Awesome / Pokémon Red (Fanmade)

When Pokémon meets Dragon Ball Z.

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• The first one comes when Red beats Brock with a team composed of Pikachu, Male Nidoran, and Charmander, and no overwhelming level advantage or Metal Claw from Charmander or Double Kick from Nidoran. All strategy.
• The gym battles in Cerulean City are this for Misty: while she loses she gives both Blue and Red a terrifying challenge, to the point they see her as a giantess laughing down on them after her Starmie has reduced them to their last Pokémon (Rattata and Pikachu respectively).
  • This gets even better when it's confirmed that Gym Leaders use Pokémon of a level proportional to how many badges their opponent has, meaning she was holding back a lot against two trainers who had just one badge.
• After Red beat Nugget Bridge he's asked to join Team Rocket, and when he refuses he finds out all the Nugget Bridge trainers are Team Rocket grunts ready to gang up on him - cue Misty with her Golduck, a Pokémon from her main team. She takes down the Nugget Bridge trainers faster than Red can deal with their leader, before beating some information out of the higher-ranked grunt and arresting the lot of them.
• The gym battle against Surge is one for the Gym Leader, who demonstrates just how though a Gym Leader's experience makes them. He ends up losing against Red's Nidoking, but he gave a hell of a fight through great power and superior speed augmented by battle items.
• When Red goes back to Cerulean City to get a bike, he challenges Misty to a friendly match... And quickly finds out what happens when a Gym Leader gets serious against a relative rookie.
• Giovanni's first attempt at capturing Mewtwo. He loses, due to his strongest Pokémon being part Poison types and facing an overpowered and overleveled Psychic type... But he actually forces him to try, with his Nidoking tanking a Psychic and standing back up.
  • Followed by Giovanni, in a fit of anger, socking Mewtwo in the face.
• When Red and Leaf raid the Team Rocket Hideout they're discovered due Red punching out a grunt after seeing him joking over Cubone and Marowak skulls and they're quickly overwhelmed by the grunts' sheer numbers. Leaf is beaten into unconsciousness, Red is savagely beaten while his Charmeleon is Forced to Watch... Then the sheer anger of trainer and Pokémon makes the latter evolve while a remix of the Super Saiyan 3 theme plays. The grunts are swiftly overpowered.
  • Charizard's roar is so powerful it shakes the Hideout and makes lights break all around.
  • The Curb-Stomp Battle Red gives Giovanni may not be this, given Giovanni's main team was still in the hospital after the run-in with Mewtwo... But doing it while on the verge of falling down from the previous beating and selling it so well Giovanni decides to cut his losses and leave is.
• Red capturing Mew after chasing the prankster Pokémon around Kanto to get back his hat.
  • One for the author for finding a way to integrate the Mew Capture Glitch in the story.
  • The author also found a way to integrate the Mew Under The Truck legend a few episodes earlier, as Mew appears and first became aware of Red coming back to Vermillion City after his hilarious over-the-top scene in Route 11 exactly where the truck was in the games.
• Red, Mr. Fuji, his granddaughter, her Cubone and Marowak's ghost chasing Team Rocket out of Pokémon Tower.
• Entrance in Saffron City is barred by guards on Team Rocket's payroll. Cue Leaf outsmarting one by noticing he's thirsty, start drinking a soda in his sight, and when he asks for one giving him it and then running inside while he's distracted.
• Blue's aerial battle, with him and his opponent flying on their Pokémon.
• The gym battle with Koga is one for the Gym Leader, his Muk beating Red's Hypno and his Weezing crushing Charizard.
  • Red's Snorlax beating Weezing's Speed Blitz by enduring it until Weezing runs out of poison and can only use Exposion. At which point Red wins whatever happens: either Snorlax endures and wins or Weezing takes out both, at which point Red wins because he recalled Charizard before he could faint.
• Blue infiltrating Silph Co. all the way to Giovanni, taking out the occasional grunt and outright avoiding the Executives.
  • At one point he faces what seem to be all four of the Rocket Siblings at the same time. They don't even slow him down.
  • Giovanni's Rhydon one-shotting Blue's Blastoise, announcing to the viewers that his main team is out of the hospital. The Rock-Ground type is then engaged by Blue's Alakazam in a Beam-O-War and wins... Without using a beam: he uses Horn Drill to cleave through his opponent's Psy Beam.
  • Red and Charizard barging in before Rhydon could attack. Behind him a hole in the wall, and behind that Archer in the aftermath of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Red and Blue taking out the seemingly unstoppable Rhydon.
