Professor Oak (Pocket Monsters): Difference between revisions

== History ==

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Professor Oak first appears in ''[[PM001|Clefairy's Debut!!]]'', in which he calls in {{OBP|Green|Pocket Monsters}} and {{OBP|Red|Pocket Monsters}} to {{TP|Professor Oak|his lab|laboratory}} to get their first Pokémon. Green beats Red to the lab when they were racing. When both Trainers were in the lab, Oak tells them the news (other than the fact that he is bald) that he is requesting them to go out on a journey to fill up the Pokédex. Afterwards, he gives them each a Pokédex and gives Green a choice between three [[starter Pokémon]], a {{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Charmander}} and {{p|Squirtle}}, in which Green chooses {{TP|Green|Charmander}}. Before Green left, a {{TP|Red|Clefairy}} comes in. Oak did not allow that Clefairy in the lab as he was known for causing mischief. Clefairy calms Oak down by massaging him, making him forget what happened. As it was Red's turn to choose, Red decides to choose the Clefairy as he enjoyed Clefairy's silliness.

In ''[[PM049|Fighting Over Otoshidama!!]]'', Professor Oak was in his house. He leaves his room and finds out that Red, Green, Blue and Yellow are there for the Japanese New Year. He decides to give them money. When Clefairy tried opening drawers, the pouches the money was contained in flew out of the window and Professor Oak had the four boys get them back. After getting the pouches back, he has the four boys go on a rooftop to watch the sun go down and to celebrate the new year.

In ''[[PM058|Get Lugia!]]'', Professor Oak points to a globe where the locations of the legendary birds are. He has Red, Blue and Green get the orbs representing them in order for Lugia arrive. When Professor Oak goes to the island to check on them, Red, Green and Blue disguise Clefairy as Lugia as Clefairy smashed the orbs. In ''[[PM059|Good-Bye, Pikachu?!]]'', Red tells Professor Oak about the Dratini he found, Professor Oak and Green explains that Dratini evolves into Dragonair and their orbs are worth 300 million yen each. However, Professor Oak and Green run off after Clefairy tells them that the Dratini didn't evolve yet.

In ''[[PM061|The End of the Journey!!]]'', Professor Oak throws a party for Red in Pallet Town after defeating Giovanni. However, Giovanni launches second missile and tells all of them. Professor Oak takes Red to the missile site following the launch. He thinks of a plan to stop Giovanni's missile but Clefairy flies on one to stop Giovanni's. Professor Oak  watches the missiles explode as they clashed with each other.

[[File:Professor Oak PMDP.png|thumb|left|Professor Oak in Pocket Monsters DP]]

After Red's finishes in travels in Kanto and gets reunited with Clefairy, he reappears in ''[[PM062|Welcome Back, Clefairy!!]]'' in a lab at Johto. He tells Red about some new Pokémon he will encounter there after showing him the Marill. Professor Oak goes into another room in the lab where he handed  {{OBP|Gold|Pocket Monsters}} a {{p|Cyndaquil}} and {{OBP|Silver|Pocket Monsters}} a {{p|Totodile}} as their choice of their first Pokémon. He lays out the Pokégear and Pokédex for the two and gives it to them.

In ''[[PM079|The Hardest Bug Pokémon Wins?!]]'', Clefairy offers a Poké Ball to Professor Oak which he thought it was a Pokémon Red caught, but it turned out to be an onion in the shape of Bulbasaur's bulb. In ''[[PM081|Showdown at the Radio Tower!!]]'', he has a meeting at the Radio Tower with DJ Mary. However, as the tower was taken over by Giovanni and Team Rocket, they run to the Radio Tower with Professor Oak staying behind. In ''[[PM092|Celebi, the Green Guardian]]'', he has a lecture about {{p|Celebi}}. Professor Oak has Red and his Pokémon to go out on a hike to search for the legendary Pokémon.

