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Character of the day: Blaine

• Blaine (Japanese: カツラ Katsura) is the Gym Leader of the Cinnabar Gym. His gym specializes in Fire-type Pokémon and he awards the player with the Volcano Badge upon defeat. In Generation II and Generation IV, his gym is destroyed by a volcanic eruption and he builds a temporary gym inside the Seafoam Islands where he continues his duties as a Gym Leader.

• Blaine is known as "The Hotheaded Riddle Master!" In Generation I and Generation III, he quizzes the player's knowledge of Pokémon and they must answer every question correctly, or face a trainer battle for every incorrect answer, before battling him.

• Blaine made his anime debut in Riddle Me This, offering Ash, Brock, and Misty room and board if they were able to correctly answer his riddles. Ash later earned his Volcano Badge after battling against Blaine's Magmar atop the volcano.

• In Pokémon Adventures, Blaine was part of the team of scientists that created Mewtwo, and actually sacrificed part of the flesh on his arm so that Mewtwo could survive outside the lab. This gave him a psychic connection with the Pokémon, but also caused him great pain. This bond was later severed by Entei who then teamed up with Blaine for a time and later left him for Silver.

• Blaine had his own theme deck in the Gym Challenge expansion of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

• Blaine has gone through two different designs: Originally he had reddish-gray hair along the side of his head with a bald crown, but later was made completely bald with a mustache.

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