History Characters / PokemonRubyAndSapphire

!!Scott / Enishida

* HawaiianShirtedTourist: He wears a teal shirt emblazoned with Battle Frontier emblems.

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!!Factory Head Noland / Factory Head Datsura (ダツラ ''datsura'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/ToshikiMasuda (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)\\
He awards the Knowledge Symbol onto the Frontier Pass of Trainers who defeat him.

* TheCameo: In the Battle Chateau of ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', a suited man working for Scott mentions that he's scouted the Pike Queen, foreshadowing Lucy's future role in the under-construction Battle Frontier. A blonde woman in the Chateau also mentions that the player's presence is making her Seviper shiver, though it's not quite clear if she's supposed to be Lucy.

* 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.

** Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire' revamp of the relationship from rivals to best friends does away with the hints of RivalryAsCourtship, but Birch's kid starts developing feeling for Norman's by the Lavaridge town encounter (more obviously in Brendan's case).

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyumuMurase (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP), Melissa Mabie (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN)

* CallForawrd: One line she says references Reshiram and Zekrom.

* CallBack: One line she says references Reshiram and Zekrom.

* BeginnersLuck: Wally encounters and catches a Ralts--the most vanishingly rare pokémon on the route east of Petalburg--on the first try.

->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/ProZD SungWon Cho]] ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Shōhei Kajikawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

* SignatureMon: He is frequently associated with the original Regi Trio in both the anime and Pokémon Adventures.

* SignatureMon: He is frequently associated with the original Regi Trio in both the anime and Pokemon Adventures.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: He drops one every time his TV Program ends during the special Volcanion event in ORAS.

* BroadStrokes: The ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' versions of Brendan and May don't commit specifically to either the ''Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald'' or ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'' versions. In ''Masters'' they're confirmed rivals unlike in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but by the same token May (here Birch's daughter) never gave up the rivalry, like Birch's child does in ''Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald'' after the fight in Lilycove.

** Also in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, if the player picks Mudkip, Birch's child will use the Grass/Dragon-type Mega Sceptile as their ace.

*** Downplayed with a dialog changes in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''. In ''Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald'', May Birch blurts out her dream to be friends with all Pokémon everywhere. In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, May Birch admits she was hoping she and Norman's child could be friends. Brendan's dialog also gets a change--after the first match, regardless of version, Birch's child will be in Oldale Town to tell you to return to Littleroot, but in ''Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald'' May would invite you to join her while Brendan was less companionable; not so in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', where his new dialog is more inviting and he essentially challenges Norman's child to a race.

* {{Catchphrase}}: In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, whenever Brendan tries to describe his emotions, he nearly always starts with "It's, [[LikeIsLikeAComma like]], I don't know...".

** Averted completely in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, where Brendan is openly friendly.

** Zigzagged in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, which covers up most of his white shirt with a pastel blue sweater, which severely diminishes the white-and-green color scheme he shares with the Ralts line, but which is a close shade to the blue of Mega Gallade's cape.

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', the professor is fleeing for his life from a baby Poochyena, a species that at least has the excuse of being cowards that pretend to be fearsome. In ''Emerald'', he instead flees a Zigzagoon, which doesn't even share the Poochyena's pretense at being fearsome. In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the RunningGag takes this to ever sillier levels, ultimately having him be chased by his own wife.

* GeekPhysiques: The rotund/chubby type in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, she tends to serve as the in-between to Archie's nice and Maxie's mean. She's spends her part of the story being aloof to you as she steals people's Mega Stones and leading you up Sky Pillar. However, she also tends to tease you in a friendly manner as the story progresses.

** Her battle sprite from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' and her character art from the ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'' remakes depict her as being upbeat and HotBlooded, but when you battle with her in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, her model animation depicts her as a NervousWreck.

