Characters / Pokémon: Generation IX Families

Main Character Index > Pokémon Generation IX Families > Sprigatito to Espathra (906-956) | Tinkatink to Miraidon (957-978, 996-1004, 1007-1008) | Paradox Pokémon (984-995, 1005-1006, 1009-1010, 1020-1023)

The character sheet for the ninth generation's Pokémon. These Pokémon debuted in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. This generation is notable for being the first where the amount of unique Pokémon reached over 1000, with 120 Pokémon introduced (17 of which through DLC).

Annihilape (0979) can be found here, Paldean Tauros can be found here, Paldean Wooper, Clodsire (0980), Farigiraf (0981), and Dudunsparce (0982) can be found here, Bloodmoon Ursaluna can be found here, Kingambit (0983) can be found here, Dipplin (1011) and Hydrapple (1019) can be found here, and Archaludon (1018) can be found here.

All spoilers in the DLC-introduced Pokémon folders are unmarked.

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• Sprigatito to Espathra (906-956)
• Tinkatink to Miraidon (957-978, 996-1004, 1007-1008)
• Paradox Pokémon (984-995, 1005-1006, 1009-1010, 1020-1023)

Other (1012-1017, 1024-1025)

The Imagined Pokémon

The Scarlet Imagined Pokémon

The Violet Imagined Pokémon

A Pokémon depicted in the Scarlet/Violet Book that was imagined up by a sketch artist who was part of the Area Zero expedition, inspired by the other mysterious creatures found there. What it looks like depends on the game; the one attribute they share is that they both resemble a combined version of the Legendary trio of a past game.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Exactly how "imagined" are they? After all, the existence of the other Paradox Pokémon was thrown into doubt before they were re-discovered in the modern day, and it's implied that Heath met a different unknown Pokémon in what he thought was a dream. The Johto trio fusion makes things more enigmatic, as Heath’s Area Zero Expedition took place 200 years prior to the game, whereas the Johto trio did not exist until a little over 150 years prior. Also not helping the matter is the existence of the paradox Johto trio and Swords of Justice, each of whom is only based on one member of their trios.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: The Scarlet creature combines attributes of Raikou, Entei, and Suicune, while the Violet creature combines attributes of Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion.
• Real After All: If you go by the assumption that Walking Wake, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Leaves, Iron Boulder and Iron Crown are the imagined Pokémon depicted in the books, it means this creature became a reality despite being made up by the sketch artist.

DLC-introduced Pokémon (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)

Poltchageist and Sinistcha (Chadeath and Yabasocha)

1012: Poltchageist (チャデス chadesu)
1013: Sinistcha (ヤバソチャ yabasocha)

Poltchageist

Sinistcha

A Grass/Ghost-type Pokémon that is native to Kitakami. It is the subject of the legend "The Haunting Tale of Poltchageist", which claims it to have been originally born from the feelings imbued into a tea caddy by a perfectionist tea master whose loneliness and rage led to his untimely passing. It is often compared to Sinistea, though they are unrelated. While it uses its matcha powder to sap the lifeforce out of others, it also uses it to repair cracks in objects, which leads to the objects having green seals where the cracks formed.

Its evolved form, Sinistcha, pretends to be a teacup in order to absorb life force from whoever drinks it, but since the old-fashioned teacups it likes to imitate no longer see much use, they're forced to actively hunt humans and Pokémon instead.

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• Affably Evil: Poltchageist may exact life-draining vengeance on anyone who breaks an object in front of it, no matter how young, but it's still a gracious and hospitable host whose signature ability, Hospitality, restores its allies' HP in a Double Battle. Also, one of its idle animations is making a polite bow with the tea scoop in both hands.
• Ambiguously Related: Poltchageist and Sinistcha are evolutionarily unrelated to Sinistea and Polteageist, but unlike the Wiglett and Toedscool families, both are still ghosts that inhabit teaware. Their names and designs invoke both members of the Sinistea family, although in reverse: Sinistea goes from inhabiting a serving cup to a tea container as Polteageist, while Poltchageist goes from inhabiting a tea container to a serving cup as Sinistcha.
• Asians Love Tea: In the same way that Sinistea and Polteageist represent Brits Love Tea, Poltchageist and Sinistcha specifically come from a place inspired by rural Japan and thus, embodies a lot of the aspects of the tea ceremony. They take the appearance of a chaire holding tea powder and wielding a chashaku to serve it, or residing in a chawan serving bowl for tea and wearing a chasen tea stirring whisk for a hat. It was given life from the regrets of a tea master who had yet to perfect his craft.
• Aside Glance: In "The Haunting Tale of Poltchageist", after using its matcha dust on everyone in the audience, it winks at the camera with an Iris Out.
• Berserk Button: It shares the same fiery temper as the old tea master the caddy used to belong to. So having bad manners at the table or breaking tea cups will set it off.
• A Day in the Limelight: It gets its own trailer called "The Haunting Tale of Poltchageist", which tells the legend of Poltchageist that has been passed down through Kitakami's oral history.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Due to Sinistcha imitating teacups that are no longer used actively, their attempts to fool people into drinking from them mostly fail, forcing them to actively hunt humans and Pokémon for their life energy instead.
• The Dreaded: Its terrifying legend has left the people of Kitakami in fear of its power, to the point that using matcha powder in cooking and flavoring is outright forbidden.
• Easter Egg: Much like Sinistea and Polteageist, Poltchageist and Sinistcha have differing forms; the Counterfeit form, which evolves into the Unremarkable form, and the Artisan form, which evolves into the Masterpiece form. Like the species they share similarities with, the only way to tell what type it is is through either a stamp on their underside and what item the form evolves with. This trait also means it's impossible to get more Artisan/Masterpiece forms via breeding; all hatched Poltchageist will be Counterfeit form ones.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: It's said to stay in cool, dark places during the day and only come out at night. However, in-game, they can spawn at all times of day with no ill effects.
• Green and Mean: Its ghostly essence and its matcha dust are primarily coloured green, and it has no qualms about using that dust to drain the life of anyone who angers it.
• Green Thumb: It's part Grass-type. This is due to green tea not going through the withering and oxidization process used to make black tea.
• Herd-Hitting Attack: Sinistcha's Matcha Gotcha hits both foes in Double Battles, potentially healing a greater amount than other Life Drain moves if it lands on both of them. And on top of that, it's got a chance to inflict a burn.
• Life Drain: It can drain the life out of anyone it sprinkles its matcha powder on. Its powder can also be used to give life to allies in double battles so it can be used in both ways. This is reflected in Sinistcha's signature move, Matcha Gotcha, which drains HP from the foes and heals Sinistcha.
• Light Is Not Good: Right before Poltchageist drains the life of a human, that human's skin will glow.
• Making a Splash: As tea-based Pokémon, they can learn a few Water-type moves such as Life Dew and Scald.
• Medicinal Cuisine: How its Hospitality ability works — Poltchageist gifts its ally with a cup of matcha tea that heals it up.
• Mighty Glacier: Sinistcha has great Special Attack and good defenses, at the cost of below average Speed.
• Morphic Resonance: Both Poltchageist and the late tea master have a three-dot facial marking adorning the left side of their foreheads.
• Mr. Fixit: Poltchageist has a strong desire to fix broken objects and seal cracks. It will use its matcha powder to repair them, similar to the Japanese practice of "kintsugi" (repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer to highlight the cracks).
• No Biological Sex: Much like Sinistea and Polteageist, they have no confirmed gender.
• Nocturnal Mooks: The Japanese Pokémon website states that it stays in cool, dark places during the day and only comes out to prowl the cities and suburbs of Kitakami at night.
• Obsessively Organized: It uses its matcha dust to seal up any cracked or broken objects it comes across. In fact, seeing an object that has been glued back together in this way is an immediate tip-off that a Poltchageist haunting has taken place. Its description on the Japanese Pokémon website states that while it haunts houses, it will voluntarily repair pottery that gets broken while there.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: It's part Ghost-type, and said to have originated from the feelings of a bitter perfectionist tea master.
• The Perfectionist: In life, the tea maker who became Poltchageist was a strict, abrasive Jerkass who yelled at people for not following the rules of the tea ceremony to the letter. In death, it is even worse.
• Punny Name:
  • Poltchageist is a poltergeist that spreads matcha powder. Its Japanese name Chadeath is similar, as a pun on "cha death" (to reference that it's a ghost) and "cha desu" (translating as "it's tea", similar to Polteageist's Japanese name).
  • Sinistcha is a sinister spook who spreads matcha powder. In the Japanese version, its name of Yabasocha mixes together the words "yabai" (dangerous or terrible) and "socha" (coarse-ground tea).
• Real After All: Its debut trailer is framed this way — the viewers are left unsure whether or not Poltchageist is real until the storyteller discovers a cracked cup that was repaired with matcha powder.
• Sacred Hospitality: Its signature ability appears to be based around this concept: In a double battle it helps incoming ally Pokémon by using its matcha powder to heal them a little bit.
• Scare 'Em Straight: Its folktale appears to be a warning to the people of Kitakami not to carelessly break things or waste food — if they do, Poltchageist will use its matcha dust to drain their life force. At the end of the "Haunting Tale of Poltchageist" trailer, it demonstrates this ability in action.
• Secret Art:
  • The Poltchageist line has the exclusive ability Hospitality (おもてなし), which lets it heal ally Pokémon when it switches in.
  • Sinistcha is the only Pokémon that learns Matcha Gotcha, which spills scalding tea on all enemies and drains health from them, with a chance to burn as well.
• Shown Their Work: Poltchageist stays in cool, dark places during the day, and only comes out at night. Matcha powder needs to be stored in a cool, dark, and dry place - direct light exposure and high temperatures both cause it to oxidise, diminishing its potency.
• Signature Mon: Sinistcha is Carmine's ace and strongest Pokémon.
• Tampering with Food and Drink:
  • According to the Japanese Pokémon website, Poltchageist feeds by sprinkling its matcha powder onto food as a condiment. When something eats the tainted food, Poltchageist's powder drains their life energy to add to its own. It can also cut out the middleman and directly sprinkle the powder on an enemy.
  • Sinistcha imitates a teacup so that people will drink from it, allowing them to steal their life energy.
• Would Hurt a Child: As "The Haunting Tale of Poltchageist" demonstrates, it has no qualms about using its life-draining matcha dust on children.
• Youkai: As a tea caddy originally brought to life after generations of use, it is a good example of a Tsukumogami.

The Loyal Three: Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti (Iineinu, Mashimashira, and Kichikigusu)

1014: Okidogi (イイネイヌ iineinu)
1015: Munkidori (マシマシラ mashimashira)
1016: Fezandipiti (キチキギス kichikigisu)

Okidogi

Munkidori

Fezandipiti

A trio of Pokémon that are said to have protected Kitakami in the past from a terrifying ogre and are revered as their heroes, introduced in the Teal Mask DLC. In actuality, they're all vicious Pokémon who steal valuable goods and attack people out of Greed that were only mistaken for heroes.

