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Characters and their Pokémon that debuted during Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, also titled Pokémon: Advanced Generation in Japan.

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Main Cast

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Supporting Cast

Professor Birch (Dr. Odamaki)

Voiced in Japanese by: Fumihiko Tachiki

Voiced in English by: Dan Green

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Salvador Delgado

Voiced in European Spanish by: Pablo Adán (Season 6), Manuel Bellido (Seasons 7-8)

The professor of the Hoenn region. He helped May get her start as a trainer by giving her a choice between Torchic, Mudkip, or Treecko.

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• Adapted Out: Going by the games, Birch should be the father of the RSE male lead Brendan, who so far has only appeared in cameos.
• Damsel out of Distress: Male version: in a repetition of Birch's first appearance in the games, May has to come to his aid from a pack of Poochyena. However, May doesn't even know how to properly command Pokémon yet (the Mudkip she called out doused her instead) so Birch eventually had to get out of the situation by himself.
• Drives Like Crazy: Steep cliffs are as minor as speedbumps, and chances are he'll be on a maximum of two of his wheels at any given time.
• Large Ham: Being voiced by Mr. Green certainly helps.
• Science Hero: Is not afraid of going into the field for his research, which often puts him in a few scrapes.

Caroline (Mitsuko)

Voiced in Japanese by: Yumi Touma

Voiced in English by: Megan Hollingshead (4Kids, episode 3), Karen Niell (4Kids, episodes 69-132), Klara Leopold (current)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gabriela Gómez (episode 3) Patricia Acevedo (episodes 69-70),Laura Torres (episodes 114-132), Elsa Covián (episode 180)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Pepa Castro (Seasons 6 and 8), María Jesús Nieto (Season 7), Beatriz Berciano (Season 9)

May and Max's mom and wife of gym leader Norman of the Petalburg City Gym.

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• Good Parents: She is a very loving and supportive mother.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Just see the picture.
• Mistaken for Cheating: Thought this of Norman when she noticed that he's been spending time with Nurse Joy (they were actually planning an anniversary present for Caroline). She was in the middle of announcing her intent to leave him before the misunderstanding was cleared up.
• Named by the Adaptation: She's based on the player character's unnamed mother from Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald.
• Parental Favoritism: Not with her children directly but with her daughter's Pokémon, she mentions she likes her Beautifly the best.

Drew (Shū/Shuu)

Voiced in Japanese by: Mitsuki Saiga

Voiced in English by: Pete Zarustica (4Kids), Bill Rogers (current)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Luis Fernando Orozco (episodes 33-35), Irwin Daayán (rest of the series)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Juan Antonio Soler (Seasons 6-8), Álvaro Navarro (Season 9), Amparo Valencia (Flashback AG Episode 046)

May's main rival as a Pokémon coordinator. He enjoys pushing her buttons, but gradually drops the Jerkass facade and becomes much more respectful over time. He never lets anyone forget that they are rivals first and friends second.

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• Bookends: In his first Contest facing off against May, Drew defeats her only to lose in the finals to Robert. The Hoenn Grand Festival netted him the same results. And both events occurred in Slateport City.
• Bubble Gun: Masquerain's Bubble.
• The Cameo:
  • Drew made a couple of brief appearances during May's Diamond and Pearl return arc, where his Roselia was revealed to have evolved into Roserade.
  • He appears again in Journeys with Harley and Professor Birch, watching Ash's battle with Steven in the Masters Eight Tournament.
• Chick Magnet: He has many fangirls. And unlike Gary, he does not like the attention.
• Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and green eyes. Fits in with his Grass-type Pokémon motif (his signature Pokémon is a Grass-type Roselia, and he frequently gives May flowers). Despite their initial vitriol, he ultimately proves in time to be a trustworthy friend to May.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He catches a Dark-type Absol for his team in Battle Frontier.
• Expy: Drew is more than vaguely reminiscent of both Ruby and Sapphire rivals, Brendan and Wally, having the distinctive green hair and eyes of the latter and the confidence and attitude of the former. He also uses Roselia, which was one of the Pokémon on Wally's team, as a signature.
• Friendly Rivalry: With May, eventually. It was significantly more vitriolic at first, with him acting very condescending towards her and May rising to the bait easily, but near the end of the Hoenn arc, they shifted closer to being friends as well as rivals, with Harley taking Drew's place as May's Jerkass rival.
• Guest-Star Party Member: In some of his later appearances, ends up getting joining May and co in their struggles against Team Rocket. The episode "Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut" is a particular example, where he gets pulled into Team Rocket's latest attack on the twerps at the beginning of the episode, gets stranded on an island together with them, and spends the rest of the episode hanging out with May and trying to escape. (Incidently, this is also when their rivalry starts to become a lot more friendly and less antagonistic.)
• Inconsistent Spelling: His Japanese name can be spelled either Shū or Shuu.
• It Amused Me: He toys with May, alternating jibes and backhanded compliments. May naturally rises to the bait beautifully.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He spends his introductory episode railing mercilessly on May, then pulls a Big Damn Heroes when she's in trouble. Then insults her some more.
  • He acts pretty aloof and cocky most of the time in contests, but he's actually generally respectful to his fellow competitors, except for Harley and (initially) May. He thanks Savannah (who greatly admires him) for a great battle after he defeats her in the Rubello contest, he praises Brianna (who has a crush on him) for her performance after she loses to May, and he obviously has a great deal of respect for Soledad, his rival who defeated him in his first-ever contest.
  • His heart of gold really begins to shine when he tosses May a rose as congratulations for her contest victory...and then tells her it's not for her, it's for her Beautifly. He messes with her like this for a long time. Really, it's only by the Hoenn Grand Festival that he loses much of his facade, with Harley officially taking his place in that regard.
• Manly Tears: We don't see it happen, but he apparently cried after Solidad beat him at a Contest. May teases him about it.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: He's the in between to Solidad's nice and Harley's mean. Solidad is friendly and outgoing, Harley's petty and holds grudges. While Drew constantly teases May (including giving a rose to her Pokémon and not her), he later grows to respect her as a person.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Drew owns the part Dragon-type Flygon.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to May's red. He's much more calm in contests and thinks before he acts.
• The Rival: He is this to May; she gains other significant rivals in Harley and Soledad, but Drew is the first introduced, as well as the most prominent.
• Ship Tease: Gets quite a bit with May, especially later on once their rivalry has become more friendly. Not the least of which is him consistently giving her red roses when he sees her at contests. (Initially he states that the roses are for her Beautifly, but he stops bothering with the excuse eventually.) Soledad also tells May at the Kanto Grand Festival that Drew talks about her all the time.
• Signature Mon: Roselia. It's present in most of his appearances and matches his habit of handing out roses to May in many of their encounters.
• Something about a Rose: As has been mentioned a few times, Drew's favorite way to mess with May is handing her roses.
• Stealth Mentor: In his earlier appearances, he seemed to serve as one to May. Though he several times gave her and her friends some condescending lectures that came across like boasting, they actually contained good advice that May took to heart.
  • He also listened in on her conversations with Harley from a distance during the Hoenn Grand Festival, and, when he found out that Harley was actually trying to sabotage May, quickly exposed his plot to her.
  • Soledad later tells May that, when Drew met her, he was reminded him of how he himself used to be in his earliest contests, which may be the reason for this.
• Straight Man: Serves as this when he gets pulled into the adventures of Ash and Co, and is also this to the rival quartet of himself, May, Harley, and Soledad.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Both his personality and his relationship with May are quite similar to Gary and how he treated Ash. He even mirror's Gary's Character Development, becoming less of a Troll by "Advanced Battle" and a lot more prone to back May up when Team Rocket or Harley start going after her. Heck, his English dub voice actually sounds quite a bit like Gary's, especially in his introductory episode.
• Theme Naming: Drew's Japanese name Shuu is a possible reading of 秋, the Japanese character for Autumn or Fall, which plays off of May's Japanese name Haruka (a reading for 春花, "spring flowers"). In short, Haruka and Shuu refer to opposite seasons of the year.
• Worthy Opponent: Eventually sees May as this. Most prominently shown when he tells May at the Hoenn Grand Festival that he specifically trained his new Flygon for his battle against her as its contest debut, and also when May finally defeats him for the first time in the Kanto Grand Festival.

Harley

Voiced in Japanese by: Jun'ichi Kanemaru

Voiced in English by: Andrew Rannells (4Kids), Billy Regan (current)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gerardo García

Voiced in European Spanish by: Juan Logar Jr. (Season 8), Fernando Cabrera (Season 9)

May's other rival, though she doesn't consider him to be one at first. Harley decided to go after May simply because during his introduction, he offered May one of his home made cookies. May was in a rather indifferent mood that day, and she thought they were OK. They weren't bad, just OK. Harley never let that go.

