Marlon

Marlon (Japanese: シズイ Shizui) is the Gym Leader of Humilau City's Gym, known officially as the Humilau Gym. He specializes in . He gives the to Trainers who defeat him.
==In the core series games==
Marlon appears in as the eighth and final Gym Leader that the challenges. He is a big-hearted Pokémon Trainer who gives passionate advice. Marlon also seems to be a very relaxed and carefree man, as shown by his obliviousness as to who Team Plasma are and what they do, even asking if Team Plasma are bad people.
Marlon specializes in Water-type Pokémon. Upon defeating him, he will reward the player with a Wave Badge and . Outside of battle, Marlon is a fisherman who catches Pokémon which he would later use in future Gym battles.
Upon arriving in Humilau City, Marlon is absent from the Gym, and the player is sent to find him. The player meets Marlon just as they head north of the Gym, in which he returns to it and awaits a Gym battle. After the Gym battle, Marlon jumps into the ocean and swims away. Upon exiting the Gym, Hugh walks up and congratulates the player on gaining all eight of Unova's Gym Badges, and then their attention turns to Team Plasma, during which Marlon walks up and asks about them. He then heads off to the Seaside Cave to find the Plasma Frigate. Later on, at , he is seen jumping off the Plasma Frigate after lowering the boarding plank, and then heads back to the Gym, leaving the player and Hugh to deal with Team Plasma.
During the post-game, Marlon joins the other Gym Leaders in participating in the Pokémon World Tournament.
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Marlon uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles, and all six in Triple Battles. He will always lead with his signature Pokémon, .
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===National Gymquirer===
:Jingle: "Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"
:Page: "That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name MisterFisher! Thank yooou! 'Marlon was swimming the other day, and he just kept going faster until he shot out of the water and into the sky! That swimming style could completely dominate the world of swimming.' Hm... That is amazing, but nobody else can do that. Actually, can you even call jumping into the sky swimming? 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"
==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Marlon forms a sync pair with in Pokémon Masters EX. Marlon became a playable sync pair since the game's release.
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===Pokémon the Series===
====Pokémon the Series: Black & White====
Marlon appeared in The Road to Humilau!, where aimed to challenge his Gym for his final Badge. After Cameron and lost their way to Humilau City, Marlon found the two s and took them to his Gym. There, he faced Cameron in a Gym . Although Marlon had a powerful team, he was defeated by Cameron's , giving Cameron his last Gym Badge.
====Pokémon movies====
Marlon made a cameo appearance in the ending credits of Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
====Character====
Marlon is a spirited Gym Leader with a laidback personality. He has a strong team of Pokémon, which perform well in the Humilau Gym's open ocean battlefield. Marlon utilizes offense to bring down his challengers and takes advantage of the Gym's aquatic setting.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Marlon's known in :
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===GOTCHA!===
Marlon briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
====History====
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Marlon debuted in Hallway Hijinks, where he participated as a competitor in the . After battling his way through Victory Road, he eventually made it into the top 8. In The Tournament Continues, Marlon faced Hood Man in the quarterfinals. Despite managing to disable the moves of Hood Man's , Marlon ended up losing, allowing Hood Man to advance to the next round.
In Something Suspicious, Marlon attempted to head back home, only to be approached by . When asked on what he knew about Hood Man, Marlon revealed his opponent had managed to somehow enter the League without collecting a single Gym Badge. White decided to expose Hood Man for cheating, but was stopped by Marlon, who was perfectly fine with losing since his opponent was a strong . Marlon stated that he found more suspicious and suggested that White begin investigating him next.
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Sometime before the events of the , Marlon became the Gym Leader of Humilau City. In Pink Slip, Marlon and Benga helped rescue Cheren's class and Roxie from Castelia City, which had been frozen by the Plasma Frigate. After explaining the situation, Marlon and Began asked Cheren and Roxie to join them and launch a counterattack against Team Plasma.
====Pokémon====
Marlon has at least two other Pokémon, as he participated in the quarterfinals of the Unova Pokémon League, which requires a Single Battle involving three Pokémon.
====Badges obtained====
=====Unova League=====
* At least eight unknown Badges
====Achievements====
=====Pokémon League=====
Marlon has competed in the following Pokémon League Conferences:
* - Top 8 (The Tournament Continues)
==Trivia==
* Marlon's Japanese Leader title is .
* Marlon speaks in a dialect in the Japanese version.
* Marlon is the first Gym Leader to appear in only one episode since Bugsy, who appeared in Gettin' The Bugs Out, 607 episodes prior to Marlon's appearance.
** However, at the time of Marlon's animated series appearance, Chuck had also only appeared in one episode, before making a second appearance in Octo-Gridlock at the Gym!.
* According to one of the television stations in Unova, Marlon learned to jump by practicing with the that lived by his childhood home.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	シズイ Shizui 	From シズイ shizui ( nipponicus: species of club-rush that grows in marshes), 滴 shizuku (drop), 水 sui (water), and possibly 井 i (well)
English 	Marlon 	From and marine
German 	Benson 	From Teichbinsen (club-rush)
Spanish 	Ciprián 	From ciperáceas () or the genus
French 	Amana 	Possibly from the genus
Italian 	Ciprian 	From or the genus Scirpus
Korean 	시즈 Sijeu 	From a partial transcription of his Japanese name and seas
Chinese ()	西子伊 Xīzǐyī 	Transcription of his Japanese name
Chinese ()	西子伊 Sāijíyī 	Transcription of his Japanese name
Vietnamese	Shizui 	Transcription of his Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
* Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Category:Black 2 and White 2 characters
Category:Gym Leaders
Category:Animation characters
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
Category:Water-type Trainers
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