Iron-Masked Marauder

The Iron-Masked Marauder is the main villain of the 4th Pokemon film, Pokemon: 4Ever. He is an elite officer of Team Rocket.

The Iron-Masked Marauder is first seen when he persuades a Pokemon poacher to show him where he found the legendary Pokemon, Celebi. He orders his Sneasel to unlock a cell of a Tyranitar that the poacher caught. He later catches the Tyranitar into a Poke Ball called a Dark Ball, which makes Pokemon evil and more powerful. The poacher tells him where he found Celebi just in time when he orders Tyranitar to destroy the poacher's camp.

Iron-Masked Marauder Then searches after Celebi while riding a spider legged machine. He finds Ash and his friends with Celebi and tells them to give him Celebi, but they refuse and run away. He sends his Sneasel and Scizor to get Celebi but both are defeated by Ash's Bayleef and Sammy's Charmeleon. He later finds them again and succeeds in capturing Celebi in a Dark Ball. Ash tries to get the ball away from him but he crushes Ash's fingers with his boots and takes the Ball. Iron-Masked Marauder orders Celebi to build a Scyther-shaped monster from forest materials. He then orders Celebi to destroy the kids but Suicune saves them. He attempts to capture Suicune also by using his Tyranitar. Suicune defeats Tyranitar with Bubblebeam and Brock's Onix slammed it into the Lake of Life. Ash and Sammy succeeded in breaking Celebi free from the spell of the Dark Ball. The monster was falling apart and Iron-Masked Marauder fell into the lake. He is not defeated, however.

When Celebi is healed, Iron-Masked Marauder attempted to fly away with Celebi on his jetpack, but Ash ordered Pikachu to Thunderbolt the jetpack, which exploded and the two fell to the forest. Iron-Masked Marauder lands in a tree and then lands on the ground. The forest Pokemon surround him, and he tries to send his Pokemon out, but he does not have any. The forest Pokemon then tie him up using String Shot. His fate is unknown.

Iron-Masked Marauder is skilled at hand-to-hand combat but does not have good balance. His primary combat relies on Pokemon that are brainwashed by his Dark Balls. Once caught, The Pokemon are extremely loyal to him and attack without regards to previos friendships and loyalties.