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Nurse Joy is the name of multiple nurses that work in Pokémon Centers in various regions throughout the anime. A Nurse Joy can completely restore any Pokémon back to perfect health. Their game counterparts are the Pokémon Center Ladies.
Appearance[]
Much like in the games, most of the Nurse Joys have brink pink hair and fair skin. Others could have a lighter shade of hair color, or brighter or darker skin. The Nurse Joys of the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh regions all wear a Mexican-pink colored dress with a white nurse apron, and flat Mary Jane shoes. In Unova, Nurse Joys have different hairstyles with the hair being tied in rounder rings, a plain pink dress with a shorter apron, white tights, and pink shoes instead of white. Kalos Nurse Joys wear a pink and white dress with a white collar, and the same tights and shoes as the ones in Unova. Alola Nurse Joys wear a pink dress with a built-on apron pocket and white flat sandals. Nurse Joys in the Orange Archipelago wore more summer-themed clothing, including a pink, short-sleeved shirt and a teal apron with a tropical flower design on it, though one Nurse Joy travels around the islands in her kayak, wearing a blue-and-yellow wet suit and having darker skin due to tanning. Nurse Joys could be distinguished from other Nurse Joys by the color of their cross, or badge.
One exception is in Pokémon The First Movie and its 3D remake, where the Nurse Joy of Old Shore Wharf had been kidnapped and brainwashed by Mewtwo to serve him as his maid with false memories that made her believe she lived on New Island her whole life and served him the whole time while he used her knowledge of Pokémon physiology to his advantage. She's only seen wearing the trademark uniform of Nurse Joys of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh in a missing person poster. While on New Island, she wore a red dress and hat with a white cloth that hid most of her head from view except for her face until Mewtwo released her from his mind control. When Brock caught her as she fainted, the hat fell off, revealing the rest of her head and trademark hairstyle. She remained wearing the dress until the end of the movie, when Mewtwo erased her memories of the events on New Island and sent her back to Old Shore Wharf, where she appeared to take Trainers to the Pokémon Center for shelter from the storm, now nothing more than a natural storm instead of being conjured by Mewtwo, wearing a hoodie with her Red Cross on it instead of the usual uniform.
Biography[]
Nurse Joy is not a single character, but rather refers to several characters with a nearly identical appearance to one another. Joy is their family name and not their actual first names. Besides looking identical, Nurse Joys are also voiced by the same person to sound identical too.
A Pokémon Center Lady has a new outfit from the Pokémon: Best Wishes! (Season 14–16) Unova.
Although they all appear identical, Brock is able to tell them apart by little details. This is noted when he can tell the difference between the eyelash length of two different Nurse Joys. Brock has a main crush on Nurse Joy, although he's always interrupted by his Croagunk, Max, or Misty. Nurse Joy is actually one of the few girls in the anime that does not reject Brock. She will just look at him, confused, before he is pulled off by one of his friends.
Once, during the Diamond and Pearl anime, Brock was put under a sleeping spell and dreamed that Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny fell in love with him. They then clung to him for the rest of the episode. At the end of the episode, dozens of Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys rushed over to Brock to "love" him, but Brock was then woken up by Croagunk's Poison Jab.
Nurse Joys also judge Pokémon Contests and the Grand Festivals alongside Raoul Contesta and Pokémon Fan Club President Sukizo.
Nurse Joys are known as caring women who always help a Pokémon in need. However, although they may seem nice, they can become quite tough when they have their hands full, or when they confront a person who hurts Pokémon (aka, Team Rocket). Other than that, all Nurse Joys seem to be in a good mood all the time.
Each Nurse Joy can be told apart by the color of the plus on their nursing cap, just as Officer Jenny's can be told apart by the badges on their police officer caps.
Pokémon[]
Main[]
Chansey ♀
Indeedee ♂
Indeedee ♀
Other[]
Gwendela ♀
Jynx ♀
Meganium ♀
Croagunk ♀
Latias ♀
Temporary[]
Befriended[]
Zoroark ♂
Given away[]
Treecko ♀
Voice actors[]
- English:
- Megan Hollingshead (Seasons 1-6, 23-25)
- Erica Schroeder (Seasons 7-8)
- Michele Knotz (Seasons 9-13)
- Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (Seasons 14-16)
- Jennifer Forziati-DaCosta (Seasons 17-18)
- Kate Bristol (Seasons 18-19)
- Suzy Myers (Seasons 20-22)
- Japanese:
- Ayako Shiraishi (Season 1–5)
- Yuriko Yamaguchi (Seasons 5–13)
- Kikuko Inoue (Season 10)
- Chika Fujimura (Seasons 14-16)
- Chinatsu Akasaki (Seasons 17-19)
- Shōko Nakagawa (Movie 20)
- Risa Shimizu (Seasons 20-22)
- Kei Shindō (Seasons 23-26)
- Dutch: Mandy Huydts
- Hindi: Pinky Rajput (Seasons 1–18)
Trivia[]
- Joy's name is a wordplay of Joi (助医), which stands for nurse in Japanese, and the word, Joy.
- The Joy family all appears identical as a parody to how character models were recycled and reused in the first Pokémon games. This also applies with Officer Jenny, Don George and Porter.
- In "Drifloon on the Wind!", it was revealed that Joy is a surname as told by her daughters: Marnie and Paige Joy.
- Nurse Joy is the only Pokémon Trainer to have a true Legendary Pokémon, usually Latias (or an Eon Duo Member). Officer Jenny has a mistaken Legendary Pokémon, usually Arcanine.
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