| “ | I refuse. I would rather be defeated here together with my dream... than live with the shame of a captive. | „ |
| ~ Ghetsis when being faced by the authorities. |
| “ | Let go of my hand... Don't touch me! You monster. A monster bites the hand that feeds him... And says he loves me as a father?! YOU DISGUST ME! | „ |
| ~ Ghetsis to N as he beats the latter with his cane. |
Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius is the main antagonist of the Black & White and Black & White 2 arcs of the Pokémon Adventures manga.
He is the true leader of Team Plasma and N's adopted father. He also proves himself far worse than his video game counterpart, with a far longer list of sometimes darker crimes. He is Black and N's archenemy.
Appearance[]
Similar to his video game counterpart, Ghetsis has long green hair with three parts pointing out sideways and skywards. He appears to have a brown-or-red eye and a monocle with a red lens.
In his first attire, Ghetsis wore a white robe with a gold and black coat over it. He also had the Team Plasma emblem and black shoes. During the Black & White 2 arc, he had a black business suit and a cloak with various eye designs. He generally has the exact same design as his game counterpart overall.
Biography[]
Background[]
Ghetsis found and adopted a boy named N at a young age when Ghetsis sensed his ability to communicate with Pokemon. Ghetsis would deliberately have N raised with and around Pokemon that had been mistreated and abused by humans, and have him hear their tormented voices, causing N to develop a hatred for humans for how they mistreat Pokemon. This was done to condition N into thinking all Pokemon were mistreated by humans, and that he must change this reality in order to protect them. He would also have N's surrogate sisters Anthea and Concordia raise and educate him. This was all part of Ghetsis's plan to have N, as the king of Team Plasma, convince all trainers and humans into releasing their Pokemon, so that no one would be able to stand up to Ghetsis's true plans of world domination.
Black and White[]
During the Black & White arc, Ghetsis first appears at Accumula Town, where he introduces Team Plasma and their goals to the general public. Ghetsis gives a speech imploring the townspeople to release their Pokemon back into the wild. While some ignored his words, several were swayed and released their Pokemon.
Ghetsis next appears asking the Shadow Triad about the whereabouts of N and learns from them that he is in Karakusa Town's suburbs fighting Black, learning that a formula that previously was not able to be solved was solved.
The fourth chapter of the arc opens up with Ghetsis starting the crowning ceremony for N as the king of Team Plasma as part of the supposed goal of liberating Pokémon.
After Black defeats N, White starts to suspect he is connected to Team Plasma with a flashback showing Ghetsis. While she tolerated speeches from them, she did not take kindly to the evil intent they have in store.
In The Battle Within, Ghetsis and the Seven Sages observed the Shadow Triad battling the Unova Gym leaders for the Dark Stone. Ghetsis would then leave, saying he would be heading to Nacrene City to join the battle. Black would then be tricked into revealing the Dark Stone's location by a disguised Team Plasma Grunt. Ghetsis would then appear and attack Black with his Elektross, knocking him out. After the Team Plasma grunt retrieves the Dark Stone for Ghetsis, the sage takes it to N at Dragonspiral Tower, where he proceeds to awaken the Legendary Pokemon Zekrom.
Team Plasma then commence their attack on the Pokemon League, surrounding the building with N's Castle. As Gym leader Brycen attempts to fight Team Plasma, he stops when Ghetsis uses Lenora's husband Hawes as a human shield, allowing the sages to capture Brycen. Ghetsis would then announce that N has defeated Unova's Pokemon League Champion Alder, and thus overthrown the Pokemon League and proved Team Plasma's ideals as superior. As both a display of power and a form of mockery, Ghetsis has the Gym Leaders Lenora, Burgh, Elesa, Clay, Skyla and Brycen tied to and displayed on crucifix-like objects for the masses to see. While Black went ahead to face N, a group of regular trainers fight the Sages in Black's place to free the Gym Leaders. Meanwhile, Ghetsis sneaks back into the castle, where N and Black are having their final battle.
