Damian (Japanese: ダイスケ Daisuke) was the original owner of Ash's Charmander.
History[]
In the anime, Damian is a character of the day who appeared in Charmander – The Stray Pokémon.
At a Pokémon Center, Ash and his friends overheard Damian bragging about how many Pokémon he caught. He said that he left a Charmander in the nearby forest because it was too weak. Brock yelled at Damian and ordered him to reclaim his Charmander because it might die in the rain. Damian laughed it off and Ash was about to challenge him to a battle until Nurse Joy prevented the confrontation, saying that using Pokémon to settle arguments is wrong.
Brock and the others recovered Charmander and had it taken care of at the Pokémon Center. As soon as it felt better, Charmander left to wait for Damian once again.
Team Rocket later tried to steal Pikachu, but Charmander chased them away with a Flamethrower attack. Ash asked Charmander to join them, but Damian showed up, having seen the fight, and said that he had purposely left Charmander alone to toughen it up. In fact, Damian was glad he didn't have to go through the trouble of raising Charmander himself. Damian ordered Charmander to return, but Charmander wanted to stay with Ash. Enraged, Damian tried to attack the group with his other Pokémon, but a combined attack from Charmander and Pikachu scared Damian away for good.
He reappeared in a flashback in The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!.
Trivia[]
- Damian is the only character who abandoned one of Ash's Fire-type Pokémon to not be present when said Pokémon evolves at least once.
- The blurb for the episode spells his name as Damien instead of Damian.
- When ordering for Charmander to return, Damian was shown throwing Charmander's Poké Ball at it instead of using the return function on the Poké Ball. This may imply that Damian had released Charmander from his Poké Ball when he abandoned it.