JAKE I am autistic and have been OBSESSED with gen 5 and i am going to SCREAM when you do it!!! PLEASE include Natural Harmonia when you do!! you missed him for Champions!!!
"Wanna know the truth, kid? I honestly don't care for the word, but I find it hard not to use when it's so easy to see your trauma everytime I say it." -Giovanni, the totally super straight mega-het Leader of "Rainbow Rocket."
Not to mention Erika’s gym is known for being staffed by ONLY women and her badge is the RAINBOW badge. Falling asleep in a garden with a bunch of women by your side is very sapphic. She is a sleepy princess gardener lesbian.
In masters shes also surrounded by a crowd of fangirls when you meet her, and one of them literally fights you because Brock is there (i played as a girl so maybe different dialogue if youre a dude) and men arent allowed
Ok the all women thing I agree with, but I don’t think the rainbow is a part of her being lesbian, I think that she just always liked rainbows, learned about the meaning, and though "oh neat"
Contray to that, she's never seen to ever care who she's around and just prefers to sleep than inetract with anyone nomatter who it is, so I suggest that Erika is the local aroace that all the lesbians attached themselves to because they idolize her and thinks she's one of them and she doesn't really care to correct them because atleast they're stopping some people from hitting on her so she's happy.
The fact that perfectly describes my favorite character in fiction- (not the mention that he's the only character to directly address two men's being in love with eachother and when he had to kill them for his plan he just tried to break them up because he knew that'd make them do it themselves, still can't get over how funny that is)
Sabrina is literally my "IF IT MEANS I CAN TAKE HER TO DINNER" Pls continue this series. The gym leaders get exponentially 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂er and it's gonna be a good time
Yeah. I'm also convinced he learned it apart from the context, so it was more of a generic bad word than anything fully derogatory. So, while he tries desperately to not say it, he will with any particularly difficult client.
It's heavily implied Blaine and Mr. Fuji were on the Mewtwo project together (and canon in the manga). I'm not necessarily saying those two old men who spent countless hours together in a dark, secret underground lab literally creating life were a thing, but I mean... Blaine literally hangs a photo of them together in his gym. If this isn't old man yaoi I don't know what is.
@@snuffles504 oh yeah I guess it would be it. I guess that since it presumably isn't true in the game canon, I assumed that in adventures they didn't need Blaine's DNA, just making their own modifications. So Mewtwo really is Blaine and Mr Fuji's gay love child.
@@keyblademasterclark I'm sorry, but Jasmine's best friend in the world is a giant cat that eats men for breakfast. I think she's at very least rainbow bi if not full les. lool
You did not just slander Koga like that, bro he has a daughter who he trained to take over his gym, even if he can’t say it, it’s probably because he thinks it’s too crass
Surge feels like a repressed gay guy, who came to accept himself later in life and then he turned real loud like: “HERE, LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF MY HUSBAND” That kind of vibe, ya know 😂 Love him for it
Surge was also voiced by a trans woman in the anime (same VA as Meowth btw, Maddie Blaustein). I feel like Giovanni, founder of RAINBOW Rocket, would have a few more things going on. Also Brock was once attracted to someone he knew damn well was Ash in a costume.
@@ClefablePB It's called Love At First Flight. He's dressed up as a specific woman that Brock has a crush on because of course he does, and Brock KNOWS this is Ash in disguise, and still leaps at him. Like seriously he's more creep mode than he's ever been with his actual crushes.
See, bisexuals who only go for girly guys are totally valid, but I would rate that more towards "Any holes a goal" type reasoning. Still probably straight but is he ALLY enough to get a pass for that? And don't get me wrong, we love a straight man who has no problem with dating trans women... but like... IDK, sounds like hes just a lost in the sauce. I think he'd sooner get the pass for being a stay at home mom, I mean a teen boy who wears aprons and cooks good food, hes probably been called it a couple times... wait if Brocks touch starved behavior a coping mechanism?
@@UltravioletNomad He goes for women older than himself (most of the time), and given that his mom is an airheaded flake who walked out on everyone only to show up again later like nothing happened, and his dad enables this behavior, it wouldn't surprise me if Brock's behavior towards women was an attempt to find a sturdy female role model in his life.
