History Characters / PokemonGymLeadersKanto

[[center:[[WMG:''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' '''[[Characters/{{Pokemon}} characters Index]]''' ''([[Characters/PokemonTypes Pokémon Types]], [[Characters/PokemonRecurringArchetypes Recurring Pokémon Archetypes]])''\\
[-'''Pokémon Family Species:''' [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies Gen I]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIBulbasaurToParasect Bulbasaur to Parasect]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVenonatToCloyster Venonat to Cloyster]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIGastlyToMiltank Gastly to Miltank]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIMagikarpToMew Magikarp to Mew]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIFamilies Gen II]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIChikoritaToGranbull Chikorita to Granbull]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIQwilfishToCelebi Qwilfish to Celebi]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIFamilies Gen III]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys Wailmer to Deoxys]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Gen IV]] | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVFamilies Gen V]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVVictiniToZoroark Victini to Zoroark]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Minccino to Genesect]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIFamilies Gen VI]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIChespinToHawlucha Chespin to Hawlucha]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIDedenneToVolcanion Dedenne to Volcanion]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIFamilies Gen VII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIRowletToComfey Rowlet to Comfey]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIOranguruToMelmetal Oranguru to Melmetal]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraBeasts Ultra Beasts]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Gen VIII]] ([[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIGrookeyToHatterene Grookey to Hatterene]] / [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIImpidimpToCalyrex Impidimp to Calyrex]]) | [[Characters/PokemonGlitches Glitches]]\\
'''Pokémon Human Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] ([[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKanto Kanto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsAlola Alola]] / [[Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivalsGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonProfessors Professors]] | [[Characters/PokemonGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] ('''Kanto''' / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersJohto Johto]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersHoenn Hoenn]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersSinnoh Sinnoh]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersUnova Unova]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersKalos Kalos]] / [[Characters/PokemonGymLeadersGalar Galar]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTrialCaptainsAndKahunas Trial Captains and Kahunas]] | [[Characters/PokemonEliteFour Elite Four]] | [[Characters/PokemonChampions Champions]]\\
'''[[Characters/PokemonVillainTeams Pokémon Villain Teams]]:''' [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamRocket Team Rocket]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamAquaMagma Team Aqua/Magma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamGalactic Team Galactic]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamPlasma Team Plasma]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamFlare Team Flare]] / [[Characters/PokemonVillainTeamSkull Team Skull]] / [[Characters/PokemonTeamYell Team Yell]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])\\
[[Characters/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]-]]]]]

The Gym Leaders in Kanto, beating them grants the eight Badges necessary to enter the Indigo League.
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[[folder:Brock ''[-(Takeshi)-]'']]
!!Brock / Takeshi (タケシ ''takeshi'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tom Bauer ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/KosukeToriumi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Pewter City Gym Leader--''The Rock-Solid Pokémon Trainer!''

