- For the variant appearing in the games, see Sabrina.
Sabrina is a character who appears in Pokémon the Series: The Beginning. She is the Gym Leader of Saffron City in the Kanto region.
Appearance[]
Sabrina has long dark green hair and indigo eyes. She wears black boots and a red dress with yellow buttons. She also has a doll beside her, through which she communicates, although she can still speak normally.
Personality[]
Sabrina is a cold and emotionless person, who mostly communicates through a doll that she holds, who wears a summer hat and resembles her when she was a little girl. This is mostly due to the fact that she was never able to make friends during her childhood along with her obsession with her powers, which made her decide to instead isolate herself from others (including her parents) to improve her powers, becoming a heartless person while her original cheerful side is placed within her doll. This drives her to the point that she is willing to harm or even try to murder those that she deems weak, as she tricked Ash into almost falling down a cliff (although that may have been unintentional as she was merely leading him to Saffron City) and tried to crush him and his friends with a ball after shrinking them to doll size. She also has very little regard for her employees, as she threatened the man who brought Ash and his friends to her when he also came in unannounced. Her reputation is so scary that many individuals (such as Misty, Brock, and Ash's Pokémon) did not dare to face her a second time. Being a Psychic-type trainer, Sabrina has a connection with her Kadabra and even shared certain emotions. After being "defeated" by Ash, Sabrina's ruthless personality disappeared, as she smiled and laughed with the Haunter that Ash brought with him earlier that entertained her. This caused her to have a change of heart now that she finally has a friend, causing both sides of her personality to merge back together again (making her doll disappear in the process) and turning her a more emotional and kind person.
Etymology[]
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The name Sabrina may originate from "psychic" and "brain". It may also be a reference to Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, a television series.
Her Japanese name, Natsume, is literally 棗 (natsume, jujube, a type of date), following the plant-based naming of most Gym Leaders. It may also include 目 (me, eye), as eyes are often symbols associated with magic and mystery as well as often being associated with the "mind's eye" associated with the brain.
Biography[]
Anime[]
Sabrina was represented by two personalities that split apart during her childhood: one that was cold, 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.[1]
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.[2]
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 Pokéball 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.[1]
Other appearances[]
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Voice actors[]
- German: Anke Korte
- Portuguese (Brazil): Fernanda Bulara
- Spanish: Adelaida Lopez
- Iberian Spanish: Dulce Guerrero
Gallery[]
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References[]
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