Awesome / Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions

• Zoroark's Roaring Rampage of Revenge counts as one long one. Highlights include:
  • Broke out of her cage by herself, tearing through solid electrified metal with her bare claws.
  • Her rescue of the outnumbered Dawn and Brock: blasts away at a bunch of Ninjask with Dark Pulse, takes out Goon's two Scizor with one Night Slash each ^note keep in mind, this was before Steel lost its resistance to Dark, then blows them all away with a single well-placed Night Daze.
  • Fought three Legendaries to a standstill.
  • Perfectly fooled Kodai with a flawless illusion of the Time Ripple, little smirk included.
  • After Kodai realized the illusion, he electrocutes Zoroark with his claw, leaving her writing in pain. Zoroark fights through it and grabs the claw, overpowers it with a Dark Pulse and knocks Kodai on his ass, then tears what remains off her neck. In addition, she only showed how much she was really affected by it until AFTER Kodai fled.
  • As she suffers her temporary death, she brings Kodai down with one last illusion.
  • Zoroark makes every other Pokémon in the series look like they're made of cardboard, and is a member of a species of Glass Cannons. Bad. Ass.
• Zorua's escape from Kodai's airship at the start establishes him as a Badass Adorable, and he keeps going from there.
  • It's also satisfying when he smashes one of the TV screens of Kodai's broadcast, cutting off his speech about Zoroark being evil.
  • He goes all-out to protect Celebi, disabling both of Kodai's Pokémon by turning into a Tangrowth and restraining them with illusionary thorn-covered vines, and might have won if it wasn't for the Illusion-Canceller. Even after that, he jumps on top of Kodai, momentarily freeing Celebi and forcing his vehicle into a rough landing.
• Rowena's The Mole reveal.
• When Zorua-disguised-as-Celebi was exposed, Karl's Bronzor (who had tagged along with him) uses Extrasensory on Kodai's truck, smashing it against a tree. Sure Kodai got out before impact, but he actually messed with the Big Bad instead of just floating there now that the jig was up. In addition, being hit afterward enraged Zorua, who then bit Kodai's wrist, disabling his Illusion-Canceler and setting up for his Humiliation Conga - basically the definition of Small Role, Big Impact.
  • It also gets a Big Damn Heroes towards the climax, shielding Ash from Kodai's Mismagus with a Reflect.

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