Pearl (Adventures)

Pearl (Japanese: パール Pearl) is a main character in the manga series Pokémon Adventures.

Character
Pearl is impatient and is often accidentally getting himself and his friend, into trouble. He is the straight man () of the, while Diamond is the funny man. His appearance is based on that of from the video game series.

Compared to Diamond, Pearl is hasty and easily angered and, according to Diamond, always goes out of his way to complete things he has started, which reflects the virtue that he is aligned with: willpower, which also makes him associated with. Pearl is also very bossy and usually tells Diamond and what to do. For his skills, he is given the title of "" ( Determiner).

His father is very skilled in battling, and Pearl has learned a lot from him during his childhood, which has helped him in creating training sessions for Platinum to participate in for practice for her Gym challenges. One of his most amazing abilities is his skill of being able to tell what move a Pokémon is preparing to use. Like his two traveling companions, Pearl was not very strong when he first set out on his journey across Sinnoh but he got better under the training of Crasher Wake.

Because the two boys were neighbors during their childhood, Pearl and Diamond are practically as close as brothers. Even though Pearl often yells and smacks Diamond, Pearl truly does care for Diamond. Conversely, Pearl dislikes Platinum's arrogant attitude towards Diamond and himself. Despite the fact that he often yells and criticizes her, Pearl always helps Platinum by helping prepare her for her goals and dreams, and is often amazed by her knowledge and perseverance. The two quickly got used to the other's personality and have become close friends.

Pearl was first introduced at the New Generation Funny Grand Prix in Jubilife City, where he, along with Diamond, won the Judges' Special Merit Prize. Upon leaving the Grand Prix, Diamond and Pearl's prize was mixed up with Professor Rowan's envelope, causing the boys to, unknowingly, accept the mission to guard on her journey to the top of Mt. Coronet, although they believed they were on a reality show and Platinum was the host.

In Oreburgh City, Platinum decided to challenge Gyms, and Diamond and Pearl helped her train, which helped build trust within the young trio. After many different trials and crises together, they finally reached Mt. Coronet, but they soon discovered that the cavern they have entered would not lead to the summit, and therefore had to continued their journey on to the eastern side of Sinnoh.

In Hearthome City, Platinum decided to enter a Pokémon Super Contest. In order for the girl to win, Pearl planned a very strict dance program that Platinum would have to perform, which she did, helping her snag the victory.

Afterward, the trio was attacked by Platinum's true bodyguards, Paka and Uji, who believed that Diamond and Pearl where kidnappers who had taken Platinum for ransom. Thankfully, they were saved by Fantina, who took them to the Lost Tower. Once Fantina deemed it save for them to leave, the trio went to the Solaceon Ruins, where they saved a group of Unown before heading back out on their journey.

In Veilstone City, Diamond and Pearl met up with Paka and Uji for real and had their first true battle with Team Galactic. During this battle, Diamond's Tru and Chimler both evolved and Platinum's true identity was revealed to the two boys by Paka and Uji. However, before her real bodyguards had a chance to meet and explain things to the girl, they were banished into another dimension by Saturn. Once this happened, Diamond confessed to Pearl that he knew Platinum wasn't a reality TV host from the beginning, but he had kept it to himself because the misunderstanding was the thing that created and held together their friendship. The two then took an oath that they would protect her and keep their real identities a secret.

Later, following a separation from Diamond and Platinum at Lake Valor, an adventure in the Great Marsh and Platinum's Gym challenge in Pastoria City, they met up with Cynthia at the, and she helped them clear the group of that were blocking. They encountered Cyrus again in Celestic Town when the man broke into the ruins that held Sinnoh's legend of the three lakes. After the showdown with the man, in which Diamond and Pearl had a huge argument that nearly cost them the victory, the trio ended up in Hearthome once again and Platinum challenged Fantina, who turned out to be the Gym Leader of the Hearthome Gym.

After gaining a victory, the trio learned of Mr. Berlitz's and Professor Rowan's disappearance. In order to find them, the trio went to Canalave City, where they mistook Byron for the kidnapper. After realizing the whole thing was a misunderstanding, Platinum finally learned of Diamond and Pearl's true identity and was completely horrified by the news. However, after a horrible night full of nightmares, she decided to keep the boys as her companions and they resumed their journey with a new goal in mind: to stop Team Galactic's evil plans.

