Hope everyone’s holidays are going well! In case I don’t update next week, I wish you all a happy new year, too~
Cheren’s Pokemon are named after Capcom characters, and White’s are… I’m curious if anyone can figure it out. (nah it’s too obscure I’ll shit bricks if anyone can figure out what I did) We’ll see her other Pokemon some time in the next episode.
Anime Los Angeles is in a week;;; I’ll be there with shihfu and former Skullgirl guys. Hope any of you can make it!
XYVENTURES 
Oh Cheren…
WHITE IS SUCH A FREAKING BITTCCHHHH
/Ragequit\
/)>^<(\
The feels.
what? why?
How, pray tell, is White ‘such a freaking bitch’? She simply won the battle as one is expected to do. She is not gloating about her victory nor is she trying to make Cheren feel worse.
She completely and utterly destroyed him despite knowing that his mental state is not exactly solid.
Well it serves Cheren right for acting so arrogant. I do feel bad for him,though.
@Thundhurrus
Ah, yes of course. You are, as expected, right in this matter. Thank you for correcting me as per usual.
This can only lead to bad things…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Cheren doesn’t usually swear, right? At least, not in the game I played…
Still, the feels ;_;
If I could, I would hug that guy so bad…
No one swears in children’s videogames. I think this warrants it, though.
I think that this is the first time that a variation of ‘fuck’ is used in this comic.
Me gusta.
In his early look he did wear glasses, they just blend in with him at times.
What does that have to do with whether or not he swears?
Only Hades was able to swear in Kid Icarus Uprising and it was a quick and easy one and it’s not even one of the badder swear words. :D
The main character in Rune Factory 4 usually says Damn when he takes a lot of damage.
:C Poor Cheren….. After making it so far… *hugs screen*
Oh god Cheren is so pitifully adorable when he’s having a complete breakdown.
…That’s not exactly a healthy thing to find cuteness in, is it.
It’s called pity, you are mistaking the identity of your emotions.
Damn, Cheren just lost it.
I have to feel somewhat bad for Cheren. He just got curb-stomped.
As for White’s Pokémon…I want to say they’re named after characters from the Dragon Quest series, but something tells me I’m wrong.
I’m thinking Dragon Quest names, too. Especially with Angelo the Braviary. :B
But Angelo is the only one though. There are no DQ chars named Roberta or Teresa iirc
I have a bad feeling about this
awwwww
CHEREN COME HERE AND GIVE ME A HUG RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
that phrase… ‘COME HERE AND GIVE ME A HUG’ is the exact same phrase my science teacher said to this guy who left my school once. It was derpy
We all knew this would happen.
Oh Cheren… God damn, my heart aches for him.
shooosh cheren baby it’s not your fault white is extremely overleveled yOU MADE IT THIS FAR DIDN’T YOU…
Next time on blackadventurescomic.com: Black arrives to comfort Cheren and help him deal with his mental breakdown.
Yeah, more like, Cheren breaks down because he didn’t even last long enough for Black to arrive.
um ow ;A;
I AM WAY TOO OKAY WITH THIS.
White killed Cheren’s ahoge ;______________________________________;
RIP
2010-2012
I remember when this was a derp comic.
At the rate this drama is going up, we’ll be moving into End of Evangelion territory by the end conflict.
… Hey, that’s an idea!
I’M OFFICIALLY CALLING IT! RESHIRAM VS ZEKROM CAUSES INSTRUMENTALITY!
Well, whenever we awake, we pretty much hit the reset button on the region, so, yeah, I could see that happening.
Sounds similar to the two earth dragons from Narutaru,… OH GOSH! Are giant hands going to come out of the ground and destroy New York?!
Wait, what? You activate the Scratch? (If you do not get this reference, or if you do but do not care for it, I apologize)
We got over this a while ago on Related. Back when it was Related. So stahp.
I am fine with that. I like dramatic comics! It would be sooo badass to see!!!
wont that be a party
Oh Cheren, you could really use a hug right now.
SFKSDGJ DYNAMITE GAL AHAHAHAHAHAAH sorry i just, wreck it ralph flashbacks
Same here. I knew it was a reference to something, but took a moment to remember what. :U
lmao, I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who was thinking that. xD
Dittoh =)
You mean Ditto right? Stahp spelling pokemon names wrong.
