History Recap / PokemonS25E9BattlingTurnedUpToEleven

* BrokenWinLossStreak: Gengar's victory against Grimmsnarl marks his first victory in the WCS.

* WhenSheSmiles: {{Invoked}}. Marnie puts her mouth up in a smile (in a MythologyGag to the games) to thank Ash for a great battle.

* HisstoryRepeatsItself: Like during the Indigo League, Ash winds up being late to a major battle in his career and almost disqualified due to a local Team throwing him for a loop, and his opponent in that match refuses to win by default. The difference this time is that Team Yell didn't kidnap him like Team Rocket, and Ash was only a few minutes late instead of several hours like he was with Ritchie. And unlike last time, Ash won.

* HisStoryRepeatsItself: Like during the Indigo League, Ash winds up being late to a major battle in his career and almost disqualified due to a local Team throwing him for a loop, and his opponent in that match refuses to win by default. The difference this time is that Team Yell didn't kidnap him like Team Rocket, and Ash was only a few minutes late instead of several hours like he was with Ritchie. And unlike last time, Ash won.

* MirrorCharacter: Marnie's Morpeko, her SignatureMon, is a lot calmer and much friendlier than James' constantly Hangry Morpeko who would gladly eat its owners out of house and home if it meant satiating its hunger.

* SwallowedWhole: Before Gengar reverts back to normal from its Gigantamax stage, it ''swallows Grimmsnarl'' and spits it back out in order to protect itself during the reversion. Marnie didn't expect that move one bit.

The time has come for the next Ultra Class Battle for Ash, and this time it's in...Spikemuth? Nope! Turns out, a group of local hoodlums, Team Yell, had lied to Ash so their preferred champion, Marnie, would sweep the match! It turns out that Marnie is trying to raise awareness for her hometown, who's local Dark Type gym is run by her brother Pierce, by competing in the World Coronation Series--and she has no intention of losing!

* BeyondTheImpossible: Gengar wills itself to the extreme in order to resits being put to sleep by Grimmsnarl's G-Max Snooze, something of which even Marnie was surprised at.
* DisqualificationInducedVictory: {{Defied}}. Marnie refuses to win by any means other than a fair match, and won't accept the WCS counting the match against Ash for arriving late. She gets even further enraged when she learns her overzealous legion of fans in Team Yell lied to him so he wouldn't arrive.
* HisStoryRepeatsItself: Like during the Indigo League, Ash winds up being late to a major battle in his career and almost disqualified due to a local Team throwing him in for a loop, and his opponent in that match refuses to win by default. The difference this time is that Team Yell didn't kidnap him like Team Rocket, and Ash was only a few minutes late instead of several hours like he was with Ritchie. And unlike last time, Ash won.

* MythologyGag: Like in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', Spikemuth is a ghost town run by Pierce, the local Dark Type Gym Leader, who prefers not to have Gigantamax battles primarily because his gym isn't over a power spot.
* ScissorsCutsRock: {{Subverted}}. Grimmsnarl is a Dark/Fairy Type, while Gengar is a Ghost/Poison Type, meaning that both are evenly matched (Grimmsnarl's Dark moves being effective against Gengar's Ghost typing, while Gengar's Poison moves are effective against Grimmsnarl's Fairy typing). Marnie even taught Grimmsnarl a Ground move (Stomping Tantrum) as a counter against the Poison moves, while Ash did the same with Gengar by teaching it a Fairy move (Dazzling Gleam) to counter against the Dark moves.