-->''"I believe in rock hard defense and determination! That's why my Pokémon are all the Rock-type! Do you still want to challenge me? Fine then! Show me your best!"''
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* AchillesHeel:
** The UniqueProtagonistAsset of starter Pokémon gives the player access to the Water and Grass types, both of which do [[QuadDamage four times the damage]] against his Rock- and Ground-type monsters, which were [[NoKillLikeOverkill already poor in Special Defense]].
** Until ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', all his Pokémon had a double weakness to Grass. The only Pokémon he gained that doesn't is Rampardos, which only shows up in the rematch and is a GlassCannon, so it will still faint to a moderately powered Grass-type attack. His appearance in ''Black 2 and White 2'' switches it with an Aerodactyl, whose Flying type balances out that weakness.
** Bide, his SignatureMove in the first gen relies on his opponents continuously attacking him while it's charging power, a gimmick that is easily subverted by wary trainers who won't attack until it's done.
* AdaptationalBadass: In ''Fire Red'' and ''Leaf Green'', Brock's Signature Move is Rock Tomb, much more aggressive than his defensive strategy in the original games.
* AdaptationalModesty: [[WalkingShirtlessScene He went shirtless]] in the original games, but all later games starting with ''Yellow'' have him wearing a shirt. [[TheCoatsAreOff When he gets serious though, the shirt comes off.]]
* TheArtifact:
** In the first gen, Brock's spiel about rock-hard defense made sense and matched his SignatureMove Bide, but his strategy stops being about defense and endurance in the third gen when he copies Roxanne's SignatureMove, the stat-crippling Rock Tomb.
** Because Brock's SignatureMon Onix loses Brock's signature type when it evolves to Steelix, there's been a strong trend in the games to keep his team centerpiece unevolved, causing it to fall further and further behind the PowerCreep of each new generation.
* BigBrotherMentor: Serves as this to the protagonist of ''Masters'', being one of their first companions (along with Misty and Rosa) and one of the most recurring ones to appear in story segments, giving advice and support in equal amounts.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: In ''Stadium 2'', Brock uses a Forretress on his first Gym Leader Castle team (a nod to his anime self's ownership of the same Pokémon), and also includes a Pinsir on the same team. His second team uses Heracross and Shuckle, instead.
* ClarkKentOutfit: In ''Masters'', Brock looks rather lithe with his sweater on, but when he shreds it during his Sync Move he looks like ''[[https://i.imgflip.com/327433.png this]]''. Even if you consider this to simply be a side-effect of the Sync Moves, comparing his arms on his [[https://gamewith-en.akamaized.net/article/thumbnail/rectangle/10750.png normal sprite]] to his arms on his [[https://gamewith-en.akamaized.net/article/thumbnail/rectangle/10751.png Sygna Suit sprite]] makes for a very noticeable contrast.
* TheCoatsAreOff: In ''Masters'', he shreds his shirts when using a Sync Move (though it always returns directly afterwards.)
* {{Combos}}: His Graveler can use the Defense Curl-Rollout combo in ''GSCHGSS''.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: More of a PokeThePoodle example than most, his Onix in ''Yellow'' has Bind at Level 12, when it shouldn't have it before Level 15.
* ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: Inverted in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where a trainer in Pewter City will take a Gloom (a Grass-type that Brock's pokémon are weak to) in exchange for a Rapidash (a Fire-type that his pokémon will have the advantage against).
* DamageSpongeBoss: His signature mon is Onix, which had the second highest defense in the original games, but extremely low HP and attack power, tempered by mediocre speed. All its other stats are about on par with a [[ComMons Pidgey]]. This is seemingly designed so that [[EarlyBirdBoss new players would have a hard time]] doing ScratchDamage with Normal, Poison, Flying, and Bug-types found prior to reaching his Gym[[note]]while Bug deals neutral damage to Rock, Bug-types tend to not have access to STAB moves early on (if they get them at all) until Generation IV[[/note]].
* DishingOutDirt: Of the Rock variety, as his Geodude and Onix are both part-Ground.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The version of him that went shirtless doesn't appear to be wearing shoes either. It's likely that he was supposed to invoke the image of a martial artist. His Sygna Suit variant in ''Masters'' is wearing foot protectors, but no shoes.
* EarlyBirdBoss: In ''Red'' and ''Blue'', Brock's difficulty hinges almost entirely on which starter you picked; he's a challenge for Charmander and a cakewalk otherwise. The pokémon available before you encounter him--the two Nidoran, Butterfree, Beedrill, Pikachu, and ComMons--are little match for his Rock-Ground types without serious LevelGrinding (the best option you have is to teach a Butterfree Confusion at Level 12).\\
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Every VideoGameRemake has an ObviousRulePatch to fix this--''[[ThirdOptionAdaptation Yellow]]'' puts Mankey west of Viridian City, rearranged the Nidoran movelist to make Double Kick an early move instead of the very last they'd learn (and even moves them on to the main path), and lets Butterfree learn Confusion at Level 10 (''i.e.'' immediately upon evolving). ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' kept the updated movelists and threw in Metal Claw for Charmander.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He was originally shirtless, but ever since ''Yellow'', he's been fully-clothed. He may go topless as a CallBack to his glory days in newer adaptations.
* EyesAlwaysShut: A very noticeable trait of his and is probably one of the most famous examples of the trope of all-time.
* {{Foil}}: Roxanne of Hoenn, who is a fellow Gym Leader of the Rock type ''and'' the first gym leader battled by the player character of her respective game, but while Brock (as per his original design) is physically-oriented, Roxanne (as a teacher) is mentally-oriented.
* FossilRevival: Works Kanto's fossil Pokémon Omastar, Kabutops, and Aerodactyl into his teams in several games. In ''HGSS'', he adds Rampardos to his rematch team.
* ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy: Brock's first-gen teams, while a DifficultySpike after the local trainers, become decidedly unimpressive once you get to Mt. Moon, hardly worthy of a supposed leading light amongst trainers. Averted in most future games, where Brock has teams of well-trained monsters available.
* LeotardOfPower: His Sygna suit in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' incorporates a black wrestling singlet with orange trim which emphasizes his muscles.
* MeaningfulName:
** In English, B'''rock'''.
** '''Take''' is a homonym for "Peak" or "Mountain".
** In the French version: "Pierre" literally means "stone".
** In the German versions it's '''Rock'''o.
* MythologyGag:
** In ''Stadium'', he uses Vulpix (later Ninetales) and Golbat, Pokémon used by his anime self in the early anime. ''Stadium 2'' gave him a Forretress, which his anime self gained while travelling through Johto.
** ''Masters'' gives us a three-fer.
*** In ''Masters'', Brock becomes the player character's BigBrotherMentor, as his anime self was for Ash Ketchum.
*** Further, ''Masters'' Brock gets nervous around pretty girls, in direct contrast to his anime counterpart famously flirting with every girl he meets.
*** In addition, his Sync Move animation (in both normal and Sygna Suit variants) gives him a ShirtlessScene with the same crossed arms pose he had in his original Game Boy sprites.
* ObviousRulePatch: Every remake after ''Red'' and ''Blue'' reworks distribution and movelists to mitigate any DifficultySpike Brock might present. ''Yellow'' hid the Fighting-type Mankey west of Viridian City, rearranged the Nidoran moveset to let them learn Double Kick early, and gave Butterfree Confusion at level ten. FRLG--and ''only'' FRLG--have Charmander with Metal Claw to give it something super-effective against Rock types. ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'' cut out the middle-man and gave Pikachu Double Kick early for its own super-effective move against him.
* PersonalityPowers: Invoked in his pre-battle quote; he uses Rock-types to reflect his preference for determination and defense.
* PrehistoricMonster: Brock's nearly always had a slight connection to Fossil Pokémon. ''Pokémon Stadium'' introduced Omanyte and Kabuto to his team, which by ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' became Omastar and Kabutops, which was [[CallForward supported]] by ''Fire Red'' and ''Leaf Green'' indicating Brock was known to occasionally assist with fossil excavations at Mt. Moon. ''Heart Gold'' and ''Soul Silver'' further added Relicanth and Rampardos to his roster, and he finally received Aerodactyl in ''Black 2'' and ''White 2''.
* ScissorsCutsRock: In theory, Brock's Rock/Ground-typed Pokémon counters Charmander if you start with it, however....
** In Generation I, Brock's Pokémon have low HP and Special, meaning that even with the type-resistance, the Fire-type move Ember still takes a fair bite out of them, while he has no actual Rock-type moves to take advantage of Fire-type's weakness to his type specialty. As a result, any Charmander of Level 12 or more can hold its own.
** Exaggerated in ''FRLG'', which unusually gives Charmander the Steel-type Metal Claw--Steel beats Rock in the series' TacticalRockPaperScissors.
* SignatureMon:
** Brock specializes in the Rock-type, and [[FakeUltimateMook Onix]] is typically his highest-leveled and finishing option. Unusually, because the second generation {{retcon}}ned Onix into the basic form of the Steel/Ground ''Steelix'', in order to preserve his designated type, Brock's signature is typically unevolved even in high-level competitive matches. In the Pokémon World Tournament Onix has an item typically meant to boost its comparatively mediocre stats, either a Salac Berry for speed purposes or an Eviolite for its defenses. (Compare and contrast with his fellow Rock-type leader Roxanne, whose signature Nosepass received its own new Steel-type evolution one generation after her debut, but ''kept'' its original Rock typing as well).
** In ''Stadium 2'', Brock uses Onix's evolved form Steelix instead. His [[MightyGlacier Golem]] also ends up taking Onix's place as his strongest Pokémon in ''LGPE'' rematches.
** His Sygna Suit variant in ''Masters'' pairs him with Tyranitar.
* SignatureMove: His TM in Gen I was Bide, which pauses two turns to absorb and then unleash damage in keeping with his defensive inclinations, but in Gen III, he inherits the more crippling Rock Tomb from Roxanne. For difficulty purposes in both, though, only Onix uses them. Gen IV gave him Rock Slide, which half his team uses.
* SiliconBasedLife: Both his Geodude and his Onix are basically living rocks.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Brock is the player's first real challenge with the type system, and his difficulty in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' hinged entirely on which starter pokémon the player picked.
* ThresholdGuardians: Brock's Boulder Badge enables the player to use Flash, which is very useful for anyone trying to traverse Rock Tunnel and Victory Road.
* VagueAge: Not as bad as fellow Gym Leader Misty (detailed below), but he's still had some of this courtesy of the anime. He's apparently not much older than Ash's other companions in the anime, but in the early games, his age was ''very'' vague and not really brought up. In remakes, it tends to go all over the place — ''FRLG'' made him look a bit younger, but in ''LGPE'', his ''massive'' height advantage on the player character and consistently stern demeanor seems to mark him as unmistakably an adult.
* WakeUpCallBoss: In-Universe, Brock is well-known for being one for most trainers, who are unprepared to take on his Rock-type Pokémon with their Normal, Flying, Bug, and occasionally Poison or Electric-types. For the player, the experience largely hinges on which [[UniqueProtagonistAsset starter Pokémon]] you chose. If you selected the Fire-type Charmander or Electric-type Pikachu, you'd have a naturally tougher fight on your hands, since his Rock-types are offensively and defensively superior to the Fire type and his Pokémon have a secondary Ground-type that makes them immune to Electric-type attacks.
* WarmUpBoss: However, if you choose [[GreenThumb Bulbasaur]] or [[MakingASplash Squirtle]] as your starter, then congrats, you've won! Both do huge amounts of damage to his team with their doubly-effective Grass and Water attacks.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: His absolute earliest design was shirtless, which shows in his original sprite and the earliest mugshot art. However, outside of those two sources, every other depiction of him is with a shirt on.
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[[folder:Misty ''[-(Kasumi)-]'']]
!!Misty / Kasumi (カスミ ''kasumi'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RebaBuhr ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/AyaneSakura ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Cerulean City Gym Leader--''The Tomboyish Mermaid!''

