Eevee brothers
- Rainer redirects here. For the glitch Pokémon often mistakenly called Rainer, see PokéWTrainer. For the supposed PokéGod, see PokéGods.
The Eevee brothers are four Pokémon Trainers from the Pokémon anime; the signature Pokémon of the three eldest are the Eeveelutions that existed at the time. They made their appearance as characters of the day in The Battling Eevee Brothers.
Rainer, Sparky, and Pyro appear to be the same age, possibly triplets. Mikey is noticeably younger than them.
In the anime
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Sparky
Sparky (Japanese: ライゾウ Raizō) has golden hair styled in tall spikes. His signature Pokémon is Jolteon. He boasts it is the best because when angered, its fur becomes sharp as needles which it can launch at the opponent using Pin Missile.
Sparky's Jolteon is a Pokémon Sparky evolved alongside the other owner's Pokémon. Its only appearance was in The Battling Eevee Brothers, where it first appeared at a Stone Town evolution party alongside the other owners and Vaporeon and Flareon. Sparky then boasted how powerful Jolteon was, getting into an argument with the other brothers. Team Rocket appeared, and stole it and all the other Pokémon including the evolutionary stones.
Later they found Team Rocket from the ink trail left by Misty's Horsea, and were able to free them all except for Eevee. By using its Pin Missile along with the other brothers' Pokémon's attacks (including Eevee) they were able to send Team Rocket blasting off. It was last seen in a picture which was taken. Jolteon's only known move is Pin Missile. | ||
Debut | The Battling Eevee Brothers | |
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English | Kayzie Rogers |
Rainer
Rainer (Japanese: ミズキ Mizuki) has dark blue hair styled to look like fins. His signature Pokémon is Vaporeon. He boasts it is the best because it can melt into water and disappear by using Acid Armor.
Rainer's Vaporeon is a Pokémon Rainer evolved alongside the other owner's Pokémon. Its only appearance was in The Battling Eevee Brothers, where it first appeared at a Stone Town evolution party alongside the other owners and Jolteon and Flareon. Rainer then boasted how powerful Vaporeon was, getting into an argument with the other brothers. Team Rocket appeared, and stole it and all the other Pokémon including the evolutionary stones.
Later they found Team Rocket from the ink trail left by Misty's Horsea, and were able to free them all except for Eevee. By using its Acid Armor along with the other brothers' Pokémon's attacks (including Eevee) they were able to send Team Rocket blasting off. It was last seen in a picture which was taken. Vaporeon's known moves are Acid Armor and Tackle*. | ||
Debut | The Battling Eevee Brothers | |
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Japanese | Rikako Aikawa | |
English | Rachael Lillis |
Pyro
Pyro (Japanese: アツシ Atsushi) has red hair styled to look like flames. His signature Pokémon is Flareon. He boasts it is the best because of the powerful flames of Fire Spin.
Pyro's Flareon is a Pokémon Pyro evolved alongside the other owner's Pokémon. Its only appearance was in The Battling Eevee Brothers, where it first appeared at a Stone Town evolution party alongside the other owners and Jolteon and Vaporeon. Pyro then boasted how powerful Flareon was, getting into an argument with the other brothers. Team Rocket appeared, and stole it and all the other Pokémon including the evolutionary stones.
Later they found Team Rocket from the ink trail left by Misty's Horsea, and were able to free them all except for Eevee. Using its Fire Spin along with the other brothers' Pokémon's attacks (including Eevee) they were able to send Team Rocket blasting off. It was last seen in a picture which was taken. Flareon's only known move is Fire Spin. | ||
Debut | The Battling Eevee Brothers | |
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English | Kayzie Rogers |
Mikey
Mikey (Japanese: タイチ Taichi) has plain brown hair with bangs shaped to resemble an Eevee's fur collar. He owns an unevolved Eevee.
Mikey's Eevee was hidden in a hollow tree because Mikey found it annoying that his brothers wanted to evolve it. Later, he found out that it was his choice to evolve it. | ||
Debut | The Battling Eevee Brothers | |
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Japanese | Rikako Aikawa | |
English | Rikako Aikawa |
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In the manga
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
Rainer, Pyro, and Sparky—along with Mikey—appear in To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That is the Question!. Rainer, Pyro, and Sparky are members of a fellowship named the Knights of the E Stone. To join, members are required to own at least one Pokémon which was evolved by means of an evolutionary stone. Joining The Knights of The E Stone is a family tradition which the brothers have upheld, and they pressure Mikey to evolve his Eevee so that he may join, too.
With Ash's help, Mikey's Eevee and Ash's Pikachu defeat all three brothers to earn Mikey the right to join the fellowship without evolving his Eevee.
The brothers are shown to have a playful side in the manga as well, teasing Mikey about Misty being his "girlfriend" and disappearing in a cloud of smoke when they leave the room.
According to this canon, Rainer is the oldest of the brothers, followed by Pyro and then Sparky.
Pokémon
Rainer's Vaporeon was used against Ash to determine whether or not Mikey could join the Knights of the E Stone. It was easily defeated by Ash's Pikachu.
None of Vaporeon's moves are known. | ||
Debut | To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! |
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Pyro's Flareon was used against Ash to determine whether or not Mikey could join the Knights of the E Stone. It was easily defeated by Ash's Pikachu.
None of Flareon's moves are known. | ||
Debut | To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! |
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Sparky's Jolteon was used against Mikey to determine whether or not Mikey could join the Knights of the E Stone. It put up a good fight, but was defeated when Mikey's Eevee used Mimic to copy its move and use it against it.
Jolteon's only known move is Pin Missile. | ||
Debut | To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! |
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Trivia
- Sparky has the same voice actor in both English and Japanese as Chopper, and Rainer has the same voice actor in both English and Japanese as both Ghali and Pete Pebbleman.
- This was not the only group of siblings training Eeveelutions to appear on the Pokémon anime. When Ash and his friends went to Johto, they met the Kimono Sisters who, like their counterparts in Pokémon Gold and Silver, each trained one of the five evolutions. Unlike the Eevee brothers, though, they had no representation in their family of Eevee itself, unless one counts Sakura's Eevee, which later evolved into Espeon.
- The name Sparky was used again in the anime as the name of Ritchie's Pikachu.
- Oddly, at the time of the episode, Ash, Misty, and Brock each had a Pokémon with them that could evolve via one of the evolutionary stones that are used by Eevee to evolve. Pikachu evolves with the Thunderstone, Vulpix evolves with the Fire Stone, and Staryu evolves with a Water Stone. Pyro and Sparky offer a Fire Stone to Brock and a Thunderstone to Ash in hopes that they will evolve their Pokémon, but Rainer never offers a Water Stone to Misty, most likely because she already has a Starmie.
- In Pokémon GO, if an Eevee is nicknamed after one of the Eevee brothers (excluding Mikey), it is guaranteed to evolve into that brother's respective Eeveelution, while usually the form Eevee evolves into is random. This method seems to work only once per Eeveelution, however.
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