@churlocker
www.elitefourum.com/t/the-great-pokemon-hidden-in-card-art-thread/24364/1 well 16 pages to start with…
But pokemon get printed in so many, that you’d probably have to go set by set systematically for a database.
It is surprisingly addictive, when you start looking for hidden cameos!
I was like, generic common card, THEN GET REALLY EXCITED, THERES A PERSON HIDDEN THERE!!!
EDIT
Full art Zinnia added, and 'named trainer section added to contents
@funmonkey54 (@ funmonkey54) FIFY
Also, we do have a list of all English Pokémon cameos. I’d love to see a similar list for Japanese cards eventually, since this thread have been most useful thus far. 
And if @pentagon 's collection continues to increase in size, we’ll also have an abundant list of people cameos in Pokémon TCG cards.
Great last few collection updates. Keep up the great work.
Greetz,
Quuador
Nice simple addition today, (and the unnamed category added to the contents!)
As per dieting goals - Red’s Challenge ordered… can’t wait for that vmax pika to come out!!!
Also sneak peak…
WHO’S THAT HUMAN!??
Aether foundation employee
www.pokebeach.com/2021/10/several-more-character-rares-revealed-from-vmax-climax
OMG OMG OMG
Hot take absolutely love the Janine/Ariados, but they’re all amazing.
That’s my favorite as well, but as you said, all of them are amazing. Can’t wait until they’re released in English so I can add them to my FA Supporter collection. 
Greetz,
Quuador
@quuador, let’s hope no-one tells @qwachansey that the Pokemon centre full art got Blissey not Chansey. Maybe he won’t notice…
Interestingly, there isn’t a May full art (yet!) so I’m hoping that we get her with Vmax as a new trainer. Nice to see these guys
getting an awesome card:
Janine has just made it onto the top of next months trainer buy list order!! Though, I’m wondering if it’s worth waiting to see if there’s a reprint of her with different art.
Oh I noticed all right… I don’t want to talk about it
I’m not even that active anymore but every time I see a new FA that’s blissey I automatically think how you got shafted again 
One day my friend…
I loved seeing trainers interacting with their Pokémon in some of the cards from the Gym sets back in the day. I’m so glad they are really bringing it back strong with the full arts!
Yeah, my favourite two historical sets for absolute sure.
Though strangely, most of the interactions were saved for trainer cards, Erika’s Kindness, Secret Mission come to mind.
Oddly, the only Pokemon card that had a trainer was Misty swimming with her tentacool.
But I do feel super guilty that my collection goal is spoiled relentlessly whilst other’s wait 12 years for a release.
Agreed! As a kid I always had a negative bias towards trainer cards. I wanna collect Pokémon, not people or items! But that changed with the Gym sets, those trainers and they’re Pokémon just hit. That’s why I bump the idea that those sets are just bland Sugimori stock arts. People often overlook the trainer cards.
Well, Monday has been and gone and if you will suffer me posting something that is not a pokemon!
As per my post on the 10th October, I said that I was going to justify my buying of cards inline with my dietary aims.
Near enough 2100 calories every day for the last 3 weeks and I am still a delight in real life and not some kind of inhospitable grumpy menace.
Rather proud of the work so far, and sure enough, a Red’s Challenge a Cynthia and an Erika’s Hospitality have been purchased. I had to move away from my original plans with Lillie as the price of a Full Art Full Force was lots and I kinda want to pay MORE and get the Battle Day one… But anyway, I’m super happy with the price I got the Hospitality for.
Pictures when they arrive and I get everything together for them. But I am happy to announce next months buy list!
8th November: Janine (OMG OMG that Ariados FA)
15th November: Steven Stone (will be the last of the champions collection)
22nd November: Team Rocket Handiwork
29th November: Jessie & James (these guys need no introduction.)
Also, whilst it’s not my favourite art, in the end, I decided that consistency would annoy me more than not. So my gratitude to everyone’s input on favourite rocket art, but in the end, I decided I preferred the look that the full arts brought, especially with the new FA pokemon cards.
