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4''Genesect and the Legend Awakened'' (known in Japan as ''[=ExtremeSpeed=] Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens'') is the sixteenth movie entry in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movie franchise, and the final entry for the ''Black & White'' saga of the anime.
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6It marks the anime debut of the legendary Pokémon Genesect as well as one of Mewtwo's Mega Evolutions introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. The movie follows Ash, Iris, Cilan, and their Pokémon as they arrive in New Tork City, which is being attacked by the Genesect Army, a group of five Genesect led by a Shiny one known as the Red Genesect. The only one who can stop them is Mewtwo[[note]]a different individual than the one from [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie the first movie]][[/note]], who notes that the Genesect are made by humans, just like it was.
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8The film was released in Japan on July 13th, 2013 and debuted on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the United States on October 19th, 2013. It was released on DVD in the United States on December 3rd, 2013.
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10Additionally, the film was accompanied in Japan by the Pikachu short ''Eevee and Friends'', [[http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/anim_eevee_tv-2013-12-02/ which was streamed on the English website's Pokémon TV service]] from December 6th, 2013 to December 15th, 2013, during which time the service was known as "Eevee TV" and featured Eevee-themed Pokémon episodes.
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12Just like [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie The First Movie,]] this one had plot elements set up, this time within the Team Plasma Arc of the Best Wishes Series, and it had a prologue special episode as a lead-in.
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15!! ''Genesect and the Legend Awakened'' features examples of the following tropes:
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17* AccidentalMurder: Mewtwo blew up the lab where it was created and its occupants unintentionally, unlike the original who purposefully killed its creators out of anger.
18** Seems to be contradicted by the special ''Mewtwo — Prologue to Awakening'', where Pokémon Hunter Dirk is a mercenary hired by Mewtwo's creators to track down Mewtwo after it escaped from their custody.
19* ActionGirl: Mewtwo telepathically speaks with a feminine voice in a stark contrast to the original, but is no less badass.
20* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange:
21** The Red Genesect uses a basic Drive, and its Techno Blast fires a purple laser. While the driveless version of Techno Blast in the games is depicted as a green laser (white in the Gen V games), the laser here suggests it's a Dark or Ghost-type variant (which doesn't exist in the games).
22** Mega Mewtwo Y is capable of moving much faster than normal Mewtwo, though its offensive prowess isn't affected much. In the games, Mega Mewtwo Y's Speed barely increases while its offensive stats (particularly Special Attack) skyrocket.
23* AdaptationalWimp: The Douse Drive Gensesect is an almost total wuss, being timider than the other four, only ever talking about going home, having the voice of a young child, and the majority of its fight scenes are when it's under the control of the Red Genesect. Not exactly a portrayal befitting [[TheDreaded a feared prehistoric top hunter]] turned super-cyborg by the local AnimalWrongsGroup. That it's the Douse Drive Genesect that undergoes this is even something of a meta example, as the Douse Drive is often considered the only Drive worth using in the games [[NotCompletelyUseless as it's Genesect's only access to a Water-type move]].
24* AdaptationDistillation: Whereas in the movie Mewtwo is capable of Mega Evolving from the very start, in the manga adaptation it doesn't transform until halfway through and its doing so is treated as a serious event as opposed to something that just happens. This means scenes where Mega Mewtwo Y appeared before then are redrawn to have regular Mewtwo instead.
25* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The manga adaptation has several panels depicting older characters like Brock, Misty, Keldeo ''et cetera'' during Mewtwo and Genesect's [[spoiler:scene in space when the former tells the latter that "everyone is their friend"]]. However, this makes no sense because neither of them should know about any of those characters.[[note]]The Mewtwo isn't the one from the first movie (which isn't clear in the manga due to the lack of voice acting), so it has no reason to know who Misty and Brock are.[[/note]]
26* AdaptedOut:
27** In the games, an ex-Team Plasma scientist named Dudley completed Genesect after N ordered Team Plasma to cancel the project. No such character appears in the movie or series, as the Pokémon's origin has been changed so that ''five'' Genesect are created and completed solely by several Team Plasma members working for Colress.
