#Rival Gary

[lorekeeper-backset]

Absolute shame Gary never showed up in Kalos. I think he should have studied there like Blue in the games solely cause I think him butchering "Bonjour" would be funny.

#backset blabbers #pokemon #pokeani #anipoke #gary oak #gary pokemon #trainer gary #rival gary

[seregura]

Los Eevee viviendo su propia telenovela mientras sus entrenadores ven a la distancia.

Puro friendzone y un triángulo.

#eeveelution #eevee #umbreon #sylveon #chloe cerise #koharu sakuragi #rival gladion #pokemon gladion #gary oak #rival gary #pokemon serena #performer serena #pokemon koharu #anipoke

[spamtonass]

#(his Pokémon are gonna get the shit beaten out of them) #Rival Blue #Rival Green #Rival Gary #Blue Oak #Green Oak #Gary Oak #Blue Pokémon #Green Pokémon #Gary Pokémon #PkMn Trainer Red #Trainer Red #Red Pokémon

[samlizardonstan]

Ash vs Gary , Day 1 battle

Anipoke has became super battle focused in present day, I don’t think Ash and Gary’s Rivalry really even needed something like that cuz they were WORLDS APART in skills 

But I would be lying if I said that didn’t find the idea appealing

#Anipoke #Gary Oak #Pokeani #Ash Ketchum #Pokemon Battle #Rival Gary #Squirtle #Pikachu

[crabfisher]

touhou pokemon rom hack [tomboyish makes your pc renko girlish makes your pc merry]

#posts #found this extremely hysterical #also your rival is still gary???

[dentarthurdent]

games vs anime ; local old man cannot stop pitting children against each other

whats his deal? between this & pokespe oak knowingly using a bird against an 11 yo girl who's afraid of birds from bird-related trauma im beginning to suspect he just secretly hates kids

#my art #pokemon #professor oak #ash ketchum #gary oak #trainer red #blue oak #rival green #sorry for the oak slander

[somewhereincairparavel]

Literally where do people get the idea that Jason was full of himself and that he thought he was better than Percy? This is legit brought up in so many 'why-i-hate-jason-grace" arguments it just screams lack of reading comprehension and obvious Percy bias saltiness. Like just say you are bitter that Jason is written as percy's equal and that you want Percy to have nobody rival him 💀

Never once in his povs did he ever think about how much better he was, on the contrary it's just him not feeling good enough about himself. He and Percy NEVER said anything bad about eachother.

His and Percy's rival is just a joke between two powerful demigods who have rival dads, that's literally it. Even if Jason did indeed think he's better, so what about it? What's the big deal?

he has worked hard and accomplished great things, so he has like, every right to be confident in his power, stop acting like hes all weak and inferior when he canonically killed a titan with like his bare fucking hands till the point Krios swore vengeance on him. No he's not "weak" or morally inferior to Percy as a person. You are merely trying to cope. Not to mention the way people judge a character's worth SOLEY based on their abilities is a huge red flag in itself, but that's a discussion for another time.

he shouldve canonically had more achievments and power than he originally got in the books as a son of jupiter. but rick made Percy too OP and fumbled jason for the sake of keeping percy's spotlight intact. Has it ever dawned on people that Percy is shown to have cool abilities like bending tears but Jason is never shown to have abilities like controlling lungs? Yeah, that's authors privilege for ya.

Y'all put Percy in an obnoxiously high pedestal and that's not a good thing. It diminishes his flaws and makes him appear so saint like and Gary Stu even though he's not. the fact that ppl get so sensitive over their rivalry and try to belittle jason by making up scenarios (like claiming jason thinks he's superior and shit) and go around saying that to ppl to reduce his value DESPITE being well aware that he has like enough hate already, is so insanely petty. BOTH Jason and Percy deserve equal amounts of respect.

God forbid a teenage boy say he's better than the other as a joke, he's such a terrible, stuck up, and shitty person who deserved death for that, isn't he?