Giovanni would make rainbow rocket for the marketing and keep it realizing how much money it making him through merchandise and commercials. He doesn't feel any particular way, but as long as his wallet is fat, he's gung ho
Speaking of Rainbow Rocket, Lysandre and Faba can definitely say it! Archie is a "I MEAN, IF IT MEANS HE CAN TAKE ME TO DINNER!!" Maybe even Cyrus too, he's very Ace coded
@yasmineh.1333 counter-counterpoint: he runs rainbow rocket (but also fair but like I've met gay people who are a little homophobic.. towards themselves but still)
Erika is THE lesbian. She literally only has a gym for women, and in masters, she has a bunch of fangirls she hangs out with. Specifically girls. No men.
On on hand, kinda. on the other he was willing to put on the pink Apron and raised all his little bothers and sisters, cooked for them, learned to sew for them, and I bet if he was around when they became teenagers he would have learned to do his sister's makeup. He only left when he he knew his dad was gonna stay and do the same, and even gave him the instructions foe everyone's needs. Now that he met that Sun&Moon gym leader and is dating her, he's totally gonna be a Wife Guy
@@stephensmith7327Brock is the kind of Bro thats super straight, but is the most accepting of others. With all his siblings, at least 1 will come out, and he'll definitely tell them it's alright.
So Koga is actually a very progressive individual in the Games and most lore. Even in Adventures he's not the kind of guy who'd get angry at women being the protagonist in the game. Heck we learn in later on he personally helps train Janine to take over Fuchsia City Gym. Even the games say this.
@@Cutie_Amor maybe patches? The guy definitely seems like the straight edgy prankster dude during when pranks were a thing (but he’s still my favorite dimension hopping maniac)
@@Cutie_Amor Sir Gideon Ofnir, D, Seluvius, Goldmask, Brother Corhyn (the last two don't know trans people exist) are the ones I can think of right now.
Koga actually has a daughter who he trained to and let take over his gym. He still wouldn’t say it bc his daughter is 100% a lesbian and he has respect for her
Do you KNOW how many in the military are closeted? "Don't ask don't tell" exists as a saying for a REASON, and in the Pokémon world that reason is Surge
Giovanni says it for the mental aspect. Does he care if you're gay or not? No. Does he care about gayness in general? No. But he knows damn well that calling you a 🚬will throw you off your game, so he does.
Giovanni feels like the kind of guy to use the word “gay” as happy and then blindsides a grunt by specifying that he’s calling someone homosexual and no one believes them.
technically Norman beat Ruby for running away from home out of fear that he wouldn't be allowed to do contests which isn't much better, really, I just wanted to make a slight correction besides, adventures canon is entirely separate from game or anime canon. games Norman can't say it and is very awkward if his kid is queer but not homophobic
Actually, it was b/c Ruby ran away from home b/c he thought Norman wouldn't let him. He was literally going to give Ruby his blessing to do contests instead of the gym challenge that night, but Ruby ran from home before he could
Blaine can def say it. My theatre's teacher in college actually dressed up as this man for Halloween. As a huge pokemon nerd I lost my shit. We then started having regular pokemon battles and trade sessions when we bumped into each other around lunch.
Falkner: He's a cop in the manga. Even if he _can_ say it, he's not welcome at Pride. Bugsy: No Gym Leader in the series screams nonbinary more. Of course Bugsy can say it. Whitney: I mean. Yeah. Morty: He's smooching Eusine and you can't change my mind. Chuck: Canonically no, but most of the trainers in his gym probably can. Jasmine: I get strong transbian energy from her for some reason. Absolutely can say it, way too shy to say it. Pryce: Nah, but he's one of those old people who's cool about us at least. Clair: You know how many women I know who want to be stepped on by a girl who acts this exact way? I'd be shocked if she couldn't say it.
I was about to say Ilima is even more nonbinary, but that raises the question of whether Trial Captains from Sun & Moon count as Gym Leaders. Also Pryce is definitely the "as long as they don't come for me or my family they can do whatever they want" kind of old man
@@taylormidnights3133 she doesn't know because they keep their relationship a secret. i mean gay marriage is obviously illegal in kanto what do you think red and blue were doing in alola
Geovanni would defiantly say it, just for the love of the game, like he doesn’t hate, he just knows he’s not allowed to say it and it brings him great joy when he does
Giovanni is actively aware it’s a slur, knows who it is a slur against, and very particularly never uses it as a slur against them. But does against others. Aggressively. And hauntingly. Giovanni is watching a woman walk down the aisle, to her future husband, ashes his cigarette at her dress, and flicks the rest of his butt at the groom, and stares the man dead in the eyes, and whispers it, just loud enough for the groom to hear it. He wasn’t even invited to that wedding. He doesn’t even know those people. It’s literally the first word he ever said to that man. And then he just leaves. He took a handful of wedding cake, too.
