Penny
| Penny ボタン Botan | |
 Art from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet | |
| Gender | Female |
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| Eye color | Black |
| Hair color | Light blue and red |
| Hometown | Unknown |
| Region | Paldea (originally Galar)[1] |
| Relatives | Unnamed father |
| Trainer class | Team Star Pokémon Trainer |
| Generation | IX |
| Games | Scarlet and Violet |
| Member of | Team Star |
| Rank | Big Boss |
Penny (Japanese: ボタン Botan) is a character in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
In the core series games
Penny is a student at Naranja AcademyS/Uva AcademyV, and is in the same grade as the player character. She has a shy personality, and is often absent from class. She always has her fluffy Eevee backpack with her wherever she goes. She possesses unparalleled skill with machines and computers. She is enrolled in the STEM track of the Academy, with her homeroom teacher being Tyme.
★ Starfall Street ★
Her secret identity is Cassiopeia, the "big boss" of Team Star; none of the squad bosses (and grunts) know of her true identity because she never left her room during her time with them. She witnesses the player defeat two Team Star Grunts in front of the school stairs who were harassing her to join Team Star, and comes up with the idea of Operation Starfall. Afraid that her fellow bosses will be expelled from the Academy because of their involvement in the team but unable to forcibly disband the group herself, she recruits the player character into Operation Starfall to make them stand down.
After the player has defeated all five squad bosses, Penny, under the persona of Cassiopeia, invites the player to meet at the Academy's schoolyard after dark, where she revealed that she was Cassiopeia and Team Star's "big boss". Penny challenges the player to a battle and asks Clive to record the battle with his Rotom Phone for the squad bosses to view the outcome. After being defeated, Penny proclaims with relief that Team Star's reign is over.
A flashback after her defeat showed her last conversation (a year and a half ago) with the squad bosses, via a call. The squad bosses were worried about Penny's well-being, and her sudden desire to disband Team Star and take sole responsibility for her actions. She thanked the squad bosses for their kindness and company. Penny was then revealed to be outside the room the squad bosses were in during their conversation, she bid them farewell and temporarily left for Galar, her original home region.
After the flashback, Penny thanks the player and Clive for successfully helping her during Operation Starfall. When asked by Clive why she couldn’t forcibly disband Team Star on her own, Penny explained that the strict code she and the squad bosses created stated that no member of Team Star had the right to order anyone around, the squad bosses had to accept challenges and give away their Star Badges when defeated, hence, forcing them to step down as squad boss. When asked by Clive what the squad bosses meant to her, Penny wholeheartedly replied that they are her "greatest treasure".
Seemingly touched by Penny's story, Clive thanks her for her appraisal of the situation with Team Star. Clive proceeds to reveal that he, too, was under a false persona, and is actually the Academy's director, Clavell, much to Penny's apparent shock. Clavell explained that he wanted to talk to the Team Star members on equal terms, without them feeling the pressure of speaking to a faculty member, much less the Academy's director.
Clavell proceeds to call all the squad bosses (Giacomo, Mela, Atticus, Ortega, and Eri) out onto the schoolyard, much to Penny's surprise, and she emotionally recalls their names as they greet her with equal emotion. The squad bosses perform Team Star's signature hasta la vistar ★ pose and happily exclaim in unison: "Hasta la vistar, Cassiopeia! ★ And hello, Penny!"
Clavell apologises to Team Star for his unawareness of the bullying they suffered from, since he joined the Academy as its director without witnessing any incidents of bullying. He declares that Team Star could continue to exist, should its bosses want to, and they should also be punished for breaking multiple school rules during their period of truancy. As punishment, Clavell assigns Penny and the squad bosses to manage the newly founded Star Training Centers (STCs) as staff members. Upon hearing, the squad bosses marvel over Team Star not disbanding and being able to spend time with their "big boss" and dear friend at the Academy and STCs.
Clavell dismisses Team Star's bosses and calls the player to his office to thank them for allowing him to help resolve Team Star's situation. Penny arrives shortly after to apologise for illegally hacking the Pokémon League's LP management system to reward the player and Clavell for helping her during Operation Starfall, and feels that she should be punished more heavily than the others. Clavell decides that he should consult Geeta, the Paldea Pokémon League's chairwoman, for the matter, and dismisses the player from his office.
Penny calls the player via Rotom Phone the next time they exit the Academy building, and tells them to meet her in front of the school stairs, where she was first encountered. She also states that she no longer wishes to be known as Cassiopeia, if the player chose to call her that, instead of her name.
When the player finds Penny in front of the school stairs, she explains how the squad bosses and her came up with the hasta la vistar ★ catchphrase. She also explains that she wouldn’t be badly punished for hacking the Pokémon League's LP management system if she did some volunteer engineering for them, as a talented child hacker, which she agreed to do.
