Red's Clefairy
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Clefairy (Japanese: ピッピ Pippi), also known as Blockhead Clefairy (Japanese: 鈍間のピッピ Blockhead Pippi) by other Pokémon, is Red's first Pokémon and Pikachu's cousin in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga, and related manga series. Along with Pikachu, he is one of Red's closest Pokémon, albeit also an annoyance to him and the rest of his team.
History
Kanto
Clefairy debuted in the first chapter where he was a wild Pokémon living in a field. Red, racing to get to Professor Oak's lab before his rival Green does, decides to take this field as a shortcut where he finds a wild Nidoran♂ and the Clefairy who attempt to attack him. Clefairy drops some coconuts on Red from a tree above, only to shortly fall off and drop onto the Nidoran♂, knocking him out. Red thanks Clefairy for the help and continues to run for the lab, finding that Green had already made it there. While the three discuss about Professor Oak's favor of completing the Pokédex, Clefairy bursts into the lab and is yelled at by the professor. When given the choice of which starter Pokémon he wants, Red decides to take Clefairy with him, which thrills the Pokémon greatly. Green is however skeptical that Red can be a successful Trainer with a Clefairy, and has his chosen starter Pokémon Charmander attack the Clefairy, setting his tail on fire and causing the Pokémon to run around frantically, which sets the entire lab on fire and enrages Professor Oak.
Red attempts to challenge the Gym Leader Brock in a battle, but Clefairy flees after seeing his Onix shortly after witnessing Green and his Charmander being thrown out the Gym, which forces Red to drag Clefairy back. Inside, the two learn of Brock's Pokémon collection, and find out that Clefairy's cousin Pikachu is also a part of it. This angers Clefairy and gives him the courage to fight Brock's Onix in a battle, which Clefairy prolongs by using an assortment of tricks. Clefairy later manages to defeat Onix by drawing his picture onto its tail, causing Onix to chase its tail until it becomes dizzy, and becomes knocked out after Clefairy smashes a fallen pillar on its head. By winning the battle, Clefairy's cousin is freed from Brock's collection and joins Red's team.
Following the battle, Red, Clefairy and Pikachu camp out for the night. Clefairy catches a fish and he and Red fight over it since Red was starving and Clefairy wanted to save it for himself for tomorrow. It slipped out of their hands and landed in Pikachu's mouth. Since Clefairy lost his fish, he uses Pikachu as a fishing rod but Red warns them that doing so could electrocute the whole river. Clefairy, ignoring his Trainer, does so away with the results being that all of the fish get shocked. Pikachu electricity gives the trio not one, but a pile of fish for them to eat. While they were having dinner, a Zubat glides down and steals one of their fish. Clefairy responds by tackling it but as Zubat landed on the ground, it evolved into Golbat. Golbat chased Clefairy around until Green threw his Poké Ball at it. Clefairy then wants to evolve and tells Red the false way. Red falls for it by giving Clefairy a lot of food which made Clefairy lazy and Red mad. Clefairy then tells Red the truth that he'll need a Moon Stone in order for him to evolve.
The trio go to Mt. Moon and a Snorlax who resides there gives directions to where the Moon Stone is after Clefairy asked for where it was. Snorlax tells them that it is in Cerulean City where Misty is. They head Cerulean City where they meet Misty and find the Moon Stone. However, Misty requests a battle and Clefairy goes up. He changed his mind when his opponent is a Blastoise but goes back in after Misty mocks him and Red. Clefairy fights Blastoise's water blasting strategies but sucking up the river water, he turns gigantic and spits it back onto Blastoise, winning Red the battle, the Moon Stone and the Cascade Badge. As Red was about to get the Moon Stone, a Mew comes by and takes it which led the trio in chasing after it. Clefairy had too much trouble with finding Mew since he kept on finding other things instead. After finding the Mew which was in an abandoned water mill, he along with the group meet Bill who was transformed into a leopard and his wife was transformed into a Mew. Seeing Clefairy, Bill decides to use him in one of his experiments but his wife stops him before he could do so. Afterwards, Clefairy battles Green's Charmander who evolved straight into Charizard when Green decided to catch Bill's wife who was a Mew at the time. Clefairy, using a firemen's uniforms, battles Charizard who becomes stronger than Clefairy expected. Clefairy has Bill shrink Charizard in order for Clefairy to have a fair advantage but Clefairy got shrunk too since he didn't leave the machine in time. Due to that, Green decides to stop catching Mew. Clefairy along with group than watch when Bill and his wife change back into humans. When Bill's human form was revealed to be hideous in appearance, Clefairy and the group run away in fear.
Red battles Lt. Surge's Voltorb with Clefairy. Since Clefairy couldn't handle Voltorb alone, he worked with Pikachu to defeat it, especially when Voltorb evolved.
Clefairy evolved into a Clefable in Clefairy Evolves... At Last?!, but had later devolved back into a Clefairy in the same chapter.
When Giovanni launched the second missile, Clefairy launched one of his own and clashed with Giovanni's. As Clefairy was on the missile, it ended up blasting him away, which saddened Red.
Johto
After the second missile launch, when Red and Pikachu went to Johto, it was revealed that he survived the impact and took a Marill with him in a bag.
Hoenn
Clefairy was challenged by Professor Birch to various contests in which he lost in them all.
Sinnoh
Clefairy traveled in the Sinnoh region where he met Pearl and trained with him.
HGSS saga
During his return to Johto, Red chooses him, Pikachu and Tyrogue as his Pokémon for the Pokéathlon. Later, he challenges a Giratina and when he slowly chose his moves as he did not know which ones to use, it led to Giratina laughing at him.
Unova
Clefairy traveled to the Unova region with Red and Pikachu after leaving behind Tyrogue.
Personality and characteristics
Clefairy is often an unintelligent, lazy, loudmouthed, crass, vulgar, and generally rude Pokémon. He is typically selfish, often thinking about himself instead of others, and is also cowardly, preferring to win battles through the use of trickery, luck or other unconventional means. More often though he will try to flee and hide, sometimes even going as far as to disguise himself, to avoid battling others, especially against Pokémon who are by far larger and stronger than he.
Clefairy does occasionally show some redeeming qualities, but he is usually a mischief maker most of the time. His manners and stupidity are often an annoyance to Red and the rest of his Pokémon team, and is also especially a major cause in fights between Pikachu and Tyrogue, who are both smarter, more well-behaved and otherwise more capable than Clefairy.
His mannerisms are also well known among Pokémon across entire regions, who typically refer to Clefairy as "that blockhead Clefairy". Rather than taking offense to this, Clefairy falsely believes it to be a compliment with the idea that he is "famous" among Pokémon. Also, Clefairy would not care if he gets caught for doing something bad despite the consequences being severe everytime.
Moves used
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In the anime
Clefairy appeared along with Red and Pikachu in the anime episode Lights, Camerupt, Action!. The three characters appeared in one of Ash's favorite films. The movie showed Red, Pikachu, and Clefairy walking a road together, when Clefairy complains that he's hungry, even though Red says he just ate. He then smells out a delicious sandwich, which a Teddiursa is holding, and eats it himself, making the Teddiursa cry. Teddiursa's mother, an Ursaring, then appears, angry at Clefairy for making her child cry, and sends Clefairy flying.
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Trivia
- Clefairy and Pikachu are stated to be cousins. This is actually possible according to video game canon as Clefairy and Pikachu both belong to the Fairy Egg Group. However, this was not known when the manga was originally published, as Pokémon Gold and Silver had not been released yet.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Clefairy and Clefable.
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