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Lusamine was never stated to have come in contact with Nihilego's toxins prior to fusing with it.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: How she presents herself, and allegedly had been before she went insane or fell under Nihilego's influence. As of the present, she's anything ''but''.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: How she presents herself, and allegedly had been before she went insane or fell under Nihilego's influence.insane. As of the present, she's anything ''but''.
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* MoreThanMindControl: Nihilego's toxin stimulates and excites her emotions, dulls her mental and moral inhibitions, and cause her to act impulsively, but otherwise she's under no direct influence, control, or brainwashing. Her mind is simply in a perpetually intoxicated state where she acts as she normally would but to a disturbing extreme that she normally never would and never did before, and the drive behind her entire state of being is tied directly to Nihilego in place of the people and things she used to love more dearly.
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** In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' we learn this is an aspect of her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various Pokémon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen Pokémon, allows her children independence, and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
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** In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' we learn this is an aspect see a bit more of this, although it's a bit more subdued. While her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means children leaving still has an effect, her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various Pokémon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen Pokémon, allows her children independence, and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: She became obsessed with bringing Ultra Beasts into the world and joining them in their own world after her husband disappeared, even more so after her children ran away. Part of this might be because Nihilego's toxins rewired her mind so that the intentions behind her actions would be those most beneficial to Nihilego as a sort of protective mechanism.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: She became obsessed with bringing Ultra Beasts into the world and joining them in their own world after her husband disappeared, even more so after her children ran away. Part of this might be because Nihilego's toxins rewired her mind so that the intentions behind her actions would be those most beneficial to Nihilego as a sort of protective mechanism.
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* SanitySlippage: It's implied that the loss of her husband and Nihilego's neurotoxins did a number on her sanity, causing the obsession driving her during the story's events.
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* SanitySlippage: It's implied that the The loss of her husband and Nihilego's neurotoxins did a number on her sanity, causing the obsession driving her during the story's events.
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* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' where she is a lot more stable mentally.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
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* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' where she is a lot more stable mentally.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's stated that Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts stemmed from grief over the disappearance of her husband Mohn in an Ultra Wormhole, and that at least at first she was looking for a way to get him back, and possibly seek vengeance upon the Ultra Beasts using Type: Null. Lillie reminisces that her mother was fun-loving and kind to her before that incident, after which her obsession with finding Mohn and the Ultra Beasts is implied to have twisted her into a gradually worsening sociopath, which eventually resulted in Gladion fleeing from her, later followed by Lillie herself. Encountering the Nihilego made everything worse, as its toxin turned Lusamine's sociopathy into a psychotic drive to give her "love" to anything that even slightly shares qualities in common with Nihilego and the Ultra Beasts, and crush anything "unworthy of her love" (basically, anything that isn't like a Nihilego). Ultimately, all Lusamine wanted was to have the love of her life back, but in her psychosis forgot how to care for her children and played with forces she didn't understand, and as a result both she and her family suffered the consequences that she was too obsessed to even consider in the first place.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's stated that Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts stemmed from grief over the disappearance of her husband Mohn in an Ultra Wormhole, and that at least at first she was looking for a way to get him back, and possibly seek vengeance upon the Ultra Beasts using Type: Null. Lillie reminisces that her mother was fun-loving and kind to her before that incident, after which her obsession with finding Mohn and the Ultra Beasts is implied to have twisted her into a gradually worsening sociopath, which eventually resulted in Gladion fleeing from her, later followed by Lillie herself. Encountering the Nihilego made everything worse, as its toxin turned Lusamine's sociopathy into a psychotic drive to give her "love" to anything that even slightly shares qualities in common with Nihilego and the Ultra Beasts, and crush anything "unworthy of her love" (basically, anything that isn't like a Nihilego). Ultimately, all Lusamine wanted was to have the love of her life back, but in her psychosis forgot how to care for her children and played with forces she didn't understand, and as a result both she and her family suffered the consequences that she was too obsessed to even consider in the first place.
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After she is revealed to be a villain, a lot of these moments she has in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' substitute her [[KickTheDog crueler moments]] in the original games. First off, she thanks Lillie for keeping Cosmog safe until now, instead of saying that she'd and then when Cosmog is trying to resist, she takes pity on it instead of being annoyed for making too much noise and commends its bravery and love for Lillie.]]
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After she is revealed to be a villain, a lot of these moments she has in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' substitute her [[KickTheDog crueler moments]] in the original games. First off, she thanks Lillie for keeping Cosmog safe until now, instead of saying that she'd betrayed her, and then when Cosmog is trying to resist, she takes pity on it instead of being annoyed for making too much noise and commends its bravery and love for Lillie.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', her friendliness is shown here to be rather genuine, despite being revealed to be a villain, unlike the original games. First, she thanks Lillie for keeping Cosmog safe until it was captured. Then she takes a moment to show pity for Cosmog's pain, and acknowledges its love for Lillie. After she was defeated in Aether Paradise, instead of ranting like a bratty teenager like in the original games, she becomes impressed with the player character's strength in battle and compliments him/her. Finally, she feels genuinely touched by Gladion's concern for her, and takes a moment to reassure him that she'll be fine when she goes to stop Necrozma.]]
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After she is revealed to be a villain, a lot of these moments she has in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' substitute her [[KickTheDog crueler moments]] in the original games. First off, she thanks Lillie for keeping Cosmog safe until now, instead of saying that she'd and then when Cosmog is trying to resist, she takes pity on it instead of being annoyed for making too much noise and commends its bravery and love for Lillie.]]
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* MamaBear: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' [[spoiler: despite disowning her children because they left her, she still cares about them enough to try and protect them from Necrozma, and even when she is defeated, [[GoOnWithoutMe she tells Lillie and the player character to run away without her so she'll be safe from Necrozma.]]]]
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* MamaBear: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' [[spoiler: despite [[spoiler:despite disowning her children because they left her, she still cares about them enough to try and protect them from Necrozma, and even when she is defeated, [[GoOnWithoutMe she tells Lillie and the player character to run away without her so she'll be safe from Necrozma.]]]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She is more reasonable in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. When Gladion and Lillie start worrying for her safety, she decides to battle the player in order to reassure them that she'll be fine when she goes to stop Necrozma. And after Necrozma's defeat at the hands of the player, she clearly understood what she did wrong and resolves to make it up to her children from a safe distance.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She is more reasonable in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. When Gladion and Lillie start worrying for her safety, she decides to battle the player in order to reassure them that she'll be fine when she goes to stop Necrozma. And after Necrozma's defeat at the hands of the player, she clearly understood what she did wrong and resolves to make it up to her children from a safe distance.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She is more reasonable in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. When Gladion and Lillie start worrying for her safety, she decides to battle the player in order to reassure them that she'll be fine when she goes to stop Necrozma. And after Necrozma's defeat at the hands of the player, she clearly understood what she did wrong and resolves to make it up to the her children from a safe distance. distance.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:She [[spoiler: She is more reasonable in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. When Gladion and Lillie start worrying for her safety, she decides to battle the player in order to reassure them that she'll be fine when she goes to stop Necrozma. And after Necrozma's defeat at the hands of the player, she clearly understood what she did wrongwrong and resolves to make it up to the children from a safe distance.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she gains more likeable and redeeming qualities, such as having more [[WellIntentionedExtremist understandable]] and less completely selfish [[AntiVillain motives]], and [[JerkassRealization ultimately]] realizing [[HeelRealization her mistakes]] and [[HeelFaceTurn doing her best to make it up to her children]]. Also, she only disowns them because she felt genuinely betrayed by them when they took Cosmog and Type: Null, but she still says that she will save them from Necrozma, showing that for all of her abrasiveness towards her children, she still cares about them enough to save them from Necrozma.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she gains more likeable and redeeming qualities, such as having more [[WellIntentionedExtremist understandable]] and less completely selfish [[AntiVillain motives]], and [[JerkassRealization ultimately]] realizing [[HeelRealization her mistakes]] and [[HeelFaceTurn doing her best to make it up to her children]].children]], as well as being more [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]]. Also, she only disowns them because she felt genuinely betrayed by them when they took Cosmog and Type: Null, but she still says that she will save them from Necrozma, showing that for all of her abrasiveness towards her children, she still cares about them enough to save them from Necrozma.]]
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** [[spoiler:Averted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''. When Lillie tells her that using Nebby to open the Ultra Wormhole might kill it, Lusamine understands it and clearly doesn't want to do this to Nebby, but she feels that she must in order to save Alola from Necrozma. After Necrozma's defeat at the hands of the player, Lusamine decides to take Nebby back to Aether Paradise to care for it, and orders Lillie to help care for it too, as a way to make up for what she did.]]
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A few superficial similarities does not an Evil Counterpart make.
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* EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cynthia]]. Both are attractive women with long blonde hair that covers one of their eyes, give a serene yet powerful presence and being challenging boss fights in the series. Cynthia helps and guides the protagonists to stop Team Galactic while Lusamine is behind Team Skull and Aether Foundation's shady operations. Their outfits' color schemes also contrasts each other; [[DarkIsNotEvil Cynthia wears black but is a kind benevolent figure]] while [[LightIsNotGood Lusamine is a sinister villain wearing gold and white]].
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: In contrast to most other ObviouslyEvil team leaders, she looks perfectly innocent and helpful (even resembling Gen IV BigGood Champion Cynthia to some degree), but is one of the most psychotic characters in the series.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: In contrast to most other ObviouslyEvil team leaders, she looks perfectly innocent and helpful (even resembling Gen IV [=IV=] BigGood Champion Cynthia to some degree), but is one of the most psychotic characters in the series.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough (interestingly Sun and Moon introduced a method to make any pokemon have perfect IVs, making her argument less true).
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* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough (interestingly Sun and Moon introduced a method to make any pokemon Pokémon have perfect IVs, [=IV=]s, making her argument less true).
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* MamaBear: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' [[spoiler: despite disowning her children because they left her, she still cares about them enough to try and protect them from Necrozma, and even when she is defeated, [[GoOnWithoutMe she tells Lillie and the player character to run away without her so she'll be safe from Necrozma.]]]]
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* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Her Mismagius from the originals was switched out for a Loppuny in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'']].
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* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Her Mismagius from the originals was switched out for a Loppuny Lopunny in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'']].
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* AbusiveParents: Discards her daughter Lillie, declaring her to be worthless, and was prepared to kill her during their confrontation in Ultra Space. She tightly controlled every aspect of her children's lives, right down to what clothes they could wear, as both Gladion and Lillie attest. Lillie later tells Gladion that, as bad as she was when they both lived with her, she got ''worse'' after he fled with Type: Null. [[spoiler:
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* AbusiveParents: Discards her daughter Lillie, declaring her to be worthless, and was prepared to kill her during their confrontation in Ultra Space. She tightly controlled every aspect of her children's lives, right down to what clothes they could wear, as both Gladion and Lillie attest. Lillie later tells Gladion that, as bad as she was when they both lived with her, she got ''worse'' after he fled with Type: Null. [[spoiler:
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** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we learn this is an aspect of her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various pokemon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen pokemon, allows her children independence and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
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** In Ultra ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Moon'' we learn this is an aspect of her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various pokemon Pokémon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen pokemon, Pokémon, allows her children independence independence, and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: It's subtle at times, but the game implies pretty heavily that most of Lusamine's villainy is/was prompted by the disappearance of her husband Mohn, followed by both of her children running away from her due to her abuse of them. It becomes most obvious by the end of the Aether Foundation story arc, where, having been abandoned by her entire family, all she wants is to be left alone with the Nihilego in Ultra Space for the rest of her life because they'd become her gold standard for beauty, perfection, and worthiness of receiving her love.
* OffingTheOffspring: After losing her rematch against the player, she tries to personally kill Lillie, being still fused with Nihilego.
* OffingTheOffspring: After losing her rematch against the player, she tries to personally kill Lillie, being still fused with Nihilego.
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** It's subtle at times, but the game implies pretty heavily that most of Lusamine's villainy is/was prompted by the disappearance of her husband Mohn, followed by both of her children running away from her due to her abuse of them. It becomes most obvious by the end of the Aether Foundation story arc, where, having been abandoned by her entire family, all she wants is to be left alone with the Nihilego in Ultra Space for the rest of her life because they'd become her gold standard for beauty, perfection, and worthiness of receiving her love.
** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we learn this is an aspect of her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various pokemon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen pokemon, allows her children independence and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
* OffingTheOffspring:After In Sun and Moon, after losing her rematch against the player, player and utterly crazed/enraged, she tries to personally kill Lillie, being still fused with Nihilego.
** It's subtle at times, but the game implies pretty heavily that most of Lusamine's villainy is/was prompted by the disappearance of her husband Mohn, followed by both of her children running away from her due to her abuse of them. It becomes most obvious by the end of the Aether Foundation story arc, where, having been abandoned by her entire family, all she wants is to be left alone with the Nihilego in Ultra Space for the rest of her life because they'd become her gold standard for beauty, perfection, and worthiness of receiving her love.
** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we learn this is an aspect of her even without Nihilego's influence. Although the lack of said influence means her reaction is not so extreme as to lead to hating her children, she still is deeply enraged by her children opposing and leaving her, and she still uses cryogenic freezing on various pokemon so they can stay with her always. She gets better though after a humbling encounter with Necrozma, begins the process to restore the frozen pokemon, allows her children independence and even allows her amnesiac husband Mohn to choose how and when he meets with her.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''[='s=] Episode RR, he tells Lusamine he "would never do such a thing as betray the foundation and invite Team Rainbow Rocket in, just to advance [his] career" after she regains consciousness and his lie falls flat with her in addition to Lillie, Guzma, and the protagonist. This ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern, after which he's shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:At [[spoiler:After Giovanni's defeat at the end of ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''[='s=] Episode RR, he tells Lusamine he "would never do such a thing as betray the foundation and invite Team Rainbow Rocket in, just to advance [his] career" after she regains consciousness and his lie falls flat with her in addition to Lillie, Guzma, and the protagonist. This ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern, after which he's shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''[='s=] Episode RR, he tells Lusamine he would "never do such a thing as betray the foundation and invite Team Rainbow Rocket in, just to advance [his] career" after she regains consciousness and his lie falls flat with her in addition to Lillie, Guzma, and the protagonist. This ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern, after which he's shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon''[='s=] Episode RR, he tells Lusamine he would "never "would never do such a thing as betray the foundation and invite Team Rainbow Rocket in, just to advance [his] career" after she regains consciousness and his lie falls flat with her in addition to Lillie, Guzma, and the protagonist. This ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern, after which he's shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:After Lusamine regains consciousness after Giovanni's defeat in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', Faba tells her that he didn't sell out Aether Paradise to Team Rainbow Rocket and the various villain team leaders, which angers Lillie. His lie fails and ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern. This ends up being played for laughs as he's then shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:After Lusamine regains consciousness after Giovanni's defeat in [[spoiler:At the end of ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', Faba Moon''[='s=] Episode RR, he tells her that Lusamine he didn't sell out Aether Paradise to would "never do such a thing as betray the foundation and invite Team Rainbow Rocket in, just to advance [his] career" after she regains consciousness and his lie falls flat with her in addition to Lillie, Guzma, and the various villain team leaders, which angers Lillie. His lie fails and protagonist. This ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern. This ends up being played for laughs as intern, after which he's then shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* LightIsNotGood: She's angelic in appearance, though ''definitely'' not in behavior. [[WomanInWhite She wears mostly white with gold]] with blonde hair and she's the biggest KnightOfCerebus since Cyrus as she outcasts two of her family members as tools for her will and when they defy her she decides to try to kill them. She also rules a group of Parasitic aliens that could easily destroy a planet and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures "Nebby" to death]]. She states very clearly that if everyone doesn't agree to her standards then [[OmnicidalManiac everyone can die by her will]]. She's also a BadBoss who uses her minions as pawns.
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* LightIsNotGood: She's angelic in appearance, though ''definitely'' not in behavior. [[WomanInWhite She wears mostly white with gold]] with blonde hair and she's the biggest KnightOfCerebus since Cyrus as she outcasts two of her family members as tools for her will and when they defy her she decides to try to kill them. them (only when her madness reaches its peak though). She also rules a group of Parasitic aliens that could easily destroy a planet and is willing to [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures torture "Nebby" to death]]. She states very clearly that if everyone doesn't agree to her standards then [[OmnicidalManiac everyone can die by her will]]. She's also a BadBoss who uses her minions as pawns.
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* BearsAreBadNews: She has a Bewear.
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* CombatStilettos: She wears heels throughout most of the game and is an extremely proficient Pokémon battler. Her intro animation for her first fight starts with a strong clack of her right heel.
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** Lusamine has a huge collection of Pokémon in cryogenic stasis. Hau, Lilie, and the Player character (if s/he ever changed facial expressions) are horrified at seeing this. How many players have a huge collection of Pokémon in PC Stasis, ''just'' like her? When Lillie calls her out on treating Pokémon and people as merely things to use and discard as she pleases, Lusamine responds by asking what makes her so different from the player character putting Pokémon they no longer need inside a Box. However, this comparison rings a bit hollow in these games, where Poke Pelago provides boxed Pokemon with a place to frolic. Obviously, Lusamine doesn't know about it, otherwise she'd know where her husband is.
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** Lusamine has a huge collection of Pokémon in cryogenic stasis. Hau, Lilie, and the Player character (if s/he ever changed facial expressions) are horrified at seeing this. How many players have a huge collection of Pokémon in PC Stasis, ''just'' like her? When Lillie calls her out on treating Pokémon and people as merely things to use and discard as she pleases, Lusamine responds by asking what makes her so different from the player character putting Pokémon they no longer need inside a Box. However, this comparison rings a bit hollow in these games, where Poke Poké Pelago provides boxed Pokemon with a place to frolic. Obviously, Lusamine doesn't know about it, otherwise she'd know where her husband is.
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* HeelFaceTurn: She comforts Lillie and finally recognizes her as being beautiful even when not dressed to resemble Nihilego, before falling into a coma. Lillie reveals at the end of the game that Lusamine regained consciousness and is starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, also wanting to see you at your coronation as Champion.
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** She comforts Lillie and finally recognizes her as being beautiful even when not dressed to resemble Nihilego, before falling into a coma. Lillie reveals at the end of the game that Lusamine regained consciousness and is starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, also wanting to see you at your coronation as Champion.
** She comforts Lillie and finally recognizes her as being beautiful even when not dressed to resemble Nihilego, before falling into a coma. Lillie reveals at the end of the game that Lusamine regained consciousness and is starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, also wanting to see you at your coronation as Champion.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: She doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, Lillie calls her out for only ever thinking about herself; Lusamine doesn't even try to deny it and flat-out asks Lillie why she ''shouldn't''.
** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon she still has this characteristic to a degree, Lillie summarizing her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.
** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon she still has this characteristic to a degree, Lillie summarizing her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: ItsAllAboutMe:
** She doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, Lillie calls her out for only ever thinking about herself; Lusamine doesn't even try to deny it and flat-out asks Lillie why she ''shouldn't''.
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** She doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, Lillie calls her out for only ever thinking about herself; Lusamine doesn't even try to deny it and flat-out asks Lillie why she ''shouldn't''.
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* TheUnfought: The only named member of the Aether Foundation to not be fought.
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* TheUnfought: The only named member of the Aether Foundation to not be fought.fought, even though in ''Ultra Sun and Moon'' she mentions that she went on a journey in Kanto when she was younger, meaning that at least at one point she was a trainer.
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* SuspciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:After Lusamine regains consciousness after Giovanni's defeat in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', Faba tells her that he didn't sell out Aether Paradise to Team Rainbow Rocket and the various villain team leaders, which angers Lillie. His lie fails and ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern. This ends up being played for laughs as he's then shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* SuspciouslySpecificDenial: SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:After Lusamine regains consciousness after Giovanni's defeat in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', Faba tells her that he didn't sell out Aether Paradise to Team Rainbow Rocket and the various villain team leaders, which angers Lillie. His lie fails and ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern. This ends up being played for laughs as he's then shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
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* VillainBall: During the protagonists' second visit to the Aether Foundation, Hau asks if Faba has a key to a locked door, to which he replies [[WhatAnIdiot yes]]. Hau then points out that if he had just stayed hidden, said protagonists would then be stuck and probably unable to stop said evil plans.
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* SuspciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:After Lusamine regains consciousness after Giovanni's defeat in ''Ultra Sun'' and ''Ultra Moon'', Faba tells her that he didn't sell out Aether Paradise to Team Rainbow Rocket and the various villain team leaders, which angers Lillie. His lie fails and ends up with him being demoted from branch chief to intern. This ends up being played for laughs as he's then shown doing manual labor for other employees.]]
* VillainBall: During the protagonists' second visit to the Aether Foundation, Hau asks if Faba has a key to a locked door, to which he replies[[WhatAnIdiot yes]].yes. Hau then points out that if he had just stayed hidden, said protagonists would then be stuck and probably unable to stop said evil plans.
* VillainBall: During the protagonists' second visit to the Aether Foundation, Hau asks if Faba has a key to a locked door, to which he replies
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The lovely Lusamine functions as the Aether Foundation’s president, though as it turns out, she's anything but lovely.
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The lovely Lusamine functions as the Aether Foundation’s president, though as it turns out, she's anything but lovely.not as lovely as she seems.
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* AxCrazy: Be it innocent bystanders or her own children, she doesn't care who she has to hurt to get what she wants. To put things into perspective, even Guzma, the guy who calls himself "destruction in human form", thinks she's too far gone to be reasoned with.
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* AxCrazy: Be it innocent bystanders or her own children, she doesn't care who she has to hurt to get what she wants. To put things into perspective, even Guzma, the guy who calls himself "destruction in human form", thinks she's too far gone to be reasoned with.with, though this is admittedly after her mental state has gotten a lot worse.
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* BeautyIsBad: A deceptively beautiful woman secretly plotting to unleash Ultra Beasts on Alola.
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** She's also one to the BigBad of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite the game even further back]], Ghetsis. Both of them lead a team who claim to look after the common welfare of Pokemon whose true agendas are absolutely ruthless and self-serving. They're also very AbusiveParents. However, Team Plasma's ruse was paper-thin and it was clear that Team Plasma couldn't be trusted since they blatantly steal Pokemon from trainers to "free" them. The Aether Foundation does a ''much'' better of hiding its shadowy intentions, using far more professional strategies and having far more resources to carry out their plans. While Ghetsis was driven only by love for himself while harboring callous apathy or even outright contempt for others, Lusamine is driven by a self-serving insanity that she mistakenly believes is pure love and a desire to give love and affection to others she deems worthy of receiving it. Both Ghetsis and Lusamine became physically ill by the end of their story arc, but while Ghetsis remained irredeemable to the last, Lusamine was hinted to have some way of making up for her amends, according to Lillie.
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** She's also one to the BigBad of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite the game even further back]], Ghetsis. Both of them lead a team who claim to look after the common welfare of Pokemon whose true agendas are absolutely ruthless and self-serving. They're also very AbusiveParents. However, Team Plasma's ruse was paper-thin and it was clear that Team Plasma couldn't be trusted since they blatantly steal Pokemon from trainers to "free" them. The Aether Foundation does a ''much'' better of hiding its shadowy intentions, using far more professional strategies and having far more resources to carry out their plans. While Ghetsis was driven only by love for himself while harboring callous apathy or even outright contempt for others, Lusamine is driven by a self-serving insanity that she mistakenly believes is pure love and a desire to give love and affection to others she deems worthy of receiving it. Both Ghetsis and Lusamine became physically ill by the end of their story arc, but while Ghetsis remained irredeemable to the last, Lusamine was hinted seeks to have some way of making up for her make amends, according to Lillie.
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she reunites with Mohn when he visits Aether Paradise for a tour of the facility. He does not remember it, or her, but Lusamine doesn't press the issue any further, and lets him go because he's happier this way.]]
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she reunites with Mohn when he visits Aether Paradise for a tour of the facility. He does not remember it, or her, but Lusamine doesn't press the issue any further, and lets him go because he's happier this way. That said it is indicated she may rekindle her relationship with Mohn, as he expresses that he intends to see her again.]]
** In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon she still has this characteristic to a degree, Lillie summarizing her as a selfish person because she does what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough.enough (interestingly Sun and Moon introduced a method to make any pokemon have perfect IVs, making her argument less true).
** Averted in Ultra Sun and Moon where she takes pity on Cosmog's pain and briefly hesitates when Lillie again emphasizes that what she is doing could kill it.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: She's over 40 years old - even though by first glance, she looks to be somewhere in her late teens to early 20s - which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hau's dumbfounded reaction upon learning this fact.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: She's over 40 years old - even though by first glance, she looks to be somewhere in her late teens to early 20s - which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hau's dumbfounded reaction upon learning this fact.fact.
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* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
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* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.Moon'' where she is a lot more stable mentally.
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* TragicVillain: Once a caring wife and mother, her futile attempts to reunite with her husband and gradual SanitySlippage due to the Ultra Beasts made her the villain she is in the present. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she takes it upon herself to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, and her insistence on doing this alone only leads to her defeat and Necrozma almost destroying Alola.]]
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* TragicVillain: Once a caring wife and mother, her futile attempts to reunite with her husband and gradual SanitySlippage due to the Ultra Beasts made her the villain she is in the present. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she takes it upon herself to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, and her insistence on doing this alone herself only leads to her defeat and Necrozma almost destroying Alola.]]
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Null edit: I can confirm Hashil's previous edit. Bulbapedia has the Japanese names of the game's music and I have the English iTunes soundtrack and "Mother Beast" never appears a single time in either; said Trainer class is never called anything other than Aether President. Someone ought to make a Common Knowledge entry regarding the idea that that name is official.
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* TranquilFury: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', when she finds out that Faba was the one who sold out the Aether Foundation to Team Rainbow Rocket, her expression is basically just a DeathGlare that contains enough anger to scare Faba into running away.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:PlayedForLaughs. Rather than be arrested for his villainous actions, he is kept on at the Aether Paradise... but is demoted to ''intern'' position, which absolutely horrifies and depresses him.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:PlayedForLaughs. Rather than be arrested for his villainous actions, he is kept on at the Aether Paradise... but is demoted to ''intern'' position, which absolutely horrifies and depresses him.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
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This isn't true. It's 100% a Fan Nickname.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The title for her fused form with Nihilego, "Mother Beast", comes from the name of said form's battle theme in the game's official soundtrack, and is never mentioned in-game.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Flat-out subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Flat-out subverted [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
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!!The Aether Foundation
An organization dedicated to protecting hurt Pokémon, especially those who have been abused by Team Skull, on their own private island. However, there's more to them than it seems, which turns out to be them secretly having been in league with Team Skull the whole time, as their financial backer.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The employees have a much darker skin color than most other villainous team grunts.
* DeathGlare: The female employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration.
* EliteMooks: Aether Employees' choice of Pokémon make them a cut above the average evil team's grunts.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: The female employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: By means of a CallBack. Their uniforms (particularly their caps) resemble pallet swapped versions of Team Rocket's. This gives you an early hint that they're EvilAllAlong.
* HeelFaceTurn: During the post-game, after Lusamine's Ultra Beast obsession has been dealt with, the protagonist can visit the Aether Foundation again. The Foundation is still around, but is now attempting to save and conserve Pokémon for real, with Gladion as their president. Further enforced by the animation set used by Aether Foundation employees in the Battle Tree being much friendlier than those used during the infiltration of Aether Paradise.
* HelpfulMook: In Aether Paradise, one employee would man Gladion's boat for you should you ever need to return to the mainland, and another in the main entrance will heal your team. Averted with one mook in another room; who says that even if he loses, he won't tell you anything.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Have a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVDUe2ymZY&index=64&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H laid-back and futuristic theme]] that plays throughout their paradise. There is also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeEy-JlTZxY&index=74&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H violin version]] that plays in the standalone labs found throughout the region. It later receives a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4bMzkn4g2o&index=65&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H serene-yet-unsettling remix]] mixed with Lusamine's leitmotif in her encounter theme, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf3fvqmKB1M&index=82&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H mysterious and villainous]] mix after their antagonistic side is exposed, a much more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSiaBnXdUs&index=87&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H threatening and cinematic mix]] in the Employee battle theme, and finally a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHoIWAuDilA&index=83&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H flat-out disturbing mix]] played in their secret basement.