WHY, AUTHOR!BLACK?!
WHY ALL THESE FEELS FOR CHEREN?!
DEAR ARCEUS!
T_T
The feels. THE FEELS!! :'(
Ugh poor baby T_T
Also nice Wreck-It Ralph reference
/sobbing
omg cheren, poor baby… ;__;
Well, duh, Cheren.
For all Nuzlockers, their goal is to completely and utterly sweep all fights lest they lose any of their Pokemon.
White seems to have taken the same philosophy and went to grind forever on the Battle Subway until she had about 200 Rare Candids.
*candies
I think he meant that as in Rare dogs.
Wait, what?
That would be canids, not candids.
ARGH dont leave it there! Poor Cheren! My heart is breaking for him
Poor Cheren, but… I just realized this is what I (and probably many other) people do in their games to make sure none of their own Pokemon faint, not just in Nuzlocke’s. Oh no, Cheren is going to have a breakdown wow this won’t be good… I was really surprised to see the swear but it’s actually a pretty good place to see it.
Comic-topic: why can’t I hold all these feelings for cheren!?
*falls on floor and cries*
Off-comic-topic:Dammit >w< wish I could go (stupid kilometers!)
Hmmm now that you mention skullgirls… What happened to the dreamworld adventure?
Now I have to wonder how the previous fights went–did White annihilate all her previous opponents like this, or were Cheren’s battles all very close?
If I’m not mistaken…the announcer said something like: “another 6 to 0 victory to white!” So..yeah she destroyed everything in her way
Oh gosh…I really wanna hug Cheren now…
Sanity Slippage, ahoy! Fire the Heal Pulses!
Dynamite Gal…
Wreck-it Ralph connection made…?
If I was able to draw, I´d draw all those people, who commented on this (including me), standing in a line to cheer/hug Cheren.
What about the peeps who didn’t want to hug/cheer for him? I was cheering for white the whole time.
She means after White won, eedjeet.
Roberta, Teresa and Angelo? Sounds like a mexican telenovela… Rebelde?
We can’t say for sure, so far the only name from rebelde is roberta and I don’t think A!Black would go that far…
But there seems to be a connection to spanish names
DYNAMITE GAL
BAHAHAHA WRECK-IT-RALPH
… Aww Cheren looks sad :<
I'd give him a hug… but that's just drain his emotions.
White broke Cheren.
Come here, Cheren. Lemme snuggle you with jolleh~~
I think Cheren’s going to become a Knife Knut, so I’d highly recommend staying away from him.
He does seem a little, err, homicidal…..
I’ll give him some place.
What does that pose Cheren made in the last panel remind me of? I think it’s just a recurring Facepalm-ish stance in a lot of animes. But it looks amazing, and I actually feel bad for Cheren now. Cheren come here, Abuubuu~
I was thinking Sasuke/Gaara… can’t decide which.
Oh wow. I didn’t feel bad for Cheren, i actually LAUGHED at him. I like Cheren, but i couldn’t help but laugh. I’m so mean. jollyyoubetternotstalkme
I caught the Wreck-it Ralph reference~
Such a nice thing after everyone was talking about Pokemon Stadium refs that I wouldn’t get… OwO;
That announcer will now be forever voiced by Jack McBrayer in my head canon.
I would also hug Cheren… he got annihilated! I’d react the same way if that happened to me. White is a beast. Come here Cheren…. I love you man.
I think Cheren broke…
nooooo cheren will comit suicide again!? and Black’s big ass isnt here to save him ToT
If anything, Blacks ass would make it worse. Cause Cheren knows he can’t score that.
This just proved my pittiful sadistic nature… Only staring at a man in physical and mental brokeness can genuinely turn me on…
Goodness cheren looks hot there…
Last panel pure beauty
Basically, You’re like 90% of the people here.
The 90% disgusts me.
Good, it’s not just me? I was almost afraid to say it, but I save’d all these because despair!Cheren is totally doing it for me.
Cheren: I’M IN DESPAIR! THIS BATTLE HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!!! D’8
Now that I think about it, there MUST be a reason why Cheren is the first (therefore weakest) Gym leader in B2/W2… Theories, theories…
He’s first because he’s the newest and the furthest away from the league.
