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[[folder: Trip (Shooti)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/AkenoWatanabe
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Jamie [=McGonnigal=]
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Jaime Alberto Carrillo

Ash's main rival in Unova. He is also a Pokémon photographer.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Played straight at first, but ever since he tied with Ash during their third battle his strength was considerably [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll downplayed]].
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: A classic case, what with his obsession with gaining greater strength than other challengers.
* AscendedFanboy: Wanted to be a trainer after watching the Champion Alder battle. While he promised himself that he would become a trainer so he could face Alder one day, it's to be noted that his overall cheerfulness as a child is gone by the time he starts as a trainer.
* BareFistedMonk: Conkeldurr.
* BarrierWarrior: Frillish's Protect.
* BerserkButton:
** Trip ''hates'' being called a "kid" or getting called out for being childish. Iris doing it gets to him ''twice''.
** Getting rejected also doesn't seem to faze well with him, especially when it's by his idol.
* BreakTheHaughty: [=BW052=] shows shades of this, especially when Trip leaves the group. It's not surprising though: the person you idolized not remembering you, demonstrating to you that the idol you love has apparently [[TookaLevelInDumbass grown senile and unserious]] and then your idol not wanting to battle you after refusing to finish the battle with your rival will shatter your view of things even if you don't show it.
** In fact, in recent episodes, seeing Alder again doesn't bring up his dorky nature and he only gets irritated showing that the case might have taken a tole on his view of things as a whole given that he's become more distant than usual.
** He gets another one when Bianca defeats him in the Clubsplosion tournament. He leaves afterward like he did in the Club Battle...only this time, he's doing it because he's ''depressed'', not because he thinks he's too good to watch anyone else's matches.
** He gets one more minor example after he loses to Alder. He doesn't flip out as one would expect but is extremely conflicted, but luckily, Alder manages to talk some sense into him.
%%* BrickBreak: Conkeldurr's Rock Smash.
%%* TheBully: In his first two appearances, pre-CharacterDevelopment.
* CameraFiend: A minor example as it's not to the extreme of Luke's obsession with filming. Trip is always seen with his camera though before he puts it away.
* CanonImmigrant: Though he's been given the Ace Trainer's sprite and class, he and his team ''are'' available in a download for the World Tournament (along with the other three anime-origin rivals).
* CatchPhrase: Trip seems to be really fond of "the basics of Pokémon training".
* CharacterDevelopment: Trip finally understands that strength isn't everything after his battle with Alder and finally gets it into his head that he should appreciate his Pokémon and his journey more. He even speaks to Ash on even terms (even if it's short) without throwing ''any'' insults at him and actually looks forward to battling Ash at the Unova League. He still keeps his distance though and doesn't join up with Ash and his rivals.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Started off as a rival that seemed to [[{{Jerkass}} enjoy making fun]] [[FantasticRacism of Ash and the Kanto region]] but quickly mellowed down to a [[TheQuietOne quiet]], [[SugarAndIcePersonality aloof]] {{rival}} [[HiddenHeartOfGold that gives advice to Ash despite still being annoyed by him]].
* CharacterTics: Apparently when he's really happy (which is rare), [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/bestwishes/713/DP56.jpg he holds his arms in front]] [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/bestwishes/713/DP80.jpg of him when he's talking]]. It's almost similar to a certain [[http://www.court-records.net/animation/maya-pumped(a).gif spirit channeler]] from a certain [[Franchise/AceAttorney lawyer game]].
* CheerfulChild: As a really young boy, and it's still there at his current age. In fact, you can tell he's happy by the tone of his voice.
%%* TheComicallySerious: Frequently when around Ash and Alder.
* CurbStompBattle: He effortlessly defeats Ash in their first battle, though this was only because Ash's Pikachu was temporarily rendered unable to use Electric-type attacks thanks to a lightning strike caused by Zekrom.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly toward Ash.
%%* DeathGlare: Serperior's Leer.
%%* DishingOutDirt: Conkeldurr's Stone Edge and Rock Tomb.
%%* DoppelgangerSpin: Tranquill's Double Team.
* {{Expy}}:
** Of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackandWhite Cheren]], but is much more egotistical and haughty. Later on, the [[DecompositeCharacter character makes his own debut in the anime]].
** Many members of the fanbase at first believed that he was going to be one of Paul after his first appearance, but then his HiddenDepths and the rest of his personality traits came about and [[SubvertedTrope revealed they share little in common at all]]. Not to mention he has about a fraction of Paul's skills.
* FantasticRacism: In his early appearances, Trip often insulted Ash for being from Kanto, which he refers to as "the boonies" and would occasionally suggest Ash to return to.
* GlassCannon: Trip's Serperior seems to be one as it can unleash the powerful grass attacks and one-hit KO almost all the Pokémon in the Junior Cup, but it only took one hit from Alder's Bouffalant to defeat it.
* GracefulLoser: To Cilan in the Club Battle tournament. He ''is'' upset about losing, but claims that he'll use that disappointment to help make him stronger rather than dwell on it.
** Slightly less so to Alder, at first, but after a talk with his old idol, he takes it alright. And when he loses to Ash, he calmly accepts his defeat and they (kind of) start becoming friends.
%%* GreenThumb: Serperior.
* HiddenDepths: The SugarAndIcePersonality {{rival}} was actually a CheerfulChild when he was much younger and an AscendedFanboy of Alder.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Downplayed. He actually helped Ash realize why his Oshawott couldn't aim its Aqua Jet properly, as well as offering to help Iris overcome her fear of Ice-types in the same episode, but not without mocking them for their respective failures. His attitude does not change until much later when Alder defeats him in the Junior Cup.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How Trip ends up losing to Bianca. Not only underestimating her, but his Conkeldurr leaves himself wide open for attacks when Bianca's Emboar gets through his Rock Tomb. Bianca basically orders her Emboar to take those pillars that Conkeldurr uses in battle and throw them back in his face.
* HypocriticalHumor: He calls Ash immature, but is shown to be much more immature when it comes to certain subjects like getting Alder's attention.
%%* AnIcePerson: Vanillite
* {{Irony}}: He initially looks down on Ash for being a "backwater hillbilly" from Kanto, to which he refers to the region as "[[FantasticRacism the boonies]]". Yet, the Kanto region was inspired by the real-life region in Japan and is one of the most highly developed, urbanized, and industrialized parts of it. The Unova region, on the other hand, was explicitly based on the ''United States of America'', specifically, the BigApplesauce.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of his third appearance, we learn that he's not actually that bad of a guy. It takes some convincing, but he does help Ash herd the Venipede to Castelia main square. And he also uses his Tranquill to save Ash's Pidove when one of the Venipede attacked.
* LonersAreFreaks: He's well-noted for his anti-social behavior, as he apparently thinks interaction with others interferes with one's own personal growth.
* MadeOfIron: His Vanillite took two direct Flame Charges and an Ember from Ash's Tepig and still managed to get a tie with him.
* MakingASplash: Frillish
* MoodSwinger: According to Alder and from what the audience sees, there are some hints that his personality does go 180 as shown in [=BW052=] when [[TheQuietOne he's quiet one moment]] and then [[CheerfulChild rather hyperactive]] the next only to swing right back to his [[SugarAndIcePersonality serious self]] near the end, only this time with actual anger rather than sulleness.
** In later episodes he does smirk when he beats Burgundy and actually makes it past the first round but then at the end of the episode, he's glaring daggers.
%%* MoreThanMeetsTheEye
%%* NonElemental: Tranquill
* OutOfFocus: Most of his team despite his semi-frequent appearances. In fact, to date only Serperior, Tranquill, and Conkeldurr have appeared in more than one episode so far.
** Trip himself gets the least amount of focus out of all the rivals introduced despite being the main rival, which is usually contributed by his leaving a tournament whenever he loses and thus feeling more like a background character.
%%* PlayingWithFire: Lampent
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Serperior's Solarbeam.
* PunnyName: Shooti coming from "photo shoot", and Trip possibly coming from "''trip''od".
* TheQuietOne: Even when sitting with everyone else in the Club Battle, he prefers talking to himself than with others.
** In the Clubsplosion (the Club Battle's sequel), he doesn't even sit with the others, he just stands in a shady corner and comment on Ash's battle ([[FoeYay which he is watching rather intensely.]])
* RebuiltPedestal: Lost respect for Alder after seeing him act lazy and foolish. Once the two battle and Alder wins, rather easily, Trip regains respect for him.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Ash's red of the "Black and White" series.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: His Vanillite. Ironically, Iris, who is scared of Ice Pokémon, thinks the exact opposite, which seems to disappoint it.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Surprisingly full of himself for a rookie trainer. During the Junior Cup, he fully believed he could defeat Alder, then take down Cynthia for afters.
* SmugSnake: His Serperior mainly, and he himself until his third appearance taught him some humility.
%%* SoulPower: Frillish, Lampent.
* [[{{Speedrun}} Speedrunner]]: [[invoked]] Seems to be his way of doing things.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: It only takes mentioning Alder or for Alder to be in the area for him to start talking ''a lot'' with a [[{{Moe}} high pitch voice.]] (In the English version, his voice while not as high started to sound like [[{{Keet}} Barry]] given that they share the same voice actor). Conversely, his [[JadeColoredGlasses cynicism]] is taken to its max when directed toward Ash; following the incident in [=BW052=], he appears to have become more withdrawn than before.
** Taken up a notch (from its usual display) in [=BW039=], where Ash is trying to get his attention. Trip ''obviously'' sees Ash but decides to turn the other way. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ash's expression is priceless]].
* TheStrategist: What makes him a good battler, in general, isn't that he has powerful Pokémon (though this does help contribute to it). It's that he's a very good strategist, making very good use of basic techniques and common sense. However, this is also his AchillesHeel -- he thinks things through ''so'' logically and by-the-book that unexpected results and outside-the-box strategies catch him by surprise, which tends to lead to his defeat. This is how Ash and Pikachu defeat him -- by powering up Pikachu's Iron Tail with Electro Ball, they not only match but surpass Serperior's Dragon Tail and defeat it.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: What happened to the [[CheerfulChild happy little boy]] in the flashback that made him the [[SugarAndIcePersonality aloof]] {{rival}} now?
* TheWorfEffect: Poor Conkeldurr - every time it appears, in each stage of its evolutionary line, it's purpose is to look tough and imposing so that it's opponents come off impressive for defeating it.
** When Trip finally loses to Ash, it's in ''the preliminaries of the Unova League''. Ouch.
*** To sum it up, despite being the main rival of the '''Black and White''' series, he loses the first round in three of the four tournaments to Cilan, Bianca (who TookALevelInBadass) and Ash respectively. He only wins in the third one because of his strategy, which largely involves one hit [=KOing=] his competition.
%%* WindFromBeneathMyWings: Tranquill.
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[[folder: Bianca (Bel)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Bella Hudson
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Lupita Leal