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• Affably Evil: He's exuberantly chummy towards his rivals outside of competition, even May despite his extreme unnecessary grudge against her.
• Affectionate Nickname: In Japanese, he refers to his Pokémon as his "cool buds" (and yes, that's in English).
• All Webbed Up: His Ariados knows String Shot and Spider Web.
• Alpha Bastard: He’s snobby, petty, childish, and goes out his way to bully and humiliate May any chance he gets.
• Ambiguously Gay: Not so much "ambiguous" as "as gay as the writers could possibly make him without setting the censors off".
• Badass Finger Snap: He uses it to signal the timing of his Cacturne's Needle Arm in "A Hurdle for Squirtle".
• The Bad Guy Wins: Beats May in a Contest for the first and only time in "Harley Rides Again".
• Berserk Button: If you don't like his cookies (or he doesn't think you do), he will go out of his way to make your life miserable at every possible turn.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Laughably Evil, campy and seemingly friendly, but extremely nasty towards people he hates. Poor May.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He behaves in a silly manner to cover up his ruthless and underhanded nature.
• Breakout Villain: Was apparently supposed to be done with after the Hoenn Grand Festival, but was made a recurring rival for Battle Frontier due to his popularity.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Acts EXTREMELY flamboyant and obsesses over anyone who messes with his food, but you'd be wise to take him seriously as a competitor when it comes to the Contest circuit, especially since he's fond of pulling out dirty tactics to win.
• The Cameo: He makes an appearance in Journeys with Drew and Professor Birch, watching Ash's battle with Steven in the Masters Eight Tournament.
• Camp Gay: And how! Fan-boying over Norman, and also him cosplaying as May and flirting with Drew during the Kanto Grand Festival.
• Characterization Marches On: In the Latin American dub of his debut episode, he doesn't use his normal flamboyant manner of speech and talks in a very straightforward way. He is also referred to as a woman.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: His dirty tactics against May always end in failure. The one time he ever beat May was when he played completely fair, no manipulation or cheating of any kind.
• Combat Pragmatist: He won't think twice about using dirty tactics to pull out a win.
• Cosplay/Uncatty Resemblance: His outfit is based on Cacturne, his signature Pokémon.
  • At one point in the Kanto Grand Festival he even cosplays May, who gets squicked out by his mimicry.
• Dark Is Evil: His main Pokémon is Cacturne, a half-Dark type, and his team also includes a Banette.
• Deadpan Snarker: His default personality when he's being serious.
• Death Glare: Ariados' Scary Face.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His entire feud with May is based around very petty reasons he has to hate her.
• Dub Name Change: One of the very few aversions in the Pokémon franchise. His Japanese and English names are the same.
• Effeminate Voice: The American dub gives him an appropriately campy voice and mannerisms.
• Enemies List: Harley doesn't have a simple list: he has a photo album of people he bears grudges against. He sneaks pictures of his "enemies" and draws "nasty" symbols next to them on the album (which is what he does with May after their first interaction).
• Evil Counterpart: In hindsight, he could be considered one for Nando from the Diamond & Pearl anime. Both are male Contest rivals with effeminate mannerisms and green color schemes, but Harley is loud, flamboyant, Laughably Evil, and cruel to people he dislikes, while Nando is quiet, composed, polite, and kind-hearted to even those who are rude to him. Perhaps it's not a coincidence that Nando is voiced by Harley's second English voice actor.
• Evil Is Petty: Initiating a blood feud with a 10-year-old girl over a plate of cookies? Yeah, he qualifies. Doesn't help that her commenting that his Cacturne was creepy only deepened his hatred towards her.
• Eviler than Thou: Inducted Team Rocket into his plots to ruin May later on, and quickly became a Bad Boss as they proved ineffective. He also cowed them from using independent schemes on May, putting dibs on making her suffer. When it was made apparent they wouldn't be joining his efforts in Johto, he blasted them off in anger before Jessie could even get out a Pokémon to fight.
• Foil: To Drew, as May's other main rival. Both them are arrogant, campy Coordinators who get a kick out of riling May up, but while Drew is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold that delivers a lot of Brutal Honesty to May in the hopes of seeing her improve, Harley is a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk that deliberately gives her bad advice in the hopes of seeing her fail. Coincidentally, they also have inversed color schemes; whereas Drew wears a purple outfit and has green hair, Harley wears a green outfit and has purple hair.
• Friendly Enemy: He can be quite affable toward his competitors outside of the Contest arena. Of course, it's all an act.
• Gender-Blender Name: His name can be either a male or female name, appropriately for someone with Camp Gay mannerisms.
• Gratuitous English: In the original Japanese version, he throws random English phrases into his dialogue like "very surprise", "see you", "very happy", and calls his Pokémon "my cool bud". Comes with being voiced by Jun'ichi Kanemaru.
• Green and Mean: He always wears a green Cacturne outfit, and is May's most antagonistic rival.
• Has a Type: Harley seems to prefer Pokémon that have a menacing look, such as Cacturne, Banette and Ariados. Even his Wigglytuff, which most people would consider cute, has a purple glare across its face.
• Insufferable Genius: Not genius per se, but smart and annoying, to the point of being a smart ass. He uses this to his advantage.
  • In Harley's debut episode, he lied to May about Surskit being slow. May believed him, but since Surskit were well known for their quick speed, she soon learned her lesson. May confronted Harley, only for him to tell her she should have done research and that she was only participating in the Contest as if it were a game.
  • During the Hoenn Grand Festival, Harley told May to use Skitty's Assist move over and over during the Appeals Round. May followed this, and one of the judges was dissapointed that her appeal was lacking variety. Luckily, her Skitty confused itself while using Bulbasaur's Petal Dance, and thus May told it to use Double Hit, its own move, on itself, and break the confusion. May at last commanded Skitty to use Blizzard. May again confronted Harley about this, with Drew. Harley told May not to trust anyone, and that again, she should have known better.
• Irony: In their last meeting, he claimed Jessie would never get anywhere as a Coordinator without him. Afterward, Jessie competed in the Sinnoh contests and became competent enough to reach the final 4 of the Grand Festival while Harley traveled to Johto and is implied to still be May's Butt-Monkey.
• Jerkass: His relationship with May is a good example of this. In their first meeting, he takes basically everything she says (all of which she meant in a perfectly friendly way) in the worst possible fashion, and holds a permanent grudge against her for it, sparking a bitter rivalry in which he actively tries to sabotage her contest chances every opportunity he gets. He's also pretty ruthless and pragmatic in his contest battling.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Harley is called out by May for manipulating her by giving her misleading advice, he tells the latter that she shouldn't have trusted him in the first place. Even Drew admits that Harley is correct when he attempts to comfort May about her feeling bad for being tricked.
• Karma Houdini: While most of his plans to defeat May ended up in failure, he was sparsely disciplined for sabotaging or borderline cheating in contests, and didn't even seem to lose much popularity from his bullying disposition aside from her and her teammates (who he hated in the first place anyway).
• Large Ham: Is VERY flamboyant in basically everything he does, from his speech to his wardrobe to his battle style.
• Laughably Evil: Harley is a huge jerk to May, but does it in such an over-the-top, flamboyant and silly way that it makes him very enjoyable to watch.
• Law of Disproportionate Response: He took May's picture, pasted it in a stalker notebook, drew a frowny face/skull and crossbones next to it, and obsessed himself with defeating her for the rest of the season. Why? Because when she actually liked his cookies, she didn't like them enough and because she referred to his Cacturne as "scary".
• Loophole Abuse: When competing against Jessie in the Saffron City Contest, she chooses to use Wobbuffet, which Harley's Ariados cannot attack directly because it will just reflect said attack with Counter or Mirror Coat. But one of the moves in Ariados' arsenal is String Shot, which technically isn't an attack, so Harley has it use this move to tie up Wobbuffet and jerk it around like a puppet on strings before throwing it across the arena and knocking it out.
• Lost Food Grievance: He tells Team Rocket a story from when he was little, about a girl (who looks exactly like May, for some reason) who ate the last piece of his lunch and said it was gross.
• Lost in Translation: In the Japanese version, another of Harley's many reasons for hating May is her Verbal Tic of "kamo" which can represent uncertainty. It contributed to him believing May was deliberately playing herself off as the cute and innocent competitor of the contest.
• Manchild: Despite being much older than May, he bears a serious grudge against her simply because she had never heard about Cacturne, said it was scary (when it is indeed a creepy-looking Dark-type Pokémon), and said his cookies were not half bad. He sneaks pictures of people he doesn't like (such as May) and collects them in a notebook. Another reason he hates May is because he never let go of his childhood "trauma" of a schoolmate who looked like her eating his last Octillery-shaped "snackie".
• Manipulative Bastard: Proven by his first three appearances alone:
  • In their first contest together, after he develops a petty grudge against May, he gives her a "tip" that is the exact opposite of the truth, hoping she'll lose in the semi-finals. When that fails, he plays a recording (to the entire audience) of Max telling an embarrassing story about May in order to throw her off her game.
  • In the Hoenn Grand Festival, he convinces May that he's sorry for what he did before, but then actively gives her bad advice more than once, hoping to knock her out of the Festival during the Appeals stage.
  • In her first Kanto contest, he gains her trust again by helping her defeat Team Rocket when she's in trouble, but then lies about the contest entry rules to try to keep her from entering.
• Meaningful Name: His Japanese name is a corruption of 針 hari, meaning "needle". His signature Pokémon is based on a cactus.
• Misplaced Retribution: One of the reasons Harley hates May so much is simply because she happens to look like a schoolmate who once ate Harley's last "snackie" when he was a child.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Claims that May (or at least a May lookalike) once stole his food in grade school. Granted, he was almost certainly BS'ing it, but...well, you never know.
• Navel Window: His usual outfit, following its Cacturne-themed design, has a diamond-shaped cut near the bottom of his shirt that shows his navel.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: He's the mean to Solidad's nice and Drew's in-between. Harley is incredibly petty, he holds a grudge against May over food, and embarrasses his opponents to get an advantage in Contests.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Harley's specialty in Contests is showing off the creepy qualities of his Pokémon — while the audience doesn't always take to his appeals, Harley himself genuinely loves them. In fact, one of the things that first fueled his hatred for May is her referring to his Cacturne as scary.
• Odd Friendship: Solidad somehow regards Harley to be a good buddy of hers without a drop of malice, despite the fact Harley has proven to have a nasty streak while Solidad herself is a good spirited competitor.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Harley goes from teaming up with Team Rocket to defeat May, to actually interrupting one of Team Rocket's schemes and proclaiming that 'the only one allowed to make [May] cry is me' by the end of the Advanced Generation series. He cordially adds they are welcome to watch him challenge May as a learning experience however.
• Personality Powers: Cacturne is based on a cactus, and Harley is about as prickly as one when it comes to people he doesn't like.
• Pet the Dog: He treats his Pokémon well, referring to them affectionately ("my buddies", "cool bud", attaching "-chan" to their names in Japanese).
• Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Harley appears to be in his late teens, but for some reason he becomes obsessed with tormenting May and winning against her at all costs... and she's only ten. This becomes literal and especially ridiculous when you see him confronting her, as it's clear that not only is he older, he's at least a full head taller, and yet is fixated on picking on her.
• Psychotic Smirk: His default expression. Especially prominent when he's sabotaging May. See DeadpanSnarker above.
• Rule of Symbolism: A big part of Harley's characterization is his massive and unreasonable grudge against May. Fittingly enough, he has a Banette, which is said in the Pokédex to have been born from a grudge.
• Serious Business: Harley takes food really seriously. He hated May's guts because she said his cookies were only okay, and got really pissed over a girl eating the last of his lunch when he was little.
• She's a Man in Japan: In the Latin American dub, Harley is referred to as female.
• Shipper on Deck: While it's partly to catch them off guard or annoy them, Harley certainly loves pointing out the subtext between May and Drew.
• Signature Headgear: Harley's Cacturne-themed outfit is completed by a triangular green hat that resembles the one atop Cacturne's own head.
• Signature Mon: Cacturne, to the point where Harley's outfit is modeled after it.
• Sissy Villain: He's definitely one the most villainous of May's contest rivals (the other being Jessie), and as mentioned above, he's very flamboyant.
• Smug Snake: Acts like this a lot in his many attempts to sabotage May's contests.
• Terms of Endangerment:
  • "Yoo-hoo, May! My cute little gingerbread-cookie!". For a guy who does everything in his power to antagonize May, he has a ton of pet names for her.
  • Also calling May, himself, and everyone else "Hun" in the Japanese Dub, and in the Battle Frontier series.
  • In Japanese, he calls May "Haruka-chan" (-chan being a term of endearment) and "Kamo-chan," referring to her Verbal Tic of "-kamo" which is used to denote uncertainty.
• Tsundere: Shows shades of this non-romantically towards May overtime. Despite his insistent antagonization of May, he eventually defends her from Team Rocket while basically prefacing it with 'don't get the wrong idea'. In the next season, he's shown alongside Drew and Solidad watching the Wallace cup on tv, and is at first hanging off to the side looking like he thinks watching the broadcast is beneath him - but when the shot pans to them again later while May is performing, he's right in front of the tv watching intently with the other two, showing he's interested after all.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Brock actually thought he was a girl before the crowd around Harley cleared...oops.
• Vague Age: It's a little hard to tell if Harley is meant to be an older teenager or a young adult. Regardless, it doesn't stop him from having a mutually intense rivalry with a 10-year-old girl.
• Verbal Tic: He tends to refer to people as "hun", including himself.
• Villain Teamup: He once conspired with Team Rocket so May wouldn't get her last Kanto Ribbon.
• Villainous Crossdresser: On one occasion, he dresses up as May. He even blows a kiss to Drew while doing so...
• Villain Decay: Mildly. Harley never completely loses his hostile attitude towards May, nor does he lose his competence, but he actually eventually defends May and her friends from a Team Rocket plot (because he wants to be the one to mess with May, no one else), appears to be genuinely happy about the idea of competing with May, Drew and Solidad in Johto, (but that should not be mistaken for True Companions), and by the Wallace cup he's seen alongside Drew and Solidad watching May compete on tv, seemingly in support of her.

