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Concept and creation

In the Japanese version, Lillie uses 'watakushi', a personal pronoun which, when used outside of formal situations, makes a character seem either "prim and proper", "cultured", or "snobby".


Appearances

Lillie first appears in ''Pokémon Sun'' and ''Moon''. At the start of the game, she escapes from the Aether Paradise, a conservation area owned by the Aether Foundation, with the
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Cosmog, whom she nicknames Nebby. Professor Kukui takes her on as his assistant after this, providing shelter for her and Nebby. After Nebby wanders off and the player character rescues it, she helps the player on their Island Challenge around the Alola region, while researching Nebby's origins. Later, Nebby is captured and brought to Aether Paradise. The player, their rivals Hau and Gladion, and Lillie, break into the Paradise to rescue Nebby, confronting the head of the organization, Lusamine, who is revealed to the player to be her and Gladion's mother. After Nebby evolves into Cosmoem and Lusamine disappears through a portal to the Ultra Space, a realm that links to numerous dimensions, that she forced Nebby to create, Lillie and the player head to the Altar on Poni Island, where using the mysterious items, the Sun Flute and the Moon Flute, they are able to get Nebby to evolve into either Solgaleo or Lunala, depending on the game version. They follow Lusamine into Ultra Space and rescue her. She departs for the Kanto region alongside her mother at the end of the game. She later appears in ''Pokémon Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', where she has a more prominent role and acts more as an assistant character than in ''Sun'' and ''Moon''. In these games, she does not depart for Kanto, and instead becomes a trainer in Alola, assisting the player in stopping Team Rainbow Rocket in the postgame. She also appears in mobile game ''
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'', paired with Clefairy, and has alternate pairings with Ribombee, Lunala, Polteageist, and Comfey. Lillie appears in the ''Pokémon'' anime, as a classmate of
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and a student of the Pokémon School. Lillie first appeared in the first episode of '' Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon''. In the anime, she has a fear of Pokémon, but slowly grows to become used to them. She partners with an Alolan Vulpix nicknamed Snowy, which hatched from a Pokémon egg, as her main Pokémon companion. She also appears in the second episode of ''
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'', which recounts the events that took place at the Altar on Poni Island as they are depicted in the Ultra games. Just like the games, Lillie plays the Sun Flute. In manga, Lillie appeared in the ''Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon'' chapter of ''
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'' as a shy preteen girl who stays with Professor Kukui's wife. She is later revealed to be the sister of Gladion.


Promotion and reception

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has produced multiple figurines of Lillie. A
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figurine was released in November 2017 depicting Lillie and the Pokémon Cosmog. She received another Nendoroid figurine as well as a
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figurine, both of which were revealed at Wonder Festival 2018. People who pre-ordered the Figma figurine from either Good Smile or Pokémon Center Online got a hand dryer or hair brush respectively. Lillie has also appeared multiple times in the
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in its ''Sun and Moon'' expansion sets. Since her appearance in ''Pokémon Sun'' and ''Moon'', Lillie has received mostly positive reception. She is a popular character for fans of ''Sun'' and ''Moon''. Chris Carter of ''
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'' regarded her as one of the best aspects of ''Sun'' and ''Moon''. Alex Donaldson of ''
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'' found Lillie "endearing", citing the "snappy" English localization for this. While Nick Wanserski did not think her decision to give up her "pacifist" ways to be justified, he nevertheless found the resolution with her mother to be well executed. Allegra Frank and Simone de Rochefort of ''
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'' regarded Lillie as one of the best women in video games in 2016. They note the emphasis the games put on her story, and how she works to overcome her limitations and comes out of her tribulations stronger. Frank also praised ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'' for expanding on her story even further. She gave her praise for her appearance in the 999th and 1000th episodes of the ''Pokémon'' anime, praising how it handles her fear of Pokémon and calling her "sympathetic." Dan Van Winkle of ''
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'' expressed hope that a followup to the ''Sun'' and ''Moon'' games would star Lillie in the setting of ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Blue''. Fellow contributor to ''The Mary Sue'' Paige Lyman regarded Lillie as the highlight of the game due to her character arc and the friendship that developed between the player character and Lillie. Meanwhile, Emily Reuben of ''Ball State Daily'' criticized ''Sun and Moon'' for devoting too much time to Lillie and taking away from the player character's story. She further criticized ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'' for expanding her significance.


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