Line #7 Recap/PokemonS9E16OddPokemonOut


1	!!Original Title: ''Juptile VS Tropius! Grassland Duel!!''
2	!!!Original Airdate: January 26, 2006
3	!!!US Airdate: October 28, 2006
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5	[[caption-width-right:300:Grovyle is setting himself up to join the HeartbrokenBadass club.]]
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7	A fight with a Tropius lands Grovyle in the Pokémon Center, leading to romantic feelings for Nurse Joy's Meganium. But Meganium isn't on the market. Can Grovyle find the fortitude to overcome a broken heart to challenge Team Rocket?
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9	!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
10	* CrushBlush: Grovyle frequently blushes around Meganium, particularly paired with SomethingElseAlsoRises. Earlier, Tropius gets one when Meganium tells it to stand down from its fight with Grovyle.
11	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Poor Grovyle fights for Meganium's heart, but she ends up with Tropius.
12	* FlowersOfRomance: The flower in Grovyle's twig. And just like the flower Wobbuffet gave Kirlia earlier in Battle Frontier (though for a different reason), it wilts when Grovyle discovers Meganium and Tropius are a couple.
13	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Meganium stops the fight between Grovyle and Tropius. Nurse Joy notes that Tropius will never attack Meganium.
14	* HeartbrokenBadass: Grovyle has a crush on Meganium. But Meganium is in love with a Tropius.
15	* HeroicBSOD: Grovyle gets one of these when he finds out his love interest, a cute and motherly female Meganium, is already in a relationship with his rival. After evolving into a Sceptile, it got worse as he loses his ability to attack because of a broken heart.
16	* HeyThatsMyLine: When Team Rocket do their motto, Mime Jr. steals Meowth's part, while Meowth [[GotMeDoingIt does Mime Jr.'s bit at the end]]. When Meowth realizes what he's doing, he threatens Mime Jr. not to do that again or he'll be cute and ''flat''.
17	* InnocentlyInsensitive: As Meganium and Tropius are cuddling, everyone comments on how cute they look and that they looked like they were meant to be together, [[ImStandingRightHere not noticing the heartbroken look on Sceptile's face]].
18	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Even though he was spurned, Grovyle still steps up to rescue Meganium and Tropius when Team Rocket captures them.
19	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Sceptile is on the receiving end of one against both Seviper and Cacnea, since he is powerless and can't fight back.
20	* NotSoStoic: Not even Grovyle is too stoic to fall in love.
21	* ObliviousToLove: Probably the most obvious case of this for Ash, as he can't put two and two together regarding Grovyle's feelings for Meganium, or his heartbreak when they find out Meganium was already with Tropius. Brock all but spells it out for Ash and he still doesn't get it.
22	* PyrrhicVictory: Grovyle manages to defeat his rival Tropius in battle, but it turns out to be AllForNothing because Meganium is already in a relationship with Tropius, and defeating Tropius doesn't change that, leaving Grovyle heartbroken.
23	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: How can they tell Grovyle is smitten? A flower suddenly bloomed on his twig.[[note]]In reality, it was likely a side effect of Meganium's healing powers, which are explicitly stated in the [=PokéDex=] both in-game and in the anime as being able to bring dead foliage back to life.[[/note]]

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