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Matt is a major antagonist within the Hoenn Pokémon games (Pokémon Ruby/Pokémon Sapphire/Pokémon Emerald and their remakes, Pokémon Omega Ruby/Pokémon Alpha Sapphire). An admin of Team Aqua, he is the Aqua counterpart of Tabitha.

In Pokémon Generations, he was voiced by Tetsu Inada in Japanese and Richard Epcar in English.

Biography[]

Games[]

In Pokémon Sapphire, he is successful in stealing the Meteorite from Professor Cozmo in meteor falls and is later battled before Archie on Mt Chimney. In both Sapphire and Emerald he is faced in the Aqua hideout, attempting to stop the player from reaching Archie.

Pokémon Masters[]

While first appearing in a cameo role in the Masters of Land and Sea event, Matt makes their first full appearance in Pokémon Masters in the Hoenn-themed chapter of the second arc of of the main story, with Archie and his admins standing before the team's grunts. Matt makes the suggestion to his peers on the idea of using Kyogre to destroy their rivals, to which Shelley vetoes due to it being too dangerous. After the other members of Team Aqua disbands, Matt laments the oddity of his leader being careful about their future actions.

Despite this action not going through, the members of Team Magma and Team Aqua still find and battle each other in a nearby town, causing Brendan, May, and Wally to go investigate. This duel eventually subsides in a draw, as the leaders of both group lose interest in their unsatisfactory brawl. Even Groudon and Kyogre demanding they fight is broken up by the arrival of Rayquaza, which causes the two to flee. Due to this, the leaders of both teams decide to make the plans of finding their lost legendarys.

Matt next appears on a beachside commanding Team Aqua, to which a grunt (manipulated by Proton) gives information on Kyogre's whereabouts and the idea to make a sync pair with it himself. Here, Matt would fly into a mysterious frenzy related to dark energy, attacking Team Magma's grunts at random with Kyogre. Due to this, Brendan steps in with his Latios, intent to get to the bottom of this situation. While their trance, the admins of Team Aqua attempt to use the ability to reasoning to stop their assault against Team Magma, although their rampage would be more permanently stopped Steven and Zinnia using their combined powers to destroy an incoming meteor and a device Team Rocket used to make the Pokémon become uncontrollable. After learning of Team Rocket's involvement in the incident, the two rival teams decide to call a truce, putting their rivalry to the side in order to protect Pasio.

Pokémon Adventures[]

Matt Adventures

Matt in Pokémon Adventures.

Matt, referred to as Ark' in the Chuang Yi translation, is an antagonist in the Pokémon Adventures manga. He first appears in Lombre Larceny along with his fellow Team Aqua members, Shelly and Amber, where they plot to kidnap Mr. Stone. They disguise themselves as staff personnel and trap his Castform in a fountain, and were going to take him away and steal his Devon Goods when he wasn't looking. Their plan goes perfectly until Sapphire arrives to the scene and rescues Mr. Stone's Castform from the fountain, thus forcing them to kidnap him publicly when they originally wanted to do it in secrecy. They manage to steal the goods and escape to the Petalburg Woods, with Sapphire, Gabby, and Ty chasing them. There, they battle Sapphire and manage to overpower her, forcing her to escape and leave the goods.

For their success in stealing the Devon Goods, Matt, Shelly, and Amber are promoted to Admin status by their leader, Archie. Still, he reminds them of their failure in silencing Sapphire, Ty, and Gabby, the three people who saw their faces during the mission.

Matt next appears at Mt. Chimney in Bubble Bubble Toil and Azumarill I, holding Flannery hostage in a cable car so that he can lure in Sapphire. When Sapphire enters the cable car to rescue Flannery and battle Matt, he has his Azumarill completely flood the car with water, while at the same time creating an air bubble so that he alone can breathe. He taunts Sapphire and Flannery about their impending deaths, but after several minutes elapse with Sapphire still successfully holding her breath, he calls out his Sharpedo to kill them more quickly. Sapphire's Rono's Iron Defense stops Sharpedo's attack, breaking its fangs, but Matt laughingly tells them that Sharpedo's fangs grow right back, and once more waits for them to drown. Sapphire, however, uses the broken fangs to pierce the glass window of the cable car, draining out all the water, much to Matt's shock. Now able to breathe and free to attack, Sapphire has Rono use Take Down on Matt and his Pokémon. When the cable car reaches the top of the mountain, Shelly and Amber find Matt, his Azumarill, and his Sharpedo smashed against the glass window, unconscious. Matt is carried away on a stretcher by several Aqua grunts.

