Agatha

Agatha (Japanese: キクコ Kikuko) is a who serves as a member of the Indigo Elite Four in Generations , , and .
==In the core series games==
Agatha is an elderly woman who is the third Trainer of the Kanto Elite Four in Generations , , and , and the oldest such known to date. As such, she serves as an inspiration for senior Pokémon Trainers all around the region. She uses Ghost-type Pokémon and other Pokémon with horrifying appearances. She has a very short temper and believes Pokémon should primarily be used for battling.
Agatha and Professor Oak were once friendly rivals in their youth. However, their relationship has grown bitter and strained over the years because Agatha believes he was too weak to continue competing. In Pokémon Masters EX, during her Sync Pair Story "A Day with Agatha", explains how she and met. Oak was always friendly and open when he was young and would talk to Agatha and try to help her. Though he was only trying to be nice, it still annoyed Agatha because she wanted to be left alone. Agatha would battle Oak to try and get him to go away, but he was always better than her, and so she would battle him again and again. Eventually, the time they spent together began to mean a lot to Agatha. As a result, when Oak got the idea to invent the Pokédex and subsequently stopped battling, Agatha felt betrayed.
By the events of the Generation II and games, Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four, and Bruno has assumed her position. Her absence is never explained, but an old portrait with younger versions of her, Professor Oak, and Kurt can be seen in the latter's house.
====Fame Checker====
This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Agatha in .
;Pokémon League - Agatha
* What does this person do?
:"I am <sc>Agatha</sc> of the <sc>Elite Four</sc>."
;Indigo Plateau - Crusher
* Favorite kind of ?
:"<sc>Agatha</sc>'s <sc>Ghost</sc>-type are horrifically terrifying in toughness."
;Indigo Plateau - Crusher
* What is this person like?
:"That old lady's got a really short fuse, too.
:It doesn't take anything to get that scary lady hollering."
; - 
* There's a rumor...
:"In her youth, <sc>Agatha</sc> and <sc>Prof. Oak</sc> were rivals who vied for
:supremacy as <sc>Trainers</sc>."
;Pokémon League - Agatha
* Family and friends?
:"I hear <sc>Oak</sc>'s taken a lot of interest in you, child.
:That old duff was once tough and handsome.
:But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self."
; - Old Lady
* What is this person like?
:"Take <sc>Agatha</sc>, for example.
:She set a record for being the oldest-ever <sc>Elite Four</sc> member."
;Message from <sc>Agatha</sc>
* From: <sc>Agatha</sc>
* To: [Player]
:"When you grow older, don't you dare go soft like that coot <sc>Oak</sc>!
:Be like me and keep battling on!"
===Pokémon===
This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the video games she has appeared in.
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Agatha will switch her current Pokémon 7.8125% (20/256) of the time. Additionally, she has two Super Potions per Pokémon to use 42.1875% (108/256) of the time when their HP falls below 25%.
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Agatha will switch her current Pokémon 7.8125% (20/256) of the time. Additionally, she has two Super Potions per Pokémon to use 42.1875% (108/256) of the time when their HP falls below 25%.
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Agatha has two Full Restores in both battles.
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium===
Agatha appears in Pokémon Stadium as the second member of the Elite Four during the Gym Leader Castle challenge. Due to the small number of Ghost-type Pokémon in Generation I, she also uses Pokémon from other types, mostly .
====Pokémon====
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Agatha, in her design, forms a sync pair with and in Pokémon Masters EX. Her Gengar is capable of Mega Evolving. Agatha became a playable sync pair since the game's release.
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==Gallery==
===Artwork===
 	 	
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===Sprites and models===
====In the core series====
 	 	 	
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====In other games====
Portrait from
==Quotes==
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
==== History ====
Agatha appeared in the episode The Scheme Team. met her while traveling through Viridian City during his journey home to Pallet Town. Scott formally introduced her to Ash, and Agatha explained that she was acting as the temporary Gym Leader for the Viridian Gym until the true new Gym Leader would arrive. She uses Pokémon for the Gym.
Ash then challenged Agatha to a , hoping to demonstrate his strength to Scott. Despite being in the Top 8 of the recent Ever Grande Conference and putting up a good fight against Agatha, Ash lost to her . Despite that, both Agatha and Scott were impressed by Ash's technique, and Agatha revealed to Ash that she is a member of the Elite Four. She and Scott both recommended Ash to challenge the and the Frontier Brains.
 soon arrived, hoping to kidnap Pikachu, but Ash worked together with Agatha and her to send the trio blasting off. She then wished Ash the best for his upcoming Battle Frontier challenge and said that she would be rooting for him.
