Pokémon Colosseum/Characters

Pokémon Colosseum by Genius Sonority has a much more realistic cast than the rest of the series - compare Persona 2.

Wes
Wes is a young man who lives in Orre. He is the protagonist of the first game. Has a Mysterious Past and a bit of The Cowl complex.


 * A Sinister Clue: Wears the portable Snag Machine on his left arm. It's ambiguous whether he's actually left-handed, and he's an anti-heroic example regardless.
 * Anti-Hero: Type II - he's basically an older Pokemon series hero who happens to be an ex-gangster.
 * The Atoner: To atone for his criminal past, he goes around taking down Team Cipher and stealing back the Shadow Pokémon his gang stole for them with the ultimate goal to purify their corrupted hearts.
 * Badass: Probably the biggest example in the Pokémon franchise. The game opens with him bombing his old gang's base for crying out loud!
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Cool Bike: It hovers!
 * Cool Shades: Usually they're pushed up to his forehead, but in the intro he apparently used them to shield his eyes during the explosion he just caused.
 * Defector From Decadence: A former Team Snagem member who grew tired of helping Team Snagem provide stolen Pokémon for Cipher's experiments.
 * Establishing Character Moment: His impossibly awesome introduction. First, he announces his resignation from Team Snagem by bombing their hideout and stealing their only portable Snag Machine. Then, as he's making his escape on his absurdly cool bike with Snagem on his tail, he sets off another bomb that destroys their hideout, cripples the syndicate, and alerts the police to their location. All this while grinning like a maniac.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Heel Face Turn: Originally a petty criminal before Snagem's reformation. Taking money from innocents? Sure. Using corrupted Pokemon to gain power over all Orre by pandering to an organization who will rule Orre with said Pokemon? No way.
 * Never Trust a Trailer: A Nintendo Power trailer made him out to be a Villain Protagonist.
 * Heroic Mime
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Rui.
 * Slasher Smile: Is sporting a big one as he's escaping his old base.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair is more of a greyish color, but he still narrowly fits the bill.
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: Starts off with Espeon and Umbreon.

Rui
Rui is the Mysterious Waif with psychic powers. She is the Sidekick and secondary protagonist in the first game. She's determined, caring, but can be a bit bossy and stubborn at times.
 * Aura Vision: She can see Shadow Pokemon. In a way, she predates Lucario, the de facto aura reader in the Pokémon universe as this!
 * Badass Pacifist: With no Pokemon of her own, she doesn't fight.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Her belly is bared in the Japanese version, but is covered up in the stateside release.
 * The Chick/The Lancer
 * The Heart
 * Damsel in Distress: Shes the Girl in a Box at the very beginning of the game.
 * Exposition Fairy: She fills you in on all the things going around in Orre.
 * Expy: She looks a lot like Misty plus a pigtail.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman: Implied to have psychic powers that, nonetheless, only manifest over the course of the story as the ability to detect Pokemon who have been abused in a specific way. Granted, it's a very useful power over the course of the game, but still...
 * Morality Chain: She's the one who calls out and prevents Wes from targeting normal Pokemon with the Snag Machine.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed in the American version, but she fits the bill in the Japanese version. Red Hair? Check. Bare belly? Check. Tiny miniskirt? Check!
 * The Not Love Interest
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Wes.
 * Player and Protagonist Integration: She most likely makes up for the lack of a female player character, notably because you can choose to name her like you can with Wes.
 * Psychic Powers: Not shown to extend beyond detecting the black aura that surrounds Shadow Pokemon.
 * On a technical level, her aura powers make her Lucario before there was a Lucario.
 * Undying Loyalty: Even when she finds out that Wes used to run with Snagem, she has no qualms with him as long as his criminal past stays in the past and will help him with his Shadow Pokémon snagging quest to the very end.

