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3This is a character sheet for ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity''.
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5'''Warning''': Most characters here are {{Walking Spoiler}}s, and thus all spoilers are '''UNMARKED'''. You have been warned.
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7[[foldercontrol]]
8
9!!!Protagonists
10
11[[folder:The Player]]
12!!The Player
13A human who was transformed into one of five Pokemon and transported into the Pokemon world after hearing a call for help.
14----
15* TheChosenMany: It looks like they are TheChosenOne at first, but it turns out ''any'' human will do - and, in fact, Hydreigon tried to get the help of as many humans as possible. [[ItsUpToYou Unfortunately, the antagonists got most of the others.]]
16* DimensionalTraveler: Implied to have become this because of the partner's post credits wish, in that he wished for the player character to be able to freely travel between the human and Pokémon worlds at will.
17* HelloInsertNameHere: You make your own name, your partner's name, and the name of your team.
18* HeroicResolve: In the final battle, they manage to muster up the strength to break through the Bittercold's defenses after the positive feelings of the Pokemon in the world fail to weaken it. It's also impossible to actually lose because of it, as they'll just keep getting back up whenever they run out of HP and won't lose any progress in the fight.
19* HopeBringer: The game's tagline even spells it out.
20* HonourBeforeReason: In spite of being the only one who can stop The Bittercold from destroying all life, he/she decides to take a detour to save the partner from Munna and the others, even though it's clearly a trap and might even be a bluff.
21* HumansAreSpecial: The reason they were brought to the Pokemon world - the Bittercold can overwhelm Pokémon with their own negativity, preventing them from even breathing. A human turned into a Pokémon, on the other hand...
22* ItsUpToYou: Out of all the humans Hydreigon enlisted help for, the player is the only one left - all the others being already defeated.
23* NoSell: As a human, they are immune to the effects of the Bittercold... at least, until the negativity gets too strong.
24* PlatonicLifePartners: With the partner.
25* TheQuietOne:
26** Instead of being an HeroicMime like the protagonists of previous installments, this one is shown speaking regularly to the other characters throughout the story on occasion (outside of their InnerMonologue).
27** Played straight even so, because the only signal that your Player Character is actually speaking is that its lines aren't between parenthesis like its thoughts. Unlike every other character, [[VoiceGrunting it doesn't have a beeping tone to signal speech]].
28* {{Retgone}}: An undeniable law of nature, and what was supposed to happen after leaving the Pokémon world. The members of Post Town and Paradise [[ScrewDestiny weren't having any of it.]]
29* SoleSurvivor: You're revealed to be this when you learn that all of the mysterious lights you see in the distance are the fallen remnants of the other heroes that were sent to the Pokemon World to stop the Bittercold and were defeated by Kyurem.
30[[/folder]]
31
32[[folder:The Partner]]
33!!The Partner
34One of five Pokemon who end up meeting the hero shortly after their arrival in the Pokemon world and do their best to help them from that point on.
35----
36* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Has a knack for asking these.
37* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Notes that they lack a family when the protagonist's family is brought up.
38* FriendlessBackground: They mention being completely alone ever since they could remember. [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Trying to change this is their reason for building Paradise in the first place.]]
39* HelloInsertNameHere: In a slight break from tradition, they initially introduce themselves as [[SpeciesSurname their species]]. It's only after finishing the [[TutorialLevel first dungeon]] and helping them start their dream that they let you give them a nickname, which they decide to [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname have everyone use from now on]]. [[MeaningfulRename The way they instantly take to the nickname you gave them]] helps reinforce how quickly you're bonding.
40* HeroicResolve: In the finale, they manage to defeat Kyurem and make it all the way to the Bittercold before they finally collapse due to the suffocation the latter induces in Pokemon. Even then, they manage to remain conscious through the entire final battle in order to provide the hero with moral support. A great contrast from their first visit to the Glacier Palace, where they end up passing out before they even get close enough to see the Bittercold.
41* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Platonic version. Despite being hit hardest by the loss, they're the only one hesitant to bring the player back in the post credits, since they know the player must have human friends and family too, and might not be able to see them again if they're brought back.
42* {{Keet}}: They do a LOT of excited yelling.
43* PlatonicLifePartners: With the player.
44* ThePollyanna: They always do their best to look on the positive side of things.
