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Tabitha ホムラ Homura
Tabitha in the anime
Gender	Male
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Hoenn
Trainer class	Magma Admin
Generation	III
Games	Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald
Member of	Team Magma
Rank	Admin
Anime debut	A Three Team Scheme
English voice actor	John Campbell
Japanese voice actor	Yuto Kazama

Tabitha (Japanese: ホムラ Homura) is one of the Magma Admins of Team Magma.

In the games

Tabitha is a Team Magma admin in the Generation III games.

In Pokémon Sapphire he makes only two cameos, at Meteor Falls and at Seafloor Cavern, alongside Maxie and Courtney.

In Pokémon Ruby, the player confronts him twice: the first time he brings to Maxie the Meteorite stolen at Meteor Falls and the player has to battle him before battling Maxie. Later he assists the Magma Leader in stealing the Submarine Explorer 1 and then he must be battled at Magma Hideout.

In Pokémon Emerald he is first met at Mt. Chimney, doing the same task as in Ruby. Tabitha reappears later in the game in the new hideout inside the volcano, before Maxie awakens Groudon. Later, he assists the Magma leader in a tag battle at Mossdeep Space Center against the player and Steven.

Pokémon

In the games he has appeared in, Tabitha battles with the following Pokémon:

Pokémon Ruby

First battle

The first time Tabitha is battled is on the crater of Mt. Chimney, after a Team Magma Grunt and before Magma Leader Maxie.

File:Tabithasprite.png Magma Admin Tabitha Mt. Chimney Ruby Magma Admin and Professor Tabitha Oak Mt. Chimney Ruby Reward: $800

Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.20 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Run Away Held item: None Poochyena♂ Lv.20 Tackle Normal   --       Howl Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Odor Sleuth Normal   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.20 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --

Second battle

The second time Tabitha is battled is in the Team Magma Hideout.

File:Tabithasprite.png Magma Admin Tabitha Magma Hideout Ruby Magma Admin and Professor Tabitha Oak Magma Hideout Ruby Reward: $1280

Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.32 Magnitude Ground   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.32 Roar Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.32 Magnitude Ground   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --

Pokémon Emerald

First battle

The first time Tabitha is battled is on the crater of Mt. Chimney, after two Magma grunts and before Magma Leader Maxie.

File:Tabithasprite.png Magma Admin Tabitha Mt. Chimney Emerald Magma Admin and Professor Tabitha Oak Mt. Chimney Emerald Reward: $880

Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.18 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Run Away Held item: None Poochyena♂ Lv.20 Tackle Normal   --       Howl Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Sand-Attack Ground   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Zubat Lv.22 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Astonish Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --

Second battle

The second time Tabitha is battled is in the Magma Hideout right before Maxie awakens Groudon.

File:Tabithasprite.png Magma Admin Tabitha Magma Hideout Emerald Magma Admin and Professor Tabitha Oak Magma Hideout Emerald Reward: $1320

Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Numel♂ Lv.26 Tackle Normal   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.28 Roar Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Bite Dark   --       Odor Sleuth Normal   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.33 Take Down Normal   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Zubat Lv.30 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Astonish Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --

Third battle

The third time, Tabitha battles alongside Maxie during the attack on the Mossdeep Space Center.

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Mossdeep Space Center Emerald Magma Leader and Magma Admin Maxie Tabitha Mossdeep Space Center Emerald File:Tabithasprite.png Reward: $5120

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.42 Take Down Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Taunt Dark   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.44 Earthquake Ground   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Take Down Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.43 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Mean Look Normal   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.36 Take Down Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.38 Scary Face Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Roar Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♂ Lv.40 Air Cutter Flying   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Wing Attack Flying   --

In the anime

Tabitha appeared in several episodes of the Pokémon anime.

Due to a dubbing error, Tabitha was referred to as "Field Commander Harland" in his first appearance in A Three Team Scheme. This is also true for his second appearance in The Spheal Of Approval. In his next appearance in Fight for the Meteorite, the error was corrected. His final appearances were in Gaining Groudon and The Scuffle of Legends.

Pokémon

The following are Tabitha's Pokémon in the anime.

