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* TheFettered: Zigzagged. Misty is forced by her sisters to leave Ash and take over Cerulean Gym. Unlike her sisters, she has a strong sense of duty to the family gym and its Pokémon, and is largely responsible for not only saving the gym from ruin but expanding it into a major training ground. However, very much like her sisters, Misty will sometimes ditch the gym to pursue more personal interests, like reuniting with Ash when the opportunity arises.
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** Under Misty's guidance, Cerulean Gym grew from a mid-sized local venue to a far larger and more impressive regional-level training facility.
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* OneHeadTaller: She's depically depicted as just one head taller than Ash, though occasionally they're about the same size.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Her stated motive for following Ash on his quest was to tag along until he made good on what he owed for destroying her bike.
* OneHeadTaller: She'sdepically usually depicted as just one head taller than Ash, though occasionally they're about the same size.
* OneHeadTaller: She's
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* HasAType: If Ash and Psyduck are indicators, Misty has a soft spot for idiots with hidden talents.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Misty goes from being a hot headed jerk in the Indigo League to a decent, kind person in later seasons of the show. When she reappears in Sun & Moon, most of her negative traits like her temper is pretty much gone.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Misty goes from being a hot headed jerk in the Indigo League to a decent, kind person in later seasons of the show. When she reappears in Sun & Moon, most of her negative traits like her temper is pretty much gone.gone, though she's still a tad snarky to Ash and Brock, and it looks like she'll never truly get above rubbing it into Ash that he got the Cerulean Gym Badge out of pity.
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** What she's made to look like by Meowth in episode 12. However, if you watch past the point where Ash returns with the Super Potion ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready fact is, true fans should have done so by now]]), she reveals that the Squirtle Squad wasn't really going to kill her (in the Japanese version) or turn her into a purplenette ([[NeverSayDie in the English version]]). Ironically, Misty actually volunteered to get the super potion in the former upon learning this demand.
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** What she's made to look like by Meowth in episode 12. However, if you watch past the point where Ash returns with the Super Potion ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready fact is, true fans should have done so by now]]), Potion, she reveals that the Squirtle Squad wasn't really going to kill her (in the Japanese version) or turn her into a purplenette ([[NeverSayDie in the English version]]). Ironically, Misty actually volunteered to get the super potion in the former upon learning this demand.
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[[caption-width-right:200:With Togepi.]]
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->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/Xochitl Ugarte
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->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Xóchitl Ugarte
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[-'''Series-wide:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPikachu Pikachu]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketTrio Team Rocket Trio]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketOrganization Team Rocket Organization]]\\
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[-'''Series-wide:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPikachu Pikachu]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketTrio Team Rocket Trio]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketTriosPokemon Team Rocket Trio's Pokemon]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketOrganization Team Rocket Organization]]\\
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* ShesGotLegs: Misty’s most outstanding feature is her long bare legs thanks to her [[WhoWearsShortShorts short denim shorts]]. Some shots even emphasize how lovely her legs can be.
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* {{Gonk}}: It makes the [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/671.jpg ugliest looking expression]] when charging up Hydro Pump, while [[SuperMode Mega-evolved]] in it's third appearance in the main series, due to the camera angle (the first time this happened, [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/043/561.jpg it wasn't as ugly]] due to a low camera angle).
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* {{Gonk}}: GoblinFace: It makes the [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/671.jpg ugliest looking ugliest-looking expression]] when charging up Hydro Pump, Pump while [[SuperMode Mega-evolved]] Mega Evolved]] in it's its third appearance in the main series, due to the camera angle (the first time this happened, [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/043/561.jpg it wasn't as ugly]] due to a low camera angle).
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* SuperMode: He gains the ability to mega-evolve in ''Sun & Moon''.
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* SuperMode: He gains the ability to mega-evolve Mega Evolve in ''Sun & Moon''.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Caterpie saves the heroes from Team Rocket, Misty admits to underestimating it. When Ash asks her to prove her affection however, she is unwilling. She still has her bug phobia, just she's learned to be far less of a {{Jerkass}} about it. And it's shown some ambiguous time later in ''Sun and Moon'', that she is still terrified of bugs, despite her experiences, because she never did anything to get over the fear, just lash out less.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One reason why Goldeen and Horsea are OutOfFocus was because they're not amphibious in nature.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It evolved into Poliwhirl against Ash's Bulbasaur, but unlike most mid-battle evolutions in the show, it still struggled and ultimately lost despite a better fight, the power boost not enough to overpower an experienced type disadvantage.
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%%* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: How it basically moves around, as a starfish it would be harder to otherwise walk.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in the same episode that Ash's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard and was the ''second'' Gen II Pokémon to appear.[[note]]The first being Ho-oh all the way back in Episode 1.[[/note]]
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* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in the same episode that Ash's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard and was the ''second'' Gen Generation II Pokémon to appear.[[note]]The first being Ho-oh all the way back in Episode 1.[[/note]][[/note]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''Pikachu's Vacation'', the Pokédex classifies Togepi as the "Egg Pokémon." Later, when Togepi officially appeared in the games, it would be classified as the "Spike Ball Pokémon."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''Pikachu's Vacation'', the Pokédex classifies Togepi as the "Egg Pokémon." Later, when Togepi officially appeared in the games, it would be classified as the "Spike Ball Pokémon."
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%%* StrayingBaby: Quite often. Sometimes [[HonoraryUncle Pikachu]] is able to keep an eye on it, sometimes not.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due to his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When the brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he managed to break his cage, saved Misty and defeated the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due to his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses witnessed the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When the brothers' three Tentacruel's gang ganged up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks blocked their attacks with her body, which enrages enraged the Atrocious Pokémon and he managed to break his cage, saved Misty and defeated the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due to his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due to his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When the brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages managed to break his cage, save saved Misty and defeat defeated the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due to his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to Gym. Due his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to the Gym. Due his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
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!!!Indigo League
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!!!Orange Islands
!!!Johto
!!Chronicles
A Pokémon belonging to the Cerulian Gym, he evolved from a Magikarp to a Gyarados during the day Misty returned to Gym. Due his immaturity, it instantly became violent and aggressive and he was so uncontrollable that he refused to return to his Poké Ball. Misty had no choice but to contain him in a cage to control his temper tantrum. During the battle between Misty and the Three Fighting Brothers, Gyarados witnesses the unfair battle coming from the three bothers and Misty saving her Corsola. When brothers' three Tentacruel's gang up on the still trapped Gyarados, Misty blocks their attacks with her body, which enrages the Atrocious Pokémon and he manages to break his cage, save Misty and defeat the three brothers with ease. Since then, he has become Misty's partner and she has managed to tame him, which also has helped her to overcome her fear for the Gyarados species.
* TheAce: Upon his introduction, Gyarados has become Misty's strongest Pokémon and new trump card.
* RememberTheNewGuy: In his debut, it is said that he used to be a Magikarp that participated in Misty's water ballet in [=OS061=]. However, no Magikarp was during that episode.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Misty has returned in the Sun & Moon series, her Azurill is nowhere to be seen.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It's a baby Normal-type Pokémon that Misty has received right after it hatched, and she would keep it in her arms rather than in a Poké Ball. Basically, it's a borderline ReplacementGoldfish for Togepi. (The Fairy-type has also been added retroactively to them.)
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Misty has returned in theSun ''Sun & Moon Moon'' series, her Azurill is nowhere to be seen.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Misty has returned in the
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears blue denim shorts that stop at her thighs.
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'''Major Characters:''' '''Misty''' | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBrock Brock]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesGoh Goh]] \\
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'''Diamond and Pearl:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Sinnoh)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]], [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYMegaEvolutionSpecials Mega Evolution Special]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYMegaEvolutionSpecials Mega Evolution Special]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYVillains Villains]]\\
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'''Diamond and Pearl:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Sinnoh)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]], [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]]([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]]([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYMegaEvolutionSpecials Mega Evolution Special]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]]
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'''Journeys:''' [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Journeys)]] | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesGoh Goh]]) | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesGalar Galar]] | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesOneShotCharacters One-shot Characters]]\\
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'''Original Series:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kanto, Orange Islands, Johto)]]\\
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'''Advanced Generation:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Hoenn)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireGymLeadersAndFrontierBrains Gym Leaders and Frontier Brains]]\\
'''Diamond and Pearl:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Sinnoh)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]], [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYMegaEvolutionSpecials Mega Evolution Special]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYVillains Villains]]\\
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!Misty (Kasumi)
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/MayumiIizuka
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis (4Kids), Creator/MicheleKnotz (current)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Xóchitl Ugarte
->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Fanny Roy, Anouck Hautbois (Movie ''Pokémon 4Ever''), Nancy Philippot (Episode 19 from Season 16)
The youngest of four sisters, she hasn't been blessed with her sisters' looks or charisma (at least, in the opinion of her sisters). However, she got a passion for battling and being snarky. Originally rather temperamental with a crush on Ash that she covered with strong {{Tsundere}} tendencies; after acquiring Togepi - an infant Pokémon requiring a great deal of care - she calmed down considerably. At the end of Johto, she became her city's Gym Leader, but she has still occasionally reunited with Ash since then. An aspiring Water Master.
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* ActionGirl: Played with. The creators state that Misty was intended to look fairly inexperienced, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll despite her bluster]]. In the show itself, however, while she is often more of a novice than she'll admit, she is usually reasonably capable.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the games, the player doesn't see her until he gets to Cerulean City, here Ash meets her in the first episode shortly after leaving Pallet Town.
* AdaptationalJerkass: She downplays this more than the other cases of this, as she's a {{tsundere}} with a temper (though she calms down once Togepi enters the picture) while her game counterpart doesn't seem to be that way.
* AdaptationExpansion: She's already an established Gym Leader by the time you meet her in the original games. The anime introduces her long before she becomes a Leader, and shows her slow but steady progression into the master trainer she is in the games.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the games, she was not a {{tsundere}}, or as feisty. Sequels released after the anime sometimes make nods to her temperament, however.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Instead of being just one of many obstacles a player faces, she's struggling to escape the shadow of her sisters and become a water type master. That and she's also deathly afraid of bug types.
* AdaptationalWimp: Initially, Misty was not a gym leader proper, and while not incompetent per se, was prone to arrogance and making errors in battle. By the end of Johto she has matured enough to take role in Cerulean Gym, to the point that she is arguably an AdaptationalBadass by the time of her return in ''Sun and Moon'', where she has even gained the use of Mega Evolution.
