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[-'''Pokémon Family Species:''' [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies Gen I]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Bulbasaur to Parasect]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVenonatToCloyster Venonat to Cloyster]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIGastlyToMiltank Gastly to Miltank]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIMagikarpToMew Magikarp to Mew]] [[[Characters/PokemonMewDuo Mew Duo]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIFamilies Gen II]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIChikoritaToGranbull Chikorita to Granbull]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIQwilfishToCelebi Qwilfish to Celebi]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIFamilies Gen III]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys Wailmer to Deoxys]] [[[Characters/PokemonWeatherTrio Weather Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Gen IV]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVTurtwigToBronzong Turtwig to Bronzong]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVChatotToArceus Chatot to Arceus]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVFamilies Gen V]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Victini to Zoroark]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Minccino to Genesect]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIFamilies Gen VI]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha Chespin to Hawlucha]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIDedenneToVolcanion Dedenne to Volcanion]] [[[Characters/PokemonAuraTrio Aura Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIFamilies Gen VII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIRowletToComfey Rowlet to Comfey]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIOranguruToMelmetal Oranguru to Melmetal]] [[[Characters/PokemonCosmogLine Cosmog Line]] / [[Characters/PokemonNecrozma Necrozma]]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraBeasts Ultra Beasts]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Gen VIII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIGrookeyToHatterene Grookey to Hatterene]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIImpidimpToCalyrex Impidimp to Calyrex]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGlitches Glitches]]\\
'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ([[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | '''Elite Four''' | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
'''[[Characters/PokemonVillainTeams Pokémon Villain Teams]]:''' [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamRocket Team Rocket]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamAquaMagma Team Aqua/Magma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamGalactic Team Galactic]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamPlasma Team Plasma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamFlare Team Flare]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamSkull Team Skull]] / [[Characters/PokemonTeamYell Team Yell]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])\\
[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]
The Elite Four are trainers of the highest caliber in the region. Traditionally, the player has to face all four of them back to back without going back to a Pokémon Center to heal them (though items can be used during challenges). Much like Gym Leaders, they usually use Pokémon of a certain type. [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Defeating them, however, isn't the last hurdle to becoming a Pokémon champion]]. Rather, next the player must face [[Characters/PokemonChampions the champion]]...
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[[folder:The Elite Four in general]]
* AllPowerfulBystander: They generally stay out of the way of the main plot, even when it would be good for them to get involved.
** If you talk to Marshal after you beat him in ''B/W'', he mentions that Alder ordered them to be neutral. This is also discussed in Gen I and the remakes, where a hopeful kid says "wouldn't it be cool if the Elite Four came here and kicked Team Rocket's butt?" Naturally, they never do and you have to do the dirty work yourself.
** Lorelei does return to the Sevii Islands to help defend a cave from Team Rocket in the postgame of the remakes. Some dialogue in ''FR/LG'' implies that she's left her post to defend the island in the future afterwards.
** Malva takes it to a new level in that [[spoiler:''she was a member of Team Flare'']].
** The Alolan Elite Four [[spoiler:isn't formed until after you beat the villainous team, but Hala is seen partnering with Tapu Koko to fight an Ultra Beast unleashed by Lusamine]].
** Averted in ''Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee'', where Lorelei fights off a trio of Rocket grunts that try to gang up on the player character, and Blue later mentions he intends to call on Kanto's Elite Four, if necessary, to help get rid of Team Rocket.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Toughest trainers in the region. The games that feature them in sequential arrangements (from ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' on) also further exploit this trope by having members of the Elite Four that come later in sequence almost always specialize in types that are weak to or resisted by preceding members, and therefore implying them to be even more badass: Will's Psychic specialty precedes Koga's Poison, Glacia's Ice Pokémon are followed by Drake's dragons, Flint's Fire types come after Bertha's Ground types, ''etc.''
* BadassCrew: Though they never fight together, they're the toughest trainers you can fight, at least until the postgame; even after, they tend to be the among the toughest.
* BossBonanza: They're all in the one location. From Gen I-IV, they're fought one after another in a set order, and from ''Black and White'' onwards, you can fight them in any order as their levels are all the same, though you fight the Champion after dealing with all four.
* BossCorridor: From Gen I-IV, you walk between the rooms they're in. This was stopped from Gen V onwards, but returns with a vengeance in ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.''
* DareToBeBadass: Their mere existence basically serves as this to all trainers in their region, as beating them and then the Champion is seen as one of the hardest things to do, and for good reason.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Your end goal is to do this to them.
* EliteFour: The trope namer. They're not bad guys, but excluding the Champion, there are always four. No more, no less. Their Japanese name even uses the traditional name ''Shitennō'' (四天王) to reflect this.
* FloralThemeNaming: Kalos's and Alola's Elite Four members all reference flowering plants in their names.
* GracefulLoser: They always lose with dignity. The closest that they get to anger at you is disbelief.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', the Galar region does not have an Elite Four. Instead, it has a Champion Cup where the Player Character has to fight two of their rivals (Marnie and Hop) in the Semifinal Round (plus an interruption by Bede); three gym leaders in the Final Round; and then the Champion, Leon.
* TheNotableNumeral: The Elite ''Four''.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The Unova Elite Four reveal that they aren't actually allowed to interfere with challengers outside of their assigned battles. Not even the king of Team Plasma openly announcing that he'll use the champion title for his own agenda is enough to make them break this code.
* PersonalityPowers: Most tend to behave in relation to their types, but there are exceptions.
* PreFinalBoss: The final Elite Four member is the last thing standing in the way of the player and the Champion, though starting with Generation V this isn't set in stone since the player no longer has to face the Elite Four in a predetermined order.
* SequentialBoss: Four in a row, followed by the Champion. In ''Black and White'', this gets taken UpToEleven as you take on the Elite Four, then the legendary, then N, and then Ghetsis.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Karen in Gen II's Elite Four, and Bertha in Gen IV's. Inverted in Gen VII, with Hala (in the original ''Sun and Moon'') or Molayne (in ''Ultra Sun and Moon'') as the only male.
* ThresholdGuardians: They act as the final obstacles between a trainer and Champion.
* TookALevelInBadass: An integrated mechanic, appearing in ''Fire Red/Leaf Green'', ''Platinum'', ''Heart Gold/Soul Silver'', ''Black/White'', ''Black 2/White 2'', ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire'', and ''Sun/Moon'', which can take quite a few new players off guard. The Elite Four's level will often rise from anywhere between 15-20 levels depending on the generation, with more powerful Pokémon in place of weaker ones. Additionally, owing to the Pokédex being upgraded, they can use Pokémon that aren't normally in that region.
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!Indigo Elite Four I
[[folder:Lorelei ''[-(Kanna)-]'']]
!!Lorelei / Kanna (カンナ ''kanna'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_lorelei.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/EricaLindbeck (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/LaurenLanda ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Serika Hiromatsu ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Your Pokémon will be at my mercy when they are frozen solid!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original games and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', her hair is red; it's sandy blonde in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and purple in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''.
* AdaptationNameChange: She's referred to as Prima in the anime's English dub in order to match the number of syllables that her Japanese name has.
* AdaptationalModesty:
** In ''Let's Go'' and ''Adventures'', her skirt reaches to her knees, while in other installments it's a fair few inches shorter.
** ''Let's Go'' adds pantyhose to her outfit, though, given she's an Ice-type specialist and a MsFanservice, this is likely more a case of practicality than modesty on her part.
* AdjustingYourGlasses: Lorelei does this immediately before the battle begins in ''Let's Go''.
* TheBaroness: Lorelei is a downplayed sexpot--she's an IceQueen MsFanservice that specializes in a StatusInflictionAttack that leaves the victim helpless and forced to endure whatever hard-hitting moves she throws at them, which is something she boasts about.
* BashBrothers: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', just before entering Rock Tunnel, she assists you in scaring off Team Rocket goons; she fights three of them at once, and if their quotes after the battle are any indication, they couldn't even ''touch'' her.
* CallForward: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lorelei has vanished from the Elite Four without a word of notice. In the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', optional dialog following her DayInTheLimelight has her pondering if remaining with the Elite Four means she's neglecting her island home, floating a possible reason for her to leave the Elite Four in the first place.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lorelei has mellowed out fairly substantially over the years.
** While she was a haughty IceQueen in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Gen III remakes give her a sympathetic devotion to her Four Island home, tones down her loss quote from "[[WhoDares How dare you?]]" to "[[ThisCannotBe ...Things shouldn't be this way!]]", and demotes half of the exclamation points in her opening speech to mere periods.
** The ''Let's Go'' remakes give her some of her exclamation points back, but also give her another heroic moment by having her appear to engage in a BashBrothers takedown of some Team Rocket thugs with the player character and turn her thereby into a friendly acquaintance of the player's.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The first part of the ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' postgame serves as this for her. We get to visit her home on Four Island, help her take down Team Rocket, and see where she got her Lapras.
** She makes a brief solo appearance in Gen VII to help you take down a few Team Rocket mooks. They were trying to take you on 4v1; she takes on three of them herself so you can take the last one down.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution:
** While Lorelei and Karen both entered the series wearing a LittleBlackDress, their fashion sense has diverged sharply in the years since.
** Will's SharpDressedMan sensibilities were a short sidestep from LadyInAPowerSuit Lorelei, but he has since become TheDandy.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Misty is said to admire her.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies[=/=]GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Her Four Island home is full of them. She adds 1 plushie to the collection for every 25 times you enter the Hall of Fame. She stops after your 200th Hall of Fame induction because then it's just getting stupid.
* ExposedToTheElements: Lorelei's room is filled with ice tiles, ice pillars, or both, depending on what version of the Kanto games you happen to be playing, but despite her generally light outfit and usually bare legs, she seems quite cozy. This is most apparent in Gen I when her bare-legged battle sprite indicates she's ''kneeling directly on the ice''.
* ExtraOredinary: In ''Let's Go!'' she acquires the part-Steel-type Alolan Sandslash.
* FunetikAksent: She's called Olga in the French version, and she's got the Russian accent to match, pronouncing her S sounds as Z's, at least one T as D, and her EvilLaugh right before the battle... rather oddly.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', Lorelei almost always appears riding on her StockNessMonster Lapras, both near Rock Tunnel and in her personal room at the Indigo League. Given Lapras is her SignatureMon, she may also ride it as a BeastOfBattle.
* HotTeacher: In adaptations. In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Lorelei appears in the Orange Islands to give a lecture and demonstration on pokémon battling, while in ''Manga/PocketMonsters'' she actually disguises herself as a teacher and gives Red exams at her school.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IllGirl: In ''Masters'', she tells the player she had a weak constitution as a child and had to force herself to remain at home until she got better, which took a long time. During then, she had a Lapras plushie that, to this day, she treasures and often appears in her dreams.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Inverted. She routinely wears short skirts to show that ShesGotLegs, which doesn't seem to be the wisest choice for an Ice-type specialist. ''Let's Go'' gives her pantyhose, which could feasibly be said to warm her legs up, even if only a little.
* KillItWithIce: Downplayed. Lorelei boasts that her pokémon will freeze the player's solid, and in remakes is more than willing to directly threaten Team Rocket {{Mook}}s with being frozen solid.
* LadyOfWar: She is regarded in-game for her logical, cool, and calculating style of battling.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: Lorelei's jacket and skirt from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' came to the core series with a PaletteSwap in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and Lorelei's sprites from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] show her in the same. While her jacket was lost in the Gen III remakes, her ''Let's Go'' design emphasizes the full ensemble.
* LonelyDollGirl: In ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'', Lorelei is revealed to live alone on Four Island in a house filled with dolls. As an EasterEgg, a new doll will be added to her collection for every twenty-five times (up to a total of two hundred) that the Elite Four is defeated.
* MakingASplash: Though she's officially an Ice-type master, she uses a lot of Water-types too, with most of her Ice-types being part Water. Her Slowbro isn't even an Ice-type.
* MeaningfulName:
** Lorel'''ei''' pronounced like the I in "ice." Lorelei is also the name of a siren said to lure sailors to their deaths.
** '''Kan''''na contains a homonym for a reading of the kanji meaning "cold".
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow, but they have high defenses and offenses.
* MinidressOfPower: Lorelei has always worn one, starting with a LittleBlackDress in Gen 1, but transitioning to a sleeveless top and miniskirt combo in Gen 3. Her ''Let's Go'' outfit gives her a skirt and jacket combo that takes a few notes from her appearance in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''.
* MostCommonSuperpower: She's seriously stacked in the anime, and is in the ranking for one of the bustiest characters in the franchise. In her brief appearances, she is played for [[MsFanservice fanservice]], particularly in ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''.
* PersonalityPowers: Rest assured, this IceQueen is AnIcePerson.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears toast-colored tights as part of her Generation VII outfit.
* PsychicPowers: Has the part Psychic-type Jynx.
* PsychoticSmirk: Lorelei is capable of some sinister smiles in her ''Let's Go'' pre-battle dialog and battle introduction.
* PutOnABus:
** She will disappear to Four Island after you first defeat the Elite Four. You need to visit her and complete a small side quest in order for her to return; without her, the Elite Four refuse to accept your challenge.
** She isn't present in any games outside of Kanto, not even in the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships]]. Unlike Agatha, who could be excused through her advanced age, Lorelei's absence is a mystery.
* RegalRinglets: In ''Pokémon Generations'', Lorelei's ponytail is a very thick curl, but extends to the same length as her usual straight ponytail, giving her downplayed RapunzelHair.
* RuleOfSexy: How is she not freezing sitting in a cold room while wearing a miniskirt?!
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Downplayed. In her battle sprites from Gen I and Gen III (and Gen II prototypes), her glasses are opaque and cannot be seen through.
* ShesGotLegs: Even in her first appearance, her miniskirt had a slit to highlight them.
* SignatureMon:
** In the games, her [[StockNessMonster Lapras]], reflecting her icy but caring demeanor and dual-focus on Ice and Water.
** The anime and manga adaptation put the focus on her [[MightyGlacier Cloyster]] instead. Notably, she's had a Cloyster on every single team she's used in the games.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Lorelei's personal room is usually filled with ice.
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Battling with her can soft-lock the game in ''Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. In Generation I, opponents do not deplete PP, and because Lorelei leads with a Dewgong which knows Rest and the way "smart" AI works, it's possible for the player to get locked in an endless battle with her by using Rage, which ''also'' has a lot of weird mechanics in Gen I. This was fixed in ''Yellow'' with a special check for whether the opponent is Lorelei's Dewgong, in which case, a different pattern is used; this applies only to her Dewgong and no other opponent. It was more properly fixed in later generations.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
See his folder in Indigo Elite Four II below.
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[[folder:Agatha ''[-(Kikuko)-]'']]
!!Agatha / Kikuko (キクコ ''kikuko'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_agatha.png]]
->Voiced by: Hisako Kyouda (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Ellyn Stern (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshino Ootori ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"[[HelloInsertNameHere Player]]! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: in the original games (and ''Stadium'') her hair was gray, but later changes to graying blonde in the remakes. Also, the only time she appears in the anime, her hair was pure blond.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to ''Pokémon Masters'', Professor Oak was this to her during their youth. No matter how many times she challenged him to a Pokémon Battle, she could never defeat him.
* AmazonBrigade: Her original Elite Four team in ''FRLG'' is all-female, but the rematch team is all-male.
* ArtificialStupidity: In her ''Red'' and ''Blue'' battle, all of her Ghost-type pokémon know the same four moves--Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Hypnosis, and Dream Eater-- except for her final Gengar, which trades Hypnosis for Toxic. Without Hypnosis, Dream Eater is completely useless, leaving it with a completely wasted slot.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Implied between her and Professor Oak. In her own words, "that old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago."
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Agatha provides a template that numerous characters deliberately contrast with--Karen, Phoebe, Fantina, and Shauntal are all younger and prettier than her, for starters.
* CoolOldLady: Slightly abrasive but she still counts.
* CreepyCemetery: Her battlefield in the first generation games is apparently her own personal ''graveyard'', complete with the soundtrack from Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower. This would be downplayed in remakes, down to a few large tombstones in FRLG and some spooky obelisks or pylons in LGPE. It's unknown whether she has any connection to the Tower besides sharing the motif.
* CreepyHousekeeper: She's an older woman with an apron, and specializes in the Ghost type.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She goes into her backstory about her and Samuel Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she reveals that she preferred to keep to herself to contemplate while Oak would attempt to be sociable with her. Over time she gradually warmed up to him, partially through her battles with him which caused her to respect the future professor and his unbeatable battle record. She describes this is one of the reasons she resents the professor so much in the main games when he stopped battling to focus on research. She also warms up to the player and claims her Gengar brings this out in her as well.
* GreenThumb: In ''Stadium'', both of her teams have a Venusaur.
* HairTriggerTemper: An [=NPC=] in Gen III remarks that it doesn't take much to make her angry. [[InformedAttribute Not that you get to see for yourself.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Given that she uses a walking stick.
* MeaningfulName: '''Aga'''tha sounds similar to "aghast", and if you're feeling mean to the old lady, "hag".
* MythologyGag: In ''Pokemon Masters'', Professor Oak battles her Gengar with a Nidorino, directly recreating the opening cutscene of ''Pokémon Red''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She may be old, but she's still very capable of kicking your ass. ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' add flavor text that state she's the oldest Elite Four member to ever join the group, at least in the Indigo League. Bertha, who may or may not be her sister, is around her age and is a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
* PlayingWithFire: For her ''Let's Go!'' rematch, she has the part Fire-type Alolan Marowak.
* PoisonousPerson:
** Her official main type is Ghost, but due to the sparse population of Ghost-types in the first gen., she fills out her roster with monsters of the Poison-type, which is the secondary type of the Gastly evo. line. Even in remakes that give her more Ghost-types to work with, she'll keep her Arbok and Golbat (or Crobat) in rematches.
** In ''Let's Go Pikachu'' and ''Let's Go Eevee'', her Haunter is replaced by a Weezing, meaning only two of her five Pokémon in her initial match are actually Ghost-type, both of which are Gengar.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Arrogantly sniffs that Oak is a shadow of his former self and that Pokémon are for battling, not researching.
* PutOnABus: Like Lorelei, she disappears after any Kanto-based games, not even reappearing for the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships.]]
* TheQuietOne: By her own admission in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', while people like Professor Oak thrive in the company of others, she prefers solitude so that she may contemplate to herself.
* RecurringElement: The first in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* TheRival: Gen III has it said she and Professor Oak were rivals in their younger days.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Gengar]], suitable for her love of crippling status moves.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type user.
* StatusInflictionAttack: By nature of being a Ghost-type specialist, she relies on a lot of status ailment moves like Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, and Toxic.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four in Generation II games or their remakes, but her absence is unexplained. She's only to be found in a certain photograph with Oak and Kurt.
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[[folder:Lance ''[-(Wataru)-]'']]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonChampions.
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!Indigo Elite Four II
[[folder:Will ''[-(Itsuki)-]'']]
!!Will / Itsuki (イツキ ''itsuki'')
[[quoteright:207:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_hgss.png]]
->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/HirofumiNojima ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I have trained all around the world, making my psychic Pokémon powerful."''
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* AgentPeacock: He look and acts a bit foppish, but he's still a powerful trainer.
* AmazonBrigade: All of his Pokémon in the remakes are female.
* BadassBookworm: He may be the warmup boss, but he's still capable of giving you a thrashing if you make a mistake.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: As the first encounter in the Elite Four and with a team that has both a Slowbro and a Jynx on it, Will is a fairly blatant riff on Lorelei, focusing instead on the Psychic-type they share rather than the mixed Water-Ice milieu of Lorelei's team.
* CoolMask: Wears a DominoMask over his eyes.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Evidence strongly suggests Will began life as a quickly revamped Lorelei--as of Gen IV, however, he's come solidly into his own.
** As per ContrastingSequelAntagonist, Will's team uses Lorelei's Slowbro and Jynx as a springboard from Water and Ice to a Psychic type specialty.
** A comparison of Will's Gen II battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] indicates Will's head was originally an edit of Lorelei's, replacing her ScaryShinyGlasses with an IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery but keeping the same big forelock; the rest of Will's body is a sidestep from Lorelei's LadyInAPowerSuit to SharpDressedMan.
** Will's remake design changes him from a SharpDressedMan to TheDandy and gives him a few elements of a StageMagician, and even removes Lorelei's leftover sheets of ice from his room.
* HiddenEyes: His mask conceals his eyes in various sprites and artwork.
* MeaningfulName: Will is short for William, which is derived ultimately from ''Wilhelm'', a name intuitively composed of two roots that really do mean "will" and "helm"--this name is a surprisingly good fit for a psychic specialist who wears a heavy facial covering.
* MistakenForTerrorist: In ''Pokémon Masters'', since members of Team Break's only form of a unifying costume is their domino masks, Will comments that he has been mistaken for a member of the group on multiple occasions, much to his annoyance.
* PsychicPowers: Psychic-type specialist.
* PunnyName: Many of Will's Western names are obvious riffs on words related to will and the mind.
** '''Will'''power.
** His German name is Willi, from "wille" (will).
** His Spanish name is Mento, from "mente" (mind).
** His French name is Clément, from "mental".
** His Italian name is Pino, from the prefix "ipno-" (hypno-).
* PurpleIsPowerful: He has purple-hued hair and clothing, ranking among the Elite Four as well.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld:
** His room is filled with a sheet of ice in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', possibly indicating that he just took over Lorelei's spot.
** Averted in the Gen IV VideoGameRemake, where the motif of his room is completely revamped.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Xatu]], symbolizing his love of Psychic-types for their mystical powers.
* SquishyWizard: As you'd expect from someone specializing in Psychics, most of his team has great Special stats and varying Speed, but poor physical stats.
* StageMagician: Seems to be his visual theme. His battle animation in the Gen II remakes (where he makes two Poké Balls appear from nowhere just by clapping his hands) bolsters this theory. His appearance in Pokémon Masters definitely runs with this theme as he enjoys engaging in showmanship to excite the crowds.
* TheStoic: His characterization in ''Stadium 2'', where he puts up a serious face and frequently speaks in ellipses.
* SuddenlyBlonde: He has always had purple hair in artwork, but his Generation II sprite has red hair due to the palette limitations of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor.
* ToBeAMaster: He's not merely content with joining the Elite Four, but wants to push himself further until he is the best trainer in the world.
* WalkingTheEarth: Claims to have done this to train all over the world.
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[[folder:Koga ''[-(Kyō)-]'']]
!!Koga / Kyō (キョウ ''kyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/ChristopherBevins ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ToruOkawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless. Despair to the creeping horror of Poison-type Pokémon!"''
Originally the Fuchsia Gym Leader in ''Red'', ''Blue'', ''Yellow'', ''[=FireRed=]'', and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', Koga moves to the Elite Four in the Johto games, with his daughter Janine taking his previous position.
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%%* ActionDad: Of Janine.
* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His Bug-types get pretty big.
* CombatMedic: As a master of poison techniques, he also has a large amount of knowledge over medicine and apparently heals his Pokémon with concoctions of his own.
* CompositeCharacter: With ''himself''; that is, his anime counterpart. In the original Gen I games, Koga used Weezing and Muk and their evolutionary relatives. Then the anime depicted him with a Venomoth, which carried over to ''Yellow'' by replacing his entire team with three Venonats and a Venomoth. Thus in the two ''Stadium'' games and in the Gen II games and their remakes, Koga has several Bug-types on his team while still being a Poison-type specialist.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Skuntank on Koga's rematch team in the remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' knows Dig, which will not only give it a decent attacking option but briefly sends it underground to help it avoid most attacks and stall while its Toxic causes DamageOverTime. At the same time, Dig opens it up to retaliation by Earthquake, which not only does double-damage to Skuntank as a Poison-type but doubles damage against underground enemies as well.
* EvilLaugh: While he's not really evil, he mostly does this to look intimidating to the player.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: An acute example. Despite Kanto (as well as Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh) being a Fantasy Counterpart for a region of Japan, in ''Masters'' he's the only character who affects a Japanese accent (likely due to appearing as a stereotypical Ninja). This is especially noticeable because his Ninja daughter Janine does not have the accent.
* TheMaze: Back when he was a Gym Leader, he used an invisible maze in his Gym to force the player into Pokémon battles while walking around. The maze itself isn't 100% invisible, but can mess with players who don't look too closely.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the '''Koga'''-ryu school of ninjutsu.
* MightyGlacier: His multiple Koffing and signature Weezing in ''RBGY'' and their remakes. ''Yellow'' replaces them with the more squishy Venonat and Venomoth, respectively.
* {{Ninja}}: His motif, and self-declared as one. He comes from a long line of ninjas, hundreds of years in fact, and possesses several fantasy ninja abilities such as being able to seemingly teleport, disguise himself in an instant, and even seemingly create copies of himself. Its unclear if these are actual superhuman powers like Sabrina's psychic abilities, or some kind of highly advanced trickery.
* TheOneGuy: The only male Poison-type specialist.
* PassingTheTorch: To his daughter Janine after he ascended to the Elite Four.
* PoisonousPerson: Uses Poison-types.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He cripples foes with his mastery of Poison-type Pokémon (with the type generally being depicted with purple coloration), and is one of few Poison-type specialists to have ascended to the status of Elite Four.
* {{Sadist}}: Possibly with the way he talks of enjoying poison's effects on enemies.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a scarf and [[TookALevelInBadass went from Gym Leader to a member of the Elite Four.]]
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Koga favors different Pokémon in different contexts, most of which have an at least mild association with his ninja motif.
** In the first generation games, his most powerful was [[MightyGlacier Weezing]], while ''Yellow'' gave him a team with a handful of Venonat and one [[SquishyWizard Venomoth]] to reflect his Venonat's mid-battle evolution in the anime.
** During his anime rematch, however, he used a [[FragileSpeedster Golbat]] instead, and during his tenure as Elite Four in all games featuring Johto, his finisher is [[FragileSpeedster Crobat]], which is carried over to ''Pokémon Masters''.
** Ironically, the unsung hero of his team is ''Muk'', which has been on literally every team of his except for his Round 2 bout in ''Stadium 2''... and apparently someone on the ''Let's Go'' staff realized it, as his rematch team's Muk is his final and highest-level Pokémon.
* StatusInflictionAttack: As both a Poison-type master and a Ninja, he specializes in subversive and tricky battling styles. This translates to relying on status ailments and other status moves like Disable, Double Team, and Spikes.
* TakingYouWithMe: He uses a Weezing, sometimes as his last Pokémon. The AI is not averse to using Explosion if this is the case. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard This results in the player losing if their last Pokémon faints.]] He will do this regardless of what you have out, so you could get some laughs out of the AI using Explosion against your [[NoSell Gastly]], against whom the only effect will be his Weezing fainting.
* ThemeNaming: With his daughter in the Japanese version.
* ThresholdGuardians: As a Gym Leader in Kanto, Koga gives out the Soul Badge, which authorizes the player to use Surf, which opens up access to Cinnabar Island and the latter part of the path to Victory Road.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In ''Yellow'', his final Pokémon is a level 50 Venomoth. This is quite the leap compared to the original where his strongest Pokémon was a level 43 Weezing. The rest of his team also are Level 44, 46 and 48, even if they're just Venonats.
** From Gym Leader in Gen I/III to Elite Four in Gen II/IV.
** Takes another one in ''Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'' where his Pokémon are equal to Sabrina's at Level 43 and his ace Pokémon Venomoth is at Level 44, the same level as her Alakazam. But in order to challenge his Gym, players will have to had caught 50 different species of Pokémon compared to Sabrina's 45 level or higher Pokémon requirement, meaning that his challenge is supposed to be more difficult. This is a [[ContinuityNod reference]] to the fact that Koga is above Will in the Johto series of the games despite Will having a type advantage over him.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
!!Bruno / Siba (シバ ''shiba'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/TakanoriHoshino (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Bill Rogers (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Jiro Saito (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"I always train to the extreme because I believe in our potential. That is how we became strong."''
Uniquely, Bruno serves on both the Gen I and Gen II Elite Four teams, though he moves up from the second member to the third between games. However, he is mostly the same opponent in both instances.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In the original games and their artwork; like Brock, he became less so in the remakes.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: In Gen I, Bruno's design uses so many of the same tropes as Brock's design that Bruno is basically a bigger, tougher version of Brock; on top of that, Bruno also uses Brock's SignatureMon Onix. However, no relationship between them was ever elaborated on.
* BadassNormal: He reportedly trains with his own Pokémon. When you read the Pokédex entries for some of them, you realize Bruno is one ''hell'' of a strongman.
* BruceLeeClone: Certainly takes inspiration from Creator/BruceLee.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: See BadassNormal.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Apparently being in a room full of lava [[TrainingFromHell is part of his training]].
* DishingOutDirt: Aside from Fighting-types, Bruno is fond of Rock and Ground-types too. He has two Onix in the first Generation and its remakes (in Gen II, he swaps one out for Hitmontop but keeps the other), evolves them both into Steelix in his Gen III rematch, and in the two ''Stadium'' games, adds Golem and Rhydon to his teams. This incidentally leads him to be a specialist in all the types that are represented by the Fighting-type in [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} the trading card game]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Downplayed. While Brock and Bruno were AmbiguouslyRelated in Gen I, in newer games Bruno's eyes are open and Brock is wearing a shirt.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Doesn't wear them ever.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In [[https://hirespokemon.tumblr.com/post/652433518958411776/1997-rendition-of-the-generation-1-elite-4-by older artwork]] his eyes are always closed, giving him a strong resemblance to Brock.
* FireIceLightning: In ''Yellow'' and Gen II, and the remakes of the latter, his Hitmonchan has the three {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* {{Kiai}}: HOO-HA!
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Bru'''no sounds like bruiser or brawn.
** Shiba sounds like '''shiba'''ku, to strike.
* MightyGlacier: His Pokémon tend to have great physical stats for both offense and defense, but aren't so good with speed.
* ShockAndAwe: For his ''Let's Go!'' rematch, he obtains that part Electric-type Alolan Golem.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the Spanish translation, where he keeps his English name but [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsandRivals Brendan]] is named Bruno too.
* RealMenHateSugar: Subverted. Despite his TestosteronePoisoning, the Gen III remakes reveal Bruno's TrademarkFavoriteFood is the Rage Candy Bar.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Machamp]], reflecting his reliance on brute power.
* SoreLoser: When you beat him in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedandBlue Gen 1 games]], he says "How can I lose?" and then begrudgingly tells you to go to the next room, turning to the next direction while doing so.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Gen III says that he joined the Elite Four so he could battle the region's most powerful trainers.
* TheStoic: His expression is always the same for all of his sprites.
* TookALevelInBadass: A minor case, but he jumps from second Elite Four to third Elite Four between the first two games.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[SweetTooth Rage Candy Bars]]. He apparently went all the way to the Sevii Islands to get his hands on some.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt ever either.
* WildMan: Bruno appears to be a martial artist that has abandoned civilization--the only item of real clothing he wears is a tattered pair of pants held up by his black belt, the apparent leftovers of a MartialArtsUniform. He's also let his AnimeHair grow out to BarbarianLonghair length, and in ''Let's Go'' he even has feral UhOhEyes.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Fighting-type master, but specifically focuses on the martial arts and wrestling-themed ones rather than just ''any'' Fighting-type.
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[[folder:Karen ''[-(Karin)-]'']]
!!Karen / Karin (カリン ''karin'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/MelaLee ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/RyokaYuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I love dark-type Pokémon. I find their wild, tough image to be so appealing. And they're so strong."''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is white in her original game sprite, but is silver in artwork for the TCG and blue-ish white in ''Pokémon Stadium 2''. The remakes settled for grayish blue.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While she was already attractive in the originals, her redesign for the remakes definitely ramped up the sex appeal.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Invoked with her love of Dark-types, as shown in her profile quote. The quote gets removed in the remakes for some reason, but the association remains.
* BareYourMidriff: In the remakes she shows off her midriff, even moreso than Sabrina in her respective new design.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Invoked. Karen pointedly strikes one of these in her pre-battle animation in the Gen IV remakes.
* CastingAShadow: Uses Dark-type Pokémon.
* CombatPragmatist:
** Comes with the territory of using Dark-types. Expect to see plenty of tricky status moves from her.
** Ironically, despite extolling how powerful Dark-types can be, she also encourages the player ''not'' to be one of these, stating that liking the Pokémon in question should be the primary factor in using them. Her team also matches this ideology, as your first match against her has her using a team including a few non-Dark-types, despite there being enough available Dark-types to fill out a team of five.
--->"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."
* CombatStilettos: She's given yellow heels in her remake re-design.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Agatha.
** Karen taps into the same milieu of spooky monsters that Agatha did, but she's younger and sexier than Agatha and preaches the value of fighting with your favorite Pokémon, where Agatha pretty much just preached fighting.
** While Karen borrows the PoisonousPerson milieu from Agatha and even her SignatureMon Gengar, Agatha used spooky animals like Golbat and Arbok, while Karen uses the spooky plant Vileplume.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She may use Dark-types, but she's a nice person. In ''Masters'', she discusses the fact people don't often pick Dark-types out of a combination of how tough-looking they are and because their moves don't exactly evoke security.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: A comparison of Karen's original battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei and Agatha from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] strongly suggests Karen started life as an edit of Lorelei's body with Agatha's hair. In the Gen IV remakes, however, Karen's outfit is completely redesigned and Karen's fanservice focuses on her top half rather than on the fact that ShesGotLegs like Lorelei.
* GlassCannon: With the exception of [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and, in her rematch in the remakes, Spiritomb, all of her Pokémon are heavy hitters but are also extremely fragile.
* HellHound: Her Houndoom.
* HiddenBuxom: Her original outfit in ''Gold and Silver'' has her in a long, loose black dress that conceals her figure entirely save for her legs. In ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=], she's put in low-riding capris and a crop top that shows off her wide hips, stomach, and reveals that she has a very large chest.
* LittleBlackDress: In the originals she wears a black dress that bares her legs.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Karen has always had some of the longest hair in the franchise, and art of her redesigned self oftens shows her running her hand through her hair to show it off.
* MaleGaze: Her VS Splash Art close-up in ''[=HeartGold=] and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' features her neck, bust, and nearly bare shoulders, while the art in [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen_(XY_Promo_177) her dedicated TCG card]] from Gen VI features her from some very suggestive angles.
* MeaningfulName:
** Rearrange '''Karen''' and add a "D", and you spell "Darken".
** Her German name is Melanie, from "melas" (Ancient Greek for black, dark).
** Her French name is Marion, the 4 last letters spells "noir" backward which means "black".
* MsFanservice: In GSC, she fights you in a LittleBlackDress and heels, with a pose that shows ShesGotLegs. In the remake, she's given tight pants and top to BareYourMidriff with.
* NocturnalMooks: Her original team consists of not just Dark-types, but also Pokémon that can only be found at night in Johto.
* PlayingWithFire: Her SignatureMon Houndoom is a mixed Dark-Fire type, she uses a Magmar in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', and the trading card game extrapolates from her Houndoom so that [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen#In_the_TCG a full two-thirds of her pokémon]] have the Fire-type and one of her technical machines teaches an attack that uses Fire-energy. Perhaps the card game wants us to know [[StealthPun she's hot]].
* PoisonousPerson: Due to Dark-types not having enough strong members in their debut generation, she added Gengar and Vileplume into her team.
* ProudBeauty: She is very proud of the beauty she sees in Dark-type Pokémon, whether from being elegant or wild. This also seems to extend to herself, as she often strikes a pose while running her hand through her hair suggestively, and many of her lines and animations in ''Pokémon Masters'' come across as equally suggestive and teasing regarding her beauty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: All her Pokémon are predominantly either black or purple, and they're Dark or Poison-types.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is so long that it reaches her waist. Much of her art has her running a hand through it for emphasis, suggesting she prides herself on it.
