Janine

Janine (Japanese: アンズ Anzu) is the Gym Leader of Fuchsia City's Gym, known officially as the Fuchsia Gym. She became a Gym Leader after her father, Koga, was promoted to the Elite Four in Generation II. She specializes in . She gives the to s who defeat her in .
==Terminology==
In the English version of , her name is mistakenly listed as Charine in one of Koga's Fame Checker entries.
In the Japanese, French, German, and Spanish versions of FireRed and LeafGreen, she is correctly referred to using Janine's name in each language. However, in the Italian version, she is known as "Carine", based on English "Charine", instead of her Italian name "Nina".
==In the core series games==
Janine's first appearance was in . Following Koga's promotion to the Elite Four, she succeeded him as the Gym Leader of the Fuchsia Gym. Like her father, she is known as "The Poisonous Ninja Master", and uses Pokémon in battle. She appears in the same capacity in .
Originally, Janine's goal was to use Pokémon just as well as her father. After becoming a Gym Leader, Janine hopes that by applying herself, she'll improve her skills and become better than both her father and (following her loss) the .
When encountered in her Gym, Janine hides behind the invisible walls that were installed prior to Generation I/. To further confuse her challengers, the junior Trainers of the Gym are disguised like Janine. Once they have been defeated, the Leader will battle with a team of Poison-type Pokémon. Once defeated, she will yield the and a Poison-type TM: in Generation II; in Generation IV.
Like the other Gym Leaders of Kanto and Johto, Janine will leave her Gym from time to time in HeartGold and SoulSilver. Every evening between 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM, she can be found at the Pokémon League Reception Gate near , on her way to visit her father and deliver his lunch (from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, she will say she is done delivering the lunch and offer to take a photograph with the ). She will give travelers her phone number, after which she can be called on Monday afternoons to arrange a rematch at Saffron City's Fighting Dojo. On Mondays, she can be found in the Celadon Department Store arguing with Falkner over which of their fathers is the superior Trainer.
Before the events that led to her employment as the Gym Leader, Janine could be seen outside the Fuchsia Zoo. In , she can be found there after the player enters the Hall of Fame. She tells the player that Koga is teaching her how to use Poison Pokémon, in a reference to the previously released Generation II games.
In , Janine appears alongside the other Gym Leaders of Kanto as an opponent in the Kanto Leaders Tournament at the Pokémon World Tournament. She also participates alongside the Gym Leaders of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova in the World Leaders Tournament, and other Poison-type experts in the Poison Type Expert Tournament.
===Pokémon===
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Janine has a Dire Hit.
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=====Pokémon World Tournament=====
Janine uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles, and all six in Triple Battles. Janine will always lead with her signature Pokémon, .
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
Janine appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Kanto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only time in which her active team contains Pokémon not of the Poison-type. Despite this, all her Pokémon in Round 1 know , a move and the TM she gives in the Generation II games. Her strategy revolves around inflicting as many status conditions on the opponent as possible to keep them immobilized as gradually saps away their HP.
During the game's end credits, Janine is seen having a battle with her father Koga at the Fuchsia Gym.
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Janine forms sync pairs with and in Pokémon Masters EX. Janine became a playable sync pair since the game's release.
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==Gallery==
===Artwork===
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===GOTCHA!===
Janine briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Janine debuted in Crossing Crobat. She was first seen on a mission where she helped test the security of Museum by pretending to steal a Big Pearl. After completing the mission, Janine left to ponder what she was doing with her life. Her father, Koga, had served under as both a ninja and a member of Team Rocket. Koga had intended on having Janine join Team Rocket as well when proper time came, but he eventually disappeared after Team Rocket's defeat, leaving Janine alone without anyone to guide her.
Shortly after, Janine was attacked by , the Legendary Pokémon that had been attacking various other Gym Leaders around Johto. Hoping that if she managed to capture it, her father would hear about it and return, Janine faced Suicune in battle. Though she proved to be a powerful opponent with her variety of ninja techniques, Janine was eventually defeated by Suicune. As Suicune began to leave, Janine realized the reason it was challenging the Gym Leaders was to find a proper Trainer who could command in battle. Finding herself to be in a similar situation of not having a master, Janine told Suicune she wished to challenge it again in the future before both went their separate ways.
