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Charmelion was acting like your typical teenager

Ash leaving Charizard was the only episode that made me cry more than Bye Bye, Butterfree

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.

“Who needs a weak charizard anyway.” Felt that line

Team rocket truly the unsung heros of all of anime

YOU FORGOT TO MENTION HOW TEAM ROCKET STAYED UP ALL NIGHT TO MAKE SURE CHARIZARDS FIRE WAS NEVER PUT OUT!

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.

After everything Ash did for Charmander it was sad to see how much charmeleon/charizard disrespected him.

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?

*charizard is loafing around*

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.

They didn't want Charizard to obey as he would have won the league

In journeys, infernape challenged Charizard to a fight and lost so badly he left to ranch to cope 💀

Man, you completely forgot how Ash's Charizard beats Gary's Blastoise.

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.

Yoooo we need more of these at least for the first generation of Ash's Pokemon

If it was me, Charizard would’ve gotten taken to the woods and got that old yeller send off 😂

well in season one remeber ashe was mostly given his badges not earned so his over level charizard wont obey him is normal

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.

Damian = average pokimon go player

Charizard had a Vegeta moment 😂😂😂

The throwback man...thank you for bringing back that piece of childhood

Ash was Charizards side trainer... we've all been a back up before. Damian broke charmander emotionally, and mentally.

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.

How you left out charizard saving ash and Pikachu in Pokémon the movie is wild.

If Brock would have kept Charmander i feel like he wouldn't have been a moody teenager.

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

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.

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

Getting some of those NBA references in. I see you my G, I love it. :D

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😢🥲

Charizard should have been made into steaks after that disrespect at the Indigo League.

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. ❤️❤️❤️

Charizard is me fr! Fighting low elo and gets demolished by better elo

Dude nice vid.. just walked me down memory lane then updated me on how it ended. Thanks pal

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.

This lizard would been off my team lol 😂.

I vaguely recall Ash having 8 badges and still getting ignored by Charizard. Lizardwings deepfried his own career.

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.

Im not crying through multiple key points in my chilhood through out this video. Just got something in my eye is all

You just compared Charizard to luka. Bro your such a legend ☠️

Low key charizard deserved that first trainer. He wouldve listened to him which is insane.

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.

Still loved when ash’s charizard beat iris’ dragonite . There are different levels to this thing we call pokemon 😂

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To be fair to Charmeleon though he probably felt excited to have evolved and tells him to throw a fight.

“Ash and brock being the only sensible ones in the room” -true words

At the end the onions were kicking in.... 🤧

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.

I just realized Damian is just an early and unimportant Paul

My inner childhood thanks you! 🙌🏿

We’re not gonna mention the single greatest anime comeback when charizard stood up to entei?

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.

Love how I'm watching my childhood 90s cartoon being narrated with Gen Z lingo. Brock pressed Damian lololol ..

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 broke me in the indigo league . That shit was dramatic as a kid😂

Story was done well. Charizard deserve this level of story.😊🔥

The storytelling is top notch 👌

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..

What if Charizard betrayed Ash and locked him in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber?

LETS GO CHARIZARD! . . . CHARIZARD:...FUCCKKKK THHHIIIIISSSSSHIHHHHIIITT.!!! 🐉

10/5 video 5 because it’s an overall good recap 5 because it uses Undertale music

I wanted to know the whole story since 2001 Thanx a lot ❤

lol my guy Charizard the epitome of daddy issues xD

The chacific valley has such mature themes that flew over my head

Ash abandoned his charizard because the show believed the Pokemon had ran its course, and wanted to make room for new ones in the story.

Charizard truly was able to overcome his emotional abuse and became so incredibly strong, one of my favourite memories from Pokemon.

Charizard is the true hero of the Law.

The one thing in Journeys I felt as a waste was Ash not using Charizard at all.

Brock didn’t even hesitate to teach Damian a lesson. He should have kept Charmander instead of Ash.

Ash and Charizard were legit brothers. Coming to each other rescue in times of need.

Charizard is was and always will be my most beloved starter then very closely followed by infernape and sceptile

Yo I watched this as a kid and it gave me memories

I feel like it's not complete without the return for the articuno fight

Hey let's not forget that he went on to beat an articuno in the hoenn battle frontier.

And that's why every charizard card is expensive ❤

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

It’s been so many years later and it still pisses me off! A long with him Brock and Misty splitting. Love the video though.

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

Great explaining,but can you do Scorbunny next?

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.

team rocket has a heart afterall

3:53 for me this scene is so cute i watched it many times..

You completely missed when in the middle of a tournament hazard left the valley and arrived to fight for ash.

Ash charizard could've been his champion pokemon to the point where he mega evolve it.

I still believe Charizard stopped listening because he realized Ash wasn't all that great. Didn't he only really earn 1 badge ? The rest were given to him for one reason or another . Ash was just a rebound.

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.

You forgot to add when he shows up during the Entei movie for a huge cameo

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?

good job!

when team rocket called a truce to help their enemy out. rare chance

He showed up in Unova too, to help train Iris’s just-as-punk-Dragonite 😂

I remember reading a fanfic when ash had enough of charizard and left him but charizard came back years later

What’s the song that’s playing when he discusses Ash’s death? I know it’s familiar, just can’t place it.

I always saw it as he only wanted to battle fire types, aside from being disobedient.

I used to love watching Ash getting cooked literally by Charizard 😂😂😂

I forgot how different Blaine looked in the anime

Charizards performance is kinda reminiscent of its performance in actual competitive play. Pokemon Anime being quite accurate once in a while.

Much like Pikachu, Charizard should have accompanied ASH in every season. Charizard is my favourite Pokémon