Red! (Pokespe)

Espeon

-Poliwrath
-Venasaur
-Pikachu
-Snorlax
-Gyarados
-Aerodactyl

Blue: He is Red's friend/rival. At the beginning of the manga, Red and Blue didn't get along, but over the course of the Red, Green, and Blue saga, they begin to see each other as friends/rivals. In the Yellow saga, Red disappears, and Blue, with the help of the others, decides to search for him. In the Gold, Silver, and Crystal saga, they are seen together in the battle against the Masked Man. In the FireRed and LeafGreen saga, he helps Red in the battle against Deoxys and they are petrified by Sird. In the Emerald saga, after being unpetrified, he supports his fellow Pokédex holders in defeating Guile Hideout.
Green: They are friend/rival. During the Red, Green, and Blue sagas, Red and Green saw each other as rivals. In the Yellow saga, when Red disappears, Green, with everyone's help, searches for him throughout the Kanto region. In the Gold, Silver, and Crystal sagas, Green lends Articuno to fight the Masked Man. In the FireRed and LeafGreen sagas, he helps in the battle against Deoxys and is petrified by Sird. In the Emerald saga, Green, along with the other Pokédex holders, helps defeat Guile Hideout and participates in the Pokédex Holders' Tournament.
Yellow: Her relationship with Yellow is one of friendship. During the Red, Green, and Blue saga, Red saves her from a wild Dratini and helps her catch her first Pokémon. During the Yellow saga, she decides to search for Red along with her Pikachu. In the FireRed and LeafGreen saga, she helps in the battle against Deoxys and explains Deoxys's feelings to him, but they are petrified by Sird.
Gold: The relationship with Gold is a student-teacher friendship, and after the defeat of the Masked Man, Red takes Gold to train the electric tackle move.
Gym Leaders: He has a good friendship with the gym leaders of the Kanto region, although those he has spent the most time with are Misty, Erika and Blaine.

He reappears in this saga alongside Green to stop Archie and Maxie, who are heading to the Hoenn region from Kanto. They have stolen the Blue and Red Orbs from Bill's lab and are once again trying to take control of the legendary Pokémon Groudon and Kyogre. In this encounter, Red uses Saur while Green uses Blasty to face Maxie's Camerupt and Achilles' Sharpedo, demonstrating that they too have achieved Mega Evolution, as Venusaur Mega Evolves into Mega Venusaur and Blasty into Mega Blastoise.

Despite defeating Magno's Mega Camerupt and Aquiles' Mega Sharpedo, Red and Green couldn't stop them, as Groudon and Kyogre appeared before them, drawn by the Blue and Red Orbs. Upon the arrival of the legendary Pokémon, Aquiles showed the Blue Orb to Kyogre, and Magno showed the Red Orb to Groudon. This caused both Pokémon to revert to their Primal forms, transforming them into Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre. Faced with such immense power, Red and Green were helpless, becoming exhausted by the weather changes these Pokémon caused. At that moment, Archie and Maxie decided to test the power of Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre, causing the island where Green and Red were located to sink.

Later, Red and Green wake up without their Pokémon in a mysterious place. However, after a few seconds, Red realizes they are no longer on the ground, but are flying. This leads him to realize where they are: Team Rocket's battleship. Angry about who took their Pokémon, Red watches a certain person enter the spaceship, saying that Red should be grateful to him since he was the one who saved them, adding that he had also taken their Pokémon to avoid pointless battles. At that moment, the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, appears before them.

He and his petrified companions return to normal thanks to Emerald, who captures Jirachi, who restores them to normal. Together with the rest of the Pokédex Holders, they manage to destroy the great water monster created by Guile Hideout.