45* StepfordSmiler: After the player character disappears, they becomes this. [[spoiler:Until Hydreigon discovers a way to bring them back.]]
46* WideEyedIdealist: While they acknowledge bad things, they prefer focusing on the good.
47[[/folder]]
48
49[[folder:Dunsparce]]
50!!Dunsparce
51A young, somewhat cowardly Dunsparce that the team rescues from Stompstump Peak. Is best friends with Emolga.
52----
53* AbortedArc: After a while, he seems to forget about his crush on Virizion.
54* CowardlyLion: Everyone, even his own best friend and himself, see him as a coward and weak. That doesn’t stop him from joining your team and learning how to be a good fighter.
55* DoggedNiceGuy: To Virizion. [[DidNotGetTheGirl Unfortunately for him]], Emolga ends up with Virizion in the end.
56* TheEeyore: He tries being cheerful, but has a pretty low opinion of himself.
57* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: His lack of strength, compared to the rest of the cast, is a recurring plot point. When first joining your party, he starts at level 6; by comparison, the hero and partner start at level 7, and Emolga and Virizion start at level 15 and 20, respectively.
58* TheHeart: He's the main source of friendship bringing the team and everyone in the village together.
59* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Emolga.
60* IJustWantToBeBadass: Longs to be stronger and capable of taking care of himself. But his attempts to go out and do so keep backfiring.
61* NiceGuy: Despite his low self-esteem, he still tries his best to be nice to everyone.
62[[/folder]]
63
64[[folder:Emolga]]
65!!Emolga
66Dunsparce's closest friend. Is very hotheaded.
67----
68* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Dunsparce.
69* {{Irony}}: Despite being the ''only'' Pokemon who wasn't head over heels for Virizion when they first met, in the end ''he's'' the one who ends up with her.
70* JerkassHasAPoint: He's called out for his reluctance to accept Virizion as part of your team, but after she broke his best friend Dunsparce's heart by rejecting his advances to be her friend, his anger is understandable.
71* OfficialCouple: With ''Virizion'' at the end of the game, despite not liking her at first.
72* ThePrankster: He occasionally likes to play pranks on everyone, such as after the Great Glacier expedition.
73* ShockAndAwe: He's an Electric-Type.
74* TinyGuyHugeGirl: After hooking up with Virizion, who is larger than he is.
75* {{Tsundere}}: A male type A. This is especially noticeable after he ends up with Virizion in the flying Glacier Palace.
76[[/folder]]
77
78[[folder:Virizion]]
79!!Virizion
80A world famous adventure (in)famous for capturing the hearts of everyone in Post Town, but never returning their feelings. Although normally proud and easygoing, she becomes [[{{Jerkass}} unusually bitter]] whenever the topic of friendship comes up. This changes when she meets the Player and Partner.
81----
82* BrokenBird: Keldeo leaving her made her antisocial and unwilling to have friends.
83* CrutchCharacter: She is a legendary and joins your team early on, where she outlevels the team by quite a bit. She also doesn't lose any usefulness either.
84* DefrostingIceQueen: She's very anti-social in the beginning, but learns how friends can help later on.
85* DudeMagnet: All the male characters from Post Town, except for Emolga [[RelationshipUpgrade (at first)]], and Rampardos [[SingleTargetSexuality (because he's already fixated on someone else)]], are completely smitten at her sight.
86* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: The reason she's so distrusting of others is her first friend, Keldeo, supposedly abandoned her to go to the Great Glacier, and later sent a letter claiming he ''always hated her and just needed an excuse to get away''. Since then she never truly trusted any Pokemon, or made any friends.
87* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: A non-reality show-ish variant.
88* IWorkAlone: Initially has this mindset.
89* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She starts out as an asocial grouch who doesn't want any friends, but later reveals herself to be not as cranky as she acts.
90* LovableAlphaBitch: She’s popular around Post Town and a total DudeMagnet and starts out quite bitchy, as one of her first scenes has her breaking Dunsparce’s heart in front of the whole town and coldly announcing her refusal to be friends with anyone. She eventually shows regret for her actions though, and warms up to the main team, even wanting to join their adventures.
91* MisanthropeSupreme: Granted, she does have her reasons. [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity She gets over it]] thanks to your party.
92* OfficialCouple: With ''Emolga'' at the end of the game, despite the fact he was the ''only'' Pokémon who ''wasn't'' head over heels for her.
93* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Once she hooks up with Emolga, who is smaller than she is.
94* {{Troll}}: Tells Keldeo he isn't her best friend just because his reaction is priceless.
95[[/folder]]
96
97[[folder:Umbreon and Espeon]]
98!!Umbreon and Espeon
99A team of researchers investigating the world's dungeons. They've refined the Entercard travel system, which comes in ''very'' handy.
100----
101* AdventurerArchaeologist: They're explorers who are very knowledgable on dungeons.
102* AdventureDuo: They work together.
103* BadassBookworm: They're both researchers and scholars. And both of them aren't too shabby on the battle aspect.
104* BrainyBrunette: Umbreon.
105* HeroWithBadPublicity: At first, they are mistaken for dangerous monsters creeping around Post Town. And even then, it takes Virizion to clear things up.
106* {{Lovable Nerd}}s: Their dungeon talk can be boring or hard to understand to most other characters, but they're quite friendly.
107* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Espeon entrusted a young Swadloon to keep the Entercards secret after finding them, while she was being chased by a Purugly and Toxicroak, only to realize later that this would place him in danger. The Swadloon wasn't worse for wear after being rescued, but Espeon felt horrible about her actions.
108* ShipperOnDeck: Espeon seems to be this for Virizion and Emolga. In one of ''Super'''s online short videos, Jellicent becomes one for them.
109* TerraForming: They use Entercards to "manipulate ley-lines" in order to travel vast distances by ''creating temporary dungeons''. Most routes are one-way though.
110[[/folder]]
111
112!!!Paradise Residents
113
114[[folder:Gurdurr]]
115!!Gurdurr
116Gurdurr is a retired carpenter and has two Timburr as his apprentices. After a series of accidents, Gurdurr has resorted to becoming a scam artist while the two Timburr reluctantly help him.
117----
118* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason he builds you a house after you defeat him in battle.
119* CareerEndingInjury: Used to be a celebrated carpenter, but suffered an accident that left him with a scarred back. Eventually {{Subverted}}: after officially joining Paradise, he takes up his job again.
120* ConArtist: He's this because of his skills being greatly weakened, but it takes a battle with the heroes to snap him out of it.
121* FirstEpisodeTwist: His part of the plotline takes place in just the first few hours of the game, yet that part is full of spoilers and it's difficult to talk about him without encountering a spoiler.
122* FreudianExcuse: After Gurdurr's injury, someone toyed with all three carpenters by asking them to build a house, and then destroying it in front of them and mocking them just for the lulz. From that point on, Gurdurr has been a scam artist until the partner persistently asks to build him a house.
123* HeartbrokenBadass: Despite being permanently injured, he still holds out pretty well both as a carpenter and as a fighter.
124* HeelFaceTurn: Goes from a StarterVillain to one of your most reliable allies.
125* IgnoredEpiphany: His initial reaction after learning what his apprentices did is call them backstabbers, then knock them out cold. Fortunately, it gets better.
126* ScarsAreForever: Still carries a large scar on his back from his past injury.
127* StartOfDarkness: Though he was considered a great craftsman once, an accident left him scarred and unable to complete work up to his past standard. As a result, his career faltered. Throw in a malicious prank a certain Pokémon pulled that destroyed what remained of his confidence, and...
128* StarterVillain: Along with Scraggy.
129[[/folder]]
130
131[[folder:Timburr and Timburr]]
132!!Timburr and Timburr
133Gurdurr's apprentices. Reluctantly followed him into a life of crime, but manage to get the hero and partner's help in making him stop.
134----
135* NiceGuy: They're both pretty friendly, despite initially being portrayed as suspicious.
136* OnlyOneName: They're both only referred to as Tumburr.
137* PunchClockVillain: And both aren't too happy with it, leading to their HeelFaceTurn.
138* RedHerring: At first, they seem to be in on the scam, but they're really trying to help you build your house.
139* UndyingLoyalty: Towards their boss.
140[[/folder]]
141
142[[folder:Scraggy]]
143!!Scraggy
144A mysterious character who bumps into the partner in Post Town one day. He's a criminal who helps out Gurdurr in his attempts to scam the player. After this, he is dragged back to Post Town by Quagsire and forced to run the Move Shop.
145----
146* BitchInSheepsClothing: When he first crashes into the partner, he acts nervous and nonthreatening.