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• Ambiguous Situation:
  • The signs telling their supposed legend also show a young boy running with them. Whether or not the boy actually existed or simply represented the people of Kitakami is unknown (a villager even explains that they have no idea who the boy is supposed to be, wondering if he was the Loyal Three's trainer). It's entirely possible the boy is a representation of Pecharunt who was with the Loyal Three when they attacked Ogerpon and her trainer.
  • How the trio came back to life is questioned but never explained beyond the subtle visual hint that Kieran punching their monument (and a purple aura like what Pecharunt can give is shown appearing around his fist here for a moment) had something to do with it. Yet, the mechanisms and powers involved are in the end still mostly a mystery.
  • How much control Pecharunt has over them vs how willingly they are working for it is up for debate. The backstory of the Loyal Three praying for things they were granted eventually, implies they made a willing deal with Pecharunt for what they desired in exchange for serving it, and they are actively malicious towards the player and Ogerpon while Pecharunt is dormant. Pecharunt's story also seems to imply them attacking Ogerpon's master was something they decided to do on their own, since Pecharunt wasn't present at the time and was only after the masks he owned.
• Arc Villain: The three of them are collectively the main antagonists of The Teal Mask.
• Back from the Dead: Ogerpon killed them in retaliation for stealing her masks and the implied death of her partner, but the events of the Teal Mask have them come back to life.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: They're all Poison-types with the shared ability Toxic Chain, which gives their attacks a chance to badly poison their targets; they're also some of the few genuinely evil Pokémon in the franchise.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: A Rare Male Example. The Fairy-type Fezandipiti is the Beauty, as it wished to be beautiful and can use pheromones to captivate others. The Psychic-type Munkidori is the Brains, as it wished to be smarter and its chain enhanced its intelligence. The Fighting-type Okidogi is Brawn, as its wish to be stronger turned it muscular.
• Beware of Vicious Dog: Okidogi's a muscular canine that's part of the Loyal Three, and as such, is a devious and thuggish sort.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Okidogi is The Big Guy, Fezandipiti is Thin, and Munkidori is Short.
• Broken Pedestal: After their true nature is revealed, Mossui Town as a whole turns their backs on the Loyal Three with Carmine referring to them as the Lousy Three or the "Loyal" Three.
• Bullying a Dragon: In the past, they were killed by a rampaging Ogerpon for trying to steal its masks and attacking its partner. Unfortunately, this resulted in them being revered as "heroes" for trying to "defeat" Ogerpon.
• Chain Pain: Okidogi's chain can pulverize anything it swings it at.
• Chained by Fashion: All three of them wear toxic chains on their bodies. Okidogi's is on its neck like a scarf, Munkidori uses it like a headband, and Fezandipiti wears it like plumage on the front of its body.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Just like the second Raidon, the Loyal Three are vicious beasts who attack people and bully other Legendary Pokémon. However, unlike the second Raidon, who represents an ecosystem-destroying threat but amounts to nothing but a savage animal, the Loyal Three are shown to be fully aware of the harm they are causing and even plot it out amongst themselves, but in terms of threat scale, are mere thugs who mug individuals and scam towns.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Like the companions of Momotarō, they are a dog, a monkey and a pheasant (or at the very least, Pokémon that resemble such animals) that come into conflict with an oni. Unlike the companions of Momotaro, they aren't doing so because the oni is terrorizing the land, but rather because they are greedy bastards who want her riches, and who assaulted and may have even murdered an innocent man.
• Cycle of Revenge: Ogerpon kills them in retaliation for their (heavily implied) murder of its human partner. In the present, they come back to life to exact revenge on Ogerpon for their initial deaths.
• Dark Is Evil: While it's initially presented as Face of a Thug, the trio turns out to be exactly as evil as their dark-colored, menacing designs imply. They can also learn several Dark-type moves.
• Dirty Coward: These three are not above outnumbering someone and attacking them. However, if someone evens out the numbers, they get scared and flee, as is evident during the cutscene at the Dreaded Den after their revival.
• Deal with the Devil: It's stated in local legends that a wish granted the Loyal Three the forms they have now, and with the reveal of Pecharunt and its powers, it's implied that the Loyal Three made a bargain with Pecharunt. They gained power, intelligence, and beauty, respectively, in exchange for serving Pecharunt as the Loyal Three.
• Evil All Along: They were hailed as heroes by the people of Kitakami, but it turns out that they're just a group of treacherous, greedy bandits who were only revered as "heroes" because the people seeing the incident didn't know the context.
• Face of a Thug: Subverted. They're primarily dark-colored, have mischievous looks to their designs, and have an ability that involves having a chance to badly poison anything they attack, but they're hailed as heroes by the people of Kitakami, to the point of having statues made in their honor... but it turns out they're indeed about as sinister as they look, being literal thugs seeking treasure through any means possible.
• The Fair Folk: Fezandipiti is part Fairy-type, is known for its bewitching nature, and is part of a villainous trio of Pokémon.
• Feathered Fiend: Fezandipiti is a pheasant Pokémon whose true nature is malicious.
• Fairy Tale Motif: The trailer makes it clear that they're based on the three companions of Momotarō, a Japanese story about a boy who teams up with a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant to slay oni (presumably represented by Ogerpon, who they're shown chasing on a shrine signpost). They even have the collective species of Retainer Pokémon. They're likely based on the Fractured Fairytale interpretation of the story, where the Loyal Three are the villains who stole from the Ogre.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: All three together are this:
  • Okidogi is the Fighter, as a brutish, muscular canine with a high Attacking stat but poor Special Attack. Bonus points for being a Poison/Fighting type.
  • Munkidori is the Mage, as a wily monkey who uses telekinetic abilities to defeat its enemies and has poor defensive ability. It's also a Poison/Psychic type, and Psychic-type Pokémon are almost universally weighted to magic attacks.
  • Fezandipiti is the Thief, as it's a graceful and charming pheasant whose natural moveset emphasizes taking advantage of its abilities with multihit or priority moves instead of dealing direct single-strike damage like the others. It's also a Poison/Fairy type, and many Fairy-type Pokémon are known for being The Trickster and The Fair Folk, not unlike a thief's wiles.
• Foil: With Pecharunt included, The Loyal Three is a foil for The Treasures of Ruin.
  • Both groups are composed of four Pokémon each with each group having one shared type that is stereotypically classified as evil (Dark for Treasures of Ruin, Poison for Loyal Three), both groups spent their time inactive before the start of the game (The Treasures of Ruin are sealed, The Loyal Three are dead and Pecharunt makes no move until the epilogue), both groups were/are responsible for some catastrophe/tragedy in their respective regions (Paldea for Treasures of Ruin, Kitakami for The Loyal Three), and, except for Pecharunt, they all used to be less-fantastic things/creatures before becoming the legendary Pokémon they are now (The Treasures of Ruin were mundane objects corrupted by negative emotions who constructed elemental bodies for themselves upon awakening, The Loyal Three were unimpressive animals before being uplifted and corrupted by Pecharunt).
  • However, The Treasures of Ruin are Ambiguously Evil/Obliviously Evil animals playing around with their immense powers that are akin to natural disasters, apparently unaware just how destructive they are to the empire they ransacked. Each Treasure is sealed in the far reaches of Paldea, and the four of them don't seem to recognize one another. Meanwhile, The Loyal Three are sapient and Obviously Evil bandits who scammed and attacked humans and Pokémon, and while Pecharunt can cause something like a Zombie Apocalypse, their scope of damage aren't quite as far-reaching. The Loyal Three are interred in the same place, while Pecharunt lies low in the nearby town, and the four of them are essentially a family.
• Foreshadowing: The poster in Kitakami featuring silhouettes of them can be seen outside the Treasure Eatery long before the DLC was announced.
• Fractured Fairy Tale: The Loyal Three, Pecharunt, and Ogerpon are an inverted version of Momotarō, in which the heroes are recast as villains and the innocent oni is cast as the hero.
• Fragile Speedster: Munkidori is fast, but has poor Defense.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Originally, Okidogi was small and weak, Munkidori was clumsy and dim-witted, and Fezandipiti had short drab feathers, until they supposedly prayed for great success and ended up achieving greatness. In truth, it was contact with Pecharunt's poison that transformed them, enhancing their abilities in the process.
• Genius Serum: Similarly to Slowking being bitten on the head by a Shellder, Munkidori's Scarlet Dex entry claims that its intellect and psychic powers came from the poison chain being wrapped around its head.
• Goroawase Number: All three of them have base 88 HP, and in Japanese, 88 can be pronounced "yaba", sounding similar to the word yabai (terrible, dangerous). This fits with their Poison-type and true nature as greedy, vicious thieves. It can also be pronounced as 'pachipachi', the Japanese onomatopoeia for clapping, referencing their in-universe Villain with Good Publicity status.
• Green and Mean: Okidogi is primarily green with black fur, and it is part of a trio of greedy Pokémon that stole Ogerpon's masks.
• Heel–Face Turn: Similar to the second Raidon prior, despite being vicious Pokémon who attack people, bully other Pokémon, and steal valuable goods, they're loyal to the player once captured and there are no ill-effects when you put them together with Ogerpon. It's heavily implied that catching them causes their "loyalty" to Pecharunt to become null and void. Notably, Pecharunt notices this if you send out any of the Loyal Three against it and seems to be very angry at you for turning them against it, and at them for serving its enemy instead of it.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. The people of Kitakami believe this was the case concerning their fight with Ogerpon, but as it turns out, they died trying to flat-out rob Ogerpon blind and attacking her human partner.
• Hero Killer: Implied to have killed Ogerpon's trainer in order to take her masks. Ogerpon killed them in turn to avenge him.
• I Just Want to Be Special: All three of them used to be just normal Pokémon who wanted more in their life. More specifically, Okidogi was weak, so he wanted to be stronger; Munkidori used to be stupid, so he wanted to be smarter, and Fezandipiti was ugly, so he wanted to be beautiful. The Toxic Chains in their bodies gave them what they wanted, but they also turned evil as result.
• Intelligent Primate: Thanks to the Toxic Chain's chemicals, Munkidori's brain evolved to the point where it's no longer the dimwitted simian it once was, and it can now harness psychic abilities.
• Ironic Name: All three of them are named after expressions of positivity, but they're all malicious thugs in nature. It's likely that they were first named when they were mistaken for heroes by the villagers of Kitakami. The Loyal Three as a title is a subverted example when their loyalty actually lies in with Pecharunt genuinely, as it granted their wishes to turn them into what they are now.
• Irony:
  • Downplayed. They are among the few Pokémon who are shown to be outright evil (or at least greedy jerks), yet none of them are Dark-type, the type that primarily represents such traits, though they do learn Dark-type moves.
  • Fezandpiti is a pheasant-like Pokémon that can also fly, but not only is it not a Flying-type, it's actually weak to Ground and doesn't have any way to nullify Ground attacks on its own.
• It Can Think: They have a disturbing amount of intelligence for Pokémon, such as being able to know the worth of treasure enough to travel to different regions and attack humans over it. Their first scene after their resurrection clearly depicts them discussing a plan, and they manage to not only scam the villagers out of Ogerpon's masks, but get free food in the process, which makes them extra powerful.
• Jack of All Stats: Fezandipiti's stats are fairly even and well-rounded, save for its high Special Defense.
• Jerkass: The three's true natures are anything but heroic, and they're revealed to be a bunch of assholes who robbed the innocent Ogerpon and its human companion because Pecharunt ordered them to. When they're revived, one of the first things they do is mercilessly beat up Ogerpon while laughing and jeering at her.
• Living Aphrodisiac: By flapping his glossy wings, Fezandipiti scatters pheromones that can captivate both Pokémon and humans.
• Mage Killer: Fezandipiti is a downplayed example. It has great Special Defense, but its Attack stat is merely above average. Its Defense and Special Attack are… less noteworthy.
• Magically Inept Fighter: Okidogi has high physical Attack, but very poor Special Attack.
• Make My Monster Grow: Near the end of the story, the Loyal Three turn giant in a way similar to Titan Pokémon (they were fed special Kitakami Mochi packed full of the best herbs, though the effects take a little while to kick in).
• Man of Kryptonite: The trio are all actually very good against Ogerpon herself, being Poison types that can resist its Grass-type moves and hit back hard.
• Maniac Monkeys: Munkidori is a primate-based Pokémon that's part of a villainous trio.
• Mighty Glacier: Okidogi has high Attack and Defense, with above average Special Defense and average Speed.
• Musical Spoiler: A subversion. The music that plays when the Loyal Three are revived is hardly fitting for the situation, foreshadowing and confirming that they aren't anywhere near as noble as they're made out to be, though by the time it plays, you already know their true nature via Exposition Dump.
• Obviously Evil: The three have sinister, shady-looking designs, and are Poison-types in a franchise where those are commonly associated with villains, making it pretty easy to tell that they're not the heroes they're initially presented as.
• One-Gender Race: All three are always male, though it is arguable if they can really be called a "race" given their origin as singular mutations.
• One-Word Vocabulary: Text boxes render their vocalizations as one word, or variations on that one word. All of their vocalizations are puns on animals/animal noises and expressions of positivity: "mmmkay" for Munkidori, "grrific" for Okidogi, and "yip-ippy" for Fezandipiti.
• Physical God: The Loyal Three are venerated for having defended the village from a rampaging Ogerpon in ancient times. At least, that's what most of the village thinks happened.
• Poison Is Evil: Given who they are in regards to the people of Kitakami and that the Pokémon they're bullying has a natural moveset consisting mostly of Grass and Fighting-type moves, their Poison typing is fitting.
• Poisonous Person: All three Pokémon are part Poison-type and have even easier access to the poison status thanks to their Toxic Chain ability.
• Pretty Boy: Despite its feminine appearance, Fezandipiti is male only. Truth in Television, as real pheasants tend to be more extravagantly feathered when they're male.
• Psychic Powers: Munkidori is part Psychic-type and uses his psychokinesis to cause dizziness in his foes.
• Punny Names: Okidogi is a pun on "okie-dokie" and dog, Munkidori is "hunky-dory" and monkey, and Fezandipiti is "serendipity" and pheasant. In Japanese, "Iineinu" comes from "ii, ne?" ("good, isn't it?") and "inu" (dog), "Mashimashira" comes from "mashi" (alright/OK) and "mashira" (monkey), and "Kichikigisu" comes from "kichi" (good luck) and "kigisu" (pheasant). After the conclusion of the DLC's story, three NPCs lampshade how ill-fitting their positive names are for their evil natures.
• Secret Art: All of them share the exclusive ability Toxic Chain, which gives them a 30% chance to badly poison the target when hitting them with any move.
• Seers: Munkidori can see a short amount into the future, though this does not help it in battle if it is not quick enough to react to what it sees.
• Shown Their Work: Fezandipiti can fly, but isn't a Flying-type. Real pheasants can't actually fly for very long, and prefer to run to flee from their predators.
• Single Specimen Species: Much like most Legendary Pokémon, there appears to be only one of each rather than multiple members of their species. The DLC has them written like actual characters rather than as a whole species, as they were each individual unknown Pokémon that were mutated by Pecharunt's toxic chains.
• Smug Smiler: Fezandipiti's beak is permanently fixed in a smug, wicked-looking grin. Munkidori also looks pretty smug, but not as much so.
• Squishy Wizard: Munkidori has high Special Attack and Speed, but low Defense.
• Terrible Trio: They are a trio of villains who attack humans and steal treasures.
• Theme Naming: Regardless of the language, all three of them have Punny Names based on expressions of positivity.
• Token Evil Teammate: Unlike the Treasures of Ruin, who are portrayed as Ambiguously Evil, the "Loyal" Three are among the few straight-up evil Pokémon who can be caught by the player.
• Turned Against Their Masters: You can send the Loyal Three out against their creator and former master, Pecharunt, in Mochi Mayhem; doing so triggers a unique response of anger from it, and it'll repeat it for each member that is sent into battle.
• Unexplained Recovery: There is no explicit reason given for their sudden resurrection after centuries of being dead and buried.
• Uniqueness Decay:
  • Munkidori dethroned Galarian Slowpoke's evolutions as the only Poison/Psychic type line.
  • Fezandipiti dethroned Galarian Weezing as the only Poison/Fairy type in existence.
  • Okidogi gets Guard Dog as a Hidden Ability, Guard Dog being previously exclusive to Mabosstiff in the base game.
• Viler New Villain: To the Raidon in Area Zero. The Raidon was just a hostile, territorial bully at worst. These three, on the other hand, are willful, malicious, and greedy bandits who will hurt and use deception to get what they want. And while the Raidon was directly responsible for the death of the original Sada/Turo, that was mostly implied to have been an accident. But stealing from Ogerpon's original partner was most definitely not an accident.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Believed to be the heroes of Kitakami, when in fact they're little more than a greedy trio who attack humans and other Pokémon and steal valuable goods.
• Walking Wasteland: Likely because of the poisons in their chains, the shrine where the corpses of the trio are is largely barren with vegetation, with only a few withering trees nearby.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Okidogi and Munkidori both have yellow sclera, which fits well with their nature of being a gang of thieves.

