Pokémon Go/Characters

Characters from Pokémon Go include:

Professor Willow

"Hello there! I am Professor Willow"

Professor Willow is a very outdoorsy scientist and the leader of a research team.

Tropes exhibited by Professor Willow include:

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Like Professor Holly, Professor Willow addresses the gamer to give a basic tutorial and tips.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: And the Professor always wears it.
Like Father, Like Son: His dad loves the outdoors, his son, likes to do research outside only using his van to as a mini-lab.
The Knights Who Say Squee: Professor Willow idolizes Professor Oak, since he was one of the many assistants and students that were taught by Samuel Oak.
Messy Hair
Only Child Syndrome: He's the only kid in his family.
Perma-Stubble
The Professor
Shrinking Violet: Despite being seen as an over confident and outgoing, Professor Willow is incredibly bashful.
White-Haired Pretty Boy
Younger Than He Looks: Professor Willow appears a bit older than his assistants and doesn't look his age.

Willow's Assistants

Candela, Blanche, and Spark are the young yet idealistic assistants of Professor Willow and leaders of Team Valor/Team Red, Team Mystic/Team Blue, and Team Instinct/Team Yellow respectively, they help him and their recruits to research and defend Pokemon.

Tropes exhibited by Professor Willow's assistants are

Friendly Rivals: The assistants have a friendly relationship towards each other.
- It's to the point that fans portray both Candela and Blanche butting their heads together competitively.

Candela

"I'm Candela - Team Valor's leader!"

The passionate yet illustrious leader of Team Valor, her Pokemon research focuses on true strength.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Bare-Fisted Monk: Some of Candela's Pokemons are fighting types, like Combusken and Magmortar.
Blow You Away: Due to Moltres and Salamance's extra typing.
Leeroy Jenkins: Some of the ways Candela solves problems is barging first into battle.
Our Dragons Are Different: In the Master Leagues, she uses a Salamence.
Dishing Out Dirt: Her Magcargo brings out the rocks.
Playing With Fire: Most things about Candela are this, like her main Pokemons (i.e. Flareon, Moltres, and Entei).
Shock and Awe: One of her beloved Legendaries is a Raikou.

Spark

"Hey! The name's Spark - The leader of Team Instinct."

The only man in Professor Willow's group of assistants, Spark, who is Team Instinct's leader and wants to unlock the secrets to Pokemon's intuition and its connection with hatching.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Anime Hair
Bishonen
Dark Is Not Evil: Spark also has Tyranitar, a Dark/Rock type.
Extra Ore Dinary: Magnezone is as steely as one can get.
Friend to All Living Things
Making A Splash: Rainy form Castform is the only Water type in Spark's team.
Shock and Awe: Spark's electifying friends include, Jolteon, Zapdos, and Luxray, just to name a few.

Blanche

"I am Blanche, leader of Team Mystic."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

An Ice Pokemon: Most of Blanche's team, consists mostly ice types, like Articuno, Sealeo, and Empoleon.
Bifauxnen: Blanche.
- It's to the point that during PoGo's early days, IRL Poketrainers mistaken her for a dude.
Blow You Away: Articuno is also a flying type.
Dark Is Not Evil: One of her pokemon for the Great League training battles is a Sneasel.
Dishing Out Dirt: Due to Mamoswine being in the group.
Making a Splash: Both Sealeo and Suicune's typings are rather wet.
Psychic Powers|Extra Ore Dinary: Mainly of Blanche's Metagross.

PokéTrainer

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The new recruit and student of Professor Willow and his three assistants.

Tropes exhibited by PokéTrainer include:

A Boy and His X: Thanks to the buddy system updates, the Poketrainer and his mon can form a friendship bond with each other.
- The Mon can sometimes be seen in the overview map walking alongside its trainer.
Anime Hair
Character Customization: The start of the game has little customization that a player can do, like choosing skin color, clothes, and hair.
Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: In a mild form of Rooting for the Empire, IRL Pokétrainer can dress their avatars in the uniforms of evil teams, like Team Aqua and Team Magma.
Player Character
Silent Protagonist
Skirt Over Slacks: For the girl Poketrainers, it's more of a "Shorts and/or skirts over leggings."
Walking the Earth
Zettai Ryouiki

Team Go Rocket

They are a terrorist organization, led by Giovanni, that seeks to use Pokemon for evil means, even if it means injuring and experimenting on them.

Evil Counterpart: To Professor Willow and his fellow scientists.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Team Go Rocket gives out hints of what their Pokemon team's typings are, this will give the player a clue to defeat them.
The Reason You Suck Speech

Giovanni

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Giovanni is the big magikarp of all of Team Rocket.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Badass in a Nice Suit
Big Bad
Making a Splash
Non-Elemental
Our Dragons Are Different
Playing with Fire: Like Candela, Giovanni has the Legendary fire/flying type, Moltres.

Team Go Rocket Leaders

The Team Rocket Leaders are just one step below Giovanni in the criminal group's pecking order and answer only to Giovanni.

Tropes exhibited by the Team Go Rocket Leaders are

Leader Arlo

"It's time to learn your place in the world."

A former friend of Candela's and member of Team Valor, Arlo is now one of Team Go Rocket's Leaders.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Bishonen
Multicoloured Hair: Arlo got some hair dying tips from Curella Di Vil, one half black, one half red.
Our Dragons Are Different: He has a Bagon, Dragonite, and Salamence in his team.
Playing With Fire: From the only fire-type in his group, Charizard.
Purely Aesthetic Glasses: His goggles that he wears are these.

Leader Sierra

"This will be a battle I'm sure you'll never forget."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Dark Is Not Evil: An Absol, Shiftry, and Cacturne are part of her team.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Despite that her spandex is mostly white with some violet trimmings here and there. Sierra is very graceful and feminine, even though she's just as capable of kicking your butt.
Making a Splash|An Ice Pokemon: Her Lapras is a force to be reckon with, with it freezing or making waves.
Sensual Spandex
Playing with Fire: From her one and only Houndoom.
Prim and Proper Bun
Psychic Powers: Sierra also has an Alakazam and Gallade.

Leader Cliff

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A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Affably Evil: When the IRL Poketrainer encounters Cliff in person, he carries himself with a sophisticated air.
Beard of Evil
Green Thumb: He has a faithful Torterra at his side.
Making A Splash
Non-Elemental: Marowak and Stantler are the only normal ones in the group.
Shock and Awe: He has an Electivire.

Go Rocket Grunts

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These grunts are at the bottom and are usually getting bossed around by the likes of Giovanni and the Team Leaders. They're easier for the IRL Pokemon trainer to defeat though.

Tropes exhibited by Go Rocket Grunts include:

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