* AscendedExtra: She goes from having little plot relevance besides being a gym leader in the games to being a protagonist in the anime.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Misty's sisters ostracized her from being the Gym leader and only made her one to see how she'd screw up.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-baring top, with a good chunk of her other outfits (notably her swimsuits and her mermaid costume) following suit. She ditches it in Gen 3 for a more modest outfit, but by the time of her Gen 7 appearance, she's gone back to it.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A G-rated version with Ash; the two of them argue like no-one's business and she's not above snarking at him during his sillier moments, but [[ShipTease several points]] throughout their travels together make it clear she cares deeply for him.
* BerserkButton: During the original series, it is best not to compare her to [[HairTriggerTemper Gyarados]] at all (which is ironic considering that she's fine being compared to a Tentacruel). In "Fortune Hunters", when she reads that her fortune Pokémon is a Gyarados, [[IResembleThatRemark she flies into a complete rage]], demanding that Ash and Brock not agree with it, blasting Team Rocket off without fanfare, and eventually storming into the Daycare Center to punish Butch and Cassidy (the authors of the fortune book) with freeing the Pokémon to be a secondary concern. However, after getting a Gyarados on her team, she mellows out from it.
* BettyAndVeronica: In the Orange Islands episode where the trio meet Rudy, Misty is Archie, Ash is Betty and Rudy is Veronica when Rudy tries to flirt with Misty and [[HilarityEnsues Ash gets jealous.]]
* BetweenMyLegs: In the episode "Forest Grumps", her legs are used as framing during her stand-off with James and Meowth.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As much of a NiceGirl as she is in later seasons, it doesn't mean she's any less capable of kicking your ass and then some.
%%* BigEater: As seen in "The Breeding Center Secret".
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** She is good friends with Sakura, who is also the youngest in an all-girl family (in the latter's case, her sisters are the Kimono Girls).
** Similarly, during ''Advanced Generation'', she manages to find common ground with Max over their respective relationships with their older sisters.
** Again in ''Sun and Moon'', she and Lana quickly become friends over their mutual love for Water-types to the point of becoming pen pals.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a tomboy and has short hair that's combined with TomboyishPonytail.
* BrickJoke: The series starts with Pikachu frying her bike (albeit on accident). She gets her bike back at the end of the Johto series.
* TheBusCameBack: As noted, Misty became Gym Leader after the end of Johto. She made a few appearances in ''Advanced Generation'', before remaining absent in all subsequent series... until ''Sun and Moon'', where she returns again for a few episodes.
* ButtMonkey: She's sometimes made the butt of the joke by Ash and co. in earlier episodes, and [[DistressedDamsel gets into more perils]] than the rest of the crew (once, she was {{brainwashed}} into thinking she was a Seel). Also that her sisters [[TheRuntAtTheEnd look down on her]]. Doesn't help that she's stuck with [[TheDitz Psyduck]], which gives her a lot of the trouble until the Alola Reunion.
* CatchPhrase: In the original Japanese, she says "Go, [[GratuitousEnglish my steady!]]" whenever she summons a Pokémon. Except maybe Psyduck.
* CharacterDevelopment: Misty goes from being a hot headed jerk in the Indigo League to a decent, kind person in later seasons of the show. When she reappears in Sun & Moon, most of her negative traits like her temper is pretty much gone.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "Bye Bye Butterfree", she (very briefly) takes Brock's going lovesick in stride and treats it as a joke, instead of using the EarAche RunningGag that she'd later be perfecting.
%%* TheChick: Of the "Original Series" cast.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She often became annoyed when any other girl would flirt with or show interest in Ash, particularly in the second movie with Melody or in later Johto with Macey.
* CordonBleughChef: The [[{{Watsonian}} best way]] to describe how her stew in the Johto episode "Sick Daze" came out. She confused her ingredients and didn't just dump the mixture cutting her losses, and, as a result, the stew was so bad that not even ''[[BigEater Ash]]'' could eat it. [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Hilariously Jessie enjoyed it immensely.]] She's not actually bad at cooking, mind--earlier in the series, she A: created a medicine from Salveyo Weed for Ash, Tracey, and Jessie's Stun Spore sickness[[note]]which, if she were a true LethalChef, the "medicine" would have turned out to be ''poison''[[/note]], and B: was hinted to have done the cooking in Episodes 3 and 4[[note]]when they arrived in Pewter City, Ash commented that it's been two weeks since he started his journey, indicating that they spent at least 13 days in Viridian Forest, and given how Ash handled his first day, it's unlikely he would have been the one who cooked[[/note]].
* CrazyPrepared: In her return appearance in ''Sun/Moon'', it's revealed that Misty wears a bikini underneath her casual clothes should the need come to swim, noting that Lana had the right idea when she dumps her clothes and dives into lake with her swimsuit.
* DamselInDistress:
** What she's made to look like by Meowth in episode 12. However, if you watch past the point where Ash returns with the Super Potion ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready fact is, true fans should have done so by now]]), she reveals that the Squirtle Squad wasn't really going to kill her (in the Japanese version) or turn her into a purplenette ([[NeverSayDie in the English version]]). Ironically, Misty actually volunteered to get the super potion in the former upon learning this demand.
** Played straight in episodes such as "Pokémon Fashion Flash" and "Just Add Water". Both cases also come with a bit of BoundAndGagged.
* DeadpanSnarker: She often snarks at Ash in his sillier moments.
* DefrostingIceQueen: In early episodes, she was cold and pompous towards Ash. Her bug phobia also made her an outright bully towards Caterpie. After they started proving their worth, she softened and accepted them, even if her temper remained for a while.
** She's also a lot more accepting of Psyduck by the time of the Alola Reunion episode.
* DemonHead: She sometimes does this when she gets mad at Ash.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: During her rant about bug Pokémon, she mentions that she hates carrots and peppers. Ash immediately retorts that he likes bugs, carrots, ''and'' peppers.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Downplayed compared to standard anime, but she has inflicted slapstick pain onto Ash and Brock several times. Brock was able to get away with punching ''her'' on the head twice during Bulbasaur's introduction episode.
* DubPersonalityChange: The 4kids-era English dub episodes downplay some of her AdaptationalJerkass by toning down her narcissism compared to the Japanese version, though she remains more arrogant and hotheaded at times. She also doesn't call her Pokémon "beauties" or "steadies".
* DubText: In the banned beach episode. During her strut down the catwalk, Kasumi originally prided herself on all the attention, while in the dub, Misty went on a small under-her-breath rant about how the whole affair was degrading and ridiculous. Thing is, Misty's still the one who suggested the beauty contest in the first place, which makes the whole rant seem a strange attempt to rationalize her participation.
* DudeMagnet: Misty gets harsh comments about her appearance. Despite this, she does attract a few guys and they even flirt with her. The guys are: Rudy (from the Orange Islands), Tad (from Charizard Chills), and Georgio from Chronicles. Even a Hoot-Hoot took a liking to her (the old lady told Misty it liked pretty girls).
* EarlyBirdCameo: Misty appeared in the first episode -- and became a main character -- long before the group got to the Cascade Gym, where she would otherwise be introduced as its Gym Leader in other adaptations.
%%* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That she has feelings for Ash. [[ObliviousToLove Aside from Ash of course]].
* EvilLaugh: She give off one as her Staryu is thrashing Ash's Butterfree during their first battle. Made all the more dramatic by the tidal wave crashing behind her.
* FieryRedhead: In her early appearances, she's fiery, fearless, and an expert battler. Even her ponytail resembles flame. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], [[WaterIsWomanly she specializes in Water-type Pokémon.]]
* FloralThemeNaming: Sakura (cherry blossom), Ayame (iris), Botan (peony), Kasumi (baby's breath ''or'' mist). The English version keeps the joke by naming the three older girls Daisy, Violet and Lily, but chose to go for preserving the pun on Misty's favorite type over the theme name. [[OddNameOut It does, however, retain how she's the odd one out]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:
** Misty is the responsible sibling with regards to taking care of and managing the gym better than all three of her sisters. Daisy has gotten a bit better about it, but Misty is never away from the gym too long before her sisters need her to come back. Her greater proficiency as a Gym Leader is best shown as when the gang returns to Cerulean Gym in ''Sun and Moon'', the Gym is shown to have been ''massively'' remodeled into a large and modern facility.
** On the other hand, Daisy and Violet at least seem more mature than Lily and Misty, due to age.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic (phlegm).
* FreudianExcuse: For a long time, she had a fear of Gyarados because she was nearly swallowed by one as a toddler. She got over it--and got a badass Gyarados of her own.
* {{Forgiveness}}: After her bike got destroyed accidentally by Ash's Pikachu Thundershock attacked when his Trainer borrowed it to save his life, Misty followed Ash until he payed her back for her bike. However, due to being with Ash for so long and come to see him as a friend, Misty had not only come to understand that her bike getting destroyed wasn't on purpose but also forgives him.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The Mirage Kingdom two-parter in ''Advanced Challenge'' serves as one for her character arc with Togepi, who evolves and departs afterward, though Misty herself has made a couple of returns since then.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With her three sisters. Things seem a touch better of late, at least with eldest sister Daisy.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Thrice during ''Advanced'', as well as during a two-part arc in ''Sun & Moon''.
* UsefulNotes/GreenIsBlue: Her eyes vary between being green or blue (or sometimes both at the same time) between the episodes; it was especially prominent before the anime switched over to digital color. Nowadays it seems that they've settled on green, like her most recent official game artwork.
* HairTriggerTemper: She'll fly off the handle at what feels like the drop of a hat. According to the Fortune Telling book in the episode "The Fortune Hunters", she's listed as a Gyarados type, a Water-type Pokémon infamous for having a ferocious temperament.
* HeroStoleMyBike: In the first episode, Ash stole Misty's bike while running away from a flock of Spearow, culminating in the series' most famous RunningGag. She got angry when she learned that Ash destroyed it and cited it as a reason why she decided to travel with Ash.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: From the starting point when Misty started travelling with Ash, there were obvious hints it had to do with more than her fried bike. When Ash finally fulfills his promise, she admits she'd half forgotten about it and just wanted to hang out with him.
* HypocriticalHumor: She lambasted Ash regularly for his poor training, despite Togepi and Psyduck being just as poor under her handling, relying on dumb luck with either of them using their abilities effectively (this is slightly justified in Ash wanting to become a Pokémon Master, which requires a lot more work and skill than Misty being a Water Type specialist). She is equally bad taking her level of criticism back, the first time Ash called her out on this in the latter's case, she threatened him quiet in frustration. Similar to Ash, this trait ''mostly'' toned down as episodes passed, even if she retained a lot more of a similar cockiness than she'd like to admit.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Misty may be a jerk to Ash, but that doesn’t mean she will be okay with others being jerks to him.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Ash back in the first few seasons, particularly during the Orange Islands arc which featured the greatest number of episodes with ShipTease between the two of them.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: To an extent. She's more open about her inferiority complex than most examples in that she will (albeit rarely) talk about her experiences as the youngest of her sisters, but other than that her quick-tempered nature and violent tendencies from early on were likely due to living in their shadows. Funnily enough, Misty is the only one of them who has any real passion for training Pokémon while her sisters are more obsessed with their fame as water ballet performers.
