| 1 | [[center:[-[[Characters/{{Pokemon}} Main Character Index]] > '''Red and Blue''' ([[Characters/PokemonRedAndBlueProtagonistsAndRivals Protagonists and Rivals]] - [[Characters/PokemonTeamRocket Team Rocket]])-]]] |
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| 3 | Characters from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', ''Yellow'', ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''. |
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| 5 | For a list of Pokémon that debuted in the first generation, see Characters/PokemonGenerationIFamilies. |
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| 7 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | !Protagonists and Rivals |
| 10 | |
| 11 | See Characters/PokemonRedAndBlueProtagonistsAndRivals. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | !Allies |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Professor Oak ''[-(Prof. Ohkido)-]'']] |
| 17 | !!Professor Samuel Oak / Prof. Yukinari Ohkido (オーキド・ユキナリ博士 ''ookido yukinari hakase'') |
| 18 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prof_oak_lets_go.png]] |
| 19 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (JP, ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap''), Stan Hart (EN, ''Pokémon Snap''), Tadashi Wakabayashi (JP, ''The Two Professors''), Creator/BenDiskin (EN, ''The Two Professors''), Joe J. Thomas (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - EN), Creator/KenichiOgata (''Pokémon Masters'' - JP) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | The Pokémon Professor native to the Kanto region who specializes in the study of the relationships between humans and Pokémon. He is the grandfather of the player character's rival in [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, and their remakes]]. He has a cousin named Samson who lives in Alola. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: He doesn't even remember his own grandson's name, and has to be reminded by the player (who he also can't remember the name of) at the beginning of the game. He apparently also has problems with telling the difference between male and female children, but then again so do the other professors. |
| 24 | ** In ''Let's Go Pikachu!'' and ''Let's Go Eevee!'', Oak's habit of forgetting his grandson's name is revealed to be a joke he often plays on Blue, though Blue doesn't find it funny. |
| 25 | * BigOlEyebrows: Just look at them! |
| 26 | * ColorfulThemeNaming: His Japanese name, Ookido, is a Japanese transliteration of the word "orchid". Orchids are a shade of light purple, hence why he's shown wearing a purple shirt in his original outfit. |
| 27 | * CoolOldGuy: He's a NiceGuy, a skilled Pokémon Professor, and a RetiredBadass. Can't get much cooler than that. |
| 28 | * IWasQuiteALooker: According to Agatha. |
| 29 | * MrExposition: At the beginning of the games, setting a tradition with succeeding Professors. |
| 30 | * NiceGuy: He adores Pokémon and people alike, and gives the player their starter. |
| 31 | * OddNameOut: In the original Japanese, he was the only one to ''[[AvertedTrope avert]]'' OnlyOneName until his cousin came along in the seventh generation. In the English translation, the professors of the fifth and sixth generations also have first names. [[note]]In the games alone, he did not have an English first name until ''Sun'' and ''Moon'', but the anime had long established his first name as Samuel.[[/note]] |
| 32 | * OldMaster: Implied in the games proper since it's alluded to that he was Champion at some point, and cemented further by his unused battle in Generation I where his team is even stronger than the current Champion's. |
| 33 | * OlympusMons: In ''Masters'', he forms a sync pair with Mew. Notably, he is the first character to form a sync pair with a Mythical Pokémon in the game. |
| 34 | * RetiredBadass: According to Agatha. It's also implied he was the Champion at one point since he can enter the Hall of Fame. |
| 35 | * SignatureMon: Nidorino, as revealed in his Sync Pair Story in ''Masters''. Since his old rival Agatha has a Gengar, this serves as a MythologyGag: a Nidorino and Gengar battled each other in the opening of ''Red and Blue''. Otherwise he uses Mew in ''Masters''. |
| 36 | * ThemeNaming: Oak kicks off the tradition of naming the regional professors after trees. |
| 37 | * VagueAge: Widely believed to be 47 years old at the time of Generation I, despite no official source ever stating such. The anime confirms him to be 50, which occurred during Generation II, so it's likely the three years between the two games were subtracted to arrive at 47 without accounting for the anime's ComicBookTime nature. The only official word we can go on is that Oak is Professor Rowan's junior in terms of seniority, which would put him at age 59 at most as of Generation IV, being that Rowan himself claims to be 60 years old. |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Daisy Oak[=/=]Nanami Okido (オーキド・ナナミ ''ookido nanami'')]] |
| 41 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DaisyOakAdventures_4872.PNG]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | Blue's older sister. Unlike her brother, she is actually a kind and gentle young woman. She gives the player a Map in the Gen I games (and their remakes), and offers massages in the Gen II games (and their remakes). |
| 44 | ---- |
| 45 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 46 | ** Daisy does not appear in ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''; however, the game's new rival Trace has [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute a big sister of his own who also gives the player something nifty]]. |
| 47 | ** Her absence incidentally sidesteps the OneSteveLimit: "Daisy" is also the name of Misty's oldest sister from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', [[CanonImmigrant who appears as a Cerulean Gym trainer in these games]]. |
| 48 | * BigBrotherInstinct: In ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'', she worries about Blue being lonely and encourages you to call him, be it for battles or just to talk. |
| 49 | * ColorMotif: Daisy wears a green dress, perhaps as a nod to the original Green version. |
| 50 | * CoolBigSis: Sister of the rival from [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, and their remakes]]. She gives the player a Town Map and grooms their Pokémon for free. |
| 51 | * FormerChildStar: It's indicated in ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' that Daisy is a former [[TeenIdol contest coordinator]]--a contest champion, even. (That said, unlike the typical example [[DownplayedTrope she's retired and living in comfort in her family home]]). |
| 52 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: A lot of people mention how nice she is and that Pokémon love her. In ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'', she'll give the player Blue's phone number only after she has groomed seven Pokémon and is shown one with maxed friendship. |
| 53 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Daisy is a contest champion; given Kanto hosts no contest halls, that would imply that Daisy's travels have taken her outside of her home region. |
| 54 | * HiddenDepths: It wasn't until the remakes, but examine the right bookshelf and you'll discover that Daisy's a [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire former Contest champion]]. No wonder she's so good at grooming Pokémon. |
| 55 | * LimitedWardrobe: In her (admittedly obscure) sprites and character art, Daisy always appears in a green [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(dress) jumper]] and headband, even while the protagonist and rival designs are constantly updated. |
| 56 | * NiceGirl: Compared to her little brother, she's very polite and cheerful. However, more of Daisy's personality [[TookALevelInKindness can be seen in Blue]] as the series progresses, especially in ''Sun and Moon'' when it's shown that he's best friends with Red again. |
| 57 | * NoNameGiven: Daisy Oak didn't have a name until ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', so before that she was just "Blue's sister". ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'' called her May (Satsuki in the Japanese release), but keeping this name would've violated OneSteveLimit, given the female PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''. |
| 58 | * SiblingYinYang: |
| 59 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', TheRival is a {{Jerkass}} but his sister is a NiceGuy--after the rival makes it clear he means to get a Town Map from his sister and that he'll tell her not to give you one, she'll give it to you anyway. |
| 60 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' elaborates on that same theme; while the rival is chastised for forgetting to love pokemon, Daisy is FamedInStory for her affinity with them. |
| 61 | ** Blue is prone to wandering all over (even after he becomes Gym Leader in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''), regardless of who is inconvenienced, but his sister is a cozy homebody who keeps a reliable schedule. |
| 62 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tea. In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', if you talk to her at any point from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, she'll invite you to join her for some. According to one of her Fame Checker entries from ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', Daisy buys her tea from the Celadon Department Store. She even mentions it in her personal message to you from the same game. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Bill[=/=]Masaki Sonezaki (ソネザキマサキ ''sonezaki masaki'')]] |
| 66 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_frlg.png]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | The Pokémon Storage System Developer who operates on the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]]-[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Johto]] landmass. He is a native of the Johto region with family in both regions. He is also a famous inventor and Pokémon researcher who is regarded as an expert in many fields. Because of his large collection of both common and rare Pokémon people, including himself, call him a Poké Maniac. He considers Eevee and its evolutions as his favorite Pokémon. |
| 69 | ---- |
| 70 | * AccentAdaptation: He speaks with a Kansai accent in the Japanese versions. In the English anime dub, his accent is British RP, and in the English translation of the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga he has an American Southern accent. However, his dialogue in the English translations of the games isn't too different from that of most other characters, averting this trope. |
| 71 | * ConnectedAllAlong: One item of trivia shared by Bill's fan Brent is that his mother was a kimono girl, which implicitly retcons Bill's favoritism for the Eevee family to be the result of family connections to the kimono-girls of Ecruteak City, who train its various evolutions. |
| 72 | * DemotedToExtra: In Generation II. He isn't as relevant to the plot as in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' and their remakes, to the point where the original ''Gold'', ''Silver'', and ''Crystal'' told you right off the bat whose PC you were using to store your extra Pokémon instead of labeling it "Someone's PC" like the previous games as well as the [=PCs=] run by Lanette and Bebe in later installments. |
| 73 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: Doesn't like milk according to Celio from the Sevii Islands. |
| 74 | * ForcedTransformation: When you first meet him, he has been turned into a Pokémon (the miscellaneous Rhydon icon in the original, interpreted as Kabuto in the anime, Rattata in the manga, Clefairy in ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', and Nidorino in ''Let's Go'') due to a TeleporterAccident. He gets better thanks to you, and gives you a ticket for the S.S. Anne as thanks. It is brought up again in ''Sun and Moon'' as the reason for [[spoiler:Lillie taking her mother to Kanto to get in touch with him to find out how to remove the last traces of the latter's fusion with Nihilego from her body]]. |
| 75 | * ImYourBiggestFan: In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', a fan of Bill named Poké Maniac Brent calls you occasionally to give you trivia about Bill, such as: Bill's younger sister can't wink; Bill's first Pokémon was an Abra; Bill's mother was a Kimono Girl; Bill is not good at Pokémon battles; and Bill is attracted to the Goldenrod Flower Shop owner's daughter. |
| 76 | * ItWasAGift: He gives you an Eevee in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal and their remakes]] and indirectly in [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum]]. |
| 77 | * MacGuffinEscortMission: In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]'', an extra quest was added after the Cinnabar Gym battle, in which Bill takes you to the first three islands in the Sevii Archipelago to deliver a meteorite. |
| 78 | * NonActionGuy: As noted under ImYourBiggestFan above, he's not so good at Pokémon battles and generally isn't shown participating in them in any of his appearances. While he ''does'' have a "battle" sprite in [=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=], it's only ever used for his Fame Checker profile. |
| 79 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: Bill's appearance in his character art for ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' is much cleaner and tidier than his art ''circa'' ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. |
| 80 | * ShoutOut: |
| 81 | ** His teleportation incident is a direct homage to ''Film/TheFly1986''. |
| 82 | ** His name has been referred to as an allusion to Bill Gates, former head of Microsoft and developer of the Microsoft Windows operating system for personal computers. |
| 83 | * SignatureMon: He doesn't seem to train anything, but he's strongly associated with the Eevee family. |
| 84 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', he invites the player to check out his favorite Pokémon on his PC, which will let the player gain the visual data for Eevee and its evolutions Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon. |
| 85 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', he gives the player an Eevee in need of a good home. |
| 86 | ** Bill's association with Eevee [[RecurringElement sets the tone for another event later in the series]]--in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' Bebe, PC Developer of Sinnoh, will give the player an egg containing an Eevee. |
| 87 | ** According to trivia from ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'', Bill's mother was a kimono-girl, [[ConnectedAllAlong which gives him a family connection to the kimono-girls of Ecruteak City]], who all train Eeveelutions. |
| 88 | * TeleporterAccident: A mishap with the teleportation device turned him into a hybrid for a while. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Celio[=/=]Nishiki (ニシキ ''nishiki'')]] |
| 92 | [[quoteright:149:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/celio_frlg.png]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | A Pokémon Storage System programmer who operates in the Sevii Islands and is good friends with Bill. He runs the Pokémon Net Center on [[NumericalThemeNaming One Island]] where he built and maintains the Pokémon Network machine. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Both his eyes and hair are the same grassy shade of greenish brown. |
| 97 | * FetchQuest: He makes the protagonist search out to the rest of the Sevii Islands to find the Ruby and the Sapphire so he use them to finish the Pokémon Network machine and connect with Lanette in [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Hoenn]]. |
| 98 | * FunWithAcronyms: His name may be a reference to the '''C'''orps of '''E'''ngineers '''L'''ibrary '''I'''nformation '''O'''nline, a database of all the documents in the libraries of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. |
| 99 | %%* SmartPeopleWearGlasses |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | !Gym Leaders |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Brock ''[-(Takeshi)-]'']] |
| 105 | !!Brock / Takeshi (タケシ ''takeshi'') |
| 106 | [[quoteright:153:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_brock.png]] |
| 107 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Tommy Arciniega ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/KosukeToriumi ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 108 | |
| 109 | Pewter City Gym Leader--''The Rock-Solid Pokémon Trainer!'' |
| 110 | |
| 111 | -->''"I believe in rock hard defense and determination! That's why my Pokémon are all the Rock-type! Do you still want to challenge me? Fine then! Show me your best!"'' |
| 112 | |
| 113 | The very first Gym Leader encountered in the franchise, a serious young man who is passionate about training. Brock specializes in [[DishingOutDirt Rock-type Pokémon]] and gives out the Boulder Badge to trainers who beat him. |
| 114 | ---- |
| 115 | * AchillesHeel: |
| 116 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the choice of [[UniqueProtagonistAsset starter pokémon]] gives the player access to the Water and Grass types; both will do [[QuadDamage four times the damage]] against Brock's Rock- and Ground-type monsters, which are [[NoKillLikeOverkill already poor in Special Defense]]. |
| 117 | ** Ignoring the ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' games, all his pokémon through ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'' have a [[QuadDamage double weakness]] to Grass, except for one Rampardos (which as a GlassCannon will fall to any Grass-type attack of moderate strength). Not until ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' gives him a Flying-type Aerodactyl does he balance out that weakness. |
| 118 | ** Bide, his SignatureMove in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', requires the user to suffer damage while it's charging power, which is easily subverted by wary trainers who won't attack until it's done. |
| 119 | * AdaptationalBadass: In ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', Brock's Signature Move is Rock Tomb, much more aggressive than his defensive strategy in the original games. |
| 120 | * AdaptationalModesty: [[WalkingShirtlessScene He went shirtless]] in the original games, but all later games starting with ''Yellow'' have him wearing a shirt. [[TheCoatsAreOff When he gets serious though, the shirt comes off.]] |
| 121 | * TheArtifact: |
| 122 | ** In the first gen, Brock's spiel about rock-hard defense suited his SignatureMove Bide, but his strategy stops being about defense and endurance in the third gen when he copies Roxanne's SignatureMove, the stat-crippling Rock Tomb. |
| 123 | ** Because Brock's SignatureMon Onix loses Brock's signature type when it evolves to Steelix, there's been a strong trend in the games to keep his team centerpiece unevolved, causing it to fall further and further behind the PowerCreep of each new generation. |
| 124 | * BalanceBuff: The franchise held out on giving Brock access to top-shelf attacking Rock-types like Aerodactyl and Tyranitar, but yielded in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''. |
| 125 | * BigBrotherMentor: Serves as this to the protagonist of ''Masters'', being one of their first companions (along with Misty and Rosa) and one of the most recurring ones to appear in story segments, giving advice and support in equal amounts. |
| 126 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: |
| 127 | ** Starting with ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Brock has been known to use {{Prehistoric Monster}}s on his team--the most common of these are the prehistoric creepy-crawlies Kabutops and Omastar. |
| 128 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', Brock uses a Forretress on his first Gym Leader Castle team (a nod to his anime self's ownership of the same Pokémon), and also includes a Pinsir on the same team. His second team uses Heracross and Shuckle, instead. |
| 129 | * ClarkKentOutfit: In ''Masters'', Brock looks rather lithe with his sweater on, but when he shreds it during his Sync Move he looks like ''[[https://i.imgflip.com/327433.png this]]''. Even if you consider this to simply be a side-effect of the Sync Moves, comparing his arms on his [[https://gamewith-en.akamaized.net/article/thumbnail/rectangle/10750.png normal sprite]] to his arms on his [[https://gamewith-en.akamaized.net/article/thumbnail/rectangle/10751.png Sygna Suit sprite]] makes for a very noticeable contrast. |
| 130 | * TheCoatsAreOff: In ''Masters'', he shreds his shirts when using a Sync Move (though it always returns directly afterwards.) |
| 131 | * {{Combos}}: His Graveler can use the Defense Curl-Rollout combo in ''GSCHGSS''. |
