History Characters / PokemonBlackAndWhiteAnime

* LoadsOfLoadsOfCharacters: This is the first time where Ash captures more than six Pokémon in a region since Kanto, catching nine Pokémon in total. Like in the original series, this leads to problems regarding their share of screentime and focus, since Ash can only carry six Pokémon at once and one of these spots is automatically filled with Pikachu. Although, this trope doesn't become as bad as in the original series, since Ash actually rotates his party members.

* JackOfAllStats: With the exception of Krookodile and maybe Leavanny they are not particularly powerful, but the sheer variety of Ash's Unova team gives him a lot more to work with.

-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/ChinamiNishimura
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Bella Hudson (under "Erica Schroeder")

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* AcrophobicBird: He has a fear of keeping his eyes open while underwater, which prevented him from using Aqua Jet properly. He manages to get over this weakness later.

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%%* BareFistedMonk: Pignite's secondary type.

* BerserkButton: He gets very angry and willing to attack if you steal his food, especially if you're Oshawott!

* TheDogBitesBack: After he defeats his former trainer in a battle, said {{Jerkass}} asks him to rejoin his team to become stronger. Pignite looks to be seriously considering it, but having seen what sort of person Shamus really is he responds by scorching his head with Flamethrower before standing proudly by Ash's side.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the battle with Shamus, he evolves and learns Fire Pledge in the process, giving him the necessary power to defeat ''both'' of his old trainer's Pokemon (one of whom was his ''own'' future evolutionary stage).
%%* VitriolicBestBuds: At times, with Oshawott.

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%%* {{Expy}}: She bears a number of similarities with [[Franchise/OnePiece Boa Hancock]].

* GreenThumb: A Grass-type.

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%%* SpotlightStealingSquad

-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Inuko Inuyama
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Bella Hudson (under "Erica Schroeder")

%%* GreenThumb: His secondary type.

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* PoisonousPerson: Knows Sludge Wave, which serves him well in the Unova League against Stephan's Zebstrika.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Knows Dragon Claw upon evolving, giving him yet another super effective move against Iris' Dragonite.
%%* LightningBruiser: After evolving into Krookodile.

%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer:
%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: Interestingly, her official artwork from the games gives her a darker skintone than shown in the games and anime. But see NobleSavage below.

!'''Iris' Pokémon'''

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* DistressedDude: And unlike Togepi, he's aware of the distress.

* HeadPet: He likes to hide in Iris' ginormous hair.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Piplup before it, though it defeats the premise of Iris' reason for training him, ''especially'' considering it was established early on that Axew ''wanted'' to become a Haxorus one day. Also, like Pikachu, it never goes inside a [=PokéBall=] and always rests inside Iris' hair, to the point where its scene where it's given to Iris shows it hatching out of its egg.

* UnstoppableRage: Axew learns Outrage during his battle with Luke's Golett and demolishes it while using that move. He doesn't stopeven after the battle is already over for a minute.

As a Drilbur, he was Iris' Ace, racking up an enormous winning streak. On introduction as an Excadrill, however, he had lost his edge, and refused to obey Iris. This turned out to be because he felt the end of his winning streak was a failure to Iris. Once he opens back up, his determination, very similar to Ash's Snivy, returns.

* BrilliantButLazy: Worse than Emolga at this; he wouldn't take any of Iris' attitude and outright refused to fight at first. That said, when Scolipede knocked it aside, he ''wrecked that shit'' and went right back to sleep afterwards. Now if Iris can actually command '''that'''.

* DishingOutDirt: Primary type (Ground).
* ExtraOreDinary: Secondary type.

* IOweYouMyLife: Why he bonded with Iris initially.

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Emolga is a cute Electric type with some rather nasty habits, a taste for apples, and a distaste for hard work and responsibility.

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%%* BloodKnight

First appeared next to Iris as a silhouette. He is a Pokémon Connoisseur. He's also one-third of the first Gym Leader trio in Unova, focusing on the Grass type.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Primary type.

%%* MightyGlacier: Before using Shell Smash, Dwebble can take a lot of attacks and hit back hard.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer:

* BadassAdorable: By her appearance, she looks to be the youngest of all the female travel companions and can back things up being an {{Action Girl}} and all.

* BerserkButton: Mistreating Pokémon is a marvellous way to make her snap - her reaction to [[{{Jerkass}} Shamus]] was more vengefully extreme than Ash's.

