Executive (Trainer class)

An Executive or Team Rocket Admin (Japanese: ロケットだんかんぶ Team Rocket Executive) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation II games.
They are the highest-ranked members of Team Rocket after Giovanni, and are the heads of Team Rocket after he abandons the organization. They tend to use a combination of - and .
==In the core series games==
Executive members of Team Rocket have appeared in every game featuring the villainous team since Generation II. 
A Team Rocket member at this rank is referred to as either an Executive or Admin depending on the generation. 
Gen	Games	English 	Japanese
 	 	Rocket Executive 	ロケットだんいんの かんぶ
Team Rocket Executive Member
 	 	Team Rocket Admin	ロケットだんの かんぶ 
Team Rocket Executive
 	 	Executive 	ロケットだんかんぶ
Team Rocket Executive
 	 	Team Rocket Admin	ロケットだんかんぶ
Team Rocket Executive
Similar to s, these Trainers were initially not given unique names. Internally, their Trainer class is Rocket in Generation II, their name being simply Executive, and Team Rocket in Generation III, with their name being Admin. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, they are given proper names, with Executive serving as their Trainer class instead. In Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Archer appears with the Trainer class Team Rocket Admin. In all generations, the Trainer class does not include a gender symbol (♂/♀). 
===Generation II===
In , there are four male executives and one female executive (who is battled twice).The Executives are all unnamed, but the number of distinct Executives can be extrapolated from their parties and where they appear. They battle the player at Team Rocket HQ and Goldenrod Radio Tower.
===Generation III===
In , two unnamed Team Rocket Admins appear in command of the Rocket Warehouse. They seem to be two of the same members who would head Team Rocket in Johto three years later (Ariana and Archer, although they did not have names or distinct identities until Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver).
In the Rocket Warehouse, the female Team Rocket Admin is battled before going into the male administrator's room. She objects that Team Rocket is disbanded, but after a battle, admits that it probably is and as a final act, turns off the floor so that the player can go back and heal. After defeating the male Team Rocket Admin, he sees the player's and realizes that the Viridian City-based Team Rocket has disbanded; he then tells the player that he will find Giovanni and revive Team Rocket.
The Team Rocket Admins are the same people as the Rocket executives in Generations and , as hinted by the similarity in their teams and the male administrator's determination to revive Team Rocket after he is defeated, as well as the information given on the computer screen which the Rocket administrator was working on ("The influence of magnetic waves on Pokémon evolution"). This is linked to what happened in Generations II and IV, when Team Rocket used radio waves to evolve the at Lake of Rage.
===Generation IV===
In , there are four Executives each with distinct names and identities. Their names (Proton, Petrel, Ariana, and Archer) refer to real-life rockets or missiles in all languages—much like Team Galactic's s, who were named after .
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver adjusted the number of distinct Executives relative to Generation II: Proton takes the place of both a Grunt in Slowpoke Well and an Executive in the Radio Tower; and Petrel takes the place of both the Executive in Giovanni's office in the Team Rocket HQ and the Executive disguised as the Radio Director. In both cases, their parties in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver are a combination of the parties of the characters they replaced from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
===Generation VII===
In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Archer is the sole Admin of Team Rocket, being first encountered at the Team Rocket Hideout in Celadon City. He later leads the organization's takeover of the Silph Co. in Saffron City and fights the player and in an attempt to keep them from interfering. During the post-game, he meets the player at the hideout again, informing them of his plans to leave Kanto and someday restore Team Rocket, before leaving to do just that.
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
In Pokémon Stadium 2, two Executives, one male and one female, appear along with a pair of Rocket Grunts, interrupting the player's progress through the Johto Gym Leader Castle after the player has defeated Jasmine. Because their teams contain the distinctive Pokémon Vileplume and Houndoom, they appear to be inspired by two of the admins from .
 	
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==Trainer list==
===Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal===
===Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen===
===Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver===
===Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!===
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
The Iron-Masked Marauder, the main antagonist of Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, is a Team Rocket Executive, known as the master of due to his signature Dark Balls, which corrupt any Pokémon with them into mindless fighting machines. However, his Executive rank is only mentioned in the original Japanese version.
===Pokémon Generations===
Petrel was featured in The Lake of Rage, where he confronted and was defeated by Lance during the latter's raid of the Team Rocket HQ.
==In the manga==
===Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure===
The four Generation IV Executives appear in the Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure manga, fulfilling similar roles as in the games.
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Initially, Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina were Team Rocket's commanders, having abandoned their respective Gyms to work for the evil organization instead.
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After witnessing a battle between and Lance on Cerise Island, realized that he still had a lot to learn and told his three commanders to return to their Gyms.
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Under the Masked Man's leadership, Neo Team Rocket's executives were Sham and Carl, who were based on the Generation II Executive designs.
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In this arc, Archer, Ariana, Petrel, and Proton took over the organization from Carr and searched for and its Plates to accomplish their plan of making Giovanni return to Team Rocket's leadership.
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
 from the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga is based on the male Executive design. His role within the team is based on Archer's.
==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Team Rocket Executives in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* Though Rocket Executives are members of Team Rocket, like s and s, the background theme played when fighting them is the normal Trainer battle theme in . This was rectified in , where all members of Team Rocket-related Trainer classes play the Rocket battle theme.
* In merging multiple Executives together, introduced a plot hole: Petrel is present in both the Goldenrod Radio Tower and the Team Rocket HQ at the same time. When the player first visits Goldenrod City, a guard comments on the Director's changed nature:
:"Sorry. Authorized personnel only beyond this point. It wasn’t that way before. There’s something wrong with the Director…"
==In other languages==
==References==
==Related articles==
Category:Members of Team Rocket
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
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