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- Jessie — "Prepare for trouble…"
- James — "and… make it double!"
- Jessie — "To protect the world from devastation…"
- James — "To unite all peoples within our nation…"
- Jessie — "To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
- James — "To extend our reach to the stars above!"
- Jessie — "Jessie!"
- James — "James!"
RocketShipping is the het ship between Jessie and James from the Pokémon fandom.
Canon[]
Anime (Overview)[]
Jessie and James are comrades in Team Rocket and have a friendship that dates back to their first meeting. They work together on wacky plans with their talking Meowth to steal Ash’s Pikachu and impress their leader Giovanni.
James tries his best to make Jessie happy as he even hides his true feelings about her opinion, although he also does that just to avoid her wrath. The two often bicker and get into arguments. Jessie often takes the more commanding role in their schemes, ordering around James the latter whom complies, often annoyed. Despite many obstacles their relationship takes, James always has Jessie's back and knows she has his.
Jessie and James have a tendency to embrace or hold onto each other when they are frightened (dubbed “fear hugs” by RocketShippers) or happy. Jessie and James also do not have an issue with physical contact, such as sleeping onto each other or holding each other in ways that friends won't. They also hold each other during their motto or poses.
Pokémon: Indigo League[]
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When the two are convinced they are going to die in "Pokémon Shipwreck", they hold hands, promising never to forget each other. James says to Jessie that he thinks she is beautiful. When James is scared to cross Bulbasaur’s vines and begs Jessie and Meowth to go on without him, Jessie refuses to leave him behind, insisting that they will cross together.
In "The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak", James declares his love to the ghost’s statue in a precarious position on the edge of a cliff. Jessie is holding onto his pants to keep him from falling off until she gets distracted and he falls. She tries to grab him but ends up falling with him into the sea. When the ghost is dragging him away at the climax, James finally cries that he doesn't want to be separated from Jessie. Upon hearing this, she pulls out a bazooka and shoots the ghost. James smiles tearfully and says her name adoringly, to which she responds, “Don’t get the wrong idea!” and attempts to hide the fact that she did it for his sake. When the group is fighting against Gastly, Jessie and James are in the background fear-hugging.
In "The Ninja Poké-Showdown", Jessie gives James a rose, much to his surprise. He pricks himself on a thorn as Jessie goes on to say that beautiful things can be painful.
In "The Legend of Miniryu", James stands in front of Jessie to block her from the line of fire after dodging some bullets from Kaiser. He tells her to relax and trust him, grabs her by the waist and jumps off the roof with a parachute. The parachute falls on top of them after they crash-land and they scramble underneath it, during which time Jessie says, “Where do you think you’re touching?!” When they emerge, James is wearing an unnaturally wide grin.
In "A Chansey Operation", James expresses obvious unhappiness at the flirting between Dr. Proctor and Jessie. When Dr. Proctor asks Jessie on a date, James cocks an eyebrow and looks unimpressed. Later Jessie puts her hand on Proctor’s chest to which James responds by glaring angrily at Jessie and clenching his fists. When Dr Proctor asks Jessie to assist him and she agrees, James volunteers to assist as well.
In "Holy Matrimony!", Jessie is crushed, thinking that James has decided to marry his fiancée Jessebelle and come into his inheritance. To her delighted surprise, James calls out with the motto, swooping down in the balloon to pick her up. When he tells her that he was not able to get the inheritance, she brushes it off, saying that they do not need it as long as they have their freedom. They shake hands to reaffirm their friendship. Their hands form a heart and they gaze into each others' eyes as the music swells as they end up forgetting to pick up Meowth.
Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands[]
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Pokémon: Master Quest[]
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In "Here's Looking At You, Elekid!", the trio captures a Larvitar that Ash and the gang were taking care of, as well as a wild Elekid that finds itself having stolen some of Larvitar's food.
As James goes to take a closer look at their prized catch as they retreat in their Meowth balloon, the Elekid electrocutes him, creating a crater in their balloon's basket, causing the two captured Pokémon to fall through, causing Jessie to scold him over it.
After the three tail the two Pokémon back into the forest, Meowth explains to Jessie and James how Elekid and Larvitar would benefit the boss, as Jessie tells them to make it quick and go after them already.
They successfully capture the two a second time and bring them back hanging by their balloon. As Larvitar is just a newly hatched baby, it starts crying loudly, piercing the eardrums of the trio and even Elekid, and alerting Ash and friends.
Casey, who had just briefly regrouped with Ash and the gang, gets her Meganium to cut through the net's rope. Jessie demands an explanation from James, to which he responds saying how he had to swap out the material since Elekid got through it the first time. Not long after, Brock's Forretress makes quick work of the trio, blasting them off.
The trio, unfortunately lands on the same Magikarp salesman that long scammed James from before. James takes a while before recognizing him and demands a refund. The salesman, however, gives them a pitch for a Weepinbell trade instead, which James is flabbergasted to find how Jessie and Meowth were quick to agree with that proposal.
They huddle to the side and think over which of their Pokémon to trade for the Weepinbell, as the two first decided to go with Meowth, the latter quickly turns down the idea. Jessie suggests for James to give away his Weezing, while Meowth votes Wobbuffet off, James then suggests Jessie's Arbok, earning him a punch to the face.
As Jessie, Meowth, and Wobbuffet vote against James to trade off his Victreebel for its pre-evolved form. James starts getting emotional, as Jessie and Meowth makes the Weepinbell use its Sweet Scent to attract Ash and the gang's Pokémon, following Elekid and Larvitar as a dejected James helps fan the Sweet Scent along the other two.
In the midst of the battle against Ash and co., the Weepinbell Team Rocket newly acquires evolves into a Victreebel and instead targets Jessie. Jessie, annoyed, gives James the "it's either me or the Victreebel" line, much to his astonishment.
She instructs Arbok to get it out of her sight, sending it flying, as James yells for it worriedly. Casey's Meganium finishes them off mid-argument, sending them flying, right after the Victreebel.
