AgentPierce
Mad science FTW!
1. He's not an abuser. You'd have a far stronger case for Ash being one in Kanto than Paul being one. He's a coach, and a strict one.
2. He's not a bully. His comment to Maylene was rude, but commenting on one's strength does not equal bully. She really did fight horribly against him.
I can understand not liking Paul. Heck, he's not even meant to be likable. But the "Abuser"/"Bully" shouting in regards to him is horrible.
1. BS. A good coach works himself just as hard as he does the players he's coaching, a good coach cares for his players no matter how strict he is, and a good coach brings out a player's strength for that player's sake. Paul expected all his Pokemon to do all kinds of work that he himself wouldn't do, he saw them as disposable tools, not as players that he cared about, and he only cared about bringing out their strength to benefit himself.
2. Didn't you once call Iris a bully? And yet you're saying Paul isn't? Your credibility = SHOT.
And I say this change was completely random and unjustified. Nothing had happened to him that would seriously bring him to change his outlook. It would have been much more in character of him to be angry and feel humiliated at losing to a "worthless" trainer like Ash.
Exactly. The one time he showed much in the way of emotion was his epic angry breakdown as he was losing to Brandon. And as we saw in his subsequent two-episode full battle with Ash, this didn't change him one ounce; he was still a callous jerk who looked down on others. He had one brief appearance afterward, and then it was the Sinnoh League. He lost to Ash and Infernape (the Pokemon that used to be HIS), and his dream of becoming the champion went up in smoke. By all logic, he should have reacted just as violently upset as he did in the Brandon battle, as we never saw him mature past that kind of attitude. And yet....nothing. WTF!? That was just bad writing, the kind that marked Paul's entire character.
Paul wasn't meant to be a character everyone adores, however, his unlikability has the opposite effect on some fans. They're drawn to him, because he's not the generic nice guy. He's different, and different is good in a series that can get pretty bland with its characters.
How is a generic mean guy any better than a generic nice guy? Because generic is what Paul was. We've had lots of jerks in the past: Gary, Drew, Harley, several one-offs, etc. and they all were actually entertaining in their jerkishness. Even Suwama, Tepig's trainer and a grade-A scumbag, was entertaining. Paul was not. He was a bland, taken-super-seriously-all-the-damn-time, emotionless bore, and he had the same generic mean attitude and did the same generic mean things every time he appeared.
Paul was never made to be this character that everyone was gonna fan-girl over
And yet everyone goes fan-girl over him regardless, funny that.
he was a whole new idea for a rival and a pokemon character in general up until this point we hadn't seen anyone treat pokemon this way.
......Are you effing kidding me?
A whole new idea for a rival? What about THIS GUY?
We never saw anyone treat Pokemon this way? What about THIS GUY?
it's just stupid to me that they added such a great and complex character which had never been seen before on Pokemon
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Too funny!
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