It's not a Blake Jennings video without: - Calling you gay - Calling you neurodivergent - "Take him to dinner/Human Shrek" thirsty comments - Brutally honest roasting
Here's my assessment of the Johto leaders and their ability to say 🚬 : Falkner: No, absolutely not Bugsy: He determines whether you say it Whitney: probably does Morty: in reference to cigarettes Chuck: If he takes Blake to dinner Jasmine: Definitely Pryce: probably used to say worse Clair: Probably not
I would like to offer my list Falkner: He gets called it Bugsy: The one calling Falkner it Whitney: No, even if she was in the rainbow mafia, it would sound insulting Morty: He can say it, and is too busy to have time to GRAB cigarettes Chuck: Correct answer Jasmine: Yes yes, a 1000x yes Pryce: Also calls Falkner it Clair: She says it to every trainer that fights her, and five times to those who beat her, and we all know it is better that way
Falkner: no, and he wouldn't say it Bugsy: introduced the word to the Johto region Whitney: _can_ say it (lesbian) but uses it as an insult Morty: yep, cigarettes. doesn't even consider the other possible meaning Chuck: I think we know what Blake's type is by now Jasmine: fucking absolutely Pryce: says it because he's old and forgets he's not meant to say it. probably kissed a guy once when he was at college Clair: I know enough lesbians that would put her in the *SURE IF IT MEANS I CAN TAKE HER TO DINNER* category so I'm not gonna argue
I think a lot about a comic I once saw that had Giovanni making it Rainbow Rocket in an awkward attempt to support his son and despite it being out of character for him I've elected to believe it
Giovanni can call me it whenever he’s doing video demonetizing things to me🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️ I’m a whole gay ass man what did y’all expect? like “BREAKING NEWS: GAYS THINK THE VILLAIN IS HOT” like c’mon diva it ain’t rocket science
Honestly I think Brock could be a closeted gay jock type. Like you would never suspect football players of being gay, but there are gay football players
Koga does not deserve this disrespect!! He can’t say it because he’s a middle aged straight man, but he also wouldn’t say it because he respects his daughter’s and sister’s life choices!!
Would yall wanna see more gym leaders?? Thank you for watching and be on the look out for my first non-compilation long-form video here on Friday!
We need all of them!
Can't wait !!!!!
Yessss!! Can’t wait
JAKE I am autistic and have been OBSESSED with gen 5 and i am going to SCREAM when you do it!!! PLEASE include Natural Harmonia when you do!! you missed him for Champions!!!
Do the kalos leaders!! I'm the fairy type leader fr
Giovanni is what we call in the business a "Professional Hater", he doesn't hate you on a personal level, to him its business, and business is good
EXACTLY you get it
he'd sell arms to both sides of a war, and sometimes those arms are slurs
Taking that out of context real quick @@bugbear2357
"Wanna know the truth, kid? I honestly don't care for the word, but I find it hard not to use when it's so easy to see your trauma everytime I say it."
-Giovanni, the totally super straight mega-het Leader of "Rainbow Rocket."
Giovani attends the playa haters ball every year. Just to hate on the winners
But we all know Giovanni would say it in the most poetic way you've ever heard so you stand stunned with no way of arguing
Right like it’s his artform I’m not gonna take that away from him
He would honestly just do it to piss people off
It's like telling Van Gogh to stay away from a paint brush
Giovanni said it to his son growing up, as an insult like Elon Musk to his trans daughter Vivian.
Y'know that clip of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee being catty at each other where Lee calls Price bitch but in cursive? It's like that.
Not to mention Erika’s gym is known for being staffed by ONLY women and her badge is the RAINBOW badge. Falling asleep in a garden with a bunch of women by your side is very sapphic. She is a sleepy princess gardener lesbian.
In masters shes also surrounded by a crowd of fangirls when you meet her, and one of them literally fights you because Brock is there (i played as a girl so maybe different dialogue if youre a dude) and men arent allowed
Erika made me gay.