The trio then split up to defend the three lakes of Sinnoh, Lake Valor, Lake Acuity, and Lake Verity. Pearl was assigned to go to Lake Valor. On the way there, Pearl accidentally fell from a cliff in an attempt to save a nest of and ended up in front of the Fuego Ironworks, where he was reunited with the  that he had befriended near the beginning of his journey and, after it said farewell to its herd, it joined Pearl's team.

Upon leaving the Fuego Ironworks, Pearl met up with Rad Rickshaw and traveled with the man to Lake Valor. Once they arrived, the two went across the lake to the small island in the center, where Pearl fought against Team Galactic's Saturn and witnessed the Galactic Bomb's explosion. The two then fought over the Pokémon of willpower,, but Pearl lost the fight and collapsed, leaving Saturn with Azelf.

Pearl later awoke in the Pastoria Gym. While there, the Gym leader of Pastoria, Crasher Wake suggested the boy catch a or a  as they seemed to fit Pearl's personality. After several failed attempts and some encouragement from his Pokémon and his new teacher Wake, Pearl finally caught a Buizel along with a and a. After some training with Wake and hearing that Diamond was on a Galactic Airship, Pearl left for Veilstone City in order to infiltrate the Team Galactic Headquarters.

Upon arriving in Veilstone, Pearl noticed that the city was guarded by Team Galactic. Thankfully, he was able to get through with the help of a group of that he, along with Diamond and Platinum, had met in Solaceon Town. Once he managed to get inside of the Headquarters, he was reunited with his former traveling companions and sacrificed his Pokédex in order to save the Lake guardians.

The newly reunited trio then regrouped with Cynthia and headed to the Spear Pillar, where Diamond and Pearl split up with Platinum and Cynthia and time and space begins to distort. The two boys began to fight and  but were quickly stopped by the dragons' abilities to manipulate the fabric of reality. After Cyrus ambushed them, a giant hole appears in the sky and started sucking everyone on the Spear Pillar into it. Pearl and Platinum tried to prevent the unconscious Gym Leaders from being taken while Diamond attempted to jump into the hole and close it from inside.

Pearl sits on the sidelines for the rest of the battle and witnesses Diamond and his new partner, fight off Dialga and Palkia. Once Diamond makes a speech that causes the control on Dialga and Palkia to become unbalanced, he and Diamond, under Platinum's command, attack the two dragons and successfully break the Red Chain controlling them. Dialga and Palkia, free from Cyrus' control, defeat the Galactic Boss, knocking him unconscious.

They celebrate their victory and decide to go home while taking their friends and Cyrus to the hospital. As they leave, Diamond notices someone watching them and the Canalave Gym Leader, Byron, emerges from the ground and takes the machine he was holding. However, this causes to emerge from the hole in the sky and grab Cyrus, Dialga, and Palkia, who are all dragged into it. The old man introduces himself as Charon and makes an attempt to escape, but Diamond's Kit steals a small notebook from him as he flees.

It is later revealed that the notebook that Kit had stolen from Charon was a book with information on legendary Pokémon. Joined by the Sinnoh Pokémon Association Chairman and Dr. Footstep, Pearl and Diamond use the notebook that was deciphered by the Sinnoh Elite Four and search for the legendary and rare Pokémon of Sinnoh.

Their first stop is to return to the Old Chateau where they find the Pokémon that had attacked them in their last visit,. The two are attacked by Rotom and its many different forms. Eventually, Diamond manages to bond with Rotom and befriends it; Rotom then joins their group.

Soon after, Pearl and Diamond hear a large noise and runs to the location where it came from. Upon arriving, they find a giant dragon Pokémon called going on a rampage and destroying Eterna City. Immediately, Diamond's Regigigas, Reg, erupts from its Poké Ball to battle Giratina. Soon after, Charon appears and reveals that intends to kill Pearl and Diamond in his plan to capture the legendary and rare Pokémon of Sinnoh.

