Brock

**Brock** is originally the Gym Leader of Pewter City Gym but decided to follow his dream to become the greatest Pokémon Breeder he can be. After his defeat from Ash Ketchum, he quickly gave up his title. He accompanied Ash on his journey for quite some time, all while trying to live up to his goal. He currently wishes to be a great Pokémon Doctor.

## Appearance

Brock's most notable feature about his appearance is that his eyes
naturally appear closed. The rare times people see them open are when they are forced open unnaturally, such as these examples from what
happened in the anime: a hit with Charmander's Flamethrower in *The Ninja Poké-Showdown*, when being hit in the back of the head by Arbok's tail in Who Gets to Keep Togepi?, and when he makes a face for Larvitar in A Crowning Achievement. This has been the center of fan attention for a long time. He also has spiky brown hair and tan skin, notably darker than the skin
of any other major character in the anime (until Iris in the Best Wishes
 series).

Along with Tracey, Cilan, and Kiawe, Brock is the tallest of
Ash's traveling companions and the closest to looking like an adult.
Next to actual adult characters, however, it is clear that he is still a
 teenager. Not counting temporary outfits, he has worn three different
outfits, all of which have had the colors orange, green and brown, with
blue shoes.

#### Original series

In the Original Series, he wore an orange t-shirt, a lime green cargo
 vest with 4 pockets, a dark brown belt with a gold buckle and dark red
pockets, brown jeans, and blue-gray sneakers with white trim.

His original outfit is also seen during flashbacks throughout the anime series' run.

#### Advanced Generation

In the Advanced Generation Series, he appeared in a new outfit, which
 consisted of a brown short-sleeved jacket with orange trim, a green
short-sleeved undershirt, grayish-brown cargo pants, and indigo sneakers
 with light blue trim.

#### Diamond & Pearl

In the Diamond and Pearl series, he wears yet another new outfit,
consisting of a green collared shirt, an orange vest with brown trim,
khaki pants with knee stitching, and blue high-top sneakers.

#### Sun & Moon

In the Sun & Moon series, Brock's old outfit in the Original
series has minor changes. His lime green cargo vest lacks the two
pockets in the edge of both sides making his vest turned into a denim
vest.

During the Gym battle against Kiawe as he mega evolves his
Steelix into Mega Steelix, Brock was in shirtless which he removes both
his lime green vest and his orange t-shirt making him resemble his
counterpart in both games, Pokémon Red and Blue as he reveals to wear a
necklace with a Key Stone embedded as a pendant where he later removes
it to activate his Key Stone to mega evolve his Steelix.

## Personality

Brock is considered the most mature, wise, and levelheaded of the
main characters, and he is arguably the most intelligent character as
well. He often acts as an older brother and caretaker to the other
characters and a voice of reason in disputes. He will usually place
others before him and will help and support his friends even against his
 better judgment or at his own expense. While he is not shown to battle
often, he can understand the situations and strategies in any Pokémon
battle, and often explains them to the other characters, probably
because he was once a Gym Leader. His wisdom is possibly derived from
how observant he is; he can tell just by sight how a Pokémon is feeling.

Brock always carries books and maps with him and thus, is usually
 the character who knows where the group is headed and what they can do
when they get there, though in the Advanced Generation series this role
was mostly taken over by Max, who owns a PokéNav. He also carries a lot
of other supplies, such as Potions, Pokémon food, and a set of cookware,
 as well as practical tools like a brush and pocket knife; in The School
 of Hard Knocks, the extent of his preparedness and comically large
capacity of his bag was demonstrated, as he pulled a table and full tea
set out of his backpack. He is a domestic, and grooms not only his
Pokémon but also those of his friends with whom he travels. He handles
all the cooking and cleaning for his friends.

Despite this, all his maturity and rationality leaves him
completely when he catches sight of a beautiful woman. Brock has a
desperate need for female companionship, which grows worse as he fails
to gain it. He will do anything and everything he thinks will impress
women, which inevitably ends with his heart being broken every time. A
few women have shown interest in him as well, such as Wilhelmina,
Temacu, Natalie, Lucy, Holly, Autumn, Narissa and Lizabeth, but most
others do not notice him or are not interested.

No matter how many times he is disappointed, though, Brock
remains determined to find a girl to start a relationship with and has
indicated several times he would stop traveling with Ash and stay with
the girl if this happened. He also likes both Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.
 This behavior tends to wear on the nerves of other characters, and
Misty and Max have both commonly dragged Brock away from women by his
ear. Some of Brock's own Pokémon, most notably Croagunk, have attacked
him for getting too flirtatious with women and dragged him off as well
as punishment for his behavior.

