User:Hikaru Wazana/Clair (anime)
| Clair イブキ Ibuki | |
 Clair in Pokémon the Series: Black & White | |
| Gender | Female |
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| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair color | Light blue |
| Hometown | Blackthorn City |
| Region | Johto |
| Trainer class | Gym Leader |
| Game counterpart | Clair |
| Leader of | Blackthorn Gym |
| Badge | Rising Badge |
| Specializes in | Dragon types |
| Anime debut | Beauty is Skin Deep |
| English voice actor | Megan Hollingshead (4Kids dub) Eva Christensen (TPCi dub) |
| Japanese voice actor | Yuko Mita |
Clair (Japanese: イブキ Ibuki) is the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City's Gym, known officially as the Blackthorn Gym. She specializes in Dragon-type Pokémon, and she gives the Rising Badge to Trainers who defeat her.
In the original series, Clair is Ash's last challenge to enter the Johto League competition. In Pokémon the Series: Black & White, she returns as a mentor to Iris.
In the anime
History
Pre-series
As a Dragon-type specialist, Clair has trained in the past with several other great trainers like Lance, this connection made her have childhood friend Trainer Liza, a Pokémon specialist like Charizard. With the death of the former Gym Leader at Blackthorn City, Clair took care of a reserve where the ancient Dragonite that belonged to her Master lives and also from her hometown.
Original series
Clair hosted Ash and his friends as they stayed in Blackthorn City. As Ash and his friends neared Blackthorn City in Beauty is Skin Deep, they discovered a Dratini and a Gyarados in a river. They discovered that both Pokémon belonged to Clair, who was following the Dratini down the river as it prepared to shed its skin. Team Rocket snatched the Dratini, however, and Clair gave chase. Dratini escaped, and Ash fought to protect it. During the ensuing battle, however, an electric shock was headed straight for Dratini, but Clair jumped in front of it to absorb the shock. Dratini witnessed its Trainer's devotion, and evolved into a Dragonair in order to put a stop to Team Rocket. Later, Clair was finally able to perform an important ritual to purify the legendary Dragon Fang at Riverhead Falls. Clair then went on to accept Ash's challenge for a Rising Badge.
In Fangs for Nothin', Ash and Clair began their Gym battle. Ash made the first strike, but the battle was cut short when Team Rocket stole the Dragon Fang. Ash, his friends, Clair and Kaburagi chased after Team Rocket and they all ended up in the Dragon Holy Land, where Team Rocket tricked a Dragonite into helping them. In the following episode, Liza and Ash's Charizard arrived on the scene, whereupon they helped calm down the raging Dragonite and put out the raging fire that threatened the Dragon Holy Land.
Clair and Ash had their rematch in Better Eight Than Never. Clair called on her Kingdra, but it was left exhausted by its confrontation against Ash's Snorlax and then knocked out by an Ice Punch. In the next round, Gyarados defeated Snorlax by paralzying it with a Dragon Breath attack. Later, Pikachu's speed and super-effective Thunderbolt attacks helped him defeat Gyarados. Afterwards, Dragonair took out Pikachu and then faced off against Charizard. The round was initially in Clair's favor until Charizard managed to grab a hold of Dragonair and defeat it with a "Flaming Seismic Toss" combination, thus earning Ash his final Johto League Badge, the Rising Badge.
In Why? Wynaut!, Clair informed Ash that the Silver Conference will take place in Silver Town, located at the foot of Mt. Silver, in three months. When Ash has his badges stolen by Team Rocket, Clair joins him to look for them. When they finally find, Clair says goodbye to Ash and his friends, promising that she will see them again someday.
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
Clair made a brief cameo in An Egg Scramble! during Lyra's introduction to Johto, where she was seen in her Generation IV outfit.
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
Clair physically reappeared in A Pokémon of a Different Color!, when she came to Cave Island in the Decolore Islands to hunt for a Shiny Druddigon. While there, she bumped into Ash and met Iris, Cilan, and Alexa. She revealed that she caught the Dragonite from the Dragon Holy Land, which later had a fight with Iris's Dragonite after the latter crushed a flower. The Druddigon she was searching for went on a rampage on the island, but she was able to calm it down before it joined her team. Clair decided that she would next visit Iris's hometown, the Village of Dragons, before meeting with fellow Dragon specialist and the Opelucid City Gym Leader, Drayden. Before Ash and his friends left for the next island, Clair and Iris agreed to battle each other the next time they met.