28** The manga adaptation does this, too; rather than having Team Plasma grunts at the Genesect Army's creation, a group of generic scientists are used instead (and in fact, the manga makes no effort to imply they're even a creation of Team Plasma at all).
29* AdvertisedExtra: A Sableye was advertised on the movie's website next to some prominent characters. Said Sableye does nothing of note in the film proper and disappears after the first ten minutes or so. It gets one more appearance about half an hour in to inform Ash and friends of the Genesect attack.
30* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Genesect Army take control of Pokémon Hills early on.
31* AntagonistTitle: Genesect is the main antagonist, and has a greater impact on the plot than co-star Mewtwo does.
32* ApocalypseHow: The Genesect build their nest in the power supply to New Tork City, threatening to destroy the place unless they're stopped.
33* ArtisticLicenseSpace: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, this is mostly averted - Mewtwo taking the Red Genesect into space causes the two of them to partially freeze, they speak telepathically thus getting around the lack of sound in space, and after a while they plummet back to Earth due to a lack of air.]]
34* BadassBoast: [[BigBad Red Genesect]] has one during its confrontation with Mewtwo in the city:
35--> '''Red Genesect:''' Interfere, and you will be '''''DESTROYED!'''''
36* BadassBystander: One of the Pokémon the Genesect disturb in the nature preserve is a Feraligatr, who proceeds to spend the entire rest of the movie trying to fight them off. It fights more than the ''main cast'', who hardly did ''anything'' but spectate everything.
37* BadBoss: The Red Genesect isn't a very kind leader, often mind-controlling its subordinates and attacking them if they disobey its orders.
38* BerserkButton: Red Genesect ''really'' hates being told what to do.
39--> '''Red Genesect:''' Don't give me '''''ORDERS!!!''''' *''[[EnergyWeapon Fricking Signal Beams]]''*
40* BigAppleSauce: New Tork City is very clearly designed like Castelia City, which itself is New York City.
41* BigBad: The Genesect Army, but particularly the Red Genesect, its leader.
42%%* BigDamnHeroes: Mewtwo pulls this off, twice.
43* BigGood: Mewtwo is a powerful Pokemon capable of Mega Evolution. It protects the wild Pokemon of Pokemon Hills and is able to empathize with the Genesect due to humans playing a key role in their current state.
44* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Red Genesect can bend the other Genesect to his will and force them to do his bidding. This becomes a recurring plot point with the Douse Drive Genesect, who forms a friendship with Ash and friends.
45* BreakingOldTrends: Until this film, all the final films released in the lifecycle of a given generation had a Pokémon from the next series of games as the main Pokémon. [[labelnote:*]]''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'' with Lugia, ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' with Latias/Latios, ''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'' with Manaphy and ''[[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'' with Zorua and Zoroark.[[/labelnote]] While Mega Mewtwo Y is a new concept in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', it's a Mega Evolution of an older Pokémon and not a brand new species like usual. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, Genesect gets top billing over it]]. Despite this, the ''Eevee and Friends'' short picks up the slack by featuring Sylveon.
46* BroadStrokes: Mewtwo's backstory amounts to a basic retelling of the original Mewtwo's history (up to and including a compressed version of ''[[Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns Mewtwo Returns]]''), minus Team Rocket (though its creators are almost exactly the same as them anyway).
47%%* BulletTime: Mewtwo is capable of creating this effect in its Mega Evolution "Y" form.
48* CanonForeigner: The Mewtwo introduced in this film and the Genesect Army, since the backstory given for both species in the games all but states that only one of each was made, and that circumstances ensured no more could (or would) be made.