Ok the all women thing I agree with, but I don’t think the rainbow is a part of her being lesbian, I think that she just always liked rainbows, learned about the meaning, and though "oh neat"
Contray to that, she's never seen to ever care who she's around and just prefers to sleep than inetract with anyone nomatter who it is, so I suggest that Erika is the local aroace that all the lesbians attached themselves to because they idolize her and thinks she's one of them and she doesn't really care to correct them because atleast they're stopping some people from hitting on her so she's happy.
RUclips doesn't like aroace people jeez
I love the thought that Giovanni isn’t homophobic. He just likes to say the most derogatory shit to piss people off
He would not employ the gayest duo imaginable if he was homophobic
true meaning of chaotic neutral. he would happily call you both the 🚬 word and a terf in the same 10-second span
@@waywardplanet This is the absolute best way to describe that man XD
The fact that perfectly describes my favorite character in fiction- (not the mention that he's the only character to directly address two men's being in love with eachother and when he had to kill them for his plan he just tried to break them up because he knew that'd make them do it themselves, still can't get over how funny that is)
@@saphirestorm7952wait what the fuck when did that happen
Sabrina is literally my "IF IT MEANS I CAN TAKE HER TO DINNER"
Pls continue this series. The gym leaders get exponentially 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂er and it's gonna be a good time
Sabrina could absolutely have me.
I agree
Not going to lie, I think she was my first anime crush
So true
Oh same, especially in her HGSS appearance, god damn 😳
Giovanni absolutely says it but only to his son
And to the kid that destroyed his entire syndicate, but can you blame him?
😭😭
He’d initially say it to try (and fail) to be supportive of Silver but when he leaves to get the milk he says it offensively 😂
Yes, absolutely!
Yes I can (I'm that kid)@@Aiden_Revenant
Bold of you to assume you’re topping Lt.Surge
😧
HAH
I have yet to see spicy fanart of Lt. Surge bottoming
*you're
@@ConnorJG76 thank
As a theater major, yes Blaine is the poster child for an acting coah.
He looks like the old ballet instructor at the dance studio my sisters used to go to.
Unfortunately to me he just looks like Gerald Robotnik and I can't judge him on his own merits.
Yeah. I'm also convinced he learned it apart from the context, so it was more of a generic bad word than anything fully derogatory. So, while he tries desperately to not say it, he will with any particularly difficult client.
He looks like my old choir teacher from elementary school, fun guy who would bring candy every other Friday
Giovanni didn’t invent it, but he did bribe the trademark office to get legal ownership so you owe him money every time you say it.
Anything to get some extra money, right?
And is also consequently doing his best to goad people into saying it so he can charge them
It's heavily implied Blaine and Mr. Fuji were on the Mewtwo project together (and canon in the manga). I'm not necessarily saying those two old men who spent countless hours together in a dark, secret underground lab literally creating life were a thing, but I mean... Blaine literally hangs a photo of them together in his gym. If this isn't old man yaoi I don't know what is.
old man yaoi and their genderless pokemon child they made for a mafia boss
@@bugbear2357 Yeah you know, regular, every day stuff that you see in every neighborhood.
Especially since adventures Mewtwo is just straight up Blaine's son. They added in some of his DNA as spice.
@@AbsolXGuardian Blaine's DNA isn't just "spice", it's the very thing that differentiates Mewtwo from Mew.
@@snuffles504 oh yeah I guess it would be it. I guess that since it presumably isn't true in the game canon, I assumed that in adventures they didn't need Blaine's DNA, just making their own modifications.
So Mewtwo really is Blaine and Mr Fuji's gay love child.
As a lesbian the lesbian radar goes wild when i see misty.
Really? Shit. She was my first anime crush
@@keyblademasterclark rip o7
@@BUSINESSSH33P at least I still have Princess Jasmine
@@keyblademasterclark I'm sorry, but Jasmine's best friend in the world is a giant cat that eats men for breakfast. I think she's at very least rainbow bi if not full les. lool
@@BodaciousBovine DO NOT RUIN THIS FOR ME OR I'LL TURN YOU INTO MISTY'S BROKEN BIKE
Surge being able to say it relies entirely on whether he was in the Air Force or the navy.
