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Blockhead Clefairy 鈍間のピッピ Blockhead Pippi

Clefairy

Debuts in Introducing the Pokémon Clefairy!! Caught at Pallet Town Evolves in Clefairy Evolves... At Last?! Clefairy Evolves... At Last?! Gender Male Ability Unknown Nature Unknown Current location With Red

→ → This Pokémon spent 23 chapters as Clefairy and less than 1 chapter as Clefable.

Clefairy (Japanese: ピッピ Pippi), also known as Blockhead Clefairy (Japanese: 鈍間のピッピ Blockhead Pippi) by other Pokémon, is Red's first Pokémon and Pikachu's cousin in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga, and related manga series. Along with Pikachu, he is one of Red's closest Pokémon, albeit also an annoyance to him and the rest of his team.

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

History

PM series

Kanto

Clefairy debuted in the first chapter where he was a wild Pokémon living in a field. Red, racing to get to Professor Oak's lab before his rival Green does, decides to take this field as a shortcut where he finds a wild Nidoran♂ and the Clefairy who attempt to attack him. Clefairy drops some coconuts on Red from a tree above, only to shortly fall off and drop onto the Nidoran♂, knocking him out. Red thanks Clefairy for the help and continues to run for the lab, finding that Green had already made it there. While the three discuss about Professor Oak's favor of completing the Pokédex, Clefairy bursts into the lab and is yelled at by the professor. When given the choice of which starter Pokémon he wants, Red decides to take Clefairy with him, which thrills the Pokémon greatly. Green is however skeptical that Red can be a successful Trainer with a Clefairy, and has his chosen starter Pokémon Charmander attack the Clefairy, setting his tail on fire and causing the Pokémon to run around frantically, which sets the entire lab on fire and enrages Professor Oak.

As a Clefable

Red attempts to challenge the Gym Leader Brock in a battle, but Clefairy flees after seeing his Onix shortly after witnessing Green and his Charmander being thrown out the Gym, which forces Red to drag Clefairy back. Inside, the two learn of Brock's Pokémon collection, and find out that Clefairy's cousin Pikachu is also a part of it. This angers Clefairy and gives him the courage to fight Brock's Onix in a battle, which Clefairy prolongs by using an assortment of tricks. Clefairy later manages to defeat Onix by drawing his picture onto its tail, causing Onix to chase its tail until it becomes dizzy, and becomes knocked out after Clefairy smashes a fallen pillar on its head. By winning the battle, Clefairy's cousin is freed from Brock's collection and joins Red's team.

Following the battle, Red, Clefairy and Pikachu camp out for the night. Clefairy catches a fish and he and Red fight over it since Red was starving and Clefairy wanted to save it for himself for tomorrow. It slipped out of their hands and landed in Pikachu's mouth. Since Clefairy lost his fish, he uses Pikachu as a fishing rod but Red warns them that doing so could electrocute the whole river. Clefairy, ignoring his Trainer, does so away with the results being that all of the fish get shocked. Pikachu electricity gives the trio not one, but a pile of fish for them to eat. While they were having dinner, a Zubat glides down and steals one of their fish. Clefairy responds by tackling it but as Zubat landed on the ground, it evolved into Golbat. Golbat chased Clefairy around until Green threw his Poké Ball at it. Clefairy then wants to evolve and tells Red the false way. Red falls for it by giving Clefairy a lot of food which made Clefairy lazy and Red mad. Clefairy then tells Red the truth that he'll need a Moon Stone in order for him to evolve.

