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Pokémon The Movie:
White—Victini and Zekrom
ビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom
Pokémon The Movie:
Black—Victini and Reshiram
ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram
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Premiere
Japan July 16, 2011
United States December 3, 2011
Home video
Japan December 16, 2011
United States N/A
English themes
Opening N/A
Ending N/A
Japanese themes
Opening ベストウイッシュ！
Ending 宙 -そら-*
響 -こえ-*
Ratings
United States ?
Great Britain ?
Ireland ?
Canada ?
Quebec ?
Japan ?
Germany ?
Australia ?
New Zealand ?


Pokémon The Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom (Japanese: ビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom) and Pokémon The Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram (Japanese: ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram), referred to collectively as (Japanese: 劇場版 ポケットモンスターベストウイッシュ The First Movie Theatrical Version - Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!: The First Movie), are the first Best Wishes series movies and, combined, the fourteenth Pokémon movie overall. They premiered in Japanese theaters on July 16, 2011. White - Victini and Zekrom will be given a limited release in US theaters in December of 2011, making it the first Pokémon film to released commercially in theaters since Pokémon Heroes in 2003.

For the first time in the series's history, two different versions of a film were released. Victini and Zekrom features the Victory Pokémon Victini and the Deep Black Pokémon Zekrom, while Victini and Reshiram features Victini and the Vast White Pokémon, Reshiram.

Other posters and logos

  • Victini and Reshiram poster

    Victini and Reshiram poster

  • Victini and Zekrom poster

    Victini and Zekrom poster

  • Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom poster

    Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom poster

  • Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram poster

    Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram poster

  • Japanese movie poster

    Japanese movie poster

  • Victini and the Black Hero logo

    Victini and the Black Hero logo

  • Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom logo

    Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom logo

  • Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram logo

    Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram logo

  • Movie 14 Pikachu the Movie poster.png

    Pikachu the Movie poster

  • Pikachu the Movie DUAL logo

    Pikachu the Movie DUAL logo

  • Japanese movie posters

    Japanese movie posters

Plot

The movie begins with the world of Pokémon opening, showing the Unova Pokémon populating the land, seas and skies. The screen moves towards Ash's Pikachu, who starts running while powering up and Electro Ball and fires it at a Throh in Victini and Zekrom, or a Sawk in Victini and Reshiram. Pikachu then runs to Ash and the trio reaches a fork in the road; Cilan looks at his map and tells the group to go left in White Hero, right in Black Hero.

In Victini and Zekrom, the screen then moves to a hot desert and a man named Dread Grangil appears and continues walking until he sees a young Blitzle with an injured leg. Dread then calls upon his Reuniclus's Psychic to help him carry the injured Blitzle on his shoulder. Dread, Reinculus, and Blitzle turn to walk back to a small village to find Blitzle's owner, a little girl named Shade. Shade's father thanks Dread for helping, but tells him to go home and that his plans are useless. Dread then tells the man that Eindoak can be revived, but Dread is still turned away.

At that moment, a tornado appears in the desert heading towards the village. A herd of Bouffalant are startled by this and stampede towards the village. Dread goes to check out the disaster and holds up his hand, making Reshiram appear. Dread then climbs on Reshiram's back and orders it to destroy the tornado, which it does with power and ease. Dread then asks the townspeople to give him another chance, who are shocked by the legendary Pokémon's appearance.

In Victini and Reshiram, the scene instead shows Dread and his Gothitelle traveling to a town on a frozen tundra. He discusses the matter of the Hometown of the Earth's revival with a resident there, but is again turned away before asking where Yajin, the town's chief, is. Meanwhile, Yajin and her son Aude are on a cliff working to find herbs with his Lillipup's help. Nearby are a group of Beartic that become agitated when a giant iceberg hits the land. The cliff fractures, causing Aude to fall; the problem then becomes worse when the land breaks off and floats right into the path of the huge iceberg. Dread's Gothitelle saves Aude's Lillipup from falling, then Dread himself appears with Zekrom to destroy the iceberg. Awed by the appearance of Zekrom, Yajin and her village reconsider Dread's proposal.

