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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]]\\
'''Major Characters:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesMisty Misty]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBrock Brock]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesMay May]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDawn Dawn]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPaul Paul]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesIris Iris]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesSerena Serena]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesLillie Lillie]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesGoh Goh]] \\
'''Original Series:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kanto, Orange Islands, Johto)]]\\
[[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheOriginalSeriesOneShotCharacters One-shot Characters]]\\
'''Advanced Generation:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Hoenn)]] | '''Supporting Cast''' | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireGymLeadersAndFrontierBrains Gym Leaders and Frontier Brains]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphireVillains Villains]]\\
'''Diamond and Pearl:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Sinnoh)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearlVillains Villains]]\\
'''Black and White:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Unova)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteRivals Rivals]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteGymLeaders Gym Leaders]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhiteVillains Villains]]\\
'''XY:''' [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYAshsPokemon Ash's Pokémon (Kalos)]] | [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesXYCast Supporting Cast]] | [[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/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesGalar Galar]] | [[Characters/PokemonJourneysTheSeriesOneShotCharacters One-shot Characters]]\\
'''Horizons:''' [[Characters/PokemonHorizonsTheSeriesLeadCharacters Lead Characters]] | [[Characters/PokemonHorizonsTheSeriesPokemon Pokémon]] | [[Characters/PokemonHorizonsTheSeriesAntagonists Antagonists]] | [[Characters/PokemonHorizonsTheSeriesSupportingCast Supporting Cast]]\\
'''Movies:''' [[Characters/PokemonMovies Movies 1 to 19]] | [[Characters/PokemonIChooseYou I Choose You!]] | [[Characters/PokemonThePowerOfUs The Power of Us]] | [[Characters/PokemonSecretsOfTheJungle Secrets of the Jungle]]-]]]]]

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!Main Cast

[[folder:May (Haruka)]]
Ash's traveling companion from ''Advanced Generation'' and a Coordinator. [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesMay See her character page here.]]
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[[folder:Max (Masato)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Fushigi Yamada
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/AmyBirnbaum (4Kids), Kayzie Rogers (current)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Diego Armando Ángeles, Mara Campanelli (Movies 6 and 7)
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Beatriz Berciano
-->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Guylaine Gibert, Isabelle Volpé (Movie ''Jirachi Wish Maker''), Creator/MaiaBaran (Movies 8-9, ''The Mirage of Mastermind Pokémon'')
-->'''Voiced in Canadian French by:''' Johanne Léveillé (Movies ''Jirachi Wish Maker'' and ''Destiny Deoxys'')

