Island of the Giant Pokémon

**Island of the Giant Pokémon** (Japanese: **きょだいポケモンのしま！？** *Island of the Giant Pokémon!?*) is the 27th episode of season 1 of Pokémon Legends.

## Island of the Giant Pokémon

### Writer

CheerfulSteekipGlorysiaMelodyYT

GaryBones

Foodyeater

### Director

CheerfulSteekipGlorysiaMelodyYT

GaryBones

Foodyeater

## Summary/Synopsis

*As our heroes and Team Rocket beat the odds by surviving the sinking ship, they are dragged into another potentially deadly situation when they are attacked by the ferocious Pokémon, Gyarados. One Gyarados becomes many and Nanette, friends and foe are swept up in a tornado landing them in various locations on an island. Nanette loses Gigi and the other heroes' Pokémon are lost as well. Jessie and James from Team Rocket, who land in another remote part of the island, also lose their Pokémon. Thus both Pokémon and their masters are left searching for each other on this strange island, inhabited by gigantic Pokémon. Where could this island be?*

## Plot

After the attack caused by a group of Gyarados in the last episode, Nanette and her friends end up on an island, where they realize that all their Pokémon, including Gigi, are missing. On another side of the island, Jessie and James are awakened by a Krabby to find their Pokémon, including Meowth, are missing. They try to call for help in a phone booth, but they soon remember they don't have any money. On another part of the island, a separated Gigi finds an exhausted Rotom, Dragonet, Mincie, Dragonet's babies, Jessica, the 4 Cherrim, Pixie, Flare, Ashton, Evolite, Clefy, Reena, Pumpkin Bread, and the heroes' other Pokémon nearby. They then see a Slowpoke fishing in the sea with its tail. Gigi and Brownie decide to ask for help but with little result while Dragonet and Mincie relax on the beach.

While trying to find Nanette and the others, the heroes' Pokémon are found by Team Rocket's Pokémon, Koffing, Ekans and Meowth. Meowth tells Koffing and Ekans to attack the heroes' Pokémon, only to find out they won't battle for him because he is not their master. They also tell him that they are not bad guys and only take bad orders from their masters, much to Meowth's dismay, leaving him unable to battle the heroes' Pokémon. Each side tells the other about their missing Trainers and Koffing and Ekans get visibly upset when Luvdisc, being carried around by Ashton, mentions that their Trainers may have abandoned them. Evolite immediately refutes the very idea, telling Luvdisc that Momoka would never do something like that. Dragonet and Rotom look upset as well, but Gigi says since their Trainer cares about them a lot she is probably worried sick. Pumpkin Bread mentions the fact that Ninja Dragonets like her, Dragonet, and Dragonet's babies are domesticated and unable to survive long without human care, so they have to find their owners very soon. The two sets of Pokémon join together to find their Trainers. Meanwhile, Meowth is tied up for what he has done to Gigi and the others in the past. While they are eating, a giant Rhydon frightens them. The Pokémon escape, accidentally leaving Meowth tied up. Sugar Magnet Rise-floats over and unties Meowth with her blade so he can escape. Meowth shows no gratitude for Sugar's action, instead pushing her and saying that he could have got out himself. At the same time, the heroes are being chased by a giant Zapdos. They soon elude it and decide to rest for the night. Nijiko vows to find her Pokémon no matter what. Meanwhile, Jessie and James are being chased by a huge Moltres. They run into a sign and are both knocked out, causing them to escape the Moltres.

The next day, Team Rocket runs back to the phone booth and Jessie makes a phone call. When James tells her that they don't have money, she says they are calling the boss by collect. They annoy him with their motto, causing him to hang up on them. Jessie and James then use a wire to get help by pulling on it while inside, hoping it will lead to the phone company. They see a Vulpix and decide to catch it, not realizing until it is too late that it is in fact a giant Vulpix. At the same time, Nanette and company run behind a rock after being attacked by a giant Primarina. Meanwhile, the Pokémon, still searching for the heroes and Team Rocket (and having agreed to a truce until they find them), come across a giant Cherrim. Reddie is forced to ask it for directions by the other Pokémon, something that she's not too happy to do. Reddie tries to start up a conversation with the giant Cherrim but she gets attacked by its Solar Beam. They then see a Emboar and Reddie this time asks Gigi to seek help from it as Reddie thinks it's one of Gigi's relatives. Gigi is too afraid to ask the giant Emboar and so says that she's an orphan and has no family, to which Dragonet decides to call her a "coward." Team Rocket, still pulling the telephone wire, are now being chased by a huge Kabutops. They decide to jump into a rail cart to get away. It starts moving but begins to head backwards toward the Kabutops, rather than away from it. It gets its foot tied in the wire and is dragged after Team Rocket. Then the heroes find the giant Vulpix, which is then knocked down because of Team Rocket and the trailing wire on the rail cart. Nanette and friends fall into the cart with Team Rocket inside. Then they see their Pokémon chased by a giant Cherrim, Happiny, and Emboar. The Pokémon manage to jump to their Trainers and are at last reunited. The Pokémon explain to their Trainers everything. Then the cart is sent flying into the air because of a giant loop in the rail tracks causing them to fly and crash into the giant Zapdos which they then discover to be robotic. Soon all the other giant robot Pokémon crash into each other and lie broken in a massive pile on the beach. Then the rail cart crashes into the water. A Gyarados shaped boat approaches the island. Inside, a woman introduces what appears to be tourists on the boat to Pokémon Island, however upon noticing the damaged Pokémon, apologizes and then makes a call. It is revealed that the island is actually an attraction park owned by Team Rocket's boss, Giovanni, who isn't too happy with the destruction of Pokémon Land.

