Archie

Archie (Japanese: アオギリ Aogiri) is the head of Team Aqua. He is the only character in the games to have the es Aqua Leader (Japanese: アクアだんリーダー Team Aqua Leader) and Team Aqua (Japanese: Team Aqua).
==In the core series games==
In , Archie helps the against Team Magma. He does not have an active role in the storyline and cannot be battled.
In , , and , he first appears in the Oceanic Museum in Slateport City, trying to steal the Devon Goods/Devon Parts from Captain Stern. In Sapphire and Alpha Sapphire, Team Aqua members later steal a Meteorite from Professor Cozmo and try to turn Mt. Chimney into a lake/to fashion a Mega Stone for Kyogre. In Emerald, he instead appears with Aqua members at Meteor Falls, and acts as a temporary ally with the player against Team Magma who instead have stolen the Meteorite and are trying to find . After, thanking the player for his help and briefly asking if he is on their side, he departs and is not seen for a while. Shelly and several grunts later raid the Weather Institute, and Archie steals the Red Orb/Blue Orb from Mt. Pyre. Later, he and the Team Aqua members turn up in Slateport again as Captain Stern announces a discovery he has made about a seafloor cavern. Team Aqua promptly steals the Submarine Explorer 1 that Captain Stern has built and goes for the Seafloor Cavern to awaken . However he is unable to control the Legendary Pokémon. After, Kyogre is calmed, Archie sees the error of his ways and disbands Team Aqua after returning the stolen orb.
During the Delta Episode in Alpha Sapphire, Archie is first seen in his hideout, where Zinnia shows up to take his Key Stone in order to summon , doing so just as the player reaches his room. Afterwards, Archie has Matt hand the player his Sharpedonite, figuring that now that he's lost his Key Stone, he no longer has need for the Mega Stone, either. After the events of the Delta Episode, he apologizes his Admins for his actions, deciding to start anew as a . Later, Archie can be chosen as a Multi Battle partner at the Battle Maison.
In Omega Ruby, Archie and his Admins appear at the Battle Resort when the player first visits it after the Delta Episode. During the brief meeting, Archie alludes to his role in Alpha Sapphire, but dismisses such possibility as nonsense, before having Matt give the player a Sharpedonite.
An alternate universe version of Archie, as he appears in Generation III, appears as a member of Team Rainbow Rocket in . He is one of the first pair of bosses the player must face, along with Maxie. When the player reaches him in Team Rocket's Castle, he expresses dismay that the player defeated his s, considering them his crew even though they are not members of Team Aqua. Archie explains that, in the world he came from, he successfully completed his plans to expand the oceans, only to be swallowed by a massive tidal wave during his moment of victory, subsequently finding himself in the game's world. Though he intends to return to his world, he decides to use Kyogre to turn the game's world into his ideal state as well. He battles the player and, despite using Kyogre against them, loses. He then allows the player to activate the switch in his office painting so they may advance. Later, Archie enters the main hall of the castle while Guzma is helping the player hold off two Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts, only to encounter Maxie, mistaking him for the Maxie from his universe. The two decide to battle to resolve their conflict once and for all, only to be warped away by a mysterious force as they leave.
===Pokémon===
====Pokémon Sapphire====
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====Pokémon Emerald====
Archie uses two Super Potions.
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====Pokémon Alpha Sapphire====
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=====Battle Maison Multi Battle=====
Archie will always use these two Pokémon as the player's Multi Battle partner.
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====Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon====
Archie's Pokémon are kept in Master Balls.
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====Status unknown====
When fighting three s at Mt. Chimney in Pokémon Ruby, Emerald, and Omega Ruby, Archie is seen with a . It is unknown if this Poochyena is related to his Mightyena.
==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Archie, in his design, forms a sync pair with in Pokémon Masters EX. Archie became a playable sync pair on June 1, 2021.
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==Gallery==
===Artwork===
 	
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
====History====
Archie debuted in the episode Gaining Groudon. After Shelly, acting on Archie's orders, successfully released from Team Magma's mobile sea base, Archie emerged from the sea inside Team Aqua's submarine, and used the Red Orb, which had recently come in his possession, to take control of Kyogre, having it destroy the base completely as Team Magma narrowly escaped. Later, on Monsu Island, Archie met up with Maxie and negotiated the release of two s in exchange for the Blue Orb, not knowing that it had already been absorbed by Ash's Pikachu. When invaded Team Aqua's submarine in an attempt to steal Kyogre, Archie accused Team Magma of being behind it.
