Giovanni (Pocket Monsters): Difference between revisions

Giovanni first appeared in ''[[PM009|Pikachu Was Kidnapped!!]]'' and his twin brother debuted in ''[[PM011|Finish Off Team Rocket!!]]''. In Giovanni's first appearance, he is running the Rocket Game Corner where [[Isamu Akai]], {{TP|Isamu Akai|Clefairy}} and {{TP|Isamu Akai|Pikachu}} go to. [[Kai Midorikawa]] and his {{TP|Kai Midorikawa|Charmander}} go there as well. A {{p|Hitmonlee}} comes by and takes Pikachu. The Hitmonlee is revealed to belong to Giovanni and Team Rocket. Giovanni had Hitmonlee kidnap Pikachu in order to lure Isamu into his trap. Two chapters later, Giovanni, along with his twin brother, are at Silph Co. and holds [[Erika]]'s father hostage. He even takes the {{p|Porygon}} that belonged her father and uses them against Isamu and the others. Giovanni takes advantage of them by cloning them with a machine controlled by a device his twin brother was holding. Pikachu destroys the device with {{m|Thunderbolt}} which renders the clones useless.

Giovanni reappears in ''[[PM018|Which One is the Real Clefairy!?]]'' where he and his twin brother take revenge on Isamu for defeating them at Silph Co. They do so by having Ditto disguise itself as Clefairy. They meet Isamu, Clefairy and Pikachu at a graveyard and have a Clefairy fight which results in Isamu's Clefairy winning after Ditto was too stuffed with food and could not handle it, something that Isamu's can handle. In ''[[PM025|Bring Down the Strongest Pokémon!!]]'', Giovanni creates the ultimate Pokémon that no one can defeat, Mewtwo. In the middle of the creation, Mewtwo's DNA gets mixed with Clefairy's making it act all goofy and obnoxious. The creation does not do to well and ends up releasing Mewtwo.

Giovanni hosts a contest in a dome on TV in ''[[PM028|Seize the Dream of One Million Yen!!]]'' in an attempt to make money if he gets high TV ratings. However, since other people were at the contest, he tries a way so that he will be the one to win the contest. In the end, Clefairy ends up destroying the dome that Giovanni builds due to an accident that happened in the contest. Since the dome was destroyed, Giovanni was not able to win the money. In ''[[PM029|The Thrill of a Perfect Score, Big Rampage at the Amusement Park!]]'', he builds an Amusement Park that Isamu, Clefairy and Pikachu enter. Giovanni was not happy about this so he tries to gets rid of them. However, the Amusement Park ends up getting destroyed as well. Giovanni is the Gym Leader in ''[[PM031|Get The Last Badge!!]]'' where he takes on Isamu Akai in a Gym battle. Isamu was able to defeat him, earning himself the {{Badge|Earth}}. Giovanni devises a plan to take over Pallet Town in [[PM047]] by using a missile. It was stopped by Clefairy after he got in the way of the missile. Clefairy was able to survive the impact.

As the boss of Team Rocket, Giovanni has brought up plans in order to get rich. However, most of these plans fail due to [[Isamu Akai's Clefairy]] getting in the way. As a result, he ends up getting revenge on [[Isamu Akai]] and his Pokémon, but fails most of the time.

|desc={{p|Hitmonlee}} is the first revealed Pokémon of Giovanni's. He is also under the ownership of {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|Team Rocket}} as well. Hitmonlee first appeared disguised as a thug and ran off with {{TP|Isamu Akai|Pikachu}} while [[Isamu Akai]] and {{TP|Isamu Akai|Clefairy}} were busy eating. He did so in order to lure Isamu and Clefairy to a wrestling arena in order for Clefairy to have a boxing match. Hitmonlee was able to have the upper hand during the first few rounds. At the end, Clefairy was able to win the boxing match, with Isamu retrieving his Pikachu in the process.

|desc=Giovanni has {{p|Ditto}} transform into a Clefairy in order to get revenge on Isamu Akai as he defeated them back in Silph Co. Ditto, disguised as Clefairy, go to the Pokémon Sea House in order to get their revenge on Isamu. They meet at a graveyard where it challenges Clefairy to various contests. During the eating contest, the impostor Clefairy gets exposed as a Ditto when it gets filled up with food.

|desc=Giovanni sent out {{p|Venusaur}} to prevent Isamu from interfering with his plans on creating Mewtwo.}}

|desc=Giovanni sent out his {{p|Blastoise}} to prevent Isamu from interfering with his plans on creating Mewtwo.}}

|desc=Giovanni sent out his {{p|Golem}} to prevent Isamu from interfering with his plans on creating Mewtwo.}}

|desc=Giovanni sent out his {{p|Onix}} to prevent Isamu from interfering with his plans on creating Mewtwo.}}

|desc=Giovanni sends out {{p|Exeggutor}} to prevent Isamu from interfering with his plans on creating Mewtwo.}}

|desc=Giovanni sent out {{p|Snorlax}} to prevent anyone from winning the contest he hosted on TV. It later reappears in ''[[PM031|Get The Last Badge!!]]'' before Giovanni's battle against Isamu Akai. Snorlax was proven to be a tough opponent for his {{TP|Isamu Akai|Clefairy}} as Clefairy easily bounced off.}}

|desc=Giovanni sent out {{p|Machamp}} in order to get rid of Isamu, Clefairy and Pikachu when they went to the Amusement Park that he built.

|desc=Giovanni's first {{p|Poliwhirl}} appeared in ''[[PM029|The Thrill of a Perfect Score, Big Rampage at the Amusement Park!]]'' where it evolved into a {{p|Poliwrath}} in order to get rid of Isamu Akai, Clefairy and Pikachu when they went to the Amusement Park that he built. Giovanni has another {{p|Poliwhirl}} that appeared in ''[[PM031|Get The Last Badge!!]]'' where it was used in the Gym battle against Isamu.