Squirtle Squad

The Squirtle Squad (Japanese: ゼニガメ団 Zenigame Squad) is a group of who were abandoned by their Trainers. They are easily identifiable by the fact that they all wear sunglasses.
==In animation==
===History===
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They debuted Here Comes the Squirtle Squad, where they wreaked havoc in a small town in Kanto, stealing things, writing graffiti, and causing trouble for travelers in the area. Once they were tricked by of , who made a deal for them to help himself, Jessie and James capture Ash's Pikachu. While chasing it, Pikachu sustained a nasty injury from a . In order to help Pikachu recover, convinced the Squirtle Squad to allow him to obtain a Super Potion; however, if he didn't return by noon the next day, they would kill Misty (in the English dub, they threatened to dye her hair purple). By the time Ash returned, Team Rocket had arrived and decided to bomb the Squirtle Squad, causing a forest fire. Everyone went to find cover in the Squirtle Squad's cave, but, the leader of the Squirtle Squad was stuck on its back, forcing Ash to go back to help it. Working together with Ash, the Squirtle Squad defeated Team Rocket and put out the fire; they were given the title of "Town Firefighters", for their good work by Officer Jenny. However, the leader of the Squirtle Squad decided that it would rather travel with Ash; Ash's newly acquired Squirtle wanted to repay him for saving its life by joining Ash's team.
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The Squirtle Squad entered a Pokémon firefighting competition in Johto in The Fire-ing Squad!, reunited with its leader. They were pitted against Team Wartortle, a group Ash's Squirtle had encountered in the Orange Islands. Ash's Squirtle decided to rejoin the Squad and has continued with them ever since, with the exception of the Silver Conference and the final battle with Brandon.
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While appearing as a whole in Of Meowth and Pokémon Part 1 and Part 2, three of the members ambushed and attacked her with a , sending her flying. The Squad helped Meowth set up his party in Pichu Bros. in Party Panic, but did not have their leader.
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The Squirtle Squad was shown in a flashback in Gathering the Gang of Four!.
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 managed to take a picture of the Squirtle Squad in Alola, Kanto!.
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The Squirtle Squad reappeared in A Squad's Worth of Passion!, where they were performers hired by Team Rocket without Officer Jenny's knowledge. They assisted in putting out a warehouse fire before being reunited with Officer Jenny and returned to being firefighters once more.
===Personality and characteristics===
The Squirtle Squad were once troublemakers before their leader joined . They stole food, vandalized properties, and caused trouble for people. However, after Ash saved their leader from a fire, the Squirtle Squad changed their ways and began fighting fires under the command of Officer Jenny. Without their leader around, the squad dealt with a lack of confidence when faced with high pressure situations.
===Moves used===
====Ash's Squirtle====
====Other members====
==In the games==
===In the spin-off games===
====Pokémon GO====
For the July 8, 2018 Pokémon GO Community Day, a special Squirtle could be caught wearing sunglasses. Although these glasses were of a different design, it is assumed this was a homage to the Squirtle Squad. This Squirtle can also evolve into and wearing sunglasses, and also have Shiny forms.
The sunglasses-wearing Squirtle returned during the Ed Sheeran collaboration event, held on November 22-30, 2021.
 	 	
Squirtle	Wartortle	Blastoise
====Pokémon Channel====
In Pokémon Channel, the Shop 'N Squirtle channel is hosted by a member of the Squirtle Squad, named Spencer the Squirtle. The animated series special in which the Squirtle Squad appears, Pichu Bros. in Party Panic, is also included in the game.
==Trivia==
* is referenced in , as well as in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, when an Officer Jenny tells the that she a Squirtle that was constantly getting into mischief. She mentions it needed a good to take care of it, and will give it to the player after they defeat Lt. Surge or over 60 Pokémon.
* All members of the Squirtle Squad appear to have heads that are a slightly different shape from all other Squirtle and each other.
* In their debut appearance, the Squirtle Squad's black jackets all had ゼ (from ゼ二ガメ; Zenigame) printed on the back. This was edited out for the dub, and was removed completely when the jackets appeared in later episodes.
* The Decolore Islands pirates in The Pirates of Decolore! share some parallelism to the Squirtle Squad, in that both consist of Pokémon who were abandoned by their Trainers, and both gave up a life of crime to work in public services.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
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* Ash's Squirtle
Category:Jenny's Pokémon
Category:Released Pokémon
de:Schiggy-Meute
es:Escuadrón Squirtle
fr:Gang des Carapuce
it:Squadra degli Squirtle
ja:ゼニガメ消防団
zh:杰尼龟军团