Terapagos (Pokémon)

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This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, see Terapagos (disambiguation).

Terapagos テラパゴス Terapagos #1024 Normal Form Stellar Form Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Normal Unknown Unknown Unknown Stellar Form Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Tera Shift (Normal Form) Tera Shell (Terastal Form) Teraform Zero (Stellar Form) Cacophony Stellar Form Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Stellar Form Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 255 (43.9%)
Breeding Egg Group Unknown Hatch time Unknown cycles
Height ?'??" ?.? m Normal Form 0'0" 0 m Stellar Form 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight ?.? lbs. ?.? kg Normal Form 0 lbs. 0 kg Stellar Form 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield Unknown Gen. IV Unknown IV Unknown	Leveling rate Slow
EV yield Total: Unknown Normal Form HP Atk Def Sp.Atk Sp.Def Speed Stellar Form 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint Stellar Form
Pokédex color   Blue	Base friendship Unknown
External Links On Smogon Pokédex Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos) is a Normal-type Legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation IX, with The Indigo Disk.

While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, Terapagos has 3 forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form and Stellar Form.

Terastal Form Terapagos is the game mascot of The Indigo Disk, appearing in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.

Terapagos plays an important role in Pokémon Horizons: The Series.

Biology

Normal Form Terapagos is a small, reptilian Pokémon that resembles a dark blue turtle. The body is light-blue with a shell shaped like a crystal with a white hexagon on top of it. The neck and legs each have a green star and ring rub. Each foot has three toes. It has a blue tail with a green star at the end. It has two light blue eyes with rouge rimming. It has a diamond shape on its forehead and two ear-like diamonds on both sides of its head. Finally, it has a green diamond ponytail with light and dark purple at the end.

Normal Form Terapagos is said to have a splendid aura. It is a small and weak Pokémon, but when necessary, it can crystallize the energy in its body to form a protective shield. It is also capable of assuming a dormant state when it feels that its life is in danger, pulling its head, limbs, and tail into its shell and shrinking in size which makes itself look like a jewel. In the anime, this species possesses a very long lifespan; one individual is confirmed to have been alive for hundreds of years. Terapagos has the ability to take on multiple distinct appearances. Heath is the one who coined Terapagos's name.

Forms

Terapagos has three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form. Terapagos can fly in all of its forms.

Normal Form Terapagos is a small reptilian Pokémon similar to a turtle. It has an indigo body, light blue eyes and a bluish-green shell it can retract its limbs into when threatened.

Terastal Form Terapagos is a reptilian Pokémon that resembles a light-blue turtle. Terapagos has two light blue eyes with rouge rimming, while the rest of its head is a deeper shade of indigo. Its head is also decorated with small diamond protrusions, with two on top of its head and two more on either side. It has two small hands with 3 fingers each that barely poke out of its fur. Its fur is voluminous, its color varying with a gradient between a greenish yellow and sky blue. A second patch of fur also appears behind its shell, vaguely forming three separate tails.

Terapagos's shell is made out of crystal, with 18 irregular pentagons on top decorated with differently colored symbols that resemble all 18 type icons. On the center of its shell is a small hexagonal protrusion, with a white hexagon on top of it with triangular extensions on each corner that connects it to the edges of the protrusion, slightly resembling the icon for the Terastal phenomenon. The sides of its shell also have three obtuse pentagons each on the rim of the shell; however, these are a solid light blue color.

Stellar Form Terapagos emanates an energy field similar to a dome beneath itself, surrounded by crystals bearing each of the type icons with their respective colors. The rest of its body takes on a rainbow-like hue, and its central crystal grows into a crown-like structure, topped with a miniature version of its standard form and the icon for the Terastal Phenomenon floating above it.

The Area Zero journals and the Scarlet Book/Violet Book describe it throughout the book, the text implying that this Pokémon is responsible for, or at least heavily related to, the Terastal phenomenon.

• Terapagos pendant form PH.png

  Terapagos in its dormant state

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  All the type icons on Terapagos' back, as seen on its Monster Collection figure

Normal Form	Terastal Form

In the anime

Normal Form Terapagos in the anime

File:Terastal form Terapagos opening.jpg

Terastal Form Terapagos in the anime

Major appearances

Terapagos (anime)

Normal Form Terapagos debuted in The Pendant That Starts It All: Part Two, where it was revealed that Liko's pendant is actually its dormant form. It briefly awakened again in HZ012. In HZ023, it awakened permanently and is currently travelling with the Rising Volt Tacklers.

In the manga

Normal Form Terapagos in Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~

Pocket Monsters ~ Liko's Treasure ~

Normal Form Terapagos appeared in PMLT02, playing the same role as it does in the anime.

Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~

Terapagos appeared in both chapters of Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~, playing the same role as it does in the anime.

Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~

Terapagos appeared in DVT05 alongside Liko.

Trivia

Terapagos Sketch in the Scarlet/Violet Books

• Before the official reveal of Terapagos, a sketch of it appeared in the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
• In the closed captions of the initial TV Tokyo broadcast of HZ023, Terapagos was mistakenly referred to as コダイカメ Kodaikame (literally "ancient turtle").

Origin

Terapagos may be based on a sea turtle, specifically the Galápagos green turtle, a population of green sea turtles found around the Galápagos Islands. It may also be based on the Galápagos tortoise.

Terapagos may also reference the World Turtle, a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. Its hairy appearance may be a reference to Japanese legends of the minogame, a turtle which lived for 10,000 years and grew a tail made of seaweed.

The tessellation on Terapagos's shell contains type icons. It could also be based on the unique pattern on the back of the diamondback terrapin.

It may also take inspiration from chitons, marine mollusks with flat disk-shaped bodies and eye-like peripherals composed of rock.

Name origin

Terapagos may be a combination of Terastal, terrapin, and galápagos (a Spanish word for turtles, most recognizable because of the Galápagos Islands).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese テラパゴス Terapagos From Terastal, terrapin, and galápagos or Galápagos Islands French Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Spanish Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name German Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Italian Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Korean 테라파고스 Terapagoseu Transcription of Japanese name Mandarin Chinese 太樂巴戈斯 / 太乐巴戈斯 Tàilèbāgēsī Transcription of the Japanese name and 太晶化 Tàijīnghuà Cantonese Chinese 太樂巴戈斯 Taailohkbāgwōsī Transcription of the Japanese name and 太晶化 Taaijīngfa

More languages

Related articles

• The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero
• The Indigo Disk
• Legendary Pokémon
• Terastal phenomenon
• List of Pokémon with form differences
• Area Zero
• Scarlet Book
• Violet Book
• Area Zero journals
• Terapagos (anime)

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