Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer
is a short 4-minute trailer for the remakes of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
The trailer begins with Brendan being waken up one morning by his Treeko. He goes outside and spots his next-door neighbor May with her Torchic and Mudkip. The trailer then cuts to Brendan battling a Youngster and his Zigzagoon while, elsewhere, May gets attacked by a Pokémon horde in a forest. May is seen challenging Roxanne, which leads to her Mudkip evolving.
Afterwards, the trailer shows off a bunch of Mega Pokémon that appear in the games. Near the end, May is depicted during a Contest while Brendan challenges Steven to become the next Pokémon League Champion. The trailer ends with May and Brendan on Mega Latios and Latias before the rest of the legendaries are depicted.
This trailer provides examples of:
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Mega Diancie is shown creating a sword from diamonds to fight Mega Gallade. Diancie does not have this ability in any other Pokémon media — Mega-Evolved or otherwise.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The trailer casually spoils Steven being the Champion for anyone who didn't already know this.
- No Name Given: No names are mentioned in the trailer.
- Pokémon Speak: The Pokémon generally use animalish growls, but some (like Mega Lopunny) seem to be using Pokémon Speak.
- Pragmatic Adaptation:
- May has both a Torchic and a Mudkip. This is because the trailer wants to show off all three starters, but only two appear in-game.
- Mudkip evolves mid-battle. This is possible in Pokémon: The Series but not in the games.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Despite being The Rival of the game, Wally isn't shown at all.
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Spiritual Successor: To Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: Introduction Movie, albeit Lighter and Softer — it has less of an emphasis on depicting story scenes and more of a focus on depicting Pokémon. It also doesn't show any battling against the region's villain teams or hint at any philosophical discussions, and the BGM mostly consists of "fun" battle music from the games.
