Tracey Sketchit: Difference between revisions

image=TraceyEP.png |

hometown=Unknown; currently resides in [[Pallet Town]] |

region=Unknown; currently resides in [[Kanto]] |

enva=[[Ted Lewis]] <small>([[EP083]]-[[AG133]])</small><br>[[Craig Blair]] <small>([[AG192]])</small>|

Tracey displayed some of his Pokémon watching skills in ''[[EP088|In the Pink]]'', where he took some time to observe a [[Pinkan Berry|pink]] {{p|Rhyhorn}}. He was able to watch it and sketch it without it noticing him at all until Ash approached it.

 

Tracey finally got to meet Professor Oak in person in ''[[EP115|A Tent Situation]]''. He was incredibly nervous when he turned over his drawings to him, knowing that a watcher's dream was to have their drawings reviewed by Professor Oak.[[File:Tracey Sketchit BW.png|thumb|210px|right|Tracey in the ''[[Best Wishes series]]'']] By the [[EP116|next episode]], he decides to stay in [[Pallet Town]] and become Professor Oak's assistant. Later, he single-handedly saves Ash's Pikachu from being stolen by Team Rocket using Scyther and Marill.

He made a brief cameo appearances in both ''[[M03|Spell of the Unown: Entei]]'' and ''[[M04|Celebi: Voice of the Forest]]''. During the credits of the latter, he is shown discovering [[Sam]]'s sketchbooks and views the drawing he made of {{OBP|Celebi|M04}} and Pikachu.

Tracey was given a few major roles in some of the [[Pokémon Chronicles]]. In ''[[SS004|Showdown at the Oak Corral]]'', he helps protect the laboratory from [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]]. Later in ''[[SS008|Oaknapped]]'', he is assisted by [[Ritchie]] to help locate Professor Oak after he goes missing after a visit to a television station.

Tracey has not had any full appearances since ''[[AG192|Home is Where the Start Is!]]''. However, he has made a brief cameo in ''[[DP001|Following A Maiden's Voyage!]]'' and was mentioned by Professor Oak in ''[[BW047|Crisis from the Underground Up!]]'' when Ash called the lab from [[Nimbasa City]]. He had a longer cameo in ''[[BW116|The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!]]'', where he appeared with Professor Oak. Tracey was mentioned by Professor Oak and Ash, and he reappeared in a flashback in ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]''.

There have been rare incidents where Tracey was seen losing his temper. In ''[[EP084|The Lost Lapras]]'', Misty comments that she doesn't know how famous Professor Oak is and Tracey barks back at her, saying that Professor Oak is the most respected researcher on the entire {{pkmn|world|planet}}. Another time this happened was in ''[[SS014|Journey to the Starting Line]]'', when a boy named {{OBP|Gilbert|SS014}} said that he wouldn't want to have the annoyance of raising a Pokémon himself. Angered, Tracey yelled at him saying that training Pokémon was the most important part of being a [[Pokémon Trainer]]. He also lost his temper in ''[[EP115|A Tent Situation]]'', desperate to go see Professor Oak, where he yelled at Ash, Misty, and Brock for babbling, and again in ''[[SS004|Showdown at the Oak Corral]]'', when the [[Magikarp salesman]] tried to sell him a Magikarp.

|en=[[Ted Lewis]] ([[EP083]]-[[AG133]], [[M02]]-[[M03]], ''[[Pokémon Chronicles]]'')<br>[[Craig Blair]] ([[AG192]])

|nl=Martin Van den Ham ([[EP084]]-[[EP116]])<br>Rolf Koster ([[EP225]] - Present)

|is=Ólafur Egilsson ([[M03]])

|hi=नचिकेत दिघे ''{{wp|Nachiket Dighe}}'' (Cartoon Network dub)<br>अंशुल चन्द्र ''Anshul Chandra'' (Hungama dub)

|da=Timm Mehrens ([[EP084]]-[[EP105]])<br>Mikkel Christiansen ([[EP273]]-present)

|hu=Tamás Markovics

* Tracey is Ash's only traveling companion not to be based on an in-game character.

* Tracey is the only one of Ash's friends that owns Pokémon that has not battled against Ash.

There had been some debate between members of the fanbase in regards to why Tracey was created, as well as why he replaced Brock, and vice versa. In an [http://www.pokebeach.com/news/0708/second-pokemon-interview-with-masamitsu-hidaka-many-interesting-points interview] with former Pokémon anime director and storyboard artist [[Masamitsu Hidaka]], he stated his own reason why Tracey was created and why he replaced Brock. He (or rather, his translator) revealed that the true reason they replaced Brock is because, once they realized Pokémon was going to go global, there was a chance that Americans, if not anyone else outside of Japan, would view Brock as a racist stereotype because of his eyes (even though there wasn't an actual complaint yet). So they created a "tall, white, Anglo-looking character to replace him, just to be on the safe side". They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared as to what Brock looks like, and actually enjoyed his character. This also may explain why Tracey was never included in [[The Electric Tale of Pikachu]] manga.

| Same as Mandarin name.