Eternatus

Species          Quote “It was inside a meteorite that fell 20,000 years ago. There seems to be a connection between this Pokémon and the Dynamax phenomenon.” — Eternatus' Pokédex entry[src]     C Eternatus   [Edit]   [Talk]

Eternatus <sup>(JPJapanese: ムゲンダイナ

Romaji: Mugendaina)</sup> is a Poison/Dragon Legendary Pokémon introduced in the eighth generation games, Pokémon Sword and Shield.

While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, the player battles a powered-up form known as Eternamax Eternatus in the climax of the game. This form is also briefly seen when it uses its signature move, Eternabeam, but cannot be acquired legitimately in-game.

Physiology and behavior[]

Eternatus is a gigantic, draconic alien Pokémon. Its body has a vaguely draconic shape and a skeletal appearance and is largely dark violet with red highlights. Its main body and tail are long and thin, and resemble a spinal column, and it has four small, thin limbs ending in claws formed from spindly appendages attached at right angles. Its torso is formed from a cage of appendages resembling ribs, and inside is a glowing pink core that serves as Eternatus's energy source, absorbing energy to sustain it. The core can also project its absorbed energy into massive blasts when using Dynamax Cannon, one of its signature moves. Its head is triangular and has a pair of white, eye-like markings in the form of three connected circles, as well as a spindly lower jaw with several diamond-shaped teeth. Over its head is a translucent red film held between five long spikes extending toward its body's rear. It also has a pair of thin tendrils extending from its back, formed from numerous triangular segments. Eternatus's gigantic size makes it the tallest known Pokémon to ever exist.

If Eternatus absorbs a massive amount of energy at once, it will enter its Eternamax form, becoming far larger in size. Eternatus will also briefly enter this form when using its signature move Eternabeam. In this form, Eternatus's shape drastically changes. Its body becomes incredibly long and serpentine with most of its body forming a massive coil. Its entire body glows red in this form, and present at regular intervals across its length are black rings with spikes extending outward. Its back tendrils now curl around its main body. Its energy core rests at the center of the coil inside a cage of violet spikes. Eternatus's head takes on the form of a giant hand, with its fingers covered in black armor with spikes extending from the back of each segment. At the tip of each finger is a glowing pink tongue.

Eternatus serves as the source of the Dynamax and Gigantamax phenomena in Galar due to its power leaking out in the form of Galar Particles following its defeat thousands of years ago by Zacian, Zamazenta and the Ancient Galarian Kings. Pieces of its body imbued with its power rain down throughout Galar in the form of Wishing Pieces and Wishing Stars. When it is awake, Eternatus causes a phenomenon dubbed the Darkest Day, in which the massive quantities of Dynamax energy it unleashes causes Pokémon to Dynamax and rampage uncontrollably. It can also sometimes keep other Pokémon from Dynamaxing in its presence. Despite this connection to the phenomenon, it cannot be Dynamaxed itself, as its Eternamax form replaces that effect.

As seen in the anime, Eternatus can use its energy core to target a Pokémon and force it to Dynamax or Gigantamax. The anime also elaborates upon its ability to block other Pokémon from Dynamaxing, depicting this power as Eternatus absorbing the Galar Particles in the area to make them unavailable for other Pokémon to use. It is also shown to be capable of forcibly reverting other Pokémon that have already Dynamaxed or Gigantamaxed through the same process. As seen in Pokémon Adventures manga, its poison also has the capability of changing someone's behavior, making them violent and selfish, as shown with Henry after he touched some of Eternatus's poison. As later mentioned by Calyrex, both met during the first Darkest Day. In the anime, Chairman Rose coined Eternatus's name, but in the past, it was known as the Darkest Day, as referred by the people of Galar 3000 years ago.

In its Eternamax form, Eternatus's power grows so immense that it causes a great storm of Dynamax energy around it, ripping holes in spacetime in the midst of the storm as it releases a virtually infinite amount of energy. Its tremendous power can even prevent opposing Pokémon from attacking it as it gathers energy. This power can be countered by both Zacian and Zamazenta in their Crowned forms.

Eternatus is an extraterrestrial Pokémon that came to Earth inside a meteor around 20,000 years ago. It's implied by Peonia that Eternatus's asteroid (referred as a Wishing Star) landed at the Crown Tundra, specifically in Slippery Slope, creating a huge cave that'd be, in the future named, the Max Lair.

