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* KarmaHoudini: Dr. Yung's Mirage System is eventually destroyed by the end, but he retreats into his burning castle and faces no comeuppance for his actions. The combined efforts of Officer Jenny and a team of firefighters bore no fruit even after working together to search for him.

* EnemyMine: When Lugia first appears the three birds temporarily stop attacking each other and focus entirely on taking down the lord of the seas, likely recognizing him as the biggest potential threat. Naturally, they go right back to fighting each other once Lugia is out of the picture.

The Legendary Pokémon of the sea, who emerges to try and stop the three Titans from desstroying the world.

* AdaptationalBadass: And how! In the games, they're {{Joke Character}}s who, while playing a large part of the Pokémon lore, are among the absolute worst Pokémon of all time, with only Hidden Power as their possible move and nothing else. Here? They're powerful {{Reality Warper}}s who stand leagues above most other Pokémon in sheer power and can even ''create'' replicas of legendaries like Entei. Justified since several Pokedex entries in the games note that Unown become more powerful when they gather in large numbers.

* AntiVillain: Hard to pin down, but they seem to lean into a Type IV (In-Name Only). They're awoken and grant Molly her fantasies, but have no concept of right or wrong.
* BigBad: The ''true'' antagonistic forces of the film, but they're also not truly evil they simply lack a compass.

* TheCameo: Appear for a brief scene in the opening sequence of ''The Rise of Darkrai'', [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere getting as far away as possible]] from Dialga and Palkia's clash.

* TheWorfEffect: As powerful as they are, even they are nothing next to Dialga and Palkia, when the two Legendaries start clashing, the Unown are shown fleeing in panic from the clashes so as to show that not even such powerhouses stand a chance against the Gods of Time and Space.

* NonElemental: His Lickilicky is Normal-type

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Alicia opened her heart to him when no-one else would, instilling in Darkrai a deep loyalty towards both her and her IdenticalGranddaughter, Alice.

* LightningBruiser: He's strong enough to hold his own against [[PhysicalGods Dialga and Palkia SIMULTANEOUSLY.]] Even more impressively, his primary focus at the time was protecting Alima and its inhabitants.

* AdaptationalBadass: Its [[SecretArt Seed Flare]]. In the games, it's a very strong attack that can even potentially AntiArmor the opponent. Here, it's even stronger, especially being able to create portals back to the normal world at the Distortion World.

* GoodIsNotNice: Its Land Forme was a [[ImproperlyParanoid cowardly]], {{ungrateful|Bastard}} BrattyHalfPint. Its Sky Forme, subverts this though, being genuinely heroic and even being sincerely grateful upon having to leave Ash and the gang.

* AntiVillain: Type IV (In Name Only). Despite its [[FaceOfAThug villainous look]], it really has nothing against the protagonists or Shaymin. It's just really pissed at Palkia and Dialga going on with their lifelong feud to the point their fighting polluted its world. Considering it attacks Dialga and not Palkia implies Dialga started it.

* TheEmpath; She has the ability to commune with Pokémon's hearts, which she uses to temporarily stop the Creation Trio feud. She got it from her ancestors.

* AdaptationalBadass: Arceus in the games, even with his plates, is still a Pokémon that can be defeated by a single non-legendary mon under the right conditions and his Multitype Ability merely lets him change to one type at a time. Here, Multitype is made even stronger, allowing him to outright NoSell every attack thrown at him by anyone provided he has the right plate. Even without his plates, he can survive a mass Thunderbolt attack from hundreds of Pokémon and easily decimate his opposition. Furthermore, in the games all other members of the Creation Trio can defeat it even on their own, here they all get destroyed fighting him and just barely hold him back.

* BigGood: In the 4-part ONA ''Arceus, the One Called God'' (to promote ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''), it requests Ash and his friends' aid in stopping the remnants of Team Galactic from ripping the space-time wormhole to rescue Cyrus.
* HeroAntagonist: Its grievances with humanity aren't unjustified even thousands of years later - it was almost murdered by people it had ''saved'' with no benefit to itself save the satisfaction of doing good!

