Professor Westwood V

Professor Westwood V (Japanese: ニシノモリ教授　５世 Professor Nishinomori V) is a character of the day who appeared in The Evolution Solution.
==In animation==
Upon reaching , and meet Professor Westwood. Ash sums up Westwood's personality by whispering "He seems a little eccentric". Eccentric, indeed, can describe Professor Westwood, who prefers to be called Westwood V, as even theorizes that his eccentricity is hereditary; portraits of four identical Westwood ancestors adorn the walls on the Westwood V's Laboratory as well as his younger self. 
He is esteemed for his work on the Pokédex, which he wrote the entries for. Professor Westwood admitted to Ash later in the episode, though, that he made up some of the information in the Pokédex. Westwood doesn't travel much, and merely relies on reports for his Pokédex data.
When Ash and friends meet up with him, his task at that time was to discover how evolve into . The problem, after stumping the famous professor, was soon solved as the episode progressed, with clamping on Westwood's Slowpoke's tail. Slowpoke evolved into Slowbro, thus commencing Westwood's studies on the matter. 
This task done was in the hope that he would be awarded more, thus thinking that the Pokémon Symposium would be impressed by his work. The outcome of this, though, is uncertain.
Westwood is eccentric in such a way that he asks the portraits of Westwood I to IV to forgive him for his mistakes, and sometimes forgets and requests forgiveness from his own portrait, as well. He has also expressed desire to surpass his predecessors' achievements, too, though, and even commented that he deserved a statue rather than a mere portrait. 
Westwood might be also considered a bit vain, as he has not replaced his portrait with a more recent one. His portrait was taken some time ago, as he had a full head of hair in the said painting. He was quite good looking, anyway, and tends to stare at his portrait at length after prostrating to the other four. 
Other than that, Westwood has dedicated his life to being a Pokémon Professor and researcher, and cares much for his last remaining Pokémon, Slowpoke, as evident from the part where Team Rocket tried to capture it.
Professor Westwood's Slowpoke, which subsequently evolved into Slowbro after Jessie's Shellder accidentally clamped on its tail, is Westwood's last remaining Pokémon after his previous ones had been given away to beginning Trainers or released. Slowbro enjoys the company of Misty's Psyduck, who shares its unintelligent, clueless look.
===Pokémon===
====On hand====
====On Slowbro's tail====
===Voice actors===
==In the guidebooks==
Professor Westwood and his ancestors are a reference to an early bit of the franchise's worldbuilding. As detailed across An Illustrated Book of POCKET MONSTERS, Tamamushi University Pocket Book, and a Pokémon Daisuki Club site, modern Poké Balls were developed in 1925 from the research of a Professor Westwood of Celadon University. As many characters and details of this early lore reference the games' development, Professor Nishinomori's name appears to be a combination of Kōji Nishino and Ken Sugimori.
==Trivia==
* In the dub, Westwood is stated to have outright programmed the Pokédex himself, as opposed to just writing its entries.
* Westwood's is the only Pokémon in to have used the move .
==Names==
Language	Name 	Origin
Japanese	ニシノモリ教授　５世Professor Nishinomori V 	Derived from a combination of Koji Nishino and Ken Sugimori.
English 	Professor Westwood V 	Literal translation of the Japanese name, with "Nishi" meaning West and "Mori" meaning forest or woods.
Italian 	Professor Westwood V 	Same as English.
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