Kamado Rowan (FiH)/Tropes

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

## Characterization and background

* **Anti-Villain**: Has genuinely good intentions, but his paranoia and obsessive desire to protect Jubilife and its people leads to him taking some rather extreme actions, including having Nina, Kyubey and the magical warriors all flat out exiled.
* **Big Bad**: Played with. While he does have good intentions and wants the best for everyone, he ends up becoming this due to his paranoia and actions against the main characters, forcing them out of Jubilife and forbidding the Diamond and Pearl clans from helping under threat of war. Not to mention it's all but stated that his plan to deal with the giant rift over Mt. Coronet will actually make the situation even worse, but he's too bullheaded to listen to any warnings, requiring Nina to beat some sense into him.
* **Big Good**: Is the one responsible for the Galaxy Expedition Team and is implied to be the one responsible for the neutrality between the Diamond and Pearl clans. However, it’s quite the opposite for the magical warriors, as his stark paranoia about the presence of magic in Hisui leads him to constantly suspect them and eventually banish them, Kyubey and Nina. At that point, he becomes the main antagonist in Season 3 of FiHL.
* **Dark and Troubled Past**: Witnessed his home village be destroyed by wild Pokemon, with himself one of the only survivors.
* **Fatal Flaw**: Paranoia. His inability to trust others leads to him exiling the main characters and Kyubey in an attempt to stop the threat they pose. When it becomes apparent that doing so will not stop the rift, he resolves to make the journey up Mount Coronet himself...but because he had no knowledge on the actual situation, Kamado would most likely have gotten himself killed if Nina didn't show up with the Red Chain.
* **Freudian Excuse**: His Knight Templar tendencies come from watching his village get destroyed by Pokémon.
* **I Gave My Word**: When he exiles the heroes from Jubilife Village, he agrees to allow them back in on the condition that they prove they're not responsible for the rifts. When Nina does just that, he keeps his end of the bargain, even apologizing for the grief he caused them! Subverted in which Nina ends up calling him off for indirectly causing her to become possessed.
* **Knight Templar**: He will do everything to ensure the protection of Jubilife Village and its people. This isn't a big deal until Nina and the magical warriors quells all of the nobles and the rift in space and time not only gets bigger but also turns the sky red. In a fit of paranoia, he exiles them in an attempt to stop the perceived threat they pose.
* **Jerk\*bleep\* Has a Point**: Played with, but all of his decisions are done out of a desire to protect Jubilife Village and its people first and foremost. Ideally people and Pokémon can co-exist to make a better world but if they the latter threatens the former, Kamado makes it absolutely clear that he will choose a world where his people are safe and protected over a more risky co-existence any time. Even his decision to exile the main characters has shades of this. Initially, it seemed the frenzied nobles were the ones responsible for the rift in the sky. Once you quell them and the rift gets bigger, the only conclusion Kamado could draw on was them, who were chosen by the Shinju-sama to fight evil. These suspicious circumstances do paint them as threats and as such must be exiled for the safety of everyone else in the village.
* **Manly Tears**: Sheds these after Nina succeeds in quelling both legendaries.
* **Might Makes Right**: An early indicator of this mindset is when he personally requests to fight Nina in an actual brawl (unintentionally pressing her Berserk Button as a result). This comes to a head in the climax where he outright states that whoever is right between him and Nina is going to be the victor of their battle.
* **Divinity's Sake, What Have I Done?**: He has two.
	+ When he regrets expelling Nina from the village after seeing her possessed.
	+ Where he realizes what he had done to the magical warriors was wrong, and all his efforts at helping have only caused more harm.
* **Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping**: When the party is forced to escape the summit after Dialga rampages, Kamado ends up shouting in his real informal accent to get everyone out, though he quickly apologizes for it.
* **Pose of Supplication**: He does this in front of the player after the latter defeats him in the climax, accepting that he was wrong to exile the latter.
* **Too Dumb to Live**: His plan to deal with the rift was to try and kill Dialga and Palkia. You know, the borderline eldritch Reality Warper godlike entity. Several characters repeatedly note how incredibly stupid and reckless Kamado is being, requiring the magical warriors and Nina to intervene and beat some sense into him.
* **Walking Spoiler**: It's difficult to talk about him without revealing he becomes the main antagonist of the second half of Season 3 of FiHL, having the heroes and putting together a plan to kill Dialga and Palkia.

## Appearance

* **Coat Cape**: He wears the outer layer of his kimono over his shoulders.
* **Helmets Are Hardly Heroic**: When he goes into battle, he dons a suit of Galarian armor (somewhat resembling Wikstrom's armor but in a different color) that leaves his head uncovered.
* **Identical Grandson**: He's stated to be the ancestor of Professor Alexander Rowan and has more-than-passing resemblance to him.

## Abilities

* **Super Strength**: Subverted. Despite not being a Chosen One, he has superhuman strength, most likely due to the Might Makes Right trope being in effect.