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* TheDreaded: Has become this by the sequel, where everyone knows how bad he is.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first he seems like N and wants to separate humans and Pokémon. It turns out he really just wanted to make Pokémon illegal for everyone [[ItsAllAboutMe but himself]], so he could take over Unova.
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* PunchClockVillain: He's really just with Team Plasma because Ghetsis asked him along, and because it helps him conduct his research.
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* PunchClockVillain: He's really just with Team Plasma because Ghetsis asked him along,
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* MadMathematician: He even says he's trying to "solve the equation to change the world." Confirmed to be one by WordOfGod.
** In the sequel, his thoughts have more of a focus on chemical reactions... which are also expressed as equations, in a way.
* MadMathematician: He even says he's trying to "solve the equation to change the world." Confirmed to be one by WordOfGod.
** In the sequel, his thoughts have more of a focus on chemical reactions... which are also expressed as equations, in a way.
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* TheOnlyBeliever: With TheReveal that Plasma's goals were just a sham perpetrated by Ghetsis, this seemed to be the case. However, the sequel shows that about half of Team Plasma and at least one of the Seven Sages agreed with N's ideals and left Ghetsis behind.
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* LightIsNotGood: He is an angelic-looking teen dressed in white... who is the king of an AnimalWrongsGroup and uses [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] Pokémon. It goes to both extremes in each version: in Black, he has Zekrom; in White, he has Reshiram.
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* LightIsNotGood: He is an angelic-looking teen dressed in white... who is the king of an AnimalWrongsGroup and uses [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] Pokémon. It goes to both extremes in each version: in Black, he has Zekrom; in White, he has Reshiram. However this becomes...
* LightIsGood: After his HeelFaceTurn.
* LightIsGood: After his HeelFaceTurn.
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* TrueFinalBoss: Defeating him on the Plasma Frigate after beating Iris brings a final closure to Team Plasma's arc. Afterwards he is a BonusBoss that can be challenged there. However, N and Cynthia's levels remain higher.
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* NoTrueScotsman: A victim of this InUniverse. Some of New Team Plasma are adamant that he not be considered part of the organisation in the first place.
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** A victim of this InUniverse. Some of New Team Plasma are adamant that he not be considered part of the organisation in the firstplace.place.
** N himself inverted this trope in the first game, wherein he seemed to hate all humans ''except'' the ones who claimed to agree with him.
** A victim of this InUniverse. Some of New Team Plasma are adamant that he not be considered part of the organisation in the first
** N himself inverted this trope in the first game, wherein he seemed to hate all humans ''except'' the ones who claimed to agree with him.
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* BenevolentBoss: Even when he was the antagonist, he treated his Pokemon with respect and kindness, and when he said that he doesn't want to keep Pokemon trapped in Pokeballs or "enslave" them for battle? ''He meant it''. All of the Pokemon he catches for battle are [[PutOnABus released]] once they serve their purpose and when you catch them in the sequel, all of them are at maximum happiness, showing that he was nothing but kind to them.
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* ShipTease: With the player character (even when playing as Hilbert). He develops a powerful fascination with them after realizing that they don't fit the mold of a Pokemon trainer [[BadBoss as he had been]] [[EnemyToAllLivingThings raised to see it]], they're instrumental in bringing about his HeelFaceTurn and he states that he wants to "tell them how he feels" in the sequel.
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** His most powerful Mon is his [[DragonsAreDemonic Hydreigon]], which has moves of four different types that [[ThatOneBoss all take advantage of its sky-high special attack.]] Its level was reduced in the sequels and it uses physical attacking moves instead of special moves, but it's still his strongest Pokémon. And even though it's his highest level Pokémon, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard it's still at least ten levels lower than when it normally evolves.]]
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As well as a red ''monocle''. Also the two eyes on his robe in the first game.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As well as a red ''monocle''. Also the two eyes on his robe in the first game. Applies to a good few of his Pokémon too, such as Cofagrigus, Eelektross, Seismitoad, and of course, [[WeaponOfChoice Hydreigon itself]]. Interestingly, said Pokémon are the four he uses in both appearances.
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* ExposedToTheElements: Inverted. When he visits Alola, a tropical region, he wears a thick, buttoned-up coat instead of the lab coat from Gen. V.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: He claims he actually couldn't stand Ghetsis and only worked with his for his resources. And unlike Ghetsis, Colress is willing to bring out the power of his Pokémon through love and trust, especially after meeting the player character.
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* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel-types. However, he also uses Beheeyem and Rotom and hands the protagonist a Flame Charge TM in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
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* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel-types. However, he also uses Beheeyem and Rotom and hands the protagonist a the TM for Flame Charge TM in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
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If Grimsley's appearance in Sun and Moon isn't considered a spoiler on the page for the Unova Elite Four, then I'm removing the spoiler tags I added to Colress's section, because he's merely traveling Alola for research purposes and doesn't contribute to the plot. As I said in my edit summary from when I added those tags, I hadn't yet beaten the game and didn't yet know that his appearance is pretty much a cameo and isn't plot-related.
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* TheCameo: He reappears in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', though he doesn't have much of a role in that game other than handing the player the TM for Flame Charge [[spoiler:and the Drives for Genesect after the player becomes the champion]]; when he shows up he appears to merely be traveling across the Alola region for research purposes.
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* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel-types. However, he also uses Beheeyem and Rotom and [[spoiler:hands hands the protagonist a Flame Charge TM in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'']].''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
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* ForScience: The reason he joins Team Plasma, even if their plan risks destroying the Unova region. His concern for studying the strength of Pokémon is greater than his concern for the fate of the region. Even Ghetsis criticized him for putting his scientific research before Team Plasma's ambition. He realizes this mistake at the end and atones for it during the postgame. A character in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' also mentions that he has an interest in Mega Evolution and [[spoiler:he tells the player character this himself in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', also mentioning an interest in Z-Moves]].
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* ForScience: The reason he joins Team Plasma, even if their plan risks destroying the Unova region. His concern for studying the strength of Pokémon is greater than his concern for the fate of the region. Even Ghetsis criticized him for putting his scientific research before Team Plasma's ambition. He realizes this mistake at the end and atones for it during the postgame. A character in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' also mentions that he has an interest in Mega Evolution and [[spoiler:he he tells the player character this himself during his cameo in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', also mentioning an interest in Z-Moves]].Z-Power.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Apart from [[OlympusMons Zekrom and Reshiram]], [[MasterOfIllusion Zoroark]] is highly associated with him, thanks to the game's intro and being able to get N's Zorua from Rood in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Apart from [[OlympusMons Zekrom and Reshiram]], [[MasterOfIllusion Zoroark]] is highly associated with him, thanks to the game's intro and being able to get N's Zorua from Rood in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''. Out of the two dragons, he seems to be associated with Reshiram more often, particularly with his Nendoroid figure and in ''Anime/PokemonGenerations''.
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* BonusBoss: You can challenge him each day. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', he shows up as a random opponent every 10-winning streak at the Battle Tree and can be recruited to be part of Multi-Battles]].
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-->''"Pokémon are different from humans. They are living beings that contain unknown potential. They are living beings from whom we humans have much to learn. Tell me, what is our responsibility toward these wonderful beings called Pokémon? That's right! We must liberate the Pokémon! Then, and only then, will humans and Pokémon truly be equals."''
--> -- Ghetsis
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: In spite of their whole "we want to liberate Pokémon" thing, they're total tools.
* AntiMagicalFaction: Replace "magical" with "Pokémon training" and you've got Team Plasma in a nutshell. They are of the "hypocritical" flavor, as detailed below,
* ChurchMilitant: Modeled on this to an extent, as a result.
* DarkIsEvil: They usually use Dark types (Purrloin, Scraggy, Sandile lines).
* EvilRedHead: The grunts, [[WellIntentionedExtremist though they aren't necessarily evil]].
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Several can be witnessed considering this at N's Castle toward the end of the initial story mode due to how close they've grown to their Pokémon.
** One can locate a man in Opelucid City who was a former Team Plasma member who performed one of these.
* {{Hypocrite}}s: One of the grunts explicity ''says'' that while it's bad for regular trainers to keep Pokémon, it's fine for Team Plasma to have them. This only applies to some of them, though; other grunts keep using Pokémon because they've grown attached to them or because they view their use as necessary for the time being.
* InformedAbility: The Seven Sages are said to be some of the smartest men in the world but never really show it. One decides it's a bright idea to put their evil lair ''across the street from Burgh's gym'' and is shocked when they're discovered in short order. To be fair, he did it because he thought it would be funny.
* {{Jerkass}}: One of the first grunts you battle [[KickTheDog repeatedly kicks]] a Munna to get it to release some Dream Mist. [[{{Hypocrite}} This while still saying they want to help separate Pokémon from abusive trainers.]] There are also several jerkass grunts at the castle in the end, though they are counterbalanced by some more sympathetic ones.
* KnightTemplar: Literally.
* LargeHam: "PLASMAAAAA!"
* LightIsNotGood: And there is the fact that Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokémon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power.
* MeaningfulName: They aim to separate Pokémon from people "controlling" them. Plasma is a state of matter where atoms separate from the electrons they "control" and become ions. Plasma also plays a part in both lightning and fire, which conveniently applies to the dragon they're trying to control in either version.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Some grunts have grown to like their Pokémon given them by Ghetsis, and don't want to let them go. Lampshaded, of course!
** Subverted with a grunt in N's Castle who states that her Pokémon has grown to love her... but she doesn't understand that because she just considers it a tool to be used. She doesn't appear to be actively cruel to the Pokémon, just indifferent[[note]]The story has a happy ending, though: you can find her in Driftveil City with other ex-Plasma members, where she's changed her tune, now saying that she views her Pokémon as a friend rather than a tool.[[/note]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: They all seem to have the same goal, they just do it in a ''really'' wrong way. Most of the grunts have this personality, though there are a ''few'' that are just bloody {{hypocrit|e}}ical {{jerkass}}es.
* WesternTerrorists: An American AnimalWrongsGroup based in the Pokéverse equivalent of New York City hellbent on spreading the message that training Pokémon is wrong.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Their uniforms are much more resembling of a paramilitary organization this time around.
* BlackShirt: Complete with paramilitary style gear.
* BlatantLies: Even though their schemes of conquest had been exposed two years ago, some members still claim they fight for the rights of Pokémon.
* CardCarryingVillain: Most of their members are much more up front about the organisation's ambitions this time. At least one of them admits that they used to be in Team Galactic.
* CoolAirship: The Plasma Frigate, which holds Kyurem captive.
* DarkIsEvil: Contrasting with the LightIsNotGood design of the previous team.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: They control Kyurem.
* EvilRedhead: The grunts.
* HelpfulMook: At least one will encourage you to rest on the Frigate.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: At least a few members didn't join up to be evil, but instead had nowhere else to go.
* MaskPower: Covering their mouths and lower face.
* NoMouth: The grunts and the Shadow Triad have their mouths concealed behind their masks.
* OneNoteChef: The Plasma Frigate's cook serves only bread.
* PaintItBlack: The knight-like outfits were ditched for black, paramilitary uniforms.
* {{Pirate}}s: They went from medieval knights out on an honorable cause to malicious and thieving classical pirates.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: To N's Team Plasma.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Due to the {{Pirate}} motif, their use of modern technology and merciless demeanour, they qualify.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: This group of Team Plasma has members who don't follow the false ideology of Team Plasma, only members who want to take over Unova through violent force.
* VillainsOutShopping: If the PC stars in enough good movies at [=PokéStar=], a New Team Plasma grunt can become a fan of him/her and a regular movie-goer.
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'''Tropes that apply to the old Team Plasma as a whole:'''
* TheAtoner: Old Team Plasma is made out of former Plasma members who truly care about Pokémon and left the group to create a new group to make up for their crimes.
* DarkIsNotEvil: And they still have their Dark Pokémon.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: They want to do good, but owing to their bad crimes, they don't exactly have a great reputation.
* LightIsGood: Most of the members still wear knight outfits after they left Team Plasma, but this time their outfits are true to their goals.
* ReformedButRejected: Something that Hugh has a problem understanding.
!!N Harmonia / Natural Harmonia Gropius
-->''"The cries of the suffering Pokémon filling that room... The borderline between Pokémon and humans... I exist on that line. I live in the margins between everyone, so I will save them! I will change the world!"''
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* AbusiveParents: His adoptive father, Ghetsis, neglected him and forced him to be raised among Pokémon abused by humans. He did this in order to shape his opinion that Pokémon and humans need to separated, and so he would be distinct from humans. Then, when you defeat N in the battle using your legendaries, Ghetsis openly mocks his son as an inhuman monster incapable of real emotion (hypocritical, since this describes Ghetsis more than anything.)
* {{Adorkable}}: If his weird mannerisms don't put a given player off, chances are he's coming off like this for them.
* AffablyEvil: In the first Black and White games where he was the King of Team Plasma, technically putting him as this. He drops the "evil" bit after losing to the Player.
* AllLovingHero: Thinks himself as this for Pokémon. Becomes this in the sequels.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He has a strange enough personality and a screwed up enough childhood that he can probably be diagnosed with ''something''.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's good, but VERY misguided.
* AntiVillain: He never does anything that he hasn't been led to believe is for the greater good, and when he realizes that he's been deceived he quickly pulls a HeelFaceTurn.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The focus of the opening sequence before the first games' title screen.
* BigBad: Although not really ''evil'', he's this for ''Black and White''. At the very end, he learns that he was just a pawn for Ghetsis, and rethinks his life.
* BigBadFriend: Though more along the lines of ObliviouslyEvil BigBad friend as opposed to the more classic version of the trope.
* BigDamnHeroes: He and his dragon save you as Ghetsis is about to have Kyurem ''freeze you with floating icicles!'' However, [[FromBadToWorse Kyurem then absorbs N's dragon.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: ''Look at him''!
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: He views humans (save for those who share his beliefs) as bad and Pokémon as good, hence why he wants to separate them. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it at one point by saying how when humans and Pokémon are separated, "black and white will be clearly distinct."
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: He starts out with such belief regarding his goals, and says it as a TitleDrop. WordOfGod says the connection to the title was intended from the start. This of course, makes him (and the rest of the game) in-fact, [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey]].
* BonusBoss: Challengeable in ''Black 2 and White 2''[='s=] post-game, which allows you to capture his dragon in a roundabout method. After you catch (or knock out) both his dragon and Kyurem, he appears near Nimbasa's Ferris Wheel on Fridays, where you can ride on the wheel with him. After doing that, he becomes the BonusBoss, and has the second highest level battleable Pokémon outside various facilities, just after Iris and Cynthia (and second in Challenge Mode, tied with Cynthia).
* BreakTheCutie: Finding out his cause was essentially a lie, then abused further by his dad.
* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the first set of games. He gives a big speech thanking the player and states that his life is in his hands now before flying off on whichever dragon he caught. He is not seen again in the game after that, although Looker implies that someone spotted him in a faraway place.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's introduced in the second town, but it isn't until later that you find out that he's the boss of Team Plasma.
