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Revision as of 22:41, 23 September 2012
Team Rocket Grunt ロケットだんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling | |
Art from HeartGold and SoulSilver | |
Other names | Rocket Grunt (ロケットだんいんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling Member) (Generation II) Rocket (ロケットだんいん Team Rocket Member) (Generation I) |
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Introduced in | Generation I |
Appears in | Red, Blue, and Yellow Gold, Silver, and Crystal FireRed and LeafGreen HeartGold and SoulSilver Stadium 2 |
Gender | Both |
Notable members | The Rocket Brothers, Jessie and JamesY |
Anime debut | EP015|Battle Aboard the St. Anne |
TCG debut | Gym Heroes |
TCG card | Minion of Team Rocket |
Manga debut | A Glimpse of the Glow (Adventures) |
Team Rocket Grunts (Japanese: ロケットだんいん Team Rocket Member in Generation I, ロケットだんいんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling Member in Generation II, ロケットだんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling in Generation III and IV) are members of Team Rocket. They act as fodder, enforcers, workmen, crooks, and backup for various leaders in the criminal organization.
In the games
Being the underlings of Team Rocket, the grunts have appeared in all of the games this villainous team has appeared in; namely, in Generation I and Generation II, as well as their remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen and HeartGold and SoulSilver, respectively.
In these games, a Team Rocket Grunt is considered a Trainer class. How they are referred to has varied slightly throughout the generations. A grunt is called Rocket (Japanese: ロケットだんいん Team Rocket Member) in Generation I, Rocket Grunt (Japanese: ロケットだんいんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling Member) in Generation II, and finally Team Rocket Grunt (Japanese: ロケットだんのしたっぱ Team Rocket Underling) in Generations III and IV. Additionally, unlike other Trainer classes, Team Rocket Grunts are never given individual names, a tradition continued with the other villainous teams, whose members are also referred to as simply grunts. However, there are four grunts that appear to be related to each other, the Rocket Brothers, in Silph Co.
Appearance
Male Team Rocket Grunts are depicted as men wearing black uniforms with a big red R on them, as well as gray gloves and boots (white in Generations I and II). They also wear a black cap, which in the first three Generations completely hides their short hair, though it is shown as pink in Generation IV. In Generation I, they each hold a whip, though, in a similar change to the Cooltrainers, it is omitted in all further depictions. They also seem to be adults in Generation I, though they seem a bit younger, perhaps even teens, in further games.
In Generation II, female Team Rocket Grunts started to appear. In their introductory games, these female grunts are depicted as red haired women in white Team Rocket uniforms without caps, with their design being very similar to Cassidy and their outfit similar to Jessie's. In Generations III and IV, their design is drastically changed, and they are shown more similar to their male counterparts, wearing a black uniform with a red R, a black cap, and gray gloves and boots, though they wear black shorts or a skirt instead of pants. They are shown to have short, orange-pinkish hair in the games, though their artwork from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen shows their hair as green.
Artworks
Artwork from Red and Blue. |
Artwork from FireRed and LeafGreen. |
Sprites
File:S2 Rocket GruntM.pngFile:S2 Rocket GruntF.png | |||||
Image from Red and Blue |
Jessie and James's sprite from Yellow |
Images from Generation II |
Images from Stadium 2 |
Images from FireRed and LeafGreen |
Images from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
File:HGSSTeam Rocket Gruntstanddown.png | |||||
Overworld sprite from Red and Blue | Jessie and James's overworld sprites from Yellow |
Overworld sprites from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
History
- Main article: Team Rocket → In the games
In Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the grunts are found throughout Kanto creating general disruption. They first appear in Mt. Moon, going after Fossils. One grunt is found at the end of the Nugget Bridge recruiting for Team Rocket, and another had stolen a TM from an elderly couple in Cerulean City. In Celadon City, the grunts operate a base under the Game Corner trafficking Pokémon all over the world, and they are also responsible for the murder of the mother Marowak in Pokémon Tower as part of a plan to steal Cubone and sell their skulls. They also appear when they take over the Silph Co. headquarters. After the player defeats them there, Giovanni disappears, later reappearing at his own Gym, and the grunts are not seen after this in the original games. However, in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, two grunts remain in an old man's house next to the restaurant in Celadon City; they will never leave, nor will they battle the player. Additionally, in Pokémon Yellow, both Jessie and James are from the Rocket Trainer class, and appear next to the regular grunts in Mt. Moon, the Game Corner and Silph Co.
