History Anime / PokemonOrigins

* AdaptedOut: Despite being prominent [=NPCs=] in the games, Daisy Oak and Bill are not even included in the cameos.

** Charizard is the most powerful Pokémon on Red's team and is able to beat [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] when the nothing else (even [[OlympusMons Articuno]]) could stand up to it.

* AdaptationExpansion: Giovanni has his motivation and backstory expanded upon. [[spoiler:He used to be a loving trainer like Red, but as he got older he became jaded and started seeing Pokémon more like a business. His Gym battle with Red rekindled his old feelings, leading him to disband Team Rocket.]]
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Unlike in the main anime, Swift is portrayed true to the games in that it never misses. [[spoiler: Not even Mewtwo can outrun it.]]
* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: Mewtwo, unlike both of the Mewtwo from the main anime series, doesn't speak human language and has cries that don't sound like any particular gender.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Just after catching Mewtwo and celebrating completing the Kanto Pokédex with Oak, Red realizes that it must have been cloned from Mew, so there's one more Pokémon he needs to catch...cue Mew flying by the window.]]

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: A TruerToTheText version compared to [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the standard one]], even down to there only being the original 151 Pokémon introduced in Generation 1, [[TheCameo except for a Slowking seen in a Hall of Fame picture]]. [[spoiler: While Mega Charizard X is a Gen VI addition, his ''species'' is nothing new.]]

** Charizard, of course. After evolving fully, he manages to curb-stomp almost every single foe that he faces, [[spoiler: including '''Mewtwo''' after he becomes Mega Charizard X]].

---> '''Red:''' And that's why you're getting the police. But I'm not gonna let Team Rocket keep abusing Pokémon for the [[spoiler: Master Ball Project.]]

** ''Don't'' [[spoiler: call your Pokémon morons in front of your grandfather, Blue]].

* BigDamnHeroes: At Pokémon Tower, when a Team Rocket Grunt's Koffing fills the room with smoke so Red's Jolteon can't see, who should appear but [[spoiler: Cubone, whose well-timed Bonemerang clears the smoke and allows Red to lay the smackdown on the Team Rocket Grunts responsible for Marowak's death.]]

** [[spoiler: Red's last battle against Blue comes down to their starter Pokémon, just like the first. But this time, Red's starter wins.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Pokémon Mansion in the montage. Also, the stones given by Mr Fuji.]]
* CompressedAdaptation: It was inevitable. The moments shown in detail are: the beginning, Pewter Gym battle with Brock, the Lavender Town plot, Silph Co., the Viridian Gym Battle, Kanto Champion battle, and [[spoiler: Mewtwo]]. Everything else is shown through montages. If a place that was visited at one point only has chronological significance at a later point, it gets more-detailed coverage in a flashback when it becomes significant.

** Blue, when he tried to catch [[spoiler: Mewtwo]]. We don't see the fight itself, but Blue bedridden and swathed in bandages is enough of an indicator that [[spoiler: Mewtwo]] is no ordinary foe.
** [[spoiler: In the time it takes for a flashback, Mewtwo takes down Red's entire team except Articuno and Charizard. Articuno goes down after the damage inflicted by Blizzard gets nullified away by Recover, and Charizard did little better. Cue Mega Charizard X, who turns the tables on Mewtwo. [[http://imageshack.us/a/img405/3521/9wf.gif Just]] [[http://imageshack.us/a/img855/7775/2wj.gif look!]]]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: Mega Charizard X, despite being Red's main Pokémon, has the darkest and scariest color scheme of any Pokémon in the special.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Blue. The real final battle is against Mewtwo.]]
* DubNameChange: Green Okido is known as Blue Oak in English, matching up with name the ''Red and Blue'' release.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Cubone for a short while after Marowak was killed.]]