* IOweYouMyLife: Why it repaid Damos initially, though it appears Arceus was by nature sympathetic to those in need. It, however, has NoSympathy for the remains of Team Galactic to rescue Cyrus, given how they used Heatran, who almost died after absorbing the Fire Plate and ripping a hole in space-time, and completely ignores them as it leaves.
* NonElemental: His default form has the normal typing or no type at all, he can change his type with his ability, Multitype, to absorb any elemental attacks.
* PhysicalGod: As the unofficially stated God of the Pokémon World, Arceus stands leagues above every other creature in his world, even the already godly Creation Trio pales next to him.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Its eyes are usually green with red pupils, which start to glow when it becomes angry. After most of the events of this movie have beaten it down, there is no visible green left.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Not unjustified, as it believed that its trusted friend had betrayed it by withholding the Jewel Of Life - which Arceus ''needs'' to survive.
* TalkingAnimal: Unlike most Pokémon it uses full dialogue with the human characters, which also contrasts with the Creation Trio who communicate in roars and grunts.

* ChekhovsSkill: His ability to take on the appearance of another Pokémon [[spoiler:comes in handy near the climax of the movie, when he masquerades as Celebi and lures Kodai away to give Ash more time to bring the real Celebi to the Time Ripple.]]

* ActionMom: Trapped in an electrified steel cage? She punches her way out of it. Confronted by a trio of Legendary Pokémon? She fights them to a standstill. Facing Grings Kodai himself? Destroys his Time Ripple absorbing claw and knocks out his Shuppet with Dark Pulse. What motivates her to pull this all off? Her son needs her, and she's going to get him back, no matter what.

* DarkIsNotEvil: She has no malicious intent. All she want is to protect her son.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Blue eyes, and a good guy.

* AffablyEvil: Damon is a great guy to be around, introducing himself to Ash and his friends by volunteering to help them get to the harvest festival in time to register for the battle competition via a shortcut, and he happily participates in the telling of the story of the people of the Vale, and in the beginning of both movies, saves two portions of the tribe together with his dragon. And of course, he happens to be the film's main antagonist, later willing to do everything to undo the sins he commits.
* AntiVillain: He just wants to reunite the people of the Vale with their former home in the Kingdom of the Vale. Of course, his actions, including using Victini to power the flight of the castle, which turns out to be hurting it, are rather questionable at best.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His actions may be quite extreme, but since he just wants to reunite the people of the Vale with their land, it's safe to say he's very well-intentioned.

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* DubInducedPlotlineChange: The English dub gives Annie and Oakley affiliation with Team Rocket, and establishes their job as an assignment from Giovanni, despite all of their actions ultimately having nothing to do with them.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Once Oakley degenerates into an unhinged psycho, Annie is clearly horrified.

* MsFanservice: Their black leather outfits; consisting of skintight, halterneck crop tops and low-rise pants, elbow-length gloves, shapely figures, greatly exposed bellies, backs and shoulders, ample breasts and red lipstick make them very appealing to the eyes.

* FireIceLightning: Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno, in that order. And funnily enough, that's the order Lawrence decided to capture them in.

* AdaptationalVillainy: More like Adaptational Anti-Heroism, but, whereas the game version is a kindly old man who used to be a researcher in Cinnabar Island, this version is a more morally gray scientist who, in his attempts to gain the funding and technology to resurrect his daughter, worked with Team Rocket to perfectly clone Mew, and give Team Rocket the world's most powerful Pokémon.

-->'''Female scientist''': [[spoiler:''(after Mewtwo is treated with the amnesiac drug that makes him forget about Amber)'' Its brain waves are going back to normal. Everything seems okay, Doctor.]]
-->'''Dr. Fuji''': [[spoiler:Nothing is okay. My Amber is gone forever.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: He says it best right before he is killed by Mewtwo when it destroys the entire lab.
-->''We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokémon... '''and we succeeded'''.''

* MadScientist: He's the one who created Mewtwo.

* AffablyEvil: As much of a dick as he was pre-HeelFaceTurn, he's pretty refined in his actions. The English dub makes it a bit more apparent where Mewtwo basically acts like a Pokémon version of Film/DrNo.

* CynicismCatalyst: His only friends spent a short time with him before dying, and then his memories had to be wiped in order to keep the emotional anguish from overloading him during his early stages in the test tube. This left him with only vague flickers of what he remembered with Ambertwo and the other three clones - a sense of grief and loss, accompanied by not understanding exactly why "life is wonderful", or what his purpose is.

