Talk:Pokémon Trainer

Playable?
Should this guy really be counted as a playable character? Considering that his Pokemon (which the player controls) do all the fighting, while he just stands in the background and watches. Yes, I know that you'll select him to "play" as him, but you'll never control him. -- Booster
 * That's indeed hard to tell. Well, you control him when using the Pokémon Change move, at last. - 10:44, 13 August 2007 (EDT)
 * Ah, I see. I guess he is playble... barely. -- Booster

A point that nobody, on either side, seems to have noticed
...if Captain Falcon's full name (Douglas Jay Falcon) can be mentioned on his page, even though that info comes from the F-Zero series and not Smash Bros., then there's no reason why Red CAN'T be mentioned on this page--at least to say that the Smash Bros. character is based on Red, and THEN explain that Red is the name of the playable male trainer in the Kanto-based Pokémon games. They're the EXACT SAME THING--a name for the character from an outside source which is still the real name of the character. And, looky here--if you type in "Captain Douglas Jay Falcon" into the box, you even get redirected to Captain Falcon's page! So much for that "no redirect/disambiguation for out-of-SmashBros.-info" thing, huh? If the "no outside-Marioverse (as if Smash Bros. was really in it to begin with...) info" angry mob won't accept that Red is his name, then you're gonna have to take off Captain Falcon's full name, too. Wario&#39;sFalconPAUNCH! 01:18, 11 September 2007 (EDT)
 * BUT, his name is still Captain Douglas Jay Falcon in Super Smash Bros., but, it was simply shortened to Captain Falcon, so the name could fit. However, Pokémon Trainer is called Pokémon Trainer in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, NOT Red. His name is NOT a shortened version of Red. Captain Falcon is just a shortened version of his real name, which is still used in Super Smash Bros., wheras, Red is NEVER used in Super Smash Bros. Understand?

Captain Falcon has always been named that, Whereas Pokemon trainer has no real name. You could name him whatever you want to in the games, and he's only called red when they needed a name for him and desided to call him red (after the first game in the series). 06:56, 11 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Thank you, Peachycakes, for helping me out on that (That was not sarcasm).

Finally something not about his name
Does it say on the website if he stays in one place in the background? Or if he moves? I wonder about the scrolling stages...
 * It says he stands in the background, he still moves around in the case of scrolling stages.

Oh. OK. Thx.