May's younger brother who travels with his sister and friends, even though he has no Pokémon of his own.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: {{Averted|Trope}}. He's one of the few characters who has both parents around in his life.
* AmusingInjuries: Like his sister, he would be frequently subjected to a fair amount of slapstick, usually from one of the wild Pokémon of the day. In his debut episode, Torchic pecked him for stating May should have picked Treecko instead.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To May he is. They take potshots at each other every chance they get, just like how real life siblings would "get along".
* AscendedExtra: Max is the young child who, in the Hoenn games, was stationed at the entrance to Littleroot Town; now he and May are RelatedInTheAdaptation and he accompanies her on her travels.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the Advanced Generation team.
* BackFromTheDead: He's eaten alive in ''Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'' by The Tree of Beginning's protectorate cells, but is brought back when the Mew living there is able to convince the Tree that he and his friends aren't a threat to it.
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being insulted by his sister very well.
* BigBrotherInstinct: If he's in danger, Ash or May will elicit this and ensure whoever's responsible will suffer accordingly.
* BigBrotherWorship: He starts to develop this towards Ash during their travels, witnessing his skills as a Pokémon Trainer and coming to admire him.
* BlatantLies: In his debut episode, he tries claiming ''he's'' the gym leader of Petalberg, even though anyone could see he's too young to even own a Pokémon, let alone run a gym. [[IdiotHero Ash being who he is]], he falls for it until May has to point it out to him.
* BrainsAndBrawn: When he has gotten the chance to battle, he always uses brains. {{Deconstructed}} in that for all his book smarts, he prefers using defensive moves instead of going on offense against his foes.
* BrattyHalfPint: As emphasised above, Max can sometimes be a very snarky, 'know it all' kid. He seems to be renowned for CrocodileTears before he met Ash as well.
* BreakingOldTrends:
** He's the first character to join the group who isn't old enough to be a Pokémon Trainer yet, which only Bonnie would lay claim to in later years.
** Like May, he's also the first main character with both parents still around.
** He's also the only traveling companion never to own a Pokémon all to his own, which even Bonnie beat him out on by being able to use her brother's Dedenne (which he did explicitly catch for her).
** He's notably the first main character other than Ash to get ADayInTheLimelight in the movies, beating his sister out by three.
* BreakTheCutie: He's utterly devastated when Ash manages to beat Norman in their Gym Battle. He's so distraught at seeing his Dad lose that he swipes Ash's badge away and runs off to hide, until his Dad tells him that's okay to lose so long as you learn something from it.
* TheCameo: He makes one during ''Diamond and Pearl'' watching his sister in the Wallace Cup, and again in [[spoiler:[=JN132=] watching Ash's match against Leon.]]
* CanonForeigner: Downplayed. In the games the protagonist is an only child, and the rival only has a younger brother in ''Emerald''. He is, however, identical to the child who loiters at the entrance to Littleroot Town in ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'', and ''Emerald''.
* CharacterDevelopment: Traveling with Ash, Brock, and May teaches him that he's not as knowledgable as he thinks he is about Pokémon, and helps to him to develop valuable skills he can use when he's eventually old enough to become a trainer.
* CharacterTics: He usually tips up his glasses when he gets smart-alecky with someone.
* ColorMotif: He's always seen in a green shirt, and even the Ralts he befriends has a similar shade of green to him.
* CompositeCharacter: Although Max is an original creation of the series, he's a mix of the School Kid Trainer Class from his sister's debut games, and he does borrow a bit from the rival Wally in befriending a Ralts.
* CurbStompBattle: Much to his horror, using Corphish against Vivi turns into this, since the lobster won't listen to his commands to take things easy against Marill.
* TheCutie: Since he's TheBabyOfTheBunch, he's played as this at times to help him learn more about the Pokémon World, especially because he can't become a trainer yet.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The episode ''Do I Hear a Ralts?'' focuses on him befriending an ill Ralts and having to take it to the Pokémon Center in order to be treated.
** Like his sister, a movie (''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'') focuses on him as a main character.
* DeadpanSnarker: Naturally, May gives him plenty of ammunition.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Candid Camerupt", he battles against a girl named Vivi, who's developing a crush on him. Unfortunately, he decides to borrow Ash's [[TheGadfly Corphish]] for this battle, who not only refuses to listen to Max, but utterly destroys Vivi's Marill and any feelings she might have had.
* DisneyDeath: In ''Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'', he and the rest of the group are consumed by the protectorate cells of the Tree Of Beginning, but they're fortunately restored to normal.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He may not always get along with his sister, but he won't tolerate anyone trying to hurt her, especially Harley.
* FamedInStory: Because he's Norman's son, he's practically worshipped in Petalburg City.
* FatalFlaw: His intelligence (or rather, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll what he thought he knew]]). Despite being the son of a major Gym Leader and studying Pokémon left and right, he's not really as smart as he thinks he is on the subject due to a lack of experience and not being old enough to actually be a trainer yet. He's especially not good at battling, and usually falters due to relying on defensive tactics only.
* FireForgedFriends:
** Although he initially meets Ash on bad terms (with Max posing as the Gym Leader and thinking Ash bungled his League Match in Johto, both of which greatly annoyed Ash), he greatly grows to respect the Kanto native during their travels together, and Ash starts to see him almost like a little brother.
** He also forges one with his identical duplicate, also named Max. Despite the two not getting along at first, the two work together to save a Surskit from Team Rocket and become friends from there.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He likes to think of himself as the responsible to May's foolish, but he has more than a few BrattyHalfPint tendencies that lead him to cause quite a few problems of his own.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic of the quartet.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: You have to hand it to Max. He doesn't have any Pokémon of his own, but he nevertheless has a knack of making friends with a lot of wild ones over the course of the ''Advance'' series, most notably the Ralts who he promised to return for once he begins his journey.
* HeroWorshipper: While it's not overly blatant, and his first appearance has him quickly criticizing Ash's accomplishments (alongside not getting the name right), he does look up to the latter to a certain degree. Likewise towards his father Norman, only it's a lot more pronounced.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Out of May's Pokémon, Max seems to be most attached to her Munchlax.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Besides him falling for all of Team Rocket's numerous disguises, he once told Harley a completely embarrassing story about his sister and a bad encounter with a Tentacool, completely oblivious to Harley's intentions that he was planning on using it to crush May's confidence for no reason other than [[EvilIsPetty to ruin her just for giggles.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Max has a tendency to criticize May and Ash for their flaws as a coordinator & a trainer respectively, but when it was time for Max to battle one time, he knew almost nothing about battling. This may be quite understandable, since he is too young to be a trainer, after all.
* IconicOutfit: His green shirt, brown pants, and glasses, which he never changed.
* IdenticalStranger: He meets a kid who looks exactly like him in "Maxxed Out!", except this Max is browned haired and wears a brown coat.
* InsufferableGenius:
** Max likes to behave as though he's the smartest one around, often poo-pooing Ash's strategies and accomplishments and often whining when he witnesses things that don't match how he's learned the world should work. In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, his meeting with Ash goes sour when he keeps mentioning that Ash ''lost'' in the second round of the Silver Conference, happily ignoring that this was the victory league of the conference.
** [[SubvertedTrope As it turns out]], he's actually something of a KnowNothingKnowItAll when it came to battling. When he gets his first taste of actual battling, he's so busy trying to keep up with his learning that he spent all of his time [[StatusBuff buffing]] and forgot the short-term game, which notably [[{{Foil}} contrasts him with]] Ash and his improvised style.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Strikes one up with President Stone, Steven's father and CEO of the Devon Corporation.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He and May's Munchlax wind up forming one, even using him in an Orienteering Contest.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being the son of one of Hoenn's premier Gym Leaders, he's not as well-versed with Pokémon as he likes to think, though this is mainly because he's not old enough to be a trainer yet.
* JerkassBall: He grabs this hard when he and May get into a fight in "Take This House and Shuppet!", using the titular Shuppet to play pranks on her even when she becomes worried sick about him.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: How his initial character boils down. He is knowledgable, granted, but he's not able to practically apply that knowledge when it comes time. Take battling for instance; when he uses a Poliwag against a Magby, he has it use Defense Curl only. The Magby, despite a type disadvantage, wipes the floor with him simply by beating the Poliwag down.
* LongBusTrip: Because of his Japanese VA retiring from the industry, as well as his sister's Japanese voice being forced to retire due to health complications, Max has been kept out of the series barring silent cameos or flashback scenes.
* MadeOfIron: He's able to handle a fair amount of being hit by Pokémon Moves despite the intense pain of them, and walk away no worse for wear.
* MirrorCharacter: His ''XY'' successor Bonnie is his exact opposite in every way: he's the son of a gym leader, she's the sister of one. He has no Pokémon in his name, she has one thanks to her brother. He doesn't hesitate to block Brock's romantic attempts, she seeks out every pretty girl she can find and get them to marry Clemont. He befriends a Ralts and promises to make it his partner when he's old enough, she ends up doing the same with a ''Zygarde''.
* MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld: He's taught this lesson by his Dad. After Norman loses to Ash and Max takes away Ash's badge, Norman comes over to his hiding spot and tells him there's never anything wrong with losing so long as you can take away from what happened and improve towards next time.
* MouthyKid: Acts like a know it all towards Ash and May. This is understandable, since he is very intelligent for his age and he does study more than Ash and May.
* MythologyGag: In "''Do I Hear a Ralts''", he befriends a sickly Ralts, a reference to the games in which Wally gets a Ralts as his first Pokémon.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He and a girl named Vivi start getting a crush on one another, and he agrees to battle her. However, he goofs that all up the moment he decides his best partner to handle it is Corphish, and it all goes downhill from there.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Applies to the whole group as a whole, but, come on...he's got the [=PokéNav=], the franchise's equivalent to a GPS! He has the least excuse.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: He's even worse than Ash in this regard. While Ash is at least somehow 10 years old for all time, Max hasn't aged once, even after he left the group, still making him ineligible for becoming a trainer.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: During their first meeting he keeps bringing up how Ash lost in the second round in the Silver Conference's Victory Tournament, which, Ash quickly reminds him, is already an admirable feat in of itself.
* OneSteveLimit: In-universe, averted when another Max shows up in the episode ''Maxxed Out!''
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Max imagines tricking May into believing her Torchic evolved (May's actual Torchic had to be used in an EmergencyImpersonation), he gets genuinely afraid of facing [[MamaBear her wrath]]. And yet, this example can still be PlayedForLaughs.
* PalsWithJesus: He befriends a Jirachi in ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker.''
* PlotDrivenBreakdown: Something always seems to happen to the [=PokéNav=] that results in the gang still getting lost. In no particular order: A magnetic field to disrupt the map feature, Max accidentally spilling his drink on it, or having no signal at all. And then there was one time Max admitted it was his own fault the twerps got lost.
* ThePromise: To a stray Ralts in "''Do I Hear a Ralts''", to meet up again once Max starts his own journey.
* PuppyLove: In-universe example: one episode has him develop a mutual crush with Vivi Winstrate, the youngest member of a family of trainers. However, when the family challenged Ash and co. to a friendly 4-on-4 match, Max just ''had'' to borrow ''[[{{Jerkass}} Corphish]]'' in his match against Vivi. The results weren't pretty...
* PutOnABus: Max is forced to return home to Hoenn while his sister heads off to Johto, much to his disappointment, as he's still not old enough yet to travel on his own. Because of the complications with May's Japanese voice actress, as well as his own Japanese voice actress retiring, he never came back to the series [[spoiler:aside from a silent cameo in [=JN132=], watching Ash's final battle alongside his sister, Lisia, and Serena.]]
* RebuiltPedestal: Inverted; Max holds his father in such high regard that when Ash actually defeats Norman, Max freaks out and ''steals Ash's Balance Badge'' as if that would somehow undo the damage.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Max already recognizes Ash when he first meets him, having watched him compete in the Silver Conference on TV.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Based on the male school kid trainer class' [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire RSE]] appearance. Amusingly, the design in [[UpdatedRerelease ORAS]] looks like it was based off of Max (the color palette is more similar to Max than to the original design).
* RunningGag:
** Early in the series, he would take ''pleasure'' in being on the receiving end of attacks or abilities' effects.
** After he watched Misty pull the EarAche gag on Brock, he picked up on it. When Croagunk takes over in ''Diamond and Pearl'' as Brock's "chaperone" with [[AssShove his signature gag]], May makes a remark about the frog taking over for Max.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: They start shining usually when he's up to something or when his companions (usually Brock and his Romeo antics) start doing something snark-worthy.
** In "''Do I hear a Ralts''" episode has them appear when he is ''absolutely pissed off'' at Team Rocket still doing their disguised charade after Ralts has recovered from it's severe illness.
* SoreLoser: Not him, but he acts this way when ''his dad'' lost the gym battle with Ash. He got so upset with his father losing that he ''angrily takes Ash's badge away''.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Unfortunately for him, Max never gets to grow up and go on his own journey, staying behind in Hoenn and never getting a chance to reunite with Ash.
* TagalongKid: The only reason he's there is because his dad (Norman) said that he should go travel along with his sister while also learning to prepare for his own eventual journey as a Trainer.
* TooKinkyToTorture: As stated in RunningGag, Max actually took great pleasure in experiencing attacks and abilities from Pokémon head on.
* TranquilFury: At the end of "''Do I Hear a Ralts''", he has both a combination of ScaryShinyGlasses and CrossPoppingVeins when he confronts Team Rocket in their disguises before he kicks their asses by having Ralts use Psychic on them.
* {{Tuckerization}}: The producers have suggested the anime character is based on one of Creator/SatoruIwata's sons.
* WithAFootOnTheBus: Happens to him in the episode "The Scheme Team", where both him & May leave Ash at the beginning of the episode, only for him to return (with Professor Birch) at the end of the episode. (May follows suit in the following episode.)
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[[folder:Brock (Takeshi)]]
One of Ash's original companions, who continued to travel with him throughout ''Advanced Generation''. See [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesBrock here]] for more about Brock and his Pokémon.
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!Supporting Cast

