Pokémon Anime/Characters

Characters page for the Pokémon anime series. As with the video games, this one's been on the air for quite a while, and has garnered enough examples to require splitting into subpages:


 * Characters
 * Characters (Kanto [Indigo League], the Orange Islands and Johto)
 * Characters (Hoenn and the Battle Frontier)
 * Characters (Sinnoh)
 * Characters (Unova)

Dr. Fuji

 * Badass Beard
 * Expy: of Dr. Tenma.
 * Famous Last Words: "We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokémon...and we succeeded."
 * Happily Married: Depressingly averted. His wife left him because she couldn't stand seeing him keep trying to bring back Amber.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mad Scientist
 * Mad Scientist

Amber Fuji
Dr. Fuji's daughter.

""They call me Ambertwo, but I'm still really Amber.""
 * Cloning Blues: Averted. Ambertwo doesn't seem to have any problems with being a clone.


 * Cheerful Child
 * Daddy's Girl
 * Dead Little Sister: To Mewtwo.
 * Famous Last Words: "And don't cry, Mewtwo. You should be happy! You're alive, and life is wonderful!"
 * Killed Off for Real: Twice.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Posthumous Character: Uhh, mostly...
 * Replacement Goldfish: Ambertwo was intended to be this. It didn't really work out.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Mewtwo

 * Anti-Villain: Type II --> Type IV
 * Badass
 * Barrier Warrior: Knows Barrier.
 * Big Bad: 1st movie.
 * Dark and Troubled Past:
 * Gone Horribly Right: Provides the page quote.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Pokémon Of Mass Destruction
 * Psychic Powers
 * Soul Power: Knows Shadow Ball.
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Talking Pokémon

Mew

 * Ambiguous Gender
 * Anti-Hero: Type 4 in the Japanese version. See below.
 * Badass Adorable: It's very playful, but has fighting skills on par with Mewtwo. What did you expect?
 * Barrier Warrior: Knows Barrier.
 * Jerkass/Kill'Em All: Seriously. In the original Japanese version, Mew up and decides to kill all of the clones because he doesn't think there's any way they can compare to the originals.
 * Psychic Powers
 * Soul Power: Knows Shadow Ball.
 * Teleporters and Transporters: Knows Teleport.

Lawrence III

 * Affably Evil: He doesn't even keep his prisoners locked up, he lets them walk around as they please!
 * Ambiguous Disorder
 * Big Bad
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He captures Moltres AND Zapdos, and attempts to do the same to Articuno (which doesn't work).
 * Dull Surprise
 * Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
 * Obliviously Evil: He's not really "evil", just selfish and out of his mind when it comes to his hobby.
 * The Stoic: His facial expression is usually fixed on "smug" and rarely changes.
 * The Unchosen One: Though it takes until the conclusion for him to realise it.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Melody

 * Brown Eyes
 * Girlish Pigtails: Well, they look like it.
 * Magic Music: Her ocarina.
 * Musical Theme Naming: Her sister, Carol, has it too.
 * Plucky Girl
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Most notably in her Festival Maiden get-up.
 * Shipper on Deck: Eventually for Ash and Misty.

Slowking

 * Big Good: During the 2nd movie.
 * Making a Splash: Primary type.
 * Mentor Archetype
 * Meta Guy: In his final scene.
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Psychic Powers: Secondary type.
 * Talking Pokémon

Lugia
"Lugia: I have failed."
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Conflict Killer: It tries to be this, but is quickly beaten down by the legendary birds' combined assaults and falls through the ice into the ocean.


 * Leitmotif: Lugia's Song
 * Making a Splash: It can make big whirlpools.
 * Psychic Powers: Primary type.
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Secondary type.

Molly Hale

 * Anti-Villain: One of the most sympathetic in the entire franchise.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: Double-subverted. The Unown make a happy, perfect world for her complete with replacements of her missing mom and dad, but eventually their powers get out of control and it breaks down.
 * But subverted again when they granted her a wish of having a father figure in her life, Entei, who is all about protecting her.
 * Break the Cutie: She's five, yet she undergoes crap no child that age should have to endure.
 * Children Are Innocent
 * Disappeared Dad: For the duration of the movie.
 * Dishing Out Dirt: Phanpy (Ground)
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Kingdra
 * Making a Splash: Mantine, Kingdra
 * Missing Mom: Until the end credits.
 * Non-Elemental: Teddiursa
 * Put a Bow On Her Head
 * Shock and Awe: Flaaffy
 * Smoke Out: Kingdra's Smokescreen.
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Mantine
 * Your Mind Makes It Real

Spencer Hale
Molly's Father.


