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* Like the previous movies, this one briefly displays {{p|Porygon}} at the beginning.

* Director [[Kunihiko Yuyama]] looked to {{wp|Venice|Venice, Italy}} for inspiration when designing [[Alto Mare]].

** This explains why the characters say ''{{tt|ciao|hello}}'' and ''{{tt|arrivederci|goodbye}}'', as well as the names of Bianca and Lorenzo.

* This movie begins the tradition of featuring a next-generation Pokémon during the last movie in the current generation's series. This trend would last until [[M22]], exactly one day before this movie's seventeenth anniversary.

* The English dub of this movie mentions that an {{p|Aerodactyl}} and {{p|Kabutops}} drowned. Though the {{2t|Rock|Flying}}-type Aerodactyl may have drowned, it is highly unlikely that the {{2t|Rock|Water}}-type Kabutops would have.

* The reanimated Aerodactyl and Kabutops most likely reference the fossils visible on display in the [[Pewter City Museum]] in the games that had been released at the time (and possibly reference [[MissingNo.]] and its use of the fossils' sprites as two of its forms as well).

* In this movie, just like its predecessor ''Celebi: The Voice of the Forest'', Jessie, James, and Meowth land on a protruding object that only breaks when Wobbuffet comes out of its Poké Ball.

* Ash continues his habit of ramming obstacles, this time throwing himself into a barrier shielding Latios.

* In a reference to ''[[M02|The Power of One]]'', Annie and Oakley read about [[Lawrence III]] in prison during the credits.

* This is the first movie to feature the permanent death of a Pokémon, in this case Latios.

* Misty refers to the [[Pokémon world]] as Earth during Latios's final sight sharing.

* Images of {{p|Mewtwo}}, {{p|Lugia}}, {{p|Entei}}, and {{p|Celebi}} are hidden in this movie, referencing Pokémon featured in the previous movies.

* ''Pokémon Heroes'' was the last Pokémon movie to receive a theatrical release outside Japan until ''[[M14|White—Victini and Zekrom]]'', nearly nine years later.

** In the very next scene, Ash and Pikachu are running on foot from the flock of Spearow while a storm covers the sky, but the storm doesn't occur until after Ash takes {{an|Misty}}'s bike in the episode.

** Ash's hat faces forward during this entire cinematic, even while Ash and Pikachu are lying on the ground after defeating the Spearow. In the episode, he turns it backward right before jumping into the river with Pikachu and it stays that way for the rest of the episode (except for the very end, when his hat erroneously flips back and forth between scenes).

* In one scene of Oakley typing on her computer, several keys on the keyboard disappear and reappear.

* The entire backstory of the movie was changed in the dub. A segment of approximately two minutes, which told the story of the origin of the Soul Dew in Alto Mare's ancient history, was cut. This cut also removed the reference to the fact that many Latios and Latias visited and left Alto Mare frequently, causing some confusion to dub watchers when two Latios and a Latias appeared in the credits. This scene is very unique because the animation was done in a storybook-like fashion, something that was only done [[M14|one other time]], when it did appear in the dub.

** A replacement backstory was added in the form of a story about an evil Trainer who once attacked the people of the city with a Kabutops and Aerodactyl until Latios brought water to the town, drowning the evil Pokémon and turning the streets into canals. [[Lorenzo]] also mentions having witnessed the evil Trainer's misdeeds, thus giving him a more personal investment in protecting Latios and Latias.

* The dub makes Annie and Oakley members of [[Team Rocket]], but in the original, the two are working independently and never mention a relationship with Team Rocket or {{an|Giovanni}}.

* An intense blue tint was applied to DVD releases of the movie that came out of Miramax, making most of the colors much darker than in the original.