Nett
Nett is the founder of the Kids' Grid and the resident Techno Wizard of the group.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Tagalong Kid

Secc
Secc is the kid who establishes contact with Nett in the Under. The pair act as a main source of information afterwards.
 * Number Two: To Nett.
 * Flat Character
 * Law of Conservation of Detail

Megg
Nett's little sister who can sometimes be an annoying little sister.
 * Flat Character

Eagun
Eagun is a very old man with a long white beard, and flowing robes. He's the grandfather of Rui. When he's not trying to write in his P*DA he acts as The Obi-Wan.
 * Badass Beard: Sports a nice, bushy one that covers most of his face.
 * Badass Grandpa: He was an experienced trainer in his youth, and his Pikachu is still up at level fifty. In the postgame for XD, he fights you with an entire team of the Pikachu family!
 * Cool Old Guy: Despite his status as a legendary trainer, he's quite humble, down to earth, and very helpful to both protagonists in the series.
 * Expy: With his over-leveled Pikachu, flighty and excitable personality, and traveling skills, he's basically an elderly Ash Ketchum.
 * Instant Expert: Subverted in XD as far as E-mail goes. His first email is empty and the sbjuect is splett bdaly. His second and last are abruptly cut off, and he spams Michael constantly on Citadark Isle.
 * Retired Badass: Like most of Agate Village, he was a hotshot and well-known Trainer in his younger days.
 * Shock and Awe: A byproduct of his complete and utter refusal to use anything but Pikachu and its family members.
 * Weapon of Choice: The Pikachu line: he mainly fights with his life-long companion which is a level fifty Pikachu, but in XD's post-game his team consists of two Pichus, two Pikachus, and two Raichus!

Duking
Duking is a very large man and the de facto mayor of Pyrite Town. He looks big and mean but he's really a Gentle Giant. If you catch a Wooper, a Surskit, or a Trapinch in the Poké Spots from XD, he'll trade you a Larvitar, a Shuckle, or a Meditite depending on the Pokémon.
 * Badass Mustache: It is incredibly Badass indeed.
 * Beyond the Impossible: He somehow finds wild Pokemon in Orre, the bone-dry and inhospitable desert land where no Pokemon can exist except imported ones.
 * Gentle Giant: Despite his imposing figure, he's a very kind-hearted and lovable man who wants nothing more than to clean up the streets of Pyrite. And if his Plusle is any indication, he's also a fan of small and adorable Pokémon.
 * Joke Character: The Plusle that he gives to you in Colosseum is the lowest leveled Pokémon you can receive anywhere in the game, and requires a hell of a lot of time to catch up with your team. There's also the fact that while it isn't awful, there are much better Electric types to be caught in the game, and the lack of its partner Minun means that its interesting gimmick which would actually be great in a game full of double battles is completely useless. The Pokémon he gives you in XD are much better in comparison.
 * Large and In Charge: Heroic example; he's the mayor of a town known for its high thug population.
 * Nice Hat: Sports one in XD.
 * Shock and Awe: His Plusle.
 * Top-Heavy Guy: Has the same model as the Bodybuilder trainer class, and is completely massive as a result.
 * What Could Have Been: Minun was meant to be snaggable, since his Plusle could be obtained by the player.

Silva
Silva is a young man from Pyrite Town. He's Duking's Number One man. He's also a talented Master of Disguise when the need arises. Oh, and he's also The Woobie.
 * Butt Monkey: He tends to be kidnapped or beaten up a lot in the first game, which is pretty much where his Woobie status comes from. It's quite telling when the most useful thing he does is by complete accident.
 * Cruel to Be Kind: Accidentally. To spite Duking, he steals the gears to the Pyrite Windmill, shutting down the Colosseum. This stops Cipher's plan to distribute the Shadow Pokemon through the Colosseums.
 * The Lancer: To Duking, at least.
 * Master of Disguise: He's actually very good at this, even to the point to where he blends in perfectly at Realgam Tower, Cipher's base of operations.
 * Non Action Guy: He tries his best to stop Cipher, but lacks any and all battling skills which land him in sticky situations more than once.
 * Wholesome Crossdresser

Beluh
Wife of Eagun and Rui's grandmother.
 * Flat Character: She's there to give the tablet and nothing else. Eagun could have done that.
 * However, then she would have been nothing at all, only existing to avert Missing Mom.
 * Women Are Wiser: While we don't see a whole lot of her personality, she does seem a lot more sensible than Eagun.