 * Dan Green: His English dub voice.
 * Disappeared Dad: For the duration of the movie.
 * Flat Character/Satellite Character: Justified - he was trapped in another dimension for the duration of the movie and only returns at the very end.
 * Good Parents
 * Parents as People: His job requires him to leave his daughter at times (and leads to his disappearance), but he definitely loves her.

Entei
"Ash: "Please Entei, listen to me! If you really care about Molly you'll let her come with us. It's not right for her to stay here with you - you have to let her go!"
 * Anti-Villain
 * Badass: The only one of Ash's Pokémon that gives him even a little trouble is Charizard - who is established to be one of the toughest before getting his training - and even then Entei comes out on top.
 * Badass Baritone
 * Big Bad: Subverted in a lot of ways; he's not evil, just protective, and the Unowns turn out to be a bigger threat.
 * Dan Green
 * My Master, Right or Wrong: Said almost word for word:
 * My Master, Right or Wrong: Said almost word for word:

Entei: "Whether it is right or wrong, I will do as SHE WISHES!""


 * Papa Wolf: Figuratively.
 * Parental Substitute
 * Playing with Fire
 * Replacement Goldfish: For Spencer.
 * Even down to the voice!
 * Strong as They Need to Be: Because the Unown created him out from Molly's mind, he can theoretically be as strong as Molly imagines him to be.
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Iron Masked Marauder

 * An Ice Person: Sneasel
 * Big Bad
 * Big Creepy-Crawlies: Scizor
 * Casting a Shadow: Sneasel, Tyranitar
 * Dishing Out Dirt : Tyranitar
 * Doppelganger Spin: Scizor's Double Team.
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Scizor
 * Humongous Mecha: Got around in one of these.
 * Mask Power
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: More glowing red eyes on his mask device, but it still counts.
 * The Starscream: He planned on using Celebi to take over Team Rocket.

Celebi

 * Ambiguous Gender
 * Back From the Dead
 * Black Eyes of Crazy: As Dark Celebi.
 * The Corruption: When it was caught with the Iron-Masked Marauder's Dark Ball.
 * Eldritch Abomination: As Dark Celebi.
 * Green Thumb: Secondary type.
 * Keet
 * Psychic Powers: Primary type.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Oh so, so much!
 * Time Master
 * Trademark Favorite Food: It likes berries a lot.

Suicune

 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Bubble Gun: Bubble Beam being its preferred attack.
 * Conspicuous CGI: There's a dub-only scene of Suicune running to the rescue which ends up being this.
 * Making a Splash

Bianca

 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Nice Hat
 * Satellite Character: She doesn't get as much development as Latias, mostly being there to develop the film's setting.

Lorenzo
Bianca's grandfather.


 * Blue Eyes
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Mr. Exposition: He provides Ash and friends with the backstory of Altomare.
 * Satellite Character: To an extent, though he's arguably more developed and involved in the plot than Bianca.

Annie and Oakley

 * All Webbed Up: Oakley's Ariados' String Shot.
 * Always Accurate Attack: Annie's Espeon's Swift.
 * Big Bad Duumvirate: Though Oakley's the more assertive of the two.
 * Big Creepy-Crawlies: Oakley's Ariados
 * Blondes Are Evil: Annie.
 * Dark Action Girls
 * Lovely Angels
 * Super Strength: Oakley's Ariados is strong enough to lug Latios on its back all the way to the Alto Mare museum.
 * Soul Power: Oakley's Ariados' Night Shade.
 * Poisonous Person: Oakley's Ariados
 * Psychic Powers: Annie's Espeon
 * Those Two Bad Guys
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Oakley

