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|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 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.

|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.}}