[[folder:Professor Birch (Dr. Odamaki)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/FumihikoTachiki
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/DanGreen
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/SalvadorDelgado
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Pablo Adán (Season 6), Manuel Bellido (Seasons 7-8)

The professor of the Hoenn region. He helped May get her start as a trainer by giving her a choice between Torchic, Mudkip, or Treecko.
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* AdaptedOut: Going by the games, Birch should be the father of the RSE male lead Brendan, who so far has only appeared in cameos.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Male version: in a repetition of Birch's first appearance in the games, May has to come to his aid from a pack of Poochyena. However, May doesn't even know how to properly command Pokémon yet (the Mudkip she called out doused ''her'' instead) so Birch eventually had to get out of the situation by himself.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Steep cliffs are as minor as speedbumps, and chances are he'll be on a maximum of two of his wheels at any given time.
* LargeHam: Being voiced by Mr. Green certainly helps.
* ScienceHero: Is not afraid of going into the field for his research, which often puts him in a few scrapes.
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[[folder:Caroline (Mitsuko)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/YumiTouma
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MeganHollingshead (4Kids, episode 3), Karen Niell (4Kids, episodes 69-132), Klara Leopold (current)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Gabriela Gómez (episode 3) Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (episodes 69-70),Creator/LauraTorres (episodes 114-132), Creator/ElsaCovian (episode 180)
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Pepa Castro (Seasons 6 and 8), María Jesús Nieto (Season 7), Beatriz Berciano (Season 9)

May and Max's mom and wife of gym leader Norman of the Petalburg City Gym.
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* GoodParents: She is a very loving and supportive mother.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Just see the picture.
* MistakenForCheating: Thought this of Norman when she noticed that he's been spending time with Nurse Joy (they were actually planning an anniversary present for Caroline). She was in the middle of announcing her intent ''to leave him'' before the misunderstanding was cleared up.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: She's based on the player character's [[UnnamedParent unnamed mother]] from ''Ruby, Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''.
* ParentalFavoritism: Not with her children directly but with her daughter's Pokémon, she mentions she likes her Beautifly the best.
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[[folder:Drew (Shū/Shuu)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/MitsukiSaiga
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Pete Zarustica (4Kids), Bill Rogers (current)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Luis Fernando Orozco (episodes 33-35), Creator/IrwinDaayan (rest of the series)
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Juan Antonio Soler (Seasons 6-8), Álvaro Navarro (Season 9), Amparo Valencia (Flashback AG Episode 046)

