Gary Oak: Difference between revisions

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* Although Ash's flashback in ''[[AG086|Lights, Camerupt, Action!]]'' seems to suggest that Gary and Ash were childhood friends, this is contradicted by Gary's conversation with Ash in ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'', when they first started off on their Pokémon journeys; it indicated that was the first time they met.
* Although Ash's flashback in ''[[AG086|Lights, Camerupt, Action!]]'' seems to suggest that Gary and Ash were childhood friends, this is contradicted by Gary's conversation with Ash in ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'', when they first started off on their Pokémon journeys; it indicated that was the first time they met.
** This is further contradicted in ''[[EP269|The Ties that Bind]]'', where Ash and Gary interacted with each other mere days before they set out on their journeys, with the two already knowing each other for sometime beforehand based on their exchange.
** This is further contradicted in ''[[EP269|The Ties that Bind]]'', where Ash and Gary interacted with each other mere days before they set out on their journeys, with the two already knowing each other for sometime beforehand based on their exchange.
* Gary is the only character from Ash's fantasy sequence in ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]'' to not be one of his traveling companions.
* Gary is the only character from Ash's fantasy sequence in ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]'' to not be one of his traveling companions at the time.
* Gary is the only character whose game counterpart is a {{pkmn|Champion}}, but hasn't been a Champion at any point in the anime.
* Gary is the only character whose game counterpart is a {{pkmn|Champion}}, but hasn't been a Champion at any point in the anime.
* Excluding Ash, Gary is the only character to have participated in more than one on-screen {{pkmn|League Conference}}.
* Excluding Ash, Gary is the only character to have participated in more than one on-screen {{pkmn|League Conference}}.
* According to ''[[Pocket Monsters: The Animation]]'', aside from his being {{an|Professor Oak}}'s grandson, he is also the grandnephew of [[Pallet Town]]'s mayor. It also explains that his girlfriends are the mayor's electoral staff.
* According to ''[[Pocket Monsters: The Animation]]'', aside from his being {{an|Professor Oak}}'s grandson, he is also the grandnephew of [[Pallet Town]]'s mayor. It also explains that his girlfriends are the mayor's electoral staff.
* Gary is the first rival to capture a [[Legendary Pokémon]] on-screen, his {{p|Regidrago}}.


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