* InformedAttribute: Her character description depicts her as being a {{Tomboy}}. However, most of Misty's interests and hobbies generally fall into the typical feminine category like obsessing over fashion, romance, and cute Pokémon. In fact, the main reason she likes Water-Type Pokémon is because of their cute appearance and not much else. She also has a fear of insects, which is generally a trait that is used for most female characters.
* InformedDeformity: A few characters like to comment on how unattractive Misty is. If you look at Misty, she looks just like any other female when SheCleansUpNicely.
* InsultBackfire:
** In the English dub of [=EP002=], when Jessie dares to make a smart remark in response to her challenging the [=TRio=]:
--->'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady.\\
'''Misty''': At least you're right about the "pretty" part. Thanks for the compliment!
** In a later episode, a character of the week attempted to insult Misty by claiming that she was as beautiful as a Tentacruel. Out of all Water-type Pokémon, Tentacruel just so happens to be one of Misty's favorites.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Misty is right to get angry with Ash some of the time, especially since he did destroy her bike which costs a lot of money in the Pokémon world. Also, Ash can be a jerk to her too.
** When she and Ash get into an argument when the latter mopes about his loss at the Indigo League, Misty makes a good argument that Ash should have been lucky to have even made it far in the Indigo League with the way he was training. She’s right, considering how lazy Ash became and only relied on luck to make it through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At the start of the series at least, she was rather condescending toward Ash despite the fact he was just starting out, though also still very caring. She got better as the series went on however. She becomes a flat out NiceGirl when she reappeared in Sun and Moon.
* KickedUpstairs: After Johto, she has effectively become a Gym Leader due to her sisters being out of town on ballet tour for three months, and it is heavily implied that she has to lose to rookies quite a bit in order to be this in a manner that is very similar to Team Rocket.
%%* TheKirk
* LettingHerHairDown: A few different times, much to the delight of fans, though the instance many people remember is her mermaid getup, in which it was most probably a wig. She does let her down [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/indigo/020ps12.shtml for real]] [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/houen/S8ps5.shtml on occasion]], though.
* LittleMissBadass: It's easy to miss it due to not being stated in the dub, but she's actually ten, the same age as Ash.
* LongBusTrip: The gap between her guest appearances in ''Advanced'' and ''Sun & Moon'' was over twelve years in real life.
* LuckyTranslation: Her Japanese name is a word for "mist", which is essentially water vapor.
* MakingASplash: On multiple fronts. Not only is she a water type specialist, she's also masterful at swimming, and famously dressed as a mermaid (not to mention her in-game nickname is "The Tomboyish Mermaid").
* MamaBear: Do ''not'' threaten Togepi, she'll violently let you know how bad of an idea that is.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Unlike her air-headed ValleyGirl older sisters Daisy, Misty actually takes battling seriously and often finds herself taking care of the Cerulean City gym.
* MeaningfulName: Based on a LuckyTranslation, her Japanese and English name have to do with mist.
* MsFanservice: Out of Ash's female friends, she has the skimpiest outfit and she has been in multiple bikini scenes and as a mermaid. Also Masamitsu Hidaka, one of the directors of the anime, has stated that Ash's female companions basically serves as eye candy for the boys.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "Three Sensational Sisters and one [[TheRuntAtTheEnd runt]]!" according to her sisters.
* OneHeadTaller: She's depically depicted as just one head taller than Ash, though occasionally they're about the same size.
* OneOfTheBoys: Her sisters give her constant crap for not being girly enough, and since they're all airheads (well, in the dub, anyway) she just kind of runs with it to distance herself from them. Usually seen competing with Ash in pretty much every open competition they come across or cockblocking Brock.
* OnlyOneName: The creators have confirmed they have not given her a last name.
* ParentalNeglect: And the triplets don't do a good job of looking after the gym ''or'' their little sister.
%%* ParentService: Her sisters are named as this.
* PetTheDog: She may get annoyed and chew out Psyduck for being all but useless when not suffering a headache, she will congratulate him for trying his best, even if his best doesn't always amount to much.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, she'll wear pink on occasion. Examples include the kimono she wears at the end of "The Ghost at Maiden's Peak" and in "Princess vs. Princess", her cardigan in ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}''...and that full-body Slowpoke costume she and her friends wore (ItMakesSenseInContext) in "A Shadow of a Drought". Additionally, her Poké Gear is pink.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Her relationship with Ash, despite [[ShipTease hints]] her interest may go further.
--->'''Misty''': Ash is never really alone because he has...me.
* PoorPredictableRock: Being a Water-Type specialist, she becomes victim to this on a few occasions, most notably during her fight with Ash over Totodile. Ash first choice being Pikachu would be devastating for her if Misty had not chosen Togepi as her first Pokémon, an "opponent" Pikachu won't dare to fight. And despite her claim that she would beat Ash's two Grass-Type Pokémon, neither her Staryu nor her Poliwag/[[HeroicSecondWind Poliwhirl]] manage to beat Chikorita and Bulbasaur.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Togetic]], ''leave the rest to me."'' Cue CurbStompBattle, courtesy of [[spoiler:Gyarados.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the Japanese version, her comment about Satoshi's heaven (catching his first Pokémon) being her hell (bugs) in episode 3.
%%* PromotionToParent: To Togepi, and later Azurill.
* PutOnABus: Took over as her city's Gym Leader at the end of Johto.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Fits the definition perfectly, OddNameOut and all. She's often teased as such by her sisters, but of course, YoungestChildWins, and she actually happens to be the best at training Pokémon among the four.
* {{Shorttank}}: One of the earliest and best known examples..
* SeashellBra: She wears a pink one whenever she is dressed up in the Magical Mermaid costume.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She gobsmacks her friends when she dresses up. Examples include the yukata from "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" and the princess kimono outfit from "Princess Festival Day".
%%* ShowgirlSkirt: Her [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misty_may_001.jpg Goldeen-based outfit]].
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She is also not free from any physical humor; "Primeape Goes Bananas" features her getting her face kicked to the ground by an angry Mankey, and "Pokémon Fashion Flash" has her getting [[AshFace barbequed by Vulpix's Flamethrower]] not once, but ''twice''. The latter episode [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also had her]] getting [[CosmeticCatastrophe a silly makeover]] at which Ash laughed himself sick upon seeing it. ButtMonkey indeed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Caterpie saves the heroes from Team Rocket, Misty admits to underestimating it. When Ash asks her to prove her affection however, she is unwilling. She still has her bug phobia, just she's learned to be far less of a {{Jerkass}} about it. And it's shown some ambiguous time later in ''Sun and Moon'', that she is still terrified of bugs, despite her experiences, because she never did anything to get over the fear, just lash out less.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Ended up doing this in an early episode that featured a gigantic Tentacruel that was destroying the city that the heroes were currently in, as it was angry that humans were polluting its waters.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: At least once Misty gained an affinity of her own, leading Brock to use her own ear pulling gag on ''her''.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Misty never lets Ash live down him (and Pikachu) destroying her bike back in Episode 1. [[spoiler:Until she gets it back in full repair from Nurse Joy in the episode when she leaves the party]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: In "The Heartbreak of Brock", when the girl of the week has fallen in love with Brock and wants to marry him, Ash says, "Wow...imagine Brock married?" Misty says, "You and I will be married someday, too." She didn't necessarily mean to ''each other,'' but that doesn't stop Ash's shocked reaction about two seconds after she says it.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Sometimes has overblown fantasies about love and romance, and takes it upon herself to play matchmaker on more than one occasion, with varying results.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: While she'd be there with everyone else in stopping the Crisis of the [=Week/Team=] Rocket, she wouldn't compete in sporting competitions unless they were either [[MakingASplash water-themed]] or [[DesignatedGirlFight girl-themed]]. Granted, [[TheHero Ash]] would compete in the former as well, but Misty would outdo him in those cases.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Onscreen, is the Tomboy to her sister Daisy's and her successor May's Girly Girls. Would also serve as the Tomboy versus any of Ash's other female companions except [[WildChild Iris]].
* TomboyishPonytail: A short ponytail stuck out on the side, emphasizing her tomboyish personality.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's tomboyish, has quite a temper, and is the TropeCodifier for {{Shorttank}}. However, she occasionally displays fondness for romantic scenarios, and if she spots one will gush over it to the disgust of her male friends. Her "girly streak" is more pronounced in Japan.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** By the Mirage Kingdom two-parter, [[spoiler: she's gotten over her fear of Gyarados, caught one, and become close enough to it that she ''kisses its Pokeball'' when calling it out.]]
** By ''Sun and Moon'', she has gained the ability to Mega Evolve said Gyarados.
** Throughout the original series, she was useless training Psyduck in much any capacity, and instead had to rely on the convenience of its uncontrollable headache-induced Psychic attacks. By ''Sun and Moon'', Misty demonstrates far better command over Psyduck, along with having boosted its originally pitiful water attacks.
* TookALevelInKindness: Misty starts being a lot kinder, especially towards Ash, after the Indigo League. Her violent tendencies also near completely disappear by this point, at least in non-Pokémon related scuffles anyway.
* {{Tsundere}}: Prior to getting Togepi anyway. Her "motherly" tendencies were also implied in other episodes, even the first episode when she tried to check up on Pikachu. All Togepi did was expand on it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Brock. They both may tease each other or occasionally snark at the other's expense, but have a strong friendship that shows that they really do care about each other. They're even shown to be close after their initial adventures together, and are always happy to reunite.
* WholeCostumeReference: Her outfit (yellow shirt with red suspenders and blue denim shorts) is almost indentical to one of the characters from ''Possessioner'', a PC-98 HGame that predates the anime by three years (the only dfference is the removal of cleavage for obvious reasons).
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears blue denim shorts that stop at her thighs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Most Bug Type Pokémon. There are a few exceptions though, such as Ash's Butterfree, Tracey's Venonat and Ledyba. For a bit, she was also afraid of Gyarados before she obtained one for herself. Now its her strongest partner.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Thanks to her attitude towards Ash early on, they got on each other's nerves so often that it took Brock to split them up.
* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. She's more experienced and mature than Ash, but only relatively. Even then her temperament leaves even Ash looking lucid compared to her at times.
* YoungestChildWins: As mentioned, she's a ''much'' better battler than her three sisters ''put together''.
* YouOweMe: Her attitude towards Ash regarding [[ThePreciousPreciousCar her bike]], despite needing it for an emergency. It was at least partially an excuse to be his travelling buddy however to the point she nearly forgotten about it when it comes time for her to leave.
