The closer we get to X and Y, the more this concerns me.
Last movie villain appreciation post: Grings Kodai! What a bastard. God bless this GQMF for making this movie watchable. May the (surely horrifically corrupt) Pokéworld judicial system grant him a suspiciously short prison sentence.
A couple of people have questioned whether this or that movie villain survived the end of their film, and the answer is always “yes.” The rule of thumb seems to be to kill them off for real in the manga adaptation, and to leave it ambiguous in the film itself but then show them alive in the credits (if not of their own film, then of the next one). I scraped together this illustrative screencap collection for reference/reassurance. Left to right, top to bottom:
- Annie and Oakley in prison, reading a book about Lawrence III
- Butler and Diane in Forina (background)
- Captain Phantom and Galen sharing a prison cell
- Newton Graceland visiting Zero in prison, showing him a surviving copy of Infi
- Marcus working the land behind Damos
- Kodai and Goone being carted off to prison

![うちの犬は躾が悪くて… | 茶野凜太郎 [pixiv]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4je59nGG21qfl632o1_400.jpg)

![“ もしBWだったなら | マンモーニ [pixiv]
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![“ コーダイ様、朝食の用意ができました。 | 若竹フジ [pixiv]
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![グンコーです | mako [pixiv]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqxklswqkv1qfl632o1_500.jpg)
![お前たち!さっさとかたづけろ! | mako [pixiv]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqxkn5KraO1qfl632o1_500.jpg)



