This is the full story of how Ash's Charizard rose fell and maybe had a big comeback #pokemon #ash #pokemonanime #charizard If you are reading this plz sub :3
I love how Pikachu won the final match against Leon but damn do I wish Charizard had a little arc where he makes up for the Indigo League by either beating Leons Charizard or at least pushed it to the point where we all know Pikachu won because or Charizards efforts to beat Leons.
@@tokyodriftmon2014 yeah but they weren't for the big one. Sure he proved his loyalty and power with said wins and but it would have rhymed like poetry like George Lucas once said. Helping Ash win the championship in a meaningfully way would have accomplished that in a better way in my opinion.
@@trevhart2124 blud u ain't no pokemon fan.....get outta here....find on your own.....and be grateful that you are given the chance to find something on your own in ur whole life 🤡
@@49ersfanMatt It was during the events of Charicific Valley. Charizard ended up in the water below, barely keeping its tail up above water level. It was falling asleep and TR made sure its tail doesn't get submerged by throwing small rocks at it and keeping it awake.
The sad thing is the Charizard arc really made me drop the anime for a long time. It just felt that nothing Ash did ever mattered and the anime would always force him to lose to keep the series going. Other than the Orange Island league, which no one seems to really respect Ash wasn't allowed to win anything for a long long time.
@@redredpanda_2 You have to also remember the theme of the first or so season. It was about becoming a Pokemon master, and the whole theme song was about "Gotta Catch them All". Yet not only does Ash barely catch anything he seemed to constantly let go of his strongest pokemon be it Charizard, Butterfree, Squirtle etc. Add to that Ash basically losing every match it got a bit annoying. But as you say I eventually picked it up again. Watched Johto and such. Sort of dropped off again after they got Iris though, can't remember what season that was.
@@youngf.l.y.1467 One the biggest issues was Ash was the "protagonist". Every time something needed to be explained for people who never played the games (or even watched another episode of the series) Ash had to be the idiot to ask the question. This made him seem really stupid as basic facts he learned in a previous episode never really carried over to the next.
I don't think it was that. If you've never been abused, you cannot understand. If you have suffered that, you don't trust anyone because you don't want to be hurt again, so you push away people that genuinely want to help or care for you, its a vicious circle that some people who have suffered this, sometimes cannot break out of.
@@Sovereign-kh4ng And it never excuses it. There's a difference between there being a reason for it, and it being excuseable. Someone refusing to face up to their own issues, is not an excuse for them fucking over others - Especially not others that helped them, and abusing their trust in turn. I say this as someone with my own life stories, so don't give me that shit. Most of the time it's based in a from of cowardice, refusing to face their own issues. But even if there's some level to it being understandable, it's NOT excuseable. Anyone who thinks it is either eating some gaslighting story, or self-centered to the point of delusion.
A great theory is always the badges. Ash earned most of his badges on technicalities or gifts for helping beat team Rocket. Especially in the early seasons of Kanto. If you consider the badge mechanics in the game it's very likely Charizard didn't even consider half the badges Ash had as earned, making his respect even less. After all if it's about "proving your strength" how much strength is really proven when all you do is lose a match and then have Team rocket interrupt it and then blow them up?
@@kurokamireaper3761I don’t think it could be considered a pity win. Yeah they lost the battle with the gym trainer but they won the battle AND saved countless Pokémon from team rocket. They did win. They just won a different battle.
The thing is, the badges being needed for the player to control their Pokémon is only in the games so to prevent newcomers from being able to steamroll the game by getting their friends to trade them high-level Pokémon. Not to mention, there seems to be no evidence that the anime adapts such a mechanic.
It always annoys me that it literally took like 200 episodes for Ash's Charizard to not be an asshole anymore and respect Ash as a trainer. I personally feel like that's way too long for character development.
tbh in real life.. if you were ever betrayed and abandoned while at your lowest..chances are it would take you at least that long to recover and be able to trust other people again
@@ThunderZoltash didn't actually earn most of his badges up to that point most were given by beating the worst members of team rocket that are extremely easy to beat one of them gets beaten by his own pokemon even
I thought only traded pokemon didn't obey you at certain levels? If I'm guessing, since Damien was the original owner, Ash technically was "traded" Charmander. That might explain how Charmander leveled up so quickly, and also why he stopped obeying Ash.
you are correct. up to black and white that i know it was like that so i was surprised when i played legends and scarlet and the description changed as i got stars/medals at first i thought it was a legends thing.
if thats true y pikachu only know 4 move though out all the seasons or only used 4 different moves in each battle and y some character bring up pps@@natalimoina
@@idontneedher7180 Pokemon generally only know 4 moves in the anime, though they don't bother being too consistent with this except for with Pikachu. When have they brought up pp? And what does any of this have to do with what I said? The badge thing is never mentioned in the show, nor would it make sense logically outside being a game mechanic.
