Clemont

> *"The future is now thanks to SCIENCE!"*
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*- Clemont*

Clemont is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Clemont is a character appearing in *Pokémon the Series: XY and XYZ*, who is the Gym Leader of Lumiose City in the Kalos region. He gives out the Voltage Badge to those who beat him or Clembot. He lives in the Kalos region and a friend of Ash Ketchum. Clemont and his younger sister Bonnie joined Ash on his journey throughout Kalos, and eventually, he and Bonnie part ways with Ash after Ash decided to head to the Alola region.

Outside of Lumiose City, he is also a member of The New Action Squad, serving as the inventor for ideas on how to save others or to defeat enemies. However, in worry that something might go wrong, Peridot was brought in as an assistant to help Clemont with his inventions. He has also managed to get rid of his fear of Photophobia.

## **APPEARANCE**

Clemont is a short and skinny young boy with fair skin, blue eyes, and messy medium-length bright yellow hair with a lightning-bolt shaped tuft on top. Outfit-wise, Clemont wears clothes that make him resemble a stereotypical geek or nerd. His outfit consists of large round glasses, black shoes with white soles, and a yellow-collared skin-tight blue jumpsuit with yellow stripes on the knees and bottom cuffs. Underneath his clothes, Clemont wears a white tank top, white socks with blue stripes, and light blue bloomers with horizontal dark blue stripes and a matching ribbon.

Additionally, Clemont also occasionally sports a backpack-like cybernetic contraption (which he invented himself) on his back. The contraption has two robotic extensions that Clemont uses to absorb solar and lunar energy- naturally, one appears to resemble the sun, while the other resembles the moon. The white moon-like contraption (known as the "Aipom Arm") is also used to grip and hold objects like an extra hand.

## **PERSONALITY**

He is a very keen inventor, but there is a running joke involving his devices exploding instantly, or working briefly before short-circuiting and then exploding, as seen in the anime. He is also dedicated to science and only fears something if it defies logic. Clemont is also shown to have fear of standing in front of a camera, which would mean he has photophobia. Also because of his photophobia he would blush when he's in front of the camera. Also, Clemont blush sometimes around girls, especially when his sister Bonnie asks girls to take care of him.

Clemont also takes his job as a Gym Leader very seriously. This is shown when Team Flare attempts to invade the Lumiose City Gym to use it for their own personal gain. Clemont tried everything in his power to take back what is rightfully his.

## **TRIVIA**

* Whenever Ash trains his Pokémon for battles, he is usually his opponent.
* Clemont takes on the role of the traveling, older sibling, but this time, as the older brother with his little sister, Bonnie. In Pokémon: Advanced Generation, the genders were reversed, with May being the older sibling with her younger brother, Max.
* Clemont appears to be the same age and height as Ash, as the previous male traveling companions were both taller and older than him.
* Whenever Clemont reveals any of his new gear or inventions, Ash takes an extreme liking and awe to them, while Serena and Bonnie dislike the names that he comes up with for them.
* Clemont is responsible for one of the running gags in the XY anime, which is whenever he invents something, it eventually blows up somehow.
* Unlike in the games, Clemont's eyes are visible through his glasses' lenses in the anime.
* Clemont is the first male Gym Leader traveling companion to not be the first Gym Leader Ash battled.
	+ Even though Ash's Pikachu battled his Bunnelby, it was not a Gym Battle.