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| - Ash's main rival in Unova. He is also a Pokémon photographer.
* Adorkable: Has shown signs of being one but most of this is suppressed by his aloof attitude, but once certain people (Alder) are around him though, that side of him is gone almost instantly, with his voice suddeny getting childishly high in the process.
* Always Someone Better: Played straight at first, but ever since he tied with Ash during their third battle the writers have thankfully made his strength more evidently balanced.
* Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: A classic case, what with his obsession with gaining greater strength than other challengers.
* Ascended Fanboy: Wanted to be a trainer after watching the Champion Alder battle. While he promised himself that he would become a trainer so he could face Alder one day, it's to be noted that his overall cheerfulness as a child is gone by the time he starts as a trainer.
* Bare-Fisted Monk: Gurdurr-Conkeldurr
* Barrier Warrior: Frillish's Protect.
* Beginner's Luck: His first battle with Ash.
* Berserk Button: Trip hates being called a "kid" or getting called out for being childish. Iris doing it gets to him twice.
* Getting rejected also doesn't seem to faze well with him, especially when it's by his idol.
* Break the Cutie/Break the Haughty: BW054 shows shades of this, especially when Trip leaves the group. It's not surprising though: the person you idolized not remembering you, demonstrating to you that the idol you love has apparently grown senile and unserious and then your idol not wanting to battle you after refusing to finish the battle with your rival will shatter your view of things even if you don't show it, and with the other tropes shown below, it might be more serious than we think.
* He gets another one when Bianca defeats him in the Donamite tournament. He leaves afterward like he did in the Club Battle....only this time, he's doing it because he's depressed, not because he thinks he's too good to watch anyone else's matches.
* Brick Break: Gurdurr's Rock Smash.
* Broken Pedestal: Alder, as stated above.
* The Bully: In his first two appearances, pre-Character Development.
* Camera Fiend: A minor example as it's not to the extreme of Luke's obsession with filming. Trip is always seen with his camera though before he puts it away.
* Catch Phrase: Trip seems to be really fond of "the basics of Pokémon training".
* Characterization Marches On: Started off as a rival that seemed to enjoy making fun of Ash and the Kanto region but quickly mellowed down to a quiet, aloof Rival that gives advice to Ash despite still being annoyed by him.
* Character Tics: Apparently when he's really happy (which is rare), he holds his arms in front of him when he's talking. It's almost similar to a certain spirit channeler from a certain lawyer game.
* Cheerful Child: As a really young boy, and it's still there at his current age. In fact, you can tell he's happy by the tone of his voice.
* Cross Dressing Voice: Only in the Japanese version.
* Cute Shotaro Boy: As a young child, complete with the Puppy Dog Eyes.
* Deadpan Snarker: Mainly toward Ash.
* Dishing Out Dirt: Gurdurr-Conkeldurr's Stone Edge and Rock Tomb.
* Doppelganger Spin: Tranquill's Double Team.
* Eagle Land: When you consider that Unova is based on New York, Trip comes off as a Type 2: arrogant, condescending and quick to insult Ash and his home region Kanto. However, recent episodes have him of a mixture of type 1 and 2 but he prefers to hide fact that he is type 1.
* Expy: Of Cheren.
* Many members of the fanbase at first believed that he was going to be one of Paul after his first appearance, but then his Hidden Depths and the rest of his personality traits came about and revealed they share little in common at all.
* Graceful Loser: To Cilan in the Club Battle tournament. He is upset about losing, but claims that he'll use that dissapointment to help make him stronger rather than dwell on it.
* Gray Eyes
* Green Thumb: Servine
* Hidden Depths: The Kuudere Rival was actually a Cheerful Child when he was much younger and an Ascended Fanboy. Whatever happened from the time that Alder told him that he would wait for him to be a trainer to him getting his starter Pokémon is where this trope comes in...and there are speculations of something happening in that time frame.
* Hoist by His Own Petard: How Trip ends up losing to Bianca. Not only underestimate her, but his Conkeldurr leaves himself wide open for attacks when Bianca's Emboar gets through his Rock Tomb. Bianca basically orders her Emboar to take those pillars that Conkeldurr uses in battle and throw back in his face.
* Hypocritical Humor: He calls Ash immature but is shown to be equally immature when it comes to certain subjects like getting Alder's attention.
* An Ice Pokémon: Vanillite
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As of his third appearance, we learn that he's not actually that bad of a guy. It takes convincing but he does help Ash herd the Venipede to Castelia main square. And he also uses his Tranquill to save Ash's Pidove when one of the Venipede attacked.
* Jerkass Facade: His fourth appearances shows that he isn't really a jerk. For some strange reason, he would rather be a jerk towards Ash than be nice to him. However, he fails to even be that, and he ends up helping Ash realize why Oshawott isn't hitting its mark with Aqua Jet (by pausing their battle and explaining it to him, not even trying to take advantage of it). He also volunteers to help Iris overcome her fear of ice Pokémon (but she refused, because...well, she's afraid of ice Pokémon!)
* Letter Motif: Ash's first two main rivals are Shigeru (Gary) and Shinji (Paul).
* And to an extent, Shuu (Drew) and Jun (Barry).
* Loners Are Freaks: He's well-noted for his anti-social behavior, as he apparently thinks interaction with others interferes with one's own personal growth.
* Made of Iron: His Vanillite took two direct Flame Charges and an Ember from Ash's Tepig and still managed to get a tie with him.
* Making a Splash: Frilish
* Mood Swinger: According to Alder and from what the audience sees, there are some hints that his personality does go 180 as shown in BW054 when he's quiet one moment and then rather hyperactive the next only to swing right back to his serious self near the end, only this time with actual anger rather than sulleness.
* More Than Meets the Eye
* Dandere: It only takes mentioning Alder or for Alder to be in the area for him to start talking a lot with a high pitch voice. (In the English version, his voice while not as high started to sound like Barry given that they share the same voice actor).
* Kuudere: Type 3 cynicism to its max and is only directed toward Ash.
* Taken up a notch in BW041 where Ash is trying to get his attention. Trip obviously sees Ash but decides to turn the other way. Ash's expression is priceless.
* Name's the Same: Not just the name, actually.
* Non-Elemental: Tranquill
* Playing with Fire: Lampent
* Punny Name: Shooti coming from "photo shoot", and Trip possibly coming from "tripod".
* The Quiet One: Even when sitting with everyone else in the Club Battle, he prefers talking to himself than with others.
* In the Donamite (the Club Battle's sequel), he doesn't even sit with the others, he just stands in a shady corner and comment on Ash's battle (which he is watching rather intensely.)
* Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ash's red of the "Best Wishes" series.
* Ridiculously Cute Critter: His Vanillite. Ironically, Iris, who is scared of Ice Pokémon, thinks the exact opposite, which seems to disappoint it.
* Smug Snake: His Servine mainly, and he himself until his third appearance taught him some humility.
* Soul Power: Frillish, Lampent
* Speedrunner: Seems to be his way of doing things.
* Used to Be a Sweet Kid: What happened to the happy little boy in the flashback that made him the aloof Rival now?
* The Worf Effect: Gurdurr can't seem to win a single fight, even after evolving to the last stage.
* Wind from Beneath My Wings: Tranquill
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