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* Paul is the first regular rival seen capturing a Pokémon on screen.
* Paul is the first regular rival seen capturing a Pokémon on screen.
* Paul's Nidoking is (so far) the only Pokémon that Paul has to have a confirmed and known gender.
* Paul's Nidoking is (so far) the only Pokémon that Paul has to have a confirmed and known gender.
* Paul has been known to have conflicting views on his own training strategies. In one battle he claims the trainer is at fault for all losses, yet whenever one of Paul's pokemon has lost, Paul blames them.


===Names===
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Revision as of 11:21, 1 January 2010

This article is about the character from the Diamond & Pearl series. For the English voice actor credited as Ed Paul, see Ted Lewis.

Paul
シンジ Shinji
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Paul
Gender Male
Eye color Black
Hair color Purple
Hometown Veilstone City
Region Sinnoh
Relatives Reggie (brother)
Trainer class Trainer
Anime debut Two Degrees of Separation
English voice actor Julián Rebolledo
Japanese voice actor Kiyotaka Furushima

Paul (Japanese: シンジ Shinji) is a rival of Ash in the anime. He is from Veilstone City in Sinnoh. He was first seen at the end of Two Degrees of Separation, though his full introduction was in When Pokémon Worlds Collide!.

Personality and training

Paul's only concern in his Pokémon is of their strength in battle. He strongly dislikes weak Pokémon and has a habit of releasing them if they do not meet his high expectations. To this effect, Paul always checks new captures with his Pokédex to learn what moves they know and trains the Pokémon he keeps harshly to make them strong. He feels that bonding with Pokémon would only turn them into slackers. He also has a habit of scolding his Pokémon for losing to opponents he feels they could have beaten, and this was a recurring trait when he owned Chimchar. As a person, he is very callous and even at times brutal, especially in battle; and as a result, he has been shown to have very little emotion other than an occasional rough smile.

Sometimes, he gives some of his Pokémon to his brother, Reggie, for temporary training and caretaking, as revealed in Lost Leader Strategy!. Paul also disagrees with his brother for giving up on being a Pokémon Trainer after failing to get the Brave Symbol. He feels his brother's approach and view on this to be wrong.

A Pyramiding Rage! was an important episode that revealed much about Paul's motivation as a Pokémon trainer and more about his character. When Reggie was a roaming Pokémon trainer, he had lost to Brandon. Reggie's loss to Brandon is what caused Paul to be so adamant about strength in battle. This single loss is also what caused Paul to become the callous person he was, and that was because of how his brother handled the loss. Instead of bearing the shame of his loss to Brandon, Reggie moved on with his life and put the loss behind him. Paul found this to be unacceptable, and he became disappointed of his brother. He challenged Brandon to a full battle in hopes that he would be able to do what his brother never could. However, Paul lost to Brandon without being able to knock out any of Brandon's Pokémon. Brandon says that this loss was because Paul was unable to control his emotions.

At the beginning it was assumed that Paul was a trainer just starting out. However this was proven false in Top-Down Training where he revealed that he had already traveled through Kanto, Johto and Hoenn, participating in their respective Leagues before returning to Sinnoh. In A Pyramiding Rage!, it was revealed that Kanto was the very first region he traveled through.

Paul feels that Ash is a weak trainer and can easily bring on Ash's anger by stating it. Ash's very different attitude towards being friends with Pokémon also provides much fuel to their rivalry. Out of all the rivals that Ash has, Paul seems to be the most harsh towards him and his Pokémon. Despite that, Paul barely recognizes their rivalry and Ash as a trainer and ignores Ash's speeches about loving his Pokémon. Ash on the other hand has a hatred of Paul that flares up at Paul's indifference to his Pokémon. However Ash accepts that Paul is a strong trainer but considers himself on the same par as him. Paul's only hint of respect for Ash was in A Pyramiding Rage! when he was very surprised to hear that Ash had beaten Brandon in a Pokémon battle before.

Although Paul finds most of Ash's Pokémon weak, he has shown a particular interest in his Pikachu. Paul is also angered by how Ash contradicts himself by criticizing Paul's training methods and then he uses similar methods, such as entering the Wallace Cup, despite Ash's motivations being clearly different than Paul's.

Paul appears to feel indifference to Dawn, showing that he didn't even know her name in A Gruff Act to Follow. Paul shows mild respect as well as distaste towards Brock, probably because Brock supports Ash's view on Pokémon. Paul does show respect for his elders, such as Professor Rowan, Cynthia, Nurse Joy and Brandon .