49* CheerfulChild: The Douse Drive Genesect is kinder than the other Genesect, as it refuses to attack anyone unless ordered to and getting excited over some flowers that it recognizes from their homeland. This can come off as odd since it's a scary-looking cyborg bug with a BackpackCannon.
50* ChekhovsGun: Albeit not a very effective one. James drops a bazooka into the Genesect nest upon being Signal Beam'd by Red Genesect. Relatively soon after, it drops towards the Douse Drive Genesect before being knocked aside.
51* CluelessAesop: At the end, Mewtwo and the Red Genesect learn that "on this planet, we are all friends", seemingly forgetting about their creators (the former's electrocuted it for no clear reason, and the latter's was [[AnimalWrongsGroup Team Plasma]]), both of whom were most certainly ''not'' anyone's friends, least of all their creations'. And that's ''ignoring'' the personality differences among both humans and Pokémon that ensure not all of them are friends to each other...
52* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All the Genesect use differently-colored Drives. Red Genesect also shows itself as the leader with its different color scheme.
53* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Because the mechanic of Mega Evolution hadn't yet been revealed while the movie was released, Mega Mewtwo Y is referred to as Mewtwo's "Awakened Forme" in promotional material... but in the actual film, it goes unnamed.
54* ContinuityNod:
55** When Ash and friends first meet Mewtwo, Ash says "Wait a minute! You're-", in reference to the old Mewtwo[[note]]While his memories of Mewtwo were wiped at the end of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', he remembers Mewtwo from ''[[Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns Mewtwo Returns]]''[[/note]]. Some early trailers also depicted an alternate scene where Ash says Mewtwo's name when it first appears, prompting Cilan to turn as if to say "You KNOW this guy?!".
56** When Mewtwo and Red Genesect fly through Not-Times Square, some video screens show [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions Pokémon Baccer]].
57* ContrivedCoincidence: Mewtwo's existence arguably hinges on one - nowhere is it so much as hinted that its creators knew about the original Mewtwo or its creation, so that means they just happened to find Mew DNA[[note]]which was established in ''Mewtwo Strikes Back'' as far from being common as dirt[[/note]], decided to make a super-clone of Mew for seemingly no reason, and knew just the right amount of DNA modification in the cloning process to make their Mewtwo look physically identical to the original... all seemingly without any data or knowledge of the original Mewtwo to work with.
58* CouldHaveBeenMessy: A group of Genesect looking for a home, led by a mind control-equipped leader who is quick to label everyone else as the enemy and fire their arm cannons directly at them with intent to destroy. And yet, between several BigDamnHeroes moments and [[spoiler:a TakingTheBullet DisneyDeath]], not a single casualty. Except a few lotuses.
59* CoversAlwaysLie: Played with for the international release of the movie. While depicting standard Mewtwo on the cover and/or including Mewtwo's name in the title would be true to the movie, the international title leaves out Mewtwo (aside from the "Legend Awakened" subtitle) and always depicts Mega Mewtwo Y on promotional material rather than standard Mewtwo, probably to avoid confusing the audience due to their familiarity with the original member of the species.
60* DarkActionGirl: One of the Genesect has a feminine voice in the dub.
61* {{Determinator}}: The Feraligatr does not give up trying to drive out the Genesect, even going so far as to break into the Genesect's cocoon just to get rid of them!
62* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:The Douse Drive Genesect undergoes this following its TakingTheBullet moment, complete with EyeLightsOut. It does it ''again'' later.]]
63* DistaffCounterpart: The Mewtwo in this movie has a female voice, unlike the one in the Kanto movies, and is also [[GoodCounterpart more of a straightforward hero]] rather than a villain turned anti-hero.
64* EarlyBirdCameo: Mega Mewtwo Y and [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Sylveon]].
65* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:''Everyone'' forgives the Red Genesect (as well as the other Genesect) after the climax. Never mind the fact that they forcibly evicted all Pokémon out of Pokémon Hills against their will (injuring quite a few in the process), endangered all life in the city with their nest and that [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the Red Genesect was a general arsehole to everyone around him]]. Apparently saying "Everyone is my friend" is enough for New Tork City to wholeheartedly forgive you, no matter what horrible things you did.]] And you thought [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] got off easily.
66* EyeLightsOut: [[spoiler:Unusually, a living (albeit cybernetic) creature gets this. The Douse Drive Genesect's eyes turn black when it [[DisneyDeath loses consciousness]]]].
67* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The Genesect Army, who died over 300 million years ago before their revival by Team Plasma.
68* FlatCharacter: The Chill, Shock and Burn Drive Genesect have no established personality and mostly exist to shoot things and get shot back at in return.
69* GenericDoomsdayVillain: While it's rather ambiguous as to whether Mewtwo's creators are "evil" or not, from what we see of Mewtwo's past they seemingly made an all-powerful Pokémon for no real reason other than to shoot lightning at it [[TheDogBitesBack and get bitten back]].
70* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: [[spoiler:The fact that the Genesect Army's motivation was building a new home seems to be the sole reason why they receive little to no punishment for attacking a protected reserve, forcing all the Pokémon in there out, injuring more than a few of them in the process, and threatening the city with outright destruction as a result of building their nest in the city's power supply. This goes double for the Red Genesect, who not only mind-controlled them against their will numerous times, but also doesn't hesitate to attack its fellow Genesect for not following said destructive orders. [[WouldHurtAChild Nor does it hesitate to open fire on Ash numerous times]].]]
71* GreaterScopeVillain: Though not present in the movie itself, Team Plasma (and by proxy Ghetsis and Colress) are the creators of the Genesect, and thus the conflict.
72* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:During the climax, the Burn, Shock and Chill Drive Genesect undergo one after being saved from their burning nest. Then, the Red Genesect turns good in the end.]]
73* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: As a result of Red Genesect's mind controlling powers, the Douse Drive Genesect suffers this.
74* HeroBall: Ash tries to stop the Pokémon Hills residents from fighting back against the Genesect Army, saying that they were just looking for a home. Despite the fact that they're far stronger {{super soldier}}s who forced all those Pokémon out at gunpoint, [[KickTheDog injuring quite a few of them in the process]], so the Pokémon have every reason to be pissed off at them.
75* HighAltitudeBattle: Mewtwo and the Red Genesect briefly have one in New Tork City.
76%%* IGaveMyWord: Ash, to the Douse Drive Genesect.
77* {{Irony}}: Mewtwo's (failed) attempt to fly into space is very ironic, given how the original Mewtwo did it effortlessly in the opening titles for the very first season of the animé.
78* {{Jerkass}}: The Red Genesect is an asshole (and extremely [[AxCrazy violent]], to boot) towards anyone who isn't on its side... even when "anyone" includes one of its own kind, like [[TokenGoodTeammate the Douse Drive Genesect]].
79* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Following the Red Genesect's HeelFaceTurn, it receives no comeuppance for its actions and how its army threatened the city at large. It also ends up getting exactly what it wanted - a new home.]]
80* KickTheDog: While the Genesect are trying to create a new nest in the park, they attack the Pokémon that already live there. The Red Genesect even attacks some Rock-type Pokémon, sending them into a pond full of water. Remember, Rock-type Pokémon find too much exposure to water ''painful''.
81* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The Red Genesect is the Army's leader. [[RedOnesGoFaster It also happens to be the fastest.]]
82* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original Mewtwo's stories, this movie is definetly this. This Mewtwo's backstory is far less complex than the original's and isn't ''quite'' as tragic, and it's a heroic figure all the way through unlike the original; meanwhile, the Genesect Army's HeelFaceTurn is handled more simplistically than the original Mewtwo antagonist in the first movie.