Ogerpon

1017: Ogerpon (オーガポン oogapon)

Ogerpon

^{Ogerpon (Unmasked)}

^{Ogerpon (Cornerstone Mask)}

^{Ogerpon (Hearthflame Mask)}

^{Ogerpon (Wellspring Mask)}

A mysterious Pokémon that wears a mask. She debuts in The Teal Mask, the first part of The Secret Treasure of Area Zero DLC.

In the tales most people in Kitakami are familiar with, it was a fierce and powerful ogre who terrorized the village and was only stopped by the appearance of three loyal Pokémon who laid down their lives to protect them, taking away three of the four masks the ogre possessed which it drew power from.

In reality, the truth is quite different. Ogerpon originally came to Kitakami from another land with a friend, presumably her "trainer". Most of the people of the village shunned the pair for their strange appearances and so the two decided to settle deep in the mountain. The only person in said village to pity them was the local carpenter and mask maker. His solution was to create four masks for Ogerpon and her trainer to wear. These masks were also adorned with Tera jewels Ogerpon's partner had brought with him from a faraway land. Using these masks, the trainer and Pokémon were able to mingle with the townsfolk during festivals without arousing suspicion. Unfortunately, word of the exquisitely carved masks spread and they became coveted by a group of Pokémon that included Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti. The group made their way to Kitakami, attacking Ogerpon's friend and stealing three of the masks from him while Ogerpon was away; by the time she returned, only one remaining mask could be found, with no sign of her trainer. Determined to find him, Ogerpon donned the remaining mask and set out in search, instead finding the thieves in the process gloating over their prizes. In a rage, the ogre battled and killed the Loyal Three, but even in victory she could not locate her only friend. Injured from the battle and very sad, she returned to the mountain, leaving the three stolen masks behind. The villagers were, however, convinced that what they saw were three Pokémon sacrificing themselves to protect the village from a rampaging monster.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: She was ostracized by Kitakami's villagers ever since arriving in Kitakami with her friend long ago because both of them looked very different from the villagers.
• Armless Biped: Ogerpon's design makes it look like she has arms under a leafy cloak of some sort, but a close look at her model during her jumping animation shows that she completely lacks arms or even shoulders. Instead, her "cloak" serves as a prehensile extension to the sides of her head that functions as her hands.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: Ogerpon's Ability with the Hearthflame Mask is Mold Breaker, ignoring the opposing Pokémon's Abilities when attacking.
• Badass Adorable: Underneath that imposing mask is an utterly adorable and sweet-natured Pokémon who packs one hell of a punch with her Ivy Cudgel.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Ogerpon's decision to become the player's Pokémon is because of how kind they were to her and the emotional bond she formed with them.
• Berserk Button: If you send her against Pecharunt, she'll react with seething rage upon meeting the master of the "Loyal" Three, recognizing it as the true force behind them.
  "GRAH! Pon PON!!!"
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ogerpon is an incredibly sweet, good-natured Pokémon. She also killed the Loyal Three (and nearly their leader as well) after they stole her masks and attacked her companion out of greed. Her furious reaction upon seeing Pecharunt also implies she'd absolutely love to give it another sound thrashing. This is the reason she's a Hero with Bad Publicity — people saw her more vicious side and weren't aware of what drove her to that or that she's normally a sweetheart.
• Boss Rush: Your battle with Ogerpon is this, but with a twist: You have to fight all four forms in sequence, all in their Terastallized state, in a single battle.
• Clear My Name: Thanks to Kieran revealing the truth near the end, Ogerpon is no longer feared as a monster by Kitakami, now being praised as the hero she was all along.
• Color-Coded Elements: Her leafy cloak changes colour to indicate the elemental mask she is wearing: green for grass (Teal), red for fire (Hearthflame), blue for water (Wellspring), and gray for rock (Cornerstone).
• Cool Mask: Often hides her face with a Teal mask. When Terastalizing, her mask seems to have grown bigger and sports horns and vines. The same goes with her three other masks, except one sports fiery tendrils (Hearthflame), one sports watery tendrils (Wellspring), and one sports Zigzag Paper Tassel (Cornerstone).
• Cute Bruiser: While her masks may make her look like a scary monster on the surface, underneath the mask, she's a Ridiculously Cute Critter who just so happens to wield a kanabo and a high physical Attack stat.
• Cute Little Fangs: Ogerpon has a rather prominent pair, as can be seen when she is without a mask.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Cornerstone mask is a much darker color compared to the other three masks and looks just as, if not more, intimidating than the standard Teal mask, but Ogerpon is no less sweet and kind-hearted than she was before.
• Demon Head: Terastalization greatly enlarges Ogerpon's mask and gives it a more menacing expression along with horns.
• Discard and Draw: Ogerpon's default form is wearing the Teal Mask and is a pure Grass-type, but can change her type and ability by holding the other three masks. This locks her out of an item slot, but as recompense, any attacking moves used while wearing the masks are powered up by 1.2x.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After years of being ostracized for her appearance, having her masks stolen as well as losing her friend and being treated as a monster, she finally gets a happy ending of sorts when the protagonist and Carmine help her get her masks back while Kieran reveals the truth to the villagers. If the player so chooses, she also gets to resume her travels with a new trainer who she has also bonded with, much like her former partner of old.
• Elemental Absorption: Ogerpon with the Wellspring Mask has Water Absorb as an Ability, which nullifies Water-type attacks and heals her for up to 25% of her HP.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Maskless Ogerpon has star-shaped pupils, Teal Mask and Hearthflame Mask have crystal-like eyes, Wellspring Mask's eyes are always shut with two visible tears, and Cornerstone Mask has her pupils be crystal-like instead.
• Face of a Thug: Ogerpon with her mask on looks quite intimidating, but in reality, she is a very kind and sweet-natured Pokémon.
• Facial Composite Failure: Due to being thought of as the villain, her depictions are made more menacing and uglier than she truly is. The festival mask depicting the Teal Mask is mostly right aside from the lips being red and full of sharp teeth and the murals that tell the story depict "the Ogre" being taller and lankier along with having a potbelly.
• Fairy Tale Motif: Like the heroes of Kitakami, Ogerpon is based on the legend of Momotarō. While the other three are based on the titular hero's companions, Ogerpon is based on the oni that they attempt to slay. The whole story likely based on the Fractured Fairytale interpretation of the tale (where the oni did nothing wrong and Momotaro is only a robber and conqueror stealing their treasures), however, Ogerpon is the hero whose treasure was stolen from her.
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Ogerpon derives part of her name from the Dekopon, a kind of orange. The fact that she's also a Grass-type further supports this theme, and her face is an orange color as well.
• Final Boss: Ogerpon is the last real challenge of "The Teal Mask" DLC. While Carmine is technically the actual last opponent, her battle is significantly less challenging than the ones against both the previous human opponent (Kieran) and Ogerpon herself.
• Fractured Fairy Tale: Ogerpon represents the oni from Momotarō, if the oni was a misunderstood hero and the heroes of the story were actually villains.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • Ogerpon's backstory shows her having been alone for years ever since her human companion disappeared. Her Nature is locked to Lonely as a result.
  • Unless you give her a different mask to change form and she uses Ivy Cudgel, her default level-up moveset mostly consists of Grass and Fighting-type attacks, leaving her with no way to hit two of the Loyal Three (Okidogi and Fezandipiti) with anything bar resisted moves (unless you pick up Retaliate, Slam, or Quick Attack through a Move Reminder). This, however, can be rectified with TMs, which allows her to learn moves like Zen Headbutt, Stomping Tantrum, or Knock Off.
  • It was Pecharunt who ordered the Loyal Three to attack her human companion and steal her masks. If you send Ogerpon out against Pecharunt, she will react with fury.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: Ogerpon is cute as a button under the mask, and the move Ivy Cudgel, unique to her, involves a kanabo, a spiked war club that's basically a medieval nail bat.
• Good All Along: She was perceived as a monstrous villain by the people of Kitakami, but it turns out she's a kind, goodhearted being who was acting out of grief when she killed the "Loyal" Three.
• Green Thumb: Ogerpon is Grass-type in all its forms.
• Hammerspace: During her battle, each time she is defeated, she draws out another mask from under the leafy cloak.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: An innocent Pokémon mistaken for a monster by the people of Kitakami long ago. Thankfully, Kieran is able to clear her name.
• Heroic Second Wind: Gets this three times during the player's battle with her, upon which she regains all of her HP and changes what mask she is using. her regained strength comes from recalling memories of: adventuring with the player, working together to reclaim her masks, and remembering "a partner from long, long ago" respectively.
• It's Personal: In the Mochi Mayhem epilogue, Ogerpon is furious when she sees Pecharunt, the mastermind behind the Loyal Three.
• Kick Chick: Some Pokédex entries state that she attacks with kicks in addition to her Ivy Cudgel. She can learn some kicking moves like Low Kick, Low Sweep, and Double Kick.
• Last Chance Hit Point: Ogerpon's Ability with the Cornerstone Mask is Sturdy, letting her withstand a lethal blow at 1 HP and thus rendering her immune to One-Hit Kill moves.
• Lightning Bruiser: Ogerpon has great Attack and Speed, with average Defense and good Special Defense.