| 132 | * ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: Inverted in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where a trainer in Pewter City will take a Gloom (a Grass-type that Brock's Pokémon are weak to) in exchange for a Rapidash (a Fire-type that his Pokémon will have the advantage against). Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', the Mankey line is placed earlier in Route 22, to give all players a surefire way of hitting his Rock-types super-effectively (while also providing a Pokémon that resists Rock-type moves) regardless of the Starter Pokémon a player picked. |
| 133 | * DamageSpongeBoss: His signature is Onix, which had the second highest defense in the original games, but extremely low HP and attack power, tempered by mediocre speed. All its other stats are about on par with a [[ComMons Pidgey]]. This is seemingly designed so that [[EarlyBirdBoss new players would have a hard time]] doing ScratchDamage with Normal, Poison, Flying, and Bug-types found prior to reaching his Gym[[note]]while Bug deals neutral damage to Rock, Bug-types tend to not have access to STAB moves early on (if they get them at all) until Generation IV[[/note]]. |
| 134 | * DumbMuscle: Implied by the ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' card game. The artwork for "Blaine's Quiz #3" features Brock helplessly racking his brains for an answer to Blaine's questions. |
| 135 | * EarlyBirdBoss: In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Pewter Gym is the player's first real exposure to the game's ElementalRockPaperScissors, and Brock's team is optimized to force that kind of encounter on the player--his mixed Rock-Ground types take ScratchDamage at best from local wild Pokémon, but the battle is all but decided by the starter. Charmander will be challenged, but Bulbasaur and Squirtle will go through him like a hot knife through butter. {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es in {{Updated Rerelease}}s of the game make him even easier by giving the wild Pokémon and Charmander viable tactics of their own. |
| 136 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He was originally shirtless, but ever since ''Yellow'', he's been fully-clothed. He may go topless as a CallBack to his glory days in newer adaptations. |
| 137 | * EyesAlwaysShut: A very noticeable trait of his and is probably one of the most famous examples of the trope of all-time. |
| 138 | * {{Foil}}: Roxanne of Hoenn, who is a fellow Gym Leader of the Rock type ''and'' the first gym leader battled by the player character of her respective game, but while Brock (as per his original design) is physically-oriented, Roxanne (as a teacher) is mentally-oriented. |
| 139 | * FossilRevival: Works Kanto's fossil Pokémon Omastar, Kabutops, and Aerodactyl into his teams in several games. In ''HGSS'', he adds Rampardos to his rematch team. |
| 140 | * ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy: Brock's first-gen teams, while having increased difficulty after the local trainers, become decidedly unimpressive once you get to Mt. Moon, hardly worthy of a supposed leading light amongst trainers. Averted in most future games, where Brock has teams of well-trained monsters available. |
| 141 | * InformedAttribute: Brock's initial connection to Rock-types was ostensibly based on their defenses, but the dearth of defensive rock-types and strategies have left him struggling to live up to his own spiel. Most of his pokémon tend to be offensively-oriented, down to borrowing the attacking Rampardos from Sinnoh's fossils rather than the defending Bastiodon. |
| 142 | * LeotardOfPower: His Sygna suit in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' incorporates a black wrestling singlet with orange trim which emphasizes his muscles. |
| 143 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 144 | ** In English, B'''rock'''. |
| 145 | ** '''Take''' is a homonym for "Peak" or "Mountain". |
| 146 | ** In the French version: "Pierre" literally means "stone". |
| 147 | ** In the German versions it's '''Rock'''o. |
| 148 | * MyRulesAreNotYourRules: More of a PokeThePoodle example than most, his Onix in ''Yellow'' has Bind at Level 12, when it shouldn't have that attack before Level 15. |
| 149 | * MythologyGag: |
| 150 | ** In ''Stadium'', he uses Vulpix (later Ninetales) and Golbat, Pokémon used by his anime self in the early anime. ''Stadium 2'' gave him a Forretress, which his anime self gained while travelling through Johto. |
| 151 | ** ''Masters'' gives us a three-fer. |
| 152 | *** In ''Masters'', Brock becomes the player character's BigBrotherMentor, as his anime self was for Ash Ketchum. |
| 153 | *** ''Masters'' Brock gets nervous around pretty girls, in direct contrast to his anime counterpart famously flirting with every girl he meets. |
| 154 | *** His Sync Move animation (in both normal and Sygna Suit variants) gives him a ShirtlessScene with the same crossed arms pose he had in his original Game Boy sprites. |
| 155 | * ObviousRulePatch: Every remake after ''Red'' and ''Blue'' reworks distribution and movelists to mitigate any increases in difficulty Brock might present. |
| 156 | ** ''Yellow'' hid the Fighting-type Mankey west of Viridian City, rearranged the Nidoran moveset to let them learn Double Kick early, and gave Butterfree Confusion at level ten. |
| 157 | ** FRLG--and ''only'' FRLG--have Charmander with Metal Claw to give it something super-effective against Rock types. |
| 158 | ** ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'', an UpdatedRerelease of ''Yellow'', cut out the middle-man and gave Pikachu Double Kick early for its own super-effective move against him. |
| 159 | * PaperTiger: His signature Pokémon, Onix, has shades of this. It's a 28 foot long, 400+ pound serpentine creature made of ore, designed to look intimidating; it's also easily the largest Pokémon a player will encounter for a good chuck of their Kanto experience. That all being said, it ''easily'' folds to a player's Bulbasaur or Squirtle, due to it having low Special Defense and being quad-weak to their Grass and Water moves. It also hits as hard as a ''Pidgey,'' so the odds of it knocking out the aforementioned Starters before they do it is incredibly unlikely. |
| 160 | * PerpetualFrowner: Brock's expression in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and its {{Updated Rerelease}}s is always solemn, often with a clenched fist or folded arms. This was also true in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', but he appears to lighten up in ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver''. In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange on the other hand]], he can show cartoonish glee or dismay typical of his appearance in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''. |
| 161 | * PersonalityPowers: Invoked in his pre-battle quote; he uses Rock-types to reflect his preference for determination and defense. |
| 162 | * PrehistoricMonster: Brock's nearly always had a slight connection to Fossil Pokémon. ''Pokémon Stadium'' introduced Omanyte and Kabuto to his team, which by ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' became Omastar and Kabutops, which was [[CallForward supported]] by ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' indicating Brock was known to occasionally assist with fossil excavations at Mt. Moon. ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' further added Relicanth and Rampardos to his roster, and he finally received Aerodactyl in ''Black 2'' and ''White 2''. |
| 163 | * {{Retcanon}}: Brock's interest in pokémon breeding in ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'' and the ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' card game was lifted straight from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', |
| 164 | * ScissorsCutsRock: In theory, Brock's Rock/Ground-typed Pokémon counters Charmander if you start with it, however.... |
| 165 | ** In Generation I, Brock's Pokémon have low HP and Special, meaning that even with the type-resistance, the Fire-type move Ember still takes a fair bite out of them, while he has no actual Rock-type moves to take advantage of Fire-type's weakness to his type specialty. As a result, any Charmander of Level 12 or more can hold its own. |
| 166 | ** Exaggerated in ''FRLG'', which unusually gives Charmander the Steel-type Metal Claw--Steel beats Rock in the series' TacticalRockPaperScissors. |
| 167 | * SignatureMon: |
| 168 | ** [[FakeUltimateMook Onix]] is typically his highest-leveled and finishing option. He even calls it his best partner in ''Masters''. Given that its evolution Steelix is Steel/Ground, Brock's Onix is almost always kept unevolved to maintain his specialty type, with the only exception being his battle in ''Stadium 2''. |
| 169 | ** The Geodude line in general is one of Brock's mainstays, appearing on all of his teams in the main series, usually as the one he leads with. Additionally, [[MightyGlacier Golem]] ends up taking Onix's place as his strongest Pokémon in the Generation VII rematches. |
| 170 | ** His Sygna Suit variant in ''Masters'' pairs him with Tyranitar, which notably takes over from Onix as Brock's partner just before the tournament matches of the PML begin. |
| 171 | * SignatureMove: His TM in Gen I was Bide, which pauses two turns to absorb and then unleash damage in keeping with his defensive inclinations, but in Gen III, he inherits the more crippling Rock Tomb from Roxanne. For difficulty purposes in both, though, only Onix uses them. Gen IV gave him Rock Slide, which half his team uses. |
| 172 | * SiliconBasedLife: Both his Geodude and his Onix are basically living rocks. |
| 173 | * TacticalRockPaperScissors: Brock is the player's first real challenge with the type system, and his difficulty in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' hinged entirely on which starter Pokémon the player picked. |
| 174 | * ThresholdGuardians: Brock's Boulder Badge enables the player to use Flash, which is very useful for anyone trying to traverse Rock Tunnel and Victory Road. |
| 175 | * VagueAge: Not as bad as fellow Gym Leader Misty (detailed below), but he's still had some of this courtesy of the anime. He's apparently not much older than Ash's other companions in the anime, but in the early games, his age was ''very'' vague and not really brought up. In remakes, it tends to go all over the place — ''FRLG'' made him look a bit younger, but in ''LGPE'', his ''massive'' height advantage on the player character and consistently stern demeanor seems to mark him as unmistakably an adult. |
| 176 | * WakeUpCallBoss: In-Universe, Brock is well-known for being one for most trainers, who are unprepared to take on his Rock-type Pokémon with their Normal, Flying, Bug, and occasionally Poison or Electric-types. For the player, the experience largely hinges on which [[UniqueProtagonistAsset starter Pokémon]] you chose. If you selected the Fire-type Charmander or Electric-type Pikachu, you'd have a naturally tougher fight on your hands, since his Rock-types are offensively and defensively superior to the Fire type and his Pokémon have a secondary Ground-type that makes them immune to Electric-type attacks. |
| 177 | * WarmUpBoss: However, if you choose [[GreenThumb Bulbasaur]] or [[MakingASplash Squirtle]] as your starter, then congrats, you've won! Both do huge amounts of damage to his team with their doubly-effective Grass and Water attacks. |
| 178 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: His absolute earliest design was shirtless, which shows in his original sprite and the earliest mugshot art. However, outside of those two sources, every other depiction of him is with a shirt on. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Misty ''[-(Kasumi)-]'']] |
| 182 | !!Misty / Kasumi (カスミ ''kasumi'') |
| 183 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_misty.png]] |
| 184 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RebaBuhr ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/AyaneSakura ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 185 | |
| 186 | Cerulean City Gym Leader--''The Tomboyish Mermaid!'' |
| 187 | |
| 188 | -->''"Hi, you're a new face! What's your policy on Pokémon? What is your approach? My policy is an all-out offensive with water-type Pokémon! Misty, the world-famous beauty, is your host! Are you ready, sweetie?"'' |
| 189 | |
| 190 | Leader of the Cerulean Gym, a spunky young woman who trains [[MakingASplash Water-types]]. She gives the Cascade Badge to trainers who defeat her. |
| 191 | ---- |
| 192 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: |
| 193 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', an obese man loiters at the entrance of Cerulean Gym and describes himself as a {{Fan}} of hers (a young teen at most). He's still there three years later in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. |
| 194 | ** A developer in the Celadon City Game Freak office also gushes over her if you talk to him. |
| 195 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her anime outfit gets this in ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'', ''Let's Go, Eevee!'', and ''Pokémon Masters'', with her crop top going from yellow to white with added princess seams and her jean shorts having what appear to be water-themed marking patterns imprinted upon them. |
| 196 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: DependingOnTheArtist. Misty's battle sprite in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' depicts her with a graceful, elegant pose to show that SheIsAllGrownUp, but the UpdatedRerelease for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS has her jumping and pumping a fist to show how HotBlooded she is. |
| 197 | * AdaptationalModesty: |
| 198 | ** Only just--her tank top and short shorts from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' ([[RetCanon backported]] to ''Pokémon Yellow'') are skimpy in their own right, but they suspend her status as a WalkingSwimsuitScene. |
| 199 | ** Misty wears less revealing swimwear in most of her appearances after the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', in games and official art alike. Her appearance in the Gen III VideoGameRemake gives her a more conservative, athletic bikini, while in the sequel ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she's wearing a one-piece with a windbreaker over it. Even her returning swimsuits in ''Masters'' cover more skin than they did original games. |
| 200 | * ArtificialBrilliance: In rematches and tournaments, Misty's team gets a good shot in the arm of competence; her Starmie in particular often ends up with a moveset optimized for sweeping. She was an early adopter of the Rain Dance WeatherOfWar in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and takes advantage of the benefits to Thunder in ''Stadium 2''. |
| 201 | * ArtificialStupidity: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Misty insists on using a variety of {{Status Buff}}s on her Starmie that belie her "[[InformedAttribute all-out offensive]]" by strengthening Tackle (its absolute weakest move) and protecting it from minor physical threats. This was likely [[EnforcedTrope a deliberate handicap]], since it not only doesn't match the typical AI Pattern of always using supereffective attacks, it effectively gives the player free turns. |
| 202 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Erika's Beauty and Sabrina's Brains, being more physically brutal in a Pokémon battle than the other two and making life hell for unprepared Trainers, especially with her Starmie. |
| 203 | * BoobsAndButtPose: |
| 204 | ** In ''Yellow'', Misty strikes a subdued version of this pose that lets you get a good look at her from the side, though it wasn't obvious until the graphical updates of ''Let's Go''. |
| 205 | ** In ''Pokémon Masters'', one of Swimsuit Misty's animations has her strike a straightforward version of the pose. |
| 206 | * CallForward: Misty is first discovered in ''Gold, Silver, and Crystal'' on a date up at the Cerulean Cape, which the player interrupts (scaring off the apparently rather shy boy she was with). In ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', one of her Fame Checker records declares that she's had high hopes for a date at that very spot. |
| 207 | * TheCameo: In ''Let's Go'', Misty's original gym trainers have been replaced with her older sisters from the anime, Daisy, Violet, and Lily, [[CanonImmigrant who appear as three bikini beauties]]. |
| 208 | * CharacterCatchphrase: In the Japanese version of ''Yellow'', Misty uses her anime self's catchphrase, "Go! My steady!" |
| 209 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 210 | ** Yellow version took the anime version of Misty, complete with her IconicOutfit (and in the original Japanese, her catchphrase), and put her in the role of her original version from the games as a Gym Leader. ''Let's Go'' even replaced the Cerulean Gym's regular trainers with anime Misty's older sisters Daisy, Violet, and Lily. |
| 211 | ** Misty's clothes in ''Let's Go'' are a redesigned version of her ShortTank IconicOutfit from the anime worn over a red PaletteSwap of the blue bikini she wore in the first generation games. Even the princess seams on the front of her tanktop are a throwback to the stripes on her swimsuit in her first gen. official art. |
| 212 | ** In ''Masters'', she wears her ''Let's Go'' outfit but has proportions much closer to her original anime appearance. |
| 213 | ** In ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'', Misty wears her swimsuit from ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', but it has stripes like her swimsuit from her ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' character art. |
| 214 | * ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: |
| 215 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', players who didn't choose the Grass type Bulbasaur at the start or get lucky and nab an Electric type Pikachu in Viridian Forest can still pick up a Grass type [[VersionExclusiveContent Oddish or Bellsprout]] while traveling the routes north of Cerulean City. The hikers on Route 25 and the sailors and fisherman on the S.S. Anne can be used to get these Grass types trained up to be more competitive against Misty. |
| 216 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and its remakes, Misty cannot be challenged until the power plant crisis is resolved. In ''Crystal'' and the Gen IV remakes, a trainer at the power plant will give you a Magneton in exchange for a Dugtrio. |
| 217 | * DatePeepers: When you meet her in ''Gold, Silver, and Crystal'', you catch her on a date. She doesn't take this well, to put it simply. |
| 218 | * EarlyBirdBoss: Downplayed. Like Brock, her difficulty hinges in part on what [[UniqueProtagonistAsset starter Pokémon]] the player faces her with; unlike Brock, the player can catch Pokémon with type advantages against her and make them viable options with only some LevelGrinding. Later games had to implement {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es to give the player more options against Brock. |
| 219 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Between Generation I and Generation II, she stopped wearing her hair in a side ponytail and cut it shorter. |
| 220 | * {{Fangirl}}: According to the Fame Checker in ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', she "worship[s] Lorelei of the Elite Four". |
| 221 | * FieryRedhead: Downplayed; she gets steamed when you botch her date in the Johto-based games. When you first meet her in the Kanto-based games she's actually quite perky. |
| 222 | * GirlinessUpgrade: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Misty's battle sprite is much more elegant and graceful than her ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' sprite. |
| 223 | * HartmanHips: Didn't have this at first, but her [[ArtEvolution redesigns]] have each made her hips more and more prominent. |
| 224 | * HighlySpecificCounterplay: For the purposes of standard play in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Magikarp Salesman's Magikarp is all but useless. For anyone willing to put in the LevelGrinding, however, [[MagikarpPower the Gyarados it becomes]] makes an excellent counter for Misty's Starmie--Gyarados' high special and Water type neutralize the threat of Starmie's strongest attacks, and its high attack means Gyarado's Bite can deal more damage than the SquishyWizard Starmie can heal. |
| 225 | * HotBlooded: Her battle sprite animations in ''HGSS'' feature her jumping and pumping a fist in anticipation, which is a huge contrast from her gentle, breezy pose in the original ''GSC''. |
| 226 | * ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy: Her training place is Seafoam Islands, which have Pokémon that are higher-leveled than hers in the Kanto games. For a long time this was an InformedAbility until later Pokémon installments [[JustifiedTrope justified]] it by showing that Gym Leaders are WillfullyWeak depending on their challengers. |
| 227 | * LegacyCharacter: Misty's Starmie in ''Pokémon Masters'' is not the Starmie she uses in her Gym battles in the main games. As she explains during her Sync Pair Story, the ''Masters'' Starmie is actually that Starmie's child. |
