Archie Taketa

Archie Sean Taketa is from Fortree City in the Hoenn region. He's the former leader of Team Aqua and is now a member of the Tekiyoku. He's a Steel Manipulator.

Present
He first appeared in Episode 15. He was terrorizing Ecruteak City in the Johto region, causing havoc. The Mokusetsu (Alain, Ash, Dawn, Lyra, and Casey) was there to try to find the Bug Plate, Tamamushi. While playing at an old baseball field that Casey loves from her childhood, they heard the sounds of chaos in the city and ran to see what was going on. They witnessed Archie tying a girl up to a chain link fence. Ash went to free her.

This angered Casey, who sent out her Beedrill to attack Archie. Alain tried to stop her from doing this, but she did it anyway. Archie easily caught the Beedrill in midair, followed by Casey running up to him. He realized the Beedrill was hers and informed her she was breaking the law, since the Tekiyoku prohibited any Pokémon moves from being done in public. He then took out a kunai and stabbed and killed the Beedrill, to Casey's dismay.

Alain and Ash then ran up to Archie, who didn't know Alain was in this city. Casey became angry and held up her baseball bat. Archie then deduced that she must have come from that aforementioned baseball field, noting she must really like that field and saying he'll destroy it. He ran towards the field. The rest couldn't follow because they were intercepted by the other person Archie was in the city with, The Iron-Masked Marauder.

While Marauder was fighting them, Archie burned down the baseball field using a jerrycan, making Casey cry. Archie then joined in the fight. It ended up with Archie sprouting a giant, steel hammer with Blacksmith. However, Alain ended up using Graceful Descent to slam Archie down to the ground. Alain then got the hammer from him and then swung it right into Marauder's gut. After this, Archie and Marauder retreated.

As they were leaving, they discovered Dawn, who wasn't doing a very good job at hiding during the fight. They seized Dawn and went back to the rest of the Mokusetsu. They gave an ultimatum; either Alain gives up the Bug Plate, which they saw he had just found, or they kill Dawn. Frustrated, Alain agreed to give up the Bug Plate. Archie and Marauder then left with the Plate.

Naming

 * His first name, Archie, is his name in the English dub of the anime. The A comes from "aqua", which means water. It may also come from arch- (which means the highest or the most extreme).
 * His middle name, Sean, is the first name of his English voice actor, Sean Schemmel, who voiced many more characters as well.
 * His last name, Taketa, was randomly selected from a Japanese name generator.

General

 * His birthday, May 26th, was randomly selected.
 * Archie is from Fortree City (in this series, not in the official Pokémon anime). The Iron-Masked Marauder is from Arborville. Both places are entirely similar in structure, having houses that are only built in trees. Both of these people appeared together in Ecruteak City to terrorize the city and fight the Mokusetsu. This was not planned by Nocturnal Jay at first and wasn't discovered until after he wrote that entire Johto portion of the series.