Characters / Pokémon Adventures - Kalos

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Characters appearing in the long-running manga, Pokémon Adventures. This page contains characters appearing in the X & Y chapter.

Dex Holders

X

X

The Loner

"There are things more important than partying that needs to be attended to first. You’re a grown-up. Live up to it, please."

The male protagonist of the XY chapter who used to be a strong Pokémon Trainer in his childhood. However, the pressure he got from the paparazzi eventually got to him. Years later, X is a shut-in who refuses to leave his room despite his friends' protests. His first Pokémon is a Kangaskhan named Kanga and Li'l Kanga and his starter is a Chespin named Marisso.

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• Berserk Button: The paparazzi. Seeing Alexa and Viola immediately angers him and forces him back into hiding.
• Broken Ace: He used to be a kid with great battling potential that could potentially rival the Elite Four and the Champion... until too much exposure from the paparazzi forced him into reclusion.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Don't want to leave your room? Wait until your house gets torched by an evil organization after your stuff!
• Child Prodigy: Was very skilled in Pokémon battles even as a child, to the point of winning a major tournament, and even years of inactivity hasn't dulled his skills one bit.
• Childhood Friends: With Y, Trevor, Tierno, and Shauna.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: He can be seen as another one to Black. Both of them have had interest in battles since childhood (Black decided to become the champion to become the strongest trainer, while X entered the junior tournament at an early age) and received their Pokédex and starter in a delivered package. However, Black is eager to go on a journey, while X has to be forced to even leave his room. Also, Black is a hyperactive Large Ham while X rarely talks in the beginning of the journey.
• The Cynic: After all the paparazzi and Team Flare, he always sees the negative in others, which clashes with Professor Sycamore and Y.
• Dark and Troubled Past: This is made known the first thing in the arc, where swarms of paparazzi drove him to seclusion in the present day.
• Deadpan Snarker: A mild one. When Y yells at him to say something, he does exactly that.
• Doomed Hometown: Vaniville Town is reduced to rubble in the second round of the arc.
• The Drag-Along: Even after Xerneas and Yveltal's battle destroy his town and Team Flare burns down his house, he still has no interest in seeing the world.
• Dub Name Change: The French version has his real name to be 'Xavier', with X being just a nickname.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Early colored illustrations of him shows him smiling and being overall enthusiastic, a far cry from his shut-in self in the story.
• Former Child Star: Even though he wasn't an actor, the press still put an amazing amount of expectations and pressure on him as a young child.
• Flung Clothing: Happens to to him at the end of the second chapter by Y which leaves him only in his boxers.
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Inverted. He was a wonderful trainer, but hated the attention it got him.
• Heroic BSoD: He secludes himself away in depression after his perceived failure to prevent Korrina’s Key Stone from being stolen.
• Hikkikomori: He was once a famous trainer, but is now a shut-in who refuses to leave his room. This is the result of an incident in which the paparazzi tried to pull Li’l Kanga away from Kanga to get a picture.
• Hyper-Awareness: Being secluded from the outside world for so long has considerably sharpened his senses.
• Iconic Item: X is already in possession of the Mega Ring, which Team Flare is after.
• It's All My Fault: Part of the reason why he's so cold towards others is because he feels responsible for endangering the Pokémon and people around him, most clearly shown when he blames himself for Korrina's Key Stone getting stolen.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: X is unwilling to add more Pokémon to his team in fear that Team Flare will harm them.
• Pajama-Clad Hero: X is taken along by his friends in his pajamas, and he stays in them for the first few chapters.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents work in another region. Y's mother, Grace, has been providing for him in their absence.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Savvy Guy to Y's Energetic Girl.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Y is mistaken to be his girlfriend two times by Celosia and Cassius, and he denies this to the latter.
• Ship Tease: With Y. The two have been childhood friends for a long time, and even with him turning into a shut-in Y's the only one to not give up on him. And despite his seeming disinterest, he actually does appreciate all that she's done for him, which she overhears and teases him over.
  • Interestingly enough, most of his Ship Tease with Y comes from him, such as when he gets into an even worse mood than usual when she enters into a Heroic BSoD, strongly denying that she's his girlfriend to Cassius, and outright blushing when Y tells him how he's her inspiration and when she overhears him express his gratitude to her.
• Troubled Fetal Position: He was like this for the most part in the beginning of the arc, the result of shutting himself inside the house.
• When She Smiles: Rare Male Example, but X's default expression is one of resigned depression, but Viola when sees him genuinely smiling, she compliments how nice it looks and wants to take photographs.
• Uncle Penny Bags: X never spent any of the considerable money he won during the Junior Tournament, meaning that he's the one funding their journey.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a child he was kind and outgoing, helping Y to discover her own dream, but after a bad encounter with the paparazzi he became cold and distant.

