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!!Team Plasma

'''Tropes that apply to multiple members:'''

* AdaptedOut: The Shadow Triad. The Sages also had their distinct, individualistic appearances and personalities removed. And thanks to their skipped debut, the [=BW1=] team outfits also don't exist in the anime continuity, and along with them any members who ''sincerely'' desired to help Pokémon.
* ArcVillain: Thanks to the 2011 Japanese disasters causing their planned debut to be skipped, the organization has only been featured as the villains of the ''Episode N'' arc in the BW show's final season.
* CastingAShadow: Multiple members have Liepard, and at least one is shown commanding a Bisharp.
* CatsAreMean: As indicated above, Liepard seems to be the {{Mon}} of choice for most Plasma grunts, with even Aldith having one. At least three or four Zangoose have been separately shown under their command as well, including Weiss'.
* DarkIsEvil: Their uniforms.
* DemotedToExtra: The Seven Sages (sans Ghetsis) were reduced to appearing only in a flashback, and [[AdaptedOut even had their distinctive features from the games completely altered]]. Most likely done to avoid worrying about their distinct personalities and giving them roles in the story.
* ExtraOreDinary: Multiple Magnemite (along with Barret's Magnezone), and a Bisharp.
* PoisonousPerson: Multiple Golbat and at least one Muk. Not to mention Schwarz's Seviper.
* ShockAndAwe: Multiple Magnemite.
* ShoutOut: All the Pokémon they use are from families which Team Plasma uses in the ''games''.

[[folder: Ghetsis (G-Cis)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Masaki Aizawa
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Bill Rogers
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Diego Armando Nieves

The shadowy leader of Team Plasma, foster father to N, Anthea, and Concordia. In [=BW112=], Ghetsis is initially seen projecting his image in a hologram, through which he communicates with Colress. He subsequently appears in person for the first time in [=BW117=].
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* AdaptationalWimp: Not that he isn't a threat, but his plan rides solely on taming Reshiram through a device. Contrast with game Ghetsis who manipulates N to control the Legendary dragon and is implied fully capable of defeating it. This Ghetsis doesn't seem to have a team of his own, not even his infamous Hydreigon.
* ArchnemesisDad: [=BW118=] reveals that: a) he is N, Anthea and Concordia's stepfather, like in the games; and b) they all oppose his goals and actions.
%%* BadassLongrobe
* BigBad: Of the ''Episode N'' arc.
%%* BlackCloak
* CompositeCharacter: The cool, collected personality of his original B&W persona is combined with the clothing and more open goals of his later, [=B2W2=] counterpart.
* DarkIsEvil: He wears his black outfit from [=B2W2=].
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[spoiler: Two grunts had to stop him from pissing off Reshiram any further after it was freed from the device. Ghetsis still insisted on informing the dragon he can still order it around]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Speaks in honorifics in the Japanese version to put in the appearance of being a gentleman. He isn't one.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Colress. In his first episode, he contacts him briefly through a hologram at Colress' 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.
* 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. He finally takes the scene in the three-part finale.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Both his visible left eye and the red visor covering his right eye, or possible lack of one.
* TheUnfought: Like Maxie and Cyrus before him, we never see him battle anyone during his entire run on the show.
* VillainousBreakdown: Starts losing it once [[spoiler: the control device is destroyed and Reshiram freeing itself]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Colress (Achroma)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Eli James
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Ricardo Mendoza