* SignatureMon: Her Houndoom and Umbreon--the respective finisher and point man of her Elite Four team--are the most prominent among her pokémon.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', [[GlassCannon Houndoom]] is her finisher, which fits perfectly with her preference for Dark-types for their wild, cool appearances.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', however, [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and Murkrow take center stage--both appear on both of Karen's teams, while Houndoom is nowhere to be seen. In the Gen IV remakes of her debut games, Umbreon and Honchkrow tie for the highest-levelled pokémon on her rematch team.
** In ''Masters'', Karen can choose between Houndoom and Umbreon, though the former is her default and can Mega Evolve. Both Hondoom and Umbreon are also the only monsters from her core series team to appear in the TCG.
* SoulPower: Her Gengar and Spiritomb, which are part Ghost-type.
* StopHavingFunGuys: {{Defied}} InUniverse. Lorelei's introductory speech famously criticizes judging pokémon for being strong or weak.
* SuperMode: In ''Masters'', she can Mega Evolve her Houndoom.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Masters'', she can now Mega Evolve her Houndoom. This is consistent with many other returning trainers of her level in games after Mega Evolution was revealed, including the Generation 3 Elite Four, so it's also likely that if she were to return again in the main series, she'd have access to the technique there as well.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Downplayed. She describes herself as "verrry good" in ''Pokémon Puzzle Challenge'', but it's unknown if she's actually trilling them or just dragging the word out.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the original games, Karen wore a LittleBlackDress and had shoulder-length white hair. In the remakes, she has a yellow top with white pants and waist-length blue hair. If you didn't know it was Karen looking between the two games, you wouldn't guess it.
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!Hoenn Elite Four
[[folder:Sidney ''[-(Kagetsu)-]'']]
!!Sidney / Kagetsu (カゲツ ''kagetsu'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/ProZD ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shōhei Kajikawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I like that look you're giving me. I guess you'll give me a good match."''
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* ActionInitiative: Teaches his team Fake Out, Aqua Jet, and Sucker Punch in the remakes.
* BaldOfAwesome: Well, shaved, but still fits.
* BlingOfWar: Downplayed; wearing a ''golden'' watch comes off as this when hardly anyone else in the series wears a watch at all. He also proudly boasts during rematches that Steven gifted the entire Hoenn Elite Four with Mega Stones and Key Stones, so presumably he's quite proud of wearing them as well.
* CastingAShadow: Dark-types.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: His Shiftry knows Extrasensory at level 48 when Nuzleaf doesn't learn it until 49 and it's impossible for Seedot to learn it. This was fixed in the remakes, as Nuzleaf learns it at 36 this time around.
* CombatPragmatist: Natural for a Dark-type user.
* CriticalHitClass: In the remakes, his Absol has the ability Super Luck, which increases the probability for critical hits. He's also taught it Night Slash, Psycho Cut, and Slash. Have fun seeing the words "Critical hit!" a lot.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may use Dark-type mons, but he's a nice person.
* FaceOfAThug: His artwork in the remakes gives him a rather nasty-looking facial expression. But he's not a bad guy. This makes him come across as much more edgy and unpredictable than in the original games, where he appeared to just be a well-mannered, nicely dressed guy, dialogue aside.
* GenkiBoy: Implied. Given how he actually enjoys avoiding ''natural disasters'' using his Absol and how expressive he can be, he may be this.
* GlassCannon:
** His strategy says it all: "Offense over Defense". His team consists of several such Pokémon with high offensive stats, but poor defenses and middling to low speed.
** Though he seems to have re-evaluated his strategy a bit for his rematches in the remakes, as he is now touting a [[MightyGlacier Scrafty]] and a [[StoneWall Mandibuzz]].
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Si'''d'''n'''ey can be used to make all sorts of unpleasant words like sinister, insidious, or sin. Not that he's evil, but it fits his theme.
** '''Kage'''tsu contains the word '''kage''' (shadow).
** His French name is Damien, like Satan's son. It also sounds like "demon".
** His German name is Ulrich, from "Unlicht" (Dark).
** His Italian name is Fosco, meaning "dark" or "obscure".
** His Spanish name is Sixto, from "siniestro" (sinister/Dark). It may also be a reference to the NumberOfTheBeast.
* NiceGuy: Despite being a Dark-type user and having the FaceOfAThug, he's actually really friendly and easy-going.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Absol]], a GlassCannon which perfectly represents his preference.
* SlouchOfVillainy: He's not a villain, but is still notably the only Elite Four member in the remakes who actually sits on his chair as he waits for challengers.
* ThrillSeeker: After his encounter with his Absol, who has the power to predict disasters, he mentions that he's so happy to be with it because it is never a dull moment being with it.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Absol.
* UselessUsefulStealth: Has a Zoroark in rematches, which will always copy his Absol. Any player who knows how [=NPC=] trainers handle Mega Evolution will see why Zoroark's cover will immediately be blown. And besides that, Zoroark and Absol are typed the same, so the disguise won't do much to increase Zoroark's longevity.
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[[folder:Phoebe ''[-(Fuyō)-]'']]
!!Phoebe / Fuyō (フヨウ ''fuyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/CristinaValenzuela ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MaiFuchigami ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I did my training on Mt. Pyre. While I trained, I gained the ability to commune with Ghost-type Pokémon."''
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: One of the first in the series; she was a tan-skinned young woman with an island dancer theme in the original games.
* BadassAdorable: It's already apparent in her original artwork, but her redesign in the remakes makes it even more obvious, on top of making her look younger.
* BareYourMidriff: Her dancer design has her in a cropped bandeau and a long skirt, exposing her midriff.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Playing into her Hawaiian (or perhaps [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Alolan]]) dancer theme, Phoebe goes barefooted seemingly without regard for terrain.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: A variant; her connection with nature focuses on the dead more than the living.
* FireIceLightning: Her Dusknoir in the remakes has the {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* GenkiGirl: In the remakes, while her dialog is basically unchanged, her model is much more expressive, indicating her to be very bouncy and hyper.
* ISeeDeadPeople:
** Gained the ability to communicate with ghosts while training on [[IndianBurialGround Mt. Pyre]]. If you visit Mt. Pyre again after beating the Elite Four, you can find her while she's having a conversation with one... who may or may not be her grandmother.
** A now infamous Easter egg in the remakes shows a ghost girl sitting in her chair for a split second, and then between Phoebe and the player (the camera angle obscures her) right before you challenge her for the first time, though it's uncertain whether or not Phoebe was aware of her presence.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Phoebe's strategy is to "confuse and confound", and she lives up to it. In ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', every one of her Pokémon can induce a status effect or condition, while in ''Emerald'', she mixes up status with evasion and ManaBurn; and most of them know Shadow Ball or Psychic, which can diminish Special Defense. In Generation VI, she upgrades her strategy by having her strongest Pokémon know Hex, which does double damage to a target that has been inflicted with status (and that Pokémon can easily burn, freeze, or paralyze your Pokémon with its Elemental Punches).
* ManaBurn: Her first Pokémon in ''Emerald'', Dusclops, has Protect, which, coupled with its Pressure ability, was specifically designed to wear down the Power Points (PP) of your Pokémon. The second one, Banette, is no slouch either, with Spite in its arsenal (in ''Emerald'', Spite is replaced with Grudge).
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Pho'''e'''b'''e becomes phobia, and ghosts have a very strong association with fear.
** Fuyou sounds similar to Fuyuu (to float), which is what many ghosts do.
** Her German name is Antonia, from "Phantom".
** Her Spanish name is Fátima, from "fantasma" (phantom).
** Her French name is Spectra, from "spectre" (ghost).
** Her Italian name is Ester, from "esoterico" (esoteric), "esper", or "extrasensoriale" (extrasensory).
** Her Korean name is Hoeyeon, from hwanyeong (phantom).
* MightyGlacier: Her second Dusclops, while very slow, has incredible defenses and a plethora of powerful moves that cover a wide range of types, making it quite deadly. In the remakes, it is a Dusknoir with even higher defenses, all three of the elemental punches, and actually has the Attack stat to use them.
* MsFanservice: She's shown to be wearing only a bandeau top and a sarong, with anything beneath the sarong left up to the imagination. At least until ''Masters'', where some kind of underwear/shorts can be seen.
* NiceGirl: Despite being a Ghost-type user, she's very friendly and carefree.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Not among the cast, but among trainers. With her bright, happy personality and her equally-bright appearance, Ghost-types are probably the last type one would think she'd use.
* PerpetualSmiler: In the remakes, Phoebe is always laughing and smiling. It's shown in her official artwork, and intro cutscene — even after she loses, her smile never drops.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Attributes her loss to you having a stronger bond with your Pokémon than she had with hers.
* RecurringElement: The second in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in an odd-numbered generation that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Phoebe's team is remarkably symmetrical, with two Dusclops, two Banette, and a single Sableye in the center, though she does start and end with her [[StoneWall Dusclops]]. In the remakes, she's evolved her second Dusclops into [[MightyGlacier Dusknoir]], but in rematches, her strongest Pokémon is actually [[StoneWall Mega Sableye]]. All of them tie into her links to the Hoenn region's past and ability to commune with Ghost-types. She uses Dusclops/Dusknoir in ''Masters''.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type master.
* StoneWall: Her BadassBoast before your battle, openly challenges you to try and damage her team.
* {{Stripperific}}: She doesn't wear [[BareYourMidriff that much]], though downplayed obviously, owing to the target audience.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Sableye.
* UselessUsefulSpell: In all battles, Phoebe's Sableye lacks status moves to abuse with Prankster.
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[[folder:Glacia ''[-(Prim)-]'']]
!!Glacia / Prim (プリム ''purimu'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/KatelynGault ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SayakaKinoshita ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I've traveled from afar to Hoenn so that I may hone my Ice-type moves."''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The modern art style and its bigger eyes make her look more youthful than her original self, though both versions are still of a VagueAge. Her redesign is also showing some skin around the neck and chest.
* BloodKnight: Downplayed. Glacia enjoys battles for the passion of them.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Lorelei and Glacia are both powerful Ice-type specialists, but while Lorelei was a haughty IceQueen who takes offense to being defeated, Glacia delights in the passion of the fight itself and is a GracefulLoser.
* {{Expy}}: As a beautiful female Ice-type specialist in the Elite Four, she directly recalls Lorelei of Kanto; as a beautiful female Ice-type specialist encountered in a subtropical island region, she recalls Lorelei as she appeared in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--her Japanese name Prim is remarkably close to Lorelei's DubNameChange Prima.
* FightOffTheKryptonite: One of the reasons she came to Hoenn was to train her Ice-types to fight under tropical conditions in the belief they could power through it.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Wears a long purple dress.
* HiddenDepths: When you defeat her, Glacia reveals a taste for wordplay and puns in particular.
* HostileWeather: Glacia's use of Hail will deal DamageOverTime to all non-Ice types on the player's team while it's in effect.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IcyBlueEyes: Has them in the remakes. The VisualPun is almost certainly intentional.
* InformedAttribute: Her profile indicates her strategy is to use items in battle, but she only uses the bog-standard pair of full-restores and a single sitrus berry as a held item in Gen III--in Gen VI she doesn't even use the berry, only using a single Glalitite in her rematch.
* {{Irony}}: She's a cool-tongued LadyOfWar who appreciates nothing more than fiery passion. This even extends to her favorite dish being spicy curry.
* LadyOfAdventure: A ProperLady who traveled from afar to the Hoenn region so that she could better train her Ice-type Pokémon and climb up the Pokémon League ladder.
* LadyOfWar: She's a regal and lady-like Ice-type trainer. It helps that she's a member of the Elite Four.
* LuckBasedMission:
** Her Walrein knows Sheer Cold. Unless you outlevel her (meaning you have effectively [[NoSell already won]]), or have a Pokémon with Sturdy, you have at least a 30% chance of a KO when she pulls it out.
** Her Froslass have Snow Cloak, meaning you can miss when the Hail is out.
* MakingASplash: Like Lorelei before her, she has a dual-split focus on Ice and Water due to the dual-typed Walrein and Sealeo. Downplayed in the remakes since she's replaced her two Sealeo with two Froslass, which are Ice and Ghost.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Glaci'''a is very close to glacier. Her name also sounds like the French word for ice "Glace".
** Her Japanese name, '''Prim''', is much like "''prim'' and proper". Given her appearance, it's quite fitting.
** Her German name is Frosina, from "frost".
** Her Spanish name is Nívea, meaning "snowy".
** Her Italian name is Frida, from freddo (cold).
** Her Korean name is Mihye, from "mi" (beautiful) and "hyeseong" (comet, which consist mainly of ice).
* OneSteveLimit: Glaceon's Japanese name is also Glacia. The character and the Pokémon never share a name in the same region.
* OneHitKill: If her Walrein's Sheer Cold attack lands, it will KO your Pokémon.
* PimpedOutDress: Her outfit. Even more so in the remakes, which add ornate snowflake designs and impressive gloves that cover her forearms.
* ProperLady: Acts like this when you meet her, and has her MeaningfulName above (in Japanese) to fit.
* PungeonMaster: When you defeat her, she makes puns about you being HotBlooded. ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' expands her collection of ice-themed puns, as well.
* ShipTease: After you defeat her post-game in the remakes, Glacia will ask if you intend to "thaw her very heart" before remarking that she wouldn't mind if you did--[[StealthPun she's really starting to warm up to you]].
* SignatureMon: In the third gen, she favored the Spheal line, with two Sealeo and her finisher [[MightyGlacier Walrein]] spaced out by a couple of Glaie. In the sixth gen, she favors the Snorunt family instead, having replaced both Sealeo with Frosslass, leading with a Glalie, and in her rematch using Mega Glalie as her finisher over Walrein, which is also what she uses in ''Masters''.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's very regal and formal, but is also the second-strongest of Hoenn's Elite Four.
* SoulPower: In the remakes, she's got a pair of Ghost-type Froslasses.
* StandardRPGItems: She claims her strategy is to use items to win, which may or may not be true. (Ironically, she uses next to no Hold Items, only having a Sitrus Berry for her Walrein in the original games and a Glailite — in the rematch — in the remakes).
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Glalie.
** She also uses Froslass in place of her weak Sealeo, and with their high speed and Snow Cloak ability, can be extremely difficult to take down.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A hot plate of Mauville Ramen Bowl. [[LampshadeHanging Yes, she's aware it's ironic.]]
* UselessUsefulSpell:
** In rematches, Glacia's Mega Glalie lacks Normal-type moves to take advantage of Refrigerate.
** Her Walrein's ability is Thick Fat, which gives it resistance to Fire and Ice attacks. Unfortunately, being a Water and Ice type, Walrein already has a double-resistance to Ice and only takes neutral damage from Fire, so nobody's going to be throwing many of those moves at her.
* VictoryIsBoring: Despite the fact that she came to Hoenn specifically to hone her "icy skills", she hasn't managed to have even a single challenging fight since arriving.
* WeatherManipulation:
** Her team is fond of the moves Hail and Blizzard.
** In her rematch, she leads with an Abomasnow, whose Snow Warning ability automatically starts Hail as soon as it's sent out. She takes great advantage of this not only by using Blizzard, but also by using Pokémon whose abilities are activated by Hail.
* WeatherOfWar: One of the first trainers to make real use of it; Glacia's Pokémon all know Hail and employ their Ice-type ExploitedImmunity to preserve themselves from the DamageOverTime. Her Glalie use Crunch and Shadow Ball to set you up for their teammates' Surf, Ice Beam, and Blizzard moves. In the remake, she's even tougher — most of her Pokémon now know Blizzard in order to exploit the new always-accurate effect Hail gives it.
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[[folder:Drake ''[-(Genji)-]'']]
!!Drake / Genji (ゲンジ ''genji'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/SteveKramer ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MasaharuSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"For us to battle with Pokémon as partners, do you know what it takes? Do you know what is needed? If you don't, then you will never prevail over me!"''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Notably averted. In the ''Ruby and Sapphire'' remakes, which redesign virtually every single major character to some degree, Drake stands out as one of the very few with no design changes whatsoever -- while he receives new artwork, his appearance is identical to his design in the original games. This suggests that, of the designs from those games, the developers felt his was the design that best conveyed their original intentions and thus did not require improvement or modernizing.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one with no shirt, also qualifying for NoShirtLongJacket.
* ConfusionFu: Par for the course with a Dragon master. While the Elite Four always tend to give their teams varied and powerful movesets, it's hard to predict what Drake will throw at you.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* FatherNeptune: Seems to have the look, being a sea lover. He's not a Water-type specialist, though.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the initial Elite Four battle in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', his male Flygon focuses on physical attacks while his female Flygon focuses on special attacks.
* MeaningfulName:
** In Japanese, Genji comes from genjū (mythical beast).
** '''Drake''' is another word for a dragon, hence his dragon tamer specialty.
** His Korean name is Gweonsu, from "gweon" (power) and "su" (beast).
** His name come from "dragon" in most translations
*** His German name is Dragan.
*** His Spanish name is Dracón.
*** His French name is Aragon.
%%* MightyGlacier: His Altaria.
* NiceHat: A sea captain's, to be precise.
* NoShirtLongJacket: He wear a long open jacket with no shirt.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares his name with the Supreme Gym Leader of the Orange Crew from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--Drake of the Orange Islands notably used a Dragon-type as his SignatureMon.
* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Emerald'', where he tells you over the Pokénav that fighting the Elite Four is better than engaging in the Battle Frontier, regardless of fun value.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Salamence]], perfect given that he champions the Elite Four as the strongest trainers and Dragon-types as the strongest Pokémon. In Gen VI rematches, it Mega Evolves into Mega Salamence.
* StealthPun:
** He's a Dragon type trainer that wears a sea captain hat. Hmm, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon sound familiar]]?
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake Alternatively...]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Salamence.
* TheUnsmile: In ''Masters'', his face frightened a young kid. He then shows his unnerving smile to the player to prove his point.
* UselessUsefulSpell: His Salamence can Mega Evolve in the rematches, but its moveset does not have any Normal-type moves to make use of Aerilate.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Though he has a coat, unlike most examples.
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!Sinnoh Elite Four
[[folder:Aaron ''[-(Ryō)-]'']]
!!Aaron / Ryō (リョウ ''ryou'')
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-->''"I'm a huge fan of bug Pokémon. Bug Pokémon are nasty-mean, and yet they're beautiful, too..."''
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* AchillesHeel: Three of his five Pokémon in ''Diamond and Pearl'' have a 4x weakness. They won't last long if you have that particular Type handy. In ''Platinum'', four of his five team members have a 4x weakness with his signature Drapion being the only one that doesn't.
* AnimeHair: Just look at that IdiotHair!
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He loves Bug-types, and wonders why most people don't love Bug-types too. His team also includes large insectoid Pokémon that aren't Bug-types, such as Flygon and Drapion.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In a dramatic in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he became a Gym Leader to impress a childhood friend, only for her to fall in love with another Gym Leader. When that Gym Leader turned out to be a fraud, he confessed his love for her right after he became promoted to Elite Four.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Green hair and green eyes.
* DragonTamer: For his rematch in ''Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'' he's added the part Dragon-type Flygon to his team.
* ExtraOreDinary: He adds the part Steel-type Scizor to his team in ''Platinum''.
* FriendToBugs: He adores and is obsessed with Bug-type Pokémon.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: A rare heroic variant of this trope. He was originally just another Bug Catcher who never lost his love for Bug-type Pokémon even after growing up, but became so good with utilizing Bug-types and won so many battles with them that he eventually reached up to the ''Elite Four,'' being effective one of the Top 5 Strongest Trainers in the ''entire Sinnoh region''. Yes, he's the weakest of the Elite Four, but that's still ludicrously impressive given the competition he faces for that.
* GracefulLoser: If somewhat adorkable in trying to be this.
* IdiotHair: Considering his [[BigCreepyCrawlies specialty type]], it might be intended as reminiscent of a rhinoceros beetle's (like Heracross) horn.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Aar'''on is like arachnid.
** His Spanish name is Alecrán, from "alacrán", (scorpion).
** His Korean name is Chungho, from "chung", (bug).
* MookPromotion: According to a television channel in ''Black 2 and White 2'', a Bug Catcher in Sinnoh managed to get a position as a Gym Leader, then worked his way up to the Elite Four.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Not to be confused with Sir Aaron from the eighth movie of the anime.
* PoorPredictableRock:
** Aaron's main Pokémon is a Drapion, a Pokémon that isn't a Bug type, but it's only weak to Ground type moves, something that Bug types resist.
** Aaron is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four to ''not'' play this trope straight in ''Platinum'', thanks to the aforementioned Drapion.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Drapion]]. Despite it not being of his Bug typing, it does fit the "nasty-mean" part of his opening lines, not to mention its previous form Skorupi is a Bug-type. Interestingly, he is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four whose main Pokémon stays the same when their teams get revamped for ''Platinum''.
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[[folder:Bertha ''[-(Kikuno)-]'']]
!!Bertha / Kikuno (キクノ ''kikuno'')
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-->''"You're quite the adorable Trainer, but you've also got a spine."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Every Pokémon she fields in her initial Elite Four and rematch bouts is female.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: It's strongly implied she may be a relative of Agatha of the Kanto Elite Four. They have similar names, they look similar, they have identical hairstyles, similar speech patterns (though Bertha is much nicer than Agatha), and Charm from ''Legends: Arceus'' resembles both of them and uses a Gengar and Rhydon, implying a shared ancestor. Shauntal remarks on their similarities in Gen V, but there's nothing confirmed.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Dear child."
* CoolOldLady: Much nicer than Agatha as well.
* DishingOutDirt: Ground-type master.
* MakingASplash: Her Whiscash and Quagsire, who are part Water-type. The latter only appears on her ''Diamond and Pearl'' team.
* MeaningfulName:
** B'''erth'''a, from "earth".
** Her French name is Terry, from "terre" (earth).
** Her German name is Teresa, from "terrain" (soil).
** Her Italian name is Terrie, from "terra" (earth).
** Her Spanish name is Gaia, the name of the Greek deity personifying the earth.
* MightyGlacier: As usual with a Ground-type master, her Pokémon are a bit slow, but very tough.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's also quite possibly a relative of Kanto's Agatha. Only much nicer.
* OldMaster: An elderly Ground-type Trainer who holds her own as a member of the Elite Four.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: A brown one, as befits a Ground-type Trainer.
* ScaryScorpions: She adds a Gliscor to her team in ''Platinum''.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Hippowdon]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[MightyGlacier Rhyperior]] in ''Platinum'' and ''BDSP''. Both reflect the Ground-type's typical nature of prioritizing defense over offense.
* ThemeNaming: In the English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese versions, she's named after Agatha: Bertha/Agatha, Kikuno/Kikuko, Deul Gukhwa/Gukhwa and Guk Je/Gūkjí.
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[[folder:Flint ''[-(Ōba)-]'']]
!!Flint / Ōba (オーバ ''ooba'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/LandonMcDonald ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You're facing a Fire-type Pokémon user with me. Let Flint see how hot your spirit burns!"''
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* AfroAsskicker: His most notable trait is his red afro and he's tough enough to be a member of the Elite Four. He even suggests to Volkner in ''Platinum'' that he should have his Pokémon come out of it just to freak out his opponents. In ''Masters'', it turns out he takes great pride out of it and goes against expectations that Elite Four members should have "clean-cuts."
* ArtificialBrilliance: He likes to use Sunny Day to power up his Fire-type moves and weaken your Water-type moves. His Magmortar in ''Platinum'' has Sunny Day + Solar Beam (and Thunderbolt, for that matter) to deal with Water-types. His Infernape knows Thunder Punch for the same reason, and can use Mach Punch and Earthquake on your Rock-types, plus it's part Fighting-type so it's neutral against Rock-type moves.
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: The wise guy to Volkner's straight man.
* ElementalHairColors: His afro is a fiery red, and the shape of it resembles a cloud of smoke. He also specializes in Fire-type Pokémon.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Lampshaded by Volkner, who states that Flint chose to raise Fire-types because of his name.
* FieryRedhead: Has red hair to match his fiery personality.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Volkner.
* HotBlooded: In contrast with Volkner, he starts a battle like this but burns out as he comes closer to losing.
* TheHyena: In ''Masters'' his ready animation occasionally has him laughing to himself before calming himself down.
* InformedAttribute: He says that his favorite move is Overheat, but not many of his team members know it. Only his Flareon knows it in ''Platinum'', and none of his Pokémon know it in ''Diamond and Pearl''.
* MeaningfulName:
** Invoked. Once again, see Volkner's DeadpanSnarker entry. In case you don't get it, '''flint''' is a material used for making fires.
** His Japanese name is a reference to the fire-type move Overheat ('''Ooba'''ahiito).
** His German name is Ignaz, from "ignis" which is Latin for "fire".
** His Spanish name is Fausto, from Hefesto (Hephaestus), the Greek god of fire, volcano, and metallurgy.
** His French name is Adrien, from "ardent" (fiery).
** His Italian name is Vulcano, meaning "volcano".
* MythologyGag: In ''Masters'', there is no doubt the Flint that appears there is [[spoiler:the Flint from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' games, as he mains Infernape and he fondly talks about his Lopunny and Drifblim, despite the fact in ''Platinum'' he mains Magmortar and has a full team of Fire-types.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Goes from enthusiasm to utter devastation after losing.
* PersonalityPowers: Flipped from Volkner charging up as the battle continues, Flint starts off fired-up, then as you begin to beat him he blazes hotter, only to smolder down to embers on defeat and get quiet.
* PlayingWithFire: He apparently chose to train them solely because of his name. This was changed from the Japanese version, where his favorite move is Overheat because it matches his name (''Oobaahiito'' and ''Ooba'').
* PoorPredictableRock: Mainly averted in ''Diamond and Pearl'' due to the staggering lack of Fire-types in Sinnoh before the National Pokédex, as well as not padding out his team with lower evolutions or repeats to compensate. His team still has a couple of Fire attacks, however. ''Platinum'' remedied this by giving him Flareon, Houndoom, and Magmortar.
* PowerOfTheSun: He likes the move Sunny Day, which will not only power up his Fire-type moves, but will screw with your Water-type moves' power and, in ''Platinum'', make his Magmortar's Solar Beam work instantly.
* RedOniBlueOni: The HotBlooded red to Volkner's reserved blue.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Infernape]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', for his feisty and fiery personality. In ''Platinum'', it's changed to [[MightyGlacier Magmortar]], making his status as a counterpart to Volkner even more evident, as the Electabuzz and Magmar lines have always been counterparts to each other. It's his Infernape that he shows up with in ''Masters'', however.
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[[folder:Lucian ''[-(Goyō)-]'']]
!!Lucian / Goyō (ゴヨウ ''goyou'')
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-->''"They say I am the toughest of the Elite Four. I'm afraid I will have to go all out against you to live up to that reputation."''
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* BadassBookworm: Bookworm, and the last Elite Four member you face. Possibly one of the most difficult to defeat E4 members.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Pretty well dressed and can kick your ass handily if you aren't careful.
* {{Bishonen}}: To some, it might be difficult to tell whether he's a boy or girl.
* CoolShades: They add to the look.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Pale lavender hair and eyes.
* HairColorDissonance: Well... it looks... ''sort of'' blue... Or is it purple?
* MeaningfulName:
** Lucian = Il'''lusion'''. Lucian is also a name based off the Latin word Lux, which means 'light'.
*** Alternatively, his name could have been derived from the word '''luci'''d, a word used to describe dreams.
** His French name is Lucio, from "Illusion".
** His Italian name is Luciano, from "luce" (light).
** His Spanish name is Delos, from "delusion".
* OffModel:
** His ''Diamond/Pearl'' sprite has shorter hair than his artwork. ''Platinum'' fixed that little blunder.
** His in-game sprites have his clothes at a different colour to the one depicted in official artwork.
* PoorPredictableRock: He's the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four in ''Diamond and Pearl'' in which all the Pokémon in his team share a single type.
* PsychicPowers:
** At least with his Pokémon, because it isn't quite clear whether Lucian has them himself like most Psychic-type specialists (in contrast to how Sabrina expected the player to face her in Generation I, Lucian finishing a book as soon as the player walks into his room is merely stated to be good timing). At the very least, he's stated by an NPC to have a fondness for books on ESP, as well as books in general considering his frequenting the Canalave Library.
** The aforementioned good timing may be a little ''too'' good to be mere chance, both in the anime (not all that unusual, but still notable) and in the games.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Bronzong]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[GlassCannon Gallade]] in ''Platinum''.
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!Unova Elite Four
[[folder:Shauntal ''[-(Shikimi)-]'']]
!!Shauntal /Shikimi (シキミ ''shikimi'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/KiraBuckland ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yuka Nukui ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I absolutely love writing about the close bonds between the Trainers who come here and the Pokémon they train. Could I use you and your Pokémon as a subject?"''
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* AnimalMotifs: Her neck accessories are supposed to form a black cat's face, according to WordOfGod.
* ApologeticAttacker: When you beat her, she apologizes for hurting your Pokémon.
* BadassBookworm: She's an author, her room is at the top of a huge mound of books, and she's an Elite Four member.
* CallBack: Some of her dialogue references characters from previous games, such as Volkner, Agatha, and Bertha. In the case of the latter two, she muses on their conspicuously similar appearances.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and purple eyes.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Ghost-types but is not a bad person.
* DramaticThunder: In the room you fight her in, lightning occasionally flashes in the window.
* EmpathicEnvironment: In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'', the books in her area jump when you surprise her upon arrival.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_B2W2_Shauntal.png intro animation]] has her still penning a novel even as she starts to battle you.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time you challenge her in ''Black and White'', she reads a passage from a book she's writing based on a previous challenger. The description fits N perfectly.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: When the player challenges her in ''Black 2 and White 2'', the novel she's working on is about the events of the previous game; her brainstorming describes N and the Legendary Pokémon he uses in the game you're playing.
* JackOfAllStats: Her team is this collectively. Each of them has a different stat that is their best and always extremely high.
* MeaningfulName:
** S'''haunt'''al. In addition, it's a [[GratuitousFrench French name]] meaning "a circle of stones", or more specifically, a tomb, as befitting for a ghost-type user.
** '''Shi'''kimi contains '''Shi''' (death)
* {{Meganekko}}: A typical example.
* MyNaymeIs: Her English name is far more commonly written as "Chantal" or "Chantel"; the game's creative spelling was probably done to make the pun more obvious.
* NotAMorningPerson: She claims this in ''Pokémon Masters'' if she greets you in the morning, giving an exhausted sigh.
* PerkyGoth: She's a creepy Ghost-type master, but is very energetic.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Good thing, considering how short that skirt is.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her dress and hair are purple, and she's an elite trainer who specializes in Ghosts.
* RecurringElement: The third in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Chandelure]]; a chandelier is a good choice for a writer who writes in shadowed rooms.
* SoulPower: She is a Ghost-type master.
* StealthPun: She is an author who uses Ghost Pokémon. In other words, she is a ghostwriter.
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[[folder:Marshal ''[-(Renbu)-]'']]
!!Marshal / Renbu (レンブ ''renbu'')
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->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshikazu Nagano ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"In myself, I seek to develop the strength of a fighter. And shatter any weakness in myself!"''
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* BigOlEyebrows: That somehow merge with ''his hair''.
* BloodKnight: Prior to meeting Alder, Marshal wandered around Unova in order to battle strong trainers. It's still applicable to his character, but he probably had it worse before.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: His hair's kinda [[HairColorDissonance orange]], really.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Maybe Maylene picked it up from him.
* {{Kiai}}: Just before the battle begins, he will shout "Kiai!" He seems to have picked up the habit from Alder.
* LastChanceHitPoint: His Sawk has Sturdy.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Marshal" sounds just like ''martial'', as in martial arts.
** R'''enbu''' contains the word "enbu", referring to a type of public demonstration of martial arts.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Alder mentions that Marshal used to be solely driven by strength like Cheren.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Mienshao]] in the first battle, but [[MightyGlacier Conkeldurr]] usurps the throne in rematches and in the sequels, ''Black 2 and White 2'', as well as in ''Masters''. Both reflect his martial-arts focus and distaste for weakness.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Wears what appears to be a sleeveless combination of a sweatshirt and a karate gi.
* WalkingTheEarth: What he used to do in search of strong trainers before he was offered a place on the Unova Elite Four.
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[[folder:Grimsley ''[-(Giima)-]'']]
!!Grimsley / Giima (ギーマ ''giima'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/DaisukeOno ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"It's more important to master the cards you're holding than to complain about the ones your opponents were dealt."''
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* AlwaysSecondBest: He usually holds the second-best record in the different Mantine Surfing spots.
* AmazonBrigade: Almost all of his Pokémon are female.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He's a gambler, and the colors of his Generation V clothes match common colors for roulettes.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Without a tie, but it still fits. In ''Sun and Moon'', he wears a kimono instead.
* {{Bishonen}}: He's quite fair-featured and handsome.
* TheCameo: Shows up briefly in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' to give the player access to Sharpedo for their Ride Pager. He later appears at the Battle Tree.
* CombatPragmatist: Uses Dark-types. What sets him apart from Karen and Sidney is that he discusses this aspect to them heavily, suggesting his preference for Dark-types was for completely different reasons than them.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In the originals, he has a level 50 Bisharp in the initial match, even though it evolves from Pawniard at level 52. Considering what Dark-types are [[TheCombatPragmatist known for]], it actually does make sense in a way.
* ContinuityNod: Uses every mon he's used throughout the Gen 5 games in the Battle Tree with the exception of Krookodile, which is absent from the entire tree roster. This even includes his Absol from the Challenge Mode of Grimsley's initial fight in the sequels.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a child, he was the son of a wealthy family that lost their fortune and fell into poverty. This led to him betting on Pokémon battles in an attempt to regain his family's wealth, and developing his liking for Dark-types, as they did whatever it took to win. By the time he reached adulthood, he was a Dark-type master and full-blown gambling addict.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Dark-types, but he's a nice guy.
* EightiesHair: Looks like somebody on the design team is a fan of Music/AFlockOfSeagulls. That, or ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', considering Caitlin's design as well. His appearance in general is also strongly influenced by both [[{{Goth}} traditional goth]] and NewRomantic fashion.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: By the time of ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''. They're likely a result of money-related stress.
* TheGambler: What he turned to after his family had been ruined.
* GracefulLoser: While this is true of all Elite Four members, he actually discusses this, saying there are bad ways to win and good ways to lose, and that it's not always clear which is which. Ironic, since he specializes in [[CombatPragmatist Dark-types]]. [[spoiler:Should you win against him at the Battle Tree, he tries covering his twitching face, so he's trying ''hard'' to be a graceful loser.]]
* HeadsOrTails:
** One of his animations shows him flipping a coin, as does his Gen. VII artwork. In ''Sun and Moon'', he also flips a coin and has the player character guess which side it lands on.
** In Chapter 25 of ''Masters'', he flips a coin to decide whether or not to join Karen and Will's team. It comes up heads, and he joins them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Grimsley is the son of a fallen wealthy family.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Played with. While his face looks relatively the same in ''Sun and Moon'', his hair has white streaks despite his youth, and he has dark bags under his eyes. Seems that the stress of his financial troubles has had an effect on his health.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Grim'''sley.
** Giima could be referencing '''ma''' (demon or demonic) or the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "Boogeyman" (Buu'''giima'''n)
* NewRomantic: His aesthetic is somewhere between this and a traditional goth in ''Black and White'', while his kimono-clad ''Sun and Moon'' self is firmly in this territory.
* PointyEars: He has pointy ears to add to his Vampire motif.
%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Adds to the field.
* SharpDressedMan: He wears a fashionable suit in the Generation V games, and it's part of his vampire motif.
