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[[File:Domino and Giovanni.png|thumb|220px|Giovanni with [[Domino]] and {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|the grunts}}]] | [[File:Domino and Giovanni.png|thumb|220px|Giovanni with [[Domino]] and {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|the grunts}}]] | ||
His next appearance was in ''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]'', where he was seen scolding Jessie, James, and Meowth on their failures and told them to bring rare Pokémon. Afterwards he said that they'd never find a Pokémon as rare as Mewtwo. In the episode ''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'', Giovanni's building was blown up by Mewtwo. He and his Persian survived the explosion and he angrily told Jessie, James, and Meowth to do their job (ironically, they were about to quit). | His next appearance was in ''[[EP064|It's Mr. Mime Time]]'', where he was seen scolding Jessie, James, and Meowth on their failures and told them to bring rare Pokémon. Afterwards he said that they'd never find a Pokémon as rare as Mewtwo. In the episode ''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'', Giovanni's building was blown up by Mewtwo. He and his Persian survived the explosion and he angrily told Jessie, James, and Meowth to do their job (ironically, they were about to quit). | ||
In ''[[EP066|The Evolution Solution]]'', Giovanni is on vacation at a beach resort in order to relieve the stress of his headquarters being destroyed and Mewtwo escaping. He also gives Jessie, James, and Meowth an assignment to break into the laboratory of [[Professor Westwood]] and steal information from it. He later appears in ''[[EP082|A Scare in the Air]]'', claiming that he is assigning Jessie, James, and Meowth to Team Rocket's elite dirigible division. In actuality, he has finally had enough of their failures and is placing them on an old, unreliable blimp that he hopes will crash so that he can collect its insurance policy, the trio's survival not concerning him. | |||
Giovanni also appeared near the beginning of the movie, ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'', as he was the one who had {{an|Dr. Fuji}} clone Mewtwo for him. After Mewtwo destroyed the lab, Giovanni told Mewtwo that he saw him as a valuable partner, putting armor on Mewtwo and using him to defeat Trainers in Gym battles (including Gary's Nidoking and Arcanine, as seen in the anime) and help Team Rocket in their attempts to steal Pokémon. Eventually, Mewtwo confronted Giovanni about its treatment and Giovanni admitted that he didn't see Mewtwo as a partner but as a servant. This enraged Mewtwo and it was this incident which drove it to destroy Giovanni's base, allowing it to escape. | Giovanni also appeared near the beginning of the movie, ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'', as he was the one who had {{an|Dr. Fuji}} clone Mewtwo for him. After Mewtwo destroyed the lab, Giovanni told Mewtwo that he saw him as a valuable partner, putting armor on Mewtwo and using him to defeat Trainers in Gym battles (including Gary's Nidoking and Arcanine, as seen in the anime) and help Team Rocket in their attempts to steal Pokémon. Eventually, Mewtwo confronted Giovanni about its treatment and Giovanni admitted that he didn't see Mewtwo as a partner but as a servant. This enraged Mewtwo and it was this incident which drove it to destroy Giovanni's base, allowing it to escape. | ||
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Giovanni is the main antagonist in the movie ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'', seeking out Mewtwo, who by this time was living in peace with the cloned Pokémon at [[Mount Quena]]. Once Giovanni discovered it, he tried to recapture it by threatening to use Mewtwo's cloned Pokémon friends in their experiments, experiments that he also claimed would certainly result in their death. He used two machines to try to make Mewtwo submit to his will, but though Mewtwo stepped into the orb, it was still unwilling to serve Giovanni, threatening to destroy his body first. Ash and the others were able to stop the machines, and it was around this time that they faced off against Giovanni and several Team Rocket soldiers. Their Pokémon fought as a distraction so Ash could get Mewtwo into the spring. Once Mewtwo was healed from its injuries, it moved the spring under the mountain to protect it, and then erased the memories of Giovanni and the