This week, we’re revisiting Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys, the seventh film in the series and the second in the Advanced Generation, AKA the Ruby & Sapphire era. Sneaking past police barricades, Nick searches in the Manhattan underground.Welcome Back to Pokemon Movies in Review, a weekly recap of the entire Pokemon cinematic universe. However, feeling guilty over his part in Godzilla's death, Nick promptly leaves. Scientist Nick Tatopoulos is there. After the military destroyed the creature in New York, the world's scientists begin to dissect it.
![]() Godzilla Two Series And TheThe stone that Professor Lund brought back to LaRousse contains a second Deoxys who is able to project itself as a triangle made of light that befriends Tory. The connection between Pokemon and Godzilla should have been more obvious - they’re both Japanese franchises about monsters that fight each other - but somehow, it never clicked for me until I saw Rayquaza and Deoxys duking it out in a Tokyo-like city.LaRousse City is actually based on VancouverThere’s a lot of moving parts to this story, and frankly, the plot is more complicated than it needs to be. LaRousse is a sprawling, futuristic city that makes for the perfect environment for a Kaiju fight. This is partly due to the dynamic between Rayquaza and Deoxys - who are very much proxies for Godzilla and pick-you-favorite-space-Kaiju - but it's also thanks to the setting. I love the idea that the Pokemon Universe has a snakey Godzilla flying around in space, just waiting for trouble.Related: In Pokemon Heroes, Ash Smooches Latias And Becomes A DadThough we’ve seen other Godzilla-sized pocket monsters wreaking havoc in past Pokemon movies - like the Celebi monster in Pokemon 4Ever and FrankenGroudon in Wish Maker - the film series has never evoked the Kaiju genre as strongly as it does in Destiny Deoxys. By the end of Destiny Deoxys, Rayquaza is fighting alongside Ash and Pikachu in a pretty direct way, but you still get the sense that Ray is simply defending its territory. Godzilla Two Free Their PokemonSince LaRousse is wind-powered, the forcefield causes the entire city to lose power, which, for some reason, means no one can activate their Poke Balls and free their Pokemon. It begins its attack by surrounding the entire city with a forcefield to prevent anyone from escaping with the stone. Destiny Deoxys is the first Pokemon movie to not start with a Pokemon-only short film, so instead, those elements have been awkwardly worked into the movie.Meanwhile, Deoxys finally recovers from its first fight with Rayquaza and heads to LaRousse City to rescue its friend. There’s also a weird B-story about Munchlax, Plusle, and Minun. Like most Godzilla movies, there’s way too many characters, and nothing that any of them do matters that much. Antique radio repair and restorationAsh, Rayquaza, and the Deoxys all work together to stop the cube avalanche from burying the city, and at this point, the similarities to Godzilla are as Ann as the nose on Plain’s face. Ash - oh yeah, he shows up at this point - and Professor Lund manage to resurrect the second Deoxys just in time for it to intercept the first, but suddenly, Rayquaza and the Deoxys are faced with an even greater threat.While battling in the city, Deoxys and Rayquaza inadvertently corrupted the city’s defense system, which has now come to life in the form of a thousand murderous block robots. It seems Deoxys was holding back in their first battle, but now its patience has run out. In Godzilla lore, Space Kaiju are considered to be considerably more powerful than Godzilla, and any one of them could easily defeat the giant lizard. It’s an interesting coincidence, considering Wish Maker also has a lot of similarities to a Spielberg movie.Rayquaza returns to challenge Deoxys once again, but this time, the DNA Pokemon has no trouble tanking the space snake. It also featured an army of aliens that used force fields, kidnapped people, and cut power with an EMP blast. ![]() If this Advanced Generation trend continues with adaptations of popular Spielberg movies, I fully expect Lucario to be a treasure hunter that runs around with a whip and punches Nazis, and I’m going to be sorely disappointed if it’s not.
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