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Movie Title |
Reason |
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001 |
Spell of the Unown |
This story was just
itching for a whole other side to it. The movie writers didn't see a
need to cover Molly's father's side of things, and I leapt at the
chance. The result was a tale of cross-dimensional warpedness that I
had a great deal of fun writing. |
|
002 |
Rise of Darkrai |
I'll admit, a huge chunk
of ideas for this stemmed from an off the wall idea concerning
Darkrai quite early on. Still, it's worked well and I'm sticking
with it. While they didn't play to the strengths of time and space
warping as much as I would have liked, I thought the whole
'nightmare illusion plane' thing was brilliant. RoD also forged the
core of the Melodus concept. |
|
003 |
Mewtwo Strikes Back |
Random beating the cruds
out of each other aside, this movie did have some of the most
deepest stuff of the lot - especially if you count the preceding
footage that was cut from the dub and not shown until Mewtwo
Returns. I also enjoyed writing a skit involving Macon inspired by a
random background cameo during the storm scene. |
|
004 |
Pokemon Heroes |
Most of the inspiration
from this movie actually came from the footage that never made it
into the dub. Being the first illusory Pokemon gave the Lati quite a
foothold in the RU (though I was a bit miffed they never had Latios
shape alter despite it being stated that both of them can do it) and
Alto Mare and its security tech was fascinating. |
|
005 |
Arceus and the Jewel of
Life |
This movie gave us some
good strong historical insight into a time before capture devices,
and an interesting strain of Cho'moken wielders whose backgrounds I
am still trying to define. I am hoping to reference some of the
historical info in a forthcoming story. |
|
006 |
Lucario and the Mystery
of Mew |
It was difficult to
decide whether this movie should be in the 5th spot or not, as both
this and the movie above had almost equal helpings of historical
usefulness. It also introduced Aura, which has grown to become a
strong underlying concept in most of Rebirth's works. |
|
007 |
Jirachi : Wishmaker |
This film sparked off
the concept of the Aura Network (well obviously it wasn't called
that back then, since the name Aura hadn't been coined yet) and
Jirachi's place in maintaining it. It also gave inspirational
thoughts on Hammerspace technology usage in unconventional
situations, and even Butler himself has been pegged for more screen
time. |
|
008 |
The Power of One |
The legend and the
intriguing 'water current' concepts were the most salvagable things
from this movie, which was also additional back up for the Melodus
concept. |
|
009 |
Destiny Deoxys |
LaRousse's technological
prowess coupled with Deoxys' abilities gave some useful content to
fuel ideas on Orre, Pokeworld robotics and the Lunari. |
|
010 |
Voice of the Forest |
Our first foray into
time travel brought some interesting character development for
Sammy, and the concept of the Dark Ball which has since spawned
multiple links to games, the concept of Distortia and been
referenced in Rebirth stories. |
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Those that didn't make it: |
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Zoroark : Master of Illusions |
This movie offered the most interest to
me in the form of its characters and extensions on the 'mirage
Pokémon' tech. The presence of shiny Legendaries and the Time Ripple
concept were more hindrances than anything. |
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Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of
the Sea |
The culture of the People of the
Water and the sea temple, while intriguing, was quite specific and
had little to offer in the way of widespread concept potential. |
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Giratina and the Sky Warrior |
The Reverse World concept is
definitely an interesting one, but its more of an extension on ideas
covered in other movies and currently there isn't a lot I can do
with it right now. |
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Movies Outside Rebirth Canon: |
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The Power of Us |
While there was very
little to draw from in terms of things I could work into Rebirth,
bar the interesting way Lugia was summoned, 'The Power of Us' has
been the movie to emulate most closely how I imagined Rebirth to be
in anime format. |
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Secrets of the Jungle |
An unexpectedly emotional and
heartfelt story with relatively low stakes. I was endeared to the relationship
between Coco and his adoptive Zarude father. We also got to see more examples of
Pokémon powers from humans. |
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Pokemon : I Choose You! |
Ash's nightmare sequence was the
thing that stood out the most about this movie for me. The plot overall was a
bit haphazard, but when it hit the right notes, it hit them hard. |
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Victini and Reshiram/Zekrom |
The culture of the People of the
Vale and the Sword of the Vale fit nicely into existing Rebirth
lore, as did the presence of the 'dragon force' |
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Volcanion and the Mechanical
Marvel |
The Azoth Kingdom is of particular
interest in this movie. |
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Genesect and the Legend Awakened |
A relatively self contained movie,
aside from the impressive chase sequences between Mewtwo Y and the Red Genesect,
the plot was pretty thin on the ground. |
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Hoopa and the Clash of Ages |
A lot of concepts with potential,
particularly the community of people who looked up to Arceus, and that one
tower, but given the focal Pokémon's power was to summon whatever it liked,
there was more time spent on that than any plot. |
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Diancie and the Cocoon of
Destruction |
This movie felt sadly like a bit of
a missed opportunity in the case of Yveltal, whose ability caused results that
looked intriguingly like what happened to Ash in the first movie. |
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Kyurem vs The Sword of Justice |
This movie was pretty hard to watch
through as it didn't hold my attention well. |
