SM050

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SM050   EP989 ザオボーの逆襲！さらわれたほしぐも！！ Sauboh's Counterattack! The Kidnapped Hoshigumo!!

First broadcast Japan November 16, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ザオボーの逆襲！さらわれたほしぐも！！ Sauboh's Counterattack! The Kidnapped Hoshigumo!!) is the 50th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 989th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 16, 2017.

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Plot

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Undeterred, Faba hatches a plan to kidnap Cosmog and use it to open a wormhole to Ultra Space. Lillie, Ash and the crew are hot on his heels!

Major events

• Faba manages to kidnap Nebby.
• Nebby evolves into Cosmoem.
• Faba summons a Nihilego through an Ultra Wormhole.
• Lusamine protects her children from Nihilego, causing it to take her into the Ultra Wormhole.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Cosmoem

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Gladion
• Lusamine
• Hobbes
• Professor Burnet
• Faba
• Wicke
• Pilot

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Umbreon (Gladion's)
• Type: Null (Gladion's; flashback)
• Silvally (Gladion's)
• Clefable (Lusamine's)
• Alakazam (Faba's; flashback)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Machamp (Trainer's)
• Makuhita (Trainer's)
• Happiny (Trainer's)
• Drifloon (Trainer's)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Abra (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's)
• Eevee (Trainer's)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Tapu Koko (anime; Poké Problem segment)
• Bewear (anime)
• Cosmog (Nebby; evolves)
• Cosmoem (Nebby; newly evolved; debut)
• Nihilego (anime)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: Which of these activities do Ash and the others perform at the Pokémon School this episode?
  • Host: Rotom
  • Choices: Poké Baseball, Trampoline, Poké Soccer, Jump Rope
  • Answer: Jump Rope.
• Lillie, Gladion, and Snowy narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		扎奧博的反擊！被抓走的小星雲！！

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