Professor Hastings
| Professor Hastings シンバラ教授 Prof. Shinbara | |
 Artwork from Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs | |
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Hometown | Fall City |
| Region | Fiore |
| Relatives | Booker (older brother) |
| Trainer class | Pokémon professor |
| Generation | III, IV |
| Games | Pokémon Ranger, Shadows of Almia, and Guardian Signs |
| Anime debut | SS022 |
| English voice actor | N. Ronald Levine |
| Japanese voice actor | Jōji Nakata |
Professor Hastings (Japanese: シンバラ教授 Professor Shinbara) is a Pokémon professor, who appears in the Pokémon Ranger series of games.
In the games
Professor Hastings is the Ranger Union's Chief of Technology. He stays in Fall City when in the Fiore region and is known to have a hasty personality.
Professor Hastings is the creator of the Capture Styler and is an important figure for the Ranger federation. He went to school with Gordor; the two formerly worked together as well. In Pokémon Ranger, one of the player's first missions is to escort him from Ringtown back to Fall City. Along the way they are attacked by the Go-Rock Squad and Hastings's new prototype "Super Styler" is stolen. In the third Ranger Net mission of this game, players are sent to capture a Mew so that Hastings may do research on it.
Hastings reappears in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, investigating the Gigaremo Units. He is the first to discover the Dark Shards inside the machines, after Elaine takes a Gigaremo apart. After the player becomes a Top Ranger, Hastings appears in the Ranger Union.
A journal hidden in a cave in the Ranger School reveals some of Hastings' personal history. Years ago, he, Erma, and Lamont were childhood friends with dreams. His dream was to invent a tool capable of transmitting friendship feelings to Pokémon. This was achieved with the Capture Styler.
The professor appeared alongside Murph in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs. His role in this game is smaller than in the first two games.
In the anime
Professor Hastings appeared in a flashback in the anime special for the third game.
Trivia
- Out of all the Pokémon professors so far, Hastings is the only one who is also a professor (教授 kyōju) in the Japanese version, whereas the others are all doctorate holders (博士 hakase).
- According to Herbert, a researcher working for him, when he sneezes, he says hack-chooly.
- His prototype name for the Capture Styler was "The Capture Loopy-Looper."
- In the journal he, Erma, and Lamont shared, he signed off as "Hatagnits" and "Hatsting" when he was excited.
- Hastings is like Professor Oak in several ways: both invented an item important to the player character's mission in their respective series (Oak invented the Pokédex, while Hastings invented the Capture Styler), while both have reappeared several times, being the only known Pokémon professors to do so.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | シンバラ教授 Shinbara-kyōju | |
| English | Professor Hastings | From hasty, and possibly the battle of Hastings. |
| French | Prof. Pressand | From pressant, urgent, pressing. |
| German | Prof. Hastings | |
| Italian | Prof. Frenesio | From frenesia, frenzy. |
| Spanish | Prof. Gobios | From agobios, worries. |
| Portuguese* | Prof. Adalberto |
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