In "You're A Star, Larvitar!", the trio are spying on the group of Trainer and their Pokémon practicing for the League, as they start vacuuming them up shortly after, catching Ash and co. (but only catching Ash) in the process.
The three load the stolen Pokémon into a moving truck and prepare to drive off, but not before Ash's Larvitar finds them and bites a hole into one of the truck's tires. The three are stopped by the flat tire, causing a brief argument between them.
Before the three could even drive off with their newly-fixed tire, Larvitar bites another hole into the same tire, as the Pokémon haven't finished burning a hole through their glass prison yet. James and Meowth hears the commotion, as the three find their empty truck, they finally catch Ash who has also escaped from his ropes.
In "Address Unown!", the trio are spying on Ash and co. by the campfire as they take care of a sick Unown that fell from a portal in the sky. The morning after, Meowth tries to snap the two out of it as the trio have apparently been spying on the kids all night.
They start a battle, as Wobbuffet counters Larvitar's Hidden Power, Unown jumps to the rescue and reflects it back to the trio, blasting them off.
In "Mother of All Battles", the trio are in their balloon spying on Ash and co. who have been confronted by the poachers who have stolen Larvitar when it was just an egg and have now kidnapped its mother, Tyranitar.
Jessie complains about how the poacher brothers are just cheap knock-offs of themselves, as James adds on defeatedly, saying how he actually finds it impressive how they were able to take down a Pokémon of Tyranitar's size.
Jessie, annoyed by the two's jealous skulking, insists that they're still better than the brothers, and proposes that they make a truce with them and then rob them back when they have their guards down, exciting James and Meowth.
Shortly after Ash and co. meet up with the wildlife preserve ranger, the trio request to become the poacher brothers' "students", being given the assignment of stealing Pikachu and Larvitar, as they are given their poaching machine to borrow.
After confronting Ash and the gang, they try to launch another poaching bag their way, as Ash's Pikachu and the wildlife preserve Mason's Croconaw fling it back towards the trio, wrapping them in the bag and sending them flying, as the poacher brothers are seen getting away with their Meowth balloon.
In the end credits scene, the three are seen still trapped together in the poacher bag while hanging upside down under a bridge over a cliff.
In "Pop Goes the Sneasel", the trio overhear about the unattainable Sacred Flame torch being kept in the same woods they were currently in. However, it is revealed that they are going after the torch to sell it off for a quick buck.
Little did they know they did not hear about what's making the torch unattainable, as they learn the hard way after bumping into Sneasel and its lackeys, Machop and Machoke.
After they witness Ash and co. lose against the wild Sneasel, they try brainstorming ideas to outsmart the wild Pokémon. Jessie then suggests that, once they get their hands on it, to replace Meowth with the Sneasel instead, shocking James.
Meowth listens in on the two as James tries to argue going against ditching Meowth while Jessie insists having Sneasel would be much cooler.
The two return to where they briefly left Meowth as Jessie happily announces that he's being replaced. Meowth pretends to go along with the idea as his inner monologue reveals how he plans on making the two pay for even thinking of replacing him.
The trio, in their new Sneasel balloon, then confront Ash and the gang who were trying to help their new friend catch the Sneasel, with Meowth also dressed as a Sneasel.
Meowth tries to rat Jessie and James out to the Sneasel, but it wasn't having it and slashes him and his costume away, much to Jessie and James' delight.
Thinking they got Sneasel as the smoke bomb goes off, they actually ended up taking back Meowth, who was less than pleased about getting replaced. They end up fighting in their balloon, as Meowth accidentally latches onto the balloon with his claws out, sending the three flying.
Pokémon: Advanced[]
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Pokémon: Advanced Challenge[]
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In "Seeing is Believing!", James tries to calm Jessie down while calling her "Sweetheart" as Team Rocket continue to blast off again after being thwarted by Ash and his friends.
In "Abandon Ship!", Max comments on how he thought they were just a "nice old couple" in their disguises, which James happily denies.
In "Love at First Flight", Jessie and James dress up as Illumise and Volbeat during their recital of their motto. Illumise and Volbeat are also said to can't be able to live without the other. While the episode itself revolves around Romeo and his Volbeat not being able to confess their love to Juliet and Illumise, respectively.
In "Tree's A Crowd", when Jessie comments about how she prefers to change houses as often as she does with boyfriends, James questions her in shock.
In "The Bicker The Better", after the regal couple Oscar and Andi defeat Ash and May (whom they presumed to "also" be a couple), the two part ways and bump into the trio. The couple then focus on Jessie and James, whom they also presumed to be a couple, to which James ask incredulously as to who they were referring to, with Meowth adding, while talking offense, as to which of the three of them they disregarded mentioning.
Jessie and James start fighting mid-battle after their opponents' Nidoking and Nidoqueen manage to tangle James' Cacnea in Jessie's Seviper's Wrap, this was then followed by a tag team Hyper Beam by the foe Nidoking and Nidoqueen that sends the trio and their Pokémon flying.
Similar to Ash and May since the beginning of the episode, Jessie and James continue their bickering even after they've landed elsewhere. With Jessie commenting how getting the three of themselves "blasted off" comes from "James' side of the family" referring to the trio's dynamic. Their bickering soon quickly escalates to playground insults after James finds out he can "win" their argument by calling Jessie "ugly" repeatedly while the latter covers her ears and goes "Lalalalala".
The scene continues to pingpong between Ash and May arguing and back to Jessie and James', with each of their self-commentary getting progressively more petty. The camera then reveals how both duos have been walking beside parallel roads the entire time.
After meeting in a fork on the road, Jessie and James decide to team up with Ash and May, to which the former two instigate a tag battle against the opposite gender.
The tag battle is disrupted after Jessie breaks the rules by bringing out her Dustox, which results in a sudden 3 vs 2 battle between her Dustox and Seviper teamed with May's Skitty versus Ash's Corphish and James' Cacnea. After the commotion causes Jessie to retreat, she accidentally steps on Skitty's tail, causing it to unleash a Blizzard, making Jessie shield herself behind James who becomes frozen by the attack. Jessie laughs at his demise only for Skitty's Assist to Ember both.