After Black defeats N, Ghetsis appear, descending to the area on Hydreigon. Ghetsis proceeds to berate the unconscious N for his failure, and reveal the connection between them and N's true purpose to a stunned Black: Ghetsis has been manipulating N for years, choosing him to lead Team Plasma and awaken Zekrom in order to become the ideal leader to supplant the Pokemon League and convince all the citizens in Unova to release their Pokemon, allowing Team Plasma to take control and rule the region. Everything had went according to plan until N decided that, in order to fully take the role of the "hero", he had to defeat the trainer aligned with Reshiram - Black. Ghetsis mocks his son for his idealism and for losing to Black, but assures Black that his ambitions will continue unimpeded when he disposes of Black, ordering Hydreigon to burn him to a crisp.
Black sends his team out to do battle except for Reshiram, who is exhausted from its battle with N and Zekrom. However, Ghetsis reveals that because Black has interfered with his plans so much, he built his team to specifically counter Black's. His Elektross counters Braviary and Carracosta, Seismatoad for Emboar and Galvantula, and Cofagrigus against Musharna. Ghetsis declares that by destroying Black, he would be able to hide the "inconvenient truth" of N's defeat, so that he can continue to "lead" Team Plasma as its "hero" and convince the rest of Unova to release their Pokemon until Team Plasma are the only ones that have Pokemon on hand. Ghetsis then traps Black in Hydreigon's fire, and Black remarks that Ghetsis's ideals are the complete opposite of N's, and Ghetsis admits that N was nothing more than a pawn for his plans.
Black, disgusted by Ghetsis's callousness, swears that he will stop the sage's plans. Black, through Musharna, then uncover Ghetsis's secret Pokemon: a Volcarona he had hiding in the light of the sun. Black has his Pokemon switch targets, so that now he was at the advantage, and defeats Ghetsis's team. Ghetsis is left stunned at this turn of events and dissatisfied that even Volcarona was defeated so quickly. Black has Carracosta trap Ghetsis with Stone Edge, declaring that Ghetsis's ambitions have come to an end.
However, when N departs, Reshiram begins to revert back into the Light Stone. As Ghetsis observes the turn of events, he is freed by the Beheeyem lent to him by the Hooded Man, later revealed to be Colres. Revealing that he escaped to Black and White, Ghetsis has Beheeyem send Black into Reshiram, sucking him into the Light Stone as well, before escaping. It's also revealed that Ghetsis has been using Beheeyem to brainwash people into releasing their Pokemon. It's also implied that Ghetsis used this brainwashing on N as well, with how N's eyes at the end are colored in a brighter shade.
Black 2 & White 2[]
In Black 2 & White 2, Ghetsis is revealed to be leading Team Plasma, with Colress replacing N as the new puppet leader. Ghetsis would first appear in the pilot chapter, instructing Team Plasma operatives to steal Pokemon from trainers.
Ghetsis next appears in Driftveil City, observing Colress's battle with Blake, and seeing that Colress has retrieved Kyurem, controlling the dragon with the Colress Machine. Ghetsis stops the fight, reminding Colress what they needed Kyurem for, and the two moved Kyurem to the Plasma Frigate. Ghetsis and Colress placed Kyurem in a special room inside the Plasma Frigate, allowing the ship to fly. Kyurem's energy gave the Plasma Frigate access to a cannon capable of freeziing cities in an instant.
Ghetsis and Colress would fly the frigate to Castelia City, where they used the Kyurem-powered cannon to freeze the entire city and its people. They would attempt to capture Rood, one of the sages who had turned against Team Plasma, however, Whitley got in the way and was captured instead. Ghetsis would repeat the process on several more towns, including Striaton City, Nacrene City, Mistralton City, Opelucid City, and Lacunosa Town.