His goals have played a passive role in his character's activity
and development, and his role has generally been one as support for
other main characters, usually contributing more in terms of wisdom and
comedic antics than the action of the series. Unlike other characters,
who aspire to achieve and excel in competitive fields like Pokémon
training and Pokémon Contests, his aim to become a great Pokémon Breeder
 is a quiet one and thus does not get showcased frequently. This caused
him to question if he was actually pursuing his dreams like his friends
were near the end of the Diamond & Pearl series and ultimately lead
to him deciding to become a Pokémon Doctor instead. His other goal, to
find a girlfriend, is similar to Team Rocket's quest to capture Pikachu,
 in which both are for comedy and thus doomed to fail.

Upon his family, he is very caring towards his siblings including
 his younger brother, Forrest and has a great respect for his father,
Flint. In *A Family that Battles Together Stays Together!* and *Grating Spaces!*
 He also shows his anger and disdain towards his mother, Lola who is
responsible for remodeling the Pewter Gym into an aquatic gym, as well
as her ditzy behavior.

## Skills

Brock has skillful knowledge about Pokémon, due to being once a gym

leader also his knowledge about them is the reason why Uxie chose to
connect with him, which makes his battling skills very amazing as well.
He can cook awesome food for People and Pokémon, who all love it, also
he has good fishing skills, shewing skills and cleaning skills.

## Biography

When Ash arrives in Pewter City, following getting his Pokémon healed at the Pokémon Center by Nurse Joy,
 he travels to the Pewter City Gym to face Brock for his Boulder Badge.
However, due to Brock specializing in Rock-type Pokémon, Pikachu is no match for Onix, and Ash is forced to surrender the match. After Ash loses to Brock, a stranger offers to help make his Pikachu stronger. Pikachu (after being hooked up to a local hydro-power station) becomes stronger and manages to defeat Geodude, but Onix remains too strong. Onix has Pikachu in a body bind;
 however, Pikachu's previous electric attack ravaged the gym, which set
off the fire sprinklers, weakening Onix. Though Pikachu is able to then
damage Onix further, before Ash can deal the finishing blow, he is
restrained by Brock's younger siblings, demanding he leave Onix alone,
before Brock orders them to stand down. Though Ash technically won, he
declines the badge on the grounds that he unfairly beat Brock, but Brock
 later catches up to him and presents him with the Boulder Badge anyway,
 saying that he wants Ash to fulfill his dream of becoming the best. The
 stranger that first helped Ash reveals himself to be Brock's father, Flint. Flint has a tendency to keep people in the dark about who he is.

After entrusting Flint with taking care of the gym and the rest
of his siblings, Brock is now free to train himself and joins Ash and
Misty on their journey. Since then, he travels with Ash and Misty on his
 many adventures. In the Orange Islands series, he leaves the team to join Professor Felina Ivy but mysteriously returns to Pallet Town when Ash wins the Orange League
 Championship. When asked what happened, Brock just rolled up into a
ball and replied, "I don't wanna talk about it" or "Don't mention that
name". This would happen every time someone mentioned Professor Ivy.
Rejoining Ash and Misty, Brock travels to Johto, where he continues to help Ash and Misty. Upon the conclusion of the Silver Conference, the three part ways, Brock heading back to Pewter City. It is there (in an episode of Pokémon Chronicles) that he discovers his estranged mother Lola (*Mizuho* in the original), who, because she is a Water-type Pokémon Trainer, has ruined the reputation of the Gym he defended so long ago and had ended up filling the gym with water (causing Brock to comically freak out and keep repeating *"A LAKE!!!"* when he first sees it).

By defeating his mother, he restores the Gym's reputation and proceeds to leave all his Pokémon (except Forretress) to his younger brother Forrest, before departing for the Hoenn region, where he catches up with Ash and his two new friends, May and Max.

The group travel across Hoenn and then return to Kanto to participate in the Battle Frontier. The group went their separate ways and Brock met up with Ash in Sinnoh. While there, they meet a new coordinator named Dawn and her partner Piplup, who joins them on their journey through Sinnoh.

