AG177

Battling the Enemy Within
バトルピラミッド！VSレジロック!! Battle Pyramid! VS Regirock!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	May 25, 2006
USA	December 6, 2006
Theme songs
Opening	Battle Frontier
Japanese theme songs
Opening	スパート！
Ending	私、負けない！ ～ハルカのテーマ～
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Assistant director	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Animation directors	広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka
	船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu
Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports originally listed 大山和弘 Kazuhiro Ōyama as the director and storyboarder.

Battling the Enemy Within (Japanese: バトルピラミッド！VSレジロック!! Battle Pyramid! VS Regirock!!) is episode 177 of Advanced Generation. It first aired in Japan on May 25, 2006 and in the United States on December 6, 2006.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash is possessed by the King of Pokélantis Empire's evil spirit which comes from the stone sphere sealed in the Ancient Ruins, and Brandon agrees to battle in order to save Ash.
• Ash's Sceptile fights Brandon's Regirock in an informal battle and loses. Ash will return to the Battle Pyramid for a rematch with Brandon after the Grand Festival.
• At the end of the episode, the Battle Pyramid flies off for the next ruins and Ash sees Ho-Oh for the third time.

Debuts

• Brandon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Brandon (Seiyū: 小室正幸 Masayuki Komuro)
• Scott
• Samuel (Japanese: Sōtarō) (Judge) (Seiyū: 三戸耕三 Kōzō Mito)
• King of Pokélantis (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka)*

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Regirock (Brandon's)
• Ho-Oh (anime)
• Pidgey (Seiyū: うえだゆうじ Yuji Ueda)*
• Hoothoot (Seiyū: 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki)*
• Salamence

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Pokémon Symphonic Medley is used as background music.
• The Pokémon Red and Blue introduction music is used as background music for the next episode preview.
• The "Giant-Boulder-Rolling-Down-A-Narrow-Corridor" routine from the first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark is seen twice in this episode.

Errors

Dub edits

• The original intended to make a pun by having Pokémon show themselves to Team Rocket that have similar names to Ho-Oh. These Pokémon included Poppo (Pidgey), Hoho (Hoothoot), and Bohmander (Salamance). This joke would not make sense in the English dub since most of the names sound nothing like Ho-Oh.

In other languages

• French: L'ennemi intérieur
• Italian: Il leggendario Ho-Oh
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La batalla contra el enemigo!

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