2nd Gen Silver and Paul - Are they the same?

Started by cooley August 3rd, 2008 6:40 PM
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I wanted to know, because in the games, silver is a bad character. And in my hack, he is good? Silver and Paul, are they the same? Both are Bad, but Paul isn't as bad as Silver.

They don't really have emotions for Pokemon, and think only Strong Pokemon should exist. Er...They also have the same Pokemon, kind of. Take a look at these:



See what I mean?

Anyways, Silver hasn't made many appearances, except for this one:


If anyone can answer my questions, please do. Thanks ;)
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Wasn't PAUL one of the default names for your rival in G/S/C?
I don't know. I know that /my/ rival was named PAUL.
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Wow. They do like fairly identical. Take the hair color they are both identical except for the hair length. I guess silver is bound to make more appearances if they do a remake of G/S/C. I think they are planning on doing this.
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Well they do look almost exactly alike. Maybe Paul is secretly Silver. I know it sounds really stupid but in the show, they dont know much about Paul. Just that he is from Hearthrome City or whatever. I wouldnt be surprised if Paul reveals himself as Silver with a different hair color and a haircut.

Sounds kinda crazy, I know.
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I think this would belong in the Pokemon General or tv show section, but I'm not totally sure.

Anyway, I never noticed the resemble before. That's really weird! That would be weird if they were like bro's or something :)
Oh, I didn't know. I thought because Silver is from G/S/C That, he would belong here in this section.

Well they do look almost exactly alike. Maybe Paul is secretly Silver. I know it sounds really stupid but in the show, they dont know much about Paul. Just that he is from Hearthrome City or whatever. I wouldnt be surprised if Paul reveals himself as Silver with a different hair color and a haircut.

Sounds kinda crazy, I know.
That's funny, I don't think that'll happen though
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Silver and Paul are different people all together. Paul may be based on Silver but they are not the same person. Red and Ash look alike in some aspects but they're not the same person. It is also true that Silver and Paul have had similiar Pokemon. Ursaring,Sneasel,and Murkrow.
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Well they do look almost exactly alike. Maybe Paul is secretly Silver. I know it sounds really stupid but in the show, they dont know much about Paul. Just that he is from Hearthrome City or whatever. I wouldnt be surprised if Paul reveals himself as Silver with a different hair color and a haircut.

Sounds kinda crazy, I know.
Hehe. Paul is from Veilstone; not Hearthrome. We know that he does have a brother and unless Reiji also hides his hair I doubt it.
It's more likely that he'd be connected with Team Galactic than be Silver. And if you go with the common belief that Silver if Giovanni's son (Remember that Special is pretty accurate, but still is a different cannon from the games.), that would be kinda weird.

I too speculated alot of bad things about Paul before Reiji showed up. So he nulls some of those evil plans. (Well; unless you wanna say Reiji is bad too.)

Paul and Silver really are alike. I wouldn't be surprised if he was based upon him. Does someone have a conformation that Paul was a default name? It sounds familiar...

And I guess it could go into anime, but it's relevant to the games as well.




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They weren't default names for your rival. Remember you battled you and never gets a chance to tell you his name. Then you tell the police officer what you want it to be. There were no defaults.
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Actually, the default is three question marks.
i thought it was 5...oh well
the games say giovanni has a son with red hair (FR/LG) but we dont know anything about pauls father...i doubt its cyrus though, that would be weird!
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I think they just based Paul on Silver because they might make the group go to Johto like they did with Kanto and the Battle Frontier. That would also explain the evolutions of many Johto Pokemon in D/P/P. It could be an advertisement. They wanted to make a new character who reminded you of an old character. If they just put Silver as Ash's rival, it might be too obvious or seem uncreative that they didn't make a new character so they made Paul. It's just an idea. I'm not even sure if I'm right.
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silver and chucky - are they the same?
irrelivent i know.
eureka is probably right, but im hoping its a reference to a remake
silver was the best rival, he was a huge s.o.b
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In the picture in the first post, Silver kinda looks like Roark. o-o'
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Actually, the default is three question marks.
Actually, the default is Silver, hence his name.

Several similarities have been noted between Paul and another rival, Silver. Their personalities are especially similar. Another interesting similarity is that the pose used in Paul's stock art is the same as the pose in a picture of Silver drawn by Ken Sugimori, right down to the angle and position of the hands and feet. Paul has similar taste in Pokémon to the Silver portrayed in Pokémon Special. Both have an Ursaring. Both have also owned a Murkrow at one point, and assuming Paul caught his Weavile as a Sneasel, both have owned a Sneasel at one point.
All of the Pokémon that Paul has on his team except his Torterra, are part of an evolution family related to Generation II.
Ursaring was introduced in Generation II.
Honchkrow, Weavile and Gliscor are Generation IV Pokémon, but evolve from Generation II Pokémon (Murkrow, Sneasel and Gligar, respectively).
Electabuzz and Magmar were introduced in Generation I, but evolve from Generation II Pokémon (Elekid and Magby, respectively).

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I think Shinji is too much of a little princess with him being a big rip-off.
All they did was dye Silver's hair, cut it, gave him new clothes, gave him an elder brother, and legally change his name from Kamon/Silver to Shinji/Paul.
Nothing creative :/

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Actually, the default is Silver, hence his name.
There is no default for the G/S/C rival, he's just called Silver because it goes with the tradition of naming the character of the manga after the game series. Paul and Silver aren't really the same, Paul is just a cheap copy of Silver. Silver > Paul.
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There is no default for the G/S/C rival, he's just called Silver because it goes with the tradition of naming the character of the manga after the game series. Paul and Silver aren't really the same, Paul is just a cheap copy of Silver. Silver > Paul.
Actually, I thought he was called Silver as tradition of the second game to come out. I didn't know about the manga when I realized his name was Silver. It's like, Red was the first game out and the main character, Green in Japan/Blue in the US was second making him the Rival (hence the default name in the games), the third was the girl (though there was no girl character first gen), and so forth for the rest of the games. For third gen, since the girl was the rival, I assumed her name was Sapphire(though you couldn't fit it in the name slot).

Is it just me or does Silver look like a girl in the picture in the first post 0-o
Yosh! X3 That's the "revamped" vesron of Silver. Its what they were planning to use in the anime, but, of course, the cut him to a two second cameo.