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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the criminal justice system, Poké-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Kanto, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Squirtle Victims Unit. These are their stories...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A shadowed figure, with the shape of Detective Pikachu.

"Ditto" it says.

Detective Pikachu: Who's that Pokemon?!

Random Cop shines flashlight and says: Detective, it's you!

(Other Detective pikachu has gross Ditto eyes)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If Detective Pikachu was directed by M Night Shyamalan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Don't make me say Aang outloud!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

(Detective takes a drag of his cigarette) Shit man. They never even made me a Pokemon master.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This is outrageous. It's unfair.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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PG-ish version for those with older kids that would enjoy the pun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

The added brown is just 😘👌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Blessings to you. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I don't even know what voice to image in my head for this. A raspy pikachu worn out by life? What does that sound like?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So in this universe I'm assuming that Detective Pikachu is on the trail of the killer of not only Ash and Misty, but also Jesse, James, and Meowth. Trying desperately to figure out who set them up, just after Team Rocket had declared a truce.

I have never seen a single episode of the show, so I dunno if that even makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Detective Pikachu exists in a completely different canon to the anime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Jesse James isn't even mentioned in the anime

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Law and Order: Pikachu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

See this is a movie I'd watch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oooh, Detective Pikachu - Rated R.

A gritty, bleak, neo-film-noir take on a grizzled, aged, jaded Pikachu who just needs to finish his work before he can pass on - his duty keeps him alive.

Opening scene - Black and White.

We enter an alleyway, slicked down with rain, with clearly muddy debris visible under the surface of the water in foot prints as characters pass.

The camera pans up, to a victim. The gore, the blood, the entrails, the brains... All vividly rendered in color against a monochrome background.

Zoom into Pikachu's eyes. He squints for a moment, takes a drag off his non-filtered cigarette, closes his eyes for a moment as he inhales, and tosses the butt into the alley gutter.

Opening credits roll.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I thought it was going to suddenly cut to the kid friendly anime.

Like all these pokemon are living very adult lives, surrounded by homocide, rape, and pokemon trafficing.

Then suddenly Ash shows up and he's like PIKACHU! You can't smoke! Silly Pikachu! I choose you!

And pikachu is like PIKA PIKA! PIKACHU!

And it's the cheery colorful kid friendly world like you see on the official anime.

Then it cuts back to the dark gritty style, and Ash is just standing there, drooling, saying "pika pika pikachuuuuuu!!!"

The only reason the pokemon only say their own name on the show is because you're seeing it through Ash's eyes. But Ash's mom was assaulted when she was pregnant, and that's why she never leaves the house.

So pikachu is trying to explain to Ash how it's dangerous out here, and he shouldn't be here alone. But Ash is essentially a special needs kid, so none of that absorbs. He just hears pikachu saying his own name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago