>>27692175How should a future jerkish rival play out like then? We had Blue be an arrogant and smug rival, whose main flaw was his own pride who in the end is humbled and learns his mistakes as in Gen 2.
And then we have Silver who is a bit more villainous than Blue and outright sees Pokemon as tools, but in the end he realizes that Pokemon are not tools and confesses to Professor Elm that he stole the starter Pokemon that he stole.