May's main rival as a Pokémon coordinator. He enjoys pushing her buttons, but gradually drops the JerkAss facade and becomes much more respectful over time. He never lets anyone forget that they are rivals first and friends second.
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* {{Bookends}}: In his first Contest facing off against May, Drew defeats her only to lose in the finals to Robert. The Hoenn Grand Festival netted him the same results. ''And'' both events occurred in Slateport City.
* BubbleGun: Masquerain's Bubble.
* TheCameo:
** Drew made a couple of brief appearances during May's ''Diamond and Pearl'' return arc, where his Roselia was revealed to have evolved into Roserade.
** He appears again in ''Journeys'' with Harley and Professor Birch, watching Ash's battle with Steven in the Masters Eight Tournament.
* ChickMagnet: He has many fangirls. And unlike Gary, he does ''not'' like the attention.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Green hair and green eyes. Fits in with his Grass-type Pokémon motif (his signature Pokémon is a Grass-type Roselia, and he frequently gives May flowers). Despite their initial vitriol, he ultimately proves in time to be a trustworthy friend to May.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He catches a Dark-type Absol for his team in Battle Frontier.
* {{Expy}}: Drew is more than vaguely reminiscent of both ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' rivals, Brendan and Wally, [[CompositeCharacter having the distinctive green hair and eyes of the latter and the confidence and attitude of the former]]. He also uses Roselia, which was one of the Pokémon on Wally's team, as a signature.
* FriendlyRivalry: With May, eventually. It was significantly more vitriolic at first, with him acting very condescending towards her and May rising to the bait easily, but near the end of the Hoenn arc, they shifted closer to being friends as well as rivals, with Harley taking Drew's place as May's {{Jerkass}} rival.
* GuestStarPartyMember: In some of his later appearances, ends up getting joining May and co in their struggles against Team Rocket. The episode "Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut" is a particular example, where he gets pulled into Team Rocket's latest attack on the twerps at the beginning of the episode, gets stranded on an island together with them, and spends the rest of the episode hanging out with May and trying to escape. (Incidently, this is also when their rivalry starts to become a lot more friendly and less antagonistic.)
* InconsistentSpelling: His Japanese name can be spelled either Shū or Shuu.
* ItAmusedMe: He toys with May, alternating jibes and backhanded compliments. May naturally [[{{Tsundere}} rises to the bait beautifully]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He spends his introductory episode railing mercilessly on May, then pulls a BigDamnHeroes when she's in trouble. Then insults her some more.
** He acts pretty aloof and cocky most of the time in contests, but he's actually generally respectful to his fellow competitors, except for Harley and (initially) May. He thanks Savannah (who greatly admires him) for a great battle after he defeats her in the Rubello contest, he praises Brianna (who has a crush on him) for her performance after she loses to May, and he obviously has a great deal of respect for [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Soledad]], his rival who defeated him in his first-ever contest.
** His heart of gold really begins to shine when he tosses May a rose as congratulations for her contest victory...and then tells her it's not for her, it's for her Beautifly. He messes with her like this for a long time. Really, it's only by the Hoenn Grand Festival that he loses much of his [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]], with Harley officially taking his place in that regard.
* ManlyTears: We don't see it happen, but he apparently cried after Solidad beat him at a Contest. May teases him about it.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: He's the in between to Solidad's nice and Harley's mean. Solidad is friendly and outgoing, Harley's petty and holds grudges. While Drew constantly teases May (including giving a rose to ''her Pokémon and not her''), he later grows to respect her as a person.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Drew owns the part Dragon-type Flygon.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to May's red. He's much more calm in contests and thinks before he acts.
%%* RazorWind: Absol's attack.
* TheRival: He is this to May; she gains other significant rivals in Harley and Soledad, but Drew is the first introduced, as well as the most prominent.
* ShipTease: Gets quite a bit with May, especially later on once their rivalry has become more friendly. Not the least of which is him consistently giving her red roses when he sees her at contests. (Initially he states that the roses are for her Beautifly, but he stops bothering with the excuse eventually.) Soledad also tells May at the Kanto Grand Festival that Drew talks about her all the time.
* SignatureMon: Roselia. It's present in most of his appearances and matches his habit of handing out roses to May in many of their encounters.
* SomethingAboutARose: As has been mentioned a few times, Drew's favorite way to mess with May is handing her roses.
* StealthMentor: In his earlier appearances, he seemed to serve as one to May. Though he several times gave her and her friends some condescending lectures that came across like boasting, they actually contained good advice that May took to heart.
** He also listened in on her conversations with Harley from a distance during the Hoenn Grand Festival, and, when he found out that Harley was actually trying to sabotage May, quickly exposed his plot to her.
** Soledad later tells May that, when Drew met her, he was reminded him of how he himself used to be in his earliest contests, which may be the reason for this.
* StraightMan: Serves as this when he gets pulled into the adventures of Ash and Co, and is also this to the rival quartet of himself, May, Harley, and Soledad.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Both his personality and his relationship with May are quite similar to Gary and how he treated Ash. He even mirror's Gary's CharacterDevelopment, becoming less of a {{Troll}} by "Advanced Battle" and a lot more prone to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold back May up]] when Team Rocket or Harley start going after her. Heck, his English dub voice actually sounds quite a bit like Gary's, especially in his introductory episode.
* ThemeNaming: Drew's Japanese name Shuu is a possible reading of 秋, the Japanese character for Autumn or Fall, which plays off of May's Japanese name Haruka (a reading for 春花, "spring flowers"). In short, Haruka and Shuu refer to opposite seasons of the year.
* WorthyOpponent: Eventually sees May as this. Most prominently shown when he tells May at the Hoenn Grand Festival that he specifically trained his new Flygon for his battle against her as its contest debut, and also when May finally defeats him for the first time in the Kanto Grand Festival.
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[[folder:Harley]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/JunichiKanemaru
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/AndrewRannells (4Kids), Billy Regan (current)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Gerardo García
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Juan Logar Jr. (Season 8), Fernando Cabrera (Season 9)