| 228 | * LightningBruiser: Trains two of them, but Starmie especially. It's very fast and hits hard with Bubble Beam[=/=]Water Pulse. It also has Recover in the remake, so if the player doesn't hit it hard enough or doesn't have a priority move, Starmie will just heal off the damage immediately in the next turn. |
| 229 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When the player inadvertently crashes her date in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', her date flees, never to be heard from again, but Misty marches right up to you to confront you directly. |
| 230 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 231 | ** In English, Italian, German and Spanish,'''Mist'''y. It should be noted that Kasumi pretty much means the same in Japanese. |
| 232 | ** In French, her name is "Ondine", from Undine, water nymph in Germanic mythology. |
| 233 | * MsFanservice: She's a WalkingSwimsuitScene, and, in her ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' swimsuit, she holds the record for most revealing outfit of any ''Pokémon'' character. In ''Pokémon Yellow'' and its remake ''Let's Go'', she also has a BoobsAndButtPose. |
| 234 | * MythologyGag: |
| 235 | ** In the anime, Misty obtained a Psyduck that was infamously useless until it developed a headache. Following her anime self's lead, she has a Psyduck or Golduck on at least one team in ''Stadium'', ''Stadium 2'', ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' (and all remakes thereof), ''Black 2'' and ''White 2'', ''Let's Go'', and ''Masters'', each. |
| 236 | ** The anime also gave Misty trainership of the colicky Togepi, a then-EarlyBirdCameo for the unreleased Gen II. In the games, Misty has a Togetic on her first team in ''Stadium 2'', and if you bring a Togepi into the Cerulean Gym in HGSS and talk to it, it will begin crying softly. |
| 237 | ** The ''Stadium'' games also contain members of other Pokémon she was close to, such as Horsea (she cared for one in the early anime), Politoed (one of her team members during the Johto era), and potentially Wigglytuff (as she once tried to catch the Jigglypuff that stalked the protagonists of the anime). |
| 238 | ** The Fame Checker indicates Misty worships Lorelei of the Elite Four; when Lorelei appeared ([[InconsistentDub as Prima]]) during the Orange Islands season, Misty was delighted. |
| 239 | ** In ''Masters'', she becomes a friend and companion of the player character, like her anime self was for Ash Ketchum. |
| 240 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Discussed. In LGPE, Misty sometimes travels down to Vermillion so she can break out of the tiny pool and go swim in the great big sea. |
| 241 | * PaletteSwap: In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', Misty's second sync-pair (featuring a slightly more modest version of her swimsuit from ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'') and her sygna-suit both come with six-star ex variants that feature different color schemes. |
| 242 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where Misty's in-game battle sprite reveals she wears a more conservative bathing suit and has started LettingHerHairDown. Downplayed in the Gen IV remake, where Misty is at her most HotBlooded. |
| 243 | * ShipTease: With Red. While it doesn't appear as much in-game, where she only refers to the player character as "Sweetie", it's played up in promotional and expanded material as well as the anime and a few manga. |
| 244 | * {{Shorttank}}: Averted in most appearances, where she's not a co-star, but PlayedStraight in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she shares her female co-star status with Rosa and even gets to use the ''Let's Go'' version of her TropeNamer IconicOutfit. |
| 245 | * SignatureMon: |
| 246 | ** Primarily uses the Staryu line, with Starmie featuring in every one of her teams, including those in ''Stadium'', mostly as either the lead or final Pokémon. The one notable exception is in ''Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'', where Gyarados becomes Misty's strongest Pokémon in the rematch. Starmie also returns in ''Masters'', albeit as the child of the one from the gym. |
| 247 | ** She also has a prominent association with Psyduck. Either it or Golduck has a place on many versions of her team, often as the lead. Psyduck is also one of Misty's most prominent team members in the anime and is part of an alternative sync pair with her in ''Masters''. |
| 248 | ** Her Sygna Suit variation in ''Masters'' gives her Vaporeon. |
| 249 | * ShouldersUpNudity: Misty's original bikini was strapless, so in her ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' mugshot she has no visible clothes. |
| 250 | * SignatureMove: Gives the TM for Bubble Beam in Gen I. Gen III and Gen IV give her Water Pulse instead, which most of her team uses in those games, and in Gen VII, Scald fills that role. |
| 251 | * SkippableBoss: Downplayed. You can put off her gym battle until you've completed the S.S. Anne, but you do need to defeat her at that point in order to unlock the ability to use Cut in the overworld so you can face Lt. Surge or proceed onwards to Route 9. |
| 252 | * SpiritedCompetitor: |
| 253 | ** In the Johto games, she finds the player character to be a nuisance, only to reconsider at the sight of the eight Johto badges. After a battle with her, she reveals she wants to go traveling to fight other strong trainers. |
| 254 | ** ''Black 2'' & ''White 2'' even featured her in the "Gathered! Gym Leader!" DLC tournament with Volkner, Norman, and Jasmine, fellow Gym Leaders renowned for their toughness. |
| 255 | ** In ''Let's Go'', she's been champing at the bit for a rematch in the post-game after she heard how tough you were. |
| 256 | * SpectacularSpinning: In ''Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'', she pirouettes right before your showdown with her. |
| 257 | * TankTopTomboy: Misty is one of these whenever she's not a WalkingSwimsuitScene. |
| 258 | * ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Has high hopes for finding a boyfriend or at least getting a date at the Cerulean Cape. |
| 259 | * ThresholdGuardians: Misty's Cascade Badge authorizes trainers to use Cut, which (once the player collects the actual Hidden Machine from the S.S. Anne) opens up the first of Kanto's {{Insurmountable Waist Height Fence}}s, giving the player access to Lavender Town[[note]]Rock Tunnel ostensibly requires Flash to pass, but even in the first gen. can be dealt with by causing the palette to glitch and show the player character and environment[[/note]] and the rest of Kanto beyond. |
| 260 | * {{Tomboy}}: According to her title, this becomes more obvious in later installments. |
| 261 | * TomboyishPonytail: Her original design and its revamps have one, but she hasn't got one after she grows up. |
| 262 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Despite being known as the "Tomboyish Mermaid", she ThinksLikeARomanceNovel. |
| 263 | * {{Tsundere}}: Though she does react poorly to you at first in the sequels, she eventually warms up, and will even call you out of the blue (once you get her number) to thank you for kicking an intruder out of her Gym. The Tsundere side of her wasn't present in the first generation games, but was probably added [[RetCanon to match up]] with her anime incarnation's personality. |
| 264 | * VagueAge: Misty's age has always been a bit questionable, thanks to the PuniPlush style and Ken Sugimori's ArtEvolution. |
| 265 | ** In the Kanto-based games she's nearly always proportionally similar to the preteen player character, except in ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'', where she has smaller eyes and broader shoulders to show she's older than Red. |
| 266 | ** However, her "older" designs do a lot to throw things off. In the second generation, her graceful pose makes her seem [[YoungerThanSheLooks much more mature than any young teenager]] would be, and while her fourth generation design is more energetic and active, it is also her tallest design so far. That her fourth gen design was reused in the fifth, which takes place a decade and more afterwards, seems to indicate that this design was considered fully adult. |
| 267 | * WakeUpCallBoss: Her SignatureMon Starmie has bar none the beastliest stat average of any Pokémon you've seen in the game by the time you can face her and her SignatureMove will have some crippling stat reduction or status effect waiting for you, and in Generation 1 Starmie's immense Special stat counts for both offense and defense, so it can take a beating as well as dish it out. Like all Gym Leaders, [[PoorPredictableRock she can be done in with the proper prep]], but she can be brutal to a new player, especially if he picked Charmander as his starter. |
| 268 | * WalkingSwimsuitScene: To the hilt. |
| 269 | ** The only times she's not ready for a dip is in ''Yellow'', where she wears her ShortTank outfit from the anime, and in the ''Let's Go'' games, where she's wearing an updated redesign of the same outfit. (And even then, the ''LGPE'' [[https://pokeshipping-archive.tumblr.com/post/180862489847 concept art]] shows that she's wearing a bikini underneath). |
| 270 | ** Exaggerated in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where Misty's sprites remain unchanged even when she's outside her gym, indicating she walks around town and goes on dates in her swimsuit and jacket. She even wears the same outfit to visit the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City in the Gen IV VideoGameRemake and to the tournament in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''--in a completely different country. |
| 271 | * WalkingTheEarth: Discussed in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' when Misty claims she ''wants'' to go traveling, but spends most of her time in the gym. ([[MythologyGag In the anime]], Misty was Ash's travelling companion for all of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''). |
| 272 | * WeatherManipulation: Misty likes having her Pokémon use Rain Dance in games outside of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. |
| 273 | * WeatherOfWar: Misty makes some use of Rain Dance, which boosts the power of Water-type attacks by half and triggers abilities used by a handful of Water-type Pokémon, in ''GSC'' and ''HGSS''--it's in ''Stadium 2'' that she really dives in, though; nearly every Pokémon she uses has Rain Dance, and two thirds of her Round Two team have Thunder to make it an AlwaysAccurateAttack. |
| 274 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Misty's date in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', who is never mentioned again after he disappears. |
| 275 | * YoungestChildWins: In ''Let's Go'', the three bikini-beauties at the Cerulean Gym are at least a MythologyGag referring to Misty's BrainlessBeauty older sisters from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' if not {{Canon Immigrant}}s of the same. If they ''are'' her older sisters, then Misty has seniority over them as the Gym Leader, possibly due to AsskickingLeadsToLeadership. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Lt. Surge ''[-(Matis)-]'']] |
| 279 | !!Lt. Surge / Matis (マチス ''machisu'') |
| 280 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_lt_surge.png]] |
| 281 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN), Creator/{{Taketora}} (JP) ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]]) |
| 282 | |
| 283 | Vermilion City Gym Leader--''The Lightning Lieutenant!'' |
| 284 | |
| 285 | -->''"Hey, kid! What do you think you're doing here? You won't live long in combat! That's for sure! I tell you kid, electric Pokémon saved me during the war! They zapped my enemies into paralysis! The same as I'll do to you!"'' |
| 286 | |
| 287 | Gym Leader of Vermilion City, who hands out the Thunder Badge. Surge is a proud military man who specializes in [[ShockAndAwe Electric-types]]. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * AcePilot: Apparently was one. He used his Electric Pokémon to power his planes. |
| 290 | * AchillesHeel: The earthen Pokémon of Mt. Moon will absolutely bury his team in ''Red'', ''Blue'', or any of the remakes, where his monsters only use Electric- and Normal-type moves. Not until ''Let's Go'' gave his Raichu Double Kick did he have a viable strategy for dealing with mixed Rock-Ground types. |
| 291 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the Gen I games, he is not too difficult in ''Red and Blue'', but in ''Yellow'', he can give players a hard time. His Raichu is at a noticeably higher level and in addition to Thunderbolt, it packs Mega Punch and Mega Kick, which are pretty strong moves themselves. Even that Diglett you caught will have difficulty if you're not properly prepared. |
| 292 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Surge is boisterous and cocky, but he's not a jerk about it. His AlternateSelf from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' is tremendously arrogant and condescending to Ash and Pikachu, referring to them as babies who can't hope to defeat him and Raichu. This characterization was carried back into the anime-inspired ''Yellow'' version, but even then he's comparatively more mellow than he was in the anime, and it mostly only appears in post-''Yellow'' games as a one-off line declaring the player's power puny. |
| 293 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Surge is a high-ranking member of Team Rocket before Giovanni disbands it, and keeps some ties to the organization afterwards. |
| 294 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: As ''Pokémon Yellow'' is an adaptation of the anime, his original DrillSergeantNasty attitude was replaced with his BoisterousBruiser personality from the show. ''FRLG'' [[CompositeCharacter reconciled the two]] by adding a line to his classic dialog about the player's "puny power". |
| 295 | * TheArtifact: His title as "The Lightning American". Since the fourth generation or so, Game Freak has [[EarthDrift gone out of their way to avoid referencing real-world places]], but changing a persistent title like that was presumably too much of a change. A man in the Pokémon World Tournament's lobby mentions he might be from [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Unova]], but that still doesn't change the title. His title would finally be changed in ''Let's Go'' to the Lightning Lieutenant. |
| 296 | * ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Surge is a long-experienced military officer, but the English translation depicts him as a lieutenant, which is normally a rank held by much younger men[[note]]It takes about eighteen months for a newly commissioned officer to reach the rank of lieutenant, so most lieutenants tend to be in the early to mid-twenties[[/note]]. In the original Japanese, he's actually a {{Major|ly Awesome}}, a rank more commonly occupied by men in their thirties. |
| 297 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 298 | ** Surge in ''GSC'' and ''HGSS'' appears to have mellowed out somewhat, as his aggressive ''RBY'' stance and attitude were replaced with a "Yankee" characterization[[note]]"Yankee" being a pun on both "American" and a subset of JapaneseDelinquents[[/note]], complete with CoolShades and [[https://kotaku.com/in-japan-thugs-sit-like-theyre-taking-a-crap-5962065 yankee squatting]]. |
| 299 | ** ''HGSS'' further characterized his new personality by adding a case of RealMenWearPink (see below). |
| 300 | * CoolShades: He has sunglasses in Generation II and ''HGSS'', though unlike Blaine, he is seen with them off in ''HGSS'' (he simply holds them in his hand before and after battles with him), and of course in Generations I and III he never wore sunglasses at all. |
| 301 | * CripplingOverspecialization: In ''Red and Blue'', his team is almost incapable of hurting a [[DishingOutDirt Ground-type]] Pokémon, with his Raichu in particular being completely helpless against them. His ''Yellow'' incarnation fixes this. |
| 302 | * CutenessProximity: In ''Masters'', he notes that he is a total fan of the Pikachu line and loves them. |
| 303 | * DrillSergeantNasty: In the first generation and the third generation remakes, he's a very gruff and mean army lieutenant. |
| 304 | * {{Eagleland}}: Take a look at his title. Type 1, by the way, proud and stalwart, and implied to be AFatherToHisMen in the war. |
| 305 | * ElementalHairColors: Spiky and blonde for an Electric trainer. |
| 306 | * ElementalPersonalities: He's a brash and vivacious war veteran who specializes in Electric-type Pokémon. |
| 307 | * AFatherToHisMen: As one of the Gym Trainers tells the player, Lt. Surge saved his life back during the war. He has since pledged UndyingLoyalty to him. |
| 308 | * FragileSpeedster: Comes with specializing in Electric-types. His Pokémon are fast and hit hard, but they can't take it in return. |
| 309 | * GadgeteerGenius: He designed the infamous gate puzzle in his Gym. |
| 310 | * TheGiant: In the anime, assuming his Raichu is drawn to scale, he's over ''eight feet tall''. |
| 311 | * GlassCannon: His Raichu can hit fairly hard, especially in the ''Yellow'' version, but his Pokémon can't take too many hits. |
| 312 | * GratuitousEnglish: This is how he speaks in the Japanese versions of the games, as well as in the anime. He does it in the French versions too, but only in the remakes, for some odd reason. |
| 313 | * HiddenDepths: According to ''Masters'', Surge is a damn good cook, able to make Gloria's stomach growl with just the scent of his food and make her reminisce about eating curry with Zacian. |
| 314 | * HurricaneOfPuns: The man enjoys talking about how "shocking" and "electrifying" things are. |
| 315 | * {{Irony}}: The anime has him with a Raichu and disses Ash’s Pikachu for being unevolved and weak. ''HGSS'' reveals that his favorite Pokémon is Pikachu for being cute. |
| 316 | * LargeHam: He's very prone to shouting and boasting of his prowess. |
| 317 | * MajorlyAwesome: Surge's rank in the original Japanese is Major. (This would make him [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Major Matis]]). |
| 318 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 319 | ** Surge, as in "electric '''surge'''". |
| 320 | ** His Japanese name refers to the Cle'''matis''' flower, which is called "Tessen" in Japanese. "Tessen" is a homonym for "steel wire", as in the type used in electrical work. Incidentally, we would later have ''another'' Electric-type Gym Leader using more or less the exact same naming joke... |
| 321 | * MilitaryRankNames: Has only gone by his military title in English releases. |
| 322 | * MirrorBoss: Invoked in adaptations that have Red/Ash using Pikachu against his Raichu. This also carried over to ''Yellow Version'', where Raichu was his only Pokémon, seemingly encouraging the player to use their starter Pikachu against him. Of course, you could still use whatever you want. |
| 323 | * MyRulesAreNotYourRules: In ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and ''Pokemon Stadium 2'', Surge's Pikachu and Raichu know Surf, a move they couldn't learn at all in any version of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' or ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. (Certain Pikachu [[DownplayedTrope can]] be taught Surf ''via'' an OldSaveBonus provided by ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' if they meet the requirements, however). |
| 324 | * PatrioticFervor: Again, his title is ''The Lightning American!'' |
| 325 | * PhenotypeStereotype: He's a blond blue-eyed American man. This is made even more noticeable as most of the leaders have dark hair colors. |
| 326 | * RealMenWearPink: In ''HGSS''. For such a manly guy, he seems to like cute Pokémon, and his favorite Pokémon are the Pikachu line. You can show him a Pikachu to get his phone number, and he practically gushes over the sight of it like a fangirl. He also adds a Pachirisu to his team for the rematch, which is at a higher level than any Pokémon on his team save his signature Raichu. |
| 327 | * RiddleForTheAges: ''Many'' {{fan}} theories have been [[{{Pun}} sparked]] from the [[GreatOffscreenWar mysterious war]] that Lt. Surge, his Pokémon, and the other Trainers in his Gym have fought in. An [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:SecretMissionGymHeroes118.jpg old Trainer card]] show Lt. Surge with what seems to be a map of German occupied Poland behind him, which would suggest he fought in WWII (thereby making him [[OlderThanHeLooks older than he appears]]), but with how the Pokémon world has undergone EarthDrift over the generations this likely isn't canon anymore, leaving the war he fought in a mystery to this day. |
| 328 | * RetiredBadass: Was formerly a soldier who earned the rank of Lieutenant in [[GreatOffscreenWar some unknown conflict]] before becoming a Gym Leader. He's still quite young, however, looking to be in his late twenties. |
| 329 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: His signature Raichu. |
| 330 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Why he makes you solve a puzzle to unlock a gate to get to him: he's cautious and paranoid and sets traps to protect himself. |
| 331 | * SignatureMon: |