During this time, both Brock's father, Flint (*Munō* in the original, who was also Brock's predecessor as Gym Leader), ran off again, and his oldest younger brother Forrest (*Jirō* in the original) took the role of Gym Leader in Pewter City,
 as well as the responsibility of caring for his many other younger
siblings. Brock is the oldest of ten siblings, with five brothers and
four sisters.

Brock is always well-equipped and is sometimes the voice of
reason when Ash and Misty (and later, May and Dawn) get into an
argument. He is also hardworking and is always willing to help others.
Coupled with his experiences in taking care of others, Brock often
prepares food and does most of the chores for the main characters. Brock
 is also exceptionally good at making food for Pokemon.

At the end of the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl
 series, Brock aspires to become a Pokémon Doctor, and work alongside
Nurse Joy. After departing from Ash and Dawn, Brock returns home to Pewter City to train to become a Pokémon Doctor.

In the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Special Episode 2, he's
revealed to have photos of Ash, Misty, May, Max, Dawn, Piplup, and
Pikachu to remind him of how much fun it was traveling with them. He
also chooses his brother Forrest to replace him as Gym Leader so he can study to become a Pokemon Doctor.

In the Best Wishes episode *Expedition to Onix Island!*,
Brock was mentioned by Dawn during their lunch break at the beach as
Cilan wants to know who he is. Ash finally tells Cilan and Iris about
Brock as his previous traveling companion and he currently studies as a
Pokémon Doctor.

Brock was last seen along with Misty, May, Max and Dawn in *The Dream Continues!* when Ash remembers his friends throughout his journey before falling asleep for his next journey in the Kalos region.

In the Black and White Special, he encounters Cilan in a small
town. He helps treat Pansage after it got hurt fighting a Gyarados. The
two form a fast friendship and work together as they help Gyarados. As
they part ways, they both realize they never asked for each other's
name.

In the Sun & Moon series, Brock returns alongside Misty when Ash returns to Kanto along with his new Alolan friends in the Alola
 region as one of the special guests for their special curriculum class.
 Brock was first seen introduced himself to Lillie as a Pokémon doctor
in-training while checking up Lillie's Alolan Vulpix who is discomfort
from motion sickness. Brock tells her that her Vulpix will be fine which
 she thanked him for his actions. Upon his reunion with Ash, Brock
flirts with a flight cabin attendant only to be pinched in the ear by
Misty who scolds him that they came here to see Ash not to act like an
idiot. Both he and Misty finally introduced themselves to Kiawe, Mallow,
 Sophocles, Lana, and Lillie. Both guide them within Professor Oak's
laboratory and also release some Pokémon including his Geodude along
with the Alolan ones who were released by Misty. Brock also restrains
the Marowak he releases due to the strong rivalry towards Kiawe's Alolan
 Marowak but their rivalry never came to a halt. As everyone splits up
to find Kiawe's Marowak and Lana's Popplio, Ash recalls to them about
their previous journeys in Kanto and Johto regions until his reunion
with his Bulbasaur. After finding both of their Pokémon, they were
caught by the Meowth robot manned by Team Rocket. Brock and Misty
release both Crobat and Staryu to aid Ash's Lycanroc to fight the robot
as he let his Crobat unleashes its powerful Supersonic to counter
Meowth's control allowing both Lycanroc and Staryu to destroy the robot
with Accelerock and Bubble Beam before Bewear catches them in flight. He
 was among with the others who were put to sleep by Jigglypuff's Sing
who emerges from the destroyed Meowth robot.

After the incident, they are seen eating at sunset during their
welcoming party until the next day they bid farewell to both Delia and
Professor Oak to depart to Cerulean City by bus where he is being asked
by Ash about who runs the Pewter City Gym which he confirms that it was
operated by his younger brother Forrest. When Misty reveals that her
three sisters were absent at the Cerulean City Gym due to their travels,
 Brock becomes depressed as everyone gives him a hearty laugh.

Brock later battles both Sophocles and Lillie in a handicap by
using his Geodude at the newly rebuilt Cerulean City Gym. Brock also
tells Sophocles that electric attacks won't work on the ground type when
 he mistakes his Geodude being an Alolan type. When Lillie's Alolan
Vulpix unleashes its Powder Snow, Brock let Geodude unleashes its newly
learned Gyro Ball to disperse the attack, surprising them both.

