History Anime / PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened

''Genesect and the Legend Awakened'' (known in Japan as ''[=ExtremeSpeed=] Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens'') is the sixteenth movie entry in the ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movie franchise, and the final entry for the ''Black & White'' saga of the anime.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Mewtwo's serious nature is supported by an equally forceful voice.

** 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 ContraltoOfDanger instead.

** All prior appearances of Mewtwo have the Pokemon speak with a BadassBaritone. This movie has a different, feminine-sounding Mewtwo whose voice leans towards ContraltoOfDanger instead.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Feraligatr and Persian seem to be the leaders of land and water Pokémon, respectively, and do the most fighting of the wild Pokémon.

* OffModel: Near the end, [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/c/c3/M16_Ash_hair_error.png/800px-M16_Ash_hair_error.png Ash's eyebrows are shown over his hair]].

[[caption-width-right:The return of both [[FossilRevival new]] and [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute old-ish]] faces.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[NeverTrustATitle Disclaimer: this film may or may not actually have a legend awakening in it.]]]]

* RunningGag: Twice in the movie, a Chansey walks by whenever someone says its name.

* 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, for no reason, often opts to revert back to its normal state and even go into battle without transforming, despite having no clear advantage in doing so.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: The Genesect Army was [[FishOutOfTemporalWater resurrected from 300 million year-old fossils]] and no longer fit in to the world they once inhabited.

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:The Douse Drive Genesect]] leaps to take the combined attack of [[spoiler:four Genesect out of five of]] the Genesect Army aimed at Ash at one point.

* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: This is the Army's main motivation; 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.]]

** Prior to this movie, Mewtwo was portrayed as a unique specimen with a unique 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.

It 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, who notes that the Genesect are made by humans, just like it was. Of note, this is a new, separate Mewtwo rather than a return of the Mewtwo from [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie the first movie]] [[Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns and its sequel]].

It 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 Talk 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, who notes that the Genesect are made by humans, just like it was. Of note, this is a new, separate Mewtwo rather than a return of the Mewtwo from [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie the first movie]] [[Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns and its sequel]].

* BigAppleSauce: New Talk City is very clearly designed like Castelia City, which itself is New York City. A different reading of the city's name, "New Tork City", makes it even clearer. See NoCommunitiesWereHarmed.

* CheerfulChild: The Douse Drive Genesect is kinder than the other Genesect, as it refusing 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.

* 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 Talk City to wholeheartedly forgive you, no matter what horrible things you did.]] And you thought [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] got off easily.

** '''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 Talk City proper with people running away).

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: New Talk City ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS which can be romanized as "New Tork City"]]) is an obvious reference to New York City. Likewise, Pokémon Hills is similar to Central Park.

** To some extent, this also holds true for Genesect, since only one (non-shiny) was ever created in the games 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.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Well, line - 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 and egregiously 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.
* UselessProtagonist: As tends to be the case in recent ''Pokémon'' movies, Ash and friends don't do much to impact the plot beyond interact with the Douse Drive Genesect, and largely take a back seat to Mewtwo and the Red Genesect.

** Mewtwo comes off as this for some people. While it is merely a second member of the Mewtwo species and not the same as the original character, to some its voice still feels as if [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] suddenly had a motherly female voice.

* 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 considering neither one of them should know about any of those characters.[[labelnote:*]]The fact that Brock and Misty are present here also doesn't help things if you're unaware that this Mewtwo is different from the original one (a fact not clear thanks to the obvious lack of a female voice).[[/labelnote]]

* ApocalypseHow: The Genesect build their nest in the power supply to New Talk City, and it threatens to cause a Class 0 to the city before it is stopped.

* BigDamnHeroes: Mewtwo pulls this off, twice.
* BigGood: Mewtwo, compared to the first Mewtwo, and despite the painful past it's been through.

* BulletTime: Mewtwo is capable of creating this effect in its Mega Evolution "Y" form.
* CanonForeigner: Arguably the second Mewtwo and the Genesect Army, since the backstory given for both Pokémon in the games all but states that only one of each was made, and that circumstances ensured no more could (or would) be made.
* CheerfulChild: The Douse Drive Genesect is this... which can come off as kind of odd since it's a scary-looking cyborg bug with a BackpackCannon.

* IGaveMyWord: Ash, to the Douse Drive Genesect.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Following the Red Genesect's HeelFaceTurn, it receives no comeuppance for the the actions it did and how they threatened the city at large. What's more, it ends up getting exactly what it wanted - a new home.]]
* KickTheDog: While the Genesect were trying to create a new nest in the park, they attacked all the Pokémon that already lived there. The Red Genesect went so far as to attack some Rock-type Pokémon, sending them into a pond full of water. Remember, Rock-type Pokémon find too much exposure to water ''painful''.

* MeaningfulName: The city's name, New Talk City, was [[https://twitter.com/sonodahideki/status/363090680890920960 apparently chosen]] for meaning "a city telling a new story".

* MrExposition: Eric's role largely amounts to this and not much else.

* 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 was using it since day one of its life.

** '''Many''' of the original Japanese trailers used footage that either showed 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 (such as Team Rocket falling into the Genesect nest, Iris and Cilan witnessing the Genesect creating said nest, and the Genesect fighting Mewtwo in New Talk City proper with people running away).
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFEAA4JvaM The first Japanese trailer]] is perhaps the biggest fibber of them all, as (besides the usual completely different footage) it makes no effort to imply that this Mewtwo is anything but the original; it doesn't speak, Ash instantly recognises it, and Cilan is surprised he knows what it is. Only for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyPZGdEyyc the next trailer]] to have Mewtwo speak, revealing a very different voice from the original, and the actual movie to reduce Ash's familiarity to a quickly-dropped sentence with no follow-up and zero recognition from anyone else.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn5BvytJooA The English trailer]] is guilty too -- dubbing over footage compiled from said trailers, but (like the first Japanese trailer) also conspicuously never showing footage of Mewtwo speaking. Fans of the original Mewtwo who are blissfully unaware of the controversy may watch the trailer, believe the original Mewtwo returned, see the movie, then wonder why Mewtwo sounds female all of a sudden.

** Strangely enough, a place based on New York City has already appeared -- Unova, making New Talk City a New York within a generation based on New York.

* 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 Talk City. [[SarcasmMode Fits that scenario like a glove]].

* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: This is the Army's main motivation; however, their home has changed over 300 million years and they come across New Talk 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.]]

** The Red Genesect uses a basic Drive, and its Techno Blast fires a purple laser. While the Techno Blast without a Drive in the games is depicted as a green laser (white in the Gen V games), the laser here would suggest it were a Dark or Ghost-type variant (which doesn't exist in the games).
** Mega Mewtwo Y is capable of moving much faster than normal Mewtwo, though its offensive prowess isn't affected majorly. Compare this to the games, in which Mewtwo's Speed barely increases, while its offensive stats (particularly Special Attack) skyrocket.
* AdaptationalWimp: The Douse Drive Gensesect is an almost total wuss, being far more timid 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]].
* 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 (where it is treated with more ''gravitas'' and less apathy as in the original). This means scenes where Mega Mewtwo Y appeared before then are redrawn to have regular Mewtwo instead.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The manga adaptation has a 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 considering neither one of them should know about any of those characters.[[labelnote:*]]The fact that Brock and Misty are present here also doesn't help things if you're unaware that this Mewtwo is different from the original one (a fact not clear thanks to the obvious lack of a female voice).[[/labelnote]]