The heroes continue on, continuing up in Porta Vista and Momoka and Nijiko immediately have all their Pokémon (except Luvdisc) following them again since they have finally gotten back to dry land and point out they only agreed to recall them when they were on the sinking ship. Meanwhile, the Slowpoke from earlier in the episode is still sitting on the rocks. It stands up, revealing a Shellder attached to its tail. The newly evolved Slowbro looks forward and says its name proudly.

## Major Events

* Jessie and James reveal that Ekans and Koffing were given to them as chūgen (the Ghost Festival) and oseibo (Year-End gift giving) presents, respectively.
* Bulbina debuts, but the heroes and audience do not yet know her true identity. Meowth mentions that "[he wants] to steal [her] stupid Bulbasaur choker and that stupid divine fairy thing," which most likely means she has a Kwami as the source of her power.

## Trivia

* Unlike the real episode, the Pokémon don't speak in subtitles due to being able to speak human language perfectly fine.
* Meowth reveals that the only reason he doesn't ever leave Team Rocket or become a permanent good guy is because he's such good friends with Jessie and James.

* The music that plays during Pokémon Land- tour is the same that plays when S.S. Anne leaves the port in the game.
* Slowbro says "Slowpoke" at the end of the episode, before realizing it had evolved as if Pokémon don't speak human. This implies that even Pokémon without training are able to say some things that aren't their own name, at the very least the names of their previous forms. However, this is probably just an example of Slowpoke and Slowbro being slow-witted.

* Despite Ekans explicitly stating that there was no such thing as an evil Pokémon in this episode, future episodes disproved that idea, most notably Togepi in *Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!* and Malamar in the Kalos season of the series.
* The preview for the next episode reveals that any Pokémon of the Fairy Warriors can summon the needed item for their owner to insert into a worn item in order to trasform. In this case, Nanette gets her ÉléJewel summonded.
* What Jessie says about the sand in the Japanese version near the start of the episode is a reference to the poem "A Handful of Sand" by famous Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa.

## Errors

* When Team Rocket are about to use the brakes on the cart, they say "pull", but they push the lever.
* After all the Pokémon jumped in the moving cart, when Jessie and James are hugging Koffing and Ekans, their gloves are missing.
* When James and Jessie see Meowth, James has no pupils when he cries.
* When James is explaining about their recent run of bad luck, Jessie's earrings and lipstick are gone.
* After the scene when the cable is about to snap, Meowth's paws are brown instead of white.
* When showing that the Pokémon were running on the right side of the cart, when the Pokémon jumped, they were shown jumping from the left.
* Ekans and Koffing are missing as the cart flies off the rails and falls into the water.

## Dub edits

* The Pokémon all address each other with "-san," except for Nyarth since he is one of the villains. Nyarth then complains why he doesn't get to be called "-san" and expresses jealousy that Rotom, Powalie-chan, Aoi-chan, and Shitasakan-chan respectfully address their owner as "Nijiko-sama." In the 4Kids dub Meowth instead complains why they're still not considering him one of their friends despite the truce, to which Gigi replies he's still a member of a criminal organization.

* In the dub, Jessie and James reveal that Ekans and Koffing were given to them as birthday and Christmas presents, respectively.
* Meowth's reaction actually had two interpretations in the Japanese version. One implies that he has a master, and one states that he doesn't have a master.

## Easter Eggs

* When Nanette realizes Jessica's interest in Porta Vista, she says "An overlapping rose never backs down on a sea lion like you." The 'overlapping rose' is a reference to *Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure* while the 'sea lion' is referring to real-life sea lions.
* When Karyll talks to Jim, Yusei Fudo can be seen.
* When Rotom shocks Dragonet and Mincie to snap them out of wasting time sunbathing, the two of them throw their inexplicably obtained sunglasses off the screen with a crashing sound, referencing the web series *Annoying Orange* where characters often do this with items once they're done using them.
* The plot of Nanette and her friends washing up on an island, supposedly filled with giant Pokémon could be a reference to the film *Mysterious Island*, where people get stranded on an island with creatures, which have been genetically enhanced to be giant.
* What Jessie says about the sand in the Japanese version near the start of the episode is a reference to the poem "A Handful of Sand" by famous Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa.