Tad

Tad (Japanese: ヒデ Hide) is a character of the day in the Pokémon anime who appeared in Charizard Chills. His English voice actress is Maddie Blaustein and his Japanese voice actor is 真殿光昭 Mitsuaki Madono.

Ash and his friends were riding on Lapras when they met Tad. He almost ran them over with his boat, causing Misty to yell at him. Tad explained that he wanted to challenge Ash to a two-on-two battle, and Ash accepted.

Tad sent out his Poliwrath against Ash's Pikachu. Despite the type advantage, Pikachu ended up losing. Ash then proceeded to sent out his Charizard. Charizard refused to listen to Ash's orders, and kept using Flamethrower against the Water-type Pokémon. The battle ended when Tad had his Poliwrath freeze Charizard with Ice Beam. He told Ash that he would accept a rematch with him when he learned how to train his Charizard.

The next day, Pikachu was stolen by Team Rocket. With Charizard now trusting him, Ash successfully rescued Pikachu. Tad, seeing what happened, asked Ash if he was ready for the rematch. Ash accepted, and was able to defeat Tad's Poliwrath with Charizard.

Tad told Ash that he hoped to meet him in the Orange League, but he hasn't been seen since his only appearance.

Pokémon

• Poliwrath

Trivia

• Tad has a striking resemblence to Tracey Sketchit, leaving some fans to believe that he might be a relative of his. Though there was very little conversation between them in the episode so it's mostly under pure speculation. Also, both of their dub names begin with a T and both wear headbands.
• Tad mentions that he hopes to compete against Ash in the Orange League, but it was later shown that the Orange League does not involve a championship competition like the Indigo League. This may be a dub error.