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Characters / Pokémon Gold (Fanmade)

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This page is for members of the major cast from Johto (and Silver). For the Kanto cast, see Pokémon Red (Fanmade).

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Protagonists

     Gold 
The male lead. A teenage (maybe 18?) boy from New Bark City who wants to challenge the Pokémon League and challenges the Johto Gym Leaders to enter it.
  • Age Lift: In part due to the Time Skip between Red and Gold being of eight years instead of three, Gold is older than in canon.
  • Best Her to Bed Her: His determination and eventual success in defeating Whitney made her fall for him.
  • Big Brother Mentor: To Joey, even gifting him one of his hats.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Whitney; both of them are fiercely competitive and eventually get together after he manages to defeat her in a Gym battle.
  • Body Horror: During his battle with Morty in Episode 17, Gold loses all of his limbs and both of his eyes. Thankfully, the loss of his limbs and eyes was All Just a Dream.
  • Character Development: Over the course of the first twenty episodes, Gold grows from a hot head who uses limited amounts of Pokémon to win battles, to someone who slowly realizes the importance of strategy and facing failure.
  • Composite Character: Between his versions from the games (the story follows the game's plot with some artistic liberties like Gold being in a relationship with Whitney), Pokémon Adventures (his name is Gold and he has Cyndaquill as his Starter Mon) and, to a lesser extent, Pokémon Lost Silver (blame Morty's Gengar).
  • Decomposite Character: While this Gold is the protagonist of the original Gold & Silver, Joey is set to become the protagonist of the remakes, HeartGold & SoulSilver.
  • Defeating the Undefeatable: He's the first one in a long time to defeat Whitney.
  • Determinator: Not even going broke deterred him from trying to defeat Whitney. It just made him rethink battling.
  • Detrimental Determination: Gold keeps coming back to challenge Whitney no matter how many times she beats him. But for the first half-dozen attempts, he doesn't bother to learn from his defeats: he keeps using the same team and the same incredibly basic tactics, hoping that they'll work this time when they didn't work any of the previous times. It takes losing all his money for him to realize that this brute force approach isn't working, and that he needs an actual strategy if he wants to beat her.
  • Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: He tells Whitney all about the new Elemental Punch moves that he taught his Pokémon just before fighting her for the seventh time. He's confident that these moves will be enough to finally beat her. He's wrong.
  • Foregone Conclusion:
    • We know from the Red series how Gold's journey will end: with Gold challenging and defeating Red atop Mt. Silver and convincing him to return to Kanto. The series is how it goes up to that point.
    • Also, we know that eventually, Gold will gain 16 Badges. How it leads to that was unknown until Episode 23, where he declares his intent to do so after hearing May getting eight badges in Hoenn.
  • Heroic BSoD:
    • Upon seeing Feraligatr rip off Quagsire's arms, Gold is completely stunned and collapses to his knees to see his Pokémon get maimed. It lasts for a good third of the following episode, until Quagsire and the rest of his team give him the reassurance he needs to bounce back.
    • Earlier, Gold started having doubts after losing to Morty and his consecutive loses to Whitney. It takes some reassurance from Joey and some training with Kris to shake those doubts away.
  • It's All My Fault: After seeing Feraligatr rip off Quagsire's arms and him being unable to do anything to regrow them, Gold angrily blames himself for letting it happen instead of stopping Silver himself. Or even using Typhlosion or Ampharos instead of Quagsire.
  • Likes Older Women: Implied; he's no older than Silver, who was a kid during Red, and he's dating Whitney, who is as old as Daisy Oak.
  • Monochrome Apparition: He turns monochrome during the Mind Rape sequence.
  • Mr. Fanservice: When Whitney forces Gold to wear nothing but farmer overalls like she does, it's shown Gold is rather good-looking, and in the Episode 21 he is shown to be wearing nothing but a speedo, especially when he challenges Chuck in this costume.
  • Nice Guy: For all his hot headedness and brashness, Gold is a kind fellow who befriends everyone from Pokémon and people such as Joey. Later in the series, Gold begins developing a way to spiritually connect with his Pokémon through their hearts, and some of them even temporarily take up his golden eyes based on that connection.
  • Official Couple: With Whitney.
  • Signature Mon: His Starter Mon, Cindaquill/Quilava/Typhlosion. Gold didn't even catch any mons until after defeating Falkner. It comes to bite him in the ass when he challenges Whitney.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: For Pokémon Lost Silver; The Reveal in Lost Silver is that Gold was Dead All Along. Here, the events of the creepypasta were nothing but a nightmare caused by Morty's Gengar.
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: His relationship with Whitney. Even after getting together, they're still butting heads as much as they make out, and even then, they fight on who's taking the lead when they make out.

     Gold's Pokemon 

Cyndaquil → Quilava → Typhlosion

Gold's starter, and his only Pokémon for the first leg of his journey. He evolved into Quilava after defeating Falkner's team. He later evolved into Typhlosion while battling the Red Gyrados and its kind at the Lake of Rage.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Quilava, among the other Pokémon on Gold and Kris' team, were affected by Team Rocket's radio wave and started attacking each other and their trainers. Only Quilava managed to break free from it thanks to Gold linking his heart to his partner.
  • Breath Weapon: Beyond breathing fire, it can also hock up smokescreen pellets that lower the enemy's accuracy.
  • Eyes Always Shut: As a Cyndaquil, its eyes are nearly always closed. When it suddenly opens them during the fight with Falkner's Pokémon, it's a sign that it's starting to evolve into Quilava.
  • Foil: To Silver's Feraligtr. Typhlosion was raised with kindness and respect from Gold, being encouraged to do well and is treated like an equal. In contrast, Feraligtr was abused by Silver, who treated it with nothing but scorn whether it won or loss. Their evolutions are even different: Typhlosion's evolution shows the bond between him and Gold, breaking through Team Rocket's radio waves and working together to stop the Gyrados herd. For Feraligtr, he is overwhelmed by the radio waves and begins mauling Ariana's Vileplume to death like a wild animal, all while Silver does nothing to stop him.
  • A Handful for an Eye: It spits smoke pellets right in the enemy Pokémon's face when using Smokescreen, blurring their eyesight.
  • Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack: Smokescreen lowers the target's accuracy without hurting them.
  • Playing with Fire: It's a Fire-type, after all. Many Pokémon have roasted into unconsciousness by Quilava's flames.
  • Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: It is visibly alarmed when Whitney's Miltank shrugs off a direct hit from Cut.
  • Razor-Sharp Hand: Its version of Cut involves karate chopping with enough force to slice through trees.
  • Signature Mon: Cyndaquil was Gold's only Pokémon in the first few episodes, and even after he caught Mareep and Wooper, he still made heavy use of his starter in most battles. It's not until he reaches Whitney that the rest of his team really starts getting time to shine.
  • Shock and Awe: After evolving into Typhlosion, he learned Thunder Punch after seeing Lance's Dragonite do it.
  • Spin Attack: Knows Flame Wheel, which is depicted as a spin attack.
  • Starter Mon: It is Gold's first Pokémon, given to him by Professor Elm.