Clefairy in his debut

The trio go to Mt. Moon and a Snorlax who resides there gives directions to where the Moon Stone is after Clefairy asked for where it was. Snorlax tells them that it is in Cerulean City where Misty is. They head Cerulean City where they meet Misty and find the Moon Stone. However, Misty requests a battle and Clefairy goes up. He changed his mind when his opponent is a Blastoise but goes back in after Misty mocks him and Red. Clefairy fights Blastoise's water blasting strategies but sucking up the river water, he turns gigantic and spits it back onto Blastoise, winning Red the battle, the Moon Stone and the Cascade Badge. As Red was about to get the Moon Stone, a Mew comes by and takes it which led the trio in chasing after it. Clefairy had too much trouble with finding Mew since he kept on finding other things instead. After finding the Mew which was in an abandoned water mill, he along with the group meet Bill who was transformed into a leopard and his wife was transformed into a Mew. Seeing Clefairy, Bill decides to use him in one of his experiments but his wife stops him before he could do so. Afterwards, Clefairy battles Green's Charmander who evolved straight into Charizard when Green decided to catch Bill's wife who was a Mew at the time. Clefairy, using a firemen's uniforms, battles Charizard who becomes stronger than Clefairy expected. Clefairy has Bill shrink Charizard in order for Clefairy to have a fair advantage but Clefairy got shrunk too since he didn't leave the machine in time. Due to that, Green decides to stop catching Mew. Clefairy along with group than watch when Bill and his wife change back into humans. When Bill's human form was revealed to be hideous in appearance, Clefairy and the group run away in fear.

After dealing with some Diglett in Diglett's Cave, Clefairy took on Lt. Surge's Voltorb. Clefairy used some defensive tactics in order to take less damage from Voltorb but Voltorb was stronger than he expected after it was stuck to a wall that Clefairy created. As Voltorb was tough, including when it evolved into an Electrode, Clefairy was partnered up with Pikachu. Clefairy was able to defeat Electrode by swatting it but unfortunately blew up the S.S. Anne. When Clefairy went inside Blue's mansion, he faced a Gastly which kept dodging every one of Clefairy's techniques. Gastly got the upper hand until Clefairy brought along a statue that scared it away. After meeting Blue, he battled with his Haunter. During the battle as Clefairy couldn't see Haunter, his antics started to destroy all the objects in the room, including the blue item collection that Blue has. Seeing this made Haunter bring out its full power by evolving into Gengar. The stuff around the room were still getting destroyed and Clefairy found out about the Silph Scope that caused Gengar to be visible. He snatched it from Blue and gained the upper hand. Clefairy then bored Gengar with his jokes which made Gengar fall asleep. After the battle, Blue chased Clefairy and the group out of the mansion for the destruction that happened earlier.

Red and his Clefairy

Arriving in Celadon City with Red and Pikachu, Clefairy went to a Department Store there where he tried out some of the items. A robbery which was led by a Machoke occurred. Clefairy tried handling the situation but got punched by Machoke. Clefairy then lured Caterpie, Kakuna and Butterfree away from Machoke. He took a Repel and sprayed the three Bug-type, rendering them useless. An Ekans who was part of Machoke's group attacks Clefairy next. Due to a bite that  Ekans inflicted, Clefairy ended up getting hurt. He panicked until Red stabbed him with some medicine, which made Clefairy accidentally bump into Ekans and trap it into a bottle. Machoke became mad and evolved into Machamp. Clefairy gets chased by Machamp and hid inside a collection of Poké Dolls. Using the toys in the Department Store, Clefairy was able to outmaneuver Machamp but a bike caused him to get caught by the Fighting-type. Red managed to save Clefairy by catching Machamp. After Red caught Machamp, Clefairy has already biked far away.

He somehow returned to Celadon and went in the Game Corner. After Pikachu won the jackpot at the Slot Machines, Clefairy was given a chance to relax in a pool behind a mansion. However, this was interrupted when Hitmonlee snatched Pikachu. Clefairy chased after him to a wrestling ring. He fought Hitmonlee and struggled to stay on par with him. When Giovanni brought out a dynamite, Pikachu zapped it away with his eyes and landed in Clefairy's hands. He ate the dynamite which made him stronger and then defeated Hitmonlee in one blow. After stopping Giovanni, Clefairy is then told about Pikachu's winnings being gone and then chased Red. After Red's boat got burned by Green's Charmander, he, Clefairy and Pikachu were stuck on an island. On the island, he ends up facing Erika and her Venusaur. Clefairy ended up winning when Red reminded him to use Barrier to deflect Venusaur's SolarBeam and it worked. After the battle, Erika shared her boat with Red and Pikachu. Clefairy went on her flying ship as he could not go on the boat. At first, he had trouble controlling it since it took him around the world quickly. Back on the mainland, Clefairy ate in a deli and then went to Silph Co. to rescue Erika's father. He hid inside her Venusaur but blew the group's cover when he passed gas. Luckily for them, a grunt who was chasing Clefairy and Pikachu could not keep up. In an attempt to go on the top floor of Silph Co., he climbed on a vine that Venusaur was holding out. Unfortunately, the piece that Clefairy was holding snapped and fell back down. Clefairy managed to catch up to Red when they got inside. He fought Giovanni's Hitmonchan after Giovanni summoned him in Silph Co. Using some cunning skills, Clefairy managed to trap Hitmonchan into a buffet. With Hitmonchan defeated, Giovanni gave Clefairy several Porygon to deal with. As Clefairy was outnumbered, the multiple Porygon gave Clefairy problems. Clefairy managed to defeat Giovanni when Pikachu destroyed the device that caused the Porygon to multiply. With Team Rocket defeated again, Clefairy tried out the cloning machine and multiple Clefairy came out, annoying Red.

