AZ crashes Calem's coronation.
"I'm challenging you to battle with me. I want to know what a trainer is."
—AZ
The celebration of the winner of the Kalos Pokémon League is crashed by AZ, who challenges the new Champion, Calem, to find out what it means to be a Pokémon Trainer.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: Calem's championship celebration resembles this.
- Continuity Cavalcade: This episode is set at the end of the main plotline of Pokémon X and Y, when the Player Character (Calem, in this case) is challenged by AZ after beating the Kalos Pokémon League. Golurk, the last of AZ's Pokémon to be beaten, is one of the Pokémon the player faces in the game battle. Calem's party includes Charizard and Chesnaught.
- Narrator: The mother of a little girl in the crowd narrates the story of AZ's past as the girl remembers it. In the game, AZ relates the story to the player character while trapped in Team Flare's hideout.
- Never Say "Die":Narrator: During the fierce fighting, his dear Pokémon was sent to the battlefield. ... Several years later, he was given a tiny box.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: We barely see anything of Calem and AZ's battle.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Ultimate Weapon drained the life energy of other Pokémon in order to work.
- Redemption Quest: After he was left by Floette, AZ wandered the world alone for 3,000 years—it is presumed that he abandoned his throne. At the point of this episode, he had just been liberated from Team Flare, who sought his Ultimate Weapon. When Calem defeats AZ, he feels free, and Floette finally returns to him.
- Taken for Granite: One shot implies that the Pokémon whose lives were drained for AZ's machine became petrified into stone slabs. These are the tombstones on Route 10.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: In-Universe example. Apparently, the people of Kalos consider the story of a guy who lost a loved one in a war then sacrificed countless innocents to power a Weapon of Mass Destruction is perfectly acceptable to be read to children as a bedtime story.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Floette abandoned AZ when she realized that the Ultimate Weapon was powered by other Pokémon, and this power was used to resurrect her.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Ultimate Weapon not only resurrected Floette, it rendered Floette—and AZ—immortal.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: AZ designed a machine to resurrect his beloved Floette. He then turned it into the "Ultimate Weapon" to punish those humans who originally killed it, ending the war and becoming the ruler of Kalos.
