Agatha

Agatha キクコ Kikuko
[[File:File:FL Agatha.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Art from FireRed and LeafGreen
Gender	Female
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Graying blond
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Kanto
Trainer class	Elite Trainer
Generation	I, III
Games	Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, LeafGreen, Stadium
Elite Four of	Indigo Plateau
Animated debut	The Scheme Team
English voice actor	Allyson Johnson
Japanese voice actor	Kazuko Sugiyama

Agatha (Japanese: キクコ Kikuko) is a master Template:Type2 Trainer.

She is an elderly woman who uses a cane. Despite her age, she is a formidable opponent in Pokémon battles, and in Generation I and Generation III, she is the third member of the Elite Four.

In the anime

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Agatha in the anime.

Agatha appears in the anime in The Scheme Team, acting as a temporary Gym Leader for the Viridian Gym.

While Ash was going through Viridian City on the way to Pallet Town, he met up with Scott. Wanting to show Scott how strong he was, Ash challenged Agatha to a gym battle. Despite just placing in the top eight of the Ever Grande Conference, Ash lost to her Gengar.

Although he lost, both Agatha and Scott were impressed. It was then Agatha revealed to Ash that she is a member of the Elite Four. She and Scott both recommended that Ash go to the Battle Frontier and challenge the Frontier Brains.

Pokémon

This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the anime.

Gengar

Golbat

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • Kazuko Sugiyama
• English
  • Allyson Johnson
• Brazilian
  • Gilmara Sanches

In the games

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Agatha sprite from Pokémon Yellow	Agatha sprite from Generation III

Agatha is a member of the Elite Four, and the oldest one to date. As such, she serves as an inspiration for senior Pokémon trainers all around the region. She uses Ghost-type Pokémon, and other Pokémon with horrifying appearances.

Agatha and Professor Oak were once friendly rivals in their youth, and it appears that Agatha may have once had a crush on Oak. However, their relationship has grown bitter and strained over the years because Agatha believes he was too weak to continue competing.

She has a very short temper.

By the events of the Generation II games, Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four, and Bruno has assumed her position. Her absence was never explained; in fact, she is not mentioned at all. It is fan speculation that in the three-year gap between games, she either finally retired due to old age or passed away.

Fame Checker

This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Agatha in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.

Pokémon League - Agatha

• What does this person do?

"I am Agatha of the Elite Four."

Indigo Plateau - Crusher

• Favorite kind of Pokémon?

"<sc>Agatha's Ghost-type Pokémon are horifically terrifying in toughness."

Indigo Plateau - Crusher

• What is this person like?

"That old lady's got a really short fuse, too.

It doesn't take anything to get that scary lady hollering."

Seven Island - Pokémon Journal

• There's a rumor...

"In her youth, Agatha and Prof. Oak were rivals who vied for

supremacy as Trainers."

Pokémon League - Agatha

• Family and friends?

"I hear Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child.

That old duff was once tough and handsome.

But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self."

Six Island - old lady

• What is this person like?

"Take Agatha, for example.

She set a record for being the oldest-ever Elite Four member."

Message from Agatha

• From: Agatha
• To: [Player]

"When you grow older, don't you dare go soft like that coot Oak!

Be like me and keep battling on!"

Pokémon

This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the video games she has appeared in.

Quotes

"I am Agatha of the Elite Four. I hear Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child (You're the child that Oak's taken under his wing, aren't you?). That old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self. Now he just wants to fiddle with his Pokédex. He's wrong. Pokémon are for battling! <name>! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"

"Oh, my! You're something special, child!"

"You win! I see what the old duff sees in you now. I've nothing else to say. Run along now, child!"

In the Pokémon Special manga

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Agatha

Agatha was the main villainess in the Pokémon Yellow arc of the Pokémon Special manga. Agatha was one of the Elite Four who tried to destroy most of humanity from their base on Cerise Island.

She fought against Green and Koga, and seemingly vanished after her defeat.

Agatha used the mind-controlling powers of her Template:Type2 Pokémon to control Bruno against his will.

Pokémon

This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Gastly

Haunter

Gengar (×2)

Arbok

Golbat

In the TCG

Agatha does not appear in the TCG.

Trivia

• Agatha, like the other members of the Elite Four, had a revamp in her character design in the Generation III games Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. She is depicted as being taller, slightly younger, and her hair has changed color from gray to graying blond.
• She bears a resemblance to Bertha of the Sinnoh Elite Four in name, appearance, and position.
• Though she claims to specialize in the Ghost type, the common type shared by all her Pokémon in the games (except Misdreavus) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon).
• On her first battle in FireRed and LeafGreen, all her Pokémon are female, on the second battle, they are all male.

Names

Language	Name	Reference to
Japanese	キクコ Kikuko	菊 Kiku, chrysanthemum.
English, French, Italian, Spanish	Agatha	Means good and kind, but likely chosen for similarity with aghast, ghost or hag.
German	Agathe	From the German given name.
Korean	할멈 (Halmeom)* 국화 (Gukhwa)*	Literally means old woman. Means chrysanthemum (菊花), in Japanese kiku.
Chinese	菊子 (Ju Zi)	From 菊子 Kikuko.

Template:Elite Four of Kanto

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