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Domino ドミノ Domino
Domino of Team Rocket
Gender	Female
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Member of	Team Rocket
Rank	Elite Officer
Anime debut	Mewtwo Returns
English voice actor	Kerry Williams
Japanese voice actor	Kotono Mitsuishi

Domino (Japanese: ドミノ Domino), also known as 009 and Black Tulip, is an elite officer within Team Rocket. She appears in Mewtwo Returns as the secondary antagonist behind her boss Giovanni who serves as the primary antagonist.

Relationships with other members

Domino seems to have a very close relationship with Giovanni, receiving orders directly from him and maintaining phone communications with him at many times, even things that have little to do with the mission. The closeness is furthered by her attempts to reason with him when she thinks his actions will jeopardize his own goal; not many people could talk back to him and get away with it. She also has a quick temper, but can restrain it if the mission calls for it. However, when the Boss gets mad at her, she takes it out on lower ranked agents.

Because Domino is so elite, Giovanni appears to feel safe in entrusting her with commanding lesser agents. She spearheads the Mount Quena operation, leading a crack team of over a hundred Rocket Grunts into the caves. She also recruits Jessie and James after finding them in a prison, and makes them cleaners of the new Rocket Base in exchange for releasing them, all while humiliating them all of the time.

Domino's high status and approval by the Boss have made her quite vain, and although she uses Jessie and James to help with the base, the first time she reveals herself to be a Rocket, she betrays them due to her disgust at their bumbling ways and disgracing of Team Rocket, bursting their Meowth Head Balloon. The treatment of Jessie and James inadvertedly ended up working against her. As she was fleeing from the attacking bug Pokémon, she slipped on the floor, which was still wet from Jessie and Jame's cleaning it under her orders, ultimately falling face-first into a bucket of water. Jessie and James note the irony of the situation with glee.

In the end, Domino's memory, along with the memories of Giovanni and the rest of the Rocket grunts, is wiped by Mewtwo, so she has no recollection of what transpired. She is last seen leaving with Giovanni aboard his chopper, with both him and her confused as to why they were even there to begin with.

Domino with Giovanni

Arsenal and abilities

She has no known Pokémon. However, she is capable of protecting herself without them: she is an excellent fighter, also demonstrating an excellent sense of balance and advanced gymnastic skills. Her choice of weapon is an electrically-charged 'tulip'.

Voice actors

Trivia

• Domino may be named after Domino Harvey, a female bounty hunter.
• Her codename of 009 could be a reference to James Bond, who is designated 007. However, there was an Agent 009 in the 13th James Bond film, Octopussy.
• Domino's nickname of the "Black Tulip" may be a reference to the book of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.