Morrison (Masamune)

Voiced in Japanese by: Masako Nozawa

Voiced in English by: Sean Schemmel

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Noé Velásquez

Voiced in European Spanish by: Jorge Saudinós

An exuberant trainer who dresses much like a samurai, he meets Ash during the three-months leading up to the Ever Grande Conference, and they strike up a highly competitive friendly rivalry, which only builds up as the tournament itself does. While Ash did not have a rival for the majority of the Hoenn Saga, Morrison is essentially the closest to The Rival that he has for the Ever Grande Conference arc.

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• Big Eater: Most of his scenes involve him chasing after a rice ball (or sandwich in the dub).
• Crash-Into Hello: Though it's based purely in friendship.
• Elemental Powers
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Swampert's Focus Punch.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Gligar's primary type; Swampert & Steelix's secondary type.
  • Extra Oredinary: Metang & Steelix's primary type; Girafarig's Iron Tail; Gligar's Steel Wing & Iron Tail.
  • Non-Elemental: Girafarig's
  • Playing with Fire: Growlithe
  • Psychic Powers: Girafarig's secondary type; Metang's Confusion.
  • Wind from Beneath My Wings: Gligar's secondary type.
• Foil: Until perhaps Cameron of Best Wishes, no other rival of Ash's was as much like him as Morrison. In fact, his personality is very similar to Ash's Indigo League self, such that Ash (despite appearing younger) comes off as more experienced than he does.
• Friendly Rivalry: In contrast to many of Ash's other rivals, Morrison is immediately friendly towards Ash from the get-go, while still maintaining his Spirited Competitor attitude. This actually gets deconstructed when he ends up facing Ash in the Ever Grande Conference. His unease towards battling a friend causes him to have a temporary Heroic BSoD that Ash has to snap him out of.
• Graceful Loser: For all his competitiveness, he took his defeat as extra incentive to get stronger.
• Heroic BSoD: He was highly depressed at first about needing to actually battle Ash during their 6-on-6 match, to the point that he couldn't command his Pokémon properly and gave Ash an easy lead in the battle. Eventually, Ash snapped him out of it by convincing him to fight his best no matter what or else disgrace his Pokémon's efforts, and it worked.
• Hot-Blooded: Similar to Ash.
• Idiot Hero: Again, similar to Ash.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Girafarig's Light Screen, although useless.
• Meaningful Name: His Japanese name, Masamune, is the name of a famed swordsmith, fitting for his ronin-like appearance and vagrant lifestyle.
• One-Hit KO: Gligar's Guillotine.
• The Rival: Effectively serves as Ash's primary rival for the Ever Grande Conference arc.
• Running Gag: Chasing his runaway rice balls (sandwiches in the dub), which would lead to a Crash-Into Hello with Ash.
• Spirited Competitor: Is just as excited and pumped about battling others as Ash is.
• Took a Level in Badass: Nobody was more surprised than he when his Beldum spontaneously evolved during his preliminary match, expanding its moveset from simply Take Down and enabling his defeat of his opponent.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He loves giant onigiri, which is echanged to large sandwiches by 4Kids.

Tyson (Tetsuya)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kenji Nojima

Voiced in English by: Marc Diraison

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gabriel Ortiz

Voiced in European Spanish by: Pablo Sevilla

Ash's second rival, appearing in the lead-up episode to the Ever Grande Conference. He became the first rival of Ash's to win a tournament by winning the Conference.

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• Almighty Janitor: Tyson's Meowth is so experienced and powerful, it could easily evolve into a Persian, but refuses to do so out of loathing for the species.
• Always Someone Better: He wins the Ever Grande Conference, his Meowth is much tougher than Team Rocket's (and defeats Pikachu), and his entire team besides Meowth is fully evolved. And just to further the last point, half of his Pokémon are full evolutions of Pokémon Ash and Morrison have which haven't yet evolved - Sceptile and Donphan to Ash's Grovyle and Phanpy, respectively; and Metagross to Morrison's Metang. One wouldn't necessarily need to know the show's history to realise Ash was going to lose this one.
• Big Eater: In a manner reminiscent more to May than Ash (that is, he's more even-tempered and Closer to Earth).
• Dark and Troubled Past: Tyson's Meowth was abandoned by its pack after losing to the pack leader, a Persian, whose arrogance (a common species trait) and disregard for Meowth's well-being led to a lasting hatred of the species. It was thankfully found by Tyson who nursed it to health again, even giving it a pair of boots to support its wounded hindlegs until it could walk properly again
• Elemental Powers
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Hariyama. Shiftry's Mega Kick.
  • Casting a Shadow: Shiftry's secondary type.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Donphan
  • Extra Oredinary: Metagross' primary type.
  • Green Thumb: Sceptile. Also Shiftry's primary type.
  • Non-Elemental: Meowth
  • Psychic Powers: Metagross' secondary type.
  • Shock and Awe: Meowth's Thunderbolt
• Energy Weapon: Metagross' Hyper Beam.
• Irrational Hatred: His Meowth expresses towards all Persian - he had to return it to its Pokéball to prevent it from killing its Persian opponent after it's already fainted. It doesn't help that the species' natural predisposition towards condescension and arrogance are the very traits which led to this deep-seated loathing.
• Meaningful Name: "Tetsu" from his Japanese name means "iron", likely in a reference to his determination and will and also to that of his Meowth, who became strong as iron through hard work and dedication.
• Me's a Crowd: Meowth's Double Team.
• Signature Mon: His Meowth, being the only Pokémon with a unique look (namely dressed with a hat, cape, and boots), as well as being the final Pokémon Ash faces on Tyson's team, ultimately beating Pikachu in the end.
• Shout-Out: His Meowth dresses and acts like Puss in Boots.
• Unknown Rival/Worthy Opponent: His Meowth for Team Rocket's - the latter initially hates him, but comes to empathise with and respect him after learning his backstory, and expecially after his defeat of Pikachu.

