Harley
| Harley ハーリー Harley | |
| [[File:File:Harleyy.jpg|{{{size}}}|class=roundy]] Harley | |
| Age | Late 20s (est. by Pokeani) |
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| Gender | Male |
| Eye color | Green |
| Hair color | Purple |
| Hometown | Slateport City |
| Region | Hoenn |
| Trainer class | Coordinator |
| Animated debut | A Cacturne for the Worse |
| English voice actor | Andrew Rannells (4Kids) Billy Regan (TPCi) |
| Japanese voice actor | Jun'ichi Kanemaru |
Harley (Japanese: ハーリー Harley) is a Coordinator and May's rival from Slateport City.
History
Harley first competed against May in A Cacturne for the Worse!. When the two Coordinators met, Harley was annoyed at May for several petty reasons: she was not familiar with his Cacturne, she called Cacturne "scary," and she said the the cookies he offered her "weren't half bad". Later, the two competed in a Contest, Harley using Cacturne and May using Bulbasaur. During the appeals round, he mentions that he doesn't want anyone to talk during their performance. After that round, in an attempt to publicly humiliate May, Harley played a recording of Max recalling a time when May was younger and she became stuck in water with a swarm of Tentacool and was extremely frightened. May was embarrassed, but went on to defeat Harley.
Harley and May met up again in the episodes Hi Ho Silver Wind!, Deceit and Assist!, and Rhapsody in Drew!. Harley pretended that he was friends with May, and she initially believed him. He gave her "advice" to have her Skitty use its Assist move repeatedly to make a good appeal; this resulted in Skitty becoming confused after using Bulbasaur's Petal Dance, having to DoubleSlap itself out of confusion. Meanwhile, Drew watched Harley, noticing how he tricked May. Later, May realized Harley's ploy, and soon the two were to battle once again. This time, it was Harley's Cacturne and Banette versus May's Beautifly and Bulbasaur. May won this battle as well, and progressed further into the tournament.
The next time May and Harley met was in Saffron City during the episodes The Saffron Con and A Hurdle for Squirtle. They met on this occasion in the Pokémon Center where Harley stated he was working as an assistant to Nurse Joy in gratitude for her healing his Cacturne. He stated that he was sorry and that he was working hard to make up for things. All of it was a lie and May nearly couldn’t compete because he "mistakenly" told her that she could use her Hoenn pass to compete. However, Lilian Meridian, the Kanto Contest MC, gave her a Kanto contest pass and ribbon box in thanks for her help in repelling Team Rocket when they raided the Pokémon Center.
Harley competed in the contest using Cacturne for the appeals and Ariados for the battles. He defeated Jessie who entered with Wobbuffet, but was defeated himself by May and her Squirtle in the finals.
The next time he appeared was in Harley Rides Again, where he competed in the Wisteria Town Contest, using Ariados in the appeals before pitting his Octillery against May's Munchlax and won for the first and only time so far.
He appeared again in New Plot-Odd Lot and Going for Choke. This time after learning that May needed one more ribbon to enter the Grand Festival, he devised a plan to prevent this. To do this, he enlisted the help of Team Rocket, promising to help Jessie win and having James and Meowth help him sabotage May behind the scenes. However Ash, Brock, Max and Drew got wind of this and thwarted his plan.
The next time was in May, we Harley Drew’d Ya, Thinning the Hoard, and Channeling the Battle Zone, where he competed against May in the Kanto Grand Festival. He used Cacturne and Wigglytuff against Munchlax and Eevee, but both defeated his Pokémon.
The final major appearance he had was in The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing where he simply watched May and Drew have a practice contest battle.
He has Contest Passes to compete in Hoenn, Kanto, and presumably Johto as well.
In A Full Course Tag Battle!, he and Wigglytuff appeared in a flashback. Then Harley, Solidad and Drew made a cameo appearance in Pruning a Passel of Pals!, watching May perform in the Wallace Cup.
Harley tended to use nicknames for May behind her back. The first was Meno-chan (English equivalent: Miss Tent) after embarrassing her with the Tentacool story. The second was Kamo-chan, referring to the word often used at the end of May's sentences in Japanese that can imply unsureness.
Character
Harley has a rather peculiar and gay personality. He is undeniably flamboyant, wearing an outfit similar in appearance to Cacturne. He has very effeminate and somewhat homosexual mannerisms, which include wiggling his hips as he walks and using アタシ atashi, the Japanese feminine version of I. He also has a tendency to use select English words intermixed with his normal Japanese speech; for example, he calls Cacturne and Banette my buddies or darling, sweeties, and honey and tells May good morning. In the Latin-American dub, this is replaced by using Latin-American slang and allusions to local urban culture; for example, he sings a song by the Mexican showman Juan Gabriel in the Grand Festival, as his Octillery dances in the flames. He talks with a high voice, another sign of effeminacy. Another example of his feminine side is in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya! where Harley cross-dresses as May, calling himself "Mayley" (Japanese: ハールカ Harruka), much to May's embarrassment and Solidad's amusement. He is apparently old friends with Solidad, as she said so herself.
Harley is a conniving character with little to no regard for anybody but himself and his Pokémon. He tends to get personal vendettas against people for the smallest of reasons. His vendetta against May happened when she said she had never heard of Cacturne before and that his cookies were "not bad", not to mention that she has a strong resemblance to one of his childhood classmates who ate some of his lunch and said it was disgusting. He keeps photos of people that he has grudges against in a notebook. He also tends to inflict humiliation to try to get the better of an opponent. This is evident when he pretended to be friends with Max in order to get him to tell an embarrassing story about May only to record it and play it during a Contest. Finally as evidenced by his contest performances, Harley shows no qualms in using dirty tactics to win.
Pokémon
Harley seems to take immense pride in his Pokémon, so much so in fact that he dresses up in clothing modeled after his signature Pokémon, Cacturne. None of Harley's Pokémon share a particular type, but they all have one attribute in common: they can all be quite menacing in contests, even the normally cute Wigglytuff.
This listing is of Harley's known Pokémon:
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Voice actors
- Japanese
- 金丸淳一 Jun'ichi Kanemaru
- English
- Andrew Rannells (4Kids dub)
- Billy Regan (TPCi dub)
- Brazilian
- Marcelo Campos (initial appearance)
- Dado Monteiro (other appearances)
- Spanish
- Juan Logar Jr. (Spain)
- Fernando Cabrera (Spain; AG160-present)
Trivia
- Harley's name may be derived from and could be a corruption of 針 "needle", referring to his signature Pokémon.
External links
- Atashi, the fanlisting for Harley.
- Harley's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
- Harley's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)
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