Red (Pokémon)

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This article is about Red, a character in Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon Adventures/Special. For the Pokémon game, see Pokémon Red. For other uses of Red, see Red (disambiguation).

Red is a name used to refer to two related, but distinct, fictional characters in the Pokémon franchise, the protagonists of the series in their respective media.

Ash Ketchum, the main character of the anime, is loosely based on Red, but is a distinct character.

[edit] Red in the video games

The protagonist of Pokémon Red and Blue and its later remakes, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, has several default names, one of which is "Red". (Others include "Ash" and "Jack"). When he recurs as the final boss of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal and as a boss in Pokémon Stadium 2, his name is Red.

[edit] Red in Pokémon Adventures

Red in Pokémon Adventures.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Red is a fictional Pokémon trainer and the protagonist of the first saga.

Red starts off in Pallet Town as an aspiring trainer, and gets a Bulbasaur and a Pokédex from Professor Oak. He also has a Poliwhirl he has known since childhood, and uses these two Pokémon on his adventure. He wears a red jacket, cap, and blue jeans. Antagonists include his rival Green , Oak’s grandson, who was granted Charmander; Blue, another Pokémon trainer from Pallet Town, who stole a Squirtle from Professor Oak; and Team Rocket, an organization bent on world domination through Pokémon.

[edit] Sagas

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

While trying to catch a mischievous girl named Green who stole his gym badges (Blue in the orginal version), Red discovers information on Team Rocket: They are trying to clone the rarest Pokémon in the world, Mew, as part of a plan to create an unstoppable Pokémon called Mewtwo. Green wants to meet Mew and capture it for profit. She meets Mew when battling Team Rocket, but she can only snap a quick picture of it before it leaves. Eventually, Red is obliged to team up with Blue and Green in order to beat Team Rocket’s Elite, Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina. After that, he saves a young girl from an attacking Dratini, and helps her catch a Pokémon of her own, a Rattata. Red faces off against the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, alone and manages to defeat him. He then goes head to head with Blue in the Pokémon League, emerges victorious, and thus attracts the attention of the Elite Four.

Red does not appear often in the Yellow saga, as he has been kidnapped by the Elite Four and frozen in a block of ice. When he did finally manage to escape, rescued by Giovanni, he seeks out his allies. Yellow, the young girl he rescued two years ago, is instead the main character in this series. Even after the battle is won, Red has no idea that Yellow is actually a girl.

In the G/S/C saga, Red has matured quite a bit. He has also changed his black shirt into a white one, and wears his baseball cap forward now. Both Yellow and Misty seem to be interested in him romantically, making him slightly uncomfortable. Red finds out Yellow’s true sex near the end of the saga, but has been in close touch with her before then. Red’s main goal before he helps with the fight against the Mask of Ice is to find the mysterious hot springs in Mt. Silver, in order to cure the numbness he still carries from the ice trap one year ago. This caused him to turn down the Viridian City Gym Leader position he was offered.

In the FR/LG saga, Red teams up with Blue and Green to rescue Professor Oak, who has been kidnapped and taken to the Sevii Islands. While there, he encounters Team Rocket and the new Beast Warrior Trio, Oca, Jaguara, and Storc, as well as the evil psychic Pokémon, Deoxys. After losing once to Deoxys and Team Rocket, he temporarily trades his party Pokémon, too injured to keep on fighting, for Blue’s roster. Then, Mewtwo appears, and helps Red, Blue, and Green face Team Rocket and the empowered Deoxys.