Bugsy

Bugsy (ツクシ) is the Gym Leader of the Azalea Town Gym. Beating him earns the player the Hive Badge. He specializes in using -type Pokémon. The player can challenge Bugsy only after Team Rocket is defeated in the Slowpoke Well.

Appearance
Bugsy is an androgynous-looking boy with purple hair and eyes. In the original Gen II games and anime he wore a green camper's outfit (green collared shirt with green shorts suspended by a belt, brown dress shoes and white ankle socks). In Gen IV this is modified to look more like a boy scout outfit (his shirt now has different shades of green, he wears a neckerchief, and he wears yellow-striped knee socks instead).

Games
He claims to have discovered Fury Cutter move. After the player character defeats him, he will give the player character the Hive Badge TM49 (Fury Cutter) in Gold, Silver and Crystal. HeartGold and SoulSilver, it is TM89 (U-Turn).

Season 3: The Johto Journeys
Bugsy is the Gym Leader of Azalea Town, who was first yelled at by Misty, due to her fear of bugs. After acknowledgeding Ash's challenge, he sent a Spinarak (who moved with a surprsing grace), a Metapod that could move and his ace, Scyther. Ash defeated him and won the Hive Badge.

Season 4: Johto League Champions
Bugsy, among other Johto Gym Leaders, appears in the opening scene of Pokémon: Johto League Champions.

Gym Battle & Rematch
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Tournaments
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Voice Actors

 * English: Tara Sands
 * Japanese: Hiromi Ishikawa
 * Italian: Monica Bonetto
 * Polish: Grzegorz Pawlak
 * Spanish: Amelia Jara
 * Iberian Spanish: Maria Fernanda Morales

Trivia

 * Bugsy's name is a play on the word BUG, since he is a Bug-type Pokémon Trainer.
 * Bugsy is the first Gym Leader that specializes in Bug-type Pokémon.
 * At first Bugsy appeared to be androgynous, until it was immediately revealed that he is a boy.
 * In his HeartGold/SoulSilver artwork, he has pale skin, but in the anime and game sprites, he appears to have normal colored skin. This trait is shared with Pike Queen Lucy.
 * In the Anime, Bugsy swapped his Kakuna from the games with a Spinarak.
 * Bugsy in Gold/Silver all his Pokémon are male, but in HeartGold/SoulSilver, they are female.