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This macho Pikachu is far from cute

Pikachu is generally known to be adorable, but scroll down to see one man’s terrifying vision of this adorable character. Photo: Getty Images
Pikachu is generally known to be adorable, but scroll down to see one man’s terrifying vision of this adorable character. Photo: Getty Images

Most of us would know Pikachu as the adorable electric mouse and Ash Ketchum’s best Pokemon friend. But in the hands of Japanese Twitter user @bankokukun, Pikachu has been transformed into a buff and brawny character.

This macho Pikachu is so terrifyingly menacing and the opposite of cute, he could possibly be the leader of a yakuza.

Adapted from a children’s colouring book, this unique “colouring” of Pikachu garnered almost 200,000 likes and close to 100,000 retweets. Even Machop, Machoke or Machamp cannot win against this muscular mouse.

“It’s been a while since I coloured seriously,” said the tweet.

That is really some serious work there, almost like a hybrid of Pikachu and the Colossal Titan. Or perhaps, under the cuddly yellow exterior hides these well-developed muscles we never knew about. How else would you explain why Pikachu always seems to win against any other Pokemon and the reason why Team Rocket is always after this electric mouse?

Apparently, this macho Pikachu is not @bankokukun’s first attempt. There have been a few other attempts before this, and they are anything but friendly.

Here’s Pikachu baring his teeth at his fellow gym buddy mouse, Dedenne.

Macho Pikachu with a flying kick!

Other than a ferocious Pikachu, even Ash got a little makeover.

Now that the Pokemon world is crazy about the Ditto’s song, and Pokemon Center is launching a whole range of Ditto goods, what’s better than to end off with this illustration by @bankokukun?

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