Quote Originally Posted by ImTheWiseJanitor View Post
Okay...I might be wrong, but they’re CLEARLY trying to swing the furry demographic there, right?

That’s the closest to a rational reason for this design that I could imagine. Like...A straight up CGI Sonic ripped from one of the recent games would look more visually appealing than this. At least that wouldn’t be spiked-hair deep into the uncanny valley. I’m actually a little afraid of the full reveal.

Can you imagine if Detective Pikachu featured a distinctly human-looking anthropomorphic Pikachu? Good god.
I mean sure...but that's a REALLY specific demographic to aim your holiday children's movie at (no shame in being a furry, no kink shaming from me here) but...i honestly can't think of anything else as to why they've gone with this design. Unless they knew that the Illumination Mario movie will be out around the same time and thought they needed to do something outside of the box to get bums in seats...not sure making nightmare fuel was the intention...