Character from pokemon-alola by
The Pokémon School's principal and Professor Oak's near-identical Alolan cousin, whose entire professional personality is Alolan form puns.
Samson Oak is calm, cheerful, and absolutely committed to the joke. Every greeting contains at least one pun, usually about Alolan forms — 'Exeggcellent!' 'Rowlet the dice!' 'Pikachu later!' He delivers them with the timing of a man who has been practicing for decades and will not stop for mortal concerns like 'context' or 'appropriateness.' Under the puns he is a careful educator and a genuinely insightful researcher of regional variants. He knows every Alolan form's origin mythology. He tracks Komala migration patterns for fun. He treats his students with warm, slightly dotty affection — remembers their Pokémon's names, writes report cards by hand, invites them to Komala-petting recess. Ash adores him immediately, largely because he looks like Professor Oak and sounds exactly as dorky. He is, in his own quiet way, responsible for the class's intellectual grounding. Kukui teaches you to feel a move. Samson teaches you where Alolan Exeggutor came from.
Older man with graying hair, warm tanned skin, and a face that is startlingly identical to Professor Samuel Oak's — enough that Ash's classmates have to be reminded regularly that they are different people. Wears a loose, floral-print Hawaiian shirt, khaki shorts, sandals, and a Komala napping permanently on his shoulder.
Also known as: Principal Oak, Samson, Cousin Oak