Pokegirls/Characters

Important characters in the Pokégirls universe, and the tropes they embody or employ.

Original Work

 * James "Sukebe" Scott

The creator of all Pokégirls and perhaps the person with the single biggest impact on the human race, ever. A Mad Scientist who bred all of the Pokégirls to Kill'Em All, he was eventually defeated when Humanity began to capture the monster girls and turn them against their former comrades... if you go by pure league propaganda. In fact he was at the start a benevolent scientist who wanted (and in fact, accelerated the process by centuries) to make the world a better place, give power to the people and just make life swell. It all came crashing down when a reporter infiltrated his lab where his new creation, an artifical inteligent race and him lived. Taking things out of proportion (or simply lying) she presented to the world that he had made mindless sex slaves and The Government... for some reason decided to Kill'Em All. Because that's wrong. Barely surviving thanks to his girls sacrifice, he snapped and vowed revenge to the world, starting the events that would end with the Prime.

The Alternative Calendar the world uses has its zero point on the year of his death.

Sukebe embodies these tropes:


 * Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: According to the pokédex entry for Evangelion she came from a world where Sukebe hadn't been rejected for his research and had used his knowledge to turn the society of his world into a Utopia.
 * Anti-Villain: He was a benevolent scientist who only wanted to make good.
 * Big Bad
 * Didn't See That Coming: Kali breath from China really take him by surprise... and horror.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: For the murder of his wives, destruction of his research and demonization of his personal character, Sukebe delivered the same punishment upon billions of people that had nothing to do with the crimes against him.
 * Elephant in the Living Room: For all of the standards, sympathetic traits, and understandable motives an individual author may put on Sukebe, the fact still stands that all of his plans involved the slaughter of billions of innocent people that had nothing to do with his grudge against Linda or even the government that killed his wives.
 * Freudian Excuse: His wifes, the original genetic forerunners to the Pokégirls, were actually harmless and of benign nature, barely different than a normal human, according to one of his origin stories. A nosy reporter named Linda got the wrong impression and painted him into a sick degenerate playing god that ended with all of them killed. He had his revenge.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: He started out as an innocent, if somewhat ethically dubious, scientist that just wanted to help people. After his wives were killed and his reputation was left in ruins, he ran away for several years before coming back with a millions strong army of genetic super soldiers led by what basically amounted to gods and left the world in near ruins in only a mere eighteen years.
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Go Mad from the Revelation: The bodies of his wifes send him to the deep end.
 * He's Just Hiding (Evidence in some of the fics suggest that he is actually in suspended animation and wakes up to do a status check of the world once every so often.
 * Hypocrite:
 * Sukebe's anger at the murder of his wives, destruction of his research and demonization of his personal character was so extreme he started a war which involved him directly murdering and sterilizing billions of other husbands wives, destroying centuries of humanities research, history, and territories, and demonizing humanity as a whole to his Pokégirl subordinates.
 * He hated Linda for slandering his character and throwing him under the bus just so she could achieve her own goals, yet depending on the canon Sukebe lied to even his legendaries about his actual plans and callously abandoned them to achieve his true goal of making humanity merely reliant on pokégirls rather than wiping them out and handing earth over too his loyal subordinates.
 * Informed Ability: His career before Sukebe.
 * Kill'Em All: Actually subverted. He never planned to exterminate the human race, only to nearly destroy their civilization and force them to become dependant of the Pokegirls forever (Hence the red virus). It was the humans who did the work to his horror.
 * Law of Conservation of Normality: Done to absurd levels in the stories before the Apocalypse. It was constantly stated that Scott was a renowned scientist with miles and miles of inventions, but the world is literally no different than our own. In fact, authors go the extra mile to portray the 80's and 90's as accurate as possible.
 * Mad Scientist: Man made and with vengeance.
 * The Man: He was against the Man using his technology for evil and was afraid it would steal from him. It resulted that the man was quite happy to let him live how he pleased since they were afraid of losing such a mind (and profit). It was the people who should have been wary.
 * One-Man Industrial Revolution: Two times, he was the leading scientist as James Scott and as Sukebe created an entire race (multirace to be exact) thousands of years more advanced than humans. When the guy sleeped was anyone guess.
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist
 * Papa Wolf: To his original Pokégirls. Ambivalent with the actual generation.
 * Reed Richards Is Useless: What authors tend to portray him, even when the notes say this is not the case.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Apocalypse How level 2 flavor. Damn man.
 * Science Is Bad: Subverted. His creations actually make life very good and the forerunners of the Pokegirls would have augmented human life to unforseen levels (as explained in an AU). It was Religion and sheep mentality that created the monster of Sukebe.
 * Spanner in the Works: Kali's breath from China.
 * Straw Misogynist: An often accusation and completely wrong. He didn't hate women or denigrate them in anyway, Linda notwithstanding. In fact in a side story, he was actually working in creating the forerunners of the Pokeboys before the attack. The Pokegirls are what they are as a Fuck You to the human race, creating their executioner exactly as the masses (ignorant) feared them. He is considerated like that.
 * Willing Suspension of Disbelief: If you want to mantain it, don't question how a guy in a couple of years created hundreds of Millions of humanoids with their own Gods, each as distinct as to be considerated as a new race along with who know how many bases and fortress. Alone. It will make your brain explode.
 * Who's Laughing Now?: Along with While Rome Burns with her new souless doll, Linda Mckenzie


