Japanese Title: Hurry! The Great Lusamine Rescue Operation!!
Original Airdate: December 7, 2017
US Airdate: April 14, 2018
Lusamine, you don't look like yourself...
Nebby has taken the twerps into Ultra Space, and tracked the Ultra Beast that snatched Lusamine to its domain.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Badass Pacifist: Lillie doesn't even need to battle Clefable in order to win.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Nihilego has taken full control of Lusamine's mind.
- Combat Pragmatist: No one-on-one fights here. Ash and his friends use every Pokémon they have against each of Lusamine's.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Lillie kept reaching out to her Lusamine's Clefable as she reminded her of the memories and bond they share, which got through to her.
- Involuntary Dance: Lusamine's Lilligant uses the teeter dance on Rotom, Lana, Mallow, Sophocles and their pokemon.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Fusing with Nihilego takes a heavy hit to Lusamine's sanity, but Gladion explains that half of her rambling is obviously stemming from her childhood dream to meet Ultra Beasts, which explains her behaving like an oversized toddler who thinks that the kids are there to take away her "toys". It's even more pronounced in the Japanese dub, where she talks like a young girl:Go away! These are Lusamine's things!I got to meet one! I finally met one!Shut up!I hate you!Stay away, or I’ll do something scary!
- Recycled Premise: The situation with Nihilego and Lusamine (a mysterious parasitic Pokemon from another dimension giving power to someone who's mentally retreating into a childish fantasy) is presented in a way similar to Molly and the Unown from the third movie, with the battle with Mother Beast Lusamine having visual similarities to the battle with Entei in that same movie.
- Voice of the Legion: Fused!Lusamine speaks with this in the English dub.