#Attack me all you want idc I said what I said. #Yall just dig up reasons at this point. It's giving an 8 year old roblox kid behaviour. #Fandom to a boy with a tragic story who literally did nothing but exist and be a good person: he's a villian who deserved death! 😡😠 #I swear if Jason slander still exists a few years later then I have no hope in this fandom anymore. #I thought this fandom was peaceful 😔 #“I hate Jason with passion bc he's boring and nobody should rival Percy because he's the best.How dare Jason be the son of the king of gods #“how dare someone be percy's equal. Nobody should be written as Percy's competitor 😤😡😠” like womp womp ig #Y'all are so salty lmfao. The fandom makes Percy into such a gary stu even when he's not. #pjo #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #pjo fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #percy jackson #jason grace #pjo hoo #hoo

[oakgreenoak]

Something I've always found kinda interesting about Red and Green in gameverse is how they turn some of the Stock Shōnen Protagonist/Rival tropes on their heads.

This is really long character analysis of these two and various media counterparts of theirs, so I'm gonna stick it under a cut.

In some ways they fit their roles quite well - aside from the obvious colour associations, you have Red as the hero whose sense of justice is stronger than his sense of self-preservation, and you have Green as the privileged rival who cares about beating Red above all else.

But, if you look at it another way - Green's got the light spiky hair, the hot-headed and boisterous personality, the drive to Get Better And Win. He's designed to read as really open and chipper, yet snarky. Sure, he isn't dumb, but he's arrogant, and he's got something of a one-track mind; the guy finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation because he's just that hellbent on fighting his rival, and does not seem to be thinking about anything else. He's also got a motivation - given how the Professor talks to him in the championship room and supplementary material like his Generations appearance, it's not a stretch to think the reason he's so driven to Get Better And Win is to prove himself to his grandfather. It's shown in later games and supplementary works that he's become somewhat of a mentor as he got older and wiser.

Red, on the other hand, is a quiet loner whose only motivation seems to be to get stronger for the sake of getting stronger. He's level-headed and dark haired, his cap rounding off his edges and obscuring his face. He's heroic, but not really sociable, as evidenced by the fact he spends the Johto games alone on a mountain without having told anyone where he went. He seems isolated in a way that later games' protagonists really don't. He may have always been a step behind Green, but he's always better.

Equally fascinating to me is how other adaptations have changed the base designs around and rewritten personalities to suit different purposes, while still being visually recognisable as counterparts to their game-selves.

For example: Red and Green's counterparts in Special slot WAY more neatly into their stock shōnen roles, with Red as the boisterous hero and Green as the broody rival, and it's reflected in their new designs.

Red's hair becomes spiky to reflect his more excitable nature. His hat, in turn, never obscures his face; it's always either tilted back to accommodate his fringe or turned backwards. Green's hair, on the other hand, is not quite as spiked upwards and instead falls into his face, frequently obscuring his far eye in the same way game!Red's hat does.

And then, of course, the anime balanced them in a totally different direction.

Instead of scrapping Green's personality wholecloth, it's become exaggerated in Gary. He's not the broody antihero rival, he's the arrogant, privileged, better-than-you rival. He's always ten steps ahead of Ash, always pisses him off, and is ALWAYS better until the end of his run. The anime also emphasises his intelligence far more, with him doing things like rattling off dex info and the speed of light in mph off the top of his head, to further contrast him with Ash.

Ash, who is of course THE shōnen protagonist. He's dumb, but determined, and always ready to help people in need. Unlike game!Red, the power of friendship (with more than just pokémon) is central to him; any given season of the show is defined as much if not moreso by his travelling companions and interpersonal relationships as it is by whatever he's actually doing.

It's funny to me, though, how most adaptations seem to find the fact that gameverse Red and Green have swapped some stock roles as something to fix. Even Origins, which is probably the closest a high-profile adaption has come to game-accurate, made its version of Red louder and more standard-hero-esque.

I'm not knocking any of these things, of course, just observing. I adore both Special and anipoke. I just think that the way the game characters are written could lead to some interesting dynamics were it to be explored more.

