Pkmn:Gengar (character)

Gengar
ゲンガー

Rescue Team source book artwork.

Character's information

Location

Baram Town

Gender

Male

Age

1,000+ years

Background information

Earliest Mystery Dungeon appearance

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team (2005)

Most recent Mystery Dungeon appearance

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (2020)

Created by

Shin-ichiro Tomie

Voice actors

Jimmy Zoppi

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate

神奈 延年

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate

For Gangar 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's the former leader of the Rescue Team Team Meanies, after having presumably disbanded it or outright leaving.

Biography

The Curse of Ninetales

Gengar was once a Human Pokémon Trainer who foolishly touched one of the tails of Ninetales. Hid Pokémon, Gardevoir bore the brunt of the curse, and when Ninetales offered to let him take her place, he'd 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. At some point, he created Tea Meanies, with fellow members Ekans and Medicham as members.

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. While Gengar helps to create the Teleport Gem, he also tries to drag the Hero into the Dream World, but gets lost and gives up. He later seeks out their help to break the curse over Gardevoir and set her free. He tags along with the Hero to the peak of Mt. Freeze, where he requests Ninetales to break the curse. Ninetales says it's beyond their power, gives Gengar the Nine Tail Crest, and directs him to Murky Cave.

Gengar has to allow the Hero to speak for him, while he's paralyzed. However, the voice of Murky Cave denies their request, until Gengar breaks free and proves that he does, on some level, have remorse for his actions. After this, his fellow members of Team Meanies comment that he hasn't been around much. Medicham went on to join Team Charm, while it's unknown what happened to Ekans.

It's never explained who, or what, the voice in Murky Cave is, much like Luminous Cave. It's possible that the voices of both locations are 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.

Personality

Gengaris a vile, duplicitous, greedy, selfish Pokémon in every bit of media he's shown in. While a sliver of humanity 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.

Appearances

Media
Games							Anime				Manga
RT	EoT/D	Sky	AS	GtI	SMD	RTDX	RT	EoT&D	BT&D	GtI	Ginji's	Blazing	Guide	SMD
✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗

Anime

• Gengar appears as an antagonist in the anime Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate.

Games

Gengar appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team. Gengar appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. Gengar appears in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. He is connected to Gardevoir, Ekans, a Noctowl, a Phantump, a Banette, a Talonflame, a Gourgeist and a Trevenant in the Conection Orb.

Games: Other

Rescue Team: Gengar's Request. RescueTeam DX: Gengar's Request. Gengar as a boss in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team. Gengar as a boss in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. Rescue Team: As the leader of Team Meanies. Rescue Team DX: As the leader of Team Meanies.

Manga

• Gengar appears as an antagonist in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team.

Gallery

For all of the Gengar art used across the wiki see: Category:Gastly Family

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  Gengar's Rescue Team sprite.

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  Gengar's Explorers sprite.

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  Gengar as seen in the Rescue Team main story.

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  Gengar as seen in the Rescue Team anime.

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  (2007)
  Artwork from a Rescue Team source book.

Trivia

• Gengar is the only known human-turned Pokémon who isn't a protagonist.
• 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 is a tutor-only move in the main-series games at the time of release.
  • When Gengare asks the player to escort him through Murky Cave, h 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, meaning he was likely just a copy/pasted Absol.
    • Rescue Team DX fixed Gengar's learnset, replacing it with; Shadow Ball, Hypnosis, Sucker Punch, and Dream Eater.

In Other Languages

Language			Name
English			Gengar
Japanese			イジワルズ

Language			Name
English			Jimmy Zoppi
Japanese			神奈 延年
Spanish	Europe		Fernando Elegido
	Latin America		Gabriel Ortiz
Portuguese			Dado Monteiro
Korean			김관진