1 Fact for EVERY Pokémon Protagonist 

Another fun fact about Elio and Selene; Elio stares blankly in SuMo because he’s always deeply lost in his thoughts. Selene stares blankly because there are ZERO thoughts in there

Both Wes and Michael use their right arm to send out their pokemon, and use their left arm to throw Snag Balls.

5:35 Most likely won’t be canon, but in Pokemon Masters EX, Hilbert did reunite with N in N’s event! (Hilbert is the canon Black and White protag in Masters, and Hilda COMPLETELY missed the whole Team Plasma takeover at the League since she was so focused on the Battle Subway)

The outifits and hairstyles are the same in both Scarlet and Violet, but the characters will treat you as he or she, depending on your choice when picking a character, the 4 on the left are boys and the 4 on the right are girls

In Masters EX, Hilbert reunites with N and says that he's been looking for him because N's departure was so sudden that he didn't have the chance to say goodbye. Dawn's team is like that because all of her teams must have a Grass/Fire/Water trio, so they sacrificed Pachirisu to make that happen.

Gender is specified in Scarlet and Violet, multiple times, in fact!

Other fun facts about these characters: * Red's title screen and profile front sprites from _Pokémon Red and Green_ correspond to his earlier _Capsule Monsters_ artwork instead of his final Generation I artwork. The title screen sprite was updated for _Pokémon Blue_ but the profile front sprite wasn't. In _Pokémon Yellow,_ he lacks a title screen sprite but his front sprite was updated to match his official artwork, and possibly in part to match Ash Ketchum, hsince the frontal section of his hat has the same division in the middle as Ash's hat from the original series. * Leaf's was actually designed for the cover of _Pokémon Red and Green's_ official strategy guide, not for the games themselves. He wanted to portray a trio of Trainers facing off against each other, hence designed the female character for the cover. The female character was adapted into Leaf and later Green, though it should be noted Sugimori took the unnamed female character into consideration when he was designing the former. He also mentioned that the _FireRed and LeafGreen_ female protagonist did not have a name at the time of his writing, in November 2012. * On the "Area" map on the Pokédex in _HeartGold and SoulSilver,_ Ethan's headshot sprite shows his hat from _Gold and Silver._ Also Ethan actually did face off against Ash in the beginning of _Zoroark: Master of Illusions,_ where he uses a Donphan. * Kris actually coexists with Lyra in _Pokémon Masters EX,_ and has a Feraligatr, a Jolteon, and a Suicune (though it is clarified that the latter is not the one she encountered in Johto). * According to Pokégear calls, along with her Marill, Lyra owns a Tauros, a Bulbasaur, a Porygon, and a Tangela. Like Kris she owns several other Pokémon in _Masters EX,_ including a Jigglypuff, a Vaporeon, a Phanpy, and a Celebi. * Pre-release media for _Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire_ suggests that Brendan and May were going to receive new names for the remake, being Orlando and Anna in English and Omega and Alpha in Japanese. * While Lucas is shown to own an Infernape in _Pokémon Masters EX,_ you can't actually obtain a sync pair of the two. Instead, he instead uses a Dialga and a Flareon. However, this creates an inconsistency, as Dawn and Barry are shown with a Torterra and an Empoleon, and since Lucas' appearance in the game is based on his NPC appearance, he and Barry should technically have swapped first partners. * Continuing on from the video's fact, if they player chose Piplup, Dawn’s team consists of Pokémon Ash and Paul used throughout the Diamond and Pearl anime except for her Gorebyss. Specifically, Paul also owns a Honchkrow and Froslass while Ash owns a Sceptile, Infernape (which was originally Paul’s as a Chimchar) and owned Dawn's Ambipom when it was an Aipom. If the player chooses Chimchar Dawn's entire team will consist of Pokémon used by a major trainer in the Diamond and Pearl anime. Namely, Torterra is owned by both Ash and Paul, with Ash also owning a Mr. Mime, Brock has a Crobat, Blastoise and Arcanine are both owned by Gary Oak, and Conway has a Lickilicky. * According to game scenario author Toshinobu Matsumiya, Hilda and Hilbert were initially visualized to be at the age of 16, which would make them the