Looker

Looker ハンサム Handsome
[[File:File:Looker Artwork.png|{{{size}}}]] Art from Platinum
Gender	Male
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Black
Hometown	Outside Sinnoh
Region	Sinnoh
Trainer class
Generation	IV
Games	Platinum

"Looker" (Japanese: ハンサム Handsome) is the codename for a character introduced in Pokémon Platinum. He was first announced in an issue of CoroCoro as an international police officer on assignment investigating Team Galactic and its plans.

In the games

The player first meets Looker

In Pokémon Platinum, Looker is an important character, encountering the player multiple times over their journey across Sinnoh. He speaks with odd grammatical constructs, implying that he is not a native speaker of the national language. He first meets the player in Jubilife City, giving them the Vs. Recorder, and appears often when Team Galactic is near. His motives are clear: his mission is to stop Team Galactic from causing havoc in the Sinnoh region. He gives the player a Black Flute when they're about to go off to Spear Pillar.

When Cyrus retreats into the Distortion World, Looker shifts his investigation towards Charon, who has taken control of the team. This is because Looker stumbles upon Charon's notes of his plans back the Galactic Veilstone Building. He is not seen again until after the player defeats the Elite Four, when they journey to Stark Mountain. Here he is seen in the final stages of his investigation, arresting Charon and ending Team Galactic's reign of terror once and for all.

After this, he can be found in the Veilstone Game Corner. He mentions that he wants to spend his remaining time in Sinnoh to teach new moves to his Pokémon.

File:Looker Sprite.png

Looker's sprite used during Platinum's opening

Disguises

Looker is shown to be quite good at disguising himself. His prime disguise is that of a Team Galactic grunt. At Stark Mountain, before he apprehends Charon, he disguises himself as a rock that Rock Smash can be used on.

Pokémon

Although he does not battle with or against the player at all during the entirety of the game, it is known that he has a Croagunk. He uses it to get the Magma Stone from Charon at Stark Mountain.

Croagunk

In the manga

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga

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Looker in Diamond and Pearl Adventure!.

In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga, he and Kōya are on the trail looking for Hareta's father, Kaisē. Like in the games, he is also working for the Global Police. In a chapter, he is able to identify Galactic grunts in the crowd before they launched a terrorist attack on the stadium, once the Galactic incident is taken care of, he tries to take Kaisē into custody.

In the TCG

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

Name	Type	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Looker's Investigation	Su		Platinum	109/127

Trivia

• Looker's character is very similar to Scott's from Pokemon Emerald in that he showed up in the third installment for that region, and he shows up at intervals throughout the game.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ハンサム Handsome	The English word "Handsome."
English	Looker	A colloquialism used to refer to someone good-looking; effectively a synonym for his Japanese name, Handsome. Synonymous wordplay for a watchman; or a guard or investigator of sorts.
Italian	Bellocchio	Translate of the English name.

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