* TheChosenOne: He was engineered to be this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Given Anthea and Concordia's backstory on him. He was abandoned in a forest at a young age, and raised by a Zorua, Woobat, and Darmanitan. N was later taken in by Ghetsis, who claimed to be his father.
* CreepyChild: Or rather, Creepy {{Manchild}}. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1QHHZ7l-g His theme]] plays no small part in this.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: N was raised to believe humans are needlessly cruel to Pokémon in an attempt by Ghetsis to mould the boy into a PuppetKing. Then he meets the player character, whose starter suggests otherwise. The more the two interact, the more N starts wondering whether his worldview is right, and the more [[SpannerInTheWorks Ghetsis' plot starts to collapse in on itself]]. By the end, N realizes the player character's ideal is correct and forfeits his operations, [[VillainousBreakdown and the resulting proverbial black hole takes the Plasma scheme and what remains of Ghetsis' sanity with it]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's the leader of Team Plasma and his [[IconicItem most iconic]] Pokémon is dark-type, but N is a good person at heart and truly does want what's best for Pokémon.
* TheDragon: Though he didn't realize it, he was a pawn of Ghetsis in the ''Black and White''.
* ErmineCapeEffect: His outfit in the cinematic preceding the title screen.
* FalseFriend: Sort of--he seems to still view you as a "friend" of sorts even after he reveals he is Team Plasma's king, and thinks that he and the protagonist could be once humans and Pokémon are separated.
--->'''N:''' [''after Zekrom/Reshiram fails to appear''] How disappointing. I actually kind of liked you a little.
* FreudianExcuse: He was raised by abused Pokémon all his life with little interaction with other humans, therefore that's why he hates humans (his "father", "sisters", and subjects in Team Plasma aside) and wants them to separate from Pokémon. And considering all the other tropes here, [[AbusiveParents this excuse actually holds water]]. A LOT of water.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Well, except for his fellow humans who ''aren't'' a part of Team Plasma and share his goal. Though this changes towards the end after being beaten.
** The sequels drive the point home even further. Whenever the player catches one of his Pokémon, it starts out with max happiness. They were with N for a very brief period of time, but he still managed to be incredibly kind to them.
* GildedCage: He has a ''very'' nice room; sadly, it was the extent of his contact with humanity growing up.
* GoodWithNumbers: He mentions that he likes mathematical formulas a couple of times, which is apparently the reason he carries around a Menger sponge.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Only in the sequels in the post-game while exploring his demolished castle, but even then, there are no wild Pokémon to fight while he follows you to the main chamber.
* HeelFaceTurn: Implied to do this at the end. Confirmed in the sequels.
* HeelRealization: Suffers this when Ghetsis reveals the truth about Team Plasma.
* HeroAntagonist: N IS this trope. He is true to his word with helping out Pokémon, and he is a main character besides yourself, as much of the story revolves around helping him with his conflicted morals and getting out of the grasp of his hideously [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]]. He's also set up as the "hero" for Reshiram/Zekrom, and heck, he even has the [[NiceHat fashion sense]] of a main ''Pokémon'' hero.
* HeroicBSOD: Considering N's usual MotorMouth tendencies, his uncharacteristic silence when Ghetsis reveals the truth about Team Plasma is heartbreaking. He recovers a little once you defeat Ghetsis, but flees Unova because he can't stand to face you afterward.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Old Team Plasma is not seen all that positively, but there doesn't seem to be any negativity towards N.
* {{Hypocrite}}: While certainly not of the kind to abuse Pokémon the way some Plasma Grunts do, N fails to realize that the nature of his plan to stop Pokémon suffering by separating them from humans is hypocritical, because it would bring more suffering to both parties. Thankfully at the end, he seems to realize this when he comments on how he ultimately failed to understand both Pokémon and people and compliments you for being the better person.
* IconicItem:
** His Menger Sponge, at least among fans.
** He's also strongly associated with his Zorua/Zoroark friend.
*** And to a lesser extent, with the opposite-cover dragon, and strangely often with Tympole.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes off as a jerk on a number of occasions but his goals are well meaning and he really does want to become your friend.
* KingIncognito: He's the king of Team Plasma, but he also dresses like a regular trainer hiding his true colors until the player reaches Nimbasa City.
* LargeAndInCharge: At 1.80 m (5'11" ft) tall, he's a head taller than most of the other characters. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd4c2c18942a7791c67cf69d4419c368/tumblr_mgurqdUe771qdm0y0o1_400.jpg Case in point]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1QHHZ7l-g N's theme]] is a creepy musical box style theme (more blatant in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJGUaD6Qd64 the version used for his room]]) that underscores how creepy and alien he is.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DV8GjSK2p0 theme]] is a lot cheerier in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evqw7e0kQ8 But the music for his room has become much scarier!]]
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: After you catch the cover legendary of your game, N decides to heal your Pokémon, stating that it is not a fair battle if he beats you when your Pokémon are hurt.
* LightIsNotGood: He is an angelic-looking teen dressed in white... who is the king of an AnimalWrongsGroup and uses [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] Pokémon. It goes to both extremes in each version: in Black, he has Zekrom; in White, he has Reshiram.
%%* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MadMathematician: He even says he's trying to "solve the equation to change the world." Confirmed to be one by WordOfGod.
** In the sequel, his thoughts have more of a focus on chemical reactions... which are also expressed as equations, in a way.
* {{Manchild}}: His odd mannerisms and the toys in his bedroom hint at this. Not played for laughs, though. [[RaisedByWolves Considering his]] [[AbusiveParents childhood...]]
** PsychopathicManchild: Well, not really psychopathic. Just a [[WellIntentionedExtremist very, very deluded]] manchild.
* MeaningfulName: Similarly to his father Ghetsis, N Harmonia. Enharmonic.
** Taking into consideration his [[MadMathematician constant rambling about formulas]], it could also come from the common usage of "n" as a variable for an unknown value in equations... which is usually used with the intention of eventually being replaced with a different value, such as Ghetsis!
** Harmonia also happens to be [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a Greek goddess]] renowned in stories for receiving a fatal necklace (the Necklace of Harmonia) which only brought misfortune to its owner. ''Misfortune is N's life in a nutshell.'' This also serves to establish a ThemeNaming dynamic for N with his foster sister Concordia, who was Harmonia's Roman counterpart in myth.
** And if the names are seen as musical, Natural can also refer to a note that is neither sharp nor flat, as N himself is neither one thing nor another.
* ModestRoyalty: Outside of the opening cutscene, he dresses rather casually, even long after his status as Team Plasma's king is no longer hidden. Subverted in that, according to WordOfGod, he believes himself to be perfect.
* MoodSwinger: According to WordOfGod.
* MotorMouth: When you first meet him, Cheren notices this immediately. His speech itself isn't out of the ordinary in terms of spacing - in fact, he uses ellipses frequently - but the text types out a notch faster than usual, even if your text speed setting is at the maximum.
* MultiethnicName: His full name has a mix of English, Latin, and German.
%%* MusicalThemeNaming:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the final battle with him, he begins to feel bad for what he put everyone through.
* NiceGuy: He becomes this after his HeelFaceTurn, where he even tries to convince the broken down Ghetsis to be a good guy, despite him repeatedly throwing insults at N.
* NiceHat: Interestingly enough, [[WordOfGod it was stated in an interview]] that the idea to give the protagonists baseball caps came from giving N one of his own.
* NobleDemon:
** N is true to his word - whenever he fights you, it's with the Pokémon that are found in the location where you fight. He releases them when he leaves the area again. He even catches a new Klinklang for his final fight rather than keeping the Klink he used at Chargestone Cave.
** He also heals your team after catching your legendary dragon and before fighting him. N says that a victory for him wouldn't count if it wasn't won fairly.
** Also, while he distrusts and dislikes most humans, he takes exception to his loyal Team Plasma subjects who share his views, even battling you at one point solely to allow some Plasma grunts a chance to escape. Contrast to Ghetsis, who is using the grunts as much as he's using N.
** In the sequels, his Pokémon from the original games start out with maximum happiness when the player encounters them in the wild and catches them.
* NoEndorHolocaust: No, he was not Ghetsis' own kid, nor was he kidnapped from his family. And no, he was not [[EpilepticTrees the fourteenth candidate for Ghetsis' plans to take over Unova]].
* NoSocialSkills: Owing to his being isolated from most humans. He gets a bit better in the sequels.
* NoTrueScotsman: A victim of this InUniverse. Some of New Team Plasma are adamant that he not be considered part of the organisation in the first place.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: At least, not emotionally.
* NotGoodWithPeople: The only humans he gets along with before he meets the protagonists are well, Team Plasma.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He's an UnwittingPawn.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: WordOfGod said that his various musical themes, especially his overworld {{Leitmotif}} and a remix it gets in N's "room," were based around "a fragile music box."
* OneLetterName: The ''Manga/DeathNote'' jokes started popping up quite early.
* PaintingTheMedium: The speed that his text displays at is set to be at Fast speed. If player has set Fast speed in options, his text displays ''[[UpToEleven even]]'' [[UpToEleven faster]].
* PuppetKing: Ghetsis is just using him.
* PureIsNotGood: Concordia references that N has a pristine, good heart and is very innocent, which is what makes him so dangerous, especially in the wrong hands.
* RaisedByWolves: At least, he might as well have been, since it's explained he spent most of his childhood interacting more with Pokémon than with people, which is why he gets along with them better than with other humans and wants to separate Pokémon from humans so much. Not to mention that, according to Masuda, rumors exist that he was ''born'' of Pokémon, somehow. Not that the rumors have any idea who the parents are.
** He says he used to live in the wild alongside Pokémon before being adopted by Ghetsis, who claimed to be his father.
* RebelLeader: Seems to lead the old Team Plasma's efforts against the new Team Plasma, though Rood seems to be like a non-villainous DragonInChief.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Black'' and ''White''. Probably one of the most iconic examples in the Pokémon series, given how he's fought from somewhere around the beginning to the end and how he uses different Pokémon in battle each time (due to releasing them after each battle). The fact that he also uses the legendary opposite to the mascot legendary for the last battle as temporary Champion and ClimaxBoss is icing on the cake.
* RightMakesMight: By the time he awakens the legendary dragon, N is willing to have a battle with the PlayerCharacter to decide whose philosophy is correct.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a fighter first and foremost, and a king second.
* SanitySlippage: Temporarily goes into nigh-insanity during the final battle, since he KNOWS deep in his heart that he's probably wrong, and is now hell-bent on denying this. It's definitely hard to blame him here; the possibility that everything one believes in is wrong and that their entire life is a lie would shake ''anyone'' up. He gets better after being defeated, just as Ghetsis [[VillainousBreakdown gets MUCH worse]].
* ShelteredAristocrat: The third kind, especially with the emphasis on innocence.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains: Somehow, all four types to an extent.
* SmallNameBigEgo: A ''literal'' small name, being brought up as a king and "chosen hero" has made N believe that he is perfect. His realization that he isn't is a factor to his brief period of aforementioned SanitySlippage.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: He can understand other people's Pokémon, due to having been raised with them all his life. This is a key point in his character development, as it's in talking to your Pokémon (and possibly the Pokémon of other people he met in his travels) that he begins to question whether humans and Pokémon really should be separated after all.
** In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]'', he states that he wishes to use this ability to become a mediator between humans and Pokémon.
* SpoiledSweet: Lives in a castle with what pretty much amounts to a cult around him, and he fights for Pokémon justice.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Shares a vision of Pokémon living in happiness with Archie, his [[AbusiveParents father]] trying to thrash that goal.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: With Ghetsis... except, in the sequels, it's confirmed that he was a feral orphan as a toddler and Ghetsis took him in by claiming to be his father.
** Although Ghetsis is very theatrical, putting emphasis on subtly building himself up, so staging a miraculous "rescue" of a kid he already knew was there (who happens to look exactly like him) is very much in his wheelhouse.
* TalksLikeASimile: He will occasionally dabble in using mathematics equations and chemical reactions as a simile or metaphor for what he is doing, or to describe something. He even chalks up the events of Black and White as a very difficult equation that he is in the process of solving.
* TalkativeLoon: Comes off as this, especially early on when you know nothing about him.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Just compare the length of his entry here to any other Pokémon game character's. The only ones that come close are those of Cyrus and Ghetsis.
* TroubledButCute: More deluded than troubled, but he still fits.
* TykeBomb: Ghetsis was [[TheSociopath extremely]] careful/shrewd about this. N doesn't even realize it until the end of the main story.
* TheUbermensch: He was engineered by Ghetsis to become one so that he can befriend one of the legendary dragons.
* UncattyResemblance: To Zoroark.
* UnfortunateName: Natural Harmonia [[MemeticMolester GROPIUS]].
* UnwittingPawn: To Ghetsis, who was just using him to make Pokémon illegal for everyone but himself.
* VillainousBSOD: Hit with this ''hard'' after Ghetsis reveals how he has been using the poor guy. Despite normally rambling quite a bit, N falls silent for the majority of Ghetsis's reveal of his motives onward. He seems to have recovered a little at the very end when he talks to the player one-on-one, though.
* WeaponOfChoice: Apart from [[OlympusMons Zekrom and Reshiram]], [[MasterOfIllusion Zoroark]] is highly associated with him, thanks to the game's intro and being able to get N's Zorua from Rood in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''.
* WeatherOfWar: As the BonusBoss, N cycles through four different weather teams that are used on the four different seasons. His leading Pokémon will always have an [[WeatherManipulation ability]] that automatically initiates the weather he needs.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: ''Major'' emphasis on "Well-Intentioned."
* WildChild: Was this until Ghetsis brought him in.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Ghetsis' manipulation of N caused him to try to create a world without Pokémon.
* WrongGenreSavvy: By design. To make him a TykeBomb, Ghetsis convinced him he had to summon the legendary dragon and recreate the story of the hero who founded Unova, which will give him the power needed to stop the perceived exploitation of Pokémon.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green hair. Shares the same color of hair as Ghetsis.
!!The Shadow Triad (The Dark Trinity)
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-->''"We, the Shadow Triad, have always been and will always be the loyal servants of Ghetsis. And Ghetsis's ambitions will never cease!"''
-->One is voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida (JP), Creator/JasonGriffith (EN) (promo)
* AmbiguousGender: In the original games, where they are briefly referred to as male at one point and one point only. The sequels make it clear they're male.
* BadassCrew: They're all pretty good fighters. Whether they have superpowers or some form of martial arts combined with technology isn't clear.
* BonusBoss: You can challenge them after beating the Elite Four. They will battle you in Single, Triple, and Rotation battles once every season.
* CoDragons: To Ghetsis.
* CombatPragmatist: They each have two Pawniard, and one of them also has an Absol, a Pokémon which is often regarded as a bad omen. They also have the ability to stun people and teleport away.
* EliteMooks: Much stronger than most of the Grunts.
* HelpfulMook: When you go into N's castle, one of them tells you that you can heal your Pokémon and even access your PC.
* {{Ninja}}: An entire trio.
* NotSoStoic: They are very upset about Ghetsis's vegetative breakdown induced by your victory over him, and attempt to avenge him by battling you in Icirrus City.
* PsychoSupporter: The three of them are loyal to Ghetsis unconditionally.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Black 2'' and ''White 2''.
