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Jesse
Age: 17
Occupation: Diva
Personality Type: Eevee
Pity Jesse, for
she was poor.
The beautiful female member of
the team. Her brilliant mind in surpassed only by her style and personality.
Jesse forms a third of the trio of Team Rocket. Her Japanese name
Musashi, a boys name, is taken from a famous Japanese story about two samurai
warriors who fought on a beach, Kojiro being the other. Musashi
won.
Giving her the boy's name in Japanese works with her character who
can at times be very rough and violent contrary to the traditional Japanese
expectations of females and contrary to the frail virginal like Jesse that many Rocketshipping fanfics would have us believe.
From a poor family,
Jesse's mother would often make a Snowgasboard out of the snow during winter - Sushi Snow Rolls, Snow Loaf, Ida-Snow potatoes with snow sour cream, and Snow Pudding for dessert. Apparently
snow rolls with soy sauce tastes quite good!
Jesse claims that "snow food is low in fat and helped me maintain my fabulous figure".
She had aspirations from about the age of 5. Big dreams of her future. Infact she had a fall back list. Her plans were to be a doctor.... and a famous actress..... and a tree!
Her favorite doll was stolen by a Jynx on Christmas Eve, and as a result holds a serious grudge against Santa Claus. She never had Kid's Day off from school, was the only girl who never had a princess doll on Princess Day, never had a swimming pool, and the only sandwiches she ever had were baloney with one slice.
Her mother seemed to try her best but couldn't help the young girl from growing up with a severe need to dominate all those around her and prove herself the equal or superior of all others.
Her story is a Kleenex tale of rags to Rocket and the mirror opposite of James' life. Whereas James had everything and ran away from it, Jesse had nothing and is determined to get everything.
Growing up she put aside her aspirations of becoming a famous actress or a tree and tried instead to enter nursing school.
At the time Jesse left high school she was a fresh young innocent Virgin Mary type - black shoes, socks pulled to her ankles, a skirt that comes almost all the way down to her knees (!!!!) a plain white shirt with a woolen pullover and pig tails - you know the type, a simple yet exceedingly beautiful little girl with a dream. To become a pokemon nurse.
The Pokemon nursing college she applied for was horribly elitist and though Jesse had the red-hair she lacked the incestuous, nepotisimising family connections of a Joy, so she's having no luck getting in.
She is told that becoming a Pokemon Nurse will be extremely hard for her and that they can't accept her application despite the huge, shark-like grin apparent on her application's photo, and down but not out she enrolled in a different Pokemon Nurse School.
She may have trouble in this school, however, as she discovers to her shock herself to be the only human amongst a school of Chansey!
Like something out of the 1950 de-segregation of schools era, most of the Chansey will not associate themselves with "her kind" and she keeps to herself and eats alone.
While in class one day young Jesse learned how to tie bandages, and in the process befriended a sweet but clumsy Chansey and the two become good friends. Jesse's first friend it would seem.
Then in the infirmary we watch as The Chansey use their Sing Technique to put restless patients to sleep.
Unfortunately for Jesse, this technique also works for her and she goes under, awaken by her friend Chansey just in time for the Instructor to loom over her and yell, "One does not become a Pokemon Nurse by sleeping in class, Miss Jesse!"
It's around this time that all of Jesse's surprise anger and hatred at her poverty stricken like begins to boil over. She vents her frustrations to her Chansey friend and comes to the conclusion that she'll never be a Pokemon Nurse.
This crushing of her spirits is what will lead Jesse on to her ultimate destiny as a Team Rocket 'villain' but it didn't have to be. She wanted to be a valuable member of society, she wanted to help others as first a Nurse, then a Pokemon Nurse, and at every step of the way she was blocked by nepotism, bigotry and closed minds.
So who is to blame for Jesse turning to a life of crime? She's beautiful and talented and wanted to help people, but she was never given a chance because she wasn't born into the right family and didn't suck up to the right people.
It was probably around this time that she hooked up with her first boyfriend. It was definitely a time before she met James as he had no idea of his existence despite her carrying his picture around with her. The poor desperate thing tried to get a Ditto to transform into this boyfriend. Sexual frustration does strange things to people.