* HappilyMarried: Downplayed. He and the player's mom love each other, but Norman suffers a case of being MarriedToTheJob that makes his family wonder WhenYouComingHomeDad [[spoiler:In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, where the pitfalls of being MarriedToTheJob are a recurring theme of the game, Norman is such a workaholic that he blows off a long planned date with the player's mom. He's home during the Delta Episode, so his marriage isn't quite on the rocks just yet.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Subverted. Brawly does wear shoes on his feet, but they are specially shaped and designed to mimic the feeling and appearance of being barefoot; complete with even having individual toes.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Playing into her Hawaiian (or perhaps [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Alolan]]) dancer theme, Phoebe goes barefooted seemingly without regard for terrain.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, she tends to serfe as the in-between to Archie's nice and Maxie's mean. She's spends her part of the story being aloof to you as she steals people's Mega Stones and leading you up Sky Pillar. However, she also tends to tease you in a friendly manner as the story progresses.

->'''Tate voiced by:''' Creator/CassandraLeeMorris ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Ami Naga ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)
->'''Liza voiced by:''' Creator/KiraBuckland ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Kyouko Kametani ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

* PimpedOutDress: Her outfit. Even more so in the remakes, which add ornate slnowflake designs and impressive gloves that cover her forearms.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Invoked and Exaggerated. Brandon gives a speech about the wonders of adventure before both the Silver and Gold Symbol matches.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Downplayed. Brandon's diction is more high-toned than the other Frontier Brains, calling the challenger "young explorer" and describing things as "grand".

* TheLittleDetecto: Invoked. He reminds everyone to remember their "courage sensor". In the Gold Symbol, he claims to sense his own courage is off the scale, which means he may or may not have a device or is simply being theatrical.

* PerpetualFrowner: Both his official art and battle sprite feature him frowning. He has been known to laugh, however.

* ThemeTable: On Brandon's Gold Symbol team, each legendary bird has a FireIceLightning type and has the corresponding PowerfulButInaccurate move Fire Blast, Thunder, or Blizzard. They also have a unique shielding move and a Flying-type attack.

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Her redesign shows some skin around the neck and chest.
* BigEater: {{Implied}} by an NPC in the Mauville Food Court, claiming they saw Glacia slurping down her noodles at such an incredible peace "she was dripping with sweat".

* IcyBlueEyes: Has them in the remakes. The VisualPun is almost certainly intentional.

* PeekABangs: DependingOnTheArtist. Flannery's bangs cover her right eye in her in-game battle sprites in ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', and in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', but they don't in Ken Sugimori's character art or her model for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

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* AdaptationalBadass: In ''ORAS'', Birch's child gets one more battle after the credits, where they get to show off a Pokémon League-quality team and their new, Mega Evolved starter, a nice improvement from the originals, where they gave up the rivalry after their loss in Lilycove City.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In ''RSE'', Birch's child was driven by their rivalry with Norman's, but in ''ORAS'', neither of them gets bit by the competitive bug, and the matches are pretty much just for fun. Indeed, ''ORAS'' revamps their entire relationship, changing it from a doomed rivalry to a growing friendship.

* TheArtifact: In ''ORAS'', Birch's child never gets jealous over Norman's child beating them, so they never really become TheRival, but ''ORAS'' still keeps bits of leftover dialog from the rivalry in ''RSE'':
** Take Birch's child going to Petalburg right after the encounter in Lavaridge Town; in ''RSE'' they were announcing their own quest for badges and subtly implying it to be another part of the competition, but ORAS has no rivalry and reframes it as Birch's child coming up with an excuse to keep Norman's child's company.
** ''ORAS'' keeps the BreakTheHaughty moment following the Lilycove rematch, but the rivalry itself has vanished, which makes the disappointment Birch's child feels less appropriate.
* AscendedExtra: Birch's child, whether Brendan or May, has ''loads'' more to do in ''ORAS'' than in the original games, co-starring in the first segment of the demo, appearing on more routes in the main game, and joining the player to confront the team at Meteor Falls.

