Professor Hastings

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Professor Hastings
シンバラ教授 Prof. Shinbara
Hastings Ranger 3.png
Artwork from Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs
Gender Male
Hometown Fall City
Region Fiore
Relatives Booker (older brother)
Trainer class Pokémon professor
Generation III, IV
Games Pokémon Ranger, Shadows of Almia, and Guardian Signs
Anime debut SS022
English voice actor N. Ronald Levine
Japanese voice actor Jōji Nakata

Professor Hastings (Japanese: シンバラ教授 Professor Shinbara) is a Pokémon professor, who appears in the Pokémon Ranger series of games.

In the games

He stays in Fall City when in the Fiore region. He is the Ranger Union's Chief of Technology. He has a very hasty personality.

Professor Hastings is the creator of the Capture Styler and is an important figure for the Ranger federation. It is one of the hero's first missions to escort him from Ringtown back to Fall City, however along the way they are attacked by the Go-Rock Squad and Hastings's new prototype "Super Styler" is stolen.

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Near the end of the first game, it is revealed that Hastings and Gordor went to school together and at one point used to work as colleagues.

In the third Ranger Net mission, players are sent to capture a Mew so that Hastings may do research on it.

He reappears in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, investigating the Gigaremo Units. He is the first to discover the Dark Shards inside the machines, after Elaine takes a Gigaremo apart. After the player becomes a Top Ranger, Hastings appears in the Ranger Union.

Years ago, he, Erma, and Lamont were childhood friends with dreams. His dream was to invent a tool capable of transmitting friendship feelings to Pokémon. The three shared a journal that was hidden in a cave in the Ranger School.

He also appears in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, along with Murph. However, he has a smaller role than the one he has in the other games.

In the anime

In the anime

Professor Hastings first appeared in a flashback in the anime special for the third game.

Trivia

Hastings in Shadows of Almia
  • Out of all the Pokémon professors so far, Hastings is the only one who is also a professor (教授 kyōju) in the Japanese version, whereas the others are all doctorate holders (博士 hakase).
  • According to Herbert, a researcher working for him, when he sneezes, he says hack-chooly.
  • His prototype name for the Capture Styler was "The Capture Loopy-Looper."
  • In the journal he, Erma, and Lamont shared, he signed off as "Hatagnits" and "Hatsting" when he was excited.
  • Hastings is like Professor Oak in several ways: both invented an item important to the player character's mission in their respective series (Oak invented the Pokédex, while Hastings invented the Capture Styler), while both have reappeared several times, being the only known Pokémon professors to do so.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese シンバラ教授 Shinbara-kyōju
English Professor Hastings From hasty, and possibly the battle of Hastings.
French Prof. Pressand From pressant, urgent, pressing.
German Prof. Hastings
Italian Prof. Frenesio From frenesia, frenzy.
Spanish Prof. Gobios From agobios, worries.


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