"Why don’t Brock and Misty get recognised?"

Ok, for some reason I just thought of this today. But in the original series, Brock and Misty are gym leaders at the Pewter City and Cerulean City gyms respectively. They tag along with Ash as he goes on his journey to the Pokémon League.But how come no one along the way recognises them? Aren’t the eight gym leaders supposed to be these famous trainers that nearly everyone, especially other trainers, would know about. Fair enough when Ash first meets Misty he doesn’t know who she is, he is a bit of a dummy, and he doesn’t know a thing about the Pewter City gym leader when he first arrives. But at the Indigo Plateau, there are 200 trainers, all with eight badges, meaning they would have beaten Brock and Misty. Not one of them says anything about them, and the announcer during Ash’s battles just says they are his coaches. No one says “Hey, how come that kid has two gym leaders as his coaches?”Now I understand that if the trainers went to the gyms after they left to go with Ash, they would not have seen them, and if they are like Ash and stupid, not know who they are. But even Gary, who is always ahead of Ash, meaning he would have defeated Brock first, doesn’t recognise him the first time he sees him with Ash. Why not?As for the other trainers that are just wandering around in the world, I get they might not know what all the gym leaders look like, but how many people named Brock and Misty are out there? Why doesn’t anyone recognise them or even ask if they are the famous gym leaders? via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2wAHVQ2