Shamus

Shamus was the former owner of Ash's Tepig who made his official appearance in Evolution by Fire!.
==Biography==
===Pokémon the Series: Black & White===
Shamus is a cruel, disrespectful, mean, selfish, arrogant and abusive Trainer. He first appeared in the Astilbe Town Battle Club past Twist Mountain battling a trainer with a Mienshao and Watchog in a double battle, easily winning with his impressive combos with his Fire Warrior team; Emboar and Heatmor. After winning, he proceeded to pick on the loser to let him see their Pokémon and take the "good" ones from anyone without potential. However, this infuriated Ash, Iris and Cilan. They confronted him, telling him to stop, but Shamus simply forgets about getting his hands on people's Pokémon and brushes off the conversation when Don George comes by, then walks off.
Later on, Tepig ran up to him while he was eating, seemingly knowing him. It was then that he revealed he abandoned Tepig in the Accumula Town Battle Club, after it lost to a Deerling, believing that Tepig was weak. To prove his point, he challenged Ash to a double battle against Ash's Snivy and Tepig.
The next day, shortly after beginning the battle, he reveals to Tepig that he was pretending to care about Tepig and could care less about it, and then went on to look for another Tepig now evolved into Emboar that has more talent than it was in order to replace him. All he could care about was how powerful a Pokémon was.
Shamus held the upper hand in the battle as Heatmor erased the effects of Attract on Emboar with Fury Swipes and managed to knock out Snivy with a combo move of Fire Spin and Flare Blitz. Tepig held on just long enough to regain its confidence and evolved into Pignite.
Using its powerful new Fire Pledge and Flame Charge as a combo, Emboar and Heatmor were defeated, which came as a surprise to Shamus. Afterwards, he offered to take Pignite back; as a result of losing to Ash, commenting on using its power in order to make him his new Fire Warrior member. Pignite simply answered by giving Shamus a Flamethrower to the head as his way of saying "No" because he liked Ash better and wanted to stay with Ash's team. Shamus considered that to be an outrage and ran away. However, he would remember that humiliation, while also hoping that Ash would regret keeping Pignite; which Ash never did.
==Pokémon==
===On hand===
===Abandoned===
==Trivia==
*Shamus' name in the English dub is much sounded from the real life professional wrestler, "Sheamus" from WWE.
*Shamus shares a lot of similarities to Damian: 
**Both trainers abandoned their Fire-type starters for being too weak and Ash later obtained them. 
**They also witnessed their former Fire-type starter grow stronger under Ash's care and want them back only to get viciously scorched with a Flamethrower scaring them off.
**Both are one-off characters who both appear in person and in a flashback. 
*There are also some differences between the two: 
**While Damian simply left Charmander on a rock, Shamus tied Tepig to a post. 
**Damian first appeared in person and then in a flashback, Shamus first appeared in a flashback and then in person.
**Damian's former Charmander lost to a Poliwag, which had a type advantage (Poliwag is a Water-type and is super effective against Fire-types), whereas Shamus' former Tepig lost to a Deerling, which had a type disadvantage (Deerling is a Normal and Grass-type and is weak to Fire-types)
**Ash fought and defeated Shamus, while Ash never fought Damian. 
**Damian appears to be older than the main cast, while Shamus appears younger than the main cast.
**Damian never replaced his Charmander while Shamus replaced Tepig with another one that became Emboar.
**While both Damian and Shamus got struck with Flamethrower, Damian was also electrocuted by Pikachu. Shamus was not attacked by Pikachu.
**Damian never witnessed his former Charmander evolve while Shamus saw his former Tepig become Pignite.
Category:Minor characters
Category:Antagonists