Kanga and Li'l Kanga (Garu and Kogaru)

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X's Kangaskhan and her child, respectively.

• Badass Adorable: Cute, baby Li'l Kanga once it Mega Evolves.
• Hit-and-Run Tactics: Li'l Kanga used to employ this tactic while X was still a plucky trainer, attacking and then hiding back inside its mother's pouch.
• Non-Elemental: They are Normal-type.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Li'l Kanga is still an infant Kangaskhan despite having been with X for several years now. This seems to be because she refuses to leave her mothers pouch, imitating X who refuses to leave his home.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Li’l Kanga is small but even so is capable of fighting alongside its mother, even before Mega Evolving.
• Shock and Awe: Knows Thunderbolt.
• The Smurfette Principle: Only female member on X's team.
• Super Mode: They have access to their Mega Evolution, allowing Li'l Kanga to fight on her own.
• Super-Strength: Li'l Kanga after Mega Evolving.

Marisso

A Chespin given to X by Professor Sycamore (through Trevor) in hopes of getting X out of his depression. It later joins X's team after X saw how hard it worked in his battle against Professor Sycamore.

• Bare-Fisted Monk: As a Chesnaught he has Fighting as his secondary type
• Determinator: Despite it having a type disadvantage to Charmander, it's still willing to battle.
• Green Thumb: Is Grass-type as a Chespin and Quilladin and it’s his primary type as a Chesnaught.
• Rolling Attack: Knows Rollout.
• Spike Shooter: He knows Pin Missile.

Salamè

A Charmander that originally belongs to Professor Sycamore. X decides to take it with him after losing his battle against Professor Sycamore.

• Blow You Away: Flying is his secondary type as a Charizard.
• Character Tics: Has a habit of holding onto its tail. It's because its Mega Stone's hidden in its flame.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Dragon becomes his secondary type upon Mega Evolution.
• Playing with Fire: He is Fire-type as a Charmander and Chameleon and has it as his primary type as a Charizard.
• Super Mode: He can Mega Evolve into Mega Charizard X.

Elèc

A wild Pokémon that originally stole Y's clothes when it was an Electrike. It eventually evolves into Manectric during it's first meeting with the group, and assists X in fighting against Team Flare grunts.

• Shock and Awe: He is Electric-type.
• Super Mode: He has access to its Mega Evolution.

Garma

A Gengar that originally belonged to Gurkinn, but was given to X when he was able to bond with and Mega-Evolve it. It has a show-off personality and constantly likes to be praised.

• Attention Whore: Always wants to be the center of attention and be praised. X is able to exploit this, convincing Garma to fight by saying everyone will think he’s cool if he wins.
• Living Shadow: He can hide in someone’s shadow. He first appears doing this, appearing from X’s shadow save him from Celosia’s Aegislash.
• Poisonous Person: Poison is his secondary type.
• Soul Power: Ghost is his primary type.
• Super Mode: He has access to its Mega Evolution.

Rute

A wild Pinsir that decided to join X's team when its rival Scyther was drained of its life force.

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Is a Bug-type as a Pinsir and it’s primary type as a Mega Pinsir.
• Blood Knight: It enjoys battles and constantly fights with a rival Scyther. X convinces it to join his team by promising that it will face tough challengers.
• Blow You Away: Gains Flying as a secondary type when it Mega Evolves.
• Covered with Scars: It has many scars caused by its encounters with a rival Scyther.
• The Rival: Has one in a Scyther. They constantly train so that they can be stronger every time they encounter each other. When the Scyther can’t move because Team Flare drained it of its Life Energy, Rute becomes very angry.
• Super Mode: It has access to its Mega Evolution.

Y

Yvonne "Y" Gābena (Y na Gābena)

The Flyer

"But...now that I’ve been chosen as successor...and master Gurkinn has told me that maturity is one of the qualifications...I’m not going to let my emotions get the better of me anymore."

