AG043

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Let Bagons be Bagons (Japanese: 飛べ、タツベイ！明日にむかって!! Fly Tatsubay! Towards the Future!) is episode 43 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 18, 2003 and in the United States on September 18, 2004.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

Debuts

• Bagon
• Shelgon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Michelle

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer’s Choice: Treecko

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Bagon (Michelle's; debut, evolves)
• Shelgon (Michelle's; debut, newly evolved)
• Pidgeotto
• Shelgon (debut)
• Salamence

Trivia

• The dub title is based on the phrase let bygones be bygones.
• This episode and the next three aired in the U.S. exactly one year after they aired in Japan.

Errors

• Michelle commanded her Bagon to use Skull Bash, when it can't learn that move legally in the games. It's possible it used Headbutt.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Vole Draby, vole!
• Italian: Voglia di volare
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Una entrenadora científica!
• Portuguese: Voe, Bagon
• Spanish: Dejad que los Bagon sean Bagon

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