Concept artist RJ Palmer, known for his hyper-realistic Pokémon drawings, posted his menacing vision for the Pokémon Venusaur on Twitter --one that never made it into the blockbuster movie. Venusaur was showcased in one of Detective Pikachu's trailers. Warty, cute and decorated with a pink flower. Although he appeared prominently in the promotional material, and although the other original starter Pokémon's final evolutions were prominently featured in Detective Pikachu, Venusaur only shows up in the background. When Kotaku previously covered RJ Palmer, it was when he got a gig working on Detective Pikachu. Yet in 2012, he illustrated a different look for Venusaur that looks a little more lizard-like than its classic frog form Palmer posted a second Venusaur design on Twitter, a menacing terrifying beast with a row of jagged teeth and tiny red eyes. "This was during a period where I was free to explore a more naturalistic approach," he wrote. "Looking back though it's super clear that this would be too scary for the tone of the movie. I think the design they ended up with is fabulous!" Palmer also illustrated a Venusaur with a mushroom bloom on its back rather than a flower: Palmer said he's always found Venusaur's squat width to be iconic. "I'd use the adjectives wide and girthy," he told Kotaku via Twitter DM. He also thinks it has a scary quality even in the original designs. Venusaur has always looked kinda menacing to me, especially when you realize it's canon height is 6'7"," he said. "I wanted to explore the scale and how potentially unsettling a thing that tall and wide would be should it actually exist in our world."

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