-->''"Hi, you're a new face! What's your policy on Pokémon? What is your approach? My policy is an all-out offensive with water-type Pokémon! Misty, the world-famous beauty, is your host! Are you ready, sweetie?"''
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* AdaptationalModesty:
** Only just--her tank top and short shorts outfits from are plenty skimpy in their own right, but they suspend her status as a WalkingSwimsuitScene. Even her WalkingSwimsuitScene in ''Masters'' ''and'' the Trading Card Game gets this.
** Misty wears less revealing swimswear in most of her appearances after the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', in games and art alike. Her appearance in the Gen III VideoGameRemake gives her a more conservative, athletic bikini, while in the sequel ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she's wearing a one-piece with a windbreaker over it.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her anime outfit gets this in ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'', ''Let's Go, Eevee!'', and ''Pokémon Masters'', with her crop top going from yellow to white with added princess seams and her jean shorts having what appear to be water-themed marking patterns imprinted upon them.
* ArtificialBrilliance: In rematches and tournaments, Misty's team gets a good shot in the arm of competence; her Starmie in particular often ends up with a moveset optimized for sweeping. She was an early adopter of the Rain Dance WeatherOfWar in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and takes advantage of the benefits to Thunder in ''Stadium 2''.
* ArtificialStupidity: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Misty insists on using a variety of {{Status Buff}}s on her Starmie that belie her "[[InformedAttribute all-out offensive]]" by strengthening Tackle (its absolute weakest move) and protecting it from minor physical threats. This was likely [[EnforcedTrope a deliberate handicap]], since it not only doesn't match the typical AI Pattern of always using supereffective attacks, it effectively gives the player free turns.
* BareYourMidriff: Wears a two-piece bathing suit in ''Red and Blue'' and ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]''. Wears a crop top in both ''Yellow'' and the ''Let's Go'' games. In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', Misty's available appearances feature her in her ''FRLG'' and ''Let's Go'' outfits (the former receiving AdaptationalModesty), and a third Sygna Suit outfit, all three of which leave her midriff bare.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Erika's Beauty and Sabrina's Brains, being more physically brutal in a Pokémon battle than the other two and making life hell for unprepared Trainers, especially with her Starmie.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Downplayed. In ''Yellow'', Misty strikes a new pose that lets you get a good look at her from the side, though it's wasn't obvious until the graphical updates of ''Let's Go''.
* CallForward: Misty is first discovered in ''Gold, Silver, and Crystal'' on a date up at the Cerulean Cape, which the player interrupts (scaring off the apparently rather shy boy she was with). In ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', one of her Fame Checker records declares that she's had high hopes for a date at that very spot.
* TheCameo: In ''Let's Go'', Misty's original gym trainers have been replaced with her older sisters from the anime, Daisy, Violet, and Lily, [[CanonImmigrant who appear as three bikini beauties]].
* CatchPhrase: In the Japanese version of ''Yellow'', Misty uses her anime self's catchphrase, "Go! My steady!"
* CompositeCharacter:
** Yellow version took the anime version of Misty, complete with her IconicOutfit (and in the original Japanese, her CatchPhrase), and put her in the role of her original version from the games as a Gym Leader. ''Let's Go'' even replaced the Cerulean Gym's regular trainers with anime Misty's older sisters Daisy, Violet, and Lily.
** Misty's clothes in ''Let's Go'' are a redesigned version of her ShortTank IconicOutfit from the anime worn over a red PaletteSwap of the blue bikini she wore in the first generation games. Even the princess seams on the front of her tanktop are a throwback to the stripes on her swimsuit in her first gen. official art.
** In ''Masters'', she wears her ''Let's Go'' outfit but has proportions much closer to her original anime appearance.
* ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and its remakes, Misty cannot be challenged until the power plant crisis is resolved. In ''Crystal'' and the Gen IV remakes, a trainer at the power plant will give you a Magneton in exchange for a Dugtrio.
* DatePeepers: When you meet her in ''Gold, Silver, and Crystal'', you catch her on a date. She doesn't take this well, to put it simply.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Downplayed. Like Brock, her difficulty hinges in part on what [[UniqueProtagonistAsset starter Pokémon]] the player faces her with; unlike Brock, the player can catch pokémon with type advantages against her and make them viable options with only some LevelGrinding. Later games had to implement {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es to give the player more options against Brock.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: In ''Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'', she pirouettes right before your showdown with her.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Between Generation I and Generation II, she stopped wearing her hair in a side ponytail and cut it shorter.
* {{Fangirl}}: According to the Fame Checker in ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', she "worship[s] Lorelei of the Elite Four".
* FieryRedhead: Downplayed; she gets steamed when you botch her date in the Johto-based games. When you first meet her in the Kanto-based games she's actually quite perky.
* HartmanHips: Didn't have this at first, but her [[ArtEvolution redesigns]] have each made her hips more and more prominent.
* HotBlooded: Her battle sprite animations in ''HGSS'' feature her jumping and pumping a fist in anticipation, which is a huge contrast from her gentle, breezy pose in the original ''GSC''.
* ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy: Her training place is Seafoam Islands, which have Pokémon that are higher-leveled than hers in the Kanto games. For a long time this was an InformedAbility until later Pokémon installments [[JustifiedTrope justified]] it by showing that Gym Leaders are WillfullyWeak depending on their challengers.
* LegacyCharacter: Misty's Starmie in ''Pokémon Masters'' is not the Starmie she uses in her Gym battles in the main games. As she explains during her Sync Pair Story, the ''Masters'' Starmie is actually that Starmie's child.
* LightningBruiser: Trains two of them, but Starmie especially. It's very fast and hits hard with Bubble Beam[=/=]Water Pulse. It also has Recover in the remake, so if the player doesn't hit it hard enough or doesn't have a priority move, Starmie will just heal off the damage immediately in the next turn.
* MakingASplash: Water-type specialist.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When the player inadvertently crashes her date in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', her date flees, never to be heard from again, but Misty marches right up to you to confront you directly.
* MeaningfulName:
** In English, Italian, German and Spanish,'''Mist'''y. It should be noted that Kasumi pretty much means the same in Japanese.
** In French, her name is "Ondine", from Undine, water nymph in Germanic mythology.
* MsFanservice: She's a WalkingSwimsuitScene [[ShesGotLegs with legs]]; not until Generation V did we meet a female Gym Leader who showed more skin. In ''Pokémon Yellow'' and its remake ''Let's Go'', she also has a BoobsAndButtPose.
* MythologyGag:
** In the anime, Misty obtained a Psyduck that was infamously useless until it developed a headache. Following her anime self's lead, she has a Psyduck or Golduck on at least one team in ''Stadium'', ''Stadium 2'', ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' (and all remakes thereof), ''Black 2'' and ''White 2'', ''Let's Go'', and ''Masters'', each.
** The anime also gave Misty trainership of the colicky Togepi, a then-EarlyBirdCameo for the unreleased Gen II. She has a Togetic on her first team in ''Stadium 2'', and if you bring a Togepi into the Cerulean Gym in HGSS and talk to it, it will begin crying softly.
** The ''Stadium'' games also contain members of other Pokémon she was close to, such as Horsea (she cared for one in the early anime), Politoed (one of her team members during the Johto era), and potentially Wigglytuff (as she once tried to catch the Jigglypuff that stalked the protagonists of the anime).
** The Fame Checker indicates Misty worships Lorelei of the Elite Four; when Lorelei appeared ([[InconsistentDub as Prima]]) during the Orange Islands season, Misty was delighted.
** In ''Masters'', she becomes a friend and companion of the player character, like her anime self was for Ash Ketchum.
* PlayingWithFire: In ''Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'', her SignatureMove is Scald, a Water-type move which can burn your Pokémon.
* ShesGotLegs: A handy side-effect of her WalkingSwimsuitScene. Even in her ShortTank outfits, her legs are bare.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where Misty's in-game battle sprite reveals she wears a more conservative bathing suit and has started LettingHerHairDown. Downplayed in the Gen IV remake, where Misty is at her most HotBlooded.
* ShipTease: With Red. While it doesn't appear as much in-game, where she only refers to the player character as "Sweetie", it's played up in promotional and expanded material as well as the anime and a few manga.
* {{Shorttank}}: Averted in most appearances, where she's not a co-star, but PlayedStraight in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she shares her female co-star status with Rosa and even gets to use the ''Let's Go'' version of her TropeNamer IconicOutfit.
* SignatureMon:
** Misty specializes in the Water-type and prominently uses the Staryu line -- Starmie (a notable LightningBruiser) features in every one of her non-''Stadium'' teams as either the lead or final Pokémon.
** She has a prominent association with Psyduck, and either it or Golduck has a place on many versions of her team.
** In ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'' and ''Let's Go, Eevee!'', Gyarados beats out Starmie as her highest-leveled Pokémon on her rematch team.
** And due to the influence of the anime, if she has any non-water types on her team, it'll be the Togepi line.
** Her Sygna Suit variation in ''Masters'' gives her Vaporeon.
* SignatureMove: Gives the TM for Bubble Beam in Gen I. Gen III and Gen IV give her Water Pulse instead, which most of her team uses in those games, and in Gen VII, Scald fills that role.
* SpiritedCompetitor:
** In the Johto games, she finds the player character to be a nuisance, only to reconsider at the sight of the eight Johto badges. After a battle with her, she reveals she wants to go traveling to fight other strong trainers.
** ''Black 2'' & ''White 2'' even featured her in the "Gathered! Gym Leader!" DLC tournament with Volkner, Norman, and Jasmine, fellow Gym Leaders renowned for their toughness.
** In ''Let's Go'', she's been champing at the bit for a rematch in the post-game after she heard how tough you were.
* TankTopTomboy: Misty is one of these whenever she's not a WalkingSwimsuitScene.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Has high hopes for finding a boyfriend or at least getting a date at the Cerulean Cape.
* ThresholdGuardians: Misty's Cascade Badge authorizes trainers to use Cut, which (once the player collects the actual Hidden Machine from the S.S. Anne) opens up the first of Kanto's {{Insurmountable Waist Height Fence}}s, giving the player access to Lavender Town[[note]]Rock Tunnel ostensibly requires Flash to pass, but even in the first gen. can be dealt with by causing the palette to glitch and show the player character and environment[[/note]] and the rest of Kanto beyond.
* {{Tomboy}}: According to her title, this becomes more obvious in later installments.
* TomboyishPonytail: Her original design and its revamps have one, but she hasn't got one after she grows up.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Despite being known as the "Tomboyish Mermaid", she ThinksLikeARomanceNovel.
* {{Tsundere}}: Though she does react poorly to you at first in the sequels, she eventually warms up, and will even call you out of the blue (once you get her number) to thank you for kicking an intruder out of her Gym. The Tsundere side of her wasn't present in the first generation games, but was probably added [[RetCanon to match up]] with her anime incarnation's personality.
* VagueAge: Misty's age has always been a bit questionable, thanks to the PuniPlush style and Ken Sugimori's ArtEvolution.
** In the Kanto-based games she's nearly always proportionally similar to the preteen player character, except in ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'', where she has smaller eyes and broader shoulders to show she's older than Red.
** However, her "older" designs do a lot to throw things off. In the second generation, her graceful pose makes her seem [[YoungerThanSheLooks much more mature than any young teenager]] would be, and while her fourth generation design is more energetic and active, it is also her tallest design so far. That her fourth gen design was reused in the fifth, which takes place a decade and more afterwards, seems to indicate that this design was considered fully adult.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Her SignatureMon Starmie has bar none the beastliest stat average of any Pokémon you've seen in the game by the time you can face her and her SignatureMove will have some crippling stat reduction or status effect waiting for you, and in Generation 1 Starmie's immense Special stat counts for both offense and defense, so it can take a beating as well as dish it out. Like all Gym Leaders, [[PoorPredictableRock she can be done in with the proper prep]], but she can be brutal to a new player, especially if he picked Charmander as his starter.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: To the hilt.
** The only times she's not ready for a dip is in ''Yellow'', where she wears her ShortTank outfit from the anime, and in the ''Let's Go'' games, where she's wearing an updated redesign of the same outfit. (And even then, the ''LGPE'' [[https://pokeshipping-archive.tumblr.com/post/180862489847 concept art]] shows that she's wearing a bikini underneath).
** Exaggerated in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where Misty's sprites remain unchanged even when she's outside her gym, indicating she walks around town and goes on dates in her swimsuit and jacket. She even wears the same outfit to visit the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City in the Gen IV VideoGameRemake and to the tournament in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''--in a completely different country.
* WalkingTheEarth: Discussed. Misty ''wants'' to go traveling, but spends most of her time in the gym.
* WeatherManipulation: Misty likes having her Pokémon use Rain Dance in games outside of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''.
* WeatherOfWar: Misty makes some use of Rain Dance, which boosts the power of Water-type attacks by half and triggers abilities used by a handful of Water-type pokémon, in ''GSC'' and ''HGSS''--it's in ''Stadium 2'' that she really dives in, though; nearly every Pokémon she uses has Rain Dance, and two thirds of her Round Two team have Thunder to make it an AlwaysAccurateAttack.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Misty's date in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', who is never mentioned again after he disappears.
* YoungestChildWins: In ''Let's Go'', the three bikini-beauties at the Cerulean Gym are at least a MythologyGag referring to Misty's BrainlessBeauty older sisters from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' if not {{Canon Immigrant}}s of the same. If they ''are'' her older sisters, then Misty has seniority over them as the Gym Leader, possibly due to AsskickingEqualsAuthority.
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[[folder:Lt. Surge ''[-(Matis)-]'']]
!!Lt. Surge / Matis (マチス ''machisu'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN), Taketora (JP) ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]])

