History Characters / PokemonTheSeriesMisty

'''Movies:''' [[Characters/PokemonMovies Movies 1 to 19]] | [[Characters/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You!]] ([[Characters/PokemonIChooseYouAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]]) | [[Characters/PokemonThePowerOfUs The Power of Us]] | [[Characters/PokemonSecretsOfTheJungle Secrets of the Jungle]]-]]]]]

* ForWantOfANail: She is mostly responsible for Jigglypuff's recurring reign of musical terror, being the one who spotted it in "The Song of Jigglypuff". But had Misty and friends not helped restore Jigglypuff's voice, it wouldn't have been able to put Aerodactyl to sleep the following episode just as it was about to [[ToServeMan eat Ash]].

* EatTheDog: The Team Rocket trio were starving to the point that they tried to capture Clauncher for the sole purpose of eating it. And since he's a wild Pokémon at the time, they thought that they would be in the right to capture it since they weren't stealing it from anyone. Unfortunately for them, Ash and Misty tried to capture Clauncher for themselves and ultimately Corphish rescued him from Team Rocket.

* 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. Most notably, when Rudy started flirting with Misty, ''Ash'', [[ChasteHero of all people]], got jealous and sicced his Charizard at Misty's would-be-suitor. [[spoiler: Her return as a traveling companion in Ash's final season as series protagonist also appears to have reestablished Misty as a potential endgame.]]

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Unlike Serena (who is clearly in love with Ash), and Iris (who clearly only sees Ash as a brother), Misty's feelings towards Ash are usually more ambiguous, and in some episodes it is implied that she She is in love with him, while in other episodes she sees him more as a younger brother.

* 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. Most notably, when Rudy starting flirting with Misty, ''Ash'', [[ChasteHero of all people]], got jealous and sicced his Charizard at Misty's would-be-suitor. [[spoiler: Her return as a traveling companion in Ash's final season as series protagonist also appears to have reestablished Misty as potential endgame.]]

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: At 10 years old, she is the youngest gym leader in her region and supersedes her older sisters in caring for and training Pokémon, as well as maintaining Cerulean Gym and defending it from challengers. She was often the brains of the original series, and was invaluable in helping Ash in situations that required analysis and foresight. At least when she wasn't throwing a tantrum.

* 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.

* TheMillstone: Every time it comes out, it ends up poorly for Misty. [[LethalJokeCharacter Unless it gets a headache at least...]]

->'''Voiced in Canadian French by:''' Creator/KimJalabert (Movies 1-5 + ''Mewtwo Returns'')

->'''Voiced in Canadian French by:''' Creator/KimJalabert (first five movies and ''Mewtwo Returns'')

->'''Voiced in Italian by:''' Creator/AlessandraKarpoff (original dub, ''S&M''-onwards)), Creator/BenedettaPonticelli (redub until ''Best Wishes'' flashbacks)

->'''Voiced in Canadian French by:''' Creator/KimJalabert (first seven movies and ''Mewtwo Returns'')

* AdaptationalDumbass: {{Downplayed}}. Misty is by no means an idiot, but she's far less experienced than her game counterpart, and far more prone to making mistakes when she's first introduced.

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'''Major Characters:''' '''Misty''' | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBrock Brock]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesMay May]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesGoh Goh]] \\

* MakeMeWannaShout: Knows Supersonic.
* OutOfFocus: Worse than ''Horsea'' in this regard. Both are water-''only'' Pokémon.

** PlayedForLaughs during the Orange Island episode "Bye Bye Psyduck", where Misty's bag with her Pokéballs falls into the ocean and Psyduck is mistaken to have evolved into a Golduck. The kids were under the belief that the evolution into Golduck completely changed its personality into a much cooler, confident and badass Pokémon who obeyed Misty's commands perfectly, but it turns out that Psyduck was still inside Misty's Pokéball all along and that Golduck was actually a wild Pokémon who loves to impress female humans (just like Brock).

* ResignedToTheCall: How she ended up becoming gym leader of Cerulean City. Her sisters were going to leave their gym unattended to do a ballet tour. That combined with Ash's obliviousness to romance sealed her fate, though she later came to accept that the gym is where she [[StockholmSyndrome belongs]].

* TheSmartGuy: Compared to ingenious but dense Ash, and practical but hormonal Brock, Misty is the most analytical (but temperamental) of the original trio.

* CatchPhrase: In the original Japanese, she says "Go, [[GratuitousEnglish my steady!]]" whenever she summons a Pokémon. Except maybe Psyduck. She starts using this catchphrase in the English dub for her return in ''Sun and Moon''.

* FriendlessBackground: It doesn't appear she had any friends before she ran away from Cerulean Gym. Her absent parents and her not-so-friendly sisters likely made it very difficult for her to establish trust and form friendships with others.

* ParentalNeglect: There's no mention about either of her parents or what happened to them, and the triplets don't do a good job of looking after the gym ''or'' their little sister.