History Characters / PokemonAnimeAshandpikachu

* He also tackled Faba in ''Sun and Moon:Ultra Advendtures''. He had good reason, and it was amazing to see.

->'''Voiced in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Fábio Lucindo (Seasons 1-18), Charles Emmanuel (current)

** In ''[=JN040 =]'', he is able to send Team Rocket Blasting off out of the factory. However, you only see the blast off, and not the attack ash did that made it happen.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the start of ''[=JN039 =]'', he has managed to climb back up to Great Class in the Coronation Series.
** In ''[=JN040 =]'', he is able to sent Team Rocket Blasting off out of the factory. However, you only see the blast off, and not the attack ash did that made it happen.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the start of ''[=JN039 =]'',, he has managed to climg back up to Great Class.in the Coronation Series.

** In "Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages", Ash was put under the control by the fury of a Mythical Pokémon but both Pikachu and his Hoppa friend tried to reach out to him, which failed. However, Hoppa was able to free Ash free from the fury's control by calming it down.

** Ash is very fond of speed attacks, ranging from Quick Attack and variants like Aqua Jet and Accelrock to speed boosting moves like Flame Charge. They become a staple move of any Pokemon he has that possesses them, and a ''lot'' of Ash's Pokemon know these moves. [[note]]Specifically 14 of his Pokemon: Pikachu, Pidgeot, Cyndaquil, Sceptile, Swellow, Staraptor, and Unfeazant know Quick Attack with Greninja, as a side note, having tried to learn it, Buizel and Oshawott knowing Aqua Jet, Pignite, Talonflame, and Torracat knowing Flame Charge, Infernape knowing Mach Punch, and Lycanroc knowing Accelrock. While Greninja's Water Shuriken is a priority move in game, it is not counted in this list as does not have a speed effect to it the way the moves above do in the anime.[[/note]]

** In Battling the Enemy Within, Ash gets himself possessed by the spirit of an evil king but Brandon attempts to save him. Despite breaking free for a brief moment before the evil king possesses him again and Brandon won the battle, Ash was able to hear Pikachu calling out to him as he was able to fight back his possession long enough to get his partner to use Thunderbolt on him, which ultimately saved him from the spirit of the evil kings control and Brandon sealed it away.
** In Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, Ash was put under the control by the fury of a Mythical Pokémon but both Pikachu and his Hoppa friend tried to reach out to him, which failed. However, Hoppa was able to free Ash free from the fury's control by calming it down.
** In Coming Apart at the Dreams!, Ash was almost controlled by Team Flare, although his Greninja was attempted to as well, when the leader of the organization wanted to use him for their plans. However, Ash fought back through his willpower when he heard Pikachu's voice, even getting Greninja to the same.

** In Friends to the End, Ash was very upset when lost the Indigo League and accused Misty of calling him lazy, although she wasn't entirely wrong on that one. However, seeing and listing to Richie deal with his loses, Ash realized his bad behavior.
** In Turning Over A New Bayleef, after getting consistently tackled, Ash snapped at his Bayleef to get away and stay from him when she tried to approach him slowly. However, after a while, Ash noticed his Pokémon absence and went looking for her. Through the help of his friends, Ash realized that his harsh words were the reason that Bayleef left and felt awful for snapping at her. After finding her, Ash attempts to apologizes to Bayleef for his behavior but kept getting the silent treatment from her. However, Ash earned Bayleef forgiveness when she saw his attempts to save her from Team Rocket.
** In Brave the Wave!, after losing his Gym Battle against Brawly, Ash gets annoyed that he lost to a carefree Gym Leader as he thought he wasn't taking battling seriously. Also, Ash even get upset at his friends when they tried to help him then he ran off with Pikachu not far behind him. However, while walking with Pikachu, Ash not only realized that he really lost it towards his friends but also was wrong about Brawly and does know when to be a serious Gym Leader.

** In Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, Pikachu fell victim of Dr. Colress of Team Plasma experiment for a mind control device. However, Pikachu heard Ash's voice reaching out to him as it helped him break free from Dr. Colress control.
** In Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony! Pikachu was hit by Team Plasma perfected mind control device. Despite Ash's attempted get through to him, Pikachu wasn't able to hear his Trainer as he ended up knocking him out, which forced N to make a deal for his freedom. However, in the next episode, Pikachu was hit by the device once more but fought back as he not only used his electricity to help him resit the machine influences but also heard Ash, Axew, Cilan and Iris words of encouragement to keep fighting.
** In A Conspiracy to Conquer!, Pikachu was hypnotized by a rouge Malamar but heard Ash's voice and started fighting back his control.

* HeroicWillpower: Ash has extremely strong force of will as he would fight with all he had to protect the ones he loves. Also, Ash has use the same strong willpower to break free from the spirt of Pokélantis control and resisted Lysandre's control, even breaking free from Team Flare's restraints.

** In Battling the Enemy Within, Ash gets himself possessed by the spirit of an evil king but Brandon attempts to save him. Despite breaking free for a brief moment before the evil king possesses him again and Brandon won the battle, Ash was heard Pikachu calling out to him as he was able to fight back his possession long enough to get his partner to use Thunderbolt on him, which ultimately saved him freed from the spirit of the evil kings control and Brandon sealed it away.