Vermilion City Gym Leader--''The Lightning Lieutenant''

-->''"Hey, kid! What do you think you're doing here? You won't live long in combat! That's for sure! I tell you kid, electric Pokémon saved me during the war! They zapped my enemies into paralysis! The same as I'll do to you!"''
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* AcePilot: Apparently was one. He used his Electric Pokémon to power his planes.
* AchillesHeel: The earthen pokémon of Mt. Moon will absolutely bury his team in ''Red'', ''Blue'', or any of the remakes, where his monsters only use Electric- and Normal-type moves. Not until ''Let's Go'' gave his Raichu Double Kick did he have a viable strategy for dealing with mixed Rock-Ground types.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the Gen I games, he is not too difficult in ''Red and Blue'', but in ''Yellow'', he can give players a hard time. His Raichu is at a noticeably higher level and in addition to Thunderbolt, it packs Mega Punch and Mega Kick, which are pretty strong moves themselves. Even that Diglett you caught will have difficulty if you're not properly prepared.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the games, Surge is boisterous and cocky, but he's not a jerk about it. His AlternateSelf from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' was tremendously arrogant and condescending to Ash and Pikachu, referring to them as babies who couldn't hope to defeat him and Raichu. This characterization was carried back into ''Yellow'' version, but even then he's comparatively more mellow than he was in the anime, and it mostly only appears in post-Yellow games as a one-off line declaring the player's power puny.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Surge is a high-ranking member of Team Rocket before Giovanni disbands it, still keeping some ties to the organization afterwards.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: As ''Pokémon Yellow'' is an adaptation of the anime, his original DrillSergeantNasty attitude was replaced with his BoisterousBruiser personality from the show. ''FRLG'' [[CompositeCharacter reconciled the two]] by adding a line to his classic dialog about the player's "puny power".
* TheArtifact: His title as "The Lightning American". Since the fourth generation or so, Game Freak has [[EarthDrift gone out of their way to avoid referencing real-world places]], but changing a persistent title like that was presumably too much of a change. A man in the Pokémon World Tournament's lobby mentions he might be from [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Unova]], but that still doesn't change the title. His title would finally be changed in ''Let's Go'' to the Lightning Lieutenant.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Surge in ''GSC'' and ''HGSS'' appears to have mellowed out somewhat, as his aggressive ''RBY'' stance and attitude were replaced with a "Yankee" characterization[[note]]"Yankee" being a pun on both "American" and a subset of JapaneseDelinquents[[/note]], complete with CoolShades and [[https://kotaku.com/in-japan-thugs-sit-like-theyre-taking-a-crap-5962065 yankee squatting]].
** ''HGSS'' further characterized his new personality by adding a case of RealMenWearPink (see below).
* CoolShades: He has sunglasses in Generation II and ''HGSS'', though unlike Blaine, he is seen with them off in ''HGSS'' (he simply holds them in his hand before and after battles with him), and of course in Generations I and III he never wore sunglasses at all.
* CripplingOverspecialization: In ''Red and Blue'', his team is almost incapable of hurting a [[DishingOutDirt Ground-type]] Pokémon, with his Raichu in particular being completely helpless against them. His ''Yellow'' incarnation fixes this.
* CutenessProximity: In ''Masters'', he notes that he is a total fan of the Pikachu line and loves them.
* DrillSergeantNasty: In the first generation and the third generation remakes, he's a very gruff and mean army lieutenant.
* {{Eagleland}}: Take a look at his title. Type 1, by the way, proud and stalwart, and implied to be AFatherToHisMen in the war.
* ElementalHairColors: Spiky and blonde for an Electric trainer.
* AFatherToHisMen: As one of the Gym Trainers tells the player, Lt. Surge saved his life back during the war. He has since pledged UndyingLoyalty to him.
* FragileSpeedster: Comes with specializing in Electric-types. His Pokémon are fast and hit hard, but they can't take it in return.
* GadgeteerGenius: Designed the infamous gate puzzle in his Gym.
* TheGiant: In the anime, assuming his Raichu is drawn to scale, he's over ''eight feet tall''.
* GlassCannon: His Raichu can hit fairly hard, especially in the ''Yellow'' version, but his Pokémon can't take too many hits.
* GratuitousEnglish: This is how he speaks in the Japanese versions of the games, as well as in the anime. He does it in the French versions too, but only in the remakes, for some odd reason.
* GreatOffscreenWar: Many, many fan theories have been [[{{Pun}} sparked]] from the mysterious war that Lt. Surge, his Pokémon, and the other Trainers in his Gym have fought in. Not helped by the fact that outside of his gym, there are no mentions or hints of a recent war ''in the entire franchise.''
* HiddenDepths: According to ''Masters'', Surge is a damn good cook, able to make Gloria's stomach growl with just the scent of his food and make her reminisce about eating curry with Zacian.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The man enjoys talking about how "shocking" and "electrifying" things are.
* {{Irony}}: The anime has him with a Raichu and disses Ash’s Pikachu for being unevolved and weak. ''HGSS'' reveals that his favorite Pokémon is Pikachu for being cute.
* LargeHam: He's very prone to shouting and boasting of his prowess.
* MeaningfulName:
** Surge, as in "electric '''surge'''".
** His Japanese name refers to the Cle'''matis''' flower, which is called "Tessen" in Japanese. "Tessen" is a homonym for "steel wire", as in the type used in electrical work. Incidentally, we would later have ''another'' Electric-type Gym Leader using more or less the exact same naming joke...
* MilitaryRankNames: Has only gone by his military title in English releases.
* MirrorBoss: Invoked in adaptations that have Red/Ash using Pikachu against his Raichu. This also carried over to ''Yellow Version'', where Raichu was his only Pokémon, seemingly encouraging the player to use their starter Pikachu against him. Of course, you could still use whatever you want.
* PatrioticFervor: Again, his title is ''The Lightning American!''
* PhenotypeStereotype: He's a blond blue-eyed American man. This is made even more noticeable as most of the leaders have dark hair colors.
* RealMenWearPink: In ''HGSS''. For such a manly guy, he seems to like cute Pokémon, and his favorite Pokémon are the Pikachu line. You can show him a Pikachu to get his phone number, and he practically gushes over the sight of it like a fangirl. He also adds a Pachirisu to his team for the rematch, which is at a higher level than any Pokémon on his team save his signature Raichu.
* RetiredBadass: He's still quite young, however, looking to be in his late twenties.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: His signature Raichu.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Why he makes you solve a puzzle to unlock a gate to get to him: he's cautious and paranoid and sets traps to protect himself.
* ShockAndAwe: Electric-type specialist.
* SignatureMon: Surge specializes in the Electric-type.
** His primary Pokémon is his Raichu, which is both a FragileSpeedster and a GlassCannon (its defenses and stamina are only mediocre, but see its [=STAB=] Thunderbolt). In ''Yellow'', it prominently uses Mega Punch and Mega Kick to handle Ground-types. The Stadium, and PWT in Black 2 and White 2 gave him a [[ScissorsCutsRock Surfing Raichu]].
** Downplayed in ''GSC'' and ''HGSS'', where Raichu returns as his Gym team's frontman, but he also fields Electabuzz as his last and strongest. ''HGSS'' ultimately re-balances the dynamic back in the other direction during his rematch by re-positioning Electivire as his third most-leveled Pokémon after Raichu [[RealMenWearPink and Pachirisu]]. (Electabuzz also reappears in two of his ''Stadium'' series teams, while as Electivire it appears in both of his Pokémon World Tournament teams in ''[=B2W2=]'').
** In ''Masters'' he's paired with Voltorb, which can be evolved into Electrode.
* SignatureMove: Thunderbolt in Gen I — coming from a Raichu, it hurt a ''lot''. Gen III and Gen IV give him Shock Wave, which is more manageable, but he teaches it to his entire team instead. In his rematch in Gen IV, he goes back to Thunderbolt, and it's his main attack in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' as well.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His outfit leaves his bulging biceps bare.
* TakingYouWithMe: In ''Pokémon Masters'', his Voltorb can learn the passive skill "Last Word", which causes it to use Explosion when it faints.
* ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed. Surge's Thunder Badge authorizes players to use Fly and use VideoGameFlight to conveniently travel around the region. The Badge is only necessary in the sense that a guard on the path to Victory Road demands it before you can pass.
* TrapMaster: The first Gym Leader in Kanto to make you solve a puzzle to get to him, letting you stumble around fighting the other Trainers in his Gym while he waits for you in the back.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Catch a Geodude in Mt. Moon or a Diglett (or, if you're lucky, a Dugtrio) in Diglett's Cave right next to Vermillion City, train it a little, and ''wreck his gym''.
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[[folder:Erika]]
!!Erika (エリカ ''erika'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/XantheHuynh ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/AiKayano ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Celadon City Gym Leader--''The Nature-Loving Princess!''

