Fantina

Fantina メリッサ Melissa
"The Alluring, Soulful Dancer"
[[File:File:Fantina.jpg\|{{{size}}}]] Artwork from Diamond/Pearl
Gender	Female
Hometown	Hearthome City
Region	Sinnoh
Trainer class	Gym Leader, Coordinator
Generation	IV
Games	Diamond, Pearl
Leader of	Hearthome Gym
Badge	Relic Badge
Anime debut	DP093
English voice actor	N/A
Japanese voice actor	N/A

Fantina (Japanese: メリッサ Melissa) is the Gym Leader of Hearthome City's Gym, known officially as the Hearthome Gym. She hands out the Relic Badge to trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. She is apparently not from the country the games are set in, and often peppers her speech with phrases of French.

Her dress shares many elements as the design of the first Pokémon on her party, Drifblim: it has a yellow "X" over a puffed out skirt of striped purple fabric.

In the anime

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Fantina commands an attack.

Despite the group having traveled through Hearthome City twice, once in Dawn's Early Night and a second time in DP086, and Dawn having competed in a contest there during the both episodes, Fantina has not appeared in the anime. However, she did leave a note saying that she was going on a journey for a while, and to not look for her.

She will finally appear in DP093 with a Mismagius and Drifloon.

Pokémon

Mismagius

Drifloon

In the games

Fantina uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in her battles. For defeating her, trainers receive the Relic Badge, TM65 (Shadow Claw) and are able to use Surf outside of battle. She considers herself to be a Contest Expert and refuses to let the hero challenge her until they deliver the Old Charm to the Celestic Town elder at the request of the elder's granddaughter, Cynthia. Fantina speaks a mix of French and broken English and is an immigrant from another country. Upon arriving in Sinnoh, she decided to become a performer, so she dresses up in fancy outfits for Pokémon Contests. She also studied Pokémon and eventually attained the title of Gym Leader.

Fantina has a Hyper Potion she can use during the Gym battle.

Fantina can occasionally be competed against in Super Contests, in which she uses her Drifblim, nicknamed Loony (Japanese: ばるん Balloon).

Pokémon

Battle

Quotes

In front of the Contest Hall at player's first visit to Hearthome City
Oh, I'm so sorry! Please excuse me. Are you entering a Contest? Tehehe... Enjoy yourself, please! Incidentally, Fantina, the Hearthome Gym Leader, also happens to be a Contest expert. And you may ask yourself, how do I know this? Well, I am Fantina! You may challenge me, but not yet! You must become much stronger. Then, you may challenge me!

Before battle
"Ohohoho!! Finally, you have arrived! Since I came to this country, always I try to learn new things. They hold Contests in this city? I say to myself, enfin, I will excel. That's why I dress this way. C'est une performance! Also I study Pokémon very much. I have come to be Gym Leader. And, uh, so it shall be that you challenge me. But I shall win. That's what a Gym Leader does, non?"

After sending out last Pokémon
"Oh, heavens. What is this? Is this my final Pokémon?"

During battle
"Never give up, never surrender!"

When defeated
"You are so fantastically strong. I know now why I have lost."

After being defeated
"I am dumbfounded! So very, very strong! You, your Pokémon, so strong! Your power is admirable! I shall honor it with this Gym Badge!"

"Five Gym Badges... But you must not forget this. There are many other trainers. Strong Trainers, too. There are many more in Sinnoh. Have patience! You must become stronger, one at a time."

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Fantina first appeared at the Super Contest Hall. When two women were making rude comments about rookie contestants, she sent out her Drifblim to carry them out and throw them into a garbage can. Then, when Diamond, Pearl and Berlitz came back to Hearthome City for the Gym Challenge, they discovered that she was the Gym Leader.

Pokémon

She has these Pokémon:

Mismagius

Drifblim

Duskull

Pokémon DP

Pokémon

Drifblim

Trivia

During the Gym battle in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Fantina exclaims "Never give up, never surrender!", the catchphrase from the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest.
In the French version she speaks English, while in the Japanese and German versions she has a noticeable accent.
The proper French form of her name should be Fantine.
Fantina bears a resemblance to the Frontier Brain Dome Ace Tucker.
Apparently, Fantina has two Drifblim, one for battles, and one for Contests (the Drifblim she uses in contests knows Explosion, Constrict, Focus Energy, and Ominous Wind, a noticeably different moveset from the Drifblim she uses in battle).
Despite the fact that she gives the TM for Shadow Claw, only one of her Pokémon (Gengar) actually knows it and can learn it.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	メリッサ (Melissa)	Resembles the word "malice" (intending to do harm), as in violent spirits; also an obviously non-Japanese name, obviating her status as an immigrant.
English, Spanish	Fantina	Comes from fantôme, the French word for phantom, in reference to the fact that she speaks French and she uses Template:Type2 Pokémon.
French	Kiméra	Similar to chimera.
German	Lamina	From Lamia, a Greek mythological spirit.
Italian	Fannie	French name, similar to fantasma, phantom
Korean	멜리사 Melissa	Same as Japanese name.