Pokémon: The Movie 2000: Difference between revisions

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''{{smallcaps|Lest these Titans wreak destruction upon the world in which they clash.}}''<br />

''{{smallcaps|Though the Water's Great Guardian shall arise to quell the fighting,}}''<br />

 

Meanwhile, Ash, Misty, and Tracey arrive at Shamouti Island, and they learn about the legend. Once the weather turns bad, our heroes must stop Lawrence III and his plan before it's too late.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Lawrence, even though he's not really ''evil''...

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The villain of the film is never referred to by any sort of name in the dub, and so the name Lawrence III came from the English novelization of the movie.

** Also the Shamouti chief is only named in the closed captions--Tobias. He has no Japanese name.

* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Lawrence III/Jirarudan: He's an art collector of a ridiculously high magnitude who seems to have learned social skills entirely by rote, has a narrow and fixed attention span, wears a long coat with an undershirt to tropical islands in the middle of summer, has almost no change in facial expression or vocal intonation despite living by his passions, seems to have difficulty recognizing cues from others, and takes everything, including the legend and Misty screaming at him, only by the words presented without considering tone or alternate meaning.

* [[Arc Words]]: "Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice and lightning..."

{{quote| '''Jessie''': ''(when the legendary birds are fighting)'' I'd hate to get burned by their fire.<br />

'''James''': I'd hate to get zapped by their lightning.<br />

*** And how do most players treat the majority of the Pokémon they catch? Double when you consider that he says pretty specifically that they're only valuable to him as a means to an end, so likely he would have traded them for something better.

**** Considering Ash and his friends' close relationships with their Pokémon, it's given that they're within the justified range of being able to criticize Jirarudan.

* [[The Chosen One]]

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lawrence

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: Lugia and Slowking appear here before the release of the ''[[Anime/Pokemon Gold And Silver|Pokemon Gold And Silver]]'' video games. ''Pikachu's Rescue Adventure'' had appearances by Elekid, Hoothoot, and Ledyba as well.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: The Team Rocket trio assists Ash when he attempts to grab Articuno's sphere, claiming that if the world were to come to an end, there'd be "no one left to steal from". However, it becomes clear that they've got more noble motives when they [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifice]] themselves to help Lugia and Ash escape later, because it also makes it really hard to steal if you're dead. Luckily, though, the three survive the plunge.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: Brock's cameo has him running around in a frenzy while Professor Ivy talks on the phone with Professor Oak. Also, the Krabbys comment listed below.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]/[[Orphaned Punchline]]: Towards the beginning, during the festival on Shamouti island, the movie cuts to a dining hall and we hear "...and she said, 'No, but I have Krabbys!'"

* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Subverted; according to Lugia, {{spoiler|''all'' of the Pokémon in the world show up in the climax, but they don't actually do anything to help in the battle. Of course, few Johto and no Hoenn-onwards Pokémon appear.}}

* [[Green Aesop]]: A selfish collector disregards the balance of nature, and as a result causes some severe climate change.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|The Team Rocket trio. They get better.}}

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|He's Not My Boyfriend]]: Misty about Ash throughout the movie. At one point Jessie and James about each other.

* [[List Song]]: "[[Weird Al Yankovic|Polkamon]]" in the end credits.

* [[Magic Music]]: Melody's ocarina.

* [[Melee a Trois]]: Articuno vs Zapdos vs Moltres, with Lugia trying to be the [[Conflict Killer]], and Lawrence III awaiting his chance to capture the latter.

** Could also count as a [[Take That]] at the fans, since he was the antagonist.

*** Or just the obsessive collector-type fans.

* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: All of Ash's Pokémon on-hand coming out to encourage him in fulfilling his role as [[The Chosen One]]. Yes, even Charizard.

** At the time this Movie aired in Japan, Charizard had already began to obey Ash.

** Actually, what we see IS his day job. He's an art collector. This is what he's like ALL THE TIME.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: The Japanese version.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Many a Pokéshipper (Ash/Misty) cite this movie as their favorite, [[Sarcasm Mode|for some reason...]]

** Upon hearing Misty and Melody arguing about Ash:

* [[Soft Water]]: {{spoiler|When Team Rocket lets go of Lugia, they fall through a hole in the ice. They're stunned momentarily, but swim right back to the surface}}.

** [[Made of Iron|Not that this is unusual for them, though]].

* [[The Stoic]]: Lawrence has about four facial expressions in the entire movie. Most of them are variations on "smug". Even at the end when he's standing in the ruins of his vaporized collection, he expresses nothing. It's clear that he ''feels'' things, and he's not trying to hide his emotions. They just don't manifest.

* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: Averted. Lawrence III's ship has little force fields around all of his treasures to keep them from being broken.

** Not that it helped, considering that it it couldn't protect against Aeroblast.