Team Galactic Grunt (Trainer class)

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Galactic grunts

A Galactic Grunt (Japanese: ギンガだんのしたっぱ Team Galactic Underling) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation IV games. They are the grunts of Team Galactic. There are male and female versions, and they all dress in the spacesuit-looking outfits that are the Team Galactic uniforms and have light blue hair that is cut quite short and rounded.

In the games

In the games, Galactic Grunts generally act as footsoldiers and guards for Team Galactic. Like all villain team Grunts, they are not individually named. Unlike other team grunts however, such as Rocket grunts, Aqua grunts and Magma grunts, Team Galactic grunts don't seem to get what are the global objectives of the team and often speak nonsense about them, which makes them look silly as to why they joined the team in the first place. Sometimes, certain Galactic grunts drop keys to their warehouses and HQs when they are defeated and/or they run away.

They generally use a combination of Glameow, Stunky, Croagunk, Zubat, Houndour, Murkrow, and the Wurmple line.

Appearance

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Images from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum

In the anime

Galactic Grunts have made multiple appearances in the anime, with the first appearance being in A Secret Sphere of Influence!. They also appeared in Enter Galactic!, Losing Its Lustrous and Double Team Turnover!, Steeling Peace of Mind!, Saving the World From Ruins!, and Gateway to Ruin!. Some grunts wear glasses and, as shown in Gateway to Ruin!, are trained to fight with Bōs (or Quarterstaves).

Pokémon

Golbat ♂

Debut	Enter Galactic!
Voice actors
Japanese	Shin'ichirō Miki
English	Shin'ichirō Miki

Each Galactic Grunt appears to be issued with one or two Golbat each. These Golbat are used either in battle or for aerial research.

The Golbat have collectively used five moves: Air Cutter, Shadow Ball, Sludge Bomb, Supersonic and Protect.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

A group of Galactic Grunts first appear in |VS. Roserade II, where they interrogate Rad Rickshaw, the owner of the bicycle shop, after abducting him. They were quickly dispelled by Cynthia's Spiritomb and fled their hideout, but many more of them made another appearance in VS. Staravia and Skuntank I, where one of them snatched Platinum's Pokédex and almost got away with it, and many others fought Paka, Uji, Diamond, and Pearl to find and issue a ransom on Platinum.

Later, another grunt feigns kidnapping her and demands that Platinum's father pay them 1.5 billion Pokédollars to get her back.

Finally, more groups of grunts attack the three lakes of Sinnoh alongside their three commanders, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Pokémon

Staravia

Gible

Haunter

Machamp

Skuntank

Pokémon DP Adventure

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B-2

In Pokémon DP Adventure a Galactic Grunt known as B-2 is given a recurring role in the manga. He is distinguishable from other grunts due to his jiggling buttocks after being bitten by Hareta.

Pokémon

Wurmple

Zubat

Beautifly

Graveler

Drapion

Croagunk

Pokémon(Not B-2's)

Zubat

Machoke

Croagunk

Dustox

Golbat

Wurmple

Carnivine

Aggron

Torkoal

Trivia

• The Galactic Grunt battle music has a funk and jazz element in it, while there is a funk and jazz group called the Galactic.

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