History Characters / PokemonRusty

* BalefulPolymorph: He is capable of transforming people into Bidoofs. He demonstrates this on Professor Tree.

* ExactWords: Peanut Butter shows the Elite 4 a big sack fully of bloody badges and then states "Behold. All the badges in Kanto from any trainers who held them". The thing is that his words are vague enough to interpret this two different ways. Either he took the badges from any gym leader that held them (it's been established in canon that there are more than just the 8 gyms from the video games) or [[FridgeHorror Worse]] he literally took the badges from every trainer that had badges. The [[KillEmAll blood should tell you how he took them.]]

** Peanut Butter and Rusty only needed eight badges to challenge the elite four. Instead Peanut Butter gives them "All the badges in Kanto, from any trainers who held them!". Said badges were covered in blood, [[KillThemAll with obvious implications]]. Then during the battle with Agatha he kills ''her'', even though he only needed to defeat her Pokémon to win the fight. It only gets worse from here.

[[caption-width-right:350:"I live only to slake your blood thirst, father."]]

* IllGirl: It is extremely sickly and deformed due to a birth defect.

* ADogNamedCat: A Kakuna (later Beedrill) that's named Pikachu. It was named after Red.

* KarmaHoudini: Became a crueler mob boss than Giovanni, frequently tortured people, [[spoiler:worked as a slave master during Peanut Butter's reign of terror, and is made Rusty's boss in the deli, were he continues to whip his former trainer]]. All with no punishment whatsoever.

!Other Pokémon

[[folder:Dialga]]
The legendary Pokémon of time. He is used to "build" a TimeMachine—which is just it in a pool of water—in order to send Rusty back in time to the day where he started his Pokémon journey.

* ElectrifiedBathtub: Professor Tree uses a Magnemite to make the "time machine" work. It presumably kills Dialga.
* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: Dialga is just sitting in a pool of water and is electrocuted via dropping a Magnemite in the water. It works, though.

!Misc. Characters

[[folder:Rusty's Parents]]

Rusty's mother and father, who want him to get a "real" job.
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* FantasticRacism: Rusty's father considers Pokémon to be "monsters".
* FantasyForbiddingFather: They want Rusty to work in their deli before he can go to College and get a "real job" as they see trainers as being just "pet owners".

[[folder:Prof. Tree]]
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An apparent Pokémon Professor residing in Beige Town. Spends most of his days on pot.

* GeniusDitz: He "invents" a time machine using Dialga. That is to say, he stuck Dialga and Rusty in a [[ElectrifiedBathtub pool of water and electrocuted them]]. It worked, but probably killed Dialga.
* InVinoVeritas: Done with pot instead of liquor. Professor Tree admits to knowing nothing about Pokémon and just spends his time growing pot, then immediately lampshades that he shouldn't have told Rusty this and blames being stoned for his inappropriate honesty.
* MeaningfulName: A pothead named Professor ''Tree''. It's also a play on the FloralThemeNaming of Pokémon Professors, who are all named after different species of trees.
* TheStoner: He admits he knows little, if anything, about Pokémon. He took the job because it was the easiest grant to apply for and uses his monthly paycheck for pot. He ordered a bicycle full of illegal drugs and was seen in a smoke-laced Herb Shop toward the end of the series. He also comments that he was high when Rusty went to him and picked up "Pikachu" the Kakuna, which Tree thought was a paperweight.

[[folder:Julian the EV Trainer]]
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* TheJailBaitWait: After Team Rocket steals "Cleffaye Valentine", he sobs that he was going to marry her... when she came of age of course.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's not exactly a very friendly person.
* TakeThat!: Serves as this to both real-life competitive Pokemon players who only care about breeding and training the strongest, toppest-tier Pokemon and people who are legitimately attracted to Pokemon.

[[folder:Battle Bart]]
Also known as "Battleblart". He used to run the Battlehaus until he had to have it burned down in order to pay off Team Rocket.

* InsuranceFraud: He gets Rusty to burn down the Battlehaus in order to pay off his debt to Team Rocket.
* SpeechImpediment: Consistently says the word "battle" as "blartle".
* WhatTheHellHero: He is the one who calls out Rusty for everything he has done.

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* MeaningfulName: A pothead named Professor ''Tree''.

* BlankWhiteEyes: Subverted. He appears to have those, but they're actually glasses.

* ExactWords: Peanut Butter shows the Elite 4 a big sack fully of bloody badges and then states "Behold. All the badges in Kanto from any trainers who held them". The thing is that his words are vague enough to interpenetrate this two different ways. Either he took the badges from any gym leader that held them (it's been established in canon that there are more than just the 8 gyms from the video games) or [[FridgeHorror Worse]] he literally took the badges from every trainer that had badges. The [[KillEmAll blood should tell you how he took them.]]

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Apart from getting his Pokémon killed or injured through incompetence, he at one point states that he throws them away when they're injured.

* ButtMonkey: The second biggest butt monkey right next to his own Pokémon. He gets his head slammed into a tree by his Geodude, attacked by an Eevee, beaten to near death by Battle Bart, and [[spoiler:tasered by a cop]].

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the player character in each of the games. Rusty has very little knowledge of Pokémon, straight up abandons his home after his parents forbid him from going on a journey, and has to sleep in the woods and eat garbage to survive.