147* CrashIntoHello: The first time he's seen, he plows right through the player character. And steals the gems the player character spent the last dungeon collecting.
148* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Gurdurr tells him he sent the heroes to gather more gems, he seems shocked by how he's going to keep stringing them along indefinitely. However, when Gurdurr calls him on this, he immediately stops shedding tears, subverting it.
149* FirstEpisodeTwist: Being initially present as a nervous but harmless Pokémon that turns out to be a criminal (and the first boss in the game), he's inevitably this. Likewise with how he ends up running the Move Shop.
150* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite all appearances to the contrary, he really is happy when the player returns to the Pokémon world.
151* SourSupporter: After being forced to help you by Quagsire. He warms up eventually.
152* StarterVillain: Along with Gurdurr.
153* TokenEvilTeammate: He is not happy about being forced to help you at all, and only does so because he's terrified of Quagsire.
154[[/folder]]
155
156[[folder:Quagsire]]
157!!Quagsire
158The owner of the land the partner purchases, who quickly becomes a fixture in Paradise as he oversees your decisions of which recruits you take out on missions. He turns out to have once led a firm that punished criminals.
159----
160* BrokenAce: Became famous for his efforts punishing criminals. At the beginning of the game, he resides in a barren desert and is extremely apathetic towards everything.
161* TheDreaded: For Scraggy. Even the slightest reaction from Quagsire towards Scraggy's rash behavior makes the latter backtrack in his words.
162* NotSoStoic: After the partner takes a request for less money simply because the Pokémon needs the most help, Quagsire starts trembling uncontrollably and compliments the partner.
163* RetiredBadass: Once led an organization that punished criminals and became widely feared among criminals.
164* TenderTears: He has a tendency of tearing up when something emotional happens.
165* VerbalTic: Quagsire, ''hmmm'', hums quite a lot any time he speaks.
166[[/folder]]
167
168[[folder:Victini]]
169!!Victini
170A Pokemon that sets up shop at the start of the V-Wave season. He likes to go on about his V-Wheel.
171----
172* BunnyEarsLawyer: Assuming he created his V-Wheel, he must be a brilliant Pokémon. On the other hand, he is very quirky, hammy, and loves to go on his V-Wheel.
173* CharacterCatchphrase: "V-WHEEEEEEL!!"
174* DynamicEntry: Arrives to the paradise via meteor crash.
175* {{Keet}}: Does not lose his smile even under the prospect of the end of the world.
176* LargeHam: Whenever he brings up his '''"V-WHEEEEEEL!!"'''
177* RunningGag: See the thing above on his V-Wheel? He does it multiple times ''in the first conversation''.
178* WeatherControlMachine: His V-Wheel can manipulate the V-waves, if you're lucky. He still keeps your cash even if you lose, though.
179[[/folder]]
180
181!!!Friend and Allies
182
183[[folder:Swanna]]
184!!Swanna
185The innkeeper.
186----
187* DissonantSerenity: She almost ''never'' loses her cool, even if the topic in question is about the world ending.
188* GratuitousItalian: Everyone calls her the "signora".
189* NiceGirl: Whatever happens, she's always gracious and kind.
190* OnlySaneMan: She's the only member of Post Town who doesn't immediately lose her head when the partner announces the end of the world. She is also one of the few to berate the other citizens over losing it and giving up hope in the player.
191* SupremeChef: Hydreigon seems to hold her cooking skills in high regard.
192[[/folder]]
193
194[[folder:Keldeo]]
195!!Keldeo
196Virizion's former best friend. Claims to have gone to Great Glacier just to get away from her, and that they never really were friends to begin with. He's lying. The real reason he said this to her was because he accidentally stumbled upon the BigBad's plot, and didn't want to put her in danger as a result.
197----
198* AwesomenessByAnalysis. Implied. See GadgeteerGenius below.
199* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Keldeo does this to Virizion prior to the events of the game, having discovered the Bittercold and thus ended up being chased by Kyurem and his underlings. Not wanting to risk Virizion sharing his fate, he hastily wrote a letter saying that he never liked her and only pretended to go to the Glacier Palace in order to get away from her. While it kept her from going there (for a while, anyways), having someone she considered her best friend say that [[DeconstructedTrope also caused her to become very cold and distrusting of others as a result.]]
200* DidNotGetTheGirl: Like Dunsparce, he remains Virizion's friend and takes a back seat to the lucky Emolga.
