Whitney

Whitney アカネ Akane
""The Incredibly Pretty Girl""
[[File:File:Whitney.jpg|{{{size}}}]] 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

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Whitney and her Miltank in Born to Be a Winner.

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.

Clefairy

Nidorina

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.

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.

Miltank

Cleffa

Igglybuff

Released

Smeargle (Given to DJ Mary)

In the Golden Boys manga

Pokémon

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

Miltank

Cleffa

Ditto

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		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	14/141
Whitney's Wigglytuff		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	15/141
Whitney's Persian		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	16/141
Whitney's Lickitung		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	17/141
Whitney's Furret		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	18/141
Whitney's Miltank		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	19/141
Whitney's TM 01	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	107/141
Whitney's TM 02	-	-		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

• Akane's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Falkner	Azalea Gym Bugsy	Goldenrod Gym Whitney	Ecruteak Gym Morty
Cianwood Gym Chuck	Olivine Gym Jasmine	Mahogany Gym Pryce	Blackthorn Gym Clair

This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.