Film Theory: Did Detective Pikachu Prove Pokemon's Greatest Fan Theory? 

The Film Theorists wow.... I’m.......😤.

Tru tho

Nice attempt

Meming already i see

am i first?

A detective pikachu card

That would be funny...but it would be an expensive joke

nintendo would have to sign off on that. disney can more than cover the bill though

@@RainyDays2790 deadpool was making disney jokes when he was still at fox, he doesn't need anybody's permission!

Yup

Yeah this was intended implications from all the way back to fire red.

Ditto was never implied to be failed clones of Mew simply related to it somehow. For all we know Mew & Mewtwo naturally shed the things from their bodies, which is a rival theory. Even after destroying the place Mewtwo probably still visits the Cinnabar Mansion to make more dittos, which is why an unlimited amount exist there assuming they don't just randomly divide themselves. Ditto Experiment Theory doesn't explain why the Dittos appear in places that have nothing to do with Mewtwo's Creation.

Yeah, I also thought this was just straight up canon, but it’s a fact I would’ve read in maybe like, the Pokédex toy, or a Nintendo of America magazine 25 years ago. Something I know as fact but don’t know where I got that fact…

@@WaterKirby1994 My theory is mytosis, Dittos are as close as "sentient raw genetic material" as it gets (Eevee eat your heart out), with more in common with cells than other animals (Pokemons). So it wouldn't sound out of reach for Ditto to, rather than reproduce, to replicate themselves once they have absorbed enough nutrients

I swear to gawd!!! I felt this was already debunked

Good point

​@@buttereo6277 Getting that to work though is probably very, very difficult, if not just an inefficient use of time (limit approaches infinity type difficult)-----since as Matpat stated there are not ANY cases where any Ditto----trained or untrained have ever done that in the entire franchise (anime, game, etc)----you'd expect not one, but at least 2-3 of these special Ditto to exist if this was something you could feasibly 'simply train for.'

I remember one time in the anime when misty try to use a cross to defeat a gastly

Man, I wish they referenced that in the movie! So many little nods to the anime though. Loved the cheeky nod to James' Magikarp!

I remember that too, I got a good laugh out of that, lolz

*the sass is strong with this one*

I remember when a chandelier fell and crushed Ash and killed him, and the haunter laughed maniacally while the gengar and gastly were sad

In Gen 1 if Mew uses Transform and you catch it, it glitches and it changes permanently to a Ditto

@@BearWith_You legally,you can't even fight mew,glitchwise,as far as I know you can only encounter lv7 mew,which doesn't have transform yet,so not sure what you on lol

@@BearWith_You is there some way to change mew's encounter level to 10+ or what?

@@extremepokegamer4037 Doesn't mean you can't battle one with Transform via other means. Supra did a Pokemon Yellow Randomizer Nuzlock and his encounter for the Route South of Cerulean was Mew, it used Transform and he caught it and it turned into a Ditto

@@extremepokegamer4037 I may be wrong since its been a while since i played gen 1 but I'm pretty sure you can get its level up by doing a different glitch.. (it might be doing the same glitch again, like i said i havent played in a hot minute)

I literally did this recently in Pokémon violet because I thought it was funny and it was😂

Flashback to the Metapod harden fight.

@@biomecraft356 “How about a HARDEN.” -Ian

*oh wait* - Metrosexual Hipster

Wobbufet vs Wobbufet + Leftovers.

For real, more people need to read the manga

@@projectcancelled2190 not a lie

@@projectcancelled2190 dang, forgot about that in the manga since it’s been a while

@@projectcancelled2190 I've known about this for years, and I'm not even a big fan of Pokemon.

Help me Help me ahhhhhhh

Detective Pikachu: - Pretending to be sorry - OMG I'm soooo sorry, I'm so clumbsy! Sonic Movie- My life's hard work! Detective Pikachu- If that's your life's hard work, then I feel even worse for dropping it purposely.. Sonic Movie- Wat?!?! Detective Pikachu- Nothing!

