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Uncrushing Defeat!

DP133   EP599 ユクシーの影！ Yuxie's Shadow!

First broadcast Japan June 25, 2009 United States November 21, 2009

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Uncrushing Defeat! (Japanese: ユクシーの影！ Yuxie's Shadow!) is the 133rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 599th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 25, 2009 and in the United States on November 21, 2009.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis With all his Pokémon badly injured and in pain after the intense battle against Paul, Ash feels horribly guilty for putting them through so much and at the same time, losing to Paul; and he sinks into a depression. As he realizes just how overwhelmed he was by Paul during the battle, Ash begins to question if he really is cut out to be a Pokémon Trainer, even after all his accomplishments in the past. Dawn, having suffered a crisis of confidence herself once, resolves to help her friend and decides to put on a performance with her Pokémon while Brock goes looking for a berry to help treat Ash's Monferno without realizing that he was about to see first-hand the the legend of Lake Acuity...

Major events

• Brock sees Uxie's "soul" at Lake Acuity.
• Dawn learns that a Contest will be held in Lilypad Town.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Uxie (projected soul)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Monferno (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Mamoswine (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Torterra (Paul's) (flashback)
• Electabuzz (Paul's) (flashback)
• Weavile (Paul's) (flashback)
• Honchkrow (Paul's) (flashback)
• Ursaring (Paul's) (flashback)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Uxie (projected soul; debut)
• Mesprit (flashback)
• Azelf (flashback)

Trivia

• Ash's Monferno is added to the opening sequence. Despite this, Dawn's Ambipom has still not been removed, and the ending has also not been updated.
• Darkrai and Giratina get replaced by new images of Palkia and Dialga respectively in their appearance before and after the preview of the next episode.
• This is the first time since Ignorance is Blissey that a Nurse Joy owns a Blissey.
• All of the main characters' Pokémon appeared, except James's Mime Jr.
• Piplup wore the same clown outfit as Pikachu did in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
• This episode marks the first time Brock orders his Croagunk not to Poison Jab him before he does, due to his need to treat Ash's Pokémon alongside Nurse Joy.
• All of the Pokémon Ash has on hand remained outside of their Poké Balls for the entire episode, except for the last minute.
• Cartoon Network returns to showing the show on its standard-definition feed in its original 16:9 aspect ratio, after showing the previous two episodes zoomed in to fill a 4:3 frame.

Monferno's ears (at the back)

Errors

• Monferno's ears were the wrong color in one scene at the Pokémon Center: they were the color of a Chimchar's ears.

Dub edits

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