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Dawn, Kenny and Jun

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As everyone noticed, each of these three characters has one stage of the penguin line:

Dawn: Piplup
Kenny: Prinplup
Jun: Empoleon

This lets us see all three stages with main characters without having to evolve Dawn's Piplup. The writers did this in such a way that they won't be screwing over the evolved forms of the starters (like Johto did) because we'll still get to see them with other characters.

Does anyone think they need to make an episode with Jun and Kenny together, so that all three penguins can have a brawl with one another? And do you think Kenny and Jun could possibly know each other?
 
Kenny and Jun knowing eachother? that sure is an interesting thought. Kenny started before Dawn, so I really dont know. But I doubt they'll have the rivals meet. Kenny's been pretty much forgotten anyway, even if he is in the theme song. Usually episodes with the rivals seem to focus on the tension and competition betwen them and the main character whose rival they are (does that make sense?) So putting two rivals in one ep would be a nightmare to the writers
 
I don't see how it would be a nightmare to the writers. I think they'll probably do this in fact.

Not sure if Kengo and Jun would know each other. It'd be nice to have a connection like that instead of everyone meeting him for the first time.
 
Kenny and Jun meeting would be cool. But if any rivals are to be meeting, I want it to be Paul and Zoey. Considering the prominence of those two, it feels kind of weird that they've never met.

Gary and Paul meeting would be really interesting. To see the guy that used to look down on Ash and the guy who does look down on Ash (but at the same time is seemingly fascinated with him) interact could make for a fun character dynamic.

...If either of those two pairs have already met in the Japanese version, I apologize for my ignorance. o.o
 
Lil Brother said:
Kenny and Jun meeting would be cool. But if any rivals are to be meeting, I want it to be Paul and Zoey. Considering the prominence of those two, it feels kind of weird that they've never met.
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Never really thought of that, but Paul has nothing to do with coordinating so its not like Zoey has any reason to interact with him.

I think its the same reason Dawn rarely interacts with Paul either, he's so far removed from the contest world that there's no reason to build up anything between him and the coordinators.
 
Rivals meeting, I vote for Jun and Paul.
Ask for Kenny and Jun I agree with the others it would be intresting, but he didn't know Dawn so...
 
OMG. Speculating about Kengo is as redundant as speculating about Naoshi! Those two have been TRASHED! Bear with it!


They don't know each other. Just no. Kengo is not a full-time rival and it's also too early to judge whether Jun will be a part-time or full-time rival. Having him appear in 2 episodes in a row doesn't imply thing, though, I must admit that having him as a full-time Satoshi's Rival would make PERFECT sense.

Well, I saw that coming when I learned that Jun has an Empelt. I totally knew that someone would point that out. But so sorry, the two still have nothing in common.

Hell, I think they should have given Jun a different starter just to save me from hearing this ugly speculation.
 
Maxim Gwanjangnim said:
OMG. Speculating about Kengo is as redundant as speculating about Naoshi! Those two have been TRASHED! Bear with it!
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That bothers me quite a touch, to be honest.
There's so much room for story development because a character like Kengo exists. The fact that all of them have a common hometown draws together connections with Hikari. Backstory is what I'm really looking for and what I hope the writers would put in, though highly doubt.

The fact that Hikari, Kengo, and Jun are all from Futaba offers a great deal of backstory if the writers want to delve more into character details and such, but... agh.
 
I agree with you up there. Even if the writers are closely following the games now.
 
Kenny will appear again, he's in the openings so he's gonna show up eventually.

Why they barely show him though is beyond me. We're 109 episodes into Sinnoh and Kenny has had two appearances.

If it weren't for his appearance in the openings people would have probably forgotten about him.
 
If it came down to two rivals meeting, I think I'd prefer to see Shinji and Nozomi meet of them all. Being the most prominent of the 'rivals', it'd be intriguing to see how they interact. Like Scott85 said, they don't seem to have a lot in common, but Shinji does seem to look down on Contests. The resulting tension and battle would certainly interest me since, in my opinion, those two are the strongest trainers of the rivals.
 
The problem is Paul isn't very social, and honestly, this guy doesn't care what other people do.

If Zoey actually tried to go up and talk to him, he's just say one line or so and walk off.

With Jun fanboying Paul though, I'm sure that will be an interesting episode. I wonder how Paul will handle one of his "fans." lol.
 
Actually they had a nice possibility to make Zoey and Paul have some kind of interactions... they both had a Poké that need the Dusk Stone to evolve so it'd be nice to see them battle in some kind of a tournament with this stone as the prize (or maybe even a real Contest that offer this as additional prize to the ribbon which Paul would enter only for this reason)
But Paul's Murkrow already evolved so it won't happen

How Paul will react to Jun? he'll probably think Jun is stupid or say one line than go away and ignore him
Than after that and after learning how Paul act towards him Poké I guess Jun won't really like him anymore
 
Perhaps Paul will challenge Jun to prove his "fanboyness"? It'd be an interesting battle.
 
Seems like Kenny won't be appearing in any of the eps Jun is in so far, but I wonder if Jun's Empoleon would inspire Kenny to evolve Prinplup.
 
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