Talk:How to write a Pokemon Creepypasta. Because there's 999 of them./@comment-4332975-20130226185339

These are pretty good rules. Just to note, there are exceptions. You should never go into it thinking that your story will be an exception, however, if you are aware of clichés/tropes involved in a story, a bit of build-up and lampshading can go a long way. For an example of what I mean, look at my story My First Pikachu - it was written with the rules and tropes about Poképastas in mind and, by all rights, it should not work, as it breaks a number of them. However, here's the catch, a lot of the clichéd elements, like distorted cries and a Pokémon's nature changing, are either shown as "normal", and expected, or else largely tangential to what the story is actually about. Now, I'm not saying this is a great story, but it's one I decided to tell, originally, to show what happens when you change the way you use familiar elements.

I'll let you decide for yourself if it succeeds at that, or only serves to show why these concepts need to be retired from our popular storytelling.