One of Ash's rivals in Unova.
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* AsideGlance: She waves to the audience upon introducing herself.
* BareFistedMonk: Emboar, Excavalier's Quick Guard.
* BarrierWarrior: Shelmet's Protect.
* BerserkButton: As shown in her battle against Stefan, she does not like her opponents dodging because she says it's cowardly.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Shelmet. It is later traded for Professor Juniper's Karrablast, Excavalier
* BreakTheCutie:
** A minor example in [=BW049=]. She looks ready to cry when it seems like she'll have to stop her journey, but she gets better by the end of the episode.
** [[spoiler: Her loss in the Unova League ''does'' cause her to cry, but she gets over it -- to the point of buying Cameron, the very same trainer who defeated her, an ice cream cone.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Bianca is a GenkiGirl and a MotorMouth, but she is a well skilled trainer.
* CallingYourAttacks: Regardless of whether the Pokémon [[UnwantedAssistance belongs to her, or even knows the attack!]]
* CatchPhrase: "[[RunningGag Outta the way]], [[CuteClumsyGirl outta the way]], [[CrashIntoHello OUTTA THE WAY!]]"
* CharacterDevelopment: Starting with [=BW049=], she's becoming a ''much'' more likeable character (her personality hasn't changed that much, but her attitude about things such as her journey and her Pokémon sure have). She also improves as a Pokémon trainer.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* ColorFailure: Minccino in [=BW025=] after his Attract failed to hit Emolga.
* CrashIntoHello: A running gag with her, with Ash being knocked into water ''every time''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She might not look like it, but she has three badges despite her childish nature.
** Also worth noting is that she won her first two badges using ''only'' her starter Pokémon, since she only had Pignite prior to [=BW013=].
** Finally, her breakthrough comes in the form of the Clubsplosion, where she defeats both Trip and Georgia with her newly-evolved Emboar.
** And by the time [=BW103=] rolled around, she had enough badges to participate in the Unova League (at least eight).
* CuteClumsyGirl: Enough to end up crashing into Ash everytime she shows up and have a CatchPhrase centered around it ("Out of the way!")
%%* CutenessProximity
%%* TheCutie
* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler:Her Emboar vs. Cameron's Riolu. Riolu turned out to be too fast for Emboar to keep up.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Her role was already reduced from the games, but things got even worse during Season 2. See OutOfFocus below.
%%* TheDitz
* DumbBlonde: In BW013, she orders Ash's Pikachu to use Zap Cannon on Minccino. Ash informs her with an annoyed face that Pikachu cannot use that move, much to her dismay and she STILL informs Pikachu to give it a shot. Pikachu then gets an annoyed facial reaction.
** This would have been averted if this was Generation II (Johto) only, since Pikachu could learn the move. This is no longer the case Generations after.
* EnergyWeapon: Escavalier's Hyper Beam.
* ExtraOreDinary: Escavalier.
* {{Expy}}: Of Barry, [[{{Flanderization}} even moreso than she was in the games.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: Her hyperactivity and ditziness are much more extreme than they were in the original video game.
%%* GenkiGirl
* GreenThumb: Shelmet's EnergyBall.
* GuestStarPartyMember: She's travelled with Ash and Co. a couple of times ([=BW024-BW025=], and [=BW062-BW063=]).[[note]]An important note on the above, for casual viewers. "A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!" was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally meant to air as [=BW026=]]], before [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents the 2011 disasters]] led to it airing - ''officially'' - as [=BW037=]. Ostensibly a {{Filler}} episode, it was meant to end with Bianca temporarily joining the group for a couple more episodes - specifically, the official [=BW023=] and [=BW024=] (she ''officially'' joined off-screen). But if one discounts the edits made to the episode, then it: a) is technically [=BW023=], not [=BW037=]; b) features Castelia City rather than a random town; and c) pushes up the official numbering by one numeral for every episode, until Luke's introduction (it finally aired directly before [=BW038=]). It's not a necessity to consider things this deeply, but adds a nice extra dimension of depth to what appears to be merely a fun {{Filler}} episode to most who watch it.[[/note]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Coupled with the innocence, naivity and immaturity that this trope entails, and she's definitely pretty as well.
* HartmanHips: A rare anime and non-mature example, but [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/1/15/Black_White_Bianca.png Bianca]] does have it going on.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How Minccino was caught. When Bianca pulled out a dirty Poké Ball, Minccino (still wild at the time) was so desperate to clean it that he scuttled right up onto her shoulder and started dusting it with his tail...which caused the ball to open and suck him in!
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Especially in her earlier episodes, ''especially'' especially in the Club Battle arc. She dials it back in her later appearances after her character development, though.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Bianca can be unknowingly inconsiderate.
* JerkassBall: During the Club Battle arc, she was asked by Luke to film his battle, but instead focused entirely on his Zorua (who wasn't even in the battle). When Luke called her out on it, she haughtily acted like she hadn't done anything wrong.
* {{Jobber}}: [[spoiler:The primary reason for poor Bianca's inclusion in the Unova League appears to be to show off how talented Cameron is.]]
* LuminescentBlush: When she meets Elesa.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Minccino's Hyper Voice.
%%* NiceHat
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Downplayed: [[spoiler: in the Japanese ending theme ''Let's Join Hands'', she becomes rather upset when Professor Juniper gives her the news that Ash has left Unova and that he didn't tell her beforehand.]]
* NonElemental: Minccino
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She can't stop touching the [[LesYay other female competitors]], but this is due to her thinking that they're all [[MasterOfIllusion Zorua]].
** And then in the Clubsplosion arc, she can't stop obsessing over (and touching) the various Fighting Pokémon's muscles.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the dub. Bianca from ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' has the same name as her.
* OutOfFocus: She appeared fairly prominently in Season 14, but after the midway point of Season 15 (the Clubsplosion), she didn't reappear until 30 episodes later in [=BW103=], in early Season 16. Then she disappeared again. Then she reappeared in one of the ending themes...then got cut out of most of it in favor of live-action footage of the singers. Her fans were ''not'' pleased.
* OverlyLongGag: Searching for things (Ash's badge case, a Pokéball) in her bag. It took so long that Ash and Cilan's clothes have already dried up and they were changing into them by the time she found what she's looking for. Even in a meta sense, it lasted '''22 seconds'''.
* OverprotectiveDad: Just like in the games. She mentions that it took forever to get her dad to let her start a journey on her own. Said dad tries to take her back home in [=BW049=] and almost succeeds, fortunately Ash and the group interferes.
* PlayingWithFire: Emboar
* PluckyGirl: In her own words when pursuing Emolga, "I'll NEVER give up!"
* PoisonousPerson: Shelmet's Acid.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Minccino and Shelmet. She doesn't seem to have any others though (much to her dismay).
* RunningGag: Is usually a part of or facilitator of a different one per arc of appearances, but the one constant recurring gag is knocking Ash into a body of water (plus Cilan the first time it happened). Perhaps you could call it [[{{Pun}} a gag about running]]?
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Luke's Savvy Guy.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Ash's very first female rival (sort of...she's more frequently [[GuestStarPartyMember a companion]] than a rival.)
* ShipTease: The Clubsplosion tournament features her fangirling over [[InterspeciesRomance Sawk]] and clinging to Stephan.
** The Unova League has her giving ice cream to Virgil and his Eevee, watching fireworks with him, [[spoiler:cheering him on during his part of the finals and after he wins, tries to give him a "special present" to him and his team for winning the tournament]].
* ShockAndAwe: Minccino's Thunderbolt.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: When she's present, she's the Girly Girl to Iris' Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her Pignite has evolved into Emboar by the time of the Clubsplosion, and they defeat Trip and Georgia in the respective first and second rounds.
* TookALevelInKindness: After Ash risked his journey in a battle with her father in [=BW049=], she's become less clingy and selfish in all subsequent appearances - notably, she's taken to apologizing profusely whenever she [[RunningGag knocks him into a body of water]] these days, and is less obsessive over obtaining "cute" Pokémon than she used to be.
* VolumetricMouth: She often gets one when she's excited.
* TheWorfEffect: For a while, she had never won a battle on-screen, even though both her Pignite and Minccino have either been shown or implied to be decent battlers.
** Though not quite victory, in [=BW063=] she and Professor Juniper face Ash and Cilan in a tag battle -- using their newly traded and evolved Escavalier and Accelgor - and manage to co-ordinate well enough to defeat Boldore before Crustle seals a victory with Rock Wrecker.
** She finally breaks through in [=BW072=] where she beats Trip ''and'' Georgia with her Emboar.
** [[spoiler:Played straight as an arrow when she faces Cameron in the Unova League, especially considering her improvement and the circumstances that lead to her ultimate defeat (Emboar can't hit Riolu because he's ''too small and fast.'').]]
* YankTheDogsChain: She shows major signs of improvement during the Clubsplosion, and even makes it into the Vertress Conference. [[spoiler:Right as it looks like she's going to give a repeat performance...she loses (barely) to new rival Cameron in round 2. In the Top ''64''. The saddest thing is that the writers didn't ''at least'' let her get further before pulling the rug out from under her feet.]]
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[[folder: Burgundy (Cabernet)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Ikumi Hayama
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Suzy Myers
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/AlondraHidalgo


