Sabrina

Sabrina ナツメ Natsume is the Saffron City Gym Leader and is a adept user of Psychic Pokémon. She holds the Marsh Badge for the trainers that can defeat her.

In the Anime


Sabrina made her first appearance in the anime episode Abra and the Psychic Showdown. In the anime, Sabrina has been split into two personalities, one that is cold and emotionless and another that is playful, represented as a young version of Sabrina. In this episode Ash challenged Sabrina to a Gym Battle, but was defeated. Upon his defeat, he and his friends are shrunk by Sabrina but are then rescued by an unknown man, who then told them that the only way to defeat Sabrina's Psychic Pokémon was by using Ghost-type Pokémon.

After making a trip to Lavender Town and befriending a Haunter, Ash again challenges Sabrina in the episode Haunter Versus Kadabra, though the Haunter he needed to help him was no where in sight. Ash loses again to Sabrina and this time Brock and Misty are turned into dolls, where they meet Sabrina's mother who had also been transformed into a doll.



The mysterious man that had saved Ash was revealed to be the father of Sabrina, and after a talk with him Ash once again challenges Sabrina. This time around Haunter comes to the battle, though instead of fighting, he begins to play with Sabrina, causing her to laugh. Sabrina's personalities are merged into one, and she was unable to battle leaving Ash the victor. Sabrina reunited with her family and the Haunter stayed with her, and with this Ash received his Marsh Badge.

In the Manga
She is also a member of Team Rocket until it got disbanded.

In Game
Sabrina, in the games, is less a complex character than her Anime representation. She was first seen in the original Red and Blue games, as the Saffron City Gym Leader. When defeated the player will receive the Marsh Badge along with a TM. In the Generation I games the player will receive TM46 (Psywave) and in the Generation III games it is TM04 (Calm Mind).

Manga
In the series Pokemon Adventures Sabrina is an executive for Team Rocket along with Lt. Surge and Koga she fights Red to prevent him from interfering, but as usual it results in a failure.

Voice Actresses

 * English: Lisa Ortiz
 * Japanese: Kae Araki

Trivia

 * Though Sabrina's hair colour has been officially identified as dark green, a variety of her appearances have her hair blue, black, or even purple.
 * Sabrina's name may come from a popular show "Sabrina the Teenaged Witch." This is because Sabrina is a psychic type trainer and is a psychic herself.