tbh im kinda glad that a lot of the realistic pokemon in the detective pikachu trailer are high key teetering on the edge of uncanny valley because like.. these are fantasy creatures that sort of talk and shoot fucking electricity and vines and fire and psychic energy out their eyeballs, they SHOULD look weird and alien. psyduck is a pokemon defined by the fact that it is experiencing an unending headache that motherfucker better look like he has seen the rise and fall of civilization itself. mr mime is literally like three brain cells away from being straight up human the sight of one should make me uncomfortable.
basically what im saying is we have been spoon-fed woobified anime pokemon for too long. put the monster back in pocket monsters.
i know that tfp showed orion as significantly less beefy before he got the matrix
but what if he was always just…an inexplicably large librarian? i mean maybe he needed to be big and tall so he could reach the high shelves and use his huge arms to suplex anyone who had outstanding late fees
all the matrix did was provide him with guns and sword arms. so now he can literally stab people instead of metaphorically skewering them with a glare if they damaged the books