History NightmareFuel / PokemonDetectivePikachu

* The scene where Lucy is [[spoiler: taking photographic evidence of illegal experimenting with Pokemon on her cellphone]] in a darkened laboratory hallway with several closed hatches reminiscent of cryogenic chambers. Then they open, as a Greninja's webbed hand emerges out of one of them.

** And finally, [[UncertainDoom she's never seen again]] after her ShapeshifterSwanSong.

** And finally, [[NothingIsScarier she's never seen again]] after her ShapeshifterSwanSong.

* The scene in the climax, where Howard!Mewtwo is merging humans with random Pokémon. While this might not seem that scary, considering how awesome Pokémon can be, and [[VillainHasAPoint Howard does have a point]] that Pokémon are superior to humans in certain ways. One has to remember that these people ''were forced into Pokémon bodies against their will''. Not to mention that Pokémon come in all shapes and sizes, imagine how traumatizing it must be to be trapped in a four-legged stance, to be smaller than a human hand, heck, even being enlarged in size can be percieved as BalefulPolymorph.
** And some of the Pokemon weren't owned or merged with humans as shown with the Pidgeot who got R'ed but not merged when Pikachu was riding on it. Imagine a Pidgeot, who is wild, seeing a Caterpie and wanting to gobble it up for a snack. Imagine that it's not just a Caterpie, but a Caterpie merged with a ''human.''

** The Greninja prop suffers similarly from being too realistic; a close up on its head reveals the texture of its tongue scarf in horrifying detail, complete with tastebuds that look quite a bit too human for comfort...

** And then ''Mewtwo'', of all Pokémon, makes an appearance. And it makes its appearance by bursting out of a Pikachu parade float that it apparently lit on fire with its mind.

** Mewtwo takes the cake just on how unnervingly, unnaturally ''smooth'' it looks. It's not the hairless wrinkled skin or sparsely-furred velvety texture many fan interpretations have thought for a realistic Mewtwo: it's got a shiny, plastic-ish look of polished rubber.

** The Charizard has nothing on freaking ''[[https://nintendosoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pokemon-detective-pikachu-gyarados-mar252019.jpg Gyarados]]'', every bit the terrifying sea monster spoken of in the Dex entries. And even ''Charizard'' ends up [[OhCrap cowering]] before Gyarados's Surf attack.[[note]]And it has every right to be cowering, considering the type disadvantage.[[/note]]

** The Charizard has nothing on freaking ''[[https://nintendosoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pokemon-detective-pikachu-gyarados-mar252019.jpg Gyarados]]'', every bit the terrifying sea monster spoken of in the Dex entries.

* The scene where Lucy is frantically doing something on her phone in a darkened laboratory hallway with several closed hatches reminiscent of cryogenic chambers. Then they open, as a Greninja's webbed hand emerges out of one of them.

** And in a little FridgeHorror, note how the Torterra basically just rise up for a few moments before laying down again. They can ''barely move'' due to how unnaturally big they are, and the scientists have pretty much condemned them to be pinned in place for the rest of their lives.

* A preview clip reveals that Charizard's scar was caused by ''Pikachu'' before the film began.

* After the heroes narrowly escape from the Greninja, the ground starts to warp around them and begin closing in on them. Eventually, it's revealed what's causing the ground to move: the ground was actually gigantic Torterra the size of ''cities'' as a result of the growth experiments. It's horrifying to see just how much these experiments have mutated Pokémon.
-->'''Pikachu:''' ''[[OhCrap This]]'' [[OhCrap is the Torterra Garden!]]

*** Compared to the expressive eyes of Pikachu or the other eyes that have detail on them, Pokémon with highly stylized eyes look even ''worse''. Ludicolo's eyes look like googly-eyes. This varies between {{Narm}} and UncannyValley when they suddenly ''move''.

** The Pokémon look weird in motion, too. When something has realistic texture, it just makes the fact that they walk on digit-less stumps with no joints stick out even ''more''. When they're next to humans walking normally, seeing their giant heads looks... ''WRONG''.
** Even the Pokémon based off of inanimate objects and plants look weird. They look almost ''inflated'' like balloons.

* While has several shots of Pokémon getting ready to hunt humans, special mention goes to the Aipom who apparently snuck its way into Tim's office, screams, attacks the camera and looks like it wants to tear Tim's throat out with its teeth. Which are ''all'' incisors.

* Mewtwo actually talking instead of using its' psychic powers to communicate is an unnerving thing to see. Possibly deliberate to show how unnatural the forced mental takeover is.

** In the film itself, Cubone resists the Pokéball to the point it pops out and chases its attempted user, growling and snarling the entire way. Though in the end its played for laughs, Cubone laughing as it leaves since Tim was going to fail from the start by not bonding with it properly.

** In the film itself, Cubone resists the Pokéball to the point it pops out and chases its attempted user, growling and snarling the entire way.

** (Pictured) The hyper-realistic Charizard opening its jaws to bite (eat?) Pikachu at the end of the trailer is terrifying.
*** Not only that but the later trailers depict that the realistic scales resemble pieces of EVA Foam than scales. It looks ''very'' weird.

** Realistic glistening tongue textures return with the appearance of Lickitung in the second release trailer.

*** [[FromBadToWorse Even worse?]] As shown in a later trailer, it ''is'' normally a RidiculouslyCuteCritter that just happens to make a pretty mean face. ''Something'' must have pissed off that monkey.

* The second trailer briefly shows a scene where Lucy is frantically doing something on her phone in a darkened laboratory hallway with several closed hatches reminiscent of cryogenic chambers. Then they open, as a Greninja's webbed hand emerges out of one of them.

* In the same trailer, we have a shot of a Cubone getting caught. Not scary yet? Well how about the poor thing's expression, it's terrified and is actively trying to run away! It's AllForNothing, because it gets hit in the head hard enough to flinch and get sucked inside the Pokéball. The look on Cubone's face right before capture does NOT help.

* The Pokémon seen in the first trailer retain their cartoonish proportions while going for a more realistic texture, in order to make them look more like real-life creatures and less like cartoon characters. This strategy achieves...[[UncannyValley mixed results]]; some Pokémon look fine (with many praising how adorable Detective Pikachu's fluffier design is), while others look much less so. Some examples of the latter group:

** Psyduck's vacant, too-far-apart eyes (that are just blank dots) can be pretty unsettling.