And There Could Even Be More Cases I'm Not Thinking Of Or Just Don't Know Of - Blog Posts

chatting with friend about barry pokemon and trying to explain his fines, and I realized there's an interesting amount of daddy issues in pokemon

like, giovanni essentially abandons silver, then later on assumedly kills himself

of all the mainline protagonists only one has a known dad (i don't know about side games), and even then norman is distant and seems to rather be a gym leader than a father

palmer lives on an entirely different area of sinnoh, as well as also seeming emotionally distant considering the reason for barry's fines (tbf i don't know a whole much about the battle zone)

and arven just has parent issues in general depending on the version you play