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Pokémon Quiz

2014-05-17T01:24:03Z

Pie: Grammar.

{{incomplete|needs=Remaining episodes}}
'''''Pokémon Quiz''''' (Japanese: '''{{tt|ポケモンクイズ|Pokémon Kuizu}}''' ''Pokémon Quiz'') is a question-and-answer segment exclusive to the Japanese version of the {{series|XY}}, as opposed to the ''[[Who's That Pokémon?]]'' segment used in the English [[dub]].

Each ''Pokémon Quiz'' starts by featuring the silhouette of a Pokémon on a large card. Then, to the right, four smaller cards with silhouettes appear. One card has a silhouette identical to the first, two have silhouettes of similar Pokémon species, and the remaining [[wp:Joker (playing card)|Joker card]] has the silhouette of {{TRT}}. The objective is for the viewers to find the matching card and remember its location. After the commercial break, the quiz reveals the solution, as well as the identities of the Pokémon species silhouetted.

==={{series|XY}}===
Correct answers are in bold.
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! Episode
! colspan=4 | Choices
! Image
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| [[XY001]]
| '''{{MSP|661|Fletchling}} {{p|Fletchling}}'''
| {{TRT}}
| {{MSP|016|Pidgey}} {{p|Pidgey}}
| {{MSP|519|Pidove}} {{p|Pidove}}
| [[File:Pokémon_Quiz_XY001.png|100px]]
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| [[XY002]]
| {{MSP|650|Chespin}} {{p|Chespin}}
| {{MSP|653|Fennekin}} {{p|Fennekin}}
| '''{{MSP|656|Froakie}} {{p|Fennekin}}'''
| {{TRT}}
| [[File:Pokémon_Quiz_XY002.png|100px]]
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| [[XY003]]
| '''{{MSP|686|Inkay}} {{p|Inkay}}'''
| {{MSP|073|Tentacruel}} {{p|Tentacruel}}
| {{TRT}}
| {{MSP|224|Octillery}} {{p|Octillery}}
| [[File:Pokémon_Quiz_XY003.png|100px]]
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| [[XY004]]
| {{MSP|572|Minccino}} {{p|Minccino}}'''
| '''{{MSP|702|Dedenne}} {{p|Dedenne}}'''
| {{TRT}}
| {{MSP|194|Wooper}} {{p|Wooper}}
| [[File:Pokémon_Quiz_XY004.png|100px]]
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| [[XY005]]
| {{TRT}}
| {{MSP|049|Venomoth}} {{p|Venomoth}}
| '''{{MSP|666|Vivillon}} {{p|Vivillon}}'''
| {{MSP|267|Beautifly}} {{p|Beautifly}}
| [[File:Pokémon_Quiz_XY005.png|100px]]
|-
| colspan=6 style="background:#{{colorschemelight|Kalos}}; {{roundybottom|5px}}" |
|}

[[Category:Anime]]

GeekChicShipping

2014-05-15T23:47:25Z

Pie: /* Other hints */ Formatting.

{{ship}}
'''GeekChicShipping''' (Japanese: '''シトセレ''' ''CitSere'') is the belief that {{an|Clemont}} and {{an|Serena}} belong in a romantic relationship. It is named after the [[wp:Geek#Geek chic|geek chic]] fashion trend, and reflects their personalities: Clemont is geeky, and Serena is {{wp|chic}}.

The fan following for this ship is moderate at best, but shows early signs of rising popularity. One noted contributor to the growing support for this ship is that it offers fans an alternative to {{s|Amour}}, which may not appeal to all and conflicts with many other popular ships involving {{Ash}}. Additionally, some fans see GeekChicShipping as a more interesting potential direction for Serena's {{wp|character arc}}, rather than if her established crush smoothly progressed into a relationship.

==Anime evidence==
While there is a lack of substantial evidence suggesting a romantic attraction, their dynamics are typically very positive. Clemont is shown to enjoy opportunities to explain new things to Serena, and proudly demonstrates his inventions for her. On the other hand, despite her canon crush on Ash, Serena still shows plenty of kindness and concern towards Clemont.

===Clemont's hints===

* ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
: Clemont compliments Serena's appearance in her Rhyhorn racing outfit.

* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: Upon meeting Serena, Clemont's father, [[Meyer]], teases him about meeting such a cute girl, and implies that there's more than friendship between them. In the dub, Meyer even calls her Clemont's "beautiful girlfriend". Embarrassed, Clemont awkwardly replies that it's not like that. Later, when Clemont is struggling with the passcode for [[Clembot]], he listens to the advice given by Serena, to calm down and think about it carefully. Because of her, he's able to calm down enough to realize what the true passcode is.

* ''[[XY014|Seeking Shelter from the Storm!]]''
: Despite Clemont claiming he can't trust "what is not scientifically proven", he's visibly chilled by Serena's un-scientific theories. This can be taken to mean that he trusts in what she says, even when her superstitions are at odds with his better judgment.

* [[XY021]]
: When Serena dresses up in her {{p|Fennekin}} {{pkmn|cosplay}}, Clemont is thrilled to see her. He smiles so hard that his glasses slip halfway down his face.

===Serena's hints===
* ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
: Clemont compliments her {{p|Rhyhorn}} racing skills and she blushes, flattered.

* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: When Meyer teases Clemont about Serena, implying that there's more than friendship between the two, she smiles and doesn't deny this. Later, she decides to support him in stopping Clembot despite the danger involved.

* ''[[XY012|To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler!]]''
: Usually when Clemont shows off an invention to her, she doesn't seem quite as enthused as Ash, particularly if it malfunctions. However, when [[Officer Jenny]] questions how they'll be able to track the signal of a chip, it's Serena who proudly declares "We have an inventor on our team!", setting the stage for Clemont to introduce his machine. This can be taken to mean she admires his technical skills more than she lets on.

* ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]]''
: When Clemont is upset because he thinks Chespin hates him, Serena is the one to cheer him up.

* ''[[XY018|Awakening the Sleeping Giant!]]''
: Though Serena agrees to leave Clemont with [[Princess Allie]], she has a playful expression about it, suggesting that she's just teasing Clemont. Later, when he shows up in his underwear, she covers her face and turns away in embarrassment.

===Other hints===
Serena has a strong bond with Clemont's little sister, {{an|Bonnie}}, who in turn has a vested interest for finding a wife for her brother.

Serena and Clemont have appeared in cooperative roles more than once, suggesting a natural partnership:
* As demonstrated in ''[[XY017|A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!]]'', they both cook for [[Ash's friends|their traveling group]], with Clemont covering dinner and Serena covering dessert.
* In [[XY027]], Serena provides the honey for {{p|Flabébé}} and Clemont provides the pipette to serve it with.

==Trivia==
* Both only have one parent shown in the {{pkmn|anime}}, [[Meyer]] and {{kal|Grace}} respectively.
* Besides both shooting videos in [[XY021]], they also both [[List of clothing in the anime|dressed up in formal, French-style outfits]].

{{-}}
{{stub|Shipping}}
{{Project Shipping notice}}
[[Category:Shipping|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Anime ships|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Ships with Clemont|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Ships with Serena|{{PAGENAME}}]]

GeekChicShipping

2014-05-15T15:54:14Z

Pie: I don't know how else to describe this hint without suggesting it's an inappropriate metaphor...

{{ship}}
'''GeekChicShipping''' (Japanese: '''シトセレ''' ''CitSere'') is the belief that {{an|Clemont}} and {{an|Serena}} belong in a romantic relationship. It is named after the [[wp:Geek#Geek chic|geek chic]] fashion trend, and reflects their personalities: Clemont is geeky, and Serena is {{wp|chic}}.

The fan following for this ship is moderate at best, but shows early signs of rising popularity. One noted contributor to the growing support for this ship is that it offers fans an alternative to {{s|Amour}}, which may not appeal to all and conflicts with many other popular ships involving {{Ash}}. Additionally, some fans see GeekChicShipping as a more interesting potential direction for Serena's {{wp|character arc}}, rather than if her established crush smoothly progressed into a relationship.

==Anime evidence==
While there is a lack of substantial evidence suggesting a romantic attraction, their dynamics are typically very positive. Clemont is shown to enjoy opportunities to explain new things to Serena, and proudly demonstrates his inventions for her. On the other hand, despite her canon crush on Ash, Serena still shows plenty of kindness and concern towards Clemont.

===Clemont's hints===

* ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
: Clemont compliments Serena's appearance in her Rhyhorn racing outfit.

* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: Upon meeting Serena, Clemont's father, [[Meyer]], teases him about meeting such a cute girl, and implies that there's more than friendship between them. In the dub, Meyer even calls her Clemont's "beautiful girlfriend". Embarrassed, Clemont awkwardly replies that it's not like that. Later, when Clemont is struggling with the passcode for [[Clembot]], he listens to the advice given by Serena, to calm down and think about it carefully. Because of her, he's able to calm down enough to realize what the true passcode is.

* ''[[XY014|Seeking Shelter from the Storm!]]''
: Despite Clemont claiming he can't trust "what is not scientifically proven", he's visibly chilled by Serena's un-scientific theories. This can be taken to mean that he trusts in what she says, even when her superstitions are at odds with his better judgment.

* [[XY021]]
: When Serena dresses up in her {{p|Fennekin}} {{pkmn|cosplay}}, Clemont is thrilled to see her. He smiles so hard that his glasses slip halfway down his face.

===Serena's hints===
* ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
: Clemont compliments her {{p|Rhyhorn}} racing skills and she blushes, flattered.

* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: When Meyer teases Clemont about Serena, implying that there's more than friendship between the two, she smiles and doesn't deny this. Later, she decides to support him in stopping Clembot despite the danger involved.

* ''[[XY012|To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler!]]''
: Usually when Clemont shows off an invention to her, she doesn't seem quite as enthused as Ash, particularly if it malfunctions. However, when [[Officer Jenny]] questions how they'll be able to track the signal of a chip, it's Serena who proudly declares "We have an inventor on our team!", setting the stage for Clemont to introduce his machine. This can be taken to mean she admires his technical skills more than she lets on.

* ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]]''
: When Clemont is upset because he thinks Chespin hates him, Serena is the one to cheer him up.

* ''[[XY018|Awakening the Sleeping Giant!]]''
: Though Serena agrees to leave Clemont with [[Princess Allie]], she has a playful expression about it, suggesting that she's just teasing Clemont. Later, when he shows up in his underwear, she covers her face and turns away in embarrassment.

===Other hints===
* Serena has a strong bond with Clemont's little sister, {{an|Bonnie}}, who in turn has a vested interest for finding a wife for her brother.
* Serena and Clemont have appeared in cooperative roles more than once, suggesting a natural partnership:
: Both cook for the group, with Clemont covering dinner and Serena covering dessert.
: In [[XY027]], Serena provides the honey for {{p|Flabébé}} and Clemont provides the pipette to serve it with.

==Trivia==
* Both only have one parent shown in the {{pkmn|anime}}, [[Meyer]] and {{kal|Grace}} respectively.
* Besides both shooting videos in [[XY021]], they also both [[List of clothing in the anime|dressed up in formal, French-style outfits]].

{{-}}
{{stub|Shipping}}
{{Project Shipping notice}}
[[Category:Shipping|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Anime ships|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Ships with Clemont|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Ships with Serena|{{PAGENAME}}]]

User talk:Tgage

2014-04-27T14:03:20Z

Pie:

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Talk:First partner Pokémon/Archive 1

2014-04-27T13:59:48Z

Pie: /* Trivia (Could be added to a trivia point speaking of egg group) */

==Normal Starters==
Should Pikachu be considered a 'normal' starter? I mean, it isn't part of the Fire/Water/Grass triangle, and it can also be captured in the wild in many of the other games, something that no other starters have right now. It's also the starter only in one game (although, so have Colosseum Starters, XD Starter, and Ranger Starter). --[[User:PikamasterADV|PikamasterADV]] 12:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
:Well, why not? The fact it is not part of the triangle does not disqualify him as a starter Pokémon. If we had a Dark/Fighting/Psych triangle, wouldn't still they be starters? Also, the Fire/Grass/Water triangle is already broken is some cases, like the 4th generation starters having second types after they evolve. In any case, he is undoubtedly a starter in the ranks of Squirtle and Charmander. He is given out by a professor (and our very original professor Oak in his case), is given in one of the "main" games of the series, and is a basic Pokémon. --[[User:Andrelvis|Andrelvis]] 15:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
::Well, don't forget that also, pretty much every starter gets a second type through evolution. Only ones who don't are Squirtle, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, and Treecko. Hell, Bulbasaur has two types in its basic form.
::And I think the division's more on the games that are defined as the main RPG series vs the side games. After all, Pichu makes Pikachu a stage 1 now, in all technicalities. But, of course, Yellow is just as much a main game as Red, Blue, and Green are, unlike Colosseum and XD compared to Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, even though all of them are RPGs. [[User:TTEchidna|Tom Temprotran]] 01:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Exactly. And that's why we have the "special starters" section. They are starters, but not as much so as the "main game" ones. --[[User:Andrelvis|Andrelvis]] 17:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
::::But they're not special per se. They're just... not mainstream. - [[User:Zhen Lin|振霖]][[User talk:Zhen Lin|T]] 17:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
:::::A little off-topic, but I heard a rumor that Game Freak was considering a Fighting/Psychic/Dark trio for the Gen IV starters, but they decided to switch back to the usual Grass/Fire/Water trio. [[User:Diachronos|Diachronos]] 16:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

== To add to Trivia ==

I noticed this. Of the Grass starters up to and including Generation IV, all of the final forms have eight-letter English names. Venusaur, Meganium, Sceptile, and Torterra.
:Hmmm. Well, it's interesting, but the trivia section's already huge! '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]{{ani|155|Fire echy}}[[User:TTEchidna/GSDS|GSDS!]]''' 09:22, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

== To Remove from Trivia ==
"Usually upon evolution, the starter Pokémon gain another type. However, Blastoise, the three Johto starters' final forms (Meganium, Typhlosion, and Feraligatr), and Sceptile do not have a second type." This quote is not very accurate. The trivia itself lists 5 out of the 12 final evolutions of the main series' starters that don't gain a new type (technically it should be 6 of 13 because of [[Pikachu]]; which while it can't evolve in Yellow still does in every other version). 5 out of 12 is about 42%; which means that "usually" is used to define an occurance rate barely over 50% and is like saying Pokemon split equally into both [[gender|genders]] are "usually" one over the other. Additionally, only 6 of the 13 (about 46%) main series staters actually gain a new type out of evolution, as [[Bulbasaur]] starts with the {{type|Poison}}. I'm not sure if complete removal of this trivia is called for, but it definitely needs to be reworded. --[[User:ZellMurasame|ZellMurasame]] 05:15, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
:That's an overinspective technicality... but sure, it should be reworded if that's statistically the case. Just make sure not to link species with square brackets, man. The {{template|p}} template is there for use, especially with the starters and their families... all of which have appeared owned by a main anime character... '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]{{ani|155|Fire echy}}[[User:TTEchidna/GSDS|GSDS!]]''' 08:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

==Pikachu==

Just saying buy uh.. You guys put every Pokemon's evolutions in the normal games. But not Pikachu's in Pokemon Yellow?
:Pikachu can't evolve in Yellow. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]{{ani|155|Fire echy}}[[User:TTEchidna/GSDS|GSDS!]]''' 04:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

== Colosseum elemental starters ==

Even though you can get the remaining two at the end of the game, let's not forget that Bayleef, Quilava, and Croconaw are somewhat "starter" Pokémon in Pokémon Colosseum, since you need to snag one of them at the beginning of the adventure. Maybe they're like Eevee's evolutionary stones or shards in that their availability isn't immediate... However, one of the things that make them non-traditional starters is that the game doesn't explicitly ask you "you want this Pokémon, or this one, or this one?". --[[User:Johans|Johans]] 03:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

You just have to beat Rosso, Verde, or Bluno. You don't have to snag their Shadow Pokémon. [[User:Gligar|Gli]][[User talk:Gligar|gar]] ''I am not removing this lengthy addition to my signature until all moves have been updated to Platinum standard.'' 00:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

== Obediance ==

I seem to recall that in the main series, a Starter Pokémon will always obey even if its level surpasses the mark of a required Gym Badge. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, should it be added to the article somewhere? ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|'''$aturn''']][[User:SaturnYoshi|'''¥oshi''']] [[User talk:SaturnYoshi|THE VOICES]] 19:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

All Pokémon caught by the trainer will, they wont obey if they have been received in a trade.[[User:David aipom|Davidaipom]] 19:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

:The page on [[Badge]]s does not make that distinction. ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|'''$aturn''']][[User:SaturnYoshi|'''¥oshi''']] [[User talk:SaturnYoshi|THE VOICES]] 19:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
::well that's how it works --lord mada 19:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

:::So what you're saying is that if a player was able to start a new game and somehow "catch" a Level 70 Pokémon right off the bat, it will obey? ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|'''$aturn''']][[User:SaturnYoshi|'''¥oshi''']] [[User talk:SaturnYoshi|THE VOICES]] 19:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
::::yeah I'm pretty sure --lord mada 19:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

:::::Interesting... Well then, disregard. ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|'''$aturn''']][[User:SaturnYoshi|'''¥oshi''']] [[User talk:SaturnYoshi|THE VOICES]] 19:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
::::::Yes but dont forget that's very unlikely in the main series. [[User:Ritchie|Ritchie]]
:::::::Start a new game, trade away a random caught Pokémon, get it back after a while at level 70 and it likely will obey. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 18:54, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
:::::::Unlikely, but possible. Especially with an Action Replay. ~[[User:SaturnYoshi|'''$aturn''']][[User:SaturnYoshi|'''¥oshi''']] [[User talk:SaturnYoshi|THE VOICES]] 17:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

== Trivia overload? ==

Don't get me wrong, I always love a lot of additions to the trivia section, but even now it seems like it's way too much. We might want to cut back on some more esoteric things, and group the move pattern observations together. [[User:Toastypk|'''''~Toastypk''''']] - [[User_Talk:Toastypk|'''Loom.''']] 17:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
:Maybe it would be possible to encorporate some of the more anime-exclusive trivia into the anime section and likewise for game-exclusive, and only put overall trivia at the bottom. ''[[User:Moldy orange|'''Moldy''']][[User talk:Moldy orange|'''Orange''']]'' 17:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
::Something I noticed on the Trivia section is that one of the links is broken; specifically, the cross-Wiki link about Charmander being based of the mythical Salamander. --[[User:Mikekearn|Mike]] | [[Special:Contributions/Mikekearn|Contrib]] 03:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
:::This was a stupid error on my part; I fixed it just now. I had fixed the link before, but I put wp:Salamander (legendary creature) rather than wp|Salamander (legendary creature). This caused a broken link. It was very unprofessional of me, and I greatly apologize for the error. [[User:Kumori Satosuke|Satosuke]] 03:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

==No editing?==
Why cant I edit this? I found an error... --'''[[User:Mooites|Mooites]]''' [[User talk:Mooites|Talk to me, baby!]] 18:47, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
:So did I. I don't know if it's the same as yours, but its at the end of the page. It's missing a period. --[[User:PsychicRider|'''Psychic''']][[User talk:PsychicRider|'''Rider''']]''''[[Special:Contributions/PsychicRider|'''☮''']]'' 18:50, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
::In the middle of something, didn't want an edit conflict. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 18:54, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

==Gen IV type-trumping==
I just noticed something about the Sinnoh starters' final forms. Each of them gains a a type advantage over the starter it is weak to in some way:
*Torterra gains the Ground-type, which is super-effective against Infernape.
*Infernape gains the Fighting-type, which is super-effective against Empoleon's Steel-type.
*Empoleon gains the Steel-type, which gives it a resistance to Torterra's Grass-type (although it does give a weakness to Torterra's Ground-type (maybe for balance issues); however, being a Water-type, Empoleon can learn Ice-type attacks to deal super-effective damage against both of Torterra's types).
[[User:Diachronos|Diachronos]] 16:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
:However, the steel type also renders Empoleon without a resistance to either of Infernape's types, thus actually making it WEAK to Infernape (at least to it's fighting type, and the steel offbalances the water resistance to fire). [[User:Kumori Satosuke|Satosuke]] 11:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
::Including Empoleon's ability to learn Ice moves, all the starters have moves which are super effective against the other two starters. As in, the examples listed above and the normal type advantage circle (except Empoleon is weak to Ground not Grass)So, in a way, it means that none of them are superior to the others. [[User:Gastly's Mama|Gastly's Mama]]

==Gary's Starter==
Is the statement "it caused many to hearken back to Pokémon Yellow, where the player starts with Pikachu, like Ash, and the rival starts with Eevee" the wrong way round because Pokemon Yellow was based on the anime and because Gary's true starter had not been revealed at the time, the makers made Eevee his starter, as the game required him to have a confirmed one? Therefore rather than people thinking this because that was his starter in Yellow, is it not much more likely that this was his starter in Yellow because people thought it was starter already? - ''unsigned comment from {{u|Gastlys mama}} ([[User talk:Gastlys mama|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Gastlys mama|contribs]]) ''

== Platinum ==

It's different in Platinum. There are no Starly. He just give them out for some reason to the two and they battle each other. Someone who knows the reason should place it. *[[User:Tc26|Tc]][[User talk:Tc26|26]]* 07:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
:Maybe it's to test out their newly received pokémon? that seems the most logical to me... [[User:Mijzelffan|Mijzelffan]] 15:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
::I think the question is why did Rowan give them to the character and Pearl. [[User:The Dark Fiddler|The Dark Fiddler]] - [[User talk:The Dark Fiddler|Nos hablamos?]] 15:45, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, that can wait until March... '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 03:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
::::Its almost time for Platinum to come out in America, better get ready to fill that in!--[[User:Dragonbeastx/The Aura Spot|X, PEACE TO]][[User:Dragonbeastx|THE DRAGONS AND]][[User talk:Dragonbeastx|THE BEASTS]] 07:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

== Trivia Addition ==

I felt it would be interesting to note that all of the starter's first evolutions have the same base stat total of 405, whereas the base and final forms vary greatly.
:Every middle evolution, you mean? Definitely something to say. But the final forms' variance needn't be mentioned; it's not like they're Butterfree vs Arceus in terms of BST difference. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 04:50, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

== Second Trivia Addition ==

Wouldn't it be a good idea to post the fact that in the anime, the protagonist's starter Pokémon actually has a type advantage over the rival's starter Pokémon other than the other way around? (Ash obviously had Pikachu whereas Gary had Squirtle) Seems relevant --[[User:Blackstone Dresden|Blackstone Dresden]] 03:47, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
:No. Basically what they did was say Gary had a MYSTERY OMGEEZ and then an EEVEE OMGEEZ YELOW and then BLASTOISE HAHA. And by that third point, in Johto, Ash's Charizard counted almost as much as Pikachu anyway, especially considering the battle the two had using those. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 04:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

== Kanto starters in HGSS? ==

I just got all 16 badges, Oak gives me a HM08, but no starter. Do i have to do something beforehand? -->'''[[User:223david|223]][[User_talk:223david|david]]''' 01:19, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
:This sounds kind of forum-y to me, but you might have to do the Copycat event first - I read somewhere that you have to do that in order to get a Hoenn starter from Steven, at least. [[User:Umeko|梅子]][[User talk:Umeko|❀]][[Special:Contributions/Umeko|✿]] 01:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
::All events done ''except for red''. do i have to beat him firsT? -->'''[[User:223david|223]][[User_talk:223david|david]]''' 01:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
:::Yes. [[User:Umeko|梅子]][[User talk:Umeko|❀]][[Special:Contributions/Umeko|✿]] 01:27, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

== The mystical, amazing disappearing starter Pokemon! ==

I could have sworn I saw this discussed somewhere before, but for the life of me I can't find it now. Oh well.

Anyway, at some point in HGSS (not sure exactly when) the third starter Pokemon which wasn't chosen by the PC or the rival mysteriously vanishes from its place in Elm's lab. (The game text when the... whatever that machine is... is examined is something along the lines of, "Hey! The third Pokeball is gone! Was it given to someone?" though I can't be bothered to switch games in my DS to check for sure.) I figure that this is notable enough to go into the article, and I'd put it in there myself, but I quite honestly don't know if its disappearance is ever explained, and I figure that if it ''were'' explained that should go in the article too.

Thoughts?/Anyone know what in the world happened to it? [[User:Umeko|梅子]][[User talk:Umeko|❀]][[Special:Contributions/Umeko|✿]] 00:29, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
:If you're looking for a general discussion on this, head to the forums. Pedia-wise, the only thing we can really do is say that it vanishes and we don't know where to. —'''darklord[[User talk:The dark lord trombonator|trom]]''' 00:35, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
::Nah, wasn't looking for a general discussion. I brought it up for the purpose of adding it into the article... And I haven't beaten the game yet, so I don't know if its disappearance is left unexplained, and that's why I didn't want to say that in the article (maybe it is explained, and I just haven't gotten that far yet!). I thought maybe someone else would have the answer so that it could be added to the article, definitively stating whether its disappearance was explained or not. [[User:Umeko|梅子]][[User talk:Umeko|❀]][[Special:Contributions/Umeko|✿]] 00:40, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

== Can someone please put these up? ==

They're missing from the page. Pokabu's picture is the only one on there. --[[User:Dialgafan1|Dialgafan1]] 18:42, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

== Was this ever confirmed? ==

On the article it said "In Pokémon Black and White, the regional professor, yet unnamed, will offer the player a choice of the Grass-type Tsutarja, the Fire-type Pokabu, or the Water-type Mijumaru. " It's very likely this is true, but this was never confirmed so should we edit it?--[[User:Eastern|Eastern]] 18:07, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
:It's been proven. There's even an official site of the game that confirms this. - [[User:050294|050294]] 23:40, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
::I think what he means is, does the professor actually give it to the player, or is there a situation similar to DPPt, where they decide to take them and are allowed to keep them later, et cetera.—[[User:Urutapu|Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？]] ([[User talk:Urutapu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Urutapu|contribs]]) 09:24, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
:::Yeah, that's what I mean.--[[User:Eastern|Eastern]] 15:26, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

== Ranger "starters"? ==

I just now noticed that the Ranger partner Pokemon weren't included in the page (but I remember them being on there before). But can they be considered starter Pokemon? They probably weren't the first Pokemon the player captured (except in the first ranger game), but they are the first Pokemon they get to keep for themselves. So can they still be considered starters?

== Cheren & Bel Starters ==

Example: I choose Pokabu, Cheren will Choose Mijumaru and Belle will chose Tsutarja. But this is

not confirmmed---[[User:Franztrovao]] July 24, 2010 - 18:10 (UTC)

:It '''''IS''''' confirmed ([[User:Ataro|Ataro]] 18:15, 24 July 2010 (UTC))

== Trivia ==

Since I want no part in the edit war, I'm going to explain the trivia piece here:

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As of [[Generation IV]], every '''starter-type''' in the main series (with the exception of {{p|Pikachu}}) has have one Pokémon in its final-stage of evolution to have a double weakness; {{p|Charizard}} is doubly weak to {{type|Rock}}, {{p|Swampert}} is doubly weak to {{type|Grass}} and {{p|Torterra}} is doubly weak to {{type|Ice}}.</code>

It doesn't say by generation. It says by starter ''type''. That means Fire, Water, and Grass.
Charizard, Torterra, and Swampert are members of these respective types and have double weaknesses. The trivia, meaning-wise, is fine. (Unless one were to count Bulbasaur's Poison typing...)

So yeah, if you're going to remove it, remove it for a different reason plz and thanks.--[[User:Cold|Cold]] ([[User talk:Cold|talk]]) 23:33, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

== Should Mystery Dungeon initial Pokémon be considered starters? ==

I've looked through Mystery Dungeon: Blue's manual, Bulbapedia's pages on all three sets of games, and the official Explorers of Sky webpage and have seen no mention of the initial Pokémon from MD as "starters", just "Hero Pokémon" (for the player) and "Partner Pokémon" (for the partner). They seem to lack the basic criteria for being starters (the initial Pokémon owned by a ''trainer''), even more so than the Ranger's [[Partner Pokémon]] which were already deemed not to be starters. Now I'll admit I never even played through Blue fully (and never played the others), so there may be something in-game, but I think we should separate them into their own ''Hero and Partner Pokémon'' page or something, as they don't seem to belong here. '''[[User:Memo326|Memo]]'''[[User talk:Memo326|326]] 02:48, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
:Completely agree. I've fixed this page, but the navigation template needs to be modified still. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 15:34, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

== Pokémon Yellow Evolution ==

The article says that the rival's {{p|Eevee}} evolves into {{p|Jolteon}}, {{p|Flareon}} or {{p|Vaporeon}} depending on the outcomes of battles between the player and the rival. Specifically, which battles are important, and how do the results affect the evolution? It seems like this would be a useful thing to add to the article. I believe that if the player loses the first battle in Pallet Town, the {{p|Eevee}} will evolve into a {{p|Vaporeon}}, but this should probably be double-checked. [[User:Tk3141|Tk3141]] 20:52, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Ive heard that if you win both battles, lose both battles, or lose one and win one, the outcome will be different. But im not that far in the game so I don't know the specific outcomes. --[[User:Supermon|Supermon]] 21:07, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
:It's explained in more detail [[Blue (game)/Yellow|here]]. Basically the results of the first two possible battles are summed. Two wins = Jolteon. One win and one loss/skip = Flareon. Two losses/One loss one skip = Vaporeon. [[User:Werdnae|Werdnae]] [[User talk:Werdnae|(talk)]] 03:54, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

== Lyra/Khoury ==

Is it confirmed that Lyra and Khoury received their starters from Professor Elm or is it speculation? [[User:Duke R|'''|) u |( e''']] [[User talk:Duke R|'''®''']] 16:06, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

== Mystery Dungeon and Ranger starters ==

I think we need to move the starters of Mystery Dungeon to Player character, because thats basically what they are, people you can play as. Also, the Ranger Pokemon should be removed because we already have the Partner Pokemon page, which contains the same information. [[User:Iml908|Iml908]] ([[User talk:Iml908|talk]]) 20:37, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
:I agree with both. [[User:Duke R|'''|) u |( e''']] [[User talk:Duke R|'''®''']] 21:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
::I think that they should still be linked with {{template|main}}. Also, Rumble is in the same situation as PMD. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 05:10, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

== New Trivia (yeah, I know it's a little big already) ==

(First time, forgive me if I screw this up horribly)

Since Pikachu knows Thundershock, Yellow is the only main series game in which the player's starter pokemon begins play with a STAB move. Incidentally, the Rival's starter also has a STAB move, as Eevee knows tackle and is of the normal-type.

There's probably a better way of wording this. but I thought it was neat.
22:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)HH

== Definition of starter Pokémon ==

I've always thought of starter Pokémon as meaning the sets of three Pokémon that are given by the professor, not merely a Trainer's first Pokémon. I don't mind including Pikachu and Eevee, ''that'' much (although I'm still uncertain about them), adding Marill and Ralts, and calling things like [[Growlie]] "starter Pokémon" just seems wrong to me. If people really want to list Trainer's first Pokémon, then I think that page should be at {{redlink|first Pokémon}}; however, IMO starter Pokémon should refer only to Bulbasaur, Charmander, Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, and maybe Pikachu and Eevee if you really want. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 08:42, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
:Personally, I feel it's the Pokémon someone ''starts'' with. [[Typhlosion (Pokémon)|★]][[User:Jo The Marten|Jo the Marten]][[Flygon (Pokémon)|★]] [[User_Talk:Jo The Marten|ಠ_ಠ]][[Cilan (anime)|♥]] 08:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
::I agree with Jo, even though the ones listed by SnorlaxMonster are treated completely different from the other "first Pokémon" from other media. Since this page is huge, maybe splitting into "Starter Pokémon (main series)", "Starter Pokémon (spin-off)", "Starter Pokémon (anime)" and "Starter Pokémon (Adventures)" could be taken into account but is not the best option. [[User:Duke R|'''|) u |( e''']] [[User talk:Duke R|'''®''']] 10:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
:::Splitting like that completely ignores the point. The idea is that the Pokémon I listed are a group of Pokémon, while this page just lists the first Pokémon of a bunch of Trainers. If we want to redefine starter Pokémon as "the first Pokémon a Trainer owns" rather than the traditional "the three Pokémon that Trainers can choose from to start their journey" and give the traditional grouping their own name, then while I wouldn't prefer it, it would be better than what we have now. What I'm saying is that we have a distinct group of Pokémon that the fandom have always called "starter Pokémon", and this page seems to have merged that group with everyone's first Pokémon. So regardless of what you want to call "starter Pokémon", the traditional starter Pokémon need a separate page from people's first Pokémon. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 06:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
::::For what it's worth, I would define the starter pokemon as the sets of three plus Pikachu and Eevee. We categorize pokemon beyond their obvious classification by their secondary characteristics. Legendary Pokemon, other than those explicitly called out as such, are typically unique pokemon within the games that may or may not have a defining role in the story- even beginning trainers have a pretty good idea what you're talking about when you say "legendary". Pseudo-Legendaries bear some explanation, but fall within obviously recognizable parameters- 600 base stats, typically a double weakness to something, general badassedness, etc. The "starters" of the main series of games are typically in line in terms of stats and evolutions without significant variation- It would not surprise me if next generation we had to call out Charizard and Typhlosion as the exceptions to the "Fire/Fighting Rule". Spinoff series games should at best get their own page and at worst be merely mentioned on their own page. "Games" that are effectively pokedexes shouldn't be listed at all outside the article affirming their existence, as there is no meaningful way to interact with them. Eevee and Pikachu get to be the exceptions because they ''are'' the exceptions- the only main series game not to play by their own rules. You might not even list Eevee, as it's not technically an option for the trainer- It's not a "starter" pokemon, it's a "rival" pokemon.[[User:TheHateHat|TheHateHat]] ([[User talk:TheHateHat|talk]]) 04:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
:::::I going to say that there needs to be a distinction between "starter" and "first". For example, in the TCG a "starter set" is a set intended for people just starting to learn the TCG. However, it does not have to be their first TCG set, and their first TCG set is not necessarily a "starter set". A "starter Pokémon" is a Pokémon given to Trainers when they begin their journey to get them started. Therefore, instances like Wally's Ralts are not starter Pokémon; it is his first Pokémon, and if people want that to have a page that's fine, but they shouldn't be here. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 15:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
::::::I second that. The eighteen starter Pokémon from main series games must have an article of their own, they are a group of distinct Pokémon, always treated specially in every medium of the Pokémon franchise. [[User:Duke R|'''|) u |( e''']] [[User talk:Duke R|'''®''']] 04:27, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

== Eevee in Yellow ==

It seems strange to me that Eevee should be included as a starter Pokemon in Yellow on the bit at the bottom of pages about specific starter Pokemon. (Sorry don't know the correct technical term.) The player cannot start with Eevee. If the starter Pokemon of NPCs qualify for this definition of starter Pokemon then surely every known starter Pokemon for NPCs should be added to both of these sections in order to be logically consistent? If it is just because Blue is the rival of this game that his starter is notable why aren't the starters of Wally and Ethan/Lyra as NPCs? I understand their inclusion in the article but I don't understand how Blue's Eevee is any more notable than the starters of those two trainers, particularly not to the degree that it gets a mention at the bottom of the page when the others don't. [[User:Gastly's Mama|Gastly's Mama]] ([[User talk:Gastly's Mama|talk]]) 17:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
:Eevee was supposed to be player's starter, but Blue snatched it. [[User:Marked +-+-+|Marked +-+-+]] ([[User talk:Marked +-+-+|talk]]) 18:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
::But it is still not an option for the player to get it, which is more the point I feel. It is still not an option to start with. No matter what the storyline claims, the player was never "supposed" to get Eevee. Also, I'm not even sure the storyline DOES claim that.[[User:Gastly's Mama|Gastly's Mama]] ([[User talk:Gastly's Mama|talk]]) 14:07, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
:::Any Pokémon given by the Professor is a starter Pokémon, imo.--[[User:Force Fire|'''F'''orce]][[User talk:Force Fire|'''F'''ire]] 14:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

== Fire Starter Trivia ==

Should it be added that there's a trend that all of the fire starters are all members of the Chinese Zodiac? There's been dragon (the Charmander line), rat (Cyndaquil being the fire '''mouse''' pokemon), rooster (the Torchic line), monkey (the Chimchar line), pig (the Tepig line), and just recently, dog (Fennekin being a fox). --[[User:GodzillaMaster|GodzillaMaster]] ([[User talk:GodzillaMaster|talk]]) 20:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
:I say this is more opinion than fact. Yes, Cyndaquil is the Fire Mouse Pokémon but it isn't based on a mouse (or a rat). Fennekin, while based of a species of canines, isn't a dog. Though I agree with the others. So you could say I'm neutral/indifferent on this trivia.--[[User:Force Fire|'''F'''orce]][[User talk:Force Fire|'''F'''ire]] 02:31, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
:Yes, I know that Cyndaquil isn't based on an actual mouse, but the species name still counts and fox should be close enough to dog to count. --[[User:GodzillaMaster|GodzillaMaster]] ([[User talk:GodzillaMaster|talk]]) 03:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

== Shininess ==

Is it possible that received starter in main series will be shiny?
[[User:SFtheGreat|SFtheGreat]] ([[User talk:SFtheGreat|talk]]) 19:53, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
: Yes, it's the same probability as if you were to catch them in the wild (approximately 1/8192). [[User:ChiefbozX|ChiefbozX]] ([[User talk:ChiefbozX|talk]]) 20:44, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

== Kanto Starters for X and Y ==

"Soon afterwards, Professor Sycamore will give the player a choice between one of the classic Kanto starter Pokémon, whom, upon reaching their final stages, will have access to Mega Evolved forms, given the prequisite Mega Stone."

This is more speculation than factual. We do not meet Professor Sycamore until Lumoise City. This was stated in the preview clips when he was released as well as stated on the main web site. Lumoise City is after the first Gym so the player has a good bit of play time before they ever meet Professor Sycamore in Lumoise. We also have not been given any information as to whether or not the Kanto Starters are Post Game hand outs like all other Non-Regional Starters are like in Pokemon Emerald and forward. Should probably wait for more information before saying we get two starters in the game since this has the makings of being post-game hand outs like they always end up. [[User:XanderO|XanderO]] ([[User talk:XanderO|talk]]) 14:08, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
:While I do believe we should wait till we have more information on this, I thought we had more reason to believe that the Kanto starters weren't post-game hand outs. First of all, I don't believe they revealed post-game starters before during pre-release. And second, I believe in the Pokémon Direct, the man asked Masuda if there was going to be anything different about this game. Masuda then answered by talking about Sycamore giving out one of the Kanto starters. If it was post-game, that wouldn't be different from previous games at all. They even showed that picture with the three Kalos starters and the three Kanto starters. I think that the implication is that we're supposed to have 2 starters early on this time around. [[User:Pocketfanmk|Pocketfanmk]] ([[User talk:Pocketfanmk|talk]]) 17:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

::If you actually watched the Pokémon Direct, you would have heard that you get both starters near the beginning of the game. ☆[[User:Solar Dragon|The]] [[User talk:Solar Dragon|Solar]] [[Special:Contributions/Solar Dragon|Dragon]]☆ 17:44, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
::::''"In the past Pokémon games, the story began when the Pokémon Professor let you choose one of three Pokémon. However, in Pokémon X and Y your first partner Pokémon; Chespin, Fennekin, or Froakie; won't be given to you from the Professor but by your friend instead. Then you'll receive a different Pokémon from the Professor later on. What you get from the Professor is one of the partner Pokémon from the original Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue."'' 11:45 - 12:30
:::No where does it say you get both at the beginning of the game. Not to mention the Professor isn't even in the starting town. We can't say for sure when you'll officially meet the Professor in-game. Even if the city itself is post-first gym, he might not be there. [[Typhlosion (Pokémon)|★]][[User:Jo The Marten|Jo the Marten]][[Flygon (Pokémon)|★]] [[User_Talk:Jo The Marten|ಠ_ಠ]][[Cilan (anime)|♥]] 19:01, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

== XY? ==

Would you say the xy starters are not official starters because a professor doesn't give them to you? So they may not be deemed good enough for starter trainers? [[User:Prinben|Prinben]] ([[User talk:Prinben|talk]]) 13:17, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
:A starter Pokemon is a Pokemon a beginning Trainer starts their journey with. XY is clearly indicating that it doesn't matter where you get them from, as long as you start with it, it's a starter. [[User:Ataro|Ataro]] ([[User talk:Ataro|talk]]) 13:42, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

==Friend Safari==

Do the kanto starter first stage evos in the Friend Safari count as legitimately obtaining all three starter pokemon from a previous game? [[User:Yveltal0003|Yveltal0003]] ([[User talk:Yveltal0003|talk]]) 19:45, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

== Tierno and Trevor ==

Should their starters in XY be included? They don't pick from the three but they both only have two Pokemon when you first have a double battle with them and Serena. I think one of them's starter was Pikachu but I can't remember who. [[User:Nutter Butter|Nutter Butter]] ([[User talk:Nutter Butter|talk]]) 21:03, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
:I don't think we can confirm what their actual Starter Pokémon are or when they got them, seeming they could of switched them before you battle them. Unless its explicitly stated, I think we should just say that there could be other options for Starter Pokémon than those given, although that's just my opinion on the matter. --[[User:S2daam|--samm :D]] 21:19, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

== Turn sprites into artwork ==

Can anyone turn sprites into artwork because we're at Generation VI? Thank you! [[User:Cinday123|Cinday123]] ([[User talk:Cinday123|talk]]) 07:02, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

== Split ==

SnorlaxMonster suggested this {{DL|Talk:Starter Pokémon|Definition of starter Pokémon|in an above section}}, but nothing came of it, so I'm slapping on the split template so that hopefully, even if no consensus comes of discussion, it'll go to the staff on [http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/f195/candidates-merging-moving-mainspacing-splitting-discussion-thread-114138/ the forum thread]. I propose that the traditional Grass/Fire/Water trios comprise an article, and all other Pokémon that Trainers in various media start with comprise another. I suggest ''Starter Pokémon'' and ''First Pokémon'', respectively, but any number of other names are also possible. The main thing is that the Grass/Fire/Water trios differ significantly from starting Pokémon in side games, the anime, the manga, etc. The two sets need to be treated separately.

