Bertha (Adventures)

For the variant appearing in the games, see Bertha.

Bertha
Information
Gender	Female
Region	Sinnoh
Occupation	Elite Four
Appears in	Platinum Chapter
Debut	Clobbering Claydol
Other information
Specialist type	Ground
Rank	Third
In other languages
Japanese	Name キクノ Kikuno
Japanese	Name キクノ Kikuno
English	Name Bertha
English	Name Bertha

Bertha is a character appearing in Pokémon Adventures, who is a member of the Elite Four in the Sinnoh region.

Appearance

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Bertha is an aging woman, whose appearance and name resembles Agatha: they both have the same hairstyle. Bertha wears a brown scarf, a white buttoned coat, a black skirt, long grey socks and black shoes.

Personality

Despite her humble and gentle demeanor, Bertha holds herself as a strong and enduring trainer. She knows when she's beaten and doesn't regret defeat.

Etymology

The name Bertha's comes from "earth."

Her Japanese name, Kikuno, may be derived from 崎嶇 (kiku, steep) or 国 (kuni, country). In either event, it may also come from Kikuko, Agatha's Japanese name, as both are elderly women who are part of their region's Elite Four lineup.

Biography

Platinum arc

Looker and Platinum remembered Bertha, due to her powerful status, for she was connected to the rest of the Elite Four, as well as the Gym Leaders and the Frontier Brains of Sinnoh region.

Aaron, Lucian and Bertha were reading through books, searching for mentions of Legendary Pokémon. Lucian noted all of these were written in the Charon Memo, while Aaron noted there were many Pokémon listed. Bertha, however, was concerned, as she hasn't heard of some of these, and feared that Charon could use all of these Pokémon to cause a greater incident than the one involving Dialga and Palkia. Later, the three elite trainers joined the Pokémon Association chairman, who introduced them as members of the Elite Four to Diamond and Pearl. Lucian showed all of the books they analyzed, and had them thrown onto the chairman. The trio explained that they analyzed a lot of the ancient runes, and even called Professor Oak to help them out. Before Pearl and Diamond went away, the latter asked why were they called the Elite Four if only three of them were here, to which the chairman noted that they weren't a team, like the Gym Leaders.

Pokémon

On hand

Hippowdon ♀