201* GadgeteerGenius: He picked up the skill of using Entercards in his travels and got good enough at it to make Umbreon and Espeon, who devoted their lives to researching dungeons, completely amazed. Hell, he made Entercards that could travel through the sky. Espeon, understandably, is very impressed ''and jealous''.
202* HonorBeforeReason: He's imprisoned in the Glacier Palace, but not because Munna and co. wanted him out of the way. He went back after they let him go, because he thought he could convince them that the world was worth saving. He was wrong.
203* MoodSwinger: One moment he's really happy, then the slightest bit of criticism makes him feel really bad. Virizion says he had always been that way.
204* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Tried to talk Munna's gang out of erasing the world. It didn't work.
205[[/folder]]
206
207[[folder:Hydreigon]]
208!!Hydreigon
209A Dragon/Dark Pokemon who's first seen terrorizing a Munna. Revealed to be very important in the late game, to the point of being essentially a WalkingSpoiler.
210----
211* AdaptationalHeroism: As a species, Hydreigon get a lot of bad rap for their violent tendencies, willingness to attack anything that moves, and being a destructive force of nature. But this one is the nicest Pokémon you'll meet in this game, where most Pokémon are just {{Jerkass}}es or are pessimistic enough to resort to scamming and violence for little reason. Justified since it's not a real Pokémon, it's literally ''the'' Voice of Life.
212* AwesomeButImpractical: Downplayed. He is a ''level 64'' behemoth that can one, or even two-shot, any of the foes encountered during his stint as a guest party member. Unfortunately, a good portion of these dungeons have Lilligant, who can make him dangerous to you if they set off Teeter Dance.
213* BigDamnHeroes: Saves you twice from Munna's goons, dukes it out with a Salamence, and joins you temporarily as a (rather overpowered) guest character.
214* BigEater: A given for his species. He becomes a regular at Swanna's cafe in the post-game, and has a bad habit of driving up the bill for whoever decides to accompany him. He's responsible enough to pay off his share sooner or later, though.
215* BigGood: Turns out he's the one who took the initiative in saving the world by calling humans into it once he realized that no Pokémon could stand against the Bittercold.
216* CloudCuckoolander: Has exaggerated expressions in his animations, is a BigEater, and has a tendency to go on wild tangents when talking about a certain topic.
217* CrutchCharacter:
218** Actually joins your party for a bit during the story... at '''level 64!''' When you're likely to be in the ''late 20's''. Unfortunately, this is where he accompanies you on dungeons.
219** He repeats this role in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon Super Mystery Dungeon]]'', having the same level and moves but being available at an even earlier point in the game. He can smash through anything during most of the main story, but this also means he will rarely be available to include in the party, even in the post-game, effectively placing in a TooAwesomeToUse situation.
220* DarkIsNotEvil: Easily one of the nicest characters in the game, despite his rather unsettling appearance.
221* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Those who meet him are completely puzzled at how the scary-looking Pokémon with a reputation of being an unstoppable destroyer turns out to be an exceedingly polite NiceGuy.
222* FaceOfAThug: Whenever one sees a Hydreigon, the most likely conclusion they'll draw is that it's doom and destruction incarnate, and overall the closest thing the series has to a Horsemon of the Apokélypse. This one? One of, if not the nicest character in all of Pokémon. Heck, he even says that an apt description of his species[[labelnote:*]][A] violent monster that devours all with its three heads and that no-one can stop[[/labelnote]] is [[WhereWhere "really scary"]].
223* FourthWallObserver: Seems to be aware the player is watching them even though their character was sent back to the human world.
224* GodInHumanForm: It's not a real Pokémon, but the will of the world in Pokémon form.
225* GaiasVengeance: A rare heroic example. Hydreigon isn't a true Pokémon, but rather a form taken by the Voice of Life, a being who embodies the world's will to survive and acts as one of its sworn protectors. He chooses to identify himself as the species of Pokémon he appears to be, though. He later goes on to note that there are actually multiple Voices of Life who reside in other regions of the world, though none of them are actually seen.
226* LiterallyShatteredLives: Appears to meet his demise in this fashion at the hands of Kyurem. [[{{Immortality}} However, he returns no worse for wear]] in the ending, cheerily explaining that his existence is tied to that of the world, and that he'll live as long as it does. It apparently just takes a while for him to manifest his physical form again if it's destroyed.