The female protagonist of the XY chapter, she is a Sky Trainer who is determined to bring her childhood friend X out into the world again. Y was previously trying to be a Rhyhorn racer in the past, but switched to her current interest. Her first Pokémon is a Fletchling named Fletchy and her starter is a Froakie named Croaky.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Used to be socially isolated and bullied by her peers in the Sky Training Academy just because she got special treatment for having a famous mom.
• Berserk Button:
  • Paparazzi and reporters, as they are the reason X refuses to leaves his home. That said, when Viola reveals she is the Santalune Gym Leader and offers the group temporary sanctuary, Y's opinion of her improves.
  • Having her Malaproper tendencies pointed out.
• Boyish Short Hair: Her second to last haircut. It is even shorter than X's shoulder-length hair.
• Brutal Honesty: She tends to say what she thinks, a trait she picked up from X's old self.
• Close-Call Haircut: Her hair gets chopped to shoulder-length when Celosia catches her spying on her and Malva.
• Childhood Friends: With X, Trevor, Tierno, and Shauna.
• Determinator: Regarding X. Trevor, Tierno, and Shauna have all given up on trying to get him to come out of his room, but not Y, who despite being busy with her own life always finds time to visit him everyday and try to bring him outside. His repeated rejection of her attempts has not fazed her one bit.
• Doomed Hometown: Vaniville Town is completely destroyed in the second round of the arc.
• Dub Name Change: Viz has her real name to be Yvonne, with Y being a nickname.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: A flashback showed that she used to have pigtails as a child. When the story first started, she initially freely swapped between having a low ponytail and a high one. Then Celosia chops half her hair off when she managed to listen in on Team Flare's plans, the second time was when Shauna gives her a shorter haircut in order to prepare her for her successor ceremony, and the third time has her sporting a bob cut after the three month Time Skip and everyone's troubles with Team Flare was over.
• Fangirl: Of Diantha, when she used to be an actress.
• Follow in My Footsteps: As the child of the famous Rhyhorn racer Grace, everyone expected her to become like her mother, much to her chagrin. She rebels and decides to become a Sky Trainer instead, sparking a lot of arguments with her mother.
• Floral Theme Naming: Her full name in Japanese is likely a reference to both her game counterpart and the Golden Serena gerbena daisy.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: As The Flyer, she's the master of Sky Battles.
• Heroic BSoD: Once she learns that her mother was captured by Team Flare, she stays in a fetal position with a blank expression similar to X.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Played with. She's a better judge than she probably even realizes, noticing that something was off with Shauna when Shauna ended up being brainwashed and correctly deducing that despite his friendship with the obviously unhinged Lysandre, Professor Sycamore is oblivious rather than evil. The problem is that she second guesses herself and doesn't always go for her gut instinct.
• Hot-Blooded: Y is yelling in almost every chapter (and mostly at X). She starts to mellow out a bit in the latter half of the XY arc, stating that she needs to control her emotions now that she's a Mega Evolution successor.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Has absolutely no reservations in stripping herself or her friends of their clothes in public.
• Jumped at the Call: When Xerneas says it is looking to choose a trainer to use it, Y decides to simply start commanding Xerneas in battle, reasoning that she might as well go for it since they need the help and can’t wait for Xerneas to pick. As a result of her successfully commanding it, Xerneas chooses her as its trainer.
• The Leader: Type II/III hybrid of the team of friends. She is also the one who keeps the group together.
• Magic Skirt: Y has an unfortunate tendency to get flung into walls. While this isn't so much a problem while she's in her flight suit, her skirt really shouldn't be able to hide anything when she does.
• Malaproper: And she doesn't take it too well when it's pointed out.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She's the one who persisted the most in getting X to open up. At the end of the XY arc, he finally admits that he's grateful for all her help. In a way, this is her way of thanking X as he was basically hers first by encouraging her to be more open back when they first met.
• Ms. Fanservice: Not only does her form-fitted flight suit (which she wears for like half the XY chapter) accentuate her curves, but Y is canonically the most developed among the female Dex Holders, beating even Green! And did we mention that she's only 12?
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Energetic Girl to X's Savvy Guy.
• Ship Tease: With X. The two have been childhood friends for a long time, and when he became a shut-in she's the only one who never gave up on him. Her trust on and dedication and persistence to X borders on the selfless at times, especially considering that he rarely even shows her how much he appreciates her efforts. In fact, the reason why she's so Hot-Blooded and straightforward is because it was X ('s old self) who encouraged her to be honest with herself, which she needed to hear back when she was frustrated over being expected to follow her mother's footsteps.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She sometimes has her hair in the style of her NPC version.
• Tsundere: Type B and almost exclusively toward X.
• The Worf Effect: Y will be the first of the group to get knocked around. Justified, as she is stronger than Trevor, Tierno, and Shauna but X isn't likely to fight back unless he's being directly targeted, meaning that, by default, Y is the first to jump in the fray.

