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The fact that Lockstin didn't see a green, buff, giant creature and immediately connect it to the Hulk hurts my soul. I feel like that's clearly Buzzswole's shiny inspiration
Actually lockstin, niheligo looks like lily because in its pokedex entry it says it can change form and it's original form is unknown. So that means niheligo itself mimicked lily to draw in prey by looking like a little girl, that is also why it behaves like one, because it's mimicking lily.
You should do a video on how the ultra beasts look like certain characters from sun and moon (e.g. nihilego is Lillie's hat, pheromosa is Lusamine, xurkitree is Guzma)
Omg during the roach segment, i was flinching and swatting and every spec of dust or cat hair that touched me. 😖 Btw I love that I'm learning about other worldly things than pokemon in your videos.
8:52 what the F dude?! Shiny Buzzwole has one of the BEST shiny colors and not one of the worst. I know that green Shinies are mostly ugly but when the green is done juuuust right, the Shiny could look amazing, like Shiny Registeel and Shiny Latios. Also green Shinies done just right!
Ultra beasts are sub legendaries so not exactly legends but more like mythicals they are their own class of super rare super powerful Pokémon who are sometimes considered legends and sometimes not based on how you view them
0:21 Uhhhh actually no, it wouldn't be an animal. Animal, by definition, is a member of the taxonomic group that is Kingdom Animalia, and all share a specific common ancestor. If we found animal-like life forms on Venus, they wouldn't really be animals (unless they DO have the same ancestor as the rest of the animals on Earth, which would just bring a shitload of questions)
Fun fact: Pheromosa being obsessed with being clean is something cockroaches actually do. They groom themselves if they something they consider dirty, which include humans. They are still covered in germs, though
@@daviddier9865 the thing that really surprised me with that was just how "popular" quirrel was. Like he's a good sweet boy and people love the character and all... But good god man😂
@@darcidious99 the designs are all really sleek and aggressive. R34 artists generally like character asthetics like that. It makes them seem more dominant and powerful, which works for how they usally exaggerate body proportions. It makes more sense than it should do for a game that has practically no s3xuality whatsoever in its subtext.
You are walking on an absolutely giant Xurkitree in that dimension Like, Dynamax doesn't even come close to that size And the ones in the background look like they are even bigger somehow
@@alexandergotze3323 Imagine what a true giant fuckoff Xurkitree could do. Arceus stays in the void between universes for fear of what they have created.
@@Mutantvine it’s fun to think about because they’re invasive species which mean the world they come from they’re fairly average and they’re designed for the world they live in. Buzzwole lives in a world that just give you the impression everyone is jacked. Even the trees a flexing. Xircutree is a plant built to feed of electricity and it makes sense because their world is highly electrically charged.
@@demi-femme4821 I'm now just picturing a giant Xurkitree wiggling around like he normally does, unintentionally crushing buildings while Arceus looks on in horror. Thank you for this gift
I have another thing for Nihilego and Nihilism. The Irukandji Jellyfish has a venomous sting that can cause a sense of dread and doom, simularly to nihilistic mindsets.
@@topazlynx2228 personally I actually loved Sun and Moon. Just wish they cutted down on the dialogue. Though I also think USUM kinda ruined the games' plot by making literally everything revolve around Necrozma and those weird Ultra Space police people, even though they added so much nore in the games. Eh, if you hate them, that's cool. I can get why, not every game is for everyone and all that.
People ask about why Game Freak hasn't done a dolphin Pokemon for a long time (Until Gen 9) but I'm surprised it took until Gen 7 to at least have Pokemon based off a mosquito and cockaroach. I think if we get another roach Pokemon, I think Bug/Steel and Bug/Flying are an obvious choice for types seeing as roaches and fly and withstand radiation unless exposed to the heat of a nuclear blast.
It's also kinda bonkers that GAME FREAK hadn't made a T-rex Pokémon for the longest time until Gen 6, despite Fossil Pokémon being a thing since Gen 1 (17 years prior!) It's also pretty wild that we haven't got an apple Pokémon until Gen 8 with Applin (although it's technically a worm in an apple)
@@ladytyltea4607 actually, they're based on a specific species of fly known as the bee fly. I think we still have yet to see a Pokémon based on the common housefly.
a bit about Lusamine as her obsession wasn't there at first put simply, she first had just an intrest in Ultra Beasts, while her family was far more important to her but after she lost her husband, agreed on the "Anti-UB Fighting life-form" project (aka Type: Null), incountering Nihilego and was poisoned by it, before it could escape the love for her family became less and less, while her intrest to Ultra Beasts, slowly grew into an obsession
A fun fact is that the invasive mosquitos in Hawaii are the major reason the Hawaiian honeycreepers (what Oricorio is based on) are declining. They give them avian malaria, which they cannot handle because they evolved without ever being exposed to it. I love it that Oricorio completely dominates Buzzwole one on one though
When they were first revealed I remember when people (obviously a loud group) were like "they don't even LOOK like Pokémon". And I have some points to bring up, a couple of which contradict each other. 1), we have this "they look fake/stupid" discussion every generation 2), of course they don't (look like Pokemon) because they're from other realities 3) WHAT do you mean they don't look like Pokemon? At least of them ironically do look decently in line with some of the weirder Pokemon as is. 4) It lets things get weirder and be more creative. - We desperately needed Ultra Sun and Moon to be more about exploring the Ultra realities. I think a Legends Arceus styled game like that could be incredible
Ash and solgaleo in the sun/moon anime found a unknown UB that they didn't show in the last episode of that anime. So there is some hope that there are more to be shown. Edit: btw the episode is: "Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!"
@@ThatInsaneTreecko ash mentioned meeting an Ultra Beast he never seen before in "Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!". Also it was never shown on screen. edit: look up unknown ultra beast on bulbapedia if your still curious about it.
I always thought that Buzzwoles Shiny was a reference to the Hulk. Also big, muscluar things tend to be green: You got The Hulk, 40K Orks, Doomguy, DB Broly etc.
Interestingly enough, Buzzwole displays traits of female mosquitoes (only females drink blood, males feed on nectar) and Pheromosa displays traits of male cockroaches (longer wings, or in this case, "hair").
