Pokémon/Characters/Sabrina

Sabrina is a fictional character in the Pokémon video game series. She is a Gym Leader in the Kanto region and resides in Saffron City (Yamabuki City). She is an expert on Psychic types. Sabrina gives out the Marsh Badge to trainers who defeat her.

Her English name was problably chosen because it contains the word "Abra" or the anagram of the word "Brain", or because the name Sabrina is commonly associated with psychic/magic forces, etc. (I.E. Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Her Japanese name is Natsume.

In the Pokémon anime, Sabrina is very unemotional and even cruel. She turned any losing trainers in her gym into dolls (smaller versions of themselves). The reason for this, said her father (disguised as a jogger) was that when she was small, she wanted to practice her ESP powers but her parents wouldn't let her. In anger, she gradually lost her emotions and at this time and focused solely on developing her powers. Her lost childhood was symbolized by the sentient doll of a little girl in her lap that always wanted to "play". The symbol still remained even after she became a Gym Leader.

When Ash Ketchum first battles against Sabrina, her Abra evolves into a Kadabra and defeats Ash's Pikachu. She uses her psychic abilities to shrink Ash and his friends to the size of dolls, but they are rescued by Sabrina's father (who also has ESP, but his powers are far outstripped by his daughter's). Ash then leaves for the haunted Pokémon Tower of Lavender Town to catch a Ghost-type Pokémon, which Sabrina's father says are the only Pokémon that can defeat her Psychic Pokémon. Ash befriends a Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar in the tower, and the Haunter accompanies Ash back to Saffron City. The Haunter seems confident in its ability to win the battle, but when it comes time to fight, it is nowhere to be found. Ash manages to find it in town just as it foils another one of Team Rocket's schemes to capture Pikachu. Believing this to be the reason for Haunter's disappearance, he quickly forgives him and they march back to the gym, only to have Haunter disappear again. Pikachu offers to take on Kadabra once more. Defeat seems certain until Haunter starts making comical faces he learned from a comedy TV show at Sabrina. This makes Sabrina laugh for the first time in years, removing her from her trance. In addition, since Sabrina is telepathically linked to her Kadabra, it is immobilized with laughter as well and unable to continue the battle, and Ash wins by default. She gives Ash a Marsh Badge, and he gives Sabrina his Haunter.

In the manga Electric Tale of Pikachu, Sabrina is friendly and happy. But because a Haunter named Black Fog (on account of the legion of Gastly that surround it at all times) attacked her, she ended up in the hospital in a coma. Ash and his friends had to defeat the Haunter to save Sabrina's soul. Ash used a Superball on the Haunter but it failed and the Haunter used Explosion.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Sabrina is, in addition to being the Saffron City Gym Leader, a member of Team Rocket. She is one of three elite "Executives", subordinate only to Giovanni himself. After Team Rocket is disbanded, Sabrina does not associate with its later incarnation, Neo Team Rocket.

• Haunter (anime and card game only)
• Abra
• Kadabra
• Alakazam (game and card game only)
• Kirlia (game only)
• Mr. Mime (game and card game only)
• Venomoth (game only)
• Drowzee (card game only)
• Hypno (card game only)
• Gastly (card game only)
• Gengar (card game only)
• Psyduck (card game only)
• Golduck (card game only)
• Porygon (card game only)