Impostor Professor Oak
- This article is about the character. For the TCG card named "Imposter Professor Oak", see Imposter Professor Oak (Base Set 73).
Impostor Professor Oak (Japanese: にせオーキドはかせ False Doctor Ōkido), sometimes spelled "Imposter Professor Oak", is a villainous character disguised as Professor Oak.
He first appeared on the TCG card Impostor Professor Oak and has since made appearances on other cards. He also appears in Pokémon the Series and the How I Became a Pokémon Card and Pokémon Adventures manga series.
Cards featuring Impostor Professor Oak
| Impostor Professor Oak Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats. | |||||||
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| Card | Type | English Expansion |
Rarity | # | Japanese Expansion |
Rarity | # |
| Imposter Professor Oak | T | Base Set | 
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73/102 | Expansion Pack |
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102/130 | |||||
| Celebrations | 
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73/102 | Promo Card Pack 25th Anniversary Edition | 004/025 | |||
| Imposter Oak's Revenge | T | Team Rocket | 
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76/82 | Rocket Gang |
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| Impostor Professor Oak's Invention | T | Neo Destiny |
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94/105 | Darkness, and to Light... |
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In the spin-off games
Pokémon Trading Card Game series
In Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!, the Imposter Professor Oak card is available. The latter game also includes the Imposter Oak's Revenge card.
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| Imposter Professor Oak sprite from the Trading Card Game |
Imposter Professor Oak sprite from Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR! |
Imposter Oak's Revenge sprite from Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR! |
In animation
Pokémon the Series
Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver
James disguised himself as Professor Oak in Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up?, along with Jessie disguising herself as DJ Mary. He was successful in imitating Professor Oak for a time, due to help from Meowth as well as sheer luck. However, after many tests, including silhouette identification and writing poems, he was discovered.
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
James used the same disguise again in A Faux Oak Finish!, where he took Professor Oak's place in a convention in order to help the Team Rocket trio steal Pokémon from the people attending the convention. However, the real Professor Oak soon showed up and was eventually proven to be the genuine article when he was able to determine the cause behind an audience member's Tyranitar's odd behavior and fix it by removing a thorn stuck under its foot.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Impostor Professor Oak made an appearance in Kalling Kadabra as a disguise used by Sabrina's Kadabra. It was used to trick Red into thinking that Kadabra was the real Professor Oak, who had been kidnapped by Team Rocket. After witnessing the fake professor using Psychic abilities, Red saw through the ruse and exposed its true identity by draining its energy with Saur's Leech Seed.
Trivia
- The character was intended to appear in Pokemon Gold and Silver as shown by the Spaceworld 1997 demo[1], but it was later scrapped.
In other languages
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References
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