I don't want Hop or even Bede to feel tacked on into Journeys. But because he was introduced so late into SM seemingly only to showcase Rowlet's evolutions after it was made clear that Ash's Rowlet wouldn't evolve, it really felt like his role could have been given to an anime-only character instead. Hau is another one of my favorite rivals and his storyline in US/UM was really great. I'd love to see Hop interact with Ash and Goh and it does seem odd to not even have him mentioned at this point when Leon is effectively Ash's goal for the series, but I really don't Hop in particular to get the SM Hau treatment. The anime has featured all of the evil/antagonistic teams in the past, so they could still want to bring in Team Yell and in turn Marnie, but since Team Yell doesn't really do much beyond blocking your way and being Marnie's cheer squad, I don't think there would be much of a reason for he anime to feature them. Out of the three, Marnie would probably be the easiest to fit within Journeys, but when they already have Morpeko, her signature Pokemon, involved with Team Rocket instead, I don't know if they'd really be interested in bringing Marnie in. While the games don't really focus on that relationship as much as I think it should have, it was still important to explain Bede's stuck up attitude and it did give more weigh to his change after he became the new Fairy type Gym Leader. Bede not having his relationship with Chairman Rose established prior to the Darkest Day also seems to limit his options. Being one of the chosen heroes for the Darkest Day plot was tied into Hop's character development and they can't really do his storyline justice at this point of the series either. They obviously can't really do much for Hop's or even Bede's storylines. However, I'm really not sure what they could do. Hop is my favorite rival, I grew to like Bede more than I expected when he was such a stuck up jerk at the beginning of the game and Marnie is pretty likable, even though I felt like she had the least amount of focus compared to the other rivals in the game. Most of the gym leaders are nowhere to be seen, the Darkest Day arc was already completed without their appearences, Rose and Orleana are nowhere to be seen rn.Īnd there's also the fact that some moments of SWSH story that appeared in the anime were done by other people in the series: Goh was in Hop's place in the Slumbering Weald and in the battle against Eternatus in the DD arc, one of Orleana's subordinates destroyed the wall in Stow-on-Side, which was Bede's doing originally, etc.Ī part of me would love to see them in Journeys. They were rather proeminent in the main story and added to the player's own journey, while also having their own character arcs.īut in the other hand, we are already well into season 2 of JN, and nothing seems like to point out their possible debuts. In one hand, they were rather important characters in SWSH. Is it still possible for Hop, Marnie and Bede to debut in the current series? Considering that we are in what is presumably the middle of the series, or at the very least nearing this middle, since it's been almost one year and a half (!) since the debut of the first episode, it raises the question:
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