Professor Turo

Professor Turo
Series	Pokémon
First game	Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022)
Trainer class	Pokémon Professor

Professor Turo is the professor in Pokémon Violet. In Pokémon Scarlet, his counterpart, Professor Sada takes the role of professor instead. He discovered the Terastal Phenomenon 10 years prior to the start of the game in the Great Crater of Paldea.

History

Professor Sada has been deeply involved in research of the Great Crater of Paldea. Several years prior to the start of the game, he had Arven but, due to his obsession with his work, his wife left the both of them. 10 years prior to the start of the games, he lead an expedition to explore the Great Crater. During this expedition, he discovered the mechanics behind the Terastal Phenomenon and developed Tera Orbs that enables it to happen outside the Great Crater. With his research keeping him busy, he neglected to take care of Arven, mostly leaving him with his Mabosstiff. Over the course of their research, Turo and his team develop a time machine using the Terastal crystals which brings back Pokémon from the distant future. The first such Pokémon was Miraidon. The other species brought back were detailed in the Violet Book.

During the game, Professor Turo will regular call the player about Miraidon with updates about regaining abilities after consuming the Herba Mystica. he also warns the player that a specimen has escaped the Great Crater which turns out to be the Titan Pokémon rampaging in the Asado Desert. Upon collecting the fifth Herba Mystica, Professor Turo asks Arven to unlock his lab in the lighthouse for the player. When the player enters the lab, a video call reveals that Professor Turo is currently stuck in the deepest part of Area Zero. After Arven recruits Penny and Nemona, the quartet delve into Area Zero with directions from Turo. The player reactivate the Research Stations and delves deeper, discovering that the fourth one is heavily damage. It still reactivates but, when Turo calls, he seems bizarrely to loop in apology. When the player finally unlocks the final station, they discover that the professor talking them for the entire game had been an AI built on his memories. The real Professor Turo had died some time prior protecting the player's Miraidon from the other aggressive Miraidon they revived.

The AI Turo has fallen into disrepair in the time since but, still takes the player into the Time Machine's chamber. The AI asks the player to help deactivate the time machine as he has realized it will endanger the world if kept around. However, upon initiating the shutdown procedure, the security system activates, taking control of the AI and forcing him to fight using Pokémon from the time machine. The player must defeat him but, upon his defeat, he locks all Pokéball not assigned to him and summons the other Miraidon. The player then sends out their own Miraidon as it is still registered to Turo and defeats the other Miraidon. After finally disabling the security system, the AI Turo decides to send himself into the past.

Trivia

• Turo's name comes from "futuro", the Spanish word for future. As such, he and Sada are the first professors in the mainline Pokémon series to not be named after a plant.
  • He and Sada are also the first professors to be non-antagonists of the mainline games.
    • Turo's fate remains unknown if players play Pokémon Scarlet, while in Pokémon Violet it is the opposite.
    • It is Unknown if Turo is alive in Pokémon Scarlet.