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If they would debut in the anime...

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As many people know, many inportant characters from the games haven't debut in the anime (counting movies) yet , incl. 2 Pokémon:

Pokémon
Porygon2
Porygon-Z

Human
Will
Karen
Janine
Wally
Sidney
Phoebe
Glacia
Darach (evt Caitlin)
Dahlia
Thorton
Argenta

Important Human that have been semi revealed by specials or short cameos
Silver
Brendan
Lucas
Ethan


(Not counting B/W characters yet)

If they would (fully) debut in the anime, what kind of story would they have?
 
I personally could care less if the porygon evolutons debut or not. I don't see the elite 4 members mentioned in your list being debuted at all unless Ash happens to be travelling in their respective regions again. Maybe they can somehow incorporate them in the storyline the way they did the elite 4 members in sinnoh. Also, what special was Silver in???
 
AshK said:
I personally could care less if the porygon evolutons debut or not. I don't see the elite 4 members mentioned in your list being debuted at all unless Ash happens to be travelling in their respective regions again. Maybe they can somehow incorporate them in the storyline the way they did the elite 4 members in sinnoh. Also, what special was Silver in???
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The opening of The legend of thunder.
 
I was hoping that the 5 Sinnoh Frontier Brains would appear in some kind of Twinleaf Town tournament. Maybe Satoshi would haved battled them in a row and gained a prize if he defeated 3 Brains out of 5.
 
I kinda wanted Leaf to debut back when we were in AG, but now its obviously too late and I don't care if we never see her. I could have seen her as a league rival for Ash.
 
If the main protagonists of the games aren't going to be introduced in a main role in a special or the main show, then they honestly shouldn't bother.

And if they introduced Silver, they're going to have to reintroduce Kenta, and it's stupid enough that there's another, more recent Hibiki-lookalike running around out there in the anime world.
 
Oh Karen, if ever there was an Elite Four who should have made an appearance it was you. I had a faint hope that she would appear in the Jouto Festa arc (and meet Paul, since y'know..."Strong Pokemon, weak Pokemon, selfish peception of people" speech ).

I remember fervently hoping that after DP ended there would be a mini-arc in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, and we'd get to meet all the Frontier Brains. Then the Black and White games were announced and pretty much killed the chances of them ever appearing -_-
 
I wanted there to be a Sinnoh Battle Frontier arc; even if it was really short and took place in the Battle Area (like the Frontier is in Platinum). Especially Caitlin, considering how she's in the Unova Elite 4. Now, if Unova does a Sinnoh and introduce all the Elite 4 members, Caitlin's will be less awesome.

Janine should have been included in the AG episode where Brock caught Bonsly (y'know, the ninja one), instead of a random COTD. The fact that she wasn't, made me angrys.

Porygon2 and Porygon-Z are doomed to never appear.
 
I really wanted Will and Karen to appear especially the latter. I guess its too late for for either of them to debut.
 
Pfft. All those humans could've debuted in episodes similar to Steven's. But no. More COTD. 8DDD
 
I don't know why, but I've always loved Phoebe, and I've always wanted to see her in the anime, but when AG ended I understood she'd never appear. ;__;
 
Kameinu said:
Pfft. All those humans could've debuted in episodes similar to Steven's. But no. More COTD. 8DDD
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Why would you want that? If you're going to treat the Houen Champion (an important in-game NPC and virtually a final boss) like a one-shot and forgettable character of the day, you might as well *use* a one-shot character of the day.

It's less insulting and disgraceful to the character if they didn't appear at all.
 
In a hilarious twist Pokemon goes Meta and airs an episode based on a bunch of Porygon 2s and Z's that completely lost it and are causing seizures everywhere.
 
Have any of the Burmy forms appeared yet (besides Plant-Cloak and No-Cloak)? Or the ? and ! Unown?

AshK said:
I personally could care less if the porygon evolutons debut or not. I don't see the elite 4 members mentioned in your list being debuted at all unless Ash happens to be travelling in their respective regions again. Maybe they can somehow incorporate them in the storyline the way they did the elite 4 members in sinnoh. Also, what special was Silver in???
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Lorelei debuted in the Orange Islands series, so it's not impossible.