Her boyfriends since then have been next to none. During her Pokemon adventures she has been hit oh by dodgy Doctor Proctor, she's made passes at George Cloony from Mewtwo Returns, the Amazing Mandy Clint Eastwood from Legend of Dratini, and Spooky Danny but her conquests remain few and far between. At times it would seem James is the man she most wants to get in the sack, she respects his friendship too much to jeopardize that.
She got into Pokemon Tech somehow, probably via some sort of skullduggery. Pokemon Tech after all is one of those snobby private schools only millionaire's kids can go to.
We can only guess James got in because he was rich, but Jesse would have either has to blackmail or seduced the Dean to have gained entrance, as she was EXTREMELY poor.
The two of them flunked Pokemon Tech, receiving the lowest scores ever in the history of the school because of wild "frolics", in other words spending the night partying with James; during which they probably swapped clothes, gave each other makeovers, and discussed who was the most dreamy boy at school.
Her and James moved on and away from their past and received their first taste of gang life by becoming a member of the Sunny Town Bridge Bike Gang, where Jesse or Big Jess as she became known, got to swing a chain and James got to dress in leather (although he needed training wheels on his bike!).
They ended up joining Team Rocket, how they managed to get in is still beyond us. Perhaps she slept her way in, showing Giovanni a "good time" seducing him into allowing her and James to become members.
Giovanni being everything Donald Trump wants to be, tired of Jesse quickly and sent her on unbelievably dreary missions.
But they probably joined partly because they loved the look of the uniform and also because they're both power mad; Jesse as a result of her poverty and James because...um, I guess because he misses the rich life and also as a kickback from being so submissive for so long to first his parents, then Jesse-Belle and finally Jesse herself, which he doesn't mind due to their shared creative streak and similar way of thinking.
It was while being a new member of Team Rocket that she met Cassidy and had a lesbian fling. Both were extremely jealous of the other for different reasons. Jesse claimed Cassidy was jealous of her gorgeous looks, a claim that Cassidy denies. It might seem as though Cassidy was using Jesse to further her career in Team Rocket, and she constantly quips that Jesse is getting kicked out of Team Rocket. This tension caused a terrible rift in their relationship and any meetings the girls have is wrought with bitterness.
Despite all her misfortunes in life she is extremely talented in areas of
fashion and beauty, wine and good food, bazookas and munitions, and while these things seem to come naturally, being a Pokemon master is not so easy and she would rather steal badges to gain entry then actually fight for them.
Sensitive about her age and protective of her looks and her gorgeous hair, Misty, James, Ash and Meowth have all been on the receiving end of her fury.
The poor girl dreams of riches beyond imagination, of sitting on a throne surrounded by beautiful young men in briefs (does James share this fantasy, one wonders), being showered in jewels, wearing designer outfits and being waited on hand and foot.
Incredibly sexy, she looks good in anything, even when doing her turn at drag by dressing as a man, she is more masculine than her counterpart James, she still make shim carry all the heavy equipment and do all the dirty job. She is unfazed by the fact that James can be at times more effeminate than she, often sharing her wardrobe with him. They even change clothes in the same room - think "Case of the K9 Capers".
Which brings us to another point, it is not strange for rather attractive females such as Jesse to have close gay male friends, infact it is more common that you think.
The two share a close bond, but not close enough for there to be any sparks. Such is common on television in programmes like "Will and Grace", "Sex and the City", "Gimmie Gimme Gimme" and "Felicity" to name but a few.
They are more than just best friends though. Girlfriends would be a more appropriate term. They obviously share the same taste in clothes (and possibly wardrobe) and Jesse has told James several times how much she admires "what a brilliant dresser" he is, to which his reply is simply "I know."
So, starting as a young girl she wanted to be a nurse, and they wouldn't let her, so she joined a Pokemon Nursing school and excelled, but after one mistake they drove her out. So she joined an elite University, most likely as part of some Government Minority quota, where she met James and found a real friend. When they both dropped out they found solace in a bike gang when no one would give them jobs, and their attractive bodies gained the notice of Business Man/Evil Corporate Criminal Crime-Lord Giovanni, who pulled them into Team Rocket with promises of wealth and power, only to toss them aside after tiring of using them.
Jesse's tale is one of triumph over adversity. And the more we learn about her the more we want to see her naked.
