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They make for a great
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It really helps the channel out.
(fun music)
Hey Pokemon masters,
Bird keeper Toby here.
Last week I did a fact finding
video about Professor Oak.
The man himself, the guy who
started it all by saying,
"Hey, welcome to the
wonderful world of Pokemon."
And in that video I
discussed how Professor Oak,
more so than any other character.
We have a pretty comprehensive
timeline of what he does,
what his events are,
throughout his entire life.
And across all the different
cannons, who his family are.
In the manga it talks about
how he has two brothers
who are the mayor and
postmaster of Pallet Town.
He has a grandfather
who is the famed trainer
who brought fame to Pallet Town.
He has a cousin in Alola, Samson Oak.
And two grandkids, Daisy
Oak and Gary, Blue, Green.
Whatever you want to call him.
But of course, that
leaves a generational gap.
And everyone gets so fixated on the topic
of who is Ash Ketchum's father.
But what about Gary, who is Gary's father?
Or mother for that matter,
who is his parents?
Isn't that a far more
interesting question?
Why does Gary live with
his grandfather, basically.
A topic like this could
not be tackled alone
so today I am joined by one
of the best Pokemon theorists
out there, my good friend Lockstin.
- Hello there Pokemon masters,
let's just dive right into it, shall we?
A good place to start
in trying to find out
who Oak's children are, is
asking who did he have them with?
He's an elderly man now, so
chances are we're looking
for a character around
his age, with some kind
of connexion to him and his life.
Here, many people would turn to Agatha
as being a good candidate,
Agatha is an Elite Four member
who is powerful and
specialises in the ghost type.
Not only that, she has some
beef with Professor Oak,
calling him an old coot,
saying even that, he used
to be strong and handsome,
but now, well, he's gone soft.
And those lines of
dialogue, we are already
establishing a relationship
that was once one of fondness,
now turned bitter.
Possibly given the quote about his looks,
a relationship of romance.
In those lines, we also
see a side of Agatha
that is very much like our rival.
Weak Pokemon suck, it's all about
being strong and powerful!
That's my impression of Gary Oak.
And this personality
connexion between Gary Oak
and Agatha gives the two of
them even more connexions.
Clearly, whoever Oak had is children
with is not with him today.
He never talks of being
married so potentially,
there never even was a Misses Oak.
In the manga, Oak actually
became the Pokemon
League Champion, and his final
matching was against Agatha,
so maybe it's possible
that in the fires of heated battle
came the fires of passion.
However, for whatever
reason that relationship
didn't quite work out in the long run.
I think that it is very likely that Agatha
is the mother of Oak's children.
- Now Gary and Daisy Oak
are around about 10 to 12
years old when their adventures
begins, which is great.
Agatha and Oak, however,
their ages are ambiguous.
The Pokemon movie 4Ever
puts Oak's age at 50
because he time travels 40 years,
and he's 10 years old
when he's Samuel Oak.
However, Professor Oak
was very clearly designed
to be older, and especially
if he had relationships
with Agatha, who's very
clearly in her 60s to 80s.
I said for this theory
you're gonna have to suspend
your disbelief a little bit, and assume
that bit of information
in the Pokemon movies
is maybe not completely accurate.
And Oak is probably more in his 60s, 70s,
which is how he looks.
So we're looking for a child first of all
that fits in that age gap,
somewhere in the middle there.
Someone 40s to 50s.
Someone who has some
connexion to Oak or Agatha,
and there actually is a character.
The Elite Four member Bertha.
Not only is she also an Elite
Four member like Agatha,
with a similar namesake,
but also there is an actual
comment in the game by Chantelle
of the Unova Elite Four,
that says that Bertha and Agatha
share a remarkable resemblance.
So it's even noticed and
referenced in cannon, and given
their ages could this
resemblance be mother daughter?
I think it's more than possible.
And not only that it
would make perfect sense
with the timeline of Oaks life,
because Oak at one point
did actually live in Sinnoh.
He has a house in Eterna
City, and he studied
there while he was studying
under Professor Rowan.
This would have been after he was a child
but before he was a Pokemon researcher
in his middle age when he
would have been having kids.
So he would have had Bertha
whilst he was living in Sinnoh.
So it's actually incredibly plausible,
but to make it believable,
we really need some other
bit of evidence, some
other tiny little detail
that we're missing here
that ties it all together.
And there is a character of interest.
Again, we're crossing
cannons but in the one
episode of the show that Bertha
shows up in, she is babysitting someone.
Someone who she quotes
to be, her cousin's son.
This character is called Roland,
and you may have already noticed he looks
an awful lot like a
slightly younger Gary Oak.
Her cousin's son, that is a
very specific relationship
and what we're talking about there
is her parent's sibling's grandchildren.
So potentially that's Oak's
brother's grandchildren
or maybe someone on Agatha's
side that we don't know about.
It's the grandchildren so
it's the same generation
as Gary and Ash, except maybe
just a little bit younger.
- Maybe it's just a coincidence,
but it would make sense
with how relationships
work in the Pokemon world.
For example, in Alola there is Samson Oak,
Professor Oak's cousin, so,
Oak's parent's sibling's child.
And yet, Samson looks almost
completely identical to Samuel.
And the relationship
between Gary and Roland
is actually the same connexion,
just with an extra generation.
And again, they look almost
completely identical.
Think about this also,
it's such an obscure bit
of lore for the show runners to put in.
Her cousin's son?
Why that?
Why so specific?
Sounds like maybe Roland is the special
missing link weaving this web.
Painting the tapestry
of the Pokemon timeline.
- Bertha is the daughter
of Samuel Oak, and Agatha.
And her children?
Well, is Gary.
Gary, Blue, Green, again
whatever cannon you're using.
And Daisy Oak.
Is it possible?
I think so, I think the evidence is there.
But I leave that up to
you in the comments.
Now we still don't know
who Gary's father is,
so it's only really a half
victory, but we do know
who Ash's father is, and
I talked about that over
on Lockstin's channel over a year ago.
So I thank you for
joining me on this video
and I recommend you head over.
Soar high, Pokemon masters.
A special thank you for
those of you who support
me financially on Patreon, and especially
Joey and Drew, the big
patrons of the month.
Thank you.
- [Ash] This is Ash Ketchum.
You just watched a video
by Bird Keeper Toby.
That makes you a Pokemon master!
