[Poll] Vote on your favourite Protagonist! [This week: Pokémon Snap regions!]

[bobandbill]

Vote on your Favorite Protagonist!​

Hello and welcome to a new multi-platform event, that will last several weeks!

In this event, your objective is to vote for your favorite Pokémon protagonist across a series of polls. To begin, we will start by region*, and see who is the favourite protagonist from each area**. Afterwards, the winner will form a tournament round, where we will do 4 sets of up to 4*** winners, and then take the top two options from there into 2 sets of four, then a final poll.

Where can I vote?

You can vote for the first set of people in this thread at the top - the Kanto nominees! You can also vote on our social media pages: Twitter (will use its own poll system), Bluesky (a Google poll), Instagram (a Google poll) and Facebook (a Google poll). Yes, it's better to not go around voting multiple times, but we won't be monitoring things that closely. But don't cheat, that's just boring. This means the winner of each poll will be from all polls (here, Twitter, Google poll) added together, not per platform.

Polls will run roughly 4 days, and be posted every week as a new thread (or on social media, as a new post). We may speed things up for the spin-off regions.

Meanwhile, share some propaganda for your pick each week! Take about why you're voting for your character, and make fun of the others (respectfully, of course). We'll also use the results and input for a Daily article summarising the whole event once it ends.

* Hisui will be treated as separate to Sinnoh.
** Spinoff games will also be considered! Orre will feature, while we will also consider the Ranger games' regions separately, but lump the Snap/New Snap regions (and hence protagonists) together.
*** We may see what the Legends: Z-A protags look like before we hit the tournament phase... pending TPC(i). If so, we'll do a poll on them! Otherwise, one set of 4 polls will have less options... Or we can consider a second chance for the losing protag with the most amount of votes!

Rules

1. No Trolling - This includes things like voting on behalf of other users, inputting joke responses in the Google Forms, using bots or creating alt accounts to try and game the voting system, and other dishonest activities. Please don't do that stuff.
2. Have Fun - We all love Pokémon, and we hope that you derive enjoyment and have a good time with this event!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this event, feel free to contact bobandbill.

Previous Polls

Kanto: Red, in a narrow win over Leaf! Chase and Elaine were well behind.
Johto: Kris, in another narrow win over Gold! In fact, Gold won on the forums, but not in the other two platforms. Lyra was a distant third.
Hoenn: May, in the first clear victory in these series of polls. Brendan and his hat were no match.
Sinnoh: Dawn, who basically murdered poor Lucas in the polls.
Unova: Hilda, in a very narrow victory over Rosa (only 2 votes as the difference). This time third place had a respectable turnout (Hilbert), while Nate did okay but was comfortably fourth.
Orre: Wes won out - Michael got some votes especially on Twitter, but couldn't keep up with the cool teen.
Kalos (XY): Serena. It was even on Twitter, but everywhere else, especially on the forums, she ran out comfortably.
Alola: Selene won on each poll convincingly. Chicken hat too powerful!
Galar: Gloria was the victor... over Victor. Every poll was won.
Fiore (Ranger 1): Solana won by a couple votes, after the polls all together were tied! Lunick was so close there.
Almia (Ranger 2): Kellyn wins, and breaks the streak of female protagonists winning!
Oblivia (Ranger 3): Summer won across all polls - close on Twitter, but on the forums pretty one-sided.
Hisui: Akari won with a bit over twice the number of votes overall.
Paldea: Juliana won by a similar amount over Julian.

Thanks to PoryKid575 and Arcaneum for CSS.

 

[bobandbill]

Yeah, as far as I could tell, the New Pokemon Snap protagonists do not have default names. Well then...

Let's start with Todd Snap! Here is his sprite and character model from the first game:




He also had a mentor role in New Pokemon Snap:




As for the player characters in that game, here are their models...



They do have some design art...

Spoiler:

 

[Palamon]

this isn't even fair the other two don't have names!

Todd. He's iconic.

 

[Devalue]

Voted for Todd. Designed the New Snap protagonist outfits to be a little too busy.

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

Todd looks rather goofy, but I like the default male player character's outfit more, so I went with that. Never played any Snap games, though.

 

[nl4real]

Voted for Todd. Designed the New Snap protagonist outfits to be a little too busy.

Agreed, my first time voting for a male player character.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Todd is the OG. Also I recall him from Super Nin 10 Doh.

 

[Explorer of Time]

I've never played either game, but I'm still voting Todd here. Even without the benefit of nostalgia, his design is still the best of the three.

 

[Palamon]

So far, this is the least surprising poll thus far. Unnamed children don't stand a chance here.

 

[Sheep]

Todd for sure, he had anime eps! The others... I completely forgot they even existed and New Snap wasn't that long ago. :s

 

[bobandbill]

Todd wins! He got half of the total votes on Twitter, and more than half here. Having a name helps! But nostalgia may be part of it too.

 

[Palamon]

no surprise here

maybe it's too late to mention this but they do actually have names: Jamie and River, but I guess they were never used anywhere.

 

[bobandbill]

no surprise here

maybe it's too late to mention this but they do actually have names: Jamie and River, but I guess they were never used anywhere.

Curiously, what's the source on that? If 'never used anywhere', are they names from game code...?

 

[Palamon]

Curiously, what's the source on that? If 'never used anywhere', are they names from game code...?

It's on Bulbapedia and someone said it on Serebii

 

[bobandbill]

It's on Bulbapedia and someone said it on Serebii

I have not seen it on bulbapedia myself, so a specific link would be helpful. Also I'm often sceptical of wikis anyone can edit - would like to see the original source.

 

[Palamon]

I have not seen it on bulbapedia myself, so a specific link would be helpful. Also I'm often sceptical of wikis anyone can edit - would like to see the original source.

Player character

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net

 

[bobandbill]

Player character

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net

Yeah okay, I did some digging (while that page does list those names, there is no source!). Here's the bit that it came from (2:24 in):

Multiple 'Jamie' and 'River's here, presumably from various player characters sharing their images in that in-game feature. I guess it is as good as any claim as to their default names. Oh well, too late for the poll - that should be put on more notable bulba pages.