* TheStoic: All three of them.
* UndyingLoyalty: They are the only ones who still support Ghetsis in the end, because he had apparently saved their lives in the past.
* TheUnfought: In the original games. Averted for the sequel.
* VillainTeleportation: One of their powers.
* WeaponOfChoice: Accelgor, Absol, and Banette, one for each. Their other Pokémon are all Pawniard and Bisharp.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Every single one of them has white hair. They're all messed up in the head, too.
!! Anthea (Verbena; Goddess of Love) and Concordia (Helena; Goddess of Harmony)
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* AdvertisedExtra: Both appear in the intro despite not appearing until much later on. This misled some fans into thinking they'd have much bigger roles.
* TheArtifact: A widespread UrbanLegendOfZelda is that they were intially planned to be more relevant to the story. If this is true, it would have been cut out very early, as no code in the files suggests this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: They were taken in by Ghetsis in order to help look after N.
* CoolBigSis: Unlike Ghetsis, they really do love N, but don't always know what to do with him.
* HairAntennae: Concordia.
* HairColorDissonance: Although the intro of ''B/W'' and ''[=B2/W2=]'' artwork make it clear that Anthea has pink hair, her overworld sprites in the former give her purple hair instead. This was corrected for the sequel.
* HealingHands: Anthea heals your Pokémon.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[HelpfulMook Though they weren't ever evil to start with]], especially now seeing as they reveal they follow N and not Team Plasma, since they were orphans adopted by Ghetsis to serve as N's surrogate older sisters.
* HelpfulMook: They heal your Pokémon, give information on N, express pity for the poor guy, and generally aren't really evil at all.
* MeaningfulName:
** Concordia means "harmony" in Latin and was the Roman Goddess of Harmony.
** Anthea is an epithet for the Greek goddess Hera.
** Their real names in the Japanese version are named after flowers that represent "tender love" and "peace and wisdom."
* MsExposition: Concordia, who reveals N's backstory after many hints have been dropped throughout the game.
* NominalImportance: Inverted. They appear in the intro of ''Black and White'', have completely unique designs and very different names. They are nonetheless irrelevant outside of some small exposition, and many forget about them entirely.
* SatelliteCharacter: They serve as N's, although the fact that they're his surrogate older sisters most likely makes this an intentional case.
* TheUnfought: It's not even known if they have Pokémon.
* WomanInWhite: In ''Black'' and ''White''. Aside of a few sashes and side accessories, that is.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair.
!! Plasma Boss Colress (Achroma)
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-->''"Team Plasma said we should recognize the potential in Pokémon and liberate them from humans. [[MemeticMutation I disa]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6josPnHF94 gree.]] Conversely, it should be humans who bring out the hidden potential in Pokémon!"''
-->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (JP), Creator/SeanSchemmel (EN) (promo)
* AdaptationalVillainy: He is a big victim of this in adaptations, more so than most other characters. In the game, he's an anti-villain who even helps the player along and encourages them, but every adaptation does away with his good qualities and portray him as a straight-up villain.
* AffablyEvil: He's more concerned about bringing out the strengths of Pokémon rather than Team Plasma's plan, he's pretty friendly in a genuine way, and he also helps you out quite a few times, even when it might be not in his best interest to do so.
* AntiVillain: His concerns are over making scientific discoveries about Pokémon rather than Team Plasma's ambitions.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His hair and clothing resemble Team Plasma's emblem.
* TheAtoner: He appears near the P2 Laboratory after the League, regretting his actions, stripped of his Plasma affiliations and looking to make amends. He gives the player another Master Ball after he is beaten.
* BadassBookworm: He's a scientist type and one of the strongest trainers in the game.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He does wear one under the labcoat, as shown in [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7o15xBodz1r0euiao2_1280.jpg his concept artwork]].
* BadassLabcoat: Wears one over his suit.
* BonusBoss: You can challenge him each day.
* CharacterTics: [[spoiler:He wears small computers on his wrists in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and has a tendency to fiddle with them when speaking to the player character.]]
* ColorMotif: Black, white, and blue are Team Plasma's colors.
* DragonInChief: Though not as public as Zinzolin, he's the acting Boss for New Team Plasma, serving directly under Ghetsis and commandeering the Plasma Frigate. Although he's stronger than Zinzolin or the Triad, he's not really loyal to them personally -- he's really just in it ForScience.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He claims he actually couldn't stand Ghetsis and only worked with his for his resources. And unlike Ghetsis, Colress is willing to bring out the power of his Pokémon through love and trust, especially after meeting the player character.
* EvilCounterpart: In a way, he's this to the main games' Pokémon Professors (Oak, Elm, Birch, Rowan and Juniper). Like them, his goal is discover a truth behind Pokémon (in his case, strength). However, while the Professors are genuinely nice people whose main method of research is the Pokédex, Colress is willing to do whatever it takes to further his research, up to and including siding with Team Plasma. He wises up in the post game, though.
* EvilGenius: As Team Plasma's top researcher.
* EvilMentor: Played with; he helps out the PC from time to time but only for his cause of making scientific discoveries, a goal that made him join Team Plasma, albeit as a member who doesn't care about their ambitions.
* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel-types. However, he also uses Beheeyem and Rotom and [[spoiler:hands the protagonist a Flame Charge TM in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'']].
* FriendlyEnemy: Is actually more of an ally than an enemy in most of the times he's encountered.
* ForScience: The reason he joins Team Plasma, even if their plan risks destroying the Unova region. His concern for studying the strength of Pokémon is greater than his concern for the fate of the region. Even Ghetsis criticized him for putting his scientific research before Team Plasma's ambition. He realizes this mistake at the end and atones for it during the postgame. A character in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' also mentions that he has an interest in Mega Evolution and [[spoiler:he tells the player character this himself in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', also mentioning an interest in Z-Moves]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Subverted at the end.
* HeelFaceTurn: He can be found and battled at the P2 Lab, where he says he is attempting to make up for his mistakes, and is no longer affiliated with Team Plasma.
* HotScientist: Not bad looking in the least.
* IdiotHair: Only this one is dyed blue and loops back over his head.
* ImprobableHairstyle: It's really strange.
* KarmaHoudini: He may be TheAtoner post-game, but it's still odd he gets off with no legal consequences after nearly destroying Unova.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZY3R5j12o This theme.]] According to WordOfGod, it is meant to sound all over the place, much like Colress himself.
* MeaningfulName: Colress comes from the word "colorless." Meanwhile, Chroma is Greek for "color," and is used in English to define the intensity of a color or colorfulness, while A is a prefix commonly used to denote a negative. Achroma then could mean either "colorless" or "against colorfulness/intensity." Both names refer to his amoral perspective of scientific progress.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Just like the other Scientists in the series his Pokémon is mostly this.
* MightyGlacier: Most of his Pokémon fit this role.
** LightningBruiser: Rotom-W (post-game) is decently fast, has high Special Attack, and packs a Life Orb. Also, his Metagross can use Agility, and Klinklang uses Shift Gear to boost its stats.
* MulticoloredHair: Blond, but with an IdiotHair that's blue and loops around his head.
* ObviouslyEvil: Averted at the end.
* PsychicPowers: His Elgyem and Beheeyem.
%%* PunchClockVillain
* RecurringBoss: Fought at least three times.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His battle sprite animation.
* ShockAndAwe: His Magneton, Magnezone, and Rotom.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For a long time, fans referred to him by the name "Achroma," which was the logical romanization of his Japanese name, "Akuroma." When rumor broke out that his English name was really "Corless," fans began calling him by that name until an official trailer for ''Black and White 2'' later revealed that "Corless" was just a typo, and that his name was actually spelled "Colress."
* StoicSpectacles: It fits his ForScience motif.
* TrueFinalBoss: Defeating him on the Plasma Frigate after beating Iris brings a final closure to Team Plasma's arc. Afterwards he is a BonusBoss that can be challenged there. However, N and Cynthia's levels remain higher.
* TheUnfettered: Colress doesn't care if his actions are good or bad, he only cares about the science behind them.
* WeaponOfChoice: The Klink line is always his strongest Pokémon, though he also notably uses two different members of the Magnemite line.
! The Seven Sages
'''Tropes that apply to multiple members:'''
* AffablyEvil: Barring Ghetsis, none of them are particularly cruel or spiteful despite their actions or station. Even Zinzolin remains relatively honorable post TimeSkip.
* BadassMoustache: Gorm, Bronius, Giallo and Ryoku all have quite noteworthy ones.
* BeardOfEvil: Gorm, Rood and Giallo.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bronius, Giallo and Ryoku don't appear in ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* DemotedToExtra: Gorm makes a single appearance in Pinwheel Forest during ''Black 2 and White 2''. Save Zinzolin and Rood, the rest don't even appear at all.
* EvilOldFolks: All of them are at least middle-aged.
* GracefulLoser: Minus Ghetsis, they all willingly turn themselves in to Looker for questioning when you catch them in the post game. Suverted by Zinzolin, who was faking it.
* HeelFaceTurn: All of them except Ghetsis and Zinzolin.
* {{Irony}}: Only Ghetsis and Zinzolin ''don't'' have facial hair of any kind, and only ''they'' remain antagonists after ''Black and White''.
* JumpScare: Gorm has made this his hobby after the events of ''Black and White'', sneaking up on people just to spook them (With harmless, prankster-like intention, mind you).
* ThemeNaming: The Seven Sages are named after colors. Rood is red, Bronius is brown/orange, Giallo is yellow, Ryoku is green, (Ghetsis fits in cyan despite his name breaking the theme), Gorm is blue, and Zinzolin is purple.
* TheUnfought: In ''Black and White'', barring Ghetsis. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''Black 2 and White 2'' for Rood and Zinzolin - Rood is fought once as a test of character while Zinzolin is a RecurringBoss.
!! Ghetsis Harmonia (G-Cis Harmonia)
-->''"We shall bring back the hero and that Pokémon to Unova once again! If we can win people's hearts and minds, we can easily create the world that [[FreudianSlip I--I mean]], Team Plasma--desires!"''
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* AbusiveParents: Not actually N's biological father, but purposefully isolated him from others to condition him for the role as King of Team Plasma. It's also implied that he was going to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of N once the plan to separate people and Pokémon was completed]].
* ArchnemesisDad: Towards to N during ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* AxCrazy: By ''Black and White 2'', where he wants to freeze over the entire region - and ''you!''
* BadBoss: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', his Hydreigon knows Frustration, a move that gets stronger the more the Pokémon dislikes its trainer. Contrast with former villainous team leaders who tend to have a Crobat in their team near the end, [[PetTheDog a Pokémon that only evolves if it likes its trainer]].
* BadassLongrobe: He wears one in ''Black 2 and White 2'', replacing his old outfit.
* BigBad: In all of the Unova games.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In ''Black and White'', he seems to be a good, understanding person regardless of being on the opposing side. And then you progressively discover that he's anything but that.
* BlackCloak: In the sequel, he ditches his initial outfit for a dark cloak.
* TheChessmaster: Ghetsis has probably the best overall plan to gain control of the Pokémon world out of all villainous leaders in the series.
* ClassicVillain: Representing Pride/Ambition. Fits all of the criteria except a KarmicDeath, but he still ends up being given a karmic punishment, via losing all of the support he had save the Shadow Triad and having the plan he took years to make be completely destroyed in the first pair of games, and becoming an insane non-functioning vegetable in the sequels.
* ClimaxBoss: Gets demoted to this in ''Black 2 and White 2''. He's fought before the player reaches Victory Road at the end of Plasma's arc.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Does this to Kyurem to make it comply with terrorizing Unova. He also plans to do it to the player character.
* CombatPragmatist:
** In both of his fights he starts off with [[MightyGlacier Cofagrigus]], which will try to wear down your Pokémon by inflicting them with [[StandardStatusEffects Toxic Poison]] and using [[DefendCommand Protect]] every other turn to avoid damage while your Pokémon rack up Poison damage. In ''Black 2 and White 2'' it's holding the [[HealingFactor Leftovers]] item to ensure it takes you longer to KO it.
** When he's confronted by the PlayerCharacter at the Giant Chasm in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he immediately tries to have Kyurem freeze them instead of having a Pokémon battle.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: His Hydreigon is Level 54 in ''Black and White'' and Level 52 in ''Black 2 and White 2''. Zweilous doesn't evolve into Hydreigon until Level 64.
* CrazyPrepared: In ''Black and White'', his team has not one but two (Cofagrigus and Hydregion) Pokémon capable of taking down Reshiram/Zekrom with minimal effort.
* CrystalPrison: He attempted to invoke the icicle variant on you in the second game in order to create an IronicHell in which you'd be forced to watch his plans unfold, unable to do anything as you slowly freeze to death. Luckily, N comes to save the day.
* DarkIsEvil: Half of his team is Dark- and Ghost-types, especially his [[IconicItem most iconic mon]], Hydreigon. His outfit in the sequels also screams this.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: His plan must end with him in charge of Unova. He will settle for nothing less.
%%* DiabolicalMastermind: Fits most of the criteria well.
* DragonInChief: As the leader of the Seven Sages, he serves as this towards N. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that [[TheManBehindTheMan he was manipulating N the entire time]] so he could take over Unova.
* TheDreaded: Has become this by the sequel, where everyone knows how bad he is.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: What allows TheHero to be the SpannerInTheWorks for his plan was Ghetsis never believing that they might be pure of heart enough to awaken the other Legendary Pokémon. He also didn't take the PowerOfFriendship into account, whether it be between humans and Pokémon or between TheHero and N, both of which factored into his downfall. He even outright says that he thinks everyone considers Pokémon tools to use as they see fit, which he himself believed. Because of this, he allowed N to interact with other people, gaining friendships and seeing the friendships between trainers and their Pokémon, which got him questioning Team Plasma's beliefs in the first place, directly leading to Ghetsis' downfall.
* EvilChancellor: N talks about how Ghetsis acts as his "adviser" of sorts and gathered many of the elements that make up Team Plasma, including the Shadow Triad. Of course, he has other motives and is really TheManBehindTheMan.
* EvilCripple: Ghetsis is rarely seen using the right side of his body. In the cinematic opening of ''Black and White'', his right arm is briefly shown to be discolored, implying he might be scarred or injured. His in-game battle expressions and official artwork would seem to imply that the right side of his face is paralyzed, as well. This becomes more apparent in ''Black 2 and White 2'', where his body appears incredibly frail, he's taken to using a cane, and his battle sprite animation shows he has to stop to breathe when he slams the cane down.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: He controls Kyurem, an Ice-type [[OlympusMons legendary]], in ''Black 2 and White 2''. "Deathly cold" is literal since he wants to use it's ice power to put the Unova region under a fatal freeze, hoping to extort power and control from the terrified masses when the suffering becomes too great. He also tries to attack the hero with the freezing power of Kyurem's Glaciate attack.
* EvilLaugh: He gives one near the end as he taunts N for failing him.
* EvilMakeover: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', since everyone now knows what he's truly like, he changes his appearance to look more like a dark lord.
* EvilOverlord: What he is to an extent, and later aspires to be. His look in ''Black 2 and White 2'' is meant to invoke the typical dark lord, if not TheDevil.