James
James Is Gay.
The above is a
statement of fact, it is not a question, the wording does not read, Is James Gay?
Why?
Because James Is Gay.
Throw whatever
ridiculous argument you want at us, we don't care what you say and neither do many of the thousands of other James fans out there.
James Is Gay. We love him for it because it makes him him.
Here we focus on the character and personality of James. Our arguments on homosexuality and rocketshipping can be found on the Anti-Rocketshipping page.
James has the looks of a movie star, the agility of an athlete and a
head that's too small for his brain.
He is also gay.
In the beginning of the series he was dark, mysterious and menacing with a
deeper voice but as the series progressed he has become more and more camp.
This may be attributed his his change of voice actor after about 12 episodes. The current voice actor confesses that he compares James to Snagglepuss and tries to inject an element of campiness into James.
Born to wealthy but uncaring parents, he spent his childhood years having everything that Jesse herself wanted to have.
He had wealth, a large estate, luxurious food, a loving family; growing up his life was the mirror opposite to that of Jesse.
It is interesting to note that young James had a more masculine voice then than he does now.
James would get Kid's Day off from school and would swim in his Olympic swimming pool and eat nothing but ice cream sandwiches and candied grapefruit peels.
When James would become bored on the estate, the servants would take him fishing in the pool, which he found very upsetting because he never caught anything.
In addition, nearly every stitch of clothing he owned was made of Mareep wool.
It seems that Mareep wool is incredibly expensive, and his socks, sweaters, unmentionables, snug little Mareep wool shorts, cute little Mareep wool mittens, a scarf of course and an adorable Mareep Wool stocking cap, all his clothes were made of Mareep Wool!
"My school-mates were so envious they beat me nearly every day!" he would recount.
Himself bearing hidden talents for hairstyling, fashion and theatre, skilled in acting, dance and song a commonality of many gay men, he confesses as a "lad" to took courses in modern dance.
And it was while living at home that he was given his beloved Koffing as a Christmas Present.
He was taught to drive probably early on as it would seem Jesse still is not able to, although he doesn't have a driver's license.
However, he always hated how upper-class society had rules for absolutely everything, and his only friend on the stuffy estate was Growly, his loyal Growlithe.
Poor little
rich boy James rebelled against his parent's wishes for him to marry a respectable but extremely domineering woman from the south named Jessebelle through an arranged marriage.
A complete nutter, she was a stickler for the rules and morals of the rich society and followed him around constantly, trying to change him, make him more refined. Even while chasing him around with a whip, he remarked that he wasn't running properly.
His parent may have chosen such a girl because of the homosexual tendencies he was probably displaying while growing up, perhaps he was caught trying on his mother's dresses or playing with her makeup. Worried, they selected a very sexy but threatening woman hoping to, if you'll excuse the pun, to whip him back into hetero-shape.
Not much is known of James at school, although we assume he attended the most prestigious educational establishments.
His story picks up later at Pokemon Tech, an elite school for snobbish children where they are taught text book skills to become Pokemon trainers.
There he met Jesse, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
The two of them became close friends, infact they were each other's only friend, and it would have been here he and Jesse found they shared the same dress size, and had a talent for performing.
They were very confident that they would graduate Pokemon Tech. They were so confident that they "frolicked all night, for their future seemed bright". As a result, they got the lowest scores in the history of the school.
The last straw, Jesse took James with her to Sunnytown. Why James followed her is simple. Embittered by the curve balls life had thrown at her she was going to do whatever she wanted, while James, desperate to put the memories of his wealthy upbringing and parents matchmaking behind him.
The were initiated in to the Bridge Bike Gang of Sunnytown where James became known as "Little Jim" (not a quip on his manhood we hope) or "Trainer James" because he was the only member of the bike gang who had to use training wheels while riding.
it was after this that he went along with Jesse to join Team Rocket and it was here he would have run into Butch.
Despite the name and the obvious Harvey Fierstein voice, James and Butch share no sordid past unlike Jesse and Cassidy.
The dream of being rich seems to be a dream of Jesse which he has taken on. He was rich but ran away from it. being rich again would be on his own term and the despite being the heir to an incredible fortune is determined to concoct hair-brined schemes to gather him a mass of wealth.
