Miles (anime)

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Undubbed character This article is about a character featured in the Pokémon anime who has not yet debuted in the English language dub.
As such, their information may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
Mile
マイル Mile
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Mile
Gender Male
Eye color Blue
Hair color Gray
Hometown Mistralton City
Region Unova
Relatives Skyla (granddaughter)
Anime debut Cilan Takes Flight!
English voice actor N/A
Japanese voice actor Tomomichi Nishimura

(Japanese: マイル Mile) is a recurring character of the Pokémon anime and the former Gym Leader of the Mistralton Gym.

In the anime

Mile first appeared in Cilan Takes Flight! after Ash and his friends had just met Skyla. He had retired from being the Gym Leader of Mistralton City in order to fulfill his dream of owning his own cargo business. His granddaughter took over for him after his retirement. Like Ash and Cilan, he did not agree with Skyla's concept of using "Air Battles" to run the gym. He then explained that she used to battle challengers the traditional way and was also very good but battling them left her no time to fly her plane, thus she came up with the concept so she wouldn't waste her time. Although he disagreed with Skyla, he thought she might still have a point and thus gave up trying to convince her otherwise, only doing so again once Ash challenges Skyla to a proper battle himself.

Mile now serves as the gym assistant for his granddaughter and refereed both Cilan and Ash's match. Before Skyla had battled Ash, she watched old videos of Mile battling challengers while he was Gym Leader so she could pick up tips.

He appeared once again in Climbing the Tower of Success! where he hosted the Bell of Wishes Festival. There it was revealed that he is very knowledgeable of important female figures in Unova, mostly because he is fond of them.

In the games

It is mentioned that Skyla has a grandfather in the games as well but he was left nameless. It was said that he was once a great pilot.

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