* YourSizeMayVary: How tall she was compared to Ash was inconsistent. In some shots she was almost a head over Ash. In others she was practically the same height as him.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: You think Ash and Pikachu are dangerous when they're angry? Misty has ''a fire breathing sea dragon'' and when she's angry, you run as far away as you can as quickly as you can because she ''means'' business.
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!!Misty's Pokémon
[[folder:In General]]
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Before it was revealed that she was a Gym leader, Misty sparsely used any of her Pokémon despite her and her friends being placed into dangerous situations where using them would have been incredibly helpful.
* MakingASplash: Naturally - Cerulean Gym is traditionally means Water-Type Gym Leader and almost all of her Pokémon are that type. A lot of them also know other type moves and some are dual types. It's worth noting that the latter is a key reason she loves them - Misty cites Water Pokémon as being exceptionally flexible and adaptable compared to most other Pokémon types.
* PoorPredictableRock: All of her Pokémon are water-type, except for Togetic, who was released after it evolved from Togepi and seldom put into battle beforehand.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One reason why Goldeen and Horsea are OutOfFocus was because they're not amphibious in nature.
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[[folder:Goldeen (Tosakinto)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
A goldfish Pokémon. First appearing in episode 2, it hasn't done much but shown that it's hard for a fish to battle on land.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Stun Spore Detour" from the Orange Islands arc. Probably the ''only'' time where Goldeen actually truly shines in a Pokémon battle when it goes up against James' Victreebel.
* HornAttack: Knows this attack and [[ThisIsADrill Horn Drill]].
* MakeMeWannaShout: Knows Supersonic.
* OutOfFocus: Worse than ''Horsea'' in this regard. Both are water-''only'' Pokémon.
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[[folder:Staryu (Hitodeman)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki
Staryu is a starfish Pokémon. While it couldn't display any noteworthy personality, it is one of Misty's most dependable Pokémon.
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* TheAce: Despite having its evolved form on her team, Staryu is Misty's main battler. In ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}'', it is the only one of Misty's or Brock's Pokémon to hold its own against Molly's artificial ones, considering those pokemon were made to ''win'', it's quite the feat.
* TheBlank: {{Lampshaded}} in an early episode; in their Gym battle, Ash's Butterfree used Stun Spore on Misty's Staryu, to which she commented that it looked like it was in real pain. [[DumbassHasAPoint Ash called her out by reminding her that it didn't even have a face]]. To her credit, Staryu was sort of writhing and off-balance when it was hit.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: How it basically moves around, as a starfish it would be harder to otherwise walk.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike the rest of Misty's more prominent Pokémon, Staryu never really gained much of a personality, though being TheBlank probably didn't really help.
* ShoutOut: For some reason its cry sounds like Series/{{Ultraman}}'s. In one episode, Staryu's core (the red jewel at the center of its body) blinks when he is knocked out, similar to Ultraman when he's weakened or had reached his time limit.
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[[folder:Starmie]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
Misty's primary battle Pokémon during the original series. Although Starmie is the evolved form of Staryu, she has one of each during the anime, same as the video game version of Misty.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Its game counterpart is a notorious WakeUpCallBoss; this version has fallen victim to TheWorfEffect so bad that ''Staryu'' puts up a better performance.
* TheBlank: Like Staryu, it has no expression.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Same as Staryu.
* FlatCharacter: If Staryu got pretty much zero character development, Starmie didn't stand a chance.
* PutOnABus: Left at the Cerulean Gym in “The Misty Mermaid”. Misty reclaimed it later as the new Gym Leader.
* TheWorfEffect: Starmie almost never won a battle on its own; the one time it ''did'' defeat an opponent, it was quickly and violently beaten by another immediately afterward, with its central core ''shattered''.
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[[folder:Horsea (Tattu)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Machiko Toyoshima
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
A seahorse Pokémon. Horsea was first caught in Porta Vista and now lives in the Cerulean Gym.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Its debut, trying to warn the city about an approaching attack of Tentacool and Tentacruel (especially a {{Kaiju}}-sized version of the latter) in "Tentacool and Tentacruel".
* OutOfFocus: Due to being water-bound, Horsea rarely appeared and did very little during its run (though Goldeen generally fared worse despite a longer staying time).
* PutOnABus: Left at the Cerulean Gym near the end of the Indigo season. Misty reclaimed it later as the new Gym Leader.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In "The Battling Eevee Brothers", when Team Rocket made off with all the Pokémon, Horsea included, it was put in a cage tied to the back of the wagon, allowing it to [[TrailOfBreadcrumbs leave a trail of ink]] to show Ash and company where they were going.
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[[folder:Psyduck (Koduck)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/RikakoAikawa
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Michael Haigney (4Kids), Creator/MicheleKnotz (Current)
Psyduck is probably one of the most memorable Pokémon in the anime outside of Pikachu and Meowth. Misty accidentally caught it in [=HopHopHop=] town and has remained with her ever since. Despite being [[QuackingUp an odd duck]] (so to speak), Misty wouldn't trade him for the world.
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* AcrophobicBird: A water type duck that fears water.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: After Psyduck saves everyone in "The Ninja Poke-Showdown, Misty decides it's worth keeping around, and refuses offers to trade for it. Ash hangs a lampshade on this at once.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite Misty constantly being frustrated with the dim-witted Pokémon, she's shown on a number of occasions to actually care for it.
** In the ''Johto Journeys'' episode "Tricks of the Trade", Misty vehemently refuses to trade Psyduck away when several people offer.
** In the episode "Just Add Water", Psyduck goes berserk when Misty is captured by Team Rocket. He briefly goes back to his usual clueless self, but then he single-handedly destroys Arbok and Victreebel to save Misty and the Pokemon Team Rocket stole.
** In the ''Sun & Moon'' episode "When Regions Collide", Misty has finally managed to ''train'' Psyduck to be a (mostly) competent fighter, and now openly adores him.
* BigEater: ''Sun and Moon'' shows that he has a quite an appetite, swallowing an entire watermelon whole.
* BlessedWithSuck: Psyduck needs a '''major headache''' to use his Psychic attacks, with most of his other attacks being fairly weak until ''Sun and Moon''.
* ButtMonkey: Psyduck is constantly thrown out to fight opponents only to be too confused to put up a fight. Though he improves in ''Sun and Moon'', he still takes his usual slapstick.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Seems to be perpetually confused.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally, it's a bit of a moron, but it becomes badass when its headache gets really bad.
* CursedWithAwesome: Despite how embarrassing and frustrating he can be for Misty, he has also saved her and the rest of the team on multiple occasions.
* DelayedReaction: Has a really slow reaction time. [[OverlyLongGag And then he met a Slowpoke...]]
* {{Determinator}}: He won't let ''anything'' stop him from trying his hardest for Misty, whether he's battling for her, warning Ash and Brock she's in danger or rescuing her from Team Rocket, even if he's usually hopeless most of the time.
* TheDitz: Psyduck is rather spacey and moronic.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: Zigzagged. One of Psyduck's endearing traits is that he really does try hard for Misty, but he's usually too dopey and confused to help much. Whenever he does pull it off, the results are spectacular.
* IronicFear: He's ''terrified'' of water and can't swim to save his life. Even just touching it sends him into a panic.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Psyduck has a bad habit of jumping into action when Misty specifically requires one of her other Pokémon. Nine times out of ten, his actions only serve to complicate the situation.
** It goes right to the beginning. Misty stumbled and dropped an unused pokéball, and Psyduck opened it so it would take him in. He literally caught himself for her.
* TheMillstone: Every time it comes out, it ends up poorly for Misty. [[LethalJokeCharacter Unless it gets a headache at least...]]
%%* MindOverMatter: Uses Confusion as its most common attack.
* ShesAManInJapan: Sort of. Psyduck has no confirmed gender in Japan, though has been recurrently referred to as male in both the English and Portuguese dubs.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** He tried to get Caserin and Luverin (Misty and Daisy's Luvdisc) together in "Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing".
** To Misty's ire, Psyduck seems to know about her infatuation with a certain IdiotHero.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Despite being a Water Pokemon, he can't swim. At all. He's outright terrified of water and panics whenever he falls into it.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Alola reunion, Misty can now reasonably battle with Psyduck, beating Lana and Mallow with him. He not only has mastered Water Gun, but can now also fully control his Psychic attacks, even if he still needs a headache to trigger them. His ditzy nature remains of course.
* VerbalTic: "Psy-yi-yi!"
[[folder:Togepi-Togetic (Togepy-Togechick)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiKoorogi
During one of their adventures, Ash discovered an egg in Grandpa Canyon. It would later hatch into a previously unknown Pokémon. Since Misty wanted a closer look at it while it was hatching, she ended up being the first it saw, so it thought of Misty as its mother.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the original series Pokémon, with an appropriately childlike personality.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Is credited with making Misty into a more motherly figure.
* CuteButCacophonic: In the ''Pikachu's Vacation'' short, the Pokédex comments that it exhibits a low tolerance for hunger and "is able to communicate this condition in a very effective manner." Immediately after, Togepi begins to cry very loudly, causing all the other Pokémon to cover their ears in pain.
* DeusExMachina: Whenever it uses [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome]], the resulting attack will be what is needed to resolve the situation
* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in the same episode that Ash's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard and was the ''second'' Gen II Pokémon to appear.[[note]]The first being Ho-oh all the way back in Episode 1.[[/note]]
%%* {{Flight}}: Gains wings when it evolved into Togetic.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The Mirage Kingdom two-parter, where it left Misty for good, was during ''Advanced Generation''.
%%* PintsizedPowerhouse: Whenever Metronome would kick in for a DeusExMachina, it would usually result in a powerful attack.
* PutOnABus: Originally along with Misty, was written out entirely after the Mirage Kingdom two-parter.
* RandomEffectSpell: Metronome, Togepi's ''only known attack'' prior to evolving, can let it use any kind of attack as the situation requires.
* RetractableAppendages: The ''Pikachu's Pikaboo'' short shows that it can retract its stubby limbs into its body and fold its head spikes down, making itself completely egg-shaped.
%%* StrayingBaby: Quite often. Sometimes [[HonoraryUncle Pikachu]] is able to keep an eye on it, sometimes not.
%%* TagalongKid: Doesn't do much while in the party, except be a DeusExMachina when really needed.
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[[folder:Poliwag-Poliwhirl-Politoed (Nyoromo-Nyorozo-Nyorotono)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis (Poliwag), Creator/EricStuart (Poliwhirl and Politoed)
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%%* CloudCuckooLander: As Politoed.
* HeroicSecondWind: During its battle with Ash's Bulbasaur, Poliwag evolves into Poliwhirl when nearly losing, giving Bulbasaur a hell of a fight before finally losing to the Grass-Type's Solarbeam.
