I wouldn’t be the first to note that the shape of Nihilego’s body, with its tentacles hanging down behind it like a cape, is also weirdly reminiscent of Lillie’s first hairstyle (which she promptly changes after the big confrontation with Lusamine and Nihilego in the Aether Paradise).
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And then the Pokédex confidently tells us that “it’s unclear whether or not this Pokémon is sentient, but sometimes it can be observed behaving like a young girl.” We get absolutely no context to what that means (sleepovers, gossiping about cute boys, covering everything in glitter?) but it could plausibly be a reference to the horror movie archetype of the creepily un-child-like little girl. On the other hand, there’s something weirdly angelic about the pure white “wings” of Nihilego’s trailing tentacles and the way it floats, gracefully and elegantly, through the air (bearing in mind also that biblical descriptions of angels are pretty sanity-altering too).
It’s hard not to think of the tentacular monstrosities from the twisted nightmares of the Lovecraft universe that crawl around the ragged edges of our sanity, although they more closely resemble cephalopods than jellyfish. Jellyfish are weird creatures already – utterly different from any land animal, and ludicrously fragile but potentially deadly – and then Sun and Moon present us with a hovering jellyfish creature from outside our universe that enters our world through a mysterious dimensional portal and speaks in strange high-pitched trills. The star patterns added to its transparent, domed ‘head’ might be meant to allude to its ‘cosmic’ origins and the fact that the Ultra Beasts are essentially aliens. Its physical form is clearly inspired by a jellyfish, but we can compare here the existing jellyfish Pokémon, Tentacruel and Jellicent, who have very expressive faces. It doesn’t have any distinct facial features, which is very unusual for Pokémon and is probably meant to make it unsettling, and less relatable. All the Ultra Beasts are, to a greater or lesser extent, but Nihilego plays it up more than most of them. Nihilego’s home world, the mysterious “Ultra Deep Sea.” With the games’ villain, Aether Foundation president Lusamine. Name as meaning “that which annihilates the self,” on the basis of its observedīehaviour during the events of Sun and Moon, and particularly its interactions I wrote up my playthrough journal of Moon version, I interpreted Nihilego’s You may recognise nihil as the core element of the English verb “annihilate”: toĭestroy utterly, to reduce to nothing. Instinctual, lustful id (Freud is famous in psychology today for being largelyīull$#!t, but his ideas are nonetheless hugely influential in pop culture). Psyche that balances the impulses of the logical, moralistic superego and the In Freudian psychoanalysis, where it refers to the moderating aspect of the Has also come into modern English as both a word for pride and a technical term What are they? What exactly is Ultra Space? Why are they such a threat to Alola? Are they really a group at all, or just a random sample of the variety of life that exists in an infinite multiverse? All these questions, and more, will… honestly, let’s face it, probably not be answered here on Pokémaniacal, but we’ll bloody well give it a go – starting with probably the best-known Ultra Beast of all, Nihilego. My aim over the course of those ten articles will be not just to review the Ultra Beasts individually, but also to, hopefully, figure out… well, something about them as a group. There’s ten of these freaky bastards (not counting Lunala, Solgaleo and Necrozma), and they’re each getting their own entry. Yep – we’re figuring out the Ultra Beasts. The stars have aligned, the ritual is complete, the Dark Forces from Parts Unknown have imparted their mystic secrets, the Ultra Wormhole beckons, and the void opens before us, promising nothing at the price of everything. The Alolan archipelago has at last surrendered all (or, well, most) of its secrets – so now the time has finally come for us to leave behind the world we know.
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