Following Reggie's suggestion in A Pyramiding Rage!, Paul battled Ash in a full battle in Pedal to the Mettle! and Evolving Strategies!. Here, he shows his true colors in battle and, despite Ash's Chimchar evolving into Monferno, he won the match easily with only at a loss of two Pokémon overall, where one defeated three of Ash's Pokémon nearly single-handed. He had his Pokémon use a broad variety of strategies, which he kept up his sleeve until this battle, such as tempting Ash to send his Staraptor up against his Torterra so he could attack it with Stone Edge, Electabuzz using Light Screen to aid its comrades, using his Ursaring against Ash's Pikachu so as to activate its Guts ability, and his Magmortar using Rock Tomb to protect itself against Water-type attacks. As a result, his strategy of completely overwhelming and outsmarting Ash with his more powerful Pokémon team succeeded.

In DP155 it was revealed that Paul had earned the Mine Badge from Canalave Gym and, by doing so, had collected the eight badges he required to enter the Sinnoh League.

Pokémon

As a result of Paul's selective team creation, his active team is composed of Pokémon that he deems to be powerful. While the captures of Ursaring and Gliscor were shown in Different Strokes for Different Blokes and Riding the Winds of Change! respectively, the rest were obtained off-screen.

This listing is of Paul's Pokémon as of the most recent Japanese episode:

On hand

Pikachu
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Released

It is implied that Paul has caught and released many more Pokémon than has been shown on-screen.

Pikachu
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Pikachu
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Given away

Pikachu
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Status unknown

In Veilstone City, Reggie told Ash that Paul's "other Pokémon are here too" which may include his reserves.

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Known badges obtained

Sinnoh League

It can be assumed, if not confirmed, that Paul also has at least eight badges each from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn, as he has entered all three of their league conferences.

Pokémon League

Paul has competed (off-screen) in the following Pokémon League competitions:

Pokémon competitions

Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 古島清孝 Kiyotaka Furushima
English Julián Rebolledo
Czech Michal Holan
Zdeněk Hruška
Danish Mathias Klenske
Peter Holst Beck
Dutch Tony Neef
German Johannes Wolko
Hebrew מירון אהרונוביץ Meron Aharonovich
Italian Massimo Di Benedetto
Korean 문남숙 Mun Nam-Suk
Polish Artur Pontek
Portuguese Brazil Gabriel Noya
Portugal Pedro Cardoso
Spanish Latin America Gerardo García
Spain Pablo Sevilla


Trivia

Early artwork
  • Paul was first revealed to the fandom through a CoroCoro scan that showed him alongside Ash and Dawn. However, his name and role was not revealed until the following week. The first scan showed him commanding a Chimchar.
  • His Japanese name, Shinji, can be taken to be 信二, which literally means faithful second (son). This fits, as he has an older brother, Reggie. He may be named for 宮崎慎二 Shinji Miyazaki, who is the composer of the music of the Pokémon anime. The name Paul, meanwhile, is a reference to Paul Baron, a staff member at The Pokémon Company, as well as Pokémon Pearl, in contrast to Dawn referencing Pokémon Diamond. This can also be applied to his Japanese name— the Japanese word for "pearl" is shinju (真珠), though there is no such link for Dawn's Japanese name. There is, however, a link in Dawn's own rival, Kenny, whose Japanese name of ケンゴ Kengo is similar to the Japanese 金剛 kongo. His Japanese name also shares the Japanese name of Lake Verity.
  • Several similarities have been noted between Paul and a game 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 Adventures. 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. Furthermore, when Silver had a cameo in the original Japanese opening of The Legend of Thunder!, he was seen with a Nidoking, another Pokémon that Paul has.
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Sugimori's sketch of Silver
    • Furthermore, both have challenged, been defeated easily by, and given crucial advice about raising Pokémon with love and care by their respective regional Champions, Lance and Cynthia respectively. While Lance's words being Silver's true catalyst, it is unknown yet if Cynthia's words have truly affected Paul.
  • The majority of the Pokémon that Paul has on his team are part of an evolution family related to Generation II.
  • Some of Paul's Pokémon are based off Pokémon owned by other rivals of Ash and his friends. There are also some traits he shares with Ash's main rival, Gary:
  • Three of Ash's Pokémon have evolved while battling against Paul: Turtwig into Grotle, Staravia into Staraptor, and Chimchar into Monferno.
  • Paul is the first regular rival seen capturing a Pokémon on screen.
  • Paul's Nidoking is (so far) the only Pokémon that Paul has to have a confirmed and known gender.
  • Paul has been known to have conflicting views on his own training strategies. In one battle he claims the trainer is at fault for all losses, yet whenever one of Paul's pokemon has lost, Paul blames them.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese シンジ Shinji Possibly from 真珠 shinju (pearl)
English, French, German Paul Possibly from pearl
Spanish Polo Spanish adaptation of Paul
Korean 진철 Jincheol
Chinese 真司 Zhēnsī From the name 真司 Shinji.

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