EP063

The Battle of the Badge File:TheBattleoftheBattle.gif.png

EP063   トキワジム！さいごのバッジ！ Tokiwa Gym! The Last Badge!

First broadcast Japan September 17, 1998 United States September 25, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケモン音頭

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 横田和 Kazu Yokota Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

It was originally broadcast as トキワジム！最後のバッヂ！

The Battle of the Badge (Japanese: トキワジム！さいごのバッジ！ Tokiwa Gym! The Last Badge!) is episode 63 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 17, 1998 and in the United States on September 25, 1999.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Ash earns his Earth Badge from the Viridian Gym.

Debuts

• Mewtwo (in armor)
• Nidoking
• Arcanine
• Machamp

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Gary
• Gary's cheerleaders

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Mr. Mime (US and international), Windie (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Nidoking (Gary's; debut)
• Arcanine (Gary's; debut)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Golem (Giovanni's)
• Machamp (Giovanni's)
• Cloyster (Giovanni's)
• Kingler (Giovanni's)
• Rhydon (Giovanni's)
• Mewtwo (Giovanni's; debut; in armor)
• Fearow

Trivia

• Some scenes of this episode are similar to scenes from the first movie. These include the battle with Giovanni and Gary.
• This marks the first and only time a Gym Leader refuses to give the badge to Ash despite winning the battle fair and square.
• It's subtly hinted that Mewtwo's Armor might have been interfering with the Pokédex's scanning ability. When the Pokédex was saying that the Pokémon was unknown and didn't have any available data, there was static interference on the Pokédex screen as well, which none of the other unidentified pokémon both prior and after had.

File:Mewtwo Analysis.jpg

Mewtwo's Armor... magnitizing the Pokédex?

In other languages

• French: L'arène Team Rocket
• Italian: L'ottava Medaglia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La batalla por la medalla!
• Spanish: El combate de la medalla

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