Solidad (Saori)

Voiced in Japanese by: Rie Tanaka

Voiced in English by: Sarah Natochenny

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Cristina Hernández

Voiced in European Spanish by: Diana Torres

One of Drew's friends and an extremely skilled coordinator. She knows Brock from when she was at Pewter City and seems to know Harley as well. She serves as both a rival and a mentor to Drew and May.

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• The Ace: A highly skilled coordinator who defeated Drew in his first contest, and also defeats May with relative ease in the semi-finals of the Kanto Grand Festival.
• Always Someone Better: For both Drew and May.
• Cool Big Sis: Also this for both Drew and May.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Pidgeot's Double Team.
• Elemental Powers
  • Dual type Pokémon
    • Big Creepy-Crawlies/Wind from Beneath My Wings: Butterfree
    • Making a Splash/An Ice Pokémon: Lapras
    • Making a Splash/Psychic Powers: Slowbro
    • Non-Elemental/Wind from Beneath My Wings: Pidgeot
• Energy Weapon: Slowbro's Hyper Beam.
• Flaw Exploitation: Solidad emerged as the clear winner in the battle against May, thanks to her strategic approach. May heavily relied on the flashy, aggressive moves she had learned from Ash, which Solidad was quick to notice and take advantage of. Solidad analyzed May's past battles with Harley and Drew, and realized the risks involved in using the same techniques against her. She smartly adjusted her style to focus more on counterattacks, leveraging her extensive experience to outmaneuver May. Unfortunately, May's limited experience prevented her from adapting her own style to counter Solidad's tactics, leading to a heavy defeat.
• Flat Character: Since she only appeared in Kanto's Grand Festival and then has not been seen again aside from a two-second cameo in the DP series, she's quite obviously one.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her name is officially spelled Solidad, but some sources call her Soledad.
• Magic Skirt: She wears a tight miniskirt and it never rides up.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: She's the nice to Harley's mean and Drew's in between. Solidad is easygoing and respectful towards other Coordinators.
• Odd Friendship: She calls Harley a friend of hers with fondness, and even finds his outlandish stunts (like dressing up like May) to be 'cute', despite his bizarre, petty personality. In turn, Solidad seems to be the only one of Harley's rivals he regards with a decent level of respect.
• Remember the New Guy?: Supposedly an old friend of Brock, Drew, and Harley, but we never heard anything about her until her anime debut.

Hoenn

Gym Leaders

Roxanne (Tsutsuji)

Voiced in Japanese by: Yuri Shiratori

Voiced in English by: Karen Neill

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Liliana Barba

Voiced in European Spanish by: María Antonia Rodríguez

The rock-type specialist that presides over the Rustboro Gym.

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• Badass Teacher: Being both a Gym Leader and a Beginner class teacher really has its merits.
• Secret Weapon: Nosepass comes across this way - Ash had no idea what to expect of it, and its unique range of moves forced him and Pikachu to think outside the box to win.
• Signature Mon: Nosepass is her main Pokémon ace, being the final exam for Ash and Pikachu to master Iron Tail.
• Warm-Up Boss: The first Hoenn Gym Leader Ash faced (in an official capacity, that is), but no pushover - her Geodude defeated Treecko despite a good effort from Ash, who needed to show how in sync he and Pikachu really can be, especially with the effective strategies she and her Nosepass implemented. Of course, Ash's victory here (fairly soon after an impressive Silver Conference showing) put him on an overconfident high which Brawley was there to straighten out soon after.

Brawly (Toki)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kohei Kiyasu

Voiced in English by: Jason Griffith

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Noé Velásquez

Voiced in European Spanish by: Iván Muelas

Fighting-type gym leader of Dewford Town.

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• Curbstomp Battle: After Makuhita evolved into Hariyama, it finished Treecko in a single strike.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has blue eyes that matches with his sky blue hair.
• Eyes Always Shut: He has a Makuhita, which always shuts its eyes until it evolves into Hariyama.
• Humble Pie: Ash thought Brawley didn't take training seriously at all until the relaxed Gym Leader handed his ass to him. The lesson of training by "playing/working with nature" affected Ash for the rest of AG, too.
• Nice Guy: Cheery, patient, and easygoing. His good-natured attitude in his first appearance practically sets you against Ash - who was on overconfident high after his Silver Conference performance and earning his first Hoenn Badge against Roxanne.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: His Machop is able to absorb dozens of attacks from Taillow and Treecko due to the fact that Brawly had trained his Pokémon to roll with the waves if they fall off their surfboard. Nevertheless, it gets worn out during its battle with Treecko and is beaten by the Wood Gecko Pokémon.
• Signature Mon: Makuhita is his main Pokémon battler, and it pulls a last minute win over Treekco by evolving into the stronger Hariyama, reminding Ash to never underestimate his opponents.
• Subordinate Excuse: One of his apprentices has feelings for him.
• Surfer Dude: In the dub.
• Took a Level in Badass: He was already pummeling Ash's Treecko when his Makuhita evolved. Ash was well aware that Brawley would only be stronger when they had their rematch (having gotten right to work at training his new Hariyama), and he wasn't mistaken about this.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: As in the games, this is invoked - Ash loses to him due to overconfidence and it becomes a learning curve for him as a trainer.
• The Worf Effect: Brawly's formerly near invincible Machop is easily outmaneuvered by Treecko and then pummeled by Corphish's Bubble Beam in the rematch to show off Ash's training.

Wattson (Tessen)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kenichi Ogata

Voiced in English by: Dan Green

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Armando Réndiz (episode 40), Jorge Santos (episode 59)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Fernando Hernández

Setting up shop in Mauville City, Wattson's energetic attitude fits in with his type of choice.

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• Berserk Button: After his Magnemite and Voltorb are beaten in one blow each, he angrily orders Magneton to unleash a Zap Cannon and the Electric/Steel-type is also mad as it unleashes the attack. Ash simply orders Pikachu to use Thunder which powers through the attack and KOs Magneton.
• Cool Old Guy: He's old but energetic and fun, trolling Ash and friends with his animatronic Pokémon.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He unintentionally gets beaten by a fever stricken Pikachu with Wattson's Magnemite and Voltorb falling to a single Thunderbolt each while Magneton is beaten by Thunder.
• The Dog Bites Back: He got his "revenge" for Ash's sound victory when he set his new Manectric (freshly-evolved from his recently-caught Electrike) against Torkoal in a friendly match, and basically dictated the course of the battle from Point A. Also literally, as Manectric is a dog.
• Heroic BSoD: After being defeated by Ash so easily Wattson started to place doubt in himself as a Gym Leader. Befriending an Electrike snaps him out of it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The mechanical Raikou that gave Pikachu his electric fever was created by Wattson, thus, it was partly his own fault he was easily trounced in the gym battle.
• The Hyena: Even when he's down, he still finds some way to get a chortle in.
• Signature Mon: After he lost badly to Ash, Wattson ends up befriending a wild Electrike who, after they stop Team Rocket from stealing Pokémon, decides to be his new Pokémon partner. Wattson's Electrike reenergizes Wattson with new confidence and evolves into Manectric in Wattson's next appearance. Manectric would eventually define itself as Wattson's true ace by defeating Ash's Torkoal and giving Wattson redemption.
• Theme Naming: He has an assistant named, well, Watt.
• Trap Master: His gym is tricked out with various traps. While they're mostly just for amusement (not only for him, but for visitors as well), Wattson claims that the traps should keep challengers on their toes.

Flannery (Asuna)

Voiced in Japanese by: Rio Natsuki

Voiced in English by: Lisa Ortiz

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: María Fernanda Morales

Voiced in European Spanish by: Isacha Mengíbar

Runs the Lavaridge Town hotsprings, which also doubles as her fire-type gym. She's a novice Gym Leader, having just taken the job from her retiring grandfather.