* BashBrothers: Brendan ("Orlando") and May take on a small army of Magma and Aqua thugs together in the ''ORAS'' Demo and in the real game Birch's child confronts the villainous team together with Norman's.
* BattleInTheRain: The penultimate (in ''RSE'') rematch between Birch's and Norman's children happens on Route 119 when Birch's child finally discovers Norman's child and confronts the latter. Route 119, however, is drenched in rain for three days out of every four, which on most days means that the battle occurs in the pouring wet--bonus points if it happens on the one day in the four day cycle where the rain comes with lightning and thunder.
* BigBrotherMentor: Or CoolBigSis depending on who you're playing as. ''RSE'' inverts the pokémon-capturing VideoGameTutorial by reframing it as Norman's child watching over Wally as ''he'' learns to capture a pokémon, instead. Norman's child later gives Wally his first taste of serious battle in Mauville City. Taken further in ''Emerald'', where the player character can actually give advice to a variety of apprentice [=NPCs=] in the Battle Frontier.
* BookEnds: Invoked by Birch's child in ''ORAS'' when they offer to accompany Norman's child home after the latter defeats the Champion, desiring to finish their journey together since they started it together. ''ORAS'' even goes so far as to include an extra battle to reflect the original battle they had at the start.

* BroadStrokes: The ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' versions of Brendan and May don't commit specifically to either the ''RSE'' or ''ORAS'' versions. In ''Masters'' they're confirmed rivals unlike in ORAS, but by the same token May (here Birch's daughter) never gave up the rivalry, like Birch's child does in ''RSE'' after the fight in Lilycove.

** Invoked in the early-middle of ''RSE''; after the rematch on Route 110, Birch's child makes a point of announcing they will challenge Norman before the other does, but not long before Fortree City, they have to catch up to you from behind.

** In ''ORAS'', Birch's child reveals they consider Norman's child their BestFriend during the lead up to the confrontation with Groudon or Kyogre, but afterwards, the other's success prompts them to admit to a fear of being left behind (which they immediately take back).

** Subverted in ''RSE''. Birch's child, the main rival for most of the game, straight up ''quits'' after losing to you in Lilycove--their starter never even reaches its final stage. The last Rival battle instead goes to Wally, the sickly little kid you helped mentor in a couple of places but was otherwise ignored for most of the game.
** Inverted in ''ORAS''--Birch's child doesn't get a battle during the climax, but ''does'' feature in a brand-new PostFinalBoss battle during the epilogue, after the credits have rolled, to wrap the main story in proper BookEnds.
* CompositeCharacter: ''Pokémon Masters'' takes bits and pieces from both the ''RSE'' and ''ORAS'' version of Brendan and May, in particular reestablishing their rivalry from ''RSE'' while also keeping their ''ORAS'' designs and alluding to events from the latter like stargazing. Instead of being rivals or {{Best Friend}}s, they're now each other's "best rival".

* TheDeterminator: The Route 119 battle in ''RSE'' happens once Birch's child confronts Norman's after finally tracking the latter down, which on a sunny day would be largely innocuous. Route 119, however, only has sun one day out of every four, so in most cases Birch's kid is out there hunting you down in the pouring rain. ''Emerald'' (accidentally?) makes it worse--once you get the Balance Badge, new Match Call dialog puts them on Route 119, so if they intended to confront you from the start, they'd have to suffer the weather for however long until you got there. The game gives you Surf at the same time, and with it new optional areas and a BonusDungeon to explore, so Birch's kid may be waiting extra long.

** Also in ORAS, if the player picks Mudkip, Birch's child will use the Grass/Dragon-type Mega Sceptile as their ace.

** In ''RSE'', Birch's kid is ever more eager to confront and re-confront Norman's, but even after giving up the rivalry the latter is still clearly on their mind--during the game's ''denouement'' they bust into the champion's room trying to help Norman's kid (apparently quite worried, to hear Professor Birch) and are dismayed they can't accompany them further. (There's also something undeniably flirty about the way Birch's child surprises Norman's with a sudden bike race home during the ''RSE'' staff roll--a challenge Norman's child accepts).
** ORAS' revamp of the relationship from rivals to best friends does away with the hints of RivalryAsCourtship, but Birch's kid starts developing feeling for Norman's by the Lavaridge town encounter (more obviously in Brendan's case).
* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Wally's androgynous redesign in ORAS makes him the androgyne to Brendan's masculine and May's feminine.

