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Did y'all know that Ash has a Charizard? They really, really wanted you to know that, and to understand just how cool and powerful it was, despite the fact that the last time we saw it, it jobbed to a Dusclops. Meanwhile, here I am just sitting here thinking about how Tracey got a small cameo for the first time in forever.
I get to some extent that they were providing a backstory for Charizard because many of their intended viewers may not have been alive during the OS. But you know, if there comes a point where you have so much lore that you have to spend an episode recounting it to catch your viewers up, maybe you should've moved on to a different character at that point.