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• Counter-Attack: Her Pokemon know a number of attacks to deflect or thwart her opponents' offense, like Reflect, Smog and Yawn.
• Curtains Match the Window: She's as hyper and naive as her Fire-Type nature.
• Death or Glory Attack: Was really fond of using Overheat in her match. This comes back to bite her, as Overheat reduces in power whenever it's used, resulting in a flashy pillar of fire, but doing no damage to Ash's sleeping Corphish.
• The Ditz: She knows very little about being a Gym Leader being that she's new to the position. Ash came to the Gym originally planning to take on her grandfather, who'd just retired and given Flannery his job. Flannery neglected to clean up the battlefield after her previous opponent left it full of holes from Dig, forgot where her grandfather put her Gym's badges and didn't even realize that she couldn't make substitutions during her battle with Ash.
• Fiery Redhead: She's impulsive, outgoing and energetic, able to improvise quickly during her match with Ash.
• Heiress To The Dojo: She inherited the Gym from her grandfather after his retirement.
• Naïve Newcomer: Ash is one of Flannery's first opponents as the new Gym Leader. She makes some rookie mistakes during their match, most notably relying too much on Overheat. Her grandfather criticizes her for this, but he also commends her for being able to learn quickly and keep up with Ash.
• Signature Mon: Due to her love of Overheat, her main Pokémon battler is Torkoal, the only Pokémon on her team that actually knows that move.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She's a fiery hot tomboy and thus has fiery ponytail to match.

Norman (Senri)

Voiced in Japanese by: Jurota Kosugi

Voiced in English by: Dan Green

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Enrique Mederos (episode 3), Salvador Delgado (episodes 69-70)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Luis Bajo (Season 6), Gabriel Jiménez (Season 7)

Father of May and Max, husband of Caroline, and Famed In-Story Leader of the Normal-type Petalburg gym.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Norman is a very friendly man, but you do not want to get on his bad side. When Team Rocket accidently destroyed the fireworks present he was going to surprise his wife Caroline with, Norman got pissed and sicked his Slaking after Team Rocket.
• Didn't Think This Through: Orders his Slakoth to use Blizzard (an Ice-type move) against Torkoal's Flamethrower. After a second of collision in mid-air, Slakoth is overpowered and knocked out.
• Good Parents: He's a good dad to his kids, which more than can be said about the other fathers who are conspicuously absent from their kids' lives. His son, in particular, worships him as a great trainer.
• Graceful Loser: As expected of a Gym Leader. It's Max who has a difficult time processing that Norman can lose.
• Happily Married: With Caroline.
• Lightning Bruiser: In his first appearance, Vigoroth is fast and strong enough to beat Pikachu. That Pikachu ties with it in a rematch is considered an accomplishment (particularly since it beat Torkoal in a single move).
• Mighty Glacier: His Slaking was literally no slouch either in their battle giving Groyle a hell of a match.
• Papa Wolf: Team Rocket found this out the hard way, having (accidentally) stolen his daughter's Torchic.
• Recurring Character: Due to being May and Max's father, he has more appearances to his name than any other Hoenn Gym Leader.
• Signature Mon: He uses the Slakoth line as his battling Pokémon, and thus Slaking is his most powerful and iconic Pokémon at hand.

Winona (Nagi)

Voiced in Japanese by: Hyo-sei

Voiced in English by: Amy Birnbaum

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Erica Edwards

Voiced in European Spanish by: Emma Jiménez

Flying-type specialist based in Fortree City.

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• Demoted to Extra: She only uses her Skarmory (a staple of her team in all versions of the Hoenn games) as a mount, and doesn't actually use it to battle Ash in their Gym match.
• Extra Oredinary: Skarmory, which she doesn't use in her battle.
• Giant Flyer: Her Skarmory is much larger than any normal Skarmory, enough to carry Winona and another passenger on its back.
• Signature Mon: Subverted with Skarmory. She is first seen flying on a giant Skarmory, but never actually chose it her Gym match with Ash. Instead, her real signature Pokémon in the anime is a Shiny Swellow, a formidable final opponent that nearly defeated Ash's Swellow had it not been for Ash's quick thinking tactic.

Tate and Liza (Fu and Ran)

Liza (Left) and Tate (Right)

Voiced in Japanese by: Takahiro Mizushima (Fu), Chisa Yokoyama (Ran)

Voiced in English by: Jason Griffith (Tate), Andi Whaley (Liza)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Irwin Daayán (Tate), María Fernanda Morales (Liza)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Álex Saudinós (Tate), Inés Blázquez (Liza)

Twin psychics, and leader of the Mossdeep Gym.

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• Birds of a Feather: Liza and Tate, with May and Max, respectively. The boys especially, having common ground in seeing their sister as annoying.
• Brother–Sister Team: Once they get their act together, they make a devastating tag team.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Solrock and Lunatone's secondary type.
• Dual Boss: Ash has to fight them both in a double battle. They have one Pokémon apiece, and Ash had to send in two of his own.
• Sibling Seniority Squabble: Apparently, Liza's the older twin, and she doesn't stop rubbing in this fact in Tate's face whenever they spar for practice.
• Signature Mon: They each have a Meteorite Pokémon as their Pokémon partner. Liza's partner is Lunatone, and Tate's partner is Solrock.

Juan (Adan)

Voiced in Japanese by: Show Hayami

Voiced in English by: Sean Schemmel

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: César Arias

Voiced in European Spanish by: Antonio Esquivias

Retired Badass extraordinaire, the Sootopolis water-type gym leader.

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• The Ace: Both as a Gym Leader and a Coordinator. Juan is possibly the best gym leader in Honen region. As a former Pokémon Coordinator and Ribbon Cup winner, Juan uses a unique style of battling, Ash was barely able to defeat him after a lengthy gym battle.
• Chick Magnet: He's very popular with the ladies to the point of having a large harem.
• Climax Boss: Juan is the final Gym Leader Ash has to defeat in order to enter the Hoenn League. Not only that, he proves to give Ash a tough time with his unique battle rules and synergy with his team.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a relaxed older gentleman to anyone he meets.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Becomes Ash's last Hoenn gym leader instead of Wallace, to tie in with Emerald.
• Establishing Character Moment: He is introduced as a celebrity amongst the people of Sootopolis City, where he has his Pokemon performing an routine, then when Team Rocket attempts to steal his Pokemon with with an electric net, they not only are able to easily protect themselves, but Milotic quickly frees and sends Team Rocket blasting off. This shows that Juan will be a tough opponent against Ash in their gym battle, and foreshadows his former status as a Pokemon coordinator and Ribbon Cup Winner.
• Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are usually closed for the most part especially during battles or his water performances.
• Graceful Loser: He takes his defeat to Ash pretty well and congratulates him for winning as well as giving him the Rain Badge.
• Healing Factor: His Milotic big time. Ash struggled to defeat it due to it constantly using Recover over and over agin.
• Making a Splash: He specializes in using powerful Water Pokémon in battle.
• Mythology Gag: His team is a replica of Wallace's Ruby and Sapphire team.
• Retired Badass: He once won the Grand Festival when he was younger and earned a Ribbon Cup. Later on he would retire as a coordinator and become the Sootopolis gym leader.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He was a former Top Coordinator.
• Signature Mon: Milotic. It's not only his most powerful Pokémon, but he also used it to win the Grand Festival as well as be the hardest for Ash to defeat.

Hoenn League

Steven Stone

Steven Stone (Daigo Tsuwabuki)

Voiced in Japanese by: Rintaro Nishi (Advance Generation), Kenichi Suzumura (XY onwards)

Voiced in English by: Andrew Paul

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Advance Generation and XY episode 75), Miguel De León (XY episodes 134-136)

The Hoenn League Champion, whom Alain and Mairin meet during a trip to Hoenn. Aside from being a powerful trainer, he is also an expert when it comes to the various types of stones in the Pokémon world.

He originally used to be a One-Shot Character in Advanced Generation, but we got to see more of his character in XY.