A Pokémon connoisseuse and self-proclaimed rival to Cilan.
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* AnIcePerson: Dewott's Ice Beam.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In an interesting role reversal (for this series), ''she's'' the one on the receiving end, while the main character she's TheRival to is the "Better" in question.
* ArchEnemy: Sees Cilan as this after he [[DisproportionateRetribution defeated her in a Gym Battle]].
* BareFistedMonk: Dewott's Revenge.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Dewott's Fury Cutter, and Sawsbuck's [[HornAttack Megahorn]].
* BigFriendlyDog: Stoutland, toward her at least.
* BitingTheHandkerchief: Does this while insulting Cilan's Pokémon food for Snivy in front of him. Needless to say Snivy isn't pleased with her comments (see ButtMonkey below).
* ButtMonkey: She continues to negatively criticize all of Ash's Pokémon even after they attack her.
** Also, during the Club Battle, Ash's Snivy literally Vine Whips her in the butt.
* CantTakeCriticism: Burgundy is shown to not take criticism very well.
* CatchPhrase: [[GratuitousFrench "Alors!]] [[GratuitousEnglish It is Evaluation Time,]] [[GratuitousFrench s'il vous plaît!"]]
** One could also make the notion she has a second catch phrase in ''"I HOPE YOU ALL LOSE!!!"''
* CharacterDevelopment: Her's is, like her character, all over the place. Throughout the Club Battle, culminating in actually coming to respectful terms with Cilan. When she returns in the Clubsplosion arc, she's shown to still find his attitude annoying -- as a bonafide {{Tsundere}}, she's quick to return to antagonism when he asks her if she's advanced her Connosseuse ranking (she's still only C-Rank). Listening to her dialogue indicates that the respect has stuck somewhat, but that she: A) still has a ways to go before being fully civil with the guy; and B) seems unwilling to admit yet that she looks up to him. In the Junior Cup, however, she has a moment where she's almost blatantly crushing on him while wishing for him to beat Trip (though she reverts back to her normal behavior when Trip beats him.)
* {{Chuunibyou}}: She believes that her evaluation skills are on the level of an A-rank connoisseur.
* ComicallyLopSidedRivalry: Despite her determination and noticeable improvement over the series, Cilan easily outclasses her.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple eyes, purple hair.
* DramaQueen: She cranks up the ham -- and the volume -- at every possible opportunity.
* FireIceLightning: Stoutland's [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]] and [[ShockAndAwe Thunder]] [[ManBitesMan Fang attacks]].
* FrenchJerk: Downplayed since she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** She's also not really French - in the dub, at least, where she gives the impression of trying to put on a French accent to make herself look more impressive and glamourous (explaining away her ''atrocious'' accent).
* GratuitousFrench: Has more of this in the English dub (presumably because the Japanese voice actress is less skilled at speaking French).
* GreenThumb: Sawsbuck.
* HairTriggerTemper: The littlest things can set her off... sometimes Cilan's existence to her can set her off.
* HamToHamCombat: Quite literally during the last round of the Club Battle.
* HumblePie: Cilan gives her a rather cruel one when he defeats her Pokémon without taking any damage. To add to the insult, [[JustToyingWithThem he was toying with her Sawsbuck with his Pansage when all he had to do was one-hit KO it with a Solar Beam]]. Though, in his defense, he really was trying to teach her a meaningful lesson.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** During the Clubsplosion, she insulted Cilan for losing in the second round, in spite of the fact that she lost in the first round.
** During the Junior Cup, she calls Georgia a "pipsqueak", even though Georgia is actually slightly taller than her.
* ImagineSpot: ...Which has Cilan evilly taunting her and her Oshawott, then doing an EvilLaugh while Pansage cackles in the background.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Or more like "sympathetic rival." As infuriating as Burgundy can be, sometimes you feel so bad for her for her constant losing streak. Other than the off-screen battle she won against one of Cilan's brothers, she doesn't even get thrown a single bone.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's implied that Burgundy makes critical and harsh assessments of others' battling performances due to her insecurity about her losing streak and her low connoisseur class.
* IWarnedYou: Tells Cilan during the Club Battle that he wouldn't make it past the second round. Needless to say, she's ''very'' pleased when this comes true.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She may be crazy, snobby and judgemental, but she really loves her Pokémon, even to the point of a [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/1310034137721.jpg/ very literal]] PetTheDog during the Club Battle tournament.
** Also, she's getting to be on better terms with Cilan now too, only getting angry at him as a reaction to something he unwittingly says or does, rather than trying to actively antagonize him.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Her "evaluations" aren't particularly well thought out (usually revolving around smell, or even taste), yet she acts like they're always one hundred percent accurate.
* LargeHam: [[NotSoDifferent Like Cilan]], she has her moments of this.
* MakingASplash: Dewott.
* NoIndoorVoice: True to her DramaQueen nature.
* NonElemental: Stoutland, Sawsbuck
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In her battle with Ash, she has Stoutland use Thunder Fang on the ground-type Palpitoad. This turns out to be a ruse to make Ash drop his guard, and she immediately swaps for Ice Fang.
* PlayingWithFire: Darmanitan
* PluckyGirl: Gotta give her one thing; skilled or not, she never gives up.
%%* {{Pride}}
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She is constantly under the abuse of Ash's Pokémon as well as the people around her. Bianca for instance, glomps Georgia, tackles Iris, but with Burgundy? She ''tramples'' her.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** She believes she's always right when it came to criticizing Ash's Pokémon. Cue them all attacking her and she declaring that they all suck.
** She also believes herself to be a superior connoisseur to Cilan, in spite of the fact that she is just a "C" class (who is only qualified to be an assistant to higher-class connoisseurs), and Cilan is an "A" class.
* StrawLoser: While she was made to be a rival to Cilan, she also comes off as very pathetic compared to not only Cilan, but to Georgia and Ash and co.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With Georgia (she's the girly-girl, albeit a rather crazy one).
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A to a ridiculous extreme at first, but mellows out into a Type B, albeit a [[HotBlooded fiery]] Type B (Example: In the Clubsplosion, she yells at Cilan to WIN his match against a one-shot character...but when he ''does'' win and celebrates it, she gets annoyed by his attitude and says she was wrong, he should have ''lost''!)
* UnknownRival: To Cilan.
** As of [=BW042=] not anymore. He accepts her as his rival, which shocks her so much that she begins to actually appreciate him a little more.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to ''her'' at least before Cilan defeated her, complete with an innocent white dress in her ImagineSpot.
* VagueAge: Burgundy looks like she could be anywhere in her early teens to early '20s.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Georgia at the Clubsplosion and Junior Cup. The two snipe at each other often, yet are constantly hanging out together regardless.
* WomanScorned: No kidding.
* TheWorfEffect: She can't seem to get past the first round in any of the tournaments. Then again, she hypes herself up as a competent trainer, but might not be as good as she claims.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Purple
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[[folder: Stephan (Kenyan)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Tomohiro Waki
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Darren Dunstan
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/LuisDanielRamirez