Charizard's story is one of abuse, overcoming abuse and learning to trust others again. As somebody who was abused as a child, it is really hard to trust people that you do end up pushing away people who genuinely want to help you. When you hit your 30's, like I did, you start to embrace yourself again and come to accept what happened to your wasn't your fault, no matter how many times you tell yourself, you should have been "better", "smarter", "stronger". Ash gets a lot of a crap but he really is a GOAT because he accepts that his Pokemon need to find their own place in the world and doesn't force them to stay. True love is accepting that somebody may be better without you and letting them go, for their sake, rather then your own. Very few people can do that.
another thing is that you'll never fully be better. even when you get better you still carry that trauma around with you. you can learn the strength to carry it but you still always have to carry it. that's the case with charizard. he always has that chip on his shoulder. it's tough to ever really let your guard down like that ever again when you face abuse, even when deep down you know it's safe to around certain people. the fear just won't let you
when I first played Pokemon Blue edition around the time when Pokemon Season 1 would air in Germany on TV I started with Charmander too. I remember I had problems beating Misty for the second Arena medal so I trained a lot but then Charmeleon had a too high level for me so it would just do what it wanted instead of listening, too :D
Charizard was an ungrateful pos for aaaaaages. Charmander was so sweet and Ash legit saved Charmander. Unlike Bulba and Squirtle who he mostly helped out.
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess because his former slave owner treated him so badly that he almost died. - And pretty obvious Charizard specifically was never a slave to Ash, he did whatever he wanted. He could have easily flown off and never came back.
He never mentions when he flys across the world pretty much to save Pikachu an ash in the movie an he never says anything about that this peris right you may need to watch the video again
i love Charizard so much❤ its a shame he became a brat lol 😂 i nearly cried in the reboot movie i choose you, when he runs back to his primary trainer and the guy kicks him off his leg into the dirt and then Ash saves him 🙏 the look of realization on Charizards face made me tear up😢🥲
If charizard didn’t disobey ash in the indigo league, ash might’ve actually won. At the very least, ash would’ve gone so much farther in the league than he did. I don’t really understand how the pokemon league actually works in the anime. If somebody wins the league tournament, do they fight the elite four and the champion? If so, I don’t know if ash could’ve won had charizard been obedient to him because the elite four and lance feel like an end goal for ash. I’m kinda bummed we never got to see ash fight against the elite four back then, the way we do in the video games. Instead in the anime the Pokémon league is like a tournament, it’s confusing. A good way that ash could’ve dealt with charizard/charmeleon being disobedient was if ash had used his other pokemon. That’s another thing I thought was weird about the anime. Ash ended up winning all these badges while having many first stage pokemon. His squirtle and bulbasaur never even evolved. His squirtle and bulbasaur were very strong despite never evolving. I wish that they got as much focus as charizard did, especially because he obtained all three of them around the same time. They could’ve at least became a wartortle and ivysaur at some point and he could’ve relied on them a little more. The anime did that with other trainers too. Many of them were competing in the Pokémon league despite not having fully evolved Pokémon. Ritchie is a good example of this because his team was very weak but there was also that girl that fought ash in the Pokémon league that had a bellsprout on her team. How are we supposed to take the Pokémon league seriously when her ACE was a bellsprout and it was fighting against ash’s muk? I mean, were we supposed to believe that was an even matchup? I think the anime focused on charizard so much because of how popular charizard became and they wanted charizard to be the starter pokemon associated with ash. I think a lot of the popularity charizard got came from his portrayal in the anime. The anime gave him personality and characterization that weren’t given nearly as much to the other Pokémon ash had. I loved the indigo league anime but it didn’t feel like it had much of a plot and it was very episodic. A lot of the focus should’ve been on ash fighting the elite four and building them up as characters/trainers. I wished it was more true to how things worked in the video games. I think it was because they wanted the anime to go on for as long as they could but it made it feel like it was full of filler.
Evolution does not inherently mean gaining power, that's only a game thing. Also, there isn't actually filler in pokemon. The whole of the journey is very important to Ash and everyone and the story.
