Pokemon - Characters or Concepts?

Now Giantbomb has been fully established I feel its important to tackle some of the more serious gaming-related issues.

POKEMON

I think that iconic characters like pikachu or legendary pokemon where there is only one of them in a game like mewtwo should be considered characters, but the rest should be considered concepts.  I remember sometime on the podcast jeff mentioned they might add race and class designations so a lot of them could fit into the race catagory i guess.

Wait so enemies in games are supposed to go in the concepts section, right? I think it makes sense for most Pokemon to go in concepts, but for more important iconic Pokemon to go in characters then.

"Wait so enemies in games are supposed to go in the concepts section, right? I think it makes sense for most Pokemon to go in concepts, but for more important iconic Pokemon to go in characters then."

Pokémon belong listed as concepts as each Pokémon is a 'species' in its own right - not an individual character.
Pikachu is a type of Pokémon, not a character - even though it might be portrayed as one in some cases, whereas in actual fact, in the Pokémon series and games which feature a single Pokémon predominantely, a single Pikachu is portrayed.
I'm no expert on Pokémon - so this is by no means a final say on the subject - please feel free to continue discussing it!

If an enemy in a game is a Character, it belongs in Characters. On the other hand, if the enemy in a game is some sort of evil organization or whatever, it would be considered a Concept.