* LightIsNotGood: In contrast to the [[DarkIsEvil mainly-black Team Skull]], their main colours include white and gold, and they're just as much villains as the former. However, they become good in the post-game after Lusamine's Ultra Beast obsession has been dealt with.
* NoNameGiven: Played with. As soon as they're no longer considered villains, even generic members of the Aether Foundation trainer class are allowed to have real names. However, the named generic employees are only battled in the Battle Tree.
* ObviouslyEvil: Subverted. After the intro where Aether employees were chasing Lillie with [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]], was anybody really buying that they were a benevolent company, on a mission to help all Pokémon? However, it is implied that the majority of employees don't even know what's going on and are hostile only due to you being an intruder. In the post-game, once Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts has been dealt with, the Aether Foundation really ''does'' become a benevolent company that helps Pokémon.
* PoorPredictableRock: Averted. Aether Employees aren't restricted to typical grunt Pokémon. Expect to see lots of types and strategies to boot.
* PunchClockVillain: With the exception of [[TheSociopath Lusamine]] and [[SmugSnake Faba]], most of the employees are really just doing their job and protecting their research from intruders (i.e. you).
* RuleOfCool: An employee expresses how she joined the team because she thought that the uniforms were cool, then [[RealityEnsues she laments how much work it is to look after Pokémon]].
* SlasherSmile: The male employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration. The ones that chase Lillie in the intro have them as well.
* UnwittingPawn: Most of the lower ranking members have no idea about Lusamine's plans and only attack the player because they were told they were trying to steal Pokémon.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Whenever you see them on the second and third islands, they're celebrated by the populace, and work closely with trusted authorities. Because the protagonists took them down by storming their secluded headquarters before they can kickstart their leader's plan, most Alolan citizens are LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding their true intentions, though some important [=NPCs=] are hinted to knew this but keep it secret for some reason. It helps that they undergo a HeelFaceTurn after Lusamine is taken down.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: According to a scientist at Aether Paradise, Lusamine's father was an immensely wealthy man who started the Aether Foundation because of his love for Pokémon.
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--> ''"I still need that Pokémon. I need to get it back. [...] It looked like it was suffering... Like it pained it to be in this strange place... I can't bear to see that happen! I will save it. [[TraitorShot And I will love it]]!"''
The lovely Lusamine functions as the Aether Foundation’s president, though as it turns out, she's anything but lovely.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: She's so young-looking that she may pass off as her children's big sister. This is even pointed out in-game when Hau can't believe she's 40 with her looks.
* AbusiveParents: Discards her daughter Lillie, declaring her to be worthless, and was prepared to kill her during their confrontation in Ultra Space. She tightly controlled every aspect of her children's lives, right down to what clothes they could wear, as both Gladion and Lillie attest. Lillie later tells Gladion that, as bad as she was when they both lived with her, she got ''worse'' after he fled with Type: Null. [[spoiler:
* ActionMom: She is easily one of the strongest characters in the game, and could easily put Gladion or Lillie back in their place. Unlike most examples though, she's far from benevolent.
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' tones her down somewhat, making her more altruistic in her motives, less abusive toward her children (she still disowns them, but also says she's doing everything to save them, and some of her crueler dialogue is removed), and she ends up seeing the error of her ways and redeeming herself, never going fully insane and merging with Nihilego.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: The title for her fused form with Nihilego, "Mother Beast", comes from the name of said form's battle theme in the game's official soundtrack, and is never mentioned in-game.
* AlmightyMom: No matter how much Lillie and Gladion try to stop her, she proves to be one step ahead. If it wasn't for you, she would've gotten what she wanted, (having Cosmog open up a wormhole so that she could unleash the Ultra Beasts, and also stay in Ultra Space) even after Gladion ran away with Type: Null, which was itself created to defeat those very same Ultra Beasts.
* AmazonBrigade: Her Pokémon team is all-female with a [[CuteBruiser cute]] or beautiful theme. They are also one of the toughest fights in the game, with great natures, individual values, effort values, and Totem Boosts on top of that in their second battle.
* AntiVillain: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she is motivated by a desire to save the world and all the people and Pokémon she loves from Necrozma, rather than out of totally insane selfishness. That said, she still goes through with nearly killing Nebby to open the Ultra Wormhole, and she still wants the world's Pokémon for herself.]]
* ArchnemesisDad: GenderFlipped: she's this for Gladion and Lillie, especially for the latter. The player and Hau are mostly just along for the ride in the main storyline, with Lusamine's children being the primary force when it comes to taking her down.
* AsleepForDays: After being released from Nihilego, Lusamine falls into a coma. However, Lillie tells you after you beat the Pokémon League and during the celebration that Lusamine had recovered from her comatose state and even tried to come to the celebration as well.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is the president of the Aether Foundation and is one of the most difficult fights of the series.
* AxCrazy: Be it innocent bystanders or her own children, she doesn't care who she has to hurt to get what she wants. To put things into perspective, even Guzma, the guy who calls himself "destruction in human form", thinks she's too far gone to be reasoned with.
* BadassAdorable: Her team is full of them. Her team theme is cute or beautiful Pokémon[[note]]Clefable, Mismagius, Milotic, Lilligant, Bewear, and Lopunny[[/note]], and all five of them have perfect individual values ''and'' ideal natures and effort values, meaning that each of them is likely to be able to crush a casual player's Pokémon in a one-on-one fight unless they're facing a type or level disadvantage.
* BadassInCharge: Head of the Aether Foundation and their strongest trainer.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:The Team Rainbow Rocket subplot in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' centers around Lusamine being held hostage while the evil team takes over Aether Paradise, all so Giovanni can use the Ultra Beasts' power to brainwash her into becoming his pawn and lending all of Aether's technology and knowledge of the Ultra Wormholes.]]
* BadBoss: Faba and Guzma are shown to be scared by her and think she's gone off the deep end. She also uses both of them as pawns and seemingly has no care about them.
* BearsAreBadNews: She has a Bewear.
* BeautyIsBad: A deceptively beautiful woman secretly plotting to unleash Ultra Beasts on Alola.
* BigBad: Ultimately of ''Sun and Moon''. She's also the first female example in the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears to be a kind and helpful woman when she is introduced, but she is anything ''but'' that.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Exclusively in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she is one of two additional challengers in the Title Defense match.]]
* BossOnlyLevel: She is the only enemy in the small area of Ultra Space that you get to visit courtesy of Solgaleo/Lunala. There aren't even any random encounters.
* BossRemix: Her battle theme is a remix of her normal theme.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is unhealthily obsessed with [[EldritchAbomination Nihilego]] and the other Ultra Beasts. Considering that Nihilego is based on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxobolus_cerebralis Myxozoa]], which brainwashes the fish it infects, her obsession and insanity might stem from mind-control.
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* CatchPhrase: "How annoying."
* ClimaxBoss: While not the FinalBoss, the battle with Motherbeast Lusamine concludes the game's primary storyline, with only the Pokémon League left afterwards. Fittingly, the fight is one of the most difficult in the game.
* CombatStilettos: She wears heels throughout most of the game and is an extremely proficient Pokémon battler. Her intro animation for her first fight starts with a strong clack of her right heel.
* ConfusionFu: In ''Ultra Sun And Moon'', her Lopunny knows Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, ''and'' Dizzy Punch.
* ControlFreak: She was very controlling of her two children, down to choosing exactly they were allowed to wear. Before the reveal, she briefly tries the same on Hau, a small boy she'd never even met before.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** Lusamine compares and contrasts with the BigBad of [[PokemonXAndY the prior game]], Lysandre, in quite a few ways. Both of them are wealthy philanthropists who are introduced to the player long before their official reveal as villains, but Lysandre is a DevilInPlainSight whereas Lusamine's a BitchInSheepsClothing. Lysandre directly leads his game's main villainous team while Lusamine serves as a MysteriousBacker to hers. The methods and motives of the two are parallel but also differ in some important ways: both want to destroy the world after spending years trying to better it, but Lysandre is convinced that mankind as a whole can't be saved because it's fundamentally flawed, while Lusamine rejected humanity because she can't comprehend why a select few - her family - never showed her what she believed to be love. Both of them are also very fixated on the concept of beauty, and have a significant but antagonistic relationship with the player's closest ally (Professor Sycamore for Lysandre, Lillie for Lusamine). Admittedly Lusamine's goals can be seen as more a rejection of the world and wanting to leave it behind rather than any desire to destroy it, indeed the only explicit destruction she mentions is being okay with the Ultra Beasts wrecking the islands if it makes them happy. Otherwise she is content to just stay in another dimension, unlike Lysandre who decided the world should change for him.
** She's also one to the BigBad of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite the game even further back]], Ghetsis. Both of them lead a team who claim to look after the common welfare of Pokemon whose true agendas are absolutely ruthless and self-serving. They're also very AbusiveParents. However, Team Plasma's ruse was paper-thin and it was clear that Team Plasma couldn't be trusted since they blatantly steal Pokemon from trainers to "free" them. The Aether Foundation does a ''much'' better of hiding its shadowy intentions, using far more professional strategies and having far more resources to carry out their plans. While Ghetsis was driven only by love for himself while harboring callous apathy or even outright contempt for others, Lusamine is driven by a self-serving insanity that she mistakenly believes is pure love and a desire to give love and affection to others she deems worthy of receiving it. Both Ghetsis and Lusamine became physically ill by the end of their story arc, but while Ghetsis remained irredeemable to the last, Lusamine was hinted to have some way of making up for her amends, according to Lillie.
** On a more meta level, she's also the ''Pokémon'' series' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple very first female]] BigBad.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Nothing gets stranger and more morbid than having dozens of '''cryogenically frozen Pokémon''' on display.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She's the head of the Aether Foundation company and the main villain in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
* CuteAndPsycho: In the final battle, her BadassAdorable Pokémon team get a little... demented.
* DarkActionGirl: The "Dark" part isn't obvious until later, but she's nonetheless a very competent opponent in battle.
* DeathGlare: In the final battle, all of her 'mons except Bewear have these expressions when given a Totem aura.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Some of her actions (And even her motivations) actually make her somewhat like a ''player'' of the Pokémon games. [[YouBastard And it's played for horror.]]
** Lusamine loves Pokémon, especially ones that are needy or suffering, and wants all of them... which is a common goal in the franchise.
** Lusamine has a huge collection of Pokémon in cryogenic stasis. Hau, Lilie, and the Player character (if s/he ever changed facial expressions) are horrified at seeing this. How many players have a huge collection of Pokémon in PC Stasis, ''just'' like her? When Lillie calls her out on treating Pokémon and people as merely things to use and discard as she pleases, Lusamine responds by asking what makes her so different from the player character putting Pokémon they no longer need inside a Box. However, this comparison rings a bit hollow in these games, where Poke Pelago provides boxed Pokemon with a place to frolic. Obviously, Lusamine doesn't know about it, otherwise she'd know where her husband is.
** A brand new unknown Pokémon appears. What does Lusamine want with it? Why... she wants it herself. Which most players ''wanted'' with the Ultra Beasts anyway.
* DragonInChief: Nihilego is not considered sentient as it doesn't seem to have actual malice and is motivated on self-preservation. Lusamine is the one with the plan.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Her apparent "fusion" with the Nihilego she captured leaves her somehow an even more wrecked individual than before; that is, until she's knocked out of her senses by Solgaleo/Lunala and the Nihilego is off her. Information given about Nihilego in the post-game implies that this is basically what its neurotoxins always do to a host that it latches onto, and that Lusamine's repeated exposure to said toxin left her in a lingering case of sociopathic madness.
* DyingAsYourself: Downplayed. While she doesn't actually die, she apparently returns to her former self before losing consciousness and entering a temporary coma.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite all she's done, including trying to ''murder'' her children, once she's defeated and recovers from her coma Lillie says she wanted to attend the player being crowned Champion if she weren't too weak to go, implying they would have let her attend. Lillie is also comfortable letting her rebuild their relationship.
* EasterEgg: Two of her Pokémon, Lilligant and Clefable, had evolved through -- you guessed it -- a Sun and Moon Stone, respectively.
* EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cynthia]]. Both are attractive women with long blonde hair that covers one of their eyes, give a serene yet powerful presence and being challenging boss fights in the series. Cynthia helps and guides the protagonists to stop Team Galactic while Lusamine is behind Team Skull and Aether Foundation's shady operations. Their outfits' color schemes also contrasts each other; [[DarkIsNotEvil Cynthia wears black but is a kind benevolent figure]] while [[LightIsNotGood Lusamine is a sinister villain wearing gold and white]].
* EvilMatriarch: She's Lillie and Gladion's mother and the first female main antagonist in the main Pokémon games.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Queen Zeal]]. Both are very AbusiveParents to their younger daughter and son. Both of them also have a love from an alien creature that wants to consume the world. Both are also heads of massive companies in the game in which they are the BigBad. They also have both been brainwashed by this alien creature accompanying them and had tragedy due to their husbands missing from their life due to the alien creature.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Her fused form has eye-like patterns across her tentacles, with what seems to be Z-Crystals acting as their pupils.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: In contrast to most other ObviouslyEvil team leaders, she looks perfectly innocent and helpful (even resembling Gen IV BigGood Champion Cynthia to some degree), but is one of the most psychotic characters in the series.
* FallenHeroine: She used to be good before she lost her husband in the Ultra Wormhole, which caused her to take a much darker path. Assuming he was dead.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Like Ghetsis, in the Japanese version, she continues to speak in an overly polite manner even after she drops her charade.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In both the English and Japanese trailers, though it's more apparent in the Japanese one. Zig-zagged in-game, as while you see her model first, the cutscene that plays when meeting her starts on her feet before panning up the rest of her body. Her battle animation is also introduced in this manner, probably as a deliberate CallBack to the above.
* FingerlessHands: After fusing with Nihilego, her shoes disappear, revealing her now toeless feet (though it's possible they're covered in some sort of substance or membrane).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: She is visibly annoyed when Hau mentions Lillie, and has a sinister grin when everyone else is freaking out over Nihilego's first appearance.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In her pre-battle animation as Motherbeast Lusamine, she throws her Ultra Ball and flies right towards the camera while pulling off a NightmareFace.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: How she presents herself, and allegedly had been before she went insane or fell under Nihilego's influence. As of the present, she's anything ''but''.
