"(Ash/Rotom) is on borrowed time."
Sophocles, each time Kiawe is really Burning with Anger at them. Mallow, Lana, and Lillie agree with him both times.
Japanese Title: Alola Detective Rotom! The Mystery of the Missing Crystal!!
Original Airdate: March 9, 2017
US Airdate: July 1, 2017
RotomDex takes Wrong Genre Savvy to the next level, thinking a few episodes of a popular detective procedural makes it an expert detective.
When Ash's Electrium Z goes missing, leave it to RotomDex to investigate. Maybe it will crack the case? Or maybe Pikachu will?
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Blatant Lies: Everything that everyone says to Kiawe to keep him from finding out about the lost Electrium Z.
- Burning with Anger: Kiawe gets a lot of this:
- First, he's angry that Ash lost his Electrium Z crystal, exactly how the other twerps imagined he would.
- Then, he's angry when he's accused of stealing the Electrium Z.
- Finally, he takes his rage out on RotomDex when it's revealed that the crystal was stuck in its wig the entire time!
- Chekhov's Gun: The wig.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Ash's RotomDex.
- Fanboy: RotomDex is an enormous fan of a popular detective show. He spends most of the episode wearing a wig that's like the star's hair.
- Locked Out of the Loop: The other twerps try to keep Kiawe from finding out Ash lost his Electrium Z. Leave it to Ash to spill the beans himself.
- Looming Silhouette of Rage: How Kiawe reacts to finding out Ash misplaced his Electrium Z.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In-Universe. The Alola TV studio is wall-to-wall with pictures that have the detective's Smeargle sidekick as the main subject. Makes you wonder if Smeargle is the real star of the show.
- Summation Gathering:
- One happens in the detective show that Ash is watching during the opening scene.
- RotomDex calls one of its own to reveal who it thinks took the Electrium Z.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: RotomDex thinks watching a few episodes of a TV show about a detective makes it an expert detective. Hilarity Ensues.
