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Favorites Thread: PEOPLE

Bguy7

The Dragon Lord
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Brendan, because my name is Brandon...

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Gary

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Drayden, because he's the coolest Dragon-Type Gym Leader.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Lance, the Dragon Master (and his music rocks!)

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Brandon, because...my name is Brandon, and he has Legendaries.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Galactic

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Cyrus, I liked his character idea.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Shadow Triad, because they are ninjas!
 

Mizz Nikki

Operations Director
Playable Character: Nate and Red for the male characters, May and Hilda for the female characters
Rival: I have to say Gary for this one but I do also really like Hugh and Silver as well.
Gym Leader: Skyla and Volkner. They're just both so cool and I love the both of them.
Elite Four/Champion: Malva for the elite four, Cynthia for the champion.
Frontier Brain: Lucy.
Professor: Sycamore or Juniper.
Criminal Team: Team Glacatic. Some of their diologue in the games is just so darn funny.
Criminal Team Leader: Definitely Cyrus, he's pretty darn evil.
In Game Character: Looker.
 

PKMNOriginsRed

Pokemon Trainer
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Red

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Blue

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Giovanni

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Probably Blue or Lance

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Never played Emerald

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Giovanni easily

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Probably Professor Oak
 

Joth

Back from the Dead
1) Calem, 'cause of player customization.
2) Silver is tied with Wally for this one..... I like the Antihero role he portrays and all his growth throughout the story, and it was great to watch Wally grow and grow throughout the game each time you meet up with him.
3) Currently Norman. His design is cool, his team is cool, his gym is cool, and he's cool. [STIIIIILLLLL waiting for my Dark type gym...]
Runner Up: Drayden. He is just awesome with his whole retired military general atmosphere.
4) E4 Member- Karen, as she is a Dark type specialist, and also because of her quote.
Runner Up: Wilkstrom. His XY VS. artwork made him look wierd.

Champion- Steven all the way. He was the epitome of cool. Laid back, nice, and didn't just go on and on about how cool and powerful he was. He was wise beyond his years. He was human. He was freakin' Steven.
5) Emerald: Noland. I like his Engineer vibe and design. I want to be a professional engineer when I grow up.
Runner Up: Lucy. She look pretty :p But seriously, I had a crush on her when I first played through Emerald... But I like her design and the Battle Pike was pretty cool IMO.

Platinum: Thorton. I like my Battle Factories :p
Runner Up: Dahlia. I liked the Battle Arcade and I also had a crush on her when I played through Platinum. (Hey, I was eight when I played them... But I still think she and Lucy are hot at thirteen, if not more so then when I did when I was a kid...)
6) Elm, I like his bumbling, goofy atmosphere.
7) Galactic, only because of Cyrus and the Admins. The grunts were STUPID.
Runners Up: Rocket and Magma are tied for second. Rocket because of their Mafia/Yakuza vibe, and Giovanni is awesome. Magma because of their epic overhaul in ORAS, Maxie reminds me of Walter White, and Courney is just too freakin' cute. I like thero kinda nerdy evil scientist approach.
8) Cyrus. He was just so... Evil.
Runners Up: Maxie, Giovanni, and N are tied here. Maxie because he is WALTER WHITE, Giovanni is so calm, cool, and collected, and N has a lot of character growth.
9) Looker. He is just great.
 

PlayinWithFire

Hex Trainer
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
I can't really decide I love playing as all of them

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Gary & Barry

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Morty

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Grimsley, Drasna, and for champion Blue and Steven

5. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Elm, Juniper and Sycamore

6. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Plasma and Team Flare

7. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Giovanni, Cyrus, and Ghetsis

8. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Riley, Cheryl and Cassius
 

Pokemon4Ever

Innocent Bystander
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
May. Sapphire was the first Pokemon game that I really got into without the help of older siblings, and since it was the first game I played that had a playable female trainer, (I sadly missed out on Crystal until years later) I've really grown attached to her likeness over the years. It helps that Hoenn is my favorite region/generation. She's really nostalgic to me. :)

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Blue/Gary hands down. My idea of a rival is someone who brings out the best in you and gives you the drive to do your best. No other rival in Pokemon was portrayed as strong as this guy. The other rivals all have their good points as characters, but it's the Kanto rival's all around jerkiness that gets me psyched to stomp him out.