-->''"Hello. Lovely weather isn't it? It's so pleasant. ...Oh dear... I must have dozed off. Welcome. My name is Erika. I am the Leader of Celadon Gym. I teach the art of flower arranging. My Pokémon are of the Grass-type. Oh, I'm sorry, I had no idea that you wished to challenge me. Very well, but I shall not lose."''
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* AIBreaker: Because the AI of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' insists on moves that win at ElementalRockPaperScissors, Erika's Victreebel and Vileplume hit a wall against ''other'' Grass-Poison mixes. Both must use Poison-type moves for the advantage over Grass-type, but the only such move they know is Poison Powder, which merely [[StatusEffects poisons]] the target, and Poison-types are [[LikeCannotCutLike immune to being poisoned]]. Her first gen Tangela, however, only knows [[CombatTentacles Constrict and Bind]] and evades this flaw.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The beauty to Sabrina's brains and Misty's brawn. In a Pokémon battle, she's a LadyOfWar who uses Grass-types in combat, her pokémon team itself is a kind of flower-arrangement, and her post-battle dialog indicates she only collects pokémon that she considers attractive--albeit, her ideas of "attractive" [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant are a little strange]].
* DubNameChange: [[AvertedTrope Notably the only Gym Leader in the franchise to AVOID this]], until Iris in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Erika's original sprite depicts her with her yukata worn right-over-left. This is unusual because that's usually how women are dressed for burial, but it's not an accident as even her concept art depicts her this way. ''Yellow'' fixes this and depicts her yukata folded more standardly.
* GossipyHens: In ''HGSS'', catching her chatting with Jasmine in Celadon on her days off will indicate she appears to not simply spread but ''generate'' surprisingly harsh gossip about other female gym leaders[[labelnote:The Dirt]]After starting off by claiming Whitney thinks Jasmine dresses a little plain, Erika will suggest Jasmine wear a light blue outfit with a cape, but when Jasmine says it would be a little embarrassing, Erika takes her to mean that she thinks Clair — who wears that exact outfit — is a little embarrassing[[/labelnote]]. In ''Masters'', she giggles while telling Koga and Clair they have a ''bold'' sense of fashion style.
* GranolaGirl: Very in-tune with nature and peaceful for it.
* GreenThumb: Grass-type specialist.
* HeavySleeper: Apparently has some mild form of narcolepsy. She almost dozes off before her battle with the player. It could be a side effect of frequently carrying Pokémon with Sleep Powder. In ''Masters'', she says she only falls asleep in the middle of the day when it's sunny.
* HungryJungle: Many of her Pokémon are creepy or vicious tropical plants. In a more literal example than expected, her signature moves are Mega Drain and Giga Drain.
* {{Keigo}}: Speaks like this in the Japanese version.
* KimonoFanservice: In addition to the general beauty of the outfit, Erika's kimonos in ''FRLG'' and ''HGSS'' are both the very wide-sleeved ''furisode'', which is the most formal kimono type worn by ''unmarried'' girls, which notably replaced the not quite as wide-sleeved ''houmongi'' she appeared to be wearing in ''Yellow'' and ''GSC'', which serves the same role for married women. In ''Let's Go'', she appears to be wearing an ''iromuji'', which doesn't specify marital status.
* KimonoIsTraditional: In the Japanese FantasyCounterpartCulture called Kanto, Erika is one of the most pointedly Japanese of them all, and her outfits only highlight it.
* LadyOfWar: A traditional and graceful Gym Leader who has a preference for feminine Grass-type Pokémon.
* LifeDrain: Her TM moves Mega Drain and Giga Drain damage your Pokémon and heal hers.
* MeaningfulName: Not readily apparent, but even in English her name, '''Erika''', is the genus of a type of plant. The same pun applies in Japanese, and in addition, the '''ka''' in the common name Erika is often written with the characters for either "flower" or "fragrance".
* MightyGlacier: All of her Pokémon are slow, but have high offense and defense.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant:
** In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Erika's post-battle dialog reveals she would never collect "unattractive" pokémon... after you've seen her team is nothing but horrifying monsters of the HungryJungle. On top of that, she wears her yukata in the style of a body being prepared for burial. (This became downplayed as soon as Gen II introduced cute Grass-types like Jumpluff and Bellossom, and she wears her kimonos normally in future appearances).
** Also of note is Erika's LifeDrain SignatureMove, either Mega Drain or Giga Drain. Possibly to preserve the trope after the introduction of more cute Grass-type pokémon, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she starts describing its VampiricDraining effects as "wonderful"--in the Gen IV remakes, she describes it as both wonderful and horrifying [[ExaggeratedTrope to get the point across]].
* NoSenseOfDirection: ''Pokémon Masters'' has her getting lost in the middle of a town while trying to find a shop, despite the fact that her Vileplume knows the way and was walking straight ahead of her. She admits that she'd never find it on her own.
* NobleBigot: As far as Pokémon are concerned. She generally prefers to use beautiful Pokémon. What's her definition of "beautiful Pokémon"? Any Pokémon at least partially of the Grass type.
* TheOjou: Explicitly called such in the Japanese version, and this trope is a part of her official title.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears black tights with her Holiday 2020 outfit and white tights with her Sygna Suit.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Has pale skin but dark black hair.
* SignatureMon: This was {{Averted}} in older games, where Erika favored a [[StealthPun balanced arrangement]] of the Tangela, Weepinbell, and Gloom lines, but starting in the fourth generation at least one Pokémon would be more preeminent than the others. Originally it was Tangela's then-new evolution Tangrowth, but as of ''Let's Go'' and ''Pokémon Masters'' her Vileplume has been thrust into the spotlight.
** Speaking of ''Masters'', her Christmas and Sygna Suit variations give her Comfey and Leafeon respectively.
* SignatureMove: Mega Drain in Gen I, Giga Drain from Gen II on.
* SleepyHead: When you speak to her to challenge her, she exclaims she dozed off, and a rumor says peepers on the Gym often spy her snoozing in the middle of the day. She appears to be a mild {{Cloudcuckoolander}}-type, given that her post-battle dialog indicates she thinks her collected Pokémon are all beautiful. In ''Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee'' and ''Pokémon Masters'', she's even able to doze off while standing.
* StealthPun: In the first generation games, Erika's team is symmetrical, with a Tangela accompanied by Weepinbell-line and Gloom-line choices, which is only appropriate for a master of ''flower arranging''. (For bonus points, the ''RGBY'' and ''GSC'' versions of Celadon Gym have a near-symmetric arrangement of girls, too.)
* ThresholdGuardians: Erika's Rainbow Badge enables the player's monsters to use Strength, allowing them to deal with large boulders, which in some cases are an InsurmountableWaistHeightFence and in others a BlockPuzzle.
* YamatoNadeshiko: The kimono, the class, the fighting plants, etc.
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[[folder:Koga ''[-(Kyō)-]'']]
!!Koga / Kyō (キョウ ''kyou'')

Fuchsia City Gym Leader (''Red, Blue, Yellow, [=FireRed=], and [=LeafGreen=]'')--''The Poisonous Ninja Master!''

