>>29225232people don't want to associate their favorite and probably first self-insert with a guy who chokes at sporting events
it's why fanartists started making him a broody prettyboy and gamefreak redesigned him
then they fucked that up by taking redesigned red's clothes and features and slapping them on ash, making it moot
shit, in generations where red was using nothing but pikachu, going through all the regions, and meeting legendaries. it's convergence
