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Originally Posted by badlander86

I disagree. Mainly because I usually watch the Japanese version he does cite incidents from previous seasons and such. He just doesn't dwell on them. Lizardon making a return brings back such memories that most people probably think he doesn't have.

And he is a lot more level headed than he used to be as compared to the Johto/Advanced/DP period.

Most of the changes are more to do with changes to the writing style, rather than any kind of character growth. After all the anime has been going for what.. 15 years? That's older than most of the people watching it.

Bringing back Charizard seems to be done for fanservice and not any indication of continuity. In this case, Charizard has always been popular and they're about to release a moderately expensive action figure based on him. Not hard to put two and two together there. And for every past event that's brought up, there's a dozen more examples of him having to use the Pokedex on a Koffing.