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** Ritchie, [[Expy]] and [[Gary Stu]], or the physical representation of Ash's potential when not weighed down by his negative attributes?
** Charizard, at first, sees Ash as unworthy to lend his strength. Good enough, but [[Character Development|was]] it because he's waiting for Ash to better himself as a trainer, or just being a plain old [[Jerkass]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Mon]]?
** Whitney's anime portrayal, is [[Punch Clock Villain|the arrogant gym leader just a façade and she really is a nice girl overall]] or she a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Bitch In Sheep's Clothing]] with the bitch parts coming out in battles?
** Burgundy's [[Ron the Death Eater|interpretation of Cilan]] may not just be her imagination, as we ''see'' him in battle start toying with her needlessly and actually smiling in an sinister fashion.
*** Burgundy herself, who [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|might have something other than a grudge towards Cilan.]]
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** Team Rocket. Better when they were goofy (pre and post-''Best Wishes'') or serious (''Best Wishes'')?
** Dawn's rivals, [[Always Someone Better|Zoey]] especially.
** Miette, sassy cute rival to Serena and deserving of Ash's love because she can actually spit it out or a bitchy weak rival for Serena whose flirtation to Ash is clearly unrequited? Even not as extreme/non-shippers don't like her since she's so arrogant and pretentious.
* [[Broken Base]]: Nearly every series has something that's broken the base:
** Kanto: How Ash won his badges.
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** Kalos: The lack of plot momentum, rivals, and good story arcs, Ash as a [[Boring Invincible Hero]], and ''everything'' about Serena.
** Alola: The art style change, stationary setting, and overall tone change from all series prior.
** Who did the feminine female companion thing better? May or Dawn? Serena became another contender, the fact she had more differences between
* [[Canon Sue]]:
** Ritchie is a classic example.
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** The number of death fics written about Misty's sisters is staggering. House fire is a popular method, conveniently taking the gym with it.
** Every one of Ash's female traveling companions, past, present, and future, gets this.
** Mimete for Serena and/or Ash's ships.
** Drew for May's ships.
** Kenny for Dawn's ships.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Among the rivals, the antagonistic ones from Gary on down have all been this, but Paul's probably the biggest and worst case since it actually happens ''in canon'' a number of times!
* [[Ear Worm]]:
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** Evil Ash, who was popular enough to [[Never Trust a Trailer|allow the writers to fool the fans in a trailer for Hoopa and the Clash of Ages]].
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** Some of the [[One-Scene Wonder|Characters of the Day]] get this as well. Gligarman (an obvious [[Batman]] and superhero parody) was popular enough to frequently get requested to return to the show, especially when Ash had a Gligar/Gliscor of his own.
** Giselle, the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] from an early season 1 episode, is rather popular as a One Episode Wonder among older Western fans. It also helps that she is remembered by fans for being the one girl that Ash was crushing on before the producers had officially decided that he would be a [[Chaste Hero]] for the rest of the series.
** Ashley or Ash in Drag. People both love as a joke and as a real thing. This has improved with Ash crossdressing several times in the anime. This has cultivated in female AU or AUs where Ash is a famous crossdresser.
** Harley, because he's such a [[Jerkass]] and yet [[Camp Gay|so]] [[Crazy Awesome|damn]] [[Laughably Evil|FUNNY]] at the same time.
** Ursula, a one-shot rival coordinator who becomes a full-fledged rival for Dawn in the next season due to fan popularity for being a more antagonistic rival; separating her from Zoey, Kenny and Nando. Zoey appears to still be Dawn's most popular rival overall, though.
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** In relation to the games, a common theory is that Cilan and his brothers are the Shadow Triad of [[Animal Wrongs Group|Team Plasma]].
