| abstract | - May's replacement (a much less rabid changeover); yet another newbie trainer who aspires to be a Pokémon Coordinator. Seems to be an attempt by the writers to "do it right second time round". Tropes involving her and her Pokémon include:
* Action Girl: Out of all of Ash's traveling companions, she's the most likely to take immediate action against Team Rocket or other antagonists when they show up, frequently having Piplup dealing the finishing blow alongside Pikachu.
* Age-Inappropriate Dress: But her mother forbade her from bringing it on her journey. Then again, her normal outfit...
* Break the Cutie: Disturbingly often.
* Brick Joke: The second DP episode continued the Running Gag of Pikachu frying a bike, but it took 36 episodes for Ash to know about it.
* Butt Monkey: Out of all the (main) characters she is the most mistreated. Every character has made fun of her and dissed her. Ash and Brock laugh at her, as well as her own Piplup. People regard her as a bad coordinator.
* Though this doesn't happen too often, and as the series goes on she gets better overall.
* Catch Phrase: "Daijobu!", or "No need to worry!" in the dub. How ironic.
* And like May, has a phrase to use when calling Pokémon out for a Contest -- "Charm Up!"/"Spotlight!"
* The Chick: Of the Diamond and Pearl's Five-Man Band. She's also The Chosen One of Mesprit, the precursor of Emotion.
* The Chosen One: Of Mesprit.
* Curtains Match the Window
* Dangerously-Short Skirt: Rather famous for it, but she leaves the fighting to her Pokémon.
* Deuteragonist: Of "Diamond and Pearl", to Ash's protagonist.
* Disappeared Dad: Unlike Ash, no mention is ever made of her father.
* Dub Induced Plot Hole: Against all odds, averted when it came to explaining "Dee-Dee" (See Noodle Incident below)
* Failed a Spot Check: If she would look around at the audience during contests more often, she would notice some VERY familar faces. (James, Meowth and Wobbuffet)
* Failure Heroine: Poor girl lost two Contests in the Appeal Stage in a row!
* Fan Girl: To Professor Oak's (and Gary's) poetry.
* Fan Service: Similar to May but fans are now focused on what's under that hip-length skirt of hers. Remember, Dawn is also ten years old.
* Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine.
* French Maid Outfit: In DP062.
* Generation Xerox: She inherited her mother's passion for Contests. And blue hair.
* Guest Star Party Member: Has a chance of becoming this in the BW2 seasons, according to the leaks.
* Hair Decorations: She wears three yellow barrettes (star-shaped ones in one of her Contests). When using her Buneary, she wears hair bands modeled after its fur.
* Harmless Electrocution: A running gag by itself, Dawn needs to use Piplup's BubbleBeam to condition her hair back to normal after she gets zapped.
* Lethal Chef: Subverted. Dawn tries making Poffins based on a recipe she got from her mother, and all her Pokémon think it's disgusting. She can't understand why they don't like it, and starts thinking that this trope applies to her. Later in the episode, Meowth eats one of Dawn's Poffins, and considers them absolutely delicious. As it turns out, Dawn followed her mom's recipe correctly...but she apparently didn't realize that the Poffins are designed for feline Pokémon like Meowth and the Glameow that her family keeps as a pet.
* Magic Skirt: That must've been blessed by the Pokégods themselves.
* The McCoy
* Memento MacGuffin: A ribbon given to her by her mother, as a good luck charm. After her run in the Grand Festival, she gives it back.
* Naive Everygirl
* Nice Girl: Easily the most straightforwardly kind of all the leading females (to this point), and very empathetic (she never held Pikachu or Ash responsible for her bike's destruction given the circumstances, for instance). Must be the main reason Mesprit chose her.
* Nice Hat
* Noodle Incident: The origins of her nickname Pikari/Dee-Dee. In a subversion, it's later revealed she got shocked by a Plusle and Minun in kindergarten, making her hair all sparkly. In the dub, it's short for "Diamond Dandruff", which is indeed pretty embarrassing.
* Opera Gloves: With her Grand Festival outfit.
* Phrase Catcher: The reply to her own Catch Phrase is usually "That's when [we] worry the most."
* Pink Means Feminine: Her usual Contest dress, as well as the brim of her skirt, part of her hat, her boots, and her scarf.
* Plucky Girl: When in a good mood.
* Princess Curls: Not an Ojou, but she used this hairstyle in an couple of contests as shown here and here.
* Scarf of Asskicking
* Shipper on Deck: While normally embarassed about Brock's antics like everyone else, when it was suggested to him that he become a Pokémon Doctor, she gladly points out that it will help him get closer to all Nurse Joys.
* Static Character: While she matures a good deal, the basic person she is never changes and has never even changed from childhood, right down to her Catch Phrase.
* Stepford Smiler: Tries to put on a good face after her first losing streak. Doesn't work in the end.
* Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Replaced May.
* Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Zoey's Tomboy.
* She also acts as the Girly Girl to her predecessor May's Tomboy.
* Why Did it Have to be Plusle and Minun?
* "Well Done, Daughter" Girl: Her fantasy in the Lotus Eater Machine episode shows us that she possibly wants to surpass her mother.
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