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'''Grings Kodai''' (Japanese: '''グリングス・コーダイ''' ''Grings Kōdai''), often referred to by simply his surname '''Kodai''', is the central antagonist of ''[[M13|Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]''. | '''Grings Kodai''' (Japanese: '''グリングス・コーダイ''' ''Grings Kōdai''), often referred to by simply his surname '''Kodai''', is the central antagonist of ''[[M13|Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]''. | ||
Kodai is a master manipulator, using his ability to see the future to set up complex plans | Kodai is a master manipulator, using his ability to see the future to set up complex plans in order to secure his vast fortune. While he presents himself as kind and looking out for the good of Crown City, he is actually one of the few characters in the Pokémon anime to be portrayed as purely evil. He is an egotistical, ruthless, heartless man with a pronounced sadistic streak. He has absolutely no compassion for anyone but himself, not caring who or what he must destroy to get what he desires. However, he's also an extremely prideful man, which ultimately leads to his undoing. | ||
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However, unknown to all but his assistants, he has abducted two mysterious Pokémon, {{mov|Zorua|Zorua|13}} and its mother {{mov|Zoroark|Zoroark|13}}. He blackmails Zoroark into attacking Crown City in the guises of his [[legendary beasts]] by threatening the safety of her child. Zorua escapes, but this does not harm Kodai's plan, as Zoroark is unaware of that fact. | However, unknown to all but his assistants, he has abducted two mysterious Pokémon, {{mov|Zorua|Zorua|13}} and its mother {{mov|Zoroark|Zoroark|13}}. He blackmails Zoroark into attacking Crown City in the guises of his [[legendary beasts]] by threatening the safety of her child. Zorua escapes, but this does not harm Kodai's plan, as Zoroark is unaware of that fact. | ||
[[File:Kodai Young.png|thumb|220px|left|Young Kodai]] | [[File:Kodai Young.png|thumb|220px|left|Young Kodai]] | ||
He is known as a man with ruthless ambition and is widely recognized for his business success, even having a magazine published following his exploits. Rowena later reveals to Ash and his friends that Kodai was directly responsible for a disaster that befell Crown City twenty years prior. He discovered Celebi in the city and touched the "Time Ripple" produced from its time traveling - | He is known as a man with ruthless ambition and is widely recognized for his business success, even having a magazine published following his exploits. However, the cause of his business success is supernatural. Kodai possesses a strange power; at times, he will begin to hallucinate painfully and have a vision of the future. Rowena later reveals to Ash and his friends that Kodai was directly responsible for a disaster that befell Crown City twenty years prior. He discovered {{mov|Celebi|Celebi|13}} in the city and touched the "Time Ripple" produced from its time traveling - giving him his future sight abilities. However, by attacking Celebi, the flow of time was reversed, killing all the plant life within Crown City. Nearly twenty years would pass before the city and its people fully recovered from the disaster. | ||
[[File:Kodai Vision.png|thumb|right|200px|Kodai experiencing a vision]]Because the abilities he gained from touching the | |||
[[File:Kodai Vision.png|thumb|right|200px|Kodai experiencing a vision]]Because the abilities he gained from touching the Time Ripple slowly disappear, Kodai is madly desperate to find it once again so he can renew them regardless of the cost to the people of Crown City. He plans to capture Celebi, who has appeared in Crown City from twenty years in the future, with the goal of finding the Time Ripple. A vision he has early in the story reveals to him that {{Ash}} and {{Ashfr|his friends}} will oppose him before he even meets them. His visions and pursuit of Celebi ultimately lead him to the Pokémon Backer Stadium, where he finds what he believes to be the true Time Ripple. After disposing of Celebi and Zorua, he uses Zorua to hold Zoroark at bay as he begins to absorb the time ripple's power, telling Ash that he doesn't care if all the greenery in Crown City dies once again, his prideful nature causing him to continue gloating, fully admitting to his role in the disaster 20 years earlier without guilt and that he'd get away with it now just as he had then. As the disaster from the past starts to repeat itself, time suddenly started reversing and Kodai realizes to his horror that the Ripple of Time he absorbed was merely an illusion created by Zoroark. Unable to understand how it happened, he discovers that when Zorua bit his wrist earlier in the fight, the young Pokémon destroyed his illusion canceler, leaving him open to Zoroark's powers. | |||
Karl and Rowena then reveal themselves, having captured Kodai's admitting to his guilt in the previous disaster and his knowledge he was willingly causing it again. Enraged, Kodai orders his Shuppet to attack Zorua from behind for breaking his illusion canceler, but Zoroark leaps in front of the attack. Kodai then proceeds to violently attack Zoroark before she can recover for deceiving him, electrocuting her, but was struck back by the determined Illusion Pokemon, though succeeded in mortally wounding her. However, her counterattack destroyed his robotic arm, preventing him from absorbing the Time Ripple. When he finds himself cornered by Zoroark as well as the Legendary Beasts that serves as the guardians of Crown City, Kodai escapes, but begins hallucinating from another illusion by the dying Zoroark and trips over a guardrail at the stadium, falling to the field of the stadium and knocking himself out. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself surrounded by Zoroark (whom was revived by Celebi), Zorua, Officer Jenny, and many others while tje video recorded by [[Karl]] is broadcasting throughout the city. With the revelations that he was the one responsible for destroying the plantlife two decades previously and that he was willing to do it again, Kodai was arrested by [[Officer Jenny]]. | Karl and Rowena then reveal themselves, having captured Kodai's admitting to his guilt in the previous disaster and his knowledge he was willingly causing it again. Enraged, Kodai orders his Shuppet to attack Zorua from behind for breaking his illusion canceler, but Zoroark leaps in front of the attack. Kodai then proceeds to violently attack Zoroark before she can recover for deceiving him, electrocuting her, but was struck back by the determined Illusion Pokemon, though succeeded in mortally wounding her. However, her counterattack destroyed his robotic arm, preventing him from absorbing the Time Ripple. When he finds himself cornered by Zoroark as well as the Legendary Beasts that serves as the guardians of Crown City, Kodai escapes, but begins hallucinating from another illusion by the dying Zoroark and trips over a guardrail at the stadium, falling to the field of the stadium and knocking himself out. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself surrounded by Zoroark (whom was revived by Celebi), Zorua, Officer Jenny, and many others while tje video recorded by [[Karl]] is broadcasting throughout the city. With the revelations that he was the one responsible for destroying the plantlife two decades previously and that he was willing to do it again, Kodai was arrested by [[Officer Jenny]]. | ||