Team Plasma's chief scientist, who experiments with technology in order to control Pokémon and strengthen the organization's plans; his own desires and priorities, however, appear to differ somewhat from those of his colleagues.
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* AdaptationalKarma: In the games, he got no comeuppance for his role in Team Plasma's destructive plan, mainly due to his disdain for Ghetsis and respect for the protagonist causing a HeelFaceTurn. The anime has him [[AdaptationalVillainy remain unrepentant]] and arrested along with the rest of the team.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While his goals and allegiance are unchanged, anime-Colress is more psychotic and openly antagonistic than his game counterpart (who only revealed his allegiance to Team Plasma at the end, and was technically more neutral towards the player). [[spoiler:He also reformed in the game, whereas in the anime he's arrested along with Ghetsis and the on-scene grunts, though he ''is'' considering changing his approach towards Pokémon...somewhat.]]
* AffablyEvil: He addresses the heroes with laid-back cordiality, and speaks to them pleasantly (in contrast to Aldith and the other grunts' professionalism).
* BadassLabcoat[=/=]BadassInANiceSuit: Both of these, as in the games.
* CombatPragmatist: Once his machine is advanced enough, he can simply use it to take control of any opposing Pokémon and turn them against his enemies (with alarming swiftness, too). He doesn't ''need'' any Pokémon of his own.[[spoiler:..until it backfires when Pikachu ''fights back'', again, and together with Reshiram destroys the machine, leaving him powerless.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Yellow eyes that match the tone of his bright-yellow hair.
* DragonInChief: Colress is actually much more active and responsible for the evil done in ''Episode N'' than his boss, and is even a more competent schemer than him.
* EvilGenius: To Ghetsis.
* ForScience: His motive for being in Team Plasma at all. His response whenever one of the heroes called out their mons was essentially "Yay! More test subjects!"
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
* LargeHam: If his hand gestures, smirks, and talking about his experiments with delight are anything to go by...
%%* MadScientist
* ManipulativeBastard: In [=BW119=], he convinces Meowth to let him try out his machine on him to increase his strength, all in the purposes of testing its increasing power. Even though Meowth had trained his mind to resist its mind-controlling powers, he fell under Colress' control and had to be snapped out of it by Jessie and James - leaving them with nothing (they'd hoped to convince him to join them), and him with the satisfaction of knowing that his machine is getting more powerful. (Though Jessie and James do manage to plant a tracking device on Colress' machine which they make use of in the following episode.)
* PsychoticSmirk: Whenever good fortune or results occur during his experiments, such as Iris calling out Dragonite and his response is glee at having a new subject.
* RedOniBlueOni: [[LargeHam Red]] to Aldith's [[TheComicallySerious Blue]] - while it's not hyperactive, he shows ''delight'' at seeing Pikachu's willpower overwhelm his own technology. Aldith needs to remind him that this is a setback to Team Plasma's plans.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
* TaughtByExperience: After the initial encounter, he tweaked his EM-wave machine so it would not be blocked by the cubes Looker used, strengthened it so Pikachu couldn't will himself out, and generally made sure the device was either attended to by Plasma or kept safely away.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: Starts freaking out once Pikachu repeatedly keeps resisting his device and helps Reshiram do the same. And it just snowballs from there]].
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:In [=BW122=], when his mind-control machine is destroyed. He gets over it in his last scene, though.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Team Rocket offers him a chance to quit Team Plasma and join them instead. He declines, since he really wants to meet and control Reshiram.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Aldith (Angie)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/AkenoWatanabe
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Lori Gardner
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Irene Jiménez

A female Team Plasma member, first appearing in [=BW112=]. Holding rank and file over her fellow grunts, she answers directly to Colress and appears to be his own subordinate specifically - as well as being a leash on his more excitable personality.
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* AscendedExtra: The ''Episode N'' opening depicts her, in one shot, as the only colored Team Plasma grunt, making her stand out above the rest. True to that, she so far appears to have a more distinct role than the others.
* CanonForeigner: Her design already existed in "Black 2 & White 2", but only as that of the generic female grunts. Aldith appears to have her own distinct personality and rank within Team Plasma, similar to the Team Rocket trio.
* CastingAShadow: Liepard.
* CatsAreMean: She owns a Liepard.
* TheComicallySerious: Frequently, especially when around Colress.
%%* EvilRedhead
%%* IcyBlueEyes
* MookLieutenant: Though she wears the same uniform as the rest, she's also the only female Plasma grunt seen and the others seem to defer to her, even Barret.
* NumberTwo: She's rarely seen away from Colress and seems to be his direct subordinate.
* OnlySaneWoman: Whenever she has to remind Colress not to get to into the data of his experiments over the mission and gets annoyed when he is happy about the results in spite of failure.
* RedOniBlueOni: [[BlueOni Blue]] to Colress' [[RedOni Red]], being more straight-laced and serious and scolding him when he gets too excited (specifically, when he was pleased at Pikachu's willpower breaking his control over it, as they had no time to study it and needed to focus on perfecting the machine).
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female Team Plasma agent seen in the anime - but as stated, she holds rank over the other Grunts, so it all evens out.
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[[folder: Barret (Brad)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Kensuke Sato
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Darren Dunstan
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Carlo Vásquez

