Red (Adventures)
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| Red レッド Red | |
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| Age | 16 (as of the fifth chapter) |
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| Gender | Male |
| Hometown | Pallet Town |
| Region | Kanto |
| Relatives | Unknown |
| Class | Trainer |
Red (Japanese: レッド Red) is the first main character of the manga series Pokémon Adventures. His first Pokémon was a Poliwag, which evolved into a Poliwhirl when saving him from drowning.
Red is eleven years old at the beginning of Red, Green & Blue chapter. He is first seen in Glimpse of the Glow, when he shows a group of children the proper way to catch a Pokémon. He demonstrates by using his Poliwhirl to battle a wild Nidorino. Red is very sentimental, as shown in the battle versus Blue in the ninth annual Pokémon League tournament. He believes that defeating an opponent is no fun if they are at a disadvantage, as seen in both The Secret of Kangaskhan and Make Way for Magmar!. At the beginning of the series, he is quite cocky, as shown in Suddenly Starmie. However, this cockiness has subsided by the end of the RGB saga.
Red's special skill, as described by Professor Oak, is Pokémon battling. As such, he is called the "Fighter" (戦う者 Fighter).
In later adventures, Red has been viewed as a leader amongst the Pokédex holders, second only to Professor Oak.
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Character history
Red, Green & Blue chapter
In this saga, Red is the main protagonist. His main rival is Blue. Red was first seen showing off his catching abilities to a bunch of little kids, but once they mentioned Professor Oak and his grandson, they left. He then saw some Team Rocket Grunts and overheard them talking about Mew. He found it only to see that Blue (who he didn't know yet) was already battling it with a Charmander but quickly recalled it, angering Red to a point where he sent out his own Poliwhirl on it and was easily defeated. He then received some words of wisdom from Blue and decided to suck up his pride and go to Professor Oak's. Red enters the seemingly empty lab and notices a Bulbasaur, only to be found by Professor Oak and mistaken for a thief. All of the Professor's Poké Balls are then set loose, and Red volunteers to get all of them back. He does so, except for one last Pokémon - the same Bulbasaur from earlier, in the Viridian Gym. He manages to calm Bulbasaur down only to be attacked by a wid Machoke. Red then figures out how to use SolarBeam on his own, impressing Oak to the point of giving him a Pokédex and Bulbasaur to keep. He is then sent along by Professor Oak to capture as many Pokémon as he can, and encounters Blue for the first time in the Viridian Forest. The two boys fight over a Kangaskhan, and Red finally learns his name and status as Oak's grandson and begins a rivalry with him.
Red later manages to catch a menacing Pikachu that was destroying industry in Pewter City. He then runs into Blue again, learns of the Boulder Badge and decides to challenge Brock and earn Gym Badges. After blowing through the preliminaries with Saur and Poli Red realizes that he needs his newly caught Pikachu to beat Brock's Onix. After a rocky first part of the match Red earns Pikachu's trust and he defeats Brock. He later encounters Misty and her Gyarados which had been stolen and went into an intense rage, horribly injuring Misty and her Staryu in the process. After re-capturing it, Red learns about Team Rocket through Misty and Oak, and sets off to Mt. Moon after them with Misty. They defeat Team Rocket even after the admin Koga uses an injection to make his Rhyhorn evolve into a Rhydon. While staying in Misty's mansion, Misty whoops Red to make him see that they need to be stronger if they want to defeat Team Rocket. After several days he defeats her and wins the Cascade Badge.
After stowing away and getting kicked off of the S.S. Anne, Red meets the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman, learning from him that his Abra, along with other Pokémon, are being stolen. This leads him back to the S.S. Anne, where he runs into the owner, Lt. Surge. Lt. Surge throws Red and Poli overboard, only to trigger Poli's evolution into a Poliwrath, saving Red from drowning. Later, Red enters a bike racing contest and uses his Pokémon to give him a good lead, until he and several of the racers are stopped dead by a Snorlax. By using his Bulbasaur covered in honey he catches the Snorlax and wins the race, however all of his prize money is spent to feed it.
