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4''Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior'' is the English title for the eleventh theatrical movie spin-off of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. The movie's basic premise centers around the existence of a "Reverse World," a kind of alternate universe designed to correct imbalances in the "Real World." Five years before the events of this movie, a research scientist named Newton Graceland apparently discovered the Reverse World and its sole resident Pokémon, [[OlympusMons Giratina]], a winged, six-legged, metallic dinosaur-like creature. Newton and his assistant [[MeaningfulName Zero]] plot to harness Giratina's power and take over the reverse world.
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6Series regulars Ash, Dawn, and Brock, along with their regular Pokémon companions, get roped into all this through the intervention of a cute, grassy little Pokémon called a Shaymin, who's on its way to the "flower garden" for the "flower-bearing" ritual with other Shaymin. Shaymin can communicate telepathically so we can hear its articulated thoughts, making it one of the very few Pokémon who can actually "talk". Shaymin's connection to Giratina and the Reverse World has something to do with its ability to render toxic material harmless via some internal process. Giratina seems to need Shaymin's help. In the end, Newton, who enlists Ash and his friends to help him, finally figures out what Giratina wants.
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8!!This movie provides examples of:
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10* AlienGeometries: The Reverse World is chock full of these.
11* AmbiguousGender: Shaymin, even for a "genderless" Mythical Pokémon. In Land Forme, it speaks with a soft, feminine voice (and in Japanese, uses feminine pronouns); in Sky Forme, it is headstrong and speaks with a much more masculine voice (and accompanying Japanese pronouns.)
12* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: (A [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible non-video game]] example). Compare the Japanese title (''Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin'') with the English title (''Giratina and the Sky Warrior'').
13* ArtificialIntelligence: Infi, the autopilot system on the Megarig.
14* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Zero's meddling in the Reverse World does this to Regigigas.
15* AwesomeBackpack: Newton's backpack.
16* BadassAdorable: Shaymin in its Sky Form.
17** Newton's Shieldon. It's tiny, adorable, and knows ''Flash Cannon''.
18* BigBad: Zero.
19* BigDamnHeroes: Regigigas, once the glacier starts to move, wakes up and - with the help of a herd of Mamoswine - holds the glacier in place till Ash can do his thing.
20* BreakTheCutie: Zero in the Manga.
21-->'''Zero:''' *after Newton deletes the blueprints to the Megarig* How could you...PLEASE...DON'T DISAPPEAR!!
22-->'''Newton:''' Leave it be, Zero...this is how it should be. We cannot sacrifice Giratina for the sake of our research. Please understand, Zero!
23-->'''Zero:''' *crying* All...All I wanted...I hate this polluted world...I just wanted to stay in the beautiful Reverse World...That's all...
24* TheCameo: Lucas, one of the PlayerCharacters of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' and Dawn's male counterpart, gets his one anime appearance during the movie's introduction, which briefly shows him battling with Brendan, the male PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''.
25* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The titles in Japanese (''Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin'') and English (''Giratina and the Sky Warrior'').
26* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Newton, at least Ash and Dawn seem to think so. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied he's been floating around the Reverse World for years -- he's physically identical to himself in Zero's memories]].
27* ContinuityNod: Along with ''Arceus And The Jewel Of Life'', this is part of a series that is kicked off by the events of ''The Rise Of Darkrai''.
28* CoolAirship: The Megarig.
29* DarkIsNotEvil: Don't worry, Shaymin, [[spoiler:Giratina is not going to eat you]].
30* DeadlyGas: Imbalances in the real world create distortions that spew horribly poisonous gas into the Reverse World. They're all over the place following Dialga and Palkia's battle in the previous movie and Shaymin can use them to power its Seed Flare.
31* {{Determinator}}: Zero and Newton are both this in their own ways regarding the Reverse World.
32* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Dialga's first scene. Shaymin is understandably frightened, but it turns out that sometimes even giant draconic guardians of time simply want a drink of water.
33* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Giratina]] pulled that off. Luckily, Aromatherapy [[spoiler:doesn't just cure all the status ailments in your party, it also brings OlympusMons back to life]]!
34** [[spoiler:Giratina was still breathing prior to Aromatherapy]], but it still contributes to the trope.
35** The actual moment of the trope [[spoiler:is actually ''the reveal that Giratina is breathing'': Pikachu and Piplup react so dramatically to Giratina's fallen form that the cast assumes the worst...until Dawn notices the dragon's neck moving]].
36* DisposableVehicleSection: As the Megarig loses power, Zero in the Mecha Giratina, a smaller craft that detaches from the main cockpit and has its own systems. The Megarig itself is left to crash in the forest.
37* EarlyBirdCameo: Giratina's Origin Forme and Shaymin's Sky Forme, ahead of the release of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Platinum]]''. Although the movie was supposed to be the proper debut for Shaymin, if it weren't for hackers discovering all the Generation IV event Pokémon beforehand.