This saga takes place two years after the events of Gold, Silver, and Crystal. A much older Red is seen traveling with Blue to Pallet Town at Professor Oak's request. Upon arrival, they are instructed to leave their Pokédexes due to a message left by Professor Oak, as he is not in his lab. After leaving the Pokédex, they are attacked by a strange, unknown creature, which then escapes. Following Professor Oak's instructions, Red and Blue travel to Archi7, where they encounter Bill, who is traveling to work on the transporter system, and Green, who is traveling to reunite with her family. Green was attacked by Deoxys (the same Deoxys that attacked Red and Blue), and her parents disappeared into a black hole created by it. Red and Blue save her, and she falls unconscious. Red and Blue then decide to pursue Deoxys to rescue Green's parents. Before leaving One Island, Bill informs them that a girl who had spotted Deoxys also saw a man following it. Red and Blue recognize him in the girl's drawing; that man was Giovanni.

Red and Blue begin training on Second Island with Ultima, an elderly woman who possesses access to the most powerful Fire and Grass-type moves. After their training, Red and Blue travel to Fourth Island in search of Team Rocket and encounter Lorelei, who tells them that she is not their enemy and that she is there to destroy Team Rocket for invading her home. Red, Blue, and Lorelei then encounter the "Three Beasts," the three commanders of Team Rocket. They are ambushed, and Red is injured, but thanks to Lorelei, they manage to escape. Finally, Team Rocket interrupts a television broadcast to announce that Red, Blue, and Green are wanted by Team Rocket and that if they are not handed over, they will destroy the archipelago, starting with Inta, Exta, and Sétima Islands. Red, Blue, and Lorelei split up to face the Three Beasts on each island. Red manages to defeat Carr, but Deoxys appears and, after a fierce battle, defeats Red. Blue defeats Orm on Exta Island with great effort and confirms his fears: his grandfather, Professor Oak, had been kidnapped by Team Rocket. After the battle, Orm escapes, and Lorelei is defeated by Sird, the most powerful of the Three Beasts. Following this battle, the entire population of Inta Island despises Red, blaming him, Green, and Blue for the attacks on the archipelago. Red begins to struggle to trust his abilities, feeling weak without the Pokédex. Meanwhile, the Three Beasts are seen discussing why Giovanni was searching for Deoxys, revealing that he sought Deoxys's telepathic power to find his son. Giovanni, on the other hand, is on Origin Island and battles Deoxys, who was weakened after the fight against Red. In the end, Giovanni defeats a very exhausted Deoxys and captures it.

Green, after regaining consciousness, travels with Ultima to meet up with Red and Blue, where they begin discussing plans to stop Deoxys. However, Red declares himself incapable of stopping it after his defeat on Inta Island. Red and Blue argue, and Red runs off, saying he can't do anything against Deoxys. Afterward, Green and he talk, and Green finally manages to give Red hope to keep fighting. Green then goes to train with Ultima to master the secret water attack and defeat Deoxys, while Red heads to Seven Island to find Lorelei. Upon arriving, Red senses a strange presence, and Lorelei appears before him completely unconscious, being carried by an old acquaintance of Red's, Mewtwo. Mewtwo explains to Red that he sensed Deoxys's presence and that's why he's there to stop it. He tells Red that he wants to team up with him to stop Deoxys, which Red accepts. Finally, Red returns to Blue and the others to prepare the assault on the tallest tower on Seven Island, where Team Rocket's base is hidden. Amidst the battles, they manage to find Green's parents and Professor Oak, who are evacuated from the building, although Professor Oak refuses because he still needs to find the original Pokédexes. After a difficult entry, they locate Giovanni, who reveals himself to be Deoxys's new master. After exchanging a few words, Mewtwo begins telling Giovanni that he will pay for everything he has done, for experimenting on Pokémon, and for creating Deoxys with such a despicable goal as destruction. Giovanni laughs, and before Mewtwo can strike him, he is encased in armor that suppresses his power. Giovanni escapes, and the central computer begins attacking them with fake Deoxys clones. Red and Blue try to defeat them while Green and Oak find the Pokédexes and update them. At a critical point, Red realizes that the only way to win is for Mewtwo to destroy the upper section of the building, but Mewtwo is still trapped in the armor. Green returns with the repaired Pokédexes and throws them to Red and Blue. Blue and Mewtwo devise a plan. Blue tells Red to trade Charizard and Venusaur so that Green's Blastoise can enter the fray, and Red's Charizard and Venusaur can use the ultimate attacks they learned with Ultima to destroy Mewtwo's armor. Blue advises the trade since Venusaur was the most damaged of the three Pokémon and would deal the least damage. Once they coordinate their attacks, Mewtwo leaps into the center, destroying the armor in a massive explosion. Blue, Green, Blastoise, and Venusaur are injured, but Red, Charizard, and Mewtwo escape unharmed. Blue tells Red to go after Giovanni, who had escaped in a spaceship. Red realizes the real reason for the trade was that Red's Aerodactyl, injured in the battle against Deoxys, couldn't fly, and Charizard was the only Flying-type Pokémon available. Red thanks Blue and departs with Charizard and Mewtwo for the final battle against Giovanni and Deoxys, who are heading to Viridian City where Deoxys detected the presence of Giovanni's son.

