After the Hoenn Honest Trailer becomes widespread, several of Ash's previous companions start to take notice of this. One of them is May, who, during a lunch on a diner in Johto, nearly spat out all of her food when she had a first glance on the video.
"What in the world is this?!" May complains. "Who would ever make a mock video about me and my adventures?" She eventually whines tearfully about it, in typical cartoon form.
Some onlookers notice May's whining, even in the part when she gets agitated at her phone.
"This is an outrage! I will get to those nitwits who are responsible for this!" she continues to berate.
Out of the blue, the YouTube bell icon bleeps from her phone, which signifies that another video has just dropped. She quickly stops venting and instantly checks her phone. In one click of the video, she becomes shocked on what she is seeing.
Right away, after the video, she calls one of her most reliable friends in the land, Dawn.
On the other side of the spectrum, in the Kanto region, Dawn is preparing for another Pokémon contest. Just as she is preparing her costume, she receives a call from May and answers it, "Hello? May, it's you! What's up? It has been a long time!"
"Dawn, have you seen the video?" May speaks from the phone in a loudly tone.
"What you talking about? I haven't been online for a while. I wasn't updated to anything," Dawn says, "Except maybe Baby Shark…"
"Go to YouTube and search for Pokémon Honest Trailers. You won't believe what I saw," May directs her.
Feeling it is nothing of a biggie, Dawn checks her tablet on the YouTube app and searches for that. Upon receiving the search results, she confirms of her finds, "Well, it's just for games."
"Search below."
At that insistence, Dawn scrolls below to see an icon that directs to the Honest Trailer for Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl. "Honest Trailer for Diamond and Pearl. What is this?" And at one click, the curious trainer watches the Honest Trailer, not knowing the delirious amounts of farce she will see.
As the video starts with flashing screenshots of video requests and the Screen Junkies title card, the epic voice narrator kicks off the video with his spiel: "After the original series touched on your nostalgic senses, and the Advanced series failed to repeat that, gear up for the next chapter of the Pokémon saga that ups the scales of everything you expect from the Pokémon anime, except the formula." He then sidetracks after realizing what he just said, "Ohh…well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it…I guess." He then dictates the title: "Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl."
With that, the narrator starts off the video with introducing the new region, along with accompanying video clips to guide his point: "Travel to the region of Sinnoh, where everything is so Japanese that they have their own version of Mt. Fuji, and everyone looks nearly traditionalist."
"And journey once again with the insufferable…I mean inseparable pair Ash and Pikachu, who in the first episode get separated again by a Team Rocket attack that sends Ash finding for his buddy in the forest and rescuing him from incoming Pokémon conundrums that causes another random girl's bike to get burned and for Team Rocket to get blasted off again." Just dictating that redundant statement gives dismay to the narrator that he comments about this: "You know, when I said about 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', I don't mean this."
Nevertheless, he continues, "Catch up with the gang, along with new companions like Brock, the fan favorite who goes from caring about girls to caring about Pokémon…" Making that point, the epic voice guy remarks, "I guess that's a step up?" But he still continues with the script, "…and Dawn, the token female companion who doesn't worry about anything…expect her hair." Cue montage of clips featuring Dawn and her hair problems.
"Relive the adventures of the once fun kid-friendly series as the stakes get higher, when the battles become more personal, the Pokémon contests are turned into vanity projects, the rivalries are fought through bantering and the Pokémon, who were once adored, are turned into lethal killing machines…as if that was not clear from the previous seasons." Cue comparisons from the previous seasons of Pokémon.
The narrator goes on with the script on introducing the rivals with a subtle parallel, "But nothing will withstand the gang as they face off their toughest opponents ever, like Paul, the no-nonsense trainer who advocates Pokémon abuse to make them battle other Pokémon; Barry, the overconfident rival who advocates Pokémon abuse but won't, unlike his idol Paul; and Team Galactic, the obligatory evil organization that advocates Pokémon abuse, so they can recreate the whole universe by making their leader Cyrus, an evil businessman who advocates Pokémon abuse, bend all elements as we know it and make himself a god." Upon seeing the clip of Team Galactic's destruction, the epic voice guy remarks, "Wow, way to go New World Order there, guys." Nervously, he implies, "I hate to say this but can we go back to Team Rocket, again?"
Nonetheless, he finishes the script, "So experience once again the action-paced saga of Diamond and Pearl, where it was less inspired from the less inspiring but more engaging Fourth Generation games, as we go to the same obligatory motions just like the previous seasons like: Ash's story arc to become the best like no one ever was, but ultimately lost in the region's league; the obligatory female companion; the Brock brother figure; the tree-named professor; the obligatory starter Pokémon as the lead stars; the Team Rocket appearance from the motto to the exit; the random trainers who learn lessons and stuff; the rivals; the rival battles; the fan-favorite characters; the battle-against-evil subplot; the same old narrator spiel; the replaceable theme songs and the Pokérap." However, after being clarified, he responds, "Wait, this one has none? Ughh…lame."
That is before going to the Honest names, the best part of every Honest Trailer:
"Starring:
Red Ketchup (Ash)
Yellow Furby (Pikachu)
Frizzy Maguire (Dawn)
Be Brock Soon (Brock)
Pororo the Little Penguin (Piplup)
Tartwig (Turtwig)
My Gym Partner's a Monkey (Chimchar)
The Rocketeers (Team Rocket)
Bloo (Wobbuffet)
Professor Albus Rowan-dore (Professor Rowan)
Balloon Hair (Johanna)
Cate Blanchett (Cynthia)
Death Glare (Paul)
Hayley Williams (Zoey)
Max Tate from Beyblade (Barry)
*Kenny noise* Mmmm…mmmm… (Kenny)
Inspector Clouseau (Looker)
What not to do to your date (An angry May)
The GOP (Team Galaxy)
Lord Business (Cyrus)
And The Deer Patronus (Arceus)"
He then dictates the Honest title: "Pokémon: Diamonds are Forever"
But before the video could end, the epic voice narrator gives his last spiel, "Wait, they have school in the Sinnoh region? An actual school?! And still these twentysomething ten-year-olds have the right to run away from home and travel by themselves?!" Just with that remark, he mocks this element of the Pokémon universe: "Wow, you're really stretching your leave-home-at-ten gimmick way too thin, guys."
After watching the video, Dawn has her jaws entirely dropped. She cannot believe the feat that she saw. Just having her name, likeness and personality be attributed on a parody video is one thing, but having an honest take on her is another and a biggie.
"I…can't…" Dawn shrieks. Right after, she takes out her mirror and haphazardly combs her hair. "I will not be bullied by a video!" She goes shrieking and shrieking hysterically in her room. At least, it is in her room.
All the while, the other characters attributed in the video are either passive or shocked on the video.