No no no. Obviously what happened is the Sonic Team Company were trying to restore the time honored tradition of bad video game movies. For decades video game movies have baffilingly disregarded the lore. Despite the fact they were literally spoon fed an already made script and universe they tried to make their own with no connection to the original. Detective Pikachu broke that tradition but Sonic Team weren't willing to see it die. They aren't a stupid company unable to understand something as simple as being faithful to the original. They are heroes of tradition fighting to preserve the old ways we all know and love. . . . . . :P Nah just kidding. They are hacks that haven't understood their own fan base for like a decade. Their biggest hits in recent memory were both games that relied on nostalgia and recreating classic games.

Aw, crap! You got me with the last two words.

how about we wait and give it 1 chance cuz admit it eggman is ok in the movie and they are restoring sonic to our satisfaction (I hope)

Then slips on the beer disfiguring the movie

Ash is immortal

But I still don’t like the anime

We'd see a 30yo Red instead, like we do in Sun&Moon

He's still 10.

Honestly just a snippet of a ten year old ash would be great but they will never confirm those theories.

The official handbook literally says it.

@@NeCoruption Valid point, although often times those handbooks aren't fact-checked by Nintendo. There've been ones in the past that say things like Nincada evolving into Ninjask OR Shedinja, rather than both, or confusing the names of Larvitar and Pupitar.

I always considered it canon since I was introduced to Ditto so when this video came out, I was so confused, "Is Ditto being a failed clone not actually canon?". Then I realized that I was way ahead of this video.

I haven't seen the Detective Pikachu film cause I don't care for live action adaptation films. But did know of the Ditto/Mew/Mewtwo connection since first played Yellow/Red/Blue in early 2000s

In pixelmon when you try to make mewtwo you would get ditto or mewtwo

me

wait what are you talking about

Probably used an emulator and recorded that 😜

Me, The smartest man on earth: MewChew (Get it? Because hes mushy? Chewing gum makes it mushy? Heh heh. Yeeeeah.)

@@quinndepatten4442 just report her

you: ditto me, an intellectual: play slime

PunkExMachina I’m like number 666!

@@justarandomidiot4627 Done

It was one ditto

1000 subs with no Videos he already left with his trailer

Lol

Lol

You literally have 1,000 subs with no videos!

Nice prf

Big tree turtles?? You mean torterra

Not everyone knows every pokemon so dont sound surprised

@@InGreatPainIAm Exactly so let them tell them what they're called

Do you mean torterra

wait that's illegal

@@thajratasupanan6175 In our world. But he is in a world were kids wonder around alone. We know they they know that we know what happening in those woods.

l o l

America must be so nice, y’all seem to get really funny ads

You: *goes to Olive Garden* so what is the last price of evidence Olive garden?

@@bignoob5462 it was the endless pasta all along

Katsuki I didn't know u like pokemon and film theory I always thought that was kaminaris thing

yea totally, they were doing genetic experiments on other pokemon too like the Torterra so why couldn't they have just also done experiments on dittos too. and why would the experiments on Mewtwo create a super ditto this time rather than just a normal ditto like the ones before? they probably just enhanced a regular ditto like they did with the torterra

“Some kind”

@@balamugunthbalaji8110 May be true. Pokédex entries say that there is transformation from memory and they could just enhance it. But the thing is that the anime is not the canon, we just haven't seen it transforming using memory in games (I do not recall any trainer having Ditto, wild Ditto just doesn't seem like he has enough desire to win this battle to think of some other pokémon that may be useful against trainer's one and maybe in-game trainer just haven't trained his Ditto to be reliable enough when transforming from memory and therefore there is no such option). It would be really nice to have that option in newer games, maybe make it canonical, like train memory with Ditto and after he reaches certain level in memory training, he would remember, for example, 1 pokémon he transformed into and with every memory training level, he would remember one more or something similar. How exactly could every experiment to make a Mewtwo end up with this same Ditto? If there were many experiments, every one of them may have ended up in Ditto (some ustable genes in a shapeless form), but every Ditto may be unique in his own way and this "super Ditto" may be just some classic Ditto that was made in later stages of Mew cloning, so he has better memory than any "older Ditto", but still genetically unstable (so in a form of Ditto). Or his memory has been trained for 20 years (trained pokémon are stronger than wild ones), all it takes really is just to play some games with him every day and then try if his transformation from memory got any better. There has to be a way how that details-wrong-when-transformating-from-memory thing got in pokédex entries in the first place.