Meanwhile, Yellow is seen at the Viridian City Gym, waiting for Blue and Red to return that afternoon. She stumbles upon a holographic device at the entrance, which is Blue saying that he isn't at the Gym at the moment, but that the challenger can battle his other Pokémon (the ones he doesn't have with him). Yellow tries, wanting to test her strength, but loses against Blue's Pokémon. When she leaves the Gym, somewhat saddened, she sees Silver at the top of a hill. Silver is there searching for information about his family, as Viridian City is one of the few things he remembers from before being kidnapped by the Masked Man. Silver and Yellow begin to talk, and Yellow decides to read the mind of Silver's Sneasel, since it's his oldest Pokémon and the one he had before his kidnapping. Within Sneasel's mind, Yellow discovers an image of the statue of Giovanni in the Gym. After Yellow tells Silver who Giovanni was, Silver says he will pursue Giovanni to discover who his father is and how he is connected to him. Finally, a Team Rocket ship lands in Viridian Forest in front of Yellow and Silver, and two of the Three Beasts disembark, telling Silver it was a pleasure to finally see the heir of Team Rocket. Yellow and Silver begin a battle against Orm and Sird, during which Sird reveals that Silver is Giovanni's son. Yellow manages to weaken Orm, but they both manage to put Silver to sleep with spores and take him back to the ship. Yellow begins using Viridian Mind extensively, greatly increasing the level of her Pokémon. Orm and Sird escape, arguing that they had no chance of defeating Yellow.
Meanwhile, Red arrives at the ship and meets Giovanni. Giovanni congratulates Red on all his work and challenges him to a one-on-one battle: Mewtwo versus Deoxys. Red accepts, and a savage battle begins on the ship's roof, where both Red and Giovanni are injured. Mewtwo is struck by a beam from Deoxys and is fatally wounded. Giovanni attacks them both and sends Deoxys to finish off Mewtwo. Red manages to restrain Deoxys so Mewtwo can use Recover and orders him to fire the Psychic Wave, even if he takes the attack as well. Mewtwo fires, and Deoxys is defeated by the Psychic Wave. Giovanni falls to the ground, injured, and Yellow arrives on the ship's platform where they were fighting. Yellow hears someone speaking to him and, using Viridian Mind, discovers that Deoxys was speaking to him to communicate with Red, saying, "I am you."

Sird and Orm appear on the platform and, taking advantage of Red and Yellow's moment of weakness, attack them. Red demands to know what Deoxys meant when it said, "I am you," and Sird tells them the story of Deoxys and its brother. The Deoxys Red had fought was Deoxys I-2, and the other was Deoxys I-1. Both were viruses contained in a meteorite that evolved upon entering Earth's atmosphere, becoming Deoxys. Both were found by Team Rocket, and Giovanni kept a close watch on them. One day, I-2's power increased, and it escaped its lair to be free. Team Rocket used I-1 to lure Red, Blue, and Green, and once the three were on the archipelago, I-1 was discarded, according to Sird. Red and Yellow try to stop Sird, but before they can, the platform on the ship begins to close, and they both fall inside. Meanwhile, Blue and the others are seen in the archipelago traveling on Ultima's Dragonite towards Kanto. The ship is shown to have shut down because Carr hacked its systems and ultimately placed ten Forretresses inside to make it explode after he escaped on a Skarmory.