* SignatureMon: [[ChessMotifs Bisharp]], suitable for someone who relies on the CombatPragmatist approach of Dark-types. [[spoiler:In ''Sun & Moon'', his Battle Tree top choice is, fittingly for the Ride Pager option he gives you, Mega Sharpedo. Though when fought in other times, Bisharp will replace Mega Sharpedo and come in first. In ''Masters'', he uses Liepard instead, though he also uses Sharpedo while wearing his Synga Suit and Bisharp when wearing his Alola kimono.]]
* SkunkStripe: In ''Sun and Moon'', Grimsley's hair on his temples is now white.
* SuperMode: Like Cynthia and other returning cameo characters, Grimsley has the means of using Mega Evolution in ''Sun and Moon''. The mons out of that pool are Tyranitar, Absol, Sharpedo, and Houndoom.
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much so.
* TheUnfettered: Grimsley has absolutely no problem fighting dirty and actually advises the trainer to use any means necessary to win a fight.
* WholeCostumeReference: His Generation V costume is one towards {{Dracula}}.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In the Generation VII games, he looks significantly older than he did two generations before, despite the small time gap between both games.
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[[folder:Caitlin ''[-(Cattleya)-]'']]
!!Caitlin / Cattleya (カトレア ''katorea'')
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->Voiced by: Sarah Miller-Crews ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SatomiSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You appear to possess a combination of strength and kindness. Very well. Make your best effort not to bore me with a yawn-inducing battle."''
Caitlin originally served as the overseer of the Battle Frontier's Battle Castle, even if she wasn't the Frontier Brain of the place. She eventually travelled to Unova to develop her skills and control her emotions, eventually becoming one of the members of Elite Four.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She was a darker blonde in in her last appearances, but her hair is noticeably brighter in Generation V.
* AntiGravityClothing: She has hair, bows, and a transparent cape that floats, most likely via her telekinesis.
* AscendedExtra: Castle Valet Darach from Gen IV's Battle Frontier took great care to tend to Lady Caitlin. Caitlin, however, never said or did much... Until now, that is.
* BeYourself: In ''Masters'', she further explains that she considers Cynthia a good friend for advicing her to let her emotions loose lest she'd want to be bored too much.
* BrilliantButLazy: If her sleeping before battle is any indication.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's cold and hostile towards the player at first, but gradually warms up as they battle and is impressed when defeated.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Masters'', she explains that she had issues trying to control her emotions during battles, which is why she trained to bottle them up to avoid losing control of her psychic powers. This worked...a little too well, because this had the indirect effect of making her a HeavySleeper, ironically unable to find much interest in battles.
* GracefulLoser: She wasn't at first, which was when Darach battled in her stead, but as of Gen V, she's quite gracious if you manage to defeat her.
%%* HartmanHips
* HeavySleeper: Sleeps before she battles.
* LadyOfWar: She's a powerful trainer, and in ''Pokémon Masters'' she explains that she focuses on "elegance and grace" in battle. Justified, as she was anything ''but'' graceful when she was younger.
* MeaningfulName: Averted in regard to her type preference, due to having been named before becoming a Psychic expert. Outside of her typing, it sounds like castle, which is where she was until becoming an Elite Four member.
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow but have high defensive stats, which is rare for Psychic-types.
* NiceHat: A ''massive'' sleeping cap.
%%* TheOjou: An archetypal example.
* PowerIncontinence: When she was younger, Caitlin was a sore loser and would lose control of her PsychicPowers whenever she lost a battle, causing a great deal of damage. This is why her butler, Darach, fought in her stead when she first appeared in Generation IV.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Or royal ladies in general, anyway.
* PsychicPowers: She has them herself in addition to them being her specialty type — if you look at her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_BW_Caitlin.png battle sprite]], she has pink, glowing bits of energy floating around her. She didn't have complete control of them [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl when she was younger]], though.
* RapunzelHair: Doubled in length from her last appearance. It extends past her feet nowadays.
%%* RichBitch: To a degree.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her relationship to Darach in Gen IV has her come off as quite royal (Battle ''Castle''?) — Or very rich, at the least.
* SignatureMon: [[StoneWall Gothitelle]] in the first battle, [[MightyGlacier Metagross]] on Challenge Mode (sequel only) and in the rematches (both). Both are symbolic of her passive but powerful character. In ''Pokémon Masters'', her partner is Reuniclus instead. Diverging from her type specialisation, her Halloween 2021 variant uses Sableye.
* SoreLoser: Young Caitlin did ''not'' respond well to losing a battle and would erupt into highly destructive psychic tantrums. Darach battling in her stead was a measure to prevent this.
* SomethingAboutARose: Her new entrance in ''Black 2 and White 2'', from a giant blossoming white rose. ([[NonIndicativeName Although she's named for an orchid...]])
* TheUnfought: Was this back when she was in the Battle Frontier in the fourth generation.
* TookALevelInBadass: From lazy Battle Frontier resident to Elite Four member.
[[/folder]]
!Kalos Elite Four
[[folder:Wikstrom ''[-(Gampi)-]'']]
!!Wikstrom / Gampi (ガンピ ''ganpi'')
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-> Voiced by: Brad Venable (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Susumu Akagi (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"Well met, young challenger! Verily am I the Elite Four's famed blade of hardened Steel, Wikstrom!"''
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks in a ''very'' flowery, old-fashioned manner.
* CoolSword: His ace, Aegislash, functions as one.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may come across as very hammy, but he's a member of the Elite Four for a ''reason''.
* ExtraOreDinary: The first Steel-type Elite Four member.
* KnightInShiningArmor: His dress style invokes the trope.
* LargeHam: He doesn't just look like a medieval knight, he talks and acts like one.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: He mentions to the Player Character that the two should battle with honor.
* MeaningfulName:
** Wik'''strom''' almost sounds like strong as in strong metal.
** "Ganpi" contains the first two morae of "'''Gan'''jou", meaning solid or sturdy.
* MightyGlacier: With the exception of [[StoneWall Klefki]], all of his Pokémon are of the strong-but-slow archetype.
* ThePrankster: In ''Masters'', he mentions that his Klefki has a habit of stealing the keys to his home and won't relent until Wikstrom has to fight it.
* RealMenWearPink: His first mon sent out is a ''[[OurFairiesAreDifferent Klefki]]''.
* ShoutOut: He speaks in AntiquatedLinguistics and claims that his [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare will shakes spears]].
* SignatureMon: Aegislash -- very fitting for a knight.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: It's uncertain if he is known to take it off, though.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: To go along with his knight motif.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malva ''[-(Pachira)-]'']]
!!Malva / Pachira (パキラ ''pakira'')
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MarinaInoue (JP, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''), Creator/KiraBuckland (EN, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'')
-->''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
Malva is one of the members of Kalos Elite Four, news reporter of the Holo Caster, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and a member of Team Flare]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: Malva was a member of Team Flare, yet the [[EliteMook Scientists and Admins]] were very likely her superiors in spite of having the combat potential and skills to be in the ''[[BadassCrew Elite Four]]''. It is then subverted in Looker's sidequest when it was implied she was at least admin-ranked, since she had knowledge of a hidden floor only admins knew about.
* AmazonBrigade: All four of her main Pokémon are female.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a black belly shirt.
* BerserkButton: ''You'' seem to be one for her, as she frequently comments on how she'd like nothing better than to burn you up on the spot.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Though she seems pleasant enough when she does her news broadcasts, her dialogue when you encounter her at the Pokémon League shows she's anything but pleasant.
* CoolShades: Her shades have a deep red tint to them.
* ChekhovsGunman: She appears in a Holo Caster transmission as a news lady, '''long''' before you fight the Elite Four. This doubles as a {{Foreshadowing}} that she was involved with Team Flare, since they secretly run the company that produces the Holo Caster.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In her chamber, two ''huge'' pillars of fire explode right near where she's sitting. She's completely unaffected, as is the player.
* DarkActionGirl: While she is a reformed member of Team Flare, her violent tendencies place her as this.
* DragonTheirFeet: Despite the fact that she's likely high in the ranks of Team Flare you don't encounter her until long after you've already defeated them.
* EnemyMine: With you and Looker in the postgame to stop Xerosic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She draws the line at conducting experiments on children, which is why she asks you to take down Xerosic to "prevent him from sullying Flare's honor". It still doesn't stop her from threatening the player with death by fire.
* EvilRedhead: Like the rest of Team Flare, she is a redhead and on-board with their omnicidal plans. Though she never does anything evil to the player personally, and even asks for your help in the post game.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A number of her traits hint at her being part of Team Flare before she reveals it outright: her orange sunglasses, her use of the Fire-type (including Pyroar, which Lysandre also uses) and appearing as the announcer of the Holo Caster, which was produced by Team Flare.
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: A player can download special Holo Caster messages in which she appears on her news program to announce and remind players of special downloadable content and events regarding the game, like the Mystery Gift Torchic and Global Battle Tournaments. (Far more of these appeared in the Japanese version than the two that have appeared in the American one thus far.)
* HonorAmongThieves: The reason she claims she's helping you during the Looker quest, but she doesn't elaborate.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is a PyroManiac who casually mentions to a child that she was thinking of killing them in hellfire right on the spot and then leaves for her chambers (though it's unclear how much of her threats are just standard Fire-user posturing). At least she is a sport when losing.
* KillItWithFire: She remarks after defeat that she just wants to burn you up on the spot.
* KingOfBeasts: Pyroar, the Pokémon she opens with.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When you finally get the chance to defeat her, after all she's done, in the Pokémon League.
* MeaningfulName:
** It comes from ''lava'' and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva Malva]] is also a type a flower, as are a few other names in the region. Also, ''Mal'' means ''evil'' in Latin, which fits her personality and background well.
** Pachira is another type of flower. In addition, if the first five letters are pronounced phonetically and then doubled up, it makes "Pachipachi", an onomatopoeia for the sound of something popping, usually due to heat.
* MsFanservice: After all, she is [[IncrediblyLamePun hot.]]
* PlayingWithFire: She specializes in Fire-types, and is ironically the only Team Flare member who does.
* PyroManiac: ''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
* RichBitch: Her Team Flare membership implies that she must be very wealthy. The bitch part is self-explanatory by this point.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Those orange shades.
%%* ShipTease:
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Talonflame]] when you challenge her at the Kalos League during the initial game and rematches, although she does use [[GlassCannon Pyroar]] by its lonesome in a post-game event. In the anime, she uses a Houndoom that can [[SuperMode Mega Evolve]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: Well, she isn't a villain by the time you run into her, but she is the only Elite Four member who sits on her throne to battle you instead of getting up. Ironically, she's also the one who meets you in the foyer and explains how the Elite Four challenge works.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks to the Player Character in one of their matches how she would like to burn them where they stand as revenge without even raising her voice.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The (then) unnamed Holo Caster girl is a member of the Elite Four?! ''And Team Flare?!''
* TokenEvilTeammate: Of the Kalos Elite Four, as she is a member of Team Flare, and is definitely hostile towards the player. The way she mentions how she wants to kill the player with fire could give ''Koga'' a run for his money. (She becomes ''far'' more threatening the second and all subsequent times you challenge the Elite Four.)
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Will do this if she actually manages to defeat the player at the Battle Chateau.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's a well-respected media figure before Team Flare's EvilPlan is foiled, and continues that role afterwards.
* WalkingSpoiler: There's clearly more to her than you might think at first, for both the main game and postgame.
* WorthyOpponent: In spite of her jerkass behavior and desire to essentially kill the player character, Malva acknowledges their skills and accepts why they were able to take down Team Flare.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Drasna ''[-(Dracaena)-]'']]
!!Drasna / Dracaena (ドラセナ ''dorasena'')
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-->''"Welcome, welcome, come in. You must be a strong Trainer. Yes, quite strong indeed..."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Just like fellow Elite Four member Malva's, Drasna's team is female-only.
* CoolOldLady: She looks like she is in her forties or fifties, but she trains Dragons, is always cheerful, and sports an amazing hairstyle.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Her character model.
* ImprobableHairstyle: She has ''two huge tusks'' [[note]]Which are actually earrings[[/note]] as part of her hairstyle.
* MeaningfulName: It comes from ''dragon'', rather obviously. Her Japanese namesake is also known as the ''dragon tree''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Her character model and dialogue both indicate she's on the older side, especially compared to her compatriots. That being said, she's still an Elite Four member who specializes in [[InfinityPlusOneElement dragon-types]], so underestimate her at your own risk.
* NiceGirl: She is ridiculously polite to the Player Character.
* PerpetualSmiler: She is always happy, even when it comes to battling.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: She wears ''plenty'' of dragon tusks on her outfit.
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Noivern.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Siebold ''[-(Zumi)-]'']]
!!Siebold / Zumi (ズミ ''zumi'')
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-> Voiced by: Creator/SeanChiplock ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shounosuke Horikoshi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Cooking is the type of art that disappears as soon as it is completed. Pokémon battles are the same. Even memories of sweet victory soon fade after the battle ends."''
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* AgentPeacock: Dresses similarly to Wallace, but he is an Elite Four member for a reason.
* BerserkButton: Claiming that Pokémon battles cannot be artistic. The same goes for food, as he's a chef.
* {{Bishonen}}: He looks rather handsome.
* CallBack: Defeat him first in the Elite Four, and he'll give a speech similar to Karen regarding strong Pokémon and weak Pokémon, although in the air of a DeadpanSnarker:
-->"There are no weak Pokémon in a Pokémon battle. There are only weak Trainers."
* ChefOfIron: A world-class chef and an Elite Four member.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A chef after battle will mention him as part of the Elite Four in Restaurant Le Nah, which you can enter as soon as you reach Lumiose, by comparing you vaguely to him.
* LargeHam: Press his BerserkButton and he'll start shouting. Go on, we dare you.
* MakingASplash: Water-type specialist of the region, and the first Elite Four member to specialize in the type.
* MeaningfulName:
** It sounds like '''''Sea'''''bold. It also comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sieboldii Siebold's crabapple]].
** Zumi likely comes from I'''zumi''', meaning a spring or fountain. It's also みず ''mizu'' (water) [[SdrawkcabName backwards]].
* NotSoStoic: He keeps a calm demeanor (unlike [[PlayingWithFire Malva]]), but if you say "No" to the question he asks you (whether or not Pokémon battling can be considered art), Siebold pretty much gets pissed off at you and rants before engaging battle. Amusingly, in ''Masters'', agreeing to his views makes him happy for a bit. Disagreeing ends up pissing him off so much he goes on a ''long'' argument on the player until he calms down and apologizes.
* PerpetualFrowner: His character model is this way.
* ThePhilosopher: Siebold briefly discusses the concept of art with the player before battling, seeing many things, like cooking and victory, as fleeting forms of art that should be cherished because of how short-lived they can be.
* TheWormThatWalks: Barbaracle, a humanoid mass of rocks and barnacles.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Barbaracle]] is his highest-leveled Pokémon in the league. ''Pokémon Masters'' has him use Clawitzer, another member of his team, and his holiday variant has him use Octillery.
* SupremeChef: Fitting for a Water-type Elite Four as his team mostly consists of edible aquatic life, including the starfish and gooseneck barnacle.
[[/folder]]
!Alola Elite Four
It is worth noting that Kahili and Molayne are the only Elite Four who aren't a Trial Captain or Kahuna.
[[folder:Hala]]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Olivia ''[-(Lychee)-]'']]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Acerola]]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kahili]]
!!Kahili (カヒリ ''kahiri'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/JaniceKawaye ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ShihoKawaragi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Why don't we see who the winds favor today, you or me?"''
Golfer and Flying-type specialist. She's been traveling to other regions to become a better trainer and golfer, but flew back to Alola at Kukui's request to become a member of the new Elite Four.
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* AlmightyJanitor: In ''Masters'', both Elio and Selene comment that Kahili has what it takes to become the Alola Champion, but she tells them that she prefers being part of the Elite Four without telling them why. After both leave, she tells Kukui that newer generations of trainers will come to claim the title, hinting that she may not be able to hold being the Champion for long, though she is excited nonetheless.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: The back of her hair looks like crossed bird wings, her ahoge resembles a head feather, and she wears an orange feather over her left breast.
* BloodKnight: While she was annoyed at Kukui constantly pestering her, Kahili admits that she did enjoy the prospect of being able to fight really strong trainers.
* BlowYouAway: Specializes in Flying-types, making her a first for the Elite Four roster.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Kahili has pale blue eyes and hair.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[AccidentalPun Pardon the pun.]]
** A non-playable character talks about her in the demo for the original ''Sun and Moon'', while the workers at the biggest tourist resort in Akala Island mentions her name, and the fact she's the daughter of the owner there. It's not until you see her at the League when she shows up formally.
** In ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', she shows up briefly to demonstrate how to do the pose for the Flyinium-Z at Ten Carat Hill, although she never introduces herself until you meet at the Pokémon League much later.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Downplayed. While her appearance ''is'' foreshadowed (as mentioned above in EarlyBirdCameo), a vast majority of players tend to overlook it as standard NPC talk and likely completely forget about it once she finally shows up at the end of the game. This is especially noticeable considering that the other Elite Four members were all previously encountered in the game and have story significance. Averted in ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', where she'll at least appear briefly to teach you how to use the Flynium Z when you find it, but since she doesn't even bother introducing herself and leaves immediately, it just comes across as a random scene until you encounter her again.
* HiddenDepths: You can find her at the Hano Resort in the post-game. Talking to her reveals that she is very competitive and hard-working in nature, offhandedly implying she spends up to half of the day working on her abilities.
* IdiotHair: Sports a large one resembling a bird’s feather.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Her battle pose is the same as a golfer's driving stance, and she even carries a club with her to do so.
* LadyOfWar: Is highly focused and calm, while also being a powerful Elite Four member. (Justified as this is very much a prerequisite for golf.)
* MeaningfulName:
** The kahili was a staff used as a symbol of power by the rulers of Hawaii, traditionally made from the long bones of an enemy king, and adorned with the feathers from birds of prey. Fittingly, Kahili happens to be a Flying-type specialist and is in a position of authority as an Elite Four member.
** Additionally, Kahili happens to be the name of a well-known Hawaiian golf course, fitting her status as a golfer.
** Fitting with the region's FloralThemeNaming, ''kahili'' is the Hawaiian term for several flowering plants.
* MinidressOfPower: Wears a short skirt and happens to be a member of the Alolan Elite Four.
* NonIdleRich: She's the heiress of the massive Hano Resort, while also being both a professional golfer ''and'' an extremely capable Pokémon trainer.
* TheOjou: Her family owns Hano Resort in Heahea City, and she's very graceful and reserved even in the heat of battle.
* PerpetualFrowner: Consistently has a scowl on her face, much like her signature Toucannon. Zig-zagged in ''Masters'' however, as she does smile regularly in conversations.
* SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse. She gives you the [=TM=] for Trick Room post-game and will mention that she uses the move to handicap herself during training with her mons since most Flying-types are very fast in nature. Ironically, her Toucannon [[MightyGlacier would have benefited from such a move]].
* SignatureMon: Toucannon, which is the ace of her team and wields a Flynium Z-crystal. Her golf club is even adorned with its beak's colors.
* StealthPun: A golfer who specializes in Flying-types. The terms "Birdie", "Eagle", and "Albatross" are related to golfing. (1, 2, and 3 under par, specifically).
* TheStoic: She is very reserved and focused.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Projects an aloof air, but is actually a pretty nice person to the player, especially after they defeat her for the first time.
* TrainingFromHell: In ''Masters'', her training regimen consists of practicing her swing for ''six'' hours ''every day'' without accounting for when she trains her battle skills, she always makes sure she sleeps at the same time each day, and is normal for her to fight ''20'' battles in a single day.
* UncattyResemblance: Her golf club's colors and her permanent frown gives her a resemblance to Toucannon.
* WhenSheSmiles: While she doesn't smile in her home game, ''Masters'' shows that she does smile regularly enough, and it's pretty cute.
* WindIsGreen: The room she's fought in is completely colored green.
* WorthyOpponent: She constantly looks out for strong opponents and when she meets you she wants to beat you to show she's the best trainer in the world and is also looking for a good fight. ''Masters'' further adds to this by having Elio and Selene note that she can very well be the Alola Champion.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: While she otherwise looks very young, her silvery-blue hair could make some mistake her for an older person.
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[[folder:Molayne ''[-(Mullein)-]'']]
!!Molayne / Mullein (マーレイン ''maarein'')
[[quoteright:140:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molayne.png]]
->Voiced by: Ezra Weisz (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/TakayukiKondo (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
Molayne is a former Trial Captain, who passed the role onto his cousin, Sophocles. Now, Molayne takes care of [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alola's]] Pokémon Storage System. In ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', he replaces Hala as a member of Alola's new Elite Four.
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* AffectionateNickname: "Big Mo/Mul-san", by Sophocles.
* AscendedExtra: In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', where he joins the Elite Four.
* BadassBookworm: A computing wiz and a former Trial Captain who can still hold his own in a battle. And is good enough to challenge you for the title of Champion in the originals, and be an Elite Four member in the re-release.
* BonusBoss: Is one of the many trainers who fights you in Title Defense in ''Sun and Moon''.
* ExtraOreDinary: He specializes in Steel-type Pokémon, and hands over Steelium Z to the player.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Outside of a Pokémon battle, he almost never opens his eyes.
* FatAndSkinny: He's the taller and skinnier of the duo compared to Sophocles.
* GeekPhysiques: Of the tall and skinny kind.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He and Sophocles are close friends despite Sophocles being young enough to be his child.
* MeaningfulName: His name might come from molybdenum, a metallic element.
* NiceGuy: Outside of some friendly ribbing towards his pals Kukui and Sophocles, he is never anything other than polite and genteel to anyone he meets.
* TheOneGuy: He's the sole male member of the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to his cousin Sophocles, Molayne has a warm smile as his default expression, even when he loses a battle.
* RetiredBadass: A former Trial Captain who is apparently one of the region's better trainers, but he's content to manage the [=PC=] system. He eventually unretires to join the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''.
* SecretKeeper: Of sorts, regarding Kukui's [[spoiler:extremely PaperThinDisguise as a masked luchador]]. Kukui is ''serious'' about not letting him reveal that to anyone, despite how obvious it is.
* SignatureMon: Alolan Dugtrio is his strongest Pokémon during your first battle with him, and his last one in subsequent battles.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Fittingly for Alola's Pokémon Storage System developer, Molayne is seen wearing glasses. His glasses are also hexagon-shaped, which is a common design motif.
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[-'''Pokémon Family Species:''' [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies Gen I]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Bulbasaur to Parasect]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVenonatToCloyster Venonat to Cloyster]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIGastlyToMiltank Gastly to Miltank]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIMagikarpToMew Magikarp to Mew]] [[[Characters/PokemonMewDuo Mew Duo]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIFamilies Gen II]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIChikoritaToGranbull Chikorita to Granbull]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIQwilfishToCelebi Qwilfish to Celebi]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIFamilies Gen III]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys Wailmer to Deoxys]] [[[Characters/PokemonWeatherTrio Weather Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Gen IV]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVTurtwigToBronzong Turtwig to Bronzong]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVChatotToArceus Chatot to Arceus]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVFamilies Gen V]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Victini to Zoroark]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Minccino to Genesect]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIFamilies Gen VI]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha Chespin to Hawlucha]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIDedenneToVolcanion Dedenne to Volcanion]] [[[Characters/PokemonAuraTrio Aura Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIFamilies Gen VII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIRowletToComfey Rowlet to Comfey]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIOranguruToMelmetal Oranguru to Melmetal]] [[[Characters/PokemonCosmogLine Cosmog Line]] / [[Characters/PokemonNecrozma Necrozma]]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraBeasts Ultra Beasts]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Gen VIII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIGrookeyToHatterene Grookey to Hatterene]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIImpidimpToCalyrex Impidimp to Calyrex]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGlitches Glitches]]\\
'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ([[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | '''Elite Four''' | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
'''[[Characters/PokemonVillainTeams Pokémon Villain Teams]]:''' [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamRocket Team Rocket]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamAquaMagma Team Aqua/Magma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamGalactic Team Galactic]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamPlasma Team Plasma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamFlare Team Flare]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamSkull Team Skull]] / [[Characters/PokemonTeamYell Team Yell]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])\\
[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]
The Elite Four are trainers of the highest caliber in the region. Traditionally, the player has to face all four of them back to back without going back to a Pokémon Center to heal them (though items can be used during challenges). Much like Gym Leaders, they usually use Pokémon of a certain type. [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Defeating them, however, isn't the last hurdle to becoming a Pokémon champion]]. Rather, next the player must face [[Characters/PokemonChampions the champion]]...
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[[folder:The Elite Four in general]]
* AllPowerfulBystander: They generally stay out of the way of the main plot, even when it would be good for them to get involved.
** If you talk to Marshal after you beat him in ''B/W'', he mentions that Alder ordered them to be neutral. This is also discussed in Gen I and the remakes, where a hopeful kid says "wouldn't it be cool if the Elite Four came here and kicked Team Rocket's butt?" Naturally, they never do and you have to do the dirty work yourself.
** Lorelei does return to the Sevii Islands to help defend a cave from Team Rocket in the postgame of the remakes. Some dialogue in ''FR/LG'' implies that she's left her post to defend the island in the future afterwards.
** Malva takes it to a new level in that [[spoiler:''she was a member of Team Flare'']].
** The Alolan Elite Four [[spoiler:isn't formed until after you beat the villainous team, but Hala is seen partnering with Tapu Koko to fight an Ultra Beast unleashed by Lusamine]].
** Averted in ''Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee'', where Lorelei fights off a trio of Rocket grunts that try to gang up on the player character, and Blue later mentions he intends to call on Kanto's Elite Four, if necessary, to help get rid of Team Rocket.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Toughest trainers in the region. The games that feature them in sequential arrangements (from ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' on) also further exploit this trope by having members of the Elite Four that come later in sequence almost always specialize in types that are weak to or resisted by preceding members, and therefore implying them to be even more badass: Will's Psychic specialty precedes Koga's Poison, Glacia's Ice Pokémon are followed by Drake's dragons, Flint's Fire types come after Bertha's Ground types, ''etc.''
* BadassCrew: Though they never fight together, they're the toughest trainers you can fight, at least until the postgame; even after, they tend to be the among the toughest.
* BossBonanza: They're all in the one location. From Gen I-IV, they're fought one after another in a set order, and from ''Black and White'' onwards, you can fight them in any order as their levels are all the same, though you fight the Champion after dealing with all four.
* BossCorridor: From Gen I-IV, you walk between the rooms they're in. This was stopped from Gen V onwards, but returns with a vengeance in ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.''
* DareToBeBadass: Their mere existence basically serves as this to all trainers in their region, as beating them and then the Champion is seen as one of the hardest things to do, and for good reason.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Your end goal is to do this to them.
* EliteFour: The trope namer. They're not bad guys, but excluding the Champion, there are always four. No more, no less. Their Japanese name even uses the traditional name ''Shitennō'' (四天王) to reflect this.
* FloralThemeNaming: Kalos's and Alola's Elite Four members all reference flowering plants in their names.
* GracefulLoser: They always lose with dignity. The closest that they get to anger at you is disbelief.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', the Galar region does not have an Elite Four. Instead, it has a Champion Cup where the Player Character has to fight two of their rivals (Marnie and Hop) in the Semifinal Round (plus an interruption by Bede); three gym leaders in the Final Round; and then the Champion, Leon.
* TheNotableNumeral: The Elite ''Four''.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The Unova Elite Four reveal that they aren't actually allowed to interfere with challengers outside of their assigned battles. Not even the king of Team Plasma openly announcing that he'll use the champion title for his own agenda is enough to make them break this code.
* PersonalityPowers: Most tend to behave in relation to their types, but there are exceptions.
* PreFinalBoss: The final Elite Four member is the last thing standing in the way of the player and the Champion, though starting with Generation V this isn't set in stone since the player no longer has to face the Elite Four in a predetermined order.
* SequentialBoss: Four in a row, followed by the Champion. In ''Black and White'', this gets taken UpToEleven as you take on the Elite Four, then the legendary, then N, and then Ghetsis.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Karen in Gen II's Elite Four, and Bertha in Gen IV's. Inverted in Gen VII, with Hala (in the original ''Sun and Moon'') or Molayne (in ''Ultra Sun and Moon'') as the only male.
* ThresholdGuardians: They act as the final obstacles between a trainer and Champion.
* TookALevelInBadass: An integrated mechanic, appearing in ''Fire Red/Leaf Green'', ''Platinum'', ''Heart Gold/Soul Silver'', ''Black/White'', ''Black 2/White 2'', ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire'', and ''Sun/Moon'', which can take quite a few new players off guard. The Elite Four's level will often rise from anywhere between 15-20 levels depending on the generation, with more powerful Pokémon in place of weaker ones. Additionally, owing to the Pokédex being upgraded, they can use Pokémon that aren't normally in that region.
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!Indigo Elite Four I
[[folder:Lorelei ''[-(Kanna)-]'']]
!!Lorelei / Kanna (カンナ ''kanna'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_lorelei.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/EricaLindbeck (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/LaurenLanda ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Serika Hiromatsu ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Your Pokémon will be at my mercy when they are frozen solid!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original games and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', her hair is red; it's sandy blonde in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and purple in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''.
* AdaptationNameChange: She's referred to as Prima in the anime's English dub in order to match the number of syllables that her Japanese name has.
* AdaptationalModesty:
** In ''Let's Go'' and ''Adventures'', her skirt reaches to her knees, while in other installments it's a fair few inches shorter.
** ''Let's Go'' adds pantyhose to her outfit, though, given she's an Ice-type specialist and a MsFanservice, this is likely more a case of practicality than modesty on her part.
* AdjustingYourGlasses: Lorelei does this immediately before the battle begins in ''Let's Go''.
* TheBaroness: Lorelei is a downplayed sexpot--she's an IceQueen MsFanservice that specializes in a StatusInflictionAttack that leaves the victim helpless and forced to endure whatever hard-hitting moves she throws at them, which is something she boasts about.
* BashBrothers: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', just before entering Rock Tunnel, she assists you in scaring off Team Rocket goons; she fights three of them at once, and if their quotes after the battle are any indication, they couldn't even ''touch'' her.
* CallForward: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lorelei has vanished from the Elite Four without a word of notice. In the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', optional dialog following her DayInTheLimelight has her pondering if remaining with the Elite Four means she's neglecting her island home, floating a possible reason for her to leave the Elite Four in the first place.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lorelei has mellowed out fairly substantially over the years.
** While she was a haughty IceQueen in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Gen III remakes give her a sympathetic devotion to her Four Island home, tones down her loss quote from "[[WhoDares How dare you?]]" to "[[ThisCannotBe ...Things shouldn't be this way!]]", and demotes half of the exclamation points in her opening speech to mere periods.
** The ''Let's Go'' remakes give her some of her exclamation points back, but also give her another heroic moment by having her appear to engage in a BashBrothers takedown of some Team Rocket thugs with the player character and turn her thereby into a friendly acquaintance of the player's.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The first part of the ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' postgame serves as this for her. We get to visit her home on Four Island, help her take down Team Rocket, and see where she got her Lapras.
** She makes a brief solo appearance in Gen VII to help you take down a few Team Rocket mooks. They were trying to take you on 4v1; she takes on three of them herself so you can take the last one down.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution:
** While Lorelei and Karen both entered the series wearing a LittleBlackDress, their fashion sense has diverged sharply in the years since.
** Will's SharpDressedMan sensibilities were a short sidestep from LadyInAPowerSuit Lorelei, but he has since become TheDandy.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Misty is said to admire her.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies[=/=]GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Her Four Island home is full of them. She adds 1 plushie to the collection for every 25 times you enter the Hall of Fame. She stops after your 200th Hall of Fame induction because then it's just getting stupid.
* ExposedToTheElements: Lorelei's room is filled with ice tiles, ice pillars, or both, depending on what version of the Kanto games you happen to be playing, but despite her generally light outfit and usually bare legs, she seems quite cozy. This is most apparent in Gen I when her bare-legged battle sprite indicates she's ''kneeling directly on the ice''.
* ExtraOredinary: In ''Let's Go!'' she acquires the part-Steel-type Alolan Sandslash.
* FunetikAksent: She's called Olga in the French version, and she's got the Russian accent to match, pronouncing her S sounds as Z's, at least one T as D, and her EvilLaugh right before the battle... rather oddly.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', Lorelei almost always appears riding on her StockNessMonster Lapras, both near Rock Tunnel and in her personal room at the Indigo League. Given Lapras is her SignatureMon, she may also ride it as a BeastOfBattle.
* HotTeacher: In adaptations. In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Lorelei appears in the Orange Islands to give a lecture and demonstration on pokémon battling, while in ''Manga/PocketMonsters'' she actually disguises herself as a teacher and gives Red exams at her school.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IllGirl: In ''Masters'', she tells the player she had a weak constitution as a child and had to force herself to remain at home until she got better, which took a long time. During then, she had a Lapras plushie that, to this day, she treasures and often appears in her dreams.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Inverted. She routinely wears short skirts to show that ShesGotLegs, which doesn't seem to be the wisest choice for an Ice-type specialist. ''Let's Go'' gives her pantyhose, which could feasibly be said to warm her legs up, even if only a little.
* KillItWithIce: Downplayed. Lorelei boasts that her pokémon will freeze the player's solid, and in remakes is more than willing to directly threaten Team Rocket {{Mook}}s with being frozen solid.
* LadyOfWar: She is regarded in-game for her logical, cool, and calculating style of battling.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: Lorelei's jacket and skirt from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' came to the core series with a PaletteSwap in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and Lorelei's sprites from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] show her in the same. While her jacket was lost in the Gen III remakes, her ''Let's Go'' design emphasizes the full ensemble.
* LonelyDollGirl: In ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'', Lorelei is revealed to live alone on Four Island in a house filled with dolls. As an EasterEgg, a new doll will be added to her collection for every twenty-five times (up to a total of two hundred) that the Elite Four is defeated.
* MakingASplash: Though she's officially an Ice-type master, she uses a lot of Water-types too, with most of her Ice-types being part Water. Her Slowbro isn't even an Ice-type.
* MeaningfulName:
** Lorel'''ei''' pronounced like the I in "ice." Lorelei is also the name of a siren said to lure sailors to their deaths.
** '''Kan''''na contains a homonym for a reading of the kanji meaning "cold".
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow, but they have high defenses and offenses.
* MinidressOfPower: Lorelei has always worn one, starting with a LittleBlackDress in Gen 1, but transitioning to a sleeveless top and miniskirt combo in Gen 3. Her ''Let's Go'' outfit gives her a skirt and jacket combo that takes a few notes from her appearance in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''.
* MostCommonSuperpower: She's seriously stacked in the anime, and is in the ranking for one of the bustiest characters in the franchise. In her brief appearances, she is played for [[MsFanservice fanservice]], particularly in ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''.
* PersonalityPowers: Rest assured, this IceQueen is AnIcePerson.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears toast-colored tights as part of her Generation VII outfit.
* PsychicPowers: Has the part Psychic-type Jynx.
* PsychoticSmirk: Lorelei is capable of some sinister smiles in her ''Let's Go'' pre-battle dialog and battle introduction.
* PutOnABus:
** She will disappear to Four Island after you first defeat the Elite Four. You need to visit her and complete a small side quest in order for her to return; without her, the Elite Four refuse to accept your challenge.
** She isn't present in any games outside of Kanto, not even in the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships]]. Unlike Agatha, who could be excused through her advanced age, Lorelei's absence is a mystery.
* RegalRinglets: In ''Pokémon Generations'', Lorelei's ponytail is a very thick curl, but extends to the same length as her usual straight ponytail, giving her downplayed RapunzelHair.
* RuleOfSexy: How is she not freezing sitting in a cold room while wearing a miniskirt?!