Diamond and Reg face off Charon's while Pearl and Chatler goes off to battle Giratina alone. Due to Chatler and Pearl staying in the air, they are able to escape from Giratina's attacks due to it not being a good fighter while flying. When Charon forces Giratina to use, Diamond pushes Pearl out of the way of the attack, but gets hit by it in the process and is knocked unconscious. Much to Pearl's distress, he tries to wake Diamond up, but to no avail. Seeing that its Trainer has died, Reg begins to turn around and leaves.

In his rage, Pearl decides to attack Charon despite the chance that they might lose. Before they can fight, Reg soon returns with Rotom's appliances so that Rotom can attack Charon in its rage. Together, Reg and Rotom force Charon and Giratina to retreat back into the Distortion World. Soon after, the Sinnoh Chairman and Dr. Footstep return to the scene after hearing all of the commotion. As soon as they return, Diamond's body suddenly begins to distort and disappears.

Later, Pearl, Dr. Footstep and the Sinnoh Chairman make their way to the Distortion World. While traveling, Pearl contacts Platinum and tries to inform her about what happened to Diamond.

After entering, Pearl is shocked to find his father,, having fallen out of the sky. They are attacked by, due to Palmer's being hostile towards it. Palmer manages to defeat Darkrai alone, which causes Pearl to wonder why he is not a Gym Leader. Palmer reveals to him that he has a job as the owner of the and is the Tower Tycoon of the.

When Palmer asks where Diamond is, Pearl sadly informs him that he had died in their previous battle. Suddenly, Diamond appears riding on Dialga's back, revealing that he is still alive. Much to Pearl's surprise, Cyrus is also with Diamond, and is riding on Palkia. They hear Platinum's voice and rush to her location, and find Paka and Uji there with her. They have a tearful reunion and return their sunglasses back to their original owners. Soon after, the Advanced level Grunt returns the stolen Pokédexes back to their proper owners.

As the battle between the legendary Pokémon continues getting more and more chaotic, everyone begins to gather together. When Charon decides to escape, Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum each take a different legendary Pokémon to fly and chase after him before he can trap everyone inside the Distortion World. They fly and eventually make it outside to Sunyshore City, where Charon is finished off by a surprise attack from Cynthia.

Charon tries to escape like he did at the Spear Pillar, only to be cornered by Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum. Although defeated, Charon refuses to give up, and uses his machine to try and make Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum's Pokémon attack each other. The machine is quickly destroyed by a toy of Proteam Omega, which is revealed to be possessed by Rotom.

With Charon defeated, everyone who was left behind in the Distortion World emerges from it safe and unharmed. Cyrus disbands Team Galactic, but thanks the three before leaving with Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. Giratina tries to attack one last time, but is stopped by Volkner and Flint and is driven back into the Distortion World by Dialga and Palkia, this time without any desire for revenge.

Charon is arrested by Looker, who gives Diamond a Pokémon Egg given to him from the Fiore Region before leaving to his next mission in Unova. Having emerged from everything victorious, the three give each other a fist bump. Later, Platinum watches as the sole audience member as Pearl and Diamond gives her a comedy routine, which she hadn't seen in a while.

Sometime later, at the Solaceon Day-Care Center, Diamond plays with, a Pokémon that hatched from an Egg. Pearl berates him for playing with it when they are supposed to be training it, which Diamond responds by having the Pokémon use. The owners of the Day-Care recall of a that hatched a Pokémon with a similar personality to his in the Johto region.

In Omega Alpha Adventure 16, a younger Pearl and Diamond were seen interrupting a conversation Palmer had with. They wished to go outside and practice their comedy routine, but Palmer told them to stay inside due to the threat caused by Grand Meteor Delta.

Pokémon
All of Pearl's Pokémon nicknames are a combination of two syllables of their species name and "" or "," a common suffix for Japanese boys' names.

Trivia

 * Pearl is the first rival-based Pokédex holder to name his Pokémon.
 * Pearl is the only Sinnoh Pokédex holder who did not receive a Pokémon from a Gym Leader.
 * Pearl's birthday is June 6, and pearls are the birthstone for those born in June.
 * Pearl is 5'2" (157 cm) tall and weighs 99 lbs (45 kg).

Pearl's Pokémon
Zeller

Tauler

Digler