Green (Adventures)
- If you were looking for the the male character from the Pokémon Adventures manga who is known as Green in Japan, see Blue (Adventures).
| Green ブルー Blue | |
| [[File:File:Blue Special.png|{{{size}}}]] Green | |
| Age | 17 (as of the sixth chapter) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Hometown | Pallet Town |
| Region | Kanto |
| Relatives | Unnamed parents |
| Trainer class | Trainer |
Green (Japanese: ブルー Blue) is the third main character of the manga series Pokémon Adventures. Her first Pokémon was a Jigglypuff. As a young child, she was kidnapped by Ho-Oh and raised by the evil Mask of Ice, where she met and became close with Silver. (This kidnapping led to her ornithophobia, which is not cured until the end of the GSC Saga.) The two of them escaped, and Green went to Kanto, where she stole Professor Oak's Squirtle.
Green is quite cunning and quick-witted. She can talk others into believing a bold-faced lie and talk her way out of many tight situations. At one point, she convinces Red to buy a bunch of useless items for his Pikachu. Green is also a master of disguise, she uses her Ditto as a mask and is able to make herself look like anyone she wants.
Green's special skill, as defined by Professor Oak, is evolving; she is known as the "Evolver" (化える者 Evolver). However, until recently she refrained from evolving her Pokémon, because she preferred to lull her opponents into a false sense of security by using unevolved "cute" Pokémon. The special skills of Green and Silver are homophonous in Japanese.
The original Green was designed after the early sketches for a Lass and a female protagonist shown in early concept art for Pokémon Red and Green, however, the idea of choosing the character's gender was unable to be implemented until Pokémon Crystal due to technological limitations of the time. When Leaf finally appeared in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, Green changed her clothes to match.
Character history
Past
Five years before the Red, Green & Blue chapter, Green was kidnapped by Mask of Ice's Ho-Oh when she was only five years old. Mask of Ice gave her a Jigglypuff. There she met Silver and made friends with him. Few years later, the two kids escaped from the Mask of Ice Hideout.
Red, Green & Blue arc
Green first met Red and tried to scam him out of his money by selling fake items by using her beauty and flattery. Red hunted her down to reclaim his money, but she used this opportunity to steal his badges. Then Red learned that her Squirtle was stolen from Professor Oak and had evolved into a Wartortle. She is then seen surrounded by a group of Team Rocket members, revealed to have stolen some chip involving Mew. She sends out Ditty and in the confusion of Red saving her from an opponent's Tauros, she was able to switch Ditty as the Tauros and make the opponent's Pokémon defeat themselves thanks to that Tauros' special ability. It was then revelaed that she wants to catch Mew because she thinks that it is "the cutest Pokémon ever". Later it is found out that she really just wants it for money and when the two of them go hunting for Mew, she has Ditty Transform into Mew to fool the pursuing Team Rocket, although they really figure out the hoax and in the ensuring battle Mew gets away. Green then leaves saying that she plans on selling pictures of Mew she took to newspapers, but she does give back Red his badges.
She is later seen trying to sweet-talk her way into Saffron City. After failing, she tries to infiltrate from the air with her Jigglypuff. She then spots Blue and tells him about the barrier and later suggests that they team up. She then gets Red and Blue to team up so they can do all of the work for her getting into Saffron City, which they succeed in doing. She then slipped through the back door of Silph Co. and was able to glide right up to the 3F, where she encountered Sabrina and had to deal with her playing mind games. She later gets away from her by concealing Poké Balls on her chest and make Sabrina have Kadabra slash them off her chest, sending out Jigglypuff which used Sing to freeze Sabrina in her place. She than uses Ditty to disguise herself as Sabrina and reachs the room with the Badge Energy Amplifier and is almost attacked by Red. She then reveals that she frisked a Marsh Badge and traded it to Blue for his Moon Stone. She then takes the Amplifier from Red after it not working with his badges, revealing that the badges she "returned to him" were actually fake and that she kept the real ones. She then puts all of the badges into the Amplifier and made Zapmolcuno form accidently, thinking that it was supposed to make a rare new species of Pokémon. She was knocked out during the battle between her, Red, and Blue against Zapmolcuno but Red takes the Moon Stone and evolved her Clefairy into a Clefable. After a long fight Zapmolcuno was defeated by the combined forces of Blasty, Blue's Charizard, and the newly evolved Saur.