May's other rival, though she doesn't consider him to be one at first. Harley decided to go after May simply because during his introduction, he offered May one of his home made cookies. May was in a rather indifferent mood that day, and she thought they were OK. They weren't bad, just OK. [[SeriousBusiness Harley never let that go]].
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* AffablyEvil: He's exuberantly ''chummy'' towards his rivals outside of competition, even May despite his extreme unnecessary grudge against her.
* AffectionateNickname: In Japanese, he refers to his Pokémon as his "cool buds" (and yes, that's in [[GratuitousEnglish English]]).
* AllWebbedUp: His Ariados knows String Shot and Spider Web.
* AlphaBastard: He's snobby, petty, childish, and goes out his way to bully and humiliate May any chance he gets.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Not so much "ambiguous" as "as gay as the writers could possibly make him without setting the [[MoralGuardians censors]] off".
* BadassFingerSnap: He uses it to signal the timing of his Cacturne's Needle Arm in "A Hurdle for Squirtle".
* TheBadGuyWins: Beats May in a Contest for the first and only time in "Harley Rides Again".
* BerserkButton: If you don't like his cookies (or he doesn't think you do), he will go out of his way to make your life miserable at every possible turn.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: LaughablyEvil, campy and seemingly friendly, but extremely nasty towards people he hates. Poor May.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He behaves in a silly manner to cover up his ruthless and underhanded nature.
* BreakoutVillain: Was apparently supposed to be done with after the Hoenn Grand Festival, but was made a recurring rival for Battle Frontier due to his popularity.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Acts EXTREMELY flamboyant and obsesses over anyone who messes with his food, but you'd be wise to take him seriously as a competitor when it comes to the Contest circuit, especially since he's fond of pulling out dirty tactics to win.
* TheCameo: He makes an appearance in ''Journeys'' with Drew and Professor Birch, watching Ash's battle with Steven in the Masters Eight Tournament.
* CampGay: And how! Fan-boying over Norman, and also him cosplaying as May and flirting with Drew during the Kanto Grand Festival.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the Latin American dub of his debut episode, he doesn't use his normal flamboyant manner of speech and talks in a very straightforward way. He is also [[ShesAManInJapan referred to as a woman.]]
* CheatersNeverProsper: His dirty tactics against May always end in failure. The one time he ever beat May was when he played completely fair, no manipulation or cheating of any kind.
* CombatPragmatist: He won't think twice about using dirty tactics to pull out a win.
* {{Cosplay}}[=/=]UncattyResemblance: His outfit is based on Cacturne, his signature Pokémon.
** At one point in the Kanto Grand Festival he even cosplays '''May''', who gets [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out by his mimicry.
* DarkIsEvil: His main Pokémon is Cacturne, a half-Dark type, and his team also includes a Banette.
* DeadpanSnarker: His default personality when he's being serious.
* DeathGlare: Ariados' Scary Face.
* DisproportionateRetribution: His entire feud with May is based around ''very'' petty reasons he has to hate her.
* DubNameChange: One of the very few aversions in the ''Pokémon'' franchise. His Japanese and English names are the same.
* EffeminateVoice: The American dub gives him an appropriately campy voice and mannerisms.
* EnemiesList: Harley doesn't have a simple list: he has a photo album of people he bears grudges against. He sneaks pictures of his "enemies" and draws "nasty" symbols next to them on the album (which is what he does with May after their first interaction).
* EvilCounterpart: In hindsight, he could be considered one for Nando from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' anime. Both are male Contest rivals with effeminate mannerisms and green color schemes, but Harley is loud, flamboyant, LaughablyEvil, and cruel to people he dislikes, while Nando is quiet, composed, polite, and kind-hearted to even those who are rude to him. Perhaps it's [[CastingGag not a coincidence]] that Nando is voiced by Harley's second English voice actor.
* EvilIsPetty: Initiating a blood feud with a 10-year-old girl over a plate of cookies? Yeah, he qualifies. Doesn't help that her commenting that his Cacturne was creepy only deepened his hatred towards her.
* EvilerThanThou: Inducted Team Rocket into his plots to ruin May later on, and quickly became a BadBoss as they proved ineffective. He also cowed them from using independent schemes on May, [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou putting dibs on making her suffer]]. When it was made apparent they wouldn't be joining his efforts in Johto, he blasted them off in anger before Jessie could even get out a Pokémon to fight.
* {{Foil}}: To Drew, as May's other main rival. Both them are arrogant, campy Coordinators who get a kick out of riling May up, but while Drew is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that delivers a lot of BrutalHonesty to May in the hopes of seeing her improve, Harley is a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk that deliberately gives her bad advice in the hopes of seeing her fail. Coincidentally, they also have inversed color schemes; whereas Drew wears a purple outfit and has green hair, Harley wears a green outfit and has purple hair.
* FriendlyEnemy: He can be quite affable toward his competitors outside of the Contest arena. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Of course, it's all an act.]]
* GenderBlenderName: His name can be either a male or female name, appropriately for someone with CampGay mannerisms.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the original Japanese version, he throws random English phrases into his dialogue like "very surprise", "see you", "very happy", and calls his Pokémon "my cool bud". Comes with being voiced by Creator/JunichiKanemaru.
* GreenAndMean: He always wears a green Cacturne outfit, and is May's most antagonistic rival.
* HasAType: Harley seems to prefer Pokémon that have a menacing look, such as Cacturne, Banette and Ariados. Even his Wigglytuff, which most people would consider cute, has a purple glare across its face.
* InsufferableGenius: Not ''genius'' per se, but smart and annoying, to the point of being a smart ass. He uses this to his advantage.
** In Harley's debut episode, he lied to May about Surskit being slow. May believed him, but since Surskit were well known for their quick speed, she soon learned her lesson. May confronted Harley, only for him to tell her she should have done research and that she was only participating in the Contest as if it were a game.
** During the Hoenn Grand Festival, Harley told May to use Skitty's Assist move over and over during the Appeals Round. May followed this, and one of the judges was dissapointed that her appeal was lacking variety. Luckily, her Skitty confused itself while using Bulbasaur's Petal Dance, and thus May told it to use Double Hit, its own move, on itself, and break the confusion. May at last commanded Skitty to use Blizzard. May again confronted Harley about this, with Drew. Harley told May not to trust anyone, and that again, she should have known better.
* {{Irony}}: In their last meeting, he claimed Jessie would never get anywhere as a Coordinator without him. Afterward, Jessie competed in the Sinnoh contests and [[TookALevelInBadass became competent enough to reach the final 4 of the Grand Festival]] while Harley traveled to Johto and is implied to still be May's ButtMonkey.
* {{Jerkass}}: His relationship with May is a good example of this. In their first meeting, he takes basically everything she says (all of which she meant in a perfectly friendly way) in the worst possible fashion, and [[DisproportionateRetribution holds a permanent grudge against her for it]], sparking a bitter rivalry in which he actively tries to sabotage her contest chances every opportunity he gets. He's also pretty ruthless and pragmatic in his contest battling.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Harley is called out by May for manipulating her by giving her misleading advice, he tells the latter that she shouldn't have trusted him in the first place. Even Drew admits that Harley is correct when he attempts to comfort May about her feeling bad for being tricked.
* KarmaHoudini: While most of his plans to defeat May ended up in failure, he was sparsely disciplined for sabotaging or borderline cheating in contests, and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity didn't even seem to lose much popularity from his bullying disposition]] aside from her and her teammates (who he hated in the first place anyway).
* LargeHam: Is VERY flamboyant in basically everything he does, from his speech to his wardrobe to his battle style.
* LaughablyEvil: Harley is a huge jerk to May, but does it in such an over-the-top, flamboyant and silly way that it makes him very enjoyable to watch.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: He took May's picture, pasted it in a stalker notebook, drew a frowny face/skull and crossbones next to it, and obsessed himself with defeating her for the rest of the season. Why? Because when she actually liked his cookies, she didn't like them ''enough'' and because she referred to his Cacturne as "scary".
* LoopholeAbuse: When competing against Jessie in the Saffron City Contest, she chooses to use Wobbuffet, which Harley's Ariados cannot attack directly because it will just reflect said attack with Counter or Mirror Coat. But one of the moves in Ariados' arsenal is String Shot, which technically isn't an attack, so Harley has it use this move to tie up Wobbuffet and jerk it around like a puppet on strings before throwing it across the arena and knocking it out.
* LostFoodGrievance: He tells Team Rocket a story from when he was little, about a girl (who looks exactly like May, for some reason) who ate the last piece of his lunch and said it was gross.
* LostInTranslation: In the Japanese version, another of Harley's many reasons for hating May is her VerbalTic of "kamo" which can represent uncertainty. It contributed to him believing May was [[DeliberatelyCuteChild deliberately playing herself off as the cute and innocent competitor of the contest]].
* {{Manchild}}: Despite being much older than May, he bears a serious grudge against her simply because she had never heard about Cacturne, said it was scary (when it is indeed a creepy-looking Dark-type Pokémon), and said his cookies were not half bad. He sneaks pictures of people he doesn't like (such as May) and collects them in a notebook. Another reason he hates May is because he never let go of his childhood "trauma" of a schoolmate who looked like her eating his last Octillery-shaped "snackie".
* ManipulativeBastard: Proven by his first three appearances alone:
** In their first contest together, after he develops a petty grudge against May, he gives her a "tip" that is the exact opposite of the truth, hoping she'll lose in the semi-finals. When that fails, he plays a recording (to the ''entire'' audience) of Max telling an embarrassing story about May in order to throw her off her game.
** In the Hoenn Grand Festival, he convinces May that he's sorry for what he did before, but then actively gives her bad advice more than once, hoping to knock her out of the Festival during the Appeals stage.
** In her first Kanto contest, he gains her trust again by helping her defeat Team Rocket when she's in trouble, but then lies about the contest entry rules to try to keep her from entering.
* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name is a corruption of 針 ''hari,'' meaning "needle". His signature Pokémon is based on a cactus.
* MisplacedRetribution: One of the reasons Harley hates May so much is simply because she happens to look like a schoolmate who once ate Harley's last "snackie" when he was a child.
* MultipleChoicePast: Claims that May (or at least a May lookalike) once stole his food in grade school. Granted, he was almost certainly BS'ing it, but...well, you never know.
* NavelWindow: His usual outfit, following its Cacturne-themed design, has a diamond-shaped cut near the bottom of his shirt that shows his navel.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: He's the mean to Solidad's nice and Drew's in-between. Harley is incredibly petty, he holds a grudge against May over ''food'', and embarrasses his opponents to get an advantage in Contests.
* NightmareFetishist: Harley's specialty in Contests is showing off the creepy qualities of his Pokémon -- while the audience doesn't always take to his appeals, Harley himself genuinely loves them. In fact, one of the things that first fueled his hatred for May is her referring to his Cacturne as scary.
* OddFriendship: Solidad somehow regards Harley to be a good buddy of hers without a drop of malice, despite the fact Harley has proven to have a nasty streak while Solidad herself is a good spirited competitor.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Harley goes from teaming up with Team Rocket to defeat May, to actually interrupting one of Team Rocket's schemes and proclaiming that 'the only one allowed to make [May] cry is me' by the end of the Advanced Generation series. He cordially adds they are welcome to watch ''him'' challenge May as a learning experience however.
* PersonalityPowers: Cacturne is based on a cactus, and Harley is about as prickly as one when it comes to people he doesn't like.
* PetTheDog: He treats his Pokémon well, referring to them affectionately ("my buddies", "cool bud", attaching "-chan" to their names in Japanese).
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Harley [[VagueAge appears]] to be in his late teens, but for some reason he becomes ''obsessed'' with tormenting May and winning against her at all costs... and she's only ''ten''. This becomes literal and especially ridiculous when you see him confronting her, as it's clear that not only is he older, he's at least a full head taller, and yet is fixated on picking on her.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression. Especially prominent when he's sabotaging May. See {{DeadpanSnarker}} above.
* RuleOfSymbolism: A big part of Harley's characterization is his massive and unreasonable grudge against May. Fittingly enough, he has a Banette, which is said in the Pokédex to have been born from a grudge.
* SeriousBusiness: Harley takes food really seriously. He hated May's guts because she said his cookies were only okay, and got really pissed over a girl eating the last of his lunch when he was little.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the Latin American dub, Harley is referred to as female.
* ShipperOnDeck: While it's partly to catch them off guard or annoy them, Harley certainly loves pointing out the subtext between May and Drew.
* SignatureMon: Cacturne, to the point where Harley's outfit is modeled after it.
* SissyVillain: He's definitely one the most villainous of May's contest rivals (the other being Jessie), and as mentioned above, he's very flamboyant.
* SmugSnake: Acts like this a lot in his many attempts to sabotage May's contests.
* TermsOfEndangerment:
** "Yoo-hoo, May! My cute little gingerbread-cookie!". For a guy who does everything in his power to antagonize May, he has a ton of pet names for her.
** Also calling May, himself, and everyone else "Hun" in the Japanese Dub, and in the Battle Frontier series.
** In Japanese, he calls May "Haruka-chan" (''-chan'' being a term of endearment) and "Kamo-chan," referring to her VerbalTic of "''-kamo''" which is used to denote uncertainty.
* {{Tsundere}}: Shows shades of this non-romantically towards May overtime. Despite his insistent antagonization of May, he eventually defends her from Team Rocket while basically prefacing it with 'don't get the wrong idea'. In the next season, he's shown alongside Drew and Solidad watching the Wallace cup on tv, and is at first hanging off to the side looking like he thinks watching the broadcast is beneath him - but when the shot pans to them again later while May is performing, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent he's right in front of the tv watching intently]] with the other two, showing he's interested after all.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Brock actually thought he was a girl before the crowd around Harley cleared...oops.
* VagueAge: It's a little hard to tell if Harley is meant to be an older teenager or a young adult. Regardless, it doesn't stop him from having a mutually intense rivalry [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize with a 10-year-old girl.]]
* VerbalTic: He tends to refer to people as "hun", including himself.
* VillainTeamup: He once conspired with Team Rocket so May wouldn't get her last Kanto Ribbon.
* VillainousCrossdresser: On one occasion, he dresses up as May. He even blows a kiss to Drew while doing so...
* VillainDecay: Mildly. Harley never completely loses his hostile attitude towards May, nor does he lose his competence, but he actually eventually ''defends'' May and her friends from a Team Rocket plot (because ''he'' wants to be the one to mess with May, no one else), appears to be genuinely happy about the idea of competing with May, Drew and Solidad in Johto, (but that should not be mistaken for TrueCompanions), and by the Wallace cup he's seen alongside Drew and Solidad watching May compete on tv, seemingly in support of her.
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[[folder:Morrison (Masamune)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/MasakoNozawa
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/SeanSchemmel
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Noé Velásquez
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Creator/JorgeSaudinos

