Whiskers

* Nidoran♀
* Nidorina

**Whiskers** is a Poison-type Pokémon. She evolved from a Nidoran♀ sometime before the events of "The Lizard Slayer".

## History

**Whiskers** originally belonged to Gaven. She was in a pokéball when Gaven ran away after Charmander and Squirtle rescued Bulbasaur in "Charmander Gets Punched in the Face". It is presumed that Gaven left behind his bag (with both Whiskers' pokéball and Whiskers inside) and Leader Caterpie picked up Gaven's bag at the end of "The Forest King", promising to get revenge on Charmander.

After she was given a nickname, she was trained by Leader Caterpie to kill Charmander. When Leader Caterpie threw Whiskers' pokéball against Charmander, Whiskers was initially scared at the sight of Charmander, but ended up poisoning both Bulbasaur and Charmander. Afterward, Whiskers was seen in Leader Caterpie's hideout. Whiskers gave moral support to Leonard, a member of the Caterpie army. She was later ordered by Leader Caterpie to poison Squirtle, because Squirtle asked whether Leader Caterpie was a boy or a girl.

She is only mentioned in "Ooo Look At Me I'm A Big Scary Ghost" by Sandshrew when he mentions to Charmander that Pidgeotto has been poisoned numerous times by Whiskers.

Prior to "The Lizard Slayer", Whiskers evolved into a Nidorina after Leader Caterpie trained her while Charmander and Bulbasaur were in Lavender Town. When Charmander invaded the Caterpie Lair, Whiskers was able to outmatch Charmander in order to protect Leader Caterpie. Charmander failed his counterattacks against Whiskers and Sandslash (who had evolved from Sandshrew under string shot) departed the cause. Leader Caterpie then continued to taunt Charmander, but Charmander had enough of the judgment and attacked Leader Caterpie. Whiskers blocked Charmander's fire shot. Charmander tried to convince Whiskers to join him and become stronger, however Whiskers refused. Charmander resumed his attack on Leader Caterpie and Whiskers kept from blocking the attacks. Whiskers was finally too weakened to continue fighting, and Charmander threatened Whiskers to surrender, but Whiskers declared that it was worth dying if she could save even one Caterpie life, since they were her family. Charmander demanded Leader Caterpie to release Squirtle or he would murder Whiskers with Beedrill's weapon.

In "The Legend of the Blue Shell Man Guy", Whiskers does not physically appear in the episode but is shown in Squirtle's second flashback in a sequence after a skirmish between the Spearow and Caterpie had ended. Leonard refused to fight if it meant more death. After Whiskers failed to convince Leonard to believe in the Caterpie Army, Leader Caterpie told Whiskers to kill Leonard. However, Whiskers refused as she considered Leonard a brother. Whiskers is mentioned in Squirtle's third flashback when Leader Caterpie said that they had 'lost' her, which implies that Whiskers either died or abandoned them.

## Personality

As a Nidoran♀, Whiskers was a joyful, caring, and skittish Pokémon. She needed reassurance to fight, and even then she was unable to fight Charmander properly. However, after she evolved into a Nidorina, Whiskers became braver. In spite of the drastic development in her personality after she evolved into a Nidorina, Whiskers still cares deeply about those close to her.

## Relationships

### Caterpie

Whiskers cares about the caterpie, inhabiting the Caterpie tunnels and considers all the caterpie as her family. Her love for the caterpie goes above her loyalty to Leader Caterpie as she refuses to kill Leonard after he deserted the Caterpie Army.

## Trivia

* Whiskers is the first character to have a nickname.
	+ Though it isn't stated who gave her the name.
* She is the first character, that was shown in their basic stage, to have evolved.
* It is implied that Leader Caterpie could have used a Moon Stone to evolve Whiskers from a Nidorina into a Nidoqueen in the line, "I knew you weren't ready for the stone".
	+ Either that or Whiskers was going to be given the Everstone that Wartortle used to carry around.

## Gallery

Whiskers as a Nidoran♀Whiskers in fear of CharmanderWhiskers looking at the new recruitWhiskers in the Caterpie lairWhiskers looking at SquirtleWhiskers listening to Leader Caterpie talkWhiskers as a NidorinaWhiskers in combat