>>58168894
>He's the first MC.
That and pic related

>>531589124
I'd want this to happen solely because it's one of the coolest tropes in gaming. You could even make it so it's basically non-canon, I just want it

>>715213829
Isshin the Sword Saint is up there
...but I gotta say Red.
It's you from the first game. How cool is that?
My 9yo self had the exact same pokemon except Espeon and it made me think it's somehow my save file from Yellow. No other game since then has made me feel this way.

>>11853826
>>11853861
Thought about it some more and I will contend that fighting Red at the end of Gold and Silver is worth any sort of stripping back of content. That is too fucking sick.