Chuck

Chuck (Japanese: シジマ Shijima) is the Gym Leader of Cianwood City's Gym, officially known as the Cianwood Gym. He specializes in . Chuck gives out the to s who defeat him.
==In the core series games==
Chuck appears in as the Leader of the Cianwood Gym. A Trainer, he is known to spar with his Pokémon to train both them and himself. His in-game title is "His Roaring Fists Do the Talking". Chuck is married, but spends little time with his wife. She isn't too fond of this, and spends her time standing outside the Gym, perhaps waiting in hope that he will come home.
Chuck's Gym is very different between the two generations it has appeared in. In Generation II, once challengers have made their way through his Gym, Chuck will attempt to intimidate them before battle by telling how his Pokémon "will crush stones and shatter bones." He lifts and tosses a boulder prior to accepting the challenge. In Generation IV, Chuck awaits his challengers underneath a large waterfall. He will not notice the approach him until the water under which he has been meditating stops flowing.
Chuck enjoys a good battle, but after losing he vows to train 24 hours a day. After he is defeated, his wife will give the player , which the successful Trainer will now be able to use outside of battle. She also comments that she is grateful that her husband would be doing more training, since he was getting "a little chubby". In addition to the , Chuck awards TM01 (which is in Generation II or in Generation IV).
Chuck can be found in his Gym most of the time, but on Sundays the player can have their picture taken with him in the northwestern corner of (just south of where the White Flute is found). Because of his punishing training schedule, his phone number can be obtained not from him, but from his wife. If the player calls him on a Wednesday night, Chuck will travel to Saffron City to battle with an enhanced team in the Fighting Dojo.
Chuck also appears in , taking part in the Pokémon World Tournament. He can be faced in the Johto Leaders, Type Expert, and World Leaders Tournaments.
===Pokémon===
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Chuck has a Full Heal.
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=====Pokémon World Tournament=====
Chuck uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles, and all six in Triple Battles. Chuck will always lead with his signature Pokémon, .
======Johto Leaders Tournament======
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
Chuck appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only time he can be fought using Pokémon not of the ; his second six-Pokémon team in this game is actually composed of only two Fighting-type Pokémon. However, all his Pokémon in both rounds know , a move and the TM that he gives out in Generation II.
During the game's end credits, he is seen having a battle with Bruno.
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=====Round 1=====
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Puzzle Challenge===
Chuck appears as an opponent in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. He uses a to battle.
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Chuck forms a sync pair with in Pokémon Masters EX. Chuck became a playable sync pair on September 14, 2024.
Chuck debuted as an NPC during the solo event Strongest Fighters.
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==Gallery==
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==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
====History====
=====Pre-series=====
As revealed in Octo-Gridlock at the Gym!, Chuck once traveled to the Galar region to study Galar karate, where he met a young Bea, who was the daughter of one of the karate teachers.
In addition to being the Cianwood City Gym Leader, Chuck takes on students and trains them to handle Pokémon. Kiyo and Brawly, Dewford Island's Gym Leader and another Fighting-type specialist, both studied under Chuck.
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Chuck debuted in Machoke, Machoke Man!. and first noticed Chuck as he sparred alongside his on a Cianwood beach. The group rushed to his side after they witnessed him being thrown by Machoke, though Chuck was unfazed and had them march to the Cianwood Gym before officially introducing himself as the Gym Leader.
After a meal, Chuck agreed to a Gym against Ash. He sent out his , and it quickly defeated in the first round. Ash next used , who defeated both Poliwrath and Machoke with her and attacks, earning him the .
After defeating Chuck, Ash was planning on challenging Olivine Gym's Jasmine, but Janina informed him that Jasmine was still not up to battling because of her concerns for Sparkle. Chuck recommended that Ash and his friends visit the nearby Whirl Islands, and even gave them a card to pay for their ship fares. The following day, the group boarded a ship destined for the Whirl Islands. Chuck and his wife waved goodbye to them from a Cianwood pier.
He reappeared in a flashback in Why? Wynaut!.
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Chuck reappeared in a flashback in Brave the Wave, when Brawly revealed he was one of his students. Chuck reappeared in another flashback in Wheel of Frontier, where Scott revealed that Chuck and Brawly were Greta's idols.
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Chuck, now wearing his attire, reappeared in Octo-Gridlock at the Gym!. He was having a training battle with Bea and her with his Poliwrath in a training match, when Ash visited his Gym for a World Coronation Series rematch against Bea. Chuck, recognizing Ash from their Gym battle, watched the match from the sidelines alongside Goh. Afterwards he prepared a dessert picnic to commemorate the draw result.
====Character====
Chuck actively trains with his Pokémon and uses himself as a decoy to test their strengths. He pushes them to perform their best and feeds them enormous amounts of power food to maintain their muscle. Chuck has raised his Pokémon to be focused and calm, making them tough opponents in .