Fletchy (Yako-chan)

Y's Fletchling. Evolves into a Fletchinder while battling Yvette and the sky trainer trainees.

• Blow You Away: Flying is her secondary type.
• Flight: Naturally, as a Flying type. She's specifically the Pokémon she uses in her Sky Training.
• Non-Elemental: Normal type is her primary type as a Fletchling.
• Playing with Fire: Fire becomes her primary type as a Fletchinder.

Veevee (Vuivui)

Y's Sylveon, which she first gets as an Eevee.

• Badass Adorable: As are all Fairy types.
• Killer Rabbit: As an Eevee, and arguably as Sylveon.
• Life Drain: Knows Draining Kiss, which takes half the damage inflicted and uses it to heal her.
• Non-Elemental: As an Eevee she is Normal-type.
• Our Fairies Are Different: As a Sylveon she is Fairy-type. This one is based off a mammal that can evolve into many different types.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Knows Baby-Doll Eyes.

Croaky (Kerokero)

Y's Froakie that originally belonged to Professor Sycamore.

• Combat Pragmatist: Dark is his secondary type as a Greninja.
• Doppelgänger Spin: He knows Double Team.
• Making a Splash: He is Water-type as a Froakie and Frogadier and it’s his primary type as a Greninja.
• Ninja: As can be clearly seen by his design, focus on stealth, and even the move Water Shuriken

Rhyrhy (Saisai)

Y's Rhyhorn that was originally Grace's. It's often used to carry X around via a makeshift tent on its back.

• Dishing Out Dirt: It’s Ground and Rock type.
• Utility Party Member: It hasn’t been trained to fight, only to race, so Y uses it to carry the tent X refuses to leave.

Solsol

Y's Absol. It is her only Pokémon that can Mega Evolve.

• Combat Pragmatist: It is Dark-type.
• Dark Is Not Evil: It is Dark-type but only wants to prevent disasters.
• Super Mode: As mentioned, it can Mega Evolve.

Xerxer

Y's Xerneas, which chose her as its trainer in order to stop Team Flare's plans.

• Heroic Sacrifice: It makes itself and Yveltal go dormant to end their endless battle and weaken Zygarde enough for X to defeat it.
• Life Drain: It knows Horn Leech.
• Our Fairies Are Different: It’s Fairy-type but looks like a giant deer.
• Pals with Jesus: Y becomes pretty chummy with a beast that creates life.
• Olympus Mons: It is a legendary Pokémon with dominion over the creation of life.
• Telepathy: Is capable of communicating telepathically with Y.

Allies

Travel Companions

Trevor

• Innocently Insensitive: At one point, he got very gung-ho testing out the mechanics of Mega Evolution, inadvertently upsetting X by bringing up an issue X wasn't comfortable with.
• Oh, Crap!: Has two big ones. The first being when he first sees Xerneas and Yvelta right before they start duking it out, and the second being when he meets Lysandre literally seconds after he figures the man being a bad guy.
• Signature Mon: Flabebe, which later evolves into Floette.
• Supporting Protagonist: He is the one narrating the XY chapter.

Tierno

• A Day in the Limelight: One of the side chapter in the arc focuses on him, assisting X against a Team Flare Admin.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's the most easygoing out of the Kalos kids, but don't make him angry.
• Signature Mon: Corphish. It evolves into a Crawdaunt in the final battle with Team Flare.
• Street Performer: In the epilogue he becomes a street dancer in Lumiose City’s backstreets.

Shauna

An aspiring Furfrou groomer, and childhood friends with a number of other characters.

• Adaptational Jerkass: In a stark contrast with her nice and friendly game counterpart, she's the group's Deadpan Snarker here.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: A Honedge is forced into her hands while a Aegislash looms behind her, meaning that she ends up being possessed. She is then ordered to steal X's Mega Stone, and when she gets caught, she attacks her friends.
• Break the Cutie: She has, in order, watched her friend fall into depression, have her hometown blown up, lose one of her Pokémon, and been brainwashed while having her life force sucked out of her. No wonder she's rather bitter.
• Little Miss Snarker: A complete 180 degree turn from her game counterpart, but seeing all the misfortune she's gone through, it's understandable.
• Ship Tease: She's often seen clinging to Tierno.
• Signature Mon: A Skitty named Neko.

Gym Leaders

Viola

The Gym Leader of Santalune City, the gang initially isn't very fond of her as she works for the press along side of her sister, but they agree to her offer of help.

