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Do you think they're ever going to do anything with the Zekrom from BW 001?

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Zekrom was a pretty major part of the first episode (and a little bit of the second episode) of Best Wishes. Aside from showing itself to Satoshi and causing trouble for Pikachu, Satoshi's encounter with the legendary pokemon is what got Iris interested in hanging around with him in the first place. Yet for some reason, we haven't heard from the pokemon since then.

Do you think Zekrom will ever come up again in the TV series? Or do you think it'll get the Hou'ou treatment and never really appear again?
 
Maybe in the Team Plasma storyline.

I don't see why they wouldn't, we saw Azelf again in DP as it leaded into the Galactic climax.
 
Perhaps it was just there since it's kind of a tradition for Ash or someone else has a mysterious encounter with a legendary in the first few episodes of a new saga.

It was done with Ho-oh, Suicune and Mesprit and their significance wasn't touched on until much later in the saga.
 
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It was done with Ho-oh, Suicune and Mesprit and their significance wasn't touched on until much later in the saga.
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But in all 3 of those cases it was brought up again, so it should be here too.
 
I don't see why not.

As Scott mentioned previously, the three Lake Guardians were introduced sporadically throughout DP, and all three pokemon (as well as Dialga and Palkia) were brought up in the Team Galactic finale.

Ho-Oh made its debut in the very first episode of the Kanto anime and had not been formally introduced until Ash and his companions reached Ekruteak City in the Johto region 180 episodes later. Suicune appeared as a silhouette in the first Johto episode, but had not been brought up again until Morty and Eusine mentioned the pokemon over 100 episodes later.

I believe that Zekrom's appearance (as well as Reshiram's debut) will coincide with Team Plasma's role in the anime storyline. The anime has established that both Reshiram and Zekrom exist as sentinent beings that are freely roaming the Unova region, as opposed to pokemon sealed away in stones. It would be one thing if these pokemon were actually locked away in a different dimension like Dialga and Palkia were, bu they were not.

Only time will tell, and we certainly won't know what the writers have planned for Team Plasma in the anime.
 
Well, if the double movies tie in with the Zekrom Ash and Pikachu saw, sure. Otherwise, I felt that Zekrom was just stuffed in that episode, along with Iris's 1st appearance and Team Rocket's appearance. Too much things in BW 1 seem to have crammed themselves with little exploration.

Seems my theory of Pikachu's Static to become Lightning Rod has been invalidated. Ah well.
 
I think they'll do something with Zekrom, as mentioned before, all regions after Kanto introduced legendaries & brought them back up eventually. Of course, with various parallels to Kanto BW has, I do believe there is a chance Zekrom could get the Mewtwo treatment (only having what? 2 appearances in the main series, with one scene being recycled for the movie & both scenes almost becoming BLAMs barring one only affecting Ash's battle for the Earth badge). But I doubt that'll happen. The writers seem to be building up for something, what with the TR scenes & barely any Plasma appearances yet.
 
Patience you must have. Still young the journey is. In time, the climax we will reach, and appear Zekrom will.
 
Maybe the writers may feel that Zekrom appearing in the Movie is enough, but hopefully, as they did introduce it and all, and made it cause harm to Ash's Pikachu, which is some interaction unlike Ho-Oh. Although, that mightn't make a difference, but hopefully.
 
I don't know about that, since we had a Dialga and Palkia in the first 3 DP movies and another Dialga & Palkia involved with the Team Plasma plot. So yeah, the Zekrom from BW001 will definitely re-appear. That's what I think.
 
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Maybe hes the new Ho-ho of this series? It will come every time Ash decides to leave??? Or hey'll get an arc all to itself.
 
We'll see Reshiram in the future (doesn't have to be Plasma-based), and then we'll reach a climax when they both return and get some closure in time for the league.
 
Personally, I think the only reason they brought Zekrom in was to power down Pikachu so he would lose to Trip. So, unless N ever appears in the anime, I'm gonna' say no.
 
Maybe. Like previously stated, the writers didn't show Ho-Oh too much, and I could see Zekrom getting the same treatment with possibly even no more appearances. I prefer they used it later in the series like with Azelf in DP, however.
 
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