The battle continues to spiral into madness as the scene cuts to the spectators' point of view, to which Meowth thinks to himself how his dream of having a Team Rocket base situated in Hoenn would be as good as non-existent if this keeps up. He then realizes Pikachu is within arm's reach and tries to break up Jessie and James' bickering, to no avail.
The two begin to get into a physical altercation after James implied wanting to start insulting Jessie's "backside" with the latter locking her thighs around his neck while pulling on his arms. The two finally notice Meowth and snap back to their senses and direct their Pokémon's attack on the protagonists and catch Pikachu in a butterfly net.
The two make up and recite their motto with Pikachu in hand, in turn making Ash and May make up as they battle for the return of Pikachu. They try to go after Pikachu again but get frozen and blasted off again, ending the episode.
In "Hokey Poké Balls", Jessie compliments James on "his genius" regarding the switcheroo idea he had regarding the Pokémon Center's PC.
In "Fan with a Plan", after successfully stealing May and Savannah's ribbons, Ash and the gang demand for her to give them back, to which Jessie responds saying how she would rather trade James (and Meowth) for them without hesitation.
This irritates the two, with Meowth telling her maybe she should just quit her dream of entering Pokémon Contests as a whole, with James chiming in saying nobody would even believe the ribbons are hers anyway.
She denies this but casually throws them back to their rightful owners instead, as a way of taking back what she didn't mean, with James sarcastically thanking her for it.
In "That's Just Swellow", Jessie lets James borrow her Dustox for the PokéRinger contest as he has no Pokémon that can fly on hand.
In "Take This Home and Shuppet!", a Shuppet living in a mansion uses its powers to calm down Jessie and James (as well as Meowth) every time a fight started to break out between them.
Later in the episode, when Team Rocket battles against Ash and the gang, James exclaims how Cacnea glomping him isn't exactly "love at first bite", followed by Jessie ordering her Seviper to use Bite on Ash's Swellow.
In "Shroomish Skirmish", the two fear-hug each other after the horde of Breloom catches up to the trio. After the Breloom manage to break both the Team Rocket trio and Ash's friends into separate smaller groups, James and Jessie end up with each other before bumping into May.
Unfortunately, they were running too fast during the downhill road which led them hanging on a loose branch, resulting in the two hugging each other for their dear lives.
In "Who's Flying Now?", when James starts explaining why being in a carnival bums him out, Jessie sarcastically asks if he's talking about "a first crush thing" and, if so, she didn't want to hear it (to which Meowth agrees with).
In "Sky Hight Gym Battle!", after the trio gets lost on their way to the battlefield of the gym, Meowth tries to lighten the mood by revealing he has bought treasure-hunting rods that can help them sniff out the treasure rumored to be hidden nearby.
However, when Meowth explains how it will "get them dancing", Jessie and James take their rods and start dancing under an imaginary dance floor during a disco party, followed by both being swiftly beaten on the head by Meowth.
After Meowth elaborates on the rods' use, the two, in return, snatch the rods from Meowth's paws and happily run off to where the rods were pointing.
In "A Scare to Remember", after an early blast off, it results to Jessie getting catapulted into a tree, to which she muffles how she's "never felt this close to [James] before", before revealing how he was smooshed before her and responding how he "feels the same about [Jessie]" before also revealing how Wobbuffet is smooshed underneath both, with the three inadvertently having made a crater on the said tree.
After realizing Meowth got separated from them, Jessie and James argue a bit about whether or not Jessie cared enough to look for him before pushing through anyway. Every other time the scene cuts back to their search, Jessie keeps yelling, hoping for a response from their missing home base instead, which James has to keep reminding her how their home base can't talk and is inanimate.
Despite having yet to find Meowth, the two finally stumble upon their home base in Hoenn. James comments on how despite [the shack] not being pretty, it was still "what [the two] call home".
Shortly after, Meowth (and Pikachu) find the base as well, James opens the front door relieved while Jessie, with her mouth full of the base's food, comments that having left Meowth alone was nothing to worry about as he would've come back on his own when he was hungry, saying it in a way as if Meowth was her and James' child.
In "PokéBlock, Stock, and Berry", Team Rocket is shown to be spying on Ash and the gang's new friend, Kelly and her Grumpig. Jessie comments on how what the Grumpig made her think of, with James condescendingly responding if it reminded her of his ex-fiancée Jessebelle, then he agrees.
After being blasted off and landing in a trashcan, Jessie finds out about the Lilycove City Pokémon Contest and demands James lend her his Chimecho. After hesitating, Jessie reminds him she lent him her Dustox for his PokéRinger match, James finally gives in and lets Chimecho go with her.
Pokémon: Advanced Battle[]
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In "Vanity Affair", Jessie pines to retire on a private resort together with James (and Meowth alongside their other Pokémon), with the latter agreeing happily.
In "An Absol-ute Disaster", after Team Rocket bumps into Ash and the gang while the former were in their Absol hunter disguises, they somehow end up getting lost on the mountaintops as both groups were chasing after Absol, with the camera panning over to Jessie and James fear-hugging each other as they asked Meowth accusingly why the three were stranded on top of a ball-shaped rock in the middle of nowhere.
In "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snorunt", as they were blasting off, Meowth sarcastically comments how his favorite examples of "dumb and old" were "flying on either side of him", referring to Jessie and James, to which the two snap back in unison asking who he was calling "old". Funnily enough, neither denied the "dumb" accusation.
In "The Great Eight Fate!", after being defeated by Juan, Team Rocket resorts to having James impersonate him later in the episode instead. As the camera pans over to a disguised James, softly blushing while asking Jessie (and Meowth) if he was "fabulous", to which the two hype him up, saying how he looks more like Juan than the real thing.