  • With his Rhydon down and two opponents in front of him, Giovanni sends out his Nidoking (that lost an eye against Mewtwo) and Nidoqueen. The following Curb-Stomp Battle shows exactly why Giovanni claims to be the Strongest Trainer.
    • One moment above all is when Blastoise, back in the fight thanks to a Max Revive, uses Surf on Nidoking, only for Nidoking to jump and use Blastoise as a surfing board to ride out the attack, before finishing his opponent off with Fissure.
  • And with Red and Blue defeated and captured, Giovanni is able to use them as hostages and force the Silph Co. director to surrender the Master Ball.
  • And following that, Giovanni goes back to Cerulean Cave and captures Mewtwo, that he uses to free all Team Rocket grunts that have been previously arrested and then, as his grunts assault all of Kanto, blow up Oak's lab.
• Seeing Giovanni's power hungry rampage, Silver finally rebels and frees Red and Blue, gives them back their healed Pokémon, and calls in all help he can.
• Mewtwo's first act of rebellion, stopping to mind-control Red and his Charizard into fighting Blue. This also shows that Mewtwo is not happy with being forced to work for Giovanni by the Masterball.
• For all that he doesn't want to fight for Giovanni Mewtwo has to do so, and can easily take a simultaneous Flamethrower and Hydropump. Cue surprise Solarbeam from Leaf's Venusaur. The Cavalry has arrived, and for the first time ever someone actually hurt Mewtwo.
  • Still, even in three the battle against Giovanni and Mewtwo is going to the hard... Then the lift opens to reveal Brock and Misty with their Kabutops and Golduck, then Erika jumps in from the window with her Tangela, Koga comes down from the ceiling, and as the Rocket Admins come to join the battle Surge barges in from the stairs with his Electabuzz, and finally Sabrina teleports in with Daisy Oak, an accomplished trainer in her own right, and Bill, brought in due his hacking skills but also bringing with him Red's long-boxed Nidoking. All of them ready to take on every member of Team Rocket in the tower.
• The battle of Silph. Co is one long sequence of awesome, but a few moments stand out:
  • Red's Charizard and Brock's Kabutops sending Mewtwo flying through Bide. Immediately followed by Sabrina's Alakazam engaging the Strongest Pokémon and sending them flying again by themselves.
  • Petrel and a high-ranking grunt taking out Surge's Electabuzz.
  • Sabrina and Erika teaming up on Mewtwo and coming this close to defeat them before Giovanni has them use Recover.
  • For all the power of the individual Gym Leaders', Team Rocket's sheer numbers are wearing them down... Then Surge's Raichu jumps on Red's Charizard to have a few moments to attack unimpeded. Six seconds later, almost all of the Team Rocket grunts' Pokémon have been taken out by a barrage of Thunderbolts and Flamethrowers (only the Cubones of one of the Rocket Siblings have escaped the onslaught), followed by Raichu avenging Electabuzz by unleashing Thunder on Petrel's Machoke.
    • Right after that, the Cubones are one-shot taken out by Blue's Blastoise.
  • Blue and Red's Nidoking holding up Giovanni's nigh-unstoppable Nidoking.
  • During the chaos, Bill frees Team Rocket's prisoners from their cells.
  • Some powerful combatants are unaccounted, as Blaine is just running away from his mad boss and the Elite Four... Well, Lorelei arrives at Silph Co. just as Blaine is leaving and captures him, Bruno and Agatha have saved Oak from Mewtwo's attack and are mauling the Team Rocket grunts sent to make sure he was dead, and Lance is flying around Kanto taking down every member of Team Rocket unlucky enough to not run away in time.
  • While nobody was watching, Sabrina and her Alakazam have kept Mewtwo pinned down and unable to interfere with the others - and Koga has noticed that Mewtwo doesn't really want to be there, giving the heroes the chance to make the decisive power play in the fight: steal the Masterball.
    • It starts when Sabrina uses her telekinesis to rip the Masterball from Giovanni's hand.
    • As he tries to keep the Masterball Giovanni orders Mewtwo to intervene - except Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise have jumped them and are keeping the Strongest Pok&eaucte;mon busy.
    • Thanks to Kabutops' Earthquake Giovanni loses the Masterball, but his Nidoking catches it - and is then tackled by Red's Nidoking and loses it too.
    • Nidoqueen rushing Venusaur and Blastoise, freeing Mewtwo from being pinned down - though he's too shocked by what's happening to do anything.
    • Ariane's Arbok goes for the Masterball... And gets jumped by Charizard.
    • Finally, Red grabs the Masterball... And does the single most hurtful thing to Giovanni he could have done: he gives it to Mewtwo. Who promptly shatters the Masterball, sends out an area-effect attack that knocks out all active Pokémon and wrecks the building, and promptly leaves.
