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| “ | The Pokémon I capture with a Dark Ball become evil Pokémon. And their power instantly increases to the highest level. | „ |
| ~ The Marauder explaining the use of his Dark Balls. |
| “ | CELEBI, DESTROY THEM! | „ |
| ~ The Iron-Masked Marauder's villainous breakdown as he furiously orders Celebi to kill Ash and Sam out of pure fury. |
| “ | Iron-Masked Marauder: I control the most powerful Pokémon in the world! Why would I want to give something that valuable...to the boss? Jessie: What do you mean? Iron-Masked Marauder: Now the boss has to be afraid of me, because Celebi gives me the power to destroy him! With Celebi, I can rule Team Rocket and the whole world, if I want to! [cackles evilly] |
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| ~ The Iron-Masked Marauder revealing his true plans to Jessie. |
| “ | With a Pokémon like you, no one will ever stop me! | „ |
| ~ The Iron Masked-Marauder taking control of Celebi. |
| “ | Now it's my chance to capture a Suicune too. | „ |
| ~ Iron-Masked Marauder when seeing Suicune arrived. |
The Iron-Masked Marauder is the main antagonist of the 2001 Pokémon film Pokémon 4Ever. He is an Elite Officer of Team Rocket who plotted to use Celebi's powers to overthrow Giovanni and take over the world by using Pokémon that he captured with Dark Balls. He also intend to capture one of the three Legendary Beasts, Suicune too.
He was voiced by Dan Green, who also voiced Mewtwo, Entei in the films, Yami Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Mephiles the Dark and Storm the Albatross in Sonic the Hedgehog, and Norland von Lunebelg in Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture. In the Japanese dub, he was voiced by Shirō Sano.
Biography
The Iron-Masked Marauder debuts when he persuades a Pokémon poacher to show him where he found the legendary Pokémon known as Celebi. When the poacher refuses to talk, the Marauder orders his Sneasel to unlock a cell of a Tyranitar that the poacher caught. He then catches the Tyranitar with a unique Poke Ball called a Dark Ball, which turns Pokémon evil and more powerful (even if the Pokémon in question already belong to someone else). The terrified poacher then tells him where he found Celebi just in time when he orders Tyranitar to destroy the poacher's camp.
The Iron-Masked Marauder then searches for Celebi while riding a spider legged machine, along with Jessie, James and Meowth, whom he found in the forest Celebi lived. They decide to go with him due to the fact that he's from Team Rocket as well (and the fact that they were just tired of walking). 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. When he discovers Scizor and Sneasel tied up with the kids already gone, he sees that the kids were tougher than they looked, but considers that it "makes things interesting." The Marauder is so focused on finding Celebi that he doesn't notice or care that Jessie, James, & Meowth had fallen out of his vehicle and moves onward. The Marauder later finds the kids again and succeeds in capturing Celebi with his Spider Machine's claw, brutally electrocuting it, before capturing it in a Dark Ball. Before the villain could properly relish his victory, Ash attempted to retrieve Celebi with the help of a flock of wild Pidgey and the two started to fight on the mech, leading the Marauder to accidentally hit one of the controls. Although the resulting struggle toppled the Marauder's mecha, the Marauder quickly reclaimed his Dark Ball by stepping on Ash's hands until he passed out.
When surrounded by the angry forest Pokémon, the Iron-Masked Marauder decided to demonstrate the corrupted Celebi's power on them, sending it to attack the wild Pokémon and devastate the forest. Iron-Masked Marauder orders Celebi to build a Scyther shaped monster from forest materials. He then orders Celebi to destroy Ash and Sam for good, but Suicune saves them. He also captures Jessie by mistake, but decides to have her as a witness to see his power. After the Marauder demonstrates by polluting the lake, Jessie promises the Marauder that she'll guarantee him a big promotion when he hands Celebi over to Giovanni; however the Marauder tells her he has no intention of handing Celebi over because he controls the most powerful Pokémon in the world instead, he plans to use Celebi to usurp and kill Giovanni in order to take over the entire world and Team Rocket for himself. He attempts to capture Suicune also by using his Tyranitar. Suicune defeats Tyranitar with Bubble Beam 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, which exploded (releasing his Scizor, Sneasel, and Tyranitar in the process). The monster was falling apart and the Iron-Masked Marauder loses his balance and fell into the lake.