After her travels with Ash, Iris traveled to Blackthorn City to have her promised match against Clair in BWS02. Clair first took Iris to visit the Dragon Holy Land so she could help calm down a Gible that was damaging the city before having their match. Iris's Dragonite went up against Clair's Shiny Druddigon and lost the battle. Clair thanked Iris for the match and told her that being ambitious was important to becoming a Dragon Master.
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Clair appeared in Thrash of the Titans! during a flashback of Iris's journey to become the Champion of the Unova Region.
Character
Clair is compassionate towards her Dragon Pokémon and all Dragon-type Pokémon in general. She confidently approaches them in spite of whatever outbursts of anger they have and can calm them down with her soothing words. She understands their feelings, and allows them to spend free time in the Dragon Holy Land.
Clair's expertise is well-respected by other Dragon specialists and trained several Dragon type Trainers. In the past, she mentored Lance of the Elite Four and her good friend Liza, who protects Charizard. During Iris’s trip to Johto, Clair begins to be a mentor to Iris, this training allowed Iris to know more about herself and go one step further in her step as a true Dragon Master. Clair encourages her students to be ambitious and determined, and like them, she continues to refine her skills. Her confidence and mastery is also seen when she battles a challenger.
Although Clair mentioned Lance in the anime, he is not her cousin like in the games; instead, she recalled having trained him, or rather him training her at the Blackthorn Gym before he joined the Elite Four.
Appearance
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| Clair in her casual clothes in Beauty is Skin Deep | Clair in her Generation II outfit | Clair in her Generation VI outfit |
Pokémon
As expected of a Dragon-type Pokémon expert, Clair has a team made up of several powerful Pokémon, which forced Ash to use strategies and a different team than he was used to on his journey through the Johto region. Clair's Pokémon showed their strength again during the battle between Iris against Clair where Iris's Dragonite is defeated by the Clair's newly captured Druddigon after a tough battle between the two.
Clair has a tendency to bond emotionally with her Pokémon, as shown with her Dragonair and later with Druddigon, which she managed to calm down after taking a physical risk to reassure him.
On hand
This listing is of Clair's known Pokémon in the anime:
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Dragonair is Clair's main Pokémon. It first appeared as a Dratini, when it was shedding its skin and Clair was protecting it at that time. When Team Rocket tried to steal Dratini, Clair protected it which led it to evolve into a Dragonair. With its new powers, Dragonair easily defeated Team Rocket. Clair also used her Dragonair in the rematch against Ash in Better Eight Than Never. With its speed and power, it defeated Pikachu easily. With a wide range of moves such as Dragon Rage, it proved to be a tough challenge for Charizard as well. Eventually it was however defeated by Charizard's Seismic Toss, earning Ash the Rising Badge. | ||
| Debut | Beauty is Skin Deep | |
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| Voice actors | ||
| Japanese | Megumi Hayashibara | |
| English | Megumi Hayashibara | |
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| Gyarados is Clair's hidden powerhouse. It's first seen when Ash and his friends arrive in Blackthorn City seen guarding her Dratini. Then Clair uses Gyarados in a battle against Team Rocket, where it easily wins James' Weezing and joins the newly evolved Dragonair of Clair to definitively defeat Jesse, James and Meowth.
Later, during Ash's rematch with Clair, it managed to defeat Ash's Snorlax and put up a good fight against his Pikachu, but eventually lost to Pikachu's Thunderbolt. It reappeared in a flashback in the next episode. Gyarados's known moves are Hydro Pump, Hyper Beam, Dragon Breath, and Bite. | ||
| Debut | Beauty is Skin Deep | |
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| Voice actors | ||
| Japanese | Unshō Ishizuka | |
| English | Unshō Ishizuka | |
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| Kingdra was used it in both battles with Ash. In the first battle, Ash first decided to use Pikachu, but as Pikachu's attacks didn't have that much effect on Kingdra, Ash switched to Noctowl, which was easily defeated. Right after this the match was interrupted, as Team Rocket was trying to steal the Dragon Fang.