Wooper → Quagsire

The first wild Pokémon that Gold caught, and his second Pokémon overall. It began evolving into Quagsire during his final bout with Whitney.
  • An Arm and a Leg: In its fight against Feraligatr at the Rocket Hideout, Quagsire gets both of its arms ripped off by the Big Jaw Pokémon. Thankfully, come Episode 31, Quagsire's arms are restored thanks to Ho-oh.
  • Armless Biped: It has no arms as Wooper. It suddenly grows a pair during the final clash with Miltank, showing that it's about to evolve into Quagsire.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Wooper's ability to create arms of ice because of his lack of any comes back when Silver's Feraligatr tore off Quagsire's arms.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Quagsire is part Ground-type and while it currently does not know any ground attacks, it can No-Sell electric attacks that normal take out Water-type Pokémon.
  • Elemental Punch: Gold teaches it Ice Punch while training to beat Whitney.
  • Making a Splash: It's part Water-type and is often shown hosing enemies with Water Gun and similar moves.
  • Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack: It can use Tail Whip to lower an enemy's defense.
  • Put on a Bus: Quagsire is left at Gold's house in New Bark Town after losing its arms to Feraligatr.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Since it doesn't have any arms as a Wooper, it creates temporary arms made of solid ice whenever it uses Ice Punch. It no longer does this upon evolving into Quagsire, since it now has an actual pair of arms to throw punches with. After losing its arms to Feraligatr, Quagsire creates ones out of ice to comfort Gold when its trainer is in self-loathing.

Mareep → Flaaffy → Ampharos

Gold's third Pokémon, caught soon after Wooper. He evolved into Flaaffy while fighting Team Rocket in the Slowpoke Well. Later, he evolved into Ampharos following Gold's victory against Jasmine.
  • Elemental Punch: Gold teaches him Thunder Punch while training to beat Whitney since the techniques Flaaffy already knew weren't doing the job.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: During his fight against Jasmine's Steelix, the bulb on his tail turns from blue to red, signifying his evolution.
  • The Paralyzer: He often uses Thunder Wave to paralyze opponents.
  • Shock and Awe: He is an Electric-type, so of course, it spends most of its time zapping foes with electricity.
  • Power Fist: Aside from learning Thunder Punch, Flaffy learned Dynamic Punch before his battle against Jasmine.
  • Put on a Bus: Flaaffy stays in Olivine City to man the lighthouse while Gold and the others go to Cianwood Town to get the medicine to heal Amphy. He returns two episodes later, just in time for Gold's Gym battle against Jasmine.
  • Speed Blitz: He defeats Petrel's Drowzee by zipping around faster than the other Pokémon can react and striking it repeatedly, evolving from Mareep to Flaaffy in the process.

Nidoran♂ → Nidorino

Gold's fourth Pokémon, which he caught specifically to use as a trump card against Whitney's team. He ends up trading it away for Kris's Noctowl.
  • Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: It knows Double Kick, a Fighting-type move which is super-effective against Normal-type Pokémon. Since Whitney's Pokémon are all Normal types, Gold caught Nidoran♂ specifically to exploit that weakness.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: It evolved at some point while Kris and Whitney were participating in a bug-catching contest.
  • Poisonous Person: It's a Poison-type Pokémon, after all.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Gold only had him for a few episodes before giving him to Kris.

Drowzee

Gold's fifth Pokémon, caught while training his team to beat Whitney. He trades it away for a female Machop.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Gold trades it away in the same episode that he caught it. It's not clear if he even used Drowzee before giving it away.

Muscle (Machop → Machoke)

A female Fighting-type Pokémon that Gold received in a trade. She was the lynchpin of his final strategy for taking down Whitney. Evolved into Machoke after Gold leveled her up after reclaiming her from the Daycare Center.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: A pure Fighting-type Pokémon who goes to town on foes with powerful karate chops.
  • No-Sell: When Whitney’s Miltank tries to use Attract on her, she just smirks and continues powering up with Focus Energy.
  • Oh, Crap!: She is visibly alarmed when Miltank reveals that it can heal itself with Milk Drink.
  • Put on a Bus: Gold drops her off at the Pokémon Daycare in episode 16.
    • The Bus Came Back: She later returns in Episode 25, where Gold trains her up to evolving into Machoke, only to trade her to Kris.
  • Status Buff: She repeatedly uses Focus Energy to boost her critical hit rate before letting Miltank have it.

Nidoran♀ → Nidorina

Gold's seventh Pokémon, caught for the same reason as Nidoran♂ and because the fact that it is female makes it immune to Miltank's Attract. Gold trades her away for a Ponyta in episode 16.

Noctowl

This owl Pokémon originally belonged to Kris. When she evolved from Hoothoot, Gold convinced Kris to trade her to him in exchange for his Nidorino.

Heracross

Gold's eighth Pokémon, caught right before he challenge Morty.

Eevee → Umbreon

Gold's ninth Pokémon. It was a gift from Bill after meeting him at the Ecruteak City Pokémon Center. After Gold cared for Eevee across his journey, the latter evolved into Umbreon after defeating several wild Pokémon in the Ice Path in the evening.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Umbreon is a Dark-type Pokémon, but it was cared for by Gold.
  • Foreshadowing: There were many signs that Eevee would evolve into Umbreon, from Bill giving the former to Gold at dusk, and one shot of Eevee roaring in the night time with a full moon behind it.
  • The Power of Friendship: Thanks to Gold caring for Eevee, the latter was able to evolve into Umbreon through maximum happiness.
  • Stone Wall: Umbreon may have so-so offensive capabilities, but its resilience is through the roof. This allows it to tank multiple hits from Clair's Dragonair and stall for time while Gold revives his K.O.'d Gyarados.
  • Tail Slap: Knows Iron Tail.

Scyther → Scizor

A Mantis Pokémon that originally belonged to Kris. Gold received Scyther after trading Kris his Muscles (Machoke), and it evolved into Scizor after the trade due to it holding a Metal Coat.

