Kidd Summers: The Adventurer Who Kept the Tree of Beginning Secret

Deepest dive, highest flight, farthest distance from Earth: her track record comes down to three records. Kidd Summers moves through the series' eighth feature film as a professional explorer, employed by a company and guided remotely by her boss. The film puts her on the trail of Mew and the Tree of Beginning, then saves a rare ending for a character of her kind: the right to keep what she has just found to herself.

Contents

• An Explorer Under Contract, Not a Traveling Trainer
• The Cameran Palace Tournament, the Ball, and a Reason to Slip Away
• Her Weavile Against Mew: A Tail That Fails
• The Time Flowers, and a Discovery She Doesn't Announce
• Kidd Summers at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

An Explorer Under Contract, Not a Traveling Trainer

Her profile comes down to one word, and that word isn't "Trainer": Kidd Summers is introduced as an adventurer. It's Brock who lists her achievements when he recognizes her — the deepest underwater dive, the highest airplane flight, the greatest distance traveled from Earth.

These feats have a sponsor. Kidd doesn't work for herself but for Star Nass, whose head, Banks, backs her up over a remote link: a wealthy businessman and, above all, a computer expert able to feed her information while she's in the field.

This setup sets her apart from every other face in the film. The series' heroes move along at the mercy of chance encounters; she turns up somewhere because a mission sent her there. Funding, equipment, technical support: the story gives her the means of an expedition, not those of a journey around a region.

The Cameran Palace Tournament, the Ball, and a Reason to Slip Away

She makes her entrance as a competitor. Kidd enters the Cameran Palace tournament and reaches the final, where Ash beats her — a defeat that places her among the friendly faces, and that perfectly hides what she actually came to the palace to do.

The ball that follows exposes her double game. She agrees to dance with Brock, then leaves partway through the evening: what keeps her in Rota isn't the festival but Mew, and what ties the creature to the Tree of Beginning.

The film dresses up this double life quite literally. Kidd wears three distinct outfits in it — one for the tournament, one for the ball, and her everyday outfit, which doubles as her work gear. Each time, the costume signals which of her two roles she's playing.

Her Weavile Against Mew: A Tail That Fails

Kidd does battle with her Weavile — she sends one out at the Cameran Palace tournament — but she mostly uses them on missions. Her Weavile — the species her profile lists as her favorite — are given a field agent's assignment: get close to Mew and plant a tracking device on it, so it can be followed wherever it goes.

The approach fails. The Weavile don't pull it off, Mew teleports out of the palace, then flees through the air, and the adventurer loses, in one stroke, the only tracking method she had given herself.

It's this setback that brings her closer to the group. Mew has carried off Pikachu, Ash sets out to get him back, and Kidd joins the search because it leads exactly where she wanted to go. The alliance isn't a change of heart; it's a convergence of routes.

🔮 The creature she spent the whole film tracking has its own section: see Mew.

The Time Flowers, and a Discovery She Doesn't Announce

She knew the stories before she ever set foot inside. She was familiar with the legend of Sir Aaron and that of the time flowers, with one catch: she took them for fairy tales. A logical stance for someone whose job is certifying measurable facts.

The Tree of Beginning proves her wrong, then hands her a brand-new problem. The place turns out to be fragile — and the most precious thing an explorer of her caliber finds there can't be brought back, can't be demonstrated in public, and wouldn't survive the crowds.

Her final decision is the character's defining act: Kidd chooses to reveal nothing in order to protect the place. After an entire career built on publicized records, she closes the book on her most important find without telling anyone — and it's that silence that strikes the final note on the page devoted to Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.

Kidd Summers at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Kidd Summers?
  An adventurer from the eighth movie of the anime. She has set three exploration records — submarine depth, airplane altitude, distance from Earth — and works for the Star Nass company, whose boss, Banks, assists her remotely.
• What Pokémon does Kidd Summers have?
  Weavile, the species her profile lists as her favorite. She uses them less for battling than for missions: they're the ones she sends to plant a tracking device on Mew.
• What is Kidd Summers really after in the film?
  The connection between Mew and the Tree of Beginning. The Cameran Palace tournament and the ball are just a backdrop: she leaves the party as soon as she can to pursue that investigation.
• Does Kidd Summers battle Ash?
  Yes, in the final of the Cameran Palace tournament, and she loses. Later, though, she joins him: since Mew has taken Pikachu, their two searches lead to the same place.
• Why doesn't she reveal what she discovered?
  Because she sees how fragile the Tree of Beginning is. She decides to keep its secrets from the public in order to protect it, which robs her career of its greatest achievement.

In short

Kidd Summers is a movie character built against the grain of the series: no badges, no league, no team to train, but a contract, a goal, and resources. The film brings her in through the competitors' door, unmasks her at the ball, has her fail against Mew, then lets her reach the place she wanted to go. And it's at the very moment she holds her most spectacular record that she gives up on announcing it.