Hilarious In Hindsight / Pokémon Reset Bloodlines

• Red's Pikachu was shown using Thunder Punch as part of a way to make him stand out for Ash's Pikachu and other Pikachu in the series. In XY&Z, a Character of the Day named Jimmy used a Pikachu with Thunder Punch.
• Due to not being announced at the time, the in universe Trainer Nations did not include Alola. This potential plothole was solved by the announcement of Alola having a system very different from gyms. It was also revealed that Alola didn't have an official league established before the game's/anime's plot.
• A silent Red with a Pikachu did eventually appear in the Anime, Pokémon Generations anyway, a while after he appeared in Reset.
• This fic predates Sun and Moon, where a Frontier brain is able to use Mega Evolution.
• Related to Sun and Moon, the description of Arceus' palace in the very first chapter makes multiple references to the past generations of the games. However, there's this specific line: "The lights came out in a huge set of flashes that hurt like a Pokémon's electric attack in brightly lit explosions, so Ash had to close his eyes, and only open them when the light seemed to have vanished and did not blaze as harshly as a sun, instead with the gentleness of a moon", that unknowingly seemed to foreshadow the next one.
• A sarcastic Pokédex would later appear in Sun and Moon, albeit as a result of Rotom possession.
• The fact that the final girl in the series harem was featured in the Alola games was completely unintentional, as the author mentions the chapter was in writing for long before that was revealed.
• Reset's Chapter 26 mentioned Gladion when it went live in April 2017. A month later in May 2017, Gladion made his debut in the SM anime.
• The Oak's Summer Camp Gaiden showed that Ash is a good baseball player like in some early materials by Shudo. Episode 28 of the Sun & Moon Anime showed Ash being quite passionate for a Pokémon variation of baseball.
• Red is implied to be pretty built, considering he strongly resembles Ash, who is hinted to be noticeably muscular. A similarly buff Red would later show up in the Alola games.
• Like in Reset (and the Games), Kiawe would obtain a Alolan Marowak. 2 of the moves used by the anime version are even the same: Shadow Bone and Flame Wheel.
• After Misty obtained a Keystone in fic during the Battle Dome tournament, her anime counterpart would get one by the time of the SM Anime.
  • Ash himself would get one too during the Journeys anime's second season.
• Kiawe's opponent removing their shirt mid battle occured in Reset's Kiawe Interlude a while before Brock would do the same thing. Wait for subs if he declared Kiawe a worthy opponent who must be fought as an equal before stripping however.
  • And then some: in a later episode, his opponent (a Buzzwole) engages in some muscle flexing, and Kiawe responds in the same fashion.
• Not long after reccing the fic at the start of Chapter 27, A Professor and a Student got a TV Tropes page.
• After a few mentions in the Resetverse of people trying to do more than a single Z-Move in a battle, Ultra Sun and Moon would allow the player to do so via the Rotomdex.
• Also from the same game, the scene of Guzma engaging Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts follows Guzma's oneshot where he fought another evil team: Team Cipher.
• In the Falkner Gaiden, Falkner acquires a Rainbow Wing to track Ho-Oh, and battles it at the top of a mountain. A few months later, Pokémon: I Choose You! would be released, in which Ash gets a Rainbow Wing which he uses to track Ho-Oh and fights it at the top of a mountain.
• Cross is mentioned to be a fan of Gnoggin, who later gave his own video similar to the idea Cross put forth in Chapter 29 about 'Extant Forms' of Fossils (Though the two did not come to similar typing conclusions for them).
• Professor Oak's friend, Doctor Boxer, invents a device capable of shrinking objects to store them in a small space. In the Sun & Moon anime Faba of all people, invents a machine for that same purpose.
• The Akala Island Adventures story's first chapter revealed that Frax and Velvet's shared Technique Bloodline is Tail Whip, as a reference to the few times Sun & Moon Ash helped out his Pokémon learning new techniques by wagging his behind. In the Pikachu Valley episode, Ash does actually get a fake tail to wag for a bit.
• Per Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, it turns out that rain isn't as much a problem for Butterfree as Erika's strategy made it out to be.
• Similarly the bag based Pokemon box feature in the Let's Go games is fairly similar to how trainers like Red retain their Pokemon without a place like Oak's ranch.
  • One of the never-finished oneshots involved the canon Sun and Moon Ash going to the Bad Future of Reset. Then the 100th episode of said Ash's series had him going to an alternate universe styled after a Bad Future.
