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Old September 24th, 2008 (8:54 PM). Edited September 24th, 2008 by lordbahamut.
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Once I learned that Dawn had a Piplup in the Anime and that your mother's based on Dawn's mother and vice-versa from the anime, I couldn't bring myself to separate Dawn from her mother and Piplup. Then, the rival came in. We all call him Pearl, Barry or Damion. I got a lot of hard time to figure out a good name so I ended up calling him Barry. And, there's Lucas who we never seen in the anime, like Barry who end up with Turtwig. I felt like restarting my game, but with the guy instead. I tried to rename him with my name, but I couldn't bring myself to call him something else than Lucas and I gave him a Turtwig. Damn... I hate it when I have to go canon with everything.

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Old September 24th, 2008 (11:00 PM).
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Wow, you're getting this upset over not matching the anime? Pick the pokes you like, not those decipted by a cartoon. They'll stop matching up once you get half-way in anyway, where they pull out different pokemon and the like.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (12:15 AM).
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Haha, that's a bit obsessive. OCD much? XD I don't even give my rival one of the preset names, I named him "Klaus," just because I was diggin' that name at the time, heh. Dawn, I could care less about, she's completely useless anyways. And I took Piplup for myself, although I'm thinking about using Turtwig in Platinum. I can be pretty OCD about some things, but not to the point where I have to copy a cartoon - if you're going to write a fanfic, or something, then you can worry about canon :P With the games, yeah, not so important.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (1:59 AM).
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haha. When I got Diamond, I picked the girl as I am a girl & picked Piplup couse I loved the look of it! & then when I watched the anime again, I saw that I had picked what Dawn had.
I knew she had Piplup in the anime but it never stood out when I was playing it.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (4:55 AM).
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I prefer Videogame Canon:

-Orange Islands Don't Exist
-Red exists, but not retard-of-the-year Ash
-Jessie/James Don't exist outside of Yellow, which itself is loosely based off of the Anime
-Misty is older and Less annoying than her TV show counterpart (not to mention that stupid Ash/Misty romance 4kids added but did not exist in the original Japanese Version)
-Battle Frontier is in Hoenn
-Pokemon make mechanical Noises and not repeating their stupid English names repeatedly.
-Contests don't include Battles (not everything has to have battles in it, you know)
ect.

Yes, I hate everything Anime-related outside of the JAPANESE version of Pocket Monsters Crystal: Raikou, Legend of Thunder

Really, Anime Canon =/= Videogame Canon.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (5:00 AM).
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Well, I used to like Dawn, then that damn notion of Pearlshipping came up;

Now I can't bear to look at poor Piplup, or Pachirisu, or Aipom
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Old September 25th, 2008 (6:41 AM).
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Well, I just started a new game. I named my character with my name and my Rival with Ralph... Dawn is my helper and she has a Chimchar... Actually, I think she's better with a Chimchar than a Turtwig. Yeah, I'm obsessed with the anime, I guess I'm just that geek. Screw animes! XD (lol) I'll try to make a quick game, so I'll explore Hoenn a lot, before actually catching a lot of pokémons. I just caught a Shinx. T_T;; Another little problem... I couldn't find any decent nicknames for both my Piplup and my Shinx. Meh... (I wanted to personalize them so bad...) ^^;
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Old September 26th, 2008 (2:29 PM).
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heh. I had no idea about the anime or the manga when I played Sapphire the first time, picked the girl, and picked Torchic. LAWL.

If this helps any...
Piplup's Japanese name is "Pochama"
and Shinx's is "Korinku"

Funny how I'm almost tempted to pick TURTWIG so the rival guy has Chimchar... just look at his animation xD
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Old September 26th, 2008 (7:13 PM).
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My Piplup is now an Empoleon at level 38... He kicks ass... *drools* And I only have 2 badges! Plus, he one a normal Beauty Contest. :)

I thought him Metal Wings, Pluck, Aqua Jet and Bubblebeam.

Now I'm training a rock type for one of the upcoming Gym Battles.
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Old September 26th, 2008 (10:41 PM).
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I like Turtwig; every trainer should just have Turtwig.

Infact the franchise should be called "Turtwig" and be about loads of people who battle tree-turtles together.
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Old September 27th, 2008 (4:56 PM).
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that reminds me of when I called myself Yukii in Diamond, after my rival in Pearl, named the Rival after a former rival/friend who moved, and choose Piplup like Yukii did in my Pearl... then the rival had Turtwig... just like my friend picked! o.0

Funny, no?
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Old September 27th, 2008 (11:42 PM).
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pokemon -Turtwig
trainer name - Ash
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there that should mach the amine
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Well, the anime was based on the games and not the other way around. So it's the games that are canon and not the anime. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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Old September 28th, 2008 (8:07 AM).
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I like Turtwig; every trainer should just have Turtwig.