* {{Foil}}: Giovanni [[spoiler: and Red. It turns out Giovanni was a trainer much like Red, but he forgot how much he enjoyed Pokemon and became a ruthless buisnessman-gangster.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Red's Charizard uses a lot of physical attacks. [[spoiler: This is to highlight the physical attack boost when it Mega Evolves into Mega Charizard X]].
** A subtle musical one as well. Its difficult to hear in the special itself, but on the soundtrack there's a beat to the entry section of the Vs. Champion theme that wasn't present in previous versions. [[spoiler: Upon closer listening, it becomes clear its the beat to ''Red's Theme'' for ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', slyly indicating who is real Pokemon Master in the battle.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Used when showing Team Rocket's murder of Marowak.]]

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Giovanni after being beaten by Red, mostly because of his HeelRealization.]]

* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:After being savagely beaten down by Mewtwo, Charizard evolves into Mega Charizard X and proceeds to give Mewtwo the misery of its life.]]

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] brilliantly. Giovanni is on the receiving end of this in his battle against Red for the Earth Badge, but Red doesn't know he's doing this. He just sees Giovanni, a CardCarryingVillain.]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons:

** Played with concerning Charizard, which is the main featured Pokémon and is dragonic in appearance (but not actually a Dragon-type). [[spoiler: It's eventually played straight when it Mega Evolves into Mega Charizard X.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Red says he won't accept a Badge from the boss of Team Rocket. So Giovanni disbands Team Rocket right there so he can accept it from a Gym Leader.]]

** [[spoiler: Doubly so when Mega Charizard X, who, with one blow, can punch an opponent as supremely tough as Mewtwo across a room. One should note that, prior to ascension, he couldn't even ''touch'' Mewtwo.]]
* MerchandiseDriven: Just like the regular anime, but ''Origins'' handles the MerchandiseDriven aspect more carefully due to its older target demographic. [[spoiler: The only blatant advertising in the special is for Mega Charizard X, which in itself is many older fans' wish fulfillment for a Dragon-type Charizard.]]

** The unnamed Team Rocket member we see [[spoiler: killing Marowak]] looks similar to Executive Proton from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]''.

** In the original Japanese Dub, when Giovanni loses to Red in the Gym Match, he orders his subordinates to tell ALL the branches that Team Rocket is disbanded. This seems to directly refer to the Johto and Sevii Islands branches of Team Rocket.

*** Red's Charizard [[spoiler: finishing Giovanni's Rhydon with Seismic Toss, a move Ash's Charizard was famous for using in the original anime.]]

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: The Marowak ghost. [[spoiler: It's actually ''warning people away'' from Team Rocket.]]

** Red gets one when he approaches [[spoiler: Mewtwo and he jumps out, ready to fight.]]
** [[spoiler:Mewtwo himself gets one when Charizard Mega Evolves.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Giovanni goes through this to himself. He's normally very stoic and business-like, but when he battles Red, his attitude changes. In their Gym battle he notices that he actually cares if Red is a strong enemy and his disbanding of Team Rocket is driven by the resurgence of old feelings caused by the battle.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: When Red gets to the Viridian Gym several Rocket Members are disguised in dark Jackets and hats. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who they are.

* WhamShot: Surprisingly, the special contains one not just for itself, but for the then-upcoming ''Videogame/PokemonXAndY''. [[spoiler: Charizard Mega-Evolves during the battle with Mewtwo.... but it's a '''different''' Mega form than the one previously revealed. Cue the end of the special showing that Charizard will have ''two'' Mega forms, one for ''X'' and one for ''Y''.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:

** Early in his journey, Red tries to capture another Trainer's Pokémon after weakening it. Naturally, his opponent let's him know not to try and steal other people's Pokémon.

* TheWorfBarrage: Any of Red's Pokémon that aren't Charizard are quickly dispatched on-screen in order to justify Red bringing out his starter. The most egregious examples include [[spoiler: skipping over the majority of Red and Blue's Champion battle to get to the battle between Charizard and Blastoise]] and [[spoiler: Articuno being defeated in one hit after attacking Mewtwo.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Battles here are way more flashy than the games, using a wide variety of moves that would be not very useful to teach your mons such as the first battle with Blue, instead of just spamming Bubble like a normal trainer would do he uses a very choreographed set of Tackle and finishes of Charmander with Bite instead. Later with Brock, Red decides to go on Scratch despite the epic clash, would be better using Ember due the STAB and Charmanter superior Special Attack, also Onix higher Defense and resistance not help matters. Later with Giovanni, Charizard should have used a non-stopping barrage of Seismic Toss on Rhydon instead of using Mega Punch and Mega Kick, well but lucky Red that Rhydon cannot learn any Rock Type move by level in the first generation.