227* MotorMouth: He doesn't speak quickly, but he just doesn't stop talking once encouraged to do so, with an equal tendency to go into tangents so that it can take hours before he even answers your question. When Emolga and Dunsparce ask him about why he chose the player to save the Pokémon World, the game just gives up and goes BlahBlahBlah after talking for several hours.
228* MrExposition: He sorts out almost all of the mysteries in the story once the hero meets him. On a more humorous note, he later tries explaining to Emolga and some others why the player was brought to this world. Several hours later, he hasn't even reached the main point.
229* NiceGuy: Probably has the least personality flaws out of any character in the game, goes out of his way to help others on multiple occasions, and is just very likable overall.
230* QuizzicalTilt: Performs a few of these post-game, most notably when he recognizes that '''you're''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall watching over everybody.]]
231* VaguenessIsComing: He tells the player, at the beginning of the game, that they are needed to save the Pokémon world, but it's never stated from what. It ends up being justified later on, as Munna managed to hijack Hydreigon's communications before he could say anything.
232* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing that he is actually ''the'' BigGood in Pokémon form is definitely this trope.
233[[/folder]]
234
235[[folder:Cofagrigus]]
236!!Cofagrigus
237A Ghost-type Pokemon who runs "Glorious Gold" in Post Town.
238* CreepyGood: The "creepy" part is very heavily played with, but he's ultimately just one of the shopkeepers.
239* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The Pokémon known to eat gold is the one that runs the Gold Bar Exchange shop.
240* LargeHam: GLORIOUSLY so.
241* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He gets so hyped up about gold he [[ChewingTheScenery FILLS THE EMOTE BOX]]. He also stalks some of the residents of post town.
242[[/folder]]
243
244[[folder:Rampardos]]
245!!Rampardos
246A Rock-type Pokemon known as "The Box Buster". He runs a shop in Post Town dedicated to opening Treasure Boxes.
247* CannotSpitItOut: He's completely in love with Cincinno, but she doesn't know it, and he never manages to confess his feelings, either due to shyness, or external factors [[AbortedDeclarationOfLove (such as Cofagrigus messing around)]].
248* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: The reason his shop is closed when the game begins is because he accidentally wrecked it when trying to open Treasure Boxes.
249* InterspeciesRomance: He's in love with Cincinno, which not only is from another Pokémon species, but they don't even share any Egg Groups (and are, thus, incompatible) in the main series games.
250* LargeHam: He's got a bombastic attitude when doing his job.
251* SingleTargetSexuality: While the vast majority of males of Post Town are fixated on Virizion, Rampardos is an exception. He might agree in that Virizion is pretty, but he's not interested - he's only got eyes for Cincinno.
252[[/folder]]
253
254!!!Villains
255
256[[folder:Munna]]
257!!Munna
258A Psychic-type Pokemon who is initially seen being terrorized by Hydreigon. Aside that...she's not.
259----
260* AdaptationalVillainy: Munna are usually innocent little critters, but this one is a flat out commander of a crazy, nihilistic cult.
261* BitchInSheepsClothing: Initially appears to be a DamselInDistress, but turns out to be one of the main villains halfway through the game.
262* CuteIsEvil: Don't trust that pink and flowery adorable ball. She's the commander of a group of nihilists. She also {{Exploited|Trope}} this, since her innocent appearance helps her in having humans summed by Hydreigon jump into the wrong conclusion at who's good and who's evil in her "confrontation" with Hydreigon only to be dogpiled and killed, a process that has occured nummerous times.
263* DeathSeeker: As heavily implied as possible for a NeverSayDie game.
264* TheDragon: To Kyurem. Despite Kyurem having several other minions, she’s the leader of them and his most loyal right-hand woman.
265* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Genuinely cannot understand why the team wants to save the world given how bleak and hopeless it has become.
266* EvilCounterpart:
267** To the player. Both the player and Munna found themselves in a situation where they had nothing and no-one to help them, and were then taken in and accepted by strangers. In the player's case, it was the partner, who helped them become a force for good. In Munna's case, it was the rest of Kyurem's minions (i.e. Toxicroak, Gigalith, Purugly, Salamence, Excadrill, and Chandelure) who all allied themselves with Kyurem and decided to help ensure the world's destruction.
