Jessie
| Jessie ムサシ Musashi | |
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| Age | 17 |
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| Gender | Female |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair color | Red*, Purple |
| Hometown | Unknown |
| Region | Kanto |
| Relatives | Miyamoto (mother) |
| Trainer class | Agent, Coordinator |
| Generation | I |
| Games | Yellow |
| Member of | Team Rocket |
| Rank | Agent |
| Partner | James |
| Anime debut | Pokémon Emergency! |
| English voice actor | Rachael Lillis (4Kids) Michele Knotz (TPCi) |
| Japanese voice actor | Megumi Hayashibara Akiko Hiramatsu (temp.) |
Jessie (Japanese: ムサシ Musashi) is one part of of the Team Rocket trio that follows around Ash Ketchum and friends in the Pokémon anime, usually trying to steal Ash's Pikachu, but always failing.
In the anime
Character
Jessie's mother, Miyamoto, was a high-ranking Team Rocket agent. When Jessie was around the age of three, Miyamoto left on a mission to the Andes Mountains to record the voice of the elusive Pokémon Mew. However, Miyamoto disappeared, and Jessie was put into a foster home which had very little money. There were times when she had no choice but to eat snow because of a lack of more nourishing food.
When she was old enough, she left home to become a Pokémon nurse in Johto. However, the school she was enrolled in was literally for Pokémon nurses (i.e. Chansey), so she failed to graduate and left, leaving behind a Chansey she had befriended there. It is assumed that she then traveled back to Kanto, where she enrolled in Pokémon Tech, a trainer's school, met James, and subsequently failed and dropped out. After this, Jessie and James joined a bicycle gang in Sunny Town, where Jessie was known for swinging a chain above her head as she rode her bike (nicknamed "Chainer Jess").
Due to conflicts in canon between Kanto and Johto episodes and the special episode Training Daze, what happened between Jessie and James after the bike gang is unknown. What is known, as shown in the special episode, is that they joined Team Rocket separately and were on initially unfriendly terms after being grouped with Meowth. However, they quickly made up and the rest is history.
Sometime before joining Team Rocket, and it is not known when, Jessie obtained a Contest Pass in the Hoenn region. Also during the years before Team Rocket, she had several boyfriends, all of whom left her and/or treated her badly. In Xatu the Future, she revealed that she had once worked at a T.V. station as the Weathergirl. In From Cradle to Save is also revealed that she once was a ninja.
She has a long-standing bitter rivalry with Cassidy, another member of Team Rocket. Another member, Wendy, held a grudge against Jessie for failing to pay for a drink (making Wendy pay), but got her revenge when she added the charge to Jessie's overall Team Rocket bill.
In the episode Ignorance is Blissey, Jessie was reunited with her friend Chansey from the Pokémon nurse school; Chansey had since evolved into a Blissey.
Starting in Hoenn, Jessie has become a Pokémon Coordinator, entering every contest that she could. She frequently makes it to the battle round, but usually loses there. However, in Borrowing on Bad Faith, she finally succeeded in winning an (unofficial) contest by using Ash's Aipom, which she had saved earlier in the episode. And, in Team Shocker!, she finally wins an official contest with her Dustox in at Solaceon City. Later in DP102 she also won a ribbon with help of her Yanmega. She has Contest Passes to compete in the Hoenn, Kanto, and Sinnoh regions.
While Jessie's role in the Pokémon anime has not yet ended, in Toshihiro Ono's manga, The Electric Tale of Pikachu, she ended up married to James and with child.
Jessie seems to have a special preference for snake-like Pokémon, owning both an Arbok and a Seviper. In The Ninja Poké Showdown, she expressed a preference for Template:Type2 Pokémon in general.
For unknown reasons, she, James and Meowth mostly use hot air balloons instead of faster ways of transportation.
