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Spoilers forPokemon Detective Pikachubelow.
First, the twist about the real identity of Detective Pikachu.
We were tasked with making it explicit and not implied, Hernandez told Vulture.
And also doing it in a way that made sense and integrating Mewtwo into the story.
Hernandez and Samit had to clear all of this with The Pokemon Company itself.
How can we have this character of Tim evolve over the course of the movie?
Someones favorite Pokemon is very personal.
It goes back to childhood, it goes back to deep feelings people had, Hernandez said.
Its all perfectly typical of the kind of humor Hernandez and Samit used to ground their universe.