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Downplayed. In her battle sprites from Gen I and Gen III (and Gen II prototypes), her glasses are opaque and cannot be seen through.
* ShesGotLegs: Even in her first appearance, her miniskirt had a slit to highlight them.
* SignatureMon:
** In the games, her [[StockNessMonster Lapras]], reflecting her icy but caring demeanor and dual-focus on Ice and Water.
** The anime and manga adaptation put the focus on her [[MightyGlacier Cloyster]] instead. Notably, she's had a Cloyster on every single team she's used in the games.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Lorelei's personal room is usually filled with ice.
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Battling with her can soft-lock the game in ''Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. In Generation I, opponents do not deplete PP, and because Lorelei leads with a Dewgong which knows Rest and the way "smart" AI works, it's possible for the player to get locked in an endless battle with her by using Rage, which ''also'' has a lot of weird mechanics in Gen I. This was fixed in ''Yellow'' with a special check for whether the opponent is Lorelei's Dewgong, in which case, a different pattern is used; this applies only to her Dewgong and no other opponent. It was more properly fixed in later generations.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
See his folder in Indigo Elite Four II below.
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[[folder:Agatha ''[-(Kikuko)-]'']]
!!Agatha / Kikuko (キクコ ''kikuko'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_agatha.png]]
->Voiced by: Hisako Kyouda (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Ellyn Stern (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshino Ootori ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"[[HelloInsertNameHere Player]]! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: in the original games (and ''Stadium'') her hair was gray, but later changes to graying blonde in the remakes. Also, the only time she appears in the anime, her hair was pure blond.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to ''Pokémon Masters'', Professor Oak was this to her during their youth. No matter how many times she challenged him to a Pokémon Battle, she could never defeat him.
* AmazonBrigade: Her original Elite Four team in ''FRLG'' is all-female, but the rematch team is all-male.
* ArtificialStupidity: In her ''Red'' and ''Blue'' battle, all of her Ghost-type pokémon know the same four moves--Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Hypnosis, and Dream Eater-- except for her final Gengar, which trades Hypnosis for Toxic. Without Hypnosis, Dream Eater is completely useless, leaving it with a completely wasted slot.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Implied between her and Professor Oak. In her own words, "that old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago."
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Agatha provides a template that numerous characters deliberately contrast with--Karen, Phoebe, Fantina, and Shauntal are all younger and prettier than her, for starters.
* CoolOldLady: Slightly abrasive but she still counts.
* CreepyCemetery: Her battlefield in the first generation games is apparently her own personal ''graveyard'', complete with the soundtrack from Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower. This would be downplayed in remakes, down to a few large tombstones in FRLG and some spooky obelisks or pylons in LGPE. It's unknown whether she has any connection to the Tower besides sharing the motif.
* CreepyHousekeeper: She's an older woman with an apron, and specializes in the Ghost type.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She goes into her backstory about her and Samuel Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she reveals that she preferred to keep to herself to contemplate while Oak would attempt to be sociable with her. Over time she gradually warmed up to him, partially through her battles with him which caused her to respect the future professor and his unbeatable battle record. She describes this is one of the reasons she resents the professor so much in the main games when he stopped battling to focus on research. She also warms up to the player and claims her Gengar brings this out in her as well.
* GreenThumb: In ''Stadium'', both of her teams have a Venusaur.
* HairTriggerTemper: An [=NPC=] in Gen III remarks that it doesn't take much to make her angry. [[InformedAttribute Not that you get to see for yourself.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Given that she uses a walking stick.
* MeaningfulName: '''Aga'''tha sounds similar to "aghast", and if you're feeling mean to the old lady, "hag".
* MythologyGag: In ''Pokemon Masters'', Professor Oak battles her Gengar with a Nidorino, directly recreating the opening cutscene of ''Pokémon Red''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She may be old, but she's still very capable of kicking your ass. ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' add flavor text that state she's the oldest Elite Four member to ever join the group, at least in the Indigo League. Bertha, who may or may not be her sister, is around her age and is a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
* PlayingWithFire: For her ''Let's Go!'' rematch, she has the part Fire-type Alolan Marowak.
* PoisonousPerson:
** Her official main type is Ghost, but due to the sparse population of Ghost-types in the first gen., she fills out her roster with monsters of the Poison-type, which is the secondary type of the Gastly evo. line. Even in remakes that give her more Ghost-types to work with, she'll keep her Arbok and Golbat (or Crobat) in rematches.
** In ''Let's Go Pikachu'' and ''Let's Go Eevee'', her Haunter is replaced by a Weezing, meaning only two of her five Pokémon in her initial match are actually Ghost-type, both of which are Gengar.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Arrogantly sniffs that Oak is a shadow of his former self and that Pokémon are for battling, not researching.
* PutOnABus: Like Lorelei, she disappears after any Kanto-based games, not even reappearing for the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships.]]
* TheQuietOne: By her own admission in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', while people like Professor Oak thrive in the company of others, she prefers solitude so that she may contemplate to herself.
* RecurringElement: The first in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* TheRival: Gen III has it said she and Professor Oak were rivals in their younger days.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Gengar]], suitable for her love of crippling status moves.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type user.
* StatusInflictionAttack: By nature of being a Ghost-type specialist, she relies on a lot of status ailment moves like Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, and Toxic.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four in Generation II games or their remakes, but her absence is unexplained. She's only to be found in a certain photograph with Oak and Kurt.
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[[folder:Lance ''[-(Wataru)-]'']]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonChampions.
[[/folder]]
!Indigo Elite Four II
[[folder:Will ''[-(Itsuki)-]'']]
!!Will / Itsuki (イツキ ''itsuki'')
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->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/HirofumiNojima ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I have trained all around the world, making my psychic Pokémon powerful."''
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* AgentPeacock: He look and acts a bit foppish, but he's still a powerful trainer.
* AmazonBrigade: All of his Pokémon in the remakes are female.
* BadassBookworm: He may be the warmup boss, but he's still capable of giving you a thrashing if you make a mistake.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: As the first encounter in the Elite Four and with a team that has both a Slowbro and a Jynx on it, Will is a fairly blatant riff on Lorelei, focusing instead on the Psychic-type they share rather than the mixed Water-Ice milieu of Lorelei's team.
* CoolMask: Wears a DominoMask over his eyes.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Evidence strongly suggests Will began life as a quickly revamped Lorelei--as of Gen IV, however, he's come solidly into his own.
** As per ContrastingSequelAntagonist, Will's team uses Lorelei's Slowbro and Jynx as a springboard from Water and Ice to a Psychic type specialty.
** A comparison of Will's Gen II battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] indicates Will's head was originally an edit of Lorelei's, replacing her ScaryShinyGlasses with an IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery but keeping the same big forelock; the rest of Will's body is a sidestep from Lorelei's LadyInAPowerSuit to SharpDressedMan.
** Will's remake design changes him from a SharpDressedMan to TheDandy and gives him a few elements of a StageMagician, and even removes Lorelei's leftover sheets of ice from his room.
* HiddenEyes: His mask conceals his eyes in various sprites and artwork.
* MeaningfulName: Will is short for William, which is derived ultimately from ''Wilhelm'', a name intuitively composed of two roots that really do mean "will" and "helm"--this name is a surprisingly good fit for a psychic specialist who wears a heavy facial covering.
* MistakenForTerrorist: In ''Pokémon Masters'', since members of Team Break's only form of a unifying costume is their domino masks, Will comments that he has been mistaken for a member of the group on multiple occasions, much to his annoyance.
* PsychicPowers: Psychic-type specialist.
* PunnyName: Many of Will's Western names are obvious riffs on words related to will and the mind.
** '''Will'''power.
** His German name is Willi, from "wille" (will).
** His Spanish name is Mento, from "mente" (mind).
** His French name is Clément, from "mental".
** His Italian name is Pino, from the prefix "ipno-" (hypno-).
* PurpleIsPowerful: He has purple-hued hair and clothing, ranking among the Elite Four as well.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld:
** His room is filled with a sheet of ice in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', possibly indicating that he just took over Lorelei's spot.
** Averted in the Gen IV VideoGameRemake, where the motif of his room is completely revamped.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Xatu]], symbolizing his love of Psychic-types for their mystical powers.
* SquishyWizard: As you'd expect from someone specializing in Psychics, most of his team has great Special stats and varying Speed, but poor physical stats.
* StageMagician: Seems to be his visual theme. His battle animation in the Gen II remakes (where he makes two Poké Balls appear from nowhere just by clapping his hands) bolsters this theory. His appearance in Pokémon Masters definitely runs with this theme as he enjoys engaging in showmanship to excite the crowds.
* TheStoic: His characterization in ''Stadium 2'', where he puts up a serious face and frequently speaks in ellipses.
* SuddenlyBlonde: He has always had purple hair in artwork, but his Generation II sprite has red hair due to the palette limitations of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor.
* ToBeAMaster: He's not merely content with joining the Elite Four, but wants to push himself further until he is the best trainer in the world.
* WalkingTheEarth: Claims to have done this to train all over the world.
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[[folder:Koga ''[-(Kyō)-]'']]
!!Koga / Kyō (キョウ ''kyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/ChristopherBevins ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ToruOkawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless. Despair to the creeping horror of Poison-type Pokémon!"''
Originally the Fuchsia Gym Leader in ''Red'', ''Blue'', ''Yellow'', ''[=FireRed=]'', and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', Koga moves to the Elite Four in the Johto games, with his daughter Janine taking his previous position.
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%%* ActionDad: Of Janine.
* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His Bug-types get pretty big.
* CombatMedic: As a master of poison techniques, he also has a large amount of knowledge over medicine and apparently heals his Pokémon with concoctions of his own.
* CompositeCharacter: With ''himself''; that is, his anime counterpart. In the original Gen I games, Koga used Weezing and Muk and their evolutionary relatives. Then the anime depicted him with a Venomoth, which carried over to ''Yellow'' by replacing his entire team with three Venonats and a Venomoth. Thus in the two ''Stadium'' games and in the Gen II games and their remakes, Koga has several Bug-types on his team while still being a Poison-type specialist.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Skuntank on Koga's rematch team in the remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' knows Dig, which will not only give it a decent attacking option but briefly sends it underground to help it avoid most attacks and stall while its Toxic causes DamageOverTime. At the same time, Dig opens it up to retaliation by Earthquake, which not only does double-damage to Skuntank as a Poison-type but doubles damage against underground enemies as well.
* EvilLaugh: While he's not really evil, he mostly does this to look intimidating to the player.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: An acute example. Despite Kanto (as well as Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh) being a Fantasy Counterpart for a region of Japan, in ''Masters'' he's the only character who affects a Japanese accent (likely due to appearing as a stereotypical Ninja). This is especially noticeable because his Ninja daughter Janine does not have the accent.
* TheMaze: Back when he was a Gym Leader, he used an invisible maze in his Gym to force the player into Pokémon battles while walking around. The maze itself isn't 100% invisible, but can mess with players who don't look too closely.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the '''Koga'''-ryu school of ninjutsu.
* MightyGlacier: His multiple Koffing and signature Weezing in ''RBGY'' and their remakes. ''Yellow'' replaces them with the more squishy Venonat and Venomoth, respectively.
* {{Ninja}}: His motif, and self-declared as one. He comes from a long line of ninjas, hundreds of years in fact, and possesses several fantasy ninja abilities such as being able to seemingly teleport, disguise himself in an instant, and even seemingly create copies of himself. Its unclear if these are actual superhuman powers like Sabrina's psychic abilities, or some kind of highly advanced trickery.
* TheOneGuy: The only male Poison-type specialist.
* PassingTheTorch: To his daughter Janine after he ascended to the Elite Four.
* PoisonousPerson: Uses Poison-types.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He cripples foes with his mastery of Poison-type Pokémon (with the type generally being depicted with purple coloration), and is one of few Poison-type specialists to have ascended to the status of Elite Four.
* {{Sadist}}: Possibly with the way he talks of enjoying poison's effects on enemies.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a scarf and [[TookALevelInBadass went from Gym Leader to a member of the Elite Four.]]
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Koga favors different Pokémon in different contexts, most of which have an at least mild association with his ninja motif.
** In the first generation games, his most powerful was [[MightyGlacier Weezing]], while ''Yellow'' gave him a team with a handful of Venonat and one [[SquishyWizard Venomoth]] to reflect his Venonat's mid-battle evolution in the anime.
** During his anime rematch, however, he used a [[FragileSpeedster Golbat]] instead, and during his tenure as Elite Four in all games featuring Johto, his finisher is [[FragileSpeedster Crobat]], which is carried over to ''Pokémon Masters''.
** Ironically, the unsung hero of his team is ''Muk'', which has been on literally every team of his except for his Round 2 bout in ''Stadium 2''... and apparently someone on the ''Let's Go'' staff realized it, as his rematch team's Muk is his final and highest-level Pokémon.
* StatusInflictionAttack: As both a Poison-type master and a Ninja, he specializes in subversive and tricky battling styles. This translates to relying on status ailments and other status moves like Disable, Double Team, and Spikes.
* TakingYouWithMe: He uses a Weezing, sometimes as his last Pokémon. The AI is not averse to using Explosion if this is the case. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard This results in the player losing if their last Pokémon faints.]] He will do this regardless of what you have out, so you could get some laughs out of the AI using Explosion against your [[NoSell Gastly]], against whom the only effect will be his Weezing fainting.
* ThemeNaming: With his daughter in the Japanese version.
* ThresholdGuardians: As a Gym Leader in Kanto, Koga gives out the Soul Badge, which authorizes the player to use Surf, which opens up access to Cinnabar Island and the latter part of the path to Victory Road.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In ''Yellow'', his final Pokémon is a level 50 Venomoth. This is quite the leap compared to the original where his strongest Pokémon was a level 43 Weezing. The rest of his team also are Level 44, 46 and 48, even if they're just Venonats.
** From Gym Leader in Gen I/III to Elite Four in Gen II/IV.
** Takes another one in ''Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'' where his Pokémon are equal to Sabrina's at Level 43 and his ace Pokémon Venomoth is at Level 44, the same level as her Alakazam. But in order to challenge his Gym, players will have to had caught 50 different species of Pokémon compared to Sabrina's 45 level or higher Pokémon requirement, meaning that his challenge is supposed to be more difficult. This is a [[ContinuityNod reference]] to the fact that Koga is above Will in the Johto series of the games despite Will having a type advantage over him.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
!!Bruno / Siba (シバ ''shiba'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/TakanoriHoshino (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Bill Rogers (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Jiro Saito (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"I always train to the extreme because I believe in our potential. That is how we became strong."''
Uniquely, Bruno serves on both the Gen I and Gen II Elite Four teams, though he moves up from the second member to the third between games. However, he is mostly the same opponent in both instances.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In the original games and their artwork; like Brock, he became less so in the remakes.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: In Gen I, Bruno's design uses so many of the same tropes as Brock's design that Bruno is basically a bigger, tougher version of Brock; on top of that, Bruno also uses Brock's SignatureMon Onix. However, no relationship between them was ever elaborated on.
* BadassNormal: He reportedly trains with his own Pokémon. When you read the Pokédex entries for some of them, you realize Bruno is one ''hell'' of a strongman.
* BruceLeeClone: Certainly takes inspiration from Creator/BruceLee.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: See BadassNormal.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Apparently being in a room full of lava [[TrainingFromHell is part of his training]].
* DishingOutDirt: Aside from Fighting-types, Bruno is fond of Rock and Ground-types too. He has two Onix in the first Generation and its remakes (in Gen II, he swaps one out for Hitmontop but keeps the other), evolves them both into Steelix in his Gen III rematch, and in the two ''Stadium'' games, adds Golem and Rhydon to his teams. This incidentally leads him to be a specialist in all the types that are represented by the Fighting-type in [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} the trading card game]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Downplayed. While Brock and Bruno were AmbiguouslyRelated in Gen I, in newer games Bruno's eyes are open and Brock is wearing a shirt.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Doesn't wear them ever.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In [[https://hirespokemon.tumblr.com/post/652433518958411776/1997-rendition-of-the-generation-1-elite-4-by older artwork]] his eyes are always closed, giving him a strong resemblance to Brock.
* FireIceLightning: In ''Yellow'' and Gen II, and the remakes of the latter, his Hitmonchan has the three {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* {{Kiai}}: HOO-HA!
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Bru'''no sounds like bruiser or brawn.
** Shiba sounds like '''shiba'''ku, to strike.
* MightyGlacier: His Pokémon tend to have great physical stats for both offense and defense, but aren't so good with speed.
* ShockAndAwe: For his ''Let's Go!'' rematch, he obtains that part Electric-type Alolan Golem.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the Spanish translation, where he keeps his English name but [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsandRivals Brendan]] is named Bruno too.
* RealMenHateSugar: Subverted. Despite his TestosteronePoisoning, the Gen III remakes reveal Bruno's TrademarkFavoriteFood is the Rage Candy Bar.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Machamp]], reflecting his reliance on brute power.
* SoreLoser: When you beat him in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedandBlue Gen 1 games]], he says "How can I lose?" and then begrudgingly tells you to go to the next room, turning to the next direction while doing so.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Gen III says that he joined the Elite Four so he could battle the region's most powerful trainers.
* TheStoic: His expression is always the same for all of his sprites.
* TookALevelInBadass: A minor case, but he jumps from second Elite Four to third Elite Four between the first two games.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[SweetTooth Rage Candy Bars]]. He apparently went all the way to the Sevii Islands to get his hands on some.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt ever either.
* WildMan: Bruno appears to be a martial artist that has abandoned civilization--the only item of real clothing he wears is a tattered pair of pants held up by his black belt, the apparent leftovers of a MartialArtsUniform. He's also let his AnimeHair grow out to BarbarianLonghair length, and in ''Let's Go'' he even has feral UhOhEyes.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Fighting-type master, but specifically focuses on the martial arts and wrestling-themed ones rather than just ''any'' Fighting-type.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Karen ''[-(Karin)-]'']]
!!Karen / Karin (カリン ''karin'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/MelaLee ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/RyokaYuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I love dark-type Pokémon. I find their wild, tough image to be so appealing. And they're so strong."''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is white in her original game sprite, but is silver in artwork for the TCG and blue-ish white in ''Pokémon Stadium 2''. The remakes settled for grayish blue.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While she was already attractive in the originals, her redesign for the remakes definitely ramped up the sex appeal.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Invoked with her love of Dark-types, as shown in her profile quote. The quote gets removed in the remakes for some reason, but the association remains.
* BareYourMidriff: In the remakes she shows off her midriff, even moreso than Sabrina in her respective new design.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Invoked. Karen pointedly strikes one of these in her pre-battle animation in the Gen IV remakes.
* CastingAShadow: Uses Dark-type Pokémon.
* CombatPragmatist:
** Comes with the territory of using Dark-types. Expect to see plenty of tricky status moves from her.
** Ironically, despite extolling how powerful Dark-types can be, she also encourages the player ''not'' to be one of these, stating that liking the Pokémon in question should be the primary factor in using them. Her team also matches this ideology, as your first match against her has her using a team including a few non-Dark-types, despite there being enough available Dark-types to fill out a team of five.
--->"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."
* CombatStilettos: She's given yellow heels in her remake re-design.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Agatha.
** Karen taps into the same milieu of spooky monsters that Agatha did, but she's younger and sexier than Agatha and preaches the value of fighting with your favorite Pokémon, where Agatha pretty much just preached fighting.
** While Karen borrows the PoisonousPerson milieu from Agatha and even her SignatureMon Gengar, Agatha used spooky animals like Golbat and Arbok, while Karen uses the spooky plant Vileplume.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She may use Dark-types, but she's a nice person. In ''Masters'', she discusses the fact people don't often pick Dark-types out of a combination of how tough-looking they are and because their moves don't exactly evoke security.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: A comparison of Karen's original battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei and Agatha from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] strongly suggests Karen started life as an edit of Lorelei's body with Agatha's hair. In the Gen IV remakes, however, Karen's outfit is completely redesigned and Karen's fanservice focuses on her top half rather than on the fact that ShesGotLegs like Lorelei.
* GlassCannon: With the exception of [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and, in her rematch in the remakes, Spiritomb, all of her Pokémon are heavy hitters but are also extremely fragile.
* HellHound: Her Houndoom.
* HiddenBuxom: Her original outfit in ''Gold and Silver'' has her in a long, loose black dress that conceals her figure entirely save for her legs. In ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=], she's put in low-riding capris and a crop top that shows off her wide hips, stomach, and reveals that she has a very large chest.
* LittleBlackDress: In the originals she wears a black dress that bares her legs.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Karen has always had some of the longest hair in the franchise, and art of her redesigned self oftens shows her running her hand through her hair to show it off.
* MaleGaze: Her VS Splash Art close-up in ''[=HeartGold=] and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' features her neck, bust, and nearly bare shoulders, while the art in [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen_(XY_Promo_177) her dedicated TCG card]] from Gen VI features her from some very suggestive angles.
* MeaningfulName:
** Rearrange '''Karen''' and add a "D", and you spell "Darken".
** Her German name is Melanie, from "melas" (Ancient Greek for black, dark).
** Her French name is Marion, the 4 last letters spells "noir" backward which means "black".
* MsFanservice: In GSC, she fights you in a LittleBlackDress and heels, with a pose that shows ShesGotLegs. In the remake, she's given tight pants and top to BareYourMidriff with.
* NocturnalMooks: Her original team consists of not just Dark-types, but also Pokémon that can only be found at night in Johto.
* PlayingWithFire: Her SignatureMon Houndoom is a mixed Dark-Fire type, she uses a Magmar in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', and the trading card game extrapolates from her Houndoom so that [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen#In_the_TCG a full two-thirds of her pokémon]] have the Fire-type and one of her technical machines teaches an attack that uses Fire-energy. Perhaps the card game wants us to know [[StealthPun she's hot]].
* PoisonousPerson: Due to Dark-types not having enough strong members in their debut generation, she added Gengar and Vileplume into her team.
* ProudBeauty: She is very proud of the beauty she sees in Dark-type Pokémon, whether from being elegant or wild. This also seems to extend to herself, as she often strikes a pose while running her hand through her hair suggestively, and many of her lines and animations in ''Pokémon Masters'' come across as equally suggestive and teasing regarding her beauty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: All her Pokémon are predominantly either black or purple, and they're Dark or Poison-types.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is so long that it reaches her waist. Much of her art has her running a hand through it for emphasis, suggesting she prides herself on it.
* SignatureMon: Her Houndoom and Umbreon--the respective finisher and point man of her Elite Four team--are the most prominent among her pokémon.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', [[GlassCannon Houndoom]] is her finisher, which fits perfectly with her preference for Dark-types for their wild, cool appearances.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', however, [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and Murkrow take center stage--both appear on both of Karen's teams, while Houndoom is nowhere to be seen. In the Gen IV remakes of her debut games, Umbreon and Honchkrow tie for the highest-levelled pokémon on her rematch team.
** In ''Masters'', Karen can choose between Houndoom and Umbreon, though the former is her default and can Mega Evolve. Both Hondoom and Umbreon are also the only monsters from her core series team to appear in the TCG.
* SoulPower: Her Gengar and Spiritomb, which are part Ghost-type.
* StopHavingFunGuys: {{Defied}} InUniverse. Lorelei's introductory speech famously criticizes judging pokémon for being strong or weak.
* SuperMode: In ''Masters'', she can Mega Evolve her Houndoom.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Masters'', she can now Mega Evolve her Houndoom. This is consistent with many other returning trainers of her level in games after Mega Evolution was revealed, including the Generation 3 Elite Four, so it's also likely that if she were to return again in the main series, she'd have access to the technique there as well.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Downplayed. She describes herself as "verrry good" in ''Pokémon Puzzle Challenge'', but it's unknown if she's actually trilling them or just dragging the word out.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the original games, Karen wore a LittleBlackDress and had shoulder-length white hair. In the remakes, she has a yellow top with white pants and waist-length blue hair. If you didn't know it was Karen looking between the two games, you wouldn't guess it.
[[/folder]]
!Hoenn Elite Four
[[folder:Sidney ''[-(Kagetsu)-]'']]
!!Sidney / Kagetsu (カゲツ ''kagetsu'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/ProZD ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shōhei Kajikawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I like that look you're giving me. I guess you'll give me a good match."''
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* ActionInitiative: Teaches his team Fake Out, Aqua Jet, and Sucker Punch in the remakes.
* BaldOfAwesome: Well, shaved, but still fits.
* BlingOfWar: Downplayed; wearing a ''golden'' watch comes off as this when hardly anyone else in the series wears a watch at all. He also proudly boasts during rematches that Steven gifted the entire Hoenn Elite Four with Mega Stones and Key Stones, so presumably he's quite proud of wearing them as well.
* CastingAShadow: Dark-types.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: His Shiftry knows Extrasensory at level 48 when Nuzleaf doesn't learn it until 49 and it's impossible for Seedot to learn it. This was fixed in the remakes, as Nuzleaf learns it at 36 this time around.
* CombatPragmatist: Natural for a Dark-type user.
* CriticalHitClass: In the remakes, his Absol has the ability Super Luck, which increases the probability for critical hits. He's also taught it Night Slash, Psycho Cut, and Slash. Have fun seeing the words "Critical hit!" a lot.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may use Dark-type mons, but he's a nice person.
* FaceOfAThug: His artwork in the remakes gives him a rather nasty-looking facial expression. But he's not a bad guy. This makes him come across as much more edgy and unpredictable than in the original games, where he appeared to just be a well-mannered, nicely dressed guy, dialogue aside.
* GenkiBoy: Implied. Given how he actually enjoys avoiding ''natural disasters'' using his Absol and how expressive he can be, he may be this.
* GlassCannon:
** His strategy says it all: "Offense over Defense". His team consists of several such Pokémon with high offensive stats, but poor defenses and middling to low speed.
** Though he seems to have re-evaluated his strategy a bit for his rematches in the remakes, as he is now touting a [[MightyGlacier Scrafty]] and a [[StoneWall Mandibuzz]].
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Si'''d'''n'''ey can be used to make all sorts of unpleasant words like sinister, insidious, or sin. Not that he's evil, but it fits his theme.
** '''Kage'''tsu contains the word '''kage''' (shadow).
** His French name is Damien, like Satan's son. It also sounds like "demon".
** His German name is Ulrich, from "Unlicht" (Dark).
** His Italian name is Fosco, meaning "dark" or "obscure".
** His Spanish name is Sixto, from "siniestro" (sinister/Dark). It may also be a reference to the NumberOfTheBeast.
* NiceGuy: Despite being a Dark-type user and having the FaceOfAThug, he's actually really friendly and easy-going.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Absol]], a GlassCannon which perfectly represents his preference.
* SlouchOfVillainy: He's not a villain, but is still notably the only Elite Four member in the remakes who actually sits on his chair as he waits for challengers.
* ThrillSeeker: After his encounter with his Absol, who has the power to predict disasters, he mentions that he's so happy to be with it because it is never a dull moment being with it.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Absol.
* UselessUsefulStealth: Has a Zoroark in rematches, which will always copy his Absol. Any player who knows how [=NPC=] trainers handle Mega Evolution will see why Zoroark's cover will immediately be blown. And besides that, Zoroark and Absol are typed the same, so the disguise won't do much to increase Zoroark's longevity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phoebe ''[-(Fuyō)-]'']]
!!Phoebe / Fuyō (フヨウ ''fuyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/CristinaValenzuela ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MaiFuchigami ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I did my training on Mt. Pyre. While I trained, I gained the ability to commune with Ghost-type Pokémon."''
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: One of the first in the series; she was a tan-skinned young woman with an island dancer theme in the original games.
* BadassAdorable: It's already apparent in her original artwork, but her redesign in the remakes makes it even more obvious, on top of making her look younger.
* BareYourMidriff: Her dancer design has her in a cropped bandeau and a long skirt, exposing her midriff.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Playing into her Hawaiian (or perhaps [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Alolan]]) dancer theme, Phoebe goes barefooted seemingly without regard for terrain.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: A variant; her connection with nature focuses on the dead more than the living.
* FireIceLightning: Her Dusknoir in the remakes has the {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* GenkiGirl: In the remakes, while her dialog is basically unchanged, her model is much more expressive, indicating her to be very bouncy and hyper.
* ISeeDeadPeople:
** Gained the ability to communicate with ghosts while training on [[IndianBurialGround Mt. Pyre]]. If you visit Mt. Pyre again after beating the Elite Four, you can find her while she's having a conversation with one... who may or may not be her grandmother.
** A now infamous Easter egg in the remakes shows a ghost girl sitting in her chair for a split second, and then between Phoebe and the player (the camera angle obscures her) right before you challenge her for the first time, though it's uncertain whether or not Phoebe was aware of her presence.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Phoebe's strategy is to "confuse and confound", and she lives up to it. In ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', every one of her Pokémon can induce a status effect or condition, while in ''Emerald'', she mixes up status with evasion and ManaBurn; and most of them know Shadow Ball or Psychic, which can diminish Special Defense. In Generation VI, she upgrades her strategy by having her strongest Pokémon know Hex, which does double damage to a target that has been inflicted with status (and that Pokémon can easily burn, freeze, or paralyze your Pokémon with its Elemental Punches).
* ManaBurn: Her first Pokémon in ''Emerald'', Dusclops, has Protect, which, coupled with its Pressure ability, was specifically designed to wear down the Power Points (PP) of your Pokémon. The second one, Banette, is no slouch either, with Spite in its arsenal (in ''Emerald'', Spite is replaced with Grudge).
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Pho'''e'''b'''e becomes phobia, and ghosts have a very strong association with fear.
** Fuyou sounds similar to Fuyuu (to float), which is what many ghosts do.
** Her German name is Antonia, from "Phantom".
** Her Spanish name is Fátima, from "fantasma" (phantom).
** Her French name is Spectra, from "spectre" (ghost).
** Her Italian name is Ester, from "esoterico" (esoteric), "esper", or "extrasensoriale" (extrasensory).
** Her Korean name is Hoeyeon, from hwanyeong (phantom).
* MightyGlacier: Her second Dusclops, while very slow, has incredible defenses and a plethora of powerful moves that cover a wide range of types, making it quite deadly. In the remakes, it is a Dusknoir with even higher defenses, all three of the elemental punches, and actually has the Attack stat to use them.
* MsFanservice: She's shown to be wearing only a bandeau top and a sarong, with anything beneath the sarong left up to the imagination. At least until ''Masters'', where some kind of underwear/shorts can be seen.
* NiceGirl: Despite being a Ghost-type user, she's very friendly and carefree.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Not among the cast, but among trainers. With her bright, happy personality and her equally-bright appearance, Ghost-types are probably the last type one would think she'd use.
* PerpetualSmiler: In the remakes, Phoebe is always laughing and smiling. It's shown in her official artwork, and intro cutscene — even after she loses, her smile never drops.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Attributes her loss to you having a stronger bond with your Pokémon than she had with hers.
* RecurringElement: The second in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in an odd-numbered generation that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Phoebe's team is remarkably symmetrical, with two Dusclops, two Banette, and a single Sableye in the center, though she does start and end with her [[StoneWall Dusclops]]. In the remakes, she's evolved her second Dusclops into [[MightyGlacier Dusknoir]], but in rematches, her strongest Pokémon is actually [[StoneWall Mega Sableye]]. All of them tie into her links to the Hoenn region's past and ability to commune with Ghost-types. She uses Dusclops/Dusknoir in ''Masters''.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type master.
* StoneWall: Her BadassBoast before your battle, openly challenges you to try and damage her team.
* {{Stripperific}}: She doesn't wear [[BareYourMidriff that much]], though downplayed obviously, owing to the target audience.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Sableye.
* UselessUsefulSpell: In all battles, Phoebe's Sableye lacks status moves to abuse with Prankster.
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[[folder:Glacia ''[-(Prim)-]'']]
!!Glacia / Prim (プリム ''purimu'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/KatelynGault ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SayakaKinoshita ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I've traveled from afar to Hoenn so that I may hone my Ice-type moves."''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The modern art style and its bigger eyes make her look more youthful than her original self, though both versions are still of a VagueAge. Her redesign is also showing some skin around the neck and chest.
* BloodKnight: Downplayed. Glacia enjoys battles for the passion of them.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Lorelei and Glacia are both powerful Ice-type specialists, but while Lorelei was a haughty IceQueen who takes offense to being defeated, Glacia delights in the passion of the fight itself and is a GracefulLoser.
* {{Expy}}: As a beautiful female Ice-type specialist in the Elite Four, she directly recalls Lorelei of Kanto; as a beautiful female Ice-type specialist encountered in a subtropical island region, she recalls Lorelei as she appeared in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--her Japanese name Prim is remarkably close to Lorelei's DubNameChange Prima.
* FightOffTheKryptonite: One of the reasons she came to Hoenn was to train her Ice-types to fight under tropical conditions in the belief they could power through it.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Wears a long purple dress.
* HiddenDepths: When you defeat her, Glacia reveals a taste for wordplay and puns in particular.
* HostileWeather: Glacia's use of Hail will deal DamageOverTime to all non-Ice types on the player's team while it's in effect.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IcyBlueEyes: Has them in the remakes. The VisualPun is almost certainly intentional.
* InformedAttribute: Her profile indicates her strategy is to use items in battle, but she only uses the bog-standard pair of full-restores and a single sitrus berry as a held item in Gen III--in Gen VI she doesn't even use the berry, only using a single Glalitite in her rematch.
* {{Irony}}: She's a cool-tongued LadyOfWar who appreciates nothing more than fiery passion. This even extends to her favorite dish being spicy curry.
* LadyOfAdventure: A ProperLady who traveled from afar to the Hoenn region so that she could better train her Ice-type Pokémon and climb up the Pokémon League ladder.
* LadyOfWar: She's a regal and lady-like Ice-type trainer. It helps that she's a member of the Elite Four.
* LuckBasedMission:
** Her Walrein knows Sheer Cold. Unless you outlevel her (meaning you have effectively [[NoSell already won]]), or have a Pokémon with Sturdy, you have at least a 30% chance of a KO when she pulls it out.
** Her Froslass have Snow Cloak, meaning you can miss when the Hail is out.
* MakingASplash: Like Lorelei before her, she has a dual-split focus on Ice and Water due to the dual-typed Walrein and Sealeo. Downplayed in the remakes since she's replaced her two Sealeo with two Froslass, which are Ice and Ghost.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Glaci'''a is very close to glacier. Her name also sounds like the French word for ice "Glace".
** Her Japanese name, '''Prim''', is much like "''prim'' and proper". Given her appearance, it's quite fitting.
** Her German name is Frosina, from "frost".
** Her Spanish name is Nívea, meaning "snowy".
** Her Italian name is Frida, from freddo (cold).
** Her Korean name is Mihye, from "mi" (beautiful) and "hyeseong" (comet, which consist mainly of ice).
* OneSteveLimit: Glaceon's Japanese name is also Glacia. The character and the Pokémon never share a name in the same region.
* OneHitKill: If her Walrein's Sheer Cold attack lands, it will KO your Pokémon.
* PimpedOutDress: Her outfit. Even more so in the remakes, which add ornate snowflake designs and impressive gloves that cover her forearms.
* ProperLady: Acts like this when you meet her, and has her MeaningfulName above (in Japanese) to fit.
* PungeonMaster: When you defeat her, she makes puns about you being HotBlooded. ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' expands her collection of ice-themed puns, as well.
* ShipTease: After you defeat her post-game in the remakes, Glacia will ask if you intend to "thaw her very heart" before remarking that she wouldn't mind if you did--[[StealthPun she's really starting to warm up to you]].
* SignatureMon: In the third gen, she favored the Spheal line, with two Sealeo and her finisher [[MightyGlacier Walrein]] spaced out by a couple of Glaie. In the sixth gen, she favors the Snorunt family instead, having replaced both Sealeo with Frosslass, leading with a Glalie, and in her rematch using Mega Glalie as her finisher over Walrein, which is also what she uses in ''Masters''.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's very regal and formal, but is also the second-strongest of Hoenn's Elite Four.
