Brock (Pokemon Anime)

Takeshi, also known as Brock, is one of the main characters from the Pokemon series.
== Charactah Account ==
Originally the fearsome Pewter City Gym Leader, Brock left to travel with Ash on his journey to pursue his dream of becoming a Pokemon Breeder. The eldest of 10 kids, which he had to raise on his own for almost two years after his parents left. Brock served as a mentor to Ash for a while before turning into a sort of older brother character. He headed off on his own after their travels in Sinnoh, realizing that his true calling was instead to become a Pokémon Doctor.
Brock is considered the most mature, wise, and levelheaded of the main characters and he is arguably the most intelligent character as well. He often acts as an older brother and caretaker to the other characters and a voice of reason in disputes. He will usually place others before himself and will help and support his friends even against his better judgment or at his own expense. While he does not battle often, he can understand situations and strategies in any Pokémon battle, and often explains them to the other characters, probably because he was once a Gym Leader. His wisdom is possibly derived from how observant he is; he can tell just by sight how a Pokémon is feeling.
Brock always carries books and maps with him and thus, is usually the character who knows where the group is headed and what they can do when they get there, though in the Advanced Generation series this role was mostly taken over by Max, who owns a PokéNav. He also carries a lot of other supplies, such as Potions, Pokémon food, and a set of cookware, as well as practical tools like a brush and pocket knife; in The School of Hard Knocks, the extent of his preparedness and comically large capacity of his bag was demonstrated, as he pulled a table and full tea set out of his backpack. He is a domestic, and grooms not only his Pokémon but also those of his friends with whom he travels. He handles all the cooking and cleaning for his friends. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* A Ripple in Time
* Pokemon
* Pokemon Advanced Generation
* Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure - Dent and Brock! Gyarados's Outrage!!
* Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N
* Pokemon Chronicles
* Pokemon Diamond & Pearl
* Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Specials
* Pokemon Introductory Recap
* Pokemon Journeys: Arceus Who is Called a God
* Pokemon Journeys: The Series
* Pokemon Movie 01: Mewtwo Strikes Back
* Pokemon Movie 02: Revelation Lugia
* Pokemon Movie 03: Spell Of The Unown
* Pokemon Movie 04: Celebi: Voice of the Forest
* Pokemon Movie 05: Latias to Latios
* Pokemon Movie 06: Jirachi Wishmaker
* Pokemon Movie 07: Destiny Deoxys
* Pokemon Movie 08: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
* Pokemon Movie 09: Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
* Pokemon Movie 10: The Rise Of Darkrai
* Pokemon Movie 11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
* Pokemon Movie 12: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
* Pokemon Movie 13: Zoroark - Master of Illusions
* Pokemon Movie 22: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
* Pokemon Sun & Moon
* Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns
* Pokemon: Pikachu and Pichu
* Pokemon: Pikachu's Summer Vacation
* Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation
* Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2000)
* Pokemon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon
== Trivia ==
* Brock is known for being the very first Gym Leader that Ash faces.
* Brock's personality reflects Uxie's one; the Knowledge Pokémon.
* In the Pokémon DP Special, Brock has photos of Ash, Misty, May, Max, Dawn, Pikachu, and Piplup to remind him of his past journeys through Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Kanto's Battle Frontier and Sinnoh.
* Brock is a very talented cook, especially when it comes to making food for Pokémon (this is related to the fact he is a Pokémon Breeder).
* In the episodes "The Ninja Poké-Showdown", "Who Gets To Keep Togepi?", and "A Crowning Achievement", Brock actually temporarily has his eyes opened.
* Brock's eyes are rarely open, excluding the examples shown.
* Brock has appeared in every series except Best Wishes and XY, although he only appears in flashbacks with Dawn and Ash.
* As seen in the episode "The Tower of Terror" and "Taming of the Shroomish", Brock is apparently afraid of ghosts. While he and May were shopping, she heard of a haunted mansion. He was terrified just hearing about it, and, while May was overjoyed, she literally had to drag him there. Whenever he heard somebody talking about ghosts, he leaned away. He was afraid of the mansion and showed dismay and horror when they talked about advancing inside. He was fine once he found out that the ghosts were actually Shroomish, though. He was also fine on Ghoul Daze!, among other episodes.
* Brock's real dream is to become a Pokémon doctor. However, in "Jirachi: Wish Maker", he said he wanted to become a magician because he could make "beautiful girls appear out of thin air".
* He can notice the small things that make each Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny physically different.
* It is said that Brock was taken out and replaced with Tracey due to the notion that he would be racially insensitive to Pokémon's growing worldwide audience. When it was revealed that said notion wasn't the case at all, they put him back in for Johto.
* Brock is currently the only traveling companion, other than Ash, to travel with two main female traveling companions who are the playable character in the main game, with the exception of Serena in X and Y.
* In the anime, Brock owns both Geodude and Onix during Gym battles. The other one is Roark.
* Brock is the first male character to:
** Be or was a Gym Leader.
** Have caught or received a Rock, Ground, Poison and Steel-type Pokémon.
** Have caught or received a pure Rock and Fairy-type Pokémon.
** Have a Pokémon or more that has cross-generational in their evolution line.
** Have a Pokémon evolve into its cross-generational evolution.
** Have caught or received a member or more from the Generation IV group.
** Evolve a Pokémon through an Evolution stone.
** Have a Pokémon that is a dual type change one of its types upon Evolution.
** Have or had a Baby Pokémon.
** Have a fully evolved Poison, Grass and Rock-type.
** Have more than one Rock, Ground and Steel-type.
** Have a female-only Pokémon.
** Use Mega Evolution.
* Brock is the first male character other than Ash to:
** Have caught or received a Flying, Fire, Grass, Fighting and Normal-type Pokémon.
** Have either caught, received or had a pure Fire, Bug, Water and Normal-type Pokémon.
** Have a fully evolved Flying, Bug, Water and Ground-type.
** Have more than one Water and Poison-type.
** Have a Pokémon or more that has a cross-generational evolution.
** Have a Pokémon evolve into its cross-generational evolution.
** Have caught or received a member or more from the Generation I and III groups.
** Have a regional Water-Type Starter Pokémon.
** Have received or found a Pokémon Egg.
* Two of each Brock's Pokémon take the roles of each similarities: (Steelix and Geodude: Early beginners), (Crobat and Forretress: Evolved in Johto), (Ludicolo and Marshtomp: Hoenn Water types), (Sudowoodo and Croagunk: Strong Battlers) and (Chansey & Comfey: Nurses and Healers).
* Despite not appearing in the Black and White series, Brock was mentioned several times by Ash and Dawn during Dawn's time in Unova.
* While it is never mentioned in the anime, the July 2006 issue of K-Zone Magazine revealed Brock's surname is Harrison.
* The reason why Brock temporarily left Ash and Misty (probably during the Orange Islands arc) according to former anime head writer Takeshi Shudo, was due to the upper management deeming that Brock's eyes are too narrow that will make people associate with Asians, whom the management believed that they are folks that Westerners cannot connect with. However, the management eventually decided to bring back Brock for some more seasons after realizing his popularity.
* In the anime, Brock referred to Onigiri as "Jelly-filled Donuts".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Brock (anime) at Pokémon Wiki
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