Headscratchers / Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions

• If Kodai's recapture of the Ripple of Time is Zoroark's illusion, why then, does he feel the effects of integrating with it?
  • It's actually in line with everything else in the movie, everyone seems to actually be able to feel the effects of Zoroark's illusions, even Zorua is able to do this when he imitates Tangrowth to fight back. So not really a problem there.
• Why make a new counterpart for Ethan? They look exactly the same, and both never meet Lyra. It could be possible though, that they simply changed Kenta's name to "Hibiki".
  • They probably forgot about that special. There's a nine-year time gap between The Legend of Thunder (2001) and Zoroark: Master of Illusions (2010).
• When the team got locked into a cage, they weren't relieved of their Poké Balls. Why didn't Dawn bust them out with Mamoswine, given that it's half-Ground and wouldn't be affected by the electricity?
  • Except they were surrounded by Goon and his Pokémon and there's a button on the cage to activate a levitating energy field that evidently really hurts. That and it seems the electricity is of a much higher power than what Pokémon have. So it's likely Mamoswine would've been seriously hurt doing so. To show this Kodai uses his claw thing to electrocute and mortally wounded Zoroark and kills her. Yeah, it's a constant stream there, but that shows how high voltage he uses.
  • Plus there's the little problem that Mamoswine is big. The cage wasn't that much bigger.
• Ash and Pikachu have apparently completely forgotten that they have already seen Celebi and Suicune in the fourth movie, Pokémon4Ever. The events of that movie are never mentioned throughout the entire movie.
  • Ash regularly doesn't bring up previous encounters with other Pokémon he's already meet, Legendary or otherwise, and Pikachu doesn't tend to react with recognition either. At this point, it's business as usual.
  • Actually, Ash asking Karl about Celebi's statue makes it clear that he is already familiar enough with the species to recognise it on sight. Him not bringing up the events of the fourth movie is simply a case of it not really being important in his eyes.