Pancham see themselves as fearsome beasts, but others rarely take them seriously because they struggle to back up their boasts with even a battle-hardened face, let alone genuine power. A Pancham's attempt at scaring their foes is more likely to produce laughter than anger, and while some pokemon would take advantage of that laughter with a sneak attack, Pancham are too good-natured to respond with anything but angry words and challenges; should they fight, it will be open, honest, and likely to end in their defeat.
Yet beneath their grinning surface, a deep anger fumes in every Pancham's heart, along with a profound desire to grow stronger; they require only the right circumstances to be corrupted. Beneath every smile from a pat to the head lies the bitterness of a pokemon which, try as it might, is unable to back up its boasts with victories - and whose small size leaves every effort at intimidation or anger to be understood as only an adorable mockery of said emotions.
In time, Pancham trainers will comprehend their pokemon's frustration, or at the very least grow frustrated themselves with training a pokemon who struggles to win. Unable to induce evolution on their own, they will often seek out a bad influence for their Pancham, at times capturing a dark pokemon solely to tutor them in the powers of darkness. Although they would have balked at it when younger and more optimistic, at this point Pancham will gladly accept help from villains, for serving the dark side is their species' only known path to the power which comes with evolution.