@@dsoipask yea that makes sense too, ur also right but im still gonna stand by my ideas

That is right

I'm pretty sure they can transform into anything, even into mew

Yes they can

@RooByrne i think he means that this make it more clear that ditto is indeed a attempt of making a mew

@RooByrne at least in the games when transformed it will copy all stats except HP, and with a very low base 48 HP stats it will have less HP than just about every legendary

Not only that but their connection is also highlighted in Pokémon GO missions

*mat crying in the corner* i worked so hard for nothing

It also says it in many seasons of the anime

Yes, I have known this for years already, quite an disappointing episode of film theory

It's mewto

Bird Guy9327 you just broke soooooo many theriost

What Pokédex book?

Ya can't trust the pokedex

@@ELing-ib1ki 10:33 3:53

I thought this was already confirmed when was this a theory???

Manga is a seperate universe than the anime . But then again the games are separate from both as well (canonically speaking)

@@dougloremaster7413 the universe is different but don't the pokemons still have the same abilities ?

@@GoncaloDCa That's a good question and honestly one would think so, but an example comes to mind of Charizard using seismic toss in the anime but not the games.

Yea the manga also confirms Ditto was made by team rocket in their new two experiments

@@GoncaloDCa no In the manga Arbok has abilities that correspond with the eye patterns on its body.

I know, i just always excepted it as a fact

EDIT: LIKE THIS SO MATPAT SEES IT! MatPat, I think you are actually wrong in your theory. Not about the relation between these pokemon, but calling Ditto as "A failed Mew Clone". Let me explain: If ditto is supposed to be a FAILED clone of mew, why is there more than one ditto? Think about it. If they see there was a mistake, they would have rearranged some parameters and try again. If it failed again, it would be very weird if the result is again, a ditto. It should be another thing, since parameters would be different. My theory is that ditto is actually a SUCCESSFUL clone. If what the scientists wanted was a strong pokemon... Mew isn't a game changing choice! There are lots of other legendary pokemon that are way stonger that it. But what if the experiment was looking for something that ONLY MEW HAS? That's right, I'm talking about the transform capacity mew has. This would explain the existance of many dittos that don't have a change between them. Maybe the actual failed clone is actually MEWTWO! Yes, I think that because of a mistake in creating dittos, the creation became unstable, thing that made the scientists keep an eye on it more. But you don't see any keeping a eye on your supposed " failed clone" ditto. The investigation and cloning came to an end when mewtwo exited its chaimber: the real FAIL of Mew's clonation. Mewtwo, one of the most beloved pokemon, might actually be an artificial experiment gone WRONG. And your slaved daycare ditto, might actually be the true objective of mew's cloning. BUT HEY, that's just a theory, on a GAME THEORY. Thanks for reading

AlesandroDeMoor MatPat’s not gonna see this, this is a reply.

@@AlexHomeyer I made a comment aswell

Yeah i always thought it was a fact but i started in firered and watched the anime.

Lmao

69th like

_M A G N U M_

Lolz

Meh

well... he's not wrong

Bruh moment

Pikachu’s cute little fluffy self is way more important then end game!

He’s definitely not wrong

*F L O O F*

Permanent Dynamaxing

That's a good point. Those Mountain Torterra couldn't have just come out of nowhere.