** Unusually, the "rival" role is split between the player character you didn't choose and Wally, who comes from behind in the original RSE to be your ultimate rival after Birch's kid gives up after their loss in Lilycove City. While ORAS adds one last battle between the player characters at the end of the game following the credits, [[PostFinalBoss the outcome of the battle doesn't matter]] and Wally ends up having the highest leveled team in the postgame (surpassing even Steven's levels).

** ORAS does away with the RivalryAsCourtship undertones and instead {{Retool}}s Brendan and May into becoming {{Best Friend}}s.
*** Downplayed with a dialog changes in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''. In ''RSE'', May Birch blurts out her dream to be friends with all Pokémon everywhere. In ORAS, May Birch admits she was hoping she and Norman's child could be friends. Brendan's dialog also gets a change--after the first match, regardless of version, Birch's child will be in Oldale Town to tell you to return to Littleroot, but in ''RSE'' May would invite you to join her while Brendan was less companionable; not so in ''ORAS'', where his new dialog is more inviting and he essentially challenges Norman's child to a race.
*** The ''ORAS'' version of the Lavaridge Town encounter has Birch's child start to outright develop interest in Norman's. Brendan obviously fumbles his way through his feelings while inviting Norman's child to accompany him to Petalburg (and his dismay should you turn him down), but May is more subtle about it--she claims she was already going to Petalburg Gym, but once you actually get there she leaves for elsewhere, having no actual business at her supposed destination.

*** When Birch's child and the PlayerCharacter return home to Littleroot at the end of ORAS, the stars above them form [[https://mobile.twitter.com/hazel0217/status/1297610316176674816 the rough outline of a heart]].

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (ORAS Promo - JP); Creator/AleksLe (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/YukoSanpei (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In ''RSE'', Brendan is self-collected and reticent to express himself. In ''ORAS'', Brendan is EndearinglyDorky and doesn't know ''how'' to express himself.

* {{Catchphrase}}: In ORAS, whenever Brendan tries to describe his emotions, he nearly always starts with "It's, [[LikeIsLikeAComma like]], I don't know...".

** Brendan's ''ORAS'' outfit finds a middle ground between his original and ''Emerald'' outfits, returning to his predominantly red and black color scheme from the original outfit while keeping the sleeves and legs short and giving him his green bag and new green shoes to highlight the heritage from Emerald. (No more Ultra Ball yellow, though).
** Brendan's personality in ''Masters'' is a compromise between his ''RSE'' self and his ''ORAS'' self--he's open like he was in ''ORAS'' but not nearly as EndearinglyDorky, while he's also got the ambition of his ''RSE'' original without the reticence.

** GenderInverted in RSE, where Brendan keeps his negative emotions and opinions mostly to himself, betraying his intentions only despite himself until he finally brings himself to be more open after losing in Lilycove.
** Averted completely in ORAS, where Brendan is openly friendly.
* ExposedToTheElements: Inverted, especially in RSE. Brendan, despite adventuring around the subtropical Hoenn region, was content to wear long-sleeved clothes that covered almost his whole body. His ''Emerald'' outfit gives him short sleeves... and makes up for it with an extra pair of shorts over his pants. ORAS finally let him wear just shorts along with his short-sleeved shirt, but in all three versions, he's still wearing his ubiquitous knit cap.

** The first of his optional names in the original games is an environmentally PunnyName. In ''Ruby'', it's Rikuya or Landon, from the word for "land", and in ''Sapphire'', it's Kaito or Sean, from the word for "sea". His name from ORAS prerelease material and the demo, Orlando, takes the land pun and adds an extra O-R in front for ''Omega Ruby''.

* NiceGuy: And an AdaptationalNiceGuy at that. ORAS Brendan is much friendlier and more supportive than the RSE original.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the original ''RSE'', Brendan handled his early losses as the rival by appearing to shrug them off, which makes the Lavaridge encounter, where he reveals his intention to challenge Norman and taunts you about how tough you ''aren't'', a brief WhamEpisode.

