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Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

A Lily Blossoms In Kanto by Born of Prayers

• Recommended by Leid
• Status: Ongoing
• Summary: Lillie's adventure in Kanto to become a Pokémon trainer begins with an attempted kidnapping in the Sevii Islands while reconnecting with her mother, Lusamine. Not the best start, but she's still determined to become a great trainer even as things left in Alola start following her into the wider world and a new villainous organization sets its eyes on them.

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• Comments: A post-Sun and Moon fanfic following the events of the first games, it divides the story between Lillie and Lusamine in Kanto, while the MC, Guzma, and Plumeria get their chance to shine in Alola.

A Professor And A Student by LeDiz

• Recommended by WorldTurtle2, KrspaceT, Leid, Clipboard Fox 22
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: Ash seemed determined to stay in Alola, and Kukui had a loft going to waste. He'd boarded students before; he didn't expect anything special out of the experience. As it turns out, Ash isn't the only one who's going to be learning a lot this year.
• Comments: The teacher and student interactions between Ash and Kukui are really nice. I also enjoy the insight into Ash's character the author has. Now has its own page.

Acrophobic by EkaSwede

• Recommended by Ungulateman, Umbee, Kaiserin Kai, Lirazel, StarWaltz, sylveonzoroark

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• Status: Complete.
• Summary: A Charmeleon with a fear of flight and a Trainer that wants it to evolve.
• Comments: Absolutely amazing. Well-developed characters, angsty without being mopey, and an absolutely brilliantTwist Ending.

A.C.X. – WARPED by Project-Phoenix

• Recommended by mcb01932, seconded by Tangent128
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Quoted right from his profile: 'Enter the life of nearly 17-year old Robert Fierro. He is your typical high-school sophomore loser, troubled with bullies and insincere girlfriends, as well as a dysfunctional family. He just wants a break from his life, and when a girl he thought liked him puts him aside for someone she thinks has a better sense of 'adventure' he asks for that too. But soon things for him take a startling turn. He suddenly finds himself with everything he had asked for... And it turns out that it isn't exactly what he had in mind. He quickly finds himself in an unfamiliar world and an even more awkward situation. Soon, he's on the run from a terrorist organization that he's supposed to be fighting, and finding himself in near-death situations every time he turns around. Going back to his old life no longer appears to be an option and he's not quite himself anymore either...'
• Comments: This is not your average everyday fanfic. The only element that ties it to Pokémon is the fact that there are Pokémon in it. Other than that, it's completely original...and I never thought I'd use the words original and fanfic in the same sentence.
  • Tangent128: As of late September '10, it is being reposted in revised form on the author's new account with a M-W-F schedule.

After Armageddon by mangaluva

• Recommended by redgyarados
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: 'Saylee wants to find her brother and protect her town, and to that end teams up with Chaz the Charmander. Chaz, too, wants to know something- just what exactly happened to Kanto since he was last out of his Pokeball? Based on my FR Nuzlocke run.'
• Comments: Post-apocalyptic. It's very well written. It's a bit darker than your typical fic, but it's done quite well, and really builds up the mystery about what happened to Kanto. The apparently better written version is here

Aftermath by KuzAnn

• Recommended by Commander Peepidot
• Status: Dormant
• Summary: 'After surviving Geosenge, Lysandre and his Pokémon find themselves on an island to the northwest, a place where fairies bring terror and dark emotions gain a power all their own. Back in Kalos, Professor Sycamore copes with his grief and failure to put a stop to Lysandre, and all the while, hidden enemies move to the next phase of their plan...'
• Comments: This fanfiction really fleshes out Professor Sycamore, Lysandre, and his Pokémon. Each Pokémon in the story has a nickname, making them seem more like the average Mon. The characters are written brilliantly, and hopefully, it will be updated soon!

Agent Limit by Cortega

• Recommended by Chetret
• Status: Dormant (Last updated in 2013)
• Summary: It was just after dethroning the Indigo Champion that Ash Ketchum vanished. Five years later, with Team Galactic and new Plasma joining forces to forge a terrible new world, a team of agents from the International Police rises to combat this new threat: five men strong they are, each one a powerful and deadly warrior... And one unlike any other, a man of thunder and steel.
• Synopsis: Ash disappears after beating Lance, and his friends haven't seen him since. Five years following this, Team Galactic and Team Plasma kidnap Professor Oak and blow up his lab. A team from the International Police is dispatched to study the incident, but Ash's friends are surprised to learn that the Interpol team knew Ash, and claim that he was killed in a mine explosion despite heavy hints that he is the mysterious Agent Limit. After finding out that Ash has a son living with Delia and Giovanni, his father, Team Galactic attacks, splitting up the team.

Almost Like Flying by starling-night

• Recommended by Sessalisk, antialiasis, yiran, RoryOKane, Lirazel, sylveonzoroark, Ghingahn
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: A scyther is captured, and hates it – right up until she doesn’t. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on who you ask.
• Synopsis: A wild scyther is caught by a frivolous trainer and hates her capture. At first. This fic is absolutely heartbreaking.

Alphabet Soup by CoffeeIncluded

• Recommended by: Rawkstar Vienna, holliequ, Life Of Pi, yiran, RN 452, StarWaltz, sylveonzoroark, Apocrypha
• Status: Completed.
• Synopsis: N can remember only bits of the ceremony. Bree can't remember anything from before her sixth birthday. Bree White, Cheren Shiro, and Bianca Noir are in no way prepared for what lies buried. Memory's a funny thing, isn't it? Slight Cheren/Bianca, White/N.
• Comments :As the author states in her summary, memory is quite a funny thing. Rather dangerous, too as it sets up what might be one of the best novelizations of Pokémon Black and White out there. The fic is mostly adventure, with a dash of mystery, that will captivate just about anyone under its spell. The protagonists, Bree White (based on Hilda from the game), Bianca Noir, and Cheren Shiro, are brilliantly fleshed out, their characterizations being one of the story’s highest points of praise. Each character goes through extremely noticeable character development, along with N, who stays true to his nature in the game, and whose character is studied in depth throughout the fic. The grammar is impeccable, and the storyline branches out from the story told in the actual game, allowing for various theories and Wild Mass Guesses to be analyzed and tested. Romance is included, but isn’t the focus of the story; it’s simply the icing on the cake that is this fantastic gem in a sea of fan fiction. Overall, highly recommendable.
  • Seconded. The description's not always perfect and you might not agree with the interpretations of the characters, but the author knows exactly what she's doing with them and they carry the story really well. Highly recommended, borderline must-read.
  • Thirded. Coffee Included really wrote a masterpiece with this one. Everything that needs to be said has been said but this: Her ability to weave a great story into Black/White's already powerful plot is amazing. The last few chapters of this great literary work will blow your freaking minds out of your head.
    • She also has a fan work (warning for massive spoilers) that's pretty decent in its own right.
  • The piece is brilliantly laid out, with clear foreshadowing everywhere. The author handled the amount of foreshadowing nicely; enough so that most can easily guess it, but not enough so that it's blatantly obvious. A little problem is the use of Big Damn Heroes, which was used a couple of times with Simon and Idoun, which itself isn't a bad thing, but it was too obvious to have enough emotional impact. However, the rest of the fic is very gripping and powerful, and The Reveal was done masterfully in the closing chapters. Overall, one of the best literary pieces of fanfiction I have read. Highly recommended. Poor J ;_;

Alterity by Mewitti

• Recommended by Raptyr, antialiasis, Superdale 33
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: A retelling of Pokemon Emerald where the Pokemon speak out, the battles are deadly, and the Kantoky Fried Torchic is delicious.
• Comments: Alterity is the webcomic of Robin, a pokemon trainer of undetermined gender and his/her journey. it isn't very long right now, but boy does it make the most of those pages! Although some of the earlier pages are played for laughs, the comic really starts to hit its stride up when Robin loses his/her first pokemon. It delves into some surprisingly hefty subjects that are guaranteed to make you think and reflect. The artist/author does a fantastic job on the artwork, as well as really connecting you with all of the characters. All in all, definitely worth a look.
  • Lirazel adds: YMMV. I had high hopes for the comic, but have found it extremely underwhelming. The plot is extremely ham-fisted. Take for example protag's abusive mother- never in my life have I seen more stereotypical character. In gener, every human character of Alterity acts like an asshole or an idiot. The drawings are really good, though.
  • antialiasis: Note that this comic starts Growing the Beard around page 12. Before that point it's mostly silly gags about stupid, terrible people being terrible and stupid; after that point it abruptly becomes mostly serious, plunges into fascinating worldbuilding, gives the characters more dimension and tackles the ethical issues of its vision of the Pokémon world with clarity and nuance.
  • Lirazel I see your point, though I think that it's unfair that author expects readers to stick around till it gets good. Writers are taught that even first sentence of novel must be perfect. My main problem with the comic lies with human characters - the author touches on serious, human issues... but due to lack of subtlety, doesn't do them justice. You're supposed to feel sorry for the main character, but how can you, when the issue is shown in such unreal manner? I'm tempted to give the comic third chance, but the characters are so exaggerated and unsympathetic that I can't.

Despite my opinion on Alterity, I would encourage people trying it out, since it must be doing something right for it's fans - just not for me.

The Ash Connection by I am Lu

• Recommended by: Sayacha, StarWaltz
• Status: Complete
• Pairing(s): Ash/Misty (main), Drew/May, Paul/Dawn, Leaf/Gary, Tracey/Daisy, Cynthia/Steven
• Synopsis: A string of violent attacks at the hands of a mysterious Pokémon has caught Lance and the G-Men off-guard. Little about the motive is clear, other than Ash Ketchum is somehow a factor. His friends and rivals now must confront an important question: Is he really the fabled Chosen One? Set during BW. Multiple pairings, including Pokeshipping, Contestshipping, and Ikarishipping.
• Comments: A fic that takes a good, long look at Ash's supposed status as the 'Chosen One' in the anime series, especially where Legendary Pokémon are involved, and how that status affects the people around him - for good or ill. It's written very well, and everyone is very much in character throughout the whole thing. It's got romance, but it never goes to the point of distracting the reader from the main focus of the story. Also mixes a tiny bit of game canon in there, as well as expanding on several characters' backstories, most notably Paul and Trip. Virtually everyone gets a chance to shine, and it even manages to introduce Leaf into the anime world with very little trouble. Overall, one of this troper's favorite fics ever.

Ashes of the Past by Saphroneth

• Recommended by Mutant Rancor, Brendan D Rizzo, Syrika, Azurengar, auroVee, Mitis, euan112358, Ivaryna
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: At some point during the Pokémon: Best Wishes season, Cyrus succeeded in remaking the world in his image. Arceus did not like that very much, so he chose a champion to go back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Naturally, having already saved the world several times and having great potential with Aura, Ash Ketchum is that champion. After a week in a pocket dimension training to learn Aura, Ash is returned to the day he started his Pokémon Journey with the ability to restore his friends' memories of the other timeline and sets off to solve as many problems as possible...and, of course, have fun on the way.
• Comments: A good balance between action and comedy (both individually great), very few spelling and grammar errors, several unexpected plot turns (to both the time travelers and the readers), and Competent!Team Rocket make this a very entertaining read. Also, Ash fights Mewtwo. No, not Ash's Pokémon. Ash himself. And he isn't Curb Stomped. And Dexter, Ash's Pokedex, develops sentience (and a sense of humor) due to Ash carrying him into a few too many weird situations and restoring his future memories. If that doesn't make you read, nothing will.
• Seconded. This story is both amazingly funny and AWESOME. There are many fight scenes, and the author just writes them so well and creatively. Despite how strong Ash's Pokemon, specifically Pikachu and Charizard, have grown, the battles in which they have a genuine struggle never feel forced (the point in the anime where Pikachu lost to a starter Snivy comes to mind.) They're heart-racing at times and a joy to read. Especially the amazing way the characters are written.
• Now with a trope page: Ashes of the Past
• AotP went seemingly dead for about a year or more, before being picked up again. As of 1/14/15, it's jumped from 38 chapters at the time of its hiatus to 77 in a short amount of time, which is definitely a cause for rejoicing. It's continuing to be uploaded.
  • Chapter 132 was posted on 8/4/15. Also, the fic is so well written it's possible to forget you're reading a story, not watching an episode or movie.
  • By 9/21/17, it's reached over 240 chapters, over 1.4 million words, and it's just started the Sinnoh region.
• I always wondered what would happen if ash had a Mawile. AND HERE IT IS AND I'M HAPPY.

Autophobic by ScytheRider

• Recommended by Ungulateman, Umbee, Kaiserin Kai
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: Charmelelon gets over its fear of flight, only to begin to fear itself.
• Comments: Sequel to Acrophobic. Exploring the psyche of a near-suicidal Charmeleon and how it gains new life when it evolves is magnificent - and the Twist Ending 'will' make you cry.

Bare, along with Legacy by Giovannix Seren.

• Recommended by Crazy Mango Fangirl
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Bare goes into how Giovanni and Madame Boss's relationship...or, rather, what she may have done that turned him evil. Narrated by his OC wife, Seren, with a bit of sweetness to counter some of the grit. Regarded as one of the author's best. Legacy: After Domino and one of his sons have a boy and name the kid after him, Giovanni thinks about what it will mean for the child.
• Comments: A lot of the stories are good, but GxS does mention not wanting people to read her Ice prompt since it is no longer in her canon (extended anime). This troper (Crazy Mango Fangirl) emailed the authoress, and she has stated that the events in Bare will be elaborated on (like at the end When Seren kills the assassin) and also that there will be a few more gritty fics to come (one having the aftermath (or possibly the scene) of MB torturing Giovanni when he's young. Another has him flashing back to the event that precipitated Bare, and having to help Silver deal with his own demons as well.)

A Beginner's Guide to Pokémon by Thanos 6

• Reccomended by GG Crono, Poptard, Umbee
• Status: Ongoing.
• Summary: An in-universe 'field guide' to Pokémon, written by a snarky and slightly eccentric Professor. In-progress.
• Comments: Highly entertaining. It draws from pretty much every Pokémon-related media to present a book of the sort that might be purchased by a neophyte trainer, looking to give 'real world' (so to speak) explanations for most of the gameplay mechanics. The author (that is, of the book) is prone to witty asides and tongue-in-cheek commentary. Currently finished are all the chapters on the basics of training. The author (of the fanfic now) is now setting out to write an encyclopedic entry on every single Pokémon. Yeah, you heard me.
  • Seconded by Riti Troll. But the reason why I like it is actually not the information and thought given to make it seem like a plausable world (Such as being able to buy stones from Ads, or changing 'Trading' to 'Interaction' with trading being merely the easiest way of getting it.) But actually all the hilarious punny names given to the 'Further Reading' books and professors (such as I Knew You'd Read This Book by TetsuoXavier.) I think those are worth the price of admission if nothing else is. (But a lot of the unproffesionalisms are also awesome.)

Beginning Trainer's Guide to Pokémon by Chencheya

• Recommended by CAD, Umbee, Poptard
• Status: Last update 2008. Recently 'discontinued,' although this status is pending.
• Synopsis: A very different and interesting type of fanfic, this one attempts to write a Pokédex of sorts, taking several Pokémon and explaining their behavior and physiology, making them seem as realistic as possible.
• Comments: It's Fanon at its best, and very addicting to read.

Between Heroes and Monsters by Jack Nex

• Recommended by Lord Veres
• Status: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: When a disaster heralds the arrival of a new evil in the land, one Absol must rise up to defeat it. With the help of his trainer and his friends, he must find the strength to vanquish enemies both human and pokémon and finally face the evil within himself.
• Comments: A dark and plot-focused story with an original and diverse cast of well written original characters and a lot of humour throughout. Written from the first-person perspective of the main characters, the narrative and description are a joy to read. Some moderate violence and foul language.

Black Adventures, by Black

• Recommended by: diamonddmgirl, Trivialato, StarWaltz, Syrika
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Black (based off the male player character from Pokémon Black & White) gets a MissingNo. as a starter Pokémon. Then N decides to follow him around. Together they rescue gym leaders from Brainwashed and Crazy pokemon. Has a lot of Ho Yay between Black and N, as well as some Black/White and Black/Arti stuff. And major divergances from canon.
• Comments: Trivialato: Quite the interesting and humourous webcomic. Though it mainly operates on Rule of Funny due to its roots in 4Chan, their plot is actually quite coherent, with a large amount of Character Development, Magical Girl theming, and several metric TONS of Ship Tease and bisexuality. In most cases, this would make for a bad fanfic, yet this girl ends up creating something that would appeal to anyone's sense of humour, sexuality, or choice of genre. So much, actually, that it has its own on-site fanbase, as well as its own topic.
• Syrika: By the end of the story, Black Adventures matures up a surprising amount, considering its start, but it's still really really funny and creative. The ending manages to make the whole fic feel like it was leading up to something a lot bigger and grander than it first appeared. The characters are a high point, too!
• Tags: Humor,

'Blue's Raticate by Silvershadow426

• Recommended by Decaf Grub 47393
• Status: Oneshot
• Synopsis: A Psuedocanonical fic about what happened to Blue's Raticate, Yellow timeline. Tear Jerker.

The Bond of Aura by Aura Channeler Chris

• Recommended by daragionthegreat
• Status: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: A teenager named Chris struggles to live a hard life where he has to live for himself. Just as things were bad enough for him, he has a mysterious encounter with a Lucario. Chris now has to take care of the curious Pokémon while living together with him.
• Comments: This story was quite bad before since it's rewritten, but the new version easily outmatches the old version. It's a beautiful story that involves a real life teen and a mysterious Lucario. The interactions between Chris and Lucario range from being sad to very funny. Chris is a solitary teen who goes through some kind of Parental Abandonment yet is a Lonely Rich Kid of sorts. Lucario, for reasons explained in the sequel called The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, is not normal, as he's got Herculean strength and is as big as a normal Mewtwo, but deep inside he's a very understanding person. Each chapter involves some kind of human lessons applied on Lucario, like for example having him play Wii Sports or learn how to read. Funnily enough, it's also a cute and heartwarming story with quite a few fluffy moments. Definitely a must read. For those who wish to see more of them, the Door Stopper that is the sequel should be a very fine addition.

The Bonds That Break by Blueysicle

• Recommended by Loffyglu
• Status: Ongoing^note
• Synopsis: Five years before the events of 'Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness', a prominent Admin of the Cipher syndicate, Eldes, was forced by Greevil to fake his own death in order to cease his involvement with the Purification Chamber's development and to strengthen his focus on Cipher. Six years later, Eldes is given an opportunity to revisit his old family and rekindle the bonds that were broken after his 'death.' But when their memories of him have been stripped by Haunters sent out by Greevil after they received news of his supposed passing, and when they see him as nothing more than a diabolical ex-Cipher Admin, can he succeed in reaching out to them?
• Pairing(s): Very mild Trudly x Folly once a subplot about Miror B. and his cohorts develops (this pairing probably wouldn't even register if you weren't looking for it, though); considering Eldes's former role as Lily's husband, there's of course some Eldes x Lily (one-sided after Eldes sees her after his 'death,' of course).
• Comments: Few Pokémon Colosseum/XD fanfics seem to exist on the Internet, but it's good to know that TBTB, one of those few, is a fantastic read for any fan of the Orre games. Bluey takes an idea that's borderline Wild Mass Guessing material and actually makes it seem very plausible, in addition to doing wonders as far as character development goes (which is quite an accomplishment when the games give relatively little to work from, especially concerning Silent Protagonist Michael's character). There are, in the beginning, a few instances of grammatical errors, but these are generally mild and fade overtime. Also of note is that, while Eldes is the focus of the majority of the fanfic, other characters eventually come into play; notably, Trudly and Folly begin to take much of the spotlight as time goes on.
• Even though the status says 'Ongoing,' this fic was last updates in 2010

Broken Wings by Trish

• Recommended by Krisnack, StarWaltz
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Ash is 38. He's achieved the title of Pokémon Master. He's married to Misty with two children, themselves aspiring trainers. Life couldn't be better. Only he's about face to face with his greatest enemy, and it's not a villainous team, nor is it a rampaging legendary Pokémon. It's Motor Neuron Disease.
• Comments: This fic explores a subject seldom touched on in the Pokémon world: terminal illness. Motor neuron disease isn't something that attacked with a thundershock. It isn't even an infection. It's a process. While there might not be mush action in this story, there is despair, renewal, fear, hope, betrayal, and courage. And even as Ash's illness takes it's emotional toll on those around him, he learns that how we deal with death is just as important as how we deal with life.

Canon Rape by Bittersweet Romanticide

• Recommended by Gattsuru, Seconded by Umbee, Pykrete, Poptard
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Essentially dozens of pages detailing where Word of Dante and Fanon has been preemptively Jossed, drawn as parody or satire.
• Comments: Sets itself apart by simply putting forward well-written one-shots where the problem ends up blinking you in the face, often enough to earn loud laughter. While there are a few pages where the canon conflict is partially due to the author's own Word of Dante viewpoint, it's well worth it to finally have someone point out that chlorine and sea animals are not the best combination, or smacking around a Sue. Finished
  • Pykrete: I second not only this, but most of BSR's repertoire. She does a great job of keeping everyone in character and exploiting a wide range of Emotional Torque when she's not busy being hilarious. It's a little odd to note some of her earlier works are guilty of a couple things she rails on in Canon Rape (and are still good — go figure), which is a marked sign of a growing writer getting better as she goes.

Carnage Necropolis by Aiselne Phoenix Nocturnus

• Recommended by Drayke, REV 6 Pilot
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: 'Ash, Misty, and Brock enter an ominous city where something presumably murdered the locals. Much to the kids' horrific discovery, the residents and Pokémon aren't quite as 'dead' as authorities claimed. – A Pokémon spin-off of Resident Evil.'
• Comments: Set within the Johto arc, it's treated exactly how it should be: kids discovering and reacting to zombies exactly like kids would. No one becomes a savvy badass, they're frightened children just trying to survive. Pairings are Ash/Misty and James/Jessie, but don't expect them to be one of the main focused issues.

A Champion's Story by Warenscape the Squishy

• Recommended by Etriax
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: 'Eric Lombardi, the Pokémon Champion from the United States, has journeyed to the Sinnoh region to take on the Pokémon Champion there. But along the way, he discovers something that will change his life forever... For better or worse.'
• Comments: This fic is set in the Sinnoh region, assuming that Sinnoh is part of the geographical Earth we all know. Eric is just a teen who wants to try to be the best, but things just keep getting in his way. He also has a selection of pokémon that, while not the full six, does get the job done pretty well, both on and off the field of battle. There is a degree of OC/Gardevoir pairing in the story, as well as Gardevoir/Lucario, though at the time of recommendation, nothing major has happened there. The author seems to be trying extremely hard not to let his character become a Marty Sue/Gary Sue, but he has a clever sense of humor and is creative during battle sequences. He also has a knack for making things rather dark, especially in later chapters. If only he'd update more than once a month.

Child of Thorns by Silver Rockets

• Recommended by WillEatHam
• Status: Ongoing
• Summary: Through an unexpected twist of fate Inyssa Dawn and Barry Paladino embark on their long awaited Pokemon journey, traveling far and wide to become the Champions of Sinnoh. But dark clouds are cast over the region; A dubious criminal team, an opressive shadow that sees all and a familiar ghost from the past. A re-imagining of Pokemon Platinum, with my own personal spin on the story.
• Synopsis: A re-telling of the Pokemon Platinum story starring a grumpy Dawn with a short fuse (Altough her name is Inyssa in this fic) and a passionate and nice Barry. It's a slow burn and it takes a few chapters to get going but it looks very promising. The characters are realistically written and all the character's attitudes towards others have consequences. The prose could use some work but it evolves throughout the story, and the Pokemon battles are very well thought out and exciting especially in the later chapters. Some of the known characters are wildly different and there are a few OCs. There are hints of future romance.

The Chosen One's Journey by dragonwolf12

• Recommended by tdntv
• Status: Incomplete
• Synopsis: A year before Ash left on his Pokemon journey, he received a Mysterious package. Inside of it was a book and a simple note that was signed 'A friend.' This book turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to Ash, leading to a more mature and intelligent Ash. Read how Ash travels around the regions with a more progressive look on Pokemon training.
• Comments: An Alternate Universe Fic where Ash receives a mysterious book 1 year prior to beginning his Pokemon Journey. Following the training detailed in the book allowed Ash to become a more focused and mature young man, making a big difference in his journey. An interesting take on a more mature Ash, which I find to be quite enjoyable, especially since his Idiot Hero tendencies in canon could get very annoying very fast. Unfortunately, the author updates once every few months due to taking extra time to write longer chapters, and to fine tune battle scenes.
• The original fic has been currently discontinued, but is being remade as 'The Journey of the Guardian', which can be viewed here

ChroniclesofFateSeries by DJ Tiki

• Recommended by: Green Chaos
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: A series of loosely connected stories set in an alternate version of the Pokemon world. Estino Academy focuses around the region of Estino and the many characters that attend the Estino League Pokemon Trainer Academy, or the ELPTA for short. Extinction of a Species focuses around a post-apocalyptic Pokemon world where humans have gone extinct and a group of thieves there. It's probably the darkest entry in the series. Realm focuses around a medieval kingdom setting and two people, Wendell and Vincent and their guild. There's also an overarching plot about a war between the two gods Sol and Luna.
• Comments: A well-developed series of SYOC fics(the one for Extinction is still open). Each and every one of the large list of characters receives enough screentime that you can get a good feel for them. The author is very good at writing the interactions between others and making them interesting, not to mention all the intrigue he creates about the world. Note that the order they are listed in above is not the required reading order and all are still ongoing.

