History Characters / PokemonLegendsArceus

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Perhaps the most reasonable in the game. Upon hearing how you helped one of his wardens, he immediately places his trust in you. He also reigns his wardens in when he thinks they are going to far such as when Melli was determined to [[TooDumbToLive keep Noble Electrode in a frenzied state]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Lambasts Melli for constantly trying to keep Electrode in its frenzied state and acting like a jerk in general. It falls on deaf ears.

* UncattyResemblance: Her MegaTwintails are in the shape of a Lopunny's ears.

* NiceGuy: An overall chill, affable guy who acts as a prominent support throughout your adventure. [[spoiler:He even continues supporting the protagonist after they're exiled.]]

* AmbiguouslyRelated: She looks like a slightly older version of May, albeit with blonde hair and her bangs framing her face instead of hanging off to the sides.

* SignatureMon: Adaman's main partner is Leafeon. Fittingly, as he hails from a region where there are Grass-types aplenty.

* Stripperiffic: Compared to other members of the Pearl Clan in particular. She wears short shorts and a tube tank top that leaves her shoulders and arms and neck bare. But she lives in the tundra. Adaman almost gives up on reconciling their clans over how ridiculously she dresses.

* GreenThumb: His main Pokémon is the Grass-type Leafeon.

* MeaningfulName: Adaman is derived from ''Adamans'', an Anciect Greek word meaning unbreakable, which is the etymological source of diamond.

* NoRespectGuy: Is implied to be this in his clan as despite being the leader, he actually hasn't ''seen'' the Almighty Sinnoh about whom he constantly preaches. Additionally, Melli is a constant pain in his ass and will only stop being so if directly ordered to do so.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Perhaps the most reasonable in the game. Upon hearing how you helped one of his wardens, he immediately places his trust in you. He also reigns his wardens in when he thinks they are going too far such as when Melli was determined to [[TooDumbToLive keep Noble Electrode in a frenzied state]].
* SignatureMon: Adaman's main partner is Leafeon.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her urging Palina to train the next Noble was a result of trying to mend internal conflict within the clan. Unfortunately, she didn't really consider the implications of what she was asking Palina to do.
* JerkassToOne: Both herself and Adaman are this to each other, bickering at every possible interaction, though their relationship does become better by the end of the game.
* MeaningfulName: Irida sounds like "iridenscent", and nacre/mother-of-pearl is known for its iridesence.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Compared to other members of the Pearl Clan in particular. She wears short shorts and a tube tank top that leaves her shoulders and arms and neck bare. But she lives in the tundra. Adaman almost gives up on reconciling their clans over how ridiculously she dresses.

* YoungAndInCharge: According to Pearl Clan members at the Pearl Settlement, Irida has been training to be clan head from a very young age to the point that she didn't really have anyone her own age to play with.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: His appearance and choice of Pokémon indicate that he's related to [[Characters/PokemonChampions Cynthia]], but there's no official word on it.

* RandomEncounter: In the postgame, they can be found standing around in random spots in every area, and they will challenge you to battle if you enter their line of sight (very much like the traditional Trainer battles in the games), or you can sneak up behind them and challenge them to battle.

* ExposedToTheElements: Her dress leaves much of her arms and legs completely bare to the elements, which is particularly egregious because she lives in an icy tundra. Adaman himself finds it freezing when he accompanies her to Avalugg's Warden, and directly calls her out, asking how she isn't freezing with how she's dressed. Given that she was taught by Avalugg's Warden, who is constantly shirtless, it's implied she acclimated from his teaching and that her unusual attire is weird even in-universe. Sure enough, the rest of the Pearl Clan dresses warmly.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: He believes that Kleavor's frenzied state is meant to be a blessing rather than a problem to quell.

A member of the Security Corps who has a mission for you after the time space rift crisis has been averted.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: A dead ringer for Riley, himself an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew Sir Aaron]], just with an eastern style straw hat instead of a western style fedora and preferring orange and reds to blues and grays.

* FireIsMasculine: In place of [[WaterIsWomanly Milotic]] in his otherwise identical team is Hisuian Arcanine.

* GracefulLoser: Subverted. He calmly gives up the Draco Plate after his defeat...and then flies into a rage at the idea of the protagonist being worthy of Arceus.
* HateSink: There is absolutely nothing redeeming about Volo after he reveals his true colours, he may look like Cynthia and share one of her themes … but he is nothing like her.