An exuberant trainer who dresses much like a samurai, he meets Ash during the three-months leading up to the Ever Grande Conference, and they strike up a highly competitive friendly rivalry, which only builds up as the tournament itself does. While Ash did not have a rival for the majority of the Hoenn Saga, Morrison is essentially the closest to TheRival that he has for the Ever Grande Conference arc.
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* BigEater: Most of his scenes involve him chasing after a rice ball (or sandwich in the dub).
* CrashIntoHello: Though it's based purely in friendship.
* ElementalPowers
** BareFistedMonk: Swampert's Focus Punch.
** DishingOutDirt: Gligar's primary type; Swampert & Steelix's secondary type.
** ExtraOredinary: Metang & Steelix's primary type; Girafarig's Iron Tail; Gligar's Steel Wing & Iron Tail.
** NonElemental: Girafarig's
** PlayingWithFire: Growlithe
** PsychicPowers: Girafarig's secondary type; Metang's Confusion.
** WindFromBeneathMyWings: Gligar's secondary type.
* {{Foil}}: Until perhaps Cameron of ''Best Wishes'', no other rival of Ash's was as much like him as Morrison. In fact, his personality is very similar to Ash's Indigo League self, such that Ash (despite appearing younger) comes off as more experienced than he does.
* FriendlyRivalry: In contrast to many of Ash's other rivals, Morrison is immediately friendly towards Ash from the get-go, while still maintaining his SpiritedCompetitor attitude. This actually gets {{deconstructed}} when he ends up facing Ash in the Ever Grande Conference. His unease towards battling a friend causes him to have a temporary HeroicBSOD that Ash has to snap him out of.
* GracefulLoser: For all his competitiveness, he took his defeat as extra incentive to get stronger.
* HeroicBSOD: He was highly depressed at first about needing to actually ''battle'' Ash during their 6-on-6 match, to the point that he couldn't command his Pokémon properly and gave Ash an easy lead in the battle. Eventually, Ash snapped him out of it by convincing him to fight his best no matter what or else disgrace his Pokémon's efforts, and it worked.
* HotBlooded: Similar to Ash.
* IdiotHero: Again, similar to Ash.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Girafarig's Light Screen, although useless.
* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name, Masamune, is the name of a famed swordsmith, fitting for his ronin-like appearance and vagrant lifestyle.
* OneHitKO: Gligar's Guillotine.
* TheRival: Effectively serves as Ash's primary rival for the Ever Grande Conference arc.
* RunningGag: Chasing his runaway rice balls (sandwiches in the dub), which would lead to a CrashIntoHello with Ash.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Is just as excited and pumped about battling others as Ash is.
* TookALevelInBadass: Nobody was more surprised than he when his Beldum spontaneously evolved during his preliminary match, expanding its moveset from simply Take Down and enabling his defeat of his opponent.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves giant onigiri, which is echanged to large sandwiches by 4Kids.
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[[folder:Tyson (Tetsuya)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/KenjiNojima
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MarcDiraison
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Gabriel Ortiz
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Pablo Sevilla

