The reveal of upcoming film Pokémon: Wild Card hid a model new Mega Evolution in plain sight, followers consider.
Over the weekend, the 2026 Pokémon World Championships included a flurry of latest Pokémon bulletins, together with the primary new Pokémon film for seven years. Because of launch in theaters subsequent yr, Pokémon: Wild Card will characteristic a TCG participant “battling and striving to be a champion”, accompanied by a mysterious Mimikyu.
In fact, Mimikyu doesn’t at present have a Mega Evolution — not within the collection’ unique Pokémon X and Y batch of Megas, or within the recent menagerie launched final yr by way of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. However there’s something odd concerning the Mimikyu in that poster — do you see it?
Sure, the Mimikyu is glowing with rainbow-colored mild — a really comparable rainbow-colored mild to the impact of Pokémon as Mega Power, used to Mega Evolve. Is it a coincidence, or one thing extra? And if we’re about to see a Mega Mimikyu revealed, when may it debut in online game kind?
One standard suggestion is that Mimikyu will evolve in subsequent yr’s Pokémon Winds and Waves, the franchise’s long-awaited tenth technology of video games as a consequence of arrive solely for Nintendo Swap 2. With these video games and Pokémon: Wild Card arriving across the similar time, this might be a neat teaser — and definitely, anime motion pictures and collection have beforehand featured numerous Pokémon debuts earlier than they’re truly obtainable in-game.
One different avenue for launch could possibly be by way of a closing replace to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, a recreation which focuses squarely on Mega Evolution. This may possible make extra sense thematically, and there is been no suggestion that Winds and Waves will embrace Mega Evolution themselves. Certainly, as a brand new technology of video games, the upcoming titles usually tend to characteristic their very own regional mechanic (resembling Gigantamax in Sword and Defend, or Terrestrialization in Scarlet/Violet).
Might Mega Mimikyu debut sooner fairly than later in Legends: Z-A, as a strategy to tide followers over whereas information on Winds and Waves’ launch window stays skinny on the bottom? Or may this all simply be one other one in all Mimikyu’s methods? Followers appear satisfied Mega Mimikyu is coming, both means.
Mega Mimikyu can be so goated and I’d not be regular about it. I felt that it was such an apparent alternative. Mega Mimikyu’s capacity ought to restore disguise https://t.co/l1TzKnlz1Z
— 👑🤴🏻Spoopy🪦💀 (@Prince_Spoopy) September 1, 2026
Mega Mimikyu incoming?? https://t.co/rAu2VWlyZq
— Moxie✨✏️ (@Moxie2D) August 31, 2026
wager on mega mimikyu https://t.co/2aYhRo88DI
— abeo (@CassidyCrpKilla) August 31, 2026
For every thing introduced through the 2026 Pokémon World Championships and PokémonXP, try our roundup. Pokémon: Wild Card stands out as the solely feature-length film introduced, however one other animated Pokémon undertaking is making its strategy to screens in 2027. Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu was introduced again in 2025, however information concerning the collection streaming on DisneyXD and extra was revealed throughout a panel at this yr’s PokémonXP.
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