Latias

 * Distressed Damsel: Mostly at the beginning. And, in a way, when she goes to Ash for help in saving Latios.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Genki Girl: She's very lively and energetic, moreso than either her brother or her best friend, Bianca (the latter of whom she imitates).
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
 * Interspecies Ship Tease: With Ash, oh yeah.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy: She's red than pink, but otherwise counts - both colouring and personality-wise she's this to both her brother and to Ash.
 * Psychic Powers: Secondary type.
 * Shape Shifter
 * Shape Shifter

Latios

 * Big Brother Instinct: Towards Latias.
 * Distressed Dude: The main bulk of the movie involves saving him from Annie and Oakley.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy: To his sister Latias (though she's red rather than pink).
 * Psychic Powers: Secondary type.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Initially played straight by his hostility towards Ash, and then subverted when he warms up to him.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Psychic Powers: Secondary type.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Initially played straight by his hostility towards Ash, and then subverted when he warms up to him.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality

Butler
A magician who has his show in the Millenium Comet festival.


 * Big Bad
 * Casting a Shadow: Mightyena
 * Face Heel Turn: Acts awfully nice at first...
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Salamence
 * Stage Magician
 * Soul Power: Dusclops
 * Playing with Fire: Dusclops' Will-O-Wisp and Salamence's Flamethrower.
 * Psychic Powers: Kirlia and Dusclops' Psychic.
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Salamence
 * Psychic Powers: Kirlia and Dusclops' Psychic.
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Salamence

Diane
Butler's assistant.

Jirachi

 * Ambiguous Gender
 * But Now I Must Go: Because it can only awaken for one week at a time - the duration of each Millenium Comet (which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin).
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Primary type.
 * Mac Guffin Mon
 * Psychic Powers: Secondary type.
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Teleporters and Transporters: Knows Teleport.

Tory Lund

 * Lonely Rich Kid
 * Morality Pet: Is this to Green Deoxys.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Why Did It Have To Be Pokémon?: Due to being caught in the middle of a stampede in his early childhood, he has a crippling fear of Pokémon and isn't much better around their trainers.

Deoxys

 * Identical Twin ID Tag: Turns out there's two Deoxys; the difference is in the mark on their faces. The rampaging one has a purple mark, while the one who was initially just a blob has a green mark.
 * Morality Pet: Green Deoxys might be this to Purple Deoxys, as it is the one who convinces it to stop.
 * Poor Communication Kills
 * Psychic Powers
 * Twin Telepathy: Telepathic Pokémon aren't new to the franchise, but the Deoxys twins can only do it with each other.

Rayquaza

 * Breath Weapon: It loves to spam Hyper Beam and it can also use Ice Beam.
 * Heel Realisation: Once the Deoxys help it and it realises they aren't a threat as it mistakenly assumed.
 * Hero Antagonist
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
 * We Could Have Avoided All This
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Secondary type.

Sir Aaron

 * Bishonen
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Nice Hat
 * Poor Communication Kills: A lot of drama could have been avoided if he'd just
 * Posthumous Character
 * Posthumous Character

Lucario

 * Bare-Fisted Monk: Primary type.
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Secondary type.
 * From a Certain Point of View: Aaron sort of brought Lucario's spite upon himself - he might have done what he did, but even so
 * Humans Are Bastards: Or so he thinks, after Aaron seemingly betrayed him.
 * Manly Tears
 * Restored My Faith in Humanity
 * Sealed Good in a Can
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Sealed Good in a Can
 * Talking Pokémon

Jack Walker

 * Bishonen

Phantom

 * Big Bad
 * Catch Phrase: There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
 * Pirate

Manaphy

 * Making a Splash
 * Talking Pokémon

Alice

 * Hair of Gold
 * The Heart
 * Identical Granddaughter: Of Alicia. Darkrai seems to think so, at least.
 * Playing with Fire: Chimchar
 * Protectorate: Darkrai's.
 * Rescue Romance: Averted - she believed that Tonio had saved her when they were children, but although she probably formed her initial attraction towards him over it, she's still clearly in love with him at the end of the movie.