83* LostAesop: The movie can't seem to decide on what it wants to say; while much of the story seems to focus on Genesect and Mewtwo trying to find their place in the world, it also seems to repeat ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'''s message of "all life is equal", and out of nowhere near the end, it seems to be "Everyone is your friend"; something that the final ten minutes harps on about. [[BrokenAesop Also, does that]] ''[[BrokenAesop include]]'' [[BrokenAesop those who want to exploit others for their own benefit (as happened to the both of them by their creators)?]]
84* MandatoryLine: After [[AvertedTrope averting]] this in ''Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice'', Team Rocket go back to being largely pointless comic relief that never interacts with the main cast, never impacts the plot in any meaningful way, and seemingly sticks around just to remind the audience that they exist.[[note]]At best a bazooka they drop earlier threatens to drop onto the Douse Drive Genesect during a later fight scene, but it gets quickly knocked aside, is never addressed again, makes no impact on any character's motives or actions, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and probably wouldn't have fazed Genesect's Steel body anyway]].[[/note]]
85* MeaningfulName: The city's Japanese name, New Talk City, was [[https://twitter.com/sonodahideki/status/363090680890920960 apparently chosen]] for meaning "a city telling a new story".
86* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: All in all, Ash and friends do very little to solve anything in the plot. The threat to the substation is dealt with by Eric, the conflict with the Genesect is almost exclusively between Mewtwo and the Pokémon Hills inhabitants, and about the only thing of worth they do is [[spoiler:saving Mewtwo and the Red Genesect from an orbital fall via a giant ball of SoftWater (though this is after an attempt to save them with their own Pokémon fails)]].
87* MindControl: The Red Genesect can exert this power, and the Genesect succumb to such control at various points. Given that the Genesect are cyborgs, and knowing their creator (Colress), this makes total sense.
88* MisanthropeSupreme: Downplayed with Mewtwo - it doesn't like humans and gets on better with other Pokémon, but it doesn't wish to destroy them like its predecessor. Though it suddenly starts caring about them when it and the Red Genesect fight in a populated area when not long ago it still had those feelings.
89%%* MrExposition: Eric's role largely amounts to this and not much else.
90* MultipleChoicePast: Mewtwo's backstory contradicts a bit of what was established in the prologue dedicated to it.
91* NeverTrustATitle: No legends are ever awakened over the course of this movie, and Genesect's too ancient and Mewtwo too recent for either of them to have any legends focused on them. Presumably it refers to Mega Mewtwo Y, but no big deal is made of it in-universe, and the special episode acting as a prequel to this shows that Mewtwo has been Mega Evolving for its whole life.
92* NeverTrustATrailer:
93** '''Many''' of the original Japanese trailers use footage that either show certain events happening in a different way than in the movie (such as the Genesect Army's attack on Pokémon Hills taking place during the day and while Ash and co. were present) or was flat out not in it at all (Team Rocket falling into the Genesect nest, Iris and Cilan witnessing the Genesect creating said nest, and the Genesect fighting Mewtwo in New Tork City proper with people running away).
94** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFEAA4JvaM The first Japanese trailer]] makes no effort to imply that the Mewtwo is anything but the original; it doesn't speak, Ash instantly recognises it, and Cilan is surprised he knows what it is. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyPZGdEyyc The next trailer]] has Mewtwo speak, revealing a very different voice from the original, and the actual movie reduces Ash's familiarity to a quickly-dropped sentence with no follow-up and zero recognition from anyone else. It also uses footage that's completely different from the final version.
95** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn5BvytJooA The English trailer]] dubs over footage compiled from the Japanese trailers, but (like the first Japanese trailer) never shows footage of Mewtwo speaking, implying it's the orginal one. In the movie proper, the Mewtwo is a different individual with a similar backstory to the original and has a distinctly feminine voice.
96* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: New Tork City is an obvious reference to New York City. Likewise, Pokémon Hills is similar to Central Park.
97** Strangely enough, a place based on New York City has already appeared -- Unova, making New Tork City a New York within a generation based on New York.