		Mightyena
		Tabitha uses this Mightyena as a part of Team Magma as Mightyena are their Pokémon as well. It is shown to be very strong as it was able to take out many opponents as in Jessie's Seviper and was able to knock the briefcase off of Ash's grip that contained a special stone. Its final appearances were in Gaining Groudon and The Scuffle of Legends. Mightyena's known moves are Take Down, Iron Tail, Shadow Ball, Double Team and Hyper Beam.
Debut	A Three Team Scheme!

		Golbat
		Tabitha used Golbat during their fight with their rivals, Team Aqua. It is unknown how well it did.
Debut	Fight for the Meteorite!

Voice actors

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Tabitha

Tabitha, who is known as Mitch in the Chuang Yi translation, is one of the Three Fires, Admins of Team Magma - along with Courtney (Marge) and Mack.

Like all of the Three Fires, Tabitha has a special lighter that can transmit and record images by burning them on paper.

Tabitha's specialty is direct using his Torkoal's smoke to hypnotize and poison.

Ruby and Sapphire were traveling along Route 107 when they encountered Courtney and Tabitha. The two Magma Admins were trying to steal a deep sea scanner from the wreckage of the Abandoned Ship.

Later, Team Aqua used the meteorite to cause Mt. Chimney to cease its activity. Sapphire and Flannery tried to prevent this but failed. Tabitha and Flannery cooperated to destroy Team Aqua's machine, but they were unable to re-start the volcano. However, this incident would later cause Flannery to side with Team Magma when the Gym Leaders of Hoenn wanted to choose sides.

Tabitha losing his mind

When Maxie attempted to control both Groudon and Kyogre through the Red and Blue Orbs (which Mack stole for him conveniently before Team Aqua made an alliance with the Magmas), he discovered that it would be too much for his mental capacities to handle. Therefore he handed the Blue Orb to Tabitha, telling him to suppress Kyogre's will of battling. However, one of the Aqua Admins, Amber, managed to get the orb to Archie, who then abandoned the loyal minion.

Tabitha at the end of the fourth chapter

But this event left a residue effect on Tabitha, as Wallace found out during their battle in the Lilycove Department Store, which he lost horribly. Even though Tabitha had only touched the orb for a short period, Kyogre's influence still managed to slip through since he did attempt to control the sea titan, causing him to go out of his mind and rampage upon the former champion. Steven managed to knock him out with his Metagross's Comet Punch when he attacked Wallace wildly.

He, along with most other Team Magma and Aqua members, appears to have disappeared after the Groudon and Kyogre incident, though Flannery has spotted him in a crowd in Lavaridge Town once, ready to bathe in the revived springs.

Pokémon

The following are Tabitha's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

		Torkoal
		Torkoal is Tabitha's main Pokémon. It is notably used to use its smoke to hypnotize and poison anyone. He first used it to attack Plusle and Minun. It was about to defeat them until Ruby gives them his diary. He does this by telling them to give up the Cheering Pokémon. The diary Ruby gives them turns out to be a distraction for Team Magma so that they could get hit by Plusle and Minun's attacks. Torkoal was used again when Team Magma raided the Slateport City contest and kidnapped Ruby and the President of the Fan Club. Later, Tabitha used it to battle Amber's Volbeat after he interfered with a Tail Glow attack. It defeated the Volbeat by putting it to sleep. Torkoal's known moves are Flamethrower, Yawn, Heat Wave and Smog.
Debut	VS. Plusle & Minun II

		Swellow
		Swellow is Tabitha's use of flight transportation. It debuted along with Courtney's Swellow while looking for the Abandoned Ship. Swellow's only known move are Fly.
Debut	VS. Plusle & Minun II

Trivia

• Tabitha, like Shelly, has been the subject of two name changes over two mediums: Harland in the anime and Mitch in Pokémon Adventures. "Harland" was later corrected to Tabitha after his initial debut; he remained "Mitch" throughout the entire Ruby & Sapphire arc.

Names

Team Magma
Team Magma HideoutROR • Magma HideoutE
Leader	Administrators		Grunts
					Former
Maxie (Masters)	Tabitha	Courtney (Masters)	Team Magma Grunts		Zinnia (Masters)
Animation and manga
Blaise • Brodie • Butler

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