For information on Koga, check the Characters/PokemonEliteFour page, for Koga has received a promotion.
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[[folder:Janine ''[-(Anzu)-]'']]
!!Janine / Anzu (アンズ ''anzu'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JaniceKawaye ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Riho Sugiyama ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Fuchsia City Gym Leader (''Gold, Silver, Crystal, [=HeartGold=], and [=SoulSilver=]'')--''The Poisonous Ninja Master''

-->''"Fufufufu... I'm sorry to disappoint you... I'm only joking! I'm the real deal! Janine of Fuchsia Gym, that's me!"''
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* AdaptationalBadass: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', most Kanto Gym Leaders have pokémon leveled to the mid-forties, while Janine, a newcomer, only has pokémon in the thirties. In the Gen IV remakes, all the Kanto Gym Leaders got a buff, and Janine in particular jumped right into the forties (and her SignatureMon Venomoth hit level 50), so not ony is the gap between her and the other Gym Leaders much, much smaller, she's stronger than her Elite Four father.
* AdaptedOut: So far, she is the only Gym Leader who has not appeared in the anime. Even other sequel- or remake-original gym leaders like Juan, Roxie, Marlon, and ''[=B2W2=]'''s version of Cheren have already appeared.
* AmazonBrigade: Inverted in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where unlike most female Gym Leaders she uses an all-male team of pokémon. Even Jasmine and Sabrina's teams mixed male pokémon with neutral and female, respectively. Played straight in the Gen IV remakes, however.
* AvengingTheVillain: In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', one of Janine's opening quotes is to confirm whether you've defeated her father, and her win quote is to declare the FamilyHonor avenged.
* BadassAdorable: She's cute and while she's not as strong as her other colleagues, she's still capable of holding herself up.
* BarelyChangedDubName:
** Her French name is Jeannine.
** Her German name is Janina.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Her SignatureMon Venomoth and Ariados are on nearly all of her teams. In the Gen IV remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she has two Ariados, making over half her team Bug-type.
* BreakTheHaughty: She shows this when you defeat her in ''Pokémon Stadium 2''.
--> '''Janine''': Why? [[ThisCannotBe How could this happen?]]
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In Gen V, she has a Crobat that knows Hypnosis and Brave Bird. Both moves are gained by breeding, although they cannot be gained simultaneously considering that there's no other Pokémon that resides in the same egg group as Crobat that can learn both of these moves.
* DaddysGirl: She idolizes her father and wants to aspire to his example, achieving this in Generation II.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Janine is perky, teasing, and admires the player after her defeat. In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', she's aloof, plain-spoken, and reacts to her defeat with difficulty if not outright disbelief.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', five of her twelve pokémon know Attract. Even [[{{Gonk}} Weezing]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution:
** The Gen IV remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' replaced her duplicate Weezing with a duplicate Ariados and gave her a Drapion in her rematch, reinforcing her BigCreepyCrawlies motif--her father also has Bug-Poison types in his arsenal, but they're nowhere near as prominent as they are in Janine's.
** Gen IV also changes her SignatureMove from Toxic (which was originally her father's) to Poison Jab, which only causes normal poisoning but has a respectable 80 base power.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Invoked. All the trainers in her Gym are dressed to look like her, so the challengers must find the real one.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Janine did not exist until ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', but she snuck into the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', where she provides an entry for Koga's section of the Fame Checker--though you'd be forgiven for not noticing her, given she only has a generic sprite and was given [[InconsistentDub a different English name]], Charine.
* {{Expy}}: "Koga's personally-trained younger ponytailed female relative," could just as easily describe Aya, Koga's little sister from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', even before you get to the fact that they have the same SignatureMon. Notably, Janine was AdaptedOut of the anime, perhaps to prevent ExpyCoexistence.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: The Gen IV remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' establish that Janine makes and takes lunch to the Indigo League for her father Koga.
* FriendlyRivalry: Implied with Falkner. While the only screen time they have together is revolved around arguing about whose father is considered the better trainer, a few lines suggest that they hang out together sometimes.
* GoneHorriblyRight: PlayedForLaughs. In ''Masters'', she tells the player she is amused that many people are fooled trying to find her in her gym, as every Gym Trainer there is disguised as her. Unfortunately for her, this has led to the unintended side effect of people [[CassandraTruth not believing the real deal is talking to them and write her off as someone else disguising as her.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Similar to what Falkner thinks of her, she thinks Falkner is a "daddy's boy who needs to grow up and become his own person". [[HeroicMime Apparently]] your character points out this hypocrisy, which prompts her to tell you to mind your own business.
* InconsistentDub: Apparently not realizing who she was, the translators of ''[=FireRed/LeafGreen=]'' named her Charine.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown:
** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where most of her pokémon can only induce one disability--her two Weezing can only poison you, her Ariados can only slow you down--but her Crobat can induce confusion and use screech to lower your defenses in case your pokémon hits itself, and her Venomoth can induce poison, confusion, lowered special defense, and increase its own evasion.
** Exaggerated in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', where her pokémon are bristling with moves that dish out DamageOverTime, StatusEffects, {{Knockback}}, and other nasty things besides. Every pokémon on her Round 1 team and two-thirds of her Round 2 team can combine DamageOverTime with a {{Status Effect|s}} that prevents your pokémon from moving half the time.
* TheKidsAreAmerican: An acute example. Her father Koga affects Japanese accent, but she does not. On the surface it seems like it's just because Koga is an archetypical Ninja, but then so is she... Breaks down even more when you realize Kanto and the regions of Gens I-IV are all based on Japan, and no one else, young or old, has the accent.
* LargeHam: In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', she's adopted her father's theatrics, threatening you with the horror of Poison-type pokémon.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father Like Daughter]]: She's the daughter of Koga, and it shows.
* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: Her arguments with Falkner center around this.
* MythologyGag: In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Janine and Falkner had a mutual respect and a shared respect for their own fathers. In the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Falkner and Janine are locked in a perpetual boasting contest of MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad.
* {{Ninja}}: A classic example, just like Koga, representing the kunoichi (female ninja).
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: Janine first appears in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' as a lighthearted Troll, but once you defeat her she shows an earnest streak and promises to improve so she can become better than both you and her father.
* PassingTheTorch: Janine has been trained since she was a child to take over the Fuchsia City gym after her father, and by the time of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she has.
* PoisonousPerson: Poison-type specialist.
* PluckyGirl: In the remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she barely acknowledges setbacks and merely claims she'll overcome them, if not now, then next time.
* PunnyName: '''Ja'''-'''nin'''e. Remove the "e" and switch the syllables to get "ninja".
* ShellGame: In her Gym, all of her trainers [[IdentityImpersonator impersonate her]], [[DisguisedInDrag even the one guy]], and the only way to find her is to approach the impersonators and examine them closely.
* SignatureMon:
** A Poison-type specialist like her father, and her favorite is [[GlassCannon Venomoth.]]
** In ''Masters'', she uses Ariados, another mainstay of her teams.
* SignatureMove:
** Toxic, inherited from her father. As a status move, she doesn't teach it to her entire team (except in ''Stadium 2''), but she's not shy about using it either.
** As of Gen IV, she teaches Poison Jab to half of her team.
* ThemeNaming: Her Japanese name, ''Anzu'', comes from one reading of the character "杏", (meaning "Apricot"). This links her with her father, whose Japanese name is an alternate reading of the same character.
* {{Troll}}:
** When you approach her, she initially pretends that she, too, is a doppelganger, only to admit she was only joking. Bonus points if you approach her last of all her trainers.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', some of the pokémon she's taught [[DistractedByTheSexy Attract]] to are [[{{Gonk}} Weezing]] and [[NaughtyTentacles Tentacruel]].
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Subverted in the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. Janine doesn't resent her father's exhaustive work schedule as an Elite Four member and even brings him lunch at work.
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[[folder:Sabrina ''[-(Natsume)-]'']]
!!Sabrina / Natsume (ナツメ ''natsume'')
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LizzieFreeman ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/RieTanaka ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Saffron City Gym Leader--''The Master of Psychic Pokémon!''