[[File:Professor Oak PMHGSS.png|thumb|Professor Oak in Pocket Monsters HGSS]]

In ''[[PMRS23|A Formidable Rival!]]'', Professor Oak greets Red and his Pokémon and introduces them to {{OBP|Red|Ruby-Sapphire}}. Professor Oak knows that Red is a better Trainer than Red (Isamu Akai). To prove this, Red's (Isamu Akai) Clefairy made coffee for him and spills it on his lab coat. Afterwards, he watches both Reds having a battle with their Clefairy. He intervenes in the middle and admits that Red (Isamu Akai) and the other Red are good Trainers. Professor Oak then gives the other Red a Pokédex.

Professor Oak makes a cameo in the beginning of ''[[PMRS45|Find The Ancient Pokémon!!]]'' in which he is searching for an {{p|Aerodactyl}} covered in Old Amber. In ''[[PMRS57|Spring Cleaning Mayhem!]]'', Professor Oak bought himself a new car. He is visited by Red and his Pokémon in his house. Professor Oak along with Red and his Pokémon unpack in his new house. Professor Oak then goes to his office. When Red and the group checked on him, he wakes up and discovers that the house was still empty as the garbage men took away the moving supplies as they thought it was trash. Professor Oak still had his car only to discover that it was full of water.

In [[PMDP03]], Professor Oak was in a Pokémon Center where he was talking to one of the nurses. Later, the same nurse contacted Professor Oak to tell him what Red discovered underground. Professor Oak and the nurse goes underground and finds out that Clefairy found a sheet of paper with incorrect answers to math problems, much to his irony. In ''[[PMDP11|I Want to See a Pro Game!!]]'', Professor Oak eats out and invites Red over. Professor Oak explains to the group about a Pokémon Show going on and takes the group to the Pokémon Show. After the show, Professor Oak asks Clefairy which Pokémon he wanted to pair up with as Clefairy showed an interest in performing. However, he did not choose any of them. In ''[[PMDP12|Illusory Pokémon Discovery!]]'', Professor Oak discovers an {{pkmn|Egg}} containing {{p|Manaphy}}. He tries to take care of the Egg but Clefairy did so instead. When the Egg hatched, it inherited Clefairy's personality instead of Professor Oak's. In ''[[PMDP17|Big Strategy for the Treasure Gate!!]]'', Professor Oak assigns the job to Red and the gang to collect Time Gears and has {{OBP|Dusknoir|Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky}} to help them out.

In [[PMDP36]], Professor Oak does some swimming laps and a {{p|Prinplup}} comes by. He decides to host a swimming race between Clefairy and a Prinplup. After the race, he takes out a swimsuit for Clefairy to put on but it make Clefairy stretch instead. In [[PMDP54]], Professor Oak was racing with Professor Rowan. They bumped into Red's camp set. He witnesses Team Galactic driving away in a van. In [[PMDP55]], Professor Oak is in his house and shows Red and the gang a robot with the word, help, on the chest. He programmed the robot to do many chores that Professor Oak himself cannot normally do. However, the robot backfired after Clefairy altered some controls on it. In [[PMDP58]], Professor Oak made some potions as it was cold and flu season. He tried it on Clefairy but Clefairy made several changes to his work. However, Clefairy ended up getting big.

Professor Oak has returned to Johto as of [[PMHGSS03]]. A Team Rocket Grunt tells him a joke which makes him laugh. However, Clefairy's kimono costume ruined it. The grunt still allowed Professor Oak to stay. In [[PMHGSS08]], a bunch of officers were with Professor Oak. Professor Oak reveals his new invention inside a shiny briefcase, which caused the attraction of some Team Rocket Grunts. Red and his Pokémon did everything they can to get the grunts away from them. Professor Oak made a cameo in a flashback in [[PMHGSS15]] in which {{p|Cleffa}} was telling the group a story.

In [[PMHGSS18]], he is the attendant of a contest for which people get to sign up. His job was also to stamp the found locations that was assigned on a sheet of paper. Later, Professor Oak was at his house and some tourists come by. Clefairy manages to help them. He takes some wood from the sign to Professor Oak's house and builds a fireplace out of it. He also takes part of Professor Oak's house to build a stable. Professor Oak appeared in [[PMHGSS20]] in which he along with the other Pokémon professors try to get rid of Red's Clefairy as Clefairy was considered a bad influence towards them.

He reappeared in [[PMBW19]] and [[PMBW20]].