• Magically Inept Fighter: Ogerpon has great Attack, but very poor Special Attack, and only learns physical moves by level up. In fact, all four of the masks provide a boost to one stat when Terastalized except for Special Attack.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Subverted. The people of Kitakami feared Ogerpon's masked visage, believing the mythical "Ogre" to be a monster who was only defeated by the Heroic Sacrifice of three Pokemon and driven back to the mountain. However, it turns out that Ogerpon is actually a kind, benevolent creature who attacked the "Loyal Three" to avenge the heavily implied murder of her trainer by them.
• Marathon Boss: When she fights you to test your strength, she has four phases, one for each mask it has, starting from the Hearthflame Mask until it reaches the Teal Mask.
• Mascot: Teal Mask Ogerpon serves as the game mascot for The Teal Mask expansion.
• Mask of Power: Ogerpon changes form depending on the mask she is currently wearing, and also changes the type of her Ivy Cudgel attack. The Hearthflame Mask grants her the Fire-type, the Wellspring Mask grants the Water-type, and the Cornerstone Mask grants the Rock-type. Justified, as the Mask Maker behind them used Tera crystals in their design. By default, she wears the Teal Mask (Grass-type) if not holding any of the other masks.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: When Ogerpon Terstalizes, she takes on a special Terastal Form. Instead of being based on a Tera type, the type of her Terastal Form depends on which mask is worn. She also gains a completely different Ability, and her Terastal Forms look visually different from regular Terastalizations. She's also completely unable to change her Tera type via the Treasure Eatery, being locked to the default four she has with her masks.^note Not even hacking can circumvent this, as if you try to hack in an Ogerpon with a tera type that isn't one of the four mask types, the game softlocks upon Terastalizing.
• Memento MacGuffin: The Ability Embody Aspect, bisplayed during the fight with Ogerpon, weaponizes this with her masks. Embody Aspect increases a different stat of Ogerpon's depending on which mask she wears, and her phase-change messages for the battle indicate that Ogerpon is drawing the strength to proceed from memories of its adventures with you, working to recover the masks with you, and finally, her old friend.
• Menacing Mask: Ogerpon's mask has a menacing look to it, resembling an oni. The mask’s appearance becomes more menacing during Terastallization.
• Mirror Character: To Urshifu, the star legendary of the first part of the DLC of Sword and Shield, the Isle of Armor. Like Urshifu, Ogerpon is the star legendary of the first part of the DLC of its debut game, Scarlet and Violet, which is The Teal Mask, and possesses 550 BST and a signature move that focuses on critical hits much like Urshifu does. However, it also contrasts Urshifu in several ways.
  • Urshifu is part of an evolutionary line, being the evolved form of Kubfu. Meanwhile, Ogerpon has no evolutionary relatives to speak of.
  • Urshifu is a Pokémon that is implied to have multiple individuals, whereas only one individual Ogerpon has been known of thus far.
  • Urshifu can be either gender, though is significantly more likely to be male than female. Ogerpon can only be female.
  • Urshifu has two separate forms, but Kubfu can only permanently evolve into one of them. Ogerpon meanwhile has four different forms that it can alternate between at any time through its masks.
  • Both Urshifu and Ogerpon have special variants of their respective games' transformation, Dynamax and Terastal. Urshifu has two different Gigantamax forms based on its base form, which it can only activate at the end of its story's campaign through a unique Max Soup obtained via Max Honey in a story event. Ogerpon has special Terastallized states based on its masks, which are locked to different Tera Types, that it can activate at any time after being caught.
  • Both Urshifu and Ogerpon are the protagonists of the DLC storylines. However, Urshifu starts out as a Kubfu who is timid, and its storyline is one of personal growth into a strong Urshifu. As such, the player is given Kubfu as a gift and must raise it until it is strong enough to complete a challenge at one of Mustard's Towers, earning the right to evolve into Urshifu, a testament to the bond the player has forged with it. Meanwhile, Ogerpon is a fully evolved Pokémon with a tragic backstory and a history in Kitakami, and the player bonds with it over the course of the game while helping it out, and then captures it after a hard fought battle against it to prove they are worthy of becoming Ogerpon's Trainer.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She was perceived by the people of Kitakami as a monster for killing the Loyal Three, but the reason for this is that none of them knew the true context of the situation.
• One-Gender Race: Ogerpon is always female.
• Oni: Ogerpon is based on the oni, a type of Yōkai from Japanese folklore that is often seen as the equivalent of the western ogre — hence thr name. Her Secret Art Ivy Cudgel even has her using a kanabo, a weapon often favored by oni in eastern depictions.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's normally shy and friendly, but if you send her out to confront Pecharunt, whom created the "Loyal Three" which stole her masks and possibly murdered her trainer, she's absolutely pissed at the sight of her old nemesis to the point that she actually subverts her usual Pokémon Speak to snarl at Pecharunt, making it clear she'd like nothing better than to personally introduce it to her Ivy Cudgel.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: The mask she wears makes it easy to blend in with people, who mistake her for a small child. Though her cover was blown in the distant past, it works as intended in the present, mostly because people have seemingly forgotten what she is supposed to look like without the mask on.
• Really 700 Years Old: If Kieran's number of 'greats' his ancestry back to the original craftsman of Ogerpon's masks isn't an exaggeration (at least 6 generations) then Ogerpon is possibly around more than a century old.
• Required Party Member: It is mandatory for the final fight of The Teal Mask (unless you remove her from your game entirely via trading, Home, or releasing her, in which case Carmine will complain a bit and then agree to battle you anyway).
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Ogerpon has a very cute face underneath her mask. One of the villagers even calls Ogerpon adorable once she's finally able to go back into Mossui.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Went on one against the Loyal Three after they invaded her lair, attacked her trainer, and stole her masks. Such was her rage that not even the coordinated efforts of the Three guided by Pecharunt were able to stop her (though she was badly hurt by the end of it), with all four killed or rendered into death-like states. Unfortunately, the townsfolk were not savvy to the context of their battle, and instead of seeing a vengeful Pokémon attacking a trio of thieves that attacked (and possibly killed) someone close to the Pokémon, they saw three "heroes" laying down their lives to protect a defenseless village from a thuggish monster intent on nothing but destruction.
• Savage Spiked Weapons: She wields a Kanabō for her Secret Art Ivy Cudgel.
• Scissors Cuts Rock: Ogerpon, a Grass-type, managed to kill the Loyal Three and almost kill Pecharunt, despite them all being Poison-types and outnumbering her 4-to-1.
• Secret A.I. Moves: When you battle her, she Terastalizes four times in a row by swapping her masks. Predictably, she is incapable of replicating this feat once you catch her, due to the fact that the masks are considered held items and gameplay restrictions prevent the player from swapping out held items during a battle.
• Secret Art:
  • Ogerpon is the only Pokémon that learns Ivy Cudgel, a Grass-type move with a higher chance to deal a Critical Hit. The type of the move depends on what mask Ogerpon is currently wearing. ^note Grass for the Teal Mask, Fire for the Hearthflame Mask, Water for the Wellspring Mask, and Rock for the Cornerstone Mask.
  • Ogerpon is the only Pokémon with the Embody Aspect Ability, which raises a stat by one stage when she Terastallizes, with the stat depending on which mask Ogerpon is wearing. ^note Speed for the Teal Mask, Attack for the Hearthflame Mask, Special Defense for the Wellspring Mask, and Defense for the Cornerstone Mask.
• Single Specimen Species: There appears to be only one Ogerpon, like most Legendary Pokémon. Unlike most, including the Loyal Three, the Ogerpon you get in the game all have the same predetermined stats (and gender) and is locked to the Lonely nature.
• Tragic Keepsake: The Teal Mask turns out to be this, having originally been one of a set of four shared by Ogerpon and her human companion — until three of them were stolen by the Loyal Three and her human companion vanished under unknown circumstances, leaving Ogerpon with only the Teal Mask to remember her companion by. Ogerpon is utterly overjoyed to get the other masks back. Also, the titular mask is heavily implied to be her human companion's own mask, given that when Carmine and Kieran's grandpa recounts Ogerpon's history, Ogerpon wore the Cornerstone Mask while her companion wore the Teal Mask.
  (when putting the Teal Mask on during her boss battle) Memories of a partner from long, long ago grant Ogerpon strength!
• Uniqueness Decay: Thanks to the masks granting Ogerpon different type combinations:
  • The Lotad line is no longer the only one with the Grass/Water typing.
  • Scovillain is no longer the only one with the Grass/Fire typing.
  • Lileep and Cradily are no longer the only ones with the Grass/Rock typing.
• Unstoppable Rage: Her reaction upon seeing Pecharunt in "Mochi Mayhem" is of pure rage.
• Video Game Caring Potential: What The Teal Mask essentially revolves around, as it's all about forming a bond with Ogerpon and making sure she is accepted by Kitakami by making them see the truth about her existence. The player can take this even further if you utilize her in your party, allowing her to continue her journeys as she used to with her old trainer.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Unlike your first Raidon, despite your in-story close bond, nothing is stopping you from trading/releasing it away the moment you get her.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Like how the Loyal Three serve as dark mockeries of the dog, monkey and pheasant from Momotarō, and Pecharunt of Momotaro himself, Ogerpon is a more benevolent take on the antagonistic oni from the tale. While the original oni were legitimate thieves terrorizing local villages, Ogerpon turns out to be a Hero with Bad Publicity who killed the Loyal Three for attacking her trainer and stealing her masks.
• You Killed My Father: The main reason why she initially kills the Loyal Three, them implied to have killed her former companion. Upon meeting with Pecharunt again in "Mochi Mayhem", the sentiment extends to it as well.