| 332 | ** His primary Pokémon is his Raichu, which appears on all of his teams, often as the strongest member. It also forms a BP pair with him in ''Masters''. In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldandSilver HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', he reveals that its pre-evolution, Pikachu, is his favorite Pokémon. |
| 333 | ** His initial battle in the Johto games sees Electabuzz take over as his strongest Pokémon before switching back to Raichu for the rematch. Additionally, from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldandSilver HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' onward, all but one of his teams featured an Electabuzz or Electivire. Electabuzz is also part of Lt. Surge's Pokémon Scale World Set. |
| 334 | ** Voltorb or Electrode acts as the lead on all of his Kanto teams. He also uses ''two'' Electrode during his gym battles in Generations II and IV and forms his default sync pair with Voltorb in ''Masters''. |
| 335 | * SignatureMove: Thunderbolt in Gen I — coming from a Raichu, it hurt a ''lot''. Gen III and Gen IV give him Shock Wave, which is more manageable, but he teaches it to his entire team instead. In his rematch in Gen IV, he goes back to Thunderbolt, and it's his main attack in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' as well. |
| 336 | * SirSwearsALot: He says "goddamn" in the Japanese versions. That's right, in the Japanese versions, he curses in ''[[GratuitousEnglish English]]''. |
| 337 | * SkippableBoss: Downplayed. You can put off his gym battle for quite some time since beating him doesn't unlock an HM move needed to traverse the overworld, but eventually you will have to circle back and deal with him in order to unlock the Viridian Gym. |
| 338 | * SleevesAreForWimps: His outfit leaves his bulging biceps bare. |
| 339 | * TakingYouWithMe: In ''Pokémon Masters'', his Voltorb can learn the passive skill "Last Word", which causes it to use Explosion when it faints. |
| 340 | * ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed. Surge's Thunder Badge authorizes players to use Fly and use VideoGameFlight to conveniently travel around the region. The Badge is only necessary in the sense that a guard on the path to Victory Road demands it before you can pass. |
| 341 | * TrapMaster: The first Gym Leader in Kanto to make you solve a puzzle to get to him, letting you stumble around fighting the other Trainers in his Gym while he waits for you in the back. |
| 342 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Catch a Geodude in Mt. Moon or a Diglett (or, if you're lucky, a Dugtrio) in Diglett's Cave right next to Vermillion City, train it a little, and ''wreck his gym''. |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Erika]] |
| 346 | !!Erika (エリカ ''erika'') |
| 347 | [[quoteright:134:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_erika.png]] |
| 348 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/XantheHuynh ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/AiKayano ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 349 | |
| 350 | Celadon City Gym Leader--''The Nature-Loving Princess!'' |
| 351 | |
| 352 | -->''"Hello. Lovely weather isn't it? It's so pleasant. ...Oh dear... I must have dozed off. Welcome. My name is Erika. I am the Leader of Celadon Gym. I teach the art of flower arranging. My Pokémon are of the Grass-type. Oh, I'm sorry, I had no idea that you wished to challenge me. Very well, but I shall not lose."'' |
| 353 | |
| 354 | The Gym Leader who resides in Celadon City, and giver of the Rainbow Badge. Erika is a polite and traditional lady who trains [[GreenThumb Grass-types]]. |
| 355 | ---- |
| 356 | * AIBreaker: Because the AI of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' insists on moves that win at ElementalRockPaperScissors, Erika's Victreebel and Vileplume hit a wall against ''other'' Grass-Poison mixes. Both must use Poison-type moves for the advantage over Grass-type, but the only such move they know is Poison Powder, which merely [[StatusEffects poisons]] the target, and Poison-types are [[LikeCannotCutLike immune to being poisoned]]. Her first gen Tangela, however, only knows [[CombatTentacles Constrict and Bind]] and evades this flaw. |
| 357 | * AchillesHeel: |
| 358 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', her Tangela only knows Normal-type attacks, so a Ghost-type will NoSell whatever it tries to do. |
| 359 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Erika shows off the new WeatherOfWar by teaching her strongest monsters Sunny Day, which improves their use of Synthesis to heal damage and lets them use Solarbeam without charging it. By the same token, however, it also makes them that much weaker to Fire-type moves, which were already supereffective. |
| 360 | * AdaptationalWimp: Erika's Vileplume no longer knows Petal Dance in ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen''--instead, its strongest move is Giga Drain. |
| 361 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The beauty to Sabrina's brains and Misty's brawn. In a Pokémon battle, she's a LadyOfWar who uses Grass-types in combat, her Pokémon team itself is a kind of flower-arrangement, and her post-battle dialog indicates she only collects Pokémon that she considers attractive--albeit, her ideas of "attractive" [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant are a little strange]]. |
| 362 | * ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: |
| 363 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', any player who didn't start with the Fire type Charmander can pick up [[VersionExclusiveContent Growlithe or Vulpix]] on the routes to the immediate east and west of Saffron City, which the player must cross to reach Celadon. Erika's gym is filled trainers that make easy LevelGrinding fodder, and the player can pick up a Fire Stone at Celadon Department Store to evolve them for a power boost if desired. |
| 364 | ** In the same games, Celadon Department Store sells the risky OneHitKill Horn Drill TM ''and'' X Accuracy, which will make it an AlwaysAccurateAttack. |
| 365 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'', Celadon Department Store sells the Ice-type move Avalanche. |
| 366 | * CriticalHitClass: The Victreebel playing front-man on Erika's team in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is the fastest monster she has and knows Razor Leaf, a move with an increased critical hit rate. |
| 367 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Erika's original sprite depicts her with her yukata worn right-over-left. This is unusual because that's usually how women are dressed for burial, but it's not an accident as even her concept art depicts her this way. ''Yellow'' fixes this and depicts her yukata folded more standardly. |
| 368 | * ElementalMotifs: She's a Grass-type specialist with a specific emphasis on grace, tradition, and beauty of flowers. |
| 369 | * EyesAlwaysShut: In her battle sprite and character art for ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Erika's eyes are closed to highlight her dignified air (and possibly her dozing off); likewise, her mugshot for ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''. This trait vanished afterwards, however, and [[CharacterizationMarchesOn she's been open-eyed]] since [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gym_Heroes_(TCG) she was released with the other Gym Leaders]] in the ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' TCG. |
| 370 | * TheGimmick: Erika is a master of flower arranging, and her team in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is an arrangement of Grass-types. |
| 371 | * GossipyHens: In ''HGSS'', catching her chatting with Jasmine in Celadon on her days off will indicate she appears to not simply spread but ''generate'' surprisingly harsh gossip about other female gym leaders[[labelnote:The Dirt]]After starting off by claiming Whitney thinks Jasmine dresses a little plain, Erika will suggest Jasmine wear a light blue outfit with a cape, but when Jasmine says it would be a little embarrassing, Erika takes her to mean that she thinks Clair — who wears that exact outfit — is a little embarrassing[[/labelnote]]. In ''Masters'', she giggles while telling Koga and Clair they have a ''bold'' sense of fashion style. |
| 372 | * GranolaGirl: Very in-tune with nature and peaceful for it. |
| 373 | * HeavySleeper: Apparently has some mild form of narcolepsy. She almost dozes off before her battle with the player. It could be a side effect of frequently carrying Pokémon with Sleep Powder. In ''Masters'', she says she only falls asleep in the middle of the day when it's sunny. |
| 374 | * HungryJungle: Many of her Pokémon are creepy or vicious tropical plants. In a more literal example than expected, her signature moves are Mega Drain and Giga Drain. |
| 375 | * KimonoFanservice: Along with the outfit's general beauty, Erika's kimonos in ''FRLG'' and ''HGSS'' are both the very wide-sleeved ''furisode'', which is the most formal kimono type worn by ''unmarried'' girls, which notably replaced the not quite as wide-sleeved ''houmongi'' she appeared to be wearing in ''Yellow'' and ''GSC'', which serves the same role for married women. In ''Let's Go'', she appears to be wearing an ''iromuji'', which doesn't specify marital status. |
| 376 | * KimonoIsTraditional: In the Japanese FantasyCounterpartCulture called Kanto, Erika is one of the most pointedly Japanese of them all, and her outfits only highlight it. |
| 377 | * LadyOfWar: A traditional and graceful Gym Leader who has a preference for feminine Grass-type Pokémon. |
| 378 | * LifeDrain: Her TM moves Mega Drain and Giga Drain damage your Pokémon and heal hers. |
| 379 | * MeaningfulName: Not readily apparent, but even in English her name, '''Erika''', is the genus of a type of plant. The same pun applies in Japanese, and in addition, the '''ka''' in the common name Erika is often written with the characters for either "flower" or "fragrance". |
| 380 | * MightyGlacier: All of her Pokémon are slow, but have high offense and defense. |
| 381 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: |
| 382 | ** In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Erika's post-battle dialog reveals she would never collect "unattractive" Pokémon... after you've seen her team is nothing but horrifying monsters of the HungryJungle. On top of that, she wears her yukata in the style of a body being prepared for burial. (This became downplayed as soon as Gen II introduced cute Grass-types like Jumpluff and Bellossom, and she wears her kimonos normally in future appearances). |
| 383 | ** Also of note is Erika's LifeDrain SignatureMove, either Mega Drain or Giga Drain. Possibly to preserve the trope after the introduction of more cute Grass-type Pokémon, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she starts describing its VampiricDraining effects as "wonderful"--in the Gen IV remakes, she describes it as both wonderful and horrifying [[ExaggeratedTrope to get the point across]]. |
| 384 | * NoSenseOfDirection: ''Pokémon Masters'' has her getting lost in the middle of a town while trying to find a shop, despite the fact that her Vileplume knows the way and was walking straight ahead of her. She admits that she'd never find it on her own. |
| 385 | * NobleBigot: As far as Pokémon are concerned. She generally prefers to use beautiful Pokémon. What's her definition of "beautiful Pokémon"? Any Pokémon at least partially of the Grass type. |
| 386 | * TheOjou: Explicitly called such in the Japanese version, and this trope is a part of her official title. |
| 387 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears black tights with her Holiday 2020 outfit and white tights with her Sygna Suit. |
| 388 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Has pale skin but dark black hair. |
| 389 | * SignatureMon: |
| 390 | ** Erika is chiefly associated with the Oddish line, which appears on all of her teams. Between its two final evolutions, she is mostly seen with Vileplume, including in ''Masters'' where she reveals that she raised it from an Oddish. |
| 391 | ** Tangela and Tangrowth both appear very often with Erika. She lead with the former on a number of her teams and the latter served as her strongest Pokémon at one point. Tangela also appears as part of a BP pair in ''Masters''. |
| 392 | ** Her Sygna Suit variation gives her Leafeon. |
| 393 | * SignatureMove: Mega Drain in Gen I, Giga Drain from Gen II on. |
| 394 | * SkippableBoss: Downplayed. You can put off her gym battle for quite some time since beating her unlocks an HM move that isn't needed in the main quest until TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, but eventually you will have to circle back and deal with her in order to unlock the Viridian Gym. |
| 395 | * SleepyHead: When you speak to her to challenge her, she exclaims she dozed off, and a rumor says peepers on the Gym often spy her snoozing in the middle of the day. She appears to be a mild {{Cloudcuckoolander}}-type, given that her post-battle dialog indicates she thinks her collected Pokémon are all beautiful. In ''Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee'' and ''Pokémon Masters'', she's even able to doze off while standing. |
| 396 | * ThresholdGuardians: Erika's Rainbow Badge enables the player's monsters to use Strength, allowing them to deal with large boulders, which in some cases are an InsurmountableWaistHeightFence and in others a BlockPuzzle. |
| 397 | * WeaksauceWeakness: In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Beedrill is basically considered an afterthought by most players. However, the fact that Twineedle hits twice and the programming error of making Poison weak to Bug means that Beedrill easily sweeps this gym, as her two strongest Pokémon are both 4x weak to it. |
| 398 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Yellow'', Erika had a Gloom instead of a Vileplume, which presumably evolved into Bellossom by the time of the Johto games. However, ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' reaffirm her Vileplume, which is entirely absent from ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'', both in her Gym battle and rematch teams, not reappearing until ''Black 2 and White 2.'' |
| 399 | * YamatoNadeshiko: The kimono, the class, the fighting plants, etc. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Koga ''[-(Kyō)-]'']] |
| 403 | !!Koga / Kyō (キョウ ''kyou'') |
| 404 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_koga.png]] |
| 405 | ->Voiced by: Creator/ChristopherBevins ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/ToruOkawa ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 406 | |
| 407 | -->''"Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless. Despair to the creeping horror of Poison-type Pokémon!"'' |
| 408 | |
| 409 | A {{ninja}} who specializes in [[PoisonousPerson Poison-types]]. Originally the Fuchsia Gym Leader in ''Red'', ''Blue'', ''Yellow'', ''[=FireRed=]'', and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', Koga moves to the Elite Four in the Johto games, with his daughter Janine taking his previous position. The Fuschia Gym gives out the Soul Badge. |
| 410 | ---- |
| 411 | * ActionDad: Koga's goal in personal bouts is as much to impress his daughter with his fatherly dignity as it is to win. |
| 412 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' turns down the terror and intimidation theatrics. |
| 413 | * AndIMustScream: Invoked. "Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless." |
| 414 | * ArtificialStupidity: The Skuntank leading Koga's team during the rematch in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' has a lot of SituationalSword techniques--Toxic, Sucker Punch, and Explosion--leaving it with only one reliable attack, Dig. Ironically, while Dig supports Toxic by sending Skuntank underground and preserving it from most attacks, the move [[DidntThinkThisThrough also exposes Skuntank to tremendous danger]] from Earthquake. Because Earthquake is already [[SimpleYetAwesome powerful and easy-to-use]] even before ElementalRockPaperScissors, it is very common at high levels of play, so Skuntank ends up in a situation where KryptoniteIsEverywhere. |
| 415 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: His Bug-types get pretty big. |
| 416 | * CallForward: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', Koga's rematch dialog includes a nod to Janine and mentions that he's been thinking of joining the Elite Four, as he does in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. |
| 417 | * CombatMedic: As a master of poison techniques, he also has a large amount of knowledge over medicine and apparently heals his Pokémon with concoctions of his own. |
| 418 | * CompositeCharacter: With ''himself''; that is, his anime counterpart. In the original Gen I games, Koga used Weezing and Muk and their evolutionary relatives. Then the anime depicted him with a Venomoth, which carried over to ''Yellow'' by replacing his entire team with three Venonats and a Venomoth. Thus in the two ''Stadium'' games and in the Gen II games and their remakes, Koga has several Bug-types on his team while still being a Poison-type specialist. His second anime Pokémon was Golbat, and its evolved form Crobat would become the SignatureMon of his Elite Four team. |
| 419 | * DamageOverTime: Koga's SignatureMove Toxic deals unique ''accelerating'' damage over time. |
| 420 | * DespairEventHorizon: Invoked. Koga uses his StatusEffects strategy to cause challengers to despair, as he elaborates in his pre-battle speeches. |
| 421 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: The Skuntank on Koga's rematch team in the remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' knows Dig, which will not only give it a decent attacking option but briefly sends it underground to help it avoid most attacks and stall while its Toxic causes DamageOverTime. At the same time, Dig opens it up to retaliation by Earthquake, which not only does double-damage to Skuntank as a Poison-type but doubles damage against underground enemies as well. |
| 422 | * DoppelgangerSpin: He likes using the Double Team move as a tactic in battle, to give himself extra evasion to stall for toxic. |
| 423 | * EvilLaugh: While he's not really evil, he mostly does this to look intimidating to the player. |
| 424 | * GratuitousNinja: There is exactly one ninja in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and his name is Koga. |
| 425 | * {{Irony}}: He became a Poison-type specialist after he himself was poisoned by a Venomoth, which sparked his fascination for the typing. |
| 426 | * TheKidsAreAmerican: An acute example. Despite Kanto (as well as Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh) being a Fantasy Counterpart for a region of Japan, in ''Masters'' he's the only character who affects a Japanese accent (likely due to appearing as a stereotypical ninja). This is especially noticeable because his Ninja daughter Janine does not have the accent. |
| 427 | * TheMaze: Back when he was a Gym Leader, he used an invisible maze in his Gym to force the player into Pokémon battles while walking around. The maze itself isn't 100% invisible, but can mess with players who don't look too closely. |
| 428 | * MeaningfulName: Named after the '''Koga'''-ryu school of ninjutsu. |
| 429 | * MightyGlacier: His multiple Koffing and signature Weezing in ''RBGY'' and their remakes. ''Yellow'' replaces them with the more squishy Venonat and Venomoth, respectively. |
| 430 | * NatureIsNotNice: Discussed in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters''. "Beautiful things often hide their share of danger. Remember that for the future." |
| 431 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Some of his dialog in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' indicates that he thinks the uncanny Venomoth are beautiful. |
| 432 | * {{Ninja}}: His motif, and self-declared as one. He comes from a long line of ninjas, hundreds of years in fact, and possesses several fantasy ninja abilities such as being able to seemingly teleport, disguise himself in an instant, and even seemingly create copies of himself. Its unclear if these are actual superhuman powers like Sabrina's psychic abilities, or some kind of highly advanced trickery. |
| 433 | * TheOneGuy: The only male Poison-type specialist. |
| 434 | * OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: Koga doesn't use [=HMs=] to bar the entrance to his gym like Surge or Erika, but he *does* use an invisible maze to frustrate the weak and weed them out--in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', he reveals his daughter Jasmine got lost in there once and made a huge scene. |
| 435 | * OpposingCombatPhilosophies: |
| 436 | ** Koga's strategy sets him apart from hard-hitting brute force users like fellow Elite Fourman Bruno--as he himself puts it, Pokémon are not merely about brute force. As per his spiel in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', "Pokémon is not merely about brute force--you shall see soon enough!" |
| 437 | ** Janine's DivergentCharacterEvolution in the Gen IV remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' has led her to abandon her father's SignatureMove Toxic for the more aggressive Poison Jab. |