** In ''ORAS'' Brendan starts showing obvious feelings for May during the Lavaridge encounter, showing unusual shyness, fumbling his way through an attempt to accompany her back to Petalburg, and being terribly dismayed if she turns him down.

** At the end of ''ORAS'', Brendan insists that his offer to bike home together with Norman's child shouldn't be read into besides an attempt to invoke BookEnds.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Unlike in ''RSE'', in which Brendan was reluctant to express his emotions, the ''ORAS'' version of Brendan doesn't really even know what his own emotions are; he vaguely grasps at them by describing a comparable experience, such as getting pumped or feeling warm.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (ORAS Promo - JP); Creator/DeneenMelody (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/AiNonaka (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP)

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: ''RSE'' May was prone to spontaneously revealing too much of herself, but ''ORAS'' May's character is focused on her anxieties about being friends with Norman's child.

* CompositeCharacter: In ''Masters'', May has the design from her ''ORAS'' self, participates in contests like her anime self, and at the EX stage she takes on the PaletteSwap from her ''Pokémon Adventures'' manga self.

* FriendlessBackground: May's nervous behaviors and her focus on her friendship with Brendan imply she has one in ''ORAS''. Almost immediately after May confesses her dream to be friends with Brendan, she gets nervous and awkward a couple of times about calling Brendan her friend, gets anxious Brendan may have a low opinion of her when she catches herself going on about a shopping spree and insists she's been training responsibly, and in Sootopolis she has to bring herself to confess that Brendan is the best friend she has.

* SailorsPonytail: Has one in ''ORAS'', making her hair a little longer than in previous appearances. She still has her signature long bangs on the sides.

* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted in ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', where Wally's slender but clearly male design was replaced with one that made him more androgynous--ORAS Wally's design goes out of its way to give him feminine cuteness, with bigger eyes, fluffier hair, [[MasculineLinesFeminineCurves rounding the collar of his dress shirt]], an oversized sweater with big puffy buttons that covers half of his hands and flares out at the bottom like a skirt, and a travel bag that he wears like a woman's purse.

%%The assumption that ORAS took place at the same time as Red and Blue's adventures, as Gen III and Gen I did, is not based on anything in the games and is merely assumed, so his age and the exact passage of time from ORAS to Gen 7 is unknown

** In the first two generations, the player was taught to catch pokémon by a more experienced mentor, be it Old Man Weedle or the Dude. In RSE, the JustifiedTutorial is framed in precisely the opposite way, with the more experienced player watching over Wally while ''he'' learns how to catch pokémon.

** Zigzagged in ORAS, which covers up most of his white shirt with a pastel blue sweater, which severely diminishes the white-and-green color scheme he shares with the Ralts line, but which is a close shade to the blue of Mega Gallade's cape.

* AdaptationalCurves: The professor's ORAS redesign is more clearly rotund than his RSE design.
* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', the professor is fleeing for his life from a baby Poochyena, a species that at least has the excuse of being cowards that pretend to be fearsome. In ''Emerald'', he instead flees a Zigzagoon, which doesn't even share the Poochyena's pretense at being fearsome. In ORAS, the RunningGag takes this to ever sillier levels, ultimately having him be chased by his own wife.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The player character meets the professor running for his life from a nearly harmless wild pokémon at the most basic level--even the pokémon in his bag outclass it easily. So iconic to his character is the scene that ORAS has him do it [[RunningGag no less than four times total]], and his sixth gen official art depicts him running.
* GeekPhysiques: The rotund/chubby type in ORAS.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (ORAS Promo - JP), Creator/MaiGoto ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP), Sarah Miller-Crews ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN)

* ShipTease: In ''Emerald'', she gets the player's Match Call number from Brawly, which is one of the few indications she has a personal relationship with any of the other Leaders. In the ''ORAS'' Demo, she compliments him on how rock-solid he is.

* DumbMuscle: Downplayed; in the ''ORAS'' Demo, he laments his inability to get his body-fat percentage any lower, which, given his physique, would be decidedly unhealthy.

