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| Executive ロケットだんかんぶ Team Rocket Executive | |
 Art from HeartGold and SoulSilver | |
| Other names | Rocket Executive (ロケットだんいん のかんぶ Team Rocket Executive) (Generation II) Team Rocket Admin (ロケットだんいんのかんぶ Team Rocket executive member) (Generations III and VII) |
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| Introduced in | Generation II |
| Appears in | Gold, Silver, and Crystal FireRed and LeafGreen HeartGold and SoulSilver Let's Go, Pikachu!, Let's Go, Eevee! Stadium 2 |
| Gender | Both |
| Notable members | Proton, Petrel, Ariana, and Archer Sham, Carl (Adventures) Grey (The Golden Boys) |
| Manga debut | JBA4 (Jō's Big Adventure) Piloswine Whine (Adventures) Gold and Black vs. Team Rocket (The Golden Boys) |
A Team Rocket Admin, Rocket Executive, or Executive (Japanese: ロケットだんかんぶ Team Rocket Executive, introduced as ロケットだんいんの かんぶ Team Rocket Executive Member) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation II games.
They are the highest ranked members of Team Rocket after Giovanni, and are the heads of Team Rocketl after he abandons the organization. They tend to use a combination of Poison- and Dark-type Pokémon.
Terminology
- See also: Team Rocket Grunt → Terminology
This Trainer class is variously referred to as an Executive or Admin in English, depending on the generation. Prior to Generation IV, they do not have individual names. In all generations, the Trainer class does not include a gender symbol (♂/♀).
In Generation II (including Pokémon Stadium 2), they are referred to as a "ROCKET EXECUTIVE" (Japanese: ロケットだんいんの かんぶ Team Rocket Executive Member). In character dialogue, they are referred to as simply EXECUTIVE as a shorthand.[1]
In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, they are referred to as a "TEAM ROCKET ADMIN" (Japanese: ロケットだんの かんぶ Team Rocket Executive). In English, "ROCKET" from previous generation was expanded to "TEAM ROCKET", and "EXECUTIVE" was changed to "ADMIN". In Japanese, 「だんいん」 (Team Member) was shortened to 「だん」(Team). In character dialogue, they are referred to as simply EXECUTIVE as a shorthand.[2]
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, they are referred to as an "Executive" (Japanese: ロケットだんかんぶ Team Rocket Executive). The Executives now have individual names, so Executive serves as a Trainer class instead of their entire name. The Japanese version is unchanged from Generation III, still including "Team Rocket" (unlike the English name).
In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, they are referred to as a "Team Rocket Admin" (Japanese: ロケットだんかんぶ Team Rocket Executive). In both English and Japanese, this matches the name used in Generation III.
In the core series games
Generation II
In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, there are four male executives and one female executive (who is battled twice). (The Executives are all unnamed, but the number of distinct Executives can be extrapolated from their parties and where they appear.) They battle the player at Team Rocket HQ and Goldenrod Radio Tower.
Generation III
In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, two unnamed Team Rocket Admins appear in command of the Rocket Warehouse. They seem to be two of the same members who would head Team Rocket in Johto three years later (Ariana and Archer, although they did not have names or distinct identities until Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver).
In the Rocket Warehouse, the female Team Rocket Admin is battled before going into the male administrator's room. She objects that Team Rocket is disbanded, but after a battle, admits that it probably is and as a final act, turns off the floor so that the player can go back and heal. After defeating the male Team Rocket Admin, he sees the player's Earth Badge and realizes that the Viridian City-based Team Rocket has disbanded; he then tells the player that he will find Giovanni and revive Team Rocket.
The Team Rocket Admins are the same people as the Rocket executives in Generations II and IV, as hinted by the similarity in their teams and the male administrator's determination to revive Team Rocket after he is defeated, as well as the information given on the computer screen which the Rocket administrator was working on ("The influence of magnetic waves on Pokémon evolution"). This is linked to what happened in Generations II and IV, when Team Rocket used radio waves to evolve the Magikarp at Lake of Rage.