| 438 | * PassingTheTorch: To his daughter Janine after he ascended to the Elite Four. |
| 439 | * PurpleIsPowerful: He cripples foes with his mastery of Poison-type Pokémon (with the type generally being depicted with purple coloration), and is one of few Poison-type specialists to have ascended to the status of Elite Four. |
| 440 | * RemovedAchillesHeel: In ''Fire Red'' and ''Leaf Green'', his Koffing and his Weezing have lost their weakness to Ground-Type moves due to them gaining the Levitate ability. |
| 441 | * {{Sadist}}: Possibly with the way he talks of enjoying poison's effects on enemies. |
| 442 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a scarf and [[TookALevelInBadass went from Gym Leader to a member of the Elite Four.]] |
| 443 | * SecretArt: The Toxic technique in his possession has been passed down through his family for 400 years. |
| 444 | * SignatureMon: |
| 445 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]]'' and its remakes, Weezing is his highest level Pokémon. It and its pre-evolution also take up most of the slots on both teams and Koga's Pokémon Scale World set features the former. |
| 446 | ** As an Elite Four Member, his strongest Pokémon is Crobat, which he also uses in ''Masters'' and calls his equal. Its pre-evolution, Golbat, is part of his initial and rematch teams in Generation VII and his Pokémon Scale World Set. |
| 447 | ** Venomoth is his strongest Pokémon in ''Yellow'' and ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'' and ''Let's Go, Eevee!''. It is also his lead in the ''Stadium'' games and one of the only Pokémon he uses as both a Gym Leader and Elite Four member. ''Masters'' expands on this relationship by revealing that an encounter with Venomoth was what inspired him to become a Poison-type specialist. |
| 448 | * SkippableBoss: Downplayed. You can put off his gym battle for a bit if you want to take on the Saffron Gym beforehand, but eventually you will have to circle back and deal with him in order to unlock the ability to use Surf in the overworld and proceed to Cinnabar Island. |
| 449 | * StatusInflictionAttack: As both a Poison-type master and a Ninja, he specializes in subversive and tricky battling styles. This translates to relying on status ailments and other status moves like Disable, Double Team, and Spikes. |
| 450 | * TakingYouWithMe: He uses a Weezing, sometimes as his last Pokémon. The AI is not averse to using Explosion if this is the case. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard This results in the player losing if their last Pokémon faints.]] He will do this regardless of what you have out, so you could get some laughs out of the AI using Explosion against your [[NoSell Gastly]], against whom the only effect will be his Weezing fainting. |
| 451 | * ThemeNaming: With his daughter in the Japanese version. |
| 452 | * ThresholdGuardians: As a Gym Leader in Kanto, Koga gives out the Soul Badge, which authorizes the player to use Surf, which opens up access to Cinnabar Island and the latter part of the path to Victory Road. |
| 453 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 454 | ** In ''Yellow'', his final Pokémon is a level 50 Venomoth. This is quite the leap compared to the original where his strongest Pokémon was a level 43 Weezing. The rest of his team also are Level 44, 46 and 48, even if they're just Venonats. |
| 455 | ** From Gym Leader in Gen I/III to Elite Four in Gen II/IV. |
| 456 | ** Takes another one in ''Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'' where his Pokémon are equal to Sabrina's at Level 43 and his ace Pokémon Venomoth is at Level 44, the same level as her Alakazam. But in order to challenge his Gym, players will have to had caught 50 different species of Pokémon compared to Sabrina's 45 level or higher Pokémon requirement, meaning that his challenge is supposed to be more difficult. This is a [[ContinuityNod reference]] to the fact that Koga is above Will in the Johto series of the games despite Will having a type advantage over him. |
| 457 | * TortureTechnician: Invoked--Koga's style is to harass and terrify the opponent by piling on status effects over time and describes his combat style with lots of emphasis on crippling the challenger. |
| 458 | * WeakButSkilled: Koga's style relies on mixing disruptive support moves with DamageOverTime. As he puts it, "My intricate style will confound and destroy you." |
| 459 | * WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', if Weezing is his last Pokémon and it defeats a challenger's last Pokémon with Explosion, Koga wins. |
| 460 | * WhoDares: "A [[JustAKid mere child like you]] dares to challenge me?" |
| 461 | * WorthyOpponent: Koga describes challengers who beat him as having proven their worth. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Sabrina ''[-(Natsume)-]'']] |
| 465 | !!Sabrina / Natsume (ナツメ ''natsume'') |
| 466 | [[quoteright:191:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_sabrina.png]] |
| 467 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LizzieFreeman ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Creator/RieTanaka ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 468 | |
| 469 | Saffron City Gym Leader--''The Master of Psychic Pokémon!'' |
| 470 | |
| 471 | -->''"I had a vision of your arrival! I have had psychic powers since I was a little child. I first learned to bend spoons with my mind. I dislike fighting, but if you wish, I will show you my powers!"'' |
| 472 | |
| 473 | An aloof woman with PsychicPowers of some sort, who fittingly trains Psychic-types. The games and various adaptations occasionally portray her as being able to communicate with her Pokémon directly thanks to her powers. She presides over the Saffron City Gym and hands out the Marsh Badge to worthy trainers. |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: The anime has her wear a miniskirt (albeit with thigh-high boots), while the Generation II remakes have her wearing a midriff-revealing top. Compare that with her original sprite, where the closest to either was a short-sleeved top. |
| 476 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Like Lt. Surge, Sabrina is prone to this in adaptations. Despite her ominous looks and demeanor, she's not an evil character at all in the games. ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has her as a high-ranking member of Team Rocket at the start. [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries The anime]] had her as stoic and dangerous, terrorizing people ForTheEvulz, though her true personality behind the SplitPersonality is similar to her game persona. Possibly as a nod to this, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'' has her reprise a villainous role in Pokéstar Studios films. |
| 477 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: One of the most commonly reinterpreted Gym Leaders in Kanto. While a pacifistic but talented trainer in the games, she's a Team Rocket officer in ''Pokémon Adventures'', a CreepyChild in the anime, and a sweet and gentle shrine maiden-like in ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu''. |
| 478 | * ArtEvolution: Sabrina's official art for ''Yellow'' introduced her signature segmented red and black outfit, which was streamlined over the course of her appearances in the Trading Card Game, ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' |
| 479 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The Fighting Dojo used to be the Saffron City Gym. Then Sabrina came with her Psychic-types and utterly thrashed them. Now Sabrina's gym is the Saffron Gym. |
| 480 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: During her appearances in the Nintendo DS era of games, Sabrina switches out her bodysuit for casual clothing that shows off a fair bit of belly. |
| 481 | * TheBaroness: For [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a very brief window]], Sabrina had a forceful, militaristic element in her design, seen best in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' and Sabrina's official art for ''Pokémon Yellow''. The anime even updated her sex appeal by changing her ProperTightsWithASkirt to ZettaiRyouiki. This was lost as soon as ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. |
| 482 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The brains to Erika's beauty and Misty's brawn. She has PsychicPowers like telepathy and seeing the future, doesn't like fighting, and Psychic-types are generally associated with minds (her SignatureMon Alakazam in particular is noted for [[MyBrainIsBig an extra-large head]]). In her Pokégear conversation in ''HGSS'', she describes "true" PsychicPowers not as MindOverMatter but the ability to influence people and control your own mind. |
| 483 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Has a Venomoth in ''Red and Blue'' and their remakes despite the abundance of Psychic-types in Kanto. However, while Venomoth is not a Psychic-type itself, it does learn several Psychic-type moves. |
| 484 | * CreepyGood: Despite having all the glaring signs of an antagonist — being a psychic, having red eyes, being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, having a whip in her original design — she's a pacifist, and shows no signs of being malicious or even mean. Note that she does suffer from AdaptationalVillainy in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' as well as the anime, though she gets better in both. She actually ''laments'' this a bit in ''Black 2 and White 2'', as she seems pretty aware of just why she was cast as the ''villainess'' of the movies she appears in. |
| 485 | * CurbStompBattle: She crushed the Fighting Dojo in battle, making her the new Gym Leader. |
| 486 | * DependingOnTheWriter: In different incarnations, she's [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue a dreaded Gym Leader but actually a nice girl who cannot control her powers]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 a movie star]], [[Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu a heroic and motherly figure]], [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries someone who terrorizes the entire Saffron City]] ''[[ForTheEvulz because she can]]'', or an ObviouslyEvil [[Manga/PokemonAdventures Team Rocket member who enjoys doing evil things for Giovanni]] because [[MadLove she has a crush on him.]] |
| 487 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: |
| 488 | ** Her whip was removed past Generation 1. All trainers except Tamers had their whips scrapped once Pokémon became more anthropomorphic. |
| 489 | ** Sabrina's collared shirt from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' (or rather Japanese ''Red and Green'') and ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'', was almost immediately replaced with her outfit from her ''Yellow'' official art. |
| 490 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Historically this was limited to the anime, but ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' [[RetCanon add this trope back]] to the original Sabrina by giving her intense and staring eyes, amplified to {{Glowing|Eyes}} UhOhEyes and a FaceFramedInShadow when using her powers. |
| 491 | * GlassCannon: The majority of her Pokémon tend to lean toward hard hitters that can't take hits themselves. |
| 492 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Some of her artwork has shown her to have pretty well defined hips. But her Bellelba costume in ''Black and White 2'' shows off her curves. Her waist is very thin, while her hips are very wide in comparison. |
| 493 | * LargeHam: Not during her Gym Battles, but as seen in ''Pokémon Masters'', she is capable of ChewingTheScenery when acting as a villain. |
| 494 | * MartialPacifist: Doesn't enjoy fighting, but is one of the strongest Gym Leaders in all of Kanto. |
| 495 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: In ''Black 2 and White 2'', she acts as the villainess of a fantasy movie. |
| 496 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 497 | ** Sa'''brin'''a, as in "brain", as in the source of psychic powers and the like (and a possible reference to the fictional character, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch). |
| 498 | ** The '''me''' in Natsume is a homonym for "[[ThirdEye eye]]". |
| 499 | ** In French, "Morgane" refers to Morgan le Fay, from the Arthurian legends. |
| 500 | * OlympusMons: In one (presumably non-canon) [[NoExportForYou Japan- and Korea-only]] downloadable World Tournament, she uses [[LightningBruiser Mewtwo]]. |
| 501 | * PowerFloats: Her ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black 2 and White 2]]'' World Tournament sprite shows her briefly levitating. In ''Let's Go!'' she levitates when issuing commands to her Pokémon, as well as levitating her Poké Ball when she throws it. |
| 502 | * ThePowerOfLove: In her post-battle dialogue from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Sabrina speculates that the power of love is a kind of psychic power. |
| 503 | * PrehensileHair: In LGPE, Sabrina's hair falls below her knees. In a likely CallBack to the whip from her RGBY design, her hair appears to coil and [[VisualPun whip]] about. |
| 504 | * PsychicPowers: Not only do her Pokémon have these, but she possesses them as well. She also claims that ''everyone'' has psychic powers, but that tragically few people even realize it, let alone develop it. |
| 505 | * ReluctantWarrior: |
| 506 | ** She constantly goes on about how she doesn't like to fight, but she will if she must. It makes you curious why she's a Gym Leader, then. |
| 507 | ** ''Pokémon Masters'' elaborates that it isn't so much battles themselves that Sabrina dislikes but ''conflict'' in general. Her becoming a Gym Leader was likely a way to tone the conflict factor down, as now she only battles those who are skilled enough to reach her, essentially rewarding them rather than doing anything that could be taken as antagonistc. |
| 508 | * RooftopConfrontation: Invoked by the redesign of her gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''--rather than teleporting from one isolated room to another, the player must teleport from the top of one indoor building to the next--Sabrina herself is faced atop an indoor skyscraper (a likely MythologyGag referring to the Pokémon-based stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', which was the top of the Silph, Co. building). |
| 509 | * {{Seers}}: |
| 510 | ** She quietly boasts that she foresaw the player's arrival whenever you battle her, possibly to intimidate her opponent. In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', she claims to have foreseen your arrival three years ago as a CallBack to ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and then reuses the line in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' during the World Leaders Tournament... though the date in question (a year before ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'') is far more arbitrary. |
| 511 | ** Comes full circle in ''Let's Go!'' after you defeat her in a rematch. She says she won't meet another opponent like Chase/Elaine for another three years. Many fans assumed a Johto follow-up was on the way as a result. |
| 512 | ** {{Subverted}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in ''HGSS'', where she'll claim to have had a feeling you'd come (to face her at the Fighting Dojo), only for the player character to point out that they'd arranged to meet there beforehand. She further predicts the player will call her again afterwards. |
| 513 | * ShoutOut: She shares her English name with [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch another teenage girl with magic powers]] popular in the late 90s. |
| 514 | * SignatureMon: |
| 515 | ** Alakazam, which is fitting, as it is the strongest non-legendary Psychic-type Pokémon in Gen I and it represents the stereotypical trappings of said type well. It appears with her again in ''Masters'' with a Mega Evolution. |
| 516 | ** Her New Year's 2022 variant in ''Masters'' pairs her up with Chingling, a Pokémon she had not previously been seen with before. |
| 517 | * SignatureMove: Her signature TM in Gen I was Psywave, Gen III gave her Calm Mind, and Gen IV had Skill Swap. Being the Psychic-type leader, however, she tends to teach her entire team Psychic and Psybeam too, which are far more dangerous than her TM moves. |
| 518 | * SkippableBoss: Downplayed. You can put off her gym battle for a bit if you want to take on Blaine first, but eventually you will have to circle back and deal with her in order to unlock the Viridian Gym. |
| 519 | * TheStoic: |
| 520 | ** Is very stern and does not show much emotion. It's implied this may be because she's holding back her tremendous powers (though the anime version was because the side of her that actually showed emotion manifested itself into a doll she carried with her all the time. When Sabrina learned to laugh after Haunter gave her a cartoon bomb, the doll [her emotional side] disappeared). |
| 521 | ** ''Pokémon Masters'' suggests that her stoicism is actually due to her being shy and not socially adept. Once you scout her and are able to interact with her, she [[NotSoStoic lets more emotions show]] and [[WhenSheSmiles even smiles.]] |
| 522 | * ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed; in the remakes, Sabrina's Marsh Badge enables use of Rock Smash, which deals with a third type of InsurmountableWaistHeightFence. |
| 523 | * UncattyResemblance: Sabrina's official artwork for ''Yellow'' features her in a segmented outfit with padded shoulders reminiscent of the "armored" chest shared by her SignatureMon Abra and its evolutions. |
| 524 | * WhipOfDominance: Her character wielded a whip in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', which fit which her original characterization as a more [[TheBaroness domineering, militaristic and villainous]] type of trainer. This aspect of her character was dropped in Gen II forward, and the whip was dropped alongside it. Notably when the [[VideoGameRemake Gen I remake came out]] her new design also didn't feature the whip. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Blaine ''[-(Katsura)-]'']] |
| 528 | !!Blaine / Katsura (カツラ ''katsura'') |
| 529 | [[quoteright:191:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_blaine.png]] |
| 530 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KirkThornton ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN) Ken Uo ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 531 | |
| 532 | Cinnabar Island Gym Leader--''The Hotheaded Quiz Master!'' |
| 533 | |
| 534 | -->''"Hah! I'm Blaine! I am the Leader of Cinnabar Gym! My fiery Pokémon will incinerate all challengers! Hah! You better have Burn Heal!"'' |
| 535 | |
| 536 | The eldest of the Kanto Gym Leaders, who gives out the Volcano Badge from Cinnabar City. Blaine is a [[PlayingWithFire Fire-type Pokémon]] specialist and former researcher who is passionate about Pokémon knowledge. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the first gen. games and all remakes thereof, Blaine's gym is locked and must be opened with the Secret Key... which is hidden in the inmost room of the Pokémon Mansion's basement, where Mewtwo was created. While the original games never explained this, adaptations and remakes have given the connection AdaptationExpansion. |
| 539 | ** While ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' factored in his scientist apparel [[spoiler:to suggest that he personally created Mewtwo]], FRLG instead follows the trail laid out by ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' and indicates Dr. Blaine was an associate of Dr. Fuji, [[spoiler:who created Mewtwo]]. ''Let's Go'' expands on this by filling the mansion's inmost room with lab equipment and having Dr. Blaine make an explicit nod to his friend's research, implying him to be TheAtoner. |
| 540 | * ArtificialBrilliance: In Gen IV, his Pokémon all use Overheat, which is even stronger than the blistering Fire Blast, but [[CastFromStamina makes the user's Special Attack peter out]]. To counter this, he uses Flannery's trick of having his monsters carry AntiDebuff White Herbs to let them get a second shot in. |
| 541 | * BadassArmFold: His sprites in Gen I and II depict him with this pose. |
| 542 | * BadassBookworm: He's a quiz master, and is sometimes depicted as a scientist in spin-off media. |
| 543 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: When he first arrived, Blaine's scientist apparel didn't really matter; in fact, as per YouDontLookLikeYou below, he may not have been intended to be a scientist originally. ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' implied a science background by making him friends with Dr. Fuji, which the ''Let's Go!'' games have reinforced. |
| 544 | * ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: |
| 545 | ** Setting aside the fact that Blaine is on an island surrounded by water and the Water types within, the {{Dungeon|Crawling}} immediately preceding Cinnabar Island is the Seafoam Islands, which are filled with unique Water types. |