Whether to include the Pikachu and Eevee from Yellow is a bone of contention that I'd prefer not to overshadow this, but since it's relevant, I will give my opinion on it. Under no circumstances should Eevee be included, because it's the rival's, not the players. (Same conditions as Marill and Ralts.) Pikachu's more of a gray area, but it doesn't fill the same role statistically or in availability in any other game, so I feel it also doesn't belong with the Grass/Fire/Water trios despite being a starting Pokémon for the player in the main series.[[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 06:05, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:The only issue I have with this is that there is still the issue of Orre and Pokétopia, though it sounds like under the proposal it would be a First Pokémon over a Starter Pokémon. My two cents is that there is a bit of gray area currently, though they are called "the big three" for Japanese players. --[[User:Super goku|Super goku]] ([[User talk:Super goku|talk]]) 07:32, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::If a "starter Pokemon" is something you get to choose, then none of Orre, Poketopia, or Yellow will count. Your "first Pokemon" is just something you're saddled with, then. I don't have a big problem with that sort of definition. As things stand, though, Poketopia's inclusion seems pretty dumb, to me. I like Colo and XD counting, because those actually have stories (like the main games) besides connecting with main games; but it doesn't seem that PBR has a story. It just seems like a glorified Pokemon Stadium. I'm not a fan of it "counting", period, whether for "starters" (of whatever definition) or "firsts" (I think). [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 15:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::P.S.: Oh, one can argue, though, that with XD's Eevee, you get your "choice" when you choose who to evolve Eevee into. And that at least includes Water and Fire (and then some), if not Grass. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 15:49, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:::I feel as though "starter Pokémon" should refer only to the generation Grass-Fire-Water trios. I can accept Pikachu and Eevee under some interpretations, but I really don't think they count. "Starter Pokémon" is an official term, the problem is that it's difficult to find it actually defined (but I don't believe I've ever seen it used to describe Pikachu or Eevee); perhaps if somewhere the "Kanto starter Pokémon" is used to refer to Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, that could count as excluding Pikachu and Eevee from being starters. Regardless, I think the generational elemental trios clearly share commonalities that Eevee and Pikachu do not. I don't even know if "first Pokémon" deserves a page, but I certainly think that info does not belong here. (Also, thanks for reviving my suggestion. I have a bunch that I've put forward in many places that even I've forgotten about, so it's always nice to see someone else take interest.) --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 16:17, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::::While I feel like "Starter Pokémon" usually refers to the generation Grass-Fire-Water trios, I don't feel like special cases like Pikachu should be excluded/ignored (especially since Pokémon Yellow was a main series game). I don't agree with the rival's Pokémon being listed though, because they're never given to the player and thus technically not Starter Pokémon for us. It really depends how we're defining starter Pokémon, because if we're describing them as "First Pokémon, distributed or given without having to catch them, usually by a Professor" then Pikachu fits in that definition. Even if we decide to remove Pikachu and co. from the page, I'd at least like to see Pikachu listed somewhere. '''''[[User:Pokemaster97|--Pokemaster]][[User talk:Pokemaster97|97]]''''' 20:24, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

::I find splitting Starter Pokémon from First Pokémon redundant. Not only do they have similar meanings, your starters are your first Pokémon, which is why they are called starters in the first place. Pikachu was your starter in Yellow despite not being a Fire, Water, or Grass type Pokémon. I don't get why we'd need to split the official and unofficial starters. If this proposal succeeds, I would start a new proposal to merge them. I strongly oppose the split. [[User:SeanWheeler|SeanWheeler]] ([[User talk:SeanWheeler|talk]]) 18:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

:::I agree. A starter Pokémon is not defined by type. That's just stupid. A starter Pokémon is a Pokémon that you START with. That doesn't mean it has to be a grass/fire/water at all! And, that also means that the rival's Eevee, Marill, or Ralts all count as well. It is the Pokémon that they START with. It's a fact. Deal with it. [[User:Nutter Butter|Nutter Butter]] ([[User talk:Nutter Butter|talk]]) 16:50, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
::::Starter Pokémon are called such because they are are started with. It is never stated that other Pokémon aren't starters, because they technically are. ''Start''er Pokémon. EDIT: If they are split, I think that everything but what the player starts with in the main series should be on starter, everything else on first. [[User:Pikachu Bros.|Pikachu Bros.]] ([[User talk:Pikachu Bros.|talk]]) 18:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC), edit time 18:28, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::In official materials, "starter Pokémon" always seems to be used to refer to the Grass-Fire-Water trios. [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/chronicles-14-journey-to-the-starting-line/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/07_31-six-pack-attack/] [http://www.pokemonxy.com/en-gb/pokemon/starters/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/10_01-following-a-maidens-voyage/] [http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/pokemon-black-and-white-1/en-us/pokemon/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/16_12-new-placesfamiliar-faces/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/08_40-the-right-place-and-the-right-mime/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/super-smash-bros-brawl/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-emerald-version/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/black-white/explore-and-watch/] [http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/black-white/black-white-cards]. I get that people would like the term to also refer to any Pokémon that any character has as their first Pokémon, but that is simply unsupported. The Grass-Fire-Water trios are clearly a distinct group, and they need a specific name to refer to them; officially, this has always been "starter Pokémon", which has also excluded any other Pokémon a character may have as their first Pokémon. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 09:44, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

== Why is Marill on this page? ==

Why is Marill on the page? [[User:Yamitora1|Yamitora1]] ([[User talk:Yamitora1|talk]]) 23:57, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
:Because {{ga|Lyra}}/{{ga|Ethan}} has it. [[User:Pikachu Bros.|Pikachu Bros.]] ([[User talk:Pikachu Bros.|talk]]) 00:05, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
::Oh I see now, I miss read the entry.[[User:Yamitora1|Yamitora1]] ([[User talk:Yamitora1|talk]]) 00:19, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
:::Just because Ethan/Lyra has it does not make it a starter IMO. same with Wally's Ralts. we might need to re-discuss this -[[User:Pokeant|Pokeant]] ([[User talk:Pokeant|talk]]) 08:36, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

== Trivia (Could be added to a trivia point speaking of egg group) ==

................. and Treecko and Charmander are the only starter pokemon to belonging to part dragon egg group. {{unsigned|Tgage}}
:If two are in it, it's not unique and therefore not notable, even with the cool factors of dragons added to the equation. You could make a case for noting how Chimchar's the only one in Human-Like, but I think that may be the only one in a unique group. --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 13:59, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-27T13:31:04Z

Pie:

== Is there really much weaponry? ==

Are you sure it has appeared many times? I can't really remember anything except for the Safari Zone Warden's gun. --[[User:Pokeresp|Pokeresp]] 11:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
::Team Rocket has used weapons alot if nets and some of their machines count and missiles. Missiles have been used quite a bit like in the cinnabar gym.--[[User:David aipom|Davidaipom]] 11:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, if you include this, then it's OK. But machines usually count as [[Team Rocket's Mechas]]. --[[User:Pokeresp|Pokeresp]] 11:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
:::J uses weapons as well, the gold turning gun. [[User:TheAlmightyChris|TheAlmightyChris]] 12:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
::::Still, they're not that common... --[[User:ShadowLugiaEx|ShadowLugiaEx]] 00:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

== Is this article really needed? ==

Well, weaponry is NOT much common in Pokémon. And the article has only one example. I think this isn't very important... [[User:ShadowLugiaEx|ShadowLugiaEx]] 00:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
:I cited a few more examples. [[User:Weedle Mchairybug|Weedle Mchairybug]] 03:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

== Giovanni's Helicopter ==

Correct me if I am wrong but Giovanni's helo in Mewtwo Returns had a chin mounted energy cannon and I think in another instance it sported what appeared to be an autocannon.

User:Draconium

== Some Citations ==

'Team Rocket: Double Trouble' Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lw5ngzp-SE
*What's Not Listed Here: Use of Quadruple Rocket Launchers and Aerial Bombardment of a Festival from two separate Episodes.

EP055: Pokémon Paparazzi
*What's Not Listed Here: Ash mistakes the glare from Todd's Camera for a Sniper Rifle.
--[[User:Arima|Arima]] 02:26, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

== On naming the weapons==
On occasion a weapon based on a particular real-life can be recognized. I made an edit speciiying that Officer Jenny used an M1 Garand in an episode. There was already an edit specifying a weapon Meowth held (I just corrected whhat type of weapon it was). Is this okay with everyone? {{unsigned|Bulbajer}}

Actually, Officer Jenny used an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine M1 carbine], not a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Garand M1 Garand.] The M1 Garand was clip fed, and Jenny's rifle has a magazine on the bottom.--[[User:KonguChaos|KonguChaos]] ([[User talk:KonguChaos|talk]]) 02:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

== ...Weapons in the games and manga? ==

The article title is 'Weaponry in the Pokémon world', but it merely details weapons seen in the anime. Weapons in both the games (such as the whips) and manga have also been seen a few times, I think they deserve a mention, especially since this article's title does not specifically mention 'anime' in it, but world. [[User:Mudkipchan|Mudkipchan]] 02:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
:The article is clearly incomplete, then. Feel free to add information from the games, manga (and TCG, if relevant). —'''darklord[[User talk:The dark lord trombonator|trom]]''' 02:13, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

== Minor Changes ==
I made some minor changes including fixing a grammar mistake and adding a missing part the community overlooked. I'm happy to help![[User:Buddy999|Buddy999]] 06:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

== Gallery Expansion ==

If more pictures are provided, we should consider condensing all of them into a Gallery at the bottom of the page so that they don't clutter-up and displace the article's writing. --[[User:Arima|Arima]] 08:45, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

== Move to "Weaponry in the anime" ==

I don't think this page should be moved. While it currently only has information on the anime, it is just incomplete and ''should'' include information on weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, and books. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|'''Snorlax''']][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|'''Monster''']] 09:58, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
:I agree. Someone should add those sections. I'll remove the tag and add to the incomplete tag. [[User:Raykyogrou0|Raykyogrou0]] ''([[User talk:Raykyogrou0|Talk]])'' 10:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

== Pokémon RGBY: Whips? ==

So, for expanding the "In the games" section, can we count the whips used by Cooltrainers and the like? They may just be a training tool, a la lion taming, but apparently in beta there was ideas for having the trainers fight alongside the Pokémon (see [http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/early-concept-art/4/ Concept Art - A Battle Between Trainers]). Plus, well, even if they're being used as a tool, they can still technically be classed as weapons, correct? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 00:27, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
:Well given the concept art and the blurb from Sugimori on that page, I'd say that they probably can be classified as some form of weapon. And lest we forget (as the page you linked points out) that another class that used them was Rocket Grunts in Gen I... It seems fitting. [[User:Schiffy|Schiffy (瀬藤健二)]] ([[User talk:Schiffy|Talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|Contribs]]) 00:52, 4/24/2014 (UTC)
::All right, adding it in. --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 03:17, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

== Pokémon I debated adding to the chart, but didn't ==

Just in case anyone wants to make a case for them:
*Scyther. This one was a really tough call, particularly since the Japanese name doesn't reference scythes which throws in the question of whether this was an intentional design choice or not. But what I'm really more torn up about is that... well, scythes are actually garden tools, and it's only thanks to them getting repurposed in pop culture as weapons that we think of them as such. (You can make a scythe INTO a weapon, but it requires turning the blade 90 degrees, something which you don't really see in pop culture. See {{wp|war scythe}}.) It's a big complicated mess with the symbology of the Grim Reaper at the heart, and from what I've heard it's all for cool factor because a regular scythe is pretty awful as a weapon. I've ruled them as "not weapons" for now, but I'd love to hear other opinions on this one.
*Timburr, Gurdurr and Conkeldurr. While the "heavy bar" stuff they carry is certainly used as weapons, I ultimately decided that these can't really be classified as weapons themselves. It's more like an improvised weapon, you know? Like if there was a Pokémon who walked around smacking other Pokémon with folding chairs. If the Pokédex compared these to another weapon, like a quarterstaff, that would be a different story.
*Delphox. Similar story. It uses its "magic wand" only for combat, but honestly, it's hard to argue it as a weapon considering it's a fictional device and one with varying usage in said fiction. It's more like a tool, kind of like Alakazam's spoons or Hypno's pendant.
On a side note, I think it'd be interesting to have a simple article listing all Pokémon who carry tools, weapons and other objects separate from themselves (not counting [[held item]]s). Maybe breaking them into sections by usage? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 13:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-27T12:59:15Z

Pie: /* In the games */

[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
{{incomplete|needs=Sections for weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, books, etc.}}

== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.
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! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Game
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr FRLG Tamer.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

=== In Pokémon designs ===
[[Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] themselves are the primary reason weaponry is sparse in the Pokémon world: [[Pokémon battle]]s are the main method of fighting, and thus Pokémon themselves can be considered the weapons. In fact, [[Capsule Monsters|early design documents]] for the first Pokémon games mentions that they considered having trainers fight alongside their Pokémon, but this was removed because "If you can fight on your own, what’s the point of having Pokémon?" <ref>http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/early-concept-art/4/</ref>

However, many Pokémon use held tools, and a portion of these can be classified as weapons. Others are modeled after real-world weaponry.

=== Pokémon who use weapons ===

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Farfetch'd}}
|This Pokémon wields a {{wp|leek}} which its [[Pokédex]] entry states is used "like a {{wp|sword}}".
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:083Farfetch'd.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Cubone}} and {{p|Marowak}}
|These Pokémon wield [[wp:Club (weapon)|clubs]] made out of bones.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:105Marowak.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Oshawott}}, {{p|Dewott}} and {{p|Samurott}}
|These Pokémon wield [[scalchop and seamitar|scalchops and seamitars]], specialized blade weapons made out of shells.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:501Oshawott.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

=== Pokémon who are based on weapons ===

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Blastoise}}
|Blastoise's design contains aspects of a {{wp|tank}}, most significantly the cannons which emerge from [[wp:Gun turret|turrets]] on its shell. These aspects become more defined when Blastoise [[Mega Evolution|Mega Evolves]].
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:009Blastoise-Mega.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Remoraid}} and {{p|Octillery}}
|Remoraid's design is based off a {{wp|revolver}}, while its evolution Octillery is based off a {{wp|cannon}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:223Remoraid.png|75px]][[File:224Octillery.png|75px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Axew}}, {{p|Fraxure}} and {{p|Haxorus}}
|These Pokémon have protruding fangs based off {{wp|axe}}s.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:612Haxorus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Honedge}}, {{p|Doublade}} and {{p|Aegislash}}
|These Pokémon are {{wp|sword}}s which have been possessed by ghosts.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:681Aegislash.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

==References==
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[[Category:Pokémon world]]
[[Category:Equipment]]

[[it:Armi nel mondo Pokémon]]

Talk:History of Pokémon

2014-04-26T15:50:27Z

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I'm glad "Capsule Monsters" didn't stay. If it did stay, they would've been called "Capsümon" or something in America. I don't think "Capsümon" would have the same appeal.--[[User:Pokencyclopedia|Pokencyclopedia]] 17:47, 1 September 2005 (CDT)
:Not necessarily, since there wouldn't be any risk of copyright infringment like there was with the ''Monster in My Pocket'' franchise.[[User:Woopert|Woopert]] 21:08, 9 September 2005 (CDT)

==The 1975 manga==
Both this article and a [http://www.pokecharms.com/games/gameboy/rbg/ page on PokéCharms] have information on a manga released in 1975 called ''Capsule Monsters'' which, according to these pages, was the precursor to what eventually became [[Pokémon Red and Green]]. Lately I've been curious about the source of this information, doing several Google searches and even looking through a [http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4872338332/249-7263989-0526765 book about Satoshi Tajiri] that I recently ordered from Amazon.co.jp, but so far I haven't found anything.

Now, it's likely that I haven't looked hard enough, but the skeptic in me has doubts about the existence of this manga. Anyone care to direct me to a source so I can set aside these doubts? [[User:Woopert|Woopert]] 21:08, 9 September 2005 (CDT)

I can find references to Capsule Monsters being the prototype name for Pocket Monsters on Japanese webpages, but nothing specific regarding any manga. --[[User:Argy|Argy]] 23:12, 9 September 2005 (CDT)

The implication given in this article is that Tajiri and friends made Capsule Monsters in 1975 - at the age of 10, 9 for Sugimori, and that Game Freak and Creatures existed before then. This is highly improbable. [[User:Punkrockrevel|Punkrockrevel]] 09:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I believe I can finally clarify this. I've traced this rumor back to a single magazine: the "100% Unofficial Pokémon Trainer's Guide" published by Hard Core Gaming Guides. In it, there is a timeline of Pokémon that claims that they debuted in a manga in the 1970s. The picture of said manga? A close-up of ''Doraemon''! Clearly, whoever was during research for this magazine just assumed that one "mon" was as good as another. I hope this finally puts this rumor to rest. --[[User:Zeta|Zeta]] ([[User talk:Zeta|talk]]) 23:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
----
I think this page needs more. It's very game-centric, barely mentioning the anime and manga and the other parts of the franchise that made it a worldwide phenomenon. It also editorializes. Who's to say that D/P makes a "wonderful addition" to the franchise? Just a thought. --[[User:Greengiant|Greengiant]] 18:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
:Agreed on both points. --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 18:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

== Capsule Monsters ==

I think the idea of Capsule Monsters comes from Ultramen series. Capsule Monsters was first appeared in Ultra Seven (October 1, 1967 – September 8, 1968). Quote from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Seven ):
"Capsule monsters: When unable to fight (usually because his Ultra Eye has been stolen), Dan will often produce a small capsule that releases a giant-sized monster to fight in his place. Although he is shown to have four or five capsules, only three capsule monsters are shown in the series, Windam, Micras, and Agira."
Also, Satoshi Tajiri in his interview ( http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/99/1122/pokemon6.fullinterview1.html ) waw said:
"Everything I did as a kid is kind of rolled into one--that's what Pokémon is. Playing video games, watching TV, Ultraman with his capsule monsters--they all became ingredients for the game."
And also:
"I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga."

== Advertisement ==

Could we maybe redo this article so it's less...blatant? Most of it, the Diamond and Pearl section ''especially,'' sounds like a Nintendo PR wrote it.--[[User:Urutapu|Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？]] ([[User talk:Urutapu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Urutapu|contribs]]) 01:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

== Done ==

Well, I gave this article a much-needed makeover and made it as wide as possible, coverig all (if that's even possible) areas of Pokémon. It is now almost three times its original size and I think I'm done, but I still think something's missing. My manga and TCG knowledge is limited, and there are other things I might've forgot. --[[User:ElectAbuzzzz|electAbuzzzz]] ([[User talk:ElectAbuzzzz|TALK]]) 08:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

== manga's english resurgence ==

I was thinking, maybe there should be something about how lately many of the manga series are now appearing in english. Over the last year whenever i'd browse the manga section at my local bookstore, i've been seeing more and more Pokemon manga each time: The Mystery Dungeons mangas, Movie adaptions, DP Adventures, and now the new re-releases of Pokemon Adventures.

Maybe the article should say something like "though initially not many of the mangas were released in the U.S., and those that were didn't sell well, lately a lot of mangas are now being released in the US for the first time, as well as re-releases of the ones that were previously released here."

I'm sure someone else can come up with something better sounding that fits the tone of the article, but hopefully yo get what i mean, though. [[User:Morgil27|Morgil27]] 22:02, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

== Pokémon who debuted before their generation ==

Is it possible that we could make a page like this? Listing the Pokémon that made their debut before their respective generation officially debuted? --[[User:Landfish7|'''Land''']][[User talk:Landfish7|'''fish7''']]''' 00:36, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

== Rewrite future sections. ==

I rewrote the section on the future of Pokémon. Is it good enough to takeaway the template for not good enough? [[User:Sandshrew-san|Sandshrew-san]] ([[User talk:Sandshrew-san|talk]]) 06:34, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

== Idea for a branch article: Timeline of notable dates? ==

I think we can agree that this article stands as a good, useful documentation of the history of the franchise. However, it occurs to me that there's another potential use for this article that's being limited by all the text: Looking up and comparing important dates, such as when the different games or anime series launched, or even some important fandom dates if consensus deems them notable. Perhaps another article could be started that's a barebones duplicate of this one, stripped down to just the dates and formatted as a running timeline? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 15:50, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Geosenge Town

2014-04-26T14:55:24Z

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Name is based on Ginseng? In what way? Geosenge really just seems to be based on Geo and Stonehenge.

[[User:Erikhogue|Erikhogue]] ([[User talk:Erikhogue|talk]]) 12:03, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

:Same way Siebold is derived from ''sea'', mayhap? --[[User talk:Relicant|The]] [[Special:Contributions/Relicant|Truth]] aka Relicant 12:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
::Relicant, that point has nothing to do with this article. Don't bring it up here. ☆[[User:Solar Dragon|The]] [[User talk:Solar Dragon|Solar]] [[Special:Contributions/Solar Dragon|Dragon]]☆ 12:36, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
:::My point was... Ginseng is pronounced+spelt similar to Geosenge, similar to how sea is pronounced and spelt similar to the "sie" in Siebold. Stop throwing that stupid accusation around. --[[User talk:Relicant|The]] [[Special:Contributions/Relicant|Truth]] aka Relicant 12:41, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
::::You should already know that just being pronounced/spelt similarly ''is not'' enough; Siebold has "sea" as a name origin because he's a Water-type specialist. However, since Kalos cities and towns seem to have a plant theme (how original...), I think we can keep "ginseng".--'''[[User:Dennou Zenshi|電禅]][[User talk:Dennou Zenshi|Den Zen]]''' 12:56, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
:::::It seems to be more specific than that. All of the plants used in the names can also be used as ingredients in fragrances. --[[User:神奇超龍|'''超龍''']]「'''[[User talk:神奇超龍|Chao]]'''」 13:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

== Separate article for the ultimate weapon? ==

I was just about to start one, since this is the closest it has to an article, and its role in the plot and the history of Kalos is enough to warrant one. Additionally, more information can be added while stripping this article of spoilers. But the main reason I ask is... well, since it's never referred to by its proper name, the article's title would have no capitals, which looks a bit silly. Which is a strange reason to consider keeping it as a subsection inside this article, I realize... --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 23:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
:I agree that it seems notable enough to get its own article, and not having a capitalized name is no reason to avoid making an article. (I'm specifically recalling the capitalization discussions on [[Talk:Berry fields]], although they're not totally relevant here...) [[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 04:09, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
::Mm, the fields discussion is sorta relevant, but not completely -- a group of fields don't necessarily need a proper noun as a name, whereas a one-of-a-kind ultimate weapon should, but canon still trumps all. Maybe if it's titled "Ultimate weapon" rather than "The ultimate weapon", it'll look less... strange? Even though I believe it always has that article in front in the games. --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 06:24, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
:::"The" is not normally used as the beginning of an article title (both here and in general encyclopedias) unless it's part of the title of a book, play, song, etc. For example, our article is [[Pokémon League]] even though it's only ever referred to as "the Pokémon League." Just {{redlink|Ultimate weapon}} would be the most sensible title by encyclopedic norms. [[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 06:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
::::I've already talked to the other admins about it. Yes, it's notable enough for an article. Eh, I've been doing a write up of an article, but school has kept me from really finishing it. I just finished my semester, so I can finish it up, but if you want to...I guess go ahead? [[User:Ataro|Ataro]] ([[User talk:Ataro|talk]]) 08:02, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
:::::Forgive me if this sounds critical of me, but... returning to Bulbapedia after all these years, I'm a tad perplexed about the degree that I see people taking the sandbox technique to developing articles. This isn't to say that sandboxes don't have their purpose, such as articles that are of more questionable notability or have been fought due to quality issues, or require a good deal of research before you can even call them a stub. But it also does have its downsides -- for example, when I realized that "signature Pokémon" is a very commonly used phrase on this wiki, my first reaction was "well why has no one made an article for this", and it was only because I read the deleted edits log that I learned the story -- someone had tried starting the article, it was dropped due to questionable notability and the general lack of quality, it was moved to a userspace for development and then abandoned because only the one person was working on it. I realize there's a need to keep the bar high on this wiki, but one of the biggest advantages to having a wiki at all is crowdsourcing. If there's no question about the notability, you just need more time to develop a full article... well, isn't that what the stub system is supposed to be used for? Why not put what you have up as a stub, and let myself and others finish it for you? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 14:55, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Geosenge Town

2014-04-26T06:24:40Z

Pie: /* Separate article for the ultimate weapon? */

Talk:Geosenge Town

2014-04-25T23:43:24Z

Pie: /* Separate article for the ultimate weapon? */ new section

Weaponry

2014-04-25T23:38:42Z

Pie: Redirected page to Weaponry in the Pokémon world

#REDIRECT [[Weaponry in the Pokémon world]]

Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-25T09:42:08Z

Pie: /* In Pokémon designs */

[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
{{incomplete|needs=Sections for weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, books, etc.}}

== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.
{{-}}
{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr FRLG Tamer.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

=== In Pokémon designs ===
[[Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] themselves are the primary reason weaponry is sparse in the Pokémon world: [[Pokémon battle]]s are the main method of fighting, and thus Pokémon themselves can be considered the weapons. In fact, [[Capsule Monsters|early design documents]] for the first Pokémon games mentions that they considered having trainers fight alongside their Pokémon, but this was removed because "If you can fight on your own, what’s the point of having Pokémon?" <ref>http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/early-concept-art/4/</ref>

However, some Pokémon themselves use held weapons rather than their claws or fists. Others are modeled after real-world weaponry.

=== Pokémon who use weapons ===

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! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Farfetch'd}}
|This Pokémon wields a {{wp|leek}} which its [[Pokédex]] entry states is used "like a {{wp|sword}}".
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 083.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Cubone}} and {{p|Marowak}}
|These Pokémon wield [[wp:Club (weapon)|clubs]] made out of bones.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 104.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 105.png]]
|}{{-}}

=== Pokémon who are based on weapons ===

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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Remoraid}} and {{p|Octillery}}
|Remoraid's design is based off a {{wp|revolver}}, while its evolution Octillery is based off a {{wp|cannon}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 223.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 224 m.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Honedge}}, {{p|Doublade}} and {{p|Aegislash}}
|These Pokémon are {{wp|sword}}s which have been possessed by ghosts.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:681Aegislash.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

==References==
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== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.
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{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr FRLG Tamer.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

=== In Pokémon designs ===
[[Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] themselves are the primary reason weaponry is sparse in the Pokémon world: [[Pokémon battle]]s are the main method of fighting, and thus Pokémon themselves can be considered the weapons. In fact, the [[Capsule Monsters|design documents]] for the first Pokémon games mentions that they considered having trainers fight alongside their Pokémon, but this was removed because "If you can fight on your own, what’s the point of having Pokémon?" <ref>http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/early-concept-art/4/</ref>

However, some Pokémon themselves use held weapons rather than their claws or fists. Others are modeled after real-world weaponry.

=== Pokémon who use weapons ===

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|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Farfetch'd}}
|This Pokémon wields a {{wp|leek}} which its [[Pokédex]] entry states is used "like a {{wp|sword}}".
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 083.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Cubone}} and {{p|Marowak}}
|These Pokémon wield [[wp:Club (weapon)|clubs]] made out of bones.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 104.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 105.png]]
|}{{-}}

=== Pokémon who are based on weapons ===

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|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Remoraid}} and {{p|Octillery}}
|Remoraid's design is based off a {{wp|revolver}}, while its evolution Octillery is based off a {{wp|cannon}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 223.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 224 m.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Honedge}}, {{p|Doublade}} and {{p|Aegislash}}
|These Pokémon are {{wp|sword}}s which have been possessed by ghosts.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:681Aegislash.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

==References==
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[[it:Armi nel mondo Pokémon]]

Weaponry in the Pokémon world

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Pie: Section should probably not be a subsection of games, but I'll wait until after the article intro is tidied up to move it out.

[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
{{incomplete|needs=Sections for weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, books, etc.}}

== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.
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{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr FRLG Tamer.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

=== In Pokémon designs ===
[[Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] themselves are the primary reason weaponry is sparse in the Pokémon world: [[Pokémon battle]]s are the main method of fighting, and thus Pokémon themselves can be considered the weapons. In fact, the design documents for the first Pokémon games mentions that they considered having trainers fight alongside their Pokémon, but this was removed because "If you can fight on your own, what’s the point of having Pokémon?" <ref>http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/early-concept-art/4/</ref>

However, some Pokémon themselves use held weapons rather than their claws or fists. Others are modeled after real-world weaponry.

=== Pokémon who use weapons ===

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|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Farfetch'd}}
|This Pokémon wields a {{wp|leek}} which its [[Pokédex]] entry states is used "like a {{wp|sword}}".
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 083.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Cubone}} and {{p|Marowak}}
|These Pokémon wield [[wp:Club (weapon)|clubs]] made out of bones.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 104.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 105.png]]
|}{{-}}

=== Pokémon who are based on weapons ===

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|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Pokémon
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Remoraid}} and {{p|Octillery}}
|Remoraid's design is based off a {{wp|revolver}}, while its evolution Octillery is based off a {{wp|cannon}}.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr 5b 223.png]] [[File:Spr 5b 224 m.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{p|Honedge}}, {{p|Doublade}} and {{p|Aegislash}}
|These Pokémon are {{wp|sword}}s which have been possessed by ghosts.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:681Aegislash.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

==References==
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== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr FRLG Tamer.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
| align="center" {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

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[[Category:Pokémon world]]
[[Category:Equipment]]

[[it:Armi nel mondo Pokémon]]

Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-25T03:47:39Z

Pie: /* In the games */

[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
{{incomplete|needs=Sections for weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, books, etc.}}

== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
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During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
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The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{5v2|Red|Blue|Yellow|FireRed|LeafGreen}}
|In [[Generation I]], numerous {{pkmn|trainer}}s are armed with whips, including [[Ace Trainer (Trainer class)|Cooltrainers]], {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s, {{tc|Rocker}}s, {{tc|Tamer}}s, and [[Gym Leader]] [[Sabrina]]. For the [[Generation III]] remakes, most lost these whips, but Tamers did retain them.
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| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|[[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], [[Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions|Diamond, Pearl]], [[Pokémon Platinum Version|Platinum]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions|Black, White]], [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Black 2 and White 2]] Versions
|The {{tc|Policeman}} trainer class are armed with batons.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|{{2v2|X|Y}}
|While there is no real world analogue for the ultimate weapon, in terms of purpose and destructive capabilities it can be classified as a fictional {{wp|weapon of mass destruction}}.
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Photo Spot Geosenge Town Weapon.png|150px]]
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Talk:Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-25T03:17:48Z

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Shin-ichiro Miki

2014-04-24T15:44:37Z

Pie: /* Famous non-Pokémon roles */ Not in its chronological spot because I'm not sure how much of the list is.

[[File:Shinichiro Miki.jpg‎|175px|thumb|Shinichirō Miki]]
'''Shin'ichirō Miki''' (Japanese: '''三木眞一郎''' ''Miki Shin'ichirō'') is a voice actor who provides the voices of many characters in the Japanese version of the [[Pokémon anime]]. His most famous role in the series is that of [[James|Kojirō]] (James).

Shin'ichirō Miki was born on March 18, 1968, in Tokyo, Japan.

==Pokémon roles==
James is just one of the many voices Miki has provided on Pokémon, but it is his major role in the series. Miki tends to be typecast as young, handsome men, and this is certainly the case when it comes to James.

===Humans===
====Major====
* [[James]]

====Minor====
* [[Dino]]
* {{ka|Victor}} (young adult)
* {{ka|Melissa}}{{tt|*|Male in Japanese version}}
* Sasuke ([[EP176]])
* Various guest characters

===Pokémon===
====Major====
* {{AP|Ash's Charmander, Charmeleon and Charizard|Charizard}}
* [[Ash's Torkoal]]
* {{AP|Ash's Turtwig, Grotle and Torterra|Torterra}}
* [[Ash's Froakie]]
* [[Misty's Staryu]]
* {{TP|Misty|Misty's Poliwag, Poliwhirl and Politoed|Politoed}}
* [[Brock's Geodude]]
* {{TP|Brock|Brock's Zubat, Golbat and Crobat|Crobat}}
* {{TP|Cilan|Cilan's Dwebble and Crustle|Crustle}}
* [[Barry's Staraptor]]
* [[Paul's Honchkrow]]
* {{DL|Drew|Flygon|Drew's Flygon}}
* [[Saturn's Toxicroak]]
* [[Trip's Snivy]]

====Minor====
* {{DL|List of Pokémon temporarily owned by the Team Rocket trio|Shellder|Jessie's Shellder}}
* {{DL|List of Pokémon temporarily owned by the Team Rocket trio|Gyarados|James's Magikarp}}
* {{DL|List of Pokémon temporarily owned by the Team Rocket trio|Charizard|Jessie's Charizard}}
* [[Squirtle Squad]]
* [[Norman]]'s {{p|Slakoth}} ([[AG069]], [[AG070]])
* [[Brawly's Makuhita]]
* [[Flannery]]'s {{p|Slugma|Mag}} ([[AG055]])
* [[Juan]]'s {{p|Sealeo}}
* [[Juan]]'s {{p|Whiscash}}
* [[Roark]]'s {{p|Geodude}}
* [[Morrison]]'s {{p|Growlithe}}
* [[Trip]]'s {{p|Lampent}}
* [[Luke]]'s {{p|Larvesta}}
* {{ka|Emily}}'s {{p|Machoke}}
* [[Otoshi]]'s {{p|Marowak}}
* [[Brianna]]'s {{p|Vibrava}}
* {{p|Scizor}} ([[Muramasa|Masamune]])
* [[Howie]]'s {{p|Pinsir}}
* [[Colonel Hansen]]'s {{p|Ninjask}}
* {{DL|Doctor Ferrara|Vanillish|Doctor Ferrara's Vanillish}}
* {{DL|Soren and Rocko|Corphish|Rocko's Corphish}}
* {{p|Carvanha}}
* {{p|Treecko}}
* {{p|Ninetales}}
* {{p|Marowak}}
* {{p|Beedrill}}
* {{p|Ivysaur}}
* {{p|Dewgong}}
* {{p|Squirtle}}
* {{p|Wobbuffet}}
* {{p|Dugtrio}}
* {{p|Exeggcute}}
* {{p|Aron}}
* {{p|Numel}}
* {{p|Seel}}
* {{p|Noctowl}}
* {{p|Voltorb}}
* {{p|Aerodactyl}}
* {{p|Flygon}}
* {{p|Quilava}}
* {{p|Charizard}}
* {{p|Blaziken}}
* {{p|Machop}}
* {{p|Wobbuffet}}
* {{p|Croagunk}}
* {{p|Quagsire}}
* {{p|Lickilicky}}
* {{p|Beheeyem}}

===Other===
* [[Pokédex]] ([[Kanto]] and {{Gdis|Battle Frontier|III}})

===Video games===
* {{DL|Pokémon Trainer (Super Smash Bros.)|Charizard}} ([[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]])

==Famous non-Pokémon roles==
* Sieg (''{{wp|Kamen Rider Den-O|Kamen Rider Den-O}}'')
* Kisuke Urahara (''{{wp|Bleach (manga)|Bleach}}'')
* Aries Shion (''{{wp|Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas}}'')
* Yōji Kudō (''{{wp|Weiss Kreuz}}'')
* Crim (''{{wp|.hack//SIGN}}'')
* Lockon Stratos (''{{wp|Mobile Suit Gundam 00}}'')
* Allen Shezar (''{{wp|Vision of Escaflowne}}'')
* Kurz Weber (''{{wp|Fullmetal Panic}}'')
* Takumi Fujiwara (''{{wp|Initial D}}'')
* Shannon (''{{wp|Scrapped Princess}}'')
* Asato Tsuzuki (''{{wp|Descendants of Darkness}}'')
* Takuya Isurugi (''{{wp|801 TSS Airbats}}'')
* Katan (''{{wp|Angel Sanctuary}}'')
* Makoto Shinjō (''{{wp|Area 88}}'')
* Yoichi Taba (''{{wp|Geobreeders}}'')
* James McCloud (''{{wp|F-Zero: GP Legend}}'')
* Roy Mustang (''{{wp|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood}}'')
* {{wp|Aladdin (character)|Aladdin}} in Disney's ''{{wp|Aladdin (film)|Aladdin}}'' series
* Ryosuke Katashiro/Chairman (''{{wp|Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto}}'')
* Rinroku Kaishou (''{{wp|UN-GO}}'')
* Gyro Zeppeli (''{{wp|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle}}'')
* Aikurō Mikisugi (''{{wp|Kill la Kill}}'')
* Sakamoto Tatsuma (''{{wp|Gintama}}'')

==Solo albums==
* Yūkyū Gensōkyoku 3 - I'm Over Drive (2000)

==Musical appearances in Pokémon==
* ''[[Lucky Lucky]]'' (ラッキーラッキー)
* ''[[Team Rocket Forever]]'' (ロケット団よ永遠)
* ''[[Meowth's Party]]'' (ニャースのパーティ)
* ''[[Face Forward Team Rocket!]]'' (前向きロケット団！)

==Trivia==
* Shin'ichirō Miki provides the Pokédex voice on the soundtrack album [[Game Boy: Entire Pokémon Sounds Collection CD‎]].

==External links==
* [http://www.miki-ha.com Miki-Ha] (Official webpage)

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Team Rocket motto

2014-04-24T01:58:24Z

Pie: Format change for individual variant headers, in order to clean up the mile-long T.O.C.. We do not need to give every motto variation its own private luxury subsection.

{{incomplete|needs=More variations of the original motto in Best Wishes series; Japanese lyrics and their translations for Butch and Cassidy's mottos}}
[[File:Team Rocket motto.png|thumb|300px|right|At the end of a motto]]
The '''Team Rocket motto''' (Japanese: '''ロケット{{tt|団|だん}}の{{tt|名乗|なの}}り''' ''Rocket Gang's self-introduction'') is a motto that [[Team Rocket]] members often recite and/or live by.

==In the anime==
[[Jessie]], [[James]], and {{MTR}} have several mottos, saying one of them in nearly every episode when they reveal themselves to {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}}. Early on, they had an irresistible urge to say it whenever hearing the word "trouble", but this seemingly has been left to the past. This motto would usually be said by all members of the trio, but when one of them is not present, another member takes their line.

===Original motto===
{| align="left" style="background: #{{kanto color light}}; {{roundy}}: 10px; border: 3px solid #{{kanto color}}"
|- align=center
! style="{{roundyleft}}: 5px;" | Japanese
! style="{{roundy}}: 5px;" | Translation
! style="{{roundyright}}: 5px;" | English
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|なんだかんだと聞かれたら|Nanda kanda to kikaretara}} || '''''Musashi:''' If you ask us something or other...'' || '''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|答えてあげるのが世の情け|Kotaete ageru no ga yo no nasake}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The answer we give will be the compassion of the world!'' || '''James:''' Make it double!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|世界の破壊を防ぐため|Sekai no hakai wo fusegu tame}} || '''''Musashi:''' To prevent the destruction of the world!'' || '''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|世界の平和を守るため|Sekai no heiwa wo mamoru tame}} || '''''Kojirō:''' To protect the peace of the world!'' || '''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|愛と真実の悪をつらぬく|Ai to shinjitsu no aku wo tsuranuku}} || '''''Musashi:''' To carry out the evils of truth and love!'' || '''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|ラブリー・チャーミーな敵役|Raburī chāmī na katakiyaku}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The lovely, charmy villains!'' || '''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|ムサシ|Musashi}} || '''''Musashi:''' Musashi!'' || '''Jessie:''' Jessie!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|コジロウ|Kojirō}} || '''''Kojirō:''' Kojirō!'' || '''James:''' James!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|銀河をかけるロケット団の二人には……|Ginga wo kakeru Roketto-dan no futari ni wa......}} || '''''Musashi:''' The pair from Team Rocket soars through the galaxy!'' || '''Jessie:''' Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|ホワイトホール、白い明日が待ってるぜ|Howaito hōru, shiroi ashita ga matteru ze}} || '''''Kojirō:''' A white hole, a white tomorrow awaits us!'' || '''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|にゃんてにゃ|Nyante nya}} || '''''Nyarth:''' Something like that!'' || '''Meowth:''' Meowth! That's right!
|}{{-}}

Since [[EP002|the episode Team Rocket was introduced in]], the duo has been rhyming "prepare for trouble" and "make it double" phrases. An example from ''[[AG048|ZigZag Zangoose!]]'', in which Jessie was training {{TP|Jessie|Seviper}} and Meowth filled in for her, is:
:'''Meowth:''' Prepare for trouble, here in the wood...
:'''James:''' ... and make it double, like you know that you should!