He has a Moltres type personality; yes that regal, noble bird of majestic flame that sweeps unhindered by gravity through the night, ignoring the laws of
physics as it burns eternally but is never burnt, one of the Legendary Pokemon and master of fully one quarter of the world's elements.
Sounds just like James
And just like a real Moltres the Moltres Type personality soars high above all others
His Moltres type personality cause him at one time to have illusions of grandeur, with visions of becoming first the ruler of team Rocket and then the ruler of all pokemon.
He is also a nerd.
He collects bottlecaps, mostly vintage, it's a collection of which he is fiercely protective and proud.
He also carries with him a strange collection of junk that has certain sentimental value. This includes broken sunglasses, binoculars, a
notebook, (binoculars and a notebook?? who exactly is he spying on?) a rose, pogs, bottlecaps, tabs off soda cans, a squeaky hammer,
MAKEUP!! and photos of him because he likes to look at himself in his spare time.
The makeup consists of nail polish, lipstick and mascara. Essential for any drag queen to have.
The tabs off the soda cans holds a special significance to us. It
may or may not be a well known fact that young girls, about 15 to 17 (apparently James' age, although we don't believe he's a day below 20) will often attempt to remove the tab from a soda can completely. If they
fail, they can give it to a boy and get a kiss, but if they succeed they give it to a boy and get sex.
James has many in his collection.
Make of that what you will.
James loves to eat, even more than jesse and Meowth, particularly when it comes to donuts!
James adores expensive bon-bons, but due to Team Rocket's lack of financial success, he has had to make due with cheap hard candy instead.
He has taken an affinity to dressing in drag. When team Rocket do disguises he will do drag, he will do the kooky, he will even play the "man" when the need arises.
The only time he has ever complained is when Meowth chose the outfits that were quite simply, unflattering, besides he has great legs, he knows it and loves showing them off.
Some of his most memorable drag acts include the
guise of a giggling schoolgirl, Scarlett O'Hara, a hula girl, a Southern Belle, a magician's bosomly assistant, a ballerina (twice), a blushing bride, and an entrant into a bikini contest complete with inflatable Pamela Anderson sized boobs.
Jesse has admired on many occasions James for being such a great dresser, and he
agrees that he is.
Unlike Jesse or Meowth he knows he is not the leader of their team and never claims to be.
Not too bright, he was once conned into buying a $300 Magikarp under the assumption it would bring many riches, and almost fell for the same con a second time.
At one time, no make that twice, Jesse tried to marry him off for money. And both times James was mortified. Being married off is something his parents tried to do, a memory he is not fond of.
The sacrifices he is forced to make for the team......
James Is Gay.
Does it matter?
No.
Get over it.
Meowth
These two misfits
are joined by Giovanni's former favorite, a talking Meowth who learned
to walk and talk in order to impress a female Meowth, with devastating
results.
Women.
Meowth's story is one of the great success stories of our time.
Originally a loner, Meowth it seems has known only gang life.
He was born at a summer camp, and left for dead by his cold-hearted mother. When the hungry kitten accidentally knocked over a basket of baseballs the angry camp counsellor tied him up in a tree.
That night, Meowth saw a movie called "That Darn Meowth", in which a loved Meowth gets to eat fried chicken and ice cream!
Hungry for these treats, he broke free and hitched a ride on a truck bound for Hollywood.
But in Hollywood things were just as bad. He could never steal enough food and would always get caught.
He'd break into the snack stand to steal a piece of chicken just to survive. But the guy caught him, and he had a frying pan thrown at him. Knocking him down without the chicken, he struggled into the alley to find many more Meowth who were lead by a Persian.
They agreed to let him join their gang and show him how it's done.
One day, he met a female Meowth named Meowsy and immediately fell in love.
But, she had no interest in a dirty old street Meowth and her owner came by to take her in her diamond covered Pokeball.
Meowth decided from that moment on he would learn to talk and act like a people to impress her.
He started by standing up straight and tried to learn how to walk and run on two legs. But he couldn't run fast enough, and kept getting caught and the snack stand cook caught him and roughed him up.
Every day, Meowth would drag himself back to the attic of the dance school, where he would listen to a teacher instruct the dance class in proper speech.
Meowth tried to say what they said: "She sells seashells by the seashore."
