Meowth (anime character)
Template:Anime characters In the Pokémon anime, Meowth is a fast-talking cat who travels with Jessie and James, members of Team Rocket.
Meowth's origin
Meowth was raised in Hollywood. One day, he fell in love with another meowth who let him know that she preferred being with humans to being with a street-pokémon like himself. Thus, to impress her, Meowth learned to walk and talk in order to be as much like a human as possible. After she saw him, she looked down on him even more than before, seeing him as a freak. Shocked, he wandered aimlessly until he finally decided to join Team Rocket.
Meowth meets Jessie and James
Meowth spent a day serving the organization boss, Giovani, until he was assigned to be partners with Jessie and James, who at first didn't notice he could walk and talk. The next day Meowth, Jessie, and James had to steal a rare pokémon from a tower across rivers, mountains, and forests as a test. Being as feline as he is, Meowth consumes all the food provisions and avoids getting wet in the river. The tower, however, had many traps, one of which was a pit into which James would've fallen into if he hadn't grabbed on to Meowth's tail.
After Jessie, James, and Meowth finally are accepted as members of Team Rocket, they go out to steal pokémon, their main goal to steal Ash Ketchum's Pikachu. Sometimes, Meowth talks too much and Jessie and James have to give him a ball to distract him. However, over time this technique became ineffective. He now lies often, but wants to do the right thing sometimes (which usually goes against what Jesse and James want), and has fantasies of how Giovanni would react if their plans actually worked correctly and they can give Giovani a stolen pokémon he'll actually like. Meowth also is the one who now often operates Team Rocket's complicated pokémon-stealing machinery.