All of Them (Sinnoh Region):

• Ambiguous Gender: Most of them remain unconfirmed, though - as with the Original Series - hinting is given. All the ones introduced here may actually be male, however, but the jury's still out on that.
• Back for the Finale: In-season example *
  Gliscor comes back in time from training to join the others, reuniting the previous Paul-battling team for the rematch
  during the Lily of the Valley Conference.
• Badass Crew
• Berserk Button: Goes for ANY of Ash's Pokémon. Attack Ash directly and his Pokémon will beat you (unless you have more powerful Pokémon for protection, of course).
• Five-Man Band:
  • Big Good - Pikachu
  • The Hero - Chimchar/Monferno/Infernape
  • The Lancer - Aipom -> Buizel
  • The Smart Guy - Starly/Staravia/Staraptor
  • The Big Guy - Turtwig/Grotle/Torterra
  • The Chick - Gligar/Gliscor
  • Sixth Ranger - Gible
• Put on a Bus: At the end of Diamond and Pearl.
• Took a Level in Badass: Any and all of his Pokémon that evolved. (Except for Torterra, whose track record only got worse as it evolved. See The Worf Effect below.)
• True Companions

Starly-Staravia-Staraptor (Mukkuru-Mukubird-Mukuhawk)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Mukkuru and Mukubird), Katsuyuki Konishi (Mukuhawk)

Voiced in English by: Sarah Natochenny

• Always Accurate Attack: Knows Aerial Ace.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Knows Close Combat.
• Big Badass Bird of Prey
• Blow You Away: Knows Whirlwind.
• Call Back: The episode where Staravia evolves into Staraptor mirrors that of his Hoenn equivalent (Taillow to Swellow).
• Cast from Hit Points: Knows Brave Bird.
• Crash into Hello: Ash and Brock met Starly when Aipom crashed into him.
• Flight
• Heroic BSOD: Has one when Ash doesn't choose him to fight Roark, complete with a Pokémon Speak Big "NO!".
• Non-Elemental: Primary type.
• Razor Wings: Knows Wing Attack.
• She's a Man in Japan: Genderflipped: He's a woman in the Czech Republic, which made one scene with a decoy girl Staravia kinda weird.
• Wind From Beneath My Wings: Secondary type.

Turtwig-Grotle-Torterra (Naetle-Hayashigame-Dodaitose)

Voiced in Japanese by: Shinichiro Miki

Voiced in English by: Billy Beach

• Big Brother Instinct: Similar to Bulbasaur in a way that he is protective of other Pokémon.
• Casting a Shadow: Knows Bite.
• Colossus Climb: Knows Rock Climb.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Torterra's secondary type (Ground).
• Energy Ball
  • How Do I Shot Web?: And there were even a couple of episodes in Turtwig trying to perfect it.
    • Power-Up Food: Played with. During a battle with Palmer, Grotle accidentally swallowed the attack. The result was a nearly unstoppable Rock Climb that required Rhyperior to slam it's tail into the ground to moderately slow Grotle.
• Fragile Speedster: Turtwig
• Gentle Giant: Grotle-Torterra.
• Green Thumb
• Healing Factor: Knows Synthesis.
• Meido: Made to dress as one in an early episode (although all that could fit was an apron), and he's not exactly pleased about it.
• Mighty Glacier: Grotle-Torterra, with less arguably emphasis on "Mighty" as the series progressed on.
• Petal Power: Knows Leaf Storm.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: As Turtwing.
• Running Gag: In early DP, he takes a page out of James' Pokémon's books by having a desire for Biting on Ash's head.
• Super Speed: Only as a Turtwig.
• Turtle Power
• The Worf Effect: Except against Team Rocket, Torterra never actually won a single battle at all since evolving. Even as a Grotle, he had a fair number of losses under its belt.

Chimchar-Monferno-Infernape (Hikozaru-Moukazaru-Goukazaru)

Voiced in Japanese by: Megumi Hayashibara (Hikozaru), Yuji Ueda (Moukazaru and Gokazaru)

Voiced in English by: Bill Rogers

• Badass
  • Badass Adorable: As a Chimchar.
• Bare Fisted Monkey: Monferno and Infernape's secondary type.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Cast from Hit Points: Knows Flare Blitz.
• Cooldown Hug: At least twice.
• Dance Battler: When using a Counter Shield.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Knows Dig.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys
• Everything's Better with Spinning: Knows Flame Wheel.
• Expy: To Charizard, with the origin story expanded.
  • He also has more than a passing resemblance to Son Gohan. Monkey connotations? Well, since the Chimchar line is based off a Journey to the West character (which Goku and Gohan are also based on), check. Training from Hell by Evil Mentor (of sorts)? Check. A devastating power within himself that he has no control over? Check. Growing bigger and stronger with time + Took a Level in Badass, and then mastering his great power to defeat his greatest foe? Check & check.
• Heroic Second Wind: Blaze.
• Hot Blooded
• The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: The only primate to never steal Ash's hat.
• Let's Get Dangerous: When Blaze activates.
• Megaton Punch: Knows Mach Punch.
• Nice Guy: Indeed - even under Paul he was sweet-natured. And when fighting Team Galactic, he took an attack meant for Pikachu from Saturn's Toxicroak, and when Ash felt guilty the next day for letting him get so badly hurt, Chimchar silently expressed that he didn't blame him at all.
• Playing with Fire
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When using Blaze.
• The Rival: Has one in Paul's Electabuzz/Electivire.
  • Worthy Opponent: After first evolving Electabuzz was much less of a Jerkass. His expression during the first 6-on-6 says it all - having seen Chimchar earlier in battle, he's sent out against Monferno. Cue a look of shock, followed by Monferno grinning, which Electabuzz returns. And after Monferno becomes Infernape, the two simple glance at each other and share a smirk.
• Shoryuken: How he usually emerges from Dig.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Mainly after it evolved into Infernape.
  • It was pretty bad before then, as well - starting with Fantina, Chimchar didn't go a single Gym Battle without taking down two Pokémon per Gym. In a row. Especially when others - Gliscor and Grotle/Torterra most prominently - were losing screen time already. Thanks a bunch, writers - as if we needed this much time to get that Infernape is the main character. Unusually, thanks to the massive gap between Candice and Volkner, he didn't get to face a single Gym Leader while he was Monferno.
• Troubled, but Cute
• Unstoppable Rage: How Infernape's Blaze manifests, particularly in the Sinnoh League. Infernape is Ash's last Pokémon, and nearly beaten by Paul's Electivire. Paul insults him while Electivire tries to to get him to stand up and continue the Pokémon battle, Infernape does before the ref can call the bout and activates Blaze, which looks more like going Super Saiyan this time.
• “Well Done Son” Guy: Towards his ex-trainer, Paul.
  • And while it wasn't disapproval-tinted, he'd get upset if he let Ash down.
• Why Did It Have To Be Zangoose

Buizel (Buoysel)

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima

• An Ice Pokémon: Knows Ice Punch, and also discovered how to use ice to freeze and enhance his Aqua Jet.
• Badass
  • Badass Arm Fold
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Break the Haughty: Make no mistake, he's a great battler, but he needed to receive a Curb-Stomp Battle from Lucian's Bronzong before he realised he still has quite a ways to improve.
• Dance Battler: When using a Counter Shield.
• Everything's Wetter with Otters
• Kamehame Hadoken: Knows Water Pulse.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Knows Sonicboom.
• Making a Splash
• Pintsized Powerhouse
• Proud Warrior Race Mon
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Pikachu's blue, as seen in DP083.
• Weasel Mascot
• Worthy Opponent: Briefly, with Brock's Croagunk, but nothing ever came out of that.

Gligar-Gliscor (Gliger-Glion)

Voiced in Japanese by: Katsuyuki Konishi

Voiced in English by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Gligar), Marc Thompson (Gliscor)

• Acrophobic Bird: As a Gligar. It mostly has better luck flying after evolving into Gliscor. Mostly.
• Big Creepy Crawlies: Knows X-Scissor.
• Butt Monkey: Mostly in "Doc Brock". In just one episode (in order): he's been ignored; the wind was against him (again); he couldn't Watch Out for That Tree!; and he left behind (on purpose, because Brock needed to hurry ahead to help a sick Pachirisu), only to be completely forgotten until the final moments!
• Call Back: Gligar's debut, as part of a delinquent gang of Pokémon that terrorizes a city (think Squirtle).
• Character Tics: What sets it apart from other Gligar is its tendency to lick its lips in an exaggerated manner.
• Cry Cute
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Dishing Out Dirt: Primary type (Ground).
• Extra Ore Dinary: Knows Steel Wing.
• Flight
• The Glomp: To the point that he once homed in on Brock when the latter was trying to evade him (and Gliscor still hits Brock).
• The Load: Until it evolved into Gliscor, it was without a doubt the weakest link in Ash's Sinnoh team and never won any battles. Even after evolution it tended to have an unsteady pattern in battle (defeating Byron's Bastiodon, yet falling to Candice's Snover). It finally grew out of this completely after the training with McCann - during the battle with Paul, it put up a good battle against Ninjask and managed to defeat his powerful Drapion, which had previously knocked out Buizel, Staraptor and Torterra with ease.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Knows Screech.
• Not Quite Flight: Though it's a flying type, most of its flight is gliding rather than powered flight and it has been shown to have trouble taking off on flat ground in still air.
• Playing with Fire: Knows Fire Fang.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Power Up Let Down: Stone Edge can't seem to hit a thing. Averted by Giga Impact.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes
• Put on a Bus -> The Bus Came Back
• Scary Scorpions: NOT!
• Spam Attack: How he defeats Byron's Bastiodon, continuously spamming Fire Fang like there's no tomorrow.
• Took a Level in Badass: After receiving training from the Flight Master.
• Watch Out for That Tree!
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Never cleared up whether it returned to McCann, or was deposited on Professor Oak's lab like the rest of the Pokémon before it.
• Wind From Beneath My Wings: Secondary type.

Gible (Fukamaru)

Voiced in Japanese by: Daisuke Sakaguchi

Voiced in English by: Tom Wayland

• Bare-Fisted Monk: Knows Rock Smash.
• Big Eater: He ate through 2 of Team Rocket's mechas! And Barry's bicycle! And a Shadow Punch from Conway's Dusknoir!
• Character Tics: Biting on people's heads.
• Chekhov's Skill: His habit of biting and not letting go was instrumental in defeating Conway's Shuckle and Dusknoir.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Secondary type (Ground).
• Eleventh Hour Ranger: During the Sinnoh arc.
• Extreme Omnivore
• Genius Ditz: Looks and acts dull witted much of the time, but was apparently smart enough to use its Draco Meteor to find Piplup a few times. (See Running Gag below.)
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Overly Long Gag: "Gotta get a Gible": his encounter with a Team Rocket mecha involves a drawn-out Beat Panel of an ellipsis five dots long + sweatdrop (approximately a second each dot). TWICE IN A ROW!
• Pintsized Powerhouse: He is capable of taking on opponents 10 times his size.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Running Gag: Two words: Draco Meteor. As well as his tendency to bite onto anything that grabs his interest, and never let go.
  • Also invoked; in separate occasions when a Ditto was impersonating Piplup and was separated from the gang, Gible launches Draco Meteor (without even a command from Ash) just to find him!
• Signature Move: Once he masters it, Draco Meteor.
• The Stoic
• Took a Level in Badass: Upon mastering Draco Meteor.

