Professor Cozmo

Professor Takao Cozmo (Japanese: ソライシ・タカオ博士 Dr. Takao Soraishi) is a character in , , . He is a meteoriticist who lives in Fallarbor Town.
==In the games==
Professor Cozmo leaves either with Team Magma or Team Aqua for the Meteor Falls, thinking that they are going to help him excavate meteors. However, the offending team steals the Meteorite, intending to use it to power their machine at Mt. Chimney. In Generation III, after defeating the Grunts and the team's leader, the player can take the Meteorite from the machine and return it to the Professor in exchange for . In Generation VI, the player keeps the Meteorite for themselves after receiving it from the defeated team leader.
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Special Demo Version's first scenario, Takao appears in Mossdeep Space Center, asking for and 's help.
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire proper, notes in Sea Mauville reveal that Takao's father, Raizoh, was a researcher for Greater Mauville Holdings and the Devon Corporation who spent nearly all his time working, apparently causing his marriage to unravel. One of the few things Raizoh had to remind him of his son was a Hi doll the latter had sent to Sea Mauville. The retrieval of that doll proves to be the object of the Sea Mauville sidequest. Takao used to live in , but at some time moved, possibly to . The letters also mention that Takao's father had once given him a , but once it evolved into , Takao was disappointed that it no longer looked like a Meteorite and traded it for a friend's . He also received a telescope from his father.
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire's Delta Episode, Professor Cozmo works at the Mossdeep Space Center to help stop the giant meteoroid that's on a collision course with the planet. After noticing the meteoroid's approach at the beginning of the episode, he enlists the help of Steven Stone and the player in retrieving him Meteorite Shards required to power the device intended to warp the meteoroid somewhere else. However, this plan is ruined when Zinnia, believing the warp hole will just transport the meteoroid into to be its problem, destroys the device, much to Cozmo's shock. Once the player has successfully destroyed the meteoroid with 's help, Cozmo is seen celebrating the good news at the Space Center.
After the Delta Episode, Professor Cozmo can be found at his home in Fallarbor, where will give the player a Galladite. He also mentions that he intends to forward the new information found by the player to Professor Sycamore. Takao mentions he is friends with Sycamore, as the two worked together a few years prior to the events of the game, researching Meteorites at Meteor Falls."I know a man, a dear friend in the Kalos region, who has been researching Mega Evolution. We worked together a few years back here at Meteor Falls researching Meteorites. I'll have to share this information with him at once."
===Pokémon===
====Status unknown====
====Traded away====
==Gallery==
===Core series game assets===
This is a selection of game assets featuring Professor Cozmo from the core series Pokémon games.
 			
 			
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
Professor Cozmo appeared in the episode Fight for the Meteorite!, where met him at Mt. Chimney. Similar to the , Team Magma was trying to get their hands on the Meteorite he had just found there, eventually succeeding in doing so. The Meteorite was placed inside of a machine in an attempt to make the erupt. As Ash was unable to break the Meteorite's container, Professor Cozmo decided to push the whole machine down into the crater instead, choosing to rather lose the Meteorite than let the villainous team possess it. Afterwards, he guided Ash and to take the Jagged Pass down to Lavaridge Town, wishing Ash good luck in his upcoming Gym at the Lavaridge Gym.
====Voice actors====
===Pokémon Generations===
Professor Cozmo briefly appeared in The Scoop, where he noticed Gabby and Ty infiltrating the Mossdeep Space Center in search for information regarding the destruction of the meteoroid that had threatened the planet. Feeling the public was not ready yet to learn of the that had emerged from the destroyed meteoroid, he tried have the reporter duo hand over the information they had uncovered, only for them to run off while chased by security guards.
====Voice actors====
==In the manga==
===Ash & Pikachu===
Professor Cozmo appeared in Two Groups Attacking! Magma VS. Aqua, playing a similar role as in .
===Pokémon Adventures===
In the Chuang Yi translation of the , he is referred to as Professor Starstone. This error is rectified when he appears in a flashback during the .
Cozmo is apparently good friends with Roxanne and was once her teacher.
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Professor Cozmo believed Team Aqua to be noble heroes, so he assisted them with the Meteorite and their device on Mt. Chimney. He was taken hostage by Team Aqua and was locked inside their headquarters shortly after their mission succeeded, and only rescued by Winona and Flannery deep in the weather crisis. Winona took him to the Pokémon Association airship, where he was reunited with his three aides.
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It was revealed in a flashback that Cozmo found the meteor that fell from the sky, which was later a part of Team Aqua's plan. He also discovered two life forms on the meteor, and passed them to Mossdeep Space Center where they were later stolen.
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Cozmo and his three aides confirmed the imminent apocalypse of the planet in ten days by a giant meteor, and later helped out at the Mossdeep Space Center while awaiting the dimensional shifter developed by Devon Corporation. , after ending up inside the rocket on standby at the Mossdeep Space Center through one of 's portals, managed to find her way out of it and handed the dimensional shifter to Cozmo, which he examined to be fully charged. He notified Mr. Stone and of the successful delivery, and also the media's knowledge of the meteor's imminent collision with the planet, causing Mr. Stone and Steven to rush back to Mossdeep from Sea Mauville.
==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Professor Cozmo in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ソライシ・タカオ Dr. Takao Soraishi 	From 空 sora (sky), 石 ishi (rock), and 高い takai (high)
English 	Professor Takao Cozmo 	From and his Japanese name
English 	Prof. Starstone 	From star and stone
German 	Prof. Kevin Kosmo 	From cosmos
Spanish 	Profesor Ícaro CozmoIcarito 	From Ícaro () and his English nameFrom a diminutive of Ícaro
French 	Prof. Hippolyte Kosmo 	From cosmos and
Italian 	Prof. Cosimo Cosmi 	From cosmo (cosmos)
Korean 	공석 Dr. Gongseok 	From 공 (空) gong (sky) and 석 (石) seok (rock)
Chinese ()	索藍斯 / 索蓝斯 Dr. Suǒlánsī 	Rough transcription of his Japanese name
Vietnamese	Giáo sư Soraishi 	Transcription of his Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
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Category:Pokémon Generations characters
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Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
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