Anyway…
What’s that, you want Trainer Cameo’s NOW, fine well as you insist…
As correctly identified by @kingboo64 this here, is the Aether Foundation Employee. This one excited me as for some of the random’s it’s hard to identify who they actually are, hence my excitement (not being familiar with the story) that the employee had a full art!
There is actually another Registeel to go with these two, but mine hasn’t arrived yet.
Also whilst I’m here… speaking of hard to identify (full credit to @liquidpoison for the spot)
As anyone who has read any of my posts will know, Erika is my all time favourite and the below cards, specifically the sleeping alternate art are the cards that inspired this entire collection. Now that I have the hospitality, I am only one card off having every Erika card! (short Erika’s clefable, see other collection!) I have posted most of these in this thread and in that thread, but now I have the hospitality I will do them again 
Of note, Erika has worn a lot of different colour Kimono’s/headband combinations. The one that they have used in all 4 of these modern depictions is the colours that she wore in ‘let’s go pikachu/let’s go eevee’.
In FireRed/LeafGreen she wore a similar combination, red and greeny yellow with red headband. Then she had a patterned green with leaf prints on the kimono / red hairband - in let’s go pikachu they moved away from the pattern, giving her a plain green.
The sleeping art is a really nice touch as she is often asleep when confronted in the games, so having her cuddled up with her Vileplume is perfect. Though, I do also really like the ‘standard’ awake Vileplume GX with her sending vileplume into battle- zoomed in, I think they’ve done a really good job - even if it does look like she’s floating…
Hi All,
Big post today, I have FINALLY completed my Double Crisis Set, so ALL pokemon cards featuring people + accompanying token trainer card. My one regret is that there is no full arts of these trainers, but maybe one day. Also, this set was featured in Celebrations, so for the princely sum of .3 English pounds each, I was able to pick up the new Kyogre and Groudon which I think is an awesome reference to the originals.
First up, Matt and Shelly. Matt I think is the most hard done by trainer that I have come by since I started doing the close up photos of the trainers face, as he is the only one so far who has managed to get text straight through his face!
Now, I’ll say this for all of them, but what I really love about this set is that because they have used the same two grunts in all of the arts, it really feels like the cards show a story of all the battles between these two grunts vs the other two grunts. With ups and downs, highs and lows.
Regarding these two grunts, they are the two that were used for concept art / sprites from Alpha Sapphire /Omega Ruby - the originals didn’t have the goatee and the lady had red not brown hair. Of note, the Trainer card’s team Aqua Conspirator and Schemer reference the two from the original games (red head and goateeless man.) Only Team Aqua Grunt - from double crisis itself references these two particular umm grunts.
Okay, so here we go!
Then for the people close ups! I have tried to do individual shots for each character, the only exception being the first picture. This one excited me, because I didn’t realise that the female grunt was in the art, until you see her eye on the left! But without context this looked weird when photographed individually.
Now this chap, I feel particularly sorry for - as I feel he was the one that the artists were laziest with, he has a lot of ‘less good’ depictions.
Right, the female-
BUT PENTAGON, you are undoubtedly saying right now. There is a 3rd Team Aqua Grunt (2nd male grunt) in the art of Team Magma’s Aggron… Well, yes you would be right. It’s tricky to tell completely, but the one on the right clearly is clean shaven and looks to be our good friend from the original games, and as he’s on the art for Team Aqua Schemer, I feel comfortable calling him the Schemer, who seems to have turned up to back up our usual team for the fight against the Aggron. Therefore from context, I assume that the one to his left is goatee (our regular grunt) but it’s hard to tell as you can’t see his goatee in that pose.
Right, onto Team Magma-
Firstly Courtney and Tabitha.
Then for the grunts
Now, these two are definitely the two characters from Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire - as you would expect. However, there is much less difference between them and the two from the original game. They are definitely different characters based on the shape of the faces - but the female has purple hair in both. Also note, that the uniform for the female in original games had the female in a skirt, whilst she has shorts in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire onwards. Finally, these original characters match the art for the Magma Conspirator / Schemer as in keeping with trends we saw with their Aqua opposite numbers.