He is not seen again until VS Whiscash, when Team Magma and Team Aqua briefly join forces to journey to the bottom of the sea in the Submarine Explorer 1. Matt expresses excitement at the prospect of going to the Seafloor Cavern, but Archie asks him whether he really thinks he can join them. Matt hesitantly says that he's almost fully recovered from his injuries, but then Archie has his Walrein knock Matt to the floor with a savage blow to his face, saying that after his failure at Mt. Chimney he will be left behind, and Amber will be coming instead.

During the battle between Groudon and Kyogre, Matt faces off against Winona, using his Sharpedo against Winona's Altaria. By having Sharpedo use Taunt, he is able to stop Winona from giving commands to her Altaria, and she grudgingly admits that even though Team Aqua are the enemy, they still have excellent teamwork. Still, Altaria is able to defeat Sharpedo eventually, as in Matt's last appearance in VS Kyogre and Groudon IX, he is shown struggling to stay above the surface of the water as Shelly flies away with her Vibrava, telling him that only he can save himself now. Matt is not seen again after this, and it is unknown whether he escaped or drowned.

A second Matt (based off the remake design) was later seen as part of Team Aqua in the Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire chapter.

Pokémon[]

Trivia[]

  • Matt is the only Aqua Administrator from the games not to be adapted into the anime..
  • Because of the redesign, Pokémon Adventures treated the newer design as a separate character for the Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire chapter, identifying Matt as more of a codename than an actual name.

Navigation[]

           PokemonLogo Villains

Team Rocket
Giovanni | Archer | Ariana | Proton | Petrel

Team Aqua
Archie | Matt | Shelly

Team Magma
Maxie | Tabitha | Courtney

Team Galactic
Cyrus | Mars
Commanders: Jupiter | Saturn | Charon (Adventures)

Team Plasma
N | Colress | Shadow Triad
Seven Sages: Ghetsis | Rood | Gorm

Team Flare
Lysandre
Scientists: Aliana | Bryony | Celosia | Mable | Xerosic
Others: Malva

Team Skull
Guzma | Plumeria | Gladion | Team Skull Grunt A & Grunt B

Aether Foundation
Lusamine | Faba

Team Rainbow Rocket
Giovanni | Maxie | Archie | Cyrus | Ghetsis | Lysandre

Macro Cosmos
Chairman Rose | Oleana

Team Star
Cassiopeia

Cipher
Greevil | Evice | Ein | Lady Venus | Nascour | Miror B. | Dakim | Lovrina | Snattle | Gorigan | Ardos | Eldes | Hexagon Brothers

Team Snagem
Gonzap

Team Dim Sun
Blake Hall | Kincaid |

Pokémon Pinchers
Purple Eyes

Other People
Silver | AZ | Marcus | Zinnia | Roger Clifford | Bede | Team Yell | Sordward and Shielbert | Zero | Volo | Kamado | Miss Fortunes | Professor Sada/Professor Turo | Paradise Protection Protocol | Kieran

Pokémon
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Ultra Beasts
Nihilego | Guzzlord | Necrozma

Other
Rayquaza | Darkrai (Poképark) | MechaMew2 | Dark Rust

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Howard Clifford | Ditto | Sebastian | Ann Laurent

Team GO Rocket
Sierra | Cliff | Arlo | Shadow Pokémon

See Also
Pokémon Anime Villains | Pokémon Adventures Villains | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Villains

           Pokemon Adventures logo Villains

Team Rocket
Giovanni | Lt. Surge | Sabrina | Koga | Will | Karen | Carl | Sham | Carr | Sird | Orm | Mask of Ice | Carl | Proton | Petrel | Ariana | Archer

Team Aqua
Archie | Matt | Shelly | Amber

Team Magma
Maxie | Tabitha | Courtney | Blaise

Team Galactic
Cyrus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Charon | Sird

Team Plasma
N | Colress | Ghetsis | Zinzolin | Rood | Gorm | Shadow Triad

Team Flare
Lysandre | Malva | Aliana | Bryony | Celosia | Mable | Xerosic

Team Skull
Guzma | Plumeria | Gladion

Aether Foundation
Lusamine | Faba

Team Yell
Piers

Macro Cosmos
Chairman Rose | Oleana

Elite Four
Bruno | Agatha | Lance | Lorelei

Others
Silver | Necrozma | Eternatus

See Also
Pokémon Villains | Pokémon Anime Villains | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Villains

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