Another one of Ash's rivals in Unova.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In a manner similar to Butch.
** In Japanese, it's ''Ken''yan, not Keniyan or Kaniyan.
** In English, it's Ste''phan'', not ''Steph''an or Steven.
** Finally starts averting it with the beginning of the Unova League, when [[ThrowTheDogABone everybody starts pronouncing his name right]].
* BareFistedMonk: One of the openings imply that Stephan is a martial artist. Fitting given that he's always seen with Sawk now.
** His attire lends credence to this as well.
* BerserkButton: Whenever someone mispronounces his Japanese name as "Keniyan", which is often to his dismay. Semi-subverted in that he's (usually) more exasperated with it than "berserk" about it.
* BigEater: Rivals Ash in this regard.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: His Sawk. Arguably Stephan himself, as he's a big guy with an eagerness for battle who is nonetheless quite kindhearted.
* CanonImmigrant: Though he's been given the Black Belt's sprite and class, he and his team ''are'' available in a download for the World Tournament (along with the other three anime-origin rivals).
* CatchPhrase: Some variation of '''"Why won't anyone get my name right?!"'''
* CastingAShadow: Liepard, a Dark-Type Pokémon.
* CharacterDevelopment: Through the Clubsplosion and Unova League (lampshaded by Iris in the latter, who says he's really matured.)
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: How does he get around the fact that his Sawk (part of an all-male species) would be targeted by moves like Attract? Train him ''really hard'' to develop defensive techniques, of course! There's a HardWorkMontage[=/=]TrainingMontage superimposed over his explanation, too!
* CoolHorse: His first shown Pokémon was Blitzle that would later evolve into Zebstrika.
* CrazyPrepared: Stephan predicted that Ash would use Palpitoad against Zebstrika, thus he replaced all of its moves with Normal-Type moves, including Facade in the case if it suffers from a status condition.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: His Japanese name ('''Kenya'''n) and early use of Blitzle (later Zebstrika) would have you believe it's his main {{Mon}}. It later turns out that his key battler and closest partner is really Sawk.
** With the reveal of his Liepard, his name becomes a MeaningfulName (All of his Pokémon are African themed).
* FieryRedhead: A redheaded guy with a HotBlooded personality.
* ForegoneConclusion. Sort of. Stephan won the Wishing Bell Festival and wishes to win the Clubsplosion tournament. He ''does'' win ithe tournament, but not without working really hard to fulfill his wish.
* GentleGiant: He's a big guy, but outside of battle, he's very laid-back.
* GuestStarPartyMember: From [=BW069-BW073=], travelling with the group just prior to the Clubsplosion.
* HotBlooded: Especially during battles.
* PlayingWithFire: Zebstrika's Flame Charge.
* PoorPredictableRock: Stephan predicted that Ash would use Palpitoad against his Zebstrika, who would be immune against Zebstrika's Electric-Type moves and would resist its Flame Charge. Thus, he replaces Zebstrika's entire moveset with Normal-Type attacks.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: When he's present, he's the Manly Man to Cilan's Sensitive Guy.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Cilan/Burgundy apparently.
* ShipTease: With Bianca.
* ShockAndAwe: Zebstrika, an Electric-Type Pokémon.
%%* SkintoneSclerae
* SugarAndIcePersonality: His Sawk is this -- during the Clubsplosion, after defeating Throh he bows respectfully to his opponent before Throh faints...then he does a one-eighty, and he and his trainer begin hugging the life out of each other in glee.
* 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. This is proven even more in the Vertress Conference; despite being immensely weakend by Ash's Leavanny, Sawk still manages to win.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He had to dress up as Nurse Joy in a contest.
* WorthyOpponent: Considered this by Montgomery after Stephan defeated him in the Clubsplosion finals.
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[[folder: Georgia (Langley)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/MisatoFukuen
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Brittney Lee Hamilton
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Lourdes Arrouti

