Terapagos (Pokémon)

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Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos) is a Legendary Pokémon introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk.
While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, Terapagos has : its Normal Form, its Terastal Form, and a unique Terastallized state referred to as its Stellar Form. When it enters a , it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its Ability, and transforms from its Terastal Form into its Stellar Form upon stallizing.
Terastal Form Terapagos is the game mascot of The Indigo Disk, appearing in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.
Terapagos plays an important role in .
==Biology==
Normal Form Terapagos is a small that resembles an indigo . Its head, legs, and tail stem from a cyan, hexagonal shell with the Terastal symbol on its back: a white hexagon with triangular extensions on each corner that connects it to the edges of its back. Its neck and legs each have a cyan four-pointed star and ring rub on them. Its feet each have three toes, and its tail has a cyan four-pointed star at its tip. It has two light blue eyes with rouge rimming and four-pointed star-shaped pupils. It has a diamond-like pattern on its forehead and two diamonds hanging like earrings on both sides of its head. Lastly, it has a "ponytail" made up of three segments of diamond-like shapes. The segments reduce in size as they get farther from the head and gain a purplish tint to them.
Normal Form Terapagos is said to have a splendid aura. It is a small and particularly weak Pokémon; for that reason, it can assume a dormant state whenever its life is put in danger or it needs to hibernate, pulling its head, limbs, and tail into its shell and shrinking in size, which makes itself look like an ordinary jewel."Introducing a Newly Discovered Pokémon!" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website. It also has the ability to crystallize the energy in its own body to form a green shield around itself if necessary, even in its dormant state. Through this same ability, Terapagos causes glowing, hard crystals to form around it, even in its dormant state, which gave Area Zero its distinctive appearance. As depicted in , like other turtles, Terapagos is unable to move if it is turned upside down, needing outside help to stand back up. It has shown to have an incredibly long lifespan, with one known to have lived for millions of years while slumbering within its shell.
Terapagos is responsible for the Terastal phenomenon. Terapagos inhabited the Paldea region in a bygone era. It was thought that this species went extinct, with it said to have been caught up in seismic shifts that occurred about 2,000,000 years ago. However, managed to survive by crystallizing its own body and going into hibernation in the Area Zero Underdepths, where it laid low until the present day."Scarlet and Violet | Normal Form Terapagos" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website. According to Briar, Terapagos is made of Terastal energy. Heath is the one who discovered Terapagos and coined its name.Heath: "While separated from the research team in the crater's depths, I found a strange...entity. [...] I have tentatively named this creature Terapagos. [...]" (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, in the chapter "A Disk Pokémon?" of the Scarlet Book/Violet Book) With the power of its crystals, Terapagos can .
Terapagos also has the ability to alter timelines in some capacity, as seen in the core series games and . It is capable of bringing humans, certain Pokémon, and objects forward from other points in timeAI Sada/AI Turo: "[...] It sends Poké Balls to a different point on the timeline to catch Pokémon there, and it can then draw them back here to the present." (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet) or from alernate timelines altogether.Professor Sada/Professor Turo: "I am researching methods to catch Pokémon that live in different timelines, so I might transport them to the present day in my own timeline." (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk) While using this ability, a mist appears around the affected area; once it disappears, whatever was brought is sent back. As seen in several Pokémon Horizons episodes, Terapagos also has the ability to create visions of the past through the use of its own memories. Due to the Terastal energy its body produces, Terapagos was responsible for allowing advanced technologies, such as Tera Orbs, the professor's AI duplicate, and the "time machine" to exist in spite of human limitations. Tera Orbs directly exposed to the energy from Terapagos will gain the ability to Terastallize Pokémon without the need to recharge.Briar: "[...] I think it might be because your orbs were directly exposed to the energy from Terapagos. Kieran and Carmine say that ever since the underdepths, they've been able to Terastallize their Pokémon without charging their Tera Orbs." (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk) Terapagos also has a strong connection to the type."Master the Stellar Tera Type—the 19th Tera Type!" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website.
Terapagos is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move . Its Normal Form is also the only known Pokémon that can have as its Ability.
===Forms===
Terapagos has three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form.
		
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;Terastal Form Terapagos
Terapagos in order to crystallize it and clad its body in a larger, sturdier shell. It also causes the rings on its legs to transform into fur, which forms a mane and three tails, thus transforming into its Terastal Form.
