Pokémon Why Koga & Sabrinas Badge Names Don’t Make Sense

Pokémon: Why Koga & Sabrina’s Badge Names Don’t Make Sense

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Koga and Sabrina’s Soul and Marsh Gym Badges in Pokémon Red and Blue have names that don’t make any sense, due to a strange localization choice.

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Pokémon Why Koga & Sabrinas Badge Names Don’t Make Sense

The Gym Badges given out by Koga and Sabrina in Pokémon Red and Blue have strange names, and fans have speculated they were switched during development. Regardless of whether they were mistakenly swapped, Pokémon’s Soul and Marsh Badge names are likely the result of an odd localization choice.

The Gym Leaders in Pokémon Red and Blue underwent a huge shift in development. The original Gym Leader lineup was different, with a kid who resembles Giovanni meant for the first Gym battle, and all of the others (except Blaine) arranged in a different order. Koga was meant to be the sixth Gym Leader, while Sabrina was going to be the final Gym Leader. The lineup was changed before launch, but Koga and Sabrina maintained their designs. Koga resides in Fuchsia City and uses Poison-type Pokémon in battle, while Sabrina lives in Saffron City and fights with Psychic-type Pokémon.

If the player defeats Koga, they earn the heart-shaped Soul Badge. If the player defeats Sabrina, they earn the gold coin-like Marsh Badge. Many fans speculate the names were switched, as it would make far more sense for the Poison type user to give out the Marsh Badge and the Psychic type user to give out the Soul Badge. The Pokémon video games were censored and localized in bizarre ways, so it wouldn’t be strange for these badge names to have been switched by mistake.

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Pokémon Red & Blue’s Odd Gym Badge Translations

The reason for the strange choice of badge names likely involves the English localization of Pokémon Red and Blue. In Japan, the badges were named after colors. The Boulder Badge was the Gray Badge, the Cascade Badge was the Blue Badge, the Soul Badge was the Pink Badge, the Marsh Badge was the Gold Badge, and so on. The only badge that kept its name across both languages was the Rainbow Badge. Pokémon Gold and Silver had different badge names, too, in each language. It wasn’t until Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire that the same names were used in both English and Japanese.

The towns in Pokémon Red and Blue are named after colors, and their Japanese Gym Badges reflect that. Fuchsia is similar to pink, and Saffron is similar to gold, which is why those colors were used for their Japanese badges. The English “Soul” name makes sense for Fuchsia’s heart-shaped badge, so the only question is why the Gold Badge was called the Marsh Badge; perhaps the names really were accidentally switched in the English version. According to Bulbapedia, the Pokémon Project Studio Red and Blue computer programs, along with “several anime and game handbooks,” swap the two names, which could lend credence to the theory that developers initially planned for the heart-shaped badge to be called Marsh and the gold badge to be called Soul.

That said, many early Pokémon materials were full of errors, and Game Freak has had several chances to change the official English badge names. The Kanto region has been remade three times – in FireRed and LeafGreen, in HeartGold and SoulSilver, and, most recently, in Pokémon, Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee – but the Soul Badge and Marsh Badge have stayed the same in each iteration. The Pokémon series has retconned elements in the past, such as giving old Pokémon gain new types, so it seems the strange Gym Badge names are here to stay.

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