Sonic and Pikachu Have a Baby

VARIETY FILM News Reviews Podcasts Box Office Events Columns Sonic Tops Pikachu at the Box Office Sonic movie opens at $57 million, surpassing last year’s Defective Pikachu to become biggest debut for a film based on a game I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU COULD GO FAST 9 MONTHS LATER: LET'S NAME HIM SONICHU

A four-panel comic shows a man reading a Variety-style headline about Sonic surpassing Pikachu at the box office. Sonic carries Pikachu while saying he thought Pikachu said he could go fast, then nine months later Sonic and Pikachu are shown with a baby, whom they name Sonichu. The joke combines Sonic and Pikachu into the fictional hybrid character Sonichu and uses the absurd implication that their race led to a child. EN: A four-panel comic shows a man reading a Variety-style headline about Sonic surpassing Pikachu at the box office. Sonic carries Pikachu while saying he thought Pikachu said he could go fast, then nine months later Sonic and Pikachu are shown with a baby, whom they name Sonichu. The joke combines Sonic and Pikachu into the fictional hybrid character Sonichu and uses the absurd implication that their race led to a child.

• @sbunem / 21520 2022-05-02