Bubbles (Dragonet)/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Dragonet, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Deadpan Snarker**: Oh, boy, Dragonet is the ***QUEEN*** of Snarkerville. She makes snide remarks at every possible opportunity, even making *Cheren* green with envy, which often results in fights between the two.
* **Calling the Old Man Out**: Replace "old man" with "Trainer." She rightfully calls her out whenever she screws up or does something stupid, but this is best shown when she calls out Behaver for being too overprotective and not considering her feelings.
* **Jerk\*bleep\***: She's quite rude and commonly furiously yells at creatures if they do something dumb.
* **Jerk With a Heart of Gold**: As long as you don't piss her off, she's very nice and gentle and does truly care about the others.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Let's just say you do NOT want to be on the receiving end of her Mucus Shuriken if you do even the slightest thing to piss her off.
* **Disability as an Excuse for Jerk\*bleep\*ery**: She uses her PTSD as an excuse to be a rude jerk (with a heart of gold), but everycreature else, including her Trainer, doesn't take that as an acceptable excuse.
* **Teenage Parent**: She's 3, or the human equivalent of around 14/15, and has three eternally-infant daughters, so she counts as this trope. She is seen pregnant from her debut episode (S4E1) to the episode where she gives birth.
* **Talking to Herself**: In the Japanese version, she has the same voice actress as Kaori Momoka, Fukuen Misato.
* **Only Known by Their Nickname**: Her real name is mentioned to be Bubbles, but she is usually referred to as the nickname "Dragonet." Speaking of her real name...
* **Full Name Ultimatum**: Elizabeth addresses her as "Bubbles" whenever she's angry with her. In the Japanese version, she calls her "Baburu-chan" when angry instead of "Shitasakan-chan," but if she's *really* pissed off, she will go further and drop the "-chan" from her name.
	+ Being a parent, she uses this trope herself whenever she is angry with her daughters ("BATAKURIMU PURIN!" "SHUGADORIMU!")

* **Hidden Depths**: Despite coming off as a rude, mean, short-tempered Jerk\*bleep\*, it is shown that her irritability stems from PTSD she acquired from being inhumanely experimented on at a lab that illegally tested personal care products on Pokémon, and she truly cares for her friends and deep down feels terrible that she is such a jerk to them.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Cashew butter.
* **Platonic Declaration of Love**: She sometimes makes these, but she makes an angry version when Elizabeth witches out into Behaver. She yells at her how much she's overreacting and how childish and petty she's acting during her rampage to hunt her down and that she didn't consider her feelings.
* **Malicious Misnaming**: Downplayed since she's a rude "jerk with a heart of gold" rather than a villain, but she often calls Nanette "Purple Pancakes" out of annoyance.
* **Screaming Birth**: This happens in "A New Baby Pokémon is Born!" when she screams as she gives birth.
* **Only Sane Pokémon (Only Sane Man)**: She is often this when the others act like idiots.
* **Enraged by Idiocy**/**Berserk Button**: Dragonet does NOT tolerate when somecreature does something really stupid or screws up big time (such as in the season 10 episode "Heck's Kitchen when Mikey burnt the asparagus and in the same episode when Elizabeth, Ash, and Lydia forgot to put sugar in the cheesecake) and anycreature who tries to lie their way out of it with a blatant load of Tauros\*bleep\* will face the wrath of her Hair-Trigger Temper.
* **Living Lie Detector**: She can usually instantly tell when somecreature is lying, and she WILL call you out on your Tauros\*bleep\*, especially if you are obviously bad at it.
* **Bigger on the Inside**: The Water Pokémon Aqua Pot, an item Elizabeth owns which is a carryable tablet-like device Dragonet often hangs out in (along with her daughters and Bubblebath the Vaporeon) when the heroes aren't anywhere near a body of water works this way. In "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City," Misty was shown to own a similar item for her Water-type Pokémon so they can be outside their Poké Balls, and Marina also owns such a device as well (though Marina's has an underwater island surrounded by a bubble of air so Chompy can breathe).
* **Talking the Monster to Death**: After seeing how upset her witched-out Trainer is, she proceeds to go up and talk to Behaver to tell her that she still loves her (since her witching out was caused by them having an argument that caused her to believe Dragonet didn't love her anymore) but is upset from her being way too overprotective and not considering her feelings, and that she's being too childish and petty trying to hunt her down. This leaves her stunned enough to give Marina time to purify her.
* **Easily Forgiven**: Inverted **HARD**. Dragonet is NOT one to easily forgive others just like that and expects them to earn her forgiveness - for example, after her Trainer is de-witched and starts to apologize, she hugs her in relief but also *SLAPS* her and yells that her witching out was her fault. When Nicole first appears as a human, this inversion is more downplayed, but Dragonet tells her that she has quite a bit of making up to do and is only getting off the hook easily because she was programmed to be evil.
* **Anguished Declaration of Love**: A platonic example in "Behaver Yourself," when she yells at Behaver she still loves her but is very angry at her behavior.
* **Frying Pan of Doom**: In "Heck's Kitchen," she gets so furious at Bouncee licking the spoon and putting it back in the food that after yelling at her, she gets a frying pan (one small enough to be held by her) and *smacks her in the face* with it. Immediately afterwards, she instantly regrets it after it gives her a black eye.