Gyarados (Shiny)

A shiny version of a Gyarados that evolved due to Team Rocket's radio waves. Gold caught it at the Lake of Rage.
  • Adaptational Explanation: We see how Team Rocket's radio wave turned a shiny Magikarp to the red Gyrados we see in the games.
  • An Ice Person: Gyarados learned Icy Wind after Gold defeated Pryce.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Whether Gold knew it or not, he used Gyarados to defeat Archer in one last battle, giving it the chance to get even for the guy that forced it to evolve.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Long before Gold meets Red Gyarados, we see some glimpses of it from time to time.
  • Man Bites Man: Knows Bite.

Hurry (Cyndaquill)

Away (Celebi)

     Kris 
The female lead. A teenage (maybe 18?) girl from New Bark City who wants to catch one of all Pokémon species to complete her Pokédex.
  • Age Lift: See Gold's folder above.
  • Foregone Conclusion: We know she will end up with Silver.
  • Gotta Catch Them All: Kris's goal in her Pokémon Journey is catching all Pokémon to complete her Pokédex.
  • Mythology Gag: The Farm Girl outfit Whitney gives her in Episode 20 gives Kris a slight resemblance to Lyra. Noteworthy is that Kris's counterpart in Pokémon Adventures, Crystal, also donned Lyra's outfit in the Heart Gold and Soul Silver saga.
  • Straight Man: She's this to Gold, as she always gets exasperated by Gold's cockiness and recklessness.
  • Signature Mon: She starts with Chikorita, but since her goal is to catch all Pokémon to complete her Pokédex, we won't be seeing Chikorita too much. That said, she does seem to spend more time with her Togepi and her shiny, tailless Slowpoke.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Initially, Kris was the only one that saw Silver's good side. But after seeing him order Feraligatr rip off Quagsire's arms, all of those good moments are erased and she plans on confronting Silver at the Radio Tower.

    Kris' Pokémon 

Chikorita → Bayleaf → Meganium

Kris' starter, which she received from Professor Elm. It evolved into a Bayleaf during the fight against Team Rocket at the Slowpoke Well. It later evolved into Meganium while fighting Silver in the Goldenrod Underground.
  • Green Thumb: A grass type Pokémon.
  • Healing Factor: Upon evolving into Meganium, it learns Synthesis, which is a healing move Grass-types use. Meganium uses this to resist the radio waves and go berserk like it did last time.
  • Jerkass to One: Meganium is kind as long as you treat Pokémon right. But if you don't, don't be surprised if it gives you a glare. Just ask Silver.
  • Out of Focus: Compared to the other starters, Bayleaf has not been used by Kris that often, due to her decision to utilize different Pokémon in battles. By the Team Rocket Hideout Arc, Bayleaf starts getting more focus as Kris' main battler.
  • Petal Power: It knows Razor Leaf.
  • Starter Mon: Kris' first Pokémon, given to her by Professor Elm.
  • Wave-Motion Gun: In the final Team Rocket Battle, Meganium used Solar Beam.

Ledyba → Ledian

Kris' first captured Pokémon from the wild. It evolved into Ledian while training in the Ilex Forest.
  • Out of Focus: As a Ledyba, Kris did not use it as much once she received Togepi and Slowpoke. This extends even after evolving into Ledian as they get put on the back burner after a couple of uses.

Sentret → Furret

Kris' second captured Pokémon from the wild. Evolved into Furret after a little bit a training following Kris reclaiming it from the Daycare Center.
  • Put on a Bus: Kris left Sentret at the Pokémon Daycare Center.
    • The Bus Came Back: Came back in Episode 25 after Kris picked it up, and it evolved into Furret.

Geodude

Kris' third captured Pokémon from the wild.

Unknown

Kris' fourth captured Pokémon from the Ruins of Alph.

Hoothoot → Noctowl

An owl Pokémon Kris' captured with the help of Falkner. She evolved at the National Park, and Kris traded her to Gold for his Nidorino to help with his rematch against Whitney.

Togepi → Togetic

A baby Pokémon Kris received from an Egg Elm's Assistant entrusted to her. Togepi evolved into Togetic when she and Kris were fighting Euisine near Cianwood Town.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: During her fight against Euisine, wings sprout from her back, hinting that she is about to evolve soon.
  • Growing Wings: Togepi manages to grow wings while fighting Eusine's Mantine, the first step in her evolution into Togetic.
  • Power Gives You Wings: She suddenly grows wings while fighting Eusine's Mantine, indicating that she's starting to evolve into Togetic.
  • The Power of Friendship: Thanks to Kris taking proper care of Togepi, the latter evolved into Togetic by the end of Episode 21.
  • Random Effect Spell: She knows Metronome, which produces a different result each time she uses it.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Kris ended up using Togepi more often than Bayleef once she hatches. But since Togepi's only evolves with maximum happiness, this is a case of tropes not being that bad.

Slowpoke → Slowking

One of the many victims of Team Rocket's Slowpoke Tail schemes, this shiny Slowpoke was caught by Kris after she and Gold stopped Team Rocket at the Slowpoke Well. It evolved into Slowking after fusing with Kris' Shellder during a battle against Euisine.
  • Fusion Dance: Slowpoke evolves into Slowking via Kris's Shellder clamping down on its head. While that's not accurate to the game mechanics (Trading a Slowpoke holding a King's Rock), it is accurate to the Pok´dex lore for Slowking, as is Slowpoke's earlier lamentations about Slowbro (Shellder has to bite the tail, which doesn't exist).
  • Godzilla Threshold: Effectively the circumstances leading to its evolution. Kris spends most of the fight against Eusine the evolution happens in on the back foot, and at one point, Shellder's even seen trying to bite down on the nub that used to be Slowpoke's tail, in a desperate attempt to cause the power boost of a Slowbro evolution. When that doesn't take and Eusine finishes trouncing Kris, Shellder chooses desperate measures and bites Slowpoke's head.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Prior to episode 22, Slowpoke spends a lot of time lamenting that its lost tail means it'll never be able to evolve into Slowbro. Serves as foreshadowing of what it ultimately does instead.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: It defeats Eusine's Electrode despite being at a type disadvantage by using its psychic powers to deflect Electrode's electrical attacks.
  • Shout-Out: Just like with Red's Charizard in the prequel, its evolution is a massive one to Dragon Ball Z. Where Charizard got the Super Saiyan 3 Goku reference, the Slowking evolution was more or less a shot-by-shot recration of Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, complete with Eusine taking the role of Cell and Kris's Pokédex taking the role of Android 16.
  • Single Specimen Species: Slowpoke's evolution into a Slowking is treated as something completely unprecedented, as if this is the first time a Shellder has ever bit down on a Slowpoke's head instead of its tail.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Like Togetic, Slowpoke got more screen time over Bayleaf once the angst about it having no tail was brought up. After Slowpoke became a Slowking, that plot line is resolved and it backs away.

