Whitney

Whitney (Japanese: アカネ Akane) is the Gym Leader of Goldenrod City's Gym, known officially as the Goldenrod Gym. She hands out the to s who defeat her. She specializes in .
==In the core series games==
Whitney appears in as the Leader of the Goldenrod Gym. She is the third Gym Leader that Trainers must defeat to move further in the game. She is known as "The Incredibly Pretty Girl!".
Whitney uses the , and although she only began battling a little while ago, her talent attracted the Pokémon League to choose her as a Gym Leader. Her Gym is filled with other young girls like herself, who use cute Normal-type Pokémon like , and is shaped like a . While in all challengers have to do to reach Whitney is navigate through the Gym's maze puzzle, Whitney is initially absent from the Gym in . She can be found in Goldenrod's Radio Tower attempting to win a . If the helps her, she will return to the Gym. Despite this act of kindness, she will throw a temper tantrum upon defeat and refuse to give the . A Gym Trainer will tell the player that she will eventually calm down. Once calmed down, however, she will give the player the Badge, and . Apparently, this move is perfect for her because it makes full use of a Pokémon's cuteness.
Like the other Johto and Kanto Gym Leaders, Whitney will leave her Gym from time to time in . Unlike other Leaders, she will not travel far: just down the road to the Goldenrod Department Store any day between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM. She's to the far left of the 6th floor. Once her Pokégear phone number has been obtained, she will accept rematches on Saturday afternoons at the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City. Her team in these battles will be significantly stronger than her team in the initial battles, although her signature will remain in her party.
Like the rest of the Johto Gym Leaders, Whitney reappears in as a possible opponent for the player in the Johto Leaders, Type Expert, and World Leaders Tournaments. According to a man in the Pokémon World Tournament lobby, Whitney loves softball, and the clothes she wears reflect that.
While Whitney does not appear in , she and her can rarely be referenced in the Pokémon Center Cafés when the player purchases Moomoo Milk. It is noted that her Miltank can produce high quality Moomoo Milk.: "You can get Moomoo Milk from Miltank. This is just between you and me, but there's a Gym Leader named Whitney in Goldenrod City with a Miltank. I heard that you can get some real tip-top Moomoo Milk from her Miltank. But I'm actually too lazy to check whether that's true or not, though."
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Whitney uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles, and all six in Triple Battles. Whitney will always lead with her signature Pokémon, .
=====Johto Leaders Tournament=====
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
Whitney makes an appearance in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only game in which she appears and uses Pokémon of a type other than .
During the game's end credits, she is seen having a battle with Misty.
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Puzzle Challenge===
Whitney appears as an opponent in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. She uses a to battle.
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Whitney forms a sync pair with and in Pokémon Masters EX. Whitney became a playable sync pair since the game's release.
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
====History====
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Whitney debuted in A Goldenrod Opportunity, where she ran up to Ash's Pikachu after he bumped into her . She took care of Pikachu by kissing him on the head, much to his amusement. Whitney took and to the Goldenrod Galleria via a shortcut through the Underground Path. However, they stumbled across many areas that they didn't want to go to. After a while, they went to a restaurant to eat some hamburgers.
Later, Whitney encountered and they stole her Clefairy. The trio was chased down to the Magnet Train Station. They got on the Magnet Train but were stopped by Whitney, Ash, and his friends. Team Rocket blasted off with the train, empty-handed. After learning Whitney was the Goldenrod Gym Leader, Ash challenged her to a Gym . She agreed to the challenge and opened the Gym up especially for him, despite it being her day off.
During the match, Ash managed to defeat her first Pokémon, , with his . Whitney forfeited the second round after her Clefairy's turned into a useless attack. Ash, however, was unable to stop her , who constantly used to deflect attacks and knocked out three of his Pokémon in a row.
