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, film — Detective 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:
Whoever gave Mr. Mime freckles and tiny little hairs on the top of his head is going to prison pic.twitter.com/7w2WYQjE7e
— Jacob Oller (@JacobOller) November 12, 2018
Folks being unable to rest well after watching the trailer was a common theme:
https://twitter.com/Browtweaten/status/1062302562601316352
Now that it has been several hours, I am ready to make an official statement: Mr Mime in Detective Pikachu is the worst thing to ever happen to me.
— ellen o/ (@Ellenn_Rose) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/liliuhms/status/1062050540731871232
detective pikachu reminded me that life is short and one day a horrible flesh man with flesh hair might dash out of an alleyway and kill me while grunting its own name, so I need to live every day to the fullest so that when I’m killed by a realistic Mr Mime I have no regrets
— mocha (@mochamura) November 12, 2018
People continued to find his appearance suspicious:
He did it. Whatever crime Pikachu is investigating, it was 10000000000% Mr. Mime https://t.co/QjHlXXDlJq
— Reindeer Games (@GameofReindeers) November 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/samanthaembee/status/1062087974983229444
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW MR MIME'S SHOULDERS ARE DODGEBALLS pic.twitter.com/3KB6WCTJOW
— @shoebill.moe on bluesky (@ykarps) November 12, 2018
Mr. Mime even inspired some unsettling fan art:
このバリヤードが良すぎて描く手を止められなかった#ポケモン #ピカチュウ #名探偵ピカチュウ #Pokemon #DetectivePikachu pic.twitter.com/M6P7MuYou5
— 竹谷州史 / Takeya Syuji (Shuji) (@takeya_syuji) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/RIi24/status/1062124269805727744
The more I see him, the more I really enjoy Mr Mime and his dumb dodgeball shoulders….. pic.twitter.com/vSjcCR1xVK
— CeeHaz 👹 COMMISSIONS CLOSED (@CeeHaz) November 13, 2018
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:
I’m going to preemptively say that hollywood should cancel the four avatar movies they’re planning and instead use that $1.4 billion to make sixteen detective pikachu sequels
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) November 13, 2018
Imagine being able to write "I am Deadpool and Pikachu" on your résumé
— Fred Delicious 🍆 (@Fred_Delicious) November 12, 2018
Detective Pikachu (2019) pic.twitter.com/AsbiJoeomC
— Garrett Gilchrist (@TygerbugGarrett) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/1062053359614537728
This actually looks promising. pic.twitter.com/Y2suMcwpt7
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) November 13, 2018
me age nine: i wish pokemon were real
*mankey's paw curls*
— leon (@leyawn) November 12, 2018
Same energy pic.twitter.com/wtPXomu4tI
— Ismael Bergara (@Calavera145) November 13, 2018
When I go see Detective Pikachu by myself pic.twitter.com/dRBByXTNId
— Amb (@lolambie) November 12, 2018
I just wanna know who called it Detective Pikachu when they could've called it P.I. Kachu.
— Adam P. Knave (@adampknave) November 12, 2018
Mister Pikachu. pic.twitter.com/zoHoNTi5eb
— Tom McHenry (@tommchenry) November 12, 2018
If the economy is doing so well then why did Pikachu have to pick up a second job
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) November 12, 2018
Internet right now pic.twitter.com/9bTTAJ64vh
— Alex (@TheAuraGuardian) November 12, 2018
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pikachu i guess idk
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▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) November 12, 2018
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.
Danny Devito is Detective Pikachu in some better timeline, and this is what it sounds like: pic.twitter.com/g029RoGPIh
— ⛓️ 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔬 ⛓️ (@NoShape_) November 12, 2018