oldest main series protagonists. In addition, they were planned to be battled at the Pokémon World Tournament. * Both Nate and Rosa have interesting trivia related to _Pokémon Masters EX._ First off, Nate is the only protagonist in the game to not own a first partner Pokémon. Secondly, Rosa is not only the first trainer the player recruits in the game with her Snivy (that evolves), Serperior, but she also has a Delibird, Sky Forme Shaymin, Dewott, and Meloetta. * Calem and Serena can reach the rank of Grand Duke/Duchess in the Battle Chateau by defeating most of the trainers there. Notably, while Serena is the only other character with this trainer class besides Diantha, having Calem reach the rank is the only time the Trainer class Grand Duke appears in-game. * Remember how the player character in _Sun and Moon_ often has a blank expression regardless of the situation? _Pokémon Masters EX_ poked fun at this by revealing that Elio and Selene actually do that because they're taking time to think about what's going on around them. Also, promotional videos and trailers for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon refer to them as Ray and Ailey, which would honestly kinda lean into the multiverse angle those games had. * In an event in _Pokémon Masters EX,_ both Chase and Elaine claim they helped the other one out in battles while in Kanto, referencing to the co-op feature from _Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!_ * During a scene where the player, along with Sonia and Hop, are at Bob's Your Uncle at Circhester City, if the player picks the gag response to Sonia's question about the tapestry there, Victor/Gloria will actually speak and say "Exactly! Bob, with his brilliant smile must be part of the legend!", making Sonia react in disbelief. This makes it the only time Victor and Gloria can directly speak in the main series games. * Rei and Akari appear in the present day in _Pokémon Masters EX,_ having arrived on Pasio by traveling through a space-time rift, where the former also mentions that present-day Pasio feels familiar to him, but he doesn't think this is the world he was originally from. It has also been pointed out by multiple characters in the game, about the similarities between them and Lucas and Dawn. * Speaking of appearances, Florian is shown with black hair in concept art, though his key artwork depicts him with brown hair. Despite this, the promotional poster for the Teal Mask depicts Florian with black hair. Juliana also wears the summer uniform of Naranja/Uva Academy in the regular artwork, the spring uniform of Blueberry Academy in the regular artwork of The Indigo Disk, and the autumn and summer uniforms of Blueberry Academy in the art for the BB League and the final art for The Indigo Disk, respectively. * Wes is around 17 years old, and about 5'04" to 5'07 in height. * Michael is about 4'07". In addition, he was originally planned to start with a level 26 Jolteon and level 30 Vaporeon, and is shown a level 40 Gardevoir and Parasect in the game's demo. * There are some actually interesting facts regarding Nate and Cyndy, being that all Nate's Pokémon hold a plate that boosts their coverage move, meanwhile Cyndy is the only protagonist to start with a final three-stage evolution, being her Pidgeot. *Forgotten in this video are Scottie and Bettie, the protagonists of _Pokémon Masters EX._ While they start with Pikachu, they can obtain a Regirock, Cobalion, Mesprit, Registeel, and Alcremie, as well as various Pokémon hatched from Eggs. However, alongside their Pikachu in the final battle against their rival Paulo, they use their Torchic, which they received from a Rising Star named Stella after helping her find her own Torchic, and Solgaleo, which the player befriended after battling it multiple times atop a mountain in Pasio.

Honestly Xavier and Yvonne are way cooler names than Calem and Serena, I hope they use those names for the legends game that would be a sick obscure reference

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Fun fact: Calem and Serena are actually called X and Y in the manga. And it’s revealed that Y’s real name is Yvonne, and Y is just a nickname. I don’t think we ever find out X’s real name, but I’m guessing it was probably Xavier

It could be that Professor Oak did ask Red, Blue, and Leaf about the Poké Dex but figured "Why not ask these kids too?" since more heads and perspectives on the project could be helpful.