One of his Gym trainers is always a Sailor! And he lives right beside the SS Anne dock!
@@AllanGuiHaya70true
@@AllanGuiHaya70 but he's in infantry greens and was save by an electric pokemon, so I'm pretty sure he's army
I believe it was mentioned that he uses his pokemons electricity for flying planes.
He does have a sailor as one of his gym trainers, but it's mentioned he was a pilot and used his electric pokemon to power his plane in an emergency.
You did not just slander Koga like that, bro he has a daughter who he trained to take over his gym, even if he can’t say it, it’s probably because he thinks it’s too crass
BRO'S DAUGHTER IS GAY
Justice for Koga! He's a proud dad who wears lesbian colors when he takes Janine to pride.
Koga is a ninja and to me that makes him automatically bisexual. he's kissed at least one man. I can sense it
Girl dad trying to be supportive
@@bugbear2357 Koga strikes me as the kind of retainer that the Japanese historical novels say had a special relationship with his feudal lord.
Giovanni’s just Italian and wants to spice up how he says “Fuggetaboutit”
"va fa New Bark, frocio!" - Gio, probably
Surge feels like a repressed gay guy, who came to accept himself later in life and then he turned real loud like: “HERE, LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF MY HUSBAND” That kind of vibe, ya know 😂 Love him for it
That's so freaking cute and you're 100% correct I'm
Surge was also voiced by a trans woman in the anime (same VA as Meowth btw, Maddie Blaustein).
I feel like Giovanni, founder of RAINBOW Rocket, would have a few more things going on.
Also Brock was once attracted to someone he knew damn well was Ash in a costume.
waitttt what episode was the brock thing i forgot
@@ClefablePB It's called Love At First Flight. He's dressed up as a specific woman that Brock has a crush on because of course he does, and Brock KNOWS this is Ash in disguise, and still leaps at him. Like seriously he's more creep mode than he's ever been with his actual crushes.
See, bisexuals who only go for girly guys are totally valid, but I would rate that more towards "Any holes a goal" type reasoning. Still probably straight but is he ALLY enough to get a pass for that? And don't get me wrong, we love a straight man who has no problem with dating trans women... but like... IDK, sounds like hes just a lost in the sauce.
I think he'd sooner get the pass for being a stay at home mom, I mean a teen boy who wears aprons and cooks good food, hes probably been called it a couple times... wait if Brocks touch starved behavior a coping mechanism?
@@UltravioletNomad He goes for women older than himself (most of the time), and given that his mom is an airheaded flake who walked out on everyone only to show up again later like nothing happened, and his dad enables this behavior, it wouldn't surprise me if Brock's behavior towards women was an attempt to find a sturdy female role model in his life.
Giovanni would make rainbow rocket for the marketing and keep it realizing how much money it making him through merchandise and commercials. He doesn't feel any particular way, but as long as his wallet is fat, he's gung ho
Of course Sabrina can say it. She was the awakening of many young lesbians just finding out that "girls are hot", myself included.
Yes, giovanni can say it, this man runs both team rocket, which includes girlboss jessie and boyfailure james, and also runs team rainbow rocket
Speaking of Rainbow Rocket, Lysandre and Faba can definitely say it! Archie is a "I MEAN, IF IT MEANS HE CAN TAKE ME TO DINNER!!"
Maybe even Cyrus too, he's very Ace coded
@@AllanGuiHaya70 lysandre doesn't deserve to say it he tried nuking kalos
Counterpoint: he berates Jessie & James, and frankly insulting them in any way is at least a little homophobic
@yasmineh.1333 counter-counterpoint: he runs rainbow rocket (but also fair but like I've met gay people who are a little homophobic.. towards themselves but still)
@@nobodyelseishereever I cracked the code. Giovanni is one of those "gay but not queer" types.
Erika is THE lesbian. She literally only has a gym for women, and in masters, she has a bunch of fangirls she hangs out with. Specifically girls. No men.
So true
Don’t forget, she gives the RAINBOW badge too
“I know anime culture leans towards ‘gay until proven straight’”
I’ve never thought about that, or how goddamn correct that is
I like to assume every fictional character is bi until told otherwise
@@Cutie_Amor That’s a good way to look at it
You don’t have to dunk on single DILF Koga like that
“Barstool Sports” levels of straight is an accurate description of Brock 😂
On on hand, kinda. on the other he was willing to put on the pink Apron and raised all his little bothers and sisters, cooked for them, learned to sew for them, and I bet if he was around when they became teenagers he would have learned to do his sister's makeup. He only left when he he knew his dad was gonna stay and do the same, and even gave him the instructions foe everyone's needs.