Clefairy and his cousin, Pikachu

Clefairy went to a castle and met Sabrina. He gets challenged to a magic game after touching Sabrina's crystal ball. Kadabra becomes Clefairy's opponent. Using a magical box, Clefairy goes inside with a cat but it doesn't work out. He then uses a safe and some fire-wood. Clefairy has Kadabra light up the fire wood. Unfortunately, the act did not work out as the dynamite were lit and blew up the whole castle. For punishment in doing so, Red had Clefairy swim in the water while he had Pikachu rode on a bicycle-shaped boat. Clefairy arrived in Seafoam Islands where he relaxed in a beach but Red wanted him to catch some fish for dinner. Instead, a Shellder jumped out of the water and attached itself to Clefairy. Many more Shellder attach themselves to Clefairy and he runs in pain. As Clefairy kept running, he stumbled across a cage that trapped him and the group. The village elder arrived and freed the trio. Clefairy was then given a lifetime supply of food. Afterwards, he goes to the cave where Articuno was located. Inside, he stumbled across Green's Charizard and they fought, with Clefairy being the victor. Deeper in the cave, he transforms the place into a diner but Green did not like that. After getting into a fight with Charizard who already devolved back into Charmander, he noticed an interior shaped as a castle and that many Pokémon were frozen. Clefairy found out that Articuno froze them. Seeing that made Clefairy want to battle it. He tried his best to prevent himself from being frozen but Articuno got the best of him and Clefairy ended up covered in ice. However, Clefairy managed to defrost himself and tricked Articuno into getting comfortable so that Red would catch it easily, in which he did using a Master Ball. After Red caught Articuno, Clefairy shared the good news to the elder and she showed him her Lickitung which showed the group some affection by slapping them with its tongue.

Clefairy volunteered to battle Koga when he saw that he stole some Chansey from a juggler. He went up against Koffing first and had trouble with its gases. Clefairy countered it with his own gas and waved a fan to make the figure made out of gas to look real, and took out Koffing. Grimer was next and one touch from it made Clefairy to wash himself off as Grimer was dirty and he did the same to it. Clefairy then placed Grimer in a washing machine but it escaped. As Clefairy was cornered, the Chansey that were trapped broke themselves free and saved Clefairy. After Pikachu rescued their eggs that were stolen by a Chansey torturer, Clefairy was baking them as he became hungry and the Chansey smacked him with a wooden pillar for doing so. After some Team Rocket Grunts kicked him up in the air, he landed in the Pokémon Sea House where he volunteered to work there as the cook. As Clefairy had poor skills, the customers left. Clefairy then became a mummy in a haunted house. Giovanni, his twin brother, and Ditto, who was disguised as a Clefairy, find Red and their Ditto takes on Red's Clefairy. Both sides kept mimicking each other until the food eating contest where Red's Clefairy was triumphant in and the other Clefairy revealed itself to them as Ditto. Even though Clefairy won, he kept eating until the place was about to blow up.