* FateWorseThanDeath: By the end of it all, the events of two games and his ensuing failures causes Ghetsis to go so insane, he is effectively reduced to a non-functioning, gibbering vegetable.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In the first game, he pretends to be well-meaning when his true motives are anything but. He drops this facade in the sequels. In the Japanese version, his speech is unfailingly polite, even when he's no longer pretending to be good.
* FinalBoss: The last fight in ''Black and White'' before the credits, and the first time that someone other than the Pokémon League Champion has had this position in the main series.
* FreudianSlip:
** A few times in the game, while talking about his plans, he says "I- I mean, Team Plasma", [[{{Foreshadowing}} hinting at]] [[ItsAllAboutMe his true nature.]]
** At the climax of ''Black 2 and White 2'', he makes his intentions perfectly clear by notably reversing and fixing the slip that he made several times in the originals:
-->"The terrified people and Pokémon will bow at Team Plasma's... no... at MY feet!"
* GoodColorsEvilColors: After being defeated in ''Black and White'', the cat's out of the bag and he now dons a black robe to show just how evil he is. N still continues to wear primarily white and gray.
* {{Handicapped Badass}}: He may be an irredeemable asshole with a nasty limp, but he's a very powerful trainer. Entire teams have been destroyed by his Hydreigon and the rest of his team is very strong, as well.
* HijackedByGanon: In ''Black 2 and White 2'' where he steals the role of BigBad from Colress.
* HornedHairdo: Making him look like TheDevil incarnate, especially in ''Black 2 and White 2'' when combined with his BlackCloak.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Calls N a freak without a human heart when this really applies to him. [[LampshadeHanging This gets noted by Cheren and Alder.]]
** Also his rants about how trainers abuse Pokémon, when he himself only views them as tools. This was all part of his plan to take everyone's Pokémon except his own, though.
* IAmTheNoun: During his VillainousBreakdown in ''Black and White'', he goes on a short rant which includes declaring himself to be perfect.
-->"[[LargeHam I AM PERFECTION!]]"
* IconicItem: His red monocle. If [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/Ghetsis_Concept_Art.jpg concept artwork]] is to be believed, it's there because his right eye is missing or heavily damaged.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with. He's not really the healthiest guy mentally and is plenty violent, but his SanitySlippage turns him into a vegetable.
* InsaneTrollLogic: How he "justifies" his endgame. He sensibly points out that Pokémon and humans have endless potential together... and then uses that as the reason that [[ItsAllAboutMe he, and he alone, should wield Pokémon]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Near the end, he even goes on a huge tangent over this.
-->"I AM PERFECTION!"
* {{Jerkass}}: His KickTheDog moments make him one of the biggest scumbags in the series.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After hearing so many legendary Pokémon being referred to as "gods," it's actually kind of nice to hear someone, no matter how loathsome, say "A Pokémon, even if it's revered as a deity, is still just a Pokémon!" It still is dampened by being RightForTheWrongReasons, considering he views Pokémon, or anything else for that matter, as tools for him to use. Given his AGodAmI attitude, he likely would easily be saying this about Pokémon that are not just revered as deities, but indeed deities, like Arceus. It only serves to highlight his disregard for any other life than his own.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ghetsis only takes in N for his master plan and his claim of being for Pokémon liberation was an excuse for him to be the only one allowed to use Pokémon.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted in that he escapes prison, but the plan he's been working on for years has been thwarted, and he's left with nothing now. And if his VillainousBreakdown is any inclination, he may have lost his sanity as well. After the events of ''Black 2 and White 2'', he is never apprehended but is still reduced to what is basically a vegetable.
* KickTheDog: As if using and abusing his own son wasn't bad enough, what he says to N towards the end of the game is downright cruel and heartless. Then there is all the suffering Kyurem has to be put through in the sequel with the implied abuse of his Pokemon.
* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike the rest of Team Plasma, his abusive nature is played dead seriously. Would you like some horrific child abuse to go with your cute monster battling? Or perhaps a dessert of an attempted [[AndIMustScream freezing alive]] of the protagonist?
* LargeAndInCharge: Even more so than his 'son', Ghetsis is six and a half feet tall, and judging by the huge metal ornament he carried around his neck in B/W probably very well-built.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He more than earned his FateWorseThanDeath.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XCD0VIR1k Team Plasma Sage Encounter,]] though heard with the other sages, seems to fit Ghetsis the most.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdjl65jAB8 battle theme]] really lives up to his MeaningfulName. It's completely different from any other theme in the series, consisting of almost nothing but heavy, oppressive drumbeats... then it's joined by a chorus chanting his name in low, menacing tones. Really brings across the sheer evil of the character.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EybTIUgjs8 Black 2 and White 2 theme]] is made up of the same sounds, but much faster-paced and disorganized, to reflect his diminishing sanity.
* LightIsNotGood: He was as one of the Seven Sages in ''Black and White'', along with some gold and white on his original outfit.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Inverted for the trope: The game makes it clear that Ghetsis and N are father and son up until the post-game of ''Black and White'', where one of the former Plasma Sages makes a comment where he doesn't even recall how N came into play, thus implying that N might not even be Ghetsis' son (not his biological son, at least). ''Black 2 and White 2'' confirm that they aren't related.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In ''Black and White''. Even though N is the official leader of Team Plasma, Ghetsis is revealed to have been using him merely as an UnwittingPawn for his own plans.
* ManipulativeBastard: Very much so. It's more pronounced the first games than the sequel where everyone, except for a select few, were unaware of his true intentions. He tricks N into thinking that Pokémon are unhappy with humans for his master plan.
* MeaningfulName: "Goetis," one possible romanization of his name in the Japanese version ties in fairly well with his position as one of the Seven Sages (derived from the Greek word ''goeteia'', meaning "sorcery") and his goal of reviving one of the legendary dragons (Goetia is the art of summoning angels or demons, and is the title of [[ArsGoetia one of the most famous books on the subject]] - keep in mind that Reshiram has a somewhat angelic appearance and Zekrom is somewhat demonic).
* MundaneUtility: And if his pre-battle animation in ''Black 2 and White 2'' is anything to go by, his mind control staff is also an actual walking stick.
* MusicalThemeNaming:
** According to WordOfGod, he's named after the G and C-sharp (or "Cis") timpanis of his battle theme.
** His last name is Harmonia. Play G and C-Sharp on a piano. They are a tritone, which is dissonance; unstable harmony.
** In medieval times, the tritone itself was called the ''Diabolus en Musica'', the Devil in Music. Considering what the guy does (and how he looks, especially in the sequel), it's quite apt.
* {{Narcissist}}: Cares for nothing but himself, because he is supposedly "perfection."
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims to believe that separating Pokémon and humans would be best for everyone involved. [[StrawHypocrite This is a lie]]; in reality, he just wants to make it so that he has full control of all trainer Pokémon so he can TakeOverTheWorld.
* ObviouslyEvil: Not just him in the ''Black 2 and White 2'', but his team in both games consists of Pokémon that according to their respective Pokédex entries, are very violent, aggressive, and sadistic, and none of them look like anything a hero would use. It's also canon that his signature Pokémon, Hydreigon, is an AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac.
* OffingTheOffspring: It's hinted that he was planning to do this to N after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he had fulfilled his role]].
* PoisonIsEvil: Along with the aforementioned Hydreigon, the most evil character in the story has two deadly-strong Poison-types - a [[ScaryScorpions Drapion]] and a Toxicroak - in ''Black 2 and White 2'', and his Cofagrigus in all versions will try to stall out opponents using the Toxic-Protect-spam strategy.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Again, in the sequel.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As well as a red ''monocle''. Also the two eyes on his robe in the first game.
* RedRightHand:
** If concept art is anything to go by, his right eye is either severely damaged or missing entirely. He wears a monocle to cover it.
** It's also indicated that his right arm is disfigured. WordOfGod has said that both injuries occured in a Pokémon attack sometime in the past (oddly enough, in the original games' opening, the only time his right arm is shown, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Ghetsis_right_arm.png it's discolored]]).
* RedemptionRejection: His response to N asking him to change his evil ways is to scream at him hysterically, hurling abusive insults all the while, [[LaserGuidedKarma at which point Ghetsis' mind snaps and he goes full-blown insane]].
* SanitySlippage:
** After N is defeated in ''Black and White'', Ghetsis grows more and more insane as the final showdown with him goes on. By the end, he's a ranting lunatic in disbelief that his "perfect plan" has been destroyed.
** He flat out loses it when his plan is foiled again in ''Black 2 and White 2''. N attempts to convince him to turn to the side of good, but Ghetsis's response is to repeatedly order him to be silent and to stop talking to him in "human language," and to go and talk to Pokémon instead. He loses it so hard that the Shadow Triad remove him from the cave, recognizing that it's over. You can battle the Shadow Triad in the post game, and they state that, since Ghetsis's loss, he'd been utterly unable to function. The events of the two years, with the actions of the protagonists, the failures and betrayals of N and Colress, and the failure of his life's work, has utterly broken him.
* SelfDisposingVillain: After being thwarted in the sequels, the Shadow Triad tell you he's gone completely catatonic.
* ASinisterClue: His official art and battle sprites always show him with his left hand outstretched. He almost never shows his right hand. The introductory video for the originals shows that [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/55/Ghetsis_right_arm.png his arm is discolored and dark]]. In the sequels, he mentions that he is going to take the player down with his "own hand" in singular, instead of "hands" in plural, possibly indicating that he could have lost his right arm sometime after N's crowning.
* SinisterMinister: He very much looks like a priest or pastor of a church. He even goes around holding public sermons where he preaches about what should be done between humans and Pokémon.
* SinisterSurveillance: His control room on the Plasma Frigate certainly gives off this sort of vibe. The fact that it's a bunch of static indicates the player character or Hugh might have been destroying the cameras while storming the Frigate.
* SlasherSmile: Just to show you how massively pissed and [[SanitySlippage insane]] he's become, [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/36/VSGhetsis_2.png this is now his pre-battle expression.]]
* SmugSnake: In terms of planning, he's a brilliant [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. But in terms of attitude, he's totally this, especially when his plans fall apart. Subverted by the end of his role in ''Black and White 2'', as he's now too insane to really have any ego.
* TheSociopath: Disregard for others? Check. Superficial charm to mask his real plans? Check.
* StaffOfAuthority: It doubles as a MindControlDevice that allows him to control Kyurem, as well as a Poké Ball [[NoSell jammer]], which he uses to prevent the player from capturing Kyurem for themselves during their encounter in the Giant Chasm.
* StrawHypocrite: His attempts to separate humans and Pokémon aren't borne from his claimed good intentions, but from a desire for world domination.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: With N. In ''Black 2 and White 2'' it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] since it's revealed that Ghetsis adopted N.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Both of his outfits feature giant eyes.
* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal. He states he wishes to "rule the world utterly" and calls himself "the perfect ruler of a perfect new world."
* ThisCannotBe: After N is defeated, Ghetsis is left unable to grasp what just happened and that his plan is ruined. Him trying to beat the player may be considered denial over his perfect plan failing. After he himself is beaten, he really gets into this trope, [[VillainousBreakdown ranting about how he can't have lost and is "perfect."]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: ''Big time.'' He's one of the most evil antagonists in the game and has zero redeeming qualities.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** He starts to break down even before his defeat -- he's clearly gone mad after N loses to you and his challenging of you can even be taken as being in denial over his "perfect plan" failing. Even after he himself is defeated, he can't believe his plan has failed so completely.
** After you beat White/Black Kyurem, he gets so frustrated that his battle animation shows him [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/a/a2/Spr_B2W2_Ghetsis.png stamping his cane several times until he slams it so hard, it]] [[SwordPlant plants into the ground]]. Afterwards he starts absolutely raving at you and N, panting from loss of breath and possible heart failure once he's done.
--> ''"How can this be? I'm the creator of Team Plasma! I'm perfect! I'm the absolute ruler who will change the world! And I've lost to some unknown Trainer not once, but TWICE?! I can't accept this! This isn't possible! I can't be bested by fools who can't even use Pokémon correctly!"''
--> '''''"Shut your mouth! Shut up! Shut up! Shut UP! Don't talk like a person, you freak! No real person could talk to Pokémon!"'''''
* VillainDecay:
** In ''Black and White'', he was an excellent example of a ClassicVillain, possessing a devious mind as well as boasting a powerful, well-built team] In ''Black 2 and White 2'', a series of {{Retcon}}s about N's childhood, a diminished level of influence on the plot, and an overall weaker team make him slightly harder to take seriously. That said, he still isn't played for laughs, is treated seriously as a villain, and he goes on to still KickTheDog in new and awesomely dark ways.
** This is also reflected in his Hydreigon. In ''Black and White'' it had Surf, Focus Blast, Fire Blast, and Dragon Pulse and maximized stats, while in ''Black 2 and White 2'' it has Frustration, Rock Slide, Dragon Rush, and Crunch. This not only means it has inferior type coverage from before and most Steel-types can wall all its moves, but it now runs moves off of its inferior physical Attack where before it ran off its higher Special Attack. It's also holding a [[CastFromHitPoints Life Orb]], so even if its moves are powered up, you can watch Hydreigon slowly kill itself while you spam Revives on its victims and wait.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[AxCrazy Hydreigon]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first he seems like N and wants to separate humans and Pokémon. It turns out he really just wanted to make Pokémon illegal for everyone [[ItsAllAboutMe but himself]], so he could take over Unova.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of his most despicable aspects is his view of Pokémon as mere tools. He considers N a freak for his empathy towards Pokémon, tortures Kyurem into his personal WMD, and upon noticing your Pokémon trembling in their Balls as he pits you against Black/White Kyurem, he briefly identifies it as anger before brushing off the concept that Pokémon can feel emotions.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he tries to [[AndIMustScream freeze the protagonist solid.]] In the originals, his dialogue before the battle against him suggests that he'll "[[NeverSayDie eliminate]]" the PlayerCharacter to silence him/her from revealing that N lost the fated battle.
--->''"In order to rule this world utterly, in order to manipulate the hearts of people who know nothing, I will have N be the king of Team Plasma. But, for that to work, you--since you know the truth--You must be eliminated!"''
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted for the first time in the main series. Thankfully, N saves you in the nick of time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like N, Ghetsis has long green hair.
* YouMonster: Cheren and Alder point out that ''he's'' the "freak without a human heart," not N.
!! Sage Rood (Rot)
-->''"At that time, I believed we were on the side of justice. By serving my king, N, I was going to make a world without war. But I was conceited, and I couldn't see the unhappiness we were causing. That's why I can't let it happen again!"''
* AscendedExtra: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he has more distinctive focus and characterisation, and even battles the player once. He and Old Team Plasma also hold off some of New Team Plasma's forces, allowing you to enter Plasma Frigate to stop Ghetsis.
* TheAtoner: Actively takes this role in the sequel, and even accepts liability when he's blamed for things he didn't personally do (such as when Hugh loses it at him).
* BadassBeard: The most impressive of all the Sages - it covers his entire lower face.
* BigDamnHeroes: In a manner similar to the Gym Leaders in ''B&W'', he holds off Team Plasma's forces to allow the player and Hugh entry into Plasma Frigate during the climax.
