EP063

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EP063   トキワジム！さいごのバッジ！ Tokiwa Gym! The Last Badge!

First broadcast Japan September 17, 1998 United States September 25, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケモン音頭

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 横田和 Kazu Yokota Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

It was originally broadcast as トキワジム！最後のバッヂ！

The Battle of the Badge (Japanese: トキワジム！さいごのバッジ！ Tokiwa Gym! The Last Badge!) is the 63rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 17, 1998 and in the United States on September 25, 1999.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash finally arrives at the Viridian Gym, only to have Gary Oak drive up in front of him first and enter the Gym. Once inside, Gary battles against Giovanni who seems to be losing to Gary. But at the last minute, he brings out Mewtwo (in armor) and it has no problem defeating Gary's Pokémon. Meanwhile, Ash accidentally loses Togepi and the gang set off searching for it. Togepi ends up in the arms of Team Rocket who immediately take it to their Boss. Giovanni is not pleased with this, but then has to run off for an emergency, leaving Team Rocket as the gym leaders. Ash enters the Gym, where they find Togepi, and battles against Jessie for the Earthbadge. After a tough battle, he wins with the help of Pidgeotto and Pikachu, finally gaining enough badges to enter the Pokémon League.

Major events

• Ash earns his Earth Badge from the Viridian Gym.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Nidoking
• Arcanine
• Machamp

TV episode debuts

• Mewtwo (in armor)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Gary
• Gary's cheerleaders

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Mr. Mime (US and international), Windie (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Nidoking (Gary's; debut)
• Arcanine (Gary's; debut)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Golem (Giovanni's)
• Machamp (Giovanni's)
• Cloyster (Giovanni's)
• Kingler (Giovanni's)
• Rhydon (Giovanni's)
• Mewtwo (Giovanni's; debut; in armor)
• Fearow (debut)

Trivia

File:Mewtwo Analysis.jpg

Mewtwo's armor causing problems to the Pokédex

• Some scenes of this episode are similar to scenes from the first movie. These include the battle with Giovanni and Gary.
• This marks the first and only time a Gym Leader refuses to give the badge to Ash despite winning the battle fair and square.
• This also marks the first time that Ash won a badge at the first attempt, and only the third time that he won a gym badge for actually defeating the gym leader in a pokémon battle(He also defeated Lt. Surge to win a Thunderbadge and Ash defeated Blaine to win a Volcano Badge).
• It's subtly hinted that Mewtwo's armor might have been interfering with the Pokédex's scanning ability. When the Pokédex was saying that the Pokémon was unknown and didn't have any available data, there was static interference on the Pokédex screen as well, which none of the other unidentified Pokémon both prior and after had.
• The episode title is a pun of "Battle of the Bulge".

In other languages

• Finnish: Merkin herruus
• French: L'arène Team Rocket
• Italian: L'ottava Medaglia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La batalla por la medalla!
• Iberian Spanish: El combate de la medalla
• Brazilian Portuguese: A Batalha da Insígnia

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Original series

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