* {{Keet}}: Politoed since its final evolution, much to Misty's annoyance. In some cases it was even upbeat towards ''Team Rocket's Pokémon''.
* NonActionGuy: It battled more infrequently after evolving into Politoed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It evolved into Poliwhirl against Ash's Bulbasaur, but unlike most mid-battle evolutions in the show, it still struggled and ultimately lost despite a better fight, the power boost not enough to overpower an experienced type disadvantage.
* UndyingLoyalty: After Misty saved him from Team Rocket, Poliwag became devoted to her to the point of ''evolving during battle'' to try and win.
* UnexpectedCharacter: InUniverse. When Poliwhirl was called out for a battle, the group was surprised that it was wearing Ash's King's Rock, which it had picked up earlier in the episode. Since Misty asked Nurse Joy to transfer it over to her via Transfer Machine (it was at the Pokémon Center to be healed), that initiated a Trade Evolution.
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[[folder:Corsola (Sunnygo)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kayzie Rogers
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* BlueWithShock: It goes into a depression [[https://filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/233.jpg when seeing a piece of jewelry]] made from its own species bodies.
* HealingFactor: Knows Recover.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: It once took down a ''[[RatedMForManly Machoke]]'' by itself, despite a type disadvantage.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Once Misty caught it, it quickly replaced Staryu as her main fighter, and was used in nearly every battle Misty participated in after its capture.
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[[folder:Gyarados]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka
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* BreathWeapon: It fires five of its moves[[note]]Hydro Pump, Protect, Hyper Beam, Flamethrower & Hurricane[[/note]] through this method.
* DidntSeeThatComing: When it debuted outside ''Pokémon Chronicles'', nobody expected him. [[LampShadeHanging Ash even wondered when she had gotten a Gyarados]].
* EnergyWeapon: Knows Hyper Beam, to devastating effect.
%%* GentleGiant: Once it's tamed by Misty, it mellows ''considerably''.
* {{Gonk}}: It makes the [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/671.jpg ugliest looking expression]] when charging up Hydro Pump, while [[SuperMode Mega-evolved]] in it's third appearance in the main series, due to the camera angle (the first time this happened, [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/043/561.jpg it wasn't as ugly]] due to a low camera angle).
* LetsGetDangerous: In his debut outside ''Pokémon Chronicles'', Misty bringing him out is the sign she has enough with the current enemy, [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable whose Pokémon gets annihilated after almost two episodes of shrugging off anything thrown at it]], courtesy of the ElementalRockPaperScissors (the enemy uses a Shedinja, whose ability is to be invulnerable to anything that doesn't have the type advantage of it but is otherwise a GlassCannon and FragileSpeedster, and is vulnerable to fire. Cue Gyarados using [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flamethrower]]).
* PapaWolf: Thinking about harming Misty? Hope you like a Hyper Beam to the face.
* PlayingWithFire: Knows Flamethrower, and notably uses this to defeat [[StoneWall Shedinja]].
* SuperMode: He gains the ability to mega-evolve in ''Sun & Moon''.
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[[folder:Caserin (Luvdisc) (Cuserine [Lovecus])]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi (Caserin), Creator/KyokoHikami (Luverin)
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
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* DoppelgangerSpin: Knows Double Team.
* SuperSpeed: Knows Agility.
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[[folder:Azurill (Ruriri)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Music/MegumiHayashibara
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kayzie Rogers
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* HealingFactor: Knows Refresh.
* ItWasAGift: From Tracy, whose Marill is the parent.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Misty has returned in the Sun & Moon series, her Azurill is nowhere to be seen.
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[-'''Series-wide:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPikachu Pikachu]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketTrio Team Rocket Trio]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketOrganization Team Rocket Organization]]\\
'''Original Series:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kanto, Orange Islands, Johto)]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesCast Supporting Cast]] ('''Misty''', [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBrock Brock]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesOneShotCharacters One-shot Characters]]\\
'''Advanced Generation:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Hoenn)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireGymLeadersAndFrontierBrains Gym Leaders and Frontier Brains]]\\
'''Diamond and Pearl:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Sinnoh)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]], [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]]) | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYMegaEvolutionSpecials Mega Evolution Special]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYVillains Villains]]\\
'''Sun and Moon:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoonAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Alola)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoonCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoonKahunasAndGuardianDeities Kahunas and Guardian Deities]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoonAetherFoundation Aether Foundation]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoonVillains Villains]]\\
'''Journeys:''' [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Journeys)]] | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesCast Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesGoh Goh]]) | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesGalar Galar]] | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesOneShotCharacters One-shot Characters]]\\
'''Movies:''' [[Characters/PokemonMovies Movies 1 to 19]] | [[Characters/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You!]] | [[Characters/PokemonThePowerOfUs The Power of Us]]-]]]]]
!Misty (Kasumi)
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/MayumiIizuka
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis (4Kids), Creator/MicheleKnotz (current)
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Xóchitl Ugarte
->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Fanny Roy, Anouck Hautbois (Movie ''Pokémon 4Ever''), Nancy Philippot (Episode 19 from Season 16)
The youngest of four sisters, she hasn't been blessed with her sisters' looks or charisma (at least, in the opinion of her sisters). However, she got a passion for battling and being snarky. Originally rather temperamental with a crush on Ash that she covered with strong {{Tsundere}} tendencies; after acquiring Togepi - an infant Pokémon requiring a great deal of care - she calmed down considerably. At the end of Johto, she became her city's Gym Leader, but she has still occasionally reunited with Ash since then. An aspiring Water Master.
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[[folder:Tropes involving Misty]]
* ActionGirl: Played with. The creators state that Misty was intended to look fairly inexperienced, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll despite her bluster]]. In the show itself, however, while she is often more of a novice than she'll admit, she is usually reasonably capable.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the games, the player doesn't see her until he gets to Cerulean City, here Ash meets her in the first episode shortly after leaving Pallet Town.
* AdaptationalJerkass: She downplays this more than the other cases of this, as she's a {{tsundere}} with a temper (though she calms down once Togepi enters the picture) while her game counterpart doesn't seem to be that way.
* AdaptationExpansion: She's already an established Gym Leader by the time you meet her in the original games. The anime introduces her long before she becomes a Leader, and shows her slow but steady progression into the master trainer she is in the games.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the games, she was not a {{tsundere}}, or as feisty. Sequels released after the anime sometimes make nods to her temperament, however.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Instead of being just one of many obstacles a player faces, she's struggling to escape the shadow of her sisters and become a water type master. That and she's also deathly afraid of bug types.
* AdaptationalWimp: Initially, Misty was not a gym leader proper, and while not incompetent per se, was prone to arrogance and making errors in battle. By the end of Johto she has matured enough to take role in Cerulean Gym, to the point that she is arguably an AdaptationalBadass by the time of her return in ''Sun and Moon'', where she has even gained the use of Mega Evolution.
* AscendedExtra: She goes from having little plot relevance besides being a gym leader in the games to being a protagonist in the anime.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Misty's sisters ostracized her from being the Gym leader and only made her one to see how she'd screw up.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-baring top, with a good chunk of her other outfits (notably her swimsuits and her mermaid costume) following suit. She ditches it in Gen 3 for a more modest outfit, but by the time of her Gen 7 appearance, she's gone back to it.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A G-rated version with Ash; the two of them argue like no-one's business and she's not above snarking at him during his sillier moments, but [[ShipTease several points]] throughout their travels together make it clear she cares deeply for him.
* BerserkButton: During the original series, it is best not to compare her to [[HairTriggerTemper Gyarados]] at all (which is ironic considering that she's fine being compared to a Tentacruel). In "Fortune Hunters", when she reads that her fortune Pokémon is a Gyarados, [[IResembleThatRemark she flies into a complete rage]], demanding that Ash and Brock not agree with it, blasting Team Rocket off without fanfare, and eventually storming into the Daycare Center to punish Butch and Cassidy (the authors of the fortune book) with freeing the Pokémon to be a secondary concern. However, after getting a Gyarados on her team, she mellows out from it.
* BettyAndVeronica: In the Orange Islands episode where the trio meet Rudy, Misty is Archie, Ash is Betty and Rudy is Veronica when Rudy tries to flirt with Misty and [[HilarityEnsues Ash gets jealous.]]
* BetweenMyLegs: In the episode "Forest Grumps", her legs are used as framing during her stand-off with James and Meowth.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As much of a NiceGirl as she is in later seasons, it doesn't mean she's any less capable of kicking your ass and then some.
%%* BigEater: As seen in "The Breeding Center Secret".
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** She is good friends with Sakura, who is also the youngest in an all-girl family (in the latter's case, her sisters are the Kimono Girls).
** Similarly, during ''Advanced Generation'', she manages to find common ground with Max over their respective relationships with their older sisters.
** Again in ''Sun and Moon'', she and Lana quickly become friends over their mutual love for Water-types to the point of becoming pen pals.
* BoyishShortHair: She is a tomboy and has short hair that's combined with TomboyishPonytail.
* BrickJoke: The series starts with Pikachu frying her bike (albeit on accident). She gets her bike back at the end of the Johto series.
* TheBusCameBack: As noted, Misty became Gym Leader after the end of Johto. She made a few appearances in ''Advanced Generation'', before remaining absent in all subsequent series... until ''Sun and Moon'', where she returns again for a few episodes.
* ButtMonkey: She's sometimes made the butt of the joke by Ash and co. in earlier episodes, and [[DistressedDamsel gets into more perils]] than the rest of the crew (once, she was {{brainwashed}} into thinking she was a Seel). Also that her sisters [[TheRuntAtTheEnd look down on her]]. Doesn't help that she's stuck with [[TheDitz Psyduck]], which gives her a lot of the trouble until the Alola Reunion.
* CatchPhrase: In the original Japanese, she says "Go, [[GratuitousEnglish my steady!]]" whenever she summons a Pokémon. Except maybe Psyduck.
* CharacterDevelopment: Misty goes from being a hot headed jerk in the Indigo League to a decent, kind person in later seasons of the show. When she reappears in Sun & Moon, most of her negative traits like her temper is pretty much gone.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "Bye Bye Butterfree", she (very briefly) takes Brock's going lovesick in stride and treats it as a joke, instead of using the EarAche RunningGag that she'd later be perfecting.
%%* TheChick: Of the "Original Series" cast.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She often became annoyed when any other girl would flirt with or show interest in Ash, particularly in the second movie with Melody or in later Johto with Macey.