Scyther

A bug Pokémon Kris caught at the National Pokémon Park's Bug Catching Contest. Kris traded it to Gold in exchange for his Muscle's

Sudowoodo

Once a Pokémon that blocked a pathway between Violet City and Goldenrod City, Kris captured it after managing to surprise it with the Squirtbottle.

Shellder

A bivalve mollusk Pokémon Kris caught at Olivine City. It managed to bite Kris' Slowpoke during a battle against Euisine, evolving the latter into Slowking. Shellder, in turn, becomes Slowking's crown.
  • Fusion Dance: Shellder was responsible for making Slowpoke evolve into Slowking via clamping down on its head. While that's not accurate to the game mechanics (Trading a Slowpoke holding a King's Rock), it is accurate to the Pokédex lore for Slowking, as is Slowpoke's earlier lamentations about Slowbro (Shellder has to bite the tail, which doesn't exist).
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Shellder was only a part of Kris' team for two episodes before fusing with Slowpoke.

Muscle (Machoke → Machamp)

A female Fighting-type Pokémon that originally belonged to Gold. Kris received Muscles after trading Gold her Scyther, and she evolved into Machamp.

     Silver 
The Rival. A Pokémon thief who has a vendetta against Team Rocket.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. He's still as antagonistic as in the original games, and is still a Jerkass and a thief. However, the web animation highlights that working for Team Rocket when he was a child has left a big trauma, even eight years later, which explains his behaviour. While he steals Totodile, a scene later shows he's not proud of his action. In the original game, there is no indication Silver has a past trauma related to being conscripted in Team Rocket or is regretful of his theft. He's also shown actively fighting against Team Rocket, even though he refuses to cooperate with Gold and Kris - or even to be seen by them. He also has feelings for Kris, but again, he doesn't want to be seen by her. Later inverted, as he ends up joining Team Rocket in Episode 24 - albeit reluctantly and out of desperation, because he thinks his mother is the only one who can help him, since he's a fugitive. In the next episode, he's seen helping Team Rocket's schemes, and allows his Feraligatr to maim and even kill other Pokémon.
  • Age Lift: See Gold's folder above.
  • Aloof Ally: When it comes to Team Rocket, Silver shares the same goal as Gold and Kris: To stop their criminal actions. However, he prefers to stay on his own - though when they're in the same area, such as during the battle of Slowpoke Well, he helps them from the shadows.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Silver treats his Pokémon very harshly. When Kris runs into him at Sprout Tower, he's kicking his own Zubat at another trainer's Hoothoot and has left his battered, unconscious Totodile to lie on the floor instead of returning it to its Poké Ball or tending to its injuries. This callousness shocks Kris and earns Silver a tongue-lashing.
  • Berserk Button: Team Rocket's criminal actions, especially the maiming of Pokémon, for Silver. He may be an aloof and callous jerk to his own Pokémon, but when a hiker tries to sell him some Slowpoke tails, Silver—who has seen firsthand the horrible way in which these tails are harvested—begins trembling with barely-repressed rage.
  • Composite Character: After his Face–Heel Turn and during Gold and Lance's invasion of the Rocket Hideout in Mahogany Town, he fills in the role a random Team Rocket grunt fighting alongside Ariana in the Johto games.
  • Death Seeker: Implied at the end of Episode 30 as Silver begs the freed Ho-oh and Lugia to kill him in exchange for resurrecting all the Pokémon he killed while working for Team Rocket. They don't though, as both Ho-oh and Lugia see that Silver was being honest and spare him.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Silver is an aloof Jerkass who treats his Pokémon harshly, even kicking them, but he hates Team Rocket with a passion for its criminal actions. The Slowpoke tails trafficking particularly revolts him.
  • Face–Heel Turn: After spending most of the season being anti heroic at best and anti villainous at worst, Silver decides to go back to Team Rocket after realizing that he has no one on his side besides his mother and he is already a wanted criminal. To seal the deal, he leaves behind his Pokédex at Professor Elm's Lab before heading to Goldenrod's Radio Tower. But...
    • Heel–Face Turn: After spending five episodes as a Rocket Executive, Silver finally sees the light after being surrounded by the cavalry Gold and Kris have compared to Team Rocket, and finally joins their side after realizing what he did wrong.
  • Foregone Conclusion:
    • We know from the Red series that Silver is going to warm up at least to Kris, who he will marry.
    • The end of Episode 30 had Silver beg Ho-oh and Lugia kill him in exchange for reviving all the Pokémon he killed while working for Team Rocket. We know that it doesn't happen, as they revive the Pokémon he killed without taking his life..
  • Freudian Excuse: Silver's rude and brutal personality stems from his past negative experiences as a child, when he was working for Team Rocket because of his parents, and from the emotional burden of being Giovanni's son.
  • Gave Up Too Soon: Subverted; he believes he can't have a chance on Kris because she appears to be intimate with Falkner, but right as Silver gave up, Kris let down Falkner. And even then, we know Silver and Kris are going to be married with a child in the future, so we know Silver will open up to Kris.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Silver is a Jerkass that treats his Pokémon horribly and refuses to associate himself with Gold and Kris despite them sharing his goal of stopping Team Rocket. However, when his Mêlée à Trois with Kris and Eusine gets interrupted by the temple collapsing, Silver shows no hesitation of using his own body to soften Kris's fall, showing that he does care about her, but is all Tsundere about it.
  • Heel Realization: What becomes the crux of his Heel–Face Turn in Episode 29. Upon seeing his father for the first time in eight years and seeing the group Gold and Kris have to fight Team Rocket, Silver begins to remember why he left the criminal organization in the first place and how inspired he was to see the Kanto Gym Leaders join Red and the others at Silph Co. All it took was one look from Gold dead in the eyes to give him that final push he needed.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After spending time abusing his Pokémon for losing, Silver gets his just desserts from Clair, who whips him every time he hurts his team.
  • Like Father, Like Son: In his time as a Team Rocket Executive, Silver begins developing his father's habits, including snapping at his Pokémon for killing moves. And just like Giovanni, Silver quits Team Rocket in a similar fashion: tearing off the R emblem from his jacket and stomping it on the ground.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: After ordering Feraligatr to rip off Quagsire's arms, it's strongly implied that he regrets doing it in the first place, given how later on, he broods in the Goldenrod Underground alone.
  • Related in the Adaptation: He's the son of Ariana and the younger brother of Mars. Neither of them are confirmed to be related to him in any way in canon (though with Ariana, there are suspicions).
  • Rival Turned Evil: As noted under Face–Heel Turn above and Then Let Me Be Evil below, Silver rejoins Team Rocket because of how everyone, including Gold, hating him.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Essentially the crux of his choosing to rejoin Team Rocket. Between the police stalking him because of his theft of Totodile, and Chuck's ultimatum after he stole Sneasel in a moment of weakness absolutely demolishing his budding good side, Silver essentially decides that if he'll never escape Team Rocket's shadow, he might as well accept it. The next episode shows him unhappily, but fully, committing to his new position therein.
  • Tsundere: Extremely harsh type. He's mean to both people and Pokémon, but he shows no hesitation to cushion Kris' fall, showing that deep down he cares about her. His Pokémon also show Undying Loyalty towards him, fighting a huge load of Koffings while he was unconscious; with the implication beint that they know Silver cares about her deep down, but has huge trouble expressing it. And, to complete the package, he has an utterly heartbreaking reason to be so harsh.

