Chuck

Chuck シジマ Shijima
""His roaring fists do the talking""
[[File:File:Chuck.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Art from Gold and Silver
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Brown
Hometown	Cianwood City
Region	Johto
Relatives	Wife
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	II, IV
Games	Gold, Silver, Crystal, Stadium 2, HeartGold, SoulSilver
Leader of	Cianwood Gym
Badge	Storm Badge
Anime debut	Machoke, Machoke Man!
English voice actor	Dan Green
Japanese voice actor	Nobuaki Kakuda

Chuck (Japanese: シジマ Shijima) is the Gym Leader of Cianwood City's Gym, officially known as the Cianwood Gym. His specialty is Template:Type2 Pokémon. Chuck gives out the Storm Badge to Trainers who beat him.

In the games

Chuck appears in Generations II and IV, in Pokémon Gold and Silver, Pokémon Crystal, and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. A Template:Type2 Trainer, he is known to spar with his Pokémon to train both them and himself. His title is "His Roaring Fists Do the Talking".

In Generation II, once challengers have made their way through his gym, Chuck will attempt to intimidate them before battle by telling how his Pokémon "will crush stones and shatter bones." He then lifts and tosses a boulder prior to accepting the challenge.

In Generation IV, Chuck awaits his challengers underneath a large waterfall. He will not notice the player approach him until the water under which he has been meditating stops flowing.

Chuck enjoys a good battle, but after losing he vows to train 24 hours a day. After he is defeated, his wife will give the player HM02 (Fly). She also comments that she is grateful that her husband would be doing more training, since he was getting "a little chubby".

In addition to the Storm Badge, Chuck gives out TM01 (DynamicPunch in Generation II; Focus Punch in Generation IV).

Pokémon

This listing is of Chuck's Pokémon in the video games he has appeared in.

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

File:SpriteChuck.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Chuck [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Gold, Silver, and Crystal [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Chuck Oak [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $3000
Types: Fighting Unknown Held item: None Primeape♂ Lv.27 Leer Normal   --       Rage Normal   --       Karate Chop Fighting   --       Fury Swipes Normal   --       Types: Water Fighting Held item: None Poliwrath♂ Lv.30 Hypnosis Psychic   --       Mind Reader Normal   --       Surf Water   --       DynamicPunch Fighting   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

File:ChuckHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Chuck [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Chuck Oak [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $3720
Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Unknown Held item: None Primeape Lv.29 Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Double Team Normal Status   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Water Fighting Ability: Unknown Held item: None Poliwrath Lv.31 Surf Water Special   --       Hypnosis Psychic Status   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

[[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Chuck [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Round 1 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Chuck Oak [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Round 1 Reward: N/A

Types: Water Fighting Held item: Bright Powder Poliwrath Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Hydro Pump Water   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Types: Ground Unknown Held item: Mint Berry Sandslash Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Slash Normal   --       Dig Ground   --       Rollout Rock   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Held item: Bitter Berry Primeape Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Seismic Toss Fighting   --       Dig Ground   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Held item: Ice Berry Machoke Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Vital Throw Fighting   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Seismic Toss Fighting   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Held item: PSNCureBerry Hitmonchan Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Mach Punch Fighting   --       Mega Punch Normal   --       Comet Punch Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: PRZCureBerry Granbull Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Roar Normal   --       Strength Normal   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --

Round 2

[[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Chuck [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Round 2 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Chuck Oak [[Cianwood Gym|Cianwood Gym]] Round 2 Reward: N/A

Types: Water Fighting Held item: Mint Berry Poliwrath Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Belly Drum Normal   --       Rest Psychic   --       Sleep Talk Normal   --       Types: Ground Unknown Held item: Scope Lens Sandslash Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Metal Claw Steel   --       Types: Psychic Unknown Held item: PRZCureBerry Hypno Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Light Screen Psychic   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Held item: King's Rock Hitmonchan Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Mega Punch Normal   --       Mach Punch Fighting   --       Pursuit Dark   --       Types: Electric Unknown Held item: Bright Powder Ampharos Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Fire Punch Fire   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: Quick Claw Ursaring Lv.50 DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Crunch Dark   --       Slash Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --

Quotes

"Wahahah! So you've come this far! Let me tell you, I'm tough! My Pokémon will crush stones and shatter bones! Watch this! Urggh! Oooarrgh! There! Scared now, are you? What? It has nothing to do with Pokémon? That's true! Come on. We shall do battle!"