* CordonBleughChef: The [[{{Watsonian}} best way]] to describe how her stew in the Johto episode "Sick Daze" came out. She confused her ingredients and didn't just dump the mixture cutting her losses, and, as a result, the stew was so bad that not even ''[[BigEater Ash]]'' could eat it. [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Hilariously Jessie enjoyed it immensely.]] She's not actually bad at cooking, mind--earlier in the series, she A: created a medicine from Salveyo Weed for Ash, Tracey, and Jessie's Stun Spore sickness[[note]]which, if she were a true LethalChef, the "medicine" would have turned out to be ''poison''[[/note]], and B: was hinted to have done the cooking in Episodes 3 and 4[[note]]when they arrived in Pewter City, Ash commented that it's been two weeks since he started his journey, indicating that they spent at least 13 days in Viridian Forest, and given how Ash handled his first day, it's unlikely he would have been the one who cooked[[/note]].
* CrazyPrepared: In her return appearance in ''Sun/Moon'', it's revealed that Misty wears a bikini underneath her casual clothes should the need come to swim, noting that Lana had the right idea when she dumps her clothes and dives into lake with her swimsuit.
* DamselInDistress:
** What she's made to look like by Meowth in episode 12. However, if you watch past the point where Ash returns with the Super Potion ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready fact is, true fans should have done so by now]]), she reveals that the Squirtle Squad wasn't really going to kill her (in the Japanese version) or turn her into a purplenette ([[NeverSayDie in the English version]]). Ironically, Misty actually volunteered to get the super potion in the former upon learning this demand.
** Played straight in episodes such as "Pokémon Fashion Flash" and "Just Add Water". Both cases also come with a bit of BoundAndGagged.
* DeadpanSnarker: She often snarks at Ash in his sillier moments.
* DefrostingIceQueen: In early episodes, she was cold and pompous towards Ash. Her bug phobia also made her an outright bully towards Caterpie. After they started proving their worth, she softened and accepted them, even if her temper remained for a while.
** She's also a lot more accepting of Psyduck by the time of the Alola Reunion episode.
* DemonHead: She sometimes does this when she gets mad at Ash.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: During her rant about bug Pokémon, she mentions that she hates carrots and peppers. Ash immediately retorts that he likes bugs, carrots, ''and'' peppers.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Downplayed compared to standard anime, but she has inflicted slapstick pain onto Ash and Brock several times. Brock was able to get away with punching ''her'' on the head twice during Bulbasaur's introduction episode.
* DubPersonalityChange: The 4kids-era English dub episodes downplay some of her AdaptationalJerkass by toning down her narcissism compared to the Japanese version, though she remains more arrogant and hotheaded at times. She also doesn't call her Pokémon "beauties" or "steadies".
* DubText: In the banned beach episode. During her strut down the catwalk, Kasumi originally prided herself on all the attention, while in the dub, Misty went on a small under-her-breath rant about how the whole affair was degrading and ridiculous. Thing is, Misty's still the one who suggested the beauty contest in the first place, which makes the whole rant seem a strange attempt to rationalize her participation.
* DudeMagnet: Misty gets harsh comments about her appearance. Despite this, she does attract a few guys and they even flirt with her. The guys are: Rudy (from the Orange Islands), Tad (from Charizard Chills), and Georgio from Chronicles. Even a Hoot-Hoot took a liking to her (the old lady told Misty it liked pretty girls).
* EarlyBirdCameo: Misty appeared in the first episode -- and became a main character -- long before the group got to the Cascade Gym, where she would otherwise be introduced as its Gym Leader in other adaptations.
%%* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That she has feelings for Ash. [[ObliviousToLove Aside from Ash of course]].
* EvilLaugh: She give off one as her Staryu is thrashing Ash's Butterfree during their first battle. Made all the more dramatic by the tidal wave crashing behind her.
* FieryRedhead: In her early appearances, she's fiery, fearless, and an expert battler. Even her ponytail resembles flame. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], [[WaterIsWomanly she specializes in Water-type Pokémon.]]
* FloralThemeNaming: Sakura (cherry blossom), Ayame (iris), Botan (peony), Kasumi (baby's breath ''or'' mist). The English version keeps the joke by naming the three older girls Daisy, Violet and Lily, but chose to go for preserving the pun on Misty's favorite type over the theme name. [[OddNameOut It does, however, retain how she's the odd one out]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:
** Misty is the responsible sibling with regards to taking care of and managing the gym better than all three of her sisters. Daisy has gotten a bit better about it, but Misty is never away from the gym too long before her sisters need her to come back. Her greater proficiency as a Gym Leader is best shown as when the gang returns to Cerulean Gym in ''Sun and Moon'', the Gym is shown to have been ''massively'' remodeled into a large and modern facility.
** On the other hand, Daisy and Violet at least seem more mature than Lily and Misty, due to age.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic (phlegm).
* FreudianExcuse: For a long time, she had a fear of Gyarados because she was nearly swallowed by one as a toddler. She got over it--and got a badass Gyarados of her own.
* {{Forgiveness}}: After her bike got destroyed accidentally by Ash's Pikachu Thundershock attacked when his Trainer borrowed it to save his life, Misty followed Ash until he payed her back for her bike. However, due to being with Ash for so long and come to see him as a friend, Misty had not only come to understand that her bike getting destroyed wasn't on purpose but also forgives him.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The Mirage Kingdom two-parter in ''Advanced Challenge'' serves as one for her character arc with Togepi, who evolves and departs afterward, though Misty herself has made a couple of returns since then.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With her three sisters. Things seem a touch better of late, at least with eldest sister Daisy.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Thrice during ''Advanced'', as well as during a two-part arc in ''Sun & Moon''.
* UsefulNotes/GreenIsBlue: Her eyes vary between being green or blue (or sometimes both at the same time) between the episodes; it was especially prominent before the anime switched over to digital color. Nowadays it seems that they've settled on green, like her most recent official game artwork.
* HairTriggerTemper: She'll fly off the handle at what feels like the drop of a hat. According to the Fortune Telling book in the episode "The Fortune Hunters", she's listed as a Gyarados type, a Water-type Pokémon infamous for having a ferocious temperament.
* HeroStoleMyBike: In the first episode, Ash stole Misty's bike while running away from a flock of Spearow, culminating in the series' most famous RunningGag. She got angry when she learned that Ash destroyed it and cited it as a reason why she decided to travel with Ash.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: From the starting point when Misty started travelling with Ash, there were obvious hints it had to do with more than her fried bike. When Ash finally fulfills his promise, she admits she'd half forgotten about it and just wanted to hang out with him.
* HypocriticalHumor: She lambasted Ash regularly for his poor training, despite Togepi and Psyduck being just as poor under her handling, relying on dumb luck with either of them using their abilities effectively (this is slightly justified in Ash wanting to become a Pokémon Master, which requires a lot more work and skill than Misty being a Water Type specialist). She is equally bad taking her level of criticism back, the first time Ash called her out on this in the latter's case, she threatened him quiet in frustration. Similar to Ash, this trait ''mostly'' toned down as episodes passed, even if she retained a lot more of a similar cockiness than she'd like to admit.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Misty may be a jerk to Ash, but that doesn’t mean she will be okay with others being jerks to him.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Ash back in the first few seasons, particularly during the Orange Islands arc which featured the greatest number of episodes with ShipTease between the two of them.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: To an extent. She's more open about her inferiority complex than most examples in that she will (albeit rarely) talk about her experiences as the youngest of her sisters, but other than that her quick-tempered nature and violent tendencies from early on were likely due to living in their shadows. Funnily enough, Misty is the only one of them who has any real passion for training Pokémon while her sisters are more obsessed with their fame as water ballet performers.
* InformedAttribute: Her character description depicts her as being a {{Tomboy}}. However, most of Misty's interests and hobbies generally fall into the typical feminine category like obsessing over fashion, romance, and cute Pokémon. In fact, the main reason she likes Water-Type Pokémon is because of their cute appearance and not much else. She also has a fear of insects, which is generally a trait that is used for most female characters.
* InformedDeformity: A few characters like to comment on how unattractive Misty is. If you look at Misty, she looks just like any other female when SheCleansUpNicely.
* InsultBackfire:
** In the English dub of [=EP002=], when Jessie dares to make a smart remark in response to her challenging the [=TRio=]:
--->'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady.\\
'''Misty''': At least you're right about the "pretty" part. Thanks for the compliment!
** In a later episode, a character of the week attempted to insult Misty by claiming that she was as beautiful as a Tentacruel. Out of all Water-type Pokémon, Tentacruel just so happens to be one of Misty's favorites.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Misty is right to get angry with Ash some of the time, especially since he did destroy her bike which costs a lot of money in the Pokémon world. Also, Ash can be a jerk to her too.
** When she and Ash get into an argument when the latter mopes about his loss at the Indigo League, Misty makes a good argument that Ash should have been lucky to have even made it far in the Indigo League with the way he was training. She’s right, considering how lazy Ash became and only relied on luck to make it through.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At the start of the series at least, she was rather condescending toward Ash despite the fact he was just starting out, though also still very caring. She got better as the series went on however. She becomes a flat out NiceGirl when she reappeared in Sun and Moon.
* KickedUpstairs: After Johto, she has effectively become a Gym Leader due to her sisters being out of town on ballet tour for three months, and it is heavily implied that she has to lose to rookies quite a bit in order to be this in a manner that is very similar to Team Rocket.
%%* TheKirk
* LettingHerHairDown: A few different times, much to the delight of fans, though the instance many people remember is her mermaid getup, in which it was most probably a wig. She does let her down [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/indigo/020ps12.shtml for real]] [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/houen/S8ps5.shtml on occasion]], though.
* LittleMissBadass: It's easy to miss it due to not being stated in the dub, but she's actually ten, the same age as Ash.
* LongBusTrip: The gap between her guest appearances in ''Advanced'' and ''Sun & Moon'' was over twelve years in real life.
* LuckyTranslation: Her Japanese name is a word for "mist", which is essentially water vapor.
* MakingASplash: On multiple fronts. Not only is she a water type specialist, she's also masterful at swimming, and famously dressed as a mermaid (not to mention her in-game nickname is "The Tomboyish Mermaid").
* MamaBear: Do ''not'' threaten Togepi, she'll violently let you know how bad of an idea that is.
* MatureYoungerSibling: Unlike her air-headed ValleyGirl older sisters Daisy, Misty actually takes battling seriously and often finds herself taking care of the Cerulean City gym.
* MeaningfulName: Based on a LuckyTranslation, her Japanese and English name have to do with mist.
* MsFanservice: Out of Ash's female friends, she has the skimpiest outfit and she has been in multiple bikini scenes and as a mermaid. Also Masamitsu Hidaka, one of the directors of the anime, has stated that Ash's female companions basically serves as eye candy for the boys.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "Three Sensational Sisters and one [[TheRuntAtTheEnd runt]]!" according to her sisters.
* OneHeadTaller: She's depically depicted as just one head taller than Ash, though occasionally they're about the same size.