He got out a book and tried to learn to read and speak.
While Meowth learns to speak he dances on the letters of the English alphabet and the characters of the Japanese kanji/alphabet.
Well that is how we all learn isn't it?
Eventually, after months of practice he could do it and quickly developed a streetwise attitude and a Brooklyn accent that Joe Pesci would be proud of.
Unfortunately, he used up so much of his energy just learning how to talk that he had no energy left to learn Pay Day.
Most impressed with himself, he proceeded back to Meowsy but was rejected again. This time because she thought he was worse then before; a freak. Standing upright, and talking only made her like him less.
He then vowed to become richer and better than she ever was, and joined Team Rocket.
Years later Meowth returned to Hollywood and met his old friends, and the Persian tells him that he'd be useful back in the gang, as being able to talk would help them out. He decided to not stay, until he saw Meowsy.
She tells her story, that her trainer abandoned her on the road and she was forced to join the gang. Meowth then jumps out to defend her from the gang so he could take her with him in Team Rocket.
Persian and Meowth decide to have a battle for who Meowsy gets to stay with. Meowth wins, but Meowsy decides to stay with Persian because she still thinks Meowth is a freak.
For a while he was the Giovanni's favorite pokemon. But after repeatedly failing to capture Pikachu, Meowth was stunned to learn (right before boarding the St. Anne) that he was replaced as Giovanni's favourite rather
unceremoniously by a Persian. Bringing back memories of being dumped by
Meowsy for a Persian, Meowth dreams of being patted and cuddled by Giovanni while The Persian walks dejectedly out.
Since then it has been humans that Meowth has fallen for. Understandable seeing as he has been assimilated into the human world.
When Meowth became ill in Moss Green Village, Cassandra gave him medicine. In return for her kindness, Meowth strove to help her cowardly Paras evolve into Parasect so she could use its mushroom to make a healing potion for Pokemon. Consumed by lust her believed that once Cassandra developed this new potion, she would make him her company mascot, which would in turn make jesse and James fabulously wealthy.
He convinced jesse and James to help out, letting their Pokemon lose to Paras.
But after Paras evolved, and Cassandra began to work on her potion, her grandmother discovered a Persian living behind their shed, who was to be the company mascot.
Cast aside again like a used tissue. It breaks your heart.
Meowth has been on the receiving end of affairs of the heart. A Snubble owned by a wealthy old lady became obsessed by the curliness of Meowth's tail. The extent of his love consisted of a painful bite on the tail. So enamored infact was she that she left the safety of her home to roam the land searching for the love of her life. Team Rocket used Meowth as bait to catch the Snubble and return it to it's rich owner.
It hasn't all been heartbreak for our streetwise hero. After being blasted off one night in the Orange Islands, Meowth landed on an island
where freaky beatniks dressed like Meowth's worship a giant golden Meowth
statue and await the Bounty Ceremony, when a mystical Meowth will grant them huge amounts of money.
They offer Meowth food, and it seems that Giovanni pays his employees on a Tuesday, as Meowth promises to pay them back by then.
Jesse and James couldn't turn their back on their old friend. Using spare change and bottlecaps, they faked a Pay Day attack so their buddy wouldn't have to battle any more.
When Jesse and James wash up on the island he became afraid they'd tell the islanders that he really wasn't a mystical Meowth that they have been praying for, and promptly tells the freaky hippies that Jesse and James are evil.
When Meowth tells the hippies he can't perform PayDay, a shocking
Religious Schism ensues, nearly splitting the island in two before the old Priest decides that Meowth needs to fight some more to learn
PayDay. He is saved by Jesse and James who throw out James' bottlecaps which the hippies mistake as money, grab Meowth, who has burst into tears at the thought of such happiness and friendship, something he has never had before, and they flee.
When Team Rocket stole the Togepi egg from the twerps, James (naturally) wanted to eat it. Meowth showed us his softer side and kept the egg warm and safe, eating with it, giving it a bath, and holding it while he slept. He lost the egg to Misty, but he got away with his life blood still intact......
Once he was forced to be chained together in pokemon bondage to Pikachu in a Team Rocket scheme that went awry leaving the two enemies stranded in a forest.