## Appearance

* **Hollywood Genetics**: Dragonet is pink and blue with red eyes and some orange, green, purple, and cyan, but her twin daughters Pudding and Carrot Cake are bright orange and white with green eyes while her daughter Sugar is pink all over. No mention is given of what Pokémon their father is.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: Downplayed. She has red eyes and is on the side of good, but is often a jerk.

## Abilities

* **Heart Beat-Down**: Her specialty is love magic.
* **The Ace**: She is very powerful in battle.
* **Action Pet**: She may be very powerful in battle, but otherwise, she's basically Elizabeth's pet.
* **Super Not-Drowning Skills**: Both played straight and inverted.
	+ **Inverted**: As a Ninja Dragonet, she can breathe through her skin on land just fine, but her lack of legs usually means she has to be be carried by her Trainer (either in her arms or in her satchel), or ride on her shoulder or head. However, she still likes to be underwater regularly.
	+ **Played straight**: Duh, she's a fish with gills and can breathe underwater. When the heroes aren't near a body of water, she and her daughters often go inside the Water Pokémon Aqua Pot, which is filled with water and much Bigger on the Inside.

* **Cooldown Hug**: Her spell Warm Love Hug does this, warming somecreature up and calming them down.
* **Jack-of-All-Trades**: Like other Ninja Dragonets, she is able to breathe both underwater *and* on land and learn any move (including Transform and even signature moves). However, she has to use Transform to use moves requiring legs, such as Low Kick, and has to put effort into actually learning the move like any other Pokémon.

## Relationships

* **Mama Bear**: DO NOT EVER even TRY to harm, kidnap, or insult her babies, or it's almost gaurunteed anycreature who does this will be torn to shreds. Seriously: *Just don't*.
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: Often snarks at and is sometimes annoyed by her Trainer, but it is made clear she does love her. She is also often annoyed by her daughters when they cause mischief, but she truly loves them.
* **Sitcom Arch-Nemesis**: With Cheren, Ella, Yvonne, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and the other snarkers, but *especially* Cheren. The two of them often comically fight and beat each other up over who is the holder of the metaphorical snarking throne.
* **Vitriolic Best Buds**: She is often a jerk to her friends but truly cares about them.
* **Abusive Parents**: Downplayed. She often yells at and slaps her daughters when they cause mischief, but truly loves them.
* **Sleep Cute**: A non-romantic example with both her daughters and Trainer. Whenever the characters are seen sleeping, she sleeps next to Nijiko, and she also sleeps next to her babies (often holding at least one of them in her fins).
* **Happily Adopted**: By Nijiko/Elizabeth.
* **Overprotective Mom**: Replace "mom" with "Trainer," but she sometimes feels that despite clearly being well-intentioned, her Trainer is too overprotective.
* **Adaptational Relationship Overhaul**: Dragonet is Nijiko's designated partner Pokémon unlike in her canceled origin series where she and Rotom share the role.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: With Nijiko/Elizabeth.
* **Incompatible Orientation**: In "Magical Detectives," Yabashi's female Kecleon falls in love with her, causing her to be bewildered and say she is *not* a lesbian.
* **Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em**: She has this dilemma in "Behaver Yourself." She says she wants more freedom and feels like running away to find a new Trainer (although she clarifies she won't actually do that) who would give her more freedom, but at the same time, she can't bear to leave her Trainer who she loves dearly.