other Team Rocket soldiers (excluding Jessie, James, and Meowth) of it, making him forget entirely about Mewtwo. Standing next to [[Domino]] and Persian wondering what they were doing, he got the strange feeling as though he had been utterly defeated. | Giovanni is the main antagonist in the movie ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'', seeking out Mewtwo, who by this time was living in peace with the cloned Pokémon at [[Mount Quena]]. Once Giovanni discovered it, he tried to recapture it by threatening to use Mewtwo's cloned Pokémon friends in their experiments, experiments that he also claimed would certainly result in their death. He used two machines to try to make Mewtwo submit to his will, but though Mewtwo stepped into the orb, it was still unwilling to serve Giovanni, threatening to destroy his body first. Ash and the others were able to stop the machines, and it was around this time that they faced off against Giovanni and several Team Rocket soldiers. Their Pokémon fought as a distraction so Ash could get Mewtwo into the spring. Once Mewtwo was healed from its injuries, it moved the spring under the mountain to protect it, and then erased the memories of Giovanni and the other Team Rocket soldiers (excluding Jessie, James, and Meowth) of it, making him forget entirely about Mewtwo. Standing next to [[Domino]] and Persian wondering what they were doing, he got the strange feeling as though he had been utterly defeated. | ||
He also made cameo appearances in ''[[EP157|The Fortune Hunters]]'', where Butch and Cassidy gave him an update on their latest scheme, and ''[[EP231|Due's and Don'ts]]'', where he begrudgingly accepts Jessie, James, and Meowth back into the Team Rocket organization after their membership had been revoked because of unpaid dues and loans. | |||
[[File:Giovanni AG anime.png|thumb|left|250px|Giovanni in the {{series|Advanced Generation}}]] | [[File:Giovanni AG anime.png|thumb|left|250px|Giovanni in the {{series|Advanced Generation}}]] | ||
In the ''Advanced Generation'' series, Giovanni himself played a minor role and the majority of his appearances were only in Meowth's [[Boss fantasy|boss fantasies]]. Beginning in ''[[AG002|A Ruin with a View]]'', Giovanni oversaw Jessie, James, and Meowth's efforts to set up a base of operations in the [[Hoenn]] region, with the secret intent of learning about [[Team Aqua]] and [[Team Magma]], the villainous teams residing there. | In the ''Advanced Generation'' series, Giovanni himself played a minor role and the majority of his appearances were only in Meowth's [[Boss fantasy|boss fantasies]]. Beginning in ''[[AG002|A Ruin with a View]]'', Giovanni oversaw Jessie, James, and Meowth's efforts to set up a base of operations in the [[Hoenn]] region, with the secret intent of learning about [[Team Aqua]] and [[Team Magma]], the villainous teams residing there. | ||
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Giovanni appeared again in ''[[SM012|The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair!]]'' during an argument the trio were having with Matori over their lack of reports on their activity in Alola. They immediately fell into line upon seeing him and showed him {{TP|Jessie|Mimikyu}}, as well as {{an|Bewear}}, who they lied about having captured. Though he was initially skeptical of their claims while examining data presented to him by Matori, he ultimately praised them and told them to continue doing well for Team Rocket. | Giovanni appeared again in ''[[SM012|The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair!]]'' during an argument the trio were having with Matori over their lack of reports on their activity in Alola. They immediately fell into line upon seeing him and showed him {{TP|Jessie|Mimikyu}}, as well as {{an|Bewear}}, who they lied about having captured. Though he was initially skeptical of their claims while examining data presented to him by Matori, he ultimately praised them and told them to continue doing well for Team Rocket. | ||
Giovanni reappeared in ''[[SM062|Acting True to Form!]]'' alongside Matori, where he contacted the trio and took an interest in the {{alo|Meowth}}. He later contacted the trio again after the Alolan Meowth arrived at the headquarters. | Giovanni reappeared in ''[[SM062|Acting True to Form!]]'' alongside Matori, where he contacted the trio and took an interest in the {{alo|Meowth}}. He later contacted the trio again after the Alolan Meowth arrived at the headquarters. | ||