He then journeys into the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town to rescue Blue who mysteriously disappeared. He finds Blue possessed by a Gastly owned by Koga. Red then watches Blue defeat and slice Koga's Arbok in half. This made Red slightly respect Blue.
Later, Red is scammed out of his money for fake items by a mischievous girl called Green by flattery. He chases her down and gets his money back, only to realize that his first two badges, the Boulder Badge and the Cascade Badge are gone. He then deduces that the stolen Squirtle mentioned by Professor Oak must have been taken by Green and evolved into Wartortle. He infiltrates Team Rocket to see what they know about Green, and finds her surrounded by a group of Team Rocket members looking for a mysterious chip she stole, containing information about Mew. Even after everything Green did to him, Red saves her from Team Rocket. After that, the two of them go after Mew only to find that Team Rocket made it to it again, and Red has to stall them in order for Mew to get away. After this altercation, Green leaves, but leaves entrusted in his pocket, his badges back.
Red then accidentally gets his Pokémon swapped with Blue. When he tries to battle with them they refuse to obey him but later he decides to play with them while Blue trains Red's Pokémon with more exotic and useful moves. Blue's Pokémon become more kind to Red and more lighthearted overall, something that greatly annoys Blue when he gets his Pokémon back.
Red then goes to Erika and challenges her, but she first requires that he proves himself by catching an Eevee. Eventually, with Bill's help, Red finds and catches a strange Eevee with the ability to swap between any of its evolved forms, due to a special device implemented in its ear. He then goes to find Erika and asks why Eevee is like this, and he challenges her to a gym battle, to which she easily defeats him. She then says that she will kill Eevee due to its deformity but Red uses Pika to protect it. She then reveals that it was simply a test and the real people that made Eevee like this was Team Rocket.
Red then visits the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City, and although he wasn't supposed to do anything except watch, he smuggled in a Poké Ball and caught a Nidoqueen, angering two Nidoking that were fighting over her. He manages to escape them but is then taken by a Victreebel and was to be eaten for an evolution ritual for the Bellsprout and Weepinbell. He gets away from them by using a Poké Flute to wake the sleeping Pokémon, ruining the ritual and then using a Poké Doll as a distraction, only to run into Nioking again. The result is a fight between Nidoking and the Victreebell with Red having Nidoking unknowingly weaken it so he can capture Victreebell and then have Victreebell use PoisonPowder to capture Nidoking. Than using the two of them two capture many other Pokémon before he is finally found by the Safari Zone Warden.
He then unknowingly helps Rocket boss Giovanni whom he believes is just a researcher get some fossils and get to Pewter City through Diglett Cave, only to see that Pewter Museum of Science is set a blaze by two Magmar. He then decides to battle the Magmar with Giovanni studying to see if he is as much as a threat as he heard that Red defeated Koga and Lt. Surge, only to deduce not since he was lacking in cruelty, unfairness, and brutality in general. Red is then sent on his way since the Museum is burnt to the ground but Giovanni does give him an Old Amber.
He then goes to the bottom of a lake to retrieve the HM for Surf to make it to the Seafoam Islands, but the one he found is being guarded by a Dragonite. He then decides to use all of his other Pokémon to distract it, only to have their combined weight crush the HMand trap Red's leg under a rock. Then when Dragonite notices him and attempts to attack him Misty appears and drives the Dragonite off with her Starmie and Gyara, saving him in the process. Misty than trades Krabby for her Gyarados, and while Gyarados is isolated due to the previous confrontation with it after it was experimented on by Team Rocket Red went to the Seafoam Islands to once again find Team Rocket going after Articuno. Seeing them again made Gyarados review some painful memories and he had Vui help it through that, helping Gyarados overcome its trauma and with the help of Articuno, succeeded in driving away Team Rocket once again.