Voiced in Japanese by: Megumi Toyoguchi

Voiced in English by: Emily Bauer

• Action Girl: The Chick she may be, but out of all of Ash's traveling companions, she's the most likely to take immediate action against Team Rocket or other antagonists when they show up, frequently having Piplup dealing the finishing blow alongside Pikachu.
• Age Inappropriate Dress: But her mother forbade her from bringing it on her journey. Then again, her normal outfit...
• Berserk Button: She doesn't take it lightly when people don't remember her. She snapped at Paul for this, and wasn't amused when Barry thought she was someone else.
• Break the Cutie: Disturbingly often.
• Brick Joke: The second DP episode continued the Running Gag of Pikachu frying a bike, but it took 36 episodes for Ash to know about it.
• The Bus Came Back: She returned for the Best Wishes series.
• Butt Monkey: Out of all the (main) characters she is the most mistreated. Every character has made fun of her and dissed her. Ash and Brock laugh at her, as well as her own Piplup. People regard her as a bad coordinator.
  • Though this doesn't happen too often, and as the series goes on she gets better overall.
• Catchphrase: "Daijobu!", or "No need to worry!" in the dub. How ironic.
  • And like May, has a phrase to use when calling Pokémon out for a Contest — "Charm Up!"/"Spotlight!"
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: She also copied Iris's "such a kid" remarks at Ash.
• The Chick: Of the Diamond and Pearl's Five-Man Band. She's also The Chosen One of Mesprit, the precursor of Emotion.
• The Chosen One: Of Mesprit.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Dangerously Short Skirt: Rather famous for it, but she leaves the fighting to her Pokémon.
• Deuteragonist: Of "Diamond and Pearl", to Ash's protagonist.
• Disappeared Dad: Unlike Ash, no mention is ever made of her father.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Against all odds, averted when it came to explaining "Dee-Dee" (See Noodle Incident below)
• Failed a Spot Check: If she would look around at the audience during contests more often, she would notice some VERY familar faces. (James, Meowth and Wobbuffet)
• Failure Heroine: Poor girl lost two Contests in the Appeal Stage in a row!
• Fangirl: To Professor Oak's (and Gary's) poetry.
• Fanservice: Similar to May, but fans are now focused on what's under that hip-length skirt of hers. Remember, Dawn is also ten years old.
• Four Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine.
• French Maid Outfit: In DP062.
• Generation Xerox: She gets her passion from Pokémon Contests from her mother, who is a retired Top Coordinator.
• Go Getter Girl
• Guest Star Party Member: Became this in Best Wishes Season 2, joining the group temporarily prior to and during the Junior Cup.
• Hair Decorations: She wears three yellow barrettes (star-shaped ones in one of her Contests). When using her Buneary, she wears hair bands modeled after its fur.
• Harmless Electrocution: A running gag by itself, Dawn needs to use Piplup's BubbleBeam to condition her hair back to normal after she gets zapped◊.
• Lethal Chef: Subverted. Dawn tries making Poffins based on a recipe she got from her mother, and all her Pokémon think it's disgusting. She can't understand why they don't like it, and starts thinking that this trope applies to her. Later in the episode, Meowth eats one of Dawn's Poffins, and considers them absolutely delicious. As it turns out, Dawn followed her mom's recipe correctly...but she apparently didn't realize that the Poffins are designed for feline Pokémon like Meowth and the Glameow that her family keeps as a pet.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to Ursula's dark.
• Magic Skirt: That must've been blessed by the Pokégods themselves.
• The McCoy
• Memento MacGuffin: At the beginning of her Pokémon journey, her mother gave to her the first Contest ribbon she won as a good luck charm. After her run in the Grand Festival, she gives it back.
• Naďve Everygirl
• Nice Girl: Easily the most straightforwardly kind of all the leading females (to this point), and very empathetic (she never held Pikachu or Ash responsible for her bike's destruction given the circumstances, for instance). Must be the main reason Mesprit chose her.
• Nice Hat
• Noodle Incident: The origins of her nickname Pikari/Dee-Dee. In a subversion, it's later revealed she got shocked by a Plusle and Minun in kindergarten, making her hair all sparkly. *
  "Pikapika" is the spoken sound effect for "sparkle"
  . In the dub, it's short for "Diamond Dandruff", which is indeed pretty embarrassing.
• Ojou Ringlets: Not an Ojou, but she used this hairstyle in an couple of contests as shown here◊ and here.
• Opera Gloves: With her Grand Festival outfit.
• Phrase Catcher: The reply to her own Catchphrase is usually "That's when [we] worry the most."
  • A few times she gets her catchphrase, "No need to worry!", back at her.
• Pimped-Out Dress: She wears a lot of them. Makes sense, considering part of her job as a Coordinator is to look stylish alongside her Pokémon.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her usual Contest dress, as well as the brim of her skirt, part of her hat, her boots, and her scarf.
• Plucky Girl: When in a good mood.
• Scarf Of Ass Kicking
• Shipper on Deck: While normally embarrassed about Brock's antics like everyone else, when it was suggested to him that he become a Pokémon Doctor, she gladly points out that it will help him get closer to all Nurse Joys.
• Static Character: While she matures a good deal, the basic person she is never changes and has never even changed from childhood, right down to her Catch Phrase.
• Stepford Smiler: Tries to put on a good face after her first losing streak. Doesn't work in the end.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Replaced May.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Zoey's Tomboy.
  • She also acts as the Girly Girl to her predecessor May's Tomboy.
  • And now she's the Girly Girl to Iris' Tomboy in Best Wishes. Dawn really is the eternal Girly Girl of this anime, huh?
• Why Did it Have to be Plusle and Minun?
• "Well Done, Daughter" Girl: Her fantasy in the Lotus-Eater Machine episode shows us that she possibly wants to surpass her mother.

Dawn's Pokémon

• Badass Adorable: The majority of her team.
• Big Mon, Little Mon: Any time a combination of Mamoswine/Cyndaquil, Mamoswine/Pachirisu, or Togekiss/Piplup is used in a Contest.
• Five-Man Band:
  • The Hero - Piplup
  • The Lancer - Buizel -> Aipom/Ambipom -> Cyndaquil/Quilava
  • The Smart Girl/The Chick - Buneary
  • The Big Guy - Mamoswine
  • Tagalong Kid - Pachirisu
  • Sixth Ranger - Togekiss
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: She has several...subverted with Ambipom and Mamoswine.

Piplup (Pochama)

Voiced in Japanese by: Etsuko Kozakura

Voiced in English by: Michele Knotz

• An Ice Pokémon: Knows Ice Beam.
• Balloon Belly: "If The Scarf Fits, Wear It!"
• Berserk Button: His Establishing Character Moment was throwing a fit when Professor Rowan's Chimchar stole the last bite of his food.
• Big Eater
• The Big Guy: Of the main "Diamond and Pearl" Five-Man Band.
• Bubble Gun: BubbleBeam was the very first attack he was seen using, and it's still his Signature Move to date.
• Butt Monkey: To clarify it has been:
  • Attacked by Elekid and Electabuzz on two different occasions.
  • Zapped by Pikachu (yes That Pikachu) after bumping into it.
  • Knocked into a crater by Ash and Gible (using Draco Meteor) on purpose and having to fend off against a Magnezone and a Metagross.
  • Not to mention all those other times it got hit by Draco Meteor (except for that one time that Kenny got hit by it).
• The Chew Toy: Is literally this for Ash's Gible.
• Color Failure: Twice. Once in Battling a Cute Drama! when Marilyn said he wasn't cute, and once in Piplup, Up, And Away! when he overheard Dawn telling Gible it wasn't at fault for dropping Draco Meteors on him.
• Determinator
• Everything's Better with Penguins
• Fire-Forged Friends: At the end of the Junior Cup arc in BW2, he seems to have formed a close bond with Oshawott (who was his rival for Meloetta's affection).
• Green-Eyed Monster: For Dawn, regarding Cyndaquil.
• Growling Gut
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Pikachu during the DP series.
• Interspecies Romance: "Piplup, Up, and Away" makes it pretty clear he has a huge crush on Dawn. The music is what puts it over the top.
• Making a Splash
• No Sense of Direction
• Not Allowed To Evolve: This is apparently due less to its infamous "forced mascot" status and more because the producer considers Empoleon ugly.
  • In series it's because he's afraid of changing personalities when he evolves, and in the dub because he wants to protect Dawn as he is.
• Not Quite Flight: He's shown occasionally to be capable of flying a very short distance from the momentum of using BubbleBeam or being sent out from his Poké Ball.
• Took a Level in Badass: Upon learning Hydro Pump.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: From Bide, to Whirlpool, to even Hydro Pump.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Real Male Piplup Wear Pink: On several occasions he has sported a pink female cheerleading outfit. Later on they opted for more masculine clothing though.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Cyndaquil's blue...or is it the other way around?
• Signature Move: Bubble Beam.
• Use Your Head: Knows Headbutt.
• Wave Motion Gun: When he uses Hydro Pump, he blasts a massive cannon of water at his opponent that is at least 10x bigger than he is, letting out an impressive volume of water for such a little penguin.
• Wind From Beneath My Wings: Knows Peck and Drill Peck.

Buneary (Mimirol)

Voiced in Japanese by: Tomoko Kawakami (first voice), Satsuki Yukino (current)

Voiced in English by: Sarah Natochenny

• Action Girl: Especially noteable in "Hold the Phione" - after the titular Pokémon challenges Pikachu for her, she's offended both because she's being treated like some prize and because Pikachu's in a tight spot. Then she demands Phione battle her instead, and wins.
• An Ice Pokémon: Knows Ice Beam.
• Establishing Character Moment: First she jumps to save Pikachu from an incoming motorcycle, then when he tries to thank her she hides her face and bounds away, in the process crashing into a tree. This sets her up as a graceful Action Girl who nonetheless crushes hard on Pikachu.
• Everything's Better with Spinning: Part of her Grand Festival appeal and also in one of the battle rounds in the Wallace Cup.
• The Fashionista: Not an extreme example, but she's occasionally seen sporting a vest that Dawn made for her, and the Sinnoh arc ends with her becoming a model.
• Interspecies Romance/Unrequited Love: Has a massive crush on Ash's Pikachu.
• Non-Elemental
• Pintsized Powerhouse
• Wind From Beneath My Wings: Knows Bounce.

Pachirisu

Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura

• Berserk Button: This is what happens to Pachirisu if you steal a Poffin from it.
  • Or if you step on a Poffin that it wants
• Death Glare: Gave one to Ursula's Gabite after it's Poffin was stepped on - an impressive one for normally happy-go-lucky Pachirisu.
• Everything's Nuttier With Squirrels
• Fragile Speedster
• Genki Keet Pokémon
• Kid Appeal Character
• Mon Bites Mon: Knows Super Fang.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: It packs an electrifying Discharge attack.
• Shock and Awe
• Trademark Favourite Food: Dawn's Poffins. The first time it was denied them, it shocked everyone until Pikachu snapped it out of it. Then there's the Berserk Button above...

Buizel (Buoysel)

Aipom-Ambipom (Eipam-Eteboth)

Voiced in Japanese by: Miyako Ito (Eipam), Chie Sato (Eteboth)

Voiced in English by: Miyako Ito (Aipom), Emily Jenness (Ambipom)

• Action Girl: While she preferred Contests, she was used several times in battle when she was under the ownership of Ash and didn't seem to mind.
  • She beat Gardenia's strongest Pokémon, Roserade, so it's safe to say that although she prefers Contests, her battling skills are something to be proud of.
• Always Accurate Attack: Knows Swift.
• Bare Fisted Monkey: Knows Focus Punch.
• Characterization Marches On: After being traded over to Dawn, her crush on Ash was all but completely forgotten. The last time she even acknowledged Ash as her former trainer was when she was getting ready to be Put on a Bus, and even then it wasn't much.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Knows Double Team.
• Eleventh Hour Ranger: She was caught by Ash ten episodes before the end of the Advanced Generation series.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys
• Foreshadowing: Ever since Ash captured her at such a late time (during the Battle Frontier saga) and the fact that Aipom followed Ash and Pikachu to Sinnoh, it was rather obvious that the writers were planning to evolve her.
• Genki Girl: Of course; most of her species tend to be this.
• Nice Hat: Has a fondness for them, famously Ash's hat, or, in one episode, a crown.
  • Clingy MacGuffin: Said crown was too small for Aipom, thus it being stuck to her head for most of the episode.
• Non-Elemental
• Pintsized Powerhouse: As Aipom.
• Put on a Bus: Literally!
• Spam Attack: Knows Fury Swipes.

