1 Fact for EVERY Pokémon Protagonist

Continuing this Pokemon fact series, let’s cover the main Pokemon characters in the Pokemon video games! Including some extras hmm

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[SagashiIndustries]

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

[earlwilliams]

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

[theonlineninja]

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)

[primrosevale]

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.

[wikiuser]

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.

[igorlopes]

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

[tuney]

“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.

[ChaoticJersey]

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[codename]

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

[neverttheguy]

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.

[Mage_Nichlas_]

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.

[crazycowcraft]

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

[ThatFont]

If they remake HG/SS they should bump Red’s team to level 100. That would be intense.

[alittlebitofeverythingyt]

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

[mak_]

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

[richardsphd]

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

[usermcskull]

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

[lucaslongolucasksenha]

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

[M_Alexander]

I firmly stand by the fact that in Legends Arceus, the intent is that you play as Dawn or Lucas from BDSP (which were supposed to release first) with Rei or Akari being your rival. There are several things that support this from the character select screens mirroring each other to the "modern" room found in PLA's code that closely matches the BDSP bedroom. Even the official website introduces the character art as something like "your character and Rei or Akari" with only Masters calling the time-displaced amnesiac boy "Rei."

Seriously though, who else but the greatest Sinnoh Champion would Arceus have any reason to choose to save the past? Especially since clearing PLA lets you catch Arceus in BDSP.

[Mystmon]

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