THUNDER ARMOR!

What are some of your guys favorite nonsensical things that have happened in the anime? Quite obviously, the anime is quite infamous for the amount of mistakes, blunders and straight up bull crap (like thunder armor). What are some of your favorites?

Pikachu beating Brock's Onix. Does not matter that water was on Onix, there is no excuse for Pikachu beating a rock/ground type with an electric attack.

I also don't like made up techiques like Thunder Armour.

Pikachu infusing Electro Ball and Iron Tail.
Serperior had beaten the shi*t out of Pikachu then all of sudden Pikachu infuses Electro Boll into Iron Tail and defeats Serperior. I've only got one word for that: bullsh*t.

When Ash only brought Palpitoad to the Elesa gym match in Unova.

There are moments where characters assume the color of a pokemon means it is a certain type. For example Misty thought sentret/furret was a Ground type in one episode.

What?!

Whenever Ash says 'What's That?' or something along those lines whenever he sees a Pokemon he has seen before.

I haven't watched the anime for some time but I vaguely recall him saying 'What's That?' to an Oddish multiple times.

Alexander18 said:

There are moments where characters assume the color of a pokemon means it is a certain type. For example Misty thought sentret/furret was a Ground type in one episode.
What?!

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She also thought Oddish was a water Pokémon because it just happened to be standing near water in the episode that Ash catches Bulbasaur.

Brock using his frying pan as a drying pan.

Just that pan isn't going to keep you dry, Brock! Especially when you've already been rained on! It can't even absorb liquid because it's metal!

Ash in general {XD}

Ash-Greninja is a ridiculous form, a mega stand in and is pure fan service, Greninja gets a mega equivalent while Delphox and Chesnaught don't. Make a pokemon popular enough and they get special treatment. I wonder if I convinced all of Japan to become obsessed with Dunsparce, maybe then Dunsparce will get a Mega or some power up of some kind.

strangerhypno said:

Ash-Greninja is a ridiculous form, a mega stand in and is pure fan service, Greninja gets a mega equivalent while Delphox and Chesnaught don't. Make a pokemon popular enough and they get special treatment. I wonder if I convinced all of Japan to become obsessed with Dunsparce, maybe then Dunsparce will get a Mega or some power up of some kind.

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I doubt you could.
Greninja is the most popular Pokemon in Japan to date and it's all due to the ridiculous Ash-Greninja thing.

Ash-Greninja was so odd... I never understood why they did that at all.

Kuzehiko said:

I doubt you could.
Greninja is the most popular Pokemon in Japan to date and it's all due to the ridiculous Ash-Greninja thing.

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I think you've got it backwards... He's the most popular Pokemon in japan, that's why he got the ridiculous form XD

There was also a poll on The Escapists site, where they asked people about their favored starter, and Frokie was chosen by 50% of the poll voters. And not to mention that he was already super popular in japan even before the anime.

Also, He's a ninja and ninja's are cool... which makes him easier to market to the younger fanbase. He's also notorious for being one of the best sweepers in singles in XY, so he's also popular with the competitive crowd. Even when we disregard the anime, It's easy to see how he rose in popularity.

Okay that makes more sense haha.

CidHazard said:

I think you've got it backwards... He's the most popular Pokemon in japan, that's why he got the ridiculous form XD

There was also a poll on The Escapists site, where they asked people about their favored starter, and Frokie was chosen by 50% of the poll voters. And not to mention that he was already super popular in japan even before the anime.

Also, He's a ninja and ninja's are cool... which makes him easier to market to the younger fanbase. He's also notorious for being one of the best sweepers in singles in XY, so he's also popular with the competitive crowd. Even when we disregard the anime, It's easy to see how he rose in popularity.

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Makes it worse tbh.
I mean its ninja abilities like moving fast, water shuriken, etc are super cool yeah but give him the Ash-Greninja thing only because it's the most popular Pokemon makes it super ridiculous as it contradicts Mega Evolutions themselves and it makes Greninga look so overhyped. It is contrived as heck.

I guess voters got what they wanted.
Cause of $$$.

There's lots of em, but Ash's silver conference match against Gary is into the realm where I can't suspend disbelief. The Magmar vs Heracross matchup was one of the least plausible. Heracross was not only ravaged by super-effective fire blasts and flamethrowers but he was literally attacked from out of the sky! Heracross not only tanks all of these devastating attacks, he survives one by just slowly fluttering his wings. What attack is this and why would it allow him to walk through fire unscatched?

The battles just gets increasingly over-the-top. Its hard to believe that
Ash's Charizard could overcome Blastoise. Blastoise not only had the clear type advantage but likely was at a very high level due to the duration of time that he was with Gary-- this was his starter Pokemon. Charizard would also not be at full strength because he had fought multiple battles by this point without resting, including against Gary's Golem, whom he is 4× weak to.

I know that this is a really popular episode, and it is very exciting. But at the same time I think some of the drama does descend into the theater of the absurd.

Yeah the Charizard portion was weird as well, Charizard soloing half of Gary's team? Ash needs to drop all of his pokemon off at the Charicific Valley if Charizard got that strong.

Heracross is a beast tho, that's why he took out Magmar no problem

Pikachu defeating two pseudo legendaries of Alain's team. I am sorry but that was just bad writing and wasn't suppose to happen.

Alexander18 said:

Pikachu defeating two pseudo legendaries of Alain's team. I am sorry but that was just bad writing and wasn't suppose to happen.

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How's it bad writing? That thing is the most trained Pokemon Ash has; I'm honestly surprised it doesn't sweep gyms on its own.

mew_nani said:

How's it bad writing? That thing is the most trained Pokemon Ash has; I'm honestly surprised it doesn't sweep gyms on its own.

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Defeating one maybe. Defeating two is just a cheap way of rushing the battles. Pseudo legendaries are suppose to be strong.