He then reaches Cinnabar Island, spotting Team Rocket and secretly watching them battle Blaine's Pokémon from the edge of a cliff. A member spots him and threatens to throw him off thew cliff if he doesn't surrender. Blaine appears but with his Gyarados, the two of them easily overpower the grunts until they reveal their secret weapon, a Moltres. The grunts disperse and Moltres gives chase to the two of them on Blaine's Rapidash. When nothing that they do works because of Moltres' speed, Blaine spots Red's Old Amber and has him revive it as fast as he can. He gets it revived into an Aerodactyl and with that he is able to drive Moltres away.
After the him, Blue, and Green all fail to get into Saffron City he goes to Pallet Town to ask Oak, only to realize that there is nobody there except for Sabrina and her Kadabra masquerading as Oak. She then appears to him and pins him to the floor with her psychic powers and challenges him to go back to Saffron City. Green then appears to him and tells him that Saffron must be Team Rocket's headquarters. The two of them then decide to team up.
Eventually, Red, Green, and Blue team up to defeat Team Rocket's admins - Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina, who were using the Legendary Birds to take over Saffron City. Red also meets Blaine, and helps him capture the escaped experimental Pokémon Mewtwo, so that Blaine can cure them of the empathic connection they share.
Red later encounters Yellow in Viridian Forest and finds that Team Rocket has been releasing abused Pokémon into the Forest to make them stronger. He meets Giovanni and defeats him in an intense battle.
With the badges he gained, Red is able to enter the Pokémon League, where he faces Blue in the final match and emerges as the Champion of the 9th Pokémon League competition. This makes him interesting to the Elite Four, who are watching the battle from the side.
Yellow chapter
At the beginning of the second chapter, two years after the end of the previous chapter, Red receives an invitation to battle Bruno of the Elite Four at Mt. Moon. During the battle, Red is confronted by Lorelei and Agatha, who want him to join them in their quest to wipe out humanity for the sake of Pokémon. When he refuses, Lorelei freezes him in a block of ice. Only Pika escapes and makes it to Professor Oak's laboratory, where he teams up with Yellow. As revealed at the end of the chapter, Giovanni eventually rescued Red, enabling him to seek out his friends and help them fight the Elite Four on Cerise Island. Red arrives just in time to save Bill and Lt. Surge, finally finishing his battle with Bruno.
Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter
Red is offered the newly open position of Viridian City Gym Leader, but has to turn it down due to injuries he suffered from being frozen. He leaves to recuperate at the springs in Mt. Silver with Blue's Charizard and Green's Blastoise, where he meets Sabrina, also there to heal the same injuries. Sabrina informs him of the Gym Leaders meeting in the Pokémon League, and he later arrives at the scene in time to save Blue, Brock and Erika from a train crash.
Red and Blue then travel underground with Blue's new Rhydon towards Ilex Forest, where the villainous Mask of Ice headed. Along the way the meet Bruno and Koga, two former enemies, who help them on their way and tell them about Celebi.
When they arrive at Ilex Forest, Red, Blue, and the other main characters then team up with several legendary Pokémon to help fight the Mask of Ice. During the battle Red finally learns that Yellow is a girl. At the end of the story, Gold becomes impressed with Red and goes to train under him at Mt. Silver.
FireRed & LeafGreen chapter
Red undergoes special training under Kimberly on Boon Island, where his Venusaur learns the legendary Grass-type move Frenzy Plant. However, he is still defeated by Deoxys, who he shares a strange connection with. Red loses his confidence, but eventually regains the will to fight in order to understand the meaning of his connection to Deoxys.
Mewtwo shows up and offers to battle under Red's command to get revenge on Deoxys. The two arrive at the Team Rocket helicopter hovering above Viridian City, where Giovanni is searching for his long-lost son. After a very long and fierce battle, Mewtwo manages to defeat Deoxys. However, victory is short as Carr, one of the Beast Warrior Trio, rebels against Team Rocket and, after placing his Forretress all over the helicopter and ordering them to use Explosion, takes over the helicopter. While Deoxys transports everyone else aboard to safety, Red stays behind to defeat the Forretress and stop the aircraft from blowing up over Vermilion City. In the process, he discovers that Deoxys absorbed a sample of his blood when it broke free from Team Rocket's lab.
At the end of the chapter, Red is turned to stone along with the other main characters by Sird's beam intended for Deoxys.