* BerserkButton: Despite being the eldest (and [[TheSpock most]] [[AgentScully logical]]) of the trio in ''Black and White'', he's also the one most easily set off, to the point of completely losing emotional control - particularly in battle or when his cooking is ruined. Also, see UnstoppableRage below.

* BerserkButton: Goes into a rage when Ash has Snivy use Attract, securing an easy win against Palpitoad. See CynicalMentor for details.

* TheDragon[=/=]EvilGenius: To Ghetsis.
* DragonInChief[=/=]TheHeavy: Colress is actually much more active and responsible for the evil done in ''Episode N'' than his boss.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: See FriendlessBackground below.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Interestingly, her official artwork from the games gives her a darker skintone than shown in the games and anime. But see NobleSavage below.

* SkintoneSclerae: One of three important characters in the franchise to have this (the other two are Lenora's husband Hawes and Stephan).

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Ghetsis hides away in secret while his agents do his dirty work across Unova. [=BW117=] even shows him ''literally'' sitting on a throne-like chair (the coloring of the room strangely resembles the Relic Castle from the postponed two-parter). He finally takes the scene in the three-part finale.

* AgentMulder: She believes in the supernatural aspect of mysterious cases, contrasting Cilan's AgentScully..

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Interestingly, her official artwork from the games gives her a darker skintone than shown in the games and anime. But see NobleSavage below.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: See FriendlessBackground below.

** This also brings into question how she'd react to Fairy-type Pokemon.

* VindicatedByHistory: Is considered as Ash's "ace" in the ''Black and White'' seasons through the "Pokémon Quiz" segment in the ''XY'' anime. In two consecutive episodes (during the Team Flare arc), the Pokémon Quizzes are both asking for Greninja, with the other choices being Ash's older aces. ''Black and White'' is represented by Krookodile.

Axew is Iris' first Dragon, and was given to Iris a few days after hatching so she could quest with him ultimately to evolve him a Haxorus. He;s very friendly and caring, though a little childish at times.

As a Drilbur, he was Iris' TheAce, racking up an enormous winning streak. On introduction as an Excadrill, however, he had lost his edge, and refused to obey Iris. This turned out to be because he felt the end of his winning streak was a failure to Iris. Once he opens back up, his determination, very similar to Ash's Snivy, returns.

%%* FireballEyeballs: His reaction to seeing Piplup fall in love with Meloetta.

%%* PluckyComicRelief

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: His backstory mirrors those of Charmander and Chimchar.

%%* LittleMissBadass

%%* ImprobableHairstyle

%%* LittleMissSnarker:

%%* {{Shorttank}}

%%* ThisIsADrill

%%* AlphaBitch: Ultimately leaning towards LovableAlphaBitch.
%%* BigEater

%%* LovableCoward

%%* {{Flight}}
%%* FlyingFirepower

%%* {{Adorkable}}

%%* MrFanservice

%%* ApologizesALot
%%* BadassAdorable

%%* NiceGuy

%%* PintsizedPowerhouse

%%* {{Gonk}}

%%* SlasherSmile

%%* ChickMagnet

* DesignatedGirlFight: Is starting to have a lot of this with Iris's Emolga.

* ChildhoodFriends: Develops with Iris's Axew.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Knows Dragon Claw upon evolving, giving him yet another super effective move against Iris's Dragonite.

* TheWorfEffect: Suffered from this a bit in his early appearances, but he steadily gets better. After evolving, he handily defeats Iris's Dragonite, a beast who can shrug off STAB Ice attacks like nothing.

!'''Iris's Pokémon'''

Axew is Iris's first Dragon, and was given to Iris a few days after hatching so she could quest with him ultimately to evolve him a Haxorus. He;s very friendly and caring, though a little childish at times.

* HeadPet: He likes to hide in Iris's ginormous hair.

* NiceGuy: Very mellow compared to Iris's other Pokémon. Of course, there was that one time he fought with Pikachu because a Darumaka had stolen his food; and that other time where he accidentally beans both Oshawott and Pansage in the head with maracas, causing a fight between them and Pikachu. In fairness, he's still just a kid.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Piplup before it, though it defeats the premise of Iris's reason for training him, ''especially'' considering it was established early on that Axew ''wanted'' to become a Haxorus one day. Also, like Pikachu, it never goes inside a [=PokéBall=] and always rests inside Iris's hair, to the point where its scene where it's given to Iris shows it hatching out of its egg.

As a Drilbur, he was Iris's [[TheAce|Ace]], racking up an enormous winning streak. On introduction as an Excadrill, however, he had lost his edge, and refused to obey Iris. This turned out to be because he felt the end of his winning streak was a failure to Iris. Once he opens back up, his determination, very similar to Ash's Snivy, returns.