"Wha? Huh? I lost? How about that! You're worthy of Storm Badge!"

In the anime

File:Chuck Anime.jpg

Chuck in the anime

Chuck made his only anime appearance in Machoke, Machoke Man!. Ash and his friends met a man rough housing with a Machoke. After following him, Ash discovered that the man was Chuck, Gym Leader of the Cianwood Gym. Even though he is the Fighting master, he gets tired easily as he is a little fat. His wife continually makes fun of him because of this. He is positive-minded and emotional and has a tendency to break out into tears if happy. His battle technique is to battle with his Pokémon to improve their concentration.

Later Chuck and Ash had their battle for a Storm Badge. Ash used Pikachu who got defeated by Chuck's Poliwrath. Ash then used Bayleef who defeated Poliwrath and Machoke.

It was later revealed that Brawly, the Dewford Island Gym Leader, used to be one of the many students of Chuck.

Pokémon

This listing is of Chuck's known Pokémon in the anime:

Poliwrath

Machoke

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • 角田信朗 Nobuaki Kakuda
• English
  • Dan Green
• Polish
  • Jan Kulczycki

In the Pokémon Special manga

File:Chuck and Whitney.png

Chuck and his Hitmontop (left) with Whitney and her Miltank (bottom)

Chuck taught Green martial arts and how to train Pokémon when the boy was very young. He met Suicune, and with help from a friend, attempted to catch it, but to no avail.

Pokémon

This listing is of Chuck's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Poliwrath

Primeape

Hitmonlee

Machoke

Hitmontop

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Chuck or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Chuck's Primeape		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	33/141
Chuck's Poliwrath		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	34/141
Chuck's Rhydon		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	35/141
Chuck's Tauros		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	36/141
Chuck's Granbull		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	37/141
Chuck's Donphan		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	38/141
Chuck's TM 01	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	111/141
Chuck's TM 02	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	112/141

Trivia

• His Japanese Leader title is 唸る拳で語る男.
• Chuck, alongside Falkner and Bugsy, are the only three Gym Leaders of Johto to be featured in only one episode. However, out of all the Gym Leaders, Chuck has had the largest number of flashback appearances (3).
• To date, Chuck is the last Gym Leader to only appear in one episode of the anime.
• In the games (discounting Stadium 2), Chuck is the only important Fighting-type Trainer (Gym Leaders and Elite Four) to not use a member of the Machop evolution family.
• In Chuck's original artwork, he is shown to have greenish hair, however, in the anime, manga, Stadium 2, and his sprite, he has brown hair.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	シジマ (Shijima)	ハオルチア・シジマ Haoruchia-Shijima, Haworthia 'Shijima'. Shijima means "Silence" and "Four islands".
English, French	Chuck	Slang for throw. Could possibly be a reference to Chuck Norris.
German	Hartwig	From Hart, hard.
Italian	Furio	From furioso, furious.
Spanish	Aníbal	From Hannibal.
Korean	사도 Sado	From 四島 Shijima, an alternate way of writing the name. It's also similar to 싸우다, fight.
Chinese	阿四 Ā Sì	四 is from 四島 Shijima, an alternate way of writing the name.

External links

• Shijima's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Template:Chuck's Pokémon

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Falkner	Azalea Gym Bugsy	Goldenrod Gym Whitney	Ecruteak Gym Morty
Cianwood Gym Chuck	Olivine Gym Jasmine	Mahogany Gym Pryce	Blackthorn Gym Clair

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