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Prepare the tissues for this heart-wrenching journey! Join us as we count down the most devastating Pokémon deaths in the anime series. Our list includes Stoutland's peaceful passing, Marowak's heroic sacrifice, Lucario's noble end, and many more tear-jerking moments that left fans emotionally devastated. Which Pokémon departure hit you the hardest? Share your memories in the comments below!
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're paying our respects to the Pokemon that perished
00:11in the anime, whether temporarily or permanently.
00:1718.
00:22Team Rocket's Meowth If you value your life, never try to look
00:26under Mimikyu's cloth.
00:28Team Rocket's Meowth learned this lesson the hard way when he encountered the shy ghost
00:33type in the wild.
00:34He ripped off Mimikyu's disguise and bore witness to Mimikyu's true form.
00:43The sight was so shocking that it instantly knocked him out, and he found himself traveling
00:48down a dark tunnel.
00:50It's mostly treated as him just fainting, and Jesse and James thankfully snap him out
00:55of it, but they can't convince us that Meowth wasn't on his way to the grave.
01:02The worst part is that this isn't the last time Meowth would have a near-death experience
01:06because of Mimikyu's exposure.
01:1217.
01:13Pikachu and Miscellaneous Pokemon After being awakened from its slumber, the
01:17monstrous Evil Doll begins its reign of destruction anew.
01:21It drains the life out of people and Pokemon alike, turning them to stone.
01:26Tragically, among its many victims is Ash's Pikachu.
01:34Our favorite electric mouse was struck by Evil Doll's attack, and it finally catches
01:38up to him.
01:39He petrifies Ash's arms, his best friend begging him to come back.
01:44But it's no use.
01:52Miraculously, Xerneas restores Pikachu and all of Evil Doll's other victims by transforming
01:58itself into a tree.
02:00Remember when Ash got turned to stone in the first movie?
02:03Now both friends have experienced it, and it never gets easier to watch.
02:08Despite its ghoulish appearance, Darkrai isn't an evil Pokemon.
02:16It only wishes to protect Almost Town from Dialga and Palkia's rampage.
02:21It willingly squares up against the titans of time and space to save all of reality, locking
02:26the three of them in a bubble to protect the town.
02:29Unfortunately, it runs out of energy and is caught in the crossfire of Dialga and Palkia's
02:35blasts.
02:39Now our heroes watch in horror as Darkrai disintegrates into nothingness.
02:51Thankfully its sacrifice is not in vain, as our heroes manage to quell the two legendaries
02:57and restore everything.
02:59As a bonus, they restore Darkrai to life as well, allowing it to continue watching over
03:03Elmo's Town as its shadowy hero.
03:10Number 15 AZ's Floette
03:12Countless years ago, AZ had befriended a little Floette.
03:16The two were inseparable until the day Floette was called into battle during a war.
03:21Regretfully, the little fairy Pokemon's life was lost on the battlefield.
03:25Several years later, he was given a tiny box.
03:29In his grief, AZ created a machine that could bring Floette back to life.
03:34While he succeeded, his anger towards those who took his best friend from him wasn't satisfied.
03:40He turned the machine into a deadly weapon and personally ended the war.
03:44But his fury cost the lives of many other Pokemon.
03:59Floette left AZ that day, hurt and ashamed of what grief and vengeance had turned its dear
04:05friend into.
04:15Jay was a recurring foe in the anime.
04:17A hunter who, along with her Salamence, Ariados and Drapion, abducts Pokemon and sells them
04:24on the black market.
04:28On her very last hunt, she was hired by Team Galactic to kidnap the late Guardians, Mesprit,
04:33a Zelf and Yuxi.
04:35She succeeds, but as she leaves with her payment, her ship is hit by the Guardian's future site
04:40attacks.
04:50It plummets into the lake and sinks to the bottom, Jay's glasses being the very last
04:54thing we see of her.
04:56Jay paid the ultimate price for her ruthlessness and unfortunately her Pokemon went down with
05:01her, suffering for their loyalty to a cruel master.
05:0813.
05:09Tiara's Cleffa A small town in the Johto region has been plunged
05:14into a never-ending night, and the cause traces back to a little girl named Tiara.
05:19When she was younger, Tiara's best friend was a little Cleffa.
05:23But a few years ago, they parted ways, and Tiara was told that Cleffa had turned into a star.
05:29While it's not outright stated, it's heavily implied that Cleffa passed.
05:39Tiara wished to see the stars all the time to see if she could find Cleffa, and a group
05:43of unknown granted her wish, plunging the town into a never-ending night.