-->''"I had a vision of your arrival! I have had psychic powers since I was a little child. I first learned to bend spoons with my mind. I dislike fighting, but if you wish, I will show you my powers!"''
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* AdaptationalSkimpiness: The anime has her wear a miniskirt (albeit with thigh-high boots), while the Generation II remakes have her wearing a midriff-revealing top. Compare that with her original sprite, where the closest to either was a short-sleeved top.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Like Lt. Surge, Sabrina is prone to this in adaptations. Despite her ominous looks and demeanor, she's not an evil character at all in the games. ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has her as a high-ranking member of Team Rocket at the start. [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} The anime]] had her as stoic and dangerous, terrorizing people ForTheEvulz, though her true personality behind the SplitPersonality is similar to her game persona. Possibly as a nod to this, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'' has her reprise a villainous role in Pokéstar Studios films.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: One of the most commonly reinterpreted Gym Leaders in Kanto. While a pacifistic but talented trainer in the games, she's a Team Rocket officer in ''Pokémon Adventures'', a CreepyChild in the anime, and a sweet and gentle shrine maiden-like in ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu''.
* ArtEvolution: Sabrina's official art for ''Yellow'' introduced her signature segmented red and black outfit, which has been repeatedly streamlined over the course of her appearances in the Trading Card Game, ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Fighting Dojo used to be the Saffron City Gym. Then Sabrina came with her Psychic-types and utterly thrashed them. Now Sabrina's gym is the Saffron Gym.
* BareYourMidriff: Her re-design from ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'' onwards has her showing barely enough to show her navel.
* TheBaroness: Downplayed. For a very brief window of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Sabrina had a forceful, militaristic element in her design, as seen most clearly in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' and Sabrina's official art for ''Pokemon Yellow''. The anime even updated her sex appeal by changing her ProperTightsWithASkirt to ZettaiRyouiki. This was lost as soon as ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The brains to Erika's beauty and Misty's brawn. She has PsychicPowers like telepathy and seeing the future, doesn't like fighting, and Psychic-types are generally associated with minds (her SignatureMon Alakazam in particular is noted for [[MyBrainIsBig an extra-large head]]). In her pokégear conversation in ''HGSS'', she describes "true" PsychicPowers not as MindOverMatter but the ability to influence people and control your own mind.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Has a Venomoth in ''Red and Blue'' and their remakes despite the abundance of Psychic-types in Kanto. However, while Venomoth is not a Psychic-type itself, it does learn several Psychic-type moves.
* CreepyGood: Despite having all the glaring signs of an antagonist — being a psychic, having red eyes, being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, having a whip in her original design — she's a pacifist, and shows no signs of being malicious or even mean. Note that she does suffer from AdaptationalVillainy in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' as well as the anime, though she gets better in both. She actually ''laments'' this a bit in ''Black 2 and White 2'', as she seems pretty aware of just why she was cast as the ''villainess'' of the movies she appears in.
* CurbStompBattle: Delivered one to the Fighting Dojo, making her the new Gym Leader.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In different incarnations, she's [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue a dreaded Gym Leader but actually a nice girl who dislikes battles]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 a movie star]], [[Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu a heroic and motherly figure]], [[Manga/PocketMonsters a magician that challenges trainers to a magic contest]], [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} someone who terrorizes the entire Saffron City]] ''[[ForTheEvulz because she can]]'', or an ObviouslyEvil [[Manga/PokemonAdventures Team Rocket member who enjoys doing evil things for Giovanni]] [[BodyGuardCrush because she has a crush on him.]]
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** Her whip was removed past Generation 1. All trainers except Tamers had their whips scrapped once Pokémon became more anthropomorphic.
** Sabrina's collared shirt from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'', was almost immediately replaced with her outfit from her ''Yellow'' official art.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Historically this was limited to the anime, but ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' adds this trope to the original Sabrina by giving her intense and staring eyes, amplified to {{Glowing|Eyes}} UhOhEyes and a FaceFramedInShadow when using her powers.
* GlassCannon: The majority of her Pokémon tend to lean toward hard hitters that can't take hits themselves.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Some of her artwork has shown her to have pretty well defined hips. But her Bellelba costume in ''Black and White 2'' shows off her curves. Her waist is very thin, while her hips are very wide in comparison.
* MartialPacifist: Doesn't enjoy fighting, but is one of the strongest Gym Leaders in all of Kanto.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', she acts as the villainess of a fantasy movie.
* MeaningfulName:
** Sa'''brin'''a, as in "brain", as in the source of psychic powers and the like (and a possible reference to the fictional character, Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch).
** The '''me''' in Natsume is a homonym for "[[ThirdEye eye]]".
** In French, "Morgane" refers to Morgan le Fay, from the Arthurian legends.
* OlympusMons: In one (presumably non-canon) [[NoExportForYou Japan- and Korea-only]] downloadable World Tournament, she uses [[LightningBruiser Mewtwo]].
* PowerFloats: Her ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'' World Tournament sprite shows her briefly levitating. In ''Let's Go!'' she levitates when issuing commands to her Pokémon, as well as levitating her Poké Ball when she throws it.
* ThePowerOfLove: In her post-battle dialogue from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Sabrina speculates that the power of love is a kind of psychic power.
* PsychicPowers: Not only do her Pokémon have these, but she possesses them as well. She also claims that ''everyone'' has psychic powers, but that tragically few people even realize it, let alone develop it.
* RapunzelHair: Her original design has it reach to her hips.
* ReluctantWarrior:
** She constantly goes on about how she doesn't like to fight, but she will if she must. It makes you curious why she's a Gym Leader, then.
** ''Pokémon Masters'' elaborates that it isn't so much battles themselves that Sabrina dislikes but ''conflict'' in general. Her becoming a Gym Leader was likely a way to tone the conflict factor down, as now she only battles those who are skilled enough to reach her, essentially rewarding them rather than doing anything that could be taken as antagonistc.
* RooftopConfrontation: Invoked by the redesign of her gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''--rather than teleporting from one isolated room to another, the player must teleport from the top of one indoor building to the next--Sabrina herself is faced atop an indoor skyscraper (a likely MythologyGag referring to the Pokémon-based stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', which was the top of the Silph, Co. building).
* {{Seers}}:
** She quietly boasts that she foresaw the player's arrival whenever you battle her, possibly to intimidate her opponent. In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she claims to have foreseen your arrival three years ago as a CallBack to ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and then reuses the line in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' during the World Leaders Tournament... though the date in question (a year before ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'') is far more arbitrary.
** Comes full circle in ''Let's Go!'' after you defeat her in a rematch. She says she won't meet another opponent like Chase/Elaine for another three years. Many fans assumed a Johto follow-up was on the way as a result.
** {{Subverted}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in ''HGSS'', where she'll claim to have had a feeling you'd come (to face her at the Fighting Dojo), only for the player character to point out that they'd arranged to meet there beforehand. She further predicts the player will call her again afterwards.
* ShoutOut: She shares her name with [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch another teenage girl with magic powers]] popular in the late 90s.
* SignatureMon:
** The Psychic-type, and [[SquishyWizard Alakazam]] in particular, which is fitting, as it is the strongest non-legendary Psychic-type Pokémon in Gen I and it represents the stereotypical trappings of said type well. She also uses all the members of its evolutionary line and nothing else in ''Yellow''.
** Mr. Mime and Espeon also recur on many of her teams.
** Her New Years 2022 variant in ''Masters'' pairs her up with Chingling which she hasn't used in her mainline appearances.
* SignatureMove: Her signature TM in Gen I was Psywave, Gen III gave her Calm Mind, and Gen IV had Skill Swap. Being the Psychic-type leader, however, she tends to teach her entire team Psychic and Psybeam too, which are far more dangerous than her TM moves.
* TheStoic:
** Is very stern and does not show much emotion. It's implied this may be because she's holding back her tremendous powers (though the anime version was because the side of her that actually showed emotion manifested itself into a doll she carried with her all the time. When Sabrina learned to laugh after Haunter gave her a cartoon bomb, the doll [her emotional side] disappeared).
** ''Pokémon Masters'' suggests that her stoicism is actually due to her being shy and not socially adept. Once you scout her and are able to interact with her, she [[NotSoStoic lets more emotions show]] and [[WhenSheSmiles even smiles.]]
* ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed; in the remakes, Sabrina's Marsh Badge enables use of Rock Smash, which deals with a third type of InsurmountableWaistHeightFence.
* UncattyResemblance: Sabrina's official artwork for ''Yellow'' features her in a segmented outfit with padded shoulders reminiscent of the "armored" chest shared by her SignatureMon Abra and its evolutions.
* WhipItGood: She carries a whip into battle in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''--like other whip-carrying trainers, this element was phased out in later generations.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Sabrina's redesign in the Gen IV remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' largely threw out the established trends of her design in favor of an uncharacteristic HotterAndSexier outfit that has nothing in common with her typical costume except the persistence of RavenHairIvorySkin, and even her hair style is revamped.
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[[folder:Blaine ''[-(Katsura)-]'']]
!!Blaine / Katsura (カツラ ''katsura'')
[[quoteright:191:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_blaine.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KirkThornton ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN) Uoken ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP)

Cinnabar Island Gym Leader--''The Hotheaded Quiz Master!''