* OneOfTheBoys: Her sisters give her constant crap for not being girly enough, and since they're all airheads (well, in the dub, anyway) she just kind of runs with it to distance herself from them. Usually seen competing with Ash in pretty much every open competition they come across or cockblocking Brock.
* OnlyOneName: The creators have confirmed they have not given her a last name.
* ParentalNeglect: And the triplets don't do a good job of looking after the gym ''or'' their little sister.
%%* ParentService: Her sisters are named as this.
* PetTheDog: She may get annoyed and chew out Psyduck for being all but useless when not suffering a headache, she will congratulate him for trying his best, even if his best doesn't always amount to much.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, she'll wear pink on occasion. Examples include the kimono she wears at the end of "The Ghost at Maiden's Peak" and in "Princess vs. Princess", her cardigan in ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}''...and that full-body Slowpoke costume she and her friends wore (ItMakesSenseInContext) in "A Shadow of a Drought". Additionally, her Poké Gear is pink.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Her relationship with Ash, despite [[ShipTease hints]] her interest may go further.
--->'''Misty''': Ash is never really alone because he has...me.
* PoorPredictableRock: Being a Water-Type specialist, she becomes victim to this on a few occasions, most notably during her fight with Ash over Totodile. Ash first choice being Pikachu would be devastating for her if Misty had not chosen Togepi as her first Pokémon, an "opponent" Pikachu won't dare to fight. And despite her claim that she would beat Ash's two Grass-Type Pokémon, neither her Staryu nor her Poliwag/[[HeroicSecondWind Poliwhirl]] manage to beat Chikorita and Bulbasaur.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Togetic]], ''leave the rest to me."'' Cue CurbStompBattle, courtesy of [[spoiler:Gyarados.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the Japanese version, her comment about Satoshi's heaven (catching his first Pokémon) being her hell (bugs) in episode 3.
%%* PromotionToParent: To Togepi, and later Azurill.
* PutOnABus: Took over as her city's Gym Leader at the end of Johto.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Fits the definition perfectly, OddNameOut and all. She's often teased as such by her sisters, but of course, YoungestChildWins, and she actually happens to be the best at training Pokémon among the four.
* {{Shorttank}}: One of the earliest and best known examples..
* SeashellBra: She wears a pink one whenever she is dressed up in the Magical Mermaid costume.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She gobsmacks her friends when she dresses up. Examples include the yukata from "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" and the princess kimono outfit from "Princess Festival Day".
%%* ShowgirlSkirt: Her [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misty_may_001.jpg Goldeen-based outfit]].
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She is also not free from any physical humor; "Primeape Goes Bananas" features her getting her face kicked to the ground by an angry Mankey, and "Pokémon Fashion Flash" has her getting [[AshFace barbequed by Vulpix's Flamethrower]] not once, but ''twice''. The latter episode [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also had her]] getting [[CosmeticCatastrophe a silly makeover]] at which Ash laughed himself sick upon seeing it. ButtMonkey indeed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Caterpie saves the heroes from Team Rocket, Misty admits to underestimating it. When Ash asks her to prove her affection however, she is unwilling. She still has her bug phobia, just she's learned to be far less of a {{Jerkass}} about it. And it's shown some ambiguous time later in ''Sun and Moon'', that she is still terrified of bugs, despite her experiences, because she never did anything to get over the fear, just lash out less.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Ended up doing this in an early episode that featured a gigantic Tentacruel that was destroying the city that the heroes were currently in, as it was angry that humans were polluting its waters.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: At least once Misty gained an affinity of her own, leading Brock to use her own ear pulling gag on ''her''.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Misty never lets Ash live down him (and Pikachu) destroying her bike back in Episode 1. [[spoiler:Until she gets it back in full repair from Nurse Joy in the episode when she leaves the party]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: In "The Heartbreak of Brock", when the girl of the week has fallen in love with Brock and wants to marry him, Ash says, "Wow...imagine Brock married?" Misty says, "You and I will be married someday, too." She didn't necessarily mean to ''each other,'' but that doesn't stop Ash's shocked reaction about two seconds after she says it.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Sometimes has overblown fantasies about love and romance, and takes it upon herself to play matchmaker on more than one occasion, with varying results.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: While she'd be there with everyone else in stopping the Crisis of the [=Week/Team=] Rocket, she wouldn't compete in sporting competitions unless they were either [[MakingASplash water-themed]] or [[DesignatedGirlFight girl-themed]]. Granted, [[TheHero Ash]] would compete in the former as well, but Misty would outdo him in those cases.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Onscreen, is the Tomboy to her sister Daisy's and her successor May's Girly Girls. Would also serve as the Tomboy versus any of Ash's other female companions except [[WildChild Iris]].
* TomboyishPonytail: A short ponytail stuck out on the side, emphasizing her tomboyish personality.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's tomboyish, has quite a temper, and is the TropeCodifier for {{Shorttank}}. However, she occasionally displays fondness for romantic scenarios, and if she spots one will gush over it to the disgust of her male friends. Her "girly streak" is more pronounced in Japan.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** By the Mirage Kingdom two-parter, [[spoiler: she's gotten over her fear of Gyarados, caught one, and become close enough to it that she ''kisses its Pokeball'' when calling it out.]]
** By ''Sun and Moon'', she has gained the ability to Mega Evolve said Gyarados.
** Throughout the original series, she was useless training Psyduck in much any capacity, and instead had to rely on the convenience of its uncontrollable headache-induced Psychic attacks. By ''Sun and Moon'', Misty demonstrates far better command over Psyduck, along with having boosted its originally pitiful water attacks.
* TookALevelInKindness: Misty starts being a lot kinder, especially towards Ash, after the Indigo League. Her violent tendencies also near completely disappear by this point, at least in non-Pokémon related scuffles anyway.
* {{Tsundere}}: Prior to getting Togepi anyway. Her "motherly" tendencies were also implied in other episodes, even the first episode when she tried to check up on Pikachu. All Togepi did was expand on it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Brock. They both may tease each other or occasionally snark at the other's expense, but have a strong friendship that shows that they really do care about each other. They're even shown to be close after their initial adventures together, and are always happy to reunite.
* WholeCostumeReference: Her outfit (yellow shirt with red suspenders and blue denim shorts) is almost indentical to one of the characters from ''Possessioner'', a PC-98 HGame that predates the anime by three years (the only dfference is the removal of cleavage for obvious reasons).
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears blue denim shorts that stop at her thighs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Most Bug Type Pokémon. There are a few exceptions though, such as Ash's Butterfree, Tracey's Venonat and Ledyba. For a bit, she was also afraid of Gyarados before she obtained one for herself. Now its her strongest partner.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Thanks to her attitude towards Ash early on, they got on each other's nerves so often that it took Brock to split them up.
* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. She's more experienced and mature than Ash, but only relatively. Even then her temperament leaves even Ash looking lucid compared to her at times.
* YoungestChildWins: As mentioned, she's a ''much'' better battler than her three sisters ''put together''.
* YouOweMe: Her attitude towards Ash regarding [[ThePreciousPreciousCar her bike]], despite needing it for an emergency. It was at least partially an excuse to be his travelling buddy however to the point she nearly forgotten about it when it comes time for her to leave.
* YourSizeMayVary: How tall she was compared to Ash was inconsistent. In some shots she was almost a head over Ash. In others she was practically the same height as him.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: You think Ash and Pikachu are dangerous when they're angry? Misty has ''a fire breathing sea dragon'' and when she's angry, you run as far away as you can as quickly as you can because she ''means'' business.
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!!Misty's Pokémon
[[folder:In General]]
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Before it was revealed that she was a Gym leader, Misty sparsely used any of her Pokémon despite her and her friends being placed into dangerous situations where using them would have been incredibly helpful.
* MakingASplash: Naturally - Cerulean Gym is traditionally means Water-Type Gym Leader and almost all of her Pokémon are that type. A lot of them also know other type moves and some are dual types. It's worth noting that the latter is a key reason she loves them - Misty cites Water Pokémon as being exceptionally flexible and adaptable compared to most other Pokémon types.
* PoorPredictableRock: All of her Pokémon are water-type, except for Togetic, who was released after it evolved from Togepi and seldom put into battle beforehand.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One reason why Goldeen and Horsea are OutOfFocus was because they're not amphibious in nature.
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[[folder:Goldeen (Tosakinto)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
A goldfish Pokémon. First appearing in episode 2, it hasn't done much but shown that it's hard for a fish to battle on land.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Stun Spore Detour" from the Orange Islands arc. Probably the ''only'' time where Goldeen actually truly shines in a Pokémon battle when it goes up against James' Victreebel.
* HornAttack: Knows this attack and [[ThisIsADrill Horn Drill]].
* MakeMeWannaShout: Knows Supersonic.
* OutOfFocus: Worse than ''Horsea'' in this regard. Both are water-''only'' Pokémon.
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[[folder:Staryu (Hitodeman)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki
Staryu is a starfish Pokémon. While it couldn't display any noteworthy personality, it is one of Misty's most dependable Pokémon.
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* TheAce: Despite having its evolved form on her team, Staryu is Misty's main battler. In ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}'', it is the only one of Misty's or Brock's Pokémon to hold its own against Molly's artificial ones, considering those pokemon were made to ''win'', it's quite the feat.
* TheBlank: {{Lampshaded}} in an early episode; in their Gym battle, Ash's Butterfree used Stun Spore on Misty's Staryu, to which she commented that it looked like it was in real pain. [[DumbassHasAPoint Ash called her out by reminding her that it didn't even have a face]]. To her credit, Staryu was sort of writhing and off-balance when it was hit.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: How it basically moves around, as a starfish it would be harder to otherwise walk.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike the rest of Misty's more prominent Pokémon, Staryu never really gained much of a personality, though being TheBlank probably didn't really help.
* ShoutOut: For some reason its cry sounds like Series/{{Ultraman}}'s. In one episode, Staryu's core (the red jewel at the center of its body) blinks when he is knocked out, similar to Ultraman when he's weakened or had reached his time limit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Starmie]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
Misty's primary battle Pokémon during the original series. Although Starmie is the evolved form of Staryu, she has one of each during the anime, same as the video game version of Misty.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Its game counterpart is a notorious WakeUpCallBoss; this version has fallen victim to TheWorfEffect so bad that ''Staryu'' puts up a better performance.
* TheBlank: Like Staryu, it has no expression.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Same as Staryu.
* FlatCharacter: If Staryu got pretty much zero character development, Starmie didn't stand a chance.
* PutOnABus: Left at the Cerulean Gym in “The Misty Mermaid”. Misty reclaimed it later as the new Gym Leader.
* TheWorfEffect: Starmie almost never won a battle on its own; the one time it ''did'' defeat an opponent, it was quickly and violently beaten by another immediately afterward, with its central core ''shattered''.