Clouded Sky by Negrek

• Recommended by wescotta, Rogue 7, Pykrete, antialiasis
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Shortly after being given a Murkrow as a starter, Tobias Talltree learns the truth about his region.
• Comments: Similar to Xanthic Growlithe Contract, except less mind-screwy and far more likely to be finished. Aside from Pokémon Master (see below) and Writing of Wrongs (see: Final Fantasy VII) it is probably the best piece of fanfiction I have ever read. You should read it too.
  • Rogue 7: A first impression-Very well written, and the new Pokémon created seem interesting, as does the trainer. I'm sure it gets better, but let me just go on record as saying that Murkrow, as a Pokémon, is awesome. Screw the 'bad omen' stuff.
  • Pykrete: Awesome. Characterization is great, the Pokémon he made up work well (Accemenla is pretty much awesome personified). I was going to say this looks like a Dead Fic but it seems the author updated just a few days ago after a year's hiatus, and I'm quite stoked.
  • antialiasis: Heartily agreed. It has a compelling, interestingly realized setting, solid characters and the single most mind-blowinglytwisty plot I have ever read - in a good way.
  • This troper also agree. The hero was believable, the Pokémons have their own minds and their own quirks, and the pacing was not choppy at all. Not even after a long time skip. This fanfiction ranks as one of the best I have ever read in the Pokémon section, perhaps even better than Pedestal.
• Additional Info: Has its own page.

Collector by Brian1

• Recommended by Hobgoblin
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Ash meets a girl named May, and she takes him to her special place.
• Comments: A really well-written, though admittedly creepy, piece. Downer Ending. The rest of his works aren't as dark, though.

The Darkness Within by tracefan

• Recommended by Ultimatehaou
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: The adventures of a sarcastic ex-Rocket Dragonair as he and a few friends are stalked by various factions, including a near-immortal phantom that tries to turn them against each other for his own purposes.
• Comments: One of the few fics told from the Pokémons' points of view, it's a well-written arcing story line with plenty of unique characters and plot twists, being able to switch from hilarious to dead serious in a few pages. It's got over twohundred chapters now, but is currently undergoing a better written reboothere.
• Update: The author has now canceled the rebooted version as well, due to a lack of interest in writing a story he already wrote for 3 years.

Ditto! Gary's Story by Poryhedron

• Recommended by Har D Har Koopa
• Status: Dead
• Synopsis: This is the story of Gary (no not that one), a trainer from Pallet Town. His journey takes place many years after that of Red. Along the way he goes through similar challenges as the old champion did.
• Comments: I haven't read this in a few years, but I plan on it again soon. This is a great version of the standard OC Trainer fic. The author is only going off of Gen 1. Not the anime, Special, or anything after Kanto. what he tries is to take the world of that one game, and make it make more sense. A great fic, probably my favorite Pokémon fic.

Dragon Days by Gastly's Mama.

• Recommended by cabrpi
• Status: In Progress
• Synopsis: During his youth, Lance of the Kanto Elite Four was saved from wannabe Team Rocket members by a wild (and vicious) Charizard. Inspired by this, he becomes a masked vigilante who targets the real Team Rocket, but his actions may have unintended ramifications. Eventually, he comes into conflict with a madman bent on revenge for a tragedy that occurred years beforehand.
• Comments: Split into two different plots, the story of Dragon Days alternates between a young Lance and the older, more experienced Lance we see in the games. Both plots are woven together very tightly, and without one, the other would have no significance. Hot off his success with Rival's Story, Gastly's Mama has crafted a real thriller here. But be warned: this story is leagues more mature than Rival's Story. There's a good bit of violence and profanity, although it's tastefully done.

The (Edit) War for Ash's Freedom to not be Betrayed by Crossoverpairinglover

• Recommended by Partner 555, Brendan Rizzo
• Status: Oneshot
• Synopsis: Spacebattles Co-Write with AceAmir. An Ash betrayed by and beaten by the world is so much better, right? Not according to Arceus, and he'll get into an edit war with the angsty Darkern Edgier to protect Ash from his views of what Ash 'should' be. A Anti-Betrayal/ Betrayal Parody Fic. Has an X-Over Punchline.
• Comments: Sick of seeing Betrayal story after Betrayal story? Tired of the same old fanfic cliches where Ash's friends all betray him for reasons ranging from stupid to stupider? Then this fic is for you! This fic parodies all those cliches and explains why they make no sense. There are some typos and misspellings, but you'll likely forgive that. The author is also the same one behind Pokemon Reset Bloodlines (Ongoing).

Eldritch by Taurus Versant

• Reccomended by Logic_Taunter
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: There is a monster in the Alola Region. Her name is Moon and she is eleven years old.
• Comments: Eldritch is an interesting take on the Sun and Moon Pokémon games where the trainers form powerful bonds with their Pokémon that allow the Pokémon to draw on their trainer's energy to become stronger, with the trainers who have more powerful and more Pokémon being forced to give up more energy to form and maintain those bonds. The story follows Moon, a new trainer in Alola who for reasons currently unknown is able to form these bonds without any drawbacks. The story will show her journey alongside Hau and Lillie, and has already gotten off to an impressive start.

Eon Fable by ScytheRider

• Recommend by Aqua Sableye
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Eighteen Eevee kits learn to cope with change, and stop to wonder if they made the right decision. (Contains non-canon Eevee evolutions).
• Comments: Eon Fable is a story that follows the paths of 18 Eevee as they each choose a separate evolution, one for each type. This includes non-canon eeveelutions, such as ghost, but the story has not progressed far enough for them to be shown just yet. But, moving on, the story follows each Eevee in the story as he or she learns of their new life that they must cope with when they each evolve. Structured with one story told per chapter in first-person perspective, there is always a lesson to be learned at the end of each chapter. The chapters not only discuss the elemental types with such mastery of detail and explanation but also apply the types to real-life lessons that are incredibly powerful. Highly recommended for those who wish to see a story that is filled with such raw emotion and can also teach such important morals to all of its readers.

Eon Sky: You Have No Idea by Latio-Reol

• Recommended by gabe02
• Status: ? (Dead link)
• Synopsis: A 12-year-old child from the real world gets thrown into a conflict with a bunch of 'Armageddic morons', discovers an interesting set of problems in the war, and becomes a self-described terrorist. He takes about a thousand risks, develops a sadistic attitude, and befriends a psychotic Lucario
• Comments: An interesting deconstruction of Kid Hero. Gets pretty dark.

The Extended Unova PokemonGuide by the Gentleman Xerneas

• Recommended by The Pie Kid
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: An incredibly well-detailed Pokemon guide for the Pokemon native to Unova. Detailing how to bond, care for and battle with the Pokemon.
• Comments: This guide is incredibly well written, combining amazing fresh new looks on the world of Pokemon, combined with humid and likable guide. The Extended Unova Pokemon Guide is definitely worth a read.

A Fear of Change by Diego Zeyon

• Recommended by Glacial Eidolon
• Status: Dead
• Synopsis: A rebirth fanfic centered around the protagonist, Joshua, and his Trainer, Karen, along with a host of other major and minor characters, including a snarky Swablu, an energetic Furret, and Mew himself. Strikes a good balance between Lighter and Fluffier and Darker and Edgier, and is a touch more realistic in tone than many Pokémon fanfics.
• Comments: There are a few rough patches here and there, but A Fear Of Change is in general a very good way to waste a few hours, as the world-building is excellent and the tone is realistic enough for a Pokémon fanfic to continually surprise you where you least expect it. Note that the story is some time or another going into revision, according to the author's profile. In the future, it could be even more improved, though the story isn't updating at the moment.

The Final Battle by 11JJ11

• Recomended by FanficFan920, Clipboard Fox 22
• Status: In Progress
• Synopisis: After the death of Pikachu, Ash is left in ruins, but many of his friends have been murdered as well. When the blame falls on Ash, and Charizard's life is in danger, Ash knows that he only has one choice. Ash escapes with his Pokemon and disappears. Three years later, a tournament is held, and Ash sees his only chance to unmask the true killer.
• Comments: This fic. is one of the best psychological thrillers I've ever read. Ash isn't just 'in ruins' during this fic., both he and Charizard are broken, on the brink of insanity. The talent that is needed to portray such conditions is immense, but 11JJ11 kills it. Additionally, the story of International Police Agent Looker is also expertly told. If you are into this type of fic, you are in for a treat.
  • Seconded! The world building and story are in depth and interesting and you should probably pack a lunch because it will send you on one hell of a feels trip. —[ClipboardFox22]
• Now has its own page!

'The First World Champion by IfTimeWasStill

• Recommended by Gazooki
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: An SYOC fic based around the idea of sixteen elite Trainers being lured to a flashy tournament in Nimbasa City by a wealthy businessman seeking to test out a new invention. Of course not everything is as it seems. The whole fic is told from the perspective of Holly Wexler, a girl whose bizarre battling tactics confound and annoy many she faces, as she battles her way through the tournament and begins to unravel the mystery of the Battle Gears.
• Comments: Nobody ever expects these OC fics to go well, but oh boy does this one deliver. If Time Was Still takes a bunch of characters from different people and somehow, even with the kind of corny-sounding setup, makes them all actual decent, fleshed out characters in their own right, from the alcoholic Irishman Thomas Byrne to the haughty Flourette Lauxand. The battles are also extremely well-written, taking things such as the environment around them into consideration and coming up with some unique ways to use certain moves that'll never come up in the games. The Endgame (as the author calls it) is also phenomenal and pretty much worth all the time spent reading what came before it. Well worth a look.

Floe Island: The Story of Jenny Flint by Bluejeanserenade

• Recommended by mysterynovelist2010
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Jenny Flint, resident of tiny Floe Island and daughter to Elite Four Lorelei, never had any desire to become a Pokemon trainer, but when she is kidnapped by notorious crime syndicate Team Rocket, her peaceful lifestyle is challenged. Does she have what it takes to save her island home?
• Comments: Although a bit slow so far, Floe Island: The Story of Jenny Flint has a lot of potential as far as originality goes, as very few people in the Pokemon fandom have written about the lives of the Elite Four's family/children(and even fewer have pulled it off successfully). In this fanfic, we have Jenny Flint, who despite being the daughter of an Elite Four member, has no experience battling or even owning a Pokemon. But when she narrowly escapes Team Rocket's clutches, she finds herself branded as a criminal across Kanto. Now traveling with Pokemon Trainers Katie and Paul, Jenny will have to become a Trainer herself in order to reach the Indigo Plateau and thus her mother.

The Forbidden Trio: Sail to the Sky Dragon by MilleniumScar

• Recommended by mysterynovelist2010
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: It has been 2 years since the battle of Hoenn, and both Team Magma and Aqua are nothing but shells of their former selves. However one new Magma Admin, Cole, plans to change his team's future by gaining control of Rayquaza with the help of a special treasure. The Dragon Plate.
• Comments: A well-written, post R/S/E fic that cleverly creates its own mythology in regards to Rayquaza. In it, the Anti-Villain Cole tricks a researcher named Elisa into helping him find the Dragon Plate in order to summon Rayquaza as part of Team Magma's plot to make a come back; however, as time progresses, he begins to question himself and his actions, but finds that he cannot back down or else he'll lose his Pokemon forever, putting him in a pretty difficult situation.

Foregone Conclusion by elyvorg

• Recommended by yiran, antialiasis, RubyRosethorn
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: It’s about a split evolution off Grovyle, Archopy, and how they deal with Sceptile trying to kill them. From the perspective of a Treecko named Forsira. Set in the prehistoric era.
• Comments: This story is absolutely heartbreaking. That sentence is overused, but the story is just so well written with such fleshed out characters that really does make me burst into a mess of emotions.
  • Seconded. By Arceus, Seconded. One of the very few Fanfics in this fandom I enjoyed. The plot feels entirely natural, the characters are all real, and, although it centers around a species of fakemon, said species comes out totally natural as well. I never really liked Sceptile, and I probably won't ever again after this. Archopy, on the other hand... if only the designers at Pokemon Co. had been a bit more creative. Honestly, I probably won't ever forget this. Ever. It's that good. It's not all that long, and it's really a lot darker than the main series, but it does a good job of explain Canon discrepancies and hand waves (most notably- the whole predator-prey thing. That explanation was so good that it's now a part of my own headcanon.). I can't express how good this is. Really, go and read it.

Four Paws by destinedjagold

• Recommended by Snowy66
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: A two-legged human creature suddenly woke up as a fictional creature on four paws, and must travel this new yet familiar world as he tries to find a way back home. Join him in his quest with other PKMN friends as he makes every boring dead air into something to talk about...at least he tries to.
• Comments: Has what could have been a very ordinary, uninteresting setting, but ends up being so engaging due to how well written it is. The main character is a snarky human turned Eevee who provides hilarious first-person narrations, as he adjusts to his new body and strange world, all the while trying to find his way home. The supporting protagonists are all so likable, with a bubbly Genki Girl Rattata providing comic relief, a grumpy snarky Pikachu who's Vitriolic Best Buds with the main character, a calm level-headed Bulbasaur who's the Only Sane Man, and a sweet lovable Vulpix who has a budding crush on the main character in a very well written ship.

Friends, partners and more... by Slifer.

• Recommended by Rakaziel
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: Focuses on an OC Trainer and his Pokemon and contains romance, drama and fighting Team Rocket. The Setting is a more realistic take on the Pokemon world. Also contains, explains and slightly deconstructs pokemorphs. Good storytelling and pacing, likable characters and some very well written crowningmoments.
  Warning: The sex scenes are NSFW (which is why it requires an account to read it), happen between Pokemon and humans and the backstory of some characters may contain triggers.
  Original German version is here

Fury and Confusion by lebensmude

• Recommended by transparentanswer
• Status: Dormant; last updated December 2017
• Sypnosis: The Land Spirits are capricious by nature. What if Tapu Koko, arbitrary as gods are, simply did not decide to save Luna and Nebby as they fell from the wooden bridge? Pokemon Sun and Moon. Lillie and Gladion main characters.
• Comments: Starting out as an Ascended Fridge Horror of the prologue of Pokemon Sun and Moon and the story goes off the rails from there. Despite so, the characters are written off well and not too off character.

Gallade's Odyssey by Knakaruzu-kun

• Recommended by Mrgreen 39
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: In an alternate world in which Pokemon live together freely, it focuses on the quest of a young Gallade as he attempts to stop an evil Mewtwo from destroying his father's kingdom.
• Comments: You just don't get enough fanfics like this. The idea of a world inhabited entirely by Pokemon is a concept that is sadly underused. Occasionally the spelling and grammar is a bit dodgy, but it's still an amazing adventure with terrific characters and plenty of heart to boot.

The Game of Champions by L. Lamora ^note

• Recommended by Kaoz, Seconded by Daystar
• Status: Dead
• Summary: There are many trainers in the world; they exist in degrees, from dabbler to legend. But only one can be the very best - one man, one Champion. I am that one. I am that man. My name? Red.
• Comments: There is heaps and heaps of world building here, and Red has a very distinctive voice that sucked me in for the whole ride, and the framing device leaves just enough for the audience to keep guessing. For truth, this seems to be shaping up to be an epic as the word was originally defined.
  • Seconding this recommendation. Before writing Pokemon: The Origin of Species I had not read any pokemon fanfic, but once I mentioned that fact I started getting inundated by recommendations by readers. Of all that I tried, Game of Champions was among the most highly recommended, and was the only one to really suck me in and make me 'finish' it. There's simply no other pokemon fanfic I've found that's as high quality, and anyone who wants a more realistic, unique, and most importantly, well written pokemon fiction owes it to themself to check it out.
  • Rival Green just giving a heads-up. Lamora is in the US Air Force now, so will understandably have less time to write.
  • In late 2018, the author removed the fanfic on FanFiction.net out of Old Shame, so it is definitely dead.

The Girl Who Knows the Hearts of Dragons by Gotpika

• Recommended by Kairyu
• Status: Ongoing
• Summary: Iris, resident of the Village of Dragons, meets a man named Drayden one day. She is taken under the mentorship of the strong trainer. How will the story of the young apprentice and teacher unfold? An Expansion fic. on Iris from the Pokémon Black & White game series.
• Comments: It's quite a nicely knit story so far that tells about how Iris met, or more so will meet, Drayden and her roots and all that jazz. You can tell quite a bit of effort has been put into crafting the story since I found the first chapter to be pretty engrossing. I hardly run into many quality Expansion fics. on Gym Leaders so I gave this one a try and I like it. I recommend that anyone give it a chance. The dialogue is good, the description is good as well. Not flowery or too wordy thankfully which made reading it feel like a treat. Realistic portrayal of canon characters, and nice dynamic overall.

Going Back by Jackman B

• Recommended by Jack Nativity, Ethereal Frog, Lalalei2001
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: A young Trainer by the name of Joshua has gathered all eight Badges in Sinnoh and is preparing to cross Victory Road to challenge the Pokemon League's Elite Four. An accident causes a cave-in and seriously injures him, and his team of Pokemon must work together to escape the cave and keep their Master alive. Also has a trope page.
• Comments: This is an original character and original team, using only a few events from Diamond/Pearl. Surprisingly good for a Pokefic, perhaps the biggest plus is that Joshua and his team are believable characters. The dialogue between the Pokemon is fun to read, and you can tell that despite the experimental writing, the author's put a lot of effort into this story. Apparently he is considering a prequel and a sequel depending on how much people like this.
  • Ethereal Frog seconding the rec. The story is plenty long enough to develop the characters and have a proper ending. The plot is interesting, and the ending is great, if a little sad, but it's a happy ending nonetheless. Great story, and I hope to see more one day.

Goodbye Stranger by ibuberu

• Recommended by Amp
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: A game-verse series of expositions concerning the various protagonists' mostly missing fathers.
• Comments: The only word that I really can use to describe this fic is 'beautiful.' Its structure seems to be well thought-out and the emotions of the protagonists ring true. It is also fairly troperiffic for a one chapter work.

The Greatest Reborn Story Ever by srgeman and Lady of Darkfire

• Recommended by phazonfarmer
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Two kids die, become a Doduo, and are adopted by a kid who thinks all you need to be successful is good looks and the ability to ramble.
• Comments: This is what happens when a writer decides to write a Crack Fic of his own idea. The characters are fully aware that they're in a story, pointing out scene changes, off-screen events, and the inconsistencies of the world they live in.

The Greatest There Was or Ever Will Be by Forever United Never We Fall

• Recommended by Brendan D Rizzo
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: 'What if Ash was chosen by the God Pokemon Arceus herself to be the 'Chosen One', the savior and champion of the world, the one true master of all Pokemon? Follow this retelling of Ash's entire journey from the very beginning. Ash will encounter and overcome great challenges to become the greatest Pokemon Master there ever was...or ever will be. Powerful,smart,mature Ash'
• Comments: We've all seen this before... a writer attempts to 'fix' the story by rewriting the whole anime so that Ash is smarter or more competent, but 90% of the time succeeds only in making Ash into a boring and unlikeable God Mode Stu. ...This is not one of those. Instead, Ash is so much more powerful than his canon self that it Crosses the Line Twice into pure, unadulterated awesome. The best comparison is most likely PokémonmeetsMedaka Box. At times, it reads like a parody of Overpowered Ash stories, and at other times like a deconstruction, but in truth, it is neither. As long as you don't take it too seriously, it's an enjoyable read. The heroes train so much that Ash's superpoweredness is almost believable, and, though Giselle becomes Ash's girlfriend, the relationships never distract from the action, and there's a twist that you won't see coming. The fic doesn't really hit its stride until Chapter 6, but if you can stick around for that long, you'll be in for a treat.
• Note: Has its own page.

Guardians of Pokémon by Mr Panda

• Recommended by SpiriTsunami
• Status: Last update 2007.
• Synopsis: Ash must awaken the 17 Guardians of Pokemon to protect the world from an unseen force. The Guardians must then capture every Pokemon of their type by using their special powers.
• Comments: Set in some sort of weird Animeverse AU, This odd hybrid of Pokemon and the Magical Girl genre is actually quite interesting. The original characters are good (there are no Mary Sues), and not even the presence of some Love Dodecahedrons can bog it down. I'm this close to breaking down all of the tropes that this fic uses. To name a few: Cat Girl, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Defecting for Love, Glam Of Shazam, Heel–Face Turn, Face–Heel Turn, The Harvey...

Heart of the Magma by purple-drake.

• Recommended by 2writeis2life
• Status: Complete (though it comes with a sequel, Choice and Consequence (Dormant) and a side-story, Brother My Brother (Complete))
• Synopsis: 'There was a time when Team Magma worked for the good of the pokémon world. When they were ruled by reason and not madness. When they had in their care the daughter of their leader, a little girl who represented hopes and dreams... and fears...'
• Comments: Basically a story about Maxie's family and his relationship to his subordinates, as well as the reason why he wants to expand the landmass in the first place. The author has a knack for details and dialogue that really help to bring each and every character to life- the Magma admins each have personalities of their very own and Maxie's daughter actually feels like a ten-year-old kid. Maxie's role in the story is fairly minor, actually, but he's there for the most important parts- and very much The Woobie, which is an interesting way of looking at him, but it all works.

Henkou by Nauran

• Recommended by REV 6 Pilot
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Going by the infamous Pokemon Coma Theory, this fanfic depicts Ash waking up from a Dying Dream and trying to come to terms with the real world, or not. As its plot stems from such a controversial concept among the fanon and had opened with an emotionally-tearing first chapter, this story has been described as having great potential by its readers, despite the sparse updating.
• Comments: 'Wow. Talk about an emotional roller coaster ride. It'll be interesting to discover how this will play out.'
  • 'You've pulled off some excellent pathos with all of this. In the first chapter especially, you can feel Ash's despair vividly.'
  • 'This is, without a doubt, the best opening chapter to a story I've ever read. I was completely engrossed from beginning to end, and now I just want to read MORE!'
  • 'EXTREMELY realistic in terms of environment and emotion, and the whole thing raises so many questions, you can't HELP but read on!'

Hoenn Insane: The Version of RSE You Didn't See. by Ketn- er, Kenta 147

• Recommended by Mattman324, Poptard, Firebert, A/Syrika
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: A Pokemon trainer teams up with a character named Mary Sue, and fight Team Aqua and Team Magma, all while avoiding Brenden and Anti-Sue and trying to stop the evil in Hoenn!
• Comments: A crack at bad RPGs (Specifically stated in the final chapter), it has EVERYTHING. God mod as the main villain, a Mary Sue with a typical Sue team (Raichu, Pikachu, Espeon, Articuno, and Suicune. Also, the main hero is a well designed Genre Savvy kid, made to represent the old RPGer who knows how to make a character. And did I mention the humor? Some of the off the wall humor they throw at you will leave you laughing for a while afterward. A great read if you've been going through bad times, or reading sad fanfics, as it ALWAYS will lighten your day.
• Seconded. The humor is so constantly funny that by the time you reach the climax, which is a bit more serious, you'll be completely engrossed in the characters' plight. All of them—even Mary-Sue—are likable in their own way, and the hilarity just keeps building. It's really a story all focused on humorous parody, but it somehow manages to be much more than that. Also, the bad luck Absol. That's all I can say.

Hoenn League: A Brendan and May Adventure by Breezy

• Recommended by Assassin, Poptard
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Adaptation from the Ru/Sa/Em games. After moving to Hoenn, May finds herself pulled into the world of Pokemon battles on an adventure with a frustrating white-haired boy named Brendan and his slow-witted Mudkip, Muddy as they go on the Pokemon League Challenge.
• Comments: A humorous and all around entertaining long-running fic, it may have been one of the first fics to have Pokemon 'translations' done successfully.

The Human Species by Shaded Skies

• Recommended by Ghingahn
• Status: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: 'Humanity has gotten fed up with their fragile position in the world of Pokémon. The best of trainers will subdue or dispose of every powerful Pokémon in existence. But which side of the conflict will you end up on if you're neither human nor Pokémon...?'
• Comments: This is a fairly dark fic that has a good bit of both violence and humor. The main character comes off as a pretty big Jerkass in the beginning, but he mellows out later on. The legendary Pokemon show up on a regular basis since they've been pretty much all captured. There's quite a few mature themes in the story, but most people should be able to handle them. Highly recommended.

Hyphen by Dermonster

• Reccomended by an FB troper who prefers to go by Archeo Lumiere
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: After evading capture on Hoenn route 102, a curious Ralts picks up a discarded pokeball. Curiosity is a dangerous beast indeed, and infiltrating the human world is no less risky. But for the sake of her home and her inquisitiveness, she will do whatever it takes to rise above the stars.
• Comments: This fic is a bit slow going but features art from Dexexe1234 of Terrene Spire fame, it follows an idealistic Ralts in her adventures in the Pokémon world.

I Am Lucario by lupyne

• Recommended by Faislittlewhiteraven, seconded by Pykrete & Superdale 33
• Status: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: A prediction has been made; at some point in the future, a disaster will strike the city, possibly leaving it and the surrounding forest in ruins. Along with his friends, an Absol and an Eevee, a wild Lucario is set on preventing it at all cost. But until then, Lucario intends to live life to the fullest: pursuing his hobby of human-watching, exploring new sights, and cracking the mysteries that surround his friends.
• Comments: A beautiful little fanfic with lots of love for all its characters. The story mostly follows Lucario's 'Human watching' with a reflective and mostly optimistic style, but a number of chapters have some intense scenes; many of which are rather sad. Has battles as well as lots of fun between the main trio, but I find that what really hooked me onto this fic is the stories of the one chapter characters; all of them have very different stories to tell but like Lucario I find each one has something to offer and is worth the read.

Indomitable Spirit by Cracktheskye

• Recommended by wolverinejoe
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Six years ago, Ash Ketchum died. Now, during the tournament of Celebi, a mysterious figure appears. Who is he and what is his connection to Ash? Dark plots are stirring, and soon all will collide in a fight for the fate of world.
• Pairings Ash/Misty
• Comments This fic takes the idea of the standard Tournament Fic (Which, as you know if you browse the Pokémon Archives, occurs very often) and throws it out the window. The author does a marvelous job with this story. To quote the author himself, this fic 'Features insane moments of badass, weird humor, and battles galore!' Also, Skye does what very few authors do with his story. His use of Japanese and the culture that gave us Pokémon is very fun to read. I highly recommend it.