05:49The only way to break the spell is for Tiara to say goodbye to Cleffa, finally accepting
05:54the loss of her most cherished friend.
05:5612.
05:57Pikachu and Ash Pikachu and Ash are best friends until the end.
06:05Little did they know how soon the end would come.
06:08While on a ghost-catching mission at Pokemon Tower, our duo encounters a trio of mischievous
06:13Pokemon.
06:14Unfortunately, the trio's shenanigans cause a chandelier to come crashing down on Ash
06:20and Pikachu, knocking the duo out.
06:26To keep the fun going, the trio yanks Ash and Pikachu's ghosts out of their bodies and
06:32takes them on a whirlwind adventure in the night.
06:37While the group had a fun night and Ash and Pikachu returned to normal in the end, it's
06:42impossible to ignore how they got this out-of-body experience.
06:46Seeing Misty and Brock worrying about them didn't help things.
06:5111.
06:56Celebi In the distant past, the Iron Masked Marauder
07:00used one of his insidious Dark Balls to forcibly capture Celebi and brainwash it into serving
07:06him.
07:07It breaks free of his control, but the strain was too overwhelming and Celebi slowly withers
07:12away.
07:13All Ash can do is helplessly watch as the Little Grass Legendary shrivels up and passes
07:19in his arms.
07:20No miracle tears to save its life this time.
07:23Suddenly, a flock of time-travelling Celebi arrives and performs a miracle, restoring their withered
07:31comrade to life.
07:33While the saying goes, gotta catch em all, some Pokemon weren't meant to be caught, especially
07:38if doing so might cost them their lives.
07:4510.
07:47Jan's Talonflame Learning about the canon history of Pokemon is
07:52fun.
07:53However, it can apparently be traumatic as well.
07:56In the episode, The Legend of XY and Z, Professor Sycamore and Alexa explore some ruins and go
08:04into the Legend of the Statue Isla.
08:11In the past, Jan rides off to find Eviltal, much to Isla's concern.
08:16However, the legendary Pokemon suddenly appears, causing Jan to attack by sending out his Talonflame.
08:24Before the Firebird can even land a hit, Eviltal uses Oblivion Wing, turning Talonflame into
08:30stone and disappearing into the forest below.
08:38Before Jan can even grieve the loss, Isla jumps in the way of another Eviltal attack, becoming
08:43a statue.
08:44He spent years finding Xerneas to restore Isla, only to no success.
08:539.
08:58Elder, the Trevenant Because Celebi exists, this gives the anime
09:02a chance to take part in time travel shenanigans.
09:06In the episode, A Timeless Encounter, the mythical Pokemon sent Ash and Torricat into the past,
09:13meeting a child Professor Kukui.
09:15The future Masked Royal introduces the duo to the area's totem Pokemon, a massive Trevenant
09:22called Elder.
09:28Thanks to Ash's help in getting rid of a Cutiefly infestation, Elder grants the ageless future
09:34champion a Fireium Z.
09:40Celebi, realizing its error, sends Ash and Torricat back to their timeline without warning.
09:47In the present day, when they look up, they see Elder, who has since passed away and become
09:52a foreboding tree in the forest.
09:59When we're introduced to Harriet in 2018's Pokemon The Movie, The Power of Us, she seems
10:10to have fallen into the wrong universe, with her passionate dislike of all Pokemon.
10:15However, as we discover later, when Harriet attempts to restart the power plant only to
10:21be stopped by fire, there's a good reason for her behavior.
10:25When Harriet was a child, she had a Snubbull when flames erupted at the facility.
10:35She begged her partner Pokemon to come back, but it went for the plant's key.
10:40As Snubbull returned to Harriet, the flames engulfed the Pokemon, badly injuring the human's
10:46hand as well.
10:50She blamed herself for the tragedy all these years.
10:54By the end, Harriet forgives herself and begins to love Pokemon again.
11:047.
11:05Latios Not only did 2002's Pokemon Heroes film confuse fans
11:10with Ash and his Latias girlfriend, it also left the audience with trauma.
11:16In the past, Latios and Latias' father sacrificed himself to save the people of Altomare, turning
11:23into a soldew to power the city's defense mechanism.
11:32In the present, after the gem was broken and a tidal wave was set to obliterate the town,
11:39Latias and an injured Latios dash in to stop it.
11:43However, while they saved everyone, the power exerted by Latios caused him to perish.
11:50As the humans find Latias, Latios uses his sight-sharing ability to show them what he can see at the
11:57end, before turning into a soldew to keep Altomare safe.
