Eevee brothers

Rainer redirects here. For the glitch Pokémon often mistakenly called Rainer, see PokéWTrainer. For the supposed PokéGod, see PokéGods.

From left to right: Rainer, Sparky, and Pyro

The Eevee brothers are four Pokémon Trainers from the Pokémon anime, three of which whose signature Pokémon are Eeveelutions. They make their appearance in The Battling Eevee Brothers.

Rainer, Sparky, and Pyro appear to be the same age, possibly triplets. Mikey is noticeably younger than the other three brothers.

In the anime

Pokemon

Sparky (Japanese: ライゾウ Raizō) has golden hair styled in tall spikes. His Japanese voice actor is Katsuyuki Konishi and his English voice actor is Matthew Mitler. His signature Pokémon is Jolteon. He boasts it is the best because when angered, its fur becomes sharp as needles which it can launch at the opponent using Pin Missile.

Rainer

Rainer (Japanese: ミズキ Mizuki) has dark blue hair styled to look like fins. His Japanese voice actor is 伊藤健太郎 Kentarō Itō and his English voice actor is Maddie Blaustein. His signature Pokémon is Vaporeon. He boasts it is the best because it can melt into water and disappear by using Acid Armor.

Pyro

Pyro (Japanese: アツシ Atsushi) has red hair styled to look like flames. His Japanese voice actor is 岡野浩介 Kōsuke Okana and his English voice actor is Matthew Mitler. His signature Pokémon is Flareon. He boasts it is the best because of the powerful flames of Fire Spin.

Mikey

Main article: Mikey

Mikey (Japanese: タイチ Taichi) has plain brown hair with bangs shaped to resemble an Eevee's fur collar. He owns an unevolved Eevee.

		Eevee
		Mikey trains an Eevee, and commands it to use a move called Rage Tackle. Eevee's other known move is Take Down.
Debut	The Battling Eevee Brothers

In the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga

Rainer, Pyro and Sparky, along with Mikey, appear in the manga series The Electric Tale of Pikachu, which is based on the anime.

In the chapter To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That is the Question!, Rainer, Pyro and Sparky are members of a fellowship named The Knights of the E Stone. To join, members are required to own at least one Pokémon which was evolved by means of an evolutionary stone. Joining The Knights of The E Stone is a family tradition which the brothers have upheld, and they pressure Mikey to evolve his Eevee so that he may join, too.

With Ash's help, Mikey's Eevee and Ash's Pikachu defeat all three brothers to earn Mikey the right to join the fellowship without evolving his Eevee.

The brothers are shown to have a playful side in the manga as well, teasing Mikey about Misty being his "girlfriend" and disappearing in a cloud of smoke when they leave the room.

Trivia

• Sparky has the same voice actor in both English and Japanese as Chopper, and Rainer has the same voice actor in both English and Japanese as both Scuz and Pete Pebbleman.
• The Eevee brothers have no representation in their family of the Generation II Eeveelutions, Espeon and Umbreon, nor the Generation IV ones, Leafeon and Glaceon. There was originally fanon speculation that something might be done to correct this, but like many characters of the day, the Eevee brothers have made no reappearance on the Pokémon anime since their debut episode.
• This was not the only group of siblings training Eeveelutions to appear on the Pokémon anime. When Ash and his friends went to Johto, they met the Kimono Sisters who, like their counterparts in Pokémon Gold and Silver, each trained one of the five evolutions. Unlike the Eevee brothers, though, they had no representation in their family of Eevee itself, unless one counts Sakura's Eevee, which later evolved into Espeon.
• The name Sparky was used again in the anime as the name of Ritchie's Pikachu.
• Oddly, at the time of the episode, Ash, Misty, and Brock each had a Pokémon with them that could evolve via one of the evolutionary stones that are used by Eevee to evolve. Pikachu evolves with the Thunderstone, Vulpix evolves with the Fire Stone, and Staryu evolves with a Water Stone. Pyro and Sparky offer a Fire Stone to Brock and a Thunderstone to Ash in hopes that they will evolve their Pokémon, but Rainer never offers a Water Stone to Misty, likely because she already has a Starmie.

This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon anime.