  • The final part of the battle for Silph Co.: in front of the prisoners freed by Bill, Red with a Lapras given him by a prisoner versus Giovanni with a spare team. While Giovanni escapes with the Admins and some grunts, this is the moment Red becomes a legend.
• While Red was hiding from the reporters after Silph Co., Blue defeated Sabrina. And considering what she unleashes on Red later...
• Red's first battle with Sabrina shows why Blue beating her was on this page: not only it's a Curb-Stomp Battle verging on Mind Rape, one of her victims was Mew - and she takes them down with Venomoth.
  • Sabrina can read what Pokémon her opponent will use, and change her Pokémon accordingly.
  • Red fighting to the end against this terrifying opponent, even as his legs shaked in fear at the visions summoned by her powers.
• Red, with Leaf's help, capturing Articuno as he trains to catch up to Sabrina.
• Red, Surge, and Leaf clearing up and fixing the power plant abandoned after the attack from a mysterious Pokémon - Zapdos.
  • During the exploration, Red develops the same ability to anticipate the opposing Pokémon Sabrina has.
  • Red capturing Zapdos. While Surge missed the fight as he was fixing the power plant, Red and Leaf faced the extremely aggressive Pokémon and suffered defeat for many of their Pokémon including Articuno, with Leaf injured and the Electric bird dodging all Ultra Balls... Then, as Zapdos prepared to use Drill Beak on a downed Leaf, Red stared them down, causing Zapdos to stop in surprise... Just long enough for Nidoking to jump them and pin them down while shrugging off all electric attacks, giving Red the chance to bean them in the face with an Ultra Ball.
• The rematch between Red and Sabrina, with Red ultimately winning even as Sabrina outright Mind Rapes and whips him in fear at the hope he was offering her. He also freed her from the ghosts of her Dark and Troubled Past.
  • During the fight, Sabrina has visions of the future - that is, Red's future triumphs.
  • Sabrina's Alakazam once again proves his mettle, this time by beating Zapdos and Articuno before losing to Mew.
• Red and Leaf solving Blaine's riddles over the origin of Mewtwo that have so far stumped the police.
• Leaf and Daisy Oak raiding the Team Rocket branch at the Sevii Islands, destroying it and freeing their prisoners - with Leaf finally defeating her archnemesis Archer and surpassing the trauma he had caused her.
  • Still, this is also an indirect one for Giovanni, as his theory about artificially evolving Pokémon with radio waves is proven by Archer evolving a female Nidoran right before Leaf arrives.
• Right as Red is facing the newly released Blaine in a gym battle, Motherfucking Blue Oak arrives at Viridian City to challenge Giovanni for the badge... And has already the Volcano Badge, obtained while Blaine was in jail. Somehow. And then he beats Giovanni off-screen.
• The long-awaited gym battle between Red and Giovanni, who won't hold back anything. If Red wins, he gets the Earth Badge and Giovanni gives up on Team Rocket. If Giovanni wins, Red will join Team Rocket. And with these stakes, the battle is legendary:
  • After losing his main Rhyhorn (the same one that had crushed Blue's Exeggcute at Silph Co.) to Red's Hitmonlee, Giovanni brings in his Dugtrio, who takes his opponent out with Dig from the ceiling, as Hitmonlee had tried to escape it by jumping there.
  • The moment Red brings in the big guns and sends in his Articuno, making Giovanni start realizing his opponent got a lot stronger since last time. The Legendary proves the reaction is warranted when their Ice Beam one-shots Dugtrio in the invulnerable phase of Dig: the Ice Beam was so powerful that once fired in the hole it froze everything inside.
  • Giovanni's Nidoqueen making short work of Lapras and briefly holding back Articuno.
  • Giovanni's Nidoking once again proves their power by literally crushing Articuno with Rock Slide while almost completely encased in ice. He follows up by crushing Snorlax. This is when Giovanni is again reassured of his own superiority, not knowing that the Great Ball Red has just grabbed proves the exact opposite.
  • Mew entering the fight. The mere act leaves Giovanni and the audience of Rocket grunts (plus Ariana and Silver) too shocked to do anything but stare. This is followed by Mew swiftly overpowering and defeating Giovanni's Nidoking, something that so far only Mewtwo had ever managed.
    • Mew also does the impossible: with Oak admitting that Giovanni had been right about them, he causes Giovanni to abandon his villainy. Indeed, after the battle Giovanni disbands Team Rocket and announces he'll dedicate his life to study.