In the Kanto contests, Jessie disguises herself as Jessebella (which is similar to James former fiancee Jessiebelle) wearing a red dress and glasses. Eventually, Ash, Brock, Max and May finds out her true identity at the last contest.
During the Kanto Grand Festival, Jessie dresses up as Jessadia and wears glasses, long white socks, a yellow and orange dress, and has her hair in pigtails. She works there as an announcer and Lilian Meridian's assistant; Lilian herself says she may not really like "Jessadia"'s style, but recognizes her talent.
In Sinnoh Super Contests, Jessie disguises herself as Jessalina (Japanese: キャンディ・ムサリーナ Candy Musalina), using big glasses and an orange dress. She is notable for the fact that, in the appeals round of a contest, Jessie tends to use her Pokémon to show herself off, rather than showing them off. In the Latin American dub, she enters Super Contests under the name Jessiebella (referencing Jessiebelle again).
In Pruning a Passel of Pals! and Strategy With a Smile! she once again used her Jessadia disguise to report on the Wallace Cup.
Although Jessie had entered mostly every contest in Hoenn & Kanto, she lost in every single one, whether it was the first match of the Battle Rounds or the finals. But in the Sinnoh Region, she has so far won 2 ribbons using her Dustox and Yanmega.
Pokémon
As with the standards set by the Team Rocket organization, Jessie initially started off with mainly Template:Type2s. However, as the anime continued onward, her team has diversified. However, she is still strongly associated with poison-type serpentine Pokémon, such as Arbok and Seviper. Most of her other Pokémon tend to be unusual in appearance and don't usually fit the general image of "cute". However, she does display a desire to obtain Pokémon that are considered "adorable" when the opportunity presents itself, especially feminine Pokémon such as Happiny or Smoochum. Occasionally, she manages to take control of some powerful Pokémon, but due to either inexperience or hubris, this often backfires and loses control of them. She doesn't appear to train her Pokémon that often. Instead, they are often used to fight against Ash and his friends. When she enters contests, she tends to involve herself in her Pokémon's appeals.
Travels with
 Meowth |
On hand
 Wobbuffet |
 Seviper |
 → Yanma → Yanmega |
Released
 →  Ekans → Arbok |
 Magikarp |
 Shellder | |
 →  → File:Jessie's Dustox sprite.pngWurmple → Cascoon → Dustox | |||
Traded away
 Lickitung |
- Lickitung: Traded to Benny in Tricks of the Trade.
Borrowed
 Weezing |
 Cacnea |
 Chimecho |
 Mime Jr. |
 Carnivine |
 Cacturne |
 Banette |
File:190f.png Aipom |
- Weezing - From James in Princess Versus Princess.
- James's other Pokémon - For various Pokémon Contests.
- Cacturne and Banette - From Harley in New Plot, Old Lot and Going For Choke.
- Aipom - From Ash for an unofficial contest in Borrowing On Bad Faith.
Befriended
| File:Nurse Joy's Chansey sprite.png →File:Nurse Joy's Blissey sprite.png Chansey → Blissey |
Temporary
 Hitmonlee |
 Rhydon |
 Kingler |
 Machamp |
 Charizard |
 Blastoise |
Charizard |
 Croagunk |
| File:Jessie's Smoochum.png Smoochum |
 Hippowdon |
Magikarp |
- Hitmonlee - Stolen from Giant in order to participate in the P1 Grand Prix in The Punchy Pokémon.
- Rhydon, Kingler and Machamp - In The Battle of the Badge, Giovanni gave them to Jessie, James and Meowth for the Gym battle with Ash because he was busy dealing with Mewtwo. The three Pokémon were all used by Jessie.
- Charizard and Blastoise - Used in One Trick Phony!. They belonged to a Battle Park and the team had them taken away shortly before being blasted off.
- Charizard - TRDelibird ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) delivered a Charizard to Jessie by mistake in Grating Spaces. At the end of the episode, Delibird returned to take it back, as it was intended for Cassidy.