Ash's second rival, appearing in the lead-up episode to the Ever Grande Conference. He became the first rival of Ash's to win a tournament by winning the Conference.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Tyson's Meowth is so experienced and powerful, it could easily evolve into a Persian, but refuses to do so out of loathing for the species.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He wins the Ever Grande Conference, his Meowth is much tougher than Team Rocket's (and defeats ''Pikachu''), and his entire team besides Meowth is fully evolved. And just to further the last point, half of his Pokémon are full evolutions of Pokémon Ash and Morrison have which ''haven't'' yet evolved - Sceptile and Donphan to Ash's Grovyle and Phanpy, respectively; and Metagross to Morrison's Metang. One wouldn't necessarily ''need'' to know the show's history to realise Ash was going to lose this one.
* BigEater: In a manner reminiscent more to May than Ash (that is, he's more even-tempered and CloserToEarth).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Tyson's Meowth was abandoned by its pack after losing to the pack leader, a Persian, whose arrogance (a common species trait) and disregard for Meowth's well-being led to a lasting hatred of the species. It was thankfully found by Tyson who nursed it to health again, even giving it a pair of boots to support its wounded hindlegs until it could walk properly again
* ElementalPowers
** BareFistedMonk: Hariyama. Shiftry's Mega Kick.
** CastingAShadow: Shiftry's secondary type.
** DishingOutDirt: Donphan
** ExtraOredinary: Metagross' primary type.
** GreenThumb: Sceptile. Also Shiftry's primary type.
** NonElemental: Meowth
** PsychicPowers: Metagross' secondary type.
** ShockAndAwe: Meowth's Thunderbolt
* EnergyWeapon: Metagross' Hyper Beam.
* IrrationalHatred: His Meowth expresses towards all Persian - he had to return it to its Pokéball to prevent it from ''killing'' its Persian opponent after it's already fainted. It doesn't help that the species' [[CatsAreMean natural predisposition towards condescension and arrogance]] are the very traits which led to this deep-seated loathing.
* MeaningfulName: "Tetsu" from his Japanese name means "iron", likely in a reference to his determination and will and also to that of his Meowth, who became strong as iron through hard work and dedication.
* MesACrowd: Meowth's Double Team.
* SignatureMon: His Meowth, being the only Pokémon with a unique look (namely dressed with a hat, cape, and boots), as well as being the final Pokémon Ash faces on Tyson's team, ultimately beating Pikachu in the end.
* ShoutOut: His Meowth dresses and acts like Literature/PussInBoots.
* UnknownRival[=/=]WorthyOpponent: His Meowth for Team Rocket's - the latter initially hates him, but comes to empathise with and respect him after learning his backstory, and expecially after his defeat of Pikachu.
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[[folder:Solidad (Saori)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/RieTanaka
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/SarahNatochenny
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/CristinaHernandez
--> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Creator/DianaTorres