98* NoOSHACompliance: So, why exactly build a nature reserve over a city's power supply? Especially one that holds Pokémon that can easily break through barricades? Furthermore, why do this when said power supply is not only the only one a city the size of New York has (are backup generators not a thing?), but also dangerous enough that a failure would cause the park to ''explode?''
99* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: For roughly the '''seventh''' time, the movies use this trope for its villains - in this case, the Genesect Army is mainly interested in going back to their prehistoric homeland (as the Douse Drive Genesect is oh-so-happy to remind the audience constantly).
100* OutOfCharacterMoment: At one point in the film, Mewtwo acts concerned when the Red Genesect dents a building, saying "People live in there!" This is despite the fact that earlier, it established it couldn't care less if Ash, Iris and Cilan got vaporized by Genesect so long as their Pokémon were OK.
101* PhlebotinumRebel: Both the Genesect Army and Mewtwo (especially the former, given that Team Plasma were its creators) blew up their creators' labs and escaped.
102* PlotHole:
103** This film's Mewtwo is a very big one; while a second Mewtwo is not strictly ''impossible'', it is very, ''very'' implausible that, for no real reason, [[ContrivedCoincidence a group of no-name scientists found DNA of a rare Mythical Pokémon and were able to to create an exact copy (on what looks like their first try) with no prior research or indication they knew that a Mewtwo existed beforehand]], especially when [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup all research and knowledge that went into that one is now gone]]. If they ''are'' somehow aware of the original Mewtwo to the extent necessary to create a new one, the movie never explains why.
104** When it first meets Ash and the gang, Mewtwo quickly establishes itself as indifferent to humans; only saving them from Genesect's attack because of their Pokémon. Later on, Mewtwo [[OutOfCharacterMoment protests the Red Genesect denting a building with, "People live in there!"]]. Nothing that particularly warms it up to humans happens between these two events.
105* PoorCommunicationKills: The entire plot happens mostly because the Red Genesect is a stubborn bastard who refuses to listen to people.
106* RankScalesWithAsskicking: The Feraligatr and Persian seem to be the leaders of land and water Pokémon, respectively, and do the most fighting of the wild Pokémon.
107* RedEyesTakeWarning: When the Genesect are under MindControl (or exerting it, in the case of Red Genesect).
108* RedOnesGoFaster: The Red Genesect knows Extreme Speed and can move faster than the other four Genesect and regular Mewtwo. Apparently it's able to do this for no reason other than that it is red.
109* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:The park Pokémon have to rescue the other three villainous Genesect from a fire, causing their HeelFaceTurn. They later have to rescue the Red Genesect when he and Mewtwo are falling from orbit.]]
110* ShipTease: The scene with the feminine Mewtwo and the masculine Red Genesect [[spoiler:above the Earth, and the latter later saving the former as they fall]], has some romantic undertones.
111* SoftWater: [[spoiler:Mewtwo and the Red Genesect are saved from a terminal-velocity fall by a giant bubble of levitated water. Of course, being scientifically engineered superweapons probably helped their chances of survival somewhat.]]
112* SoundtrackDissonance: In one early trailer, Smiling Face (a happy upbeat J-pop song with lyrics that suggest a mother-child relationship) plays while the Genesect Army attack Mewtwo and destroy New Tork City. [[SarcasmMode Fits that scenario like a glove]].
113* StoryBreakerPower: Mega Mewtwo Y has no reason to ''not'' be used -- it doesn't require immense concentration or cause Mewtwo physical or mental straining, it makes Mewtwo faster than even the extremely fast Red Genesect, there's no sign it weakens Mewtwo's power or stamina, and it has no pre-requisite to transform; it can just do it whenever it wants from the moment it was created. And yet Mewtwo often opts to revert back to its normal state and even go into battle without transforming, despite having no clear advantage in doing so.
114* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: The Genesect Army was [[FishOutOfTemporalWater resurrected from 300 million year-old fossils]] and no longer fit into the world they once inhabited.
115* SuperMode: Mega Mewtwo Y functions as this for Mewtwo. Interestingly, it can do this without [[TransformationTrinket Mewtwonite Y]] or a strong bond with a Trainer.
116* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Despite being a separate individual from the original Mewtwo (which it legally had to be, [[https://www.pokebeach.com/2019/07/mewtwo-strikes-back-evolution-impressions-changes-and-sequels as Takeshi Shudo's estate owned the rights to that version of the character]]), much of this Mewtwo's personality and backstory lifts several beats from that of the original's (such as being created and used by a sinister organization, though with nary a red "R" in sight).
117* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:The Douse Drive Genesect]] leaps to take the combined attack from [[spoiler:the other four Genesect in the army]] that's aimed at Ash.
118* {{Telepathy}}: Mewtwo and all Genesect use telepathy to speak. Mewtwo also uses the ability to read the Douse Drive Genesect's mind to learn of its past.
119* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: The Genesect Army's main motivation is to find their home; however, their home has changed over 300 million years and they come across New Tork City while searching for the landscape they're familiar with. [[spoiler:In the end, they make a new nest in a place where ancient flowers that grew in their homeland grow.]]
120* TokenGoodTeammate: The Douse Drive Genesect is the most pacifistic of the lot, and whenever it does fight, it's always while being mind controlled by the Red Genesect.
121* TransformingMecha: The Genesect Army, who can turn into High-Speed Flight Forms to achieve flight.
122* UniquenessDecay:
123** Prior to this movie, Mewtwo was portrayed as a unique specimen with a consisitent personality across all Pokémon media. This movie introduces a second Mewtwo into the animé's canon, and essentially turns Mewtwo from a one-of-a-kind character into a race of two. One might be inclined to justify it as a means of both Mega Mewtwos appearing together... but outside of a meaningless five-second clip in the first ''Mega Evolution'' special, this meet-up has never happened.
124** In the games, there was only one (non-shiny) Genesect ever created as opposed to the five seen here. It's much less blatant than Mewtwo, however, as Genesect hadn't been previously established to be a one of a kind Pokémon in the animé continuity.
125* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After meeting Mewtwo for the first time, Ash thinks it's the original Mewtwo from ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. Mewtwo doesn't seem to care that Ash seemingly knows it despite them meeting for the first time, nor do his friends seem to care that he knows it despite meeting for the first time, nor does anyone (particularly Mewtwo, who spends part of the movie believing it's alone) seem to care that there has apparently been another ''identical'' Mewtwo that Ash had met before.
126* UselessProtagonist: Ash and friends don't do much to impact the plot beyond interacting with the Douse Drive Genesect, and largely take a back seat to Mewtwo and the Red Genesect.
127* VillainousBreakdown: Red Genesect has one [[spoiler:when the other three Genesect turn on him and try to stop him, screaming that they're all enemies and trying to blow them to bits with his WaveMotionGun]].
128* VocalDissonance:
129** The Douse Drive Genesect telepathically speaks with a voice actress doing a young voice. And this is coming from a 4'11" tall cyborg insect with [[BackpackCannon a cannon on its back]], [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], and a permanent SlasherSmile. Made even more jarring when you hear the Genesects' real voices - garbled [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek-esque]] noises.
130** The Chill Drive Genesect sounds female in its few lines.
131** All prior appearances of Mewtwo have the Pokemon speak with a deep voice. This movie has a different, feminine-sounding Mewtwo whose voice leans towards a contralto instead.
132* WithUsOrAgainstUs: [[spoiler:When the four purple Genesect decide to ignore the Red Genesect's orders to keep fighting, it sees them all as enemies and tries to destroy them.]]
133* WouldHurtAChild: Red Genesect has no qualms in harming Ash and friends the few times he comes across them.

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