* BrilliantButLazy: Worse than Emolga at this; he wouldn't take any of Iris's attitude and outright refused to fight at first. That said, when Scolipede knocked it aside, he ''wrecked that shit'' and went right back to sleep afterwards. Now if Iris can actually command '''that'''.

* ThirdOptionAdaptation: Was Iris's starter as a Drilbur, or at least the first Pokémon that she considered hers.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Iris's only female team member.

* TheAce: He has become Iris's ace Pokémon after his capture, taking Excadrill's position.

* TheBerserker: Fights like this when he loses his temper: throwing his full weight at the offending party with reckless abandon and sometimes taking his fury out on the environment, heedless of any of Iris's commands. [[{{Deconstructed}} This actually works to his detriment]]: without Iris's guidance or any semblance of self-control, Dragonite's raging comes off as an aimless, frantic tantrum rather than Shonen-style UnstoppableRage. Krookodile attacks him while he's having one of his fits and not paying attention, and then easily counters a sloppily-executed Dragon Rush for the finish blow.

* SixthRanger: To Iris's team, being that she meets him in Blackthorn while she's on business there and after she's parted company with Ash.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Feminine Boy to Iris's Masculine Girl.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Well-mannered and kind most of the time, but when he was sent out in the middle of his nap by Volt Switch during a battle between Iris's Emolga and Bianca's Minccino, he got so pissed off he immediately powered up ''Solarbeam'' and [[CurbStompBattle destroyed Minccino in one hit]].

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: When she's present, she's the Girly Girl to Iris's Tomboy.

* TookALevelInBadass: His Sawk. Though it never seemed weak, the only time we saw it in battle before the Clubsplosion was when it lost to Iris's Emolga. Come the Clubsplosion, it takes down a Seismitoad, Cilan's Pansage, Bianca's Emboar and Montgomery's Throh, a Pokémon that was built up throughout the tournament as an enormously powerful opponent. This is lampshaded with a montage showing his and Stephan's intense training regime, as well as regular practice sessions in the Pokémon Center. [[spoiler: This is proven even more in the Vertress Conference; despite being immensely weakend by Ash's Leavanny, Sawk still manages to win.]]

Self-proclaimed Dragon Buster and Iris's rival.

* CurbstompBattle: Received one from Iris's new Dragonite, who took everything Beartic hurled at before utterly demolishing the bear. She was more disappointed, however, by the fact that she hadn't lost to ''Iris'' since Dragonite was disobeying her at the time.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When she lost to Iris in the Junior World Cup, she argued that she lost to Dragonite, not Iris. Given that Dragonite was disobeying Iris's orders, she's completely right. Iris acknowledges this at the end of the tournament and promises Georgia that she'll have Dragonite under control by the next time they meet, so that Georgia can have the battle she wants.

* DualBoss: Ash's Pikachu and Iris's Excadrill faced down Zangoose and Seviper, respectively.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Made his first appearance in Iris's flashback during [=BW034=].

%%* {{Flight}}

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%%* BadassAdorable

%%* ShrinkingViolet: As a Tepig.

%%* GreenThumb

%%* BruiserWithASoftCenter

%%* GentleGiant: Quite sweet at heart.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Excadrill is a huge softie and actually disobeyed Iris because he didn't want to let her down.

* TheAce: 99 victories in a row alongside Iris, and consistently shown to be powerful afterward.

%%* GreenThumb

!!'''Dwebble-Crustle (Ishizumai-Iwaparesu)'''

* DesignatedGirlFight: Is starting to have a lot of this with Iris' Emolga.

* ChildhoodFriends: Develops with Iris' Axew.

%%* AgentMulder

!'''Iris' Pokémon'''

** Axew is Sanguine
** Excadrill is Phlegmatic
** Emolga is Choleric
** Dragonite is Melancholic
* FreudianTrio: In the first season of ''Black and White'' -
** TheKirk: Axew
** TheMcCoy: Emolga
** TheSpock: Excadrill

%%* CheerfulChild

* HeadPet: He likes to hide in Iris' ginormous hair.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons
* NiceGuy: Very mellow compared to Iris' other Pokémon. Of course, there was that one time he fought with Pikachu because a Darumaka had stolen his food; and that other time where he accidentally beans both Oshawott and Pansage in the head with maracas, causing a fight between them and Pikachu. In fairness, he's still just a kid.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Piplup before it, though it defeats the premise of Iris' reason for training him, ''especially'' considering it was established early on that Axew ''wanted'' to become a Haxorus one day. Also, like Pikachu, it never goes inside a Poke Ball and always rests inside Iris' hair, to the point where its scene where it's given to Iris shows it hatching out of its egg.
%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent

* BrilliantButLazy: Worse than Emolga at this; he wouldn't take any of Iris' attitude and outright refused to fight at first. That said, when Scolipede knocked it aside, he ''wrecked that shit'' and went right back to sleep afterwards. Now if Iris can actually command '''that'''.