Clefairy and his rival, Charizard

Clefairy participated in a Sports Meet event where he cheated in the first event by combining himself with Machamp. Despite the cheating, he was able to lift up a heavy Snorlax. Clefairy gets tricked by Green's Magnemite and Voltorb, but was only successful with the latter one. He then ran in a race. Using ropes, he grabbed onto a Rapidash and got burned in the process. Rapidash throws Clefairy and he landed onto Professor Oak, which made the professor upset at him. Clefairy also participated in the baseball match as well as the swim race with Red and won. However, in the latter one, he accidentally bumped his head onto the pool walls which caused part of it to come off and a bunch of water came out. After arriving on Cinnabar Island, Clefairy goes to a museum on behalf of Professor Oak and his pal wanted to demonstrate the use of Evolutionary Stones by testing them on an Eevee. Eevee battled Clefairy and managed to get the upper hand due to the fact that it could evolve into three different Pokémon*. Even with Pikachu's help, Eevee was hard to beat. After Pikachu who evolved into Raichu was hit by Vaporeon's Water-type attack, Clefairy took the Thunder Stone out of Raichu's mouth and devolved back into Pikachu. He took on Vaporeon after it touched the Fire Stone which made Eevee evolve into Flareon. Clefairy could not handle Flareon so Red threw a Moon Stone at him which made him evolve into a Clefable. Due to this, he was able to finish Flareon off with a combination of Flash and an unidentified slapping move. Clefable than devolved back into a Clefairy after eating several Moon Stones and looking silly.

Still on Cinnabar Island, he goes to Blaine's restaurant where he and Green's Charmander get challenged by Blaine's Pokémon Quiz. Throughout the quiz, Clefairy got all of the answers to the questions wrong and got beaten by several of Blaine's Pokémon. Later, he challenged Blaine's Arcanine and both became covered in cement temporarily. Clefairy went to Giovanni's mansion when Green had a race with Red. In the mansion, he picked up a book on the bookshelf which turned out to be a switch for the secret laboratory. Clefairy noticed that Giovanni and his twin brother were creating Mewtwo using a Mew held hostage by them. When Mewtwo broke out of the machine, Clefairy had a battle with it. As Giovanni made Mewtwo to be very powerful, Clefairy was no match for it, until he threw it in a machine. Clefairy went in the same one and had Bill mix his DNA with Mewtwo. After the process was complete, Clefairy got out and noticed from a mirror that he had Mewtwo's form. The battle continued and Clefairy defeated Mewtwo. Afterwards, he goes inside the machine again with Giovanni's Pokémon. Clefairy returned back to normal and Giovanni's Pokémon had Clefairy's face on them.

Clefairy and his childhood friend, Clefable

He arrived in Viridian City to face the final Gym Leader of Kanto, who turned out to be Giovanni. Clefairy battled his Rhydon first. He joked around with Rhydon by taking pictures of it walking its pet. However, this led to Clefairy getting punched by Rhydon multiple times. Clefairy then lifted it and placed it in a bowl. This did not work as Rhydon escaped. Clefairy was narrowly hit by Rhydon's first Horn Drill as he dodged the attack. However, Clefairy was hit by the second one and felt pain by the spinning drill. He used the Horn Drill attack to his advantage by placing a propeller on it, which sent Rhydon flying, taking it out. Clefairy's next opponent was Nidoking. Due to his tremendous strength which Clefairy and Pikachu couldn't take, Clefairy dressed himself up as a Nidoqueen. This made Nidoqueen enamored with Clefairy in the costume and got chased around.

Red went to Indigo Plateau and Clefairy became Lorelei's student when she disguised herself as a teacher. Her Cloyster would often be used to inflict pain to Clefairy. After Lorelei removed her disguise, Red used Clefairy to battle her and her Pokémon. Clefairy dealt with Jynx first. He prevented himself from succumbing the effects of her kiss, which made Jynx run off. Next was Cloyster and despite Cloyster poking him with its spiky body, Clefairy made it crash through a wall. However, he became frozen by her Dewgong's Ice Beam and Lapras. Red tried thawing Clefairy with an Ice Heal but the ice on Clefairy was too strong. He was later defrosted by Pikachu. Clefairy went to a restaurant and ate some spicy food which made the whole thing explode out of his mouth. With the fiasco over with, the waiter has him, Red and Pikachu choose a door. They go in that door and Clefairy and the others went out to a garden. He hid inside some bushes and was spotted by Bruno. Bruno then trains with him, Red and Pikachu. Throughout their training, Clefairy would often get hit by Bruno's Pokémon. Clefairy's disruption of the training caused Bruno to unleash his full strength. Clefairy has also shaved part of Bruno's head off which made him more angry. Afterwards, he called out his whole  team to take on Clefairy and Clefairy became stuck along with Bruno's team when they were wrapped around by two of Bruno's Onix.