The two fight over where to go and Pikachu being the stubborn Frenchie that he is, would use underhanded means, namely thundershocks to get his own way.
They work together to escape the rage of Rhydon, share a meal and even snuggle down for the night.
Upon returning to Team Rocket, Meowth admitted that he being chained to Pikachu wasn't so bad really.
Meowth dreams of nothing more then power and prestige, but all for his Boss, whom he longs to be loved by again. Like all good cats do.
He tries to act tough and streetwise, and is often uses Fury Swipes to scratch the faces of Jesse and James, who are just as often hitting and kicking him, but the three are an inseparable trio with a deep, abiding love and affection for each other as witnessed in several episodes where they think one or the other has left or been lost, and their ecstatic reaction when that member returns.
Meowth has been known to drive Team Rocket's vehicles and usually operates the robots used in their dastedly deeds. He handles the finances, can fly a blimp (apparently) is the best cook in Team Rocket and more often than not forgets that he is a pokemon, and is not above playing dress up with Jesse and James. He's had his fair share of drag acts; nurse and airline stewardess, he's been a Prince Charming to Snorlax's Sleeping Beauty, "good cop" in an interrogation, a Sunflora and a pesky weed. He is even the face of the team Rocket hot air balloon!
Being the only Pokemon who can speak human, Meowth provides the translations between people and their pet pokemon. On the Island of the Giant Pokemon he was the only character who could provide us with the interpretation in an episode where "Squirtle" and "Bulba" were the common speech.
His biggest weakness is that while he can live in the human world, he is still suseptable to all things that affect pokemon alike, such as the effects of Shuckle juice (which cause him to hit on James big time) and the hypnotic powers of Drowsee in Butch and Cassidy evil plan to control all pokemon by hypnosis.
Meowth loves food, and will eat just about anything. Even when Jessie and James complain about how awful their canned dinners taste, Meowth happily munches away on his. Whenever he has the chance to acquire vast sums of money, Meowth invariably imagines himself eating lots and lots of cat food!
Meowth, like most cats will always go for a ball of yarn and other round objects which keeps him content and lets him explore his inner kitten. Usually, Jessie and James toss a ball of string to the cat when they want him to be quiet.
Meowth's very favorite thing is the full moon and will sit and philosophise it for hours.
He is often the
brains of the operation, often exhibiting much more sense than his human
allies, although should he ever forget his place and scratch Jesse's 'perfect
face' he soon learns just who the boss is.
His place in the immortal Team Rocket motto is sacred, not one is complete with out a "Meowth, that's right". But he space has often come under threat with the addition of Wobbuffet. This blue blob has stolen his spot at the end of a dramatic motto causing numerous scraps and squabbles amongst the team members.
Take James and
Jesse's touching reunion after he escapes Jesse-Belle for a second time, or Meowth standing heroically in the light of a setting sun, dressed like Indiana Jones and trying to act tough before Jesse and James grab him and embrace him, a heart forming behind them, or even Meowth's reaction when
he and Meowsy face off against The Persian and his army of Meowth and Jesse and James arrive to rescue him.... I haven't seen such a touching,
loving, sick, sadistic relationship since the early days of Ren & Stimpy.
Koffing And Wobbuffet
We refuse to acknowledge that abomination called Weezing in any way, shape or form, and we lament the day it was decided he should evolve.
While we like Arbok
and appreciate how much better he is than Ekans, we see absolutely no reason why Weezing should have replaced Koffing.
Look past the obvious
facts that Weezing can't do anything that Koffing couldn't, and just concentrate on answering the question, how could you ever, ever take away the lovable, huggable Koffing?
Never has there been a happier Pokemon, Koffing is just happy to be alive, smiling and
crying out 'Koffing' or 'Koff Koff!' at the slightest provocation.
No matter how many scrapes Team Rocket got into, he always came out with a smile.
He bobs around and puffs out smoke, smelling bad but happy all the same, because he's Koffing and what's not to be happy about?
And you replace it with what? A grumpy, sad looking monstrosity with a downcast face that looks like it's in constant pain and needs to be put in an iron lung.
MAN! BRING BACK KOFFING!
The one instance where Koffing lost his trademark grin; on the Island of the Giant Pokemon where that cheek Bulbasaur told him and Ekans they had been abandoned.
