Can Reggie be a good replacement for Brock?

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I think Brock should go, we nedd a new character and Reggie (paul's brother) could be perfect!
 
Brock can be boring, but Reggie is even more so. I mean, let's face it. Personallity-wise, he's just another 'nice guy' in a never ending sea of 'nice guys'. It's obvious he was only concieved to give his brother a reason to be the way he is.
 
Nah, I say stick with Brock. Reggie is cool and all every once and a while, but without Paul, I really can't see him holding my interest for more than a little bit.
 
I think that Brock must DEFINITELY go. I don't want him in the cast anymore.

But Reggie? I don't think he would work. He's just a nice boring guy.

I want Eusine in the cast!
 
even though season 2 was the last good season imo
to me brock's absence was deffinitely noted and well...
never again
 
Ash should be the most senior trainer in the main cast. If Brock goes, he should be replaced with a rookie trainer, or something.
 
Good replacement as in doing the exact same goals as the person prior, among other things? If so, yes.

Personally, while I want him ousted to prevent any more bad influences on kids, I don't want him replaced. Rather, I'd rather have him be removed, and not give him a replacement. In other words, he and everything he represented would go into oblivion.
 
Reggie? Well that came out of nowhere. I mean, Brock isn't much of a character but Reggie? Really? Yeah, no.
 
No offense, but reading this thread makes me think it's better to just keep Brock. Except maybe the rookie trainer, I haven't read a single suggestion that I like for replacing Brock. (For starters, why do we have to replace him with someone who isn't new?)

Weedle Mchairybug said:
Personally, while I want him ousted to prevent any more bad influences on kids,
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I don't see how the makers of the show are making Brock's behavior with women any more of a good influence than they are with Team Rocket's behavior of stealing Pokemon.

Also I don't see what's wrong with someone replacing Brock and his role of being a sidekick of the show...
 
Weedle Mchairybug said:
Personally, while I want him ousted to prevent any more bad influences on kids, I don't want him replaced. Rather, I'd rather have him be removed, and not give him a replacement. In other words, he and everything he represented would go into oblivion.
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Pepe LePew existed long before Brock did, and I don't think the rate of child pregnancy/promiscuity went up in the 40s. Don't bring your social commentary about cartoons in this thread.

Anyway, Reggie is basically Brock but older. No need to have him tag along for no reason.
 
Rex Kamex said:
I don't see how the makers of the show are making Brock's behavior with women any more of a good influence than they are with Team Rocket's behavior of stealing Pokemon.
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Because kids are bound to mimic what Brock does. If you try to show kids a couple fighting over the cheating spouse (who, BTW, is a bit like Brock in that he's being punished for his behavior live on TV), you are bound to have the kid mimic the person because they'll be naive enough to think that their behavior's ok. Heck, if you show the kid what Glenn Quagmire does, then, his being punished for it or not, he or she will mimic either him or the women he sleeps with.

Also I don't see what's wrong with someone replacing Brock and his role of being a sidekick of the show...
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I actually do want him ousted, but replacing him will be pointless if the replacement acts exactly like him. It's like the pointlessness of replacing May with Dawn. what's the point of replacing a character if they're going tp end up with the same goal and personality?
 
Weedle Mchairybug said:
It's like the pointlessness of replacing May with Dawn. what's the point of replacing a character if they're going tp end up with the same goal and personality?
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Dawn was a fresh new character at the time, it helped to refresh the show
Also, you're seriously wrong if you think Dawn is identical to May - they have things in common, but they're also different
For first they corrected with Dawn some of mistakes they did with May in the try to make a girl star
Also, May didn't have single Pokémon she used more often than the others: in Hoenn we saw a lot of Beautifly and Skitty, in BF we saw a lot of Combusken and Squirtle... it's different with Dawn having a main Pokémon (Piplup)
May was very lucky in her Contests and had rivals that annoy her while Dawn had hard time and had to learn to deal with losing and getting her confident back and Dawn's rivals are more of supportive friends which is very different than May's
May was a little girly but not on a high level... and she barely showed her girlyness since she got into Contests
Dawn is much more gilry and she stay girly even after she got into Contests and actually show this girlyness in a way in her Contests (wearing a pink girly dress, changing hair style every Contest, etc)
While May had two parents and a brother, Dawn seems to only have her mother
Dawn's mom is a Top Coordinator which is also what got Dawn into Contests at first
May's dad is a Gym Leader (and her mom doesn't seem to do something Poké related) and May actually didn't go in his way and choose something else

So yeah, they're similar but they're not identical and it wasn't totally "pointless" to "replace" them
And I'm not going to reply in this thread again, just had to say this and if I'll reply here again I'll end up repeating myself, so if anyone reply to this post - my answer for you is to read again this post, better than constantly repeat the same things again and again
 
Dogasu said:
The age difference would make that feel really, really awkward.
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Eusine would be simply following Ash (just as Misty did in the earliest episodes, she was chasing him because of the bike) because he realized that he's special (this is actually why and the only way to meet the Legendary Pokemon is to keep close to him. He would eventually become a part of the group, though, just like Misty did.