The Infinity League by Shaydrall

• Recommended by Partner555.
• Status: Incomplete. Last updated Jan 2013. Story is about 1/3 finished.
• Synopsis: Five years ago, a crushing defeat made Ash vanish from the world of Pokemon. Now, at the advent of the World Pokemon Tournament, he reappears, a new person. The Pokemon Hunters have a new leader, people with god-like powers are appearing, and there are even whispers of civil war. In a seemingly perfect world, nobody could possibly stop the chaos from happening. Nobody until now.
• Pairings: Main ones are Ash x OC and Ash x Cynthia.
• Comments: The real plot doesn't start until Chapter 11 but the wait is worth it as the first 10 chapters were awesome. And the first 10 felt like introductory chapters. Chapters 11 and beyond show the awesome main plot. Ash has become an Aura Guardian, The Pokemon Hunters' new leader is Vince Korinek, the OC Ash is in a relationship with is named Miranda and she has unexplained powers, and Ash meets Ember and Gabriel Meres. His sister and father respectively. Some might not like Ash being in a relationship with an OC, but this one is good to watch. Really.
• Now with a trope page: The Infinity League
• From the author's FF.net page: 'Currently I'm in the process of giving this fic a severe makeover. When I do republish this thing, I'm considering simultaneously releasing the 'origin' story as well.'

Irony by Stixn

• Recommended by 2writeis2life
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Grings Kodai was arrested nearly one year ago. Remembering the past has triggered one last vision of the future. The vision of his death. Little did he know just how near it was.
• Comments: One of only a small handful of fics that star Grings Kodai, the villain from the thirteenth movie; and easily the best of the bunch. The entire story is set inside of his head, and by and large does an excellent job of conveying his views on the situation, as well as certain points in the movie itself. Because of the limited perspective, some of the scenes are a bit of a Mind Screw. The story also contains some disturbing bits, but the often gorgeous prose helps things along immensely. The author even manages to give Kodai a few fleeting touches of vulnerability, without altering his characterization at all.

Journey of a Thousand James by Meinos Kaen

• Recommended by Tropic Thunder
• Status: Dormant
• Pairings: James/Harem (Not the focus of the story)
• Synopsis: James suddenly gets a call. An old friend is finally healed and is waiting for him to pick him up. He does so, but... The return trip to get back to his traveling companions takes an unexpected turn before even starting. Now up: Interlude I Rx R, please
• Comments: I'm kinda confused as to why this hasn't been recommended already...

The Kalos Chronicles by SDproductions

• Recommended by Audinary
• Status: Dormant
• Pairings: Multiple; author deliberately refuses to state whether main focus is Calem/Serena or Calem/Shauna
• Synopsis: Traversing Kalos? Easy. Becoming a Champion? Easier. Dealing with your ragtag group of friends, including two girls who have the hots for you, and a Pokemon who knows more about you and your journey than he's letting on? Well, easy or not, Calem will have to face all that and more, in this epic tale of adventure, coming-of-age, friendship, and romantic hijinks. Hilarity ensues. TL;DR: Pokémon X/Ymeets a RomCom.
• Comments: While by no means expertly-written, The Kalos Chronicles is a light-hearted novelization of Pokémon X/Y, taking the romantic subplot hinted at in-game to its not-so-logical conclusion. What follows is one of the most hilarious reads this troper has ever had the pleasure of reading. Furthermore, it's one of the first Gen VI fics on this site, and it's both faithful to the canonical material, and delightfully AU without diverging too far. Yikes; it's so hard to write this without sounding like an utter fanboy.

The Ketchum Conference by Saphroneth

• Recommended by euan112358, Puidwen
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: From six regions around the globe, the Champions and their Elite Four gather. Why? To discuss the many world-shaking occurrences that are happening in their regions, and how they all seem to involve one particular trainer and his Pikachu...
• Comments: This is a dialog-only fic, which may be off-putting to some, but the interactions and humour between the strongest trainers from Kanto to Kalos are top-notch, especially as they look at each movie/major anime event (up to M18) that Ash is involved in and are increasingly amazed at the things he's done, the Legendaries he's seen, the Legendaries he's saved, the Legendaries he's ridden...

La Serie De Ken by Mewtwo Power

• Recommended by Tropers/Da_Nuke
• Status: Completed.
• Synopsis: It takes the original premise of the series and turns it into a more mature series aimed at older teenagers.
• Comments: If you know Spanish, read La Serie De Ken.
  • Fish Called Waldo: The full TV Tropes description is under the Fan Fic section of page, and is where the links for La Serie De Ken lead. If those don't help, nothing will.

Latias' Journey by Ri2

• Recommended by Kitsu, Vipvoo, Pykrete, Dialga X, Flairina, Poptard
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Latias is forced to flee Altomare after it is destroyed by the mysterious Ghost King, who she angered by rejecting his advances due to her feelings for Ash. Chaos ensues.
• Comments: It's full of genre-savvy goodness. A word to the wise; you won't be finishing this in one sitting... it's over a million words, and that's not even counting the unfinished (but living!) sequel. It gets pretty gruesome at parts, and more so as the fic goes on, but it has wonderfully light-hearted moments such as the defeat of Gary Stu, which involves 'Phanphy the Clown' and the Pokerockers. The characterization and writing is excellent, to say the least. However, as this troper already stated, it ventures into some rather dark and squicky territory, including rape, torture, and incest.
  • Vipvoo seconding this like whoa. It'd probably be best if you started with the prequel though.
  • Pykrete: I was a little daunted by the sheer volume and held off on reading it — I regret that delay in hindsight. The length feels more discretely episodic than Door Stopper. Bonus points for actually managing to get Team Rocket to reach even higher levels of Epic Fail while somehow still managing to be a legitimate threat. Don't let the quirky, surreal humor fool you though, it hits pretty absurd levels of disturbing near the end. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
  • Zero Tw 0: Read this if you feel in the mood for savvy]] characters and Deus Ex Machinas to the max. That is all!
  • Dialga X: Extremely long but it is worth reading through it. Uproarously funny elements worthy of a good Crack Fic coupled with dazzling action sequences are a winning combination. However, there is an extreme amount of blood, gore and violence and some very disturbing imagery present.
  • Flairina: HUGE length, but is quite good. However, as previously warned, in the later chapters there is extremely grotesque and detailed imagery, many examples of A Fate Worse Than Death, and a horrendous amount of blood, which flips back and forth with Lighter and Softer chapters (thank goodness).
  • Strilight: The story was exeptional, the writing was good, it kept me occupied for a long time. One thing you might want to do after finishing it is to reread some of the earlier chapters. You might notice something that you missed on your first read, which discribes the amount of detail Ri2 added in this story. Or the battle scenes are epic enough to revisit again.
  • yiran: I guess I'm going to be the first one on this page that is against this fic, eh? Anyway, it's obvious that the grammar and spelling is completely fine, but that doesn't make a good piece of fiction. The main thing I don't like about it is its excessive Lampshade Hanging. I'm serious. Whenever a character in the story mentions that 'that's the lamest and most cliché plot device ever', it's actually worse than not mentioning it, since the author acknowledges its badness (for the lack of a better word), but still uses it anyway. Plus, many times where the fourth wall is broken, I just can't stay serious enough to actually feel the emotional impact that would have been delivered well. Another really annoying point is that it inserts dark stuff when there's no reason to. Sure, rape is a lot more traumatic than say, getting beat up, but I see absolutely no point of the scene other than to... satisfy urges of specific readers? I don't know. Also, sure, intricate details that are referenced later might be put in (such as the Snorunt on the island), but there are some serious plot parts that were obviously unplanned. The whole last chapter is just a Ass Pull, which is even acknowledged by the author. Deoxys as a villain was also dead obvious to me; I mean, the author already established that he killed the Pichu twins, which pretty much pulls him over the Moral Event Horizon. That, and he openly says 'I'm evil'. It'd be much more believable if he said something like 'I'm only doing what I was born to do, which is spread my virus', but the author opted for a villain that just states 'I'm evil'. And another point I didn't like was the escalating scale of conflicts. At the start it's the city being endangered and wiped out, then it expands to the planet, then it expands to the universe. This fact doesn't seem so planned to me. The fact that the Unown explained the things offscreen didn't make sense to me either. It just seems lazy, not trying to think of an explanation and rather have Latias not understanding it (when in actuality she isn't even the point-of-view character in some situations. The omnipresent narrating doesn't help the interest of readers; you're anticipating what happens next, then you jump off to another scene with completely different characters? This especially annoys me in the battle of the Chosen. The concept of Mewgle's dimension in the battle of the Chosen's also annoying - why didn't he just kill them all? It's in his simulated world after all. And responding to the previous troper, I didn't think the battle scenes were interesting at all. I thought they were excessively long and I often skipped past them just to see how the plot would advance. Yet another complaint from me is that the story loses focus on Latias pretty quickly. I don't mean that someone else starts taking over the story, but this just doesn't seem like Latias' Journey, it seems more like the Chosen's Journey, because other characters get just as much, if not more 'screen time' and background than Latias. Yeah, this big chunk of text is pure criticism and complaining and whining, but I view the piece this way. Not recommended, or disrecommended if you like fancy words which actually aren't in most dictionaries.
    • ShotgunWilly: Honestly? I totally agree with yiran. YMMV.

The Legend of Eevee: Pokeflute of Time by that one little guy.

• Recommended by Supercomputer276
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Take The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Make everyone Pokemon characters. Make Link a brain-dead Pichu, Navi a bad-tempered Togetic who does most of the killing for him, and everyone else completely nuts. Stir at your reading speed and enjoy.
• Comments: Pure comedy from start to finish. Rapidly lampshades some of the ridiculousness of Zelda games. Occasional Dungeon Bypass by blowing up everything in sight.

The Legend of Red by REDMASTEROFPOKEMON.

• Recommended by Lee-Jin, Jorenty
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: This story takes place after the events of all the Pokemon games. Red has accepted his rightful place as Champion of Kanto, but the world is just not right. The other regions are beginning to forget what it means to be a true Pokemon Trainer. Red must then battle against iconic trainers such as Brendan and N, in order to set them on the right path once again.
• Comments: A thought-provoking look at the Pokemon series that tells a beautifully emotional tale while also satirizing the darker parts of the Pokemon fanbase. The author's prose masterfully tells us all this in his own unique style.
  • Note: Has a sequel called The Legend of Lillie, which is finished. Author is currently writing another story called 'Ultra Legend of Red

The Life of the Legendaries by Jakayrta.

• Recommended by Dialga X, gumbal1, Smuglord
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: So what goes on in the Hall of Origins? Are the Legendary Pokemon as boring as they seem to be or are they just like us? The answer will surprise and shock you.
• Comments: Yeah, the fic itself is kind of cracky but it works. The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon bits are pretty well done too and yet have some comedy. A private message sent by the author states that the fic will get less 'cracky' as it progresses.
  • Seconded, just... have some Brain Bleach ready for chapter nine.
  • Thirded, and to add onto the Brain Bleach thing... might want to keep it with you for almost every chapter after that.

Like a Line Drive! by Lightning Kimba

• Recommended by Angelic Grace
• Status: Dead.
• Synopsis: A young trainer and his shiny Eevee travel throughout the lands of Johto, discovering the origins of their apparent history together, despite the trainer's resistance to his so-called 'destiny'. A parody of how Pokémonfanfics are generally written in its fandom.
• Comments: This is quite the fun series. As of the beginning chapters, it appears to be playing around with cheap skills the main character would generally have if handled with a bad writer, and uses them to his disadvantage rather than making him an ace. The Narrator's also a fun character, often acting as a young intern walking into the job rather than a true veteran. Overall, it has both a comedy and action feel, catching even meta-savvy writers if they read in closely enough.

Like No One Ever Was by Final Arc

• Recommended by Tropers/World Turtle
• Status: Complete at 24 Chapters and now has a sequel: With Courage I Will Face (Dormant)
• Synopsis: Nature brought the tornado, Team Rocket got them stuck in it, Age caused the building's collapse, and Bad Luck did the rest. But none of them are to blame for electrocuting Ash to the point of brain damage. That's all on Pikachu.
• Comments: I'm not really sure what I can say to properly give this story justice. The story is told from Pikachu's perspective as he deals with the guilt of being responsible for Ash's condition as well as how he sees his and Ash's friendship and the trials they go through as he recovers. Though the story doesn't focus all on them, the supporting cast retains a presence throughout the story and a special mention goes to the battle with Tepig's old trainer and CMOA for Snivy.
  • Seconding. This is possibly the most real story I've ever read. I'd call it angst, but really reading it makes you grieve for the characters and Pikachu's feelings are portrayed in such a complex manner that it's far more convincing than angst tends to be. If the characters mean anything to you (heck, even if they don't, I haven't watched the show since Johto and I still liked characters like Bianca and Cilan) you should give this fic a chance.

A Little Night Music by srgeman

• Recommended by Tropers/aBBaFan.
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Angela Duncan is a human girl who, after killing herself, is reborn as the starter Pokemon of her best friend. She spends the next several months be tortured by Not Pokemon, hunted by a faceless killer, and fixing her own flawed life.
• Comments: An extremely dark story, its biggest problem is it sometimes ends up too dark. Also, it frequently draws attention to the stupidity of its own universe. It has a completely original cast and is one of the few stories set in the mangaverse. Although there are over twenty main characters, each one has a well-rounded personality and individual motivations. It's over 300,000 words and 114 chapters. As of this posting, it's the most reviewed Pokemon fanfic on fanfiction.net. Also significant in that it spawned a miniature fandom of many other writers using the same story formula and reincarnation mechanics.
  • The story has recently been deleted by the site staff...
  • It's back up now, along with srgeman's sequel, Smiles Of A Summer Night.
  • Contested: While the story itself is interesting and engaging, the writing is absolutely riddled with spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors so flagrant they detract from the story's meaning.

Lucki by Farla

• Recommended by GuyYouMetOnline
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Upon garduating from the Pokemon School, it's time for Lucki to pick her starter. Despite the advice of her classmates, she goes with her instincts, choosing a shiny Squirtle that's 'small, young, and timid' because it feels right to her. With her new Pokemon, names Silver, at her side, Lucki begins her journey, eager to see what awaits her along the way.
• Comments: This is a difficult story to talk about without spoiling things. Despite a few tweaks to the setup (such as Lucki getting her started from the Pokemon School rather than a professor, or the existence of a translator device that allows Pokemon to speak human language), the story starts out being extremely generic, or at least it seems that way. But every step in Lucki's journey is actually a carefully-crafted element of a whole picture that doesn't truly come into view until the very end. Every battle, every encounter, every addition to Lucki's team (and they're well-developed additions, as the translator device allows for more characterization than in most Pokemon fics), all of it is a very deliberate setup to a Twist Ending that casts the entire story in a completely different light. Even if things can feel painfully generic, in my opinion it's well worth reading to the end just to understand what's really going on.

Lull by Breezy

• Recommended by Assassin, Umbee
• Status: Complete
• Summary: An elaboration on the Cresselia event that happened in the Diamond and Pearl series, after winning the league and foiling Team Galactic, Lucas was put on a pedestal he never wanted to be on. Now untrusting of everything, he and, to his annoyance, Dawn investigates a mysterious event in Canalave City.
• Comments: This story really explores how a teen would react to the publicity and slander one would expect from the events set by the game. The main theme of trust and subconscious is a theme that's been employed smoothly and makes this fic an interesting read.
  • Umbee: Now this is an amazing Pokemon fic. Every single character has been written beautifully and realistically, and they're one of the fic's strongest points. Humor is inserted in just the right places, and the running gags don't get stale. If you want a story that's serious without being too dark, with fleshed-out characters and setting, I cannot recommend this one enough.

Madhouse by Trexmaster

• Recommended by Totally Original
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: A world where a constant struggle between Zerstorung and just about everyone else forms the basis of everyday life. It takes place in the Team Fortress 2 universe several years after RED and BLU ceased fighting, the mercenaries playing a somewhat important part in the story.
• Comments: You might be wondering what this has to do with Pokemon, but if you read through it, you'll notice several hints towards a connection with the Pokemon universe and theirs, obviously meaning they're going to do something with it. That aside, the story is quite good, progressively getting better as it goes on.

Masks Within Masks by Bardothren

• Recommended by lalalei2001
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Genetically engineered as part of an experiment on Pokemon, Subject Seven spent her whole life inside a laboratory cell, trying in futility to escape, until a fateful day gave her a chance at her own life. Only problem is, that life is within the ranks of Team Rocket. Assuming the identity of a peon within the syndicate, she struggles to climb higher while hiding her identity.
• Now has a trope page.

Mergers by Katrina S. Forest and RaptorRowan

• Recommended by lalalei2001
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: When mergers were invented, they exploded in popularity. After all, who wouldn't want to have a smidgen of Pokémon DNA in their veins? To use their powers? To talk to them? But the process is delicate. More than 50% Pokémon DNA, and you're no longer human. You're a wild Pokémon, and any trainer can capture you and claim you as their own.
• Now has a trope page.

Mind Over Matter by DavidBrin

• Recommended by Supercomputer276, Umbee
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The epic struggle between fun-loving Mew and prudish Azelf can only be settled by one thing; the Gobstopper of DEATH! Not as random as it sounds.
• Comments: A silly little exchange between the playful Mew and the logical Azelf. It's hard to describe how funny it is without being too over-the-top.

Minor Miscalculations and Unlikely Ascension by Fragmented Disillusionment (TF Fics.)

• Recommended by Ao S_Kirby
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Minor Miscalculations is the story of a young trainer named Alvin who gets transformed into a pichu by an ancient artifact. With only his Pikachu (and later joined by his best friend and psychic, David), Alvin must fight his Pokemon instincts while trying to find a way to become human again. This will take him across the sea to the region of Kanto, where he unknowingly becomes caught up in a Team Rocket operation that could cause the boy to lose everything. Unlikely Ascension, a sort of companion one-shot to Minor Miscalculations, tells the story of a young man named Logan. Born without any psychic abilities into a family of psychics, the boy was often bullied an abused in his youth. Even after defying the long-thought idea that those not born with the ability could never develop it, he's still treated like an outcast in his own family. This story follows him as he sets out to make his own path, and ends up finding a way to be far more than he is.
• Comments: Both stories are complete and take place in a more realistic interpretation of Pokemon canon. Although there is very little of canon characters, the original characters are well-developed and unique. These works have even inspired other fan fiction based in the same realistic Pokemon world. The writing is excellent considering the age of the writer, and the writer himself is quite open to people contacting him about the stories.

Morphic by Dragonfree (Or you can go to FanFiction.net)

• Recommended by Vapour, Umbee, Digi Flame, yiran, Happypants3
• Status: Completed.
• Synopsis: Several scientists tried to make Pokemorphs (half-human, half-Pokemon) and succeed, but they're forced to keep them after an abortion debate. Few years later, the Pokemorphs become teenagers and... this summary does not do the story justice.
• Comments: A nice Deconstruction of Pokemorph stories and a good read after quite a few Pokemorphic Mary Sues.
  • Seconded with joy. Quite possibly the best Pokemon fanfiction I've ever read.
  • yiran: An interesting topic made realistic. It is a very good read in general, with excellent characterisation as well as a well-made plot. There are minor issues I have, such as the over-realistic society, but that is me being opinionated. Chances are, you will enjoy this fanfiction greatly. (It also doesn't use much as much of your time like the other massive pieces.) Strongly recommended.
  • Flygon The Great: I honestly can't recommend this. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, you know it's going to be bad but you can't look away. The characters are as sue-ish as one can get, the plot is weak and cliche and the ending tries to be as edgy as possible. Don't get me started on the 'Dave and Mia' series... Dave is an alcoholic who tries to be as much of a jerkass as possible while being forced into several incredibly awkward situations with a bitchy, psychopathic half-scyther named Mia. It's a wonder why this thing was even written or why I used to like it, it's just downright horrible in every way. Don't read it.

The Natural History of Pokémon by Shadow Wasserson

• Recommended by Dialga X, Lymantria
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Imagine a field guide to a realistic Pokémon universe.
• Comments: It is a field guide to a realistic Pokémon universe. The author clearly has a solid grasp of real-world biology and maanges to work it into Pokémon world. It should be noted that the universe is neither game nor anime nor manga; it is a hybrid of all of them coupled with Real Life.

New Game by Misheard Whisper

• Recommended by Rinne
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: What happens to your Pokemon when you press New Game? If you don't transfer them to another game, they might well resent you for it. A sobering look at that New Game button we all take for granted.
• Comments: An eloquent little ficlet that develops and beautifully presents the thoughts of six Pokémon and their impending deletion, all in under 2000 words. There’s no forceful Aesop here, but the personalities that are shown will definitely make you think twice before pressing that button. Warning: major Tear Jerker.

New World by An Enemy Spy

• Recommended by Communazi
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: When a young man named Dust attacks a powerful aristocrat, he is forced to leave his village. Taking along his Totodile, he sets on an epic journey. Meanwhile, Mewtwo, a powerful Pokemon from a bygone era is awoken, and has mysterious plans of it's own.
• Comments: This story is a period piece of sorts, set in a mishmash of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Its story is split into a few different threads, with Dust carrying the main plot, while other threads involving Mewtwo and an empathic girl named Espa. People who like adventure stories with lots of cliffhangers and action will enjoy this fic.

No Antidote by Falcon Pain

• Recommended by CAD, Yoshi348, Krisnack, Gattsuru, Ethereal Frog. Fawn, Umbee, antialiasis, Roihu, Pykrete, Canary In The Coal Mine, Miko Galatea, Kayi Rowling, Doxie Vee, Calamity Jane, Up Ndown Nallaround, Apocrypha, RoryOKane
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: A young Pokemon trainer from Pallet obtains a starter and begins on his journey, but then suffers a tragic accident that leaves him with a fading mind and only weeks to live. What does this mean for Bulbasaur, his starter, and how far will Bulbasaur take their mutual promise to go as far as they can, no matter the obstacle?
• Comments: This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do a fanfic. Only eight chapters, but brilliant characters and storytelling make it one of the best. Very dark and tragic, and has an ending you will never see coming. Highly recommended.
  • Yoshi348: Seconding the rec. The fic knows exactly where it's going and what it's doing, and most importantly who its characters are, and that's really the heart of any good story. So mostly perfect it's a bit bewildering that there's the awkward two lines of aggravating Song Fic shoved in the end of each chapter, but at least that's easily ignorable.
  • Gattsuru: Nthing the rec. This is impressively well-written. Short, somewhere between short story and full novella, but hits all the right moments and touches all the right notes, with an excellent choice of Twist and an odd, entertaining Bittersweet Ending. The perfect Dark Fic, changing not a single motivation nor attribute in the series and still leaving you very, very depressed. Deus Ex Pokeball and Mute, Too, by the same author, both are also great reads.
  • Ethereal Frog: Nthing the rec also. Rather short, but I like that, I don't get too attached to the characters. Speaking of which, the characters are well thought up, but the twist at the end is rather jarring, but it provides closure, and that's always good. Well written, short, but sweet.
  • antialiasis: A very interesting read and ingeniously thought out, much more so than it seems at first glance - one of the best things about it is the subtlety. The final two chapters feel a bit jarring, but are appropriate to make the point the author is trying to make. Note when you read: the author did not just make a mistake. The author did not just make a Retcon in response to reviews pointing out he did something wrong. Every. Last. Thing in this story is deliberate and significant. Trust me.
  • Pykrete: (N+ 2)th'ing the rec, for all the reasons above. Also, Beedrill takes a tactical nuke to how most fic writers handle his species, and is pretty much concentrated awesome.
  • Canary In The Coal Mine: Not only do I agree with all the comments above, but there is something to be said of the very idea of the ending: Pokemon meets Weekend at Bernie's. It's a rather interesting and unexplored idea that could very well fit into the pokemon universe. I'm surprised more stories haven't tried to examine and play with it.
  • Miko Galatea: What can I say that hasn't been said already? The writing and characterisation is brilliant, and I came close to crying several times. The highlight for me would have to be Bulbasaur's flashback to the Beedrill incident after he realises he's a poison type; that was just masterfully done.
  • Kayi Rowling: I recommend it too, but can't say anything that hasn't been already said. It's good.
  • phazonfarmer: Nth'ing this one too, as well as Falcon Pain's other works. He clearly knows how the Pokeverse works, to the point that when I went to Bulbapedia to check, it all worked out quite smoothly.
  • Doxie Vee: Re-recommending this fic. It's powerful, brutal, well-researched, beautifully written, and deeply upsetting. Magnificent on every level.
  • Haya: I recommend this fanfic for many of the reasons stated before. Unlike my fellow tropers, I actually recommend it for the incredible closure it gives. The ending can be considered incredibly dark and it shares some points with Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four regarding the relationship between Pokemon trainers and their Pokemon.
  • Calamity Jane: I also recommend this fanfic. It has all of the great things I look for in a story; strong sense of continuity and a knowledge of where the story is going, plot twists that curve the story into an impossibly beautiful shape, and a 'dark but soft' take on the world in question. If I had a choice, I'd much rather be in a pitch black bouncy-house than a pitch-black iron maiden, in terms of darkness and edginess. The author's other stories, Deus Ex Pokeball and Mute, Too, also come highly recommended. Read all three of them and you get totally immersed in the world created by this brilliant author.
  • Up Ndown Nallaround: One of my favorite fanfics of all time. The characterization is really good and the somewhat slow pacing makes room for the next darker and more urgent chapters. It is a depressing read, but it is undoubtedly well done. Definitely one of the best Pokémon stories out there if you are looking for something original.
  • Apocrypha: Whole-heartedly recommended. The Tragic Mistake at the beginning paves the way for a short but epic story of loyalty, friendship, and one's struggles to accept the inevitable. The last two chapters in particular were extraordinarily dark but wrapped up everything in a Creepy Good way that, like one other trooper said, is remniscient of Brave New World. It's sad and heartwarming and scary and words really cannot describe it.

No No Pokeball by Mr Wuff

• Recommended by Fawn
• Status: Deadfic, was never finished. Some chapters still survive (link above) but not all of them are there.
• Synopsis: Satoshi is a fatherless boy who wants to be a Pokemon Master. Pikachu is a childless father who paid the price of thievery with the life of his sons. When they meet by chance and misfortune, they forge a friendship not bounded by a Pokeball.
• Comments: A very well written, philosophical, thought out deconstruction, with excellent characterization. The first few chapters are kinda dull, and the fic takes a while to really get into the philosophical stuff. Despite these flaws, it is one of the best fanfics I have ever read. Edit: Unfortunately it appears to be a Dead Fic now, the author has deleted it from his Fanficion profile and the link above is missing chapters.

