Pokémon Sun and Moon

The seventh generation of Pokémon games. Set in the Hawaii themed Alola region. Surprisingly, this time the plot is not to conquer 8 Gyms and become Champion while stopping a team of bad guys from endangering the world by exploiting the powers of a Legendary Pokemon along the way. Instead the player character seeks to complete a coming of age ceremony that requires them travel to each island in the chain and complete the trials located there. There is still an evil team endangering the region by exploiting the powers of the local Legendary Pokemon who needs to be stopped, but the circumstances this time are different than usual.

The games mark a major shift in some of the series conventions, such as including a Fairy Companion in the form of the Rotom Pokédex, more realistic graphics instead of the stylized caricatures which were used prior, the introduction of new variations on old Pokémon, and the addition of Z-Moves, which allow for any Pokémon to release a powerful attack based on a single type, but can only be performed once per battle.

On June 6th 2017, Game Freak and Nintendo revealed Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon for the Nintendo 3DS, which is an alternate retelling of the story with different Pokémon available, including new Solgaleo and Lunala forms for Necrozma.

Tropes used in Pokémon Sun and Moon include:

• Addressing the Player: Professor Kukui does this when a gamer starts a new game, just to give a brief intro about what Pokemon is, and ask the player to pick an avatar for trainer passport reasons.
• Adult Child: Professor Kukui. It's particularly clear in Japanese where his style of speech is typical of someone way younger and of less authority.
• Ambiguously Brown: Practically everyone! The racial demographics of the real Hawaii don't help any either.
• Anime Hair
• Another Dimension: Alolan scientists, including Professor Kukui's wife, are currently studying mysterious wormholes and portals that open up at random. Since it's both uncharted territory and that's were Ultra-Beasts resides in.
• Augmented Reality: One of the methods of obtaining gifts and certain pokemons are from scanning QR codes.
• Band of Brothers: Unlike their cousins from other regions, pokemon from Alola will come to each other's aid during a fight at times. Which shows just how they view friendships.
• Big Damn Hero: After when the rope bridge broke, Tapu Koko, he rescues both you and Nebby from falling to your deaths.
• Big Bad: Guzma, leader of Team Skull, who even refers to himself as "Big Bad Guzma" turns out to NOT be the Big Bad of the story, in fact being subserviant to the true Big Bad, President Lusamine of the Aether Foundation. This marks the first time a Pokémon game has had a female main antagonist and one who wasn't the boss of the local evil team. In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Team Rocket's Giovanni, the franchise's original Big Bad, returns as the Big Bad of the post-game RR Episode.
  • Bigger Bad: Necrozma is the distant source of the main conflict in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, even taking the mantle of Big Bad away from Lusamine in the climax.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Faba, the Aether Foundation's egocentric and ambitious branch chief.
• Bishonen: Captain Ilima as one of the examples.
• Character Customization: The poketrainer avatar's appearance can be change if the gamer wants to.
• Coming of Age Story: For both the Player Character and Lillie.
• Demo: This game's demo gives a tiny taste of what of what's in store. Plus, giving the IRL Poketrainer's Ash's greninja.
  • Also, the gamer has the option to transfer the goods and this special Pokemon to the main game, whenever they buy the actual game.
• Floating Island: Aether Island
• Fictional Currency: PokéCoins
• For Science: Professor Kukui does this often, even unleashing Z moves, in his own house. Just for science.

"He never stops researching moves. Not even...Inside the lab itself. Looks like we'll have to patch the roof again...

—Lillie

• Gotta Catch Them All: Though Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are the last games where one can fill up the National Pokedex.
  • It's apparent that considering that the IRL Poketrainer can't see the fruits of his labor even though he "caught them all" is all because the Pokemon Company/Game Freak are preparing for Pokémon Home.
• Haunted Technology: Rotom haunts the playable Poketrainer's Pokedex.
• The Jeeves: Rotom is also the gamer's butler of sorts, keeping track of maps, the whole Alolan Pokedexes, and such.
• Just Think of the Potential: Lillie tells the IRL gamer that she's worried about the all powerful Nebby falling into the wrong hands and being abuse to becoming a living weapon.
• Killer App: To vacation in the Alolan Islands, one must have a Nintendo 3DS or its cousins, like the New 3DS XL.
• Lethal Lava Land: Averted. Wela Volcano Park is harmless, despite some areas flowing with red hot lava.
• Life Meter: The Pokemon's life meter is green when filled up, yellow when half-ish, and red when in the process of getting dangerously weak.
  • In Refresh, the Pokemon's meters are shown with hearts, beans, and musical notes to tell how hungry they are, their enjoyment, and appeasement.
• In Universe Game Clock: Unusually Moon has a clock offset 12 hours from Sun (and the real world).
• Misplaced Wildlife: Aether Island, since it's a Pokemon sanctuary there's a ton of mons that are not normally seen in the Alolan islands.
• Mon Machine: The Pokeballs
  • The Z-Ring from Sun and Moon allows Trainers and their Pokemon to gather Z-Power and use Z-Moves. The bracelet is made by refining a Sparkling Stone, and the user can slot in a Z-Crystal along with others is not in use. It's also capable of inducing Mega Evolution when a Key Stone is inserted, much like a Mega Ring.
• No Export for You: An in-universe example, some old gen pokemon have new forms in the Alolan islands that are not found anywhere else, like Alolan exggutor.
  • It makes sense, since the critters evolved differently to survive the islands.
• Power Nullifier: Unless one is using specialize Pokeballs, Aether Island technology and electric fields renders normal Pokeballs as useless.
• Ridiculously Cute Critters: Both old and new Pokemon qualifies for this trope.
• Rite of Passages: The Island Trials.
• Rope Bridge
• Secret Keeper: Lillie asks the Player Character just to keep the secret of Nebby, the Cosmog, and anything concerning him.
  • She also has an inner circle of secret keepers, which includes Professor Kukui.
• Scenery Porn
• Shout-Out: The guy, who runs the Fossil Restoration Center, wants to bring back prehistoric Pokemon their original forms and place them in a zoo, that he calls the Dream Park.
• Solar and Lunar: Take a wild guess.
• Poltergeist: Rotom, who inhabits your pokedex.
• Supreme Chef: The restaurants that are located in the Alolan islands are all run by chefs, whether human or Pokemons, that are exquisite cooks.
  • PokeCenters have a Starbucks-ese corner were one can buy delicious coffees, drinks, and ice cream that are made by good cooks.
• Take Over the World: Subverted, unlike the previous terrorist groups that appeared in past Pokemon games, Team Skull are not interested in world domination.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Professor (Samson) Oak looks like exactly like his more famous cousin except for being heavily tanned. The official website notes "The two could practically be twins!"
  • Also Lillie, Gladion, and Lusamine. It's the clue-in that they are a family.
• Video Game Caring Potential: Players can use the "Refresh" system to brush, groom, and even feed candy and beans to their pokemons.
• Virtual Paper Doll: Just like its predecessor, the gamer gets tons of costumes and a hair stylist to customize the in-game Poketrainer.
• The Western: Paniola Ranch and Paniola Town.
• Zettai Ryouiki