Caitlin could make an appearance in the Best Wishes series, now that she is living in Unova.
 
Porygon Line = Nope.avi

Gold, Silver, and Kris appeared in The legend of thunder AKA Pokemon Chronicles.
 
FANG-TAN said:
Why would you want that? If you're going to treat the Houen Champion (an important in-game NPC and virtually a final boss) like a one-shot and forgettable character of the day, you might as well *use* a one-shot character of the day.

It's less insulting and disgraceful to the character if they didn't appear at all.
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Lol. I was just pointing out that if Steven could appear without a real purporse this guys could too. Better them than COTD. Atleast we'd know they exist.
 
vuvuzela2010 said:
Have any of the Burmy forms appeared yet (besides Plant-Cloak and No-Cloak)? Or the ? and ! Unown?
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Sadly, no... this is something I mentioned here a lot of times in the past... I totally hated that DP ended without showing the other two forms of Burmy... for me a different form is as important as a different Pokémon and they all should be showcased (especially when other Poké like Deoxys or Castform DID get to show all their forms)
Same goes for Unown - I'm pretty sure Movie 3 showed all the ABC forms (though I never really tried to check if that's true...) but the "?" and "!" forms NEVER appeared, despite the fact they had the perfect chance in that DP ep with Unown where Aipom evolved... and with Burmy they could easily do it anywhere during the series, yet they didn't even put them in the background =\
So other than Pory-line which are probably "banned" forever (which is extremely annoying and ridiculous) the only Poké that never appeared at all are these 2 Burmy forms and 2 Unown forms
Hopefully they'll somehow appear one day, but I doubt it...
 
Kameinu said:
Lol. I was just pointing out that if Steven could appear without a real purporse this guys could too. Better them than COTD. Atleast we'd know they exist.
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Then they had better give them better written episodes then, because Daigo's episode bored me to tears.

My train of thought regarding this is that if they're going to be in forgettable episodes, we might as well use a forgettable character that's not important in the game. Incorporate them in episodes that advance the plot, but don't shoehorn them in. My two cents.

For player characters and rivals, I rather see them star in a special or something along the lines without Satoshi's traveling party. Seeing Jun without Kouki was strange, and if they showcase "Silver" (or whatever the hell they'd call his anime counterpart) without explaining his rivalry with Kenta in the Raikou Special opening, I will rage.
 
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The anime rarely shows any effort with game concepts. So seeing this characters get treated like Steven wouldn't surprise me.

Lol. They had an excellent shot in AG to showcase Leaf and Brendan. They could come up with that Team Rocket captures Rayquaza bit for Movie 9. Add those two together and you've got a nice special that advertises the then current games. I laugh at this anime, it's supposed to promote the games yet it unnecesarily distances itself from them.

For Lucas, throw in the Sinnoh Frontier Brains and you could of had a special to promote Platinum.

Also Khoury's Japanese VA is the same as Kenta's. Was it that hard to incoorporate Kenta in place of Khoury alongside Lyra? >_> Seriously, this makes me think this writers just don't care.
 
Kameinu said:
Also Khoury's Japanese VA is the same as Kenta's. Was it that hard to incoorporate Kenta in place of Khoury alongside Lyra? >_> Seriously, this makes me think this writers just don't care.
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They don't even consider Ethan to be the same character as Jimmy, so if anything the question is why Ethan didn't appear. Jimmy would have stuck out in those episodes like a sore thumb; unlike Lyra, he is obviously not a beginner, being comparable to Marina who is a Top Coordinator. He's probably won a League by now.

I wonder if Jimmy would have replaced Harrison in the Johto League if the writers hadn't wanted/needed to promote Ruby and Sapphire.

Piplup said:
but the "?" and "!" forms NEVER appeared, despite the fact they had the perfect chance in that DP ep with Unown where Aipom evolved...
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The problem with that episode wasn't the absence of "?" and "!", but rather the poor showcasing of Unown in general.
 
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