Pokémon Sword & Shield: 10 Gigantamax Secrets You TOTALLY Missed

10. Meowth

Meowth has had a lot of different forms in recent years, showing the nature of a cat's ability to adapt to its surroundings. This Gigantamax form can only be given to the Kantonian version of Meowth, stretching it out to a rather ridiculous size.

The Longcat meme is the obvious inspiration, but a more fascinating footnote is that this stretched out feline seems like an homage to a sketch in the 1971 Monty Python film, And Now For Something Completely Different.

In the sketch, a bunch of killer cars are terrorising the city streets. The solution is to bring in a giant elongated house cat, who does deal with the problem but at a terrible cost to the city.

Meowth's giant coin also gets a symbol, which ties the design of Meowth ever closer to the original design's inspiration: the Maneki-neko. This is a lucky charm that holds a Koban coin, which was an oval coin used in Japan during the Edo period.