268** Also to Virizion. Both of them are greatly admired by people around them because of their charismatic qualities, but while Virizion ended up going on a quest alone to save the world after she thought her best friend Keldeo abandoned her, Munna instead goes on a quest with her friends to destroy the world because she thinks it's the best idea for herself and her friends.
269* {{Expy}}: Of Cyrus from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''. Both are {{Straw Nihilist}}s who have a cynical outlook on the world and its people, and their motive is to plunge them into oblivion using an organization. Her minions also consist of Toxicroak, Purugly, and Salamence, the former being some of the Pokémon Team Galactic members frequently use and the latter being owned by Hunter J, an anime-exclusive character affiliated with Team Galactic.
270* FlunkyBoss: When you do fight her in the Glacial Spire, she surrounds the player with 4 Gigalith, a Toxicroak and a Chandelure.
271* HeelFaceTurn: She drops off her despair and turns for the better after the party confronts her in Glacial Spire and Keldeo and Virizion convinces her. By the time of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon Super Mystery Dungeon]]'', she has become TheAtoner.
272* IgnoredEpiphany: Keldeo had been trying to convince her to stop trying to get the world destroyed for an unspecified amount of time. It didn't work, and it took until the partner making her realize there was something to live for for her to change her mind.
273* MercyKill: She thinks the world's destruction is the best thing that could happen to her and her friends, as it would get rid of their pain.
274* MisanthropeSupreme: Despises all Pokémon for turning the world into a rotten hellhole, and wishes to use the Bittercold to destroy the world and all Pokémon in it.
275* NoodleIncident: We do not know the exact details why Munna and her gang of Pokémon converted to nihilism. In her MotiveRant, she claims that she and her followers were all "forsaken with, toyed and betrayed", but we don't exactly find ''how''. The only thing we assuredly know is it's grave enough for the whole group of Pokémon to reject hope as an ideology.
276* PinkMeansFeminine: She's pink and instantly regarded as a female when you first see her.
277* StrawNihilist: Believes that there is nothing good left in this world and everyone is better off just rolling over and dying already (in all-but-name). The very fact that the ''entire'' gang of Pokémon consider themselves TrueCompanions disproves her points, although she's not aware of it.
278* TrueCompanions: Her entire gang ''does'' care about each other. Keldeo and Virizion notice this and uses it to convince her to give her EvilPlan up.
279* UndyingLoyalty: Even if she tells the player to save the world, she still has her loyalty to Kyurem.
280* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to talk about her without bringing up her BitchInSheepsClothing reveal.
281* WellIntentionedExtremist: Believes that the future where the Bittercold destroys the world is inevitable, as well as the best course of action against a despairing world where Pokémon hopes are low.
282* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears after the Bittercold is defeated. She reappears in the next game, though.
283* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sends distress signals through dreams to draw in human-turned-Pokémon to save her, only to ambush them when they arrive.
284[[/folder]]
285
286[[folder:Kyurem]]
287!! Kyurem
288A Dragon/Ice Pokemon who can see the future. Being driven by despair, he seeks to destroy all who dares change the future he forsaw.
289----
290* BigDamnHeroes: He saves the player and the partner from the collapsing Glacier Palace, and it's implied he did the same with everyone else that was also present there.
291* BecauseDestinySaysSo: He firmly believes the world is doomed to be destroyed by the Bittercold and that it's not only futile to try and stop it, but that no one ''should'' try to stop it. He only relents on attacking player after the partner pleads for them to stop, taking it as a confirmation of them giving up trying to save the world, and leaves with a threat that he will destroy them if they try to defy the forseen future.
292* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Kyurem's only concern is protecting the future it's already forseen. That future just so happened to be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. It doesn't care.
293* TheDragon: Quite literally, to the Bittercold.
294* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his second appearance, he comes out of nowhere, ''kills'' Hydreigon, beats you to a pulp, and then threatens to finish you off unless you stop "interfering in the world's fate".
295* EvilCounterpart: To Hydreigon.
296* EvilIsDeathlyCold: TheDragon to the Bittercold, and an Ice-type Pokémon.
297* TheFatalist: Partially because he can actually ''see into the future'', he believes that the despair that would end this world is an certain and will destroy everyone who dares try to change it.
298* GracefulLoser: Offers the player honest advice after his defeat, and saved everyone from being killed during the Glacier Palace's collapse.