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• The Ace: Being the current Champion of the Hoenn Region and the son of the Devon Company's president, he automatically qualifies as this. It is also no surprise to see him in the final Masters Eight lineup when Ash finally becomes a member, and is in the Top 3 - only below Leon and Cynthia.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the Hoenn-based games, he is the protagonist Brendan/May's mentor. However, such relationship is absent between their anime counterparts, due to Steven only appearing in one episode in the Advanced Generation series where May is the female lead, thus Steven and May end up barely interact, while Brendan only has small cameos in films and never interacts with Steven or May.
  • He and Wallace are close friends in the games. However, their anime counterparts never interact on-screen, and the only indication that they know each other is Wallace mentioning him in Journeys.
• Always Someone Better: Other than Siebold and his Blastoise, Steven is the only shown Mega Pokémon owner who does not lose to Alain while battling him. His Metagross endures all of Charizard's attacks, even the super-effective Blast Burn, without any visible damage and lays down some serious hurt on him. If not for Lysandre's Pyroar interrupting the battle, it's safe to assume he would have won. This is all but confirmed in Journeys, where Steven is ranked higher than Alain in the Masters Eight.
• Ascended Extra: He was first mentioned in passing in the Advanced Generation series, and when he finally showed up, he was ultimately just as a One-Shot Character with little fanfare. When he eventually returns for the XY series, he's acknowledged as the Hoenn Champion, becomes an important character in the Mega Evolution Specials, has a part in Sawyer's backstory, and eventually returns for the climax and conclusion of the Team Flare arc.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With fellow Champion Diantha when buying more time for Ash and Alain to defeat Megalith Zygarde.
• Beware the Nice Ones: During his original appearance, Steven got really angry when Team Rocket harmed a herd of Aron, sending his Aggron to blast them off really hard.
• Big Brother Mentor: He had shades of this in his original appearance with his little interactions with Max, it's played much straighter with his relationship with Sawyer. Steven gave Sawyer the items he needs to Mega Evolve his Sceptile and Steven has recruited Sawyer for his expeditions where the latter can learn from the experience.
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to save the heroes during their raid on Lysandre Labs.
• Brick Joke: Jessie was instantly smitten with Steven merely from seeing a photo of him in Sawyer's notebook. An infatuation that suddenly resurfaces out of nowhere when Team Rocket and the twerps run into the real deal much later when they attempt to raid Lysandre Labs.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • He shows up in the Mega Evolution Specials when Alain and Mairin take a trip to Hoenn, with more than three series in between this and his original debut.
  • Steven also returns to assist in the raid on Lysandre Labs, handily tipping the odds in the heroes' favor.
  • Journeys reveals that he is part of the final Masters Eight lineup in the World Coronation Series when Ash finally becomes a member himself, being ranked 3rd overall and only below Leon and Cynthia.
• Chrome Champion: Steven's Metagross is a shiny variant, the silver (body) and gold (its "cross") color better alluding to its metallic structure.
• Genius Bruiser: Applies to Steven and his Metagross. Steven is ranked 3rd in the entire world by the time of the Masters Tournament, and is incredibly knowledgeable about ruins, stones, excavation and many topics. His Metagross is extremely strong and can take hits from Legendary Pokemon, and during its battle with Ash's Pikachu, Steven and Diantha noted that particularly after Mega Evolution, Metagross not only had extreme speed, but also such high computational power it could predict every breath or move Pikachu could make and perfectly evade any attack. This is seen first-hand when it becomes the first Pokemon to ever dodge 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt, immediately getting behind Pikachu. Despite some of the beams redirecting automatically to Metagross (which is something neither it nor Steven could have known), it still managed to only take hits from three of them. This also resulted in Metagross being the only Pokemon to take the attack and still be able to battle, as it had to be taken down by an Iron Tail afterwards.
• Made of Iron: Both figuratively and literally in his Metagross's case. In its Mega form, it was able to shrug off a Blast Burn from Alain's Mega Charizard X despite being weak to Fire-type moves, and later in Journeys, it becomes the first Pokémon to not be knocked out by Pikachu's 10,000,000 Volt Thundebolt, albeit this is because it partially dodged the attack.
• Mythology Gag: Steven gave Sawyer a Key Stone and a Sceptilite. In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Steven gives the player character the Mega Evolution items, including a Mega Stone for the player's starter Pokémon as well.
• One-Shot Character: In his debut in the Advanced Generation series, where he only appears in one episode.
• One-Man Army: His Metagross tears through Lysandre Labs effortlessly, despite being heavily outnumbered.
• Pretty Boy: He was always good-looking, but it's his reappearance in the XY Saga where his handsome looks are acknowledged in-universe.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Along with Lance, Cynthia, Diantha and Leon, he is one of the Champions we see on-screen that take proactive measures against wide-scale threats.
• Signature Mon: He has many powerful Steel-type Pokémon, but his signature Pokémon is a Shiny Metagross that Mega Evolve into Mega Metagross.
• Super Mode: His Metagross can Mega Evolve into Mega Metagross.
• Took a Level in Badass: Sometime in between the Wallace Cup arc of the Diamond and Pearl series and the XY series, Steven became the Champion of the Hoenn region. Since the XY series version of Steven is based off of his appearance in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, it's possible that he was already Champion at some point, but passed off the title to Wallace like he does at the end of that game so he could focus on stone-collecting before taking back the title later. His actual skill level is put into perspective when he's revealed to be ranked 3rd in the World Coronation Series Masters Eight, with one of the only two trainers above him - Leon, having never lost to anyone.

Drake (Genji)

Voiced in Japanese by: Shōzō Iizuka

Voiced in English by: Brian Maillard

A member of the Hoenn Elite 4 who first appeared in Advanced Generation before making a return in JN088.

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• The Bus Came Back: He shows up again in JN088 after only appearing in AG101 beforehand, almost 800 episodes prior.
• Curbstomp Battle: In their 3-on-3 match during his introduction episode, Drake easily hands Ash his butt on a silver platter, quickly knocking out two out of three of Ash's Pokemon without losing even one. Drake did this to help Ash understand how costly overconfidence can be.
• Our Dragons Are Different: He specializes in Dragon Types.
• Playing with Fire: His Salamence knows Flamethrower.

Kanto

Indigo League

Agatha (Kikuko)

Voiced in Japanese by: Kazuko Sugiyama

Voiced in English by: Allyson Johnson

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gabriela Gómez

Voiced in European Spanish by: María Romero

The third member of the Elite Four. Agatha was surprisingly absent compared with the other three during the original series, but by the Hoenn season, she is shown to be the temporary Viridian Gym Leader.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: The only member of the Kanto Elite Four not to appear in the original series, being saved for the Battle Frontier arc of Advanced Generation.
• Composite Character: Kinda. Her taking over the Viridian Gym after Giovanni is taken from Gary, but even then, is a temporary role.
• Cool Old Lady: She may have been a really late cameo as a temporary gym leader of Viridian City and does not do all that much more than that but at least she certainly gets to show off her skills as a Pokémon Trainer.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Gengar's Double Team.
• Gorgeous Period Dress: It looks quite Victorian.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Heck, her Pokémon also have purple in them!
• Kicked Upstairs: When Ash meets her, she's substituting at the Viridian Gym until a new official Gym Leader is found.
• Psychic Powers: Gengar's Hypnosis and Dream Eater combo.
• Signature Mon: Her Gengar is her main Pokémon ace as she specializes in Ghost-type Pokémon (though like in the games, she also has a Golbat, which is Poison/Flying-type).
• Soul Power: She's officially a Ghost-type trainer, although only one of her two known Pokémon is a Ghost-type.
• Super-Scream: Golbat's Supersonic.
• Out of Focus: She was the only member of the Elite 4 to not appear in the original series besides being shown as a silhouette, it took until Battle Frontier where she finally appeared.
• Worthy Opponent: She compliments Ash for a well-fought battle and indicates that although he lost, he's got plenty of potential. She also supports his decision to challenge the Battle Frontier, which Scott claims to be just as tough as Agatha herself.

Battle Frontier

In General

• Adapted Out: None of the Frontier Brains exploit their various stipulations that gave the Frontier a challenging experience in the first place (probably because some of the stipulations can be hard to translate in anime form; looking at you, Greta); once Ash finds a facility, he gets to challenge the Frontier Brain right off the bat. The Silver Symbols are omitted, as well; Ash gets the Gold Symbol immediately after defeating one.
• Compressed Adaptation: The idea of setting the Frontier in the Kanto region is, on paper, a way to advertise both Emerald and FireRed and LeafGreen at the same time.
• Rank Up: A trainer that actually manages to beat the Battle Frontier is given the chance to become a Frontier Brain him-/herself. Scott actually offers this to Ash, only for the latter to turn it down.

Scott

Voiced in Japanese by: Koichi Sakaguchi

Voiced in English by: Frank Frankson (4Kids), Bill Rogers (current)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Luis Alfonso Padilla

Voiced in European Spanish by: Carlos del Pino

The owner of the Battle Frontier, he first appears as a witness to Ash's battle against the Elite Four member (and substitute Viridian leader) Agatha. Although Ash lost, Scott saw potential in the young trainer, and recommends that he take on the Frontier.

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• Ascended Extra: In Emerald, he really doesn't do much. Here, he's present in each and every one of Ash's Frontier matches.
• The Chooser of the One: On the lookout for strong trainers, and sees that Ash has potential.
• Drives Like Crazy: He and Birch would probably get along pretty well.
• Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: The fact that he even travels all over the place certainly gives him the image of one.
• Hidden Eyes: Averted, as this is perhaps the only adaptation where Scott removes his shades (although only once) to show his eyes.
• King Incognito: When Ash first meets him, Scott is looking for strong trainers, and tells him about the Battle Frontier. He later shows up for all ten of Ash's matches against the seven Frontier Brains (including his rematches with Anabel and Brandon), but doesn't reveal his status as the owner of the Battle Frontier until Ash is getting ready for his last match with Brandon.
• Nice Guy: He's friendly and well-mannered to pretty much everyone, and is understanding when Ash opts to continue traveling and challenging gyms rather than join him as a Frontier Brain, telling him the offer will always be open.
• Sigil Spam: The Gen III Battle Frontier logo, pasted on his car as well as his PokéNav.

Noland (Datsura)

Factory Head Noland

Voiced in Japanese by: Nobuyuki Hiyama

Voiced in English by: David Wills

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Jorge García

Voiced in European Spanish by: Iñaki Crespo

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Factory, which is located near Cerulean City. When Ash comes to challenge him, Noland allows Ash to choose which of the former's factory Pokémon he desires to have a 1-on-1 battle against. However, Ash ends up picking to battle the Articuno that Noland managed to befriend. Noland provides the Knowledge Symbol to those who defeat him.

