Viren

Viren (Japanese: ブルガン Bourgain) is a recurring character in . He is the president of Rainbow Happy Resorts (Japanese: レインボーハッピーリゾートカンパニー Rainbow Happy Resort Company) and the leader of the Revengers. He first appeared in The Young Flame Strikes Back!.
==History==
Viren debuted in The Young Flame Strikes Back!, where he arrived at Paniola Ranch, keen to buy the area and turn it into a resort hotel. After and his family declined his offer to purchase their ranch, he began to harass them, which infuriated Kiawe. As a result, Kiawe challenged him to a , but Kiawe's unsuccessful attempt at using a Z-Move with gave Viren the win.
Viren returned the next day and had a rematch against Kiawe, but was defeated. Despite this, Viren refused to acknowledge defeat and called for his henchmen who arrived in digger trucks, ready to destroy the ranch, even when Kiawe, his family, and friends stood their ground, he wasn't fazed and told his henchmen to knock them aside. But unfortunately for Viren, Officer Jenny arrived with a warrant for his arrest, the charge against him being forging land ownership documents, with additional charges of trespassing and malicious destruction of property (both legal and private). Viren and his henchmen tried to flee, but they were thwarted by police cars and subdued by Officer Jenny's before being taken away.
In A Young Royal Flame Ignites!, Viren tried to buy out the Battle Royal Dome using the Revengers. When the Revengers were defeated by and the , he attempted to challenge the masked fighters himself with his , but and swiftly sent Pangoro flying out of the ring and into its Trainer, knocking them both out.
In The Long Vault Home!, Ash encountered Viren as he was overseeing the construction of a resort known as Viren Tower (Japanese: ブルガンタワー Bourgain Tower). Two days later, the Ultra Beast made its way into the construction site, forcing the Ultra Guardians to come and investigate the area, much to Viren's annoyance. Viren, mistaking the Rampart Pokémon for a statue stand, glued a golden statue of himself onto Stakataka, causing it to go berserk in an attempt to get the statue off. The Ultra Guardians attempted to help it out, but Viren briefly got in their way. Eventually, with the assistance of Kiawe's , Ash made it on top of Stakataka and had his knock the statue off, calming it down. Though the Ultra Guardians succeeded in capturing Stakataka, Viren's statue was damaged, resulting in him deciding to call off the resort's construction in favor of a baseball stadium known as Viren Stadium with its own team instead.
By the time of Living on the Cutting Edge!, the Viren Stadium and Viren Tower were completed. As a result, he and his henchmen began practicing for the inauguration ceremony of the stadium, only for a to slice the golden statue of himself in half. He later appeared on a shopping channel called Viren Shopping Network (Japanese: ブルガンショッピング Bourgain Shopping), which was broadcast from Viren Tower. He presented the Viren Steal-Proof Safe (Japanese: ブルブルガンガン金庫 Bling Bling Gold Safe), a product he described as completely indestructible. He had his and Pangoro attack the safe, inflicting no damage on it. However, Kartana appeared again and effortlessly sliced through the safe. Viren confronted Kartana with Electivire and Pangoro and demanded that it own up to its actions, but it sliced a hole in Viren Tower and escaped.
In Battle Royal 151!, Viren watched Mr. Electric and Mad Magmar as they participated in the Battle Royal preliminary round of the Manalo Conference, urging them to defeat Kiawe. However, they were promptly defeated by Kiawe's Turtonator.
==Character==
Viren is a greedy, egotistical man who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, regardless of how unethical or even illegal his plans are. In his first appearance, after his proposal to purchase 's family's ranch was refused, he sent his henchmen to harass them and ultimately forged land ownership documents, an act that led to his arrest. He was even willing to harm children, shown when he ordered his Electivire to use on Mimo. His greed and corruption was not lessened by his arrest, as he tried to take over the Battle Royal Dome after he was released from jail, doing so by sending the Revengers to defeat the by cheating in the Battle Royal. He refused to give up on this plan even when all of the Revengers had been beaten, trying to fight with his own Pangoro, and had to be personally defeated again.
He seems to take pride in being a cheater and a deceitful person. For example, when he revealed that he was the Revengers' boss and the audience started to boo him, he simply stated that their booing was more like cheering to him. In addition, he is shown to be a hypocrite, getting mad at Kiawe and for interfering with a match to free the Masked Royal's Incineroar from the Revengers' Pokémon, even though the team he leads resorted to the same tactic themselves. He is a sore loser, which was first shown in his debut, when Kiawe defeated him in a battle; Viren refused to acknowledge his loss and went on with his plan to demolish the ranch, only to be stopped by Officer Jenny. This was shown again in his second appearance, when two of the Revengers' Pokémon were defeated, he sent the Revengers and their other Pokémon to gang up on Torracat. Even when they were all defeated by Incineroar's Malicious Moonsault, he still persisted, sending out his Pangoro to fight.
Even when his business plans supposedly do not involve corrupt or illegal actions, he shows incredibly high vanity. He planned to build a large golden statue of an athletic version of himself as the centerpiece of a hotel he had under construction, and when the statue became attached to the top of a , Viren interfered with the Ultra Guardians' work in an attempt to protect the statue from sustaining damage.
==Pokémon==
This listing is of Viren's known in :
==Voice actors==
==Trivia==
* Viren's appearance resembles his main Pokémon, .
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ブルガン Bourgain 	From エレキブル Elekible (Electivire) and
English, Italian, Spanish	Viren 	From Electivire
French 	Kablo 	From Élekable (Electivire)
German 	Tecko 	From Elevoltek (Electivire)
Chinese () 	布魯根 Bùlǔgēn 	Transliteration of his Japanese name
Brazilian Portuguese 	Victor 	Similar to his English name
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