Eevee brothers

:Rainer redirects here. For the glitch Pokémon often mistakenly called Rainer, see PokéWTrainer. For the supposed PokéGod, see PokéGods.
The Eevee brothers are four Pokémon Trainers from ; the signature of the three eldest are the Eeveelutions that existed at the time. They made their appearance as characters of the day in The Battling Eevee Brothers.
Rainer, Sparky, and Pyro appear to be the same age, possibly triplets. Mikey is noticeably younger than them.
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
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In The Battling Eevee Brothers, and came across an tied to a tree and noticed its collar has an address on it, and soon arrived at Stone Town to return the Eevee. They located the Eevee Brothers' mansion, where they were hosting an Evolution stone party.
Sparky, Rainer and Pyro were glad to see Eevee returned, though Eevee's Mikey wasn't. Mikey explained to that his older brothers were throwing the Evolution party to force him to evolve Eevee. The brothers believed that evolution was the only way to make a Pokémon strong, and they also tried to convince and to evolve their and , but both refused.
 crashed the party, taking the party food, stones and the Pokémon. Thanks to Misty's Horsea using its ink, the group and the Eevee Brothers followed the trail. The brothers used their Pokémon to battle Team Rocket, but and defeated them. Eevee was returned to Mikey, and together they defeated Team Rocket. Mikey's victory earned his brothers' respect, and they supported his wish to become an Eevee Trainer.
=====Sparky=====
Sparky (Japanese: ライゾウ Raizō) has golden hair styled in tall spikes. His signature Pokémon is . He boasts it is the best because when angered, its fur becomes sharp as needles which it can launch at the opponent using .
=====Rainer=====
Rainer (Japanese: ミズキ Mizuki) has dark blue hair styled to look like fins. His signature Pokémon is . He boasts it is the best because it can melt into water and disappear by using .
=====Pyro=====
Pyro (Japanese: アツシ Atsushi) has red hair styled to look like flames. His signature Pokémon is . He boasts it is the best because of the powerful flames of .
=====Mikey=====
Mikey (Japanese: タイチ Taichi) has plain brown hair with bangs shaped to resemble an Eevee's fur collar. He owns an unevolved .
====Voice actors====
==In the manga==
===The Electric Tale of Pikachu===
Rainer, Pyro, and Sparky—along with Mikey—appear in To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That is the Question!. Rainer, Pyro, and Sparky are members of a fellowship named the Knights of the E Stone. To join, members are required to own at least one Pokémon which was evolved by means of an Evolution stone. Joining The Knights of The E Stone is a family tradition which the brothers have upheld, and they pressure Mikey to evolve his so that he may join, too.
With 's help, Mikey's Eevee and defeat all three brothers to earn Mikey the right to join the fellowship without evolving his Eevee.
The brothers are shown to have a playful side in the manga as well, teasing Mikey about being his "girlfriend" and disappearing in a cloud of smoke when they leave the room.
According to this canon, Rainer is the oldest of the brothers, followed by Pyro and then Sparky.
====Pokémon====
==Trivia==
* Sparky has the same voice actor in the English, Japanese, , , and dubs as Chopper; and Rainer has the same voice actor in both English and Japanese as both Ghali and Pete Pebbleman.
* This was not the only group of siblings training Eeveelutions to appear in . When and his friends went to Johto, they met the Kimono Sisters who, like their counterparts in , each trained one of the five Eeveelutions. Unlike the Eevee brothers, though, they had no representation in their family of Eevee itself, unless one counts Sakura's , which later evolved into .
* The name Sparky was used again in Pokémon the Series as the name of Ritchie's Pikachu.
* Oddly, at the time of the episode, Ash, Misty, and Brock each had a Pokémon with them that could evolve via one of the Evolution stones that are used by Eevee to evolve. evolves with the Thunderstone, evolves with the Fire Stone, and evolves with a Water Stone. Pyro and Sparky offer a Fire Stone to Brock and a Thunderstone to Ash in hopes that they will evolve their Pokémon, but Rainer never offers a Water Stone to Misty, most likely because she already has a .
* In Pokémon GO, if an Eevee is nicknamed after one of the Eevee brothers (excluding Mikey), it is guaranteed to evolve into that brother's respective Eeveelution, while usually the form Eevee evolves into is random. This method only works once per Eeveelution, however.
==Related articles==
Category:Kanto characters of the day
Category:Animation characters
Category:Electric Tale of Pikachu characters
Category:Male characters
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