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- Acceptable Targets: According to Cori, overweight and mentally ill people are blights on humanity that deserve mocking and ridicule instead of respect and getting the help they may need.
- Canon Defilement: In spades.
- Creator's Pet: Cori and Shigeru1313 turn fan favorites who are loved because they're so bad (Team Rocket) and a Memetic Badass (Gary) into insufferable Author's Darlings to the point where people actually root for the 'bad guys' in her fics. Everyone loves Team Rocket and Gary. Everyone. And if they don't, they're obviously a Complete Monster with a narrow mind, and a friend of the 'evil' Ash Ketchum to boot.
- Designated Hero: Jessie, James, Meowth, Gary and their friends are pure and true-hearted Good People. They are! Cursing up a blue streak around little kids, whining incessantly and getting their rocks off tormenting an emotionally and mentally crippled kid are the actions of Real Heroes!
- Designated Villain: Ash tries to defend himself and his Pokemon? Has obvious emotional and mental problems (at least in this 'verse)? Doesn't think Team Rocket is the greatest thing since sliced bread? How dare he! Clearly beating him half to death while viciously mocking him is the right thing to do in any given situation!
- Die for Our Ship: If there was ever a fic that made you pity Jessiebelle...
- Draco in Leather Pants: Giovanni—or, hell, the Pokemon fics are long exercises in this for Team Rocket!
- Happens in-story, too. The Black Arachnid in canon was a thief who simply stole valuables from rich folks. In Coriland, he was a Robin Hood-esque saintly figure whom Jessie idolizes.
- Dude, Not Funny!: A lot of fans' reaction to the treatment of Ash later on in the series, but especially Blissey's Laxative Prank.
- Erection Rejection: The sex scenes.
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop: You can abuse your child for years but he'll forgive you as long as you say you're sorry and butter him up. Crying a lot helps, too!
- Fan Dumb: Cori and Shigeru believe they know the characters better than the damn creators, insisting their fanfics are the true canon and the actual canon is "mean-spirited anti-TR propoganda". Also, Cori was notorious for her screaming rants about people who dared to ship Jessie and James with anyone but each other or write fics about them with a Downer Ending.
- Fan Nickname: Cori is also known as QOR (Queen of Rocketshipping) and Cori Fails.
- Glurge: So, so much.
- Mary Sue and Gary Stu:
- Fixer Sue: Pretty much every OC created by Cori and Shigeru exists to make sure everyone knows what perfect angels Jessie and James are and that all the bad things they do aren't their fault.
- Jerk Sue: Cairdea, big time.
- Gary Stu: James, Gary, Dinosaur Ryuzaki and Joey Wheeler. When we finally learn about Jessie's father, he turns out to be one as well.
- Possession Sue: Just about everybody, with Jessie being among the most obvious.
- Purity Sue: Jessie, James and their entire fucking families. Miyamoto is an especially egregious example, as is James's grandmother Rose.
- Relationship Sue: Shigeru1313's creation Arwen and Cori's creation Pagan.
- Sympathetic Sue: Jessie is the biggest example, but James, Gary, Mai and Dinosaur Ryuzaki also fall under this.
- Moral Event Horizon: What Ash's choosing to save Celebi instead of Jessie is supposed to be, but in truth it's when James delivers a near-fatal beating to Ash for doing just that. Yes, you read that correctly: James beats a ten-year-old child half to death for saving a Pokemon's life instead of his girlfriend's.
- Narm: Some of the angst sessions Jessie, James and Meowth go through, or the complains they level at Ash and co., are so over-the-top they're hard to take seriously.
- Nightmare Fuel: The graphic descriptions of the trio's beatings of Ash later on are quite unsettling.
- Ron the Death Eater: ANY of the good guys who oppose Team Rocket are portrayed as unbelievably evil or crazy, Ash and Tracey in particular. Jessie all but accuses the history books for treating the Black Arachnid this way by not acknowledging what a hero he was.
- So Bad It's Good
- Squick: One scene in "The Power That's Inside" has Meowth spot Jessie and James having sex, and proceed to go on for an entire paragraph about how pure and beautiful it is because of their love for each other. One sporker had an absolute field day with this.
- Tastes Like Diabetes
- Tear Jerker: Think really hard about what happens to Ash. A bright-eyed young boy who just wanted to be a Pokemon Master, but years of being stalked by Team Rocket plus a family history of mental illness and retardation eventually come to stand in his way. His actions, though made out to be violent and petty, could easily be taken as severe PTSD symptoms and in the end he's become a delusional manchild with only his aging mother to care for him. And the worst part? Everyone but his mother sees him as a walking joke. That's right, rather than getting the psychiatric help he obviously needs Ash is reduced to the village idiot, this thing to be mocked and snarled at just for existing. Oh, and he doesn't even have Pikachu anymore. ...yeah. Think about it. And be glad you and the people you love don't live in Cori's 'verse.
- James ripping Misty a new one and delighting in how progressively uncomfortable she becomes with every passing slam at her in "To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above." Sure, he apologizes later, but it doesn't change the fact that he happily tore into her and dug at her insecurities until she cried. And that he and Meowth high-fived over it until they realized she was crying.
- Thirty-Sue Pileup: In this case more like watching one happen in slow motion.
- Unfortunate Implications: Thinking too hard about the Acceptable Targets, The Complainer Is Always Wrong and Beauty Equals Goodness examples give these stories one hell of a creepy undercurrent of cultism among...other things. *shudder*
- A series of sporkings done in the 2010s revealed a penchant for Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male) and emotional abuse in general.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Ash, Misty, Tracey, and anyone else Cori demonizes to make her favorites look better. The Officer Jenny who was fired in "The Difference" for not kissing Team Rocket's ass certainly qualifies, too.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Come on, are we really supposed to feel for Jessie, James, and Meowth when all they do is whine and blame everyone but themselves for their problems, and then beat the shit out of minors for looking at them cross-eyed? Meowth avoids a bit of this by tending to be the Only Sane Man when Jessie and James are being particularly melodramatic, but not by much.
- Jessie in "Blood on the Moon." The story's told from her POV, which has her shocked and horrified that James is [gasp] cranky for valid reasons of being tired and stressed. A few grumbles from him has her freaking out that he's going to start abusing her, and all throughout the narrative she's a weepy mess who feels oh so hurt and betrayed that her perfect lover isn't in the mood to kiss her toes and shower her with cuddles and hugs. This alone is bad enough, but it quickly becomes horrifying when she slaps him and tells him to go to hell...and later, James apologizes to her for his behavior! Not once does Jessie even try to apologize for being a nag or realize she was wrong to assume the worst of the person she supposedly loves and cherishes more than anything.
- Wangst: Particularly Jessie, but everyone else had their share.
- The Woobie: Cori and Shigeru1313 try to make their characters into this and fail. Most readers feel sorrier for the characters they hate, especially the ones subjected to the excessive verbal and physical beatings.
- Misty in "To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above." The girl may be a hot-tempered brat in canon itself, but she didn't deserve James gleefully tearing her down and poking her insecurities.