Terapagos

1024: Terapagos (テラパゴス terapagosu)

Normal Form Terapagos

Terastal Form Terapagos

Stellar Form Terapagos

^{Click here to see Stellar Form Terapagos as depicted in the Scarlet/Violet Book}

An unknown Pokémon found long ago, deep within Area Zero, that is believed to be the origin of the Terastal phenomenon. Its name was later revealed to be Terapagos, and it stars in The Indigo Disk, the second part of The Secret Treasure of Area Zero DLC.

The normal form of this Pokémon made its debut in Pokémon Horizons: The Series. For tropes referring to its appearance in the anime, see here.

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• Adaptive Armor: Its Terastal Form has the Tera Shell ability, which causes any attack that it takes at full health to always be not very effective, no matter what type it was.
• Adorable Abomination: Terapagos may be an incredibly ancient Pokémon responsible for the Terastal phenomenon, which affects the entire Paldea region, empowers Pokémon, and enables incredibly sophisticated inventions, but look at the little baby turtle! Even its Terastral form is fluffy!
• Advertised Extra: For all the hype surrounding its status as the mascot of Indigo Disk, even being referenced in the base game and Teal Mask, it's not even mentioned in Indigo Disk until after you wrap up the BB League plot, and when you finally see it, it only serves as the Final Boss and a plot device to wrap up Kieran's story arc. This is particularly notable when you compare Terapagos with Ogerpon, the mascot of Teal Mask, who is deeply involved in the Kitakami plot.
• All Your Powers Combined: Its shell is covered in crystals depicting all 18 types and the crystals that apparently originated from it have the ability to temporarily let Pokémon take on any type, suggesting that it's capable of this as well. Although it doesn't exactly do this in-game, this is reflected in its extremely extensive movepool and its unique take on the Stellar-type (which is associated directly with it) that permanently grants a weaker STAB bonus to all move types. Its Tera Shell ability also allows it to resist any type as long as it has full health, with the flavor text suggesting it works due to its shell containing the power of all types.
• Ambiguous Situation: Terapagos destroying Kieran's Master Ball, shocking moment aside, raises a few questions as well. Did it break the ball because it was ticked off, or was it Power Incontinence spiraling out of control and denying Kieran the chance to recall it? Sadly, the game never dwells on this after the story ends.
• Animalistic Abomination: Terapagos in its Terastal Form resembles a crystalline turtle with three flowing tails, but everything else about it just serves to show how unnatural this thing is, from its command over all types to its ability to seemingly violate established laws of physics and reality. To further hammer it home, Heath only encounters it when separated from the other members of the Area Zero Expedition and has another vague memory of speaking with someone else in an unfamiliar place, before waking up with a page of strange, indecipherable notes.
• Applied Phlebotinum: The crystals that originate from it have many varied and impossible uses: creating the Terastallization orbs, facilitating incredibly advanced technology like sentient AI and time machines, and fostering the growth of the incredible Herba Mystica.
• Barrier Change Boss: In its Stellar Form fight as a battle, it will begin as a Normal-type, but when you break its barrier the first time, it switches to Psychic-type after replenishing its barrier. Break that, and it switches again to Water, this time until the end of the fight. Naturally, once it's caught and used in battle, it doesn't have the ability to change types, with its Stellar Form instead always having the Stellar Type.
• Barrier Warrior: It crystallizes the energy in its body to create its protective shell when it feels threatened and ready to fight. This is demonstrated in the fight against Stellar Form Terapagos, where it creates Terastal Energy barriers on its health that you need to Terastallize to break.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Terapagos is an adorable little turtle and appears to be quite docile and friendly, taking an interest in the player immediately, but as Kieran learns the hard way, there's a reason why its Stellar Form was recorded in a book and it wasn't because it was harmless.
• Beyond the Impossible:
  • In its Stellar Form, when Kieran tries to recall it, it breaks his Master Ball, which is designed to never fail and can instantly capture Physical Gods.
  • Terapagos can also drain the energy of Terastallized Pokemon directly, replenishing its own Terastal Energy barriers while forcing Terastallized Pokemon to revert prematurely. While stronger Tera Raid bosses can steal a charge from Tera Orbs, none of them are able to affect Terastallized Pokemon with this ability (let alone force a Terastallized Pokemon to revert outright) and the relevant in-game tutorials teach the player to knock out Terastallized Pokemon in order to undo Terastalization. Briar's shocked reaction the first time this happens indicates that such an ability is entirely unknown in-universe.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: It appears to have a disk-shaped shell covered in bright crystalline hexagonal plates, a form so bizarre that Heath, the author of the Scarlet / Violet books, refers to it as an "entity" and questions if it is even a Pokémon. The Professor likewise refers to it as a "being". Strangely enough, official art shows it to have pentagonal plates instead, going against all the hexagonal shapes seen in its book art as well as the hexagonal shape of Terastallization symbol - but that's because it's a separate form from the one Heath encountered.
• Character Title: It is the titular Indigo Disk and Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.
• Confusion Fu: Terapagos learns moves from a wide variety of types and its offensive stats and Stellar-type's global STAB means it can dish out heavy damage with any of them.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Eternatus. Once again, both Pokémon are tangentially related to the legendary duo of the region and are the source of the regional powerup, having crashed to Earth many years ago and both have a unique form related to the regional powerup that makes them into a Damage-Sponge Boss and a Situational Damage Attack Secret Art strong against, but they have their differences:
  • Eternatus is absolutely massive, being the largest known Pokémon, while Terapagos is absolutely tiny.
  • Eternatus' darkness theming is contrasted by Terapagos being associated with light.
  • Eternatus is awakened during the main story and fails to be caught by Leon, while Terapagos is the climax of the DLC and initially caught easily.
  • Eternatus is largely unable to access its Eternamax form in gameplay, while Terapagos can safely access its Stellar Form as long as it isn't overexposed to Terastal energy.
• Conveniently Interrupted Document: The Professor's notes identify the Pokémon by a six character name that is blacked out. Heath's notes on it are likewise smudged and blurry and Arven notes that he's suspicious that every copy of the Scarlet / Violet books he's seen has the exact same smudges. The original transcript version of the Scarlet/Violet book in the possession of Heath's descendant Briar, however, shows it uninterrupted with no smudges, implying that it may have been intentionally hidden by Heath in future copies for some reason.
• Cosmic Motifs: Terapagos' body has several four-pointed star shapes here and there, such as its eyes and feet. And its final transformation is known as its Stellar Form with its unique attack move being Tera Starstorm.
• Crystalline Creature: Terapagos' shell is made of crystal, and in its Terastal form, each segment has a sigil representing the different Pokémon types on it. It can also assume a dormant state that looks like a simple gemstone.
• Damage-Sponge Boss: Stellar Form Terapagos's highest base stat is its HP at 160, on top of retaining the high Defense and Special Defense of its Terastal Form. Said Terastal Form also leans into it a little, as its ability makes all damaging moves not very effective when Terapagos has full HP.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • An artist's rendition of Stellar Form Terapagos appeared in the base game's Scarlet/Violet Book long before Terapagos itself was added through DLC.
  • Its normal form made its debut in Pokémon Horizons: The Series before its official art was revealed and its true identity as the normal form was not made public until the 8/8 Pokémon Direct with the official website saying that it is reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon Terapagos but its name and true nature are shrouded in mystery so as to not give away spoilers.
• Energy Absorption: Stellar Form Terapagos can siphon off Terastal energy from other Terastallized Pokémon, which it uses during its boss fight. Its Terastal Form Pokédex entry also mentions that its shell absorbs the energy from oncoming blows and transfers it to Terapagos itself.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Terapagos's base form has white stars instead of normal pupils inside its irises.
• Final Boss: The final boss of The Indigo Disk DLC.
• Fun Size: Its Normal Form looks like a smaller and cuter version of its Terastal Form.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Throughout the battle with its Stellar form, both Carmine and Briar opine that the player character's battle with it is going badly. While it is technically possible to deal significant damage to Terapagos, between its Tera Shell ability, its Stellar Form's advantages, its absolutely obscene amounts of attack and defense stats, its Signature Move Tera Starstorm, and the fact that it can absorb your Pokémons' Terastalization power multiple times to put up defensive barriers, it's an uphill battle to take on single-handed, even with a maxed-out level 100 team.
• The Ghost: Terapagos does not appear in Scarlet and Violet's base game and is only briefly referred to by the Professor's notes and a page in the Scarlet / Violet books.