Technically helios and Selene are titans there’s a weird distinction but it’s necessary

6:20 The name Yvonne did end up getting used for her Pokémon Adventures counterpart, even shortened to Y for the most part. However, Calem's counterpart is just called X.

Why didn't Wes talk? Or be explored more as a character? It's an rpg for Christ's sake, he's literally the coolest Pokemon mc to ever exist, his fit is fire, he rides around in a mad max style hover motorcycle, starts off with an Umbreon and Espeon, formerly a villain team member, etc c'mon!

I thought he would’ve included the manga characters since he had one in the thumbnail lmao

It would be cool if Kris returned in a future (Johto) game.

1:58 Ah yes, the man that is the sole Toei bootlicker of the DB dub cast and wants TeamFourStar to rot in hell. As an example of his hatred towards TFS, during (I think) the Kai version of the Buu Saga, Funimation had the TFS gang included as the VAs for actors in a stage play/gag recap of the Cell Saga. Now Comcast on demand had released this episode before they officially aired on normal TV and most people by have theorized that it was in fact Sean Schemmel himself that ratted to Toei about this.

I didn't know those facts about Calem and Serena, Serena's name originally being Yvonne was actually adapted into Adventures interestingly enough. We never learn X (Calem's counterpart)'s full name, so I guess we could assume it's Xavier. I actually assumed his full name would be revealed at some point when I was reading the manga, because they revealed Yvonne really early on but didn't reveal X's. This is a really cool video, found it weird that Adventures wasn't brought up especially since Violet's in the thumbnail though

"Today's video is about... you!" Aww! Little ol' me?

We also see Jimmy(gold) and marina (chris)from the anime during the finals

6:18 xavier and yvonne are actually their names in the pokemon adventures x and y manga! their friends call them "x" and "y" for short. i wonder why they kept the original names for only the manga?

“Not only is your gender never specified” one of the first few lines after the introduction is literally “so you want to take my son/daughter to naranja/uva academy?” It very much is specified.

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Fun fact: In the Pokemon movies (more specifically Hoenn movie) Brendan (Hoenn Pokemon trainer) challenges Lucas (Sinnoh Pokemon Trainer) at the battle tower, and Gold in the Sinnoh Pokemon movie he challenges Ash for a battle and comes back on Pokemon Journeys M8 watching Lance vs Diantha

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Green was not supposed to appear in the Gen I games at all: Sugimori only designed her because he wanted to draw a trio of trainers facing each other. This character was later added to the manga as Squirtle's trainer, and when the remakes were created, Sugimri used her appearance to design Leaf.

6:13 fun fact: these are (kinda) their names in the manga, with serena being called Yvonne and Calem being "X" which one could assume is short for Xavier

The full names of Calem and Serena in the Pokémon adventures manga are Xavier and Yvonne I think

Kris was also Lyra in the manga. Its that her mom yave her the hg/ss outfit

Just two small corrections 1) I'm greek, and while it's entire likely Elio and Selene are named after the Greek Gods Helios (Ήλιος) and Selene (Σελήνη), I think it's also worth noting that Ήλιος is the literal word we use for Sun, same goes for Σελήνη and the moon. 2) The Scarlet and Violet protagonists do have genders, despite the fact that you can make them look near identical. At some points in the game, characters reder to you in the third person, and they do use he/him or she/her depending on your original choice

Just to clear something up. I believe in Let’s Go the Digital Pokédex hadn’t been made yet since we know there are two timelines with and without Megas and we’ve only seen the Mega timeline Red and Blue when they’re older. Blue also talks about how he helped write location data down for the Pokédex on a map during his journey.

6:18 Adventures Kalos protagonists does use these names

I believe Leaf and Green are confirmed to be 2 separate characters, although Leaf's design was probably based off of Green's.

