Terapagos (Pokémon)
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Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos) is a Normal-type Legendary Pokémon introduced during Generation IX, in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: 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. When it enters a battle, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its Tera Shift Ability, and transforms into its Stellar Form when Terastallizing.
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 greenish protective shield around itself. 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 an ordinary 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 at least one specimen to get trapped underground for thousands of years. This seemingly happened over two million years ago, creating the deep caves in Area Zero, known as Area Zero Underdepths, where Terapagos used to slumber.
Heath is the one who coined Terapagos's name and discovered it.[3] Professor SadaS/Professor TuroV did research on 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, explaining the expedition she, Carmine, Kieran and the player had, which featured Terapagos.
Terapagos is capable of temporarily bringing people from other timelines to its world as seen with a Professor SadaS/Professor TuroV, who was brought to Kitakami thanks to the gems in the bottom of the Crystal Pool. The Terastal energy it produces can be used to power up AI-powered robots and time machines, capable of bringing Paradox Pokémon from the ancient pastS/distant futureV or different timelines to the present era, it's currently unknown from where Paradox Pokémon are brought from. 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 as an Ability. 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 three 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 crystallized energy, with 18 irregular pentagons on top decorated with differently colored symbols that resemble all 18 type icons, which regularly morph back and forth to abstract shapes. 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 that are a solid light blue color.
Terapagos transforms into Terastal form when it is either in danger or about to battle. According to Briar, Terapagos's body and sturdy shell are made of crystallized Terastal energy. The shell allows Terapagos to absorb energy and store it within itself. When using beam-like attacks, Terapagos pulls its hands and head into its shell, transforms its mane into a shape that resembles its 3 tails, flies up in the air, and shoots the attack from the diamond in the center of its shell. When Terapagos absorbs enough Terastal energy or is Terastallized by a Tera Orb, it will Terastallize into and transform into its Stellar Form. In this form, it was known as "The Indigo Disk" due to its colors and shape.
Terastal Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have Tera Shell as an Ability.
- 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 said to be at its full power. Heath was the one who discovered this form. This form is said to resemble the world as ancient humans saw it. In his journal, Heath described it as looking like a planet floating in space. Terapagos has taken this form at least 3 times through history: in ancient times, 200 years ago, and at the present time. This form of Terapagos has an amount of Terastal energy amplified to the highest it can get. Terapagos appears to completly lose control in its Stellar Form in some cases seemingly due to energy overload, becoming enraged and attacking everything around it, due to having so much power in this form, it risks also causing havoc to Paldea's ecosystem. It's so powerful in this form that by just transforming into it, risks causing Area Zero Underdepths to collapse while creacking the ground around it. In this form, Terapagos has been shown to resist going back into a powerful Poké Ball like the Master Ball, destroying it, being the only Pokémon known to be capable of doing that.
Stellar Form Terapagos is capable of creating multiple Tera Raid Barriers by absorbing Terastal energy from other Terastallized Pokémon, causing their Terastallized state to be broken in the process, but it can't keep doing that forever. It can also change its type temporarily. It's shown to be also capable to shooting huge beams of Terastal energy at its foes but KoraidonS/MiraidonV managed to take it without much damage. When using beam-like attacks, Terapagos will use all of its Type icon crystals to form a symbol and shoot the attack from it. In this form, it was known as "The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" due to its status as the secret treasure that was sought by the Paldean empire and by its king in particular.
Stellar Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have Teraform Zero as an Ability.
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 The Future I Choose!. In HZ023, it awakened permanently and is currently traveling with the Rising Volt Tacklers. It first transformed into its Terastal Form in HZ033.
Minor appearances
In the manga
Pocket Monsters ~ Liko's Treasure ~
- Main article: Terapagos (anime)
Normal Form Terapagos appeared in PMLT02, playing the same role as it does in the anime.
Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~
- Main article: Terapagos (anime)
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!!~
- Main article: Terapagos (anime)
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 is a male Terapagos and the only known specimen to be still alive after seismic shift doomed its species, it slumbered for millions of years in Area Zero Underdepths in the form of a crystal
- 200 years ago, during an expedition in Area Zero, a man named Heath somehow finds himself in Area Zero Underdepths and encountered Terapagos while in its Stellar Form and fascinated by the sight, Heath added Terapagos in his Scarlet BookS/Violet BookV, dubbing its page, "A Disk Pokémon?", unsure if it was a Pokémon or even alive at all, but he names it Terapagos and suspects it is the origin of the Terastallization.
- 10 years ago, Professor SadaS/Professor TuroV went on another expedition to Area Zero and wishing to find a way to bring Pokémon from other eras or timelines to their own due to witnessing these creatures in Heath's Scarlet BookS/Violet BookS. During their research, they find Terapagos in its crystal form and study it and its power, managing to use it to create Tera Orbs, an AI copy of themselves and even a time machine, capable of bringing the Pokémon they desired to see for so long to their era/timeline, now known as Paradox Pokémon.