Swinub-Piloswine-Mamoswine (Urimoo-Inomoo-Mammoo)

Voiced in Japanese by: Inuko Inuyama (Urimoo and Inomoo), Unsho Ishizuka (Mammoo)

Voiced in English by: Kayzie Rogers (Swinub), Tim Werenko (Piloswine), Marc Thompson (Mamoswine)

• An Ice Pokémon: Primary type.
• Balloon Belly: In DP084.
• The Berserker: This once cost Dawn a contest.
• Big Eater: To the point where all the other Pokémon might actually be in danger of starving to death.
  • It's a pity May never shared her Pokéblock recipes with Dawn - they might have come up with something to fill him up quickly similar to Muchlax's recipe. In fairness, Dawn caught Swinub some time after meeting May.
• Black Bead Eyes/Blinding Bangs: Piloswine
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Acts this way towards Dawn for a while.
• Cutting the Knot: Mamoswine has almost never won a Contest by retaining the lead when the buzzer sounds. It tends to simply KO the competition. As Dawn has noted, this can be seen as missing the point of Contests.
• Death Glare: Mamoswine has an impressive one.
• Defrosting Ice King: Mamoswine in the early stages
• Dishing Out Dirt: Secondary type (Ground).
• Elemental Armor: In dual Contests, the strategy of choice often involves encasing the smaller partner in ice.
• Expy: In many ways similar to Ash's Charizard. Three stage evolution caught in first stage, in which it has a sweet overall disposition and likes its new trainer? Check. Personality change upon evolving into second stage? Check. A surprisingly quick transition to its third stage? Check. Took a Level in Badass after evolving, becoming a large powerhouse who lazes around? Check. Has a lifechanging experience with the trainer and restores its loyalty, followed by gradual further Character Development? Check and check.
• Eyes Always Shut: Swinub.
• Full Boar Action
• Hair-Trigger Temper: From his Piloswine form on he becomes frighteningly easy to set off, though he mellows out over time.
• Heroism Incentive: Prior to becoming obedient to Dawn, this is the only way for the latter to motivate him to do anything.
• Jerkass -> Jerk with a Heart of Gold -> Bruiser with a Soft Center: Gradually grows into this role, having shown a soft side as well as an (eventual) fascination to Contests. Noted in-series, once the other characters observe it.
• Messy Pig
• Obliviously Evil: He doesn't even realize that the other Pokémon initially have contempt for him because of his enormous appetite.
• Pink Is for Sissies -> Real Men Wear Pink: He initially seemed...embarrassed at the fact that he was fascinated by Contests and tried to hide it even when Ash pointed it out. He finally got over it in "Promoting Healthy Tangrowth".
• Trademark Favourite Food: Dawn's Poffins, it seems. All her Pokémon enjoy them, but Mamoswine really can't get enough of them (though Pachirisu is worse).

Cyndaquil-Quilava (Hinoarashi-Magmarashi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kiyotaka Furushima

Voiced in English by: Kayzie Rogers (Cyndaquil), Bill Rogers (Quilava)

• Always Accurate Attack: Knows Swift.
• Everything's Better with Spinning: Knows Flame Wheel.
• Keet: He did become pretty excitable when he first saw Dawn practicing for a Contest, and visibly slumped when she said she wouldn't be using him just yet.
• Marth Debuted in Smash Bros.: Cyndaquil's evolution occured in a side-story episode, one not yet dubbed. Thus, Best Wishes Season 2 depicts it as becoming Quilava offscreen - though in fairness, this was previously seen with May's Pokémon, some of which had evolved prior to DP without any previous side-episode depicting it.
• Playing with Fire
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Piplup's red...or is it the other way around?
• The Rival: Piplup sees him as this for Dawn's affections.
• Smoke Out: Knows Smokescreen.

Togekiss

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue

• Bare-Fisted Monk: Knows Aura Sphere.
• Barrier Warrior: Knows Safeguard.
• Blow You Away: Knows Air Slash.
• Eleventh Hour Ranger: Not only the first time Dawn had six Pokémon at once, but she obtained her after winning her fifth ribbon, and just two episodes before the Grand Festival. Bear in mind that Princess Salvia had been training her to be a Contest Pokémon for quite a while, so it's a Justified Trope.
• Flight
• It Was a Gift: She was given to Dawn by Princess Salvia.
• Non-Elemental: Primary type.
• Talking To Herself: During the final Grand Festival episode in Japan (Fantina is played by Bella Hudson in the dub of that episode).
• Team Mom: In the episode after she was obtained, Togekiss is seen caring for the Butt Monkey penguin, to the point of scolding Ash's Gible for targeting Piplup with Draco Meteor.
• Yamato Nadeshiko/Silk Hiding Steel: Just listen to that voice.
• Wind From Beneath My Wings

Voiced in Japanese by: Kiyotaka Furushima

Voiced in English by: Julian Rebolledo

• Aloof Little Brother: In contrast to his caring older brother Reggie, who's more similar to Ash.
• Always Someone Better
• Arrogant Pokémon Trainer Guy
• Awesome by Analysis: Paul was able to curb-stomp Ash in a full battle by building his team specifically to counter Ash's Sinnoh Pokémon.
• Bad Boss: Towards Chimchar. The rest of his Pokemon like him, though we only find out at the very end of the series.
• Badass: He may mostly be an overconfident Jerk Ass, but there's no denying the moments where he is genuinely cool.
  • His Pokémon. It's a requirement for him to consider them worthy, after all. Special mentions to his Electivire, Torterra, Ursaring and Drapion.
• Barrier Warrior: Electivire's Protect.
• Bears Are Bad News: Ursaring. Oh my god, Ursaring.
• Break the Haughty: His defeat against Brandon.
• Bring It: In the battle between Ash and Paul in the Sinnoh League Tournament. Electivire uses this to get Infernape to stand up, Paul even calls Infernape pathetic.
  • In the Japanese version, he just tells Infernape to stop disappointing him again and again.
• Catch Phrase:
  Original: "[Pokémon], battle standby."
  Dub: "[Pokémon], stand by for battle."
  • And, of course, "Pathetic!"
• Characterization Marches On: He was more visibly sinister and prone to psychotic smirks in his first appearance, but from his second and onward he was more stoic in his jerkassery.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: Remember that Ninjask Paul caught prior to obtaining Chimchar? He uses it in his Sinnoh League battle against Ash.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He got on the receiving side of it when he challenged Cynthia, whose Garchomp single-handedly defeated four of his Pokémon without breaking a sweat.
  • And then he lost again, against Frontier Brain Brandon and the Regi Trio.
  • Most battles we've seen Paul to have been in are Curb Stomp Battles, as he's either the giver (80% of the time) or the receiver (20%). Exceptions include his two "Best of 3" battles with Ash (both were ties, although for the latter the last round was called off due to Chimchar's Blaze), his Gym Battle with Roark, and for his Sinnoh League match with Ash. Sadly we don't know how his match with Volkner would have gone because Volkner wasn't accepting challenges at the time.
• Defeat By Irony: The same Chimchar he released for being weak ended up taking out half his team in his battle against Ash in the Lily of the Valley Conference (well, its evolved form did). Bonus points for it using the strategy Paul was working on before releasing Chimchar (activating Blaze and attacking) against him.
• Defeat Means Friendship
  • Although in Paul's case, it was more like Defeat Means Respect.
• Disc One Final Boss: In the Sinnoh League tournament.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Acts like a huge Jerkass to everyone just because his older brother failed to live up to the expectations Paul had of him.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Hariyama
    • Non-Elemental: Ursaring
    • Playing with Fire: Magmortar
    • Shock and Awe: Electivire
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • An Ice Pokémon/Soul Power: Froslass
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Ninjask
    • Casting a Shadow/An Ice Pokémon: Weavile
    • Casting a Shadow/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Honchkrow
    • Dishing Out Dirt (Ground)/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Gliscor
    • Extra Ore Dinary/Dishing Out Dirt (Rock): Aggron
    • Green Thumb/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Torterra
    • Making a Splash/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Gastrodon
    • Poisonous Pokémon/Casting a Shadow: Drapion
    • Poisonous Pokémon/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Nidoking
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Honchkrow's Haze, and Gastrodon's Ice Beam.
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Electivire's Brick Break, and Ursaring's Focus Blast, Hammer Arm and Bulk Up
    • Big Creepy Crawlies: Gliscor's X-Scissor, and Drapion's Pin Missile.
    • Casting a Shadow: Torterra's Crunch, and Gliscor's Knock Off.
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Magmortar's Rock Tomb.
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Weavile's Metal Claw.
    • Green Thumb: Ninjask's Giga Drain.
    • Poisonous Pokémon: Magmortar's Smog.
    • Psychic Powers: Ninjask's Agility.
    • Shock and Awe: Nidoking's Thunderbolt.
    • Soul Power: Honchkrow's Shadow Ball.
  • Released Pokémon
    • Non-Elemental: Stantler
    • Playing with Fire: Chimchar
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Starly
  • Given away Pokémon
    • Making a Splash: Azumarill
• Enemy Mine: In the Tag Battle tournament.
• Even Jerks Have Standards: While he does contemptuously release Pokémon not up to his standards, he's at least honest about his Pet the Dog Tough Love, rather than being cruel and sadistic. When compared to the other trainers whose Fire-type Starters Ash obtained (Damien and Shamus), Paul actually comes out looking the better man mostly because those two were even worse in their belittling of their loyal Pokémon - manipulating their feelings rather than being upfront about things, and then expecting to get them back when they did get strong (and they each only appeared in a single episode). Paul might be a dick, but there are lines even he wouldn't cross.
• Expy: Of Silver from GSC/HGSS.
• Freudian Excuse: A rather...flimsy one. Paul resents his brother Reggie for giving up his dreams after a single loss and vows to never be like him. He patches things up with his brother eventually.
• Frickin' Laser Beams: Torterra and Ursaring's Hyper Beam.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Beaten by his own former Pokémon that he had mistreated.
• Hot Guys Are Bastards
• Ignored Epiphany: Regardless of being on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle against Cynthia, and specifically told that he must care more by his Pokémon he refuses to take it to heart.
• Ineffectual Loner
• Jerkass: Until he was defeated by Brandon, he was largely this.
  • And even after Paul stops insulting others for the most part, he'll still give you an earful and call someone pathetic at times.
• Karma Houdini: Did not ever suffer sufficient comeuppance for his behavior.
• Kick the Dog: Seriously, don't get us started.
• Knight of Cerebus: Prior to Paul, many of the jerk trainers Ash had defeated in the past were swiftly beaten down. Paul is the first he's crossed who is highly competent. Also, despite his high standards and tough training he expects from his pokemon, one cannot deny that its achieved results. His Ursaring and Drapion flattened half of ash's team in battle.
• Lack of Empathy
• Loners Are Freaks
• Mon Bites Mon: Drapion's Poison Fang.
• Mega Manning: Uses Ash's Counter-Shield in the Sinnoh League.
• Name's the Same: In the Japanese version, his name, Shinji, is the same as the name for Lake Verity.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Anytime Ursaring is summoned.
  • Not to mention Drapion who, by itself, beat down half of Ash's Pokémon team.
  • Don't forget the "training" regiment he once put Chimchar through. 4 vs. 1. Really?
• One-Hit Kill: Gliscor's Guillotine.
• The Perfectionist: He has incredibly high standards for his Pokemon.
• Perpetual Frowner: Sometimes gets a smirk or two. A really frightening one.
• Pet the Dog: Believe it or not, he (attempts to) help protect Ash and co. from the falling debris of Team Rocket's mecha in his last appearance before the Sinnoh League. The fact that he stood there and watched them get captured by Team Rocket isn't brought up though.
  • After he defeats Barry in the Sinnoh League, he commends him for the effort he put up instead of putting him down. This is a massive change from how he treated others who lost to him, most infamously Maylene.
  • Lastly, actually thanking and commending his Electivire for a well-fought battle instead of scolding it after its loss to Infernape.
• Poison Is Evil: His team includes a Drapion, a Nidoking, and a Magmortar with Smog.
• Psycho Electro: His Electivire is just as much of a Jerkass as he is.
• Psychotic Smirk: Sometimes.
• Ravens and Crows: Honchkrow.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ash's red of the "Diamond and Pearl" series.
• Shadow Archetype
• Sibling Yin-Yang: His older brother Reggie is kind and cheerful, and treats his Pokémon very well.
• The Social Darwinist
• The Stoic
• Technician Versus Performer: The Technician to Ash's Performer.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Incredibly slowly, but it seems like he finally starts to understand his errors by the end.
• Tough Love: For all his faults, Paul is not incapable of treating his Pokémon decently - they are seen relaxing in DP 100, and Paul has arranged for Torterra to be groomed. While he would probably bite off his tongue before he admitted to being affectionate, the small number of Pokémon he does keep in his team seem well-treated overall (Chimchar is noted to be an exceptional case), and their reaction to hearing about his loss in the Sinnoh League indicates that they are, in fact, loyal to him.
• Training from Hell: Expects nothing but the best from his Pokémon. Any lower and they are released back into the wild. Although Chimchar got the worst of it, due to his desire to harness the immense power of its Blaze ability.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Abusing a Pokémon is not something a 10-year-old boy should be doing.
• Tsurime Eyes: Their shape is similar to Tobias's, oddly enough.
• Turtle Power/Turtle Island: Torterra
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: As he tells Maylene right after beating her for a Cobble Badge, "You're the weakest. The weakest Leader I ever fought, and this lightweight Badge is just like you." Stay classy, Paul.
  • As you can imagine, some fans, including those of Maylene, didn't take kindly to that.
  • However, he was rather pissed when Volkner offered him a Beacon Badge without any fight (or meeting for that matter), and never accepted it in the first place. For however much of a jerk he is, Paul won't ever take a fake victory over an earned one.
• Unstoppable Rage: The reason Chimchar was in his team for as long as it did. Partially subverted as it didn't come out until his next appearance after he released it.
  • Ursaring whenever his "Guts" ability kicks in, complete with burning crimson eyes and a visible aura.
• Vocal Dissonance: To a degree. His voice makes him sound way older than a 10-year-old.
  • Considering he's competed in as many leagues as Ash, he should be roughly around the same age, making Paul at least 13. Regardless, his voice is still deep for that age, or even for 14.
• Worthy Opponent: Not so much Paul (usually), but his Electivire developed into this to Pikachu and later Monferno/Infernape.
  • Paul bows his head to Roark, his assistant, Cynthia, Nurse Joy, and Brandon. He seems to respect his elders in general, or is at least cordial to them.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Releases Pokémon which he perceives as being weak or useless without a second thought.
• Younger Than They Look: His voice doesn't help.

