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* It's subtly hinted that Mewtwo's armor might have been interfering with the Pokédex's scanning ability. When the Pokédex was saying that the Pokémon was unknown and didn't have any available data, there was static interference on the Pokédex screen as well, which none of the other unidentified Pokémon both prior and after had. | * It's subtly hinted that Mewtwo's armor might have been interfering with the Pokédex's scanning ability. When the Pokédex was saying that the Pokémon was unknown and didn't have any available data, there was static interference on the Pokédex screen as well, which none of the other unidentified Pokémon both prior and after had. | ||
* The episode title is a pun of "{{wp|Battle of the Bulge}}". | * The episode title is a pun of "{{wp|Battle of the Bulge}}". | ||
*Like in ''[[EP058|Riddle Me This]]'', Pikachu was able to defeat, or at least, injure Rhydon with a {{m|Thunderbolt}} attack despite {{type|Ground}}'s immunity to {{type|Electric}}. | * Like in ''[[EP058|Riddle Me This]]'', Pikachu was able to defeat, or at least, injure Rhydon with a {{m|Thunderbolt}} attack despite {{type|Ground}}'s immunity to {{type|Electric}}. | ||
* Mewtwo actually appears earlier in the episode as well, as a painting on Giovanni's wall in Team Rocket's fantasy. | |||
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The Battle of the Badge
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The Battle of the Badge (Japanese: トキワジム！さいごのバッジ！ Tokiwa Gym! The Last Badge!) is the 63rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 17, 1998 and in the United States on September 25, 1999.
Synopsis
Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash finally arrives at the Viridian Gym, only to have Gary Oak drive up in front of him first and enter the Gym. Once inside, Gary battles against Giovanni who seems to be losing to Gary. But at the last minute, he brings out Mewtwo (in armor) and it has no problem defeating Gary's Pokémon. Meanwhile, Ash accidentally loses Togepi and the gang set off searching for it. Togepi ends up in the arms of Team Rocket who immediately take it to their Boss. Giovanni is not pleased with this, but then has to run off for an emergency, leaving Team Rocket as the gym leaders. Ash enters the Gym, where they find Togepi, and battles against Jessie for the Earthbadge. After a tough battle, he wins with the help of Pidgeotto and Pikachu, finally gaining enough badges to enter the Pokémon League.
Major events
- Ash earns his Earth Badge from the Viridian Gym.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
TV episode debuts
- Mewtwo (in armor)
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Mr. Mime (US and international), Windie (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Pidgeotto (Ash's)
- Bulbasaur (Ash's)
- Squirtle (Ash's)
- Arbok (Jessie's)
- Weezing (James's)
- Nidoking (Gary's; debut)
- Arcanine (Gary's; debut)
- Persian (Giovanni's)
- Golem (Giovanni's)
- Machamp (Giovanni's)
- Cloyster (Giovanni's)
- Kingler (Giovanni's)
- Rhydon (Giovanni's)
- Mewtwo (Giovanni's; debut; in armor)
- Fearow (debut)
Trivia
File:Mewtwo Analysis.jpg
Mewtwo's armor causing problems to the Pokédex
- Some scenes of this episode are hints to scenes from the first movie. These include the battle with Giovanni and Gary.
- This marks the first and only time a Gym Leader refuses to give the badge to Ash despite winning the battle fair and square.
- This also marks the first time that Ash won a badge at the first attempt, and only the third time that he won a Gym badge for actually defeating the Gym Leader in a Pokémon battle.
- It's subtly hinted that Mewtwo's armor might have been interfering with the Pokédex's scanning ability. When the Pokédex was saying that the Pokémon was unknown and didn't have any available data, there was static interference on the Pokédex screen as well, which none of the other unidentified Pokémon both prior and after had.
- The episode title is a pun of "Battle of the Bulge".
- Like in Riddle Me This, Pikachu was able to defeat, or at least, injure Rhydon with a Thunderbolt attack despite Ground-type's immunity to Electric-type.
- Mewtwo actually appears earlier in the episode as well, as a painting on Giovanni's wall in Team Rocket's fantasy.
Errors
- In this episode, the drawers seems to have forgot that Arcanine height is around 6'03". After Gary's Arcanine defeats Kingler, a bird perspective angle shows Arcanine with a size of a Growlithe
Dub edits
In other languages
- Finnish: Merkin herruus
- French: L'arène Team Rocket
- German: Der Kampf um den Erdorden
- Italian: L'ottava Medaglia
- Latin American Spanish: ¡La batalla por la medalla!
- Iberian Spanish: El combate de la medalla
- Brazilian Portuguese: A Batalha da Insígnia
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This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation. |
Categories:
- Pages with broken file links
- Original series episodes
- Episodes written by Hideki Sonoda
- Episodes storyboarded by Kazu Yokota
- Episodes directed by Shigeru Ōmachi
- Episodes animated by Yūsaku Takeda
- Episodes with gym battles
- Episodes in which Ash gets a badge
- Episodes in which a legendary Pokémon appears
- Episodes focusing on Team Rocket
- Episodes focusing on Gary
- Episodes focusing on Ash
