< Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl/Characters


For the Pokémon introduced in these games, refer to this page.

For characters from seasons 10-13 of the anime, refer to this page.

Main Characters

Lucas/Dawn (Kouki and Hikari)

Just so you know, these are the Platinum outfits.
  • Adorkable: NPC Lucas has shades of this.
  • Awesome Backpack: Storage limit? What storage limit? [1]
  • Badass Adorable: A dragon that has control over time? A beast that can expand space? A creature from a world separate from ours with control over antimatter? The creator of the universe? NO PROBLEM!
    • Took a Level In Badass: As a norm in every Pokémon game. Even capturing Dragons of space, time, and antimatter, and even GOD (aka Arceus).
  • Blue Eyes
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The Arceus Event if you accidently take him out with a Fighting Type.
  • Exposed to the Elements: Dawn, especially since Sinnoh's supposed to be the cold region.
  • Hair Decorations: Dawn's clips.
  • Hair Color Dissonance: There's confusion about their hair color. Sugimori drew it a navy blue (or arguably black with blue hints) type color in their main artwork, but everything else except for Pokémon Special has them with a lighter hue.
  • Little Miss Badass: Dawn.
  • Love Interest: They play a subtle version of this role with each other.
  • Mini-Dress of Power: Dawn. There is some minor confusion about whether it's really a dress or just a coat, though many would be more comfortable with the dress idea.
    • Judging by the anime, she's wearing a minidress in Diamond and Pearl and a coat over that minidress that happens to be the exact same shape and size in Platinum.
  • Missing Mom: As an NPC, though fanon has the female scientist in Rowan's lab as their mom.
  • Nice Hat
  • Scarf of Asskicking: Regardless of version or gender, the scarf is always there. Candice really likes it.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Dawn is basically Johanna ten or twenty years younger, with long hair.
    • Lucas's hair and eye color matches Johanna as well, albeit not the same shade.
  • Theme Naming: Both their American names have to do with light- Lucas comes from the Latin "lux," which means "light," and Dawn comes from the time of day the sun rises. Works in Japanese too - the "kou" in Kouki and "hikari" can refer to the character for "light".
  • Tsundere: Dawn as a NPC. Type B.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Dawn is Grade B.


Barry (Jun)

  • Adorkable: Why female fans love him.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: After barging into your room in Platinum, he then notices your new laptop.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Just when it looks like you'll have to face Jupiter and Mars alone atop of Mt. Coronet, guess who shows up and heals you afterwards?
  • Catch Phrase: "What was that about?"
  • Character Development: As the story goes on, he becomes more patient and less hasty. He also becomes better at creating strategies and learning from his losses.
  • Crash Into Hello: Your rival's normal way of greeting you. Lampshaded during one of your mid-game encounters with him, where he doesn't crash into you and gleefully points this out, asking if you were surprised.

"Thud!!"


Professor Rowan (Dr. Nanakamado)

Looker (Handsome)


Partners

Cheryl (Momi)

Mira (Miru)

Riley (Gen)

Marley (Mai)

  • Ascended Extra: Takes part in the Shaymin event in Platinum.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita
  • Hair Decorations
  • Foreshadowing: When talked to, she mentions "the Pokémon among flowers." This is referring to Shaymin, a Pokémon that wasn't available in a legit way until a while after Diamond and Pearl's release.
  • Fragile Speedster: Her team specializes in the Speed stat. (Many of them aren't that fragile, but quickness is always their first priority.)
  • The Quiet One
  • The Stoic: Manages to be more effective at this than CYRUS.

Buck (Baku)

The Gym Leaders

Roark (Hyouta)

Oreburgh Gym Leader--Call me Roark the Rock!

Gardenia (Natane)

Eterna Gym Leader--Master of Vivid Plant Pokémon!

Maylene (Sumomo)

Veilstone Gym Leader--The Barefoot, Fighting Genius!