Professor Rowan (Dr. Nanakamado)

Voiced in Japanese by: Iemasa Kayumi

Voiced in English by: Sean Reyes

• Badass Moustache
• The Comically Serious
• Cool Old Guy
• Deadpan Snarker: Very frequently. For instance, see his first appearance, in DP001:
  Dawn (after bumping into him): I'm - I'm so sorry!
  Rowan (turning to face her): Hello. You're looking lost.
  Dawn: Huh? Are you talking to me, sir?
  Rowan: Right. There's no one else here and you're looking very lost.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Summer School arc gave him some much-deserved extra screentime.
• Looming Silhouette of Rage: In the Summer School arc.
• The Mentor: To Gary, it seems.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• The Straight Man: To his old friend Professor Oak.

Johanna (Ayako)

Voiced in Japanese by: Makot Tsumura

Voiced in English by: Sarah Natochenny

• Action Mom: She was a champion Coordinator in her days and hasn't missed a step since then. She still easily beats Dawn in battle.
• Cool Crown
• Cute Kitten: Glameow
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Casting a Shadow: Umbreon
    • Non-Elemental: Glameow
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Glameow and Umbreon's Iron Tail.
    • Soul Power: Glameow's Shadow Ball and Shadow Claw, and Umbreon's Shadow Ball.
• Emotion Bomb: Umbreon's Attract.
• Good Parents
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Sarah Natochenny, who also voices Ash and Delia in the PUSA dub.
• Opera Gloves: With one of her Contest outfits.
• Retired Badass
• Talking To Herself: See Hey, It's That Voice! above.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Zoey (Nozomi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Risa Hayamizu

Voiced in English by: Elisabeth Morinelli

• Always Someone Better: To date, Dawn has never beaten her directly in a contest.
• Bifauxnen: Her Contest outfits are tuxes or pantsuits, save for her Grand Festival one which looks more like a stylized kimono...thing.
• Boyish Short Hair: She's easily the most tomboyish of Dawn's rivals. She also has short and spiky hair.
• Butch Lesbian: How she often comes across.
• Catch Phrase: "[Pokémon]! Ready? Go!"
  • At least in the first season of Diamond and Pearl: "[Pokémon]! Curtain!"
• Character Development: She initially did not like trainers wanting to do contests and gym battle quests at the same time, and let Ash know this in a rather cold manner (when he said he'd try entering both the Sinnoh League and the Grand Festival). After they faced off, she eased off towards him but still noted he'd not be the best fit for Contests due to his temperament (a fact Ash agreed with). When she first met Nando she was similarly contemptuous, but was blown away after he clobbered her at the Hearthome Contest. By the time of the Wallace Cup, she accepted the closed-off nature of this perspective and properly apologised to Ash for her attitude - and later, she battled Gym Leader Fantina (a former Top Coordinator) in a straight match which she enjoyed.
  • The issue she had with people trying both was, really, that she herself was highly invested in her own dream, and she felt those people weren't putting their all into it (a not -entirely unjustified viewpoint). Meeting people capable of fulfilling multiple dreams broadened her perspective.
• Cool Big Sis: What she's trying to come across as.
• Cool Shades
• Curtains Match the Window
• Cute Kitten: Glameow (who Zoey actually did find as a kitten!)
• Doppelgänger Spin: Mismagius and Leafeon's Double Team.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Green Thumb: Leafeon
    • Making a Splash: Lumineon
    • Non-Elemental: Glameow
    • Soul Power: Mismagius
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Making a Splash/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Gastrodon
    • Psychic Powers/Bare-Fisted Monk: Gallade
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Gastrodon's Blizzard.
    • Big Creepy Crawlies: Lumineon's Silver Wind and Gallade's Signal Beam.
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Glameow's Iron Tail.
    • Green Thumb: Gallade's Magical Leaf.
    • Psychic Powers: Mismagius's Psywave.
    • Shock and Awe: Glameow's Shock Wave and Thunderbolt, and Mismagius's Shock Wave.
    • Soul Power: Glameow's Shadow Claw.
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Leafeon's Aerial Ace.
• Energy Ball: Leafeon's attack.
• Fiery Redhead
• Laser Blade: Leafeon's Leaf Blade.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: She has red hair.
• Meaningful Name: The Nozomi is a Japanese bullet train service that goes in the opposite direction of the Hikari bullet train service. The Nozomi is faster than the Hikari.
• Old Shame: In-Universe, the aforementioned attitude to people doing both Gyms and Contests. When Candice deduced that she'd expressed this towards Ash and his friends, Zoey became embarrassed.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Nando's blue.
• Sempai Kohai: Kohai to Snowpoint Gym Leader Candice.
• Spell My Name with an S: Her name is frequently misspelled as "Zoe".
• Straight Man
• Technicolor Eyes: Red.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Dawn's Girly Girl.
  • Accentuated by the fact that she always wears suits in her Contests, never dresses. In addition to the contrast, it shows that she's no less feminine than Dawn, just unconventional about it - her flashy suit in the Grand Festival was particularly fashionable and made to accentuate her femininity instead of negating it.
• Tsundere: Towards Nando in Dawn's Early Night!
• Wise Beyond Her Years: She's a very knowledgable and insightful character. Not without her flaws, but still rather mature for her apparent age.
• Worthy Opponent: To Nando and Dawn.

Kenny (Kengo)

Voiced in Japanese by: Yuko Mita

Voiced in English by: Rhonda Krempa

• Bubble Gun: Empoleon's, as a Prinplup, Bubble Beam.
• Crossdressing Voices
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Machoke
    • Making a Splash: Floatzel
    • Psychic Powers: Alakazam
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Green Thumb/Bare-Fisted Monk: Breloom
    • Making a Splash/Extra Ore Dinary: Empoleon
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Empoleon's Mist.
    • Soul Power: Alakazam's Shadow Ball.
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Empoleon's Drill Peck.
• Energy Ball: Breloom's attack. Also, Empoleon's Flash Cannon.
• Epic Fail: His performance at the grand festival. Seriously Kenny, the least you could do is make sure your combination actually works before using it at an important event.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: Empoleon.
• Forgotten Childhood Friend: Dawn apparently didn't know he was going to be a coordinator.
• Megaton Punch: Breloom's Mach Punch.
• Mind Over Matter: Alakazam
• The Nicknamer: Came up with Dee-Dee/Pikari.
• Odd Friendship: With Barry.
• Razor Wind: Floatzel's attack.
• Shonen Hair

Reggie (Reiji)

Voiced in Japanese by: Tetsuya Kakihara

Voiced in English by: Tom Wayland

• Chekhov's Gun: in "Lost Leader Strategy", Reggie's revealed to have completed the badges in each of the four regions. He also has the Symbols from the Battle Frontier, but there's one missing, which means a lot more when Paul's backstory is elaborated further.
• Cool Big Bro
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Poisonous Pokémon: Swalot
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Non-Elemental/Making a Splash: Bibarel
    • Non-Elemental/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Staraptor
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Bibarel's Ice Beam.
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Staraptor's Steel Wing.
• Friend to All Living Things: Well, duh. He's a Pokémon Breeder. It's his job.
• Foil: To Ash, in a way - which is the reason Paul actively dislikes the latter. In fact, take a look at the Badges and Symbols he's earned - they're all the same ones as Ash achieved in his journey.
• Moral Dissonance: He's quite aware of Paul's...training methods, but doesn't even lift a finger to discipline his brother or teach him the error of his ways. Of course, no one thinks to call him out on this.
  • In Reggie's defense, when Maylene relates her ego-crushing encounter with Paul to Ash, he admits Paul's always had a cruel streak. It could be that he's tried to curb this side of him, but failed. This is Truth in Television - stubborn people like Paul often can't be convinced that they are wrong, especially not with just words.
• Morality Pet: Could be considered this for Paul.
• Nice Guy
• One Reggie Limit: Subverted. A character of the day from Best Wishes has the same Japanese, but not English, name as him.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He wears a pink shirt.
• Retired Badass: Four complete sets of 8 Gym Badges, and six of the Kanto Frontier Brain Symbols (the only one he doesn't have is Brandon's).
• Sibling Yin-Yang: He's the exact opposite of Paul. He's a nice guy who trains hard, values friendship, and succeeds in his goals and ambitions. Paul is a Jerk Ass of the highest calibur who thinks friendship is a load of Tauros. All because his older brother is the successful one.
• Theme Naming: In the Korean and Chinese dubs of the show, he shares a character in his name with Paul.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Barry (Jun)

