Pokemon: the First Movie

Continuity mistake: In Pikachu's Vacation, when Pikachu and the rest of his friends are pulling Charizard's head out, the rope that they use was not there during the previous shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Ash & co. are in the boat with Team Rocket (who's dressed as Vikings), watch Brock's shirt sleeve (The one away from Misty) when Misty puts Togepi inside her knapsack. It goes from a dark orange to green (the same color as Brock's vest) for a few frames before turning back. (00:33:26)

Continuity mistake: When Brock looks at the picture of Nurse Joy, in the closeup of the picture Brock casts a shadow on it, but in the previous shot he didn't.

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Continuity mistake: When Fergus goes to Gyarados after Mewtwo reflects its Hyper Beam, you can see the back of a Nidoking, but Fergus has a Nidoqueen. (00:43:23)

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Continuity mistake: When Officer Jenny speaks after Fergus puts his right foot forward, the clothes and accessories of some people change. (00:31:08)

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Pokemon: the First Movie mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Ash says, "Wow!" the bowl of fruit changes as well as a cup changing from being on right of it to the left of it. (00:40:25)

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Pokemon: the First Movie mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When first showing a closeup of Ash, a plate next to the centre of the table goes from present to absent. (00:21:19)

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Pokemon: the First Movie mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Mewtwo says that they stood as equals, Giovanni's right hand is five centimetres away from the nearest pole to the left of him, but in the next shot, it is one centimetre away. (00:08:20)

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Character mistake: As Team Rocket discovers the cloning machine made by Mewtwo, they start naming the shadows of each Pokemon as they appear on the screen. As the first Pokemon appears on screen, they say "Alakazam" but it is actually an outline of "Scyther" who is a different type of Pokemon.

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Suggested correction: As explained in the DVD commentary, Team Rocket don't know everything about Pokemon. They thought it was an Alakazam though.

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Mewtwo: Behold my powers! I am the most powerful Pokémon in the world.

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Trivia: The "fighting is wrong" moral ending exists only in the American version. In the original Japanese, the ending was that Mewtwo accepted it could be a proper Pokemen in spite of having been brought to life by humans, because Ash (Satoshi in the original Japanese) is still a proper human in spite of just having been brought (back) to life by the other pokemon.

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Question: Does Missingno, the infamous "Pokemon 000" glitch in Pokemon Red/Green (Red/Blue in the states) appear in this movie?

Answer: That is not a real pokemon, so no.

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