299* TheHeavy: The Bittercold is never seen before the final boss fight (and it's ambiguous whether it can even leave its EldritchLocation), so Kyurem and his minions provide the game with a visible antagonistic group to pit the heroes against.
300* HeroKiller: A G-rated variation of this considering that all of the mysterious lights you see in the distance are the fallen reminisce of the other heroes that were sent to the Pokémon World to stop the Bittercold and were defeated by Kyurem.
301* KnightOfCerebus: The mood of the game gets much darker after he decides to take some action of his own to secure the world's future, showing off his villainous side in the process.
302* NoNonsenseNemesis: When he confronts the party in Scorching Desert, he immediately proceeds to subject Hydreigon to a case of LiterallyShatteredLives, then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats the hero senseless]] without uttering so much as a word beforehand. Ends up being subverted when he heeds the partner's pleas for mercy instead of finishing off the hero like he had initially intended to, though not without threatening to destroy both of them if they continue to try to change the world's fate.
303* WalkingSpoiler: Hydreigon's speech with the player about the Bittercold completely flips what was known of Kyurem upside-down.
304* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He is not happy about the fate he is bringing to the world at all, and honestly believes that his actions will make a [[WellIntentionedExtremist new world free of suffering]].
305* YouCantFightFate: A firm believer in this, to the point he is amazed the player defeats him, and utterly shocked and baffled when the player actually defeats the Bittercold.
306[[/folder]]
307
308[[folder:The Bittercold]]
309!! The Bittercold
310[[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bittercold_7155.png]]
311The true villain of the game, a monster created by the world's despair.
312----
313* BigBad: The being behind everything from the less than friendly Pokémon you run into to the group of villainous Pokémon trying to protect it because they thought the world's denizens could eat themselves for what's worth, and the ultimate antagonist that needs to be defeated.
314* DespairEventHorizon: It is manifested through the collective despair and fear of the world's resident Pokémon, and amplifies these feelings to the point that a group of Pokeémon that has lost all hope is willling to defend it under the believe that the world will eat its own and there's no point saving it. As well as you would expect, it results in a ViciousCycle that results in the world's end.
315* EmotionEater: The Bittercold feeds off of fear and despair, of which there is ''quite'' a lot of.
316* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Simply going ''near'' it will cause living beings to suffocate.
317* EldritchAbomination: Full freaking stop. It [[EmotionEater feeds off of and is]] [[MadeOfEvil made of]] negative emotions, lives in its own EldritchLocation, is [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], can hit you with attacks [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm that are never seen anywhere else nor have any description in the dialogue box]], has sent all but the [[TheHero last human]] to an early grave (through itself or its minions, either way), and is destined to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. ''[[NearVillainVictory And it nearly succeeds.]]''
318* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The Bittercold has ice based abilities, and basically ''is'' evil.
319* TheHeartless: The Bittercold is made of everyone's fear and despair.
320* LiterallyShatteredLives: Upon being defeated, it shatters to bits.
321* LoadBearingBoss: It causes the Glacier Palace to float, so when it's defeated, the Palace collapses.
322* MadeOfEvil: It's literally created by the negativity present in the world.
323* ManaBurn: One of its [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm nameless]] attacks reduces the PP of all your moves.
324* NighInvulnerable: It does not take damage from any of your moves during the first battle. When the positive emotions allow the player to crack the core, damaging the Bittercold becomes possible.
325* OutsideContextProblem: The second villain in the entire Pokémon series, both in the games and the anime - the first was ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRumble Pokemon Rumble Blast]]'' - to be neither a {{Jerkass}} human nor a crazy/brainwashed Pokemon. Unlike ''Blast's'' [[FlatCharacter Dark Rust]], however, the Bittercold is an EldritchAbomination played frighteningly straight for [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment something out of this series.]]
326* ShroudedInMyth: There was a legend about a Great Crystal that made objects in the Great Glacier float, but no one knew if such a thing even existed... let alone that said Great Crystal was collective despair made manifest.
327* SilentAntagonist: Never says a single world, making its motivation completely incomprehensible.
328* WalkingSpoiler: Not being a Pokemon ''or'' a human is just the tip of the iceberg[[note]]no pun intended[[/note]] with this thing...
329* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The game does not even display a message for its attacks. You just see the animation, the damage you took, and whether you suffered an altered status or got your PP reduced. That's it.
330[[/folder]]

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