Sabrina (Japanese: ナツメ Natsume) is the Gym Leader of Saffron City's Gym, known officially as the Saffron Gym. She hands out the Marsh Badge to Trainers who defeat her in Gym Battle. She possesses psychic abilities and specializes in Psychic-Type Pokémon.
Biography[]
Games[]
Core series[]
In the Generation I, Sabrina is encountered at her usual location, the Saffron City Gym, being the Gym Leader of Saffron City. When defeated, the player receives the Marsh Badge along with a TM. In the Generation I games, the player receives TM046 (Psywave) and in the Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version remakes, TM004 (Calm Mind).
In the Generation II games, Sabrina can again be fought in Saffron City Gym. As usual, Sabrina gives out the Marsh Badge to the player wins in a Pokémon battle against her, but not with any TM.
In the Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version remakes, Sabrina does give out TM048 (Skill Swap). Additionally, after losing to the player, Sabrina can be found at Olivine Port on Fridays, where she gives out her PokéGear number to the player. She is at Olivine Port on Mondays and can be called for a rematch on Sundays at the Fighting Dojo between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
In Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, Sabrina is an actress in the Pokéstar Studios who appears in the "Magical Kingdom's Mysterious Doors" series of scripts, playing the role of Bellelba. Sabrina also appears at the Pokémon World Tournament.
Pokémon Stadium series[]
Sabrina can be fought as one of the Gym Leaders in Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2, in two separate rounds. In the second round of each game, Sabrina uses a wider variety of Pokémon aside from just Psychic Types.
Pokémon Puzzle League[]
In Pokémon Puzzle League, Sabrina is one of fifteen playable characters in multiplayer mode, where her three Pokémon are Abra, Hypno, and Alakazam. In 1P Stadium, Sabrina is one of Ash's opponents, and she hands out the Marsh Badge when defeated, as usual. Her theme song is an instrumental version of Everything Changes.
Anime[]
Sabrina was represented by two personalities that split apart during her childhood: one that was evil, cold, cruel, heartless, and emotionless and the other playful and just wanted to make friends; this was the result of her having trained her psychic powers so fiercely (at one point, causing her house to be crushed) when she was younger and had never been able to make any friends, even pushing away her parents when they tried to help. Since then, she remained alone to strengthen her abilities. While her ruthless personality remained in her current self, her friendly, cheerful personality was transferred into a doll that resembles her younger self. At one point, she turned her mother into a doll while her father evaded this and attempted to protect people from her dangerous nature, all while hoping to find a way to free her from her dark state.
Pokémon the Series: The Beginning[]
As Ash and his friends were on their way to Saffron City, Sabrina sensed them coming and used her doll to lead them there, nearly causing Ash to fall off a cliff. She later had her doll save them from Team Rocket and teleport them to her gym. After one of her employees brought them to her, she briefly threatened him for coming in without her permission before letting him leave. She agreed to challenge Ash, though he had to "play with her" if he lost. Once ready, Sabrina summoned Abra and made it use Teleport. It eventually evolved into a Kadabra, making it such a powerful opponent that it was impossible for Ash to defeat her. Upon his defeat, he and his friends were shrunk into doll-sized people by Sabrina and placed inside her toy box, where they found themselves at the mercy of her doll. Just before the three trainers could be squashed to death by the ball thrown by the doll, they were rescued by an unknown man (who earlier warned them not to challenge Sabrina). He transported them back outside and, after being forced to use his own psychic powers on Ash to punish him for his stubbornness but soon had to give up since there was no way to convince him to stop trying to defeat Sabrina, informed them that the only way to defeat Sabrina's Psychic Pokémon was by using a Ghost-type Pokémon.
After making a trip to Lavender Town and befriending a Haunter, Ash again challenged Sabrina. The Haunter he needed to help him defeat her disappeared because it doesn't like fighting, causing a loss again to Sabrina as Ash forfeited out of fear after losing his advantage and, after failing to escape from her, Brock and Misty were turned into dolls and put into her toy box. There, the two met Sabrina's mother, who told them more about her past, while Ash escaped with the help of the mysterious man. He was revealed to be Sabrina's father, although Ash thought he was the photographer who took the picture of her family. After a conversation with him, Ash found Haunter (who had just foiled Team Rocket's plan to capture Pikachu) and once again prepared to face Sabrina, as her defeat was the only way to save his friends.
When Ash returned to the Gym, Sabrina had known that he would come back and prepared to challenge him again. However, Haunter left again, forcing Ash to battle her with Pikachu, who was willing to fight Kadabra again as it was unwilling to let Ash suffer the same fate as his friends and Sabrina's mother, despite the odds being against it, and remembering the last time it fought Kadabra and was trounced by it. Pikachu managed to beat Kadabra with a powerful Electric-type attack, only for Kadabra to use Recover to heal. Sabrina then claimed that Ash wouldn't win. But before Sabrina could defeat Ash, Haunter came back, though instead of fighting Kadabra, he began to play with Sabrina and her doll, using a variety of jokes as part of its plan to deal with her heartless personality (which explained why it left Ash a second time); it is heavily implied that Pikachu had known about Haunter's plan and was playing along. This at first annoyed her, and her doll complained that two against one wasn't a fair fight, but her father appeared and pointed out that Haunter wasn't really battling her, so it was not against the rules. At one point, Haunter pulled out a bomb that caused everyone, including Sabrina herself, to react in shock as it exploded, covering them both in ashes. Haunter's jokes soon caused her to laugh, ultimately befriending Haunter and giving her the one thing she wanted most in her life: a friend. As a result, her two personalities merged back into one, causing her doll to disappear from existence with a small smile on its face, dropping the Poké Ball that it was holding. She also turns Misty, Brock, and her mother back to normal as an act of redemption. Sabrina's Kadabra, which was also laughing, was unable to battle due to their psychic connection, leaving Ash the victor (although Ash at first thought he didn't win fairly as he wanted Haunter to fight Kadabra). The now-emotional Sabrina was reunited with her family and Haunter stayed with her as both her new Pokémon and her friend. Following Sabrina's change of heart, Ash received his Marsh Badge as he and his friends said goodbye to Sabrina and her family as they left Saffron City to proceed to the next Gym in Celadon City.
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