* FusionDance: Performs this with her Nihilego before the final boss battle. This also gives all her Pokémon Totem Boosts. In reality though, this is very well likely how Nihilego further parasitizes on its host, and she ends up with a nice heaping load of neurotoxin in her system.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She uses a Bewear.
* GirlyBruiser: All of her Pokémon are feminine in design and are among the toughest the player has to fight in the story.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Ultimately subverted. She secretly serves as this to Guzma in the first half of the game, because while she doesn't directly get involved in Team Skull's schemes, she ''is'' their secret financial backer. Later on, she takes Guzma's place as the BigBad of the game, thus becoming much more involved in the plot as the true main antagonist.
* GreenThumb: Uses a Lilligant.
* GoodParents: [[AbusiveParents While not so much in the main story]], Lillie states that Lusamine was a kind, loving mother before she changed.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She fuses with Nihilego to create this.
* HeelFaceTurn: She comforts Lillie and finally recognizes her as being beautiful even when not dressed to resemble Nihilego, before falling into a coma. Lillie reveals at the end of the game that Lusamine regained consciousness and is starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, also wanting to see you at your coronation as Champion.
** [[spoiler:She has a much more detailed one in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', coming to full terms with her faults and feeling remorse for them, now being determined to do her best to make it up to her children - from a safe distance, as she doesn't want to control their lives anymore. She also occasionally battles you in as a Champion challenger, being gracious and complimentary to you when she does.]]
* TheHeavy: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''--her actions still cause much of the conflict, but her previous BigBad status is now taken by Necrozma.
* HeavySleeper: According to Wicke in the post-game, the Nihilego's neurotoxins still in Lusamine's body are causing her to have issues with waking up[[note]]Wicke specifically says "the President is having issues rousing herself"[[/note]], implying that the neurotoxins side-effects include something akin to narcolepsy.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: She absolutely adores Ultra Beasts, so when she tells someone "Run away... that thing is a monster!" in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' when Necrozma shows up, ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's time to run your ass off]]''.
* IHaveNoSon: She claims that she has no children right to Lillie's face when you are trying to rescue Cosmog from the Aether Foundation, citing that anybody who truly loved her wouldn't have betrayed and abandoned her as Lillie and Gladion both did. Then again, she hasn't been herself for a while.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she reunites with Mohn when he visits Aether Paradise for a tour of the facility. He does not remember it, or her, but Lusamine doesn't press the issue any further, and lets him go because he's happier this way.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: She doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, Lillie calls her out for only ever thinking about herself; Lusamine doesn't even try to deny it and flat-out asks Lillie why she ''shouldn't''.
* {{Jerkass}}: While she seems nice the first time you meet her, Lusamine is revealed to be nothing but an extremely [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] ''bitch''. She is also abusive to Lillie and Gladion, and even [[IHaveNoSon disowns them as her children later on because they dared to reject her "love".]] Not to mention she even tried to ''[[OffingTheOffspring kill them!]]''
* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she gains more likeable and redeeming qualities, such as having more [[WellIntentionedExtremist understandable]] and less completely selfish [[AntiVillain motives]], and [[JerkassRealization ultimately]] realizing [[HeelRealization her mistakes]] and [[HeelFaceTurn doing her best to make it up to her children]]. Also, she only disowns them because she felt genuinely betrayed by them when they took Cosmog and Type: Null, but she still says that she will save them from Necrozma, showing that for all of her abrasiveness towards her children, she still cares about them enough to save them from Necrozma.]]
* KickTheDog: Minor one, but when Nebby cries out in pain after being used to open a door to Ultra Space, she yells at it for making too much noise.
--> ''Ugh, must you be so noisy, even inside there? What an annoying Pokémon. The only thing I need from you is your power!''
** Overall, knowing very well that Nebby's ability to create Ultra Wormholes might end up '''killing it''' but going through with her actions anyway is a much more major example.
* KillerRabbit: Most of her team consists of cute, but deadly Pokémon, such as Clefable, Bewear, and, no pun intended, Lopunny.
* KnightOfCerebus: The best example of this in the main series since [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cyrus]] himself, who began the series' CerebusSyndrome.
* KnightTemplar: She believes she is doing something righteous when it comes to helping injured Pokemon, while her true intentions are unusually bizarre and twisted. [[spoiler:She is somewhat more of a straight example in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where she wants to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, although it's all under the justification that she can't "love [her] babies" if the world's light is stolen.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: When Lillie begs her not to use Nebby to open the Ultra Wormholes, warning her that doing so might kill it, Lusamine informs her that she knows that might happen, but as long as it does what she wants it to, she doesn't ''care''.
* LadyOfWar: She is a beautiful woman who gives off a serene and elegant aura, and also happens to be one of the most formidable battlers in Alola. This extends to her team, which are all stereotypically cute, elegant, or feminine in some way, and are also extremely powerful.
* LargeAndInCharge: She's rather tall and is the boss of the Aether Foundation.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In Ultra Space she ends up being defeated by the evolved Cosmog, [[TheDogBitesBack the same Pokémon she sent goons to chase after and ultimately abused it nearly to the point of death for her own selfish desires]].
* LightIsNotGood: She's angelic in appearance, though ''definitely'' not in behavior. [[WomanInWhite She wears mostly white with gold]] with blonde hair and she's the biggest KnightOfCerebus since Cyrus as she outcasts two of her family members as tools for her will and when they defy her she decides to try to kill them. She also rules a group of Parasitic aliens that could easily destroy a planet and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures "Nebby" to death]]. She states very clearly that if everyone doesn't agree to her standards then [[OmnicidalManiac everyone can die by her will]]. She's also a BadBoss who uses her minions as pawns.
* LivingDollCollector: She has a collection of Pokemon that she cryogenically froze to preserve their "beauty and perfection". She also treats her own children as dolls rather than people, expecting them to look and behave however she wants them too, and viciously discarding them when they display the slightest bit of independence. Gladion likens living with her to being a "living ornament" instead of a person.
* LoveFreak:
** {{Deconstructed}}. Lusamine's motivations revolve around love, and she rants about trying to spread her love to everyone around her several times. The problem is, as a textbook {{sociopath}}, Lusamine doesn't really understand what love is, and as a result her brand of controlling affection tends to push others away, leaving her bewildered and angry over how anyone could reject her love before writing them off as being "ugly" and unworthy of her affections.
** It's revealed in the post-game that her father, who founded the Aether Foundation, was also a LoveFreak and that Lusamine inherited his love for Pokémon, particularly those that are beautiful or those most in need of it. She also loved her husband and children, loving the former so much that she drove herself mad in her research and experiments with Ultra Wormhole energy trying to bring him back after he went missing in the Wormhole. Then she discovered Nihilego and things took a drastic turn for the worse.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: It's implied that her obsession with Ultra Beasts came out of desperation to find her missing husband.
* MagicPants: When fusing with Nihilego, her brooch, shoes and stockings disappear, only to come back intact after she's separated.
* MakingASplash: Uses a Milotic.
* TheManBehindTheMan: She's this in the first part of the story for Guzma, and therefore Team Skull, as their secret supporter.
* ManipulativeBitch: Lusamine's twisted perception of love is psychologically manipulating anyone she's fond of to keep them in line so she can continue to use them as puppets, and employs this on her children. She also sponsored Team Skull and convinced them to do her dirty work by taking advantage of their financial difficulties and personal turmoil, and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity used the Aether Foundation’s benevolent image to present herself as a good person]].
* MaskOfSanity: Lusamine's vicious insanity is very carefully masked behind an empathetic and loving facade.
* MeaningfulName:
** The plant she's named after (the garden balsam or ''Impatiens balsamina'') is a beautiful ornamental plant with healing properties, fitting her benevolent appearance. However, it's also bitter and slightly toxic upon ingestion - which fits with [[BitchInSheepsClothing her true nature.]]
** Her English name keeps the above reference but brings to mind the Latin ''lux'' (light), in keeping with her appearance and status as head of the seemingly good Aether Foundation. Of course, LightIsNotGood in this case.
* MoreThanMindControl: Nihilego's toxin stimulates and excites her emotions, dulls her mental and moral inhibitions, and cause her to act impulsively, but otherwise she's under no direct influence, control, or brainwashing. Her mind is simply in a perpetually intoxicated state where she acts as she normally would but to a disturbing extreme that she normally never would and never did before, and the drive behind her entire state of being is tied directly to Nihilego in place of the people and things she used to love more dearly.
* MoralMyopia: In her present state, Lusamine suffers almost from a BlueAndOrangeMorality where she cannot and does not comprehend that she and her actions could be wrong in any way, and makes her so disconnected from reality that she perceives situations in which she's hurt others and so those others acted in response to her abuse as one would reasonably expect them to as her victims being in the wrong for rejecting her "love" and rebelling against her wishes and showing her any sort of opposition, making them "ugly" and no longer worthy of love, whereas ''she'' is the victim who's being hurt by ''them'' and never did anything wrong to deserve such treatment. After losing to the player character for the first time, she even asks him/her, without a hint of irony, "How can you be so ''awful?''"
* MotiveRant: A brief one after Nihilego's first appearance, as she filibusters about sharing her love with the Ultra Beasts and all the other Pokémon in the world. [[CerebusRetcon It becomes much darker in hindsight]] once her TrueColors are revealed and the player learns just how twisted Lusamine's concept of "love" really is.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Motherbeast Lusamine has several tentacles, four of which even have claws that make them look more hand-like. Ironically, she still lets her Pokémon do the fighting as opposed to getting involved herself.
* MumLooksLikeASister: She's in her 40s, but barely looks much older than her children.
* MyBelovedSmother: This is at least part of the reason Gladion ran away; according to him, he was "like an ornament" to her, wearing whatever she told him to wear, and acting however she wanted him to act. It's also why Lillie is so timid and lacks confidence.
* MysteriousBacker: Team Skull's. Her identity is at best, vaguely alluded to a few times, and it's only after Lillie is kidnapped that it comes out in full.
* NeverMyFault: She has a big problem with this in ''Sun and Moon'', [[MoralMyopia thinking she is justified in everything she does and that anyone who opposes her are the bad ones.]] [[spoiler:Not so much in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where she shows signs of wavering and has to convince herself what she's doing is justified, and then clearly admits that she was wrong and Lillie was right after getting her ass kicked by Necrozma.]]
* NoblewomansLaugh: Often does one when she's mocking Lillie.
* NonActionBigBad: Zigzagged -- she's plenty active in the story and battles the player twice, but after fusing with Nihilego and taking on a surely-stronger OneWingedAngel form... she still uses her Pokémon to fight the player, rather than battle them directly.
* NonElemental: Her Bewear is primary Normal type. In ''Pokemon Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon'' she uses Lopunny as a replacement for Mismagius.
* NotGoodWithRejection: It's subtle at times, but the game implies pretty heavily that most of Lusamine's villainy is/was prompted by the disappearance of her husband Mohn, followed by both of her children running away from her due to her abuse of them. It becomes most obvious by the end of the Aether Foundation story arc, where, having been abandoned by her entire family, all she wants is to be left alone with the Nihilego in Ultra Space for the rest of her life because they'd become her gold standard for beauty, perfection, and worthiness of receiving her love.
* OffingTheOffspring: After losing her rematch against the player, she tries to personally kill Lillie, being still fused with Nihilego.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's over 40 years old - even though by first glance, she looks to be somewhere in her late teens to early 20s - which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hau's dumbfounded reaction upon learning this fact.
* OneWingedAngel: For the second battle against her, she fuses with Nihilego into a half-human, half-jellyfish beast, and uses Totem power to buff all of her Pokémon.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Uses a Clefable, which she always sends out first.
* PeekABangs: Her blonde bangs cover her right eye.
* PoorPredictableRock: Surprisingly enough, her Mismagius is her ''only'' Pokémon that can't be completely shut down through resistances (as it knows Shadow Ball, Power Gem, and Mystical Fire). All of the others have only one or two attacking moves, leaving themselves wide open to being blocked by a 'mon with the right resistances. That said, her team as a whole is diverse enough that you'll likely need a separate Pokémon to deal with each of them if you go this route, and dedicated {{Stone Wall}}s will likely find themselves frustrated by the fact that ''every single one of them'' has some means of healing itself.
** Thrown out the window in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''. Every single one of her Pokemon has plenty of coverage moves thanks to the Move Tutor and only Bewear has any real healing option in Drain Punch, but that is really more to make up for the recoil damage of Take Down.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Her hair turns black (albeit a few thin streaks of its original color) after fusing with Nihilego, which itself changes from primarily light blue to black.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears a short skirt and some stockings. The stockings cover almost all of the leg.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She treats her children as if they were dolls, and is prone to throwing tantrums like a bratty teenager when angry.
* RapunzelHair: Lusamine's hair flares out nearly a foot on either side of her and reaches down to her hips.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: While Lillie is giving her one, Lusamine even gives one to ''the player character'' themselves. Especially to note that [[VillainHasAPoint she points out that just about everyone replaces the Pokémon in their party once they are no longer serving a use to them]]. Which is ''exactly'' what the player most likely did....
* ReplacementGoldfish: She became obsessed with bringing Ultra Beasts into the world and joining them in their own world after her husband disappeared, even more so after her children ran away. Part of this might be because Nihilego's toxins rewired her mind so that the intentions behind her actions would be those most beneficial to Nihilego as a sort of protective mechanism.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The fact that she had Aether develop Type: Full (later Type: Null) specifically for the purpose of fighting and killing Ultra Beasts, implies that she might have originally intended to destroy them for taking her husband, prior to becoming obsessed with them. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she still has this mindset, flat-out saying she hates the Ultra Wormholes and the creatures who dwell within it such as Necrozma.]]
* SanitySlippage: It's implied that the loss of her husband and Nihilego's neurotoxins did a number on her sanity, causing the obsession driving her during the story's events.
* TheScream: Her only verbal reaction to losing her rematch against the player is to just give a wordless scream. This also being the only noise she makes when "fused" with Nihilego.