Tonio

 * Butt Monkey: A little, though he's far from cowardly and proves himself by the end.
 * Megane
 * The Smart Guy
 * Skintone Sclerae
 * Victorious Childhood Friend

Baron Alberto

 * Aristocrats Are Evil: More amoral and jerkish than evil, but still.
 * Breath Weapon: Lickilicky's Hyper Beam.
 * Casting a Shadow: Lickilicky's Lick.
 * The Chew Toy
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Lickilicky's Gyro Ball.
 * Jerkass
 * Meaningful Name: His name can be made via Portmanteau into Beroberto, the Japanese name for Lickilicky.
 * Non-Elemental: Lickilicky
 * Pokemorphism: Turns into a Lickilicky.

Darkrai

 * Anti-Hero: Type 3.
 * Badass: He stands up to two Olympus Mons for a good deal of time and is able to endure their attacks surprisingly well.
 * Because You Were Nice to Me: Alicia opened her heart to him when no-one else would, instilling in Darkrai a deep loyalty towards both her and her Identical Granddaughter, Alice.
 * Cassandra Did It
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Get Out!: Variations of it, which form almost all of his dialogue.
 * Heroic Neutral
 * Hero with Bad Publicity: Until the end.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Granted, he's less of a "jerk" and simply seems a little more inclined towards aggression than negotiation, which can't have helped the public opinion of him. Despite this, there's a major emphasis on his Heart of Gold.
 * The Quiet One: Darkrai's certainly a Mon of few words.
 * Talking Pokémon: Though he is quieter than most examples on this page, and his lines are all short phrases or repeated dialogue from earlier.
 * The Quiet One: Darkrai's certainly a Mon of few words.
 * Talking Pokémon: Though he is quieter than most examples on this page, and his lines are all short phrases or repeated dialogue from earlier.

Dialga

 * Extra Ore Dinary: Primary type.
 * Foreshadowing: The only Legendary to appear in three straight movies; surely s/he won't be important in the third/last one. Though it doesn't appear much in Movie 11, and is inactive for much of Movie 12 despite an important role.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Secondary type.
 * Small Role, Big Impact: Movie 12.
 * Time Master
 * Worf Had the Flu: Leaves most of the fight against Arceus in Movie 12 up to Palkia and Giratina, because sending the protagonists back in time drained it of too much energy.

Palkia

 * Badass: After Dialga is unable to continue fighting, it and Giratina manage to keep fending off Arceus for a good deal of time.
 * A Day in the Limelight: S/he is somewhat more important in Movie 10 than Dialga, due to appearing earlier in the climax
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Secondary type.
 * Making a Splash: Primary type.
 * Space Master

Newton Graceland

 * Badass Beard: Or goatee, but still.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Ash and Dawn think he's this. And they're probably not too far off the mark, considering where he's been spending his time...
 * Insufferable Genius
 * My Greatest Failure: Was responsible for the Giratina studies and technology that allowed his pupil Zero to enact his plan.

Zero

 * Big Bad
 * Evil Knockoff: His Mecha-Giratina.
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Magnezone's secondary type.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Shock and Awe: Magnezone's Primary type.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Shaymin

 * Ambiguous Gender: Its mannerisms shift whenever its forms do: in Land Forme, it behaves like a meek little girl, and prefers being with Dawn; in Sky Forme, it's more akin to a headstrong young boy, and bonds better with Ash. Even its voice changes between the two forms!
 * Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: It only became involved in the Creation Trio feud because Dialga was drinking from the same lake when Giratina struck.
 * Flight: Sky Forme
 * Green Thumb
 * Hot-Blooded: In Sky Forme.
 * Involuntary Shapeshifting: Whenever it comes in contact with Gracidea pollen it turns into Sky Forme and will change back into Land Forme when the sun sets or if it comes into contact with the cold.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Killer Rabbit
 * Shrinking Violet: In Land Forme.
 * Talking Pokémon
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Sky Forme's secondary type.

Giratina

 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Secondary type.
 * Involuntary Shapeshifting
 * I Owe You My Life: And because of this, it seems to be the Creation Trio member most fond of Ash and his friends.
 * Poor Communication Kills: If only it had told Shaymin that it didn't intend to eat it, but to get it to open a portal to the real world, a lot of drama could have been avoided.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Soul Power: Primary type.

Regigigas

 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Non-Elemental

Sheena

 * The Empath
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong
 * Sins of Our Fathers: Tries to undo the damage she thinks Damos (her ancestor) has done, in order to stop Arceus' wrath.
 * Unwitting Pawn: To Marcus.