* SoulPower: In the remakes, she's got a pair of Ghost-type Froslasses.
* StandardRPGItems: She claims her strategy is to use items to win, which may or may not be true. (Ironically, she uses next to no Hold Items, only having a Sitrus Berry for her Walrein in the original games and a Glailite — in the rematch — in the remakes).
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Glalie.
** She also uses Froslass in place of her weak Sealeo, and with their high speed and Snow Cloak ability, can be extremely difficult to take down.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A hot plate of Mauville Ramen Bowl. [[LampshadeHanging Yes, she's aware it's ironic.]]
* UselessUsefulSpell:
** In rematches, Glacia's Mega Glalie lacks Normal-type moves to take advantage of Refrigerate.
** Her Walrein's ability is Thick Fat, which gives it resistance to Fire and Ice attacks. Unfortunately, being a Water and Ice type, Walrein already has a double-resistance to Ice and only takes neutral damage from Fire, so nobody's going to be throwing many of those moves at her.
* VictoryIsBoring: Despite the fact that she came to Hoenn specifically to hone her "icy skills", she hasn't managed to have even a single challenging fight since arriving.
* WeatherManipulation:
** Her team is fond of the moves Hail and Blizzard.
** In her rematch, she leads with an Abomasnow, whose Snow Warning ability automatically starts Hail as soon as it's sent out. She takes great advantage of this not only by using Blizzard, but also by using Pokémon whose abilities are activated by Hail.
* WeatherOfWar: One of the first trainers to make real use of it; Glacia's Pokémon all know Hail and employ their Ice-type ExploitedImmunity to preserve themselves from the DamageOverTime. Her Glalie use Crunch and Shadow Ball to set you up for their teammates' Surf, Ice Beam, and Blizzard moves. In the remake, she's even tougher — most of her Pokémon now know Blizzard in order to exploit the new always-accurate effect Hail gives it.
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[[folder:Drake ''[-(Genji)-]'']]
!!Drake / Genji (ゲンジ ''genji'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/SteveKramer ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MasaharuSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"For us to battle with Pokémon as partners, do you know what it takes? Do you know what is needed? If you don't, then you will never prevail over me!"''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Notably averted. In the ''Ruby and Sapphire'' remakes, which redesign virtually every single major character to some degree, Drake stands out as one of the very few with no design changes whatsoever -- while he receives new artwork, his appearance is identical to his design in the original games. This suggests that, of the designs from those games, the developers felt his was the design that best conveyed their original intentions and thus did not require improvement or modernizing.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one with no shirt, also qualifying for NoShirtLongJacket.
* ConfusionFu: Par for the course with a Dragon master. While the Elite Four always tend to give their teams varied and powerful movesets, it's hard to predict what Drake will throw at you.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* FatherNeptune: Seems to have the look, being a sea lover. He's not a Water-type specialist, though.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the initial Elite Four battle in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', his male Flygon focuses on physical attacks while his female Flygon focuses on special attacks.
* MeaningfulName:
** In Japanese, Genji comes from genjū (mythical beast).
** '''Drake''' is another word for a dragon, hence his dragon tamer specialty.
** His Korean name is Gweonsu, from "gweon" (power) and "su" (beast).
** His name come from "dragon" in most translations
*** His German name is Dragan.
*** His Spanish name is Dracón.
*** His French name is Aragon.
%%* MightyGlacier: His Altaria.
* NiceHat: A sea captain's, to be precise.
* NoShirtLongJacket: He wear a long open jacket with no shirt.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares his name with the Supreme Gym Leader of the Orange Crew from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--Drake of the Orange Islands notably used a Dragon-type as his SignatureMon.
* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Emerald'', where he tells you over the Pokénav that fighting the Elite Four is better than engaging in the Battle Frontier, regardless of fun value.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Salamence]], perfect given that he champions the Elite Four as the strongest trainers and Dragon-types as the strongest Pokémon. In Gen VI rematches, it Mega Evolves into Mega Salamence.
* StealthPun:
** He's a Dragon type trainer that wears a sea captain hat. Hmm, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon sound familiar]]?
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake Alternatively...]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Salamence.
* TheUnsmile: In ''Masters'', his face frightened a young kid. He then shows his unnerving smile to the player to prove his point.
* UselessUsefulSpell: His Salamence can Mega Evolve in the rematches, but its moveset does not have any Normal-type moves to make use of Aerilate.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Though he has a coat, unlike most examples.
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!Sinnoh Elite Four
[[folder:Aaron ''[-(Ryō)-]'']]
!!Aaron / Ryō (リョウ ''ryou'')
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-->''"I'm a huge fan of bug Pokémon. Bug Pokémon are nasty-mean, and yet they're beautiful, too..."''
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* AchillesHeel: Three of his five Pokémon in ''Diamond and Pearl'' have a 4x weakness. They won't last long if you have that particular Type handy. In ''Platinum'', four of his five team members have a 4x weakness with his signature Drapion being the only one that doesn't.
* AnimeHair: Just look at that IdiotHair!
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He loves Bug-types, and wonders why most people don't love Bug-types too. His team also includes large insectoid Pokémon that aren't Bug-types, such as Flygon and Drapion.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In a dramatic in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he became a Gym Leader to impress a childhood friend, only for her to fall in love with another Gym Leader. When that Gym Leader turned out to be a fraud, he confessed his love for her right after he became promoted to Elite Four.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Green hair and green eyes.
* DragonTamer: For his rematch in ''Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'' he's added the part Dragon-type Flygon to his team.
* ExtraOreDinary: He adds the part Steel-type Scizor to his team in ''Platinum''.
* FriendToBugs: He adores and is obsessed with Bug-type Pokémon.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: A rare heroic variant of this trope. He was originally just another Bug Catcher who never lost his love for Bug-type Pokémon even after growing up, but became so good with utilizing Bug-types and won so many battles with them that he eventually reached up to the ''Elite Four,'' being effective one of the Top 5 Strongest Trainers in the ''entire Sinnoh region''. Yes, he's the weakest of the Elite Four, but that's still ludicrously impressive given the competition he faces for that.
* GracefulLoser: If somewhat adorkable in trying to be this.
* IdiotHair: Considering his [[BigCreepyCrawlies specialty type]], it might be intended as reminiscent of a rhinoceros beetle's (like Heracross) horn.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Aar'''on is like arachnid.
** His Spanish name is Alecrán, from "alacrán", (scorpion).
** His Korean name is Chungho, from "chung", (bug).
* MookPromotion: According to a television channel in ''Black 2 and White 2'', a Bug Catcher in Sinnoh managed to get a position as a Gym Leader, then worked his way up to the Elite Four.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Not to be confused with Sir Aaron from the eighth movie of the anime.
* PoorPredictableRock:
** Aaron's main Pokémon is a Drapion, a Pokémon that isn't a Bug type, but it's only weak to Ground type moves, something that Bug types resist.
** Aaron is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four to ''not'' play this trope straight in ''Platinum'', thanks to the aforementioned Drapion.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Drapion]]. Despite it not being of his Bug typing, it does fit the "nasty-mean" part of his opening lines, not to mention its previous form Skorupi is a Bug-type. Interestingly, he is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four whose main Pokémon stays the same when their teams get revamped for ''Platinum''.
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[[folder:Bertha ''[-(Kikuno)-]'']]
!!Bertha / Kikuno (キクノ ''kikuno'')
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-->''"You're quite the adorable Trainer, but you've also got a spine."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Every Pokémon she fields in her initial Elite Four and rematch bouts is female.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: It's strongly implied she may be a relative of Agatha of the Kanto Elite Four. They have similar names, they look similar, they have identical hairstyles, similar speech patterns (though Bertha is much nicer than Agatha), and Charm from ''Legends: Arceus'' resembles both of them and uses a Gengar and Rhydon, implying a shared ancestor. Shauntal remarks on their similarities in Gen V, but there's nothing confirmed.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Dear child."
* CoolOldLady: Much nicer than Agatha as well.
* DishingOutDirt: Ground-type master.
* MakingASplash: Her Whiscash and Quagsire, who are part Water-type. The latter only appears on her ''Diamond and Pearl'' team.
* MeaningfulName:
** B'''erth'''a, from "earth".
** Her French name is Terry, from "terre" (earth).
** Her German name is Teresa, from "terrain" (soil).
** Her Italian name is Terrie, from "terra" (earth).
** Her Spanish name is Gaia, the name of the Greek deity personifying the earth.
* MightyGlacier: As usual with a Ground-type master, her Pokémon are a bit slow, but very tough.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's also quite possibly a relative of Kanto's Agatha. Only much nicer.
* OldMaster: An elderly Ground-type Trainer who holds her own as a member of the Elite Four.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: A brown one, as befits a Ground-type Trainer.
* ScaryScorpions: She adds a Gliscor to her team in ''Platinum''.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Hippowdon]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[MightyGlacier Rhyperior]] in ''Platinum'' and ''BDSP''. Both reflect the Ground-type's typical nature of prioritizing defense over offense.
* ThemeNaming: In the English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese versions, she's named after Agatha: Bertha/Agatha, Kikuno/Kikuko, Deul Gukhwa/Gukhwa and Guk Je/Gūkjí.
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[[folder:Flint ''[-(Ōba)-]'']]
!!Flint / Ōba (オーバ ''ooba'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/LandonMcDonald ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You're facing a Fire-type Pokémon user with me. Let Flint see how hot your spirit burns!"''
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* AfroAsskicker: His most notable trait is his red afro and he's tough enough to be a member of the Elite Four. He even suggests to Volkner in ''Platinum'' that he should have his Pokémon come out of it just to freak out his opponents. In ''Masters'', it turns out he takes great pride out of it and goes against expectations that Elite Four members should have "clean-cuts."
* ArtificialBrilliance: He likes to use Sunny Day to power up his Fire-type moves and weaken your Water-type moves. His Magmortar in ''Platinum'' has Sunny Day + Solar Beam (and Thunderbolt, for that matter) to deal with Water-types. His Infernape knows Thunder Punch for the same reason, and can use Mach Punch and Earthquake on your Rock-types, plus it's part Fighting-type so it's neutral against Rock-type moves.
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: The wise guy to Volkner's straight man.
* ElementalHairColors: His afro is a fiery red, and the shape of it resembles a cloud of smoke. He also specializes in Fire-type Pokémon.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Lampshaded by Volkner, who states that Flint chose to raise Fire-types because of his name.
* FieryRedhead: Has red hair to match his fiery personality.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Volkner.
* HotBlooded: In contrast with Volkner, he starts a battle like this but burns out as he comes closer to losing.
* TheHyena: In ''Masters'' his ready animation occasionally has him laughing to himself before calming himself down.
* InformedAttribute: He says that his favorite move is Overheat, but not many of his team members know it. Only his Flareon knows it in ''Platinum'', and none of his Pokémon know it in ''Diamond and Pearl''.
* MeaningfulName:
** Invoked. Once again, see Volkner's DeadpanSnarker entry. In case you don't get it, '''flint''' is a material used for making fires.
** His Japanese name is a reference to the fire-type move Overheat ('''Ooba'''ahiito).
** His German name is Ignaz, from "ignis" which is Latin for "fire".
** His Spanish name is Fausto, from Hefesto (Hephaestus), the Greek god of fire, volcano, and metallurgy.
** His French name is Adrien, from "ardent" (fiery).
** His Italian name is Vulcano, meaning "volcano".
* MythologyGag: In ''Masters'', there is no doubt the Flint that appears there is [[spoiler:the Flint from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' games, as he mains Infernape and he fondly talks about his Lopunny and Drifblim, despite the fact in ''Platinum'' he mains Magmortar and has a full team of Fire-types.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Goes from enthusiasm to utter devastation after losing.
* PersonalityPowers: Flipped from Volkner charging up as the battle continues, Flint starts off fired-up, then as you begin to beat him he blazes hotter, only to smolder down to embers on defeat and get quiet.
* PlayingWithFire: He apparently chose to train them solely because of his name. This was changed from the Japanese version, where his favorite move is Overheat because it matches his name (''Oobaahiito'' and ''Ooba'').
* PoorPredictableRock: Mainly averted in ''Diamond and Pearl'' due to the staggering lack of Fire-types in Sinnoh before the National Pokédex, as well as not padding out his team with lower evolutions or repeats to compensate. His team still has a couple of Fire attacks, however. ''Platinum'' remedied this by giving him Flareon, Houndoom, and Magmortar.
* PowerOfTheSun: He likes the move Sunny Day, which will not only power up his Fire-type moves, but will screw with your Water-type moves' power and, in ''Platinum'', make his Magmortar's Solar Beam work instantly.
* RedOniBlueOni: The HotBlooded red to Volkner's reserved blue.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Infernape]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', for his feisty and fiery personality. In ''Platinum'', it's changed to [[MightyGlacier Magmortar]], making his status as a counterpart to Volkner even more evident, as the Electabuzz and Magmar lines have always been counterparts to each other. It's his Infernape that he shows up with in ''Masters'', however.
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[[folder:Lucian ''[-(Goyō)-]'']]
!!Lucian / Goyō (ゴヨウ ''goyou'')
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-->''"They say I am the toughest of the Elite Four. I'm afraid I will have to go all out against you to live up to that reputation."''
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* BadassBookworm: Bookworm, and the last Elite Four member you face. Possibly one of the most difficult to defeat E4 members.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Pretty well dressed and can kick your ass handily if you aren't careful.
* {{Bishonen}}: To some, it might be difficult to tell whether he's a boy or girl.
* CoolShades: They add to the look.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Pale lavender hair and eyes.
* HairColorDissonance: Well... it looks... ''sort of'' blue... Or is it purple?
* MeaningfulName:
** Lucian = Il'''lusion'''. Lucian is also a name based off the Latin word Lux, which means 'light'.
*** Alternatively, his name could have been derived from the word '''luci'''d, a word used to describe dreams.
** His French name is Lucio, from "Illusion".
** His Italian name is Luciano, from "luce" (light).
** His Spanish name is Delos, from "delusion".
* OffModel:
** His ''Diamond/Pearl'' sprite has shorter hair than his artwork. ''Platinum'' fixed that little blunder.
** His in-game sprites have his clothes at a different colour to the one depicted in official artwork.
* PoorPredictableRock: He's the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four in ''Diamond and Pearl'' in which all the Pokémon in his team share a single type.
* PsychicPowers:
** At least with his Pokémon, because it isn't quite clear whether Lucian has them himself like most Psychic-type specialists (in contrast to how Sabrina expected the player to face her in Generation I, Lucian finishing a book as soon as the player walks into his room is merely stated to be good timing). At the very least, he's stated by an NPC to have a fondness for books on ESP, as well as books in general considering his frequenting the Canalave Library.
** The aforementioned good timing may be a little ''too'' good to be mere chance, both in the anime (not all that unusual, but still notable) and in the games.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Bronzong]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[GlassCannon Gallade]] in ''Platinum''.
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!Unova Elite Four
[[folder:Shauntal ''[-(Shikimi)-]'']]
!!Shauntal /Shikimi (シキミ ''shikimi'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/KiraBuckland ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yuka Nukui ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I absolutely love writing about the close bonds between the Trainers who come here and the Pokémon they train. Could I use you and your Pokémon as a subject?"''
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* AnimalMotifs: Her neck accessories are supposed to form a black cat's face, according to WordOfGod.
* ApologeticAttacker: When you beat her, she apologizes for hurting your Pokémon.
* BadassBookworm: She's an author, her room is at the top of a huge mound of books, and she's an Elite Four member.
* CallBack: Some of her dialogue references characters from previous games, such as Volkner, Agatha, and Bertha. In the case of the latter two, she muses on their conspicuously similar appearances.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and purple eyes.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Ghost-types but is not a bad person.
* DramaticThunder: In the room you fight her in, lightning occasionally flashes in the window.
* EmpathicEnvironment: In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'', the books in her area jump when you surprise her upon arrival.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_B2W2_Shauntal.png intro animation]] has her still penning a novel even as she starts to battle you.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time you challenge her in ''Black and White'', she reads a passage from a book she's writing based on a previous challenger. The description fits N perfectly.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: When the player challenges her in ''Black 2 and White 2'', the novel she's working on is about the events of the previous game; her brainstorming describes N and the Legendary Pokémon he uses in the game you're playing.
* JackOfAllStats: Her team is this collectively. Each of them has a different stat that is their best and always extremely high.
* MeaningfulName:
** S'''haunt'''al. In addition, it's a [[GratuitousFrench French name]] meaning "a circle of stones", or more specifically, a tomb, as befitting for a ghost-type user.
** '''Shi'''kimi contains '''Shi''' (death)
* {{Meganekko}}: A typical example.
* MyNaymeIs: Her English name is far more commonly written as "Chantal" or "Chantel"; the game's creative spelling was probably done to make the pun more obvious.
* NotAMorningPerson: She claims this in ''Pokémon Masters'' if she greets you in the morning, giving an exhausted sigh.
* PerkyGoth: She's a creepy Ghost-type master, but is very energetic.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Good thing, considering how short that skirt is.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her dress and hair are purple, and she's an elite trainer who specializes in Ghosts.
* RecurringElement: The third in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Chandelure]]; a chandelier is a good choice for a writer who writes in shadowed rooms.
* SoulPower: She is a Ghost-type master.
* StealthPun: She is an author who uses Ghost Pokémon. In other words, she is a ghostwriter.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marshal ''[-(Renbu)-]'']]
!!Marshal / Renbu (レンブ ''renbu'')
[[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Black_White_Marshal_5607.png]]
->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshikazu Nagano ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"In myself, I seek to develop the strength of a fighter. And shatter any weakness in myself!"''
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* BigOlEyebrows: That somehow merge with ''his hair''.
* BloodKnight: Prior to meeting Alder, Marshal wandered around Unova in order to battle strong trainers. It's still applicable to his character, but he probably had it worse before.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: His hair's kinda [[HairColorDissonance orange]], really.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Maybe Maylene picked it up from him.
* {{Kiai}}: Just before the battle begins, he will shout "Kiai!" He seems to have picked up the habit from Alder.
* LastChanceHitPoint: His Sawk has Sturdy.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Marshal" sounds just like ''martial'', as in martial arts.
** R'''enbu''' contains the word "enbu", referring to a type of public demonstration of martial arts.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Alder mentions that Marshal used to be solely driven by strength like Cheren.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Mienshao]] in the first battle, but [[MightyGlacier Conkeldurr]] usurps the throne in rematches and in the sequels, ''Black 2 and White 2'', as well as in ''Masters''. Both reflect his martial-arts focus and distaste for weakness.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Wears what appears to be a sleeveless combination of a sweatshirt and a karate gi.
* WalkingTheEarth: What he used to do in search of strong trainers before he was offered a place on the Unova Elite Four.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grimsley ''[-(Giima)-]'']]
!!Grimsley / Giima (ギーマ ''giima'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/DaisukeOno ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"It's more important to master the cards you're holding than to complain about the ones your opponents were dealt."''
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* AlwaysSecondBest: He usually holds the second-best record in the different Mantine Surfing spots.
* AmazonBrigade: Almost all of his Pokémon are female.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He's a gambler, and the colors of his Generation V clothes match common colors for roulettes.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Without a tie, but it still fits. In ''Sun and Moon'', he wears a kimono instead.
* {{Bishonen}}: He's quite fair-featured and handsome.
* TheCameo: Shows up briefly in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' to give the player access to Sharpedo for their Ride Pager. He later appears at the Battle Tree.
* CombatPragmatist: Uses Dark-types. What sets him apart from Karen and Sidney is that he discusses this aspect to them heavily, suggesting his preference for Dark-types was for completely different reasons than them.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In the originals, he has a level 50 Bisharp in the initial match, even though it evolves from Pawniard at level 52. Considering what Dark-types are [[TheCombatPragmatist known for]], it actually does make sense in a way.
* ContinuityNod: Uses every mon he's used throughout the Gen 5 games in the Battle Tree with the exception of Krookodile, which is absent from the entire tree roster. This even includes his Absol from the Challenge Mode of Grimsley's initial fight in the sequels.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a child, he was the son of a wealthy family that lost their fortune and fell into poverty. This led to him betting on Pokémon battles in an attempt to regain his family's wealth, and developing his liking for Dark-types, as they did whatever it took to win. By the time he reached adulthood, he was a Dark-type master and full-blown gambling addict.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Dark-types, but he's a nice guy.
* EightiesHair: Looks like somebody on the design team is a fan of Music/AFlockOfSeagulls. That, or ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', considering Caitlin's design as well. His appearance in general is also strongly influenced by both [[{{Goth}} traditional goth]] and NewRomantic fashion.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: By the time of ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''. They're likely a result of money-related stress.
* TheGambler: What he turned to after his family had been ruined.
* GracefulLoser: While this is true of all Elite Four members, he actually discusses this, saying there are bad ways to win and good ways to lose, and that it's not always clear which is which. Ironic, since he specializes in [[CombatPragmatist Dark-types]]. [[spoiler:Should you win against him at the Battle Tree, he tries covering his twitching face, so he's trying ''hard'' to be a graceful loser.]]
* HeadsOrTails:
** One of his animations shows him flipping a coin, as does his Gen. VII artwork. In ''Sun and Moon'', he also flips a coin and has the player character guess which side it lands on.
** In Chapter 25 of ''Masters'', he flips a coin to decide whether or not to join Karen and Will's team. It comes up heads, and he joins them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Grimsley is the son of a fallen wealthy family.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Played with. While his face looks relatively the same in ''Sun and Moon'', his hair has white streaks despite his youth, and he has dark bags under his eyes. Seems that the stress of his financial troubles has had an effect on his health.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Grim'''sley.
** Giima could be referencing '''ma''' (demon or demonic) or the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "Boogeyman" (Buu'''giima'''n)
* NewRomantic: His aesthetic is somewhere between this and a traditional goth in ''Black and White'', while his kimono-clad ''Sun and Moon'' self is firmly in this territory.
* PointyEars: He has pointy ears to add to his Vampire motif.
%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Adds to the field.
* SharpDressedMan: He wears a fashionable suit in the Generation V games, and it's part of his vampire motif.
* SignatureMon: [[ChessMotifs Bisharp]], suitable for someone who relies on the CombatPragmatist approach of Dark-types. [[spoiler:In ''Sun & Moon'', his Battle Tree top choice is, fittingly for the Ride Pager option he gives you, Mega Sharpedo. Though when fought in other times, Bisharp will replace Mega Sharpedo and come in first. In ''Masters'', he uses Liepard instead, though he also uses Sharpedo while wearing his Synga Suit and Bisharp when wearing his Alola kimono.]]
* SkunkStripe: In ''Sun and Moon'', Grimsley's hair on his temples is now white.
* SuperMode: Like Cynthia and other returning cameo characters, Grimsley has the means of using Mega Evolution in ''Sun and Moon''. The mons out of that pool are Tyranitar, Absol, Sharpedo, and Houndoom.
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much so.
* TheUnfettered: Grimsley has absolutely no problem fighting dirty and actually advises the trainer to use any means necessary to win a fight.
* WholeCostumeReference: His Generation V costume is one towards {{Dracula}}.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In the Generation VII games, he looks significantly older than he did two generations before, despite the small time gap between both games.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Caitlin ''[-(Cattleya)-]'']]
!!Caitlin / Cattleya (カトレア ''katorea'')
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->Voiced by: Sarah Miller-Crews ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SatomiSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You appear to possess a combination of strength and kindness. Very well. Make your best effort not to bore me with a yawn-inducing battle."''
Caitlin originally served as the overseer of the Battle Frontier's Battle Castle, even if she wasn't the Frontier Brain of the place. She eventually travelled to Unova to develop her skills and control her emotions, eventually becoming one of the members of Elite Four.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She was a darker blonde in in her last appearances, but her hair is noticeably brighter in Generation V.
* AntiGravityClothing: She has hair, bows, and a transparent cape that floats, most likely via her telekinesis.
* AscendedExtra: Castle Valet Darach from Gen IV's Battle Frontier took great care to tend to Lady Caitlin. Caitlin, however, never said or did much... Until now, that is.
* BeYourself: In ''Masters'', she further explains that she considers Cynthia a good friend for advicing her to let her emotions loose lest she'd want to be bored too much.
* BrilliantButLazy: If her sleeping before battle is any indication.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's cold and hostile towards the player at first, but gradually warms up as they battle and is impressed when defeated.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Masters'', she explains that she had issues trying to control her emotions during battles, which is why she trained to bottle them up to avoid losing control of her psychic powers. This worked...a little too well, because this had the indirect effect of making her a HeavySleeper, ironically unable to find much interest in battles.
* GracefulLoser: She wasn't at first, which was when Darach battled in her stead, but as of Gen V, she's quite gracious if you manage to defeat her.
%%* HartmanHips
* HeavySleeper: Sleeps before she battles.
* LadyOfWar: She's a powerful trainer, and in ''Pokémon Masters'' she explains that she focuses on "elegance and grace" in battle. Justified, as she was anything ''but'' graceful when she was younger.
* MeaningfulName: Averted in regard to her type preference, due to having been named before becoming a Psychic expert. Outside of her typing, it sounds like castle, which is where she was until becoming an Elite Four member.
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow but have high defensive stats, which is rare for Psychic-types.
* NiceHat: A ''massive'' sleeping cap.
%%* TheOjou: An archetypal example.
* PowerIncontinence: When she was younger, Caitlin was a sore loser and would lose control of her PsychicPowers whenever she lost a battle, causing a great deal of damage. This is why her butler, Darach, fought in her stead when she first appeared in Generation IV.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Or royal ladies in general, anyway.
* PsychicPowers: She has them herself in addition to them being her specialty type — if you look at her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_BW_Caitlin.png battle sprite]], she has pink, glowing bits of energy floating around her. She didn't have complete control of them [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl when she was younger]], though.
* RapunzelHair: Doubled in length from her last appearance. It extends past her feet nowadays.
%%* RichBitch: To a degree.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her relationship to Darach in Gen IV has her come off as quite royal (Battle ''Castle''?) — Or very rich, at the least.
* SignatureMon: [[StoneWall Gothitelle]] in the first battle, [[MightyGlacier Metagross]] on Challenge Mode (sequel only) and in the rematches (both). Both are symbolic of her passive but powerful character. In ''Pokémon Masters'', her partner is Reuniclus instead. Diverging from her type specialisation, her Halloween 2021 variant uses Sableye.
* SoreLoser: Young Caitlin did ''not'' respond well to losing a battle and would erupt into highly destructive psychic tantrums. Darach battling in her stead was a measure to prevent this.
* SomethingAboutARose: Her new entrance in ''Black 2 and White 2'', from a giant blossoming white rose. ([[NonIndicativeName Although she's named for an orchid...]])
* TheUnfought: Was this back when she was in the Battle Frontier in the fourth generation.
* TookALevelInBadass: From lazy Battle Frontier resident to Elite Four member.
[[/folder]]
!Kalos Elite Four
[[folder:Wikstrom ''[-(Gampi)-]'']]
!!Wikstrom / Gampi (ガンピ ''ganpi'')
[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wikstromart_9902.png]]
-> Voiced by: Brad Venable (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Susumu Akagi (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"Well met, young challenger! Verily am I the Elite Four's famed blade of hardened Steel, Wikstrom!"''
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks in a ''very'' flowery, old-fashioned manner.
* CoolSword: His ace, Aegislash, functions as one.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may come across as very hammy, but he's a member of the Elite Four for a ''reason''.
* ExtraOreDinary: The first Steel-type Elite Four member.
* KnightInShiningArmor: His dress style invokes the trope.
* LargeHam: He doesn't just look like a medieval knight, he talks and acts like one.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: He mentions to the Player Character that the two should battle with honor.
* MeaningfulName:
** Wik'''strom''' almost sounds like strong as in strong metal.
** "Ganpi" contains the first two morae of "'''Gan'''jou", meaning solid or sturdy.
* MightyGlacier: With the exception of [[StoneWall Klefki]], all of his Pokémon are of the strong-but-slow archetype.
* ThePrankster: In ''Masters'', he mentions that his Klefki has a habit of stealing the keys to his home and won't relent until Wikstrom has to fight it.
* RealMenWearPink: His first mon sent out is a ''[[OurFairiesAreDifferent Klefki]]''.
* ShoutOut: He speaks in AntiquatedLinguistics and claims that his [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare will shakes spears]].
* SignatureMon: Aegislash -- very fitting for a knight.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: It's uncertain if he is known to take it off, though.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: To go along with his knight motif.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malva ''[-(Pachira)-]'']]
!!Malva / Pachira (パキラ ''pakira'')
[[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/malvaart_2367.png]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/MarinaInoue (JP, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''), Creator/KiraBuckland (EN, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'')
-->''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
Malva is one of the members of Kalos Elite Four, news reporter of the Holo Caster, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and a member of Team Flare]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: Malva was a member of Team Flare, yet the [[EliteMook Scientists and Admins]] were very likely her superiors in spite of having the combat potential and skills to be in the ''[[BadassCrew Elite Four]]''. It is then subverted in Looker's sidequest when it was implied she was at least admin-ranked, since she had knowledge of a hidden floor only admins knew about.
* AmazonBrigade: All four of her main Pokémon are female.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a black belly shirt.
* BerserkButton: ''You'' seem to be one for her, as she frequently comments on how she'd like nothing better than to burn you up on the spot.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Though she seems pleasant enough when she does her news broadcasts, her dialogue when you encounter her at the Pokémon League shows she's anything but pleasant.
* CoolShades: Her shades have a deep red tint to them.
* ChekhovsGunman: She appears in a Holo Caster transmission as a news lady, '''long''' before you fight the Elite Four. This doubles as a {{Foreshadowing}} that she was involved with Team Flare, since they secretly run the company that produces the Holo Caster.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In her chamber, two ''huge'' pillars of fire explode right near where she's sitting. She's completely unaffected, as is the player.
* DarkActionGirl: While she is a reformed member of Team Flare, her violent tendencies place her as this.
* DragonTheirFeet: Despite the fact that she's likely high in the ranks of Team Flare you don't encounter her until long after you've already defeated them.
* EnemyMine: With you and Looker in the postgame to stop Xerosic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She draws the line at conducting experiments on children, which is why she asks you to take down Xerosic to "prevent him from sullying Flare's honor". It still doesn't stop her from threatening the player with death by fire.
* EvilRedhead: Like the rest of Team Flare, she is a redhead and on-board with their omnicidal plans. Though she never does anything evil to the player personally, and even asks for your help in the post game.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A number of her traits hint at her being part of Team Flare before she reveals it outright: her orange sunglasses, her use of the Fire-type (including Pyroar, which Lysandre also uses) and appearing as the announcer of the Holo Caster, which was produced by Team Flare.
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: A player can download special Holo Caster messages in which she appears on her news program to announce and remind players of special downloadable content and events regarding the game, like the Mystery Gift Torchic and Global Battle Tournaments. (Far more of these appeared in the Japanese version than the two that have appeared in the American one thus far.)
* HonorAmongThieves: The reason she claims she's helping you during the Looker quest, but she doesn't elaborate.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is a PyroManiac who casually mentions to a child that she was thinking of killing them in hellfire right on the spot and then leaves for her chambers (though it's unclear how much of her threats are just standard Fire-user posturing). At least she is a sport when losing.
* KillItWithFire: She remarks after defeat that she just wants to burn you up on the spot.
* KingOfBeasts: Pyroar, the Pokémon she opens with.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When you finally get the chance to defeat her, after all she's done, in the Pokémon League.
* MeaningfulName:
** It comes from ''lava'' and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva Malva]] is also a type a flower, as are a few other names in the region. Also, ''Mal'' means ''evil'' in Latin, which fits her personality and background well.
** Pachira is another type of flower. In addition, if the first five letters are pronounced phonetically and then doubled up, it makes "Pachipachi", an onomatopoeia for the sound of something popping, usually due to heat.
* MsFanservice: After all, she is [[IncrediblyLamePun hot.]]
* PlayingWithFire: She specializes in Fire-types, and is ironically the only Team Flare member who does.
* PyroManiac: ''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
* RichBitch: Her Team Flare membership implies that she must be very wealthy. The bitch part is self-explanatory by this point.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Those orange shades.
%%* ShipTease:
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Talonflame]] when you challenge her at the Kalos League during the initial game and rematches, although she does use [[GlassCannon Pyroar]] by its lonesome in a post-game event. In the anime, she uses a Houndoom that can [[SuperMode Mega Evolve]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: Well, she isn't a villain by the time you run into her, but she is the only Elite Four member who sits on her throne to battle you instead of getting up. Ironically, she's also the one who meets you in the foyer and explains how the Elite Four challenge works.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks to the Player Character in one of their matches how she would like to burn them where they stand as revenge without even raising her voice.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The (then) unnamed Holo Caster girl is a member of the Elite Four?! ''And Team Flare?!''
* TokenEvilTeammate: Of the Kalos Elite Four, as she is a member of Team Flare, and is definitely hostile towards the player. The way she mentions how she wants to kill the player with fire could give ''Koga'' a run for his money. (She becomes ''far'' more threatening the second and all subsequent times you challenge the Elite Four.)
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Will do this if she actually manages to defeat the player at the Battle Chateau.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's a well-respected media figure before Team Flare's EvilPlan is foiled, and continues that role afterwards.
* WalkingSpoiler: There's clearly more to her than you might think at first, for both the main game and postgame.
* WorthyOpponent: In spite of her jerkass behavior and desire to essentially kill the player character, Malva acknowledges their skills and accepts why they were able to take down Team Flare.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Drasna ''[-(Dracaena)-]'']]
!!Drasna / Dracaena (ドラセナ ''dorasena'')
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-->''"Welcome, welcome, come in. You must be a strong Trainer. Yes, quite strong indeed..."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Just like fellow Elite Four member Malva's, Drasna's team is female-only.
* CoolOldLady: She looks like she is in her forties or fifties, but she trains Dragons, is always cheerful, and sports an amazing hairstyle.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Her character model.
* ImprobableHairstyle: She has ''two huge tusks'' [[note]]Which are actually earrings[[/note]] as part of her hairstyle.
* MeaningfulName: It comes from ''dragon'', rather obviously. Her Japanese namesake is also known as the ''dragon tree''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Her character model and dialogue both indicate she's on the older side, especially compared to her compatriots. That being said, she's still an Elite Four member who specializes in [[InfinityPlusOneElement dragon-types]], so underestimate her at your own risk.
* NiceGirl: She is ridiculously polite to the Player Character.
* PerpetualSmiler: She is always happy, even when it comes to battling.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: She wears ''plenty'' of dragon tusks on her outfit.
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Noivern.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Siebold ''[-(Zumi)-]'']]
!!Siebold / Zumi (ズミ ''zumi'')
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-> Voiced by: Creator/SeanChiplock ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shounosuke Horikoshi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Cooking is the type of art that disappears as soon as it is completed. Pokémon battles are the same. Even memories of sweet victory soon fade after the battle ends."''
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* AgentPeacock: Dresses similarly to Wallace, but he is an Elite Four member for a reason.
* BerserkButton: Claiming that Pokémon battles cannot be artistic. The same goes for food, as he's a chef.
* {{Bishonen}}: He looks rather handsome.
* CallBack: Defeat him first in the Elite Four, and he'll give a speech similar to Karen regarding strong Pokémon and weak Pokémon, although in the air of a DeadpanSnarker:
-->"There are no weak Pokémon in a Pokémon battle. There are only weak Trainers."
* ChefOfIron: A world-class chef and an Elite Four member.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A chef after battle will mention him as part of the Elite Four in Restaurant Le Nah, which you can enter as soon as you reach Lumiose, by comparing you vaguely to him.