* {{Sadist}}: She often smiles happily whenever she emotionally abuses Lillie or Gladion and inflicting ColdBloodedTorture on Cosmog. This changes when you confront her in Ultra Space; where instead of expressing any joy, she's now almost perpetually consumed by rage over what the player and Lillie are doing, with even her PsychoticSmirk unable to hide her underlying rage.
* ShesGotLegs: Nice, slender, ''long'' ones, as the camera and her ProperTightsWithASkirt like to reveal. If her official art and in-game model are to be trusted, her legs are almost twice as long as the rest of her body from the waist up!
* SlasherSmile: Tends to pull them off whenever she's plotting, and one could argue that even her regular smile counts as a subdued example of one. By the time she's been definitively revealed as a villain, it's pretty much become her default expression.
* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
* StartOfDarkness: The disappearance of her husband Mohn is hinted to have made her into a much colder person.
* StatuesqueStunner: While no official height is given for her, she's clearly taller than average.
* StatusBuff: In the second battle against her, she utilizes her Beast Boost powers she obtained from Nihilego to give her Pokémon enhanced power right off the bat.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Her children also have platinum-blonde and angular hair as well as bright green eyes. Gladion also shares her PeekABangs hairstyle, albeit in a much different fashion than his mother.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: She sports these in her Mother Beast form.
* TragicVillain: Once a caring wife and mother, her futile attempts to reunite with her husband and gradual SanitySlippage due to the Ultra Beasts made her the villain she is in the present. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she takes it upon herself to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, and her insistence on doing this alone only leads to her defeat and Necrozma almost destroying Alola.]]
* TraitorShot: In her first appearance, when talking about Ultra Beasts, the camera zooms in on her eyes and her SlasherSmile.
* {{Troperrific}}: She is competing with [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite N]] for stakes in this.
* TsurimeEyes: While Lusamine's eyes are normally like this, when Hau mentions Lillie in her first appearance and whenever Lusamine switches to her SlasherSmile, her eyes noticeably become even ''more'' slanted. After her final defeat and separation from Nihilego, her eyes look wider and brighter, indicating that her malevolence is gone.
* TheUnfought: In a sense. While you do fight her Pokémon, you don't get to directly fight her Mother Beast form.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Subverted with Milotic. Lusamine's Pokémon in the final encounter get a totem aura to power up a stat that benefits most of them, but Milotic, a special attacker, has her Attack boosted. It's revealed that she has Flail in her moveset, which ''does'' benefit from the boost.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: This is a woman who [[AbusiveParents abused her children]] and tried to micromanage every aspect of their lives down to what clothes they should wear, [[IHaveNoSon declared that they weren't her children]] and eventually attempted to ''murder them'' when they tried to rebel against her control, freezes the Pokémon she adores so that they'll stay the same forever while they remain on display for her, is willing to hurt and even kill anybody or anyone to further her schemes, Pokémon or otherwise, and in general cares about absolutely nothing but herself and the things she desires. This is all in contrast with Team Skull's [[LaughablyEvil general ineffectual goofiness]] and Alola's cheerful and bright atmosphere.
* VillainHasAPoint: When Lillie tells her that people and Pokémon aren't hers to just collect, use and discard at her pleasure, Lusamine counters that ''trainers'' (using the player in particular as an example) do that exact thing, namely switching out weaker members of their party for stronger, more appealing Pokémon. While this doesn't excuse her any of her actions in any way, her point isn't refuted.
* VillainousBSOD: Downplayed. She partly recovers after her final defeat, yet she is still stuggling with the remaining Nihilego's neurotoxins in her body.
* VillainousBreakdown: She undergoes a gradual one throughout the last part of the main story. After her first defeat, she's annoyed by the player character's interference with her plans, but still appears relatively cool-headed. Compare this to her later appearance in Ultra Space, where she's visibly livid and angrily screaming at the player character and Lillie. This ultimately culminates in her fusing with Nihilego, which leaves her not only unable to speak coherently but also in a much more violent state of mind.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Lusamine is the president of the Aether Foundation, a well-known organization that heals Pokémon. This helps mask her true colors, as she actually experiments on Pokémon to achieve her goals.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's nearly impossible to talk about her without spoiling that she's the villain.
* WeaponOfChoice: Bewear, very fittingly. They both seem cute and innocent, but are actually incredibly dangerous and give people unwanted love that hurts them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she is willing to do anything to save the people and Pokémon she loves from Necrozma, even if it meant sacrificing Cosmog.]]
* WindowsOfTheSoul: One of the earliest hints she's a villain for those paying attention to the art style are her eyes. Most everyone else has noticeable white highlights in their eyes. Lusamine's by contrast are flat, dull, and effectively lifeless looking from the moment she's introduced, giving her a creepy UncannyValley effect.
* WomanInWhite: Her top and skirt is mostly white with some gold to establish that LightIsNotGood. She also wears white stockings on her feet.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's stated that Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts stemmed from grief over the disappearance of her husband Mohn in an Ultra Wormhole, and that at least at first she was looking for a way to get him back, and possibly seek vengeance upon the Ultra Beasts using Type: Null. Lillie reminisces that her mother was fun-loving and kind to her before that incident, after which her obsession with finding Mohn and the Ultra Beasts is implied to have twisted her into a gradually worsening sociopath, which eventually resulted in Gladion fleeing from her, later followed by Lillie herself. Encountering the Nihilego made everything worse, as its toxin turned Lusamine's sociopathy into a psychotic drive to give her "love" to anything that even slightly shares qualities in common with Nihilego and the Ultra Beasts, and crush anything "unworthy of her love" (basically, anything that isn't like a Nihilego). Ultimately, all Lusamine wanted was to have the love of her life back, but in her psychosis forgot how to care for her children and played with forces she didn't understand, and as a result both she and her family suffered the consequences that she was too obsessed to even consider in the first place.
* WouldHurtAChild: Makes an ambiguous murder threat to the player character at the start of their first battle, an ''unambiguous'' murder threat at the start of their second battle, and then attempts to ''kill her daughter Lillie'' afterwards.
* {{Yandere}}: She really, really ''really'' loves the Ultra Beasts. So much so she would literally ''destroy the world'' if it meant being able to be with them.
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[[folder:Wicke]]
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The assistant branch chief of Aether Paradise has a caring personality, so she’s loved by all the Aether Foundation employees.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Wicke cares about the well-being of the Foundation's Pokémon; because of this, she is popular among the Foundation's staff.
* IronicName: Her name is one letter away from the word "wicked". [[TokenGoodTeammate She is one of the few non-antagonistic members of the Aether Foundation, supports both Lillie and Gladion in opposition to their insane mother, and even heals your team when you storm Aether Paradise.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Wicke's glasses only add to her charm.
* TheMole: You learn in the post-game that she's now working for Interpol, and provides them with information on the Ultra Beasts.
* NiceGirl: In the initial trailer that revealed the Aether Foundation, both Wicke and Lusamine were built up to be sweet and motherly characters. In the game proper, Wicke actually ''is'' as nice as the trailer made her out to be, in stark contrast to Lusamine.
* NeutralFemale: She neither directly opposes nor particularly assists the player's efforts at rescuing Lillie and Cosmog, though she ''does'' heal their Pokémon after they return to the Paradise's main floor for the second time.
* OnlySaneWoman: Wicke is one of the few employees who remains nice and helpful throughout.
* ParentalSubstitute: Implied to have been a mother figure to Gladion and Lillie after Lusamine turned cold towards them.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: Wicke really is as nice as she appears to be, unlike Faba and Lusamine.
* SweaterGirl: She probably has a sufficient reason to wear a thick turtleneck sweater in the Alola region, but the pink sweater is the most vibrant part of her design.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She is the one who helped Lillie escape the Aether Foundation from the beginning. Also, during the protagonist's investigation of the Aether Foundation to save Lillie, Wicke is one of the few members who doesn't battle you. In fact, she even heals your team at one point. This is even further suggested in an official release poster for ''Ultra Sun and Moon'' which shows a VFormationShot consisting of Guzma, Sophocles, the Player Character, and Wicke facing off against Team Rainbow Rocket.
* TheUnfought: The only named member of the Aether Foundation to not be fought.
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[[folder:Faba (Sauboh)]]
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The Aether Foundation's branch chief. He has a very arrogant personality, and believes himself to be far more important than he actually is.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:He was a HateSink to begin with, but in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', he sells out the entire Aether Foundation to Team Rainbow Rocket, letting them take over so they can expand the company across ''entire dimensions'' with himself on top.]]
* BeardOfEvil: He sports a goatee, and has a habit of stroking it.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Aside from being fightable at Aether Paradise in the post-game, he's also one of the potential challengers to the player's title of Champion.]]
* ChildHater: After being defeated by the player character, he remarks how he dislikes children. Despite his later change of heart, he still seems to be this to an extent later on; when speaking to Faba in the post game discussing whether he would make a better acting President of the Aether Foundation than Gladion and answering that Gladion would do a better job, he nearly goes on a tirade before stopping himself.
* CoolShades: The large, green sunglasses he wears are his trademark accessory, and are designed to resemble fava beans.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hamminess, massive ego, and the below VillainBall moment aside, he's a competent enough Pokémon battler to [[spoiler:defeat Alola's Elite Four and challenge you for the title of Champion.]]
* DirtyCoward: Prides himself as the Aether Foundation's last line of defense in his debut yet refuses to fight a Skull Grunt to save a Slowpoke, questioning what they'd be able to do if he was incapacitated and gets the player to fight the grunt instead.
* DishingOutDirt: In ''Pokemon Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon'' his Slowbro is replaced by Claydol.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:PlayedForLaughs. Rather than be arrested for his villainous actions, he is kept on at the Aether Paradise... but is demoted to ''intern'' position, which absolutely horrifies and depresses him.]]
* HateSink: He's a selfish, greedy coward who only cares about standing on top of the company, and even being "reformed" along with the company doesn't help his case. [[spoiler:Even more so in his ''Ultra'' appearances, where he sells out his own company for his own advancement.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Flat-out subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** He claims to dislike children, yet his strongest Pokémon is a Hypno, a species that is notorious for preying on children's dreams.
** In the post-game, he gives the player a Dubious Disc during a conversation about him having turned over a new leaf.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He cares for himself and the advancement of his own career above anything and anyone else.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a high opinion of himself and acts very condescending towards Wicke and the player character.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Actively cultivates his position as Branch Chief throughout the game, usually defying to engage in most of the other roles he needs to do through ego or incompetence, and is on Lusamine's side with her ambitions. As a result, he is demoted when the Aether Foundation is restructured following her defeat. In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:his demotion happens when he sells the entire foundation--Lusamine included--out to Team Rainbow Rocket explicitly to advance his own career, making his fate all the more poetically just.]]
* MakingASplash: His Slowbro and Bruxish. In the remakes, this redundancy is answered by replacing Slowbro (who never used a Water-type move in any of the battles it is used in, anyways) with Claydol.
* MeaningfulName: Named after fava beans, which are what his glasses are meant to resemble.
* NumberTwo: To Lusamine in the Aether Foundation.
* PsychicPowers: Specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon. He seems to avert the tendency for Psychic-type Pokemon users to be psychic themselves.
* TheQuisling: Being the DirtyCoward that he is, Faba jumps ship and joins with Team Rainbow Rocket.
* RedemptionDemotion: During the post-game, Faba gets demoted down to a rank-and-file member, but also promises that he's had a change of heart.
* ReformedButNotTamed: While he claims to have reformed following his demotion, he's still kind of a jerk.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: For selling out the Aether Foundation to Giovanni, he's busted down to an intern, and has a low-level employee (an Aether equivalent of a mook) in charge of him.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He gets very annoyed when not given "proper respect", first shown with him getting upset with Wicke over her calling him "Mr. Faba", to which he points out he has a title for a reason.
* SmugSnake: He prides himself as a genius and a very important person, yet his plans to distract the heroes were very easily foiled. Driving this point further is the fact that [[{{Keet}} Hau]] of all people was the one to point this out.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:He sells out the Aether Foundation to Team Rainbow Rocket in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' just to aid his own career.]]
* VillainBall: During the protagonists' second visit to the Aether Foundation, Hau asks if Faba has a key to a locked door, to which he replies [[WhatAnIdiot yes]]. Hau then points out that if he had just stayed hidden, said protagonists would then be stuck and probably unable to stop said evil plans.
* WeaponOfChoice: Hypno is his strongest and/or final Pokémon in every battle with him.
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An organization dedicated to protecting hurt Pokémon, especially those who have been abused by Team Skull, on their own private island. However, there's more to them than it seems, which turns out to be them secretly having been in league with Team Skull the whole time, as their financial backer.
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[[folder: Tropes that apply to the whole group]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The employees have a much darker skin color than most other villainous team grunts.
* DeathGlare: The female employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration.
* EliteMooks: Aether Employees' choice of Pokémon make them a cut above the average evil team's grunts.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: The female employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: By means of a CallBack. Their uniforms (particularly their caps) resemble pallet swapped versions of Team Rocket's. This gives you an early hint that they're EvilAllAlong.
* HeelFaceTurn: During the post-game, after Lusamine's Ultra Beast obsession has been dealt with, the protagonist can visit the Aether Foundation again. The Foundation is still around, but is now attempting to save and conserve Pokémon for real, with Gladion as their president. Further enforced by the animation set used by Aether Foundation employees in the Battle Tree being much friendlier than those used during the infiltration of Aether Paradise.
* HelpfulMook: In Aether Paradise, one employee would man Gladion's boat for you should you ever need to return to the mainland, and another in the main entrance will heal your team. Averted with one mook in another room; who says that even if he loses, he won't tell you anything.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Have a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVDUe2ymZY&index=64&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H laid-back and futuristic theme]] that plays throughout their paradise. There is also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeEy-JlTZxY&index=74&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H violin version]] that plays in the standalone labs found throughout the region. It later receives a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4bMzkn4g2o&index=65&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H serene-yet-unsettling remix]] mixed with Lusamine's leitmotif in her encounter theme, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf3fvqmKB1M&index=82&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H mysterious and villainous]] mix after their antagonistic side is exposed, a much more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSiaBnXdUs&index=87&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H threatening and cinematic mix]] in the Employee battle theme, and finally a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHoIWAuDilA&index=83&list=PLcEun0ol29M0LBzbM8G1FkI8IcViwIU0H flat-out disturbing mix]] played in their secret basement.
