Introduction:
The Gaming News Guy: Oh boy, we are getting Game Theory up in here and unlike Game Theory let’s talk about something that actually has some substance to it. When the impeding release of Sun and Moon and due to it being leaked - people are discussing plot spoilers relating to the game so i have decided to talk about one of the darker and more interesting aspects of the recent Pokemon games - The Pokemon Multiverse. This is something that has been hinting it since Diamond and Pearl but ORAS confirmed that there is not just one Pokemon Universe out there but also several. Sun/Moon though gives us the biggest evidence to the Pokemon Multiverse theory. I will also be talking about The Ultra Beasts Themselves as well as The Fallers and a certain dark theory that has come about thanks to hints from the Sun/Moon. Keep in mind there will be huge Sun/Moon Spoilers but for I am The Gaming News Guy and today we will be analyzing the Pokemon Multiverse as well as Ultra Beasts and theories regarding them on G1 Desk of DB.
What is the Multiverse?:
For those who don’t know about Multiverses basically the “Multiverse Theory” states that there are a possibly amount of different universes out there that we have not discovered yet. For example there could be an alternate version of me who is a stripper, or a singer, or the President of the United States. Multiverse Theory goes under the assumption that there is an infinite number of parallel universes out there that could be very different to ours. If you want a really good video explaining the Multiverse then i highly recommend that you watch Imaginary Axis’s guide to the DC Multiverse. Now how does the Multiverse apply to Pokemon you might be asking how does this apply to Pokemon. Well Pokemon actually has a canon multiverse to it.
Evidence to Pokemon Multiverse?
In Pokmeon ORAS,The Delta Episode reveals a considerable amount of information but one of theories that it confirms is the Multiverse. During a scene in ORAS you the player has to stop a asteroid from destroying all life on the planet. In order to prevent such a terrible thing from happening - the Mossdeep Space Centre plan on using Infinity Energy (roll with it) in order to teleport the meteor away so it doesn’t wreck the planet faster then Trump did. However one of the most important characters in Delta Episode - Zinnia disagrees with this plan because of a rather interesting reason. She claims that saving this planet could cause the worst tragedy for another universe”. This is what she says in ORAS:
My people know it. From generation to generation, we pass along the lore about the distortions in the world … And about the existence of another world, which we have long observed to be just like this one and yet not the same…
That’s right. A Hoenn region that’s almost exactly like this one we live in. Filled with Pokémon and people like us. A world where maybe the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, where Mega Evolution is unknown… A world where that war 3,000 years ago…never happened. A world where the ultimate weapon was never even built. And in that Hoenn of that world… What would happen if one day, out of the blue, a meteoroid appeared? What would happen to the people of that world, without the technology to destroy the meteoroid or the power to warp it away?”
She is basically saying that if they teleport the meteor away then it could end up in another universe and wreck that universe as well. As for what universe she is referring to it could be the Gen 3-5 Verse, the Gen 1-2 Verse or a verse that has not been shown in the Pokemon Games.
There is even more evidence in ORAS that hints at it as post Delta Episode you can actually catch up with Team Magma or Aqua and Maxie/Archie. They wonder how things could have happened if it was the opposite way around:
Also in Gen 6 there is a Pokemon by the name of Hoopa who can travel through dimensions..we will get to it later. But the biggest evidence for a Pokemon Multiverse comes from Sun/Moon as turns out that the Ultra Beasts come from a very different dimension from ours are basically are Pokemon. There has been hints as far back as Platinum as technically the Dimensional World where the Giratina resides which is technically a different universe. The final and more conclusive evidence for a Pokemon Multiverse is that in Sun/Moon you can travel from the Sun and Moon Universes in order to get both legendary Pokemon. So now we have proven that a Pokemon Multiverse does indeed exist let’s chart this out based on evidence.
Mapping out the Pokemon Multiverse:
It has never been stated in canon where all the mainline Pokemon games fit in the timeline but there was a twitter comment that may have hinted at what the timeline of the Pokemon Games are:
This is nice and gives us a good starting off point but this is simply one theory - personally the theory i believe is this.
Classic Universe A:
Pokemon Red > Pokemon Crystal (Very likely PK Yellow is non canon)
Classic Universe B
Pokemon Blue > Pokemon Crystal (There is evidence to suggest that Pokemon Crystal are the true canonical versions)
New Verse A:
Pokemon Emerald (likely canonical version) > Pokemon FireRed > Pokemon HeartGold > Pokemon Platinum (Is likely the canonical version) > Pokemon Black > Pokemon Black 2
New Verse B:
Pokemon Emerald > Pokemon LeafGreen > Pokemon SoulSliver > Pokemon Platinum > Pokemon White > Pokemon White 2
Mega Verse
Pokemon Omega Ruby > (Likely the events of Pokemon LG/FR,HG,SS/HG and W,W2/B,B2 took place - not counting DPP since that will get a remake) > X/Y > Sun/Moon
Sun/Moon have hinted that both Sun/Moon are canonical just happening in different universes so it’s easy to assume that this is the case with the other titles except for Emerald and Platinum.Keep in mind this is only for the Mainline Pokemon Games. Who knows where Pokemon Ranger, Collosuem and especially SMD take place but SMD is most likely it’s own universe so..