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• Androcles' Lion: Befriended a wild Articuno after he saved its life.
• Signature Mon: Articuno. Noland has many regular Pokémon at hand, from Venusaur to Machamp to Camerupt. But he is most associated with Articuno because Ash chose it as his opponent Pokémon, leading to an epic battle that sees Ash's Charizard narrowly defeating Articuno, giving Ash's first victory over a Legendary Pokémon.
• Unexpected Character: In-universe, not a single person present (except probably Noland himself) expected Ash to choose Articuno as his opponent in their Frontier match.

Greta (Kogomi)

Arena Tycoon Greta

Voiced in Japanese by: Sanae Kobayashi

Voiced in English by: Sonny Dei

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Mildred Barrera

Voiced in European Spanish by: Silvia Sarmentera

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Arena, which is located near Saffron City. Greta in the anime is made a Fighting-type expert, and when Ash comes to challenge her, he has to spin a roulette to see if he will be taking her on in a 1-on-1, 2-on-2, or 3-on-3 Pokémon battle. He ends having a 2-on-2 against her. Greta provides the Guts Symbol to those who defeat her.

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• Bare-Fisted Monk: Unlike the games, she clearly specializes in Fighting-type Pokémon.
• Fangirl: Self-professed fan of Chuck and Brawly, explaining her preference for fighting-types.
• Hot-Blooded: Like Ash, she is incredibly passionate about battling and is always in high spirit.
• One-Shot Character: She only appears in her debut episode.
• The Unreveal: Greta's roulette wheel (which decides the number of Pokémon the Brain and her challenger will use) has an option that can go up to three Pokémon per battle. But since Ash's spin landed the wheel on a 2-on-2 instead, the audience never found out what her 3rd Pokémon actually was.

Tucker (Heath)

Dome Ace Tucker

Voiced in Japanese by: Kenta Miyake

Voiced in English by: Bill Rogers

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Irwin Daayán

Voiced in European Spanish by: Juan Antonio García Sainz de la Maza

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Dome, which is located near Lavender Town. Tucker in the anime is a famous superstar who shows off in front of a large stadium audience. He faces off against Ash in a Double Battle where he puts to use his strategy of combining Fire and Water into a fusion attack; a tactic that May puts to use for her Contest battles. Tucker provides the Tactics Symbol to those who defeat him.

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• Agent Peacock: Despite his flamboyant appearance and hammy attitude, he gave Ash one hell of a battle.
• Ambiguously Gay: He's incredibly flamboyant in appearance and personality, and gives very romantic descriptions of Pokémon moves. But his sexuality is left unmentioned.
• Dual Boss: Faces Ash down in a Double Battle.
• Graceful Loser: After Ash defeats him Tucker accepts defeat, even claps for Ash for a well fought battle, and convinces his fans to the same.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His Arcanine and Swampert are beaten when Ash's Corphish and Swellow use their own Combination Attack on them.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in his debut episode.

Lucy (Azami)

Pike Queen Lucy

Voiced in Japanese by: Atsuko Tanaka

Voiced in English by: Emily Williams

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Laura Ayala

Voiced in European Spanish by: María Antonia Rodríguez

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Pike, which is located near Fuchsia City. When Ash comes to challenge her, Lucy faces off against him in a 2-on-2 utilizing serpent-like Pokémon. She also owns a wide variety of Pokémon who all have closed eyes, which plays into why Lucy develops a crush on Brock. Lucy provides the Luck Symbol to those who defeat her.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: She was an arrogant Sadist in the games, whereas she's an aloof but kind young lady here.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She gets the personality to play this trope straight, unlike in the games.
• Always Someone Better: Her Seviper easily crushes Jessie's Seviper in a battle, reminding Ash that she won't be a pushover like Team Rocket.
• Animal Motif: Snakes. Her introductory episode is even titled Queen of the Serpentine.
• Crush Blush: Gains one whenever Brock complimented her.
• Eyes Always Shut: Not her, but it's the main reason she likes Brock.
• Glass Cannon: Scott notes how her idea of battle is all offense.
• Has a Type: It is implied that at least part of the reason she has a crush on Brock is because of his Eyes Always Shut. When she returns home at the end of the episode and is greeted by all her other Pokémon, they have similar eyes as Brock, and she comments she met someone whose eyes reminded her of them.
• Onee-sama: Her assistants called her such in the original Japanese.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in her debut episode.
• Signature Mon: Seviper. Her outfit is modeled after Seviper and it's her easily her most trusted Pokémon.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Subverted. Lucy in the anime is quite nice and she even has a beautiful Milotic on her team.

Spenser (Ukon)

Palace Maven Spenser

Voiced in Japanese by: Nachi Nozawa

Voiced in English by: Eric Schussler

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Jorge Ornelas

Voiced in European Spanish by: Roberto Cuenca Martínez

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Place, which is located on an island near the Seafoam Islands. Spenser in the anime appears to be an expert at naturesk Pokémon, such as utilizing Grass-types. He's first introduced helping Ash out with his Sceptile, who needed comfort after a love rejection broke his heart. Once it's time for battle, Spenser faces off against Ash in a 3-on-3 where the trainers can run along with their Pokémon in order for the battling to take place amongst the natural surroundings. Spenser provides the Spirits Symbol to those who defeat him.

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• Cool Old Guy: Since their match takes place in the span of an entire forest, there is a lot of running among trainers and their Mons; Spenser has no trouble keeping up with either in spite of his age.
• Friend to All Living Things: He lives a simple life to appreciate the wonders of the natural world, and his knowledge helps Sceptile get over his broken heart.
• Mid-Battle Tea Break: Offers Ash recess time so they can have lunch in the middle of their match.

Anabel (Lila)

Salon Maiden Anabel

Voiced in Japanese by: Akiko Kimura

Voiced in English by: Hilary Thomas

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rebeca Gómez

Voiced in European Spanish by: Sara Vivas

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Tower, which is located near Tohjo Falls. In the anime, Anabel is made a Psychic-type expert to the point of being able to telepathically speak to her Pokémon through her mind, and her role as the leader of the Frontier Brains was given to Brandon. Anabel faces off against Ash in two 3-on-3 battles due to Ash losing the first match against her. The time that Anabel spent interacting with Ash, such as witnessing how much he cares for his Pokémon, is also what results in her developing a crush on him. Anabel provides the Ability Symbol to those who defeat her.

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• Adaptational Badass: An odd, yet more conventional use of the trope in which she is the one who's become more badass rather than her party. In the games, she wasn't noted to have any kinds of special abilities and was essentially just a powerful trainer. In the anime, she possesses empathic abilities that allow her to command her team non-verbally.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Anabel in the games was a big case of Good is Not Nice - she's respectful and nice only to trainers who impress her with their battle skills, while taunting and looking down upon those who don't as people with "no talent". It's highly unlikely that the games' version of Anabel would help Ash, much less fall in love with him, after he lost to her.
• Adaptational Wimp: Unlike in the games, she's not the leader of the Battle Frontier (that role going to Brandon instead). Her team also lacks the Olympus Mons she commanded in the games, even though her team is quite powerful for a Psychic-type specialist such as herself.
• All Love Is Unrequited: She clearly has it bad for Ash, but being a Chaste Hero Oblivious to Love, he doesn't see the cues.

"Guess you can't sense feelings yet, Ash, or you would've sensed my feelings for you."

• Bifauxnen: Ash and friends didn't realize she was a girl thanks to her appearance and androgynous voice.
• Curtains Match the Window: Violet hair and eyes.
• The Empath: Can even mentally communicate with her Pokémon when she really gets into battle.
• Signature Mon: Espeon is her favorite Pokémon and thus her final Pokémon in her rematch against Ash. It nearly defeats Ash's Pikachu, only losing when Pikachu turns off the lights (preventing Anabel from seeing Ash's next move) and then uses Volt Tackle as the finisher.
• A Taste of Defeat: Ash's winning streak in the Frontier screeched to a halt with her. In their first match, she defeats Ash with only one of her three Mons knocked out.

Brandon (Jindai)

Pyramid King Brandon

Voiced in Japanese by: Masayuki Omoro

Voiced in English by: Craig Blair

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rolando de Castro (Advance Generation), Manuel Campuzano (Diamond & Pearl)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Miguel Ángel del Hoyo

The Frontier Brain of the Battle Pyramid, which because of the structure's ability to fly can be found at any location. Unlike the games, Brandon is made the leader of the Frontier Brains. Brandon is currently searching around ancient ruins in order to capture the legendary Regi-trio, which Ash first arrives at the Battle Pyramid when it was landed near Pewter City. However, his 1-on-1 battle with Brandon gets all weird when Ash's body ends up getting taken over by the spirit of the Pokélantis King. Brandon's battle against the spirit frees Ash, but the Pyramid King is left unimpressed by Ash's incompetence of getting taken over by a spirit, and holds off the rematch for a later time.

Later on when the Battle Pyramid is grounded at a valley ruin, Ash gets to have his 1-on-1 rematch with Brandon, but ends up losing, which leaves Ash to train some more until Brandon is free for a second rematch. Once Brandon is ready again, he notices the close bonds that Ash has with the four Pokémon (Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charizard, and Squirtle) that Ash had since early Kanto, which Brandon instead challenges Ash to a 4-on-4 to battle against Ash's original squad, which Ash accepts. After a hard-fought battle, Ash finally manages to triumph over Brandon, and he's declared to have completed the Battle Frontier. Brandon provides the Brave Symbol to those who defeat him.