* LargeHam: Press his BerserkButton and he'll start shouting. Go on, we dare you.
* MakingASplash: Water-type specialist of the region, and the first Elite Four member to specialize in the type.
* MeaningfulName:
** It sounds like '''''Sea'''''bold. It also comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sieboldii Siebold's crabapple]].
** Zumi likely comes from I'''zumi''', meaning a spring or fountain. It's also みず ''mizu'' (water) [[SdrawkcabName backwards]].
* NotSoStoic: He keeps a calm demeanor (unlike [[PlayingWithFire Malva]]), but if you say "No" to the question he asks you (whether or not Pokémon battling can be considered art), Siebold pretty much gets pissed off at you and rants before engaging battle. Amusingly, in ''Masters'', agreeing to his views makes him happy for a bit. Disagreeing ends up pissing him off so much he goes on a ''long'' argument on the player until he calms down and apologizes.
* PerpetualFrowner: His character model is this way.
* ThePhilosopher: Siebold briefly discusses the concept of art with the player before battling, seeing many things, like cooking and victory, as fleeting forms of art that should be cherished because of how short-lived they can be.
* TheWormThatWalks: Barbaracle, a humanoid mass of rocks and barnacles.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Barbaracle]] is his highest-leveled Pokémon in the league. ''Pokémon Masters'' has him use Clawitzer, another member of his team, and his holiday variant has him use Octillery.
* SupremeChef: Fitting for a Water-type Elite Four as his team mostly consists of edible aquatic life, including the starfish and gooseneck barnacle.
[[/folder]]
!Alola Elite Four
It is worth noting that Kahili and Molayne are the only Elite Four who aren't a Trial Captain or Kahuna.
[[folder:Hala]]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Olivia ''[-(Lychee)-]'']]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Acerola]]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kahili]]
!!Kahili (カヒリ ''kahiri'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/JaniceKawaye ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ShihoKawaragi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Why don't we see who the winds favor today, you or me?"''
Golfer and Flying-type specialist. She's been traveling to other regions to become a better trainer and golfer, but flew back to Alola at Kukui's request to become a member of the new Elite Four.
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* AlmightyJanitor: In ''Masters'', both Elio and Selene comment that Kahili has what it takes to become the Alola Champion, but she tells them that she prefers being part of the Elite Four without telling them why. After both leave, she tells Kukui that newer generations of trainers will come to claim the title, hinting that she may not be able to hold being the Champion for long, though she is excited nonetheless.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: The back of her hair looks like crossed bird wings, her ahoge resembles a head feather, and she wears an orange feather over her left breast.
* BloodKnight: While she was annoyed at Kukui constantly pestering her, Kahili admits that she did enjoy the prospect of being able to fight really strong trainers.
* BlowYouAway: Specializes in Flying-types, making her a first for the Elite Four roster.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Kahili has pale blue eyes and hair.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[AccidentalPun Pardon the pun.]]
** A non-playable character talks about her in the demo for the original ''Sun and Moon'', while the workers at the biggest tourist resort in Akala Island mentions her name, and the fact she's the daughter of the owner there. It's not until you see her at the League when she shows up formally.
** In ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', she shows up briefly to demonstrate how to do the pose for the Flyinium-Z at Ten Carat Hill, although she never introduces herself until you meet at the Pokémon League much later.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Downplayed. While her appearance ''is'' foreshadowed (as mentioned above in EarlyBirdCameo), a vast majority of players tend to overlook it as standard NPC talk and likely completely forget about it once she finally shows up at the end of the game. This is especially noticeable considering that the other Elite Four members were all previously encountered in the game and have story significance. Averted in ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', where she'll at least appear briefly to teach you how to use the Flynium Z when you find it, but since she doesn't even bother introducing herself and leaves immediately, it just comes across as a random scene until you encounter her again.
* HiddenDepths: You can find her at the Hano Resort in the post-game. Talking to her reveals that she is very competitive and hard-working in nature, offhandedly implying she spends up to half of the day working on her abilities.
* IdiotHair: Sports a large one resembling a bird’s feather.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Her battle pose is the same as a golfer's driving stance, and she even carries a club with her to do so.
* LadyOfWar: Is highly focused and calm, while also being a powerful Elite Four member. (Justified as this is very much a prerequisite for golf.)
* MeaningfulName:
** The kahili was a staff used as a symbol of power by the rulers of Hawaii, traditionally made from the long bones of an enemy king, and adorned with the feathers from birds of prey. Fittingly, Kahili happens to be a Flying-type specialist and is in a position of authority as an Elite Four member.
** Additionally, Kahili happens to be the name of a well-known Hawaiian golf course, fitting her status as a golfer.
** Fitting with the region's FloralThemeNaming, ''kahili'' is the Hawaiian term for several flowering plants.
* MinidressOfPower: Wears a short skirt and happens to be a member of the Alolan Elite Four.
* NonIdleRich: She's the heiress of the massive Hano Resort, while also being both a professional golfer ''and'' an extremely capable Pokémon trainer.
* TheOjou: Her family owns Hano Resort in Heahea City, and she's very graceful and reserved even in the heat of battle.
* PerpetualFrowner: Consistently has a scowl on her face, much like her signature Toucannon. Zig-zagged in ''Masters'' however, as she does smile regularly in conversations.
* SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse. She gives you the [=TM=] for Trick Room post-game and will mention that she uses the move to handicap herself during training with her mons since most Flying-types are very fast in nature. Ironically, her Toucannon [[MightyGlacier would have benefited from such a move]].
* SignatureMon: Toucannon, which is the ace of her team and wields a Flynium Z-crystal. Her golf club is even adorned with its beak's colors.
* StealthPun: A golfer who specializes in Flying-types. The terms "Birdie", "Eagle", and "Albatross" are related to golfing. (1, 2, and 3 under par, specifically).
* TheStoic: She is very reserved and focused.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Projects an aloof air, but is actually a pretty nice person to the player, especially after they defeat her for the first time.
* TrainingFromHell: In ''Masters'', her training regimen consists of practicing her swing for ''six'' hours ''every day'' without accounting for when she trains her battle skills, she always makes sure she sleeps at the same time each day, and is normal for her to fight ''20'' battles in a single day.
* UncattyResemblance: Her golf club's colors and her permanent frown gives her a resemblance to Toucannon.
* WhenSheSmiles: While she doesn't smile in her home game, ''Masters'' shows that she does smile regularly enough, and it's pretty cute.
* WindIsGreen: The room she's fought in is completely colored green.
* WorthyOpponent: She constantly looks out for strong opponents and when she meets you she wants to beat you to show she's the best trainer in the world and is also looking for a good fight. ''Masters'' further adds to this by having Elio and Selene note that she can very well be the Alola Champion.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: While she otherwise looks very young, her silvery-blue hair could make some mistake her for an older person.
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[[folder:Molayne ''[-(Mullein)-]'']]
!!Molayne / Mullein (マーレイン ''maarein'')
[[quoteright:140:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molayne.png]]
->Voiced by: Ezra Weisz (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/TakayukiKondo (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
Molayne is a former Trial Captain, who passed the role onto his cousin, Sophocles. Now, Molayne takes care of [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alola's]] Pokémon Storage System. In ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', he replaces Hala as a member of Alola's new Elite Four.
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* AffectionateNickname: "Big Mo/Mul-san", by Sophocles.
* AscendedExtra: In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', where he joins the Elite Four.
* BadassBookworm: A computing wiz and a former Trial Captain who can still hold his own in a battle. And is good enough to challenge you for the title of Champion in the originals, and be an Elite Four member in the re-release.
* BonusBoss: Is one of the many trainers who fights you in Title Defense in ''Sun and Moon''.
* ExtraOreDinary: He specializes in Steel-type Pokémon, and hands over Steelium Z to the player.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Outside of a Pokémon battle, he almost never opens his eyes.
* FatAndSkinny: He's the taller and skinnier of the duo compared to Sophocles.
* GeekPhysiques: Of the tall and skinny kind.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He and Sophocles are close friends despite Sophocles being young enough to be his child.
* MeaningfulName: His name might come from molybdenum, a metallic element.
* NiceGuy: Outside of some friendly ribbing towards his pals Kukui and Sophocles, he is never anything other than polite and genteel to anyone he meets.
* TheOneGuy: He's the sole male member of the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to his cousin Sophocles, Molayne has a warm smile as his default expression, even when he loses a battle.
* RetiredBadass: A former Trial Captain who is apparently one of the region's better trainers, but he's content to manage the [=PC=] system. He eventually unretires to join the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''.
* SecretKeeper: Of sorts, regarding Kukui's [[spoiler:extremely PaperThinDisguise as a masked luchador]]. Kukui is ''serious'' about not letting him reveal that to anyone, despite how obvious it is.
* SignatureMon: Alolan Dugtrio is his strongest Pokémon during your first battle with him, and his last one in subsequent battles.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Fittingly for Alola's Pokémon Storage System developer, Molayne is seen wearing glasses. His glasses are also hexagon-shaped, which is a common design motif.
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[-'''Pokémon Family Species:''' [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies Gen I]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Bulbasaur to Parasect]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVenonatToCloyster Venonat to Cloyster]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIGastlyToMiltank Gastly to Miltank]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIMagikarpToMew Magikarp to Mew]] [[[Characters/PokemonMewDuo Mew Duo]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIFamilies Gen II]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIChikoritaToGranbull Chikorita to Granbull]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIQwilfishToCelebi Qwilfish to Celebi]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIFamilies Gen III]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys Wailmer to Deoxys]] [[[Characters/PokemonWeatherTrio Weather Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Gen IV]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVTurtwigToBronzong Turtwig to Bronzong]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVChatotToArceus Chatot to Arceus]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVFamilies Gen V]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Victini to Zoroark]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Minccino to Genesect]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIFamilies Gen VI]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha Chespin to Hawlucha]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIDedenneToVolcanion Dedenne to Volcanion]] [[[Characters/PokemonAuraTrio Aura Trio]]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIFamilies Gen VII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIRowletToComfey Rowlet to Comfey]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIOranguruToMelmetal Oranguru to Melmetal]] [[[Characters/PokemonCosmogLine Cosmog Line]] / [[Characters/PokemonNecrozma Necrozma]]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraBeasts Ultra Beasts]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Gen VIII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIGrookeyToHatterene Grookey to Hatterene]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIImpidimpToCalyrex Impidimp to Calyrex]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGlitches Glitches]]\\
'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ([[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | '''Elite Four''' | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
'''[[Characters/PokemonVillainTeams Pokémon Villain Teams]]:''' [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamRocket Team Rocket]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamAquaMagma Team Aqua/Magma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamGalactic Team Galactic]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamPlasma Team Plasma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamFlare Team Flare]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamSkull Team Skull]] / [[Characters/PokemonTeamYell Team Yell]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])\\
[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]
The Elite Four are trainers of the highest caliber in the region. Traditionally, the player has to face all four of them back to back without going back to a Pokémon Center to heal them (though items can be used during challenges). Much like Gym Leaders, they usually use Pokémon of a certain type. [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Defeating them, however, isn't the last hurdle to becoming a Pokémon champion]]. Rather, next the player must face [[Characters/PokemonChampions the champion]]...
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[[folder:The Elite Four in general]]
* AllPowerfulBystander: They generally stay out of the way of the main plot, even when it would be good for them to get involved.
** If you talk to Marshal after you beat him in ''B/W'', he mentions that Alder ordered them to be neutral. This is also discussed in Gen I and the remakes, where a hopeful kid says "wouldn't it be cool if the Elite Four came here and kicked Team Rocket's butt?" Naturally, they never do and you have to do the dirty work yourself.
** Lorelei does return to the Sevii Islands to help defend a cave from Team Rocket in the postgame of the remakes. Some dialogue in ''FR/LG'' implies that she's left her post to defend the island in the future afterwards.
** Malva takes it to a new level in that [[spoiler:''she was a member of Team Flare'']].
** The Alolan Elite Four [[spoiler:isn't formed until after you beat the villainous team, but Hala is seen partnering with Tapu Koko to fight an Ultra Beast unleashed by Lusamine]].
** Averted in ''Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee'', where Lorelei fights off a trio of Rocket grunts that try to gang up on the player character, and Blue later mentions he intends to call on Kanto's Elite Four, if necessary, to help get rid of Team Rocket.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Toughest trainers in the region. The games that feature them in sequential arrangements (from ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' on) also further exploit this trope by having members of the Elite Four that come later in sequence almost always specialize in types that are weak to or resisted by preceding members, and therefore implying them to be even more badass: Will's Psychic specialty precedes Koga's Poison, Glacia's Ice Pokémon are followed by Drake's dragons, Flint's Fire types come after Bertha's Ground types, ''etc.''
* BadassCrew: Though they never fight together, they're the toughest trainers you can fight, at least until the postgame; even after, they tend to be the among the toughest.
* BossBonanza: They're all in the one location. From Gen I-IV, they're fought one after another in a set order, and from ''Black and White'' onwards, you can fight them in any order as their levels are all the same, though you fight the Champion after dealing with all four.
* BossCorridor: From Gen I-IV, you walk between the rooms they're in. This was stopped from Gen V onwards, but returns with a vengeance in ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.''
* DareToBeBadass: Their mere existence basically serves as this to all trainers in their region, as beating them and then the Champion is seen as one of the hardest things to do, and for good reason.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Your end goal is to do this to them.
* EliteFour: The trope namer. They're not bad guys, but excluding the Champion, there are always four. No more, no less. Their Japanese name even uses the traditional name ''Shitennō'' (四天王) to reflect this.
* FloralThemeNaming: Kalos's and Alola's Elite Four members all reference flowering plants in their names.
* GracefulLoser: They always lose with dignity. The closest that they get to anger at you is disbelief.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', the Galar region does not have an Elite Four. Instead, it has a Champion Cup where the Player Character has to fight two of their rivals (Marnie and Hop) in the Semifinal Round (plus an interruption by Bede); three gym leaders in the Final Round; and then the Champion, Leon.
* TheNotableNumeral: The Elite ''Four''.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The Unova Elite Four reveal that they aren't actually allowed to interfere with challengers outside of their assigned battles. Not even the king of Team Plasma openly announcing that he'll use the champion title for his own agenda is enough to make them break this code.
* PersonalityPowers: Most tend to behave in relation to their types, but there are exceptions.
* PreFinalBoss: The final Elite Four member is the last thing standing in the way of the player and the Champion, though starting with Generation V this isn't set in stone since the player no longer has to face the Elite Four in a predetermined order.
* SequentialBoss: Four in a row, followed by the Champion. In ''Black and White'', this gets taken UpToEleven as you take on the Elite Four, then the legendary, then N, and then Ghetsis.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Karen in Gen II's Elite Four, and Bertha in Gen IV's. Inverted in Gen VII, with Hala (in the original ''Sun and Moon'') or Molayne (in ''Ultra Sun and Moon'') as the only male.
* ThresholdGuardians: They act as the final obstacles between a trainer and Champion.
* TookALevelInBadass: An integrated mechanic, appearing in ''Fire Red/Leaf Green'', ''Platinum'', ''Heart Gold/Soul Silver'', ''Black/White'', ''Black 2/White 2'', ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire'', and ''Sun/Moon'', which can take quite a few new players off guard. The Elite Four's level will often rise from anywhere between 15-20 levels depending on the generation, with more powerful Pokémon in place of weaker ones. Additionally, owing to the Pokédex being upgraded, they can use Pokémon that aren't normally in that region.
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!Indigo Elite Four I
[[folder:Lorelei ''[-(Kanna)-]'']]
!!Lorelei / Kanna (カンナ ''kanna'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_lorelei.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/EricaLindbeck (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/LaurenLanda ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Serika Hiromatsu ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Your Pokémon will be at my mercy when they are frozen solid!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original games and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', her hair is red; it's sandy blonde in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and purple in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''.
* AdaptationNameChange: She's referred to as Prima in the anime's English dub in order to match the number of syllables that her Japanese name has.
* AdaptationalModesty:
** In ''Let's Go'' and ''Adventures'', her skirt reaches to her knees, while in other installments it's a fair few inches shorter.
** ''Let's Go'' adds pantyhose to her outfit, though, given she's an Ice-type specialist and a MsFanservice, this is likely more a case of practicality than modesty on her part.
* AdjustingYourGlasses: Lorelei does this immediately before the battle begins in ''Let's Go''.
* TheBaroness: Lorelei is a downplayed sexpot--she's an IceQueen MsFanservice that specializes in a StatusInflictionAttack that leaves the victim helpless and forced to endure whatever hard-hitting moves she throws at them, which is something she boasts about.
* BashBrothers: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', just before entering Rock Tunnel, she assists you in scaring off Team Rocket goons; she fights three of them at once, and if their quotes after the battle are any indication, they couldn't even ''touch'' her.
* CallForward: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lorelei has vanished from the Elite Four without a word of notice. In the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', optional dialog following her DayInTheLimelight has her pondering if remaining with the Elite Four means she's neglecting her island home, floating a possible reason for her to leave the Elite Four in the first place.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lorelei has mellowed out fairly substantially over the years.
** While she was a haughty IceQueen in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Gen III remakes give her a sympathetic devotion to her Four Island home, tones down her loss quote from "[[WhoDares How dare you?]]" to "[[ThisCannotBe ...Things shouldn't be this way!]]", and demotes half of the exclamation points in her opening speech to mere periods.
** The ''Let's Go'' remakes give her some of her exclamation points back, but also give her another heroic moment by having her appear to engage in a BashBrothers takedown of some Team Rocket thugs with the player character and turn her thereby into a friendly acquaintance of the player's.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The first part of the ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' postgame serves as this for her. We get to visit her home on Four Island, help her take down Team Rocket, and see where she got her Lapras.
** She makes a brief solo appearance in Gen VII to help you take down a few Team Rocket mooks. They were trying to take you on 4v1; she takes on three of them herself so you can take the last one down.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution:
** While Lorelei and Karen both entered the series wearing a LittleBlackDress, their fashion sense has diverged sharply in the years since.
** Will's SharpDressedMan sensibilities were a short sidestep from LadyInAPowerSuit Lorelei, but he has since become TheDandy.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Misty is said to admire her.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies[=/=]GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Her Four Island home is full of them. She adds 1 plushie to the collection for every 25 times you enter the Hall of Fame. She stops after your 200th Hall of Fame induction because then it's just getting stupid.
* ExposedToTheElements: Lorelei's room is filled with ice tiles, ice pillars, or both, depending on what version of the Kanto games you happen to be playing, but despite her generally light outfit and usually bare legs, she seems quite cozy. This is most apparent in Gen I when her bare-legged battle sprite indicates she's ''kneeling directly on the ice''.
* ExtraOredinary: In ''Let's Go!'' she acquires the part-Steel-type Alolan Sandslash.
* FunetikAksent: She's called Olga in the French version, and she's got the Russian accent to match, pronouncing her S sounds as Z's, at least one T as D, and her EvilLaugh right before the battle... rather oddly.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', Lorelei almost always appears riding on her StockNessMonster Lapras, both near Rock Tunnel and in her personal room at the Indigo League. Given Lapras is her SignatureMon, she may also ride it as a BeastOfBattle.
* HotTeacher: In adaptations. In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Lorelei appears in the Orange Islands to give a lecture and demonstration on pokémon battling, while in ''Manga/PocketMonsters'' she actually disguises herself as a teacher and gives Red exams at her school.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IllGirl: In ''Masters'', she tells the player she had a weak constitution as a child and had to force herself to remain at home until she got better, which took a long time. During then, she had a Lapras plushie that, to this day, she treasures and often appears in her dreams.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Inverted. She routinely wears short skirts to show that ShesGotLegs, which doesn't seem to be the wisest choice for an Ice-type specialist. ''Let's Go'' gives her pantyhose, which could feasibly be said to warm her legs up, even if only a little.
* KillItWithIce: Downplayed. Lorelei boasts that her pokémon will freeze the player's solid, and in remakes is more than willing to directly threaten Team Rocket {{Mook}}s with being frozen solid.
* LadyOfWar: She is regarded in-game for her logical, cool, and calculating style of battling.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: Lorelei's jacket and skirt from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' came to the core series with a PaletteSwap in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and Lorelei's sprites from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] show her in the same. While her jacket was lost in the Gen III remakes, her ''Let's Go'' design emphasizes the full ensemble.
* LonelyDollGirl: In ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'', Lorelei is revealed to live alone on Four Island in a house filled with dolls. As an EasterEgg, a new doll will be added to her collection for every twenty-five times (up to a total of two hundred) that the Elite Four is defeated.
* MakingASplash: Though she's officially an Ice-type master, she uses a lot of Water-types too, with most of her Ice-types being part Water. Her Slowbro isn't even an Ice-type.
* MeaningfulName:
** Lorel'''ei''' pronounced like the I in "ice." Lorelei is also the name of a siren said to lure sailors to their deaths.
** '''Kan''''na contains a homonym for a reading of the kanji meaning "cold".
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow, but they have high defenses and offenses.
* MinidressOfPower: Lorelei has always worn one, starting with a LittleBlackDress in Gen 1, but transitioning to a sleeveless top and miniskirt combo in Gen 3. Her ''Let's Go'' outfit gives her a skirt and jacket combo that takes a few notes from her appearance in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''.
* MostCommonSuperpower: She's seriously stacked in the anime, and is in the ranking for one of the bustiest characters in the franchise. In her brief appearances, she is played for [[MsFanservice fanservice]], particularly in ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''.
* PersonalityPowers: Rest assured, this IceQueen is AnIcePerson.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears toast-colored tights as part of her Generation VII outfit.
* PsychicPowers: Has the part Psychic-type Jynx.
* PsychoticSmirk: Lorelei is capable of some sinister smiles in her ''Let's Go'' pre-battle dialog and battle introduction.
* PutOnABus:
** She will disappear to Four Island after you first defeat the Elite Four. You need to visit her and complete a small side quest in order for her to return; without her, the Elite Four refuse to accept your challenge.
** She isn't present in any games outside of Kanto, not even in the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships]]. Unlike Agatha, who could be excused through her advanced age, Lorelei's absence is a mystery.
* RegalRinglets: In ''Pokémon Generations'', Lorelei's ponytail is a very thick curl, but extends to the same length as her usual straight ponytail, giving her downplayed RapunzelHair.
* RuleOfSexy: How is she not freezing sitting in a cold room while wearing a miniskirt?!
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Downplayed. In her battle sprites from Gen I and Gen III (and Gen II prototypes), her glasses are opaque and cannot be seen through.
* ShesGotLegs: Even in her first appearance, her miniskirt had a slit to highlight them.
* SignatureMon:
** In the games, her [[StockNessMonster Lapras]], reflecting her icy but caring demeanor and dual-focus on Ice and Water.
** The anime and manga adaptation put the focus on her [[MightyGlacier Cloyster]] instead. Notably, she's had a Cloyster on every single team she's used in the games.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Lorelei's personal room is usually filled with ice.
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Battling with her can soft-lock the game in ''Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. In Generation I, opponents do not deplete PP, and because Lorelei leads with a Dewgong which knows Rest and the way "smart" AI works, it's possible for the player to get locked in an endless battle with her by using Rage, which ''also'' has a lot of weird mechanics in Gen I. This was fixed in ''Yellow'' with a special check for whether the opponent is Lorelei's Dewgong, in which case, a different pattern is used; this applies only to her Dewgong and no other opponent. It was more properly fixed in later generations.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
See his folder in Indigo Elite Four II below.
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[[folder:Agatha ''[-(Kikuko)-]'']]
!!Agatha / Kikuko (キクコ ''kikuko'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_agatha.png]]
->Voiced by: Hisako Kyouda (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Ellyn Stern (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshino Ootori ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"[[HelloInsertNameHere Player]]! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: in the original games (and ''Stadium'') her hair was gray, but later changes to graying blonde in the remakes. Also, the only time she appears in the anime, her hair was pure blond.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to ''Pokémon Masters'', Professor Oak was this to her during their youth. No matter how many times she challenged him to a Pokémon Battle, she could never defeat him.
* AmazonBrigade: Her original Elite Four team in ''FRLG'' is all-female, but the rematch team is all-male.
* ArtificialStupidity: In her ''Red'' and ''Blue'' battle, all of her Ghost-type pokémon know the same four moves--Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Hypnosis, and Dream Eater-- except for her final Gengar, which trades Hypnosis for Toxic. Without Hypnosis, Dream Eater is completely useless, leaving it with a completely wasted slot.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Implied between her and Professor Oak. In her own words, "that old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago."
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Agatha provides a template that numerous characters deliberately contrast with--Karen, Phoebe, Fantina, and Shauntal are all younger and prettier than her, for starters.
* CoolOldLady: Slightly abrasive but she still counts.
* CreepyCemetery: Her battlefield in the first generation games is apparently her own personal ''graveyard'', complete with the soundtrack from Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower. This would be downplayed in remakes, down to a few large tombstones in FRLG and some spooky obelisks or pylons in LGPE. It's unknown whether she has any connection to the Tower besides sharing the motif.
* CreepyHousekeeper: She's an older woman with an apron, and specializes in the Ghost type.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She goes into her backstory about her and Samuel Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she reveals that she preferred to keep to herself to contemplate while Oak would attempt to be sociable with her. Over time she gradually warmed up to him, partially through her battles with him which caused her to respect the future professor and his unbeatable battle record. She describes this is one of the reasons she resents the professor so much in the main games when he stopped battling to focus on research. She also warms up to the player and claims her Gengar brings this out in her as well.
* GreenThumb: In ''Stadium'', both of her teams have a Venusaur.
* HairTriggerTemper: An [=NPC=] in Gen III remarks that it doesn't take much to make her angry. [[InformedAttribute Not that you get to see for yourself.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Given that she uses a walking stick.
* MeaningfulName: '''Aga'''tha sounds similar to "aghast", and if you're feeling mean to the old lady, "hag".
* MythologyGag: In ''Pokemon Masters'', Professor Oak battles her Gengar with a Nidorino, directly recreating the opening cutscene of ''Pokémon Red''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She may be old, but she's still very capable of kicking your ass. ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' add flavor text that state she's the oldest Elite Four member to ever join the group, at least in the Indigo League. Bertha, who may or may not be her sister, is around her age and is a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
* PlayingWithFire: For her ''Let's Go!'' rematch, she has the part Fire-type Alolan Marowak.
* PoisonousPerson:
** Her official main type is Ghost, but due to the sparse population of Ghost-types in the first gen., she fills out her roster with monsters of the Poison-type, which is the secondary type of the Gastly evo. line. Even in remakes that give her more Ghost-types to work with, she'll keep her Arbok and Golbat (or Crobat) in rematches.
** In ''Let's Go Pikachu'' and ''Let's Go Eevee'', her Haunter is replaced by a Weezing, meaning only two of her five Pokémon in her initial match are actually Ghost-type, both of which are Gengar.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Arrogantly sniffs that Oak is a shadow of his former self and that Pokémon are for battling, not researching.
* PutOnABus: Like Lorelei, she disappears after any Kanto-based games, not even reappearing for the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships.]]
* TheQuietOne: By her own admission in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', while people like Professor Oak thrive in the company of others, she prefers solitude so that she may contemplate to herself.
* RecurringElement: The first in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* TheRival: Gen III has it said she and Professor Oak were rivals in their younger days.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Gengar]], suitable for her love of crippling status moves.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type user.
* StatusInflictionAttack: By nature of being a Ghost-type specialist, she relies on a lot of status ailment moves like Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, and Toxic.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four in Generation II games or their remakes, but her absence is unexplained. She's only to be found in a certain photograph with Oak and Kurt.
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[[folder:Lance ''[-(Wataru)-]'']]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonChampions.
[[/folder]]
!Indigo Elite Four II
[[folder:Will ''[-(Itsuki)-]'']]
!!Will / Itsuki (イツキ ''itsuki'')
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->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/HirofumiNojima ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I have trained all around the world, making my psychic Pokémon powerful."''
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* AgentPeacock: He look and acts a bit foppish, but he's still a powerful trainer.
* AmazonBrigade: All of his Pokémon in the remakes are female.
* BadassBookworm: He may be the warmup boss, but he's still capable of giving you a thrashing if you make a mistake.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: As the first encounter in the Elite Four and with a team that has both a Slowbro and a Jynx on it, Will is a fairly blatant riff on Lorelei, focusing instead on the Psychic-type they share rather than the mixed Water-Ice milieu of Lorelei's team.
* CoolMask: Wears a DominoMask over his eyes.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Evidence strongly suggests Will began life as a quickly revamped Lorelei--as of Gen IV, however, he's come solidly into his own.
** As per ContrastingSequelAntagonist, Will's team uses Lorelei's Slowbro and Jynx as a springboard from Water and Ice to a Psychic type specialty.
** A comparison of Will's Gen II battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] indicates Will's head was originally an edit of Lorelei's, replacing her ScaryShinyGlasses with an IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery but keeping the same big forelock; the rest of Will's body is a sidestep from Lorelei's LadyInAPowerSuit to SharpDressedMan.
** Will's remake design changes him from a SharpDressedMan to TheDandy and gives him a few elements of a StageMagician, and even removes Lorelei's leftover sheets of ice from his room.
* HiddenEyes: His mask conceals his eyes in various sprites and artwork.
* MeaningfulName: Will is short for William, which is derived ultimately from ''Wilhelm'', a name intuitively composed of two roots that really do mean "will" and "helm"--this name is a surprisingly good fit for a psychic specialist who wears a heavy facial covering.
* MistakenForTerrorist: In ''Pokémon Masters'', since members of Team Break's only form of a unifying costume is their domino masks, Will comments that he has been mistaken for a member of the group on multiple occasions, much to his annoyance.
* PsychicPowers: Psychic-type specialist.
* PunnyName: Many of Will's Western names are obvious riffs on words related to will and the mind.
** '''Will'''power.
** His German name is Willi, from "wille" (will).
** His Spanish name is Mento, from "mente" (mind).
** His French name is Clément, from "mental".
** His Italian name is Pino, from the prefix "ipno-" (hypno-).
* PurpleIsPowerful: He has purple-hued hair and clothing, ranking among the Elite Four as well.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld:
** His room is filled with a sheet of ice in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', possibly indicating that he just took over Lorelei's spot.
** Averted in the Gen IV VideoGameRemake, where the motif of his room is completely revamped.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Xatu]], symbolizing his love of Psychic-types for their mystical powers.
* SquishyWizard: As you'd expect from someone specializing in Psychics, most of his team has great Special stats and varying Speed, but poor physical stats.
* StageMagician: Seems to be his visual theme. His battle animation in the Gen II remakes (where he makes two Poké Balls appear from nowhere just by clapping his hands) bolsters this theory. His appearance in Pokémon Masters definitely runs with this theme as he enjoys engaging in showmanship to excite the crowds.
* TheStoic: His characterization in ''Stadium 2'', where he puts up a serious face and frequently speaks in ellipses.
* SuddenlyBlonde: He has always had purple hair in artwork, but his Generation II sprite has red hair due to the palette limitations of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor.
* ToBeAMaster: He's not merely content with joining the Elite Four, but wants to push himself further until he is the best trainer in the world.
* WalkingTheEarth: Claims to have done this to train all over the world.
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[[folder:Koga ''[-(Kyō)-]'']]
!!Koga / Kyō (キョウ ''kyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/ChristopherBevins ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ToruOkawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless. Despair to the creeping horror of Poison-type Pokémon!"''
Originally the Fuchsia Gym Leader in ''Red'', ''Blue'', ''Yellow'', ''[=FireRed=]'', and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', Koga moves to the Elite Four in the Johto games, with his daughter Janine taking his previous position.
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%%* ActionDad: Of Janine.
* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His Bug-types get pretty big.
* CombatMedic: As a master of poison techniques, he also has a large amount of knowledge over medicine and apparently heals his Pokémon with concoctions of his own.
* CompositeCharacter: With ''himself''; that is, his anime counterpart. In the original Gen I games, Koga used Weezing and Muk and their evolutionary relatives. Then the anime depicted him with a Venomoth, which carried over to ''Yellow'' by replacing his entire team with three Venonats and a Venomoth. Thus in the two ''Stadium'' games and in the Gen II games and their remakes, Koga has several Bug-types on his team while still being a Poison-type specialist.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Skuntank on Koga's rematch team in the remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' knows Dig, which will not only give it a decent attacking option but briefly sends it underground to help it avoid most attacks and stall while its Toxic causes DamageOverTime. At the same time, Dig opens it up to retaliation by Earthquake, which not only does double-damage to Skuntank as a Poison-type but doubles damage against underground enemies as well.
* EvilLaugh: While he's not really evil, he mostly does this to look intimidating to the player.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: An acute example. Despite Kanto (as well as Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh) being a Fantasy Counterpart for a region of Japan, in ''Masters'' he's the only character who affects a Japanese accent (likely due to appearing as a stereotypical Ninja). This is especially noticeable because his Ninja daughter Janine does not have the accent.
* TheMaze: Back when he was a Gym Leader, he used an invisible maze in his Gym to force the player into Pokémon battles while walking around. The maze itself isn't 100% invisible, but can mess with players who don't look too closely.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the '''Koga'''-ryu school of ninjutsu.
* MightyGlacier: His multiple Koffing and signature Weezing in ''RBGY'' and their remakes. ''Yellow'' replaces them with the more squishy Venonat and Venomoth, respectively.
* {{Ninja}}: His motif, and self-declared as one. He comes from a long line of ninjas, hundreds of years in fact, and possesses several fantasy ninja abilities such as being able to seemingly teleport, disguise himself in an instant, and even seemingly create copies of himself. Its unclear if these are actual superhuman powers like Sabrina's psychic abilities, or some kind of highly advanced trickery.
* TheOneGuy: The only male Poison-type specialist.
* PassingTheTorch: To his daughter Janine after he ascended to the Elite Four.
* PoisonousPerson: Uses Poison-types.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He cripples foes with his mastery of Poison-type Pokémon (with the type generally being depicted with purple coloration), and is one of few Poison-type specialists to have ascended to the status of Elite Four.
* {{Sadist}}: Possibly with the way he talks of enjoying poison's effects on enemies.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a scarf and [[TookALevelInBadass went from Gym Leader to a member of the Elite Four.]]
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Koga favors different Pokémon in different contexts, most of which have an at least mild association with his ninja motif.
** In the first generation games, his most powerful was [[MightyGlacier Weezing]], while ''Yellow'' gave him a team with a handful of Venonat and one [[SquishyWizard Venomoth]] to reflect his Venonat's mid-battle evolution in the anime.
** During his anime rematch, however, he used a [[FragileSpeedster Golbat]] instead, and during his tenure as Elite Four in all games featuring Johto, his finisher is [[FragileSpeedster Crobat]], which is carried over to ''Pokémon Masters''.
** Ironically, the unsung hero of his team is ''Muk'', which has been on literally every team of his except for his Round 2 bout in ''Stadium 2''... and apparently someone on the ''Let's Go'' staff realized it, as his rematch team's Muk is his final and highest-level Pokémon.
* StatusInflictionAttack: As both a Poison-type master and a Ninja, he specializes in subversive and tricky battling styles. This translates to relying on status ailments and other status moves like Disable, Double Team, and Spikes.
* TakingYouWithMe: He uses a Weezing, sometimes as his last Pokémon. The AI is not averse to using Explosion if this is the case. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard This results in the player losing if their last Pokémon faints.]] He will do this regardless of what you have out, so you could get some laughs out of the AI using Explosion against your [[NoSell Gastly]], against whom the only effect will be his Weezing fainting.
* ThemeNaming: With his daughter in the Japanese version.
* ThresholdGuardians: As a Gym Leader in Kanto, Koga gives out the Soul Badge, which authorizes the player to use Surf, which opens up access to Cinnabar Island and the latter part of the path to Victory Road.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In ''Yellow'', his final Pokémon is a level 50 Venomoth. This is quite the leap compared to the original where his strongest Pokémon was a level 43 Weezing. The rest of his team also are Level 44, 46 and 48, even if they're just Venonats.