* Awesome but Impractical: Battles here are way more flashy than the games, using a wide variety of moves that would be not very useful to teach your mons such as the first battle with Blue, instead of just spamming Bubble like a normal trainer would do he uses a very choreographed set of Tackle and finishes of Charmander with Bite instead. Later with Brock, Red decides to go on Scratch despite the epic clash, would be better using Ember due the STAB and Charmanter superior Special Attack, also Onix higher Defense and resistance not help matters. Later with Giovanni, Charizard should have used a non-stopping barrage of Seismic Toss on Rhydon instead of using Mega Punch and Mega Kick, well but lucky Red that Rhydon cannot learn any Rock Type move by level in the first generation.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The way Mewtwo is pronounced in the dub put emphasis on the "two," rather than the "Mew," which is how it was said in previous dubs.

** [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] only appears in a short cameo during a catching montage.

** {{Averted just like the game in Lavender Town, whose primary attraction is Pokémon Tower, a memorial for dead Pokémon.
** On the other hand, while they don't shy away from Pokémon being dead, the dub avoids explicitly referring to Pokémon actually ''dying''. Particularly notable in a scene at the end of the episode where a woman says "Growlithe, I miss you so. Why did you have to..." Likewise, Cubone "lost his mother" to Team Rocket, rather than Team Rocket killing her. In the Japanese version, it is averted, and the Marowak is explicitly stated to have been killed.
** In Part 3, the Silph Co. secretary seems rather upset that Team Rocket's experiments have caused Pokémon to "collapse."

---> '''Blue:''' You just attack and attack...so predictable!

** Averted just like the game in Lavender Town, whose primary attraction is Pokémon Tower, a memorial for dead Pokémon.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: ''Giovanni'' of all people goes through this to himself. He's normally very stoic and business-like, but when he battles Red, his attitude changes. In their Gym battle, in particular, he notices that he actually gives a damn if Red is a strong enemy and his disbanding of Team Rocket is driven by the resurgence of old feelings caused by the battle.]]

* OutOfTheInferno: [[spoiler: Mewtwo after blowing up the Pokémon Mansion.]]

* PokemonSpeak: Averted. The Pokémon roar, growl, chirp, hiss, etc., just like real animals.
** Interestingly, [[spoiler: the Marowak ghost speaks human language before it's reunited with Cubone.]]
** Played straight [[spoiler:by Mew's short cameo. Justified here because Mew's name is also an onomatopoeia.]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Red's Charizard, definitely. As a result of the series being only four episodes long, he's the only of Red's Pokémon who gets significant screentime in battle. Red's Jolteon fares slightly better than most, but generally, battles tend to get skipped over or sped through to the point where Charizard can come in and get the lion's share of the focus.

* SuddenlyVoiced:
** Red. By ''Creator/JunkoTakeuchi'' (of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fame, voicing Naruto Uzumaki himself) and ''Creator/BrycePapenbrook'', of all people!
** An inversion. Although he didn't speak in the original games, it's still kind of jarring to have [[spoiler: a Mewtwo that doesn't telepathically communicate.]]
* ToBeAMaster: Blue's goal, not Red's. At least not at first. Red's original goal was merely to [[OneHundredPercentCompletion complete the Pokédex]]. Like in the game, Red is the one who succeeded to become the Pokémon Master.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Implied to be the case with Giovanni.]]

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** A subtle musical one as well. Its difficult to hear in the special itself, but on the soundtrack there's a beat to the entry section of the Vs. Champion theme that wasn't present in previous versions. [[spoiler: Upon closer listening, it becomes clear its the beat to ''Red's Theme'' for PokemonGoldAndSilver, slyly indicating who is real Pokemon Master in the battle.]]

* AdaptationExpansion:
** Minor {{NPC}}s like Mr. Fuji's granddaughter have expanded roles.
** Special mention must be done to Giovanni. He has more character development and depth in this 1 hour and 30 minutes OVA compared to 15/16 years of anime!