In the two-parter episodes, "Green with Envy" and "Pacifidlog Jam", James works behind the scenes in order to support Jessie for her entry for the Pacifidlog Town contest with Meowth, all the while James wears a matching outfit to Jessie's Coordinator persona, The Jester.
In "Hi Ho Silver Wind!", after a child assumes Jessie was (disguised as) "Norman's" (James in disguise) mother, James holds her back as she tries to deny being as old as presumed.
In "Island Time", after James got used to picking vegetables on the island he, the rest of Team Rocket, and Ash and co. were stranded on, Jessie tells him how his positivity was disgusting her, to which he tries to tell her to cheer up.
In "From Brags to Riches", Jessie and James gleefully hug each other after their boss announces that he has rewarded them with food after the trio worked hard in selling snacks at the stands.
In "A Judgement Brawl", James tries to calm Jessie down as she was letting their side job get into her head. He successfully advertises their snacks so a good handful of people are able to buy from them. Later in the episode, the three are yet again rewarded with a gut-filling lunch.
In "Choose It or Lose It", now more motivated than ever, the trio successfully sell for day-old snacks for the same price, while they cheer about how, at this rate, they'll be treated to the all-you-can -eat buffet their side job boss promised from the day before, Jessie and James do a little handclap game while they dance happily with Meowth.
In "The Scheme Team", after their unexpected reunion with Butch and Cassidy, who were gifted jetpacks by Giovanni, he follows up by adding insult to injury by gifting Jessie, James, and Meowth pogo sticks.
Later on, the three accepts as they bounce of on them defeatedly, with Jessie asking in an annoyed matter why they get pogo sticks when Butch and Cassidy got not only jetpacks but also their scooters, to which James tries to lighten her mood by wondering maybe their boss meant it as something positive.
Jessie asks sarcastically if the message Giovanni wanted to convey was to tell the trio to go "Jump in a lake" to which James tries to pacify her by thinking of something more positive like "You always bounce back" just seconds before the three bounce off a cliff by accident.
In "Numero Uno Articuno!", Meowth calls their machine the "Good-at-Grabbing Mucho Extra!" to which James spells out as an acronym, with Jessie telling him that spells "Gag me."
In "Sitting Psyduck", after the trio successfully trick Ash and the gang into playing their grass sledding turned life-sized human pinball game, James compliments Jessie on how good she is at the game (despite her not partaking in it).
In "Hail to the Chef!", Ash and the gang alongside Team Rocket get mixed up with twin sisters' family feud about running their joint restaurant, with Rhoda and her Sneasel being trained under Jessie and James' tutelage and with Rhonda and Mr. Mime being trained under Brock's tutelage.
However, the only reason Jessie and James were approached to be the two's coach was because earlier in the episode, Jessie lied about being a top coordinator.
Despite this, the two keep their word and decide to train Sneasel all night, even falling asleep on top of each other as Sneasel continues to practice the presentation of its culinary throughout the night.
In "The Saffron Con", Jessie attempts to join her first contest in the Kanto Region while James and Meowth wear tuxedos that match Jessie's dress. Despite the fact that Jessie tried using her Hoenn Contest Pass to enter.
In her attempt to train for her first Kanto Contest, the trio decides it would work better if she develops a bond with James' Cacnea first, seeing as she plans on borrowing it. But, their attempts are seemingly futile since, despite James agreeing, his Cacnea is seemingly hesitant to hug her like it does with James.
James follows up with his own bright idea of stealing the other contestants' Pokémon so Jessie could win by default, he and Meowth quickly execute the plan before they bump into Ash and the gang, who ask where Jessie was (who, disguised as Jessibella, still in the Pokémon Center's operating room with James' Cacnea stuck to it) wonders if she had been fired, angering the former two and telling them its's none of their business.
Despite being thwarted shortly after, Jessie is still touched by their actions, as revealed later that night. Now, sporting a bowl cut after Cacnea's needle arms got tangled in her long hair, Jessie genuinely thanks the two for their efforts before turning to Cacnea, seemingly having formed a bond with it during their time in the operating room, with James and Meowth complimenting her while teasing her bowl cut, as Jessie responds in a flustered manner.
In "A Hurdle for Squirtle", during the start of the contest, James is worried about Jessie's chances of winning, so he turns to Meowth for his opinion - to which the latter nonchalantly responds "Not a chance".
Later on, during Jessibella's turn, they cheer her on in the bleachers, with Jessie still sporting the bowl cut from the previous day. Jessie starts off by telling Cacnea to hug her like it does with James, with the hug moving James and Meowth (alongside the entire stadium audience) to tears, with James claiming she handled it better than he ever could.
The two are happy to see Jessie advance to the next round, and are glad to see her get matched up against Harley so she could pay him back for thwarting James and Meowth the night before.
Because Harley outsmarts Jessie's plan of using Wobbuffet to counter his Ariados' attacks, this makes Jessie lose during this round, turning James (and Meowth) white from disappointment and shock.
In "Pasta la Vista!", Jessie gets mad because the three had an idea to run a noodle stall only for the three to admit neither of them know how to cook noodles, James responds by asking her to stop yelling at him because he worked hard at decorating the cart. After the three spot Ash and Max on their way to the Battle Dojo, the two run after them, leaving Meowth behind.
Pokémon: Battle Frontier[]
In "Reversing the Charges", when James laments about how it was not the same without Mime Jr., after having been blasted off separately from Team Rocket, Jessie jokingly comments how it's "probably already toast" thanks to the Elekid, which irritates James, causing her to backpedal and correct herself saying she wants a "toast to Mime Jr.'s safe return".
After coming across the same Elekid responsible for blasting them off the first time, James tries to pick a fight with it before Jessie (and Meowth) hold him back, the three end up getting blasted off a second time, anyway.
They later get the context from a wild Seedot as to why the Elekid's so ticked off, James is fired up more than ever to get Mime Jr. back, even slightly intimidating Jessie of all people.
In "The Green Guardian", after Pokémon Ranger Solana helps free the trio from being trapped in Celebi's wild vines, James and Jessie cling to each other happily while holding hands.