Voiced in Japanese by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Voiced in English by: Jamie McGonnigal (EN)

• Anime Hair
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: This is basically his strategy in battle. And it doesn't help that he's not particularly creative either.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: His usual approach to events. Though he once waited long enough for a Heracross to be attracted by slathered honey.
• Butt Monkey
• Catchphrase: Some variant of "I'm going to make you pay a fine for that!"
• Character Exaggeration: He doesn't have the level of characterisation (and Character Development) his game counterpart had, nearly to the point of being a Satellite Character.
• Character Tics: Snapping his fingers.
• Crash into Hello: But he's the one not looking where he's going!
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He was beaten 3-0 by Paul in the league.
• The Ditz
• Dumb Blonde: While not at all unintelligent, he's seriously impatient and rushes into things without thinking.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Hitmonlee
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Bare-Fisted Monk: Heracross
    • Extra Ore Dinary/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Skarmory
    • Green Thumb/Poisonous Pokémon: Roserade
    • Making a Splash/Extra Ore Dinary: Empoleon
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Staraptor's Close Combat.
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Skarmory's Spikes.
    • Playing with Fire: Hitmonlee's Blaze Kick.
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Empoleon's Drill Peck.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: Empoleon
• Failed a Spot Check: He was so absorbed in telling Dawn and Brock about Tobias the Olympus Mons trainer that it took him a while to even notice Ash's match.
• Frickin' Laser Beams: Empoleon's Hyper Beam.
• Gratuitous English: Most notably, "BEST FRIENDS!" and "DADDY!?"
• Horn Attack: This and Megahorn are Heracross' attacks.
• Hot Blooded: He is the son of Palmer after all. He throws his Poké Ball so hard, he does a complete forward flip in the process.
• Keet: Oh God is he ever.
• The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Currently the last recipient of the series-wide Running Gag of the fate of bicycles around Ash. Only in Barry's case, it was Gible's fault, not Pikachu.
• No Indoor Voice
• Noodle Incident: According to Dawn, he was once involved in a singing duet with an Exploud.
• Razor Wings: Staraptor's Wing Attack.
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Screams Like a Little Girl
• Small Name, Big Ego
• Strong Family Resemblance: With Palmer, his father.
• Technicolor Eyes: Orange.
• Unknown Rival: Wants to be a Rival of Paul's. But if it was even possible, Paul treats him with more disdain than he does with Ash. After his loss in the Sinnoh League, Paul does acknowledge his skill.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In "To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!" he pretty much disappears after losing and is not heard from until his next appearance in "Historical Mystery Tour".

Ursula (Urara)

Voiced in Japanese by: Akako Kawasumi

Voiced in English by: Melisa Schroenburg

• Alpha Bitch
  • Bitchier Than Thou: She seems to find "Jesselina" to be worse than she is.
• Anime Hair
  • Hair Decorations: Her purple ribbons.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: She has drills for hair.
  • Mega Twintails
  • You Gotta Have Pink Hair
• Arrogant Pokémon Contest Girl: In her first appearance, she refuses to believe Dawn's win against May was based on skill.
• Break the Haughty: The only way for Dawn to do it was to knock out her Pokémon in their third battle.
• Combat Pragmatist: Just like Harley before her.
  • Although to be fair, Harley was pretty sadistic towards May, took offense to the smallest things, and more or less tried to break her spirit in public.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Doppelgänger Spin: Gabite's Double Team.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Making a Splash: Vaporeon
    • Non-Elemental: Jigglypuff
    • Playing with Fire: Flareon
    • Shock and Awe: Plusle and Minun.
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Wormadam (Sandy Cloak)
    • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Gabite
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Jigglypuff's Rollout.
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Gabite, Flareon and Vaporeon's Iron Tail, and Jigglypuff's Gyro Ball.
    • Psychic Powers: Wormadam's Confusion.
    • Soul Power: Flareon's Shadow Ball.
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Gabite's Aerial Ace.
• Evil Counterpart: To Dawn.
• Expy: The resemblances with Urara Kasugano are...uncanny, to say the least.
  • Another uncanny resemblance: Amy from the Soul Series.
  • What about Kasane Teto, an UTAUloid who has the same hairstyle and hair color, and wears an outfit that resembles Ursula's contest dress?
  • Her personality and role, though not her appearance, are also similar to Harley's.
• Game Breaker: In one contest, where the goal is to battle while impressing the judges with varied and spectacular moves, she uses Encore, a move that forces the opponents to do the same move repeatedly and thus lose points with the judges.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her hair ribbons.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Rival: She appears three times in the series. Each time she loses.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Dawn's light.
• Mon Bites Mon: Flareon's Fire Fang.
• Manipulative Bitch: Poor Dawn...
• The Other Darrin: In the Latin American dub, she was voiced by Betzabe Jara from Another One Gabites the Dust! up until Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn! where Cristina Hernández took over.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Gabite
• Pet the Dog: Despite her arrogance, Ursula cares for her Pokémon and treats them well. And she comes to have some respect for Dawn in the end, as much as she may deny it.
• Rolling Attack: Jigglypuff's Rollout, also Plusle and Minun's "twin attack formation" in Playing the Performance Encore!
• Shadow Archetype: To Dawn. They're both ambitious and talented at Contests, but the difference is that Dawn is kind and sweet to nearly everyone she meets, while Ursula taunts her opponents, boasts about her abilities, and has no qualms about humiliating her opponents in public.
  • She could also be considered one to Zoey as she belittles Dawn and puts her down while Zoey is a helpful big sister mentor to her instead.
• Technicolor Eyes: A dark pink.
• True Blue Femininity: Her Grand Festival dress is three different shades of blue.
• Woman in Black: The bodice of her Contest outfit.

Conway (Kōhei/Kouhei)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kozo Mito

Voiced in English by: Billy Regan

• Adjusting Your Glasses: Type 2 is his Character Tic.
• Badass Bookworm
• Battle Couple: Formed one with Dawn in the Tag Battle Tournament. Although the affection is one-sided...
• Bishōnen
• Blue with Shock: When he found out the "little girl" he partnered with in a Pokémon Summer Academy race was a ghost.
• Breakout Character
• Character Tics: Tweaking and/or shining his glasses.
• Creepy Monotone: Speaks like this briefly in "Ghoul Daze!" when under the ghost girl's mind-control.
• Crossdressing Voices: In the Hebrew dub.
• Death Glare: Dusknoir's Mean Look.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Non-Elemental: Lickilicky
    • Soul Power: Dusknoir
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Bare-Fisted Monk: Heracross
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Dishing Out Dirt (Rock): Shuckle
    • Extra Ore Dinary/Dishing Out Dirt (Rock): Aggron
    • Making a Splash/Psychic Powers: Slowking
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Shuckle's Gyro Ball.
    • Green Thumb: Lickilicky's Power Whip.
    • Making a Splash: Shuckle's Withdraw.
    • Poisonous Pokémon: Shuckle's Sludge Bomb.
    • Psychic Powers: Shuckle's Power Trick and Dusknoir's Trick Room.
    • Shock and Awe: Lickilicky's Thunderbolt and Dusknoir's Thunder Punch.
    • Soul Power: Lickilicky's Lick.
• Establishing Character Moment
  Conway: (off screen) Well, how are you, Number 28?
  Dawn: (cheerfully) I'm fine!
  (the screen cuts to a close-up of Conway with Scary Shiny Glasses)
  Conway: That's good. Conway is the name. A pleasure.
• Expy: His design is based on the Super Nerd Trainer class in the main Pokémon games.
• Guile Hero
• Horn Attack: Heracross' Megahorn.
• Megane
• Mighty Glacier: Dusknoir
  • Lightning Bruiser: ...when using Trick Room.
    • Also, to an extent, his Shuckle. It's not fast, but its defenses are really good, and there's a special move that unlocks its offensive powers...
• Mind-Control Eyes: When brainwashed by a ghost girl in Ghoul Daze!
• Near Death Experience: In Ghoul Daze, he almost gets lured off a cliff by a creepy ghost girl. Luckily, he's saved by a Dusknoir.
• Nerds Are Sexy
• Non-Action Guy: He loses the Pokémon Triathlon, not because of Laser-Guided Karma, but because he's bad at long-distance running.
• Overly Long Tongue: He doesn't have one, but his Lickilicky does.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: The master of them.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• Shirtless Scene: In Up Close and Personable!
• Single-Target Sexuality: He's a Dawnsexual.
• Spell My Name with an S: His Japanese name can be spelled either "Kōhei" or "Kouhei".
• Stalker with a Crush: Towards Dawn.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: One of his more creepy talents.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Fans have noted his strong physical resemblance to Max.
• Take That: At geeky fanboys/"otakus".
• Talking to Himself: Averted — he shares his English voice actor with Nando, but has never spoken to him, though he did watch his League battle against Ash.
• Teen Genius
• Third-Person Person: "That was quite nice...but Conway never gives up!"
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Nando (Naoshi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kazuya Nakai

