Character Statistics

ENGLISH NAME : James Morgan
JAPANESE NAME : Kojirou
FRENCH NAME : James
AGE AT BEGINNING : 17
HAIR COLOUR : Blue-violet
EYE COLOUR : Green
HOME TOWN/CITY : Unknown
PROFESSION : Team Rocket member
POSITION : Rank B
CHIEF RIVAL : Butch

LIKES : Money, his independence, fashion, wearing woman's clothing, his prized bottle cap collection, roses
DISLIKES : Jessiebell (his fiancé), working, failure, the Twerp Trio
FAMILY STATUS : Only child.  Both parents still alive
PRIMARY GOAL : To become rich by stealing Pokémon, and to finally capture Pikachu
ENGLISH VOICE ACTOR : Ted Lewis (1998, epis. 1-10), Eric Stuart
JAPANESE VOICE ACTOR : Miki Shinichirô
GERMAN VOICE ACTOR : Matthias Klie
FIRST SEEN IN : 'Pokémon Emergency'

Character Profile

James is the male half of the Team Rocket that we all know and love, and probably is the funniest of all the main characters.  He is also sweet and loyal to his friends, and doesn't exactly seem like the criminal type.  He is very extravagant, and always has a rose on hand.  He can be a bit of a scarredy-cat, often relying upon his stronger team mate, Jessie.

He comes from one of the richest families in the Kanto region, however, even though he had all the luxuries in life that anyone could wish for, he was never truly happy.  He grew up to hate upper class society as they had rules for everything possible and he never felt independent.  Additionally, at about the age of eight or nine he became betrothed to a girl named Jessiebell. She was a pillar of upper class rules and regulations, and his parents hoped that she would turn him from a delinquent son to a perfect gentleman.

To try and escape from this lifestyle, James ran away from home and joined a bicycle gang of Team Rocket wannabies.  He was known as Little Jim by his friends and was one of the most notorious members of the gang, despite the fact he needed training wheels on his bike.  It may have been here that he met his now Team Rocket partner, Jessie (at the time of the second movie, 'The Power of One' [Japanese version], Jessie and James say that the two of them have been friends for almost ten years meaning they must have met when they were around nine or ten).  The two also went to, and flunked out of, Pokémon Tech together, (although we are not sure whether this was before or when they were in the biker gang). When the two were old enough, they both joined Team Rocket.

In the episode 'Holy Matrimony' James was lured back to his family home by the news that his parents had died, but this was only a plan to get him to marry his fiancée, Jessiebell.  The agreement is that if James marries her, he will get his inheritance.  Because of this, Jessie and Meowth tried to force James into the marriage, planning to split with the money after, but Jessiebell chased the two away from the estate.  With a little help from Ash and co., James was able to escape again from Jessiebell and his parents.  In the end, James decided that even with the amount of money he could get, he valued his independence and his friends more than money.

James is a lot smarter than he seems, it's just that he doesn't have that much common sense.  He also seems to have a lack of self-confidence.  When he finds a Pokémon fortune telling book (which has been badly copied by Butch and Cassidy from the original version), which matches trainer's birthdays with Pokémon, he discovers that the mighty Moltres belongs to his birthday.  He instantly gains a great deal of confidence, dressing up in a Moltres costume, and almost beats Butch and Cassidy single-handedly, even putting his Victreebel in line, but when he discovers that the book is a fake, he loses this new found confidence, leading him and his partners to another defeat ('The Fortune Tellers').

At the beginning of the show, James, Jessie and Meowth were notorious members of Team Rocket, and had Viridian City in a total panic, but since they met Ash-tachi, they haven't had much luck in their primary mission (namely to kidnap, or pokénap, Pikachu), and have come close to being fired (or worse).

Several times, James and his friends have sided with good.  For instance, they have helped the Twerp Trio defeat their fellow Team Rocket members Butch and Cassidy, and have aided them in all of the movies.

Character Info

'Kojirou' means 'second son.' James is named after the famous samurai, Sasaki Kojirou, who was Musashi Miyamoto rival (15??-1612).

For Team Rocket mottos, click here, or click here to read the lyrics to the Team Rocket song, 'Double Trouble'.  There are also lyrics to several Rocket Gang songs on the Japanese Music page.  For more James pics, go to Team Rocket Pictures, or go to the Rocketshipping page for hints of James' feelings for Jessie.

POKÉMON

• Growlie the Growlith (lives at James' family home, 'Holy Matrimony')
• Gyarados (evolved from a Magikarp, which he bought on the St. Anne in 'Battle Upon the St. Anne', and when angered by James it evolved and attacked all of the main characters, 'Pokémon Shipwreck').
• Weezing (evolved from the Koffin he got as a Christmas present in 'Dig Those Diglett'. Left in 'A Poached Ego!').
• Victreebel (stolen from the centre in 'The Breeding Center Secret' [Japanese version])
• Cacnea (caught in 'A Poached Ego!')
  

Character's Best

'Pokémon Emergency' - Ash is able to get the injured Pikachu to the Viridian Pokémon Centre, but as it is recovering, a group named Team Rocket attack the centre.

'The Ghost of Maiden's Peak' - James and Brock both fall in love with the same woman, the only problem is, she has been dead for over two thousand years.

'The Bridge Bike Gang' - James and Jesse meet up with the old bike gang.

'Holy Matrimony' - James is lured back home by reports of his parent's death to marry his fiancée.

'The Ultimate Test' - Ash, James and Jessie try to get into the Pokémon League by taking a Pokémon exam.

'Forest Grumps' - When the two groups get mixed up, the once enemies must band together to get out of a forest full of violent Ursaring.

'The Fortune Hunters' - Team Rocket run into their old adversaries, Butch and Cassidy, and James has delusions of grandeur.

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