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78 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.
Characters
- Articuno — The legendary Ice/Flying bird of Kanto — one of three elemental guardians whose fighting at Shamouti Island in the Orange Archipelago nearly froze the
- Ash Ketchum — A ten-year-old brand-new trainer from Pallet Town whose dream is to become a Pokémon Master — if he can just get his defiant Pikachu to stop zapping h
- Blaine — The Gym Leader of Cinnabar Island — a riddle-loving Fire-type specialist who hides his gym inside a volcano beneath a tourist hot-spring inn.
- Brock — Former Gym Leader of Pewter City, oldest of ten siblings, and the group's cook and medic — a Rock-type trainer who travels with Ash to learn to become
- Butch — Cassidy's partner in Team Rocket's senior field division — a sharp-toothed grunt whose only personality trait, to his endless rage, is that nobody get
- Cassidy — A senior Team Rocket field agent who consistently outranks Jessie and takes pleasure in reminding her — partnered with the always-mispronounced Butch.
- Cissy — The Gym Leader of Mikan Island in the Orange Archipelago — a cheerful Water-type trainer whose challenges are aquatic skill contests instead of standa
- Damian — The cruel original trainer of the Charmander who later became Ash's — a swaggering young bully who abandoned the weak fire-lizard on a rock in the rai
- Danny — The Gym Leader of Navel Island — a handsome outdoorsman whose challenge involves mountain climbing and sled-crafting before any Pokémon battle begins.
- Delia Ketchum — Ash's mother, a widowed Pallet Town homemaker whose parting advice to a ten-year-old setting out alone across Kanto was to remember to change his unde
- Drake — The reigning Orange League Champion who receives challengers on Pummelo Island — a veteran trainer whose six-Pokémon team includes the Dragonite that
- Erika — The Gym Leader of Celadon City — a serene Grass-type specialist who runs a perfume boutique out of her gym and awards the Rainbow Badge only to traine
- Gary Oak — Professor Oak's grandson and Ash's lifelong rival — a hotshot new trainer from Pallet Town who travels with a literal cheerleading squad in a red conv
- Giovanni — The boss of Team Rocket and — unknown to most of Kanto — the secret Gym Leader of Viridian City, the eighth and final gym before the Indigo League.
- James — The male half of the Team Rocket trio — a runaway heir to a wealthy family who ran away from an arranged marriage to join an evil organization, mostly
- Jessie — The female half of the Team Rocket trio pursuing Ash's Pikachu — a failed Pokémon Nurse trainee, former model, and current villainous grunt whose temp
- Koga — The Gym Leader of Fuchsia City — a stealth-school ninja master whose gym is a trap-laden maze and who specializes in Poison-type Pokémon.
- Lt. Surge — The Gym Leader of Vermilion City — a huge American military veteran who trains Electric-types and bullies baby trainers into leaving his gym in tears.
- Luana — The Gym Leader of Kumquat Island — a hotel manager and double-battle specialist who mistakes Ash for her long-lost son.
- Meowth — A Team Rocket cat Pokémon who learned to walk upright and speak human language out of love for a Meowzie who rejected him — now the third member of th
- Mew — The ancestral Psychic-type Pokémon from whose DNA Mewtwo was cloned — a mischievous pink legendary who appears playfully wherever history pivots.
- Mewtwo — A cloned Psychic-type Pokémon engineered from Mew's DNA by scientists hired by Giovanni — the most powerful Pokémon in the world, and one whose existe
- Misty — The youngest of the four Sensational Sisters and Gym Leader of Cerulean City, who is following Ash across Kanto because he fried her bike with a Thund
- Moltres — The legendary Fire/Flying bird of Kanto — the flame of the southern island and the third elemental guardian in the Orange Archipelago trio.