| 546 | ** The Surf HM, which teaches the second-most-powerful Water attack in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' to anything capable of learning, is obtained at the Safari Zone and is necessary to get to Cinnabar Island in the first place. |
| 547 | * CoolOldGuy: He may be old, but he's still a hot-blooded quiz master and a Gym Leader. |
| 548 | * CoolShades: According to one of his Fame Checker trivia entries, he's said to take them off only while thinking up new quiz questions. |
| 549 | * DeusExMachina: One of his gym trainers explains that Blaine was lost in the mountains once and was rescued by the appearance of a Moltres, whose light allowed him to find his way down. The experience inspired him to become a trainer. |
| 550 | * EccentricMentor: |
| 551 | ** Old age has not extinguished his fire for life at all. He's one of the older Gym Leaders seen, up there with Pryce, and is still capable of trouncing your team. |
| 552 | ** His GameShow in the ''Let's Go'' games is increasingly ridiculous as you approach the end, where he'll accept "What's That?" as a correct answer (the question is True or False) and gives you a question with six potential answers that is impossible to get wrong. |
| 553 | * ElementalMotifs: Fire. He's an energetic Fire-type master who lives in a city filled with hot springs and surrounded by volcanic activity. |
| 554 | * FragileSpeedster: His Ponyta and Rapidash move fast, but don't take hits well. |
| 555 | * GameShowHost: In ''Let's Go'' Blaine's gauntlet of quizzes has been remodeled into a straight up GameShow. He does this to entertain the families of the scientists on Cinnabar Island which (unlike the tourist trap in the anime) has really nothing to do. He's not the best Emcee, but he's a very LargeHam to make up for it. |
| 556 | * TheGimmick: Not quite a full gimmick [[DownplayedTrope so much as a notable pattern]]. In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Blaine's team consists entirely of two-stage fire-type pokémon found in the neighboring mansion. ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'' rounds out his team with a third two-stage fire-type, Ninetales, which like Arcanine is a canine pokémon that evolves with a fire-stone. |
| 557 | * HotBlooded: Surprisingly so for an old guy, as mentioned in his title. The TCG even had a Trainer Card called "Fervor" dedicated to his hot-bloodedness. Both of these explicitly use the phrase "hot-blooded" in Japanese. |
| 558 | ** In ''Let's Go'' he's so eager to get started that he comes running to the front of the gym to ask you your first question before the attendant has to remind him it's too early, and once you actually get to fight him, his eyeglasses reflect fire. |
| 559 | * KillItWithFire: Blaine hands out Fire Blast in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' and all remakes thereof, which was the strongest Fire type move until Generation III. In Gen. IV, he provides the newer, stronger Overheat. He insists that these moves be used on Fire Pokémon for maximum incendiary potential. |
| 560 | -->'''Blaine:''' ''Fire Blast is an attack to be shown the utmost respect. Don't waste it on Water-type Pokémon.'' |
| 561 | * LightningBruiser: His two canine Pokémon, but mostly this applies to Arcanine. It's fairly sturdy, hits hard with both of its high attack stats, and is very speedy to top it off. |
| 562 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 563 | ** '''Blai'''ne sounds like "blaze", or arguably Bl'''aine''' as in "flame". |
| 564 | ** The "'''Ka'''" in "Katsura" is a homonym for the compound word for fire. In the anime, he wears a wig as part of his disguise, and guess what the Japanese word for "wig" is? Amusingly, Katsura is ''also'' the Japanese name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercidiphyllum a tree]], which means Blaine could qualify for a Pokémon Professor. |
| 565 | ** In German, his name is Pyro, meaning "fire" in Greek. |
| 566 | ** In French, his name is Auguste, from "ustion', a type of burn. |
| 567 | * OpaqueLenses: Though since they're sunglasses, it makes some sense that they'd be hard to see through. |
| 568 | * PopQuiz: In the first generation games and their remakes, his gym is full of segmented rooms that force you to answer questions right or face a trainer. |
| 569 | * RichesToRags: Blaine in ''Gold and Silver''. His Gym was destroyed when the Cinnabar volcano erupted one year prior and he now operates out of a tiny cave on the Seafoam Islands. Downplayed in ''HGSS'' where he's expanded the cave into a proper Gym with Trainers and a light maze element. |
| 570 | * SignatureMon: Like Erika, he's a bit varied on this once you get past his Fire-type association. |
| 571 | ** Whenever it shows up on his team, Arcanine is always his strongest or, in the case of the PWT, his lead Pokémon. |
| 572 | ** In the Generation II games and their remakes, his strongest is Rapidash, another frequently recurring team member. Its pre-evolution, Ponyta, even appears as his default partner in ''Masters'', where it can evolve into Rapidash. |
| 573 | ** Following in the footsteps of his anime counterpart, Blaine has repeatedly used the Magmar line from Generation II onward. Its evolution, Magmortar, was even his strongest Pokémon in his Fighting Dojo battle. |
| 574 | * SignatureMove: Fire Blast in Gen I, Gen III, and Gen VII, Overheat in Gen IV. |
| 575 | * ThresholdGuardians: Downplayed. In FRLG, the Volcano Badge counterintuitively authorizes the use of Waterfall, allowing the player to surmount the large watery obstacles. |
| 576 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Blaine's design in the franchise's early days was a bit fluid. His original character art depicted him as a military man with a jungle camouflage top and brown hair that was balding, but his in-game sprite showed him wearing a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine with pants, a tie, and round glasses, and he was completely bald. The anime uses the "military" look as the basis for his design with his hair, but he wears more casual clothes as part of a disguise as a hippie, during which he wears his glasses from his "scientist" design that now serve as RoundHippieShades, and the ''Pokémon Adventures'' manga has him use his "miltary" look as a disguise for his "scientist" look. From Gen II on he settled on the "scientist" design where he's completely balding and wears a labcoat and glasses, and various media offer a HandWave that Blaine is a MasterOfDisguise who can totally change up his look if he likes. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:Giovanni ''[-(Sakaki)-]'']] |
| 580 | !!Giovanni / Sakaki (サカキ ''sakaki'') |
| 581 | Boss of Team Rocket and Viridian City Gym Leader -- ''The Self-Proclaimed Strongest Trainer!''[[note]]He has no official Gym Leader title, but is called this by the Pokémon World Tournament announcer.[[/note]] (''Red, Blue, Yellow, [=FireRed=], and [=LeafGreen=]'') |
| 582 | |
| 583 | For information on Giovanni, check his folder on the [[Characters/PokemonTeamRocket Team Rocket page]]. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | ! Elite Four |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Lorelei ''[-(Kanna)-]'']] |
| 589 | !!Lorelei / Kanna (カンナ ''kanna'') |
| 590 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_lorelei.png]] |
| 591 | ->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/EricaLindbeck (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/LaurenLanda ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Serika Hiromatsu ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 592 | |
| 593 | -->''"Your Pokémon will be at my mercy when they are frozen solid!"'' |
| 594 | |
| 595 | A cool-headed woman who [[AnIcePerson trains Ice-types]]. By the time of the Johto/Sinnoh games, she is no longer a member of the Elite Four. |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the original games and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', her hair is red; it's sandy blonde in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' and purple in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''. |
| 598 | * AdaptationNameChange: She's referred to as Prima in the anime's English dub in order to match the number of syllables that her Japanese name has. |
| 599 | * AdaptationalModesty: |
| 600 | ** In ''Let's Go'' and ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', Lorelei wears a miniskirt (which reaches to her knees), while in other installments it's microskirt that's a fair few inches shorter. |
| 601 | ** ''Let's Go'' adds pantyhose to her outfit, though, given she's an Ice-type specialist and a MsFanservice, this is likely more a case of practicality than modesty on her part. |
| 602 | * TheBaroness: Lorelei is a [[DownplayedTrope light]] sexpot--an IceQueen MsFanservice who specializes in {{Status Infliction|Attack}} that leaves her victims helpless against her hard-hitting moves (something she boasts about). |
| 603 | * BashBrothers: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', just before entering Rock Tunnel, she assists you in scaring off Team Rocket goons; she fights three of them at once, and if their quotes after the battle are any indication, they couldn't even ''touch'' her. |
| 604 | * CallForward: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lorelei has vanished from the Elite Four without a word of notice. In the Gen III remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', optional dialog following her DayInTheLimelight has her pondering if remaining with the Elite Four means she's neglecting her island home, floating a possible reason for her to leave the Elite Four in the first place. |
| 605 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lorelei has mellowed out fairly substantially over the years. |
| 606 | ** While she was a haughty IceQueen in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Gen III remakes give her a sympathetic devotion to her Four Island home, tones down her loss quote from "[[WhoDares How dare you?]]" to "[[ThisCannotBe ...Things shouldn't be this way!]]", and demotes half of the exclamation points in her opening speech to mere periods. |
| 607 | ** The ''Let's Go'' remakes give her some of her exclamation points back, but also give her another heroic moment by having her appear to engage in a BashBrothers takedown of some Team Rocket thugs with the player character and turn her thereby into a friendly acquaintance of the player's. |
| 608 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 609 | ** The first part of the ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' postgame serves as this for her. We get to visit her home on Four Island, help her take down Team Rocket, and see where she got her Lapras. |
| 610 | ** She makes a brief solo appearance in Gen VII to help you take down a few Team Rocket mooks. They were trying to take you on 4v1; she takes on three of them herself so you can take the last one down. |
| 611 | * DelicateAndSickly: In ''Masters'', she tells the player she had a weak constitution as a child and had to force herself to remain at home until she got better, which took a long time. During then, she had a Lapras plushie that, to this day, she treasures and often appears in her dreams. |
| 612 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: |
| 613 | ** While Lorelei and Karen both entered the series wearing a LittleBlackDress, their fashion sense has diverged sharply in the years since. |
| 614 | ** Will's SharpDressedMan sensibilities were a short sidestep from LadyInAPowerSuit Lorelei, but he has since become TheDandy. |
| 615 | * ElementalMotifs: An Ice-type specialist with an aloof and cold personality located in an icy location. |
| 616 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Misty is said to admire her. |
| 617 | * ExposedToTheElements: Lorelei's room is filled with ice tiles, ice pillars, or both, depending on what version of the Kanto games you happen to be playing, but despite her generally light outfit and usually bare legs, she seems quite cozy. This is most apparent in Gen I when her bare-legged battle sprite indicates she's ''kneeling directly on the ice''. |
| 618 | * FunetikAksent: In the French version, where she's called Olga, she speaks with an apparent German accent, pronouncing her S sounds as Z's, at least one T as D, and finishing her introductory text with a stereotypical EvilLaugh. Her accent has been removed without a trace in ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee''. |
| 619 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She shows shades of this as her Four Island home is full of plushies. She adds 1 plushie to the collection for every 25 times you enter the Hall of Fame. She stops after your 200th Hall of Fame induction because then it's just getting stupid. |
| 620 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: In ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', Lorelei almost always appears riding on her StockNessMonster Lapras, both near Rock Tunnel and in her personal room at the Indigo League. Given Lapras is her SignatureMon, she may also ride it as a BeastOfBattle. |
| 621 | * HotTeacher: In adaptations. In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Lorelei appears in the Orange Islands to give a lecture and demonstration on Pokémon battling, while in ''Manga/PocketMonsters'' she actually disguises herself as a teacher and gives Red exams at her school. |
| 622 | * KillItWithIce: Downplayed. Lorelei boasts that her Pokémon will freeze the player's solid, and in remakes is more than willing to directly threaten Team Rocket {{Mook}}s with being frozen solid. |
| 623 | * LadyOfWar: She is regarded in-game for her logical, cool, and calculating style of battling. |
| 624 | * LadyInAPowerSuit: Lorelei's jacket and skirt from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' came to the core series with a PaletteSwap in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'', and Lorelei's sprites from [[https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-gold-silver-original-elite-four-leak/ prototypes of Gold and Silver]] show her in the same. While her jacket was lost in the Gen III remakes, her ''Let's Go'' design emphasizes the full ensemble. |
| 625 | * LonelyDollGirl: In ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'', Lorelei is revealed to live alone on Four Island in a house filled with dolls. As an EasterEgg, a new doll will be added to her collection for every twenty-five times (up to a total of two hundred) that the Elite Four is defeated. |
| 626 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 627 | ** Lorel'''ei''' pronounced like the I in "ice." Lorelei is also the name of a siren said to lure sailors to their deaths. |
| 628 | ** '''Kan''''na contains a homonym for a reading of the kanji meaning "cold". |
| 629 | * MightyGlacier: Most of her Pokémon are slow, but they have high defenses and offenses. |
| 630 | * MinidressOfPower: Lorelei has always worn one, starting with a LittleBlackDress in Gen 1, but transitioning to a sleeveless top and miniskirt combo in Gen 3. Her ''Let's Go'' outfit gives her a skirt and jacket combo that takes a few notes from her appearance in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''. |
| 631 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears toast-colored tights as part of her Generation VII outfit. |
| 632 | * PsychicPowers: Has the part Psychic-type Jynx. |
| 633 | * PsychoticSmirk: Lorelei is capable of some sinister smiles in her ''Let's Go'' pre-battle dialog and battle introduction. |
| 634 | * PutOnABus: |
| 635 | ** She will disappear to Four Island after you first defeat the Elite Four in ''Fire Red'' and ''Leaf Green''. You need to visit her and complete a small side quest in order for her to return; without her, the Elite Four refuse to accept your challenge. |
| 636 | ** She isn't present in any games outside of Kanto, not even in the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships]]. Unlike Agatha, who could be excused through her advanced age, Lorelei's absence is a mystery. |
| 637 | * RegalRinglets: In ''Pokémon Generations'', Lorelei's ponytail is a very thick curl, but extends to the same length as her usual straight ponytail. |
| 638 | * RuleOfSexy: How is she not freezing sitting in a cold room while wearing a miniskirt?! |
| 639 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Lorelei is a haughty, threatening IceQueen and most of her sprites depict her with OpaqueLenses; if you squint, you can see her ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' battle sprite has one eye glaring out of the left lens. |
| 640 | * SignatureMon: |
| 641 | ** In the games, her [[StockNessMonster Lapras]], reflecting her icy but caring demeanor and dual-focus on Ice and Water. |
| 642 | ** The anime and manga adaptation put the focus on her [[MightyGlacier Cloyster]] instead. Notably, she's had a Cloyster on every single team she's used in the games. |
| 643 | * SlippySlideyIceWorld: Lorelei's personal room is usually filled with ice. |
| 644 | * UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Battling with her can soft-lock the game in ''Red'', ''Green'', and ''Blue''. In Generation I, opponents do not deplete PP, and because Lorelei leads with a Dewgong which knows Rest and the way "smart" AI works, it's possible for the player to get locked in an endless battle with her by using Rage, which ''also'' has a lot of weird mechanics in Gen I. This was fixed in ''Yellow'' with a special check for whether the opponent is Lorelei's Dewgong, in which case, a different pattern is used; this applies only to her Dewgong and no other opponent. It was more properly fixed in later generations. |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | [[folder:Bruno ''[-(Siba)-]'']] |
| 648 | !!Bruno / Siba (シバ ''shiba'') |
| 649 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_bruno.png]] |
| 650 | ->Voiced by: Creator/TakanoriHoshino (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Bill Rogers (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - EN), Creator/GregChun ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Jiro Saito (''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' - JP) |
| 651 | -->''"I always train to the extreme because I believe in our potential. That is how we became strong."'' |
| 652 | |
| 653 | A burly Fighting-type specialist. Uniquely, Bruno serves on both the Gen I and Gen II Elite Four teams, though he moves up from the second member to the third between games. However, he is mostly the same opponent in both instances. |
| 654 | ---- |
| 655 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In {{Updated Rerelease}}s of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', he's not the SoreLoser he originally was. |
| 656 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Brock and Bruno in the English translation. |
| 657 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: In the original games and their artwork; like Brock, he became less so in the remakes. |
| 658 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: In the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Bruno is a WalkingShirtlessScene with ShonenHair and has his EyesAlwaysShut, which gives him a striking resemblance to Brock of Pewter City. Moreover, the only pokémon that Bruno uses that don't belong to his {{Signature|Move}} type Fighting is Onix, Brock's SignatureMon. However, no relationship between them was ever elaborated on. |
| 659 | * BadassNormal: He reportedly trains with his own Pokémon. When you read the Pokédex entries for some of them, you realize Bruno is one ''hell'' [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower of a strongman]]. |
| 660 | * BruceLeeClone: He certainly takes inspiration from Creator/BruceLee. |
| 661 | * CombatPragmatist: In a rarity for the franchise, Bruno in ''Masters'' forgoes a traditional Pokémon battle during the Johto Villain Arc and knocks a Team Rocket grunt unconscious with his bare fists. |
| 662 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: Apparently being in a room full of lava [[TrainingFromHell is part of his training]]. |
| 663 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: While Brock and Bruno were AmbiguouslyRelated in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', their designs changed almost immediately afterwards to make them more dissimilar--Bruno opened his eyes and Brock started wearing a shirt. |
| 664 | * EyesAlwaysShut: In [[https://hirespokemon.tumblr.com/post/652433518958411776/1997-rendition-of-the-generation-1-elite-4-by older artwork]] his eyes are always closed, giving him a strong resemblance to Brock. |
| 665 | * FireIceLightning: In ''Yellow'' and Gen II, and the remakes of the latter, his Hitmonchan has the three {{Elemental Punch}}es. |
| 666 | * {{Kiai}}: HOO-HA! |
| 667 | * KingMook: Of the Blackbelt trainer-class. Bruno specializes in the Fighting-type and his only clothes are the pants of a tattered gi and the belt needed to hold them up. |
| 668 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 669 | ** '''Bru'''no sounds like bruiser or brawn. |
| 670 | ** Shiba sounds like '''shiba'''ku, to strike. |
