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| Season | Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies (Season 15) · The road to Driftveil arc (BW053–BW058) |
| Episode | Season 15, episode 9 · English episode 710 · Japanese episode 715 · Bulbapedia code BW057 |
| English title | The Mighty Accelguard to the Rescue! |
| Japanese title | 快傑ア☆ギルダーVSフリージ男！ Kaiketsu A☆Girudā Tai Furīji Otoko! — “Kaiketsu A☆Gilder VS Freege Man!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 1 December 2011 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 14 April 2012 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Pokémon Ieru kana? BW (Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW) – Takeshi Tsuruno |
| English opening | Rival Destinies – Alex Nackman & Kathryn Raio |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Accelgor (US) |
| Previous episode | The Lonely Deino! (BW056) |
| Next episode | A Call for Brotherly Love! (BW058) |
Plot episodeClay debutsAccelguard
The Mighty Accelguard to the Rescue! is the 9th episode of Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies, the fifteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 710th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 715, Bulbapedia code BW057). It first aired in Japan on 1 December 2011 and in the United States on 14 April 2012. It falls within the season’s The road to Driftveil stretch (EP53–EP58).
Its Who’s That Pokémon? was missing from the first Cartoon Network airing (14 April 2012) for reasons never explained, and restored in later airings.
Synopsis
In Driftveil City, Gym Leader Clay turns down Ash’s challenge, and the group helps the masked hero Accelguard foil a frozen-food heist by the villain Cryogonal Man. Clay is too busy searching an underground vein to battle, so a biker named Charles and his Accelgor take the group to the market, where a thief’s sunglasses-wearing Ducklett snatches fruit and burns Ash with Scald.
Accelguard and his Accelgor appear on a rooftop and chase the thief, but Linda and her Timburr make the arrest, and Linda suspects that Charles is the hero. Meanwhile, Dr. Ferrara’s Team Vanillite has been stealing frozen goods to bribe Ice-type Pokémon into helping him take over Unova, and Linda is captured when she investigates the Cold Storage. On Milos Island, Team Rocket wreck Tornadus’s shrine.
At the warehouse Oshawott slides across the frozen floor into Ferrara, and Linda orders Charles into costume, which finally tells Ash who Accelguard is. Ferrara transforms into Cryogonal Man but sends out a Vanillish, admitting that Cryogonal was too hard to catch. Pikachu and Timburr beat his Vanillite, Accelgor dodges Sheer Cold and wins with Struggle Bug and Swift, and Accelguard rides off.
Major Events
- Clay refuses Ash. Driftveil City
- Clay is too busy to battle
- Charles, the masked Accelguard, and Linda against Dr. Ferrara’s Cryogonal Man
- A Kamen Rider 40th-anniversary tribute
- Team Rocket destroy the wedge of Tornadus’s shrine
- Who’s That Pokémon? missing from the US premiere
- Debut of Clay and TV debuts of Accelgor and Vanillish
Pokémon making their anime debut
Accelgor#0617 · BW057
Vanillish#0583 · BW057
Trivia
- The English title plays on a superhero cry; “Accelguard” blends Accelgor and “guard”, and the Japanese hero, A☆Gilder, salutes Kamen Rider.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Unova storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment was missing from the US premiere airing, for reasons never given, and restored in later airings
- The wind wedge of Tornadus’s shrine is called the “lightning wedge”
- “As I’m Lost ~By Your Side~”
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