I just got that reference yesterday, the film was spoiling the games, just now I am seeing people talk about it.

@@phelps6205 In a way, you're right

@@ToaDrakua well torterra is the continent pokemon

It'd still be a genetic experiment as they're experimenting with genetics! Making stronger pokemon is changing genes to get the result you want..it's genetic experimentation.

That's a twist but not the biggest twist.

He specifically said he's not gonna reveal the big twist "of what happened to Harry's father."

@@loganstrong5426 I've not seen it, but that wording leads me to two guesses. Either the villain is his father, or pikachu was his father that got involved in some freak accident or experiment.

@@loganstrong5426 harrys father died, he grew up as an orphan before going to hogwarts

@@Fragacide one of those is close

Ditto encounters ditto

@@imtheworldrecordegg.6180 best match

Sydney Long Magikarp ve magikarp is better

@@MultiBattleblader I prefer the Caterpie Vs. Caterpie match myself.

@@Cagne123 I prefer metapod vs kakuna

I remembered that too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7U0zOxbi5Rs.html

Especially since the journal entries flatout said humans were pretty much literally pokemon and man and pokemon even married in the farflung past which is why I'm curious how they handle that tidbit in Arceus

RuinedSilver The Pokemon Rangers have appeared in the anime

I class the ranger series as cannon as there are movies made about it and rangers are in most games

That one was under human mind control, I think it doesn’t count

Also Ditto five, anyone?

why leave 2 comments

Godzilla:hold my nuke

Mario: hold my Mushrooms

Well, technically every mammal is made out of the same genetic stuff that Synapsids are made out of since Synapsids are the genetic ancestor of all mammals

People are pokemon too. Especially the dead ones. =O.O=

And Arceus is the God of all Pokemon who technically created Pokemon.

This is true

@@Zuldaar okay? 🤣😂

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DJ Almanac Same here

No, someone mimed a poke-centre.

I like to think he’s still alive but has invisible scars and burns.

fIrsT RePly1!!1!11!

@@AndyGun11 child…

This is two jokes in one

Missing no is the best

Ditto is the best

Ditto can fuck every pokemon.

Your gay

What about Mortal Kombat cmon

What about wreck it ralph?

Pokemon cock sucking is amazing come on there was one other the first silent hill movie was actually a good film lol that was the first xD

eric robert yeah it’s either the first mortal kombat or the first silent hill not Pokemon

@@randomcallum personally i think the jojo part 4 netflix adaptation wasn't that bad

I watched the movie,but no spoilers

One of the best lines in the movie

*They got pokemon to deal with climate change.* *We don't. We're fucked.*

*plays illuminati theme song*

Yea another movie just made to manupulate people into political biases(not saying if it is real or not just that it is wrong to put that in) Like tha avengers where thanos wants to reduce population and preserve natural resources Do you know who else wants that (globalist.elite)

LOL 😂

What about it?

Agreed

Sonic has been pushed back to 2020 so hopefully they fix the problems the movie has

@@PeterGriffin11 ya Pikachu hopefully. Btw, in the ending of the movie u stop talking cuz it was the kid's dad , not u man

The manga

Same

Or pixelmon

Same

Same

Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

ditto

Ditto

Technically Matpat placed it there but I'll just shut up now

@@Stairwayafter I don't understand how the advertising system works on youtube, so interesting thing to know (my dad must never know of this)

ChrisPhelior 20/20 vision right there...and that’s a compliment

ChrisPhelior technically you couldn’t get mew officially in the original games. There’s only 150 catchable Pokémon.

GlenGallagher014 /GG but Mat didn't say that, Mat said "150 pocket monsters", not 150 catchable pocket monsters

I guess he forgot one.

ChadTheRock i might be mixing up x/y and sun/moon but can’t you find ditto at the top of a waterfall somewhere too? I did a bit of grinding there

Unicorn Films should know that ditto is in the grass

But there's no sign of him in gold/silver and their remakes and ditto is in that rout right after Goldenrod.