Brandon makes a return in Sinnoh where he flies his Battle Pyramid to Snowpoint City in order to investigate the nearby Snowpoint Temple that houses Regigigas. While there, he winds up having a 3-on-6 battle against Paul due to a past gripe regarding his older brother, Reggie, and ends up having to protect Regigigas against Pokémon Hunter J.

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• The Ace: He's the strongest of the Frontier Brains, and owns the immensely powerful legendary golem trio. Many a trainer's Battle Frontier winning streak (including Paul's brother Reggie) ended against him. It took Ash gathering his original three starters (Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Charizard) and Brandon using a handicapped team for Ash to just BARELY manage to win against this utter beast of a trainer.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the games, Brandon is Hot-Blooded Thrill Seeker who theatrically invokes danger as a key part of adventure, while in the anime, Brandon is a Stern Teacher who severely chastises people for getting into danger.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: Not only is Brandon one of them, there's scarcely an appearance of his that doesn't involve ruins to be explored.
• Arc Welding: In DP, it was revealed that he indirectly caused Paul's Freudian Excuse.
• Barrier Maiden: He states his intent to have his three Regis become the new pillars that protect Regigigas after Hunter J destroyed/murdered the previous ones.
• Big "NO!": Yells these out whenever he disapproves of something.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns during the Snowpoint City episodes in the DP saga.
• Characterization Marches On: When he’s first introduced, he appears to be always grumpy throughout the episode around Ash and friends, and unforgiving towards their recklessness. When he returns and meets Ash again, while he can be stern at certain moments, he’s far more welcoming and friendlier to Ash and his friends.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Ash's first match with him went down like this. Despite having a type advantage with Sceptile and being possessed by an evil king that played extremely dirty to win, Ash was defeated in one hit.
  • It's revealed in a flashback that when Reggie challenged him, he lost without defeating a single one of Brandon's Pokémon.
  • He effortlessly defeats Paul in a full battle, once again without allowing any of his Pokémon to be knocked out.
• Curtains Match the Window: His brown hair and eyes.
• Disappointed by the Motive: He was not impressed with Paul using Reggie's battle with him as a Freudian Excuse, calling Paul out with a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": He hates being called "Mister".
• Final Boss: Brandon is the final opponent of the Battle Frontier that Ash faces and definitely lives up to the title of "Pyramid King".
• Futuristic Pyramid: This version of the Battle Pyramid is a giant flying contraption which he uses to travel around.
• Genius Bruiser: The bruising mainly comes from his mons, but he is an accomplished Archaeologist and is knowledgeable in ancient history and language.
• Mighty Glacier: His Regi trio are all extremely powerful tanks that make up for their lack of speed with defense. Brandon states that his main battling style is to take anything his opponent can bring.
• Olympus Mons: He utilizes the three Regis in his battles.
• Perpetual Frowner: He almost always has a stern-looking expression on his face. He does smile on several occasions, though.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He's prone to giving these out to people he's defeated.
  • He points out that the reason Ash got possessed by the evil king was because of Ash's arrogance and carelessness.
  • After effortlessly defeating Reggie, he lambasts him for his lack of a distinct quality or strength in his battling style, indirectly inspiring Paul's own obsession with strength moving forward.
  • Lastly, he gives his biggest and most important one to Paul himself, tearing into his single-minded approach to power and for letting his emotions overtake him in battle. This speech, on the other hand, is the catalyst for Paul's Character Development, causing him to become significantly more respectful of both his Pokémon and opponents.
    "NO! All wrapped up in the past. But, why then, do you walk the Pokémon path in the first place? Tell me why do you battle?"
• Scissors Cuts Rock: Protect is a move that blocks almost any move no matter how powerful. Yet Brandon's Regirock destroys Paul's Electabuzz's Protect with a really strong Stone Edge. Bulbapedia marks it as an error, stating that only Feint, Shadow Force and Phantom Force are supposed to get through Protect normally.
• Signature Mon: His Regi trio, Regirock, Registeel and Regice, are his most famous Pokémon on hand.
• Taken for Granite: The only human who was petrified by J's technology (as were his three Regis). Thankfully, Regigigas reversed it using Hidden Power.
• That One Boss: In-Universe. He's the only major, certified opponent so far who Ash had to battle thrice (though the first time, Ash was possessed by an evil spirit), he has three Legendaries, he was the only opponent Reggie could scarcely scratch (and the loss caused him to decide to quit training professionally), and he's only the second person known to have given Paul a Curb-Stomp Battle (the other is Cynthia). And when Ash did beat him, he was only using one of the Regi trio - the freshly-caught Regice. So yes, he qualifies for this.
• Third Time's The Charm: Ash only beat him on his third try.
• Tough Love: He truly wants to bring and inspire the best in all of his challengers, and he firmly believes harshly reminding them of their personal shortcomings as trainers will help them re-evaluate and work on improving themselves.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Paul stated his desire to challenge Brandon to a rematch during his farewell to Ash, but this plot point is not referenced again when Ash and Paul reunite in Journeys, nor is Brandon mentioned again in general despite the Battle Frontier being one of Ash's greatest achievements.

Villains

Team Magma

A villainous team in the Hoenn region. They are experts in geology and plate tectonics, and want to awaken the Pokemon Groudon in order to expand the land mass of the world.

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• Affably Evil: Maxie, the leader of Team Magma, is quite civil with Ash and his friends while they hold them captive, even while finding himself at odds with them.
• Evil vs. Evil: They have many conflicts with Team Aqua due to their opposing goals.
• Obviously Evil: Their costumes make it pretty obvious that they're bad guys.

Team Aqua

A rival faction that wants to expand the world's water, and seeks to awaken Kyogre in order to do so.

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• Evil vs. Evil: With Team Magma, who they have frequent conflicts with.
• Kick the Dog: When they hold a weather station hostage and threaten to summon storms to electrocute the workers there.
• Light Is Not Good: Their costumes don't look that threatening compared to Team Magma, but they're just as dangerous as they are, if not more so.

Rico

A poacher appearing in "A Poached Ego" who is hunting poison-type Pokemon for his client. He runs into Team Rocket, and tries to capture their Arbok and Weezing.

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• Evil Poacher: He's out to catch as many Poison Pokemon as he can, using traps and guns to do so.
• Evil vs. Evil: He has repeated clashes with Team Rocket, who want to steal the Ekans and Koffing he caught.
• Hate Sink: A vile poacher played completely seriously and with no redeeming traits.
• Smug Snake: He thinks very highly of himself and underestimates his opponents.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The episode he's in is very dramatic and he's played dead straight, trying to shoot the Pokemon he's after and even threatening Team Rocket's lives in the dub.

Colonel Hansen

A corrupt official in the Mirage Kingdom who is plotting to usurp the king, and targets Misty for her Togepi in order to do this.

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• It's Personal: One of Misty's most personal enemies, due to trying to steal Togepi and his actions resulting in her having to release it so it can protect the Togepi paradise.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He betrays Team Rocket and blasts them off when he deems them of no more use, so they get back at him by helping free the king, who promptly arrests him.
• Smug Snake: He's very arrogant and confident that he'll come out on top.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He pulls this on Team Rocket once he's overthrown the king. It backfires, as they decide to help take him down in revenge.

Brodie

A professional thief and a member of Team Magma who debuted in "Unfair Weather Friends" under the disguise of a woman named Millie.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: Successfully manages make off with the data on Groudon and Kyorge outwitting Ash and co., Team Rocket, and Team Aqua in "Unfair Weather Friends." Even after failing to make off with the Ribbon Cup in "The Ribbon Cup Caper," Brodie still manages to escape without being arrested and is never seen again making him one of very few villains in the series to have never been punished for his crimes.
• The Bus Came Back: Since appearing in "Unfair Weather Friends," Brodie reappears nearly 40 episodes later in "The Ribbon Cup Caper" now working independently due to Team Magma (and Team Aqua) disbanding.
• Calling Card: Leaves one behind whenever he steals something.
• Evil vs. Evil: Was the biggest opposition to Team Aqua in the episode "Unfair Weather Friends" trying to also acquire information on Groudon and Kyogre.
• Know When to Fold Them: As soon he was cornered by Ash, his friends, and Officer Jenny at the end of the episode "The Ribbon Cup Caper," Brodie hands over the Ribbon Cup without a fight deeming it "not valuable enough" for him.
• Master of Disguise: Brodie's claim to fame is his ability to disguise himself as anyone and even mimic their voices perfectly, even women.
• Red Baron: He has two: "The Phantom Thief" and "The Man of a Thousand Faces".
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After giving up the Ribbon Cup (with Team Rocket catching it as he did so), Brodie decides to take off after becoming bored managing to escape before Officer Jenny could arrest him.
• Signature Mon: Ditto (which fits perfectly with his gimmick). Oddly enough, he doesn't use Ditto when he reappears in "The Ribbon Cup Caper" and has a Golbat instead to use Haze to help Brodie with his escapes.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Another one of his specialties. Brodie always makes his escapes via jetpack whenever he finishes up an assignment.
• Voice Changeling: Alongside being able to perfectly disguise himself as any person, he can also mimic their voices as well.

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