====Character====
Agatha is confident in and always looks forward to challenging a strong . In her match against , she bade her time to observe 's movements before having her attack. Over time, she has developed an array of strategies to counter an opponent, such as when she used her 's to reflect 's rather than it.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in .
====Voice actors====
===I Choose You!===
Agatha briefly appeared in I Choose You!, which is set in a timeline separate from . She appeared in 's nightmare, in which he lived in a world where Pokémon never existed and attended school like a normal child. In this nightmare, she was seen teaching Ash's class.
===Pokémon Origins===
Agatha appeared briefly in File 4: Charizard. She was seen being challenged and defeated by , allowing Red move on to challenge Lance.
====Pokémon====
===Pokémon Generations===
Agatha appeared in The Challenger, where she was first seen talking about , the first in a long time to collect eight Gym Badges, with the rest of the Kanto Elite Four. Later, she was the third Elite Four member challenged by Blue. After her was defeated, Agatha admitted to Blue that she had expected him, as the grandson of Professor Oak, to focus on completing the Pokédex, but Blue responded that, for him, filling the Pokédex was just a tool to become stronger. Blue managed to defeat Agatha and her off-screen, allowing him to move on to Lance's room.
====Pokémon====
====Voice actors====
===GOTCHA!===
Agatha briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
====History====
=====Past=====
Agatha was old friends with Professor Oak, Kurt, Pryce, and the Day-Care Couple in their youth. One day, Pryce was caught in an avalanche that killed two of his Lapras, La Pris, and La Prus. As Pryce began to close himself off from his friends, the group composed a song in the hopes of consoling him. Despite their efforts, the song failed with Pryce growing increasingly isolated and distant from his former friends.
Shortly after Oak's victory during the Pokémon League, she confronted Oak backstage and asked why he quit their "research group". He explained that he disagreed with their methods and wanted to create the Pokédex, which she thought was a stupid idea that would never be complete, and a battle ensued which Oak won. Agatha would soon face Oak again in the finals of the Pokémon League, which Oak barely won after a battle that lasted over eight hours. Agatha would end up developing a personal vendetta against him and anyone who associates with him.
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Agatha debuted in a cameo when Professor Oak talked about his first championship win, which was against her in the finals. Agatha, along with the rest of the original Kanto Elite Four, physically debuted in A Charizard...and a Champion, where they were seen observing and 's battle at Indigo Plateau.
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Agatha was one of the main villains in this chapter; she was one of the Elite Four who tried to destroy most of humanity from their base on Cerise Island.
She was first seen trying to take away after he was defeated by Yellow and the Good Gym Leaders of Kanto. She was then seen in a flashback during the events of the previous chapter where she battled Blue and attempted to kill him by having her Gengar use Dream Eater to suck away his energy. While encased in the Dream Eater's coffin, she told him of her vendetta against Professor Oak and anyone associated with him, which included Blue.
He managed to escape with help from his Golduck, and a Haunter she stole from Evan was also taken back. She then had her Gengar lead an army of Haunter to attack Cerulean City to delay Misty.
She fought and Koga, revealing an Arbok with the ability to change the pattern on its belly and use different corresponding abilities. She decided to divide Koga and Blue using her Arbok's Rock Slide and she had her Golbat attack Blue. While Blue was distracted fighting Golbat, she had her Gengar use on Blue's eyes, causing temporary blindness. After battling Koga's Arbok for a while Koga started throwing shuriken balls out of nowhere, which Agatha believed was a pitiful attempt to harm her but was really Koga's attempt to get a Paralyze Heal to Blue. After that Blue rejoined the battle and Koga used his Golbat's to collect his own blood and smeared it on Arbok's pattern, preventing it from changing anymore. While Agatha was presumably beaten, her Arbok was reading itself to attack an unknowing Koga from behind, only to be stopped by Blue before it could land a attack. Agatha was subsequently defeated and seemingly vanished after her defeat, but not before she had her Gengar masquerade as Koga and Blue's shadow to slowly drain their energy, which was defeated as well. She then revealed that she was the one controlling the Pokémon armies of her peers by using special wrist bands to control them.
