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Up until his appearance in the episode ''[[EP063|The Battle of the Badge]]'', his voice was altered with a {{wp|vocoder}} effect, masking his identity. It can be inferred that they were trying to imitate the games, as in [[Generation I]] it is not outright revealed that Giovanni, the Team Rocket boss, is the Viridian Gym Leader. As this episode corresponds to the point at which players of the games would discover that the two were the same, Giovanni finally steps out of the shadows, revealing his face in a battle against [[Gary Oak]], and defeating him utterly using his {{an|Mewtwo}}. | Up until his appearance in the episode ''[[EP063|The Battle of the Badge]]'', his voice was altered with a {{wp|vocoder}} effect, masking his identity. It can be inferred that they were trying to imitate the games, as in [[Generation I]] it is not outright revealed that Giovanni, the Team Rocket boss, is the Viridian Gym Leader. As this episode corresponds to the point at which players of the games would discover that the two were the same, Giovanni finally steps out of the shadows, revealing his face in a battle against [[Gary Oak]], and defeating him utterly using his {{an|Mewtwo}}. | ||
Unexplained events in the episode (other than that the events in question necessitated the use of Mewtwo) caused Giovanni to abdicate his position as the Viridian Gym Leader, handing the Earth Badge to the Team Rocket trio that constantly follows Ash (although his orders implied that he wanted the trio to defend the Gym from a possible attack). Through a combination of their own incompetence and Ash's willpower to win the Earth Badge, the Viridian Gym was destroyed at the end of the episode. Due to this, and perhaps other circumstances, Giovanni permanently resigned as Viridian's Gym Leader, as [[Agatha]] of the [[Kanto]] [[Elite Four]] has taken over the Gym temporarily when Ash next returns to Viridian City after his journey in Hoenn. | |||
Giovanni appears not to care for his Pokémon aside from Persian, as they are all locked away in cages when not used for a Gym battle. | Giovanni appears not to care for his Pokémon aside from Persian, as they are all locked away in cages when not used for a Gym battle. | ||