Self-proclaimed Dragon Buster and Iris' rival.
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* AnIcePerson: Beartic and Vanilluxe, ideal for an anti-Dragon specialist.
* AntagonistInMourning: Not a death example, but in the Japanese Decolore Adventures ending, Georgia is shown looking up a the sky wistfully after learning that Iris has left Unova to visit Kanto. She clearly misses her rival.
%%* ArrogantKungFuGuy
* TheBattleDidntCount: Georgia claims this if she's beaten with a non-Dragon Pokémon.
* BareFistedMonk: Beartic's [[BrickBreak Rock Smash]].
* BearsAreBadNews: Beartic
* BetweenMyLegs: How she's introduced.
* BigEater: She can wolf down a breakfast for three people and still have some appetite left. [[ComedicSociopathy Pity it happened]] [[KickTheDog to be Ash and co's breakfast]].
* BorrowedCatchphrase: She uses Iris' catchphrase against her at times.
* CastingAShadow: Bisharp
* {{Catchphrase}}: Georgia likes to say "better not lose" to her rival Iris.
* CharacterDevelopment: She TookALevelInKindness during the Clubsplosion, and carried it further in the Ferroseed research facility episode.
* CripplingOverspecialization: She devotes her life to to craft a battle style designed specifically to take down Dragon type Pokémon. Unfortunately, she ends up losing quite a fair bit in battles that aren't against Dragon Pokémon or share similar weaknesses to them (the only exception is a Joltik, which she still struggled). Unlike most cases of this trope, she still manages to put up a very good fight.
* 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.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Her Beartic versus Sylvester's four inches high Joltik. "Goliath" wins, crushing "David" under his weight when he collapsed from Thunderbolt.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She once lost to a Dragon trainer and has now made it a goal to go around defeating all Dragon trainers she comes across. One would think that this is just an overreaction, but her reaction to watching Axew using Outrage might indicate the loss was more serious than initially thought.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Georgia is introduced, viewers get to know her FreudianExcuse and how much of a jerk she is to Iris.
* EvilCounterpart: Georgia is this to Iris. They are both NotSoDifferent from each other. While Iris teases Ash by calling him a kid and can be condescending, she still is a decent person who has good intentions and practices good sportsmanship regarding being an aspiring dragon trainer. Georgia, on the other hand, is unnecessarily rude to almost everyone she encounters, gloats when she wins battles, blames others when she loses, and doesn’t have that many good redeeming qualities.
* ExtraOreDinary: Bisharp.
%%* FieryRedhead
* GratuitousEnglish: "Bye!"
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Not in the romantic way, obviously. Georgia is one of the shortest trainers, yet her Beartic is an eight feet tall giant.
* HypocriticalHumor: Her feud with Iris is based around this on both sides.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** In her first appearance, she rightfully criticizes Iris for not having a lot of dragon Pokémon on her team since Iris wants to be a dragon master.
** 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.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Started off as a straight-out {{Jerkass}}, but [[CharacterDevelopment started to]] [[TookALevelInKindness get better]] during the Clubsplosion, and her heart of gold status is solidified in the Ferroseed Research Center episode.
* KickTheDog: One might be able to let her bitchiness slide, but ''eating three other peoples' breakfasts''? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And then proceeding to say it that could have been better cooked?]]
** The insult doubles for Cilan [[SupremeChef who has technically been running a gym that is a restaurant for most of his life, and is very proud of his skills]].
* LargeHam: If someone goes around declaring themselves a "Dragon Buster", they're most likely a Ham.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Bisharp's Metal Sound.
* ManOfKryptonite: the team she's training is tailored to take down Dragon-types in general, hence christening herself with the "Dragon Buster" monicker.
* MeaningfulName: Her dub name "Georgia" is derived from ''St. George and the Dragon'', a famous English tale of a crusader who...well, slayed a dragon. Her Japanese name refers to [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka LANGLEY Soryu]], another female red-haired {{Jerkass}} who is implied to have ''deep'' insecurities and an inferiority complex (along with HiddenDepths).
* MightyGlacier: Beartic is slower than all his opponents so far, and so relies on big, heavy blows. It caused him some trouble when facing Joltik, the smallest Pokémon there is...and a fast one to boot.
%%* NiceHat
* NeverMyFault: When Georgia loses, she will do anything to take the blame off of herself.
* NotSoDifferent: From Iris. While Iris is much more of a decent person than Georgia is, they are both immature and resort to petty squabbles, as evidenced by their Club Battle tournament interactions. Georgia even [[LampshadeHanging points this out]].
* OneHitKill: Bisharp's Guillotine.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: When Burgundy vows revenge against Iris for a loss, Georgia tells her to butt out because Iris is ''her'' rival.
* PetTheDog: Shows some actual respect toward Iris after Iris wins the Club Battle tournament, and flat out ''encourages'' her to become a Dragon Master. She also shows a notably softer, more reasonable side around Bianca.
** She actually doesn't get angry when she loses to Bianca in the Clubsplosion, and thanks her Bisharp for its effort when recalling it.
** And of course, the Ferroseed research episode, where she shows great care for her Vanilluxe, helps rescue Iris and team up with her to solve the current dilemma, and then compliment her for doing well using her Vanilluxe, saying she'd make a good Ice Master.
* RedBaron: Self proclaimed "Dragon Buster," and she backs it up. She defeats most Dragon-type Pokémon she faces with ridiculous ease.
* TheRival: For Iris.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Similar to Burgundy, she's the main victim of abuse during the Club Battle arc with Zorua constantly turning into her and then running away from Bianca who often causes her problems as a result.
* SoreLoser:
** Said a tie didn't count since it wasn't a dragon she tied against, and blamed her loss against Ash on the battlefield.
** Says her loss to Bianca in the Clubsplosion doesn't count either as it wasn't against a dragon, but this time she's [[PetTheDog saying it directly to]] her Bisharp [[PetTheDog as a comfort]], so she doesn't come across as badly.
** Says that her loss to Iris in the Junior Cup wasn't to Iris, but rather Dragonite...and in this case, [[JerkassHasAPoint Iris ended up agreeing with her.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Like her [[VitriolicBestBuds buddy Burgundy]], she started out Type A, but become more of a Type B once she started reserving her tsun side exclusively for her rival (in this case, Iris.)
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With Burgundy (she's the tomboy, albeit a rather crazy one.)
* TookALevelInKindness: In the Clubsplosion tournament. Took it even further in the Ferroseed Research episode.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: She does this towards Iris when she makes it past the first round in the tournament at Nimbasa Town. Iris just says that she believes that Georgia is more of a little kid that she thought.
* UseYourHead: Bisharp's Iron Head.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Burgundy at the Clubsplosion and Junior Cup. The two snipe at each other often, yet are constantly hanging out together regardless.
* WolverineClaws: Pawniard/Bisharp's Metal Claw.
* WorthyOpponent:
** In the Club Battle, she says that she's actually pleased that Iris is getting stronger, since as a Dragon Buster, she'd rather defeat strong Pokémon than weak ones.
** She was also disappointed when Iris used Excadrill in the last stage of the Club Battle, and outright ''pissed'' when it continues into the Clubsplosion tournament -- since she ''wants'' Iris to be a real Dragon Master and a worthy foe for a Dragon Buster such as herself, she expects her to continue strengthening Axew and any other Dragon-types she might obtain.
** Likewise, she's ecstatic when Iris gets a Dragonite, but only gets upset when Iris can't control it properly. And yet even after losing, she's ''still'' happy that Iris continues to use Dragonite in the tournament. The implication is that she would've been fine with losing to Dragonite if it was Iris calling the shots in the battle like a proper Dragon Master rival should do.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Shamus (Suwama)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Billy Bob Thompson
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Abraham Vega