Agatha used the mind-controlling powers of her Pokémon to control Bruno against his will. It is shown that she was the one who also recruited Lorelei by healing her Seel and then figuring out they have a common distaste of humans.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
Agatha appears in Panic on the Luxury Liner?!. She has the ability to transform into a .
She is first seen as a Golbat, spying on Red as he boarded the Luxury Liner. After they boarded, Agatha transformed into a human. She took an interest in . She does everything to get Clefairy to obey her. While on the ship, she caused the captain to collapse and made Clefairy the new captain. However, all of this turned out to be fake as Agatha was only interested in Clefairy because his blood seemed tasty. After she sucked Clefairy's blood, Red found out who she was as she transformed into a Golbat. However, the blood Agatha drained from Clefairy turned out to taste bad, and miniature versions of Clefairy escaped Agatha's Golbat body. She was last seen in the water after the Luxury Liner got destroyed.
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===Pokémon Zensho===
Agatha appears in PZ10 as the third member of the Elite Four. She challenges with her Gengar and is defeated, advancing Satoshi to the next room.
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==In the TCG==
Agatha was introduced as a in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Sword & Shield Series (the Japanese Sword & Shield Era). It was first released in the Japanese expansion before debuting in English in the expansion, with artwork by Ken Sugimori. It was also released as a and in the same Japanese and English expansions, with artwork by NC Empire. It allows the player to move up to three damage counters from their Active Pokémon to their opponent's.
==Trivia==
* As noted by Shauntal of the Unova Elite Four in in the form of a quote from her novel during the 's post-National Pokédex challenge, Agatha and Bertha are very similar in appearance and name (both in English and Japanese).
** Furthermore, they both are part of their regions's Elite Four, and their Japanese names both contain 菊 kiku (chrysanthemum).
** This is further corroborated by of the Miss Fortune sisters, who herself bears a resemblance to both of them and whose team is composed of (from the same evolutionary line as Bertha's ace in ) and (Agatha's main in essentially every canon).
* Though Agatha is stated to specialize in the , is actually the most common type among all of her Pokémon in the core series games, present in all but two of her Pokémon, and , due to the lack of Ghost-type Pokémon in Generation I.
** In her Generation I teams and her initial teams in Generation III and Generation VII, all of her Pokémon are either pure or partly Poison types, making Agatha the only member of the Kanto Elite Four to have ever had an initial team in which all members share a common type.
*** This distinction is shared with Lance in Generation II and Generation IV. However, Lance is considered the Champion in those generations rather than an Elite Four member. This distinction only applies to his team in , his initial Champion team, and his team during his Dragon's Den Multi Battle in , where all his Pokémon are also , and he has more Flying-types than types, despite being a Dragon-type specialist.
* In the Generation I , the s against Lorelei, Bruno, and Agatha use the standard Trainer battle theme, while the Gym Leader battle theme is played only against Lance. In , the Gym Leader battle theme plays during the battles against all four members of the Elite Four.
* As Agatha's name in Japanese includes "chrysanthemum", the design of the shawl she wears in her Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! concept art is based on chrysanthemum leaves.Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!: Official Trainer's Guide & Pokédex, p. 373
** Furthermore, this association of Agatha with the chrysanthemum may be a reference to how the chrysanthemum is seen a symbol of death in some European countries, being used only for funerals or on graves.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	キクコ Kikuko 	From 菊 kiku () and possibly 鬼 ki (ghost)
English, Spanish, French,Italian, Brazilian Portuguese	Agatha 	Possibly from aghast, ghost, gothic, or hag. May also be a reference to popular British crime writer
German 	Agathe 	From her English name
Korean 	국화 Gukhwa 	From 국화 (菊花) gukhwa (chrysanthemum)
Korean 	할멈 Halmeom 	From 할멈 halmeom (old woman)
Chinese () 	菊子 Júzǐ 	From the Japanese name 菊子 Kikuko. Contains 菊 jú (chrysanthemum).
Chinese () 	喜久子 Xǐjiǔzi紀久子 Jìjiǔzi 	From the Japanese name 喜久子 KikukoFrom the Japanese name 紀久子 Kikuko
Chinese () 	菊子 Gūkjí 	From the Japanese name 菊子 Kikuko. Contains 菊 gūk (chrysanthemum).
Russian 	Агата Agata 	Transcription of her English name
Thai 	คิคุโกะ Khikhuko 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Kikuko 	Transcription of her Japanese name
==References==
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