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The best thing Pokemon Adventures ever did was to take the "brash" rival, the guy who keeps bumping into you in the games in caps lock, the guy who yells about million yen penalties for tardiness and then always runs ahead, the most hasty and loudmouthed rival Pokemon had up to that point ... and gave him the braincell. He's loud, but that's because he's the self-appointed leader and motivator. He's the primary strategist. He's the first to call retreat when things go south and tends to have the bigger picture in mind. And then. Then they made his partner the slow one. The calm one. The perpetually tired over-eater. And also made him the most impulsive member of the group. Sure, Dia is the one with the highest emotional intelligence, but it's absolutely just intuition to him and he keeps relying on said intuition to make the craziest spur of the moment choices. Which leads us to this beautiful dynamic: Pearl: Oh no, this is the leader of the bad guys we've previously encountered! He hasn't noticed us yet, so we're going to run away, quietly, on the count of three. One, TWO, THREE GOO Dia: I'm going to sing my favourite anime opening at him. Pearl, already running away: wHY- And, taking the cake: Pearl: Oh no, the bad guy is tearing a giant hole into space-time! Everyone, hang on tight! Dia: I'm gonna jump it. Pearl: DIA STOP THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA oh my god he jumped it. 100% Best character dynamic ever I don't make the rules.

top tier character-building device in pokemon games is when a seemingly antagonistic character has a golbat on their team and then later has it evolved into a crobat, which requires significant friendship, thus signalling that the character was always a kind person inside (plumeria), is growing past their issues and learning to be kinder (silver), may hold a spark of kindness that undermines their cold and calculating image (cyrus), etc etc

Meanwhile, Ghetsis—who is an antagonist who pretends to be an advocate for Pokemon rights—faces off against you with an under-leveled Hydreigon, which in the canon lore of the series only happens when someone forces evolution early, and that Hydreigon uses a full-power Frustration in B2W2, suggesting that it absolutely loathes Ghetsis.

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