[Anime] Ash and the Elite 4

I'm not seeing how this whole thread would be moot if we're saying manga characters and anime characters are different. The fact they're different makes it so that it is possible.

I'm talking about the games, not the manga.

But it would be moot because saying that they aren't the same people is immediately writing off the fact that they have astonishing similarities. If we're to find they're similarities, but already have written off that they're completely different, makes no sense.