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Paul's future..?

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Scuffle of Legends
It may be too early to discuss this now, or it may not. I personally have no idea.

In my opinion, Ash has only had two serious rivals; Gary and Paul. Not that characters like Harrison, Ritchie and Barry are not rivals, but ary and Paul didn't see eye to eye with Ash and were pretty much antagonists.

Gary was once very full of himself. He even had cheerleaders who followed him around like he was some hott stuff. Then, after losing in the Pokemon League, he realized that he wasn't the best and ditched the cheerleaders. We then saw him in Johto, and he was still considered an antagonist. Ash eventually beat Gary, so he became a Pokemon Researcher.

Now, after a full region and Battle Frontier arc of no "rivals", we get Paul. What will happen to Paul? Will he lose to Ash in a real pokemon battle (not a ringer conests :P) and then call it quits? Will he hit it big and become a Fronteir Brain (like his "dad")? Will we become something else? Will we see him in the Johto BF? Or later than that? Or will he be finished off at the end of Sinnoh?

What do you guys think?

I think he will lose to Ash in the Sinnoh Fronteir ('cause Inferfnape will r.ape like a mother). But I dont think that Paul would quit after one loss, like Gary....
 
Gary isn't even a proper rival anymore. I think Gary is ace and one of Pokemon's better characters but he was handled terribly. They didn't have him oppose Ash enough back in Kanto and compared to his game counterpart he did arse all.

He came for Johto, did arse all again, lost in the League, changed his mind on what he wanted to do in life and then swans off into the sunset.

We might see him in the Johto Battle Frontier, but we also might see them resetting the rival of G/S and introducing him somehow. I would much rather see a new Hoso about that AND Paul pretty much is Silver, but...

Silver right after Paul might be a bit too much though.

Paul will probably stay for the filler region and then be dumped.
 
Paul as in Shinji?

I think he'll just go off for about 80 episodes, then he will probably return out of nowhere, like Gary did. However, Gary was gone for only one US season.
 
Gary was gone for the entire Hoeen saga..so three seasons in the dub..

Anyway, the soothe bells will no doubt come into play during Ash and Paul's "parting". They didn't have Ash win them for no reason. After all is said and done, and Ash wins of course, Paul will no doubt change his cruel ways and begin a new journey. This time he will treat his pokemon with respect and care like Ash does. The soothe bells will be a symbol of Ash and Paul's relationship like the broken pokeball that Ash and Gary share, the broken ribbon that Ash and May share or Misty's lure.
 
thunderblade12 said:
Gary was gone for the entire Hoeen saga..so three seasons in the dub..

Anyway, the soothe bells will no doubt come into play during Ash and Paul's "parting". They didn't have Ash win them for no reason. After all is said and done, and Ash wins of course, Paul will no doubt change his cruel ways and begin a new journey. This time he will treat his pokemon with respect and care like Ash does. The soothe bells will be a symbol of Ash and Paul's relationship like the broken pokeball that Ash and Gary share, the broken ribbon that Ash and May share or Misty's lure.
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Sorry, I was refering to the Orange Islands saga/season. Gary didn't appear until the end.

I guess I got carried away ^_^
 
My predictions.. Ash beats him in Sinnoh League prompting or somehow inspiring Paul to change his ways as a trainer and goes to BF and becomes a brain. Or he'll continue as a trainer in another region adopting his new ways and make Gary-like appearances.
 
I hope Paul will became another version of Gary in 5th gen(if there is one ofcourse) after Ash beats him at the league(he's possibly going to do that), but unlike Gary he keeps his personality, but he STILL cares about his Pokemon...
But I think after Sinnoh league, he will go to challenge Kanto BF(when Ash possibly Johto/Platinum/Sinnoh BF)...
 
I hope that ash gets beaten terribly by paul. Like 6-0'd by his newly evolved Electrivire or something. I just love watching ash fail.
 
swalot=yes said:
I hope that ash gets beaten terribly by paul. Like 6-0'd by his newly evolved Electrivire or something. I just love watching ash fail.
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That will not happen, it has never happened before.

