Gengar's Rescue Team sprite.
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| Gengar ゲンガー | |
|---|---|
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| Character's information | |
| Location | Baram Town |
| Species | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 1,000+ years |
| Status | |
| Family | |
| Occupation | |
| Title | |
| Background information | |
| Earliest Mystery Dungeon appearance |   Rescue Team (2005)
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| Latest Mystery Dungeon appearance |  Rescue Team DX (2020)
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| Created by | Shin-ichiro Tomie |
| Designed by | |
| Voice actors | |
English 
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Jimmy Zoppi (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!) |
Japanese 
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Nobutoshi Canna 神奈延年 (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!) |
For Gengar as a species, see Pkmn:Gengar.
Gengar (Japanese: ゲンガー) is a Pokémon and a recurring character in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. He made his debut in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team in 2005.
He is a former human, and the former leader of the Rescue Team Team Meanies, after having presumably disbanded it or outright leaving.
Biography
Physical Appearance
Personality
Gengar is a vile, duplicitous, greedy, selfish Pokémon in every piece of media he's shown in. While a sliver of kindness shines through at the end of his character arc in the video games, he still fronts as a scumbag. It's possible that this is how he wants to be seen, or it could be a case of him not wanting people thinking he turned over a new leaf, simply because he did a single selfless act.
History
The Curse of Ninetales
Gengar was once a human Pokémon Trainer who foolishly touched one of the tails of Ninetales. His Pokémon, Gardevoir bore the brunt of the curse, and when Ninetales offered to let him take her place, he had already fled. Gengar was reincarnated 1,000 years later as a Pokémon, for reasons related to the curse.[Citation needed]
Team Meanies
Little is known about how or when Gengar became a Pokémon, or what his human name was before he became a Pokémon.
In Team Meanies is Formed!
, it is revealed that at some point after being reborn as a Pokémon, he tried to steal requests from Ekans while he was looking at the bulletin board. Medicham, a friend of Ekans, came to save him. Avoiding a fight, Gengar ran away from the two of them.
They did not meet again until a few days later, when Gengar planned on stealing from the Kecleon Shop, as they had also planned on stealing from them. Realizing they had found Gengar again, they chased him down. But, before they could fight, they were found by Wynaut and Wobbuffet who misidentified them as a Rescue Team and asked them to fulfill their request. Not wanting to make themselves look suspicious after attempting to steal from the Kecleon Shop, they decided to pretend to be a Rescue Team. After fulfilling the request for Wynaut, they realized they worked well together as a team and decided to form Team Meanies officially.
Gengar initially feels hesitant about joining the team, wondering if it would be fine for him to join them after "throwing away" Gardevoir. However, he decided to continue working alongside them.
Rescue Team Titles
Throughout the events of the Rescue Team titles, Gengar and his team are always out to serve themselves, or harm others, sometimes both.
After eavesdropping on Hero's dream and noticing Gardevoir was there, Gengar ran away crying. Afterwards, Gengar starts to show some good-natured traits. Gengar helps Alakazam and Xatu create the Teleport Gem in order for the Hero and their Partner to be able to reach Sky Tower, but refuses to take credit for his actions, leaving before they arrive. After the Hero and their Partner reach the top of Sky Tower and convince Rayquaza to destroy the meteor that was falling, they are left as "spirits" due to the explosion. Gengar sees them and claims to start taking them to the "dark world" but says that he "took the wrong path" and that "this isn't like [him]", deciding to leave them instead. The Hero and their Partner believe that Gengar was trying to save them.
Afterwards, Gengar attempts to climb Mt. Freeze "over and over" but is unable to reach its peak. As he was not able to accomplish his mission on his own, he asks the Hero to escort him there, where he asked Ninetales to break the curse on Gardevoir, threatening Ninetales to do so. Ninetales explains that it is unable to lift curses, and gives Gengar the Nine Tail Crest. Ninetales explains that if Gengar has had a change of heart and is no longer the person he was when he was human, it could be possible for him to save Gardevoir. Ninetales directs him to Murky Cave, stating that it was the place where Gardevoir's physical body remained sealed.
After Gengar departs, Ninetales remarks about how Gengar has seemed to have changed, but was "wavering," because "his old and new emotions are clashing within his heart."