Terastal Form Terapagos is a reptilian Pokémon that resembles an indigo . It now has two patches of voluminous, shiny fur: one near its head, vaguely forming a mane, and the other where its star-tipped tail used to be, vaguely forming three separate tails. The color of its fur varies between a greenish yellow and sky blue. In dark places like caves, this fur glows bright blueish-white. Its hind legs are fully covered by the fur, while only the toes of its front legs are visible, barely poking out of the mane. The eyes remain unchanged from the Normal Form's ones, but they are seen gleaming with the same hue as the fur. The diamond-shaped earrings and ponytail seem to have merged with Terapagos's head.
Terapagos's shell is composed of eighteen irregular pentagons on its surface, each decorated with symbols of varying shapes and colors in a way to resemble the eighteen type icons. The symbols morph back and forth to abstract shapes. On the center of its shell is a cyan, hexagonal gem adorned with the Terastal symbol, much like the small crystal shell of Normal Form Terapagos. The sides of its shell also have three obtuse pentagons each on the rim of the shell that are a solid light blue color. Due to its lack of legs, Terapagos needs to float to move around in this form.
Normal Form Terapagos enters its Terastal Form when it is either in danger or about to battle. Its shell is composed of crystallized Terastal energy and holds the power of every type, allowing it to ."Terastal Form Terapagos" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website. The shell then absorbs the move's energy and transfers it back to Terapagos. When using specific beam-like attacks, Terapagos withdraws its hands and head into its shell, shapes its mane in a way it resembles its three tails, and flies up, shooting the attack from the cyan, hexagonal gem in the center of its shell. As seen in HZ082, it can also absorb the energy of crystals in Area Zero to power itself up. In the same episode, it was shown sharing its Terastal energy with other Pokémon, allowing them to Terastallize, but forces Terapagos back to its Normal Form. In this form, it is known as "the Indigo Disk", due to its indigo coloration and disk-shaped shell.
Terastal Form Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have as an Ability.
;Stellar Form Terapagos
When exposed to a Tera Orb, Terapagos will stallize and become , thus transforming into its Stellar Form."Scarlet and Violet Site | Stellar Form Terapagos" Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website. Terapagos can also transform without the need of a Tera Orb (as seen in HZ075).
Stellar Form Terapagos glows and surges with power and is fully coated by aura. All the icons on its shell become cyan, but the rest of its true body is identical to Terastal Form Terapagos and is seen floating above a large, crystal, indigo dome covered in layers of overlapping hexagons. Under the dome, there are four crystals positioned like the legs of a turtle. The gem on the center of Terastal Form's shell has expanded outward into the shape of a crown bejeweled with rhombuses of varying colors. Atop of the crown-like structure lays a miniature version of Normal Form Terapagos and, above it, the Terastal symbol. Eighteen hexagonal gems orbit around Stellar Form Terapagos's dome, each bearing the icons and colors of one of the eighteen types. Terapagos needs to float to move around in this form as well.
This form is said to resemble the world as the ancients saw it, supposedly due to the dome beneath it. Meanwhile, in the Scarlet Book/Violet Book, Heath describes it as an entity, unsure if it is a Pokémon, or even alive to begin with, however, he claims that viewed as a whole, it resembles a mysterious, brilliant disk, and even looks like a planet floating in space. Its Terastal energy becomes so abnormally amplified that it actually appears to lose control and lash out due to its energy output. Due to having so much power, Stellar Form Terapagos may cause cracks around it during its transformation and even risks wreaking havoc to Paldea's ecosystem. While in this form, it was shown to resist going into a Master Ball, destroying it in the process.
Stellar Form Terapagos is capable of absorbing Terastal energy from other Terastallized Pokémon, causing their Terastallized state to be undone earlier than intended, however, it can't do it over and over and it'll eventually fail. It can also create Tera Shields around itself which only broken by Terastallized Pokémon. It can even use the power of the Terastal phenomenon to change its type midbattle. The hidden powers within Stellar Form Terapagos are capable of . It has shown to be capable of shooting huge beams of pure Terastal energy at its foes. When using specific beam-like attacks, Stellar Form Terapagos will use all of its hexagonal gems in a certain formation to shoot the beam from it. In HZ075, Terapagos is capable of passing its energy with other Pokémon, allowing them to do things Terapagos cannot do on its own. This however, will drain away its power, forcing Terapagos into its dormant form, hybernating for 100 years. In this form, it is also known as "a Disk Pokémon", due to its disk-shaped shell, and "the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero", due to its status as the secret treasure that was sought by the Paldean empire. 
