Pokémon: Upon a New Horizon - Sora TV Tropes
A/N: Warning, this fanmade TV Tropes will contain potential spoilers. Please read with care and enjoy.
Previously a Noibat from the Paldea Region, Sora is the fifth team member in Katie’s Pokémon team.
All-Loving Hero: Despite his PokéDex entry, Sora is a very pleasant Pokémon who loves his friends dearly and is very nice to everyone. Well, everyone except Thomas and his Gang of Bullies.
Because You Were Nice to Me: His reasons of running out of the Pokémon Center and risk nearly getting trampled by a busy crowd in town to seek out Katie was because she was compassionate enough to tend to his wounds and offering him food and water when he was found injured with a broken wing after he was abandoned by his former colony.
Berserk Button: It’s very unwise to attack and attempt to hurt his trainer. Both the trainer who had abandoned him and a pack of Mightyena learned that the hard way.
Beware the Nice Ones: Even though he is Gentle Giant Nice Guy, he is a fierce and powerful Pokémon, and he had displayed his species reputation when he went all One-Man Army on a vicious pack of Mightyena while protecting his trainer. His former trainer, Neil, had been on the receiving end of his wrath when the jerk went as far as to six his Hydreigon on Katie during a battle. Even bullies Anthony and Martin were rightly nervous around the Noivern and made the smart decision to keep their distance when within his line of sight after a Noodle Incident involving him.
Big Darn Heroes: He evolves into a Noivern to save his trainer from an aggressive pack of wild Mightyena.
Big Little Brother: After evolving, not only is he bigger than his younger sister, Artemis, but he’s also larger than his older brother Spirit and three older sisters combined.
Blow You Away: As a Noibat, he knew Gust.
Breath Weapon: His Dragon Pulse attack is fired out from his mouth in the impression of an actual dragon breathing fire.
Bully Hunter: Despite being a Nice Guy and a Gentle Giant, Sora is not without his sense of justice and disdain for bullying.
Cuddle Bug: After evolving into Noivern, Sora is unable to ride on Katie’s head like he used to as a Noibat. Instead, he chose to wrap her up in his wings into a hug.
Death Glare:
After he curbed the Mightyena pack with the use of his newly learned Boomburst Sora gave its leader a scathingly intimidating glare in warning, followed by a vicious roar for extra measure, forcing it to Know When to Fold ‘Em and ordered its pack to retreat with their tails between their legs.
He even gave out a match more terrifyingly scathing one towards Draco when the poacher actually attempted to hurt Katie and another one after that when he and the freed Dragon-types Draco had captured backed him to a corner.
Determinator:
Does Not Know His Own Strength: The first time Sora realised he had gotten too big to be a Head Pet and is unable to ride on Katie’s head like he used to as a Noibat is when he accidentally pushed her to the ground and unintentionally pinned her under the ground under his weight. Thankfully, she wasn’t hurt when he immediately noticed this, but still felt bad for realising a bit too late.
Does Not Like Spam: Like Ash’s Noivern, Sora doesn’t like sour apples.
The Dreaded:
He is this to Anthony and Martin after a Noodle Incident. Martin actually flinches back every time Katie sends Sora out to battle his Skuntank.
Speaking of, the said Skuntank had always hated going up against the Noivern since Sora does have the flight advantage and he can easily overpower the Dark and Poison type with very strong long range attacks. Skuntank is not even safe from a Steel Wing from above.
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones:
Like the rest of the main cast’s Pokémon, Sora has a very understandable dislike towards Thomas, Anthony and Martin due to them being bullies always picking on his trainer and her friends.
Draco the Dragon Hunter had indirectly placed himself at the very top of Sora’s list, especially when the poacher thought it was a “good idea” to sicc the Dark Ball influenced Mightyena on Katie when she stopped him from trying to capture Alicia’a Salamance, Ventus and Rachel’s Dragonite.
Face Hugger: Thankfully a harmless yet humorous variant. In one of his attempts to improve on his flying after his wing fully healed, he indirectly latched onto Ron’s face after accidentally crash landing into him.
Flight:
A Friend in Need: Upon seeing Katie was about to be mauled the leader of a vicious pack of wild Mightyena, Sora was fuelled by The Power Friendship and evolved into the formidable Noivern to save his trainer from the literal jaws of death and gave the pack a fierce Curb-Stomp Battle.
Friendly Rivalry: Despite his rivalry with Sophia’s Altaria, they’re actually on friendly terms outside of their battles.
Friend to All Living Things: Since he’s established to be the Gentle Giant, Sora is very friendly to everyone around him and is very playful around the younger Pokémon as well as protective around Eris the Togekiss whenever Thomas’s Swoobat hits on her.
Furry Reminder: Being a Dragon-Type that is based off from a fruit bat, one of Sora’s traits is basically hanging upside down from a tree by his feet and wrapping his wings around himself to sleep.
