Awesome Music: Darkrai's leitmotif. A chilling bell gives way to strings and a creepy organ downbeat.
Creepy Awesome: Darkrai, a living shadow that fought against two deity Pokémon. Even better was that he was only acting scary to prevent the deities from ruining Alamos Town's garden, which was for everyone.
Designated Villain: Dialga has as much culpability in what goes wrong as Palkia does, and yet just Palkia is deemed the villain by the movie. Though at the same time Palkia was the one who dragged the town into the Space-Time rift.
Fan-Preferred Couple: Darkrai/Alice since the former risked his life to save the latter multiple times, while the latter felt worried whenever the former was hurt. You'd be surprised to see how many fans ship them instead of the Official Couple Tonio/Alice.
Genius Bonus: The Oración piece drawn at the back of the photograph of Gody and Alice on a bench, if played in the treble clef, is the same as the Oración actually played during the movie, albeit only the melody line.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The rising action of the movie near the climax involves Alamos Town disintegrating into the void, with Darkrai (temporarily) suffering the same fate. Naturally, when it aired on the Twitch Pokémon marathon, there was no shortage of Avengers: Infinity War jokes in the chat.
Alamos Town is based on the city of Barcelona, Spain, with the Space-Time Towers being based on the Sagrada Família. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet would come out over ten years later, with the Paldea region being based on the Iberian Peninsula and having a major building (the main academy) also based on the Sagrada Família.
Iron Woobie: Darkrai, who never meant any harm, was cared for by Alicia, and went on to eventually save Alice's life, was still oppressed and antagonized by the people of Alamos Town.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: As mentioned on the main page, this movie had reused some plot devices from its predecessor Pokémon movies, hence why most Pokémon fans find it So Okay, It's Average.
It Was His Sled: Darkrai turning out to be a Dark Is Not Evil hero. The fact that this is mentioned in Darkrai's Platinum Pokédex entry (which is reused for the fifthgeneration games) doesn't help, nor does the way apparently evil Pokémon aretreated in movies past and future.
Jerkass Woobie: Baron Alberto. As much the Jerkass he is, he still goes through a whole bunch of crap throughout the movie. Also, there's TeamRocket.
Most people only watched this movie to see the ongoing battle between Palkia and Dialga and/or see Darkrai.
A few just wanted to watch the beginning of the movie with all the past generations of legendary Pokémon (except Raikou and the non-legendary Lucario) battling in one scene.
Memetic Mutation: The film's title in Japan, Dialga Vs Palkia Vs Darkrai, has become the basis for several joke movie titles shared among Japanese fans in the years since its release, such as Batman Vs Superman Vs Darkrai.
Narm: "THIS GARDEN IS EVERYONE'S!" Though it may count as Narm Charm/Badass in context...it's still hard not to laugh/cringe as the big spooky Darkrai says that as if he's in Ferngully.
Seeing Darkrai himself get disintegrated, bit by bit.
A nightmare within a nightmare: when Ash was put to sleep by Darkrai's Dark Void, he sees a really menacing projection of Palkia.
Watching Alamos Town slowly disappear into another dimension by Palkia.
Paranoia Fuel: You see the vast fog over your town? That's no ordinary fog. Behind that fog isn't clear blue skies, but a whole different dimension that some invisible being has sent you in. Oh, and by the way? Your loved ones who are asleep will never wake up and are suffering from never ending nightmares. And all because their captor Darkrai is trying to stop a dangerous battle between the Pokémon of time and space.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Lickilicky to a small extent. While still an unpopular Pokémon overall, people tend to like Alberto's Lickilicky.
Watching Darkrai pull a Heroic Sacrifice is heartbreaking, but what takes the cake is Alice tearfully watching her friend disintegrate right before her eyes.
Unpopular Popular Character: Darkrai, who was hated by nearly everyone in-universe, but largely popular outside universe.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Although it has no gender in the main games and is a male in Mystery Dungeon, more than a few viewers thought that Palkia was female. This may be due to the fact that Palkia has wide hips and a low waist-hip ratio, has stiletto clawed feet, shares the same roar as the female Boga, and is freakin' pink whereas Dialga is blue.