| 671 | * MightyGlacier: His Pokémon tend to have great physical stats for both offense and defense, but aren't so good with speed. |
| 672 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted in the Spanish translation, where he keeps his English name but [[Characters/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Brendan]] is named Bruno too. |
| 673 | * RealMenHateSugar: Subverted. Despite his TestosteronePoisoning, the Gen III remakes reveal Bruno's TrademarkFavoriteFood is the Rage Candy Bar. |
| 674 | * SignatureMon: [[MightyGlacier Machamp]], reflecting his reliance on brute power. |
| 675 | * SoreLoser: When you beat him in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedandBlue Gen 1 games]], he says "How can I lose?" He then begrudgingly tells the player character to go to the next room, turning away once he does so (he will turn away every time he's talked to, so [[MomentKiller you can make him spin in circles if you keep trying to speak to him from the front]]). |
| 676 | * SpiritedCompetitor: Gen III says that he joined the Elite Four so he could battle the region's most powerful trainers. |
| 677 | * TheStoic: His expression is always the same for all of his sprites. |
| 678 | * TookALevelInBadass: A minor case, but he jumps from second Elite Four to third Elite Four between the first two games. |
| 679 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[SweetTooth Rage Candy Bars]]. He apparently went all the way to the Sevii Islands to get his hands on some. |
| 680 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt ever either. |
| 681 | * WildMan: Bruno appears to be a martial artist that has abandoned civilization--the only item of real clothing he wears is a tattered pair of pants held up by his black belt, the apparent leftovers of a gi. He's also let his AnimeHair grow out to BarbarianLonghair length, and in ''Let's Go'' he even has feral UhOhEyes. |
| 682 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Fighting-type master, but specifically focuses on the martial arts and wrestling-themed ones rather than just ''any'' Fighting-type. |
| 683 | [[/folder]] |
| 684 | |
| 685 | [[folder:Agatha ''[-(Kikuko)-]'']] |
| 686 | !!Agatha / Kikuko (キクコ ''kikuko'') |
| 687 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lets_go_pikachu_eevee_agatha.png]] |
| 688 | ->Voiced by: Hisako Kyouda (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Ellyn Stern (''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'' - JP), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - EN), Yoshino Ootori ([[VideoGame/PokemonMasters Pokémon Masters]] - JP) |
| 689 | |
| 690 | -->''"Player! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"'' |
| 691 | |
| 692 | An elderly Ghost-type specialist. She is no longer a member of the Elite Four in the Johto/Sinnoh games. |
| 693 | ---- |
| 694 | * AdaptationDyeJob: in the original games (and ''Stadium'') her hair was gray, but later changes to graying blonde in the remakes. Also, the only time she appears in the anime, her hair was pure blond. |
| 695 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to ''Pokémon Masters'', Professor Oak was this to her during their youth. No matter how many times she challenged him to a Pokémon Battle, she could never defeat him. |
| 696 | * AmazonBrigade: Her original Elite Four team in ''FRLG'' is all-female, but the rematch team is all-male. |
| 697 | * ArtificialStupidity: In her ''Red'' and ''Blue'' battle, all of her Ghost-type Pokémon know the same four moves--Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Hypnosis, and Dream Eater-- except for her final Gengar, which trades Hypnosis for Toxic. Without Hypnosis, Dream Eater is completely useless, leaving it with a completely wasted slot. |
| 698 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Implied between her and Professor Oak. In her own words, "that old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago." |
| 699 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Agatha provides a template that numerous characters deliberately contrast with--Karen, Phoebe, Fantina, and Shauntal are all younger and prettier than her, for starters. |
| 700 | %%zce* CoolOldLady: Slightly abrasive but she still counts. |
| 701 | * CreepyCemetery: Her battlefield in the first generation games is apparently her own personal ''graveyard'', complete with the soundtrack from Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower. This would be downplayed in remakes, down to a few large tombstones in FRLG and some spooky obelisks or pylons in LGPE. It's unknown whether she has any connection to the Tower besides sharing the motif. |
| 702 | * CreepyHousekeeper: She's an older woman with an apron, and specializes in the Ghost type. |
| 703 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She goes into her backstory about her and Samuel Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where she reveals that she preferred to keep to herself to contemplate while Oak would attempt to be sociable with her. Over time she gradually warmed up to him, partially through her battles with him which caused her to respect the future professor and his unbeatable battle record. She describes this is one of the reasons she resents the professor so much in the main games when he stopped battling to focus on research. She also warms up to the player and claims her Gengar brings this out in her as well. |
| 704 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: Further implied by her ChildhoodFriendRomance with Professor Oak; as a grandfather, Oak appears to have gone on to get married and have children with another woman. |
| 705 | * HairTriggerTemper: An [=NPC=] in Gen III remarks that it doesn't take much to make her angry. [[InformedAttribute Not that you get to see for yourself.]] |
| 706 | * HandicappedBadass: Given that she uses a walking stick. |
| 707 | * MeaningfulName: '''Aga'''tha sounds similar to "aghast", and if you're feeling mean to the old lady, "hag". |
| 708 | * MythologyGag: In ''Pokémon Masters'', Professor Oak battles her Gengar with a Nidorino, directly recreating the opening cutscene of ''Pokémon Red''. |
| 709 | * NeverMessWithGranny: She may be old, but she's still very capable of kicking your ass. ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' add flavor text that state she's the oldest Elite Four member to ever join the group, at least in the Indigo League. Bertha, who may or may not be her sister, is around her age and is a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four. |
| 710 | * OldMaster: A feeble looking elderly woman, do NOT underestimate her—she’s a member of the Elite Four for a reason. |
| 711 | * PoisonousPerson: Like with Lance and his Dragon-type, the Ghost-type was not very well established in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', so Agatha's team was rounded out with Golbat and Arbok, making her a ''de facto'' Poison-type specialist. |
| 712 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: {{Downplayed}}--while Agatha was introduced in the first generation of games as a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, her return in the third generation saw her get an AgeLift to the far side of middle-age (likely to keep her contemporary with the middle-aged Professor Oak), adding some color back to her hair and giving her some extra height. Zigzagged in the seventh generation, where Agatha's ''Let's Go'' design is a compromise between her first two. |
| 713 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Arrogantly sniffs that Oak is a shadow of his former self and that Pokémon are for battling, not researching. |
| 714 | * PutOnABus: Like Lorelei, she disappears after any Kanto-based games, not even reappearing for the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Championships.]] |
| 715 | * TheQuietOne: By her own admission in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', while people like Professor Oak thrive in the company of others, she prefers solitude so that she may contemplate to herself. |
| 716 | * RecurringElement: |
| 717 | ** The first in a line of female Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered generations that specialize in spooky monsters and most often the Ghost type. |
| 718 | ** PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', which introduces a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute in Bertha that trains an entirely different type. |
| 719 | * TheRival: Gen III has it said she and Professor Oak were rivals in their younger days. |
| 720 | * SiblingYinYang: If [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Bertha]] and Agatha [[AmbiguouslyRelated are indeed twin sisters]], than that would make Bertha the nice one and Agatha the mean. |
| 721 | * SignatureMon: Gengar. She has two on all of her teams, one of which is always her strongest Pokémon. Her cane in ''Let's Go'' is even carved to look like Gengar. |
| 722 | * StatusInflictionAttack: By nature of being a Ghost-type specialist, she relies on a lot of status ailment moves like Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, and Toxic. |
| 723 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Oak putting his battling days behind for research is a sore spot for Agatha. |
| 724 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four in Generation II games or their remakes, but her absence is unexplained. She's only to be found in a certain photograph with Oak and Kurt. |
| 725 | [[/folder]] |
| 726 | |
| 727 | [[folder:Lance ''[-(Wataru)-]'']] |
| 728 | !!Lance / Wataru (ワタル ''wataru'') |
| 729 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lance_lets_go.png]] |
| 730 | ->Voiced by: Creator/YoshimasaHosoya (JP, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''), Creator/BenDiskin (EN, ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (JP, VideoGame/PokemonMasters), Bill Millsap (EN, VideoGame/PokemonMasters) |
| 731 | -->''"We will battle to determine who is the stronger of the two of us. As the most powerful trainer and as the Pokémon League Champion... I, Lance the dragon master, accept your challenge!"'' |
| 732 | |
| 733 | Lance is a world-famous Dragon master, and the leader of the Elite Four in ''Red'', ''Blue'', ''Yellow'', and the Gen I remakes. In ''Gold'', ''Silver'', ''Crystal'', and their remakes, he has become the Champion for the joint Kanto/Johto Pokémon League. |
| 734 | ---- |
| 735 | * AchillesHeel: Ice-type attacks will slice right through Lance's Dragon-types, especially his Dragonite, which is doubly weak to ice-attacks thanks to the fact that it also has the Flying-type. |
| 736 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 737 | ** His Dragonite in ''Yellow'' knows Fire Blast, Blizzard ''and'' Thunder, making it much more formidable than it was in ''Red and Blue''. |
| 738 | ** In his initial Champion battle in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', Dragonite's Outrage hits much harder than in ''Gold and Silver'', because Generation IV has increased Outrage's base power from 90 to 120 and classified Outrage as a physical move, which Dragonite is able to take full advantage of due to having higher Attack than Special Attack. |
| 739 | * AIBreaker: Due to the smart AI of the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' prioritizing ElementalRockPaperScissors over all other considerations, Lance's Dragonite, if confronted with a Poison- or Fighting-type, will only spam its Psychic-type StatusBuff, Barrier. |
| 740 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Discussed in ''Masters''. Lance notes how Blue had believed himself to be "the strongest" after beating him and winning the Pokémon League, only for another trainer to show up [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue shortly afterwards]] and beat both of them. As a result, he no longer has any interest in pursuing titles like "the strongest", as he's aware the distinction is fleeting; sooner or later, ''someone'' is going to surpass you. The indication that he's talking about losing to Blue, and then both losing to Red afterwards is that he notes it occurred while he was still an Elite Four member, before he ascended to Champion three years later. |
| 741 | * AscendedExtra: Lance only appears as the last of the Elite Four in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', but guest-stars for a chapter of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', initiating the raid on the Team Rocket hideout in Mahogany Town. |
| 742 | * AscendedMeme: His extreme policy on tossing Dragonite and have it use Hyper Beam on ''humans'' doesn't go unnoticed in ''Masters'', where people actually bring that up as a ''compliment'' to his skills. His character episode even has him blasting a Team Break grunt with Dragonite's Hyper Beam. And to cement things further, a Karate Man at the center reveals (and whines) that it was him whom Lance Hyper Beam'd at Team Rocket's Johto HQ. |
| 743 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He jumped up in rank by honing his skills further between games. |
| 744 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 745 | ** Lance ''loves'' PowerAtAPrice--he uses PowerfulButInaccurate moves like Fire Blast, Blizzard, and Thunder; his SignatureMove Hyper Beam causes [[DownplayedTrope enough]] {{Power Strain|Blackout}} to force the user to lose a turn and recover; and anything that uses [[UnstoppableRage Outrage]] becomes [[StatusEffects confused]] and dangerous to themselves--these all let him hit very hard, but they can also leave him very vulnerable. |
| 746 | ** Special notice must be given to ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', where his SignatureMove Hyper Beam is the first attacking move in the game that uses up ''four'' bars of your move gauge, and Lance's Dragonite is, as of the game's second anniversary, one of only four Pokémon that can learn it, alongside Lance's Gyarados. |
| 747 | * BadassArmfold: In ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', Lance folds his arms after he teams up with the player to battle Ariana and a Team Rocket Grunt. |
| 748 | * BadassBoast: "You're league challenge ends with me, [[HelloInsertNameHere Player]]!" in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. |
| 749 | * BadassCape: He's never seen without a cape in all his appearance across the games. The lone exception is his New Year 2021 attire in ''Masters'', and even then, he expresses his desire to get a cape to match said outfit. According to the Fame Checker in ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'', he buys his capes at the Department Store in Celadon City. |
| 750 | * BackToBackBadasses: He teams up with the protagonist during a part of the Rocket plot in ''Gold'', ''Silver'', ''Crystal'' and their remakes, and with Clair as a DualBoss in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]''. |
| 751 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a chill guy who cares about Pokémon and even humble when you face him in the Indigo Plateau. He's also not afraid of using Hyper Beam on human beings if he has to and considering he held the place of Champion, this is definitely not someone you want to get on the bad side of. |
| 752 | * BlowYouAway: While Lance is officially a Dragon-type specialist, it would be just as accurate to describe him as a Flying-type specialist, since most of his dragons, both official (Dragonite) and in spirit (Gyarados, Charizard), are Flying-type. It wasn't until Generation V that the Dragon-type was diverse enough for Lance's team to avoid being dominated by Flying-types. |
| 753 | * CapeWings: Evokes this in his ''Gold and Silver'' battle sprite. |
| 754 | * TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: |
| 755 | ** In ''Gold, Silver and Crystal'' and their remakes, he has Dragonites at levels 47 and 50, well before Dragonair evolves. |
| 756 | ** His Dragonite in ''Red, Blue and Yellow'' has the move Barrier, which it could not actually learn at the time until Generation VI. |
| 757 | ** His Aerodactyl in ''Gold, Silver, and Crystal'' has Rock Slide, which it couldn't learn until Generation III. |
| 758 | * DinosaursAreDragons: Since Dragon-types were scarce in early games, several of his Pokémon are dragons in appearance and/or dinosaur-inspired such as Aerodactyl, Lapras, Kangaskhan and Tyranitar. Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', when he refers to his Gyarados as a dragon. When the player character points out that Gyarados isn't a Dragon-type, Lance responds that "not all dragons are Dragon-type Pokémon". |
| 759 | * DragonTamer: Specializes in Dragon-type Pokémon, but due to their general rarity, especially in early generations, he often uses Pokémon that are draconic in aesthetic like Aerodactyl and Charizard. |
| 760 | * DualBoss: You can fight him alongside his cousin Clair in ''[=HeartGold and SoulSilver=]'' as an OptionalBoss in the Dragon's Den, but only after you've fought your rival at Mt. Moon (as he's your partner against them). |
| 761 | * FinalBoss: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lance has become the regional Champion, and defeating him lets the player enter their team in the Hall of Fame and causes the credits to roll. He is, however, followed by lots of PostEndGameContent, with a second region to explore and a fight with the TrueFinalBoss at the very end. |
| 762 | * FireIceLightning: A recurring theme is for him to distribute moves of these types among his team, particularly the move trios of Fire Blast, Blizzard, and Thunder, as well as Flamethrower, Ice Beam, and Thunderbolt. |
| 763 | ** His Dragonite in ''Yellow'' knows all the former group, and as the Champion in the Johto games, his three Dragonite each get one of the moves. |
| 764 | ** In his ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'' rematch, one of his Dragonite has Flamethrower while the other has Thunderbolt and Ice Beam, and the Kingdra that replaces his second Dragonair with also has Ice Beam. |
| 765 | ** In ''[=HeartGold and SoulSilver=]'', his Gyarados, Aerodactyl and Charizard know Ice Fang, Thunder Fang and Fire Fang respectively, while his three Dragonite keep Thunder, Blizzard and Fire Blast. |
| 766 | * {{Foil}}: To Clair, his cousin and fellow Dragon trainer. She introduces herself to the player by bragging about her skills and claiming she's on the Elite Four's level (despite being a "mere" Gym Leader and having a weaker team), is a SoreLoser upon being defeated, and couldn't pass the Dragon Den master's quiz. By contrast, Lance introduces himself to the player in the Johto games as just another Pokémon Trainer (despite being the very Champion), is a GracefulLoser, and was stated to have passed the quiz. |
| 767 | * FossilRevival: He uses an Aerodactyl, who resembles a wyvern. |
| 768 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Lance is apparently willing to sic his Pokémon on human criminals. When you meet him at Team Rocket's Johto HQ, the first thing he does is tell his Dragonite to Hyper Beam the grunt running the front store. You can find another grunt downstairs who's also been blasted, and when Executive Ariana tries to double-team you with a grunt, the Dragonite physically slams said grunt away from you. All three grunts apparently survive, thankfully. |
| 769 | * GuestStarPartyMember: In ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', he teams up with the player to battle against Team Rocket Executive Ariana and a Team Rocket grunt in the Mahogany Town hideout. |
| 770 | * HumbleHero: He became this during his tenure as the Champion in the Johto games, hiding his status from player and claiming to be just another trainer, before the player faces him in the Pokémon League. |
| 771 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: |
| 772 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lance introduces himself once the PlayerCharacter resolves the Lake of Rage incident, but his EstablishingCharacterMoment won't come until the Rocket Hideout raid: the instant the player enters, Lance orders his Dragonite to knock a grunt across the room--with [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]], no less. |
| 773 | ** Later in the raid, when he explains the hideout's password system, he indicates that a nearby Rocket "graciously" told him so. Talking to the grunt afterward will only make him groan about how tough Lance is. |
| 774 | * KillerRabbit: In ''Masters'', he admits that Dragonite looks too docile to be considered threatening, though he also knows Dragonite is anything but weak. |
| 775 | * KingMook: The design of the Dragon Tamer class is heavily based on Lance's typical suit and cape, which makes this an unusual example of [[InvertedTrope the king predating the mooks]]. |
| 776 | * LargeHam: The way he announces the name of the Champion in ''Red and Blue'' comes across as this. When he himself is the Champion, he's not much less hammy, as he demonstrates with the moves he makes with that cape. |
| 777 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 778 | ** A '''lance''' is a weapon used by knights, often fabled for slaying dragons and all that. [[ShoutOut And that's not mentioning]] the famous [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} series of books]] beginning publication in 1984... |