** In the cutscene before the final battle against him, he threatens that he's "not above using force" when demanding the player battle him with the Plates on the line.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Visiting the settlements allow you to see some portraits of the older clan leaders in the houses of the clan members who bore resemblance to other characters from different games, such as [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamAquaMagma Maxie]] in the Diamond Settlement and [[Characters/PokemonChampions Alder]] in the Pearl settlement.

* BigBad: He is the main antagonist of the story, being responsible for the space-time rift, manipulating the protagonist, and serving as the human TrueFinalBoss.

* NotSoAboveItAll: She takes her duty as Captain of the Security Corps quite seriously, but will still answer Ingo's call to have a recreational battle against either Rei or Akari whenever they ask, expressing pride in how far they've come if they beat her.

* GracefulLoser: When you defeat him, he takes his loss with grace, and basically begs the player to stop Kamado with force if necessary, before he gets himself killed.

* NoRespectGuy: Is implied to be this in his clan as despite being the leader, he actually hasn't ''seen'' the Almighty Sinnoh that he proclaims about. Additionally, Melli is a constant pain in his ass and will only stop being so if directly ordered to do so.

* HateSink: Downplayed. While Melli doesn't do anything outright loathsome, pretty much everything about his character is meant to disliked.
* {{Jerkass}}: Is the most hostile of the Wardens, constantly talking down to the player and speaking of [[ItsAllAboutMe his own greatness.]] He also takes the bad blood between the Diamond and Pearl Clans too far, refusing to associate with [[spoiler:Ingo]] just because he's from the opposing Pearl Clan.

* LongLived: During the events of the game, she's more than 99 years old.

A Warden who once took care of Arcanine, before he died saving his son from drowning. She now takes care of the Growlithe he left behind.

* StableTimeLoop: It's actually ''Ingo'', who introduces Hisui people a concept of Pokémon trainers during his rambling about his foggy memories, not the PLA protagonist, due to themself also suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia. Also, unlike his peers, Ingo is the only warden to willingly use Pokeballs and battle the player's team one-on-one, and it is implied that other members of the clan will soon follow his trend.
* TimePassageBeard: At some point between the events of the Unova sequels and PLA Ingo grew himself a gogoatee.

* SkewedPriorities: See above. Her idea of a sane reaction to the end of the world is to go shopping during the potential breakdown of spacetime.

[[folder:Mistress Cogita '''(Unmarked spoilers!)''']]

[[folder:The True Villain '''(Major Unmarked Spoilers)''']]

* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: They start their journey in a Pokeball T-shirt, shorts, and sandals, making them look like a tourist and clashing with the satchel they need to carry. The rival points out that they'd be "minced meat" if they tried to fight a Pokémon in those clothes. Hilariously, the starting outfit inspires the clothes shopkeeper to begin designing new patterns for kimono that can be bought later.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: As a protagonist, due to falling out of space-time rift, they ended up suffering from memory loss. They even don't remember what is a Pokémon trainer, though they ''do'' have an option to say early on that they are familiar with Pokémon.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Played with but all of his decisions are done out of a desire to protect Jubilife Village and its people first and foremost. Ideally people and Pokémon can co-exist to make a better world but if they the latter threatens the former, Kamado makes it absolutely clear that he will choose a world where his people are safe and protected over a more risky co-existence any time. Even his decision to [[spoiler:exile you has shades of this. Initially, it seemed the frenzied nobles were the ones responsible for the rift in the sky. Once you quell them and the rift gets bigger, the only conclusion Kamado could draw on was you, a person who fell out of the sky the same time Kleavor became frenzied. These suspicious circumstances do paint the player as a threat and as such must be exiled for the safety of everyone else in the village]].

* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:She is one to Cyrus. Both appear to be rather cold, stern, and unfriendly, but whereas Cyrus was a major sociopath who wanted to remake the world in his twisted vision, Cyllene proves to be one of the player's most valuable allies when they're exiled by Kamado, and lends her support to them in whatever way she can.]]

* CompositeCharacter: His role as a chef and his green hair gives him a resemblance to [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Cilan]], whereas his appearance as a ninja and his team make him bear a resemblance to Wally.