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
There are too many to pick just one favorite, so I'll select my favorite male and female from each region in an attempt to narrow it down slightly:
Kanto: Surge and Sabrina
Johto: Falkner and Jasmine
Hoenn: Wattson and Flannery
Sinnoh: Wake and Candice
Unova: Clay and Elesa
Kalos: Clemont and Korrina

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Out of the Elite Four, my favorites are Lorelei and Drake. For the Champions, I like Blue and Iris.

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Lucy. She's just awesome. She was the first Frontier Brain I ever beat too.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
I like Professor Birch for his energy and good nature.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket. Their goals are very simple yet ruthless, and they have the coolest uniforms. ;)

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Giovanni, naturally.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Gotta be Looker. I can't help but beam every time I see him. :)
 

JX Valentine

Ever-Discordant
Golly gee, I love these topics. 8)

1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
I've always been super-fond of May. Brendan too, but mostly May. Because that hair. And also aww yiss, Gen III.

Serena's a close second thanks to player customization.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Gary will always be my homeboy. That jerkface.

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Liza and Tate. Not only are they super-adorable in the anime, but also, aww yissssss double battling.

Flannery and Misty are also the shiz(es?).

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Malva. She has this entire backstory to her that's only kinda sorta explored. And she is totally, 100% not even in the least bit remorseful about being associated with Team Flare, and it's awesome.

Runner up: Siebold, if only because he is Gordon Ramsay with Pokémon, and that is effing hilarious.

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Lucy. I blame the anime.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Sycamore is such a hilarious dork, and this is amazing.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Teams Aqua and Magma. I'm endlessly fascinated by how their goal is literally (and actually) to help people, but they just set up a chain of fantastically bad ideas powered by intensely shady henchpeople.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
N. My reasoning for being fascinated with N is the same as my reason for being fascinated with Aqua and Magma: because you know his intentions are good. It's just that the way he's going about doing it is fantastically bad. I like characters who are basically chaotic good like that.

'Course, by extent of the above, I'm also down with Archie and Maxie. Archie a little more so because he just did not really give a crap. BECAUSE PIRATES.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Bill and the other storage system developers. I could go on and on about why, but I have literally written hundreds of blog posts on Tumblr on this subject. :V

But tl;dr, Bill is a quirky supergenius whose hobbies and job description include breaking physics, and he spends most of his time being adorable about his BFFs and plethora of magic foxcatpuppies. He's perfect.

And the other developers are basically a laundry list of the last people you'd expect to program a computer ... maintaining the computer mainframe where you keep your precious bondcreatures. They're basically the best.
 
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RedJirachi

Veteran member
1. Favorite playable character: Doesn't really matter, since they don't have a real character and only exist to allow the player to interact with the fictional world
2. N(hey, he keeps appearing to fight you and is a philosophical warrior)
3. Misty because of the anime
4. Cynthia. She has an interesting character and role in the games, and has one of the most effective teams I've seen
5. Brandon, because of the anime and the fact he has legendary golems
6. Professor Sycamore actually does something
7. Team Plasma. Even if half of them were hypocrites, they tested the very foundation of Pokemon itself
8. I don't see N as an actual villain, so Lysandre. He's got a deliciously crazy mindset, yet unlike all except Team Plasma I can agree he's fighting for a good cause, one that we are suffering from in real life(overpopulation and running out of resource)
9. ???
 

PrinceOfFacade

Ghost-Type Master
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
I have a bit of a soft spot for Dawn, having played as her so many times in Pearl, so I will probably have to go with her.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
One can never say anyone other than Blue, one of the greatest rivals in any video game ,imo.

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
I love Jasmine. She's just a little sweetheart, but a well-rounded gym leader as well.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER?
Lady Caitlin, one of the few Pokémon characters to appear in more than one generation, and the youngest member of any Elite Four.

5. Who’s your favorite CHAMPION?
Cynthia, of course! No Champion is more badass than her, not even Lance.

6. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
The Roulette Goddess herself, Dahlia. Yeah, one would think it would be Lady Caitlin, but I love her more as an Elite Four member than a Battle Frontier brain.

7. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Prof. Sycamore, not only because he looks cool and actually battles, but because it is my strong belief he once had a brief relationship with Lysandre.

8. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Aqua, of course!

9. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Archie, of course!

10. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
And without a doubt, the Roulette Goddess herself, Dahlia.
 

SlowPokeBroKing

Future Gym Leader
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Male - Brendan
Female - Serena

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Male - Wally
Female - Shauna

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Male - Koga
Female - Erika

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
E4 - Bruno
Champion - Alder

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Never challenged a Frontier.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Rowan

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Aqua

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Archie

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Gym Leader Encouragement Guy
 

Laverre

Marchioness
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Serena or Hilda

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Hugh

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Skyla or Valerie

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
E4 - Wikstrom or Caitlin
Champion - Cynthia

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Anabel

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Rowan

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Giovanni

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Umm Move Deleter?
 

CyberBlaziken

A Greater Evil
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Red or Gold. I like most of the player protagnists, except Gen V's.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Gary and Silver. Proper rivals in my book,

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Sootopolis. Loved the challenge and was always a challenge when I went with Blaziken as my starter.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Gotta be Lance as an Elite Four member, Cynthia as the Champion.

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Pyramid King Brandon.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket, the original criminal organization, and not hell-bent on Legendaries.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Go-Rock-Quads, loved their musical entrance.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Looker, fascinating character. And the possible alternate worlds theory with Mega Evolution and XY-ORAS makes it even interesting.
 

Gillachu

Banned
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?

Red.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?

Barry.

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?

Norman.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?

Blue

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?

Noland definitely.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?

Prof Rowan.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?

Team Galactic.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?

Lysandre. :cool:

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?

Shauna from X/Y.
 

Ryohei

Shiny Hunter
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Red

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Gary/Blue

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Volkner

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Gary/Blue

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Caitlin

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Sycamore

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Magma

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Team Magma Leader

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
I cant think of any
 

SparklingMistral

The #1 Remus Lupin f
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Dawn was pretty cool.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Wally was probably my favorite. He wasn't overly annoying, and it was cool how he was introduced to the series.

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Flannery and Winona. ♥ Also Morty.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
I don't think I have a favorite E4 member, but I really like Cynthia as a Champion.

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
I never really cared much about the Battle Frontier in the games, so I don't have a favorite Frontier Brain.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Juniper! I liked that she was the first female professor in the games.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket are the original criminals that have stayed throughout the whole series. I also liked gen 3 Team Magma's female grunt outfits.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
I don't think I have one.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
I don't think I have one of these either.
 

mmweinst

New Member
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
My favorite is May because I've just played her in my current game of soul silver

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
I have to choose Gary because he's clearly the best rival

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
No doubt - Sabrina!!!! One of the best anime episodes and creepiest. Definitely one of my favorite gym leaders in the show and in the game.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Lance - mostly because he's all about the dragons

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
no idea

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak and Juniper

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Flare.. definitely the coolest one i've seen and an honorable mention to team rocket.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Giovanni

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Bill because he gives you free stuff
 

Lexya428

Pokèmon Master
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
I like Red because of his infamous quietness.
May because I adored playing as her, especially her Emerald outfit.
Also, enjoyed playing as characters in HGSS, but that's mainly because Pokémon follow you.
XY, Serena, I just like trainer customization.

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Smell ya later!


3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Brock.

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Lance and Cynthia.

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Lucy.

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak.

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Team Rocket's rockin'. Then, Team Galactic.

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Jessie, James, Meowth, Giovanni, and Cyrus.

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Bill :)
His costumes
 

M.P.

Retired
1. Who's your favorite PLAYABLE CHARACTER?
Ethan

2. Who's your favorite RIVAL?
Silver

3. Who’s your favorite GYM LEADER?
Koga

4. Who’s your favorite ELITE FOUR MEMBER/CHAMPION?
Lance and Cynthia

5. Who’s your favorite FRONTIER BRAIN?
Lucy

6. Who’s your favorite PROFESSOR?
Oak

7. What’s your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM?
Rocket

8. Who's your favorite CRIMINAL TEAM MEMBER/LEADER?
Cyrus

9. Who's your favorite IN-GAME CAST CHARACTER?
Can't think of any.
 

Conquering Storm

Driver of the Aegis
Favorite playable character: Serena

Favorite rival: Hugh

Favorite Gym Leader: Roxie

Favorite Elite Four member: Shauntal (Bookworms FTW!)

