Butch

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Butch コサブロウ Kosaburō
Butch of Team Rocket
Gender	Male
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Green
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Unknown
Class	Agent
Team	Team Rocket
Rank	Agent
Partner	Cassidy
First episode	The Breeding Center Secret
English voice actor	Eric Stuart (4Kids) Jimmy Zoppi (a/k/a Billy Beach; PUSA/TPCi)
Japanese voice actor	Takehito Koyasu

Butch (Japanese: コサブロウ Kosaburō) is one half of of the Team Rocket duo that occasionally runs across Ash Ketchum and friends in the Pokémon anime.

Butch's partner is Cassidy, and she is one of the few that usually manages to get his name right- much to his frustration, everyone else calls him either "Biff", "Bill", "Buttch", "Buffy", "Bob", "Hutch", "Butcher", "Patch", "Botch", "Chuck" or "Hootch" among others (コサンジ Kosanji in Japanese). Sometimes when she gets it right, he, by habit, tries to correct her and ends up calling himself the incorrect name. Everyone getting his name wrong has become a running gag in the anime. This, of course, annoys him to no end. He once even said in frustration, "That does it, I am changing my name."

Name origin

Butch is named after Butch Cassidy, an American outlaw. His Japanese name, Kosaburo, is meant to diminish his status when compared to James. 二郎 Jirō is a name meaning "second son," while 三郎 Saburō means "third son." Kojiro (James) takes advantage of Jirō, while Kosaburo takes advantage of Saburō.

Pokémon

On hand

Primeape	Hitmontop	Mightyena
Cloyster	Raticate	Shuckle

Temporary

Pikachu	Togepi	Meowth	Arbok
Lickitung	Weezing	Victreebel	Wartortle
Vulpix	Mankey	Primeape	Growlithe
Poliwag	Ponyta	Magnemite	Grimer
Kingler	Voltorb	Hitmonchan	Seaking
Starmie	Electabuzz	Magikarp	Vaporeon
Jolteon	Flareon

• Temporarily commanded by Butch and Cassidy in Pikachu Re-Volts.

Status Unknown

Aggron

In Grating Spaces, Delibird was delivering the Poké Ball containing Aggron to Butch, but it mistakenly gave it to James. Delibird returned later and reclaimed the Poké Ball. It is assumed Aggron was delivered to Butch successfully.

Appearances

• The Breeding Center Secret
• Pikachu Re-Volts
• The Fortune Hunters
• The Mystery is History!
• A Parent Trapped!
• A Promise is a Promise
• Showdown at the Oak Corral
• Oaknapped
• A Date With Delcatty
• Training Daze (flashback only)
• Putting the Air Back in Aerodactyl
• Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing
• The Search for the Legend
• The Scheme Team
• The Ole' Berate and Switch
• A Secret Sphere of Influence (flashback only)
• Sleight of Sand!

Voice actors

Trivia

• Through both English dubs, Butch has shared the same voice actor with James (Eric Stuart in the 4Kids dub and Jimmy Zoppi - working under the psuedonym Billy Beach - in the PUSA/TPCi dub).

External links

• Botch Up!, the fanlisting for Butch
• Kosaburō's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
• Yamato and Kosaburō's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)

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