Also, in almost all episodes after the Orange League, they tend to alter the first two sentences to match the current situation.

Also, the lines "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" and "To extend our reach to the stars above!" were often said by both [[Jessie]] and [[James]] in the [[Pokémon: Indigo League|first season]].

There were many occasions in which they would use a radio or something else to play the background music. Also, in many later episodes, James said "fight, fight, fight" at the end of his last line. {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} also began saying its name at the end of the motto in ''[[EP149|Tunnel Vision]]'', and has done so in most episodes since.

This version of the motto was used in commercials for {{game|FireRed and LeafGreen|s}} with each line being said by different children, omitting the parts at which Jessie, James and Meowth say their own names and the line "Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light."

Team Rocket returned to this motto in ''[[DP092|A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine]]'', as a return to their "hip and cool" ways, done by only Jessie, James, and Meowth, without the usual ending additions of Wobbuffet and Mime Jr.

From ''[[BW109|New Places... Familiar Faces!]]'' onwards, Team Rocket started using this motto again, after having failed in their [[BW096|latest]] [[BW097|operation]] and making a brief retreat back to [[Kanto]]. Some slight changes in the dubbed version are that, the first lines are recited in most cases as "Prepare for trouble, ''you know the drill''", "And make it double, ''you'll get your fill''", and James now says "To unite ''the people'' within our nation", instead of "To unite ''all peoples'' within our nation".

====Variations in the [[original series]]====
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;''[[EP015|Battle Aboard the St. Anne]]'' motto
In this episode James was depressed while saying his lines of the motto due to the fact that he was conned by the [[Magikarp Salesman]].

;''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]'' motto
As James was under the trance of {{p|Gastly}} he was not present with Jessie and Meowth when they encountered the twerps, and Jessie was left to say most of the motto herself. However, James later reacted to hearing the motto, and made his whereabouts known by saying his last three lines.

;''[[EP028|Pokémon Fashion Flash]]'' motto
In this episode Team Rocket opens "Salon Roquet" and for this reason introduces itself with a special motto.

:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from boring fashion!
:'''James:''' To dress all people with flash and passion!
:'''Jessie:''' To give all Pokémon pretty faces!
:'''James:''' To extend our art to outer spaces!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Salon Roquet! When it comes to chic we know what's right!
:'''James:''' Surrender your taste or prepare to fight!

;''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'' motto
In this episode, Team Rocket has followed Ash and his friends to Professor Oak's Laboratory. When they start singing their motto, Meowth is constantly trying to get a phrase for himself.

:'''Meowth:''' May I invite you to prepare...
:'''Jessie and James:''' For trouble!
:'''Meowth:''' Yeah! And while you're at it, you're better make it a triple!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth...!
:'''Jessie (''thrashes Meowth to the ground''):''' You stay out of this, Meowth!
:'''James (''thrashes Meowth''):''' Stop stealing our material!
:'''Meowth:''' All right, all right!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight for that {{AP|Pikachu}}!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[EP077|Fourth Round Rumble]]'' motto
In this episode, Team Rocket starts to sell fake Badges to Trainers in the Indigo Plateau. Near the end of the episode, they realize that they are much more successful selling stuff than when they are stealing stuff. At some point, Meowth says that they will eventually open a fast-food restaurant. This is the following dialogue:

:'''Jessie:''' That's not a bad idea. We can call it "Jessie's"
:'''James:''' "James's"
:'''Jessie:''' Want a burger and fries without trouble?
:'''James:''' If you are really hungry make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from hunger and thirst.
:'''James:''' Our food isn't bad, at least not the worst.
:'''Jessie:''' The Team Rocket Restaurant blasting for a bite
:'''Jessie and James:''' We stay open all day, we stay open all night!

This variation is a heavy variation of the usual motto and sounds like a restaurant motto.

;''[[EP096|Meowth Rules!]]'' motto
In this episode Meowth, being hit by {{AP|Squirtle}}'s {{m|Water Gun}}, flies up and falls on an island where a strange tribe that worships Meowth lives. Almost in the end of the episode when Meowth feels lonely and says he misses [[Jessie]] and [[James]], they both appear and recite a special version of their motto for Meowth. At the same time, the tribal priest and high priest beg Meowth to stay with the tribe.

:'''The priest:''' Great One, our people need you here!
:'''Jessie:''' I'm the one who needs you too!
:'''James:''' Make it double, we both need you!
:'''Jessie:''' You protect us both from desperation!
:'''James:''' You unite us all in jubilation!
:'''Jessie:''' You help chase away our loneliness!
:'''James:''' You're a mess, but we love you nevertheless!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket's friendship never ends!
:'''James:''' So let's set sail on our ship of friends!

;''[[EP097|Tracey Gets Bugged]]'' motto
Since Jessie gets her hair cut short by a wild {{p|Scyther}} in this episode, [[Team Rocket]] recites a special motto.

:'''Jessie:''' You insult my hair? Prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' It used to be there but now it's stubble!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect my head from humiliation!
:'''James:''' Too bad her hair went on vacation!
:'''Jessie:''' My gorgeous hair was my one true love!
:'''James:''' They went together like a hand and glove!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Now my hair is short but it won't be for long!
:'''James:''' And it won't stop our Jessie from doing what's wrong!
:'''Meowth:''' Hairy!

;''[[EP098|A Way Off Day Off]]'' motto
Team Rocket comes down from a cliff along a zip-line, but just when they are about to recite their names, Jessie and James crash into a tree and become a bit dizzy.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' Make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie (''crashes into a tree mid-word''):''' Jes-!
:'''James (''also crashes into the tree mid-word''):''' Ja-!
:'''Jessie (''dizzy''):''' Team Blocket... rest off at the lead of spite... tonight...
:'''James (''dizzy''):''' Surrender now or prepare... to surrender now... surrender now...
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth! Say the motto right!
''Meowth scratches both Jessie and James to their faces''
:'''Meowth:''' We didn't mean to wake 'em all, but now we're gonna take 'em all!
:'''Jessie & James:''' Well said, Meowth!

;''[[EP118|The Double Trouble Header]]'' motto
Pretending to be baseball fans, Team Rocket recites the following motto upon stealing [[Ash's Pikachu]] and [[Casey's Meganium|Casey's Chikorita]] (both were later freed).

:'''Jessie:''' Attention, [[twerp]]s, it's prepare-for-trouble day!
:'''James:''' But you're both out, what makes it a double play!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect our team from devastation!
:'''James:''' To excite our side with a big ovation!
:'''Jessie:''' To strike out the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach with a baseball glove!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket throws their fastballs at the speed of light!
''James catches a ball thrown by Jessie''
:'''Meowth:''' Strike Three!
''Jessie and James throw themselves into each other's arms''
:'''James:''' We won, Jessie!
:'''Jessie:''' James!
:'''James:''' Jessie!
:'''Meowth (''with tears in his face''):''' That's... right!

;''[[EP123|Spinarak Attack]]'' motto
In this episode Jessie and James try to imitate The Black Arachnid, a well-known burglar. Upon breaking into a rich mansion and seizing a valuable trophy, they introduce themselves to the stunned witnesses with the following motto.

:'''Ash:''' How did they get in?!
:'''Jessie:''' Check your eyes and prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' We've got the prize, so make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from its own greed!
:'''James:''' To steal all the treasure that they don't need!
:'''Jessie:''' To work every heist like there are none other!
:'''James:''' And split the spoils with one another!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Thieves return under cover of night!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth! That's right!

;''[[EP126|The Chikorita Rescue]]'' motto
After quickly taking [[Ash's Bayleef|Chikorita]] off the Pokémon Center dressed as doctors, Nurse Joy ask where they are from. They respond with a variation of their motto:

:'''Jessie:''' We are from the team that causes trouble
:'''James:''' I hope you're insured 'cause we make it double.
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Doctor Jessie!
:'''James:''' Doctor James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket doctors, blast off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now, because we're not making anymore house calls.
:'''Meowth:''' You got that right!

;''[[EP144|Gettin' The Bugs Out]]'' motto
In this episode, {{Ash}} challenges [[Bugsy]] of the [[Azalea Gym]]. During the battle, Team Rocket tries to dig a hole underneath Pikachu. While they are excavating, they start dreaming about the bonus that they will receive from their boss. During the beginning of the motto, they recite it without the usual music and stopping the words in the syllables.

:'''Jessie:''' Oh, prepare for trouble, that's what they should do.
:'''James:''' And make it double, we're grabbing Pikachu.
:'''Meowth:''' Haah!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Meowth:''' Sing it!
''Beginning of the usual music and normal recitation''
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket digging to the Pikachu at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight the crowns on opening night!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[EP146|The Tricks of the Trade]]'' motto
In this episode, Jessie and James try to steal all Pokémon in the Pokémon Swap Meet using a fake trading machine. After all the Trainers have discovered that their Poké Balls are empty, they try to get them back from Team Rocket. After this, Team Rocket recites a simple variation of their motto:

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, its true, we've been stealing.
:'''James:''' Make it double, it beats relying and dealing.
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket stealing Poké Balls at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[EP158|The Goldenrod Opportunity]]'' motto
This motto was recited by Jessie and James after they had confused some wares at a food store with free samples and had been caught by a saleswoman.

:'''Jessie:''' Now you're in for a bunch of trouble!
:'''James:''' We're eating lunch, so make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To eat and drink to our hearts' content!
:'''James:''' Without even having to spend a single cent!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of paying for food!
:'''James:''' We won't leave a single sample unchewed!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket loves scarfing down free samples at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Yes, and we like to eat even more than we like to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' You got that right!

This episode is also notable due to the fact that Team Rocket did not shout out their usual "blasting off" phrase in it, even before disappearing in the [[Magnet Train]] tunnel although the shining star did appear.

;''[[EP163|Fossil Fools]]'' motto
This motto was said by Team Rocket after Ash, {{ashfr}}, {{an|Professor Oak}}, and [[Foster]] arrived in the reservoir where the {{p|Omanyte}} and {{p|Omastar}} live.

:'''Foster:''' What are they doing?
:'''Jessie:''' We caught Pokémon without much trouble.
:'''James:''' With a bigger tank though, we would have caught double.
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket has finally done something right.
:'''James:''' We have got plenty of Omastar and loads of Omanyte.
:'''Wobbuffet :''' Wobbu...!
:'''Meowth (''pushes Wobbuffet down''):''' Lay down! Meowth, that's right!

This is also one of the few episodes in which Jessie doesn't say "speed of light!" and James doesn't say "fight, fight, fight!"

;''[[EP165|Hassle in the Castle]]'' motto
In this episode Team Rocket breaks into a castle that later appeared to be a hospital, where Pokémon were used to treat people. Upon stealing some food from the dining room and trying to get away, Team Rocket was caught by [[Dr. Anna]] and Brock.

:'''Dr. Anna:''' Excuse me, do you have an appointment?!
:'''Jessie:''' We have no appointment, but we've been having some trouble!
:'''James:''' So prescribe us some ointment on the double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect us from all that chafing and itching!
:'''James:''' It might finally stop all of Jessie's... complaining!
:'''Jessie:''' To eradicate the evils of athlete's feet!
:'''James:''' Maybe I can get rid of my prickly heat!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket's been scratching at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' So give us some salve or we'll never sleep tonight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right.

;''[[EP169|Beauty and the Breeder]]'' motto
In this episode Jessie and James enter a Pokémon Beauty Contest, pretending not to be members of Team Rocket (they even forbid Meowth to talk). Because they want to be the first to show their Pokémon in order to make a better impression on the judges, they lock up the first contestant and appear on the stage instead of him. A small delay happens due to this.

:'''Jessie:''' Sorry we're late, it takes a while...
:'''James:''' ...to give our Pokémon flare and style!
:'''Jessie:''' We hope our Pokémon will amaze all of you!
:'''James:''' We're giving each one a look that's brand new!
:'''Jessie:''' We're creating a trend and it's gonna be big!
:'''James (''combing a wig on Jessie's Wobbuffet''):''' And this doesn't even look like a wig!
:'''Jessie:''' We two aren't fakers!
:'''James:''' We're style makers!
:'''Jessie:''' We're cutting and curling at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Put yourself in our hands and we'll make you look right, right, right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, Meowth, Meowth!

;''[[EP175|Trouble With Snubbull]]'' motto
In this episode Team Rocket tries to catch [[Madame Muchmoney's Granbull|Madame Muchmoney's Snubbull]] in order to return it to her and receive a reward, which they suppose to be quite large.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare to say good-bye to all of our trouble!
:'''James:''' Prepare to say hello to Snubbull!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect ourselves from being poor!
:'''James:''' When we get enough, we'll still get more!
:'''Jessie:''' We'll capture Snubbull and return it to its rich owner and get a big reward!
:'''James:''' Then there won't be anything we can't afford!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket likes blasting off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' But catching that Snubbull and getting that reward would be a delight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth! That's right!

;''[[EP196|Control Freak!]]'' motto
Jessie and James recite this motto after Jessie obtains ancient mask and the staff that can be used to control any Pokémon without catching it.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for the worst trouble you've ever seen!
:'''James:''' With the staff and the mask Jessie's the queen!
:'''Jessie:''' I'll rule the world with power and might!
:'''James:''' She'll capture Pokémon without a fight!
:'''Jessie:''' A queen, whose subjects must all kneel down before me!
:'''James:''' Yeah... But... I'll just kneel on one knee.
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie, Her Royal Highness!
:'''James:''' James, her lowly... Hey, wait a second!
:'''Jessie:''' Queen Jessie ruling all with power and might!
:'''James (''desperately''):''' You'd better surrender or she'll go on like this all night!
:'''Meowth (''desperately''):''' Yeah. Why fight?

;''[[EP227|For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll]]'' motto
In this episode, Team Rocket steals the Crystal Bells, and they use a different version of their motto.

:'''Jessie:''' With Crystal Bells in hand,
:'''James:''' We'll ring across the land!
:'''Jessie:''' And then, when {{p|Ho-Oh}} reappears,
:'''James:''' We will quickly switch [[Team Rocket's mechas|gears]]!
:'''Jessie:''' Because, together we will show,
:'''James:''' That we can beat old Ho-Oh!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket! Ringing at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Our Crystal Bells pack a mighty fight, fight, fight!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[EP231|Dues and Don'ts]]'' motto
At the beginning of this episode Ash and his friends meet Jessie, James and Meowth dressed up as American football players.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, don’t drop the ball!
:'''James:''' And make it double with an offsides call!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect our team we won’t call it quits!
:'''James:''' We’ll unite our runners with a fourth down blitz!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of an eight-round pick!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach with a three-point kick!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket does one for the giver at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' No timeouts, the clock’s running, so let's fight, fight, fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Touchdown! That’s right!

;''[[EP233|A Tyrogue Full of Trouble]]'' motto
This motto is recited when Team Rocket steals the Tyrogue that [[Kiyo]] later captures.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble as Tyrogue sails away!
:'''James:''' And make it double, 'cause we really can’t stay!
:'''Jessie:''' Pow! To protect the world with a mean right hook!
:'''James:''' Wam! To unite all peoples with my kickboxer look!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of honest fights!
:'''James (''fast''):''' To extend our arms and punch out your lights!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' And Team Rocket’s the winner at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' So surrender at once, 'cause we’ve just won this fight!
:'''Meowth:''' That’s right!

;''[[EP234|Xatu the Future]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto before trying to steal treasures that people have brought to the Xatu for predicting a flood in order to pay the bill that {{TR|Delibird}} had just brought to them.

:'''Jessie:''' I predict that you prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' The crystal ball says make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the future from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all psychics within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of non-belief!
:'''James:''' To read our fortunes from a green-tea leaf!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket searches for mystical truth at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now and tell me your sign, or prepare to fight, fight, fight,
:'''Meowth:''' That’s right!
:'''Delibird:''' Deeli-de!

;''[[EP235|Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution]]'' motto
Jessie, James and Meowth recite this motto upon being caught by other Team Rocket members while trying to sneak into a Team Rocket's secret base thinking it were a farmhouse, where they could find something to eat.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble and a nice surprise!
:'''James:''' Make it double with an order of fries!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect our tummies from rumbling too much!
:'''James:''' To enjoy our meals with a gourmet touch!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of excessive hunger and thirst!
:'''James:''' To consume so much food, you’d think you might burst!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off in search of wonderful treats!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fork over tons of your sweets!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, yeah, let’s eat!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[EP237|As Cold as Pryce]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto when they encounter Ash in a forest.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' And make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from woodland pests!
:'''James:''' To capture creatures from their nests!
:'''Jessie:''' To ensnare Pikachu in my net!
:'''James:''' And anything else we can get!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket grabs the goods at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender to me, give up trying to flee, or we'll fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right.
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[EP240|Some Like it Hot]]'' motto
Jessie, James and Meowth recite this motto as they steal [[Egan]]'s Poké Ball with his freshly caught {{p|Magcargo}}. For some reason they are dressed up as baseball players (maybe because Egan demands that they return his Poké ''Ball'').

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble like a hot lava flow!
:'''James:''' And make it double or to the showers you'll go!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect our team from the volcano's wrath!
:'''James:''' We keep cool while you get a molten rock bath!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce truth and love from my very first pitch!
:'''James:''' Hit it out of the park, wouldn't that be a switch?
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Winding up, we prepare for a home run! Hah!
''Jessie throws a ball.''
:'''James:''' Keep your eye on the ball, here comes a hard one!
''James hits the ball. Meowth catches it and seems to have been struck.''
:'''Meowth (''crying''):''' I thought this was softball!

;''[[EP250|The Ice Cave!]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto as snowmen in the ice cave. This is a translated version from Japanese to fit with the rest of their mottos.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, Team Rocket dug it!
:'''James:''' And make it double in that icy pit!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from all its heat!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples that we defeat!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and ice...
:'''James:''' ...to extend our reach to the snowmen's advice!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[EP256|Just Add Water]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto upon appearing on the underwater arena of the {{DL|Gym|Coastline Gym}}.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, you're about to get pumped!
:'''James:''' And make it double after the way we got soaked!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' ''V'' is for ''victory'' so don't you forget...
:'''James:''' ...we'll be victorious and we won't break a sweat!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off like a torpedo in flight!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare for a watery fight!
:'''Meowth (''in a crab-like mecha''):''' Chop-chop, that's right!

;''[[EP257|Lapras of Luxury]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto after snaring a herd of Lapras. The research theme is present in the motto due to the presence of Naomi, a Pokémon researcher, in the episode.

:'''Jessie:''' Our research warns, prepare for trouble!
:'''James:''' Our data's conclusive, so make it double!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
''Jessie and James are shown lying on chaises longues in swimsuits''
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of a string bikini!
:'''James:''' And extend our reach a teeny-weeny!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
''Jessie and James are now riding on surfboards''
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket surfs the wind at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now and shoot the curl, or prepare to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[EP259|Entei at Your Own Risk]]'' mottos
In this episode Jessie and James approach "the [[twerp]]s" disguised as food researchers giving out free milk in order to entrap Ash and his Pokémon.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, we don't care for defiance!
:'''James:''' And make it double, it's all for science!
:'''Jessie:''' As researchers, we search for the truth in food and drink!
:'''James:''' We're here to say what ''we'' think!
:'''Both:''' What's really important when you eat a treat,
:'''Both:''' Not the flavor but the time you eat!

They also recite their slightly altered usual motto later in the episode, as they attempt to steal [[Nelson]]'s {{p|Misdreavus}} in order to use its {{m|Mean Look}} for their own purposes.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, with Misdreavus in a sack!
:'''James:''' Make it double, with that great Mean Look attack!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Mean Look Jessie!
:'''James:''' Meaner Look James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off, your secret's been told!
:'''Jessie:''' Surrender now or battle the brave and the bold!
:'''Meowth (''unmotivated''):''' This is getting so old.

;''[[EP262|You're a Star, Larvitar!]]'' motto
Team Rocket begins reciting this motto after launching their new Pokémon-sucking machine that creates a blast.

:'''Ash:''' This can't be just a storm, can it?
''Jessie and James laugh''
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, we're here to inform,
:'''James:''' Make it double, we're the eye of the storm!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evil of living well enough alone!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach and make these Pokémon our own!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;Good version
In ''[[M02|The Power of One]]'', when Team Rocket decides to help Ash, they use a different version of their motto.

:'''Jessie:''' If that [[Ash Ketchum|kid]] thinks were here for trouble...
:'''James:''' ...we're certainly going to burst his bubble!
:'''Jessie:''' Instead of causing tribulation...
:'''James:''' ...we've undergone a transformation!
:'''Jessie:''' Though it's way outside our usual range...
:'''James:''' ...we're going to do something nice for a change!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Up till now Team Rocket's been quite unscrupulous!
:'''James:''' Being good good guys for once would be super-dupulous!
:'''Meowth:''' That's right!
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;''[[AG020|Brave the Wave]]'' motto
This motto is recited when a guy and his girl enter a café, where Team Rocket appears to be working.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, you want fries with that?
:'''James:''' Double-delish with half the fat!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from unhealthy food!
:'''James:''' To give great service and never be rude!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of high carbohydrates!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the Earth and its primates!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket gives great service at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Pay your bill and leave the tip or prepare to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[AG031|Just One of the Geysers]]'' motto
Team Rocket recites this motto upon being spotted in [[Brawly]]'s secret base stealing food from his fridge.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble from up on the ridge!
:'''James:''' And make it double, 'cause we've raided the fridge!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of a yummy pear!
:'''James:''' To extend out reach to a chocolate éclair!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off with all the four food groups!
:'''James:''' And believe it or not, that includes much of all soups!
:'''Meowth:''' Oy gevalt!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[AG042|Love at First Flight]]'' motto
Jessie, James and Meowth recite this motto when Ash and [[Romeo]] find out that they have stolen [[Juliet]]'s {{p|Illumise}}. While reciting this motto, Jessie and James are dressed up as Illumise and {{p|Volbeat}}, respectively.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, don't we look divine?
:'''James:''' And make it double, looking good – feeling fine!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To walk the line towards the sweet scent of success!
:'''James:''' To light up whole world with my volbeatness!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off at the scented speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now or prepare yourself for a [[Sweet Scent (move)|sweet-scented]] fight!
:'''Meowth:''' That's right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[AG064|True Blue Swablu]]'' motto
This motto is recited after snatching Swablu from May.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, we want the feathers!
:'''James:''' Make it double, we're all togethers!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the Boss from insomniation!
:'''James:''' To unite a well-rested nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of lack of sleep!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the sandman's keep!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now to the foils of fatigue or prepare to fight, fight, fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[AG077|A Fan with a Plan]]'' motto
In this episode Jessie can't register in a Pokémon Contest, so she tries to steal {{an|May}} and [[Savannah]]'s Ribbons. James and Meowth aren't really in the mood to Jessie's evil plans, so they recite their lines with low emotion.

:'''Savannah:''' Hey, those aren't yours!
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, they are today!
:'''James ''(unmotivated''):''' If you can't win them, steal them, that's what we always say!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect my entry status from devastation!
:'''James (''unmotivated''):''' To allow a certain contestant to complete her registration!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of losing, that's true!
:'''James (''unmotivated''):''' To extend her winning streak from 0 to 2!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James (''unmotivated''):''' And James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
:'''James (''unmotivated''):''' Surrender now, do me a favor or I'll have to fight!
:'''Jessie:''' This Contest will have a cute winner by tonight!
:'''Meowth (''unmotivated''):''' Meowth, that's right!
:'''Wobbuffet (''super happy''):''' Wobbuffet!

;''[[AG088|The Garden of Eatin']]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble as we represent!
:'''James:''' We’re making it double with a fashion statement!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from a taste gone bad!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples with a trendy fad!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of things bourgeois!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to a fashion faux-pas!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket, is blasting off at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' So surrender now while we’re looking so out of sight!
:'''Meowth:''' YEAH! Meowth! That's right!

;''[[AG096|Training Wrecks]]'' motto
With James confident in the training Team Rocket went through during the episode, they decide to steal Pikachu.

:'''Ash:''' What's going on here?
:'''Jessie (''with a male voice''):''' Prepare for trouble, this is no pleasure cruise!
:'''James:''' Make it double, you gave me a bruise!
:'''Meowth (''interrupting them''):''' Hey, not the motto! What's the point then in using the skipper disguises?
:'''Jessie:''' I just felt that the mustache look wasn't working for me!
:'''James:''' Ok, let's do this in our usual style!
:'''Jessie (''continuing the motto''):''' To protect the world from getting fat!
:'''James:''' To unite all peoples, I'll crush 'em flat!
:'''Jessie:''' To run on the treadmill of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To shine with sweat like stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket works out at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender to our superior conditioning or prepare to fight!
:'''Meowth:''' That's right!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbu, wobbu!
:'''Chimecho:''' Chime, chime!

;''[[AG100|Solid as a Solrock]]'' motto
Jessie, James and Meowth sing this motto before trying to steal Lunatone and Solrock.

:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for lunar trouble, off that moon from outer space!
:'''James:''' And sunshine makes it double 'cause we're here to wreck the place!
:'''Jessie:''' A lune of smelly cheese to cause the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' A sunny and noble day for all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce by the light of a silver moon, the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the boss, of flaming gas from up above!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie, the moon maid!
:'''James:''' James, the sun dude!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off to the infinity of the galaxy at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Earthlings everywhere, surrender your pitiful planet to us now, or prepare, prepare for a fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!
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;''[[BW128|To Catch a Rotom!]]'' motto
Team Rocket is trying to steal three {{p|Rotom}} by using electric beam emitters.

:'''Ash:''' Not you guys! Come on!
:'''Jessie:''' We can't come on, we're already here!
:'''James:''' But thanks for the invite, I may shed a tear!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite the people within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' It's Jessie
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket goes electric at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' Surrender now, or prepare for a hi-voltage fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[BW132|Searching for a Wish!]]'' motto

Team Rocket is trying to steal a {{p|Jirachi}}.

:'''Gemma:''' How could you do that?!
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, it's easy as pie!
:'''James:''' And make it double, an eye for an eye!
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''James:''' To unite all people within our nation!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Jessie:''' It's Jessie!
:'''James:''' And it's James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket makes it's own wish at the speed of light!
:'''James:''' We've granted ourselves so prepare for a big fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's right!

;''[[BW135|Mystery on a Deserted Island!]]'' motto

;''[[BW137|Celebrating the Hero's Comet!]]'' motto

;''[[BW139|Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit!]]'' motto

;''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]'' motto
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;''[[XY014|Seeking Shelter From the Storm!]]'' motto

Team Rocket is bundling up with tablecloths. Due to fright, the trio recite the motto in a tense tone.
:'''Ash:''' Who's there?
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, such a friendlier sound...
:'''James:''' And make it double, and Pikachu's around...
:'''Jessie:''' To protect the world from fear and loathing...
:'''James:''' To unite all people in creepy clothing...
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of blood-curdling screams...
:'''James:''' To extend our reach until we burst at the seams...
:''Lightning strikes''
:'''Jessie:'''  Scared Jessie!
:'''James:''' Jittery James!
:'''Jessie:''' Team Rocket blasts off in a terror-filled blitz!
:'''James:''' I'd rather be fighting because I'm scared out of my wits!
:'''Meowth:''' This is the pits!
|}

====Song version====
{{main|Team Rocket Forever}}

===Battle Frontier===
During the {{Gdis|Battle Frontier|III}} saga, Jessie, James, and Meowth changed their motto.

{| align="left" style="background: #{{frontier color light}}; {{roundy}}: 10px; border: 3px solid #{{frontier color}}"
|- align=center
! style="{{roundyleft}}: 5px;" | Japanese
! style="{{roundy}}: 5px;" | Translation
! style="{{roundyright}}: 5px;" | English
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|なんだかんだと声がする|Nanda kanda to koe ga suru}} || '''''Musashi:''' There is a voice saying something.'' || '''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble from the skies!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|地平線の彼方から|Chiheisen no kanata kara}} || '''''Kojirō:''' From beyond the horizon...'' || '''James:''' From beyond the stars, a nasty surprise!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|ビッグバンの彼方から|Biggu ban no kanata kara}} || '''''Musashi:''' From beyond the big bang...'' || '''Jessie:''' An evil as old as the galaxy...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|我らを呼んでる声がする|Warera wo yonderu koe ga suru}} || '''''Kojirō:''' A voice is calling us!'' || '''James:''' ...sent here to fulfill our destiny!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|お待たせにゃ|Omatase nya}} || '''''Nyarth:''' Sorry to keep you waiting!'' || '''Meowth:''' Plus, there's me!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|健気に咲いた悪の花|Kenage ni saita aku no hana}} || '''''Musashi:'''Evil flowers who have courageously bloomed!'' || '''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|ハードでスイートな敵役|Hādo de suīto na katakiyaku}} || '''''Kojirō:''' In the role of the villains who are hard and sweet!'' || '''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|ムサシ|Musashi}} || '''''Musashi:''' Musashi!'' || '''Jessie:''' Jessie!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|コジロウ|Kojirō}} || '''''Kojirō:''' Kojirō!'' || '''James:''' And James!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|ニャースでニャース|Nyāsu de Nyāsu}} || '''''Nyarth:''' And Nyarth!'' || '''Meowth:''' And Meowth are the names!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|ロケット団のあるところ|Roketto-dan no aru tokoro}} || '''''Musashi:''' The place where Team Rocket is'' || '''Jessie:''' Anywhere there's peace in the universe...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|世界は|Sekai wa}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The world-'' || '''James:''' ...Team Rocket...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|宇宙は|Uchū wa}} || '''''Nyarth:''' The universe-'' || '''Meowth:''' ...Will be there...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''All:''' {{tt|君を待っている|Kimi wo matteiru}} || '''''All:''' Awaits you!'' || '''All:''' To make everything worse!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ソーナンス:''' {{tt|ソーナンス！|Sōnansu!}} || '''''Sonans:''' {{tt|Sōnansu!|Of course!}}'' || '''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
|}{{-}}

Since the first episode, they have adapted their traditional rhyming phrases "Prepare for trouble" and "Make it double" into the motto, thereby restoring the first two lines of the original motto. James's {{TP|James|Chimecho}} and {{TP|James|Mime Jr.}} also contribute their names at the end of the motto in most episodes they appear in.

====''[[AG176|The Ole' Berate and Switch]]'' mottos====
In this episode the main antagonists temporarily split up, only to get reunited in the end of the episode. During the time they were split, [[Jessie]] teamed with [[Butch]], and [[James]] joined [[Cassidy]] and [[Butch]] (even though Butch never was with them). During the experience, both teams tried to recite a motto, which really didn't work because neither could remember the correct version.

;Cassidy's and James's motto
:'''Cassidy:''' Prepare for trouble, it's a brand new day!
:'''James:''' We're making it double anyway!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime mime, mime mime mime!
:'''Cassidy:''' Let's see if I can remember my lines! An evil as old as the galaxy!
:'''James:''' Sent here to fulfill our destiny!
:'''Cassidy:''' To denounce the goodness of truth and love!
:'''James:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Cassidy:''' Whenever there's a piece of pie in the universe!
:'''James:''' Of pie!?
:'''Cassidy (''stopping the motto''):''' Aaah... I goofed it, so what!?
:'''James (''despairing''):''' Forget it...

;Jessie's and Butch's motto
:'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble, we've shuffled the deck!
:'''Butch:''' It's not my thing, but what the heck!?
:'''Jessie:''' An evil as old as the galaxy!
:'''Butch:''' I'm doing this all from memory!
:'''Jessie:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''Butch:''' To extend my arm with a big white glove!
:'''Jessie (''angrily looking at him''):''' Jessie!
:'''Butch (''realizing that his previous line was somewhat idiotic''):''' Aaah, Butch...
:'''Jessie (''kicking him in the face''):''' Cut! Do it right or don't do it at all!

===Sinnoh===
In [[Sinnoh]], the trio changed to a new motto yet again.

{| align="left" style="background: #{{sinnoh color light}}; {{roundy}}: 10px; border: 3px solid #{{sinnoh color}}"
|- align=center
! style="{{roundyleft}}: 5px;" | Japanese
! style="{{roundy}}: 5px;" | Translation
! style="{{roundyright}}: 5px;" | English
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|なんだかんだの声を聞き|Nanda kanda no koe wo kiki}} || '''''Musashi:''' We hear voices saying this and that...'' || '''Jessie:''' Listen, is that a voice I hear?
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|光の速さでやってきた|Hikari no hayasa de yattekita}} || '''''Kojirō:''' We come along in a swift current of light...'' || '''James:''' It's speaking to me loud and clear.
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|風よ|Kaze yo}} || '''''Musashi:''' The wind!'' || '''Jessie:''' On the wind!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|大地よ|Daichi yo}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The land!'' || '''James:''' Past the stars!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|大空よ|Oozora yo}} || '''''Nyarth:''' The sky!'' || '''Meowth:''' In your ear!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|世界に届けよう　デンジャラス|Sekai ni todokeyō denjarasu}} || '''''Musashi:''' The danger we will deliver to the world!'' || '''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace.
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|宇宙に伝えよう　クライシス|Uchū ni tsutaeyō kuraishisu}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The crisis we will convey to the universe!'' || '''James:''' Dashing hope, putting fear in its place.
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|天使か悪魔か　その名を呼べば|Tenshi ka akuma ka sono na wo yobeba}} || '''''Musashi:''' Whether angels or demons, if you call the name,'' || '''Jessie:''' A rose by any other name is just as sweet.
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|誰もが震える魅惑の響き|Daremo ga furueru miwaku no hibiki}} || '''''Kojirō:''' The captivating echo that shakes everyone...'' || '''James:''' When everything's worse, our work is complete.
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|ムサシ|Musashi}} || '''''Musashi:''' Musashi!'' || '''Jessie:''' Jessie!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|コジロウ|Kojirō}} || '''''Kojirō:''' Kojirō'' || '''James:''' And it's James!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|ニャースでニャース|Nyāsu de Nyāsu}} || '''''Nyarth:''' And Nyarth! || '''Meowth:''' And Meowth, now dat's a name!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|時代の主役はあたしたち|Jidai no shuyaku wa atashi-tachi}} || '''''Musashi:''' The stars of the era are us!'' || '''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|我らは無敵の|Warera wa muteki no}} || '''''Kojirō:''' We are the invincible...'' || '''James:''' ...we're Team Rocket...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''All:''' {{tt|ロケット団|Roketto-dan}} || '''''All:''' Team Rocket!'' || '''All:''' ...in your face!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ソーナンス:''' {{tt|ソーナンス|Sōnansu}} || '''''Sonans:''' {{tt|Sōnansu!|Of course!}}'' || '''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
|}{{-}}

In the dub, they often replace the first two lines with
:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that a [[twerp]]ish voice I hear?
:'''James:''' It's shrieking to me loud and clear.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that a [[Nurse Joy|pitiful head]] of a [[Pokémon Center|Pokécenter]] I hear?
:'''James:''' It whines to me loud and clear.

or something similar. As in Battle Frontier, Mime Jr. contributes its name after Wobbuffet.

It is notable that the Sinnoh motto is modified more often even in the Japanese version.

====Variations in the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}====
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;''[[DP015|Shapes of Things to Come]]!'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that big money calling below?
:'''James:''' The sound of success tells me so!
:'''Jessie:''' Work hard,
:'''James:''' Dig deep,
:'''Meowth:''' Make some dough!
:'''Jessie:''' Suck it away at a breakneck pace,
:'''James:''' Putting big bucks in poverty's place,
:'''Jessie:''' Roses smell sweet, but we prefer coal!
:'''James:''' A rose doesn't cut it if money's your goal!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' James!
:'''Meowth:''' Dig, Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Tired of being on the dole!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' And we're on a roll!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobba!

;''[[DP042|The Electrike Company]]'' motto
Jessie wants to steal an {{p|Electrike}}, but James and Meowth think it's too soon.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that the voice of [[twerp]]ly gloom?
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' Join our pity party, there's plenty of room.
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind,
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' The stars,
:'''Meowth (''unenthusiastically''):''' We're doomed.
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace,
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' She's dashed all my hope, what a... bummer.
:'''Jessie:''' A rose by any other name is just as sweet!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' When everything's worse, then of course... it's much worse.
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' James, the pain.
:'''Meowth (''unenthusiastically''):''' I can't say... my name.
:'''Jessie:''' Putting all you do-gooders in your place!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' Team Rocket, sad to say...
:'''Jessie:''' We're in your face!
:'''James and Meowth (''unenthusiastically''):''' Ouch.
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime, mime!

;''[[DP044|Mass Hip-Po-Sis!]]'' motto
Jessie falls asleep during the motto due to {{DL|Recurring wild Pokémon in the anime|Hippopotas}}'s {{m|Yawn}}, so James says her parts sounding like her while moving her body.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that a twerp I hear?
:'''James:''' Obnoxiously loud and clear!
:'''Jessie (''sleepily''):''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Stars!
:'''Meowth:''' In you ears!
:'''Jessie:''' Bring chaos at b- ''(falls asleep)''
:'''James:''' Uh-oh. Dashing hope, putting fear in its place! A rose by any other name is just as sweet. When everything's worse, our work is complete! Jessie! And it's James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, now that's a name!
:'''James:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place... we're Team Rocket...!
:'''James and Meowth:''' In your face!

;''[[DP046|A Maze-ing Race]]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Listen, is that a [[twerp]] calling out to implore?
:'''James:''' I think we should catch who we came for!
:'''Jessie:''' {{AP|Pikachu}}!
:'''James:''' It's true!
:'''Meowth:''' Time to score!
:'''Jessie:''' We've had such a rough day,
:'''James:''' But, now it's time to play.
:'''Jessie:''' We've paid all our dues by blasting off early,
:'''James:''' But we're back here again and feeling quite surly!
:'''Jessie:''' With Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James, too!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, Ya-Hoo!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the maze losers in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...!
:'''All:''' In your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime, mime!

;''[[DP056|The Keystone Pops!]]'' motto
Jessie pretends to be a psychic to catch {{p|Spiritomb}} and Pikachu.

:'''Jessie:''' I don't have to be psychic to know the truth.
:'''James:''' Especially when dealing with [[twerp]]ish youth
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind,
:'''James:''' The stars,
:'''Meowth:''' Yeah, forsooth!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace,
:'''James:''' Dashing hope, putting fear in its place!
:'''Jessie:''' A mystic psychic by any other name is just as smart!
:'''James:''' We've turned fooling you dumb twerps into an art!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, dat's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...!
:'''All:''' In your face!

;''[[DP063|Hot Springing a Leak!]]'' motto
In this episode, Team Rocket steal water to build a hot spring, at the expense of [[Leona]]'s family's hot spring. The first line builds off an earlier line about {{wp|juvenile court}}.

:'''Jessie:''' Looks like this court sides with the twerps. But we object, of course!
:'''James:''' You're twerps, consider the source.
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind,
:'''James:''' The stars,
:'''Meowth:''' {{wp|Force (Star Wars)|The force}}!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos with a spring in our step,
:'''James:''' Dashing hope with vigor and pep!
:'''Jessie:''' A spring by any other name is just as hot!
:'''James:''' We need to relax. We want what you've got!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' Jolly James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting me at ease and you in your place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...!
:'''All:''' In your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime, mime!

;''[[DP065|Sleight of Sand!]]'' motto
In this episode, Jessie and James try to ruin [[Cassidy]] and [[Butch]]'s plans, and, in the way, steal Ash's Pokémon.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen up, it comes courtesy of you-know-who!
:'''James:''' Not like we have anything better to do!
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind,
:'''James:''' The stars,
:'''Meowth:''' Boo-ga-boo!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' Dashing hope, putting fear in its place!
:'''Jessie (''with echo''):''' A dual of Jessie's sounds twice as sweet!
:'''James (''with echo''):''' Hey, I've got it too, isn't that neat?
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's, now that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place...
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...!
:'''All:''' In your face!

;''[[DP076|A Full Course Tag Battle!]]'' motto
{{an|May}} has come back to battle in Wallace Cup—and Team Rocket has just stolen food—which is {{an|May}}'s berserk button. The first two remark on May's return.