Miror B.
The Laughably Evil member of the Admins. He's so lame that he isn't even given a legendary Shadow Pokemon of his very own. He eventually leaves Cipher to start his own group. In battle, he prefers to spam Ludicolo, using a combination of Rain Dance and Rain Dish to gradually recover his team's HP and attempting to win by attrition.
 * Affably Evil: He's not as kind most examples what with being part of an organization dedicated to corrupting Pokémon and all, but he's suprisingly cheery in a pleasent way.
 * Ambiguously Gay: He's some sort of camp, that's what.
 * Bad Boss: He's nowhere near as bad as some examples, but he can be pretty hard on Trudly and Folly when they botch missions.
 * Battle in the Rain: This is his strategy of choice: setting up rain so his Ludicolo squadron can make use of various rain-based strategies varying from gradually restoring health with Rain Dish, boosting their speed with Swift Swim, and having their water attacks hit harder thanks to the rain boost.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Seems to exist in his own little world most of the time.
 * Dance Battler: A Dance Pokémon battler anyway.
 * Disco Dan
 * Double Entendre: "Let the music spin!" "Lets get it on!"
 * Funny Afro: It's huge, and colored in red and white halves like a Poke Ball.
 * Green Thumb/Making a Splash: His team mainly consists of Water and Grass types thanks to his Ludicolo fixation, though he does sometimes use other Pokémon in some of his battles.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: In XD, he desires to be his own evil team leader and rule over all Pokemon. Yeeeah...how's that going for ya?
 * Laughably Evil: He's exactly as campy and goofy as you would imagine a disco-obsessed villain being.
 * Lean and Mean: He has the rail-thin and very tall body of a traditional villain... but nothing else about him is traditional in the slightest.
 * Life Drain: His Ludicolo tend to carry moves such as Leech Seed and Giga Drain in order to keep restoring their health.
 * Morality Pet: His Ludicolo probably count; he sure seems to have fun dancing with them, and they're his main team members.
 * Recurring Boss: In XD, where he is challenged at least four times in the main story if you're going after every shadow Pokémon, and can be battled numerous times in colosseum challenges as well as Poké Spots if you failed to snag any Shadow Pokémon.
 * Scarf of Asskicking: Wears a nice yellow one in XD.
 * Sixth Ranger Traitor: Aside from being this to the Five-Bad Band, he has his own - Ferma and Reath don't show up for XD.
 * Shout-Out: To Michael Jackson, especially in his XD where he debuts by moonwalking onto the scene and wears a single glove.
 * Starter Villain: In Colosseum, he's the first Cipher Admin that you fight in the game. And boy, is he a hell of a memorable first foe.
 * Theme Song: He gets a latin-based battle theme in Colosseum while he gets a more disco-oriented one in XD. As one would expect, both songs are completely awesome.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: In XD, he wears an open blazer with no shirt.
 * Weapon of Choice: Ludicolo. His team is packed full of these guys in his first Colosseum battle and his final XD battle. He's also showed dancing with them on multiple occasions.

Dakim
Is one of the four Cipher Admins. He's The Hulk of the group, and one of the most strangely dressed characters in the game. Dakim's team is composed of hard-hitters; he generally has one member of his team use Earthquake while the other member uses a Defend Command to avoid taking friendly-fire damage in the process.


 * Blood Knight
 * The Brute
 * Dishing Out Dirt: He really loves the move Earthquake.
 * Jerkass: He's fond of going on and on about how great and strong he is, and how puny his opponents are.
 * Karma Houdini: Last seen, he's battling in the Under's Deep Colossum; a free man.
 * Megaton Punch: In one of the rare examples of human-against-human violence in the series, we get to see him slug Vander in the stomach.
 * Primal Stance

Venus
She considers herself a pop idol and is The Ditz of the Under, she's dressed in pink silks. She's obsessed with being popular. In battle, she prefers to incapacitate opponents with status effects and Attract.


