Crasher Wake

Crasher Wake マキシマム仮面 Maximum Mask
"The Torrential Masked Master!"
[[File:File:Crasher Wake.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Artwork from Diamond/Pearl
Gender	Male
Hometown	Pastoria City
Region	Sinnoh
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	IV
Games	Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
Leader of	Pastoria Gym
Badge	Fen Badge
Animated debut	Cream of the Croagunk Crop!
English voice actor	Michael Alston Baley
Japanese voice actor	Tetsu Inada

Crasher Wake (Japanese: マキシマム仮面 Maximum Mask), otherwise known simply as Wake (Japanese: マキシ Maxi), is the Gym Leader of Pastoria City's Gym, known officially as the Pastoria Gym. He hands out the Fen Badge to trainers who defeat him. He specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the anime

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Crasher Wake in the anime

Crasher Wake debuted in Cream of the Croagunk Crop! and was one of the judges at the Croagunk Festival.

In A Crasher Course in Power! Ash defeated Crasher Wake and earned the Fen Badge.

He is voiced by 稲田徹 Tetsu Inada in Japanese and Michael Alston Baley in English.

Pokémon

This listing is of Crasher Wake's known Pokémon in the anime:

Gyarados

Quagsire

Floatzel

In the games

Crasher Wake uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in his battles. Trainers receive the Fen Badge, TM55 (Brine) and are able to use Defog outside of battle. Wake has a jovial, enthusiastic, and bombastic personality. Wake's strategy is nothing more than choosing moves that will make his battles more fun, and encourages everyone not to take battles too seriously, and to remember they're supposed to be fun. Crasher Wake uses the prize money he gets from competitive Pokémon battles to help the unfortunate. Crasher Wake has his Pokémon use Defog to keep the weather of Pastoria City clear.

He later appears in the Battle Zone, talking to the player's rival, Pearl. The rival also mentions that Wake was born overseas. However, he speaks clearly, without any foreign accent. This may mean he is simply from another region, but this has little evidence.

Quotes

Before battle
"Welcome! I don't get challenged very often! The glory you are now beholding is the Pastoria Gym Leader! That's right, I'm Crasher Wake! My Pokémon were toughened up by stormy white waters! They'll take everything you can throw at them and then pull you under! Victory will be ours! Come on, let's get it done!"

After sending out last Pokémon
"Hey! That there! That was a good move!"

During battle
"This is where it gets exciting!"

When defeated
"Hunwah! It's gone and ended! How will I say... I want more! I wanted to battle a lot more!"

After being defeated
"It seems the undertow pulled me under... But I had a great time battling with you! You've earned this!"

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Pokémon

Gyarados

Quagsire

Floatzel

Pokémon DP

He makes a brief cameo in chapter 7 and is defeated by Hareta.

Pokémon

Gyarados

Trivia

• His Japanese Leader title is アントニオ・ザ・マキシマム仮面.
• Crasher Wake's use of his prize money to help the disadvantaged is a common cliché in tales of fictional luchadores, inspired by the real-life luchador Fray Tormenta.
• Crasher Wake is a Template:Type2 trainer with a pastime involving fighting, in comparison with Brawly, a Template:Type2 trainer with a pastime involving water.
• All of Wake's Pokémon are ones that have gender differences.
• Despite the game claiming that he uses Defog for Pastoria City, none of the Pokémon he uses in battle can learn it.
• With the release of Pokémon Platinum, the order of three Gym battles in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are now shifted: instead of being fourth, Creasher Wake is now fifth in the line-up. Had Ash fought Fantina previous to Maylene, he would have inadvertently gone out of order compared to the D&P line-up, but in order for the Platinum line-up. Ash battled the three shifted Gym Leaders in the order designated by D&P, as Platinum was not released until after Ash fought Crasher Wake, but before Fantina.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	マキシ (Maxi) / マキシマム仮面 (Maximum Mask) / アントニオ (Antonio)	Probably referring to his lucha libre mask.
English	Crasher Wake	Perhaps based off of lucha libre names, as his appearance suggests. Sounds similar to crashing wave. A wake is also the set of triangular waves left by something traveling through water (a boat, etc.).
French	Lovis le teigneux	From l'eau, the water.
German	Wellenbrecher Marinus	Marinus means of the sea in Latin.
Italian	Omar il distruttore	From mare, sea.
Spanish	Mananti el destructor	From manantial, the source of a river.
Korean	맥실러 Maxiller / 맥시멈가면 Maximum Gamyeon	Same as Japanese name.

External links

• Serebii.net Sinnoh Leaders Page

Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh region
Oreburgh Gym Roark	Eterna Gym Gardenia	Veilstone Gym Maylene	Pastoria Gym Crasher Wake
Hearthome Gym Fantina	Canalave Gym Byron	Snowpoint Gym Candice	Sunyshore Gym Volkner

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