In "From Cradle to Save", Jessie convinces James (and Meowth) to go along with her wanting to relive her days as an alleged former ninja. Later in the episode, the trio ambush the Ninja Academy Ash and co. were at, with Jessie taking the lead, with her own version of Double Team, with James (and Meowth) begrudgingly running behind her.
In "Time Warp Heals All Wounds", after Meowth comes back from an unexpected adventure with May and Squirtle into the past, he brushes past James and Jessie, saying how he wasn't going to let the two ruin his fuzzy mood, to which James wonders if he had bad breath and with Jessie thinking he's gone soft on her and James.
In "Off the Unbeaten Path", while pedaling in their signature Magikarp submarine, Jessie pouts, turning to James (and Meowth), and claims she has not gotten enough sleep the night before, the two then sigh and give in on giving her a break.
Later on, the trio join the local teamwork competition wherein a Trainer goes with one of their Pokémon as their partner, with pairing up with "Sneasel" (Meowth in disguise) and James with his Mime Jr., while Nurse Joy announces the rewards, Jessie fawns over the food prize while James focuses on the medal, with the latter telling Jessie to stop letting her stomach speak for her, with her responding she "can't".
Halfway through their separate routes, Jessie and Meowth get lost on a mountaintop and decide to trick James into doing the heavy lifting for them while they take the prize. They meet back up with James and Mime Jr. a while later and try getting him to climb a steep cliff, he gets annoyed and storms off, annoying Jessie and Meowth in return.
In "Harley Rides Again", The trio dress up as booth vendors, setting up their stall by the Pokémon Contest building's vicinity. After getting the attention of Harley, he recognizes Jessie and her "two boy toys", followed by him laughing at the trio, while they get mad at the accusation of being "losers by choice".
In "Spontaneous Combusken", when Jessie plans on practicing with James' Mime Jr. for the contest, James comments on how contests are more about the presentation of the cooperation of Trainer and Pokémon, not how Jessie would look wearing a gown. Shortly after, he questions her if she really must enter the contest "with the children", when referring to his Pokémon she borrows.
In "King and Queen for a Day!" Jessie and James go look for their Meowth and Mime Jr. after May's Munchlax launches a Sandstorm from its Metronome that separates Bonsly from Ash and co. and Meowth and Mime Jr. from Team Rocket.
After James and Jessie reunite with Meowth and Mime Jr. alongside finding Ash's Pikachu and Brock's Bonsly alongside them, Jessie, James, and Meowth take it upon themselves to substitute Bonsly and Mime Jr. for their actor-counterparts to make a quick buck.
Later on, wanting to salvage what little chance they had, Jessie and James (and Meowth) dress up and bombard the cameras while the film was rolling, much to the director's annoyance, as the three were forced out of the set.
In "Curbing the Crimson Tide", after the trio hears about the Red Lightning, Meowth adds how it's a bonus that it's supposedly a talking Pokémon, too, with Jessie and James telling him to shut up in unison.
After the trio begrudgingly let Ash and the gang hitch a ride to catch up with the Red Lightning, Ash orders Jessie to make the balloon go faster as Jessie reminds him not to push it, James starts clinging onto Jessie reminding her how she was the one who allowed this in the first place.
In "What I Did For Love!", Jessie resorts back to selling knock off Pokémon Contest ribbons to make a profit for a new Contest costume, as James finds out she used his bottle cap collection for it once again. Jessie dismisses the thought and tells him she'll be able to earn it all back tenfold once she wins and can easily replace his losses by just buying an entire bottle cap factory for him instead.
In "Three Jynx and A Baby", Meowth is shocked that his paw pads are missing from working too hard, Jessie and James then remind him he never had any to begin with and start guilt tripping him saying how many other Pokémon have it harder than him.
The three's attention then moves to their lone rice ball, the three start fighting over it, when Jessie tries to swallow it in one bite, James tugs her back through her hair and the two start roughhousing, after noticing Meowth go for the rice ball, the three's fighting cause the rice ball to topple over to where the wild Smoochum was.
As the Smoochum eats the rice ball, Jessie and James get to it first and at their initial anger, Smoochum uses its natural cuteness to charm the two, Meowth calls them out only to be charmed himself.
Later on, after Jessie loses hold of Smoochum, James and Meowth finally arrive with the balloon to pick her up from the tall tower, James asks if she's okay but she snaps back saying she would be if they had inflated the balloon earlier.
As the three Jynx freeze Team Rocket with Ash and co. finishing them off, a frozen James has his arms crossed as the three blast off, with a frozen Jessie still fawning over the wild Smoochum while a frozen James scoffs at her.
In "Pokémon Ranger: Deoxys' Crisis Pt. 1", when James finds out that there is a possibility that Deoxys is nearby, he starts chickening out and fearing for his life, trying to get away as soon as possible while Jessie and Meowth move forward to try and catch it for the boss.
As the trio attempt to follow Ash and co. to a cave, James tries to run the other direction but Jessie scolds him and drags him back, explaining how they're a team, which means it's to be there for each other through good and bad times, as James begrudgingly accepts.
Later on, as Meowth and Max are the ones who Deoxys chooses to speak to, the alien Pokémon uses Safeguard to keep Ash and Team Rocket away from the two, Jessie and James are worried sick for Meowth's safety.
In "Pokémn Ranger, Deoxys' Crisis Pt. 2", the scene immediately cuts to both groups having retreated to the Pokémon Center as Jessie and James alongside Mime Jr. and Wobbuffet beg on their knees for the Pokémon Ranger and Ash's gang to help them get Meowth back.
As the group return to the cave with the meteorite to look for more clues, a gust of cold wind blows by, intimidating James, this annoys Jessie who begins to yell at him to focus, he says to dismiss the thought of being scared of the wind if Jessie is there being scarier.
