Ash & Pikachu

Main article: Giovanni Most worth mentioning is Team Rocket's leader, Giovanni (Sakaki). He was also the Viridian City Gym Leader at one time, but has not been seen often in person in the anime. A running gag in Advanced Generation is Meowth's fantasies of Giovanni receiving the day's featured Pokémon, finding said Pokémon extremely useful for an often far-fetched reason and being grateful to Meowth and his friends for giving it to him. His look and style is very similar to Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the Jam ...

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Over the course of the series, the trio has employed many Pokémon, none of which were obtained by illicit means. Team Rocket - Jessie. Jessie's first Pokémon was an Ekans, who Jessie often ordered to use Poison Sting and Wrap. She received Ekans as a birthday present. The second type of Pokémon she had obtained was an Arbok, which she obtained through the evolution of Ekans. Arbok evolved from Ekans because of the emotion shown over its failure to evolve. Like Ekans, it most often used Poi ...

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While Jessie, James, and Meowth have not yet exited the Pokémon anime series, their manga counterparts saw a happy ending. At the end of the Electric Tale of Pikachu (Dengeki Pikachu) series, Jessie and James were married and soon to have a child. They (with Meowth) appeared in the epilogue to deliver a letter from Ash to his mother in Pallet Town. Team Rocket as an organization has not yet been abolished in the anime, but it met its demise in the video games. In Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Fire Red, and Leaf Green, the player ("Red") ...

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The Team Rocket Motto is a staple of the trio's more or less formulaic appearances in each episode and might even be regarded as a very long catchphrase. It is usually recited by Team Rocket as they make their presence known to the good guys and accompanied by many flamboyant special effects and poses, as well a specific piece of theme music. Jessie: Prepare for trouble... James: ...and make it double. Jessie: To protect the world from devastation. James: To unite all peoples within our na ...

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"Pikachu" is probably a portmanteau, derived from "pika", meaning "spark" or "sparkle" of lightning in the Japanese language, and "chū", an onomatopoeia in the Japanese language for the squeak made by a mouse. Coincidentally, there also is a mouse-like lagomorph that makes its habitat in North America, known as a pika (IPA: /pɪka/, as opposed to See also:

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From time to time, other members of Team Rocket appear. These members are generally much more menacing and unfriendly compared to the trio, and usually wear black Team Rocket costumes (some team rocket members wear gray costumes), consistent with the video games while contrasting those of Jessie and James (hence, the Black Squad). In many of these episodes where other members appear, the trio, despite their reputation for failure, often finds a way to assist these villains, but somehow, through their g ...

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Kanto Gym Leaders Misty Lt. Surge Erika Sabrina Janine Blaine Giovanni Gary Oak Daisy, Lily and Violet Misty was first a character in the Pokémon video game series. She is a gym leader in the Kanto region and resides in Cerulean City. She is an expert on Water types. Misty's Team (Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Fire Red, & Leaf Green) See also:

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A live action show called Pokémon Live! toured the United States in late 2000. It was based on the popular Pokémon anime, and was well-liked among some fans of the franchise (in spite of some continuity errors relating to the anime). In late 2002, it was scheduled to tour Europe, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. ...

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Pokémon, being a popular franchise, has undoubtedly left its mark on pop-culture. The Pokémon characters themselves have become pop-culture icons; examples include the Pikachu balloon at a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, thousands of merchandise items, and in 2005, a theme park in Nagoya, Japan. The prone-to-offend cartoon South Park spoofed Pokémon in Episode 310, entitled "Chinpokomon" ("chinpoko" is Japanese slang for penis, and "komon" is Japanese for anus), in which the executives behind it were revealed t ...

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There are various Pokémon manga series, four of which were released in English by Viz Communications, and seven of them released in English by Chuang Yi. Pokémon - Manga released in English. Pokémon (The Electric Tale of Pikachu a.k.a Dengeki Pikachu), a sho-nen manga created by Toshihiro Ono. It was divided into four tanko-bon, each with four separate titles in North American and the English Singapore versions: The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Pikachu Shocks Bac ...

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The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a collectible card game based on Pokémon, first introduced to North America in 1999, and in Japan at an earlier date. Initially, it was published by Wizards of the Coast, the company most famous for Magic: The Gathering. However, with the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Game Boy video games, Nintendo took back the card game from Wizards of the Coast and started publishing the cards themselves. The latest incarnations of the card games is known as Pokémon-e Trading Card Game, the cards of which (for the large part) are ...