During the rematch, Kingdra put up a good fight against Ash's Snorlax, but was finally defeated by Snorlax's Ice Punch. It reappeared in a flashback in the next episode. Kingdra's known moves are Twister, Hydro Pump, Agility, Swift, and Hyper Beam. | ||
| Debut | Fangs for Nothin' | |
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| Dragonite first appeared as a wild Pokémon in Fangs For Nothin', where it was revealed to have once belonged to the original Gym Leader of the Blackthorn Gym. She went on a rampage when Team Rocket tried to steal a sacred bowl of fire in Great Bowls of Fire!, but she calmed down later on in that episode.
Clair was revealed to have captured Dragonite in A Pokémon of a Different Color!, she is seen fighting with Iris' Dragonite when he accidentally destroys a flower from a garden. When joining forces with the other Dragonite, she is affected by a frequency of mysterious sound waves. In BWS02, Dragonite is seen looking after the garden of the Shrine of the Dragons when Iris and Clair arrive to release a wild Gible. Dragonite's known moves are Hyper Beam, Outrage, and Whirlwind*. | ||
| Debut | Fangs For Nothin' | |
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| Voice actors | ||
| Japanese | Katsuyuki Konishi | |
| English | Katsuyuki Konishi | |
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| Clair's Shiny Druddigon first appeared in A Pokémon of a Different Color! as a wild Pokémon living in a cave in the Decolore Islands. It was attacked by Team Rocket, but blasted them off and went into a rampage. Clair was able to calm it and it decided to join her party.
Druddigon reappeared in BWS02, battling and winning against Iris's Dragonite after a tough battle. Druddigon's known moves are Slash, Dragon Rage, Outrage, Dragon Tail, and Flamethrower. | ||
| Debut | A Pokémon of a Different Color! | |
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| Voice actors | ||
| Japanese | Tsuguo Mogami | |
| English | Marc Thompson | |
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In the manga
Ash & Pikachu
Clair appears in The Dragonite's Imperial Wrath. In this chapter, Clair and Ash try to deal with the aftermath of Team Rocket's actions in Dragon Holy Land.
Pokémon
This listing is of Clair's known Pokémon in the manga:
On hand
 Dragonair |
Taking care
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| Dragonite appears in The Dragonite's Imperial Wrath, as a Pokémon that lives in the Dragon Holy Land. Just like in the anime, Dragonite gets out of control due to Team Rocket's actions, but after a vicious battle against Ash's Pikachu and the joint action of Ash and Clair, Dragonite manages to return to normal.
Dragonite's known moves are Hyper Beam, and Outrage. | ||
| Debut | The Dragonite's Imperial Wrath | |
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Trivia
- Clair is the only Gym Leader to be seen in the English dub of the anime before the original version. The American opening Born to Be a Winner featured episode clips, one featuring Clair, not yet shown in Japan. The opening made its debut in A Goldenrod Opportunity, which aired August 18, 2001; and Clair's Japanese debut wouldn't come until Beauty Is Skin Deep, which aired on June 6, 2002. The only other character to debut in the U.S. first was Dr. Yung.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | イブキ Ibuki | From 伊吹 Ibuki (Chinese juniper) and 息吹 ibuki (breath, possibly a reference to Dragon Breath) |
| English | Clair | From lair, referring to the lair of a dragon |
| German, French, Italian | Sandra | From dragon |
| Spanish | Débora | From dragón (dragon) or víbora (viper) |
| Korean | 이향 Ihyang | From 향나무 hyangnamu (Chinese juniper) |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 小椿 Xiǎo Chūn* | From 椿 chūn (Chinese mahogany) |
| 小樁 / 小桩 Xiǎo Zhuāng* 伊布琪 Yībùqí* |
From 樁 / 桩 zhuāng (stake) Transcription of her Japanese name | |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 小椿 Síu Chēun | From 椿 chēun (Chinese mahogany) |
| Thai | อิบูกิ Ibuki | Transcription of her Japanese name |
| Vietnamese | Ibuki | Transcription of her Japanese name |
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