Later on, when Solana the Pokémon Ranger asks for Ash and co.'s assistance to help capture Deoxys, the air pressure drops drastically as everyone holds on to one another, with Jessie and James holding onto each other. As Solana was able to make Deoxys open its pocket dimension where it's keeping Max and Meowth one more time, Jessie quickly orders James to go grab Meowth, with the latter asking her rhetorically if he was supposed to do so with a spoon.
In "All That Glitters is not Golden", when Jessie suggests to use James' Mime Jr. as bait, he scolds her saying it shall never again take part in their dangerous antics, as the two resort to using Meowth as the Sudowoodo bait instead. As the two were about to kick Meowth into the river, the golden Sudowoodo emerges from the lake, impressing James, who thinks it popped up because of Jessie's correct premonition.
After Meowth dresses Jessie in a diving suit and tosses her into the lake after it, Jessie successfully catches the golden Rock Type in a butterfly net, much to the joy of James and Meowth, who she then steps on when the two were celebrating how "they" caught it.
Later on when its Trainer arrives, Ash orders Keenan to call it back to his Poké Ball, as Keenan does so, the Sudowoodo dodges it and the Ball instead tries to return Jessie, who instead gets a brief shock, making James and Meowth carry her off instead.
In "New Plot, Odd Lot", when Harley finds out Jessebella the Coordinator is actually a member of Team Rocket, he quickly hatches an idea and starts flattering Jessie immediately after greeting her with an insult. As Jessie is easily swayed by compliments, James, knowing Harley, has his arms crossed as he stands at the sidelines, telling Meowth to "prepare for trouble".
After hearing Harley's made-up sob story as to why he hates May, James whispers to Meowth saying how he thought Jessie was the one who had issues, whom she overhears and snaps at them. Later on, Harley offers to borrow his Pokémon for Jessie to use in the Contest, with his Cacturne imprinting on her and immediately clinging onto her like James' Cacnea does with him.
Despite this, in both the previous and the next episode "Going for Choke", James and Meowth endures Harley's criticisms and retorts and still push through with trying to keep Ash and co. away from helping May as they continue to thwart the Coordinator's turns at the Contest.
After Ash and co. alongside Drew break free of Team Rocket's pitfall trap, they confront the Team Rocket boys with Harley, with James snapping back saying how they can't help if [their] Jessie wants her fifteen minutes of fame, with Meowth backing him up. Albeit, the two accidentally revealing Jessebella's identity in the process.
In "The Ole' Berate and Switch", after they get foiled by Ash and co. again, Jessie and James start bickering, with Jessie accusing James' being too much of a softy as to why they fail all the time, with James snapping back, saying how he rather have a heart than be selfish like Jessie, this only escalates making Jessie blame Meowth, and finally causing the three to split up for the first time.
After the three go their separate ways, they end up in the same place either way after they individually come across the one day Pokémon Battle Tournament arena. Jessie and James bump into each other only to scoff at each other, but are interrupted by Cassidy.
Cassidy notices something amiss between the two and drags James away, attempting to convince him to join up with her and Butch instead. This infuriates Jessie, making her kick a nearby fire hydrant.
As Meowth wanders into the building on his lonesome, he comments on how he misses seeing Jessie and James make fools of themselves as he steps on a near-empty bag of biscuits and flashes back to all the times the three split even the tiniest amount of food amongst themselves.
Later on, as Jessie and James split up and pair up with Cassidy and Butch separately, Cassidy asks James if Jessie could ever think of something as genius as her (and Butch's) plan of hosting a fake tournament to steal the audience and participants' Pokémon behind the scenes, to which James says the day Jessie could think of something this smart would be the day she treats children and Pokémon kindly.
After Ash and friends confront the two separate pairs, they end up messing up the motto entirely, saddening James while annoying Jessie. As the battle brews on, James is behind the scenes picking back up all the Poké Balls and comments on how nice it would be if Jessie sees, Jessie also thinks the same, as Meowth was also doing the same in another corner. As the three reach for the last Poké Ball, they finally see eye to eye again.
They start bickering again and Meowth shows them the biscuit from before and explains their memories with splitting food, they split the cracker and make up again.
As Butch and Cassidy fall into all of the trio's pit traps during their escape, Team Rocket shows up in their balloon as they celebrate their reunion. Even though they get blasted off as well, they couldn't care less as they were together again.
Later that night, they celebrate by splitting another biscuit, but the piece Jessie gets was significantly larger, the two call her out on it but she just tells them to deal with it, causing the tree to rough house each other again, ending the episode.
In "Grating Spaces!", the trio disguise themselves as interior designers and were the ones responsible for making the Pewter Gym look vastly different, after Brock's younger siblings describe them to him, they specifically single out Meowth by the way he talks, while the trio spies on them, this earns Meowth the glares of both Jessie and James.
Later on, when Brock requests for them to stop renovating the place, they insist on battling for the outcome instead, with a tag battle between Jessie and James with a Charizard and Aggron from their HQ against Brock and Ash's Steelix and Donphan.
As the two start losing the match as usual, they also end up bickering, as their respective Pokémon start bickering, too. They end up commanding their Pokémon to attack, as they both end up being the targets. As Aggron and Charizard's attacks burn their outfits to a crisp, their cover is blown to Ash and co.
As the two were blasted off to some treetops, the Delibird from HQ comes to take back Charizard and Aggron, explaining how the plane tickets and the Pokémon were actually meant for Butch and Cassidy, as it flies back off and leaves the three literally hanging.
In "Battling the Enemy Within", the trio go after Ash and friends after the latter fall into a hold in the ground leading to some ancient ruins. They bump into Frontier Brain Brandon who explains the significance of the ruins and its connections to Ho-Oh.
Jessie asks James happily if he hears what she's hearing, and he responds "Loud and clear, dear!", the three run off to plan to catch Ho-Oh. Like Ash, the trio end up touching artifacts they weren't supposed to, triggering all kinds of traps as they run for their lives.
In "Slaking Kong!" after one of the Aipom offers May's Ribbon case to the trio, Jessie takes it for herself but James (and Meowth) tell her their doubts of Jessie wanting to enter the Grand Festival and passing the case as her own.
