Agatha

Agatha キクコ Kikuko
Art from FireRed and LeafGreen
Gender	Female
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Graying blonde
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Kanto or Johto
Trainer class	Elite Trainer
Generation	I, III
Games	Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, LeafGreen, Stadium
Elite Four of	Indigo Plateau
Specializes in	Template:Type2s
Anime debut	The Scheme Team
English voice actor	Allyson Johnson
Japanese voice actor	Kazuko Sugiyama

Agatha (Japanese: キクコ Kikuko) is a master Template:Type2 Trainer.

In Generations I and III, she is an elderly woman who is the third and oldest member of the Kanto Elite Four, her specialty type being Ghost.

In the games

Agatha is a member of the Elite Four, and the oldest one to date. As such, she serves as an inspiration for senior Pokémon Trainers all around the region. She uses Ghost-type Pokémon, and other Pokémon with horrifying appearances.

Agatha and Professor Oak were once friendly rivals in their youth, and it appears that Agatha may have once had a crush on Oak. However, their relationship has grown bitter and strained over the years because Agatha believes he was too weak to continue competing.

She has a very short temper.

By the events of the Generation II and Generation IV games, Agatha is no longer a member of the Elite Four, and Bruno has assumed her position. Her absence is never explained.

Fame Checker

This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Agatha in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.

Pokémon League - Agatha

• What does this person do?

"I am Agatha of the Elite Four."

Indigo Plateau - Crusher

• Favorite kind of Pokémon?

"<sc>Agatha's Ghost-type Pokémon are horrifically terrifying in toughness."

Indigo Plateau - Crusher

• What is this person like?

"That old lady's got a really short fuse, too.

It doesn't take anything to get that scary lady hollering."

Seven Island - Pokémon Journal

• There's a rumor...

"In her youth, Agatha and Prof. Oak were rivals who vied for

supremacy as Trainers."

Pokémon League - Agatha

• Family and friends?

"I hear Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child.

That old duff was once tough and handsome.

But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self."

Six Island - old lady

• What is this person like?

"Take Agatha, for example.

She set a record for being the oldest-ever Elite Four member."

Message from Agatha

• From: Agatha
• To: [Player]

"When you grow older, don't you dare go soft like that coot Oak!

Be like me and keep battling on!"

Pokémon

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

Pokémon Red and Blue

File:RB Agatha.png Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau Red, Green, and Blue Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau Red, Green, and Blue Reward: $5940

Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.56 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Poison Flying Golbat Lv.56 Supersonic Normal   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Haze Ice   --       Types: Ghost Poison Haunter Lv.55 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Poison Unknown Arbok Lv.58 Bite Normal   --       Glare Normal   --       Screech Normal   --       Acid Poison   --       Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.60 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Toxic Poison   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --

Pokémon Yellow

File:YellowAgatha.png Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau Yellow Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau Yellow Reward: $5940

Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.56 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Lick Ghost   --       Substitute Normal   --       Mega Drain Grass   --       Types: Poison Flying Golbat Lv.56 Supersonic Normal   --       Leech Life Bug   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Toxic Poison   --       Types: Ghost Poison Haunter Lv.55 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Lick Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Poison Unknown Arbok Lv.58 Wrap Normal   --       Glare Normal   --       Screech Normal   --       Acid Poison   --       Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.60 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

First battle

File:FRLG Agatha.png Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau FireRed and LeafGreen Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau FireRed and LeafGreen Reward: $5800

Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Gengar♀ Lv.54 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Shadow Punch Ghost   --       Double Team Normal   --       Toxic Poison   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♀ Lv.54 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Poison Fang Poison   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Haunter♀ Lv.53 Mean Look Normal   --       Curse ???   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Poison Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Arbok♀ Lv.56 Bite Dark   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Screech Normal   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: Sitrus Berry Gengar♀ Lv.58 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Nightmare Ghost   --

Second battle

File:FRLG Agatha.png Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau FireRed and LeafGreen Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau FireRed and LeafGreen Reward: $7000

Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Gengar♂ Lv.66 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Shadow Punch Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.66 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Types: Ghost Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: None Misdreavus♂ Lv.65 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Attract Normal   --       Types: Poison Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Arbok♂ Lv.68 Double Team Normal   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Giga Drain Grass   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: Chesto Berry Gengar♂ Lv.70 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --

Pokémon Stadium

Round 1

File:Agatha Stadium.jpg Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau Pokémon Stadium Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau Pokémon Stadium Reward: none

Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.50 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bide Normal   --       Explosion Normal   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Ghost Poison Haunter Lv.50 Thunderbolt Electric   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Poison Flying Golbat Lv.50 Supersonic Normal   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Attract Normal   --       Types: Poison Unknown Arbok Lv.50 Screech Normal   --       Wrap Normal   --       Glare Normal   --       Fissure Ground   --       Types: Poison Unknown Muk Lv.50 Minimize Normal   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Explosion Normal   --       Sludge Poison   --       Types: Grass Poison Venusaur Lv.50 Leech Seed Grass   --       Razor Leaf Grass   --       Toxic Poison   --       Mega Drain Grass   --

Round 2

File:Agatha Stadium.jpg Elite Four Agatha Indigo Plateau Pokémon Stadium Elite Four and Professor Agatha Oak Indigo Plateau Pokémon Stadium Reward: none

Types: Ghost Poison Gengar Lv.50 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bide Normal   --       Explosion Normal   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Ice Psychic Jynx Lv.50 Lovely Kiss Normal   --       Reflect Psychic   --       Blizzard Ice   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Psychic Unknown Alakazam Lv.50 Psychic Psychic   --       Seismic Toss Fighting   --       Thunder Wave Electric   --       Recover Normal   --       Types: Poison Unknown Arbok Lv.50 Screech Normal   --       Wrap Normal   --       Glare Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Types: Water Flying Gyarados Lv.50 Surf Water   --       Hyper Beam Normal   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Fire Blast Fire   --       Types: Grass Poison Venusaur Lv.50 Double-Edge Normal   --       SolarBeam Grass   --       Sleep Powder Grass   --       Mega Drain Grass   --

Quotes

Pokémon Red and Blue

• Before battle

"I am Agatha of the Elite Four! Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child! That old duff was once tough and handsome! That was decades ago! Now he just wants to fiddle with his Pokédex! He's wrong! Pokémon are for fighting! <Player>! I'll show you how a real trainer fights!"

• When defeated

"Oh ho! You're something special, child!"

• After being defeated

"You win! I see what the old duff sees in you now. I've nothing else to say. Run along now, child!"

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

• Before battle

"I am Agatha of the Elite Four. I hear Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child. That old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self. Now he just wants to fiddle with his Pokédex. He's wrong. Pokémon are for battling! <Player>! I'll show you how a real Trainer battles!"

• When defeated

"Oh, my! You're something special, child!"

• After being defeated

"You win! I see what the old duff sees in you now. I've nothing else to say. Run along now, child!"

Sprites

File:RB Agatha.png	File:YellowAgatha.png	File:FRLG Agatha.png	File:Agatha Stadium.jpg
Agatha's sprite from Generation I	Agatha's sprite from Yellow	Agatha's sprite from Generation III	Agatha's artwork from Pokémon Stadium

In the anime

File:Agatha anime.jpg

Agatha in the anime.

Agatha appears in the anime in The Scheme Team, acting as a temporary Gym Leader for the Viridian Gym.

While Ash was going through Viridian City on the way to Pallet Town, he met up with Scott. Wanting to show Scott how strong he was, Ash challenged Agatha to a gym battle. Despite maintaining top eight of the Ever Grande Conference, Ash lost to her Gengar.

Although he lost, both Agatha and Scott were impressed. It was then Agatha revealed to Ash that she is a member of the Elite Four. She and Scott both recommended that Ash go to the Battle Frontier and challenge the Frontier Brains.

Pokémon

This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the anime.

Gengar

Agatha's Gengar

Debut	The Scheme Team
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Ed Paul

Gengar is Agatha's main Pokémon which she used in battle against Ash's Pikachu. Pikachu first used Quick Attack, which proved itself as nothing against the Template:Type2 Shadow Pokémon. Pikachu manages to hit Gengar with Iron Tail twice and break its Double Team with a Thunderbolt. Pikachu is about to finish Gengar off with Thunder as Agatha launches her fatal Hypnosis - Dream Eater combo, knocking Pikachu out.

Gengar's known moves are Shadow Ball, Double Team, Hypnosis and Dream Eater.

