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'''Carl''' (Japanese: '''カール''' ''Carl'') is a [[character of the day]] who appeared in ''[[XY051|When Light and Dark Collide!]]''. He is the director of a theater located somewhere between [[Shalour City]] and [[Coumarine City]], which organizes "Super Pokémon Battle Shows".

Carl used to be a coach of {{type|Fighting}} Pokémon. He coached his Dark {{p|Hawlucha}} in many tournaments, and eventually got it to win the [[Kalos]] [[region]] {{type|Fighting}} Pokémon tournament. However, in one of those tournaments Dark Hawlucha got injured, and wasn't able to compete anymore. Carl came up with the Super Pokémon Battle Shows, which were much less physically demanding than [[Pokémon battle]]s, and in the process switched careers for himself as well.

After hearing some cries, {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} accidentally interrupted his rehearsal of a Super Pokémon Battle Show, which they mistook for an incident between Dark Hawlucha and {{p|Snubbull}}. Carl's Gallade suffered an injured leg in the process, making it unable to perform in the next battle show. {{an|Bonnie}} proposed he use another Pokémon in Gallade's place, and it was decided [[Ash's Hawlucha]] would take this role. However the two Hawlucha failed to get along, and they instead formed a rivalry. Carl later explained Dark Hawlucha's backstory to Ash and his friends, leading Ash's Hawlucha to rethink his actions. That evening, the Super Pokémon Battle Show still went underway as planned. Although Carl panicked at first when the Hawlucha didn't act as the script told them to, he soon noticed that the audience loved the phyisical confrontation between the two, and also noticed how Ash's Hawlucha managed to give Dark Hawlucha his fighting spirit back. The Super Pokémon Battle Show proved to be a success, and the next day Carl thanked Ash and his friends and said his farewells as he traveled onto the next town for the next show.