Near Eindoak, Ash, Iris and Cilan find a pair of Deerling in danger on a cliff face. Ash attempts to rescue them but begins to fall himself; however, he is rescued when Victini touches his foot out of his sight, giving him the ability to jump hundreds of feet across the canyon. Now separated from his stunned friends, Ash agrees to meet Iris and Cilan later and heads into a cave with the two Deerling. Victini continually shows Ash visions of the path he should take, allowing him to find his way through the cave into the lower chambers of Eindoak's castle, where he reunites with his friends. Cilan tells him that this is the legendary castle known as the "Earth's Sword", which is said to have flown from a valley far away into its current location. While exploring the castle, Ash, Iris and Cilan share some macarons among themselves, but Victini keeps stealing Ash's by turning invisible, much to his disbelief. Eventually, fireworks can be heard outside, which cause Victini to choke on a macaron and make Ash realize he may be too late for the town's battle tournament. The group runs into a plain-clothed Dread, who introduces himself as the castle's caretaker and offers to escort them to the town, which they accept.

In the town square, the group meets a woman named Janta, who runs a souvenir stand with her Golurk (which is Shiny in Victini and Reshiram) The town's mayor, Mormont, gives a speech to the townspeople congratulating them for the bountiful harvest they have collected before explaining the tournament's rules. Each competitor has been given a necklace and must challenge other competitors throughout the town, with a losing trainer surrendering their necklace to the one who defeats them. Mormont sends his Klink, Klang and Klinklang into a large music machine, starting the festival.

In the first round of the battle, Ash faces Mako and her Serperior, which he defeats with Pikachu's Electro Ball. Iris battles a trainer named Tatsuki and his Emboar with her Emolga, but Emolga uses Volt Switch, causing Excadrill to come out and Iris to forfeit the match. Cilan's Pansage faces Carlita and her Hydreigon (Shiny in Victini and Zekrom) but loses easily. Ash and Oshawott later battle Tatsuki and defeat Emboar with Aqua Jet, then they face Rīku and his Samurott. Ash sends Tepig against Samurott, and it gets effortlessly smashed into Janta's stand by Samurott's Razor Shell. However, Victini covertly appears and powers up Tepig, allowing it to defeat Samurott instantly. Carlita witnesses this, and, becoming suspicious, challenges Ash. When Ash's Scraggy attempts to Headbutt Hydreigon it is knocked into a bush, where Carlita sees Victini give Scraggy a powerup that enables it to defeat Hydreigon. Carlita surrenders her necklace to Ash and reveals to Ash that Victini helped him.

Suspicious that Victini was the one who stole the macarons, Ash uses one to bait it out. It appears, and Ash excitedly tries to befriend it. Initially it is receptive but becomes alarmed when Ash swings it around enthusiastically, then when Ash tries to take it elsewhere in town, he inadvertently goes near giant pillars that Victini seems to be afraid of, activating a magical barrier around the castle area that Victini cannot leave. Upset by hitting the barrier, Victini flees. Later, while looking for Victini with Janta and Carlita, they run into Mormont and Dread. It is revealed that Dread is Janta's son and Carlita's older brother. He has been traveling and has not contacted Janta in some time, which she reprimands him for. Carlita attempts to cheer him by telling him about Victini's appearance, but he says he already knew.

At Mormont's home, Victini is found in a group of other Pokémon. Inside the house, Mormont tells the group the legend of the People of the Earth - one thousand years ago, they were a prosperous people who lived in a place called the Hometown of the Earth, the location in the valley where the Earth's Sword originally was. They used a power in the earth called the "Dragon Pulse" to enrich the land, and all was well. However, one day, the twin sons of the king—the Hero of Truth, who controlled Reshiram, and the Hero of Ideals, who controlled Zekrom - began a war over their beliefs. The kingdom was devastated, and the Dragon Pulse corrupted and reversed, ravaging the earth instead of healing it. Desperate, the king asked Victini to lend him its power, and he created the "Protecting Pillars" and their barrier to control the flow of that power. Using this system, the king flew the Earth's Sword with all of the townspeople inside out of the Hometown of the Earth to the location where Eindoak is, as by landing it there, the castle stopped up the flow of the Dragon Pulse. However, as soon as the castle landed, the king died, causing the Protecting Pillars to never be destroyed. Meanwhile, Reshiram and Zekrom, tired out from their battle, turned into orbs called "Dragon Stones" and were hidden deep underneath the castle by the two princes.

