tomb in the middle of the desert
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Any
Hmm

The chosen one < not chosen, may jump at the call, but will make minimal sweeping impact.

Dark types are villians < dark types are bastion/guardians to settings big good

Mew( or legend of choice) sponsered your (human protags) adventures < your characters fell through a hole in existance that mew(legend of choice) forgot to tidy up aka its all an accident.

Humans are a mythological antlantas feeling race thats adored/worshiped < humans are nither myhtological or adored, quite the opposite.
Dark types have gained popularity for being villains. The little accident from a legend's mistake is kinda funny.
These are good tropes that didn't cross my mind.
I've only read one comic that had an Oshewatt second evalution, Dislike Humans. It's Pokémon RAD, it's only available on YouTube dubs since the creator removed it from ComicFury. It would be fun to explore, like how Absol got seen as a bad omen anytime something bad happens, more superstitous Pokémon would do the same for humans!
 

K_S

Unrepentent Giovanni and Rocket fan
A young Pokemon is transported to another world without their memories where they find they have become a human.
Nice one...

Horror of horrs, they become a middle aged adult w scalds of responsibility ala a desj job/acountant... make transition hard.

On a more serious note... the legends are benign< nah they were l9cked away behind dungeons and distance for a very good reason. While the protag needs to release them to get home... cue conflict ahoy.
 

Coffeegrigus

Yapping Coffin
Location
Tomb in the middle of the desert
Pronouns
Any
Nice one...

Horror of horrs, they become a middle aged adult w scalds of responsibility ala a desj job/acountant... make transition hard.

On a more serious note... the legends are benign< nah they were l9cked away behind dungeons and distance for a very good reason. While the protag needs to release them to get home... cue conflict ahoy.
WOAHO That is absolutely fantastic! The protagonist does not care or does not realize they are gonna release Pokémon hell, just because they wanna go home. And the kicker is, if they get summoned AGAIN to solve the issues they caused/released.
And the legendary sends them back again, and it's a whole loop.
Honestly, the hypothetical I made would be so annoying to deal with.

Their so many legendary that can fit the evil legendary... But I don't think I've read a fic with Evil Arcues yet! mb i have, and it's in the religious, animal god can't understand type why you want to go home way.
 

K_S

Unrepentent Giovanni and Rocket fan
WOAHO That is absolutely fantastic! The protagonist does not care or does not realize they are gonna release Pokémon hell, just because they wanna go home. And the kicker is, if they get summoned AGAIN to solve the issues they caused/released.
And the legendary sends them back again, and it's a whole loop.
Honestly, the hypothetical I made would be so annoying to deal with.

Their so many legendary that can fit the evil legendary... But I don't think I've read a fic with Evil Arcues yet! mb i have, and it's in the religious, animal god can't understand type why you want to go home way.


... i got an evil Celebi doing evil things, whose dealing w a big mess that he doesnt want to drag arceus into it because the common consensues among the good and bad legends is that arceus is worse... its not pmd setting tho.
 
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