Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Compared to other continuities a few characters are this. Candice stands out, being The Ojou and much more stoic than her other counterparts (which are typically Genki Girl's).
  • Cyrus is also a lot more expressive and zealous in this incarnation, even though he still claims to disregard human emotions.
• Badass Decay: Regigigas. After the huge buildup it gets, it fades to be really about as powerful as anything else Hareta has, and no one has any reaction to him having a legendary ancient guardian.
• Base Breaker: Mitsumi. Is she an awesome character with a compelling story, or a Canon Sue with a badly executed story?
• Complete Monster: Charon. Ordering a suicide bombing on a crowded stadium that could potentially blow up the whole town as a means of making himself known certainly qualifies him, as do his despicable experiments on Pokémon that turn them into living weapons and the heartless attitude he has towards doing this. His greed and arrogance from the games has gone to new heights as well. And he is the sole character in the series to reject The Power of Friendship as a concept, thinking only of himself.
  • Cyrus seems to qualify for the first three volumes he appears in, but a turning point occurs in the fifth volume that ends up subverting it. When Hareta refuses to hate Cyrus, even after all he's done, Cyrus develops conflicting thoughts concerning Hareta (he's even saddened at the possibility that Hareta died afterward.) Then, after his defeat, he has a Villainous BSOD over what he's done, gives information that helps set things right again, and then goes on to pull a Heel Face Turn in the remaining three volumes.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Can have quite a few.
  • Hareta flinging his shoes and socks off and declaring to Mitsumi and Team Galactic that they're fighting him too.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: Again, quite a few.
  • "We're going to make you regret that you crossed us! And that you bit me!!"
  • Hansom's notebook. The cartoony sketch of a googly-eyed Galactic grunt, the cover declaring the book to be top-secret...
  • Hareta, Jun, and Mitsumi's versions of where Cyrus could have gone.
    • Jupiter's reactions might make it even better.
  • Most of the running gags with the big-reared Galactic Grunt. Lucario nonchalontly poking the guy with the spike on his paw has to be one of the funniest moments
  • Most of the back pages of the books have a random Pokémon pointing out you're reading the book the wrong way, and Hareta translating in the form of "[Pokemon] says you're reading in the wrong direction!". Volume 5's example? An insane Cyrus glaring and growling at you. "Cyrus says you're reading in the wrong direction!"
  • Volume 6 also has Hareta tell the reader that his dad is saying you're reading it wrong, and his dad's reaction is something along the lines of "Quiet son! You're going to ruin my surprise appearance!"
  • Mitsumi and Mars going gaga over Minun in Volume 7.
  • Hareta calling Fantina 'Grandma', to her annoyance.
  • Cynthia sitting on a Galactic Grunt while Fantina's laughing her ass off over it in Volume 8.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Oh yes again a few. Let's list.
  • Hareta fighting to stop Onix's rampage, and Piplup's subsequent revelation.
  • Jun telling Mitsumi that everyone cares about her and they don't want her to go, after her passive suicide attempt.
  • Cyrus telling Mitsumi that the final battle is only for Team Galactic, which she's no longer a part of. Effectively freeing her from her bonds to them. Although she had already been trying to do so, that he finally realised it and, after all those years, did what was truly right, makes it doubly powerful.
  • The final battle with everyone fighting together. Cyrus's smile alone makes it. Compare his relaxed expression there to his incredibly creepy genuine smile in volume 2.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: In a franchise where the only manga most people know is Special (with the occasional anime adapted one'), this series stands out due to its notability and access. Just look at the size of this page.
  • Part of this is that this series actually got released in America in recent times when manga is more popular, so people actually now knew it even existed.
• Evil Is Sexy: Everyone in Team Galactic except Charon is incredibly hot. Even B-2 if you ignore his most prominant feature.
• It Was His Sled: That Mitsumi is a former Galactic member. The covers even spoil it.
• Les Yay: Cynthia's obsession with fighting Mitsumi.
• Kick the Dog: Cyrus kidnapping Mitsumi's favorite Eevee and threatening it's life as leverage to ensure Mitsumi fights for him. Though to his credit, he ends up not killing it even when Mitsumi renounces her affiliation with Team Galactic and forfeits her battle with Hareta - he just leaves everything in Jupiter's hands and looks the other way. We later find out that it was Charon who came up with the idea to use Mitsumi's love for her Eevee against her and gave it to Cyrus, making this a Kick the Dog for him as well.
• Magnificent Bastard: Cyrus, leader of Team Galactic, has some of the qualifications for this down. As in the games, he's a brilliant minded Visionary Villain who's often thinking many steps ahead of the heroes, is able to rationalize his actions no matter how deadly as being Necessarily Evil for the sake of a better future for the world, and has just enough charisma to sway many into following his lead without letting any of them know that he the plans to literally destroy the existing world with by resetting time back to the universe's beginning using Dialga's powers and then creating a new one in it's place where all living things would be stripped of emotion and free will, and he'd reign over it as it's God. Despite being notably more emotional and unhinged than his game counterpart, Cyrus possesses self awareness of his darkest emotions and this keeps him motivated in his ambitions to rewrite existence so that it may be rid of such emotions. His battle prowess and dedication to his cause consistently manages to impress Hareta despite him knowing that Cyrus is in the wrong, and Hareta in turn both impresses and influences Cyrus enough for him to rethink his evil ways. When Dialga and Palkia's fight threatens to tear apart all of existence, it's Cyrus who divulges a working strategy for stopping this from coming to pass, and when he returns to lead his old followers in the charge against Charon, all of them get behind him without question due to how bold and inspirational a leader he is, despite the fact that he'd previously mistreated or even tried to kill them!
• Mind Game Ship: Pretty much everything Cyrus does to both Mitsumi and Hareta in volumes 4 and 5.
• Moral Event Horizon: Charon accomplishes this before he even shows up, what with the would-be suicide bombers ready to take out a crowded stadium basically because he told them to, and the explosion could potentially wipe out the entire town were it to spread.
  • If that didn't cement him as an unforgivable scumbag, then his experiments on Pokémon to turn them into living weapons, including making a bunch of Skuntank suicide bomb themselves to attack the opposing trainers and trying to have Koya's own Growlithe (under Mind Control) kill Koya, definitely seals the deal. And on top of that, he's also responsible for the out-of-control Onix from the first chapter and giving Cyrus the idea for one of his biggest Kick the Dog moments.
  • And as always, Cyrus' plan to, with godly powers of time, obliterate the universe and kill everyone and everything in it before remaking it all. Unlike Charon, he actually manages to come back around from this, though.
• Nightmare Fuel: Cyrus's goals, and several of his rants. Not so much what he says (although most of it's pretty scary itself), but the art accompanying them is TERRIFYING.
  • The Distortion World itself
  • Charon grinning.