* [[Everything Is Racist]]: You can put the pieces together yourself here. Iris looks dark skinned, the generation colors are Black and White, and most of the fan-base is made up of immature teens. In particular, [[Image Boards|/vp/]] was dropping the N-bomb left and right in regards to her announcement.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Jessie and James ([[Villain Decay|back when they could actually be considered competent anyways]]), Cassidy, Butch, Domino, Attila, Hun, Shelly, Tabitha,
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Certain areas of the series like the Orange Islands arc and the entirety of the Black and White seasons are completely removed from people's conciseness.
** Ash losing all those elite four battles.
** Generally, Ash doing something stupid (even if it's an understandable mistake).
** Ash being a [[Chaste Hero]] for shippers.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Both PokeShipping and Amourshipping, the former for being Ash's first female companion and the latter for being the first one to explicitly have a crush on and {{Spoiler|kiss him}}.
* [[First Installment Wins]]: The original Kanto (and sometimes Orange and Johto) Seasons are the most remembered due to it being the original run and having many iconic moments.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Any set of rivals is probably going to have this.
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** Treecko-Grovyle-Sceptile (Kimori-Juptile-Jukain): Their [[Oral Fixation Fixation]] gets worse when you remember where he pulls it out of whenever he's called out...
** Corphish (Heigani): A bouquet of flowers in his pincers just happen to wilt away when he gets rejected.
* [[Gateway Series]]: One of the flagship series that people being introduced to anime start with, alongside Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon.
* [[Hatedom]] / [[Hate Dumb]]: The ''Best Wishes'' series has a HUGE one. Despite good, steady ratings up to the Unova League and general positive reception from most viewers up to that point too, a large number of angry fans in the [[Periphery Demographic]] insist that the whole series is just a [[Dork Age]] that nobody likes and nobody should like solely because it changed the formula up, did new things with the show, and (the biggest sin of all) reset Ash as a trainer. Just see TV Tropes' version of this page for a good example of the hatemongering this series gets.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
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** All that talk about Brock being a [[Casanova Wannabe]]...when HG/SS updated his look to make him a true [[Bishonen]].
** An earlier episode had Ash, Brock, and [[Character of the Day]] Suzy denouncing the idea of making Pokemon look flashy by dressing them up with make-up and accessories, saying that it diminished their inner beauty. [[Designated Villain|Misty and Team Rocket went against this view, and were made to look wrong for it.]] Come Generation IV and we have Super Contests, which partly depend on picking out accessories in order to garner points, and Dress-Up Rooms, which let the player go wild with accessories and backgrounds that sometimes may move and be flashy. This is taken even further in Generation V, where the Pokemon Musicals rely ''solely'' on the types of accessories that Pokemon can wear in order to make them stand out from the rest of the performers, with Trainers only able to decide to toss away an accessory twice during the entire musical number. Then again, Suzy's reappearance in Johto ''did'' say that making Pokemon look outwardly beautiful and fashionable is okay so long as the Pokemon consents to it and the human doesn't forget about the Pokemon's inner worth.
* [[Hype Backlash]]: Save for the Orange Islands, the Johto saga, and Black and White. All the anime seasons have gone through this.
** With the exception of Iris and maybe Mallow and Lana, all the Pokegirls have been subject to this? Serena, Misty, and Dawn are huge contenders.
* [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming]]: Pick any two characters who have ever appeared on screen together or have anything at all in common. There is a ___Shipping name for them. The more complete lists have thousands of entries.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618135959/http://www.freewebs.com/incompletelove/listaz.htm Here's the list].<ref>As of this writing, the A-Z page has been temporarily removed. A-M and N-Z are up though.</ref>
* [[Internet Backdraft]]:
** Mention any shipping with Ash outside the designated forum (thread/topic/etc.). Your computer will be nice and toasty in minutes. On a more specific level, who was the better traveling partner, Misty, May, Dawn Iris, Serena, Lillie (and Mallow and Lana), or
** Which line up of Ash's is the strongest?
* [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks]]: Not much has actually changed in the show's 20+ year run. Every episode hits the same beats as all the others, and the plot resolutions are very predictable. Even the deviations from the norm (like Gym Leader battles) have their own norm that rarely, if ever, is broken. The lack on any overarching plot does not help at all (To Be A Master does not count as a plot when the main character is no closer to his goals than when he started). That being said, the show doesn't actually always SUCK per say, it just gets really boring and predictable in its need to maintain the Status Quo.
