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Professor Turo
フトゥー Futu
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Art from Pokémon Violet
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| Gender
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Male
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| Eye color
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Brown
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| Hair color
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Light brown
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| Hometown
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Unknown
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| Region
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Paldea
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| Relatives
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Arven (son)
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| Generation
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IX
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| Games
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Violet
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Professor Turo (Japanese: フトゥー Futu) is a Pokémon Professor in Pokémon Violet.
In the core series games
Professor Turo first contacts the player when they enter the Uva Academy for the first time, asking them to take care of the Miraidon that was once under his possession. Throughout the game, he frequently contacts the player as Miraidon gradually regains the powers it once lost. Once Miraidon is fully powered, Turo asks the player to travel to his laboratory at the Great Crater of Paldea. As the player, Nemona, Arven, and Penny traverse the area to reach Turo's laboratory, the Professor reveals that he succeeded in creating a time machine, which has brought Pokémon known as Paradox Pokémon from the distant future into modern time, including two specimens of Miraidon.
At the Zero Lab, the player discovers that the Professor Turo they've been talking with has actually been a robot the whole time, infused with an artificial intelligence copy of the real Professor, who was killed by one of the Paradox Pokémon. While the original Professor Turo wished to let Pokémon of the future keep entering the modern day through the time machine, the AI refuses to let the Paldea region's ecosystem be ruined by these time-displaced Pokémon and asks for the player's help in shutting down the time machine. The AI is, however, programmed to protect the time machine, so the player is forced to battle it and the Paradox Pokémon it wields against the AI's will.
After the AI is defeated, the security system seals all Poké Balls not labeled with Turo's ID and initiates the Paradise Protection Protocol, forcing the player to confront the AI's Miraidon with the one they've spent the entire game with. Once the opposing Miraidon has been defeated, AI Turo understands that the time machine cannot be shut down as long as it remains present to reboot the system, so it chooses to travel to the distant future its creator had hoped to see, bidding farewell to the player and their friends as it disappears into the time machine.
Pokémon
AI Turo's Pokémon are contained in Master Balls.
First battle
Second battle
Formerly owned
Quotes
- Main article: Professor Turo/Quotes
Artwork
Trivia
- Professor Turo was designed by James Turner.[1]
- He and Professor Sada are the first Pokémon Professors from the core series:
- To not have a name derived from flora.
- To have been confirmed deceased.
- They are also the first Trainers in the core series to be battled post-mortem, via an AI.
- To serve as the final main game opponent in a core series game.
- Unlike previous trainer battles in which the opponent battles the player with more than six Pokémon, the player also uses a seventh Pokémon against AI Turo. This is also the case when battling his counterpart AI Sada.
- In both games it is implied in a journal entry that Sada is Turo’s wife.
Names
| Language
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Name
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Origin
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| Japanese
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フトゥー Futu
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From futūrum (Latin for future)
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English, Spanish,
Brazilian Portuguese
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Turo
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From futuro (Spanish and Portuguese for future)
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| German
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Futurus
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From futūrus (Latin for "about to be")
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| French, Italian
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Turum
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From futūrum (Latin for future)
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| Korean
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투로 Turo
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Transcription of his English name
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| Chinese (Mandarin)
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弗圖 / 弗图 Fútú
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Transcription of his Japanese name
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| Chinese (Cantonese)
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弗圖 Fāttòuh
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Mandarin-based transcription of his Japanese name
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| European Portuguese
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Professor Turo
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Same as English name
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References