Afterwards, she manages to get into the 9th Pokémon League tournament without badges by making it through special qualifying elimination rounds. Green makes it to fourth place, but is defeated by Professor Oak, who uses her fear of birds against her by using a team of Flying-type Pokémon to defeat her. He then reveals to er that he knew of reports and saw pictures of a girl who got kidnapped in Pallet Town by a bird Pokémon and when he saw the same face stealing a Squirtle he knew he had to talk to her and remind her that stealing is wrong. She confesses to Professor Oak who forgives her for stealing Squirtle and gives her the last Pokédex. She has ornithophobia and is afraid of Template:Type2 Pokémon because of her kidnapping.
Yellow arc
Green trains Yellow and gives Yellow her boy disguise, and sends her off to save Red. She believes the Elite Four were controlling Ho-Oh, so carries a grudge against them. However, she eventually learns she was wrong and resolves to return to Johto.
Gold, Silver & Crystal arc
Green reappears late in the storyline, when her relationship with Silver is disclosed. She and Silver escaped from the Mask of Ice, who used Ho-Oh and Lugia to kidnap her along with Will, Chermaine, Karen, and Keane to be his servants. Green confronts Ho-Oh and finally overcomes her ornithophobia, and uses the legendary birds to help defeat the Mask of Ice.
FireRed & LeafGreen arc
More of Green's past is revealed in this chapter including how she, along with Silver managed to escape from the clutches of the Mask of Ice. She finally learns that her parents have moved to the Sevii Islands and resolves to reunite with them. Before she can, both they and Professor Oak are kidnapped by Deoxys. Here, her Pokémon finally evolve to their final stages and her Blastoise learns the legendary Template:Type2 move - Hydro Cannon. At the end of this saga, she was turned to stone along with 4 other Pokédex Holders.
Emerald arc
For most part of this chapter, she, along with four other Pokédex-holders, remained turned into stones. It was only at nearly the end of the chapter that she and the others were liberated by Emerald with the help of the wish-granting legendary Pokémon Jirachi.
Pokémon
Most of Green's Pokémon nicknames, with the exception of Puriri, contain syllables from the species' Japanese name, followed by a Japanese honorific. "Puriri" comes from Jigglypuff's Japanese name, Purin.
On hand
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In box
 Abra ♀ |
- Green occasionally uses this Abra to Teleport herself around.
Status unknown
This is a listing of Pokémon, which Green caught but they were not listed in the all character Pokémon listings in the end of Volume 15. Since then, it's possible that Green released them.
 Weedle |
 Articuno |
 Zapdos |
 Moltres |
- Weedle - Green caught this Pokémon to try to trick someone into trading something better for it, but Red stopped her.
- Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres - Green caught these three birds in order to overcome her ornithophobia. They were not seen since the third chapter, which means she could have released them.
Formerly owned
 Horsea ♀ |
Trivia
- Green's Pokémon were unnamed in Viz's American translations of Pokémon Adventures. Their English nicknames were first used in Chuang Yi's translations of Sevii Island Arc. Surprisingly, her Jigglypuff didn't get an English nickname, (although she calls it "Jiggly" sometimes) for some reason.
- Before official nicknames of Green's Pokémon were released, Coronis coined his own, which were often seen used by fandom. Coincidentally, Chuang Yi's nicknames were almost the same as Coronis's ones (except Blastoise and Jigglypuff).
- Her Snubbull (now a Granbull) got a gender change. In Volume 15 he's listed as male, while in Volume 24 she's listed as female.
- Green and Blue are the only main Pokémon Adventures characters whose names were changed for the English translation. This is due to the complexity of Generation I's game releases, where in Japan, Red Version was paired with Green Version (leaving Blue as the third), and in the rest of the world Red was paired with Blue (while there was no Green). Since she was not Red's rival, the translators did not see it fitting that she have her name be that of Red's "rival version". This name change is present in both the VIZ Media and Chuang Yi translations.
- A panel in the original VIZ printing of volume 3 forgets to make this change, however. When the Pokémon League scoreboard is shown, Red's rival is identified as "GREEN" and Green is identified as "BLUE". This error was still present in the "Best of Pokémon Adventures" compilation volume, but was corrected for the 2009 second edition.
- Green is the only of the original 7 Pokédex holders that doesn't have any unevolved Pokémon on hand.
- Green is the oldest main character in Pokémon Adventures, being 17 (as of the fifth chapter) and Red and Blue being 16 (as of the fifth chapter).
In other languages
| Language | Name | Reference to |
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| Japanese | ブルー Blue | From Pokémon Blue game. |
| English | Green | From Pokémon Green game. |
| French | Olga | |
| German | Green | From Pokémon Green game. |
| Korean | 블루 Blue | From Pokémon Blue game. |
| Chinese | 小藍 Xiǎo Lán | 藍 means blue. |
External links
- Netkun on Blue (Japanese)
- Netkun on FR/LG Blue (Japanese)
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