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Verse
Mystery Dungeon 1 > Mystery Dungeon: Explores of the Sky > Mystery Dungeon: GIT > Super Mystery Dungeon.
But what about the in between - what universes are in between the main universes that we have seen - well there are three distinct universes that we have seen in Pokemon that are shown in main games. One being the Distortion World (Which is the Universe where Giratina lives and likely exists in between the main verses where rules of space and time don’t apply) but the one i want to focus on today is the Ultra Dimension.
Differences in the Verses:
Like in the Multiverse Theory states not all verses are the same and that is certainly true for Pokemon.
Let’s first talk about the Classic Verses - well there is not much difference between Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue so there is nothing really much to talk about.
New Verse - Now we get to the interesting stuff in the New Verse A - first we have Pokemon Emerald (same in New Verse B) but it’s very likely that the events that lead to Dexyos arrival on Earth were very different from how they were in MegaVerse as it’s very likely the Meteor crash landed in the sea and over time created Birth Island, then LeafGreen (besides Pokemon not much difference) then things starting to diverge a bit as 3 years after LeafGreen/ FireRed the events of HeartGold/SoulSilver played out - in HeartGold the MC encountered Ho-Oh via going to the tower while in Soul Silver the MC encountered Lugia. Then we get Pokemon Platinum which like Emerald is likely the canon game for both verses.
The MC encountered Giratina and went through the Distortion World and saved the world from Team Galactic. Then we have 5th Gen which have the biggest differences between both verses - not only is there new areas depending on which version you play but also the plotline changes as N will get the opposite legendary. Now there are 2 main differences between The New Verse and the Megaverse - the first is there are no Fairy Type Pokemon in the New Verse - it’s highly likely they are exclusive to the Megaverse - also there are no Mega Evolutions in the New Verse i we are talking games. It’s likely the events of the past with AZ caused Mega Evolutions to happen. Also events from ORAS played out very differently from Pokemon Emerald sense of course - different verses, different plots.
As for the Megaverse well first in the timeline is ORAS considering the Battle Frontier hasn’t been build yet as well as the Royal Mansion - as for how long ago ORAS takes place when compared to X/Y and Sun/Moon who knows. Next we likely have X/Y before Sun/Moon though not too many years. Then finally with have Sun/Moon which is the most recent game as well as the most recent one in the timeline. It’s still likely the events of 1st Gen,2nd Gen,4th Gen and 5th Gen still happened but most likely altered like what happened with ORAS.
And this is not even going into the sub verses. Still it’s certainly interesting how different the verses are between each other both in plotline and mechanics.
Ultra Dimension:
The Ultra Dimension is the home of the Ultra Beasts and one of the main plot points of Sun/Moon.The Aether Corporation was researching this new dimension until a scientist named Mohn was researching Ultra Wormholes tragically got sucked up by the wormholes - the only thing he left behind were his research notes and Cosmog. This has been stated by Gladeon who is Moh’s son as well as multiple Aether Research Employees:
“Gladion on his father's discovery: It was my father who started it. He was the one who first confirmed the existence of Ultra Wormholes and Ultra Beasts. But my father... He disappeared during an experiment. Trying to connect to an Ultra Wormhole. All that he left behind was a weakened Cosmog and his papers about Nihilego... Lusamine’s obsession with Ultra Wormholes... and her obsession with the Ultra Beasts... I think it was all basically her way of trying to reach him again. That’s what I had to believe. To get through it
Aether member respond on wormhole:”Th-th-that hole... Is that the Ultra Wormhole that Professor Mohn discovered?!”
Aether report:”Ultra Wormholes - Beyond the Ultra Wormholes that Professor Mohn discovered lies a different dimension.”
Prof Burnet quote:”There was a man named Mohn, who years ago published his theory about the Ultra Wormholes.”
Turns out that Mohn wasn’t quite dead yet and appeared in one of the new brand new features of the game Pokemon Plageo though he appears to have very little memory of what happened - He is known as a Faller (which we will get into later)
The Ultra Dimension not only connects to the Ultra World but allows people to travel to different dimensions either by choice or willingly - these people are known as Fallers.