Finally, Penny thanks the player for helping her save Team Star from being wrongfully expelled from the Academy and gives out TM169 (Draco Meteor) as a reward. She explains that she wants to repay the player and would be willing to help with almost any requests they may have, and this allows the player to recruit Penny into the group, along with Arven and Nemona, which seeks to find Professor SadaS/Turo V in the Zero Lab. She bids the player farewell with a hasta la vistar ★ and runs up the stairs, concluding the ★ Starfall Street ★ storyline.
Post-game
While Penny does not appear as an opponent in the first Academy Ace Tournament, she can be battled as a random opponent in subsequent Academy Ace Tournaments, using the Pokémon Trainer Trainer class instead of Team Star.
Pokémon
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
First battle
Area Zero Multi Battle partner
Penny uses this team as a Multi Battle partner against a hostile Scream TailS/Iron BundleV, and then against an escaping Brute BonnetS/Iron HandsV:
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Trivia
- Penny is the youngest villainous team leader from the core series.
- Penny's Student ID at the Academy is 803B121.
- Penny's home is in the Galar region.[1] Her hair resembles the colors on the box art of Pokémon Sword and Shield.
- All of Penny’s Pokémon are Eeveelutions, this makes her the first and only notable Trainer in the games to have a full team of six Eeveelutions.
- Penny considers her family to be "unbelievably annoying". She refers to her dad, who gives her nicknames such as "Pen-pen", as "loud and clingy" and "the most annoying guy in the world". In this aspect, she is similar to Peonia, who considers her father, Peony, with similar disdain.
- Penny shares other similarities with Peonia. Both seem to originally come from the Galar region; Penny's non-English names come from tree peony or Paeonia; Penny wears an Eevee backpack while Peonia's earrings resemble a female Pikachu's tail (the two mascots of Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!).
- Penny's dorm room at the academy contains multiple references to the the events of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, different Pokémon species, and various real-world products, including Nintendo consoles.
- Penny's dorm contains multiple empty instant food packages, including cup noodles, energy drink cans, and cereal boxes.
- There is a shelf filled with magazines, three of which have covers picturing the Game Boy, the Nintendo GameCube and what appears to be a Nintendo DS Lite.
- There are three posters in her room, depicting Scizor, Palafin, and Cetitan, as well as a magazine with a Pikachu on the cover.
- There is a manga volume on a wardrobe, depicting a superhero that bears a resemblance to Magikarp.
- A framed photo of the Team Star logo can be seen above Penny's desk.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | ボタン Botan | From 牡丹 botan (tree peony) |
| English, Italian | Penny | From peony |
| German | Cosima | From Paeonia × suffruticosa (scientific name of tree peony) |
| Spanish | Noa | From the genus Paeonia |
| French | Pania | From the genus Paeonia |
| Korean | 모란 Moran | From 모란 (牡丹) moran (tree peony) |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 牡丹 Mǔdān | From 牡丹 mǔdān / máauhdāan (tree peony) |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 牡丹 Máauhdāan |
- Cassiopeia
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | カシオペア Cassiopeia | From the constellation Cassiopeia |
| English, German | Cassiopeia | From Cassiopeia |
| Spanish | Casiopea | From Casiopea (Cassiopeia) |
| French | Cassiopée | From Cassiopée (Cassiopeia) |
| Italian | Cassiopea | From Cassiopea (Cassiopeia) |
| Korean | 카시오페아 Cassiopeia | From the Japanese name |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 仙后 Xiānhòu | From 仙后座 Xiānhòu-zuò / Sīnhauh-joh (Cassiopeia) |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 仙后 Sīnhauh |
Related articles
References
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| Villainous team leaders | |
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| Core series | Giovanni • Maxie • Archie • Cyrus • N • Ghetsis • Colress • Lysandre • Guzma • Piers • Cassiopeia |
| Masters EX | Giovanni • Guzma • Cyrus • N • Lysandre • Piers • Ghetsis • Maxie • Archie • Colress • Paulo • Penny |
| Other games |
Biruritchi • Gonzap • Evice • Greevil • Gordor • Baron Phobos • Blake Hall • Kincaid • Societea • Munna • Dark Rust • Giovanni |
| Anime | Giovanni • Madame Boss • Maxie • Archie • Cyrus • Ghetsis • Lysandre • Guzma • Piers • Gibeon |
| Adventures | Giovanni • Masked Man • Maxie • Archie • Cyrus • N • Ghetsis • Colress • Lysandre • Guzma • Piers |
| Other manga | Fraud • Meja |
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