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| “ | Pokémon Trainers. I come to you by the Holo Caster to make an important announcement. Listen well. Team Flare will revive the ultimate weapon, eliminate everyone who isn't in our group, and return the world to a beautiful, natural state. Unproductive fools are consuming our future... If nothing changes, the world will become ugly and conflicts will raze the land from end to end. I repeat. We will use the ultimate weapon and wipe the slate clean. I'm sorry, those of you who are not members of Team Flare, but this is adieu to you all. | „ |
| ~ Lysandre's speech that reveals that his goal is to wipe out all life on Earth. |
| “ | This world will eventually reach the point of no return... Saving the lives of all is impossible. Only the chosen ones will obtain a ticket to tomorrow. Do you want to have a ticket? Or, do you want to stop me? Show me in battle. | „ |
| ~ Lysandre before fighting the player at Lysandre Labs. |
Lysandre (in Japanese: フラダリ Fuladari) is the main antagonist of the 2013 Pokémon video games Pokémon X and Pokémon Y and a minor antagonist in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon. He is the leader and founder of Team Flare, president of Lysandre Labs, and a member of Team Rainbow Rocket in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon.
In Japanese, he was voiced by Hideaki Tezuka in the anime, Hiroki Tōchi in Pokémon Generations, Akio Otsuka in Pokémon Masters, and Takaya Hashi in Pokémon Evolutions. In English, he was voiced by Tyler Bunch in the anime, D.C. Douglas (who also voiced Albert Wesker, Yoshikage Kira, and Suguru Kamoshida) in Pokémon Masters, and Adin Rudd in Pokémon Evolutions.
Appearance[]
Lysandre is a very tall, pale man, with blue eyes and pointed red hair and beard. Lysandre wears a black suit, lined in red and black dress shoes. He also wears a pair of black, fingerless gloves and a Mega Ring on his left middle finger.
During the final battle against him, Lysandre a cybernetic suit intended the power of Xerneas in X or Yveltal in Y into the Ultimate Weapon. It contains a bronze gauntlet on his right hand and a backpack with three flying machines looking like spotlights attached to wires. He also wears an orange visor over her eyes similar to the visors/glasses that the rest of Team Flare wear.
Personality[]
Lysandre at first seems to be a kind and thoughtful man who loves Pokémon and sees the beauty in everything. In truth, Lysandre is so obsessed with preserving the beauty in the world that he wants to exterminate all humans and Pokémon, that are not members of Team Flare in order to protect them from selfish humans trying to exploit them and also to preserve the planet's limited resources.
Lysandre is also shown to be hypocritical, because despite all his preaching about human greed, Lysandre himself is quite greedy, as it costs five million Pokédollars to join Team Flare. And also, he is pretty selfish himself despite it being one of the main reasons for his goal.
But despite all of this, Lysandre is not completely heartless as at a few points he expresses remorse at the thought of killing many humans and Pokémon but he genuinely feels that this is the best thing for them in the long run. And also unlike many other villainous leaders, Lysandre is shown to treat his Pokémon well and even have a bond with them, as shown by his Gyarados being able to Mega-Evolve.
In the past, Lysandre was a philanthropist who helped people in need. But he eventually realized that the people were becoming greedy and arrogant, so he changed his motive.
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Trivia[]
- Lysandre's role of being Team Flare's leader can be considered obvious as he goes on long tangents about beauty and global destruction, has fiery red hair, dresses like someone associated with Team Flare, and owns a café that Team Flare members frequent; Lysandre Café. Though it should be noted that Lysandre was introduced before Team Flare.
- Lysandre is the inventor of the Holo Caster.
- Lysandre is the descendant of the brother of AZ (the ancient king of Kalos). AZ was similar to Lysandre, as they both used the Ultimate Weapon in an attempt to "beautify" the world, or purify it from what they deemed as "corruption".
- Lysandre is one of three people in the main storyline to use a Mega Pokémon during battle, the others being the fighting-type Gym Leader Korrina and the Kalos Champion Diantha. After defeating the Elite Four and Diantha, the player's primary rival (Serena or Calem) gains the ability to use Mega Evolution as well.
- It is unknown where he received his Key Stone from in the games and anime. In the manga, his Key Stone was actually Korrina's that was stolen, it was eventually taken back.
- Lysandre's cybernetic suit, the Lysandre Machine, was meant to be used to drain Xerneas/Yveltal's power into the ultimate weapon. In the manga, it was forced to be invented by the electric-type Gym Leader, Clemont, but it is unknown how it was invented in the games and anime. Also, in the anime, the machine could fire energy blasts, this was not seen in the games nor manga.
- Elite Four member Malva was a member of Team Flare and therefore knew Lysandre.
- Lysandre's Mienshao is the only Pokémon on his team that isn't a dual-type.
- This isn't the case in Pokémon Ultra Sun, due to having Xerneas a pure Fairy type on his team.
- Curiously, unlike most villains, Lysandre expresses friendly feelings towards the player and sends frequent messages to him/her on the Holo Caster to dispense advice or sayings that espouse Team Flare ideology. When he reveals himself to be the leader of Team Flare, he invites the player to join Team Flare rather than threatening to wipe them out, citing his/her "great potential" to make the world a better place.
- Lysandre's Gyarados knows Iron Head and Outrage, which it cannot learn unless if taught from a Move Tutor. This can be done either by trading with Pokémon Omega Ruby or Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, or importing it from Generation V through Pokémon Bank after learning it from Generation IV or V's Move Tutors.
- Lysandre's hairstyle was stylized to somewhat resemble a male Pyroar's mane, one of his Pokémon.
- In the anime, Lysandre is the only major antagonist to own a shiny Pokémon, being his Gyarados.
- This also makes Lysandre the only character to both have a shiny Pokémon and having the ability to enable Mega Evolution on said Pokémon.
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