* ChekhovsGun: You remember that Zorua you see with N in the intro of the first game? Well, Rood gives you that Zorua and informs you about Memory Link, which is used for various features, particularly a flashback of N releasing the Pokémon he used against the previous protagonist.
* CoolOldGuy: In ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His character model.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first ''BW'' games, he outright stated that he wanted to see N confront Ghetsis. This happens at the end of ''Black 2 and White 2''.
** He also stated that if N learned to understand people better, he'd like for him and those who are still loyal to him to gather together again, which is exactly what happens in these games.
* HeelFaceTurn: After the events of ''Black and White'', he's actively opposed to the New Team Plasma (which includes his former colleague Zinzolin) and seems to lead Old Team Plasma in N's stead.
* MeaningfulName: His name in every language means "red."
* TheUnfought: In the first game(s). {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Black 2 and White 2'' despite his HeelFaceTurn, although you only battle him once.
!! Sage Zinzolin (Vio)
-->''"It's bitter cold. I'm shivering. I'm suffering, but I'm alive! It's what the essence of life feels like! It's proof of my existence!"''
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* AnIcePerson: Primarily uses Ice-type Pokémon in battle.
* TheBrute: He was demoted to this when Ghetsis appointed Colress as Plasma Boss (not that he seems to mind). He still functions as a major administrator, as well as commander of the {{Mook|s}} forces.
* TheDragon: While he serves his role as the ''public face'' of New Team Plasma for most of the game, he's covering for actually a cover for Ghetsis, who is the ''true'' face of evil. He and [[EliteMooks the Shadow Triad]] are more actively behind Team Plasma's operations in ''Black 2 and White 2'' than Ghetsis, ''and'' he's the most-fought antagonist in the game (with the fights being geared more towards the story's later stages).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is appalled by his own actions after finally seeing Ghetsis for what he really is at the end of ''[=B2W2=]''.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Well, Eviler Costume Switch. He ditches his robes for a more militaristic outfit as part of the new Team Plasma. He switches again back to his old robes when you meet him at Undella Town during the post-game.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Most of his team are Ice-type. Ionically, he cannot stand the cold.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His character model.
* FaceHeelTurn: It was indicated in the first game(s) that he'd gone straight, like the other five "lesser" sages, so if he'd ever been a "Face," it didn't last long.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Some of his lines from the previous games make more sense in the context of his role in this game, such as his fascination with Ghetsis.
* HeelFaceTurn: He makes a more certain one after Ghetsis' final defeat, perhaps for good this time.
* {{Irony}}: Zinzolin in the post-game in ''Black and White'' hid in the Cold Storage south of Driftveil, where you first met him, and both times complained constantly of the cold. And in ''Black 2 and White 2'', all of his Pokémon are of the Ice type.
* KickTheDog: When he learns why Hugh's so invested in fighting Team Plasma, he dismisses his grudge as insignificant.
* {{Leitmotif}}: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he gets a more sinister [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtXqPAeQaQ arrangement]] of the Seven Sages' theme from the previous games.
* MeaningfulName: His name in every language is some varient of "violet."
* RecurringBoss: He's battled a total of ''four'' times during the game - of all antagonists ''in the main series'', only N in the first ''B&W'' games is fought more (at five times).
* TagTeam: Half of the battles against him involve him teaming up with a Team Plasma Grunt and the player teaming up with Hugh.
* TheUnfought: Present in the first game. Averted in the second.
* WeaponOfChoice: Weavile.
--> -- Ghetsis
'''Tropes that apply to the organization as a whole:'''
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: In spite of their whole "we want to liberate Pokémon" thing, they're total tools.
* AntiMagicalFaction: Replace "magical" with "Pokémon training" and you've got Team Plasma in a nutshell. They are of the "hypocritical" flavor, as detailed below,
* ChurchMilitant: Modeled on this to an extent, as a result.
* DarkIsEvil: They usually use Dark types (Purrloin, Scraggy, Sandile lines).
* EvilRedHead: The grunts, [[WellIntentionedExtremist though they aren't necessarily evil]].
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Several can be witnessed considering this at N's Castle toward the end of the initial story mode due to how close they've grown to their Pokémon.
** One can locate a man in Opelucid City who was a former Team Plasma member who performed one of these.
* {{Hypocrite}}s: One of the grunts explicity ''says'' that while it's bad for regular trainers to keep Pokémon, it's fine for Team Plasma to have them. This only applies to some of them, though; other grunts keep using Pokémon because they've grown attached to them or because they view their use as necessary for the time being.
* InformedAbility: The Seven Sages are said to be some of the smartest men in the world but never really show it. One decides it's a bright idea to put their evil lair ''across the street from Burgh's gym'' and is shocked when they're discovered in short order. To be fair, he did it because he thought it would be funny.
* {{Jerkass}}: One of the first grunts you battle [[KickTheDog repeatedly kicks]] a Munna to get it to release some Dream Mist. [[{{Hypocrite}} This while still saying they want to help separate Pokémon from abusive trainers.]] There are also several jerkass grunts at the castle in the end, though they are counterbalanced by some more sympathetic ones.
* KnightTemplar: Literally.
* LargeHam: "PLASMAAAAA!"
* LightIsNotGood: And there is the fact that Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokémon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power.
* MeaningfulName: They aim to separate Pokémon from people "controlling" them. Plasma is a state of matter where atoms separate from the electrons they "control" and become ions. Plasma also plays a part in both lightning and fire, which conveniently applies to the dragon they're trying to control in either version.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Some grunts have grown to like their Pokémon given them by Ghetsis, and don't want to let them go. Lampshaded, of course!
** Subverted with a grunt in N's Castle who states that her Pokémon has grown to love her... but she doesn't understand that because she just considers it a tool to be used. She doesn't appear to be actively cruel to the Pokémon, just indifferent[[note]]The story has a happy ending, though: you can find her in Driftveil City with other ex-Plasma members, where she's changed her tune, now saying that she views her Pokémon as a friend rather than a tool.[[/note]]
%%* TautologicalTemplar
* WellIntentionedExtremist: They all seem to have the same goal, they just do it in a ''really'' wrong way. Most of the grunts have this personality, though there are a ''few'' that are just bloody {{hypocrit|e}}ical {{jerkass}}es.
* WesternTerrorists: An American AnimalWrongsGroup based in the Pokéverse equivalent of New York City hellbent on spreading the message that training Pokémon is wrong.
'''Tropes that apply to the new Team Plasma as a whole:'''
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Their uniforms are much more resembling of a paramilitary organization this time around.
* BlackShirt: Complete with paramilitary style gear.
* BlatantLies: Even though their schemes of conquest had been exposed two years ago, some members still claim they fight for the rights of Pokémon.
* CardCarryingVillain: Most of their members are much more up front about the organisation's ambitions this time. At least one of them admits that they used to be in Team Galactic.
* CoolAirship: The Plasma Frigate, which holds Kyurem captive.
* DarkIsEvil: Contrasting with the LightIsNotGood design of the previous team.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: They control Kyurem.
* EvilRedhead: The grunts.
* HelpfulMook: At least one will encourage you to rest on the Frigate.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: At least a few members didn't join up to be evil, but instead had nowhere else to go.
* MaskPower: Covering their mouths and lower face.
* NoMouth: The grunts and the Shadow Triad have their mouths concealed behind their masks.
* OneNoteChef: The Plasma Frigate's cook serves only bread.
* PaintItBlack: The knight-like outfits were ditched for black, paramilitary uniforms.
* {{Pirate}}s: They went from medieval knights out on an honorable cause to malicious and thieving classical pirates.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: To N's Team Plasma.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Due to the {{Pirate}} motif, their use of modern technology and merciless demeanour, they qualify.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: This group of Team Plasma has members who don't follow the false ideology of Team Plasma, only members who want to take over Unova through violent force.
* VillainsOutShopping: If the PC stars in enough good movies at [=PokéStar=], a New Team Plasma grunt can become a fan of him/her and a regular movie-goer.
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'''Tropes that apply to the old Team Plasma as a whole:'''
* TheAtoner: Old Team Plasma is made out of former Plasma members who truly care about Pokémon and left the group to create a new group to make up for their crimes.
* DarkIsNotEvil: And they still have their Dark Pokémon.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: They want to do good, but owing to their bad crimes, they don't exactly have a great reputation.
* LightIsGood: Most of the members still wear knight outfits after they left Team Plasma, but this time their outfits are true to their goals.
* ReformedButRejected: Something that Hugh has a problem understanding.
!!N Harmonia / Natural Harmonia Gropius
-->''"The cries of the suffering Pokémon filling that room... The borderline between Pokémon and humans... I exist on that line. I live in the margins between everyone, so I will save them! I will change the world!"''
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--> Voiced by: Creator/HiroshiKamiya (JP), Tom Wayland (EN) (promo)
* AbusiveParents: His adoptive father, Ghetsis, neglected him and forced him to be raised among Pokémon abused by humans. He did this in order to shape his opinion that Pokémon and humans need to separated, and so he would be distinct from humans. Then, when you defeat N in the battle using your legendaries, Ghetsis openly mocks his son as an inhuman monster incapable of real emotion (hypocritical, since this describes Ghetsis more than anything.)
* {{Adorkable}}: If his weird mannerisms don't put a given player off, chances are he's coming off like this for them.
* AffablyEvil: In the first Black and White games where he was the King of Team Plasma, technically putting him as this. He drops the "evil" bit after losing to the Player.
* AllLovingHero: Thinks himself as this for Pokémon. Becomes this in the sequels.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He has a strange enough personality and a screwed up enough childhood that he can probably be diagnosed with ''something''.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's good, but VERY misguided.
* AntiVillain: He never does anything that he hasn't been led to believe is for the greater good, and when he realizes that he's been deceived he quickly pulls a HeelFaceTurn.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The focus of the opening sequence before the first games' title screen.
* BigBad: Although not really ''evil'', he's this for ''Black and White''. At the very end, he learns that he was just a pawn for Ghetsis, and rethinks his life.
* BigBadFriend: Though more along the lines of ObliviouslyEvil BigBad friend as opposed to the more classic version of the trope.
* BigDamnHeroes: He and his dragon save you as Ghetsis is about to have Kyurem ''freeze you with floating icicles!'' However, [[FromBadToWorse Kyurem then absorbs N's dragon.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: ''Look at him''!
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: He views humans (save for those who share his beliefs) as bad and Pokémon as good, hence why he wants to separate them. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it at one point by saying how when humans and Pokémon are separated, "black and white will be clearly distinct."
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: He starts out with such belief regarding his goals, and says it as a TitleDrop. WordOfGod says the connection to the title was intended from the start. This of course, makes him (and the rest of the game) in-fact, [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey]].
* BonusBoss: Challengeable in ''Black 2 and White 2''[='s=] post-game, which allows you to capture his dragon in a roundabout method. After you catch (or knock out) both his dragon and Kyurem, he appears near Nimbasa's Ferris Wheel on Fridays, where you can ride on the wheel with him. After doing that, he becomes the BonusBoss, and has the second highest level battleable Pokémon outside various facilities, just after Iris and Cynthia (and second in Challenge Mode, tied with Cynthia).
* BreakTheCutie: Finding out his cause was essentially a lie, then abused further by his dad.
* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the first set of games. He gives a big speech thanking the player and states that his life is in his hands now before flying off on whichever dragon he caught. He is not seen again in the game after that, although Looker implies that someone spotted him in a faraway place.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's introduced in the second town, but it isn't until later that you find out that he's the boss of Team Plasma.
* TheChosenOne: He was engineered to be this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Given Anthea and Concordia's backstory on him. He was abandoned in a forest at a young age, and raised by a Zorua, Woobat, and Darmanitan. N was later taken in by Ghetsis, who claimed to be his father.
* CreepyChild: Or rather, Creepy {{Manchild}}. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1QHHZ7l-g His theme]] plays no small part in this.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: N was raised to believe humans are needlessly cruel to Pokémon in an attempt by Ghetsis to mould the boy into a PuppetKing. Then he meets the player character, whose starter suggests otherwise. The more the two interact, the more N starts wondering whether his worldview is right, and the more [[SpannerInTheWorks Ghetsis' plot starts to collapse in on itself]]. By the end, N realizes the player character's ideal is correct and forfeits his operations, [[VillainousBreakdown and the resulting proverbial black hole takes the Plasma scheme and what remains of Ghetsis' sanity with it]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's the leader of Team Plasma and his [[IconicItem most iconic]] Pokémon is dark-type, but N is a good person at heart and truly does want what's best for Pokémon.
* TheDragon: Though he didn't realize it, he was a pawn of Ghetsis in the ''Black and White''.
* ErmineCapeEffect: His outfit in the cinematic preceding the title screen.
* FalseFriend: Sort of--he seems to still view you as a "friend" of sorts even after he reveals he is Team Plasma's king, and thinks that he and the protagonist could be once humans and Pokémon are separated.
--->'''N:''' [''after Zekrom/Reshiram fails to appear''] How disappointing. I actually kind of liked you a little.
* FreudianExcuse: He was raised by abused Pokémon all his life with little interaction with other humans, therefore that's why he hates humans (his "father", "sisters", and subjects in Team Plasma aside) and wants them to separate from Pokémon. And considering all the other tropes here, [[AbusiveParents this excuse actually holds water]]. A LOT of water.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Well, except for his fellow humans who ''aren't'' a part of Team Plasma and share his goal. Though this changes towards the end after being beaten.
** The sequels drive the point home even further. Whenever the player catches one of his Pokémon, it starts out with max happiness. They were with N for a very brief period of time, but he still managed to be incredibly kind to them.
* GildedCage: He has a ''very'' nice room; sadly, it was the extent of his contact with humanity growing up.
* GoodWithNumbers: He mentions that he likes mathematical formulas a couple of times, which is apparently the reason he carries around a Menger sponge.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Only in the sequels in the post-game while exploring his demolished castle, but even then, there are no wild Pokémon to fight while he follows you to the main chamber.
* HeelFaceTurn: Implied to do this at the end. Confirmed in the sequels.
* HeelRealization: Suffers this when Ghetsis reveals the truth about Team Plasma.
* HeroAntagonist: N IS this trope. He is true to his word with helping out Pokémon, and he is a main character besides yourself, as much of the story revolves around helping him with his conflicted morals and getting out of the grasp of his hideously [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]]. He's also set up as the "hero" for Reshiram/Zekrom, and heck, he even has the [[NiceHat fashion sense]] of a main ''Pokémon'' hero.
* HeroicBSOD: Considering N's usual MotorMouth tendencies, his uncharacteristic silence when Ghetsis reveals the truth about Team Plasma is heartbreaking. He recovers a little once you defeat Ghetsis, but flees Unova because he can't stand to face you afterward.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Old Team Plasma is not seen all that positively, but there doesn't seem to be any negativity towards N.
* {{Hypocrite}}: While certainly not of the kind to abuse Pokémon the way some Plasma Grunts do, N fails to realize that the nature of his plan to stop Pokémon suffering by separating them from humans is hypocritical, because it would bring more suffering to both parties. Thankfully at the end, he seems to realize this when he comments on how he ultimately failed to understand both Pokémon and people and compliments you for being the better person.
