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==History==

[[File:Giovanni RGB chapter.png|thumb|200px|left|Giovanni in the first chapter]]

Giovanni is first seen traveling with {{adv|Red}} under the guise of a friendly researcher off to study Fossils. As they leave the [[Diglett's Cave]] after a search for Fossils they find that the [[Pewter Museum of Science]] has been set ablaze by two wild {{p|Magmar}}. It is here that Giovanni's true agenda is revealed, to investigate Red and find out how he defeated his subordinates [[Lt. Surge]] and [[Koga]]. Giovanni watches Red defeat the Magmar in his unorthodox way and gives him an [[Old Amber]] as thanks while saying goodbye to him. The two Magmar then wake up from their sand prison and attack him; Giovanni has his {{p|Cloyster}} freeze and kill them. Giovanni laughs at the fact that someone like Red could defeat Team Rocket.

When Red goes to the [[Viridian Gym|Viridian City Gym]] to find out what had happened to its missing Gym Leader, he finds Giovanni waiting inside for him. There, Giovanni reveals to Red that he is, in fact, the Viridian City Gym Leader and also the Leader of Team Rocket. Giovanni challenges the boy to a battle with a special condition: if Giovanni wins then Red will fight by his side as a member of Team Rocket. Red accepts the challenge and the two begin battling. In the end, Giovanni is defeated after an intense battle after Red uses techniques involving the Trainer and not just the Pokémon battling.

Giovanni later appears at the summit of [[Cerise Island]] when {{adv|Yellow}} is battling the leader of the [[Elite Four]], [[Lance]]. It is revealed that he was the one who had freed Red from his icy prison created by [[Lorelei]] and gave him the [[Evolution stone]]s of the Vermilion Bay that would allow him to evolve his [[Vee|Eevee]] multiple times. Giovanni does battle with Lance and uses his Pokémon to destroy the giant bubble that he was using to attack Yellow and protect himself from attacks. Just as it seems that Giovanni has the upper hand, Lance reveals that he had planned for this and that Giovanni had fallen into his trap. Lance reveals that Cerise Island is one giant Gym Badge amplification device and with Giovanni's Earth Badge, he can finally summon {{p|Lugia|the giant bird Pokémon}}. Seeing what Lance has summoned, Giovanni immediately takes off and leaves Yellow to fight him alone. He is seen witnessing Lance's defeat at the hands of Yellow. His subordinates, Sabrina and Lt. Surge, meet up with him in hopes of starting up Team Rocket again. Giovanni dismisses them, realizing that they are not ready to revive Team Rocket because they required the help of children when battling the Elite Four. He tells them to lay low and go to their Gyms until a more suitable time to revive Team Rocket comes.

Giovanni makes a brief cameo at the end of the fourth chapter where he finds the {{i|Ruby}} and {{i|Sapphire}} on a beach. He reveals that the gems are in fact the true forms of the [[Red Orb]] and [[Blue Orb]] that have taken their forms after being broken by {{adv|Ruby}}'s {{adv|Celebi}}. He takes the gems and sets off with his mysterious henchmen to start a then unknown plan.

[[File:Giovanni FRLG chapter.png|thumb|200px|Giovanni rescuing Silver]]

Giovanni resurfaces in the [[Sevii Islands]], where he witnesses the mysterious {{p|Deoxys}} attack a gang of bikers that were planning to raid [[Three Island]]. When the leader tries to ask Giovanni to save him from the "monster", Giovanni answers by swatting him away and having his Nidoking send the biker flying with {{m|Rock Tomb}}. He states that Deoxys isn't a monster; instead, it is the strongest Pokémon that ever existed.

Giovanni and Silver eventually exit the black hole, but, instead of a safe location like Red expected, Giovanni instead finds that they have landed near a flaming piece of wreckage from the airship. Giovanni holds Silver up to protect him from the flames; he comments about how proud he is of how he had grown. They are eventually saved by [[Blue's Rhydon]]; Silver still refuses to acknowledge Giovanni, a criminal, as his father and states that he should've left Giovanni to die in the flames. Blue reveals to Silver about how he was once like him and manages to convince him to accept his father; Silver then breaks down crying over Giovanni's unconscious body. Giovanni is taken away by Silver's Ursaring to Silver's eighteenth Secret Base on {{rt|6|Kanto}} to rest from his injuries.

Giovanni was seen in Sird's flashback in ''[[PS414|Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia IV]]'', where she was posing as a member of the Three Beasts while being a [[Team Galactic]] {{tc|Commander}} in reality.

[[File:Giovanni HGSS Adventures.png|thumb|200px|left|Giovanni in the ninth chapter]]

For the most of this chapter, Giovanni's whereabouts were unknown as he had gone missing after Silver returned to his secret hideout.

He offers Silver a position in Team Rocket, but Silver declines and promises to change his father's evil ways one day. Giovanni accepts his son's decision and tells him to grow stronger under Lance and Pryce's teaching in the hopes that they will battle someday.

Giovanni is first seen in [[Blaise]]'s flashback explaining what happened to the Red and Blue Orbs. It is revealed that when Giovanni discovered the shards that would be used to power up Organisms No. 1 and 2, Blaise was there watching him. Giovanni senses him, and sends out his Beedrill, but doesn't give the command to attack.