Emerald chapter
Red, along with Blue, Green, Silver, and Yellow, still statues, are transported in boxes on the S.S. Tidal by the other main characters to the Battle Frontier for their salvation. For most of this chapter, Red, along with four other Pokédex holders, remains frozen in stone. It is only towards the end of the chapter that he and the others were liberated by Emerald with the help of the wish-granting legendary Pokémon Jirachi. Free again, Red and the others help fight Guile Hideout.
Pokémon
Red's Pokémon nicknames are taken from two syllables from their Japanese language-version names.
On hand
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Saur, Red's Venusaur, was the Pokémon Red received from Professor Oak. It is one of his most powerful team members and has defeated Blue's Charizard in battle. Professor Oak gave it to him because Red figured out how to let it use its powerful SolarBeam attack on a Machoke they encountered in the Viridian City Gym. In the Sevii Islands, Saur learned Frenzy Plant. It debuted as a Bulbasaur in Bulbasaur, Come Home!. |
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Poli, Red's Poliwrath, is Red's first Pokémon, and has been with him since early childhood. Poli is very loyal and evolved to save Red from drowning twice. He excels at physical attacks, as well as Ice Beam. It debuted as Poliwhirl in A Glimpse of the Glow, but was caught as a Poliwag earlier than that. |
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Pika, Red's Pikachu, was once a mischievous Pokémon that terrorized Pewter City stealing food, causing trouble, and shocking people. Pika befriended Yellow, and mated with Yellow's Pikachu, Chuchu, to produce Gold's Pichu. When Pika was accidentally traded to Blue, it was taught a variety of different moves, such as Substitute and Toxic. Under Yellow's care, it later learned how to Surf. Debuted and captured in Wanted: Pikachu!. |
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Gyara is a Gyarados that once belonged to Misty, but it was captured and experimented on by Team Rocket to make it more fierce. Red recaught it when it was out of control and gave it back to Misty. Later, when Red was unable to get the Surf HM, Misty traded Gyara for Red's Krabby so that Red could reach Cinnabar Island. Debuted in Gyarados Splashes In!. |
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Lax is first seen in Wake Up...You're Snorlax!. In the round, Red had caught Lax because he was blocking the road during a bicycle race. He is very gluttonous and is driven into a frenzy by the smell of honey. Later, after extensive training, Lax becomes one of the most physically powerful members of Red's team. Lax is currently at level 89. His ability is Immunity, and he knows many moves, including Toxic, Harden, Belly Drum, Double-Edge, Earthquake, Headbutt, Rest, Strength, Mega Punch, and Mega Kick. |
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When Red first met Giovanni, not knowing that he is a Gym Leader and the boss of Team Rocket, Giovanni gave him an Old Amber. Later, in Holy Moltres, when Red and Blaine were fighting a Moltres that Team Rocket had captured on Cinnabar Island, Blaine told Red to run to his lab and instructed him on how to resurrected an Aerodactyl from the piece of Old Amber. Since then, Red uses his Aerodactyl, Aero, whenever he needs to get somewhere by flying. It is strong enough to support the heavy weight of Red's entire team. In the FireRed & LeafGreen chapter, Aero was seriously wounded in a battle with Deoxys, when the DNA Pokémon pierced his wings. Aero's ability is Rock Head, and he can use Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam, and Take Down. |
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Vui is an Eevee experimented on by Team Rocket that Red captured under Erika's direction. It was genetically modified to have unstable DNA, allowing it to evolve and devolve from Eevee, to Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon when exposed to new stones. Later, Red was able to heal its emotional trauma and it permanently evolved into Espeon. Red adds Vui to his team whenever Pika is with Yellow or needs a rest. He captured it in Blame it on Eevee. |
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This Diglett is a minor Pokémon that Red caught after he and Blue accidentally switched Pokémon in A Tale of Ninetales. So far, he has only used it while battling Eevee in the following round when he thought Eevee is an Electric-type Pokémon, but then Eevee changed into Vaporeon and defeated it. |
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Red occasionally uses this Sandshrew to fight Fire-types. It first appeared in Make Way for Magmar, when it used Sand-Attack to douse the flames of two wild Magmar. |
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Red caught Nidorino to demonstrate his capture abilities to some children in Pallet Town in A Glimpse of the Glow, but never used it since then. |
Status unknown
This is a listing of Pokémon, which Red caught but they were not listed in the all character Pokémon listings in the end of Volume 15. Since then, it's possible that Red released them.