Even tho i always name my buzzwoles as guys ans pheromosa as girls, my boyfriend have the idea to mix them having a "female" buzz and "male phero It was fun we have fun battling and trading in sun/moon Good times i kinda miss those games
2:28 I'm a bit surprised you would say this. Yes kakapo remain endangered but thanks to captive breeding and moving survivors to predator free islands there are more kakapo in the wild now than there have been in over a hundred years.
Oh that's good to hear! I don't remember which documentary I saw that said this, but it was a couple years ago that I watched it. Great to hear they are doing good on the conservation efforts!
So fun fact, cockroaches groom themselves quite a lot, it's how they understand their environment by cleaning themselves with their antenna to both keep themselves clean and sense what kind of environment they are in from the stuff they clean off them. This might also be another inspiration for why Pheramosa hates getting dirty, if it is indeed inspired by a cockroach.
Fun fact about Pheromosa’s connection to cockroaches; despite being associated with filth and trash, cockroaches are actually known to obsessively clean themselves all the time, and can sometimes border on being obsessive over grooming themselves.
i love how the ultra beasts are based on contradictions, well at least some of them. Nihilego is flexible glass, Buzzswole is a strong mosquito, and pheromosa is a beautiful (for some people) cockroach
To this day I'm still waiting for a Mystery Dungeon game (or any other Pokemon only spin-oof) to see how they write the Ultra Beats, are they the villains, a completely alien menace, or just lost creatures. So much potential yet to be used.
MD based around the Ultra Beast would be a good way to expand their lore. The ones we see are the common ones! Basically the starting route PKMN. I doubt we will ever get more lore on them but here's hoping! 😃👍
Kartana and Xurkitree are my favorites. Kartana being a tiny flat piece of origami that can and will merc you, is just so funny to me. And Xurkitree being this wire creature with frayed ends and a light for a head is a fantastic design choice (the fact that it learns power whip is just fantastic tbh)
I love the ultra beast and I love how they are as strong as legendary pokemon but that they are just common Pokemon in their dimension. Which makes me think that the “legendary/mythical” ones would be some sort of eldritch horror with base stats in the thousands similar to gigantamax eternatus. Also think that eternatus is an ultra beast of some kind.
While the Ultra Beasts are certainly strange and alien, they still give off the vibe of being part of Arceus’ domain. Eternatus in its Eternamax form does not. It feels like an outsider to the multiverse. This is sort of fitting if the Four Alchemical Dragons theory turns out to be true: each of the dragons comes from different places (Zygarde from within the natural order, Necrozma as a rebel elsewhere in the multiverse, Eternatus from outside entirely, and we’ll just have to see for the Gen 9/reflective one).
@@thelotusking9901 Lorewise, yeah. Nebby and Necrozma are both UBs and Legendary. But in the game code they are only classified as Legendary and not UBs, prolly to prevent the Beast Balls from effectively becoming Master Balls against them.
I do think Buzzwole's shiny color is a reference to maybe the most swollen up character in the entire DC universe, Bane. In most of the comics, he's addicted to Venom, a drug that enhances his strength and it's most depicted as a bright green fluid, so it would fit
In the prerelease time for Gen7, the similarities between Pheromosa and Lusamine, Lily and Nihilego and Guzma and Xurkitree made me think they were going to do an alien invasion bodysnatcher plot of sorts. Considering most of my nightmares as a kid came from bodysnatcher stories, I was intrigued to say the least.
Yeah, I remember there being a lot of theories about the Aether Foundation all resembling Ultra Beasts before the game’s release. Though I recall people struggling to figure out what member was meant to resemble Buzzwole, and they decided on…Wicke.
Seriously, Wicke!? I'm pretty sure I saw most people assume Buzzwole would be Gladion, only because he had black and red on his sweater and because he was really the only other option left when people were guessing.
I was thinking Professor Kukui for Buzzwole, because he's the one with the biggest muscle focus. But to be honest, beyond the three I mentioned above, the idea fell apart. I mean, I attributed Guzzlord to Hala, just because they're both very rotund... It really doesn't hold up except for the three, but it did make me wonder if they were going there in an early draft.
You couldve also pointed out how UBs also have some contradictions in them Like for Nihilego I think it's supposed to be a solid jellyfish hence the rock type Kartana for example too is a paper origami that actually has strength and can break/slice things with ease
@@Dr.Patient i still dont get why they get hate like that. Ive been a fan since the franchise came to the US and Gen 7 is one of my absolute favorites. Alola is a gorgeous region that really feels lived in, the story is interesting and has some rather dark themes (tho i prefer the originals instead of Ultra's version) the new pokemon are almost all excellent, well-rounded designs...i dont get it
Another thing about UB's being common is that Poipole is actually given out to new trainers like a starter pokemon so It must be somewhat common to do that. But then again you can't find most starter pokemon just out in the wild. So Idk
Am i the only one who loves how he also changed the music to fit the UB? Nihilego starts creepy, Buzzwole with hyped up gym music, Pheromosa with a super model house music
That could be a reason it latches on to people like it did with Lusamine. It's got no identity, so it's taking theirs! I think that's another alien trope, too.
I always liked the idea of the Ultra Beasts having natural predators (Ultra Predators I like to call them). I mean, the Ultra Beasts are common species in their dimension, so it's not entirely impossible to think about.
@@thedragonwarrior5861 I know this is kinda odd, but I can see Guzzlord's predator being something microscopic. Like, a sentient virus of sorts that specifically targets Guzzlord due to how big those fuckers are.
I honestly love all the Ultra Beasts, they’re such interesting designs and can be extremely fun to use with Pheromosa, Stakataka, and Kartana being three of my favorites
Yeah, I had a feeling ever since I saw the TerminalMontage version of Snugooi that Lockstin and Terminal's next battle royale video is on the horizon. Kinda surprised its ultra beasts though since there only about a dozen or so of those
It’s so dumb to me they changed the catch rate of the early ultra beasts. I thought by having an early Pokémon catch rate it was like “Buzzwole is this universe’s Pidgey”
Ultra Beasts are a little sad because it is speculated in games the reason they are attracted to Ultra Wormhole energy is because they want to go back home.
