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* NoSell: When Dawn tries to catch Pikachu but he isn't even sucked into her Poké Ball after it hits her, she realizes that must mean he already belongs to someone else.
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: Though Dawn is initially mad at Pikachu for accidentally destroying her bike and tries to catch him, as soon as she realizes that he already belongs to someone else, is being hunted by Team Rocket, and is hurt, she decides to take care of him and reunite him with his proper trainer even if it means she'll possibly miss an upcoming Contest she wants to compete in.
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* RunningGag: Dawn's bike gets fried. Did anyone actually ''not'' see this coming?
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite with him.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite with him.
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* RunningGag: Dawn's bike gets fried. Did anyone actually ''not'' see this coming?
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplupfried, just like Misty's and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite withhim.him.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup
* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite with
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** Most prints of this episode (eg, UK prints) remove the line up to "there's no Sinnoh Team Rocket branch!" for this reason alone.
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** Most prints of this episode (eg, UK prints) The [=BBC IPlayer=] print goes as far as to remove the line up to "there's no Sinnoh Team Rocket branch!" for this reason alone.alone. Unusually, other digital prints in the country (eg, Amazon Prime Video) have the line unaltered.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.expect.
* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite with him.
* YankTheDogsChain: Brock hitched a ride to Sinnoh with an attractive girl who actually seemed to like him. And then it turns out she has a boyfriend back in Kanto and leaves Brock behind to reunite with him.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: James’ butler, who is literally TheJeeves (that’s his actual name) seems much nicer than James’ butler from the original series. But then he notified Jessiebelle of James’ presence.
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* RealityEnsues: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
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* RunningGag: Dawn's bike gets fried. Did anyone actually ''not'' see this coming?
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* RunningGag: Dawn's bike gets fried. Did anyone actually ''not'' see this coming?coming?
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
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* HateAtFirstSight: Even before meeting Ash, Dawn holds nothing but hostility to Team Rocket when she encounters them for the first time, given their first action in front of her is [[KickTheDog to attack Piplup]].
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* OhCrap: Team Rocket would have settled with James' second summer home as a new hideout, until James finds out his servant has notified his parents and Jessebelle. [[{{Foreshadowing}} This leads to another confrontation three seasons later]].
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* OhCrap: Team Rocket would have settled with James' second summer home as a new hideout, until James finds out his servant has notified his parents and Jessebelle. [[{{Foreshadowing}} This leads to another confrontation three two seasons later]].
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* GottaCatchThemAll: {{Averted}}. Dawn fails to catch a Buneary. And a Burmy. [[RuleOfThree And Ash's Pikachu.]]
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* GottaCatchThemAll: {{Averted}}.Averted. Dawn fails to catch a Buneary. And a Burmy. [[RuleOfThree And Ash's Pikachu.]]
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* RememberTheNewGuy: James reunites with Carnivine, the Pokémon he used to play with whenever he came to Sinnoh as a child.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: James reunites with Carnivine, the a Pokémon he used to play with whenever he came to Sinnoh as a child.
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* OhNoNotAgain: Pikachu seems to have this reaction when he [[OverusedRunningGag destroys Dawn's bike.]]
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* CurbStompBattle: Pikachu ''flattens'' Dawn's Piplup, [[RunningGag destroying Dawn's bike in the process.]]
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* CurbStompBattle: Even though he's injured, Pikachu still ''flattens'' Dawn's Piplup, [[RunningGag destroying Dawn's bike in the process.]]
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* CurbStompBattle: Pikachu ''flattens'' Dawn's Piplup, [[RunningGag destroying Dawn's bike in the process.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Dawn, a trainer on her literal first day, tries to use Piplup to capture Pikachu, a Pokémon with a massive type advantage over Piplup and ''much'' more battle experience. It goes about as well for Piplup as you'd expect.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are many similarities between the beginnings of Dawn's and Ash's Pokémon journeys. Both are cases of FireForgedFriends. Dawn and Piplup have their moments of friction in this episode, just like Ash and Pikachu in the first episode. And both had to rush Pikachu to a Pokémon Center in the second episode.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Ash was shocked by Pikachu three times in his first episode. Dawn got pecked by Piplup twice in the first two episodes.]]
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