Appearances[]

Main Pokémon games[]

Eternatus landed in Galar 20,000 years ago and later, 3000 years ago, it awakened and caused havock in Galar, before being stopped by Zacian, Zamazenta and two youths.

Other Pokémon games[]

In the anime[]

Goh caught Eternatus in the anime and it was later given to Leon. After Eternatus senses the intense energy created by Ash Ketchum and Leon's battle and stabilizes Galar particles, it returns to the wild.

Eternatus appeared in a flashback in Pokémon Evolutions, where it was battled against by Victor and Hop during the Darkest Day and subsequently caught by the former.

In the manga[]

Origin[]

Eternatus's extraterrestrial nature and dragon-like appearance may be inspired by Uther Pendragon, King Arthur's father, who acquired his epithet and started using dragons on his standards after witnessing a dragon-shaped comet. In fiction, nuclear radiation is often used as a catalyst for granting superpowers or creating kaiju, most famously Godzilla. Its overall body shape resembles the skeletal remains of a European dragon, with the ribcage shaped like a cannon and the head resembling that of the common nawab or "dragonhead" caterpillar. Its abilities may also draw inspiration from nuclear power and which leaks out in the form of particles and is the source of the Dynamax phenomenon.

Eternamax Eternatus resembles a hand crossed with a serpent. It may be based on the Lernaean Hydra, a multi-headed serpentine monster from Greek mythology, known for its poisonous breath and blood, with Eternatus' "fingers" representing the Hydra's heads. It may also be based on the biblical Seven Headed Dragon that, in the Book of Revelation, throws one-third of all stars down to the Earth and is ultimately banished to Earth with the Nephilim, the Hebrew giants — an event that ultimately leads to the end of time. It may also be inspired by Ananta Shesha, the king of Nagas in Hindu mythology who is usually portrayed as a giant, coiled serpent with a thousand heads capable of spewing venom and fire, though some depictions simplify his appearance down to five heads, again reflected in Eternatus' five "fingers". Shesha bears the deity Vishnu on its coils, similar to how Eternamax Eternatus's core is mounted atop its coiled body.

In-game information[]

Pokédex entries[]

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Game locations[]

Base stats[]

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Form Change[]

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Moveset[]

Main article: Eternatus/moveset

Gallery[]

Renders[]

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Eternamax[]

Renders
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Trivia[]

• Eternatus is the first Poison-type Legendary Pokémon. The next three are the members of the Loyal Three (Okidogi, Munkidori and Fezandipiti).
• Eternatus is currently the largest known Pokémon. However, Wailord is the largest non-Legendary Pokémon.
  • Eternatus is also the heaviest Poison-type and Dragon-type Pokémon, and also the heaviest Pokémon overall introduced in Generation VIII.
• At 1,125, Eternamax Eternatus is the highest base stat total of all Pokémon, but it cannot be obtained legitimately by the player.
  • This also makes it the only Pokémon with a four-digit base stat total.
• Eternatus, Zacian and Zamazenta are the only Pokémon that cannot Dynamax.
  • Despite this, Eternatus is still capable of using Max Moves in its Eternamax form. This makes it the only non-Dynamax Pokémon that can use Max Moves.
• Eternatus and Regigigas have very similar category names in Japanese, with the only difference being in how they're written: Regigigas's category name is in hiragana (きょだいポケモン), while Eternatus's category name is in katakana (キョダイポケモン). In either case, the category name is pronounced the same: Kyodai Pokémon.
• In Pokémon UNITE, if the language is set to Russian, Eternatus is referred to as both Итернатус Iternatus and Этернатус Eternatus, while Pokémon GO and the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online only use the latter spelling.
• Eternatus is the first Legendary Pokémon caught by a main character or Champion in the anime.
• In the anime, Eternatus's voice effect was composed from effects of Gamera and Ebirah.
• Eternatus can be considered a counterpart of Terapagos. Both are Legendary Pokémon that are responsible for the special type of transformation (Dynamax/Gigantamax and Terastal Phenomenon) found within their respective origin regions (Galar and Paldea). They also both have transformations exclusive to them related to these phenomena increasing their stats (Eternatus' Eternamax form and Terapagos' Stellar Form, though the former is unobtainable) and can absorb the energy needed to use these transformations from other Pokémon, thereby rendering them unavailable.