surprised Pikachu

English

Noun

surprised Pikachu (plural surprised Pikachus)

1. (Internet slang) Synonym of shocked Pikachu.
   • 2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8:

     Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.

   • 2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page:

     Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.

   • 2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

     "I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
     "You don't?! Really?"
     Duh. Why the surprised Pikachu face?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:surprised Pikachu.