* OnlyFriend: To Kamado. While Kamado generally keeps almost everyone, [[spoiler:''especially'' the player]], at an arms length due to his trust issues, dialogue shows that Beni is one of the few, if not the ''only'' person Kamado trusts fully and unconditionally. The fact they grew up in the same village likely contributes to this.

The owner and proprietor of the Jubilife General Store. Has some beef with Tao Hua over something that happened in the past and is trying to make amends.

A member of the Security Corps who has a mission for you after the timespace rift crisis has been averted.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: A dead ringer for Riley, himself an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew Sir Aaron]], just with a eastern style straw hat instead of a western style fedora and prefering orange and reds to blues and grays.

* CombatPragmatist: None of them have any qualms about sending out many Pokémon at once to fight one of Rei/Akari's. This is justified, as battling hasn't yet become the sport it is in modern day and they [[DarkerAndEdgier live in a much more ruthless world]], so they'd have no reason to follow the "traditional" rules of battling.

* ReligiousBruiser: The Diamond and Pearl clans explicitly have their own religious belief of the mighty "Sinnoh" who created the world (actually Arceus), however, there is a split between whether it ruled over time (Dialga's territory) or space (Palkia's territory). Their trainers are no exception to this, and will frequently voice their beliefs.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Perhaps the most reasonable in the game. Upon hearing how you helped one of his wardens, he immediately places his trust in you. He also reigns his wardens in when he thinks they are going to far such as when Melli was determined to [[TooDumbToLive keep Noble Electrode in a frenzied state]].

* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Her messing with Ursaluna and Lilligant behind Adaman's back paints her in a negative light, but in reality she was just trying her best to fix Lilligant's frenzy herself.]]

* {{Irony}}: Iscan's afraid of Ghost-types, but is the Warden to the part Ghost-type Basculegion.

* EvilIsPetty: More like Jerkass is Petty, but removing all the torches in Wayward Cave so no one else can reach the Noble Electrode just screams pettiness.
* {{Foil}}: To Gaeric. Both are the Wardens to last frenzied Nobles the player has to fight for the Diamond and Pearl clans. Both are under the belief that there is no need to quell their frenzying Noble despite evidence showing it would be a bad idea to let it continue. However, Melli is a slender {{Jerkass}} who chooses to be willfully petty and ignorant of anyone's opinions and has to be essentially strong armed into helping. Gaeric is a muscular, sensible person who accepts others opinions and assists others of his own free will even if he disagrees with them.

* HateSink: Downplayed. While Melli doesn't do anything outright loathesome, pretty much everything about his character is meant to disliked.

* TheAce: She shows off the most battle skill of all the Wardens and even the heads of each clan by commanding an Electivire, Magmortar and Rhyperior all at once. Not only is this difficult and a specialized battle style in the modern day (in the form of Triple Battle), but each of these Pokemon is being commanded by her in an era where Pokemon roam wild and are likely to try and kill humans. Given her unusual demeanor, she might lack the aversions others have with Pokemon in general - even fierce ones - letting her take control of them more easily.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her urging Palina to train the next Noble was a result of trying to mend internal conflict within the clan. Unfortunately she didn't really consider the implications of what she was asking Palina to do.

* YoungAndInCharge: According to Pearl Clan members at the Pearl Settlement, Irida has been training to be clan head from a very young age, to the point that she didn't really have anyone her own age to play with.

* LongLived: During the events of the game she's more than 99 years old.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Her offscreen argument with Irida has this. For Palina's part, it is selfish to train a pup for the role of a land's Noble immediately after it watched it's father die saving it. The trauma from such an event can bring into question how adept it would be at the role. At the same time, the Pearl Clan having one less noble reflects poorly on the clan as a whole. As such both Palina and Irida came under fire for not doing anything to remedy the cultural ramifications of one of the Pearl Clan's Noble's dying. However, by the time the player knows about this Irida has already come around to Palina's point of view and feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone really bad about trying to force the issue]].
* ChildhoodFriends: With Irida. They were both rivals to become the leader of the Pearl Clan but its clear there's no bad blood between them.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He reappears in ''Pokemon Legends Arceus'' as a Faller, having traveled between the main ''Pokemon'' universe to Hisui. Although his memories of his prior life are mostly gone, he retains very fuzzy impressions of Emmet and his partner Pokémon, and still uses a lot of references to traveling on a train, which others chalk up as simply an odd quirk.
* StableTimeLoop: It's actually ''Ingo'', who introduces Hisui people a concept of Pokémon trainers during his another rambling about his foggy memories, not the PLA protagonist, due to themself also suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Ingo reappears in ''Pokémon Legends: Arceus'' as a Faller, a type of person who accidentally travels between worlds, losing their memories in the process, with no clear way to regain their memories or return home.