Red, along with Deoxys, Yellow, Mewtwo, Silver, and Giovanni, tries to find a way to escape the spaceship. Red remembers Deoxys's teleportation ability using a black hole and tells him to teleport Silver and Giovanni to Viridian City, and then Mewtwo and Yellow. Yellow is surprised, and Red tells her it's best if they get away from the ship, since without anyone piloting it, it could crash into the city, and the resulting explosion would kill many people. He and Deoxys will look for a way to stop the ship. Yellow begs him not to, but he promises she'll return safe and sound. Before disappearing completely, Yellow explains to Red that he managed to enter Deoxys's mind and fully understands why Deoxys told him, "I am you." When Deoxys escaped from Team Rocket, he destroyed Giovanni's lab, and a sample of Red's blood that Giovanni had taken during their first battle fell on him, and he accidentally absorbed it, creating a connection between Deoxys and Red, allowing them to know each other's location. Red listens in astonishment and in the end Yellow enters the black hole completely, leaving Chuchu with him and Red asks Deoxys if he wants to accompany him or if he wants to leave.

Deoxys follows Red to the bridge, and Red releases all his Pokémon to defeat the Forretress. Deoxys uses its telepathic ability to locate the ten Forretress, and Red finally manages to prevent them all from exploding. He thanks Deoxys, offering to be his partner. Before Deoxys can reply, the ship begins to plummet toward Viridian City. Meanwhile, black holes open, and Yellow falls outside the city. Giovanni regains consciousness inside the hole and watches in terror as they fall onto the flames of the ship's hull, which had been shattered in the battle. Giovanni holds Silver, using his body to shield him from the flames, and remaining steadfast despite being engulfed by the fire, he smiles at having found his son and tells him he is happy to have seen him one last time.

Blue and Green arrive in Viridian City and see Silver engulfed in flames. Blue manages to pull Silver and Giovanni's body out of the fire using his Rhydon. Silver regains consciousness and sees Giovanni's body. He can't believe that Giovanni is really his father and denies being the son of someone like Giovanni. Blue punches him, telling him he's wrong, that even if his father was the leader of Team Rocket, it didn't change who he was. She shows him that the wounds on his body were used as a shield to protect him from the fire. Silver starts crying and finally acknowledges Giovanni as his father.

Meanwhile, Red tries to reverse the ship's trajectory but knows he won't make it. Just before the crash, a huge light appears and corrects the ship's position, allowing it to land in the streets. Red looks around and sees Mew, who used his power to save everyone in Viridian City from the explosion. Red and Deoxys exit the ship and see Blue, Green, Yellow, and Mewtwo. Exhausted, Red leans on Blue and reaches the others, happy to have stopped the ship. Green congratulates Red on his work and holds Yellow, who has fallen unconscious from overusing her Pokémon Power. Green tells Red that Professor Oak gave him a Pokédex for Yellow and asks Red to do the honors. Red gives the Pokédex to Yellow, declaring her a Pokédex Holder.

Deoxys communicates with Red through Mewtwo, telling him he's leaving to search for I-1 because he wants to know what happened to his brother. Red agrees and tells Deoxys to take care, promising they'll meet again. Deoxys departs, and as they watch him leave, Sird appears from the wreckage of the ship, badly injured, asking Red how he could let such power go. Lorelei, still on the archipelago, sees Sird using her powers and creates one of the ice dolls to freeze him, just as she did with Red, Green, and Sabrina three years prior. The injured kids prepare to fight, but she pulls out a mirror that fires a beam at Deoxys, telling him she'll capture him even as his body freezes. Red, Green, Silver, Blue, Yellow, and Mewtwo step in, taking the beam and turning to stone, while Sird laughs before being frozen herself.

