Pokémon - Pikachu turned to stone

God damn it! Now we got to get 20-30 humans, clone them, and get them all to cry!

Well, in the first movie, Ash just literally got turned into stone, he didn’t die or anything.
In this movie, it seems that Yveltal can drain the life force out of every living being instead, as in one of the trailers, it did that to a whole forest and Team Rocket.