The internet is a wonderful, wonderful place friends.
So much so that when a movie trailer comes out, especially ones featuring nostalgia ridden
characters, you know there's going to be a ton of fan edits that emerge to entertain
us.
So today, we're taking a look at several fan edits for the very first live action attempt
at a Pokemon movie, Detective Pikachu!
This is our list of the top 10 scary Pikachu fan edits.
Most of them are funny scary, if we're being perfectly honest.
And some of them are parodies crafted based on the film.
So with that in mind, let's get to it!
10.
Sonic and Pikachu Face Swap When we're talking fan edits, we're not just
looking at trailer mash ups and manipulations - they can also be hilarious visual photoshop
edits as well.
Here's one that's been making the rounds online ever since Nintendo's barely-a-competitor-these-days
Sega had the trailer released for the Paramount live action Sonic the Hedgehog film.
As you all probably know, there was a lot of controversy surrounding Sonic's design
and aesthetic, and a lot of people made comparisons between Sonic and Pikachu from Detective Pikachu,
noting how much better the beloved Pokemon looked in comparison.
This is what they'd look like if their faces were swapped.
Yikes.
9 Parody Animation There seems to be a theme with all of these
Detective Pikachu parodies where they go into really dark and gritty territory and make
the series a little more perverse than it should be.
Here we have an animated parody of Detective Pikachu from channel EIE Animations.
Pikachu has a 5 oclock shadow.
He chain smokes.
He beats up the pokemon he interrogates.
There's guns and violence.
And it's quite funny.
8 Deadpool 2 meets Detective Pikachu Here we have a completely different take on
the Detective Pikachu fan edits - it's Deadpool 2 in the style of the Detective Pikachu trailer.
Ryan Reynolds, who plays the superhero, also voices Pikachu in the Pokemon live action
movie, so it's a pretty genius mashup.
It also gives away a few details about Deadpool 2 if you haven't seen the film yet, so spoilers
abound!
But you should probably do that.
7.
Spookified Pikachu Derailing a little from Detective Pikachu
for this number, featuring a piece of work by youtuber Flash in Rahul that 'spookifies'
Pikachu.
It's a pretty terrifying interpretation of the
normally cuddly electric rodent, and the whole video is a time lapse of the Rahul drawing
it from start to finish.
I mean, those teeth!
6.
Pikachu as a monster Speaking of drawing Pikachu in a more sinister
light, here we have another great Pikachu drawing video from the channel Draw With Jazza,
who is artist Josiah Brooks.
He draws a regular Pikachu next to this horrifying enlarged monsterous Pikachu.
Pikachu looks straight up demonic!
Quite gnarly indeed.
It's also really interesting to listen to Jazza talking about his process, which is
pretty cool.
5.
The Real Detective Pikachu Here we have a fun yet disturbing little parody
of the Detective Pikachu trailer from channel maxmoefoePokemon.
It takes everything you love about Pokemon and makes it uncomfortable.
Jessica Nigri is in it.
There's various unsettling versions of Pikachu all throughout.
It's inappropriate.
And it's called Big Nut.
Enjoy.
4 Quentin Tarantino's Detective Pikachu It's pulp fiction meets Detective Pikachu,
and it's a 23 second video, a cartoon by mister lucca.
Nuff said.
3 Detective Pikachu meets live action sonic
From youtuber Squizzy, we have another animated parody.
This one features Pikachu meeting the live action version of Sonic - and Pikachu seems
to have a very similar reaction to Sonic as many people on the internet did.
He also keeps calling Sonic a stray cat, which is pretty darn great.
Side note, check out Squizzy's channel, they've got a ton of great movie parody animations,
including one for Sonic the hedgehog's film, and one for Avengers Endgame featuring Korg
and thor that's pretty darn great.
2.
Danny DeVito, I choose you!
Ever wonder what Detective Pikachu would sound like if he were voiced by Danny DeVito instead
of Ryan Reynolds?
Well, dreams do come true, friends, because this trailer is exactly that.
Here we have a version of the initial Detective Pikachu trailer, featuring the voice of a
much cruder sounding actor.
Featuring some of his more memorable and gross quotes from his career.
Enjoy.
1.
True Detective Pikachu Detective Pikachu meets True Detective.
This is essentially an adaptation of True Detective, except replaces a bunch of characters
and elements with distinctly Pokemon features, including our protagonist, who is wearing
a full blown Pikachu body suit (costume?
Makeup?
Either way it's intense.
And dark.
And really really creepy.
There's a Pokemon stripper.
Pikachu is sexually active and hooking up with strippers (and maybe Misty, which is
sort of implied).
He also does heroin.
This definitely ain't your 90's anime.