Now that he met that Sun&Moon gym leader and is dating her, he's totally gonna be a Wife Guy
@@stephensmith7327Brock is the kind of Bro thats super straight, but is the most accepting of others. With all his siblings, at least 1 will come out, and he'll definitely tell them it's alright.
Surge is 8 feet tall tanned and muscular so the deffinition of a womsns and our dream guy
The man is a muscled military power bottom. Neither us nor women will get to be with him.
@@gkarak1996 nahh ill guss get stills clowns use
I just feel it in my soul that Giovanni calls his Persian a 🚬got on the daily bc HR told him he can't say it to his employees anymore
Persian: [knocks over a photo on Giovanni's desk or something] mraow
Giovanni: 🚬🚬🚬
I can imagine Persian laying on his chair and then he just screams
"Move you little 🚬!!!"
I do that to my lesbian dogs sometimes...
Giovanni broke the game to nickname his Persian 🚬
mhmm exactly exactlyyyy y'all get it
So Koga is actually a very progressive individual in the Games and most lore. Even in Adventures he's not the kind of guy who'd get angry at women being the protagonist in the game. Heck we learn in later on he personally helps train Janine to take over Fuchsia City Gym. Even the games say this.
Half the acting coaches are like blaine, the other half are the eccentric aunts.
The two genders: gay uncle and lesbian aunt
BLAKEEE!!!! DROP A “which Elden ring npcs can say 🚬” AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!
Which npc can't? lady tanith maybe?
@@Cutie_Amor maybe patches? The guy definitely seems like the straight edgy prankster dude during when pranks were a thing (but he’s still my favorite dimension hopping maniac)
@@Mr.Bug1907 as with many characters in this series, not having a pass doesnt stop him
@@Cutie_Amor Sir Gideon Ofnir, D, Seluvius, Goldmask, Brother Corhyn (the last two don't know trans people exist) are the ones I can think of right now.
Surge is either a gentle hunk, or once again the straight man that was just being nice to you.
also Erika's gym is entirely full of women, and she finds poisonous plants beautiful. the woman is a lesbian
So true
Obsessed with the accuracy on this one, because i've had two acting coaches so far and they both looked exactly like that
Koga actually has a daughter who he trained to and let take over his gym. He still wouldn’t say it bc his daughter is 100% a lesbian and he has respect for her
Sabrina would be the typical goth bisexual with a cute little gamer boyfriend who's the sweetest person you'd ever meet
Surge is a military man, he probably can’t say it, but has used it on base
Do you KNOW how many in the military are closeted? "Don't ask don't tell" exists as a saying for a REASON, and in the Pokémon world that reason is Surge
He’s a homophobic gay. Gets railed every night but still will use the word to other gay men and not in the fun way
Giovanni says it for the mental aspect.
Does he care if you're gay or not? No. Does he care about gayness in general? No.
But he knows damn well that calling you a 🚬will throw you off your game, so he does.
Sabrina is the Kuudere that all the girlies (me) want
I'm so glad Koga was able to move past his shitty preconceptions and pass the reins to his gym down to his more than capable daughter.
I was expecting the distorted “yeah if it means I can take him to dinner” but somehow this was even better.
Giovanni feels like the kind of guy to use the word “gay” as happy and then blindsides a grunt by specifying that he’s calling someone homosexual and no one believes them.
If Giovanni was homophobic he wouldn't call his team in pokemon ultra sun and moon "RAINBOW Rocket"
@@HeavenlyMercury2800 "Oh damn, my son's gay, how can I show him that I support him?"
@@hiimemily definitely not by abandoning him.
When you get to gen 3, know that Norman ABSOLUTELY can’t say it. He beat his son for wanting to do contests instead of gyms
technically Norman beat Ruby for running away from home out of fear that he wouldn't be allowed to do contests
which isn't much better, really, I just wanted to make a slight correction
besides, adventures canon is entirely separate from game or anime canon. games Norman can't say it and is very awkward if his kid is queer but not homophobic
Actually, it was b/c Ruby ran away from home b/c he thought Norman wouldn't let him. He was literally going to give Ruby his blessing to do contests instead of the gym challenge that night, but Ruby ran from home before he could
Blaine can def say it. My theatre's teacher in college actually dressed up as this man for Halloween. As a huge pokemon nerd I lost my shit. We then started having regular pokemon battles and trade sessions when we bumped into each other around lunch.