* LightIsNotGood: In contrast to the [[DarkIsEvil mainly-black Team Skull]], their main colours include white and gold, and they're just as much villains as the former. However, they become good in the post-game after Lusamine's Ultra Beast obsession has been dealt with.
* NoNameGiven: Played with. As soon as they're no longer considered villains, even generic members of the Aether Foundation trainer class are allowed to have real names. However, the named generic employees are only battled in the Battle Tree.
* ObviouslyEvil: Subverted. After the intro where Aether employees were chasing Lillie with [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]], was anybody really buying that they were a benevolent company, on a mission to help all Pokémon? However, it is implied that the majority of employees don't even know what's going on and are hostile only due to you being an intruder. In the post-game, once Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts has been dealt with, the Aether Foundation really ''does'' become a benevolent company that helps Pokémon.
* PoorPredictableRock: Averted. Aether Employees aren't restricted to typical grunt Pokémon. Expect to see lots of types and strategies to boot.
* PunchClockVillain: With the exception of [[TheSociopath Lusamine]] and [[SmugSnake Faba]], most of the employees are really just doing their job and protecting their research from intruders (i.e. you).
* RuleOfCool: An employee expresses how she joined the team because she thought that the uniforms were cool, then [[RealityEnsues she laments how much work it is to look after Pokémon]].
* SlasherSmile: The male employees sport these when battling the player during the Aether Foundation infiltration. The ones that chase Lillie in the intro have them as well.
* UnwittingPawn: Most of the lower ranking members have no idea about Lusamine's plans and only attack the player because they were told they were trying to steal Pokémon.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Whenever you see them on the second and third islands, they're celebrated by the populace, and work closely with trusted authorities. Because the protagonists took them down by storming their secluded headquarters before they can kickstart their leader's plan, most Alolan citizens are LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding their true intentions, though some important [=NPCs=] are hinted to knew this but keep it secret for some reason. It helps that they undergo a HeelFaceTurn after Lusamine is taken down.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: According to a scientist at Aether Paradise, Lusamine's father was an immensely wealthy man who started the Aether Foundation because of his love for Pokémon.
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[[folder:Lusamine]]
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--> ''"I still need that Pokémon. I need to get it back. [...] It looked like it was suffering... Like it pained it to be in this strange place... I can't bear to see that happen! I will save it. [[TraitorShot And I will love it]]!"''
The lovely Lusamine functions as the Aether Foundation’s president, though as it turns out, she's anything but lovely.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: She's so young-looking that she may pass off as her children's big sister. This is even pointed out in-game when Hau can't believe she's 40 with her looks.
* AbusiveParents: Discards her daughter Lillie, declaring her to be worthless, and was prepared to kill her during their confrontation in Ultra Space. She tightly controlled every aspect of her children's lives, right down to what clothes they could wear, as both Gladion and Lillie attest. Lillie later tells Gladion that, as bad as she was when they both lived with her, she got ''worse'' after he fled with Type: Null. [[spoiler:
* ActionMom: She is easily one of the strongest characters in the game, and could easily put Gladion or Lillie back in their place. Unlike most examples though, she's far from benevolent.
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' tones her down somewhat, making her more altruistic in her motives, less abusive toward her children (she still disowns them, but also says she's doing everything to save them, and some of her crueler dialogue is removed), and she ends up seeing the error of her ways and redeeming herself, never going fully insane and merging with Nihilego.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: The title for her fused form with Nihilego, "Mother Beast", comes from the name of said form's battle theme in the game's official soundtrack, and is never mentioned in-game.
* AlmightyMom: No matter how much Lillie and Gladion try to stop her, she proves to be one step ahead. If it wasn't for you, she would've gotten what she wanted, (having Cosmog open up a wormhole so that she could unleash the Ultra Beasts, and also stay in Ultra Space) even after Gladion ran away with Type: Null, which was itself created to defeat those very same Ultra Beasts.
* AmazonBrigade: Her Pokémon team is all-female with a [[CuteBruiser cute]] or beautiful theme. They are also one of the toughest fights in the game, with great natures, individual values, effort values, and Totem Boosts on top of that in their second battle.
* AntiVillain: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she is motivated by a desire to save the world and all the people and Pokémon she loves from Necrozma, rather than out of totally insane selfishness. That said, she still goes through with nearly killing Nebby to open the Ultra Wormhole, and she still wants the world's Pokémon for herself.]]
* ArchnemesisDad: GenderFlipped: she's this for Gladion and Lillie, especially for the latter. The player and Hau are mostly just along for the ride in the main storyline, with Lusamine's children being the primary force when it comes to taking her down.
* AsleepForDays: After being released from Nihilego, Lusamine falls into a coma. However, Lillie tells you after you beat the Pokémon League and during the celebration that Lusamine had recovered from her comatose state and even tried to come to the celebration as well.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is the president of the Aether Foundation and is one of the most difficult fights of the series.
* AxCrazy: Be it innocent bystanders or her own children, she doesn't care who she has to hurt to get what she wants. To put things into perspective, even Guzma, the guy who calls himself "destruction in human form", thinks she's too far gone to be reasoned with.
* BadassAdorable: Her team is full of them. Her team theme is cute or beautiful Pokémon[[note]]Clefable, Mismagius, Milotic, Lilligant, Bewear, and Lopunny[[/note]], and all five of them have perfect individual values ''and'' ideal natures and effort values, meaning that each of them is likely to be able to crush a casual player's Pokémon in a one-on-one fight unless they're facing a type or level disadvantage.
* BadassInCharge: Head of the Aether Foundation and their strongest trainer.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:The Team Rainbow Rocket subplot in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' centers around Lusamine being held hostage while the evil team takes over Aether Paradise, all so Giovanni can use the Ultra Beasts' power to brainwash her into becoming his pawn and lending all of Aether's technology and knowledge of the Ultra Wormholes.]]
* BadBoss: Faba and Guzma are shown to be scared by her and think she's gone off the deep end. She also uses both of them as pawns and seemingly has no care about them.
* BearsAreBadNews: She has a Bewear.
* BeautyIsBad: A deceptively beautiful woman secretly plotting to unleash Ultra Beasts on Alola.
* BigBad: Ultimately of ''Sun and Moon''. She's also the first female example in the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears to be a kind and helpful woman when she is introduced, but she is anything ''but'' that.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Exclusively in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she is one of two additional challengers in the Title Defense match.]]
* BossOnlyLevel: She is the only enemy in the small area of Ultra Space that you get to visit courtesy of Solgaleo/Lunala. There aren't even any random encounters.
* BossRemix: Her battle theme is a remix of her normal theme.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is unhealthily obsessed with [[EldritchAbomination Nihilego]] and the other Ultra Beasts. Considering that Nihilego is based on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxobolus_cerebralis Myxozoa]], which brainwashes the fish it infects, her obsession and insanity might stem from mind-control.
%%* BrutalHonesty
* CatchPhrase: "How annoying."
* ClimaxBoss: While not the FinalBoss, the battle with Motherbeast Lusamine concludes the game's primary storyline, with only the Pokémon League left afterwards. Fittingly, the fight is one of the most difficult in the game.
* CombatStilettos: She wears heels throughout most of the game and is an extremely proficient Pokémon battler. Her intro animation for her first fight starts with a strong clack of her right heel.
* ConfusionFu: In ''Ultra Sun And Moon'', her Lopunny knows Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, ''and'' Dizzy Punch.
* ControlFreak: She was very controlling of her two children, down to choosing exactly they were allowed to wear. Before the reveal, she briefly tries the same on Hau, a small boy she'd never even met before.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** Lusamine compares and contrasts with the BigBad of [[PokemonXAndY the prior game]], Lysandre, in quite a few ways. Both of them are wealthy philanthropists who are introduced to the player long before their official reveal as villains, but Lysandre is a DevilInPlainSight whereas Lusamine's a BitchInSheepsClothing. Lysandre directly leads his game's main villainous team while Lusamine serves as a MysteriousBacker to hers. The methods and motives of the two are parallel but also differ in some important ways: both want to destroy the world after spending years trying to better it, but Lysandre is convinced that mankind as a whole can't be saved because it's fundamentally flawed, while Lusamine rejected humanity because she can't comprehend why a select few - her family - never showed her what she believed to be love. Both of them are also very fixated on the concept of beauty, and have a significant but antagonistic relationship with the player's closest ally (Professor Sycamore for Lysandre, Lillie for Lusamine). Admittedly Lusamine's goals can be seen as more a rejection of the world and wanting to leave it behind rather than any desire to destroy it, indeed the only explicit destruction she mentions is being okay with the Ultra Beasts wrecking the islands if it makes them happy. Otherwise she is content to just stay in another dimension, unlike Lysandre who decided the world should change for him.
** She's also one to the BigBad of [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite the game even further back]], Ghetsis. Both of them lead a team who claim to look after the common welfare of Pokemon whose true agendas are absolutely ruthless and self-serving. They're also very AbusiveParents. However, Team Plasma's ruse was paper-thin and it was clear that Team Plasma couldn't be trusted since they blatantly steal Pokemon from trainers to "free" them. The Aether Foundation does a ''much'' better of hiding its shadowy intentions, using far more professional strategies and having far more resources to carry out their plans. While Ghetsis was driven only by love for himself while harboring callous apathy or even outright contempt for others, Lusamine is driven by a self-serving insanity that she mistakenly believes is pure love and a desire to give love and affection to others she deems worthy of receiving it. Both Ghetsis and Lusamine became physically ill by the end of their story arc, but while Ghetsis remained irredeemable to the last, Lusamine was hinted to have some way of making up for her amends, according to Lillie.
** On a more meta level, she's also the ''Pokémon'' series' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple very first female]] BigBad.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Nothing gets stranger and more morbid than having dozens of '''cryogenically frozen Pokémon''' on display.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She's the head of the Aether Foundation company and the main villain in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
* CuteAndPsycho: In the final battle, her BadassAdorable Pokémon team get a little... demented.
* DarkActionGirl: The "Dark" part isn't obvious until later, but she's nonetheless a very competent opponent in battle.
* DeathGlare: In the final battle, all of her 'mons except Bewear have these expressions when given a Totem aura.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Some of her actions (And even her motivations) actually make her somewhat like a ''player'' of the Pokémon games. [[YouBastard And it's played for horror.]]
** Lusamine loves Pokémon, especially ones that are needy or suffering, and wants all of them... which is a common goal in the franchise.
** Lusamine has a huge collection of Pokémon in cryogenic stasis. Hau, Lilie, and the Player character (if s/he ever changed facial expressions) are horrified at seeing this. How many players have a huge collection of Pokémon in PC Stasis, ''just'' like her? When Lillie calls her out on treating Pokémon and people as merely things to use and discard as she pleases, Lusamine responds by asking what makes her so different from the player character putting Pokémon they no longer need inside a Box. However, this comparison rings a bit hollow in these games, where Poke Pelago provides boxed Pokemon with a place to frolic. Obviously, Lusamine doesn't know about it, otherwise she'd know where her husband is.
** A brand new unknown Pokémon appears. What does Lusamine want with it? Why... she wants it herself. Which most players ''wanted'' with the Ultra Beasts anyway.
* DragonInChief: Nihilego is not considered sentient as it doesn't seem to have actual malice and is motivated on self-preservation. Lusamine is the one with the plan.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Her apparent "fusion" with the Nihilego she captured leaves her somehow an even more wrecked individual than before; that is, until she's knocked out of her senses by Solgaleo/Lunala and the Nihilego is off her. Information given about Nihilego in the post-game implies that this is basically what its neurotoxins always do to a host that it latches onto, and that Lusamine's repeated exposure to said toxin left her in a lingering case of sociopathic madness.
* DyingAsYourself: Downplayed. While she doesn't actually die, she apparently returns to her former self before losing consciousness and entering a temporary coma.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite all she's done, including trying to ''murder'' her children, once she's defeated and recovers from her coma Lillie says she wanted to attend the player being crowned Champion if she weren't too weak to go, implying they would have let her attend. Lillie is also comfortable letting her rebuild their relationship.
* EasterEgg: Two of her Pokémon, Lilligant and Clefable, had evolved through -- you guessed it -- a Sun and Moon Stone, respectively.
* EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cynthia]]. Both are attractive women with long blonde hair that covers one of their eyes, give a serene yet powerful presence and being challenging boss fights in the series. Cynthia helps and guides the protagonists to stop Team Galactic while Lusamine is behind Team Skull and Aether Foundation's shady operations. Their outfits' color schemes also contrasts each other; [[DarkIsNotEvil Cynthia wears black but is a kind benevolent figure]] while [[LightIsNotGood Lusamine is a sinister villain wearing gold and white]].
* EvilMatriarch: She's Lillie and Gladion's mother and the first female main antagonist in the main Pokémon games.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Queen Zeal]]. Both are very AbusiveParents to their younger daughter and son. Both of them also have a love from an alien creature that wants to consume the world. Both are also heads of massive companies in the game in which they are the BigBad. They also have both been brainwashed by this alien creature accompanying them and had tragedy due to their husbands missing from their life due to the alien creature.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Her fused form has eye-like patterns across her tentacles, with what seems to be Z-Crystals acting as their pupils.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: In contrast to most other ObviouslyEvil team leaders, she looks perfectly innocent and helpful (even resembling Gen IV BigGood Champion Cynthia to some degree), but is one of the most psychotic characters in the series.
* FallenHeroine: She used to be good before she lost her husband in the Ultra Wormhole, which caused her to take a much darker path. Assuming he was dead.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Like Ghetsis, in the Japanese version, she continues to speak in an overly polite manner even after she drops her charade.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In both the English and Japanese trailers, though it's more apparent in the Japanese one. Zig-zagged in-game, as while you see her model first, the cutscene that plays when meeting her starts on her feet before panning up the rest of her body. Her battle animation is also introduced in this manner, probably as a deliberate CallBack to the above.
