Earlier this week the world got its first glimpse at what it would look like if Pikachu, an electric mouse who works for Nintendo, were a detective voiced by Ryan Reynolds. It was, depending on who you ask … interesting? Possibly even good? At the very least, the trailer for Detective Pikachu represents a refreshing willingness from a massive corporation to do something unexpected with one of its biggest properties. (Or maybe just to continue an old tradition of making weird-ass movie adaptations of its biggest properties.) Either way, everyone watched the trailer, made some memes, did some tweets, and had a good time with it. Sadly, however, this is the internet, which means that nothing Pokémon Gold can stay, Ponytaboy. That is to say, someone took the Detective Pikachu trailer and dubbed Infowars cretin Alex Jones over it. Sorry.
So, yeah, now Pikachu is a big square meat-freak who is mad about the government turning the frogs gay. Presumably this Pikachu will be spending his time investigating chemtrails and truthering school shootings. Cool. The red blotches on Pikachu’s face make more sense now at least.
If seeing Pikachu with the voice of the guy who once forgot how old his kids were because he ate too much chili is too much of a bummer for you, there’s hope yet still. Replacing Ryan Reynolds with Frank Reynolds might not be the most soothing means of restoring the now-warped Pokémon memories of your youth, but it’s the best you’re gonna get today:
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[via Daily Dot]
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i do wish they made detective pikachu voiced by an old gruff dude, or someone with a really over the top delivery. it would be really interesting to have some like Keegan Michael Key voice Pikachu, or Mark Hamill
Kathleen Turner.
Harvey Fierstein
I would love that.
Yeah my wife says she can’t get over the idea that Pikachu has Deadpool’s voice. I think a more gritty noir detective voice would be funnier
I had a dream when I was 11(ish) after watching Paper Moon that Peter Bogdanovich suddenly replaced the voice of Pikachu on Pokemon somewhere near the beginning of the D&P era, so this is about as close as I’ll ever get to living my dream.
Admission: It’s a shame he’s so dangerous to keep around because of morons believing his bullshit, because I do love a good Alex Jones meme.
I too miss good old fashioned non-partisan crazy. Genuine frontier gibberish. “Weekly World News” where have you gone? Our nation turns its meth-addled eyes to you.
Was it Dikachu?
I have quite literally never missed Dikachu more than these past couple of days. Oh, time of yore.
It’s about god damn time.
Strange that we blame the person who’s obviously a lunatic on a show that’s clearly as real as Jerry Springer, and not the people who believe him.
It’s like blaming violent video games for violent actions or some shit.
Maybe stop normalizing and humanizing this sicko
Get behind me, Mewtwo.
What a bizarre and dishonest take. You don’t mention how the channel is entirely comedic, or acknowledge that the only clips used are ones where Alex Jones is being ridiculous – nothing of him just pointing out dishonest politicians or condemning terrorism. The clips have clearly been chosen to make you imagine the near-insane Alex Jones. The video mocks Alex Jones and you do the same in the article without being a sociopath.
Why would it be a bummer? You don’t explain that at all. I don’t know if that’s because you’re to self-involved to realise that it needs explaining to anyone or if you just realised you wouldn’t be able to explain it. Because of the dishonesty by omission I’ve mentioned above, I’m guessing the latter but I really don’t know.
How much of a pussy do you have to be to make this lmao
Calm down, it’s just a joke