One of Ash's one-shot rivals and the antagonist of the day.

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* EvilCounterpart: To Ash, much like Paul. Both are Pokemon trainers, but while Ash chooses Pokémon because he sees them as friends, Shamus only cares about catching powerful Pokémon and sees them as tools who he uses to win battles.
* EvilerThanThou: In some respects, he's even worse than Paul.
** While Paul was also a huge jerk who only cared about his Pokémon's strength and would readily abandon them if they weren't up to his standards, at least he didn't force other Trainers to give their Pokémon to him.
** Also, Paul was at least honest about his harsh nature and would be upfront when he released a Pokémon, while Shamus would be emotionally manipulative to his Pokémon and drop the facade once he had no reason to feign caring for them.
* HateSink: The point of his character is to be despicable, [[{{Expy}} much like Damian and Koji before him]]. At least when Paul abandoned his Pokémon (as horrible as ''that'' was), he [[AtLeastIAdmitIt never manipulated them]] into believing he once cared for them.
* {{Jerkass}}: He abandons his Pokemon and even brags about it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Shamus only wanted Pignite to rejoin him after it was proven to be strong after it evolved, and sarcastically apologized to it. Pignite sees through the bullshit and gives him a well deserved flamethrower to his face for it.
* KickTheDog:
** Abandoned Tepig and openly admitted it during his tag team battle with Ash.
** After he defeated another Trainer, he tried to force that Trainer to hand over his Pokémon to him. Thankfully, Ash was there to intervene.
* LackOfEmpathy: Shows this by not caring when Tepig begs and pleads for him not to abandon it.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He not only loses to Ash, but he gets a Flamethrower to the face by Pignite after pretending to apologize to it and offer it a spot on his team.
* ManipulativeBastard: He bragged about manipulating Tepig (and other Pokémon he released) into believing he once cared for it.
* MeaningfulName: His name brings the word "shame" to mind, and his behavior is indeed nothing but shameful.
* OneShotCharacter: He only physically appears in ''Evolution by Fire!''
* PlayingWithFire: Shamus has a thing for powerful Fire-type Pokémon, calling himself and his team the "Fire Warriors." Even his clothes have a red and black color scheme.
* TheRival: He's a one-shot, character of the day rival for Ash.
* SoreLoser: Surprisingly averted. Shamus didn’t seem to have a problem with losing to Ash & just takes his loss as it is. It doesn’t make him less of a prick, though.
* UnseenNoMore: In Tepig's first episode, he was only seen in flashback and his face was not shown. He makes his first and only in-person appearance in ''Evolution by Fire!''
* YouHaveFailedMe: He abandoned Tepig after it lost a match to a Deerling, tying it to a post after it kept trying to follow him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cameron (Kotetsu)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/KoukiUchiyama
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Rory Max Kaplan
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' José Antonio Toledano


