Pokémon Pokopia is a sad game, but even when it’s not going hard on its post-apocalyptic lore, it finds ways to twist the knife. One of these moments involves Mimikyu, the ghost/fairy-type Pokémon that wears a raggedy Pikachu disguise so people will love it like they do the series’ mascot, and I don’t care if it looks like a monster underneath the makeshift costume, this sweet baby deserves a hug and a juicebox.
In Pokopia, you set up small habitats in order to attract wild Pokémon to a town. Usually these are things like plants for grass Pokémon to hang out around, tools for worker monsters to use, or water at just the right temperature for a sea creature to vibe in. For Mimikyu, it’s much sadder. Mimikyu likes the “Pikachu space” habitat, which consists of a Pikachu-shaped sofa and a doll of the little yellow guy. Perhaps he thinks he’ll blend in with the decor?
When Mimikyu shows up, it’s quick to tell you that it’s just a totally not scary at all Pikachu, but when it realizes that you’ve seen through its disguise, it admits that it’s not actually the electric mouse, it just wanted to be friends and play with you, but was worried it might scare you away with what’s underneath the cloth.
After Mimikyu joins your town and has time to settle in, it will thank you for being nice to it. You get the sense that people have been scared of its true form for so long that it doesn’t have many friends, if any.
my baby 😭 pic.twitter.com/6pVGWKG8gq
— jar saint (@scadutree) March 22, 2026
Surprisingly, Pikachu and Mimikyu don’t have a special conversation in Pokopia like some other pairings do, but they do have an interaction that shows Mimikyu revealing its true form to Pikachu, which scares him, before the two make up and are friends again.
pikachu and mimikyu do not have a special conversation in pokopia, but if you let them talk a bit…. this happens pic.twitter.com/PYcrnuRcED
— Anthony (@KirbyCheatFurby) March 23, 2026
Mimikyu’s sad backstory made it a quick favorite of the Pokémon community when it debuted back in Sun and Moon. That love only grew stronger when it made appearances in the anime that showed the little guy struggling with feeling like it couldn’t be loved for who it was while trying to make friends. Though there have been brief hints at what it might look like across the series, we’ve still yet to see its true form. The mystique is a big part of what makes Mimikyu work, so we’ll probably never see what it actually looks like unless one day Game Freak gives it a friendship-based evolution that lets it take off the disguise.