* DespairEventHorizon: The death of Ambertwo (and to an extent, Bulbasaurtwo, Charmandertwo and Squirtletwo) got to him ''really badly'', and he almost snaps. Dr. Fuji sedates him to prevent this, but it's clear that Ambertwo's FinalWords got to him so much that, when a mature Mewtwo wakes up, he goes berserk upon learning of its purpose.

* {{Jerkass}}: Both the Japanese and English versions are quite dickish throughout most of the film, though the latter is more prone in rubbing it in the heroes faces.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At the end of ''Mewtwo Strikes Back'' and throughout ''Mewtwo Returns''. He even has a {{Tsundere}} moment after stopping a bus from falling into a river. this keeps on in ''Journeys'', where he sympathizes with Ash's and Goh's dreams of being a Pokémon master and catching every Pokémon, and gives them a battle.

* TookALevelInKindness: His reappearance in ''Journeys''[='=] episode 46. Mewtwo is still strict and aloof, but he treats Ash and his new friend Goh much more amicably, even accepting a friendly battle with them. While the battle [[CurbStompBattle goes as one would expect]], Mewtwo shows them respect when they lose, and tells them that the day with them was the most enjoyment he's had in a long time. It's also revealed in the time since Ash last saw him, he's been helping Pokémon who have been mistreated by humans.

* GetOut: Variations of it, which form almost all of his dialogue. [[spoiler: He's speaking to Palkia and Dialga.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Grumpy and distrustful of humans, but is quite caring towards other Pokémon, especially Maegearna.

* CatchPhrase: "If that is what you wish."

* CatchPhrase: "ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld..."

* CatchPhrase: "Were you surprised?", especially after it summons something. The actual act of summoning things is often accompanied by "Alléhooparing!"

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first it starts as a whiny brat who does nothing to help Ash and the gang, but does ultimately prove itself as this during the climax, and even is sad to leave Ash.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike in the games, Giratina is more of an AntiVillain. In the games, Giratina was a SatanicArchetype who was banished for being a BloodKnight (by who is unknown, but is likely to be Arceus) and in ''Legends Arceus'' [[spoiler:it was one of the main antagonists alongside Volo, uncaring if the universe was destroyed as long as it could get revenge]]. Here, it has no animosity towards anyone, and it only holds a grudge on Dialga for polluting the Reverse world with his and Palkia's fight.
* AntiVillain: Despite its [[FaceOfAThug villainous look]], it really has nothing against the protagonists or Shaymin. It's just really pissed at Palkia and Dialga going on with their lifelong feud to the point their fighting polluted its world. Considering it attacks Dialga and not Palkia implies Dialga started it.

* GoodIsNotNice: Tries to kill Dialga more than once, out of anger at it threatening the entirety of existence with its fight against Palkia, which while harsh is hardly unjustified. Luckily, Ash talks him out of it in their second encounter.

* IOweYouMyLife: Was saved directly by Ash ad his friends, because of this, it seems to be the Creation Trio member that’s most fond of Ash and his friends.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If only it had told Shaymin that it didn't intend to eat it, but to get it to open a portal to the real world, a lot of drama could have been avoided.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red eyes, and is quite dangerous at times.

* TheBigGuy: It demonstrates it's colossal strength to move continents by effortlessly holding back the glacier.

* NonElemental: Its a normal type, but can move continents.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Subverted. When it's brainwashed by the Dark Ball, its eyes turn [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black]].

* WrongContextMagic: His "Mewtwo Balls" are able to capture Pokémon that already belong to Trainers, something normal Pok&eballs cannot do. When Ash tried putting his Pokémon back in their balls; he's left in shock as the "Mewtwo Balls" simply '''CAPTURE''' his Pok&eballs.

* WrongContextMagic: His "Mewtwo Balls" are able to capture Pokémon that already belong to Trainers, something normal Poké Balls cannot do.

This character page is dedicated to the various characters that appear in the first nineteen ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' films.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiEbara (Japanese), Music/MegumiHayashibara (English)

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* AmbiguouslyRelated: Ash is a rare user of aura like him, and matched his aura and appearance such that [[AuraVision Lucario]] mistook Ash for Aaron. It was so long ago Ash might as well be a distant descendant.

* CloningBlues: Averted. Ambertwo doesn't seem to have any problems with being a clone.

* CloningBlues: Much of Mewtwo's angst in ''Mewtwo Returns'' comes from his belief that clones don't have the right to share the world with natural-born Pokémon.