Fallers:
The Fallers are defined as people who have successfully travelled from one dimension to another dimension and currently there are 2 very likely candidates for Fallers (one being Mohn) and one that had been confirmed to be a Faller.
The candidate that has been confirmed to be a Faller is a Annabelle
For those who don’t know Annabelle was one of the Frontier Brains in Pokemon Emerald - what happened was that she got sucked into a wormhole created by the Ultra Beasts and landed in the MegaVerse with no memories besides her name - she would later become a Ultra Beast Investigator and with the help of another potential candidate for a Fallen is studying the UB.
That other candidate being Looker:
Who based on what he says in ORAS is very likely to be a Faller since he woke up in ORAS with little/no memories and with Annabelle he is helping with studying Ultra Beasts.
What about other Fallers you may ask - well it has never been stated if the returning characters (Colress,Red,Green,Wally,Cynthia,Grimsley) are Fallers but i doubt it mainly because unlike Looker and Annabelle there is no evidence to support this theory.
The Fallers (people who have travelled to a different dimension) are also being targeting by the Ultra Beasts who are unsettling to say the least.Oh boy i have wanted to talk about this suckers for ages.
Ultra Beasts - What are they?
Ultra Beasts are basically Pokemon from another world (The Ultra Dimension) but they are very different from usual Pokemon - for example if you try to throw a regular Poke Ball at one, the ball will have a difficult time recognizing the creature as a Pokemon so you can’t catch with normal balls.
But there are Beast Balls, which the Aether Foundation developed. They can capture Ultra Beasts but they are extremely rare.
The UBs surround themselves with an aura called the Beast Boost which is actually energy that flows within the Ultra Wormhole. When the UBs pass through the Ultra Wormhole, they are bathed in a great deal of this energy.
As for their goal - well first of all they are going after Fallers - those who have travelled to another universe like Annabelle and Looker - it’s likely that the Ultra Beasts are responsible for the creation of Fallers since when they go to another dimension they create wormhalls.
But one type of Ultra Beast had a much more sinister plan in mind.
UB01 Code name: "Symbiote ". Properly known as Nihilego would encounter a grieving scientist who desperately tried to use the research notes left by her husband Mohn in order to find a way to save him. She was so driven by her need to get her husband back she abandoned her son named Gladeon and her daughter named Lillie but one day the wormholes opened up and out came Nihilego. Fascinated by the creature and Ultra Beasts in general - this scientist already bad mental state after losing her husband got worse due to Nihilgo’s ability. It’s main ability parasitic capability though in nature it’s more of a symbiote. When Nihilego latches on to a host, it does not manipulate its actions directly.
Rather it awakens the host's own capabilities and boosts them to an extreme extent in order to protect itself. It injects the host with a sort of neurotoxin to achieve this effect. This neurotoxin of Nihilego's is incredibly stimulating and inspires feelings of extreme excitement and a lack of inhibition in its host. In other words, anything or anyone that a Nihilego latches on to will have its native skills forcibly activated to their fullest extent and will then act as it naturally desires to. It’s Type is Rock/Poison and i have conclusion - it’s the Drug Pokemon i mean come on it inspires feelings of mass excitement, injects a dangerous substance into a person and is controlling/manipulative.
In all seriousness Nihilego’s powers did not bode well for this female scientist and eventually it would become so bad that this scientist was driven to almost madness - believing that Ultra Beasts and Pokemon were the only true beauty and decided to freeze Pokemon in cryo just because she believed that was more beautiful and hatched a plan to use Cosmog (who is a UB) in order to create a world where she and the Ultra Beasts could live in peace - this female scientist is known as Lusamine
Lusamine and Nihilgeo worked together in order to achieve their goals but it’s likely Nihilego was just using Lusamine to further Ultra Beasts true goal - which is conquering other dimensions and killing any beings that have travelled through dimensions which is why they go after Fallers. The final noteworthy thing about Nihilgeo is that it’s the only Pokemon outside of manga that can actually fuse with a human as Lusamine decides to fuse and becomes
Well that’s certainly creative - she basically becomes an eldritch abomination with one of the most difficult villain fights in the series because all of her Pokemon are Totem Pokemon. Eventually she is defeat and with the Legendary Pokemon’s help she is reverted back to human form and Nihilgeo flies off. Though sadly her is suffering from illness thanks to the effects of Nihilgeo. Now since we have talked about the most important Ultra Beast here are some info on the others:
UB-02. Code name: "Absorption". Properly known as Buzzwole. This UB was sighted for the first time following the incidents at Aether Foundation. Its most distinctive feature is its skill to strengthen itself. Buzzwole is able to absorb energy and then achieve a chemical reaction between the energy it has absorbed and its own body fluids. As a result, Buzzwole's body swells to an almost explosive extent. Its muscles bulge and are so thick and dense that they are stronger even than steel. Both its Attack and Defense experience a clear leap in power. It also displays a habit of striking a pose each time that it takes any sort of action... It is thought this might serve as a method of communication, but it is not well understood.