- Nurse Joy — The Pokémon Center nurse in every city across Kanto and the Orange Islands — another enormous family of identical cousins, each one the medical backbo
- Officer Jenny — The recurring name and face of Kanto's police force — every Officer Jenny is a cousin in a vast extended family of law enforcement women who are ident
- Pikachu — Ash's starter Pokémon — a yellow Electric-type mouse who refused the Poké Ball, refuses to evolve, and, after one night in a Viridian hospital with a
- Professor Ivy — The Pokémon researcher of Valencia Island in the Orange Archipelago who studies regional variations — and whose lab Brock left the group to join, retu
- Professor Oak — The leading Pokémon researcher of Kanto, based in Pallet Town, who invented the Pokédex and gives every new trainer their first Pokémon and their firs
- Ritchie — A friendly trainer Ash meets in the dorms at the Indigo League — almost a mirror of Ash, down to the Pikachu on his shoulder (named Sparky) — who ends
- Rudy — The Gym Leader of Trovita Island — a charismatic dance-trained trainer who falls for Misty and challenges Ash to a rhythm-based three-part Pokémon bat
- Sabrina — The Gym Leader of Saffron City — a Psychic-type specialist so powerful her unresolved childhood trauma turned half her town to toys, and who turned As
- Sparky — Ritchie's Pikachu — a calm, well-named counterpart to Ash's Pikachu, distinguished by a small upright tuft of yellow fur between his ears.
- Team Rocket — The criminal syndicate headed by Giovanni that traffics in stolen Pokémon across Kanto — its lowest-ranked operatives are Jessie, James, and Meowth, i
- The Sensational Sisters — Misty's three older sisters — Daisy, Violet, and Lily — three glamorous synchronized swimmers who run the Cerulean Gym as a water ballet spectacle and
- Tracey Sketchit — A Pokémon Watcher who joins Ash and Misty in the Orange Archipelago after Brock leaves, sketching wild Pokémon in his notebook and idolizing Professor
- Zapdos — The legendary Electric/Flying bird of Kanto — the storm guardian whose domain is the lightning island of the Orange Archipelago trio.
Locations
- Celadon City — A prosperous garden city famous for its department store, perfume industry, and Erika's Grass-type Rainbow Badge gym.
- Celadon Gym — Erika's Grass-type gym in Celadon City — a glass-paned greenhouse full of flowering Grass Pokémon and paired with the city's finest perfume boutique.
- Cerulean City — Misty's home city, built around a central lake — home of the Sensational Sisters' synchronized swimming gym and the second badge of the Kanto circuit.
- Cerulean Gym — The Sensational Sisters' synchronized-swimming gym in Cerulean City — a water-ballet theater that doubles, occasionally, as a legitimate Water-type gy
- Cinnabar Gym — Blaine's hidden Fire-type gym beneath Cinnabar's volcano — accessed through the hot-spring inn's secret passage and fought on a battleraft over an act
- Cinnabar Island — The volcanic island at Kanto's southern tip — home of the Pokémon Mansion ruins, a hot-spring resort, and Blaine's gym hidden beneath the active volca
- Fuchsia City — A rural, traditional city on Kanto's southeast — home of the Safari Zone, the Poké Ball craftsman, and Koga's ninja dojo of a gym.
- Fuchsia Gym — Koga's ninja dojo in Fuchsia City — Kanto's fifth gym, full of invisible walls, mirror illusions, and Poison-type Pokémon.
- Indigo Plateau — The official site of the Kanto/Johto Pokémon League finals — a mountain plateau above Viridian housing the League stadium, competitor village, and the
- Kumquat Gym — Luana's hotel-based double-battle gym on Kumquat Island — fourth and final stop on the Orange League circuit, awarding the Jade Star Badge.
- Kumquat Island — The resort-island Orange Crew gym — Luana's hotel-based double-battle arena, where Ash first fought in two-on-two format.
- Mikan Gym — Cissy's waterfront skill-contest gym on Mikan Island — first stop on the Orange League circuit, awarding the Coral-Eye Badge.
- Mikan Island — The first Orange Crew gym island — Cissy's waterfront Water-type skill-challenge arena.
- Mt. Moon — The mountain pass between Pewter and Cerulean — a network of dark, Zubat-infested caves home to a migrating population of Clefairy who are worshipped
- Navel Gym — Danny's mountain-spanning gym on Navel Island — second stop on the Orange League circuit, awarding the Sea Ruby Badge.