Even though he is a master, Chuck gets tired easily due to his body shape. His wife repeatedly makes fun of him for this. He is also optimistic and burning with enthusiasm. In addition, Chuck has a tendency to break out into tears whenever he is overjoyed with his Pokémon and their progress.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Chuck's known in :
====Voice actors====
===GOTCHA!===
Chuck briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Chuck is a martial arts master.
====History====
=====Prior to =====
Chuck trained in the ways of fighting and Pokémon training when he was a child.
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Chuck debuts in Scrappy Skarmory, where he is waiting for his friend to arrive so that they could battle each other. When Walker fails to show up, Chuck heads back outside to find his training equipment torn to shreds. The cause is revealed to be the Legendary Pokémon , which Walker is currently fighting against. They team up to fight Suicune and attempt to capture it, but they fail and Suicune manages to escape.
At the Indigo Plateau, Chuck arrives with his fellow Johto Gym Leaders to take place exhibition tournament for the Pokémon League against the Kanto Gym Leaders. In the sixth round, he faces off against his former student, Blue. Using the methods his teacher taught him, Blue defeats Chuck and gains another win for the Kanto Gym Leaders. When the Masked Man attacks the Pokémon League, Chuck and the other Gym Leaders combat his army of mind-controlled s. The fight takes them to the Magnet Train, which is used as a diversion to get the Gym Leaders away from the stadium. After the Masked Man is defeated, Chuck returned to his usual duties of being a Gym Leader.
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Chuck, along with Bugsy and Falkner, is asked by Morty to guard the Ecruteak Gym from suspicious people asking to use Morty's clairvoyance. When arrives to see Morty under Eusine's recommendation, the Gym Leaders mistake him for another suspicious person and stop his attempts to advance. Having no time to talk, Silver opts to battle the Gym Leaders and force his way inside. When Chuck's realizes that Silver's Rhyperior is actually the evolved form of Blue's , Silver reveals that he is actually a friend of Blue. Hearing this makes Chuck decide to trust Silver and allow him inside the Gym. The meeting is cut short by the sudden appearance of , who lands in front of the Ecruteak Gym and destroys it with a single blast. Falkner, Bugsy, and Chuck are caught in the blast and knocked unconscious.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Chuck's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
=====At Cianwood Gym=====
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
Chuck first appeared in The Secret Of The Fighting Type Pokémon, where and met him while searching for the medicine needed to heal the sick Ampharos in Olivine City. After Chuck was injured in an accident, he offered to give them the last existing sample of the medicine if Gold served as a temporary Gym Leader of the Cianwood Gym for a while. After Gold had defeated his rival in a Gym battle, Chuck gave him the medicine.
In Let's Fight For The Future!!, after Black had unsealed the Black Tyranitar, which proceeded to then destroy the Cianwood Gym, Chuck joined in confronting the destructive monster.
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===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
Chuck appears in Defeat Chuck Style Martial Arts!! where he is considered a karate master. After witnesses his strength with lifting cars, he has a Gym battle with Chuck.
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==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Chuck or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* His Japanese Leader title is .
* In Generation II, both Chuck and Pryce's weakest Pokémon are at the same level, level 27.
* In Generation IV, Chuck will appear in two places: Cianwood Gym and Fighting Dojo at the same time, when the player calls him for rematch on Wednesday night.
* Chuck has an illegal Sandslash in Round 2 of Pokémon Stadium 2: is an Egg Move in , while is a Generation I TM.
* The player can skip Chuck until after Pryce, as Team Rocket will not take over the Goldenrod Radio Tower until the player has seven Badges.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	シジマ Shijima 	From 'Shijima' (a cultivar of Haworthia), 黙 shijima (silence), and 四島 shijima (four islands)
English 	Chuck 	From chuck (to throw), , and possibly a reference to martial artist
English 	Fergus 	From , a name of Gaelic origin meaning "the strong one"
German 	Hartwig 	From Hart (hard)
Spanish 	Aníbal 	From , a general
French, Brazilian Portuguese	Chuck 	From his English name
Italian 	Furio 	From furioso (furious)
Korean 	사도 Sado 	From the hanja reading of the Japanese name 四島 Shijima and 싸우다 ssauda (to fight)
Russian 	Чак Chak 	From Chuck
Chinese () 	阿四 Ā Sì 	From the partial derivation of the Japanese name 四島 Shijima
Chinese () 	阿皿 Ā Mǐn阿蜜 Ā Mì 	Misreading of the character 四Mix-up with Jasmine's Chinese name
Chinese () 	阿四 A Sei 	From the partial derivation of the Japanese name 四島 Shijima
Thai 	ชิจิม่า Shijima 	Transcription of his Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Shijima 	Transcription of his Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
Category:Animation characters
Category:Manga characters
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal characters
Category:HeartGold and SoulSilver characters
Category:Black 2 and White 2 characters
Category:Stadium 2 characters
Category:Gym Leaders
Category:Fighting-type Trainers
Category:Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys characters
Category:Pokémon Pocket Monsters characters
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