In The Scuffle of Legends, Team Rocket's unsuccessful stealing attempt caused Kyogre to be released into the ocean. As a result, Archie took flight with his personal miniature aircraft, and started controlling Kyogre from midair using the Red Orb. However, it was revealed that the Orb was actually controlling him instead; maddened by its effects, he intended to sink the entire island into the ocean, not caring that many of his own men were still on it. When Lance tried to retrieve the Red Orb from Archie, he had Kyogre attack the -level , and it proved to be extremely strong, easily countering Lance's Gyarados's with its own. Suddenly, the Red Orb absorbed itself into Archie's body, bonding with him and driving him further into insanity.
After Pikachu freed from Team Aqua's submarine, the two Legendary Pokémon started battling each other. Soon, Lance understood that Groudon was trying to stop Kyogre from sinking the island into the sea, so and decided to help it to do so. Having and attack Archie's aircraft, and managed to distract Archie and Kyogre long enough for Groudon to fire a at the Sea Basin Pokémon, defeating it. The Red Orb then debonded with Archie, causing him to lose consciousness and fall off his aircraft, only to be caught mid-fall by Lance's Dragonite. When Archie later woke up, he seemed to have forgotten everything, asking Shelly what happened. He then united everyone else around to watch as the Orbs disappeared, freeing Kyogre and Groudon and allowing them to return to their natural habitats. It is unknown what happened to Archie or the rest of Team Aqua after this point.
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===Pokémon Generations===
Archie made an appearance in The Cavern. He, along with some Team Aqua Grunts, were seen exploring the Seafloor Cavern in search of . When it was eventually found, Archie used the Blue Orb to awaken Kyogre's Primal form, against Shelly's wishes. He was last seen aboard the Submarine Explorer 1 with Shelly, being attacked by Primal Kyogre.
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===GOTCHA!===
Archie briefly appeared as a silhouette in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
====History====
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Archie is one of the two main antagonists of this chapter. He leads Team Aqua in their quest to awaken to expand the sea. Team Aqua clashes with Team Magma, who aim to awaken to expand the land. Archie also serves as the head of Hoenn TV, which he manipulates to create anti-Team Magma propaganda while covering up the actions of his own team.
Archie debuts in Lombre Larceny, where he leads Shelly, Matt, and in stealing the heart component for the Submarine Explorer 1. Although the three succeed in their mission, Archie berates them for not finishing off , Gabby, and Ty, who had seen the entire incident. Despite this, he promotes the three to admin status and names the Subleaders of the Sea Scheme.
After Team Aqua manages to successfully stop the volcanic activity of Mt. Chimney, Archie is attacked by Maxie. Maxie furiously blames Team Aqua for their propaganda and challenges Archie to a battle. Archie agrees, but the battle ends in a tie despite Archie's type advantage. The two leaders stop fighting after realizing that neither team will accomplish their goals when each has an important piece required to awaken their respective super-ancient Pokémon rests. They decide that the best option is a temporary truce so that both teams will head to the Seafloor Cavern together. When Team Aqua and Magma meet, they fit the Submarine Explorer 1 with its heart component and head underwater.
Upon arriving, the teams end their truce and proceed to head their separate ways. Archie manages to awaken Kyogre first, giving the advantage to Team Aqua. Despite this, Kyogre stops moving from where it emerged while Groudon continues expanding its influence over the Hoenn region. Finding this suspicious, Archie assumes it's the work of Maxie and sends Amber to investigate. Amber heads over and discovers that Team Magma secretly had the Red and Blue Orbs, two jewels that can control Groudon and Kyogre. Amber attacks Tabitha and steals the Blue Orbs for Archie. Although Amber asks his leader for help, Archie instead locks the two inside the Submarine Explorer 1 and sends it to the bottom of the sea without the heart component needed to survive the undersea pressure. With the Blue Orb now in his possession, Archie begins to use it to control Kyogre.