* ThirdOptionAdaptation: Was Iris' starter as a Drilbur, or at least the first Pokémon that she considered hers.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Iris' only female team member

* BadassArmfold: Gives us one of this after OHKO Dawn's Mamoswine with Dragon Dive, just to emphasize to the audience "I AM THE BOSS!"

* TheBerserker: Fights like this when he loses his temper: throwing his full weight at the offending party with reckless abandon and sometimes taking his fury out on the environment, heedless of any of Iris' commands. [[{{Deconstructed}} This actually works to his detriment]]: without Iris' guidance or any semblance of self-control, Dragonite's raging comes off as an aimless, frantic tantrum rather than Shonen-style UnstoppableRage. Krookodile attacks him while he's having one of his fits and not paying attention, and then easily counters a sloppily-executed Dragon Rush for the finish blow.

* SixthRanger: To Iris' team, being that she meets him in Blackthorn while she's on business there and after she's parted company with Ash.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Feminine Boy to Iris' Masculine Girl
* MrFanservice

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Well-mannered and kind most of the time, but when he was sent out in the middle of his nap by Volt Switch during a battle between Iris' Emolga and Bianca's Minccino, he got so pissed off he immediately powered up ''Solarbeam'' and [[CurbStompBattle destroyed Minccino in one hit]].
%%* BulletSeed

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: When she's present, she's the Girly Girl to Iris' Tomboy.

* TookALevelInBadass: His Sawk. Though it never seemed weak, the only time we saw it in battle before the Clubsplosion was when it lost to Iris' Emolga. Come the Clubsplosion, it takes down a Seismitoad, Cilan's Pansage, Bianca's Emboar and Montgomery's Throh, a Pokémon that was built up throughout the tournament as an enormously powerful opponent. This is lampshaded with a montage showing his and Stephan's intense training regime, as well as regular practice sessions in the Pokémon Center. [[spoiler: This is proven even more in the Vertress Conference; despite being immensely weakend by Ash's Leavanny, Sawk still manages to win.]]

Self-proclaimed Dragon Buster and Iris' rival.

* CurbstompBattle: Received one from Iris' new Dragonite, who took everything Beartic hurled at before utterly demolishing the bear. She was more disappointed, however, by the fact that she hadn't lost to ''Iris'' since Dragonite was disobeying her at the time.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When she lost to Iris in the Junior World Cup, she argued that she lost to Dragonite, not Iris. Given that Dragonite was disobeying Iris' orders, she's completely right. Iris acknowledges this at the end of the tournament and promises Georgia that she'll have Dragonite under control by the next time they meet, so that Georgia can have the battle she wants.

* DualBoss: Ash's Pikachu and Iris' Excadrill faced down Zangoose and Seviper, respectively.

* TalkingToHerself: Shares Iris' VA in the dub.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Made his first appearance in Iris' flashback during [=BW034=].

%%* AtArmsLength: Snivy's first meeting with Scraggy.

%%* EmotionBomb: Her Attract ability, which she uses to its full potential.

%%* DeathGlare: Knows Leer.

%%* KameHameHadoken: His Focus Blast works like one.
%%* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His baggy skin has this function.

%%* CuteLittleFangs: Sewaddle has them.

%%* EnergyBall: Learns the move of the same name after evolving.

%%* GirlyRun: Leavanny has one.

* OutOfFocus: He's most prominent in his early episodes, after his capture and leading up to his evolution during the Burgh battle. He doesn't appear all that much afterwards, although he's given the chance to shine in both the Roxie battle (where he defeats her Koffing), and the Unova League shows him putting up a good fight against Stephan's Sawk.

%%* TeamDad: As Leavanny, he grows into this role.

%%* PoisonousPerson: Knows Sludge Wave, which serves him well in the Unova League.

%%* BareFistedMonk: Knows [[BrickBreak Rock Smash]].

%%* CastingAShadow: His secondary type.

* DishingOutDirt: His primary type (Ground).