Voiced in English by: Billy Regan

• Actor Allusion: Billy Regan/Bill Timoney playing an effeminate green-wearing Pokémon Coordinator with a humanoid Grass-type Pokémon and a Nice Hat. No, this does not sound familiar at all.
• Aerith and Bob: On the "Aerith" side of the scale, obviously.
• Agent Peacock
• Ambiguously Gay: He acts more subtle about it than Harley, but he is still really effeminate. Seriously, watch him doing his Contest performance during Dawn's Early Night — he looks like he's wearing mascara.
• Antiquated Linguistics / Spock Speak: His manner of speech is noticeably more formal than most other characters tend to use ("It's been a while, has it not?")
• Art Evolution: Compare this (Dawn of a New Era) to this◊ (League Unleashed).
• Ascended Extra: Appeared in one of the the very first episodes, seemingly as a one-shot character, and after several noteworthy apearances he ultimately features in both the Grand Festival and the Sinnoh Conference.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
• Badass: Say what you will about him, but consider this - while most other major characters were practically scrambling to get either eight badges or five ribbons in time for their event, Nando managed to attain both complete sets in time for each major competition. He also reached the Top 4 in the Sinnoh Grand Festival, and if he hadn't been matched up against Ash so early in the Lily of the Valley Conference, it's quite probable he'd have gotten further than just the Top 64 in that competition, as well.
  • Badass Cape
  • Badass Longhair
• Barrier Warrior: Armaldo's and Lopunny's Protect.
• Big Damn Heroes: He had his Budew save Ash and friends from Team Rocket in his debut episode.
• Bishie Sparkle: "Sunflora, GrassWhistle! Sing, Kricketune!"
• Bishōnen
• Big "NO!": Drops one when Ash's Heracross KO's his Kricketune with Megahorn in the Sinnoh League.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer
• Character Tics: He often says things in a sing-song voice.
• Clear Their Name: In A Secret Sphere of Influence!, Officer Jenny arrests him because she thinks he stole the Adamant Orb.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: He likes Grass-types and he's in tune with nature so his color motif is green.
• Conflict Killer: His establishing character moment was breaking up an argument between Ash and Dawn.
• Cowardly Lion: Not Nando himself, but his Sunflora. It abandoned him when he was arrested by Officer Jenny, but hunted down Team Rocket for framing him and exposed their disguises, preventing them from successfully escaping the museum with the Adamant Orb.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his polite and very feminine demeanor, he's no pushover when it comes to Pokémon battles.
• Dance Battler: Lopunny, Roserade and Sunflora.
• Dark Horse Victory: In the Hearthome Contest
• A Day in the Limelight: Two words - Grand Festival.
• Defeat Means Friendship: After he clobbered Zoey off-screen in Dawn's Early Night!, she changed her mind about not accepting Trainers who choose to participate in both Gyms and Contests.
• Depending on the Artist: In Dawn of a New Era! and A Secret Sphere of Influence!, his bangs would be drawn facing the wrong direction, then change back in the next shot.
• Dramatic Wind
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy Crawlies: Kricketune and Kricketot.
    • Green Thumb: Sunflora
    • Non-Elemental: Lopunny
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Dishing Out Dirt (Rock)/Big Creepy Crawlies: Armaldo
    • Green Thumb/Poisonous Pokémon: Roserade
    • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Altaria
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Lopunny's Blizzard.
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Lopunny's Focus Blast.
    • Playing with Fire: Roserade's Sunny Day.
• Even the Guys Want Him: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example. When James and Meowth are selling Pokémon Coordinator merchandise during Opposites Interact, you can hear a male voice saying, "I'd like a photo of Nando..."
• Extreme Doormat: He let the Eterna City Officer Jenny tie him up in A Secret Sphere of Influence!. That should tell you something.
• Expy: Of Robert (played straight) and Harley (aesthetically).
• Flat Character: Gets this accusation thrown at him a lot because unlike the other Sinnoh rivals he's just a straight-up Nice Guy whose spirit never wavers at all.
• Fluffy Fashion Feathers: There's one in his hat during the Grand Festival arc.
• Friend to All Living Things
• Gentleman and a Scholar
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: His harp and shoulderplate.
• Harp of Femininity: Inverted and played straight at the same time — he's a guy who plays the harp, but an extremely feminine guy at that.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Nando is Zoro!
• Long Bus Trip: Ignoring his cameo in A Breed Stampede, he disappeared for a year after Dawn's Early Night.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Iconic Item: His harp.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Zoey, Dawn, Brock, and Ash.
• Just a Stupid Accent
• Magic Music/Musical Assassin
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine Boy to Zoey's Masculine Girl.
• Meaningful Name: Probably a coincidence, but he shares his Japanese name with Naoshi Mizuta, another musician.
• Motifs: Music notes, fittingly.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed — he has smaller and more realistically drawn eyes than other characters. It's especially obvious when his headshot is visible among the others on a Pokémon Contest screen.
• Nerves of Steel: Manages to maintain calm even when being arrested and interrogated for a crime he didn't commit.
• Never Bareheaded: He never takes his hat off.
• Nice Guy: Very much so.
• Nice Hat
• Not So Stoic: In really intense battles.
• Omnidisciplinary Trainer: Only character to regularly participate in both Contests and Gym Battles.
• Out of Focus: And how - he disappeared for 125 episodes after "Dawn's Early Night!" (barring a brief cameo), before finally returning for real during the Grand Festival and the Lily of the Valley Conference.
• Peek-A-Bangs
• Perpetual Smiler
• Playing Against Type: He is far more quiet than many other characters Kazuya Nakai has played.
• The Pollyanna
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Zoey's red.
• Rhymes on a Dime: In the early episodes ("What is usually hidden, you now have the eyes with which to see/the forest song allows it to be/a gift for you and me"), although he stopped doing it by "Dawn's Early Night".
• Say My Name:
  Officer Jenny: Excuse me. I've just captured Suspect #1. (she pulls Nando into the shot) Get this. He calls himself a Pokémon troubadour, but I don't buy it at all.
  Ash/Brock/Dawn: Nando?!
• Sharp Dressed Man
• Ship Tease: With Gardenia in A Secret Sphere of Influence!
• The Southpaw: Plays his harp with his left hand.
• The Storyteller: "In the beginning, there was only a churning turmoil of chaos. And at the heart of the chaos, where all things become one, came the one."
• Talking to Himself: Averted. Bill Timoney also does voice work for Conway, but the two have never shared a scene together.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Unexplained Accent: The American dub gives him a European accent that seems to vary from episode to episode.
• The Unfought: Dawn never faced him directly in an actual Contest battle (though they did have a practice bout in DP004, which he won).
• Vague Age: Appears to be in his early 20s, but his outfit and old-fashioned speech patterns give the impression of someone much older.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice sounds noticeably different in Last Call, First Round! than in Dawn's Early Night!
• Wandering Minstrel: Textbook example.
• Waistcoat of Style: Wears one under his cape.
• What The Hell Is That Accent?: It sounds vaguely Hispanic, but also Irish at times.
• The Worf Effect: He makes it all the way to the top four of the Sinnoh Grand Festival, only to get thrown out of the competition by Zoey. Come the Sinnoh League, Ash wipes the floor with Nando in the very first round of the Qualifying Matches (the Top 64). In fairness, you can probably blame this on the writers for making Ash his first opponent, or perhaps Zoey was right all along that he should have just stuck with contests. But he sure didn't go out withouta fight.
• Worthy Opponent: To Zoey and Ash.

Tobias (Takuto)

Voiced in Japanese by: Hiroki Takahashi

Voiced in English by: J Michael Tatum

• Aerith and Bob
• Anime Hair
  • Curtains Match the Window: Grayish-blue hair, light blue eyes.
  • Peek-A-Bangs
  • You Gotta Have Grayish-Blue Hair
• Badass Cape
• Curb-Stomp Battle: As mentioned above, he beat Sinnoh's Gym Leaders and got to the League Semifinals using just Darkrai. Against Ash, he is forced to bust out a Latios, which get knocked out as well in a double KO that defeats Ash. Even in the final battle, [most of which is not shown] he actually wins with only Darkrai.
• Dark Is Not Evil: No, the creepy guy with the Darkrai is not evil. He actually congratulates Ash on a good battle after he wins.
• Elemental Powers
  • Single type Pokémon
    • Casting a Shadow: Darkrai
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons/Psychic Powers: Latios
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • An Ice Pokémon: Darkrai's Ice Beam.
    • Psychic Powers: Darkrai's Dream Eater.
• The Faceless: For about a couple episodes. Although pay attention and you can see his face relatively clearly in the tournament standings. He's the only one with hair like that.
• Fan Nickname: "Trollbias".
• Hey, It's That Voice!: More notable in the dub — the first of five cross-region voice actor cameos during 2011. Tatum would later voice Damon in Pokémon: The Movie Black/White.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: A lot of people were predicting that Darkrai would be the most he'd bring to the table.
• The Juggernaut
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: He easily defeats every Trainer he comes up against, including Ash, and goes on to win the Sinnoh League. He also wears a red cape.
• Olympus Mons: Darkrai and Latios.
• One Steve Limit: Averted in the Japanese version. Tommy from the Pokémon Trainer's School (a Hoenn character of the day) shares the same Japanese name as him.
  • And, to an extent, the fact that Tobias's Darkrai makes the THIRD we've seen so far (movies are Canon). I mean, Legendaries have been proven to come in multiples before (PowerOfOne!Lugia, Silver, and his mother; Heroes has practically a herd of Latios and Latias in flashback).
• The Reveal: His second Pokémon is Latios. Didn't see that coming, did you?
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Peek-A-Bangs hairstyle, mysterious air, Badass Cape, unusual name...Nando, is that you?
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Tsurime Eyes
• The Unreveal: Only two of his Pokémon were shown in his fight against Ash. Also, no explanation was given as how did he caught them even after the battle.

Looker (Handsome)

Voiced in Japanese by: Masaki Terasoma

Voiced in English by: Jason Griffith

• Badass Longcoat
• Badass Normal: Unlike the games, he doesn't have any Pokemon to help in his assignments. He's extremely competent despite this.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns in Black and White 2: Episode N to investigate Team Plasma, possibly to reflect his appearance in the games.
• Master of Disguise
• Obfuscating Stupidity: When we first meet him, he comes off as a bit quirky due to having bought too many lunches on the train (the fact he gave some to TR explains why they're loyal to him later). At the end of that episode we find out he's investigating Team Galactic.
• Only Known By Their Codename
• Police Are Useless: Averted!
• Talking to Himself: Jason also voices Cilan.
• The Worf Effect: He is captured during the climax of both the Team Galactic and the Team Plasma arc.

Pokémon Hunter J

Voiced in Japanese by: Takako Honda

Voiced in English by: Sonny Dey

• All Webbed Up: She uses her Ariados' String Shot to keep Trainers out of the way by tying them to a tree, rock or other nearby object while she steals their Pokémon.
• Bad Boss: Not afraid to sacrifice her minions if she can save her own hide.
• The Bad Guy Wins: She technically got exactly what she wanted in the Riolu two-parter, with her client paying her for delivering Riolu to him. And if he happened to be apprehended by the police shortly afterwards... well, rotten luck, but she has her money and there's always more people to hire her and Pokémon to poach.
• Badass Longcoat
• Badass Normal
• Cool Airship: Her method of transport.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She not only captures the entire Lake Trio (with future consequences), but also makes a nearly successful attempt on the Regi quartet.
• Elemental Powers
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy Crawlies/Poisonous Pokémon: Ariados
    • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons/Wind From Beneath My Wings: Salamence
    • Poisonous Pokémon/Casting a Shadow: Drapion
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type
    • Playing with Fire: Salamence's Flamethrower.
• Frickin' Laser Beams: Salamence's Hyper Beam.
• Hero Killer: Though nobody dies by her hand, she's so dangerous that even Ash and Co. take her very seriously. Most notably when Brandon and his Regis were all Taken for Granite trying to protect Regigigas; were it not for Regigigas' Hidden Power they might not have been restored at all.
• Jerkass: You don't say?
• Karmic Death: See Killed Off for Real below.
• Karma Houdini: She kept escaping even if her plans were foiled...until her last appearance.
• Killed Off for Real: Most likely.
  • Never Found the Body: And they probably won't if it blew up like her ship.
• Knight of Cerebus: Every episode she appears in is dark and serious, guaranteed. When your repertoire includes being an abhorrent piece of work (even among Pokémon hunters & poachers), this is to be expected.
• Lack of Empathy: Kind of a requirement to be a legit Pokémon poacher by now.
• No Nonsense Nemesis: Has on several occasions just tried to kill Ash.
• One Letter Name
• Only in It for the Money: She abandons her battle on more than one occasion when her client reneges on the payment.
• Poison Is Evil: She uses an Ariados and Drapion in battle.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She won't hurt the Pokémon she captures, they're much too valuable for that.
• Psycho for Hire
• Salamence Rider
• Sinister Shades
• The Sociopath
• The Stoic: Unless she's wearing a Slasher Smile.
• Taken for Granite: What happens to the Pokémon she captures. Works on humans, too. It can be reversed, but only if you pull the dial on the case it's in or revive the Pokémon in question by using Hidden Power on it.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
• Villain Team Up: Hired by Team Galactic during the Galactic arc's finale.
• Wave Motion Gun: Her Salamence knows Hyper Beam.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Would Hurt a Child: Defied, and not because Even Evil Has Standards. In a flashback by an Officer Jenny in Mutiny in the Bounty, she is seen saying to a Teddiursa as it frantically claws at its glass cage, "I won't hurt you. You're much too valuable for that."
  • And then she is seen to play it straight when she has her Drapion try to kill Ash. It's not like she can sell him for money, after all.