* IconicItem:
** His Menger Sponge, at least among fans.
** He's also strongly associated with his Zorua/Zoroark friend.
*** And to a lesser extent, with the opposite-cover dragon, and strangely often with Tympole.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes off as a jerk on a number of occasions but his goals are well meaning and he really does want to become your friend.
* KingIncognito: He's the king of Team Plasma, but he also dresses like a regular trainer hiding his true colors until the player reaches Nimbasa City.
* LargeAndInCharge: At 1.80 m (5'11" ft) tall, he's a head taller than most of the other characters. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd4c2c18942a7791c67cf69d4419c368/tumblr_mgurqdUe771qdm0y0o1_400.jpg Case in point]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1QHHZ7l-g N's theme]] is a creepy musical box style theme (more blatant in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJGUaD6Qd64 the version used for his room]]) that underscores how creepy and alien he is.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DV8GjSK2p0 theme]] is a lot cheerier in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evqw7e0kQ8 But the music for his room has become much scarier!]]
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: After you catch the cover legendary of your game, N decides to heal your Pokémon, stating that it is not a fair battle if he beats you when your Pokémon are hurt.
* LightIsNotGood: He is an angelic-looking teen dressed in white... who is the king of an AnimalWrongsGroup and uses [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] Pokémon. It goes to both extremes in each version: in Black, he has Zekrom; in White, he has Reshiram.
%%* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MadMathematician: He even says he's trying to "solve the equation to change the world." Confirmed to be one by WordOfGod.
** In the sequel, his thoughts have more of a focus on chemical reactions... which are also expressed as equations, in a way.
* {{Manchild}}: His odd mannerisms and the toys in his bedroom hint at this. Not played for laughs, though. [[RaisedByWolves Considering his]] [[AbusiveParents childhood...]]
** PsychopathicManchild: Well, not really psychopathic. Just a [[WellIntentionedExtremist very, very deluded]] manchild.
* MeaningfulName: Similarly to his father Ghetsis, N Harmonia. Enharmonic.
** Taking into consideration his [[MadMathematician constant rambling about formulas]], it could also come from the common usage of "n" as a variable for an unknown value in equations... which is usually used with the intention of eventually being replaced with a different value, such as Ghetsis!
** Harmonia also happens to be [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a Greek goddess]] renowned in stories for receiving a fatal necklace (the Necklace of Harmonia) which only brought misfortune to its owner. ''Misfortune is N's life in a nutshell.'' This also serves to establish a ThemeNaming dynamic for N with his foster sister Concordia, who was Harmonia's Roman counterpart in myth.
** And if the names are seen as musical, Natural can also refer to a note that is neither sharp nor flat, as N himself is neither one thing nor another.
* ModestRoyalty: Outside of the opening cutscene, he dresses rather casually, even long after his status as Team Plasma's king is no longer hidden. Subverted in that, according to WordOfGod, he believes himself to be perfect.
* MoodSwinger: According to WordOfGod.
* MotorMouth: When you first meet him, Cheren notices this immediately. His speech itself isn't out of the ordinary in terms of spacing - in fact, he uses ellipses frequently - but the text types out a notch faster than usual, even if your text speed setting is at the maximum.
* MultiethnicName: His full name has a mix of English, Latin, and German.
%%* MusicalThemeNaming:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the final battle with him, he begins to feel bad for what he put everyone through.
* NiceGuy: He becomes this after his HeelFaceTurn, where he even tries to convince the broken down Ghetsis to be a good guy, despite him repeatedly throwing insults at N.
* NiceHat: Interestingly enough, [[WordOfGod it was stated in an interview]] that the idea to give the protagonists baseball caps came from giving N one of his own.
* NobleDemon:
** N is true to his word - whenever he fights you, it's with the Pokémon that are found in the location where you fight. He releases them when he leaves the area again. He even catches a new Klinklang for his final fight rather than keeping the Klink he used at Chargestone Cave.
** He also heals your team after catching your legendary dragon and before fighting him. N says that a victory for him wouldn't count if it wasn't won fairly.
** Also, while he distrusts and dislikes most humans, he takes exception to his loyal Team Plasma subjects who share his views, even battling you at one point solely to allow some Plasma grunts a chance to escape. Contrast to Ghetsis, who is using the grunts as much as he's using N.
** In the sequels, his Pokémon from the original games start out with maximum happiness when the player encounters them in the wild and catches them.
* NoEndorHolocaust: No, he was not Ghetsis' own kid, nor was he kidnapped from his family. And no, he was not [[EpilepticTrees the fourteenth candidate for Ghetsis' plans to take over Unova]].
* NoSocialSkills: Owing to his being isolated from most humans. He gets a bit better in the sequels.
* NoTrueScotsman: A victim of this InUniverse. Some of New Team Plasma are adamant that he not be considered part of the organisation in the first place.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: At least, not emotionally.
* NotGoodWithPeople: The only humans he gets along with before he meets the protagonists are well, Team Plasma.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He's an UnwittingPawn.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: WordOfGod said that his various musical themes, especially his overworld {{Leitmotif}} and a remix it gets in N's "room," were based around "a fragile music box."
* OneLetterName: The ''Manga/DeathNote'' jokes started popping up quite early.
* PaintingTheMedium: The speed that his text displays at is set to be at Fast speed. If player has set Fast speed in options, his text displays ''[[UpToEleven even]]'' [[UpToEleven faster]].
* PuppetKing: Ghetsis is just using him.
* PureIsNotGood: Concordia references that N has a pristine, good heart and is very innocent, which is what makes him so dangerous, especially in the wrong hands.
* RaisedByWolves: At least, he might as well have been, since it's explained he spent most of his childhood interacting more with Pokémon than with people, which is why he gets along with them better than with other humans and wants to separate Pokémon from humans so much. Not to mention that, according to Masuda, rumors exist that he was ''born'' of Pokémon, somehow. Not that the rumors have any idea who the parents are.
** He says he used to live in the wild alongside Pokémon before being adopted by Ghetsis, who claimed to be his father.
* RebelLeader: Seems to lead the old Team Plasma's efforts against the new Team Plasma, though Rood seems to be like a non-villainous DragonInChief.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Black'' and ''White''. Probably one of the most iconic examples in the Pokémon series, given how he's fought from somewhere around the beginning to the end and how he uses different Pokémon in battle each time (due to releasing them after each battle). The fact that he also uses the legendary opposite to the mascot legendary for the last battle as temporary Champion and ClimaxBoss is icing on the cake.
* RightMakesMight: By the time he awakens the legendary dragon, N is willing to have a battle with the PlayerCharacter to decide whose philosophy is correct.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a fighter first and foremost, and a king second.
* SanitySlippage: Temporarily goes into nigh-insanity during the final battle, since he KNOWS deep in his heart that he's probably wrong, and is now hell-bent on denying this. It's definitely hard to blame him here; the possibility that everything one believes in is wrong and that their entire life is a lie would shake ''anyone'' up. He gets better after being defeated, just as Ghetsis [[VillainousBreakdown gets MUCH worse]].
* ShelteredAristocrat: The third kind, especially with the emphasis on innocence.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains: Somehow, all four types to an extent.
* SmallNameBigEgo: A ''literal'' small name, being brought up as a king and "chosen hero" has made N believe that he is perfect. His realization that he isn't is a factor to his brief period of aforementioned SanitySlippage.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: He can understand other people's Pokémon, due to having been raised with them all his life. This is a key point in his character development, as it's in talking to your Pokémon (and possibly the Pokémon of other people he met in his travels) that he begins to question whether humans and Pokémon really should be separated after all.
** In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]'', he states that he wishes to use this ability to become a mediator between humans and Pokémon.
* SpoiledSweet: Lives in a castle with what pretty much amounts to a cult around him, and he fights for Pokémon justice.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Shares a vision of Pokémon living in happiness with Archie, his [[AbusiveParents father]] trying to thrash that goal.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: With Ghetsis... except, in the sequels, it's confirmed that he was a feral orphan as a toddler and Ghetsis took him in by claiming to be his father.
** Although Ghetsis is very theatrical, putting emphasis on subtly building himself up, so staging a miraculous "rescue" of a kid he already knew was there (who happens to look exactly like him) is very much in his wheelhouse.
* TalksLikeASimile: He will occasionally dabble in using mathematics equations and chemical reactions as a simile or metaphor for what he is doing, or to describe something. He even chalks up the events of Black and White as a very difficult equation that he is in the process of solving.
* TalkativeLoon: Comes off as this, especially early on when you know nothing about him.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Just compare the length of his entry here to any other Pokémon game character's. The only ones that come close are those of Cyrus and Ghetsis.
* TroubledButCute: More deluded than troubled, but he still fits.
* TykeBomb: Ghetsis was [[TheSociopath extremely]] careful/shrewd about this. N doesn't even realize it until the end of the main story.
* TheUbermensch: He was engineered by Ghetsis to become one so that he can befriend one of the legendary dragons.
* UncattyResemblance: To Zoroark.
* UnfortunateName: Natural Harmonia [[MemeticMolester GROPIUS]].
* UnwittingPawn: To Ghetsis, who was just using him to make Pokémon illegal for everyone but himself.
* VillainousBSOD: Hit with this ''hard'' after Ghetsis reveals how he has been using the poor guy. Despite normally rambling quite a bit, N falls silent for the majority of Ghetsis's reveal of his motives onward. He seems to have recovered a little at the very end when he talks to the player one-on-one, though.
* WeaponOfChoice: Apart from [[OlympusMons Zekrom and Reshiram]], [[MasterOfIllusion Zoroark]] is highly associated with him, thanks to the game's intro and being able to get N's Zorua from Rood in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 B2/W2]]''.
* WeatherOfWar: As the BonusBoss, N cycles through four different weather teams that are used on the four different seasons. His leading Pokémon will always have an [[WeatherManipulation ability]] that automatically initiates the weather he needs.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: ''Major'' emphasis on "Well-Intentioned."
* WildChild: Was this until Ghetsis brought him in.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Ghetsis' manipulation of N caused him to try to create a world without Pokémon.
* WrongGenreSavvy: By design. To make him a TykeBomb, Ghetsis convinced him he had to summon the legendary dragon and recreate the story of the hero who founded Unova, which will give him the power needed to stop the perceived exploitation of Pokémon.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green hair. Shares the same color of hair as Ghetsis.
!!The Shadow Triad (The Dark Trinity)
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-->''"We, the Shadow Triad, have always been and will always be the loyal servants of Ghetsis. And Ghetsis's ambitions will never cease!"''
-->One is voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida (JP), Creator/JasonGriffith (EN) (promo)
* AmbiguousGender: In the original games, where they are briefly referred to as male at one point and one point only. The sequels make it clear they're male.
* BadassCrew: They're all pretty good fighters. Whether they have superpowers or some form of martial arts combined with technology isn't clear.
* BonusBoss: You can challenge them after beating the Elite Four. They will battle you in Single, Triple, and Rotation battles once every season.
* CoDragons: To Ghetsis.
* CombatPragmatist: They each have two Pawniard, and one of them also has an Absol, a Pokémon which is often regarded as a bad omen. They also have the ability to stun people and teleport away.
* EliteMooks: Much stronger than most of the Grunts.
* HelpfulMook: When you go into N's castle, one of them tells you that you can heal your Pokémon and even access your PC.
* {{Ninja}}: An entire trio.
* NotSoStoic: They are very upset about Ghetsis's vegetative breakdown induced by your victory over him, and attempt to avenge him by battling you in Icirrus City.
* PsychoSupporter: The three of them are loyal to Ghetsis unconditionally.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Black 2'' and ''White 2''.
* TheStoic: All three of them.
* UndyingLoyalty: They are the only ones who still support Ghetsis in the end, because he had apparently saved their lives in the past.
* TheUnfought: In the original games. Averted for the sequel.
* VillainTeleportation: One of their powers.
* WeaponOfChoice: Accelgor, Absol, and Banette, one for each. Their other Pokémon are all Pawniard and Bisharp.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Every single one of them has white hair. They're all messed up in the head, too.
!! Anthea (Verbena; Goddess of Love) and Concordia (Helena; Goddess of Harmony)
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* AdvertisedExtra: Both appear in the intro despite not appearing until much later on. This misled some fans into thinking they'd have much bigger roles.
* TheArtifact: A widespread UrbanLegendOfZelda is that they were intially planned to be more relevant to the story. If this is true, it would have been cut out very early, as no code in the files suggests this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: They were taken in by Ghetsis in order to help look after N.
* CoolBigSis: Unlike Ghetsis, they really do love N, but don't always know what to do with him.
* HairAntennae: Concordia.
* HairColorDissonance: Although the intro of ''B/W'' and ''[=B2/W2=]'' artwork make it clear that Anthea has pink hair, her overworld sprites in the former give her purple hair instead. This was corrected for the sequel.
* HealingHands: Anthea heals your Pokémon.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[HelpfulMook Though they weren't ever evil to start with]], especially now seeing as they reveal they follow N and not Team Plasma, since they were orphans adopted by Ghetsis to serve as N's surrogate older sisters.
* HelpfulMook: They heal your Pokémon, give information on N, express pity for the poor guy, and generally aren't really evil at all.
* MeaningfulName:
** Concordia means "harmony" in Latin and was the Roman Goddess of Harmony.
** Anthea is an epithet for the Greek goddess Hera.
** Their real names in the Japanese version are named after flowers that represent "tender love" and "peace and wisdom."
* MsExposition: Concordia, who reveals N's backstory after many hints have been dropped throughout the game.
* NominalImportance: Inverted. They appear in the intro of ''Black and White'', have completely unique designs and very different names. They are nonetheless irrelevant outside of some small exposition, and many forget about them entirely.
* SatelliteCharacter: They serve as N's, although the fact that they're his surrogate older sisters most likely makes this an intentional case.
* TheUnfought: It's not even known if they have Pokémon.
* WomanInWhite: In ''Black'' and ''White''. Aside of a few sashes and side accessories, that is.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair.
!! Plasma Boss Colress (Achroma)
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-->''"Team Plasma said we should recognize the potential in Pokémon and liberate them from humans. [[MemeticMutation I disa]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6josPnHF94 gree.]] Conversely, it should be humans who bring out the hidden potential in Pokémon!"''
-->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (JP), Creator/SeanSchemmel (EN) (promo)
* AdaptationalVillainy: He is a big victim of this in adaptations, more so than most other characters. In the game, he's an anti-villain who even helps the player along and encourages them, but every adaptation does away with his good qualities and portray him as a straight-up villain.
* AffablyEvil: He's more concerned about bringing out the strengths of Pokémon rather than Team Plasma's plan, he's pretty friendly in a genuine way, and he also helps you out quite a few times, even when it might be not in his best interest to do so.
* AntiVillain: His concerns are over making scientific discoveries about Pokémon rather than Team Plasma's ambitions.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His hair and clothing resemble Team Plasma's emblem.
* TheAtoner: He appears near the P2 Laboratory after the League, regretting his actions, stripped of his Plasma affiliations and looking to make amends. He gives the player another Master Ball after he is beaten.
