Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28149042-20160609140505/@comment-24152851-20160620021851

Well past the OS, there was always an unlikable main character in every series that the fandom despised. In Advanced it was Max, DP it was Piplup, Iris annoyed everyone in BW, and XY there's Bonnie and Dedenne.

Advanced and DP were alright, largely because Brock was still there. With DP probably the second best series overall, but none of the later ones have lived up to the original series.

I saw some XY not too long ago, and it really annoyed me. Pikachu's personality has become as flat as a rock, and he has almost no characterization outside of battling. Stark contrast to the days where he would keep shocking Ash for comic relief. Dedenne's yet another "cutsey" Pokemon who stays out of it's Pokeball and does nothing, much like Piplup. And for Bonnie, the first half of the season, she does nothing but squeal at how cute a Pokemon is. While Team Rocket is lamer than ever, half the time they're randomly interjected in an episode where they were completely unneeded, and blasted off where no one takes any notice of their presence.

I didn't say Ben 10 was anything like Pokemon. Someone else made that comparison. I was talking about Pokemon separately.