While watching Ash and his friends play with Victini, Dread informs his mother that her dream can now come true. In a flashback, a younger Janta is shown alongside Dread as a boy in the ruined Hometown of the Earth. Janta tells her son that she wishes the People of the Earth could one day live there again, which, Dread says in the present day, can now happen. He intends to borrow Victini's power just as the king did and return the Earth's Sword to its rightful place. Inside, Dread describes his journeys over the past three years, in which he visited the settlements to try and find support for his plan. He was always rejected until one day, after convincing Mormont to help him, he discovered the Dragon Stone containing Reshiram or Zekrom. With the dragon as his ally, the villagers in those towns agreed to help him, and now appear in Mormont's study in support of Dread's goal: the resurrection of the glory of the People of the Earth.

Ash is awoken the next morning by a dream which Victini has, in which it sees time rapidly passing from the castle and then the king saying goodbye and fading away; he inexplicably sees the dream as well. Victini takes Ash, Iris and Cilan to a balcony where it shows them the beach; Ash comes to understand that Victini wishes to go there, and promises to take it. Meanwhile, at the Earth's Sword, Janta and Carlita watch as Dread prepares to execute his plan. He sends out his Sigilyph, and it takes its place in a mechanism atop the chamber. Sigilyph's power awakens the hundreds of Solosis and Duosion in the lower chambers of the castle, and in turn, the Protecting Pillars activate and begin to rise. Victini becomes alarmed and flees in a frenzy from the ever-constricting barrier, eventually flying into the castle, where Dread requests that it lend him its power. At first seeing the king instead of Dread, Victini initially relaxes before being caught in another barrier that forces into the mechanism, which then begins draining its power. Just as Ash, Iris and Cilan arrive, the castle ascends into the sky, and the healthy Dragon Pulse flows out, returning to the Hometown of the Earth and beginning to restore it.

Ash, Iris, Cilan, Janta and Carlita rush into the main chamber and find Dread torturing Victini. Horrified that this was her son's plan, Janta demands he stop, which shocks and upsets him. When Ash attempts to destroy the machine draining Victini's power, Dread attacks the group with his Reuniclus or Gothitelle. Reshiram or Zekrom then arrives, and Janta attempts to fight the dragon with Golurk, but Golurk is defeated easily. Ash once again tries to climb the mechanism, but Dread's Psychic type knocks him out.

While unconscious, Ash has a vision of the king warning Victini to never let the Earth's Sword be moved again, because if it is, the Dragon Pulse will corrupt again and destroy the entire world. This has already begun happening, but Dread and his dragon are unaware of it due to the fact they are flying above the clouds. Ash awakens in the cellar of the castle, and Janta begs him to forgive Dread, as he truly believes he is doing the right thing. She then reveals that one thing can stop Dread's dragon - the other dragon, which should still be deep in the castle's dungeons where Ash explored at the beginning of the film. Setting out with his friends, Ash soon finds himself on a path he has no idea how he reached, followed by the total collapse of the cavern. At the bottom he finds the Dragon Stone, and hears a voice asking him of his ideal or truth. He answers that he wants to save Victini and make it happy, satisfying the voice, which reveals itself to be Zekrom or Reshiram.

Back up at the top of the castle, Janta again attempts to get Dread to stop, but he refuses, insisting that sacrifices must be made for great accomplishments. Mormont arrives, having flown to the castle in a helicopter powered by his Klink, Klang and Klinklang to warn the group of the disaster on the surface, but they already know. Golurk then returns to again fight Reshiram or Zekrom, but fails; however, before the dragon can deliver a finishing blow, its opposite arrives with Ash. Ash jumps off at the courtyard of the castle, then Zekrom and Reshiram engage in an epic battle in the sky. Inside the castle, Pikachu engages Reuniclus or Gothitelle.

Finally, Ash's dragon defeats Dread's, forcing it below the clouds, where they both see the unfolding tragedy of the deadly Dragon Pulse. Pikachu defeats Reuniclus or Gothitelle and Ash climbs the mechanism, but Dread's dragon arrives before he can destroy the barrier around Victini. Dread orders it to finish Ash off, but it ignores him and instead destroys the mechanism to free Victini. It tells him that it has heard the "Fury of the Earth," and the two dragons blow away the clouds, revealing to him the devastation his actions have caused. Panicking, Dread immediately becomes remorseful and begs Reshiram and Zekrom to help him stop the disaster and save the world. They agree and redirect the destructive Dragon Pulse into the Earth's Sword itself.