* BadassBookworm: He's a scientist type and one of the strongest trainers in the game.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He does wear one under the labcoat, as shown in [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7o15xBodz1r0euiao2_1280.jpg his concept artwork]].
* BadassLabcoat: Wears one over his suit.
* BonusBoss: You can challenge him each day.
* CharacterTics: [[spoiler:He wears small computers on his wrists in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and has a tendency to fiddle with them when speaking to the player character.]]
* ColorMotif: Black, white, and blue are Team Plasma's colors.
* DragonInChief: Though not as public as Zinzolin, he's the acting Boss for New Team Plasma, serving directly under Ghetsis and commandeering the Plasma Frigate. Although he's stronger than Zinzolin or the Triad, he's not really loyal to them personally -- he's really just in it ForScience.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He claims he actually couldn't stand Ghetsis and only worked with his for his resources. And unlike Ghetsis, Colress is willing to bring out the power of his Pokémon through love and trust, especially after meeting the player character.
* EvilCounterpart: In a way, he's this to the main games' Pokémon Professors (Oak, Elm, Birch, Rowan and Juniper). Like them, his goal is discover a truth behind Pokémon (in his case, strength). However, while the Professors are genuinely nice people whose main method of research is the Pokédex, Colress is willing to do whatever it takes to further his research, up to and including siding with Team Plasma. He wises up in the post game, though.
* EvilGenius: As Team Plasma's top researcher.
* EvilMentor: Played with; he helps out the PC from time to time but only for his cause of making scientific discoveries, a goal that made him join Team Plasma, albeit as a member who doesn't care about their ambitions.
* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel-types. However, he also uses Beheeyem and Rotom and [[spoiler:hands the protagonist a Flame Charge TM in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'']].
* FriendlyEnemy: Is actually more of an ally than an enemy in most of the times he's encountered.
* ForScience: The reason he joins Team Plasma, even if their plan risks destroying the Unova region. His concern for studying the strength of Pokémon is greater than his concern for the fate of the region. Even Ghetsis criticized him for putting his scientific research before Team Plasma's ambition. He realizes this mistake at the end and atones for it during the postgame. A character in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' also mentions that he has an interest in Mega Evolution and [[spoiler:he tells the player character this himself in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', also mentioning an interest in Z-Moves]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Subverted at the end.
* HeelFaceTurn: He can be found and battled at the P2 Lab, where he says he is attempting to make up for his mistakes, and is no longer affiliated with Team Plasma.
* HotScientist: Not bad looking in the least.
* IdiotHair: Only this one is dyed blue and loops back over his head.
* ImprobableHairstyle: It's really strange.
* KarmaHoudini: He may be TheAtoner post-game, but it's still odd he gets off with no legal consequences after nearly destroying Unova.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZY3R5j12o This theme.]] According to WordOfGod, it is meant to sound all over the place, much like Colress himself.
* MeaningfulName: Colress comes from the word "colorless." Meanwhile, Chroma is Greek for "color," and is used in English to define the intensity of a color or colorfulness, while A is a prefix commonly used to denote a negative. Achroma then could mean either "colorless" or "against colorfulness/intensity." Both names refer to his amoral perspective of scientific progress.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Just like the other Scientists in the series his Pokémon is mostly this.
* MightyGlacier: Most of his Pokémon fit this role.
** LightningBruiser: Rotom-W (post-game) is decently fast, has high Special Attack, and packs a Life Orb. Also, his Metagross can use Agility, and Klinklang uses Shift Gear to boost its stats.
* MulticoloredHair: Blond, but with an IdiotHair that's blue and loops around his head.
* ObviouslyEvil: Averted at the end.
* PsychicPowers: His Elgyem and Beheeyem.
%%* PunchClockVillain
* RecurringBoss: Fought at least three times.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His battle sprite animation.
* ShockAndAwe: His Magneton, Magnezone, and Rotom.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For a long time, fans referred to him by the name "Achroma," which was the logical romanization of his Japanese name, "Akuroma." When rumor broke out that his English name was really "Corless," fans began calling him by that name until an official trailer for ''Black and White 2'' later revealed that "Corless" was just a typo, and that his name was actually spelled "Colress."
* StoicSpectacles: It fits his ForScience motif.
* TrueFinalBoss: Defeating him on the Plasma Frigate after beating Iris brings a final closure to Team Plasma's arc. Afterwards he is a BonusBoss that can be challenged there. However, N and Cynthia's levels remain higher.
* TheUnfettered: Colress doesn't care if his actions are good or bad, he only cares about the science behind them.
* WeaponOfChoice: The Klink line is always his strongest Pokémon, though he also notably uses two different members of the Magnemite line.
! The Seven Sages
'''Tropes that apply to multiple members:'''
* AffablyEvil: Barring Ghetsis, none of them are particularly cruel or spiteful despite their actions or station. Even Zinzolin remains relatively honorable post TimeSkip.
* BadassMoustache: Gorm, Bronius, Giallo and Ryoku all have quite noteworthy ones.
* BeardOfEvil: Gorm, Rood and Giallo.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bronius, Giallo and Ryoku don't appear in ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* DemotedToExtra: Gorm makes a single appearance in Pinwheel Forest during ''Black 2 and White 2''. Save Zinzolin and Rood, the rest don't even appear at all.
* EvilOldFolks: All of them are at least middle-aged.
* GracefulLoser: Minus Ghetsis, they all willingly turn themselves in to Looker for questioning when you catch them in the post game. Suverted by Zinzolin, who was faking it.
* HeelFaceTurn: All of them except Ghetsis and Zinzolin.
* {{Irony}}: Only Ghetsis and Zinzolin ''don't'' have facial hair of any kind, and only ''they'' remain antagonists after ''Black and White''.
* JumpScare: Gorm has made this his hobby after the events of ''Black and White'', sneaking up on people just to spook them (With harmless, prankster-like intention, mind you).
* ThemeNaming: The Seven Sages are named after colors. Rood is red, Bronius is brown/orange, Giallo is yellow, Ryoku is green, (Ghetsis fits in cyan despite his name breaking the theme), Gorm is blue, and Zinzolin is purple.
* TheUnfought: In ''Black and White'', barring Ghetsis. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''Black 2 and White 2'' for Rood and Zinzolin - Rood is fought once as a test of character while Zinzolin is a RecurringBoss.
!! Ghetsis Harmonia (G-Cis Harmonia)
-->''"We shall bring back the hero and that Pokémon to Unova once again! If we can win people's hearts and minds, we can easily create the world that [[FreudianSlip I--I mean]], Team Plasma--desires!"''
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* AbusiveParents: Not actually N's biological father, but purposefully isolated him from others to condition him for the role as King of Team Plasma. It's also implied that he was going to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of N once the plan to separate people and Pokémon was completed]].
* ArchnemesisDad: Towards to N during ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* AxCrazy: By ''Black and White 2'', where he wants to freeze over the entire region - and ''you!''
* BadBoss: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', his Hydreigon knows Frustration, a move that gets stronger the more the Pokémon dislikes its trainer. Contrast with former villainous team leaders who tend to have a Crobat in their team near the end, [[PetTheDog a Pokémon that only evolves if it likes its trainer]].
* BadassLongrobe: He wears one in ''Black 2 and White 2'', replacing his old outfit.
* BigBad: In all of the Unova games.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In ''Black and White'', he seems to be a good, understanding person regardless of being on the opposing side. And then you progressively discover that he's anything but that.
* BlackCloak: In the sequel, he ditches his initial outfit for a dark cloak.
* TheChessmaster: Ghetsis has probably the best overall plan to gain control of the Pokémon world out of all villainous leaders in the series.
* ClassicVillain: Representing Pride/Ambition. Fits all of the criteria except a KarmicDeath, but he still ends up being given a karmic punishment, via losing all of the support he had save the Shadow Triad and having the plan he took years to make be completely destroyed in the first pair of games, and becoming an insane non-functioning vegetable in the sequels.
* ClimaxBoss: Gets demoted to this in ''Black 2 and White 2''. He's fought before the player reaches Victory Road at the end of Plasma's arc.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Does this to Kyurem to make it comply with terrorizing Unova. He also plans to do it to the player character.
* CombatPragmatist:
** In both of his fights he starts off with [[MightyGlacier Cofagrigus]], which will try to wear down your Pokémon by inflicting them with [[StandardStatusEffects Toxic Poison]] and using [[DefendCommand Protect]] every other turn to avoid damage while your Pokémon rack up Poison damage. In ''Black 2 and White 2'' it's holding the [[HealingFactor Leftovers]] item to ensure it takes you longer to KO it.
** When he's confronted by the PlayerCharacter at the Giant Chasm in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he immediately tries to have Kyurem freeze them instead of having a Pokémon battle.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: His Hydreigon is Level 54 in ''Black and White'' and Level 52 in ''Black 2 and White 2''. Zweilous doesn't evolve into Hydreigon until Level 64.
* CrazyPrepared: In ''Black and White'', his team has not one but two (Cofagrigus and Hydregion) Pokémon capable of taking down Reshiram/Zekrom with minimal effort.
* CrystalPrison: He attempted to invoke the icicle variant on you in the second game in order to create an IronicHell in which you'd be forced to watch his plans unfold, unable to do anything as you slowly freeze to death. Luckily, N comes to save the day.
* DarkIsEvil: Half of his team is Dark- and Ghost-types, especially his [[IconicItem most iconic mon]], Hydreigon. His outfit in the sequels also screams this.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: His plan must end with him in charge of Unova. He will settle for nothing less.
%%* DiabolicalMastermind: Fits most of the criteria well.
* DragonInChief: As the leader of the Seven Sages, he serves as this towards N. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that [[TheManBehindTheMan he was manipulating N the entire time]] so he could take over Unova.
* TheDreaded: Has become this by the sequel, where everyone knows how bad he is.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: What allows TheHero to be the SpannerInTheWorks for his plan was Ghetsis never believing that they might be pure of heart enough to awaken the other Legendary Pokémon. He also didn't take the PowerOfFriendship into account, whether it be between humans and Pokémon or between TheHero and N, both of which factored into his downfall. He even outright says that he thinks everyone considers Pokémon tools to use as they see fit, which he himself believed. Because of this, he allowed N to interact with other people, gaining friendships and seeing the friendships between trainers and their Pokémon, which got him questioning Team Plasma's beliefs in the first place, directly leading to Ghetsis' downfall.
* EvilChancellor: N talks about how Ghetsis acts as his "adviser" of sorts and gathered many of the elements that make up Team Plasma, including the Shadow Triad. Of course, he has other motives and is really TheManBehindTheMan.
* EvilCripple: Ghetsis is rarely seen using the right side of his body. In the cinematic opening of ''Black and White'', his right arm is briefly shown to be discolored, implying he might be scarred or injured. His in-game battle expressions and official artwork would seem to imply that the right side of his face is paralyzed, as well. This becomes more apparent in ''Black 2 and White 2'', where his body appears incredibly frail, he's taken to using a cane, and his battle sprite animation shows he has to stop to breathe when he slams the cane down.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: He controls Kyurem, an Ice-type [[OlympusMons legendary]], in ''Black 2 and White 2''. "Deathly cold" is literal since he wants to use it's ice power to put the Unova region under a fatal freeze, hoping to extort power and control from the terrified masses when the suffering becomes too great. He also tries to attack the hero with the freezing power of Kyurem's Glaciate attack.
* EvilLaugh: He gives one near the end as he taunts N for failing him.
* EvilMakeover: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', since everyone now knows what he's truly like, he changes his appearance to look more like a dark lord.
* EvilOverlord: What he is to an extent, and later aspires to be. His look in ''Black 2 and White 2'' is meant to invoke the typical dark lord, if not TheDevil.
* FateWorseThanDeath: By the end of it all, the events of two games and his ensuing failures causes Ghetsis to go so insane, he is effectively reduced to a non-functioning, gibbering vegetable.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In the first game, he pretends to be well-meaning when his true motives are anything but. He drops this facade in the sequels. In the Japanese version, his speech is unfailingly polite, even when he's no longer pretending to be good.
* FinalBoss: The last fight in ''Black and White'' before the credits, and the first time that someone other than the Pokémon League Champion has had this position in the main series.
* FreudianSlip:
** A few times in the game, while talking about his plans, he says "I- I mean, Team Plasma", [[{{Foreshadowing}} hinting at]] [[ItsAllAboutMe his true nature.]]
** At the climax of ''Black 2 and White 2'', he makes his intentions perfectly clear by notably reversing and fixing the slip that he made several times in the originals:
-->"The terrified people and Pokémon will bow at Team Plasma's... no... at MY feet!"
* GoodColorsEvilColors: After being defeated in ''Black and White'', the cat's out of the bag and he now dons a black robe to show just how evil he is. N still continues to wear primarily white and gray.
* {{Handicapped Badass}}: He may be an irredeemable asshole with a nasty limp, but he's a very powerful trainer. Entire teams have been destroyed by his Hydreigon and the rest of his team is very strong, as well.
* HijackedByGanon: In ''Black 2 and White 2'' where he steals the role of BigBad from Colress.
* HornedHairdo: Making him look like TheDevil incarnate, especially in ''Black 2 and White 2'' when combined with his BlackCloak.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Calls N a freak without a human heart when this really applies to him. [[LampshadeHanging This gets noted by Cheren and Alder.]]
** Also his rants about how trainers abuse Pokémon, when he himself only views them as tools. This was all part of his plan to take everyone's Pokémon except his own, though.
* IAmTheNoun: During his VillainousBreakdown in ''Black and White'', he goes on a short rant which includes declaring himself to be perfect.
-->"[[LargeHam I AM PERFECTION!]]"
* IconicItem: His red monocle. If [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/Ghetsis_Concept_Art.jpg concept artwork]] is to be believed, it's there because his right eye is missing or heavily damaged.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with. He's not really the healthiest guy mentally and is plenty violent, but his SanitySlippage turns him into a vegetable.
* InsaneTrollLogic: How he "justifies" his endgame. He sensibly points out that Pokémon and humans have endless potential together... and then uses that as the reason that [[ItsAllAboutMe he, and he alone, should wield Pokémon]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Near the end, he even goes on a huge tangent over this.
-->"I AM PERFECTION!"
* {{Jerkass}}: His KickTheDog moments make him one of the biggest scumbags in the series.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After hearing so many legendary Pokémon being referred to as "gods," it's actually kind of nice to hear someone, no matter how loathsome, say "A Pokémon, even if it's revered as a deity, is still just a Pokémon!" It still is dampened by being RightForTheWrongReasons, considering he views Pokémon, or anything else for that matter, as tools for him to use. Given his AGodAmI attitude, he likely would easily be saying this about Pokémon that are not just revered as deities, but indeed deities, like Arceus. It only serves to highlight his disregard for any other life than his own.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ghetsis only takes in N for his master plan and his claim of being for Pokémon liberation was an excuse for him to be the only one allowed to use Pokémon.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted in that he escapes prison, but the plan he's been working on for years has been thwarted, and he's left with nothing now. And if his VillainousBreakdown is any inclination, he may have lost his sanity as well. After the events of ''Black 2 and White 2'', he is never apprehended but is still reduced to what is basically a vegetable.
