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** The noise Stakataka makes as it shapeshifts from a castle to its usual form is the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' transformation sound effect.

** Once Stakataka is enraged, it speaks using voice clips of [[Series/DoctorWho Daleks]].

** When Poipole sits on top of Stakataka, the pressing of the latter's BerserkButton is accentuated by the sirens from the ''[[Film/{{Alien}} Nostromo]]''[[Film/{{Alien}} 's self-destruct sequence]].

The battle is preceded by ''WebAnimation/GigantamaxPokemonBattleRoyale''.

* AliensStealCattle: The first thing the extradimensional Nihilego does upon being sent out at a Miltank ranch is to grab one of the Milk Cow Pokemon and carry it away. Lockstin refers to the trope directly during his analysis.

** Pheromosa manages to charm Kartana to its side, and faces off against Guzzlord and Naganadel with it. Unfortunately for Pheromosa, Kartana's only solution to freeing the former from Nagandel's sticky poison is [[AnArmAndALeg to cut off Pheromosa's limbs]], which makes it easy prey for Guzzlord.

** Both Poipole and Stakataka succumb to this thanks to eachother’s actions. Poipole gets crushed by Stakataka following it pestering the creature too much, and Poipole’s adhesive poison ends up sticking to Stakataka, preventing it from moving and thus causing it to get eaten by Guzzlord.

** The teamups of Buzzwole and Pheromosa, as well as Guzzlord and Naganadel, are based on several trading cards depicting both pairs together as TAG TEAM cards.

* NoblewomansLaugh: Stakataka performs one after crushing Poipole inside itself, only to promptly transition into an OhCrap when it discovers it can't rearrage itself and is in the path of Guzzlord's feeding frenzy.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Buzzwole saves Pheremosa from being hijacked by Nihilego when Nihilego attempts to use Pheremosa as a puppet and even tries to reassure Pheremosa with headpats after Nihilego is thrown into the horizon. Unfortunately, Pheremosa really, ''really'' HatesBeingTouched, leading to Buzzwole losing its arms and getting kicked into space as a result.

* OverlyLongGag: An implied variation: when Buzzwole is sent out, it immediately starts flexing while a chant of "BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!" plays. The video focuses on other Ultra Beasts for a couple minutes; when it goes back to Buzzwole, it's still flexing to the beat of the same audio clip.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Stakataka's usually-blue eyes all turn red once it gets angry and starts trying to kill Poipole.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Buzzwole saves Pheremosa from being hijacked by Nihilego when Nihilego attempts to use Pheremosa as a puppet and even tries to reassure Pheremosa with headpats after Nihilego is thrown into the horizon. Unfortunately, Pheremosa really, ''really'' HatesBeingTounched, leading to Buzzwole losing its arms and getting kicked into space as a result.

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Implied in TheStinger for Mawile, Banette and baby Kangashkan. Their attempt to escape the simulator is hampered by the fact they need to navigate through over ''fifty billion'' storage boxes. But if the Sudowoodo's reaction is anything to go by, they don't have any intentions of stopping.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Poipole's and Naganadel's ability to shoot super sticky poison is nowhere near as impressive sounding as the other Ultra Beasts powers, like Guzzlords black hole of a stomach or Kartanas ability to cut anything. As Lockstin's video notes, however, this ability is actually very powerful, as Naganadel can use this, along with its perfect accuracy, to negate many of the Ultra Beasts abilities.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Buzzwole saves Pheremosa from being hijacked by Nihilego when Nihilego attempts to use Pheremosa as a puppet and even tries to reassure Pheremosa with headpats after Nihilego is thrown into the horizon. Unfortunately, Pheremosa really, ''really'', HatesBeingTounched, leading to Buzzwole losing its arms and getting kicked into space as a result.

** Blacephalon at one point decides to hide in a sewer like another [[Literature/{{It}} fellow alien clown.]] It even lures the childlike Nihilego over to a sewer grate.

* TheStinger: Continuing the StoryArc introduced in ''WebAnimation/MegaPokemonBattleRoyale'', the researchers' Sudowoodo is seen watching the computers as Banette, baby Kangashkan and Mawile move through the storage boxes, clearly attempting to escape. The Sudowoodo grimaces at the sight of this, and at the fact that it doesn't know the password to log on to the system.

** Poipole can only yell in horror after it gets trapped inside Stakataka and the latter Ultra Beast shows aggression by having [[TheWormThatWalks its component bricks]] turn their red eyes inward and start chorusing [[Series/DoctorWho "EXTERMINATE!"]].

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Poipole serves as this, due to being the only one being a pre-evolution of an already existing Ultra Beast in Naganadel, [[DeconstructedTrope it's the first casualty of the Battle Royale as a result.]]

* CompanyCrossReferences: A Snugooi from Lockstin's ''WebAnimation/PokemonLegendsNeoGhetsis'' series is shown roaming Oak's lab at the end.

** [[spoiler:Kartana killing Guzzlord from the inside]] is depicted with the same visual and sound effects as the player's final blow to [[spoiler: Sans]] at the end of an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' Genocide run.

** [[spoiler:Kartana killing Guzzlord from the inside]] is depicted with the same visual and sound effects as the player's final blow to Sans at the end of an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' Genocide run.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Kartana does one thing, and one thing very well, cut stuff. As the pokedex claims that it can cut anything, this is more or less all it needs to do in the fight. Of course, when it comes time to ''help'' a team member, like its ally Pheromosa when it gets struck by Naganadel's sticky poison, it only has [[AnArmAndALeg one way it can help.]]

** Kartana's backwards speech, Guzzlords meme screams, and Blacephalon and Xurkitree's rivalry are all references to their anime appearances.

** Poipole can only yell in horror after it gets trapped inside Stakataka and the latter Ultra Beast shows aggression by having [[TheWormThatWalks its component bricks]] turn their red eyes inward and start chorusing [[Series/DoctorWho "EXTERMINATE!"]]

* MythologyGag: The teamups of Buzzwole and Pheromosa, as well as Guzzlord and Naganadel, are based on several trading cards depicting both pairs together as TAG TEAM cards.

** When Blacephalon honks a challenge at Xurkitree, the latter responds with the music notes from ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', Blacephalon letting out the Skull Kid's cackle from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''.

* ATwinkleInTheSky: Pheromosa eliminates Buzzwole by kicking the latter so high into the starry sky, it doesn't come back.

** Guzzlord itself gets its tongues cut off by Kartana, leaving it no choice but to try and suck in Kartana with its main mouth.
* BerserkButton: Stakataka is content to merely dodge all of Poipole's attacks until Poipole sits on top of it, at which point Stakataka's eyes turn red and it attempts to shake Poipole off; failing in that, it yoinks Poipole inside of itself and crushes it.
** Pheromosa and Buzzwole's truce ends in a similar manner, as the latter ends up patting the massively germophobic roach-like Ultra Beast on the head, which enrages the former to kill the latter in revenge.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Naganadel ends up the victor of the battle royale after one final showdown with Kartana, but only barely. It still ends up horribly injured, with its stinger lost in the exchange.]]

** [[spoiler:Kartana killing Guzzlord from the inside is depicted with the same visual and sound effects as the player's final blow to Sans at the end of an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' Genocide run.]]