In "May, I Hardly Drewd Ya!", Jessie and James are disguised as the Grand Festival's TV reporters, after finishing her broadcast, Jessie demands James to bring her some water. He calls her out on how rude she's being, which promptly earns him an earful from Jessie, he quickly comes back with a glass, with even Mime Jr. bringing her one.
During the Contest, Jessie as the co-host tries to get in the way of the camera, as James tells her off as the cameraman.
In "Strategy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight!", Jessie and James disguise themselves as shady salesmen in order to steal their new friend Ashley's Chatot to give to Giovanni.
When May comments on how she doesn't believe they've met before, Jessie almost blows their cover before James cups his hand against Jessie's mouth. James quickly brushes it off, saying how "Jessie's in therapy (for her comment)" before the two pull out their scam business - "surprise bags".
They both pull out two different voice recording gadgets wrapped in a smaller bag as they play audio of themselves laughing arrogantly, hoping for the Chatot to pick it up. The bags soon explode into smoke bombs as Jessie and James reveal themselves while Meowth takes Chatot.
After Audrey's successful comedy skit with Chatot, Team Rocket comes back also dressed up as comedians, demanding Chatot back. They try making the audience of kids laugh but to no avail. They bring out their Pokémon, but they only start laughing when Cacnea clings on James.
They quickly grab Chatot and attempt to flee, but Ash stops them for a battle. Ash goes 1 vs 2 against Jessie and James as the commotion makes Chatot escape. They try to flee in their balloon, but Sceptile sends Dustox flying back into their balloon, sending them off.
In "Duels of the Jungle" after witnessing the interrupted battle between Ash's Aipom and a group of wild Weaviles, the trio pop up from the grass while eating riceballs. Jessie fantasizes about catching the Weavile, to which James comments how he knows the laugh she just made meant she wanted it for herself.
After they send Meowth (poorly disguised as a Weavile) to talk to the head Weavile, James asks why the disguise she had for Meowth was of lower quality than usual.
After blowing their cover to Ash and the gang, they recite their motto as Jessie shows herself to the Weavile complimenting it while calling it "sir", to which James nervously points out how she doesn't even refer to Giovanni as "sir".
More trouble arises as the Weavile's old herd confronts it after chasing a wild Sneasel that hides behind it, Jessie sees the herd as competition for wanting it back, but James tries to warn her but she doesn't listen, She runs towards it affectionately, earning the three a blast off from its Shadow Ball.
In "Overjoyed!", Jessie and James start bickering while tired as they are lost in the forest, they eventually find themselves in the local Pokémon Center's battlefield where Ash and the others are.
In "The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!", Jessie and James disguise themselves as Nurse Joy and Mr. Contesta, offering to become judges for May and Drew's practice battle. They are then immediately thwarted by Harley's Cacturne as soon as they take their seats, after being called out by Harley, the trio try to run away, but they are soon pulled back by his Cacturne. Harley forces the trio to also spectate May and Drew's match.
A few hours after the match, the trio tails after Harley who briefly sends his regards before leaving for Johto, he asks Jessie if she was going to come with, as he plans on taking on the Contests there.
Jessie declines, as the trio were still tailing Ash on his journey, Harley, insulted by her attitude, sends her, James, and Meowth flying by his Cacturne.
In "Pinch Healing", thanks to Jessie throwing a small log into the air for good luck, it creates a snowball effect that causes an Electrode to land on a passing bus full of Pokémon and their sitter, as the trio watch from the cliff above. They look on the bright side and tail the bus alongside Ash and co. back to the Pokémon Center in hopes of poaching the injured Pokémon.
Later on, the trio disguise themselves as "assistants" and hurry off with the Pokémon. They escape through their balloon and recite their motto while Ash and co. confront them. May instructs the Larvitar that got left behind to use Sandstorm on their balloon, causing them to crash land. Just as soon as they bring out their Pokémon, they are just as easily sent flying by Ash's Pokémon.
In "Gathering the Gang of Four", Jessie and James disguise themselves as traveling food vendors and offer to serve Ash. They convince Ash to hand over Pikachu as they drive off, while getting rid of their costumes and ascending into their lead balloon.
With the help of the combo moves of Ash's Squirtle, Charizard, and Bulbasaur, they eventually take down the trio's lead balloon, sending them falling as Pikachu hops off. As Ash's Pokémon sends the three flying, Jessie brings out one of the bowl of noodles they had during their disguise as food vendors, she happily finishes the noodles as the three end up fighting over it as they blast off.
In "Pace - The Final Frontier!", the trio are seen climbing towards the roof of the stadium Ash and Brandon were having their second rematch in, as Jessie complains as to whether whose bright idea it was for them to pick that as their hiding spot, causing James and Meowth to snap back and tell her to look who's talking.
After arriving at the top, a confused Bulbasaur shoots out its Solar Beam which goes through one of the roof's open panels, sending the trio flying. A while later, they eventually find themselves back at the arena but this time they get inside, only to be greeted by Brandon's Registeel and Regirock that sends their Hypnosis attack aimed towards them as the trio run off with James carrying Jessie with one arm. Regirock and Registeel then release their Hyper Beams that send the trio blasting off a second time.
In "Once More With Reeling", just as they stop at Terracotta Town for their boat rides home, Team Rocket tail them to the local Contest being held as part of the festival being held there. Looking at the Pokémon of all the Coordinators, the trio quickly devise a plan.
During the break before the last round, the trio disguise themselves while on a float shaped like a boat, tossing Pokémon food as they pass by, attracting the Pokémon of the Coordinators. As more Pokémon approach their float, they toss a huge net and drag the captured Pokémon to their float as Ash and co. witness them reveal themselves.
Jessie and James end up gloating too long that May instructs her Combusken to use Mega Kick while Ash's Sceptile finishes off their net with Pound, much to the trio's horror. The trio are then electrocuted by Ash's Pikachu, as they and Ash and co. experience May's Combusken evolve.