Later on, Brock battles against Kiawe who releases his Turtonator
 in a Gym battle as he releases his Steelix. Ash was surprised to see
Brock is even stronger than before as he cheers him and Kiawe on in the
battlefield. His Steelix manages to withstand Turtonator's Flamethrower
as takes it down using it's newly learned Gyro Ball followed by both
Bind when it caught off guard and damaging it with Dig who attempts to
use Dragon Tail. Brock taunts Kiawe for being desperate to win as he was
 knowledgable about the Z-Moves and wants to show his full strength. He
later removes his vest and shirt to reveal his necklace with a Key Stone
 embedded as a pendant as he rips it to mega evolve his Steelix into
Mega Steelix much to Kiawe's horrible shock. Despite his efforts to beat
 his Mega Steelix with Turtonator's Inferno Overdrive, Brock confidently
 let his Steelix to use his Stone Edge to defeat it immediately. Brock
later serves as a referee in the battle against Ash and Misty. When Ash
and his friends are about to return back to Alola, Brock gives Sophocles
 and Kiawe some Boulder Badge despite the latter's loss in their Gym
battle. But before they depart back to the Alola region, Ash tells him
and Misty to visit him sometime at Alola which they agreed.

## Running Gags

Over the course of the series, there have come to be a couple of
recurring gags related to Brock that has become quite prominent.

### Girls

One of the most notable running gags in the anime
 is that Brock makes advances and goes virtually love sick
crazy on every girl his age or older, and is usually met by rejection,
confusion, or being dragged away from them by Misty, Max, or his Pokémon, Croagunk. One of the several exceptions was Professor Ivy, the Pokémon Professor from the Orange Islands, with whom he spent some time away from the show. He later returns but refuses to explain why he left her, simply saying *"Don't mention that name!"* Pike Queen Lucy of the Battle Frontier
 in Tohjo Falls seems to have a liking towards Brock (partially because
she has a soft spot for Pokémon with squinty eyes) almost traveling with
 him before Max interrupts. Other girls who had feelings for Brock include Wilhelmina, Temacu, Natalie, Autumn, Narissa, Lizabeth and Holly.

His crushes include the various Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys,
 which he can differentiate with ease based on very perceptive but
minute observations. Because of this, he can spot imposter Joys and
Jennys instantly. Other crushes are Rhonda, Rhoda.

### Oatmeal Pokémon

Another one of the notable running gags is how Brock is forced to
entertain an audience while other characters retrieve something which
would typically be another Pokémon that would have been putting on a
show for the current audience that has likely been stolen by Team Rocket.
 During the cases in which he does, such as he repeats one song (usually
 an English version of "Takeshi no Paradise", one of the Japanese ending
 themes) *ad nauseam* to the point that he is either booed offstage
 or loses interest in singing. He once revealed that the reason why he
sings that song over and over is that it's the only song he knows. After
 Ash finished the Sinnoh league, Ash and Brock left back to Kanto and
went their separate ways. In the Pokémon DP Special Episode 2, Brock is
shown studying to become a Pokémon Doctor, and even has photos of Ash,
Pikachu, Misty, May, Max, Dawn, and Piplup, reminding himself of how
much he misses all of them.

## Achievements

* P1 Grand Prix - Eliminated
* Big P Pokémon race: Disqualified (Onix wouldn't go in water)
* Pokémon Beauty Contest: N/A (with Suzy)
* Pokémon balloon race: Winner (with Ash and Misty)
* Pokémon Orienteering: N/A
* Pokémon Contests
	+ Gardenia Contest: Runner-Up
* Pokémon Dress-up Contest: Winner
* Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition: Top 4 (with Holly)
* Pastoria Croagunk Festival: N/A
* Twinleaf Festival Battle tournament: N/A