 * The Dark Chick
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Brainless Beauty
 * Break the Haughty: And boy, does she deserve it.
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After you beat her twice ("Waaaah! I don't wanna do this anymore!")
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Villain with Good Publicity

Ein
The leader of the Admins and creator of the Shadow Pokemon as a whole. With brains, charm, and style he's a true Magnificent Bastard. He enjoys spamming Toxic and Confuse Ray; after his first appearance, he also uses a modified Rain Dance strategy, sending out a powerful Water-type Pokemon in conjunction with a supporting team member with the Lightningrod ability to protect them from Electric-type moves.


 * The Evil Genius
 * Evilutionary Biologist
 * Expy: He's Professor Hojo if he experimented with Pokemon instead of being an Omnicidal Maniac.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Karma Houdini: And he makes it clear he's unrepentant, too!
 * Mad Scientist
 * The Man Behind the Monsters
 * Morality Pet: He keeps his Golbat through all three battles, and, like Cyrus's, it evolves into a Crobat.
 * That being said, it isn't too hard too make a Golbat happy. Given its power, that was probably the idea.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Shipper on Deck: Unintentionally to Wes and Rui ("You've come this far. Hand-in-hand like a happy couple on an aimless stroll.")
 * The Sociopath: Possibly the most evil guy in all of Cipher aside from the leaders.
 * Possibly even worse-yeah, Nascour and promote Shadow Pokemon, but they didn't get the bright idea of creating them.

Nascour
He was thought to be the head of Cipher. In the end it's discovered that he was just hiding The Man Behind the Man.


 * Devil in Plain Sight
 * The Dragon
 * Dragon-in-Chief: Nobody but the real Big Bad and himself know that he's not in charge.
 * Nothing Is Scarier: There is no music when you fight him. All you hear is the crowd screaming and cheering.
 * Obviously Evil: Glaring red eyes, Sephiroth hair...yeah, I see why decided to be
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * The Stoic
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Scary, but still pretty.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Scary, but still pretty.

Es Cade/
The mayor of Phenac City.
 * Badass Moustache
 * Cool Old Guy: As Es Cade.
 * Cool Old Guy: As Es Cade.
 * Cool Old Guy: As Es Cade.

Agnol

 * Bonus Boss
 * Top-Heavy Guy: Has the same model as the Bodybuilder trainer class.

Battlus/Somek

 * Badass Mustache: In XD.
 * Bonus Boss
 * Dub Name Change: Had his name changed from Battlus to Somek, but only in Colosseum.
 * Top-Heavy Guy: Has the same model as the Bodybuilder trainer class.

Infin and Inity

 * Badass: Especially Inity, considering that one of his Pokemon is KYOGRE.
 * Badass Mustache
 * Bonus Boss
 * Cool Old Guys
 * Punny Name
 * Worthy Opponent: They consider you as such when you win.

Michael
The protagonist of Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness.
 * A Sinister Clue: Like Wes, wears the portable Snag Machine on his left arm.
 * Disappeared Dad: Although, unlike with the protagonists with missing dads in the main series, it's outright stated that he's passed away.
 * Goggles Do Nothing: Has a pair around his neck.
 * Green Eyes
 * Kid Hero: Though he's apparently at least 13, given he's identified as "an unknown teen" at one point.
 * The Hero
 * Heroic Mime
 * Redheaded Hero

Jovi
Michael's little sister, who helps out with an errand early in the game.
 * Annoying Younger Sibling
 * Blue Eyes
 * Disappeared Dad: Same as Michael.
 * Everythings Better With Bunnies: Her two Pokémon are Plusle and Minun.
 * Third Person Person
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Lily
Michael and Jovi's mother, who is a scientist at the Pokémon HQ Lab.
 * Brainy Brunette
 * Green Eyes
 * Parents as People: Plays a bigger role in the game than most of the mothers in the main series.

Professor Krane
A scientist at the Pokémon HQ Lab who worked with Michael's father on a way to purify Shadow Pokémon at a quicker pace.
 * Brainy Brunette
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: It is mentioned by an NPC that when Lily was still a student, she was very popular. Many tried to woo her, including Krane, but Michael's father obviously ended up with her.

