Pokémon/Characters/Green

Green, called Blue (ブルー, Burū) in the Japanese version, is a fictional character in the manga series Pokémon Adventures. She is a wily, underhanded con artist who begins as a minor character but later becomes a friendly ally to the heroes.

Originally, the manga followed the adventures of the character named Red and mainly chronicled his journey of discovery from Pallet Town to becoming a Pokémon Master. The story was true to the spirit of the original game and therefore included the rival character Blue (Green, in Japan), coinciding with the default names that the player could choose in the original Game Boy games, and the names of the games themselves: Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green, in Japan). In those games, when a player started their adventure, the player has a choice of one of three Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle.

In the Pokémon Adventures, Red chooses Bulbasaur as his rival Blue chooses Charmander. Some older concept art by Ken Sugimori depicted a third trainer who took the third Pokémon, Squirtle, but this was never implemented in the games. In Pokémon Adventures, Squirtle was taken by a third female character who would, in time, become Green.

It is interesting to note that she, Red, and Blue appeared in the original American Red and Blue pamphlets with their starter Pokémon (she had her Squirtle, Red his Bulbasaur, and Blue his Charmander), but few knew who she was, and she had her back to the reader.

In the Japanese version of Pokémon Adventures (known as Pokémon Special), the young girl described in this article is instead named Blue, and Red's rival from Pallet Town is instead named Green, matching the way the names are used in the Japanese versions of the games. When Pokémon Adventures was localized into English, however, Green and Blue switched names, as Pocket Monsters: Green was never released in English, but Pokémon Blue was.

Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, FireRed, and LeafGreen In the original Pokemon games, Green was the trainer who took Prof. Oak's third Pokemon, but is never seen by the player except in the booklet (albeit, her back is turned toward the player). She is finally made playable in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen under the names of Green or Leaf. But if the player choses the male character, Green will never be seen (unlike in Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, and Pearl, where all three main characters know each other). Her rival in the game is Blue (just like Red).

When Green first appeared in the manga, she was a minor character who attempts to trick Red out of his money by selling fake items. Red beats her easily, but she tricks him again by stealing his gym badges. She also stole her starter Pokémon, Squirtle, from Professor Oak, on account of not being able to legally obtain it, as she was kidnapped long ago by Ho-Oh. For this reason, she knew she could never have a Pokédex, nor her own Pokémon, because no one knows she is from Pallet Town, so no one would find reason to offer these gifts to a stranger. As the series progresses, however, she decides to team up with the other Pallet Town trainers, Red and Blue, in order to defeat the gym leader Sabrina, her nemesis.

Green returns again later in the saga, having become a competent Pokémon Trainer in her own right, as she qualifies for the 9th Pokémon League Tournament. She progreses through the tournament and even makes it into the semifinals, but she is defeated by Professor Oak. Green explains her problem, and he gives her the third Pokédex and forgives her for stealing his Squirtle.

In the Yellow Saga set two years later, Green is a sort of "shadow" trainer, trailing Yellow. She sent Yellow to save Red from danger, but her motives remain ambiguous. Green blames the Elite Four for this disaster. She still carries a grudge against the Elite Four into the Gold, Silver, and Crystal Saga, when she sends Silver out to stop Lance on her behalf.

In the GSC Saga, Green does not appear until volume 13, where she appears at the Pokémon Gym Leader's Tournament, disguised as an old man by using her Ditto. She was apparently the partner of Silver. She and Silver had escaped from the grasp of the Mask of Ice at a young age, while others abducted along with them, namely Will, Karen, Siam, and Kartz, remained and became the Mask of Ice's servants. Her ornithophobia is resolved when it is revealed that the bird that abducted her so many years ago was the legendary Pokémon Ho-oh. Green confronts Ho-oh and overcomes her fear. She is also one of the six trainers who helps out in the final battle against the Mask of Ice.

In the FR/LG saga, Green teams up with Red and Blue to rescue Professor Oak and her parents, who have been kidnapped by the evil Psychic Pokémon Deoxys and taken to the Sevii Islands.

In the end saga she, along with Blue, Red, Silver and Yellow, are turned to stone due to some after-effects when they tried to stop Sird's last attack against Deoxys.

Green's only appearance so far in the Battle Frontier saga is her as a statue in some room in the Battle Tower with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Silver.