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The Masked Man initially used Ho-Oh to kidnap {{adv|Green}}, {{adv|Silver}}, [[Carl]], [[Sham]], [[Will]], and [[Karen]] as children based on their potential as trainers. {{adv|Silver}} and {{adv|Green}} escaped from him, and went to great lengths to figure out his identity. When [[Team Rocket]] disbanded in [[Kanto]], he collected the remaining grunts and revived the organization in [[Johto]] with himself as the new leader and the remaining kidnapped children as administrators. The Masked Man's goal was to capture {{p|Celebi}} and make use of its time travel powers.

Gold was able to retrieve a scrap of his clothing and gave it to [[Professor Elm]], who examined it and later realized that there were particles of the substance used to make Gym Badges owned especially by [[Gym Leader]]s on his clothes, revealing to {{adv|Gold}} that he must be a trainer of some Gym.

The Masked Man first appears in the [[Ilex Forest]], controlling the Charcoal Kiln and his {{p|Farfetch'd}} to battle Gold. He then appeared to Gold, who thought that his Pokémon were wild, and told him to leave this forest. He easily defeated Gold and disappeared. Later, he would show up to battle Silver and Gold at the [[Lake of Rage]] and reveals Silver's past to Gold before defeating them both by freezing the entire lake and sending them both plummeting toward the rock bottom, a measure that would have been fatal had {{p|Entei}} not arrived and saved them.  

He then lays low at the headquarters and commands grunts to capture {{p|Suicune}}. To keep {{adv|Crystal}} and [[Eusine]] distracted, he sent a {{p|Ditto}} disguised as Suicune to battle them. The grunts failed in their mission however and Suicune escaped because of {{p|Parasect|Parsee's}} Spore.  

He is then confronted by [[Lt. Surge]] at Team Rocket's new base in Mahogany Town. He defeated Lt. Surge, but he was able to escape and have his Electrode blow the base up. However, the Masked Man was confident Lt. Surge would not report him to the police since he was formerly a member of Team Rocket and would be arrested as well.

The Masked Man eventually gains the control of the [[legendary Pokémon]], {{p|Ho-Oh}} and {{p|Lugia}}, both of which he captured before, and leads them to rampage at the [[Pokémon League]] so he can gain the secret behind the time-traveling [[Poké Ball]] from [[Kurt]].

Later on, by completing the [[GS Ball]], he captures Celebi in the [[Ilex Forest]] and goes back in time. Gold follows him and reveals his real identity, and eventually succeeds in defeating him and freeing Celebi.

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|img=Houndour Masked Man.png‎

|desc={{p|Houndour}} is another one of the Masked Man's battlers. It first debuted in a round named after its species, and casually overwhelmed Gold's [[Exbo]] and its entire team with alacrity, as did its fellow team members. It is later seen again on the Masked Man's team in both the battles at the [[Lake of Rage]], as well as in the [[Team Rocket HQ]] situated in [[Mahogany Town]] when [[Lt. Surge]] infiltrated the base. There, it displayed the ability to use its {{m|howl}} to call upon many wild Houndour for assistance when needed.  

|img=Ariados Masked Man.png

|desc={{p|Ariados}} is another one of the Masked Man's team members, typically used for battles that require its {{m|String Shot}}. Although it is kept on his main team, it hardly saw any action after Gold's first meeting with the villain, instead being shown once with Houndour in a group attack and deftly defeated by [[Aibo]]'s {{m|Double Team}} maneuver.

|img=Gastly Masked Man.png

|desc={{p|Gastly}} is technically the first member of the Masked Man's team to be seen on-screen, doing so when it unmasked itself and showed that it had possessed a trainer and his {{p|Farfetch'd}}. Because it is not as powerful as some of the other Pokémon that he trains, it uses its ghostly possession abilities to do its dirty work, and, when possible, uses surprise attacks while hiding in its Trainer's ragged clothing.

