Duels of the Jungle!
"Come with me, Weavile-y, for an evil as old as the galaxy!"
Score: 3/10
While in a valley, the heroes are attacked by a Weavile. It instantly kicks Pikachu's ass, but Aipom-- also gets its ass kicked. The Weavile disappears, and a member of the Wilderness Guard Corps (what’s really weird is that the show acts like we already know what that is) named Kerrigan shows up and takes the heroes to his hut, explaining that he watches the woods (and yes, I did say they were in a valley). There's a group of Sneasal and Weavile in the, but this particular one left the group for some reason and now attacks random trainers and their pokemon. The heroes ask him to take them to find the Weavile, and he agrees.
Cut to Weavile, who has a flashback to walking in the rain while a female Sneasal (we can tell its gender because of its eyelashes) sadly watches it go.
The heroes find Weavile, but it won't talk to them. Team Rocket also shows up, as does the Sneasal in the flashback. Sneasal explains through Meowth that a rogue Weavile showed up one day and beat up Good Weavile for leadership of the tribe. Now Good Weavile wants to get stronger, so it fights any trainer it finds. The key is that it wants to get stronger for itself, not simply to take back leadership of the tribe, which it’s turned its back to.
Unfortunately, Evil Weavile appears, having followed Sneasal for… some reason. It has its minion Weavile attack Good Weavile, but Pikachu takes them down and Ash tells Good Weavile to fight Evil Weavile (by the way, the knocked out Weavile disappear between shots in this scene) because I don’t even know, I’ll admit I was playing City of Heroes while I watched this episode. The battle is intense, but Good Weavile wins by playing it smart.
It acts like it's going to kill (and yes, kill) Evil Weavile, but then stops and tells it to get lost. Sneasal then forces both of them to make up and agree to work together, which they grudgingly do. Brock is happy that "everyone is accepting the way things are" even though that in no way applies to this situation, and also, "accepting things for the way they are" is rarely something you see in fiction because it's usually not very dramatic or interesting.
Just like this episode.
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Started: July 6, 2005