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What Role Does The Unown Play In The Movie Pokemon

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When looking back at the original Pokemon games, you can see that the games left hints at a gender universe, from Ghosts and spirits wondering around Lavender town to actual Pokemon being able to travel to a different dimension. And, this concept of different dimension in Pokemon becomes the central plot points later on in the Pokemon series. It wasn’t until Generation 2, where we first witness a different dimension and it was in the form of the movie “Spell of Unown”. In the movie the character Molly inherited a puzzle box from her dad and within it were the Unown letters, which she was able to lay out and open the portal to the Unown dimension. Throughout the entire movie, we only got to see a small glimpse of this dimension as the movie didn’t really focus on the dimension but rather the creatures that co-exist within it: the Unown. …show more content…

Do they simply just exist, or do they play a greater role in the grand scheme of things? In the movie we saw what a small group of Unown could do when they contribute to one cause: Molly’s wish, and via the power of illusion, the Unown conjured up a talking Entei and crystalized the entire town. And, if a small group of Unown could do that, then what could a million or even a billion of them could do? Now in the movie the Unown are fulfilling a wish that was designed by a very young Molly, but later on in the anime, we get what a single Unown is capable of when there aren’t any

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