History Characters / PokemonUltraBeasts

A Bug/Fighting-type Ultra Beast that appears in ''Pokémon Moon'' and ''Pokémon Ultra Moon''. It resembles a thin and tall cockroach-like woman with long, insect wing-like hair and long antennae. It is able to use its beauty to charm any lifeform regardless of gender and it can move faster than lightning.

* EmotionlessGirl: With the "girl" part coming from its feminine appearance. For the most part, it doesn't seem to emote, even when fighting, getting hurt, or fainting from being defeated. Petting it in most areas in Pokémon Refresh doesn't seem to change anything. However, pet it in its favorite place atop its head, and this trope is averted. It also makes an adorable little smile when happy in Pokémon Refresh.

* SuperSpeed: It's thin and lithe, and said to be faster than lightning, in contrast to its Absorption counterpart. Its stats back up this assessment — Speed is its highest stat, at a base total of 151 (faster than even Electrode and non-Speed Deoxys), making it by far the fastest of the Ultra Beasts (the next fastest, Naganadel, trails behind Pheromosa by exactly 30 points), and also faster than all other OlympusMons — and its Beast Boost ability only makes this speed even more pronounced. It holds the ''fourth'' spot for being the fastest, behind Ninjask, Speed Deoxys, and Regieleki.

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!0798: Kartana / Kamiturugi (カミツルギ ''kamitsurugi'')

** Its Japanese name, Kamiturugi, blends the words "paper" and "blade".

* FairytaleMotifs: Celesteela's design is likely based on the character of Kaguya-hime (Princess Kaguya) from ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter''. Celesteela's rockets resemble cut bamboos, referencing how Kaguya was found inside a cut bamboo. Being an extraterrestrial Ultra Beast resembling rockets and space shuttles likely references how in the story, Kaguya is revealed to belong to a race of moon people, and that she returned to the moon at the end of the story (and it's also probably why it's exclusive to ''Moon'' and ''Ultra Moon'').

* SquashedFlat: Body press does more damage the higher the defense of the user. Guess which Pokemon has the highest unboosted defense and best widespread defense boosting move of anything that learns Body Press?

* SquashedFlat: Body press does more damage the higher the defence of the user. Guess which Pokemon has the highest unboosted defence and best widespread defence boosting move of anything that learns Body Press?

* RatedMForManly: Despite being genderless (and real life male mosquitos being skinny non-biters), its bulging muscles and constant posing scream this trope. Not to mention, it hails from a world where even the ''trees'' appear to be flexing and can leap out of an erupting volcano without being harmed.

* CharmPerson: Its beauty is said to be so powerful that it can [[DistractedByTheSexy eliminate its opponent's desire to fight]] [[AnythingThatMoves regardless of gender.]] It is most likely it uses an unknown type of pheromone to achieve the effect. Ironically, it cannot learn Attract, and its lack of a gender means even if it did, it would be useless.

* CreepyCockroach: And a delightfully unconventional example as well — most cases of this trope are the stereotypical "cockroaches are dirty, ugly and gross" thing, but here it's flipped on its head; Pheromosa is not only quite beautiful, it's also spotlessly clean...it thinks ''we'' are the filthy and ugly ones! [[note]][[ShownTheirWork This is actually how real cockroaches behave]]; despite their reputation, they actually groom themselves frequently and thoroughly, and tend to freak out and run away to clean themselves whenever they touch something they consider unclean (including humans).[[/note]]

!793: Nihilego / Uturoid (ウツロイド ''utsuroido'')

!794: Buzzwole / Massivoon (マッシブーン ''masshibūn'')

!795: Pheromosa / Pheroache (フェローチェ ''ferōche'')

!796: Xurkitree / Denjyumoku (デンジュモク ''denjumoku'')

!797: Celesteela / Tekkaguya (テッカグヤ ''tekkaguya'')

!798: Kartana / Kamiturugi (カミツルギ ''kamitsurugi'')

!799: Guzzlord / Akuziking (アクジキング ''akujikingu'')

!803: Poipole / Bevenom (ベベノム ''bebenomu'')\\
804: Naganadel / Agoyon (アーゴヨン ''āgoyon'')

!805: Stakataka / Tundetunde (ツンデツンデ ''tsundetsunde'')

!806: Blacephalon / Zugadoon (ズガドーン ''zugadōn'')

One of the mysterious Ultra Beasts. It's a Rock/Poison-type made of somehow flexible glass that resembles a jellyfish and is constantly shapeshifting. No one knows if it has emotions, but for some reason, it resembles a young girl. However, the truth about this creature is that it is parasitic in nature. When it finds a fitting host, it injects them with neurotoxins that boost their natural abilities to their fullest form, lowers inhibitions, and causes violent behavior, in order that the victim will protect the Ultra Beast.

* ArmoredButFrail: Has good Defense but poor HP, which means any moves that bypass its Defense stat make short work of it.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: In place of normal arms, it has a pair of stylized paper katanas, with the lower arm carrying the design of the handle and the upper arm being the blade itself. When it makes particularly strong-swings, it claps them together to form a single thicker blade as if holding it with two hands.

