Creepy Mr. Mime
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About
Creepy Mr. Mime refers to jokes about the Pokémon Mr. Mime as he appears in the trailer for the Detective Pikachu film, which struck social media users as unsettling.
Origin
On November 12th, 2018, Warner Brothers released the trailer for the live-action Detective Pikachu film. One of the scenes in the trailer featured an interrogation of a 3D rendering of the Pokémon Mr. Mime (shown below).
Spread
After the trailer aired, social media users immediately commented on what they considered the creepiness of Mr. Mime's appearance. For example, Twitter user @itsacquaintance compared the Pokémon to Pennywise the clown from the IT film (shown below, left). User @JacobOller voiced their displeasure at the choice to give Mr. Mime some subtle hair by saying whoever made that choice should "go to prison" (shown below, right).
Polygon,[1] Uproxx,[2] and Kotaku[3] all published pieces commenting on the creepiness of the character, with Kotaku compiling tweets that compared Mr. Mime to horror movie villains. Of those tweets, some popular examples include one by @pokebeach_wpm that also compared the character to Pennywise (shown below, left) and a tweet by @itukayomo that compared the character to several doll villains from horror films (shown below, right).
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Nov 14, 2018 at 01:18AM EST
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