Quoted By:
>built up for an entire decade as a mysterious, God tier trainer, only showing up in one game as the final boss with levels ridiculously above anyone else before or since
>GSC's narrative implicitly revolves around his actions in the previous game, even when you visit Kanto you can't catch the legendaries because Red presumably caught them hinself
>special for being the only main character turned into an NPC, THE main character of the first game, the first main character that stopped the evil team and did everything first
>his team's levels get surpassed by Barry in DPP but it's okay because he retakes his title as the strongest in HGSS
>proceeds to be shilled so hard he shows up in BW2, SM and USUM presumably losing to the player character in the process
>other main characters get chosen one bullshit that put them in-lore ahead of him anyway since they're forced to catch legendaries, even optional encounters like Brendan and Ethan are forced to face the box legendary in the remakes
>Red can't even claim to have caught the original 151 anymore because the birds and Mewtwo are obtainable in HGSS
>gets LITERALLY replaced by Chase in LGPE, ultimately rendering all his previous achievements and the reason he was so special to begin with pointless
>now just a random strong NPC deprived of anything that made him memorable
So iconic that his legacy was completely ruined. Gamefreak somehow tries to make Red appear cooler every game and yet they make him look more and more pathetic. How incompetent can you be?
