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[Pokemon] Why are Jesse and James so obsessed with Ash's Pikachu?

By now they should have realised that Ash's Pikachu is not special. Why are they spending so much time and money trying to steal that particular Pikachu? And why is their boss ok with this? Why doesn't he fire them for being useless?
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Ash's Pikachu **is** special. It's somehow capable of supercharging itself. In the first episode it gets struck by the lightning storm around the Pokemon center and creates a massive electric bomb. That is exactly the type of thing Giovanni was looking for.

Have they spent too much time on it? Yes. But it is a unique Pikachu, or at the very least, a Pikachu that shows what Pikachus are capable of.