38%%* EldritchAbomination: Giratina.
39* EldritchLocation: The Reverse World is a dimension full of structures made from buildings, bits of landscape, and even trees that mirror each other seemingly endlessly into bizarre formations. Damaging anything in the Reverse World causes its counterpart in the real world to violently break, to the point that even popping the Reverse World's ubiquitous bubbles causes explosions out of thin air. Everything seems to have its own GravityScrew, with areas of especially low gravity giving off a SicklyGreenGlow while day/night cycles are reflected in the color and direction of the ambient light.
40--> '''Ash:''' ''This is some weird place...for sure.''
41* EvilLaugh: Zero has two of them within the span of the movie.
42* EyeBeams: Zero's Magnezone fires its Mirror Shot attack from its pupil.
43* FantasticNuke: Depending on how toxic the fumes a Shaymin ends up absorbing, it can potentially become this after activating Seed Flare. Nurse Joy reveals that a previous incident with another Shaymin ended up absorbing extremely-toxic fumes which tore down part of a forest in contrast to the main Shaymin who absorbed much less toxic fumes from a barbecue grill and created a small weak explosion. [[spoiler:Absorbing the Distortion World's poison clouds creates this, which tears a hole between worlds.]]
44* FearlessFool: Shaymin is a lot braver in Sky Forme, even challenging Giratina to a battle on sight.
45* {{Flight}}: Shaymin Sky Forme's main ability and distinguishing power from its Land Forme.
46* {{Foreshadowing}}: Happens at least twice.
47** At one scene Brock mentions how the fjord were formed by a glacier and that there is a glacier by the flower garden. [[spoiler:That glacier becomes very important at the climax of the film.]]
48** Dawn mentions how cold it is. [[spoiler:She ends up freezing Zero in said glacier.]]
49* GravityScrew: In addition to the strength of gravity varying in the Reverse World, gravity can also pull in other directions in some places. When Ash and friends get pulled into the Reverse World a second time, they meet Newton in a cave that is upside down relative to where they arrived.
50* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Justified in-setting. The portal that Newton leads Ash and Dawn to after first meeting them is on the edge of a low-gravity area. When Team Rocket tries to jump through and miss, they get pulled straight down and barely manage to hang on to the edge of the landscape.
51* GroundhogDayLoop: Dialga traps Giratina in the Reverse World by using Roar of Time to create a miniature one that activates whenever Giratina tries to go through one of its own portals. This allows Dialga to escape without Giratina following it. The effect wears off when Giratina leaves through one of Shaymin's portals.
52* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler:Zero is frozen inside of the Mecha Giratina for an unspecified amount of time, but appears completely fine when he is recovered and doesn't seem to have been affected by the cold; this may be due to the thick suit he is wearing.]]
53* IceCrystals: The Reverse World's counterpart to the glacier by the Gracidea field is a forest of mountain-high pillars made of these. Breaking the pillars causes the glacier to start sliding down the valley. The Reverse World's bubbles are also [[SnowMeansCold replaced]] in this area by ice crystals the size of cars.
54* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Zero's jumpsuit comes to mind here.
55* InsufferableGenius: Newton brags about how he is a genius (if he does say so himself) and it shows in his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he shuts down the entire Megarig. He also shows some pretty badass skills while piloting that Airbike, avoiding attacks all with two kids along for the ride.
56* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: This happens to Giratina whenever it leaves the Reverse World or returns to it, and to Shaymin when it comes in contact with the pollen of Gracidea flowers (as well as when night comes or it gets encased in ice if in its Sky Forme.)
57* JerkassBall: For some reason, Dawn is strangely rude and antagonistic toward Ash in the movie, in contrast to her NiceGirl status and great relationship the two share in the anime. At one point she even kicks him in the shin, which is something you'd expect Kanto-era Misty to do, but not Dawn.
58* JerkassToOne: Most of Shaymin's dickish behavior is directed towards Ash as opposed to Dawn who they like or Brock who they largely ignore.
59* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shaymin is entitled and somewhat self-centered, but does come to genuinely care for Ash and company by the movie's end and is truly grateful for their help.
60* KillerRabbit: Shaymin once it snorts its signature flower.
61* LargeHam: Both Newton and Zero seem to be this, though Zero's doesn't really show at first until after the two of them meet up again.
62* LaserBlade: The Mecha Giratina is able to copy Giratina's Dragon Claw by projecting one of these from its underside.
63* {{Leitmotif}}: Zero has one: Zero no Wana (Zero's Trap).
64%%* LetsYouAndHimFight
65* MadScientist: Zero in that it was once his occupation as the assistant of one. It still counts.
66* MagicSkirt: Dawn in the Reverse World. Even though gravity is berserk there, her skirt is unaffected.
67* MeaningfulName: Zero...but that one speaks for itself.
68** Newton Graceland's Japanese name is Mugen, which means 'infinite', while his English name may come from the scientist Issac Newton, who developed the concept of gravity. The last name 'Graceland' is a play on the Gracidea flower garden.
