Tim Goodman

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Tim Goodman (Japanese: ティム・グッドマン Tim Goodman) is the player character in the game and its sequel Detective Pikachu Returns, and one of the protagonists of . He is the partner of , and the only one who can understand Pikachu's words.
==In the games==
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Tim is a young man who has talent as a detective. Prior to the events of the game, he passed the admissions test to attend in the fall.
Tim arrives in Ryme City to look for his father, Harry Goodman, who had disappeared in a car accident two months prior. He soon meets , a Pikachu who speaks like a human; however, no one else seems to be able to understand him. He teams up with Pikachu to retrieve a necklace that stole from a little girl.
After retrieving the necklace, Detective Pikachu brings Tim to the Baker Detective Agency, where his father used to consult. Tim asks the head of the agency, Mike Baker, about his dad's disappearance, but all Mr. Baker will say is that Harry got into a car accident while investigating a case involving Pokémon. Tim decides to go to his father's apartment to look for more clues, and Pikachu tags along - after all, he wants to find Harry, too. At the apartment, they find a map marking all the locations Tim's father had been investigating and decide to visit one of them - a place called Litwick Cave.
In the cave, they meet Meiko Okamoto and Emilia Christie, two women who work for the news station GNN. The pair are being attacked by a wild , and Tim and Pikachu work together to drive the Glalie away. Unfortunately, the entrance to the cave collapses in the ruckus, forcing them to look for another way out. With the help of a wild , Tim and the others manage to escape the cave.
After escaping, Pikachu reveals that he found a vial on the floor of the cave that might be connected to the case somehow. Tim and Pikachu decide they need to figure out where it came from. They decide to investigate PCL, the research facility that it seemed Harry had been visiting before the accident. Tim gets a part-time job as an assistant at PCL, using the pseudonym Tim Ottman, so he and Pikachu can investigate the facility. They eventually find the same type of vial that Pikachu found in the cave, confirming that it came from someone at this facility. While trying to determine who exactly the vial came from, they discover that it was being used as a container for a substance called R which causes Pokémon to go berserk when ingested. They learn that the researcher who was making R, Carlos Hernando, worked for the man who had Harry's car tampered with because he knew too much, which caused the car accident. Carlos is arrested, but they know that there's still someone out there who bought R from Carlos and caused Harry to go missing.
===Detective Pikachu Returns===
After living in Ryme City for two years, Tim and Pikachu have become rather famous for their crime-solving work. Mayor Howard Myers gives them medals in honor of all the work they've done to help the people of Ryme City, as part of Pokémon Friendship Week. A wild disrupts the ceremony by stealing Pikachu's hat, so Tim and Pikachu work together to retrieve it - and help a Pidove that was injured in the attack along the way. 
===Personality and characteristics===
Tim is exceptionally compassionate, taking the time to help virtually every person and Pokémon he meets. Even after meeting him only a couple times, Emilia and Meiko are confident that he would never hurt a Pokémon. He is strongly self-motivated to find his father. He is observant and persistent, qualities that are very useful in his investigations. However, his persistence also causes him to be a bit reckless in his decision-making.
He comes from someplace far away from Ryme City. His hometown does not have any , but it does have .
===Voice actors===
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===Artwork===
 	
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==In animation==
===Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan===
Tim appears in the animated short Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan. His flan goes missing while he is on his morning run, and he blames for eating it. Pikachu insists he didn't eat it, though, so the two work together to solve the mystery of what really happened to the flan. After Tim comes up with the idea to check the video footage Pikachu had been taking of his morning routine, Pikachu deduces that the culprit is a wild that had gotten mixed up in the fruit they bought at the store.
====Voice actors====
==In the movie==
Tim Goodman is one of the protagonists of .
Tim was once an aspiring Pokémon Trainer, but in his own words, it "didn't really work out". Haunted by painful memories, Tim feels that he does not need a Pokémon partner. While in Ryme City, at the home of his missing father Harry, Tim meets Detective Pikachu and, after discovering a mysterious ability to communicate with him, reluctantly teams up with him to find Harry, eventually joining forces with a journalist named Lucy Stevens and her partner .
===Voice actors===
==In other languages==
==References==
==Related articles==
Category:Movie characters
Category:Detective Pikachu characters
Category:Detective Pikachu Returns characters
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