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With that out of the way lets jump into today's video of the Detective Pikachu Ending Explained
Again sooo many spoilers lie ahead of you.
I am about to explain the ending and give away the entire movie.
Alright, we good?
All of you watching have seen the movie and want some explanation?
Perfect.
Lets go!
Because the film uses the name Detective in the title many fans expected there to be a
plot twist similar to classic detective movies, however, this film explores more of a father
and son relationship arc.
There is a ton of moments that are meant to make you look the other way in a classic misdirect
fashion, but they ultimately lead to a more emotional reveal.
Throughout the majority of the film we believe the antagonist is Roger Clifford the son of
Howard Clifford who created Rhyme City.
Howard uses Tim's own story of not feeling connected to his father to fool him into thinking
that his own son is the villain.
At the end of the film though its revealed that Howard is truly the villain and his ditto
has been acting as a proxy for his son to carry out his evil deeds.
Its a drop your popcorn moment when the ditto removes his dark aviators to reveal its terrifying
beady eyes attached to the face of the Roger look-a-like.
Howard's plan this whole time was to extract Mewtwo's psionic abilities and create this
purple gas that causes domesticated Pokemon to go wild.
Howard then swaps his consciousness with Mewtwo's so that he can become merged with the legendary
Pokemon.
With Howard now in control of Mewtwo he uses its abilities to take these wild pokemon and
merge them with all of their human counterparts.
Well at least in the vicinity of Rhyme City that is.
After defeating Howard and freeing Mewtwo from this mind control experiment the big
reveal is that Pikachu was Tim's father this whole time.
I know I know it sounds crazy, so allow me to explain.
Tim's father had gone undercover to expose the secret facility that was experimenting
on Mewtwo.
When he sees how they are treating the Pokemon, he and his Pikachu free the Mewtwo and attempt
to escape.
Unfortunately, a group of Greninjas are sent after him to knock his car off the road.
Mewtwo comes to Harrys rescue but is too late.
Pikachu begs Mewtwo to save his trainer so now with Mewtwo having a restored faith in
humanity he merges the two together except that process wipes Pikachu's memory.
When Tim meets Mewtwo later on in the film hes with his Pikachu dad and the big reveal
hits the audience when Mewtwo says your father has been there all along and separates the
two along with all of the other humans who were bonded with their Pokemon.
The audience went crazy upon seeing Tim's father, also played by Ryan Reynolds, alive
in his own body, coffee addiction and all.
Its the perfect father-son reunion that hits you right in the feels.
The point of the ending was not to necessarily tease a sequel or set-up future films, but
to be able to come full circle and stand on its own.
The directors do see value in creating a cinematic universe though so they made sure to keep
that door ajar as they take baby steps towards building that world for fans.
Hence the reason we don't see something obvious in the ending that would hype people for a
sequel.
There's not even a post-credit scene just some really great Pokemon Gameboy and comic
book series nods interwoven with the credits.
Now that the ending of the film as been laid out for you, lets talk about some of those
hints dropped throughout the film that would lead us to believe there will indeed be sequels.
For starters when the purple gas is released from the parade balloons they have a wide
shot that really shows how far its reaching.
If the next film follows the events of this one we could see that purple gas becoming
an issue.
It causes Pokemon to go absolutely wild which could spell problems for the Pokemon universe.
We also see several nostalgic posters in Tims childhood room that could be hinting at them
pulling a star wars move on us and starting in the middle then jumping back to the beginning
and working their way up to this future timeline.
For example theres one that has a red and green Pokemon facing off, another showing
black and white pokemon doing this as well.
These are direct references to Pokemon Red and Green aka Emerald and Ruby as well as
Pokemon Black and White.
We also saw a Cerulean City tournament poster with a Blastoise on it which is also the home
of Misty and probably the one we would be the most excited for was the tease of Trainer
Red.
In the promotional video for Rhyme City they show a battle in the colleseum and highlight
a man dressed in a vibrant red trainer outfit.
Red is known as the champion from Pallet Town, as well as the living legend for his defeat
of Team Rocket in Kanto during his quest.
Plus we cant forget to mention the subtle lines that talk about Ancient Mew.
This would be a whole other story they could explore as well.
When the scientists are discussing the capture of Mewtwo they reference the Kanto Region.
However they did not create Mewtwo, someone else did from a Mew fossil, they simply caught
that Mewtwo.
This mention of Mew is an easter egg to the Pokemon 2000 movie which would be incredible
to see re-imagined into live-action.
And that has been the Detective Pikachu Ending Explained.
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