** Giovanni. In the games he calls himself "[[WorldsStrongestMan The Greatest Trainer]]". Had he said it here, it wouldn't have been bragging, it would have been ''stating a fact''.
* {{Baka}}: It's Professor Oak's VerbalTic.

** Most Gym Leaders are only glossed over in montages. This sticks out a little harder for Misty in particular, if only because of her presence in the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} main series]].

* DubNameChange: Green Okido is known as Blue Oak in English.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:[[SuperMode Mega Charizard X]], ten days before the release of ''Videogame/PokemonXAndY''. This special was even its introduction to the public, with the marketing material for the new Mega Evolution appearing afterwards.]]

** Red's Charizard uses alot of physical attacks. [[spoiler: This is to highlight the physical attack boost when it mega evolves into Mega Charizard X]].

** Most Gym Leaders are only glossed over in montages. This sticks out a little harder for Misty in particular, if only because of her presence in the [[Anime/Pokemon main series]].

** The battles are also a lot more violent than they are in the original anime. [[BloodlessCarnage Still no blood, however!]] Even Charmander and Squirtile's first battle had the former screaming in pain after the later used Bite on it.

** Most Gym Leaders are only glossed over in montages. This sticks out a little harder for Misty in particular, if only because of her presence in the wider zeitgeist.

** The battles are also a lot more violent than they are in the original anime. Even Charmander and Squirtile's first battle had the former screaming in pain after the later used Bite on it.

** Most Gym Leaders are only glossed over in montages.

''Pokémon Origins'' (known as ''Pocket Monsters: The Origin'' [[MarketBasedTitle in Japan]]) is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' {{OVA}}/four-episode MiniSeries, [[MerchandiseDriven made to assist in promoting]] ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. It aired on October 2nd, 2013 in Japan and began streaming on the North American official site in mid-November of 2013. Following the long-running main ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime series]] itself, ''Pokémon Origins'' is the second animated adaptation of the original ''Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' (preserving more of the plot of ''Red and Blue/Green'' while mixing in elements of ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' as well as ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'') games featuring Red, his [[TheRival rival Blue Oak]], and their adventures across the Kanto region. The animation was split among three studios, Creator/ProductionIG, Creator/OLMIncorporated and Creator/{{Xebec}}.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Several characters get a mish-mash of their ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'' designs. A more traditional example is Red's mom, who has blue hair in the games but brown in this anime, most likely to more resemble the "actual anime" version of the character (or to emphasize the family resemblance).

** The unnamed Team Rocket member we see [[spoiler: killing Marowak]] looks similar to Executive Proton from ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver''.

* GottaCatchEmAll: This is Red's ultimate goal. He starts off with no desire to become a Pokémon Master at the start of the special. He learns about Trainers very early on, and it starts as a secondary objective and snowballs from there. [[spoiler:He succeeds... mostly].]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Just after catching Mewtwo and celebrating completing the Kanto Pokédex with Oak, Red realizes that it must have been cloned from Mew, so there's one more Pokémon he needs to catch...cue Mew flying by the window.]]

* TheAbridgedSeries: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYQOzzDmuE&list=PLBlvuuhVf1hCFMnVoK8_Rz0hwahW21NQs&index=1 By FoulFangedFiend]]

* AscendedMeme: As the special is based on the first pair of ''Pokémon'' games, a lot of scenes play out in the manner of how one would have first played the games:
** Picked Charmander as your starter? Bet you know how Red feels facing Brock.
*** In fact, the whole battle with Brock mirrors many players' experiences, with Onix's Bide causing problems and Nidoran's Double Kick coming in handy[[note]]technically, Nidoran didn't learn Double Kick at that level until ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' came about[[/note]]
*** A similar attitude that many players have is keeping their starters in their team no matter what. This is something Giovanni calls Red out on in their Gym Battle.
** Red tries to catch the opponent's Pokémon during his first match with Poké Balls. He fails and gets chewed out.
** Constantly frustrated by the Safari Zone? Bet you also know how Red feels trying to catch a Chansey.
** Recover on Legendaries is a massive pain. [[spoiler:Mewtwo heals all of its damage, so it's still nearly fresh facing Charizard.]]
** In part two, they manage to pull off the infamous "white hand on your shoulder" joke.
** "You just [[SpamAttack attack and attack]], that's so predictable!"