Crasher Wake (Maximum Mask)

Pastoria Gym Leader--The Torrential Masked Master!

  • The Cameo: Makes several in HeartGold and SoulSilver.
  • Cool Mask
  • Insistent Terminology: Wake Crasher Wake!
  • Large Ham: While most Gym Leaders are relatively subdued individuals who try to demonstrate the versatility of their element of choice, Wake's a Hot-Blooded masked wrestler who insists on always adding "Crasher" before his name. In Platinum, if you refuse to fight him at the Top Trainer Cafe, he will sing his theme song. And on the TV from time to time, it will describe him fighting wrestling matches. He even shows up a few times in HeartGold and SoulSilver, first giving you the three Sinnoh starter masks (which he appears to force on you, commending your love of masks), and later on the bridge to the Safari Zone, where he goes off on a rant about how cool waterfalls are.
  • Making a Splash
  • Mask Power
  • Meaningful Name: A wake is also the set of triangular waves left by something traveling through water (a boat, etc.). Also sounds similar to "crashing wave".
  • Shirtless Scene: He never even wears a shirt, even when traveling away from home to Johto as seen in HeartGold and SoulSilver.

Fantina (Melissa)

Hearthome Gym Leader--The Alluring, Soulful Dancer!

Byron (Tougan)

Canalave Gym Leader--The Man with the Steel Body!

Candice (Suzuna)

Snowpoint Gym Leader--The Diamond Dust Girl!

"Candice is on fire! I'm blazing hot! Hot enough to melt Ice-type Pokémon! I need a battle to cool me down! OK! I'll show you how good Candice can be! I mean, how good my Pokémon can be! Awww! That's it! I'm going to train so I can throw a Focus Punch myself!"

Volkner (Denzi)

Sunyshore Gym Leader--The Shining, Shocking Star!

  • The Ace: Though a bit character, he has elements of this. He hadn't had a good match in a long time before you showed up, to the point where he was about ready to resign as gym leader and take on the Elite Four. On top of this, he got so fed up in his boredom that he took on an extremely outlandish project to remodel his gym and ended up blacking out all of Sunyshore City. Where most of the walking space is made out of solar panels.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He acts like this to Flint, if the chat at the player's villa is any indication:

Volkner: Flint's fascination with fire-types comes from his name. Someone once told him a flint was used to start a fire, and that was it.

Volkner: My relationship to Flint? There's no love lost, that's for sure.

Team Galactic

Cyrus (Akagi)

Team Galactic's leader. He despises emotions, feeling that they are "weak and incomplete", and wishes to purge them from the universe. To do that, he intends to destroy the universe with the power of Dialga and/or Palkia, and then remake it with himself as God. Needless to say, he's batshit insane. You need to stop him. Never mind that you're eleven.

