History Characters / PokemonRubyAndSapphire

* Super-Strength: It's the only way to explain how she can easily lift up and carry Emerald's Sceptile and Dusclops on her back at the same time.

* AdaptationalCurves: Is the subject of this depending on the medium. Her official art, TCG cards and appearance in ''Pokémon Evolutions'' show her to be much bustier than all of the series' female protagonists despite being around their age, but in ''Masters'' her chest size is noticeably reduced.

* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler:Based on what the player learns about Aster (not the Whismur, but rather the person it was named after) and her relationship with Zinnia, it's entirely possible that she was Zinnia's girlfriend.]] She also has ShipTease with the player character regardless of gender.

* VagueAge: Even noted in-universe by the man in the Pokémon World Tournament lobby.

* SameCharacterButDifferent: In ''Emerald'', she's a CreepyGood BloodKnight and TheQuietOne. [[spoiler:In her Gen VII reappearance, she's a well-mannered and polite BeleagueredAssistant for Looker]].

* PunnyName: Winstrate, as in "win straight", in reference to the fact you must defeat them in quick succession.

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

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

** Both Juan and Wallace, as Gym Leaders, all have three similar Pokémon in common including Luvdisc, Whiscash and Sealeo, complete with similar moves, but their other Pokémon and their SignatureMon contrast. Whereas Wallace's two other Pokémon are Seaking and his SignatureMon Milotic, Juan uses a Crawdaunt and his SignatureMon Kingdra to take its place.

* DragonTamer: His ace is the Water/Dragon-type [[SeahorsesAreDragons Kingdra.]]

** When it comes to their relationship towards their relatives, Wally is contrasted greatly to Silver. Whereas Silver has a great hatred towards his father Giovanni for being weak after Team Rocket's defeat, before vowing himself to get stronger by committing petty acts. Wally is more well-loved by his cousin Wanda and his entire family.

** When it comes to their relationship towards their relatives, Wally is contrasted greatly to Silver. Whereas Silver has a great hatred towards his father Giovanni for being weak before vowing himself to get stronger by committing petty acts, Wally is more well-loved by his cousin Wanda and his entire family.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Wally greatly contrasts both to the {{Jerkass}} rivals [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Blue]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Silver]] for a number of reasons:
** Whereas Blue and Silver are haughty {{Jerkass}}es towards the player character who have superiority complex and are obsessed over winning (before their CharacterDevelopment kicks in), Wally is timid and suffers from inferiority complex (as shown in the first battle that he loses to the player during their match in Mauville City), where he is a FriendlyRival towards the player character.

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: After replacing Wallace as Gym Leader in ''Emerald'', he is this to his former protégé, despite both of them being similar in terms of personality and are both living in Sootopolis City working as its Gym Leaders.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: ''Red and Blue's'' player character is from Pallet Town in Kanto and ''Gold and Silver's'' player character is from New Bark Town in Johto, but both of them are natives to their respective region. The playable characters in ''Ruby and Sapphire'', if one of them is chosen by the player, on the other hand, are foreigners from Olivine City in Johto who moved in to Littleroot Town in Hoenn.

** Wally's sickly nature and pure-hearted determination may be the farthest possible cry from Blue's haughty egomania and Silver's ruthless obsession with power. He's also unlike the two rivals, being that he doesn't use a starter Pokémon as his main[[note]]If not even taking account Blue in ''Yellow'' whose starter is an Eevee[[/note]] but the Ralts that he captures in Route 104 as his mainstay SignatureMon.

** He's also the first rival to not have a superiority complex, to the point that he's not always read as a rival because of how timid he is initially.

** Despite all the wildly differing characterisations between the three rivals, they all achieve positive CharacterDevelopment, with Blue being less haughtier in GSC, Silver being a wholly reformed trainer (as evidenced with his Golbat evolving into Crobat) and Wally himself becoming more confident in his final rematch with the player, a stark contrast to his first appearance.

** Despite all the wildly differing characterisations between the three rivals, they all achieve positive CharacterDevelopment, with Blue being less haughtier in the sequels GSC, Silver being a reformed trainer (as evidenced with his Golbat evolving into Crobat) and Wally himself becoming more confident in his final rematch with the player, a stark contrast to his first appearance.

** Whereas Blue and Silver are haughty {{Jerkass}}es towards the player character who have superiority complex and are obsessed over winning (before their CharacterDevelopment kicks in), Wally suffers from inferiority complex (as shown in the first battle that he loses to the player during their match in Mauville City) and is more of a FriendlyRival towards the player character.

** When it comes to their relationship towards their relatives, Wally is contrasted greatly to Silver. Whereas Silver has a great hatred towards his father Giovanni for being weak before vowing himself to get stronger, Wally is more well-loved by his cousin Wanda and his entire family.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Wally greatly contrasts both to the {{Jerkass}} rivals [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Blue]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonSilverAndGold Silver]] for a number of reasons:

** Unlike the previous two rivals who have a starter that is always advantageous against the player's starter, Wally's starter is a Ralts.

** Wally's sickly nature and pure-hearted determination may be the farthest possible cry from Blue's haughty egomania and Silver's ruthless obsession with power.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As a beautiful woman who specializes in the Ice-type, is encountered in a subtropical island region, and whose personality has both hot and cool aspects, Prim is nearly identical to Lorelei as she appeared in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''. Her Japanese name Prim is a hair's breadth from Prima, the English dub's name for Lorelei.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the below HypocriteHasAPoint, it goes deeper than that. [[spoiler:She may be right in calling out Steven and Prof. Cozmo for their plan to use Infinity Energy to warp the meteor, as she believes it would make them no different than AZ using his lifeforce-powered weapon three millennia ago, and that they may inadvertently doom the people of another timeline that diverged from the Kalos war. However, when you consider the fact that she joined Team Aqua[=/=]Magma hoping to awaken Kyogre[=/=]Groudon, in the hope Rayquaza would notice and awaken, as well as seeing the failure merely as a setback, she doesn't necessarily have the moral high ground to call anyone out. Furthermore, right as she may be, she never even approached Mossdeep with the knowledge of the consequences of their actions, thus withheld said information until it was time to get in their way, and yet she belittles them for being ignorant of something they could never have known without her in the first place. All in all, her moral high ground is practically non-existent.]]
* HypocriteHasAPoint: As hypocritical as she is, Zinnia did have some point in that the Space Center's methods were unknowingly going to have massive consequences, and she expresses it through mockery and SarcasticClapping. It is also undermined by the fact that she deliberately withheld said point for most of the story, and yet mocks people for their ignorance.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She tends to mock several people throughout the Delta Episode, but has a soft spot for both the player and Aster. Even then, it's implied it's only because you are the Champion.