Technically most if not all of the anime is filler, with the non-filler parts being when a player-insert character from the games (For example May) fights a gym leader
Funny enough i knew Ash wouldnt make it to the elite four for the whole fact Gary was eliminated earlier. Meaning they didn't plan for that to happen given the rival is always a step ahead in the games to build up for the final fight of first gen games. I thought the anime would end with Ash winning the league and his final opponent would be Gary, just like the game making me believe the game spoiled me the ending and i was hyped to see it happen on the show, where Ash would finally prove he's better than him but once that premise popped up I guessed they planned to make him lose in one of the brackets. Also in the version i played which we all at school bought after the anime one of the names you could pick was Ash and Gary for the rival, so we never realized that Red and Green around our friend's group actually were different people. Where Red was a completely skilled and talented natural at being a trainer unlike Ash and that Green despite having an ego flaunting issue was still kinda more respectful on Red at the end and not a full on jerk like gary.
Please keep going with this level of introspection man. You have a real gift for bringing this stuff together and to life. Keep going despite any adversity you might have on the personal. You have a new subscriber in me
Ash never got 2 gym badges legitimately (Brock and Misty) and they were given to him out sheer pity due to how poor he was at battling. It's no wonder Charizard never listened to him.
OMG.. this filled in a lot of gaps for me.. I never seen the Indigo Battle ending to this day (because I was shipped off,) and to see the rest of his story made me cry.. thank you for your service. ❤️❤️❤️
He was at that time inexperienced trainer and he got a lot of badges because of plot armor. Later in pokemon journeys he attracts pokemon that would previously make fun of him or refuse to listen to him like dragonite or gengar. It probably the reason why bulbasaur and squirtle never fully evolved. Cause they wouldn t listen to him too. Even in black and white he didn t have fully evolved team. First region with fully evolved team was kalos. That when ash became experienced trainer and made big progress.
I was aging out of Pokémon when Ash lost the the League because of Charizard's apathy. When the Ash lost, I was pretty much done. I was also annoyed that I watched this Charmander get brought in from abandonment only to grow up and repetitively bite that hand that feeds.
9:08 tbh i believe its because mewtwo messed with their memories at the end of the movie and everybody lowkey forgot bout what happened , its not just because ash just revived and charizard returned to bein a brat.
Ash didn’t betray Charizard it cared for it and had to say his goodbyes so he could train in Charisific Valley. If anything Ash was an infinitely awesome trainer to him. Unless you’re talking about his Previous owner Damian then yea he was betrayed. I’m referring to the thumbnail btw.
Charizard threw hands with Drake's Dragonite as well. He lost obviously lost but weakened it enough for Pikachu to finish him off. One of the few times I enjoyed Pikachu getting the final KO.
Yup. It likely would have turned out different if the first thing Ash sent him out on wasn't to throw a fight against the weakest pokemon ever. Though, likely better for Charizard in the long run.
6:27 I think it’s interesting you show some Charmeleon scenes from movie that recreates a new journey for Ash… As in that one of the major and a surprise difference in it is, his Charmander in it, even after evolution still obeys him… Unlike the show..
Whats funny is when i was like 8 or 10 forgot my age but i remembered this episode and never abandoned pokemon in my red and blue version after this lol.
Why is this called "The Complete Story of Charizard" if it cuts anything after Charicific Valley? There are numerous appearances that are more than just "cameos" in Johto alone. The Battle Frontier he battles a legendary or two. In Unova he gets added back to Ash's team for a series. At the very least, don't say they're just "cameos" when you know that's not true.
That charizard episode is crazy because ash cared for him since day 1 and literally begged him to at least try to get a win. As an adult that hits different
My issue with Pokemon and ash beating leon is the timeline factor and that ash didn't bring back Pokemon he has left with others for training. Like how cool would it have been is ash had his primeape back and just when it might lose it evolves reveal annihilape for the very first time and just goes on a tear and it would be his and ash's bond that gave it the rage to prove itself that makes it evolve
I think Ash being eliminated from the Indigo League was fitting for where he was at. He is a trainer that got lucky his whole way there, most of his badges were given to him, he happened to catch a lot of strong Pokemon despite not using them much like Muk and Kingler, and he happened upon a very strong charmander. He was very inexperienced at this point, he should have been weeded out long before that point. Charizard deciding to take a nap and costing him the match was a fitting end for his league run
Meowth is my favorite Pokemon, but Charizard's story did win me over. But would it be interesting to see a human being battle Pokemon in multiple tournaments, wearing battle armor and dodging attacks?
I did not know what that lazy lizard was expecting. What do you think happens when you spend all your time sleeping and acting like a rebelous teenager. People are called trainers for a reason. To improve and train.
Not seeing it in championship finals was so unfair. I wanted Ash and Leon charizards battling for the title of strongest charizard, and yet we have been robed 😅 Pokemon devs show at least make a special episode for that with all strongest charizards fighting.