Obsession by Blackjack Rocket

Magma Crack Sealer

• Recommended by Androidraptor, vovan1
• Status: Last update September 2015.
• Synopsis: An original backstory for P 2 K's enigmatic antagonist, the collector/Jirarudan/Lawrence III.
• Comments: Probably one of the most lush and engaging fics I've seen, period. This is a character who got maybe 20 minutes of screentime in canon, yet this fic fleshes him out into a deep, complex character with surprising ease. This isn't your usual Draco in Leather Pants villain backstory filled to tits with melodrama, Linkin Park, and halfed-assed Freudian Excuses. Jiri's flaws are very well evident, even at the age of nine, and it only serves to make the story all the more compelling and mature. It's a shame she only puts out a few chapters a year.

OverUsed by Flint Lock

• Recommended by liamash3
• Status: Last update 30th July 2014, Undergoing a rework.
• Synopsis: Over Used is a Pokemon fanfic that attempts a more logical and serious world than Pokemon canon. It began on Space Battles July 3rd 2014 and involves the character of Alex, an experienced trainer who's been through several regions battling Gyms, and has been taking a few years off the professional circuit to rest in Driftveil City. One day, while Alex is at his local pub, he encounters a trainer who has been stomping the local pub-goers, and he decides to battle her. Events conspire to reveal the new trainer, Sammy, as the owner of a Mew, and a hunter of some sort appears to capture it and her. Alex intervenes and takes Sammy under his wing, and they begin traveling and training together while fleeing the hunter.
• Comments: This is an interesting take on the Pokemon world, attempting a more realistic viewpoint on it compared to the anime and games. It could also be a deconstruction, depending on your viewpoint, as it shows the average anime protagonist 'believe in your Pokemon' view isn't an instant 'I win' card.

'Painting A Masterpiece by Divine Wolfe

• Recommended by Pichu-kun.
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: One-shot, slight BluexLeaf. There hadn't always been just two of them. Once, there had been three...Blue, Red, and Leaf friendship
• Comments: This story is already a rare fanfic for this fandom. A game based fanfic and a good one at that. It revolves around an often forgotten, or outright unknown, friendship. Red, Blue, and Leaf's bond. As stated in the summary, it has some Blue/Leaf undertones however it's not thick enough to be a shipping fic. It takes place several years after HGSS; The trio are nearing the end of their teenage years, now at the age of seventeen. Red, Leaf, and Blue have long been torn apart. Leaf hadn't been in contact with the boys for some time and returns to Kanto from Orre with naive, impulsive ambitions thinking that her friends haven't changed. Blue has lost his cocky personality for a short tempered one. Red has isolated himself from society to train on Mt. Silver, and most importantly his friends. The story isn't nearly as angst ridden as it sounds though. I wouldn't even exactly call it angst, as more so simple mild hurt-comfort. It has some tie-ins from other games, such as Brendan, Michael, and Barry being mentioned. But it mainly follows the Kanto trio in a way that most of the fandom never thought of and deconstructs their personalities. I would recommend it even for people who dislike game fanfics; It does not stray too far from the games, the characters aren't OOC, and it's not a mess of a fanfic. It's a short, but filling, oneshot. On a subnote, all the Pokemon stories by this author are wonderful however this one pokes out among the bunch.

Pedestal by Digital Skitty

• Recommended by Kaiserin Kai, Lalalei2001, gumbal1, Salnax, Haustere, yiran
• Status: Completed.
• Synopsis: A boy sets out on a Pokemon journey with his Numel Pedestal. Together they deal with double weaknesses, unplanned catches, unexpected nicknames, and his own destiny.
• Comments: What starts out as your run of the mill cheerful and humorous new trainer goes on a journey story quickly takes a turn for the worse. Shows the effects ofignoring warnings and not payingenough attentionto thoseclosest to you. Very well written, with comedy added when appropriate in the form of a number of running gags, yet completely serious when it needs to be. This story is not based on the Anime or the Games, though it borrows mythology from both. The only canonical characters that it uses are the Gym Leaders, Elite Four, and Champion. Primarily takes place in Sinnoh, although other canonical regions do appear. Those looking for a very well written original trainer story with an original plot should check this out.
  • Seconded. I gave it its own page.
    • Thirded. Go read it now.
    • Fourthed. My favorite fanfiction ever. Turned me onto fanfics in general and convinced me to buy the game.
    • Fifthed. It's quite an enjoyable read. The only downside is that now I have high-standards when reading fanfics, which is arguably not a good thing.
  • yiran: It is surprisingly deep in philosophy for a Pokémon fanfiction. I have a little problem about the lack of death for the absolute main characters(and subsequent less realistic results), but it is negligible compared to all the positive qualities of the fan fiction you'll find. Highly recommended.
    • Has a story set in the same universe here which is pretty decent in its own right.

A Pallet Pair by Veravine

• Recommended by Roo
• Status: Complete
• Summary: Ever wonder who the other trainers from Pallet Town were, and why we never saw them compete in the Pokemon League alongside Ash and Gary? Well, meet Ivonar 'Eevee' Marain and Joey 'Remmy' Remshaw, the two 'unknown' Pokemon trainers as they start their own Pokemon Journey. It's not quite 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' but the two protagonists do have a tendency to unknowingly visit places just before or after Ash does in the anime, either setting up or experiencing the consequences of various canon events.
• Comments: It's a pretty old fic, having been written during the early stages of the anime, but still (in my opinion, anyway) ranks as one of the best Original Trainer fics out there. Ivonar and Remmy may not be destined to be the greatest ever or very important in some world-saving thing, but they are engaging and compelling characters, (and uniquely, there is no romance whatsoever between them), and all their Pokemon have very clearly-defined personalities. The tone and feel of the story is very close to the first season of the anime, and several canon characters make at least a cameo; most noticably Brock, Misty's sisters, Professor Oak and good old Team Rocket, who get the honor of two major appearances.

The Path Anew by 11JJ11

• Recommended by Lalalei2001
• Status: In-progress
• Summary: Experiment. Heir. Victim. Red has spent years trapped away within the labs of a Team Rocket base, as a pawn and a son, his ability just a means to further Team Rocket's goals. But with Mewtwo's escape, Red seeks his own chance at freedom. Kanto is a shattered region, vast and foreign, and haunted by Rocket's shadow. But with an eager Charmander at his side, Red is no longer alone.

Pika by Zachary Braun.

• Recommended by Pykrete, Fawn
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: A Pikachu is adopted by an abusive trainer, sees the world, and gains enlightenment. Er...I think.
• Comments: Major Mind Screw ahoy. Wear a helmet.

Pokedex Adventures series by RunWithScizors

• Recommended by transparentanswer
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: An Affectionate Parody of the Pokemon games where the protagonist are less willing to be a hero as it usually is in the games, or an adventure. With frequent lampshading of inconsistencies. Such as the fact that children who knew nothing are heroes that will save the world. Oh, and Disney songs parodied For the Lulz.
• Comments: If you're looking for a good laugh, this may just be for you. Black and White, Black 2 and White 2, Heart Gold and Soul Silver, and Platinum are complete with the adventure now in Hoenn. Now has a trope page.

Pokemon Amethyst and Garnet by Eric T.M

• Recommended by Waking Prince Matty
• Status: Dormant (last updated September 2017)
• Synopsis: Welcome to Chinocko! Follow Riley and Lilly, two budding Trainers, as they traverse a region full of original Pokemon, colorful characters, and mysterious secrets! Not everything is as it seems in Chinocko, though, and they may find their entire worldview turned on its head!
• Comments: This is really an interesting story, featuring a whole bunch of original Pokemon, cool characters, and a unique setting inspired by Canada, the author's country of origin. Riley, the viewpoint character of the story, is a shining star even as a silent protagonist, and watching him grow and mature as he embarks on his Pokemon Journey is awesome. A note: Lilly is not the same character as Lillie from Pokemon Sun and Moon, who also makes an appearance in the story.

Poké Wars by Cornova.

• Recommended by Dialga X
• Status: 5 complete. 1 dormant.
• Synopsis: Ho-oh plans to make a utopia for Pokémon, by wiping out humans. He has supercharged all the PokémaSzon and imbued them with an intense bloodlust. Can Humanity and Lugia's corps of Legendaries band together to stop him?
• Comments: This series of four stories tells the tale of Ho-oh's genocide against humanity. They are all dark, gritty and high-octane war stories. They are quite violent but the action sequences in them are absolutely dazzling. The character development is pretty good as well. A word of caution: the effects of the Pokémon attacks are quite disturbing.
  • There are also four Expanded Universe stories that should be noted as well:
    • Poké Wars: Hell In Sinnoh (by Jakayrta)
    • Poké Wars: Dawn of a New Era (by Jakayrta)

Pokemon Colosseum: Apparitionsas well as the restoftheserieshere by Digi-Dolphin

• Recommended by zaiaku666
• Status: Complete.
• Pairings: Wes/Rui
• Synopsis: The first part in this author's Pokemon Colosseum Continuation Fics that give more of a Backstory to Wes' past as a Snagger and how it affects his future.
• Comments: A well written start to the series, with a decent backdrop. Though it focus is more on the games, there are mentions of the anime including a Noodle Incident involving Ash and Misty. Same in those later stories invlove the main hero of Pokemon Silver being a Sweet Polly Oliver. The series has a tendency of being a little crazy at times but still an very good read.
  • Pokedude 10: The series overall doesn't stray too far from the original idea. I like the that their world is based on the games, yet borrows parts from the anime as well. The Main character strays close to Marty Stu territory at times, But thankfully it doesn't last long.

Pokémon: Crimson by ABBryant

• Recommended by: lindabhair
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: from ffn: 'Twins Hilbert and Hilda Henderson have a dead father and a still grieving mother. N has hopes, but no agency. Bianca Jones has a papa so strict she wants to be free. Cheren Shiro has dreams of championship and no brains. They all have a story to tell.'
• Comments: It's a retelling of Black and White with both Hilbert and Hilda and has a point of view that rotates between them, Bianca and Cheren. I started reading this as a short thing to pass the time since it was pretty short. Now I'm checking every day to see if it has updated. It was just okay for a while but then it really got going when Cheren died and Bianca decided to join Team Plasma.
• Tags: Killed Off for Real, Alternate Character Interpretation

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Gone Wrong by burningfoot.

• Recommended by Rita 689, Troper 49
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: A parody of Diamond and Pearl. Two different people enter their games purely for your entertainment. The game isn't going right but being a criminal, killing Gym Leaders and using AR doesn't make it better but does make it more fun. Now with epilogue.
• Comments: Very funny. I've read through it several times and still laugh at it all the time. However, it's not for kids. The summary isn't kidding about killing gym leaders (often for no good reason) and there are many mentions of mature topics. That said, the fic is relatively light and fluffy, and constantly lampshades the stupidities of the pokemon world. Worth a read.
  • Seconded by Troper 49, whom found this fanfic to be really funny. All the characters in the story (yes, even the narrator) are all crazy, stupid, and funny characters, however, it is the two main characters who really shine. From the trouble-making Allen to the more sane Emma, the two character have interactions that are some of the funniest Burningfoot ever written. Every time I read this fanfic, I burst my gut laughing. Highly recommended.

Pokémon Legends Saga by devilrose87

• Status: Incomplete four-story saga; the first three stories are complete, and the last is about 1/7 complete and was last updated in 2011.
• Recommended by Psykosis
• Summary: The four-story Legends Saga starts out in Hoenn, but later installments reach out all over the Pokémon world. The first arc involves a somewhat mysterious trainer trying to take down Teams Aqua and Magma, but May unwittingly gets swept along. Everything then branches out into a whole mess of trouble involving the Legendary Pokémon.
• Comments: The whole story is very well written and is updated on a weekly basis. Be warned that there will be lesbianism in some of the later chapters, if you’re offended by that.

Pokemon Festival of Champions by Seijyun09

• Recomended by ScottyBreeze, KrspaceT
• Status: Ongoing
• Summary: Red arrives at the Pokemon League and prepares to do battle against a variety of rivals from all across the world of Pokemon, including the Kanto Elite Four, Misty, Blue, and his arch-rival Green.
• Comments: This is a great fan comic, one of the best I have ever read. In fact when I first read it I was on a Pokemon hiatus and the moment I read it, I found myself wanting to buy the latest Pokemon game. The story doesn't focus much on romance, but the writer/artist shows hints of Red/Misty and perhaps Green/Blue. Admittedly this fan comic is a lot darker than other adaptions, but that just adds to its awesomeness. Another aspect that makes this comic worthwhile is the fact that it draws on many things of Pokemon, such as the anime, manga, fan theories. It is both well written and well drawn. Also it is in Japanese, but can be read in English

Pokemon FOCUS by Con Kipcha

• Recomended by Faislittlewhiteraven
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: 'Where do all the Pokémon go when they can't cope with everyday life anymore? To Pokémon Rehab of course! Acceptance into F.O.C.U.S. is highly coveted by potential trainers, but do they have what it takes to fix these peculiar Pokémon?'
• Comments: Being set mostly in a boarding school with most of the characters being humans in their mid to late teens, there's automatically a lot of annoying high school drama going on, but this fic more than makes up for it with well written and often hilarious (and sometimes gross) moments between the characters and their pokemon, as well as adding a bit of real life to the pokemon world.

Pokemon Gray by Blu Rose

• Recommended by raptyr
• Status: In Progress
• Pairings: None so far, though hints of White/N
• Synopsis: White understands Pokemon, but an incident left her with a crippling fear of them. Now she's on a journey with her brother Black to overcome it. But how can she while clashing with Team Plasma and the odd N?
• Comments: An interesting take on Pokemon Black and White. Great character interaction, mainly an upbeat story, but at times serious and sad. White does seem to get over her fear of pokemon a bit quickly,aside from ghost types, who still give her plenty of trouble, but it's a minor nitpick. The characters are kept in-character, and it does a good job of being a good story without trying too hard to be so. YMMV on a few points, but definitely worth a read.
  • RN 452: I recommend this fanfic but with a warning: the premise of this fic is really interesting, with White having to deal with her fear of Pokémon. However, after Victini is introduced, you can almost hear the trainwreck. However, after that, when Victini isn't present, the fic returns to its quality.

Pokémon Johto - The Funne Version!!! by Soujiro Mafuné

• Recommended by Genocide Heart
• Status: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: A novelization of the second generation of Pokémon games, with focus on comedy and Alternative Interpretations of characters, based on the many canons of the setting. Follow Kenta Seliro as he tries to survive in the Johto Region, while being forced to be a Pokémon trainer against his will and dealing with insane Pokémon and his own friends. Currently over forty chapters long and counting!
• Comments: It's a fun fanfic, and I found myself smiling and laughing more than a few times as I read it. I suppose you could call it comedic drama... or is it dramatic comedy? Either way, it was good enough to link for me. Your mileage, of course, may vary, but give it a try if you are looking for a few laughs.
  • While it does have a few mishaps here and there, such as the unfunny pre-chapter/post-chapter attempts at comedy and part of the Violet City Arc, the actual chapters are solid gold in comedy, with at least one Funny Moment per chapter. As for the characters, they're fairly unique overall, and stereotypes are constantly played with and made fun of.

Pokemon Legacy by Red Eyes Black Dragon Master

• Recommended by The Dark Trex
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: A rogue trainer is going around the Kanto Region destroying Pokemon Gyms and killing the Gym Leaders. At the same time, Ash is now 19 and coming back to visit Pallet town. Misty has a secret she has to share with him. A deconstruction of some of the darker themes and ideas in the Pokemon world, like the gym leaders, child soldiers, and the Joys and Jennys.

Pokemon Master by Ace Sanchez

• Recommended by wescotta
  • Seconded by Big Daddy P
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Pokemon Master is a brilliant translation of the Pokemon television show from an episodic, monster-of-the-week kiddy show to a postapocalyptic 'shonen fight' Dark Fic.
• Comments: The writing isn't always greatest- and these 'characters' often don't always seem much like their animated 'counterpart' at all, but the story makes up for it with great pacing, rather gory battle scenes and a role for practically every character on the show and in games.
  • Guy Smiley: Meh, the role thing is easy if the characters don't have to act like themselves at all.
  • Added marks for successfully predicting the Dark type (In this case, Shadow type Pokemon) before they were even introduced. Shame about Light Pokemon though- but Fusion Dance with Pokemon IS referenced in Pokemon Reburst
  • Sabrina Diamond: I know this may sound rather over-rated but, Bishounen Ash + Dark and Troubled Past + Olympus Mons = Awesome
  • wescotta: Then again, the characters of the Pokemon anime were sort of shallow and cliched in the first place, so no loss... It's still really fun to read, especially if you've seen some of the show and can 'catch all' the references.
  • Triple Elation: Dude, I think I remember reading this when I was around 15 (circa 2000) and it blew my mind completely. I had no idea you could take something like Pokemon and- and- and do this with it. I'm almost afraid to go back and take a look- something tells me it couldn't possibly live up to what I remember of it.
  • ShotgunWilly: Unfortunately it looks like the link is a dead one, at least to me.
  • Murgatroyd 314: Working link found and added.

Pokemon Radiant Sun by FlygonNick

• Recommended by junodagger
• Status: Ongoing
• Pairings: Sun/Lillie
• Synopsis: A novelization of Pokémon Sun. After moving to Alola from the Kanto region, an 11-year old boy is immediately sent on a crash course in local culture through the Island Challenge, a unique rite of passage amongst Trainers in Alola. Join our newest hero, Sun, as he meets new friends and encounters exotic new Pokémon…even those from another world
• Comments: Warning: This novelization deals with heavy subjects and isn't as light-hearted as the games are. The main character, Sun, is based on his default appearance in the beginning of the game. In addition to the characters from the games, OCs from the author's previous fanfictions and other characters from the Unova Region, Flygon Nick also brings in Cipher from Colosseum and Gale of Darkness as they are taking over the Kanto region, where Sun was from originally. The author's also paints Team Skull in a more sympathetic light through the eyes of a trainer who has their starter Pokemon killed during a trial.

Pokemon Rebirth by Gemma Bright and Tim Dixon

• Recommended by Keyboarder, seconded by Krisnack, Thirded by Gorsecloud
• Status:
• Pairings: Jesse/James, Ash/Misty, and several others that the author says will come soon.
• Synopsis: A series of Fan fics about many things ranging from what happened to Meowth and the rest of Team Rocket to a pokemon trainer, who is psychic, who has to contact the pokemon world's god to save the world. Many take place in Tatto, the closest the pokemon world will ever come to Great Britain. The main story on the site is Ultimatum, which is about a psychic who was just trying to help a town get rid of Team Rocket agents and stumbled onto something more complicated. The prequel is Altered Paths, which should be read before, is about what happened to Team Rocket once they lost track of Ash and the gang and are ordered to come back to base.
• Comments: The series attempts to explain plotholes and generally WMG about many things in the pokemon world. There is also a wiki style encyclopedia here and a deviantart gallery for current and upcoming projects with spoilers in the scraps section here.

Pokémon Reset Bloodlines by Crossoverpairinglover

• Recommended by Imperial Majesty XO, KrspaceT, Happy Man
• Status: In progress
• Pairings: Ash/Harem (eventually; will include Misty, May, Dawn, Iris, Serena, and a sixth finally revealed in Chapter 23 as Anabel.)
• Synopsis: Going back to save the world is tough; it's tougher when the process ends up radically altering your reality. When the new world Ash wakes up in differs from the old one in many ways, Ash will have to adapt his battle experience to a new world, and what are these mysterious Bloodlines that everyone fears?
• Comments: A brilliant twist on Peggy Sue stories, with a brand-new world both similar to and different from the Anime canon. It also includes elements from Pokémon Adventures and the games. This new world seems to be very well thought-out, and the story can be funny, exciting, and genuinely touching. The story also does a good job of explaining certain frustrating elements of canon, and it's popularity has encouraged other writers to add tie-ins to the same continuity.Now has a page.

Pokémon: Storm Clouds and its sequel, Storm Clouds II by deeman45.

• Recommended by Tropers/Leliel
• Status:
  • Pokemon Storm Clouds: Complete.
  • Storm Clouds II: Ongoing.
• Synopsis: A twist on the old Trapped In Tv Land plot where a nerd named Dan and his wannabe girlfriend Missy get zapped into a game of LeafGreen. The twist? It seems the Pokemon universe is a bit more realistic than seen in the games, and the process causes Missy to mutate into an Eevee (the title referring to her pelt color), and Dan is oblivious to his friend's plight, given that she loses her ability to speak English in the process.
• Comments: Both a funny and insightful look into the life of the Pokemon world, as well as the gradual revelation the Dan has about what Pokemon would be like in Real Life, and Missy gradually coming to accept her being about a foot tall and having a tail bigger then she is.
  • The fanfic was recently completed; the final chapter, number 24, was posted in late May.
  • Now has a sequel, as stated above - put all relevant tropes on the same page, but take care to differentiate between the two by sections.

Pokemon: The Future Lies in the Past and Pokemon: The Vision of His Future by Mark Drodman

• Recommended by Seventy Seven
• Status: Complete, Complete
• Synopsis: Ten years in the future: Pokemon Master Ash Ketchum disappears in a raging hurricane. His friends, Misty Williams and Brock Harrison, brave the terrors of Sternbreak Island to save him only to uncover a terrible secret from Ash's past.
• Comments: A more mature take on the Pokemon anime that still keeps a lot of the playfulness that characterized the original show. The first fic in the series jumps immediately into the action and only reveals slowly what Ash and the gang have been up to since their traveling days in the Anime. This all leads up to the big reveal at the ending Giovanni is Ash's father. The second fic continues looks at the past of Ash's father and continues with the adventures of Ash and the gang. Excellent pacing and use of the flashback. And plenty of moments for Rocket and Pokeshippers too, though they are of course secondary to the main plot.

'Pokéumans' (actual story found here). Ongoing.

• Recommended by 1810072342.
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Due to events a long time ago, people around the world find themselves transforming into Pokemon. They have to live in secret underground bases to prevent humans going insane about the discovery (this takes place in the real world, and not even a fictional version), and the Pokextinction movement wants them wiped out.
• Comments: A fully developed story which inspired a group of continuation stories on the same concept and an entire group on the website, with a community and group events. The story itself is well-written and entertaining, especially if you want something outside the usual fanfic stuff. It may well be interesting as an exercise in seeing how an idea done well enough can prompt a reaction of that kind, or even of artist development (the story quality picks improves considerably as time goes on, although it's not exactly terrible to begin with). All in all, worth a look if you want a Pokemon story that you'll probably never have seen the same kind of before.

Pokemon - The Power Inside by Pokemon Legacy

• Recommended by Ca Br Pi
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Several years after beginning his Pokémon journey, Ash Ketchum is at last eligible to compete in the tournament of Pokémon Champions in Sapphire City. But, as the tournament progresses, Ash receives a mysterious coin with equally mysterious powers and finds that old Team Rocket might not be as dead as was once thought.
• Comments: A well-written (WIP) piece of Pokémon literature by someone who obviously knows what he's doing. Dawn vs. Misty might not be anything new, but the relationships between the characters are complex considering how many of them there are. A few old ideas, but they're reworked masterfully. This troper really enjoyed reading the first several chapters and jumps whenever a new one is posted.

POKEMORFZ by stupidfic

• Recommended by Miff The Fox, Poptard
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: An Affectionate Parody of pokemorph fanfiction. Team Crazy kidnaps six teens and turns them into pokemon hybrids (including one hedgehog hybrid). Hilarity Ensues.
• Comments: Crack Fic, but the good kind. Finished.

The Prodigy by DeathbyFanfiction1029

• Recommended by partner555
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: What if due to safety the Pokemon League decided to raise the starting trainer age to 13? How would this affect Ash and co.? Imagine a more mature, smarter Ash embarking on his Kanto journey prepared, and ready to take the Pokemon world by storm.
• Comments: This is one of those fics that have good plots and an actually smarter Ash, but this one manages to retain Ash's ability to say silly things for great comedic effect. As of the time of this writing (19.9.2011), it is only 4 chapters in.

Snippets and fragments of life during Ash's stay in Alola.

• Comments: I despise Archive of Our Own, but I must admit to liking this take. It's a neat little exploration of Ash and the canon that has built up, particularly the differences in it over time, by Kukui. A outside observer that is good at picking up things that most people wouldn't react to if they were acclimated to him.

Pokemon XR: Legends of Sinnoh by Jnoo

• Recommended by MusikMaestro
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Join Rain Eidoh and his friends Jessica and Manny as he tries to win the Sinnoh Pokemon League! Along the way they'll meet entertaining characters, new pokemon, and a dastardly new villainous team!
• Comments A great fanfic that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It has everything: Great characters, great humor and excellent character development, all tied into a twist on the original diamond and pearl plot. The three main characters are great, and mesh together really well, and all have proper, fleshed out back stories. Ket is a great rival too, and has one of the best back stories I've seen in a pokemon fanfic. Overall, a brilliant fix that is definetly worth the read.

Refractions, Innocence, Rain, and Equilibrium. by Dark Magician Girl Aeris

• Recommended by Mew24ever, Mike
• Status: complete.
• Synopsis:
  • Refractions: Living in a state of self-imposed solitude, Mewtwo begins observing humans as a way to pass the time and comes to the conclusion that he’s better off alone, despite Mew’s best efforts to be his brother.
  • Innocence: Living by a mountain town, Mewtwo has plenty of time to dwell over the corruption of the human species... or to ponder over one pure life. It is never fair when innocence has to suffer harm at the hands of man.
  • Rain: Mewtwo sits and muses over the rain and the thoughts and emotions it brings out in him.
  • Equilibrium: Mewtwo muses over the inanities of death and the men and women who risk life and sanity to protect the balance as he observes the aftermath of a drive-by shooting.
• Comments: If you happen to be a fan of Mewtwo, then I highly recommend the one-shots Refractions, Innocence, Rain, and Equilibrium. Of course, seeing how it's Mewtwo, they can be depressing...
  • Mike: The rest of her works on that site are just as good. Seconding by Mike.

Reading Between the Lines by The Light's Refrain

• Recommended by TheTroperOutOfSpace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: 'Words can mean many things. Sometimes you have to dive in deeper to find their true meaning, and the truth about the person themselves. A three-part drabble/short story series on the Gym Leaders, Partners, and Elite of Sinnoh.'
• Comments A must-read for those who are interested in the lives and goings-on of supporting or background characters. Even with so little to go on in the canon game material, everyone feels wonderfully in character. This series of light drabbles has a sense of humor and fun and just as much heart and soul.

