Nintendo's nearly 30-year-old Pokémon franchise is well-known for featuring some of the most popular fictional creature designs in all of pop culture, from the ever-iconic electric mouse Pikachu to the relatively recent fiery, crocodile-like Skeledirge.
Not every Pokémon design is universally beloved, however, due to their rather bizarre features or basic concepts, such as the ice cream Pokémon Vanillite, Vanillish, Vanilluxe, or the odd-looking pink fish Pokémon Bruxish.
Some of the most bizarre creature designs found in all of Pokémon are, without a doubt, Pokémon Sun and Moon's extradimensional Ultra Beasts, appearing from Ultra Wormholes from Ultra Space to wreak havoc on the Alola region or be manipulated by the Aether Foundation.
With Sun and Moon turning 10 years old later this year, many of Game Freak's developers have begun looking back at their work and divulging how some of the game's features came to be, including the origin behind the mysterious Ultra Beasts.
The Origin of Ultra Beasts
Ultra Beasts first appear roughly halfway through Sun and Moon's main storyline at the Aether Foundation, with the first Ultra Beast being the Rock/Poison UB Nihilego.
After this encounter, more and more Ultra Beasts begin...