Generation IV
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, there are four Executives each with distinct names and identities. Their names (Proton, Petrel, Ariana, and Archer) refer to real-life rockets or missiles in all languages—much like Team Galactic's Commanders, who were named after celestial bodies.
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver adjusted the number of distinct Executives relative to Generation II: Proton takes the place of both a Grunt in Slowpoke Well and an Executive in the Radio Tower; and Petrel takes the place of both the Executive in Giovanni's office in the Team Rocket HQ and the Executive disguised as the Radio Director. In both cases, their parties in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver are a combination of the parties of the characters they replaced from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
Generation VII
In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Archer is the sole Admin of Team Rocket, being first encountered at the Team Rocket Hideout in Celadon City. He later leads the organization's takeover of the Silph Co. in Saffron City and fights the player and Trace in an attempt to keep them from interfering. During the post-game, he meets the player at the hideout again, informing them of his plans to leave Kanto and someday restore Team Rocket, before leaving to do just that.
Gallery
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| Proton's Grunt sprite from Generation II |
Proton, Petrel, and Archer's sprite from Generation II |
Ariana's sprite from Generation II |
Archer's sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen |
Ariana's sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen |
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| Proton, Petrel, and Archer's overworld sprite from Generation II |
Ariana's overworld sprite from Generation II |
Archer's overworld sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen |
Ariana's overworld sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen | |
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| Proton's sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Petrel's sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Ariana's sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Archer's sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Archer's VS model from Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! |
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| Proton's overworld sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Petrel's overworld sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Ariana's overworld sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
Archer's overworld sprite from HeartGold and SoulSilver |
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In the side series games
Pokémon Stadium 2
In Pokémon Stadium 2, two Executives, one male and one female, appear along with a pair of Rocket Grunts, interrupting the player's progress through the Johto Gym Leader Castle after the player has defeated Jasmine. Because their teams contain the distinctive Pokémon Vileplume and Houndoom, they appear to be inspired by two of the admins from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
| File:S2 Rocket ExecutiveM.png | File:S2 Rocket ExecutiveF.pngFile:S2 Rocket ExecutiveF alt.png |
| Rocket Executive♂ portrait from Stadium 2 |
Rocket Executive♀ portraits from Stadium 2 |
Trainer list
Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal
| Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | Pokémon | |||||
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| Rocket Executive ♂ | Initial battle | $1584 |  Lv.22 |
 Lv.22 |
 Lv.24 |
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| Rocket Executive ♀ | Initial battle | $1800 |  Lv.23 |
 Lv.23 |
 Lv.25 |
------- | ------- | ------- |
| First rematch | $2304 | Lv.32 |
 Lv.32 |
Lv.32 |
------- | ------- | ------- | |
| Rocket Executive ♂ | Initial battle | $2160 | Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
 Lv.32 |
Lv.30 |
| Rocket Executive ♂ | Initial battle | $2592 |  Lv.36 |
------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | ------- |
| Rocket Executive ♂ | Initial battle | $2520 |  Lv.33 |
Lv.33 |
 Lv.35 |
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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
| Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | Pokémon | |||||
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| Team Rocket Admin ♀ | Initial battle | $1728 |  Lv.53 |
Lv.54 |
Lv.55 |
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| Team Rocket Admin ♂ | Initial battle | $1760 | Lv.53 |
Lv.54 |
Lv.55 |
------- | ------- | ------- |
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
| Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | Pokémon | |||||
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| Executive Archer | Initial battle | $3040 | Lv.35 |
Lv.35 |
Lv.38 |
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| Executive Ariana | Initial battle | $2960 | Lv.25 |
Lv.25 |
Lv.27 |
------- | ------- | ------- |
| First rematch | $2560 | Lv.32 |
Lv.32 |
Lv.32 |
------- | ------- | ------- | |
| Executive Petrel | Initial battle | $880 | Lv.22 |
Lv.22 |
Lv.24 |
------- | ------- | ------- |
| First rematch | $1200 | Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
Lv.30 |
Lv.32 |
Lv.30 | |