69** Then you have the holographic maid in Zero's ship, Infi, whose name is also a shortened form of infinity; her character design also incorporates lemniscates.
70* MirrorUniverse: The Reverse World. Supposed to be an Pokemon equivalent of an antimatter universe.
71** Could be that antimatter things are turned into normal matter or vice versa when traveling between worlds.
72* NeverTrustATrailer: Based [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/3/32/Movie_11_initial_poster.png on this early poster for the movie]], you'd think Palkia appears, but ultimately, it plays no role in the film whatsoever, appearing only in a brief flashback to [[Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai Movie 10]].
73** Not to mention some beta scenes that appear in some of the Japanese trailers that don't appear in the movie. But that's Pokemon tradition, anyway.
74* NonMaliciousMonster: Giratina is just trying to protect the Reverse World from harm that world eventually spill over into the Pokemon World as a whole.
75* PoorCommunicationKills: Giratina's mad at Dialga and needs Shaymin's help, Shaymin thinks Giratina wants to eat it, Ash and the gang think Giratina's evil, and then the plot happens.
76* PunctuatedForEmphasis: RE.GI.GI.GAS.
77* PowerCopying: Zero's Megarig is able to copy Giratina's abilities at the cost of nearly killing it. He's able to use Giratina's portal-creation and a few of its attacks with the Mecha Giratina afterward.
78* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Zero was once Newton's assistant/pupil until Newton deleted the blueprints to the Megarig.
79* RedEyesTakeWarning: Giratina; they even glow when it's really pissed.
80* RedOniBlueOni: Newton is the red to Zero's blue, however it has been seen to flip-flop.
81* TheReveal: Zero is seen watching a video on loop that reveals he was Newton's pupil.
82* SceneryPorn: The system of fjords that this movie is set in is depicted in lavish detail, as is the town where Ash and friends spend the first half of the movie. Even the Reverse World has its own surreal beauty, especially during sunset.
83* SequelHook: Giratina's still pissed off at Dialga, so the end of the movie has him going off somewhere to go after him.
84* SlasherSmile: Zero delivers some rather creepy ones when things go according to his plans.
85* SpikesOfVillainy: Played straight with Zero's Megarig and Mecha Giratina, both of which have seemingly ornamental spikes everywhere. Subverted with Giratina, who may be aggressive but has no malicious intent and even uses its spikes for a Dragon Claw attack while fighting Zero.
86%%* SplitPersonality: Shaymin in Land Forme is cowardly, rude, and ungrateful, but when it changes to Sky Forme, it becomes brave, rude, and ungrateful.
87* TenderTears: Shaymin Land Forme at the end of the movie. As if it ''weren't adorable enough''.
88* ThemeNaming: The villain and his assistant are named for zero and infinity, two mathematical concepts that have multiple possible relationships depending on context.
89* ThinkingUpPortals:
90** Giratina can create portals between the normal world and the Reverse World. They appear on reflective surfaces and if Giratina wants to drag something into its domain, it's accompanied by a vortex that pulls nearby things in. [[spoiler:Zero eventually steals this power and doesn't need a reflective surface when he uses it.]]
91** Shaymin's Seed Flare opens a portal when used in the Reverse World, which Giratina wants to use to bypass Dialga's mini-GroundhogDayLoop.
92* {{Tsundere}}: Shaymin is a Type A to Ash for the majority of the film.
93* UngratefulBastard: Shaymin, ironically. Shaymin is described as the "Gratitude Pokemon", yet spends the entirety of the movie completely taking for granted that Ash and co. are helping it, even going so far as to treat Ash like a ButtMonkey, despite the fact that they are under no obligation to help it whatsoever. It does make up for it a little in the final scenes, though.
94* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Zero sees his own actions this way. The Reverse World is his idea of a perfect world and wants to cause destruction because people's actions can harm it.
95* VillainousBreakdown: Zero appears rather calm and collected at the beginning of the movie, but after he [[spoiler:captures Shaymin and uses it to open a portal using Seed Flare in order to allow Giratina access to the real world again so he can put his evil plan into fruition]], he starts showing a dramatic change from being almost stoic to going off the deep end by the climax of the movie.
96** He also had an even BIGGER breakdown in the manga version.
97* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Zero thinks that by destroying the real world, he's saving the Reverse World (which he plans to achieve by causing massive property damage in the Reverse World itself). [[InsaneTrollLogic This causes him to nearly murder the guardian of the Reverse World]] in the process]].
98* WhatTheHellHero: This is the reaction Ash and Co. have when they find out that Newton designed the Megarig.
99* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Zero is this to an extent. He has no problem with [[spoiler: killing Giratina]] for the sake of his own wants and needs, but he honestly thinks that the Reverse World is being polluted by the real world and wants to 'save' it.
100* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Zero once he gets a hold of Giratina's power.

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