:'''Jessie:''' Is that a sound of a obsolete twerp I hear?
:'''James:''' Your expiration date's passed, my dear
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the star!
:'''Meowth:''' In your ears!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing twerp-laden chaos at a break neck pace.
:'''James:''' Dashing twerp-ting hope and putting fear in place.
:'''Jessie:''' A rose by any other name is just as sweet.
:'''James:''' When everything's worse, our work's complete.
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And it's James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, now that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the geeky do-gooders in their place.
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket.
:'''All:''' And we're in your face!

;''[[DP084|Hungry for the Good Life!]]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Our pit-trap digging skills still is intact!
:'''James:''' But our drafting to the modern technology today is a necessary fact!
:'''Jessie:''' The wind!
:'''James:''' The stars!
:'''Meowth:''' Dig a trap!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos with a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' Dashing hope putting fear in its place!
:'''Jessie:''' A trap dug any other way is just as sweet!
:'''James:''' When earth is moved, our work is complete!
:'''Jessie:''' It's Jessie!
:'''James:''' And it's James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, now that's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place!
:'''James:''' Team Rocket...!
:'''All:''' We're in your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime, mime, mime!

;''[[DP085|Fighting Fear with Fear!]]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' A clueless twerp is certainly nothing new!
:'''James:''' You're all pros at not having a clue!
:'''Jessie:''' Face the facts...
:'''James:''' For a change!
:'''Meowth:''' It stinks to be you!
:'''Jessie:''' We'll bring chaos at a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' We'll dash all hope and put fear in its place!
:'''Jessie:''' Sounds old hoey for the twerps we see!
:'''James:''' But without us you're short by three!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth makes it triple, you see!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting you do-gooders in your place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...
:'''All:''' In your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobbuffet, Wobba!

;''[[DP086|Arriving in Style!]]'' motto
[[Jessie]] is angry at losing the [[Hearthome Collection]] Contest, but [[James]] is upset with [[Jessie]] for ruining his accessories—and not a happy camper making him very unenthusiastic during the motto (even the music is turned off during his parts):

:'''Jessie:''' You know you could use a little makeup to!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' Please, a pompous platitude coming from you...
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' What's the point?
:'''Meowth:''' Yoo-Hoo!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos with a breakneck pace!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' Wow I'm so excited. Can you tell by my face?
:'''Jessie:''' A rose by any other name's just as red!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' I knew that I should've stayed at home in bed.
:'''Jessie:''' Mmm, Jessie!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' James, poor me...
:'''Meowth:''' It's Meowth, to a tee!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place!
:'''James (''unenthusiastically''):''' Goodie Team Rocket...
:'''Jessie and Meowth:''' In your face!

;''[[DP087|The Psyduck Stops Here!]]'' motto
:'''Ash:''' What was that?!
:'''Jessie:''' It's not a question of what, but rather who!
:'''James:''' Though asking why is strictly [?]!
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the stars!
:'''Meowth:''' I see you!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' Dashing all hope putting fear in it's place!
:'''Jessie:''' Rocking your twerpish world in a snap!
:'''James:''' Making everything worse while fitting the flap!
:'''Jessie:''' It's Jessie!
:'''James:''' And it's James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, now that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' When you're a team, you're a team all the way!
:'''James:''' And that means Team Rocket...
:'''All:''' [?]

;''[[DP104|Sleepless in Pre-Battle!]]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Is that arrest development I hear?
:'''James:''' Her inner rage rings loud and clear.
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the stars!
:'''Meowth:''' In your ear!
:'''Jessie:''' Laying down a law of breakneck chaos.
:'''James:''' Dashing deposites, putting fear in its place.
:'''Jessie:''' A [[Officer Jenny|Jenny]] by any other name's just as bad!
:'''James:''' In the name of our law, looks like you've been had!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Leave me Meowth, that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting law-buyers in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' In your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Woobu, woobu!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime!

;''[[DP107|Ancient Family Matters!]]'' motto
:'''Jessie:''' Is that the voice of twerps surfacing I hear?
:'''James:''' Trespassing through our hole I fear.
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the stars!
:'''Meowth:''' Diggers without peer!
:'''Jessie:''' Forming holes at a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' Shoveling earth, leaving air in its place!
:'''Jessie:''' Our skill knows no boundaries when it comes to the pick!
:'''James:''' When it comes to pit traps, we don't miss a trick!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And it's James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting all you ground-hogging do-gooders in your place!
:'''James:''' You've gotta think Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' Cause we're in your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobba!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime, mime!

;''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]'' motto
Team Rocket attacks the [[twerp]]s in a new machine shaped like a bowl of ramen noodles.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen, twerps outside the bowl!
:'''James:''' We're bringing goodies and ready to roll!
:'''Jessie:''' Noodles!
:'''James:''' And broth!
:'''Meowth:''' With a lot of soul!
:'''Jessie:''' Eat in, take out, your call!
:'''James:''' Either way, you'll have a ball!
:'''Jessie:''' Delights to please the tummy and I!
:'''James:''' The more you eat, the more we make! Give us a try!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Placing those noodles on your plate!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' If we grate!

;''[[DP126|Classroom Training!]]'' motto
Team Rocket has stolen Poké Balls from [[Snowpoint Trainers' School]]. [[Candice]] notices that Meowth is able to talk and says that it's impossible.

:'''Jessie:''' When it comes to impossible, you teacher types should talk.
:'''James:''' We sprint through life, while you eggheads walk!
:'''Jessie:''' Through the snow!
:'''James:''' And the sleet!
:'''Meowth:''' Round the clock!
:'''Jessie:''' Bringing chaos at a frosty pace!
:'''James:''' Dashing through snow with glee on my face!
:'''Jessie:''' Catching bad colds and taking vitamin C.
:'''James:''' When everything's worse, nothing feels good to me.
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting teacher and students in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' In your face!

;''[[DP131|Pedal to the Mettle!]]'' motto
Team Rocket is working disguised at a construction site, rebuilding a ruined battle field.

:'''Meowth:''' Ta-daa!
:'''Jessie:''' A liking response to a "Help wanted" add!
:'''James:''' Now we've got a job, I'm glad!
:'''Jessie:''' Dig that dirt!
:'''James:''' Dump that truck!
:'''Meowth:''' Back 'er up! Just a tag!
:'''Jessie:''' Demolished battle fields can be bad for our's help.
:'''James:''' But one man's problems can bring another man wealth!
:'''Jessie:''' Demolishing and construction; you leave it to us.
:'''James:''' Just show us the [[Pokémon Dollar|money]] and we'll make all the funds.
:'''Jessie:''' With Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James too!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth without further ado!
:'''Jessie:''' Clean up the mess and build in its place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' In your face!

;''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]'' motto
Team Rocket has just stolen the food served at Johto Festival.

:'''Khoury's dad:''' Give back that food right now!
:'''Jessie:''' So sorry sap, but you're a dollar short and a day late!
:'''James:''' Thought I'll say the fiddle stays great!
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the stars!
:'''Meowth:''' Put your grub there, mate!
:'''Jessie:''' Filling our tummies at a breakneck pace!
:'''James:''' Dashing hunger with a smile on my face!
:'''Jessie:''' Go ahead and ask me if I've got {{DL|Drink|Moomoo milk|milk}}!
:'''James:''' We're members of the association yoke!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the foodless in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' In your face!

;''[[DP148|Try for the Family Stone!]]'' motto
Team Rocket has just stolen [[Rhyanna]]'s {{p|Misdreavus}}. Rhyanna asks them who in the world they are.

:'''Jessie:''' We're out of this world! Can't you tell by our suave demeanor?
:'''James:''' Our grass is always greener!
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' The stars!
:'''Meowth:''' Neener, neener!
:'''Jessie:''' Happy searching at a breakneck pace.
:'''James:''' Dashing hope with a smile on my face!
:'''Jessie:''' Joy by any other name's just as happy!
:'''James:''' While you twerps are so sappy.
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth's the name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place...
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket...
:'''All:''' In your face!
:'''Wobbuffet:''' Wobba!
:'''Mime Jr.:''' Mime, mime!

;''[[DP166|The Fleeing Tower of Sunyshore!]]'' motto
Team Rocket is stealing the [[Sunyshore Tower]], causing a blackout to the whole city. {{EF|Flint}} asks what's going on.

:'''Jessie:''' Listen, to the wisdom from the top of the tower!
:'''James:''' Our diabolical plan is beginning to flower!
:'''Jessie:''' On the wind!
:'''James:''' Past the stars!
:'''Meowth:''' Fight the power!
:'''Jessie:''' There's no electricity over there!
:'''James:''' And wouldn't you know, not over there!
:'''Jessie:''' A blackout by any other name's just as black!
:'''James:''' When it comes to chaos, we've got the knack!
:'''Jessie:''' Jessie!
:'''James:''' And James!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth, that's a name!
:'''Jessie:''' Putting the do-gooders in their place!
:'''James:''' We're Team Rocket!
:'''All:''' In your face!
|}

===Unova===
In [[Unova]], the trio changed to a new motto yet again.

{| align="left" style="background: #{{unova color light}}; {{roundy}}: 10px; border: 3px solid #{{unova color}}"
|- align=center
! style="{{roundyleft}}: 5px;" | Japanese
! style="{{roundy}}: 5px;" | Translation
! style="{{roundyright}}: 5px;" | English
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|「'''＊'''」と聞かれたら|<nowiki>"*"</nowiki> to kikaretara}} || '''''Musashi:''' If we were asked "'''*'''"'' || '''Jessie:''' What a question, twerpish indeed!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|答えてあげよう明日のため|Kotaete ageyō asu no tame}} || '''''Kojirō:''' We will answer for the sake of tomorrow!'' || '''James:''' We'll answer these questions when we feel the need!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|フューチャー白い未来は悪の色|Fyūchā shiroi mirai wa aku no iro}} || '''''Musashi:''' Future! A white future reflects the color of evil!'' || '''Jessie:''' Bringing the blinding white light of evil into the future!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|ユニバース黒い世界に正義の鉄槌|Yunibāsu kuroi sekai ni seigi no tettsui}} || '''''Kojirō:''' Universe! The hammer of justice in a black world!'' || '''James:''' Thrusting the hammer of justice down onto the black darkness of the universe!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|我らこの地にその名を記す|Warera kono chi ni sono na wo shirusu}} || '''''Nyarth:''' Our names will be remembered in this place!'' || '''Meowth:''' Carving our names in the Rock of Eternity!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ムサシ:''' {{tt|情熱の破壊者ムサシ!|Jōnetsu no hakaisha Musashi!}} || '''''Musashi:''' Destroyer of passion, Musashi!'' || '''Jessie:''' The fiery destroyer, Jessie!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''コジロウ:''' {{tt|暗黒の純情コジロウ!|Ankoku no junjō Kojirō!}} || '''''Kojirō:''' Pure heart of darkness, Kojirō!'' || '''James:''' And with thunderous emotion, I am James!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''ニャース:''' {{tt|無限の知性ニャース!|Mugen no chisei Nyāsu!}} || '''''Nyarth:''' Infinite intelligence, Nyarth!'' || '''Meowth:''' Wisest of the wise, Meowth!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| '''All:''' {{tt|さあ集え! ロケット団の名のもとに!|Sā tsudoe! Roketto-dan no na no moto ni!}} || '''''All:''' Come gather! Under the name of Team Rocket!'' || '''All:''' And now gather, under the name of Team Rocket!
|}{{-}}
"'''*'''" denotes the phrase Jessie copies when they are about to announce their motto.

====Copied phrases====
Only the line Jessie copies from and the line she begins the motto with are shown. The rest of the motto follows.
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''[[BW001|In The Shadow of Zekrom!]]''
:(Team Rocket stands on top of the plane and captures {{AP|Pikachu}})
:'''Ash''': Who are you guys?
:'''Jessie''': "Who are you?" is the question, indeed!
:'''James''': We'll answer you, as we feel we need!

''[[BW002|Enter Iris and Axew!]]''
:(Team Rocket captures {{Ash}}'s {{AP|Pikachu}} and {{an|Iris}}'s {{TP|Iris|Axew}})
:'''Ash''': You again?
:'''Jessie''': "Again?" is the question? So twerpish indeed!
:'''James''': The answer to come as we feel the need!

''[[BW004|The Battle Club and Tepig's Choice!]]''
:(Team Rocket is walking away with a black bag when Pikachu's voice comes from inside the bag)
:'''Ash''': That voice... Who's that? Pikachu!
:'''Jessie''': "Who's that voice?" So naive indeed!
:'''James''': We answer you when we feel the need!

''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
:(Team Rocket stands in front of their [[Team Rocket's mechas|machine]] at the [[Dreamyard]])
:'''[[Officer Jenny|Jenny]]''': Just exactly, who are you anyway?
:'''Jessie''': Exacting questions are good indeed!
:'''James''': The answer to come as we feel the need!

''[[BW023|Battling For The Love of Bug-Types!]]''
:'''Jessie''': Challenging questions indeed!
:'''James''': The answer's to come as we feel the need!

''[[BW026|Scare at the Litwick Mansion!]]''
:(Team Rocket does the motto when surprising Ash and the co. from a room at the [[Litwick Mansion]] where they had found their Pokémon that had been stolen by the {{p|Litwick}})
:'''Jessie''': You must have questions, we're impressive indeed.
:'''James''': But answers will come when we feel the need.

''[[BW027|The Dragon Master's Path!]]''
:([[Iris's Axew]] and [[Emmy]]'s {{p|Druddigon}} have just been dragged into Team Rocket's airship)
:'''Emmy''': No! Now what?
:'''Jessie''': Now there's a twerpish question, dumb indeed.
:'''James''': The answer to come as we feel the need!

''[[BW029|Cottonee in Love!]]''
:(Team Rocket is stealing a group of {{p|Cottonee}})
:'''Ash''': What are you guys doing here?
:'''Jessie''': You would ask, clueless indeed.
:'''James''': We'll answer your question as we feel the need.

''[[BW030|A UFO for Elgyem!]]''
:(Team Rocket has bound Ash, {{ashfr}} and [[Professor Icarus]], as well as the {{p|Elgyem}} they're attempting to steal)
:'''Professor Icarus''': All right! Who are you people, anyway?!
:'''Jessie''': An unscientifically based question indeed!
:'''James''': The answer comes when we feel the need!
:'''Meowth''': You know the rest; we live for speed!

The rest of the motto was not followed in this episode.

''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
:(Team Rocket is seen catching wild {{p|Roggenrola}})
:'''Ash''': What are you doing to them?!
:'''Jessie''': Such a heart-felt twerpish question indeed.
:'''James''': We'll answer you twerps when we feel the need.

''[[BW035|Where Did You Go, Audino?]]''
:(Team Rocket is found out to be guilty to the {{p|Audino}} kidnappings)
:'''Ash''': I should've known it was you!
:'''Jessie''': How could you know that, when you know nothing indeed?
:'''James''': The answer to that, cause we feel the need!

''[[BW037|A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!]]''
:'''{{an|Bianca}}''': Who are those strange people?
:'''Jessie''': You're strange indeed!
:'''James''': We'll answer you as we feel the need!

''[[BW038|Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!]]''
:(Team Rocket has just caught [[Luke's Zorua]])
:'''[[Luke]]''': What are you doing to {{p|Zorua}}?
:'''Jessie''': What we want, is beyond your comprehension, indeed!
:'''James''': The answer will come as we feel the need!

''[[BW047|Crisis from the Underground Up!]]''
:Meowth explains that {{TRT|their}} plan wouldn't have succeeded without Ash and his friends' help.
:'''Iris''': Our help? What do you mean?
:'''Jessie''': "What do you mean?" You're clueless, indeed!
:'''James''': The answer will come as we feel the need!

''[[BW060|Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 2]]''
:Team Rocket has just imprisoned the [[Forces of Nature]].
:'''[[Lewis]]''': Who did that?
:'''Jessie''': "Who?" That is the question, indeed!
:'''James''': The answer to come as we feel the need!
|}

====''Adventures in Unova''====
In ''[[Adventures in Unova]]'', Jessie, James and Meowth reverted back to their original motto with some slight alterations to it, like James' line of "To unite all peoples within our nation." was altered to "To unite the people within our nation." and instead of just saying their names it changed from "Jessie." "James." to "It's Jessie." "And James" (sometimes "And it's James"). In ''Adventures to Unova'' the motto stayed the same just as it did in the original series but in ''Adventures in Unova and Beyond'' the motto is altered to the situation.

===Kalos===
Just like in ''Adventures in Unova and Beyond'', Jessie, James and Meowth still currently use their original motto from the original series but it is altered to the situation at hand in the episode.

===Meowth filling in for Jessie or James===
In many occasions, because Jessie or James weren't around, Meowth would fill the missing member lines. This first happened in ''[[EP110|The Stun Spore Detour]]'', in which Meowth and James were following Misty to get some [[Salveyo Weed]] to heal Jessie from an attack by a wild {{p|Vileplume}}'s {{m|Stun Spore}}. It happened again in ''[[AG048|ZigZag Zangoose!]]'', in which Jessie was training Seviper, and James, Meowth and Wobbuffet tried to steal [[Ash's Pikachu]]. Later, in ''[[AG080|That's Just Swellow]]'', Jessie and Meowth tried to steal the losing flying Pokémon almost at the end of the Contest, and because James was still participating on it, Meowth and Jessie said the motto all by themselves. In ''[[AG143|The Saffron Con]]'', meanwhile Jessie was at an operation room, Meowth and James tried to steal some Pokémon. When Ash and his friend saw them, they said a special motto. Also, in ''[[AG159|Off the Unbeaten Path]]'', while James was participating in the [[Pokémon Orienteering]] Contest, Jessie and Meowth tried to steal the prize and some Pokémon. When they were spotted by the twerps, they said their motto. Meanwhile they were saying that, Ash and his friends saved the Pokémon and the prize, leaving Jessie and Meowth really angry.

===Butch and Cassidy===
[[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] also have a set of mottos, which are similar to Jessie and James's mottos. In ''[[EP057|The Breeding Center Secret]]'', it is implied to be based on Jessie and James's motto, though in ''[[EP086|Pikachu Re-Volts]]'', they state that theirs is actually the correct version. During [[Pokémon Chronicles]], they add "(now) here's our mission, so ya better listen!" after Butch's first line of their version of the "original" motto. Like Meowth and Wobbuffet, Cassidy's {{p|Raticate}} appears at the end. Apparently, they have switched to a new motto, which is itself similar to Jessie and James's Sinnoh motto, with [[Butch]]'s {{p|Shuckle}} appearing instead of Cassidy's Raticate.

====Original motto====
{| align="left" style="background: #666; {{roundy}}: 10px; border: 3px solid #CC0000"
|- align=center
! style="{{roundyleft}}: 5px;" | Japanese
! style="{{roundy}}: 5px;" | Translation
! style="{{roundyright}}: 5px;" | English
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Cassidy:''' Prepare for trouble...
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Butch:''' ...and make it double!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Cassidy:''' To infect the world with devastation!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Butch:''' To blight all people in every nation!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Cassidy:''' To denounce the goodness of truth and love!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Butch:''' To extend our wrath to the stars above!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Cassidy:''' Cassidy!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Butch:''' And Butch, of course!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Cassidy:''' We're Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and all night!
|- style="background:#FFF;"
| || || '''Butch:''' Surrender to us now or you will surely lose the fight!
|}{{-}}

====Sinnoh motto====
This is the version used in ''[[DP065|Sleight of Sand]]''. Because of some of the lines included, it was probably composed especially for whenever the two Team Rocket groups crossed paths.

:'''Cassidy:''' A shrieking whine! A blast from the past!
:'''Butch:''' Spinning like a {{m|Gyro Ball}} and moving fast!
:'''Cassidy:''' To the moon...
:'''Butch:''' ...And beyond...
:'''Both:''' ...What a blast!
:'''Cassidy:''' Administering justice with lightning speed!
:'''Butch:''' Bashing the bad guys, should we feel the need.
:'''Cassidy:''' So here's a newsflash from across the wire...
:'''Butch:''' The real Team Rocket is now on fire!
:'''Cassidy:''' Cassidy!
:'''Butch:''' And it's Butch!
:'''Shuckle:''' Shuck-uckle!
:'''Cassidy:''' Teaching the losers a thing or two...
:'''Butch:''' ...The true Team Rocket...
:'''Both:''' Us! Not you!

===Ripoffs===
[[File:Ash Brock Team Rocket.png|thumb|200px|left|Copycats...]]
[[File:Misty Duplica Team Rocket.png|thumb|200px|...Ditto these two.]]
The motto has been ripped off repeatedly by Ash and {{ashfr}} during the series. The first time it was done was in ''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]'', in which Ash, Misty and Brock entered the house where Team Rocket was by breaking the windows and by saying the first lines of the motto. In ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]'', Ash, Misty, and Brock, along with [[Duplica]], put on Team Rocket uniforms and mocked the original motto, with Duplica severely angering the two by saying "ignite" instead of "unite". [[James's parents]] revealed that they weren't dead by saying the lines "Prepare for trouble!" and "Yes dear, and make it double!".

The director [[Cleavon Schpielbunk]] used a motto to introduce himself —"Prepare for trouble! No stunt double!"—with Jessie saying, "Wait a second, aren't those ''our'' lines?" after the first two lines.

In ''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]'' when Ash revealed that he was the one in the Mr. Mime costume the Team Rocket background music was playing. The motto was mockingly mimicked again in ''[[EP126|The Chikorita Rescue!]]''. In ''[[EP264|The Mother Of All Battles!]]'', the [[Pokémon Poacher Brothers]] introduced themselves to Ash and the gang in a Team Rocket-style motto. However, there was no background music like in the Rocket's introduction, they only said their names with a big "B" behind them, but even though it was different, Jessie stated that they were just imitating them. Much later, the DP motto was mocked in ''[[DP044|Mass Hip-Po-Sis]]'' and ''[[DP056|The Keystone Pops!]]''. Like the many times before, the trio was angered.

In ''[[XY010|Mega-Mega Meowth Madness!]]'', {{an|Bonnie}} and {{an|Serena}} imitated the motto.
{{Left clear}}

;''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
:'''Ash:''' Prepare for trouble!
:'''Misty:''' And you can make that triple!
:'''Brock:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''Ash and Misty:''' To unite all peoples within our nation!
:'''Jessie (''deadpan''):''' This was just...
:'''James (''deadpan''):''' Too good...
:'''Meowth (''deadpan''):''' To last.
:'''Ash:''' You got that right.
:'''Pikachu:''' Pika!
:'''Misty:''' We're defending the beauty of truth and love!
:'''Brock:''' Let's do it!
:'''Meowth (''interrupting them''):''' We gotta stop that!

;''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]''
So far, this is the only episode of the series to show Ash and {{ashfr}} actually completely doing the whole original motto.

:'''Ash:''' Prepare for trouble!
:'''Brock:''' And make it Double, Double!
:'''James (''angrily''):''' Uhh, quit imitating us!
:'''Misty:''' To protect the world from devastation!
:'''Duplica:''' To ignite all people within our nation!
:'''Jessie (''angrily''):''' Err! This is insulting!
:'''Ash:''' To denounce the evils of truth and love!
:'''Misty:''' To extend our reach to the stars above!
:'''Ash:''' Ash!
:'''Misty:''' Misty!
:'''Brock:''' And Brock!
:'''Duplica:''' Duplica, that's right!
:'''Brock:''' Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!
:'''Duplica:''' Surrender now, or prepare to fight all of us!
:'''Pikachu:''' Pika, Pika!

;Schpielbunk's motto
In the episode ''[[EP069|Lights, Camera, Quacktion!]]'' the director [[Cleavon Schpielbunk]] introduces himself with a motto which is very similar to that of Team Rocket.

:Prepare for trouble! No stunt double!
:To protect the movies from devastation!
:To restore spectacle and imagination!
:To make great epics of hate and love!
:To direct the best films you ever heard of!
:Cleavon Schpielbunk, winner of the Golden Growlithe for best director at the Flea Collar Film Festival!
:Lights! Camera!
:Hit your mark when I call "Action!" or prepare to fight!
:That's right!

;''[[EP126|The Chikorita Rescue]]''
In this episode Ash Ketchum breaks into a Team Rocket hideout to save a {{AP|Chikorita}}, captured by Jessie and James. He recites a motto and Team Rocket instinctively says their phrases.

:'''Ash:''' Team Rocket, prepare for trouble! On second thought, make that double!
:'''Jessie (''surprised''):''' To protect the world from devastation?
:'''James (''surprised''):''' To unite all peoples within our nation?
:'''Ash:''' Maybe you think I'm a little too brash. But the master is here and my name is Ash!
:'''Pikachu:''' Pikachu!
:'''Ash:''' My Pokémon team is faster than light! Surrender now or you're in for a fight!
:'''Meowth:''' Meowth! That's right!

;''[[DP044|Mass Hip-Po-Sis]]''
:'''Dawn (''really angry''):''' Get ready for trouble!
:'''Pikachu (''really angry''):''' Pika!
:'''Brock (''really angry''):''' Make it double!
:'''James (''shocked''):''' Hey, no fair!

;''[[DP056|The Keystone Pops!]]''
:'''Ash:''' Listen, is that bad guy talk I hear?
:'''Dawn:''' It speaks to me loud and clear!
:'''Ash:''' On the wind!
:'''Dawn:''' Past the stars!
:'''Brock:''' In your ear!
:'''Jessie (''interrupting them''):''' It's that kind of imitation they invented lawsuits for!
:'''Dawn:''' Chill out! We couldn't care less about you!
:'''Ash:''' We're looking for Spiritomb!

;''[[XY010|Mega-Mega Meowth Madness!]]''
:'''Bonnie:''' Prepare for trouble, I'd say you bad people have finally met your match!
:'''Serena:''' And make it a double-crook catch! To protect the world from — !
:'''Jessie (''interrupting them''):''' Twerp thieves!
:'''James:''' Copyright infringment! Get away from him!
:'''Serena:''' You let us go now, or you're gonna wish you had!

===Blasting off===
[[File:Blast off.png|thumb|240px|right|Blasting off]]
When defeated, and sent flying off due to a Pokémon's attack (usually {{AP|Pikachu}}'s {{m|Thunderbolt}}) or a malfunction in [[Team Rocket's mechas|their mechas]], Jessie, James, and Meowth usually cry, {{tt|「やな感じ！」|”Yana kanji!”}} ("What a bad feeling!") in the original, which became "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" ([[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] dub) or "We're blasting off again!" ([[The Pokémon Company International|TPCi]] dub) before disappearing into the distance with a twinkle. The first time they blasted off was in [[EP002|their debut episode]], and the first time the twinkle was seen was during their following blast off, in ''[[EP006|Clefairy and the Moon Stone]]''.

Blasting off usually happens only once time per episode, but there have been many occasions in which it has happened multiple times, especially in ''[[DP043|Malice In Wonderland!]]'', in which they are shown blasting off four times on screen, and heard to blast off many more times offscreen. Another occurrence when they blasted off more than once was in ''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]'', but this could be because the episode focused on Team Rocket. In ''[[DP139|A Faux Oak Finish!]]'', James blasted off by himself. Butch and Cassidy have also "blasted off"; however, James noted once that he, Jessie, and Meowth had copyrighted it in ''[[AG159|Off The Unbeaten Path]]''.

After ''[[DP191|Memories are Made of Bliss!]]'', Team Rocket didn't blast off during the {{series|Best Wishes}}. From ''[[BW026|Scare at the Litwick Mansion!]]'' onwards, they usually used jetpacks in order to escape. For this reason, those blastoffs weren't against their will nor involved pain, so they didn't scream their famous quote, "We're blasting off again!" either. Starting from ''[[BW109|New Places... Familiar Faces!]]'', Team Rocket has blasted off like before, although they didn't say the catchphrase until ''[[BW112|Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!]]''. They still used their jetpacks in some episodes.

==In the manga==
===In the Pokémon Adventures manga===
In the [[Pokémon Adventures]] manga, the "Rocket" in Team Rocket is apparently their motto, which is an acronym for:

:'''R'''aid
:'''O'''n
:'''C'''ity
:'''K'''nock out
:'''E'''vil
:'''T'''usks

When translated from Japanese, this motto means 'Attack cities one after another!! Devastate them!! We are the fangs of evil!!'.

==Trivia==
* The {{DL|Team Rocket mottos|Battle Frontier|motto used during the Battle Frontier}} is rather unique since it was said [[AG132|once]] during the ''[[Pokémon: Advanced Battle]]'' season, and [[DP002|once]] during the ''[[Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl]]'' season.
* In every single one of [[Butch]]'s appearances in the [[original series]], he was the one who said the line "Prepare for trouble!", which is usually said by the female character. In ''[[EP057|The Breeding Center Secret]]'', Butch, along with [[Cassidy]], said "Prepare for trouble and make it double!". In ''[[EP086|Pikachu Re-Volts]]'', he was the one who began the motto showdown by saying "Then prepare for trouble!". In ''[[EP157|The Fortune Hunters]]'', he said alone "Prepare for trouble and make it double!". In ''[[EP220|The Mystery is History!]]'', he said "Prepare for trouble, you got that right!". The last time he did this was in ''[[EP221|A Parent Trapped!]]'', in which he said "It's time to prepare for trouble!". In [[Pokémon Chronicles]], the motto was said like [[Jessie]] and [[James]] say it.
* The original motto was used in a commercial for {{2v2|FireRed|LeafGreen}} in the United States, although without Jessie and James's names or the line "Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light."
* In the Sinnoh motto, Jessie's section of "A rose by any other name is just as sweet" alludes to Act II Scene II Shakespeare's ''{{wp|Romeo and Juliet}}'', in which Juliet argues:
<blockquote>
What's in a name? that which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet; 
</blockquote>
: This is a {{wp|A rose by any other name would smell as sweet|commonly quoted phrase}} meaning that the names of things do not matter, only what the thing is.
* In the Unova motto, Jessie likens herself to {{p|Reshiram}} with the words "white" and "fiery", while James likens himself to {{p|Zekrom}} with "black" and "thunderous".
* In the [[Pokémon in Portugal|European Portuguese dub]], the expression "Preparar para azar!", the Portuguese equivalent to "Prepare for trouble!" (which literally translated is "Prepare for bad luck!") is still used in recent episodes as a Team Rocket's catchphrase, even during some mottos.

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Is it possible to get a better picture of Misty's first outfit? :x Togepi's blocking a good chunk of it.--[[User:Biccy|Biccy]] 17:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I think the only pictures of Original Series Misty are featuring Togepi.--[[User:Dawnfan47|Dawnfan47]] 16:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[[Image:Spr 3e 025.gif]]

== Rival Clothes ==

Should we put in rivals such as Gary, Drew, Harley, Paul, Zoey, and Kenny? If the page is too long then we could seperate it into smaller articles. One with Ash's friends, one with rivals and Team Rocket. ^-^--[[User:Dawnfan47|Dawnfan47]] 19:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Probably, but of the ones you listed, only Gary has changed clothes.[[User:Pokemaniac102|Poke]][[User talk:Pokemaniac102|Maniac]][[Special:Contributions/Pokemaniac102|102]] 19:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

:Yea, we should probably just add Gary in. --{{Ani|155}}{{Ani|476}}'''[[User:Theryguy512|Theryguy]][[User:Theryguy512/Contribution Page|5]][[User:Theryguy512/Mission Page|1]][[User:Theryguy512/Sandbox|2]]'''{{Ani|473}}[[Image:Trozeiani025.gif]] 22:03, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

== Ninja ==

Being forced to be ninjas. Sounds pretty similar to 'OOPArts of the Ninja Mansion'. See Star Force 13/4. Should be one of them. THink it was ripped? '''[[User:Optimus35|<sc>Optimatum</sc>]][[User talk:Ph34r4ever|Talk]]|[[User:Optimus35/sig/Pikachu|Links]]'''19 Apr 2008

== Sleepover ==

In DP078, May, Dawn and Zoey have a sleepover at the hotel. Should their PJs b mentioned in this article?--[[User:Kuki|Kuki]][[User talk:Kuki|Talk]] 15:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
:That doesn't sound like a bad idea --[[User:Manga-in-a-bottle|Manga-in-a-bottle]] 02:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
::Well, we did put Ash's pajamas, so it makes sense to put their PJs.--[[User:Starlight the ampharos|Starlight_the_ampharos]] 18:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
:::Oh yes, I say we should make mention of the ladies' pajamas. [[User:FlapjackStantz|FlapjackStantz]] 08:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

== Team Rocket's Disguses ==

Should we make a seperate article lisitng them? --[[User:Manga-in-a-bottle|Manga-in-a-bottle]] 02:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
:I'd say yes. Go for it. '''[[User:TTEchidna|''TTE'']][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 03:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

== Brock's Blue Clothes ==

It seems that Brock continues to wear the blue festival coat from the Croagunk episode throughout the Gym Battle episode with Crasher Wake. He is also seen leaving with it on. I doubt he'll continue to wear them, but they should be mentioned. [[User:Kumori Satosuke|Satosuke]] 15:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

== Max ==

Why are the low quality swimwear pics of Max being added again and again in the article?--'''[[User:Diby|Di]]'''[[User talk:Diby|b]][[Special:Contributions/Diby|y]] 18:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

== Pi-Kahuna ==
In this episode, Ash, Brock and Misty all have different clothes on for a part of the episode. It's even mentioned in the Trivia section of that episode, but not here. {{unsigned|Chaos Theory}}

== Misty Pics ==
There is a set of very repetitive pictures of Misty's green bikini. There is one with just the bikini, and the other with a white jacket on top. Is it really that necessary to mention the jacket? She's never quite worn it in the series, and she discarded it pretty quickly after changing into the bikini. So is that really needed?

[[User:Cc716|Cc716]] 03:51, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

:I don't think it's needed. This was a very "minor" outfit. Sure it was clothing that she wore, but come on. It doesn't have much relevance. This article is about the outfits that the person wears within the whole series, that are very notable and have been worn for longer than a few seconds. [[User:Vhayes1992|Vhayes1992]] 06:36, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

== Dawn's Newest Swimsuit ==
If im not mistaken, Dawn was seen in a new bathing suit in the movie [[Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]. Should we add a picture of her in that swimsuit? - [[User:Alexa9966|Alexa9966]]
:There's no reason why you can't. -- [[User:Vhayes1992|Vhayes1992]] 02:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
:I don't know how to add a picture :( - [[User:Alexa9966|Alexa9966]]

== Ash's Newest Swimsuit ==

On Arceus and the Jewel of Life premiere, Ash wore a new swim trunks during the opening credits. Should anyone add a picture of him in that swim trunks? [[User:Bandage_scizors|Bandage_scizors]]
:Why not`, should be the question. - [[User:Vhayes1992|Vhayes1992]] 17:17, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

== For the main RPG players ==

I think we should make this kind of article for the Player characters of the main series RPGs, because they have atleast changed their clothes once because of the remakes or third versions. --[[User talk:Renzo493|Renzo493]] 13:25, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
:They do, but very infrequently. There's also Pokéathlon and Contest though. [[User:Turtwig A|Turtwig's]] [[Turtwig (Pokémon)|A-B-Cs]] ([[User talk:Turtwig A|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Turtwig A|contribs]]) 13:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
::So should we make it or what? If yes I'm going to need alot of help. --[[User talk:Renzo493|Renzo493]] 13:50, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

== Ash's Hair ==

should it be mentioned that ashes hair has changed color through out the series from black to a sort of blue-ish color? [[User:Angel10698|Angel10698]] 23:09, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

== I have a screenshot for a new outfit. ==

I wish to make a contribution to this article but I am unable to upload images since I am new. If anyone can help me out, that would be great.

[[User:IndigoDratini|IndigoDratini]] 23:55, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
:Good to know, but Archives is locked due to BW release. You can tell me if you want some help, I'll try to help you. ♫♪[[User:Adyniz|'''Ady''']][[User talk:Adyniz|'''Niz''']]♪♫ 01:09, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Great! I'm glad you can help me out. I put the picture in a separate link: [http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/4506/marchoftheexeggutorsqua.png]
[[User:IndigoDratini|IndigoDratini]] 01:04, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
:they aren't locked anymore...[[User:Ataro|Ataro]] 01:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

==Pics That Are Unsatisfactory==
I would really appreciate it if the pictures that are unsatisfactory do not get deleted but just improved. I hope it isn't to much to ask. On another note, should the Best Wishes section of Ash's clothing include how its different from the male charector in Black and White? I mean, Ash's jacket is zipped up, while the male chacter in Black and White is not zipped up at the bottom. I think it should also note that this is the first time Ash's jacket shows a zipper.
:Ash clothes have always different then the male character, this isn't any different. --[[User:HoennMaster|Hoenn]][[User talk:HoennMaster|Master]] 19:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
::And I think the article gives some of those differices. But I thought it missed the fact that this is the first time Ash's jacket has a zipper.[[User:Patrickmck|Patrickmck]] 14:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

==Improved Pics of Ash==
A while back, I put on new pics of Ash, screenshots that I made to make Ash "front and centre" in the shot with the clothing in question. This edit was reverted by another user, who claimed that the older pictures were just fine.

I posted on that user's wall asking them why they feel those pics were better than mine, but they have not responded. I don't want to get into an editing war with them, but I am having trouble getting them to communicate with me. At the very least I would like to hear why they felt the changes weren't required before I move on.

Can I get some advice on this issue? Should I wait a bit longer for their response before putting my new pics back on? What other options do I have?

[[User:Cc716|Cc716]] 03:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

==Musical Outfits==
Should Iris and Cilan's outfits really be included on this page since they never appeared in them in the anime? This is for clothing that the characters have worn in the anime and until this point neither have worn them. Promotion or not, since they never actually wore the outfits it doesn't appear to be all that noteworthy. [[User:Gohan5|Gohan5]] 16:48, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
:[[a:File:Dawn_PLL.png|What about this?]] [[Typhlosion (Pokémon)|★]][[User:Jo The Marten|Jo the Marten]][[Flygon (Pokémon)|★]] [[User_Talk:Jo The Marten|ಠ_ಠ]][[Cilan (anime)|♥]] 16:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
::That too then, none of them actually appear in the anime. You could make a case for Dawn I suppose since the Learning League is a separate media that draws from the anime characters. [[User:Gohan5|Gohan5]] 17:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
:::And that is a promotional advertisement that draws from anime characters. It's still anime artwork even if it wasn't shown in an episode. --[[Tracey Sketchit|'''ケンジ''']][[User talk:Kenji-girl|'''の''']][[User:Kenji-girl|'''ガール''']] 23:35, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
::::Just wondering since the page kind of suggests that the outfits are worn by the characters sometime in the anime. Would that include other promotions like the Domino's one with Ash and Dawn? That was a different outfit and obviously was a promotion for the anime. I guess that's where I'm confused, what's the line? [[User:Gohan5|Gohan5]] 04:01, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

==Cilan's socks==
In [[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]] In the scene where Ash, Iris, and Cilan land on their stomachs on the bed. They weren't wearing shoes and Cilan was wearing black socks. Is that useful? [[User:Grabbergirl|Grabbergirl ♥ ★]] ([[User talk:Grabbergirl|talk]]) 00:45, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

== Let's set some standards for the galleries, shall we? ==

They were looking a tad messy -- some had no limit to the width, some had a limit of four images per row, some had a limit of five. I've changed it so that galleries with 15 or less images are limited to 5 per row, and galleries with more than 15 are allowed to stretch. This makes the most sense to my aesthetic sense -- any less and it's less of a gallery, more a row of images plus extra, but more than that and it starts taking up too much space vertically. Anyone agree or disagree, can we settle on a standard format?

Besides that, we should probably set down a standard for sorting the images. It's a little hodgepodge right now. Look at Ash's, for example: The first seven images are (presumably) sorted by the chronological order that they appeared in the series. However, that seventh is an image of him in swim trunks, so the next seven are all different images of him in swim trunks. Then we have some that are (presumably) sorted by the chronological order from the BF and DP eras. Then a couple that detail individual articles. Then we have some odds and ends, followed by the two most recent chronologically in XY.

So, can we sort them out a little better? I would think the best system would be to sort them in the same order that they appear in the list above the gallery: First by category, then chronologically within the category. However, I can also see some merit in a straight chronological sort, hence why I took it to the discussion page before starting to rearrange all the pictures. --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 01:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

List of clothing (anime)

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In the [[Pokémon anime]], while the main characters will generally wear a single outfit for several seasons, they have changed outfits from time to time and, at the start of a new [[series]], changed their main outfit entirely. This is a list of the different clothing and outfits worn by the main characters.

=={{Ash}}==
===Main outfits===
All of Ash's main outfits are highlighted by his {{AP|hat}}. They often strongly feature the colors red and blue, along with black, white, green and golden yellow. These are primary and bold colors, accenting Ash's primary status in the series.