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Specializes in Bug-type Pokémon.
• Camera Fiend: Although it makes sense she carries it with her at all times since she’s a news photographer.
• Signature Mon: Vivillon.
• Taking the Bullet: When a possessed Shauna tries to use a Honedge to strike down Y, Viola jumps in the way of the attack.

Grant

The gym leader of Cyllage Gym.

• Demoted to Extra: Aside from helping to stop the Ultimate Weapon from firing and defeating the members of Team Flare who are trying to activate it a second time off-panel alongside the rest of the Gym Leaders, he doesn’t have any individual role.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Specializes in Rock-type Pokémon.

Korrina

The gym leader of Shalour Gym and a successor of Mega Evolution. She is Gurkinn's granddaughter.

• Adapted Out: She doesn't have Machoke, Hawlucha, Mienfoo or her second Lucario.
• Barefisted Monk: Specializes in Fighting-type Pokémon.
• Big Damn Heroes: She first appears to help X and the others when they are fighting Celosia, and later on with Diantha and Gurkinn when the whole crew is captured by Essentia.
• Put on a Bus: Suffers a head injury against Celosia, where she's unable to make a recovery until the end of the arc due to getting her Key Stone stolen.
• Signature Mon: Lucario.
• Super Mode: Has access to Mega Evolution.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: When Celosia praises Korrina for amending her mistakes during their rematch, she tells her that there's nothing good about being praised by her.

Ramos

The gym leader of Coumarine Gym.

• Adapted Out: Doesn't have his Weepinbell.
• Badass Bookworm: He enjoys reading and references a Pokémon battling encyclopedia, specifically talking about a tactic using Mr. Mime to create solid walls of air.
• Demoted to Extra: Aside from helping to stop the Ultimate Weapon from firing and defeating the members of Team Flare who are trying to activate it a second time off-panel alongside the rest of the Gym Leaders, he doesn’t have any individual role.
• Green Thumb: Specializes in Grass-type Pokémon.

Clemont

The gym leader of Lumiose Gym.

• Adapted Out: He doesn't have Magneton and Emolga is only seen at his gym.
• Badass in Distress: Gets captured by Team Flare and forced to build a machine to drain Xerneas’s energy.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He invented the Aipom Arm for one thing. Xerosic uses this and threatens his Heliolisk in order to make Clemont build the machine that will absorb Xerneas’s energy.
• Irony: When he first appears before the heroes, he proudly introduces himself as the great inventor of Kalos, only to find that they've never heard of him. He's later referred by that same title by the enemy, Xerosic of Team Flare.
• Shock and Awe: Specializes in Electric-type Pokémon.
• Signature Mon: Heliolisk.

Valerie

The gym leader of Laverre Gym

• Adapted Out: She doesn't have her Mawile or Sylveon.
• Demoted to Extra: Aside from helping to stop the Ultimate Weapon from firing and defeating the members of Team Flare who are trying to activate it a second time off-panel alongside the rest of the Gym Leaders, she doesn’t have any individual role.
• Our Fairies Are Different: Specializes in Fairy-type Pokémon.
• Signature Mon: Mr. Mime.

Olympia

The gym leader of Anistar Gym.

• Adapted Out: She doesn't have her Sigilyph.
• Demoted to Extra: Aside from helping to stop the Ultimate Weapon from firing and defeating the members of Team Flare who are trying to activate it a second time off-panel alongside the rest of the Gym Leaders, she doesn’t have any individual role.
• Psychic Powers: Specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon. She also seems to have some herself since she mentions having a vision.

Wulfric

The gym leader of Snowbelle Gym.

• Adapted Out: He doesn't have his Cryognal.
• Demoted to Extra: Aside from helping to stop the Ultimate Weapon from firing and defeating the members of Team Flare who are trying to activate it a second time off-panel alongside the rest of the Gym Leaders, he doesn’t have any individual role.
• An Ice Person: Specializes in Ice-type Pokémon.

Kalos League

Diantha

The Champion of the Kalos region and a famous actress. She trained with Blue under Gurkinn as a successor of Mega Evolution.

• Adapted Out: She only has her Gardevoir.
• Bifauxnen: When she was a child actress, she looked rather boyish.
• Big Damn Heroes: She first appears to protect Y, Shauna, Tierno and Trevor when Lysandre’s Pokémon have them surrounded in his Café.
• Famed In-Story: She is a famous movie star.
• Lady of War: She's both a wealthy celebrity and a skilled, powerful battler.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Seems to have taken this stance with Malva, telling Y not to interfere in their battle.
• Save the Villain: After knocking Malva out of the air in their final battle Diantha tries to catch her. Malva refuses to grab her hand and falls to her presumable death.
• Signature Mon: Gardevoir.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Although in her case, the steel is just barely hidden.
• Super Mode: Has access to Mega Evolution.

