Chuck

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Chuck
シジマ Shijima
""His roaring fists do the talking""
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Art from Gold and Silver
Gender Male
Eye color Black
Hair color Brown
Hometown Cianwood City
Region Johto
Relatives Wife
Trainer class Gym Leader
Generation II, IV
Games Gold, Silver, Crystal, Stadium 2, HeartGold, SoulSilver
Leader of Cianwood Gym
Badge Storm Badge
Anime debut Machoke, Machoke Man!
English voice actor Dan Green
Japanese voice actor Nobuaki Kakuda

Chuck (Japanese: シジマ Shijima) is the Gym Leader of Cianwood City's Gym, officially known as the Cianwood Gym. His specialty is Template:Type2 Pokémon. Chuck gives out the Storm Badge to Trainers who beat him.

In the games

Chuck appears in Generations II and IV, in Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold and SoulSilver. A Template:Type2 Trainer, he is known to spar with his Pokémon to train both them and himself. His title is "His Roaring Fists Do the Talking".

In Generation II, once challengers have made their way through his gym, Chuck will attempt to intimidate them before battle by telling how his Pokémon "will crush stones and shatter bones." He then lifts and tosses a boulder prior to accepting the challenge.

In Generation IV, Chuck awaits his challengers underneath a large waterfall. He will not notice the player approach him until the water under which he has been meditating stops flowing.

Chuck enjoys a good battle, but after losing he vows to train 24 hours a day. After he is defeated, his wife will give the player HM02 (Fly). She also comments that she is grateful that her husband would be doing more training, since he was getting "a little chubby".

In addition to the Storm Badge, Chuck gives out TM01 (DynamicPunch in Generation II; Focus Punch in Generation IV).

Pokémon

This listing is of Chuck's Pokémon in the video games he has appeared in.

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal



Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

First battle



Second battle (rematch)



Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1



Round 2



Quotes

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Chuck's sprite from
Generation II
Chuck's sprite from
Generation IV
Chuck's VS sprite from
Generation IV

"Wahahah! So you've come this far! Let me tell you, I'm tough! My Pokémon will crush stones and shatter bones! Watch this! Urggh! Oooarrgh! There! Scared now, are you? What? It has nothing to do with Pokémon? That's true! Come on. We shall do battle!"

"Wha? Huh? I lost? How about that! You're worthy of Storm Badge!"

In the anime

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Chuck in the anime

Chuck made his only anime appearance in Machoke, Machoke Man!. Ash and his friends met a man roughhousing with a Machoke. After following him, Ash discovered that the man was Chuck, Gym Leader of the Cianwood Gym. Even though he is the Fighting master, he gets tired easily as he is a little fat. His wife continually makes fun of him because of this. He is positive-minded and emotional and has a tendency to break out into tears if happy. His battle technique is to battle with his Pokémon to improve their concentration.

Later Chuck and Ash had their battle for a Storm Badge. Ash used Pikachu who got defeated by Chuck's Poliwrath. Ash then used Bayleef who defeated Poliwrath and Machoke.

It was later revealed that Brawly, the Dewford Town Gym Leader, used to be one of the many students of Chuck.

Pokémon

This listing is of Chuck's known Pokémon in the anime:

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Poliwrath
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Machoke

Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 角田信朗 Nobuaki Kakuda
English Dan Green
Polish Jan Kulczycki


In the Pokémon Special manga

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Chuck and his Hitmontop (left) with Whitney and her Miltank (bottom)

Chuck taught Green martial arts and how to train Pokémon when the boy was very young. He met Suicune, and with help from a friend, attempted to catch it, but to no avail.

Pokémon

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

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Poliwrath
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Primeape
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Hitmonlee
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Machoke
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Hitmontop

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Chuck or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Name Type Level Rarity Set Set no.
Chuck's Primeape Fighting - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 33/141
Chuck's Poliwrath Fighting - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 34/141
Chuck's Rhydon Fighting - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 35/141
Chuck's Tauros Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 36/141
Chuck's Granbull Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 37/141
Chuck's Donphan Fighting - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 38/141
Chuck's TM 01 - - Uncommon Pokémon VS (no English release) 111/141
Chuck's TM 02 - - Uncommon Pokémon VS (no English release) 112/141

Trivia

  • His Japanese Leader title is 唸る拳で語る男.
  • Chuck, alongside Falkner and Bugsy, are the only three Gym Leaders of Johto to be featured in only one episode. However, out of all the Gym Leaders, Chuck has had the largest number of flashback appearances (3).
  • To date, Chuck is the last Gym Leader to only appear in one episode of the anime.
  • In the games (discounting Stadium 2), Chuck is the only important Fighting-type Trainer (Gym Leaders and Elite Four) to not use a member of the Machop evolution family.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese シジマ (Shijima) ハオルチア・シジマ Haoruchia-Shijima, Haworthia 'Shijima'. Shijima means "Silence" and "Four islands".
English, French Chuck Slang for throw. Could possibly be a reference to Chuck Norris.
German Hartwig From Hart, hard.
Italian Furio From furioso, furious.
Spanish Aníbal From Hannibal.
Korean 사도 Sado From 四島 Shijima, an alternate way of writing the name. It's also similar to 싸우다, fight.
Chinese 阿四 Ā Sì 四 is from 四島 Shijima, an alternate way of writing the name.

External links

Template:Chuck's Pokémon

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Zephyr Badge
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Falkner
Azalea Gym Hive Badge
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Bugsy
Goldenrod Gym Plain Badge
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Whitney
Ecruteak Gym Fog Badge
Morty OD.png
Morty
Cianwood Gym Storm Badge
Chuck OD.png
Chuck
Olivine Gym Mineral Badge
Jasmine OD.png
Jasmine
Mahogany Gym Glacier Badge
Pryce OD.png
Pryce
Blackthorn Gym Rising Badge
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Clair


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