Blaine
Blaine (Japanese: カツラ Katsura) is the Gym Leader of the Cinnabar Island Gym. He hands out the Volcanobadge to trainers who defeat him. He is a highly intelligent man who uses Fire-type Pokémon.
Blaine's name means "thin or lean". However, it was most likely chosen because it sounds a little like "flame".
In the Anime
Blaine ran the Cinnabar Island Gym until the island started to become crowded with tourists. Instead of serious challengers, the Cinnabar Island Pokémon Center started to fill up with freeloading vacationers.
Fed up with this, Blaine closed the Gym and opened up a hotel near the island's volcanic hot springs, disguising himself with a wig.
When Ash, Misty, and Brock met Blaine, he complained some then told them several riddles. Misty deciphered the riddles and eventually the trio found Blaine's hotel, and underneath the hotel in a volcanic cavern was the Cinnabar Island Gym.
Ash challenged Blaine to a Gym match, and Blaine handily defeated Ash.
Later, Team Rocket attempted to steal Blaine's Magmar by freezing it with guns that projected beams of ice. Magmar broke free in the end. However, the sudden cooling of the walls in the lava cave caused the rock to begin to crack. It looked like the Cinnabar Island volcano was going to erupt!
Ash, Blaine, Misty, and Brock all used their Water-type, Rock-type, and Fire-type Pokémon to dam the cracks in the walls using boulders.
During the emergency, Ash's Charizard and Blaine's Magmar gained an interest in the other's strength, and wished to test it in battle.
With the arena inside the volcano wrecked by Team Rocket, Ash and Blaine had a battle on the top crater of the volcano. At first, Magmar and Charizard were evenly matched, but Charizard's ability to fly gave it an advantage in the end. It lifted Magmar high into the air and used Seismic Toss, slamming Magmar into a rock. The spitfire Pokémon was knocked out, and Ash won the Volcanobadge.
Pokémon
This listing is of Blaine's Pokémon in the Pokémon anime.
In the Games
Blaine's title is "The Hotheaded Quiz Master." His strategy is to incinerate challengers with his rough and ready Fire-type Pokémon.
Blaine was once lost in a trecherous, freezing mountain range. He was guided out of the mountains by a Moltres. Apparently, this is what inspired him to train Fire-type Pokémon.
Blaine is a native of Cinnabar Island, and has lived there since before the Pokémon Lab was built.
Blaine is apparently on good terms with Mr. Fuji.
To reach Blaine, challengers have to answer a series of quiz questions about Pokémon. Blaine only takes off his sunglasses when thinking up new quiz questions.
In addition to the Volcanobadge, Blaine gives out TM 38, Fire Blast, in Pokémon Red, Blue, Pokémon Green, Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Pokémon Crystal, the volcano on Cinnabar Island erupted, destroying the town, and leaving Blaine and his Pokémon homeless. Blaine relocated his Gym to the Seafoam Islands, and remains there a whole year after the volcanic eruption back on Cinnabar. He plans to one day rebuild his gym.
Pokémon
This listing is of Blaine's Pokémon in the video games he has appeared in.
Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/FireRed/LeafGreen
Pokémon Yellow
- Level 48 Ninetales
- Level 50 Rapidash
- Level 54 Arcanine
Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal
- Level 45 Magcargo
- Level 45 Magmar
- Level 50 Rapidash
Pokémon Stadium
- Round 1 Pokémon
- Charizard
- Arcanine
- Rapidash
- Magmar
- Clefable
- Kangaskhan
Pokémon Stadium 2
In the Pokémon Special Manga
Blaine was a former member of Team Rocket. When Red reached Cinnabar Island, Blaine was under attack by members of Team Rocket.
Blaine had his Rapidash carry Red to his Pokémon Lab, where Red was able to revive an Aerodactyl from a fossil. Aerodactyl helped rescue Blaine.
Later, Blaine asked Red to help him in the Unknown Dungeon. While he was working under Team Rocket, Blaine combined some of Mew's DNA with his own to create a hybrid Pokémon named Mewtwo. Some of Blaine's hand was infected with Mewtwo's DNA, and thus he was able to track the synthetic Pokémon. Using the Master Ball, Red was able to capture Mewtwo for Blaine.
The psychic bond between Mewtwo and Blaine limited them both. If they were apart for two long, both would begin to become ill. Blaine worked for several years trying to find a way to sever the bond without hurting either of them.
During the Cerise Island incident, Sabrina's Spoons of Destiny paired Blaine and Yellow together in the fight against the Elite Four. Together, they confronted Lance. However, the bond between Mewtwo and Blaine proved to be their undoing, and they were defeated.
Later, during the Mask of Ice's plot in Johto, Entei chose Blaine to be its partner. The healing power of Entei's flames was finally able to cut the link between Mewtwo and Blaine, and the two were free to live their lives apart from each other.
Pokémon
This listing is for Blaine's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.
- Growlithe
- Rapidash
- Arcanine
Released
- Mewtwo
- Entei
In the TCG
Unknown
Pokémon
This listing is for Blaine's Pokémon in the Pokémon TCG.
- Level 16 Blaine's Charmander
- Level 9 Blaine's Vulpix
- Level 15 Blaine's Growlithe
- Level 17 Blaine's Growlithe
- Level 11 Blaine's Ponyta
- Level 36 Blaine's Kangaskhan
- Level 29 Blaine's Magmar
- Level 34 Blaine's Tauros
- Level 44 Blaine's Moltres
In the Vs set, he also has
- Typhosion
- Magcargo
Misc
The Japanese name of the Volcano Badge is the Crimson Badge.
Blaine seems to have two totally separate character designs. In the anime as well as in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, Blaine is a slightly-balding, clean-shaven man, with red hair and no sunglasses. In the manga, TCG, and following games, Blaine is a completely bald man with a white moustache and sunglasses.
The reasons for the separate character designs are unknown.
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