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As a youth, Professor Oak (or Sammy, as he was called back then) was a Pokémon Trainer and he owned a Charmeleon. He met the legendary Pokémon Celebi while it was being pursued by hunters and through its time travelling powers was transported decades into the future for a short while.
Professor Oak later battled against Pokémon trainer Agatha for supremacy, but his trainer days came to an end when he decided he would much rather study Pokémon than train them. This seems to have annoyed Agatha greatly, even though that meant her rival was now out of the picture. It may be that Agatha, who went on to become one of the Elite Four in her old age, enjoyed her rivalry with Oak and preferred him to be a challenge for her rather than "go soft" and practice research. Or maybe she prefers to train her entire life than to retire.
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Professor Oak lives and conducts his research from a large laboratory complex situated in Pallet Town, which is based on real life's Yokohama, Kanto region, Japan. His duties include tending to the surplus Pokémon that trainers send him for safekeeping and getting local rookie trainers started by giving them their first Pokémon (a choice between Bulbasaur, SquirtleSquirtle ( Zenigame in Japanese) is a fictional character from the Pokemon franchise. Squirtle's back hardens into a shell soon after its birth. When it feels threatened, Squirtle retracts into its shell and sprays foam from its mouth. Name origin Squirtl and CharmanderCharmander ( Japanese: Hitokage is a fictional character from the Pokemon franchise. Charmander, as well as its evolved forms, has a flame on the tip of its tail; the flame is said to indicate its life-force, burning weaker or stronger depending on the Ch) and a Pokédex.
There is no information on Professor Oak's parents or children. His grandson, Gary OakIn the television series Pokemon the trainer Gary Oak (Known as Shigeru in Japan) is Professor Oak's grandson and Ash Ketchum's rival. He is called "Blue" (Or "Green" in the original Japanese) in most of the Pokemon games, in which he ends up being the Vi, is a wandering Pokémon Trainer and rival of Ash KetchumThe trainer Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, known as Satoshi in the original Japanese and Red in most of the games (see Non-Anime Info) is the main character of the Pokemon anime, the Pokemon manga series (Electric Tale of Pikachu), and the Ash & Pikachu ma, the protagonist of the Pokémon television series. His granddaughter, Daisy Oak, grooms Pokémon in her house in Pallet Town.
In Pokémon: The Electrical Adventures of Pikachu, a mangaThis article is about the Japanese medium. Manga" can also refer to La Manga (a place in the Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain) and Manga Entertainment (an American and British distributor of anime, but not manga). Manga is the Japanese word for comics; outside of which does not follow strict continuity, his granddaughter is a teenager named May. Ash has a crush on her.
One of the many running gagThe running gag is a popular hallmark of comedy television shows and movies. A running gag is an amusing situation or line that constantly reappears through the course of a movie or television series. Frequently, the humor in a running gag derives entirels among some fans is the observation that Professor Oak inevitably appears whenever Ash's mother is in an episode. Although this is usually easily chalked up to coincidence (they live in the same town after all), humorous allegations exist that the two are in some sort of romantic relationship that Ash is totally oblivious of.