Foreman

The subject of this article has no official name. The name currently in use is a fan designator; see below for more information.

The foreman

The foreman (Japanese: カントク foreman) is a character of the day who appeared in Dig Those Diglett!. He was never given a proper name in either the Japanese or English version, but is referred to as the foreman in the Pokémon.com summary. In the dub, he appears to have an Eastern European accent.

The foreman was fed up with the Diglett that were interrupting the Gaiva Dam project, so he recruited Trainers from all over Kanto to help eliminate them, offering a hot spring stay as a reward. Among them was Gary; Ash and his friends, as well as Team Rocket, stumbled across the construction site without an invitation and decided to help out. However, when the Trainers tried to send out their Pokémon, they immediately returned to their Poké Balls; Ash's Pikachu simply refused to battle. The foreman was even more baffled by these latest developments, and it only annoyed him further.

Later that night, he observed the Diglett and Dugtrio helping maintain the environment. Realizing that the Gaiva Dam would destroy their work and render the area uninhabitable to anything, Pokémon or otherwise, he decided to abandon the project and leave the forest alone.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 江川央生 Hisao Egawa English Ted Lewis Arabic مروان فرحات Marwan Farhat Finnish Pasi Ruohonen Italian Ivo De Palma (K2 redub) Norwegian Tommy Karlsen Polish Wojciech Majchrzak European Spanish Juan Perucho

References

This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon animated series.