In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, grunts are also found on several of the Sevii Islands, even after Giovanni's defeat. On Knot Island, the player faces two in front of a cave which leads to the Ruby for the Net Center. On Floe Island, the player helps Lorelei, who nearly defeated a grunt with her Lapras's Ice Beam while interrogating Team Rocket at Icefall Cave. On Fortune Island, there is a grunt in front of Altering Cave. On Chrono Island, the player finds a group of male and female grunts operating from a warehouse obtaining a large number of Pokémon, most of them rare, and trying to make a working prototype of the high-frequency sound wave machine which would influence evolution. After the player defeats the grunts and the two Admins, they will pull out, but not before telling the player that they will find Giovanni and restore Team Rocket. They have not been seen in the Sevii Islands since.
In the Generation II games and their remakes, three years after the events of the original games, Team Rocket, under the administration of the Executives, create havoc throughout Johto gaining profit and trying to communicate with their old leader, Giovanni. The grunts are first seen operating in the Slowpoke Well, led by Proton, cutting off Slowpoke's tails to sell. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, a Grunt is seen bothering a Kimono Girl at the Ecruteak City Dance Theater. In Mahogany Town, the player finds Team Rocket HQ underneath a souvenir shop, in which Team Rocket have been using a fully-working high-frequency sound wave machine that influences Pokémon evolution, transmitting it from an antenna in a tree. They also help their Executives take over the Goldenrod Radio Tower, as well as guard the Radio Director, who is hidden in the Goldenrod Tunnel. After defeating Archer, most grunts are gone for good. However, a lone grunt appears in Cerulean City later on, unaware of the disbanding of Team Rocket, who has stolen the Machine Part from the Power Plant in Kanto. After he is defeated, he states that he will return to his home country and revive Team Rocket there. It is later revealed that when he returned home to Icirrus City, he fell in love and started a family, effectively abandoning the idea for a quiet and peaceful life with his wife and child. Team Rocket has not been seen since.
Pokémon
Team Rocket Grunts use Pokémon from a variety of types, but often employ Poison-type Pokémon more than others. Also, the large majority of their Pokémon were introduced in Generation I, though several they use in the Sevii Islands and Johto were introduced in Generation II.
Kanto Branch
Rattata |
Raticate |
Ekans |
Arbok |
Sandshrew |
Sandslash |
Zubat |
Golbat |
Machop |
Machoke |
Grimer |
Drowzee |
Hypno |
Cubone |
Marowak |
Koffing |
Weezing |
Sevii Branch
Rattata |
Raticate |
Ekans |
Sandshrew |
Sandslash |
Zubat |
Golbat |
Gloom |
Machop |
Machoke |
Grimer |
Muk |
Hypno |
Koffing |
Weezing |
Houndour |
Johto Branch
Rattata |
Raticate |
Ekans |
Arbok |
Zubat |
Golbat |
Oddish |
Gloom |
Venonat |
Grimer |
Muk |
Drowzee |
Koffing |
Weezing |
In the anime
In the anime, the grunts have had few appearances. They first appear in Battle Aboard the St. Anne, under the command of Jessie, James, and Meowth trapping Trainers and trying to steal their Pokémon. But before Team Rocket could steal the Pokémon from all the Trainers onboard, they were stopped by Ash and his friends.
There are also many Team Rocket Grunts that appear in one scene from Mewtwo Strikes Back. They are using Mewtwo's psychic abilities to capture a large herd of Tauros.
In Johto, operating from an under sea base, grunts are under the command of Dr. Namba, Butch, and Cassidy, attempting to harness a Lugia and its child, but Ash, his friends and Ritchie stopped them.
Later, they operate around the Lake of Rage under the command of Professor Sebastian and TRTyson ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) to help in Project R; the project's goal is to force Pokémon to evolve artificially, thus giving the group powerful Pokémon to use. But they were stopped yet again by Ash and his friends, with the help from Lance of the Pokémon G-Men.
They also appear in copious amounts during Mewtwo Returns, led by Giovanni and Domino, to capture Mewtwo and build a new base for Team Rocket on Mount Quena. However, they are all mind-wiped and transported away from the mountain at the end of the movie.
They have also been seen helping Butch and Cassidy with their stadium scam in The Ole' Berate and Switch. There, they were disguised as several tournament officials.
