Fantina: Difference between revisions

Fantina speaks a mix of {{tt|French and broken English| Reverse in French version, English in Japanese version}} and is an immigrant from another country. Upon arriving in Sinnoh, she decided to become a Contest performer, so she dresses up in fancy outfits for Pokémon Contests. She considers herself to be a Contest Expert and can occasionally be competed against in {{pkmn|Super Contest}}s, in which she uses her {{p|Drifblim}}, nicknamed '''Loony''' (Japanese: '''ばるん''' ''Balloon'').

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=====Gym match=====

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|pokemon3={{Pokémon/4

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Fantina uses three of these Pokémon in [[Pokémon battle|Single Battles]], four in [[Double Battle|Double]] and [[Rotation Battle]]s, and all six in [[Triple Battle]]s.

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|pokemon4={{Pokémon/5

|pokemon5={{Pokémon/5

|pokemon6={{Pokémon/5

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|pokemon4={{Pokémon/5

|pokemon5={{Pokémon/5

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======[[Legendary Pokémon Tournament]]======

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|class=Pokémon Trainer

|pokemon1={{Pokémon/5

|pokemon2={{Pokémon/5

|pokemon3={{Pokémon/5

|move4=Psychic|move4type=Psychic|move4cat=Special}}}}

:''"Ohohoho!! Finally, you have arrived! Since I came to this country, always I try to learn new things. They hold Contests in this city? I say to myself, {{tt|enfin|well}}, I will excel. That's why I dress this way. {{tt|C'est une performance!|It is a performance!}} Also I study Pokémon very much. I have come to be Gym Leader. And, uh, so it shall be that you challenge me. But I shall win. That's what a Gym Leader does, {{tt|non|isn't it}}?"''

* During battle

* When defeated

:''"I am dumbfounded! So very, very strong! You, your Pokémon, so strong! Your power is admirable! I shall honor it with this Gym [[Badge]]!"''

::'''Yes''': ''"Ohohoho!!"''  

* During battle

* When defeated

* During battle

* When defeated

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[[File:Fantina anime.png|thumb|250px|left|Fantina in the anime]]

 

Despite the group having traveled through [[Hearthome City]] twice, once in ''[[DP049|Dawn's Early Night]]'' and a second time in ''[[DP086|Arriving in Style!]]'', the [[Hearthome Gym]] remained closed with the [[Gym Leader]] nowhere in sight. Fantina had left a note saying that she was going on a journey for a while, and to not look for her. Apparently she was developing a whole new battle style.

Fantina appeared from ''[[DP174|Last Call — First Round!]]'' to ''[[DP177|A Grand Fight for Winning!]]'', having yet again left the Gym in order to be a guest judge for the [[Sinnoh Grand Festival|Grand Festival]].

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===In the [[Pokémon Adventures]] manga===

Fantina first appeared at the Super Contest Hall. When two women were making rude comments about rookie contestants, she sent out her Drifblim to carry them out and throw them into a garbage can. When Diamond, Pearl and Platinum came back to Hearthome City for the Gym Challenge, they discovered that she was the Gym Leader, saying that her studies for the lifetime passion of Pokémon Contests granted her the title of Hearthome City Gym Leader. Fantina watched as {{adv|Platinum}} made her way through the quizzes given by the Gym easily and took up the challenge, after which her Drifblim was beaten after [[Platinum's Empoleon]] manipulated it into freezing itself using its own wind. Her Mismagius, however, proved to be much trickier; its {{m|Trick Room}} turned Empoleon's speed against it, and beat it easily. It then trapped Platinum and the borrowed {{adv|Lax}} in an illusion where the Pokémon was in a room full of its favorite sweets and Platinum suffered. Before long though, the girl managed to subvert the illusion in her favor with {{adv|Pearl}}'s help, and defeated the Mismagius. She later appeared on the [[Spear Pillar]] with the other Sinnoh Gym Leaders where she fought Team Galactic Commander Saturn along with Roark and together they defeated him. They later fought Cyrus on the top of the Spear Pillar and with the help of her fellow Gym Leaders, they managed to break his Red Chain controlling {{p|Dialga}} and {{p|Palkia}}. However, it was revealed that the one they destroyed was the artificial one he had made earlier and they were all defeated by him.

|desc={{p|Drifblim}} is the first Pokémon seen on Fantina's team and is her main mode of transportation. Drifblim first appears after Platinum wins her first Pokémon Contest where it throws the two women who attempted to sabotage her Contest in the trash. Drifblim is used to take {{adv|Diamond}}, {{adv|Pearl}}, and {{adv|Platinum}} to the Lost Tower and later appears at the Celestic Ruins where it saves Diamond and Pearl's lives after they fall off of a stone pillar created by Cyrus' Probopass. Fantina used it in her Gym battle against Platinum where it fought her Empoleon, and despite putting up a good fight, it was defeated when Empoleon used her Blizzard to freeze it. Fantina lent it to Platinum after she learned that her father had gone missing and was later lent to Diamond who used it to sneak in the Team Galactic Airship after failing to stop them from capturing {{p|Mesprit}}.}}

* If {{an|Brock}}, {{an|Misty}}, <!--{{an|Iris}}, who is not a Gym Leader in the anime continuity, --> {{an|Cilan}}, and {{an|Clemont}} — all of whom are Ash's travelling companions — aren't counted, the [[Gym Leader]] to appear in most episodes of the {{pkmn|anime}} is Fantina, having appeared in seven so far. [[Roark]] and [[Clair]] are tied for second place with six episodes each.

* Fantina is similar to [[Juan]] in that both speak French (Juan does so in [[Pokémon Adventures]]), and both are {{pkmn|Coordinator}}s and [[Gym Leader]]s. Juan appeared in a flashback in the episode [[DP093|Fantina debuted in]].

* In [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Pokémon Black 2 and White 2]], Fantina uses an Origin Form {{p|Giratina}} without a [[Griseous Orb]] in the [[Legendary Pokémon Tournament]].