Clefairy's wings

Taking a break, Clefairy, Red and Pikachu go on the luxury liner where Agatha spied on the Normal-type. In an attempt to drink his blood, Agatha befriends Clefairy by having him control the ship when the captain was knocked out cold. As the ship crashed, it gave Agatha a chance to bite Clefairy and transformed into a Golbat. However, there were Clefairy clones inside Agatha when she bit him and they escaped. The clones grew bigger and destroyed the luxury liner while the real Clefairy, who was weakened earlier by Agatha, climbed aboard on Red's rowboat. Back on land, Professor Oak made a crash landing to where the group was. He gave Clefairy an opportunity to go in space. He goes to a ship and the ship launched into outer space. Clefairy then landed in a planet with some already destroyed buildings. He, Red and Pikachu find out that Lance is also there. He took Red to a pool area and his Clefairy challenged Gyarados. Using Pikachu as bait, he was able to defeat Gyarados. Next was Aerodactyl and when Clefairy fed Aerodactyl a bunch of food, he emerged victorious. With both foes subdued, Clefairy had to handle Lance's Dragonite. As Dragonite was too powerful, Clefairy retreated along with Red and Pikachu and returned to the ship. As they were leaving, Lance and Dragonite ended up on the ship before they left and Clefairy crash landed. Clefairy had to deal with an angry Professor Oak while Lance fled on his Dragonite.

Clefairy dealt with Lance's Dragonite again when he was in a village. As Clefairy was about to defeat it for making the villagers suffer, Dragonite saved itself by saying that Lance is its savior and made up a story about how he found it abandoned when it was a Dratini. After the story, Clefairy forgave Lance and Dragonite. However, the story turned out to be made up when the parents of Lance's Dragonite arrived to pick them up. Clefairy chased after them while they escaped. Red went to a mansion and Clefairy had a rematch with the gag Mewtwo where it made an attempt to switch Clefairy's DNA with a Rattata's. However, this was foiled when Pikachu pushed it into the machine.

Clefairy in Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire

While the group went camping outside, Clefairy had a nightmare about a Drowzee and it became recurring, much to the annoyance of Red and Pikachu as they didn't believe him. They take him to a doctor which was a Machamp. Since Drowzee was nearby, it controlled Clefairy's mind in the form of a prank and made him see things that no one else saw. This happened until Pikachu saw Drowzee and Clefairy's innocence was proven real. As a result, Drowzee started giving the group nightmares until they returned to the same spot they were before it happened, with Drowzee laughing at them. As Red arrived in the Pokémon League, he had to put Clefairy in a Poké Ball since it was league rules. During Red's match against Blue, he sent out Clefairy against his Blastoise first. Clefairy held out a shield to defend himself from Blastoise's Hydro Pump. As Clefairy got closer, he jammed Blastoise's hydro cannons and Blastoise was sent flying out of the stadium. Clefairy went against the gag Mewtwo that Blue just caught sometime before the Pokémon League. Both sides were using gag moves and as Mewtwo couldn't take it anymore, Red and Clefairy became the winners. When Red battled Green next, Clefairy could not come out of his Poké Ball as he didn't want to battle Green's Charizard. Red forced him out of his ball by using a lighter to burn the bottom side. Clefairy leaped out of the ball. As Charizard delivered the first move, Clefairy was too scared to move so he kept on getting hit by Charizard's Scratch. At first, Charizard was able to knock him out but the real Clefairy came by on a ship and revealed that the finishing blow was on the Poké Doll. Continuing the battle, he prevented Charizard from using Scratch by clipping its claws. As Charizard went for Flamethrower, the pressure pushed it back and it was recalled. Clefairy went up against Machamp next. Machamp started the first move by punching several times at once. This sent Clefairy crashing and Clefairy mimicked Machamp's punching move but he used a poster board instead, depicting the action. Red then recalled him and sent him out again when both sides sent out their whole team. Due to the excessive fighting, Clefairy and his teammates drew against Green's Pokémon.