Favorite Champion: Cynthia

Favorite Frontier Brain: Well, I haven't played any games with a Battle Frontier, but I love Lucy and Greta in the manga.

Favorite Professor: Juniper the Younger

Favorite team: Old Plasma

Favorite team member: Shadow Triad, no contest. (I also really like Bryony.)

Favorite in-game cast member: Reuniclus in Poképark 2. "If the world was destroyed, I would have nothing to research!"
 

Kalosian

So long
I have never posted in these favorite threads before, decided to give them all a go before Sun and Moon hit the world, chances are my favorites will change after those games are out but we'll see. For now, this is it, and I decided to start with this one. I was originally planning to give reasons for everything but decided not to since it took too long to write down and I don't think anyone will be reading this anyway.

1. Who's your favorite Playable Character?
I'm mostly going by design here, though what each character accomplishes in their game as well as what generations I prefer affect my choices a bit.
Favorites: Hilbert, Hilda, Nate and Rosa
Runner-ups: Lucas, Dawn, Brendan, Kris and Leaf
Honorable mentions: Calem and Serena. Not a big fan of their default designs but character customization saves them.

2. Who's your favorite Rival?
Favorite: Bianca
Runner-ups: Cheren, Hugh and Barry
Honorable mentions: Wally and May/Brendan

3. Who’s your favorite Gym Leader?
Basing this on design and personality.

I want this to be fair so I'll do a favorite from each region.

Kanto: Erika
Johto: Falkner
Hoenn: Roxanne
Sinnoh: Volkner
Unova: Clay
Kalos: Valerie

Runner-ups:
Kanto: Giovanni
Johto: Pryce
Hoenn: Norman and Tate/Liza
Sinnoh: Candice and Crasher Wake
Unova: Iris, Cheren, Roxie, Marlon, Elesa, Skyla
Kalos: Ramos and Korrina

Overall favorite group of Gym Leaders: Unova
Runner-ups: Sinnoh and Hoenn
Honorable mention: Kalos. Not very interesting as characters, but all of them have great designs.

4. Who’s your favorite Elite Four Member/Champion?
Doing this for every region again regarding the E4 members. Basing this on design and personality once more.

Kanto: Lorelei
Johto: Bruno
Hoenn: Drake
Sinnoh: Flint
Unova: Caitlin
Kalos: Malva

Runner-ups:
Kanto: Bruno
Johto: Koga
Hoenn: Phoebe
Sinnoh: Lucian
Unova: All three
Kalos: Siebold

Overall favorite Elite Four: Unova
Runner-ups: Sinnoh and Hoenn

Favorite Champion: Iris
Runner-ups: Alder and Cynthia
Honorable mentions: Steven and Wallace

5. Who’s your favorite Frontier Brain?
Doing this for both Frontiers separately.

Emerald: Anabel
Runner-ups: The other six
(they are all really great)

Platinum: Palmer
Runner-ups: Caitlin, Thorton and Dahlia

6. Who’s your favorite Professor?
Favorite: Juniper
Runner-ups: Not sure, the rest are about equal for me.

7. What’s your favorite Criminal Team?
Favorite: Plasma
Runner-ups: Galactic, Aqua and Magma.

8. Who's your favorite Criminal Team Member/Leader?
First, regarding the leaders:
Favorites: Ghetsis and Colress
Runner-ups: Cyrus, Archie and Maxie
Honrable mentions: Giovanni and Lysandre. I don't like Team Rocket or Flare as much as the other teams, but I do like their leaders.

As for others: I like the Sages and N from Plasma, as well as the Admins from Galactic, Aqua and Magma.
As for the grunts, I'm not sure. Several of them have great designs and some of them say some fun things too.

9. Who's your favorite In-Game Cast Character?
Not sure. I like the mothers for the playable characters and the PC box system owners. And the Gym guides, they can be fun at times.
 
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