Their latest appearance was in A Venipede Stampede! where one informs Giovanni that they will arrive shortly in Unova. They were also to appear in two unaired episodes to do battle with Team Plasma which is the first time Team Rocket as a whole (not counting Jessie, James, and Meowth) has battled against another villainous Team.
Pokémon
Team Rocket Grunts have been known to use the following Pokémon:
Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Zubat was used by Team Rocket in the Rocket battle after the Trainers found out that the Tournament was a scam used to steal the Trainers' Pokémon.
None of Zubat's moves are known.
One of the Team Rocket Grunts sent out Venomoth when the Trainers found out that the Tournament was a scam to steal the Trainers' Pokémon. He used Venomoth against a Trainer's Ledian.
Venomoth's only known move is Supersonic.
Mentioned
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
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Red, Green & Blue arc
- The debut of Team Rocket Grunts was in the first round of this chapter, Glimpse of the Glow, where they try to find Mew in Pallet Town forest to finish development Mewtwo.
- In Raging Rhydon they search for a Moon Stone in Mt. Moon, however this mission also fails.
- In Tauros the Tyrant, the grunts go after Green, hoping they can get back a disc containing information on Mew.
- In The Jynx Jinx, the grunts try to capture Mew, but Red and Green interfere.
- In You Know... Articuno!, the grunts are sent to catch Articuno.
- In Holy Moltres, an army of grunts is sent to take out Blaine, who left Team Rocket due to the creation of Mewtwo. After Red helps Blaine escape, the grunts use Moltres that they captured on Indigo Plateau; Red defeats it with an Aerodactyl that he brought back to life.
- In Peace of Mime, Saffron City is taken over by the grunts.
- In The Winged Legends, the grunts try to get out of Saffron City because of the fight between Red and Green and Koga. The Gym Leaders not aligned with Team Rocket block all the exits, keeping the grunts in.
- In And Mewtwo Too!?, the Cinnabar Island base is destroyed by Mewtwo, taking out the grunts and scientists that work there.
Pokémon
Debut | Raging Rhydon |
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Team Rocket's Rhyhorn was first introduced in Mt. Moon where Red and Misty were searching for a Moon Stone. However, this particular Rhyhorn belonged to Koga, a former admin of Team Rocket and Gym Leader as well. Another Rhyhorn appeared in Tauros the Tyrant.
Debut | Raging Rhydon |
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Koga's Rhyhorn evolved into a Rhydon after injecting it. Another Rhydon reappeared in Tauros The Tyrant where it was controlled by a Tauros.
Debut | Tauros the Tyrant |
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Hitmonlee was used to attack the Game Corner in Celadon City. However, he attacked Machamp instead of the Game Corner. He was also under the control of Tauros.
Debut | Tauros the Tyrant |
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Machamp was used to attack the Game Corner in Celadon City. However, it attacked Hitmonlee instead of the Game Corner.
Debut | Tauros the Tyrant |
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Debut | Tauros the Tyrant |
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Debut | The Jynx Jinx |
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Debut | You Know...Articuno! |
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Debut | Holy Moltres |
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Gengar was used to surround Blaine in Cinnabar Island.
Gengar's only known move is Night Shade.
Debut | You know... Articuno! |
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This Articuno was originally seen at the Seafoam Islands. Even though Red tried to stop Team Rocket for the first try, they were finally able to catch this legendary bird because of its energy loss, and was sent to Koga afterwards.
Debut | Holy Moltres |
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Zapdos was used as an experiment from Team Rocket. Lt. Surge took control of it prior to Zap! Zap! Zapdos. Around the end of the battle against Red, it ended up shocking Lt. Surge with its tremendous Thunder attack after Saur's Razor Leaf tore up his insulating underwear, rendering it useless and nearly killing him. As a result, Red earned his Badge and stole his electric-proof gloves. It was later recaught by Green.
Zapdos's known moves are ThunderShock and Thunder.
Debut | Holy Moltres |
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Debut | The Winged Legends |
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- Main article: Zapmolcuno
During the battle between Red, Blue and Green, and the Rocket Triad members, Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina, Moltres was combined with Articuno and Zapdos to create Zapmolcuno. Once it was beaten, the three birds separated and returned to the wild.
Gold, Silver & Crystal arc
The grunts as well as the Team Rocket Elite Trio were reorganized under Masked Man.
- In Ursaring Major, the grunts are sent to cut the tails of Slowpoke living in the Slowpoke Well, but Silver stops them.