A male Team Plasma member, first appearing in [=BW118=]. Like Aldith, he seems higher-ranked than his colleagues (though not on her level), as he is first seen leading a mission to apprehend N for Ghetsis.
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* AscendedExtra: Depicted in the ''Episode N'' opening (on the Plasma helicopter with Aldith and her Liepard), he's given a distinct role and persona in the series proper.
* CanonForeigner: His design already existed in "Black 2 & White 2", but only as that of the generic male grunts. Barret appears to have his own distinct personality and rank within Team Plasma, similar to the Team Rocket trio.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Magnezone's Gyro Ball.
%%* EvilRedhead
* ExtraOreDinary: Magnezone's secondary type.
%%* IcyBlueEyes
* KingMook: His Magnezone is more powerful than either the Liepard or Muk his underlings in [=BW118=] use - it takes on Pignite and Oshawott, defeats the former (which has a type-advantage), and finally needs to be taken down by Pikachu himself.
* LargeHam: In contrast to Alidth's usual composure.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Magnezone's Supersonic.
* MookLieutenant: Of a lesser rank than Aldith.
* ShockAndAwe: Magnezone's primary type.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Schwarz (Nero) and Weiss (Bianco)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Schwarz (left) and Weiss (right)]]
-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Yukito Sōma (Schwarz) & Naoki Koshida (Weiss)
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Ryan Stadler (Schwarz) & Benjamin Becker (Weiss)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Benjamín Rivera (Schwarz) & Javier Olguín (Weiss)

A pair of partnered Team Plasma grunts, appearing in [=BW114=]. Having kidnapped a Braviary, they thus attempt to apprehend N when he attempts to rescue it. In battle, Schwarz uses a Seviper and Weiss uses a Zangoose.
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* CastingAShadow: Seviper's Bite.
* CatsAreMean: Zangoose, being based off the cat-like mongoose.
* DualBoss: Ash's Pikachu and Iris' Excadrill faced down Zangoose and Seviper, respectively.
* ExtraOreDinary: Zangoose's Iron Tail.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Seviper's Screech.
* ManBitesMan: Seviper's Bite.
* MeaningfulName: Schwarz and Weiss mean, respectively, "black" and "white" in German while their Japanese names have the Italian names for the colors. Their Mons also sort of match them based on color (Schwarz has the dark Seviper, Weiss the mostly-white Zangoose).
* NominalImportance: Having their names revealed gives them a competence level most grunts don't have, making them fairly capable adversaries - additionally, having trained two Pokémon who are normally mortal enemies into being capable battle-partners (Zangoose and Seviper) indicates some level of distinctive personality and skill.
* OddFriendship: These are the first Seviper and Zangoose seen in the anime to fight together, let alone so ''well''.
%%* OneShotCharacter
* PoisonousPerson: Seviper.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Both Zangoose and Seviper.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Seviper.
%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys
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* ArcVillain: Thanks to the 2011 Japanese disasters causing their planned debut to be skipped, the organization has only been featured as the villains of the ''Episode N'' arc.

%%* CoolMask

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female Team Plasma agent seen in the anime - but as stated, she holds rank over the other Grunts, so it all events out.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Episode N'', Looker successfully arrests Ghetsis and Colress, as well as Aldith, Barret and all the Grunts at the White Ruins. No word on whether any agents are actually active anymore under Team Plasma's banner, although the [=TRio=] at least seem to believe the organization is now defunct.]]

* AdaptedOut: The Shadow Triad. The Sages also had their distinct, individualistic appearances and personalities removed. And thanks to their skipped debut, the [=BW1=] team outfits also don't exist in the anime continuity.

* AdaptedOut: The Shadow Triad. A SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for them was to appear in the skipped two-parter that introduced Team Plasma, though. The Sages also had their distinct, individualistic appearances and personalities removed.