Dread warns Mormont, his family and Ash's group that they must leave immediately, as the castle may be destroyed. Iris escapes with Carlita on Hydreigon's back, while Cilan and Janta board Mormont's helicopter. Dread, meanwhile, insists that he will stay until the disaster is averted and the world is saved. However, when Ash tries to flee, the barrier generated by the Protecting Pillars continues to trap Victini inside, and Ash refuses to leave without it. The others flee to avoid being hit by the pillars, and the castle rocks back, throwing Dread out presumably to his death. Suddenly and without warning, the castle begins to go into overdrive and soars high into the sky at an uncontrollable rate.

In the Earth's atmosphere, the castle begins to ice over, and the cold and lack of air begins to cause Ash to struggle to breathe. Dread returns on Golurk's back, having been saved by his mother's Pokémon, and tells Ash to hold on, as he is one of the dragons' chosen. Reshiram and Zekrom attack the Protecting Pillars, but they malfunction and begin to constrict even further around Victini, forcing Ash out into the castle's courtyard. Dread is powerless as the pillars completely close around Ash, Pikachu and Victini, trapping them. In a desperate bid to save them, Dread has Golurk try to pry the pillars apart with its hands, but they close back up. Attempts by Reshiram and Zekrom to destroy the pillars similarly fail. Inside the prison created by the Protecting Pillars, Ash—delirious as he is near death from the freezing cold and lack of air—sadly apologizes to Victini for failing in his promise to take it to the ocean, before it becomes so cold that Ash's tears freeze and he falls unconscious.

Summoning up all of its power, Victini activates V-create, its ultimate move. Ash is warmed and wakes up due to the attack, and witnesses Victini use all its strength in an attack that finally destroys the Protecting Pillars once and for all. With the barrier gone, Dread re-enters the castle and wraps Ash in a blanket that helps keep him alive. Later, with Reshiram, Zekrom and Golurk pushing the castle, Dread steers it down toward the source of the deadly Dragon Pulse. He lands it just as Ash wakes up, stopping the tragedy before it can destroy the entire planet. On the beach, Ash, Iris and Cilan stare out at the ocean, saddened by the apparent death of Victini. Believing that Victini sacrificed itself to destroy the Protecting Pillars and save him, Ash apologies again before flinging one of Cilan's macarons toward the ocean. However, the macaron suddenly stops in mid-air and is eaten—Victini survived the incident and is now freed from the barrier, just as it always dreamed.

Dread falls to his knees, overwhelmed with guilt that his actions have caused such a horrible disaster. However, Janta encourages him by telling him they will have a lot of work to do to rebuild the Hometown of the Earth. Victini sends Ash a vision of it helping them, and he understands that their time together is at an end. Bidding farewell to Dread, Janta, Carlita, Mormont and the other People of the Earth, Ash, Iris and Cilan depart for new adventures.

During the credits, Dread and Janta lead the People of the Earth in their reconstruction efforts. A single sprout is seen on the once-dead land in the Hometown of the Earth, implying that the area can indeed be revived. While traveling around, Ash, Iris and Cilan get caught in a windstorm created by Tornadus (in Victini and Zekrom) or a thunderstorm caused by Thundurus (in Victini and Reshiram). They later travel through a town where the Team Rocket trio watches them from a café, with Peg passing by as well. Reshiram and Zekrom continue flying throughout the world, appearing in the skies in all possible places.

Featured Pokémon

Debuts

Characters

Human

Pokémon

Credits only

Exclusive to Victini and Zekrom

Exclusive to Victini and Reshiram

Cast

Cast
Ash Sarah Natochenny Satoshi Rica Matsumoto サトシ 松本梨香
Pikachu Ikue Ohtani Pikachu Ikue Ohtani ピカチュウ 大谷育江
Cilan Jason Griffith Dent Mamoru Miyano デント 宮野 真守
Iris Eileen Stevens Iris Aoi Yūki アイリス 悠木碧
Axew Kayzie Rogers Kibago Minami Tsuda キバゴ 津田美波
Jessie Michele Knotz Musashi Megumi Hayashibara ムサシ 林原めぐみ
James Carter Cathcart Kojirō Shin'ichirō Miki コジロウ 三木眞一郎
Meowth Carter Cathcart Nyarth Inuko Inuyama ニャース 犬山イヌコ
Narration Rodger Parsons Narration Unshō Ishizuka ナレーション 石塚運昇
Special appearances by
Damon Dread Grangil Takeshi Tsuruno ドレッド・グランギル つるの剛士
[[|]] Carlita Satomi Ishihara カリータ 石原さとみ
[[|]] Janta Mao Daichi ジャンタ 大地真央
[[|]] Shade Shōko Nakagawa セード 中川翔子
[[|]] Aude Shōko Nakagawa オード 中川翔子
[[|]] Mormont Koichi Yamadera モーモント 山寺宏一
Victini Victini Nana Mizuki ビクティニ 水樹奈々
Reshiram Reshiram Shosuke Tanihara レシラム 谷原章介
Zekrom Zekrom Hideki Takahashi ゼクロム 高橋英樹

Soundtrack

The theme songs for the film are The Sky (Japanese: 宙 -そら-) in Black Hero, and The Voice (Japanese: 響 -こえ-) in White Hero, both performed by Every Little Thing.