Ghetsis then noticed that N and Zekrom were approaching the Frigate. Seeing that Kyurem was calling out to Zekrom to fuse with it, Colress went to confront them, but Ghetsis stopped him, saying he wanted to confront his son. Colress gave Ghetsis the remote to control Kyurem, which Ghetsis embeds in his cane, and reminds Ghetsis to not let parental love get in the way. Ghetsis says he never had anything like that and mounted on Kyurem to confront N. Ghetsis would then obtain the DNA Splicers and have Kyurem attack Zekrom to seal it back into the Dark Stone, which also seals away N in the process. Fusing Kyurem with Zekrom to create Black Kyurem, Ghetsis learns that Black Kyurem has a much more powerful attack than before, and Ghetsis decides to test it, ordering Black Kyurem to use Freeze Shock on Undella Town, completely freezing the city in one blast.
Black and N eventually escape the Dreamscape, and N finds himself on Kyurem by Ghetsis's feet. Colress would alert Ghetsis that N can still hear Zekrom's voice, and could potentially disrupt the absorfusion, telling Ghetsis to get rid of the complication. Ghetsis would then tell N about how useless he is, saying he wasn't even useful as a human shield, and strikes him with his cane, knocking him off of Kyurem. However, Colress secretly brought N onto the Frigate to study his ability to communicate with Pokemon.
Kyurem would then fly to the Giant Chasm, with Ghetsis and Colress following onboard the Plasma Frigate. Noticing the Swords of Justice following them, Ghetsis orders the Shadow Triad to deal with them. Ghetsis then orders Kyurem to freeze all of Unova, and battles Alder and Looker onboard the frigate. Meanwhile, Kyurem is freed from the Colress Machine's control, and releases Zekrom, fusing with Reshiram instead to become White Kyurem. Kyurem then proceeds to attack Colress and the Frigate, and the Pokedex Wielders battle Kyurem, as N is still on the ship, while Blake pursues Colress.
Meanwhile, Whitley and Hugh, having infiltrated the Plasma Frigate and freed N. N agrees to help them find Hugh's sister's Purrloin, and, joining up with Alder and Looker, arrive at a secret room. N opens the door, and reveals Ghetsis, standing on top of his defeated Hydreigon, remarking how N is still alive. The room also contains all of the Pokemon Ghetsis has "liberated" either through brainwashing or stealing throughout the chapters.
Looker demands that Ghetsis turn himself in, but the leader of Team Plasma instead declares that he will not e taken as a captive and sets the frigate to self-destruct. The ship explodes, with the many Pokeballs containing Pokemon falling out. Kyurem uses its ice to save the Pokemon and hae them slide to Black, White, and Iris's feet.
After the frigate crashes, N finds Ghetsis unconscious, his body about to fall off a cliff. N calls out for his father and grabs him by the coat to prevent him from falling. Ghetsis is shocked to see N save him, and N says that he still loves him as a father. Ghetsis snaps at this, and beats N viciously with his cane, demanding N, "the monster", to unhand him, to everyone's shock. Ghetsis continues to bash N's head with the cane, calling him a "monster", and demanding he unhand him, until N loses consciousness, and Ghetsis starts to fall into the cavern, laughing maniacally. However, Zekrom saves Ghetsis, and as Ghetsis demands the legendary dragon to unhand him, the beast glares at him with fury.
Ghetsis is last seen apprehended by the International Police. He is confronted by Black, White, and Whitley. Ghetsis sneers at the group, saying they are as wretched he is for destroying his dream. White counters that it wasn't a dream but instead an ambition. Ghetsis then attempts to regain his composure by saying that one day the people of Unova will be deceived again, and wish for him to be their ruler. Whitley yells back, saying that while he can still fool and deceive humans, the Pokemon he's hurt will never forget what he did. As Ghetsis saw all the Pokemon he "liberated" glaring and scowling at him, he has a complete breakdown, fleeing into the police helicopter while laughing insanely.
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External Links[]
- Ghetsis on the Pokemon Wiki[1]
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