Terapagos (Pokémon)
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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 three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form, the latter of which is Stellar-type. When it enters a battle, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its Tera Shift Ability, and transfroms into its Stellar Form when terastilizing.
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 needs to slumber or when 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[1]. This species appears to be capable of living for millions of years while slumbering within its crystal shell. Terapagos can take on multiple distinct appearances[2], between them, its Normal, Terastal and Stellar forms. It's thought that this species existed in ancient times in the Paldea region until it got caught in seismic shifts, presumably causing it to go extinct, but in reality, it caused it to get trapped underground for thousands of years. This seemingly happened over two million years ago, creating the deep caves in Area Zero where Terapagos slumbers.
Heath is the one who coined Terapagos's name and discovered it.[3] Professor SadaS/Professor TuroV did research on it this Pokémon while in Area Zero. Terapagos assumes Normal Form when not battling and moving around. The Area Zero journals and the Scarlet BookS/Violet BookV describe Terapagos, implying that this Pokémon is responsible for the Terastal phenomenon, this is ultimately confirmed to be the case in the Pokédex. Many for a long time believed Terapagos was fake and that Heath made it up, but Briar proved its existence by writing her own book about it. Terapagos is capable of time-traveling and can bring humans from the past temporarily. Its power can be used to power up-time machines and bring Paradox Pokémon to the present era. Terapagos can influence a Tera Orb with the ability to Terastallize with no charging drawbacks. Terapagos is the source and creator of the Stellar type. Unlike other Pokémon, it always receives the full benefits of the Stellar Tera Type, even outside of Tera Raid Battles.
Terapagos is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Tera Starstorm. It is also the only known Pokémon that can have Tera Shift, Tera Shell, and Teraform Zero as Abilities. Its Tera Type is fixed as Stellar and cannot be changed at the Treasure Eatery.
Forms
Terapagos has three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form. Terapagos can fly in its Terastal and Stellar forms.
- Terastal Form Terapagos
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.
Terapagos transforms into Terastal form when it is either in danger or about to battle. The sturdy shell it resides in is made of crystallized Terastal energy. The shell allows Terpagos to absorb energy and store it within itself. When using beam-like attacks, Terapagos pulls its hands and head into its shell, transform its mane into its tails and shoot the attack from the diamond in its center. When Terapagos absorbs enough energy or through Tera Orb, it will Terastallize into its Stellar Form. This form has been referred to as The Indigo Disk.
- Stellar Form Terapagos
Stellar Form Terapagos emanates an energy field in the shape of 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 covered in jewels corresponding to the type icons, topped with a miniature version of its Normal Form and the icon for the Terastal Phenomenon floating above it.
Stellar Form Terapagos is believed to be its true form and at full power. Heath was the one who discovered this form. This form is said to resemble the world that the ancient humans had seen in ancient times. Heath in his journal described it as looking like a planet floating in space. This form of Terapagos has an abnormal amount of Terastal energy amplified to the highest it can get. Terapagos can lose control of its Stellar Form, with the risk of causing havoc to the Paldea ecosystem. In this form, Terapagos can resist even going back into a powerful Poké Ball like the Master Ball, even destroying it. Stellar Form Terapagos is capable of creating multiple Tera Raid Barriers by absorbing Terastal energy from other Terastallized Pokémon, even causing their Terastallized state to be broken in the process. It can even change its type temporarily. However, it does have a limit to how many barriers it can create. This form has been referred to as The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.
- Terapagos pendant form PH.png
Terapagos in its dormant state
All the type icons on Terapagos' back, as seen on its Monster Collection figure
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. It first transformed into its Terastal Form in HZ033.
Minor appearances
In the manga
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.
In the TCG
- Main article: Terapagos (TCG)
Game data
NPC appearances
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk: Terapagos is a major character and boss in the games. It has been slumbering in the depths of Area Zero for around 2 million years, causing the creation of the Terastal phenomenon. It was found and named by Heath over 200 years ago and researched by Professor SadaS/Professor TuroV 10 years ago, remaining asleep until the present day.
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Normal Form
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HP: 90
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150 - 197 | 290 - 384 | |
65
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63 - 128 | 121 - 251 | |
85
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81 - 150 | 157 - 295 | |
65
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63 - 128 | 121 - 251 | |
85
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81 - 150 | 157 - 295 | |
60
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58 - 123 | 112 - 240 | |
Total: 450
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HP: 95
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155 - 202 | 300 - 394 | |
95
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90 - 161 | 175 - 317 | |
110
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
105
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99 - 172 | 193 - 339 | |
110
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
85
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81 - 150 | 157 - 295 | |
Total: 600
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HP: 160
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220 - 267 | 430 - 524 | |
105
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99 - 172 | 193 - 339 | |
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
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121 - 200 | 238 - 394 | |
110
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
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81 - 150 | 157 - 295 | |
Total: 700
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Terapagos is available in Scarlet and Violet Version 3.0.0+.
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Outside of a battle, Terapagos is always in its Normal Form. When it enters a battle for the first time, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its signature Ability Tera Shift, and stays like that until the end of the battle. Terastal Form Terapagos also has Tera Shift replaced by its other signature Ability Tera Shell. If Terastal Form Terapagos terastilizes during a battle, it transforms into Stellar Form, whose Tera Type is Stellar. Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type changed at the Treasure Eatery, and in its Stellar Form, has Tera Shell replaced by its third signature Ability Teraform Zero.
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Trivia
- Before the official reveal of Terapagos, a sketch of its Stellar Form appeared in the Scarlet BookS/Violet BookV, drawn by Heath 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 (from 古代亀 kodaikame, literally "ancient turtle").[4][5]
- Internally, Terapagos is referred to as "kodaikame", which, coupled with the anime's mistake, implies that this may have been its prototype name.
- Terapagos is the only Pokémon with an EV yield total of more than three, with its Terastal Form having a total of four.
- Terapagos is also the only Pokémon with a different EV yield total between each of its forms, with Normal having one, Terastal having four, and Stellar having three.
- While Terapagos as a species has a 50-50 gender ratio, the only Terapagos encounter is set to always be male. Because of this, a female Terapagos cannot currently be legitimately obtained.
- Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type be changed under normal circumstances in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Even if the game is modified to force Terapagos to have a different Tera Type, the game will softlock upon trying to Terastallize, forcing the player to restart the console. It shares this distinction with Ogerpon.
- Terapagos is the only Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that is able to learn moves through TMs, but cannot learn Tera Blast.
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. 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.
Terapagos may also reference the World Turtle, a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. By extension, Terapagos's Stellar Form may be a reference to the expression "turtles all the way down", as it has a crystal in the shape of its Normal Form above its shell, and it floats on top of a larger dome shaped like a turtle shell. The expression "turtles all the way down" refers to the idea that the World Turtle rests on the back of a larger turtle, and that turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, and so on.
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.
Terapagos's crystalline composition 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).
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Related articles
References
- ↑ "Introducing a Newly Discovered Pokémon!" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website.
- ↑ https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/news/terapagos/
- ↑ Heath: "While separated from the research team in the crater's depths, I found a strange...entity. [...] I have tentatively named this creature Terapagos. [...]" (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, in the Scarlet BookS/Violet BookV)
- ↑ The closed captions for tonight’s #anipoke episode confirm that the Pokémon inside Liko’s pendant is named Kodaikame (コダイカメ). - @DogasusBackpack on Twitter
- ↑ 本日のアニメ『ポケットモンスター』字幕放送にて、ポケモン・テラパゴスの名称を、正式ではない表記をしておりました。正式な表記は「テラパゴス」です。 - @anipoke_PR on Twitter
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