* {{Foil}}: To Melli. Both are the Wardens to the last frenzied Nobles the player has to fight for the Diamond and Pearl clans. Both are under the belief that there is no need to quell their frenzying Noble despite evidence showing it would be a bad idea to let it continue. However, Melli is a slender {{Jerkass}} who chooses to be willfully petty and ignorant of anyone's opinions and has to be essentially strong armed into helping. Gaeric is a muscular, sensible person who accepts others opinions and assists others of his own free will even if he disagrees with them.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Like Volo, she bears quite a bit of resemblance to Cynthia, with similar hairstyles, similar manners of dress, and [[CloudCuckoolander similarly-lax reactions to otherwise-serious events]]. She's meant to be something of a counterpart to Cynthia's Grandmother and Cynthia herself, given her role of passing along certain tidbits of information to the player. But is she actually related to Cynthia and her grandmother? No way to tell.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black clothing, yet is one of your most helpful allies.

* GreaterScopeParagon: She takes Kamado's place as your mentor and MissionControl starting when you are exiled from Jubilife, and offers you her aid up until the very end of the post-game content. In addition, she seems to have a mysterious connection to Arceus just like the player that is never elaborated on, as she has a purpose and a "burden" that she must see out.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It is extensively teased that Cogita is far older than her VagueAge would imply with comments such as referring to the rest of the protagonist's lifespan (a child seemingly far younger than her as brief, and talking about the great burden left to her to share the knowledge of the Celestica people. However, she's also prone to dramatic statements, and her comments might just well be exaggeration.

* PunchClockVillain: They get in the way of the Player at times but they all ultimately want to survive out in the wilderness of Hisui.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The affable, laid back merchant who's been at your side from basically the beginning and always willing to lend you helpful advice? It's all an act. In reality, Volo is a deranged, psychotic KnightTemplar who's so obsessed with the legend of Arceus that he's willing to put all of Hisui at risk just for a ''chance'' to meet it.
* EvilAllAlong: Everything he did to help you on your journey was motivated by a desire to meet Arceus, which he planed to use to destroy all of Hisui. Oh, and that space-time rift? He helped caused it.

** To Cynthia. The two look similar, and both have an interest in the myths and Legendaries of the Hisui/Sinnoh region, but while Cynthia is a benevolent woman whose interest in myths is largely restricted to studying ancient ruins and texts, Volo is so obsessed with meeting Arceus and seeing its power that he's willing to destroy the entire universe to achieve his goals. He even has almost the same team as Cynthia in ''Platinum'' when battled, save for Milotic being replaced by Hisuian Arcanine.
** Also to Mistress Cogita. Both are very knowledgeable about Hisuian myths and legends, both take an interest in the player, both are hiding that they have a Plate in their inventory, and both offer help to the player. The difference is, Cogita's help and interest is genuine; Volo's help and interest is a means to an end.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He mentions that his core belief is that LifeIsUnfair and as such he wants to destroy this reality and make a new, more kind and fair reality but this is quickly overshadowed by his plans to control ''[[TopGod Arceus]]'', itself. He makes no attempt to even reason with the player character, instead choosing to beat and later ''kill'' them right off the bat. Also unlike, [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Lysandre]] who at least felt some semblance of sorrow at his genocidal plans, Volo gleefully tells the player character his plans with a SlasherSmile on his face.

* TrueFinalBoss: He's one of the last challenges of the post-game content, and is directly connected to the problems that occurred in the main story, however while he is the last Trainer you face Arceus is still the overall TrueFinalBoss so this trope is Downplayed.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the main antagonist of the post-game story, being directly connected to the main story's conflicts, and serves as the Human TrueFinalBoss.

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