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Revision as of 17:45, 29 December 2008

Whitney
アカネ Akane
""The Incredibly Pretty Girl""
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Art from Gold and Silver
Gender Female
Hometown Goldenrod City
Region Johto
Relatives Uncle Milton (anime)
Trainer class Gym Leader
Generation II
Games Gold, Silver, Crystal, Stadium 2
Leader of Goldenrod Gym
Badge Plain Badge
Anime debut A Goldenrod Opportunity
English voice actor Megan Hollingshead
Japanese voice actor Yuko Miyamura

Whitney (Japanese: アカネ Akane) is the Gym Leader of Goldenrod City's Gym, known officially as the Goldenrod Gym. She hands out the Plain Badge to trainers who defeat her. She is a young girl who uses Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the anime

Whitney appeared in the episodes A Goldenrod Opportunity and A Dairy Tale Ending.

Whitney is a sweet but ditzy young lady. She easily gets lost in her own home town.

Ash challenged her to a Gym match, but was unable to stop her Miltank, who constantly used Rollout to deflect attacks.

After his defeat, Whitney invited Ash to her Uncle Milton's dairy farm, where many Miltank were raised to produce milk for consumption.

Ash, Brock, and Misty spent the day taking care of the dairy's many Miltank.

After Ash stopped a barrel-shaped robot piloted by Team Rocket, he came up with a strategy to defeat Miltank. He used Totodile and Cyndaquil to slow it down, then had Pikachu knock it out. With that, Ash won the Plain Badge.

Whitney's Japanese voice actress is 宮村優子 Yuko Miyamura, her English voice actress is Megan Hollingshead and her Brazilian Portuguese voice actress is Fernanda Bulara.

Pokémon

This listing is of Whitney's known Pokémon in the Pokémon anime.

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Clefairy
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Nidorina
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Miltank

In the games

Whitney's title is "The Incredibly Pretty Girl!".

Although she only began battling a little while ago, Whitney's talent attracted the Pokémon League to choose her as a Gym Leader. Her gym is filled with other young girls like herself, who use cute Normal-type Pokémon like Meowth. Her gym is shaped like a Clefairy.

Whitney doesn't like trainers who are too serious in battle. When Whitney's defeated, she throws a temper tantrum and cries, but after drying her eyes and blowing her nose she will get over her loss and give the player the badge.

After winning the Plain Badge, Whitney gives out TM45 (Attract). Whitney says that Attract is perfect for a cutie like her, because it makes full use of a Pokémon's cuteness.

Pokémon

This listing is of Whitney's Pokémon in the video games she has appeared in.

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

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Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

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Round 2 Pokémon

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Quotes

"Hi! I'm Whitney! Everyone was into Pokémon, so I got into it too! Pokémon are super-cute! You want to battle? I'm warning you--I'm good!"

"Sob... ...Waaaaaaah! You're mean! You shouldn't be so serious! You...you child, you! Waaaaah! Waaaaah! Snivel, hic...You meanie!"

"...Sniff... What? What do you want? A badge? Oh, right. I forgot. Here's Plain Badge."

In the Pokémon Special manga

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Whitney in the manga

In Pokémon Special, Whitney is an actress. She is also good friends with DJ Mary.

She met Gold while performing at the Radio Tower in Goldenrod City. The two clashed and ended up competing against each other in a bike race.

Whitney isn't a strong Gym Leader, according to Suicune. Whitney is the only Johto Gym Leader, besides Pryce, that Suicune didn't challenge for a right to be its partner in the fight against the Mask of Ice.

Pokémon

This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

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Miltank
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Cleffa
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Igglybuff

Released

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Smeargle (Given to DJ Mary)

In the Golden Boys manga

Pokémon

This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Golden Boys manga.

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Miltank
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Cleffa
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Ditto
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Magby

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Whitney or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Name Type Level Rarity Set Set no.
Whitney's Clefable Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 14/141
Whitney's Wigglytuff Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 15/141
Whitney's Persian Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 16/141
Whitney's Lickitung Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 17/141
Whitney's Furret Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 18/141
Whitney's Miltank Colorless - Common Pokémon VS (no English release) 19/141
Whitney's TM 01 - - Uncommon Pokémon VS (no English release) 107/141
Whitney's TM 02 - - Uncommon Pokémon VS (no English release) 108/141

Trivia

  • Her Japanese Leader title is 方向オンチな浪速っ娘.
  • She's the first Johto Gym Leader to use a Generation II Pokémon on her main in-game team, and she's one of the only four to do so.
  • In Generation III, a Whitney look-alike, along with Jasmine and Pryce look-alikes, can be seen as an audience member in a Pokémon Contest.
  • In the anime, she is the only Gym Leader to have been defeated by Ash in a rematch; although it also took Ash another battle to defeat Pryce (the first battle was not an official Gym battle).

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese アカネ Akane Refers to 茜 akane, a madder; and 赤 aka, red.
English Whitney White islands. It's similar to the word white.
French Blanche Literally means white.
German Bianka From Italian bianco, white.
Italian Chiara From chiaro, light, pale.
Spanish Blanca Literally means white.
Korean 꼭두 Kkokdu reference to 꼭두서니 kkokduseoni, madder red (as in her Japanese name).
Chinese 小茜 Xiǎo Qiàn 茜 is taken from 茜 akane.

External links

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Zephyr Badge
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Falkner
Azalea Gym Hive Badge
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Bugsy
Goldenrod Gym Plain Badge
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Whitney
Ecruteak Gym Fog Badge
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Morty
Cianwood Gym Storm Badge
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Chuck
Olivine Gym Mineral Badge
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Jasmine
Mahogany Gym Glacier Badge
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Pryce
Blackthorn Gym Rising Badge
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Clair
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