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Pokemon Sun and Moon Cover Parodies
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About
Pokemon Sun and Moon Cover Parodies is a photoshop meme featuring digitally edited variations of the cover art for the upcoming Pokémon video games Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, set for release in the final quarter of 2016.
Origin
On February 25th, 2016, the tech news blog Nerdleaks[5] posted two logos registered with the trademarks Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, noting that the requests had been filed by Nintendo earlier that day (shown below).
![Nerdleak's original image for the leak SUN OON](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/092/912/002.jpg)
That day, Redditor Strike_Gently uploaded photoshopped versions of the covers featuring the characters Charlie Kelly and Mac McDonald from Season 4 Episode 13 "The Nightman Cometh" in the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to the /r/funny[6] subreddit (shown below).
![Always Sunny in Philadelphia EVERYONE 10 SUN MOON ESRB Payuble in 20 and 30 30 made for ages7+. See beck Nintendo Playable in 2D and 3D. 3D made for ages 7+See bock ESRB](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/092/195/4bd.jpg)
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The following day, Nintendo officially announced the upcoming games during their Pokemon Direct event (shown below).
On February 27th, 2016, Redditor GotAnyMoreOfThem posted a version of the cover featuring the screaming sun from the television show Rick and Morty to /r/rickandmorty[4] (shown below, left). The following day, FunnyJunk[3] user aznzeus submitted photoshopped covers with a variety of characters from other franchises (shown below, right).
![AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH The PokémonC Company (Nintendo SUN www.pegi.info](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/085/520/cfa.png)
![The version exclusives](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/085/165/42c.jpg)
Meanwhile, Tumblr user Greninjaaaa posted two variants featuring the Super Mario games Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (shown below).[2] Within two weeks, the post gained over 7,500 notes.
![Pokemon Sunshine PoKMOy](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/091/949/f9a.png)
![Pokemon Darkmoon DARK M 비](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/091/950/e1b.png)
On March 7th, 2016, Twitter user @Woopsire tweeted a photoshopped cover with the character Mung Daal from the TV show Chowder.[1] Within one week, the tweet garnered upwards of 1,000 likes and 920 retweets.
You take the moon
and you take the sun pic.twitter.com/d7nrGfupQx— spoow (@Woopsire) March 8, 2016
Various Examples
![Pokemon Black Sun and Pokemon Shadow Moon. SUN](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/084/861/541.jpg)
![Pokémon Sun, Celestia cover edit. NINTENDO TM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/085/230/54c.png)
![Pokemon Sun Boxart SWN EVERYONE ESR B Playable in 20 and 30,30 made for ages 7+See back.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/085/194/7a9.jpg)
![Pokemon Sun and Moon leaked image SUN MOON](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/084/623/310.jpg)
External References
[1] Twitter – @Woopsire's picture / March 7th, 2016
[2] Tumblr – Greninjaaaa's pictures / February 28th, 2016
[3] FunnyJunk – Lets Get Ready to Rumble
[4] Reddit – Pokemon AAAHHHH
[5] Nerdleaks – Nintendo will announce pokemon sun and moon
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