History Anime / PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai

* EyeAwaken: Palkia does this once Darkrai awakens it after using Dark Pulse on it.

--> Alice (yelling up at a raging [[OlympusMons Palkia and Dialga]] in the sky): "Stop this fighting right now!"

--> Alice (yelling up at a raging [[OlympusMons Palkia and Dialga]]): "Stop this fighting right now!"

* TooDumbToLive: Really, Alice? You really think that the deities of time and space are going to stop their ongoing rage because you told them to?
--> Alice (looking up at Palkia and Dialga): Stop this fighting right now!

* RunningGag: Baron Alberto yelling while the camera pans up to the sky or some other scenery.

* Reality Warper: Both Palkia and Dialga count, being the masters of space and time, respectably, but Palkia was the one who warped all of Alamos Town into another dimension.
* Scary Shiny Glasses: Tonio's glasses were like this at one point while reading his grandfather's diary.

Set in Alamos Town, two deity Pokemon, Dialga and Palkia, are fighting. Ash and his friends take the time to visit the city, but little do they know that another legendary Pokemon, Darkrai, lives there. While it is mistaken as a threat at first, Darkrai proves himself to be a hero and really means no ill will when he defends himself from all the {{Jerkass}} trainers (especially ''[[DesignatedHero Ash and his friends]]'') and ultimately tries to stop the fighting between Dialga and Palkia.

* [[ThemeTuneCameo Theme Tune]] EarlyBirdCameo: in a rarity for the series, the opening song is lifted out of the theme tune from the next season (''We Will Be Heroes'') instead of using the current theme, ''Diamond and Pearl''.

* BullyingADragon: In the Japanese version, Ash [Satoshi] yells at Palkia at the end of the movie for everything that had happened, going so far as to call Palkia an idiot.

* InvoluntaryTransformation: Baron Alberto is transformed into a Lickilicky [[spoiler:actually an illusion caused by Darkrai's nightmares brought to life by Palkia's actions]].

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: It's the first Pokemon movies to be rated PG in the United States and the first to be rated period since Anime/PokemonHeroes.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Darkrai, as he's actually the hero of the movie.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Invoked. Darkrai is the incarnation and bringer of nightmares.

* LeftHanging: it was never explained ''why'' Dialga and Palkia are fighting in the first place, until the 12th movie reveals that [[spoiler:it was because Arceus was awakening that the domains of time and space are overlapping.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Darkrai. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]]]

* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: the song Oración.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: It's the first Pokemon movies to be rated PG in the United States and the first to be rated period since {{Pokemon Heroes}}.

* {{Badass}}: Darkrai. He's powerful enough to [[spoiler:battle a pair of OlympusMons to a standstill. The two Pokemon who are credited with creating time and space respectively.]]*

This film borrows elements from the first nine films, from [[PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea solving a puzzle]] to [[{{Pokemon2000}} using a song to calm the raging Pokemon and save the world.]] Some criticized the movie for being lazy for that, as well as the ending. Needless to say, overall, [[SoOkayItsAverage the movie was seen as okay, nothing too horrible, but nothing good either.]]

''Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai'', known in Japan as ''Dialga Vs Palkia Vs Darkrai'', is the [[MilestoneCelebration tenth film in the]] ''[[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' [[MilestoneCelebration franchise,]] and the beginning of a trilogy of Diamond and Pearl films.

* {{Badass}}: Darkrai. He's powerful enough to [[spoiler:battle a pair of OlympusMons to a standstill. The two Pokemon who are credited with creating time and space respectively.]]

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: The Japanese voice actor for young Alicia and young Alice is none other than MamikoNoto herself.
** Listen to Palkia closely and you'll recognize the two roars used for its roar: [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Boga Boga the varactyl]] from ''[[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]'', and [[{{Godzilla}} Heisei-era King Ghidorah]].