Professor Hastings
| Professor Hastings シンバラ教授 Prof. Shinbara | |
 Artwork from Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia | |
| Gender | Male |
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| Hometown | Fall City |
| Region | Fiore |
| Trainer class | Pokémon professor |
| Generation | III, IV |
| Games | Pokémon Ranger and Shadows of Almia, and Locus of Light |
Professor Hastings (Japanese: シンバラ教授 Professor Shinbara) is a Pokémon professor who lives in Fall City in the Fiore region. He is the Ranger Union's chief of technology. He has a very hasty personality.
Professor Hastings is the creator of the Capture Styler and is an important figure for the Ranger federation. It is one of the hero's first missions to escort him from Ringtown back to Fall City, however along the way they are attacked by the Go-Rock Squad and Hastings's new prototype "Super Styler" is stolen.
Near the end of the game, it is revealed that Hastings and Gordor went to school together and at one point used to work as colleagues.
In the third Ranger Net mission, players are sent to capture a Mew so that Hastings may do research on it.
He reappears in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, investigating the Gigaremo Units. He is the first to discover the Dark Shards inside the machines, after Elaine takes a Gigaremo apart. After the player becomes a Top Ranger, Hastings appears in the Ranger Union.
Years ago, he, Erma, and Lamont were childhood friends with dreams. His dream was to invent a tool capable of transmitting friendship feelings to Pokémon. The three shared a journal that was hidden in a cave in the Ranger School.
He will also be reappearing in the upcoming Pokémon Ranger: Locus of Light, along with Murph.
In the Anime
Prof. Hastings made his debut in a flashback during the first Locus of Light special, which aired as part of Pokémon Sunday.
Trivia
- Out of all the Pokémon professors so far, Hastings is the only one who is also a professor (教授 kyōju) in the Japanese version, whereas the others are all doctorate holders (博士 hakase)
- According to Herbert, a researcher working for him, when he sneezes, he says hack-chooly.
- His prototype name for the Capture Styler was "The Capture Loopy-Looper".
- In the journal he, Erma, and Lamont shared, he signed off as "Hatagnits" and "Hatsting" when he was excited.
- Hastings is like Professor Oak in several ways: both invented an item important to the player character's mission in their respective series (Oak invented the Pokédex, while Hastings invented the Capture Styler), while both have reappeared several times, being the only Pokémon professors to do so.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | シンバラ教授 Shinbara-kyōju | |
| English | Professor Hastings | From hasty, and possibly the battle of Hastings. |
| French | Prof. Pressand | From pressant, urgent, pressing. |
| German | Prof. Hastings | |
| Italian | Prof. Frenesio | From frenesia, frenzy. |
| Spanish | Prof. Gobios | From agobios, worries. |
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