====Original series====
[[File:Ash anime art.png|thumb|left|120px|Ash's first outfit]]
One of the curious notes about Ash's first outfit is that, unlike {{an|May}}, {{an|Dawn}}, {{an|Iris}} and {{an|Cilan}}, while it is clear his clothing is directly inspired by {{ga|Red}}'s, it is a unique outfit design in its own right. This fact is also echoed by the outfits of {{an|Brock}} and {{an|Misty}}, which were designed purely for the {{pkmn|anime}} instead of using the outfits seen in the games themselves and the artwork for the games.

The upper outfit is a blue jacket with gold trim and white collar and sleeves, worn open over a dark cyan t-shirt. Ash kept his [[Kanto]], [[Orange League]], and [[Johto]] [[Badge]]s pinned to the inside of the jacket, which from time to time, would be taken off by him, most notably when his Pokémon need warmth. His lower outfit consists of jeans with light blue cuffs, black and white sneakers with red dots on both sides, and a brown belt, which he used to hang his [[Poké Ball]]s.

Ash also wears green fingerless gloves with light green borders, and of course, [[Ash's hat|his hat]]. The only part of the outfit with a known story behind it is the hat, which he won from a contest from the [[Pokémon League]]. Ash would turn his hat backwards when he was concentrating heavily, such as when he would face a Trainer or capture a Pokémon. This was very much the case early in his journey in Kanto, though by the time his journey in Johto ended, he hardly ever turned his cap.

He has a green [[bag|backpack]] with a yellow square label and slings with black adjusters on it. The backpack has two pockets and two open compartments on each side. The main, bigger pocket is delimited by a black zip fastener, while the external pocket has an orange stripe on it.

Ash wore this outfit from ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'' to ''[[EP273|Gotta Catch Ya Later!]]''.
 

====''Advanced Generation'' series====
[[File:AshAG.png|thumb|left|120px|Ash's second outfit]]
Ash's second outfit was the first alternate main outfit to be seen on any character, and by default, the least expected. Brock and Misty's second outfits would not debut until several episodes after Ash's did. This outfit was given to Ash as a gift by [[Delia Ketchum|his mother]] in ''[[EP273|Gotta Catch Ya Later!]]''.

Along with a new hat, Ash wore a hoodie instead of a jacket, black gloves instead of green, and new jeans and sneakers. However, he keeps the hoodie closed, possibly because he no longer keeps Badges pinned to the inside. The backpack is green, with one pocket and a red Poké Ball design on it.

All of his new clothes, however, bear a notable resemblance to his old clothes, probably to maintain his style and avoid confusion which would be caused by a completely new appearance. This becomes a common theme among all new outfits: the new ones take on the style on the former outfits.

The symbol on his hat, backpack, and hoodie pocket reflect the [[Poké Ball]] symbols seen frequently in the [[Generation III]] games, particularly in the designs of the [[player character|main characters']] clothes. Ash's {{series|Advanced Generation}} outfit is similar to the one {{ga|Red}} wears in Generation III, most notably, his sleeves.

Ash wore this outfit from ''[[EP274|Hoenn Alone!]]'' to ''[[DP003|When Pokémon Worlds Collide!]]'', making this the first outfit he has wore during more than one series, with a total of three.
 

====''Diamond & Pearl'' series====
[[File:Ash DP.png|thumb|left|120px|Ash's third outfit]]
Based on the example set by the {{series|Advanced Generation}}, most fans were expecting Ash to wear a new outfit at the start of the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}.

His third outfit takes a step back to his first outfit by wearing a jacket instead of a hoodie, and with colors closer to the original. It also has a white undershirt instead of black for a change, as well as a new hat, new jeans, and new sneakers. The gloves are the same as those from his second outfit. The backpack is similar to to the one he wore in AG, being green with one pocket, and having a white Poké Ball design with a red "button". It should be noted that this new outfit is mostly based on that of {{ga|Lucas}}, the male player character from {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}}. The only differences are the hat designs, sneakers, backpack color, and the fact that Ash wears open fingered gloves, but no scarf. It also bears traits of {{ga|Red}}'s outfit, mainly the white collar, though there is the fact he is now wearing a closed jacket, another similarity with Red's.

One of the most common complaints among fans about the outfit is the yellow stripe across Ash's chest. This is, considering its curve, apparently based on the lower half of the [[Poké Ball]] symbol which was seen on Ash's pocket in his second outfit. However, given how long it is now, it is more difficult to tell.

Ash wore this outfit from ''[[DP003|When Pokémon Worlds Collide!]]'' to ''[[DP191|Memories Are Made of Bliss]]''.
 

====''Best Wishes'' series====
[[File:Ash Ketchum BW.png|thumb|left|120px|Ash's fourth outfit]]
As expected, Ash has received a new outfit for the {{series|Best Wishes}}. Outfit changes are now accepted as routine if and when the anime changes sagas.

As with his previous outfit, this one appears to be modeled on the outfit worn by {{ga|Hilbert}} from {{game|Black and White|s}}, with the differences being the clothing shades and the hat, which resembles the one from the original series. Ash's new clothing closely follows the same color scheme he has always had: red, blue, yellow, green, black, and white. In this series Ash's sneakers are high tops, rather than the normal sneakers he wore during the other series. Instead of blue jeans, Ash starts to wear black baggy jeans and wears a hoodie just like in AG. He wears black fingerless gloves but the border is red. The backpack is blue-green, with one pocket, black straps, and a light green, curved stripe on it, resembling a Poké Ball design.

Ash wore this outfit from ''[[BW001|In The Shadow of Zekrom!]]'' to ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]''.
 

====''XY'' series====
[[File:Ash XY.png|thumb|left|120px|Ash's fifth outfit]]
Ash's outfit seems to be modeled after the outfit worn by {{ga|Calem}} from the games, with some differences. The jacket that Calem wears has been shortened into a collared shirt for Ash, and a black undershirt is visible, both worn very much in the same style as {{ga|Red}}'s Generation III outfit. Ash wears red high top sneakers, similar to those worn in the Best Wishes series, and darker blue jeans. The backpack is one pocket, colored green with a white, slanted Poké Ball design on it, similar to previous generations.

Ash's hat continues to sport the rounded Poké Ball design seen in previous generations, and most notably seems to be directly based off of Red's Generation III hat; albeit modified to somewhat resemble characteristics of Calem's hat as well. In general, the outfit heavily borrows characteristics from Red and Calem.

Ash started wearing this outfit in ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]'' when he received it from his mother [[Delia Ketchum]].
 

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====
* Ash wore a {{wp|yukata}} to a summer festival in ''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''.
* Ash and Brock don party outfits in ''[[EP043|The March of the Exeggutor Squad]]''. Ash wears a bright orange {{wp|tuxedo (clothing)|tuxedo}} with a frilled shirt and orange {{wp|bowler hat}}.
* Ash fantasizes about wearing a blue tuxedo for a movie premier in ''[[EP070|Go West Young Meowth]]''.
* In ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Ash wore an outfit based directly on that of [[Sir Aaron]]: a blue {{wp|tunic}} over a gray long-sleeved shirt and gray pants, matched with blue gloves and boots and a black hat with a teal band and a hooded {{wp|cape}}.
* In the [[Wallace Cup]], Ash wore a fedora hat and a tuxedo.

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
* In the [[original series]], Ash's most common swimwear is a pair of teal trunks with yellow stripes running down the sides.
* Ash wore blue trunks with palm trees and coconuts in ''[[EP108|Pokémon Double Trouble]]''.
* Ash changed to a different swimsuit along with his main clothing in the {{series|Advanced Generation}}, in which he wore orange trunks with a green and yellow double stripe going down the left side. The same pattern was on the right as well, but appeared only on the waistband and was much smaller. This swimsuit actually appeared once before, in ''[[EP067|The Pi-Kahuna]]'', but it didn't appear frequently until Ash's adventures in Hoenn.
* In the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}, Ash wears red trunks with light blue lines at the bottom and dark blue upside-down v-patterns on the sides. Like his ''Advanced Generation'' swimsuit, Ash had worn this one before in ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', but it didn't make frequent appearances until his adventures in Sinnoh.
* Ash wore trunks that were two-shaded blue (dark on top and lighter on the bottom) with white stripes down the sides in ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]''.
* He also wore red trunks with large white Poké Ball prints on the sides in ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''.
* In the {{series|Best Wishes}} Ash wears purple trunks with red lines near the legs and yellow lines on the side.
* Another pair of trunks appears in the fourth ending of the {{series|Best Wishes}}, [[Look Look☆Here]]. The swim trunks are red, with a dark blue stripe at both sides of the trunks. In the anime itself, Ash wore it for the first time in ''[[BW087|Expedition to Onix Island!]]''.
[[File:Ash snow pt.png|thumb|Ash's jacket|right|260px]]

=====Snow wear=====
* Ash wore a red jacket and olive pants in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''.
* Ash wore a jacket similar to {{ga|Lucas}}'s Platinum jacket from ''[[DP125|Battling a Cute Drama!]]'' to ''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''. He was also seen wearing it during the credits of ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''.
* In the freezer room in [[XY023]], Ash, along with Clemont, Serena, Alexa, and Bonnie, he wore an orange snowsuit.

====Other clothes====
* In ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'', when he went to [[Professor Oak's Laboratory]], Ash wore green and yellow pajamas. He also wore it at the beginning of ''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'', when [[Mimey|Mr. Mime]] used a vacuum in front of his face.
**He also wears extremely similar pajamas near the end of ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]''; however these ones are a much lighter shade of green and have a green button instead of a yellow one.
* As of the {{series|Best Wishes}}, Ash has, apparently, worn at least two pairs of boxer shorts. The first boxers he wore were solid white as seen in ''[[EP022|Abra and the Psychic Showdown]]''. The second pair, that Ash has most recently been seen in, are white with thin vertical blue stripes. He was seen in them was when he went swimming in the ocean in ''[[Holiday Hi-Jynx]]'', and in ''[[BW037|A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!]]'' while he was drying his clothes after Bianca accidentally pushed him into a stream. In the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}, Ash wore blue boxers with white lines at the bottom. He apparently still wears them too, as seen in ''[[BW011|A Home for Dwebble!]]'' and ''[[BW017|Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild!]]''. A running gag in the {{series|original}} showed Ash's [[Delia Ketchum|mother]] reminding him to change his underwear everyday, much to his embarrassment.
* Ash wore a cow suit in ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''.
* Ash also had an orange and white dress with red Mary-Janes that he had to wear to get into [[Celadon Gym|Erika's Gym]]. The outfit was worn with a blonde wig with a large pink bow in it. When wearing this outfit, he went by the name "[[Ashley]]". The wig was destroyed when Pikachu electrocuted him, but it is unknown what happened to the dress and shoes afterwards. It is possible he still has them. This is the first of four times that he crossdressed (albeit unwillingly).
* In ''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]'', Ash fantasizes about wearing a {{wp|karate gi}}, and a {{wp|gyōji}} uniform.
* Ash wore a tennis outfit in ''[[EP108|Pokémon Double Trouble]]'' consisting of a white collared shirt and blue shorts.
* Ash wore army attire in ''[[EP133|Tanks a Lot!]]'' and ''[[EP218|Plant It Now... Diglett Later]]''.
* Ash wore a Team Rocket uniform in ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]''.
* Ash wore a blue wetsuit and scuba gear in ''[[EP214|Mantine Overboard!]]'' to help retrieve a {{DL|Legendary artifacts|Silver Wing}}.
* Ash also wore a medieval themed outfit for [[DJ Mary]]'s radio show in ''[[EP160|Air Time!]]''. It was a long blue shirt with light gray tights. He also wore a green cap similar to the signature one of {{wp|Robin Hood}}.
* Ash also wore blue-and-black-colored ninja clothing in ''[[AG156|From Cradle to Save!]]''. Interestingly, he did not wear a white headband like most of the other characters, presumably because of his hat.
* In ''[[AG048|ZigZag Zangoose]]'', Ash wore a Seviper costume.
* Ash and {{AP|Pikachu}} wore Hawaiian-styled clothing in ''[[DP095|Battling the Generation Gap!]]''.
* In ''[[DP138|Strategy Begins At Home!]]'', a flashback of Ash when he was younger shows him wearing a yellow shirt with a red stripe and blue shorts.
* In ''[[BW038|Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!]]'', Ash wears a knight costume for [[Luke]]'s film.
* In ''[[BW051|Lost at the Stamp Rally!]]'', Ash wore a pink tuxedo in the Pokémon Musical.
* In ''[[BW068|An Amazing Aerial Battle!]]'', Ash was seen wearing light blue pajamas while planning out his strategy for his upcoming Gym battle with [[Skyla]].
* In ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'', Ash wore a blue jumpsuit at the Rhyhorn race.
* In ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'', ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]'', and ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]]'', Ash wore his pajamas, which consists of a white and red sleeveless undershirt and blue shorts.

<gallery>
File:Ash Pajamas.png|Ash's pajamas
File:Ash cow suit.png|Ash in a cow suit
File:Ashley.png|[[Ashley]]
File:Ashmaturity.png|Ash without his hat, on his way to retrieve it
File:Ash Misty Brock army.png|Ash in Army attire
File:Misty Hollywood.png|Ash's [[Hollywood]] fantasy outfit
File:Ash Green Trunks.png|Ash's teal trunks in the {{series|original}}
File:Ash Orange Swimtrunks.png|Ash's orange trunks from the {{series|Advanced Generation}}
File:Ash Blue Trunks M09.png|Ash's blue trunks in ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]''
File:Ash Trunks DP089.png|Ash's red trunks in the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}
File:Ash Red Trunks M12.png|Ash's red trunks in ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
File:Ash BW Trunks.png|Ash's purple trunks in the {{series|Best Wishes}}
File:BW ED 04.png|Ash's other pair of trunks in the {{series|Best Wishes}}
File:Ash maid.png|Ash's maid outfit
File:Ash AG156 ninja.png|Ash's ninja outfit
File:Ash Wallace Cup.png|Contest attire for the [[Wallace Cup]]
File:Hawaiian Clothing.png|Ash and {{AP|Pikachu}} wearing Hawaiian-styled clothing
File:Younger Ash DP138.png|Younger Ash
File:Poke Ball Belt.png|Ash's [[Poké Ball]] belt
File:Ash Sinnoh Backpack.png|Ash with his DP bag, without his hat
File:Ancient Ruins door.png|On the right, Ash is seen with his AG bag
File:Ash Different Shirt.png|A different T-shirt
File:Ash Knight.png|Ash's knight costume worn during Luke's film
File:AG108 Winter Jacket.png|Ash's winter jacket in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''
File:Ash Tennis Outfit.png|Ash's tennis outfit in ''[[EP108|Pokémon Double Trouble]]''
File:Ash Musical dance.png|Ash in the Pokémon Musical.
File:Ash as Alder.png|Ash and {{AP|Pikachu}} as [[Alder]] and {{p|Bouffalant}} in ''[[BW069|Climbing the Tower of Success!]]''
File:Serena Ash Racing Clothes.png|Ash's Rhyhorn racing suit
File:Ash Pajamas XY.png|Ash's pajamas in the [[XY series]].
</gallery>

=={{an|Misty}}==
===Main outfits===
All of Misty's main outfits feature the colors yellow, red, and blue.
[[File:MistyEP.png|thumb|left|150px|Misty's {{series|original}} outfit]]
[[File:Misty AG.png|thumb|right|Misty's {{series|Advanced Generation}} outfit]]
====Original series====
Misty's first outfit, and her best known, is a yellow crop top and jean shorts held up with red suspenders. Her entire midriff is revealed here. She wore red and white sneakers with it, and also carried a red drawstring backpack with it.

This outfit also debuted her hairstyle, which is typically the way she always wears it, regardless of her outfit: a small side ponytail. She will occasionally take it down, but usually only if she is sleeping, bathing, or wearing a formal outfit of some sort. With her mermaid outfit, she wears it down with pearl ornaments.

Misty wore this outfit from ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'' to ''[[EP273|Gotta Catch Ya Later!]]'' (and continuing into the first three of four ''Pokémon Chronicles'' episodes she was in).

====''Advanced Generation'' series====
Misty's second outfit is a yellow sleeveless top or vest with a large blue button on the front and matching shorts, worn over some sort of dark-red under-all (swimsuit or leotard, etc.). She wears it with short orange boots. The few times she carries a backpack with it, it is a small backpack designed to look like a {{p|Spheal}}.

Misty started wearing this outfit in ''[[AG044|The Princess and the Togepi]]''. She is also seen wearing this outfit in the special episode ''[[The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon]]'', but she was carrying a pink bag.
 

====''Pokémon Chronicles'' series====
In the early episodes of Pokémon Chronicles involving Misty (''[[SS002|Cerulean Blues]], [[SS005|The Blue Badge of Courage]], [[SS011|A Date with Delcatty]],''), she wears her {{series|original}} outfit. However, in ''[[SS016|Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing]]'' (which was broadcast ''after'' the debut of her AG ensemble), she wears a new "casual" outfit: a sleeveless yellow top with a hood, slightly longer and looser blue shorts, a small white belt with a pink buckle, and reddish-brown penny loafer shoes worn with white socks.

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====
[[File:Misty Kimono Girl1.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Misty in her pink yukata]]
* Misty wears a {{wp|yukata}} to a summer festival in ''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''. It appears again in the fourth ending theme, ''[[Pokémon Ondo]]''.
* Misty wears a stage dress designed to look like {{p|Goldeen}} in ''[[EP043|The March of the Exeggutor Squad]]''.
* Misty wears a pink {{wp|kimono}} and a red wig for the Princess festival in ''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''.
* Misty fantasizes about wearing a red dress for a movie premier in ''[[EP070|Go West Young Meowth]]''.
* Misty and Brock both wore special outfits for the [[Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station]]. Misty's outfit is a red {{wp|Cheongsam}}.

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
* Misty's most common swimwear is a red bikini, seen worn in ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]'', ''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]'', ''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett!]]'', ''[[EP066|The Evolution Solution]]'', ''[[EP142|A Shadow of a Drought]]'' and ''[[EP167|A Hot Water Battle]]''.
* Misty fantasizes about sunbathing in a pink bikini in ''[[EP015|Battle Aboard the St. Anne]]''.
* Misty wears a yellow bikini with a skirt and a red star on the top in ''[[EP067|The Pi-Kahuna]]''.
* Misty wears a red one-piece bathing suit with white flowers in ''[[EP108|Pokémon Double Trouble]]''.
* Misty wears a green and white striped bikini in ''[[SS002|Cerulean Blues]]''.

====Other clothes====
* Misty wore a pink blouse and a long, brown skirt in her fantasy of France in ''[[EP009|The School of Hard Knocks]]''.
* Misty wore a red shirt with a pink jacket with the image of an {{P|Electrode}}, green and yellow stripes and blue sunglasses around her neck, as part of [[Team Rocket]]'s makeover in ''[[EP028|Pokémon Fashion Flash]]''.
* Misty donned a Team Rocket outfit in the second half of ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]''.
* Misty wore a [[Nurse Joy]] outfit while helping out at the clinic in ''[[EP047|A Chansey Operation]]''.
* Misty wore a blue jacket with a black and red cap as a disguise in ''[[EP057|The Breeding Center Secret]]''.
* Misty wears a mermaid outfit when performing at the Cerulean Gym. It was first seen in ''[[EP061|The Misty Mermaid]]''. The outfit consists of a shell-pattern bikini top, a light blue mermaid fin, and a red wig.
* Misty sometimes wears a blue shirt with black sweatpants. She wore it in ''[[EP067|The Pi-Kahuna]]'' and in part of ''[[EP074|All Fired Up!]]''.
* Misty wore a yellow shirt with sleeves as pajamas in ''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''.
* After the weather conditions turned poor in ''[[M02|Pokémon the Movie 2000]]'', Misty wore a pink jacket that had a horizontal light blue stripe across the chest.
* Misty wore an army attire in ''[[EP133|Tanks A Lot!]]''.
* Misty wore a red and pink dress with long red tights in ''[[EP160|Air Time!]]''. One of the sleeves jutted out, which she used as a perch for {{TP|Misty|Togepi}} to sit on.
* A flashback in ''[[SS002|Cerulean Blues!]]'' showed Misty as a baby, wearing a sky-blue shirt and yellow diaper.

<gallery>
File:Baby Misty.png|Misty as a baby
File:EP007.png|Another shot of Misty's original series outfit
File:Misty and Staryu.png|Misty's Advanced Generation outfit
File:Misty outfit SS016.png|Misty in ''[[SS016|Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing]]''
File:Misty Ash Kimonos.png|Misty and Ash dancing in their yukatas
File:Misty EP028 Makeover.png|Misty's makeover
File:EP047.png|Misty's Nurse Joy outfit
File:Jessie Misty kimonos crowns.png|Misty wearing a pink kimono and crown
File:Misty Hollywood.png|Misty's [[Hollywood]] fantasy outfit
File:Misty Brock Sports Outfit.png|Misty and Brock in sports wear
File:Misty Red Bikini.png|Misty in a red bikini
File:Misty St Anne fantasy.png|Misty's St. Anne Fantasy
File:Misty Yellow Bikini.png|Misty in a yellow bikini
File:Misty Green Bikini.png|Misty in a green bikini
File:Misty Goldeen outfit.png|Misty's Goldeen Outfit
File:Misty Mermaid SS002.png|Misty's Mermaid outfit
File:Misty France.png|Misty's French fantasy
File:Misty red dress.png|Misty's red Chinese-style dress
</gallery>
 

=={{an|Brock}}==
===Main outfits===
Brock's main outfits contain different shades of the earthy colors green, brown and orange.
[[File:Brock OS.png|thumb|left|80px|Brock's [[Original series]] outfit]]
[[File:Brock AG.png|thumb|right|120px|Brock's ''Advanced Generation'' series outfit]]

====Original series====
One of the most distinct features of Brock's first outfit was his green vest, which had four large pockets on the front. He wore this over an orange short-sleeved shirt, along with brown pants and blue and white sneakers. On either side of his belt, which was black with a gold rectangular buckle, he had attached brown belt pockets. With it, he carried a large, blue backpack with a bedroll seen strapped to it at the top.

It is assumed he keeps many supplies in his many pockets, just as he tends to fill his bag with more supplies than it should be realistically able to hold. However, he has never been seen reaching into these pockets, so their contents remain unknown. The numerous pockets in this outfit were seen in all of his outfits.

Brock wore this outfit from ''[[EP005|Showdown in Pewter City]]'' to ''[[SS001|A Family That Battles Together Stays Together!]]''.

====''Advanced Generation'' series====
In the {{series|Advanced Generation}}, Brock wore a brown jacket with an orange collar. Under it, he wore a green undershirt, but he no longer wears a belt.
His shoes are a dark blue, and his new backpack is blue, but has no bedroll.

Brock wore this outfit from ''[[SS001|A Family That Battles Together Stays Together!]]'' to ''[[AG192|Home is Where the Start Is!]]''.

====''Diamond & Pearl'' series====
Brock's {{series|Diamond & Pearl}} outfit is one step closer to his original series outfit. He wears a vest again, but the colors are reversed. Instead of a green vest and an orange shirt, he wears an orange vest (which also consists of gray) and a green shirt. His new shoes and backpack are still blue, and his backpack does not have a bedroll.

Brock started wearing this outfit prior in ''[[DP002|Two Degrees of Separation!]]'', and is currently wearing it as of the latest Japanese episode.
 

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====
[[File:Brock DP.png|thumb|right|120px|Brock's Diamond & Pearl outfit]]
* Ash and Brock don party outfits in ''[[EP043|The March of the Exeggutor Squad]]''. Brock wears a white outfit with large pink frills on the sleeves and pant cuffs. He holds a pair of {{wp|maraca}}s with it.
* Brock fantasizes about wearing a blue {{wp|tuxedo (clothing)|tuxedo}} for a movie premier in ''[[EP070|Go West Young Meowth]]''.
* One of Brock's best known outfits is his ''"[[Takeshi's Paradise]]"'' outfit. This was possibly inspired by his outfit in ''[[EP043|The March of the Exeggutor Squad]]''. It is similar in many ways, particularly the pink frills. However, this outfit is purple and red instead of white. Also, he wears a large {{wp|sombrero}} with it, and his {{wp|maraca}}s now look like [[Poké Ball]]s. He wore a similar outfit in ''[[DP087|The Psyduck Stops Here!]]''
* Brock wears a white tuxedo in ''[[EP169|Beauty and the Breeder]]''. He is seen in it again in [[Temacu]]'s wedding fantasy in ''[[EP198|The Heartbreak of Brock]]'' with a rose tucked in the breast pocket.
* Misty and Brock both wore special outfits for the [[Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station]]. Brock's outfit is a lime green tuxedo with an oversized sparkling pink {{wp|bow tie}}.
* Brock wears a purple {{wp|suit (clothing)|suit}} in fantasies in ''[[AG117|Berry, Berry Interesting]]'' and ''[[AG141|Hail to the Chef]]''. For some reason, these fantasies also always involve Brock's woman of choice in a red dress with a white hair accessory, and drinking milk from a wine glass. However, the suit itself is variable; in the first episode, he wears it with a {{wp|necktie|tie}}, and in the second, with a bow tie.
* In ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Brock wears a beige robe similar to that of a priest covered by some sort of {{wp|cape}} or {{wp|mantle}} in brown, green, orange, and trimmed with gold, all topped with an orange {{wp|cap|skullcap}}.

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
[[File:Brock snow pt.png|thumb|Brock's jacket|right|270px]]
* Brock's first swimwear was a pair of light purple swim trunks with three dark blue diamonds on the sides. From the {{series|Advanced Generation}} onwards, these trunks were colored dark purple, due to the different palette used in the digitally colored episodes beginning with ''[[EP261|Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid]]''.
* In ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'', Brock wore a pair of olive green trunks with an orange stripe down the side. These trunks would later become Brock's main swimwear in the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}. Brock also wore his new trunks in the hotspring scene in ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', but this is only known from the artwork, as in the scene itself, nothing below Brock's neck was seen above water.
* Like Ash and Dawn, Brock wore a different swimsuit than his normal one in ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]'' - in Brock's case, a pair of dark green trunks with white lines on them. Like Ash's and Dawn's new swimwear, Brock's new trunks are quite unique, as he only wore them in that movie.

=====Snow wear=====
* Brock wore a red jacket and olive pants in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''.
* Brock wore a jacket similar to {{ga|Lucas}}'s in Platinum from ''[[DP125|Battling a Cute Drama!]]'' to ''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]'', as well as part of the credits of ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''.

====Other clothes====
* One of Brock's best known accessories is his pink frilly {{wp|apron}}. He frequently wears it while cooking or doing other chores.
* He also wears an alternate apron, known as the "movie apron" since it is only seen in the [[Pokémon movie]]s. This apron is bright blue with neon green straps.
* In ''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]'', Brock fantasizes about wearing {{wp|samurai}} {{wp|ō-yoroi}} armor and a {{wp|sumo}} suit.
* He wore a long, blue, medieval-themed robe for [[DJ Mary]]'s radio show in ''[[EP160|Air Time!]]''.
* He wore army attire in ''[[EP133|Tanks A Lot!]]'' when they had a plan to rescue Pikachu and others.
* He wore a stylish outfit with a matching cap in ''[[DP095|Battling The Generation Gap!]]''.
* In ''[[DP137|Three Sides to Every Story!]]'', Brock is seen in his new boxers, which have the same color scheme as his undershirt.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Brock army outfit.png|Brock in army attire
File:Misty Hollywood.png|Brock's [[Hollywood]] fantasy outfit
File:Brock AG156 ninja.png|Brock in a ninja outfit
File:Brock DP095.png|Brock at [[Lila]]'s shop
File:Dawn Brock Swimwear.png|Brock's swim trunks from ''[[DP047|Sandshrew's Locker!]]''
File:Ash Brock outfits EP043.png|Brock and Ash in their dance costumes
File:Brock apron EP085.png|Brock in an apron
File:Brock Takeshi Paradise outfit.png|Brock in his ''Takeshi's Paradise'' outfit
File:Brocks katana.png|Brock in {{wp|samurai}} armor from ''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
File:EP160 outfits.png|Ash and his friends in a "prince" story from ''[[EP160|Air Time!]]''
File:Brock in suit.png|Brock wearing a tuxedo
File:Porta Vista.png|Ash, Brock, and Misty with their original series [[bag]]s
File:Zorua Brock.png|Ash, Dawn, and Brock with their DP bags
File:Brock dp with bag.png|Brock with his DP bag
</gallery>

=={{Tracey}}==
===Main outfit===
[[File:Tracey Sketchit.png|thumb|right|Tracey's main outfit]]
Tracey has only had one main outfit throughout the entire series. It consists of a loose green {{wp|T-shirt}}, reddish-brown shorts, blue and yellow sneakers, an orange backpack, and his most notable accessory, a light red headband that he uses to keep his hair out of his face.
Tracey is the only main character from the original series whose outfit was not changed at the start of any of the newer series.

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====

====Weather clothes====

=====Swimwear=====
* His first swimsuit was a pair of navy-blue swim trunks with two red lines on either side, as seen in ''[[EP092|The Joy of Pokémon]]''.
* The second was seen in ''[[EP108|Pokémon Double Trouble]]''. It is still a pair of navy blue swim trunks but with a sunflower print. He also removed his headband while in this outfit.
* The third was seen in ''[[SS005|The Blue Badge of Courage]]''. It is yet another pair of blue swim trunks but with an orange stripe painted on the legs.

====Other clothes====
In ''[[SS016|Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing]]'', {{an|Daisy}} fantasized Tracey playing the prince in her water ballet alongside Misty. This outfit consisted of a blue shirt with long sleeves and gold trimming, teal pants, a red cape, and a silver crown. This would be the second time he is seen without his headband.

<gallery perrow=5>
File:Tracey trunks EP092.png|Tracey's first swimsuit
File:Tracey Sunflowered Trunks.png|Tracey in flower-patterned trunks
File:Tracey Trunks SS005.png|Tracey's trunks in ''[[SS005|The Blue Badge of Courage]]''
File:Tracey Prince.png‎|Tracey's prince outfit
File:Tracey Dodrio.png|Tracey with his bag, riding a {{p|Dodrio}}
</gallery>

=={{an|May}}==
===Main outfit===
[[File:MayAG.png|120px|thumb|left|May's {{series|Advanced Generation}} outfit]]
====''Advanced Generation'' series====
May's main outfit is a red t-shirt with a dark blue circle around her neck, dark blue bike shorts, white skirt, red and yellow sneakers, a red bandanna with a white Poké Ball print, a yellow waistpack, and dark-blue and white gloves. It is based on the outfit her {{ga|May|game counterpart}} wears in {{game|Ruby and Sapphire|s}}.
[[File:MayDiamondPearl.png|right|thumb|200px|May's {{series|Diamond & Pearl}} outfit]]

====''Diamond & Pearl'' series====
Much like Ash and Brock changed clothes at the start of both the ''Advanced Generation'' and ''Diamond & Pearl'' series, and Misty did before her return in ''[[AG044|The Princess and the Togepi]]'', May changed clothes sometime between her departure in ''[[AG192|Home Is Where the Start Is]]'' and her return in ''[[DP075|Our Cup Runneth Over!]]'' Her outfit in the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}} is based on the outfit that her {{ga|May|game counterpart}} wears in {{game|Emerald}}. It consists of a green bandanna, a red orange sleeveless T-shirt with a black collar, black bike shorts, black socks, and red and white sneakers. She also carries a green waistpack similar to the one she carried in the {{series|Advanced Generation}}. When she got off the boat, she was seen with a yellow backpack. It is unknown if she normally carries this or only had it because she was traveling a long distance (to Sinnoh from Johto).

May wore this outfit as of her latest appearance, and presumably currently wears it.
 

===Side outfits===
[[File:May Dress M08.png|250px|thumb|right|May's dress in ''Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'']]
====Formal clothes====
* In ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. May wears a white, pink and red {{wp|ball gown}} decorated with tiny bows and with a decoration similar to {{p|Beautifly}} wings on the back. She wears her hair in two different ways in this outfit, with different accessories for each: in one way, she wears a large pink bow styled to look like her regular {{wp|kerchief|bandanna}}, and another, she has little pink pom-poms in her hair.
[[File:May Wallace Cup.png|thumb|200px|right|May at the Wallace Cup]]

* During the [[Wallace Cup]], May wore a new dress for the Contest, which was unique because it had an Arabian style to it. It was a pink half shirt with a yellow heart on it with yellow border on the sleeves and neck. She also wore a peach veil with a green gem on top, and a light purple long skirt with a piece of pink fabric at the waist. Her entire midriff is exposed here. She also wears brown flip-flops with toe rings and a yellow necklace with a red heart.

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
* May's most common swimwear is a yellow hearts bikini. This was shown in ''[[AG012|The Lotad Lowdown]]'' and ''[[AG019|Sharpedo Attack!]]''.
* May also wore a pink polka-dotted one-piece swimsuit in ''[[AG019|Sharpedo Attack!]]''.
* May wore a green bikini with red hearts on her hips in ''[[AG020|Brave the Wave]]''.
* Twice May wore a pink bikini, first in ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' and then a second time in ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]].

=====Snow wear=====
* May wore a red jacket and olive pants in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''.

====Other clothes====
* May wore sleeveless pink colored ninja clothing in ''[[AG156|From Cradle to Save!]]''. Like Ash, she did not wear a white headband like the majority of the other characters.
* She was seen wearing winter clothing during a flashback in ''[[DP076|A Full Course Tag Battle!]]'' while at [[Ice Rock]] near [[Snowpoint City]]. It is basically a pink dress with sleeves, her green bandanna, and pink shoes.
* In ''[[DP078|Pruning a Passel of Pals!]]'', May wore orange pajamas.
 
<gallery perrow=5>
File:AG034.png|May with her AG bag
File:May AG156 ninja.png|Ash and May's ninja dress
File:Ice Rock anime.png|At [[Ice Rock]]
File:May Yellow Bikini.png| May in yellow bikini
File:May Swimsuit.png|May in pink one-piece swimsuit
File:May AG020 swimsuit.png|Green swimsuit
File:May swimsuit Movie 8.png|May's pink bikini
File:May swimsuit movie 9.png|May's second pink bikini in the ninth movie
</gallery>

==[[Max]]==
===Main outfit===
[[File:MaxAG.png|150px|thumb|right|Max's main outfit]]
Max's main outfit is a green t-shirt, green and brown sneakers, black glasses and brown shorts. He carries a yellow backpack with his belongings.

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====
* In ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Max's outfit appears to be one of a young prince with a {{wp|beret}} and a {{wp|cape}}.
====Weather clothes====
'''Swimwear'''
* Max's most common swimwear was a pair of green trunks, with no special patterns. This was seen in ''[[AG012|The Lotad Lowdown]]'' and ''[[AG019|Sharpedo Attack!]]'', as well as ''[[AG187|The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!]]''
* He also wore a dark green Speedo in ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'', as well as in ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''.

'''Snow Wear'''
* Max wore a red jacket and olive pants in ''[[AG108|Let It Snow, Let it Snow, Let It Snorunt!]]''

=====Other Clothes=====
* Max wore blue-and-black-colored ninja clothing and a white headband in ''[[AG156|From Cradle to Save!]]''
* Max was seen sleeping in a plain white t-shirt in the beginning of ''[[AG021|Which Wurmple's Which?]]''

 
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Max green trunks.png|Max at hot springs in green trunks
File:MaxSpeedoManaphy2.png|Max swimming in a green Speedo
File:May Max medieval outfits.png|Max and May in their medieval-themed outfits
File:Max Shuppet.png|Max with his bag, playing alongside a {{p|Shuppet}}
</gallery>

=={{an|Dawn}}==
[[File:Dawn DP.png|thumb|right|125px|thumb|Dawn's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
Dawn's outfit consists of a mini dress which is mostly black with a white undershirt inside a V-shaped neck with a short pink skirt. On her head, she wears a white beanie with a pink [[Poké Ball]] print on it. She also wears gold hair clips that hold up her hair in front. On her feet, she wears pink knee-high boots with black socks underneath. She also has a small yellow backpack with all her personal belongings. It is nearly identical to her {{ga|Dawn|game counterpart's}} with the exception of her scarf and bag.

===Side outfits===
====Formal clothes====
Formal clothes are a key part of Dawn's wardrobe, since she dresses up nicely for all her [[Pokémon Contest]]s.
* In her [[DP001|debut appearance]], she was shown to be wearing three different formal outfits when imagining herself in Contests with each of the Sinnoh starters.
* She frequently wears a pink dress during her Contests. In the [[Floaroma Town]] Contest, she decorated her dress with flowers, presumably to fit the town's flowery theme. In the [[Hearthome City]] Contest, she added a yellow Ribbon around her waist and her hair barrettes were star-shaped. The yellow Ribbon was also seen in the [[Wallace Cup]]. In the first round of the [[Celestic Town]] Contest, she decorated her dress with fluffy fur, similar to {{TP|Dawn|Buneary}}'s. In the [[Lilypad Town]] Contest, she again wore her yellow Ribbon with long white gloves. In the [[Daybreak Town]] Contest, she wears short white gloves, with one red Ribbon in each one, and her shoes have one yellow rose in each. Opening and ending themes show her in different dresses, but she has never worn them in Contests.
* In ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]'', Dawn wore a pink outfit for the [[Alamos Town]] Contest.
* In the [[Hearthome Collection]], she wore a plain white-blue dress with a yellow Ribbon at the back. It also came along with a blue, beaded necklace and white shoes.
* In ''[[DP171|Dawn of a Royal Day]]'', Dawn wore [[Princess Salvia]]'s light pink dress with long white gloves, when they swapped places.
* In the [[Sinnoh Grand Festival|Grand Festival]], she wore a new yellow dress with long white gloves and white shoes.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Dawn costume 1.png|Chimchar fantasy
File:Dawn costume 2.png|Piplup fantasy
File:Dawn costume 3.png|Turtwig fantasy
File:Dawn DP011 contest.png|In the Jubilife Contest''
File:Dawn DP027 contest.png|In the Floaroma Contest
File:Dawn DP049 contest 2.png|In the Hearthome Contest
File:Dawn DP077 contest.png|In the [[Wallace Cup]]
File:Dawn DP095 contest.png|In both the Celestic and Chocovine Contests
File:Dawn DP146 contest.png|In the Lilypad Contest
File:Dawn contest.png|In the Daybreak Contest
File:Dawn Grand Festival.png|In the Grand Festival
File:Dawn movie10 pink.png|In the Alamos Contest
File:DawnCollection.png|Dawn in the Hearthome Collection
File:Dawn DP171 princess outfit.png|Dawn as Princess Salvia
</gallery>

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
* Dawn's most common swimwear is a yellow and orange bikini, which she wore in ''[[DP047|Sandshrew's Locker!]]'', ''[[DP063|Hot Springing a Leak!]]'', and ''[[DP089|Up Close and Personable!]]''
* She wore a pink one-piece swimsuit with a short skirt around the waist in ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]'', along with some kind of white undershirt with horizontal black stripes on it.
* In the ending [[In Your Heart, LaLaLa]], Dawn wore a light pink one-piece swimsuit with two white stripes at the bottom.
* Dawn wears a different swimsuit in the [[Best Wishes]] series. This two-piece swimsuit consists of a light green top with vertical dark green stripes and a light green piece of cloth wrapped around her middle. Dawn wore this swimsuit for the first time in ''[[BW087|Expedition to Onix Island!]]''.