Do not even expect them to battle for a while either...
 
swalot=yes said:
I hope that ash gets beaten terribly by paul. Like 6-0'd by his newly evolved Electrivire or something. I just love watching ash fail.
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u know that aint happening.
 
Yeah Ash and him won't battle until the league. He may not even show up until then. If he does, it would be minor.
I see no reason for him to go to johto, since he already has 8 johto badges and seems to have no interest in the BF. He may go to the 5th gen, or possibly go to Kanto for THAT BF (to see Brandon again) while Ash is in Johto
 
personally I'm thinking paul loses to ash, changes his ways a little bit but still trash talks with ash. they both defeat all the frontier brains in the battle frontier where ever it may be, then paul accepts the offer of becoming a brain and ash declines and off to 5th gen.
 
I'm thinking that Paul will lose to Ash in the Sinnoh League, then change his ways somewhat. He will care for his Pokemon, like Ash does. Then I'm thinking we'll see him a few times during the filler saga (if there is one) but as more of a friendly rival. At the end of it, Ash and Paul will have one last full battle to end the Fourth Generation. After that, they will go seperate ways: Ash to the Fifth Generation region, and Paul to another league that he hasn't competed in yet (maybe the Orange League?).
 
After the league who knows, It would be nice if he should up in Kanto taking on the BF, but even if Ash were to beat him in the SL, I could see Ash randomly walking into a Pokemon center glancing at a TV and seeing none other than Paul taking on the Elite 4
 
I think they will probably have Paul in the show until the end of the filler season and then he will just leave and we wont see him again.


swalot=yes said:
I hope that ash gets beaten terribly by paul. Like 6-0'd by his newly evolved Electrivire or something. I just love watching ash fail.
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Um...yeah, that will not happen.
 
Jun's Heracross said:
personally I'm thinking Paul loses to ash, changes his ways a little bit but still trash talks with ash. they both defeat all the frontier brains in the battle frontier where ever it may be, then Paul accepts the offer of becoming a brain and ash declines and off to 5th gen.
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Yeah, I think something like that might happen. If Ash finally beats Paul (ringer contest doesn't count) then Paul might change his ways, but that doesn't mean he will be "Mr. Nice Guy" to Ash.
 
I'll throw two cents in...

Towards the end of the Sinnoh Saga and beginning of the BF, Paul will probably see Ash as an asset rather than a liability... or to it bluntly, will see Ash as a respected rival rather than a loser. Which is something that Ash wants from Paul, his respect, to put it bluntly...

I don't think Paul will drastically change his ways but will adopt a few things from Ash and see where he can go with it. However I do believe will see one more unofficial Battle with these two which will probably start the BF saga... or not, w/e.

Anyway, out of all the Rivals, Paul fits the bill perfectly and I think he should stay like that. Same arrogant vexing jerk, that we all know and love. Of course Ash will have some new line respect for Paul too and maybe accept or he won't let Paul's arrogance get to him.

Anyway, like ThunderBlade said, the Soothe Bells well definitely play a part here. Maybe it will calm both Ash and Paul to see some new sliver lining or some new path to train Pokemon, IDK.

Anyway, I highly doubt all that will happen and Paul and Ash will probably become *shiver* friends .... BLECK!!!! I prefer Allies over friends.

W/e that's my two cents.
 
thunderblade12 said:
Anyway, the soothe bells will no doubt come into play during Ash and Paul's "parting". They didn't have Ash win them for no reason. After all is said and done, and Ash wins of course, Paul will no doubt change his cruel ways and begin a new journey. This time he will treat his pokemon with respect and care like Ash does. The soothe bells will be a symbol of Ash and Paul's relationship like the broken pokeball that Ash and Gary share, the broken ribbon that Ash and May share or Misty's lure.
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Yeah i was thinking the same thing

Soothe Bell = Broken Pokeball
 
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