Impostor Professor Oak

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This article is about the character. For the TCG card named "Impostor Professor Oak", see Impostor Professor Oak (Base Set 73).

Impostor Professor Oak (Japanese: にせオーキドはかせ False Doctor Ōkido) is a villainous character disguised as Professor Oak.

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Impostor Professor Oak's first TCG appearance

He first appeared in the TCG card Impostor Professor Oak and has since made appearances on other cards. He also appears in the How I Became a Pokémon Card manga series.

Cards featuring Impostor Professor Oak

Related cards
Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format.
Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card Type English
Expansion
Rarity # Japanese
Expansion
Rarity #
Impostor Professor Oak T Base Set   73/102 Expansion Pack    
Base Set 2   102/130      
Impostor Oak's Revenge T Team Rocket   76/82 Rocket Gang    
Impostor Professor Oak's Invention T Neo Destiny   94/105 Darkness, and to Light...    
 


In the anime

James disguised himself as Professor Oak in Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up? Proving to be adept in Pokémon knowledge and sharing Professor Oak's terrible poetry skills, he was very successful in imitating Professor Oak. However, after many tests including silhouette identification and writing poems, he was discovered. He did it again in A Faux Oak Finish!.

In the manga

In Pokémon Adventures, Sabrina had her Kadabra disguise itself as Professor Oak. The resulting transformation was strikingly similar to Impostor Professor Oak. The disguise was uncovered rather quickly by Red.

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