Now, you’ll note that in the sharpedo, you see only the back. I am reasonably sure that is the back of the female as the male is accounted for in the art.
BUT in the Aron’s art, memorable for the fact that it is literally a bunch of Arons eating Aqua’s Submarine…
You have the following…
Who are they, you ask! The one on the left is of a build completely inconsistent with any of the Magma known people so far except for Tabitha. However, we can rule him out - as Tabitha wears the admin uniform with the mountain patterned coat. Whilst our man here is wearing clear grunt uniform. The one on the right is of a slim build and has a fringe which is consistent with the other arts for the male modern grunt. I did wonder if that was supposed to be the female with him, just drawn particularly fat… but I think that can be ruled out by the shape of the shorts. The female wears slanted shorts, which are shorter than her male colleague. The fat grunt, whilst wearing shorter shorts than the grunt next to him, has straight edged shorts making me believe it is supposed to be a male but a new character possibly the larger grunt from the anime as below.
I have not watched the episode in question… maybe I need to in order to check how long his shorts are!
Now, I didn’t put them in their respective teams because it felt wrong to split them up… Belong together!
I have to say, for 4 unnamed grunts, this mini set showed off some amazing adventures.
ANYWAY, apologies for the long post, I’ll leave you with the total of what they all look like together!
AND that’s the Double Crisis Part Finished.
Love the details of your post! This was the set i completed when i was wandering with my collection goals but i don’t regret it, it was a cheap mini set with lovely art and i feel like returning to it everytime i see photos and posts like this!
Did you complete it in the end? Highly recommend you find the 50 cents each for the new Kyogre and Groudon if you did XD
Yeah i did! Still waiting for my celebrations preorder so i’ll get those once it finally arrives 
Hey all,
I just wanted to do a recap after the cameo-opalypse that we’ve just had. Super exciting, though highlights include getting blue for the champion section. However, I had hoped that we may be able to complete a gym set. I’ve recapped below where we stand with some of the gym challenges. Johto did super well, with 4 new additions, but somehow Whitney’s Miltank didn’t make an appearance 
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CAMEO Sets
Champions: Blue, Lance, Red, Steven, Cynthia, Leon, Mustard and Peony
Missing: Alder, Iris, Wallace and Diantha
Kanto: Misty, Lt Surge, Erika, Janine, Blue and Giovanni
Missing: Brock, Koga, Sabrina and Blaine
Johto: Bugsy, Morty, Jasmine, Pryce, Clair
Missing: Falkner, Whitney and Chuck
Galar: Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Bea, Melony, Piers / Marnie / Raihan
Missing: Opal / Bede / Gordie / Allister
As multiple routes of getting the badges exist, if we had either Bede or Opal, we could get the full 8 badges from Galar…
I plan on moving away from the spreadsheet as it has kinda served it’s purpose until I decide to rearrange it. However, there is a full list of what I am missing below. This doesn’t include the trainer cards themselves. Obviously we don’t know how many of these will make it to English, but if they don’t… I may have to make the leap to Japanese. On other news, exciting that the Sandaconda radiator impression made it to English
Rockets Sneasel - Promo - Rocket Grunt
Dark Persian - Promo - Giovanni