Damos

 * Disney Villain Death: An interesting variation in that he isn't a villain, but because of how he originally died he was believed to be one for millenia. When he survives due to changing the timeline, he's rightfully regarded as the noble man he was.
 * The Empath
 * Hero with Bad Publicity
 * Humble Hero: He's seen tilling the fields of Michina Town during the credits. Even during the movie, from what we see he's even more humble than Ash.
 * Pals with Jesus: Or better said, with GOD.
 * Posthumous Character: In the present day, though he's left an inscription for his "children of the future" to find when they return to their time.

Marcus

 * A God Am I: His motivation in the manga.
 * Bastard Understudy
 * Big Bad
 * Disney Villain Death: In the original timeline.
 * Evil Redhead
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He firmly believes that Michina Town will die once the Jewel of Life is returned to Arceus, and so takes measures to ensure this won't happen. Subverted in the manga adaptation, where he's a lot less sympathetic.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He firmly believes that Michina Town will die once the Jewel of Life is returned to Arceus, and so takes measures to ensure this won't happen. Subverted in the manga adaptation, where he's a lot less sympathetic.

Arceus

 * Ambiguous Gender/No Biological Sex: Its voice (Akihiro Miwa, an open homossexual and drag queen) was even picked with this in mind.
 * Androcles' Lion
 * God
 * Hero Antagonist: Its grievances with humanity aren't unjustified even thousands of years later - it was almost murdered by people it had saved with no benefit to itself save the satisfaction of doing good!
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Almost pulled one to save the land from a meteorite. This is how hit met Damos.
 * I Owe You My Life: Why it repaid Damos initially, though it appears Arceus was by nature sympathetic to those in need.
 * Non-Elemental
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Not unjustified, as it believed that its trusted friend had betrayed it by withholding the Jewel Of Life - which Arceus needs to survive.
 * Talking Pokémon

Grings Kodai

 * Big Bad
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * The Sociopath: Dear goodness - he could give Hunter J a run for her money, and that's saying something.
 * Soul Power: Mismagius and Shuppet.
 * Villain with Good Publicity
 * Villain with Good Publicity

Rowena
Kodai's secretary, and the operator behind all of his machinery.


 * Gainaxing
 * The Glasses Gotta Go: When she's not pretending to be Kodai's meek secretary.
 * Reverse Mole

Zorua

 * Break the Cutie: The whole movie is a round of this for him, until the very end.
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Screwy Squirrel
 * Talking Pokémon
 * The Trickster: Has this sense of humour, being a child and all.

Zoroark

 * Action Mom
 * Badass
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Determinator
 * Hero with Bad Publicity
 * Mama Bear
 * Mama Bear

Damon

 * Anti-Villain
 * Big Bad
 * Green Thumb: Gothitelle's Energy Ball.
 * Heel Realisation -> Heel Face Turn
 * Soul Power: Reuniclus' Shadow Ball.
 * Psychic Powers: Sigilyph, Gothitelle (Black)/Reuniclus (White).
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Carlita

 * Casting a Shadow: Hydreigon's Primary type.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Hydreigon's Secondary type.

Juanita

 * Dishing Out Dirt (Ground): Golurk
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: Golurk's Hyper Beam.
 * Soul Power: Golurk
 * Wind from Beneath My Wings: Golurk's Fly.

Mannes

 * Extra Ore Dinary: Owns one of each a Klink, Klang and Klinklang.

Victini

 * Badass Adorable
 * Playing with Fire: Secondary type.
 * Psychic Powers: Primary type.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Macarons.

Reshiram

 * Badass
 * Badass Long Hair
 * The Dragon: To Damon in the Zekrom version. Also a literal example.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Subversion. It has a feminine design and a male voice, but is indeed genderless.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
 * Light Is Not Good: In the Zekrom version, though.
 * Playing with Fire: Secondary type.
 * Talking Pokémon

Zekrom

 * Badass
 * Dark Is Not Evil: In the Zekrom version..
 * The Dragon: To Damon in the Reshiram version. Also a literal example.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Primary type.
 * Shock and Awe: Secondary type.
 * Talking Pokémon