|img=Ho-Oh Masked Man.png

|epname=The Mightiest Ho-Oh

|desc=Although the appearance of this {{p|Ho-Oh|Pokémon}} was alluded to as early as flashbacks in the {{chap|Red, Green & Blue}}, where it was described as being a huge bird Pokémon that kidnapped {{adv|Green}}, it wasn't until midway into the {{chap|Gold, Silver & Crystal|GSC arc}} that it made its first true appearance. There, it clashed with its former master, who had earlier had a team of [[Grunt]]s demolish the [[Tin Tower]] and most of [[Ecruteak City]] to draw it out. Soon enough, its battle with "him" was shown to Gold and {{adv|Crystal}}, confounding them as the Masked Man's identity was narrowed down to those among the 16 Gym Leaders in [[Johto]] and [[Kanto]]. Eventually, it was caught by the [[Pokégear]]-controlled dummy that was set up by Masked Man, and rampaged in the [[Indigo Plateau]] alongside {{p|Lugia}}. Soon, after its {{DL|Legendary artifacts|Rainbow Wing}} had been extracted, both the legendary Pokémon were lent to [[Karen]] and [[Will]], and fought against Green's [[legendary birds]], and was eventually brought back to its senses. As it has yet to be shown upon it regaining freedom, it is not known where it and Lugia ended up settling in.

Ho-Oh's known moves are {{m|Fly}} and {{m|Sacred Fire}}.}}

|img=Lugia Masked Man.png

|desc={{p|Lugia}}'s first appearance dates back to the end of the {{chap|Yellow}}, where it was summoned by [[Lance]] to complete his plans of creating a utopia for Pokémon where humans that abuse Pokémon or destroy their habitats would be no more. Lance was eventually beaten, and the Badge Amplifier energy Lugia had absorbed transferred to the soils of mainland Kanto, where it would spread life instead of bringing about death. It was in the [[Whirl Islands]] where it made its proper debut, finally identified as a Lugia for the first time. Although the resusciated Gold, Silver, and Crystal stood little chance against its might at first, their [[Exbo|starters]] [[Silver's Feraligatr|all]] [[Megaree|evolved]] and helped deliver a critical blow by aiming straight for its forehead to maximize its [[catch rate]]. A bright flash of light soon followed, after which it seemed to have been trapped in the ball Crystal had kicked, the three young [[Pokédex Holder]]s were shocked to find that it was empty, and were led to assume that it ran. In reality, however, the Masked Man was behind the attack which caused its rampage all along, and was revealed to have caught it himself as he appeared at the Indigo Plateau and led an attack on the league alongside {{p|Ho-Oh}}, which he also had recaught. Eventually, after much turmoil, Lugia was freed and flied off with its fellow bird.

Lugia's known moves are {{m|Whirlpool}}, {{m|Psychic}}, {{m|Fly}}, and {{m|Aeroblast}}.}}

|img=Celebi Masked Man.png

|desc=This {{p|Celebi}} was the object of the Masked Man's longing, and, the only Pokémon he could never manage to capture on his own. His dedication to acquire it for his plans (later revealed to have been for the sake of reuniting his {{p|Lapras}} with its deceased parents) was so strong that he would visit the shrine in the [[Ilex Forest]] to attempt to catch it, not being aware of the existence of the [[GS Ball]]'s purpose or existence at the time. Six years prior to the events of the series, he was in one of the weakened periods where he lay comatose from the wounds he received, and this allowed Green and Silver to make their escape. 9 years later, he would finally complete the GS Ball using the Rainbow and {{DL|Legendary artifacts|Silver Wing}}s he plucked from Ho-Oh and Lugia, and succeeds in capturing this very elusive legendary Pokémon. However, though his Lapras, Glacier, succeeded in traveling to the past to meet its parents, the GS Ball was destroyed by {{DL|Gold (Adventures)|Pichu}}, and he ended up stuck in the voids of time, where Celebi sends past memories of the song his old chums had wrote for him when his two Lapras died.}}

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