* EnfantTerrible: For a ten year old, he does a ''lot'' of things to earn everyone's ire and disdain.

** As noted in NoSocialSkills, he never really grew up without friends and given the relative isolation of Beige Town compared to everywhere else, it's likely his issues come from being raised with little interaction outside his family.
** He's an exceptionally talented chef. While he will accept compliments on his cooking, he became annoyed when the [[spoiler: prisoners tried to encourage him into opening a restaurant or deli.]] He expresses a hatred of cold cuts and earlier when he accepted the compliment on his cooking, he noted that he would've stayed home if he wanted to "serve bad meat to worse men." As such, this implies that his disdain for remaining at the deli comes from a belief of a lack of fulfillment there (likely cheap ingredients and rude customers.) [[FridgeBrilliance This actually explains the ending when you realize what he does.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Not only does he lack intelligence, he lacks common decency as well.
* LackOfEmpathy: He is incapable of understanding the feelings and thoughts of others, human or Pokémon, and is more or less in his own little delusional world of being "the very best Pokémon trainer." He could hardly care less what happens to the Pokémon he owns and hasn't been home in months (essentially abandoning his parents and putting them in debt since he purchased a million dollar bicycle using his dad's credit card).

* LiteralMinded: He takes the phrase "Gotta catch 'em all" all too literally, as in he captures every Pokémon he sees. Case in point, he captures a number of Zubats and put all his captured Bidoofs in one Poké Ball because he ran out of Poké Balls.

** He summons a Cubone (an underleveled one) against Blaine's Growlithe. Blaine praises him for finally getting the ElementalRockPaperScissors mechanic of Pokémon (Ground types being strong against Fire Types). Rusty then corrects him because Cubone is a "bone type" and dogs (like Growlithe) obviously have a weakness for bones.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He's very self-centered and doesn't seem to care about anything beside being the world's greatest Pokémon trainer.

Rusty's first Pokémon which, despite it's nickname, is actually a Kakuna. Constantly abused by Rusty, it evolved into a blood-thirsty psychotic Beedrill who would eventually become the new boss of Team Rocket.

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[[folder:Perfect Bidoof / "Peanut Butter"]]

* PetTheDog: Despite Peanut butter acting like an amoral {{Ubermensch}}, he does do some kind things in the series.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Peanut Butter and Rusty only needed eight badges to challenge the elite four. Instead Peanut Butter gives them "All the badges in Kanto, from any trainers who held them!". Said badges were covered in blood, [[KillThemAll with obvious implications]]. Then during the battle with Agatha he kills ''her'', even though he only needed to defeat her Pokémon to win the fight. It only gets worse from here.

* AffablyEvil: For an organization centered around stealing Pokémon, they're shown to be pretty upbeat people.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In addition to stealing Pokémon, Team Rocket is also shown peddling drugs, extorting people, physically assaulting people, murdering people, and burning down homes and businesses as intimidation. They even get into a massive shoot-out with the police at Viridian Gym.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two of its members are disgusted by how Rusty treats his Pokémon, one of them even calling him a "dumb monster".
* PetTheDog: When they see how terribly Rusty treats his Beedrill, they rescue it and promise to treat it better.
* YouMonster: They outright call Rusty this when they saw for themselves that he just throws away injured Pokémon and has no idea how Pokémon Centers work.
-->'''Female Team Rocket Grunt''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Are a dumb. Monster!]]

--> He also threatens to kill Rusty by ripping his skin off his body and turning it into a belt.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Has no qualms about ordering his Pokémon to brutally murder members of Team Rocket. This includes '''fleeing and surrendering''' members of Team Rocket.

* RealityEnsues: Rusty is a good (if a tad exaggerated) example of why sending children out on their own without knowing hardly anything about taking care of animals is a terrible idea. Not to mention, because he pretty much straight-up abandoned his home, Rusty lives like a homeless person as he claims that he sleeps in the woods and eats out of the trash.

** He doesn't understand how HM moves work and tries Strength, Flash, Fly, and Surf to get around a tree that you use Cut on, but, predictably, none of them do the job. He finally refers to Red's twitter and, ignoring the obvious clue to use Cut, lights the tree on fire. This causes a massive wildfire that levels the forest and a nearby town.

** He plugs in a Tentacool, thinking its tentacles are wires and thus thinking it's en electric type. This gets the Tentacool electrocuted.

* LiteralMinded: He takes the phrase "Gotta catch 'em all" all too literally, as in he captures every Pokémon he sees. Case in point, he captures a number of Zubats and put all his captured Bidoofs in one Pokéball because he ran out of Pokéballs.

* PetTheDog: Rusty uses a Pokéall to catch his father after a car crash injures him, then has him healed at a nearby Pokécenter.

* ExactWords: Peanut Butter shows the Elite 4 a big sack fully of bloody badges and then states "Behold. All the badges in Kanto from any trainers who held them". The thing is that his words are vague enough to interpenetrate this two different ways. Either he took the badges from any gym leader that held them (it's been established in canon that there are more than just the 8 gyms from the video games) or [[FridgeHorror Worse]] he litterally took the badges from every trainer that had badges. The [[KillEmAll blood should tell you how he took them.]]

** Subverted the second time they meet Rusty. They declare that a blackhearted trainor like him always has a place at Team Rocket.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: By the end of the series, absolutely no one in the Kanto region likes him and blames him for all of their problems (which is actually true).