-->''"Hah! I'm Blaine! I am the Leader of Cinnabar Gym! My fiery Pokémon will incinerate all challengers! Hah! You better have Burn Heal!"''
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the first gen. games and all remakes thereof, Blaine's gym is locked and must be opened with the Secret Key... which is hidden in the inmost room of the Pokémon Mansion's basement, where Mewtwo was created. While the original games never explained this, adaptations and remakes have given the connection AdaptationExpansion.
** While ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' factored in his scientist apparel [[spoiler:to suggest that he personally created Mewtwo]], FRLG instead follows the trail laid out by ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' and indicates Dr. Blaine was an associate of Dr. Fuji, [[spoiler:who created Mewtwo]]. ''Let's Go'' expands on this by filling the mansion's inmost room with lab equipment and having Dr. Blaine make an explicit nod to his friend's research, implying him to be TheAtoner.
* ArtificialBrilliance: In Gen IV, his Pokémon all use Overheat, which is even stronger than the blistering Fire Blast, but [[CastFromStamina makes the user's Special Attack peter out]]. To counter this, he uses Flannery's trick of having his monsters carry AntiDebuff White Herbs to let them get a second shot in.
* BadassArmFold: His sprites in Gen I and II depict him with this pose.
* BadassBookworm: He's a quiz master, and is sometimes depicted as a scientist in spin-off media.
* BaldOfAwesome: His head's shininess even lights up the whole screen when he briefly takes his hat off.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When he first arrived, Blaine's scientist apparel didn't really matter; in fact, as per YouDontLookLikeYou below, he may not have been intended to be a scientist originally. ''Fire Red'' and ''Leaf Green'' implied a science background by making him friends with Dr. Fuji, which the ''Let's Go'' games have reinforced.
* CoolOldGuy: He may be old, but he's still a hot-blooded quiz master and a Gym Leader.
* CoolShades: According to one of his Fame Checker trivia entries, he's said to take them off only while thinking up new quiz questions.
* DeusExMachina: One of his gym trainers explains that Blaine was lost in the mountains once and was rescued by the appearance of a Moltres, whose light allowed him to find his way down. The experience inspired him to become a trainer.
* DishingOutDirt: In the anime, he inexplicably has a Rhydon.
* EccentricMentor: Old age has not extinguished his fire for life at all. He's one of the older Gym Leaders seen, up there with Pryce, and is still capable of trouncing your team.
** His GameShow in the ''Let's Go'' games is increasingly ridiculous as you approach the end, where he'll accept "What's That?" as a correct answer (the question is True or False) and gives you a question with six potential answers that is impossible to get wrong.
* FragileSpeedster: His Ponyta and Rapidash move fast, but don't take hits well.
* GameShowHost: In ''Let's Go'' Blaine's gauntlet of quizzes has been remodeled into a straight up GameShow. He does this to entertain the families of the scientists on Cinnabar Island which (unlike the tourist trap in the anime) has really nothing to do. He's not the best Emcee, but he's a very LargeHam to make up for it.
* HotBlooded: Surprisingly so for an old guy, as mentioned in his title. The TCG even had a Trainer Card called "Fervor" dedicated to his hot-bloodedness. Both of these explicitly use the phrase "hot-blooded" in Japanese.
** In ''Let's Go'' he's so eager to get started that he comes running to the front of the gym to ask you your first question before the attendant has to remind him it's too early, and once you actually get to fight him, his eyeglasses reflect fire.
* KillItWithFire: Blaine hands out Fire Blast in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' and all remakes thereof, which was the strongest Fire type move until Generation III. In Gen. IV, he provides the newer, stronger Overheat. He insists that these moves be used on Fire Pokémon for maximum incendiary potential.
-->'''Blaine:''' ''Fire Blast is an attack to be shown the utmost respect. Don't waste it on Water-type Pokémon.''
* LightningBruiser: His two canine Pokémon, but mostly this applies to Arcanine. It's fairly sturdy, hits hard with both of its high attack stats, and is very speedy to top it off.
* MeaningfulName:
** '''Blai'''ne sounds like "blaze", or arguably Bl'''aine''' as in "flame".
** The "'''Ka'''" in "Katsura" is a homonym for the compound word for fire. In the anime, he wears a wig as part of his disguise, and guess what the Japanese word for "wig" is? Amusingly, Katsura is ''also'' the Japanese name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercidiphyllum a tree]], which means Blaine could qualify for a Pokémon Professor.
** In German, his name is Pyro, meaning "fire" in Greek.
** In French, his name is Auguste, from "ustion', a type of burn.
* NiceHat: He wears one in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', covering his BaldOfAwesome.
* OpaqueLenses: Though since they're sunglasses, it makes some sense that they'd be hard to see through.
* PersonalityPowers: Read HotBlooded above.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire-type master.
* PopQuiz: In the first generation games and their remakes, his gym is full of segmented rooms that force you to answer questions right or face a trainer.
* SignatureMon: Like Erika, he's a bit varied on this once you get past his Fire-type association.
** Mostly his signature Pokémon is [[LightningBruiser Arcanine]], using it in such a capacity in the original games and their remakes.
** However, in the Gen II games, he loses Arcanine and his ace switches to [[FragileSpeedster Rapidash]], his other fully evolved Pokémon he had alongside Arcanine in Gen I.
** The anime featured [[GlassCannon Magmar]] as his signature Pokémon with no appearance of Arcanine and Rapidash; the games add Magmar to his Gen II teams, and in rematches in ''HGSS'', he evolves it into Magmortar and it supplants Rapidash as his highest-leveled Pokémon. ''Stadium'' and the Gen V World Tournament let him have all three, but he doesn't keep all of them for every battle, and his ''Let's Go'' teams also let him have all three, with Arcanine as his highest-leveled and Magmar being his first Pokémon sent out.
* SignatureMove: Fire Blast in Gen I, Gen III, and Gen VII, Overheat in Gen IV.
* ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed. In FRLG, the Volcano Badge counterintuitively authorizes the use of Waterfall, allowing the player to surmount the large watery obstacles.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Blaine's design in the franchise's early days was a bit fluid. His original character art depicted him as a military man with a jungle camouflage top and brown hair that was balding, but his in-game sprite showed him wearing a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine with pants, a tie, and round glasses, and he was completely bald. The anime uses the "military" look as the basis for his design with his hair, but he wears more casual clothes as part of a disguise as a hippie, during which he wears his glasses from his "scientist" design that now serve as RoundHippieShades, and the ''Pokémon Adventures'' manga has him use his "miltary" look as a disguise for his "scientist" look. From Gen II on he settled on the "scientist" design where he's completely balding and wears a labcoat and glasses, and various media offer a HandWave that Blaine is a MasterOfDisguise who can totally change up his look if he likes.
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[[folder:Giovanni ''[-(Sakaki)-]'']]
!!Giovanni / Sakaki (サカキ ''sakaki'')
Boss of Team Rocket and the Viridian City Gym Leader -- ''The Self-Proclaimed Strongest Trainer''[[note]]He has no official Gym Leader title, but is called this by the Pokémon World Tournament announcer.[[/note]] (''Red, Blue, Yellow, [=FireRed=], and [=LeafGreen=]'')

For information on Giovanni, check the Characters/PokemonVillainTeamRocket character page.
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[[folder:Blue Oak ''[-(Green Ōkido)-]'']]
!!Blue Oak / Green Ōkido (オーキド・グリーン ''ookido guriin'')
Viridian City Gym Leader (no subtitle) (''Gold, Silver, Crystal, [=HeartGold=], and [=SoulSilver=]'')

For information on Blue, check the Characters/PokemonProtagonistsAndRivals character page.
[[/folder]]
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* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Her outfit in ''Gold'', ''Silver'', and ''Crystal'' had one, though it wasn't particularly obvious unless you looked very closely.

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[[Characters/PokemonFrontierBrainsAndOtherFacilityHeads Frontier Brains and Other Facility Heads]] | [[Characters/PokemonTrainerClasses Trainer Classes]] | [[Characters/PokemonOtherNonPlayableCharacters Other NPCs]] ([[Characters/PokemonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] / [[Characters/PokemonUltraReconSquad Ultra Recon Squad]] / [[Characters/PokemonMacroCosmos Macro Cosmos]])-]]]]]