- In Ampharos Amore, the grunts and the two sub-leaders, Sham and Carl, are sent to destroy the Tin Tower, and are successful. However, they then lose a battle with Gold and Silver.
- In Oh, It's Ho-Oh!, Carl gives a speech telling the grunts that it is time for the public to officially learn about the return of Team Rocket.
- In Slick Slowking, the Elite Trio and the grunts ride a train to the Indigo Plateau.
- In Lugia and Ho-Oh on the Loose (Part 1), grunts intrude upon the Gym Leaders' exhibition match.
- In The Last Battle II, grunts are put under mind control by Masked Man. Although the Elite Trio were saved from the mind control by Lt. Surge, they are told by him to help free the other grunts from the Masked Man's mind control.
- In The Last Battle VII, grunts are sent to retrieve the Rainbow Wing and the Silver Wing.
- In The Last Battle IX, the grunts on the train to the Indigo Plateau are knocked out as Red and Green travel to fight Masked Man. Chuck tells the pair that the grunts will be taken care of.
Pokémon
Debut | Piloswine Whine |
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Cubone were used as reinforcements. They tried to attack Gold.
Debut | Piloswine Whine |
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Drowzee were used as reinforcements. They tried to attack Gold.
Debut | Piloswine Whine |
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Ledian were used as reinforcements while stuck in the Lighthouse. They tried to attack Gold.
Debut | Piloswine Whine |
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Debut | Piloswine Whine |
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Team Rocket's Piloswine was used to destroy the Lighthouse using Earthquake. Carl is mostly seen interacting with Piloswine.
Debut | Miltank Melee |
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Team Rocket owns several Houndour. One of them is owned by the Masked Man in which it was used to overwhelm Gold's team. The same Houndour was used to take on Lt. Surge while he found Team Rocket's base. Many Houndour are summoned if the leader uses Howl.
Houndour's known moves are Bite, Flamethrower, Headbutt, Iron Tail, Faint Attack, and Howl.
Debut | Stop Snoring, Slowking |
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Debut | Stop Snoring, Slowking |
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FireRed & LeafGreen arc
The Three Beasts were introduced in this chapter and were sent by Giovanni to get Red, Blue and Green.
In the Pokémon Gold and Silver: The Golden Boys manga
The Team Rocket Grunts in this manga serve Grey instead of Giovanni since it is based on the events of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
Pokémon
Murkrow is Team Rocket's most relied Pokémon. They first appear when Team Rocket attack the Slowpoke. Later, the grunts send Murkrow out to raid the Pokémon Summit.
In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga
The Team Rocket Grunts appear in this manga where they have served Giovanni. In one instance, they find Red disguised as one of them and have their Meowth boot them sky high which made Red have a bad day.
Pokémon
Meowth was with the Team Rocket Grunts where they found Red disguised as them. Meowth ends up kicking them away after Red's disguise was revealed.
In the Pokémon Zensho manga
Team Rocket first appear in Cerulean City where they invade Miracle Cycle. Later, they show up in the Cerulean Gym. In both of Satoshi's encounters, he easily defeats them.
Pokémon
Debut | Cerulean City |
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One of the Team Rocket Grunts sends out Beedrill in order to prevent the storekeeper from revealing stuff about how they are bad guys. Before Beedrill did anything, it ends up getting easily beaten by Satoshi's Charmander.
None of Beedrill's moves are known.
Debut | Cerulean City |
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Zubat was only seen in a flashback when Team Rocket was telling Satoshi about what they do to Pokémon.
None of Zubat's moves are known.
Debut | Cerulean City |
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Team Rocket send out Gyarados when they invade the Cerulean Gym. It wasn't long before Gyarados gets zapped by Satoshi's Pikachu's Thunderbolt.
None of Gyarados's moves are known.
Team Rocket | |||||
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Rocket Game Corner • Team Rocket Hideout • Viridian Gym • Team Rocket HQ • Rocket Warehouse | |||||
Boss | Admins | ||||
Giovanni (Masters • Pocket Monsters) |
Archer (Masters) |
Ariana (Masters) |
Petrel (Masters) |
Proton (Masters) | |
Other members | |||||
Jessie (Masters) • James (Masters) • Meowth • Team Rocket Grunts (Rocket Siblings) • Scientists (Gideon) Grey (Golden Boys) • Kaede (How I Became a Pokémon Card) | |||||
See also: Pokémon the Series • Adventures • Team GO Rocket • Team Rainbow Rocket
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