Random Doom and Random Doom the Comic Series by BehindTG

• Recommended by Captain Napalm, KYM Snowman, Sithking Zero, Dominus Temporis
• Status: Ongoing, but updates can be... sporadic, to say the least. Keep in mind the high quality of the pictures, and of the horrible phenomenon known as 'Real Life,' and she (Behind TG) can go months without uploading, before releasing a deluge of new updates. Generally, though, when a new chapter is coming out, two pages a day is common.
• Synopsis: A series of gag and short comics revolving around the misadventures of trainer named Jenna and, more notably, her Pokémon in Sinnoh.
• Comments: I was actually surprised that these comics didn't make it onto this page sooner, given the fact that some of our own have apparently been following them for months and leaving comments and that they command enough of a following that people are making both fan fiction and fan translations for these comics. As if the artwork alone wasn't reason enough to read them, Random Doom also possesses a decent number of well-developed characters, and masterfully executes a wide range of narratives (especially humorous ones). While the comics are updated fairly irregularly, sometimes veer a tad too far off into crude humor, and have occasional grammatical errors (the author is Finnish), they are hands down among the best (if not the best) Pokémon fan fiction presently on the net.
  • Seconded here. There's something for everyone, with Loads and Loads of Characters, each with their own quirks, habits, likes, dislikes, everything! A must read, if I do say so myself.
  • A third recommendation from me. The only downsides are the gaps between updates and the occasional spelling or grammatical errors- both of which are justified, as explained above. Each character is well-rounded and distinct from the others, and the background/minor characters are just as colorful (even if most of their characters are All There in the Manual). What really makes Random Doom stick out, besides the beautiful art, is the sheer attention to detail and references to entries from throughout the series. It's clearly done by a longtime fan who has a lot of love for the games and for making art, which makes the long waits worthwhile.

Regret by Crukix

• Recommended by Drakenzie, Visionofthe Damned, Tragedy On Broadway, yiran
• Status: Complete.
• Summary: 'A world destroyed by war. A world where deadly creatures known as Pokemon stalked the earth. I grew up in that world. By some ill-fated miracle, I got the chance to stop the destruction. Only, I found out I caused it all. This is how I destroyed the world.'
• Comments: The story begins in an apocalyptic setting, though is quickly rewound 80 years to the more familiar time. It's a realistic portrayal of Pokemon, with a realistic anti-hero and a team full of pokemon with vivid personalities. The author warps even fan favourite Pokemon such as Gardevoir, who become demonic creatures that skin other pokemon and humans, using that to make their dresses - or capes for males. You're constantly treated to the brutal and realistic nature of the fic, with the main character suffering to the point of being captured by a Gardevoir and nearly being skinned alive. You're told from the start that the hero fails, yet you're constantly guessing as to how exactly everything goes wrong.
  • Heavily seconded. The hero's Pokemon are all characterised so well that you can't help but love them. Not all of them are safe, however, as 4 of his pokemon have died so far. Judging by the reviews alone, there seems to be a heavy following for Lacey, the hero's Nuzleaf who happens to be a serial killer. She even has a basement full of trophy bodies when the hero captures her. She also kills one of his best friend's pokemon. Go read it now.
  • Thirded. It now has its own page.
  • Has a (possible) prequel in Transgression, which this troper thinks is already far superior to Regret.

The Retelling of Pokemon Colloseum by Bob And Bill

• Status: Complete.
• Recommended by: Treeckosawesomeness
• Synopsis: A retelling of the first Pokemon game to take place in Orre. As a comedic take on the generally Darker and Edgier entry in the Pokemon series, it explains what is left out in the games. Contains minor Wes X Rui shipping.
• Comments: Absolutely hilarious. The humor Bob And Bill shows is enjoyable for anyone who likes a good laugh.

Return of the Hero by The Cartoon Fanatic 01

• Status: Complete.
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: Ten years since the death of Ash Ketchum and the sparing of the world from certain doom, an annual Pokémon battle tournament is held in his honor at Mt. Silver. There, familiar people collide with new faces as a dark secret and a new evil arise from the ashes and threaten the world. MULTIPLE SHIPPINGS FEATURED! R&R!

Revelations: A Cynic's View of Pokémon by Coriander Wryters

• Status: Complete.
• Recommended by Verity, seconded by Anoroku
• Synopsis: A Darker and Edgier take on the Pokémon 'verse through the eyes of a jaded trainer with a dark past by the name of Karuta and a Genki Girl named Nozomi who doesn't know what she's getting into when she tags along with him.
• Comments: Darkity dark dark, if it's not inherently obvious from the first chapter, but has a lot of genuinely funny moments, well-realized and interesting characters, and a handful of Heartwarming Moments, as well.
  • jaimeastorga2000: The first chapter was a pretty good introduction to a grimdark Pokemon world, but the fic quickly deteriorated in the following chapters as the main character was shown to be a Mary Sue. Not recommended.

Rival's Story by Gastly's Mama

• Alternate Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20130215054714/http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/f244/rivals-story-38490/
• Recommended by Sith Droideka 2
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: This is the story of FRLG/RGBY from the point of view of your rival, Blue. It chronicles his quest to beat his hated rival Red and become champion. It also explains many elements from the original games, such as the man on the roof glitch, what happened to Blue's Raticate, and how Red got his Espeon.
• Comments: Rival's Story is phenomenal. The plot is excellent, and even more importantly it manages to somehow make you hate Red (from Blue's point of view), at least until the end. An excellent story for any Blue fans, and an excellent story overall. Also features many excellent battles, such as Giovanni and Sabrina. Recently completed, with 100 chapters. Also a bit out of line with HGSS canon, but it was planned before then.

The Road to Champion by The Universal Gamer

• Recommended by maistero
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: The road to champion is a long and harsh journey for those who seek it, but it is rewarding for the few who make it to the top. Follow the story of Ethan Rider, prodigy of New Bark Town, as he journeys through the Johto region to become the best there is with his faithful Abra by his side. Mainly follows the storyline of the games.
• Comments: This story is absolutely fantastic. With a likable protagonist, artfully crafted characters, and beautifully depicted battles, this story mixes the charm of Pokemon with a realistic, developed world of the Johto region. It starts off a bit slow with Ethan building his team and the story mostly following the game timeline, but then the story quickly takes off shortly afterwards, turning into more of an AU than a simple canonical retelling. Added bonus: this story isn't about another Red/Ash, but an unexplored Ethan/Gold.

Sacrament of Unova by Ami.Bel

• Recommended by Will Eat Ham
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The first in a series following a trainer's journey against villainous teams, mythical creatures, and the demons of men. Amira's first journey is in Unova. Her the slapstick adventure goes bad thanks to the mysterious N. It gets worse with the inclusion of cursed dragons, secret organizations, and a battle for the fate of the world. MA: Explicit violence, sex, and adult themes.
• Comments: A pretty good interpretation of the plot of Black and White. The protagonist is interesting and sympathetic and the later turns the story takes can really feel like a gut punch. It takes some time for it to pick up and the prose isn't great at first, but it gets much better fast.

A Sapphire Shines in Sinnoh by Eeveexpert.

• Recommended by Dreamaniac.
• Status: Complete at 44 chapters. Has sequel Shattered Truths, completed in 2011, which has not-yet-started sequel Shadows of Deceit.
• Synopsis: Featuring mostly original characters with occasional cameos, A Sapphire Shines in Sinnoh is the first in a series of fanfics by Eeveexpert. It is centered around a family of seven eeveelutions and one eevee, on their own for the first time as their trainer journey's to Johto. A mysterious, well-done plot and more Eevee's then you can throw an evolutionary stone at.
• Comments: While the action scenes are worth reading on their own, the relationships and various heartrending emotional scenes make this fanfic a must read. All of the characters receive incredible amounts of characterization and development, and is a testament to the trope of Doing It for the Art.

Savoir-Faire-To-Know-and-To-Do by lalunaticscribeAlso on Archive of Our Own[1]

• Recommended byBeta-Orionis.
• Status: Complete at 37 chapters. Has sequel Voir Dire: To Speak the Truth which is also complete.
• Synopsis: 'Nearly nine years ago I stopped Team Flare, and I met the legendary Pokémon. I gained a wish that activated when I was on the brink of death from Lysandre; I wished to live. I have been sixteen for nearly ten years, due to the aforementioned legendary Pokémon.

I am Marguerite Linden du Bois. Tomorrow, I begin a new career as a Pokémon professor. Tomorrow, I begin my rebellion.' - taken from the AO3 summary

• Comments: 'Savoir-Faire' is a long fic with just over 178 thousand words, and while there are small spelling/grammar and spacing errors in the AO3 version, I believe this is one story that is definitely worth the read if you enjoy world building and mysteries.

Shadows Like You by Cosmic Mewtwo

• Recommended by Nexus
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Mewtwo now living alone on Mount Queyna, is angsty and depressed because he's the only of his kind in existance. Meanwhile, Giovanni decides to have his scientists create three more Mewtwos...
• Comments:

Silver Bird by Saphruikan

• Recommended by: Kitsunemask
• Status: Dormant (last updated May 18th 2018)
• Synopsis: In which a boy steals a beast, and they teach each other how to live. The story of Gladion and his Type: Null. Sun/Moon spoilers.
• Comments: A truly beautiful fanfic that depicts Gladion's relationship to Type: Null and their journey of learning to trust each other. The author's interpretation of Gladion's relationship to his signature Pokemon is really sweet and honestly quite creative. I feel like both Gladion and Type: Null are well-written characters that you can root for and this fanfic in particular really does change the perspective of their relationship.

Speak Up by Mya_Latti.

• Recommended by Faislittlewhiteraven,HedgiFirechick12012
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: So after about four months of tests, the doctor had confirmed to his mother what was wrong with Red. 'Your child is mute,' This follows the storyline of the Generation I games.
• Comments: Of the many great fanfics out there that follow Gen 1 hero Red, and explore the effects his journey have on him, this fic stands out from the crowd by focusing on an aspect of Red Fanon that many writers avoid mentioning as anything more than a character trait: his apparent inability to speak. While the fic has a few irritating things, such as OCs, Red never remembering to carry a notepad and a pen even after thinking of it and one or two moments of Fridge Logic regarding how visable sign langauge could actually be during battle, the fic more than makes up for them with its inspiring messages and in-depth character exploration of both Red and his childhood friend-turned rival. A must read for any Gen 1 fan.
  • This is one of my favorite stories. Red might be Mute, but his 'voice', so to speak, is wonderful. It spans Crowning Moments of Awesome, Funny and Heartwarming, and just feels so good. ~ Hedgi
  • This is one of my favorite fan fics. I like it so much, I just made a TV Tropes page for it!

'Stars Fell' trilogy by Spruceton: Stars Fell on Pallet Town, Fractured Stars, and Blue Heaven

• Recommended by Ari Rockefeller, Pykrete
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: The series focuses on Ash's family life, in particular, his estranged father. But what sets it apart from other similar stories is not only is his father not one of the typical suspects (e.g. Giovanni, Prof. Oak, Lance...) but get this: the man actually wants to build a close, meaningful, relationship with his son!
• Comments: It hits all sorts of emotional highs and lows, and you'll love every second of it.
  • Pykrete: I'll second the first one, it was pretty awesome. I personally found the sequels a tad grating at times, mostly due to Ash Wangsting, but if you can stomach that there's some great writing to be found. Ash's dad is one of the better OC's I've seen, and is consistently written quite well.

Storm Warning: The Rise of a Champion by The Altrox

• Recommended by thezogg.
• Status: In Progress
• Synopsis: The tale of a young trainer and his Squirtle as they take destiny into their own hands, whether the journey takes them through the sun or the shadows. Adventure, friendship, love, and hardships... A lot can happen in just three years. Original region and characters.
• Comments: An OC Trainer fic with a fan made region that stands above its peers. The main character, Cody Storm, goes above his roots as a OC Trainer having an actual character, flaws, and backstory and a supporting cast that very well feels alive. Combine this with good worldbuilding that isn't needlessly dark and three running plot lines, and you've got a good read.

The Sun Soul by 50caliburchaos

• Recommended by Arc Varanus, jaimeastorga2000, Kaiserin Kai
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: The world is a dangerous, violent place, and mankind vies for its very existence on a planet prowled by terrifying monsters and powerful creatures. Ash of Pallet Town, a talented trainer, knowing this all too well, sets out to change everything.
• Comments: It's a darker take on the Pokemon 'verse, stripping away the sugary exterior of Pokemon and taking the concept of such a world, where monsters with highly destructive capabilities roam the frontier freely, to it's harsh, logical conclusion. Very dark, very grim, very much recommended.
• Has its own page.

The Super Nerd Show! by Neoshadowwolf

• Recommended by: Up Ndown Nallaround
• Status: Dormant
• Summary: Parody of a radio Talk Show that discusses contradictions and unanswered questions from the games, anime, and manga.
• Comments: Almost entirely dialogue. Saw this the other day and found it to be an interesting read. Makes me think about what is wrong with the world of Pokémon and why so many plot holes exist.

Supernova by RavenWingDark

• Recommended by: Tropers/thecarsonkid
• Status: Ongoing
• A Fan Fic about Nova the Eevee, who has been living in Professor Oak's lab her whole life, finds a friend in her trainer, Sam. Together they journey the Pokemon World winning badges and meet interesting Pokémon along the way like Gold, the fighting type Sandshrew and Missile, the shy Beedrill. Mix between Mystery Dungeon, normal Pokémon games and real life.
• Comments: The story starts off seeming like it will be pretty stereotypical but is strengthened by interesting characters and situations.

Sword and Shield, as well as theotherstories by Kayasuri-n in that 'verse.

• Recommended by Mike, Cariyaga
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: Sword and Shield has psychic-hating homicide detective Brenda Johnson investigating a murder in a lab, which leads to the discovery of Team Rocket's leader and an alliance with Mewtwo, who has decided to become a police officer and incidentally has impressive computer skills. Jokulhaups has Brenda and Mewtwo investigate a serial killer who is targeting the only people who would pose a challenge to an up-and-coming trainer. World on Fire is the investigation of a serial murderer/rapist, followed by a wee bit of a falling out between Brenda and Mewtwo. Chosen Fate involve a long series of murders of identical young girls.
• Comments: Warning: non-canon. Its set in something rather like the modern world, but with pokémon. There are all sorts of modern conveniences, like cars, or homicide cops. The fics are, as should be expected in a fic following a homicide cop, quite dark. However, there are some moments of humour, and also some Crowning Moments of Awesome. They are very well written, and my summaries really don't do them justice. If you can deal with training being almost totally incidental to the stories, I highly recommend these.
  • Kchasm: Is the fact that someone out there's probably shipping the two protagonists considered the white elephant in the room, or am I allowed to mention that?
    • Gattsuru: Secondary characters in the series are shipping the two protagonists, and there's no small amount of subtext. But it's a minor attribute in a series that emphasizes crime/cop drama, and does quite good at it.
  • Mike: Note: An additional story, Chosen Fate, has been added and linked since Tropers/Cariyaga seconded this.

Tales of Flame and Anomaly by Buwaro and Dark Magician Girl Aeris, respectively. Fanfiction links: Tales of Flame and Anomaly

• Recommended by Hydrall
• Status: Ongoing and Dead
• Synopsis: This is a pretty in-depth 'verse of two stories (There was a third but it's gone now), both of which cross over occasionally. Tales of Flame is the story of a Charmander imaginatively named Flame by his master, who is nicknamed 'Moron' back, and is partially a parody, partially its own continuing plot. Anomaly is the story of Eve, another clone of Mew, and her adventures in the Pokemon World; It's much more serious. Both are funny and action-filled while keeping together a universe that includes a much more competent Team Rocket, a gender-bending Mew and a jerkass evil Celebi.
• Comments: Both of them are still going strong, with Tales of Flame over 314 chapters in. Anomaly still updates, if slowly.

Tearing the Heavens by Cepel

• Recommended by rmaster454
• Status: Ongoing, with updates monthly
• Synopsis: A dark fic about a medieval soldier named Riven being transported forward in time to Hoenn several years after the events of Ruby and Sapphire, and his adventures as a trainer. It's a great story with a great sense of humour, great action scenes, and very compelling characters, and is not just well-written for a fanfiction, but is well-written when compared to most actual published works of literature. Be warned, though, as it pulls no punches and can be incredibly violent at times.

The Thinking Man's Guide to Destroying the World by Cutlerine

• Recommended by Tropers/dogfish_in_paris
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis 'This is a story based around the Pokemon Emerald game, where you follow Kester Ruby as he goes through the plot of Emerald, with a few add-ons and twists.'
• Comments:

Threads of the Soul by Desk Rage

• Recommended by Pandora Tears
• Status: Dead
• Synopsis: 'Do not deceive yourself, Lucario. In order to be useful to our masters and comrades, we all learn skills against our nature.'
• Comments: If you're a fan of the eighth movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, you must read this fic. The fic takes place centuries ago, providing more backstory to Sir Aaron and Lucario, and even introducing to how they first met. Let me be blunt and say that if you didn't think Lucario's whole story wasn't tearjerking enough, then be prepared when you read the first couple of chapters when he was just a Riolu. What sets it apart from other fics is how categorized the wild Pokemon were, how they view human technology and terminology nonetheless (by the way, 'nest' = 'home') especially Lucario's very determined and noble mother. While there are a few typos, the story immediately grabs you with its vivid imagery and emotional dialogue.

The Ties that Bind by Saffire Persian

• Recommended by antialiasis, Golden Dragon 326
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: They say that Time will eventually heal all wounds; but people tend to forget the deep, everlasting scars it leaves.
• Comments: Not only well written and an intensely believable exploration of the emotions associated with loss, but also simply one of the most heartwrenching pieces of fanfiction (or fiction in general) that I have ever read. There are a couple of typos that take you out of it a little, but only because the entire rest of it is so gripping and powerful.
  • I second that. The author, interestingly enough, writes it in second person and makes it work extremely well. They're also one of the rare authors who can write a battle without it being a bland use-this-move-in-your-face presentation. Also, as mentioned, is a bittersweet story that, regardless of which region/starters you favor, you'll remember for however long you remain a Pokemon fan.

Travels of the Trifecta by Shinneth

• Recommended by Lawnmowergirl
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Based around the fan theory that Pyramid King Brandon is Paul and Reggie's father, this fanfic focuses on their fractured family as Brandon issues a challenge to both of his sons as he embarks on a quest to obtain Regigigas.
• Comments: This fic is insanely long but well worth a read if you're a fan of any of the following: Paul, Reggie, Brandon, Maylene, Conway, really in-character fanfics, expansion of canon, long fanfics...etc.

Pokemon XD^3: The Waves of Truth and Pokemon Ranger and the Gardener of Gratitude by The Great Butler

• Recommended by Nekusagi
• Status: Complete and Complete
• Synopsis: Combining characters from the games and anime, XD^3 and Gardener of Gratitude are action-adventure stories in the style of classic Two-Fisted Tales. In XD^3, the heroes fight a villainous force formed from Collosseum and XD villains Cipher, who are united under a new ruler with diabolical plans for world domination. Gardener of Gratitude finds the grandson of a renowned archaeologist on an expedition to unearth the secrets of his past drawn into a conspiracy of royal intrigue and treachery, full of mystery and suspense. While XD^3 has a definite science fiction angle, Gratitude is a more straight fantasy adventure in the pulp style of Indiana Jones.
• Comments: XD^3 is the third fic of a trilogy, spanning 16 chapters at the time of this writing, and considered by the author to be the strongest of the trilogy. It can be read and enjoyed without reading the first two, as all backstory is explained for new readers. Gardener of Gratitude is a spinoff of XD^3 featuring one of the supporting characters and expanding on events referenced in XD^3.

Wave: Re-Endemic by Mnesia

• Recommended by MrTherandomguy42
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: No one cycle is the same. Every one has their own discrepancies, and there is not a soul alive who can properly account every detail. Not even the progenitors of such cycles. Many can be certain of one thing: change. Again, change is coming, slowly but surely. It's time to return to Autumnridge and face the Wave within a new limelight.
• Comments: This is a remake of the original Wave: Endemic that brings about a lot of improvements to the original. The original fanfic while still being a relatively good story, had many flaws. Even though the remake is still in its early stages, it is worth reading since it does a much better job at making three-dimensional characters. Plus it will also bring about a lot of emotions from the start. I recommend anyone to give this and the original a read any day.

Wave: Epidemic by Mnesia

• Recommended by MrTherandomguy42
• Status: Ongoing
• Synposis: The sequel to Wave: Endemic. The wave of change spreads, driving friends and families apart as those fighting for their humanity attempt to control the infection. The surreal, space-born fragments rest in the town of Autumnridge, having planted the seeds of mass transformation. Join the victims of the aftermath as they come together, facing challenges small, large, and awkward.
• Comments: Rated M for strong language, intense violence, and other suggestive and mature content. This sequel both continues and expands upon the universe that is Wave. Unlike the previous story, it brings about a lot of dark themes several chapters in, which is why it is rated M. The storytelling becomes a massive improvement once it reaches the second arc of the story, and the PO Vs are somehow able to get more interesting as they go on. Lastly, there will be many times in the story that will leave you on edge, giving you chills on what has happened before or what will happen next. I can't really go into more detail on that without spoiling it however. Overall, great recommendation that I hope many will enjoy as much as I did.

The World in Red by Three Blind Mice

• Recommended by Pre-Ragnarok
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Red is a Champion among Champions, taking title after title as he travels through the various regions. With his 'Dex in hand, he is determined to catalogue every single Pokémon in existence, but with great power comes great responsibility. Slowly, but surely, the world will turn against him.
• Comments: Not a very long fic, but definitely worth reading. It's an interesting take on Red's character and the consequences of capturing pokemon such as legendaries.

Xanthic Growlithe Contract by Facia

• Recommended by wescotta, Joysweeper, Shadow Dog
• Status: Complete, with Dead Fic sequel.
• Synopsis: Why are most Pokemon trainers children? Why do Nurse Joys all look the same? Why can't people buy tickets for the S.S. Anne, and why doesn't anybody bother researching wild pokemon? In Xanthic Growlithe Contract, ten-year-old Elliot roams Kanto with a menagerie of unusual pokemon, including a Jigglypuff that can only use Uproar and a Poochyna that grows weaker as it evolves. But as he travels, he can't help but notice that something is mysteriously, inexplicably wrong...
• Comments:
  • Joysweeper: Seconding the reck! It's very good, although the protagonist doesn't do all that much himself, but eighteen chapters into the Johto part it becomes a Dead Fic, complete with a note saying 'Yes, I am updating'. So many questions are left unanswered.

Daddy Dearest by chandelure

• Recommended by Pichu
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Dawn only now understands hate. —dawn and her father.
• 'Comments: It's an angsty drabble but a very good one. It's quite well-written.

'Ash Ketchum: Aura Master'

• Recommended by: Fires shadow
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: Follow Ash on a Journey that will push him further than anything he has ever gone through. It will take everything for him and all his friends have just to stay alive let alone save the world once again. Please Review! Rated T for violence and possible loss.
• Comments: It's hard to find fics with Ash's aura powers, even though the author hasn't got to it yet I can't wait to see how it goes.

The Trainer From A Far Away Land by RenegadeWarrior

• Recommended by Zarclonia
• Status: Dormant
• Sypnosis: This human was unlike anyone N had ever met. His Pikachu was just as extraordinary. Together, they shone so brightly no one could look away and N was no exception.
• Comments: A delightful Fix Fic of the Pokemon Best Wishes anime, starring N. Ash/Satoshi is wisier while still retaining a childish personality. It is also filled call backs to past seasons and the movies.

Traveler by The Straight Elf

• Recommended by Riyshn
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Ash Ketchum has been determined to become the best since he was a toddler. He has his eyes set on a Charmander, but a twist of fate led him to the humble Nidoran. Note: Mix between anime and the games.
• Comments: The summary is actually misleading. Ash's disappointment at not getting Charmander lasts all of 2 seconds before he falls in love with Nidoran, and it's only mentioned one time after the beginning. That said, one of the best Pokemon fics I've read. My only complaint is that Ash feels more like Red or an OC than the carefree child of the anime.
  • kinglugia here. Seconding this one, especially when the writer actually portrays the Legendaries as what they truly are: Total Badasses.

Pokedex by Birdboy

• Recommended by KrspaceT
• Status: Complete (for now)
• Summary: A drabble collection of the sort of pokemon world lore you might find in an expanded version of the pokedex.
• Comments, while the chapters are short, they read like actual Pokedex entries and are so detailed in thought, depth delving and introspective that you are touched, horrified, amused, ect by them. But what makes this story really stand out is the sheer amount of entries; so far 538 Entires have been complete, despite a somewhat lack of reviews to perk the guy up as he goes along. However, this story deserves a read through by any Pokemon Fan, and updates quite often, so go read it and review.
  • Now has a side story on Alola - Alola Edition (Complete)

From Servant to Stardom and Tale of Stardom by Mister P

• recommended by KrspaceT
• Status: While Servant to Stardom is complete, Mister P ended his FF work 40 chapters into Tale of Stardom
• Summary: From a two-month servitude to the Challenge of the Elite Four, many difficult trials will test if Ash Ketchum can be a Pokémon Master. Ability Shipping, Ashx Anabel, Sato Lila, Aa AL, minor Mirror Rival Shipping (From Servant to Stardom),
• Comments: Despite this, it is one of the most in depth fan fics from the Pokemon world, filled with surprises you may not expect. The story AU's itself from about the point in the anime between Byron and Candice, but starts after the Sinnoh League. While Unova and Kalos don't seem to exist, the story takes a different look at several elements of canon and fanon, including some quiet excellent takes on the Ash's father theories, Ash becoming a Battle Frontier, Ash's connection to Sir Aaron and featuring plenty of references to game and anime past and present that any fan would appreciate. It's a brilliant read for anyone willing to give it a try

Shadows from Before by MaverickKayPrime

• recommended by Baron Tiger
• Status: Complete
• Summary: (From the Game Universe) A few years after Dawn becomes the Sinnoh Champion, a mysterious girl named Leaf Green wanders into Sandgem town with her Venusaur. She has all the Kanto badges and the Champion's badge but is nine years too young according to her trainer card and, furthermore, doesn't exist in trainer databases, leaving Dawn and Professor Rowan to wonder 'Who is Leaf Green?'
• Comments: An interesting read. Occasionally the writing may seem melodramatic or a bit stiff, but overall the sentences flow well and the story is captivating. I would definitely recommend it to anyone familiar with Gen 1 games or their remakes and the Gen IV games.