    Silver's Pokémon 

Totodile → Croconaw → Feraligatr

Silver's starter, which he stole from Professor Elm's lab. Though cheerful at first and eager to please, it quickly takes after its Trainer's worst habits, becoming a vicious ball of rage. He evolved into Croconaw when Silver fought a Team Rocket Grunt at the Slowpoke Well entrance. Later, he evolved into Feraligatr due to the effects of the radio waves.
  • Adaptational Explanation: How Totodile evolves into its next two stages is shown.
  • Corrupt the Cutie: It started out as a cheerful Totodile that just wanted its Trainer to show it some love and affection, but Silver wouldn’t give it the time of day. This led it to develop severe anger issues, and by the time it evolved into Croconaw it had become as surly and volatile as Silver himself. It becomes tragic after it evolves into a Feraligatr, turning into a feral beast that kills innocent Pokémon if Silver allows it. However, signs of the original Totidle begin to show after Silver turns on Team Rocket, and when Feraligatr returns to Professor Elm, he loosens up.
  • Death Glare: It knows Leer, and used it to scare off a hiker who was trying to sell Silver some Slowpoke tails.
  • Foil: To Gold's Typhlosion. Feraligtr was abused by Silver, who treated it with nothing but scorn whether it won or loss. In contrast, Typhlosion was raised with kindness and respect from Gold, being encouraged to do well and is treated like an equal. Their evolutions are even different: Feraligtr was overwhelmed by the radio waves and begins mauling Ariana's Vileplume to death like a wild animal, all while Silver does nothing to stop him. For Typhlosion, his evolution shows the bond between him and Gold, breaking through Team Rocket's radio waves and working together to stop the Gyrados herd.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: Croconaw is the first of the protagonists' starter Pokémon to reach its final form. This is accurate to the games: Croconaw evolves into Feraligatr at level 30, much earlier than Bayleef evolves into Meganium or Quilava into Typhlosion.
  • Never Smile at a Crocodile: Silver's Totodile is a brutal fighter who makes liberal use of the move Rage. When it evolves into Feraligatr, it bites down on Ariana's Vileplume and gruesomely tears it to pieces, and in episode 25 it kills many other Pokemon in a similar fashion.
  • Making a Splash: It's a Water-type Pokémon, after all, and it knows the move Surf as Feraligatr.
  • Man Bites Man: It knows Bite. It used that move to kill Ariana's Vileplume. In Episode 25, Feraligatr used Bite to maul Trainer's Pokémon if they tried to go pass the Route 43 building, not only killing their friends, but forcing them to pay Team Rocket's fine. In Episode 27, Feraligatr used Bite to rip off Quagsire's arms in a fight at the Rocket Base.
  • Starter Mon: Silver's first Pokémon, but unlike Gold and Kris, he stole Totodile from Professor Elm.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: The smiling and cheerful Totodile quickly becomes a raging beast due to Silver's mistreatment.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After Silver returns Feraligatr to Gold, the latter calms down and starts to revert back to his cheerful self.

Zubat → Golbat

Silver's second known Pokémon, having owned it ever since the former was a member of Team Rocket. Evolved into Golbat after beating Chuck.
  • Adaptational Explanation: How Zubat evolves into Golbat is shown here.
  • Bat Out of Hell: A bat Pokémon.
  • Token Good Teammate: Compared to Silver's other Pokémon (as Feraligatr has taken his trainer's worst habits and Gastly and Magnemite are not seen that much), Zubat is more of the friendlier one of the group and is always smiling.

Gastly → Haunter

Silver's third known Pokémon. It evolved into Haunter sometime before Silver came to the Burned Tower.

Magnemite

Silver's fourth known Pokémon.

Sneasel

Silver's fifth known Pokémon. He stole it from a Pokemaniac on Cianwood City following his victory over Chuck.

Allies

     Professor Elm 
The Pokémon Professor of Johto.
  • Informed Flaw: According to his wife, Elm is a workaholic that gets too deep into his work. We don't see that level in the times we see Elm.
  • Out of Focus: Compared to Professor Oak, Elm doesn't have much in terms of plot connection with the main cast and only appears when he's needed.

     Joey 
A Youngster with a Rattata, later Raticate.
  • Adaptational Badass: He can go toe to toe with several Rockets.
  • Ascended Extra: In the games, Joey is a one note weak trainer in the early game. Here, he appears every now and then to help Gold in his character arc, and is part of The Cavalry in the Goldenrod Radio Tower fight.
  • Composite Character: According to Pedro, Joey in this version grows up to be the protagonist of the Gold & Silver remakes.
  • Signature Mon: Rattata is this for Joey. It later evolves into Raticate.

     Kurt 
A crafter of specialized Pokeballs out of Apricorn.
  • Adaptational Badass: He's able to help stop Team Rocket in Slowpoke Well, despite his back injury. Something he couldn't do in the original games.
  • Cool Old Guy: Kurt is a good person who helps Gold and Kris out by making Pokeball and, on some occasions, fight with them.

Gym Leaders

     Falkner 
The Violet City Gym Leader. Specializes in Flying Types.
  • A Handful for an Eye: His Pokémon repeatedly use Mud Slap to try and blind Gold's Cyndaquil.
  • Noble Bird of Prey: Falkner specializes in Flying type Pokémon.
  • Romantic False Lead: For Kris; the two have a rather close relationship, but Kris lets him down gently before she and Gold leave Violet City. And it already was a Foregone Conclusion that Kris will end up with Silver.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His Romantic False Lead status towards Kris led to Silver believing Kris cannot love him (Silver), which played a part in Silver rejoining Team Rocket (it's made clear that he did this because he believes the only one who cares about him is his mother Ariana).
  • Warm-Up Boss: He's the first Gym Leader that Gold faces. Gold manages to beat him without much effort.