The power of the Red and Blue Orbs proves to be too much for Archie and Maxie, who are later possessed by Kyogre and Groudon instead. The two are confronted by and Sapphire, who had arrived to defeat the two villains. Ruby and Sapphire begin battling Archie and Maxie, but note their behavior to be strange. Despite this, Ruby and Sapphire manage to stop Archie and Maxie's movements, leaving them enough time to remove the Orbs from their hands. When Ruby attempts to remove the Orbs from Archie and Maxie, he notices that the Orbs are now stuck to the leaders' hands. The Orbs recede into Archie and Maxie's bodies, fully putting them under the control of Kyogre and Groudon. With their new power, Archie and Maxie take Ruby, Sapphire, and all the Team Aqua and Magma Grunts back to the surface.
They fly to Sootopolis City, where Kyogre and Groudon had gone to finish their battle. The two leaders begin fighting together their respective super-ancient Pokémon. Archie and Maxie are finally defeated when Ruby and Sapphire use a piece of the Grand Meteor combined with their Pokémon's attacks to force the Red and Blue Orbs out of Archie and Maxie's bodies. The plan works, but it causes the Orbs to move to Ruby and Sapphire's bodies and creates an explosion that sends them flying.
Sometime later, Ruby returns and teams up with Courtney to stop Kyogre and Groudon once and for all. Their plan fails, and a hidden Archie kills Courtney by dragging her into a collapsing Cave of Origin. After Kyogre and Groudon are successfully defeated with the assistance of and Norman, Archie and Maxie reveal themselves and attempt to kill Ruby to take back the Orbs and awaken Kyogre and Groudon again. They are approached by the Champion Wallace, who attacks the two leaders to rescue Ruby. Wallace is forced to give up when Archie and Maxie reveal they are keeping Winona hostage, leaving him open to be attacked and defeated.
Victorious, Archie and Maxie gloat over the heroes' defeat only to be interrupted by the appearance of Ruby's , Feefee. Feefee attempts to stop Archie and Maxie, but is easily swatted away. Archie and Maxie begin beating Feefee and insult her ragged appearance. Seeing this angers Ruby, who states that Feefee possesses beauty on the inside even if her outside is ugly. This change in hear allows Feefee to evolve into a . Ruby and Feefee team up with Sapphire to battle and finally defeat Archie and Maxie's Pokémon. Archie and Maxie still refuse to give up and escape with the Orbs in Wallace's aircar. By powering up their and with the New Mauville generator, Ruby and Sapphire finish Archie and Maxie off by trapping them in a dome of electricity.
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It is revealed that Archie and Maxie were rescued from the electrical sphere by Sird. Sird reveals that Archie and Maxie's bodies are breaking down due to the effect of letting Kyogre and Groudon possess them. She offers a suit of armor to one of the villains that can slow down the process of their decaying, but only to whomever defeats the other in battle. Archie manages to defeat Maxie and wins the armor, this becoming the armored man, Guile Hideout.
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Archie is revealed to still be alive. Along with Maxie, Archie travels to the Kanto region, where they find , who had obtained the shattered remains of the Red and Blue Orbs from Team Rocket in the . They attack Bill and steal the shards from him, which have now regenerated back into their original forms as Orbs. They steal Bill's boat and use it to travel back to the Hoenn region. Upon arriving, Archie and Maxie are approached by and , two Kanto Pokédex holders that are friends with Bill. Red and Green attack Maxie and Archie to avenge their injured friend and retrieve the stolen Orbs. To combat their opponents, Archie and Maxie reveal they have learned to use Mega Evolution and use it to face the two Pokédex holders, who counter with their own Mega-Evolved Pokémon.
The battle is interrupted by Amber and Blaise. Although Blaise finds the new appearance of their leaders suspicious, Amber reveals that they summoned Kyogre and Groudon from their resting places with the power of . Immediately after, Kyogre and Groudon appear, having followed the presence of the Orbs. Archie and Maxie use the Orbs to revert Kyogre and Groudon into their Primal forms, greatly increasing their power to the point where they easily defeat Red and Green. Kyogre and Groudon's rampage is interrupted by Ruby and , who attempt to fight the super-ancient Pokémon but are unable to damage them. Archie and Maxie use Kyogre and Groudon to easily blast Ruby and Emerald out of the sky, easily defeating them. With their opponents on the ground, Archie and Maxie gloat over their victory and reveal that their return is all for the sake of saving the planet from the meteoroid threatening to destroy it.
