How will Tierno, Trevor and Shauna be handled in the anime?

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Simple: they'll be recurring rivals like the (mostly) lovable oddballs from Sinnoh and Isshu :)

I can totally see Shuana being Serena's rival

Hopefully they'll appear. Not using them would make the producers even bigger idiots than I thought. Though whether they get them right or not is a completely different story :uhoh:
 
I have no idea, but it's likely they will make an appearance, possibly since they know Serena in the games. I suspect they will be handeled somewhat well, but knowing the anime's habits of making one-note characters, they will likely be watered down so that their most defining traits are their ONLY traits, and it won't be fun...
 
I hope at least Shauna appears as I enjoy her character in the game. Tierno too. And Trevor I guess.
 
They won't even show up. Anime writers will pretend they don't exist.
 
Eh, since non of them really battle in the games but Serena, they shouldn't be rivals. They could make a cameo in Serena's second episode seeing her off and then appear sometimes and check up on her.
 
They are not so much into battling in the games but I enjoy their characters and I think that it would be fun if they were in the anime. Shauna is great in the games(besides the fireworks)and Tierno too. Trevor is meh. But they could amke Shauna somewhat like Bianca and Barry but a bit more serious. For Tierno he could be some second male rival for Ash. Trevor could have a rivalry with Clemont over who is smarter. If done right they would all fit into the anime.
 
I really like the group in the game, it's nice to see the main character have a group of friends who are all living their own lives too. In previous Pokemon (though less so in BW) you seemed like a complete loner in a village with about 3 other people. Unfortunately, since the anime is more about Ash moving around and advertising the games, Serena is just going to be his interchangeable female sidekick and her personal life and background will barely come into it. Hopefully I'm wrong, though.
 
I'm really hoping they don't appear to be perfectly honest. I found them all rather boring in the games and I'm not sure how the Anime can make them interesting for me without radically changing their personalities and goals. Ash will never catch 'em all so Trevor doesn't work, dancing is something that I doubt will be taken up soon and the previous episodes about it (such as the Maractus ep) were complete crap and Shauna... what does she actually do again? She's there for the ride and even admits she's a hindrance during the Team Flare plot.

Serena is the only one who they could be faithful too and be somewhat interesting but they've gone in a different direction than rival so...
 
Well you'd hope that the anime would flesh out characters more than just being little people who run onto the screen every few hours of gameplay and say 2 lines of dialogue, which is usually just "I'm going to this location, hint hint".
 
If anyone's gonna be put it, I would prefer Shauna but realistically Tierno could probably work the best. Just make dancing more of a hobby and his goal battle centric and give him a "dance battle motif" sort of like how Togekiss and Totodile would dance to dodge attacks or how Counter Shield appeared to be Pokemon Breakdancing and it could work. Togekiss embodied elegant ballroom dancing and Totodile was generic happy-go-lucky dancing, just give Tierno some Pokemon with varied dancing styles and it could work. Since Tierno has a
Corphish
I could easily picture some Spanish dancing act or something like that.
 
I think it's for the best they don't appear at all. XY doesn't really need any rivals and I'd rather they don't show up to possibly get shafted.
 
They could probably be recurring characters that are friends of Serena's, though maybe they won't appear at all. If they do appear it would be really cool if they are all in the same episode.

There could also be COTDs based off of their personalities for an episode, instead of them actually appearing.
 
Tierno is the one I'd really like to see make an appearance. The lack of a dance sidequest akin to Contests in XY makes his hobby/goal pretty pointless. We see Serena going to gyms and being your rival, we see Trevor is doing the Pokedex and making comparisons to you, and we see Shauna going around making memories or whatever at stuff like the fireworks. But Tierno just keeps mentioning dancing with nothing to show for it. I'd like to see at least a one-shot filler so we can actually see his Pokemon in motion dancing, or him be a recurring character who is more of a battler than in-game but used a dance them to it. Maybe as a friendly rival like Stephan.

Trevor I really can't see working without radically warping his in-game goal. There is no Pokedex quest in the show, since the Pokedex entries are made by professors actually studying Pokemon rather than it automatically filling it out by itself. Shauna doesn't have a goal, so she could be a recurring character that sometimes travels with Ash and company, like Bianca was, just for fun.
 
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Mr Palpitoad said:
Pikafanboy said:
Serena doesn't have a goal, so she could be a recurring character that sometimes travels with Ash and company, like Bianca was, just for fun.
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Serena is confirmed to be a main character.
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Typos through my post. I meant Shauna where I said "making memories" and "doesn't have a goal". That was a real fail post on my part. I edited it now.
 
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