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Knows Dragon Claw.
%%* LightningBruiser: After evolving into Krookodile

* TheWorfEffect: Suffered from this a bit in his early appearances, but he steadily gets better. After evolving, he handily defeats Iris' Dragonite, a beast who can shrug off STAB Ice attacks like nothing.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: At least at the beginning of the ''Black and White'' when she and Ash get into a lot of arguments.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Is starting to have a lot of this with Iris's Emolga.

* TheWorfEffect: Suffered from this a bit in his early appearances, but he steadily gets better. After evolving, he handily defeats Iris's Dragonite, a beast who can shrug off STAB Ice attacks like nothing.

!'''Iris's Pokémon'''

* HeadPet: He likes to hide in Iris's ginormous hair.

* NiceGuy: Very mellow compared to Iris's other Pokémon. Of course, there was that one time he fought with Pikachu because a Darumaka had stolen his food; and that other time where he accidentally beans both Oshawott and Pansage in the head with maracas, causing a fight between them and Pikachu. In fairness, he's still just a kid.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Piplup before it, though it defeats the premise of Iris's reason for training him, ''especially'' considering it was established early on that Axew ''wanted'' to become a Haxorus one day. Also, like Pikachu, it never goes inside a Poke Ball and always rests inside Iris's hair, to the point where its scene where it's given to Iris shows it hatching out of its egg.

* BrilliantButLazy: Worse than Emolga at this; he wouldn't take any of Iris's attitude and outright refused to fight at first. That said, when Scolipede knocked it aside, he ''wrecked that shit'' and went right back to sleep afterwards. Now if Iris can actually command '''that'''.

* ThirdOptionAdaptation: Was Iris's starter as a Drilbur, or at least the first Pokémon that she considered hers.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Iris's only female team member

* TheBerserker: Fights like this when he loses his temper: throwing his full weight at the offending party with reckless abandon and sometimes taking his fury out on the environment, heedless of any of Iris's commands. [[{{Deconstructed}} This actually works to his detriment]]: without Iris's guidance or any semblance of self-control, Dragonite's raging comes off as an aimless, frantic tantrum rather than Shonen-style UnstoppableRage. Krookodile attacks him while he's having one of his fits and not paying attention, and then easily counters a sloppily-executed Dragon Rush for the finish blow.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Feminine Boy to Iris's Masculine Girl

** Red: To Cress's blue.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Well-mannered and kind most of the time, but when he was sent out in the middle of his nap by Volt Switch during a battle between Iris's Emolga and Bianca's Minccino, he got so pissed off he immediately powered up ''Solarbeam'' and [[CurbStompBattle destroyed Minccino in one hit]].

* TookALevelInBadass: His Sawk. Though it never seemed weak, the only time we saw it in battle before the Clubsplosion was when it lost to Iris's Emolga. Come the Clubsplosion, it takes down a Seismitoad, Cilan's Pansage, Bianca's Emboar and Montgomery's Throh, a Pokémon that was built up throughout the tournament as an enormously powerful opponent. This is lampshaded with a montage showing his and Stephan's intense training regime, as well as regular practice sessions in the Pokémon Center. [[spoiler: This is proven even more in the Vertress Conference; despite being immensely weakend by Ash's Leavanny, Sawk still manages to win.]]

Self-proclaimed Dragon Buster and Iris's rival.

* CurbstompBattle: Received one from Iris's new Dragonite, who took everything Beartic hurled at before utterly demolishing the bear. She was more disappointed, however, by the fact that she hadn't lost to ''Iris'' since Dragonite was disobeying her at the time.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When she lost to Iris in the Junior World Cup, she argued that she lost to Dragonite, not Iris. Given that Dragonite was disobeying Iris's orders, she's completely right. Iris acknowledges this at the end of the tournament and promises Georgia that she'll have Dragonite under control by the next time they meet, so that Georgia can have the battle she wants.

** Completely subverted when he's hit by Dragonite's Flamethrower and Haxorus's Hyper Beam in [=BW117=], while trying to talk them both down from their BrainwashedAndCrazy states. This would've gotten him killed had Anthea and Concordia not appeared and taken him to get healed.

* TheManBehindTheMan: To Colress. In his first episode, he contacts him briefly through a hologram at Colress's current base of operations. Ash's group initially mistakes Colress for Ghetsis on their first meeting (having briefly heard the latter's name from Aldith) before being corrected.

* TalkingToHerself: Shares Iris's VA in the dub.

-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' YuuichiNakamura