Impostor Professor Oak

This article is about the character. For the TCG card named "Impostor Professor Oak", see Impostor Professor Oak (Base Set 73).

Impostor Professor Oak (Japanese: にせオーキドはかせ False Doctor Ōkido) is a villainous character disguised as Professor Oak.

He first appeared in the TCG card Impostor Professor Oak and has since made appearances on other cards. He also appears in the How I Became a Pokémon Card manga series.

Cards featuring Impostor Professor Oak

Name	Type	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Impostor Professor Oak	T		Base Set	73/102
			Base Set 2	102/130
Impostor Oak's Revenge	T		Team Rocket	76/82
Impostor Professor Oak's Invention	T		Neo Destiny	94/105

In the anime

James disguised himself as Professor Oak in Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up? Proving to be adept in Pokémon knowledge and sharing Professor Oak's terrible poetry skills, he was very successful in imitating Professor Oak. However, after many tests including silhouette identification and writing poems, he was discovered. He did it again in A Faux Oak Finish!.

In the manga

In Pokémon Adventures, Sabrina had her Kadabra disguise itself as Professor Oak. The resulting transformation was strikingly similar to Impostor Professor Oak. The disguise was uncovered rather quickly by Red.

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