• Imprinting: Upon its awakening, it takes an immediate interest in the player character and starts walking towards them. Fearing that he's going to lose another Legendary, Kieran throws a Master Ball at it before Terapagos can interact with the player.
• Infinity +1 Element: Although it is Normal-type as default, Terapagos is the only Pokémon naturally associated with the newly-introduced (and otherwise Terastal-exclusive) Stellar-type, which is resisted by nothing,^note Terapagos' own Tera Shell or Shedinja's Wonder Guard will still resist or nullify a Stellar attack, respectively. deals double damage to Terastallized Pokémon, and grants a weaker (1.2x) one-time STAB for every type, increased further (2x) if the type matches the user's original. Terapagos' Tera Type will always be Stellar, which changes its signature move Tera Starstorm into said type, and it notably doesn't have the one-time restriction on Stellar-type's STAB bonus (which is normally only lifted during Tera Raids), meaning it effectively gains a permanent, universal 20% power boost.^note Normal type moves will benefit from the 2x bonus, but since Tera Starstorm is now a Stellar attack, it only benefits from the 1.2x buff, becoming unresisted in return. The Tera Jewel for the Stellar type incorporates a small figurine of Normal Form Terapagos, no matter whether or not the Terastallized Pokémon is Terapagos itself.
• Jack of All Stats: Terastal Terapagos has good well-rounded stats all around, with a slight emphasis on Defense, Special Attack, and Special Defense.
• Kaiju: Subverted. Its depiction in the Scarlet / Violet Book — which contains a sailboat riding on waves next to what is assumed to be its main body — greatly exaggerates how big Terapagos is in its Stellar Form. What seems like something that could be big enough to put Eternatus in its Eternamax form to shame (and make it THE biggest Pokémon to date) is actually merely 5'07''/1.7 meters tall according to the Pokédex. The size is confirmed by the fight against Terapagos in The Indigo Disk.
• Last of His Kind: Maybe. The Violet Pokédex entry for its normal form speculates that there were others of its species that were caught up in seismic activity and the species went exinct because of it. It may well explain why it can be either male or female, unlike other legendaries.
• Magic Knight: Stellar Form Terapagos has high Physical and Special Attack stats.
• Mascot: Terastal Form Terapagos serves as the game mascot for The Indigo Disk expansion.
• Meteor-Summoning Attack: Terapagos' Secret Art, Tera Starstorm, has it fire energy stars from above on its foes.
• Mighty Glacier: In all forms (excluding the base form, which is a Stone Wall instead, and cannot be fought), on account of being a turtle and all:
  • Downplayed with Terastal Terapagos, which despite having decently balanced stats overall, has its highest stats as both defenses at 110, followed by an impressive 105 Special Attack, with its weakest stat being its base 85 Speed. Its Tera Shell also gives it even more bulk by massively reducing the damage of the first hit it takes, and it being a Normal type means only Fighting moves can hit it super effectively.
  • Stellar Form Terapagos loses Tera Shell, but has an awe-inspiring 160 base health, hits extremely hard with 130 Special Attack and its now unresistable Tera Starstorm, and still retains the defenses of its Terastal Form, but its mediocre Speed (at least by Olympus Mons standards) does not improve at all, meaning that it won't be outspeeding anything in its weight class despite its drastically improved combat ability.
• No Biological Sex: Subverted. Like Heatran, Terapagos has a 50/50 chance to be male or female. However, the one the player encounters in The Indigo Disk is always male.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Terapagos' very existence is one. It crashed into the Paldea region 2 million years ago and no one has seen it until Heath discovers it. Its presence is still felt despite not being directly encountered, and Arven suspects it's the reason Heath's book has the same smudges in every copy. However, Heath himself even wonders if it's even a Pokémon to begin with.
• Non-Elemental: Terapagos is Normal-type when not Terastalized.
• Object-Shaped Landmass: Distinctively, the entire Paldea region bears a loose resemblance to Terapagos' shape.
• Obvious Rule Patch: Despite its wide movepool, the only self-healing move Terapagos can learn is Rest via TM. This prevents its Terastal Form from becoming a potentially unkillable tank, as being able to heal itself to full willy-nilly would allow its Tera Shell ability to neuter any and all attacks thrown at it virtually every turn, leaving it free to either retaliate (especially with self-healing attacks) or stack buffs before Terastallizing to wipe out all opposition.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Terapagos is the smallest legendary in its base form (about 8 inches/0.2 meters) as of Generation IX, and even in its larger forms (at 1 foot/0.3 meters for its Terastal Form and 5'07''/1.7 meters for its Stellar Form), it's still noticeably smaller than most other legendaries. It's also more than capable of holding its own in a fight and causing all manner of fantastical phenomena with its presence.
• Punny Name: Terapagos' name is a combination of Terastal, terapin, and Galapagos (a lesser used Spanish word for tortoise).
• Recurring Element: Like Necrozma with Z-Power and Eternatus with Dynamax, the Terastal phenomenon seems to originate from Terapagos, it appears to be not originally from the Pokémon world, and it has a special form tied to its associated phenomenon. In addition, like Necrozma and Eternatus, Terapagos physically looks crystalline. Similar to Eternatus in particular, Terapagos suffers power overload and goes berserk at the climax of its story when it's fed Terastal energy and has to be defeated in a raid battle to calm it down.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: It's a very endearing fluffy crystal turtle. Its base form more so with its smaller size.
• Secret Art:
  • Terapagos is the only Pokémon who learns Tera Starstorm, a Normal-type attack that does high damage. If Terapagos is Terastallized, the move changes to a Stellar-type attack that hits all opposing targets. Notably, this is one of two Stellar attacks in the game, the other being a Stellar Tera Blast.
  • It has three unique Abilities for each of its forms:
    • Normal Terapagos has Tera Shift, which makes it automatically transform into its Terastal Form, making its Normal form unusable in practice. Naturally, it's one of the few abilities that can't be suppressed with something like Neutralizing Gas.
    • Terastal Terapagos has Tera Shell, which makes all attacks that hit it at full health not very effective.
    • Stellar Terapagos has Teraform Zero, which eliminates the effects of both weather and terrain when it first transforms.
• Shout-Out: Terapagos being a male turtle who is apparently the Last of His Kind brings to mind Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island tortoise.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: A legendary Pokémon that's been dormant for thousands of years, responsible for the region's phenomenon, goes berserk from a power overload at the climax of its story, and needs to be defeated in a double battle before it calms down is incredibly similar to Eternatus, even down to breaking the Poké ball (or in Terapagos' case, Master Ball) that another NPC attempted to capture it in.
• Time Abyss: If it really is the source of the strange phenomena that occur in Area Zero, then it seems to have been around for a long time, given that the Great Crater of Paldea is said to have formed two million years ago, putting even the twenty-millennium-old presence of Eternatus to shame.
• Time Portal:
  • The presence of Paradox Pokémon and some of the strange phenomenon in Area Zero are implied to be due to the unknown Pokémon and not the Professor. As Arven points out, how did Heath document the Paradox Pokémon in the Scarlet and Violet Books before the Professor built their time machine? Then there are the strange glyphs and buried plate the Area Zero Expedition encountered, which may be from the Paldean Empire days or far older.
  • In a secret cutscene after completing The Indigo Disk, Terapagos uses its powers at the Crystal Pool in Kitakami to bring the real Professor Sada/Turo from the past into the present for a short conversation. The Professor speculates that it's possible that they may have come from an alternate timeline, but there's not enough evidence to prove whether or not that's the case. The player does trade a copy of Briar's book for their personal copy of the Scarlet/Violet Book. It should allegedly be impossible given that Arven had the book when the game began, but Turo's notes in the Area Zero Underdepths mention this encounter.
• Turtle Island: While not literally so (at least as far as we know), its Stellar form does invoke this imagery, with its appearance being that of its Terastal form floating on a partial globe surrounded by hexagonal crystals. Scarlet's Pokédex entry for its Stellar form describes it as resembling "the world as the ancients saw it". That its Tera Jewel is in the shape of its normal form also invokes imagery of the adage "turtles all the way down".
• The Unfought: Normal Form Terapagos has its own stats, but it cannot be battled through any legitimate means, as it will always transform into its Terastal Form at the start of a battle, and ability-suppressing moves & abilities won't work on its Tera Shift ability.
• The Unreveal: You don't even encounter this thing in Area Zero in the base game. The only mentions it has is Heath's book, the Professor's notes, Arven's suspicions, and the fact that Heath encountered it himself.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As the source of Tera Crystals, it is indirectly responsible for the existence of the time machine plot and Paradox Pokémon in the main story.
• Youkai: Terapagos is based on the minogame, a turtle yōkai with flowing tails made of seaweed.

Pecharunt (Momowarou)

1025: Pecharunt (モモワロウ momowarou)

Pecharunt

A Mythical Pokémon introduced in The Indigo Disk. It produces a toxic mochi-like substance that draws out the consumer's latent capabilities and desires, but also cause them to fall under its control. It was responsible for the transformation and creation of the Loyal Three.