Embrace byPhaaze22 and Dsarvess

• recommended by Baron Tiger
• Status: Complete. Oneshot.
• Summary: From the author: When Sari notices his trainer is starting to act more and more like him, emotions run high as the two of them discover their true friendship with each other. Another collaboration with Dsarvess from dA, written some time ago.
• Comments: Definitely a captivating and heartwarming read. The plot is interesting and what happens may surprise you and will probably intrigue you. It is very well written and although it is a one-shot featuring OCs, Phaaze 22 did a very good job of establishing who they were, making it very easy to connect to them.
• My only complaint would be that I'm not entirely sure whether or not Sari is male, as Sari's gender is never referred to in the story proper.

• recommended by Lalalei 2001
• Status: Complete
• Summary: A one-shot about a Pokemon accepting its fate at the hands of another.
• Comments: Don't let the odd title fool you. This fic is powerful and very well-written, and compresses a lot of emotion into a short story. My heart broke for both Surreal and Slayer, especially the ending. It ends without resolving what happens to the trainer, but the focus is on the Pokemon and the loss. The battle descriptions are very vivid, and the fact that the Rockets had whips in earlier games is touched on and made horrific.

'From One Side to Another by True-Intha-Blue

• Recommended by: KrspaceT, Nightshade 1218
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Ash/Anabel (Abilityshipping)
• Synopsis: After his defeat in the Sinnoh League, Ash rethinks his training ways. Accepting Scott's offer to become a Frontier Brain, can Ash regain his belief to continue his dreams as a Pokemon Master?
  • Comments: I am actually a tad unsure of putting it here as oppose to Pokemon Shipping, though as the fic isn't completely dominated by Ash and Anabel's romance, which is more like 30-40% of the story, I think it's okay here. Its page question notwithstanding, it's an excellent story that takes the 'Ash becomes a Frontier Brain' idea quite strongly, with a lot of good references to Pokemon topics ranging from Ash's competency problems to Damon to Legendary Ownership and is funny all the way.
    • The fic is marred with bad writing, grammar and numerous mistakes (including the dreaded here/hear mix-up). That said, this troper's only a quarter of the way through and he is very impressed otherwise. It does a great job at rounding out the characters, including Ash and Anabel themselves, balancing the former's capability and inexperience in the Battle Frontier field nicely. Nice depth is added to the series and its characters, and continuity nods abound.

'Heroes of Kalos Abridged by Zokolov

• Recommended by: RN 452
• Status: Dormant
• Synopsis: 'Fashionista and pyromaniac Serena is just like most young people of her age, her interests consisting of Pokémon, shopping and becoming the immortal ruler of Kalos. But to do that, she needs a loyal group of flunkies and must stay out of the International Police's reach. Based on a true story.'

'Pokemon: The Origin of Species by daystar721

• Recommended by: NG 14916
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: 'Enter the world of Pokémon from a rational perspective. Instead of starting his journey in ignorance, Red has spent his years studying the creatures so central to his world... and he doesn't quite agree with all the information in his books. No time for rookie mistakes here: he's on a quest to discover the true nature of Pokémon, and maybe even find out where they really come from.'
  • Comments: Does a great job of presenting a rational take on the world of Pokemon, with interesting characters and plenty of worldbuilding that really delves into the details of how a world of Pokemon could function. Topics such as conditioning techniques used to train Pokemon and the ecosystems of the world are considered. The plot is slow-paced due to the extensive worldbuilding, but interesting developments have already been foreshadowed. This is really a must-read.

Pokemon Black & White: Tale of a Legend by Cottonmouth25

• Recommended by: Tensaihime
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Volan and Thrin, brother and sister, go to see Professor Juniper -she receives a Tepig, he keeps the Pidove he's known and loved for years -and they, together with new friends Bianca and Cheren, set out for adventure. Each sibling is periodically contacted by a strange dragon, and as they tangle with Team Plasma it seems that ancient Unovan story of two heroes is about to become extremely relevant again. (Note: There is some romance between the protagonist, who is not Hilbert but a brave bespectacled blond boy, and Elite Four Caitlin. It isn't the main focus of the story, though.)
• Comments: Siblings share things, so why not a Pokémon journey? And issues with ancient, mythical dragons? Reshiram and Zekrom both have important things to say to their... let's say hosts. Plot elements of B/W and B2/W2 are present, since the villains are attempting to gain control over the legendary duo and Kyurem, too. The author's managed to make said villains even worse than they are in the games, and there are some deaths, both on-screen and implied. If you're not in the mood for doom-and-gloom/grim-and-gritty, don't pass this up, though! You also get lots of comedy from both humans and Pokémon, to whose conversations the audience is privy. Characters from the games, anime, and the author's own mind all work well together, and character development occurs over realistic periods of time. If you want to see the love (as close-knit family, good friends, and romantic partners) people and Pokémon have for each other, you'll find it here. If you want quests, peril, beatdowns (League-sanctioned and otherwise), and long-anticipated justice, you've got that to look forward to as well.
• This story now has its own trope page.

Ghost of Oblivion by Cori Shadowfang

• Recommended by: Karxrida
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: Quoted from the author (slightly edited for minor corrections): Eris never intended to become a servant to Yveltal. When a Honedge attaches itself to her arm, she's forced to seek aid from the Destruction Pokémon, who offers his assistance in exchange for her help: turning her into the natural disaster he can no longer be.
• Comments: Do note this deviates from canon to a degree. An interesting take on the story of Pokémon X and Y that expands on the backstories of Xerneas, Yveltal, and to a lesser extent AZ with a dash of Alternative Character Interpretation for Lysandre that makes him way more interesting than his canon counterpart. He and Yveltal are the same being. While Eris is the protagonist, the star is clearly Yveltal with the Dark Is Not Evil portrayal of his role as the Destruction Pokémon and bringer of death, and his relationship with Xerneas drives the plot.

It's A Hard Life byQlockwork

• Recommended by: Lirazel
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: 'Robin is ten years old and travels through Kanto with her pokemon to find a place to call home. This is a story about struggle, survival and friendship in a cruel world. Contains swearing, violence and death. And sometimes some gore'
• Comments: Do not let the quirky watercolor art fool you - this is a deconstruction of Pokemon. Literally anyone can die. The story will make you bawl. Qlockwork finds really creative ways to work gym fights into plot, which makes IAHL flows like a real adaptation. All characters get incredible development, though personalities of pokemon are especially fascinating and touching. A must-read for fans of darker takes on Pokemon world.

Curse byDragonfree

• Recommended by: Lirazel
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Wanna-be champions Kari and her Dragonite get their hands on a mysterious TM containing the move Curse, which they had previously only seen used by Morty's Ghost Pokémon. Why does it work so differently now?
• Comments: A short story by Morphic author depicting the dark workings of Curse. Good fleshing out of intriguing concept.

Silver Clouds and Gray Linings by Ten-Faced

• Recommended by: Azelf 2010; Argonian Lorekeeper
• Pairings: none
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: After the events of the Delta Episode Zinnia attempts to leave her past behind and travels to the land of fairies. However, she cannot bring herself to lay her burdens down just yet.
• Comments: This fic takes an incredibly nuanced approach in developing the character of Zinnia into a fully fleshed-out, sympathetic figure - a difficult task, considering her role in the games. Vignettes of a girl who embraces the responsibilities of motherhood are interspersed with anecdotes which illuminate the profound effects - both positive and negative - a senseless tragedy can have on the psyche. Moreover, Ten-Faced has crafted an exquisite work which transforms a character considered by many to be a deluded, slightly unstable anti-hero at best into a headstrong, selfless young woman who would do anything to ensure the well-being of her child - even if it comes at the ultimate price.

Journey Of An Autistic Trainer by Wildstar93

• Recommended by: Fire Chick 12012
• Pairings: None
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Ash is diagnosed with autism, but that's not stopping him from making a Pokémon journey of his own. On his travels, he will have friends who help him, gym leaders with differing views on autism, and (of course) Pokémon. Can he prove that autistic people can be capable of being trainers?
• Comments: This is a well-written Alternate Universe fan fic where here, Ash is autistic, Daisy (Blue's sister in the games) becomes a traveling companion, Ash is smarter, some episodes are rewritten to be more reasonable and have less Idiot Ball moments and wall bangers, and while the writing does need some polishing, it definitely has its heart in the right place, and it didn't get almost 130 reviews for nothing. It's still in its early stages, as the fan fic is slow paced and hasn't really started quite yet, but it's still a nice, wonderful, and enjoyable read. Also, Ash doesn't display Hollywood Autism traits, as the author himself is autistic, and here it's being recommended by me, an autistic! I love this story, and it Needs More Love.

• Recommended by: Hammer Of Justice
• Pairings: None focused, some in background between OC's.
• Status : Ongoing
• Summary: A 14 year old boy names Atticus Brent is kicked out of his house by his mother and forced to start his Pokemon journey. Along the way, he must deal with kind rivals, insane tomboys, overconfident bug catchers, and more.
• Comments: Art rapidly improves. Story is filled with OC'S but not in a bad way. Author is a British girl with a good sense of humor, who also writes original stuff, like Rumpelstiltskin.

The Road to be a Pokemon Master by FanaticLAguy06

• Recommended by: Fire Chick 12012, Krsapce T, Happy Man
• Pairings: Ash/Serena
• Status: First three stories complete, fourth one in progress, of a total six.
• Summary: Join Ash on his journey to be a Pokemon Master. Accompanied by Serena, he will travel to many different regions on his quest to be the best and meet amazing friends and Pokemon along the way.
• Comments: This is a very good take on the anime, having Serena be Ash's traveling companion (along with Leaf), cutting out a lot of the filler, making Ash smarter, having them catch Pokemon they didn't get in canon, having alternate takes on events, and generally having a better feel about it. This is definitely a Pokemon AU that really needs to be read! It hasn't gotten almost 3,000 reviews for nothing! It has plenty of humor, drama, sweetness, and epicness for any PokeManiac to enjoy!

Shadows and Ash by Kineil D. Wicks

• Recommended by N8han11
• Status: Ongoing.
• Summary: So we send a kid with absolutely no training out into the wide world with only a disobedient Pikachu at his side. What could go wrong, right? Fortunately, we have a grumpy pitch-black legendary to keep an eye on him, although that's not without its pitfalls as well. After all, there is that one suspicious omen...'That the world will turn to shadows and ash.'
• Comments: Basically, Darkrai tags along on Ash and Pikachu's journey, and things change. New Pokémon to be caught, new beats in the story, all totalling out to a fic that manages to be better written than the anime itself, yet still manages to retain the series' humor and epic battles.

The Mountain by Gilgondorin

• Recommended by: SAMAS
• Status: Complete
• Summary: A teenager with no real Pokemon training experience decides to climb Mt. Moon to catch an Absol. An encounter with a Nidorina^note nearly brings his brash adventure to a premature end. Things go downhill(and uphill) from there.

The Fabric of Fate by Whozawhatcha

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: He stood, as if he had been waiting all along, for another to make it this far. He sent me a cold glance, and without a word, he reached for a pokeball. Trembling, I swallowed my fear and did the same.

Dragon Master by Silvor Moon

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: Aurora dreams of being a Dragon Master, but the forces arrayed against her are greater than she knows. With only a wannabe Pokemon researcher, a disgraced Rocket, and an abused Spearow for help, will she ever achieve her dream?
• Comments: Has a sequel here, and a side-story here.

Mahou Persian Shoujo! by Nyaa-Neko

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: Ayame Shirahana is just a normal girl. Really! Sure, she is part Pokemon, has a tiny Pokemon similar to Mew following her, and she has to save Violet City from Pokemon that want humans extinct, but other than that, she's perfectly normal! Really!

Take Off by Nyaa-Neko

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: A bratty Swellow randomly flies into a garden with a disabled girl.

Pink Fur by Nyaa-Neko

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: A depressed teenage girl learns sometimes, all it takes to be happy is to hug a Skitty.

Collateral by LunaKat

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: Nouct
• Synopsis: There's a reason [Touya] never came back to Unova.

Common Sense by AeroJester203

• Recommended by Snakespur
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: 'At one point, they were feared. And then they were a joke. But what if we turned back the clock and had them be the villains that wouldn't be an embarrassment to villains everywhere? One young child and his Pikachu starting their journey will find out.'
• Comments: A very enjoyable fanfic that shows how skilled Team Rocket can be and how Ash grows as a trainer and how his attitude toward his Pokemon journey changes out of necessity to protect himself and his friends. It's interesting how each side learns from the other and steps up their training accordingly. Ash and friends are not going to win every battle with Team Rocket as they did in the show. Another strength of this story is the fact that the author gives Team Rocket's and Ash's pokemon their own character as time goes on. They have their own thoughts, feelings, back stories, and problems.

The End of Team Rocket by Crestilia

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: Clipboard Fox 22
• Synopsis: After his journey in the Kalos Region, Ash Ketchum is back in Kanto with a new goal: to stop a certain international crime syndicate that has been annoying him for, how long, now? With an overpowered Pikachu and a terrible sense of direction at his side, the Pokemon Trainer is on his way to a load of inconvenience...and Team Rocket trouble.
• Comments: Awesome fic, set after Kalos. The author has also stated that there will be a sequel set in Alola after this fic ends. I know that there's a lot of fics out there with the Stronger Ash trope, but this feels really interesting and still in-character.
  • Now has a sequel - Secrets from a Faraway Land

Meanwhile (One-Shot Collection by 11JJ11

• Status: In Progress
• Recommended by: Clipboard Fox 22
• Synopsis: We all know of Ash's adventures around the Pokemon world, but what about the rest of the gang left behind in Pallet Town? 'Meanwhile' is a collection of one shot stories about the rest of Ash's Pokemon while he's out on his adventures.
• Comments: Genuinely sweet and heartfelt collection of short fics about Ash's pokemon.

You Thought by shinyvulpix82

• Status: In Progress
• Recommended by: CJ Croen 1393
• Synopsis: You thought we were conquered the day Kanto failed,
  You thought we were destroyed the day Johto shattered,
  You thought we were routed the day Hoenn collapsed,
  You thought we were beaten the day Sinnoh broke,
  You thought we were lost the day Unova wept,
  You thought we were broken the day Kalos burned,
  You thought we were gone the day Alola fell,
  You thought the earth was subdued only to you,
  You thought wrong. —Author Unknown
• Comments: The best way I can sum this up as is 'what would happen if aliens tried invading the Pokemon world?' The answer is that the Pokemon start fighting back. And so far, they're winning. The chapters are set up to keep each attacking Pokemon's identity a mystery until the end of the chapter, which cites a Pokedex entry for said Pokemon and then reveals the status of the Professor who wrote it.

Gods and Demons by Keleri

• Recommended by Phosphorus
• Status: Finished
• Summary: They knew that Gaiien could be dangerous, but they didn't expect anything like this. Three trainers set out on their badge quest in a wild land cloaked by the shadows of old legends. Ancient powers awaken, and demon pokémon, giants, and hybrids converge for a showdown they couldn't imagine.
• Comments: It's rare that 'custom region' fics are done well, but Keleri manages to do it quite admirably. Gaiien is some sort of Australia analogue, and is presented as a world of real and ready danger. Many of the darker hypotheticals in this canon - namely how Pokemon communities react to the growing human presence in their territory - are given treatment without coming off as grimdark. Moriko and her friends additionally come off as very human: they struggle with uncertainty and fear and anxiety just as the rest of us do. Take all those ingredients and mix with a slowly-developing mythology that's quite unique, and you've got a recipe for success.

Unoriginality 1 An Original Trainer Story by Farla

• Recommended by Inkki Bookman, Umbee, Fawn, antialiasis, suspiciouscookie
• Status: Dormant (last updated January 2017); However, could be considered complete, as each chapter is stand-alone.
• Synopsis: These are a collection of insightful short stories examining different aspects of cliche Pokemon fanfictions that are usually found on fanfiction.net such as the cliche beginning of a OT's pokemon journey, the names they give their pokemon, various failed attempts at NOT writing a Sue-fic and so on.
• Comments: While the story is a good 'what not to do' guide that is also kind of funny. Farla's arrogant tone completely ruined the story for me.
  • Arrogant? I read it as more of a generally 'annoyed' tone. Besides, it's not like she places author notes between every single line. Why don't you just skip the top and bottom if you can't handle a bit of ranting?
  • Another troper here- no, it's definitely arrogant. It comes off very much as 'my way is the only way to do it' and yet she contradicts herself quite a bit. Some of her points are valid, but they're not worth wasting a whole 'story' on it, and certainly not in such a vitriolic tone. Can we dis-recommend a fic? Because I totally would this one.
  • antialiasis: Arrogant or not, it is frequently quite funny and brings up interesting points beyond those made in your standard Mary-Sue parody. Even if you find her tone annoying or disagree with some of her ideas, it's still worthwhile food for thought and chuckles.
    • It should also be noted that there are several cases where Farla simply contradicts canon- such as when a Suicune, sent out to fight another pokemon after being caught, just jumps over the heads of everyone there and leaves, or in the chapter 'Sometimes the answer's just no', where an Abra just leaves, despite having been caught by the trainer. She goes out of her way to point out how bad and awful OT fiction is for ignoring canon, and then just does the same thing- I hate to second the dis-recommendation thing, really.
    • Falcon Pain: Those examples reflect one of Farla's biggest pet peeves: catching and training a Pokemon that doesn't want to be caught or trained and treating it as anything other than abuse. I find these stories worth a read but not necessarily worth taking to heart.
    • FoxBluereaver: Thirded on the dis-recomendation. Farla does come off as arrogant, and as good as the writing itself may be, it doesn't quite feel like it was written to actually entertain or make it funny. Kinda like it lacks a 'heart' or something.

Predators by Arctic Banana

• Status: Complete
• Recommended by: fruitstripegum
• Synopsis: Wimpod was a weak and pathetic pokemon that existed only to be food for someone bigger. Guzma was just a kid with no friends from an abusive home. Both had something to fear from predators who wanted to hurt them. Maybe one of them could do something about it...

Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey by Saoirse Parisa

• Status: Ongoing
• Recommended by: Twilight Pegasus
• Synopsis: A young autistic girl, Julia Parisa, is happy to receive her first Pokemon, a shiny Pichu, on her birthday, and has a relatively nice life. But when her criminal older sister steals a Totodile from Professor Elm's lab and goes on the run, Julia takes it upon herself to leave on a journey and bring her to justice. On the way, she meets new friends, Pokemon and human alike, explores new places, and experiences things she never would have if she stayed home.
• Comments: I stumbled across this fan fic one day, and now it's one of my absolute favorite stories ever! The story is very engaging and intriguing, though the early chapters are rough, the characters are wonderfully interesting and three-dimensional—human and Pokemon alike, Team Rocket is made into an actual threat, and there's a lot that any Pokefan can enjoy. There's plenty of humor, drama, sweetness, and fun, though it doesn't hesitate to get dark and serious every now and again, but it never gets to the point of being grimdark, and the sad moments feel genuine. Furthermore, it has fantastic autism representation in the form of the main character. It's rare for autistic people in media to be represented positively, often portrayed as being overgrown man children or burdens who can't do anything but throw tantrums. Julia the character isn't like that at all. She's sweet, kind, and acts like a regular kid. She makes mistakes, both big and small, but always has the best intentions and strives to do the right thing. She gets into arguments and often complains about things she dislikes, but she's always treated with respect and dignity. It helps that the authoress mentioned she's autistic herself, and you can tell she put a lot of effort into making Julia into a fully-realized character. But even without the autism aspect, this is a great fan fic that needs more love! Oh, and it has a trope page!

Final Gambit by Wolflyn

• Recommended by: lalalei2001
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: What if there was no intrepid young hero to save the day? In a reality where all that is left is to stare down the maw of death as Kyogre threatens to drown the world, the League and its trainers turn to desperate measures in Hoenn's final hours. Borrows from the manga-verse, alternate retelling of the game's climactic moment sans the player character, AU.

Doomsday devices, when used in fiction, are capable of destroying anything from a civilization to an entire universe, and may be used for the purpose of mutually assured destruction, or as weapons in their own right. Examples of such devices include the Death Star from the Star Wars film franchise, the 'Doomsday Machine' seen in the original Star Trek television series, or the atomic-powered stone burners from Frank Herbert's Dune franchise.

• 2Planet killers in fiction
  • 2.1Film and television
    • 2.1.6Star Trek
  • 2.3Games
  • 2.4Anime and manga
  • 2.5Comics

Overview[edit]

Planet killers function in a variety of ways depending on the series. Weapons such as the Death Star and the titular ship in Lexx use a directed energy weapon capable of obliterating a planet in moments. In the game Spore, the planet killer is an antimatter bomb that is inserted in the center of the planet, causing the planet's core to split into countless fragments. Other weapons, such as the Shadow Planet Killer in Babylon 5 and Covenant warships in the Halo series, render a planet uninhabitable. The Shadow Planet Killer does so by firing missiles which burrow into the planet's core and detonate, causing planet-wide volcanic activity which renders the planet lifeless. Covenant warships use plasma weapons to superheat the surface of the planet; the crust is turned into a glass-like substance rendering it uninhabitable. In Star Blazers, missiles that can destroy a planet (and even a star) with a single hit exist.

Some devices can destroy entire star systems. Nova bombs in Andromeda, the Sun Crusher and Centerpoint Station in the Star Wars novels, and Dr. Tolian Soran's trilithium torpedo in Star Trek Generations, are all capable of causing a supernova, obliterating every planet in the solar system.

Planet killers in fiction[edit]

Film and television[edit]

Andromeda[edit]

• All Commonwealth warships were equipped with a limited stock of 'Nova-bomb' warheads for their missiles, one of which is sufficient to cause a star to nova, thus destroying its planets.

Babylon 5[edit]

• Babylon 5: The Lost Tales – Centauri Superweapons, hinted at by a dream sequence set 30 years in the future that Sheridan experiences. While only NYC is destroyed in the scene, it is implied that all of Earth gets wiped out.

Lexx[edit]

• The Lexx – Capable of entirely destroying planets.
• The Foreshadow – predecessor of the Megashadow. Reduces the surface of Brunnis-2 into molten slag, using a large scale version of the 'Black Pack' weapon often seen in the LEXX series.
• The Megashadow – Annihilates an Ostral-B asteroid base and the surrounding field in a single shot.
• Mantrid Drones – They consume all forms of matter (including planets) to replicate themselves.

DC Comics[edit]

• In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the Quantum Eigenstate Device (QED) is a planet-killing or possibly universe-killing weapon.
• Most cosmic beings and even some heroes or villains have the power to destroy a planet.
• Superman has demonstrated the strength to move or destroy multiple planets and once infamously destroyed a solar system with a sneeze, his heat vision also has vaporized entire planets. While Superman's depictions vary from author to author, these feats have appeared in every era of the character; Golden, Silver, Bronze and Modern Age of comics.
• In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, the Red Lantern Corps have a large number of cylindrical devices called 'Liberators' that can disintegrate a planet.

Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis[edit]

• A tainted Zero Point Module can explode with enough energy to destroy an entire solar system.^[1]
• Project Arcturus, an abandoned Ancient project capable of extracting energy from our own universe, unlike a normal Zero Point Module which draws energy from subspace, would create exotic particles with unpredictable properties, and would overload to actually destroy approximately 5/6 of a solar system.
• The Stargates themselves are composed of Naqahdah, and, if caused to detonate, would cause considerable damage.
  • Anubis'sAncient weapon that charges a Stargate powerfully enough that it explodes.! Stated yield of 2 giga tons of TNT, not enough to kill a planet
  • A wormhole passing through a star is capable of introducing super-heavy elements into it, thus destabilizing fusion processes and changing, possibly catastrophically, the climates of planets orbiting it.
  • P3W-451 has fallen into a black hole; an inbound wormhole to its stargate propagates the gravitational influence back to the dialing gate. Initially this caused time distortion effects near the gate, but as P3W-451 got closer to the black hole objects were pulled into the gate, as of Exodus a gate dialing from a star would exert such a pull that it could not only remove matter from the star, but do so fast enough to cause it to go supernova. The effect of dialing from a planet at this point was not described.
• The Dakara Superweapon in the Temple of Dakara can return all matter in its range to its component molecules. Its range is normally limited to Dakara and its surrounding space, however the wave will propagate through the wormhole of an active Stargate (unimpeded by either iris or Goa'uld shield technology) and expand on the far side to cover the planet's surface, but unlike Dakara itself, the wave will not propagate into orbit. Ba'al however modified the Dakara Stargate, using a 'hack' of the DHD's correlative update function to dial every Stargate in the Galaxy simultaneously, turning the weapon from a strategic threat to a Galactic scale superweapon against all planets within the Milky way Stargate network.
• A Tauri Mark 9 Naqahdah-enhanced nuclear weapon has a 'Multi Gigaton' yield.
• Anubis's mothership, powered with the Eye of Ra as well as four other 'eyes', in 'Full Circle'
• The Asgard managed to destroy Halla by causing Halla's sun to become a black hole.
• The Asgard destroyed their home planet, to commit mass suicide, by unknown means.
• The Ori Priors can turn planets into Point Singularities (Black Holes) to power their supergates, and did so twice.
• The Tok'ra have been shown to possess Thermonuclear Induction explosives capable of burrowing to a planet's core and igniting a reaction to which the planet would explode; as shown when they used it to destroy Netu. 'The Devil You Know'
• Gadmeer terraforming ship – see Genesis device below.

Star Trek[edit]

General Order 24 (see below) indicates that all Federation starships of cruiser size or above were capable of being planet killers.