Blaziken's Blaze Kick sends them flying, as they blast off, James angrily calls her out on how her greediness caused them the Pokémon as they fly into the sky with the two bickering.
In the last episode of the Ruby and Sapphire series, titled "Home Is Where the Start Is!", the trio spy on Ash and Brock, who are the last ones to split up at the end of their journey throughout Hoenn and Kanto, as they lose sight of Ash.
James then wonders if it's still worth going onward, chasing after Pikachu, annoying Jessie as he can't believe he and Meowth would give up so easily. The three then notice random Electric attacks being shot at the sky as they spot an Electivire, initially mistaking it as Pikachu.
They then set their sights on it and capture it in an Electric-proof net. Ash notices the sparks that the Electivire sends off as a cry for help as he confronts the trio. The Electivire is revealed to have a Trainer as Gary Oak joins the fray.
Gary instructs his Electivire to Iron Tail the net, as the trio take it on as a challenge from Gary. Although, they are easily sent flying by Electivire's Thunder Punch. Later on, during Ash's boat ride on his way to Sinnoh, the camera zooms in on the trio, helplessly clinging onto the same ship after being blasted off from earlier.Manga[]
"The Electric Tale of Pikachu" manga[]
This manga was made by the hentai author Toshihiro Ono, originally serialized in Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special. It is loosely based on the Pokémon anime, more specifically a handful of episodes from the Kanto and Orange Islands arcs of the original series.
Jessie and James appear in the third volume, Pikachu Shocks Back, where the two are waiting for Meowth to fetch some fish for breakfast. Jessie wonders how much longer it will take Meowth to find the fish as she looks over to James, who's still fast asleep.
Annoyed, she kicks him awake and tells him to get some work done, to which he responds by flirtatiously greeting her good morning. She yells at him some more telling him to start preparing everything else they need for breakfast, but James exclaims how they're out of butter. Meowth soon arrives, commenting how they're pretty lively for people who haven't had breakfast yet.
They're then greeted by a child from the jungle accompanied by a Kangaskhan, mistaking Jessie for a Kangaskhan and asking where her "pouch" is. He latches onto her chest, saying how he "wants a ride". This upsets James greatly, making him angrily chase after a panicking Jessie with a child attached to her chest, with the former exclaiming how he "wants to ride [her], too".
Meowth literally kicks the two back into their senses and says how, if they follow this kid and the Kangaskhan, they'll be able to find the secret village of rare Pokémon, much to Jessie and James' delight.
In the last chapter of the last volume, titled "Epilogue: Type Wild", it starts off with a picture of Jessie and James, happily married while expecting a child together, with Meowth living with them after the three have retired from Team Rocket. It cuts to James delivering a letter from Ash to the latter's mom on his behalf, with Jessie and Meowth waiting by the road on their shared car.
The letter narrates Ash's adventures, which includes him and Misty witnessing James confess to Jessie firsthand, which led to the latter two eventually getting together.
Throughout the manga, the two share suggestive physical contact, while occasionally having minimal clothes on, as well as sharing a bed together when invited to sleep the night at Ash's place.
Fanon[]
In the beginning, there was only one kind of RocketShipper - the one who thought that Jessie and James were attracted to each other. Some fans hoped they would eventually become a full-fledged couple. The RocketShipping fan community went wild after the publishing of The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, which was officially approved by The Pokémon Company itself.
The ship finally had officially-sanctioned proof that Jessie and James were a romantic couple in at least one canon. Some believed that it was only a matter of time before something similar happened in the TV anime series.
This ship has over 410 works in Archive of Our Own and is often compared with NeoRocketShipping, due to Butch and Cassidy formerly belonging to the same organization as Jessie and James.
Fandom[]
FAN FICTION
- James/Jessie tag on AO3
- James & Jessie tag on AO3
FAN ART
- jessiexjames tag on DeviantArt
- rocketshipping tag on DeviantArt
- James/Jessie tag on Pixiv
- Jessie/James tag on Pixiv
- KojiMusa Day hashtag on Twitter
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Trivia[]
- There are two different, possibly-contradictory instances of Jessie and James' first meeting. The original shared backstory for the pair is that they failed the entrance exams for Pokémon Tech and joined a bicycle gang, whereas a later side-story episode seems to imply they met when joining Team Rocket. The most coherent scenario is that they split on unfortunate terms sometime after the bike gang before later running into each other again in Team Rocket. This accounts for the separate parts of their pasts (such as Jessie's many jobs and romantic relationships) and the bitter way they interact when "meeting" upon joining Team Rocket.
- The 6th of May every year is dubbed by fans as Kojimusa Day (#コジムサの日).
- This is because 5/6 is a portmanteau of コジロウ (James') and ムサシ (Jessie's) initials in Japanese, with 5 sounding like コ and 6 as ム.
- James' Japanese name (Kojiro) comes from the name of a famous Japanese samurai, Kojiro Sasaki, while Jessie's Japanese name (Musashi) being the name of the famous Samurai Musashi Miyamoto, one of Sasaki's rivals.
- Meanwhile, Jessie and James' names in the English dub is derived from the American outlaw, Jesse James.
- A recurring gag regarding the ship is how Jessie bears a striking resemblance to James' ex-fiancée, Jessebelle.
- Funnily enough, James' parents also bear a resemblance to James and Jessie themselves, even having parroted the beginning of the Team Rocket trio's motto at some point.
- Whenever Jessie and James wear disguises to trick Ash and his friends, they often crossdress as a couple. Additionally, sometimes Meowth and their other Pokémon are dragged into it by being dressed as the two's children.
- Most of their hopes and dreams are to retire together with Meowth and their other Pokémon.
- Jessie and James' backgrounds are complete opposites, with James growing up rich and with Jessie growing up so poor she had to eat snow.
- The Pokémon Chronicles episode depicting Jessie and James' first meeting within Team Rocket, "Training Daze", is titled "Team Rocket: Origins of Love and Youth" in Japanese.
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Variations[]
- TRio — the two while including Meowth