     Bugsy 
The Azalea Town Gym Leader. Specializes in Bug Types.
  • Age Lift: Because of the Time Skip between Red and Gold being longer, Bugsy is a young adult rather than a kid.
  • Ascended Extra: He becomes one of Gold and Kris's closer friends alongside Whitney.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In episode 6, he arrives at Slowpoke Well just in time to save Gold and Kris from Team Rocket's reinforcements.
  • Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: While fighting Gold, he takes the time to explain how Metapod and Kakuna have used String Shot to reduce Quilava's speed, leaving it too slow to evade Scyther's attacks. He also explains how Fury Cutter works after Gold noticed that the move was getting stronger with each use.
  • Friend to Bugs: Specializes in Bug type Pokémon.
  • Gathering Steam: His Scyther's Signature Move, Fury Cutter, starts out incredibly weak but doubles in power with every hit. After enough hits connect, it becomes strong enough to effectively one-shot Quilava despite the latter's resistance to Bug-type attacks.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: His Bug-type Pokémon are at a disadvantage against Gold's Quilava, but this doesn't matter to Bugsy's Scyther. The Pokémon is so fast and agile that Quilava can't even hit it, and Fury Cutter's constantly doubling power means that it eventually hits hard enough to knock Quilava out even with the latter's innate resistance to Bug-type moves.

     Whitney 
The dreaded Goldenrod City Gym Leader. Specializes in Normal Types, but particularly Miltanks.
  • Adaptational Badass: While it's not clear how tough she was in-universe in the game, here Whitney lives up to the reputation she has among the fanbase.
  • Adaptational Curves: She's much more stacked than in canon.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Zigzagged. In canon, the worst that she is is a Sore Loser. Here, she's also a sore winner who indulges into Unsportsmanlike Gloating and drinks the tears of those losing against her. However, when off the clock she's really friendly. It's revealed that her behaviour when on the clock stems from being defeated by Mewtwo while he was in Team Rocket's possession, and vowed to Never Be Hurt Again.
  • Beef Gate: If you try to use an all-male team or an Attack! Attack! Attack! strategy against her, or forget to pack as many healing items as possible, expect to lose. A lot.
  • Best Her to Bed Her: After being defeated by Gold, Whitney fell for him due to his determination.
  • Big Ego, Hidden Depths: She's an extremely dreaded Heel leader, but it's shown that she's a responsible farmer and that she's a Fangirl of Red.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Gold; both of them are fiercely competitive and they're a couple.
  • Blood Knight: She's shown to be extremely competitive, and is always looking for a challenge - whether it is during a Pokémon battle or a bug-catching contest. When an Ace Trainer with seven badges challenge her, she's ecstatic at the prospect of using her full power.
  • Blow You Away: Has a Pidgeot.
  • Composite Character: She's the owner of Moomoo, a Miltank you have to nurse at one point, in this continuity. However, it's unknown whether or not Moomoo is the Miltank Whitney used against Gold.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: She's almost always on the giving end of this. She was once on the receiving end (against Giovanni and Mewtwo), and she took it horribly.
  • Do Not Go Gentle: In episode 13 Gold defeats Whitney... But her Miltank single-handedly took down five of Gold's Pokémon, more than once. Gold had ran out of Potions and Revives by the time Muscle (his Machop) was knocked out again by Miltank smashing Milk Drink's bottle on her head, and Gold only won because his Wooper started evolving mid-fight.
  • The Dreaded: She's described as a demon by Bugsy when she's first mentioned. And he's not exaggerating. All the trainers of Goldenrod dread fighting her.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: She's first mentioned by Daisy Oak during the Red series as a farmer she met while she was traveling through Johto.
  • Fanservice Pack: She already was pretty well-endowed and broad hipped in canon, but not to the extent she is in this series.
  • Farm Girl: She owns a Miltank farm.
  • Foreshadowing: When Gold challenges Whitney for the seventh time, she blows him a kiss and it's treated as if she has successfully used Attract on him, and she starts being flirty from then on. Sure enough, when Gold finally defeats her they get together.
  • Hero-Worshipper: After her defeat she reveals she's a huge Fangirl of Red.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Whitney's Miltank only starts using Attract once Gold decides taking the fight seriously and she only starts using Milk Drink once Gold brings female Pokémon in his team, such as a Nidorina and Muscle the Machop.
  • Impossible Hourglass Figure: Just look at her!
  • Lightning Bruiser: Each of her Miltanks is strong, durable, and fast enough to take down an entire team of enemy Pokémon singlehandedly. This is driven home repeatedly during Gold's many, many attempts to beat Whitney.
  • Love Potion: Her Signature Move is Attract; when a Pokémon uses it on a Pokémon of the opposite gender (i.e. Whitney's Miltank using it on a male Pokémon-Miltanks are always female), the target Pokémon may not want to fight the caster Pokémon. Whitney's flirting with Gold is treated as if she's using Attract on Gold, but while it does make Gold fall in love with Whitney, it doesn't deter him from defeating her.
  • Memetic Psychopath: An in-universe example. While Whitney is extremely competitive, she's actually nice if you get to know her outside of a competition. However, because of said competitiveness and several super strong teams, many people (including fellow Gym Leaders!) describe her as a demon.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Whitney has an enormous bust and wide hips. In Episode 20, she's mostly shown wearing farm overalls with no top or even bra, and the end of the episode briefly shows her clad in a bikini.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: An extremely painful defeat at the hands of Giovanni and Mewtwo drove Whitney to develop her current Heel persona.
  • One Degree of Separation: She's friends with Daisy Oak.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock:
    • Her Miltanks have the Scrappy ability, allowing the one used for first timers to defeat Silver's Gastly.
    • Whitney's Clefable knows Psychic, a super-effective move against Fighting-types. And if it's a non-Fighting type that knows Fighting Type moves? Miltank will simply use Attract.
  • Signature Mon: She has a Miltank in all of her teams. The one she uses against trainer with seven badges is a Shiny.
  • Signature Move: Attract; see Love Potion above.
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: Her relationship with Gold. Even after getting together, they're still butting heads as much as they make out, and even then, they fight on who's taking the lead when they make out.
  • That One Boss: In-Universe, the narration presents Whitney and her Miltanks as a dreaded Beef Gate - no matter how many badges her challenger has. When Gold and Kris arrive in Goldenrod, they see scores of trainers going to the Pokémon Center to have the overworked nurses heal their battered Pokémon, and when Silver tries his hand at the Gym he first sees trainers who had lost so badly even their Pokeballs were damaged, and he himself is curbstomped by the Miltank she kept specifically for trainers at their first Gym in spite of leading with a Gastly. Gold puts up a better fight than Silver, but he still loses to Whitney, who beats him six times in a single episode. Even when fought for an eighth badge, she's a force to be reckoned with, as she uses a team of highly defensive Pokémon who know both healing moves and powerful attacks. A poor challenger finds this out the hard way when his team gets curbstomped twice in the same episode.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Gold believed himself invincible before arriving to Goldenrod... Then having his entire team flattened by Miltank six times in a row taught him humility. We're also shown a cocky trainer that got at Goldenrod last and thought it would be a cakewalk, only to be crushed twice by Whitney's strongest team (complete with overpowered Miltank).