The Original Series[edit]

• General Order 24. Starfleet order for a starship to destroy all life on an entire planet
• Nomad. A small spacecraft resulting from the combination of two unrelated craft that was able to 'sterilize' entire planetary populations
• 'The Amoeba' a giant space-dwelling single-cell life form capable of annihilating an entire solar system

The Animated Series[edit]

• A space-dwelling life form that consumes planets for food

Star Trek: The Next Generation[edit]

• Tox Uthat (A weapon from the future that would stop all fusion reactions in a sun)
• Dr. Timicin's torpedo intended to rejuvenate a dying sun but causing it to go nova instead

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[edit]

• A bomb consisting of trilithium, tekasite and protomatter intended to be detonated in the Bajoran sun by a Changeling^[2]

Star Trek: Voyager[edit]

• Species 8472 bio-ships

Star Trek: Enterprise[edit]

• The Xindi superweapon was a mobile directed energy weapon that could reduce a planet to molten rubble.

Star Trek (movies)[edit]

• V'Ger, a highly advanced and powerful living machine evolved from the Earth space probe Voyager VI, was capable of destroying the entire surface of a planet with plasma-based torpedo-like devices. It was also capable of using these devices to reduce ships and space stations into digital patterns, destroying the originals in the process.
• Genesis Device (a terraforming experimental device; not intended as a weapon, but when it was used on an existing biosphere it destroyed it in the process of creating a new one. The process left the planet unstable and eventually exploded)
• Trilithium torpedo. Used by Dr. Tolian Soran in Star Trek Generations to stop all the fusion reactions in a star, causing it to go nova, much like the Tox Uthat.
• Red Matter. A material capable of creating black holes. It could be used as a planet-killer by being injected into a planet's core, creating a black hole that imploded the planet by consuming it from the core outward. Red Matter is also potentially strong enough to consume a star. An example of a ship that used this is Spock's ship, the Jellyfish^{[citation needed]}. The Romulan mining ship Narada also used the supply on Spock's ship when they captured it. (Star Trek (2009)).

Star Trek novels[edit]

• Planetcracker weapons and sunkiller bombs (Diane Duane's novels)

Star Wars[edit]

• Imperial Star Destroyer: All Imperial Star Destroyers, later re-envisioned as Imperial-class Star Destroyers, were capable of glassing a planet's surface (melting the planet's surface so it later froze as a glass-like rock) although this method took months and sometimes years.
• Centerpoint station (Star Wars expanded universe) An ancient space station, capable of moving planets with its tractor beams.
• Galaxy Gun (EU) A gigantic space cannon, firing warheads in hyperspace that reverted to normal speed near the target. The special chemicals in the warhead reacted in the planets core, de-stabilizing the planet.
• Mass Shadow Generator (EU) Used the gravity of a planet to create a Quantum singularity, de-stabilizing the planet.
• Eclipse-class Star Destroyer (EU) A super star destroyer armed with a less-powerful version of the Death Star superlaser.
• Sovereign-class Star Destroyer (EU) A less-powerful version of the Eclipse.
• Sun Crusher (EU) A starfigher-sized ship, armed with a torpedo capable of making a star go supernova.
• World Devastator (EU) Ships which consumed the material of a planet, using the material to create new war machines. (utilizes tractor beams)
• Death Star A moon-sized battle station, armed with a superlaser capable of destroying an entire planet.
• Darth Nihilus (EU) Fed off entire planets, destroying all life on them.
• The Old Republic/Imperial order Base Delta Zero, also known as BDZ (EU) consisted of a sustained orbital bombardment of all biological and technological assets of a planet, the end result is the total 'glassing' of a planets surface.
• Starkiller Base A First Order planet-converted superweapon capable of destroying an entire solar system.
• Yo'gand's Core (EU) A Yuuzhan Vong tactic to destroy a planet, using a 'dovin basal' (an organism capable of manipulating a planet's gravity) deployed in the planet's surface to disrupt a moon's orbit, causing it to crash into the planet.

Doctor Who[edit]

• In The Dominators the villains of the title try to destroy the peaceful planet Dulkis, as a fuel source for their fleet, by sending a seed device into the planet's core.
• The Pirate Planet materializes around other planets, destroying them.
• Additionally, the Daleks and Time Lords have both been shown to be capable of moving planets, and would thus be capable of relocating a planet into a star, nova, black hole, or other inhospitable location that would destroy it. Image of the Fendahl reveals the Time Lords trapped the world of the Fendahl, 5th planet of the Solar System, in a time loop. In The Trial of a Time Lord it is revealed the Time Lords devastated Earth with a fireball and moved it two light years around 2,000,000 AD. Daleks have also been stated to have been responsible for the destruction of The Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey, planet of the Time Lords, though at other points in the series the impression is given that the world has, rather, been removed from reality. It is later claimed the Doctor destroyed his world to end the Time War using 'The Moment', thinking it would destroy the Daleks. The Daleks have shown themselves to be capable of destroying planets; in 'Asylum of the Daleks' they destroy the Dalek Asylum with an attack from space. in The Daleks' Master Plan the First Doctor uses their weapon, the Time Destructor, against them, turning the jungle planet of Kembel into a desert. In 'Journey's End' Davros and the Daleks attempt to destroy all Universes with the Reality Bomb, which breaks down matter and is transmitted using stolen planets that include Earth.
• In 'The End of the World', technology is shown holding the Earth together and preventing the sun from exploding, and thus the Earth is destroyed simply by deactivating this technology.
• The TARDIS has also been found to have the power to destroy the Earth, as shown in the Doctor Who film when the Eye of Harmony inside the TARDIS is left open too long.
• In 'The Big Bang' the TARDIS nearly destroys the Universe when it explodes by unexplained means in 'The Pandorica Opens'
• The Hand of Omega can be used to destroy planets by manipulating stars, as demonstrated on the Dalek homeworld Skaro.
• The Osterhagen Key detonates 25 nuclear weapons in strategic points under the Earth's crust, causing it to rip apart. Only be used if 'Humanity were suffering unbearably, with no hope or help ever coming..' in 'The Stolen Earth' and 'Journey's End'.
• The Tenth Planet, set in 1986, features the Z-Bomb, a weapon that could destroy the Earth, at a South Pole base. There are apparently others at strategic positions around the world. The General commanding the base tries to use it to destroy the planet Mondas, while its inhabitants the Cybermen try to use it to destroy Earth as Mondas is absorbing too much energy from Earth, which eventually destroys it.
• In 'Remembrance of the Daleks' The Doctor explains that the Dalek mothership 'Has weapons that could crack this planet like an egg.'

Other film and television[edit]

• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise, the Vogon Constructor Fleet 'demolishes' Earth as a contractor would demolish buildings to make way for a new construct.
• In John Carpenter's sci-fi film Dark Star, intelligent and philosophically capable 'Exponential Thermostellar Bombs' are used to destroy 'unstable planets' which might threaten future colonization.
• In the Mel Brooks feature film spoof Spaceballs, the Spaceballs' starship, Spaceball One, is capable of transforming into 'Mega Maid', a robot maid in the shape of The Statue of Liberty holding a giant vacuum cleaner, which can suck the air from an entire planet and thus make it uninhabitable.
• In the film The Chronicles of Riddick, the Necromongers cull potential recruits from planets and kill all those who remain on the surface by executing their 'Final Protocol', a series of gravity-based weapons that flatten everything on the surface of the planet, save for the series of monuments that produce them.
• Hugo Drax's space station in Moonraker, which launches globes filled with poisonous gas that would have wiped out mankind.
• 'Q Bomb' from Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
• Unicron, a robotic, predatory planet from the animated feature film, The Transformers: The Movie. Unicron is a rarity among the Planet Killers on this list in that he is one of the few which is sentient and can act and think for himself.
• 'Blue Harvest', a Family Guy episode spoofing the original Star Wars movie, contains a version of the Death Star which is armed with a 'planet blower-upper gun.'
• In the Futurama episode 'I Dated a Robot,' Fry blows up a planet with a planet blowing-up machine. Also in Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, a weapon is used in a duel between Bender and another robot Calculon called a 'Planetary Annihilator'. Throughout there is also numerous references to Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices which are hinted at being powerful enough to destroy planets or more.
• In the British sci-fi series The Tomorrow People, an alien race known as the Thargons have a weapon known as a 'Ripper Ray' which is allegedly capable of destroying a planet.
• In the Kurt Russell film Soldier, one portable explosive device nicknamed a Planet Killer is used, devastating the planet.
• In the Roger Corman film Battle Beyond the Stars, the evil Sador's mothership has a planet killing superweapon called the Stellar Converter, which seems to have the effect of superheating the core of the planet causing a delayed explosion where it incinerates from the inside/out.
• In the TV series Earth: Final Conflict, the Jaridians have a planet killer and have destroyed thousands of Taelon-occupied planets including their homeworld. The video archive of all the planets destroyed one after another is seen by William Boone but at the time he doesn't understand what it is until the circumstances are explained to him later by Da'an.
• In the science fiction feature film The Core, Project DESTINI was designed as a tactical weapon, but had the unforeseen effect of ceasing the rotation of the Earth's magnetic core, causing catastrophe, and threatening to end all life on Earth, unless the rotation could be restarted.
• In the science fiction feature film Men in Black II, Serlena's ship is seen making vengeful blasts on searched planets, causing an icy one to shatter and another to implode.
• The Displacement Engine in the TV series Farscape is a device which employs a wormhole to draw a large mass of fusing plasma from the core of a star, and then deploys it against a target. The device is described as being able to destroy a solar system. A major plot of the series is that the knowledge of wormholes contained in the head of John Crichton can be used to create a planet-killing weapon; in Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Crichton finally builds and activates such a weapon to show that it is much worse; it is in fact a galaxy-killer. Under threat of everyone being consumed by the weapon, he convinces the Peacekeepers and Scarrans to pursue peace negotiations in return for him turning it off.
• In the German TV series Raumpatrouille, a weapon called Overkill was used to destroy an object the size of a planetoid. The explosion seems to be strong enough to destroy a planet as well.
• Blue-colored bomb with small red spheres floating around inside. Consisting of a 3-dimensional matter shell and a 9th-dimensional matter inside. Featured in Supernova (2000).
• The Soviet Union's Doomsday Machine in the Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove.
• The Drej Mothership in the animated feature film Titan A.E., destroyed the planet Earth.
• The Megas XLR episode 'Breakout' features a gigantic alien known as 'Grrkek the Planet Killer'.
• In the episode 'Doomsday is Tomorrow' of the series, The Bionic Woman, Jaime Sommers attempts to stop a doomsday device set up by a scientist who wants an end to nuclear weapons testing; while she and a Soviet agent race to get the job done, a Middle Eastern leader, skeptical of the claim of such a device, proceeds with his nation's first nuclear weapon test as an atmospheric explosion.
• In Ben 10: Alien Force, the Incursean race has a super weapon called the 'Incursean Conquest Ray', which Emperor Milleous uses to destroy Pluto and threaten to use against Earth should Princess Attea not be returned. When Princess Attea overthrows her father, however, she plans to use it to destroy Earth, though Ben and his team are ultimately able to stop her.
• In the FrenchanimatedTV seriesOnce Upon a Time... Space, the androids of the planet Yama use ships that connect themselves to form a much larger one, that fires a laser with enough firepower to destroy a planet.
• In Spaced Invaders the D.O.D. (Doughnut Of Destruction) is a ring-shaped device which the aliens claim would destroy Earth but leave them unharmed as they would be in the center of the blast. Upon activation the device fails to detonate, but instead falls apart having been improperly assembled.
• The Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator In the classic Bugs Bunny short Haredevil Hare in 1948. Marvin the Martian wanted to use it to blow up Earth because, as he said, 'It obstructs my view of Venus'. The explosive was in the form of a small red stick that resembled Dynamite that was screwed into a large telescope-like machine.
• The 'Sun Harvester' in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. This is hidden inside one of the pyramids in Egypt and uses the Matrix to power up, destroying the sun to turn it into energon.
• In the Tokusatsu Kaiju Film Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, King Ghidorah attacked Venus (Mars on the English dub), leaving the planet uninhabitable. A variant version of King Ghidorah from the Rebirth of Mothra film trilogy sees the creature wiping out all dinosaurs on Earth, effectively acting as a Planet Killer in this respect, though life returns to the planet, and is eventually dominated by humanity. King Ghidorah. like Unicron (listed above), stands out from others on this list for being a living creature, something few other planet killers on this list have in common with it.
• In the British Sci-Fi series Space: 1999 Season Two opening episode- THE METAMORPH, Commander Koening orders General Order Four, which Tony Verdeschi reveals is 'a coded signal to destroy the place it originated from'. And subsequently launches an Eagle, what the villain of the episode Mentor reveals as ' A Robot Device, designed to destroy Psychon' One can assume that the Eagle was heavily equipped with Nuclear Charges, sufficient enough to at least destroy life on the planet
• In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, the Red Lantern Corps ship, dubbed Shard, carried giant monolith-shaped devices called 'Planet Killers' that were bombs capable of destroying entire planets.
• The Dark Heart from Justice League Unlimited. A WMD from an unknown civilization, this robotic entity is sent to an enemy world, where it will consume any materials around it, until it consumes the entire planet. This war machine was never deactivated, so it continued to consume planets until it was stopped on Earth by the Justice League.
• In The Day the Earth Stood Still, the robot Gort is capable of destroying the Earth, according to Klaatuu
• Plan 9 from Outer Space mentions the Solaronite, a weapon so devastating that if detonated it could 'explode the atoms of sunlight' and destroy the universe. It is implied that humanity will inevitably discover how to make the Solaronite unless prevented by aliens.
• 'The Ball', an episode of the Disney animated series Wander Over Yonder, introduces The Worldbuster, abbreviated as Buster - a playful, space-dwelling puppy who is bigger than a planet and does not realize that the balls he likes to play with are inhabited worlds. The only solution for the inhabitants of these worlds is to colonize the surface of Buster himself, which turns out to be congenial for life.
• In The Tick, there was the Galactus parody Omnipotus.
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thanos acquires the Infinity Gauntlet, which has the power to eradicate half of all sentient life in the universe once he acquires all six Infinity Stones, adds them to the Gauntlet and snaps his fingers with it, as demonstrated in the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War.

Literature[edit]

• The Deplorable Word, as used in The Magician's Nephew, by author C. S. Lewis, is a magicalcurse which ends all life in the fictional world of Charn except that of the one who speaks it. (see Omnicide)
• Obliterators used by Honored Matres in Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse: Dune (1985) and later sequels by other authors are capable of combusting the entire atmosphere of a planet, and ultimately its full surface.
• Stone burners, a type of nuclear weapon which could potentially destroy a planet by burning into and destroying a planet's core in the Dune universe.
• Vogon Constructor Fleets in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Vogon civil services are not only able to demolish entire planets, but have means and cause to do so regularly (to create and maintain hyperspace by-passes). The Earth falls victim to one such fleet in the beginning of the story to make way for a hyperspace expressway. The radio, book, and the 1981 TV series versions of the story refer to demolition beams, though the mechanism is not shown distinctly in the 2005 film. There is also the ultimate weapon designed by Hactar (a giant space-borne computer). It is a very small bomb that when activated will join the heart of every major sun with the heart of every other major sun turning the universe into one gigantic hyperspatial supernova. The weapon was designed for a race of extinct aliens but was taken up again by the inhabitants of the planet Krikkit so as to wipe out all other life in the universe and permit them to be the only remaining inhabitants. Also, the Krikkit Battleclubs can destroy major suns with their hypernuclear grenades. Lastly, although not typically considered part of the main five-book trilogy, the short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe mentions Zaphod passing by the doors of rooms filled with chemical and other agents that could sterilize, irradiate, explode, et cetera a planet; he then remarks that he is therefore glad he is not a planet.
• The Inhibitor machines from Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series of novels, were capable of consuming worlds over time to convert to copies of themselves, or to create weapons capable of utilizing stars to destroy planets e.g. venting stellar core material in a collimated beam to burn away planetary crusts. In the same series, the 'Greenfly' machines, developed by humans as terraformers, instead go rogue and start eating planets by reducing them to their atoms and rebuilding them into more such machines, as well as numerous domes filled with vegetation.
• The Spacer nuclear reaction intensifier in Isaac Asimov's Robots and Empire (1985)^[3]
• Stephen Baxter's Moonseed: a virus-like microscopic object (or substance made from it) that transforms substances into more copies of itself – and thus consumes Venus and then the Earth by doing so. (Baxter has also employed geomagnetic storms (see Sunstorm) and larger universal constructors (see Evolution) as planet killers.)
• In Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence, the Xeelee have a handgun-sized weapon capable of destroying stars and neutron stars. Also, during their final war with humanity from 700,000ad, the Xeelee built giant dyson shells around every single star in the Milky way, this forces the human inhabitants of the worlds to flee as the planets freeze.
• The glass clock built in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Thief of Time was effectively a doomsday device, although its intended effect was to permanently freeze time on an entire world, rather than outright destroying it.
• The Neutronium Alchemist (Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy)
• Quantumbusters in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga
• At least six methods in E. E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman saga:
  1. 'super-atomic bombs'
  2. rendering a planet 'loose' (inertialess) and directing it into a star
  3. a 'nutcracker', maneuvering two loose planets to crush a third
  4. a 'negasphere,' an antimatter planet^[4]
  5. 'Nth space planets' from other dimensions which travel at superluminal speeds and can be used to ram planets or stars (creating supernovas) – there was even the worrying possibility that these could cause the Big Crunch in zero time
  6. a 'sunbeam', a way of concentrating most of a sun's energy output into a narrow beam—this one a defensive-only weapon against nutcrackers and negaspheres
  • Of these, the Nth-space planet is considered the most lethal as its speed and inter-dimensional nature leaves no means to defend against it; this knowledge precipitates the final battle in Children of the Lens.
• Device Ultimate in The Xenocide Mission
• In Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of the seven suns, the ongoing war between the Faeros and Hydrogues see entire suns having their cores frozen.
• In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, the MD (Molecular Disruption) Device, or 'Little Doctor', generates a field inside in which it is impossible for atoms to coexist in a molecule. The field propagates in a chain reaction, and essentially destroys all matter until it reaches pure space. This was intended for ship to ship combat, but was eventually used to destroy an entire planet.
• In Daniel Edward's Division, planet-eaters focus gravity onto a planet, ripping it apart. This technology is used on Earth, destroying it utterly. Several other planet killers are mentioned
• In E. E. Smith's The Skylark of Space series various planet-killers are used or discussed. Throwing planets and moons out of orbit, incredibly high-yield atomic or copper bombs, near-instantaneous dematerialization of physical objects and the teleporting of close to fifty billion stars in order to wipe out a Galaxy-wide alien civilization are all used.
• In Greg Bear's The Forge of God, alien aggressors inject two high-mass weapons made of neutronium and antineutronium into the Earth which orbit the Earth's core until they meet and annihilate, destroying the planet.
• L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth (1982) planet-buster tactical nuclear weapons,^[5] are teleported to a distant planet, where they are contained in protective force-field; that directs the blast into the mined-out and somewhat hollow planet. It first causes apocalyptic volcanic activity as half of the bombs' force breaks the crust and reaches the core, and the rest creates such temperature and pressure that it undergoes nuclear fusion and becomes a star. Battlefield Earth also features a device known as the 'Psychlo ultimate bomb', which, when activated, causes all matter it touches to break down into hydrogen atoms (technically fission, although there is no mention of release or absorption of energy). The device featured at its core a sphere of extremely dense metal with an atomic number considerably larger than any listed on any periodic table of elements. This device was used on a moon, which was consumed faster than ships based on that moon could launch. The resulting cloud of hydrogen later compressed under its own gravity, analogous to a gas giant planet. It is implied that it developed electron degeneracy, as it was described as having an electric field of 'uncountable quintillions of megavolts' and would vaporize anything that approached it with an electric arc.
• In the Gor novel series by John Norman, specifically Tribesmen of Gor, the alien Kurii deploy a weapon, apparently housed in a small space craft, to the eponymous planet. If it had been put to use, it would have to have rendered the planet uninhabitable not only to humans, but also to the Priest-Kings, who were sheltered deep inside a mountain range.
• Nova Bombs (Starship Troopers)(Andromeda TV Series)
• Relativistic projectiles (Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski's The Killing Star)
• The Electron Pump (Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves). Not precisely a weapon per se; the destruction it produces is a side effect (albeit one the creators are aware of and consider acceptable, since it will also produce a great deal of usable energy).
• The Dahak-class Planetoid-of-the-Line (David Weber's Heirs of Empire trilogy)
• Two of David Weber's books; The Armageddon Inheritance, and The Shiva Option, feature inhabited planets biospheres destroyed by the impact of asteroids or moons on deliberately modified intersecting orbits.
• Throughout David Weber's Honorverse series just about any warship has the potential to wipe out all higher life on a planet by kinetic bombardment and this has happened in the past.
• S.T.A.R Platforms (The Blank Horizon), originally used for faster than light communication by artificially generating a molecule-sized wormhole, are capable of focusing over 1000 km square of a stars surface output into a beam a little over 2 cm wide, reaching temperatures in excess of 4.2 billion degrees, which could theoretically cut a planet apart and combust its atmosphere. This is never put into practice however, as the platforms are self-destructed to prevent them from being captured and used against their creators.
• In the Looking Glass series by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor, the alien Dreen possess an explosive powerful enough to destroy planets, and the alien black box starship drive will generate a field capable of destroying entire star systems if exposed to high voltage electricity.
• The Demolio is a bomb which can shatter planets in Brian Herbert's Timeweb Chronicles.
• The Supernova (Matthew Reilly's Temple) - A weapon based off a fictional radioactive element. The weapon was described to be able to destroy a third of the mass of the planet. The element used as the core of the device is only found, rarely, in meteorites - only one active sample has ever been found and is being pursued by the American military and several terrorist organizations.
• Ice-nine in the novel Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a solid form of water at ambient temperature. It causes the end of the Earth when some of it falls into the ocean, causing a chain reaction that transforms all the water on Earth into ice-nine.
• Quark bombs in the novel Lord from the Planet Earth by Sergey Lukyanenko. A group of radical cultists from another planet wanted to destroy Earth with a quark bomb, but are foiled by the protagonists.
• The Q-bomb, a prototype doomsday device that could destroy the world if triggered in The Mouse That Roared, a 1955 novel by Irish American writer Leonard Wibberley.
• In Chris Walley's Lamb Among the Star novels, a polyvalent fusion bomb is capable of rendering a planet inhospitable due to radiation if detonated in a solar system. Project Daybreak was intended to inject one into the core of a star, with an estimated blast radius of several dozen light-years.
• In M. Andrew Sprong's book Haley Cork and the Blue Door two forms of planet killers are employed. In one case the Enemy uses an anti-mercury bomb to destroy half of the planet's population in order to blind the sensors of its guardian moon. In another, Haley, as a personified biomechanical weapon, teleports billions of copies of herself using quantum foam technology to the same exact location in order to convert herself into a blackhole and destroy the Enemy's planetary armada.
• The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the human berserker warriors of Norse legend, are doomsday weapons left over from an interstellar war between two races of extraterrestrials.
• In the German Science fiction Series Perry Rhodan, the humanoid Arkoniden (engl. Arconides) had the Arkon Bomb, which could destroy an Earth sized planet within hours or the Lemurians, the ancestors of the Arconides and the Terrans had the Armageddon Bomb which was similar to the Arkon Bomb. The tyrannical rulers of the Andromeda Galaxy had planet killers, which could devour whole planets and were referred to as 'Mobies' by the fictional characters within the series. In this series, weapons with the power to eliminate whole galaxies were mentioned as well.
• In A Hole in Space by Larry Niven, Monk ships carry a stern-facing device called the hachiroph shisp which causes stars to go supernova. The Monks use these devices to propel their ships from star to star, unless the star they are visiting has a civilization that can build a launching laser for them to use instead.
• Hypernet gates in The Lost Fleet explode when disrupted, with a yield ranging from insignificant to supernova-level depending on the order in which the gate's many 'tethers' are destroyed. The alien Enigmas provided the technology to humans during a large war, hoping that humanity would destroy itself when the warring factions (the Alliance and the Syndicate) discovered the gate-collapse technique and began using it on each other.
• In The Shiva Option, the Bug 'home hive' systems are neutralized by carpet bombing their inhabited planets with antimatter munitions.
• In The Mortal Engines Quartet by author Phiiip Reeve, set in a post-apocalyptic world, the ODIN device is an ancient orbital energy weapon capable of destroying whole cities in a single blast. Stalker Fang, a main character in the series, plans to use ODIN to target volcanoes to plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter to extinguish humanity, which she sees as responsible for all of Earth's problems.

The E.C.Tubb story 'Little Girl Lost' (also, a filmed adaptation was done for USA TV Series NIGHT GALLERY) presents a scenario where a researcher, working on atomic weapons (in the TV adaptation, he is working for the USA, in the original, for the British government) suffers a nervous breakdown when his daughter is killed in a car accident. In order to keep him working at his project, a psychologist is brought in to keep him in a delusional state, thinking that she is still alive ... it seems that he is completely fooled by this ruse until the end, where it is discovered that his weapon can (and does) destroy the planet, or at least that is implied ...

▪ Stephan Ames Berry Kronarian book series has two versions of planet busters one produced by the old imperium burrows into a planets cores and explodes destroying the planet from the inside out. The other was produced by the Trel called a worm maker creates a wormhole to consume a planet or in some cases whole solar systems. this one was copied by the antagonist AI's and was used against them destroying their fleet.

Games[edit]

Halo series[edit]

• UNSC NOVA Bomb (a group of nuclear warheads clustered around a core that forces the fissionable material together, magnifying the explosion)
• Covenant Warships are typically equipped with plasma weapons used to vitrify (commonly called 'glassing') the surface of a planet through en masse bombardment

The titular Halo installations themselves only kill sentient life, leaving planets and their biospheres-as well as any creature without sufficient biomass to support The Flood-otherwise intact. However, Forerunner and ancient Human fleets are known to possess less selective weapons capable of inducing stellar collapses at will.

StarCraft (series)[edit]

• Protoss:
  • Motherships are stated to instantly destroy entire planets
  • Most larger warcraft have purification beams, which easily crack open planets and let the magma do the rest of the work
• Terrans:
  • Bombardment with apocalypse class nukes, FTL-capable nukes meant to be launched en-masse. 1000 is extreme overkill for wiping out all life on a fortified planet, with explosions easily visible from orbit. This appears to leave little lingering radiation, as the planet Korhal which was victim to such an attack was cleansed of it and has a population in the billions within a few decades.
  • The Mercer-class doomsday device, which turns a planet's core against it, causing it to explode, covering the planet's surface in magma.