** From Gym Leader in Gen I/III to Elite Four in Gen II/IV.
** Takes another one in ''Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'' where his Pokémon are equal to Sabrina's at Level 43 and his ace Pokémon Venomoth is at Level 44, the same level as her Alakazam. But in order to challenge his Gym, players will have to had caught 50 different species of Pokémon compared to Sabrina's 45 level or higher Pokémon requirement, meaning that his challenge is supposed to be more difficult. This is a [[ContinuityNod reference]] to the fact that Koga is above Will in the Johto series of the games despite Will having a type advantage over him.
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[[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']]
!!Bruno / Siba (シバ ''shiba'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_bruno.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/TakanoriHoshino (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Bill Rogers (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Jiro Saito (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"I always train to the extreme because I believe in our potential. That is how we became strong."''
Uniquely, Bruno serves on both the Gen I and Gen II Elite Four teams, though he moves up from the second member to the third between games. However, he is mostly the same opponent in both instances.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In the original games and their artwork; like Brock, he became less so in the remakes.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: In Gen I, Bruno's design uses so many of the same tropes as Brock's design that Bruno is basically a bigger, tougher version of Brock; on top of that, Bruno also uses Brock's SignatureMon Onix. However, no relationship between them was ever elaborated on.
* BadassNormal: He reportedly trains with his own Pokémon. When you read the Pokédex entries for some of them, you realize Bruno is one ''hell'' of a strongman.
* BruceLeeClone: Certainly takes inspiration from Creator/BruceLee.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: See BadassNormal.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Apparently being in a room full of lava [[TrainingFromHell is part of his training]].
* DishingOutDirt: Aside from Fighting-types, Bruno is fond of Rock and Ground-types too. He has two Onix in the first Generation and its remakes (in Gen II, he swaps one out for Hitmontop but keeps the other), evolves them both into Steelix in his Gen III rematch, and in the two ''Stadium'' games, adds Golem and Rhydon to his teams. This incidentally leads him to be a specialist in all the types that are represented by the Fighting-type in [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} the trading card game]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Downplayed. While Brock and Bruno were AmbiguouslyRelated in Gen I, in newer games Bruno's eyes are open and Brock is wearing a shirt.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Doesn't wear them ever.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In [[https://hirespokemon.tumblr.com/post/652433518958411776/1997-rendition-of-the-generation-1-elite-4-by older artwork]] his eyes are always closed, giving him a strong resemblance to Brock.
* FireIceLightning: In ''Yellow'' and Gen II, and the remakes of the latter, his Hitmonchan has the three {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* {{Kiai}}: HOO-HA!
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Bru'''no sounds like bruiser or brawn.
** Shiba sounds like '''shiba'''ku, to strike.
* MightyGlacier: His Pokémon tend to have great physical stats for both offense and defense, but aren't so good with speed.
* ShockAndAwe: For his ''Let's Go!'' rematch, he obtains that part Electric-type Alolan Golem.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the Spanish translation, where he keeps his English name but [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsandRivals Brendan]] is named Bruno too.
* RealMenHateSugar: Subverted. Despite his TestosteronePoisoning, the Gen III remakes reveal Bruno's TrademarkFavoriteFood is the Rage Candy Bar.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Machamp]], reflecting his reliance on brute power.
* SoreLoser: When you beat him in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedandBlue Gen 1 games]], he says "How can I lose?" and then begrudgingly tells you to go to the next room, turning to the next direction while doing so.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Gen III says that he joined the Elite Four so he could battle the region's most powerful trainers.
* TheStoic: His expression is always the same for all of his sprites.
* TookALevelInBadass: A minor case, but he jumps from second Elite Four to third Elite Four between the first two games.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[SweetTooth Rage Candy Bars]]. He apparently went all the way to the Sevii Islands to get his hands on some.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt ever either.
* WildMan: Bruno appears to be a martial artist that has abandoned civilization--the only item of real clothing he wears is a tattered pair of pants held up by his black belt, the apparent leftovers of a MartialArtsUniform. He's also let his AnimeHair grow out to BarbarianLonghair length, and in ''Let's Go'' he even has feral UhOhEyes.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Fighting-type master, but specifically focuses on the martial arts and wrestling-themed ones rather than just ''any'' Fighting-type.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Karen ''[-(Karin)-]'']]
!!Karen / Karin (カリン ''karin'')
[[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HeartGold_SoulSilver_Karen_5461.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/MelaLee ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/RyokaYuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I love dark-type Pokémon. I find their wild, tough image to be so appealing. And they're so strong."''
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is white in her original game sprite, but is silver in artwork for the TCG and blue-ish white in ''Pokémon Stadium 2''. The remakes settled for grayish blue.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While she was already attractive in the originals, her redesign for the remakes definitely ramped up the sex appeal.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Invoked with her love of Dark-types, as shown in her profile quote. The quote gets removed in the remakes for some reason, but the association remains.
* BareYourMidriff: In the remakes she shows off her midriff, even moreso than Sabrina in her respective new design.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Invoked. Karen pointedly strikes one of these in her pre-battle animation in the Gen IV remakes.
* CastingAShadow: Uses Dark-type Pokémon.
* CombatPragmatist:
** Comes with the territory of using Dark-types. Expect to see plenty of tricky status moves from her.
** Ironically, despite extolling how powerful Dark-types can be, she also encourages the player ''not'' to be one of these, stating that liking the Pokémon in question should be the primary factor in using them. Her team also matches this ideology, as your first match against her has her using a team including a few non-Dark-types, despite there being enough available Dark-types to fill out a team of five.
--->"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."
* CombatStilettos: She's given yellow heels in her remake re-design.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Agatha.
** Karen taps into the same milieu of spooky monsters that Agatha did, but she's younger and sexier than Agatha and preaches the value of fighting with your favorite Pokémon, where Agatha pretty much just preached fighting.
** While Karen borrows the PoisonousPerson milieu from Agatha and even her SignatureMon Gengar, Agatha used spooky animals like Golbat and Arbok, while Karen uses the spooky plant Vileplume.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She may use Dark-types, but she's a nice person. In ''Masters'', she discusses the fact people don't often pick Dark-types out of a combination of how tough-looking they are and because their moves don't exactly evoke security.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: A comparison of Karen's original battle sprite with the sprites of Lorelei and Agatha from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] strongly suggests Karen started life as an edit of Lorelei's body with Agatha's hair. In the Gen IV remakes, however, Karen's outfit is completely redesigned and Karen's fanservice focuses on her top half rather than on the fact that ShesGotLegs like Lorelei.
* GlassCannon: With the exception of [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and, in her rematch in the remakes, Spiritomb, all of her Pokémon are heavy hitters but are also extremely fragile.
* HellHound: Her Houndoom.
* HiddenBuxom: Her original outfit in ''Gold and Silver'' has her in a long, loose black dress that conceals her figure entirely save for her legs. In ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=], she's put in low-riding capris and a crop top that shows off her wide hips, stomach, and reveals that she has a very large chest.
* LittleBlackDress: In the originals she wears a black dress that bares her legs.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Karen has always had some of the longest hair in the franchise, and art of her redesigned self oftens shows her running her hand through her hair to show it off.
* MaleGaze: Her VS Splash Art close-up in ''[=HeartGold=] and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' features her neck, bust, and nearly bare shoulders, while the art in [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen_(XY_Promo_177) her dedicated TCG card]] from Gen VI features her from some very suggestive angles.
* MeaningfulName:
** Rearrange '''Karen''' and add a "D", and you spell "Darken".
** Her German name is Melanie, from "melas" (Ancient Greek for black, dark).
** Her French name is Marion, the 4 last letters spells "noir" backward which means "black".
* MsFanservice: In GSC, she fights you in a LittleBlackDress and heels, with a pose that shows ShesGotLegs. In the remake, she's given tight pants and top to BareYourMidriff with.
* NocturnalMooks: Her original team consists of not just Dark-types, but also Pokémon that can only be found at night in Johto.
* PlayingWithFire: Her SignatureMon Houndoom is a mixed Dark-Fire type, she uses a Magmar in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', and the trading card game extrapolates from her Houndoom so that [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Karen#In_the_TCG a full two-thirds of her pokémon]] have the Fire-type and one of her technical machines teaches an attack that uses Fire-energy. Perhaps the card game wants us to know [[StealthPun she's hot]].
* PoisonousPerson: Due to Dark-types not having enough strong members in their debut generation, she added Gengar and Vileplume into her team.
* ProudBeauty: She is very proud of the beauty she sees in Dark-type Pokémon, whether from being elegant or wild. This also seems to extend to herself, as she often strikes a pose while running her hand through her hair suggestively, and many of her lines and animations in ''Pokémon Masters'' come across as equally suggestive and teasing regarding her beauty.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: All her Pokémon are predominantly either black or purple, and they're Dark or Poison-types.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is so long that it reaches her waist. Much of her art has her running a hand through it for emphasis, suggesting she prides herself on it.
* SignatureMon: Her Houndoom and Umbreon--the respective finisher and point man of her Elite Four team--are the most prominent among her pokémon.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', [[GlassCannon Houndoom]] is her finisher, which fits perfectly with her preference for Dark-types for their wild, cool appearances.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', however, [[StoneWall Umbreon]] and Murkrow take center stage--both appear on both of Karen's teams, while Houndoom is nowhere to be seen. In the Gen IV remakes of her debut games, Umbreon and Honchkrow tie for the highest-levelled pokémon on her rematch team.
** In ''Masters'', Karen can choose between Houndoom and Umbreon, though the former is her default and can Mega Evolve. Both Hondoom and Umbreon are also the only monsters from her core series team to appear in the TCG.
* SoulPower: Her Gengar and Spiritomb, which are part Ghost-type.
* StopHavingFunGuys: {{Defied}} InUniverse. Lorelei's introductory speech famously criticizes judging pokémon for being strong or weak.
* SuperMode: In ''Masters'', she can Mega Evolve her Houndoom.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Masters'', she can now Mega Evolve her Houndoom. This is consistent with many other returning trainers of her level in games after Mega Evolution was revealed, including the Generation 3 Elite Four, so it's also likely that if she were to return again in the main series, she'd have access to the technique there as well.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Downplayed. She describes herself as "verrry good" in ''Pokémon Puzzle Challenge'', but it's unknown if she's actually trilling them or just dragging the word out.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the original games, Karen wore a LittleBlackDress and had shoulder-length white hair. In the remakes, she has a yellow top with white pants and waist-length blue hair. If you didn't know it was Karen looking between the two games, you wouldn't guess it.
[[/folder]]
!Hoenn Elite Four
[[folder:Sidney ''[-(Kagetsu)-]'']]
!!Sidney / Kagetsu (カゲツ ''kagetsu'')
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oras_sidney.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/ProZD ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shōhei Kajikawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I like that look you're giving me. I guess you'll give me a good match."''
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* ActionInitiative: Teaches his team Fake Out, Aqua Jet, and Sucker Punch in the remakes.
* BaldOfAwesome: Well, shaved, but still fits.
* BlingOfWar: Downplayed; wearing a ''golden'' watch comes off as this when hardly anyone else in the series wears a watch at all. He also proudly boasts during rematches that Steven gifted the entire Hoenn Elite Four with Mega Stones and Key Stones, so presumably he's quite proud of wearing them as well.
* CastingAShadow: Dark-types.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: His Shiftry knows Extrasensory at level 48 when Nuzleaf doesn't learn it until 49 and it's impossible for Seedot to learn it. This was fixed in the remakes, as Nuzleaf learns it at 36 this time around.
* CombatPragmatist: Natural for a Dark-type user.
* CriticalHitClass: In the remakes, his Absol has the ability Super Luck, which increases the probability for critical hits. He's also taught it Night Slash, Psycho Cut, and Slash. Have fun seeing the words "Critical hit!" a lot.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may use Dark-type mons, but he's a nice person.
* FaceOfAThug: His artwork in the remakes gives him a rather nasty-looking facial expression. But he's not a bad guy. This makes him come across as much more edgy and unpredictable than in the original games, where he appeared to just be a well-mannered, nicely dressed guy, dialogue aside.
* GenkiBoy: Implied. Given how he actually enjoys avoiding ''natural disasters'' using his Absol and how expressive he can be, he may be this.
* GlassCannon:
** His strategy says it all: "Offense over Defense". His team consists of several such Pokémon with high offensive stats, but poor defenses and middling to low speed.
** Though he seems to have re-evaluated his strategy a bit for his rematches in the remakes, as he is now touting a [[MightyGlacier Scrafty]] and a [[StoneWall Mandibuzz]].
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Si'''d'''n'''ey can be used to make all sorts of unpleasant words like sinister, insidious, or sin. Not that he's evil, but it fits his theme.
** '''Kage'''tsu contains the word '''kage''' (shadow).
** His French name is Damien, like Satan's son. It also sounds like "demon".
** His German name is Ulrich, from "Unlicht" (Dark).
** His Italian name is Fosco, meaning "dark" or "obscure".
** His Spanish name is Sixto, from "siniestro" (sinister/Dark). It may also be a reference to the NumberOfTheBeast.
* NiceGuy: Despite being a Dark-type user and having the FaceOfAThug, he's actually really friendly and easy-going.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Absol]], a GlassCannon which perfectly represents his preference.
* SlouchOfVillainy: He's not a villain, but is still notably the only Elite Four member in the remakes who actually sits on his chair as he waits for challengers.
* ThrillSeeker: After his encounter with his Absol, who has the power to predict disasters, he mentions that he's so happy to be with it because it is never a dull moment being with it.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Absol.
* UselessUsefulStealth: Has a Zoroark in rematches, which will always copy his Absol. Any player who knows how [=NPC=] trainers handle Mega Evolution will see why Zoroark's cover will immediately be blown. And besides that, Zoroark and Absol are typed the same, so the disguise won't do much to increase Zoroark's longevity.
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[[folder:Phoebe ''[-(Fuyō)-]'']]
!!Phoebe / Fuyō (フヨウ ''fuyou'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/CristinaValenzuela ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MaiFuchigami ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I did my training on Mt. Pyre. While I trained, I gained the ability to commune with Ghost-type Pokémon."''
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: One of the first in the series; she was a tan-skinned young woman with an island dancer theme in the original games.
* BadassAdorable: It's already apparent in her original artwork, but her redesign in the remakes makes it even more obvious, on top of making her look younger.
* BareYourMidriff: Her dancer design has her in a cropped bandeau and a long skirt, exposing her midriff.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Playing into her Hawaiian (or perhaps [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Alolan]]) dancer theme, Phoebe goes barefooted seemingly without regard for terrain.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: A variant; her connection with nature focuses on the dead more than the living.
* FireIceLightning: Her Dusknoir in the remakes has the {{Elemental Punch}}es.
* GenkiGirl: In the remakes, while her dialog is basically unchanged, her model is much more expressive, indicating her to be very bouncy and hyper.
* ISeeDeadPeople:
** Gained the ability to communicate with ghosts while training on [[IndianBurialGround Mt. Pyre]]. If you visit Mt. Pyre again after beating the Elite Four, you can find her while she's having a conversation with one... who may or may not be her grandmother.
** A now infamous Easter egg in the remakes shows a ghost girl sitting in her chair for a split second, and then between Phoebe and the player (the camera angle obscures her) right before you challenge her for the first time, though it's uncertain whether or not Phoebe was aware of her presence.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Phoebe's strategy is to "confuse and confound", and she lives up to it. In ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', every one of her Pokémon can induce a status effect or condition, while in ''Emerald'', she mixes up status with evasion and ManaBurn; and most of them know Shadow Ball or Psychic, which can diminish Special Defense. In Generation VI, she upgrades her strategy by having her strongest Pokémon know Hex, which does double damage to a target that has been inflicted with status (and that Pokémon can easily burn, freeze, or paralyze your Pokémon with its Elemental Punches).
* ManaBurn: Her first Pokémon in ''Emerald'', Dusclops, has Protect, which, coupled with its Pressure ability, was specifically designed to wear down the Power Points (PP) of your Pokémon. The second one, Banette, is no slouch either, with Spite in its arsenal (in ''Emerald'', Spite is replaced with Grudge).
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Pho'''e'''b'''e becomes phobia, and ghosts have a very strong association with fear.
** Fuyou sounds similar to Fuyuu (to float), which is what many ghosts do.
** Her German name is Antonia, from "Phantom".
** Her Spanish name is Fátima, from "fantasma" (phantom).
** Her French name is Spectra, from "spectre" (ghost).
** Her Italian name is Ester, from "esoterico" (esoteric), "esper", or "extrasensoriale" (extrasensory).
** Her Korean name is Hoeyeon, from hwanyeong (phantom).
* MightyGlacier: Her second Dusclops, while very slow, has incredible defenses and a plethora of powerful moves that cover a wide range of types, making it quite deadly. In the remakes, it is a Dusknoir with even higher defenses, all three of the elemental punches, and actually has the Attack stat to use them.
* MsFanservice: She's shown to be wearing only a bandeau top and a sarong, with anything beneath the sarong left up to the imagination. At least until ''Masters'', where some kind of underwear/shorts can be seen.
* NiceGirl: Despite being a Ghost-type user, she's very friendly and carefree.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Not among the cast, but among trainers. With her bright, happy personality and her equally-bright appearance, Ghost-types are probably the last type one would think she'd use.
* PerpetualSmiler: In the remakes, Phoebe is always laughing and smiling. It's shown in her official artwork, and intro cutscene — even after she loses, her smile never drops.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Attributes her loss to you having a stronger bond with your Pokémon than she had with hers.
* RecurringElement: The second in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in an odd-numbered generation that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: Downplayed. Phoebe's team is remarkably symmetrical, with two Dusclops, two Banette, and a single Sableye in the center, though she does start and end with her [[StoneWall Dusclops]]. In the remakes, she's evolved her second Dusclops into [[MightyGlacier Dusknoir]], but in rematches, her strongest Pokémon is actually [[StoneWall Mega Sableye]]. All of them tie into her links to the Hoenn region's past and ability to commune with Ghost-types. She uses Dusclops/Dusknoir in ''Masters''.
* SoulPower: Ghost-type master.
* StoneWall: Her BadassBoast before your battle, openly challenges you to try and damage her team.
* {{Stripperific}}: She doesn't wear [[BareYourMidriff that much]], though downplayed obviously, owing to the target audience.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Sableye.
* UselessUsefulSpell: In all battles, Phoebe's Sableye lacks status moves to abuse with Prankster.
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[[folder:Glacia ''[-(Prim)-]'']]
!!Glacia / Prim (プリム ''purimu'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/KatelynGault ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SayakaKinoshita ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I've traveled from afar to Hoenn so that I may hone my Ice-type moves."''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The modern art style and its bigger eyes make her look more youthful than her original self, though both versions are still of a VagueAge. Her redesign is also showing some skin around the neck and chest.
* BloodKnight: Downplayed. Glacia enjoys battles for the passion of them.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Lorelei and Glacia are both powerful Ice-type specialists, but while Lorelei was a haughty IceQueen who takes offense to being defeated, Glacia delights in the passion of the fight itself and is a GracefulLoser.
* {{Expy}}: As a beautiful female Ice-type specialist in the Elite Four, she directly recalls Lorelei of Kanto; as a beautiful female Ice-type specialist encountered in a subtropical island region, she recalls Lorelei as she appeared in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--her Japanese name Prim is remarkably close to Lorelei's DubNameChange Prima.
* FightOffTheKryptonite: One of the reasons she came to Hoenn was to train her Ice-types to fight under tropical conditions in the belief they could power through it.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Wears a long purple dress.
* HiddenDepths: When you defeat her, Glacia reveals a taste for wordplay and puns in particular.
* HostileWeather: Glacia's use of Hail will deal DamageOverTime to all non-Ice types on the player's team while it's in effect.
* AnIcePerson: Ice-type specialist.
* IcyBlueEyes: Has them in the remakes. The VisualPun is almost certainly intentional.
* InformedAttribute: Her profile indicates her strategy is to use items in battle, but she only uses the bog-standard pair of full-restores and a single sitrus berry as a held item in Gen III--in Gen VI she doesn't even use the berry, only using a single Glalitite in her rematch.
* {{Irony}}: She's a cool-tongued LadyOfWar who appreciates nothing more than fiery passion. This even extends to her favorite dish being spicy curry.
* LadyOfAdventure: A ProperLady who traveled from afar to the Hoenn region so that she could better train her Ice-type Pokémon and climb up the Pokémon League ladder.
* LadyOfWar: She's a regal and lady-like Ice-type trainer. It helps that she's a member of the Elite Four.
* LuckBasedMission:
** Her Walrein knows Sheer Cold. Unless you outlevel her (meaning you have effectively [[NoSell already won]]), or have a Pokémon with Sturdy, you have at least a 30% chance of a KO when she pulls it out.
** Her Froslass have Snow Cloak, meaning you can miss when the Hail is out.
* MakingASplash: Like Lorelei before her, she has a dual-split focus on Ice and Water due to the dual-typed Walrein and Sealeo. Downplayed in the remakes since she's replaced her two Sealeo with two Froslass, which are Ice and Ghost.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Glaci'''a is very close to glacier. Her name also sounds like the French word for ice "Glace".
** Her Japanese name, '''Prim''', is much like "''prim'' and proper". Given her appearance, it's quite fitting.
** Her German name is Frosina, from "frost".
** Her Spanish name is Nívea, meaning "snowy".
** Her Italian name is Frida, from freddo (cold).
** Her Korean name is Mihye, from "mi" (beautiful) and "hyeseong" (comet, which consist mainly of ice).
* OneSteveLimit: Glaceon's Japanese name is also Glacia. The character and the Pokémon never share a name in the same region.
* OneHitKill: If her Walrein's Sheer Cold attack lands, it will KO your Pokémon.
* PimpedOutDress: Her outfit. Even more so in the remakes, which add ornate snowflake designs and impressive gloves that cover her forearms.
* ProperLady: Acts like this when you meet her, and has her MeaningfulName above (in Japanese) to fit.
* PungeonMaster: When you defeat her, she makes puns about you being HotBlooded. ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' expands her collection of ice-themed puns, as well.
* ShipTease: After you defeat her post-game in the remakes, Glacia will ask if you intend to "thaw her very heart" before remarking that she wouldn't mind if you did--[[StealthPun she's really starting to warm up to you]].
* SignatureMon: In the third gen, she favored the Spheal line, with two Sealeo and her finisher [[MightyGlacier Walrein]] spaced out by a couple of Glaie. In the sixth gen, she favors the Snorunt family instead, having replaced both Sealeo with Frosslass, leading with a Glalie, and in her rematch using Mega Glalie as her finisher over Walrein, which is also what she uses in ''Masters''.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's very regal and formal, but is also the second-strongest of Hoenn's Elite Four.
* SoulPower: In the remakes, she's got a pair of Ghost-type Froslasses.
* StandardRPGItems: She claims her strategy is to use items to win, which may or may not be true. (Ironically, she uses next to no Hold Items, only having a Sitrus Berry for her Walrein in the original games and a Glailite — in the rematch — in the remakes).
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the rematches with her in Gen VI, she can now Mega Evolve her Glalie.
** She also uses Froslass in place of her weak Sealeo, and with their high speed and Snow Cloak ability, can be extremely difficult to take down.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A hot plate of Mauville Ramen Bowl. [[LampshadeHanging Yes, she's aware it's ironic.]]
* UselessUsefulSpell:
** In rematches, Glacia's Mega Glalie lacks Normal-type moves to take advantage of Refrigerate.
** Her Walrein's ability is Thick Fat, which gives it resistance to Fire and Ice attacks. Unfortunately, being a Water and Ice type, Walrein already has a double-resistance to Ice and only takes neutral damage from Fire, so nobody's going to be throwing many of those moves at her.
* VictoryIsBoring: Despite the fact that she came to Hoenn specifically to hone her "icy skills", she hasn't managed to have even a single challenging fight since arriving.
* WeatherManipulation:
** Her team is fond of the moves Hail and Blizzard.
** In her rematch, she leads with an Abomasnow, whose Snow Warning ability automatically starts Hail as soon as it's sent out. She takes great advantage of this not only by using Blizzard, but also by using Pokémon whose abilities are activated by Hail.
* WeatherOfWar: One of the first trainers to make real use of it; Glacia's Pokémon all know Hail and employ their Ice-type ExploitedImmunity to preserve themselves from the DamageOverTime. Her Glalie use Crunch and Shadow Ball to set you up for their teammates' Surf, Ice Beam, and Blizzard moves. In the remake, she's even tougher — most of her Pokémon now know Blizzard in order to exploit the new always-accurate effect Hail gives it.
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[[folder:Drake ''[-(Genji)-]'']]
!!Drake / Genji (ゲンジ ''genji'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/SteveKramer ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/MasaharuSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"For us to battle with Pokémon as partners, do you know what it takes? Do you know what is needed? If you don't, then you will never prevail over me!"''
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Notably averted. In the ''Ruby and Sapphire'' remakes, which redesign virtually every single major character to some degree, Drake stands out as one of the very few with no design changes whatsoever -- while he receives new artwork, his appearance is identical to his design in the original games. This suggests that, of the designs from those games, the developers felt his was the design that best conveyed their original intentions and thus did not require improvement or modernizing.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one with no shirt, also qualifying for NoShirtLongJacket.
* ConfusionFu: Par for the course with a Dragon master. While the Elite Four always tend to give their teams varied and powerful movesets, it's hard to predict what Drake will throw at you.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* FatherNeptune: Seems to have the look, being a sea lover. He's not a Water-type specialist, though.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the initial Elite Four battle in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', his male Flygon focuses on physical attacks while his female Flygon focuses on special attacks.
* MeaningfulName:
** In Japanese, Genji comes from genjū (mythical beast).
** '''Drake''' is another word for a dragon, hence his dragon tamer specialty.
** His Korean name is Gweonsu, from "gweon" (power) and "su" (beast).
** His name come from "dragon" in most translations
*** His German name is Dragan.
*** His Spanish name is Dracón.
*** His French name is Aragon.
%%* MightyGlacier: His Altaria.
* NiceHat: A sea captain's, to be precise.
* NoShirtLongJacket: He wear a long open jacket with no shirt.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares his name with the Supreme Gym Leader of the Orange Crew from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''--Drake of the Orange Islands notably used a Dragon-type as his SignatureMon.
* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Emerald'', where he tells you over the Pokénav that fighting the Elite Four is better than engaging in the Battle Frontier, regardless of fun value.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Salamence]], perfect given that he champions the Elite Four as the strongest trainers and Dragon-types as the strongest Pokémon. In Gen VI rematches, it Mega Evolves into Mega Salamence.
* StealthPun:
** He's a Dragon type trainer that wears a sea captain hat. Hmm, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon sound familiar]]?
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake Alternatively...]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the rematches with him in Gen VI, he can now Mega Evolve his Salamence.
* TheUnsmile: In ''Masters'', his face frightened a young kid. He then shows his unnerving smile to the player to prove his point.
* UselessUsefulSpell: His Salamence can Mega Evolve in the rematches, but its moveset does not have any Normal-type moves to make use of Aerilate.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Though he has a coat, unlike most examples.
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!Sinnoh Elite Four
[[folder:Aaron ''[-(Ryō)-]'']]
!!Aaron / Ryō (リョウ ''ryou'')
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-->''"I'm a huge fan of bug Pokémon. Bug Pokémon are nasty-mean, and yet they're beautiful, too..."''
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* AchillesHeel: Three of his five Pokémon in ''Diamond and Pearl'' have a 4x weakness. They won't last long if you have that particular Type handy. In ''Platinum'', four of his five team members have a 4x weakness with his signature Drapion being the only one that doesn't.
* AnimeHair: Just look at that IdiotHair!
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He loves Bug-types, and wonders why most people don't love Bug-types too. His team also includes large insectoid Pokémon that aren't Bug-types, such as Flygon and Drapion.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In a dramatic in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he became a Gym Leader to impress a childhood friend, only for her to fall in love with another Gym Leader. When that Gym Leader turned out to be a fraud, he confessed his love for her right after he became promoted to Elite Four.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Green hair and green eyes.
* DragonTamer: For his rematch in ''Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'' he's added the part Dragon-type Flygon to his team.
* ExtraOreDinary: He adds the part Steel-type Scizor to his team in ''Platinum''.
* FriendToBugs: He adores and is obsessed with Bug-type Pokémon.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: A rare heroic variant of this trope. He was originally just another Bug Catcher who never lost his love for Bug-type Pokémon even after growing up, but became so good with utilizing Bug-types and won so many battles with them that he eventually reached up to the ''Elite Four,'' being effective one of the Top 5 Strongest Trainers in the ''entire Sinnoh region''. Yes, he's the weakest of the Elite Four, but that's still ludicrously impressive given the competition he faces for that.
* GracefulLoser: If somewhat adorkable in trying to be this.
* IdiotHair: Considering his [[BigCreepyCrawlies specialty type]], it might be intended as reminiscent of a rhinoceros beetle's (like Heracross) horn.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Aar'''on is like arachnid.
** His Spanish name is Alecrán, from "alacrán", (scorpion).
** His Korean name is Chungho, from "chung", (bug).
* MookPromotion: According to a television channel in ''Black 2 and White 2'', a Bug Catcher in Sinnoh managed to get a position as a Gym Leader, then worked his way up to the Elite Four.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Not to be confused with Sir Aaron from the eighth movie of the anime.
* PoorPredictableRock:
** Aaron's main Pokémon is a Drapion, a Pokémon that isn't a Bug type, but it's only weak to Ground type moves, something that Bug types resist.
** Aaron is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four to ''not'' play this trope straight in ''Platinum'', thanks to the aforementioned Drapion.
* SignatureMon: [[LightningBruiser Drapion]]. Despite it not being of his Bug typing, it does fit the "nasty-mean" part of his opening lines, not to mention its previous form Skorupi is a Bug-type. Interestingly, he is the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four whose main Pokémon stays the same when their teams get revamped for ''Platinum''.
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[[folder:Bertha ''[-(Kikuno)-]'']]
!!Bertha / Kikuno (キクノ ''kikuno'')
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-->''"You're quite the adorable Trainer, but you've also got a spine."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Every Pokémon she fields in her initial Elite Four and rematch bouts is female.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: It's strongly implied she may be a relative of Agatha of the Kanto Elite Four. They have similar names, they look similar, they have identical hairstyles, similar speech patterns (though Bertha is much nicer than Agatha), and Charm from ''Legends: Arceus'' resembles both of them and uses a Gengar and Rhydon, implying a shared ancestor. Shauntal remarks on their similarities in Gen V, but there's nothing confirmed.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Dear child."
* CoolOldLady: Much nicer than Agatha as well.
* DishingOutDirt: Ground-type master.
* MakingASplash: Her Whiscash and Quagsire, who are part Water-type. The latter only appears on her ''Diamond and Pearl'' team.
* MeaningfulName:
** B'''erth'''a, from "earth".
** Her French name is Terry, from "terre" (earth).
** Her German name is Teresa, from "terrain" (soil).
** Her Italian name is Terrie, from "terra" (earth).
** Her Spanish name is Gaia, the name of the Greek deity personifying the earth.
* MightyGlacier: As usual with a Ground-type master, her Pokémon are a bit slow, but very tough.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's also quite possibly a relative of Kanto's Agatha. Only much nicer.
* OldMaster: An elderly Ground-type Trainer who holds her own as a member of the Elite Four.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: A brown one, as befits a Ground-type Trainer.
* ScaryScorpions: She adds a Gliscor to her team in ''Platinum''.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Hippowdon]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[MightyGlacier Rhyperior]] in ''Platinum'' and ''BDSP''. Both reflect the Ground-type's typical nature of prioritizing defense over offense.
* ThemeNaming: In the English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese versions, she's named after Agatha: Bertha/Agatha, Kikuno/Kikuko, Deul Gukhwa/Gukhwa and Guk Je/Gūkjí.
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[[folder:Flint ''[-(Ōba)-]'']]
!!Flint / Ōba (オーバ ''ooba'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/LandonMcDonald ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You're facing a Fire-type Pokémon user with me. Let Flint see how hot your spirit burns!"''
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* AfroAsskicker: His most notable trait is his red afro and he's tough enough to be a member of the Elite Four. He even suggests to Volkner in ''Platinum'' that he should have his Pokémon come out of it just to freak out his opponents. In ''Masters'', it turns out he takes great pride out of it and goes against expectations that Elite Four members should have "clean-cuts."
* ArtificialBrilliance: He likes to use Sunny Day to power up his Fire-type moves and weaken your Water-type moves. His Magmortar in ''Platinum'' has Sunny Day + Solar Beam (and Thunderbolt, for that matter) to deal with Water-types. His Infernape knows Thunder Punch for the same reason, and can use Mach Punch and Earthquake on your Rock-types, plus it's part Fighting-type so it's neutral against Rock-type moves.
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: The wise guy to Volkner's straight man.
* ElementalHairColors: His afro is a fiery red, and the shape of it resembles a cloud of smoke. He also specializes in Fire-type Pokémon.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Lampshaded by Volkner, who states that Flint chose to raise Fire-types because of his name.
* FieryRedhead: Has red hair to match his fiery personality.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Volkner.
* HotBlooded: In contrast with Volkner, he starts a battle like this but burns out as he comes closer to losing.
* TheHyena: In ''Masters'' his ready animation occasionally has him laughing to himself before calming himself down.
* InformedAttribute: He says that his favorite move is Overheat, but not many of his team members know it. Only his Flareon knows it in ''Platinum'', and none of his Pokémon know it in ''Diamond and Pearl''.
* MeaningfulName:
** Invoked. Once again, see Volkner's DeadpanSnarker entry. In case you don't get it, '''flint''' is a material used for making fires.
** His Japanese name is a reference to the fire-type move Overheat ('''Ooba'''ahiito).
** His German name is Ignaz, from "ignis" which is Latin for "fire".
** His Spanish name is Fausto, from Hefesto (Hephaestus), the Greek god of fire, volcano, and metallurgy.
** His French name is Adrien, from "ardent" (fiery).
** His Italian name is Vulcano, meaning "volcano".
* MythologyGag: In ''Masters'', there is no doubt the Flint that appears there is [[spoiler:the Flint from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' games, as he mains Infernape and he fondly talks about his Lopunny and Drifblim, despite the fact in ''Platinum'' he mains Magmortar and has a full team of Fire-types.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Goes from enthusiasm to utter devastation after losing.
* PersonalityPowers: Flipped from Volkner charging up as the battle continues, Flint starts off fired-up, then as you begin to beat him he blazes hotter, only to smolder down to embers on defeat and get quiet.
* PlayingWithFire: He apparently chose to train them solely because of his name. This was changed from the Japanese version, where his favorite move is Overheat because it matches his name (''Oobaahiito'' and ''Ooba'').
* PoorPredictableRock: Mainly averted in ''Diamond and Pearl'' due to the staggering lack of Fire-types in Sinnoh before the National Pokédex, as well as not padding out his team with lower evolutions or repeats to compensate. His team still has a couple of Fire attacks, however. ''Platinum'' remedied this by giving him Flareon, Houndoom, and Magmortar.
* PowerOfTheSun: He likes the move Sunny Day, which will not only power up his Fire-type moves, but will screw with your Water-type moves' power and, in ''Platinum'', make his Magmortar's Solar Beam work instantly.
* RedOniBlueOni: The HotBlooded red to Volkner's reserved blue.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Infernape]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', for his feisty and fiery personality. In ''Platinum'', it's changed to [[MightyGlacier Magmortar]], making his status as a counterpart to Volkner even more evident, as the Electabuzz and Magmar lines have always been counterparts to each other. It's his Infernape that he shows up with in ''Masters'', however.
