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'''J''' (Japanese: '''Ｊ''' ''J''), frequently referred to as '''Pokémon Hunter J''', is a [[Pokémon poacher|Pokémon hunter]] who, with the help of [[J's henchmen|her henchmen]], captures and steals {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} and sells them as requested by her clients for a profit on the {{wp|black market}}. She first appeared in ''[[DP020|Mutiny in the Bounty!]]''.

Sometime before the beginning of the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}, J became a Pokémon hunter, and she stole a {{p|Ninetales}}, {{p|Kirlia}}, {{p|Magby}}, {{p|Swampert}}, {{p|Teddiursa}}, and {{p|Relicanth}} and sold them to her clients. She was rewarded a large amount of money. Since then, she was wanted by the [[Officer Jenny]]s in Sinnoh.

J made her official debut in ''[[DP020|Mutiny in the Bounty!]]'' where she rode on her {{TP|J|Salamence}} to [[Melodi]]'s flower garden, where she planned to steal Melodi's {{p|Gardevoir}}. Despite Gardevoir attempting to escape with {{m|Teleport}}, J found it using her goggles and hit it with a special beam from a device on her arm that turned it into stone. J then made her exit with Melodi's Gardevoir, and {{Ash}} chased after her, demanding that she return Gardevoir to Melodi, but then J went after [[Ash's Pikachu]] since she thought Pikachu would worth a sizable amount of money. J had her {{p|Drapion}} battle Ash’s Pikachu in an attempt to see his moves. After Pikachu used {{m|Volt Tackle}}, J used her {{p|Ariados}} to bind Ash to a rock and then proceeded to steal Pikachu without any trouble.

After {{TRT}} dealt with [[J's henchmen|her henchmen]], J encountered them next. As with her encounter with Ash, J bound the trio to a rock. She turned {{MTR}} into stone for the same reason as Ash's Pikachu. J was then seen by a waterwheel, stealing an {{p|Absol}}. Before the other officers arrived as backup, Ash immediately confronted J, where the Pokémon Hunter took on Officer Jenny’s {{p|Arcanine}} with Salamence and won. J immediately went to her airship with Ash, [[Jessie]] and [[James]], who called a truce with each other to rescue their Pokémon. Following a brief confrontation with J, they managed to sneak into her airborne base and rescue their Pokémon and all the others she had stolen, before returning them to their rightful Trainers. Though several of her henchmen had been captured by Officer Jenny, J remained at large.

J reappeared in ''[[DP045|Ill-Will Hunting!]]'', where she was on a mission to steal a group of {{p|Shieldon}}. She was seen contacting her henchmen and [[J's client (DP071)|client]] about the Shieldon. J eventually found the Shieldon with Ash, {{ashfr}}, and {{Gary}}. Ash and Gary had a Double Battle with her, while {{an|Dawn}} and {{an|Brock}} led the Shieldon to safety. One of the Shieldon fell, however, and J turned it to stone in order to steal it. J attempted to give the petrified Shieldon to her client but Ash and Gary attacked the airbase which prevented her from doing so. Her client cut off the deal to obtain the Shieldon, since Officer Jenny was near. After telling Ash and his friends not to get in her way next time, she told her second-in-command to establish radio contact with their employer, in order to tell him that they would not be doing service with him again.

Sometime before ''[[DP129|Pillars of Friendship!]]'', J was given a request from one of her clients to catch a {{p|Regigigas}} and traveled to the [[Snowpoint Temple]]. After {{FB|Pyramid King|Brandon}} heard the news about the situation in the Snowpoint Temple, J had her henchmen work to prevent the Battle Pyramid from getting closer. Even though he and the group were able to narrowly defeat the henchmen's Pokémon, J already had her Salamence destroy the pillars guarding Regigigas. Despite Brandon and [[Maria]] warning J about not waking up Regigigas, she destroyed the last pillar, forcing Regigigas to awaken. When Regigigas began to rampage, J was able to leave the Snowpoint Temple. She watched as Brandon used [[Brandon's legendary titans|his Pokémon]] to calm Regigigas and then bound the group with {{p|Ariados}}'s String Shot. J went after the Legendary titans during their rampage. She attempted to turn Regigigas to stone but Brandon and his Pokémon jumped in the way to prevent it from happening. Regigigas destroyed J's bracelet and withdrew from the area when her client decided to cancel the deal.

Although she did succeed in capturing the {{an|Lake guardians}}, her ship was hit by two {{m|Future Sight}} attacks used by Uxie and Mesprit directly before she captured them, which, in her overconfidence, she had forgotten. As a result, her ship crashed into [[Lake Valor]] and was sucked into a whirlpool while she and her crew members were still on board. Once the ship was underwater, the protective glass broke and the ship was flooded, causing it to explode. It is currently unknown if J, her Pokémon, or any of her crew survived.

<!--In accordance with the speculation rule, there is absolutely NO proof that J is dead so that should not be added to this article. She could easily make another appearance in a future episode, so unless we get definite confirmation either way then she is simply missing.-->

J is ruthless, relentless, and cruel, willing to do anything to capture Pokémon for her clients, up to and including injuring innocent people or Pokémon. In her debut episode, she chose to drop some of her {{TP|J|henchmen}} to their potential deaths without hesitation or remorse, emphasizing her intensely independent, sociopathic, greedy and callous nature. She has no honor, decency or regard for any form of life - the only thing that matters to her is money. She is one of the very few characters (including the [[Iron-Masked Marauder]], [[Grings Kodai]] and [[Jarvis]]) in the anime who is purely evil.

Out of all of the characters that encountered her, she has a dislike for {{Ash}} the most as evidenced when he kept on interfering with her job and the fact that most of the encounters had Ash nearly killed had it not been for the unlikely intervention of {{ashfr}} and Pokémon, and other characters supporting the protagonists.

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|fi=Elise Langenoja ([[DP020]]-[[DP045]])<br>Unknown voice actress ([[DP071]]-[[DP072]])<br>Unknown voice actress ([[DP129]]-present)

|es_la=Cristina Hernández ([[DP020]]-[[DP045]])<br>Yolanda Vidal ([[DP071]]-[[DP072]])<br>Maggie Vera ([[DP129]]-present)

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* Unlike most villains in the anime, it seems as though J is actually trying to murder Ash, not just get rid of him. This is shown in ''[[DP072|Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! Part Two]]'', when she commands her Salamence to burn the forest around him and use {{m|Hyper Beam}} directly on him, orders her Drapion to squeeze him tight with its claws, and ejects him from her ship from a great height.