Sins of a Solar Empire[edit]

• The TEC's Novalith Cannon is a giant, nuke launching, railgun capable of wiping out the entire population of a planet in just one shot, with better fortified planets only requiring two. The intense radiation of the nukes also makes the planet uninhabitable for a long time.
• In Sins of a Solar empire: Rebellion the loyalist faction of the alien Vasari can strip-mine an entire planet, leaving only a dead asteroid. This nets the player ordering the strip-mining a large amount of resources.
• All titans, all capitals, and some specialized frigates can bomb a planet to destroy a colony and wipe out its population. the technology used varies between the different races, with the human TEC (or Trader Emergency Coalition) using nukes, the psychic Advent using Kinetic bombardment, and the alien Vasari using a beam weapon.

Warhammer 40,000[edit]

• Abaddon the Despoiler's ship, Planet Killer destroys planets through a concentrated beam that bores through a planet's crust causing a catastrophic eruption of planetary material.
• C'tan (the Necron's Gods). In their original 'energy-like' form they can feed any source of energy (heat, radiation, life, etc.)
• The NecronWorld Engine has large Gauss weapons that can scour a world of all life.
• Tyranid Hive Fleets devour all biomass of a planet they conquer.
• The Imperium's means of carrying out an order of Exterminatus, including:
  • Virus Bombs. These contain a mutating virus, called the Life Eater virus, which causes basic chemical bonds in organic and some non-organic materials to break, causing these materials to 'liquefy'. As the planetary biosphere undergoes accelerated decomposition the massive amount of methane gas can be ignited from orbit creating a planet wide firestorm that will often kill anyone who survived the virus attack.
  • Cyclonic Torpedoes. One was used by the Inquisition to destroy Typhon Primaris during Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution.
  • Orbital Bombardment. The favored method of the Imperial Navy due to its lack of authorization to use the more advanced means. The result of an orbital bombardment can range from continents being atomized and oceans being vaporized to the complete mass scatter of the planet.
• Two Blackstone Fortresses, a type of space station used by Chaos, can destroy a planet. If used together, Three Blackstone Fortresses or more can destroy a star. They were originally weapons wielded by the Eldar against the Necrons and the C'tan in a cataclysmic war but were lost and forgotten until millennia later. Initially used as Imperial Space Fortresses, the Chaos Warmaster Abaddon managed to secure two artifacts to control two Fortresses while destroying the rest.

Other games[edit]

• The System Killer as well as the Von Neumann Construct random menaces from the Sword of the Stars series. ^[6]
• The Annihilaser from Planetary Annihilation. It is used by building 5 massive Catalysts on the north pole of a metal planet, allowing the player to fire a weapon from the planet. After a short charging up sequence, the planet will rotate to its target and fire an extremely powerful beam of energy that goes straight though the planet, and the crust will turn bright blue and expand outward, before exploding. The Annihilaser can destroy any rocky planet (Regardless of size), and can even destroy small planets that are being fired at another planet. It cannot destroy gas giants or stars.
• Ragnarok, Planetary Annihilation. A doomsday structure that once built deploys and drills a hole to the mantle of a planet for one minute before dropping an unnamed device into the core, exploding the planet in a fashion similar to the Annihilaser.
• Planet Buster in E.A.'s 2008 space simulation game, Spore (Space stage), a superweapon feared by all, capable of destroying an entire planet with a single blast. Using it is against the Galactic Code and nearby empires will consider it to be an act of war, except the Grox, who become friendlier.
• Hammer of Dawn in the Gears of war Series could wipe out the entire civilization with a few shots.
• Xenon Mothership (X: Beyond the Frontier)
• Khaak Mothership (X²: The Threat)
• Heartless (Kingdom Hearts series) (Actually a race of creatures that devour, not only the hearts of men, but also of worlds, thus destroying them)
• Mycon Deep children, the Utwig Bomb, and the Sa-Matra from Star Control 2
• The Omega System (Xenosaga)
• Tiberium in the Command & Conquer franchise slowly eats the earth turning it into tiberium.
• Atmospheric deprivation missiles in Homeworld are used by the Taiidan (or Kushan, depending on the player's choice of race), while (unknown to them) the Mothership was held up by raiders on the outskirts of the system. Afterwards, the northern hemisphere was blackened and fires were visible from high orbit. In Homeworld 2, the main antagonists (the Vaygr) attempt to use similar technology in the final mission – one of the mission's objectives is to intercept the missiles before they reach their target. However, the planet is not 'killed' after one missile strike; each missile kills approximately half of the current surviving population, and the mission is failed if too many slip by (it takes approximately 5 to fully depopulate the planet). The T-MAT Motherships and the Progenitor ship, the Sajuuk, and the Ancient Planetary Bombardment Platforms^{[clarification needed]} are also considered as Planet Killers.
• Black Sun (Supreme Commander), an extremely powerful laser weapon that utilizes a gate network to target and burn multiple planets in a single firing. Fired from the Black Sun facility located in Hawaii.
• Mechanoid motherships (Rifts)
• Jenova in Final Fantasy VII, a parasitic being which drains life from any planet that it lands on. Described by Vincent Valentine as being 'Heaven's Dark Arbiter.'
• Meteor (Final Fantasy VII); the intention of its caller in the game required the Planet to survive.
• Shivan Juggernaut Sathanas could, as a group, create a gigantic ripple in the subspace field surrounding a star, causing the star to become unstable and go nova, ostensibly destroying all planets in the system.(FreeSpace 2)
• Shivan Super Destroyer Lucifer used three 'flux cannons', which are more popularly known as 'beams', to obilterate the surface of an entire planet, rendering it invulnerable. However, in the cutscene, the Lucifer used only one, which could release an expansive blast which could burn away a small fraction of a planet. (Descent: FreeSpace — The Great War)
• Star Generator (Space Quest 1)
• Stellar Converters (Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares), plasma cannons of immense size and power that are capable of tearing straight through virtually anything in the line of fire.
• The Kilrathi Dreadnought Sivar (Wing Commander: The Secret Missions) - This warship designed by the Kilrathi carried with it the Graviton Weapon, which could destroy a planet and all life on its surface by increasing its gravitational field 137 times the normal force.
• TCS Behemoth and the Temblor Bomb (Wing Commander III) - The TCS Behemoth was a super-heavy dreadnought which carried a superlaser capable of obliterating any target ranging from a starship to a planet. The latter weapon, the Temblor Bomb was designed to exploit the instability of a planet's fault line to trigger a super earthquake that would subsequently destabilize a world's entire tectonic makeup, literally shaking it apart to the point of implosion. The Temblor Bomb could only be launched via starfighter, and the player must destroy the Kilrathi homeworld of Kilrah by this means.
• Terror Star, a parody of the Death Star (although a fully functional star killer) from Galactic Civilizations
• The 'Iron Helix' (used to destroy Calliope if you fail the mission)
• The 'Nova Bomb' in X-COM: Interceptor – this was a missile carried on fighters which, rather than being used against a planet directly, was fired at the star inside the system. According to in-game details, the Nova Bomb slowly accelerates to light speed and burrows itself into the core, causing the star to go supernova, completely destroying the whole system. After the Doomsday Weapon built by the aliens is located (on the other side of a black hole), the player is told that it can only be destroyed with a Nova Bomb. The technology was considered so dangerous the scientific community asked for all knowledge of the bomb to be stricken from records so it would not fall into the wrong hands.
• The 'Weak nuclear force decoupler' from Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64)
• The Space Colony ARK's Eclipse Cannon from Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog
• The Alphacore (Omega Boost)
• The Biologic Space Labs research station in Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance) is equipped with a self-destruct system capable of destroying a planet within its blast radius. In addition, the planet Zebes was equipped with a planetary self-destruct mechanism in Super Metroid (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)
• The Black Egg and Mulligan artifacts (Starflight)
• The Crest of Annihilation (Star Ocean: The Second Story) (this device completely obliterates a planet, but it is allegedly powerful enough to wipe out the entire known universe)
• The Death Egg from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic & Knuckles, a parody of the Death Star and a caricature of Dr. Robotnik. Armed with two ion cannons (supposedly) forming the 'eyes' on the 'face', it is damaged and repaired throughout the early Sonic the Hedgehog series.
• The Galactic Implosion Device (Total Annihilation)
• The 'PlanetBuster Maximus' in the video game Ratchet & Clank, a skyscraper-sized bomb 'capable of reducing an entire planet to subatomic particles'. There was another device named 'The DePlanetizer', referred to as 'The most powerful laser ever invented'. It consisted of a giant football field-sized platform with a large rotating laser cannon on the bottom and a giant red button on the top. It served as an arena during the final fight with Chairman Drek. The De-Planetizer's purpose was to break planets apart so that Chairman Drek could harvest choice fragments to assemble into his own new planet.
• The Ragnarok space station is capable of destroying anything off of the face of the Earth. (Mega Man Zero)
• The Moon Dagger from Terminal Velocity. This largue warship is a huge missile that cycles on the target a Fussion Transference Wave, whose effects are described as similar to what a sawed-off shotgun causes to a human.
• The trih xeem in the Marathon Trilogy. Name literally means, 'early nova.'
• The Void (Super Paper Mario) (this consumes worlds completely, leaving bleak, endless white plains in their place)
• Vegnagun in (Final Fantasy X-2) can be seen instigating the destruction of Spira in a 'bad ending'.
• Smoke's Destroy-The-Earth fatality and Grey-Goo ending (Mortal Kombat)
• Planet Busters of (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) destructive power ranges from destroying a city to a continent depending on their power source. When used, these weapons increased the chance of the planet's native life seeking to annihilate humanity. In the novelizations, four gravitational singularity–powered Planet Busters used by the Believer's trigger such an event.
• Cannon Seed (Galaxian 3)
• Sorcery Globe (Star Ocean: The Second Story) disrupts a planets 'Expel's' orbit and causes it to crash into Energy Nede.
• The USG Ishimura in Dead Space, a deep space mining vessel that extracts minerals from a planet by ripping away large chunks of the crust, and the other planet cracker vessels built after it. The Ishimura herself is said to have cracked 34 planets during her 62-year service. Also, the pre-Ishimura space stations used to 'harvest' Titan.
• In Dead Space 3 it is found out that if the alien Necromorph's markers convert all the planet's life into more Necromorph mass, the planet becomes a Brethren moon, a sentient planet size Necromorph that has the ability of interstellar travel and the telepathic powers of the markers who consumes all life on other planets.
• The Parasite Machine that sucks energy from the Earth's core in Urban Assault
• In Mass Effect, mass accelerators are the primary weapon design, ranging from small arms to multi-kilometer capital ship cannons. One weapon's projectile was powerful enough for a glancing blow to result in a large rift on a planet's surface, comparable to Valles Marineris. Also, various planet-grade WMDs are listed: nuclear weapons of varying yield, asteroids and space stations, and invasive species. Mass Effect: Bring down the sky DLC has a state sponsored terrorist group attempt to navigate an asteroid into a Human colony. Mass Effect 2: Arrival DLC offers the penultimum of kinetic weaponry: an asteroid equipped with a faster-than-light drive can match the power of a supernova; that's how much damage it takes to destroy a mass relay. Mass Effect 3 involves disarming an old Turian bomb that was placed on the Krogan home world in case of a rebellion
• The Giant of Bab-il in Final Fantasy IV is teleported to the Blue Planet/Earth for the express purpose of annihilating all life on the planet.
• In Final Fantasy V, Exdeath unleashes the power of the Void on the world; Neo-Exdeath (an amalgamation of Exdeath and all the creatures trapped in the Rift) clearly implies that the Void could destroy all life in the universe.
• In Final Fantasy IX, Kuja destroys everything within his homeplanet with a Ultima spell.
• Capital Vessels in R-Type have Wave-Cannons stated to be a hundred million times the power of the standard mass-production fighter's, and capable of destroying planets. The in-game description therefore indicates that each of the dozens or hundreds of fighters fielded in every fleet has a re-usable weapon with an output in the low Teratons.
• Izanami from the Blazblue series with the True Blazblue can turn most things on the planet to seither and render it a husk.
• Dinosaur Planet, which would later be called Sauria in Star Fox Adventures had a force so powerful to blow the planet apart and kill the entire Lylat System.
• The Destroyer is a massive golem in The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. It had the ability to form a wall of fire called the 'Ring of Annihilation.' Once completed the belt of fire would spread reducing the world into fire and ash.
• In Stellaris, the Apocalypse DLC allows players to build a Colossus, a massive spaceship that can destroy planets or do other things based on what the player equips it with.
• Ogame features the Death Star, by far the largest ship available, that can destroy moons (not planets).
• GURPS Spaceships presents the Relativistic kill vehicle Azrael, described as a large AI-controlled missile that impacts its target with a force of 42 million megatons -enough to trigger an extinction event-.
• In Kirby Super Star Ultra, a warrior known as Galacta Knight makes his debut. He is referred to as the greatest warrior in the galaxy and a warrior who was sealed away because his power was too great, as mentioned by the Galactic Nova. He later appears in Kirby: Planet Robobot, in which he is summoned by Star Dream, who says: 'He may end up destroying a nearby planet or two, but such is life.'. This indicates that Galacta Knight could quite easily destroy up to two planetary bodies at a time.
• Void Termina (Kirby Star Allies) is mentioned to be the Destroyer of Worlds on his splash screen. This can be shown to be a valid description when his death causes a supernova.
• In Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Dark Star, which is approximately the same size as the other planets in the game, is destroyed by Kirby, Ribbon and the crystal shards.

Anime and manga[edit]

Dragon Ball[edit]

Many characters in the series can destroy planets with the exception of the untrained human characters.

• Vegeta destroyed Planet Arlia in episode 11 of Dragon Ball Z anime filler.
• Frieza is probably the series most famous planet killer, destroying both Planet Vegeta, Planet Namek, and Earth.
• Kid Buu destroyed Earth during the climax of Dragon Ball Z and then destroys multiple other planets while trying to find Goku and Vegeta.
• In the Dragon Ball Super anime, Beerus, the God of Destruction of Seventh Universe, destroyed a planet by tapping his finger on the table in Episode 1. He destroys another planet with a Ki blast the size of a golf ball in Episode 2. Beerus has also destroyed a moon while sleeping with a ki ball coming from his sneeze in Episode 20.
• Son Goku, in his Super Saiyan God form, destroyed a lot of planets with a resulting shock wave in Dragon Ball Super anime, when he collided his fists with the God of Destruction Beerus in Episode 12.
• Champa, the God of Destruction of Sixth Universe, destroyed several planets with just kicks and punches while chasing his twin brother Beerus (who ate their birthday cake) in the 6th chapter of Dragon Ball Super manga.
• Vados destroyed a planet by tapping her sceptre in space, in the 18th episode Dragon Ball Super anime.
• Super Shenron ate planet resembling Saturn in the 41st episode of Dragon Ball Super anime.
• Zamasu destroyed all seven Super Dragon Balls in a flashback of Dragon Ball Super anime, episode 61. Each of the Super Dragon Balls are 37,196 km in diameter.
• Broly, The Legendary Super Saiyan was shown to destroy a planet with ease in the movie.
• King Vegeta destroyed 3 planets with a wave of his hand in Dragon Ball Z anime filler.
• As a child, Son Gohan destroys the Makyo Star, (a star or planet that gives Garlic Jr. extra power) in the anime filler.

Kiddy Grade[edit]

• Geo-Sort technology has the ability to reconfigure large amounts of matter at the molecular level; thus it can not only destroy entire planets, but make hostile planets habitable through terraforming.
• The Deucalion presumably has this capability as well, since it is outfitted with Geo-Sort technology (but this is never demonstrated in the series).

Sailor Moon[edit]

• One of the Outer Senshi, Sailor Saturn, can destroy an entire planet by just dropping her weapon (the Silence Glaive) with the intent to destroy, no attack calling necessary.
• Sailor Galaxia is also able to point at a planet and, if she possesses the will to, completely destroy it.
• The main protagonist, Sailor Moon (as Neo Queen Serenity), possesses the power to destroy an entire solar system, including its star.

Gall Force[edit]

In the first 3 Gall Force movies both sides the Solnoid and Paranoid Axis forces have had both their home worlds destroyed in a war of mutual assured destruction. They plan on using the last of their planet destroyers and include the new system destroyers in their final battle plans.

Gurren Lagann[edit]

The main antagonist, the Anti-Spiral, is shown to have destroyed many planets, stars, and galaxies. In the second film adaptation, an entire universe is destroyed in the Anti-Spiral's clash with the similarly powerful Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love[edit]

In the final battle with Kain, who is apparently powerful enough to destroy a planet on his own. Washu decides to have Kiyone make use of a 'Dimensional Cannon'. In spite of Kiyone's protests that you shouldn't even use it on a city because it is made for taking out small galaxies.

Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers)[edit]

Throughout the series and movies, including Rebirth and the recent live action film, the Yamato (Argo) and similar battleships in the Earth Defense Force are armed with a Wave Motion Gun. This weapon of last resort is capable of obliterating entire fleets in one shot, as well as most moon and planetary sized objects. The downside of using this weapon is that it leaves the ship defenseless before and after firing due to the massive amount of energy needed to fire it (except in Rebirth, where the ship could fire six shots without recharging.) Also included would be the Desler (Desslok) cannon, built on the same principle (Tachyon Compression), and the main cannon in Zordar's dreadnaught, which was deployed at the end of season 2.

In the remake Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 the White Comet of the Gatlantis Empire is a planet killing weapon, that captures and destroy a planet’s biosphere.

Eureka seveN[edit]

At the end of the series, it is established that the Coralians have the ability to engulf a planet and form their own version of a planetary crust, although they did not exercise it with the purpose of making a planet uninhabitable.

Comics[edit]

DC Comics[edit]

• Superboy Prime destroyed Earth-15 in Countdown to Final Crisis, Issue #24
• Superman destroyed several replica planets in Shadows Linger Part Two: The Long Road, Volume 1 Issue #675. In the alternate universe Injustice storyline, during the final battle against the Green Lantern Corps at the end of Year Two, Superman killed Mogo, the living planet, by throwing it into the Sun.

Other media[edit]

• Buster Machine III, aka the Black Hole Bomb in Gunbuster uses the mass of a gas giant planet (specifically, Jupiter) to create a black hole which ultimately destroys the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
• Galactus, a being from the Marvel Comics Universe, specifically the Fantastic Four books, consumes planets for their energy in order to sustain himself. He is often aided in this process by one of his heralds, the most famous among them being the Silver Surfer. His name is given to Galactus Syndrome. His daughter Galacta is capable of doing the same. Also, there exists a great number of characters capable of planet busting.
• In DC Comics, the Warworld is a planet killer. As in Marvel, there is a great number of characters who can destroy planets.
• In the Marvel Comics Universe there exists the Godkiller, which destroys planets by flying through them without slowing down - presumably as an incidental side-effect of performing its main function - killing Celestials.
• Big Venus (The Big O).
• Serpentera from Power Rangers.
• Erdammeru^{[permanent dead link]} the Void-Hound (DC Comics)
• In Getter Robo Armageddon, the protagonists manage to create a massive Getter Beam Tomahawk powerful enough to slice through planets. Likewise, in some Getter Robo manga, an entire fleet of impossibly enormous Getter Emperors exist. These super-mecha are so large, they create their own gravity field that can actually shatter planets as they pass.
• In Vandread, A special variant of harvest ship can destroy planets that are not needed by Earth anymore.
• In the Eek! The Cat episode Eek vs. The Flying Saucers, aliens called Zoltarians threaten to blow up the Earth using a death ray powered by Eek's 300-pound girlfriend, Annabelle, and want to do so because Earth 'obstructs our view of Uranus.'
• In the Exosquad episode A Night Before Doomsday an antimatter bomb capable of destroying all life on Earth is revealed and its activation by the Neosapien leader Phaeton dying of Automutation Syndrome is prevented in the episode Abandon Hope.
• In Chodenji Machine Voltes V, a Magmite bomb was planted by general Oslack to destroy the Earth.
• In the cartoon Invader Zim, the Planet Jackers tried to feed the Earth to their sun to keep it from going out.
• In Gunbuster, Buster Machine #7 and #19 work in tandem to destroy an Earth-sized life form and a black hole which it carries in tow.
• In Gunbuster's sequel series: Diebuster, the android Buster Machine #7 splits the moon Titan in half.
• The Super RobotMazinkaiser is said to be capable of blasting a hole right down to a planet's core with a full-powered Fire Blaster.
• The Vok second Moon (Beast Wars: Transformers) (could only destroy energon-rich worlds)
• The Annihilatrix from Frisky Dingo is designed to launch Earth into the Sun. Designed being the operative word. In the end it manages to push Earth out of its orbit - into an orbit that is further from the sun. One foot further.
• The Beast Planet in Shadow Raiders.
• The Desiccator in Dark Reign.
• The Ideon Sword (capable of slicing a planet in half) and the Ideon Gun (capable of cutting large swaths of destruction encompassing thousands of ships and celestial bodies) from Space Runaway Ideon. In addition, when ultimately destroyed, the resulting force caused by the detonation of its power source could potentially destroy the universe.
• The Planet and System Killers in Gall Force.
• The Dark Heart in Justice League Unlimited.
• In the Macross Saga segment of Robotech, when the entire Zentradi main fleet was brought together it could destroy the entire surface of a planet through large bombardments of its energy weapons. In Robotech continuity, the Neutron-S missile is thought to be an extremely powerful bomb, but it turns out to be a planet killer since it creates artificial singularities and hence turns any target into a black hole.
• Rave Master describes two powers capable of wiping out all life: the power of Etherion contained in the body of Elie and the being called Endless.
• The largely undescribed cascade missile in Sluggy Freelance (in the science fictionparody in chapter 24, 'GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos'). It's designed to destroy a single planet, but it's theorized that firing it into a star could initiate a chain reaction capable of destroying all life in the entire universe.
• In the Manga Keroro Gunsou, there is a character who is related to Keroro who can destroy planets.
• The Colonization Industrial Companies' wormhole in Universal War One, able to split a planet in half
• The Stöah in the Kobaïan mythos of French zeuhl concept band Magma.
• The Planet Smasher in the Devin Townsendconcept albumsZiltoid the Omniscient and Dark Matters.
• Orion's Arm features many weapons capable of destroying planets, including Nicoll-Dyson beams which use the entire surface of a Dyson sphere as a laser emitter, relativistic impactors of many kinds, archailect-built 'metric weapons' which disrupt space itself, and construction fleets capable of disassembling planet-sized objects for raw materials.

Secondary literature[edit]

In his discussion of the tradition of apocalyptic cinema Mitchell exemplifies what the film Doomsday Machine or Escape from Planet Earth characterizes as a 'planet-buster'^[7]as belonging to the class of 'Doomsday device'.^[8] Secondary literature can also use terms like 'planet-cracker'^[9] or 'planet-busting superweapon'.^[10]

Science journalism[edit]

In the field of science journalism, a 1962 article examined various means 'to put an end to the world', concentrating on 'Doomsday Bombs'.^[11]

As astronomer Phil Plait has pointed out, the amount of energy necessary to shatter an Earth-sized planet is extremely large: 'about 2 x 10³² Joules.... about as much energy as the sun puts out in a week.'^[12]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Zero Hour'
2. ^'By Inferno's Light'. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Season 5. Episode 15. Paramount Television. February 15, 1997. 40 minutes in. syndicated.
3. ^Palumbo, Donald (2002). Chaos theory, Asimov's foundations and robots, and Herbert's Dune: the fractal aesthetic of epic science fiction. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy. 100. Greenwood Press. p. 240. ISBN978-0-313-31189-5. Retrieved 2010-12-15. Robots and Empire reveals that Amadiro's nuclear intensifier irradiates Earth
4. ^Smith, Edward Elmer (1998) [1953]. Second Stage Lensmen. History of civilization, Edward Elmer Smith. 5 (reprint ed.). Old Earth Books. p. 22. ISBN978-1-882968-13-8. Retrieved 2010-12-15. '[...] we used the negasphere – a negative-matter bomb of plaanetary anti-mass – to wipe out Jalte's planet [...]'
5. ^Hubbard, L. Ron (2005) [1982]. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (reissue ed.). Galaxy Press LLC. p. 1050. ISBN978-1-59212-007-9. Retrieved 2010-12-15. [...] ten 'planet buster' nuclear missile bombs, forbidden by treaties because they could crack the planet;s crust and spray the world with fallout.
6. ^http://wiki.swordofthestars.com/sots1/Unknown_Menace
7. ^Mitchell, Charles P. (2001). A guide to apocalyptic cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 62. ISBN978-0-313-31527-5. Retrieved 2010-12-12. REPRESENTATIVE QUOTES '[...] those chopstick jockeys couldn't come up with a planet-buster, could they?' (Danny reacting to Dr. Perry's theory that the chinese device could destroy the Earth)
8. ^Mitchell, Charles P. (2001). A guide to apocalyptic cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 59. ISBN978-0-313-31527-5. Retrieved 2010-12-12. Threat: Doomsday device
9. ^Brians, Paul (November 1984). 'Nuclear War in Science Fiction, 1945–59'. Science Fiction Studies. SF-TH Inc. 11 (3): 253–263. JSTOR4239638. Whether they dismissed the early bomb as primitive or portrayed it as a planet-cracker, writers seemed to have difficulty adjusting to the scale of the new weapon.
10. ^Paul, Brians (2008-12-17). 'Nuclear Holocausts Bibliography: F'. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction. Archived from the original on 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2010-12-12. [...] a planet-busting superweapon is brought from Earth and sent to Mars, but cooler heads prevail and it is sent to explode harmlessly in the sun.
11. ^Mann, Martin (September 1962). Crossley, Robert P, (ed.). 'Man's Last Big Blast'. Popular Science. 181 (3): 111–113 & 214–215. Retrieved 2010-12-15. [...] a new and terrifying weapon: the Doomsday Bombs [...] designed, in their ultimate form, to put an end to the world.
12. ^Plait, Phil. 'Astronomer: 3 reasons we can't blow up a planet sci-fi style' 'blastr.com' September 12, 2011. Blastr.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-06.

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