- In The Teal Mask, a descendant of Heath, Briar, started to study and prepare herself for another expedition to Area Zero, specifically to find Terapagos and prove to the world that Heath's writings were true. In The Indigo Disk, Briar finally is allowed to travel into Area Zero with a small team of students from Blueberry Academy, Carmine, Kieran and Florian/Juliana. They together ventured into Area Zero Underdepths thanks to Zero Lab's elevator and after defeating many Pokémon Terastallized into Stellar Tera Type to go deeper, they arrive in where Terapagos is slumbering in and determined to defeat Florian/Juliana, Kieran awakens and catches Terapagos with his Master Ball and after a brief battle where he's defeated again, Briar tells him to Terastallize Terapagos, causing it to transform into its Stellar Form but lose control as a result. Kieran tries to call Terapagos but it manages to destroy the Master Ball as the cavern starts to crack and collapse due to its power, Florian/Juliana, Carmine and later Kieran as well, manage to weaken Terapagos enough for it to return to its Normal Form allowing the player to catch it, saving everyone from its wrath.
- In the post games, if Florian/Juliana travels to Kitakami's Crystal Pool having Terapagos and Briar's Book with them, it'll use its powers to temporarily bring a SadaS/TuroV from another timeline where they'll trade their
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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 | |
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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 | |
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HP: 160
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220 - 267 | 430 - 524 | |
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99 - 172 | 193 - 339 | |
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
130
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121 - 200 | 238 - 394 | |
110
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103 - 178 | 202 - 350 | |
85
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81 - 150 | 157 - 295 | |
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Terapagos is available in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Version 3.0.0+.
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Outside of 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 cannot change back to Normal Form (even if it faints). Terastal Form Terapagos also has Tera Shift replaced by its other signature Ability, Tera Shell. If Terapagos Terastallizes during a battle, it transforms into its Stellar Form, where Tera Shell is replaced by its third signature Ability, Teraform Zero. Its signature move Tera Starstorm also changes from Normal- to Stellar-type and targets both opponents in a Double Battle.
Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type changed from Stellar at the Treasure Eatery.
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This is a list of music associated with Terapagos in the Pokémon games.
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When Terapagos awakens from its gem | Terapagos Awakens* | Unknown | Unknown | |
When battling Kieran's Terapagos in the Underdepths |
Battle! (The Indigo Disk)* | Unknown | Unknown | |
When Briar prompts Kieran to Terastallize Terapagos |
The Hidden Treasure Within* | Unknown | Unknown | |
When Kieran attempts to recall Terapagos to its Poké Ball |
Come back, Terapagos!* | Unknown | Unknown | |
When battling Stellar Form Terapagos | Battle! (Stellar Form Terapagos)* | Unknown | Unknown | |
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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.
- Terapagos has several similarities to Eternatus. Both are Legendary Pokémon that are responsible for the special type of transformation (Dynamax/Gigantamax and Terastallization) found within their respective origin regions (Galar and Paldea) after entering a state of dormancy sometime in the distant past. They also both have transformations exclusive to them related to these phenomena increasing their stats (Eternatus's Eternamax form and Terapagos's Stellar Form, though the former is unobtainable) and can absorb the energy needed to use these transformations from other Pokémon, thereby rendering them unavailable. Both of them were also introduced in a game whose game mascots comprise a Legendary duo.
- 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]
- In the files for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Terapagos is internally 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. If the game is modified to force Terapagos to have a different Tera Type, the game will lag significantly while Terastallizing, however unlike with Ogerpon, the game will not softlock. Illusion will also not work if either Terapagos or the Pokémon with said ability Terastallize.
- Terapagos is the only Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that is able to learn moves through TMs, but cannot learn Tera Blast (despite the move using Terastal energy, which Terapagos is responsible for creating).
- Terapagos's cry is almost identical to the sound that is made when a Pokémon Terastallizes.
- The cry also incorporates the leitmotif commonly associated in-game with Area Zero, Terapagos's habitat. It is more easily distinguished when the cry is played at slower speed.
- Normal Form Terapagos is tied with Azurill and Shroodle for the shortest Normal-type Pokémon.
- Terapagos is the only Pokémon to have three signature Abilities.
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; in particular, it may be inspired by Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise (a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise), as Terapagos is said to be extinct aside from a lone male survivor. The Terastal Form's 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, especially its Stellar Form, may also reference the World Turtle, a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. This connection is furthered by the Stellar Form's Pokédex entries, which state that it resembles "the world as the ancients saw it" and "a planet floating in space". 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 and could 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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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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