Red reappears in the Gold, Silver, and Crystal saga, a year after the battle against the Elite Four. In this saga, Red is shown to be more mature and stronger than before. While Gold and Silver were defeated at the Lake of Rage by the Masked Man, Red was taking his Gym Leader exam, in which he successfully defeated all the opposing Forretress and earned the position. However, he declines the position because the injuries to his hands and legs inflicted by Lorelei in his first battle against Bruno had not yet healed, and he claims he still lacks the necessary strength to be a Gym Leader. At the same time, Blue appears and tells Red that he expected that answer, to which Red replies that he was happy to see him again after his training. The truck carrying the Confederation President explodes, and all the Pokémon inside escape. Red and Blue get out, and Blue tells Red to stay behind. With his team, he defeats all the frenzied Pokémon. Red then proposes to the president that Blue take his place as gym leader, which he eventually accepts.

Later, Red is seen traveling to Mt. Silver with Blue's Charizard to heal his wounds in the hot springs. There he finds Green, who lends him her Blastoise. Once he reaches the summit, he finds Sabrina, who is also recovering from the wound Lorelei inflicted on her during her battle with Green. Sabrina gives him a spoon of destiny for her Alakazam, telling him to follow her when the time comes to battle.

Meanwhile, in the Indigo League, a tournament was being held between the Gym Leaders of Kanto and Johto to discover which of them was the Masked Man. During the battle, an ice clone of the Masked Man, created by the real one, attacked the Indigo League, commanding Lugia and Ho-Oh. Red arrived to stop the Magnet Train, which contained most of the Gym Leaders and the Neo Team Rocket army. Red managed to prevent the Magnet Train from crashing into a mural, and together with Blue, he followed the Spoon of Destiny given to him by Sabrina, arriving where Green was fighting his former comrades, Mento and Karen, servants of the Masked Man and the ones commanding Ho-Oh and Lugia.

Red takes Green's Articuno during the battle and manages to free Lugia and Ho-Oh from the Masked Man's control with the help of Blue, Green, and hundreds of Pokémon sent to assist. After Silver, Crystal, and Yellow arrive and fight the Masked Man, it's revealed that he had imprisoned Gold in a kind of ice wall. The only way to free him is with the rainbow and silver feathers in Yellow's hat. When they can't get them out, Gold pressures Yellow to remove them. As soon as she does, Red is startled to discover that Yellow is a girl. Crystal, Silver, and Gold quickly go to stop the Masked Man, who is defeated by Gold in the time tunnel. After this, Red talks to Green and Blue about the situation, and when Gold asks him who he is, he says he's the league champion. Gold, excited, leaves, taking Red on his bike to become his apprentice.

The Yellow arc takes place two years after the events of the manga. Red disappears after receiving a challenge letter from a man named Bruno. Red goes into battle, and a week later, Red's Pikachu returns defeated and injured to Professor Oak's lab, with no trace of Red.

While Professor Oak is tending to Pikachu, Yellow appears, a complete stranger until now. She sees Pikachu and happily heals him, and Pikachu recognizes her. Oak asks who she is, but Yellow leaves with Pikachu. After speaking with her, Professor Oak gives her Red's Pokédex, as he had left it at her house. It is then that Yellow takes center stage and decides to go looking for him, following Green's instructions, who believes that Team Rocket is behind everything. Accompanied by Red's Pikachu and her faithful Pokémon Ratty, she begins an adventure to save Red, disguised as a boy to avoid suspicion. Red reappears later during the battle against the Elite Four, revealing that he was treacherously frozen by Lorelei during his battle against Bruno. He falls from a cliff, managing to free Pikachu before falling, and asks him to go to Professor Oak and not return.

