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Scottish Pokémon Trainer
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About
Scottish Pokémon Trainer refers to parodies of the female player character Gloria introduced in the first Pokémon Sword and Shield trailer which imagine her with a heavy Scottish accent and dialect.
Origin
On February 27th, 2019, Nintendo streamed a Nintendo Direct focused entirely on the announcement of Pokémon Sword and Shield (shown below).
Many Twitter users were quick to remark on the game's new region resembling England and created parodies imagining Pokémon in the UK. One particular strand of these jokes imagined the female Pokémon trainer with a Scottish accent. Two early versions of this were themselves adaptations of popular Merida's Scottish Slang tweets. User @puritikuma[1] tweeted a parody of user @_IMWE's tweet,[2] gaining over 14,000 retweets and 39,000 likes (shown below, left), and user @CaptainHanyuu[3] tweeted a parody of a @Lookin4Serenity tweet,[4] gaining over 19,000 retweets and 54,000 likes (shown below, right).
![Scottish Watch Precure @puritikuma Follow V Why dae folk ask pokeman stupid s---- lit "Ur getting strong arent ye?" As if thee wee c---- gony be like aye Moira yer spot on am oan the expay shaer 11:05 AM 27 Feb 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/511/2f7.jpg)
![Fookin Octillery Hanyuu / Jenn @CaptainHanyuu Follow Just got 30 Pokéballs at the mart n that guy asked 'do ye want a bag'. Obviously a do ya f------ reprobate am no a f------ octillery 12:38 PM - 27 Feb 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/467/891/31f.png)
Spread
Over the following week, fans created many more tweets and fan art imagining the female Pokémon trainer as a Scottish woman. Some examples include a comic tweeted by @Merryweatherey that gained over 18,000 retweets and 65,000 likes (shown below, left) and a drawing by @yucno that gained over 5,000 retweets and 19,000 likes (shown below, right).
![The new Pokemon girl is cute! WHAT A NICE LOOKING GIRL. WHAT YA STARIN AT YA WEE POSH WE GONNA HAVE A FOOKIN POKEMON FIGHT OR WOT? OH NO SHE'S SCOTTISH](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/467/185/0f9.jpg)
![Tough Trainer GET OUT OF THE FOKIN BALL YA WEE SHET](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/817/c57.jpg)
The spread of the Scottish Pokémon trainer character was aided by a tweet by voice actress Elsie Lovelock, who read puritikuma's tweet and several others in the same ilk, gaining tens of thousands of retweets per video (examples shown below).
sorry but I had to voice these hilarious Pokemon tweets 😩
— ♥ Elsie Lovelock ♥ (@ElsieLovelock) February 27, 2019
tweets by the respective handles in the video, go follow them for being funny!! pic.twitter.com/RbAJBLOznT
oh no… she's Scottish 🏴❤️❤️✨✨
— ♥ Elsie Lovelock ♥ (@ElsieLovelock) March 5, 2019
voices and edit by me!
ARTISTS:Merryweatherey</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/PrincessHinghoi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
PrincessHinghoi
ORIGINAL TWEET: https://t.co/gQTWJyIOR7 pic.twitter.com/BgzRPiPuhs
Galarish slang seems to be lost on some of the other trainers. They'll get use to it.
Hopefully.
--
Gen 8 Trainer:ElsieLovelock</a> <br>Rosa & Mix: Me!<br>Music: "Choose Your language" by Game Freak.<br>Art: <a href="https://t.co/nYpxsfzSx3">https://t.co/nYpxsfzSx3</a><br><br>Thank you for doing this with me Elsie! <a href="https://t.co/DB9OmBNWjI">pic.twitter.com/DB9OmBNWjI</a></p>— Penni Smith: SCORBUNNY SQUAD 🐇🔥👟 (
PenPhiVA) March 2, 2019
Other users began to ship the Scottish Pokémon trainer with Serena from Pokémon X&Y, imagining Serena as calm while the Scottish Pokémon trainer was feistier. Some examples include a post by @Sheery_sBox that gained over 1,100 retweets and 3,000 likes (shown below, left) and a post by @_bbdouble that gained 350 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right).
![Angry Scottish GF YE SERIOUSLY NEED TAE STOP DEEIN THIS S--- OR AH M GONNA PUNCH YE AE DAY TU AS BIEN DORMIP TRAD:DID YOU SLEEP WELL? O0](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/467/186/8cc.jpg)
![Angry Scottish GF 2.0](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/467/192/a21.jpg)
Various Examples
![Your boyfriend is not very manly. With sound
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hd4SH13Q9vw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/665/638.jpg)
![Chips, Not Fries I love fries! uire ca Then whit do the blood hellw ou cal chipST WU](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/380/0d1.png)
![me maw gets so jel wen ay do anythin fun like no my fault am out snortin lines n shaggin nines nd yu hav to stay home n bake](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/035/430.jpg)
![*Cries in Bagpipes*](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/984/f1d.jpg)
![SCOTTISH CYCLOPS CHARGING SCREAM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/643/9c0.png)
![Dont mind me, just contributing to the Scottish Pokemon meme pile ervy, she urn ito q Orsauring' cetch her whompin arse. eChristinaIsDrawing eChristina IsDrauing We can't underStan er. Shes Froma region at's not pure tereit I dun't know wha is 1 1 Christina IsDrawin Christina IsDrawin](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/466/852/7b4.jpg)
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