Raleigh
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| Raleigh ラケル Racel | |
 Raleigh | |
| Gender | Male |
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| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair color | Blond |
| Hometown | Azoth Kingdom |
| Region | Kalos |
| Relatives | Kimia (sister), unnamed father, unnamed Azoth princess (ancestor), Nikola (ancestor) |
| Animated debut | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel |
| English voice actor | Laurie Hymes |
| Japanese voice actor | Shōko Nakagawa |
Raleigh (Japanese: ラケル Racel) is a major character who appeared in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel. He is the prince of the Azoth Kingdom, Kimia's brother, and a descendant of Magearna's creator Nikola.
History
Ever since he was a boy, Raleigh always adored his ancestor Nikola and on many occassions he would spend the entire day in his room reading texts and performing experiments. As a result, Raleigh became close to Alva, an Azoth Kingdom councillor and arcane science researcher. Due to this, Raleigh came to trust Alva completely and believed that obtaining Magearna was for the good of the kingdom, not realizing his mentor's ulterior motives.
He is first seen in the movie meeting Magearna and introducing himself as the prince of the Azoth Kingdom, with the hopes that Magearna's secrets can help their kingdom flourish as his inventor ancestor Nikola had envisioned. He soon after meets Ash and Volcanion, the latter of whom was trying to protect Magearna from humans, believing them all to be evil.
Later, when Alva successfully captures Magearna, Raleigh tries to assure his sister, Princess Kimia, as well as Ash and his friends that they're acting for the good of Azoth and expresses his excitement that his and Alva's plans can succeed. However, Alva quickly betrays Raleigh and has Gengar use Mean Look on Magearna. He opens the hatch on Magearna's chest, revealing its Soul-Heart, which he tries to remove. Raleigh tries to stop him, knowing that Magearna will "die" without its Soul-Heart, but Levi holds him and forces him to watch as Alva removes the Soul-Heart. Raleigh can only watch in horror as his traitorous mentor callously discard Magearna's body and before having his Mega-Evolved Pokémon attack all the people and Pokémon on Nebel Plateau, including Raleigh's sister Princess Kimia. Alva tells the horrified prince that he will now be able to seize control of the Azoth Kingdom with Raleigh as his puppet ruler, before having his Gengar put Raleigh to sleep using Hypnosis.
After Alva's plans are foiled, Raleigh wakes up and rejoins his sister. However, he finds that Alva has locked Azoth's flying fortress in a collision course with Nebel Plateau, and is unable to override the controls to stop the crash. He then works with everyone to make a plan to destroy the fortress from the inside, and apologizes to Ash for his foolishness in trusting Alva. Ash then suggests that Raleigh expand his world view by going on his own Pokémon journey. He then escapes the fortress along with the others before Volcanion destroys it, and happily reunites with it on Nebel Plateau afterwards.
At the end of the movie, Raleigh, acting under Ash's advice, goes out on a Pokémon journey of his own with his Slurpuff.
Character
Raleigh has a large interest in arcane science and Nikola. He believes that knowing the past, including Magearna, is the way to the future.
Pokémon
This listing is of Raleigh's known Pokémon in the anime:
| Debut | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel |
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| Japanese | |
| English | Haven Paschall |
Artwork
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Trivia
- CITV closed captions incorrectly refer to Raleigh as Rali.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | ラケル Racel | From Paracelsus, a Swiss alchemist |
| English | Raleigh | Similar to his Japanese name |
| French | Raphaël | Similar to his English name |
| German | Raimund | Similar to his English name |
| Italian | Ranieri | Probably a reference to Prince Ranieri |
| Korean | 라켈 Rakel | Transliteration of Japanese name |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 拉凱爾 / 拉凯尔 Lākǎi'ěr | Transliteration of Japanese name |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 拉克爾 Lāaihāakyíh | Mandarin-based transliteration of Japanese name |
| Thai | ราเคล Racel | Same as his Japanese name |
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