** Its Japanese name, Kamiturugi, blends the words "paper" and "blade."

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Kartana learns practically nothing outside of slashing moves. It is, however, extremely effective with them given its enormous Attack stat and the fact said slashing moves tend to be physical.

* TheBrute: Unlike most Dark-types, which tend to be {{Combat Pragmatist}}s, Guzzlord's moveset is largely composed of ways to just smash things that get in its way, such as Thrash, Outrage, Stomping Tantrum and Brutal Swing.

* {{Cephalothorax}}: Its main body consist of an enormous mouth with some limbs sticking out.

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** Celesteela and Kartana are plant-based: Celesteela is based on bamboo and grows like a plant in the ground, while Kartana is made of paper and is implied to grow off the trees found in the Ultra Forest.
** The art book shows that Ultra Beasts are basically all ‘’ambulatory fruit’’ of sessile adult imago forms they grow from like plants, unlike Pokémon who all reproduce via eggs.

* ShesGotLegs: Long and slender ones.

* VampiricDraining: It is said that it absorbs energy to cause a chemical reaction within its body to strengthen itself tremendously not only in power, but in defense. Naturally, it learns Leech Life. When Buzzwole appears in the anime, it's shown ''drinking'' a Snorlax, the rotund Pokémon deflating like a balloon with startling similarity to the victims of [[Franchise/DragonBall Imperfect Cell.]]

* VampiricDraining: It is said that it absorbs energy to cause a chemical reaction within its body to strengthen itself tremendously not only in power, but in defense. Naturally, it learns Leech Life. When Buzzwole appears in the anime, it's shown ''drinking'' a Snorlax, the rotund Pokémon deflating like a balloon with startling similarity to the victims of [[Anime/DragonBallZ Imperfect Cell.]]

* AchillesHeel: Multiple Ultra Beasts have typings that cause them to have [=4x=] weakness to certain types:
** Nihilego can't stand against Ground-types. Its lackluster defense makes it especially prone to them, as many Ground-type moves are physical and Ground-type Pokémon tend to have higher physical attack.
** Buzzwole and Pheromosa both take high damage from Flying-types.
** Kartana's especially vulnerable to Fire-types. Like Nihilego, its low special defense further reduces its survivability against Fire's plethora of special attackers and special moves.
** Guzzlord is doubly weak to Fairy-types.
** Stakataka has two double weaknesses thanks to its Rock-Steel typing: Ground and Fighting hit it hard.

* OlympusMons: Actually, averted! Though they share many characteristics with Legendary Pokémon (such as three guaranteed perfect [=IV=]s, low catch rates, very high stats, and an inability to breed), and are internally categorized in the same group as "minor" tournament legal Legendaries such as Zapdos and Heatran, officially they aren't part of that group.[[note]]The website for 2018's "Year of Legendary Pokémon" not only completely omits them, [[https://i.imgur.com/MAKfniq.png?1 but a quiz even says they're not Legendaries]]. Also, while Game Freak makes a conscious effort to keep Legendary names universal across all languages (or, at least, it has since Generation II), all the Ultra Beasts have {{Dub Name Change}}s.[[/note]] Essentially, Ultra Beasts are a different "class" of Pokémon, similarly to how Starter and Fossil Pokémon aren't grouped together despite having the same gender ratio.

* VampiricDraining: It is said that it absorbs energy to cause a chemical reaction within its body to strengthen itself tremendously not only in power, but in defense. Naturally, it learns Leech Life. When Buzzwole appears in the anime it's shown ''drinking'' a Snorlax, the rotund Pokémon deflating like a balloon with startling similarity to the victims of [[Anime/DragonBallZ Imperfect Cell.]]

* {{Portmanteau}}: It's Japanese name, Pheroache, combines pheromone and cockroach.

* SuperSpeed: It's thin and lithe, and said to be faster than lightning, in contrast to its Absorption counterpart. Its stats back up this assessment — Speed is its highest stat, at a base total of 151 (faster than even Electrode and non-Speed Deoxys), making it by far the fastest of the Ultra Beasts (the next fastest, Naganadel, trails behind Pheromosa by exactly 30 points), and also faster all other OlympusMons — and its Beast Boost ability only makes this speed even more pronounced. It holds the ''fourth'' spot for being the fastest, behind Ninjask, Speed Deoxys and Regieleki.

* PunnyName: "Xurkitree" sounds like "circuitry," and it resembles electrical wires. Same goes for its Japanese name, which means "electric tree". While not Grass-type, it learns some Grass moves and looks vaguely like a tree.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Despite coming from another dimension, they resemble animals, plants and machines that are somewhat familiar:

* ChainLethalityEnabler: Beast Boost serves as this for most of the Beasts, and in particular ones with good attacking stats can carve swaths through enemy teams once they get a KO an opponent.

* ILoveNuclearPower: [[spoiler:Guzzlord hails from a universe whose instance of the Pokémon world was devastated following a power plant meltdown in Alola and almost all of the human population migrated to other planets while the Guzzlord consume the remains of Hau'oli City. It is implied that Guzzlord may have mutated from another species of Pokémon due to radioactive exposure.]]

* NuclearNasty: [[spoiler:Its habitat are the Ultra Ruin; an alternate Alola that was devastated by nuclear meltdowns, suggesting that the species may have come into being through radioactive mutations.]]