| Executive Proton | Initial battle | $480 | Lv.8 |
Lv.12 |
------- | ------- | ------- | ------- |
| First rematch | $1320 | Lv.28 |
Lv.33 |
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Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
| Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | Pokémon | |||||
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| Team Rocket Admin Archer | Initial battle | $3,300 |  Lv.33 |
 Lv.33 |
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| First rematch | $4,652* |  Lv.37 |
Lv.37 |
Lv.37 |
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Pokémon Stadium 2
| Trainer name | Battle | Pokémon | ||||||
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| Rocket Executive ♀ | Initial battle |  Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
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| Second battle | Lv.50-100 |
Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
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| Rocket Executive ♂ | Initial battle |  Lv.50-100 |
Lv.50-100 |
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 Lv.50-100 |
Lv.50-100 |
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| Second battle | Lv.50-100 |
 Lv.50-100 |
Lv.50-100 |
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In the anime
It is unknown whether or not there are executives present in the anime, as Giovanni is still in control of the organization. Instead, the anime tends to focus much more on high-ranking Team Rocket field agents such as Domino and the Iron-Masked Marauder. Annie and Oakley were also inclusive to the ranks of Team Rocket, working as hired spies hunting Latios and Latias, but this was only in the English dub. Matori, Giovanni's personal secretary and commander of the elite Matori Matrix unit, frequently fulfills an Executive-like role by giving assignments when Giovanni is not available.
In the manga
Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure
The four Generation IV Executives appear in the Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure manga, fulfilling similar roles as in the games.
Pokémon Adventures
Red, Green & Blue arc
Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina are Team Rocket executives, having abandoned their respective Gyms to work for the evil organization instead.
Yellow arc
After witnessing a battle between Yellow and Lance, Giovanni realized that he still had a lot to learn and told his three executives to return to their Gyms.
Gold, Silver & Crystal arc
Under the Masked Man's leadership, Neo Team Rocket's executives were Sham and Carl, who were based on the Generation II Executive designs.
HeartGold & SoulSilver arc
Archer, Ariana, Petrel, and Proton take over the organization from Carr and search for Arceus and its Plates to accomplish their plan of making Giovanni return to Team Rocket's leadership.
Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys
Grey from the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga is based on the male Executive design. His role within the team is based on Archer's.
In the TCG
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Team Rocket Executives in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
| Related cards Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats. | |||||||
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| Card | Type | English Expansion |
Rarity | # | Japanese Expansion |
Rarity | # |
| Team Rocket's Evil Deeds | T | Neo Destiny | 
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103/105 | Darkness, and to Light... |
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| Team Rocket's Trickery | Su | Undaunted |
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78/90 | Reviving Legends |
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076/080 |
| Tyranitar Constructed Standard Deck | 018/019 | ||||||
Trivia
- Though Rocket Executives are members of Team Rocket, like Rocket Grunts and Scientists, the background theme played when fighting them is the normal Trainer battle theme in Gold, Silver, and Crystal Versions. This was rectified in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, where all members of Team Rocket-related Trainer classes play the Rocket battle theme.
- In merging multiple Executives together, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver introduced a plot hole: Petrel is present in both the Goldenrod Radio Tower and the Team Rocket HQ at the same time. When the player first visits Goldenrod City, a guard comments on the Director's changed nature:
- "Sorry. Authorized personnel only beyond this point. It wasn’t that way before. There’s something wrong with the Director…"
In other languages
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References
- ↑ "If you were to join TEAM ROCKET, you could become an EXECUTIVE." (Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal)
- ↑ "We'll try digging here. That treasure the ADMINS've been talking about should be here." (Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen)
 Team Rocket
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| Rocket Game Corner • Team Rocket Hideout • Viridian Gym • Team Rocket HQ • Rocket Warehouse | |||||
| Boss | Admins | ||||
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| 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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