** Her battle sprite from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' and her character art from the ORAS remakes depict her as being upbeat and HotBlooded, but when you battle with her in ORAS, her model animation depicts her as a NervousWreck.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', Flannery plays a haughty jerk and has a hostile expression in her ''[[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_RS_Flannery.png RSE]]'' [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_RS_Flannery.png sprite]], but defeating her lets her stop putting on an act. This trope doesn't hold for the UpdatedReRelease, where Flannery's act has made her a NervousWreck.

* PeekABangs: DependingOnTheArtist. Flannery's bangs cover her right eye in her in-game battle sprites in ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', and in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', but they don't in Ken Sugimori's character art or her model for ORAS.

* HappilyMarried: Downplayed. He and the player's mom love each other, but Norman suffers a case of being MarriedToTheJob that makes his family wonder WhenYouComingHomeDad [[spoiler:In ORAS, where the pitfalls of being MarriedToTheJob are a recurring theme of the game, Norman is such a workaholic that he blows off a long planned date with the player's mom. He's home during the Delta Episode, so his marriage isn't quite on the rocks just yet.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (JP, ORAS Promo), Creator/XanderMobus (EN, VideoGame/PokemonMasters), Creator/TomoakiMaeno (JP, VideoGame/PokemonMasters)

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* AscendedExtra: Returns in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' as Looker's boss and head of the Ultra Beast division of the International Police. [[spoiler: She's also from a different dimension, and is implied to have fallen into the Sun and Moon dimension from the Emerald one by being caught in an Ultra Wormhole.]]

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: [[spoiler: In ''Sun and Moon'', she is revealed to be from an alternate version of Hoenn (heavily implied to be the Emerald version of Hoenn due to her battle theme using the original GBA sound font from that game, even though a remastered version was already made for ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire''). She stays in the current dimension due to her LaserGuidedAmnesia causing her to forget most of her past life, but she still has a pretty important role to play in this world as the head of the Ultra Beast Taskforce.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: Flannery is a big user of the move Attract--her Torkoal knows it during her gym battle (as does her Camerupt in ''Emerald''); in rematches, up to four of her pokémon will use Attract. She goes out of her way to teach it to [[{{Troll}} the less attractive members of her team]], however, like Torkoal, Camerupt, and Magcargo.

* PowerStereotypeFlip: In her character art for ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', Flannery is depicting as laid-back and sitting casually, a far cry from her energetic depictions in other art and sprites.

*** When Brendan and May return home to Littleroot at the end of ORAS, the stars above them form [[https://mobile.twitter.com/hazel0217/status/1297610316176674816 the rough outline of a heart]].
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', Brendan's and May's {{NPC}} dialog contains numerous references to the other and multiple implications to how important they each consider the other.
*** Some of May's dialog reveals she and Brendan go stargazing together, and she mentions a star she found particularly pretty. Brendan has dialog about the same event, and lets slip that May's eyes are really pretty when they light up when stargazing.
*** In one storyline, Brendan mentions that he likes May a lot, but then he catches himself and insists [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that he definitely isn't attracted to her]].
*** The Easter 2021 event of ''Pokémon Masters'' has a subplot about Brendan mistakenly being convinced May is no longer interested in Pokémon battles and growing sad over it.
*** Some of May's dialog in her Anniversary 2021 alternate features her listing important meetings that she commemorates as anniversaries--one of them is the day she met Brendan.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', if May [[PaletteSwap is wearing]] her [[SheCleansUpNicely Anniversary 2022 dress]] in the lobby, she may mention that her pokémon fidget when she wears it; talking to her again will prompt her to lament that [[ChicAndAwe Brendan also acts like a stranger when he sees her in it]] and insist that she's still herself.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', if May is wearing her [[SheCleansUpNicely Anniversary 2022]] [[PaletteSwap outfit]] in the lobby, she may mention that her pokémon fidget when she's in the dress; talking to her again will prompt her to lament that [[ChicAndAwe Brendan also acts like a stranger when he sees her in the dress]] and insist that she's still herself.