As if.
If we were a somewhat
sadder, more socially inept loser than we already are, we would form a Bring Back Koffing League and take out full page ads in animation and comic magazines demanding his return. We would take on the multi-billion dollar Nintendo company with little hand drawn fliers that would bring them to their knees.
For a more detailed shrine to our Koffing, please visit the Koffing page found by using the menu at left.
KOFFING!!!!
Our life was void of happiness for many dozens of episodes since that fateful day. Until something else came into our world.
It's a rather bizarre looking Pokemon. What kind of Pokemon is it? It's blue, gelatinous, with almost no shape to it, with slabs for arms and a slight upturn in it's blue mass to indicate legs. It's face are squinty Brock-like eyes and a zig-zag pattern which approximates it's mouth. A small black tail sits at it's back, with eye-like patterns that give it a disconcertingly life-life impression.
In silhouette, this bizarre Pokemon looks like a bizarre crossover between a Coffee Machine and a Shoehorn.
So what is this Pokemon?
It is a Wobuffet.
Wobbuffet, whose name probably comes from the words 'wobble' and 'buffet' (to strike with repeated blows) has, to a lesser but still satisfying extent, substituted Koffing. While all the joys that encompass the Koff, Wobbuffet is a very pleasing character.
Jesse acquires a Wobbuffet after it is accidentally exchanged with her Lickitung. Wobbuffet is her equivalent of Misty's Psyduck, it has a habit of popping out of its Pokeball at inopportune times without being called and crying "WOBBUFFETT".
Wobbuffet's previous trainer was a boy named Benny who had trained Wobbuffet hard but wanted to try training a new Pokemon.
Jesse though was bitterly disappointed in her new pokemon when it was discovered it does not initiate attacks and can only counter-attack. It is this reason why at times Jesse finds Wobbuffet's antic tiresome and irritating.
Wobbuffet's first big episode after his entrance was "Wobbu-palooza" in which the characters entered a town obsessed with Wobbuffet.
There were all kinds of Wobbuffet! Wickle ones! Big ones! Wobbuffet's on swings, Wobbuffets with people, wickle kiddy Wobbuffet's standing slackjawed and happy, Wobbuffets sitting on hills looking at the clouds..... a wondrous world of Wobbuffet!
A young man with a Wobbuffet T-Shirt explained that they've found Wobbuffet Village - so named because everyone in town has a Wobbuffet.
Why would they all want a Wobbuffet?
There's just something about them you can't not love. Just looking at a Wobbuffet makes you feel warm and happy.
An annual Wobuffet Festival was held which helped Team Rocket appreciate their blue friend more then ever.
Wobbuffet was separated from Team Rocket and his beloved Jesse in "The Wayward Wobbuffett" after trying to stop a thieving Commie. Jesse was very worried and desperately went searching for it on the island.
Recently, Wobbuffet came face to face with it's devolved form, Wynaut while collecting apples. It was is a very touching scene, a flag is erected featuring a face of Jesse and Wobby sees the face of his beloved master and happily waits for her return. Of course it is all a ruse and Wynaut steals all of Wobby's lovingly collected apples. When Jesse does find Wobby, he can't explain to her that a Wynaut stole the apples and he knows he is in for the back hand.
Since the episode Tunnel Vision, Wobbuffet has its place in the Team Rocket motto, right after Meowth. Its Japanese name is fitting for its role, as its name (Soønansu) means "It is so," equivalent to Meowth's "That's right!"
This also serves as a joke when it shouts its name after Team Rocket comes up with an idea or plan- it is as if it is agreeing with them.
Another joke involving its Japanese name is its interactions with Wynaut. Wynaut's name in Japanese, Sonano, means "really?", so a Sonans-Sonano conversation can understandably go on for an extended period of time.
He wuvs his master, Jesse.
He wuvs her so much he would do anything for her.
She doesn't often appreciate this affection, and poor Wobby's often forced to put himself in humiliating situations just for her like dressing up in a seriously bad toupee or a miltank costume.
Nevertheless, Team Rocket have shown their love in other ways by building a Mecca-Wobbuffet robot and even using a special Happy Wobby Face Balloon!
Wobbuffet we salute you!
Butch, Cassidy and Giovanni here.
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