History ShoutOut / AshesOfThePast

* Apparently, Rudy's Pidgeot requires a ThemeMusicPowerUp. The name of the song? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKhhMdbU5I The Dambuster's March]].

* The story Brock tells with Steelix and Ninetails in chapter 47 is pulled straight from ''Videogame/{{Okami}}''.

* The story Brock tells with Steelix and Ninetails in chapter 47 is pulled straight from Okami.

* Professor Ivy triggers a [[VideoGame/HalfLife resonance cascade]], leading to Brock having to [[OffscreenMomentofAwesome fight off a horde of Unown with a crowbar.]]

* Professor Ivy triggers a [[VideoGame/HalfLife resonance cascade]], leading to Brock having to fight off a horde of Unown with a crowbar.

* When Dexter manifests a Porygon form for the first time, it says, "[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Stand by, ready. Set up.]]" It later gains a projector based on Bardiche, and refers to one of its shapeshifting forms as "Sonic Form". Gary later gains a Porygon from his Pokédex as well, and its projector is a red/purple sphere, aka Raising Heart.

* When Dexter manifests a Porygon form for the first time, it says, "[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Stand by, ready. Set up.]]" It later gains a projector based on Bardiche, and refers to one of its shapeshifting forms as "Sonic Form". Gary later gains a Porygon from his Pokédex as well, and it's projector is a red/purple sphere, aka Raising Heart.

* Jessie's [[spoiler: Cubone]] is a deliberate {{Expy}} of Archer from ''FateStayNight'', right down to the use of a Reality Marble.

* The Team that Ash fights Erika with is identical to the one that Red uses in ''SuperSmashBrothersBrawl'', and that fact is lampshaded in the author's notes and [[MythologyGag is noted to be fitting by the characters]].
* Jessie, James, and Meowth reference Agent Domino (from the ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'' movie) having an old team that was basically the [[RanmaOneHalf Kuno family]].

* During the Fuchsia Free-For-All race at the Laramie Ranch, Pikachu and Squirtle combine Magnet Rise with jet propulsion from Water Gun to catch up with the other racers. The result? [[VideoGame/MarioKart A speedy blue shell covered in electric spikes.]] When they crash into [[CheatersNeverProsper Dario]] after [[HumiliationConga nearly everyone else has already passed him at the finish line]], one of the judges recognizes it as something from "[[BlandNameProduct Marillkart]]."

** And then it gets combined with AdaptationNameChange later on. It turns out that Lorelei (whose name became [[NamesTheSame Prima]] in the English anime dub) wrote those guides and gives lecture tours under that alias, so as to keep her Elite Four career separate from her scientific one.

* ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross: Do You Remember Love?]]'' is adapted into the plot of the mermaid show Misty and the others perform at the Cerulean Gym.

* One suggested method of using [=TMs=] is to "[[MemeticMutation apply directly to forehead]]."

* Jessie, James, and Meowth reference Agent Domino (from the ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'' movie) having an old team that was basically the [[RanmaOneHalf Kuno family]].

* Ash's Squirtle is a walking ShoutOut to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and [[HotBlooded all that it]] [[RuelOfCool stands for]]. It is ''wonderful.''

* Ash's Squirtle is a walking ShoutOut to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and [[HotBlooded all that it]] [[BeyondTheImpossible stands for]].
** And it is ''wonderful.''

* The Team that Ash fights Erika with is identical to the one that Red uses in ''SuperSmashBrothersBrawl'', and that fact is lampshaded in the author's notes and [[MythologyGag is noted to be fitting by the characters]].

* Blast Burn is openly called a [[{{Bolo}} Hellbore.]]

* The fight between Abra and Psyduck was inspired heavily by the fight with Zeruel from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion,'' specifically the rebuild (WordOfGod).

* The Team that Ash fights Erika with is identical to the one the Pokemon Trainer uses in ''SuperSmashBrothersBrawl'', and that fact is lampshaded in the author's notes.

** An attack that Riolu uses in the battle for the Thunder Gym is hinted to be similar to the Rasengan, which reveals that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Surge is definitely not a fan of the show.]]

* James' guidebook is published by Prima. For those who don't get it, Prima is a company that makes video game strategy guides, including ones for Pokemon.

* James' guidebook is published by Prima.

* Brock's (spoiler? Ninetales) and Growlie reenact the famous SpaghettiKiss date scene from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp''. Lampshaded when the waiter asks his boss why they're serving spaghetti when it's a sushi restaurant and where the manager and cook learned to play the violin and accordion.