* FingerlessHands: After fusing with Nihilego, her shoes disappear, revealing her now toeless feet (though it's possible they're covered in some sort of substance or membrane).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: She is visibly annoyed when Hau mentions Lillie, and has a sinister grin when everyone else is freaking out over Nihilego's first appearance.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In her pre-battle animation as Motherbeast Lusamine, she throws her Ultra Ball and flies right towards the camera while pulling off a NightmareFace.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: How she presents herself, and allegedly had been before she went insane or fell under Nihilego's influence. As of the present, she's anything ''but''.
* FusionDance: Performs this with her Nihilego before the final boss battle. This also gives all her Pokémon Totem Boosts. In reality though, this is very well likely how Nihilego further parasitizes on its host, and she ends up with a nice heaping load of neurotoxin in her system.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She uses a Bewear.
* GirlyBruiser: All of her Pokémon are feminine in design and are among the toughest the player has to fight in the story.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Ultimately subverted. She secretly serves as this to Guzma in the first half of the game, because while she doesn't directly get involved in Team Skull's schemes, she ''is'' their secret financial backer. Later on, she takes Guzma's place as the BigBad of the game, thus becoming much more involved in the plot as the true main antagonist.
* GreenThumb: Uses a Lilligant.
* GoodParents: [[AbusiveParents While not so much in the main story]], Lillie states that Lusamine was a kind, loving mother before she changed.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She fuses with Nihilego to create this.
* HeelFaceTurn: She comforts Lillie and finally recognizes her as being beautiful even when not dressed to resemble Nihilego, before falling into a coma. Lillie reveals at the end of the game that Lusamine regained consciousness and is starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, also wanting to see you at your coronation as Champion.
** [[spoiler:She has a much more detailed one in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', coming to full terms with her faults and feeling remorse for them, now being determined to do her best to make it up to her children - from a safe distance, as she doesn't want to control their lives anymore. She also occasionally battles you in as a Champion challenger, being gracious and complimentary to you when she does.]]
* TheHeavy: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''--her actions still cause much of the conflict, but her previous BigBad status is now taken by Necrozma.
* HeavySleeper: According to Wicke in the post-game, the Nihilego's neurotoxins still in Lusamine's body are causing her to have issues with waking up[[note]]Wicke specifically says "the President is having issues rousing herself"[[/note]], implying that the neurotoxins side-effects include something akin to narcolepsy.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: She absolutely adores Ultra Beasts, so when she tells someone "Run away... that thing is a monster!" in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' when Necrozma shows up, ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's time to run your ass off]]''.
* IHaveNoSon: She claims that she has no children right to Lillie's face when you are trying to rescue Cosmog from the Aether Foundation, citing that anybody who truly loved her wouldn't have betrayed and abandoned her as Lillie and Gladion both did. Then again, she hasn't been herself for a while.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she reunites with Mohn when he visits Aether Paradise for a tour of the facility. He does not remember it, or her, but Lusamine doesn't press the issue any further, and lets him go because he's happier this way.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: She doesn't care about anyone that she doesn't deem beautiful enough for her love, and even those that she does consider worthy of her love are viewed as possessions rather than sentient beings with free will. Before the final battle with her, Lillie calls her out for only ever thinking about herself; Lusamine doesn't even try to deny it and flat-out asks Lillie why she ''shouldn't''.
* {{Jerkass}}: While she seems nice the first time you meet her, Lusamine is revealed to be nothing but an extremely [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] ''bitch''. She is also abusive to Lillie and Gladion, and even [[IHaveNoSon disowns them as her children later on because they dared to reject her "love".]] Not to mention she even tried to ''[[OffingTheOffspring kill them!]]''
* JerkassHasAPoint: She wasn't wrong about the fact that you can put additional Pokemon in the PC, so technically they ''can'' be replaced if they aren't strong enough.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:she gains more likeable and redeeming qualities, such as having more [[WellIntentionedExtremist understandable]] and less completely selfish [[AntiVillain motives]], and [[JerkassRealization ultimately]] realizing [[HeelRealization her mistakes]] and [[HeelFaceTurn doing her best to make it up to her children]]. Also, she only disowns them because she felt genuinely betrayed by them when they took Cosmog and Type: Null, but she still says that she will save them from Necrozma, showing that for all of her abrasiveness towards her children, she still cares about them enough to save them from Necrozma.]]
* KickTheDog: Minor one, but when Nebby cries out in pain after being used to open a door to Ultra Space, she yells at it for making too much noise.
--> ''Ugh, must you be so noisy, even inside there? What an annoying Pokémon. The only thing I need from you is your power!''
** Overall, knowing very well that Nebby's ability to create Ultra Wormholes might end up '''killing it''' but going through with her actions anyway is a much more major example.
* KillerRabbit: Most of her team consists of cute, but deadly Pokémon, such as Clefable, Bewear, and, no pun intended, Lopunny.
* KnightOfCerebus: The best example of this in the main series since [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cyrus]] himself, who began the series' CerebusSyndrome.
* KnightTemplar: She believes she is doing something righteous when it comes to helping injured Pokemon, while her true intentions are unusually bizarre and twisted. [[spoiler:She is somewhat more of a straight example in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where she wants to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, although it's all under the justification that she can't "love [her] babies" if the world's light is stolen.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: When Lillie begs her not to use Nebby to open the Ultra Wormholes, warning her that doing so might kill it, Lusamine informs her that she knows that might happen, but as long as it does what she wants it to, she doesn't ''care''.
* LadyOfWar: She is a beautiful woman who gives off a serene and elegant aura, and also happens to be one of the most formidable battlers in Alola. This extends to her team, which are all stereotypically cute, elegant, or feminine in some way, and are also extremely powerful.
* LargeAndInCharge: She's rather tall and is the boss of the Aether Foundation.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In Ultra Space she ends up being defeated by the evolved Cosmog, [[TheDogBitesBack the same Pokémon she sent goons to chase after and ultimately abused it nearly to the point of death for her own selfish desires]].
* LightIsNotGood: She's angelic in appearance, though ''definitely'' not in behavior. [[WomanInWhite She wears mostly white with gold]] with blonde hair and she's the biggest KnightOfCerebus since Cyrus as she outcasts two of her family members as tools for her will and when they defy her she decides to try to kill them. She also rules a group of Parasitic aliens that could easily destroy a planet and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures "Nebby" to death]]. She states very clearly that if everyone doesn't agree to her standards then [[OmnicidalManiac everyone can die by her will]]. She's also a BadBoss who uses her minions as pawns.
* LivingDollCollector: She has a collection of Pokemon that she cryogenically froze to preserve their "beauty and perfection". She also treats her own children as dolls rather than people, expecting them to look and behave however she wants them too, and viciously discarding them when they display the slightest bit of independence. Gladion likens living with her to being a "living ornament" instead of a person.
* LoveFreak:
** {{Deconstructed}}. Lusamine's motivations revolve around love, and she rants about trying to spread her love to everyone around her several times. The problem is, as a textbook {{sociopath}}, Lusamine doesn't really understand what love is, and as a result her brand of controlling affection tends to push others away, leaving her bewildered and angry over how anyone could reject her love before writing them off as being "ugly" and unworthy of her affections.
** It's revealed in the post-game that her father, who founded the Aether Foundation, was also a LoveFreak and that Lusamine inherited his love for Pokémon, particularly those that are beautiful or those most in need of it. She also loved her husband and children, loving the former so much that she drove herself mad in her research and experiments with Ultra Wormhole energy trying to bring him back after he went missing in the Wormhole. Then she discovered Nihilego and things took a drastic turn for the worse.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: It's implied that her obsession with Ultra Beasts came out of desperation to find her missing husband.
* MagicPants: When fusing with Nihilego, her brooch, shoes and stockings disappear, only to come back intact after she's separated.
* MakingASplash: Uses a Milotic.
* TheManBehindTheMan: She's this in the first part of the story for Guzma, and therefore Team Skull, as their secret supporter.
* ManipulativeBitch: Lusamine's twisted perception of love is psychologically manipulating anyone she's fond of to keep them in line so she can continue to use them as puppets, and employs this on her children. She also sponsored Team Skull and convinced them to do her dirty work by taking advantage of their financial difficulties and personal turmoil, and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity used the Aether Foundation’s benevolent image to present herself as a good person]].
* MaskOfSanity: Lusamine's vicious insanity is very carefully masked behind an empathetic and loving facade.
* MeaningfulName:
** The plant she's named after (the garden balsam or ''Impatiens balsamina'') is a beautiful ornamental plant with healing properties, fitting her benevolent appearance. However, it's also bitter and slightly toxic upon ingestion - which fits with [[BitchInSheepsClothing her true nature.]]
** Her English name keeps the above reference but brings to mind the Latin ''lux'' (light), in keeping with her appearance and status as head of the seemingly good Aether Foundation. Of course, LightIsNotGood in this case.
* MoreThanMindControl: Nihilego's toxin stimulates and excites her emotions, dulls her mental and moral inhibitions, and cause her to act impulsively, but otherwise she's under no direct influence, control, or brainwashing. Her mind is simply in a perpetually intoxicated state where she acts as she normally would but to a disturbing extreme that she normally never would and never did before, and the drive behind her entire state of being is tied directly to Nihilego in place of the people and things she used to love more dearly.
* MoralMyopia: In her present state, Lusamine suffers almost from a BlueAndOrangeMorality where she cannot and does not comprehend that she and her actions could be wrong in any way, and makes her so disconnected from reality that she perceives situations in which she's hurt others and so those others acted in response to her abuse as one would reasonably expect them to as her victims being in the wrong for rejecting her "love" and rebelling against her wishes and showing her any sort of opposition, making them "ugly" and no longer worthy of love, whereas ''she'' is the victim who's being hurt by ''them'' and never did anything wrong to deserve such treatment. After losing to the player character for the first time, she even asks him/her, without a hint of irony, "How can you be so ''awful?''"
* MotiveRant: A brief one after Nihilego's first appearance, as she filibusters about sharing her love with the Ultra Beasts and all the other Pokémon in the world. [[CerebusRetcon It becomes much darker in hindsight]] once her TrueColors are revealed and the player learns just how twisted Lusamine's concept of "love" really is.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Motherbeast Lusamine has several tentacles, four of which even have claws that make them look more hand-like. Ironically, she still lets her Pokémon do the fighting as opposed to getting involved herself.
* MumLooksLikeASister: She's in her 40s, but barely looks much older than her children.
* MyBelovedSmother: This is at least part of the reason Gladion ran away; according to him, he was "like an ornament" to her, wearing whatever she told him to wear, and acting however she wanted him to act. It's also why Lillie is so timid and lacks confidence.
* MysteriousBacker: Team Skull's. Her identity is at best, vaguely alluded to a few times, and it's only after Lillie is kidnapped that it comes out in full.
* NeverMyFault: She has a big problem with this in ''Sun and Moon'', [[MoralMyopia thinking she is justified in everything she does and that anyone who opposes her are the bad ones.]] [[spoiler:Not so much in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where she shows signs of wavering and has to convince herself what she's doing is justified, and then clearly admits that she was wrong and Lillie was right after getting her ass kicked by Necrozma.]]
* NoblewomansLaugh: Often does one when she's mocking Lillie.
* NonActionBigBad: Zigzagged -- she's plenty active in the story and battles the player twice, but after fusing with Nihilego and taking on a surely-stronger OneWingedAngel form... she still uses her Pokémon to fight the player, rather than battle them directly.
* NonElemental: Her Bewear is primary Normal type. In ''Pokemon Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon'' she uses Lopunny as a replacement for Mismagius.
* NotGoodWithRejection: It's subtle at times, but the game implies pretty heavily that most of Lusamine's villainy is/was prompted by the disappearance of her husband Mohn, followed by both of her children running away from her due to her abuse of them. It becomes most obvious by the end of the Aether Foundation story arc, where, having been abandoned by her entire family, all she wants is to be left alone with the Nihilego in Ultra Space for the rest of her life because they'd become her gold standard for beauty, perfection, and worthiness of receiving her love.
* OffingTheOffspring: After losing her rematch against the player, she tries to personally kill Lillie, being still fused with Nihilego.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's over 40 years old - even though by first glance, she looks to be somewhere in her late teens to early 20s - which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hau's dumbfounded reaction upon learning this fact.
* OneWingedAngel: For the second battle against her, she fuses with Nihilego into a half-human, half-jellyfish beast, and uses Totem power to buff all of her Pokémon.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Uses a Clefable, which she always sends out first.
* PeekABangs: Her blonde bangs cover her right eye.
* PoorPredictableRock: Surprisingly enough, her Mismagius is her ''only'' Pokémon that can't be completely shut down through resistances (as it knows Shadow Ball, Power Gem, and Mystical Fire). All of the others have only one or two attacking moves, leaving themselves wide open to being blocked by a 'mon with the right resistances. That said, her team as a whole is diverse enough that you'll likely need a separate Pokémon to deal with each of them if you go this route, and dedicated {{Stone Wall}}s will likely find themselves frustrated by the fact that ''every single one of them'' has some means of healing itself.
** Thrown out the window in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''. Every single one of her Pokemon has plenty of coverage moves thanks to the Move Tutor and only Bewear has any real healing option in Drain Punch, but that is really more to make up for the recoil damage of Take Down.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Her hair turns black (albeit a few thin streaks of its original color) after fusing with Nihilego, which itself changes from primarily light blue to black.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears a short skirt and some stockings. The stockings cover almost all of the leg.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She treats her children as if they were dolls, and is prone to throwing tantrums like a bratty teenager when angry.
* RapunzelHair: Lusamine's hair flares out nearly a foot on either side of her and reaches down to her hips.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: While Lillie is giving her one, Lusamine even gives one to ''the player character'' themselves. Especially to note that [[VillainHasAPoint she points out that just about everyone replaces the Pokémon in their party once they are no longer serving a use to them]]. Which is ''exactly'' what the player most likely did....
* ReplacementGoldfish: She became obsessed with bringing Ultra Beasts into the world and joining them in their own world after her husband disappeared, even more so after her children ran away. Part of this might be because Nihilego's toxins rewired her mind so that the intentions behind her actions would be those most beneficial to Nihilego as a sort of protective mechanism.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The fact that she had Aether develop Type: Full (later Type: Null) specifically for the purpose of fighting and killing Ultra Beasts, implies that she might have originally intended to destroy them for taking her husband, prior to becoming obsessed with them. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she still has this mindset, flat-out saying she hates the Ultra Wormholes and the creatures who dwell within it such as Necrozma.]]
