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Green グリーン Green
Green and his Charmander
Gender	Male
Hometown	Pallet Town
Region	Kanto

Green (Japanese: グリーン Green) is Red's main rival in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga. He is based on Blue from the original Pokémon Red and Green. His full name is Kai Midorikawa (Japanese: 緑川 開 Kai Midorikawa), which contains the Japanese word for "green" (緑 midori).

History

Green first appeared in Introducing the Pokémon Clefairy, bumping into Red, whom he immediately recognizes. The two trainers have a race to get there to Professor Oak's laboratory, as they end up starting on their Pokémon journey the same day. Green was able to get to the lab first as Red got caught up with a Nidoran♂. In the lab, Green chooses a Charmander with a fierce personality. Afterwards, he begins on his journey. Green ends up catching ten more Pokémon simultaneously. When he reached the Pokémon Center after Red rushes his Clefairy there, he shows Red eight Pokémon out of the ten that he caught as opposed to Red catching only one. He watches Red heal his Clefairy from outside and has his Charmander fling a bug at the Pokémon Center where Red is in order to annoy him. Green goes to the Pewter Gym sometime during Red's arrival to Pewter City where he and his Charmander get overwhelmed by Brock's Pokémon's strength. He leaves the Gym and tells Red to be careful when facing Brock.

After Red's challenge with Brock, Green then shows up in Red's campsite, catching a Golbat that was attacking Clefairy. Green turns around and leaves, mocking Red in the process. He joins Red in the search for the legendary Pokémon, Mew after it took the Moon Stone from Misty. Green continues the search with Red and it was a long one until Charmander runs past Red as it was able to find Mew. Green finds it in an abandoned water mill where it was revealed to be run by Bill and his assistant who is in fact a human in disguise as a Mew. However, Green, not noticing this, throws a Poké Ball at Bill's assistant but Bill blocks his Ball from catching Mew. This caused Clefairy to battle Charmander. During the battle, Charmander immediately goes to its Charizard stage, leaving Clefairy at a disadvantage. Bill shrinks Charizard but accidentally shrinks Clefairy as well in one of his machines. Green then gives up in catching Mew. As soon as both of the transformed subjects change back, Bill's hideous appearance causes Green and Red to run away. Afterwards, Green goes his separate ways.

Green returns in Catch That Pokémon Thief!! where he buys items to make his Pokémon stronger. He briefly tells Red about what happened after Clefairy foils the robbery. In the next chapter, he goes up to Red in a suit mocking him about how he wouldn't become good at the slot machines. However, this changed when Pikachu was able to get three 7's in a row. As a result, Green turns around and leaves. In Big Struggle with the Powerful Opponent Venusaur, Green is on a motorboat and has Charmander blast Red's normal boat to show them that Green is better than them. Red encounters him in The Life-or-Death Magic Duel at a restaurant. Professor Oak contacts him and Red and tells them about a legendary bird Pokémon residing in Seafoam Islands. Green goes there immediately and finds a cave in the next chapter. He trains Red as soon as he gets there in order for them to capture Articuno. Green encounters the Articuno but gets frozen by its Blizzard, leaving Red to handle the situation. After Articuno is caught, Green and the others are freed.

In Get The Flying Machine!!, after Blue beat Red in getting the flying machine, Green flies on his Charizard with both rivals telling Red about him not having anything for flight transportation. Green participates in the No. 1 Pokémon contest in Aim to be the No. 1 Pokémon! using his Meowth. Green's performance starts by having Meowth throw coins to the audience and then evolves into Persian. Persian then devolves back into a Meowth. The judges give him good comments about the performance. He participates in three other events afterwards, notably the baseball match that happened in Pokémon Baseball Tournament!!.

Green reappears in Bring Down the Strongest Pokémon!! where he witnesses the creation of Mewtwo done by Bill after Giovanni and his twin brother force him to do so. He competes in the curry cooking competition later on. After Red took on the Elite Four in PM042, he challenges Green as he became the Champion. Green then reappears in PM055 where he was shown to have caught a Gengar and Koffing around the time Blue caught the Mewtwo from the lab.