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Red caught this angry Pokémon to keep it from attacking Bill. Bill occasionally borrows it to fly around. Debuted and captured in ...But Fearow Itself!. |
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Red caught a Nidoqueen and multiple Nidoking, Victreebel, Weepinbell, Bellsprout, Exeggcute, and Parasect when he was lost in the Safari Zone one night and was almost killed by rampaging Victreebel in Long Live the Nidoking and A Hollow Victreebel. None of them has been seen since. |
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Butterfree was shown in the end of the first and second volumes' Pokédex. It is assumed that it came from a Caterpie. | |
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Red caught a Krabby along with his Diglett when he had Blue's Pokémon in A Tale of Ninetales. Like Diglett, he used it in the the following round to battle Eevee when he thought Eevee was a Fire-type Pokémon, but then Eevee turned to Jolteon and attacked with an Electric attack. In You know... Articuno!, Misty gave Red her Gyarados in exchange for his Krabby. It has been seen with Misty several times since. |
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The first time Red had Blue's starter Pokémon was when it was still a Charmeleon, and the two rivals accidentally switched their Pokémon in A Tale of Ninetales. Later, in the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter, Charizard was temporarily traded for Gyara so that Red could use it to fly to Mt. Moon. It was also temporarily traded for Saur during the FireRed & LeafGreen chapter. |
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When Red and Blue accidentally switched Pokémon in A Tale of Ninetales, Red got Blue's Charmeleon, Golduck, Scyther, Pidgeot, Porygon and Machoke. With these Pokémon he managed to catch a Diglett and a Krabby. Later, while battling a Ninetales, Machoke evolved into Machamp. |
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When Red met Green on his way to Mt. Moon, she lent him her Blastoise. Red asked her if she needs Blasty for flight transportation, but Green mysteriously answered that he shouldn't "worry about flying". |
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After Red saved the Gym Leaders on the Magnet Train and left for Ilex Forest with Blue, he found out what Green meant when she said he shouldn't "worry about flying": Green was in possession of all three legendary birds at the time. During the battle with Lugia and Ho-Oh, Red temporarily received Articuno. Red already met this specific Articuno before when he failed to prevent Team Rocket from catching it. When the fight was over, Red returned Articuno to Green. |
Badges obtained
Indigo League
- Boulder Badge in Onix is On!.
- Cascade Badge in Suddenly Starmie.
- Rainbow Badge in Meanvile...Vileplume!.
- Volcano Badge in Holy Moltres.
- Thunder Badge in Zap! Zap! Zapdos!.
- Soul Badge in The Art of Articuno.
- Marsh Badge in A Little Kadabra'll Do It.
Trivia
- Red's Pokémon were not nicknamed in Viz's translations of Pokémon Adventures (except Pika). Their English nicknames were first officially used in Chuang Yi's translations of Sevii Island Arc. Coincidentally, they are exactly the same as Coronis's nicknames coined long before Chuang Yi.
- Red is the only male protagonist of Pokémon Adventures to challenge Gyms. Ruby challenges Contests while neither Gold nor Diamond does either Contests or Gyms.
- Red's birthday is August 8th.
- Red's blood type is O.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Reference to |
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| Japanese | レッド Red | From Pokémon Red game. |
| English | Red | From Pokémon Red game. |
| French | Sacha | Same as Ash's French name. |
| German | Ash | Same as anime's Ash. |
| Korean | 지우 Jiu | Same as Ash's Korean name. |
| Chinese | 小智 Xiǎo Zhì | Same as Ash's Chinese name. |
External links
- Netkun on Red (Japanese)
- Netkun on FR/LG Red (Japanese)
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