     Morty 
The Ecruteak City Gym Leader. Specializes in Ghost Types.

     Jasmine 
The Olivine City Gym Leader. Specializes in Steel Types.
  • But Now I Must Go: After her battle with Gold, Jasmine leaves to Sinnoh for a supposed break and leaves the Olivine City without a Gym Leader (although she does leave a sign asking for a substitute until she returns).
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: Jasmine's battle against Gold came to be this. While Steelix defeated Quilava thanks to its high defense, Gold still won thanks to latter having the type advantage over her Magnemites and Flaaffy and Quagsire having attacks to easily defeat Steelix.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: She does this with Pedro's future series: there's a picture of Jasmine and May labeled "Best Friends", which heavily implies that May is Norman's daughter in this continuity since Norman is from Olivine City, Jasmine's hometown, regardless of the player's choice.
  • Extra-ore-dinary: Jasmine specializes in Steel type Pokémon.
  • Graceful Loser: Smiles when Gold beats her and takes a photo of him celebrating his victory with Quagsire and his newly evolved Ampharos.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • A picture in the Olivine Lighthouse shows that Jasmine is best friends with May. While May first appeared in the Hoenn games, the Player Character of those games, Norman's child, was born in Olivine City.
    • Jasmine and Whitney being on friendly terms. In Heart Gold and Soul Silver you can overhear Whitney having a talk with Erika about Jasmine's (and Clair's) sense of fashion, so Whitney and Jasmine must have known each other for Whitney to have that kind of chat with Erika.
  • Nice Girl: Is shown to be friends with Whitney despite her competitiveness. While this is shown after Gold and Kris learned Whitney is actually friendly when there's no competition involved, one has to keep in mind that Bugsy doesn't like Whitney and her competitiveness.
  • One Degree of Separation: There's a picture of her and May labeled "Best Friends".
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Like Bugsy's Syther, Jasmine's Steelix manages to beat Quilava due to its impressive defense despite the type disadvantage.
  • Spanner in the Works: Ultimately, Jasmine leaving Johto for Sinnoh is the one thing Archer failed to account for. Once she hears about Team Rocket's takeover of Johto, she immediately recruits three trainers to help our heroes stop the criminal organization.

    Chuck 
The Cianwood City Gym Leader. He specializes in Fighting Types.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Specializes in Fighting type Pokémon.
  • Breather Boss: In-universe, Gold has a much easier time beating Chuck than he did with Whitney or Morty. He beats him on his first try, and their battle doesn't even last a whole episode.
  • The Giant: Chuck is huge. He's at least half again as tall as Gold and much broader besides.
  • Muscles Are Meaningful: He's a hulking wall of muscle and is strong enough to lift a giant boulder over his head, crack it, and throw it across the room.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Chuck's call out against Silver for going against everything a Pokémon Trainer stands for makes the latter go back to Team Rocket once Silver realizes he will never have a normal life due to being constantly on the run.
  • Single-Stroke Battle: His Poliwrath gets into one of these with Gold's Noctowl. Poliwrath is the one who collapses.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Silver for stealing Sneasel and not being worthy of owning a Pokédex compared to Kris, who had her's smashed by Euisine. Unfortunately, this only makes Silver go back to Team Rocket.

    Pryce 
The Mahogany Town Gym Leader. He specializes in Ice Types.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: This Pryce isn't a grump like his anime counterpart, nor was he the head of Team Rocket like his Pokémon Adventures counterpart.
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: Pryce would appear as the seventh Gym Leader in Gold and Silver. Here, Pryce doesn't appear until Episode 31, five episodes after Clair makes her appearance.
  • An Ice Person: Pryce primarily uses Ice Type Pokémon.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: Like with Jasmine, Pryce's battle against Gold became this as the latter only used Typhlosion and Ampharos to handle Pryce's Ice team. Pryce was able to knock out Ampharos with his Piloswine, but Typhlosion's Flame Wheel was too much for the latter to handle.
  • The Mentor: Pryce used to serve as one to Lance and Clair when they were younger, teaching the two how to overcome the Dragon-type's disadvantage against Ice-type Pokémon.
  • No-Sell: His Piloswine resisted Gold's Ampharos' Thunderbolt due to being part Ground-type.
  • Old Master: Pryce is the oldest of the Johto Gym Leaders, but can still give the next generation some trouble with his Pokémon.

    Clair 
The Blackthorn City Gym Leader and Lance's cousin. She specializes in Dragon Types.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Clair makes a cameo in Episode 26 to warn Lance that Team Rocket has affected the Pokémon at Blackthorn City. In the games, she appears after the player defeats Team Rocket at the Radio Tower.
  • Convection, Schmonvection: Clair keeps her Dragon Pokémon in the lava pool at the Blackthorn Gym, and neither of her Dragonairs come out worse for wear. Hell, she keeps an Ultra Ball containing Kingdra in the lava and there are no burn marks at all.
  • Dominatrix: Clair's method of training Silver is, well, this. She even puts him in a dog cage without warning.
  • Dragon Tamer: Like Lance, Claire specializes in Dragon-type Pokémon.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: One the one hand, Clair is a hot headed, Dominatrix like person who used to mistreat her Pokémon as a kid and whips Silver whenever he mistreated his Pokémon. But on the other hand, Clair does all this to show Silver the error of his ways and even smiled when she saw him save Golbat when the latter was knocked aside.
  • Hot-Blooded: When Clair fights a Trainer, she goes all out in her attitude to the point where she grows enraged if she is losing. A very stark contrast to her cousin.
  • I Hate Past Me: The reason she's so harsh in teaching Silver to stop mistreating his Pokémon was that he reminded her a lot of her as a youngster, who was just as bad as him.
  • The Mentor: Lance places her in charge of Silver to help him atone for the crimes he committed. Episode 32 shows that Clair is trying to teach Silver to stop mistreating his Pokémon whenever they lost.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the Hot-Blooded, Dominatrix-like Red to Lance's calm, serious Blue, which is somewhat ironic since Clair is blue-haired and Lance is a redhead.
  • Sore Loser: As a kid, Clair hated losing to Lance and took her frustrations out on her Pokémon. This hasn't cooled down in the present as her response to seeing Silver's Sneasel defeating her Dragonair is to immediately send in Kingdra to defeat his team with one blow and drag Silver back to the Dragon's Den to punish him.
  • Whip of Dominance: Clair sports a whip and, in her youth, used it to punish Horsea when it lost. In the present, she uses it on Silver whenever he mistreats his Pokémon.