During PM064 of the Johto series of Pokémon Pocket Monsters, he steals a Chikorita from Professor Oak but returns it to him at the end of the chapter.

Personality and characteristics

Green takes Pokémon much more seriously, although has questionable ethics in attaining his goals. He has tried to stop Red from getting ahead from Green as seen in Part-Time Job At The Swimming Pool!! when he had Clefairy trip on Ditto in order to mess up. 

Pokémon

This is a list of Green's known Pokémon in the Pocket Monsters manga:

		Charmander → Charizard
		Main article: Green's Charizard Green obtained Charizard when it was a Charmander. He favored this Pokémon. When it evolved in Search For The Mirage Pokémon Mew!!, it went straight to the final stage instead of becoming Charmeleon, only for Charizard to devolve back into Charmander. When Charmander evolved in The Legendary Pokémon Appears!!, it skipped the Charmeleon stage once again. However, it wasn't shown whether or not it became a Charmeleon.
Debut	Introducing the Pokémon Clefairy!!

		Jigglypuff
		Jigglypuff is one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Zubat → Golbat (×2)
		When Green was showing Red how many Pokémon he caught, Golbat was one of the Pokémon in the Poké Balls. In Receive the Moon Stone!!, Green caught his second Golbat as it was able to scare Clefairy easily. The second Golbat evolved from a Zubat that Clefairy encountered earlier. One of the Golbat was later seen in Pokémon Baseball Tournament!! watching the baseball game between Red and Green.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Oddish
		Oddish debuted as one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!. Oddish has participated in many activities such as the sports meet and the curry cooking competition.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Parasect
		Parasect is one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Psyduck
		Psyduck is one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Poliwrath
		Poliwrath is one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!. It was later used in the swimming match.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Ditto
		Ditto debuted as one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!. It was later used to play a prank on Clefairy during the swimming match.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Omanyte
		Omanyte debuted as one of the Pokémon seen in Green's Poké Ball in Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!.
Debut	Big Battle in the Viridian Forest!!

		Meowth → Persian → Meowth
		Meowth first appeared in a performance on stage when Green participated. It evolved into a Persian and back into a Meowth. Later, Green used Meowth in the Sports Meet event. Meowth's known moves are Pay Day and Fury Swipes.
Debut	Aim to be the No. 1 Pokémon!

		Magnemite
		Green caught this Magnemite before participating in the sports meet.
Debut	Good Luck at the Big Pokémon Athletic Meet!

		Voltorb
		Green caught this Voltorb before participating in the sports meet. It exploded after Clefairy picked it up.
Debut	Good Luck at the Big Pokémon Athletic Meet!

		Blastoise
		Blastoise first appeared in a baseball tournament competing against Red. Then in Part-Time Job At The Swimming Pool!!, he used it for a swimming competition.
Debut	Fierce Competition at the Pokémon Baseball Tournament!!

		Machamp
		Machamp was one of the Pokémon in the baseball tournament.
Debut	Fierce Competition at the Pokémon Baseball Tournament!!

		Koffing
		Green caught Koffing prior to PM054 but officially debuted in PM055.
Debut	PM055

• Green also owns many other unknown Pokémon.

Pokémon at the baseball match

These Pokémon are seen with Green during his baseball match with Red. It is unknown if these Pokémon belong to him.

Caterpie	Poliwhirl	Kadabra	Doduo
Cubone	Weepinbell

Pokémon at the curry cooking competition

These Pokémon are seen with Green during the curry cooking competition with Red. It is unknown if these Pokémon belong to him, nor is it known if the Poliwhirl is the same one from the baseball game.

Poliwhirl	Slowpoke	Horsea	Jolteon
Vaporeon

Status unknown

Released

		Chikorita
		Chikorita was one of the Pokémon that Professor Oak was giving away. It ended up being stolen by Green before the sixty-fourth chapter but was returned to Oak later on.
Debut	PM064

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