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* [[Jerk Stu]]: Paul. Your first clue was when he bounced down a 400-foot cliff like a damn ninja while Ash just plummets to his [[Amusing Injuries|amusing injury.]] Your second clue is that in three or so seasons, his only defeats involved three legendaries, the Champion's signature mon, and Ash at the last minute, but even that barely phased him like one would realistically expect it to.
* [[Lady Mondegreen]]: In the English dub, Episode 4 is infamous for one of Ash's lines being misheard as [[Precision F-Strike|"Take back that novice crap!"]]
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Ash of course, he's been shipped with every girl ever, EVEN POKEMON! Heck, it's not even limited to girls, he's be paired up quite a lot of his male companions, rivals and pokemon too!
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Non-deadly example: Practically once every year during the ''Diamond and Pearl'' seasons, there was an episode wherein [[Terrible Trio|Team Rocket]] would either [[Breaking the Fellowship|break up]] or [[Leave Your Quest Test|actually quit following Ash & Pikachu to]] [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|do something legit]]. [[Status Quo Is God|It never]] [[You Should Know This Already|sticks.]] It happens ''again'' in ''Best Wishes'', culminating with Meowth [[Sixth Ranger|joining Ash's team]] for a few episodes! But [[Heel Face Mole|once again]]...
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]:
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* [[Memetic Molester]]: Muk and Heracross, and we ''love'' them for it.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [[Pokémon/Memes|Chock full of em]].
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: ASH!
* [[Memetic Sex Goddess]]: One-shot character from Episode 9, Giselle, is said to be radiantly beautiful not only by herself but by [[Chaste Hero|Ash]], [[Likes Older Women|Brock]], ''and'' [[Ambiguously Gay|James]] all in the same episode. [[Oblivious to Love|The]] [[Chaste Hero|former's]] attraction to her is particularly famous, and she's now known among fans as the only girl Ash was ever smitten by, 'cause she's just ''that'' hot.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]:
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** The start of Unova with Team Rocket's ongoing side-arc with the Meteonite is for some fans due to the indefinite postponement of its Team Rocket vs Team Plasma finale, which was set to air moments after an earthquake, tsunami, ''and'' radiation disaster had devastated Japan in real-life and left the ongoing plot literally unfinished.
* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: Serena can come off this way in her relationship with her mother, Grace. We're meant to see Serena feeling as though Grace is pushing her into following in her footsteps as a racer and wanting her to do things she doesn't want to do as being valid and reason to root for her. But it's made clear that Serena chose to try out Ryhorn Racing, actually does have a talent for racing but doesn't enjoy doing it because it gets too rough for her, and indeed has a history of giving up on something she takes on the moment it starts getting too hard and requiring more extra effort from her. Grace thus seems insistent that Serena stick to racing because she knows that's something she's skilled at and pushes for her to put in more effort and work harder at it so that she can get better at it, which isn't an unreasonable thing for a mother to want for her child. Yet Serena acts as though her mother was overbearing, even when Grace has given her enough comfort and freedom of choice that her striking out on her own in order to join Ash on his journey was possible in the first place.
** Unless you agree with her, Misty's nagging about Ash can come off as this.
** Iris for similar reasoning. Most people actually do agree with her, but she's much more annoying about it, making people feel bad for Ash regardless. They're also the fact she can be hypocritical about the things she nags about.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: According to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvldLA8_KOc Kids' WB! Kooky Karolfest], the recurring Jigglypuff is a male.
** Ash's Pikachu has been confirmed male.
** Dawn's Piplup is a boy.
* [[Wangst]]: Can happen a ''lot'' when a character loses an important battle or competition. Ash and Dawn are frequent offenders.
* [[The Woobie]]:
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