Do you think Paul will become important enough to keep after D/P?

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Basically as the titles says, after we assumingly see Ash and Paul face off in the Sinnoh league, do you think Paul is a character the writers would keep in the following seasons?

Gary took a vacation from the anime after Ash beat him in a league, but he's made somewhat of a comeback in a new role as a Pokemon researcher. He's not really as important to the show as he once was, but he's become a recurring character to the series.

What about Paul? Do you think he's a character that will be kept beyond D/P?
 
If he changes after Sinnoh I can see him join Ash and Dawn (and hopefully Brock will leave)
Before anyone bring the "two people doing gyms" obviously if he'll join he won't do gyms but something else... like Gary changed his goal after Ash beat him Paul can do that too
And if the next saga is Sinnoh again with contests and the E4 like the frontier brains than Paul can continue to be a trainer but not challenge the gyms since he already has 8 badges from Sinnoh
I think the fact Paul was advertised together with Dawn and Ash rather than Brock and not to mention how many times he appears might hint of him being a main character later
 
I hope so. Paul is a character that could go a long way (even longer than Gary). And he seems to be a fan favorite (at least among English-speaking fans). He and Ash represent opposite methods of Pokemon and I for one hope Paul becomes a permanent anti-hero which this shows has needed for so long.
 
The way I say it, one of two things will happen with Paul at the end of D/P.

1) Paul faces Ash during the Sinnoh League (not necessarily the finals) and beats him. He decides to go to a new region, and Ash follows him.

2) Paul faces Ash during the Sinnoh League (not necessarily the finals) and loses. His screentime is limited to approximately the same amount as Ritchie did after the Indigo League.
 
Piplup said:
If he changes after Sinnoh I can see him join Ash and Dawn (and hopefully Brock will leave)
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That could be interesting. Although part of me can't really see Paul and Ash acting all friendly with each other.
 
I can see a Kaiba/Yugi relation, as in Paul respects Ash but is still cold to him.
 
Err, I have a question. Why does just about everyone want to see Paul join the twerps? Is it just the "Nugai" days influencing the present? I... really don't see why he would ever want to join Ash's little group. Wouldn't that totally ruin his character to go on the "let's-help-every-single-person-we-meet" adventures? o.o;

But anyway, I don't know whether Paul will continue to appear after DP or not, but my guess would be no. Or at least not in as large as role as he has now.
 
If Diamond and Pearl stretches out into the episodes based on possibly Gold and Silver remakes, I can see Paul hangin' around for Johto. Otherwise, I have major doubts.
 
For the people who don't know if Paul would work on Ash's group, I have three words:

Beast.

Wars.

Dinobot.
 
Piplup said:
If he changes after Sinnoh I can see him join Ash and Dawn (and hopefully Brock will leave)
Before anyone bring the "two people doing gyms" obviously if he'll join he won't do gyms but something else... like Gary changed his goal after Ash beat him Paul can do that too
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He's been doing Gyms for as long as ash if not longer, and he seems to enjoy doing so quite alot. I don't think he would that easily just drop them.
 
NYTRONIC XD375 said:
If Diamond and Pearl stretches out into the episodes based on possibly Gold and Silver remakes, I can see Paul hangin' around for Johto. Otherwise, I have major doubts.
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At the slow pace Sinnoh is going the G/S remakes will probably come out while Ash only has like 5 or so Sinnoh badges at the most.

I'm not too sure we'd see Ash trek back to Johto even afterwards, I really don't think they'll be enough time especially with the Elite 4 foreshadowing this region.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.
 
cassius335 said:
For the people who don't know if Paul would work on Ash's group, I have three words:

Beast.

Wars.

Dinobot.
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I could imagine Paul filling a Dinobot-esque roll.

Totd: My Pokemon has a problem. *snivel*
Ash: We'll help.
Paul: We keep wasting our time with these stupid, trivial matters of others. We should instead be kicking Team Galactic's ass (or whatever motivates him at that point).

And he and Ash could get into fights like Rattrap and Dinobot did. They already exchange words whenever they meet and after how Paul treated Chimchar no doubt Ash doesn't think too highly of him at the moment.

As I said, Paul needs to stay as an anti-hero whether in the group or a reoccurring character. It' his niche and he fills it so well.
 
Unless Paul became hillariously friendly and developed a crazed lovestalker obsession with Ash.
 
Yeah, anything that stirs up certain camps in the fandom are always fun. There's antics are the entertainment for the rest of us. Just look at the whole Aipom/Buizel issue.

I'd be personally disturbed if Paul started fawning over Ash. But still think it was funny as hell.
 
Lil Brother said:
Err, I have a question. Why does just about everyone want to see Paul join the twerps? Is it just the "Nugai" days influencing the present? I... really don't see why he would ever want to join Ash's little group. Wouldn't that totally ruin his character to go on the "let's-help-every-single-person-we-meet" adventures? o.o
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Possibly because this pic makes the group look cooler than what we got:

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This would have been an awesome group for D/P. As much as I like Brock's new D/P Pokemon, I still would have rathered we have Ash travel with new characters.

Man, I remember at this time we didn't know Dawn would be a coordinator and that Paul wasn't a rival. Good times.
 
Hmmm, man, D/P would've been at least noticeably different if Shinji did travel with them. I'd laugh pretty hard at all the humorous scenes that arose from it.
 
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