Lovrina
The head of Cipher's Research and Development team. Acts like a stereotypical Valley Girl, Lovrina prefers Pokémon who look beautiful.


 * Beware the Silly Ones: As revealed in your second battle with her, she's much, much more psychotic and evil than she lets on.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Cute and Psycho
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Upon defeating her post-game in the colosseum, she writes you a letter saying she likes you now and makes you a part of her fan club.
 * Expy: Fills Ein's role as a character, but with Venus's battle strategy.
 * The Evil Genius
 * Faux Affably Evil: Oh sure, she seems fun to be with, but Lugia would disagree with you. Vehemently.
 * Genius Ditz: She doesn't come across as very intelligent, but she isn't the head researcher for nothing.
 * Genki Girl
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Green Eyes
 * Hot Scientist
 * Karma Houdini: Let's hope she doesn't join some other evil team's science division....
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Spoiled Brat: To sociopathic levels.
 * Valley Girl: "So" seems to be her Verbal Tic.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: Among her fanclub.
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair

Snattle
His ultimate goal is to be Governor of Orre via Team Cipher. Also, he's the Straw Loser for the Cipher Admins. His strategy in battle goes from attrition damage from Shadow Sky to spamming Explosion.


 * The Dark Chick
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Upon defeating him post-game in Orre Colosseum, he writes you a letter saying that he'll be glad to make you his head secretary when he becomes governor.
 * Evil Feels Good: In addition to revenge, his main reason for sticking with Cipher even after his criminal behavior is exposed.
 * Karma Houdini: He took over a whole city! How the hell is he allowed to go free?
 * Never My Fault: Blames EVERYONE but himself for what goes wrong with his plans.
 * Sleazy Politician
 * Sissy Villain

Gorigan
Gorigan is the Dumb Muscle in charge of guarding the Cipher Key Lair factory. Which he's not very good at.


 * The Brute
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Again, after defeating him in the post-game colosseum. He even uses the term "friendship" in his letter.
 * Expy: Of Dakim, right down to his Earthquake/Protect battle strategy.
 * Goggles Do Nothing
 * Karma Houdini: Like most admins, he isn't captured.
 * Primal Stance: Even more so than Dakim.

Ardos
Ardos is one of Greevil's two bodyguards, and is revealed at the end of the game to also be one of Greevil's sons. Goes Laughing Mad and claims he'll restart the evil organization.


 * Defeat Means Friendship: The sole subversion....his post-game letter to you is a death threat!
 * The Dragon
 * Dragon Ascendant:, Ardos vows to one day rebuild Cipher, which will likely lead to this. We're waiting, Gamefreak.
 * Karma Houdini: He's still out there too.
 * Overlord, Jr.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Eldes. Oddly, Ardos is the Red Oni despite wearing blue.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Right before he takes off his red eyes glow through his Cool Shades.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Eldes
Eldes is the other brother to Ardos, bodyguard and son of Greevil. Arguably far more honorable than either, he eventually has a Heel Realization and gives up.


 * Anti-Villain: Type I.
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Pretty much only in Cipher to help out daddy.
 * Evil Redhead: He eventually pulls a Heel Face Turn, though.
 * Even then he wasn't exactly evil.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Overlord, Jr.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni, despite wearing red.
 * The Rival: Becomes one to Michael post-Heel Face Turn.
 * Token Good Teammate

Greevil
A short man accompanied everywhere by his sons/bodyguards Ardos and Eldes. He's the mastermind of Team Cipher in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.


 * Big Bad
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite all the evil he's done, he really does love his kids, even giving himself up because of his son Eldes.
 * Eyes Always Shut: To hide his...
 * Eyes of Gold: Terrifying eyes of gold.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Heel Face Turn: Performs one thanks to Eldes.
 * Mister Big
 * Miniature Senior Citizens
 * Pet the Dog: He actually gives himself in at the request of his son, Eldes, and even admits that everything he'd done was a mistake.
 * Punny Name: Well, he is seen to be greedy and evil at times.