Siebold

A member of the Kalos Elite Four. Specializes in Water-types.

• Adapted Out: He only has Clawitzer.
• Demoted to Extra: Aside from briefly catering to the protagonists, his only role is to take part in the final battle against Team Flare off-panel.
• Making a Splash: Specializes in Water-type Pokémon.
• Signature Mon: Clawitzer.

Wikstrom

A member of the Kalos Elite Four. Specializes in Steel-types.

• Adapted Out: He only has Probopass.
• Demoted to Extra: All he does is take part in the final battle with Team Flare off-panel.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Specializes in Steel-type Pokémon.
• Signature Mon: Probopass.

Drasna

A member of the Kalos Elite Four. Specializes in Dragon-types.

• Adapted Out: Her entire team.
• Demoted to Extra: All he does is take part in the final battle with Team Flare off-panel. We don’t even get to see a single one of her Pokémon.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Specializes in Dragon-type Pokémon.

Other

Professor Sycamore

The regional professor of Kalos.

• Horrible Judge of Character: Is this considering Lysandre, constantly praising him. Unlike the games, everyone else is suspicious and wary of Lysandre, making the professor seem even more oblivious in contrast.
• It's All My Fault: Once he learns that Lysandre is evil he blames himself for not believing it and putting X and the others in danger as a result.

Grace

Y’s mother. She is a famous Rhyhorn Racer and wants Y to follow in her footsteps.

• Famed In-Story: She is a Rhyhorn Racer with a streak of 25 consecutive wins.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Similar to the anime, she made Y practice Rhyhorn Racing since her childhood.
• Parents as People: She wants her daughter to follow in her footsteps because she thinks that's what's best for Y. However, Y doesn't like that her mother is deciding her life so she becomes a Sky Trainer, the exact opposite of ground-based Rhyhorn Racing. This leads to the two having a strained relationship.
• Parents in Distress: She, along with the rest of the residents of Vaniville Town, are captured by Team Flare following its destruction. Team Flare brainwashes them and uses them to move Xerneas in its sealed form.

Cassius

The manager of Kalos’s Pokémon Storage System. He took in Emma and other orphans after finding them on the streets.

• Ascended Extra: In the games, he only stays in his place and hardly says much, but here he becomes a traveling companion to the heroes for a while and has an important connection to Emma.
• Big Damn Heroes: He appears to save Y, Tierno and Shauna from a Team Flare Grunt.
• Composite Character: He fulfills Looker's role from the games as the man who took Emma in, an action that indirectly leads to her become Essentia.
• Copycat Mockery: He mimics Bill's accent when talking to him, with the footnote even saying "(weird accent)".
• Face of a Thug: He looks like a punk but he is actually very friendly and takes in orphans and gives them jobs.
• Genius Slob: His house is an absolute mess but he isn’t the manager of the Pokémon Storage System for nothing.
• Signature Mon: Gourgeist.
• Verbal Tic: "For real" is often tacked on at the end of his speech bubbles.

Gurkinn

The guru of Mega Evolution whose job is finding those worthy of inheriting its secret. He is also Korrina’s grandfather.

• Big Damn Heroes: He has Garma appear to save X from being killed by Celosia while he was trying to stop Team Flare from getting Xerneas.
• The Chooser of the One: As the guru of Mega Evolution he decides who can become a successor and gain access to Mega Evolution. He has found 17 people worthy.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": He doesn't like being called the Mega Evolution Guru.
• Game-Breaking Injury: His leg gets injured when Essentia attacks the Tower of Mastery so he is unable to fight for the rest of the arc. A side chapter in the expanded release also shows him getting poisoned by Skrelp as well, which he notes isn't doing him any favors either.
• Signature Mon: Heracross.
• Super Mode: Has access to Mega Evolution.

Yvette

One of Y's classmates in the Sky Trainer Academy.

