Professor Turo

Professor Turo is a character appearing in Pokémon Violet, who is also one of the Professors of the game, alongside Professor Sada in Pokémon Scarlet. He is a Professor who researches the lore of Paldea, and also is the primary professor of Uva Academy.

Appearance

Professor Turo is a slender, tall man with brown hair and beard. He wears a blue bodysuit with purple outlines resembling circuit lines underneath his white lab coat with blue square-shaped buttons.

Personality

Turo had an immense fascination with the history of the future and its Pokémon, so much so that he invented a time machine to make contact with the distant future. He is a highly skilled inventor, with his time machine and robotic counterpart being prime examples. The robotic counterpart is far more advanced than any AI in the game, having retained his personality, memories and also has the ability to experience feelings and computing data.

Turo also had a strong desire to protect the time machine he created, taking great measures to keep it safe by installing numerous security systems to the point that his AI counterpart believed that it was all he cared about. However, the AI also remarks that he did truly care for his son.

Biography

At one point, Turo married Professor Sada and had a son with her, naming him Arven. As the years progressed, Sada eventually left him. He eventually created a robot that was identical to him in appearance and the AI helped him invent a time machine in order to make contact with the distant future. Discovering living beings couldn't travel through it, Professor Turo instead sent Poke Balls through the time machine and catch Pokemon from the future and brought them to the present, one of these Pokémon being Miraidon.

After catching these future Pokémon, they were dubbed "Paradox Pokémon" and Turo conducted research on them in hopes that they can one day coexist with modern Pokémon, though after they were proved too dangerous to Paldea, the Pokémon were locked in Area Zero. During this time, he also discovered how to bring the Terastal phenomenon outside of the crater in the form of Tera Orbs and invented a Pokémon ID locking system and Paradise Protection Protocol to further defend his time machine from any threats.

Turo then recovered a second Miraidon, which was more aggressive in nature than the first one. It went rampant in the lab and attempted to attack the first Miraidon, he threw himself in front of the latter to protect it, injuring him so severely that he ended up dying.

Pokémon Violet

After his sacrifice, the AI Professor Turo had taken care of his lab in his place until meeting the protagonist, who would only meet them in the research stations around Area Zero. During this time, AI Turo learned that the future Pokémon were escaping from Area Zero and that they would cause havoc in Paldea if left unchecked, and thus resolved to shut the machine off for good. When the protagonist arrived, they used a Violet Book that Arven had given them, although AI Turo warned them that he would end up fighting them should they attempt it.

Once the book was placed, AI Turo battled the protagonist and was defeated. However, a second failsafe mechanism took place that activated the Paradise Protection Protocol, calling the other Miraidon to eliminate the intruders. The protagonist's Miraidon was able to activate its Battle Form and defeated it after a long battle, returning AI Turo to his original programming. The AI then decided to head into the future, both to ensure the machine would not cause any further harm to the present to also experience an adventure, taking the Violet Book with him.

Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Indigo Disk)

Upon the player returning to the Crystal Pool, after obtaining Briar's Book and Terapagos, Turo will appear from the mist, who will offer to trade his book for Briar's, which cannot be denied. After this, he will be sent back to his own timeline. Based on his notes found in the Area Zero Underdepths, this is implied to have created a bootstrap paradox, as Turo calls Miraidon its original name Iron Serpent and remarks about meeting a child (the player) in the eastern lands who gave him a book.

Pokémon

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AI Turo

Part 1

Trainer
Professor Turo
				Poké Balls	—
				Items	—
Iron Moth				Iron Bundle
Base article	Type	Fire / Poison		Base article	Type	Ice / Water
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Genderless			Gender	Genderless
	Level	66			Level	66
	Ability	Quark Drive			Ability	Quark Drive
	Item	None			Item	None
	Moves	Sludge Wave	Fiery Dance		Moves	Drill Peck	Water Pulse
	Moves	Discharge	Air Slash		Moves	Freeze-Dry	Snowscape
Iron Hands				Iron Jugulis
Base article	Type	Fighting / Electric		Base article	Type	Dark / Flying
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Genderless			Gender	Genderless
	Level	66			Level	66
	Ability	Quark Drive			Ability	Quark Drive
	Item	None			Item	None
	Moves	Thunder Punch	Drain Punch		Moves	Air Slash	Dark Pulse
	Moves	Iron Head	Fake Out		Moves	Flamethrower	Flash Cannon
Iron Thorns				Iron Valiant
Base article	Type	Rock / Electric		Base article	Type	Fairy / Fighting
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Genderless			Gender	Genderless
	Level	66			Level	67
	Ability	Quark Drive			Ability	Quark Drive
	Item	None			Item	None
	Moves	Thunder Punch	Brick Break		Moves	Psycho Cut	Brick Break
	Moves	Stone Edge	Earthquake		Moves	Spirit Break	Poison Jab

Part 2

During Part 2:

All of the player's Poké Balls are locked, and only their Miraidon (whose ball originally belonged to Turo) is able to battle.
The player's Miraidon always endures any fatal damage with 1 HP.
The player can Terastallize starting from Turn 6.
On Turn 9, the player is forced to end the fight with a Terastallization (if not already) and a Tera Blast.

Trainer
Professor Turo
	Poké Balls	—
	Items	—
Miraidon
Base article	Type	Electric / Dragon
	Tera Type	None
	Gender	Genderless
	Level	72
	Ability	Hadron Engine
	Item	None
	Moves	Hyper Beam	Charge
	Moves	Taunt	Power Gem

Trivia

He, along with his wife Professor Sada, are the first Professors to be version exclusive.
Professor Sada and Professor Turo are the first Pokémon Professors to not be named after trees and plants: Pasada is Spanish for past and Futuro is Spanish for future.
He and his wife are also the first professors to be antagonists of the mainline games.
- Turo outlives Sada if the players play Pokémon Scarlet, while in Pokémon Violet it is the opposite.
- It’s Unknown if Turo is still alive in Pokémon Scarlet.
In his battle, AI Turo uses Master Balls for his Pokémon.
Turo is the third male antagonist to be a father, the first two being Giovanni, who is the father of Silver, and Ghetsis, who is the adoptive father of N.
Turo's attire resembles a futuristic Cybersuit.