* SanitySlippage: It's implied that the loss of her husband and Nihilego's neurotoxins did a number on her sanity, causing the obsession driving her during the story's events.
* TheScream: Her only verbal reaction to losing her rematch against the player is to just give a wordless scream. This also being the only noise she makes when "fused" with Nihilego.
* {{Sadist}}: She often smiles happily whenever she emotionally abuses Lillie or Gladion and inflicting ColdBloodedTorture on Cosmog. This changes when you confront her in Ultra Space; where instead of expressing any joy, she's now almost perpetually consumed by rage over what the player and Lillie are doing, with even her PsychoticSmirk unable to hide her underlying rage.
* ShesGotLegs: Nice, slender, ''long'' ones, as the camera and her ProperTightsWithASkirt like to reveal. If her official art and in-game model are to be trusted, her legs are almost twice as long as the rest of her body from the waist up!
* SlasherSmile: Tends to pull them off whenever she's plotting, and one could argue that even her regular smile counts as a subdued example of one. By the time she's been definitively revealed as a villain, it's pretty much become her default expression.
* TheSociopath: To a disturbing degree, especially considering she's a main villain in a game intended for children. Her grasp of concepts like love and social interaction in general are extremely warped, with Lusamine's particular brand of "love" consisting of forcing control on anybody and anything which shows her the slightest bit of affection and whom she deems worthy of receiving her own affections - and reacting violently when they reject her. She's also quite self-absorbed, generally treats others like objects and/or tools to be used until they're run out of purpose for her (reinforced by Gladion's comment that she's "extremely kind as long as you mean absolutely nothing to her"). The game suggests that she might not have always been too severe a case of this until she started messing with the Ultra Wormholes and coming into contact with Nihilego's toxins, which is shown first-hand in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.
* SpiritualAntithesis: In contrast to the typical antagonists seen in the Pokémon films. While the film antagonists are usually revealed to be manipulating reluctant Pokémon into carrying out their plans, Lusamine is revealed to be under the influence of Nihilego (who may not even be aware of what they're doing to her) and thoroughly enjoying it.
* StartOfDarkness: The disappearance of her husband Mohn is hinted to have made her into a much colder person.
* StatuesqueStunner: While no official height is given for her, she's clearly taller than average.
* StatusBuff: In the second battle against her, she utilizes her Beast Boost powers she obtained from Nihilego to give her Pokémon enhanced power right off the bat.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Her children also have platinum-blonde and angular hair as well as bright green eyes. Gladion also shares her PeekABangs hairstyle, albeit in a much different fashion than his mother.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: She sports these in her Mother Beast form.
* TragicVillain: Once a caring wife and mother, her futile attempts to reunite with her husband and gradual SanitySlippage due to the Ultra Beasts made her the villain she is in the present. [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she takes it upon herself to defeat Necrozma and save Alola, and her insistence on doing this alone only leads to her defeat and Necrozma almost destroying Alola.]]
* TraitorShot: In her first appearance, when talking about Ultra Beasts, the camera zooms in on her eyes and her SlasherSmile.
* {{Troperrific}}: She is competing with [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite N]] for stakes in this.
* TsurimeEyes: While Lusamine's eyes are normally like this, when Hau mentions Lillie in her first appearance and whenever Lusamine switches to her SlasherSmile, her eyes noticeably become even ''more'' slanted. After her final defeat and separation from Nihilego, her eyes look wider and brighter, indicating that her malevolence is gone.
* TheUnfought: In a sense. While you do fight her Pokémon, you don't get to directly fight her Mother Beast form.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Subverted with Milotic. Lusamine's Pokémon in the final encounter get a totem aura to power up a stat that benefits most of them, but Milotic, a special attacker, has her Attack boosted. It's revealed that she has Flail in her moveset, which ''does'' benefit from the boost.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: This is a woman who [[AbusiveParents abused her children]] and tried to micromanage every aspect of their lives down to what clothes they should wear, [[IHaveNoSon declared that they weren't her children]] and eventually attempted to ''murder them'' when they tried to rebel against her control, freezes the Pokémon she adores so that they'll stay the same forever while they remain on display for her, is willing to hurt and even kill anybody or anyone to further her schemes, Pokémon or otherwise, and in general cares about absolutely nothing but herself and the things she desires. This is all in contrast with Team Skull's [[LaughablyEvil general ineffectual goofiness]] and Alola's cheerful and bright atmosphere.
* VillainHasAPoint: When Lillie tells her that people and Pokémon aren't hers to just collect, use and discard at her pleasure, Lusamine counters that ''trainers'' (using the player in particular as an example) do that exact thing, namely switching out weaker members of their party for stronger, more appealing Pokémon. While this doesn't excuse her any of her actions in any way, her point isn't refuted.
* VillainousBSOD: Downplayed. She partly recovers after her final defeat, yet she is still stuggling with the remaining Nihilego's neurotoxins in her body.
* VillainousBreakdown: She undergoes a gradual one throughout the last part of the main story. After her first defeat, she's annoyed by the player character's interference with her plans, but still appears relatively cool-headed. Compare this to her later appearance in Ultra Space, where she's visibly livid and angrily screaming at the player character and Lillie. This ultimately culminates in her fusing with Nihilego, which leaves her not only unable to speak coherently but also in a much more violent state of mind.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Lusamine is the president of the Aether Foundation, a well-known organization that heals Pokémon. This helps mask her true colors, as she actually experiments on Pokémon to achieve her goals.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's nearly impossible to talk about her without spoiling that she's the villain.
* WeaponOfChoice: Bewear, very fittingly. They both seem cute and innocent, but are actually incredibly dangerous and give people unwanted love that hurts them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', she is willing to do anything to save the people and Pokémon she loves from Necrozma, even if it meant sacrificing Cosmog.]]
* WindowsOfTheSoul: One of the earliest hints she's a villain for those paying attention to the art style are her eyes. Most everyone else has noticeable white highlights in their eyes. Lusamine's by contrast are flat, dull, and effectively lifeless looking from the moment she's introduced, giving her a creepy UncannyValley effect.
* WomanInWhite: Her top and skirt is mostly white with some gold to establish that LightIsNotGood. She also wears white stockings on her feet.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's stated that Lusamine's obsession with the Ultra Beasts stemmed from grief over the disappearance of her husband Mohn in an Ultra Wormhole, and that at least at first she was looking for a way to get him back, and possibly seek vengeance upon the Ultra Beasts using Type: Null. Lillie reminisces that her mother was fun-loving and kind to her before that incident, after which her obsession with finding Mohn and the Ultra Beasts is implied to have twisted her into a gradually worsening sociopath, which eventually resulted in Gladion fleeing from her, later followed by Lillie herself. Encountering the Nihilego made everything worse, as its toxin turned Lusamine's sociopathy into a psychotic drive to give her "love" to anything that even slightly shares qualities in common with Nihilego and the Ultra Beasts, and crush anything "unworthy of her love" (basically, anything that isn't like a Nihilego). Ultimately, all Lusamine wanted was to have the love of her life back, but in her psychosis forgot how to care for her children and played with forces she didn't understand, and as a result both she and her family suffered the consequences that she was too obsessed to even consider in the first place.
* WouldHurtAChild: Makes an ambiguous murder threat to the player character at the start of their first battle, an ''unambiguous'' murder threat at the start of their second battle, and then attempts to ''kill her daughter Lillie'' afterwards.
* {{Yandere}}: She really, really ''really'' loves the Ultra Beasts. So much so she would literally ''destroy the world'' if it meant being able to be with them.
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[[folder:Wicke]]
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The assistant branch chief of Aether Paradise has a caring personality, so she’s loved by all the Aether Foundation employees.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Wicke cares about the well-being of the Foundation's Pokémon; because of this, she is popular among the Foundation's staff.
* IronicName: Her name is one letter away from the word "wicked". [[TokenGoodTeammate She is one of the few non-antagonistic members of the Aether Foundation, supports both Lillie and Gladion in opposition to their insane mother, and even heals your team when you storm Aether Paradise.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Wicke's glasses only add to her charm.
* TheMole: You learn in the post-game that she's now working for Interpol, and provides them with information on the Ultra Beasts.
* NiceGirl: In the initial trailer that revealed the Aether Foundation, both Wicke and Lusamine were built up to be sweet and motherly characters. In the game proper, Wicke actually ''is'' as nice as the trailer made her out to be, in stark contrast to Lusamine.
* NeutralFemale: She neither directly opposes nor particularly assists the player's efforts at rescuing Lillie and Cosmog, though she ''does'' heal their Pokémon after they return to the Paradise's main floor for the second time.
* OnlySaneWoman: Wicke is one of the few employees who remains nice and helpful throughout.
* ParentalSubstitute: Implied to have been a mother figure to Gladion and Lillie after Lusamine turned cold towards them.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: Wicke really is as nice as she appears to be, unlike Faba and Lusamine.
* SweaterGirl: She probably has a sufficient reason to wear a thick turtleneck sweater in the Alola region, but the pink sweater is the most vibrant part of her design.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She is the one who helped Lillie escape the Aether Foundation from the beginning. Also, during the protagonist's investigation of the Aether Foundation to save Lillie, Wicke is one of the few members who doesn't battle you. In fact, she even heals your team at one point. This is even further suggested in an official release poster for ''Ultra Sun and Moon'' which shows a VFormationShot consisting of Guzma, Sophocles, the Player Character, and Wicke facing off against Team Rainbow Rocket.
* TheUnfought: The only named member of the Aether Foundation to not be fought.
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[[folder:Faba (Sauboh)]]
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The Aether Foundation's branch chief. He has a very arrogant personality, and believes himself to be far more important than he actually is.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:He was a HateSink to begin with, but in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', he sells out the entire Aether Foundation to Team Rainbow Rocket, letting them take over so they can expand the company across ''entire dimensions'' with himself on top.]]
* BeardOfEvil: He sports a goatee, and has a habit of stroking it.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Aside from being fightable at Aether Paradise in the post-game, he's also one of the potential challengers to the player's title of Champion.]]
* ChildHater: After being defeated by the player character, he remarks how he dislikes children. Despite his later change of heart, he still seems to be this to an extent later on; when speaking to Faba in the post game discussing whether he would make a better acting President of the Aether Foundation than Gladion and answering that Gladion would do a better job, he nearly goes on a tirade before stopping himself.
* CoolShades: The large, green sunglasses he wears are his trademark accessory, and are designed to resemble fava beans.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hamminess, massive ego, and the below VillainBall moment aside, he's a competent enough Pokémon battler to [[spoiler:defeat Alola's Elite Four and challenge you for the title of Champion.]]
* DirtyCoward: Prides himself as the Aether Foundation's last line of defense in his debut yet refuses to fight a Skull Grunt to save a Slowpoke, questioning what they'd be able to do if he was incapacitated and gets the player to fight the grunt instead.
* DishingOutDirt: In ''Pokemon Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon'' his Slowbro is replaced by Claydol.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:PlayedForLaughs. Rather than be arrested for his villainous actions, he is kept on at the Aether Paradise... but is demoted to ''intern'' position, which absolutely horrifies and depresses him.]]
* HateSink: He's a selfish, greedy coward who only cares about standing on top of the company, and even being "reformed" along with the company doesn't help his case. [[spoiler:Even more so in his ''Ultra'' appearances, where he sells out his own company for his own advancement.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Turns over a new leaf post-game. Or so he claims, him trying to become the Aether President and nearly falling back into his ChildHater tendencies in the post-game also implies that he just wants to save his own ass. [[spoiler:Flat-out subverted in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', where he betrays the Aether Foundation in the post-game when a better offer shows up, showing that he only cares about his own advancement.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** He claims to dislike children, yet his strongest Pokémon is a Hypno, a species that is notorious for preying on children's dreams.
** In the post-game, he gives the player a Dubious Disc during a conversation about him having turned over a new leaf.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He cares for himself and the advancement of his own career above anything and anyone else.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a high opinion of himself and acts very condescending towards Wicke and the player character.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Actively cultivates his position as Branch Chief throughout the game, usually defying to engage in most of the other roles he needs to do through ego or incompetence, and is on Lusamine's side with her ambitions. As a result, he is demoted when the Aether Foundation is restructured following her defeat. In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:his demotion happens when he sells the entire foundation--Lusamine included--out to Team Rainbow Rocket explicitly to advance his own career, making his fate all the more poetically just.]]
* MakingASplash: His Slowbro and Bruxish. In the remakes, this redundancy is answered by replacing Slowbro (who never used a Water-type move in any of the battles it is used in, anyways) with Claydol.
* MeaningfulName: Named after fava beans, which are what his glasses are meant to resemble.
* NumberTwo: To Lusamine in the Aether Foundation.
* PsychicPowers: Specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon. He seems to avert the tendency for Psychic-type Pokemon users to be psychic themselves.
* TheQuisling: Being the DirtyCoward that he is, Faba jumps ship and joins with Team Rainbow Rocket.
* RedemptionDemotion: During the post-game, Faba gets demoted down to a rank-and-file member, but also promises that he's had a change of heart.
* ReformedButNotTamed: While he claims to have reformed following his demotion, he's still kind of a jerk.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: For selling out the Aether Foundation to Giovanni, he's busted down to an intern, and has a low-level employee (an Aether equivalent of a mook) in charge of him.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He gets very annoyed when not given "proper respect", first shown with him getting upset with Wicke over her calling him "Mr. Faba", to which he points out he has a title for a reason.
* SmugSnake: He prides himself as a genius and a very important person, yet his plans to distract the heroes were very easily foiled. Driving this point further is the fact that [[{{Keet}} Hau]] of all people was the one to point this out.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:He sells out the Aether Foundation to Team Rainbow Rocket in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' just to aid his own career.]]
* VillainBall: During the protagonists' second visit to the Aether Foundation, Hau asks if Faba has a key to a locked door, to which he replies [[WhatAnIdiot yes]]. Hau then points out that if he had just stayed hidden, said protagonists would then be stuck and probably unable to stop said evil plans.
* WeaponOfChoice: Hypno is his strongest and/or final Pokémon in every battle with him.
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