Pokemon never forgets. Kris will return...

6:26 it's actually their Manga name too i believe

6:20 to be fair, Serena's name was Yvonne in the adventures manga

Technically wes isn't the only pokemon protagonist to be part of a evil team in the manga rosa was an ex plasma grunt

Sean Schemmel the goat

Florian and Julianas gender is stated multiple times through npc dialouge always using he/him if Florian is picked and she/her if Juliana is picked

Fun fact: The Gen 9 protaganists are the only ones that have sideways eyes.

5:58 Spanish Nate is RIZZO!

The way how he pronounced Xavier was so funny

Hilbert/Hilda (most likely Hilbert) looking for N is kinda further referenced in Pokémon Masters EX. When N debuted in Masters EX and arrived in Pasio, there's a story continuity between Hilbert and N, discussing why N bid farewell after defeating Ghetsis and going down memory lane from the first time you met.

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I think it's confirmed by the game designer that he forgot kris existed hence how lyra took her place 😂

YO HE UPLOADED!

This was helpful

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I wasn’t even aware the Scarlet & Violet protags had cannon names.

in the pokemon adventures manga calem is named x & serena is named yvonne

the hisui protacts are parallel universe versions to the gen 4 protacts that got sucked into the past (well rei is at least) acording to masters.

1:50 look... but "Jimmy" interacted with ash in 13º movie, when ash and battled against gold/ethan/jimmy's dolphan or that count as gold/ethan?

Those facts are mindblow 🤯

TIL that the protagonists of Battle Revolution have official art lol

8:44 false, your mother will refer to you as her daughter or son depending on the "style" you choose actually

Hilbert/Black’s OG starter is Emboar Brendan/Ruby’s OG starter is Swampert The MastersEX and online animations are not canon.

How many lions series pleaseeee

I think it's really cool that the protags in BW created such a close bond with N through just from fighting opposing ideals

Wes really is the coolest pokémon protagonist

S/V does have gender references, many character refer you as a male or female depending if you choose the male or female looking character choice.

8:45 The NPCs still refer to you as he or she.

Jimmy/Ethan is fighting Ash in a cameo in movie 13.

Also Rosa as an ex team plasma grunt in the manga in black and white 1

8:45 Actually, Director Clavell will refer to you as ‘Master [X]’ or ‘Miss [X]’, so your character does have a confirmed gender. I believe that’s the only instance though. So close to an androgynous character.

Would be great to have a fun facts about pokemon ranger or pokemon mystery dungeon(best spinoff)

Actually, in Scarlet/Violet, gender is specified based on if you pick one of the boys or girls. I have seen dialogue in the game where I was referred to as Ms. (insert name here) by the director and I picked the girl as my avatar.

bro another fact about red is it thats in the first version red blue and green he chose bulbasaur but in fire re and leaf green he chose charmader same with leaf who chose at the first version squirtle and the fire red and leaf green she chose bulbasaur

But my name ain't Brendan 😂😂

A little correction for Julian and Juliana, I picked the "guy" character and npcs referred to me as young master and young man, idk if its the same if u pick the "girl" character, but it still seems the game somewhat treats u as either a girl or guy based on the first defult haircut u choose, but in general it does seem a bit more ambiguous and less explicit than before

only reason i know Chris from HGSS is because of Poketips and his hate for Lyra

Wes is also the oldest Pokemon Protagonist if I recall correctly. Unlike the other protagonists who are around 10-12, Wes is 17 years old at the start of his game as is Rui, his companion making them the oldest Protagonists in a Pokemon game.

9:14 JOE BIDEN!???

Fun fact: did you know that Brendan is slightly sexist?

Can ya do another shiny

You took 9 years

sean schemmel is also the gym leader clay

I thought that one of the protagonists from BW/B2W2 was a former Team Plasma Grunt, or was it on manga or something?