UB-02. Code name: "Beauty". Properly known as Pheromosa. This UB was sighted for the first time following the incidents at Aether Foundation. This UB can reach speeds exceeding 120 mph in just an instant. This speed is greater than any other living creature that has been discovered to date. But its most distinctive features may in fact be its beauty and its powerful pheromones. Most any creature that squares off against a Pheromosa becomes confused, as if struck by the beast's beauty, and loses the will to fight. It is still a subject of research, but it's thought that Pheromosa may possess some sort of organ able to produce a pheromonal substance previously unknown to science.
UB-03. Code name: "Lighting". Properly known as Xurkitree. This UB was sighted for the first time following the incidents at Aether Foundation. Its most distinctive feature is an organ that can generate power. This UB's bodily makeup is highly reminiscent of electric wiring, thus enabling it to conduct electricity with great efficiency. It can discharge as much as a million volts of power at a time. When it begins to run out of power, it stabs its legs and tail into the soil, entering a treelike state as it absorbs electricity from the ground.
UB-04. Code name: "Blade". Properly known as Kartana. This UB was sighted for the first time following the incidents at Aether Foundation. Its most distinctive feature is its thin and razor- sharp body, of which every edge has as cruel a cutting edge as any well-honed blade. The edges on its arms are particularly in a class of their own. Any opponent who tries to attack it will be cut down with a single strike of its blades. Its thin body also allows it to evade attacks by dancing lightly out of the way. This is a very dangerous creature, considering its excellent offensive and defensive capabilities, but due to the nature of its body, it is also highly vulnerable to fire and moisture.
UB-04. Code name: "Blaster". Properly known as Celesteela. This UB was sighted for the first time following the incidents at Aether Foundation. Its most distinctive feature is the energy that it stores within itself, a flammable gas that it can shoot from its two huge arms. This is mostly used to propel itself in flight and for battle, but it is thought to have sufficient power and lift to even fly into space. Its bodily construction closely resembles that of a plant, and it absorbs nutrients from the soil.
UB-05. Code name: "Glutton". Properly known as Guzzlord. This UB has been sighted in the Alola region in the past as well, according to our reports. It seems it was targeted by the International Police in a top-secret mission at that time. Its most distinctive feature is its limitless appetite. It feeds without pause every moment that it is awake. It uses the two large tongues that protrude from its mouth to catch and devour everything in its path, be it organic or inorganic matter. And while it eats such an inordinate amount, Guzzlord excreta has never been discovered. It is thought that it might fully convert the things that it eats into energy for it to use.
So those are the Ultra Beasts - we know what their motive is - conquering other dimensions and creating a dimension for their own as well as killing everyone who has crossed the dimensions but there is something that personally bothers me. If Annabelle comes from the other dimension and wormholes started to appear then wouldn’t that mean that the Ultra Beasts appeared in the Old Verse well.
Theory Time: What Happened to the Old Verse?
Well we know that wormholes starting to appear in the old verse and when wormholes appear Ultra Beasts will appear so the Ultra Beast must have showed up in the old verse at some point. The Ultra Beasts are extremely powerful beings and if there were enough of them (which based on Sun/Moon they are many Ultra Beasts) they could easily conquer the planet but wait you ask what about the legendaries? Wouldn’t they be able to stop the UB. While that is true i have my own theory regarding that
Evidence - Hoopa
For those who don’t know Hoopa is a Pokemon that is able to create portals as well as cross over between dimensions and can create pocket universes. In ORAS thanks to Hoopa you encounter the legendary Pokemon and now i ask one question - where did Hoopa get those legendaries from. It is never explained in ORAS but i have a theory regarding that. I think Hoopa knew that the UB could be a very dangerous threat to the legendaries and hid all the legendaries in their own pocket dimensions which the MC in ORAS would come across. As for what happened to the old verse well simply without the Legendaries to stop the UB and thanks to their unique abilities the old world was thrown into chaos. If you want an adapt comparison i would compare it to the final cutscene in Final Fantasy 14 - basically the world is fucked. This also makes sense if you keep into consideration that the UB are going after people who have crossed over from that world over to the MegaVerse. They want to erase all life from all verses. A couple of Ultra Beasts aren’t too tough but an entire army..well that becomes a problem. This is all theory - nothing has been confirmed but it would be extremely interesting if that was the case.
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