Zachary Evans
- This article is about the character of the day from the Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver episode Wings 'N' Things. For other uses, see Zachary.
Zachary Evans (Japanese: ヒロト Hiroto) is a character of the day who appeared in the Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver episode Wings 'N' Things. He also appeared in the Ash & Pikachu manga.
In animation
In Wings 'N' Things, Ash and his friends met up with Zachary while on their way to Ecruteak City. When they met him, he was in the middle of some problems: his Yanma would always break the glass of his dad's factory, the windows of the town where he lives and Nurse Joy's medicine bottles at the local Pokémon Center, by beating its wings. The town was furious over the Clear Wing Pokémon's actions, and Mr. Evans reluctantly made his son get rid of it. Zachary became upset, remembering that he found it one day during a storm. He released it, but after realizing what he had done, he ran off to find it.
Unfortunately, Team Rocket found it first, and were using it to break windows. Seeing Yanma with them, the town assumed that Zachary was with them. But he proved them wrong by defeating the trio with his Yanma. The town forgave Zachary, who successfully trained Yanma not to break store windows. Everything then went back to normal.
Pokémon
| Debut | Wings 'N' Things |
|---|---|
| Voice actors | |
| Japanese | Rikako Aikawa |
| English | Rikako Aikawa |
Yanma was found injured in the rain by Zachary when he and his father were walking home one day. They took it home and nursed it back to health, but when it got better, Yanma turned out to be quite the troublemaker. It was shown stealing Ash's hat and flying off on its own despite its Trainer's protests to stop doing so. It even refused to return to its Poké Ball.
Its biggest problem, however, was that it couldn't control the sonic aspect of its wings and broke all of Mr Evans' glass and nearly every window in the town, angering the villagers. It also broke all of Nurse Joy's medicine bottles. Mr. Evans, out of options and time, told Zachary he had to return it to the wild, and Zachary had no choice but to agree. Leaving food in the woods for Yanma to distract it, Zachary ran off, leaving Yanma behind.
Team Rocket later found it and trapped it with the intention of using it in one of their evil schemes. They shattered all of the windows in Zachary's hometown and then created their own fraudulent window company, profiting immensely off the destruction they caused.
They were about to repeat this scheme when Ash, his friends, Zachary, and some townspeople spotted them. Team Rocket threatened to use Yanma to smash the stained glass window in the Pokémon Center to prevent Ash and Misty from battling them. Zachary then decided to try returning Yanma back into its Poké Ball, which worked. In the ensuing battle, Ash and Misty's Pokémon were hurt, so Zachary used his Yanma in their first battle ever and successfully sent Team Rocket blasting off. As a result of the battle, Yanma was finally able to control its wings by mastering its Sonic Boom attack.
Yanma's known moves are Sonic Boom, Double Team, and Tackle.
Voice actors
| Language | Voice actor | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 大谷育江 Ikue Otani | |
| English | Amy Birnbaum | |
| Arabic | إيمان بيطار Iman Bitar | |
| Czech | Vojtěch Kotek | |
| Finnish | Elise Langenoja | |
| European French | Guylaine Gibert | |
| Italian | Federica Valenti | |
| Polish | Renata Berger | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Francisco Freitas | |
| Spanish | Latin America | Patricia Acevedo |
| Spain | Sara Vivas | |
In the manga
Ash & Pikachu
Zachary appears in The Cowardly God Of Plagues. In the English translation by Chuang Yi, he is still known by his Japanese name, Hiroto.
Pokémon
Trivia
- Zachary is the first character in the animated series shown catching a Pokémon he formerly released.
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