Infact the franchise should be called "Turtwig" and be about loads of people who battle tree-turtles together.
I love you.

That is like the best idea I've ever heard and I'm not even a huge Turtwig fan.
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The ANIME IS NOT CANON!!! but the manga is. XP
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Once I learned that Dawn had a Piplup in the Anime and that your mother's based on Dawn's mother and vice-versa from the anime, I couldn't bring myself to separate Dawn from her mother and Piplup. Then, the rival came in. We all call him Pearl, Barry or Damion. I got a lot of hard time to figure out a good name so I ended up calling him Barry. And, there's Lucas who we never seen in the anime, like Barry who end up with Turtwig. I felt like restarting my game, but with the guy instead. I tried to rename him with my name, but I couldn't bring myself to call him something else than Lucas and I gave him a Turtwig. Damn... I hate it when I have to go canon with everything.

Help me... T_T
I'm good for psychiatrists help.
My friend told me that I'm just a geek. lol

You are not alone, my friend. All the games are like this; mostly, the male hero doesn't
exist in the anime.
I too hate this vile sexism.

Jeez. I should lay off the Pepsi. xD
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I matched the Anime Continuity a little bit all by coincidence.
In Pearl I named my trainer Dawn and I chose a Piplup. I just liked the name Dawn, which I found out was her name by my brother's Diamond version and I just liked Piplup more than the other 2.
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Old October 3rd, 2008 (1:46 PM).
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Like Dunsparce said, to clarify, the anime canon is not really the most canon, so you don't really have to follow it.
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And, there's Lucas who we never seen in the anime.
Nope. Lucas appeared in the anime. He was in "Giratina and the Bouquet of the Sky: Shaymin".
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Old October 7th, 2008 (1:05 AM).
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Now that I think about it, when I get Platinum, I want to canon the manga!

I will be the girl and her name shall be Platina and she shall have a Piplup!

Then I will name the rival Pearl and dammit! He will have a Turwig.

And if only you can name the Prof. Helper??!!

Canons are annoying and hard!
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Old October 7th, 2008 (12:09 PM).
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I will most probably canon the manga as well. Even though I'm a boy, it sorta satisfies me so o_O. Platina, Pearl, Piplup. Damnit! The rival will get a turtwig and I believe as well everyone should have a Turtwig! Arrggg! Why oh why!

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Old October 8th, 2008 (9:02 AM).
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I pretty much always start with fire, just because I used to when I was little, and lately I've been going with the girl, but still calling myself Dylan, so when people play it they're always like, wtf? then I tell them to stop playing my diamond and call them noobs, but yeah, Iprefer to be creative myself :)
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Old October 10th, 2008 (2:13 PM).
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I try to mix up the video game canon and the anime canon, since they are the most notable aspects of the Pokemon franchise. I only try to make rivals anime canon (except Pearl in Gen IV because he looks like a Clayton to me :)).
Also, in Gen III., I'm trying to make all major characters that aren't part of the Pokemon League be in Hoenn by having a 'secret base'.
As for the male player character, I name him based on what he looks like instead of the game-generated names because most of them don't fit IMO:
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I only named the 3D people because Wes had a blue outfit, and Michael had red hair, so I sorta did a cheap red vs. blue attempt :) That's pretty much it; I then go my game canon...

But I hate how the girls in the games have the wrong parents (like in Gen. III, when playing as a boy, Birch should be dad and May has Norman has her dad). It sorta screws up the story but I'd like 'em to have their proper anime relatives... Plus, I hate how we don't get to visit all of those 'anime-exclusive' areas in the games (i.e., Rinshin Town, Orange Islands, etc.). Nintendo could put them in the games so we have more stuff to do.
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Old October 10th, 2008 (11:51 PM).
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That's because the anime is based on the games, not the other way round. The anime Dawn's parents are based on the story of R/S if you choose to play as the girl.
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Old October 11th, 2008 (7:53 AM).
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Am I the only one who doesn't think about the cannon when I'm playing a video game? :P

The cannon is confusing at best, you should probably stick to naming your character after yourself, choosing whichever Pokemon you like, and continue the game from there. If for some reason you feel like you are going to explode unless you follow the cannon, maybe you should seek psychiatric help, or at least stop watching anime/manga. :/

But whatever, to each his own.
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