Badge

A badge (Japanese: バッジ badge) is an item which denotes a Pokémon Trainer as having defeated a Gym Leader. Trainers need to collect a certain number of Gym badges in order to qualify for a region's Pokémon League. Young Trainers usually begin their initial Pokémon journey by traveling from city to city in order to collect them. Badges are small enough to fit easily between one's thumb and index finger and can be pinned to a shirt or kept in a badge case.

Development
In early character artwork by Ken Sugimori, a selection of familiar and unfamiliar badges can be seen. It appears that the original concept of badges was more similar to an than the  as it is portrayed in the. Clockwise from top left opposite are possibly a version of the, an , another , possibly a version of the  , possibly a  and two.

Indigo League
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