- Navel Island — A single-mountain Orange Crew gym island — Danny's climbing-and-construction challenge rising straight out of the ocean.
- New Island — A man-made research island off Kanto's coast built by Giovanni for the Mewtwo experiments — destroyed and rebuilt by Mewtwo as a sanctuary for its clo
- Orange Archipelago — A chain of tropical islands south of Kanto with their own Pokémon League circuit, their own unique regional Pokémon variants, and a culture that empha
- Pallet Town — The sleepy starting village of Kanto — a scatter of houses, a windmill, and Professor Oak's lab, where every new trainer sets out from and (most) neve
- Pewter City — The stone-and-rock town at the edge of Viridian Forest — home of Brock's family, Pewter Gym, and the Pewter Museum of Science's collection of fossiliz
- Pewter Gym — Brock's Rock-type gym at the edge of Pewter City — Kanto's first gym and the one that teaches most trainers what type disadvantage actually feels like
- Pinkan Island — A protected Orange Archipelago island where every Pokémon is mysteriously pink — protected from trainer capture by Officer Jenny's special island rang
- Pokémon Tower — The tall purple mausoleum in Lavender Town where deceased Pokémon are laid to rest — haunted by Ghost Pokémon and, on Ash's visit, the friendly Haunte
- Pummelo Island — The capital island of the Orange Archipelago and the site of the Orange League championship stadium — where Ash beat Drake six-on-six to claim the Ora
- Pummelo Stadium — The coastal lagoon arena on Pummelo Island where the Orange League champion defends their title one challenger at a time.
- Route 1 — The short northbound trail from Pallet Town to Viridian City — the first wild-Pokémon grass almost every Kanto trainer ever steps into.
- S.S. Anne — A massive luxury cruise liner docked at Vermilion City for a Pokémon trainer convention — which Team Rocket infiltrated, wrecked in a storm, and sank
- Saffron City — Kanto's largest, most urban city — a neon-and-glass metropolis, home of Silph Co., the Fighting Dojo, and Sabrina's terrifying Psychic-type gym.
- Saffron Gym — Sabrina's Psychic-type gym in Saffron City — a silent, multi-level dojo where challengers find themselves levitated, teleported, and occasionally turn
- Shamouti Island — A small Orange Archipelago island whose ancient legend of the Legendary Beast festival became real when Lawrence III tried to capture Articuno, Zapdos
- Trovita Gym — Rudy's terraced dance-battle gym on Trovita Island — third stop on the Orange League circuit, awarding the Spike Shell Badge.
- Trovita Island — A terraced tropical Orange Crew island — Rudy's dance-and-battle gym, where Pokémon fight in choreographed rhythm with their trainer.
- Valencia Island — The first major island of the Orange Archipelago — home of Professor Ivy's regional-variant research lab, where Ash delivered the GS Ball and Brock st
- Vermilion City — A major port city on Kanto's southern coast — home of the S.S. Anne harbor and Lt. Surge's Electric-type Thunder Badge gym.
- Vermilion Gym — Lt. Surge's Electric-type gym in Vermilion City — a military-themed battlefield where Pikachu finally beat Raichu by refusing to become one.
- Viridian City — The first proper city north of Pallet Town — home of Kanto's only 24-hour Pokémon Center open to first-day trainers, and the city whose gym Ash saves
- Viridian Forest — The dense bug-Pokémon wilderness between Viridian and Pewter City — a tangled green canopy where most new trainers catch their first Caterpie or Weedl
- Viridian Gym — The final gym of the Kanto circuit — hidden in plain sight as a publicly licensed gym while secretly doubling as a front for Team Rocket's boss Giovan
Items
- GS Ball — A mysterious golden-and-silver Poké Ball that neither Professor Oak nor any known analysis can open — delivered by Ash to Professor Ivy for study duri
- Kanto Badges — The eight official gym badges awarded by Kanto's League-licensed gyms — the collection required to qualify for the Indigo League championship.
- Poké Ball — The standard red-and-white capture device used by every trainer in Kanto — a spherical tool that stores and recalls a Pokémon instantly on a button pr
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