=====Snow wear=====
[[File:Dawn snow pt.png|thumb|270px|Dawn in her {{v2|Platinum}} outfit]]
* Dawn wore an outfit nearly identical to her {{ga|Dawn|game counterpart's}} in Platinum from'' [[DP125|Battling a Cute Drama!]]'' to ''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]'', as well as part of the credits of ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''. The only difference is she maintains her gold barrettes rather than wearing pink ones.
* The [[Pokémon Learning League]] website portrays Dawn with her white undershirt having sleeves that reach past her elbows, and black stockings or tights covering her legs.
* Dawn donned a pink cheerleading outfit in ''[[DP018|O'er the Rampardos we Watched]]'', ''[[DP068|A Triple Fighting Chance!]]'' and ''[[DP179|The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!]]''. Her Pokémon have similar outfits. The purpose of the outfit was to support [[Ash Ketchum]] in his Gym battles with Roark, Maylene and Volkner.
* Before leaving her home to start her journey, she was shown to have many clothes in the bag her mom asked her to leave behind.
* Dawn wore a French maid's outfit to help out at the [[Café Cabin]] in ''[[DP062|Tanks for the Memories!]]''.
* In ''[[DP043|Malice in Wonderland]]'' she wore a {{p|Piplup}} costume in her dream.
* One point of the end credits of ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]'' features shots of Dawn in a number of different outfits.
* Whenever she's sleeping, Dawn wears pink pajamas, first seen in ''[[DP009|Setting the World on its Buneary!]]''.
* Dawn wears a long pink nightgown at the start of ''[[DP001|Following a Maiden's Voyage!]]''. It is also seen in the ending ''[[By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~]]''.
<gallery>
File:Dawn Brock Swimwear.png|Dawn's bikini
File:Dawn DP098 Swimsuit.png|A closer view of Dawn's bikini
File:Dawn Cheerleading outfit.png|Dawn in a cheerleader outfit
File:Dawn Maid Outfit.png|Helping out at the [[Café Cabin]]
File:Dawn piplup costume.png|Dawn in her Piplup costume
File:Dawn pokemon cheer.png|Dawn's Pokémon 
File:Dawn Nightgown.png|Dawn's nightgown
File:Dawn DP078 pajamas.png|Dawn's pajamas in ''[[DP078|Pruning a Passel of Pals!]]''
File:Dawn pajamas DP174.png|Dawn's pajamas in ''[[DP174|Last Call, First Round!]]''
File:Dawn movie10 green.png|Green suit in ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]''
File:Dawn movie10 red.png|Chinese dress in ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]''
File:Dawn movie10 black.png|Lolita outfit in ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]''
File:Dawn movie10 blue.png|Cyberpunk outfit in ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]''
File:Dawn and Leona.png|[[Leona]] and Dawn in their kindergarten outfits
File:Dawn PLL.png|In the Pokémon Learning League
File:Dominos Ad Nov08.png|Dawn's dress in a Dominos Christmas commercial
File:Dawn M12 Swimsuit.png|Swimsuit in ''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
File:Dawn and Iris playing.png|Dawn's swimsuit in ''[[BW087|Expedition to Onix Island!]]''
File:Ash Dawn DP bags.png|Ash and Dawn with their bags (DP)
</gallery>

=={{an|Iris}}==
[[File:IrisBW.png|thumb|right|125px|Iris's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
* Iris' usual outfit is exactly the same as [[Iris|her game counterpart]]'s outfit. It consists of a cream shirt that has long loose sleeves with pink cuffs and a pink collar, a pink skirt with a large pink Ribbon on the side, the pink ribbon is tied around her waist just like a normal cardigan would be also there is white and yellow leggings going over her knees, a pink backpack, pink and white shoes with yellow stripes and a yellow hair Ribbon.

===Side outfits===
====Swimwear====
* Iris wore a white swimsuit in ''[[BW003|A Sandile Gusher of Change!]]''. However, it is unknown if it is one- or two-piece, since nothing below her chest was seen above water.
* Iris wears another swimsuit in the fourth ending of the {{series|Best Wishes}}, [[Look Look☆Here]]. It is a light pink one-piece bathing suit, with a dark pink ribbon at the chest. In the anime itself, Iris wore it for the first time in ''[[BW087|Expedition to Onix Island!]]''.

====Other ====
* When sleeping, Iris wears a light pink shirt and pink boxer shorts.
* During the flashback of a younger Iris in ''[[BW033|Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!]]'', Iris was seen wearing a cream top with pink trim, plain white leggings and pink sandals.
* In ''[[BW038|Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!]]'', Iris wore a Dragon Master costume, as well as a princess dress during [[Luke]]'s film.
* Iris wore a pink top with a black skirt and pink hat in promotional artwork for ''[[BW051|Lost at the Stamp Rally!]]'', however, she never wore it in the actual episode.
* In ''[[BW059|Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 1]]'' and ''[[BW060|Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 2]]'', Iris wore a shrine maiden's robes to summon {{p|Landorus}} to stop {{p|Thundurus}} and {{p|Tornadus}}.
* Iris and Axew dressed up as Professor Juniper and Darumaka in the costume contest portion of the Wishing Bell Festival in ''[[BW069|Climbing the Tower of Success!]]''.
* In ''[[BW082|An Epic Defense Force!]]'', in Luke's second film, Iris played the part of an island princess along with {{p|Zorua}} and Axew, and thus dressed up for the part.
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<gallery perrow=5>
File:Iris Swinging.png|Iris with her bag, swinging on a vine
File:Iris Pajamas.png|Iris in her pajamas
File:Iris Swimsuit.png|Iris's swimsuit in ''[[BW003|A Sandile Gusher of Change!]]''
File:BW ED 04.png|Iris's second swimsuit in the {{series|Best Wishes}}
File:Iris Dragon Master costume.png|Iris's Dragon Master costume
File:Iris Princess.png|Iris as a princess
File:Wishful Musical.png|Iris in promotional artwork for the [[Pokémon Musical]]
File:Iris shrine maiden.png|Iris as a shrine maiden
File:Iris as Professor Juniper.png|Iris and {{TP|Iris|Axew}} as [[Professor Juniper]] and {{p|Darumaka}} in ''[[BW069|Climbing the Tower of Success!]]''
</gallery>
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=={{an|Cilan}}==
[[File:CilanBW.png|thumb|right|100px|Cilan's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
* Cilan's usual outfit is identical to [[Cilan|his game counterpart]]'s, consisting of a white shirt, a black and gray vest with gold buttons, a green bow tie, black pants held up with a brown belt, and brown shoes. However, unlike his game counterpart, he does not always wear his apron, instead putting it on occasionally when cooking. He also includes a brown backpack to store his belongings.

===Side outfits===
* Cilan wore green house slippers in ''[[BW040|Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!]]''.
====Other outfits====
* Cilan is shown in his pajamas in numerous episodes which appear to be gray pants and a long-sleeved, light green top.
* Cilan wore a brown detective cap in ''[[BW035|Where Did You Go, Audino?]]'' when investigating the missing {{p|Audino}}.
* In ''[[BW038|Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!]]'', Cilan wears a pirate costume for [[Luke]]'s film, as well as an orange masquerade mask and cape.
* In addition to his brown cap from before, Cilan wore a white trench coat in ''[[BW043|Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!]]''.
* Cilan wore a white tuxedo in promotional artwork for ''[[BW051|Lost at the Stamp Rally!]]'', however, he never wore it in the actual episode.
* In ''[[BW098|Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!]]'' Cilan wore a pink dress with red bows and a blond wig.

====Swimwear====
* Cilan wears swim trunks in the fourth ending of the {{series|Best Wishes}}, [[Look Look☆Here]]. The swim trunks are dark yellow, with a light green stripe and a dark green stripe at each side.
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<gallery perrow=5>
File:Ash Cilan pajamas.png|Ash and Cilan in their pajamas
File:Cilan Pajamas.png|Cilan in his pajamas
File:Cilan Apron.png|Cilan with his apron on
File:BW029.png|Ash and Cilan with their BW bags
File:BW ED 04.png|Cilan's swim trunks
File:Cilan Hat.png|Cilan's hat
File:Cilan Pirate.png|Cilan as a pirate
File:Cilan costume.png|Cilan in his mask and cape
File:Cilan detective.png|Cilan as an interrogator
File:Metro Connoisseur Cilan.png|Cilan as a "Metro Connoisseur"
File:Cilan shirt.png|Cilan without his vest
File:Wishful Musical.png|Cilan in promotional artwork for the [[Pokémon Musical]]
File:Cilan slippers.png|Cilan's house slippers in ''[[BW040|Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!]]''
File:Cilan as Elesa.png|Cilan dressed up as [[Elesa]] in ''[[BW069|Climbing the Tower of Success!]]''
File:Ash Cilan crossdressing.png|Cilan and Ash crossdressing in ''[[BW098|Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!]]''
</gallery>
{{clear}}

=={{an|Serena}}==
[[File:Serena XY.png|thumb|right|100px|Serena's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
* Serena's main outfit consists of a black tank-top with a white collar, a red skirt, a dark pink hat with a black bow, black long socks, and black shoes. She has a pink backpack with a black Poké Ball design to store her belongings. It is nearly identical to her {{ga|Serena|game counterpart's}} with the exception of her hat, collar, bag, and the lack of sunglasses.

===Side outfits===

====Other outfits====
* In ''[[XY001|Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!]]'' and ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]'', Serena wore pink pajamas.
* In ''[[XY002|Lumiose City Pursuit!]]'' and ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'', Serena wore a pink jumpsuit while practicing for the Rhyhorn race.
* In ''[[XY002|Lumiose City Pursuit!]]'', ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'', and ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]]'', Serena wore a lavender sweater and dark-pink shorts as inside clothing.
* In ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'' and [[XY021]], she wore a pink apron while baking.
* In [[XY021]], for filming her PokéVision video, she dressed up in a {{p|Fennekin}} {{pkmn|cosplay}}, consisting of a pink bow, a short top, a pair of wristbands and skirt with Fennekin ears, tail and boots.
* In [[XY021]], she also wore a full-length pink gown with tiered ruffled skirt.
* When cleaning up in [[XY021]], she wore a light blue bathrobe.
* In the freezer room in [[XY023]], Serena, along with Ash, Clemont, Alexa, and Bonnie, she wore an orange snowsuit.

<gallery>
File:Serena pajamas.png|Serena in her pajamas
File:Ash Serena Bonnie pajamas.png|Serena in her hoodie
File:Serena racing suit.png|Serena's Rhyhorn racing suit
File:Serena Apron.png|Serena in her hoodie and an apron
File:XY021.png|Serena in {{p|Fennekin}} cosplay
</gallery>
{{clear}}

=={{an|Clemont}}==
[[File:Clemont XY.png|thumb|right|100px|Clemont's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
* Clemont's main outfit is identical to his [[Clemont|in-game counterpart's]], consisting of a blue and yellow jumpsuit, glasses, and black and white shoes. He stores his inventions in the black and white backpack he calls his "Clemontic gear."

===Side outfits===
====Other outfits====
* Clemont's pajamas were seen in ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'' and ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]'', including a nightcap and long-sleeved shirt with blue and light blue stripes.
* In [[XY018]], Clemont is shown to wear a white sleeveless undershirt and light blue striped bloomers underneath his jumpsuit.
* During his dating video in [[XY021]], Clemont dressed up in a ''habit à la française'', a style of suit popular during the 18th century. It consists of a blue longcoat, teal waistcoat and breeches, orange cravat, white shirt, long white socks, and blue shoes.
* In the freezer room in [[XY023]], Clemont, along with Ash, Serena, Alexa, and Bonnie, he wore an orange snowsuit.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Clemont and Ash pajamas.png|Clemont in his pajamas
File:Clemont underwear.png|Clemont in his underwear and undershirt.
File:Clemont dating video.png|Clemont wearing a nice suit during his "dating" video for PokéVision.
File:Group Snowsuits.png|Clemont in an orange snowsuit with Ash, Serena, Alexa, and Bonnie.
</gallery>
{{clear}}

=={{an|Bonnie}}==
[[File:Bonnie XY.png|thumb|right|100px|Bonnie's main outfit]]
===Main outfit===
* Bonnie's main outfit consists of a dark brown shirt with a black ribbon on the chest, white skirt, black shorts, and pink shoes. She carries a yellow satchel.

===Side outfits===

====Other outfits====
* Bonnie was seen wearing {{p|Tyrantrum}} pajamas in ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]'', ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]'', and ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]].''
* In [[XY017]], Bonnie wore a pink ninja suit.
* In the freezer room in [[XY023]], Bonnie, along with Ash, Serena, Alexa, and Clemont, she wore an orange snowsuit.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Ash Serena Bonnie pajamas.png|Bonnie in her pajamas
</gallery>
{{clear}}

==[[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}}==
[[File:TeamRocketAnime.png|thumb|left|Team Rocket's main outfits]]
===Main outfits===
Jessie and James are usually found in the same outfit at all times: their white [[Team Rocket uniform]]s. There has been some question about the position or rank denoted by these uniforms, since most {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|Rocket Grunts}} wear a black uniform of similar design. However, in ''[[EP231|Dues and Don'ts]]'', it was revealed that Jessie and James designed their own uniforms to "express their sense of style." Jessie and James have only been seen wearing a different color uniform in ''[[SS012|Training Daze]]'', where they (along with the other trainees) wear dark red. They also wore the black uniforms once.{{Fact}}

Meowth, being a Pokémon, has no main outfit and is seen most often not wearing any clothing. However, he does have a fairly notable list of side outfits which he's worn alongside Jessie and James.

====''Best Wishes'' series====
[[File:Team Rocket BW 1.png|250px|thumb|right|Team Rocket's black uniforms]]
Jessie and James changed into their black uniforms in the {{series|Best Wishes}}. They wore these outfits from ''[[BW001|In the Shadow of Zekrom]]'' until ''[[BW023|Battling For The Love of Bug-Types!]]'' when they switched back into their white ones.

===Side outfits===
====Disguises====
{{main|List of Team Rocket's disguises}}
Frequently, when they are not wearing their Team Rocket uniforms, they are most likely wearing something as a [[List of Team Rocket's disguises|disguise]] to fool the [[twerp]]s. These range from very elaborate to very simple outfits, all of which have fooled Ash and {{ashfr}} with similar success.

Several of these disguises are posing as other characters, such as [[Officer Jenny]] and [[Nurse Joy]]. {{an|Brock}} is usually the best at telling these disguises from the actual women, whether he is aware of it or not.

====Formal clothes====
* In ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Jessie and James looked possibly the most out of place, perhaps as a tongue-in-cheek joke, wearing extravagant outfits based more on the {{wp|Victorian fashion|Victorian era}} than medieval times. Meowth, on the other hand, wore one of the most well-known of medieval outfits, a {{wp|armour|suit of armor}}.
* Whenever she competes in [[Pokémon Super Contest]]s, Jessie wears a large orange dress with light brown boots, with round yellow and orange glasses and her hair in pigtails, under the name Jessilina (Japanese: キャンディ・ムサリーナ ''Candy Musalina'').

====Weather clothes====
=====Swimwear=====
* Jessie and James ''both'' wore two-piece bikinis in ''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''. James wore his with giant inflatable breasts. These swimsuits were never seen in the English dub, since the scene containing them was cut.
* Jessie and James also both wore swimsuits in ''[[DP013|A Staravia is Born!]]''. Jessie wore a blue bikini and James wore a blue Speedo. They both had the 'R' logo on them.
* Jessie, James and Meowth were seen using scuba gears in ''[[BW127|The Island of Illusions!]]''.

=====Snow wear=====
* Team Rocket wore green jackets and pants in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''.

====Other clothes====
====Images====
<gallery>
File:EP018DeletedShot.png|The infamous scene that got cut in the English dub
File:Team Rocket bathing suits.png|Team Rocket in their swimsuits
File:Jessie James Swimsuits.png|Jessie's and James's swimsuits from ''[[DP013|A Staravia is Born!]]''
File:AG125 Rocket disguise.png|Jenny and Joy disguises
File:TR disguises EP074.png|Team Rocket during the introduction of the [[Indigo League]]
File:Team Rocket Disguised Officers.png|Team Rocket disguised as [[Officer Jenny|police officers]]
File:Jessie James trainee outfits.png|Team Rocket in a flashback during their days as Rocket Trainees
File:Meowth Prince EP041.png|Meowth dressed up as a prince
File:James suit EP048.png|James in a suit
File:James Moltres costume.png|James as a Moltres
File:Jessie Misty kimonos crowns.png|Jessie and Misty in kimonos and crowns
File:James Professor Oak EP245.png|James as {{an|Professor Oak}}
File:Team Rocket Hawaiian Outfits.png|Jessie, James, and Meowth using their casual clothings from the {{series|DP}}
File:Jessie James Snowcoats.png|Jessie and James wearing green Team Rocket snow coats in ''[[AG108|Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!]]''
File:Jessie James AG032.png|Jessie and James disguises in [[AG032|''Abandon Ship!'']]
File:Jessie Princess Powerzone.png|Jessie as [[DP008|Princess Powerzone]]
File:Jessie Summer School Disguise.png|Jessie's [[Pokémon Summer Academy]] disguise
File:Jessie Jessebella.png|Jessie as Jessebella
File:Jessadia.png|Jessie as Jessadia
File:Jessalina.png|Jessie as Jessilina
File:Jessie Fantina.png|Jessilina as [[Fantina]]
File:James as Jessilina.png|James disguised as Jessilina
File:Jessalina Grand Festival.png|As Jessilina in the Grand Festival
File:BW127 Team Rocket scuba gears.png|Jessie, James, and Meowth in scuba gear
</gallery>
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[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Anime]]
[[Category:Equipment]]

Weaponry in the Pokémon world

2014-04-24T00:30:24Z

Pie: Equipment is equipment, regardless of the purpose.

[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
{{incomplete|needs=Sections for weaponry in the games, manga, TCG, books, etc.}}

== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
|
The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
|}{{-}}

== In the games ==
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|The [[Policeman (Trainer class)|Policeman]] trainer class are armed with batons.
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:Spr BW Policeman.png]]
|}{{-}}

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Talk:Weaponry in the Pokémon world

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Weaponry in the Pokémon world

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[[File:Gun.png|thumb|220px]]
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== In the anime==
'''Weaponry''', mainly {{wp|firearm}}s, have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}} numerous times. While there is generally no concern with this as weapon use is rather mild, an extreme case [[EP035#Banning|caused one episode to be banned]]. Weapons in the anime were a common occurrence in the first half of the [[Original series]], but when the Johto League story arc premiered, all kinds of real-life weapons were practically absent from the show, aside from weapons associated with [[Team Rocket's mechas]].

Weaponry continued appearing from the [[Advanced Generation series]] onwards, though less often.

{| style="background: #000000; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; {{roundy|10px}} border: 3px solid #81807A"
|-
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytl|5px}}"| Episode
! style="background: #FFFFFF;"| Details
! style="background: #FFFFFF; {{roundytr|5px}}"| Image
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"| ''[[EP004|Challenge of the Samurai]]''
|
The boy dressed as a {{wp|samurai}} pulls out a {{wp|katana}} (samurai sword) on several occasions during the episode, but never uses it. The sword is actually just a harmless plastic replica.
|[[File:EP004 Plastic Sword.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP010|Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village]]''
|
Brock uses a {{wp|hunting knife}} to cut down a net trap that had caught Ash, Misty, and Pikachu.
|[[File:EP010 knife.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP012|Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!]]''
|
Team Rocket use a {{wp|bazooka}}, albeit with {{wp|cherry blossom}} petals as ammunition, and a {{wp|submachine gun}} to carry out an armed robbery of the [[Poké Mart]] for bomb ingredients. Shortly thereafter, the store owners and customers mistake Ash for a member of Team Rocket trying to rob the store again and point several {{wp|handgun}}s, {{wp|shotgun}}s, and {{wp|assault rifle}}s at Ash's head. Later in the episode, Team Rocket use the bombs that they had previously stolen to try to destroy the [[Squirtle Squad]].
|[[File:EP012 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP013|Mystery at the Lighthouse]]''
|
Jessie and James try to ward off the {{p|Dragonite}} approaching [[Bill]]'s lighthouse by using bazookas with live missiles.
|[[File:EP013 bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]''
|
Team Rocket try to destroy [[Porta Vista]] by firing a missile at the city.
|[[File:EP018 Heat Missile.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP019|Tentacool & Tentacruel]]''
|
[[Nastina]] and her army use {{wp|tank}}s, assault rifles, and {{wp|rocket launcher}}s to try to kill the {{p|Tentacool}}. She also fires several rounds from a tank, even once at Team Rocket. Team Rocket, Nastina, and her army also attempt to use {{wp|biological weapon}}s to destroy the {{p|Tentacool}}.
|[[File:Nastina and her machine guns.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP020|The Ghost of Maiden's Peak]]''
|
During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying spears. Later, Jessie fires a bazooka at the [[Ghost of Maiden's Peak]] (a disguised Gastly) to no effect.
|[[File:EP020 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''
|
When Ash and his friends infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout where they have stashed all the stolen {{p|Butterfree}}, they attack Ash and Misty's Pokémon with sledgehammers and a clamp. [[Jessie]] even manages to hit [[Misty's Starmie]] with a sledgehammer.
|[[File:EP021 Clamp.png|150px]]
[[File:EP021 Sledgehammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP024|Haunter vs. Kadabra]]
|
{{TP|Sabrina|Haunter}} pulls out a spherical bomb from its mouth, which explodes in its and [[Sabrina]]'s faces.
|[[File:EP024 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP026|Pokémon Scent-sation!]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a small but powerful bomb that explodes and blows a hole through the roof of the Celadon City Gym, as well as setting the Gym on fire.
|[[File:EP026 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP031|Dig Those Diglett]]''
|
The [[foreman]] uses a hammer to attack the Diglett, although the Diglett retreat into the ground before the hammer can hit them. This may be a reference to the game {{wp|Whac-A-Mole}}.
|[[File:EP031 Hammer.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP032|The Ninja-Poké-Showdown]]''
|
While wandering in the labyrinth of the [[Fuchsia Gym]], {{an|Aya}} uses {{wp|shuriken}} to pin Ash to a wooden trap door. Meowth also uses [[Koga]]'s {{p|Voltorb}} as exploding bowling balls to attack Ash and {{ashfr}}.
|[[File:EP032 Stars.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP033|The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]''
|
Right after the race begins, Team Rocket use a slingshot to hit a Trainer's Tauros in the face, causing it to run into a {{p|Nidorina}}, which takes them out of the race and into a fight.
|[[File:EP033 Slingshot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP034|The Kangaskhan Kid]]''
|
This violent episode had much weaponry use throughout. In the first few minutes of the show, Ash tries to capture what he thinks is a {{p|Chansey}} but it turns out to be Safari Ranger Jenny wearing a Chansey hat. She then aims an {{wp|M1 carbine}} at the group and orders Ash to drop the [[Poké Ball]]. James uses a tranquilizer gun to knock out the Kangaskhan. {{ka|Tommy}} uses a {{wp|boomerang}} as a weapon, hitting Ash in the face with it. With it, he also knocks the fuel cap off of Team Rocket's mecha, leaking fuel everywhere; combined with Ash's {{AP|Charmander|Charizard}}'s {{m|Flamethrower}} attack set the mecha ablaze. Then, [[Tommy's parents]] crash into the mecha with a helicopter to save Tommy, Ash, and his friends. Throughout the episode, hammers, logs, and fists are used to hit people.
|[[File:James tranquilizer gun.png|150px]]
[[File:Jenny rifle.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP035]]''
|
This episode was banned due to the {{safari|Kanto}} [[Kaiser|Warden]] pointing a {{wp|revolver}} at {{Ash}} and even firing at {{TRT}}. Team Rocket even held Kaiser hostage and pointed guns at him. Due to this, it left a major {{AP|plot hole|Tauros}} in the anime. Dubs were made, but never aired. Team Rocket also uses a bomb to hurt the Pokémon in the Dragon Valley in order to fish out a Dratini living there.
|[[File:Gun.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP038]]''
|
While Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Team Rocket are inside the computer system, a virus clean-up software represented as a floating ambulance fires missiles at {{p|Porygon}} while the whole group is riding on it.
|[[File:EP038 Antivirus.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP046|Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon]]''
|
Team Rocket used a large amount of dynamite to blow up Grandpa Canyon.
|[[File:EP046 Dynamite.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP052|Princess vs. Princess]]''
|
Before the final match of the Princess contest between {{an|Misty}} and [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}} are dressed up in Mafia-style clothing and Meowth is holding a {{wp|Thompson submachine gun}}. Meowth then asks [[Jessie]] "You want us to take care of her?"
|[[File:EP052 Thompson.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP053|The Purr-fect Hero]]''
|
At the beginning of the episode, Ash and Brock tell Misty that Kids' Day should be a boy's holiday only, because of the Princess festival that had recently occurred. The next scene shows Brock dressed up in samurai armor and holding a katana.
|[[File:Brocks katana.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP054|The Case of the K-9 Caper!]]''
|
Early in the episode, Ash and {{ashfr}} come across a policeman acting as a burglar fleeing. Ash tries to order {{AP|Pikachu}} to stop him, but the policeman is holding a {{wp|pistol}}, which scares Pikachu. Also, Team Rocket use two gases as weapons to dull the Pokémon's sniffing ability and to cause the character's voices to become high-pitched. One substance may be Gloom pollen, as it is labeled with a Gloom, the same color as one, and accompanied by the same sound effect as Gloom's pollen. The latter is implied to be {{wp|helium}}.
|[[File:EP054 Pistol.png|150px]]
[[File:EP054 Biological Weapons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP055|Pokémon Paparazzi]]''
|
At the start of the episode, Ash panics and tries to get everyone down to the ground when he sees a glint of light from Todd's camera, which he assumes to be the scope of a sniper rifle.
When {{TRT}} captures Pikachu, James throws two bombs at {{Todd}} and {{Ash}}. James's third bomb blows up in his face after he is distracted by {{Ash}}'s photo.
|[[File:EP055 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]''
|
Team Rocket use a tank with live rockets to viciously attack Ash, Misty, Brock, [[Stella]], and her Pokémon.
|[[File:Tank EP064.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP068|Make Room for Gloom]]''
|
When Ash, Pikachu, Misty, and Brock arrive at the Xanadu nursery, they start peeking through the glass dome that is the nursery. They then encounter a man named [[Potter]] who is holding something that they mistake as a {{wp|flamethrower}}. It is then revealed to be a garden spray.
|[[File:EP068 The Mistaken Flamethrower.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP071|To Master The Onixpected!]]''
|
Team Rocket successfully fire two rounds of a rocket launcher at an {{TP|Bruno|Onix}}. It emerges unscathed and chases after them.
|[[File:EP071 Rocket Launcher.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP081|Pallet Party Panic]]''
|
Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town by throwing bombs at the townspeople.
|[[File:EP081 Bombs.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP089|Shell Shock!]]''
|
James throws a bomb at Umberto and many people hit it away until Ash gets it. He then throws it away and it explodes.
|[[File:EP089 Bomb.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]''
|
Team Rocket fires two live {{p|Magikarp}} look-alike torpedoes at the Pokémon Showboat.
|[[File:EP090 Magikarp Torpedo.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP104|Bound for Trouble]]''
|
Team Rocket fire a beam cannon at Ash, Misty, Tracey, and {{TP|Misty|Psyduck}}.
|[[File:EP104 Beam Cannon.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP105|Charizard Chills]]''
|
Team Rocket use buzzsaws to attack Ash, Pikachu, and {{AP|Charizard}}.
|[[File:EP105 Buzzsaws.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP113|Viva Las Lapras]]''
|
The two antagonists in this episode, [[Captain Crook]] and [[Scuz]], fire cannons with live cannonballs at Ash, his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and {{AP|Lapras}}.
|[[File:EP113 Cannons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP128|The Whistle Stop]]''
|
James fires a bazooka loaded with a net to pin down Ash, Brock, Misty, and [[Arielle]].
|[[File:EP128 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]''
|
Team Rocket uses a rocket launcher with live missiles to attack the criminals' hideout in order to rescue [[Simon]]. This scene was removed for the dub.
|[[File:EP195 Deleted Scene.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[EP202|The Big Balloon Blow-up]]''
|
During the balloon race, Jessie and James use a rocket launcher to shoot down Ash and [[Skyler]]'s balloons.
|[[File:EP202 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG006|A Poached Ego!]]''
|
[[Rico]] uses an {{wp|FN P90}}.
|[[File:AG006 FN P90.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG045|A Togepi Mirage!]]
|
The royal army of the [[Mirage Kingdom]] use spears as weapons.
|[[File:AG045 Spears.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[AG089|Crazy as a Lunatone!]]''
|
This is one of the few occurrences of live missiles appearing in this arc of the Pokémon anime. Minor villains use live missiles to destroy the meteor containing Lunatone.
|[[File:AG089 Missiles.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP096|Losing Its Lustrous!]]''
|
Mars detonates explosive charges inside the ruins of Celestic Town, causing a diversionary panic and serious damage to an archaeological site and landmark of Sinnoh.
|[[File:DP096 Detonator.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP111|Saving the World From Ruins!]]''
|
Mars threatens to destroy Iron Island with a remote-controlled demolition system, but when she triggers the explosives, the attempt is foiled by [[Riley]] and his {{p|Lucario}}.
|[[File:DP111 Explosives.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP115|Stealing the Conversation!]]''
|
Team Rocket attack Ash and his friends with a bowling pin mecha that's armed with bowling pin missiles. Also, it is shown that this episode's Officer Jenny uses three bowling balls to incapacitate and arrest criminals despite its potential to cause serious blunt force trauma in real life at the high speeds with which she throws them.
|[[File:Bowling Pin Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP117|Noodles! Roamin' Off!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka to save Jessie and James from being blasted by a shiny Metagross's Hyper Beam.
|[[File:DP117 Rocket.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]''
|
Team Rocket try to attack Aggron and Mamoswine with a Golem mecha armed with rock-shaped missiles.
|[[File:Mecha AG154.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]''
|
Hunter J's airship attacks Regigigas, Regirock, Regice, and Registeel with Lasers.
|[[File:J ship laser.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP130|Frozen on Their Tracks!]]''
|
Meowth fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag at Pikachu's group.
|[[File:DP130 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP136|Gateway to Ruin!]]''
|
Agent Looker fights off several Galactic Grunts armed with staffs.
|[[File:DP136 Bos.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]''
|
Meowth uses a bazooka with a retractable grappling hand to steal Dawn's Cyndaquil Egg.
|[[File:DP143 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[DP153|The Treasure Is All Mine!]]''
|
The treasure chest that contains a love letter from James' childhood fired live missiles which caused damage to Growlie, and even had a laser gun that sent Team Rocket blasting off.
|[[File:DP153 Treasure Robot.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW006|Dreams by the Yard Full!]]''
|
Team Rocket's scanning machine attacks Ash and his friends with blue particle blasts.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW006.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW010|A Rival Battle for Club Champ!]]''
|
Team Rocket are found and entrapped by Officer Jenny and a sizable squad of Unova policemen armed with batons.
|[[File:BW010 Batons.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW014|A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!]]''
|
Ash and his friends are attacked by a sword-wielding suit of medieval armor controlled by a Yamask.
|[[File:BW014 Knight.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW034|Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!]]''
|
Team Rocket tests out the Roggenrola Cannon, an experimental energy weapon built by Dr. Zager that uses a hexagonal array of 19 Roggenrola which are energized and forced to use a combined and intensified {{m|Flash Cannon}}. When they try to use it directly on Ash and his friends, the 18 captive Roggenrola disable the weapon by taking control of their core energies and overloading its systems with a reverse-polarity charge.
|[[File:Team Rocket Mecha BW034.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW045|Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!]]''
|
Officer Jenny uses a small breaching charge to destroy a glass balcony door.
|[[File:BW045 Breaching Charge.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW120|Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!]]''
| rowspan="2"| Looker uses a pipe while fighting against Team Plasma.
| rowspan="2"| [[File:BW121 Looker Pipe.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW121|Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!]]''
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[BW136|A Pokémon of a Different Color!]]''
| Under the command of Meowth, James holds and Jessie fires a bazooka loaded with a capture bag to catch a [[Shiny Pokémon|shiny]] {{p|Druddigon}}.
|[[File:BW136 Bazooka.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"

| align="center"|''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]''
|
{{MTR}} pulls out a bomb in attempt to stop all the noise that Pikachu and all the other Pokémon have been making trying to rescue Charizard.
|[[File:Meowth Bomb PK01.png|150px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M02|The Power of One]]''
|
Lawrence III's flying machine attacks Fire Island with a turret that can project ice energy blasts. Later, it is shown attacking Articuno with fire energy blasts.
|
|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center"|''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]''
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During the flashback to the war [[Timeline of events in the anime#Pre-series|2,000 years prior]], armored soldiers are seen carrying swords and shields.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| align="center" {{roundybl|5px}}|''[[M12|Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]''
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The past soldiers of [[Michina]] are armed with {{wp|sasumata}} (Japanese {{wp|man catcher}}s).
| {{roundybr|5px}}| [[File:M12 Spears.png|150px]]
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== In the games ==
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|The [[Policeman (Trainer class)|Policeman]] trainer class are armed with batons.
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[[Category:Pokémon world]]

[[it:Armi nel mondo Pokémon]]

EP011

2014-04-20T03:07:55Z

Pie: /* Dub edits */

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prevcode=EP010 |
prevtitle=Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village |
nextcode=EP012 |
nexttitle= Here Comes the Squirtle Squad |
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epcode=EP011 |
colorscheme=Kanto|
title_en=Charmander – The Stray Pokémon |
title_ja=はぐれポケモン・ヒトカゲ |
title_ja_trans=Stray Pokémon - Hitokage |
screen=yes |
broadcast_jp=June 10, 1997 |
broadcast_us=September 22, 1998 |
en_series=Indigo League |
en_op=[[Pokémon Theme]] |
ja_op=[[Aim to Be a Pokémon Master|めざせポケモンマスター]] |
ja_ed=[[One Hundred Fifty-One|ひゃくごじゅういち]] |
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scenario=武上純希 |
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director=井硲清高 |
art=志村泉 |
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'''Charmander – The Stray Pokémon''' (Japanese: '''はぐれポケモン・ヒトカゲ''' ''Stray Pokémon - {{tt|Hitokage|Charmander}}'') is the 11th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 10, 1997 and in the United States on September 22, 1998.

{{spoilers}}

==Blurb==

Our friends, lost, discover an injured Charmander. Pikachu talks to it and learns that it's been waiting a long time for its trainer to return.

Later, at a Pokémon Center, we overhear a Trainer bragging about abandoning his Charmander. Brock and Ash confront the trainer, named Damien, who challenges them to a battle. Nurse Joy breaks things up and reminds everyone that Pokémon are not to be used for settle personal disputes.

Ash, Misty, and Brock rush to retrieve the Charmander. It's not only threatened by a driving rain that could extinguish its flame, it's also under attack by a flock of Pidgeotto! Fortunately, Pikachu is able to make the Pidgeotto scatter so the Charmander could be saved.

They return to the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy says the Charmander requires an overnight stay.

When our friends wake up the next morning, however, the Charmander is gone!

Is the Charmander still loyal to the neglectful Damien? Will Damien ever learn that a Trainer must be responsible for his Pokémon? And will Team Rocket's latest trap finally succeed?

==Plot==
{{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} seem to have lost their way ''en route'' to [[Vermilion City]], making {{an|Misty}} very frustrated. The group stops to consult a map that {{an|Brock}} has unfolded, and Ash determines that—while they are currently in the middle of nowhere—the trail they are following intersects {{rt|24|Kanto}}, which in turn leads straight to Vermilion City. Brock, satisfied with how they must proceed, puts the map away. But, as they move to leave, a large shadow suddenly falls across their path, causing them to look up in alarm.

With the sunlight shining directly into their eyes, the source of the shadow manifests itself as the impossibly large silhouette of a Pokémon. Ash quickly orders {{AP|Pikachu}} to get ready, but it has other ideas and takes cover behind the group. Just as he begins to rebuke his Pokémon the sunlight's intensity dims, revealing a {{p|Charmander}} sitting upon a rock as having cast the shadow.

After checking his [[Pokédex]], Ash is happy that he finally got a chance to catch a Charmander. Brock points out how weak its tail flame is, and that it probably needs help. Ash throws a {{ball|Poké}} at it, but the Charmander whacks it back with its tail. Ash asks if Pikachu should weaken it first, but Misty suggests she try, because her {{type|water}} Pokémon would help. Brock still doesn't think it is that strong because of its small flame, and suggests that Ash try again.

Ash throws the Poké Ball again, and this time it pulls the Charmander in. However, it breaks out quickly, which causes the Poké Ball to conk off Ash's head. They are surprised by how much spunk the Charmander is showing. "A little too much, if you ask me," is Ash's comment.

Pikachu climbs up onto the rock and talks to the Charmander. It then comes back down and puts on a charades display. Ash eventually figures out that what Pikachu is saying is that Charmander is waiting on the rock for someone else to come pick him up. Brock decides that if it belongs to someone else, it is best to leave it. Ash and his friends leave.

Farther down the trail, Ash and his friends discover the [[Pokémon Center]] that is on the map. Ash declares that Route 24 can't be far now. And they couldn't have found it at a better time, as it soon starts to rain, forcing them all to race quickly down to the Pokémon center.

A brief scene shows the Charmander still on the rock, vainly trying to protect its tail flame from the rain with a leaf (as it will die if its flame goes out). Back at the Pokémon Center, Misty is serving up some soup, but Brock is still worried about the Charmander. Ash points out that there's no way the Charmander would have waited around that long. Brock agrees, stating that the Trainer surely would have gotten it by now.

However, they hear laughter nearby, and look over to see a Trainer named [[Damian]] surrounded by a group of hanger-ons. They are awing over his Pokémon collection, which is pretty sizable, when one of them asks if he has a Charmander too. Damian reveals he did, but since it was so weak, he left it on a rock out in the middle of the woods promising to return for it, which he had and still has no intention of doing.

Ash and his friends realize that it must have been his Charmander they saw and that based on Damian's description of Charmander's loyalty to him, it must still be waiting on the rock. This pushes the normally calm Brock over the edge, and he stands up and makes his way over to Damian. While they continue to laugh about how the Charmander is probably still waiting, Brock confronts Damian, telling him to go get the Charmander.

Damian pushes him off, but Ash and Misty soon arrive to back up Brock. The argument almost escalates to a [[Pokémon battle]], but [[Nurse Joy]] breaks it up, saying Pokémon should never be used in personal battles. Damian and his crew leave, and Joy warns Ash, Misty and Brock about their bad reputation. Brock spaces out in his usual fashion, but Ash and Misty snap him out of it by reminding him about the Charmander.

The three race back through the pouring rain towards the rock where the Charmander is, only to find it is now having worse problems than the weather. A gang of {{p|Spearow}} attack it, and Ash tries to drive them off by throwing a rock at them, but this only causes them to attack him and his friends. Ash orders a {{m|ThunderShock}} from Pikachu, and it obeys, scaring off the Spearow. Unfortunately, its ThunderShock inadvertently zaps Ash, Misty, and Brock too.

They quickly wrap Charmander up in their rain coats, Ash volunteering to make sure its tail flame stays lit. Then they race back to the Pokémon Center, and ask Nurse Joy to help.

Nurse Joy is angry at Ash and his friends, wondering how they could have let the Charmander get into such bad shape. But Ash explains that it was Damian that left the Charmander out there, taking advantage of Charmander's loyalty. Brock pleads with Nurse Joy to save the Charmander, and she promises to do whatever she can.

From there, there is nothing they can do but wait. A montage of scenes show the three waiting, while Brock silently pleads for Charmander to hang on. Nurse Joy soon comes out, though, and reports success. The Charmander has pulled through, and it will be fine by morning.

When morning comes, Ash and Misty are asleep on couches in the lobby, Pikachu asleep below. Ash rolls over, causing his blanket to drop onto Pikachu. Suddenly, Brock shouts, causing Ash to crash off the couch. It turns out Charmander has disappeared from the ER.

Ash is certain that the Charmander has simply gone back to the rock. Brock wants to go after it again, but Misty points out that it is no use. Even though Damian is a jerk, the Charmander is still loyal to him, and nothing is likely to change that. They can't force Charmander to go with them if it doesn't want to.

A scene shows Charmander on its way back to the rock, stopping long enough to look back at the Pokémon Center. Ash and friends are soon on their way as well, Brock still disappointed. Ash points out that Charmander knew they cared about it, but it couldn't forget about Damian. Misty then slaps Brock, saying that Route 24 is just ahead, and there would be plenty of Pokémon once they get to Vermilion City.

Up ahead, {{TRT}} is grouped around [[Team Rocket's mechas|their newest mecha]]. They go into a dancing version of their {{motto}}, but {{MTR}} cuts in early. They declare they now had a foolproof plan to capture Pikachu, and they start up their "automatic super-duper high-speed whatchamacallit," which turns out to be an over glorified hole driller.

Meowth flips, saying they [[EP005|tried this already]], but James assures Meowth that, this time, they'll remember where the hole is. They go to work covering the hole, and when Meowth asks if they were sure, Jessie responds, "Don't you think we're smarter than that?." Meowth replies with a face fault. Suddenly, he sees Ash and Co. coming, and alerts the others. They quickly hide, and Jessie orders the mecha to hide itself as well.

Pikachu comes up to the hole and walks right over it. It seems that Pikachu was too light to trigger the pitfall. Jessie and James argues over who blew it this time, until Meowth shuts them up with {{m|Fury Swipes|scratches}} to the face. Ash, Brock, and Misty, being a lot heavier, end up triggering the pitfall and fall into the hole.

Team Rocket then appear, laughing at the fact that their trap worked. Pikachu tries to shock them, but they are dressed in rubber uniforms that don't conduct electricity. Pikachu tries to make a break for it, but they fire the Anti-Pikachu Rubber Balloon Bazooka, which eventually catches Pikachu and traps it inside.

Ash realizes that Pikachu is in trouble. So he quickly tries to climb out of the pit, but fails. He tries to get Misty and Brock to get him up, but finds he is standing on them. Team Rocket gloats for a while, and turn to leave, but at that moment Charmander steps in their way.

Charmander, as translated by Meowth, orders them to give Pikachu back to Ash and the others. Team Rocket naturally refuse, and warn the Charmander to beat it or else. The Charmander responds by closing its eyes, focusing hard, and unleashing a massive {{m|Flamethrower}}, which roasts Team Rocket.

They drop the Pikachu balloon and run like crazy. James screams, "Didn't I tell you we needed fireproof uniforms?!" Jessie tells him to keep running. "Some geniuses", says a despondent Meowth. Team Rocket are "blasting off again" by running off, much to the surprise of Damian, who had not realized Charmander was so powerful.