After Ash's defeat, Whitney invited him and his friends to her uncle Milton's dairy farm, where many Miltank are raised to produce Moomoo Milk. In A Dairy Tale Ending, Ash and his friends spent the day taking care of the farm's Miltank until arrived with a barrel-shaped robot. During his fight against them, Ash came up with a strategy to defeat Miltank and asked Whitney for another match. He used and Cyndaquil to slow Miltank down, then had Pikachu knock her out. Though the match had taken place outside the Gym, Whitney accepted her defeat as official and awarded Ash the .
Whitney reappeared during a flashback in Why? Wynaut!. 
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Whitney reappeared in another flashback along with Morty in Bagged Then Tagged!, when it was revealed that 's next Gym challenge was supposed to be either one of them.
====Character====
Whitney is a sweet but ditzy young lady who easily gets lost in her hometown. She shows a lot of affection towards her own Pokémon and cute ones like Ash's Pikachu.
Whitney's strategy hinges on the increasing strength of her 's almost unstoppable and her 's unpredictable attack, which can sometimes backfire.
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This listing is of Whitney's known in .
====Voice actors====
===GOTCHA!===
Whitney briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Ash & Pikachu===
 battles Whitney for the in The Beginning Of Good Luck?! Pokémon Fortune Telling. Here, Whitney has a grandmother, who runs a fortune-telling booth.
====Pokémon====
This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Ash & Pikachu manga.
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Whitney debuts in Smeargle Smudge, where she is seen at the Goldenrod Radio Tower. She gets into an argument with , who is furious about DJ Mary's having painted on his face while he slept. The argument gets high ratings for the Radio Tower, so Hirō decides to make it a special that will be broadcast over Johto. Whitney and Gold are made to compete against each other in a race from Goldenrod City to . Whitney uses her Pokémon to gain a huge lead, but her path is blocked by a giant tree in the middle of the road. They are soon attacked by a wild , which kidnaps Whitney and takes her away. Gold figures out that the tree was a that had been attacked by the Rhydon and was in hiding. Gold befriends and captures the Sudowoodo, and uses it to defeat Rhydon and rescue Whitney. Afterward, Whitney promises to Gold that the next time they fight, she will come out as the victor.
In Delibird Delivery - 1, Whitney appeared in Professor Elm's fantasy when informing Gold that the Masked Man may be a Gym Leader.
Later, Whitney travels to the Mahogany Gym with DJ Mary, the Radio Tower crew, and the Pokémon Association Director. They plan on entering to warn Pryce about the Legendary Pokémon that has been challenging all the Johto Gym Leaders. They find that Suicune had already been beaten by Pryce and frozen solid, but it quickly breaks out of the ice and attacks. Whitney teams up with Pryce to take down Suicune, but the Pokémon is revealed to only be one of Pryce's ice sculptures.
At the Indigo Plateau, Whitney arrives with her fellow Johto Gym Leaders to participate in the exhibition tournament for the Pokémon League against the Kanto Gym Leaders. In the second round, she faces off against the Cerulean City Gym Leader, Misty. Despite her tenaciousness, Whitney is easily defeated, giving Kanto its first win. When the Masked Man attacks the Pokémon League, Chuck and the other Gym Leaders combat his army of mind-controlled s. The fight takes them to the Magnet Train, which is used as a diversion to get the Gym Leaders away from the stadium. Once the Team Rocket Grunts are defeated, Whitney manages to figure out the Masked Man's true identity. After the Masked Man is defeated, Whitney returns to her usual duties of being a Gym Leader.
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Whitney takes Gold to the newly opened Pokéathlon Dome to compete in the Pokéathlon. She stays behind on the sidelines while Gold proceeds to win all the competitions. When Gold reveals the real reason why he decided to come to the Pokéathlon, Whitney gets angry and attacks Gold for keeping secrets from her. This gets interrupted when an injured belonging to Lance attacks the stadium. After defeating the Dragonite and deciding to hold on to it for safekeeping, Gold says his goodbyes to Whitney. At the end of the ninth chapter, it is revealed that Whitney developed a crush on Bruno and repeatedly sends him snacks as gifts.