Stellar Form Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have as an Ability.
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
*Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: is a major character in The Indigo Disk.
===Pokédex entries===
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Terapagos in the
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
=====Normal Form=====
=====Terastal Form=====
=====Stellar Form=====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Terapagos is available in Version 3.0.0+.
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===Form data===
Outside of , Terapagos is always in its Normal Form. When it enters a battle for the first time, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its signature Ability and will never change back to Normal Form until the battle ends, even if it faints. As a result, its Normal Form cannot legitimately be used in a battle. Terastal Form Terapagos also has Tera Shift replaced by its other signature Ability . If Terapagos stallizes during a battle, it transforms into its Stellar Form, where Tera Shell is replaced by its third signature Ability, . Its signature move also changes from - to and targets both opponents in a Double Battle.
Since the other two forms have higher base HP stat, Terapagos's maximum HP will increase and its current HP will be revised to its new maximum HP minus the amount of HP it had lost before changing form.
Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type changed from at the Treasure Eatery.
===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Pagogo=====
Terapagos in its dormant state debuted in The Pendant That Starts It All (Part One), being used by Liko as a pendant before being properly revealed in its Normal Form in the following episode, right before returning to its dormant state. In Fiery Galarian Moltres, it awakened permanently and is started traveling with the Rising Volt Tacklers. It was revealed to be over 100 years old and that it once travelled alongside its , Rystal, and her friends, Lucius and Gibeon. Terapagos's Terastal Form briefly appeared in Reunion at the Ancient Castle! as a sketch in Lucius's diary before properly appearing in Roar of the Black Rayquaza so it could face Lucius's Rayquaza and save its friends. In HZ075, it was officially caught by Liko, where she adopted the nickname (Japanese: パゴゴ Pagogo) from her great-great grandmother, Rystal. In the same episode, Terapagos's Stellar Form appeared in a flashback.
====Minor appearances====
In HZ071, a Normal Form Terapagos was shown in a flashback narrated by Briar, where she recounted her ancestor Heath's first encounter with the Pokémon in Area Zero.
====Pokédex entries====
==In the manga==
===Pocket Monsters===
Terapagos debuted in HZM02, playing the same role it does in .
===Pocket Monster: Liko's treasure===
Normal Form Terapagos appeared in PMLT02, playing the same role as it does in Pokémon Horizons: The Series.
===Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~===
Terapagos appeared in both chapters of Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~, playing the same role as it does in Pokémon Horizons: The Series.
===Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~===
Terapagos appeared in DVT05, alongside Liko.
==In the TCG==
==Music==
This is a list of music associated with Terapagos in the Pokémon games.
Games	Location 	Song name 	Composition 	Arrangement
 	When Terapagos awakens from its gem 	Terapagos Comes Back to Life 	Toby Fox, Rei Murayama, and Go Ichinose	Hiromitsu Maeba
 	When battling Kieran'sTerapagos in the Underdepths 	Battle! (Terapagos) 	Rei Murayama and Go Ichinose 	Go Ichinose
 	When Briar prompts Kieranto Terastallize Terapagos 	Conditions of the Hidden Treasure 	Toby Fox 	Hiromitsu Maeba
 	When Kieran attempts torecall Terapagos to its Poké Ball	Terapagos Goes Rampage 	Toby Fox, Rei Murayama, and Go Ichinose	Hiromitsu Maeba
 	When battling Stellar Form Terapagos 	Battle! (Terapagos - The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero)	Rei Murayama, Toby Fox, and Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
 	When capturing the Terapagos 	Caught the Terapagos! 	Toby Fox 	Hiromitsu Maeba
==Trivia==
* Before the official reveal of Terapagos, a sketch of its Stellar Form appeared in the Scarlet Book/Violet Book, drawn by Heath in .
* Terapagos has several similarities to . Both are Legendary Pokémon that are responsible for the special type of transformation found within their regions of origin (Dynamax/Gigantamax for Galar and stallization for Paldea, respectively) and have entered a state of dormancy sometime in the distant past. Both of them were also introduced in a game which would receive DLC and whose game mascots comprise a Legendary duo.
** They also share similar traits regarding their forms, as both have an exclusive form that increase their base stats (Eternamax and Stellar Form) and can absorb the energy related to the phenomena (Galar particles and Terastal energy) from other Pokémon, therefore rendering them unavailable, as well as a form that cannot be used by the , but have programmed stats (Eternamax and Normal Form).
