Green Impulse

Green Impulse is a Grass Move Card.

Statistics

201004131557022b6s — Green Impulse arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition+)

Attribute: Grass
Sign: Paper
Owner: Foolscap (Space Pirates), Zoe Drake (D-Team)
Used by: Shantungosaurus, Paris
First Appearance: Four Part Harmony
Used to defeat: Tuojiangosaurus, Anhanguera
Effect: Knock your opponent into the air with your tail, then 8 Tupuxuara fly in and fly up in a spinning ring, slicing your opponent and stealing some of their energy!
Other: It was used by Foolscap for Shantungosaurus, but after its defeat, Zoe claimed it and used it for Paris. It was Paris's sixth Move.

TCG Lores

+600; If you win this battle, put 1 card from the top of your opponent's deck into their discard pile for each life the defeated Dinosaur had.

Anime

Mesozoic Meltdown

His card was first used by Foolscap for his Shantungosaurus to attack the Pteranodon, after they grabbed the monk Sanzo Hoshi. After Paris was defeated by Shantungosaurus, returning to her card along with the Pteranodon, Tupuxuara was knocked away by Chomp. When Shantungosaurus was defeated by Chomp's Plasma Anchor, he returned to his card. His card, along with Shantungosaurus's card, was reclaimed by Max.

Later, in Ancient Japan (There's No Business Like Shogun Business), Zoe used the Move for Paris to defeat Foolscap's Tuojiangosaurus. In Ancient Persia (Desert Heat), Paris used the Move again to counter Pachyrhinosaurus's Anhanguera Dive, defeating Anhanguera.

In 1615 Paris (The Wee Musketeers), the Move summoned seven Tupuxuara to attack Gigas as the second part of a 1-2 punch with Ace's Sonic Blast, but the attack was insufficient to defeat him.

Trivia

In the anime, it is usually used like Tupuxuara Dive, where the Tupuxuara just attacks without stealing the opponent's energy. However, the Move is used in a more correct manner (though still including only 1 Tupuxuara) against Tuojiangosaurus, and is only truly used correctly against Gigas.
In the arcade game, this Move sometimes activates after a tie.
Despite the arcade and anime Green Impulse involving Tupuxuara, the TCG version of the card does not feature Tupuxuara at all despite being an anime screenshot of the Move.
It is one of the few Move Cards of the Space Pirates' that was used by the D-Team/Alpha Gang after reclaiming it from a dinosaur defeat. The other ones were Hurricane Beat (obtained from Sheer's Megaraptor), Heat Eruption (obtained from Sheer's Mapusaurus), Anhanguera Dive (obtained from Foolscap's Pachyrhinosaurus), and Hydro Cutter (obtained from Genie).

Gallery

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Super Moves:	Big Foot Assault · Egg Attack · Emerald Garden · Green Impulse · Metal Wing · Nature's Blessing · Super Impact · Thorn Whip · Two Platoon Crush
Special Moves:	Dino Force · Ultimate Leaf
	DS Grass Moves / TCG Grass Moves