#pokemon #reguri #pokespe #pokeani #anipoke #trainer red #rival green #blue oak #dexholder red #dexholder green #ash ketchum #gary oak #character analysis #sorry not sorry for writing an essay on a whim. it will happen again #namelessshipping #originalshipping #palletshipping #kindanotreally #but i think yall will appreciate my char analysis of them as a dynamic yknow. i am one of youse

[lensinski]

same vibes

#its about the our clubs are rivals but we play in the nt together and actually like each other #sidney crosby #claude giroux #gary neville #jamie carragher #cheesby #grilled cheesby #carraville #nhl #liverpool fc #manchester united

[gen4grl]

i think despite the original intention that ash was meant to be a cross-counterpart to red, everyone knows they are such distinct and seperate characters. i don’t think anyone remotely associates them with eachother to a point where people have discussions who would win in a battle. blue on the other hand is so funny to me cause TO THIS DAY i still see people call GAME CANON BLUE gary oak. in a way i understand because all of blues counterparts tend to share the same witty bastard trope compared to red who has such a wide variety of interpretations (despite most of us loving and associating him with the the silent protag type) but yall its been nearly 30 years and respectfully, they are NOT the same lol.

#gary was actually my fave part of anipoke when i watched so no Gary oak haters allowed #i just love blue like a lot a lot #like he’s my top 5 characters favourite #also blues voice in all media is so much better than garys LOL despite it being so iconic #pokemon #blue oak #blue pokemon #gary oak #gary pokemon #rival blue #ramblings

[torchickentacos]

As soon as I turn this stupid-ass assignment in, I'm going to see if I can track the route rivals traveled through in the anime. For no real reason other than 'I feel like doing something stupid and inconsequential for three hours to unwind' and 'idk maybe I'll find something interesting' tbh

#nobody hold me to this by the way. i'm probably going to give up fifteen minutes in because rivals just kinda show up wherever they want #i know i can probably figure out drew's. paul? probably not. zoey PERHAPS. harley no. solidad no. gary PERHAPS #part of this means figuring out where the fuck places like fennel valley are but that's a problem for later

[pokemonedits-outofcontext]

edit credit goes to @nowandevermore !!! Forever thanks for imparting chaos upon this blog <3

#rip gary you got replaced with another jerkass rival #canadianshipping #pokemon #pokemon ash #pokemon drew #pokemon goh

[chibirisa20]

Oaks have two types: Murder goblin and cryptid demon spawn.

#pokemon #kanto quintet #blue oak #rival blue #gary oak #palletshipping #originalshipping #reguri #shigesato

[palletofshipping]

Gary and Ash have boba tea sipping contests

(Gary always wins :))

#gary oak #ash ketchum #pokemon #palletshipping #shigesato #they’ll always be rivals lol

[jadeazora]

So now that it's fully over, here's my favorite returns in Journeys.

It was nice getting closure for the Aether family, Iris is Champion and had a pretty solid battle with Cynthia (I do wish we had seen her battle with Alder tho), I liked Paul coming back to help train Ash and make sure he's ready for the Masters Eight, and it was cool to see Gary getting focus in the Mew arc.

The worst is easily Alain. He barely acknowledged Ash at all until he's leaving, they don't even battle since he got Leon in the first round (I would have preferred Steven or Lance again for Leon. Alain is the one main rival Ash never defeated, and even without Greninja, I would have liked the XY closure), and he barely emotes:

As for the worst Pokemon returns, Incineroar and Squirtle. Incineroar was really just used as a heater, we never really saw it battle, and I didn't really like the main conflict of Squirtle's episode at all.

The best Pokemon returns were Team Rockets'. I loved seeing them working together to try and capture Pikachu, and the plan of splitting everyone up was pretty solid, only getting foiled thanks to Latias:

#pokemon journeys #pokemon aim to be a pokemon master #pokeani #anipoke #rival paul #pokemon paul #trainer alain #champion iris #pokemon lillie #gladion #lusamine #incineroar #squirtle #gary oak #team rocket #jessie james meowth #pokemon sun and moon #pokemon xy #pokemon tsme #pokemon diamond and pearl #pokemon best wishes #pokemon black and white

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

#gary oak #pokemon #ken sugimori #trainer blue #every character is gay and trans #gay #lgbt #lgbtq+ #lgbtq #trans #transgender #anime #trainer green #rival blue #blue oak