Team Rocket

     Archer 
One of Team Rocket's four Admins. Archer was a grad student who believed wholeheartedly in Giovanni's theories about Mew, attending his lectures even after everyone else had dismissed those theories as quackery.

Eight years later, Archer is the leader of a resurgent Team Rocket.

  • Arch-Enemy: To Leaf, being the origin of all her troubles and psychological hang-ups, that she gets over after she finally defeats him one-on-one at the Sevii Islands.
  • Co-Dragons: Giovanni's highest-ranking subordinate alongside Ariana.
  • Dragon Ascendant: By the sequel series he has taken Giovanni's place as the leader of Team Rocket, though it's clear he wants his old boss back in charge.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a Team Rocket Executive, Archer shows that he does care for his Pokémon, even petting his Houndoom like a normal dog. Hell, the fact he has a Crobat shows that he treats his Pokémon right as the latter can only evolve into one through max happiness.
  • Know When to Fold Them: In Episode 30, Archer sees that, even with Legendary Pokémon on Team Rocket's side, they are fighting a losing battle they cannot overcome. So, Archer decides to disband Team Rocket for good and free the Legendary Pokémon they captured before teleporting away with Ariana.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Archer used Giovanni's theory about evolving Pokémon with sound waves. He meets a fitting defeat against Gold's Red Gyarados, who was one of the many victims of said sound waves.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Archer uses the radio waves to not only force Pokémon to evolve, but to ensure that Pokémon will grow sick. Specifically, the Gym Leader's Pokémon so there will not be a repeat of what happened years ago in Kanto.

     Ariana 
One of Team Rocket's four Admins.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: She's Giovanni's wife and the mother of both Silver and Mars, none of whom are related to her in canon.
  • All for Nothing: While future scenes of Pokemon Red make it a Foregone Conclusion, Episode 30 makes it clear despite everything she did was for reuniting her family, they will still be fractured and torn. She doesn't even make an attempt to see Mars, instead leaving a letter for her with Dawn to deliver.
  • Battle Couple: Forms a devastating one with her husband Giovanni.
  • Co-Dragons: Giovanni's highest-ranking subordinate alongside Archer.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares deeply about her family and is shown desperately trying to track down her missing husband and children in the sequel series, though she is still a leader of the reformed Team Rocket.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Ariana has killed incompetent underlings without batting an eye and has done plenty of other evil things in her time with Team Rocket, but in the sequel series, she reacts with utter horror when Silver's Feraligatr rips her Vileplume apart, and sees her son do the same to Gold's Quagsire.
  • Fed to the Beast: She executes incompetent underlings by feeding them to her Arbok.
  • Unholy Matrimony: With Giovanni. They're both husband and wife, and the ruthless leaders of a crime syndicate.

     Petrel 
One of Team Rocket's four Admins.
  • Greed: One of Petrel's main motivations in rejoining Team Rocket is money, and is once seen happily counting the money they earned from one of their ventures.

     Proton 
One of Team Rocket's four Admins.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Proton is shown in Episode 16 to have regrets about having cut Slowpoke tails for money when he sees Kris' Slowpoke lament it'll never be able to evolve into a Slowbro, and later he's shown second-guessing Team Rocket's decision to remain active even though Giovanni's last action before he went into hiding was to disband it. In the game, he remains a gleeful Team Rocket member through and through.
  • Heel Realization: In episode 16, an incognito Proton overhears Kris's Slowpoke lamenting how the loss of its tail means it can never evolve into a Slowbro. The realization that his tail-harvesting operation caused such anguish chokes Proton up, and he seems to be considering leaving Team Rocket.

     Eusine 
A Pokémon Trainer from Celadon City. He allies himself with Team Rocket so he could capture the Legendary Beasts of Johto, specifically Suicune.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In his debut, Eusine appears to be an Adaptational Jerkass, being obsessed with capturing the Legendary Beasts, mocking Kris's Shiny Slowpoke for lacking a tail, and being overall more antagonistic to Kris than Silver of all people (Silver is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold towards Kris at least). However, his second appearance reveals he's working for Team Rocket.
  • Didn't See That Coming: Is caught completely off guard when Kris's Slowpoke evolves into Slowking. Goes hand in hand with Single Specimen Species as noted in Slowpoke/Slowking's entry on the Gold character page.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Made a blink and miss it cameo in Pokémon Red before Red and Leaf stormed the Team Rocket Hideout.
  • Hidden Depths: Episode 28 reveals Eusine's main motivation for joining Team Rocket and capturing Suicune: he wants to use the latter's powers to purify the waters in Celadon City. While Eusine managed to capture Suicune, he is unable to take it back to Kanto due to Red's Psychic Pokémon pushing the latter back.

Others

    May (Spoilers) 
An old childhood friend of Jasmine's
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: She's Jasmine's best friend in this continuity. It's never canonically stated that Norman's child knew Jasmine.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In Episode 29, May comes in to help out the cast against Team Rocket. She even has Rayquaza destroy the transmitter so none of their Pokémon will be affected by the radio waves.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: In the game, May could be either Norman or Professor Birch's daughter, depending on which one between her and Brendan you choose as the Player Character with the one you choose always being Norman's child. In this continuity, much like in the anime, May is Norman's daughter.
  • Hero of Another Story: Jasmine reveals in Episode 23 that May won eight Badges in Hoenn. Episode 30 reveals that May did indeed fight the Elite Four in Hoenn and became the new champion.
  • Olympus Mons: During her journey in Hoenn, she caught Rayquaza.

    Dawn, Lucas, and Barry (Spoilers) 
A trio of trainers from the Sinnoh Region. Jasmine recruited them to help defeat Team Rocket at the Radio Tower in Johto.
  • The Cavalry: The trio are recruited by Jasmine to help Gold and the others fight Team Rocket and save Johto.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: Based on which one has the starters, it is assumed that Dawn is the main character of the Gen 4 games (given that she has an Infernape), Barry is her rival (as he has an Empoleon), and Lucas is Professor Rowan's assistant (as he has a Torterra).
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Dawn is first seen watching the Red Gyarados broadcast.
  • Hero of Another Story: Like with May, the trio are on their own Pokémon adventure in the Sinnoh region. After Team Rocket is finished for good, they leave to continue their journeys.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact that no one expected these three to appear in Pokémon Gold is a big one. Hence why most of the tropes here are marked.

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