So, they dropped Nando, huh?

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Not that I care about him, but why bother having a rival that the writers don't even ATTEMPT to show?
 
We can't be sure yet
He might appear only in the League and GF
But it does seems more and more unlikely as time goes on and he isn't even mentioned (but it won't be the first time a character disappeared than returned after a lot of time)
 
I'm not a fan of Nando, so I wouldn't mind if they let him go, but I don't think they are.

His character represents a culmination of dedication and hard-work, by competing in both League battles and Contest battles. Because of that, I don't think they're going to drop him, at least not from both. He'll appear in time for Sinnoh League or the Grand Festival, to take on either Ash or Dawn. I sort of hope Dawn, so that they could give Ash a more interesting person to battle. Not that it'd mean Dawn gets a cheap rival, because Nando seems very good at Contests.
 
Why the hell does this topic keep coming up?

Can we just let it rest? Otherwise, peoples' tempers are just going to flare up and there will be more debate that is totally ridiculous and unnecessary just as there was in the Kengo thread.

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They probably dropped Holly too, yet I don't see the Holly fans complaining.
 
Holly was also only shown once, Nando we actually saw him more than once rather than simple speculation of a character coming back.
 
We also saw Nicholai more than once, as we did with Casey and Sakura.

What happened to them? The writers dropped characters in every region.
 
Yeah, but out of those only Casey was really made out to be a potential rival when it came down to the championships. I mean, you'd hardly consider Duplica to be a dropped character, would you? Nando was at least made out to have some importance to both Ash and Dawn.
 
Unlike Kenny, he hasn't been referenced or seen since his last appearance almost 60 episodes ago. Why they dropped him, I have no idea. Maybe since he didn't really add anything to Dawn or Ash's journey, he was dropped. I'd much rather have Conway be Dawn's thrid contest rival.
 
Pianoplaynfool said:
Why the hell does this topic keep coming up?

Can we just let it rest? Otherwise, peoples' tempers are just going to flare up and there will be more debate that is totally ridiculous and unnecessary just as there was in the Kengo thread.

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Sorry, but I don't post on the forums often, so I wouldn't really know if it has been answered. Not to mention, I am just asking, NOT starting a flame war or whatever..

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You don't know how surprised I was to see who made this thread.

It's just cool to hate Nando, you know? It's because he was a terrible, boring character who made all the Johto filler characters look like Shakespeare and I can say that without having seen half of Johto.
 
Maybe he got deported!

It's funny cause the dub made him Spanish, and alot of Mexicans are in the U.S. illegally and have to get sent back. I just love spreaing rascist ideas!

Please mods, I was only kidding. I really don't think that way. All a big joke...I'm sorry.
 
Scott85 said:
They probably dropped Holly too, yet I don't see the Holly fans complaining.
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O RLY?

I'm happy that he's not mentioned. If Kenny or Conway has really replaced him...
 
We should worry about Kenny instead.

Anyway, Nando is like Casey. Done with. He may have another appearance, but the point is, hes not really rival material. Well, I dunno, Dawns rivals dont actually seem to vicious, so anythings possible.
 
But the element of surprise is strong in this saga, unlike the others. I don't know for sure if Nando is gone.
 
It kinda sucks that he was dropped...I mean, I'm not a fan, but he had an air of mysticism (in my opinion) that would have blended well with the emphasis Sinnoh seems to be putting on legends. But that's just my opinion; I probably have it wrong.
 
I think the problem is Sinnoh has far more recurring characters than any previous arc and the writers don't know how to handle them all.

Remember how long it took them to finally debut Team Galactic, with them even skipping their earlier appearances from the games? Or how Kenny has barely appeared this region yet Zoey appears every 15 eps or so?

Its also kinda funny they bring Gary into Sinnoh but do practically nothing with him, as I made a thread about. Out of 109 episodes Gary has appeared for a grand total of 2 eps, with no indication when he'll appear again.

Or how they waited 100 eps to introduce Jun, when that guy should have been introduced much earlier?

Or how Conway and Aoi, assuming they appear again, also add to the mix? And what the hell happened to Holly, I thought she promised to train with Brock?

I think the writers put too much on the table this saga and now its all starting to bundle up. With the exception of Paul, a lot of the other characters are getting screwed over this arc because they all compete with one another.
 
It's because Nando existed to show the "clashing desires" of participating in Gym Battles AND Contests, but since that issue was resolved during the Wallace Cup arc, Nando has nothing to say that requires his presence in the show as of right now.
 
Its also interesting they completely skipped over the guy in regards to Fantina's appearances, and instead showed Zoey.

Now that Jun also has a Roserade, there's not much Nando can bring to the table.
 
Nando. Eh, I didn't like him at first, but he grew on me. At this point he seems to be the Sinnoh version of Casey and Nicholai: the rival character to appear in a saga's first filler episode of the saga, appears a couple more times early on, and then goes poof for seemingly no reason. What's funny is how he seemed to be important and we all expected to see a lot of him but then he vanished. I hope we do see him some more, though.

That would be hilarious if Nando came back and had some vital role like providing some mythical tale that allows everyone to figure out a way to stop Cyrus from destroying the universe or something.
 
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