The Most Controversial Pokemon Characters of Every Generation

Honestly Geeta's biggest offense is how she's repeatedly hyped up as being the #1 champion , best of the best etc. and then when you finally face her she doesn't even live up to half the hype

Honestly, Nemona is my favorite rival in the entire franchise. We don't get experienced rivals often - or at all, really - usually, rivals are just starting out like you are, but I love the idea of Nemona already being a Champion-ranked trainer who is starting with a new team so she can keep pace with you.

fun fact: Getsis's Hydreigen knows Frustration, a move that is stronger the more your pokemon hates you. and cosidering just having a pokemon on your team boosts friendship, you have to treat a pokemon very poorly for this move to be viable.

“N is the full package and some fans want N’s package.” I died when I heard this, especially since N was my first Pokémon character crush.

Fun fact about Rose: if he wanted to solve the energy crisis, he could've just headed to the Crown Tundra to capture Regieleki. According to the Pokedex, it (no joke) "is capable of creating all of Galar's electricity" I don't massively mind Rose, but the fact GameFreak made their meh plot even worse with this entry BUGS me

One thing that struck me with Chairman Rose is that, as he announced bringing about the darkest day, he maintained a gentle composure with kind eyes that betrayed his implied psychosis. There was a genuine belief behind his extreme actions, and the unfathomable damage was just a cost in his tunnel vision.

I actually really like how unsettling Valerie looks. She excellently invokes the faerie theme with her pretty but uncanny design and whimsical, not-quite-there personality.

Valerie, as the Fairy gym leader, being both cute and unsettling is incredibly fitting, though. It's the perfect encapsulation of mythical fae folk

To be fair to Iris, her portrayal in Pokemon Journeys did a lot to fix fans perception of her.

I’d audibly laughed when he said “I’d spoil her anyway and “people want N’s package”

I feel like if Marlon was in Black and White 1, there wouldn't be as many people that dislike him. Because in BW1, Team Plasma kept their more evil-esc stuff under the radar of the public. So having a character that's sort of like "Are they actually bad people?" would work very well and make sense! However, Marlon was in Black and White 2. And in that game before you meet him, Team Plasma already did what could be considered the equivalent of a terrorist attack on Opelucid City. So his question seems like he's either completely oblivious to what's going on, or he has the "they haven't done anything to me so they can't be that bad" kind of mindset. I don't know, maybe the words I'm saying don't make sense.

I definitely like Hop's arc. He's the younger brother to the Champion, and that's all people see him as, so he's constantly under that pressure. He gradually starts to doubt himself because he can't best you and has too many expectations of himself. He keeps experimenting with his team, finding stronger Pokemon, until he reaches a breakthrough and snaps out of it, going back to his old reliables and tries to develop his own path Hop's story just shadows what it's like to be the sibling of a popular figure and how they need to develop their own path, because following the popular figure's path usually leads to disaster

“But I’d spoil her any day.” Same Ron, same.

Gen 9 has some of the most charming and fun characters, I'm happy arven didn't even appear on the gen 9 list (makes sense) cuz he's THAT popular. I knew Geeta would be number one... I hope the dlc expands on some of the more underdeveloped characters.

I have seen a lot of negative sentiment about nemona, I think this might clear up a lot of things. People hate when the rival chooses the starter that is weak to yours. In the very beginning of the game she wanted to choose a starter to raise alongside you to hopefully encourage you to be a formidable rival. I'm sure she intentionally chose the weaker one to give the upper hand to the player. In the post game one of the conversations she has with you and her room is that she always goes easier on other people so everyone can enjoy the experience. People avoid battling her because she is seen as someone who has a natural gift for battle. Once she sees your battle prowess and your eagerness to challenge her, it sparks the drive to do better and to find a worthy rival. I find her arc way more compelling than blue ever will be and I played since the very beginning in '98. It was so refreshing to see!

You know what's really the worst part about Rose and his team??? They didn't need that plot. There was a subplot of adults wanting to protect kids and kids wanting to prove themselves to adults. All they had to do was modify the motivation for stopping the MC and make it that Eternatus was waking up on it's own and had nothing to do with Rose and Rose was just trying to stop it... It would allow all of the events to happen in the exact same way, changing nothing for the gameplay (just the dialogue) and it would drastically improve everything... Think about it. Bede wants to prove himself to chairman Rose and Opal wants to nurture him. Hop wants to prove himself to his big brother while Marnie wants to prove herself to Team Yell, the adults that love and support her. And it's a journey about you, the protagonist proving yourself to the region. And it works even more when you realize how much Rose is doing for the region and how he's kinda over working himself. By seeing all the young people get together and save the region, it could make Rose realize that he can rely on the younger generation and take a break he deserves.

"And some want N's package" You got me. 😔

Looker deserves his own Detective Spinoff seriously he's underrated how GameFreak treats him and Anabel is unfair.

The funny thing was that meeting Khalil made me pop off. I was one of the few people who remembered all of the NPCs talking about this really strong trainer who golfed around the second island and looked around and couldn't find them. So finally meeting them as an Elite Four member was hype.

I actually like Iono, manly because she isn’t the stereotypical stream/influencer who loves their fans and is super nice. But because she constantly chases clout and attention and it feels like GF was making fun of streamers. I also liked the simp jokes they made.