Clefairy found a bottle that gave him magical powers. This bottle was originally Alakazam's as he dropped it and it rolled outside. Using those powers, Clefairy had the power to control anything. When he accidentally started a fire in an alleyway, he used his powers to put it out but it made the fire even worse and Clefairy ran away. He summoned a group of Blastoise to do it and the fire was put out. The actions Clefairy did recognized him as a hero by the press. He thought about what he can do since he is a supernatural being and could control anything. As a train was coming by, Clefairy stood on the tracks and tried to stop it but failed. Alakazam then told Clefairy as it was riding the train that the powers have been worn off. Clefairy finally returned to Pallet Town and he, Red and Pikachu were recognized by the whole town. Giovanni then appears on TV and announced that he was going to blow up Pallet Town with a missile. When Giovanni launched the missile, Clefairy launched one of his own and clashed with Giovanni's. As Clefairy was on the missile, it ended up blasting him away, which saddened Red. However, he jumped off the missile in the last second prior to the explosion. After a hard landing, Clefairy got a Marill and stuffed it in a bag. He then went to a motorcycle shop and bought himself a motorcycle. Clefairy rode back to where Red and Pikachu were as he got jealous of them having fun without him. The Marill escaped from the bag and Clefairy followed it to Johto.

Johto

Clefairy in Pocket Monsters DP

Sometime after arriving in New Bark Town, Clefairy heard from Professor Oak about a Chikorita being robbed. Professor Elm arrived and showed Clefairy being responsible. Clefairy, willing to prove that he is innocent, goes out and finds the stolen Chikorita. While searching, he ends up being unsuccessful as he found the related features instead of Chikorita itself. In an alleyway, Clefairy and the gang found the stolen Pokémon and battled Clefairy. In the battle, Chikorita was unscathed as it barely took damage from his Tackle. As Chikorita used Razor Leaf next, Clefairy improvised his own technique by taking leaves from the grass and using a Venusaur. Clefairy was finally able to defeat Chikorita with Pikachu's Thunderbolt. With the real thief, Green, revealed, Clefairy brought back Chikorita to Professor Oak and Clefairy was forgiven.

After Red met up with Silver again, Clefairy battled his Totodile. He started with Tackle and DoubleSlap, which led Totodile into countering with Water Gun. Clefairy brought out some men to protect himself from Totodile's Water Gun. The battle was interrupted when Donphan was raging by. As Silver mentioned the source of the Donphan attacking, Clefairy left the area to get a racecar and chased Silver and Totodile as the wheels were made of Donphan. Clefairy began getting impatient over an Egg Red received from Professor Elm earlier. He wanted it to hatch so he pretended to become one and hatched. While taking care of the Egg in the hot springs, it slipped out of his hands and flowed away. The Egg was retrieved by Gold afterwards. Clefairy battled Gold's Cyndaquil for official custody of the Egg. It started by Clefairy chasing Cyndaquil and then Cyndaquil blasted Clefairy with SmokeScreen, which prevented him from doing anything. After taking some hits from Cyndaquil, Clefairy sucked up the smoke and then blew it out to immobilize Cyndaquil. This trick worked at first until Cyndaquil unleashed its flames from the backside. This sent Clefairy flying and crash-landed. He dressed himself up as a female Cyndaquil which made Gold's Cyndaquil fall in love. However, it was a trap for Cyndaquil as Clefairy brought out dynamite and blew up the area. The Egg than hatched into a Togepi which made Red, Clefairy and Pikachu excited.

