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Red
- Adaptational Expansion: Red's history is broader than in the games.
- Composite Character: This incarnation of Red is basically a composite of his game incarnation and Ash Ketchum's For instance, his design is modeled after the game design, but his overall personality and close association with Pikachu is from the Anime.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Can act very goofy at times, like slide down a stair rail on his stomach or narrowly miss registering for the tournament. But when Red battles he is a completely different person.
- Signature Headgear: Red wears his trademark hat, not only from Generation I, but also from Generation III.
- Signature Mon: Pikachu, naturally. He befriended it before he even got his Charmander.
- The Rival: He's been this with Green since they were young.
Red's Pokemon
Pikachu
Red's Starter Pokemon.- Dark and Troubled Past: To say that Pikachu's life before meeting Red was unpleasant is an Understatement. Thanks to a birth defect, he was unable to release electricity, leaving him an outcast. He was eventually caught by a Team Rocket member, who he loved enough to evolve. Unfortunately he still couldn't use electric attacks, which ,ade his first Trainer brutally beat him. It gets worse from there.
- Shock and Awe: An electric type with access to moves like Thunder, Thunderbolt, and Volt Tackle.
Charizard
Lapras
Marowak
Snorlax
Butterfree
Green
- Adaptational Expansion: Green's history is more explored than in the games.
- Break Her Heart to Save Her: He claims he traded Eevee to Blue because it wouldn't fight anymore after the death of its friend... but the way he greets Espeon shows that he still cared about it. He just knew he couldn't give it the support it needed to recover from the trauma.
- Composite Character: This incarnation of Green is basically a composite of his game incarnation and Gary Oak's, as well as a common
fan theory about his missing Raticate. - Signature Mon: His Blastoise and Eevee are Pokemon he's been associated with since the first generation of both the anime and the pokespe manga.
- The Rival: Only one of the most iconic examples ever.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Well, Red and Blue must still be friends with him for some reason... He takes care of his pokemon, and Espeon's memories show a trainer who was genuinely kind and encouraging.
Green's Pokemon
Blastoise
Raticate
Arcanine
Rhydon
Pidgeot
Eevee
- See ""Blue's Pokemon""
Blue
- Adaptational Expansion: Blue's history is broader than in the games.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Is clearly ditzy and distractible, getting on Misty's case about Red being her boyfriend and getting into an argument with a guy who doesn't speak Japanese. Seen using unusual tactics (using Cute Charm and Substitute); showboating; comparing the battle to Poke-Star Studios' Movies... and yet, Skyla sees through her giddy excitement to a trainer who absolutely knows what she is doing.
- Iconic Outfit: Her current outfit is that of the female protagonist of the Gen 1 remakes, but her flashback outfit resembles Leaf/Green from the Pokemon Special/Pokemon Adventures manga.
- Signature Headgear: Blue wears her trademark hat from Generation III.
- Signature Mon: Her Venusaur, from the Pokemon Leaf Green cover.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: From a plain black dress to the outfit of the Gen 3 protagonist, to show the skills, drive, and love for pokemon she has developed.
- The Heart: Had a much less vitriolic friendship with Red and Green than they had with each other, and after their run-in with Team Rocket she tries to help them deal with their trauma.
Blue's Pokemon
Venusaur
Espeon
Clefable
Omastar
Gengar
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Found living in Lavender Tower, but it's not the same kind of ghost as Cubone's mother, not does it enjoy scaring or bothering humans. It seems to be an ordinary, sweet Pokemon. However, it does have power over dreams and can trap someone inside one, using the move Nightmare.
- Face of a Thug: Despite the perpetual scary expression on its face as Haunter and Gengar, it's a real softie, crying in either fear or relief as it's trainer emerges from her shared dream.
Ninetales
Other Indigo League Competitors
Misty
- Adaptational Badass: Oh, Misty-the-second-gym-leader? Yeah, she was holding back. In all of her gym battles. Here in the Indigo League, she aims for champion and gives Red a hell of a fight.
- Adaptational Expansion: On her game character, her relationship with Red, and her backstory.
- Child Prodigy : The youngest trainer to ever become a gym leader.
- Composite Character: Of her Game and Anime counterparts.
- Hero of Another Story : She has had just as difficult and emotional a journey as any, and her attempt to rise through the ranks of the Indigo League and prove herself to her inspiration, her one-sided rival Lorelai on a worthy stage... gets cut short when she loses to the protagonist in the first round.
Volkner
- Insistent Appellation: He calls Misty "senpai" despite being older, and her telling him he doesn't need to.
- Irony: He turns up - a young man fitting all of Misty's apparent guidelines for a boyfriend - just as she finishes detailing them to Blue. They don't seem to have a spark.
Flint
- Playing with Fire: He is the Fire-type user of the Sinnoh Elite 4.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He loses to Lorelai and is out of the tournament with the least development and page time of any named character.
Karen
- Dark Action Girl
- Dark Is Not Evil
- The Determinator
- Adaptational Heroism
- Adaptational Expansion: She had *checks notes* one line of dialogue in the games.
- Face Death with Dignity: She promised Houndoom that, were she to ler it down, it could eat her. When it appears to be cashing in that deal after her loss, she closes her eyes and allows it.
Skyla
- Badass Boast:"She who rules the battlefield wins the battle... and I rule the skies!
- Character Development: Finally learns to let loose and have fun through her battle with the unpredictable Blue, after all the advice that her grandfather and Lt. Surge were giving her.
Lorelai
- Badass Boast: Before beating Flint:"Welcome to my world of ice and snow"