* KickTheDog: As if using and abusing his own son wasn't bad enough, what he says to N towards the end of the game is downright cruel and heartless. Then there is all the suffering Kyurem has to be put through in the sequel with the implied abuse of his Pokemon.
* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike the rest of Team Plasma, his abusive nature is played dead seriously. Would you like some horrific child abuse to go with your cute monster battling? Or perhaps a dessert of an attempted [[AndIMustScream freezing alive]] of the protagonist?
* LargeAndInCharge: Even more so than his 'son', Ghetsis is six and a half feet tall, and judging by the huge metal ornament he carried around his neck in B/W probably very well-built.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He more than earned his FateWorseThanDeath.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XCD0VIR1k Team Plasma Sage Encounter,]] though heard with the other sages, seems to fit Ghetsis the most.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdjl65jAB8 battle theme]] really lives up to his MeaningfulName. It's completely different from any other theme in the series, consisting of almost nothing but heavy, oppressive drumbeats... then it's joined by a chorus chanting his name in low, menacing tones. Really brings across the sheer evil of the character.
** His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EybTIUgjs8 Black 2 and White 2 theme]] is made up of the same sounds, but much faster-paced and disorganized, to reflect his diminishing sanity.
* LightIsNotGood: He was as one of the Seven Sages in ''Black and White'', along with some gold and white on his original outfit.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Inverted for the trope: The game makes it clear that Ghetsis and N are father and son up until the post-game of ''Black and White'', where one of the former Plasma Sages makes a comment where he doesn't even recall how N came into play, thus implying that N might not even be Ghetsis' son (not his biological son, at least). ''Black 2 and White 2'' confirm that they aren't related.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In ''Black and White''. Even though N is the official leader of Team Plasma, Ghetsis is revealed to have been using him merely as an UnwittingPawn for his own plans.
* ManipulativeBastard: Very much so. It's more pronounced the first games than the sequel where everyone, except for a select few, were unaware of his true intentions. He tricks N into thinking that Pokémon are unhappy with humans for his master plan.
* MeaningfulName: "Goetis," one possible romanization of his name in the Japanese version ties in fairly well with his position as one of the Seven Sages (derived from the Greek word ''goeteia'', meaning "sorcery") and his goal of reviving one of the legendary dragons (Goetia is the art of summoning angels or demons, and is the title of [[ArsGoetia one of the most famous books on the subject]] - keep in mind that Reshiram has a somewhat angelic appearance and Zekrom is somewhat demonic).
* MundaneUtility: And if his pre-battle animation in ''Black 2 and White 2'' is anything to go by, his mind control staff is also an actual walking stick.
* MusicalThemeNaming:
** According to WordOfGod, he's named after the G and C-sharp (or "Cis") timpanis of his battle theme.
** His last name is Harmonia. Play G and C-Sharp on a piano. They are a tritone, which is dissonance; unstable harmony.
** In medieval times, the tritone itself was called the ''Diabolus en Musica'', the Devil in Music. Considering what the guy does (and how he looks, especially in the sequel), it's quite apt.
* {{Narcissist}}: Cares for nothing but himself, because he is supposedly "perfection."
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims to believe that separating Pokémon and humans would be best for everyone involved. [[StrawHypocrite This is a lie]]; in reality, he just wants to make it so that he has full control of all trainer Pokémon so he can TakeOverTheWorld.
* ObviouslyEvil: Not just him in the ''Black 2 and White 2'', but his team in both games consists of Pokémon that according to their respective Pokédex entries, are very violent, aggressive, and sadistic, and none of them look like anything a hero would use. It's also canon that his signature Pokémon, Hydreigon, is an AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac.
* OffingTheOffspring: It's hinted that he was planning to do this to N after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he had fulfilled his role]].
* PoisonIsEvil: Along with the aforementioned Hydreigon, the most evil character in the story has two deadly-strong Poison-types - a [[ScaryScorpions Drapion]] and a Toxicroak - in ''Black 2 and White 2'', and his Cofagrigus in all versions will try to stall out opponents using the Toxic-Protect-spam strategy.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Again, in the sequel.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As well as a red ''monocle''. Also the two eyes on his robe in the first game.
* RedRightHand:
** If concept art is anything to go by, his right eye is either severely damaged or missing entirely. He wears a monocle to cover it.
** It's also indicated that his right arm is disfigured. WordOfGod has said that both injuries occured in a Pokémon attack sometime in the past (oddly enough, in the original games' opening, the only time his right arm is shown, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Ghetsis_right_arm.png it's discolored]]).
* RedemptionRejection: His response to N asking him to change his evil ways is to scream at him hysterically, hurling abusive insults all the while, [[LaserGuidedKarma at which point Ghetsis' mind snaps and he goes full-blown insane]].
* SanitySlippage:
** After N is defeated in ''Black and White'', Ghetsis grows more and more insane as the final showdown with him goes on. By the end, he's a ranting lunatic in disbelief that his "perfect plan" has been destroyed.
** He flat out loses it when his plan is foiled again in ''Black 2 and White 2''. N attempts to convince him to turn to the side of good, but Ghetsis's response is to repeatedly order him to be silent and to stop talking to him in "human language," and to go and talk to Pokémon instead. He loses it so hard that the Shadow Triad remove him from the cave, recognizing that it's over. You can battle the Shadow Triad in the post game, and they state that, since Ghetsis's loss, he'd been utterly unable to function. The events of the two years, with the actions of the protagonists, the failures and betrayals of N and Colress, and the failure of his life's work, has utterly broken him.
* SelfDisposingVillain: After being thwarted in the sequels, the Shadow Triad tell you he's gone completely catatonic.
* ASinisterClue: His official art and battle sprites always show him with his left hand outstretched. He almost never shows his right hand. The introductory video for the originals shows that [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/55/Ghetsis_right_arm.png his arm is discolored and dark]]. In the sequels, he mentions that he is going to take the player down with his "own hand" in singular, instead of "hands" in plural, possibly indicating that he could have lost his right arm sometime after N's crowning.
* SinisterMinister: He very much looks like a priest or pastor of a church. He even goes around holding public sermons where he preaches about what should be done between humans and Pokémon.
* SinisterSurveillance: His control room on the Plasma Frigate certainly gives off this sort of vibe. The fact that it's a bunch of static indicates the player character or Hugh might have been destroying the cameras while storming the Frigate.
* SlasherSmile: Just to show you how massively pissed and [[SanitySlippage insane]] he's become, [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/36/VSGhetsis_2.png this is now his pre-battle expression.]]
* SmugSnake: In terms of planning, he's a brilliant [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. But in terms of attitude, he's totally this, especially when his plans fall apart. Subverted by the end of his role in ''Black and White 2'', as he's now too insane to really have any ego.
* TheSociopath: Disregard for others? Check. Superficial charm to mask his real plans? Check.
* StaffOfAuthority: It doubles as a MindControlDevice that allows him to control Kyurem, as well as a Poké Ball [[NoSell jammer]], which he uses to prevent the player from capturing Kyurem for themselves during their encounter in the Giant Chasm.
* StrawHypocrite: His attempts to separate humans and Pokémon aren't borne from his claimed good intentions, but from a desire for world domination.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: With N. In ''Black 2 and White 2'' it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] since it's revealed that Ghetsis adopted N.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Both of his outfits feature giant eyes.
* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal. He states he wishes to "rule the world utterly" and calls himself "the perfect ruler of a perfect new world."
* ThisCannotBe: After N is defeated, Ghetsis is left unable to grasp what just happened and that his plan is ruined. Him trying to beat the player may be considered denial over his perfect plan failing. After he himself is beaten, he really gets into this trope, [[VillainousBreakdown ranting about how he can't have lost and is "perfect."]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: ''Big time.'' He's one of the most evil antagonists in the game and has zero redeeming qualities.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** He starts to break down even before his defeat -- he's clearly gone mad after N loses to you and his challenging of you can even be taken as being in denial over his "perfect plan" failing. Even after he himself is defeated, he can't believe his plan has failed so completely.
** After you beat White/Black Kyurem, he gets so frustrated that his battle animation shows him [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/a/a2/Spr_B2W2_Ghetsis.png stamping his cane several times until he slams it so hard, it]] [[SwordPlant plants into the ground]]. Afterwards he starts absolutely raving at you and N, panting from loss of breath and possible heart failure once he's done.
--> ''"How can this be? I'm the creator of Team Plasma! I'm perfect! I'm the absolute ruler who will change the world! And I've lost to some unknown Trainer not once, but TWICE?! I can't accept this! This isn't possible! I can't be bested by fools who can't even use Pokémon correctly!"''
--> '''''"Shut your mouth! Shut up! Shut up! Shut UP! Don't talk like a person, you freak! No real person could talk to Pokémon!"'''''
* VillainDecay:
** In ''Black and White'', he was an excellent example of a ClassicVillain, possessing a devious mind as well as boasting a powerful, well-built team] In ''Black 2 and White 2'', a series of {{Retcon}}s about N's childhood, a diminished level of influence on the plot, and an overall weaker team make him slightly harder to take seriously. That said, he still isn't played for laughs, is treated seriously as a villain, and he goes on to still KickTheDog in new and awesomely dark ways.
** This is also reflected in his Hydreigon. In ''Black and White'' it had Surf, Focus Blast, Fire Blast, and Dragon Pulse and maximized stats, while in ''Black 2 and White 2'' it has Frustration, Rock Slide, Dragon Rush, and Crunch. This not only means it has inferior type coverage from before and most Steel-types can wall all its moves, but it now runs moves off of its inferior physical Attack where before it ran off its higher Special Attack. It's also holding a [[CastFromHitPoints Life Orb]], so even if its moves are powered up, you can watch Hydreigon slowly kill itself while you spam Revives on its victims and wait.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[AxCrazy Hydreigon]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first he seems like N and wants to separate humans and Pokémon. It turns out he really just wanted to make Pokémon illegal for everyone [[ItsAllAboutMe but himself]], so he could take over Unova.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of his most despicable aspects is his view of Pokémon as mere tools. He considers N a freak for his empathy towards Pokémon, tortures Kyurem into his personal WMD, and upon noticing your Pokémon trembling in their Balls as he pits you against Black/White Kyurem, he briefly identifies it as anger before brushing off the concept that Pokémon can feel emotions.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he tries to [[AndIMustScream freeze the protagonist solid.]] In the originals, his dialogue before the battle against him suggests that he'll "[[NeverSayDie eliminate]]" the PlayerCharacter to silence him/her from revealing that N lost the fated battle.
--->''"In order to rule this world utterly, in order to manipulate the hearts of people who know nothing, I will have N be the king of Team Plasma. But, for that to work, you--since you know the truth--You must be eliminated!"''
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted for the first time in the main series. Thankfully, N saves you in the nick of time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like N, Ghetsis has long green hair.
* YouMonster: Cheren and Alder point out that ''he's'' the "freak without a human heart," not N.
!! Sage Rood (Rot)
-->''"At that time, I believed we were on the side of justice. By serving my king, N, I was going to make a world without war. But I was conceited, and I couldn't see the unhappiness we were causing. That's why I can't let it happen again!"''
* AscendedExtra: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he has more distinctive focus and characterisation, and even battles the player once. He and Old Team Plasma also hold off some of New Team Plasma's forces, allowing you to enter Plasma Frigate to stop Ghetsis.
* TheAtoner: Actively takes this role in the sequel, and even accepts liability when he's blamed for things he didn't personally do (such as when Hugh loses it at him).
* BadassBeard: The most impressive of all the Sages - it covers his entire lower face.
* BigDamnHeroes: In a manner similar to the Gym Leaders in ''B&W'', he holds off Team Plasma's forces to allow the player and Hugh entry into Plasma Frigate during the climax.
* ChekhovsGun: You remember that Zorua you see with N in the intro of the first game? Well, Rood gives you that Zorua and informs you about Memory Link, which is used for various features, particularly a flashback of N releasing the Pokémon he used against the previous protagonist.
* CoolOldGuy: In ''Black 2 and White 2''.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His character model.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first ''BW'' games, he outright stated that he wanted to see N confront Ghetsis. This happens at the end of ''Black 2 and White 2''.
** He also stated that if N learned to understand people better, he'd like for him and those who are still loyal to him to gather together again, which is exactly what happens in these games.
* HeelFaceTurn: After the events of ''Black and White'', he's actively opposed to the New Team Plasma (which includes his former colleague Zinzolin) and seems to lead Old Team Plasma in N's stead.
* MeaningfulName: His name in every language means "red."
* TheUnfought: In the first game(s). {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Black 2 and White 2'' despite his HeelFaceTurn, although you only battle him once.
!! Sage Zinzolin (Vio)
-->''"It's bitter cold. I'm shivering. I'm suffering, but I'm alive! It's what the essence of life feels like! It's proof of my existence!"''
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* AnIcePerson: Primarily uses Ice-type Pokémon in battle.
* TheBrute: He was demoted to this when Ghetsis appointed Colress as Plasma Boss (not that he seems to mind). He still functions as a major administrator, as well as commander of the {{Mook|s}} forces.
* TheDragon: While he serves his role as the ''public face'' of New Team Plasma for most of the game, he's covering for actually a cover for Ghetsis, who is the ''true'' face of evil. He and [[EliteMooks the Shadow Triad]] are more actively behind Team Plasma's operations in ''Black 2 and White 2'' than Ghetsis, ''and'' he's the most-fought antagonist in the game (with the fights being geared more towards the story's later stages).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is appalled by his own actions after finally seeing Ghetsis for what he really is at the end of ''[=B2W2=]''.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Well, Eviler Costume Switch. He ditches his robes for a more militaristic outfit as part of the new Team Plasma. He switches again back to his old robes when you meet him at Undella Town during the post-game.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Most of his team are Ice-type. Ionically, he cannot stand the cold.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His character model.
* FaceHeelTurn: It was indicated in the first game(s) that he'd gone straight, like the other five "lesser" sages, so if he'd ever been a "Face," it didn't last long.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Some of his lines from the previous games make more sense in the context of his role in this game, such as his fascination with Ghetsis.
* HeelFaceTurn: He makes a more certain one after Ghetsis' final defeat, perhaps for good this time.
* {{Irony}}: Zinzolin in the post-game in ''Black and White'' hid in the Cold Storage south of Driftveil, where you first met him, and both times complained constantly of the cold. And in ''Black 2 and White 2'', all of his Pokémon are of the Ice type.
* KickTheDog: When he learns why Hugh's so invested in fighting Team Plasma, he dismisses his grudge as insignificant.
* {{Leitmotif}}: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', he gets a more sinister [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtXqPAeQaQ arrangement]] of the Seven Sages' theme from the previous games.
* MeaningfulName: His name in every language is some varient of "violet."
* RecurringBoss: He's battled a total of ''four'' times during the game - of all antagonists ''in the main series'', only N in the first ''B&W'' games is fought more (at five times).
* TagTeam: Half of the battles against him involve him teaming up with a Team Plasma Grunt and the player teaming up with Hugh.
* TheUnfought: Present in the first game. Averted in the second.
* WeaponOfChoice: Weavile.