One of Drew's friends and an extremely skilled coordinator. She knows Brock from when she was at Pewter City and seems to know Harley as well. She serves as both a rival and a mentor to Drew and May.
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* TheAce: A highly skilled coordinator who defeated Drew in his first contest, and also defeats May with relative ease in the semi-finals of the Kanto Grand Festival.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: For both Drew and May.
* CoolBigSis: Also this for both Drew and May.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Pidgeot's Double Team.
* ElementalPowers
** Dual type Pokémon
*** BigCreepyCrawlies[=/=]WindFromBeneathMyWings: Butterfree
*** MakingASplash[=/=][[AnIcePerson An Ice Pokémon]]: Lapras
*** MakingASplash[=/=]PsychicPowers: Slowbro
*** NonElemental[=/=]WindFromBeneathMyWings: Pidgeot
* EnergyWeapon: Slowbro's Hyper Beam.
* FlawExploitation: Solidad emerged as the clear winner in the battle against May, thanks to her strategic approach. May heavily relied on the flashy, aggressive moves she had learned from Ash, which Solidad was quick to notice and take advantage of. Solidad analyzed May's past battles with Harley and Drew, and realized the risks involved in using the same techniques against her. She smartly adjusted her style to focus more on counterattacks, leveraging her extensive experience to outmaneuver May. Unfortunately, May's limited experience prevented her from adapting her own style to counter Solidad's tactics, leading to a heavy defeat.
* FlatCharacter: Since she only appeared in Kanto's Grand Festival and then has not been seen again aside from a two-second cameo in the DP series, she's quite obviously one.
* InconsistentSpelling: Her name is officially spelled Solidad, but some sources call her Soledad.
* MagicSkirt: She wears a tight miniskirt and it never rides up.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: She's the nice to Harley's mean and Drew's in between. Solidad is easygoing and respectful towards other Coordinators.
* OddFriendship: She calls Harley a friend of hers with fondness, and even finds his outlandish stunts (like dressing up like May) to be 'cute', despite his bizarre, petty personality. In turn, Solidad seems to be the only one of Harley's rivals he regards with a decent level of respect.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Supposedly an old friend of Brock, Drew, and Harley, but we never heard anything about her until her anime debut.
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* AffablyEvil: He's exuberantly ''chummy'' towards his rivals outside of competition, even May despite his extreme unecessary grudge against her.

* LoopholeAbuse: When competing against Jessie in the Saffron City Contest, she chooses to use Wobbuffet, which Harley's Ariados cannot attack directly because it will just reflect said attack with Counter or Mirror Coat. So, instead, Harley has Ariados use String Shot to tie up Wobbuffet and jerk it around like a puppet on strings before throwing it across the arena and knocking it out.

* TermsOfEndangerment: "Yoo-hoo, May! My cute little gingerbread-cookie!". For a guy who does everything in his power to antagonize May, he has a ton of pet names for her.
** Also calling May, himself, and everone else "Hun" in the Japanese Dub, and in the Battle Frontier Series.

* GratuitousEnglish: In the original Japanese version, he throws random English phrases into his dialogue like "very surprise", "see you", and calls his Pokémon "my cool bud". Comes with being voiced by Creator/JunichiKanemaru.

* GratuitousEnglish: Quite a bit in the original Japanese version, such as saying "my cool bud" when he calls out his Pokémon. Comes with being voiced by Creator/JunichiKanemaru.

* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being insulted by his sister very well.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His Japanese name can be spelled either Shū or Shuu.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is officially spelled Solidad, but some sources call her Soledad.

* EvilCounterpart: In hindsight, he could be considered one for Nando from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' anime. Both are male Contest rivals with effeminate mannerisms and green color schemes, but Harley is loud, flamboyant, LaughablyEvil, and cruel to people he dislikes, while Nando is quiet, composed, polite, and kind-hearted. Perhaps it's [[CastingGag not a coincidence]] that Harley's second English voice actor was chosen to voice Nando as well.

* EvilCounterpart: In hindsight, he could be considered one for Nando from the ''Diamond & Pearl'' anime. Both are male Contest rivals with effeminate mannerisms and green color schemes, but Harley is loud, flamboyant, LaughablyEvil, and cruel to people he dislikes, while Nando is quiet, composed, polite, and kind-hearted. Perhaps it's [[CastingGag not a coincidence]] that they share a voice actor in English.

* VagueAge: Harley looks like he could be anywhere from his late teens to his early 20s, but that doesn't stop him from having a mutually intense rivalry [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize with a 10-year-old girl.]]

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: {{Averted}}. He's one of the few characters who has both parents around in his life.

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

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: He's the in between to Solidad's nice and Harley's mean. Solidad is friendly and outgoing, Harley's petty and holds grudges. While Drew constantly teases May (including giving a rose to ''her Pokémon and not her''), he later grows to respect her as a person.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: He's the mean to Solidad's nice and Drew's in between. Harley is incredibly petty, he holds a grudge against May over ''food'', and embarrasses his opponents to get an advantage in Contests.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: She's the nice to Harley's mean and Drew's in between. Solidad is easygoing and respectful towards other Coordinators.

* {{Bokukko}}: Inverted. In Japanese, he refers to himself using ''atashi,'' the feminine form of ''I,'' as opposed to using the masculine forms ''boku'' or ''ore,'' or even the gender-neutral ''watashi.''

* CampGay: And how! Note {{Bokukko}} above, fan-boying over Norman, and also him cosplaying as May and flirting with Drew during the Kanto Grand Festival.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Max has a tendency to criticize May and Ash for their flaws as a coordinator & a trainer respectively, but when it was time for Max to battle one time, he knew almost nothing about battling. This may be justified, since he is too young to be a trainer, after all.