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The original Pokémon games were Japanese role-playing games with an element of strategy, and were created by Satoshi Tajiri for the Game Boy. These role-playing games (and their sequels, remakes and English language translations) are still considered the "main" Pokémon games, and the games which most fans of the series are referring to when they use the term "Pokémon games." These games have sold over 100 million copies to date. Accumulative sold units (including home console versions) reach 143 million copies. This makes it the second biggest-selling games franchi ...

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There are several Pokémon anime series based on the video games. Pokémon - The Original Series. The first, and the more familiar one, Pocket Monsters or simply Pokémon (often referred to as Pokémon: Gotta Catch Em All to distinguish it from the later series) tells the adventures of Ash Ketchum (Satoshi in the original Japanese version) as he travels through Kanto, the Orange Islands, and Johto to become the greatest Pokémon Master. This series is based on the first and seco ...

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As with other pop culture icons, Pokémon has received its fair share of controversy and critisism. Pokémon - Religion. Some Protestant Christian groups in the United States believe Pokémon to be Satanic in origin[1]. After the US release of Pokémon Yellow, there was a sudden widespread criticism of it passed through Christian congregations primarily by word-of-mouth. The claimed parallels between Pokémon and Satanism include: Pokémon parallel demons. They are ...

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In the video games, Pikachu is a typical low-level Pokémon, usually found around levels 3-6 in Viridian Forest, and around 25 in the Power Plant or Ruby & Sapphire Safari Zone. Players playing Pokémon Yellow have all but no choice whether or not to use it, as it will be their first Pokémon, and in the other games those who find one (typically it's a rather rare find) often use it as a early-to-mid-level Electric Pokémon. Few players use Pikachu in competitive head-to-head play, however, because of its relatively low def ...

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Pikachu are ground-dwelling rodents with an affinity for electricity and lightning. They live in forests and plains, and forage for berries. The glandular pouches residing in its cheeks allow it to charge up and store electricity in chemical form, which it can discharge in bolts of lightning or ball lightning to defend itself from attackers (or attack its foe in a Pokémon battle), but it occasionally discharges electricity to roast a berry to make it tender enough to eat, or simply to keep from overloading. (An inability to discharge electr ...

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The concept of Pokémon evolved from insect collecting, a simple pastime many Japanese children (including Pokémon's creator, Satoshi Tajiri, as a child) had enjoyed in the past. First introduced in Japan as Pocket Monster Red and Green in 1996, the franchise arrived in the west in 1998 as Pokémon Blue, Red, and Yellow. The Pokémon games allowed players to catch, collect, and train pets with various abilities, and battle them against each other to build their strength and evolve them into more powerful Pokémon. The Pokémon ...

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May Pokémon - Current Team. May Pokémon - Pokémon at Petalburg Gym. May Pokémon - Pokémon at Professor Oak's lab. May Pokémon - Pokémon that May does not currently have. ...

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When Ash, May, and Max are going through Petalburg Forest, they run out of food. Brock (who cooked for Ash & Misty during the earlier seasons of the anime) appears when Ash, May, and Max were about to be attacked by a whole flock of Taillow. After Ash tells May and her brother about how Brock was once the Pewter City Gym Leader, Brock rejoins our heroes and quickly whips up a sample of his cooking. Brock becomes a big brother figure towards May and her friends, holding the group together and mediating arguments between ...

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A Pikachu has appeared in every Pokémon manga series as of 2005. In Pokémon Adventures, Red captures a mischievous Pikachu causing trouble for the people of Pewter City. Pikachu becomes one of his main Pokémon from there. When Red goes missing two years later, his Pikachu teams up with Yellow to find him; later, Yellow catches her own Pikachu, named Chuchu. In Magical Pokémon Journey, the first Pokémon Hazel meets is a scatterbrained Pikachu. This Pikachu, along with Clefairy, reappears in the spin ...

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When May and Ash arrive at Petalburg City, Ash is eager to challenge its Leader. When May's brother, Max, sees him, he thinks he knows enough about Pokémon to pass himself off as a Gym Leader, except that he's too young to train Pokémon of his own yet. This upsets Max's parents -- Gym Leader Norman and his wife Caroline -- and May, but Ash insists in having a battle with Norman, even though he left all his other Pokémon with Professor Oak in Kanto. Although he challenges Norman ...

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