Cassidy

Cassidy ヤマト Yamato
Cassidy of Team Rocket
Gender	Female
Eye color	Purple
Hair color	Gold
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Unknown
Class	Agent
Team	Team Rocket
Rank	Agent
Partner	Butch
First episode	The Breeding Center Secret
English voice actor	Megan Hollingshead (OS) Andi Whaley (AG, 4Kids) Emily Williams (PUSA/TPCi)
Japanese voice actor	Masako Katsuki

Cassidy (Japanese: ヤマト Yamato) is one half of of the Team Rocket duo that occasionally runs across Ash Ketchum and friends in the Pokémon anime.

Cassidy's partner is Butch, and she is one of the few that usually manages to get his name right, however she has gotten his name wrong on many occasions- much to his frustration as everyone else also calls him either "Biff", "Bill", "Bob", "Hutch", "Butcher", "Patch", "Botch" or "Buffy", among others (コサンジ Kosanji in Japanese).

Cassidy and Jessie met either before or shortly after their both joining Team Rocket, and are assumed to have been rivals since then. The two women are almost equally vain. However, unlike Jessie, Cassidy keeps her cool easier and is much less prone to violent outbursts. Cassidy annoys Jessie to no end with her arrogance, and it appears that Cassidy likes instigating this frustration.

Name origin

Cassidy is named after Butch Cassidy, an American outlaw. Her Japanese name, Yamato, is named after the 大和 Yamato, a World War II-era Japanese battleship. Its sister ship was the 武蔵 Musashi, one of Jessie's namesakes.

Pokémon

On hand

Raticate

Raticate was Butch and Cassidy's signature Pokémon during the first seasons of the anime. It cannot talk like Meowth, but it does occasionally say its name at the end of Butch and Cassidy's motto. Also unlike Meowth, Cassidy keeps Raticate in a Poké Ball. It first appeared in The Breeding Center Secret. It appeared again in The Ole' Berate and Switch! under Butch's command. It is voiced by Jimmy Zoppi in English and by うえだゆうじ Yuji Ueda in Japanese.

Houndour
	Cassidy's Houndour debuted in The Mystery is History.

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

Charizard

In Grating Spaces, Delibird was delivering the Poké Ball containing Charizard to Cassidy, but it mistakenly gave it to Jessie. Delibird returned later and reclaimed the Poké Ball. It is assumed Charizard was delivered to Cassidy 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
• Zig Zag Zangoose! (fantasy)
• The Scheme Team
• The Ole' Berate and Switch
• A Secret Sphere of Influence (flashback only)
• Sleight of Sand!

Voice actors

Trivia

Butch and Cassidy are based off of the notorious bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid that stole money in the U.S. and later hid in Bolivia.

External links

• Conniving, the fanlisting for Cassidy
• Yamato's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
• Yamato and Kosaburō's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)

This article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.