I got it now.
So M20 Ash is Game Ash. The one who gave Sun Ash-Greninja, and whose photos were in the abandoned Thrifty Walmart.
That's why his rival isn't Gary (because Blue is Red's rival already), and that's why he travels with some literally whos instead of Misty and Brock (since they've always been nothing but Gym Leaders in the games).
That's also why May, Dawn, Iris, Serena and everyone else won't appear in this movie.
>>32274809
I prefer my headcanon where Greninja somehow traveled between universes.
>>32274825
Parallel universes
>>32274882
During Greninja's travels with Squishy and Z2, he had an encounter with Celebi, and learned that the timeline was broken, and somehow Ash was involved. For generations, Dialga had been rewriting history in a futile attempt to prevent the universe from unravelling, but all it ever did was create more holes. In a desperate bid to save the universe, the Creation Trio opened a portal to send Greninja to the game universe in the hopes that someone there could help...
>>32274910
Literally kys.
you pepole think to hard about this stuff
that's actually pretty good, thanks
I'm calmer now
>>32274910
Cringe thread?
The movie is either another (remake) universe from basically everything else, or it's like 100 years after and those are the great-grandchildren of characters with the same name.
>>32274809
Good point
Why do you idiots feel the need to try to rationalize everything in a children's cartoon?
>>32274809
This is now my headcanon
>>32274882
Using agility for 12 hours