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• All There in the Manual: Aside from a bit of speculation from Carmine in some League Club dialog and optional interactions during battle with the relevant Pokémon, Pecharunt's backstory isn't directly addressed in the game itself, with players left to infer its connection to Ogerpon and the Loyal Three by themselves. Instead, it is found in the YouTube video "The Untold Story of Pecharunt", released a few days after the Mochi Mayhem epilogue.
• Ambiguous Innocence: It's unclear if Pecharunt has any real understanding of the extent of control or influence its powers have on others. In its lore video, it was not seeking to enslave the Loyal Three, but to "tame" them, and it obeyed the beguiled couple who adopted it rather than ordering them around as one would expect if it understood its powers. On the other hand, the framing of some scenes (particularly with Ogerpon) and the narration support the idea that Pecharunt understood that it was enslaving people to its will, calling some of the tale's validity into question. During Mochi Mayhem it uses its powers with calculated intent such as using Kieran's grandmother to offer her husband mochi to control him as well, and enslaving the town to attack the player and Kieran. Most tellingly, it laughs maliciously when setting Nemona against Kieran and the player, strongly implying that it's taking glee in their reactions and its own control over Nemona, supporting the idea that Pecharunt does understand it's enslaving people against their will and takes a certain sadistic childish glee over hurting and controlling others.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • How it awoke from being dormant. It is implied that the Mythical Pecha Berry item has something to do with its awakening, as Pecharunt moves slightly when the player character carrying the item gets near it, and the item vanishes afterward (implying Pecharunt took/ate the berry while the character's back was turned), but it's unclear if it needed to eat this berry to regain its powers/fully awaken, or if simply sensing the berry was enough. The only hint its lore video gives is that Pecharunt was quietly waiting for an opportunity to fulfill the old couple's wishes from long ago.
  • Just how aware Pecharunt's victims are of their possession is unclear. Some of their reactions (like Arven being embarrassed at the silly dance it makes him do, Penny hamming up her "villain" performance, and Nemona still having the same banter she would usually have during a battle with the player) imply that they're still at least somewhat aware of their situation but are helpless to stop it or control themselves. However, when they're all freed from its control, Arven, Penny, and Carmine claim to have no memory of the whole thing, and Nemona initially thinks the battle was a dream. Additionally, Kieran's Grandma offers her husband mochi (which results in him being possessed), but it's unclear if that was her talking while possessed or if Pecharunt was speaking "through" her somehow. This level of effect may have been intentional on Pecharunt's part, as we see in the past that other victims of its mochi are able to behave mostly as themselves (albeit greedier and still subjugated to it), though in the case of the Loyal Three it is mentioned that they "prayed" for the power they were granted by Pecharunt's poisoned chains, implying they had entered some sort of contract with it in exchange for their powers rather than forcibly put under its control. An alternative explanation is that Pecharunt's victims are unconscious but the possession somehow taps into their dormant personalities, possibly as a way of warding off suspicion by other potential victims.
  • How much of Pecharunt's timidness is genuine, if any? Its nature is always Timid when captured, it uses the people and Pokémon it controls to do all the work while it sits on the sidelines, and its lore video depicts it as a timid Pokémon. At the same time, the official website says Pecharunt feigns weakness and employs Crocodile Tears to get sympathy (even having Fake Tears as a level-up move), and the Sympathetic P.O.V. said lore video takes raises the question of how much of its depiction of Pecharunt can be trusted.
• Arc Villain: After serving as the Greater-Scope Villain of The Teal Mask, it's finally confronted directly as the main antagonist of the Mochi Mayhem arc with its actions brainwashing everyone heavily implied to be its way of getting revenge on the player for stopping the "Loyal" Three from taking Ogerpon's masks.
• Arch-Enemy: To Ogerpon, who is furious when she sees it, due to it being directly responsible for the tragedies that befell her in her past.
• Attention Whore: Its primary motive appears to be a deepseated desire for attention and love, especially when it comes to the original old couple that adopted it, to the point the only reason it ended up in Kitakami to begin with was out of a desire to secure more adoration from them by stealing Ogerpon's masks.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Pecharunt's abilities are all about forcibly controlling others by poisoning them, and it's quite clearly a rotten pit.
• Bathos: In-game, the people possessed by Pecharunt chant "MOCHI! MOCHI!" and do what appears to be a chicken dance. While the visual is no doubt comedic, it also comes off as unsettling due to how abnormal it's treated as being.
• Berserk Button:
  • Implied to be the case if you send out any of the Loyal Three against it, upon which it uniquely reacts with anger towards them, presumably for turning against it and/or failing it.
  • On the flip side, Pecharunt is this to Ogerpon if you send her out against it.
• Beware the Silly Ones: It's a cowering Pokémon resembling a peach pit that makes most people under its control do the chicken dance while crying "Mochi!", but it's malicious seemingly of its own accord and manages to control almost all of Mossui Town plus your friends minus Kieran with its poison mochi.
• Botanical Abomination: It's a malevolent thing capable of Demonic Possession taking the shape of a poisonous Pecha Berry.
• Breaking Old Trends: Pecharunt subverts a lot of the usual occurrences when it comes to Mythical Pokémon:
  • It's an Evil Counterpart of the Ridiculously Cute Critter types like Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, as while it looks cute, it's anything but.
  • It has the same Base Stat Total as other Mythical Pokémon (600), but as opposed to it being a Jack of All Stats with even stats across the board, it's a physical Stone Wall with average stats, but very high Defense at a base of 160. Notably, like Diancie, Pecharunt has a twist on the classic Mew stat spread, with most of its stats being 88, and its Defense stat having the additional 60 points subtracted from its other five stats.
  • It's the second Mythical to actually have a story arc centered around it as opposed to simply being gifted to the player or caught in an event.
  • It is the first Mythical to take an antagonistic role against the player.
• Chain Pain: Its signature move Malignant Chain attacks opponents with a toxic chain similar to the ones worn by the Loyal Three.
• Combat Pragmatist: Fittingly for an insidious manipulator, it learns several "dirty" Dark-type moves, like Fake Tears, Parting Shot, Foul Play, and Nasty Plot to boost its otherwise underwhelming Special Attack.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of Momotarō, being a peach-themed child-like creature adopted by an old childless couple that went on a journey attempting to steal for them from an innocent oni. Furthermore, while Momotaro convinced his companions to accompany him by feeding them regular kibi-dango, Pecharunt mutated three ordinary Pokémon into the Loyal Three and bound them to its will with its poisonous sweets. Fittingly, Pecharunt's original Japanese name, Momowarou, is a corruption of the name Momotaro, a pattern that also holds true with its Mandarin and Cantonese name. Furthermore, the "warou" part of its Japanese name could come from "tarō" (boy) mixed with "warui" (bad, evil). If "Wario" and "Waluigi" mean "Bad Mario" and "Bad Luigi" respectively, "Momowarou" would certainly mean "Bad Momotarō", or "Bad Peach Boy".
• The Corrupter: Is responsible for corrupting the Loyal Three into becoming the villains they are today, and is equally responsible for corrupting all of Mossui Town (as well as Penny, Arven, and Nemona) into serving as its puppets.
• Crocodile Tears: The official website notes that Pecharunt will weep and act like a weak, helpless baby to prey on other peoples' sympathy. Appropriately, it has Fake Tears as part of its natural movepool.
• Cultural Translation: Interestingly, the translation replaced a Japanese food with another Japanese food. In the original script, Pecharunt's signature toxic sweet was kibi-dango, just like Momotarō's own trademark snack. But as kibi-dango today is a fairly obscure product that most people outside of Japan will never run into outside of its appearance in Momotarō, the translation replaced it with standard mochi instead, complete with switching the brainwashed Pokémon Speak from "kibi-kibi" to "mochi-mochi".
• Cycle of Revenge: Pecharunt enslaves an entire town of people to turn them against the player, seemingly out of revenge for foiling its servants' attempts at stealing Ogerpon's masks and having their names tarnished.
• Damage Over Time: Poison-types are uniquely suited to this already, and Pecharunt's ability allows it to throw some confusion damage into the mix on top of the steady poison damage. With its massive Defense stat and access to Recover, basically everything about this Pokémon is practically tailor-made for wearing out powerful physical bruisers.
• Dark Is Evil: Similarly to its minions, Pecharunt has dark purple as its main color, emphasizing that it's a dangerous influence as its sinister wisp-looking form shows.
• Defend Command: Being able to retreat into its fruit-like shell, Pecharunt naturally learns Withdraw and Defense Curl, and can follow that up with Rollout.
• Diabolus ex Machina: The entire Mochi Mayhem plot involving it only occurs because the player randomly gets the Mythical Pecha Berry from the internet and they just happen to inspect Pecharunt's sealed form at Peachy's, which causes it to awaken through its random connection with the mythic berry.
• Dirty Coward: Pecharunt rarely, if ever, actually fights on its own, instead using its mochi and toxic chains to enslave people and Pokémon such as the Loyal Three and the people of Mossui Town to do its bidding, having them do the dirty work while it keeps itself hidden. It only battles the player in the Mochi Mayhem epilogue once its plan of using the people of Mossui to beat the player fails, as a final resort. Seeing as how it's relatively small and largely implied to be not particularly powerful in battle, its resort to controlling others using its poison seems to be its biggest strength as a Pokémon. In the past, it didn't even try to fight back against Ogerpon, instead withdrawing into its shell and going dormant to save its own life. Indeed, it also corrupted the Loyal Three specifically because it wanted to enhance their abilities to make it feel safe. This is further reflected by the fact that its nature is locked as "Timid".
• Early-Bird Cameo: Pecharunt makes several small cameos in The Teal Mask that foreshadow its involvement with the Loyal Three: a figurine resembling its closed form can be observed in Peachy's shop (in fact, said figurine IS Pecharunt), and when Carmine and Kieran's grandfather tells the true tale of Ogerpon, Pecharunt is halfway visible in the upper right corner of the screen. It's also implied from pre-release material that the little ball figure seen on the Loyal Plaza's signboard is Pecharunt itself.
• Edible Ammunition: It launches the mochi it creates at Arven and Penny, putting them under its control as it enters their mouths. The "ammunition" aspect of this trope is downplayed however, as the worst Kieran feels after taking a mochi to his forehead is akin to getting hit with a pebble.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Pecharunt does not take it well if you send out its servants Okidogi, Munkidori, or Fezandipiti against it.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Pecharunt stole Ogerpon's masks because it wanted to please the couple that adopted it. However, the couple only wanted the masks because they were corrupted by Pecharunt's mochi, and it's unclear if Pecharunt was aware of this.
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: It resembles a peach or Pecha Berry, although it lacks a Grass-typing that other similiar fruit or vegetable-like Pokemon have.
• Foil: It and Ogerpon are based on figures from Momotaro but have contrasting backstories:
  • While Ogerpon and its companion were feared, shunned, and had little to their name, they were still happy and content with what they had; by contrast, Pecharunt had loving carers and a good home, but was never satisfied with and craved more, to the point of enslaving said carers with its mochi to gain more affection.
  • Ogerpon has no trouble fighting enemies head-on with her own strength, while Pecharunt prefers to control others and let them fight on its behalf.
  • Ogerpon is reviled as the villain of the local legends in Kitakami, while Pecharunt is portrayed as the hero of its own story in the lore video despite its legend being unknown to the rest of the world in-universe.
• The Food Poisoning Incident: Its main method to control its victims is through serving them poisonous mochi that they find delectable.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Implied — shortly after the release of "The Untold Story of Pecharunt", the Pokemon Company's official Twitter account started posting tweets saying "MOCHI MOCHI!" implying that Pecharunt's influence was starting to reach even the game's developers in the real world.
• Fractured Fairy Tale: Pecharunt is Momotarō, if Momotarō were a sadistic villain, its companions were its minions, and the oni was a misunderstood hero all along. Made even more explicit with the lore video revealing its backstory.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • It's set to always have a Timid nature, fitting with its status as a Dirty Coward.
  • Its signature ability Poison Puppeteer confuses Pokémon that get poisoned by it, reflecting its ability to influence minds through its poisons.