In Yikes, It's Yanma!, Janine participated in an exhibition tournament between the Kanto and Johto Gym Leaders. During the tournament, she was paired up against Falkner. In Notorious Noctowl, Janine and Falkner began their battle against each other. While both participants used a variety of skills against each other, Janine chose to forfeit the battle in order to pursue what she thought she was her father in the crowd.
In Lugia and Ho-Oh on the Loose, Part 1, Janine joined the Kanto and Johto Gym Leaders in helping fend off the Masked Man's army of mind-controlled s from attacking the Indigo Plateau. As they fought, Janine and the Gym Leaders were led onto the Magnet Train, which the Grunts had used to infiltrate the area. After they got on, the Magnet Train sped away from the area as part of the Masked Man's plot to prevent the Gym Leaders from interfering with his plans. In The Last Battle IX, the Magnet Train was stopped by , preventing it from crashing.
====Pokémon====
===Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure===
Janine appeared as a silhouette in JBA5 alongside her and the other Kanto Gym Leaders.
====Pokémon====
This is a listing of Janine's known Pokémon in the Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure manga:
==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Janine or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* In , Janine's Pokémon are the lowest leveled of all the Kanto Gym Leaders. This may reflect her status as the newest Gym Leader.
* In HeartGold and SoulSilver, Janine can appear in two places at once. When she is called for a rematch on Monday during the day, she will be at the Fighting Dojo and in the Celadon Department Store, talking to Falkner.
* In the Generation II games, Janine's whole team is the opposite gender to her, despite the 50-50 gender ratio. This was changed in HeartGold and SoulSilver, in which she has an all-female team rather than an all male team like before.
* In the English versions of the Generation II games, there is a grammatical error in the sentence where she gives the Soul Badge to the player. This was corrected in the remakes.
* Janine, along with Erika, are the only Kanto Gym Leaders to give the player a TM upon their defeat in Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
* Janine is the only Gym Leader from a region where has collected Badges from who has not appeared in the , not counting , who has an animated series counterpart in .
** She is also the only Gym Leader to have debuted in a different generation than their Gym.
* Janine has an illegal in . The Crobat she uses in the Type Expert and World Leaders Tournaments knows and , both of which it can learn by , but not simultaneously, as there is no Pokémon in the same Egg Group as Crobat that can learn both of these moves.
* Janine and Koga are the only two Gym Leaders to have the same slogan in different generations.
* While Janine doesn't appear and is never mentioned by name in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Koga does mention his daughter in his pre-battle dialogue from the second rematch onward.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	アンズ Anzu 	From 杏 anzu (), corresponding to her father's name being derived from the character's Sino-Japanese reading kyō
English, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese	Janine 	From ninja with the syllables reversed
German 	Janina 	From Ninja
Spanish 	Sachiko 	From , a common feminine Japanese name
French 	Jeannine 	From ninja
Italian 	Nina 	From ninja
Korean 	도희 Dohui 	From 독 (毒) dok (poison)
Chinese () 	阿杏 Ā Xìng 	From 杏 xìng / hahng (apricot)
Chinese () 	阿杏 Ā Hahng 	From 杏 xìng / hahng (apricot)
Thai 	อันสึ Ansue 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Anzu 	Transcription of her Japanese name
:Janine's name in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen:
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese, French, German, and Spanish	(the same as her regular name)	(the same as her regular name)
English 	Charine 	
Italian 	Carine 	
==References==
==Related articles==
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Category:Manga characters
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal characters
Category:FireRed and LeafGreen characters
Category:HeartGold and SoulSilver characters
Category:Black 2 and White 2 characters
Category:Stadium 2 characters
Category:Poison-type Trainers
Category:Ninjas
Category:Gym Leaders
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