* Normal Form Terapagos is tied with and for being the shortest Pokémon.
* Terapagos is the only Pokémon to have three signature Abilities, the most out of any Pokémon.
* Terapagos is the only Pokémon with an EV yield total of more than three, with its Terastal Form having a total of four.
** Terapagos is also the only Pokémon with a different EV yield total between each of its forms, with Normal having one, Terastal having four, and Stellar having three.
* While Terapagos as a species has a 50-50 gender ratio, the only Terapagos encounter is set to always be male. Because of this, a female Terapagos cannot currently be legitimately obtained.
* Terapagos is the only Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that is able to learn moves through TMs, but cannot learn (despite the move using Terastal energy, which Terapagos is responsible for creating).
* Terapagos's cry is almost identical to the sound that is made when a Pokémon Terastallizes.
** The cry also incorporates the leitmotif commonly associated in-game with Area Zero, Terapagos's habitat. It is more easily distinguished when the cry is played at slower speed.
* One of Stellar Form Terapagos's attack animations has it use the 18 hexagonal gems orbiting its dome to form a symbol and shoot the attack from it. This symbol is the very same one featured in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansion's logo.
* During an , Terapagos will transform into its Terastal Form before defeating a wild Pokémon, and then switch back to its Normal Form.
* Despite being the source of the Terastal phenomenon, which contains the power of every type, Terapagos cannot learn any - or moves.
* In the closed captions of the initial TV Tokyo broadcast of HZ023, Terapagos was mistakenly referred to as コダイカメ Kodaikame (from 古代亀 kodaikame, literally "ancient turtle").The closed captions for tonight’s #anipoke episode confirm that the Pokémon inside Liko’s pendant is named Kodaikame (コダイカメ). - @DogasusBackpack on Twitter本日のアニメ『ポケットモンスター』字幕放送にて、ポケモン・テラパゴスの名称を、正式ではない表記をしておりました。正式な表記は「テラパゴス」です。 - @anipoke_PR on Twitter
** This mirrors its internal name from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, where Terapagos is also referred to as "kodaikame".
* Terapagos cannot have its be changed under normal circumstances in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. If the game is modified to force Terapagos to have a different Tera Type, the game will lag significantly while Terastallizing; however, unlike with , the game will not . will also not work if either Terapagos or the Pokémon with said Ability Terastallize.
===Origin===
Terapagos may be based on a , specifically the , a population of green sea turtles found around the . It, especially in its Normal Form, may also be based on the ; in particular, it may be inspired by , the last (a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise), as Terapagos is said to be extinct aside from a lone male survivor.
Terapagos may be inspired by the rainbow-shelled turtle from the Japanese folktale about a fisherman named . In the story, this turtle carries Tarō to the Dragon Palace beneath the sea, a detail that may be reflected by the concept of the mostly underwater Blueberry Academy (the main setting of The Indigo Disk, in which Terapagos was introduced). Additionally, the story ends with the fisherman aging rapidly into an old man with long white hair, similar to how Terapagos changes form when it enters battle.
The Terastal Form's hairy appearance may be a reference to Japanese legends of the , a turtle which lived for 10,000 years and grew a tail made of . Terapagos, especially in its Stellar Form, may also reference the , a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. This connection is furthered by the Stellar Form's Pokédex entries, which state that it resembles "the world as the ancients saw it" and "a planet floating in space". By extension, Terapagos's Stellar Form may be a reference to the expression "", as it has a crystal in the shape of its Normal Form above its shell, and it floats on top of a larger dome shaped like a tortoise shell. The expression "turtles all the way down" refers to the idea that the World Turtle rests on the back of a larger turtle, and that turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, and so on.
The tessellation on Terapagos's shell contains type icons and could be based on the unique pattern on the back of the . Terapagos's crystalline composition may also take inspiration from , marine mollusks with flat disk-shaped bodies and eye-like peripherals composed of rock.
====Name origin====
Terapagos may be a combination of stal, , and galápagos (a Spanish word for turtles, most recognizable because of the ).
==In other languages==
Normal Form
Terastal Form
Stellar Form
==Related articles==
* Terapagos (game)
* The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero
* The Indigo Disk
* Legendary Pokémon
* Terastal phenomenon
* Terastal energy
* List of Pokémon with form differences
* Area Zero
* Scarlet Book
* Violet Book
* Area Zero journals
* Pagogo
* Stellar (type)
* Time travel
* Paradox Pokémon
* Population of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon
==References==
==External links==
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