When it comes to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon, most people spend the Cobalion's share of their time thinking about the titular creatures themselves, rather than the hundreds upon hundreds of fictional people who coexist with them. And that's fair. We doubt a hypothetical human-focused game would sell nearly as well. A majority of the folks living alongside Pokemon are just inherently less interesting than cute elementally-inclined foxes and angry primordial gods.
There are standouts. Characters who rise above the din of adorable chirps and fire-breathingꦆ antics to become memorable in the🅰ir own right. And there is no better, or at least no bigger, group of these fine folks than Gym Leaders.
The Pokemon universe is essentially a multiverse, with three major incarnations: the hit TV series, the long-running manga, and of course the games themselves. That means thrice the Gym Leader origin stories, including those whom this article is about: the OGs, the Red & Blue bigwigs, the Kanto gang. Let's peer into this multiverse of madness one badge at a time.
Brock
Games
Not much is known about Brock's origins, though locals comment upon the fact that he is one of the few serious-minded trainers in the Pewter City area. Where he drew that interest from, we cannot say, though any young kid who wants to "be the very best," as they say, would have an abundance of strong Rock-type Pokemon to pick between growing up in a place like Pewter.
Anime
Brock received an Onix from his father, Flint, on his tenth birthday. He ha♛s nine younger siblings, all of whom he took responsibility for when Flint left Pewter City. Such a heavy burd✱en prompts Brock to behave cold and aloof at first, though journeying with Ash, he swiftly reveals his warmer side.
Flint's haphazard abandonment is pretty messed up, of course, though the anime ultimately plays it for laughs when Flint is revealed to be a grand pushover. In any case, Brock seizes the first chance to go traveling, and it's really no wonder why.
Manga
Brock's a security guard at the Pewter Museum of Science. He still serves as the Gym Leader, but due to the area's relative lack of experienced trainers, he grows bored and insists challengers endure a gauntlet of other fights before they can request a match with him. Brock is especially hot-tempered in the manga.
Misty
Games
Misty is a swimmer who trains extensively at the Seafoam Islands. She hopes to travel someday when she's grown strong enough and fancies the Kantoan Elite Four's Lorelei as something of a role model. She's also something of a romantic, scolding the player character in the Johto games for interrupting her date at Cerulean Cape.
Anime
Misty played the tambourine as a toddler. Around that same time, a Gyarados terrified her, and she developed a deep-rooted phobia. Misty's three elder sisters, each more popular and certainly ruder, picked on her to the point that she left Cerulean City shortly before meeting Ash in the hopes of becoming a Water Pokemon Master.
In this iteration, Misty is much more of a tomboy than in the games. Given the original seasons' perennial popularity, that tomboyish nature is doubtless what general audiences think up first.
Manga
This Misty is quite pampered, growing up in a mansion with maids to serve her every want and need. When Red first meets her, she needs his help to calm down her Gyarados, who has been brainwashed by Team Rocket to destroy everything in its path. The hot-blooded nature of her anime counterpart is on full display, albeit under very different life circum🌃stances⛦.
Lt. Surge
Games
In what is certainly one of Pokemon's most peculiar Gym Leader backstories, Surge's past confirms the existence of some form of the United States of America in this universe as he is a decorated lieutenant who has fought in at least one American war. He used Electric-type Pokemon to power the planes he flew in combat; at least once, one of his Pokemon saved his life.
Anime
Surge ridicules Ash for using a "weakling" like Pikachu in a battle against him, demonstrating a proud belief that might makes right. He labels every trainer a baby until they defeat him. Wherever he's from, this Surge is quite the braggart, and he doesn't really seem to change much after his arc is through, merely demonstrating somewhat begrudging respect toward Ash.
Manga
If you thought Surge's backstory in the games is wild, get a load of this: in the manga, he's one of the evil leaders of Team Rocket. His wicked deeds include but are not limited to, attempting to kill Ash, tossing Bill toward a vat of acid, and using an Electrode as a bazooka. Is Surge a former war hero in Pokemon Adventures? If so, he sure did change on his way home.