12:05In 2016, Pokemon Generations was released, which gave fans short animated videos on key moments
12:20in the game franchise.
12:21The reawakening episode focused on a moment that first left its mark in the Pokemon Gold
12:27in Silver Games.
12:33We saw how the legendary beasts of Suicune, Entei and Raikou came to be.
12:39In the past, Ecruteak City's brass tower was struck by lightning, setting it ablaze.
12:45Sadly, three unnamed Pokemon didn't make it out in time.
12:50After the fire was extinguished and the broken citizens grieved, Ho-Oh arrived.
13:00The legendary Pokemon used its power to remake the Lost Hounds into the legendary beasts.
13:06Rather than celebrate, these scarred citizens attacked, causing the resurrected Pokemon to
13:11depart.
13:212017's Pokemon the movie I Choose You reimagined Ash's start into becoming a Pokemon master.
13:29During this trip to find Ho-Oh, he meets Sorrel, who wants to be a Pokemon professor.
13:35With a powerful Lucario as his partner, he seemed to have it all together.
13:39But during a heartfelt moment, Sorrel tells of his tragedy.
13:43When he was a child, he grew up with the family Luxray.
13:52One day, Sorrel was lost outside during a blizzard.
13:55Luxray found the youngster in the snow and lay on him to keep him warm.
14:05When the rescue party found them the next morning, while Sorrel was okay, Luxray had frozen.
14:12This moment understandably haunted Sorrel as he distanced himself from Pokemon.
14:18Then he met Lucario, changing his life.
14:30The mid-2000s Pokemon films loved dishing out audience agony regularly.
14:36This time, it's 2005's Pokemon, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
14:41No one would be happy about being locked up and seemingly betrayed by their closest ally
14:47for centuries.
14:52But eventually, Lucario begins to trust again.
14:55With the Tree of Beginning in jeopardy, the humans are swallowed up by its antibodies before
15:01Mew saves them.
15:02However, with the tree dying, Ash and Lucario combine their aura to restore it.
15:08Yet, the Pokemon knocks Ketchum away.
15:18While Lucario saves the day, the strain is too much, and he begins to fade away.
15:24Before he does, he witnesses Aaron's final message explaining his actions, causing him
15:30and the audience to sob.
15:363.
15:39The Kanto Starter Clones If you ever watched 1999's Pokemon the first
15:44movie and wondered what caused Mewtwo to lash out beyond his creation and abuse, then this
15:50will explain it.
15:51The uncut story of Mewtwo's origin, which was on the international DVD release for 2000's
15:58Pokemon Mewtwo Returns, was a prologue to Mewtwo's tale in the 1998 movie.
16:15We see the legendary Pokemon as a child, having telepathic conversations with
16:20Amber 2, the clone of Dr. Fushi's deceased daughter, and the Kanto Starter clones of Squirtle
16:272, Charmander 2, and Bulbasaur 2.
16:31As the group explores Amber's hometown, the clones begin vanishing as they perish in the
16:36real world.
16:42Eventually, only Mewtwo and Amber 2 are left.
16:46Sadly, she, too, disappears as a devastated Mewtwo watches on.
16:592.
17:01Marowak of Lavender Town From the franchise's video game debut, the
17:06tale of what happened to Marowak in Lavender Town has saddened fans.
17:11Yet, the 2013 series, Pokemon Origins, which showcased the journey of Red and Blue, made
17:18it even worse.
17:20In the episode, File 2, Cubone, we see Marowak save her child Cubone from Team Rocket.
17:30However, she's attacked with electrified batons, ending her life.
17:44When Red enters the Pokemon Tower to get rid of the villainous team, we see the heartbreaking
17:49reunion between Cubone and the spirit of Marowak.
17:53Now content with seeing her child one final time, Marowak goes off into the afterlife.
18:201.
18:21Stoutland No episode in the series has covered Pokemon passing
18:26on as impactful as this one.
18:30After being introduced several episodes before by One Journey Ends, Another Begins, Stoutland's
18:36time was running out as its health deteriorated.
18:45We witnessed the impact of the tragedy on Lytton, who sees the Pokemon as a mentor-slash-parent.
18:53After leaving the Pokemon Center, Stoutland and Lytton fall asleep on their couch.
18:58However, after an uncomfortable dream, when Lytton awakes, Stoutland is gone.
19:04The use of the tree leaves and the rain falling, Meowth watching sadly, Professor Cuckooey's
19:16reaction, and the cloud of the faithful hound made this bitterly incredible.
19:29Did we miss a tragic passing?
19:31Let us know in those comments below!
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