Silvally - Cosmic Eclipse 227 - Gladion
Silvally - Cosmic Eclipse 262 - Gladion
Piplup - Cosmic Eclipse 239 - Rosao
Weavile - Cosmic Eclipse 338 - Cyrus
Mikikyu - Cosmic Eclipse 245 - Acerola
Gyarados - Ancient Origins Release Promo - Fisherman
Shining Gyarados - New Revelations - Fisherman
Sandaconda - Fusion Strike - Team Yell Grunt
Solgaleo & Lunala - Cosmic Eclipse 216 - Lillie
Solgaleo & Lunala - Cosmic Eclipse 254 - Lillie
Teddiursa - Breakthrough - Unknown
Chespin Gabi - Art Contest
Hypno - Aquapolis - Unknown
Reshiram & Zekron - Cosmic Eclipse 259 - N
Duraludon - Evolving Skies - Raiham
New Set
Abomasnow - Pryce
Flapple - Milo
Charizard - Leon
Flareon - Blue
Vaporeon - Blue
Kingdra - Clair
Octillery - Fisherwoman
Frosmoth - Melony
Jolteon - Blue
Flaffy - Elesa
Zekrom - N
Gardevoir - Doctor
Banette - Phoebe
Dusknoir - Morty
Malamar - Xerosic
Dedenne - Furisode Girl
Alcremie - Cafe Master
Rockruff - Professor Kukui
Passimian - Black Belt
Falinks - Bea
Ariados - Janine
Houndoom - Grimsley
Galarian Obstagoon - Piers
Bronzong - Jasmine
Druddigon - Ace Trainer
Eevee - Bill
Castform - Cheren
Oranguru - Sina
Kricketune - Bug Catcher
Orbeetle - Bugsy
Orbeetle Vmax - Bugsy
Blaziken V - May
Blaziken Vmax - May
Centiskorch - Kabu
Centiskorch Vmax - Kabu
Ice Rider - Peony
Ice Rider Vmax - Peony
Pikachu - Red
Pikachu Vmax - Red
Zeraora - Selene
Boltund - Sonia
Morpeko (1-4) Marnie
Galarian Articuno - Victor
Sylveon - Valerie
Sylveon Vmax - Valerie
Mimikyyu - Acerola
Mimikyu Vmax - Acerola
Shadow Rider - Victor
Shadow Rider Vmax - Victor
Galarian Zapdos - Sonia
Single Strike Urshifu - Gloria
Single Strike Urshifu Vmax - Gloria
Rapid Strike Urshifu - Mustard
Rapid Strike Urshifu Vmax - Mustard
Galarian Moltres - Gloria
Crobat - Silver
Umbreon - Karen
Umbreon Vmax - Karen
Eternatus - Chairman Rose
Eternatus Vmax - Chairman Rose
Corviknight - Cabbie
Corviknight Vmax - Cabbie
Zacian - Hop
Zacian Vmax - Hop
Raquaza Vmax - Zinnia
Duraludon Vmax - Raihan
Blissey - Pokemon Centre Lady
Hello all,
First of all, I have an addition curtesy of secret santa!
Raihan has obviously got a Vmax coming, so it was nice to get the V ready for the set. Also the Hypno is one of my favourites among my many many favourite cameos! But always nice to see pokemon doing stuff rather than posing.
I have been scouring some sets and discovered no less than 16 cameo’s that I was not aware of, will need to tidy up the tracker but… here they are!
Eevee on the Ball 20
Grookey on the Ball 20
Scorbunny on the Ball 20
Sobble on the Ball 20
Blissey Chilling Reign Alt Art 26
Ice Rider Calyrex Vmax Alt Art 50
Shedinja 55/185 vivid voltage
Jellicient 42/163
Sharpedo 111
Snorunt 31
Nosepass 69
electrode 22
pikachu roaring skies 20
scraggy 66
exploud 6/101
skyridge ditto
I am not entirely sure how I missed the ‘on the ball’ series, at first glance.
Anyway thw two contentious ones…
DOES BLISSEY COUNT?
I decided as I hadn’t qualified the involvement of the person, that a painting of a person would count. Collecting more cards is better than collecting less, and spotting the hidden ones is part of the fun. BUT this precedent meant that if we’re counting pictures of people… this little guy counts
Interestingly, it looks like Ditto is trying to copy the person chasing, rather than the pokemon which is curious. I didn’t know of any other reference to ditto’s copying people? BUT THE PRECEDENT STANDS, a drawing of a human- even a stick figure cave painting counts. Just need to buy one… fortunately he’s a common, pesky skyridge isn’t cheap.
