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| Season | Pokémon: BW Adventures in Unova and Beyond (Season 16) · The White Ruins arc (BW120–BW122) |
| Episode | Season 16, episode 25 · English episode 775 · Japanese episode 780 · Bulbapedia code BW122 |
| English title | What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals! |
| Japanese title | レシラム対Ｎ！理想と真実の彼方へ！！ Reshiramu Tai Enu! Risō to Shinjitsu no Kanata e!! — “Reshiram VS N! Beyond Truth and Ideals!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 18 April 2013 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 20 July 2013 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Yajirushi ni Natte! 2013 (Be an Arrow! 2013) – Rica Matsumoto · Sakura Gō Raundo (Sakura Go-Round) – Shiritsu Ebisu Chūgaku |
| English opening | It’s Always You and Me (Version 2) – Neal Coomer & Kathryn Raio |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Reshiram (US) |
| Previous episode | Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony! (BW121) |
| Next episode | Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures! (BW123) |
Plot episodeWhite Ruins, part 3Team Plasma arrested
What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals! is the 25th episode of Pokémon: BW Adventures in Unova and Beyond, the sixteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 775th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 780, Bulbapedia code BW122). It first aired in Japan on 18 April 2013 and in the United States on 20 July 2013. It falls within the season’s The White Ruins stretch (EP120–EP122).
Synopsis
Ghetsis awakens and controls Reshiram, but Pikachu’s resistance and Reshiram’s own power destroy Colress’s machine, and Looker arrests the leaders of Team Plasma. Anthea and Concordia free N under cover of fog, but their Gothitelle and Gardevoir are seized, and the enraged Reshiram’s Fusion Flare scatters everyone at Ghetsis’s command.
Looker enlists Team Rocket to help destroy the device, and Meowth guides Ash and Pikachu towards it. Pikachu fights off the control beam and fires Thunderbolt at Reshiram, which uses the electricity to break free; Pikachu’s Electro Ball and Reshiram’s Fusion Flare destroy the machine, freeing every Pokémon, and Reshiram’s Blue Flare wrecks Team Plasma’s jet.
N tells Reshiram that his ideals can coexist with its truth, and the dragon calms down. Krookodile’s Stone Edge, Crustle’s Rock Slide and Dragonite’s Ice Beam wall in Ghetsis and his grunts, and the International Police arrest Ghetsis, Colress and Team Plasma. Reshiram flies off, and N persuades Anthea and Concordia to join him in seeking a world where people and Pokémon truly understand each other.
Major Events
- Team Plasma arrested. Reshiram awakened and controlled
- Pikachu resists and, with Reshiram, destroys Colress’s machine
- N calms Reshiram
- Looker, helped by Team Rocket, arrests Ghetsis, Colress and Team Plasma
- N leaves with Anthea and Concordia
- The last episode appearances of Looker, Cedric, N, Colress, Ghetsis, Anthea and Concordia
- The last episode of Japan’s Episode N, followed by a Decolora Adventure! trailer instead of a preview
Trivia
- The English title plays on “Reshiram’s truth and Zekrom’s ideals, the two halves of the Unova legend, as in the Japanese title”.
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Unova storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Jessie’s fourth-wall line “But we’re the true main characters!” is among the dub’s changes
- The Unova motto music is replaced in the dub by the Sinnoh motto music
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