====Pokémon====
This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
Whitney first appears in For Pikachu's Sake!! The Search For The Missing Farfetch'd where she tags along with to find a missing . She has a battle with Gold where she sends out her Ditto and Miltank and defeats him. Whitney decides to take away his for the time being as she thought it was a cute Pokémon. She begins traveling with him and follows him on his journey. She watches him when he is fighting his rival at a tournament. Even though Gold was defeated by Black, Black's tactics were ruled unfairly which made Gold the winner. Whitney did not return Pikachu until he defeated her later. Whitney traveled with him up until Let's Fight! The Mini Pokémon Tournament in which she says farewell to him and leaves. Whitney loves cute Pokémon and is very encouraging of Gold as he progresses through his journey.
====Pokémon====
This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga.
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===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
Whitney appears in Fierce Battle Between Clefairy and Clefable. She is a waitress at a restaurant Red and the others go in, which is also a Gym.
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==In the TCG==
Whitney's Pokémon and items were first seen in the TCG in the Pokémon VS expansion. She wouldn't have her own card until the Sun & Moon Lost Thunder expansion, along with a Miltank card from the same expansion featuring the character. Whitney also debuted on some TCG based products, some card sleeves and a deck case that released with alongside the Super-Burst Impact expansion in Japan.
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Whitney or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* Her Japanese Leader title is .
* She is the first Johto Gym Leader encountered that uses a in , which only half of Johto's Gym Leaders do.
* In Generation III, a Whitney lookalike, along with Jasmine and Pryce lookalikes, can be seen as an audience member in a Pokémon Contest.
* In Japanese, Whitney speaks in the , with the being the inspiration for Johto.
* Whitney is the only Gym Leader whose team's movesets do not alter between Generations II and IV, although their levels do.
* In , Whitney does not use any dual-type Pokémon in the Pokémon World Tournament. All of her Pokémon are pure Normal-type. She shares this trait with Cheren, who is also a Normal-type Gym Leader.
* In Pokémon Masters EX, reveals that she first met her at the Moomoo Farm.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	アカネ Akane 	From 茜 akane ()
EnglishBrazilian Portuguese	Whitney 	From white and possibly whiny (a reference to her attitude after losing a battle to the )
German 	Bianka 	From bianca (Italian for white)
Spanish 	Blanca 	From blanca (white)
French 	Blanche 	From blanche (white)
Italian 	Chiara 	From chiaro (bright)
Korean 	꼭두 Kkokdu 	From 꼭두서니 kkokduseoni (madder)
Chinese () 	小茜 Xiǎo Qiàn 	From 茜 qiàn / sin (madder)
Chinese () 	小茜 Síu Sin 	From 茜 qiàn / sin (madder)
Thai 	อาคาเนะ Akane 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Akane 	Transcription of her Japanese name
===Whitney's Pokémon (Adventures)===
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;Buff Buff
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ププたん Puputan 	From ププリン Pupurin (Igglybuff)
English 	Buff Buff 	From Igglybuff
Brazilian Portuguese	Igglynha 	From Igglybuff
Vietnamese 	Puputan 	Transcription of her Japanese name
;Fafa
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ピィたん Pytan 	From ピィ Py (Cleffa)
English 	Fafa 	From Cleffa
Brazilian Portuguese	Cleffinha 	From Cleffa
Vietnamese 	Pytan 	Transcription of her Japanese name
;Smea-Smea
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ドブルくん Doble-kun 	From ドーブル Doble (Smeargle)
English 	Smea-Smea 	From Smeargle
Vietnamese	Doble 	Transcription of Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
Category:Animation characters
Category:Manga characters
Category:Ash & Pikachu characters
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
Category:Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys characters
Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal characters
Category:HeartGold and SoulSilver characters
Category:Black 2 and White 2 characters
Category:Stadium 2 characters
Category:Gym Leaders
Category:Normal-type Trainers
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