Clefairy in Pocket Monsters HGSS

Clefairy volunteered to battle a Sentret in the Pokémon Trainer's School where it evolved into Furret and Clefairy and Pikachu dressed up as one to defeat the original Furret. After the battle, he released the Pokémon that Earl was holding captive and Earl decided to have Clefairy teach his own class. However, he could not handle the students since they played rough. Clefairy and the gang go to Sprout Tower as a note in the Violet Gym told them that Falkner, the Gym Leader, is training there at the moment. Inside Sprout Tower, Clefairy met up with Falkner and his Natu. Clefairy took on Natu and he began by closing his eyes when Natu used Leer. After performing a dance, he got kicked by Natu's feet. As Clefairy performed the next attack, Natu dodged by teleporting which made Clefairy land on the ground, stomach first. Clefairy brought along a scale but Red did not like the idea. Clefairy then hid behind a wall but Natu easily found him and pecked him in the process. Natu used a combination of Confuse Ray and Peck to immobilize Clefairy but Clefairy still kept going and finished Natu off by tackling it. As Clefairy was still confused, Pikachu poured a bucket of water on his head. After defeating Falkner and tying up the Bellsprout, one of the Sages summons a giant one and Clefairy, Pikachu and Togepi battled it. As the giant Bellsprout was too strong, Clefairy brought along the Clefairy Rangers to take it on. With their teamwork, the giant Bellsprout was brought down by Flash, earning Red the Zephyr Badge. The group decide to eat out as a reward for defeating Falkner and Clefairy gets upset when the Clefairy Rangers ate all of his food. Then, he took on a Lugia with assistance from the Clefairy Rangers. However, when he bulged on some food, it caused the hideout to get destroyed.

Clefairy goes to the Ruins of Alph as a guard suggested him to go there. In order to get inside, Clefairy worked on various puzzles and the guard pulled a switch which opened a trap door that sent Clefairy, Red, Pikachu, and Togepi falling. Inside, he notices some statues of various Pokémon. Multiple Unown greet Clefairy and do funny stuff to him. Clefairy played with the Unown too. It continued  until Clefairy attached them together, in which the Unown did not like. They attack him with Hidden Power. Clefairy, Pikachu and Charizard work together to battle the Unown. Afterwards, Clefairy found a way out by smashing a piece of a pillar which made the whole place crumble. Clefairy went to Union Cave by riding on a Lapras. He came across Giovanni and some Team Rocket Grunts who built an amusement park inside. Clefairy decided to try out the roller coaster and he crash landed. Unfortunately, the entrance to Union Cave was sealed and Clefairy had to stay and help Team Rocket continue their design of the amusement park. When the entrance was partially opened, it gave Clefairy and the group a chance to escape but closed when Clefairy was about to make it. He built a digger drill to drill a hole in the wall. As he was able to do so, Team Rocket followed them as they were escaping. The mecha took them deeper in Union Cave where Giovanni met up with them and summoned his Slugma from the river of lava. Clefairy battled it and won when he made Togepi cry and the tears caused Slugma to harden and return to the lava pit. Clefairy rode his digger drill to leave Union Cave and instead of the entrance, it took him to another part of the world.

Clefairy found a baby Cleffa by a catholic church and took care of it. He trained it until he encountered a Magmar with Magby. Both baby Pokémon battled each other with their evolved forms as the Trainers. After the battle, Magby and Magmar walked off and Clefairy continued to spend time with Cleffa. Cleffa's Trainer arrived and mentioned that the Cleffa was his which made Clefairy sad that Cleffa was leaving. Clefairy got to see Cleffa one last time until Cleffa stuffed itself with watermelons. Later, Clefairy took on Bugsy during the Gym Battle against Red. Clefairy went up against Metapod and Kakuna first. Due to their high defenses, Clefairy's attacks barely gave them any scratches. However, cement from a cement truck gave Clefairy the power needed to strike back Metapod and Kakuna. He was able to take them out when they tackled him and bounced off. Clefairy's next opponent was Scyther. Due to the cement-covered power up that was received earlier, Clefairy broke one of Scyther's scythes.

He battled Clair and her Dragonair with the teamwork of Tyrogue.

PMRS series

Clefairy arrived in Hoenn with Red, Pikachu and Tyrogue. He eats some foods as he was getting hungry and gets accused by some monks for stealing dumplings. When the real thief, a Zigzagoon, was found, Clefairy accidentally destroyed their drums and had to be the replacement for the parade.

He was challenged by Professor Birch to various contests in which he lost in them all. When Ruby stole Red's Pikachu, he dressed up as half of a man and half of a women to get Pikachu back. Clefairy went to Petalburg Gym and found a depressed Norman. Norman told him that Slakoth.

PMDP series

Clefairy traveled in the Sinnoh region where he met Pearl and trained with him.