Team Galactic

• Adaptational Villainy: In a sense. They were always villains, but the anime portrays them as much darker than they were in the games, and as much more self-interested rather than Well Intentioned Extremists. Even Cyrus' altruistic qualities have been completely removed, and his tragic backstory (though loosely still hinted at) is never brought up.
• Curtains Match the Window: All the major members have matching hair and eyes.
• Evil Counterpart: The Galactic Commanders and Cyrus can be seen as this to the series' Power Trio and Cynthia, respectively. Most obviously, Brock's Croagunk has a mutual emnity with Saturn's Toxicroak, and Cyrus' lack of respect for life and disgust for connection between sentient beings counters the way Cynthia cherishes both. Beyond that, Jupiter reveals that the Commanders were intended to bond with the Lake Trio, a plan the Trio foiled by bonding with the Power Trio. By that logic - and the fact that they aren't perfect in this regard considering they mostly don't have individual, climactic confrontations, it also falls apart but still has some merit, as seen below:
  • Saturn (Evil Genius) vs. Brock (Smart Guy) - Knowledge, representing Uxie.
  • Mars (Dark Chick) vs. Dawn (The Chick) - Emotion, representing Mesprit.
  • Jupiter vs. Ash (both Hot Blooded) - Willpower, representing Azelf.
• Five-Bad Band:
  • Big Bad - Cyrus
  • Co-Dragons -
    • Number Two - Saturn
    • Dark Chick - Mars
    • The Brute - Jupiter
  • Evil Genius - Charon
  • Sixth Ranger - Hunter J
• Knight of Cerebus - As with Paul and Hunter J, any episode featuring them is darker than the norm.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Their actions are a lot darker than what most antagonists in the show have attempted, even Hunter J - trying to blow up Iron Island and all of its inhabitants is a major instance of this.

Cyrus (Akagi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kenta Miyake

Voiced in English by: Sean Schemmel

• Big Bad: Of Team Galactic, and nominally the closest thing Diamond and Pearl has to one (at least during Season 12).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In his first appearance he appeared to be a seemingly-legit businessman, the heroes unaware he was the founder and leader of Team Galactic.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Hunter J captures the Lake Trio for him, who are then brought under his control by the Red Chain. Then he nearly succeeds in forcing Dialga and Palkia to create his new world at the expense of the already-existing one.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: There's really no spark in his gaze, which coupled with his natural demeanour reflects the nihilism he emits.
• Famous Last Words: "This is my perfect world, governed by an order that does not require heart or conscience. It's mine. MINE ALONE!"
• Killed Off for Real: Even as the dimension Dialga and Palkia created for him slowly fades away he steps inside and disappears forever, presumably dying for his desired world (rather than living in a world he loathes). This is a little overlooked though, especially considering it happened in the episode after Hunter J's death.
• Omnicidal Maniac
• Power Crystal: He uses crystals of the Red Chain as mind-control devices to command the Lake Trio.
• Pyrrhic Victory: He technically got exactly what he wanted (his "perfect world"), but he didn't get very long to enjoy it.
• Slasher Smile: From time to time.
• The Stoic: Making any moments he has of emotion telling - he generally tries to restrain himself, but sometimes can't really help it.
• Traitor Shot: He gets several during DP096 and DP097.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Until the Team Galactic finale.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Saturn

Voiced in Japanese by: Akemi Okamura

Voiced in English by: Marc Thompson

• Arch-Enemy: His Toxicroak to Brock's Croagunk.
• Graceful Loser: He takes the downfall of Team Galactic's plans — and the revelation that Cyrus cares nothing for his subordinates — quite calmly all things considered, unlike Mars. However, his somber tone indicates he's just masking his pain.
• Heel Realisation: As he processes the fact Cyrus will leave them behind to be destroyed with the old world, Saturn then stops Mars from following their treacherous Leader and — by all accounts — turns himself in to the police to face justice without a fuss.
• Poison Is Evil: His main Pokémon is a Toxicroak.
• Uncatty Resemblance: He has a hairstyle that mimics Mars' Purugly's ears.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Mars

Voiced in Japanese by: Rie Tanaka

Voiced in English by: Lisa Ortiz

• Big "NO!": Her reaction to seeing Cyrus' "death".
• Broken Bird: Implicitly so, at the end of the Team Galactic arc.
• Cats Are Mean: Her main Pokémon is a Purugly.
• Evil Redhead
• Fiery Redhead: She is more emotive than her other commanders.
• Perky Female Minion
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Uncatty Resemblance: Somewhat. Her hairstyle resembles the spike on the head of Saturn's Toxicroak.
• Villainous BSOD: Cyrus disappearing into his "perfect world" seems to have broken her. When last we see her, she's completely silent and without her usual spark, not acknowledging either Saturn or Jupiter as the three of them are being taken into custody.

Jupiter

Voiced in Japanese by: Chinami Nishimura

Voiced in English by: Eileen Stevens

• Laughing Mad: She cackles after her defeat by Cynthia and being apprehended by Looker, confident in her leader despite being beaten.
• Out of Focus: Not extreme, but Jupiter is the only Galactic Commander not assigned the outright command of a mission, and on top of that she's mainly restricted to side roles in screen time compared to Mars and Saturn.
• Playing with Fire: Her main Pokémon is a Skuntank that knows Flamethrower.
• Poison Is Evil: Said Skuntank is also half Poison-type...
  • Dark Is Evil: ...and Dark-type, too.
• Straw Nihilist: Flat-out says that if the world is destroyed, along with herself, then that would be "fine with her".
• We Can Rule Together: Gives Ash, Dawn, and Brock an offer to join Team Galactic.
• Would Hurt a Child: Willing to have her Pokémon use Iron Tail on Ash, Dawn, and Brock.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Charon (Pluto)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kenichi Ogata

Voiced in English by: Mike Pollock

• Evil Laugh: Which Jupiter finds absolutely annoying to hear.
• Jerkass: His impatient shouting at a frightened, crying Shellos - who was only caught up in the midst of their plans because Team Galactic digging into Mt. Coronet disrupted its native habitat and displaced it - is a major Kick the Dog. This guy - more than any other Galactic member - is colossal dick.
• Karma Houdini: As far as we see, he escaped justice - unlike Cyrus, who appears to have perished; or Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter, who are arrested.
• Mad Scientist

Roark (Hyouta)

Voiced in Japanese by: Masataka Azuma

Voiced in English by: Craig Blair

• Bishōnen
• Calling the Old Man Out: He accuses his father of abandoning his family for nothing more than his love of fossils, and also preferring defense to offense.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Elemental Powers: Roark specializes in Rock type Pokémon.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Geodude's Seismic Toss.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: Onix's Screech.
  • Playing with Fire: Rampardos's Flamethrower.
  • Psychic Powers: Rampardos's Zen Headbutt.
• Fiery Redhead: More of the "fiercely passionate" variety than "hot-headed", generally, except for when it comes to Byron...
• Guest Star Party Member: Sort of - four episodes straight in Oreburgh City, and then a significant role for another two at Canalave City.
  • The Bus Came Back
• Nice Guy
• Reasonable Authority Figure/Gym Leaders Who Actually Do Something: Actively involved in the mining duties of his city, and later stops Team Rocket when dealing with their theft of the Fossil Restoration machine.
• Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: He challenges his father to a battle to resolve this, and champions the force of Rampardos against Byron's immovable Bastiodon. No winner is clearly determined.
• Use Your Head: Rampardos's Headbutt and Zen Headbutt.

Gardenia (Natane)

Voiced in Japanese by: Chieko Honda

Voiced in English by: Lara Star Rigores

• Bare Your Midriff
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Curtains Match the Window
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appears briefly during Cheryl's three-part arc, in DP031 ("The Grass-type is Always Greener") before having a full introduction in Eterna City.
  • The Bus Came Back: In DP055.
• Elemental Powers: Gardenia specializes in Grass type Pokémon.
  • Casting a Shadow: Turtwig's Bite.
  • Light 'em Up: Roserade's Flash.
  • Poisonous Pokémon: Roserade's secondary type.
• Felony Misdemeanor: "The crooks were using Grass-type Pokémon, huh? They've got some nerve! Those jerks!"
  • Hypocritical Humor: By the end of her appearance, she's taking care of a Grass-type that one of the crooks in question gave to her.
• Genki Girl
• Go Karting with Bowser: Upon seeing James' Cacnea again, she asks it to give her a massage with Pin Missile.
• Luminescent Blush: This is her reaction when Dawn asks her if she's been with Nando.
• Odd Friendship: With James, whom she could never see as an enemy due to his Cacnea.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: During A Secret Sphere of Influence!
• Ship Tease: With Nando.
  • She also has some arguable tease with James - or if not that, then borderline with Cacnea (though she's fairly goo-goo-eyed about Grass-types in general). Either way, she's inordinately nice to him in DP054 despite knowing full well of his and his friends' attempted theft of the Adamant Orb.

Maylene (Sumomo)

Voiced in Japanese by: Aya Endo

Voiced in English by: Rachael Lillis

• Badass:
  • Badass Adorable: She's the first Gym Leader from whom Ash wins a badge without outright defeating her (they tie, but she considers his performance worthy of the Cobble Badge). Not to mention her battle with Dawn. Reggie even notes the result of her battle with Paul might have been very different if she'd been at the top of her game when they faced off.
  • Badass Normal: When you're a human and you can deflect an Aura Sphere with your bare hands...
• Break the Cutie: Losing to Paul, then being on the receiving end of his painful "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Ow.
• Brick Break: Machoke's attack.
• Calling Your Attacks: She even motions whenever her commands Lucario to use Aura Sphere.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Elemental Powers: Maylene specializes in fighting type Pokémon.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Lucario's Bone Rush.
  • Extra Ore Dinary: Lucario's secondary type.
  • Psychic Powers: Meditite's secondary type.
• Guest Star Party Member: Similarly to Roark, she has a decent four-episode arc of bonding with Ash and his friends (especially Dawn).
• Reasonable Authority Figure/Gym Leaders Who Actually Do Something: In her final appearance, she sensed the disturbance caused by Team Galactic stealing the Veilstone Meteorites and hurried over to stop them.
• Ship Tease: With Reggie.
  • To a lesser extent, with Dawn.
• 10-Minute Retirement: Though she'd considered making it permanent, her Lucario (and everyone else for that matter) wouldn't hear of it.
• You Gotta Have Pink Hair

Crasher Wake (Maximum Mask)

Voiced in Japanese by: Tetsu Inada

Voiced in English by: Michael Alston Baley

• Boisterous Bruiser
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Inverted regarding Ash's victory over him; while Wake doesn't just fall and puts up a good battle, this is the first proper time Ash has won a Gym Match without a single Pokémon fainting (discounting the double-battle with Tate and Liza in Hoenn).
• Elemental Powers: Crasher Wake specializes in Water type Pokémon.
  • An Ice Pokémon: Floatzel's Ice Fang, and Quagsire's Ice Beam.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Floatzel's Bulk Up.
  • Casting a Shadow: Gyarados's Bite.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Quagsire's secondary type (Ground).
  • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Gyarados's Dragon Rage.
  • Poisonous Pokémon: Quagsire's Sludge Bomb.
  • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Gyarados' secondary type.
• Fatter Than A Speeding Bullet
  Ash: For a big guy, that Wake can move!
• Hidden Depths: Like everyone else in his town, he is fond of Croagunk.
• Large Ham: complete with introductions!
  I'M...Crasher Wake! (laughs)
• Razor Wind: Floatzel's attack.
• Worthy Opponent: His Floatzel quickly became this to Buizel - becoming even important to the latter's Character Development.

