Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions: Difference between revisions

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A new sports game called 'Pokémon Boccer' is having its world cup tournament held in a place called Crown City. Excited, [[The Hero|Ash]] and [[Badass Crew|his friends]] decide to travel to Crown City to watch. Everyone is very excited to see the game, especially because the three Legendary Beasts of Johto are going to be playing, led by businessman Grings Kodai. However, everything falls apart with that idea, since the [[Blatant Lies|evil Pokémon]] [[Monster Is a Mommy|Zoroark]] stowed away on Grings Kodai's ship, controlling the beasts and making them wreak havoc across the city, causing everyone to evacuate.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Zorua {{spoiler|biting Kodai's wrist in their fight}}, which seems completely useless; {{spoiler|it turns out that he happened to clamp down on Kodai's illusion canceler without him realizing it, and guess what Kodai needs for his plan to work?}}

* [[Clear My Name]]: Subverted, kind of. Zorua averts [[Poor Communication Kills]] by quickly explaining to Ash and company that Zoroark is his mother just trying to protect him and Kodai is the real [[Big Bad]]. Everyone else still seemed to blame Zoroark though. Played straight with the Legendary Beasts, who have to be convinced that Zoroark is the good guy.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Kodai is the founder and owner of a huge company...who is secretly a murderous and extremely selfish villain. ''Really''.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Kodai seems to be this, having a gadget for nearly anything. [[Justified Trope|Makes sense]], as he is able to see the future and is a [[Manipulative Bastard]].

{{quote| "[[Oh Crap|I guess there's no more time left for me...]]"}}

** And if you've had some practice at filling in the blanks about [[Pokémon-Speak|what Pokemon say]], you can practically ''hear'' Celebi crying "STOPITSTOPITICAN'TBREATHE!"

* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|Zorua has been captured by [[Big Bad|Kodai]], Ash, Celebi, and Pikachu are caught in his Mismagius's Psychic and unable to so much as ''move'', and Dawn and Brock are too far away to help. [[Hope Spot|Zoroark arrives and makes a beeline for Kodai]], but her love for her child is used to disable her, allowing Kodai's Shuppet to take her out too! With no one left to oppose him, [[The Bad Guy Wins|Kodai obtains the Time Ripple and all plant life in Crown City begins to die.]] Yeah, it turned out to be a fake, but it was still a rather dark moment.}}

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Zoroark and Zorua are both Dark Types, and Zoroark is rather frightening looking, but they're both rather heroic.

* [[Death Glare]]: Kodai gets a ''mass'' [[Death Glare]] {{spoiler|in his final scene, courtesy of the ''entire cast''.}}

* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Usually Ash is the one who pulls all the [[Big Damn Heroes]] and [[Deus Ex Machina|Deus Ex Machinas]] to [[Save the World]]. This time, {{spoiler|it's Zoroark.}}

* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: Kodai's downfall.

** [[Evil Gloating]]

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: {{spoiler|Zoroark's (temporary) death}} is absolutely brutal.

* [[For the Evulz]]: Just to prove what a [[Complete Monster]] he is, {{spoiler|Kodai ''electrocutes a baby'' in front of its mother, who had already given up the moment she saw he had her son, with a smile on his face.}} He then quips that he ''thoroughly enjoyed it.''

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Romi Park]] as Zoroark, [[Rie Kugimiya]] as Celebi, [[Koichi Yamadera]] as Goon, and Shoko Nakagawa as Proof.

** In the dub, we have [[Sean Schemmel]] as Kodai, Bella Hudson as Rowena, and [[Wayne Grayson]] as Karl.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Kodai]] gets one. It is VERY satisfying.}}

* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Son]]: The entire reason Zoroark does ''anything'' Kodai says is that she believes he's got her son and will hurt him if she doesn't. {{spoiler|He doesn't, but she doesn't know that. However, he pulls this again at the end when he really ''does'' have Zorua.}}

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Zorua is a little baby, so he's in line for this, right? ''[[Averted Trope|Wrong!]]'' Zorua gets the living tar beat out of him by [[Complete Monster|Grings Kodai]] and his cronies, and Kodai even [[Would Hurt a Child|electrocutes the poor guy]]. {{spoiler|In the English dub, Zorua even says that he thinks he's going to die.}}

{{quote| '''Ash''': Stop, Kodai! All the trees and flowers will die!<br />

'''Kodai''': What do I care? So long as my visionary powers grow, [[Worth It|it's all worth it!]] }}

* [[Karmic Death|Karmic Defeat]]: {{spoiler|Kodai is defeated by Zoroark using her illusion powers on him to trick him into falling off a stadium balcony and knocking himself out; when he comes to, his [[Evil Gloating]] is broadcast on the television network HE owns! And he's surrounded by the entire populace of Crown City, including the police force.}}

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Grings Kodai.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Kodai is extremely smug for most of the film, though he gets progressively less composed the closer to the deadline he gets, {{spoiler|and [[Villainous Breakdown|he completely loses it when he's tricked at the end]] and tries to murder Zoroark. He further breaks down when his plan is completely ruined.}}

* [[The Sociopath]]: Grings Kodai, through and through.

* [[Say My Name]]: A positively [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]] one from {{spoiler|Zorua after his mother dies and he's tried for several minutes to revive her to no avail.}}

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: The real Legendary beasts happen to be shiny, wheras Illusionary Legendary Beast Zoroark is not.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|When Kodai has his Shuppet fire a Shadow Ball at Zorua, [[Mama Bear|Zoroark]] leaps in front of the attack and takes it for her son.}}

** Even more fitting in the manga{{spoiler|; while Zoroark's fate is pretty much the same, her final act of revenge is a good bit different. She chases Kodai with illusionary vines, causing [[Disney Villain Death|Kodai to fall off of the top of the stadium to his death]].}}

* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Averted with Zoroark. Nothing about her suggests that she is female except for her son constantly calling her 'Meema'.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Zorua ends all of his sentences with the adorable "zo".

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Kodai}} goes through both versions of this. After {{spoiler|Zoroark tricks him with an illusion, Kodai snaps and tries to murder her and Zoroark on the spot. After Zoroark counterattacks and fries his Time Ripple absorbing claw, Kodai's}} behavior becomes far less composed, and he's hysterically screaming that {{spoiler|the Time Ripple will be his}}.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: {{spoiler|Kodai threatens to kill Zoroark's baby boy, Zorua. '''He is not kidding.'''}}

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Kodai's visions will always come true, though his words imply that if one knows what they're doing, it's possible to [[Screw Destiny]], as he claims that he can remove obstacles he's foreseen from his path.