People Have Strong Feelings About Mr. Mime From The ‘Detective Pikachu’ Trailer

https://twitter.com/itsacquaintance/status/1062222109978583041

If you haven’t seen the trailer for the actual, seriously for real, not kidding this movie is real, live-action Pokemon movie — excuse me, filmDetective Pikachu yet, do yourself a favor and peek-a (I’m sorry) at this. That looks… actually good?

Detective Pikachu, starring Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu, is a film that exists and looks like it might be good. That has already prompted some amusing reactions from surprised viewers, but if the prospect of an actually-good live-action Pokemon movie seemed strange, buckle up for something really strange: Mr. Mime. OH LAWD, HE COMIN’.

Over the course of the night, many people (perhaps unable to sleep with images of Mr. Mime dancing seductively/menacingly in their heads) tweeted about Mr. Mime being nightmare fuel.

People noted the weird tiny hairs on his head:

Folks being unable to rest well after watching the trailer was a common theme:

https://twitter.com/Browtweaten/status/1062302562601316352

https://twitter.com/liliuhms/status/1062050540731871232

People continued to find his appearance suspicious:

https://twitter.com/samanthaembee/status/1062087974983229444

Mr. Mime even inspired some unsettling fan art:

https://twitter.com/RIi24/status/1062124269805727744

And if we could leave the topic of Mr. Mime / our inevitable death by his bulbous gloved “hands”… let’s end this post on a more upbeat note by rounding up some more jokes about the Detective Pikachu trailer in general:

https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/1062053359614537728

And finally, here’s the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia / Detective Pikachu mashup we didn’t know we needed. It is not a botch.