Red (Origins)

Red is the main protagonist in the four part anime special called Pokémon Origins, based off of the Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Green, Pokemon LeafGreen, and Pokemon FireRed games.

The Pokedex
It starts off with Red and Green, his rival, going to professor Oak's lab to receive a PokeDex, PokeBalls, and their first starter Pokemon. Green lets Red choose first. Red chooses a Charmander because it is a fire type like he is named after. Green chooses Squirtle. Oak ask them to fill the Pokedex with the 149 known Pokemon and they excitingly take the challenge. Red sees a Pidgey but fails to capture it and finds out that in order to fill the Pokedex he must capture all 149 Pokemon. He then sees and captures his first Pokemon, Rattata. Soon he captures Spearow, Caterpie, and Pidgey. While fighting a trainer, who has a Nidoran♀, he attempts to capture that as well but finds out that he can only capture wild Pokemon and the trainer tells him where he caught that Pokemon. While walking towards that area he finds Green again and they battle 1 on 1. Green wins the battle. Afterwards he is confronted by Brock who tells him that Pokemon and their trainers need to grow stronger together and tells him to begin challenge the Gym leaders.

Gym Leaders
Red heals his Pokemon head to Pewter City and challenges the leader, who appears to be Brock. Brock only uses two of his Pokemon, Geodude and Onix while Red uses 5 of his Pokemon, Charmander, Spearow, Rattata, Metapod, and Nidoran♂. Red ends up winning and receives his first Gym badge. Red bought a "rare" Magikarp from a salesman for $500. He then went through Mt. Moon and got the Helix Fossil and also beat the Rocket members there and another at Cerulean City. He was able to take down Misty and Lt. Surge and win his 2nd and 3rd badge. Sometime during this his Charmander evolved into a Charmeleon. He received the TM Dig, the HM Cut, a bike, and an Old Rod during his travels. He had captured 42 Pokemon at this time.

Lavender Town
After traveling through the Rock Tunnel, he had reached Lavender Town. While he was healing up his Pokemon at the Pokemon Center, he overheard stories about ghost in Pokemon Tower. Before heading there, he stops by the Pokemon House as the Nurse requested. He saw many of the abandon Pokemon, including a Cubone, who's mother got killed by Team Rocket and was rescued by Mr. Fuji, the owner of the Pokemon house. Red finds out that Mr. Fuji had gone missing after going into Pokemon Tower and decided to go looking for him. Green overhears this and decides to go too. Red takes on the ghost with Charmeleon but cannot defeat it. Green comes and gives Red the Silph Scope, which reveals that the Ghost is Cubone's Mother. Cubone then comes and hugs it's mother, who disappears after, seeing that her son is alright. Red then uses Jolteon to defeat Team Rocket and save Mr. Fuji. Mr. Fuji then gives Red a PokeFlute and a box of unknown gems. Red then sets out to head for the next town on his adventure.

Giovanni
Red and Charmeleon defeated Erika's Vileplume and won the Rainbow Badge. He found a secret Team Rocket base in the same city and infiltrated it. He battled Team Rocket, released all the Pokemon there, and met the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni. He later found a sleeping Snorlax, woke it up, and battled and captured it. He received the Good Rod from the brother of the guy that gave him the Old Rod and used it to capture a Psyduck. Red defeated the ninja Gym Leader Koga and got a 5th Gym Badge. After countless battles, his Charmeleon evolved into Charizard. Red had captured 65 Pokemon at this time. Red and Green found a woman and helped her escape from Team Rocket. She told them about the Masterball project and that Team Rocket was using Pokemon as test subjects to experiment on. Red ordered Green to tell the police while he would storm Silph Co. and free the Pokemon. He again met Giovanni, who battled his Nidoqueen against Red's Charizard and won. Giovanni and the rest of Team Rocket escaped.

The Ultimate Gym Leader
After Saffron City, Red challenged Sabrina and defeated her Alakazam with Haunter. A scientist he freed thanked him and gave Red his Lapras. He beat the Karate Master and won his Hitmonlee. He and Lapras traveled to Cinnabar Island. While there, Red went to Pokemon mansion and read about Mew and MewTwo. He then battled and defeated Blane. After hearing that the Viridian City Gym leader returned, the strongest of all the Gym leaders, Red decided to challenge him. He arrived just as Green finished battling and beating the Gym leader. Red challenged the leader and found out that it was Giovanni. Red declared that he no longer wanted a Gym battle but wanted to fight him for all the things he had done to Pokemon worldwide. Giovanni then grabbed two special Pokeballs and accepted the battle. He used Rhyhorn and defeated Red's Victreebel, Kabutops, Snorlax, and Jolteon. Hitmonlee was able to take Rhyhorn down but it also brought him down as well. Giovanni used Rhydon and Red used Charizard as their last Pokemon. Charizard, despite the type advantage, was able to defeat Rhydon. Giovanni offered Red the badge but Red refused to take anything from the Rocket leader, so Giovanni dismembered Team Rocket so that Red would accept the badge.

The Pokemon League
After making it through Victory Road, Red was able to battle the Elite 4. He used Jolteon, Scyther, Dodrio, Lapras, Persian and Charizard to take them down. Lance was about to announce him Champion but revealed that there was one more he had to fight, Green, that also deafeated Lance becoming the Champion. Green sends out Pidgeot first while Red uses Jolteon. Jolteon defeats Pidgeot. Red's Scyther battles Green's Alakazam and they both get defeated. Green's Rhyhorn is defeated by Red's Lapras, who is defeated by Arcanine. Red's Dodrio gets defeated by Green's Exeggutor, but later is defeated by Persian. Jolteon is defeated by Blastoise and Red is down to one Pokemon left, Charizard. Charizard and Blastoise battle it out until the end, in which Charizard wins. Oak then comes and puts Red and his Pokemon in the Hall of Fame.

Mew
Red continues to complete the Pokedex. He captures the Legendary Birds Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres, and once he captured all 149 Pokemon, Green is majorly injured by an unknown Pokemon and Red sets out to capture it. The Pokemon is revealed to be Mewtwo. Mewtwo defeats all (included the legendary Bird Articuno) but one of Red's Pokemon, Charizard. Charizard and Red are thrown into the water but then the gems Mr. Fuji gave Red made Charizard Mega Evolve into Mega Charizard X. Red then used Mega Charizard X to defeat and capture Mewtwo, now having 150 Pokemon captured. He later realizes that Mew was the "father" of Mewtwo so Red then set off to go find Mew, the 151th Pokemon.