@@ParadoxymoronicIt’s still technically not the same as the Pseudo legendary it’s just a strong Pokémon Pseudo legendary is referred to as Power house Pokémon by the Pokémon company (Terrible name by the way) and Archaludon is not included
They actually were officially equated to legendaries at one point. A few years back during the "Year of Legends" event or whatever it was, the pokemon website had a list of legendary pokemon, and there were the Ultra Beasts
Never knew about the invasive species thing but now that you say that, I can see it for most of them. And Pheramosa may just be my favorite bug type, so it's great to see a video on them.
Buzzwole's shiny reminds me of those squeeze balls that had holes and when you squeezed the inside would pop out. I remember one that was green and black and the inside was bright orange
Pheromosa could also point to an opposite specie called Emerita brasiliensis, commonly called "Tatuí" here (tah-too-EEH), a white crustacean hardly over a couple inches that loves to burrow in the wet part of the beach's sand. They are actualy indicators of a CLEAN beach.
I originally thought that everyone who dressed up like an ultra beast, eventually were revealed to be one as part of the post game. Like lillie was nihalego, lusamine was pheremosa, guzma was xurkitree, etc
The trailers called attention to the humans resembling the UBs. It's like it was intended at some point to be a major reveal that they're related to them in some way!
@@commonviewer2488 i think it was a red herring, like how the demo made Lillie super cagey and mysterious for no reason except to make people suspicious of her
@@mitkitty Lusamine *did* fuse with Nihelego at one point, we just weren't allowed to be the ones to battle the hybrid. Game Freak definitely had the idea, they just didn't act on it.
I love ultra beasts I was waiting so long for you to cover them. I'd be a bit interested if you also mentioned their unique universes they come from Also shout out to the amazing pokemon go ultra beasts trailer. Making a sort of found footage little horror pov thing I highly recommend.
I want to see an edit of the star wars series where it replaces the word force with swag. The prophecy speaks of one born to bring balance to the swag. He will be swag sensitive and born of pure swag. Search your feelings you know this to be facts.
Pheromosa is one of the most brilliantly designed Ultra Beasts, I love the detail about its reluctance towards touching anything. It views our world as dirty and unclean, the same way we humans view cockroaches.
I think the reason why shiny buzzwole is green, is a reference to Kamen rider Ichigo, who was green with red eyes, similar to buzzwole's bulging red muscles
One thing about Nihilego that may be a stretch, is that it may be also referencing the trope of silicon based life? It and Stakataka are both Rock type Ultra Beasts. Altho Stakataka may fit that bill more.
fun fact: real life roaches groom themselves constantly, despite their reputation for being filthy because they live in dirty environments. this could have to do with pheromosa’s avoidance of touching things
9:36... Hmm, pheremosa is skinny hipped/thoraxed, the final segment isn't fused, with bigger "wings" and definitely no ootheca. Butch Mosquito, Femboy cockroach?
So I like to name my Pokemon off of some of my characters (I'm an author/writer), and, funny enough, I actually named my Buzzwole after a female character and my Pheromosa after a male character.
I think nihilego would win because it could easily just take over the minds of some of the ultra beasts to make them serve it, maybe by the end of the battle it could fuse with pheromosa like with lusamine for more power, I mean in the anime it was shown how powerful it was by it self creating massive amounts of poison and thick hard alien walls.
I'm surprised you overlooked Nihilego being rock cause it's a silicon-based lifeform, the second-most possible element for life to be based on, and Buzzwole's shiny possibly being an Incredible Hulk reference, THE big strong hero like how Buzzwole is THE big strong Pokemon
From what I remember, Sun and Moon had their plots and settings totally rewritten during the middle of production (the originally had a standard Gym challenge for example). However despite the rewrite, GsmeFreak couldn't make any new 3D assets as those were handled by a different company (Creatures Inc. maybe?) so they had to handle the redesign using what they had on hand. This could potentially explain a lot of details, from why certain NPCs strongly resemble a few Ultra Beasts to why a few very distinct looking NPCs barely show up in the game at all (like the Flying and Dragon specialists)
GF should make a Legends Necrozma game set in Ultra Space where you work in the Ultra Recon Squad where you have to travel between different dimensions in Ultra Space chasing Necrozma around to stop it from absorbing the light from different dimensions. Ultra Beasts would be normal pokémon everywhere, with a pokédex full of them, maybe with ultra beast version of pokémon we've already seen. The game would end with Necrozma getting to Alola in the main pokémon universe during the events of USUM, and you have to work with Elio and Solgaleo/Lunala in order to stop Necrozma, as the events of USUM play out.
This is a guess but Buzzwole's shiny is based on the comic book supervillain, Bane from "Batman" and the chemical he uses is green. And Buzzwole becomes stronger when consuming the energy from pokemon.
I love buzzwole, they turned something thought as gross and disgusting, mixed it with something thought as beautiful (bodybuilders) and we got a twisted masterpiece of a Pokémon
An animal like thing found on another planet would only be an animal if it happened to be genetically related to Terran animals. If not, we would have to create a new word/category.
A while ago I came across a guys' video about how the ultra-beasts might have basis on the 7 deadly sins. The ones you speak about in this video as an example: Nihilego is Greed, Buzzwole is Pride and Pheramosa is Lust.
@@elemomnialpha It having parasitic attributes it does whatever it takes to get the intelligence of whoever or whatever it latches onto. Also Stakataka is who I personally put as Sloth.
It falls flat when you realize there are actually 11 UBs Plus the 7 deadly sins are such a generic, ambiguous, and stretchable set of qualities that they can be applied to almost any group of 7 beings
@@jvbon646 Fair. I mean the video I'm referencing focused only on the first 7 Ultra Beasts revealed years ago when Sun & Moon first came out. Even he admitted some of them were a stretch.
Imagine if the next "Pokemon Legends" game takes place in ultra space. Instead of joining the galaxy corps, you're joining the Ultra Recon Squad to study different ultra beasts, and maybe even fight more monstrous ones, like guzzlord. The final boss could be Necrozma. You could explore different worlds, studying dozens of different species of ultra beasts. Poipole could be a starter.