• Ascended Extra: In the games, she's just another one-off Sky Trainer you battle, but here she's a bully to Y and is important in develping her relationship with her mom.
• The Bully: Obviously to Y before the start of the arc, being the most popular girl at the academy.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: X figures out that Yvette and her clique attacking the helicopter must be all controlled by Celosia's Aegislash.
• Bully Turned Buddy: Seems to be the case in the epilogue as she pesters Y to join her group of Vivillonists.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Resented Y as she received special treatment by the teachers just for being Grace's daughter.
• Heel–Face Turn: Shows up in the finale with Viola, Alexa, Clemont, and Bonnie to free the Pokémon from Team Flare in Route 10.
• Relative Ridicule: Constantly refers to Y and her mom Grace as people who belong on the ground in the mud; based on Grace's career as a Rhyhorn Racer.
• Signature Mon: Vivillon. She's able to collect regional variants thanks to her parents' travels, and owns at least 18 out of 20 with different wing patterns (including the event-exclusive Poké Ball and Fancy patterns).
• Straight for the Commander: Y deduces that the group of Vivillon all belong to Yvette and taking her down will make their formation collapse.

Emma

A homeless girl who was taken in by Cassius. She is particularly close to an Espurr named Mimi.

• Abusive Parents: When she tells X about her past she says she ran away from home because her parents were mean.
• Adapted Out: Only retains Mimi.
• Adaptational Villainy: In a sense. Emma has no control over what she does as Essentia, but unlike in the games she knows she is made to do terrible things but allows it to happen anyway because the poor girl is so traumatized by her life that the Expansion Suit is the only thing that makes her feel completely safe.
• Brainwashed: As Essentia she is put to sleep and an AI takes control of her body.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Expansion Suit can do this to Pokémon with its Poké Ball Jack function, which she uses to temporarily steal Xerxer from Y.
• Canon Foreigner: A Trevenant, Phantump and a quartet of Hawlucha.
• Dark Action Girl: As Essentia.
• Helpful Mook: As Emma, i.e. not in her part time job, she helps X take care of some Flare Grunts in Geosenge Town.
• Master of Disguise: The Expansion Suit can use holograms to make the wearer appear like anyone else. She uses this to steal Xerxer from Y by pretending to be the Pokémon Center’s nurse.
• Morality Pet: To Xerosic, who has fatherly affection for her and refuses to push her beyond the limits of her Essentia suit out of fear of hurting her. Lysandre, however, has no such concern.
• Not Brainwashed: Emma is perfectly aware of the terrible things she does as Essentia. However she willingly goes along with it since the suit makes her feel safe.
• Odd Friendship: With AZ.
• Olympus Mons: As Essentia she catches Zygarde. After regaining control she tries to hide it in the Pokémon Storage System but Lysandre takes direct control of her suit and forces her to command it to battle the protagonists.
• Out-of-Character Alert: When Essentia disguises herself as Y, X realizes it isn't her because she doesn't apologize for going off on her own and breaking one of the five rules like Y would and then she refers to X as "dear." As a result X has Rute crush her helmet.
• The Runaway: She ran away from home because she had Abusive Parents and lived on the streets of Lumiose City until Cassius took her in.

AZ

The immortal king of Kalos from thousands of years ago and the creator of the Ultimate Weapon.

• Adapted Out: Only has his Golurk.
• Humans Are Bastards: He tells X and the others this in response their selfishness for only focusing on themselves and ignoring the Team Flare plot and says they're not worth saving. However this turns out to be a Secret Test of Character.
• Odd Friendship: With Emma.
• Secret Test of Character: In the final chapter he claims that the people of Kalos don't deserve to live and plans to activate the Ultimate Weapon again. He then attacks X and the others. However, he actually wanted them to fight back and not give in to despair, taking a hit so that the key to the Ultimate Weapon is destroyed.
• Signature Mon: Golurk.

Antagonists

Team Flare

Tropes used for all of them:

• Laser-Guided Karma: They get their butts thoroughly whooped in the climax. Tierno, Trevor and Shauna beat up the Team Flare Admins, Clemont, Bonnie, Alexa, Viola, Yvette and the Sky Trainers who were forced to help move Xerneas' tree form ambush and beat the Team Flare Grunts that are strapping Pokémon to try and repower the Ultimate Weapon despite the aid of Malva's Delphox, the Team Flare agents stationed around Kalos are attacked and defeated by the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four, Lysandre and Malva fall onto jagged rocks and are completely paralyzed and Xerosic's attempt at revenge sometime later via robot Essentia is thwarted by Trevor, his newly evolved Florges and Magearna.

Lysandre

The leader of Team Flare. He intends to use the Ultimate Weapon to cleanse Kalos of all those he deems unworthy to create a better world.