Erika
Games
Erika is a popular gal in Cerulean City and a practitioner of the art of flower arranging. Her pupils have become her Gym Trainers, indicating Erika can forge meaningful connections with the townsfolk and inspire them to take on multiple trades. Also, she might be narcoleptic, so there's that.
Anime
Erika sells perfume manufactured directly by her Gloom. Generally speaking, she's quite kind, but that kindness comes at the cost of a delicate ego as she'll scold Ash and even exile him from participating in her gym when he insults the scent of Gloom's perfume. She comes across as a bit less well-off than in the games, and far less than the manga, though that's not to say her family is especially poor. More of a merchant-class sort of vibe.
Manga
Erika practices archery and lectures at a university. She's of royal blood and eventually serves in a supervisor capacity among Kanto's "good" Gym Leaders (see Surge for an example of the not-so-good). In many ways, Hidenori Kusaki's famed comic paints Erika as an exemplar of common decency in this grimmer take on Kanto, from her birthright to her mannerisms to her willingness to defend Celadon City against the evil Elite Four member, Lorelei.
Sabrina
Games
Sabrina's psychic powers were discovered during early childhood when she twisted a spoon by accident. Although she's not overly fond of fighting, she successfully subdued the Fighting-type gym in her native Saffron City prior to the events of the games so that only her Psychic-type gym remains active.
Dialogue strongly suggests Sabrina has the ability to see the future, such as when she informs the player character in the Johto games that she foresaw their arrival three years ago shortly after being defeated by Kanto's own hero trainer. Sabrina also has a penchant for the dramatic, or at least develops one through the years — she takes part in the festivities at Pokestar Studios, playing the role of a villain in a movie called Magic Queen Bellelba.
Anime
In the anime, Sabrina's psychic powers are even greater. She's mastered such fields as teleportation, telepathy, and transmutation. Along the way, her personality split into two halves: the cold and calculating "front" and a little girl who represents the emotions she's shoved aside.
This split isolates her to the point that she even traps her own parents inside a dollhouse, miniaturizing them and treating them like toys. She'll proceed to do the same thing to Ash, and later to Misty and Brock as well. While Ash's Haunter eventually breaks Sabrina's own self-inflicted bleak stoicism, uniting her separate halves when she laughs at its japes, this is still one of the darker Gym Leader origin stories the show has ever given us.
Manga
Sabrina, like, Surge and Koga, secretly serves under Giovanni. Her personality is as dreadful as you might predict. Using her opponents' traumatizing pasts against them in the heat of a battle? Check. Even so, she's willing to ally with the protagonists when the Elite Four reveal themselves to be a much greater threat to the Kanto region. Her powers are likely on par with her anime rendition, having developed such trinkets as the so-called 'Spoons of Destiny' alongside her precious Alakazam.
Koga
Games
Koga's big on the "despair" that Poison-type Pokemon can create. That said, he's not such a bad guy overall. Koga teaches Ninjutsu and serves as a guardian over the Safari Zone, preventing the citizens of Fuchsia City from being attacked by any of the Pokemon who dwell within its gates.
He's an ambitious man, ascending to the rank of Elite Four when his daughter, Janine, takes over the Fuchsia City Gym. Those ambitions no doubt served him well as Gym Leader, either when he had the place built or inherited it like his daughter would — we're not quite sure which.
Anime
Very little is known of Koga's backstory in the anime, and what we do have is simple supposition. He operates the Fuchsia Gym in the wooded area outside the city and employs the sort of underhanded techniques one would expect from him based on his game depiction.
Manga
Koga serves Giovanni. His skillset includes reanimating dead Pokemon, so again, wherever he's from, it's probably unpleasant. He's still willing to team up with Red and the gang to thwart the Elite Four's world-destroying ambitions, at least, and unlike Surge he doesn't attempt to have a friendly perso🐬n murdered when all is said and done. Poisonous but not insidious, then. Good on him.