0:18 Actually, no because that's not how biological taxonomy works. If we found an animal-like lifeform on Venus, it would have an entirely different classification from Animalia (animals). Unless panspermia was discovered to actually be real, Venus would get its own tree of life separate from Earth's. We might call it a "Venusian animal" in common parlance, but it would be inaccurate and only useful as a layperson shorthand.
Here’s an interesting thing that I realized when you brought up the moon jellyfish; see, when I was a kid, my family and I would go to Virginia Beach for vacation every year. Now I don’t remember exactly how old I was when this happened, or if it was even the first instance, but it was definitely elementary school age, 8-11, that range. And I remember going out to the shore and seeing a sea of jellyfish corpses washed up on the shore. I remember poking them and squishing them, separating them into chunks, despite having no idea what they were. Of course one of my parents explained to me that they were dead jellyfish, I don’t remember having any sort of extreme reaction to that. When I saw the moon jellyfish in the video I recognized the four circles on top of the jellyfish, orb, thing, because the jellyfish corpses on the beach had the same pattern. And I immediately went “THAT’S WHAT SPECIES THEY WERE?!” And my suspicions were pretty much confirmed when you said that they were basically everywhere. As for how they all died, I don’t know, it was cloudy that day and the water was cold, but I don’t think jellyfish are that fragile. If there’s any marine biologists reading this, do you have possible explanations on what could have happened? I remember the jellyfish corpse field thing happening at least once, perhaps more, Also, to save you the trouble of having to scroll back up scene of incident is Virginia Beach, summertime.
Also I thought nihiligo’s rock/poison typing was just gamefreak taking a chance to assign an unused typing to a pokemon and to use a nonsensical typing make nihiligo seem more alien.
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The fact that Lockstin didn't see a green, buff, giant creature and immediately connect it to the Hulk hurts my soul. I feel like that's clearly Buzzswole's shiny inspiration
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2:35, i don't think this was intentional...
@@beanslinger2 I saw that to
That was definitely foreshadowing
I would love a spin off Pokemon game set in Ultra Space where the Ultra Beasts are treated like normal Pokemon, complete with a full Ultra Dex.
I'd imagine that they'd also have absurd base stats, like, enough that they'd be banned from Natdex Ubers on Showdown.
@@LitPinata When everything in the game is overpowered, nothing is
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Personally, I do not see a *real* reason why we cannot. I mean, why would those be all the species?
honestly who wouldn't?
there might even be a fangame with this concept out there
Actually lockstin, niheligo looks like lily because in its pokedex entry it says it can change form and it's original form is unknown. So that means niheligo itself mimicked lily to draw in prey by looking like a little girl, that is also why it behaves like one, because it's mimicking lily.
It's form changing ability is also seen when it takes over lusamine as it doesn't even look like a nihilego anymore.
You should do a video on how the ultra beasts look like certain characters from sun and moon (e.g. nihilego is Lillie's hat, pheromosa is Lusamine, xurkitree is Guzma)
Omg during the roach segment, i was flinching and swatting and every spec of dust or cat hair that touched me. 😖
Btw I love that I'm learning about other worldly things than pokemon in your videos.
10:38 I can't believe I lost it over the KOF 95 China team stage in the background
2:26 Makes me rethink all those Pokemon I scorched with my litten...
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8:52 what the F dude?! Shiny Buzzwole has one of the BEST shiny colors and not one of the worst. I know that green Shinies are mostly ugly but when the green is done juuuust right, the Shiny could look amazing, like Shiny Registeel and Shiny Latios. Also green Shinies done just right!
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Ultra beasts are sub legendaries so not exactly legends but more like mythicals they are their own class of super rare super powerful Pokémon who are sometimes considered legends and sometimes not based on how you view them
you'll find that pun one day i believe in you
0:21 Uhhhh actually no, it wouldn't be an animal.
Animal, by definition, is a member of the taxonomic group that is Kingdom Animalia, and all share a specific common ancestor.
If we found animal-like life forms on Venus, they wouldn't really be animals (unless they DO have the same ancestor as the rest of the animals on Earth, which would just bring a shitload of questions)
For a while I thought pheromosa was a silverfish...
Fun fact: Pheromosa being obsessed with being clean is something cockroaches actually do. They groom themselves if they something they consider dirty, which include humans. They are still covered in germs, though
With humans though, the oils on our skin prevents them from breathing right.
@@periwinkle6676 Good.
Kudos to lockstin for not putting r34 of pheromosa in the thumbnail. That must of been pretty difficult considering who he is.
Never have i seen people thirst for a bug since hollow knight (there is a ridiculously large amount of r34 of that game).
@@daviddier9865 the thing that really surprised me with that was just how "popular" quirrel was. Like he's a good sweet boy and people love the character and all... But good god man😂
@@darcidious99 the designs are all really sleek and aggressive. R34 artists generally like character asthetics like that. It makes them seem more dominant and powerful, which works for how they usally exaggerate body proportions. It makes more sense than it should do for a game that has practically no s3xuality whatsoever in its subtext.
@@daviddier9865 I found anatomically correct r34 of vespa which was ficking bonkers
@@darcidious99 I think its cause he has a dilf enegy ppl enjoy. That and I've seen people talk about how he had a dad bod
I love how in the Xurkitree dimension you can see giant ones in the background, almost makes ya think if the one you catch is a young one
I also love how it's implied that Buzzwole is the equivalent of a normal mosquito on its world.
Ultraspace was such an awesome feature
You are walking on an absolutely giant Xurkitree in that dimension
Like, Dynamax doesn't even come close to that size
And the ones in the background look like they are even bigger somehow
@@alexandergotze3323 Imagine what a true giant fuckoff Xurkitree could do. Arceus stays in the void between universes for fear of what they have created.
@@Mutantvine it’s fun to think about because they’re invasive species which mean the world they come from they’re fairly average and they’re designed for the world they live in. Buzzwole lives in a world that just give you the impression everyone is jacked. Even the trees a flexing. Xircutree is a plant built to feed of electricity and it makes sense because their world is highly electrically charged.
@@demi-femme4821 I'm now just picturing a giant Xurkitree wiggling around like he normally does, unintentionally crushing buildings while Arceus looks on in horror.
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I have another thing for Nihilego and Nihilism.