** Red in the end of the series.
** His Charizard is his most powerful Pokémon.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: A TruerToTheText version compared to [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the standard one]], even down to there only being the original 151 Pokémon introduced in Generation 1, [[spoiler:[[TheCameo except for a Slowking seen in a Hall of Fame picture]]. [[EarlyBirdCameo While Mega Charizard X is a Gen VI addition]], his ''species'' is nothing new.]]

* BigBad: Giovanni.

** In the journey to the first Gym Red meets a mysterious figure in his life who mentors him into properly training and battling Pokémon. Said mentor later ends up being Brock who is the Gym leader. Red later meets an recurring enemy in Giovanni, only to find that he is the Leader of the last Gym.

** In the journey to the first Gym Red meets a mysterious figure in his life who mentors him into properly training and battling Pokemon. Said mentor later ends up being Brock who is the Gym leader. Red later meets an recurring enemy in Giovanni, only to find that he is the Leader of the last Gym.

** During Red and Blue's first battle with each other, in the scene where Blue's Squirtle uses Bite on Red's Charmander, Charmander's blood-curdling scream (which occurs as Charmander writhes in agony) is somewhat muted/subdued in the English dub.

** [[spoiler:Red's first battle against Blue is this. Red's under-leveled Charmander is no match for Blue's Squirtle.]]
** [[spoiler:Red's Charmeleon is shown incinerating Erika's Gym with Flamethrower.]]
** [[spoiler:Giovanni's Nidoqueen trounces Red's Charizard in ''seconds'' at the Silph Co. building, ''blowing the building's top off''. ''And then the bastard gets away in a helicopter!'']]

* DemotedToExtra: SeriesMascot Pikachu. Seriously. See Irony below.
** Most gym leaders are only glossed over.
*** ''Misty'' stands out particularly hard in this regard. In the "proper" anime she's the most famous of Ash's "lady-friends". Here? Not only is she obviously older than Red (thus somewhat precluding such hijinx), but she's never even properly ''animated''. ''Lance'' gets more screentime than she does.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Believe it or not, this is [[spoiler: Red's goal. He starts off with no desire to become a Pokémon Master at the start of the special. He learns about Trainers very early on, and it starts as a secondary objective and snowballs from there.]] And to his credit, he ''does'' pull it off.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Due to the mini-series being directly inspired from a videogame, ''Origins'' features this trope. The Japanese episodes use "Report" (such as ''Report 1 - Red'' being the first episode; the term refers to how the process of saving a game is usually referred to as "reporting" in the Japanese ''Pokémon'' games). As for the English versions of the episodes? Surprisingly, they '''retain''' this trope as well (being faithful to the Japanese titles), although they use the term "File" instead to convey the same concept.

** Played straight with Charizard, which is the main featured Pokémon and is a dragon.

* JustifiedTrope: In the original GameBoy games, there was some FridgeLogic as to how the early Gym Leaders, supposedly the best trainers in the region besides the Elite Four, would have puny, low-leveled teams compared to regular ol' Trainers you would encounter later in the game (A bit like the DegradedBoss trope). Turns out, the Gym Leaders DO have powerful teams; they just choose to use weaker ones based on the number of Badges that their challenger currently holds. This is brought to light with Red's final battle with Giovanni. Giovanni revealed that he used his weaker Gym Leader team when Green/Blue challenged him to Gym Battle. Since Red challenged him not as Gym Leader, but as the Boss of the Team Rocket, [[TheGlovesComeOff Giovanni opts to use his two overleveled Pokemon instead]].

* MeaningfulName: Red was named by his dad because Red is the color of warmth and love (in the English dub, Red's father names him this so that Red will have "the passion and energy of a [[PlayingWithFire red-hot fire]]."). [[spoiler: This fact influences Red's starter Pokémon choice of Charmander, and is further reinforced by Red's actions with Team Rocket. What happens when you fight against warmth/fire? ''You get burned.'']]