## Voice Actors

* **English:**
	+ Eric Stuart (Seasons 1-8, Movies 1-8, *Pokémon Chronicles*, *Mewtwo Returns*) (4Kids)
	+ Bill Rogers (Seasons 9-13, Season 16, Movies 9-13, *The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon*) (PUSA/DuArt)
* **Japanese:** Yūji Ueda
* **German:** Marc Stachel
* **Dutch:** Fred Meijer
* **Italian:** Nicola Bartolini Carrassi (Season 1 - 2); Luca Bottale (Season 3 - 13)
* **Greek:** Charis Grigoropoulos
* **Brazilian Portuguese:** Alfredo Rollo
* **Swedish:** Mattias Knave
* **Arabic:** Rafat Pazo
* **Bulgarian:** Alexander Voronov
* **Mandarin:** Fu Shuang, Liang Xingchang, Yu Zhengsheng
* **Finnish:** Jari Salo, Juha Paananen
* **Korean:** Ku Ja-Hyeong, Byeon Yeong-Hyi
* **Croatian:** Igor Mešin
* **Danish:** Peter Holst-Beck
* **Czech:** Martin Pisarik, Jan Maxian, Michal Holan, Jiri Balcarek
* **French:** Laurent Chauvet (Season 1-8), Antoni Lo Presti (Season 9-13)
* **Norwegian:** Eirik Espolin-Johnson, Erik Skold
* **Filipino:** Julius Figueroa
* **Hebrew:** Guy Roshiniak
* **Polish:** Marek Wlodarczyk (Season 1-9, 11-13), Waldemar Barwinski (Season 10)
* **Hungarian:** Sotonyi Gabor
* **Canadian French:** Martin Watier
* **Portuguese:** Peter Michael (Season 1-2), Rui Quintas (Season 3-9), Luis Barros (Season 10), Pedro Almendra (Season 11-13), Vitor Emanuel
* **Indonesian:** Dicky Rahman (Season 1-2), Dendry Patma (Season 3-10), Kamal Nasuti (Season 11-13)
* **Russian:** Dimitrii Zavatskii
* **Spanish:** Javier Balas, Sergio Sanchez
* **Thai:** Nirand Bunyaratpan
* **Latin American Spanish:** Gabriel Gama (season 1-10,

13-present), Jose Antonio Macia (one scene of EP164), Alan Prieto
(season 10-12), Arturo Mercado Jr. (Movie 4-5)

* **Turkish:** Tugay Erverdi
* **Hindi:** Abhishek Singh (Cartoon Network) and Uplaksh Kochhar (Hungama TV)

## Trivia

* Brock's personality reflects Uxie's one; the Knowledge Pokemon.
* In the Pokémon DP Special, Brock has photos of Ash, Misty, May, Max, Dawn, Pikachu, and Piplup to remind him of his past journeys through Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Kanto's Battle Frontier and Sinnoh.
* Brock is a very talented cook, especially when it comes to making food for Pokémon (this is related to the fact he is a Pokémon Breeder).
* In the episode *A Crowning Achievement*, Brock actually temporarily opens his eyes in a flash second to try to cheer up Larvitar.
* Brock's eyes are rarely open, excluding the examples shown.
* At the beginning of the anime, Brock didn't show a lot of interest in girls. After a while, he finally shows it.
* Brock has appeared in every season except for the Best Wishes ones and the XY ones, although he only appears in flashbacks with Dawn and Ash.
* As seen in the episode *Taming of the Shroomish*, Brock is apparently afraid of ghosts. While he and May

 were shopping, she heard of a haunted mansion. He was terrified just
hearing about it, and, while May was overjoyed, she literally had to
drag him there. Whenever he heard somebody talking about ghosts, he
leaned away. He was afraid of the mansion and showed dismay and horror
when they talked about advancing inside. He was fine once he found out
that the ghosts were actually Shroomish, though. He was also fine on *Ghoul Daze!*, among other episodes.

* Brock's real dream is to become a Pokémon doctor. However in "Jirachi: Wish Maker", he said he wanted to become a magician because he could make "beautiful girls appear out of thin air".
* He can notice the small things that make each Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny physically different.
* It is said that Brock was taken out and replaced with Tracey

due to the notion that he would be racially insensitive to Pokémon's
growing worldwide audience. When it was revealed that said notion wasn't
 the case at all, they put him back in for Johto.

* Brock is currently the only travelling companion, other than

Ash, to travel with all the main female travelling companions who are
the playable character in the main game, with the exception of Serena in
 X and Y.

* In the anime, Brock owns both Geodude and Onix during Gym battles. The other one is Roark.
* Brock is the first main character to use Mega Evolution.

## Pokémon

### On hand

**Onix → Steelix ↔ Mega Steelix**

**Geodude**

**Zubat → Golbat → Crobat**

### At Pewter Gym

**Pineco → Forretress**

**Lotad → Lombre → Ludicolo**

**Mudkip → Marshtomp**

**Bonsly → Sudowoodo** **♂**

**Croagunk** **♂**

**Egg → Happiny → Chansey** **♀**

### Befriended

**Stantler**

**Sharpedo**

**Uxie**

### Temporary

**Hoothoot**

**Totodile**

**Ninetales** **♀**

**Shiftry**

**Staravia** **♂**

**Turtwig** **♂**

**Aipom** **♀**

**Magnemite**

**Onix**

**Feraligatr**