** In Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, Pikachu fell victim of Dr. Colress of Team Plasma experiment for a mind control device. However, Pikachu heard Ash's voice reaching out to him as it helped him brake free from Dr. Colress control.

* BigBrotherInstinct: When it comes to younger and inexperienced Pokémon, Pikachu has taken on this role.

* ButNowIMustGo: Even after living happily with Kangaskhan and her baby, he decides to go his own way at the end of the flashback in the first episode of the 2019 series.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[DependingOnTheWriter While the level varies from series to series]], Ash is often depicted as clumsy and absent minded in spite of his competence.

* {{Adorkable}}: Pikachu often picks up some of Ash's silly or clumsy habits. He is also ''extremely adorable.''

** When it came time to prepare for the Indigo Plateau, [[TheSlacker Ash looked for every excuse under the sun to avoid training.]] He'd even use Pokémon who he'd never used in a battle before like Krabby and Muk. This is far cry from the later seasons, where both he and his Pokémon have a passion for training and coming up with new strategies.

** He's normally Badass, winning major battles quite often. He won Ash's battles against Lt. Surge, Whitney (against THAT Miltank, though not at first), Pryce (via a forfeit), Roxanne, Wattson (that was a CurbStompBattle), Tate and Liza, Juan, Burgh, Elesa, Roxie, Trip, Viola, Grant, Korrina, Totem Gumshoos, Hala, Mimikyu (as part of the Thrifty Megamart trial), Hapu, and Guzma, let alone the fact he contributed to the wins against many other Gym Leaders, Totem matches, and League Matches with knock-outs. [[spoiler: He notably took down two of the three Pokemon in Ash's league victory in Alola, along with finishing off the exhibition battle against Professor Kukui and Tapu Koko]].

** He's normally Badass, winning major battles quite often. He won Ash's battles against Lt. Surge, Whitney (against THAT Miltank, though not at first) Roxanne, Wattson (that was a CurbStompBattle), Tate and Liza, Juan, Burgh, Elesa, Roxie, Trip, Viola, Grant, Korrina, Totem Gumshoos, Hala, Hapu, and Guzma let alone the fact he contributed to the wins against many other Gym Leaders, Totem matches, and League Matches with knock-outs. [[spoiler: He notably took down two of the three Pokemon in Ash's league victory in Alola]].

** Thoroughly averted in ''XY'', where he comes off as rational and inquisitive. He has a typical knowledge on his surroundings, and when he has no idea about something, he makes it a point to learn about it. He retains some comical naiveté and obliviousness, though it's more a case of BookDumb.

** In [=SS022=], after Go decides that he'll leave Raboot behind in the Hoenn reason. Ash states, in a ''very cold tone of voice'' that while he will accept Go's decision if he's serious, he then asks if Go asked ''Raboot'' about it.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Revealed to be Gigantamax-capable, doing so for the first time in episode 13 of the seventh series.

* NewFriendEnvy: In SS030, Ash begins to neglect him in favor of Riolu, which eventually results in Pikachu running away for a while.

** Recent beginnings downplay this. The beginning of the Kalos anime pitted him against the Ground-type Bunnelby, but he still handled Team Rocket fairly easily. The Alola anime showed him and Ash having difficulty with some sample competitions, but they were nothing like actual Pokémon battles. And in the ''Sword and Shield'' anime, he still could easily beat Team Rocket single-handedly despite them having a revolving-door of mix-and-match mook Pokémon at their disposal, and only had slight difficulty with Scorbunny due to unfamiliarity before ultimately beating it easily.

** Zigzagged in the first episode of the 2019 series, exploring his past -- he evolved from a Pichu to a Pikachu in the wild, but cannot be older than 4 to 5 years old in the present day.

*** Mimey and Delia both seem to be in no danger from his shocking either. In ''The Dream Continues!'', Mimey ''actually holds Pikachu in his hands and swings him up and down like a baby in a swing'' and there's nary a spark! He also gets thunderbolted by Pikachu in SS034, and is completely unharmed by it. Delia, of course, is Ash's mother, so she's safe regardless of anything.

** Don't treat Pokémon like shit in front of him.

** In "Brave The Wave," Ash acts like a SoreLoser after losing to Brawly and angrily tells Brock to shut up when the latter tries to give him advice.

** With the Generation VIII anime, it's getting worse. In episode [=SS002=], his room has a shelf with many of his badges from previous series, including the trophies for winning the Orange League (Orange Islands) and the Manalo Conference (Alola), and badges from every region ''plus the Kanto Battle Frontier''. That's an awful lot of stuff having been done ''all allegedly at the age of ten''. The Japanese narrator even outright states in [=SS001=] that he and Pikachu have had "many aventures" together to that point.

* DeadpanSnarker: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Especially in the older episodes]], but it seems to have gone away in more recent seasons.

