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==History==

Six years prior to the events of the movie, Zero was [[Newton Graceland]]'s student in researching the [[Reverse World]]. They discovered a way to travel there, and after meeting {{obp|Giratina|movie}}, decided to find a way to obtain Giratina's power for themselves. This led to Newton inventing [[Megarig|a device]] that could copy Giratina's powers, but when he realized using it would inflict fatal damage on Giratina, he deleted the design plans to Zero's horror. Following their falling out, Zero went out on his own and reconstructed the Megarig from what he could remember of the lost blueprints.

By the time of the movie's story, Zero was tracking Giratina from the Megarig while accompanied by the holographic avatar of the airship's artificial intelligence, [[Infi]]. They observed Giratina attack and drag {{OBP|Dialga|movie}} into the Reverse World to get revenge for the damage caused by Dialga's [[M10|earlier fight]] with {{OBP|Palkia|movie}}, but could not reach the area in time before Dialga escaped through a portal created by {{OBP|Shaymin|M11}}, who was accidentally caught up in the battle. Infi advised Zero that Giratina had been trapped in the Reverse World due to a time loop placed upon it by Dialga, so he chose to instead track Shaymin for the time being.

Zero later attacked Shaymin in a town, where it had met up with {{Ash}}, {{an|Brock}} and {{an|Dawn}}. He led his army of {{p|Magnemite}} and {{p|Magneton}} from a hoverboard in a bid to trap Shaymin, but the group managed to escape him and board a train. The Magnemite and Magneton followed, accompanied by Zero's {{p|Magnezone}}, and attacked the train but were driven off when Shaymin changed into its [[List of Pokémon with form differences#Shaymin|Sky Forme]] and fought back. Meanwhile, Zero returned to the Megarig, where Infi informed him that Giratina was attempting to surface once again. That evening, when Giratina pulled the group into a portal from a ship, Zero and his Pokémon followed without notice. Once inside the Reverse World again, Zero gleefully reflected on his return.

Two of Zero's Magnemite snatched up Shaymin while Ash, Brock and Dawn met up with Newton, who had recruited {{TRT}} to his side earlier. Ash, Brock, Dawn and Newton gave chased, only to be caught and restrained by more of the Magnemite while Zero greeted his old mentor, forcing Newton to disclose his past ties to the villain. Zero explained that he wished to purge the pollution from the Reverse World and further desired to exploit its properties to punish the real world for fouling it. Newton argued that the Reverse World was meant to balance the real world, but Zero rejected this belief and forced his captives into a poisonous cloud, coercing Shaymin into absorbing its toxins. He then presented Shaymin as bait for Giratina, tricking Shaymin into using {{m|Seed Flare}} out of fear of Giratina. This tore open a new portal, allowing Giratina to break the time loop and escape into the real world.

Once everyone was back in the real world, the Megarig arrived and captured Giratina, allowing Zero to put his plans into motion. He commenced the process of copying Giratina's powers and retreated to the ship's interior to make his final preparations, laughing madly as he declared his intent to rule the Reverse World like a king. Ash, Dawn and Newton gave chase alongside Shaymin using Zero's discarded hoverboard, forcing Zero to leave his army of Pokémon behind to defend the Megarig. They managed to board the ship anyway, and Newton split from Ash and Dawn to shut it down from within. When he reached the control room, Zero suddenly appeared on the master computer to taunt his old mentor that it was already too late. This proved not to be the case, however, as Newton was able to use a backdoor built into the Megarig's structure to shut down all of its systems before the scan of Giratina could finish. While his enemies fled the crashing Megarig on the hoverboard, they failed to notice Zero make his own escape in a previously hidden aircraft.

Shaymin healed the injured Giratina with {{m|Aromatherapy}}, but just when things appeared to be back to normal, Zero's fighter burst from the nearby lake. Now able to wield Giratina's powers for himself, Zero launched several attacks on the group before opening a portal to the Reverse World. There, he began maniacally smashing pillars of ice so the glacier they connected to in the real world would begin to move, deliberately endangering [[Ten'i Village]] with destruction as the first act of his revenge. Suddenly, Giratina returned to fight back against him, with Ash and several of his Pokémon alongside it. After a long battle, Giratina, Shaymin and Ash managed to work together to eject Zero from the Reverse World and make his ship crash. Trapped in the ice, Zero ordered Infi to save all data on Giratina, only for her to tell him that the system was corrupted and crashing. At first horrified by this news, Zero soon calmed down and resigned himself to his failure.

In the movie's credits, Zero was freed by Newton and [[Officer Jenny]]. Newton extended a hand to help Zero out of the aircraft, and after being stunned for a moment, Zero smiled and accepted it.

==Character==

Zero is shown to be brilliant, but troubled. He is emotionally unstable, obsessive, and narcissistic, simultaneously seeing himself as having a righteous cause in protecting the Reverse World but also viewing himself as its king. For most of the movie, he is calm and conducts his plan with great confidence, but as he encounters mounting opposition, he gradually loses his composure until he is reduced to a screaming, maniacal wreck. After realizing his defeat, however, he eventually accepts his fate with dignity and willingly goes to prison, where he is later seen to have recovered significantly.

In the dub of the movie, he is suggested to have a photographic memory. This line is not present in the Japanese version; instead, it is merely suggested that he obsessively rebuilt the Megarig using as much of Newton Graceland's original design as he could.

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==Voice actors==

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