The fact that Brock is 15 years old doesn't stand with me, to be honest. That was some early thing, never mentioned in the actual anime. I find it hard to consider it as canon. Brock looks adult. Brock IS adult.

Of course, having Eusine would be a bit awkward. But not much more awkward than having Brock or Tracey (who's a bit older than Brock, IMO).
 
Weedle Mchairybug said:
Because kids are bound to mimic what Brock does. If you try to show kids a couple fighting over the cheating spouse (who, BTW, is a bit like Brock in that he's being punished for his behavior live on TV), you are bound to have the kid mimic the person because they'll be naive enough to think that their behavior's ok. Heck, if you show the kid what Glenn Quagmire does, then, his being punished for it or not, he or she will mimic either him or the women he sleeps with.
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You have no proof that anyone mimics these characters or that its a severe problem, no news articles, no anything. Brock's been on the show for over a decade, and I've never seen a news article about him resulting in promiscuity among kids. Stop saying things you have no proof of.


Weedle Mchairybug said:
I actually do want him ousted, but replacing him will be pointless if the replacement acts exactly like him. It's like the pointlessness of replacing May with Dawn. what's the point of replacing a character if they're going tp end up with the same goal and personality?
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May and Dawn are 2 completely different characters with different motivations and you would know that if you actually watched the show and heard the actual dialogue, not making assumption off of Bulbapedia.

If Brock was to have a replacement, it would have to be someone who has an interesting goal and interesting personality. But of course they can't handle Ash's arc and Dawn's arc properly, so I'm hesitant to replace Brock if they're just going to go 60 or 35/35 or 60/5 for Ash/Girl/Brock.
 
Weedle Brock gets punished for flirting. If Kids are Naive/Stupid enough to flirt with girls because Brock does it. Then they are Naive/Stupid enough to believe some giant purple frog will posion jab them in the ass for doing it.

Or at the least they'll think they'll get pulled by their ear.

Seriously who would want that? Yes I'll flirt with some girl just because it'll cause me pain. That makes so much sense.
 
Weedle Mchairybug= said:
I actually do want him ousted, but replacing him will be pointless if the replacement acts exactly like him. It's like the pointlessness of replacing May with Dawn. what's the point of replacing a character if they're going tp end up with the same goal and personality?
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I never said that the replacement should act exactly like him- I'm just saying that the person could still replace Brock as the guy sidekick with Ash.

(Which, by the way, I'm not saying is equivalent to another person changing a coordinator. Dawn and May do have differences in personality, but that doesn't make me automatically think it's justified that Dawn replaced May.)

Maxim said:
The fact that Brock is 15 years old doesn't stand with me, to be honest. That was some early thing, never mentioned in the actual anime. I find it hard to consider it as canon. Brock looks adult. Brock IS adult.
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What early thing?

Piplup said:
Dawn was a fresh new character at the time, it helped to refresh the show
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If they wanted to really refresh the show (other than via eye candy) they could've gone the extra mile and not made Dawn a coordinator. As important as personality is, it doesn't change the fact that she's still competing in contests.

And why it might seem like I'm contradicting myself because I care about different personalities when it comes to replacing sidekicks but I don't care about different personalities when it come to replacing coordinators- like I said earlier in this post, I don't consider Brock's role as a sidekick, or even a guide as important as May or Dawn's role as being a coordinator, or the girl co-star of the show. So a sidekick/guide with a different yet interesting personality replacing Brock is fine by me while a coordinator replacement with a different yet interesting personality is not.

(Actually, I don't think Dawn's that interesting anyway. So once her newness wears off, she has nothing going for her IMO unless she's stays in Pokemon for the rest of Ash's journey. To relate this back to Brock... since I don't think Reggie's interesting, I don't see what Reggie would have going from him once the newness of being Brock's replacement wears off. Then again, surely the writers would give him something decent to do if he were to join Ash...)

Duckgon Z said:
May and Dawn are 2 completely different characters with different motivations and you would know that if you actually watched the show and heard the actual dialogue, not making assumption off of Bulbapedia.
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Don't they both want to be top coordinators?
 
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