@@noxaka523 yeah but thats probably just because the day care is on that route and developers want you to try out ditto in breeding

H-Hello, Luma Eclipse.

mE

Um... that's exactly what was on my recommended... In the exact same order...

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Luma Eclipse how did you know I was hmm

You aren't crazy. It was indeed confirmed, or pretty much confirmed a while back. I can't remember when/where, but I clicked off cuz I knew the theory was confirmed anyway XD

@@MrMoriLives You can't just say "It was indeed confirmed" without any form of source my dude.

@@sir.hopper I did have a source and remember reading it, just can't remember. And even then, I could be wrong, though i strongly believe I read it somewhere. Apologies.

@@MrMoriLives But the problem with just saying you had a source is no one can verify the validity of your source. Saying that you read something somewhere on some site hold no weight to anyone other than you.

I also thought that and mat pat said that it was already confirmed

Same

Same

@@emmanuelperez1516 I think you mean, "ditto"

EXACTLY!!! Besides, they've already pretty much confirmed it. This entire theory was sadly a slight waste lol

Ditto.

but what if kirby absorb ditto?

The former already has an answer-yes. Remember, in the 4th Pokemon movie a young Samuel Oak time travels to meet Ash, so he has to give him a Pikachu to prevent a paradox

That last one needs to be answered legit

Y'know there are two AUs of pokemon where one has a war and the other didn't. There is a theory that there was a war which parallels the real life situation of wars where most men (including fathers) left to go to war. Most never came back and some are just survivors. Thats one of the biggest theories of pokemon to why we never see their dads, their dads could be dead due to the war

wow you forgot gen 3 dont ya

@@haziqhschiu5883 He survived. There for he was strong enough to become a Gym Leader. Dont forgot Lt.Serge survived the war too and became a gymleader.

@@Nat20streak watched it last week it's really good honestly

Ok toddler go back to playing fortnite

@@mitty9109 ok mr.2104 you joyless husk

@@lollipopsie_5230 your controllers are probably greasy and your keyboard has diet coke spilled all over it

@@mitty9109 how the fuck did you know that sir

They already talked about it on Game theory

Yeah I thought that was common knowledge

yea

Ikr

Yah but none of the games 100% confirmed it

@@crockoclock7771 no i think it was confirmed i remember cloning mew and failing then getting ditto

For clarity there is a theory that dittos are failed clones of Mew. Evrything in this movie point more toward it being shapeshifter, so I'm not sure if that prove anything? As Mew transformation is based on fact that he is literally first pokemon and as such he has DNA of them all (including Arceus..eghm).

Permission to make this a thing?

@@bricenduff2030 You ask my? If you do I just say that Starmans are in Ultra Sun & Moon..

@@TheRezro I thought it was canon that ditto is just failed mews...

TheRezro no, I’m talking about the text meme

I trusted porygon once. Then a bunch of kids had seizures.

This isn't a theory everyone already new this and I am pretty sure it is cannon

the smart dude Not everyone knew this, AKA people who aren’t Pokemon fans. Also, it hasn’t been proven canonically.

@@TheRedRaccoonDog Hey, that was Pikachu's fault!

It’s Porygon but okay

Have never played any games, or seen the movie I hate Anime so since there's an Anime based off the games I always hated Pokemon games as a kid for that reason, never gave it a chance, but maybe one day I'll give it a chance, from what I've seen it reminds me of Paper Mario or really just a turn based RPG so I'm sure I'd enjoy it. If I do ever try it which game is best to start with?

@@Werewolf914 Emerald and Platinum are my personal favorites based on lore and stuff but if you want something more modern then Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby are really good.

@@Werewolf914 HeartGold and SoulSilver would also be good if you are really interested in the RPG elements as they have the most story continuity.

Michelle Robinson BRUH CHILL HE JUST SAID A MEME

Lol