• Goroawase Number: Five of its six base stats are 88, it's captured at level 88, and in Japanese, 88 can be pronounced "yaba", sounding similar to the word yabai (terrible, dangerous).
• Greater-Scope Villain: It was Pecharunt that mutated the Loyal Three into what they are today using its poison, and it was at its behest that the Loyal Three attacked Ogerpon's companion to steal her masks, placing all of the events of The Teal Mask into motion, including the falling out between Kieran and the protagonist over Ogerpon that leads into the plot of The Indigo Disk. It isn't directly involved in these events, however, due to still being in hibernation until Mochi Mayhem, where it becomes the Big Bad.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: It completely escaped notice from Kitakami's story on the Loyal Three, and no one in the present except for Carmine even makes the connection. It's only up to the player to piece out its backstory through the fact that its signature move Malignant Chain invokes the same strange chain that the Loyal Three wear on their persons, its subtle Early-Bird Cameo in Yukito's story on Ogerpon, and the very unassuming dot shape on the Loyal Plaza's signboard. A tale chronicling its side of the story may exist, but it's explicitly stated to be a story that has never been told in Kitakami.
• Greed:
  • The victims to its poisonous mochi have amplified greed, as it had happened to the old couple who became notably greedier, asking it for many things. It's also implied that other sins like lust and such are amplified in different people, such as when Nemona's Blood Knight tendency slips through her speech and how she suddenly has fully-leveled Kitakami Pokémon when fought, and how Penny's adoration for her Eevee becomes a strange Verbal Tic in saying the word "mochi" (she says "mochee", the last syllable vaguely resembling her Affectionate Nickname for her Eevee (Veevees)).
  • In its backstory, it's revealed that Pecharunt itself is a greedy Pokémon when it comes to love. Even though the elderly couple who adopted it already adored it for who it is, Pecharunt was never satisfied with their love, so it gave them subjugating mochi with the ability to turn them greedy.
• Healing Factor: It naturally learns Recover at level 72, giving it a healing option befitting its Stone Wall status.
• Heel–Face Turn: Just like its subordinates, the Loyal Three, it's loyal to the player once it's captured and there are no ill effects when you put it together with its former lackeys or even Ogerpon.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: The final battle with it takes place in Loyalty Plaza, the former resting place of its henchmen, the Loyal Three, and there was clear intent for it to be there, as it controls Nemona in order to get there and brings the rest of the brainwashed victims there as well. Its intentions there are never explained. It is known to be likely that it still sought Ogerpon's masks, but how exactly its behavior was supposed to get them back is not explained beyond what can be inferred (that in the event that it could not take control of the player character who has the masks, it was trying to find someone or something powerful enough to be able to take the masks from them).
• Hidden in Plain Sight: It hid itself as a plushie at Peachy's store for who knows how long.
• Hypocrite: Enjoys enslaving Pokémon and people to do its bidding and laughs when setting a mind controlled Nemona against Kieran and the player, but rages at the Loyal Three if they are chosen to attack it.
• Involuntary Dance: Its brainwashed victims are forced to do a very odd chicken dance, for whatever reason.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: A very twisted example, as all of Pecharunt's actions were motivated by its desire to receive love from the couple that adopted it. However, Pecharunt did so by feeding them mochi that it knew was corrupting them with greed, hoping that continually satiating their artificially ever-increasing greed would make them love Pecharunt all the more.
• Irony: Pecharunt is named and designed after a Pecha Berry, a berry that cures Poison. Not only is it part Poison-type, but it also spreads Poison with its Secret Art.
• Killer Rabbit: Has a small, cute design commonly seen among Mythical Pokémon, but is a childishly selfish creature that subjugates others with its toxic mochi and makes others steal from innocents for it.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Particularly vengeful players can easily allow Ogerpon to fight the leader of the three who had wronged her. Or if they feel even more devious, force the Loyal Three to turn on their former master. The latter even leads to Pecharunt crying out in rage.
• The Man Behind the Man: The mastermind behind the corruption of the Loyal Three, counting as their Trio Master.
• Meaningful Name: With a side of Punny Name. Evokes both the peach (the fruit Momotaro is themed around) and the Pecha Berry, the word "runt" to emphasize its small, nonthreatening appearance, and to some extent the word "petulant".
• Mind-Control Eyes: Humans affected by its mind control sport purple eyes.
• Mister Big: The Pokémon who commands the Loyal Three and is capable of enslaving masses of humans is only the size of a human head, and that's when encased in its shell.
• Motivated by Fear: There is a strong implication that Pecharunt's evil is fueled mostly, if not entirely, by its anxieties. Its nature is guaranteed to be Timid upon capture, it fed its caretakers toxic mochi because it was afraid of losing their love, and is afraid to engage in direct conflict, preferring to flee.
• No Biological Sex: Unlike the Loyal Three, Pecharunt is genderless.
• Numerological Motif: 8. Its stats are all 88 save for its base 160 Defense, which is also a multiple of 8 (and 8 + 8 = 16), and like the Loyal Three its level-up pattern is in multiples of 8.
• Obliviously Evil: An odd mix of this and Obviously Evil. Its lore video reveals that from Pecharunt's perspective, it merely went on an adventure to get gifts to please what were essentially its adoptive parents, only for everything to fall apart and nearly lead to its death from an enraged Ogerpon. It wasn't even aware that there was an altercation between the Loyal Three and Ogerpon's partner, as the three had snuck into Ogerpon's cave when it was empty, only for the man to return before they could leave, all while Pecharunt had stayed behind in hiding, oblivious to it all.
• Obviously Evil: Between its name, its title as the "Subjugation Pokémon", its signature move and ability, its base stats, its affiliation with the Loyal Three (being their creator and master), and its sinister design, everything about Pecharunt screams evil. Even the more benign reveal in the lore video reveals it knowingly poisoned the old couple who found and took care of it to addict them to its Mochi out of its cravings for affection.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: It's a peach-like Ghost-type that controls anyone who eats the mochi it makes.
• People Puppets: Its ability Poison Puppeteer invokes this by confusing any Pokémon it poisons. Furthermore, it can be activated via its Malignant Chain move which has a chance to badly poison, implying that it uses those chains to poison and brainwash others. During the "Mochi Mayhem" epilogue, it makes mochi that can control people and spreads it all over Mossui town, leading to only the player, Kieran, and the nurse escaping eating the mochi.
• Poison Is Corrosive: Its Malignant Chain is described as wrapping the victim in toxic, corrosive chains and pouring toxins into them. It still can't hurt Steel-types, but the damage is appropriately high.
• Poison Is Evil: It is an unambiguously malicious Pokémon who uses poison to brainwash Pokémon and people to do its bidding for little reason than because.
• Poisonous Person: Its primary type is Poison. It creates and feeds its toxic mochi to both humans and Pokémon alike, putting them under its control.
• Post-Final Boss: While by no means harmless, being a high-leveled mythical Pokémon with inflated HP and all, Pecharunt is ultimately a single Pokémon squaring up against your entire team of Pokémon who have gone through dozens of trained Pokémon to finally get to it. Your last opponent before it? Nemona.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Its lore video heavily implies that it doesn't actually realize that what it does is wrong, only that doing so makes the elderly couple love it more, making it come off as a naïve spoiled child. Of course, its actions in the epilogue elevate it to this.
• Pun-Based Creature: Pecharunt resembles a cut-open Pecha berry complete with core, and is a Poison/Ghost type. In other words, it's rotten to the core. Even better, Pecha berries cure poison, which Pecharunt specializes in setting up poison on enemies.
• Punny Name: Not uncommon for a Pokémon, but what is uncommon is how it is named. Pecharunt is the first Pokémon with a name based on something which exists within the world, namely the poison-curing Pecha Berry. This also makes it a case of Ironic Name, being a creature which inflicts poison. Also, befitting its rather small appearance and the fact it's the small leader of the Loyal Three, its name has -runt in it.
• Recurring Element: Pecharunt is a deliberate subversion of the cutesy, 600 BST event Mythical Pokémon. Though it's small and appears somewhat cute, it's one of the only truly evil Pokémon introduced in the series, making the Loyal Three attack Ogerpon's companion and binding people and Pokémon to its will with its mochi.
• Resting Recovery: If mortally wounded, it can hide within its shell to enter a deep sleep. This is how it survived Ogerpon's attack in the past until the present day. Its dormant state was so deep that when someone in Kitakami discovered it, they couldn't even tell it was a Pokémon, instead becoming known to locals as the Never-Rotting Peach and being used as a simple decoration in the shop Peachy's.
• Secret Art:
  • Pecharunt is the only Pokémon that learns Malignant Chain, a Poison-type move that also has the chance to badly Poison.
  • It's also the only Pokémon with the Poison Puppeteer Ability, which also confuses any Pokémon it poisons.
• Secret Character: As with any other Mythical Pokémon; while it was added to the game with The Indigo Disk DLC, it's unobtainable unless the Mythical Pecha Berry is in the player's inventory. Said item was only distributed in a free event for players who have completed the main story and the DLC stories.
• Shown Their Work: Pecharunt's small body resembles a seed known as a peach pit. The seeds contain toxins that are hazardous for consumers in large doses, hence its Poison-typing.
• Stone Wall: Pecharunt's stats are evenly well-rounded at 88, save for its extremely high Defense at 160. Playing into this, it also learns Recover to stall opponents out, and its unique ability confuses foes affected by its poison, reducing their ability to fight back effectively. However, it's by no means a one-trick pony - access to the powerful Nasty Plot can allow Pecharunt to dish out brutal attacks with its Malignant Chain.
• Super-Empowering: The Loyal Three were once below average Pokémon that desired traits they were lacking; strength for Okidogi, intelligence for Munkidori, and beauty for Fezandipity. Pecharunt granted them their desires by wrapping its toxic chains around them, in exchange for their servitude.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: Its lore video takes this approach to telling its story as it portrays Pecharunt as the hero of its own story and paints its actions through a sympathetic light. Such as portraying its enslavement of the Loyal Three as making them its companions and retainers, and showing its desire to steal Ogerpon and her companion's masks as it trying to please the elderly couple that it already put under mind control and amplified their greed. It even portrays Ogerpon's human companion as featureless except for his Glowing Eyes of Doom that "compelled" Fezandipiti and Okidogi to fight back, while also portraying Ogerpon herself in a more brutal light at the end of the video as she attacks Pecharunt in a rage.
• Taking You with Me: Pecharunt naturally learns Destiny Bond, which lets it KO a Pokémon that manages to defeat it, and Memento, which lets it faint itself in exchange for harshly debuffing the enemy.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Pecharunt makes poisonous mochi that it serves to people and Pokémon. When eaten, it puts the consumer under Pecharunt's control.
• Tastes Like Friendship: A twisted example. It reinforced the love it gained from the elderly couple and secured the companionship of the Loyal Three by feeding them its poisoned mochi that brought them under its thrall.
• Token Evil Teammate: To an even greater extent than the Loyal Three, as it's evil somewhat of its own accord, the creator and master of the aforementioned trio, and is the primary threat of the DLC it debuts in. It's also one of the few Pokémon capable of outright controlling humans and orders them to attack the player and Kieran.
• True Final Boss: The final boss of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC, and by extension, the whole of Scarlet and Violet. It's even made perfectly clear that the story it's featured in is the epilogue of the DLC storylines.
• Uniqueness Decay: Dethroned the Gastly line as the only Ghost/Poison types in existence (albeit with reversed primary and secondary typing).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Played with, while the old couple did send Pecharunt on the mission to steal the masks, it was only because they were influenced by Pecharunt's mochi which enslaved them to its will and drew out their greed. Pecharunt itself could be seen as this, due to the aforementioned mochi corrupting the couple and resulting in the fateful quest that led to Pecharunt losing everything.
• Weak to Magic: Downplayed. Pecharunt's base 88 Special Defense isn't bad, but still pales in comparison to its gargantuan base 160 Defense.
• Would Hurt a Child: Possesses Nemona, Arven, Penny, and Carmine via its mochi in the epilogue (and nearly possesses the player and Kieran), and the four are students. Setting the entire town to attack Kieran and the player certainly counts as well.
• Yandere: An implied platonic example, towards the elderly couple who adopted it. It genuinely loved them and they loved it in turn, but it ended up craving more, which led to it brainwashing them and stoking their greed.

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