 * Linda Mckenzie

The reporter who discovered Sukebe's original genetic creations and proceeded to use her discovery to paint Sukebe as the new Victor Frankenstein, deliberately misrepresenting his work so she could get ratings. She used this discovery to advance her career greatly, eventually moving on to politics. Her actions were the catalyst that led to the events that caused Sukebe's madness and the destruction of the old status quo. She was last seen at her campaign for re-election as a senator when she was confronted by the Legendary Pokegirl known as Macavity. Macavity captured and brought her to Sukebe, who then proceeded to take his revenge...

Linda Mckenzie embodies the following tropes;


 * And I Must Scream: A generally agreed upon story piece is that after Linda was kidnapped by Macavity and brought to Sukebe, he transformed her into a Pokégirl and forced Linda to be his "pet."
 * Asshole Victim: Linda made Sukebe out to be a malicious monster, deliberately misrepresented his work and threw both him and his wives under the bus just so she could advance her own career. Linda ends up being publicly humiliated by Macavity, kidnapped in front of a crowd of her supporters, and forcibly transformed into Sukebe's obedient sex pet.
 * Going for the Big Scoop: Why she snuck into Sukebe's laboratory in the first place.
 * Hot Scoop: Had been playing on her looks to get where she had been up to that point.
 * Kick the Dog: Some stories state that when Linda broke into Sukebe's house she was found by one of his kinder wives and helped Linda avoid her less trusting and more violent sisters. Linda repaid her kindness by reporting that she was a monster created by an evil pervert and sexual deviant, and callously tossed her to the wolves for her own advancement.
 * Lack of Empathy: Linda deliberately lying about the personal character of Sukebe and his wives for her own selfish ends, indicates Linda didn't care who she had to step on to advance her career.
 * Lurid Tales of Doom: Turned Sukebe's first creations into this.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Falsely presenting the information she found about Sukebe. This was the trigger that caused the attack on his original lab, which caused the senseless murder of his original creations, which caused Sukebe's descent into madness, which caused the Revenge War...
 * Sex Slave: It's implied that this is what Sukebe made her into. Why else would he transform Linda into a Pokégirl?
 * Small Role, Big Impact: Linda is around for only the first few years of the stories lore and her only major contribution was being a news reporter that falsely reported new information about an innocent scientist and using her fame to become a politician. This ended with humanity nearly being destroyed.
 * Strawman News Media: Type 4. She was only after ratings, as was her network.
 * Twisting the Words: Sweet, friendly, cuddly animal girls translates in Ratings Speak to FREAKISH SEX SLAVE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS! FILM AT ELEVEN!
 * Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If Linda had picked literally anyone else too slander or simply been honest about what Sukebe was doing, the events of the story would've never happened.

Forerunner A-kun
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 * The Widow Slayer

Ben, the starring character of Crimson League. Starts out as a member of Team Rocket, but breaks off from the group fairly quickly, gathering allies and Pokegirls fairly quickly. As more of his backstory comes out, so do more of his powers, until he starts taking on things that normal humans would die horribly against. Unique to Mary Sues in that Ben was a likeable character all the way through the story, although this did not prevent him from falling into this classification. Regarded as the Sue Line in the main canonical Pokegirl setting. Comparisons to him act as a litmus test to see how badly a character needs restructuring. How well he had aged is up to debate.


 * The Ace
 * Badass: Starts as this and goes up from there.
 * Battle Aura: Had an impressive one.
 * Canon Sue: Crimson League's events are accepted as Canon for the most part, so as to use the Widow Slayer as a Mary Sue litmus test for potential protagnists.
 * Expy: Vash the Stampede.
 * God Mode Sue: Not entirely, although has (many, many, many)elements of it. For instance, at the end of things he was taking on Widows and an insane, vengeance crazed Pokegirl that wanted to eliminate humanity altogether and was on the verge of becoming a god. Without his harem. He was also a messiah, a fantastic lover and all around swell guy you couldn't but fall for him.
 * Mood Whiplash: See bellow.
 * Nice Guy: In the most generic way possible.
 * One-Man Army: Yeah, he got the name Widow Killer for a reason.
 * Rated "M" for Manly: Averted. Remains a fairly nice guy without becoming overly macho.
 * Something Completely Different: Hard enough to break your spine by the Mood Whiplash. It started as a 0 level Tamer who barely scaped an ambush from Team Galaxy (he was from the team Rocket), poor and without a single pokegirls. Suddendly he is a God Mode Sue One-Man Army with a dark past in a quest to destroy a God... yeah.
 * Taking You with Me:
 * Troperiffic: Whether good or bad is up to the reader.
 * Troperiffic: Whether good or bad is up to the reader.
 * Troperiffic: Whether good or bad is up to the reader.