The reveal of upcoming film Pokémon: Wild Card hid a model new Mega Evolution in plain sight, followers imagine.
Over the weekend, the 2026 Pokémon World Championships included a flurry of latest Pokémon bulletins, including the first new Pokémon movie for seven years. Attributable to launch in theaters subsequent 12 months, Pokémon: Wild Card will function 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 sequence’ unique Pokémon X and Y batch of Megas, or within the contemporary menagerie launched final 12 months through Pokémon Legends: Z-A. However there’s something odd in regards to the Mimikyu in that poster — do you see it?
Sure, the Mimikyu is glowing with rainbow-colored mild — a really related rainbow-colored mild to the impact of Pokémon as Mega Vitality, 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 type?
One well-liked suggestion is that Mimikyu will evolve in subsequent 12 months’s Pokémon Winds and Waves, the franchise’s long-awaited tenth era of video games because 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 positively, anime films and sequence have beforehand featured varied Pokémon debuts earlier than they’re really obtainable in-game.
One different avenue for launch could possibly be through a ultimate replace to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, a recreation which focuses squarely on Mega Evolution. This is able to doubtless make extra sense thematically, and there is been no suggestion that Winds and Waves will embrace Mega Evolution themselves. Certainly, as a brand new era of video games, the upcoming titles usually tend to function their very own regional mechanic (comparable to Gigantamax in Sword and Protect, or Terrestrialization in Scarlet/Violet).
Might Mega Mimikyu debut sooner relatively than later in Legends: Z-A, as a technique 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 certainly one of Mimikyu’s methods? Followers appear satisfied Mega Mimikyu is coming, both approach.
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— 👑🤴🏻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 little thing introduced throughout the 2026 Pokémon World Championships and PokémonXP, check out our roundup. Pokémon: Wild Card stands out as the solely feature-length film introduced, however one other animated Pokémon venture is making its technique to screens in 2027. Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu was introduced again in 2025, however news about the series streaming on DisneyXD and more was revealed during a panel at this year’s PokémonXP.
Photographs credit score: The Pokémon Firm
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