Dr. Yung

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Dr. Yung
ドクター・ユング Dr. Yung
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Dr. Yung
Gender Male
Eye color Blue
Hair color Gray
Hometown Unknown
Region Kanto
Trainer class Scientist
Anime debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
English voice actor Billy Regan
Japanese voice actor Hidenobu Kiuchi

Dr. Yung (Japanese: ドクター・ユング Dr. Yung) is a scientist from the special The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon.

Character

Dr. Yung invented the Mirage Pokémon system. This appears to be a project he spent many years on, as Professor Oak acknowledges. Yung is shown to have a combination of great intellect and battling skill, but still has a sort of mysterious air about himself.

He challenges Ash and his friends to battle with him using a Mirage Aggron his system has generated. Misty eagerly accepts his challenge and uses her Staryu, but she lost easily when the Aggron showed off one of Yung's system's features - the ability to use any attack, in this case Bullet Seed. Ash challenged him next with Pikachu, but before the battle could begin, the Mirage Master (Japanese: ミスター・ミラージュ Mr. Mirage) captured both Yung and Oak by commandeering the system.

True intent

As the Mirage Master

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While Ash and his friends attempted to mount a rescue mission, Mirage Master tortured Oak with the intent of gaining the access password to Oak's laboratory database. He spoke of his contempt for the flaws inherent in every Pokémon and of his desire to create a Pokémon free of these flaws. He is especially enraged when a Mirage Mew appears, which he declared a 'flawed specimen.'

Oak initially resisted the torture and refused to give the password. As a backup plan, Mirage Master used some of his Mirage Pokémon to capture Pikachu after ambushing it. He then strapped it to a table and used a special machine to scan its memories for data, causing it great pain. This finally broke Oak's resolve, and he surrendered the password, "REDGREEN." Using a combination of his new access to Oak's laboratory's database and his ability to hack the servers of Pokémon Centers worldwide, Mirage Master began forming his perfect Pokémon.

When Ash, and later Misty and May arrived to confront him, Mirage Master completed the experiment, creating a Mirage Mewtwo. He demonstrated its power by instantly defeating all of the other Mirage Pokémon, then he attempted to kill Oak, who had to defend himself with a Dragonite. Oak urged the group to escape, becoming resigned to the fact that they could not save Yung, but Mirage Master had another trick up his sleeve - he deployed missiles to create a much larger field for the Mirage Pokémon to move around in, allowing him to unleash his Mirage Mewtwo on the world. To aid in this endeavor he also summoned a Mirage Entei, Mirage Articuno and Mirage Zapdos.

Yung unmasked

Later, after the Mirage Master declared his Mirage Mewtwo to be the result of "many years of hard work", Professor Oak successfully unmasked him to actually be Dr. Yung. It was revealed that Yung had been a student at the Pokémon Institute when he invented the Mirage System, but he was expelled because his research was considered cruel, thus making him bitter and desiring revenge. He battled against the group using Mewtwo and easily took the upper hand, but with some timely help from the Mirage Mew that Yung had declared a "flawed specimen", Ash's Pikachu was able to defeat it using Volt Tackle.

After being defeated, he escaped into his burning lab. Oak tried to pursue him, but falling iron blocked the entrance, and Yung was never seen again. It can be assumed that he is either dead or still at large, as Officer Jenny was unable to recover his body from the castle, and there is the possibility that his body was burned beyond recognition or destroyed.

Mirage Pokémon

In the special The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, he used these mirage Pokémon:

Mirage Mewtwo
Mirage Mewtwo
Mewtwo is a Mirage Pokémon who was created as a result of data being extracted by many computers worldwide to Dr. Yung's castle. Ash and co. try to stop him with Ash using Pikachu, Oak using Dragonite, Misty using Gyarados and May using her Combusken in the process. However, Mewtwo defeats the latter three leaving Ash and Pikachu to take care of it and Dr. Yung on their own. With the Mirage Mew's help of holding back Mewtwo, Pikachu was able to defeat the Mirage Mewtwo (and Mew as well), thus destroying the systems.

Mewtwo's used moves are Shadow Ball, Flamethrower*, SolarBeam*, Hyper Beam*, Hydro Pump*, Bullet Seed*, Thunderbolt, Psybeam*, Ice Beam, Iron Tail, Quick Attack* and Mega Punch.

Debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Voice actors
Japanese Katsuyuki Konishi
English Katsuyuki Konishi
Mirage Aggron
Mirage Aggron
The Mirage Aggron was the first mirage Pokémon shown. To test out the system, it battled against Misty's Staryu and Ash's Pikachu where it was able to defeat the former. As it was about to battle Pikachu, Aggron starts to dissolve.

Aggron's known used moves are Thunder Wave, Sandstorm and Bullet Seed.

Debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Mirage Aerodactyl (x2)
Mirage Aerodactyl (x2)
The Mirage Aerodactyl were controlled to kidnap Dr. Yung and Professor Oak.
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Mirage Omastar
Mirage Omastar
The Mirage Omastar was only shown as a demonstration to Ash and his friends.
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Mirage Kabutops
Mirage Kabutops
The Mirage Kabutops was only shown to Ash and his friends.
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Mirage Armaldo
Mirage Armaldo
The Mirage Armaldo was only shown as a demonstration to Ash and his friends.
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Mirage Entei
Mirage Entei
The Mirage Master summoned a mirage Entei to stop Ash, Misty, May and Professor Oak from going on. It fused with the mirage Mewtwo so Mewtwo can be unstoppable.

Entei's only known used move is Flamethrower.

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Mirage Zapdos
Mirage Zapdos
The Mirage Master summoned a mirage Zapdos to take on Ash's Pikachu, Misty's Gyarados, May's Combusken and Professor Oak's Dragonite. Later, Zapdos fuses with Mewtwo to make Mewtwo unstoppable.
Debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Mirage Articuno
Mirage Articuno
The Mirage Master summoned a mirage Articuno to take on Ash's Pikachu, Misty's Gyarados, May's Combusken and Professor Oak's Dragonite. Later, Articuno fuses with Mewtwo to make Mewtwo unstoppable.
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Mirage Houndoom
Mirage Houndoom
The Mirage Houndoom was created by the Mirage Master to hold Ash, Misty and Pikachu hostage.
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Mirage Absol
Mirage Absol
The Mirage Absol was used to tackle Ash to prevent him from escaping.
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Mirage Mightyena
Mirage Mightyena
The Mirage Mightyena was created by the Mirage Master to prevent Ash, Misty and Pikachu from escaping.
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Mirage Machoke
Mirage Machoke
The Mirage Machoke was created by the Mirage Master to hold Ash, Misty and Pikachu hostage.
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Mirage Machamp (x2)
Mirage Machamp (x2)
Two of the Mirage Machamp were created by the Mirage Master to hold Ash, Misty and Pikachu hostage.
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Mirage Ursaring
Mirage Ursaring
The Mirage Ursaring was created by the Mirage Master to hold Ash, Misty and Pikachu hostage.
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Mirage Magnemite
Mirage Magnemite
The Mirage Magnemite held Professor Oak hostage while the Mirage Master was trying to have Oak tell him the password to the system.

Magnemite's only known move is Thunder.

Debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Mirage Arcanine
Mirage Arcanine
The Mirage Arcanine was one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo.
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Mirage Rayquaza
Mirage Rayquaza
The Mirage Rayquaza was one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo, performing a Hyper Beam attack.
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Mirage Tropius (x2)
Mirage Tropius (x2)
Two of the Mirage Tropius were shown as one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo, performing a SolarBeam attack.
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Mirage Arbok
The Mirage Arbok was shown as one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo.
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Mirage Walrein
The Mirage Walrein was shown as one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo.
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Mirage Tyranitar
The Mirage Tyranitar was shown as one of the Pokémon fused onto Mewtwo.
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Released

Mirage Mew
Mirage Mew
The Mirage Mew, unlike most of the Mirage Master's Pokémon, does not do any evil deeds. The Mirage Master classifies it as a flawed specimen due to the fact that it exhibits a soul instead of mindlessly following commands in its programming. It followed Ash and co. throughout the castle and protected them from Mewtwo's attacks. It got destroyed after Pikachu's Volt Tackle defeated Mewtwo and destroyed the system.

Mew's only known move was Protect.

Debut The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Voice actors
Japanese Satomi Kōrogi
English Satomi Kōrogi

Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 木内秀信 Hidenobu Kiuchi
English Billy Regan
Brazilian Portuguese Nestor Chiesse
European Spanish Juan Antonio García Sainz de la Maza


Trivia

  • Considering the titles (Dr. Yung and Mr. Mirage) he was given in Japanese, he may have been a play on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His name, and duality, might also be a reference to Carl Jung.


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