** The announcement trailer begins with a view of a GameBoy playing ''Pokémon Red''.
*** Professor Oak does the infamous "Welcome to the World of Pokémon" speech, almost word for word, at the beginning.
*** The first Pokémon battle shown is Gengar vs. Nidorino, a reference [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue to the opening cutscene.]]
*** Each episode begins with the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedBlueGreenAndYellow Red/Blue/Green/Yellow]]'' main menu selecting the option "Continue Game", and ends with the Save screen, complete with "Saving, don't turn off the power..."
*** A lot of the characters' dialogue is lifted straight from the games, and during montage sequences they even show textboxes.
*** [[spoiler: Marowak's "Unknown Ghost" form is identical to its sprite in ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen''.]]
*** Blue's team in the montage is faithful to his Blastoise team in the final battle. [[spoiler:Mewtwo has its moveset from the original game as well.]]
*** In the original games, Giovanni declares [[LargeHam "This time, I'm not holding back! Once more, you shall face Giovanni, the greatest trainer!"]] before his gym match. Here he states Red will face his two strongest Pokémon, and [[spoiler: his Rhyhorn ''takes down Red's Victreebel, Kabutops, Snorlax and Jolteon in one or two shots'' (and using an ''electric attack to OneHitKO '''Jolteon''''' before scoring a double KO against Hitmonlee]]. Strongest Trainer indeed!
*** Also, Giovanni's pose during his Pokémon battles is the same as his sprite in the generation one games: half open legs, hands in his pockets, and a sadistic grin on his face.
*** In ''File 3 - Giovanni'', Blue says his famous CatchPhrase "Smell ya later" whenever he leaves Red.

** The Pokémon Fan Club president makes a brief cameo in an overview of the journey and he uses his appearance from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', of all things!

** In their first battle, Giovanni criticizes Red for relying mostly on his Charizard and little else. This was something a lot of first time players would do.

** On the other hand, while they don't shy away from Pokémon being dead, the dub avoids explicitly referring to Pokémon actually ''dying''. Particularly notable in a scene at the end of the episode where a woman says "Growlithe, I miss you so. Why did you have to..." Likewise, Cubone "lost his mother" to Team Rocket, rather than Team Rocket killing her. In the Japanese version, it is averted, and the Marowak is explicitly stated to have been killed. In Part 3, the Silph Co. secretary seems rather upset that Team Rocket's experiments have caused Pokémon to "collapse."

** Being a Rock type, Geodude barely felt Charmander's Scratch.
** As well as Blastoise with Charizard's Mega Punch.

* OnPatrolMontage: The montage at the start of Part 2 is this, covering everything between the Boulder Badge and Pokemon Tower. Including the next 3 Badges.

* ToBeAMaster: Blue's goal, not Red's. At least not at first. Red's original goal was merely to [[OneHundredPercentCompletion complete the Pokédex]]. Like in the game, Red is the one who succeeded to become the Pokemon Master.

** Most gym leaders are only glossed over.

* PaperThinDisguise: When Red gets to the Viridian Gym several Rocket Members are disguised in Dark Jackets and hats. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who they are.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Red's Charizard, definitely. As a result of the series being only four episodes long, he's the only of Red's Pokémon who gets some screentime in battle. Red's Jolteon fares slightly better than most, but generally, battles tend to get skipped over or sped through to the point where Charizard can come in and get the lion's share of the focus.

* {{Irony}}: Despite being Red's [[WeaponOfChoice main Pokémon]] in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} various]] [[Manga/PokemonZensho other]] [[Manga/PokemonSpecial adaptations]], [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] [[DemotedToExtra is only caught after the Pokémon League and is never used after]].

* TheAbridgedSeries: [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBlvuuhVf1hCFMnVoK8_Rz0hwahW21NQs By FoulFangedFiend]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: Several characters get a mish-mash of their ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGoldAndSoulSilver'' designs. A more traditional example is Red's mom, who has blue hair in the games but brown in this anime, most likely to more resemble the "actual anime" version of the character.