Fantina (Melissa)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kikuko Inoue

Voiced in English by: Bella Hudson

• Back for the Finale: Or rather, back for the Sinnoh Grand Festival.
• Big OMG: In Coming Full Festival Circle!
• Big "NO!": Comically does this whenever Ash KO's one of her Pokémon.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Elemental Powers: Fantina specializes in Ghost type Pokémon.
  • Casting a Shadow: Mismagius' Dark Pulse.
  • Green Thumb: Mismagius' Magical Leaf.
  • Playing with Fire: Drifblim's Will-O-Wisp.
  • Poisonous Pokémon: Gengar's secondary type.
  • Psychic Powers: Mismagius' Psybeam and Psywave, Drifblim's Hypnosis and Psychic, and Gengar's Hypnosis.
  • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Drifblim's secondary type.
• Genki Girl: The woman can barely stand still, she's always dancing.
• Gratuitous English/Gratuitous French: In the Japanese and English versions, respectively.
  • Surprisingly Good French: In the dub, her accent and pronounciations are actually quite good, as a skilled French speaker can attest to.
• Improbable Hairstyle
• Pimped-Out Dress
• Recurring Character: Fantina's appearances are the most sporadically spread out of all the Sinnoh Gym Leaders.
• Running Gag: She always never seems to be in her gym whenever she was needed.
• Talking To Herself: See Togekiss
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Byron (Tougan)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kazuki Yao

Voiced in English by: Dan Green

• Curtains Match the Window
• Disappeared Dad
  • Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Though his demeanour suggests otherwise, this is actually true - he wanted Roark to become his own man rather than living under his father's shadow, hence why he left Oreburgh Gym in his hands.
• Elemental Powers: Byron specializes in Steel type Pokémon.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Bastiodon's primary type (Rock) and Steelix's secondary type (Ground).
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: Steelix's Screech.
  • Making a Splash: Bronzor's Rain Dance.
  • Playing with Fire: Bastiodon's Flamethrower.
  • Psychic Powers: Bronzor's secondary type
• Energy Ball: Bastiodon's Flash Cannon.
• Hot Blooded
• Large Ham: "I LOVE BASTIODON/STEELIX/FOSSILS/DEFENSE/THIS HOLE!!!"
• Memento Macguffin: His most treasured fossil - a fossilized Sunkern leaf which Roark found and gave him.
• No Indoor Voice
• Tunnel King: With nothing but the highest respect for others who share the same talent.
• Use Your Head: Bastiodon's Iron Head.

Candice (Suzuna)

Voiced in Japanese by: Noriko Shitaya

Voiced in English by: Kether Donahue

• Brown Eyes
• Catch Phrase: She is oddly fond of kiai. No, not the shouting. The word itself.
• Elemental Powers: Candice specializes in Ice type Pokémon.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Medicham's primary type.
  • Casting a Shadow: Sneasel's primary type
  • Green Thumb: Abomasnow and Snover's primary type.
  • Playing with Fire: Medicham's Fire Punch.
  • Psychic Powers: Medicham's secondary type.
• Friendly Rival: In-universe, this is actually how she thinks rivalry should function, and is therefore pleased by how Dawn and Zoey help and learn from each other. By extension, she finds herself both shocked and baffled by Paul and his hostility towards Ash.
• Genki Girl
• Hot Blooded
• Recurring Character: Her increased importance is enabled by her being Zoey's childhood friend.
• Sempai Kohai: She is Zoey's sempai. It's easy to read even more into it.

Volkner (Denzi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Hirofumi Nojima

Voiced in English by: Eli James

• Adaptation Dye Job: His hair is a dirtier shade of blond.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He has a long-running win streak, but by the time Ash shows up, he's giving away badges for free.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Luxray's Double Team.
• Elemental Powers: Volkner specializes in Electric type Pokémon.
  • An Ice Pokémon: Electivire's Ice Punch.
  • Extra Ore Dinary: Raichu and Luxray's Iron Tail.
  • Playing with Fire: Electivire's Fire Punch.
  • Soul Power: Jolteon's Shadow Ball.
• Jacob Marley Warning: He is the representation of what would have happened to Ash if Paul had kept Chimchar in the season 10 episode "Glory Blaze", and had not snapped out of his funk in the season 12 episode "Uncrushing Defeat".
• Mon Bites Mon: Luxray's Thunder Fang.
• 10-Minute Retirement: A very justified on - just as his Gym Battle with Ash got underway, Team Rocket attempt to steal Sunnyshore Tower, in the process damaging the Gym as well. Because of this, Ash doesn't get to challenge him again until after the Sinnoh Grand Festival.

• Asskicking Equals Authority
• Badass
• Five-Man Band:
  • Big Good: Cynthia
  • The Hero: Flint
  • The Lancer: Aaron
  • The Smart Guy: Lucian
  • The Big Gal: Bertha
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Cynthia (Shirona)

Voiced in Japanese by: Tomo Sakurai

Voiced in English by: Emily Jenness

• Badass Longcoat
• Big Damn Heroes: She takes down Jupiter easily and frees Ash and co. just in time for them to stop Cyrus' plan.
• Big Good: Portrayed this way in D/P.
• The Bus Came Back: As a reference to her appearance in the B&W games, she has a recurring role in BWS 2 - her villa in Undella Town accommodated Ash and his friends as they prepared for the Junior Cup and the Vertress Conference.
• Combat Pragmatist: Not usually, but when she shows up to help Ash against Team Galactic, she has her Garchomp do a surprise attack against Jupiter's Skuntank, and then when Jupiter starts to take out another Pokemon, Garchomp lands behind her and rests its claws right near her throat. When the world's at stake, it isn't the time to play fair.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: People who try to face her in battle usually receive one of these, most notably Paul. The known exceptions are Flint (who took down three of her Pokémon before losing to her Garchomp) and Aaron (who took down five of her team, including Garchomp, before finally losing to Gastrodon).
• Elemental Powers:
  • Single type Pokémon:
    • An Ice Pokémon: Glaceon.
  • Dual type Pokémon:
    • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Garchomp
    • Making a Splash/Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Gastrodon
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type:
    • Bare-Fisted Monk: Garchomp's Brick Break
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Garchomp's Stone Edge.
    • Playing with Fire: Garchomp's Flamethrower
• Gray Eyes
• Guest Star Party Member: Sort of has this happen in the B2W2 season - she doesn't join Ash's group, but they lounge about in her villa for a while, and she participates in several of their adventures.
• Hair Decorations
• Helping Would Be Kill Stealing: Subverted in the "Operation Tempest" two-parter - her Garchomp proves vital, along with Dragonite and Golurk, in holding back the Therian Forme Kami Trio.
  • She also helped directly in figthing Team Galactic, though stopped short at the Spear Pillar for some reason or other.
• Ice Cream Koan: Plenty of times in DP, though nowhere near as much in BW, she'll go into random tangents with vague words and meanings that may or may not even relate to what's going on.
• Hot Chick in a Badass Suit
• Lady of War: Cynthia herself, though her female Garchomp also qualifies by merit of being both powerful and graceful.
• The Mentor: Her main role during the plot of the DP series, though she does get actively involved in the effort to stop Team Galactic, doing her duty as Champion very well.
  • She also mentors Iris, particularly in regards to her new, disobedient Dragonite. Iris in turn looks up to her, thanks in no small part to Cynthia having trained her own powerful Dragon-type (Garchomp).
• Peek-A-Bangs
• Recurring Character
• Sweet Tooth: Her introductory moments in the series show her being indecisive over what flavor of ice cream to get, a gag that shows up several more times later on.
  • Towards the end of DP (during the Lily of the Valley Conference), Team Rocket use this gag to attract customers.
  • Comes up yet again in BW when Ash meets up with her again in a similar manner, down to her indecisiveness on picking a flavor.
• Woman in Black: Though she's less of a scary or menacing figure, it definitely gives her an air of authority.

Lucian (Goyō)

Voiced in Japanese by: Daisuke Namikawa

Voiced in English by: David Lapkin

• Badass Bookworm: Like his game counterpart, he can be frequently seen with a book in his hands.
• Bishōnen
• Early-Bird Cameo: If you count that he's the sole Sinnoh Elite Four member who appeared prior to Cynthia.
• Elemental Powers: He uses Psychic types:
  • Extra Ore Dinary: Bronzong's primary type.
• Megane
• Sharp Dressed Man
• Worthy Opponent: Perceived as such by Buizel, who thus became highly depressed at losing so badly to him the first time.
• You Gotta Have Light Purple Hair

Aaron (Ryou)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kensho Ono

Voiced in English by: Christopher C. Adams

• Badass: Though it was cut from the dub, the original Japanese of DP100 has announcer state Cynthia was down to her last Pokémon when she sent out Gastrodon against Aaron's Beautifly. This means that Aaron must have actually defeated her Garchomp, something even Flint (see below) didn't quite manage! Oddly, in the preceding episode his Pokemon had trouble dealing with the Team Rocket trio.
• Big Creepy Crawlies
• Mr. Fanservice: In-universe. Even the local Officer Jenny Fangirls him.
  • Rare case of both Bishounen and Rated M for Manly, judging by his appearance.
• My Greatest Failure: Abandoning his Wurmple for being a weak Pokémon when he was younger (which prompted him to better understand Bug-types, so it wouldn't happen again). It eventually comes back to him as a Beautifly.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: See Badass.
• One Aaron Limit: Averted in the dub, which also has Sir Aaron.
• Speaks Fluent Pokémon: He is apparently able to understand insects.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Flint (Ōba)

Voiced in Japanese by: Toru Nara

Voiced in English by: Tom Wayland

• Afro Asskicker
• Badass: His Infernape. It was able to go head to head with Cynthia's Garchomp and deal some brutal blows in. It's the second-closest anyone has come to take her down (Aaron, above, got closer). Not to mention it swatted Ash's Pokémon like flies!
• Big Brother Mentor: Has this vibe with Ash and they share a similar philosophy in the way they battle with their Pokémon and he shares some advice with the younger boy. Not to mention that he is obviously fond of Ash...
• Big Damn Heroes: in his first appearance, using Infernape to save Ash from the Sunyshore gym's security system, and again to rescue Kenny's Floatzel from Team Rocket.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: Infernape
• Fiery Redhead
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Volkner.
• Leitmotif: Everytime he shows up you can hear a subtle jungle beat with drums. It's actually quite awesome.
• One Flint Limit: Averted in the dub. The other Flint is Brock's father.
• Playing with Fire/Bare Fisted Monkey: Infernape
• The Rival: Volkner's old friend and adversary.

Bertha (Kikuno)

Voiced in Japanese by: Yoko Matsuoka

Voiced in English by: Mary O' Brady

• Berserk Button: When Team Rocket decided to enhance their Pokémon's performance using Powered Armor, she didn't take it too kindly.
• Brown Eyes
• Cool Old Lady
• Elemental Powers: She specialises in Ground type Pokémon:
  • Single type Pokémon:
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Hippowdon (Ground)
  • Dual type Pokémon:
    • Dishing Out Dirt: Gliscor (Ground) & Golem (Rock/Ground)
    • Wind From Beneath My Wings: Gliscor
  • Pokémon who know moves of a different type:
    • Extra Ore Dinary: Hippowdon's Iron Head.
    • Playing with Fire: Hippowdon's Fire Fang.
• Drives Like Crazy
• Mon Bites Mon: Hippowdon's Fire Fang.
• Never Mess with Granny
• One-Hit KO: Gliscor's Guillotine
• One Shot Character: She only appeared in a single episode, barring her cameo in Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
• Stealth Mentor: In two ways. She not only acts in a way intended to subtly teach the other person, but also hides her status as an Elite Four member and tells Brock not to reveal it.