Despite this, she didn't appear in the final cut of the game. She was later made available in the normal Sync Pair scout rotation. Leaf appears as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. She shares his team of Squirtle , Ivysaur , and Charizard , marking the first time that she has used the Charmander line in fiction outside the main series games.
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He is the main antagonist in the very first pokemon movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back. Mewtwo is a bio genetic clone of Mew. Her title is "The Tomboyish Mermaid".
It cannot control its electricity effectively, and can hurt itself. He can't tell if you're a boy or a girl by looking at you, and just can't seem to remember his own grandson's name. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users.
This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. You may recognize some familiar names here. It seems Tajiri had a similar problem with Miyamoto as Denise had with her brother: wanting to honor him by including him in the game, but accidentally giving his name to a jerk, whoops.
His main rival is named Shigeru. Do you consider him your rival? I really look up to Miyamoto-san. In the game, they are rivals. Shigeru is always a little bit ahead of Satoshi. The third options of the suggested names seem to be a joke on names starting with J but having different vowels: Jack, John, Jean. Jack is a common nickname for John, and Jean is the French version of John.
These name suggestions, all slight variations of the same theme, suggest that these characters are all similar, all easily interchangeable.
The hero in your game is the rival of your friends and vice versa. So, all during Generation I, these characters had no official names and no definite color associations. The protagonist character is shown with Bulbasaur. The rival character is shown with Charmander. And a female character is shown with Squirtle. Sugimori has said that he created this female character specifically for the cover, to fit with the other two characters.
However, we already had difficulty in how to talk about her. Just like the protagonist and the rival, she has no official name, and Sugimori has said he doesn't pick any particular name for her. In that case, the protagonist would typically be thought of as "Red", the rival as "Blue", and this mysterious unreleased female character as "Green" - conveniently matching the mysterious unreleased video game.
In Japan, the situation was different. The first games were Red and Green , so often the protagonist would be thought of as "Red" and the rival as "Green", which leaves "Blue" for the female trainer, and matches the Squirtle that she was originally drawn with.
In Sugimori's drawing, she is shown from behind and her long brown hair obscures most of her, but we can see she is wearing a black dress, black shoes, and white gloves. She has a similar outfit as the Sugimori illustration and the papercraft comics. We think the manga's creators interpreted her as being a femme fatale type of character, what with the nice black dress and the white gloves. Her dark shoes were drawn as being heeled boots in Sugimori's original drawing, since the view is from above, we can't see if they have heels or not.
We can speculate the idea might have been on the developers' minds, considering Ken Sugimori even thought to draw her in the first place. Whatever the case, the idea was not implemented in Generation I. Instead, we got the entirely new character of Kris. As for what concerns the name situation, the fandom considers her name to be Kris, but actually, it is a bit more complicated than that.
The way names work in Gold and Silver is similar to that of Red and Green : if you are playing Gold , the top suggestion is to name the only available male protagonist "Gold" and the long-haired rival "Silver"; if you are playing Silver , the top suggestion is to name the only available male protagonist "Silver" and the long-haired rival "Gold". When Crystal came out, it added the ability to play the game as either the existing male protagonist or the new female protagonist.
The top name suggestion for both the male and the female protagonist is "Kris", cleverly using a gender-neutral name. The American and Australian manuals even go so far as to say that you play Crystal "as Kris", regardless of which gender you choose.
Because the male protagonist already existed in the earlier games, the fandom preferred to call him "Gold", the long-haired rival "Silver", and the female protagonist "Kris". The introduction of Kris meant that, at the time, there could be two wonderful female protagonists, at least in the realms of fanfiction and side material.
Because why not both? You play the game as an all-new character, but you can meet most of the major characters from the previous games, including the protagonist and the rival. Now that they are NPCs, they need to have names. We suspect a primary motivation for creating these games was to "bridge the gap" and finally enable trading between "Generation I" and Generation III, a connection which was severed with the move to Game Boy Advance.
In the remakes, Game Freak also implemented several new features that had become standard in the games in the interim, including the option to play the game as a female protagonist. If you choose "Girl", this female character is your avatar. We can see this influence in her long brown hair, and the fact that she is wearing a skirt, rather than shorts like the previously appearing female protagonists Kris and May.
Some fans speculate that the Lass trainer class, and especially this pre-Generation-II drawing of an unknown female trainer, might have also been an influence in the female protagonist's design, which would be why she has a pleated skirt and falling knee-socks. She needs to wear that hat with pride, as it took so long to finally be crowned with that honor.
In Ruby and Sapphire , it is like there are two very similar parallel universes to explore. In either play-through, both Brendan and May exist, but their family and their role in the game is vastly different. If we can go a bit weirdly meta here for a moment, this has some disturbing implications for the cosmology of Ruby and Sapphire. With zero other changes to the universe, either family could have potentially given birth to either child, and, regardless of which family they grew up with, they would have exactly the same appearance and fashion choices.
It's like both universes must have a set number of human "phenotypes" that are required to exist in the world, so, if Norman and his wife give birth to a daughter, the unused son's design needs to get used in another way, so he gets bestowed on Professor Birch instead. The genders and appearances of the children in this multiverse are distributed by a gumball machine full of pre-set designs. In heaven are millions of souls lined up waiting to be born, and when it's your turn, you go down the chute like a gumball to whoever put the penny in the slot.
You were born to your parents because, right at the moment when they Did It, you were next in line. In this case, the player is able to hack the gumball machine and choose to play the game with a particular male or a particular female avatar. The player provides the protagonist's soul to the character they picked, and the other character is doomed to come out as an NPC instead.
The cosmology of FireRed and LeafGreen is a bit different, without the implication of there being such a gumball machine. No matter which avatar the player selects, nothing else in the universe is impacted. Whether the mother in Pallet Town gave birth to a boy or a girl, the composition of her neighbors' households are not forced to change.
The only impact of the player's decision is whether or not the protagonist appears one way or the other. We could argue that both protagonists of FireRed and LeafGreen are actually the same protagonist , but in one alternate universe they grew up as a boy, and in the other they grew up as a girl.
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