• Adapted Out: Doesn't have his Honchkrow.
• Baddie Flattery: He's impressed by X, such as when he figures out that Mega Gyarados is Water/Dark type, and especially when he Mega-evolves 5 Pokémon at the same time.
• Big Bad: Of the X & Y arc.
• Fate Worse than Death: His defeat leaves him with a broken spine, and he would almost certainly rather be dead than have to live the rest of his life unable to move on his own and requiring aid from others, thus becoming what he views as a "parasite".
• Fingore: Y has her Absol rip his Mega Ring out of his hands, his finger getting caught in the process.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When falling from Zygarde, he gets skewered by the jagged rocks that were created from making it use Land's Wrath.
• Kick the Dog: He pushes Essentia to her limits, not caring if he kills her.
• Kingpin in His Gym: Is seen training in the Pokémon Village, his muscles fully visible.
• Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of the arc, he's been paralyzed from the damage to his spinal cord, which his immobile, expressionless state makes him look just like the Pokémon that had their life energies drained.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Him announcing his plans of genocide all over the region prompts Viola and Alexa to action.
• Obviously Evil: Unlike in the games, people pick up on this. Trevor suspects that Lysandre's a bad guy from the start thanks to a photo Viola took, and Diantha warns him that she's got her eye on him.
• Olympus Mons: He controls Zygarde through Essentia’s controller. Once she tries to turn on him, he has his Gyarados attack her and takes control of Zygarde directly.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He thinks that humans are destroying the planet, and his solution is to kill them off those he sees as unworthy of inhabiting it.
• Signature Mon: Gyarados.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Lysandre's heavily implied to have been killed in both the games and the anime. While his fate isn't exponentially better in the manga—his back is broken, paralyzing him very likely for life—but it's a step above his alternate selves.
• Super Mode: Gains access to Mega Evolution through Korrina’s stolen Key Stone.
• Tragic Villain: He is a Fallen Hero whose obsessive mindset leads to his own downfall.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that there are too many unworthy people in Kalos that drain its resources so he attempts to use the Ultimate Weapon to wipe out those he deems unworthy to create a better world for those who remain.
• Worthy Opponent: Comes to view X as one.

Malva

A member of the Unova Elite Four and a high ranking member of Team Flare. Being a newscaster, she serves as Team Flare's way to control the media.

• Adapted Out: Doesn't have her Chandelure or Torkoal.
• Arch-Enemy: To Diantha.
• Ascended Extra: In the games she is just a member of the Elite Four with a brief appearance in the Looker sidequests revealing her connections to Team Flare. Here she is one of the most prominent villains.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: First appears to be a well-meaning reporter, but is actually a leader of Team Flare.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She has feelings for Lysandre, and is jealous of the lingering feelings he seems to have for Diantha. In a twist on the trope, she also always intended on betraying Lysandre in order to get back at him, not just Diantha, for this.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After the final battle, she tells Diantha that she'd rather die than be pitied by her, although the tranquil look on her face and smile as she says it suggests part of her is thankful for the pity.
• Dragon with an Agenda: She's Lysandre's right hand. She ultimately intended on backstabbing Lysandre and taking over the new "purified" world he created as revenge for him using her, who had feelings for him, as a pawn.
• Green-Eyed Monster: This seems to be her grudge against Diantha, who she described as having beauty, talent, and praise since she was a child.
• Olympus Mons: She catches Yveltal and uses it to battle Xerxer.
• Playing with Fire: She specializes in Fire-type Pokémon. This includes the missing Fennekin that was part of starter trio.
• Propaganda Machine: For Team Flare being a newscaster. She hides information on Team Flare’s actions to control the masses.
• Token Evil Teammate: Of the Elite Four.
• Uncertain Doom: It was unclear if she survived her fall in the original magazine run of the arc. The graphic novel version revealed that she's still alive and that she received little injuries thanks to Lysandre serving as her cushion.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She’s a member of Team Flare but is seen by most of Kalos as a trusted newscaster.

Celosia

One of the scientists of Team Flare.

• Adapted Out: Doesn't have her Drapion.
• Arch-Enemy: To Korrina.
• Canon Foreigner: The Honedge line.
• Mind Control: She uses her Aegislash and Honedge to control Shauna, a group of Sky Trainers, and finally, the residents of Vaniville Town in tree form. However, the constant usage of it in large number of people takes a toll on her.
• Perfectionist: She's focused on succeeding in her mission and hates to repeat mistakes.

Bryony

One of the scientists of Team Flare.

• Adapted Out: Lacks her Liepard.
• Commonality Connection: Downplayed with Ramos. She finds a common ground with him due to their love of books, but that doesn't stop Ramos from fighting her as enemies.
• Determinator: She makes every effort to carry out Team Flare's goals, where her determinedness is acknowledged by Celosia.