Ash, Misty, and Brock, having gotten out of the pit, thank Charmander for its help, and Ash asks Charmander if it wants to come along with them. However, Damian shows up, saying he has come back for Charmander, "just as he promised". Ash is angry, saying he was just bragging about how he abandoned Charmander, but Damian laughs, saying it toughened him up. He adds, "Besides, what's wrong with dumping off a weak Pokémon?"

Charmander seems to be taking exception to most of these statements, but Damian goes on about not even having to make Charmander tough himself. Brock angrily replies that raising a Pokémon is the best part of being a Trainer, but Damian calls it the most boring part. Finally, Damian, having had enough talk, flings a Poké Ball at Charmander. The Charmander, realizing that Damian neither cares nor respects it, whacks the ball right back into Damian's face.

Damian is now furious, and attempts to crush Charmander with every Pokémon he has, but Charmander turns its Flamethrower against him. Pikachu adds a ThunderShock of its own, and the utterly scorched and fried Damian runs off crying. The others cheer Charmander for its choice.

Brock tells Ash to go ahead and catch Charmander. Ash protests at first, but Brock convinces him that Ash will raise Charmander to be a great Pokémon. Ash accepts Brock's decision, and takes his opportunity throws a Poké Ball, which Charmander dives into for an easy catch. With a new Pokémon, and a new friend, Ash and friends continue on their way to Vermilion City.

==Major events==
* {{Ash}} [[Caught Pokémon|catches]] a {{p|Charmander}}.
{{animeevents}}

===Debuts===
====Pokémon debuts====
* {{p|Charmander}} ({{OP|Ash|Charmander}})

==Characters==
===Humans===
[[File:Dare da EP011.png|thumb|200px|right|{{tt|Dare da?|Who's That Pokémon?}}]]
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Misty}}
* {{an|Brock}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* [[Nurse Joy]]
* [[Damian]]

===Pokémon===
[[File:WTP EP011.png|thumb|200px|right|Who's That Pokémon?]]
[[Who's That Pokémon?]]: {{p|Charmander}}
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Charmander}} ({{OP|Ash|Charmander}}; formerly [[Damian]]'s; new; debut)
* {{p|Spearow}} (multiple)
{{right clear}}

==Trivia==
* This is the first episode that credits Izumi Shimura as an animation director.
* This is the second episode of a three-episode arc where Ash catches each of [[Kanto]]'s [[starter Pokémon]].
* Damian is shown to be carrying around twenty [[Poké Ball]]s, all allegedly containing Pokémon; however, it is later established that a Trainer can only carry six Pokémon at a time in their party, just like in the games. This may be because he wasn't shown to have a [[Pokédex]]; therefore, he is not forced to use the storage system.
* This is the first episode mentioning that Pokémon could die.
* It is revealed in this episode that using a {{pkmn|battle}} to settle a personal argument is frowned upon, and that Pokémon battles are not supposed to occur in [[Pokémon Center]]s. Ironically, [[Generation IV]]'s {{v|Platinum}} introduces the concept of battling Trainers in Pokémon Centers.
* This is the first episode that Meowth translates a Pokémon's speech.
* This episode is featured on the ''Volume 9: Charmander'' copy of [[Pokémon All-Stars]].
* Parts of this episode were reanimated and used for flashback material for ''[[BW116|Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion]]''.

===Errors===
[[File:EP011 error.png|thumb|200px|The missing "Zs"]]
* When Ash and his friends rush up to the rock to get a closer look at the shady Pokémon, the "Zs" underneath Ash's eyes disappear.
* Charmander's eye shape changes to resemble that of a Charizard whenever zoomed in upon.
* After Nurse Joy stops running, two extra footsteps are heard.
* When Pikachu is running from Team Rocket's balloon, his feet have pads.

===Dub edits===
* When Damian brags about abandoning Charmander, he mentions that Charmander was so weak that it couldn't defeat a {{p|Poliwag}}. This dialog was cut out in the dub.

==In other languages==
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GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T20:43:09Z

Pie: Added a few more, thanks to Swifty's list of shippy-ish moments between them.

{{ship}}
'''GeekChicShipping''' (Japanese: '''シトセレ''' ''CitSere'') is the belief that {{an|Clemont}} and {{an|Serena}} belong in a romantic relationship. It is named after the [[wp:Geek#Geek chic|geek chic]] fashion trend, and reflects their personalities: Clemont is geeky, and Serena is {{wp|chic}}.

The fan following for this ship is moderate at best, but shows early signs of rising popularity. One noted contributor to the growing support for this ship is that it offers fans an alternative to {{s|Amour}}, which may not appeal to all and conflicts with many other popular ships involving {{Ash}}. Additionally, some fans see GeekChicShipping as a more interesting potential direction for Serena's {{wp|character arc}}, rather than if her established crush smoothly progressed into a relationship.

==Anime evidence==
While there is a lack of substantial evidence suggesting a romantic attraction, their dynamics are typically very positive. Clemont is shown to enjoy opportunities to explain new things to Serena, and proudly demonstrates his inventions for her. On the other hand, despite her canon crush on Ash, Serena still shows plenty of kindness and concern towards Clemont.
===Clemont's hints===
* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: Upon meeting Serena, Clemont's father, [[Meyer]], teases him about meeting such a cute girl, and implies that there's more than friendship between them. In the dub, Meyer even calls her Clemont's "beautiful girlfriend". Embarrassed, Clemont awkwardly replies that it's not like that. Later, when Clemont is struggling with the passcode for [[Clembot]], he listens to the advice given by Serena, to calm down and think about it carefully. Because of her, he's able to calm down enough to realize what the true passcode is.

* ''[[XY014|Seeking Shelter from the Storm!]]''
: Despite Clemont claiming he can't trust "what is not scientifically proven", he's visibly chilled by Serena's un-scientific theories. This can be taken to mean that he trusts in what she says, even when her superstitions are at odds with his better judgment.

* [[XY021]]
: When Serena dresses up in her {{p|Fennekin}} {{pkmn|cosplay}}, Clemont is thrilled to see her. He smiles so hard that his glasses slip halfway down his face.

===Serena's hints===
* ''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
: Clemont compliments her {{p|Rhyhorn}} racing skills and she blushes, flattered.

* ''[[XY009|Clemont's Got a Secret!]]''
: When Meyer teases Clemont about Serena, implying that there's more than friendship between the two, she smiles and doesn't deny this. Later, she decides to support him in stopping Clembot despite the danger involved.

* ''[[XY012|To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler!]]''
: Usually when Clemont shows off an invention to her, she doesn't seem quite as enthused as Ash, particularly if it malfunctions. However, when [[Officer Jenny]] questions how they'll be able to track the signal of a chip, it's Serena who proudly declares "We have an inventor on our team!", setting the stage for Clemont to introduce his machine. This can be taken to mean she admires his technical skills more than she lets on.

* ''[[XY015|An Appetite for Battle!]]''
: When Clemont is upset because he thinks Chespin hates him, Serena is the one to cheer him up.

* [[XY018]]
: Though Serena agrees to leave Clemont with [[Princess Allie]], she has a playful expression about it, suggesting that she's just teasing Clemont. Later, when he shows up in his underwear, she covers her face and turns away in embarrassment.



==Trivia==
* Both only have one parent shown in the {{pkmn|anime}}, [[Meyer]] and {{kal|Grace}} respectively.
* Both share the hobby of cooking: Clemont specializes in the main course, and Serena in dessert, meaning they can make full course meals together.
* Besides both shooting videos in [[XY021]], they also both [[List of clothing in the anime|dressed up in formal, French-style outfits]].

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User:Pie/Shipping terminology

2014-04-19T17:47:13Z

Pie: Let's see where this goes.

{{mainspace}}

= Notice (REMOVE THIS SECTION WHEN MAINSPACING) =
This could be published to the Mainspace either as a series of separate articles, or as one merged article. They are being developed on one single page simply to conserve daily edits. Right now the aim is to have each developed enough to serve as its own article, but this may not happen if there's not enough to say for each.

= One True Pairing =

The term '''One True Pairing''', commonly abbreviated as '''OTP''', refers to a [[shipping|pairing]] that a fan prefers over all others. In its lightest interpretation, it's a shorthand identifier for a favorite ship. However, it often carries with it the implication that it is preferred ''to the exclusion'' of other ships, and that the fan may antiship any rival pairings. It is from this interpretation that the term arises.

In the Pokémon fandom, the most common OTPs are those which involve the main characters, {{Ash}} and [[Ash's friends|his friends]]. Unsurprisingly, the majority of these are rival ships to each other. This is the primary driving force behind ship wars.

= Rivaling ship =

A '''rivaling ship''', sometimes referred to as just a '''rival ship''', is a ship which is considered incompatible with another ship, due to the two involving the same character. For example, {{s|Poké}} and {{s|Pallet}} are rival ships to eachother, due to both involving {{Ash}}.

= Ship war =

= Antishipping =

'''Antishipping''' is the belief that two characters in the [[Pokémon]] universe are not in a relationship, will never be in a relationship, and ''should'' never be in a relationship. It is the opposite of [[shipping]], exactly as the word implies.

There are numerous reasons why someone may antiship a pairing:
* One of the most common is that they strongly support one of its rival pairings, to the point that they see this 'competition' as unpalatable. For example, a [[Shipping:PokéShipping|PokéShipper]] may antiship other pairings involving {{Ash}}, and argue against their support.
* Other times, they might see a pairing as too implausible to enjoy, or against the characterization of the characters involved. This frequently occurs when a ship does not align with someone's interpretation of a character's sexuality. For example, someone may antiship {{s|Rocket}} if they believe that [[James]] is completely {{wp|homosexual}}.
* The pairing may contain controversial subject matter that conflicts with their views.
* If nothing else, a fan may antiship a pairing simply because it doesn't appeal to them.

As a whole, the Pokémon fandom tends to frown on fans being outspoken against their antiships. This is considered ruining the fun of the fans who do support the pairing, and has led to many of the fandom's ship wars.

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T16:52:46Z

Pie: Went out and checked some stuff like pixiv, Tumblr, dA, got some rough and dirty metrics, compared to some other ships -- While not exploding like AmourShipping, there's signs of traction.

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T14:27:48Z

Pie: /* Anime evidence */ Oh, right, today's episode.

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T14:03:28Z

Pie: I linked it on AmourShipping, so I'll link it here.

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T00:36:14Z

Pie: /* Anime evidence */ Wording it better

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-19T00:11:35Z

Pie:

XY023

2014-04-17T23:33:58Z

Pie:

{{undubbed|822}}

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(Japanese: '''オーロラの絆！アマルスとアマルルガ！！''' ''The Bond of the Aurora! {{tt|Amarus|Amaura}} and {{tt|Amaruruga|Aurorus}}!!'') is the 23rd episode of the {{series|XY}}, and the 822nd episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on April 17, 2014.
{{spoilers}}


==Plot==

==Major events==

* {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} meet up with [[Alexa]] again.
{{animeevents}}

===Debuts===
====Pokémon debuts====
* {{p|Amaura}}
* {{p|Aurorus}}

==Characters==
===Humans===
[[File:Pokémon Quiz XY023.png|200px|thumb|right|Pokémon Quiz]]
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Serena}}
* {{an|Clemont}}
* {{an|Bonnie}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* [[Alexa]]
* [[Takeda]]

===Pokémon===

[[Who's That Pokémon?|Pokémon Quiz]]: {{p|Amaura}} ''(Japan)''
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Wobbuffet}} ({{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}})
* {{p|Froakie}} ({{OP|Ash|Froakie}})
* {{p|Fletchling}} ({{OP|Ash|Fletchling}})
* {{p|Dedenne}} ({{OP|Clemont|Dedenne}})
* {{p|Chespin}} ({{OP|Clemont|Chespin}})
* {{p|Fennekin}} ({{OP|Serena|Fennekin}})
* {{p|Inkay}} ({{OP|James|Inkay}})
* {{p|Helioptile}} ([[Alexa]]'s)
* {{p|Onix}} ([[Grant]]'s; flashback)
* {{p|Surskit}} ([[Viola]]'s; flashback)
* {{p|Amaura}} (debut)
* {{p|Aurorus}} (debut)
* {{p|Meowstic}} (female)
* {{p|Kecleon}}
* {{p|Kabuto}} (fossil)
* {{p|Aerodactyl}} (skeleton)
* {{p|Dragonite}} (skeleton)

==Trivia==
[[File:Title Card XY Ash.png|thumb|200px|The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode]]
* [[Professor Oak's lecture|Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster]]: {{p|Espurr}}
** Instead of Pokémon Holo Caster, the new trailer for the upcoming [[M17]] and {{p|Diancie}} and {{p|Darkrai}} giveaways were shown.
===Errors===
* When {{an|Serena}} orders Fennekin to use {{m|Hidden Power}} on {{MTR}}, her hair is colored brown instead of honey.
* When everyone was calling Amaura to play with them, {{an|Bonnie}}'s hairclip is colored the same way as her skin.
<gallery>
File:XY023_error.png|Serena's hair error
File:XY023_error_2.png|Bonnie's hairclip error
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===Dub edits===

==In other languages==

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Talk:Diantha

2014-04-17T15:50:00Z

Pie: /* Relation to Diancie */

== Name meaning ==

Diantha's English, French, and Spanish names refer to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus ''dianthus''], more commonly known as the carnation or pink. Her Japanese name seems to be an intentional misspelling of "carnation" (カーネーション), with "carna-" becoming カルネ. [[User:Arpha|Arpha]] ([[User talk:Arpha|talk]]) 20:09, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

== Key Stone ==
<s>
Diantha has a Key Stone embedded in her necklace, like how male XY protagonist and female XY protagonist have one embedded in their Mega Rings. herefore she is a Mega Man. Can this be added to the article or is it speculation right now?</s> --[[User talk:Relicant|The]] [[Special:Contributions/Relicant|Truth]] aka Relicant 11:35, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

== Resemblance ==
Diantha seems to bear a fairly decent resemblance to French actress {{wp|Audrey Tautou}} (others elsewhere see some of {{wp|Audrey Hepburn}}) and both of course share the same profession. Too much of a stretch to add somewhere or best kept out of the page? [[User:Chicobo329|Chicobo329]] ([[User talk:Chicobo329|talk]]) 23:28, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:I might of said yes if I didn't check the articles, but I would say that there should be a bit more discussion on adding Audrey Tautou since there are three points of similarity. --[[User:Super goku|Super goku]] ([[User talk:Super goku|talk]]) 03:29, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::Doesn't Ken Sugimori have a Twitter account? Why doesn't somebody ask him? [[User:Glik|Glik]] ([[User talk:Glik|talk]]) 03:43, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
:::She is [http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22800000/audrey-audrey-hepburn-22871737-900-1359.jpg exactly like Audrey Hepburn] to me, too similar to be a coincidence. Someone who knows Japanese should ask Sugimori via Twitter. Wasn't that how he finally confirmed Brendan has a hat, and not white hair? - [[User:Taylor|Taylor]] ([[User talk:Taylor|talk]]) 13:19, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

== Higher resolution picture ==
I found the same Diantha picture featured in this article, but in a much higher resolution. Would it be OK if I replace the current one with this one?
[http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vp/image/1379/12/1379123851679.jpg]

I think it would be a good idea because in this one you can actually appreciate the Key Stone in Diantha's Mega Necklace.[[User:Karasuhebi|Karasuhebi]] ([[User talk:Karasuhebi|talk]]) 22:14, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

:It's pretty much exactly the same as the artwork that's on site. It has to be smaller on this page to fit the info box. --[[User:Funktastic~!|'''It's''' '''Funktastic~!''']][[User talk:Funktastic~!|''話してください'']] 22:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

::Sorry but I don't understand what you meant by "It has to be smaller on this page to fit the info box". Maybe my intention wasn't clear. I mean to leave the thumbnail that we see in the infobox the same size, but I want to replace the actual image with the one linked above, since it's the same one, just in a way higher resolution. Sorry if I confused things, I didn't mean to. :-\[[User:Karasuhebi|Karasuhebi]] ([[User talk:Karasuhebi|talk]]) 22:24, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

:::She understood; she's saying the file we have is already of the same quality as yours, it's just that shrinking it down for the infobox makes it appear lower resolution. [[User:Glik|glik]][[User talk:Glik|glak]] 22:59, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

::::It's not though, the one I found is 1715x2590 and the one you guys have is 781x1280. Unless I'm missing something? [[User:Karasuhebi|Karasuhebi]] ([[User talk:Karasuhebi|talk]]) 23:01, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

:::::You'd have to cut down your file size to upload it (files generally shouldn't exceed 1280x1280). After that, there's not going to be any discernible difference. Especially if it's shrunk even further to fit the infobox. [[User:Glik|glik]][[User talk:Glik|glak]] 23:18, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

::::::I see, I see. Now that you mention the 1280x1280 guideline I understand, they _would_ be pretty much identical. Thanks for the clarification! [[User:Karasuhebi|Karasuhebi]] ([[User talk:Karasuhebi|talk]]) 23:36, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

== Relation to Diancie ==

I can't help but notice remarkable similarities between Diantha and the Pokémon Diancie. Aside from the name, they both wear a white dress of a similar style. Perhaps this is a coincidence. Though it seems unlikely to occur within the same game by accident...
[[User:PlatinumAltaria|PlatinumAltaria]] ([[User talk:PlatinumAltaria|talk]]) 10:07, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
:While they may bear similarities to each other, adding anything about a potential relationship would be speculation, which we try to avoid in articles. '''''[[User:Pokemaster97|--Pokemaster]][[User talk:Pokemaster97|97]]''''' 18:34, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
::Due to the Japanese name of Diancie being, well, Diancie, and the Japanese name of Diantha being Carnet, it's highly unlikely. [[User:Pikachu Bros.|Pikachu Bros.]] ([[User talk:Pikachu Bros.|talk]]) 18:36, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
:I also noticed this, and tried discussing it on the talk page, but... well, it was removed due to the ultimately speculative nature of the issue. I have to point out, though, that the similarities go further than the dress: The outline of the braid that wraps around Diantha's head traces the same shape as the second row of cuts in the gemstone on Diancie's forehead. Additionally, they reuse what appear to be the same shades of gold, pink (on Diantha's handbag) and gray (Diantha's eyes). I feel this is more than enough to conclude that this is an intentional design reference. Even if we can't say why they did it -- for all we know, they might have just liked the way Diancie looked -- is the visual connection solid enough to make note of it in the Trivia section of one or both articles? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 22:45, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
::Almost forgot -- her Japanese name may not be as similar, but Carnet does have a striking similarity to the word garnet, another gemstone. She does have the two rock-types on her team already. If a connection to Diancie is ever confirmed, can we then start assuming the gem puns are intentional, or is this simply too speculative, even compared to most trivia about names? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 15:50, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Pie/Signature Pokémon

2014-04-15T23:22:43Z

Pie: Some phrasing stuff.

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A '''signature Pokémon''' is the Pokémon which is most commonly associated with a {{pkmn|trainer}}. It is be the standout member of their [[party|team]], typically being more [[rarity|rare]] and higher [[level]] than any other Pokémon they own, and often held in reserve in the final slot. If the trainer appears more than once, the rest of their team may be subject to change, but their signature Pokémon will always be a part of it. In a sense, it can be considered the leader or star of the team.

It's not always completely clear which Pokémon is a trainer's signature. This happens most often when a trainer returns for several games, in which case they might return with the same signature or switch to a new one.

In some instances, rather than a single signature Pokémon, a trainer may have several from the same [[evolutionary family]]. Most commonly, this is seen when the trainer returns with a stronger team, such as [[Falkner]]'s {{p|Pidgeotto}} appearing as its [[evolution|evolved]] form, {{p|Pidgeot}}, in any appearance outside of his own [[gym]]. This might also be used as a way to showcase new evolutions, such as [[Erika]] switching between {{p|Gloom}}, {{p|Vileplume}} and {{p|Bellossom}} depending on the adaptation. In early games, this tends to show up as a symptom of [[type expert]]s specializing in a [[type]] with few options, such as [[Agatha]] only having the {{p|Gastly}} line to choose for {{type|Ghost}}s, and [[Lance]] facing the same problem with the {{p|Dratini}} line for {{type|Dragon}}s.

Trainers tend to have a special connection with their signature Pokémon. It may be the [[starter Pokémon|first Pokémon]] they ever trained, or one that they encountered through special circumstances. These Pokémon will have been with their trainers for a long time, and the two will have built a strong bond of [[friendship]]. [[Pokémon Connoisseur]]s have a particular fascination with signature Pokémon defined by these bonds, which they refer to as a premium brand.

Some trainers will take things a step further, and will [[Pokémon cosplay|wear clothes modeled off of their signature Pokémon]]. For example, [[Pike Queen Lucy]] dresses in clothes with the same patterns as [[Lucy's Seviper|her Seviper]], and the [[Gym Leader]] [[Fantina]] wears a dress that looks like her signature {{pkmn|Super Contest}} Pokémon [[Fantina's Drifblim|Drifblim]].

=List of signature Pokémon=
In theory, any trainer may have a signature Pokémon. For example, one of the first [[character of the day|characters of the day]], [[A.J.]], had a {{p|Sandshrew}} as the standout and favorite of his team. However, this list is only concerned with notable trainers, such as [[Gym Leader]]s, [[Elite Four]] and [[Frontier Brain]]s. [[Rival]]s are also unlisted, unless their signature Pokémon is something besides the {{pkmn2|starter}} they picked based on the [[player character|player's]] choice.
==In the games==
{{Fan speculation|list}}
These trainers are only listed by the generation they debuted as a trainer in, rather than each they appeared in.
===Generation I===
Due to the sheer number of games that these trainers appeared in, as well as the {{pkmn|anime}}'s influence seeping into [[Pokémon Yellow]] and the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}, some of these trainers have had numerous Pokémon which could qualify as their signature.
* [[Koga]]'s strongest Pokémon has changed from game to game. In {{pkmn|Red and Blue}}, it was {{p|Weezing}}; in {{pkmn|Yellow}}, it was {{p|Venomoth}}; and when he returned as an [[Elite Four]] member in {{pkmn|Gold and Silver}}, it was {{p|Crobat}}. On the other hand, the Pokémon which has appeared on his team most consistently, {{p|Muk}}, has never been the highest level member of his team. This is debatable enough that his signature has been left unlisted.
* Even more puzzling is [[Blaine]], whose strongest Pokémon has rotated between {{p|Rapidash}}, {{p|Arcanine}} and {{T{|Blaine|Magmar}} depending on the game. {{pkmn|Black 2 and White 2}} split the difference by putting all three on his {{pkmn|World Tournament}} team. This is debatable enough that his signature has been left unlisted.
* While [[Giovanni]]'s strongest tends to be his {{p|Rhydon}}, several of his other Pokémon are equally distinctive, such as {{p|Kangaskhan}}, {{p|Nidoqueen}} and {{p|Nidoking}}. In a few instances, they even overshadow Rhydon. However, with the introduction of Rhydon's evolution, {{p|Rhyperior}}, Rhydon seems to have reestablished itself as his signature and was used as such in the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}.
* [[Lorelei]]'s strongest and apparent signature in the games is her {{p|Lapras}}. However, many of her Pokémon are equally distinctive and have taken more of a signature role across different media, such as her {{TP|Lorelei|Cloyster}}.
* Similarly, many of [[Bruno]]'s Pokémon are equally as distinctive as his {{p|Machamp}}. Interestingly, despite {{type|Fighting}} being his specialty, {{tp|Bruno|Onix}} is also a good candidate for his signature, owing to the fact that he trains two of them.
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brock]]
| {{TP|Brock|Onix}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Misty]]
| {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lt. Surge]]
| {{TP|Lt. Surge|Raichu}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Erika]]
| {{p|Gloom}} family
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Sabrina]]
| {{p|Alakazam}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Giovanni]]
| {{p|Rhydon}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lorelei]]
| {{p|Lapras}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bruno]]
| {{p|Machamp}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Agatha]]
| {{p|Gengar}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lance]]
| {{p|Dragonite}}
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===Generation II===
The Johto signatures are all fairly clear-cut, with two exceptions:
* In the games, [[Clair]]'s signature is clearly established as her {{p|Kingdra}}. However, in other media, her [[Clair's Dragonite|Dragonair]] takes a more prominent role. This is reflected in {{2v2|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}, wherein [[rematch]]es of her will show that one of her two {{p|Dragonair}}s has eclipsed her Kingdra in level and evolved into {{p|Dragonite}}.
* While [[Karen]]'s strongest is her {{p|Houndoom}}, she's better known across media for her lead Pokémon, her {{p|Umbreon}}. This is reflected in the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}. Additionally, just as with Clair, HeartGold and SoulSilver reflect by having Umbreon jump from the bottom of her team to the top in rematches.
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Falkner]]
| {{p|Pidgeotto}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bugsy]]
| {{p|Scyther}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Whitney]]
| {{TP|Whitney|Miltank}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Morty]]
| {{p|Gengar}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Chuck]]
| {{p|Poliwrath}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Jasmine]]
| {{TP|Jasmine|Steelix}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Pryce]]
| {{TP|Pryce|Piloswine}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clair]]
| {{p|Kingdra}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Will]]
| {{p|Xatu}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Karen]]
| {{p|Houndoom}}
|}
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===Generation III===
By this point, the games were becoming more clear-cut in establishing a trainer's signature Pokémon. Still, there was one small exception:
* In his initial appearance in {{2v2|Ruby|Sapphire}}, [[Wattson]]'s signature is his {{p|Magneton}}, making him the only [[Gym Leader]] of the game whose strongest Pokémon did not debut in [[Generation III]]. However, from {{v2|Emerald}} onward, he obtains a new {{p|Manectric}} and it is established as his signature.

On the other hand, this game also introduces the [[Frontier Brain]]s, most of whom cannot be argued to have a signature. The primary exception is [[Pike Queen Lucy|Lucy]], who not only dresses like her signature {{TP|Lucy|Seviper}} but is in charge of the {{DL|Battle Frontier (Generation III)|Battle Pike}}, a facility built to look like a giant Seviper.
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! style="background: #{{Hoenn color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roxanne]]
| {{TP|Roxanne|Nosepass}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brawly]]
| {{TP|Brawly|Hariyama}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wattson]]
| {{TP|Wattson|Manectric}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Flannery]]
| {{p|Torkoal}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Norman]]
| {{TP|Norman|Slaking}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Winona]]
| {{p|Altaria}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Tate and Liza|Tate]]
| {{p|Solrock}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Tate and Liza|Liza]]
| {{p|Lunatone}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wallace]]
| {{p|Milotic}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Juan]]
| {{p|Kingdra}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Sidney]]
| {{p|Absol}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Phoebe]]
| {{p|Dusclops}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Glacia]]
| {{p|Walrein}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drake]]
| {{p|Salamence}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Steven Stone]]
| {{p|Metagross}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Maxie]]
| {{p|Camerupt}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Archie]]
| {{p|Sharpedo}}
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===Generation IV===
In {{v2|Platinum}}, some of the trainers would have a higher-level Pokémon eclipse their signature as the strongest and final member of the team. Otherwise, there were still some exceptions:
* [[Fantina]] actually has ''two'' signature Pokémon, neither of which is particularly debatable: {{TP|Fantina|Drifblim}} and {{p|Mismagius}}. Mismagius can be considered her strongest and signature battling Pokémon, while her Drifblim tends to be one of her weaker Pokémon, and is in fact absent for her initial Platinum Gym Battle. However, Drifblim is her star Pokémon for {{pkmn|Super Contest}}s, and she wears a dress with a design based on it. Due to this notable distinction, both are listed.
* Like Wattson in the previous generation, [[Candice]] had her {{p|Abomasnow}} overtaken by a new {{p|Froslass}} for Platinum. The reason for this is unclear, but it was the first of numerous signatures that originated purely from [[Generation IV]] being replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games.
* In the same vein, [[Volkner]] and {{EF|Flint}} had their {{p|Luxray}} and {{TP|Flint|Infernape}} replaced by {{p|Electivire}} and {{p|Magmortar}}, respectively. These two Pokémon can be seen as counterparts, fitting the friendship between the two men and giving them matching teams for their [[Tag Battle]] in the [[Battle Zone]]. Additionally, this change is similar to Candice's, where Generation IV originals were replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games.
* [[Bertha]] and [[Lucian]], too, had their signatures changed for Platinum. Bertha's changed from {{p|Hippowdon}} to a new {{p|Rhyperior}}, and Lucian's changed from {{p|Bronzong}} to {{p|Gallade}}. This change is similar to Candice's, where Generation IV originals were replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games. Unlike other trainers that fell under this change, these two trainers never appeared in a battle outside of the [[Sinnoh]] [[Elite Four]], making it difficult to judge whether this change would stick or not. However, since it stayed for the others as far as the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}, it is safest to assume their Platinum signatures are permanent.
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roark]]
| {{TP|Roark|Cranidos}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Gardenia]]
| {{p|Roserade}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Maylene]]
| {{TP|Maylene|Lucario}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Crasher Wake]]
| {{p|Floatzel}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Fantina]]
| {{p|Mismagius}} {{tt|*|In battles}}
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| {{TP|Fantina|Drifblim}} {{tt|*|In Super Contests}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Byron]]
| {{p|Bastiodon}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Candice]]
| {{p|Froslass}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Volkner]]
| {{p|Electivire}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | {{EF|Aaron}}
| {{p|Drapion}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bertha]]
| {{p|Rhyperior}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lucian]]
| {{p|Gallade}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cynthia]]
| {{TP|Cynthia|Garchomp}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cyrus]]
| {{p|Weavile}}
|}
|}
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===Generation V===
This generation of games introduced the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}, which allowed many trainers from previous generations to return with their signatures. Usually this Pokémon would be the first option, with other potential signatures included as well. This time, there was only one exception:
* [[Caitlin]] signature starts as Gothitelle. However, as soon as trainers begin to use Pokémon outside of the [[List of Pokémon by Unova Pokédex number|Unova Pokédex]], it is replaced by {{p|Metagross}}. This is debatable enough that her signature has been left unlisted.
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|- style="background: #{{Unova color}}"
! style="background: #{{Unova color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Unova color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cilan]]
| {{TP|Cilan|Pansage}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Chili]]
| {{TP|Chili|Pansear}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cress]]
| {{p|Panpour}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lenora]]
| {{p|Watchog}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Burgh]]
| {{p|Leavanny}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Elesa]]
| {{p|Zebstrika}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clay]]
| {{p|Excadrill}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Skyla]]
| {{p|Swanna}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brycen]]
| {{p|Cryogonal}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drayden]]
| {{p|Haxorus}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Iris]]
| {{p|Haxorus}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cheren]] {{tt|*|As a Gym Leader}}
| {{p|Stoutland}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roxie]]
| {{p|Whirlipede}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Marlon]]
| {{p|Jellicent}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Shauntal]]
| {{p|Chandelure}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Marshal]]
| {{p|Conkeldurr}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Grimsley]]
| {{p|Bisharp}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Alder]]
| {{p|Volcarona}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Ghetsis]]
| {{p|Hydreigon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Colress]]
| {{p|Klinklang}}
|}
|}
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===Generation VI===


With the introduction of [[Mega Evolution]], a new layer has been added to the concept of the signature Pokémon: since only one member of the team can Mega Evolve in a {{pkmn|battle}}, it can be considered the strongest and standout of the team. Interestingly, this even applies to {{ga|Serena}} and {{ga|Calem}}, whose signature Pokémon could either be ruled as their choice of [[Starter Pokémon#Kalos|Kalos starter]] or their Mega {{p|Absol}}.

Still, there are some exceptions:
* [[Grant]] uses only two Pokémon, {{p|Amaura}} and {{p|Tyrunt}}. They are always at the exact same level, even after evolving. Neither can be said to be the standout from the pair, except by the trivial matter of order in the party. For this reason, neither can yet be listed as his signature Pokémon.
* [[Korrina]] does not use her signature {{p|Lucario}} in the Gym Battle, nor initially in the [[Battle Chateau]]. However, this makes sense, seeing as she would want to keep it in reserve for when she can show its full power with [[Mega Evolution]].
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! style="background: #{{Kalos color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Kalos color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Viola]]
| {{p|Vivillon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Korrina]]
| {{me|Lucario}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Ramos]]
| {{p|Gogoat}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clemont]]
| {{TP|Clemont|Heliolisk}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Valerie]]
| {{p|Sylveon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Olympia]]
| {{p|Meowstic}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wulfric]]
| {{p|Avalugg}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wikstrom]]
| {{p|Aegislash}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Malva]]
| {{p|Talonflame}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drasna]]
| {{p|Noivern}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Siebold]]
| {{p|Barbaracle}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Diantha]]
| {{me|Gardevoir}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lysandre]]
| {{me|Gyarados}}
|}
|}
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===Side games===
====Colosseum and XD====
Interestingly, in {{pkmn|Colosseum}}, important members of [[Cipher]] usually do not use their signature Pokémon the first time they are encountered. Instead, they each have a [[Shadow Pokémon]] as their team's cornerstone, up until it is [[snagging|snagged]]. Once it is gone, their signature replaces it. Since these are treated as interchangeable in the games, both are listed.

[[Miror B.]] is the exception, and perhaps an exception to how all trainers typically carry their signature: The first time he is encountered, his team has ''five'' of his signature {{p|Ludicolo}} on it, followed by a single Shadow {{p|Sudowoodo}}, which is also a dancing plant. After that, his team shows a little more variety, but he always carries {{p|Lombre}} and Ludicolo in varying numbers. Like his fellow [[Cipher Admin]]s, he does carry a replacement for his Sudowoodo after it is snagged, namely an {{p|Armaldo}}, and it holds the spot of the strongest on his team. However, his connection to Ludicolo easily overshadows this and is carried forward into the sequel.

In {{XD}}, the members of Cipher change their teams too often, both in terms of regular Pokémon and Shadow Pokémon, to be considered to have any sort of signature.
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! style="background: #{{Orre color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Orre color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Miror B.]]
| {{p|Ludicolo}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Dakim]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Entei}}
|-
| {{p|Houndoom}}
|-
| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Venus]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Suicune}}
|-
| {{p|Milotic}}
|-
| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Dakim]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Raikou}}
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| {{p|Manectric}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Nascour]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Metagross}}
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| {{p|Alakazam}}
|-
| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Evice]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Tyranitar}}
|-
| {{p|Aggron}}
|}
|}
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==In the anime==
In most instances, any trainer who appears in both the games and {{pkmn|anime}} will have the same signature Pokémon in each. In fact, while some [[Gym Leader]]s will have different Pokémon in their parties in the anime than in the games, the signature Pokémon is usually preserved in this adaptation, particularly in later seasons.

However, there are some notable exceptions:
* Since {{Ash}} started with {{AP|Pikachu}}, it became his signature Pokémon, rather than the [[Starter Pokémon#Kanto|Kanto starters]] which a player would be expected to use as their signature Pokémon.
* {{an|Misty}} left her signature {{TP|Misty|Starmie}} at the [[Cerulean Gym]] for the majority of the original series. By this point she had already caught [[Misty's Togetic|Togepi]], which would become the Pokémon most commonly associated with her in the anime. This is despite it actually being not regularly used in battles; since it was [[walking Pokémon|carried in her arms]] for so long, it naturally received more attention than the rest of her Pokémon.
* {{an|Brock}} carried his [[Brock's Steelix|Onix]] with him throughout the [[original series]], but gave it to [[Forrest|his little brother]] prior to his rejoining the main cast for the [[Advanced Generation series]]. In the [[Diamond & Pearl series]], {{TP|Brock|Croagunk}} arguably took its place as his new signature Pokémon.
* {{Gary}}, despite having a powerful [[Gary's Blastoise|starter Pokémon]] like [[Blue (game)|his game counterpart]], was usually featured with his {{TP|Gary|Umbreon}}. This was likely to match Ash and his Pikachu, as well as to keep his choice of starter secret until the end of the original series.
* {{an|Giovanni}} is rarely seen battling, and thus the only time his signature {{p|Rhydon}} appears is when he loans it to [[Jessie]]. Instead, he is never seen without his {{TP|Giovanni|Persian}}.
* {{an|Iris}}, despite having a signature {{p|Haxorus}} in the games, only has an {{TP|Iris|Axew}} in the anime. It is not her strongest Pokémon, and it has shown no signs of evolving yet.

A number of other characters have signature Pokémon in the anime who either had none in the games or do not appear in the games at all:
* Since {{an|Professor Oak}} captured his {{TP|Professor Oak|Rotom}}, it has appeared every time that the Professor has.
* The [[Nurse Joy]]s have had several, differing by nation: {{TP|Nurse Joy|Chansey}} in [[Kanto]], [[Johto]], [[Hoenn]] and [[Sinnoh]], {{TP|Nurse Joy|Audino}} in [[Unova]], and {{TP|Nurse Joy|Wigglytuff}} in [[Kalos]].

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A '''signature Pokémon''' is the Pokémon which is most commonly associated with a {{pkmn|trainer}}. It is be the standout member of their [[party|team]], typically being more [[rarity|rare]] and higher [[level]] than any other Pokémon they own, and often held in reserve in the final slot. If the trainer appears more than once, the rest of their team may be subject to change, but their signature Pokémon will always be a part of it. In a sense, it can be considered the leader or star of the team.

It's not always completely clear which Pokémon is a trainer's signature. This happens most often when a trainer returns for several games, in which case they might return with the same signature or switch to a new one.

In some instances, rather than a single signature Pokémon, a trainer may have several from the same [[evolutionary family]]. Most commonly, this is seen when the trainer returns with a stronger team, such as [[Falkner]]'s {{p|Pidgeotto}} appearing as its [[evolution|evolved]] form, {{p|Pidgeot}}, in any appearance outside of his own [[gym]]. This might also be used as a way to showcase new evolutions, such as [[Erika]] switching between {{p|Gloom}}, {{p|Vileplume}} and {{p|Bellossom}} depending on the adaptation. In early games, this tends to show up as a symptom of [[type expert]]s specializing in a [[type]] with few options, such as [[Agatha]] only having the {{p|Gastly}} line to choose for {{type|Ghost}}s, and [[Lance]] facing the same problem with the {{p|Dratini}} line for {{type|Dragon}}s.

Trainers tend to have a special connection with their signature Pokémon. It may be the [[starter Pokémon|first Pokémon]] they ever trained, or one that they encountered through special circumstances. These Pokémon will have been with their trainers for a long time, and the two will have built a strong bond of [[friendship]]. [[Pokémon Connoisseur]]s have a particular fascination with signature Pokémon defined by these bonds, which they refer to as a premium brand.

Some trainers will take things a step further, and will [[Pokémon cosplay|wear clothes modeled off of their signature Pokémon]]. For example, [[Pike Queen Lucy]] dresses in clothes with the same patterns as [[Lucy's Seviper|her Seviper]], and the [[Gym Leader]] [[Fantina]] wears a dress that looks like her signature {{pkmn|Super Contest}} Pokémon [[Fantina's Drifblim|Drifblim]].