HGSS series

During Clefairy's return to Johto, Red chooses him, Pikachu and Tyrogue as his Pokémon for the Pokéathlon. Later, he challenges a Giratina and when he slowly chose his moves as he did not know which ones to use, it led to Giratina laughing at him.

PMBW series

Clefairy traveled to the Unova region with Red and Pikachu after leaving behind Tyrogue. He met Professor Juniper in her lab.

Personality and characteristics

Clefairy is often an unintelligent, lazy, loudmouthed, crass, vulgar, and generally rude Pokémon. He is typically selfish, often thinking about himself instead of others, and is also cowardly, preferring to win battles through the use of trickery, luck or other unconventional means. More often though he will try to flee and hide, sometimes even going as far as to disguise himself, to avoid battling others, especially against Pokémon who are by far larger and stronger than he. Clefairy would also rely on his signature item, the Poké Doll, for his ways of avoiding anything especially battles.

Clefairy does occasionally show some redeeming qualities, but he is usually a mischief maker most of the time. His manners and stupidity are often an annoyance to Red and the rest of his Pokémon team, and is also especially a major cause in fights between Pikachu and Tyrogue, who are both smarter, more well-behaved and otherwise more capable than Clefairy.

His mannerisms are also well known among Pokémon across entire regions, who typically refer to Clefairy as "that blockhead Clefairy". Rather than taking offense to this, Clefairy falsely believes it to be a compliment with the idea that he is "famous" among Pokémon. Also, Clefairy would not care if he gets caught for doing something bad despite the consequences being severe everytime.

Moves used

Using Double Team Using DoubleSlap	Move First Used In Minimize The Big Battle In The Viridian Forest!! Barrier × The Big Battle In The Viridian Forest!! Flash Clefairy Evolves... At Last?! Tackle × Where is Chikorita?! DoubleSlap Clefairy, the Battle Instructor Scary Face A Finger Lickin' Battle! Rollout Demanding Tests at the Pokémon School! Headbutt The Ultimate Battle...?! Double Team The Ultimate Battle...?! Light Screen A Challenge to the Elite Four! SolarBeam A Challenge to the Elite Four! Reflect PMHGSS05 Metronome PMHGSS20 Follow Me PMHGSS20
An × shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the anime

Clefairy in the anime

Clefairy appeared along with Red and Pikachu in the anime episode Lights, Camerupt, Action!. The three characters appeared in one of Ash's favorite films. The movie showed Red, Pikachu, and Clefairy walking a road together, when Clefairy complains that he's hungry, even though Red says he just ate. He then smells out a delicious sandwich, which a Teddiursa is holding, and eats it himself, making the Teddiursa cry. Teddiursa's mother, an Ursaring, then appears, angry at Clefairy for making her child cry, and sends Clefairy flying.

Voice actors

Trivia

• Clefairy and Pikachu are stated to be cousins. This is actually possible according to video game canon as Clefairy and Pikachu both belong to the Fairy Egg Group. However, this was not known when the manga was originally published, as Pokémon Gold and Silver had not been released yet.
• A running gag in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga was created which involved Clefairy destroying buildings in the end of most chapters, mostly ones that belong to Professor Oak such as his laboratory and house.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Clefairy and Clefable.

• Clefairy Rangers

Red's Pokémon
On hand:	Clefairy	Pikachu	Conkeldurr
Other:	Machamp	Articuno	Tauros	Kingler	Venusaur	Rattata
	Jigglypuff	Primeape (×2)	Cubone	Dragonite	Pidgey	Arcanine
	Larvitar	Scyther	Slugma	Alakazam	Shiftry	Ditto
Befriended:	Lapras	Mew
Seen in a baseball match:	Diglett	Golem	Slowbro	Magneton	Farfetch'd	Gastly
	Onix	Chansey	Tangela	Snorlax	Jynx
Seen in a curry cooking competition:	Blastoise	Diglett	Rapidash	Onix	Scyther	Exeggutor
	Eevee	Voltorb
Status unknown:	Gastly	Haunter	Exeggcute (×2)	Miltank	Snubbull
Traded away:	Togepi
Released:	Tyrogue
Temporary:	Mew	Torchic	Treecko	Clefable	Raichu	Hitmontop
Borrowed:	Meowth	Togepi
Escaped:	Unnamed Bug

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