Lt Surge watch out someone is violently sprinting to Vermillion City
I can't agree with koga has a awesome daughter who would be the opposite of what he wants according to your evaluation
With biceps like those, who wouldn't want Lt. Surge to do Demonitizing things to them.
True
Giovanni has that early 2000s "says it as a generic derogatory term the same way we call people fucking stupid" energy.
I'll use my trusty frying pan as a drying pan.
-Brock
The difference between Koga and Giovanni is that Koga is just a hobbyist, while Giovanni is a PROFESSIONAL hater
Falkner: He's a cop in the manga. Even if he _can_ say it, he's not welcome at Pride.
Bugsy: No Gym Leader in the series screams nonbinary more. Of course Bugsy can say it.
Whitney: I mean. Yeah.
Morty: He's smooching Eusine and you can't change my mind.
Chuck: Canonically no, but most of the trainers in his gym probably can.
Jasmine: I get strong transbian energy from her for some reason. Absolutely can say it, way too shy to say it.
Pryce: Nah, but he's one of those old people who's cool about us at least.
Clair: You know how many women I know who want to be stepped on by a girl who acts this exact way? I'd be shocked if she couldn't say it.
I was about to say Ilima is even more nonbinary, but that raises the question of whether Trial Captains from Sun & Moon count as Gym Leaders.
Also Pryce is definitely the "as long as they don't come for me or my family they can do whatever they want" kind of old man
@@SageArdorregardless of if they count as gym leaders I still hope we get them in one of these videos
Giovanni being a xillennial who utterly conquered xbox live chat is just too good for me to say it's non-canon
PLEASE surge and koga are husbands and they both say it to each other regularly
YES THANK YOU I've found my people!! They're absolutely husbands 😤
Surge must be a deadbeat dad then because Janine never talks about him LOL
@@taylormidnights3133 she doesn't know because they keep their relationship a secret. i mean gay marriage is obviously illegal in kanto what do you think red and blue were doing in alola
@@manolo3498 it’s a shame. If she knew she’d be one of those girls who’s super protective and supportive of her gay dads.
Erina is an anime protagonist with the flowers and girl harem that surrounds her.
Oh yeah definitely
i mean misty is literally called the tomboyish mermaid like hello 😭😭
So Koga is a discord mod
Blaine does look like what happens if you average together all of my directors
Giovanni: *Clear his throat then proceeds to call you the most egregious string of slurs* “Nothing personal kid, it’s just business.”
This channel is really just revealing what characters from games he likes, and maybe some good content
I swear Giovanni says it not to be hateful towards gay people but rather to annoy people who arent gay but get offended by it.
We all feel the same way about Lt. Surge
Geovanni would defiantly say it, just for the love of the game, like he doesn’t hate, he just knows he’s not allowed to say it and it brings him great joy when he does
Of course, he doesn't hate gay people.He hired james didn't he?
Giovanni is the definition of “I hate everyone equally”
Blane straight up looks like my acting coach from high school. Just add a rat tail and that’s him.
Giovanni isn't bigoted, he just knows its the best way to be evil besides kicking puppies
He’s not a bigot he hates everyone equally
I can sense a Wallace redemption 👃
Wallace Waiting Room:
imagine he finally gets to Wallace and it's just "nope, he's just a method actor."
Is that a nose, a Kirby mouthful mode, or a 💄
I fear Blaine is EXACTLY what my primary theatre teacher looks like…
Giovanni is actively aware it’s a slur, knows who it is a slur against, and very particularly never uses it as a slur against them. But does against others. Aggressively. And hauntingly.
Giovanni is watching a woman walk down the aisle, to her future husband, ashes his cigarette at her dress, and flicks the rest of his butt at the groom, and stares the man dead in the eyes, and whispers it, just loud enough for the groom to hear it.
He wasn’t even invited to that wedding. He doesn’t even know those people. It’s literally the first word he ever said to that man. And then he just leaves.