Later, at the Meteor Village, Archie trains alongside Maxie in order to teach Kyogre . They were given a training space by the village , who agreed to help in their attempt to stop the meteoroid. After a day, Archie and Maxie finish their training and exit their training space. Just as they do so, Rayquaza sees Kyogre and Groudon through Hoopa's ring and attempts to attack by flying towards the ring. The experience scares Hoopa, causing it to accidentally send Rayquaza to another ring connecting the village to . Archie and Maxie chase after Rayquaza and arrive at Route 120 by forcing their way through Hoopa's ring. They decide to test the moves Kyogre and Groudon learned on Rayquaza, but are interrupted by chunks of the meteoroid falling down on them. To destroy the chunks, Archie, Maxie, Ruby, and Sapphire combine the powers of Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon and Rayquaza into a single attack.
As the three super-ancient Pokémon's attack struggles to destroy the meteoroid chunk, Archie and Maxie's bodies run out of energy and begin to break down. The combined attack eventually breaks the meteoroid chunk into pieces, which fall onto Kyogre and Groudon, knocking them out. After watching from afar, Amber and Blaise go down to see if their leaders are safe, only to find them both in the process of fading away. Archie and Maxie explain to the two that after their "deaths", their spirits ended up in another world, where they at one point melded together and became one. After a hole to the real world was opened, an unknown voice called out to them, asking to protect the planet. After escaping from the world, they regained their bodies, albeit slightly different, gained Mega Evolution, and stole the orbs from Bill in order to save the planet from destruction. Just as they disappear completely, Archie and Maxie ask their subordinates to protect the planet.
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In High-tailing It from Haunter, Archie was briefly seen when the Advanced level Grunt was talking to about the past accomplishments of the Pokédex holders.
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==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Archie or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* In , the battles Archie only once, while Maxie is fought three times.
* In , Archie's height is 5'9" (1.75m); the guide that contains his concept art mistakenly says he is 5'7" (1.7m).
* Some of Archie's lines in Pokémon Sapphire are the same as Maxie's lines in Pokémon Ruby.
* Pokémon Sapphire contains unused Trainer data for Archie in which he has only a level 17 and a level 17 and is carrying two Super Potions.
* In Omega Ruby, a at the Team Magma Hideout mentions that Archie and Maxie used to be on the same team once.
* In Alpha Sapphire, Shelly's room at the Team Aqua Hideout contains a picture of Archie and Shelly as children with , making Archie the only villainous team leader known to have met a Mythical Pokémon.
* Although Archie in is based on his design in Generation III, his dialogue is based on his quotes in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
* In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, a portrait of a man who resembles Archie is found within houses at the Pearl Clan settlement. The relationship between the two, if any, is unknown.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	アオギリ Aogiri 	From 梧桐 aogiri (), 青 ao (blue), and aqua (Latin for water)
English 	Archie 	From aqua and possibly arch- (prefix for highest)
German 	Adrian 	From aqua and possibly Adriatische Meer ()
Spanish 	Aquiles 	From aqua and possibly Aquiles (, a hero in Greek mythology who was dipped in the mythical river )
French 	Arthur 	From aqua
Italian 	Ivan 	From the prefix idro- (hydro-) and navi (ships) spelled backwards
Korean 	아강 Agang 	From aqua and 강 (江) gang (large river) or 강 (舡) gang (boat)
Chinese ()	水梧桐 Shuǐwútóng 	From 水 shuǐ / séui (water) and 梧桐 wútóng / ǹghtùhng (Chinese parasol tree)
Chinese ()	水梧桐 Séuiǹghtùhng 	From 水 shuǐ / séui (water) and 梧桐 wútóng / ǹghtùhng (Chinese parasol tree)
Russian 	Арчи Archi 	Transcription of his English name
Vietnamese	Aogiri 	Transcription of his Japanese name
Aqua Leader
==References==
==Related articles==
* Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
* Guile Hideout
* Magma Leader Maxie
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