When you beat him he literally says: “(oh stop celebrating!) I would have won if I had my usual team…”
Sooo I guess gym leaders change teams depending on the challanger’s strength
(Also giovanni being the second gym leader and the strongest or norman being the first one)
True, true. But game logic =\= real logic, so that’d be hard to explain.
I thought that the separate gym-team was because of gym/type restrictions, not challenger strength.
Most Gyms are monotype because their leader a natural fascination/attraction to a certain type, though. A gym could easily have a multitude of types if its leader was that kind of person.
^blue for example^
I’m certain gymleaders have a job to teach newer trainers hence the type trio and later cheren’s trainer school, so they probably are assigned restrictions or something.
But those both assume that every other trainer in the region starts off at the same town as the game’s protagonist.
And also does not explain Norman and Giovanni.
For a trainer to become a Gym Leader, they must undergo a series of tests by the Pokemon League to show that they are capable of determining the strength and prowess of a challenger. A person doesn’t have to win their gym battle to receive the badge, they just have to prove to the gym leader they are worthy of it, and winning is just one way to do that. Giovanni was absent from his gym because Gym Leaders are not restricted to the gyms, which thankfully is being shown in the newer Pokemon games. If the gym leader isn’t there, challengers can’t battle them. As for Norman, in the Games, you are his child, and he is fully aware that his team would thrash you at the start of your journey, so he instructs you to get some badges to prove that you are ready to battle him. If the game put him in a farther city from the start, Norman would have accepted right off the bat.
sorry for the long post. As you can see I have done some research on my own.
I want to say that White’s pokemon are named after Madoka witches. I REALLY WANT TO SAY THAT.
I think they are…
Didn’t BA come out before Madoka? And Roberta had a name by episode 3…
Um as far as I am aware they could’ve come out within a month of each other. Not sure cause I found these both around the same time.
Speaking of magical girls I miss the costume change sequences that lead to hilarity. Even though we just had that last chapter, but it felt kinda short.
I… feel your pain, Cheren
though to be honest, he really should’ve done his research. After all, hagning out with White so much he should’ve KNOWN Roberta knows ice beam, and he should’ve brought Edgeworth out sooner as he has both a speed and a type advantage over Roberta
Mh.. White’s Pokemon name are all Italian names, so must means it something connected with Italy.. but what.. mh…
Oh wow… This is one of the few comics that actually make me feel sorry for
The Cher-bear ;m;
Lenora, out of pity for poor Cherise, gave up her position as gym leader… so that Champagne could sit around all day, teaching snot-nosed kids, and being challenged by novice traiers… later on, he/she would lose too much money, and the school will close… they will live a life of heavy drinking and Pokemon abuse, and then be killed by said Pokemon in an act of rebellion… so thank you, White, for destroying one of your best girlfriends…
No dude schools are funded by taxes, he causes the New York stock exchange to crash after the federal deficit lowers investor confidence, THEN everyone commences with the drinking.
I’m not sure Aspertia has any kind of government..? Nor does a lot of Southwest New York…It’s pokeballs up the walls mad there!
Oh poor Cheren… I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry.
ahora odio a White, ella se cree la muy muy… le importo un pepino que sea hermana de Black y ahora destruye sueño sin importale nada ToT
Bueno…para ser justos, ella estaba peleando para cumplir SU sueño de ser la campiona y muestra al menos un poco de resentimiento por vencer a cheren….
Pero…enserio por lo menos pudo mostrar un poco de piedad y no masacrar a cheren de tal manera…
=D gente que habla español! que chilo! creí ke era la única i-i creo que el haberle dado chance a Cheren de “ganar” aunque fuese una batalla hubiese sido peor para el orgullo del chico si él se daba cuenta. Además de aquí White se tiene que ir directo a la liga, no podía dejar a uno de sus pokemon ser noqueados.
Te impresionaria cuantos hablan español por aqui, hubo demasiadas reacciones cuando la mama de black y black empezaron a hablar español (NEGRITO, NO LA TOQUES!! XD)
la cucaracha, la cucaracha, enchilada blah blah blah, la cucaracha, la cucaracha, and a burrito blah blah blah.
