Pkmn:Portrait

A Portrait (Japanese: ???) is a small image that accompanies dialogue or menus in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. In most instances, it depicts the face a Pokémon expressing an emotion, although there have been occasional portraits that depict other things, such as objects.

Style

Portraits have used various styles across the series an have even made appearances outside of the main-series games. The other material uses the portraits taken from the games themselves.

Rescue Team

In their initial appearance, / Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, they were made using 2D pixel art, and only for Pokémon that had story related dialogue.

Rescue Team DX

 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX still uses the same style as Gates to Infinity and Super Mystery Dungeon, however, the portraits are now bigger and higher quality. Higher quality versions of portraits from the previous Gates and Super can be found in the game's files if the Pokémon is present in the game. The artwork used on the inside of the game box is a collection of a variety of portraits from the game, representing various emotions of the possible species for the Hero and Partner in the game.

Explorers Titles

 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness followed the same style as Rescue Team, but with more refined and detailed art, on top of giving every Pokémon in the game its own portrait, now also displayed in menus. The same portraits are used in the same way in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.

Adventure Squad Titles

 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blazing, Light, and Stormy Adventure Squad took a vastly different approach to portraits, as they aren't normal images, but instead simply display the 3D model of the Pokémon, showing its body in its entirety, with the same look as the overworld or dungeon models.

Gates to Infinity

 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity brought back the old style of showing only the face, while upgrading the graphics to use more colors and details. These new portraits appear to be made by posing the 3D model of the Pokémon, taking a picture of it, and editing the picture.

Super MD

 Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon used the same style of portraits as Gates to Infinity, and includes all the portraits from the previous game.

Appearances

Animations

Portraits appear in Special videos.

Team Go-Getters	Time and Darkness	Beyond Time and Darkness	Gates to Infinity			Special Videos
			1	2	3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Games

Portrait (List) in / Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team. Portrait (List) in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. Portrait (List) in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness. Portrait (List) in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Portrait in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blazing, Light, and Stormy Adventure Squad. Portrait (List) in  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. Portrait (List) in  Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon.

Rescue Team			Explorers			Adventure Squad			Gates to Infinity	Super MD
Red	Blue	DX	Time	Darkness	Sky	Blazing	Stormy	Light
✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Manga

Ginji's Rescue Team	Explorers of Time and Darkness	Blazing Exploration Team	Go! Expedition Society Juniors!
✗	✗	✗

Side Games

Portraits appear in Victini's V-Spin Dungeon.

Gallery

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  A portrait in Red and Blue Rescue Team.

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  A portrait in Explorers of Time and Darkness.

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  A portrait in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon.

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  A portrait in Rescue Team DX.

References

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