Pokemon protagonists have lost so much aura throughout the yrs

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When I played SV with my mom we did the games side by side and completed the gyms together and scrolled through dialogue together, reading out loud. All the dialogue referred to me with He and my mom with She and so forth. The statement might be more that the characters never called me a boy or my mom a girl and never included gender specific dialogue rather than the pronouns, though this feels like reaching.

While scarlet and violet aren’t gender specific like other protagonists (to be more inclusive) it is important to know that if you pick anyone from the top 4 you will be referred to with he/him, and anyone from the bottom 4 will be referred by she/her, which they can’t really do anything besides having a screen that says “what would you like to be referred by?”

Scarlett and Violet definitely does make references to your gender through NPC's choice of pronouns to refer to you. You mention suspecting this will be the direction for the future of the series and I reckon you're right. SV had the best face and hair customization we've seen to date, so I honestly expect in the future we won't even pick a base trainer to customise but instead have a fully customisable protagonist. However one thing I despised about SV was the fact that they wear the same clothes. Not that that is a bad thing, it would be fantastic for all clothing to be shared, except Gamefreak chose to achieve this by having us only choice between 4 school uniforms for the entire game until DLC, and all of them looked terrible imo. I mean hell, if you're trying to allow expression of gender, why is there no skirt or dress uniform for the cis girls? Let alone for the boys who would choose to wear it too, which feels like it should've been the whole point of the change to gender in those games. If we continue neutrality with gender, I expect to have the full range of clothing choices offered in Gen's 6, 7 and 8 available to anyone.

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I believe there are points where they refer to the the SV protags by gender. But those moments are very sparse and they barely matter anyway. It’s just fun that gender barely matters for playable characters especially for customization

I still feel like Lyra is an updated kris. Don't get me wrong, I know they're different characters, but Pokémon has done that before with leaf and green, and in the anime, Jimmy and ethan. I just don't think she was meant to replace kris like everyone says

Actually, For scarlet and violet Your pronouns of He/She are determined by the beginning selection so there technically is a canonical gender in game

I’ve always called Ethan Gold

When did the main series game started the trend of ditching you picking your gender SWSH?

Sean schemmel is toxic waste

Pokémon Sun and Moon protags have names!?

Wes is not the only protagonist that was a former evil team member. Rosa was in Team Plasma before.

Lyra didn't really replace Kris, she was created from scratch to be the female protagonist for the remakes because the originals didn't have one, the gear icon that resembled Kris was likely a placeholder Continuing the narrative that Kris was replaced just creates undeserved hatred towards Lyra from people with a misguided sense of justice

First lol

Not first 😢

Other characters named for the sun and moon are Cyrus and Cynthia Of course Red, Blue, and Leaf never completed the pokédex. You see Mewtwo over there, yeah? My Juliana is nonbinary because I am but I wish Clavell had a neutral form of address for me. I wonder what it would be. Ser? Wes may be the first protag to have been part of the villain team but i can think of at least two more, Mitsumi from Diamond and Pearl Adventure! and Whi-Two from PokeSpe. Which you should have included given that Violet Lang is in the thumbnail! We want more manga content! Give us facts about Hareta! About Isamu! About Platinum Berlitz! And so on.

The gender ambiguity thing is kinda lame. Makes the characters even less distinct, which was a huge problem in Pokémon having really bad same face syndrome. Boys and girls are different quit making them so samey

You forgot the ultra sun and moon protag

ngl i dont like the whole gender equality thing in pokemon because now we cant but skirts and crop tops for our characters or any other fun feminine clothes instead of removing genders they should have just removed the gender restrictions on wearable clothes

8:45 i like that idea it's about time they added non binary features to the game

Ethan was a villain on Alan Becker's channel, meaning that the Ethan that battled The Second Coming (the Orange Stick figure with a hollowed-out head) was a possible version of Alan Becker PLAYING as Ethan, and the Ethan in the Pokemon Adventures manga was called Gold, not Ethan. Also, Gold in the manga, raised his Togepi by accident, as a DELINQUENT!