:/ podrias por lo menos copiar y pegar la cancion…
(At least copy-paste the song)
Can I marry Cheren already? * q *
I think white’s pokemon are named like “classic” names of telenovelas characters (or stereotyped mexicans/cubans/colombians/etc)
Cheren is in dispaaaaaiiiiirrrr!
*keeps him away from ropes*
Holy crap. Y’know, if I was up against my best friend in the finals of the Pokemon League… I think I would have let him down at least one of my Pokemon. I know White’s the sort of character that probably thinks “oh no, I shouldn’t hold anything back!” but this is the sort of thing that ruins friendships, and I don’t think she’s too stupid to figure that out. With as scary as her pokemon seem to be, it doesn’t seem to me that it would have killed her to throw Cheren a bone….
Huh. This looks like the beginnings of a vicious grudge. Maybe enough to attract the attention of a higher being? Wonder if the dragon tamers are going to be Cheren, Black, and White? (since N appears to be out of contention at this time)
Dude it’s that kind of thinking that makes you lose tournaments.
It’s also the sort of thing that would wreck Cheren all the more, in the long run. Imagine having that one thing to hold onto, and then it turns out that someone PITIED your weakness and went easy on you? For a three year old, it’s not a huge deal, but…. for grown people? That is neither kind nor sportsmanlike.
I’ve never beaten somebody that bad in the games myself…owwww That was just utter rape…I actually feel pain for Cheren and I never really cared for his character before…I wish something did happen to interrupt this so that he didn’t have to suffer that defeat at least. :O
My dick is sad about Cheren being sad. However, I am sad that I don’t have a dick. This is quite the pickle I’ve gotten myself into.
White’s pokemon names remind me of famous reformers/writers (Mother Teresa, Maya Angelo(u)) Just can’t figure out Roberta…
Wow, I didn’t think White would be so strong.
I feel bad for Cheren and yet, it was a little funny to see him sulk.
I knew white would win when her dad sent her an electric screwdriver.
It was a power drill, actually.
It is possible that Bel will make an attempt to comfort Cheren. She seems to be pretty concerned right now (Well, anyone would be). Black doesn’t always have to be the one to be there for him, despite their relationship.
Basically it could be either or both. Bel could try to help Cheren until Black arrives, or something like that.
I do feel bad for Cheren though. That is quite the look of utter devastation.
Maybe this will start a break in Black and Cheren’s friendship! Black wasn’t there for Cheren, and since this loss was so devastating, Cheren won’t be able to cope with the blame, thus forcing it onto Black when he arrives!
White! What are you doing! White… STAHP!
As for her names, a Brazilian soap opera (Teresa) had a love triangle between characters named: Teresa, Roberta and Angelo, but it’s reaaaally not likely to be a reference.
That’s hilarious omg
Not really, since Artist!Black said they had been watching soap operas but they were spanish ones.
Strange,I feel sympathetic for Cheren.
HO. LEE. SHIT.
Cheren got fucking floorwiped. D8
And it’s official: White scares the shit out of me. ><;
I’m gonna fucken cry it’s actually going to happen this comic is going to mAKE ME CRY CHEREN BBY ;A;
gross sobbing poor cheren DNSIJFKQBEILA WHY THIS
oh my goodness Cheren you poor thing homg that is completely horrible match for you. D:
I guess we should congratulate White too, but homg Cheren.
I wondered about Cheren’s naming choices. I hope someone else got it first!
Yep. That last line did it for me. For a while now, I’ve been trying to remember who Cheren reminded me of. Now I’ve realized it. Eridan. Cheren is Eridan. Only Eridan curses like that.
howw could i be so fuckin wweak?
We got over that topic around the time you left, Giratina. It’s a dead topic. It shouldn’t be brought up again. I might trigger myself again…
excuse u
WHAT, SO I CAN’T MAKE COMPARISON’S ANY MORE?! FINE!!! *stomps off*
Derp. Kidding, if you couldn’t tell.
*Comparisons
Why would you stomp off if you can fly? *flies into the sun*
Yeah, my head-voice for Cheren suddenly acquired Eridan’s quirk on the last line.