The Irukandji Jellyfish has a venomous sting that can cause a sense of dread and doom, simularly to nihilistic mindsets.
Huh. Didn't know that.
I still hate Sun/Moon though, and the Ultra Beasts are the ONLY thing I do like from all the games.
@@topazlynx2228 personally I actually loved Sun and Moon. Just wish they cutted down on the dialogue.
Though I also think USUM kinda ruined the games' plot by making literally everything revolve around Necrozma and those weird Ultra Space police people, even though they added so much nore in the games.
Eh, if you hate them, that's cool. I can get why, not every game is for everyone and all that.
@@sygiliph2495 While I never said I hated Sun/Moon, though I kinda do... I do really like the Ultra Beasts, specifically Buzzwole.
@@topazlynx2228 like I said, that's cool.
Plus, I agree, Buzzwole is amazing.
@@topazlynx2228 uh you did say that
The Ultra Beasts have so much personality injected into them.
Especially Xurkitree. I love him sooo much. He's adorable.
@@thebasicgamer4716 he wiggles :)
Meanwhile, Nihilego injects _you_ with "much personality".
buzzwole gonna be Johnny bravo
I love all of them so much.
People ask about why Game Freak hasn't done a dolphin Pokemon for a long time (Until Gen 9) but I'm surprised it took until Gen 7 to at least have Pokemon based off a mosquito and cockaroach. I think if we get another roach Pokemon, I think Bug/Steel and Bug/Flying are an obvious choice for types seeing as roaches and fly and withstand radiation unless exposed to the heat of a nuclear blast.
I know, right? Not having a dipteran until Gen 7 is still kinda nuts!
The wait paid off though, 100%. Ripped.
It's also kinda bonkers that GAME FREAK hadn't made a T-rex Pokémon for the longest time until Gen 6, despite Fossil Pokémon being a thing since Gen 1 (17 years prior!) It's also pretty wild that we haven't got an apple Pokémon until Gen 8 with Applin (although it's technically a worm in an apple)
Cutiefly and Ribombee are also the only two Pokémon based on a fly and guess what ? They're from Alola too although flies are everywhere !
@@ladytyltea4607 actually, they're based on a specific species of fly known as the bee fly. I think we still have yet to see a Pokémon based on the common housefly.
@@ArendAlphaEagleTyranitar weeps in the corner
a bit about Lusamine
as her obsession wasn't there at first
put simply, she first had just an intrest in Ultra Beasts, while her family was far more important to her
but after she lost her husband, agreed on the "Anti-UB Fighting life-form" project (aka Type: Null), incountering Nihilego and was poisoned by it, before it could escape
the love for her family became less and less, while her intrest to Ultra Beasts, slowly grew into an obsession
Anime Lusamine is probably what the personality of pre-UB incident Lusamine was like in the games
Nihilego toxins are one hell of a drug
@@alexandergotze3323 correct
@@alexandergotze3323 headcanon
@@tysondennis1016 not a headcanon, it is a theory, learn the difference
@@alexandergotze3323 I think it became their headcanon.
A fun fact is that the invasive mosquitos in Hawaii are the major reason the Hawaiian honeycreepers (what Oricorio is based on) are declining. They give them avian malaria, which they cannot handle because they evolved without ever being exposed to it. I love it that Oricorio completely dominates Buzzwole one on one though
*_REVENGE_*
Pokémon gave them their arc of revenge
@@finnrogue9435 let's hope they get it irl too
I love Ultra Beasts, and while it seems unlikely, I wouldn't mind if new ones returned in future generations.
When they were first revealed I remember when people (obviously a loud group) were like "they don't even LOOK like Pokémon".
And I have some points to bring up, a couple of which contradict each other.
1), we have this "they look fake/stupid" discussion every generation
2), of course they don't (look like Pokemon) because they're from other realities
3) WHAT do you mean they don't look like Pokemon? At least of them ironically do look decently in line with some of the weirder Pokemon as is.
4) It lets things get weirder and be more creative.
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We desperately needed Ultra Sun and Moon to be more about exploring the Ultra realities. I think a Legends Arceus styled game like that could be incredible
Ash and solgaleo in the sun/moon anime found a unknown UB that they didn't show in the last episode of that anime. So there is some hope that there are more to be shown.
Edit: btw the episode is: "Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!"
@@Runedrace are you sure I don’t remember that happening
@@ThatInsaneTreecko ash mentioned meeting an Ultra Beast he never seen before in "Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!". Also it was never shown on screen.
edit: look up unknown ultra beast on bulbapedia if your still curious about it.
@@Runedrace Oooh I didn't know this! That's great!!
I always thought that Buzzwoles Shiny was a reference to the Hulk. Also big, muscluar things tend to be green: You got The Hulk, 40K Orks, Doomguy, DB Broly etc.
also, some energy drinks are advertised to be some kind of green alien technology.
monster energy and mountain dew come to mind
What if instead of Broly it's a reference to first form cell since he's a giant bug man that sucks the energy out of people to get stronger
Makes total sence
i thought it was referencing the diseases that mosquitoes can carry because in my mind i link diseases with toxic waste (neon green)
I think it's a Kamen Rider reference. I mean, look at the picture shown at 7:16 . Then look at Shiny Buzzwole at 8:59 . They look similar to me!
I wish they would have explored more the ultra beast concept. I would have love to see what other creatures exist on the ultra beasts's home worlds.
Interestingly enough, Buzzwole displays traits of female mosquitoes (only females drink blood, males feed on nectar) and Pheromosa displays traits of male cockroaches (longer wings, or in this case, "hair").
Even tho i always name my buzzwoles as guys ans pheromosa as girls, my boyfriend have the idea to mix them having a "female" buzz and "male phero
It was fun we have fun battling and trading in sun/moon
Good times i kinda miss those games
transgender pokémon real????
transgender straight couple! they were straight, but now, they're straight in a different way!
@@namkwalno they’re just from another dimension where rules are reversed
@@Paradoxe_0 ok but its funni
this might be the only channel who does justice to all the effort Game Freak puts in for these designs and concepts. I'm always glad for having you
2:28 I'm a bit surprised you would say this. Yes kakapo remain endangered but thanks to captive breeding and moving survivors to predator free islands there are more kakapo in the wild now than there have been in over a hundred years.