  • Pikachu uses a Quick Attack/Iron Tail combo to defeat Lilo's Mudsdale in the Fuchsia Tag Tournament. In SM 104, Pikachu uses the same combo against Hapu's Golurk, though unlike the previous case it doesn't work and he loses. For added hilarity, both Lilo's Mudsdale and Hapu's Golurk can use High Horsepower, which was a key move in the battle in Reset.
• The first chapter of the Mewtwo Strikes Back adaptation was published exactly the same day the first proper trailer of said movie's CGI remake was released.
• A biker briefly mentions "the Limeys" in the Kiawe Interlude. Years later, there'd be a Pokémon region based on England.
  • In the 2016 Holiday Special, Olympia has a prophetic vision involving a (symbolic) sword and shield. Lo and behold, Game Freak later went on to announce Pokémon Sword and Shield.
• Ash's first battle with a Golisopod went about as well in both Reset and the anime: both Golisopod even managed to take a Z-move without any problem.
  • Trainer trading cards became a thing in Sword and Shield after having been mentioned a few times in Reset in passing.
• The idea of there being gyms of all types was a thing in Reset long before Sword and Shield brought them in lore wise, with there being eight higher ranked (and thus the ones you battle) than the other ten.
• Reset Misty's goal differs from her canon counterpart by focusing on wanting to catch one of every Water-type Pokémon in the world, something that involves her catching several Pokémon in incidental ways and with Professor Oak allowing her to keep her captures in his ranch. Years later, Ash's companion Goh from Journeys ended up having a goal to catch every single Pokémon species in the world through very similar means, down to a Professor offering a place for him to hold his captures in.
• Still from the Journeys anime, the Team Rocket trio ended up in possession of a black Pokédex with a very sarcastic and unhelpful demeanor, very reminiscent of this story's Dexter.
• The Cynthia Gaiden showed that Celestic Town was a dying, rundown town in Cynthia's youth, only regaining its prestige once she decided to become Champion of the region thinking it would help. In the Galar games, Marnie had the exact same idea, though it didn't work as well for her.
• Lucario officially enters Ash's ownership after the Mewtwo arc. A few months later, the latest trailer for the Pokémon Journeys anime hinted that Ash would get a Riolu, which was eventually confirmed in episode 22.
  • Adding to this, a new teaser for the Journeys anime confirms that Ash's Riolu will fight Mewtwo after evolving, just like Sir Aaron's Lucario did in Reset.
• Ash catches a Farfetch'd with a peculiar fighting style (wielding three leeks at once). In the Pokémon Journeys anime, Ash catches a Galarian Farfetch'd with a different battle style than the average Farfetch'd (via a larger leak and different typing).
• Goh's affectionate Raichu with a crush towards Pikachu is cute, but a Raichu with a crush on Pikachu was done in Reset before that episode by a while.
• In the Sho Interlude, Sho defeats Volkner's Electivire using electric attacks to overwhelm the Motor Drive ability. In the Journeys anime, Ash and Pikachu do a similar feat, using the 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt.
• The overall concept of humans who are able to use Pokémon powers and abilities takes a complete new turn with Koko doing exactly that in his movie.
• A few jokes are made about how May seemingly aged backwards between the Advance Generation and Diamond and Pearl series. In the Journeys anime, turns out that Dialga and Palkia actually make the characters (humans and mons) age backwards (albeit only temporarily).
• The character Vermell is implied to hail from the Pokémon World's equivalent of Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain. Paldea, the region for the Generation IX games is based on the Iberian Peninsula, most of which is part of Spain and Portugal.
• In Chapter 31, Iris somehow ends up wearing her Black 2/White 2 Champion outfit during a outfit shopping montage, with her saying she doesn't want to keep it. However Journeys revealed her to have become Unova's new champion, complete with the same outfit.
• Agatha and Bertha are explicitly revealed to be cousins in the Reserverse, whereas the games leave their actual (if there's any) relationship ambiguous. Pokémon Legends: Arceus introduced the character Charm, who bears a strong resemblance to both and is strongly implied to be their ancestor.
• In the very first chapter, Arceus decides not to mention to Ash that he was his third choice to save the world, after Cynthia and Lance. As of the current episode of Journeys, Ash is now officially ranked higher than both of them, even defeating Cynthia directly in a full battle.
• Before Paul would reveal a Gyarados during his battle with Ash in Journeys, his Reset self would obtain one.
• Clair's interlude mentions that Drayden has several grandsons and even a great-grandson. This was several years before Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk would reveal that canon Drayden does have a grandson, Drayton.

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