Professor Birch

Professor Birch is the professor of Hoenn. He is Brendan or May's father. He lives in Littleroot Town. He is a Male Professor. In the anime he is not related to May and entrusts Ash as May's bodyguard on her journey.

Pokemon
In Ruby and Sapphire he is chased by a Poochyena and you had choose either a Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip and faint the Poochyena and he will have you keep the Pokemon.

In Emerald all of that is the same except Prof. Birch is chased by a Zigzagoon. After completing the Hoenn Dex, Prof. Birch will have 3 other pokemons Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile which are actually Johto starter Pokemon.

Pokemon Adventures
Birch is Sapphire's father.

Anime


Birch was first mentioned in a flashback of Harrison on Johto Photo Finish. His first appearance was in Get The Show On The Road when he gave May her Torchic. He later appeared in Dewford Town in both A Three Team Scheme! and Seeing is Believing!. Birch also appeared in A Six Pack Attack, when he was meeting Professor Oak. Later, Birch was seen in The Evolutionary War! at a vacation on A-B-C Islands. Over there, he and the twerps cleared the mystery of the Clamperl evolution. Birch's most recent appearance was a short cameo in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon; it is unknown if he will appear again since the main characters have left the Hoenn region.

His preferred mode of transport is a jeep that he drives recklessly.

Due to the relationship between characters in the games, it is widely speculated that Birch is the father of Brendan's anime counterpart. This character has made three short cameo appearances in the anime and has the starter Pokémon whose type weakens May's. Birch is spoken by Dan Green, the same voice actor who spoke for Knuckles the Echidna (2005-2010), Mephiles the Dark (2006), Strom the Albatross(2006-2008), and Vector the Crocodile (2008-2010) form the Sonic the Hedgehog video game seires, and Yugi Moto from the Yu Gi Oh Anime.

Gallery
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