One of Ash's rivals from Unova, introduced in the ''Adventures in Unova'' season.
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%%* AnimeHair
%%* BareFistedMonk: Riolu->Lucario
* CanonImmigrant: Though he's been given the Youngster's sprite and class, he and his team ''are'' available in a download for the World Tournament (along with the other three anime-origin rivals).
* CastingAShadow: Hydreigon
* CharacterTics: Pulling his headband so it snaps on his forehead seems to give him focus.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his dull-wittedness, he still manages to defeat Marlon without that much difficulty.
** His team -- or what we see of it, anyway -- is pretty impressive. He's trained a Lucario, Ferrothorn, Samurott, Hydreigon, and Swanna (plus a Watchog, shown in silhouette on the board during his match with Virgil).
* CurbstompBattle: Not excessively so, but the battlescreen shows that Virgil still defeated him 6-on-3 - meaning Virgil had half his team still active when he won. Not totally invincible after all.
* DavidVersusGoliath: His somewhat small Riolu vs. Bianca's bulky Emboar. Riolu wins by using its own speed and size to its advantage.
* DittoFighter: Riolu's Copycat.
* TheDitz: Oh boy, is he ever! He didn’t realize that he needed eight badges to enter the Pokémon League when he only had seven, and took out a ''remote control'' instead of a Pokedex to scan Pikachu.
** He also thought the league was going to be in Ecruteak City, which is in an ''entirely different region''. Put bluntly, ''[[IdiotHero Ash]]'' looks smart when he's placed next to this kid! Even ''he'' finds himself frustrated at Cameron's dimness.
** He also thought that the quarter-final match was 5-on-5 rather than 6-on-6 -- Ash had to inform him that he'd accidentally handicapped himself, much to his chagrin.
** Cameron also seems to struggle with remembering type matchups; he sent out the Grass/Steel-type Ferrothorn against the Fire/Fighting-type Pignite, as well as the Water/Flying-type Swanna against the Electric-type Pikachu, for no apparent reason. Both of them are quickly defeated as a result.
* DumbMuscle: He's even dimmer than Indigo League ''Ash'', both in and outside of battle, and regularly handicaps himself through his mistakes. Seemingly what carries him in battle is his powerful and well-balanced team, with his Hydreigon taking down two of Ash's Pokemon with relative ease, and Lucario taking out three.
* ExtraOreDinary: Ferrothorn and Lucario.
* {{Foil}}: He and Ash get along so well because they're so similar. Like Morrison from the Hoenn League, he rather resembles a less experienced and more juvenile Ash, albeit with a more evolved team line-up. On the flip-side, he's even more of a ditz than Ash is!
** If Richie represented all of Ash's positive traits if he took training more seriously, Cameron is the flipside a pure CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. The way Cameron bulldozes through the league mirrors the way Ash himself progressed through the Indigo League.
* GreenThumb: Ferrothorn
* GuestStarPartyMember: Joins the group briefly for a trip to Humilau City, where he can challenge Marlon. He leaves afterwards.
* InvincibleIncompetent: Played straight until the end of the Unova League: no matter how many boneheaded mistakes Cameron made, he won every battle he had onscreen. It's finally subverted when Virgil defeats him decisively in the quarterfinals.
* {{Keet}}: Right from his introduction.
* LightningBruiser: Samurott and Lucario.
* MakingASplash: Samurott and Swanna.
* MeaningfulName: Shares his Japanese name with Nagasone Kotetsu, who was a swordmaker. It fits in that one of his Pokémon is [[{{Samurai}} Samurott]], which uses said weapons.
** Also, "Tetsu" means "iron" in Japanese -- another reference to Samurott's swords, but also to Lucario and Ferrothorn's [[ExtraOreDinary Steel]]-typing -- while "ko" can mean either "small" or "child".
** This is also referenced in his English name, Came'''ron.'''
* MightyGlacier: Hydreigon's speed (while not pathetic) pales compared to its phenomenal Attack and Defense.
* NoodleImplements: One has to ponder as to ''why'' he had a TV Remote in his bag on a Pokémon Journey.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' games also had a Cameron.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Riolu, until it evolves into Lucario and becomes a full-on LightningBruiser.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After Dawn leaves in his introductory episode ([=BW093=]), he and Riolu take her and Piplup's places (respectively) in the Japanese opening credits starting with [=BW094=].
* SamusIsAGirl: His Samurott succumbs to Bianca's Emboar using Attract, and since Emboar is a guy...yeah, with those whiskers and such, it's unlikely anybody saw ''that'' coming.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: With Riolu, who serves as the Straight Man to Cameron's Wise Guy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sorta. His Riolu is clearly annoyed at his sheer ditziness, but still considers him his best friend. It's made much more apparent given that, like in the games, Riolu evolves into Lucario because of said bond.
* WindFromBeneathMyWings: Swanna
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Virgil]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/YuukiKaji
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Tom Wayland
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Gerardo Velásquez

Yet another Unova rival for Ash. The final one introduced, Virgil debuts shortly before the start of the Vertress Conference. He is a Rescue Worker, along with his older brother Davy. His team consists of a female Eevee and one of each of the "Eeveelutions", whom he regularly rotates similar to Ash and his Unova team. [[spoiler:He ultimately ends up the victor of the Vertress Conference.]]
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* AnIcePerson: Glaceon. Vaporeon's Aurora Beam.
* BigDamnHeroes: His debut
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returns for the special episode before the 16th movie.]]
* CanonImmigrant: Though he's been given the Pokémon Ranger's sprite and class, he and his team ''are'' available in a download for the World Tournament (along with the other three anime-origin rivals).
* CastingAShadow: Umbreon
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Gold hair and gold eyes.
* DishingOutDirt: Eevee's Dig and Leafeon's Sand Attack.
* GenerationXerox: He and his older brother, Davy, are both involved in the Rescue Team business, just like their father Jeff.
* GreenThumb: Leafeon
* LightTheWay: Umbreon's Flash.
* LivingProp: Leafeon -- comparatively, the rest of his team has either participated in said episode's conflict and/or were ''seen'' battling in the Vertress Conference. It does, however, appear as a silhouette on the display screen showing the teams he used in the 6-on-6 battles, so at least we know he used it. [[spoiler:It also appears by his side in the Mewtwo special, and even then, it only uses one attack.]]
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Eevee's Protect.
* MakingASplash: Vaporeon
* MerchandiseDriven: His Eevee team exists to advertise a whole bunch of Eevee merch in Japan.
* NiceGuy: Virgil himself
* NonElemental: Eevee
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Eevee.
* PlayingWithFire: Flareon
* PsychicPowers: Espeon. Umbreon's Psychic.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Played with in that many expected him to be the one to face Ash and beat him, then go on to win the whole league. He never battled Ash, but he did battle and defeat Cameron (who ''did'' beat Ash), and Virgil ''did'' go on to win the entire league.]]
%%* ShipTease: With Bianca.
%%* ShockAndAwe: Jolteon.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: He and his father share the same name with a [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} famous family of rescue workers]].
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Eevee's his only female {{Mon}} on a team of eight. This is a JustifiedTrope - only 1/8th of all Eevee are female in the games, so proportionately this is accurate. More importantly, she's the most powerful member of his team to begin with.
* SoulPower: Umbreon and Vaporeon's Shadow Ball.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Due to Ash getting knocked out of the tournament by Cameron, Virgil is the only rival Ash ''never'' faces, and one of two (the other being Bianca) he doesn't battle in the Unova League]].
* WeaponOfChoice: His entire team is made up of Eevee and its evolutions.
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** [[RuleOfThree Plus,]] Paul would abandon his Pokemon in a safe location such as returning Stantler to its natural habitat, giving his Azumarill to a rookie trainer, or releasing Chimchar close to a Pokemon center. Shamus tied Tepig to a post in a location he clearly didn't think anyone would find him.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Played straight at first, but ever since he tied with Ash during their third battle the writers have thankfully made his strength more evidently balanced.