He drags the Hero with him to Murky Cave, and upon reaching the bottom floor and placing the Nine Tail Crest there, Gengar suddenly hears a voice. The voice stated that if Gengar wanted to lift the curse on Gardevoir, he would have to state his true feelings to the voice. Whether or not the curse could be lifted would be based on the voice's evaluation. After being suddenly paralyzed by the voice, Gengar has to allow the Hero to speak for him. However, the voice of Murky Cave denies their request until Gengar breaks free of the paralysis and proves that he does have remorse for his actions.
He admitted that his fear of becoming cursed caused him to run away, and he soon forgot about both the curse and Gardevoir. However, he was moved when he realized Gardevoir had never forgotten him, when she stated to the Hero that she considered him to be an "irreplaceable friend" that she would one day meet again. Gengar realized how selfish he had been and how he lacked gratitude toward others. After revealing this, the curse on Gardevoir was lifted, but all of her memories of Gengar were lost, and she no longer remembered that she was his partner in the past.
Upon the success of the mission, he gives the Hero their reward and reintroduces himself to Gardevoir before leaving.
After this, his fellow members of Team Meanies comment that he had not been around much. Medicham went on to join Team Charm, while the fate of Ekans remains unknown.
It's never explained who, or what, the voice in Murky Cave is, much like Luminous Cave. The voices of both locations may be the Voice of Life.
Go-Getters Out of the Gate
In the anime Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate, Team Meanies try to show up Team Go-Getters and save Pikachu from Skarmory. They were unable to do so, and Team Go-Getters was able to finish the mission.
Ginji's Rescue Team
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team, Gengar has generic villain motivations of wanting to destroy the world. Despite this, he aids in defeating Groudon by using Double-Edge against it. He's not seen after this point in the manga and is presumed dead.
Super MD
Appearances
Animations
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| Team Go-Getters | Time and Darkness | Beyond Time and Darkness | Gates to Infinity | Special Videos | ||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Games
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| Rescue Team | Explorers | Adventure Squad | Gates to Infinity |
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| Red | Blue | DX | Time | Darkness | Sky | Blazing | Stormy | Light | ||||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ||
Games: Other
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Manga
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| Ginji's Rescue Team | Explorers of Time and Darkness | Blazing Exploration Team
| Go! Expedition Society Juniors! |
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| ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Voice Actors
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Jimmy Zoppi | |
| Japanese | 神奈 延年 | |
| Spanish | Europe | Fernando Elegido |
| Latin America | Gabriel Ortiz | |
| Portuguese | Dado Monteiro | |
| Korean | 김관진 | |
Gallery
For all of the Gengar art used across the wiki, see: Category:Gengar.
Official Artwork
(2007)
Artwork from a Rescue Team source book.
Normal portrait
Happy portrait
Pain portrait
Angry portrait
Worried portrait
Crying portrait
Surprised portrait
Gengar as seen in the Rescue Team main story.
Gengar as seen in the Rescue Team anime.
Gengar as a human.
Gengar as a human.
Gengar as a human.
Trivia
- Gengar can use often use Moves he can't learn in the games.
- He uses Confusion in the Go-Getters Out of the Gate Anime.
- He uses Double-Edge in Ginji's Rescue Team.
- Double-Edge was a tutor-only move in the main series games at the time of release.
- When Gengar asks the player to escort him through Murky Cave, he knows Leer, Quick Attack, Scratch, and Taunt. Gengar aren't able to learn the first 3 moves. They're the first four level-up moves of Absol and Sneasel, and the data was likely just copy/pasted from Absol's, who appears as an ally earlier in the game.
- Rescue Team DX fixed Gengar's learnset, replacing them with Shadow Ball, Hypnosis, Sucker Punch, and Dream Eater.
In Other Languages
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Gengar | |
| Japanese | ゲンガー Gangar | |
| French | Ectoplasma | |
| Spanish | Gengar | |
| German | Gengar | |
| Italian | Gengar | |
| Korean | 팬텀 | |
See Also
References
Categories:
- Citation needed
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (series) Disambiguations
- Gengar
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (series) Male Characters
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (series) Antagonists
- Go-Getters Characters
- Ginji's Rescue Team Characters
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (series) Characters
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (series) Humans turned Pokémon