=List of signature Pokémon=
In theory, any trainer may have a signature Pokémon. For example, one of the first [[character of the day|characters of the day]], [[A.J.]], had a {{p|Sandshrew}} as the standout and favorite of his team. However, this list is only concerned with notable trainers, such as [[Gym Leader]]s, [[Elite Four]] and [[Frontier Brain]]s. [[Rival]]s are also unlisted, unless their signature Pokémon is something besides the {{pkmn2|starter}} they picked based on the [[player character|player's]] choice.
==In the games==
{{Fan speculation|list}}
These trainers are only listed by the generation they debuted as a trainer in, rather than each they appeared in.
===Generation I===
Due to the sheer number of games that these trainers appeared in, as well as the {{pkmn|anime}}'s influence seeping into [[Pokémon Yellow]] and the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}, some of these trainers have had numerous Pokémon which could qualify as their signature.
* [[Koga]]'s strongest Pokémon has changed from game to game. In {{pkmn|Red and Blue}}, it was {{p|Weezing}}; in {{pkmn|Yellow}}, it was {{p|Venomoth}}; and when he returned as an [[Elite Four]] member in {{pkmn|Gold and Silver}}, it was {{p|Crobat}}. On the other hand, the Pokémon which has appeared on his team most consistently, {{p|Muk}}, has never been the highest level member of his team. This is debatable enough that his signature has been left unlisted.
* Even more puzzling is [[Blaine]], whose strongest Pokémon has rotated between {{p|Rapidash}}, {{p|Arcanine}} and {{T{|Blaine|Magmar}} depending on the game. {{pkmn|Black 2 and White 2}} split the difference by putting all three on his {{pkmn|World Tournament}} team. This is debatable enough that his signature has been left unlisted.
* While [[Giovanni]]'s strongest tends to be his {{p|Rhydon}}, several of his other Pokémon are equally distinctive, such as {{p|Kangaskhan}}, {{p|Nidoqueen}} and {{p|Nidoking}}. In a few instances, they even overshadow Rhydon. However, with the introduction of Rhydon's evolution, {{p|Rhyperior}}, Rhydon seems to have reestablished itself as his signature and was used as such in the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}.
* [[Lorelei]]'s strongest and apparent signature in the games is her {{p|Lapras}}. However, many of her Pokémon are equally distinctive and have taken more of a signature role across different media, such as her {{TP|Lorelei|Cloyster}}.
* Similarly, many of [[Bruno]]'s Pokémon are equally as distinctive as his {{p|Machamp}}. Interestingly, despite {{type|Fighting}} being his specialty, {{tp|Bruno|Onix}} is also a good candidate for his signature, owing to the fact that he trains two of them.
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{| class="roundy" align="center" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Kanto color}}; border: 3px solid #{{Kanto color dark}};"
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|- style="background: #{{Kanto color}}"
! style="background: #{{Kanto color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Kanto color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brock]]
| {{TP|Brock|Onix}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Misty]]
| {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lt. Surge]]
| {{TP|Lt. Surge|Raichu}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Erika]]
| {{p|Gloom}} family
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Sabrina]]
| {{p|Alakazam}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Giovanni]]
| {{p|Rhydon}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lorelei]]
| {{p|Lapras}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bruno]]
| {{p|Machamp}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Agatha]]
| {{p|Gengar}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lance]]
| {{p|Dragonite}}
|}
|}
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===Generation II===
The Johto signatures are all fairly clear-cut, with two exceptions:
* In the games, [[Clair]]'s signature is clearly established as her {{p|Kingdra}}. However, in other media, her [[Clair's Dragonite|Dragonair]] takes a more prominent role. This is reflected in {{2v2|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}, wherein [[rematch]]es of her will show that one of her two {{p|Dragonair}}s has eclipsed her Kingdra in level and evolved into {{p|Dragonite}}.
* While [[Karen]]'s strongest is her {{p|Houndoom}}, she's better known across media for her lead Pokémon, her {{p|Umbreon}}. This is reflected in the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}. Additionally, just as in Clair's example, HeartGold and SoulSilver reflect by having Umbreon jump from the bottom of her team to the top in rematches.
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! style="background: #{{Johto color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Johto color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Falkner]]
| {{p|Pidgeotto}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bugsy]]
| {{p|Scyther}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Whitney]]
| {{TP|Whitney|Miltank}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Morty]]
| {{p|Gengar}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Chuck]]
| {{p|Poliwrath}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Jasmine]]
| {{TP|Jasmine|Steelix}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Pryce]]
| {{TP|Pryce|Piloswine}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clair]]
| {{p|Kingdra}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Will]]
| {{p|Xatu}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Karen]]
| {{p|Houndoom}}
|}
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===Generation III===
By this point, the games were becoming more clear-cut in establishing a trainer's signature Pokémon. Still, there was one small exception:
* In his initial appearance in {{2v2|Ruby|Sapphire}}, [[Wattson]]'s signature is his {{p|Magneton}}. However, from {{v2|Emerald}} onward, he obtains a new {{p|Manectric}} and it is established as his signature. This is possibly because he was one of the only important trainers in the game that did not have a new [[Generation III]] Pokémon as his signature.
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{| class="roundy" align="center" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Hoenn color}}; border: 3px solid #{{Hoenn color dark}};"
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! style="background: #{{Hoenn color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Hoenn color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roxanne]]
| {{TP|Roxanne|Nosepass}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brawly]]
| {{TP|Brawly|Hariyama}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wattson]]
| {{TP|Wattson|Manectric}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Flannery]]
| {{p|Torkoal}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Norman]]
| {{TP|Norman|Slaking}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Winona]]
| {{p|Altaria}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Tate and Liza|Tate]]
| {{p|Solrock}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Tate and Liza|Liza]]
| {{p|Lunatone}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wallace]]
| {{p|Milotic}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Juan]]
| {{p|Kingdra}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Sidney]]
| {{p|Absol}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Phoebe]]
| {{p|Dusclops}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Glacia]]
| {{p|Walrein}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drake]]
| {{p|Salamence}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Steven Stone]]
| {{p|Metagross}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Maxie]]
| {{p|Camerupt}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Archie]]
| {{p|Sharpedo}}
|}
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===Generation IV===
In {{v2|Platinum}}, some of the trainers would have a higher-level Pokémon eclipse their signature as the strongest and final member of the team. Otherwise, there were still some exceptions:
* [[Fantina]] actually has ''two'' signature Pokémon, neither of which is particularly debatable: {{TP|Fantina|Drifblim}} and {{p|Mismagius}}. Mismagius can be considered her strongest and signature battling Pokémon, while her Drifblim tends to be one of her weaker Pokémon, and is in fact absent for her initial Platinum Gym Battle. However, Drifblim is her star Pokémon for {{pkmn|Super Contest}}s, and she wears a dress with a design based on it. Due to this notable distinction, both are listed.
* Like Wattson in the previous generation, [[Candice]] had her {{p|Abomasnow}} overtaken by a new {{p|Froslass}} for Platinum. The reason for this is unclear, but it may have been seen as a more suiting signature for a young girl. This was also the first of numerous signatures that originated purely from [[Generation IV]] being replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games.
* In the same vein, [[Volkner]] and {{EF|Flint}} had their {{p|Luxray}} and {{TP|Flint|Infernape}} replaced by {{p|Electivire}} and {{p|Magmortar}}, respectively. Since these two Pokémon can be seen as counterparts, this decision was likely made both to underscore the friendship between the two men as well as to give them matching teams for their [[Tag Battle]] in the [[Battle Zone]]. Additionally, this change is similar to Candice's, where Generation IV originals were replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games.
* [[Bertha]] and [[Lucian]], too, had their signatures changed for Platinum. Bertha's changed from {{p|Hippowdon}} to a new {{p|Rhyperior}}, and Lucian's changed from {{p|Bronzong}} to {{p|Gallade}}. This change is similar to Candice's, where Generation IV originals were replaced by new evolutions of Pokémon from previous games. Unlike other trainers that fell under this change, these two trainers never appeared in a battle outside of the [[Sinnoh]] [[Elite Four]], making it difficult to judge whether this change would stick or not. However, since it stayed for the others as far as the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}, it is safest to assume their Platinum signatures are the permanent ones.
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! style="background: #{{Sinnoh color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Sinnoh color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roark]]
| {{TP|Roark|Cranidos}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Gardenia]]
| {{p|Roserade}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Maylene]]
| {{TP|Maylene|Lucario}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Crasher Wake]]
| {{p|Floatzel}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Fantina]]
| {{p|Mismagius}} {{tt|*|In battles}}
|-
| {{TP|Fantina|Drifblim}} {{tt|*|In Super Contests}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Byron]]
| {{p|Bastiodon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Candice]]
| {{p|Froslass}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Volkner]]
| {{p|Electivire}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | {{EF|Aaron}}
| {{p|Drapion}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Bertha]]
| {{p|Rhyperior}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lucian]]
| {{p|Gallade}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cynthia]]
| {{TP|Cynthia|Garchomp}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cyrus]]
| {{p|Weavile}}
|}
|}
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===Generation V===
This generation of games introduced the {{pkmn|World Tournament}}, which allowed many trainers from previous generations to return with their signatures. Usually this Pokémon would be the first option, with other potential signatures included as well. This time, there was only one exception:
* [[Caitlin]] signature starts as Gothitelle. However, as soon as trainers begin to use Pokémon outside of the [[List of Pokémon by Unova Pokédex number|Unova Pokédex]], it is replaced by {{p|Metagross}}. This is debatable enough that her signature has been left unlisted.
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cilan]]
| {{TP|Cilan|Pansage}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Chili]]
| {{TP|Chili|Pansear}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cress]]
| {{p|Panpour}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lenora]]
| {{p|Watchog}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Burgh]]
| {{p|Leavanny}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Elesa]]
| {{p|Zebstrika}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clay]]
| {{p|Excadrill}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Skyla]]
| {{p|Swanna}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Brycen]]
| {{p|Cryogonal}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drayden]]
| {{p|Haxorus}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Iris]]
| {{p|Haxorus}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Cheren]] {{tt|*|As a Gym Leader}}
| {{p|Stoutland}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Roxie]]
| {{p|Whirlipede}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Marlon]]
| {{p|Jellicent}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Shauntal]]
| {{p|Chandelure}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Marshal]]
| {{p|Conkeldurr}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Grimsley]]
| {{p|Bisharp}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Alder]]
| {{p|Volcarona}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Ghetsis]]
| {{p|Hydreigon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Colress]]
| {{p|Klinklang}}
|}
|}
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===Generation VI===


With the introduction of [[Mega Evolution]], a new layer has been added to the concept of the signature Pokémon: since only one member of the team can Mega Evolve in a {{pkmn|battle}}, it can be considered the strongest and standout of the team. Interestingly, this even applies to {{ga|Serena}} and {{ga|Calem}}, whose signature Pokémon could either be ruled as their choice of [[Starter Pokémon#Kalos|Kalos starter]] or their Mega {{p|Absol}}.

Still, there are some exceptions:
* [[Grant]] uses only two Pokémon, {{p|Amaura}} and {{p|Tyrunt}}. They are always at the exact same level, even after evolving. Neither can be said to be the standout from the pair, except by the trivial matter of order in the party. For this reason, neither can yet be listed as his signature Pokémon.
* [[Korrina]] does not use her signature {{p|Lucario}} in the Gym Battle, nor initially in the [[Battle Chateau]]. However, this makes sense, seeing as she would want to keep it in reserve for when she can show its full power with [[Mega Evolution]].
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! style="background: #{{Kalos color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Viola]]
| {{p|Vivillon}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Korrina]]
| {{me|Lucario}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Ramos]]
| {{p|Gogoat}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Clemont]]
| {{TP|Clemont|Heliolisk}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Valerie]]
| {{p|Sylveon}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Olympia]]
| {{p|Meowstic}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wulfric]]
| {{p|Avalugg}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Wikstrom]]
| {{p|Aegislash}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF" | [[Malva]]
| {{p|Talonflame}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Drasna]]
| {{p|Noivern}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Siebold]]
| {{p|Barbaracle}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Diantha]]
| {{me|Gardevoir}}
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Lysandre]]
| {{me|Gyarados}}
|}
|}
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===Side games===
====Colosseum and XD====
Interestingly, in {{pkmn|Colosseum}}, important members of [[Cipher]] usually do not use their signature Pokémon the first time they are encountered. Instead, they each have a [[Shadow Pokémon]] as their team's cornerstone, up until it is [[snagging|snagged]]. Once it is gone, their signature replaces it. Since these are interchangeable, both are listed.

[[Miror B.]] is the exception, and perhaps an exception to how all trainers typically carry their signature: The first time he is encountered, his team has ''five'' of his signature {{p|Ludicolo}} on it, followed by a single Shadow {{p|Sudowoodo}}, which is also a dancing plant. After that, his team shows a little more variety, but he always carries {{p|Lombre}} and Ludicolo in varying numbers.

In {{XD}}, the Admins change their teams too often, both in terms of regular Pokémon and Shadow Pokémon, to be considered to have any sort of signature.
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! style="background: #{{Orre color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
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| style="background: #FFF" | [[Miror B.]]
| {{p|Ludicolo}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Dakim]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Entei}}
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| {{p|Houndoom}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Venus]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Suicune}}
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| {{p|Milotic}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Dakim]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Raikou}}
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| {{p|Manectric}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Nascour]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Metagross}}
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| {{p|Alakazam}}
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| rowspan=2 style="background: #FFF" | [[Evice]]
| {{pkmn2|Shadow}} {{p|Tyranitar}}
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| {{p|Aggron}}
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==In the anime==
In most instances, any trainer who appears in both the games and {{pkmn|anime}} will have the same signature Pokémon in each. In fact, while some [[Gym Leader]]s will have different Pokémon in their parties in the anime than in the games, the signature Pokémon is usually preserved in this adaptation, particularly in later seasons.

However, there are some notable exceptions:
* Since {{Ash}} started with {{AP|Pikachu}}, it became his signature Pokémon, rather than the [[Starter Pokémon#Kanto|Kanto starters]] which a player would be expected to use as their signature Pokémon.
* {{an|Misty}} left her signature {{TP|Misty|Starmie}} at the [[Cerulean Gym]] for the majority of the original series. By this point she had already caught [[Misty's Togetic|Togepi]], which would become the Pokémon most commonly associated with her in the anime. This is despite it actually being not regularly used in battles; since it was [[walking Pokémon|carried in her arms]] for so long, it naturally received more attention than the rest of her Pokémon.
* {{an|Brock}} carried his [[Brock's Steelix|Onix]] with him throughout the [[original series]], but gave it to [[Forrest|his little brother]] prior to his rejoining the main cast for the [[Advanced Generation series]]. In the [[Diamond & Pearl series]], {{TP|Brock|Croagunk}} arguably took its place as his new signature Pokémon.
* {{Gary}}, despite having a powerful [[Gary's Blastoise|starter Pokémon]] like [[Blue (game)|his game counterpart]], was usually featured with his {{TP|Gary|Umbreon}}. This was likely to match Ash and his Pikachu, as well as to keep his choice of starter secret until the end of the original series.
* {{an|Giovanni}} is rarely seen battling, and thus the only time his signature {{p|Rhydon}} appears is when he loans it to [[Jessie]]. Instead, he is never seen without his {{TP|Giovanni|Persian}}.
* {{an|Iris}}, despite having a signature {{p|Haxorus}} in the games, only has an {{TP|Iris|Axew}} in the anime. It is not her strongest Pokémon, and it has shown no signs of evolving yet.

A number of other characters have signature Pokémon in the anime who either had none in the games or do not appear in the games at all:
* Since {{an|Professor Oak}} captured his {{TP|Professor Oak|Rotom}}, it has appeared every time that the Professor has.
* The [[Nurse Joy]]s have had several, differing by nation: {{TP|Nurse Joy|Chansey}} in [[Kanto]], [[Johto]], [[Hoenn]] and [[Sinnoh]], {{TP|Nurse Joy|Audino}} in [[Unova]], and {{TP|Nurse Joy|Wigglytuff}} in [[Kalos]].

GeekChicShipping

2014-04-12T00:35:04Z

Pie: There's probably more hints I don't know about. I just like this ship and wanted to get the ball rolling.

AmourShipping

2014-04-11T23:32:51Z

Pie: The way this was worded made it sound like no other ship period confirms there's a crush -- even some of the ships with Ash confirm it fairly plainly, like AbilityShipping.

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'''AmourShipping''' (Japanese: '''サトセレ''' ''SatoSere'') is the belief that {{an|Serena}} and {{Ash}} belong in a [[shipping|romantic relationship]]. The name is derived from the French word "''amour''", meaning "love". It was chosen as the name because the [[Kalos]] region is inspired by {{wp|France}} (known for its romantic atmosphere) and Serena has a [[Canon|canonical]] crush on Ash.

This [[Shipping|ship]] is one of the most popular in the anime, much like other ships involving Ash and one of his girl [[Ash's friends|friends]], such as {{s|Poké}}, {{s|Advance}}, and {{s|Pearl}}. However, AmourShipping is unique compared to these and most other shippings because of the confirmation of Serena's crush on Ash, rather than fans presuming based on hints and inconclusive evidence. Its popularity began before the premiere of the {{series|XY}} due to the revelation that Serena knew Ash in their childhood. Thus far, it has been a central detail in the beginning stages of Serena's {{wp|character arc}}.

==Anime evidence==
===Serena's hints===
*''[[Lumiose City Pursuit]]''
:*When Serena sees a live news report of Ash trying to calm a rampaging {{p|Garchomp}} on [[Prism Tower]], she silently looks on, seemingly in awe at Ash's bravery. When Ash jumps off the tower to rescue {{AP|Pikachu}}, she gasps in fear for his safety. However, this may have been merely general concern, since the news camera never showed Ash's face in full until he was safely on the ground.
:*Upon seeing Ash's face on TV, she ponders whether she recognizes him, having a flashback scene of a younger Ash at the end of the episode.

*''[[XY003|A Battle of Aerial Mobility!]]''
:*Serena decides to begin her journey after seeing Ash on TV. Upon arriving at [[Professor Sycamore]]'s laboratory, and before choosing her [[starter Pokémon]], Serena tells the professor that she is looking for the boy who was on the news. Her eyes seem to light up considerably when Sycamore identifies him as Ash.

*''[[XY005|A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle!]]''
:*When Serena is walking down the steps in [[Santalune City]], she thinks about how she cannot wait to see the look on Ash's face when he sees her. Then, she has a flashback of a young Ash extending his arm, as if he was offering her his hand. When the flashback ends, she is seen blushing slightly.
:*When she sees Ash battling [[Viola]], she is so overcome with excitement that she runs toward the battlefield, seemingly planning on going ''directly'' on there to greet Ash without noticing that the battle is still in progress.
:*Later, when Ash loses the battle, Serena is obviously remorseful and attempts to speak to him, but is further saddened when he runs past her without noticing her, since he is concentrating on his injured Pokemon.
:*When Serena returns Ash's backpack to him (which Ash had left behind at the Gym), she starts to ask Ash something while blushing a little, only to be interrupted by the [[Pokémon Center]] bell.
:*When Ash is on the ground from the intense {{pkmn|training}}, dirty after falling to the ground while catching Pikachu and {{AP|Fletchling}}, Serena walks up to him and hands him a handkerchief to clean himself up with, showing her thoughtfulness towards him.
:*Serena looks evidently nervous before she asks him if he remembers her. It is interesting to note that when she is seen interacting with [[Grace (Kalos)|her mother]], Serena has a sassy and rebellious attitude towards her, but whenever she is around Ash, she seems to be extremely hesitant and nervous, contradicting the personality that viewers have seen from her in prior episodes.

*''[[XY006|Battling on Thin Ice!]]''
:*After she asks Ash if he remembers her, Serena mentions that they met in {{an|Professor Oak}}'s Pokémon Summer Camp in [[Pallet Town]]. When Ash remembers attending the camp, she is overjoyed and tells him that she went there as well. However, when he says that he does not remember her specifically, she is visibly disappointed, but instantly cheers up, obviously not wanting to be upset or angry with him.
:*When the group is having dinner after the training session, Serena glances at Ash and smiles at him while he is eating. Since this is directly after him saying that he is sure to win the rematch, this strongly implies that she is admiring his determination and is impressed by it.
:*Throughout the entire Gym battle, her cheering for Ash seems to be in a more enthusiastic way than {{an|Clemont}} and {{an|Bonnie}}. She also keeps reassuring Clemont, Bonnie, and Alexa that everything is going to be okay and that Ash would win, showing that she strongly believes in him. Later, when Ash becomes overwhelmed by Viola's new battling strategies, Serena cries out to Ash that he should not give up (echoing a motto Ash had told her in their childhood). In that scene, the emotions are seemingly emphasized. Her encouragement snaps him out of his panic and helps him win the battle.

*''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
:*After Ash asks Serena to join them in their travels, she puts a hand over her heart and smiles before winking at him and accepting the invitation.
:*When Clemont asks Serena why she started her journey, she pulls out the same handkerchief Ash used to bandage her, and shows it to Ash in a second attempt to get him to remember their past. This shows that Serena has kept the same handkerchief Ash used to tie up her knee with after all these years.
:*In a flashback of when Ash and Serena first met as children, Ash bandages Serena's knee and then pulls her up from the ground. She ends up falling into his arms in some sort of hug, and the camera zooms on her surprised face. Then, she quickly pulls away and looks at him, a surprised expression on her face. When Ash is showing her the way out of the forest, she is wide-eyed and blushing. This flashback indicates that Serena developed feelings for Ash after that incident.
:*When Ash identifies Serena as the same girl he helped when he was younger, she blushes.
:*Ash asks Serena why she went through all the trouble of returning the handkerchief to him and she replies with "I felt nostalgic and wanted to see you". Serena then pouts with blush marks on her face when she says that Ash didn't remember her. This shows that she was slightly hurt that Ash did not remember her upon first glance like she did to him.
:*Serena puts on a pink outfit for {{p|Rhyhorn}} racing and then asks Ash what he thinks of it with a blush on her face.
:*When Serena is on top of the Rhyhorn and demonstrating for Ash how to ride one, she is blushing.
:*When it is nighttime and everyone is sleeping, there is a view of the whole room with Serena's bed shown to be empty. It is then revealed that Serena is in the kitchen baking. At the end of the episode, she hands to Ash a pouch filled with cookies. She blushes and tells him that it is because she is thankful towards him. Then, she has a flashback of her and Ash when they were younger holding hands. After the flashback ends, she winks at him.

*''[[XY013|Kindergarten Chaos!]]''
:*When a teacher named [[Premier]] challenges Ash to a battle and states that if she wins he would have to "be with her", Serena freaks out and begins to blush. Later on, when Premier takes the group to the kindergarten she works at and Serena realizes she misunderstood her, she puts a hand over her heart in relief.
:*When Ash is pushed out of the truck by {{TRT}}, Serena quickly runs towards him while shouting his name.

*''[[XY020]]''
:*Serena and Bonnie are both excited to introduce the idea of the [[Battle Chateau]] to Ash. While Bonnie blushes over the possibility of cake, Serena is blushing because she is sure that he would like it. After they arrive there, Serena asks if this is something Ash's interested in, which he answers in the affirmative.

*''[[XY021]]''
:*Serena is visibly worried when Ash mentions that the video of [[Elle]] looks cute before he clarifies that he's talking about Elle's Fennekin. Once the clarification is made, Serena's expression softens.
:*At the end of the episode, Serena specifically asks Ash what he thought of her video with a blush on her face.

===Ash's hints===
*''[[XY007|Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!]]''
:*In the beginning of the episode after Serena says she doesn't know what she is going to do, Ash asks her to travel with them, saying that it was because of her that he won the [[Bug Badge]] and that it would be nice if she stayed with them. This is the first time that Ash has asked a female [[Ash's friends|companion]] to travel with him. It can also be noted that when Ash asked Serena to travel with him, he appears to be nervous which is shown in his voice and when he scratches his cheek; cheek scratching is a classic anime symbolism for nervousness.
:*In a flashback of when Ash and Serena first met as children, Serena hurts her knee. Ash arrives, takes out a handkerchief upon seeing her injury, and bandages it up for her. Then, he holds out his hand and when she hesitates to take it, he grabs her hand and pulls her up, quickly taking her by surprise and making her fall into his arms in a hug. It is noted that during the hug, it is Serena who pulls away and not him. Afterwards, he holds her hand and helps her find her way back to the camp.


*''[[XY021]]''
:*When Serena is in her Fennekin outfit, Ash is seen to be blankly staring at her, possibly out of attraction.

===Other hints===
[[File:Entertainment Kiss.png|thumb|The Valentine's Day poster with Ash and Serena]]
[[File:XY series poster 2.png|thumb|The series poster with Serena looking up at Ash while blushing]]
*On the second promotional poster for the series, Serena is depicted blushing while looking at Ash.
*''[[XY006|Battling on Thin Ice!]]''
:*After Serena asks Ash if he remembers her, Ash's Pikachu and Fletchling run to Clemont and Bonnie in response, implying that the two Pokémon sensed that this was a sensitive moment between Ash and Serena and that they should be left alone.
:*As Serena and Ash talk, [[Alexa]] is seen smiling at the two of them, suggesting that she enjoys seeing the two of them together and even senses a spark between them. However, she could have also smiled as a response to Serena restoring Ash's motivation to train, by quoting a sentence he once said in his childhood, about "never giving up".
:*Before the start of the rematch between Ash and Viola, Alexa tells Serena when she heard Ash and her talking, he needed some inspiration, but she didn't think it'd be from her. This sentence implies that Ash wouldn't have been as inspired and determined to win the battle if Serena hadn't appeared.
*On the first official character connection table, an arrow is shown from Serena to Ash with the phrase "{{tt|スキ…？|Likes...?}}".
*In an official March issue of a magazine, there is a summary of Serena where among her character description it says that she has special feelings towards Ash. There is also another character connection table with an arrow from Serena to Ash that says "very interested in".
*There is an official Valentine's Day poster with Ash and Serena (Clemont and Bonnie are clearly missing) surrounded by Pokémon and hearts. Serena is holding a heart while looking up at Ash.
*In the upcoming [[Pokémon movie]], ''[[M17|Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction]]'', the trailer shows that at some point in the movie, Ash and Serena get separated from Clemont and Bonnie. This has piqued the interest of AmourShippers on the subject of what might happen in the movie.
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User:Pie/Signature Pokémon

2014-04-08T22:12:00Z

Pie:

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A '''signature Pokémon''' is the Pokémon which is most commonly associated with a {{pkmn|trainer}}. It will be the standout member of their [[party|team]], typically being more [[rarity|rare]] and higher [[level]] than any other Pokémon they own, and often held in reserve in the final slot. If the trainer appears in multiple games, the rest of their team may be subject to change, but their signature Pokémon will always be a part of it. In a sense, it can be considered the leader or star of the team.

For some trainers, it's clear which Pokémon is their signature, while for other trainers it can be disputable. In some instances, rather than a single signature Pokémon, a trainer may have several from the same [[evolutionary family]]. Most commonly, this is seen when the trainer returns with a stronger team, such as [[Falkner]]'s {{p|Pidgeotto}} appearing as its [[evolution|evolved]] form, {{p|Pidgeot}}, in any appearance outside of his own [[gym]]. This might also be used as a way to showcase new evolutions, such as [[Erika]] switching between {{p|Gloom}}, {{p|Vileplume}} and {{p|Bellossom}} depending on the adaptation. In early games, this tends to show up as a symptom of [[type expert]]s specializing in a [[type]] with few options, such as [[Agatha]] only having the {{p|Gastly}} line to choose for {{type|Ghost}}s, and [[Lance]] facing the same problem with the {{p|Dratini}} line for {{type|Dragon}}s.

Trainers tend to have a special connection with their signature Pokémon. It may be the [[starter Pokémon|first Pokémon]] they ever trained, or one that they encountered through special circumstances. These Pokémon will have been with their trainers for a long time, and the two will have built a strong bond of [[friendship]]. [[Pokémon Connoisseur]]s have a particular fascination with signature Pokémon defined by these bonds, which they refer to as a premium brand.

Some trainers will take things a step further, and will [[Pokémon cosplay|wear clothes modeled off of their signature Pokémon]]. For example, [[Pike Queen Lucy]] dresses in clothes with the same patterns as [[Lucy's Seviper|her Seviper]], and the [[Gym Leader]] [[Fantina]] wears a dress that looks like [[Fantina's Drifblim|her Drifblim]].

=List of signature Pokémon=
In theory, any trainer may have a signature Pokémon. For example, one of the first [[character of the day|characters of the day]], [[A.J.]], had a {{p|Sandshrew}} as the standout and favorite of his team. However, this list is only concerned with notable trainers, such as [[Gym Leader]]s, [[Elite Four]] and [[Frontier Brain]]s. [[Rival]]s are also unlisted, unless their signature Pokémon is something besides the {{pkmn2|starter}} they picked based on the [[player character|player's]] choice.
==In the games==
===Generation I===
Due to the sheer number of games that these trainers appeared in, as well as the {{pkmn|anime}}'s influence seeping into [[Pokémon Yellow]] and the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}, some of these trainers have had numerous Pokémon which could qualify as their signature.
* [[Koga]]'s strongest Pokémon has changed from game to game. In {{pkmn|Red and Blue}}, it was {{p|Weezing}}; in {{pkmn|Yellow}}, it was {{p|Venomoth}}; and when he returned as an [[Elite Four]] member in {{pkmn|Gold and Silver}}, it was {{p|Crobat}}. On the other hand, the Pokémon which has appeared on his team most consistently, {{p|Muk}}, has never been the highest level member of his team.
* Even more puzzling is [[Blaine]], whose strongest Pokémon has rotated between {{p|Rapidash}}, {{p|Arcanine}} and {{p|Magmar}} depending on the game. {{pkmn|Black 2 and White 2}} split the difference by putting all three on his {{pkmn|World Tournament}} team.

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! style="background: #{{Kanto color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Kanto color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Brock]]
| {{TP|Brock|Onix}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Misty]]
| {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Lt. Surge]]
| {{TP|Lt. Surge|Raichu}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Erika]]
| {{p|Gloom}} family
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Sabrina]]
| {{p|Alakazam}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Giovanni]]
| {{p|Rhydon}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Lorelei]]
| {{p|Lapras}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Bruno]]
| {{p|Machamp}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Agatha]]
| {{p|Gengar}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Lance]]
| {{p|Dragonite}}
|}
|}

===Generation II===
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! style="background: #{{Johto color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Johto color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Falkner]]
| {{p|Pidgeotto}}
|}
|}

===Generation III===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Hoenn color}}; border: 3px solid #{{Hoenn color dark}};"
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! style="background: #{{Hoenn color light}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Trainer
! style="background: #{{Hoenn color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Roxanne]]
| {{TP|Roxanne|Nosepass}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Steven Stone]]
| {{p|Metagross}}
|}
|}

===Generation IV===
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! style="background: #{{Sinnoh color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Roark]]
| {{TP|Roark|Cranidos}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Cynthia]]
| {{p|Garchomp}}
|}
|}

===Generation V===
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! style="background: #{{Unova color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Cilan]]
| {{TP|Cilan|Pansage}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Chili]]
| {{TP|Chili|Pansear}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Cress]]
| {{p|Panpour}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Alder]]
| {{p|Volcarona}}
|}
|}

===Generation VI===
With the introduction of [[Mega Evolution]], a new layer has been added to the concept of the signature Pokémon: since only one member of the team can Mega Evolve in a {{pkmn|battle}}, it can be considered the strongest and standout of the team. Interestingly, this even applies to {{ga|Serena}} and {{ga|Calem}}, whose signature Pokémon could either be ruled as their choice of [[Starter Pokémon#Kalos|Kalos starter]] or their Mega {{p|Absol}}.

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| style="background: #FFF | [[Viola]]
| {{p|Vivillon}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Diantha]]
| {{me|Gardevoir}}
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===Side games===
===={{pkmn|Colosseum}} and {{XD}}====
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Miror B.]]
| {{p|Ludicolo}}
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==In the anime==
In most instances, any trainer who appears in both the games and anime will have the same signature Pokémon in each. In fact, while some [[Gym Leader]]s will have different Pokémon in their parties in the anime than in the games, the signature Pokémon is usually preserved in this adaptation, particularly in later seasons.

However, there are some notable exceptions:
* Since {{Ash}} started with {{AP|Pikachu}}, it became his signature Pokémon, rather than the [[Starter Pokémon#Kanto|Kanto starters]] which a player would be expected to use as their signature Pokémon.
* {{an|Misty}} left her signature {{TP|Misty|Starmie}} at the [[Cerulean Gym]] for the majority of the original series. By this point she had already caught [[Misty's Togetic|Togepi]], which would become the Pokémon most commonly associated with her in the anime.
* {{an|Brock}} carried his [[Brock's Steelix|Onix]] with him throughout the [[original series]], but gave it to [[Forrest|his little brother]] prior to his rejoining the main cast for the [[Advanced Generation series]]. In the [[Diamond & Pearl series]], {{TP|Brock|Croagunk}} arguably took its place as his new signature Pokémon.
* {{Gary}}, despite having a powerful [[Gary's Blastoise|starter Pokémon]] like [[Blue (game)|his game counterpart]], was usually featured with his {{TP|Gary|Umbreon}}. This was likely to match Ash and his Pikachu, as well as to keep his choice of starter secret until the end of the original series.
* {{an|Giovanni}} is rarely seen battling, and thus the only time his signature {{p|Rhydon}} appears is when he loans it to [[Jessie]]. Instead, he is never seen without his {{TP|Giovanni|Persian}}.
* {{an|Iris}}, despite having a signature {{p|Haxorus}} in the games, only has an {{TP|Iris|Axew}} in the anime. It is not her strongest Pokémon, and it has shown no signs of evolving yet.

A number of other characters have signature Pokémon in the anime who either had none in the games or do not appear in the games at all:
* Since {{an|Professor Oak}} captured his {{TP|Professor Oak|Rotom}}, it has appeared every time that the Professor has.
* The [[Nurse Joy]]s have had several, differing by nation: {{TP|Nurse Joy|Chansey}} in [[Kanto]], [[Johto]], [[Hoenn]] and [[Sinnoh]], {{TP|Nurse Joy|Audino}} in [[Unova]], and {{TP|Nurse Joy|Wigglytuff}} in [[Kalos]].

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User talk:Pie/Signature Pokémon

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Pie:

==Remaking from scratch==
I realize [[User:Linneus/Signature Pokémon|this one]] is already under construction, but it looks like the actual user hasn't touched it in four years and as-is, it's not going to be moved to the mainspace without being completely rewritten. So, uh... I completely rewrote it! How does it look so far? More wiki-ish, at least? (Also, I'm fifty-fifty on whether a signature and a premium brand are the same thing, mostly because of Cilan deciding that every Pokémon he owns is his premium brand. But I threw it in for now, and am open to arguments either way.) --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 09:32, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

==Where should the line be drawn?==
You know, particularly when one looks at the higher-level trainers, it's difficult to say what their signature Pokémon should be, and I wonder if one should even consider them to have one. For example, [[Lorelei]]'s {{p|Jynx}} or {{TP|Lorelei|Cloyster}} could be considered just as defining as her strongest and final, {{p|Lapras}}. But on the other hand, part of me wants to include such trainers and their strongest just to avoid edit wars, since there's going to be ''someone'' who notices other Elite Four members on the list and "realizes" that Lorelei was "forgotten". And I'd prefer not to throw in a hundred notes about why this trainer or that trainer was excluded. The article could just drop the list entirely, but lists of data are essentially the bread and butter of this wiki, right? And I doubt anyone's going to consider this a complete article without it. So... I don't know. Thoughts, opinions? Should I just throw a [[Template:Fan speculation|fan speculation]] notice on it and call it a day? --[[User:Pie|Pie]] ~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]] 21:59, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Pie/Signature Pokémon

2014-04-08T01:24:38Z

Pie: Rewriting parts, expanding others, hashing out the format, nipping some edit wars in the bud.

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A '''signature Pokémon''' is the Pokémon which is most commonly associated with a {{pkmn|trainer}}. It will be the standout member of their [[party|team]], typically being more [[rarity|rare]] and higher [[level]] than any other Pokémon they own, and often held in reserve in the final slot. If the trainer appears in multiple games, the rest of their team may be subject to change, but their signature Pokémon will always be a part of it.

For some trainers, it's clear which Pokémon is their signature, while for other trainers it can be disputable. In some instances, rather than a single signature Pokémon, a trainer may have several from the same [[evolutionary family]]. Most commonly, this is seen when the trainer returns with a stronger team, such as [[Falkner]]'s {{p|Pidgeotto}} appearing as its [[evolution|evolved]] form, {{p|Pidgeot}}, in any appearance outside of his own [[gym]]. This might also be used as a way to showcase new evolutions, such as [[Erika]] switching between {{p|Gloom}}, {{p|Vileplume}} and {{p|Bellossom}} depending on the adaptation. In early games, this tends to show up as a symptom of [[type expert]]s specializing in a [[type]] with few options, such as [[Agatha]] only having the {{p|Gastly}} line to choose for {{type|Ghost}}s, and [[Lance]] facing the same problem with the {{p|Dratini}} line for {{type|Dragon}}s.

Trainers tend to have a special connection with their signature Pokémon. It may be the [[starter Pokémon|first Pokémon]] they ever trained, or one that they encountered through special circumstances. These Pokémon will have been with their trainers for a long time, and the two will have built a strong bond of [[friendship]]. [[Pokémon Connoisseur]]s have a particular fascination with signature Pokémon defined by these bonds, which they refer to as a premium brand.

Some trainers will take things a step further, and will [[Pokémon cosplay|wear clothes modeled off of their signature Pokémon]]. For example, [[Pike Queen Lucy]] dresses in clothes with the same patterns as [[Lucy's Seviper|her Seviper]], and the [[Gym Leader]] [[Fantina]] wears a dress that looks like [[Fantina's Drifblim|her Drifblim]].

=List of signature Pokémon=
In theory, any trainer may have a signature Pokémon. For example, one of the first [[character of the day|characters of the day]], [[A.J.]], had a {{p|Sandshrew}} as the standout and favorite of his team. However, this list is only concerned with notable trainers, such as [[Gym Leader]]s, [[Elite Four]] and [[Frontier Brain]]s. [[Rival]]s are also unlisted, as their signature Pokémon is the {{pkmn2|starter}} they picked based on the [[player character|player's]] choice.
==In the games==
===Generation I===
Due to the sheer number of games that these trainers appeared in, as well as the {{pkmn|anime}}'s influence seeping into [[Pokémon Yellow]] and the {{pkmn|Stadium series}}, some of these trainers have had numerous Pokémon which could qualify as their signature.
* [[Koga]]'s strongest Pokémon has changed from game to game. In {{pkmn|Red and Blue}}, it was {{p|Weezing}}; in {{pkmn|Yellow}}, it was {{p|Venomoth}}; and when he returned as an [[Elite Four]] member in {{pkmn|Gold and Silver}}, it was {{p|Crobat}}. On the other hand, the Pokémon which has appeared on his team most consistently, {{p|Muk}}, has never been the highest level member of his team.
* Even more puzzling is [[Blaine]], whose strongest Pokémon has rotated between {{p|Rapidash}}, {{p|Arcanine}} and {{p|Magmar}} depending on the game. {{pkmn|Black 2 and White 2}} split the difference by putting all three on his {{pkmn|World Tournament}} team.

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| style="background: #FFF | [[Brock]]
| {{TP|Brock|Onix}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Misty]]
| {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Lt. Surge]]
| {{TP|Lt. Surge|Raichu}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Erika]]
| {{p|Gloom}} family
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Sabrina]]
| {{p|Alakazam}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Giovanni]]
| {{p|Rhydon}}
|}
|}

===Generation II===
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! style="background: #{{Johto color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Falkner]]
| {{p|Pidgeotto}}
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|}

===Generation III===
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Roxanne]]
| {{TP|Roxanne|Nosepass}}
|}
|}

===Generation IV===
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Roark]]
| {{TP|Roark|Cranidos}}
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===Generation V===
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! style="background: #{{Unova color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Cilan]]
| {{TP|Cilan|Pansage}}
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Chili]]
| {{TP|Chili|Pansear}}
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| style="background: #FFF | [[Cress]]
| {{p|Panpour}}
|}
|}

===Generation VI===
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! style="background: #{{Kalos color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Viola]]
| {{p|Vivillon}}
|}
|}

===Side games===
===={{pkmn|Colosseum}} and {{XD}}====
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! style="background: #{{Orre color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | Pokémon
|-
| style="background: #FFF | [[Miror B.]]
| {{p|Ludicolo}}
|}
|}

==In the anime==
In most instances, any trainer who appears in both the games and anime will have the same signature Pokémon in each. In fact, while some [[Gym Leader]]s will have different Pokémon in their parties in the anime than in the games, the signature Pokémon is usually preserved in this adaptation, particularly in later seasons.

However, there are some notable exceptions:
* Since {{Ash}} started with {{AP|Pikachu}}, it became his signature Pokémon, rather than the [[Starter Pokémon#Kanto|Kanto starters]] which a player would be expected to use as their signature Pokémon.
* {{an|Misty}} left her signature {{TP|Misty|Starmie}} at the [[Cerulean Gym]] for the majority of the original series. By this point she had already caught [[Misty's Togetic|Togepi]], which would become the Pokémon most commonly associated with her in the anime.
* {{an|Brock}} carried his [[Brock's Steelix|Onix]] with him throughout the [[original series]], but gave it to [[Forrest|his little brother]] prior to his rejoining the main cast for the [[Advanced Generation series]]. In the [[Diamond & Pearl series]], {{TP|Brock|Croagunk}} arguably took its place as his new signature Pokémon.
* {{Gary}}, despite having a powerful [[Gary's Blastoise|starter Pokémon]] like [[Blue (game)|his game counterpart]], was usually featured with his {{TP|Gary|Umbreon}}. This was likely to match Ash and his Pikachu, as well as to keep his choice of starter secret until the end of the original series.
* {{an|Giovanni}} is rarely seen battling, and thus the only time his signature {{p|Rhydon}} appears is when he loans it to [[Jessie]]. Instead, he is never seen without his {{TP|Giovanni|Persian}}.
* {{an|Iris}}, despite having a signature {{p|Haxorus}} in the games, only has a {{TP|Iris|Axew}} in the anime. It is not her first or strongest Pokémon, and it has not yet evolved.

A number of other characters have signature Pokémon in the anime who either had none in the games or do not appear in the games at all:
* Since {{an|Professor Oak}} captured his {{TP|Professor Oak|Rotom}}, it has appeared every time that the Professor has.
* The [[Nurse Joy]]s have had several, differing by nation: {{TP|Nurse Joy|Chansey}} in [[Kanto]], [[Johto]], [[Hoenn]] and [[Sinnoh]], {{TP|Nurse Joy|Audino}} in [[Unova]], and {{TP|Nurse Joy|Wigglytuff}} in [[Kalos]].

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Hoenn starters

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