Professor Elm
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| Professor Elm | |
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 Professor Elm |
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| Japanese name | Utsugi-Hakase |
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| Game | Pokémon Gold and Silver |
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| Occupation | Pokémon professor |
In the world of Pokémon, Professor Elm (Utsugi-Hakase as he is known in Japan) is the "Pokémon Professor" in charge of giving starting-off trainers their first Pokémon in the video games Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. An old student of Professor Oak, he lives in New Bark Town in the fictional region of Johto where he conducts his Pokémon research on Pokémon evolution and breeding.
[edit] Character
Professor Elm dresses with a shirt that has a stripe across it under his lab coat, pants, and sometimes wears night slippers or moccasins.
He is depicted as a professor that has a tendency to be absent-minded, perhaps due to his immersion in his work. His lack of attention to the outside world was shown in an episode of the Pokémon anime where Team Rocket comes into his lab lost and the professor, not looking up from his work, takes them to be Nurse Joy from the Pokémon Center and tells them to take the Pokémon, which they do. When the real Nurse Joy comes by later on, Elm discovers that his one of his Pokémon, Totodile, has been stolen. With the help of Officer Jenny and the local Police Department the Pokémon is recovered from Team Rocket. This was meant to reproduce the moment in the game where one of his Pokémon is stolen by the rival character and is never recovered.
In the game, this is hinted in a much more subtle manner for only if the player speaks to Elm's wife (neither she nor their child appear in the anime), who worries that Elm hasn't eaten lunch, and checks the trash can in his lab, will see that he gets so involved in his work that he doesn't have any time left to even worry about eating!
One show of how dedicated Professor Elm is to his work in the game is the quest that he sends the player on which will ultimately get them Togepi.
Like the other Pokémon Professors, Elm has a speciality. In his case, he focuses on genetics and evolution.
[edit] Trivia
- All the professors are named after plants. (eg. Oak, Elm, Birch, Ivy.)
- In the Anime, Elm has a Corsola.
[edit] External links
| Pokémon Professors |
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Professor Oak | Professor Felina Ivy | Professor Elm | Professor Birch | Professor Nanakamado |