Differences between Victini and Zekrom and Victini and Reshiram

  • The major difference between the films is that main featured Pokémon in Victini and Zekrom is Zekrom while Reshiram is the main Pokémon of Victini and Reshiram. Ash befriends the said Pokémon in those movies, with Dread using the other Pokémon.
  • The World of Pokémon intro, while stylistically the same in both films, feature different Pokémon depending on the version.
  • During the World of Pokémon intro, Pikachu is seen battling a Throh in Victini and Zekrom while in Victini and Reshiram he battles a Sawk.
  • Ash, Iris and Cilan come to a fork in the road at the beginning of both films. In Victini and Zekrom they take the left path while in Victini and Reshiram they take the right path.
  • Pokémon that appear in the background differ depending on the version.
  • Dread's appearance differs between the two films.
  • Dread's Pokémon is Reuniclus in Victini and Zekrom, while in Victini and Reshiram it is Gothitelle.
  • The child character differs between the two films.
  • Cilan's macaron basket is blue in Victini and Zekrom and white in Victini and Reshiram. The color of the macarons also differs in each version.
  • Dread travels through the desert in Victini and Zekrom (with Bouffalant and the Blitzle evolutionary family appearing in the area) and an icy plain in Victini and Reshiram (where Beartic and Stoutland are in the area, the latter of which are used by the natives).
  • In Victini and Zekrom Carlita's Hydreigon is a Shiny Pokémon and Janta's Golurk is colored normally, whereas in Victini and Reshiram this is reversed, with Golurk being the Shiny one.
  • The background music differs depending on the version, due to having different music composers for each movie. The ending theme also differs, with The Sky in Victini and Zekrom and The Voice in Victini and Reshiram.
  • In the credits, in Victini and Zekrom, Tornadus creates a windstorm that is encountered by Ash and friends; in Victini and Reshiram, Thundurus creates a thunderstorm that is encountered by Ash and friends.

Events

File:Reshiram Zekrom Movie Distribution Art.png
Reshiram and Zekrom distribution artwork

Pre-order distribution

A special Victini is available to people who pre-order tickets to the film in Japan. This Victini will know the previously-unobtainable move V-create, as well as its other signature move, Searing Shot, and the signature moves of Reshiram and Zekrom, Fusion Flare and Fusion Bolt.

Movie distributions

Zekrom was made available for players of Black and Reshiram for players of White. Both will have the original Trainer サトシ Satoshi. Both dragons are at level 100 and know their signature moves, Blue Flare and Fusion Flare, and Bolt Strike and Fusion Bolt, respectively. Also, Reshiram knows Mist and Zekrom knows Haze, due to the Japanese names for these moves being しろいきり White Mist and くろいきり Black Mist, respectively.

Other distributions

Users of the Japanese-language Global Link could obtain a C-Gear skin featuring Victini.

Players of Black could obtain a Shiny Hydreigon, based on Carlita's, while players of White could obtain a Shiny Golurk, based on Janta's.

Users of the Japanese-language Global Link can also obtain one of two C-Gear skins featuring Reshiram or Zekrom, depending on which Pokémon they put to sleep before taking them to the Eindoak Home, which, much like the Pokémon Café Home, is another event exclusive.

Trivia

In other languages


External links

See also

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Pokémon movies
Original series
Mewtwo Strikes Back • The Power of One • Spell of the Unown: Entei • Celebi: The Voice of the Forest • Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
Jirachi: Wish Maker • Destiny Deoxys • Lucario and the Mystery of Mew • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
The Rise of Darkrai • Giratina and the Sky Warrior • Arceus and the Jewel of Life • Zoroark: Master of Illusions
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
White—Victini and Zekrom / Black—Victini and Reshiram • Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice • Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Pokémon the Series: XY
Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction • Hoopa and the Clash of Ages • Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
I Choose You! • The Power of Us • Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Secrets of the Jungle


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