Oh that's good to hear! I don't remember which documentary I saw that said this, but it was a couple years ago that I watched it. Great to hear they are doing good on the conservation efforts!
Yay!
To be clear, there's still only a few hundred Kakapo in existence, but given there were once only a few dozen it's a big improvement.
So fun fact, cockroaches groom themselves quite a lot, it's how they understand their environment by cleaning themselves with their antenna to both keep themselves clean and sense what kind of environment they are in from the stuff they clean off them. This might also be another inspiration for why Pheramosa hates getting dirty, if it is indeed inspired by a cockroach.
Fun fact about Pheromosa’s connection to cockroaches; despite being associated with filth and trash, cockroaches are actually known to obsessively clean themselves all the time, and can sometimes border on being obsessive over grooming themselves.
i love how the ultra beasts are based on contradictions, well at least some of them. Nihilego is flexible glass, Buzzswole is a strong mosquito, and pheromosa is a beautiful (for some people) cockroach
To this day I'm still waiting for a Mystery Dungeon game (or any other Pokemon only spin-oof) to see how they write the Ultra Beats, are they the villains, a completely alien menace, or just lost creatures. So much potential yet to be used.
MD based around the Ultra Beast would be a good way to expand their lore. The ones we see are the common ones! Basically the starting route PKMN. I doubt we will ever get more lore on them but here's hoping! 😃👍
With the newer generations, it would be cool for mystery dungeon to incorporate UBs, Eternatus, and Paradox mons to their lore
Mystery Dungeon Ultra?
Ultra Beasts are the best things in this entire series, I love that people remember them so fondly!
Also the thumbnail is adorable
Kartana and Xurkitree are my favorites.
Kartana being a tiny flat piece of origami that can and will merc you, is just so funny to me.
And Xurkitree being this wire creature with frayed ends and a light for a head is a fantastic design choice (the fact that it learns power whip is just fantastic tbh)
I love the ultra beast and I love how they are as strong as legendary pokemon but that they are just common Pokemon in their dimension. Which makes me think that the “legendary/mythical” ones would be some sort of eldritch horror with base stats in the thousands similar to gigantamax eternatus. Also think that eternatus is an ultra beast of some kind.
We have already seen a Legendary UB, it's called Necrozma
PS: We have also seen a UB Starter, it's called Poipole
While the Ultra Beasts are certainly strange and alien, they still give off the vibe of being part of Arceus’ domain. Eternatus in its Eternamax form does not. It feels like an outsider to the multiverse. This is sort of fitting if the Four Alchemical Dragons theory turns out to be true: each of the dragons comes from different places (Zygarde from within the natural order, Necrozma as a rebel elsewhere in the multiverse, Eternatus from outside entirely, and we’ll just have to see for the Gen 9/reflective one).
@@Joseph_Drew_III where would the 4 dragon come from?
I’m fairly certain the nebby line are legendary ultra beasts. I might be wrong there though
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Lorewise, yeah. Nebby and Necrozma are both UBs and Legendary.
But in the game code they are only classified as Legendary and not UBs, prolly to prevent the Beast Balls from effectively becoming Master Balls against them.
I do think Buzzwole's shiny color is a reference to maybe the most swollen up character in the entire DC universe, Bane. In most of the comics, he's addicted to Venom, a drug that enhances his strength and it's most depicted as a bright green fluid, so it would fit
In the prerelease time for Gen7, the similarities between Pheromosa and Lusamine, Lily and Nihilego and Guzma and Xurkitree made me think they were going to do an alien invasion bodysnatcher plot of sorts. Considering most of my nightmares as a kid came from bodysnatcher stories, I was intrigued to say the least.
Yeah, I remember there being a lot of theories about the Aether Foundation all resembling Ultra Beasts before the game’s release. Though I recall people struggling to figure out what member was meant to resemble Buzzwole, and they decided on…Wicke.
Seriously, Wicke!? I'm pretty sure I saw most people assume Buzzwole would be Gladion, only because he had black and red on his sweater and because he was really the only other option left when people were guessing.
I was thinking Professor Kukui for Buzzwole, because he's the one with the biggest muscle focus. But to be honest, beyond the three I mentioned above, the idea fell apart. I mean, I attributed Guzzlord to Hala, just because they're both very rotund... It really doesn't hold up except for the three, but it did make me wonder if they were going there in an early draft.
@@justsomejojo I heard somewhere that it might've been a scrapped idea.
That would’ve been cool.
You couldve also pointed out how UBs also have some contradictions in them
Like for Nihilego I think it's supposed to be a solid jellyfish hence the rock type
Kartana for example too is a paper origami that actually has strength and can break/slice things with ease
I Love The Ultra Beasts. Especially Since Gen 7 was the Generation I grew up with.
Stop that your making me feel old and I'm only seventeen. I grew up with gen 5
Hey my first game was gen seven. I’m astonished to find someone else who likes them. I feel they get way more hate than they deserve.
I’m so sorry to hear that but I’m happy for you all the same 😂
@@Dr.Patient i still dont get why they get hate like that. Ive been a fan since the franchise came to the US and Gen 7 is one of my absolute favorites. Alola is a gorgeous region that really feels lived in, the story is interesting and has some rather dark themes (tho i prefer the originals instead of Ultra's version) the new pokemon are almost all excellent, well-rounded designs...i dont get it
Omg same!
Another thing about UB's being common is that Poipole is actually given out to new trainers like a starter pokemon so It must be somewhat common to do that. But then again you can't find most starter pokemon just out in the wild. So Idk
Am i the only one who loves how he also changed the music to fit the UB? Nihilego starts creepy, Buzzwole with hyped up gym music, Pheromosa with a super model house music
I remember that i was so excited when i realised that nihlego's name means no(nihil) self(ego)
That could be a reason it latches on to people like it did with Lusamine. It's got no identity, so it's taking theirs! I think that's another alien trope, too.
I always liked the idea of the Ultra Beasts having natural predators (Ultra Predators I like to call them). I mean, the Ultra Beasts are common species in their dimension, so it's not entirely impossible to think about.
