Lorelei (Pokémon)

Lorelei (Japanese: カンナ Kanna, known as Prima in the anime dub) is a Master Ice-type Trainerand member of the Kanto Elite Four in the Pokémon games, anime, and manga.

Appearance
Lorelei's appearance has varied over the years. In the original games (Red, Blue, and Yellow), anime, and manga she is purple-haired. In the manga and original games she wears a black dress, while in the anime she wears a black skirt, a red shirt, and a blue jacket. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen she has red hair, with a black halter top and a lavender skirt. All incarnations portray Lorelei with glasses.

In the manga
Lorelei is one of the main antagonists in the Yellow arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga. She is one of the Elite Four, along with Bruno, Agatha, and Lance. The Elite Four's goal was to take over the world and kill all people who abused Pokémon. Recruited by Agatha as a youngster, Lorelei shared a hatred for human cruelty to Pokémon.

Lorelei also has the ability to create voodoo dolls out of ice, which she uses to kidnap Red.

While Yellow and Bill were traveling through the forest with Red's Pikachu, Lorelei ordered her Dewgong and Cloyster to freeze them. They ran off, but Lorelei pursued and froze the nearby river. Yellow's Raticate helps them escape, so Lorelei contacts Agatha and tells her that if Yellow's power grows, she will be able to read Pikachu's memories and the details of Red and Bruno's battle. The Elite Four then designates Yellow as a target.

Later, Lorelei would attack Celadon City with her Pokémon.

Green and Sabrina pursue Lorelei to Cerise Island, where Lorelei chains them with her voodoo dolls. Green was knocked out, but she later wakes up and attacks with her Blastoise. Green then orders her Clefable to use Minimize to steal Lorelei's voodoo dolls, which Blastoise breaks away. Green seemingly loses her arm in the process, but it turns out that the "arm" was actually her Ditto.

After this battle, Lorelei is defeated and leaves the Elite Four. She appears much later in the FireRed and LeafGreen arc, but here Lorelei has moved back to Four Island and repented her evil ways.

The manga is the only part of the Pokémon franchise where Lorelei is portrayed as evil.

In the games
Lorelei is not an antagonist in the games. Instead, she is quite kind-hearted and in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, she actually helps the player fight of Team Rocket grunts in Icefall Cave.

Lorelei lives on Four Island, a small, tropical island in the Sevii Islands south of Kanto. She owns a collection of Pokémon dolls. Misty idolizes her, as in the anime.

In the anime
Lorelei's name was changed to Prima in the English version of the anime episode The Mandarin Island Miss Match. According to 4Kids (the dubbing company at the time), this was to fit the amount of syllables; the English name "Lorelei" is three syllables while the Japanese name "Kanna" is only two.

While on Mandarin Island South, Ash Ketchum learned that Lorelei was going to be giving a lecture. Misty was very excited, as Lorelei was her idol.

Ash enthusiastically challenged her, but Lorelei didn't seem to take notice of him, unimpressed by the young Trainer. Lorelei did, however, invite them to her lecture and demonstration.

After Ash insisted once again, Lorelei finally agreed to a battle - that Ash lost horribly. Lorelei said that Ash had the potential to become great, but needed to find more inner strength, since he had forgotten what really connecting with his Pokémon was.

Lorelei had a sort of dreamy, spaced-out personality and often reacted slowly to things. Her strategy in life is to go with the flow, like water, but to become as hard as ice in battle.

She sells recordings of her lectures at high prices.

Lorelei's Pokémon