Oh my, Cheren, poor baby. His breakdown’s faces are creepy as hell but I just want to hug him right now.
Remember the lines under his eyes are his glasses. At first i thought he had backs under his eyes from the stress.
I know, but it’s creepy regardless.
I greatly appreciate this character development.
You see, this is why I love fan works. They make us think about the characters in different ways. If it wasn’t for the Black Adventures comic then half of the people here wouldn’t really care about Cheren or think about pokemon battles having such ferocity. The comic lets us see the themes and characters in a different light when mixed with the authors own views, ones that give them much more depth. That’s why I love fan works.
Oh goddiglet, Cheren….White is mega awesome, I’ve been a fan this whole comic, but….THAT was harsh as all hell. Also, getting this sweet Megatokyo vibe off this, especially from Cheren. All of the sympathy.
Um… I don’t understand what you mean by that, and I’ve read some of Megatokyo. Did something happen to Piro or Largo?
11 hours of reading this comic and I’m finally here.
Worth it.
I hope Black says something like:”I’m sorry I wasn’t here to watch you lose,Cheren.”
Oh wow, even the way the battle ended reminded me of stadium: losing horribly in the semi-finals… and that face…. I hate that game… Stadium and Stadium 2….
Considering how fast White collected all the Gym badges it makes me wonder how she had time to do all this level grinding. I call hax
Poor Cheren :c She crushed him :c
Y0u know what th3y say: Those wh0 can’t f1ght, Teach. And if y0u don’t g3t it just wa1t two y3ar5~.
who else thinks cheren will go crazy and possibly join team plasma or something?
I think Cheren will have a breakdown, Black will come to comfort him, and Cheren will kiss him. I WANT TO BELIEVE.
I would feel bad if this wasn’t what 99% (including me) of Pokemon players do when they battle in the games.
Ohmai.
Cheren looks quite sexy here.
Artist!Black, I’m kind of curious…what are your thoughts on the whole pokemon universe in terms of fairness to the creatures in question? Do you think them battling is a good thing? Bad Thing? Is your opinion separate from the seeming ‘opinion’ of the comic? Or is this merely the dark edgey bit before the heroic truth later on?
Not gonna lie, I prefer human battles instead of pokemon battles. If the pokemon look too animal-like, then it just kinda looks like animal cruelty, and that’s more sad than humans getting hurt IMO;;
But in terms of fairness, I’m assuming the pokemon that battle do so because they want to, so I don’t think they’re being treated unjustly. That is, of course, if they’re not being forced to battle, but then trainers probably wouldn’t get very far if they had to force unwilling pokes to fight;;
This particular battle just looked so devastating because White’s pokemon were much stronger than Cheren’s, and isn’t that typical when you’re playing the game?
Yeah, Pokemon tend to self check the whole ‘cruel trainer’ thing don’t they? If said trainer doesn’t shape up, they tend to be so miserable for them the trainer just abandons them and moves on. Very passive aggressive, but it works
Side Note: Does anyone else wish that the games actually had a bit more effort/reward for making pokemon happy? And more ways they could be made unhappy so its actually a challenge? Hell, even a punishment for making them -really- unhappy (Shadow Pokemon anyone?) could/should be implemented too.
I do wish there more of an reward to it all as well. I would like more interaction between trainer and pokemon after all.
I feel for Cheren, but in the long run this may also end up badly for White: N dislikes her, Black didn’t take the news that his crush was su hermana all that well (to put it mildly), Cheren might end up resenting her for this, and if we go by game events Bianca will soon become professor Junipers assistant and too busy to hang out with her friends for some time. She’s still got Dirk, but White might end up completely isolated from all her old friends. As the new champion, she might really come to understand what it means to be “lonely at the top”.
i think you’re right, she could very well end up like Alder.
Am I the only one who’s been reading Cheren’s lines in the voice of Neji Hyuga?
Not that big of a Naruto fan, but still…
Aren’t White’s pokemon named after other pokemon character’s names in other languages?
D’:
Cheren better get a happy ending to this once the story is over!
… Am I the only one which’s mind was filled with the word “creepypasta” after reading this?
I cannot be the only one… right?
errrr… Roberta, Angelo and Teresa are all italian names, i never saw this set of names in an anime though