It's entirely possible, after all, as far as we know buzzwole is just a regular mosquito from it's own world
Remids me of that ben10 villan that tranformed into the predators of Ben's aliens
@@PaBlo-jk4hv That would be Khyber's dog.
Oh man, I would be absolutely terrified if something predated *GUZZLORD*
@@thedragonwarrior5861 I know this is kinda odd, but I can see Guzzlord's predator being something microscopic. Like, a sentient virus of sorts that specifically targets Guzzlord due to how big those fuckers are.
Fun fact! Pheremosa’s cleanliness actually reflects real-life roaches, who compulsively clean themselves more than you might think
I honestly love all the Ultra Beasts, they’re such interesting designs and can be extremely fun to use with Pheromosa, Stakataka, and Kartana being three of my favorites
I really love Ultra Beasts. Still need to catch them in Moon myself. ^^;
Yeah, I had a feeling ever since I saw the TerminalMontage version of Snugooi that Lockstin and Terminal's next battle royale video is on the horizon. Kinda surprised its ultra beasts though since there only about a dozen or so of those
Maybe it'll be a swarm since there's no unique instance of them?
I saw just now and wanted to see where anyone said anything about it
I actually really like Shiny Buzzwole, it always reminds me of Mountaindew with the high energy it brings
It’s so dumb to me they changed the catch rate of the early ultra beasts. I thought by having an early Pokémon catch rate it was like “Buzzwole is this universe’s Pidgey”
Ultra Beasts are a little sad because it is speculated in games the reason they are attracted to Ultra Wormhole energy is because they want to go back home.
Since the Ultra Beasts are literally ailens, would be really cool to see some more Ultra Beasts in the future since Ultra Sun and Moon introduced them
Knowing you, you would want an Egyptian feline themed one.
@Marav Reviews he is obsessed with the ankha zone animation. Practically in every comment section that references it. Even his own videos.
0:06 Ah yes, Duraludon, my favorite pseudo-legendary
Should have been one.
@@the_chosen_one5642 Agreed
Then Archaludon arrived - this comment aged well!
@@ParadoxymoronicIt’s still technically not the same as the Pseudo legendary it’s just a strong Pokémon Pseudo legendary is referred to as Power house Pokémon by the Pokémon company (Terrible name by the way) and Archaludon is not included
"Also, who would win in a battle royale? This isn't foreshadowing"
Ah, yes. As subtle as a brick through a window.
They actually were officially equated to legendaries at one point. A few years back during the "Year of Legends" event or whatever it was, the pokemon website had a list of legendary pokemon, and there were the Ultra Beasts
They were also allowed in the sword and shield mythical melee battle event which only allowed legendary and mythical Pokémon.
Also Also, when The Crown Tundra got announced with Dynamax Adventures, the Catch Every Legendary promo image included the Ultra Beasts.
Never knew about the invasive species thing but now that you say that, I can see it for most of them. And Pheramosa may just be my favorite bug type, so it's great to see a video on them.
Buzzwole's shiny reminds me of those squeeze balls that had holes and when you squeezed the inside would pop out. I remember one that was green and black and the inside was bright orange
Orbeez or smth yeah
Ultra Beasts are the coolest thing ever. I still can't get over the fact they actually included them. Interdimensional aliens are where I'm at!
Pheromosa could also point to an opposite specie called Emerita brasiliensis, commonly called "Tatuí" here (tah-too-EEH), a white crustacean hardly over a couple inches that loves to burrow in the wet part of the beach's sand. They are actualy indicators of a CLEAN beach.
I originally thought that everyone who dressed up like an ultra beast, eventually were revealed to be one as part of the post game. Like lillie was nihalego, lusamine was pheremosa, guzma was xurkitree, etc
The trailers called attention to the humans resembling the UBs. It's like it was intended at some point to be a major reveal that they're related to them in some way!
@@commonviewer2488 i think it was a red herring, like how the demo made Lillie super cagey and mysterious for no reason except to make people suspicious of her
@@mitkitty Lusamine *did* fuse with Nihelego at one point, we just weren't allowed to be the ones to battle the hybrid. Game Freak definitely had the idea, they just didn't act on it.
Man, Ultra Beasts are so cool and interesting.
Here's to getting a couple more maybe not in Scarlet and Violet but in another spinoff
I was thinking Buzzwole's shiny colours are to make it look even more like a Kamen Rider - particularly the one you showed when mentoning them.
Yes! I was thinking that too!
I love ultra beasts I was waiting so long for you to cover them. I'd be a bit interested if you also mentioned their unique universes they come from
Also shout out to the amazing pokemon go ultra beasts trailer. Making a sort of found footage little horror pov thing I highly recommend.
I want to see an edit of the star wars series where it replaces the word force with swag.
The prophecy speaks of one born to bring balance to the swag. He will be swag sensitive and born of pure swag. Search your feelings you know this to be facts.
Fun fact: All mythical Pokémon are legendaries but not all legendaries are mythical.
No, they are distinct categories. Like, it doesn't really matter, but this is not a rectangle vs square situation.
Never realized the UB's were inspired by invasive species, they just fit smusum so much
Pheromosa is one of the most brilliantly designed Ultra Beasts, I love the detail about its reluctance towards touching anything. It views our world as dirty and unclean, the same way we humans view cockroaches.
How'd Lockstin completely overlook Buzzwole's shiny being Hulk?
0:17, actually no, they're not related to the Animalia kingdom at all
I think the reason why shiny buzzwole is green, is a reference to Kamen rider Ichigo, who was green with red eyes, similar to buzzwole's bulging red muscles
One thing about Nihilego that may be a stretch, is that it may be also referencing the trope of silicon based life? It and Stakataka are both Rock type Ultra Beasts. Altho Stakataka may fit that bill more.
fun fact: real life roaches groom themselves constantly, despite their reputation for being filthy because they live in dirty environments. this could have to do with pheromosa’s avoidance of touching things
9:14 The... The Hulk..... It's green because of Hulk....
Well when you put it like that, it makes sense
9:36... Hmm, pheremosa is skinny hipped/thoraxed, the final segment isn't fused, with bigger "wings" and definitely no ootheca.
Butch Mosquito, Femboy cockroach?