He is not defeated, however. When Celebi is healed, the Iron-Masked Marauder suddenly emerges from the lake, grabs Celebi and attempts to fly away with Celebi on his jetpack. But Ash grabs on tightly onto the Marauder's leg as he rises higher and higher. Although, he tried to kick him off, Ash then ordered Pikachu to Thunderbolt his jetpack, the Iron-Masked Marauder tries to warn him about it until it's too late, causing it to explode, sending all three plummeting several meters towards the forest floor. While Celebi saves Ash and Pikachu, the Iron-Masked Marauder continues his long fall. He lands in a tree branch that snaps and then lands and rolls down a small hill and lands his face hard on the ground (losing his mask and his Dark Balls in the process). Towa, Diana and Mr. White confront the Marauder along with the forest Pokémon. Surrounded by the angry forest Pokémon, the Marauder tries to send his Pokémon out, but he doesn't have any. The now-powerless Marauder begs for mercy, claiming "This is all a mistake! A big misunderstanding!" The forest Pokémon then tie him up using String Shot, to which Towa replies, "I think the Pokémon understand perfectly!", much to his dismay. The Marauder's fate is unknown, but he was most likely arrested and sent to jail afterwards. It is also likely that he remained in jail as Giovanni would learn about the Marauder's betrayal and refuse to bail him out as a result.
Characteristics
The Iron-Masked Marauder is skilled at hand-to-hand combat but does not have good balance. His primary combat relies on Pokémon that are brainwashed by his Dark Balls. Once caught, The Pokémon are extremely loyal to him and attack without regards to previous friendships and loyalties. It is not known how he got them, but it is possible that he invented them.
The Iron-Masked Marauder is one of the first example of a most villain wholly without redeeming qualities within the Pokémon franchise. He was downright cruel, ruthless, cunning, treacherous, selfish, reckless and generally uncaring of whomever he hurt. He was a depraved and cold-hearted psychopath by nature, gleefully tortured and willingly abused both humans and Pokémon in his scheme to take over the world, even planning to overthrow and kill his boss Giovanni. Even Jessie, James and Meowth were horrified by his sadistic and sociopathic methods. He was the first of the kind of the series. He would later be followed by similar villains such as J and Grings Kodai, who drew similarities from the Marauder from their occupations and technology used.
Quotes
| “ | So you heard of me. | „ |
| ~ Iron-Masked Marauder when Team Rocket Trio recognized him. |
| “ | Celebi is mine. | „ |
| ~ Iron-Masked Marauder after capturing Celebi with a Dark Ball. |
| “ | Not yet. I need a witness who could report back to Giovanni. I want the Head of Team Rocket to know how powerful Celebi is and How powerful I am too. | „ |
| ~ Iron-Masked Marauder to Jessie about Giovanni. |
Trivia
- The Marauder is arguably far more evil than Giovanni, as he is far more cruel to all Pokémon and people (including his own allies), even planning to overthrow and kill Giovanni so that he can rule the entire world and Team Rocket for himself.
- Ironically enough, however, he fails the in-story standard despite meeting all the criteria.
- For some reason, Meowth thought he was from a Mexican wrestling movie, most likely due to his mask.
- His voice sounds exactly like that of Knuckles the Echidna, who was also voiced by Dan Green.
- The Marauder and Bowser's voices are exactly similar to each other due to their deep voices and brutal personality with their respective goals. They're both power-hungry, obsessed, wrathful, homicidal, egotistical, tyrannical, abuse and cruel villains who wants nothing but power, destroy their enemies and world domination.
- The Marauder plans to capture Celebi and use his powers to overthrow and destroy his boss, Giovanni so that he can conquer the entire world, along with Team Rocket as a new leader. He also attempt to capture Suicune. He also intended to kill Ash and his friends for getting in his way, stopping him and ruining his goals, while Bowser plans to marry Princess Peach (or kill her and destroy the Mushroom Kingdom unless she agrees to marry him) and conquer the whole world and the Mushroom Kingdom, he also attempted to kill Mario for stealing Peach away from him (despite the obvious fact they're both humans and he is a turtle), bonding with her, having romantic feelings for one another and intervening with his plans, including his wedding with Peach.
- Although the Iron-Masked Marauder was voiced by Dan Green in Pokémon 4Ever, while Bowser was voiced by Jack Black in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, they're voices are low pitched deep by their own actors.