* DenserAndWackier: Played straight in ''Best Wishes'' where he gained a more bumbling personality and randomly lost most of his battle experience. Zigzagged for ''Sun and Moon'' thus far. While he's more hyperactive and comical personality wise, he retains a lot of his competence and knowledge from the previous regions and even shows a similar degree of insight as his more serious ''XY'' incarnation. ''Journeys'' seems to lean closer to his depiction in ''Sun and Moon'', but also brings back some of the seriousness he had in ''XY''.

** In the new series, he helps a Dragonair [[DreamCrushingHandicap who can't fly]] to learn the necessary move by using Pikachu's Electroweb as a trampoline. He predicatly shocks himself and Drgonair, but in the end it does the trick and the Dragonair learns Dragon Dance to fly.

* MessiahCreep: When the series started, Ash was far more flawed and bull headed, and often fell into standard childish impulses like being arrogant or throwing tantrums. As the show progressed, he slowly matured into a NiceGuy with a more serious and insightful attitude, to the point that by ''XY'' he is nothing short of TheAce, idolized by most of the cast, with barely any of his former flaws still coming back to bite him. ''Sun and Moon'' dialed him back into a far more comedic and childlike character, though still keeps the majority of his NiceGuy characterization to maintain CharacterDevelopment.

** In [=SS034=], he's noticeably more cocky and arrogant due to [[spoiler:his winning streak]]. Losing to Bea quickly snaps him out of this.

** In [=SS022=], after Go decides that he'll leave Raboot behind in the Hoenn reason. Ash states, in a ''very cold tone of voice'' that while he while he will accept Go's decision if he's serious, he then asks if Go asked ''Raboot'' about it.
** In [=SS034=], he's noticeably more cocky and arrogant due to [[spoiler:his winning streak]]. Losing to Bea qucikly snaps him out of this.

* MotiveDecay: Originally, he wanted to catch every Pokémon there is. Now he is just bent on being a great trainer and having adventures with his friends. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, since catching too many Pokémon brings a lot of problems to a show that focuses on the character development of the human cast ''and'' their Pokémon they ''carry'' with them. A more extreme example happens in ''Journeys'', where Ash doesn't even display a interest in challenging Galar's Pokémon League and gyms, instead deciding to compete in the World Coronation Series championship.

* MotiveDecay: Originally, he wanted to catch every Pokémon there is. Now he is just bent on being a great trainer and having adventures with his friends. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, since catching too many Pokémon brings a lot of problems to a show that focuses on the character development of the human cast ''and'' their Pokémon they ''carry'' with them. By the time of ''Journeys'', he doesn't even display a interest in challenging Galar's Pokémon League and gyms, instead deciding to compete in the World Coronation Series championship.

** In [=SS034=], he's noticeably more cocky and arrogant due to [[spoiler:his winning streak]].

* BrattyHalfPint: Acts like this in the first episode. He was disobedient, lazy, and openly mocked Ash whenever Ash made a mistake as a trainer. After Ash attempted to save it from a flock of Spearow, Pikachu came to Ash's rescue and mellowed out since then.

** While still a main character, he received less attention in the XY series in comparrison to the Froakie family.

*** Mimey and Delia both seem to be in no danger from his shocking either. In ''The Dream Continues!'', Mimey ''actually holds Pikachu in his hands and swings him up and down like a baby in a swing'' and there's nary a spark! Delia, of course, is Ash's mother, so she's safe regardless of anything.

* TheLeader: He is essentially the leader of his group of friends in every installment of the series, since they are accompanying him on his journey, and from Hoenn onward, he sometimes provides guidance and mentorship to his female companions who are just starting their journeys. His male traveling companions, though usually older and wiser, have more of a TeamDad role in the group. Ash's leadership skills develop over the course of the series, to the point where it's more obvious than ever in the XY series that he's the one calling the shots. ''Sun and Moon'' downplays this due to the standstill format and Ash's more pronounced FishOutOfWater status, with him often willing to follow the direction of peers, though when situations become more serious he is still often the most fluent leading the others.

* MotiveDecay: Originally, he wanted to catch every Pokémon there is. Now he is just bent on being a great trainer and having adventures with his friends. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, since catching too many Pokémon brings a lot of problems to a show that focuses on the character development of the human cast ''and'' their Pokémon they ''carry'' with them.

* DenserAndWackier: Played straight in ''Best Wishes'' where he gained a more bumbling personality and randomly lost most of his battle experience. Zigzagged for ''Sun and Moon'' thus far. While he's more hyperactive and comical personality wise, he retains a lot of his competence and knowledge from the previous regions and even shows a similar degree of insight as his more serious ''XY'' incarnation.

* DumbassNoMore: He was, to put it bluntly, an immature IdiotHero in the first season. Beginning with Orange Islands, he began to show more maturity and skill, and from ''Advanced Generation'' onward [[note]] aside from ''Best Wishes'', where he regressed and TookALevelInDumbass [[/note]], he's merely been [[HotBlooded reckless]] and occasionally naive, to the point that by ''XY'' it's inaccurate to call him an idiot at all. ''Sun and Moon'' zigzags this, since while he is more outwardly buffoonish again, a lot of his insight and competence remains [[LetsGetDangerous during serious situations]], making him more a CloudCuckooLander than an IdiotHero.