    • And during the final clash between Charizard and Giovanni's Rhydon, Mew goes to the downed Nidoking and casually heals the eye destroyed by Mewtwo.
  • The final clash between Red's Charizard and Giovanni's Rhydon - and Rhydon wins. Though it wasn't easy, as Charizard fought so hard that it only takes a literal tap from Mew for Rhydon to go down as well.
    • How the near-double KO happened: after repeated hits Charizard goes for Seismic Toss, and while they're still flying Rhydon replies with Thunder. Charizard then completes the attack before fainting from the electric damage.
• Blue's Elite Four challenge... And his complete triumph. By what is shown, the only time he actually risked losing was when he had to face Lance's Dragonite, and even that monster went down quickly against his Blastoise.
  • To further drive down how amazing this achievement is, the following day three different trainers are shown take the challenge, and only one actually gets past Lorelei... After her team had been worn down by incessant challenges the entire day, and she still left the challenger with only one usable Pokémon.
• Red's Elite Four challenge, that Red takes without Legendaries. And this time we're shown the full battles, and just how powerful are the trainers that Giovanni, the Self-Proclaimed Strongest Trainer, felt he belonged with:
  • The first opponent is Lorelei, who proceeds to show why Misty, the series' most frequent Wake-Up Call Boss, worships her. The final clash, set to Dvorak's "From the New World", is between Red's Pikachu and Lorelei's Lapras... And Lapras' Blizzard briefly freezes Pikachu's Thunder before being overpowered.
  • The second opponent is Bruno. And while his first four Pokémon go down quickly, his Machamp makes full use of his four arms to pummel Red's Hypno before he can get a single attack in... Then Hypno convinces Red to let him continue the fight, and he physically beats Machamp up by combining his physical moves with Confusion. The moment a Confusion-augmented uppercut confused Machamp, the four-armed Pokémon was finished, helpless to prevent Hypno from putting him to sleep and then recharge with Dream Eater, before finishing the job with Psychic.
    • In general, this fight was Hypno's glorious return after being boxed in favor of Mew and reminding everyone who helped Red catch his first Legendary: first he made mincemeat of Bruno's Hitmonchan with his psychic powers, then he ridiculed Hitmonlee by winning a Mega Kick contest before finishing him off with Psychic, and then there was the above-mentioned fight with Machamp.
  • During the fight with Agatha, Red's Nidoking literally eats a Acid attack from her Arbok before slamming down his opponent.
  • Lance gets to show just why Blue had to beat him to become the League Champion. His Gyarados nearly defeated Pikachu by being too fast to be hit, his first Dragonair made Red realize how hard is to take on Dragon-types that resist many powerful moves, his second tanked Lapras' Ice Beam long enough to knock him out with a point-blank Dragon Rage, and his Dragonite proved himself the terrifying opponent one had to face in Yellow, one-shotting Snorlax before fully materializing from the Pokeball and tanking or deflecting with Barrier numerous attacks from Nidoking and Charizard while firing back with overwhelming force before finally falling.
    • One for Nidoking. Before falling he took a point-blank Hyperbeam, was scraped on the floor while subjected to Ice Punch, was hit by Slam, and then another Hyperbeam... And during the last attack, he hit the Pseudo-Legendary with a Poison Sting, poisoning his opponent and weakening him more and more as the battle with Charizard went on. Had it not been for that one attack, there was a good chance Dragonite would have won against Charizard too.
  • And finally, of course, the battle with Champion Blue, the one who had previously defeated Lance, and had been training for months to take on Legendaries. It takes everything Red has to beat him.
    • Blue's Rhydon and Red's Nidoking in particular have such a titanic showdown that it actually damages the building itself, culminating in Rhydon pulling a Taking You with Me by, while eating a Fissure at point blank, grabbing Nidoking by the horn and pulling him into a Horn Drill.
• Red capturing Mewtwo the hard way. He could have just thrown the second Master Ball by surprise... But he fought him fair and square with Mew and overpowered him before throwing the Master Ball, so Mewtwo caught it with his psychic powers and then let himself get caught.
• Red's Hypno mustering all of his Heroic Resolve to fight on during the Elite Four run.
  • Despite getting pummeled mercilessly by Bruno's Machamp and remembering how he was often one of the less powerful members of the team, Hypno doesn't quit even when Red tries to recall them. Memories of their adventures and how Red entrusted them to be on his team instead of the Legendary Mew gives Hypno their second wind. They then defeat Machamp with a combination of psychic blasts and Mega-Kick unexpected of a Psychic type. They then proceed to floor a majority of Agatha's team with an assist from Pikachu and Nidoking.