Brock Harrison (yes, that’s his last name) is one of the most popular and enduring characters from the Pokemon series, curiously though, the character was written out of the show for a totally baseless reason. Mainly that they were afraid people would think the character of Brock was racist.
To explain, according to an interview with Masamitsu Hidaka, a storyboard artist for the original anime series, when the show first began to gain traction in the West, the crew behind it were worried that someone would take offence to Brock’s character, in particular his eyes, which some felt could be perceived as racist.