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Showdown at Dark City (Japanese: たいけつ！ポケモンジム！ Showdown! Pokémon Gym!) is episode 42 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 30, 1998 and in USA on October 29, 1998.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Electabuzz
• Scyther

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Yas Gym Leader
• Kas Gym Leader

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Scyther

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Vulpix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)

Pokémon seen in Dark City:

• Raticate
• Mankey
• Machoke
• Golem
• Kingler (debut)
• Hitmonlee
• Hitmonchan
• Rhydon (debut)
• Scyther (debut; Yas Gym Leader's)
• Electabuzz (debut; Kas Gym Leader's)

Trivia

• Ash and his friends decide to use fake names for sake of safety. They are in a restaurant, so they use food as inspiration for their false names. Ash uses the name Tom Ato (a pun of tomato) (Japanese: Ketchup), Misty uses the name Ann Chovy (a pun of anchovy) (Japanese: Chicken Rice), and Brock uses the name Caesar Salad (a blatant pun of caesar salad) (Japanese: Curry Rice).
• This is the first episode where Pikachu reveals his fondness for ketchup.
• This episode reveals Electabuzz and Scyther's apparent dislike towards the color red, but ironically they were exclusive to the Red Version of the first generation games prior to the Yellow Version being released.
• This is the first time Pikachu uses Thunder.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Sombreville

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