Are you saying pheremosa is a femboy?
@@Molo_da_boi I'm saying the biology fits.
This made their designs even better
So I like to name my Pokemon off of some of my characters (I'm an author/writer), and, funny enough, I actually named my Buzzwole after a female character and my Pheromosa after a male character.
Stakataka is underrated
Fight me
On the battle royale, of the 3 Ultra beasts described in this episode, I'd put my money on Pheromosa.
I think nihilego would win because it could easily just take over the minds of some of the ultra beasts to make them serve it, maybe by the end of the battle it could fuse with pheromosa like with lusamine for more power, I mean in the anime it was shown how powerful it was by it self creating massive amounts of poison and thick hard alien walls.
I think pheromosa shouldve been bug/fairy, so it resists draco meteor, the same way the cockroaches survived the meteros that killed the dinosaurs
I'm surprised you overlooked Nihilego being rock cause it's a silicon-based lifeform, the second-most possible element for life to be based on, and Buzzwole's shiny possibly being an Incredible Hulk reference, THE big strong hero like how Buzzwole is THE big strong Pokemon
From what I remember, Sun and Moon had their plots and settings totally rewritten during the middle of production (the originally had a standard Gym challenge for example). However despite the rewrite, GsmeFreak couldn't make any new 3D assets as those were handled by a different company (Creatures Inc. maybe?) so they had to handle the redesign using what they had on hand.
This could potentially explain a lot of details, from why certain NPCs strongly resemble a few Ultra Beasts to why a few very distinct looking NPCs barely show up in the game at all (like the Flying and Dragon specialists)
GF should make a Legends Necrozma game set in Ultra Space where you work in the Ultra Recon Squad where you have to travel between different dimensions in Ultra Space chasing Necrozma around to stop it from absorbing the light from different dimensions. Ultra Beasts would be normal pokémon everywhere, with a pokédex full of them, maybe with ultra beast version of pokémon we've already seen. The game would end with Necrozma getting to Alola in the main pokémon universe during the events of USUM, and you have to work with Elio and Solgaleo/Lunala in order to stop Necrozma, as the events of USUM play out.
This is a guess but Buzzwole's shiny is based on the comic book supervillain, Bane from "Batman" and the chemical he uses is green. And Buzzwole becomes stronger when consuming the energy from pokemon.
I always thought shiny buzzwole was a reference to piccolo since the green and red remind me of his arm bump things
I love buzzwole, they turned something thought as gross and disgusting, mixed it with something thought as beautiful (bodybuilders) and we got a twisted masterpiece of a Pokémon
An animal like thing found on another planet would only be an animal if it happened to be genetically related to Terran animals. If not, we would have to create a new word/category.
Glad to see an ultra beast video considering how interesting their origins are ! Very informative and entertaining
The collor of Buzzswoll shiny maybe has something to do with the Predator thermo vision
Any chance you’ll talk about Ash’s championship win. It’s kinda different than what your Channels about but it’s still pretty cool
A while ago I came across a guys' video about how the ultra-beasts might have basis on the 7 deadly sins. The ones you speak about in this video as an example: Nihilego is Greed, Buzzwole is Pride and Pheramosa is Lust.
Wouldn't Nihilego be Sloth?
@@elemomnialpha It having parasitic attributes it does whatever it takes to get the intelligence of whoever or whatever it latches onto. Also Stakataka is who I personally put as Sloth.
@Marav Reviews
*UB Glutton
It falls flat when you realize there are actually 11 UBs
Plus the 7 deadly sins are such a generic, ambiguous, and stretchable set of qualities that they can be applied to almost any group of 7 beings
@@jvbon646 Fair. I mean the video I'm referencing focused only on the first 7 Ultra Beasts revealed years ago when Sun & Moon first came out. Even he admitted some of them were a stretch.
I would love to see Ultra Beasts used as a regional variant.
What would Ultra Lanturn look like?
Ah, that's going to be an interesting match. If it were to happen of course, an Ultra Beast Battle Royale.
I just realised that Nihilego may be rock type because jellyfishes are closely related to corals, also only other coral pokemon - Corsola is rock type
Its made of glass
Imagine if the next "Pokemon Legends" game takes place in ultra space. Instead of joining the galaxy corps, you're joining the Ultra Recon Squad to study different ultra beasts, and maybe even fight more monstrous ones, like guzzlord. The final boss could be Necrozma. You could explore different worlds, studying dozens of different species of ultra beasts. Poipole could be a starter.
0:18 Actually, no because that's not how biological taxonomy works. If we found an animal-like lifeform on Venus, it would have an entirely different classification from Animalia (animals). Unless panspermia was discovered to actually be real, Venus would get its own tree of life separate from Earth's. We might call it a "Venusian animal" in common parlance, but it would be inaccurate and only useful as a layperson shorthand.
12:42
Needless to say, I'm exited for that.
Here’s an interesting thing that I realized when you brought up the moon jellyfish; see, when I was a kid, my family and I would go to Virginia Beach for vacation every year. Now I don’t remember exactly how old I was when this happened, or if it was even the first instance, but it was definitely elementary school age, 8-11, that range. And I remember going out to the shore and seeing a sea of jellyfish corpses washed up on the shore. I remember poking them and squishing them, separating them into chunks, despite having no idea what they were. Of course one of my parents explained to me that they were dead jellyfish, I don’t remember having any sort of extreme reaction to that.
When I saw the moon jellyfish in the video I recognized the four circles on top of the jellyfish, orb, thing, because the jellyfish corpses on the beach had the same pattern. And I immediately went “THAT’S WHAT SPECIES THEY WERE?!” And my suspicions were pretty much confirmed when you said that they were basically everywhere.
As for how they all died, I don’t know, it was cloudy that day and the water was cold, but I don’t think jellyfish are that fragile.
If there’s any marine biologists reading this, do you have possible explanations on what could have happened?
I remember the jellyfish corpse field thing happening at least once, perhaps more,
Also, to save you the trouble of having to scroll back up scene of incident is Virginia Beach, summertime.
Also I thought nihiligo’s rock/poison typing was just gamefreak taking a chance to assign an unused typing to a pokemon and to use a nonsensical typing make nihiligo seem more alien.