- Croagunk - Battled with in Gymbaliar, though she never actually captured it. It was later abandoned and captured by Brock.
- Smoochum - Trained during Camping It Up!.
- Hippowdon and Magikarp - Used in the Pokémon triathlon in One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team.
Status unknown
 Starmie |
- Starmie: Jessie was seen riding a Starmie in a flashback in From Cradle To Save.
Ribbons obtained
Achievements
- Unofficial contest in Borrowing on Bad Faith. (Winner)
Voice actors
- Japanese
- 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara
- 平松晶子 Akiko Hiramatsu (AG085-AG092)
- English
- Rachel Lillis (4Kids dub)
- Michele Knotz (TPCi dub)
- German
- Scarlet Lubowski
- Spanish
- Diana Pérez (Latin America)
- Amparo Valencia (Spain)
- Ana Jiménez (Spain; movie 3 and Mewtwo Returns)
- Brazilian
- Portuguese
In the games
Pokémon Yellow
Both Jessie and James appear in Pokémon Yellow as in-game bosses. They first attack the main character in Mt. Moon, while trying to take one of the rare fossils uncovered there.
Later, in Celadon City's Rocket Game Corner, Jessie and James guard Giovanni's room in the Team Rocket base. During that time, as the player runs into them, they are eager for revenge after the main character busted up their plans at Mt. Moon.
They hold Mr. Fuji hostage at Pokémon Tower. They attack the main character on the seventh floor.
Finally, at Silph Co. in Saffron City, Jessie and James make their final appearance, once again trying to stall the main character from reaching their Boss.
Unlike in the anime, Jessie and James do not follow the main character around and come up with their usual evil plans to capture Pikachu.
First battle
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Second battle
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Third battle
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Fourth battle
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Pokémon Puzzle League
Along with many other anime characters, both Jessie and James appeared in Pokémon Puzzle League.
In the TCG
Jessie and James appear on both versions of the card Here Comes Team Rocket!, which originally released in the Team Rocket set; it was re-released with different artwork in EX Team Rocket Returns. In that expansion, there was also a preconstructed Theme Deck based on Jessie.
In the manga
Jessie and James both made an appearance in the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, which was based off of the anime.
In it, the two eventually Template:S.
Trivia
- Both Jessie and James have used a Charizard at separate times. They used a third one together as well. None of the three remained in their care, however.
- In Sinnoh, she dressed up as a cowgirl and she was called Catherine Jessieburn. This is a direct reference to Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn.
- Jessie is currently the only member of the anime's main cast who is traveling with a Pokémon not in the extended Sinnoh Dex. In fact, she has two; Wobbuffet and Seviper.
- Much like Misty's, Jessie also has a special lure being modeled after her, like seen in Hook, Line, and Stinker.
- In Clamperl of Wisdom!, Jessie had sinusitis.
Name origin
Jessie's English name is taken from Jesse James, an American outlaw. Her Japanese name, Musashi, is taken from 宮本武蔵 Miyamoto Musashi, a famous Japanese swordsman. In his most famous duel, he defeated his rival, 佐々木小次郎 Sasaki Kojirō, after whom James got his Japanese name. However, one can argue that she is also named after the Japanese battleship Musashi, as her rival Cassidy's Japanese name is based off of the Japanese battleship Yamato.
She is based on a combination of Takeshi Shudō's old girlfriend from when he was in school and the female antagonist of the Time Bokan anime series.
Related articles
External links
- Vanity, the fanlisting for Jessie
- Musashi's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
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Archer (Masters) |
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| Jessie (Masters) • James (Masters) • Meowth • Team Rocket Grunts (Rocket Siblings) • Scientists (Gideon) Grey (Golden Boys) • Kaede (How I Became a Pokémon Card) | |||||
See also: Pokémon the Series • Adventures • Team GO Rocket • Team Rainbow Rocket
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