He took a handful of wedding cake, too.
I've never seen something so random and unnecessary yet so true
Jake getting more and more freaky is so real 💀💀💀🙏
Erika stays in a girls only gym, is always sleepy, and gives you the Rainbow Badge. She's the reason Kamto has gay rights; of course she can say it.
Lt. Surge listens to The Village People and you CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
Koga is very respectful his daughter is the gum leader in gen 2 Koga is a feminist goddamn it
One of my favorite artists draws giovanni and surge as a couple and I am here for it
It's not a Blake Jennings video without:
- Calling you gay
- Calling you neurodivergent
- "Take him to dinner/Human Shrek" thirsty comments
- Brutally honest roasting
I hope this series continues, just promise me when you get to Gen 5 you will roast the heck out of Burgh for his AWFUL fashion sense
Here's my assessment of the Johto leaders and their ability to say 🚬 :
Falkner: No, absolutely not
Bugsy: He determines whether you say it
Whitney: probably does
Morty: in reference to cigarettes
Chuck: If he takes Blake to dinner
Jasmine: Definitely
Pryce: probably used to say worse
Clair: Probably not
I would like to offer my list
Falkner: He gets called it
Bugsy: The one calling Falkner it
Whitney: No, even if she was in the rainbow mafia, it would sound insulting
Morty: He can say it, and is too busy to have time to GRAB cigarettes
Chuck: Correct answer
Jasmine: Yes yes, a 1000x yes
Pryce: Also calls Falkner it
Clair: She says it to every trainer that fights her, and five times to those who beat her, and we all know it is better that way
Falkner: no, and he wouldn't say it
Bugsy: introduced the word to the Johto region
Whitney: _can_ say it (lesbian) but uses it as an insult
Morty: yep, cigarettes. doesn't even consider the other possible meaning
Chuck: I think we know what Blake's type is by now
Jasmine: fucking absolutely
Pryce: says it because he's old and forgets he's not meant to say it. probably kissed a guy once when he was at college
Clair: I know enough lesbians that would put her in the *SURE IF IT MEANS I CAN TAKE HER TO DINNER* category so I'm not gonna argue
I think a lot about a comic I once saw that had Giovanni making it Rainbow Rocket in an awkward attempt to support his son and despite it being out of character for him I've elected to believe it
Every single one of these is hilarious
Giovanni would not say it. He'd say something so utterly humiliatingly sophisticated you'd WISH he just called you a slur.
Giovanni can call me it whenever he’s doing video demonetizing things to me🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️ I’m a whole gay ass man what did y’all expect? like “BREAKING NEWS: GAYS THINK THE VILLAIN IS HOT” like c’mon diva it ain’t rocket science
Well yeah, cause it's Team Rocket.
i refuse to believe brock is completely straight hes too funny
Here… again…
Serge was in the army, you just know he's said it a thousand times by now
Your description of Brock had me CACKLING
Brock literally flirting with every women he sees in indigo league (level: impossible)
Brock is as straight as a ruler
My man Giovanni achieved his goals and the first thing he does is rebranding to rainbow
Misty was my first anime crush and the start of a long history simping for orange/redheaded characters.
The idea of Brock saying the slur is hilarious
Honestly I think Brock could be a closeted gay jock type. Like you would never suspect football players of being gay, but there are gay football players
Ok but Rainbow Rocket though…unless that’s him just trying to say it, and taking it to a whole new level.
Koga does not deserve this disrespect!! He can’t say it because he’s a middle aged straight man, but he also wouldn’t say it because he respects his daughter’s and sister’s life choices!!
😂 the use of the cigarette emoji because that's what they're called in the UK
For Misty: What rhymes with bike? Exactly. Case closed.
Once he sees Remake Team Aqua he will for sure give them all the pass
In Let’s Go, Misty is described as the “tomboyish mermaid”. Ain’t that something.
Legend says that when Sabrina as much as utters the word, 100P appear in her bank account.
And yes to more Gym Leaders!
I mean, Giovanni does eventually make a team called ‘rainbow rocket’ so I mean… man is at least a BIT 🤨
"I need to do video demonitizing things to this man", oh my god. Did not know you were down bad for surge.
You should do this for the male protagonists from Gen 1 to Gen 9
Koga heard Janine say it and acts like the pass is transferrable like a costco card