  • Abusive Parents: It's implied that his parents were at the very least severely emotionally neglectful, and the situation was so bad that his grandfather considered taking him away from them. He didn't go through with it though, and he's regretted that decision ever since.
  • A God Am I: More pronounced in Diamond and Pearl than in Platinum (In the latter game, he fixates more on the new universe itself rather than the fact that he'll be a god ruling over it.)
  • Badass Bookworm: Just listen to him lecture you about genes. He's studied a lot.
  • Bad Boss: Made explicitely clear in Platinum. Granted, it only really kicks in as part of his overall plan, since everyone but him would die anyway; before then, his primary form of punishing his agents was to take away their Pokémon.
  • Big Bad
  • Big Eyes, Little Eyes: He has some of the biggest eyes of any of the main villain bosses.
  • Blow You Away: He does seem to have a predilection for Flying-type Pokemon, and his mascot is a Honchkrow....
  • Blue Eyes
  • Broken Ace
  • The Chessmaster
  • Chekhov's Gunman: In Diamond and Pearl, he is first seen when you first visit Mt. Coronet, but you don't find out who he actually is until the end of Team Galactic's Hideout. In Platinum, he's introduced even earlier (in the first twenty minutes of the game, no less), but you also find out who he is earlier.
  • Cry for the Devil: His backstory. Especially since you hear it from someone who had a chance to help him when he needed it, but... didn't, and now it's too late.
  • Dark Messiah: Seems to see himself this way, at least in Platinum.
  • Death Glare: Possibly, his default expression- certainly his most famous.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In Platinum, his very first appearance is when you and your rival first come to Lake Verity soon after obtaining your starters - he monologues (though somewhat intended for Mesprit to hear) about how he'll capture the Lake Trio as part of his plans
  • Freudian Excuse: See Abusive Parents and Cry for the Devil above.
  • It's All About Me: And NOT in the standard way like Charon. He genuinely sees himself as alturistic, but in Platinum he reveals that he sees Team Galactic as tools for achieving his ends, that only he will claim power as a god, and "making the world a better place" will depend only on what he views as being better for everyone, which turns out to be a world devoid of spirit.
  • Karma Houdini: Cyrus is the only Big Bad in the main series who doesn't reform or otherwise get punished for his actions. At least in Platinum, he suffers a brief raging breakdown due to his plan being foiled in a way that he can't repeat it the same way again; in Diamond and Pearl, he just shrugs his defeat off and vows to start anew. And even in Platinum, while he is last left in the Distortion World, it's not like he's trapped there: he's clearly staying there by choice in order to unlock more of it's secrets.
  • Knight Templar: He believes his terrible, destructive plan to be in the entire world's best interest.
  • Kubrick Stare: He gives you a pretty good one in the intro of Platinum.
  • Light Is Not Good: If you consider that he's named after the sun....
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • Meaningful Name: His Japanese name, Akagi, can be read as "red future." His American name, Cyrus, comes from the Persian "Kuros," meaning "sun." This ties into Galactic's Stellar Name pattern as well as the fact that the Commanders "revolve" around him.
  • Misanthrope Supreme: Prefers the company of machines to humans or even Pokemon.
  • Morality Pet: One of his Pokémon is a Crobat, which only evolves if it really, really loves its owner.
  • Name's the Same: Shares his name with a random Ranger in the Battle Tower.
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: To him, "useless emotions and sentimentality are products of the weak and incomplete human heart."
  • Not So Stoic/Sanity Slippage: Very much so in Platinum, once you get him inside the Distortion World. Just before battling Giratina, you battle him, and here is what he says:

"Why should I run and hide from the world and have to wait quietly? My aim is to rid our world of the vague and incomplete thing we call spirit. By freeing ourselves of that, our world can be made complete. That is my justice! No one can interfere! I won't lose! Not to that shadowy Pokémon! Not in any worthless world!"

    • And then after you defeat him and capture/defeat Giratina:

"That Pokémon... That shadowy Pokémon was captured/defeated?! Your doing so means that this irrational world will remain in existence! Does that make it impossible for me to create a new world? Even if I made new Red Chains, the new world can't be made! Why?! What compels you to protect the two worlds? Is spirit, a vague and incomplete thing, so important to you?! Silence! Enough of your blathering! That's how you justify spirit as something worthwhile?! That is merely humans hoping, deluding themselves that they are happy and safe! The emotions broiling inside me... Rage, hatred, frustration... These ugly emotions arise because of my own incomplete spirit!"

"...Enough. We will never see eye to eye. This, I promise you. I will break the secrets of the world. With that knowledge, I will create my own complete and perfect world. One day, you will awaken to a world of my creation. A world without spirit."

