Madame Boss | Bulbagarden

Wheee! Madame Boss!

Madame Boss is the assumed founder of The Rocket Gang, which was focused not solely on Pokemon at the time, but rather on varied money-making enterprises (Including, apparently, CD sales of folk music). Madame Boss' interest in making and conserving money leads her to moniter company spending quite closely, and much of the Rocket equipment is bought on sale, in deep discount, and from Akibahara!

"Madame Boss" is actually a fan name derived from her drama name "Onna Bossu", literally, the Woman Boss. Madame Boss appears opnly in one official image, found in the picture book accompanying the 1998 double-CD set "Sound Picture Box Mewtwo: Myutsuu no Tanjou", which contained two disks, one of the first movie's soundtrack, the other of a five-act radio drama chronicalling the history of the Rocket Gang and Mewtwo's childhood and birth, accomapnied by a sixty-five page hardback mini picture book.

While no exact dates are given, we know that Madame Boss ran the Rocket Gang roughly twenty years before the time of MSB. Sakaki is her only child, and he idolises her, suggesting that there was a distance of relationship between them. Likely, as a Japanes portrayal of a career woman, this is meant to suggest that she took little part in raising her son.

Madame Boss is, like Miyamoto, played for laughs. When Sakaki introduces her, he does so in a caressing manner that suggests a lover's interest, and then breaks tableau saying that his mother was a lovely woman. Madame Boss and Miyaomoto do the same thing -- They are introduced with great drama and important music, making use of codewords and even, professional voicing...and then they too break tableau. Madame Boss cheerily calls Miyamoto "Miyamoto-chan!" as though they were school friends, and whines about costs and expenses, as well as childcare, to her employee. Madame Boss calls her son (whose age is not made clear) "brat boy", but this is not meant as an indicator of dislike.

We are not told whether Madame Boss is the founder of the gang, nor do we learn when/how she stepped down, or if she is even still living. Like Mondo and Miyamoto, Madame Boss is not necessary to the televison show, nor likely to make an appearance. Her role in the drama is fairly minimal and serves simply to build up an intruiging backstory and to deepen the Rocket gang mythos.