Golbat

Agatha's Golbat

Debut	The Scheme Team
Voice actors
Japanese	Shin'ichirō Miki
English	Shin'ichirō Miki

Agatha used Golbat to save Ash's Pikachu from the hands of Team Rocket and also used it along with Ash's Pikachu to send them blasting off.

Golbat's known moves are Air Cutter and Supersonic.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 杉山佳寿子 Kazuko Sugiyama English Allyson Johnson German Marion Hartmann Brazilian Portuguese Gilmara Sanches Spanish Latin America Gabriela Gómez Spain María Romero

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Agatha

She was first seen as a cameo when Oak talked about his first championship win, which appeared to be against her in the finals. Agatha was one of the main villains in the Yellow arc arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga. Agatha was one of the Elite Four who tried to destroy most of humanity from their base on Cerise Island.

She was first seen trying to take away Super Nerd William after he was defeated by Yellow and the Good Gym Leaders of Kanto. She was then seen in a flashback during the events of the Red, Blue, and Green Chapter where she battled Blue and attempted to kill him due to his relation to Professor Oak by having his Gengar use Dream Eater to suck away his energy. He managed to escape though and a Haunter she stole from a Trainer named Bozz was also taken back. She then had her Haunter attack Cerulean City to delay Misty.

She fought against Blue and Koga, revealing an Arbok with the ability to change the pattern on its belly and use different corresponding abilities. She decided to divide Koga and Blue using her Arbok's Rock Slide and she had her Golbat attack Blue. After battling Koga's Arbok for a while Koga started throwing shuriken balls out of nowhere, which Agatha believed was a pitiful attempt to harm her, but was really an attempt to heal Blue's paralysis that Agatha caused using her Haunter's Lick. After that Blue rejoined the battle and Koga used his Golbat's Leech Life to collect his own blood and smeared it on Arbok's pattern, preventing it from changing anymore. While Agatha was presumably beaten, a second Arbok of hers attacked an unknowing Koga from behind, only to be stopped by Blue before it could land a Poison Sting attack. Agatha was subsequently defeated and seemingly vanished after her defeat, but first she had her Gengar masquerade as Koga and Blue's shadow to slowly drain their energy, which was defeated as well. She then revealed that she was the one controlling the Pokémon armies of her peers by using special wrist bands to control them and she used these same bands to force Bruno to join the Elite Four as well.

Agatha used the mind-controlling powers of her Template:Type2 Pokémon to control Bruno against his will. It is shown that she was the one who also recruited Lorelei by healing her Seel and then figuring out they have a common distaste of humans.

Her relationship was also revealed when the two were younger. Oak defeated her in the finals for the Pokémon Championship and Agatha met him after the battle and asked why he quit their "research group". He explained that he wanted to create the Pokédex, which she thought was a stupid idea that would never be complete, and a battle ensued. Oak barely won after a battle that lasted several hours, with Agatha swearing a personal vendetta over him and anyone who associates with him.

Pokémon

This listing is of Agatha's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Gastly

Haunter (multiple)

Gengar (multiple)

Arbok (x2)

Golbat

Trivia

• Agatha, like the other members of the Elite Four, had a revamp in her character design in the Generation III games Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. She is depicted as being taller, slightly younger, and her hair has changed color from gray to graying blonde.
• Due to her resemblance to Bertha of the Sinnoh Elite Four in position, name (both English and Japanese), and physical appearance, the two are theorized by some to be related.
• Though she claims to specialize in the Ghost-type, the common type shared by all her Pokémon in the games (except Misdreavus) is Poison. This is most likely because Generation I lacked Ghost-types, the only ones being the Gastly line.
• In her first battle in FireRed and LeafGreen, all her Pokémon are female. In the second and subsequent battles, they are all male.

Names

Language	Name	Reference to
Japanese	キクコ Kikuko	菊 Kiku, chrysanthemum. A common Japanese given name.
English, French, Italian, Spanish	Agatha	Ironically means good and kind, but likely chosen for similarity with aghast, ghost or hag.
German	Agathe	From the English given name.
Korean	할멈 Halmeom* 국화 Gukhwa*	Literally means old woman. Means chrysanthemum (菊花), in Japanese kiku.
Chinese	菊子 Júzǐ	From the name 菊子 Kikuko. Literally means "Chrysanthemum child".

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