| 779 | ** In the German versions he's named "Siegfried", after a legendary Germanic hero who is said to have slain the dragon Fafnir. |
| 780 | ** In the French versions, he's "Peter", the French name of the hero of ''Film/PetesDragon1977''. |
| 781 | * MentorArchetype: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Silver has a life-changing encounter with Lance in the Team Rocket Hideout that effectively puts him on the road to redemption. |
| 782 | * MyRulesAreNotYourRules: |
| 783 | ** Lance has used Pokémon with {{Special Attack}}s that they should not be able to learn. |
| 784 | *** In ''Red'' and ''Blue'', his Dragonite knows Barrier, a move that to this very day the Dratini line cannot learn. The closest this has ever come to "legal" was the release of this same original Dragonite as a downloadable event Pokémon in 2016. |
| 785 | *** The Aerodactyl he fields in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' knows Rock Slide, a move the species could not learn at the time (though this attack became legal in later games). |
| 786 | ** The games often scale Lance's Pokémon down to an appropriate level for the PlayerCharacter, which means Lance uses fully-evolved Pokémon at levels below their actual evolution threshold. |
| 787 | *** In ''Gold and Silver'', his three Dragonite are all below legal level, two at 47 and one at 50 when Dragonair doesn't evolve until Level 55. |
| 788 | *** In ''Stadium 2'' his levels fluctuate between 50 and 100, but below 55 he'll still have a Dragonite ''and'' a Tyranitar, which also evolves at 55. |
| 789 | *** During a team-up with the player at the tail end of the Rocket Hideout infiltration in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', he uses a Level ''40'' Dragonite. |
| 790 | * NiceGuy: Despite his intimidating appearance and status, he's actually a fairly nice person; he's helpful to the protagonist, and has passed the Dragon's Den test, which requires knowledge of proper Pokémon care. |
| 791 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: By virtue of his SignatureMove being Hyper Beam (the Japanese name of the move means "Destruction Beam"); Lance has a clear love of laying waste to his enemies. |
| 792 | * PowerEqualsRarity: Dragon-type Pokémon are known for not only being powerful, but also relatively rare compared to Pokémon of other types, especially in early generations where they were by far the rarest, and Lance has the status to accompany the power of Dragon-type Pokémon by being either a Champion or the final member of the Elite Four the player faces. In fact, in ''Red'', ''Blue'', and ''Yellow'', he is the only NPC trainer in the game to use any Dragon-type Pokémon at all. |
| 793 | * PreFinalBoss: In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Lance is the last of the Elite Four, the final challenge of the game. Upon entering his room, the PlayerCharacter traverses a long and winding BossCorridor--the only one of it's kind in the whole game--with the ominous Victory Road score playing in the background. Lance, complete with his suit and BadassCape, welcomes you magnanimously and confronts you with his specialty--the InfinityPlusOneElement Dragon-type. When defeated, he congratulates you... and then drops TheReveal: TheRival [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter got there before you did]] and now ''he's'' the FinalBoss. |
| 794 | * ReasonYouSuckSpeech: After running circles around Silver in a battle, Lance gives one to Silver about how the latter's lack of compassion towards his Pokémon is what makes him a subpar trainer. Silver doesn't take it well, but a couple more losses to you manages to convince him that Lance is right. |
| 795 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: While Clair and Lance were originally unrelated, ''VideoGame/PokemonCrystal'' obliquely implies that they are—the guard stationed at the entrance of the Dragon's Den explicitly declares that the master is Clair's grandfather, while one of the master's attendants implies that Lance has a StrongFamilyResemblance to the master. ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'' would make their relationship as cousins explicit. |
| 796 | * RuleOfThree: |
| 797 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', all of his Pokémon come from one of three families--Magikarp-Gyarados, Aerodactyl, and Dratini-Dragonair-Dragonite. His team also has three representatives from the last family, two Dragonair and a Dragonite. |
| 798 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'', Lance's Dragonite has all three of the PowerfulButInaccurate FireIceLightning moves--Fire Blast, Blizzard, and Thunder. |
| 799 | ** He has three Dragonite in his team as the Champion in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Gold, Silver and Crystal]]''. Here, the PowerfulButInaccurate FireIceLightning moves are distributed amonst them. |
| 800 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'', he also implements the FireIceLightning fang moves, which are distributed among his Charizard, Aerodactyl, and Gyarados. |
| 801 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'', exchanges two of his three Dragonite for Salamence and Garchomp in his rematch team; instead of having three of the same pseudo-legendary Dragon-type, he has three different kinds of them. |
| 802 | ** For his Pokémon World Tournament team in ''Black 2 and White 2'', he also has three Dragon-type pseudo-legendary Pokémon — Dragonite, Salamence and Hydreigon. |
| 803 | * SecretAIMoves: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Lance commands his Dragonite to attack villainous trainers directly, [[DownplayedTrope a power the player character has not been given]]. |
| 804 | * SignatureMon: His highest-leveled Pokémon is always [[InfinityMinusOneSword Dragonite]], the only fully-evolved Dragon-type in ''Red, Blue and Yellow'' and the first pseudo-legendary Pokémon in the series. |
| 805 | * SignatureMove: Hyper Beam, a DeathOrGloryAttack in the form of a {{Wave Motion|Gun}} BreathWeapon. Lance's love for this move cannot be understated. |
| 806 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and [[VideoGame/PokemonYellow each]] [[VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen subsequent]] [[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee remake]], [[SpamAttack every single Pokémon on his team knows it]]. (In the original games, his team consists of nothing but Pokémon that learn it naturally). |
| 807 | ** All of his Pokémon in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium2'' are also decked out with the move, but he dials it back in ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'', restricting the move to his SignatureMon Dragonite during the original championship bout and then to his Dragonite, Charizard, and Altaria in rematches. |
| 808 | ** Both his Dragonite and Gyarados in ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' know Hyper Beam as well. [[CutscenePowerToTheMax In cutscenes]], Lance is frequently heard calling for Dragonite to Hyper Beam human targets, usually to prevent crimes. |
| 809 | ** [[OutOfCharacterMoment Unusually]], the move is [[AvertedTrope completely absent]] when Lance competes at the [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Pokémon World Tournament]], however. |
| 810 | * StealthPun: Doubling as a BilingualBonus, it seems odd that Lance dresses, and in some games even has the mannerisms of a classical vampire, particularly Count Dracula. The reason? Dracula, or rather dracul, literally means "the dragon." |
| 811 | * SuperMode: In ''Let's Go, Pikachu!'' and ''Let's Go, Eevee!'', his Charizard from his rematch team can Mega Evolve into Mega Charizard X. |
| 812 | * TookALevelInBadass: Not only does Lance becoming Champion of the Johto League mean that he gets stronger Pokémon at his disposal, but he also starts taking an active role to stop the villainous Team Rocket where as before he was not seen taking a single action against them. |
| 813 | * UnskilledButStrong: |
| 814 | ** While League Champions in general are no stranger to hitting hard and fast with powerful moves and powerful Pokémon, Lance's love for the AwesomeButImpractical sets him apart from the other Champions who, on the whole, tend to favor a balance of power and accuracy and to eschew techniques with such drawbacks. |
| 815 | ** In particular, Lance's specialty Hyper Beam is one of the hardest-hitting moves in the game, but is only a Normal-type move, so it has no possible type advantage. |
| 816 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: In ''Red, Blue and Yellow'' and their remakes. "You are now the Pokémon League champion! ...or you would have been, but you have one more challenge left." |
| 817 | [[/folder]] |
| 818 | |
| 819 | !Team Rocket |
| 820 | |
| 821 | See Characters/PokemonTeamRocket |
| 822 | |
| 823 | !Others |
| 824 | |
| 825 | [[folder:Magikarp Salesman (コイキング売り; ''Koikingu uri'')]] |
| 826 | |
| 827 | A salesman found in the Pokémon Center near Mt. Moon, who offers to sell you a swell Magikarp for just $500! What do you say? |
| 828 | ---- |
| 829 | * AscendedExtra: While he had a minute one-off appearance in the original games, his adapted self in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' would become a RecurringCharacter who appeared about OnceASeason, often with new scams to try. |
| 830 | * BlatantLies: The Magikarp Salesman lays it on thick about what a great deal he's offering and how Magikarp is a {{secret|Character}} Pokémon. |
| 831 | * TheBusCameBack: He returns in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' on the Marvelous Bridge, still selling a Magikarp for the same price. However, his offer is much less of a scam this time, as Magikarp isn't native to Unova and $500 will be a pittance by the time you meet him. |
| 832 | * ConMan: Already one in his initial appearance, but he's more of one in the anime, where he also sells common Pokémon disguised as rare ones at high prices. |
| 833 | * TheGhost: He doesn't appear in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', but a couple of boys in the Pewter City Pokémon Center will talk about how one of them was sold a Magikarp by a "weird old man" [[CallBack three years before]]. |
| 834 | * NoNameGiven: His real name is never given. |
| 835 | * SnakeOilSalesman: The salesman insists the deal is exclusive to the player and in {{Updated Rerelease}}s [[BlatantLies claims]] that Magikarp is a {{secret|Character}} Pokémon--as a matter of fact, for anyone with an Old Rod it's ubiquitous and free. If the player talks to him after the sale he insists that he gives no refunds. |
| 836 | [[/folder]] |
| 837 | |
| 838 | [[folder:Copycat/The Copycat Girl (モノマネむすめ ''monomane musume'')]] |
| 839 | [[quoteright:269:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/copycat_pokemon.png]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | A little girl from Saffron City who not only loves mimicking people, but is also very good at it. |
| 842 | ---- |
| 843 | * CostumeCopycat: She does it for fun with no bad intention. |
| 844 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: Copycat only appears as a generic {{NPC}} in the games, but her character art in the TCG depicts her with green hair and pigtails that are quite similar to Duplica from ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', who was based on her, making this a case of [[InvertedTrope Convergent]] Character Evolution. |
| 845 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She collects Pokémon Dolls. In the Generation I games and their remakes, if the player gives her a Clefairy Doll, she'll give the TM for Mimic or teach it to the player's Pokémon. In the sequels, she gives the player a Magnet Train Pass for finding and returning the lost doll. |
| 846 | * IconicOutfit: She loves to copy these when mimicking. In her own case, most promotional art of her (primarily from the trading card game) suggests that her favorite outfit is a copy of Ethan's which she wears most frequently. |
| 847 | * ItWasAGift: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', her parents suggest that her most treasured possession is the doll that Red gave her in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. If it's found after she loses it, she'll give the player character the Magnet Pass in gratitude. |
| 848 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's never referred to by anything other than "the copycat girl". |
| 849 | * StopCopyingMe: [[SuddenlyVoiced Red/Leaf's reaction to her]]. It unnerves quite a few of her peers too, if her parents are to be believed. Curiously, when explaining her FetchQuest in ''Gold and Silver'', she doesn't break character as "you" when explaining where her doll is, obligating her to act as though you told her that even though you couldn't have learned it yourself before talking to her. The player character calls her out for this for [[{{Railroading}} trying to tell them what to do]]. |
| 850 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: She will imitate the male player character, including [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction their clothes]]. |
| 851 | [[/folder]] |
| 852 | |
| 853 | [[folder:Mr. Fuji (フジ老人 ''fuji roujin'')]] |
| 854 | [[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MrFujiTGC_1168.PNG]] |
| 855 | |
| 856 | A kind old man from Lavender Town who looks after and takes care of abandoned and orphaned Pokémon. |
| 857 | ---- |
| 858 | * TheAtoner: It's suggested at a few points (and confirmed in ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'') that he [[spoiler:was involved in Mewtwo's creation (which Pokédex entries say involved "horrific" gene splicing experiments), and that after its escape, he returned Mew to Faraway Island]] and devoted his life to caring for Pokémon. |
| 859 | * CoolOldGuy: He's a very nice man, especially to Pokémon. |
| 860 | * DistressedDude: Shortly after he went to the Pokémon Tower to pay his respects to the spirit of the Marowak that Team Rocket had killed earlier, Team Rocket shows up again, and takes him hostage inside. |
| 861 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: He takes care of abandoned and orphaned Pokémon. Just look at the page image. [[spoiler:Though it is implied that [[TheAtoner he wasn't always like that...]]]] |
| 862 | * TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Would you believe that this kind old man [[spoiler:is heavily implied to have not only discovered Mew, but also been Mewtwo's creator in a time where he was seemingly less moral]]? He himself never brings any of it up, almost no-one in Kanto knows of his actions, and even the games themselves don't elaborate much on it. ''Pokémon Origins'', however, [[AdaptationExpansion does]]. |
| 863 | * HeroicBSOD: Upon [[spoiler:the creation and escape of Mewtwo; more specifically seeing its savage heart as a result of its creation]]. The games only show his atoner attitude, and ''Pokémon Origins'' shows the [=BSoD=]. |
| 864 | * MadScientist: There's a picture of him on Cinnabar Island with the description "Dr. Fuji?!?!" He is also old friends with Blaine (who in some continuities is a scientist), and [[spoiler:is suspected to have been the scientist who created Mewtwo]]. |
| 865 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's implied that [[spoiler:he is the researcher who lived in the Pokémon Mansion[[labelnote:*]]Though the English journals use "we", as if referring to a team of researchers, the original Japanese journals are written in first-person[[/labelnote]], and following the horrific DNA experiments that led to Mewtwo's birth and its vicious nature, he moved to Lavender Town and [[TheAtoner began caring for orphaned Pokémon]]]]. |
| 866 | * NiceGuy: How could you not respect a guy who cares for orphaned Pokémon? [[spoiler:But Cinnabar Island, especially Pokémon Mansion, heavily imply he wasn't always so nice to Pokémon...]] |
| 867 | * PapaWolf: To the Pokémon in his orphanage. |
| 868 | * RetCanon: {{Updated Rerelease}}s of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' expanded on Mr. Fuji's OriginStory by lifting it directly from ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. |
| 869 | * WastelandElder: Lavender Town has no real authority, but Mr. Fuji is well-respected to the point that he may as well be. |
| 870 | [[/folder]] |
| 871 | |
| 872 | [[folder:The Karate King / Karate Master]] |
| 873 | |
| 874 | [[quoteright:347:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karatekingorigin_7849.png]] |
| 875 | |
| 876 | ->Voiced by: Takeharu Onishi (JP), Dan Green (EN) |
| 877 | |
| 878 | The Karate King (or [[InconsistentDub Karate]] [[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee Master]]) rules the Fighting Dojo, which used to be the Saffron City Pokémon Gym until Sabrina's Psychic-types crushed his Fighting-types. Now he trains students in his converted gym.\ |
| 879 | \ |
| 880 | There are actually two Karate Kings, Koichi and Kiyo. Koichi/Takenori (タケノリ ''takenori'') is the Karate King of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', who will give the player their choice of MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan for besting him. Kiyo[=/=]Nobuhiko (ノブヒコ ''nobuhiko'') is the Karate King of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', who is found training in Mt. Mortar of the Johto region and will give the player a Tyrogue, which can evolve into Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, or Hitmontop depending on how the player raises it. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | ---- |
| 883 | |
| 884 | * BossInMooksClothing: The Karate King is completely indistinguishable from any other Blackbelt--you wouldn't even know he was special if he didn't tell you. That said, he specializes in top-flight Fighting-types Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan, which are used only by him, the player, and Elite Four member Bruno. |
| 885 | * TheCameo: ''A'' Karate King (Kiyo?) is trying to set up a new dojo in Lumiose City in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', but things aren't going well. |
| 886 | * CurbStompBattle: Prior to the events of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the Fighting Dojo was Saffron City's official Gym and Koichi its Gym Leader--then Sabrina crushed him, took the title of Gym Leader for herself and set up a newer, bigger gym right next door, events that her trainers still gossip about. |
| 887 | * DecompositeCharacter: In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Kiyo gave every appearance of being the same character as the Karate King of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''--he was based at the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City, has the same {{Signature Mon}}s as the original, and gives one to the player after being bested. A wrench was thrown into this assumption by ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', which named its Karate King Koichi--[[VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver later]] [[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee remakes]] have preserved both names, so there appear to be ''two'' Karate Kings. |
| 888 | * GracefulLoser: Being that he's no longer an official Gym Leader, Koichi's under no obligation to give you anything when you beat him, he chooses to reward you with a Pokémon of his own will. |
| 889 | * {{Kiai}}: Most of his dialogue. |
| 890 | * KingMook: Of the Blackbelt trainer-class. In the Japanese version, the Blackbelt-class is known as "karate king" (''karate ou''), so Koichi and Kiyo are called the "''great'' karate king" (''karate daiou''). |
| 891 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: The UpdatedRerelease ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' names the original Karate King "Koichi". |
| 892 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Like most of the trainers in Gen I, he didn't have a name, and was thus only known as the Karate King. |
| 893 | * OptionalBoss: In most of his appearances, fighting him isn't required to complete the game, though it's also the only way to get the Hitmon line outside of trading. |
| 894 | * RedBaron: The Karate Master, then the Karate King. |
| 895 | * SignatureMon: Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. |
| 896 | * TrainingFromHell: In the Gen II games and their remakes, he's left the dojo to train deep within Mt. Mortar. Finding and beating him nets the player a Tyrogue, provided they have an empty slot in their party. |
| 897 | * UniqueEnemy: In every game he appears, he's the only way to get any of the "Hitmon"-type Pokémon. As of Gen II, you can breed other Tyrogues so you can eventually get all of them, but in Gen I the only way to get the one you didn't choose was to trade for it. |
| 898 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' establishes that the current Karate King (Koichi) is not the same as the Karate King of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (Kiyo), which naturally raises the question of why Koichi is absent in the sequel games. |
| 899 | [[/folder]] |
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