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==In the games==
==In the games==
Detective Pikachu was once an ordinary Pikachu belonging to [[Harry Goodman]], a freelance detective who often works with the [[Baker Detective Agency]]. While on a case, Harry and Pikachu got into a car accident. [[Frank Holiday]] found Pikachu collapsed at the scene of the accident and brought him back to the Baker Detective Agency, but Harry was nowhere to be found. Pikachu developed amnesia as a result of the accident, and his personality changed drastically, causing him to act in a more humanlike manner. He later meets [[Tim Goodman]] after Tim arrives in Ryme City and begins to travel with him. Together with Tim, Pikachu solves various puzzles and mysteries - Tim interviews human witnesses, while Pikachu interviews Pokémon witnesses.
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==={{ga|Detective Pikachu}}===
Detective Pikachu was once an ordinary Pikachu belonging to [[Harry Goodman]], a freelance detective who often works with the [[Baker Detective Agency]]. While on a case, Harry and Pikachu got into a car accident. [[Frank Holiday]] found Pikachu collapsed at the scene of the accident and brought him back to the Baker Detective Agency, but Harry was nowhere to be found. Pikachu developed amnesia as a result of the accident, and his personality changed drastically, causing him to act in a more humanlike manner.


===Detective Pikachu===
Since then Detective Pikachu has been wandering the streets of [[Ryme City]], looking for Harry and trying to communicate with the people around him. Eventually, he meets a young man who can understand him. He teams up with the young man to retrieve a necklace that a wild {{p|Aipom}} stole from a little girl, and later learns that the young man is none other than [[Tim Goodman]], the son of his former partner.
Two months after the accident, Detective Pikachu wanders the streets of Ryme City, trying to communicate with the people around him and feeling frustrated that they can’t understand him. Eventually, he meets Tim Goodman, a human who can understand him. He teams up with Tim to retrieve a necklace that a wild Aipom stole from a little girl.


After retrieving the necklace, Detective Pikachu brings Tim to the Baker Detective Agency, where Tim’s father used to consult. After Tim has gleaned all the information he can from the agency, Detective Pikachu volunteers to come with Tim to his father's apartment to investigate there.
After retrieving the necklace, Detective Pikachu brings Tim to the Baker Detective Agency. After Tim has gleaned all the information he can from the agency about Harry's disappearance, Detective Pikachu volunteers to come with Tim to his father's apartment to investigate there - after all, he wants to find Harry, too. At the apartment, they find a map marking all the locations Harry had been investigating and decide to visit one of them - a place called [[Litwick Cave]].


Pikachu’s entry in Tim's case list is:
In the cave, they meet [[Meiko Okamoto]] and [[Emilia Christie]], two women who work for the news station [[GNN]]. The pair are being attacked by a wild {{p|Glalie}}, and Pikachu and Tim work together to drive the Glalie away. Unfortunately, the entrance to the cave collapses in the ruckus, forcing them to look for another way out. With the help of a wild {{p|Drifblim}}, Pikachu and the others manage to escape the cave, but before they leave, Pikachu grabs something off the ground that resembles a broken vial.
: ''For some reason, he can only talk to me. I still can’t believe it. He seems kind of pompous.''
 
Figuring that the vial might be connected to the case somehow, Pikachu and Tim decide they need to figure out where it came from. They decide to investigate [[PCL]], the research facility that it seemed Harry had been visiting before the accident. At the facility, they find the same type of vial that Pikachu found in the cave, proving that it must have come from this facility. While trying to determine who exactly the vial came from, they discover that it was being used as a container for a substance called [[R]] that causes Pokémon to go berserk when ingested. They learn that the researcher who was making R, [[Carlos Hernando]], worked for the man who had Harry's car tampered with because he knew too much, which caused the car accident. Carlos is arrested, but they know that there's still someone out there who bought R from Carlos and caused Harry to go missing.
 
Detective Pikachu has several entries in Tim's case list:
{| class="roundy" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; border: 2px solid #{{electric color dark}}; background:#{{electric color}}"
|- style="background-color:#{{electric color light}}"
! Case List
! Entry
|- style="background-color:#fff"
| Important info
| ''He was my dad's partner, but now he is with me, helping track down my dad's whereabouts. He seems to really love coffee. He calls himself a great detective.''
|- style="background-color:#fff"
| Chapter 1
| ''For some reason, he can only talk to me. I still can't believe it. He seems kind of pompous.''
|- style="background-color:#fff"
| Chapter 2
| ''For some reason, he can only talk to me. I still can't believe it. He seems kind of pompous.''
|- style="background-color:#fff"
| Chapter 3
| ''He used to be my dad's partner. Now he lives with me. Some might say he's imposing himself on me. He's got a lot of issues, but I can rely on him to be a great detective.''
|}


===Personality and characteristics===
===Personality and characteristics===
In addition to his ability to talk, Detective Pikachu displays a number of human traits. He likes drinking coffee and eating sweets and is easily infatuated with attractive human women. These habits only started after Harry went missing; Tim remembers his father's Pikachu being cuter and more docile.
Prior to the accident, Detective Pikachu had a much different personality; Tim recalls him being cute and docile, and Amanda says he used to be very well-mannered.
 
After the accident, Detective Pikachu began to display a number of human traits: he likes drinking coffee, he likes eating sweets, and he is easily infatuated with attractive human women. He especially loves the coffee that [[Pablo Millan]] makes.


Detective Pikachu is a bit egotistical, frequently complimenting himself on his own genius. When he gets an especially significant flash of inspiration while working on a case, he has a habit of declaring "A bolt of brilliance!" in a dramatic fashion.
Detective Pikachu is a bit egotistical, frequently complimenting himself on his own genius. When he gets an especially significant flash of inspiration while working on a case, he has a habit of declaring "A bolt of brilliance!" in a dramatic fashion.


Detective Pikachu has lost most of his abilities as a Pikachu; he is not very fast, and cannot use Pokémon moves, much to his dismay. However, as a talking Pokémon, he can interpret and translate testimony from other {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}.
Detective Pikachu has lost most of his abilities as a Pikachu; he is not very fast, and cannot use Pokémon moves, much to his dismay. However, as a talking Pokémon, he can interpret and translate testimony from other {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}.
The hat that Detective Pikachu always wears was a gift from Harry.


===Voice actors===
===Voice actors===
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