Saturn

Jupiter

Mars

Charon (Pluto)

  • Ambition Is Evil
  • Evil Genius
  • Evil Old Folks
  • It's All About Me: His mentality is pretty much "Screw everyone over so that I can have wealth and glory."
  • Jerkass: This guy makes no attempt to hide how self-centered and egotistical he is.
  • Mad Scientist
  • Meaningful Name: Probably unintentional, but his American name is from Pluto's moon, notably the only heavenly body used for a Commander's name that doesn't directly revolve around the sun. Charon doesn't "revolve" around Cyrus like Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
    • Additionally, as he's shown to be the most heartless member of the team (his goals and plans are less dangerous than Cyrus's, but with no delusions of altruism to his goal, it's for less of a "meaningful" reason), consider that he's named after either a death god or the ferryman of the underworld...and how many would have died if he'd been able to control Heatran in his quest for money and self-aggrandizement.
  • Only in It For the Money: Unlike everyone else in Team Galactic, he's not looking to create a new world. It's all about money, power, and glory for him. There are even hints that he used to be with Team Rocket, where that mindset is the norm.
  • Shorter Means Smarter
  • Small Name, Big Ego / Smug Snake: Has Charon told you lately what an unparalleled genius he is?
  • The Starscream: Well, he has to be this, otherwise his motivation is meaningless.
  • The Unfought

Elite Four

The Elite Four are four Pokémon Trainers who are regarded as the toughest in their regional Pokémon League, short of their League Champion.

Aaron (Ryou)

Bertha (Kikuno)

Flint (Ooba)

Lucian (Goyou)

Cynthia (Shirona)

  • Action Girl: The first female Champion.
  • Adventurer Archaeologist
  • Ascended Extra: Since Gen III, the series has gone way off the Non-Linear Sequel scale - Characters from previous "generations" are assumed to be far away, and barring some stray cameos here and there, you're lucky to even hear about them. Cynthia has been in every game since her introduction, including Updated Rereleases of older games.
  • Badass Longcoat
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Big Good: Sort of. She ends up not even having to act in her capacity as such, though, because you're just that awesome.
  • Boss Banter: During battle she occasionally lets you know she's having a lot of fun.
  • Bonus Boss: In Black and White.
  • Brilliant but Lazy: Her place is a jumbled mess of research papers and she'd rather leave saving the world to underqualified preteens. She's also by far the most powerful trainer in the region (not counting that part later in the game where the player character inevitably undertakes a marathon of Level Grinding and achieves godhood).
  • Cool Big Sis: She's an older sister, and she acts like this to you.
  • Combat Stilettos: Has them in her Sugimori art...
  • Hair Decorations
  • Fighting Your Friend
  • Forgot About Her Powers: In Platinum. You're battling Cyrus, the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and she just stands there. Sure, she has faith in you and would obviously step in if push came to shove—and perhaps she thinks you need the challenge—but it's still sort of cruel given that you're an eleven year old kid.
  • Graceful Loser: Up to the battle, she does the usual "I see the strength in your heart and accept the challenge" bit that nearly all powerful trainers in the series seem obligated to recite by contract, but as the battle progresses, she gradually stops bothering, and her response when you beat her is basically a "Yay for you!".
  • Gray Eyes: Fits the mentor part of the first type, minus the dying.
  • Hair of Gold
  • Leitmotif: Two of them; one during the dialog before battle and the other during battles. She keeps both across generations, promoting them from normal Final Boss themes to this. Her introductory theme can be heard any time in Platinum if one's villa has a piano.
  • Peek-a-Bangs
  • Rapunzel Hair
  • Woman in Black: Although the anime makes it more of a slightly dark gray.

Frontier Brains

Elite Trainers who each preside over a Battle Frontier Facility who award prints to those who show true skill and battle prowess. They also appear in HeartGold and SoulSilver in the same roles.

Tower Tycoon Palmer (Kurotsugu)

Castle Valet Darach and Caitlin (Kokuran and Cattleya)

Hall Matron Argenta (Kate)

Factory Head Thorton (Neziki)

Arcade Star Dahlia

  1. ↑ There is enough room for 1 stack of every item, so it is theoretically possible to break by getting 99+1 of multiple types of items, but unlikely
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