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[[folder:Lucian ''[-(Goyō)-]'']]
!!Lucian / Goyō (ゴヨウ ''goyou'')
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-->''"They say I am the toughest of the Elite Four. I'm afraid I will have to go all out against you to live up to that reputation."''
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* BadassBookworm: Bookworm, and the last Elite Four member you face. Possibly one of the most difficult to defeat E4 members.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Pretty well dressed and can kick your ass handily if you aren't careful.
* {{Bishonen}}: To some, it might be difficult to tell whether he's a boy or girl.
* CoolShades: They add to the look.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Pale lavender hair and eyes.
* HairColorDissonance: Well... it looks... ''sort of'' blue... Or is it purple?
* MeaningfulName:
** Lucian = Il'''lusion'''. Lucian is also a name based off the Latin word Lux, which means 'light'.
*** Alternatively, his name could have been derived from the word '''luci'''d, a word used to describe dreams.
** His French name is Lucio, from "Illusion".
** His Italian name is Luciano, from "luce" (light).
** His Spanish name is Delos, from "delusion".
* OffModel:
** His ''Diamond/Pearl'' sprite has shorter hair than his artwork. ''Platinum'' fixed that little blunder.
** His in-game sprites have his clothes at a different colour to the one depicted in official artwork.
* PoorPredictableRock: He's the only member of the Sinnoh Elite Four in ''Diamond and Pearl'' in which all the Pokémon in his team share a single type.
* PsychicPowers:
** At least with his Pokémon, because it isn't quite clear whether Lucian has them himself like most Psychic-type specialists (in contrast to how Sabrina expected the player to face her in Generation I, Lucian finishing a book as soon as the player walks into his room is merely stated to be good timing). At the very least, he's stated by an NPC to have a fondness for books on ESP, as well as books in general considering his frequenting the Canalave Library.
** The aforementioned good timing may be a little ''too'' good to be mere chance, both in the anime (not all that unusual, but still notable) and in the games.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Bronzong]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', [[GlassCannon Gallade]] in ''Platinum''.
[[/folder]]
!Unova Elite Four
[[folder:Shauntal ''[-(Shikimi)-]'']]
!!Shauntal /Shikimi (シキミ ''shikimi'')
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Black_White_Shauntal_31.png]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KiraBuckland ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yuka Nukui ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"I absolutely love writing about the close bonds between the Trainers who come here and the Pokémon they train. Could I use you and your Pokémon as a subject?"''
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* AnimalMotifs: Her neck accessories are supposed to form a black cat's face, according to WordOfGod.
* ApologeticAttacker: When you beat her, she apologizes for hurting your Pokémon.
* BadassBookworm: She's an author, her room is at the top of a huge mound of books, and she's an Elite Four member.
* CallBack: Some of her dialogue references characters from previous games, such as Volkner, Agatha, and Bertha. In the case of the latter two, she muses on their conspicuously similar appearances.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and purple eyes.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Ghost-types but is not a bad person.
* DramaticThunder: In the room you fight her in, lightning occasionally flashes in the window.
* EmpathicEnvironment: In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'', the books in her area jump when you surprise her upon arrival.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_B2W2_Shauntal.png intro animation]] has her still penning a novel even as she starts to battle you.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time you challenge her in ''Black and White'', she reads a passage from a book she's writing based on a previous challenger. The description fits N perfectly.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: When the player challenges her in ''Black 2 and White 2'', the novel she's working on is about the events of the previous game; her brainstorming describes N and the Legendary Pokémon he uses in the game you're playing.
* JackOfAllStats: Her team is this collectively. Each of them has a different stat that is their best and always extremely high.
* MeaningfulName:
** S'''haunt'''al. In addition, it's a [[GratuitousFrench French name]] meaning "a circle of stones", or more specifically, a tomb, as befitting for a ghost-type user.
** '''Shi'''kimi contains '''Shi''' (death)
* {{Meganekko}}: A typical example.
* MyNaymeIs: Her English name is far more commonly written as "Chantal" or "Chantel"; the game's creative spelling was probably done to make the pun more obvious.
* NotAMorningPerson: She claims this in ''Pokémon Masters'' if she greets you in the morning, giving an exhausted sigh.
* PerkyGoth: She's a creepy Ghost-type master, but is very energetic.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Good thing, considering how short that skirt is.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her dress and hair are purple, and she's an elite trainer who specializes in Ghosts.
* RecurringElement: The third in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in the Ghost type.
* SignatureMon: [[SquishyWizard Chandelure]]; a chandelier is a good choice for a writer who writes in shadowed rooms.
* SoulPower: She is a Ghost-type master.
* StealthPun: She is an author who uses Ghost Pokémon. In other words, she is a ghostwriter.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marshal ''[-(Renbu)-]'']]
!!Marshal / Renbu (レンブ ''renbu'')
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->Voiced by: Phillip Reich ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshikazu Nagano ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"In myself, I seek to develop the strength of a fighter. And shatter any weakness in myself!"''
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* BigOlEyebrows: That somehow merge with ''his hair''.
* BloodKnight: Prior to meeting Alder, Marshal wandered around Unova in order to battle strong trainers. It's still applicable to his character, but he probably had it worse before.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: His hair's kinda [[HairColorDissonance orange]], really.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Maybe Maylene picked it up from him.
* {{Kiai}}: Just before the battle begins, he will shout "Kiai!" He seems to have picked up the habit from Alder.
* LastChanceHitPoint: His Sawk has Sturdy.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Marshal" sounds just like ''martial'', as in martial arts.
** R'''enbu''' contains the word "enbu", referring to a type of public demonstration of martial arts.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Alder mentions that Marshal used to be solely driven by strength like Cheren.
* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Mienshao]] in the first battle, but [[MightyGlacier Conkeldurr]] usurps the throne in rematches and in the sequels, ''Black 2 and White 2'', as well as in ''Masters''. Both reflect his martial-arts focus and distaste for weakness.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Wears what appears to be a sleeveless combination of a sweatshirt and a karate gi.
* WalkingTheEarth: What he used to do in search of strong trainers before he was offered a place on the Unova Elite Four.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grimsley ''[-(Giima)-]'']]
!!Grimsley / Giima (ギーマ ''giima'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/DaisukeOno ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"It's more important to master the cards you're holding than to complain about the ones your opponents were dealt."''
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* AlwaysSecondBest: He usually holds the second-best record in the different Mantine Surfing spots.
* AmazonBrigade: Almost all of his Pokémon are female.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He's a gambler, and the colors of his Generation V clothes match common colors for roulettes.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Without a tie, but it still fits. In ''Sun and Moon'', he wears a kimono instead.
* {{Bishonen}}: He's quite fair-featured and handsome.
* TheCameo: Shows up briefly in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' to give the player access to Sharpedo for their Ride Pager. He later appears at the Battle Tree.
* CombatPragmatist: Uses Dark-types. What sets him apart from Karen and Sidney is that he discusses this aspect to them heavily, suggesting his preference for Dark-types was for completely different reasons than them.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In the originals, he has a level 50 Bisharp in the initial match, even though it evolves from Pawniard at level 52. Considering what Dark-types are [[TheCombatPragmatist known for]], it actually does make sense in a way.
* ContinuityNod: Uses every mon he's used throughout the Gen 5 games in the Battle Tree with the exception of Krookodile, which is absent from the entire tree roster. This even includes his Absol from the Challenge Mode of Grimsley's initial fight in the sequels.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a child, he was the son of a wealthy family that lost their fortune and fell into poverty. This led to him betting on Pokémon battles in an attempt to regain his family's wealth, and developing his liking for Dark-types, as they did whatever it took to win. By the time he reached adulthood, he was a Dark-type master and full-blown gambling addict.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Uses Dark-types, but he's a nice guy.
* EightiesHair: Looks like somebody on the design team is a fan of Music/AFlockOfSeagulls. That, or ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', considering Caitlin's design as well. His appearance in general is also strongly influenced by both [[{{Goth}} traditional goth]] and NewRomantic fashion.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: By the time of ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''. They're likely a result of money-related stress.
* TheGambler: What he turned to after his family had been ruined.
* GracefulLoser: While this is true of all Elite Four members, he actually discusses this, saying there are bad ways to win and good ways to lose, and that it's not always clear which is which. Ironic, since he specializes in [[CombatPragmatist Dark-types]]. [[spoiler:Should you win against him at the Battle Tree, he tries covering his twitching face, so he's trying ''hard'' to be a graceful loser.]]
* HeadsOrTails:
** One of his animations shows him flipping a coin, as does his Gen. VII artwork. In ''Sun and Moon'', he also flips a coin and has the player character guess which side it lands on.
** In Chapter 25 of ''Masters'', he flips a coin to decide whether or not to join Karen and Will's team. It comes up heads, and he joins them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Grimsley is the son of a fallen wealthy family.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Played with. While his face looks relatively the same in ''Sun and Moon'', his hair has white streaks despite his youth, and he has dark bags under his eyes. Seems that the stress of his financial troubles has had an effect on his health.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Grim'''sley.
** Giima could be referencing '''ma''' (demon or demonic) or the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "Boogeyman" (Buu'''giima'''n)
* NewRomantic: His aesthetic is somewhere between this and a traditional goth in ''Black and White'', while his kimono-clad ''Sun and Moon'' self is firmly in this territory.
* PointyEars: He has pointy ears to add to his Vampire motif.
%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Adds to the field.
* SharpDressedMan: He wears a fashionable suit in the Generation V games, and it's part of his vampire motif.
* SignatureMon: [[ChessMotifs Bisharp]], suitable for someone who relies on the CombatPragmatist approach of Dark-types. [[spoiler:In ''Sun & Moon'', his Battle Tree top choice is, fittingly for the Ride Pager option he gives you, Mega Sharpedo. Though when fought in other times, Bisharp will replace Mega Sharpedo and come in first. In ''Masters'', he uses Liepard instead, though he also uses Sharpedo while wearing his Synga Suit and Bisharp when wearing his Alola kimono.]]
* SkunkStripe: In ''Sun and Moon'', Grimsley's hair on his temples is now white.
* SuperMode: Like Cynthia and other returning cameo characters, Grimsley has the means of using Mega Evolution in ''Sun and Moon''. The mons out of that pool are Tyranitar, Absol, Sharpedo, and Houndoom.
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much so.
* TheUnfettered: Grimsley has absolutely no problem fighting dirty and actually advises the trainer to use any means necessary to win a fight.
* WholeCostumeReference: His Generation V costume is one towards {{Dracula}}.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: In the Generation VII games, he looks significantly older than he did two generations before, despite the small time gap between both games.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Caitlin ''[-(Cattleya)-]'']]
!!Caitlin / Cattleya (カトレア ''katorea'')
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->Voiced by: Sarah Miller-Crews ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/SatomiSato ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"You appear to possess a combination of strength and kindness. Very well. Make your best effort not to bore me with a yawn-inducing battle."''
Caitlin originally served as the overseer of the Battle Frontier's Battle Castle, even if she wasn't the Frontier Brain of the place. She eventually travelled to Unova to develop her skills and control her emotions, eventually becoming one of the members of Elite Four.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She was a darker blonde in in her last appearances, but her hair is noticeably brighter in Generation V.
* AntiGravityClothing: She has hair, bows, and a transparent cape that floats, most likely via her telekinesis.
* AscendedExtra: Castle Valet Darach from Gen IV's Battle Frontier took great care to tend to Lady Caitlin. Caitlin, however, never said or did much... Until now, that is.
* BeYourself: In ''Masters'', she further explains that she considers Cynthia a good friend for advicing her to let her emotions loose lest she'd want to be bored too much.
* BrilliantButLazy: If her sleeping before battle is any indication.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's cold and hostile towards the player at first, but gradually warms up as they battle and is impressed when defeated.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Masters'', she explains that she had issues trying to control her emotions during battles, which is why she trained to bottle them up to avoid losing control of her psychic powers. This worked...a little too well, because this had the indirect effect of making her a HeavySleeper, ironically unable to find much interest in battles.
* GracefulLoser: She wasn't at first, which was when Darach battled in her stead, but as of Gen V, she's quite gracious if you manage to defeat her.
%%* HartmanHips
* HeavySleeper: Sleeps before she battles.
* LadyOfWar: She's a powerful trainer, and in ''Pokémon Masters'' she explains that she focuses on "elegance and grace" in battle. Justified, as she was anything ''but'' graceful when she was younger.
* MeaningfulName: Averted in regard to her type preference, due to having been named before becoming a Psychic expert. Outside of her typing, it sounds like castle, which is where she was until becoming an Elite Four member.
* MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow but have high defensive stats, which is rare for Psychic-types.
* NiceHat: A ''massive'' sleeping cap.
%%* TheOjou: An archetypal example.
* PowerIncontinence: When she was younger, Caitlin was a sore loser and would lose control of her PsychicPowers whenever she lost a battle, causing a great deal of damage. This is why her butler, Darach, fought in her stead when she first appeared in Generation IV.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Or royal ladies in general, anyway.
* PsychicPowers: She has them herself in addition to them being her specialty type — if you look at her [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_BW_Caitlin.png battle sprite]], she has pink, glowing bits of energy floating around her. She didn't have complete control of them [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl when she was younger]], though.
* RapunzelHair: Doubled in length from her last appearance. It extends past her feet nowadays.
%%* RichBitch: To a degree.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her relationship to Darach in Gen IV has her come off as quite royal (Battle ''Castle''?) — Or very rich, at the least.
* SignatureMon: [[StoneWall Gothitelle]] in the first battle, [[MightyGlacier Metagross]] on Challenge Mode (sequel only) and in the rematches (both). Both are symbolic of her passive but powerful character. In ''Pokémon Masters'', her partner is Reuniclus instead. Diverging from her type specialisation, her Halloween 2021 variant uses Sableye.
* SoreLoser: Young Caitlin did ''not'' respond well to losing a battle and would erupt into highly destructive psychic tantrums. Darach battling in her stead was a measure to prevent this.
* SomethingAboutARose: Her new entrance in ''Black 2 and White 2'', from a giant blossoming white rose. ([[NonIndicativeName Although she's named for an orchid...]])
* TheUnfought: Was this back when she was in the Battle Frontier in the fourth generation.
* TookALevelInBadass: From lazy Battle Frontier resident to Elite Four member.
[[/folder]]
!Kalos Elite Four
[[folder:Wikstrom ''[-(Gampi)-]'']]
!!Wikstrom / Gampi (ガンピ ''ganpi'')
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-> Voiced by: Brad Venable (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Susumu Akagi (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
-->''"Well met, young challenger! Verily am I the Elite Four's famed blade of hardened Steel, Wikstrom!"''
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks in a ''very'' flowery, old-fashioned manner.
* CoolSword: His ace, Aegislash, functions as one.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may come across as very hammy, but he's a member of the Elite Four for a ''reason''.
* ExtraOreDinary: The first Steel-type Elite Four member.
* KnightInShiningArmor: His dress style invokes the trope.
* LargeHam: He doesn't just look like a medieval knight, he talks and acts like one.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: He mentions to the Player Character that the two should battle with honor.
* MeaningfulName:
** Wik'''strom''' almost sounds like strong as in strong metal.
** "Ganpi" contains the first two morae of "'''Gan'''jou", meaning solid or sturdy.
* MightyGlacier: With the exception of [[StoneWall Klefki]], all of his Pokémon are of the strong-but-slow archetype.
* ThePrankster: In ''Masters'', he mentions that his Klefki has a habit of stealing the keys to his home and won't relent until Wikstrom has to fight it.
* RealMenWearPink: His first mon sent out is a ''[[OurFairiesAreDifferent Klefki]]''.
* ShoutOut: He speaks in AntiquatedLinguistics and claims that his [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare will shakes spears]].
* SignatureMon: Aegislash -- very fitting for a knight.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: It's uncertain if he is known to take it off, though.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: To go along with his knight motif.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malva ''[-(Pachira)-]'']]
!!Malva / Pachira (パキラ ''pakira'')
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MarinaInoue (JP, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''), Creator/KiraBuckland (EN, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'')
-->''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
Malva is one of the members of Kalos Elite Four, news reporter of the Holo Caster, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and a member of Team Flare]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: Malva was a member of Team Flare, yet the [[EliteMook Scientists and Admins]] were very likely her superiors in spite of having the combat potential and skills to be in the ''[[BadassCrew Elite Four]]''. It is then subverted in Looker's sidequest when it was implied she was at least admin-ranked, since she had knowledge of a hidden floor only admins knew about.
* AmazonBrigade: All four of her main Pokémon are female.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a black belly shirt.
* BerserkButton: ''You'' seem to be one for her, as she frequently comments on how she'd like nothing better than to burn you up on the spot.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Though she seems pleasant enough when she does her news broadcasts, her dialogue when you encounter her at the Pokémon League shows she's anything but pleasant.
* CoolShades: Her shades have a deep red tint to them.
* ChekhovsGunman: She appears in a Holo Caster transmission as a news lady, '''long''' before you fight the Elite Four. This doubles as a {{Foreshadowing}} that she was involved with Team Flare, since they secretly run the company that produces the Holo Caster.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In her chamber, two ''huge'' pillars of fire explode right near where she's sitting. She's completely unaffected, as is the player.
* DarkActionGirl: While she is a reformed member of Team Flare, her violent tendencies place her as this.
* DragonTheirFeet: Despite the fact that she's likely high in the ranks of Team Flare you don't encounter her until long after you've already defeated them.
* EnemyMine: With you and Looker in the postgame to stop Xerosic.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She draws the line at conducting experiments on children, which is why she asks you to take down Xerosic to "prevent him from sullying Flare's honor". It still doesn't stop her from threatening the player with death by fire.
* EvilRedhead: Like the rest of Team Flare, she is a redhead and on-board with their omnicidal plans. Though she never does anything evil to the player personally, and even asks for your help in the post game.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A number of her traits hint at her being part of Team Flare before she reveals it outright: her orange sunglasses, her use of the Fire-type (including Pyroar, which Lysandre also uses) and appearing as the announcer of the Holo Caster, which was produced by Team Flare.
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: A player can download special Holo Caster messages in which she appears on her news program to announce and remind players of special downloadable content and events regarding the game, like the Mystery Gift Torchic and Global Battle Tournaments. (Far more of these appeared in the Japanese version than the two that have appeared in the American one thus far.)
* HonorAmongThieves: The reason she claims she's helping you during the Looker quest, but she doesn't elaborate.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is a PyroManiac who casually mentions to a child that she was thinking of killing them in hellfire right on the spot and then leaves for her chambers (though it's unclear how much of her threats are just standard Fire-user posturing). At least she is a sport when losing.
* KillItWithFire: She remarks after defeat that she just wants to burn you up on the spot.
* KingOfBeasts: Pyroar, the Pokémon she opens with.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When you finally get the chance to defeat her, after all she's done, in the Pokémon League.
* MeaningfulName:
** It comes from ''lava'' and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva Malva]] is also a type a flower, as are a few other names in the region. Also, ''Mal'' means ''evil'' in Latin, which fits her personality and background well.
** Pachira is another type of flower. In addition, if the first five letters are pronounced phonetically and then doubled up, it makes "Pachipachi", an onomatopoeia for the sound of something popping, usually due to heat.
* MsFanservice: After all, she is [[IncrediblyLamePun hot.]]
* PlayingWithFire: She specializes in Fire-types, and is ironically the only Team Flare member who does.
* PyroManiac: ''"I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt!"''
* RichBitch: Her Team Flare membership implies that she must be very wealthy. The bitch part is self-explanatory by this point.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Those orange shades.
%%* ShipTease:
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Talonflame]] when you challenge her at the Kalos League during the initial game and rematches, although she does use [[GlassCannon Pyroar]] by its lonesome in a post-game event. In the anime, she uses a Houndoom that can [[SuperMode Mega Evolve]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: Well, she isn't a villain by the time you run into her, but she is the only Elite Four member who sits on her throne to battle you instead of getting up. Ironically, she's also the one who meets you in the foyer and explains how the Elite Four challenge works.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks to the Player Character in one of their matches how she would like to burn them where they stand as revenge without even raising her voice.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The (then) unnamed Holo Caster girl is a member of the Elite Four?! ''And Team Flare?!''
* TokenEvilTeammate: Of the Kalos Elite Four, as she is a member of Team Flare, and is definitely hostile towards the player. The way she mentions how she wants to kill the player with fire could give ''Koga'' a run for his money. (She becomes ''far'' more threatening the second and all subsequent times you challenge the Elite Four.)
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Will do this if she actually manages to defeat the player at the Battle Chateau.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's a well-respected media figure before Team Flare's EvilPlan is foiled, and continues that role afterwards.
* WalkingSpoiler: There's clearly more to her than you might think at first, for both the main game and postgame.
* WorthyOpponent: In spite of her jerkass behavior and desire to essentially kill the player character, Malva acknowledges their skills and accepts why they were able to take down Team Flare.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Drasna ''[-(Dracaena)-]'']]
!!Drasna / Dracaena (ドラセナ ''dorasena'')
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-->''"Welcome, welcome, come in. You must be a strong Trainer. Yes, quite strong indeed..."''
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* AmazonBrigade: Just like fellow Elite Four member Malva's, Drasna's team is female-only.
* CoolOldLady: She looks like she is in her forties or fifties, but she trains Dragons, is always cheerful, and sports an amazing hairstyle.
* DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-types.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Her character model.
* ImprobableHairstyle: She has ''two huge tusks'' [[note]]Which are actually earrings[[/note]] as part of her hairstyle.
* MeaningfulName: It comes from ''dragon'', rather obviously. Her Japanese namesake is also known as the ''dragon tree''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Her character model and dialogue both indicate she's on the older side, especially compared to her compatriots. That being said, she's still an Elite Four member who specializes in [[InfinityPlusOneElement dragon-types]], so underestimate her at your own risk.
* NiceGirl: She is ridiculously polite to the Player Character.
* PerpetualSmiler: She is always happy, even when it comes to battling.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: She wears ''plenty'' of dragon tusks on her outfit.
* SignatureMon: [[FragileSpeedster Noivern.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Siebold ''[-(Zumi)-]'']]
!!Siebold / Zumi (ズミ ''zumi'')
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-> Voiced by: Creator/SeanChiplock ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shounosuke Horikoshi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Cooking is the type of art that disappears as soon as it is completed. Pokémon battles are the same. Even memories of sweet victory soon fade after the battle ends."''
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* AgentPeacock: Dresses similarly to Wallace, but he is an Elite Four member for a reason.
* BerserkButton: Claiming that Pokémon battles cannot be artistic. The same goes for food, as he's a chef.
* {{Bishonen}}: He looks rather handsome.
* CallBack: Defeat him first in the Elite Four, and he'll give a speech similar to Karen regarding strong Pokémon and weak Pokémon, although in the air of a DeadpanSnarker:
-->"There are no weak Pokémon in a Pokémon battle. There are only weak Trainers."
* ChefOfIron: A world-class chef and an Elite Four member.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A chef after battle will mention him as part of the Elite Four in Restaurant Le Nah, which you can enter as soon as you reach Lumiose, by comparing you vaguely to him.
* LargeHam: Press his BerserkButton and he'll start shouting. Go on, we dare you.
* MakingASplash: Water-type specialist of the region, and the first Elite Four member to specialize in the type.
* MeaningfulName:
** It sounds like '''''Sea'''''bold. It also comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sieboldii Siebold's crabapple]].
** Zumi likely comes from I'''zumi''', meaning a spring or fountain. It's also みず ''mizu'' (water) [[SdrawkcabName backwards]].
* NotSoStoic: He keeps a calm demeanor (unlike [[PlayingWithFire Malva]]), but if you say "No" to the question he asks you (whether or not Pokémon battling can be considered art), Siebold pretty much gets pissed off at you and rants before engaging battle. Amusingly, in ''Masters'', agreeing to his views makes him happy for a bit. Disagreeing ends up pissing him off so much he goes on a ''long'' argument on the player until he calms down and apologizes.
* PerpetualFrowner: His character model is this way.
* ThePhilosopher: Siebold briefly discusses the concept of art with the player before battling, seeing many things, like cooking and victory, as fleeting forms of art that should be cherished because of how short-lived they can be.
* TheWormThatWalks: Barbaracle, a humanoid mass of rocks and barnacles.
* SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Barbaracle]] is his highest-leveled Pokémon in the league. ''Pokémon Masters'' has him use Clawitzer, another member of his team, and his holiday variant has him use Octillery.
* SupremeChef: Fitting for a Water-type Elite Four as his team mostly consists of edible aquatic life, including the starfish and gooseneck barnacle.
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!Alola Elite Four
It is worth noting that Kahili and Molayne are the only Elite Four who aren't a Trial Captain or Kahuna.
[[folder:Hala]]
See his folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
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[[folder:Olivia ''[-(Lychee)-]'']]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
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[[folder:Acerola]]
See her folder in Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas.
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[[folder:Kahili]]
!!Kahili (カヒリ ''kahiri'')
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->Voiced by: Creator/JaniceKawaye ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ShihoKawaragi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
-->''"Why don't we see who the winds favor today, you or me?"''
Golfer and Flying-type specialist. She's been traveling to other regions to become a better trainer and golfer, but flew back to Alola at Kukui's request to become a member of the new Elite Four.
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* AlmightyJanitor: In ''Masters'', both Elio and Selene comment that Kahili has what it takes to become the Alola Champion, but she tells them that she prefers being part of the Elite Four without telling them why. After both leave, she tells Kukui that newer generations of trainers will come to claim the title, hinting that she may not be able to hold being the Champion for long, though she is excited nonetheless.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: The back of her hair looks like crossed bird wings, her ahoge resembles a head feather, and she wears an orange feather over her left breast.
* BloodKnight: While she was annoyed at Kukui constantly pestering her, Kahili admits that she did enjoy the prospect of being able to fight really strong trainers.
* BlowYouAway: Specializes in Flying-types, making her a first for the Elite Four roster.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Kahili has pale blue eyes and hair.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[AccidentalPun Pardon the pun.]]
** A non-playable character talks about her in the demo for the original ''Sun and Moon'', while the workers at the biggest tourist resort in Akala Island mentions her name, and the fact she's the daughter of the owner there. It's not until you see her at the League when she shows up formally.
** In ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', she shows up briefly to demonstrate how to do the pose for the Flyinium-Z at Ten Carat Hill, although she never introduces herself until you meet at the Pokémon League much later.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Downplayed. While her appearance ''is'' foreshadowed (as mentioned above in EarlyBirdCameo), a vast majority of players tend to overlook it as standard NPC talk and likely completely forget about it once she finally shows up at the end of the game. This is especially noticeable considering that the other Elite Four members were all previously encountered in the game and have story significance. Averted in ''Ultra Sun/Moon'', where she'll at least appear briefly to teach you how to use the Flynium Z when you find it, but since she doesn't even bother introducing herself and leaves immediately, it just comes across as a random scene until you encounter her again.
* HiddenDepths: You can find her at the Hano Resort in the post-game. Talking to her reveals that she is very competitive and hard-working in nature, offhandedly implying she spends up to half of the day working on her abilities.
* IdiotHair: Sports a large one resembling a bird’s feather.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Her battle pose is the same as a golfer's driving stance, and she even carries a club with her to do so.
* LadyOfWar: Is highly focused and calm, while also being a powerful Elite Four member. (Justified as this is very much a prerequisite for golf.)
* MeaningfulName:
** The kahili was a staff used as a symbol of power by the rulers of Hawaii, traditionally made from the long bones of an enemy king, and adorned with the feathers from birds of prey. Fittingly, Kahili happens to be a Flying-type specialist and is in a position of authority as an Elite Four member.
** Additionally, Kahili happens to be the name of a well-known Hawaiian golf course, fitting her status as a golfer.
** Fitting with the region's FloralThemeNaming, ''kahili'' is the Hawaiian term for several flowering plants.
* MinidressOfPower: Wears a short skirt and happens to be a member of the Alolan Elite Four.
* NonIdleRich: She's the heiress of the massive Hano Resort, while also being both a professional golfer ''and'' an extremely capable Pokémon trainer.
* TheOjou: Her family owns Hano Resort in Heahea City, and she's very graceful and reserved even in the heat of battle.
* PerpetualFrowner: Consistently has a scowl on her face, much like her signature Toucannon. Zig-zagged in ''Masters'' however, as she does smile regularly in conversations.
* SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse. She gives you the [=TM=] for Trick Room post-game and will mention that she uses the move to handicap herself during training with her mons since most Flying-types are very fast in nature. Ironically, her Toucannon [[MightyGlacier would have benefited from such a move]].
* SignatureMon: Toucannon, which is the ace of her team and wields a Flynium Z-crystal. Her golf club is even adorned with its beak's colors.
* StealthPun: A golfer who specializes in Flying-types. The terms "Birdie", "Eagle", and "Albatross" are related to golfing. (1, 2, and 3 under par, specifically).
* TheStoic: She is very reserved and focused.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Projects an aloof air, but is actually a pretty nice person to the player, especially after they defeat her for the first time.
* TrainingFromHell: In ''Masters'', her training regimen consists of practicing her swing for ''six'' hours ''every day'' without accounting for when she trains her battle skills, she always makes sure she sleeps at the same time each day, and is normal for her to fight ''20'' battles in a single day.
* UncattyResemblance: Her golf club's colors and her permanent frown gives her a resemblance to Toucannon.
* WhenSheSmiles: While she doesn't smile in her home game, ''Masters'' shows that she does smile regularly enough, and it's pretty cute.
* WindIsGreen: The room she's fought in is completely colored green.
* WorthyOpponent: She constantly looks out for strong opponents and when she meets you she wants to beat you to show she's the best trainer in the world and is also looking for a good fight. ''Masters'' further adds to this by having Elio and Selene note that she can very well be the Alola Champion.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: While she otherwise looks very young, her silvery-blue hair could make some mistake her for an older person.
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[[folder:Molayne ''[-(Mullein)-]'']]
!!Molayne / Mullein (マーレイン ''maarein'')
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->Voiced by: Ezra Weisz (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/TakayukiKondo (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)
Molayne is a former Trial Captain, who passed the role onto his cousin, Sophocles. Now, Molayne takes care of [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alola's]] Pokémon Storage System. In ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', he replaces Hala as a member of Alola's new Elite Four.
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* AffectionateNickname: "Big Mo/Mul-san", by Sophocles.
* AscendedExtra: In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', where he joins the Elite Four.
* BadassBookworm: A computing wiz and a former Trial Captain who can still hold his own in a battle. And is good enough to challenge you for the title of Champion in the originals, and be an Elite Four member in the re-release.
* BonusBoss: Is one of the many trainers who fights you in Title Defense in ''Sun and Moon''.
* ExtraOreDinary: He specializes in Steel-type Pokémon, and hands over Steelium Z to the player.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Outside of a Pokémon battle, he almost never opens his eyes.
* FatAndSkinny: He's the taller and skinnier of the duo compared to Sophocles.
* GeekPhysiques: Of the tall and skinny kind.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He and Sophocles are close friends despite Sophocles being young enough to be his child.
* MeaningfulName: His name might come from molybdenum, a metallic element.
* NiceGuy: Outside of some friendly ribbing towards his pals Kukui and Sophocles, he is never anything other than polite and genteel to anyone he meets.
* TheOneGuy: He's the sole male member of the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to his cousin Sophocles, Molayne has a warm smile as his default expression, even when he loses a battle.
* RetiredBadass: A former Trial Captain who is apparently one of the region's better trainers, but he's content to manage the [=PC=] system. He eventually unretires to join the Elite Four in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''.
* SecretKeeper: Of sorts, regarding Kukui's [[spoiler:extremely PaperThinDisguise as a masked luchador]]. Kukui is ''serious'' about not letting him reveal that to anyone, despite how obvious it is.
* SignatureMon: Alolan Dugtrio is his strongest Pokémon during your first battle with him, and his last one in subsequent battles.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Fittingly for Alola's Pokémon Storage System developer, Molayne is seen wearing glasses. His glasses are also hexagon-shaped, which is a common design motif.
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* PimpedOutDress: Her outfit. Even more so in the remakes, which add ornate slnowflake designs and impressive gloves that cover her forearms.
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* WeatherOfWar: One of the first trainers to make real use of it; Glacia's Pokémon all know Hail and employ their Ice-type ExploitedImmunity to preserve themselves from the DamageOverTime. She's no GradualGrinder, though — her Glalie use Crunch and Shadow Ball to set you up for their teammates' Surf, Ice Beam, and Blizzard moves. In the remake, she's even tougher — most of her Pokémon now know Blizzard in order to exploit the new always-accurate effect Hail gives it.
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* WeatherOfWar: One of the first trainers to make real use of it; Glacia's Pokémon all know Hail and employ their Ice-type ExploitedImmunity to preserve themselves from the DamageOverTime. She's no GradualGrinder, though — her Her Glalie use Crunch and Shadow Ball to set you up for their teammates' Surf, Ice Beam, and Blizzard moves. In the remake, she's even tougher — most of her Pokémon now know Blizzard in order to exploit the new always-accurate effect Hail gives it.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A hot plate of Mauville Ramen Bowl. [[LampshadeHanging Yes, she's aware it's ironic.]]
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* GenkiBoy: Implied. Given how he actually enjoys avoiding ''natural disasters'' using his Absol and how expressive he can be, he may be this.
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* BruceLeeClone: Certainly takes inspiration from them.Creator/BruceLee.
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* {{Stripperific}}: She doesn't wear [[BareYourMidriff that]] [[ShesGotLegs much]], though downplayed obviously, owing to the target audience.
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* SignatureMon: [[GlassCannon Infer]][[FragileSpeedster nape]] in ''Diamond and Pearl'', for his feisty and fiery personality. In ''Platinum'', it's changed to [[MightyGlacier Magmortar]], making his status as a counterpart to Volkner even more evident, as the Electabuzz and Magmar lines have always been counterparts to each other. It's his Infernape that he shows up with in ''Masters'', however.
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[-'''Pokémon Family Species:''' [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies Gen I]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Bulbasaur to Parasect]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVenonatToCloyster Venonat to Cloyster]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIGastlyToMiltank Gastly to Miltank]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIMagikarpToMew Magikarp to Mew]] / [[Characters/PokemonMewDuo Mew Duo]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIFamilies Gen II]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIChikoritaToGranbull Chikorita to Granbull]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIQwilfishToCelebi Qwilfish to Celebi]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIFamilies Gen III]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys Wailmer to Deoxys]] / [[Characters/PokemonWeatherTrio Weather Trio]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Gen IV]] | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVFamilies Gen V]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Victini to Zoroark]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Minccino to Genesect]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIFamilies Gen VI]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha Chespin to Hawlucha]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIDedenneToVolcanion Dedenne to Volcanion]] / [[Characters/PokemonAuraTrio Aura Trio]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIFamilies Gen VII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIRowletToComfey Rowlet to Comfey]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIOranguruToMelmetal Oranguru to Melmetal]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraBeasts Ultra Beasts]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Gen VIII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIGrookeyToHatterene Grookey to Hatterene]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIImpidimpToCalyrex Impidimp to Calyrex]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGlitches Glitches]]\\
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* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''Heartgold/Soulsilver'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''Heartgold/Soulsilver'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
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* ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in''Heartgold/Soulsilver'' ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere.
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'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHisui Hisui]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ([[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | '''Elite Four''' | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
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'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHisui Hisui]]) Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ([[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | '''Elite Four''' | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
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[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])-]]]]]
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[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])-]]]]]
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[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]
[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]
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dewicking You Gotta Have Blue Hair per trs
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In the remakes and ''Stadium 2'', though it's still a fairly light shade of blue bordering on silver.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has bright green hair.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His is Violet in color.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has dark purple hair.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is pale blue, and the two main sections in the back cross like a pair of wings.