Gentle Giant: Despite his intimidating appearance and his species’ terrifying PokéDex entry, Sora is a very friendly and gentle soul who loves his trainer and friends. He is very careful around the younger Pokémon, going as far as letting them climb up on his back.
Glomp: He practically snatches Katie up in his wings almost frequently. It’s a miracle hadn’t done this before the start of a Pokémon battle every time Katie calls on him. Unlike a certain former Team Rocket member, whose Running Gag has either of his Pokémon supposedly trying to eat him, chomp on his head, hug him with arms spiked with needles, wrap its sash over his eyes or even so on.
Head Pet: As a Noibat, he often stays out of his PokéBall and perches himself on Katie’s head. After evolving, he has became too big to continue this old trait and upgraded to being a Cuddle Bug.
Irony: The Noivern line are known to have a violent disposition and will only be more tamed if you have some fruit on hand. However, Sora has some to be anything but violent with a Hair-Trigger Temper. He is actually as sweet and gentle as a Skitty.
It’s Personal:
After evolving, Sora immediately went full on One-Man Army on the Mightyena pack while protecting his trainer. This was his Crowning Moment of Awesome as he not only saved Katie, but also single-handedly defeated the pack into forcing them to Know When to Fold ‘Em and run for the hills.
When Neil ordered his shiny Hydreigon to use Hyper Beam on Katie during a Pokémon Battle out of spite, not only did Sora shielded his trainer from harm, but he was extremely livid that the very trainer that had abandoned him would stoop down so low to harm the one who had cared for him and believed in him when Neil never did. Long story short, not only did Sora curbed Hydreigon, but he also put Neil and his father in their place with a Boomburst at full blast. Beware the Nice Ones indeed.
Make Some Noise:
Meaningful Name: Sora means “sky” in Japanese which fits well for a Dragon and Flying type such as him.
Mix-and-Match Critter: He’s a bat-dragon, though the draconic aspects aren’t very apparent until he evolved. Mix-and-Match Critter: He’s a bat-dragon, though the draconic aspects aren’t very apparent until he evolved.
Natural Weapon: Boomburst is fired from all Noivern’s ears. Sure, it’s because they look like loudspeakers, but still.
Nice Guy: He is one of Katie’s strong Pokémon, but he is also the Gentle Giant.
Noodle Incident: Bullies, Anthony and Martin pretty much keep their distance every time Sora is let out of his PokéBall due to an incident where they pulled at his ears, which agitated the usually gentle-spirited Noivern for the both of them to get a full blast of Boomburst in their faces. That’s one of the VERY good reasons why you should NOT bully a Dragon-Type.
One-Man Army: He single-handedly took on an entire pack of aggressively wild Mightyena and won.
Our Dragons are Different: He’s partly a Dragon-Type that resembles a giant bat with ears that resemble loudspeakers.
Our Wyverns are Different: Like every Noiven, Sora is a bat-like Dragon/Flying-Type based off from wyverns in appearance and name.
The Power of Friendship:
Razor Wind: Knows Air Slash.
Razor Wings: Previously Wing Attack, then upgraded to the Steel-Type move, Steel Wing after evolving.
The Rival: To Sophia’s Altaria.
Shout-Out: Protecting his trainer from a pack of aggressive Mightyena, right down to leaning over her while glaring at the Dark-Types in a defensive stance while growling in warning before facing all of them head on brings to mind to a certain scene from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Signature Move: Boomburst.
Super-Scream: Boomburst turns his sound-based abilities into an attack.
This is Unforgivable: Being abandoned is one thing, but Sora is beyond livid when Hate Sink One-Shot Character Neil decided to have his Hydreigon attack Katie in the middle of a Pokémon Battle all because she called him out fir being a horrible person while Sora was easily beating his Hydreigon. And he most certainly take it very well when his father angrily threatened to demolish Silverwood out of spite-induced retaliation of his son’s carelessness caused him bad publicity.
Took a Level in Hardcore: As a Noibat, he does put up a decent fight, but he avoids partaking in Horde Battles due to his size and the vast numbers of Pokémon. That, however changed when he and Katie ended getting ambushed, hounded and cornered by a pack of wild Mightyena while separated from their friends in the woods. Sora evolved into a Noivern to save Katie from getting killed by the pack leader, fuelled by The Power of Love/Friendship and easily overpowered the pack with very little difficulty.
Trademark Favourite Food: Fruit. Any kinds really.
Wind Beneath My Wings: Secondary type is Flying.
Why Did it Have to Be Snakes?: Ever since he had broken his wing when he got tangled in a discarded poacher’s net, Sora developed a dislike towards nets and he nearly had a panic attack when Draco ensnared him in one of his traps.

















