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Professor Turo フトゥー Futu
Art from Pokémon Violet
Gender	Male
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Light brown
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Paldea
Relatives	Arven (son)
Generation	IX
Games	Violet

Professor Turo (Japanese: フトゥー Futu) is a Pokémon Professor in Pokémon Violet.

In the core series games

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Professor Turo first contacts the player when they enter the Uva Academy for the first time, asking them to take care of the Miraidon that was once under his possession. Throughout the game, he frequently contacts the player as Miraidon gradually regains the powers it once lost. Once Miraidon is fully powered, Turo asks the player to travel to his laboratory at the Great Crater of Paldea. As the player, Nemona, Arven, and Penny traverse the area to reach Turo's laboratory, the Professor reveals that he succeeded in creating a time machine, which has brought Pokémon known as Paradox Pokémon from the distant future into modern time, including two specimens of Miraidon.

At the Zero Lab, the player discovers that the Professor Turo they've been talking with has actually been a robot the whole time, infused with an artificial intelligence copy of the real Professor, who died years ago when he was attacked by one of the Paradox Pokémon. While the original Professor Turo wished to let Pokémon of the future keep entering the modern day through the time machine, the AI refuses to let the Paldea region's ecosystem be ruined by these time-displaced Pokémon and asks for the player's help in shutting down the time machine. The AI is, however, programmed to protect the time machine, so the player is forced to battle it and the Paradox Pokémon it wields against the AI's will.

After the AI is defeated, the security system seals all Poké Balls not labeled with Turo's ID, forcing the player to confront the AI's Miraidon with the one they've spent the entire game with. Once the opposing Miraidon has been defeated, AI Turo understands that the time machine cannot be shut down as long as it remains present to reboot the system, so it chooses to travel to the distant future its creator had hoped to see, bidding farewell to the player and their friends as it disappears into the time machine.

Pokémon

Turo's Pokémon are contained in Master Balls.

First battle

AI Turo Zero Lab Violet

Types: Fire Poison Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Moth Lv.66 Sludge Wave Poison Special   --       Fiery Dance Fire Special   --       Discharge Electric Special   --       Air Slash Flying Special   --       File:992Iron Bundle.png Types: Ice Water Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Bundle Lv.66 Drill Peck Flying Physical   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Freeze-Dry Ice Special   --       Snowscape Ice Status   --       Types: Fighting Electric Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Hands Lv.66 Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Iron Head Steel Physical   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Types: Dark Flying Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Jugulis Lv.66 Air Slash Flying Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Types: Rock Electric Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Thorns Lv.66 Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Types: Fairy Fighting Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: Booster Energy Iron Valiant Lv.67 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Spirit Break Fairy Physical   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --

Second battle

Paradise Protection Protocol Zero Lab Violet
Types: Electric Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Hadron Engine Held item: None Miraidon Lv.72 Hyper Beam Normal Special   --       Charge Electric Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --

Formerly owned

	Types: Electric Dragon Tera Type: Dragon  or  Unknown Ability: Hadron Engine Held item: None
Miraidon Lv.68
Power Gem Rock Special   --       Electro Drift Electric Special   --       Endure Normal Status   --       Tera Blast Normal Special   --

Trivia

• He and Professor Sada are the first Pokémon Professors from the core series who do not have a name derived from flora.
• He and Professor Sada are the first Pokémon Professors from the core series to be have been confirmed dead.
  • They are also the first trainers in the core series to battled post-mortem, via an AI.
• AI Turo is one of five Trainers to battle the player with more than six Pokémon. The others are Greevil in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Ghetsis in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Volo in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and his counterpart AI Sada in Pokémon Scarlet.
  • However, unlike in these battles (aside from AI Sada), the player also uses a seventh Pokémon against AI Turo.

Names

This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.