BW023 (unaired)
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ロケット団VSプラズマ団!(前編)
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(Japanese: ロケット団VSプラズマ団!(前編) Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 1)) is the 23rd episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 680th episode of the Pokémon anime.
This episode was originally scheduled to air in Japan on March 17, 2011, but it has been postponed, along with the original BW024, indefinitely because of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. As of Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, the intended plot has been contradicted by newer episodes, proving that it is not part of canon. It is currently unknown if or when it will air in any form.
Synopsis
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Iris
- Cilan
- Jessie
- James
- Giovanni
- Pierce
- Dr. Zager
- Team Rocket Grunts
- Team Plasma Grunts
- Officer Jenny
- Looker
- Professor Juniper
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Axew (Iris's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Liepard (Team Plasma's)
- Krokorok (sunglasses)
Trivia
- This is the first episode to be skipped since the unaired episode of the Advanced Generation series back in 2004. The following episode was also skipped. All three episodes were put on hold because of an earthquake that hit Japan.
- However, unlike the unaired Advanced Generation episode, this two-parter was supposed to be important to the overall storyline while the other was a stand-alone episode.
- Had this episode aired in time, it would have marked the anime debuts of Team Plasma and Liepard and the return of Looker.
- Due to Team Plasma's debut being delayed, the Plasma Grunts were never actually shown in their original outfits in the anime, which they were supposed to wear in this episode. When they eventually debuted in Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, they were seen using their new outfits.
- Scenes highly resembling the scenes seen in this two-parted episode's previews were later used in Meloetta and the Undersea Temple! during Team Rocket's "Operation Tempest".
- In addition, an updated design of the Meteonite's chamber in the Relic Castle is used as the Golden Dark Stone's chamber in Explorers of the Hero's Ruin! and as the Light Stone's chamber in Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!.
- According to Tom Wayland, this episode and the next one were sent to The Pokémon Company International but were never dubbed before being delayed.
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