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[[folder:Horsea (Tattu)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Machiko Toyoshima
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
A seahorse Pokémon. Horsea was first caught in Porta Vista and now lives in the Cerulean Gym.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Its debut, trying to warn the city about an approaching attack of Tentacool and Tentacruel (especially a {{Kaiju}}-sized version of the latter) in "Tentacool and Tentacruel".
* OutOfFocus: Due to being water-bound, Horsea rarely appeared and did very little during its run (though Goldeen generally fared worse despite a longer staying time).
* PutOnABus: Left at the Cerulean Gym near the end of the Indigo season. Misty reclaimed it later as the new Gym Leader.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In "The Battling Eevee Brothers", when Team Rocket made off with all the Pokémon, Horsea included, it was put in a cage tied to the back of the wagon, allowing it to [[TrailOfBreadcrumbs leave a trail of ink]] to show Ash and company where they were going.
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[[folder:Psyduck (Koduck)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/RikakoAikawa
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Michael Haigney (4Kids), Creator/MicheleKnotz (Current)
Psyduck is probably one of the most memorable Pokémon in the anime outside of Pikachu and Meowth. Misty accidentally caught it in [=HopHopHop=] town and has remained with her ever since. Despite being [[QuackingUp an odd duck]] (so to speak), Misty wouldn't trade him for the world.
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* AcrophobicBird: A water type duck that fears water.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: After Psyduck saves everyone in "The Ninja Poke-Showdown, Misty decides it's worth keeping around, and refuses offers to trade for it. Ash hangs a lampshade on this at once.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite Misty constantly being frustrated with the dim-witted Pokémon, she's shown on a number of occasions to actually care for it.
** In the ''Johto Journeys'' episode "Tricks of the Trade", Misty vehemently refuses to trade Psyduck away when several people offer.
** In the episode "Just Add Water", Psyduck goes berserk when Misty is captured by Team Rocket. He briefly goes back to his usual clueless self, but then he single-handedly destroys Arbok and Victreebel to save Misty and the Pokemon Team Rocket stole.
** In the ''Sun & Moon'' episode "When Regions Collide", Misty has finally managed to ''train'' Psyduck to be a (mostly) competent fighter, and now openly adores him.
* BigEater: ''Sun and Moon'' shows that he has a quite an appetite, swallowing an entire watermelon whole.
* BlessedWithSuck: Psyduck needs a '''major headache''' to use his Psychic attacks, with most of his other attacks being fairly weak until ''Sun and Moon''.
* ButtMonkey: Psyduck is constantly thrown out to fight opponents only to be too confused to put up a fight. Though he improves in ''Sun and Moon'', he still takes his usual slapstick.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Seems to be perpetually confused.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally, it's a bit of a moron, but it becomes badass when its headache gets really bad.
* CursedWithAwesome: Despite how embarrassing and frustrating he can be for Misty, he has also saved her and the rest of the team on multiple occasions.
* DelayedReaction: Has a really slow reaction time. [[OverlyLongGag And then he met a Slowpoke...]]
* {{Determinator}}: He won't let ''anything'' stop him from trying his hardest for Misty, whether he's battling for her, warning Ash and Brock she's in danger or rescuing her from Team Rocket, even if he's usually hopeless most of the time.
* TheDitz: Psyduck is rather spacey and moronic.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: Zigzagged. One of Psyduck's endearing traits is that he really does try hard for Misty, but he's usually too dopey and confused to help much. Whenever he does pull it off, the results are spectacular.
* IronicFear: He's ''terrified'' of water and can't swim to save his life. Even just touching it sends him into a panic.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Psyduck has a bad habit of jumping into action when Misty specifically requires one of her other Pokémon. Nine times out of ten, his actions only serve to complicate the situation.
** It goes right to the beginning. Misty stumbled and dropped an unused pokéball, and Psyduck opened it so it would take him in. He literally caught himself for her.
* TheMillstone: Every time it comes out, it ends up poorly for Misty. [[LethalJokeCharacter Unless it gets a headache at least...]]
%%* MindOverMatter: Uses Confusion as its most common attack.
* ShesAManInJapan: Sort of. Psyduck has no confirmed gender in Japan, though has been recurrently referred to as male in both the English and Portuguese dubs.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** He tried to get Caserin and Luverin (Misty and Daisy's Luvdisc) together in "Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing".
** To Misty's ire, Psyduck seems to know about her infatuation with a certain IdiotHero.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Despite being a Water Pokemon, he can't swim. At all. He's outright terrified of water and panics whenever he falls into it.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the Alola reunion, Misty can now reasonably battle with Psyduck, beating Lana and Mallow with him. He not only has mastered Water Gun, but can now also fully control his Psychic attacks, even if he still needs a headache to trigger them. His ditzy nature remains of course.
* VerbalTic: "Psy-yi-yi!"
[[folder:Togepi-Togetic (Togepy-Togechick)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiKoorogi
During one of their adventures, Ash discovered an egg in Grandpa Canyon. It would later hatch into a previously unknown Pokémon. Since Misty wanted a closer look at it while it was hatching, she ended up being the first it saw, so it thought of Misty as its mother.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the original series Pokémon, with an appropriately childlike personality.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Is credited with making Misty into a more motherly figure.
* CuteButCacophonic: In the ''Pikachu's Vacation'' short, the Pokédex comments that it exhibits a low tolerance for hunger and "is able to communicate this condition in a very effective manner." Immediately after, Togepi begins to cry very loudly, causing all the other Pokémon to cover their ears in pain.
* DeusExMachina: Whenever it uses [[RandomEffectSpell Metronome]], the resulting attack will be what is needed to resolve the situation
* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in the same episode that Ash's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard and was the ''second'' Gen II Pokémon to appear.[[note]]The first being Ho-oh all the way back in Episode 1.[[/note]]
%%* {{Flight}}: Gains wings when it evolved into Togetic.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The Mirage Kingdom two-parter, where it left Misty for good, was during ''Advanced Generation''.
%%* PintsizedPowerhouse: Whenever Metronome would kick in for a DeusExMachina, it would usually result in a powerful attack.
* PutOnABus: Originally along with Misty, was written out entirely after the Mirage Kingdom two-parter.
* RandomEffectSpell: Metronome, Togepi's ''only known attack'' prior to evolving, can let it use any kind of attack as the situation requires.
* RetractableAppendages: The ''Pikachu's Pikaboo'' short shows that it can retract its stubby limbs into its body and fold its head spikes down, making itself completely egg-shaped.
%%* StrayingBaby: Quite often. Sometimes [[HonoraryUncle Pikachu]] is able to keep an eye on it, sometimes not.
%%* TagalongKid: Doesn't do much while in the party, except be a DeusExMachina when really needed.
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[[folder:Poliwag-Poliwhirl-Politoed (Nyoromo-Nyorozo-Nyorotono)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis (Poliwag), Creator/EricStuart (Poliwhirl and Politoed)
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%%* CloudCuckooLander: As Politoed.
* HeroicSecondWind: During its battle with Ash's Bulbasaur, Poliwag evolves into Poliwhirl when nearly losing, giving Bulbasaur a hell of a fight before finally losing to the Grass-Type's Solarbeam.
* {{Keet}}: Politoed since its final evolution, much to Misty's annoyance. In some cases it was even upbeat towards ''Team Rocket's Pokémon''.
* NonActionGuy: It battled more infrequently after evolving into Politoed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It evolved into Poliwhirl against Ash's Bulbasaur, but unlike most mid-battle evolutions in the show, it still struggled and ultimately lost despite a better fight, the power boost not enough to overpower an experienced type disadvantage.
* UndyingLoyalty: After Misty saved him from Team Rocket, Poliwag became devoted to her to the point of ''evolving during battle'' to try and win.
* UnexpectedCharacter: InUniverse. When Poliwhirl was called out for a battle, the group was surprised that it was wearing Ash's King's Rock, which it had picked up earlier in the episode. Since Misty asked Nurse Joy to transfer it over to her via Transfer Machine (it was at the Pokémon Center to be healed), that initiated a Trade Evolution.
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[[folder:Corsola (Sunnygo)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/IkueOtani
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kayzie Rogers
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* BlueWithShock: It goes into a depression [[https://filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/233.jpg when seeing a piece of jewelry]] made from its own species bodies.
* HealingFactor: Knows Recover.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: It once took down a ''[[RatedMForManly Machoke]]'' by itself, despite a type disadvantage.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Once Misty caught it, it quickly replaced Staryu as her main fighter, and was used in nearly every battle Misty participated in after its capture.
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[[folder:Gyarados]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka
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* BreathWeapon: It fires five of its moves[[note]]Hydro Pump, Protect, Hyper Beam, Flamethrower & Hurricane[[/note]] through this method.
* DidntSeeThatComing: When it debuted outside ''Pokémon Chronicles'', nobody expected him. [[LampShadeHanging Ash even wondered when she had gotten a Gyarados]].
* EnergyWeapon: Knows Hyper Beam, to devastating effect.
%%* GentleGiant: Once it's tamed by Misty, it mellows ''considerably''.
* {{Gonk}}: It makes the [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/102/671.jpg ugliest looking expression]] when charging up Hydro Pump, while [[SuperMode Mega-evolved]] in it's third appearance in the main series, due to the camera angle (the first time this happened, [[https://www.filb.de/content/anime/sm/043/561.jpg it wasn't as ugly]] due to a low camera angle).
* LetsGetDangerous: In his debut outside ''Pokémon Chronicles'', Misty bringing him out is the sign she has enough with the current enemy, [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable whose Pokémon gets annihilated after almost two episodes of shrugging off anything thrown at it]], courtesy of the ElementalRockPaperScissors (the enemy uses a Shedinja, whose ability is to be invulnerable to anything that doesn't have the type advantage of it but is otherwise a GlassCannon and FragileSpeedster, and is vulnerable to fire. Cue Gyarados using [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flamethrower]]).
* PapaWolf: Thinking about harming Misty? Hope you like a Hyper Beam to the face.
* PlayingWithFire: Knows Flamethrower, and notably uses this to defeat [[StoneWall Shedinja]].
* SuperMode: He gains the ability to mega-evolve in ''Sun & Moon''.
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[[folder:Caserin (Luvdisc) (Cuserine [Lovecus])]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi (Caserin), Creator/KyokoHikami (Luverin)
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/RachaelLillis
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* DoppelgangerSpin: Knows Double Team.
* SuperSpeed: Knows Agility.
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[[folder:Azurill (Ruriri)]]
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->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Music/MegumiHayashibara
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Kayzie Rogers
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* HealingFactor: Knows Refresh.
* ItWasAGift: From Tracy, whose Marill is the parent.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although Misty has returned in the Sun & Moon series, her Azurill is nowhere to be seen.
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