It is revealed that Red was frozen for two weeks and near death when Giovanni appears and frees him so he can face the Elite Four. Giovanni gives him the three stones—Fire, Water, and Thunder—which are not consumed when evolving a Pokémon, so Red can use Eevee during the battle against the Elite Four. Red defeats Bruno in their reunion and frees him from Agatha's control with the help of Blue, who had defeated Agatha at the same time. He finally arrives at the conclusion of the battle between Yellow and Lance and collaborates with Blue and Green to shoot the sacred Pokémon Lugia to prevent Armageddon. After the chaos, he returns with the others to Pallet Town to prepare for his Gym Leader exam.

One day, Red spots a strange Pokémon near the forest, Mew, and that same day he meets Blue, his eternal rival, and Team Rocket, a group of villains who want to capture the Legendary Pokémon. After being beaten up by Mew, Red decides to go to Professor Oak's lab. Since the door is open, he enters without permission and accidentally releases all of the professor's Pokémon. He recaptures them and grows fond of Bulbasaur, so Professor Oak gives it to him. From that day on, Red begins his Pokémon journey. He encounters Blue several times and eventually discovers that he is the grandson of the famous Professor Oak.

While practicing with his team, a girl named Green starts praising him, causing him to blush. After tricking him, she buys him items supposedly designed to strengthen his team, but it turns out to be a scam. Red angrily fights her and, although he defeats her, she disappears before he even realizes it. Furthermore, the skilled thief had stolen his badges: the Rock Badge and the Waterfall Badge. It turns out that the girl was connected to Team Rocket, which she had joined to obtain a floppy disk containing information about the powerful Mew and how to catch it. Team Rocket was searching for her to get it back. Red decides to impersonate a member to find Green and get his badges back, which he was wearing as earrings. They both end up fleeing from Team Rocket together. After witnessing everything that happened, Green decides to return his badges.

He encounters her again in a Team Rocket building after Green defeats Sabrina, the Saffron City Gym Leader and a powerful member of Team Rocket, an expert in Pokémon and psychic powers. She proposes that Red trade the badge he had taken from Sabrina for the Moon Stone he possesses. She wants it to evolve her Clefairy. Red agrees. But soon after, he discovers that both the badges she returned and the one he traded were fake. Even so, with Blue's help, they meet again, and Red finally defeats Sabrina, who uses her powers and the three legendary birds in the battle. At the end of it all, Green finally decides to return the real badges to Red.

In the Kanto Pokémon tournament, Green battled a masked man who used bird Pokémon. She ended up losing because she couldn't react due to her fear of birds. That man was Professor Oak, who had disguised himself to participate in the tournament and defeat Green by attacking her weakness, which only he knew: Green suffered from ornithophobia (fear of birds) because of a bird that had kidnapped her in her childhood. This led Green to confess her crime: she had stolen the Squirtle from Professor Oak's lab. She said she stole it out of jealousy of the traveling trainers. Green believed she couldn't train Pokémon if she didn't steal one. The professor decided to give her the Squirtle and the Pokédex. Later, Red faced Blue in the final, in an amazing battle, which Red won, becoming the Pokémon League Champion. From then on, Green, Red, and Blue formed a team.

Red is a boy who loves Pokémon and has been passionate about them since he was very young. However, when interacting with people, he displays a certain arrogance, as seen when he first begins his adventure in Kanto. By the end of Pokémon: Red, Green & Blue, this attitude has changed, and he is now a more sensitive person who cares about his friends. Red has a strong sense of justice during Pokémon battles.

He is an energetic, cheerful, and outgoing boy.

Red (Red in English, Red in Japanese) is the first protagonist of the Pocket Monsters Special manga. He made his debut in chapter VS Mew when he was 11 years old. He specializes in Pokémon battles. He should not be confused with Red, the protagonist of Pokémon R/A/Am and Pokémon RF/VH, and champion of Mt. Silver.