* BreakTheHaughty: [=BW052=] shows shades of this, especially when Trip leaves the group. It's not surprising though: the person you idolized not remembering you, demonstrating to you that the idol you love has apparently [[TookaLevelInDumbass grown senile and unserious]] and then your idol not wanting to battle you after refusing to finish the battle with your rival will shatter your view of things even if you don't show it, and with the other [[HiddenDepths tropes]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid shown below]], it might be more serious than we think.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Started off as a rival that seemed to [[{{Jerkass}} enjoy making fun]] [[{{Eagleland}} of Ash and the Kanto region]] but quickly mellowed down to a [[TheQuietOne quiet]], [[SugarAndIcePersonality aloof]] {{rival}} [[HiddenHeartOfGold that gives advice to Ash despite still being annoyed by him]].

* HiddenDepths: The SugarAndIcePersonality {{rival}} was actually a CheerfulChild when he was much younger and an AscendedFanboy. Whatever happened from the time that Alder told him that he would wait for him to be a trainer to him getting his starter Pokémon is where this trope comes in...and there are speculations of [[BreakTheCutie something happening]] [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids in that]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid time frame]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold:
** His fourth appearance shows that he isn't ''really'' a jerk. For some strange reason, he would rather be a jerk towards Ash than be nice to him. However, he fails to even be that, and he ends up helping Ash realize why Oshawott isn't hitting its mark with Aqua Jet (by pausing their battle and explaining it to him, not even trying to take advantage of it). He also volunteers to help Iris overcome her fear of Ice Pokémon (but she refused, because...well, she's a complete coward when it comes to Ice Pokémon!)
** After he loses to Alder, the facade is almost completely gone as he's able to speak to Ash without insulting him once and admits to wanting to battle Ash at the Unova League.

* {{Irony}}: He initially looks down on Ash for being a "backwater hillbilly" from Kanto, to which he refers to the region as "[[{{Eagleland}} the boonies]]". Yet, the Kanto region was inspired by the real-life region in Japan and is one of the most highly developed, urbanized, and industrialized parts of it. The Unova region, on the other hand, was explicitly based on the ''United States of America'', specifically, the BigApplesauce.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Cameron comes off as TheDitz when it comes to everything else, but there’s no denying that he’s a competent trainer.

* GeniusDitz: Despite being even dimmer than Indigo-League ''Ash'', he's demonstrated that not only can he train a powerful and well-balanced team, but he's a fairly solid and strategic battler as well.

* InvincibleIncompetent: At first. Then Virgil defeated him in the Top 4 matches, subverting it.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Serperior's [[WhipItGood Dragon Tail]].

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Hydreigon.

** In fact, in recent episodes, seeing Alder again doesn't bring up his {{Adorkable}} nature and he only gets irritated showing that the case might have taken a tole on his view of things as a whole given that he's become more distant than usual.

* MoodSwinger: According to Alder and from what the audience sees, there are some hints that his personality does go 180 as shown in [=BW052=] when [[TheQuietOne he's quiet one moment]] and then [[CheerfulChild rather]] [[{{Adorkable}} hyperactive]] the next only to swing right back to his [[SugarAndIcePersonality serious self]] near the end, only this time with actual anger rather than sulleness.

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* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackandWhite Cheren]].

** Slightly less so to Alder, at first, but after a talk with his old idol he takes it alright. And when he loses to Ash, he calmly accepts his defeat and they (kind of) start becoming friends.

** His fourth appearances shows that he isn't ''really'' a jerk. For some strange reason, he would rather be a jerk towards Ash than be nice to him. However, he fails to even be that, and he ends up helping Ash realize why Oshawott isn't hitting its mark with Aqua Jet (by pausing their battle and explaining it to him, not even trying to take advantage of it). He also volunteers to help Iris overcome her fear of Ice Pokémon (but she refused, because...well, she's a complete coward when it comes to Ice Pokémon!)

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How Trip ends up losing to Bianca. Not only underestimating her, but his Conkeldurr leaves himself wide open for attacks when Bianca's Emboar gets through his Rock Tomb. Bianca basically orders her Emboar to take those pillars that Conkeldurr uses in battle and throw back in his face.

* ExtraOreDinary: Bishop

* WolverineClaws: Pawniard's Metal Claw.

* BareFistedMonk: Conkeldurr

* GreenThumb: Sawsbuck
* HairTriggerTemper: The littlest things can set her off...sometimes Cilan's existence to her can set her off.

* HumblePie: Cilan gives her a rather cruel one when he defeats her Pokémon without taking any damage. To add to the insult, [[JustToyingWithThem he was toying with her Sawsbuck with his Pansage when all he had to do was one-hit KO it with a SolarBeam]]. Though in his defense, he really was trying to teach her a meaningful lesson.

* ZettaiRyouiki: A Grade.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Escavalier's Hyper Beam.

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* HateSink: The point of his character is to be despicable. At least when Paul abandoned his Pokémon (as horrible as ''that'' was), he [[AtLeastIAdmitIt never manipulated them]] into believing he once cared for them.

** After he loses to Alder, the facade is almost completely gone as he's able to speak to Ash without insulting him once and admits to wanting to battle Ash at the Unova League. Shuu (Drew) and Jun (Barry). [[note]]Shi and Ji share the same kana in Japanese, but the latter has a dakuten. Also, Shu is written as Shiyu in kana[[/note]]

* LetterMotif: Ash's first two main rivals are Shigeru (Gary) and Shinji (Paul).

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* {{Adorkable}}: Has shown signs of being one but most of this is suppressed by his [[SugarAndIcePersonality aloof attitude]], but once certain people (Alder) are around him though, that side of him is gone almost instantly, with his voice suddenly getting childishly high in the process.

* [[{{Speedrun}} Speedrunner]]: Seems to be his way of doing things.

* {{Jerkass}}: He abandons his Pokémon and even brags about it.

* GuestStarPartyMember: She's travelled with Ash and Co. a couple of times ([=BW024-BW025=], and [=BW062-BW063=]).[[note]]An important note on the above, for casual viewers. "A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!" was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally meant to air as [=BW026=]]], before [[TooSoon the 2011 disasters]] led to it airing - ''officially'' - as [=BW037=]. Ostensibly a {{Filler}} episode, it was meant to end with Bianca temporarily joining the group for a couple more episodes - specifically, the official [=BW023=] and [=BW024=] (she ''officially'' joined off-screen). But if one discounts the edits made to the episode, then it: a) is technically [=BW023=], not [=BW037=]; b) features Castelia City rather than a random town; and c) pushes up the official numbering by one numeral for every episode, until Luke's introduction (it finally aired directly before [=BW038=]). It's not a necessity to consider things this deeply, but adds a nice extra dimension of depth to what appears to be merely a fun {{Filler}} episode to most who watch it.[[/note]]

-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Alondra Hidalgo

-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Jun Fukuyama

* HateSink: The point of his character is to be despicable.

* EvilerThanThou: In some respects, he's even worse than Paul. While Paul was also a huge jerk who only cared about his Pokémon's strength and would readily abandon them if they weren't up to his standards, at least he didn't force other Trainers to give their Pokémon to him.