Blaine
Games
Blaine was inspired to become a Gym Leader years ago when a Moltres guided him to safety during an ill-fated trip through frosty mountains. His near-death experience with frigid weather surely played a key role in Blaine's decision to stick with Fire-types in particular.
Known as the "Hot-Headed Quiz Master," Blaine grills trainers with questions they must astutely answer before he'll face them. The knowledgeable sort, but not the kind who presents themselves as a bookworm so much as an old trickster who loves to stump his juniors.
Anime
Blaine has actually lost his gym entirely when Ash, Misty, and Brock first arrive at Cinnabar Island, as the whole place has been converted into a hot springs tourist resort. Embittered but not down for the count, he moonlights as the owner and proprietor of the Big Riddle Inn whilst secretly maintaining a replacement gym iღnside Cinnabar Volcano.
Let us reiterate, Blaine operates a Pokemon Gym inside a voꦍlcano.
Manga
Here, Blaine is not only a Gym Leader but an ecologist as well. He is familiar with the creation of Mew and owns a laboratory capable of such feats as reviving Aerodactyl from Old Amber. Throughout his tenure in the manga, it's apparent that Blaine has a vast interest in science, one which ties him not just to Mew but to the creation of Mewtwo as well.
It's interesting to note that Cinnabar Island's laboratory in the games ties into such characters as Dr. Fuji, an associate of Blaine's in the manga, but Blaine himself has no direct ties to the laboratory outside of Pokemon Adventures.
Giovanni
Games
The nefarious leader of Team Rocket is also the Viridian City Gym Leader. His dual role is not a matter of public awareness; if it were, he'd surely be ousted. It can be deduced that Giovanni's life has been spent in the criminal underworld pursuing fame and glory. He has a son, Silver, but the two have (rather unsurprisingly) fallen out of favor with each other. Silver's abandonment issues contextualize his own mean-spirited behavior.
There's a divergence in events between generations that could be construed as something of a characterization shift. In Gen 1 — that's Red, Blue, and Yellow — Giovanni engages in a little self-reflection after losing to the protagonist at the Viridian City Gym, electing to spend the remainder of his life studying Pokemon after coming to grips with the fact that a child dethroned him.
With the advent of Gen 1's first remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen, this is no longer the case. Giovanni instead informs the protagonist that he will regain what has been lost and return to the life of a kingpin. Since this ties in with the plot of HeartGold and SoulSilver's limited-time Celebi event, which includes the revelation that Giovanni would have answered the reformed Team Rocket's radio broadcast asking him to return had he not been interrupted by a time-traveling hero (quite the twist), it's reasonable to assume this increased selfishness is now canon.
Anime
Giovanni rules over Team Rocket from the shadows, 🐬seldom involving himself directly in the projects he orchestrates. His wealth is considerable, and his influence can be felt across Kanto, including his ownership of the theme park Pokemon Land.
It could easily be chalked up to cartoon conveniences, but it's still worth a note that the massive scope of Team Rocket as an organization in this iteration may be the reason Giovanni is repeatedly shielded from being brought to justice despite a genuinely comical number of failures. Team Rocket has trucks, submarines, zeppelins, and — as becomes increasingly apparent when the show reaches the Sinnoh saga — a sizable army to pilot and crew them all.
Manga
Continuing the trend of the manga taking Pokemon's premise to comparative extremes, the Giovanni seen in Pokemon Adventures is the most ambitious and vile of the three. He doesn't just treat Pokemon like objects. He's literally killed them. His schemes are grander, his influence is wider, and his willingness to manipulate his underlings is at its zenith.
Somewhat paradoxically, this Giovanni comes the closest to sympathetic despite it all, courtesy of a degree of character development his game and anime peers are never granted. The culmination of this can be seen when he not only shields his son Silver (yes, that's a thing here as well) from incoming flames but even admits he's proud that Silver has grown into the young man that he is. All told, manga Giovanni encapsulates not just the worst, but also the best, of whom he can be.
